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Welcome This is the are college

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He a shadow run actual play

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podcast. After the meeting with Trent,

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the team begins to plan their

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trip to Nashville. but knowledge isn't

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done with them yet. Things are

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heating up and Docs Clinic is

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going to need some serious. Repairs.

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Is a trend has left the

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conference room behind with the all

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of you in the will of

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you being the people who attended

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a Bird kenji year but Remy

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rather and Blaze as well as

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Amelia So or. Amelia.

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Tell me. To. Me little

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bit about yourself like what kind of

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jobs you did the internet to be

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real specific or anything but. I'd

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be curious to know. Who you worked

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with, what kind of stuff you did, how

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long you've been with the family, that kinda

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stuff. She sets down the

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burger she currently had or fries are

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in whatever she was currently eating and

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that. Takes the moment

1:01

to wipe her mouth. I

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was not simply a bodyguard.

1:08

I did. What

1:10

needed doing. I

1:13

got answers from those two

1:16

might need asking questions. I

1:18

got money when payments slipped.

1:22

And know how long? Go Do this for. Their

1:26

work in a moment. Check my note

1:28

out of Canada or time and I

1:30

got out of those somewhere. Where's her

1:32

backstory document that I had written up?

1:36

Two years of

1:38

bout? Okay, Okay,

1:41

so we're. Couple years

1:43

your life you gave over to the. Family

1:46

and. And then he up

1:48

and leaves you hear? A much

1:50

more carefully for the for a reaction.

1:53

To it will be some time yet but

1:56

for I am free from the family. does

1:59

that mean He does not trust her or he

2:01

does not trust us. Huh? Neither.

2:05

No? Here to make sure she,

2:07

she gestures at Ava, does

2:09

not get herself killed. What?

2:13

Sounds like you got a bodyguard. Huh.

2:16

That's neat. I

2:20

can say I've never had bodyguard before. That

2:23

doesn't make any sense. It's

2:25

the crazy world. Yeah.

2:29

Alright, so, uh,

2:32

welcome, I suppose. If

2:34

I can say that for the group. I don't

2:36

know. We're one short. Should

2:39

we talk stuff out here or should

2:41

we convene elsewhere?

2:45

This is a good room. It has plenty of food. Let's

2:48

use this room. It's true. We're just,

2:51

uh, you still

2:53

on the call there, Doc? Yeah,

2:56

I'm still here. I'm

2:58

just up to my elbows for some guy's, uh, fits. Okay,

3:01

thanks. Okay. Don't

3:04

worry, we got lunch too. So

3:07

we are supposed to find out what happened to those people

3:09

under both, how they all drowned. That

3:12

and what, uh, whatever information they

3:14

were about, all those indirect contacts

3:16

from before that. Here's

3:19

that data chip. Who

3:21

is behind everything? Here's

3:24

the question. We

3:27

have a data chip, you said? Yeah.

3:30

And we got that from Greshent, I guess? Yep. Well,

3:34

let me see his agenda chip. I will see what's on it. Checking

3:36

over the data chip, you find, um, uh, there's

3:39

lots of data on this, on this vessel. Let's

3:42

see, we should come up with a name for the ship. The

3:45

River Queen. I

3:48

mean, it's probably already taken, isn't it?

3:51

I don't know. Probably. The

3:54

River Dauphine. Something about

3:57

jazz. Let's go along with

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the Nashville Music Center. The in the

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unless somebody. Was

4:03

a just skip the moonlit

4:06

maiden see on rent it

4:08

is the pool. Pick one

4:10

of those them. To. Go

4:12

with River Dauphine and it's one of

4:14

those I'm. Sure those fancy

4:16

be know several deck a party

4:19

boats of people take out of

4:21

the river. Not really designed to

4:23

go really long long haul overnight

4:25

type trips as as got a

4:27

big old pedal wheels me and

4:29

the more advanced motors systems are

4:31

you under the hood but it

4:34

looks like a lot of corpses

4:36

around. A

4:38

bunch of people who look like they were

4:40

drowned and leave to. they have a lot

4:42

of crime scene photographs them over to be

4:44

notes here and there. Are very

4:46

few annotations explaining what things are reasons

4:49

were in the boat they were taken

4:51

from. There's some various both specs as

4:53

well as a general map to get

4:55

a crew. Arab. People.

4:57

On board list and there is

4:59

a lose that of insulin board

5:01

again every was dead. Feel sick

5:03

of the location of where went

5:05

to ground as well some data

5:07

on the to because capabilities and.

5:11

The does not include essentially the

5:13

black box, which might be pretty

5:15

useful. Apparently the please contact

5:17

wasn't able to secure or. Pass

5:20

that along or he doesn't want to

5:22

or maybe wanted more money for it's

5:24

a don't know it's it's not their

5:27

better odds of that says there are

5:29

a seven. Other incidents are different locations

5:31

with their with their attacks are usually

5:34

an individual people that were found dead

5:36

in some sort of unusual way. I'm.

5:39

Most. Of them. Suffocated,

5:42

Though one of them are was

5:45

completely immolated. Like. Birds? who is,

5:47

but. Of a crisp just

5:49

sar on bones or though

5:52

the rest of their office

5:54

was completely untouched. Magical as

5:56

my family. not

5:59

stare They tend

6:01

to employ mages, but you

6:04

can't think of anyone like actually in

6:06

the family, in the upper echelons at

6:09

least, that has magical talents.

