A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast - Bonus: AMCA Plays Going Rogue with Jess Levine

Episode Date: February 1, 2023

Today on AMCA, we're teeing up something special for those of you who love it when we go wild creating our own AUs and OCs!  About six months ago, Ali and Austin of AMCA joined the rest of the cast of our sister podcast, Friends at the Table, to do a two day charity marathon raising money for the National Network of Abortion Funds. As part of that effort, we set a bunch of stretch goals, including the promise that we'd play a Star Wars TTRPG one shot over here on AMCA.  Today we make good on that promise, thanks to Jess Levine, who has come through to help facilitate an Andor-era session of her game Going Rogue, which "weave[s] narratives about troubled martyrs mired in messy, ethically gray conflicts who must face the possibility of making the ultimate sacrifice." We use the system to tell the story of an unlikely band of rebels sent into the outer rim to... well, you'll see.  Also! For the rest of the month, you can pick up Jess' Going Rogue 2E along with Riley Rethal's Galactic 2E (the game which Going Rogue most directly builds off of) in a special bundle for just 18 bucks!  NEXT TIME (for real): Episodes 116 - 118 ("The Disappeared, Part I," "The Disappeared, Part II," "The Lost One") Show Notes Character Sheets and Play Materials!

Hey, everybody, it's Austin here with some pre-episode messages. The first one is that this is a very special episode with a guest. We have Jess Levine, Jess from online, if you were on, you know, Twitter, the designer of Going Rogue and many other interesting tabletop role-playing games here to facilitate us finally doing a thing that we promised to do last year. As part of the Friends at the Table, National Network of Abortion Funds, Marathon, we had a stretch goal that was that we would play a Star Wars tabletop role-playing game that has finally lined up. We wanted to do this before the holidays, and wanted to sneak it in as another holiday treat

as part of the extended autumn of Andor. That did not happen. It continued to get rescheduled. Rob got COVID. I was traveling. Natalie was traveling. Every the holidays, you know what I mean? So we didn't get that done until just now.

Part of that, or as part of us finally playing this, I also want to note that there is a bundle to go by both Going Rogue 2E and Galactic 2E, the game on which it is kind of an expansion or like, you know, side addition of. You can find that in the description below. There's a link to it. You can, if you just want to pick up Going Rogue, you can get that at just from online.itch.io slash going hyphen rogue. We have a really good time on this episode. If you're not a tabletop role-playing game person, I still think you should listen to it. if you like hearing us go off on our wild ass you know a u tangents this is 100% one of those I really love all the characters we come up with uh you know this is this is about half character

creation and world creation uh and half like the see I don't want to say it's half play because I really think that in a game like this which if you're not familiar with it is a really unique type of tabletop role playing game that will explain once we get into it uh the character creation and the world creation is really part of the play So that's why it's an extra long episode. Also, I want to shout out Allie, who actually did the bulk of almost all of, 95, 99% of this edit this week because I have been super busy and because I was not going to get to start to edit it until the moment that I'm now recording this, which is 11.52 p.m. on the night before it comes out, which would have meant that I would have been working on this for the next 10 hours, probably. So shout us to Allie. And as part of that, another producer note, which is the final.

hour of audio has the backup mic that Jess had, the kind of webcam mic. So her quality isn't as good. There was an issue with the file that Ableton ate or like it stopped recording after a certain point. So the final hour has backup audio for her. It's not ideal, but the show is still fun. The where we go is still really good. The back hour of content is really good. You know, you get to hear us all play really fun characters. Natalie plays it. You know what? I'm not going to spoil anything. People can just listen to the episode and enjoy it for themselves. We'll be back in two weeks with the next full episode where we are doing, as a reminder, it's the disappeared. Is that what it's called? The Disappeared Part 1 and Part 2?

Yes, the Disappeared Part 1 and Part 2 and then The Lost Ones. All right, enjoy. Welcome to a more civilized age, a Star Wars podcast. I'm Rob Zakeney, joined by Ali Akamora, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson. Today we have something different for you. As long promised, we are playing a tabletop role-playing game called Going Rogue. And to help us do that, we are joined by designer Jess Levine. Thanks so much for setting this all up. And welcome to a more civilized.

age. Thank you. It's very nice to be here. I'm very excited to see what you all do with this game. Well, so far what we've done with it is sort of half-prepared some characters and hit you with a lot of questions. That's perfect. Half-prearing characters is the best way to play a belonging outside belonging game, as I'll explain. You just said, you know, you caught in the belonging outside belonging game. Can you set up for an audience that maybe doesn't have that familiarity with what that means? Yes, absolutely. So the system that we're using is dice-less, GM-less. So we're all sort of co-creating this story as we get together.

It's created by Avery Alder and Benjamin Rosenbaum. It was really, really a revolutionary game or system in their game, Dream Askew, Dream Apart. And yeah, I'm just, it is best when the entire world is built collaboratively or collaboratively, or I guess today collaboratively with the Star Wars canon and so yeah coming in

with half a character is perfect and we'll figure it all out and play I mean in some ways creation in this system is play

because you're like reaching into their past and telling out scenes there and developing these connections so it's perfect right what people don't have access to

is the chatter in our chat over the last couple of days as we've pitched character ideas and connections between characters and how we, you know, what the premise for our play will be and stuff like that.

So, sorry, y'all. Y'all didn't get that part. Too bad. That's just for us. Our little treat. Yes, exactly. But, you know, maybe the other thing worth saying about this

is that separates it, is it's not just GM-less in the sense that we are all, there's no single person, sorry, it's not just diceless, It's also GM-less. There is a shared responsibility for playing parts of the world and parts of the setting, right? I believe in this, they're called pillars.

Is that right? Yes, the pillars capture different parts of the world, and then each of us can pick them up and say, I'm going to act as the story, as the GM would here, to move us forward. Yes. Allie and I just had a chance to play a belonging, outside belonging, and No-Dice, No Masters game called Orbital. over on Friends of the Table, which is in the main feed now, which is part of the road to

Palisade, and that was like such a blast. So I'm very excited to get to play another one of these, especially one that I've read and never gotten a chance to play. I've long wanted to play Galactic, and then going rogue and its focus on the rebellion is exactly my shit. So very excited to get to do this. Yeah, Andor was sort of the best thing that ever happened to going road. Perfect timing. Yes. Really quick, if people wanted to buy this, where would they do that? Absolutely. You can go to my Itch, jess from online.itch.io, and you'll find Going Rogue.

You can also go to slash Going Rogue there. And also, at the time you're listening to this, there will be a bundle up, the Going Rogue AMCA bundle, and that has both Galactic and Going Rogue 2E. Do you want me to go ahead and introduce the relationship of Galactic to Going Rogue 2E? Yes, awesome. You take the mic at this point. You are a facilitator and our co-host, for sure. Awesome.

So, Going Rogue 2E, or the first Going Rogue, started as an expansion for a game by Riley Rethall called Galactic, which Austin mentioned. Galactic is a Star Wars-inspired game. Riley calls it Star Wars with the serial numbers filed off, about charming heroes and their connections and bonds, and their adventures through the universe. And I got so into my galactic campaign,

like it's some of the most I've ever been into a TTRPG. Our group of four wrote 150,000 words of short fiction in that universe. That's amazing. Together. Thank you. So really, really into it. And that served as the inspiration for being like, I'm going to make my first game. Riley ran a game jam and was like make additional content.

And Rogue One is my favorite Star Wars. Maybe we'll get back to that, but it is just everything I, well, Rogue One was my favorite Star Wars at that point in time. We live in a post and or world. Things have changed. But at that point in time, and so I was like, I want there to be more of that. And what I realized is, while the base game is really good at telling those, like, stories of charming heroes that the, like, main line of Star Wars does, it is not as suited to telling the, like, gritty, like, troubled martyrs that you get out of Rogue 1. So I was like, let's write a bunch of content

to make that possible within the system that Riley established. Eventually, for the release of Andor, I was like, let's do a second edition and turn it into really, nearly its own standalone game using the engine that Riley and Avery and Ben developed. And so this game has a bunch of playbooks inspired by the cast of Rogue 1.

You'll sort of pick those up as you go, because they all have euphemistic names, because it's a Disney property. And pillars, once again, inspired by these sort of stories you see in Star Wars, but specifically in Rogue One. Basically, my goal here was to distill those things down and let you tell your own version of Rogue One. I had some of my own frustrations with the weaknesses of this movie, and in some ways this game is a conversation with those weaknesses.

I also describe it as a anti-fascist RPG about war, rebellion, and making the ultimate sacrifice because it is, for me, not just an exploration of Star Wars, but an exploration of complicated feelings I was having about being an organizer and doing anti-fascist work that I thought like Rogue One was actually an interesting exploration of, they're the closest we get to it. So this is meant to more deeply engage with those ideas and let you do it at home. I think that's all the overall summary that we need once we can hop into mechanics if we want now. Let's do it. Okay.

The main part of this game are playbooks and pillars. The playbooks have some backstory questions that help establish who our characters are, why they're doing what they're doing. There are questions about our relationships to each other. So we don't come in as a party who is like meeting in a tavern. instead we already know each other and those questions help us develop what are those existing bonds once we're in the game the main mechanic instead of dice is a token system and so we have three types of moves strong moves lateral moves and vulnerable moves Riley has renamed these from the base game strong moves are those moments when you're trying to demonstrate what makes your character special

what makes them feel empowered and it is a signal to the rest of the people at the table to say let me have this moment right when you are spending a token as a strong move what it is more than anything else tokens communicate narrative intent and they communicate to players give me space or I'm giving you space vulnerable moves are how you gain tokens and when you do that you're saying make my character look bad like I'm inviting you to show my weakness exactly which is like everyone's favorite part of table Tass right or at least the people that I play with. So instead of just being failed roles, you can say, I'm ready for this right now. And that gives you the tokens that you need to later do a strong move. And it sets up a narrative arc, right?

Like you mess up, you mess up, you mess up. And then you have that strong moment. Lateral moves are a new one from Riley added to the base system, which are saying, I'm going to give you a token. I'm going to shift the narrative focus from me to you by invoking this thing that will connect our characters in a way my playbook is meant to. Right. Sure. And it's sometimes even an offer. It's if you do this thing, you get a token. So basically saying, play into my character, please. And if you do, you get a token. So that's a sort of basic playbook mechanics. The other thing we talked about were the pillars. And so these are when you're acting sort of like the GM. Pillars have moves and tokens as well, which is also new to Galactic. For these pillars,

you can gain tokens on them to set up story elements. So the in the book called The Mandate, but today we'll be playing in Canon Star Wars, so that would be the Empire. It says, foreshadow, a larger threat, and gain a token. You're introducing a story element that will pay off later, and that token

is saying, hey, this pillar is going to get to act later. But then it has other moves where it says, put someone in immediate danger and give them a token. Gotcha. So that is, let's spend. Is it giving them a token from one of the ones that they already have? They need to have a token to give that token away? Or is that...

It's giving the token from the pillar. That's what I'm saying. Yes. Oh, yes. Yes. So the pillar can't put someone in immediate danger unless they've already force out a larger threat and gained a token to do that with. Exactly. And that's to sort of ensure you are like setting up Chekhov's gun, right? And then paying off on it later. And then there is one unique mechanic to going rogue that's not present in any of these games

that it builds on, which is the sacrifice fate. Um, spoilers for Rogue One here, but everybody dies. Uh-huh. Oh. And. No. Wait, Ander doesn't make it? Andrew doesn't get it?

Hey, we don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We haven't seen season two yet. And what about, what was going to happen in season two? And what about Melchie? What about Melchie? Melchie might make it.

Who could say? Shoutouts to Melchie. Real one. Anyway. So, yeah, fate sacrifice, fate. fate. So there's a lot of systems that have a thing called a clock, which is saying, like, when we reach the end of this clock, something is going to happen. Oh, I'm familiar with it. Austin, you are one person I trust to know clocks. And the sacrifice fate is kind of like

adding a clock, except it acts sort of also like a pillar. It has moves just like a pillar does. No token economy. But when you all choose to engage the trigger, ask characters to follow you into a mission that has impossible odds and each character who agrees shares this fate you can later join in if you want to and that starts the clock then you use each of the moves in order in order to advance the clock and that sets up story elements outside of you and then the final one gives you a character move which has you sacrifice yourself for finishing the mission and then give all your remaining tokens to someone else so they can carry the mission on interesting that's really fun and so this is something we take on in play, but usually you discuss beforehand, like, is this an idea you're

interested in? So are you all interested in having our characters potentially all tragically sacrifice themselves? Literally always. Yes. Perfect. That's my feeling in games, too. So that works great. Let's fuck them up. Yes. Yeah, I think that's all of the basics that we need to know, unless you all have any questions. And then we can hop into character creation and sort of show the rest of it as we go. That sounds good. I don't have any questions here. Anybody else? Thank you so much for, no, that, that, that, that seem. I will confess, I am probably the least experience with, with, uh, games like this in general. So, but that was really, really well explained. So thank you very much, Jess. Thank you. I appreciate that. I've been just a few

more, few times at this point. So the place I recommend starting with growing rogue, it actually, um, mixes up the order a bit versus some of the base game where we don't actually start with characters, even if we've, you know, had our Discord chat. We are going to start by making some of the pillars because just like the character playbooks have backstory questions, so do the pillars. In fact, usually we would have a lot more work to do here because, again, everything in the base book is named euphemistically. You have the liberation. You have the liberation. you have the mandate, you have the space between, which might resemble a certain force that exists in the Star Wars universe. And so you have to sort of, if you're playing this in that way, decide from scratch what do these actually mean?

Oh, Jess. You really think we couldn't spend four hours debating what each of these things means? Couldn't have to. In the canon, even, like, without even invoking. It might be easier for us. us to just make it non-canon and then we would not feel like we you know i yeah so you have given you have set me up with the perfect segue austin because what i was going to say is what we have to do is decide what corner of the star was universe and what what mode of star war storytelling are we in

and or is not telling uh stories in the same mode that uh a new hope is right um and so when we choose these desires which are what are the backstory questions for the pillars we're not saying what is true about the universe, but we are instead saying what is true about the genre we're working in and what aspect of these elements are we going to focus on and highlight in our game. And so the way we do that and the way we deal with the fact that we don't have a GM is that the pillars themselves have desires. They have things they want. And so when we're trying to say, should I invoke a pillar move, you can kind of check with your desires and be like, does this advance that agenda? So specifically for going rogue, what I recommend is starting with

the parliament and the intelligence. These are the two new pillars added to the base game. In original Rogue One, these would be represented by sort of Mon Mothma and the council of the rebels and then the network of spies, Cassian's boss. Oh my God, no idea his name. Cassian's boss in Rogue One. He has a boss in Rogue One, right? Yes, he does.

