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Hey friends, it's Crystal with a k with another

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steeper watch. Okay. So let's

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talk about prize pantry in Yustovin.

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which lets you unleash your inner Saturday

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morning maniac as you rifle through

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boxes of cereal until you find

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the incredible prize inside. but

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please do not eat the cereal.

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We know it's early to say that, but we really

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can't emphasize how important it is that

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you do not eat the cereal. The faux

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flakes may look like the real thing, but

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they are chemically indigestible to a

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degree that really is irresponsible.

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So don't eat the flakes.

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It's a really big day with the one hundred

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and fifty years of dreaming festivities finally

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adding a little dream dust to prize

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pantry, one of our favorite spots

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that doesn't get the love it deserves. Beginning

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next week, customer surprise pantry

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may find more than a t shirt or

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slap bracelet in their inedible breakfast

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because Dantonic creationeers have

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created a one of a kind enamel

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pin with the famous Dantonic

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logo and a gold embossed one

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fifty. so cute

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and get this They only

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made One. Some people are estimating

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this could be worth as much as ten

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sweets. Alright. That's all for

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this week's watch, steepies, and remember,

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like, Dantonic always says

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never know when to stop dreaming.

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Right.

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Sorry. I'm trying to make my mouth start talking.

2:15

Yeah. Uh-huh. That's the hardest part.

2:18

nothing

2:18

is coming out.

2:19

Do you

2:21

want us to start?

2:23

Hi,

2:23

everybody. Welcome to

2:26

either welcome to or welcome back.

2:28

depending on where

2:30

where you're at to the Inviticide

2:32

and Stifel Chase. We're so happy to

2:35

have you back. Thanks for deciding to

2:37

to take a spin on this. Can

2:39

I do what you usually do to me and be like,

2:41

please? The yarn spinner takes

2:44

the loom in his hands and

2:46

weaves

2:46

a magical tear, I'll take the wizard

2:49

by his hands as he flies you

2:50

around on his rug made

2:52

of wings and angels hair.

2:55

Now driven, that was beautiful, and I loved

2:57

it. But I do just wanna jump back real quick to

2:59

Justin, thanking people

3:01

to listening to our show. by using

3:03

your first, taking a spin on this,

3:06

which also sounds like a worse

3:08

Like a weird way to ask somebody if

3:11

they want to engage in cordless here.

3:13

Hey, baby. When I take a spin on this,

3:15

how much of this do you guys feel like is gonna

3:17

be DragonMe and how much of it is gonna be like action

3:19

adventure? I think for the first episode,

3:22

fifty fifty. Yeah.

3:23

I've been so nervous. I've been trying to will

3:25

myself to start, but I think I should just start.

3:27

Yeah.

3:28

I think that's the only thing I'm gonna be able to do is Okay.

3:30

Just

3:31

start. I

3:32

believe in your son. Who

3:34

is that?

3:36

That's our dad. How has he been on

3:38

the show before? Why are you being a goofball

3:40

right now? I don't want any kind of goofing around,

3:42

please. Oh, this is one of the serious ones.

3:45

This is a serious one. You guys get that up

3:47

front.

3:47

Here we go.

3:49

Alright. Here

3:52

I go.

3:55

Okay. So you remember last time

3:57

a woman had just fallen

4:00

from the sky. Okay.

4:02

Beef leans over to Emmerich

4:04

or it says to Emmerich. Do

4:07

you think that this is more of like a

4:09

limpton scenario or like a beef.

4:12

Oh, right. Oh, right. One sec.

4:14

And you see the woman reach behind her.

4:16

She with a single slash

4:18

of one of those blades cuts her

4:21

wire down, and the wire just goes

4:22

catapulting. It was under a lot of

4:25

tension. the the wire just goes catapulting

4:27

back up into the the

4:30

sky and she sort of, like, gracefully lets

4:32

herself go and lands on

4:34

the ground. Right. Who do we have?

4:36

Who are you? NICE,

4:38

please? I

4:41

am emric treadway.

4:44

Right?

4:47

Yes. You? Yes. Emrick. Mhmm.

4:49

Or my name's Beef. punchley,

4:52

you know, the mountain Oh my god.

4:54

Me, punchley. Yeah.

4:56

The sled. Oh my god. I

4:59

was such a big fan of you and your

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pride.

5:02

Okay. Are you? I

5:05

was inside. I couldn't

5:07

be bothered. I was in the middle of a sales

5:09

pitch. But for those So you're not there.

5:11

But for the interests of introductions,

5:14

I will poke my head. outside

5:17

and see what my two cohorts are doing

5:19

and then walk over.

5:20

Alright.

5:22

And are you? Later

5:23

arrival. And

5:26

who are you? No.

5:28

Wait. Who who are you? I I have all

5:30

these knives. Who are you? Montrose,

5:33

she she fell from the

5:35

sky, and she was on a a

5:38

big cord. And then she cut the cord. The

5:40

cord flew away. but I don't

5:42

think she's from around

5:44

here just to fill you in. Oh,

5:46

babe, punch let's call this smarts and this new

5:48

his muscle.

5:48

What's your handle?

5:50

Oh, my name is Montrose Pretty

5:53

and it is a pleasure to make

5:55

your acquaintance. Right.

5:57

Montrose, bathe,

5:59

emrik.

6:02

Oh, this is awkward, but I don't have a

6:04

lot of time. So I'm just gonna lay it

6:06

out here quick. Right? What

6:08

kind of clients are you? What

6:11

sort of men? Well, I'm I'm

6:13

a big guy. Why don't I? Yeah.

6:15

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I

6:18

should have been more specific Right. Like I'm

6:20

sort of middleweight, I guess, you

6:22

could say. Yeah. Not too big, not too

6:24

small. The pizzas work fine. I could see

6:26

you all right. Are

6:29

you the sort of men

6:31

who would like to make a little extra coin?

6:33

Maybe even a

6:36

sweet real

6:38

cheap and squeaky like. Listen,

6:40

I'm flattered, but

6:44

I'm I'm not really interested

6:47

in entanglements.

6:50

That's fun. What about you? Any

6:52

of you, I just need warm bodies at this point

6:54

and you're the closest ones. Look.

6:57

I would

6:58

be interested.

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we are currently in need of

7:03

funding.

7:03

Right.

7:04

I think is a nice way of putting it. Okay.

7:07

We are seeking angel investors. for

7:09

a exciting opportunity. Oh,

7:12

boy, how would you like to be your own angels?

7:14

Say? What about your beef?

7:16

I'm I'm not looking for a date

7:18

if that's what you're looking for. Oh, good.

7:20

Yeah. Me neither. I need

7:22

you to help me with a little bit of

7:25

Nasty Business. And if it

7:27

all goes smooth, right?

7:30

You're

7:30

gonna be walking away with a little bit of coin, has

7:32

it sound?

7:33

It still kind of seems like

7:35

a like you're looking for a hookup.

7:38

Perhaps this is not the sort of conversation

7:40

that should take place outside when

7:42

you have just smashed through the sky.

7:45

Right. But I don't have another time to have it. My

7:47

name's gravel. I'm about to rob

7:49

the Paris pantry. and you

7:51

free you're gonna help me.

7:52

Oh, it's a

7:55

robbery. Okay. Yeah, brother.

7:57

Let's do it.

7:58

Really? You beef.

8:00

You said real quick. A role

8:02

I thought you were I thought you were looking

8:04

to engage in sexual congress with

8:06

one of us. But Don't

8:09

flatter yourself. In Rick, what do you

8:11

think?

8:13

That would be conducive. That would be

8:15

very, very conducive to

8:17

our goals. Montrose, I need one more.

8:19

I think we just have to I haven't pressed

8:21

them in a real rush. Montrose. Just

8:24

have a yes, simple people. are watching this

8:26

conversation take place, you have just smashed

8:28

through the sky, like some sort of

8:31

There was nobody around. Oh, there wasn't.

8:33

Oh, well then. And that's fine. You

8:35

didn't ask? Okay. Is there

8:37

anyone I wanna survey the area. Is

8:39

there anyone around? You're gonna

8:41

use no. You don't have to roll for that. Just look

8:43

where it's not a daring action. I look

8:45

around. There's no

8:47

one. Okay. I don't know what in

8:49

the area. Normally, there would

8:51

be. Yeah. Normally, there would be

8:54

quite a crowd here, but you've remembered that

8:56

today is the day of the

8:58

big unveiling. Today is

9:00

the day that they're going to be unveiling this

9:02

pin for everybody to see. It's gonna be on

9:04

display for a little while. until they slip it

9:06

into one of the prized pantry boxes

9:08

and leave it for someone to

9:10

discover.

9:12

Sorry, gravel. If I could drop beef

9:14

just for a second, Oh

9:16

my god. You sound

9:18

completely different?

9:19

Yes. I'm I'm

9:21

really London. Don't worry about So This

9:23

is throwing me. Okay.

9:25

We've got it. Sorry. Really,

9:27

really on a time crunch. But whatever it

9:29

is, super quick. Let's step inside real quick.

9:31

Okay, real quick. Just in case. Just in

9:33

cases.

9:34

Okay. So

9:37

listen, as we've established, we

9:39

are not above this. We

9:41

are interested. and we

9:43

do need money. But

9:45

but but we've kind

9:47

of got a pretty

9:49

good established thing going here in

9:51

Houston, and I

9:53

am From

9:55

experience, I've learned not to shit

9:57

where I eat. than

9:59

so smart. I love that. Thank you.

10:02

I formed a time crunch would probably help

10:04

if you didn't interrupt. You're

10:07

not wrong. Go ahead, beef. So Thank you, Ron. I

10:10

love it. If you would like us to

10:12

engage with you on on

10:14

this drum, We're gonna need

10:16

some certain assurances. We

10:18

need to know because at this point,

10:20

we don't know you. So we could

10:22

probably gain some

10:26

coin just by turning you into the

10:28

authorities. No. No. No.

10:30

Let's not Okay. So Let's try this. When

10:32

you when you say that faster

10:34

than you can even

10:36

think, gravels at your throat

10:38

with a knife. I I

10:40

understand the point you're trying to make right

10:42

now. Is that a joke? Oh,

10:44

I see. Yes. Because of the knife.

10:48

but

10:48

it's also kind of defeating the

10:50

purpose of getting us to trust you

10:52

and side with you. If your response

10:54

to being questioned is to

10:56

immediately go my throat. Right. So

10:59

here's what I'm trying to establish with

11:01

my outburst there. And I am

11:03

sorry about it. I fly off that though

11:05

a little bit. I want you to

11:07

know that I'm

11:08

proper bad.

11:10

Real nasty. Right? And

11:12

I know what I'm doing. And I

11:14

can get you through this. If you

11:15

trust me and you

11:17

should because you saw what I was pulled there. I

11:19

got lots of other ones. Right? I

11:21

need you to trust me and

11:24

just

11:24

be just help out?

11:26

Are they all helping hand? No one will

11:28

even You know what? If you

11:30

if you do a proper job, no one will even know you're

11:32

there. Right? So you

11:34

really can't lose. I really could use the

11:37

help. And I want this.

11:39

I want this. The problem is I

11:41

just got separated from some

11:43

other real nasty types. Right?

11:45

And I think that they're still

11:47

gonna try to steal the

11:50

pin. and I really, really want the

11:52

bean. I really want

11:54

it. So I'm willing to

11:56

offer you each one sweet.

11:58

If you'll just help me out with

11:59

a plan that's already so

12:02

creamy,

12:02

you

12:03

wouldn't believe. What do you think? Is that one

12:06

sweet eat? Fucking.