6:11

They tend to lean more towards heavy

6:13

cyberware and augmentations and that sort of

6:16

thing. Well, here we are. What

6:19

do we know of this glimmer person who

6:21

seems to have a safe or evil? What

6:25

do I know about glimmer? Well,

6:27

glimmer is one of those people you didn't

6:29

get along with so well. You

6:31

don't necessarily have a history of butting heads a

6:33

bunch, you just never really liked

6:36

each other all that much. But you

6:39

think she had

6:41

romantic interests for

6:43

the person you, well... Yeah.

6:48

The reason why you're exiled now, you

6:50

doubt they were reciprocated because

6:53

that person probably doesn't actually have...

6:55

Probably never actually had feelings for anybody in

6:59

a real way in their entire life as far as you can

7:01

think of. Maybe, maybe long ago,

7:03

but definitely not around the time that you're

7:05

thinking of. But so you probably did her

7:08

a favor, but she doesn't see

7:10

it that way. And it

7:12

sounds like she's carried a personal vendetta and

7:14

kept it burning for a long time. You

7:16

think back to that visit at your

7:18

house that one time, maybe that

7:21

had something to do with her. I'm

7:23

quite sure. That was the first thing

7:25

that popped to mind. All

7:27

right, well, I'll recount all

7:30

this and I will just flat

7:33

out put it out there because there's no sense

7:35

in keeping it any kind of secret here. We're

7:38

in a safe room and what's

7:40

gonna happen is gonna happen. So yeah,

7:42

glimmer and I never really

7:44

got along. There

7:47

was an incident some years

7:50

ago. There

7:52

was a cousin of mine who was doing

7:54

some stuff and I asked them to stop

7:56

doing the stuff and they didn't and it

7:58

came to ugliness and I ended up... ended

8:00

up killing my cousin, different cousin than

8:02

this one obviously. And

8:07

I think Glimmer probably had a

8:09

thing for her. Anyway,

8:12

I don't think I, I don't

8:14

remember if I told you guys there was a, there

8:16

was an attempt, there was

8:18

some sort of weird assassination attempt

8:20

some time ago, a couple of months

8:23

ago we were doing that job

8:25

for the guy

8:27

who wanted to be, the guy who wanted

8:30

his brother cremated. So

8:32

yeah, I

8:35

think putting this all together is probably her. I've

8:37

since moved. So

8:40

anyway, she's pain in

8:42

the ass and it's been a while since I've seen

8:44

her. I'm not really sure what she's capable of

8:46

at this point. I'm

8:49

interested to know about the black box. I'm

8:51

interested to know if we could run some

8:53

numbers on the currents and

8:56

see maybe where this

8:58

boat could have floated in from based

9:01

on where it was found. Who

9:04

is this black fox and

9:06

what did the Glimmer person do

9:09

for the family? Was she a nast

9:11

set or was she a hanger on her? She's

9:14

family. What does her skill set? Was

9:17

she magic? As far

9:19

as you knew, she did things

9:21

in more of the business side

9:23

of things, more of a face. Okay.

9:28

So look at the photos you think it

9:31

floated in to where it hung up on

9:33

the shore. It wasn't run aground? It

9:36

essentially ran aground. Like

9:39

the autopilot should have steered

9:41

it safely but didn't apparently

9:44

or as it must have been on manual control

9:46

and then nobody controlled it and

9:48

eventually just hit the land.

9:52

Well, based on what happened last time, we

9:54

had a paid job together. That's

9:56

the first thing I thought of when I thought of a bunch of people

9:58

being drowned on top of it. of the boat. It's

10:01

a goddamn water spirit. And

10:06

air spirits and water spirits can

10:08

suffocate people as far as I've seen

10:11

and immolated. We got the freaking lightning

10:13

cloud bullshit and those fire spirits. It's

10:15

just magic's not

10:17

good for this family. I'm

10:20

surprised it didn't happen sooner. Since

10:22

I'm not here, a

10:24

background count is so many people

10:26

were killed by the fire spirits.

10:29

Should there not be some astro signature you can

10:31

look at and crack down and beat them up.

10:34

She looks expectantly at Blaze.

10:38

Well, any of that's probably washed

10:40

away by now. We

10:42

could look if it's powerful enough maybe.

10:44

But I would be surprised if anything

10:46

is left by the time we get

10:48

there. The time

10:50

frame of that kind of thing is usually

10:53

measured in hours. I

10:55

don't know anything about magic

10:57

but I might know someone

11:00

who could get us that

11:02

black box. Perhaps.

11:05

Oh, and that would be very helpful. If

11:08

Remy here can take a look

11:10

at the electronics he might be able to stuff

11:13

something out. This

11:15

is two. Do we have

11:17

access to the boat? Probably

11:20

not without getting to some

11:22

sort of a yard at the cop shop up

11:24

in Nashville. Are

11:28

they just toss that shit once they're done looking it over?

11:30

I'm not really sure. How

11:33

big is it? Do you think putting it down

11:35

in the water and taking it to the yard

11:37

or do they just put another scientist that says,

11:39

police, I do not cross. I have

11:46

no idea. Police line free

11:48

boat. Do you think free boat? Yeah. That's

11:50

a good question. My contact

11:56

will know all of that information

11:58

As well. And

12:00

that is also very useful. So we

12:03

want access to the boat maybe know

12:05

they take a look that where it

12:07

came from an i'm. Probably

12:09

want to list so those folks on the boat.