He comes over the radio and is like, kill Galen or so. Do not have the... Maybe, hey, season two. Season two. Season two. Yeah, we'll see. But anyway, the parliament... So the parliament is not the Senate, which was the first time you see it,

you may go, oh, that must be like the imperial Senate. No, it is... It is like... And it's not just the revolution either. It's not the rebellion. It's specifically the political side of the rebellion. It's the... Exactly.

Rebellion to restore the republic or whatever. The alliance to restore the republic part of... There we go. the rebellion. Exactly. And it's one of the central tensions in this game, right? Like there's a few tensions that run throughout this game. The book talks about is the parliament and like what its convictions are and the intelligence

and how it's trying to get things done. And in order to introduce that, I recommend we read these like short descriptions afterwards. These are the most ridiculously long pieces of read aloud writing that I could add to a rulebook. And it is where I am most indulgent with myself because I think this sets up the setting. And so I'm going to start with a read aloud for the parliament and then probably pass it off to someone else to take the intelligence, if that sounds good. Sounds good. Perfect. And then we'll just pick desires for both of them.

They sort of parallel each other. So we'll go back and forth. A revolution is nothing without its democracy. The parliament represents a diverse range of forces, factions, and commitments joining together to try to negotiate their differences and devise a plan they can all share. At its best, the parliament is a comradly collectivity and an example of how. a more just galaxy would be governed. Sadly, democracy is not without its discontents. The Parliament is often slow to action, even when the situation calls for decisiveness. It can be conservative and conciliatory, aiming to keep the peace and avoid risk when only

daring action can move the galaxy closer to freedom. At its worst, the Parliament is a wrench caught in the gears of liberation. Austin, do you want to take the intelligence? Sure. A revolution is nothing without its might. It is the liberation spies that enable its small fleet to succeed against a vast enemy. The intelligence is a clandestine network and messy hierarchy of burdened people who do whatever it takes to rid the galaxy of the mandate. At its best, the intelligence can turn a guaranteed defeat into a galaxy-inspiring victory. Sadly, intelligence work is not without its iniquities.

It's possible to do great evils in pursuit of justice and difficult to walk that line without treading over it. Those in Liberation Intelligence positioned themselves to avoid oversight and accountability wherever, whenever possible, and they're not above hurting those with good intentions. At its worst, the intelligence corrupts the ethical and democratic principles that distinguish the liberation and the mandate. So this is your, I Made My Mind a Sunless Space of the book. Love it.

And I actually think this is also. Thank you. An important time to introduce what's our overall concept, because we are, again, working in established canon, so we have to place ourselves in that, and we did a little bit work beforehand to do that and then we'll ask what are the parliament and the intelligence to us what section of the people that we are working in are represented by these ideas these mechanics um and so austin do you want to go ahead and introduce that just because that was a yeah i came from you my my pitch was that we had let me see if i can find my exact by the exact way i pitched to y'all not that it was like beautiful prose or anything but that way i don't skip anything that

we'd already all right here we go the premise is that during the end of the Clone Wars, a clone commander and his regiment were supposedly wiped out on some backwater planet, but the rebellion has learned that, in fact, he and at least some of them have survived and are rumored to have set up shop as warlords on a planet in the outer rim. Our job is to get past an imperial blockade, get to the planet, confirm that he's alive, and to see if he's a potential ally, and if not, see if we can at least bargain for some sort of McGuffin that he has, some old access codes that were never deactivated, some sort of important ship or weapon, something like that. That was my big pitch. So it's been, you know,

a 10, 15, 20 years. I don't remember, I guess, uh, Clone Wars ends, what, like 19 years before the, the, um, New Hope. So we're probably still pre, we're probably still pre, uh, Rogue One. We're still definitely pre a New Hope. Um, yes. We're probably, probably around the Andor era. Stormtroopers exist because my character used to be one. Spoilers for my character. Yeah, I'd say we're probably a little after, somewhere in between. That way the rebellion has sort of grown.

We have more of the bones. We're post-Andor because there is a parliament of the rebellion, right? The rebellion has unified enough that there are people who have differing ideas, but they're trying to sort them out through debate and discourse and not through third parties that connect their completely disconnected rebel cells otherwise, right? The partisan front. Right. They have joined up, and here we are.

Everyone but Saw Guerrera. Right, exactly. Well, we'll see, maybe Saul gets, no, Saul doesn't get brought in, right? We know we're Saul through Rogue One is still separate. I don't quite remember how they frame it anyway. Yes. So, yeah, it feels like we kind of already know what this is based on, or I feel like intelligence isn't is the way we've seen and or portrayed as intelligence in rogue one i don't think that

we have to invent anything new there but maybe i'm wrong yeah i think we like like luthin and monmouthma's network seems to be something very similar to the intelligence and maybe it's in our space what grows into the alliance to restore the republic um but yeah we'll do a little more definition for the parliament the other option i was thinking and i just want to put this to the table real quick is that it can also be things are a little smaller and it is the parliament and the intelligence of our individual group on Luton's list if that was original. We could have

our own internal politics rather than going big with the entire alliance. Are there any preferences in the table for how we handle that? I do not have preference. Going small has its benefits because you can't you don't, there's a little less to step

on. You know what I mean? Rob, you were nodding. True. Yeah, no, I think small, there's, like, because going small also always gives you a little space where you're not, there's something that's not canon defined that you have to worry about. Like, the minute, the minute it's like, oh, like, Luthin's going to give you, be giving you orders in this. It's like, well, now we all have a really strong image of Luthin and such. It's like a weird, it becomes a weird, like, overbearing cameo. And so that, I think, happens a lot if you, like, the bigger you make the scale, the more of that you run across. Whereas I do kind of like the idea where all of this is happening off camera at a tier that Star Wars is not really concerned itself with. That's exactly why I wanted to suggest that because it gives us that freedom. And in that case, I do have a pitch for the relationship between these things so we can get into desires that will help us flesh it out. And the pitch is that the parliament is basically our funding network and the intelligence

are like sort of our immediate comrades. And so it's a question of what will our funders approve, like a little more say than Mon Mothma has an Andor? And like, how do we keep this going, but also keep them happy? Right. And it's the above ground part. But let's get into desires. That's my basic pitch. Well, I think we can chip it out with desires.

I kind of like that because it, I like that a lot because it helps me think about both the desire here that I think is interesting or one of the desires I'm interested in here. And also shades the premise that I pitched, which is, do they. want to go get themselves a clone army because a clone army is more reliable and powerful than our ragtag group of agents, right? And so like my pitch for one of these three, so we're choosing three desires from a list. My pitch is either powerful allies or strengthened numbers or something like force and reserve. One of these things that is like they want an army that they can send against the blaster fire and know it'll get the job done and is veteran and all. Also, maybe they don't care as much if they die.

Maybe there is a little bit of that old, like, well, they're just clones. They're just clones. Sorry to undercut the parliament immediately and make them cynical. That's okay. I am here to see how you all play with this game, right? Like, I have seen every version of, not every version, because players are infinitely creative. I've seen so many versions of this game. Strength and numbers sounds great, right?

Because powerful allies would imply people who are up top and above board, but strength the numbers. Let's get a lot of people we can throw in. What if we can go get a planet filled with the powerful clones, you know? Yeah. Cool. So we've got one. Are there two more? And anything standing out to anyone here on this list?

I can also read them aloud while people are, like, getting a sense of that. So that it'd be guaranteed victories, safety from retribution for the innocent, popular support for the liberation, for the rebellion, forces in reserve, peace through compromise, lengthy deliberation, ideological discourse and a dream that never dies. Any of that's standing out? I felt a pull toward guaranteed victories, just in the idea of it being a loss averse, a defeat averse leadership for this, where maybe like it opens

there being potentially like judicious to a fault. Absolutely. Not wanting to commit things to, commit resources to things that aren't even like short of like being sure things. I think with that, well, I was also kind of moving in a similar place. I think would that a dream that never dies kind of fits nicely in that in the sense that there's this undying commitment to the vision of quote unquote the rebellion of a new Republic of, you know, the future, but maybe perhaps like a lack of sight into the practicalities

of what that means to achieve or what it means to set up in terms of infrastructure and things like that. I think I had kind of thought, oh, lengthy deliberation I'm like interested but I think given that this is more of a like military focused actor focused setup that we have started to come on I think having maybe a dream that never dies is more of like a

vision oriented thing that plays into the kind of uncompromising could work that sounds great and it lets us really play in like what do they think the rebellion should be and do we fit it which I think is a really interesting question that gives us three as we move into the intelligence there's one last thing I wanted to say about these two that I forgot to which is that there's some design notes in the book that talk about neither the parliament or the intelligence are the bad guys and that's why like it's totally fine Austin for you to introduce some cynicism here because it's very important that it is in the tension between these two things that we get a a fight worth fighting right like too far in either direction we run into some serious problems and so they're both fighting for a better world and it's not that one is in the way or one is is just plain evil it is about maintaining that balance I think sometimes the book shades itself towards portraying the

intelligence is justified just because I'm writing in a media context where so often people like that get demonized and I just want to write something that's the opposite of that but there aren't there aren't bad guys in these two there's there's forces that balance you each other out. So in order to balance that out, let's go ahead and choose three desires for the intelligence. While people think, we have a chance to turn the tide of war, leverage over rebellion members, the heads of empire officials, classified empire intelligence, sabotage, reduced oversight, secrecy, willing sacrifices, and to bear the heaviest burdens so that others don't have to. How big is the group? How big is the intelligence?

Great question. Like, is just reflecting the desires of 10 people or 100 people? Or seven people, you know what I mean? Like, what's the... So that really asks a question about, like, our splinter group. Yeah. Are we, like, really rag tag or, like, sizable? Does anyone have a preference for what space we play in there?

Could we be rag tag within a sizable, like, operation? Like, if we're thinking, like, if we are the direct action or wetwork unit, it I could see us being a bit like scrappier and we were answering to a slightly more buttoned up uh buttoned up organization I actually I really like the idea that maybe even the forces we would maybe group under the parliament are a little larger right like we yeah there is a a larger above ground wing of this and we are sort of the the black sheep of the family um but also like necessary and we believe like this work has to get done does that make sense?

Mm-hmm. Totally. So, Rob, were you saying that we as in the party were smaller inside of an established sizable intelligence unit? Yeah, I guess it would be, no, it would be more like I could see us, yes, like being a bit more, if we're thinking of this, us, like us as a group, a party being more like the dirty dozen, and the intelligence apparatus we are answering to is more like MI6 or like a like or like or right or like the french resistance sure absolutely i love that and then above all

of that parliament is even bigger still and and that's you know planets are big this is the other thing star wars plays fast and loose with this but the space is big time is long uh and there's lots of there's lots of people in star wars so it's one of those things where it's like you could say a hundred people feels like a lot but also spread out across a galaxy that's not a lot of people or spread out across the mid-rim territories or something, you know? What you're saying about planets gives me a little inspiration for another way we could make this concrete, which is to say that we are of a planet. Right.

Like, like, we are the, um, we are maybe under imperial occupation and we are the fighting force, like, whether it could be a sense of government in exile, um, or like you said, the French resistance. And so we're not this like, we are not an alliance of planets. We are a planet and an alliance of forces on that planet to, keep the scope small. Does that... Totally.

Which also makes that initial premise feel even more meaningful in the sense of like, you know what? One battalion of clone troopers could swing things on a planet. It could be what we need to retake a capital or something, you know? Thinking about the Ryloth Ark in Clone Wars, where a battalion of clones does come and link up with a planetary... resistance group and the two of them do boot the separatists off that planet for instance that's an example of what the funders could be like we just need that to happen again you know we just do it oh my god they can literally point to it they can literally point to it and say this used to happen all the time during the clone wars we just need to do it with our own clones who are

don't worry about it should don't worry about any of the weirdness around it um so which obviously I'm thinking about my characters I'll bring up my character stuff later anyway so what would those things be? Well, I think willing sacrifices is maybe an obvious one for the intelligence here in terms of if that's like a general interest and I think also plays into guaranteed victories and the dream that never dies with the parliament. Yeah, there's like a nice ping pong there between those like ideals. Which is exactly what I want. I also get a chance to turn the tide of war because it's like

this occupation has been going on for a long time and it's not looking good it's time to take some like new steps right like it's not working what if we send out and look for clones

I like that yeah any else any third one here standing out perhaps yeah go for it what were you going to say I was going to say

maybe produced oversight given that this is not exactly, like, the most ethical solution to the problem, but also isn't necessarily at odds with, like, the ethics of the Clone Wars. So I could go either way on it, but I thought, I wasn't sure if, like, the general temperature on the clones and Clone Wars, like, where that is in our sort of world. So in that case, your thing reduced oversight, not about being reduced oversight from the parliament, but almost like we don't want people to know how we achieve what we do or

something like that? I think it's sort of both because I think a parliament obviously has like the idealized, we did this the right way. Like we are going to take back, take back the galaxy the right way and do it with with democracy but within that there's the delegation to organizations like the intelligence

that are going to do to do whatever it takes to do it and like leaving that to them and kind of using a sort of ignorance to keep their vision clean and their side of the street clean and

but still capitalizing on on what the intelligence, like the, you know, slightly more gray actions of the intelligence are doing to make that happen, if that makes sense. So the reduced oversight is the intelligence is acting more independently of the parliament without having to relay all of that back to them, like in a sort of agreement with the parliament.

Don't tell us how you did it. Just get it done. Exactly, exactly. And we want more of that. Don't tell us. want less, we want to file less forms. Because that's how you get the guaranteed victories. Right. Right. Yeah. If you want guaranteed victories, we need less oversight. Yes. Yes. And I want to latch on to something Natalie said that I found really interesting, which was the idea of like a delegation

within. So the idea that like this mission isn't coming down from the parliament as a whole, but there's a few people there who are sympathetic to our approach. And they're like, hey, you do this. Nobody else really needs to know about this until we've already won. And by that, it's justified. And so, like, that keeps the parliament. Oh, no. Yes, yes, yes. We are the Nouveauvindy org. Amazing.

I love that. Okay, I feel like we got this. I feel like we have a vision for where we are, what we're doing. We should probably name the planet at some point, but names are hard. Yeah, names are hard. I have a list of all the mid-room planets in front of me, and they'll find something. Great. Okay.

I was just going to go to the Don John Star Wars name generator, which is my best friend. Yeah, we could just do that if you want to. I'm fine with that. I'm fine with it not being a canon place. Either way. Let's see. Varia, mito. One of the ones that got generated is, you've heard of Tatooine.

What about Estuene? S. Tuene. If tattooing is so good, why is there now? Well, here's the thing is, Jess, you might. not know this, but there are other tweens in Star Wars? There are a lot. Dan Tween. Dan Tween is an important one. Oh, Dan Tween. Yes, I've heard Dan Tween. There's other ones out there.