12:08

Yes. One sweet

12:10

each. I I don't know how you like

12:12

working for Denton,

12:14

but if he's

12:15

running you a little bit ragged, like it did

12:17

for me. Maybe you

12:20

don't see a lot of other options for

12:22

getting AAA sweepier out. So

12:25

think on it. I look knowingly at the other

12:27

two and kinda chuckle and

12:29

say, oh, we have always of

12:32

getting our pleasures

12:34

of the this I'm sorry. Can I

12:36

start over? We do

12:39

not rely on the gifts

12:41

of the Dentonic Corporation. We

12:43

have our own ways of blowing

12:45

off steam. I believe you have established

12:47

y'all bonus fee days. simply

12:49

with the number of knives that you are carrying

12:51

with you, I must express some concern

12:54

that having competition in

12:57

score of this magnitude is

12:59

harmful to our health, and so

13:01

I'm afraid I must counter with an

13:03

offer of two sweets. each

13:06

for all of us. No. No. I believe if you

13:08

look at the wrist, but it doesn't leave it

13:10

after me. Sorry.

13:13

Now, Griffin, if you would

13:15

like, you may attempt to

13:17

sway to to

13:19

convince her, I don't wanna use the language

13:21

mechanics. Right? Yeah. If you're if you're one of a

13:23

depressed for this, you you can absolutely

13:25

make a press for it. That is what I'm trying to

13:27

do. Say, I'm trying to establish this is

13:29

dangerous, and so we need more more

13:31

payment. Okay. So

13:33

shall we talk about position and

13:36

effect? Right. So position

13:38

and effect are the two different

13:40

sort of big things you

13:42

need to think about before you take what's called an

13:44

action role. And an action role

13:46

sort of compasses almost everything

13:49

that you will do. Right? So

13:51

you will have a certain

13:53

skill that you're using in this action

13:55

role. There's a position that

13:58

indicates sort of the level

13:59

of

14:01

danger that you are

14:03

in while you are trying to

14:05

do this. Right? So there is a controlled,

14:07

there's risky, there's desperate,

14:09

and bad roles in

14:11

desperate situations are

14:14

real bad. Good roles in desperate

14:16

situations are real good. you'll

14:18

rarely be in a controlled situation because by

14:20

definition, if you're having a

14:22

role on it, there's probably some risk

14:24

of failure. Right. So the

14:26

default is risky.

14:28

As far as effect, that's how much damage you're

14:30

doing. I I saw a good

14:32

video that said to Imagine it like a

14:34

treasure Right? If you're trying to

14:36

rack a small treasure chest, a tiny one, you're

14:38

probably gonna have a great effect to destroy

14:40

it. If you're trying to rack a medium sized

14:42

treasure chest, then you probably have, like, about

14:44

the effect you'd expect, a regular

14:46

effect. And then you could have great effect or,

14:48

sorry, a limited effect or no effect.

14:50

if it's massive and made of iron and you're not

14:53

trying anywhere with it. So that's kind of

14:55

effect that you're shooting for. What does this feel

14:57

like to you? It

14:59

feels risky, I think, considering

15:02

that she seems like

15:05

a established criminal, and I am

15:07

asking for a one hundred percent

15:09

increase in our payment. Sure.

15:11

In effect, I would say,

15:13

maybe standard? I don't know.

15:16

Yeah. I think that that's that is

15:18

fair. So let's let's just call it risky

15:20

risky standard. Risky standard,

15:22

and I am rolling. Okay. So

15:24

I have rolled 2D6 because I

15:26

rolled 2D6I have two

15:28

in sway. Okay. Great. So

15:31

I rolled two six sided

15:33

dice and I've gotten a five

15:35

and a four. Okay.

15:38

So we take the highest one

15:40

and that's a five. and that's

15:42

gonna be a mixed success.

15:44

Success. Alright.

15:46

right

15:48

Okay. Here's

15:50

what we're

15:50

gonna do. I'm gonna

15:53

offer the three of you four sweets,

15:55

one for each of you, and then one to

15:57

invest in your business

15:59

ventures. It's really the best I can do.

16:01

Please, I've already outlay a lot of sweets

16:04

just getting to this point and I

16:06

really need this score and we are

16:08

running out of time. Please,

16:10

boys, please. Four sweets.

16:13

Four sweets and everything changes. Four

16:16

sweets and you're

16:16

off.

16:18

That sounds reasonable to me, and

16:20

I'd hold out a hand for Angie. Immerich?

16:25

I I think it's

16:27

a wonderful idea. I'd like

16:29

to know a little bit more about

16:31

the plan, but I'm I

16:34

I trust my comrades

16:36

here and sorting

16:39

you

16:40

Beaf. Beef

16:41

is in. Alright.

16:45

I'll explain on the way. Now

16:47

normally, we we wouldn't

16:48

talk about a plan. But I think

16:51

for this first engagement,

16:53

it probably who's

16:55

to talk through, just to give you

16:57

an example, I wanna talk through what

16:59

gravel was gonna do. And this is what gravel

17:01

explains on on the way over.

17:03

Does that make sense to you all? Just so we have like

17:06

a vague. I normally wouldn't wanna steer in

17:08

this way, but I I feel like

17:10

in the interest of efficiency, it

17:12

makes sense to talk through what she was gonna

17:14

do. is it? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

17:17

the So

17:18

let me real quick

17:21

share a little bit about the

17:23

price pantry. So you should see

17:25

now two sheets in there

17:27

in your handouts. One

17:30

is a reference give you an

17:32

idea of what prize pantry is. And

17:34

while you're looking at that, I'll I'll talk about a

17:36

surprise pantry is a

17:38

shop in used to bin, which as you know

17:40

used to bin is a

17:42

one of the layers in Stifel Chase,

17:44

which is a huge sort of

17:46

resort amusement park with immersive

17:49

layers that are stacked on top of each other

17:51

that give the rich

17:53

an amazing immersive experience that

17:55

they couldn't get in the out side world.

17:57

It's the biggest theme park on the planet by exponential

18:00

factors. And used to been is a place that's all about

18:02

nostalgic feelings. It's

18:04

about making you feel like you did when you were younger,

18:06

be it a real experience that you had or

18:08

maybe one you always wanted to have.

18:11

Prize pantry. is a

18:13

shop that lets you purchase

18:15

boxes of cereal that have toys inside

18:17

just the way they used to.

18:20

that you don't eat the cereal, but you do

18:22

keep the prize. Once you're done with the cereal, you

18:24

dump the cereal into the cereal

18:26

collection tube gets hovered up

18:28

into the the pipes of the price

18:30

pantry gets reloaded into a new box with a new

18:32

toy. This map

18:34

that I'm showing you there are four

18:36

areas that you know of after

18:38

talking -- Mhmm. -- both from your

18:40

experience, it's next door to the arcade.

18:42

I'm assuming Have you

18:44

all been there, would you say? To the prize pantry? Absolutely.

18:47

Yeah. Okay. What about

18:48

you, Emmerk? You've been

18:48

in the prize pantry?

18:51

I would assume that there's some kind

18:53

of hard light constructs used

18:55

in just about every

18:58

every phase of Stifel Chase. Okay. So

19:00

maybe So I would think that there's, like,

19:02

an attendant or, you know,

19:05

something there that is that

19:07

he's familiar with hard

19:09

light

19:09

wise. So yes. Okay. That's great.

19:12

Beef's not really a big serial guy

19:14

or I mean, he's done he

19:16

knows he he cares about real prizes for

19:19

winning competitions. Okay.

19:21

Like prize fights. Well, he's not a

19:23

fighter. He's an arm wrestler. But, yes.

19:25

So the

19:27

the price pantry, the areas that you

19:29

know about from having been there, there's a

19:31

show floor where the boxes of

19:34

cereal are. There is a cereal

19:36

cafe where if your hunger for cereal has

19:38

been awakened by opening

19:40

fake cereal, you can go buy some

19:42

real cereal and and eat

19:44

up. There is also an administration

19:46

area at the top, a

19:48

couple floors, and then there is

19:50

the entryway. The reveal

19:52

is sort of in the middle of the show

19:54

floor. There's a you've

19:56

seen it probably in the

19:58

lead up, a large podium.

20:01

covered by some sort of velvet

20:04

drape and and waiting on the big reveal.

20:06

That's on the show floor. And this

20:08

is what grapples plan

20:10

that she had worked

20:12

out was was this. This was

20:14

what they had had been building

20:17

towards slipper,

20:19

one of her guys, was gonna infiltrate

20:21

the back office the

20:23

back where the the serial is

20:26

to disable the alarms that

20:28

are connected to the podium.

20:30

Then matchstick, one of her other

20:33

guys, was supposed to sneak in

20:35

underneath the sort of like foe stage

20:37

that they've set up that the podium's on top of

20:39

was gonna sneak in there and

20:42

using tools cut out the

20:44

pin from the bottom while it was still covered.

20:46

And then trash bag, the third

20:48

guy on her team, was gonna make a

20:50

big distraction so everybody could get

20:53

out. that was the plan that they

20:55

had that they had worked out. Is that clear

20:57

enough? Question, can

21:00

we switch characters and be those three. Yeah.

21:02

I don't wanna be trash

21:04

bag, but other than that I'd be I'll

21:06

be trash bag. If I like trash bag.

21:08

I'll take that shit, frankly. Okay.

21:11

Well, then when

21:12

we are working

21:15

towards a a

21:17

score, which is the the language

21:19

that we would use for this, we

21:21

would need to do I think the next

21:23

thing we would do would be to

21:25

decide on an approach

21:28

So there are six different approaches

21:30

that you can take. k?

21:32

There's a salt which is

21:34

just go, you know, assault,

21:36

you're gonna do violence. There's

21:38

a deception. deception, which

21:41

is lure to trick

21:43

or manipulate. Stealth is

21:45

to trespass unseen. A

21:48

cult is engaging

21:50

in a supernatural power social

21:52

is negotiating, bargaining, or persuading, transport

21:56

is carrying cargo or people

21:58

through danger. Now, what

21:59

these approaches when I really did the question. for

22:02

the record, dad stiveled it. But when I

22:04

set a pepper, after doesn't set a salt,

22:06

dad laughed quietly, And

22:08

I just want that on the record. for that. You for

22:11

that after we That held the laugh in, but I

22:13

just want it Let me no. Let me try

22:16

it again. Oh. That's okay. We'll we'll

22:18

fix that. Okay? Yeah. So what what

22:20

these approaches are actually telling you

22:22

is what you don't have. Does that

22:24

make sense? So for assault, what

22:26

you don't have is the point of

22:28

attack, where the attack is gonna come. That's a

22:30

detail you need. For stealth,

22:32

the detail you need is the point of infiltration.

22:35

For transport, the detail you

22:37

need is the route and the means. So you're

22:39

looking for odd detail. based

22:41

on what I've described to you so far,

22:43

which of these do you

22:45

think applies? What would we need

22:47

if we went with deception?

22:50

If

22:50

you want a deception, you need the method of

22:52

deception, how you're going to fool people.

22:56

Now, she did have they did

22:58

have an out fit

23:00

a a, like, uniform

23:02

slipper was gonna use to get in the back. Slipper

23:04

has the uniform. She does not have the uniform. Yeah.

23:06

I think we're all probably maybe

23:08

a little recognizable and used to been anyways. Right.

23:11

So -- Yes. -- I don't think stealth.

23:13

Taking on disguises and hiding is sort

23:15

of my main pal.

23:17

Yes. So I'm not willing to

23:19

count that strategy out out

23:22

of hand. Yes. But this is

23:24

the world in this is the layer in Stifel

23:26

Chase. would be the most known. So you

23:29

may have to get a little creative. because

23:31

it sounds like what she described was

23:33

a stealth approach. I think that

23:35

that's probably the closest. Yes.

23:38

But I do still have the point

23:40

of infiltration. What you don't have is a way to shut

23:42

down the alarms in the rear.

23:45

which is in sort of you imagine that in a huge cabinet

23:48

stockroom. It's not part of the

23:50

show, which so it's, like, not

23:52

themed. It's not all colorful

23:54

and fantastic. But

23:57

now you know the things

23:59

that I have told you now the things

24:02

that gravel new. That's the intel she

24:04

had. What we've sort of done is bypass the

24:06

gather information stage. Okay? You

24:08

have a plan? That's what she was

24:10

gonna do. her role

24:12

was going to be more of a an

24:15

overseer, sort of a coordinator. There

24:17

you're going to be linked

24:20

via communications. You've got an

24:22

earpiece that lets you all

24:24

talk. I know everyone

24:26

always loves that. being able to be in contact. But

24:29

in this small scale, I think that these earpieces

24:31

will work just fine. So what do we think?