12:11

I mean, You. Know it sounds

12:13

like it's. Almost definitely related a

12:15

family, but you never know with this

12:17

kind of thing. Some says sometimes it's

12:19

collateral damage in there. Somebody else who

12:21

is targeted right? Yeah, my ears perked

12:23

up on them is near politicians on

12:25

the boat and court leaders in that

12:27

can occur at. How they're

12:30

going after one of the damn bands

12:32

and the one body burns. Do

12:35

that earlier can be precepts interests of

12:38

for surf since us say that I

12:40

sent a custom bumble bee trans or

12:42

to keep an eye on the clinic

12:44

just in case there's another drive by.

12:48

And. Ceo. My perception was years ago, and

12:50

considering you're in the middle of bone sighing

12:52

then you know it still stands to reason

12:54

to be a little distracted. With

12:56

or something exciting in the bones. And

13:00

bones and phones them. Try

13:02

both. Or kind

13:04

of perception? Is it a visual or

13:06

someone else? Okay so someone

13:08

who role me a certain days

13:11

please. I got your three his.

13:14

Soon as you're chatting working you

13:17

hear the revenue of an engine

13:19

drive on by his sons. A

13:21

lot like that Struck again, but

13:23

it's no accompanied by Gurnee Blaster

13:25

episodes or plenty of violence. Quick

13:27

Part: A random fuck. This

13:31

I'm I'm I'm doing the Barrett. I'm going out

13:33

front. Oh,

13:35

you'll get off my lawn. A

13:38

centimeter gonna go out. There is no

13:40

Beatles driving by. the you can see.

13:43

Your attention is drawn to the

13:46

distance up in the air. Hunting.

13:50

Pretty close to these cells

13:52

ceiling and cells. Or appearances

13:54

Bumble bee drones approaching. you

13:57

noticed them in particular because the

13:59

mirror yards Blay points them out to

14:01

you as friendly drones that have been sent to

14:03

you by Kenji. Oh okay, so

14:05

they're friendly. Good. Definitely.

14:09

I was like, oh crap, Bud's is here. That's

14:11

not good. How am I going

14:13

to explain that my clinic has a restaurant license?

14:17

They didn't seem to notice last time. Well

14:20

we had somebody who was good with

14:22

words. Alright, Blayze, you're comlink chirps. It's

14:25

Marcus from the Tariko Foundation. Oh, good

14:28

to know. I will answer.

14:31

Hello. Oh, Blayze. Hello,

14:33

it's Marcus. Good

14:35

to hear from you. When it rains it pours,

14:37

I guess. Oh

14:39

dear, I was I was afraid you'd

14:42

be in something. Alright,

14:44

well I want to ask

14:46

you to check in with Magnus, but apparently

14:48

whatever's going down is happening with you as

14:50

well. I haven't heard anything

14:53

from Magnus lately. What's

14:55

going on with Magnus? Well that's

14:57

the problem. I've not been able to make contact

14:59

with him. I've tried

15:02

a few different ways. None of them overt,

15:05

but didn't seem to

15:07

be answering his comms, returning his calls,

15:09

or responding to a knock

15:12

at the door. I was wondering if you and your

15:14

team wouldn't mind checking

15:16

in with them. I'm afraid something

15:19

might... well maybe...

15:21

I'm on my way

15:23

out of town, but I got some

15:25

wiggle room in my schedule. I could probably swing

15:27

back. Yes, this could

15:30

be a priority. Well, I'll

15:32

check on him before I head

15:34

out. Do you have an address

15:37

for him? I don't think he

15:39

ever gave me his home address.

15:41

Yes, I've got it here.

15:44

You could log in to... he gives you

15:46

essentially a little bit of a work around

15:49

to log into a site here and go

15:51

there and get this and then download that

15:53

and then you get the information rather than

15:55

sending it over comms. These guys are pretty

15:57

convoluted sometimes. All right, You'll

16:00

check on the email to you. That's been

16:02

a trick to be so complicated. Yeah,

16:06

I'm just finishing up where I am. I'll probably be

16:08

able to swing by in the better now. Well, sometime

16:10

in the next hour. Good. Good.

16:12

Thank you. Please report on

16:14

that as soon as possible. I'll

16:16

shake loose some funds from the budget for you. We'll

16:19

say 500 Nuyen each

16:21

for now. It's an expensive

16:24

trip down to knock on the door. If

16:26

things turn out to be more interesting, of course. We'll

16:29

talk later. Hopefully it's nothing. Wait,

16:31

where is this place? I've got to check the

16:34

map again. It was paid up

16:36

to 500 bucks to go there. It's

16:38

on the edge of town, kind of

16:40

closer to the bayou. A

16:43

little bit of an area

16:46

that's not as well

16:48

populated because, well, it's

16:50

got a reputation for parenamals. It's

16:53

actually not too horribly far from where

16:55

you got ambushed by a Bandersnatch. Of

16:58

course it didn't go well for a Bandersnatch. Oh,

17:00

yeah. It's hanging out of that, near

17:03

that, what do you call it, sports

17:05

ball place. They had some kind

17:07

of college bowl event there,

17:09

right? Oh, right. Yeah, not quite

17:11

near, well, yeah, that general vicinity. But,

17:14

yeah, if you wouldn't mind checking on it there. If

17:17

you want to do anything invasive regarding

17:20

astral scans or searches

17:22

in case he has a... Well, I

17:24

didn't want to be rude or spook him. And

17:27

he does have a ward set up on

17:29

the place. I think it's a magical lodge. Oh,

17:32

right. It does appear to be

17:34

active, so that's a good sign, right? Um,

17:38

sure. I think that means he's not

17:40

dead, doesn't it? Well, at least

17:42

not dead for long. Let

17:46

me know. What do you find out? All

17:49

right. And he signs off. Oh,

17:51

Eva, Remy, I just got another call

17:53

before we head out of town. Need

17:56

to swing by Magnus's place. Do

17:59

a welfare check. Oh,

18:01

yeah, we can swing by on the way, right? Yep.