So, why not S-Tueen? Steve Tewin. Steve, it's... Jeff Tueen. Yeah. Tim, what's Tewan. Tim Tewan. Tim Tewan. Tim Tewin is kind of sick.

The hellish voice. The hellish voice. The hellish voice. Should we do the rest of these? pillars really quick? Yeah. So we're going to hop into characters and then we come back to the remaining pillars. Gotcha. So that's sort of to set the basic arc

of going rogue and then we get her characters in and then we flash out the rest of the internet. Awesome. Okay. Oh, I love the picture of Harrison Ford that's been added to this document. Harrison Ford in a sweater by the way, on a payphone, not Han Solo, importantly. Kind of like this.

So we're going to go around. We will say our character's names and then their looks and styles if you have that done and then we'll sort of collaboratively jump into some of the backstory questions. If you have the document open, that would be great, the like rulebook document and want to read the description, the like two line description under your playbook when you introduce your character. That would be great. Got it. Cool. So I will, let's go in order that it is in the book. book. So that's going to be the spy first. Go ahead, Rob.

The spy is a skilled operator, highly committed, but ruthless. Their power comes from their cunning, determination, and willingness to do whatever it takes. I knew this was going to be Rob. I knew immediately this was going to be Rob. Natalie, not buying the hemming and hawing last night in the Discord. You're a spy at heart, Rob. You are. You are what you are. It's a beautiful thing.

I feel you. This game basically exists because of the spy playbook. I just wanted to, I fell in love with Cassian Andor very quickly. I'm like number one lesbians for Cassian Andor fan club. And so pre-Andor, this game was my love letter to Cassian. And the spy has a lot of attention for that reason. So I feel you. It's great.

It's great. So the spy is a medical droid. TS26 goes by S2, pronounce he, him. the look so the way this is all generated is we're picking from just like it's sort of a mix and match like some descriptive terms so the ones i picked out were unreadable face and watching eyes because medical droid if you have little pictures of those in your head they they are slightly unsettling uh looking looking things that just are like glowing eyes and a a very like imposing metal chassis with like blades coming out of the hands uh style notes. I was thinking a leather jacket, but it was more like a leather duster, a concealable blaster, and high-tech goggles.

But again, that's more of reference to probably like droid accessory and such. Do the medical droids have those like the scopes that will like come down in front of their eyes? Mine does, baby. You know what I mean, right?

Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. So it also, there was a menu of principles to choose from. Name one principle I've broken to allow harm by inaction is to be responsible for that harm yourself. One principle you won't break. You must put yourself in harm's way if it means others won't have to. Sacrificed fighting for, I've sacrificed the opportunity to live a different life. One principles you're fighting for it. Now this is where I got,

should that be pulled from the principles list again? Yes, same list. Okay. So not the We're going to have time to choose all these options together. Some people haven't yet. And so, yeah, just look and style and you're good. Cool. So the next one we're going to go to is The Leveraged. Okay. This is Leaf, Leaf Lux, but the Lux is remit.

It is not said. It's just leaf. You don't want the Luxmentary. connection. Is that the fear? That's the first thing. Just Lux Montere is I'm so mad because I wrote this down without remembering

Lux Monterey and then as soon as I was saying it out loud I was like fuck I accidentally invoked. Yeah, it's leave. It's just leave. And her pronouns are she her and she has a guarded

face, a small hand. Do you have the little sentence of what the leverage did? Oh, yes, sorry, sorry, sorry. I have it here. I forgot. We're starting with that. The leverage is a non-believer compelled by circumstance. Their power comes from their outside perspective, their desperation, and their capacity to grow.

And if I can step in for a second, I'll just say explicitly, this is my Gin Urso playbook. This is my attempt to rescue Jin Erso as a character, because despite being number one going Rogue One fan, who I also think Jin is. protagonist but head of the lesbians against ginners exactly I'm in two clubs about Rogue one at once

that's amazing yes so for my look I've chosen a guarded face so not really giving too much away very protective

and small hands very nimble small in stature in general and for my style I have borrowed clothing and fingerless gloves so if you can imagine the gloves are like a little loose on

these small hands and the borrowed clothing is sort of more workmanware but everything's ill-fitting It doesn't feel like hers. It feels borrowed, but it's well-worn in types of, yeah, general clothing. Awesome. And in the Discord, you had sort of a basic concept for your character, and that'll get fleshed out as we answer questions.

But do you want to share that basic concept? Yeah. So Leaf is like a former grew up basically in close to, close to, the sort of ruling class close to like politics of of corsont imagine sort of like

Leda Mon Mothma's daughter but if Lada was more so like Vell before Vell kind of had her rebellion awakening or like went off and met up with Luthen and Clea. So

very disillusioned with the world that she grew up in, but hasn't necessarily found something else to cling on to or to sort of like fight for is aware of the rebellion, but again, is kind of, has been such like an outcast in her own life that she hasn't necessarily been drawn to finding, another group to identify with or to become a part of because of that feeling of being so at odds with her surroundings for so long.

So there isn't really the motivation to find community. Similar to sort of where Cassian is when we first meet him in Andor of just very much being someone on their own, but without the ties to family like he has with Marva. so like very much kind of a loner character and that actually yeah that actually points out really well something I've said talking about the game is that Cassian is not the spy in Andor that's that's his playbook in going in Rogue One but he is the leveraged in Andor actually all of these fit to Cassian and so you're noticing a perfect parallel there and I also just want to say I was immediately so compelled by this character concept and reasoning it's just the idea that like you can respond to alienation and in two ways, become a tradcath or become a rebel. Simply true. Simply true, simply true.

Okay, so now we're going to go on to the knight-errant. Oh, yeah. I should just say, lastly, that Leif has been, like, away from her family for, like, a few, without contact with her family for, like, a couple years now, and it's kind of just, like, middling about nowadays so yeah that's it cool okay go ahead with the left uh with the knight errant yeah i'm going to be playing this playbook uh and it's the knight errant once served a cause and now searches for one their power comes from their experience grit and renewed passion um so in our discord chat everyone was like we assume ali's going to be a vandalorian um which was smart

but also a very complicated prompt in the Clone Wars era. So I live within a philoni respect zone. If I'm going to play a Vandalorian, I'm going to play a Clone Wars Vandalorian. So my character is going to be Priv Alkin, she, her pronouns. Prive, can you spell Prive really quick? P-R-I-V. Gotcha. Yeah.

Like an all Twitter account? Right, right. that's actually funny yes the look that i've chosen is a sunken face steady eyes and the style is a uniform with the insignia patched over um the like mandolore aesthetic is this really interesting like peacock colors these like deep teals and these cool purples um this is an interesting character because like i think when i first thought of it i was like it'd be really funny to just be like an old like insurance claims adjuster under the peaceful mandolorean um just like someone with a day job in the bureaucracy of sateen's mandolore basically

yeah but that's i think that's too goofy and i have probably go for like like a corky adjacent like probably corky uh corky is the former duchess of mandolors nephew slash secret son question mark the fandom the fandom thinks corkie might be sateen and obiwan's son that's the excellent so corky ask yeah the the reason i i evoke corky here is the idea of someone who was like in their young teens was probably like oh you should go into politics you should you should like serve the guard or whatever and then mandolour falls and sort of option is it there anymore yeah yeah another important thing here maybe for jess that i know jess you're not you're not up on on all the clone war stuff yeah i'm so sorry

you might think of mandoloreans as being like a warrior culture that has cool armor and like guns and jet packs and that's true except that during the era of the clone wars obiwan canobi and his master quigon jinn aided a faction of pacifist mandol to take the throne just before the Clone War start. Like, you know, when Obi-Wan was a Padawan, this kind of happened, and he fell in love with Sateen, and then they didn't stay near each other because he went on to become a Jedi Knight, and attachment is forbidden. And then throughout the court, you learn, the pacifists don't last, is what I will say broadly. The thing is, the Star Wars universe needs to explore pacifism more. So it's very important.

Yeah, exactly. So you, so again, your carrots, so shiv, sorry, shiv is from succession. Not too far up, though. I love that, love that so much. Oh my God. Put Shib Roy in Star Wars, please. I need more evil women. Yeah, uh-huh.

And or season two could have a shib. Anyway. But yeah, so like to separate up from like lore, lore to just, get like vibes of this character. It's basically the like early childhood, there was a civil war on the planet they were from between this like very violent military class and these people who were like, these old military ways aren't serving our society anymore. We should be peaceful and, you know, gain power in the republic through other ways. And I grew up with that ideal until an evil man and a bunch of gangsters took over the planet. My ideals were

flung to the winds. Star Wars is great. So that takes us to Austin with the convert. And I will also quickly make explicit a thing that's been implied many times, which is that I'm only familiar with about a season of the Clone Wars, which is somewhat embarrassing for this podcast, but we're rolling with it. It's fine. It's good. I have a pitch really quick for planet. I found a planet that's ready-made for us because like many things in Star Wars, it doesn't really exist. It's just a thing that gets said once. In the Bantu guide, sorry, Galaxy's Edge Traveler's Guide to Batu. The Batu is the planet. I think that Galaxy's Edge, those theme park exists on. In the handbook, the guide for that park, there is a line that says, we have transports, waiting to take you to

General Organa's secret base on Pachara. Pachara is a mid-rim planet with no information about it, except that it's in the mid-rim. And it's between Batu and Kodia and the First Order is near there in the future. We're far away from the First Order at this point in time. But it's imaginable that this would be a place where the rebellion had someone there rebelled during the Imperial Civil War era, you know? So draw lines and leave blank space is going to be. Thank you, Disney Parks. I'm going to say Picara is my pitch for a place we are. I'll type it out. It's P-A-C-A-R-A. So that's a, that's, we get to, we get to steal a little bit there. Anyway, my character's name is to garden, uh, Zol. Everyone calls to-garden either tag or taggy or Aggie or little tea or just tea or taggy.

no one says gar Gar is two in the middle of the throat We also can't do din You can't do din but you could Have a din dinn You could call din or dinny Or dunny Or yeah Arden

You know anything that's kind of You know He him pronouns His look is an earnest face And hopeful eyes I have face cast him as the actor Archie Medecue Who I

Who was in He was killed in Midsamar Brutely He was in a movie That no one watched Called Voyagers And he's about to be the lead

In the Grand Turismo movie Which is where I've taken this facecast image I'll drop all of our Any of our images into the episode description by the way And I'll probably link out to a read-only version of this play document So people can see that He wears Hand Me Dad and has a regulation blaster and standard issue boots.

He is a former stormtrooper. He is the, he is the, he's a little bit of Finn from the sequels and he's a little bit of Cyril Karn from Andor. The big picture thing is that he is from a, he's probably from this place, he's probably from Piccarra directly. I've written, oh, I should have read the convert. The convert is the convert joined the liberation recently in, truly believes it can make a difference. Their power comes from their conscious optimism,

energy, and luck. In my case, Taggy is a former stormtrooper who joined up to escape a bad situation, but became disillusioned when he realized what he was a part of. He idealizes the old clone troopers and sort of imagines them as the good guys. He doesn't really grasp that there was an actual continuity between the current stormtroopers and the old clones. He doesn't really, he thinks of he's the person in the world who doesn't understand. that the republic and the empire are the same and thinks of it as like oh yeah the empire overthrew the republic which is just not literally not what happened and he doesn't quite get that he's very he's very um uh I specifically didn't choose naive eyes because I imagined he saw

some shit as a stormtrooper and was asked to do some things and naivety I mean you can you can be naive and have done some shit but I think that that kind of let him him no, okay. He's not new to the idea that people. He's not as worldly, maybe. He's not as worldly about the world, but he's plenty experience with, like, seeing people get shot or having people he knows die. And he is processing the loss of that naivete, right? Exactly. That's exactly it. But the way he's processed it is he's kind of sublimated it, so he doesn't have to think about too much into an idealism about the rebellion. And then, like, oh, we could just do, we could, if the empire beat the republic, we could just beat the empire. It's like, okay, well, that's

You're wrong about the things you said are very, I love your spirit, kid. You know, like, that's, that's, that's who he is. And that's another tension in this game, right? Like, we have a bunch of characters who are, like, cynics, and then a convert here who is just, like, so excited. And again, neither is right. Neither is wrong. Actually, you need both of these things.

And that was, like, a tension I was dealing with in myself while writing this game about, like, how do you approach organizing? And so the convert actually came from playtesting. It came from realizing I can't throw three cynics and loners into a party and ask them to just work together fine without something that binds them together. And then that's how this role came about. It's inspired by Bodhi Rook, the pilot in Rogue One, that like defects. And it's like, if I only get to Saw Guerrera, everything will be fine. Right, right.

Yes. Oh, and the knight-errant is both Bays and Chirut sort of put into one character because they're forever boyfriends who are united eternally as one soul. cool and in that case i will take the last playbook which is the loyal um the loyal is actually new to the second edition of going rogue uh and was inspired by k2 so um but also a little bit bays and also chewy and some other places because honestly k2 is a really thin character so he got a got to flesh it out um and the loyal is the most unique mechanically um i'm glad you're playing it yes yeah that's that's i have had a sense I would take that because it'll make things a little smoother. The idea for the unique

mechanic that the Loyal does actually came from the design consultant on Going Rogue, which is Seda, who is also in my Galactic group, like a lot of where the inspiration came from, who had the idea of what if the bond between the loyal and the character they're bonded to, like the same way K2 and Cassie and R, was a pillar. What if it was an element of the setting? So instead of just saying it is within your characters, actually that bond is an agent thing in the universe and acts on you and acts on the people around you. And it really resonated for me just like thinking about anti-fascist work and the sort of unique trust you build when you like really put your lives in the line with someone and like you trust them so completely with yourself. And so it's fun to

have that be a force that exists in the universe metanarratively. And so the loyal has unique actions, the token mechanics work different. I'll sort of explain that in play. And then the character I am bonded to, which will be Austin, we will get some unique moves that come from the pillar and allow us to like explore that relationship in more depth. But anyway, the concept for my oh, I should actually read The Loyal. I didn't remember my own instructions. The Loyal is a stalwart friend, difficult to win over, but unwavering in their allegiance. Their power comes from their tenacity, self-sacrifice, and uncompromising commitment to care for those they are bonded to. My loyal is Tessex-6-Tain.

Oh, Austin, I'm realizing I'm going to hit you with a surprise right now because I had a slight reworking of my idea that I had in the Discord. If it sounds good, I'm going to. So, Tessix is, like, in her probably 50s, I would say, like 40s or 50s. And she served in the Clone Wars. We had originally said that maybe she served, that she was a separatist and that she's sort of lying about her past or just leaving it ambiguous to win the trust of Taggy over here who respects the clones. Just like, I fought in the Clone Wars, no more detail. Here's a different way I think I want to spin it, which is she did fight for the Republic.