24:33

Which of those approaches are feeling

24:36

feeling right? do can I can I I don't know if

24:38

there's a conversation that needs to happen in game,

24:40

but what the escape plan

24:42

was once The escape

24:44

plan was for I

24:46

mentioned trash bag was gonna cause a distraction on

24:49

the show floor, something that distracted everybody

24:51

and let the other two

24:54

and the hopefully trash

24:56

back to escape unseen. That

24:58

was, like, literally walkout.

25:00

Literally walkout. out Okay. I will

25:02

say, I feel B feels pretty good about

25:04

the idea of, like, causing a distraction.

25:07

Big guy like

25:08

that Pretty

25:09

easy to, you know,

25:12

trick. Right? And or do

25:14

something. I will warn you before

25:16

we get too far down this path.

25:18

we need to take this in order because we don't

25:20

wanna start planning. We're not planning. When you

25:23

the rule in blades of the dark is when you start

25:25

planning, you're already done. Does that make sense? Mhmm. So

25:27

you're not we're not gonna talk about a

25:29

plan. That is something we'll uncover as we're

25:31

doing it. Right now, all we're gonna figure out is the

25:33

approach. Can I

25:35

suggest deception or

25:37

trick or manipulate in the detail is

25:39

the method of our deception.

25:42

We know that a a

25:44

heist is going to take place here. And we

25:46

know the exact details of how that heist is

25:48

going to take place, which seems like

25:50

a tremendous advantage

25:53

that we can use to actually

25:55

score this stuff ourselves while potentially

25:57

pinning it on someone

26:00

else. I think I think deception is our

26:02

is our strongest play.

26:05

And then what we what we What

26:06

is the method of deception? what

26:08

would you how are you deceiving people?

26:11

Well,

26:13

I we

26:15

have two options. We can either try and deceive

26:18

the administrative

26:20

staff here at the prize pantry

26:22

by telling them that

26:24

this heist is going to take place and we're here

26:26

to help stop it. That may be a tough sales pitch.

26:28

The other method is that we deceive the

26:31

other thieves who

26:33

it may be easier to these score

26:35

from rather than draining stealing from the places.

26:38

Mhmm. What job was

26:40

gravel gonna do? gravel

26:43

was overseeing. which is gonna

26:45

continue to be the role that she will she will felt.

26:47

How She is So we have the advantage

26:49

of knowing what they were going

26:51

to do. Correct? Right? Yep.

26:53

And they have a

26:56

disadvantage -- Yeah. --

26:58

in the fact that gravel is not with

27:00

them. What you need to figure out, no.

27:02

Yes. Yes. That's true. That's true. You do have that over

27:04

them. But what you need to figure out, all you need to

27:06

figure out right now is the

27:08

it seems like deception because

27:10

the method of deception is

27:13

what, unless you wanna use stealth to

27:15

get into the back. That is the gap in your

27:17

plan right now. That's what you need to figure

27:19

out. Are you getting distraction? because

27:22

we've got disguise. We've

27:26

got yeah.

27:28

I say deception because we can

27:30

distract. Okay. So Guys, here

27:32

is my question. Which of you

27:34

is going to be the one who

27:36

is tasked with shutting down the

27:38

alarm? EMrick.

27:40

That just

27:41

I mean, he's the technically

27:44

oriented one. Okay. Sounds

27:46

good. So wait. Just before we

27:48

start, because he said, are we

27:50

deceiving the other

27:52

crew? Or are we deceiving

27:54

the staff of the building. I think that you

27:57

should decide that. Yeah. Are you going to

27:59

let them play out? Or are you going to let

28:01

them because I think those are two

28:03

different roles. Let let me make this

28:05

argument that if you're gonna steal it

28:07

from there, it's stealth. If you're gonna

28:09

steal it from them, it's deception. or

28:11

assault depending on if you wanna get,

28:13

like, so routed to her route. Yeah. I think

28:15

it's I think it's trying to steal it from

28:17

them, especially since our gang's

28:19

reputation. Our thing is subtlety.

28:21

Right? Yeah. So it seems

28:23

to me there is way more room

28:26

for blaming it on the other

28:28

crew -- Yeah. -- if we

28:30

go with deception. I think that's a

28:32

good let them do the hard work. And

28:34

then -- Okay. -- we'll we'll swipe What are they gonna So they can't go

28:36

to the authorities and be like, I was robbed the

28:39

wild. I was robbed. plan is Emmerich gonna

28:41

do something with the alarm

28:43

I'm just trying to figure out the first beat that's

28:45

gonna happen. Yeah. Well, I

28:48

don't think yes.

28:50

Aymeric will do something with the alarm.

28:52

But if we're waiting

28:54

for slipper to

28:56

go in first and disable

28:59

it, just

29:01

play it by ear. Right?

29:04

Figure it out as we go?

29:06

Yes. It doesn't it doesn't seem like we

29:08

need to do anything to

29:10

infiltrate this place. You're in?

29:12

We're in. It's it's a question of how do

29:14

we intercept the the

29:17

prize before they get away with

29:19

it. Right. We have every right to be

29:21

there. We're employees. Right? And we

29:23

can we can We don't have

29:25

to go in in

29:27

the skies. No. Are

29:29

you going to steal

29:32

it from these guys? Get them, steal it,

29:34

and then steal it from him. Or

29:36

are you going to try to steal it before they steal it?

29:39

I'm going to try I vote steal

29:41

it from them. Same.

29:45

dad's saying. Okay. Okay. So

29:47

are you going to deceive them into giving

29:49

it to you? Are you going to steal it from them

29:51

by force? Are you going to secretly

29:53

steal it from them? Which of the those sort

29:55

of, like, approaches

29:56

are you thinking? I'm

29:58

going to Because can I can I make

30:01

one other Just one other point.

30:03

Yeah. Another thing that gravel

30:05

would probably bring up as you're talking

30:07

through this. If they can

30:09

steal it, and gravel

30:11

can say, oh, thank god. She

30:14

may not she didn't need you.

30:17

Yeah. Well, I'm not trying to undercut you. I'm telling you

30:19

what gravel would be telling you. It's like,

30:21

if we don't get it first, I'm just gonna

30:23

go with it. I mean,

30:26

Does that make sense? because she probably had a

30:28

better deal with her crew. Okay. Well then let's

30:30

do this. We're overthinking this. Let's do

30:32

stealth. Let's steal before they steal I think that

30:34

would be more fun. I think it would give us more

30:36

opportunities to, like, flex our different

30:38

skill sets, and I think it would be a better

30:40

if you ask fast, they're gonna be

30:42

uncoordinated. because they don't have they don't have gravel.

30:44

If you act fast, you could get it before they

30:46

do. I bet. Yep. Okay. Have you

30:48

serious? with that? Are you feeling

30:50

real? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Why don't we why don't we

30:52

back way up? And

30:55

and

30:55

Well, some of

30:56

that though I mean, don't don't back

30:59

up too much because I do wanna explain

31:01

about, you know, gravel's allegiances. Yeah.

31:04

I think okay. First things first. I think we

31:06

need to play it by ear a little bit because

31:08

I'll tell you the piece of information we can't

31:10

possibly have. How far along

31:12

are they? How close are they? There's

31:14

the other crew. Right? So, like, I

31:16

don't think we have I think we need to get in the

31:18

room first. Somebody needs to get eyes on

31:20

this displayed thing. And --

31:22

Okay. -- and we can play from there.

31:24

Okay. And

31:26

I I think beef is

31:28

going in for that. Right? Beef

31:30

as the biggest and the

31:33

physical force, if something goes

31:35

down for that, he's ready to,

31:37

like, well, assault is the

31:39

backup plant. You know? Okay.

31:41

So we're gonna do an

31:44

engagement role and that is

31:46

going to determine sort of where we start

31:49

in So you get one d for

31:51

sheer luck. Okay? A d

31:53

in this case is a die. You

31:55

get one d for sheer luck. You

31:58

get Is the plan overly

32:00

complex or contingent on many

32:02

factors? Nope. No.

32:03

No. I guess not. Is

32:05

it particularly bolder daring?

32:07

I mean, I guess it would be. Yeah. because you guys

32:10

have never done this before. So I think it's pretty fucking

32:12

bold. So two d,

32:15

Can any of your friends or contacts provide aid

32:17

or insight for this operation? I

32:19

don't think there you would have any time

32:21

to do that. So I I don't think that that one

32:23

would apply here. And

32:26

then are there any other elements you wanna

32:28

consider? No. I think two d to

32:31

die is a good that

32:33

feels good to die. Dude die. It looks like

32:35

Travis rolled one and dad rolled one. Yeah. Well,

32:38

I'd say it would it

32:40

would be Here we

32:42

go. I'm I'm I

32:44

do the role. Oh, you do

32:46

it. I don't wanna damn

32:47

the lights. I'm playing with my brothers,

32:49

gross. Wait.

32:50

Wait. Where is the d?

32:52

Well, that's what she said. Damn

32:54

it. Okay. Now where it says let's

32:57

say it looks like a d twenty. It's in, like,

32:59

the top bar on the top

33:01

left, d six. There we go. We're gonna roll GD60

33:04

Is that good or bad? Oh, that's

33:06

right. Wait. Is that good or bad?

33:09

that's good. Believe it or not.

33:13

You guys show up. You

33:15

guys show up. Okay. So they

33:17

got a six, which means that they're going

33:20

to bypass the first

33:22

obstacle. This is how good the

33:24

engagement role is. They're gonna bypass the

33:26

first obstacle. recall that we had in place, which I

33:28

feel like was getting into the

33:30

back room. So you guys

33:32

show up you're you're

33:34

looking around. You see that that people are

33:36

starting to head towards the

33:38

podium for this big reveal that's about

33:41

to happen. and dad,

33:43

you see your friend.

33:45

It's one of your constructs.

33:48

He is a a hardoustis. Eustis.

33:51

Eustis. Oh, eustis. Eustis.

33:53

UESTACE

33:56

Eustis. Eustis. Yeah.

33:59

You

33:59

see use case walking,

34:03

carrying a big armload of

34:05

cereal boxes. We have started

34:07

to use hard light constructs. In this world,

34:09

they started out as a someone

34:12

to replace sort of,

34:14

like, animatronics we would have in in

34:16

our rides, but the technology was so

34:18

powerful that you helped

34:20

develop Emrick that they

34:22

started to use a more practical function so

34:24

this is a hard carrying boxes.

34:26

And he agreed to you. Well,

34:29

hello, you and

34:31

Rick. so glad to see you father.

34:34

How can

34:34

I help you today, father? Used

34:37

to

34:37

serve I told you you don't have

34:39

to call me. Father.

34:42

But make sure But you are the father.

34:44

I

34:45

keep I am

34:47

a a father.

34:49

I I All these boxes are

34:51

so heavy. Wait. Wait.

34:54

I'll walk with you and you can set them

34:56

down. Is that Yes,

34:58

please. father. Walk with me. Help

35:00

me. As I can I carry some

35:02

of them? Oh, father. That's not necessary.

35:04

Thank you. Kind Kind papa. Papa,

35:06

come with me as I carry these to the back. It's such a joy and

35:09

a pleasure to see you papa. Oh,

35:12

sweet papa. So

35:14

against all odds, this

35:17

cat has has walked with

35:19

you and shepherded

35:22

you back into the back storage area

35:24

where, you know, the electrical

35:26

panels are are at.

35:28

The just by sheer

35:31

shear fate, you have bypassed, and you are now

35:33

in the back. What happened

35:36

next? Eustace, how how

35:38

where do you have to take these things?

35:40

I'm setting them here. And then he said Oh, on shelf. Another

35:43

job well done. Yes. Good.