18:05

Cool. Alright, when are

18:07

we going to head out? Oh,

18:10

I should probably pick up some stuff if

18:12

we're heading out of town. How are we

18:14

getting up there? You

18:16

got a favorite way to head up

18:18

the river? Or are we on our own for that?

18:24

I guess I'd really rather take the car. I mean,

18:27

I guess I'd rather have both, but... Yeah,

18:30

I can drive up there. Convoy

18:32

or are we tarpaulin'? That's

18:35

up to y'all. If we're

18:37

taking dock, we should probably

18:39

convoy. You don't like

18:41

riding with dock now? We've seen

18:43

the size of his gun. I don't think we'll have room for

18:46

our stuff in the trunk. Emma

18:48

has a big car, huh? I

18:50

got a big car. She has a big car. I

18:54

will have my bike. It

18:57

breaks down. What

18:59

kind of bike do you have? A

19:02

Mirage. When

19:07

you get the real bike, you let Remy know. Then

19:09

we go ride. Hey,

19:11

Doc, give me a visual perception

19:13

test. Ah, okay. More dice. Let's

19:15

see. This is going to be... 17 if somebody would

19:17

be so kind. So

19:21

the guy who doesn't have his character sheet is the one who gets

19:23

to roll all the dice tonight. Apparently,

19:26

yes. Five

19:28

hits that time. With

19:30

five hits, you can see that

19:34

one of the buildings that's just

19:37

kind of a little bit to your

19:39

left, down the block away,

19:42

about 80 or so meters away,

19:44

it's an old run-down apartment place.

19:46

There's squatters on the first couple

19:48

floors and some

19:51

gang that operates the

19:53

floors above that. And

19:56

the fifth floor, you think, is higher

19:58

up in that gang. You don't

20:00

know too much about the gang. They're fairly

20:02

small time. They generally stay out of things

20:04

and you know Keep it out for you

20:06

as well Sometimes they

20:08

send people over for treatments here and

20:10

there so they're they're relatively benign as

20:12

far as you're concerned But yeah, they're

20:14

currently there's somebody like up there in

20:16

the fifth story window appears

20:19

to be pointing a Rifle

20:21

with a grenade launcher on it in your

20:23

general direction It seems like

20:25

they're like maybe just about to use

20:28

it That person looks pretty familiar

20:30

you think you've last saw them hanging out on the

20:32

back of a truck Do

20:34

we need a role initiative? So

20:37

yeah, well you've got drones in

20:39

the area. Yeah And

20:42

Doc's hanging out in front of his clinic. I

20:45

have I think I have

20:47

a stick memory hold on Let me look at one

20:49

of my we will look at one of my

20:51

magics So I I

20:53

have this remember sense memory Say

20:56

an adapla power. It's like super

20:59

memory for adepts Okay, what

21:01

does it do? bonus

21:03

days for memory tests No, and

21:05

yeah I gotta take a screenshot of second

21:07

read it because every time I go to

21:09

voice to talk it disappears Give me a

21:11

second. Is it I bet it sense

21:13

memory? Yeah that one. It's

21:16

Basically perfect memory. It

21:19

doesn't actually have any mechanic to

21:23

it Yes

21:25

an idetic memory Okay,

21:28

so you definitely remember this person. He's

21:30

got the same Big

21:32

old full body armor with the helmet. It's

21:34

not chem sealed It's

21:37

got the visor down covering part of

21:39

the face. That's definitely an Aries alpha

21:41

combat gun with the underbarrel grenade launcher

21:44

But it's definitely the same guy Yeah,

21:47

I was gonna say it's probably the same guy, but

21:49

that I did a sense memory that

21:51

makes you confirm You definitely recognize this

21:53

guy and it was a little shaky

21:55

on the audio when you're describing it So he's

21:57

up on the fifth floor of a gang building

22:00

that is normally a benign gang

22:02

that kind of hangs out in

22:04

the neighborhood and is usually pretty doesn't

22:06

really mess with me and is fairly friendly. Yes,

22:10

I haven't made up a name for the gang. Let's

22:12

come up with something for them. The

22:15

Dusty Butts. The

22:17

Los Locos. How far

22:19

away is it from Doc's clinic to where the guy's hanging

22:21

out the window? About 80 meters.

22:24

Oh, oh, oh, oh. The

22:27

Skull and Bronze. They have

22:29

fake tans. Nice.