She was a Republic officer who commanded clones. And when she saw what they were doing to a Republic Occupied Planet and event. eventually realized, like, this isn't actually necessarily that much better. She defected, just like Taggy did, and fought for the separatists at, like, the end of the war. That's really good. Terrible timing. Yes. Oh, the worst.

And so she just lets Taggy know about the parts where she fought with the Republic and has not mentioned what she did with it. This is great. Great, perfect. And so what her sort of perspective is, is that she sort of sees it as her task to protect Taggy from how those around him will want to use him. And not as a like, he can't go and sacrifice himself because like she understands the need to like fight for a cause. She did that herself. Part of why she defected was like, I realize that like this is really important.

But instead it's you need time to come into your own. you need time to understand what like what matters to you and you need to survive long enough to do it like because she saw the end of the war at a very bad time like she she knows what it's like to fight for something that isn't actually achieving the goals that you wanted to and she wants taggy to have time to develop and really be sure of himself before he gets thrown into the meat grinder um and so um she has a scarred face and intense eyes. And for her wardrobe styles, a stocky frame, rugged but weathered clothing, and a heavy blaster. So basically like a butch woman with gray hair and her mid-50s and the sides of her

head shaved and like little pointy hair on top. That's the pick crew I've gotten here. Yeah. So that's the basics for each of our characters. And the next thing we do is fill in our questions. So some people have already answered these. Some have a few left. I will actually, we'll go in reverse order as I start to explore my own questions, which I've probably done the least of anyone. Oops. So let's actually start again with Rob, who I know you mentioned some of your question responses. So go ahead and any prompts that you've decided, throw them out. And then as we move from person to person, if people are considering different options and they're not sure,

that's actually a great time to just say that aloud as we move from person to person and be like, would this work for you? Would this be interesting to play off of? So bring that any indecision you have to the group because it's great collaborative storytelling. Okay. So as I mentioned, from the list of principles that are on offer for this

character, I selected the one principle that S2 is broken is to allow harm by inaction is to be responsible for that harm yourself. And the principle that you won't break now is you must put yourself in harm's way if it means others won't have to. Sacrifice the opportunity to live a different life.

Principles you're fighting for. I don't know. I haven't found anything quite that quite gets at the conception of the character. And I think if anything, it would probably be some modification of that is like the sacrifice of the opportunity to live a different life. And the principle is to open up possibility for people to live their own lives. to do you have great possibilities? Yeah, what I would suggest there is the person you could never be. You're fighting for like the life you want others to live because you don't get to yourself.

Got it. That's really good. Great. And if you, at any point, if people filling out these prompts want to talk about specific events in their backstory that prompted this, they can. And also there's no pressure to because that can, that part of storytelling can also happen in the game in play. Can I ask, should people also get their relationships? Should they start thinking about that stuff? Or is that also an in-play thing?

Yes, we should start thinking about relationships. Thank you for the reminder. So those help establish NPCs. That said, it's really interesting to have NPCs that are linked. Like, our relationships can be relationships to the same people, and it helps flesh them out and put us in a network of people. And so I think actually that's a place where, like, get a general idea of which ones are interesting to you. And then after we go around on backstory questions, we will say what we're thinking,

thinking aloud and see if some of them can connect you don't have to like fill out all the details yet i'm cheating if i already wrote mine but i just wanted to i wanted to prime other people that there would be another step of of this so that's perfect okay so let's go to the leverage to have do you have some things you're considering for your questions uh my so the what is some someone holding over you and the two principles okay yeah so for the two principles i was thinking um These are two principles that challenge even your cynicism, or even my cynicism. So for me, I'm thinking the children deserve a better world than you ever had. And I was also thinking perhaps everyone deserves a chance to free themselves, just given, like, being subject to like an environment that we,

was something that I didn't want to be a part of and I seem to have gotten out of like everyone deserves that opportunity. So I think those are where I landed with principles. What is someone holding over you? I'm considering my impounded ship. But I also, I think I could see some of these other ones working in terms of like my own guilt surrounding my past actions that being something like within that I'm keeping kind of close to my own chest Do we know who the someone is here

who is holding something over you? Often that gets fleshed out in the relationships and if we can these also don't have to go in exact order I meant abstractly in the sense of like is it is the person being the person leveraging you tied to the rebellion or they tied to a different group like what's the I didn't know if that was something that was intentionally I didn't know if that was something was intentionally vague or if there was supposed to if it is someone in the rebellion is holding this

against you and so that that's why you're working for them or is that there's an outside person holding something against you that is weighing on you and complicating your life or I didn't know if just there was a way that was supposed to be read that I didn't understand It is not mandatory at all one way or the other. There are some relationships that suggest it's in, like, the intelligence, but it is not, you don't have to choose those. It has more freedom. Natalie, is it calling to you to be, like, leveraged by someone who is a part of our, like, little intelligence network? Or is there someone else sort of forcing you into this?

I guess it would make sense for it to be within the network, yeah. I think so, too. If you want it to be, like, a lighter touch leverage, what you were saying about guilt surrounding your past action, could be like a I know that you were a rich kid the other people here don't prove yourself right like a like if you're really committed

if you're committed to being different than your parents if you're different than Corrissat you would do this and if you want to have your touch they can literally have impounded your ship because it was not meeting up to code and then they're like do this for us and you get it back and you can get out again yes

yeah that's what I was kind of thinking with the ship would be like in a way yes it's it was my ticket out in the first place and then um has now yeah like been taken away from me and and now I'm stuck in this until I can have it as my ticket out again um but I kind of like the idea of just the past being something that I'm very protective of so I think I'll actually go with uh my own guilt surrounding my past actions perfect great um and that takes access to the night air. Um, yeah.

So the, the principles to figure out for Priv are, um, choose a cause that you were once committed to and why you left. Um, what I've chosen here is, um, a persecuted clan before they were wiped out. Um, persecuted is kind of strong there. I think probably like disputed is the way to go because, like, it is a idea and a group of people who, like, were able to become the ruling class of their society. But there was a fight against that. And then as soon as, like, there's, like, any sort of, like, political foundation set,

the clone wars breaks out. And then there's all this pressure to, like, don't be pacifist anymore. And, like, all this, like, internal struggle that we see about that. So that's why I felt like that. That made sense. And then choose one. principle you abide by, a one loss principle burning a hole in your heart. The principle that I abide by is courage in the face of adversity. And then I was thinking that the one lost principle

burning a hole in your heart would either be to never harm the innocent or to forgive even when it's difficult. I think like being pushed into a situation, where you're now, like, a rebel fighting for a cause, fighting for, like, a violent insurrection because things have gotten so extreme that, like, you can't commit to, like, I want to have fighting skills, but I don't want them to, like, I want political power and not, like, military strength or whatever. There's this sort of, like, compromise that you have to take, which is, like, oh, pacifism didn't work out for us.

and I like I can't talk to any of you all about that much less like talk to the intelligence and be like let's we can what does the teen say where it's like even extremists can be reasoned with and it's like no like extremists have to be fought with extremism and this is a situation that we're in now um so I think forgive even when it's difficult it's like the meteor one there so that's the one that I mean issues Okay, Austin, go ahead Yeah, I have Let's let's make sure I read it right from the book too Why did I join the liberation

Which is easy This is I became disillusioned and defected from the empire I suspect that this was like One of those situations where Tag was, you know, from a really You know, rough, rough beginning a place where things are really dangerous, you know, not a lot of support, not a lot of food or security and then, or safety, and joined up with the stormtroopers, and then had the sort of

Anakin experience, which is like, why aren't we giving, like, we have food, we have so much food. We throw out our food. Why don't we give food to the people who are starving on the planet that we're occupying or defending, he would say defending to begin with, and slowly came to realize, like, oh, actually, the only time we get called in to go to my old neighborhood is to hurt people. Like, the only time that this happens is like, and otherwise, we get ignored entirely. And so that is, I became disillusioned and defected from the empire. And then I have a skill that I'm trained in, and two, I want to learn. The one I'm trained in is marksmanship. You can tell I'm not a stormtrooper anymore, because I'm actually able to hit

things with my gun. And then two skills that I want to learn, piloting, which will become more clear in a moment, and grace under pressure. I think I get very nervous in situations that are stressful still. I think I got kind of chewed out for this a lot as a recruit that I like, in practice, I was fine. But the second it was like a real thing, the nerves got to me, my palms got sweaty. I could still shoot my gun all right, but I wasn't able to, like, stay calm and be someone that other people could rely upon.

I would like to be that person. And we can come to my relationships after we do your things, if you want to, and then we can build relationships from there, maybe. Yeah, perfect. Also, I love the idea that you're trying to be a pilot, especially with the image of this actor in the, like, Nissan racing thing. Like, I love that that's your uniform. but it has our planet name on it. Uh-huh. Yes. Yes. Anyway, so I have to choose two qualities I respect and one quality I don't.

The qualities I respect are optimism and a sense of justice. I think that's a thing that, like, I feel the need to feel that still exists in the world at this point. And so I'm really drawn to people who exude that, even if I don't necessarily myself. Maybe the sense of justice, yes, the optimism, maybe not. but like I need I need other people who still feel that way. The one quality I don't is bravery. And I'm, it actually fits really well into what you're saying about grace under pressure, which I already had this chosen, you not having that bravery.

I don't care about that. I think Six has a perspective of like something along the lines of it's easy to be brave when you don't understand the consequences. Right, right, right. I don't think, I don't think Tag understands this at all. I think Tyg is still operating under the assumption that everybody respects bravery. That's why it's called bravery. You've got to be brave.

Like, that's what heroes are, et cetera. Cannot read that you don't give a fuck about it. Yeah, absolutely. I love that. Which actually, once again, segues really well because there's something we have to interrupt in the middle before we go to the relationships. And I answer my second question, you and I, Austin, fill out the bond really quick. So the bond is that pillar that exists to represent our relationship.

It also has its own desires. and we have to go choose those now to finish, like, fleshing out this relationship. I see it. Yes. So can you read the intro to the bond really quick? Yes. Revolutions are built on trust. Relationships forged and struggle are how allies become comrades and rallies become rebellions. The liberation is full of people who care deeply for one another or for each other, but the bond represents the unshakable connection between people who have put their lives in the line for each other time and time again. and it demonstrates what is only possible when you trust in a comrade, when your trust in a comrade, is unconditional.

So we choose two on this list of what the bond has, one that it does not, and one that it wishes to have. Gotcha. Out of intimacy, shared goals, honesty, guardianship, balance, simplicity, ideological unity, romance, romance, family, debts forgiven, debts repaid, mutual understanding, and recognition of the self. through the other. I know immediately that we don't have honesty. Right. I think we don't have honesty.

Yeah. I think that really. I think you are not being true. You've never told me you don't care about bravery, for instance. You've never told me that you used to be a separatist, for instance. I'm sure that there are things that I've asked and you've deflected, right? Yes. And I actually think an interesting con.

Go ahead. Go ahead, Donnelly. Well, I was just going to say, perhaps, like, even in your, like, idea of bravery that, uh, you're not being completely as someone who gets nervous, who gets, you know, palm sweaty. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm totally good. Yeah, I was great during it. No, I like, I'm not open about that stuff. You're totally right. Exactly. Um, and then I'm thinking something that could be interesting if I'm not drawing too many lines here is to contrast not having honesty with wishing to

have mutual understanding. Um, and it's not even actually about the facts on the table. It's about we are so distant in perspective from each other but we really clearly both want to see each other there's a care here but that doesn't come with an understanding and that's a gap that we want to bridge I think that makes sense I think that makes sense I excuse me I could also imagine recognition of the self through the other

partly because if that gap was closed we could have that recognition because you did what I did you just haven't told me yet right but that kind of also works through mutual understanding that's they're similar enough i think there's an overlap there so as my books often say rules are inspiration not limitation we're choosing to yeah love it great um and then what do we have i kind of think simplicity is kind of nice so that was exactly yep yeah you have my back you help get me into the position i'm in it works i can look to you for help

for something you can tell me to do a thing and i'm going to get it done who needs honesty would you have simplicity. That's exactly. That's how I live the working relationship is. Yes, exactly. Great. The other one is interesting. What do we have? I guess guardianship, because I really see it as my duty to protect you. I also imagine that maybe like you feel a sense of like young valor, right? Like I have to protect the old veteran. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. You've seen it all. You've too much experience and information. We don't want to lose your, your veterancy, you know. Let me. Let me go in the door first. Let me draw the enemy fire, et cetera.

I love you guys. I skipped something very important about my character. I realized I didn't talk at all about why I chose hand me down to Regulation Blaster and Standard Issue Boots. The only one here that really matters is standard issue boots, which is I hand me down clothing, but my boots are pristine because the Empire instilled that in me. And also because I grew up with bad shoes. And so now I'm like, I have good boots. and I wake up every day and I take care of those boots

So that's important For the conception of this character in my mind All right Is there more for the bond pillar That we have to choose or is that it? That is it So I just now answer my last question Which is how did your bond

Earn Your Trust? I already know gave you something to believe in This was like I was reaching the end of my rope On feeling like this work was worth it And you refresh that for me Perfect. Okay, so now it is time to decide our relationships. We're going to go back to the top with Rob, who gets three relationships because I like the spy playbook, whereas the rest of us get two.

And, yeah, name some of the ones. There's a list of relationships and descriptor words. Those descriptor words give the NPC's moves. We didn't really talk about that, I'm realizing, but there is a list of moves at the end of the play kit. And each NPC is grouped to a pillar. And so, Austin, you talked about, like, is the only way that a pillar has to do a move first to get a token. They can also do it through a character who is part of it. So a character might have a move like, let's see, let's give you an example.

Cautious, engage in deliberation about a decision and gain a token. And then whatever pillar that character is attached to gets that token. And so by choosing one of these descriptor words, you give them moves. You can look at the move list. You can also just describe them, and the mechanics will follow. follow. And so which of these relationships for the spy is jumping out to you? And we'll also talk about if that could connect to any of the rest of our relationships. Okay. So one of the things that jumps out at me first is a cynical, my scheming or cynical superior officer. I was thinking

that, so again, the sort of the concept of this character is that they were a, like trauma surgery droid during the clone wars uh like they would have been the analogy would be like a mash unit uh you know if you think about like you know that that tv series where it's not it's not like a VA hospital where people are like rotated home and they're out of the fight but it's not frontline medicine it is a uh sort of proximate battlefield surgical center and uh like as part of that a lot of it when you're dealing with clones is about like not necessarily triaging to save lives, but triaging to maximize the rapid return of like troops to the front.