35:45

Is that all

35:46

you have to carry? Yes. Pop

35:49

I'm done for the day.

35:51

Oh. Goodbye. What And

35:54

you just hang on. You find

35:56

yourself Are

35:58

you alone? No. There's probably two or

36:00

three other

36:00

employees back there with you. But

36:03

like all people in jobs at

36:06

level. If they see someone that's not in uniform,

36:08

they just assume they're a manager

36:10

from from somewhere else. So unless

36:12

you do something to upset that, I think you're

36:14

back here You're okay. What

36:16

do you wanna do now?

36:18

Yeah. Emrick, where is a

36:20

coverall?

36:21

You know, like, you know,

36:22

a one piece jumpsuit? Yeah. Like a jumpsuit

36:24

kind of all the time anyway. Okay.

36:26

All the time? With the Oh,

36:29

yeah. You in the shower. He'll

36:32

he unzips

36:32

it in the Okay. That's good, you know, you

36:35

know. That's the waterfall about it.

36:37

Yeah. Right. Yeah.

36:39

them Well,

36:40

I I think he would

36:43

look around

36:44

to see if he can find

36:46

the yeah,

36:48

he's gonna look around to see if he can find. It's probably oh,

36:51

you think it's a

36:52

breaker probably or something like

36:54

that? Some sort of like It's

36:57

probably near the breaker, but it's not exactly

36:59

like that. Here's what we're gonna do. I'm I'm gonna Dad,

37:01

I'm gonna ask you for a survey

37:04

role. I am gonna say it's

37:06

risky because too much attention, you know, you're gonna is not

37:08

gonna be good for you. But the

37:10

effect is probably standard. I mean, it's

37:12

you're you're just looking for

37:14

what you think is the is the panel. So go

37:16

ahead and give me let's call it a survey.

37:18

called a survey Survey

37:20

says

37:23

Is

37:23

this risky? Yes. Risky

37:26

standard. Risky standard. Risky.

37:27

That's what they call

37:30

me.

37:30

risky standard

37:32

Risky standard. Alright. No bonus

37:33

dies. Submit.

37:36

Oh my god. We love it.

37:38

it I mean, you

37:39

love this. You you hate this. You love to see it,

37:42

I guess. You love it. You hate to see it. We love

37:44

to see it. Okay. That's fair. Dad rolled

37:46

a six. which I did? Very very good.

37:48

That always throws a six. He's very

37:50

talented. That doesn't always rule a six. He's

37:52

very good

37:54

at things. I

37:55

roll a six when I run a roll

37:57

a hundred sided die.

37:59

Right. Right. Yeah. Perhaps.

38:02

So that is a that's a six. That

38:04

is success. You this is gonna sound wild,

38:06

but there there is a a box

38:08

right next to the breaker and it says,

38:12

a lot It says

38:15

it says alarm panel

38:17

here and you know exactly where it

38:19

is. Do not mess

38:21

with. you can

38:22

walk right over to it.

38:24

k? Okay. You

38:26

know where the alarm panel

38:29

is. Dad? there are maybe two guys

38:31

in here. And I don't think that I

38:33

mean, you had a success. I don't think that they're they

38:35

think anything about it. but

38:37

they but if you start fucking around the

38:40

Phantom label the alarm they make, I don't

38:42

know. Now, Justin, I have a

38:44

question. Did gravel give us

38:46

a description of the other

38:47

crew. Let

38:49

me

38:49

think

38:50

on that. Maybe

38:52

basically, like, you know,

38:55

you're not looking at a artists'

38:59

recreation of their faces

39:01

or anything. Mhmm. I think you

39:03

know basically what what

39:05

they look like. And they

39:07

do not seem to be either two cats that are already there. Okay.

39:10

Great. Hamart? Action

39:12

still with

39:13

you. Okay. okay We

39:16

are in communication.

39:18

Right? With the

39:20

earbuds? Correct.

39:22

Mhmm. I'm going to reach

39:24

up like I'm scratching my ear

39:26

and activate

39:27

the earbud and

39:30

tell the other two, I am

39:32

in position at

39:33

the alarm, if

39:36

they

39:36

can

39:37

do something to draw

39:39

these guys away, Okay.

39:41

I'm assuming that you were sort of

39:43

talking quietly to yourself

39:46

that

39:46

the

39:47

I

39:49

am in position. The

39:51

eagle has landed.

39:54

Okay? But there

39:56

are people here watching

39:59

And

39:59

if I tried to do anything with the

40:02

alarm, I I believe I

40:04

may come to

40:06

some misfortune. Right.

40:07

Okay. So can you just

40:09

sort of snuff them out?

40:13

I killed

40:15

the boy. Yeah.

40:16

Just sort of stuff him out. It'll be real

40:18

nasty. Oh, that that's

40:21

not

40:21

really my bailiwick.

40:24

good. That was a test. You shouldn't go

40:26

really nearly snuff it out in

40:28

lives. You mean yeah. I can let you

40:30

know why you brought it up. Now,

40:33

I'm sorry that I can't help on your eye

40:35

in the sky. I I here's

40:38

what I can say. There's nobody else headed

40:40

your way. It just says two in there. I

40:43

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Alright. Beef's

41:51

in the main

41:54

room. We know Imbrox in the back. Montrose, what

41:56

are you doing? Are you with beef?

41:58

Just kinda like surveying?

42:00

surveying

42:02

I

42:02

am wearing my

42:04

finest my

42:05

finest fancy garments. Okay. And I

42:07

walk into the room with

42:09

an air of I

42:12

just I deserve to be here. Just trying

42:15

to look my absolute my

42:17

absolute fanciest. And I'm

42:18

looking around It's working.

42:21

you see people around you, and they're looking at

42:23

you, like, he deserves to be here. Like,

42:25

they're they're into it. I'm like examining

42:27

the podium, like,

42:30

mhmm. Mhmm. this looks right. Excuse me. Take a step back,

42:32

sir? Yeah. Hey. I'm gonna need

42:33

you to take a step back, sir.

42:35

Thank you. I wanna

42:36

waived down, like,

42:38

in a That was a big guard. Yeah.

42:40

It sounded

42:41

like a pretty big guard just for me

42:43

to do my big guard voice. That

42:45

was a big guard.

42:47

my mistake,

42:48

my mistake, excellent

42:50

job. That was a test.

42:52

And you have succeeded in passing

42:54

it. Please step away, sir. My my mistake.

42:57

I take a step back. Excellent

42:59

work. What's your name? My

43:01

name

43:01

is Kevin. Thank you. Never know when to

43:03

stop dreaming. Please move it

43:06

along. I

43:06

like that, Kevin. I like that. And you

43:08

really shouldn't even be talking to me. when you're

43:11

on the call. Correct, sir. Please step away.

43:13

Okay. Do you wanna

43:14

continue the conversation, Griffin?

43:18

Yeah. Kinda. Okay. Great.

43:20

No way. Travis, I I want

43:22

beef to do his thing.

43:25

he's

43:25

talking to this guard. That's what he's

43:27

doing right now. You

43:28

what are you doing right now? We'll come

43:30

back to that. Come on, Charles. Don't you worry.

43:33

I would like to wave down an

43:35

attendant. Somebody who's like handling, getting

43:37

boxes for a

43:38

perfect big Yes. How can

43:40

I help you? My name's Dan. Oh, hey,

43:42

Dan. It's a pleasure. looking

43:45

for the perfect match. between

43:47

you and a prize. Because yes.

43:50

Dan, I'm gonna stop you right there. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant.

43:52

Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant. Dant.

43:54

Dant. Dant. Dant you know,

43:56

the SLAM and SLAB.

43:58

Uh-huh. I'm a little young. Were you in your

43:59

are you in your prime now?

44:01

Or were you That's not important, Dan. We

44:03

could talk about that later. but

44:05

I'm looking around here. I don't see any beef berry. Any beef

44:07

berry crunch? Beef

44:10

berry

44:11

crunch is available

44:13

in our cereal cafe. But I don't

44:15

see the boxes here,

44:18

Dan. you know, sir,

44:20

that is a great point.

44:22

You're you're absolutely right. You know, we

44:25

try to have a cornucopia of serial

44:27

experiences represented on our show floor. And I do not I do not

44:29

think beef berry crunch. Kind

44:31

of a kind of a collector's

44:33

item. I

44:33

think retro would

44:36

be so cool if we if we if we did

44:38

some beef berry. But, no, we don't have any beef berry

44:40

on the floor. Oh, sure. Maybe they could

44:43

check back in the back. back

44:45

in the warehouse. Hey, Dan.

44:47

Look back in the warehouse. I sure

44:49

would appreciate it.

44:52

I'm pretty busy. I get I mean, but for you,

44:54

beef, I guess. I guess,

44:56

sure. I mean,

44:57

I could go look. Alright,

44:59

Travis. Give me a sway roll. Let's see if you

45:01

can convince Dan.

45:03

And I think that this is

45:06

not risk key. I mean, I think that this is controlled. I mean, it it

45:08

it yeah. I don't really The worst is

45:10

gonna have it as they had to say, no. I'm not gonna

45:12

do that. I

45:14

don't really lose mine. He's like, no. And the effect, I

45:16

think, is pretty standard too. You're asking it

45:18

to deploy a very reasonable request. Yeah.

45:20

Could you look in the back?

45:23

Donna

45:24

stice

45:26

now.

45:26

Okay. Here

45:28

we go. Oh, whale. Well

45:31

-- Oh, wait. -- my god. Oh,

45:33

yeah. That's a that's a one and

45:35

a one. Did you

45:36

have two in sway? Or no, you had no,

45:38

no, I would have to take the lowest and

45:41

not hard to change things to the

45:43

ones. Yeah.

45:44

Holy shit. Hold on a second.

45:46

I mean, I have

45:48

to see I have to see what's due here. I think it's an

45:50

unmitigated failure. Would be It's

45:52

gonna be an unmitigated failure, but I

45:54

have to feel like does he just not

45:56

feel guilty

45:58

about the fact that they'd have to just walks away without

45:59

answering it. I mean, here's what I

46:02

will. Here's what I will say, Drav. It's

46:04

a really

46:06

good time. to have a

46:08

bad role. Yeah. Because,

46:10

really, I mean, the stakes of this are I'm

46:12

trying to figure out a way of

46:15

think of a way

46:18

of penalizing you, but,

46:20

like, I really I can't I can't

46:22

think of too much. that I

46:24

could that I could level against you here. Let

46:26

me see what the

46:28

well, it could penalize his ego.

46:31

That's true.

46:32

Hold on. I'm trying to look at

46:34

Okay. Believe

46:36

it or

46:37

not, on a on a

46:41

controlled role. A four

46:43

slash five or a one to

46:45

three result gives a scale drill a

46:47

chance to try again. Okay.

46:48

So I'm I hey.

46:50

I'm so sorry. I'm

46:52

super rushed though, and I just

46:56

can't. I I gotta go. I'm sorry. Oh, yeah. I totally I'll

46:58

just go back myself and look.

47:02

Absolutely not. I get you know how

47:04

you know

47:06

that. Okay. Yeah. That that breaks my beefy heart.

47:08

Hey. If you wanna try to push it, Travis,

47:10

you absolutely can ask it again. I'll be I

47:12

will let you do it again. it

47:14

will be risky you please

47:16

go back there for me, brother?

47:18

Let me think about it.

47:22

It's risky now. Right?

47:25

Now it's risky.

47:28

One and a four. Jesus

47:32

Christ. That's a one.

47:34

Yeah.

47:35

I'll go look for but I'm

47:37

here's what I'm gonna say. I'm not gonna

47:39

take a lot of time will take a quick look

47:41

because you say that you're somebody and I

47:43

don't

47:43

wanna get in trouble with that, you know, the higher up. Well, I

47:46

mean, everybody

47:48

for somebody. I mean Okay. I'll I'll I'll be right back.

47:50

And Dan starts walking off

47:52

to the to the

47:55

to the

47:57

rear. Emrick.