22:33

The Skull and Bronze. Yeah, the Skull

22:35

and Bronze. That's

22:37

the gang that's there. Like I

22:39

said, the first couple floors are

22:41

typically just squatters stay there and

22:44

then the upper three

22:46

stories is Skull and

22:48

Bronze, Hangout, Turf,

22:51

Housing, barracks, whatever. Alright,

22:53

so go ahead and add to your initiative, Doc, or

22:56

you can't skin you. What is your

22:58

initiative? My initiative is 13 plus 5D6. Alright,

23:03

I don't see the drones on there, but Doc,

23:06

you go in 29 and you've spotted

23:09

the person about to shoot a grenade at you. So

23:12

somebody would roll me because I'm going

23:14

to Agility Boost. That's a

23:16

simple action. I think I get

23:18

eight dice for it. Yes, somebody would roll me

23:20

eight dice. I got you two hit. Sweet.

23:24

So I'm going to roll 16

23:28

dice with my

23:30

Barrett. No, I'm going to roll 17 dice

23:32

with my Barrett because I'm going to do a take

23:35

aim action. If you do a take aim action,

23:37

you won't have an action to shoot

23:40

with. Ah, that's right. I need the full.

23:42

I need the full. Yep, so I'll

23:44

just do a regular shot. Simple

23:47

action, Agility Boost, simple action, shoot the

23:49

person. Yep, yep. I'll roll 16

23:51

dice. Seven hit. Nice shot. Oh,

23:54

he ducks back. It's

24:00

getting eight hits on the defense test as

24:02

your shot fires right through where his head

24:05

was a moment before And

24:07

let's see the drones get added the drones

24:09

go next. Yeah, there's a couple of bubble

24:11

be drones They get that

24:14

the targeting formation through I imagine you're all

24:17

never mind. I shouldn't assume that Are

24:20

you all patched in through like a P tach or not?

24:23

Yeah, we do only check raining

24:25

three We have the

24:27

good P tach Yeah

24:29

for a simple action. I want

24:32

to jump into one of the drones probably

24:35

bumblebee number one and You

24:38

said the guy just dodged or he pulled back into

24:40

the room. No, he's still Somewhat

24:43

exposed. I mean he's got good cover Can

24:47

I shoot him? No,

24:49

cuz you jumped in it's a

24:51

complex action to shoot you could aim maybe but

24:54

now the drum could fire Gunnery

24:56

is a complex action Yep

25:00

Yeah, but my the other drum has

25:02

the Bumblebee

25:06

number two has a stoner and 202

25:08

isn't that a grenade launcher? No, that's

25:10

a medium machine gun Oh,

25:12

well then yes, let's by all means I can

25:14

do that Let me click

25:17

on the right button here. Yeah stoner Aries

25:19

in 202 and Remind

25:21

me what I roll for that. It'd be the

25:23

drones Auto

25:25

soft plus pilot pilot with three

25:29

Software this so

25:31

nine days Two hits

25:33

for the drone shot All

25:36

right He takes advantage of his cover and

25:38

you're chipping chipping away chunks off of the

25:41

the building around the window These that he's

25:43

at and getting some shots in through at

25:45

the room, but not hitting your target. Okay?

25:49

Yeah, I imagine my shop put a big old hole

25:51

of whatever wall. He was usually hiding behind Yep,

25:54

so from his cover position. He

25:57

raises his rifle out and points it at dock

26:00

And yeah, he's going to go with the grenade.

26:03

Puts it right where he wants it, which

26:05

is about a meter away from Doc, and

26:08

it immediately explodes. So

26:10

Doc, go ahead and make a damage resistance

26:12

test, AP minus 2, as HE

26:15

grenade explodes about a meter away from you. So

26:18

somebody roll me a T4 armor dice, please.

26:21

How many was that? I

26:24

thought you said a D4. No,

26:26

definitely not a D4. 9

26:28

hits. You should

26:30

use a pointed bench to reroll all those misses, too.

26:33

There you go. So he can just walk away like

26:35

a pimp, like, bitch, that didn't

26:37

even scratch me. Sure. I

26:40

got three. Wow.

26:43

Yeah. You're not blowing

26:46

off your feet. You can probably play

26:48

it cool, but you did take two stun damage from

26:50

that. Oof. Wow. The

26:53

entire front of your shop now is your

26:55

shop. Your

26:57

clinic is charred, and

27:00

the windows are all blasted out.

27:03

There were no patients

27:05

or whatever remaining in the

27:08

waiting room, though, after the recent event. So

27:10

there are only property damages done. Various

27:13

magazines are on fire. I

27:15

don't know why you have paper magazines around in this day and

27:18

age, but you did. And now they're

27:20

on fire. It's the software

27:22

side of the office. Paper

27:24

magazines gives it a homey

27:26

feel. All right. And that's

27:29

what this person does. Then

27:31

it is, well, Blaze isn't there, and

27:33

neither is this other person

27:35

who was, I thought it deleted me, but

27:38

it didn't. He's on your side.

27:42

All right. So next pass, Doc. We

27:44

are going to need some improved invisibility, I

27:46

feel like. So if somebody would be so

27:48

kind, it's to roll me 16 dice

27:51

for a 4.6 improved

27:53

invisibility. Got your six it?

27:57

And then roll me 12 dice so I can soak

27:59

this down. One

28:01

hit on that drain test. Oh,

28:04

that's gun circle. Did you want T deleted out

28:06

of there? Yes please. Alright,

28:09

so second pass the drones, and

28:12

now Kenji you're jumped in and you can actually

28:14

do something with the guns. I'm

28:17

going to take a

28:20

call shot for extra

28:23

damage with the one I

28:25

jumped into. It's got a Panther XXL

28:27

a self cannon, so

28:30

that's minus four I

28:32

think, right? Is that a dipole? Yes.