And so whoever is running an operation like that, whoever is the CEO of a unit like that, is going to be a bit of a bastard, would be, would be my thought. They have the shit that they gave Nemek on hand, like. Oh, yes. Yes, yes. great. Do one of those two adjectives stand out more to you, scheming or cynical? I think cynical? Cool. Cool. So do I just put that like archetype in the pillar box? Yeah, so put that archetype under traits and then pillar. I imagine they're part of the intelligence if they're like

still still active. Does that make sense to you? Are they still or are you not connected to this person anymore? I think they might be mandated at this point. Oh, interesting. this is an imperial cool yes I haven't seen that take on it I love that possible antagonist Star Wars names are a bitch let's see we can get a name

glup glupp shito we're not going to have Globchidow one through 12 we gotta get some names up in there Glob Shido the first and the second Lynn Corrick Rindy Allure

I'm generating I have a list of of generated names, so... Hang on. Gerofrane is a... Love that. Perfect. Perfect. Okay.

Let's see. Other, other characters. Actually, what we'll do is we're just going to go down and give each time even more, people more time to consider and connect. Natalie, do you want to do your first relationship? A little sort of circle around. Yes. Yes. I am, like, caught between two...

two relationships right now. One I was thinking of was like basically like my employer essentially, just like somebody that has been giving me the odd job since I've like kind of gone on my own path. I wasn't really sure where to place them, whether that's like a neutral or slightly shadier leaning. I was thinking somewhere probably within the scum and villainy pillar.

Pillar. But I was also thinking of like who my parent might have been and that being someone within the parliament

as yeah, as sort of like a monmothma type like someone you know associated with the rebellion um but uh again someone that i have not connected with and like you know i have tried to distance myself from so could this be the the if only this was the way it worked out where leda finds out bond mothma is secretly a rebel and actually like connects to that in a way that like repairs i opens the door to repair the relationship i like

I like that, yeah I think that's good because I think I don't want I think I shouldn't know her in that way Like she She is

She is I know Leda Or I am in the point of Lada of like my mom is a senator And is therefore like a part of the machine And like I'm not You know Right

like I don't fuck with her yeah yeah yeah how could you be both of those things and that's like my just fundamental misunderstanding of my my resistance to ever get to know her on that plane and probably her like necessity to keep that secret from me my whole life so I think I'll start with that one I think that that sounds like it's a little bit more clear in my head so what's my mama's name

her last name isn't Lux You've now gone from You just You crossed out You struck through Lux at this point No it's gone I can't have that association Why do like Dax or like

Rucks so you don't have this like weight on you I have to carry the Decisions of my past No you're allowed The guilt of my bath we are. Yes. We're leveraging over you

the fact that you chose Lux. I like this one, Dystra. I wanted something that was like slightly like luxuriously sounding. So I'm going to go with my mom's name is

Elima Dystra. And she is of yes, like the pillar I said, is the part Leah Bent And then Yeah

To fill in something here Just in case anyone didn't notice Because it's not in the play dock Just because there's not room There are a list in the rulebook Of sample relationships That have those adjectives, those traits attached On the right side of the like spread near the bottom

And so if you didn't pull this From a particular like bullet on that list We can also just pull a trait from the set of traits. I have a few suggestions, which would be cunning or connected, would be, I think, two possible takes on your mom because cunning has basically like a reveal

that you've been one step ahead the whole time and gain a token. Lie to someone, give them a token if they believe it. Ask what's your real goal here and give them a token? Or it could be connected, because you're a connected family. Either of those sound appropriate for the character you're imagining.

yeah i like this a lot i think in my mind my i've always thought of my mom as like a part of the imperial like takeover or because she's because she's held those connections right because she's held that mask um so well that um i'm i'm completely unaware of like her like resistance rebellion doings um so i like connected a lot and uh yeah i think cunning makes sense too since she's been able to keep it and i imagine based on what you're describing that maybe like if they have like a vichy france puppet government going on here she's maybe actually a part of it and a part of the parliament of our secret organization right yeah yeah yeah she's she's definitely like a dual dual agent type in my mind great i love it um okay alley

go ahead um yeah so the first relationship that i was thinking um was the rousing friend that I made recently I think the whole that this MPC would fill is like they would be the intelligence pillar and sort of be my connection to what the resistance is that's why I like rousing here

and sort of like gung ho and like come and join us and do the right thing sort of thing so that's what I'm going to go with before I decide if I'm going to make a very self-indulgent decision after I've made a very self-adulted decision. I've made a very self-adulted

decision is one of mine, so you should do the same. Just like, okay, so the night errant is like a very specific class. And like, what if birds of a feather flocked together even though. I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. Uh-huh.

If you want to hop into your second relationship, I'm on the edge of my seat, Alley. So you're also just welcome to break the order and go now. What if, what if I had, what if I had an attuned partner in crime, which was a Jedi who is hiding there? Their identity, post-clone wars. My longest, yeah boy ever. Yes. What if you're just like, yo, we're both, like, we both had to leave our homes because of displacement and war. And now we're here on Pascara or whatever.

It's not Cassara. It's delicious. Pachara. And we're just, you know, making do. And we're BFFs. It's fine. Oh, okay. Uh-huh.

Doesn't the Jedi Code say you're not allowed to have BFFs? Khorasat, the Jedi Temple, that doesn't exist anymore. It's fine. Sheave is in there. Just making a mess right now. Love it. I have one of these names. The rousing friend is going to be Dean Cord.

And then I have to think of a good Jedi name. I'm actually super curious to have Dean. chord be someone in my life as well, if he's a little older. I have one that is the daring or rousing figure from my past that I admire. And so I could take this rousing figure that you know that and that has this intelligence connection. I'm starting to wonder, was I part of, was Picara at some point also Republic occupied? And this is actually the planet I sort of defected to. Like they were separatist. This is a separatist planet. And then I have stayed here after I defected to the separatists of the planet that I was attacking. Um, and it was possible for sure. Yeah. And my idea that

the way that flows into this connection is the idea that, um, maybe Dean Cord is also a veteran of that. Um, and he was an old comrade. Um, and now he's working with the resistance movement because he's also a veteran. I don't know if that steps on the character that you were thinking of for me. No, no, yeah, that's perfect. Okay, cool. And that establishes also a personal connection between our characters, which is one of the things that we will do it even more with the questions that we move into next, but relationships also help

create a connection between characters, right? Like a dense social network. Um, awesome. Uh, which means I have my first and it brings us back around to Rob. Wait, I haven't gone yet. Oh, oh, Austin. I just skipped. So, because yours was already filled out in the document. I was like, you're already good. You're done. I actually just changed one because I think I'm just going to take, if I take a character that was already introduced, can their traits be different for me?

Can they get a third trait? Oh, yeah. You can add as many traits as you want, and that just gives them a bigger move set. Two is actually the most common. Okay. I think that Leif's mom, Alama Deistra, is the scheming authority with plans for me. so parliament still but is 100% like scheming is just you know it wants to throw me to the dogs for you know it's easy to sacrifice me I just spent the last year of my life training as a stormtrooper you know this sets up a really interesting possibility that alama daistra is part of the like faction of parliament that's like sponsoring our that is exactly what I imagine is 100% our mission. sponsor is paying for it is giving us the stuff to do it etc yeah and to keep throwing

wrenches oh unless natalie you want to well i was just going to say that kind of made got me closer i think to my second relationship which is like the person who's brought me in to this mission who is i i can't really decide if they're i think my idea of them was scum and villain villainy as like basically the guy who's been giving me like the luthan basically has been giving me jobs i had no idea that they were like related to the resistance but i was just doing them to get a buck and then um but he is but he's actually been like observing me um in the way that like sort of as at like cassian like seeing my my promise and is now like perhaps like roping me into like the actual uh motivations of or like mechanisms of what we are

actually doing um that was like kind of what i was thinking for my second second relationship uh so but in that case then it was it's kind of like a mass an intelligence working with the mask of a scum and villainy if that makes sense uh so i'm not sure i guess ultimately they would fall under the intelligence yeah because they're linked in the like metanarrative story to the intelligence even if they're putting on a front of being scum and villainy that's like part of their greater their greater mission um also i'm not sure go ahead well i was just going to say i'm not sure what what y'all think of that yeah i like it i love that i love to be up pondering the role of mercenaries in the struggle for galactic freedom um so yeah hiring out to some criminal like people who are

theoretical criminals? Great. And also, this kind of suggests the idea that your mom doesn't know you're getting attached to the mission that she said. I love this. This I love. Yeah. I think, I think my relationship might know, but my mom definitely doesn't. My second relationship. I'm finding it. Right, right, right. Yes. I love this. Which also. Grego sicko. Sorry, did you say Grego sicko? Yes. Spell sicko for me? Y. K.O. We're going to need fan art of Gregosico looking through the window.

He's literally sickos about this. That's like the vibe I'm getting. I'm going to find some traits for him. Wait, sorry, where do my traits go? Captain, Commander, Sicko. Commander Sicko. And I also think that that starts to give us an idea of who might be giving the party, the mission, right?

like I think commander commander sicko might be commander sicko I'm here reporting for duty sir I think the generator for that

that was that was straight from the Star Wars name generator thank you so much yeah I guess traits I would go with probably scheming

I'm looking for probably sicko probably like a sort of sicko vibe I'm not sure oh here's my traits okay yeah there's two next to

on the bullet if you are choosing from the bullets like the italicized words are traits I see okay let's see so that would be scheming or commanding I guess those work

you can take both if you want yeah yeah okay and then where does that bring us back to Rob still has one I still have one you still have one right correct Rob is three total right yes unless you don't want to have relationships yeah spies right you have to have a network you have to have connections but Rob I see you've got something written down you want to go ahead yeah I figured out I think one of them I was thinking thinking, I always love the idea of just the way bounty hunters were used and mercenaries were used to sort of train up the clone armies. And so I was thinking that I ran across one of them

back during the war who was sort of, before it became them only doing training operations. First, they were doing some like military advisor type stuff, like Tom Cruise and like The Last Samurai at the start of that movie or like just anytime like you got someone attached to a military force to like effectively lead them uh so like run across him on one of those operations uh and then in the years since obviously gone back to the same sort of mercenary bounty bounty hunter working in the gray type type area and i was thinking like they end up being my character's like introduction to the rebellion the person sort of brings me in uh but the way they end up doing that is effectively by commissioning me for an assassination.

And so I was thinking, like, I liked the name, like, Price Farronk. Price, P-R-E-I-S, but still pronounce Price. Yep, Mm-hmm. Yep. Star Wars, baby. Yep. Yeah, and the pillar is intelligence, and the trait is they are mercenary. Love that.

Okay, I'm going to request you all, just because I'm so in the zone here, here, give me the name of a clone, not a real clone. Just based on your experience knowing clone names, like nicknames. Blanket. Blanket. Blanket and sicko.

That's an all-timer. You did a great job there. You had one chance, and you fucking knocked you out the park, Natalie. I just looked at the first object in my room. I was like, it's blanket. Kaiser Sozate it. You like, you like, does blanket have like a tattoo of a blanket somewhere?

Just blanket hat? What's weird? Like it has a blanket that doesn't, he doesn't tell anybody about. Yeah, it's a line of a situation. Yeah, it's a line in a situation. Love it. Keeps in his pocket. But he's also like a blank, you know, he, he, like, covers his friends.

I'll always cover you. Gotcha. So my vengeful scum and villainy character named Blanket. Oh, that's a great name for some sort of Discoming Villany Motherfucker, though. Yes, absolutely it is. My concept here, if it works for people, is that blanket served under me in the Clone Wars

before I defected and is mad about it. Like, also survived. Maybe when we go to visit this clone, this rumored clone, he is part of, maybe if not the clone, he is, like, connected or a part of his, like, group. And he sees me and it's like, motherfucker. My entire unit got killed.

Oh, I actually kind of like, the connection you could have to this is that, like, when you defected, your clone army was left in the lurch, right? Maybe they had a Jedi that was supposed to be there, who were they supposed to be a report to at that point? But, like, maybe Order 66 hit, and they killed that Jedi, and then they're like, what do we do? And they just took the ship and ran. They, like, they like through the mutiny on the ship. You were gone already. They killed whatever out, whoever wouldn't come. with them and they just left to whatever other outer rim planet a little further away on from

Piccarra it is that we need to find a name for and i want to i want to not know that that connection exists at the beginning so like we just hear these rumors and then we encounter there i'm like oh shit oh no this is my yeah yeah yes that's so good um okay i think i'm the i guess rob you've one more to go i have one more to go i'll give you mine uh mine is my dramatic x that i abandoned to leave my past life, the Thai fighter, wing captain and enemy ace, Jail Sentox, J-A-L-E, um, uh, extremely, um, you know, uh, slightly older ex who, you know, put me in my place and very much looked down on me and was constantly negging me. And that gave me structure I thought I needed, but I have escaped him and I have escaped, uh,

the empire. So I am now here. But he's still out there and he still has a wing of tie fighters that are, that are very well flown. So, uh, and he's an ace pilot. That's great. That is so good. I love that. And that is, that is why I want to learn piloting by the way. Yes. To compete with him. To compete with him. Yes. Uh-huh. Okay. Rob, you've got one more. Yeah. If you want to skip it, we can also do that if you're not feeling inspired. We got a lot of good NPCs here. Yeah, we really, we have a hole. When you have five people, you get a lot more NPCs. Yeah, I might want to skip for now. Cool. Totally fine. In that case, we go on to our questions. So those are also not listed in the play dock, but they are in the play kit, the PDF.

You're going to ask one left and one right. I'm going to tell you who your left and right are based on discord um and then you pick one of those questions to ask to each person um so we will start with rob um to your left is austin and to your right is me um is there any question you want to ask to uh taggy or to um whatever name my character six tessix yeah uh let's see um so i guess for uh taggy i would i would ask uh how have my unique connections or information been invaluable to you recently i am i my relationship with droids is that i haven't gotten to know very many droids and i just assume you have like a database of all of the information in the world so i'm constantly asking you about things i don't know um like what various, what the atmosphere is like on various planets, and if how time works on

Corrassant, and how do you count days in hyperspace, and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're like a source of, like, knowledge both trivial and important to me. This is very annoying and maybe racist of me, but I don't, I don't know no better yet. okay and with six i would ask um how did my actions put you at risk recently good question so i imagine you and i have actually probably been in it the longest here um just based on like sort of the roles we've established in in the the dirty dozen that we've established um and so um there's probably some degree of I'm suspicious of your motives but we like have built the trust through working together and I think you put me in dangerous situations because you know I can handle myself if that makes

sense um and so if you you've sort of established that you are like a mission first make sacrifices like sort of person and maybe it was a I can achieve mission objective if you stay here and take the fire or like stay in the firefight right like you go retrieve the McGuffin while I face off against impossible odds. And I'm sort of used to that with you by now, right? And I think it establishes a dynamic of, I know that you do that to people because you do it to me. And I can sort of be on the lookout for you doing it to Taggy. Does that make sense? Yep, that makes perfect sense. Cool. Great. So those are two questions there. So we go to Natalie. And to your left is Allie and to your right is me. Okay. Um,

To Priv, I want to ask, why do you feel sympathy for me? Probably feeling like a bond of like displacement, right? Like I can sense that you're sort of lost in the world. You're still sort of defining things for yourself. and I would want to support you and, like, hope that you, you know, are not part of a rebellion and could have, like, a, you know, a, quote, quote, quote, better life to sort of choose these questions for you, but instead we're, like, in the muck together or whatever, right? I love that.