47:59

m That's when you

48:00

see the door fly open.

48:04

Hey, guys. Hey,

48:05

guys. Can you guys

48:06

help I I have, like, so many

48:09

people out there with everything going on. Can

48:11

you guys please help me out? I'm I'm

48:13

looking for beef berry crunch Do you

48:15

have any empty boxes back here? And

48:16

the three of them start looking for

48:19

a a

48:19

beef berry a

48:22

beef berry. Is it beef berry or beef very crunch? It's beef

48:24

very crunch. Okay. And originally, it started

48:26

off as beef berry. And everyone was

48:29

really confused by that. But then

48:31

we figured out if we just put crunge on the end. We we people

48:33

understood a lot better what it

48:35

was. Fantastic.

48:36

Okay. So that

48:39

yeah. Emrick, they're they're distracted. They're they're looking

48:41

for beef berry. I

48:43

think that

48:44

Emrick

48:46

in

48:46

the guise of also looking for beef berry to see

48:48

if there's any oh, I don't know.

48:51

In the alarm box, opens

48:54

the alarm box. So just to be quick I just wanna double

48:56

check real quick. Are you loudly announcing as

48:58

you open the alarm box? No need

49:01

it. There's already in here. body

49:04

language. Oh, okay. body language. There it

49:06

is. Don't worry about that. You're fine.

49:08

Okay. You're fine. Alright. Got

49:10

a window. opens

49:11

the alarm box.

49:13

Okay. Powell, it opens.

49:15

And it's fucking wires,

49:17

man. It's wires

49:20

for days. if

49:21

you wanna have some sort of impact here,

49:23

you're gonna need to you're gonna need to

49:25

roll for it. I'm assuming well, now I

49:27

wanna assume.

49:27

What are you what are you doing?

49:29

Wow, tinker. You're gonna tinker. Use my

49:32

tinker skills. I have two dots in

49:34

tinker. to what

49:36

end, to

49:38

disable. the alarm.

49:39

Okay. So you wanna you

49:40

wanna disable the

49:41

alarm? Well now, hold on. Hold on. Hold

49:43

on. Hold on. I want to

49:46

understand something. If

49:47

the goal is to deceive the other

49:49

team. No. That's not the goal

49:51

anymore. Remember We're gonna steal this thing before We're

49:54

gonna steal it before they steal it.

49:56

Okay. Okay. Alright. So

49:58

Emmerich, you're going to disable the

50:00

alarm. Yes.

50:02

Let's see. Let's call that a

50:06

risky

50:06

for sure.

50:09

And

50:10

standard is like I mean, that's what

50:12

you'd be getting into something like this for. Right?

50:14

So I I think risky

50:17

standard.

50:17

KI0I

50:20

see.

50:23

Okay.

50:23

Five and

50:25

A10

50:25

lucky lucky. So we'll

50:27

take that five. It's a

50:30

mixed success. you

50:32

harken back to some of your old,

50:34

you know, you've wired systems,

50:36

not dissimilar from this before. But

50:40

at at one point while

50:43

rewiring things,

50:44

you get shocked.

50:46

and

50:46

the Dan and the two warehouse

50:49

workers are look over

50:51

your way and start

50:53

walking towards you. Let's

50:56

cut over to Montrose.

50:59

You are talking

51:01

with the guard. that

51:04

you that you were interested in for

51:06

some reason. Yeah. And he's asked you to

51:08

step away. Where what are you what are you gonna do, Montreras?

51:10

I've I've stepped away. I'm I'm continuing to try and have a conversation with him, but I

51:12

want him to know that I respect his authority.

51:15

Thank you, sir. I

51:18

appreciate that. I appreciate

51:20

someone who is skilled and

51:22

competent at their job as you seem

51:25

to be. My name's Dominic Good

51:27

Party. And I am

51:30

yes. I'm in the event planning business.

51:32

It's not my real name, but legally

51:34

it is. I changed to Dominic --

51:37

Good party. -- have you swear

51:39

that I've seen you around. I mean,

51:41

you I I was swear

51:43

I've seen you around. don't give

51:45

away my don't give away my my I

51:48

wanna say something upfront.

51:49

I I have established that

51:52

Montrose wears

51:54

a mask everywhere he goes -- Last night. -- or late night to I

51:56

don't think I would roll in here with my just

51:58

my regular old Montrose

51:59

face on.

52:02

the

52:03

Okay. Fair?

52:06

Yeah.

52:06

That's fair. I think what

52:08

you're gonna have to accept is that if you

52:10

wanna wear the mask, it will hide your identity.

52:13

But people are it's gonna be really really

52:15

hard to get people the trust. Like, people

52:17

are it's weird that you're doing this.

52:19

Okay. That's why this I'm not I'm not wearing the mask.

52:21

I don't know how to be recognized. Yeah. Okay. It's it's not I

52:23

have a face under there. It's just it's

52:26

just a very

52:28

plain face. Okay. Hey, it's a beautiful

52:30

face. Thank

52:30

you. I'll I'll accept it. Yes.

52:32

Dominic, good party, good

52:33

party event

52:36

planning. And I have to say this is quite a shindig that

52:38

your higher ups have thrown together here.

52:40

Security is Sir, I really

52:42

Griffin, if you want this man to talk

52:45

to you, you gotta him because

52:47

he has told me to step away. Got you. you. Anyway, I don't wanna

52:49

tell you. I don't wanna get you

52:51

in trouble, but it seems like you

52:53

do

52:53

have all of you

52:55

need to roll your die to

52:58

keep this man from from

53:00

taking some action against you. I imagine you

53:02

many sides of thoughts. I produced a set

53:04

of climbing gear that I

53:06

have

53:06

brought with me. Okay. He's intrigued

53:09

enough to see me. He's intrigued enough to

53:11

see where you're going with this. I

53:13

did just find this in the

53:15

alleyway. And so Oh my gosh.

53:17

You're kidding me. Yeah. And

53:19

and listen, I I've seen this happen a lot of times,

53:21

you look left right, you look forward, you look backward, but you forget

53:24

to look up. And I think if you go ahead

53:26

and mark one on your load

53:28

for me, Yes. It's

53:30

actually two. It's actually two. For the

53:32

for the climbing gear. What load

53:34

did you go now I did not ask you

53:36

guys. Yeah. I don't think that

53:38

I probably need

53:40

to. I think we'll just call

53:42

it normal unless you all have

53:43

some sort of opposition

53:46

to that. to to having a

53:48

normal load. The way blades in the dark works is

53:50

you don't have to take you don't

53:52

have to specify the

53:54

the load out that you're taking

53:56

what you do have to specify is

53:58

like how kitted out you are. So one to

54:00

three is a light load, which

54:03

makes you less conspirate. conspicuously

54:06

faster. Four to five is like

54:08

normal. Six is heavy.

54:10

Seven to nine is encumbered. Now, four

54:12

to five four to five load, you

54:14

look normal. So you look like a

54:17

scoundrel ready for trouble. Yeah. I don't.

54:19

I think I'm light. I I think you're

54:21

going light. Okay. So that's that's use two

54:23

I mean, they have three load points that I can spend on gear in

54:25

the moment when I need it. Okay. And we

54:27

also get one free load

54:29

because of our our

54:32

because of our crew. Great point. Okay. So

54:34

am I is it are you guys going

54:36

in Emrick and and b for you

54:38

guys going in Light or normal?

54:40

Beef is a Okay. Normal?

54:42

Yeah.

54:43

I think

54:44

normal.

54:47

normal Okay.

54:48

That probably made you we won't deal

54:50

with it right now. But normal for the

54:52

future, it will be tough with normal if you

54:54

wanna do a lot of, like,

54:57

convincing people you are -- Not

54:59

a criminal. -- not a criminal because

55:01

someone who's normal, like, has

55:04

some tools By the way, when you look at your your character

55:06

sheet there, Emrick, and see

55:08

if your tools

55:10

that you use, tinkering tools,

55:14

just check. is checked. Okay. So you got you got that accounted for in your

55:16

load. Mhmm. So you

55:18

found you found oh, shit.

55:22

I knew this would happen. I try

55:24

I try to tell them. I

55:26

tried. Up up crime.

55:28

It is the skirt.

55:32

of the security personnel.

55:34

And I am So you've fat you've

55:36

you just found these lying in

55:40

the alley. Yeah. I guess they

55:42

were trying to keep a light load.

55:44

I'm not sure. I I it's hard

55:46

to get in the mind. started

55:49

getting the mind of these criminals, isn't it? So, Griffin, would

55:51

you say that right now what you are doing is

55:53

attempting to sway or

55:57

consort. What would you say? What'd you

55:59

say

55:59

you're trying to This is a

56:02

lie. This is a lie. This is a lie.

56:04

I'm trying to I wanna get under

56:06

that stage. because I know that that is ultimately

56:08

where they are going to wanna go, the other team. And so I am trying to

56:10

divert as much security, as many eyes

56:13

and security personal personnel away from here. And the roof

56:15

is about as far as I can think to. So

56:17

it's way, baby. Try and send them.

56:20

Alright. Well,

56:22

let's Let's see. So what are you trying to get him to do?

56:24

Go check out the roof.

56:26

Okay. Let's let's call

56:30

that a sway. I think this is definitely risky because it's

56:32

a big lie. But

56:34

I think the effect is

56:36

probably still standard. I mean,

56:38

I know It's gonna

56:40

be tough because I don't think

56:42

he would leave his position. I think he would radio

56:44

it in.

56:45

Okay. I'll tell you what. Let's

56:46

see how let's see how the

56:48

role goes before I start micromanaging. Okay.

56:50

Do I get a bonus dice

56:53

because I've used a

56:55

tool. We haven't really talked much about how bonus

56:58

dice factor into things. Oh,

57:00

okay. Well, let's see here. You

57:02

can normally get two bonus dice

57:04

for your role. Some special abilities might give you additional bonus dice.

57:06

For one bonus die, you can get assistance from a

57:08

teammate. They take one stress, say how

57:10

they help you, or give you plus

57:12

one d. also

57:14

push yourself to give yourself another die.

57:16

What were you thinking that you would

57:18

get a bonus die for? Producing this

57:20

climbing gear having a prop doing

57:23

some light prop work with my friend

57:25

here. I'm trying to figure out if that would

57:27

be applicable here. It doesn't have. I don't know

57:29

if that's a thing. Okay. Then I

57:31

won't use it. No, the exercise. Don't need it. That's

57:33

a six and a four. We'll take the

57:35

six. Hot. Whoa. You

57:38

guys are crushing.

57:38

That's not me. That's a couple of us

57:41

are. That's a complete success.

57:44

Okay?

57:45

Alright.

57:48

Alright.

57:49

Alright. Give me the

57:52

gear.

57:52

I hand it

57:54

over.

57:54

Do I take it off my

57:57

I guess I brought it already. So I didn't bring it

57:59

down. Yeah. Yeah.

57:59

Okay.

58:00

Okay. Give me

58:04

the gear. I'll I'll go I'll go check it

58:06

out. You know what? I'm gonna do a fortune

58:08

roll to see if he does go check it out or

58:10

if he can send someone to check it out because I don't

58:12

know what he

58:14

would do. Fair.

58:14

So I wanna do

58:16

two.

58:18

So, fortunately, it's just sort

58:19

of like something

58:22

where the the players

58:24

aren't in

58:25

in control of it, but

58:27

I don't necessarily wanna make the

58:29

decision. because it dictates too much. So we're

58:31

just gonna see where where

58:34

what would the the fates say,

58:37

may

58:38

be.

58:40

So that's

58:40

a sorry. That's a

58:43

six. I'll be dang you

58:45

guys

58:45

are killing it. Yeah.

58:48

Alright. I'll go

58:50

check it out. Hey, can you do me a favor?

58:52

You

58:52

seem like

58:53

another professional. Can you

58:56

hang out around here,

58:58

just kinda keep people's hands away

59:00

from the the the the pin.