28:36

And I took the aim action last

28:38

time, plus one. And

28:41

I think I want to pre-edge this. That's

28:43

a Kenji move. I'm not just going to shoot him with

28:45

an assault cannon, I'm going to headshot him with a self

28:48

cannon. Damn right. Yeah, Kenji

28:50

doesn't play when people attack his friends. Seven

28:55

hits. Oh,

28:57

damn. Yeehaw, look at that roll.

28:59

I got ten hits on fourteen

29:01

dice. You're just blasting a huge

29:03

chunk out of this wall.

29:06

The window that he's taken cover at

29:08

is now wider than it was, considerably.

29:13

But he is still there in it. The

29:16

second drone with the

29:19

machine gun got five hits. This

29:22

time his luck runs out, he only gets one hit. But

29:24

he does have some edge, so I think he's going to

29:26

spend it. And

29:28

he gets three total hits, so your drone has two

29:30

net hits. Okay, so

29:33

the Stoner M202 is

29:37

ten P minus three AP, so twelve

29:40

P minus, it's got

29:42

APDS so

29:45

twelve P minus seven AP. Yeah,

29:49

that's going to hurt. That's

29:51

enough to do physical damage instead

29:53

of stun. He's going to spend another

29:55

edge on the soak roll. And With

29:57

seven hits, that's still a pretty savage blow.

30:00

Are you still on a seat though and in

30:02

a cover position? And

30:04

then he gets to go further.

30:06

he didn't see. He. Didn't see

30:09

word. Doc said he's gonna fire off

30:11

another grenade bless and dive back for

30:13

full cover. A So he

30:15

fires off another A T grenade.

30:18

Oh, put another meter back toward

30:20

the shot from where he shot

30:22

before. The dark and you moved

30:24

ft went into double. Ah yes I think

30:26

it to call it out as he moved on immediately, but

30:28

I was very to move back to. I'm the buildings. Okay,

30:31

so he fires a grenade that bless

30:33

the crap out of the front of

30:35

your shop some more, doing more damage

30:38

with the already racked up front of

30:40

it and than a duck's back in

30:42

for back behind for full cover. A.

30:44

Duck when you go running around of the side

30:46

of the building. From you can

30:48

or see that looks pretty clear here.

30:51

You don't see any signs of any one else. Like

30:54

out here getting rid of a sudden you.

30:56

Suffices. Been this one person. But.

30:59

He did have friends before. I guess third

31:01

pass it would be your turn. Doc.

31:04

So I ought

31:06

to try and

31:08

move someplace have

31:10

s is a.

31:13

More than what we saw. My

31:15

movement as first. Cycle. Of

31:17

ten meters so. Our A move.

31:20

My. Maximum basic movement. Some place

31:22

and serve partial covers. I've gotta

31:24

an angle unaware I think he

31:27

was. Where. This folder

31:29

Iraq ages. And. The. Lineup

31:32

for shot if he that expose enough latte

31:34

game and where I think he is. Looking

31:36

economy loop around the look up and

31:38

see was about to smoke and rubble

31:40

and dust around that time to behold

31:43

because of windows he don't see in

31:45

their the Moments see you to game.

31:47

Ready for when he does pop out. Yet.