And then, um, to six, I would ask, how have you facilitated? someone gaining leverage over me. Interesting. Oh, if my character is going to do that, it's going to be while holding like a close pin on her nose, which makes it really interesting to me. Oh, or maybe she wasn't even aware entirely that that's what she was doing. So you got pulled in by this criminal contact or you thought criminal contact, which is, oh, sicken.

So I am a. imagine that sicko is probably my commanding officer too um and let's see what did i what did sicko have me to do that um i didn't know how wait oh i got it i got your ship i'm the one who have your ship oh you have my ship hey i was just told hey we have this person not from here flying this on licensed ship it could be valuable to us and it's it's criminal anyway like just go grab that and then i find out that actually that's to use the traffic you here to get you into this mission and i'm not so happy about this that's great so could i actually add to what is someone holding over you can i add the ship back in oh i completely forgot that you'd taken it out because i was

just yeah yes you're absolutely but i feel like they're related yeah yeah yeah okay awesome Yeah, like when you complain about it, sicko is like, really, you're going to complain about losing material possessions. Like, do you not understand that's how things work out here? Okay. So next up, knight-errant. To your left is Austin, and to your right is Natalie. Okay. Okay, to Taggy, I'm going to ask, what did you do that inspired me to fight alongside you?

Oh, interesting. I think you, we were, so in this situation, had we already been fighting together and then, like, I earned that respect from you, or is this like the first time you ever? saw me in any way. What do you think? I think it could go either way. I think of Prib as someone who's been on this planet for a little bit. Okay. I'm like hiding out.

My pitch is that you saw us doing some sort of op. And there was a moment where we could have gotten a clean getaway. And like, whatever it was we were doing, stealing, you know, imperial fuel or something, right? and instead of getting the clean getaway we like went back to make sure that someone who was hurt was like wasn't left behind right a classic like leave no one behind pick them up carry them on my back get shot in the leg you know stumble onto the onto our getaway vehicle and get out but us going back to get that person made you go like oh like whatever this movement is is it has ideals right which might not be true i'm just like that but that's what you saw and that was inspirational um and then for natalie slash leaf i'm going to ask um why did i risk myself to protect you recently hmm hmm and it's also worth saying that if when you ask the question you have some ideas you're welcome to like pitch them i really encourage in general in GMless games there's a lot of like what's true about this universe I don't know do you

want this do you want this element I'm handing it to you maybe because of that sympathy that like you have in me like as someone perhaps I consider myself pretty like disposable or like inconsequential and to you you see see that I have like value and that I have um like something to offer this um but my and and you perhaps like see that the fact that I consider myself like replaceable is because I don't have a sense of belonging because of like the displacement that you described um so maybe through the sympathy like

you took like a chance on me essentially what do you think of that? Oh sure sure sure yeah yeah do you think that would be like like a mission-based thing where it's like

oh you were about to make like a dumb move and I like pulled you out of the fire or was it like we were in a meeting with our intelligence people and I was like no leaf is coming with me me on this mission. I think it's that because I think or maybe it was like more so a thing of like my identity.

Like maybe you can see that my past identity. Like because of the sympathy that like you recognize that I've been displaced, maybe you're like guessing at my past of like being a part of sort of a similar upbringing that you had in terms of being like close to like a, you know, like parliament three or so maybe like that's the way that you risk something like maybe there was a circumstance in which my past was like in jeopardy of being revealed and you kind of like vouched for me in a way to like basically give me an alibi okay yeah I like that a lot yeah okay okay and I think next up we have Austin to your left is Rob and to your left is Rob and to your

You're right is Allie. Rob, or S2. When did I inspire you to feel a fleeting sense of hope? I think what I like is the idea of in the midst of all the constant, like, wow, so what's this like? What's that like? All that stuff. You do tend to also try and you ask questions about like what I think about things, how I feel about various experiences I have had, which is unusual.

Yeah, that's good. I love that. That bookends that really nicely. Yeah. No one does that anymore in the position you're in. Right. And then to PRIV, I don't want to like duplicate this as the same thing. Why are you willing to give me a chance to prove myself?

Despite being like a rookie. You know, despite being, like, seemingly naive and idealistic. Also, I was watching you expand your character's profile picture, which is extremely funny. So can you repeat that question? Why are you willing to give me a chance to prove myself, you know, despite being an ex-stormtrooper, et cetera, et cetera? well I think that's also I think this fits in really well with what the one principle burning a hole in my heart is which is forgive even when it's difficult in terms of this like you know you're here you're doing the thing you're doing a good job at it there's no reason to sort of like resent you about these things despite all of the reasons that are there but like between me and you it's today sure love it I love the idea it's not even necessarily about anything that Taggy did it's more of just a I need to try I need to practice this with someone why not you cool I think it's both your questions Austin that's it cool so I've got questions oh instead of reading the questions that I wrote I have been assembling our NPCs and listing their moves based on their traits so now I'm going to read the questions that I wrote and don't remember. Um, so my left is Natalie and my right is, uh, Rob. So, um, Rob, what is one time that I saved

your life? Oh, not Rob, uh, it's S2. So we've been working together for, for a while in the intelligence work. forget um in terms of just your character's conception uh like is your character more do what needs to be done for the good of the group or like a little more like harder edge than that like i'm curious in terms of the like cold-blooded killer versus like uh you know party cleric uh yes that's a spectrum where where are you at uh if i'm gonna steal from my own writing to bear the heaviest burden so that others don't have to uh I've already done this.

I've been in this shit. My conscience is dirty enough. And so I will do it so that other people don't have to be the people to do it. Though you are someone that I think I don't consider you're with me. We're both there already. But I'm often trying to step in and do the dirty work so that newer people just coming up don't have to. Does that make sense? It does.

Let me know if you, let me know if this sounds good. So I was thinking, like, when I was recruited into all this, it was to get at somebody in a hospital that couldn't otherwise be gotten at. A captured, wounded, like, rebel officer effectively who needed to never wake up and be subject to interrogation. That part went well. ex-filtration did not and like I was pinned down inside a like major hospital on like a regional capital and you blew open an entire wall of the hospital

to pull an airspeeder but there are a lot of people in that hospital like you hauled me out of there and also you took it upon yourself to like literally can open the facade of a of a hospital yeah yeah I can do that I also like that established I'm a heavy weapons person because I did say heavy blaster so yes but yeah I think it's it's almost ironic that I think part of what this has developed into is me I will remind you still what I did to save you and when you want when you run the math and you're like it's going to be better if we leave this person behind I'm like hey do you remember you remember

like what I did to get you out, do you think you can do that? And so, yeah, I just like the idea of that being a part of our dynamic. Cool. And then Natalie or not Lux. That's all I remember about your name now. You could be Leaf, not Lux. And that's perfectly fine. Not Lux.

I mean, I guess we do know now. Your last name is Dysius. Dystra. Yeah. Yeah, Dystra. Lux is the false name you've been using while on this planet. But why don't I trust you? And how did you take it when I told you? I was kind of thinking of an answer that I feel I could work. I was looking at your two possible questions that I was thinking of an answer that could work for kind of both of them. I think you don't trust me because. I'm so unbounded and I think it's related to why I feel like you shouldn't trust me too

because I think I see you and Taggy as as two people who've like had a belief in a cause or like has has has had like a commitment to a cause and that's something I don't identify with and perhaps because of that um that's where your lack of trust comes from um but also maybe in the fact that you're hiding on your own like an own your own section of your past the fact that like i'm very unwilling to talk about my past is also something that you're like i know why i don't reveal my past like why won't you reveal yours and maybe that's like something that is questionable for you? I think that, yes.

Yeah. And then how did I take it when I told you? I think I was very, like, unfazed by it. Because I think I'm, my assumption is that people will not trust me. Like, I don't have community bonds. I don't have, like, that type, those types of relationships. So to be told that is.

almost reaffirming my sort of like isolationist, like, tendencies. So, yeah, I think it's like, oh, yeah, like, why, you shouldn't, like, become attached to me. You shouldn't, like, try to form a bond with me. Like, I am, I am, like, a lone wolf. I am the sigma of the curse. I love this. I love this also

I'm imagining that I didn't actually tell I didn't say it to you I said it with you in the room and like whoever maybe to sicko I was like just like why are we bringing her in doesn't even the most skin she has in the game is the ship I took from her like that's not something you go into war with

and I feel like you could have used that as like almost like an intimidation tactic of like trying to like kind of of like assert some authority over me, but to me it just reaffirms like, yeah, I am I am in and out. Like I'm not going to stick around and I'm not currently at this point like trying to prove my worth or like my reason to stay yet. Yes, perfect. This is this is great. I think we are just about ready to start play because we did have one last thing I didn't do, but I think it'll go quickly, which is we haven't chosen the desires for the other pillars, the ones from the base

game. Oh, and Rob has one more relationship. Yes. So go ahead, Rob. So, Bren Quail, scum and villainy. Yeah. And here's my gloss on this character, because you could say this person is empire, but I think they more easily fit in scum and villainy.

They're a corrupt customs officer who has grown fairly wealthy taking bribes for editing databases and rewriting registries for smuggling rings and crime lords, but he does have a secret. He was a youngling once upon a time, cut loose by his Jedi master as Order 66 went up, and he never made it to the temple. He is enormously forced sensitive to a degree that was noticeable even to me. However, in a past life, before S2 came to the rebellion, S2 may have used his medical skills to design and produce narcotics and came up with a medication that Bren takes to block his force sensitivity. Every three months, he gets his dose, which allows him to remain anonymous and unobserved working in the imperial bureaucracy. say once upon the time he attempted to get out from under this arrangement he is not going to try that again love this love it fantastic so good connected or mercenary connected connected perfect okay and I'll put his moves down below great okay so we've got all

our relationships we're going to finish out the pillars and then we will be good to hop in so we're going to skip the desires for the liberation pillar we sort of have that defined in the parliament and the intelligence so we're just going to do the space between or the force the mandate or the empire and scum and villainy so let's start with the space between the force so does anyone want to read Rob do you want to take reading the space between there's little italics there yeah the connections between between people are what surround us and give us strength. The galaxy is never silent. It is alive and humming with energy that you can feel if you pay attention. When channeled correctly, the space between can turn dominions into empires and revolts into revolutions, but be careful. For concentrated power can be dangerous for anyone who dares come near.

And so this was written by Riley. These four pillars are from the base game. And this is our force analog. So for us, it'll be called the force. Are any of those two desires on that list standing out to anyone? we have solidarity difficult choices balance intense bonds and uncontainable emotions solitary training enlightenment revelation and unity with those who came before i'm i'm well i'm always i'm always partial to uh you know just general uncontainable emotions that was exactly where i was headed so

perfect so i feel like that would be that would be interesting um Yeah, I don't know, maybe Does anyone else have a strong feeling towards another one? What does it mean to desire difficult choices, is my question. So in a sense here, these are meta-narrative elements, right? And what's especially cool about the force is it's already a metanarrative element. Like it is already driving the story as a, as a, it wants to shape the world into a certain story. canon in the universe it wants it to follow the arc of a certain set of principles and so to say it desires

difficult choices is that the universe wants to arrange itself to put people in especially difficult choices and specifically we want to explore that in our game like we said how what our pillars mean because we're in a canon is to say that we want to focus on the aspect of the of the force that makes people make those moral decisions like luke has to make going into episode six right like it wants to put people in those positions. I don't mind. I like that. I don't mind that.

Yeah. I'm down. Yeah, I was going to suggest difficult choices because it feels like of the time of what the forces too, especially with what we set up with the like Jedi characters that we have so far. Perfect. Totally. Love it.

Okay. So let's see. Allie, can you read the mandate? Sure. Yeah. It reads, sometimes it feels like there's no escape from its gravity. The mandate is an intergalactic. superpower that uses its might to control the galaxy with fear, propaganda, and alienation.

The only way the mandate can perpetuate itself is with constant aggression, an advancement of weaponry, and violence, and we know that it will eventually collapse under its own weight. However, until then, it continues to cause death and destruction across the galaxy. So, we are choosing between untold destruction, unquestioned supremacy, military expansion, an end to the Nova, the Jedi, that's the serial number, filed off, hierarchy and order, dominion over the space between, dominion over the force, and restoration of an old order. I mean, I feel like at this point,

military expansion probably makes sense here. Hierarchy and order as well for me, I think. I still feel it's like just like, again, the end or backdrop of like it's consolidation phase like they are still the great power but also like the foundation is still setting i think that's perfect i think we've got it out in one or two um and then scum and villainy uh natalie can you read the description for scum and villainy uh yeah scum and villainy you know criminals oh thanks riley the end um got it and Choose two desires.

Uncomfortable bargains. Understanding. The jackpot. Secrecy. Strings to pull. Escape from this livelihood. Fresh blood and enough credits to get through the week. Strings to pull.

Yes. First one. Yeah. Absolutely. I like that. Uncomfortable bargains is calling out to me. Yeah. Feels like we've already sort of set some of those up in our backstory.

We set some of that up. Yeah. Totally. Okay. And. uh we are good to go um let's do it so uh just to give uh one last overview mechanically as we step into these mechanics we're all starting with zero tokens if you want to be able to do something with a token you've basically got two options you can do a vulnerable move and make an ass of yourself and invite others to do so um you can also do a move on a pillar and then have that pillar give you that token so you can foreshadow with threat and then put yourself in danger you you're you can act as a pillar on yourself Often you'll do it on other people, but you can. That's an option.

Also, if you'll note that if you look at each of the pillars, I have put the NPCs next to them and listed the NPC's moves next to them. So they share a token pool. And then you can do those NPC moves that are bulleted under them. And that'll also put one on the pillar. For actually tracking the tokens on the pillar, I have a pillar move summary on the second to last page.