59:02

Don't

59:03

let anything under it or

59:05

or there's been some vloggers room that wanna

59:07

get an early peak. It's just right

59:09

here behind me and obviously, I mean, he doesn't

59:11

need to say that. It's

59:13

it's clear. Is it in a box or is it just the

59:16

pin itself is under What you

59:18

see is

59:20

a,

59:20

like, four

59:22

inch by

59:24

four inch square that you

59:26

can tell as a cube. Right? It's a

59:29

four inch by four inch cube. that

59:31

is about six feet elevated off of the ground on

59:33

a on a you can't really

59:35

tell, probably a pedestal or

59:38

something. but there's a large purple drape

59:40

draped over it. So you can't that

59:42

that is what you see. Okay. Yeah.

59:46

That is not a problem. Alright. He slips

59:48

off to parts unknown. He

59:50

takes your climbing gear and he he

59:53

heads out beef. What are you what

59:55

are you up to my man?

59:57

Right now, here's where we're at. Emrick has

1:00:00

disabled the

1:00:02

alarms and you

1:00:02

you Griffin or

1:00:05

sorry, mantras have lured

1:00:07

away the guard that is

1:00:09

standing nearest to the stage. Tell

1:00:12

me about the method,

1:00:14

the the dumping of

1:00:16

the fake flags into a

1:00:19

thing. and then the tubes carry them away. Are

1:00:21

the tubes visible? Can I see

1:00:24

them? After you check out,

1:00:26

there

1:00:26

is four

1:00:29

foot by four foot pink square

1:00:31

that's labeled prize zone. You

1:00:33

stand there and there's

1:00:35

lights that are on there and there's like a

1:00:37

they're booming music. It's like a big moment when you open it up to see what

1:00:39

you get. Then after you tear it

1:00:42

open, there is a receptacle

1:00:44

not unlike

1:00:46

when you the the the things that you put your three d glasses back

1:00:48

into -- Sure. -- you know, that kind of idea, and

1:00:50

you just up in the box and dump

1:00:53

it right into this receptacle. you

1:00:56

see it sort of a willy wonka

1:00:58

style vacuum tube. Just

1:01:01

cereal just blowing

1:01:03

up blowing through this fat tube,

1:01:06

and you dump your box next to it.

1:01:08

And it is the boxes, I think,

1:01:10

probably just go into like a

1:01:12

recycling thing. There's also a

1:01:14

plastic, like, jewel case amare

1:01:16

around each box that keeps people from

1:01:18

opening them. in

1:01:20

in the aisles, and those are stored

1:01:22

behind the counter. They just unlock those with

1:01:24

the magnet and and toss them behind

1:01:26

the counter. and that is

1:01:28

the that is the

1:01:30

system. I think the serial's probably blowing

1:01:32

into the back and

1:01:33

being collected in, like, big

1:01:35

big bins. So wasteful.

1:01:37

Well, then

1:01:38

they reused it. Oh, zero.

1:01:40

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's all reused. It's all

1:01:42

reused. Okay. I'm

1:01:43

gonna position myself

1:01:45

close to that. close

1:01:47

to, like, the receptacle and stuff. And

1:01:49

then I'm just gonna

1:01:49

kinda keep an eye out for the

1:01:52

crew members.

1:01:54

Okay.

1:01:55

Alright? With the theory being

1:01:57

what?

1:01:57

What's what's your

1:01:59

rationale? That prize

1:02:01

area seems pretty

1:02:04

rigged up for good distraction

1:02:06

fodder.

1:02:07

Okay. Alright.

1:02:11

ah

1:02:13

Thanks for

1:02:13

calling so smoothly for you guys. The thing

1:02:16

that is needs to happen now,

1:02:18

and this is what you hear

1:02:20

from gravel, Alright. Alright. It's all going

1:02:22

really smooth. We've had great luck

1:02:24

here. What I need is

1:02:26

someone to go

1:02:28

ahead and steal

1:02:30

the fucking pin if if anyone would

1:02:32

be so kind. Thanks.

1:02:34

Well, do

1:02:35

do I

1:02:38

see Any of the from

1:02:40

your perspective, here's what you see. You

1:02:42

don't see him, Rick. He's in the back.

1:02:44

You see you can see

1:02:48

Montrose standing near the stage, and you

1:02:50

don't know why. But

1:02:51

fucking Montrose is just standing there

1:02:53

by himself right near the stage.

1:02:56

unaccompanied. That is what you that is what you see from

1:02:58

your perspective. You probably

1:03:00

actually do know why because you

1:03:02

could hear Yeah. Via

1:03:03

the the earpiece. Are you guys comfortable with those being always open? Does

1:03:05

that make the most sense just so you wanna keep

1:03:07

catching people up? Yeah. Okay.

1:03:10

And do I see any of the other

1:03:12

rival crew? You wouldn't,

1:03:14

probably. I mean, I I don't think

1:03:16

that you you would. You could do

1:03:19

You know what, Travis? Why don't you go ahead

1:03:22

and let's call this?

1:03:22

I think this would

1:03:26

be hunt.

1:03:26

or survey? I mean,

1:03:28

are you looking for your probably I

1:03:30

mean, what do you think?

1:03:32

hunt or survey Hunt or survey. Yeah.

1:03:34

I think in this case, it's survey because, specifically,

1:03:36

the sense travel before it

1:03:40

happens and gather information about

1:03:42

opportunities or

1:03:44

exploits. subscribed survey is what I'm looking for rather than trying

1:03:46

to find someone to hurt them or find someone

1:03:48

to, like, attack them. So I think

1:03:50

survey is the way to go.

1:03:52

and I'm gonna push

1:03:55

myself because the timing of,

1:03:57

like, creating the distraction and

1:03:59

everything

1:04:01

here feels important.

1:04:02

So by pushing yourself, you're

1:04:04

gonna take

1:04:07

two stress. Right?

1:04:09

you know,

1:04:10

you're gonna take two stress to give yourself an

1:04:12

extra die. And we can deal with

1:04:14

with what stress is. But a a

1:04:16

good way to think about stress and this is the way

1:04:19

that that John Harper explains it in the blazer

1:04:21

that our book is the ability

1:04:23

to take on stress is

1:04:25

what separates you

1:04:27

all from other people.

1:04:30

That ability to push yourself beyond

1:04:32

the limits of what normal people could

1:04:35

do that is what separates your scoundrels from

1:04:37

the the other denizens of Stifel Chase.

1:04:39

So when you're gonna put put yourself for

1:04:41

a bonus die,

1:04:44

Yes.

1:04:44

Which will put me

1:04:45

at one die because currently I have

1:04:47

zero in survey. What

1:04:49

input

1:04:50

value is it risky?

1:04:53

Is it

1:04:56

risky?

1:04:57

Now, I mean Okay. Well,

1:04:59

yeah, it is risky because you know, it is risky because if you

1:05:01

miss it, it's bad. sense. Yeah. If

1:05:04

you if you don't see them, then it would be

1:05:06

negative. So, yes, I would say risky standard.

1:05:08

Got it. Which, by the way, I know we're

1:05:10

saying that a lot. That's kind of the default,

1:05:12

then they they even say in the books,

1:05:14

like, you could probably be fine just like

1:05:16

using risky standards of

1:05:18

So

1:05:19

that's a three.

1:05:21

damn. So that

1:05:23

is a let's

1:05:26

see. You know what?

1:05:28

This

1:05:28

is a very important moment.

1:05:31

and I'm going to oh, I can

1:05:33

push myself or take a devil's

1:05:35

fire go. Yes.

1:05:38

Yes.

1:05:38

I can't

1:05:39

do both? Could you do both?

1:05:41

I mean, at this

1:05:44

point, listen, it's early

1:05:46

on.

1:05:47

hello Hold

1:05:48

on.

1:05:49

A devil's bargain can give

1:05:51

you a bonus die, but it's only

1:05:53

before the roll. I

1:05:55

thought devil's bargain was

1:05:57

you accomplish the thing, but you A

1:05:59

GM

1:05:59

or any other player can offer you a bonus die if

1:06:02

you accept a devil's bargain. Current

1:06:04

ones include collateral damage,

1:06:06

sacrifice coin, betray

1:06:08

a friend, offend, or anger a

1:06:10

faction, add heat to the

1:06:12

crew, suffer harm. The devil's

1:06:14

market occurs whether the regardless the

1:06:16

outcome of a role is always a free choice.

1:06:18

If you don't like

1:06:19

one, then you

1:06:22

you don't take it. But if you pay make the

1:06:24

deal, you pay the price and you get the bonus

1:06:26

die.

1:06:28

Okay.

1:06:29

okay Okay. Well, so we can

1:06:31

do it, but but this is a new rule. So if

1:06:33

you wanna go back and take the devil's bargain,

1:06:35

we we we can. No.

1:06:37

I think

1:06:38

I don't know what I I

1:06:40

don't know what they are. But

1:06:43

Monitors are you ready to meet

1:06:46

the ground? why am

1:06:47

I the the Voice. Montrose, I don't

1:06:50

see the other

1:06:52

crew, but Are

1:06:55

you ready to make the grab? And I'll make the distraction? Or how do

1:06:57

you wanna you wanna

1:06:59

make the grab?

1:07:00

But then I make the distraction?

1:07:04

Okay. Because of the the

1:07:06

you

1:07:07

you did not

1:07:10

managed to spot the

1:07:12

the the guy, but

1:07:14

I'm going to put a clock.

1:07:19

Okay. So

1:07:20

clocks our

1:07:23

way of monitoring time.

1:07:26

or pro In general generally speaking.

1:07:28

Yeah. Yeah. It's been my experience.

1:07:30

In my creation, clocks are

1:07:33

no. In my curiosity world, Okay.

1:07:36

So what I've done is I made a clock called rival

1:07:38

feeps and you know this

1:07:41

is happening and

1:07:42

I'm going to

1:07:45

this this clock represents

1:07:47

represents their progress

1:07:48

in stealing the thing.

1:07:52

You don't have any insight into what they're doing, but this I am

1:07:54

telling you that you are now one I've

1:07:56

ticked away one of the steps because

1:07:59

of

1:07:59

a Beef's inability

1:08:01

to spot this guy.

1:08:03

This is he beefed it.

1:08:05

He beefed it. So when this

1:08:07

clock runs out, they will steal the thing

1:08:09

and get away with it.

1:08:12

So the the

1:08:13

race is on. Okay,

1:08:15

Montrose. Are

1:08:16

you do

1:08:17

you want me to

1:08:19

trigger the distraction

1:08:20

now

1:08:22

or I think, well, first

1:08:24

of

1:08:24

all, we need

1:08:26

to in the future talk

1:08:28

about how we are

1:08:30

going to converse over these things because regretfully my

1:08:33

autonomous sensory meridian response

1:08:35

has been absolutely zooming.

1:08:40

I no. No. No. That's that's

1:08:43

all that's all willing and good. But

1:08:45

Nope. Stop it. People have earbuds in.

1:08:47

You can't do this. I

1:08:50

got a one more one more piece

1:08:53

piece of the puzzle that I

1:08:55

think is really gonna bring

1:08:57

this whole thing together. what are

1:08:59

the vloggers like in this

1:09:01

room? How many vloggers are

1:09:03

we talking about?

1:09:04

they're

1:09:06

they're pretty easy to spot.

1:09:08

Right? Because they have the the

1:09:10

cameras sort of They have They've

1:09:13

got Kroga's. No. They they they don't

1:09:15

it's like a an attachment on their back. It's like a back rig. And then coming

1:09:17

up over them, there's

1:09:19

sort of like imagine

1:09:22

a selfie stick that was attached to your back and just sort of like

1:09:25

arcing out in front of you. So like and

1:09:27

then it had like a camera at

1:09:30

there. And you see them like basically yammering on to themselves,

1:09:32

but you can tell they're streaming. Right?

1:09:34

Because not everybody can get to Stifel

1:09:36

Chase, but there are still people

1:09:38

who are obsessed with Stifel Chase. they are

1:09:40

so excited to see this pin. Like, they cannot wait to see

1:09:42

this design. This is a big moment for

1:09:47

them. Okay. And I would say There's probably let's

1:09:50

see. Yeah.