31:49

Been so does game and hold in Dallas

31:51

amp at home can zero the drone saying

31:54

you know, searching for targets. And

31:57

drugs are gonna move in go up

31:59

to five. really high so he doesn't know

32:01

where they're at and uh

32:03

they gain action so if he pops up

32:06

we'll be able to shoot him otherwise we're just

32:08

gonna stand by until he presents himself then

32:10

we'll shoot at him and

32:12

i'm also sending a signal to get my

32:15

other four bubble breeze and my two rotor

32:17

joints they're all coming it's

32:19

a party all right uh yeah it

32:21

does seem more like a party as uh from

32:25

a nearby garage building

32:27

a uh the familiar

32:29

pickup truck comes rolling out around the bend

32:31

the building is first picking up so doc

32:33

you're aware of it through the p-tac is

32:36

it uh round comes out of a

32:38

garage about uh about a block or so

32:40

away pulls out on the street

32:42

turns and uh comes around the

32:44

bend to uh essentially apparently

32:46

drive past or towards the

32:48

the clinic you can see it's

32:50

got uh looks like a couple

32:53

of guys hanging off uh the

32:55

back uh minus the one who is uh

32:57

well up at a building somewhere nearby who

33:00

is there somebody in the driver's seat um

33:02

you can't see the driver the

33:04

windows are tinted but they

33:06

come around for that and the uh

33:09

the person who's behind the window does not poke his

33:11

head out at least not at the moment and

33:14

that would be another initiative order then uh

33:17

kenji your other drones are some ways away

33:20

okay but you've got two here at the

33:22

time and doc's here um we're

33:25

watching the window we're going to position my

33:27

two drones that are currently here to

33:29

watch the window where the guy was shooting

33:31

from and to watch the front door all

33:34

right doc it looks like you're up first can

33:36

you say and i'm sorry the audio at least on

33:38

mine was if you said that the truck is rolling

33:41

back up towards the clinic yeah

33:43

it looks like it it's about 120 meters

33:45

away at this point i got you

33:47

so i've got a round or two before it makes it up there yeah

33:50

probably all right i'm gonna hit myself

33:52

with a uh one of my level

33:54

six stim patches then that'll kick in at

33:57

the end of the combat turn now remember is that

33:59

a simple action Or is that a complex? I

34:01

think that's plex right overall a complex if you have

34:03

to dig it out and slap it on If

34:06

you've got it in an injection High action,

34:08

let me see if I've got it in my armor. I may actually

34:10

have that oh, yeah I've got an auto

34:13

injector in this bad boy all right, so I'm

34:15

gonna start putting shots into the truck then All

34:17

right, so free action to hit the auto injector

34:20

stims start to kick in They

34:22

haven't actually started helping you yet though, and

34:25

you're gonna fire off shots of the truck You

34:28

mean a special shot or just trying to damage

34:30

it I'm trying to do as

34:32

much damage as to roll with my slowly diminishing

34:34

dice pull so This will

34:36

be a just single shots. I think at this

34:38

point So

34:41

somebody would be so kind as to roll 15

34:44

dice no wait a minute 14

34:46

dice sorry three hits All

34:50

right three hits that's a

34:52

glancing blow as you see the the bullet

34:55

ricochet off all right so

34:58

doc after that Kenji's drones

35:00

go one of them is says is

35:02

a I guess Responding

35:05

to the P tax alert of the potential

35:07

incoming threats of the truck It's

35:10

confirmed as a threat when doc shoots

35:12

at it oh I

35:15

guess I'll shoot the truck to Regular

35:18

shot with the Panther cannon.

35:20

Yeah, that's what I'm jumping to six

35:22

hits All right, you've got three

35:24

net on the truck Okay

35:28

Bumblebee one the

35:30

panther is 17p

35:33

minus 6 80

35:35

so how many net hits was that? three

35:38

so 20p minus 6 80 So

35:42

we did 13 damage to it Just nail

35:45

it blow a huge chunk off the front

35:47

the hood goes flying up and off There's

35:50

smoke rolling off in the thing, but it

35:53

is still in the action And

35:55

Then your other drone with the machine gun. Is it gonna

35:57

fire at that? Or keep a fire? For

36:00

the the windows. Posted up on

36:02

that window. Looking. Our

36:04

next then we'll see the is a

36:06

do lose taking cover the window, decided

36:09

to pop out and take a shot

36:11

so drunk and fire and I'm. Yeah.

36:14

Forehead spread around shot. Or

36:17

the it's Five hits on his dad's. Bad

36:19

York and the precise rules to life and

36:21

you'll see like keep it up on the

36:24

often said he resists rifle pulled your drones

36:26

and squeezes off a six from burst so

36:28

make a difference. As for your drone that

36:30

the machine gun. Not the when you

36:32

jumped into. Position of suspected

36:34

drone double be to. His

36:38

name is Get Zero Nine just

36:40

as your oh yes. That's

36:43

not good mass effect

36:45

so he hits with

36:47

the from Aires. Elsa

36:49

takes extra exclusives ammo

36:51

I so it's seventeen

36:54

p a t minus

36:56

three. Suitcase. The.

36:59

Drones of good armor but not

37:01

so many condition monitor boxes that

37:04

on Sept six to that. And.

37:06

Lemon damage as probably enough

37:08

to take it out. How

37:10

much? Was seventeen? So. Many

37:12

six live I'm sorry and Troughs rules

37:15

that with holes of just are so

37:17

g Dropped to the ground as the

37:19

rotors slowly start spinning. In

37:21

the you can see it like

37:23

blink and then blue buff of

37:25

the your list of drones and

37:28

the pizza I can throw network

37:30

he doesn't like arm pump this

37:32

thing a victory Yes out the

37:35

off at that point the vehicle

37:37

drives up a covers about fifty

37:39

meters the almost half the distance.

37:42

It's. speed not be going pretty fast

37:44

despite the the streams are talking noises of

37:46

the engine is now making this in the

37:48

smoke for this now trailing and are the

37:51

two guys in the back of the truck

37:53

oh they're going to be raising their rifles

37:55

up and taking potshots at the other drone

37:57

the the can just jumped into One

38:00

of them has a Crockett EBR, fire

38:02

is off a three round burst. I've

38:04

got two hits on you with a

38:07

minus two to your defense test. Kenji?

38:10

Yeah. So if I'm

38:12

jumped into it, I use my stats

38:14

to dodge. As

38:16

well as your hot pin bonus and

38:19

control rig bonus or equivalent.

38:21

OK. And

38:23

I used to have this written down. So

38:26

reaction plus intuition, what are the

38:28

matrix equivalents? Is that logic

38:30

and intuition? It's just still

38:32

reaction plus intuition. And

38:34

then it's plus two

38:36

for hot sim. And then plus

38:39

one for every level of a control

38:41

rig you have. Or for

38:43

each time you've taken the man in the machine or

38:45

whatever it is. Oh, I forgot all

38:47

about that one. OK. I'm

38:49

not sure if that technically works, because that applies

38:51

to vehicle tests. But this is close enough. I

38:54

think it should count. Six

38:56

hits to dodge. All right, so you

38:58

evade the rifle shots. And

39:00

the other one that fires up is

39:02

also fired with an Ares alpha

39:04

assault rifle. Also a three round

39:07

burst. So make another test one

39:09

less. And six. Yeah,

39:11

six hits. All right, so you evade that

39:13

burst as well. And then I

39:16

think we're on second pass now. It would be Doc. Two

39:19

dudes hanging out of truck. And the dude

39:21

up in the window sill can see him. Yep,

39:24

he's visible now. Gonna shoot that

39:26

guy. Somebody would roll me those 14

39:28

dice, please. That's what

39:30

I'm talking about. Nine hits. What's

39:32

your limit? We're

39:35

good. All right, that is six net hits.