It has all the pillar moves, not the character ones, but all the pillar moves on one. page. So you don't have to look back and forth. And then we'll just put the tokens, the number of tokens they have in there. You can track your own tokens on your character sheet. Do we have any remaining mechanical questions? Wait, sorry. I just like the beginning of how do we interact with the pillars, the relationships we've got? Yes. So basically any time that you want to invoke a pillar move, you can. Like you always have the option of saying, hey, I'm going to, I'm going to use the mandate for a second and I'm going to foreshadow a larger threat. I'm going to use the space

between an invoke awe and then you explain what does that look like. So I'm invoking on gaining a token. You see this towering structure above us, like this mountain larger than anything you've ever seen. Exactly. Like sort of stepping into the GM narration rule for a second. And again, it's always kind of a question. Like other players can say like, well, what if it was this instead? But this is you taking a moment to establish or to suggest something to establish. To do it for a character is pretty much the same. So if I were to as a blanket arrive at the worst time for someone and give them a token, I would say like blanket shows up with a gun behind us as we're approaching the thing. And I can also, NPCs can be played by anyone since there's

no GM. And you might even say, hey, I want to do this move, but they're going to be interacting with me most of the time. Can someone else play this NPC? So I'm like, invoke this move and this NPC, can someone else play it out? Often in games like this, someone adopts an NPC, so like they'll be the person who plays that NPC. The other way I see it go down is two people adopt an NPC so that when it's speaking to the player character, like the person, you're speaking to your player character, you have someone else to do it, and you sort of feel that out naturally.

Does that answer your question, Rob? It does. Perfect. Can I ask that people go through the pillars list and just describe the characters who's names are there in a sentence that way. So for instance, I put down next to Alama, Deistra, Leif's mother, the party sponsor, and a member of Pekara's government, just as a way of remembering who that is. I vaguely remember who everybody is, who could ever forget Grego Sicko.

But it would be great if we all just took a second to put like one little sentence, quick summary of who each person is. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. hop into Grego. Where are you? Oh, and one more quick rules thing. Um, Austin, you and I have access to a couple extra moves, um, which are the character moves on the third to last page under the bond. So we have strong lateral and vulnerable moves that are added to our playbook, just five of them. Can I just, is it okay for us to just grab them here and put them on the sheets if it doesn't fuck up the sheets? Yeah, yeah. If you can fit it and also if you can't fit it and it pushes stuff,

it's totally fine if we can have a second page for your other notes it's actually a very good idea i'm gonna make i'm gonna make i'm gonna make it work i had never thought to do this it's a very good idea we love to organize things we fucking love to organize things are right folks feels so good okay be good i'm good okay so now we enter what the original belonging outside belonging the engine this is based on calls idle dreaming, which is where we just sort of talk about, like, everyone's favorite part of tabletop RPGs. What are these blurbos doing? Like, like, what has existed? What could exist? And then when we find a scene that we are, like, compelled by, it's like, hey, what if we play

that out? So we just start sort of talking about what's been happening recently, what's going on, and then we just zoom in on something that feels like an interesting start point. We don't have to start at what's our opening scene, just like talk about what's happening, and we'll find where that opening scene is. And then if we're ever unsure, because again, in a GM-less game, you have less of a plan. We just go back into idle dreaming. So we finish a scene. We go to talking about what could happen next.

And a scene usually flows out of math discussion. I'm, oh, go ahead, Austin. I was just going to say, like, I just have such a great image of, like, we've been running, have we, I experienced as a question, have we as a unit been running missions together? Or is this, in our minds, the first time this group of five people has kind of. together for a particular thing. Because I know that, for instance, it's not clear that Leif is on the mission to a laura. Is that right?

Leif's mom's name is Alara. Alama. A llama. Yeah. So, like, I'm curious. Do we think that, like, is this a situation where we've been? I think we've worked, like, I think this is part of, like, Grego's, like, plan, basically is that we've, we've all worked maybe with.

one of each other in like different circumstances and now like all of the trials have have been all of Gregor Gregor Grego's trials have been tested and now it's like time to put us all together. He's just sitting there looking in the window at all of us getting together. Very excited. He said Gregor and I was like as Grego sicko awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insetle. Pillar. Yeah.

Uh-huh. So, we know that me, Taggy, and S-2 have definitely worked together. We know that Leaf and Priv have worked together, and I think Priv and Taggy. So maybe, like, that three went on a mission. The three of us have been on a mission. And I've actually been on multiple missions with both of you because we have this bond, right? and so this is the first time bridging sort of the outsiders and the insiders maybe uh-huh

yeah also go ahead drop well i'm also intrigued by so i keep coming back to this uh notion of uh like effectively or we are going like up river apocalypse now style to find uh a a rogue lost attachment of clone troopers and so i'm also kind of curious how these folks get on the radar of our, like, cell, like how it is broached and, like, what importance is attached to it? Like, that's kind of like... I have a pitch for this.

Yeah. Which is, what if we were waiting on supplies from another rebel cell, and they got got on the way? They got the pirates hit. Except they weren't pirates. When the description comes down about what it is, who, what sort of. ships boarded us? What sort of people boarded us? It's not imperial. It's not huts. It's not the

random pirate gangs. It's a hondo. What's described sounds like clone maneuvers. And I think even it might even be the case that six, you recognize like a tactic you used to lead. Yes. Do you know what I mean? Absolutely. Like a room clearing tactic or a device that you used to board enemy ships or something like that and you're like that's that's a clone maneuver like um that's that's how we used to fight you know absolutely i think that's true um so maybe maybe six like reported that to grego yeah and and like internally grego's been sort of like leading a a a a motivation to develop like a sort of clone unit or something and like this is or even just a something you like a something unit wants the big bodies wants wants a unit of something that could swing

the war or swing the occupation which is why he's been working with mercenaries which is why he's been like in that like moonlighting essentially in that realm for so long but the one-offs just haven't been enough. Like, it's just, it's not enough people. It's not, like, it's not unified enough. So, yeah, maybe, maybe six, like, flags this. And it's like the perfect, just like, you know, a ready-made troop, essentially. I just love, yeah, he wants disposable assets, right? Like, that's why he's bringing you in. That also explains why, like, what question for me was, why are you going on this super secret mission if you only have this like tangential connection

and it's because he wants to start operating with disposable assets he doesn't want to keep throwing away like committed people that he wants to like he wants to send these one-offs on these missions the only difference is some one someone has to run the ship like someone he trusts and two

we are the people who aren't going to question like six and S2 that's why we're there and taggy's there because he does view you as a one-off like you might be a member I am a disposable asset. Exactly. Totally.

Totally. And I'm the sort of person that he would have told Deistra about to get the approval and the funding. Like, oh, we're not wasting any real assets. You know that guy, taggy? He's going. Not bringing up that leaf is also going. Though that becomes interesting leverage for him once the mission is active in a way that's like. Yeah.

Get more funding. Get more funding. Yeah. If you want to get her out of there, et cetera. Yeah. Does it feel like there's a scene with sicko and somebody as an intro with us? Go ahead. My two questions, like sort of two options here.

One, we can have the sort of setting up the job scene or we can already be on the way or arriving and then we can do a flashback to the job when it matters. Do people have a preference between those two? I feel like kind of good about being on I feel like that's very Star Wars right It's like we're already on the way We're already in motion that the plan is already happening It's so funny because it's like we built all these characters

And I think there's maybe an impulse to be like Well slow down let's get them all set up Let's see them all on screen right away Let's do the slow build But we actually in building them kind of told that story Like this is earlier Jesse you were saying Like character creation is part of play and in a real way that's kind of part of what we've done is built this world that like this corner of the world and told that story in creating the characters so we don't necessarily need to see every moment of us getting the job for it to feel like that shit happened we basically get how that happened so yeah on the way isn't a bad idea um i i wonder if we're like we're like we either just took off or we're trying to get off planet or we're like i imagine this is like one of those trips where it's like we have to we have to get our ship off planet under the radar of the

empire. We have to get into hyperspace. We have to arrive on the planet and then figure out what I mean. So, like, there's a few stages. I don't know where in that. Are we piloting my ship? And it's like my ship is being held hostage, like, from in the mission. Are you going to be allowed to, you're not allowed? Innocent tacky is flying the ship. I'm flying your ship. Uh-huh. And I'm not good at, you remember, my skills don't include piloting. Skills I want to have include piloting. You volunteered. You're like, I can, I can, I, I, I, I'll pilot it. Does your ship have a name?

What's your, what's your ship's name? Do you have a ship name? This is a very important. Not again. Just don't look around the room, please. Pillow. Microphone.

I literally have a pillow. It's the dog pillow. That socks? This is a pillow I found in Guatemala that looks, I found at a dollar store in Guatemala, and it's exactly my dog. It looks exactly. It's like a Valentine's Day.

pillow of socks um shit uh maybe i what breed is what breed is socks again what type of dog socks he's a spaniel all right the millennial spainer okay we can't do that

but it could be the something spaniel it could be that I like that um hmm does does anyone have an immediate ship name I'm, I'm pulling up a genital name.

What about, um, I didn't mean a, I didn't mean a couple name. I meant like a spaceship. I was waiting. What about the, the long draw. The long draw. Ooh, I like that. Yeah, the long draw. Boom.

Done. If it sticks, it sticks. Yeah, I like it. I feel good about that. What's the type of shit? Like, how much space is it like a Millennium Falcon style thing where there's like, you know, like a little social space and like a big cockpit with a couple of chairs, or is it like smaller than that?

I think there is and it's kind of, I think it's, it's, uh, an artifact of my past life. Like this was like a, like a family ship that I like stole when I left. Yeah, exactly. But, but, but I've like, I've stripped it of its like former identity. so there's like the like you can tell this was as far as you know like this was something I stole from like a like you know a well-to-do family but yeah this is like a like a personal family uh yeah yacht essentially um but it's been fucked up like it's bang the fuck up it's not in pristine condition as it as it once was so so this gives me so many ideas

I need to answer one question, which is the planet we're going to. Where is it? Who runs it? It's the outer rim, which means it's further out than we are. We're in the mid-rim, which means, like, we're close to the imperial core, but just on the outer reaches of it. As an example, Tatooine in the original trilogy is an outer rim planet. Yeah, so we're not going to have much of an imperial presence yet, especially at this stage in the timeline. We, Picara does, right? But the outer rim won't.

But the outer rim, where we're going, will explicitly not have... So this is going to be, like, a hut and syndicate territory. Exactly. And, in fact, I think we are talking about a place that is not necessarily controlled by either of those. It's just, like, so backwater, not even the huts want it. You know what I mean? Or that's been produced somehow. Maybe that's something...

We'll find out how is it that they kept out under the nose of both the empire and the huts and the Black Sun and all the other syndicates that... You know what I mean? Yes. But yes, I think that's the case. I'm imagining a planet that's very, like, swampy, like a lot of, like, intertwining rivers, a lot of, like, overgrowth. This is where we're going, not where we are. Yeah, where we're going. What do you think Picara is like, the place where your rich family is from and where I grew up broke and, et cetera?

I think Picara is kind of a, it reminds. I'm like off my recent trip to Guatemala. I'm like thinking of Guatemala City, which has like a very, a lot of very disparate, um, neighborhoods that are like where I can grow up there and you can grow up there. And in,

within, you know, neighborhoods of each other where there's like, like, uh, it is like a, like a political capital, but,

um, has, uh, you know, know, its share of, like, lower economic neighborhoods, even, like, slum areas, as well as, like, Nouveau-Riche, like, you know, well-to-do, sort of new infrastructure, new development areas. I know we're supposed to be, like, out of world building, but can I make, like, a world-building pitch for something in terms of aesthetic of Picara?

What if it used to be part of the Mandalorian Empire, which means there's lots of colonial Mandalorian architecture, the sort of neoclassical stuff. It's long since overthrown, right? I like, I like that. It's kind of like within the ruins of that, like, it's been repurposed. Many, many times, yeah. Yes. But you still get that stuff somewhere, you know?

Totally. And it's now under imperial occupation. And now it's under imperial occupation, right? Which means the people there probably told a story for a long time of like getting out from under Mandalorian occupation only to then now be reoccupied. by the empire. Right? That's cool.

Classic shit. So. You had another question, Jess. What was your other question? Did I? Or was that the only one? I don't remember if I had another question. But my idea for places that we could happen is either we've just like been able to slip past

their like control, like, uh, border control, um, something on lines of like six saying, I guess they accepted our, uh, identification or we can, and then that puts us with like, hyperspace ahead of us and we have a little bit of like bottle time to open up of our five characters or we can be arriving to the planet looking out over it and we get a little bit of like landing and considering our mission before we flashback and either of those places sound interesting to jump into i certainly feel like considering the mission on the way would be where that conversation happens rather than like i feel like upon arrival other stuff more interesting could have right so yeah let's start with like we've got to hype right i push the hyperspace thing forward

and i'm i've always wanted to do that and leif's like on this ship you actually pull it back i've always wanted to do that and then the stars and then it goes um and i think i'm i'm leaning up against a wall um and i i look at s too and i'm like Well, I guess your contact hasn't failed us yet, huh? They really accepted that identification for this vessel and, like, judgmentally looks around at the pleasure yacht. I think I'm, I'm, like, internally feeling pleased that the sort of the veil of, like, dinginess and stuff is, is, like, in a way, working where I feel like, yeah, nobody, it's, this is like the unsuspecting thing, but I'm also internally destroyed that I'm not sitting in the pilot seat.

It is, like, killing me. But I know that to try and take a step forward, like, six is going to, to step in and, like, hold me back. What I was trying to invoke there, and I don't, maybe this, this is a compatible vision, was the idea of this is actually too nice of a vessel to like pass off with whatever identification we were giving it like we if we're flying this we should be important

and we just tried to tell them that we were unimportant to let us go through that's great yeah that's great but we don't have to do that if you want it to be like you successfully disguised as something really dingy looking No I think I think I think like that the misunderstanding their works because I think I'm kind of like

feeling like slightly like self-ushered like just like feeling good about it like I've like kind of I am tricking everyone like my veil is you know my my mask is still in play whereas like it's very easily kind of seen seen through the holes are obvious I'm scoffing at you and you don't even know why I'm doing it I love that yeah um can I can I make a move as the mandate really quick yeah The mandate has foreshadow a larger threat and gain token. I think a light flashes for a brief moment on like the HUD or the console, the pilot console. And Taggy just like, oh, hits a button and it goes away.

And it doesn't, like, yeah, I clear it. Some sort of notice came up. I cleared it. It's fine. And it was absolutely a like tracking where you're jumping to because as you just set up, there's no way that they wouldn't see through that the pleasure yacht is an unimpleasure. important nothing vessel. So they're tracking us. And I don't think any of us know that because Taggy just taggy was just a thing, a button hit, close. Close the antivirus notification. It's

fine. The virus downloading notification. Yeah. So I'm going to give the to, I'm going to give the mandate a token. Yes. Because I foreshadow a larger threat. Perfect. Great. I'm curious, Prive, what are you, what's your, what's your, where do you hang out on the ship or are you in the cockpit as we jump? What's your deal? Yeah, I think I'm like staying to myself, but like sitting in the, like, is this like a cockpit with like multiple seats? There's like the back row and then there's like the front row, like the bloody of palcad. Yeah. So I think that I'm like tucked into one of those like larger benches and like sharpening my like big Mandalorian spear or whatever.