1:09:51

Four.

1:09:53

I wanna I wanna work the

1:09:55

room with those fives specifically and prepare

1:09:57

them for an exciting press

1:09:59

only

1:09:59

opportunity to get to get just

1:10:01

some some some, you know, merch

1:10:04

photos just so that because the

1:10:06

once they unveil it once sorry.

1:10:10

Once we unveil it, it's going to the

1:10:12

hub up is gonna be There's gonna be

1:10:14

a rush and, you know, you're gonna

1:10:16

get a bunch of noggins in a way. of

1:10:18

these Okay. They probably have, like, a they probably have, like, a

1:10:21

an assigned area that they're in. Right? Oh,

1:10:23

that's fine. That's fine. This is

1:10:25

best. Yeah. That's nice. So you go

1:10:27

over and talk to them. Wait.

1:10:29

What's your spiel? Hi, everybody. Thanks

1:10:30

for coming. We're really excited to have you here.

1:10:34

Just to let you know, the

1:10:36

higher ups have permitted

1:10:39

you all to get some

1:10:41

exclusive product shots. of the pin

1:10:43

before we unveil it to the

1:10:46

public. We Oh,

1:10:48

just a limited time

1:10:50

to secure You're that gang?

1:10:52

This guy hit, what's your

1:10:54

name? My name is Dominic Good Party, and

1:10:58

I'm a PR rep. here

1:11:00

for Oh my gosh. Do you work

1:11:02

for Dentonic? Are you like a separate entity? Well, I'm under

1:11:04

contract from Dentonic. because

1:11:05

I've never met I've never met you before.

1:11:08

I don't I

1:11:10

I go to these events all the time. Yeah.

1:11:12

We're new. So do you want me to handle these internally right gang? And

1:11:14

they're, like, talking to you, but they're also gonna talk to the camera.

1:11:19

So They

1:11:20

do have their own internal PR teams

1:11:22

for, you you know, print and traditional

1:11:24

press. So I

1:11:27

hope you're not offended that they've sort of

1:11:29

siloed you all off and hand you off to to me

1:11:31

to sort of not really

1:11:34

give you all the listen.

1:11:37

don't want me to give you this scoop.

1:11:39

But I think the work you all are doing is important, and you're reaching gosh. Thank you

1:11:42

that

1:11:42

this is an

1:11:44

exclusive photo opportunity.

1:11:46

We have to be a little bit discreet, but if if you if you just follow Just for us,

1:11:48

there's like four other vloggers where

1:11:51

they're not really paying attention. I

1:11:55

want everyone. No. This okay. This is

1:11:58

for everybody. So everybody's, like, has turned

1:12:00

towards you. So

1:12:02

if everyone can follow

1:12:04

me, We'll do a quick --

1:12:06

Oh my gosh. -- but we're gonna miss the shot. You're gonna get the you're

1:12:08

going I'm giving

1:12:11

you the shot now. I

1:12:13

know, but if we miss the big

1:12:15

reveal, that's the moment he's waiting on. I'm

1:12:18

giving you all an exclusive reveal. You know

1:12:20

what? never mind. If you

1:12:22

all wanna take the photos with the hoie poloie in the way and not

1:12:25

get the footage that

1:12:27

your viewers and and

1:12:29

your audience want craves, that's fine. Just forget I said anything. Okay.

1:12:31

I'm gonna say, hey,

1:12:35

man, risky standard. sway.

1:12:37

Let's go. How do you get advantage in this game? Is there advantage in this game? because that was

1:12:39

a good line. It was a good

1:12:42

line. Yeah. That's a good line.

1:12:44

It

1:12:44

it's

1:12:47

not mechanical. One and A61

1:12:50

and

1:12:50

a six. Alright.

1:12:53

hi Okay.

1:12:54

So where? Okay. We're so

1:12:56

thrilled. Thank you for thinking of us. Where should we

1:12:58

all go? And they're all kinda like

1:13:00

nodding to each other? Like, yeah. Yeah.

1:13:02

Where do we Where do we go? Head up right next

1:13:04

to the podium and I'll just kinda uncover

1:13:06

it on one side and you

1:13:09

all can get the the footage that you

1:13:11

need. So we should walk onto this stage. Yeah.

1:13:14

It's it's fine. I've

1:13:16

I've told security

1:13:18

what's going on. They're

1:13:20

gonna turned a blind eye

1:13:22

to us this one. Okay. Right now, right now, right move. Okay.

1:13:26

The six vloggers

1:13:28

with their cameras and everything and

1:13:30

they're they're chattering to each other,

1:13:34

and you see them walk up onto the the they

1:13:36

walk up onto the stage, and then

1:13:39

the you hear from

1:13:41

the back. Head you down. Hey, we've got people

1:13:43

trying to make a run at it. Hey, everyone.

1:13:45

We've we've

1:13:46

got several bloggers on stage. They're

1:13:48

trying to pull the curtain off. and you

1:13:50

see three or four security guards start to make their way

1:13:52

towards the stage. What do you do? I know we have a lot of distraction irons

1:13:54

in the fire, and this will be the time for us to

1:13:59

skewed them, I didn't believe.

1:13:59

Great. Beef is gonna

1:14:02

lean up against that

1:14:05

big tube, the

1:14:08

Neuronic tube. like he's

1:14:10

just resting, but he's gonna push against it. And he's trying to knock it

1:14:12

loose.

1:14:20

Okay? So he I'm gonna wreck it. He's

1:14:22

trying to you're gonna wreck the tube. I'm

1:14:24

a wreck the tube, baby. wreck the

1:14:26

tube. I think this is probably, you know what, for

1:14:28

a

1:14:29

tube, I'm gonna

1:14:31

say it's

1:14:31

definitely risky.

1:14:35

the and stand

1:14:36

I mean, I get I don't wanna say it's

1:14:38

desperate because this isn't life and death, but

1:14:41

people aren't gonna

1:14:44

be like, What is beloved? What is beloved arm

1:14:46

wrestler, right, or boxer? Where do we settle? Arm

1:14:49

wrestler. Beloved

1:14:50

arm wrestler, beef. If

1:14:52

beef can't have great effect against a tube, what does

1:14:55

he hear? What's he doing? And this is a

1:14:57

moment too where,

1:14:59

like, this is the distraction is like

1:15:01

his I'm gonna I'm gonna push myself again because Can't you elect to push yourself

1:15:04

after

1:15:07

the role? I

1:15:08

No.

1:15:09

I I don't get the sense I mean, looking at the action roll

1:15:11

section, it does sort of, like, look like you need to

1:15:13

add the die beforehand because otherwise

1:15:15

it's sort of, like, What

1:15:18

is my effect? I

1:15:20

would like to have great effect. Yeah. I

1:15:22

think you would all like to have

1:15:24

great effect. on a I mean, it's

1:15:26

just so I mean, you're a human man. You're just a human being. is Oh,

1:15:30

well, no. Hold on. I

1:15:33

took the trait that lets me do a feet of superhuman

1:15:35

strength. Uh-huh. So I'm going to say that this is where that

1:15:37

comes in.

1:15:37

What does that work? Is that like

1:15:40

A11

1:15:42

and done kind of deal or what I guess, take stress in order

1:15:44

to activate that or Is that the way that way?

1:15:46

No. It says you can push yourself

1:15:49

to do one of the following. perform a feet of physical strength

1:15:51

that bridges on the superhuman or engage a small

1:15:54

gang on equal footing in close

1:15:56

combat.

1:15:57

So I'm pushing myself. Right?

1:15:59

Yeah. You're pushing yourself,

1:15:59

I did. Okay.

1:16:03

Okay? A

1:16:05

five and

1:16:07

a five. Whoa.

1:16:08

Alright. How did

1:16:09

you reflect the okay. So this is

1:16:11

the feet of superhuman strength.

1:16:13

We're saying it's five

1:16:16

and five. You,

1:16:19

holy shit, beef. You didn't know that

1:16:21

you still had it in you.

1:16:24

Like, when you're doing this,

1:16:26

you're feeling the way that you used to feel when you're arm resting.

1:16:28

You could feel the the stress of it pulled

1:16:30

against you and you could feel the stakes and

1:16:32

the stress. And you didn't know that

1:16:35

you could still do this But in

1:16:37

this moment, you are like alive and you feel your

1:16:39

muscles like start to strain your shirt and

1:16:41

you yank this tube out and

1:16:43

it is just sucking.

1:16:46

Right? I'm I'm leaning against it.

1:16:49

You find yourself well, here's what's

1:16:51

happened right now. You find that there's

1:16:53

this huge tube of suck and things

1:16:55

are starting to get sucked up into this

1:16:57

tube. Oh, I thought it was blowing

1:16:59

up. What?

1:17:00

It's sucking. It's

1:17:03

suck. It's not blowing. It's sucking. You have

1:17:05

That's a giant. You've now unhinged

1:17:07

a giant vacuum tube

1:17:10

that is sucking people. There are people

1:17:12

who are starting to feel themselves pulled towards

1:17:14

it, such as the power of the serial

1:17:16

tube. And I'll tell

1:17:19

you, they're fucking distracted. Yeah. People are really

1:17:21

into this. And beef is definitely doing that in case I was

1:17:23

like, whoa. Whoa. So what? Sorry.

1:17:25

Oh. So what? What

1:17:27

did you do? sir.

1:17:30

The tube came loose and I

1:17:32

was trying to catch it. The tube came loose.

1:17:34

Yeah. brace those people or someone's gonna get hurt.

1:17:39

Okay. They're fucking

1:17:41

distracted.

1:17:41

What do you

1:17:44

do now? I

1:17:46

I so I am,

1:17:48

like, barking orders, right, in

1:17:50

my biggest, boldest, biggest, b

1:17:53

voice. of, like,

1:17:53

guards. Hurry. Grab those people. They're gonna get hurt. Hold down the we have

1:17:55

to protect these people while I try

1:17:58

to get this back in place.

1:17:59

You you Oh,

1:18:02

no. You're doing great effect. Like, this is

1:18:05

a mess for sure. Yeah. I mean, they're they're

1:18:07

listening to you. I think this is

1:18:09

a very stressful situation they

1:18:11

find themselves in. Anybody

1:18:12

wanna steal the pin? Yeah. So where do

1:18:14

we at? Visa me

1:18:15

that. In

1:18:18

this chaos, that is now happening with all the vloggers

1:18:20

on stage trying to get pics

1:18:22

of this thing. Security personnel rushing

1:18:26

them. I am going to run towards

1:18:29

them also. Be like, what

1:18:31

are you

1:18:31

doing? Get

1:18:33

down from you can't be up there

1:18:35

and and just run towards

1:18:38

them. Just basically trying

1:18:40

to get into the crowd

1:18:43

so that I can stealthily grab

1:18:45

the

1:18:47

grab the box. Okay.

1:18:50

So it's it's under the the sheet still. The the box is under the sheet. What

1:18:52

Oh, okay. I have a I

1:18:55

okay. How about

1:18:56

this? I

1:18:59

up running

1:19:00

up towards him like stop stop. What are

1:19:02

you doing? And I'm going to knock the

1:19:06

podium just over. as I go towards them to stop them. chaos, baby. Okay.

1:19:09

You knock the so you're

1:19:10

running to so you

1:19:14

are now in the role of you're pretending to, like,

1:19:16

stop the vloggers from.