39:38

That's going to hurt. It's going

39:41

to be 15, 21 P minus 10

39:43

AP, I think. OK. Yeah,

39:46

go ahead and describe your kill shot then, Mr. Vegan.

39:52

So he stands up and he's pumping his

39:54

fists in the air. And

39:56

right as he goes, yeah, and he

39:58

pumps his fists in his air. into

40:00

the air Doc

40:02

squeezes the trigger and his head makes

40:05

this fine and turns to a

40:07

red mist. Does

40:10

he go tumbling back in the room or out the front of

40:12

the building and out of the street? He

40:15

does one of those slow falls over the edge

40:18

and just does one of like the

40:20

ragdoll spirals down onto the street below.

40:22

Nice. But

40:25

nobody really heard the sound because it

40:27

was suppressed. And then

40:29

Kenji jumped into your drone. Yes.

40:33

I'm shooting a truck this time with the two

40:35

guys hanging out. Can I do a

40:37

three round burst with the Panther assault cannon? That's

40:40

just a single shot isn't it? Is it

40:42

semi auto or single shot? I

40:44

don't know I gotta check. In sixth edition

40:47

it's semi auto so you can do that

40:49

three round burst with it but I don't

40:51

remember if it is in pence edition now.

40:54

Let's see here. I've got the capacity

40:56

of salt rounds. Panther

40:59

XXL is single shot. Single

41:02

shot. Okay. I

41:04

shoot the damn truck. Actually

41:06

I'm shooting the guy hanging out of the truck. They

41:09

tried to shoot at me. Which

41:12

one? The one with the Crockett EBR or Ares

41:15

Alpha. The Ares Alpha guy. I

41:17

don't like him. Six

41:19

hits for the gunnery. Alright I've got

41:21

four on the defense so you get

41:23

two net hits. So

41:26

we're looking at 19p minus 6ap. Alright

41:31

13 damage you blow him right off

41:33

of the...you hit nail him with the

41:35

Panther cannon round. It's not one

41:37

of those things where like they just explode in all

41:39

directions because he's wearing like full body armor. So

41:42

the round just punches him, enters

41:44

into his torso, does not

41:46

have an exit wound but

41:48

then he just goes flying off...his

41:50

corpse rather I should say goes

41:53

flying off of the back of

41:55

the pickup to roll lifeless

41:58

on the street. And

42:00

then the, oh no, I was gonna roll for

42:02

the second drone, but it got blown up, so forget that. Yeah, it's

42:04

still fallen to the ground. Yeah, I

42:07

was gonna say, can I

42:09

shoot while it's falling? But you said it

42:11

went off the P-TAC, so it's down. Yeah,

42:13

it's not functional, it's no longer a drone.

42:16

Gotcha. All right, at that

42:18

point, and the other one, the

42:21

last guy who was

42:23

hanging out with the rifle on the truck

42:26

is going to take aim and squeeze off

42:28

another burst at the drone who just shot

42:30

his buddy. So make a defense

42:32

test if mine is two. Kenji?

42:36

Okay. Ooh,

42:39

I got six hits. Uh-oh. This

42:41

guy's pissed. Ha ha ha.

42:44

And focused. Yeah. Five

42:47

hits, I'm gonna use a point of edge to reroll

42:49

my misses. Six

42:52

hits. Oh, that's

42:54

just enough. You can

42:56

feel the sudden impact in

42:58

the scrape as some of

43:00

the bullets are just ricocheting

43:03

off the edge of your armor, but

43:05

the drone is not harmed. And then

43:08

without the driver, the pickup truck decides

43:11

it does not want to stick around, it's finding how

43:13

this ends, and it takes a

43:15

sharp turn down

43:17

an alley. Let's see if he succeeds

43:20

or crashes. He's actually not

43:22

a rigger or the greatest driver, but

43:25

you wouldn't be able to tell by how

43:27

well he handles this situation. Manage

43:30

to get in between and get some cover and

43:33

start heading down an alleyway to

43:35

make an exit. Brakes line of

43:37

sight. That's

43:39

okay. And whether or not Kenji

43:41

will chase him down with a Panther cannon or

43:44

he'll catch up with this person is something we'll

43:46

figure out at a later date, because... I

43:49

mean, do we really have to wonder? Right.

43:52

I can't say exactly. We really

43:54

have to wonder what dice, you know, it

43:56

just, he decides to murder somebody, we just

43:58

casually describe it him. happening and then move

44:00

on. No, no, I didn't mean

44:03

that he, you know, like casually murder. I just mean like, is

44:05

he going to go after him with a Panther cannon? Um, yeah.

44:08

Do you know Kenji? I mean,

44:11

we all remember what he did to that poor

44:13

bus driver. Y'all weren't even

44:17

there. It's

44:20

all conjecture and rumor. Yeah. Yeah.

44:22

The slanderous I tell you. Well, unfortunately

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