1:19:18

And Okay. I also

1:19:21

I also have on me

1:19:23

fine clothes and jewel this is something that I had

1:19:25

time to prepare, I would like to say

1:19:27

that that jewelry

1:19:28

is

1:19:30

a bunch of pins. that I going to scatter to

1:19:32

the ground like so many, like

1:19:35

so many beautiful caltroops. Okay. you're

1:19:39

throwing a bunch of pins on the ground. You have no idea what this pin looks

1:19:41

like, so you're definitely not trying to pretend it's

1:19:43

the pin. Right? What's the goal

1:19:45

with, like, throwing the pins

1:19:47

on the ground? just more I'm

1:19:49

the Joker baby. Okay. So

1:19:52

you're the

1:19:52

vloggers are, like, getting ready to get

1:19:55

their shot. Right? But now They

1:19:58

don't know what it looks like either. Right? I'm not concerned about whether or not the vloggers get the shot. I just wanted bodies up there so

1:20:04

that when I grab

1:20:05

the thing. It's not instantly obvious that I have

1:20:07

just run on stage and

1:20:10

grabbed a pen. Okay.

1:20:12

So they are is this so they're

1:20:14

looking at you I'm not gonna make you roll for this because all you did was throw some pins on

1:20:17

the ground. They're

1:20:19

kinda looking like, Is

1:20:21

this the pin? Is this swag? What do what

1:20:23

do we do? they're still filming over there.

1:20:26

Right? Like, they're they're they're not

1:20:30

really paying attention. They're kind of confused by he's throwing pins at

1:20:33

them, but they are still definitely

1:20:35

filming the vacuum disaster.

1:20:37

the Okay. I

1:20:38

think that there is and I've knocked the podium over. Did I did I see the thing topple out

1:20:40

when I knocked it

1:20:41

over? You knocked you knocked the did

1:20:43

you knock the podium over?

1:20:47

Yes. You did knock the podium over.

1:20:49

Well, you know what? I'm gonna need

1:20:52

you

1:20:53

to roll for that. Oh,

1:20:55

really? How heavy is this podium? Well, I need to know

1:20:57

how it's gonna go. Okay. Can I I don't

1:20:59

know if

1:20:59

it's attached or not. I need you to roll

1:21:01

to tell me if it's attached. I don't know. Can I can I argue

1:21:03

a skill? So one of the finesse

1:21:06

things is employee settlements direction or

1:21:10

side of hand. I'm trying to misdirect

1:21:13

everyone with these mini

1:21:16

pins. Okay. Here's what

1:21:18

I'm saying. Everyone is looking

1:21:21

at the fucking crazy shit with the vacuum.

1:21:23

You are good on misdirection. Okay? You

1:21:25

know what? It's not

1:21:27

gonna get, like,

1:21:28

you

1:21:31

reach a point of infeasibility. Right? Like, there's

1:21:33

still people who are thinking

1:21:35

about it,

1:21:36

but, like, there is to

1:21:38

distracted as they're going to be by this incredible calamity

1:21:40

that Bifast created. Okay. Emmerk,

1:21:42

when you heard

1:21:43

this calamity

1:21:45

start, what

1:21:46

did you do? because

1:21:47

I think that that also gave you a window

1:21:49

where the three that we're starting to look at

1:21:51

you, they are now like. probably

1:21:53

making their way outside

1:21:55

because all of a sudden weird shit like papers

1:21:59

and paper clips. and

1:22:02

gum wrappers, and magazines, and all

1:22:04

kinds of random trash is blowing through the

1:22:06

tube right now. So I think those

1:22:08

guys are going to the the

1:22:11

warehouse workers Dan gave up I think on the beef berry crutch

1:22:13

and the warehouse workers are going to see like

1:22:15

what the hell is going on. They

1:22:17

probably are looking for a way

1:22:19

to shut it down if I had if

1:22:22

I had to guess. So you have an opening here. What what do you do?

1:22:27

I'm going to Someone

1:22:29

used

1:22:29

this. No. Probably a tune. Well, yes. That's a tune. A tune. Yeah. I'm gonna use

1:22:32

a tune. So in the game, the Blades of

1:22:34

the dark There are ghosts. We don't have

1:22:36

ghosts. We

1:22:39

have hard light projections that are standing in for a ghost.

1:22:41

So dad is playing as a whisper, which

1:22:43

is normally someone who's

1:22:46

rarely adept with like supernatural forces. in our game, we're using that metaphor as

1:22:48

somebody who's like very adept with with hard

1:22:50

light. So you know Eustace is here

1:22:54

somewhere. And so

1:22:57

you can try to attune

1:22:59

him, which is sort of like an all purpose

1:23:00

an all purpose

1:23:03

the type

1:23:04

role if that if that makes sense. Yeah.

1:23:06

Should I roll before I tell you what

1:23:08

I wanted to communicate to him? Yes.

1:23:10

Tell tell me what you wanna do

1:23:13

first. I want to

1:23:15

that it. I'm

1:23:17

gonna

1:23:19

communicate with Eustace.

1:23:20

i'm going to communicate with eustace

1:23:23

to ask him to

1:23:23

do your old papadad of favor. Okay.

1:23:25

Let's that seems like a good

1:23:28

boundary. Let's roll on a

1:23:30

tune on that and see. Okay.

1:23:33

Risky? Yeah. Because if you're

1:23:35

staying

1:23:35

in the back,

1:23:36

there's a risk

1:23:38

that they're gonna spot you.

1:23:41

Standard. Okay.

1:23:42

Five. It's not instantaneous.

1:23:44

In fact,

1:23:44

it gives there's enough

1:23:46

time that one of the guys

1:23:51

walks over and starts walking towards you, but you do see uses

1:23:53

in front of you. And the other guard is

1:23:55

not within airshot yet.

1:23:58

Yes, papa. How can I help? Oh,

1:23:59

papa. Use this

1:24:02

one.

1:24:02

It's my papa.

1:24:05

Yeah.

1:24:08

Hello? It's so nice to meet

1:24:10

Youssef's coworkers. Youssef,

1:24:11

could you do papadeta favor?

1:24:15

Anything for you? Yes. I believe they need

1:24:17

you to carry one of your cartons

1:24:20

of boxes. Oh, I'm

1:24:22

very What is that

1:24:24

papa? Yeah. I I would

1:24:26

like you to carry a a carton of boxes out to the the display

1:24:28

where the where

1:24:31

the podium is. It let

1:24:33

me just take one box out so that there's just this one

1:24:35

hole. Would you mind running this out there to

1:24:38

the to the podium?

1:24:41

anything for you like a good

1:24:43

Thank you. Thank you. Oh, good. And then takes a stack

1:24:46

of boxes. Any certain

1:24:48

boxes? No.

1:24:50

Just as long as there's one cereal

1:24:53

box out. What is the

1:24:55

what is the

1:24:57

cereal box that the price

1:25:00

is

1:25:00

I don't think the pin is in a

1:25:02

cereal box. The pin is just on the podium

1:25:04

in the box. it will be placed

1:25:06

in a cereal box at some point, and it's a deal. Just

1:25:08

just

1:25:09

carry these out to

1:25:11

the to the podium. towards

1:25:15

the rather plain looking gentleman

1:25:18

-- Sure, papa. --

1:25:20

and then uses

1:25:22

goes outside carrying a big sack of

1:25:25

boxes. Okay. I have an idea now. Okay.

1:25:27

Now we are our pan pan

1:25:30

over to Montrose. you see a hard

1:25:32

light construct. I don't think you

1:25:34

would probably think anything of it,

1:25:37

but coming out of the back

1:25:39

room. and then you have some vloggers that

1:25:41

are still filming the

1:25:43

vacuum debacle. Okay.

1:25:45

okay I

1:25:46

would like to The

1:25:49

vloggers are still near the podium. Right? Right.

1:25:51

Maybe I wanna bump one of them into

1:25:56

the podium just

1:25:57

to fur I wanna run

1:25:59

towards it and make it look like I'm trying to control

1:25:59

Okay. I know

1:26:03

you're going to I feel

1:26:05

like if I just lift up this curtain, reach and grab the fit, like

1:26:07

it's hard to do that discreetly. Okay. But if

1:26:09

I can get it on

1:26:12

the ground, then

1:26:14

maybe it'll be a little bit easier. Okay.

1:26:17

Seems good. Let's

1:26:19

call this then

1:26:23

Probably finesse. k. Right? I mean, you're trying to

1:26:26

make it look like something else is happening.

1:26:28

Finesse okay

1:26:30

it. Okay. Richey? It

1:26:33

feels

1:26:33

a little desperate. I think it's desperate. It's desperate. Yeah. It's desperate, which me which

1:26:40

has has

1:26:40

big implications if

1:26:42

it does not go your way. Effect,

1:26:46

the entered

1:26:47

standard? Uh-huh. And I'm

1:26:49

gonna

1:26:49

push myself to take a bonus die because this

1:26:51

is this feels

1:26:53

like a

1:26:56

big one. Okay.

1:26:56

That's A442442

1:26:59

So we're gonna take the four. It's

1:27:01

a it's a

1:27:04

mixed success. you

1:27:05

are doing some, like, fancy fancy maneuvers. You're trying to, like, shoe them

1:27:08

away while at the same

1:27:10

time you're not gonna put him

1:27:12

over. and you

1:27:14

throw you have an action where you sort of like I'm trying to throw one of them, but

1:27:16

you lose your

1:27:19

balance and you both fall

1:27:22

into the podium and it topples over. Do I see the pen come out?

1:27:26

No.

1:27:30

Plus, it's it's still

1:27:32

covered in a huge purple drape. So

1:27:34

what you've done is you've knocked over

1:27:36

the whole thing, but it's still

1:27:39

completely covered. Okay. My my mistake.

1:27:41

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

1:27:43

I'm gonna stand up. And while I

1:27:45

stand up, just kind of try to

1:27:47

subtly grab the But oh,

1:27:49

no. You

1:27:50

know oh, man. You wanna stand up and grab

1:27:51

the the

1:27:56

the clock. The cloth, do

1:27:58

you have a knife? No. I mean, I could have a knife. You have

1:28:00

a huge vacuum

1:28:02

behind you. Oh, yeah.

1:28:06

Do we

1:28:07

do we How far

1:28:10

am I from

1:28:11

the vacuum? I

1:28:14

mean, I'm imagining, like, twenty feet. I mean, you're you're at the but but, like, it could be closer if you a

1:28:20

good idea.

1:28:21

the We know where this

1:28:23

vacuum ends up. Right?

1:28:25

Yeah. It

1:28:26

blows into the back. Okay.

1:28:29

the I want

1:28:31

to try to in

1:28:33

one swift

1:28:35

movement, stand

1:28:38

up and try to uncover the

1:28:41

pin and then kick

1:28:43

it like a soccer

1:28:45

ball toward the

1:28:47

toward the vacuum.

1:28:48

Okay? Is that a lot? It's a lot.

1:28:50

I'll let you do it, but it's a

1:28:51

lot. Okay. Okay.

1:28:54

I'm gonna

1:28:55

call this rack.

1:28:56

i'm gonna call this rak

1:28:58

Rack.

1:28:59

I don't know what else it would be.

1:29:01

I mean, what are you doing? You're not you

1:29:03

the ssolely is over.

1:29:05

Right? You you got knocked out you

1:29:08

knocked yourself over with this other person. There is a podium covered

1:29:10

in a a gigantic purple cloth lying on the ground.

1:29:15

If you wanna try to chuck the cloth and the podium

1:29:17

into the vacuum, I'm gonna let you

1:29:19

podium. I'm not

1:29:22

gonna throw podium. podium. Okay.

1:29:24

So you're trying You know what?

1:29:26

I tell you what. I'm gonna un first things first. Let's take this order. I

1:29:29

want to

1:29:29

I'll I'll I'll

1:29:32

try to as

1:29:34

I write myself and stand up, I'll

1:29:36

grab the cloth and try and move it

1:29:38

off the box. Oh, okay. Well, I

1:29:40

mean, that it slips right off. what do

1:29:43

you you're holding the cloth, and then you

1:29:45

pull it away so you

1:29:47

can reveal the

1:29:50

prize inside. When you reveal

1:29:52

it though, you see

1:29:53

something you missed before, a

1:29:56

hole where the podium used

1:29:57

to be. And you

1:29:59

look down into

1:30:01

the hole, and you are looking into the face of

1:30:03

matchstick. And he holds up the pin in

1:30:05

front of his face

1:30:08

and says,

1:30:29

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