Oh, hell yeah. Oh, you got one of those. Those are good. Those are so fun. Just chilling. I imagine that the cockpit of this place is like, I think that there are two captains. chair's there's the there's the co-pilot seat and there's the captain's chair and the captain's chair has a huge drink like uh holder and it swivels around so you can kind of host and chatter and talk

and you and the pilot's chair is the pilot's chair but it they're co-pilots you know oh yeah totally so i'm in the pilot's chair i'm being very serious about it my hands haven't left the controls even though it's hyperspace that's like i'm not going to swerve or anything but my hands are on there. I'm sitting on like what would be like a nice armor where you would be like, oh, come and see the captain's seat and like, I'm going to show off to the rich people I would bring in here, but instead it's like all dusty. I think, that's, oh, sorry, I think six goes and puts a hand on taggy's shoulder, just like

a little, little bit of a, hey, you can ease up, sort of like squeeze. like tagging's like gripping the controls and then turns and is like looking at the spear and like gives a nod like an approving nod and is like I hope you all understand what it is that we're walking into here if it really is a group of clones

ones that manage to survive this isn't a run for green parentheses milk we're really going to be in the thick of it and I trust that these two are at least prepared for that but I haven't gotten the chance to work with the two of you does it I don't have to worry about you faltering during this mission do I how how hard could it be they're they haven't been clones and they haven't been fighting in years like what

The clones are battle-hardened. The clones were trained with an elite super-soldier program where they were instilled with bravery and honor and expertise. They don't just lose that because the war has been over for a little bit. They're probably training right now. They're probably going to roll out the welcoming carpet and then give us like a test, like a test of honor and courage. And then if we succeed, we can win them over and they'll join our noble cause.

I give you another squeeze. And I'm like, and if they're making it out in the rim, if they have enough to attack one of our vessels, the last X number of years has must have only hardened them. You don't run a planet on the outer rim without the ability to enforce some sort of law or border. so I wouldn't underestimate them that easily and I would hope that you would be aware of something like that I think I'm sort of taking this all in like not necessarily not taking it seriously but like in just imagining that like oh they're probably out of practice like you know settled you know uh you know uh like retired troopers that that aren't necessarily doing anything and my response is if any

if any Honda can take one of our shifts then what's a clone I don't think it's that I don't think it's that big of a challenge I think I shut up I'm like this isn't worth it this is not worth it. Well, what are we going to do if they don't want to talk? We can't force them. Make them talk? They've been living out there for years. What if they don't?

I mean, what if it's fine? You're holding a spear. I have this just a case. All right. At this point, S2 sort of stirs in the corner. I think in a situation such as this will be imperative for us to accomplish is to convince the clones, they have to speak with us. If we arrive and they believe that if they can

make us disappear, then all their problems disappear with us. I believe they would kill us on site. They've lived off the grid for decades at this point, surviving all previous attempts to round them up or bring them under command authority again. I think what we have to do is convince them that, in fact, their only path to remaining secret and free is to work with us. If we are there, the word has already gotten out about their existence.

So I think we lean into that. Get a nod for me. Yeah, we'll convince them. It is fairly convincing for a group of clones to be told that if we know the empire might too, whether or not that's true we don't really have to specify but I think that might be enough to flush them out sounds good to me what is our actual like mission like what are the orders that we're carrying like what are

we like good question they bring them to bring them back to Picara to bring do you want a flashback this feels like a flashback yeah um maybe at to you and me with uh sicko um if anyone wants to play sicko um anybody here who is not me or i i've been dreaming of playing a sicko my whole life frame i believe in on a step on that if no i i i believe in you i was going to nominate you if you didn't volunteer so let me just re let me okay grego sicko key intelligence recruiter slash coordinator slash mission commander has a cover as a scum and villainy guy. So this is like at a bar maybe or like a, like a,

there's a bar, some jizz is playing live, live jizz. We've, live jizz on Piccarra. None of this like hollow jizz. And we're meeting in like a little corner booth maybe. Yes. Does that sound good? Yeah. And you've got a set of moves there more than anyone else

because we gave three traits, but you've got ways to gain tokens if you want here. There are a million here. Yes. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yes. That's the only disadvantage to more traits.

But I'm imagining you holding a, like, hollow projector that is a partial shot of the ship getting, like, boarded and cleared. Like, we miss most of it, but we, like, see the corner of it. And the video ends. And this is me going, those are clone tactics. I haven't seen that in years. That's what I was hoping to confirm. You know how many clones were, uh, went missing during, uh, the, the raid on Pecara? Most of them?

Ten thousand. You know what we could do with 10,000 clones? More if there's another generation of them running around? Piccarra City'd be ours in a week. Do you know what you're getting into with this? I know what I'm getting out of. Getting out of under. out of the imperial boot i look over to s2 what i think you have to remember about the situation

is that for these clones they escaped a boot as you put it of their own decades ago what makes you think that they would possibly be interested in serving another master after all these years at liberty the way i see it there's two ways we do it. One is you get there, you confirm they're there, you give us that information, they know we have that information, and then they play ball. It would be very easy for that information to slip out. We could even dress it up. A fake messenger gets caught with the coordinates of their home planet. We don't lose anything real. They check it out. The Empire squashes them. They'd rather play ball with us than get squashed. The second thing is maybe

there's something that they like. Out of character, I forget to sicko know six that you used to be a republic. I think doesn't, sicko knows all of it. I think sicko is the person who knows it all. Yeah. Yeah. Second thing is these clones, they like structure. They like order. It's in their programming. It's in their programming. Don't you have a phrase or a, not a code word, but you say Ten Hut, they go into attention, six. Put on a good show. Tell them it's time to fight for the cause again, the real cause. It's been a long time since they served in an army, sicko. Yeah, well, look in a mirror and get your speech right.

This is what we pay you for. Deadpan face, but like takes it. I'm going to take a token for monologue about. your plans. Perfect. Does this token go to Sicko or does it go to the intelligence? Go to the intelligence. So we don't have to maintain token pools for all the NPCs.

That's amazing. So anybody in the intelligence or the intelligence itself can then pay, can then use that. Precisely. That's one of Riley's innovations in the system. Very useful. So it sounds like, like stepping out for a second, metanarratively, it sounds like the plan, the two plans that have been pitched are either we can just command them into it, which I think could go wrong, but could also be where we start because we don't want to threaten them initially.

Um, so we can let that plan go wrong because six doesn't want to threaten them at first. Um, and then we sort of go into the, um, we know where you are. Like, like, yeah, Sicko has, has put together this, um, this like complicated thing where we pretend it's an accident. Um, and. Right. Yeah. Well, uh, we wouldn't have to, the party doesn't have to do that. Sicko's thinking was that like we could even in the, if once the communication is, once their location is confirmed and sent back to the rebels, the rebels could give the empire that information in a number of ways that doesn't put any actual rebel assets at risk, but does reveal the clones. That has nothing to do with what our party would do in that

moment. Cool. I was just giving some flavor, you know. So we just basically drop on them. This is the leverage we have. This is the leverage we have is we'll tell the, the empire will find out about you, you know. I could imagine Siko also being like, and here's a little bit of money to serve as a tribute or an entry. You know what I mean? I would have gotten there eventually, but like not, that's not going to, they're not going to, I don't think Siko believes that you can buy them. They're not mercenaries. If they were mercenaries, they'd be mercenaries.

They'd be out here doing mercenary work. And so, but there is some sort of like, um, we're trying to think of what the good, what the good like here is our, here is our bin. with money or what's a fun thing that clones would want or that oh maybe it's like um something from camino maybe there is something recovered that sicko has from camino is the the water planet where the clones were cloned originally played a lot of battle front too there yeah okay okay maybe there is some sort of like artifact or database or um something like that that's like tied to their maybe it's related to

I'm just thinking of like like a like a children thing like I don't know if it's somehow related to like where did all the clones who were kids when order 60 like what happened to what happened to them that's yeah that were like in training

and I think that kind of ties into one of my desires of or one of my principles of like every child deserves like a opportunity to like not especially like clone children having been so prescripted into the life that they're meant to lead like I think that really rubs against me um so maybe that's like something I can jump in on it doesn't have to even be all of them it can just be a sorry go ahead just I was just going to say like a database of where some of them were like fostered out to essentially yep and some of the rebels got a hold of that end yeah because

obviously some of them were kept to like continue but there's like a lost children sort of urban legend of like lost children or something like that totally that's very fun and then i think i'll come in here so we end the flashback um and i'm like um we do have something they want uh leave perks up and is like yeah what a number of clone children were left at the end of the war, and while the empire took most of them, there's a small contingent who were fostered out across the universe, and we have a feeling that these clones might, that might spark some emotion, that we might be able to, and I like pat your shoulder this time, convince them, to work with us, and we can offer them what they need.

and I think I don't and none of us have revealed the and if not there's a threat like I think that is kept to me in S too though some of you especially um Ali's character might intuit that like that silence there was something in that silence like me saying and that should do it there's an implication to what follows the should I think my character is like the the like mention of like children has

like introduced like some complicated feelings for me because now I'm like contemplating maybe like what what that might mean for them and also I think instill some like sympathy like a reminder of it's like a reminder of how the clones got to be clones

how the clones like i think it's kind of a like a chip in or not chip but like a crack in my veneer of like of um of not giving a fuck of like yeah these are like these clones were like were kids once that like were trained and so i think i'm i'm very silent um um Um, but, uh, contemplative in, in this moment. Do we have, oh, go ahead, Allie. Oh, yeah, I was just going to say, I think privilege is similarly, like, quiet about this. And looking at you six in a way that's like, doesn't want to be manipulative and knows that's what you're, like, suggesting, but also, like, unwilling to, like, talk back to you in terms of, like, mission dynamics here and, like, totally well this is this is what's asked to be sort of situation and let those like tensions simmer

where they can come up later um and then do we want anything else out of this scene if not i think i want a final private moment with uh priv and we'll do that like on the way out but is there anything else people want out of this scene i'm good cool i'm good so i think with that like i'm leaning against the wall and i push off and i'm like we have a few hours before we have arrive take stock get ready we don't have a great idea of what we're walking into and then she starts to leave um can we just for convenience alley say like your character starts to leave as well in a way that like i can sidle up alongside you um and i'm like um looks at you um and just quietly says um while we're out there i'll be watching

my kids back can you handle the other one yeah yeah thanks we'll go home oh that gets like a grim chuckle um um keep that attitude we're gonna need it cool cool uh do we want to cut to arrival yeah like we drop out of hyperspace you said this is like a big swampy planet um i have a list of generated names you still have that generated name list from before jess i have for characters not for planets let's see no planets uh here's a list vena alos contra tina we can't do contra we can't do contra we can't do a gel trellia tralia mossy trellia let's go out it's trellia done first thought best thought uh sixth name best name that's what they always say trellia

Trellia. This is... How many of us have done space travel, like left home before? Definitely me. Okay. Same. So everybody here except for me

has left the home planet before. Well, you were a Storm Trooper. You shipped out. I don't think that they ship... I was only there long enough to get trained on my home planet. Maybe they ship me out somewhere else. Maybe that's more fair.

Maybe that makes sense. No, I like you were a ruins trooper. Yeah. Police seen the old Mandalorian ruins. Exactly. And they would have just, they would definitely wouldn't have shipped me out where I was in the cockpit looking out. If they did ship me out, I was in the back looking out my other stormtroopers in red light, you know? I'm actually going to step in with the space between here and invoke awe and gain a token.

I was setting that up. And I was also, um, uh, I think. thinking about um just immediately like uh basically immediately i basically immediately i had my hands gripped on those controls really hard until you asked me to take them down and now i've just very clearly like i'm not paying attention i've uh the and there is another light beeping on the on the um on the console we don't have what i realized we don't have a pillar for the clones themselves. I guess we have the character, right? We have blanket, is that it? Blanket. Yeah, Blanket and Scum and Villany. And also, we can make NPCs. Oh, Scum and Villany. Scum and Villany covers this. You're right. Scum and Villany totally does this, right? I think that makes sense.

And we can introduce NPCs as we go, by the way. You're also, we can make NPCs by just throwing traits on them. Maybe I do just want to pay off the mandate thing, though. Maybe this is the moment. My hands off the controls in awe of seeing Trelia for the first time, seeing another world from the cockpit that like the a tie couldn't be a tie fighter which which would be it would have to make a small carrier yeah a cruiser behind us a cruiser behind us in in in uh from hyperspace at the outer edge of this system um uh and our console lights up red uh and this would be me cashing in that mandate token uh and putting us in immediate danger absolutely and let's give that token to you because we have to give it to one person and i think sure and i'm at the pilot control exactly sure um natalie what were you going to say i was just going to say i think like the like i've caught on to like something going wrong now and uh um i'm like like furious and i think

i i turned to to six and i say like this is why i should have been in the pilot like i i should have been in the pilot seat like this could have been a avoided. Like, this is, this is clearly, like, this is clearly something tagged it. Like, there's no reason why we should be detected right now. Well, clearly, you've done something because I've never had, I've never been detected before, and now here we are. Tag, we don't have time for this. Don't, you don't need to listen to this. Get us down on that planet. I imagine we get like a comms incoming. We don't, I, I, I, I was going to say, we don't have an imperial pilot or an imperial commander voice.

We do have an imperial pilot in jail. Could we be getting a call from my ex calling in to threaten us? So they deploy ties as we are rocketing towards the planet. And then one of the ties is like, unknown vessel, unknown vessel. provide an identification and verification immediately. What is your business in the outer room? I'm like looking around for help from everybody else. I'm like digging through like my protocol to try and release a like my go-to fake ID essentially.

So I shove like. I shove a hollow tablet at a tag, and I'm like, read this, read this, read off of this. We are a, we're a pleasure cruise vessel. We're just seeing the, we're seeing the sites. Our numbers are B261A. Pleasure crews are B261A. come to a halt while we verify your identity

bring your ship to a stop immediately I think my hands are on the throttle I think six just says go all right I'm saying my identification will work

my identification will work like there's no reason why there's no reason why this shouldn't work like I've done this like a million times I turn towards you, and I'm just like, if your identification works, they wouldn't have followed us. And that is question someone's loyalty or confidence and gain a token. Fuck. Oh, that's great.

Now, don't hesitate. Go. Rob. Don't. I look over at you, incredulous bordering on Furious. comply with their instructions the data files we submitted should still be good

if they are not we have another identification code we can submit you think they'll let us submit a second code they will it is an identity I do not want to burn but in this case we may have to fine all right I am going to take your advice

and try this and I'm gonna I'm gonna have I mean this isn't a move I'm just gonna try it I don't think it works I think that Jess you're right that the first the first ID is not is not there this isn't quite ask someone for their advice or assistance while outside of immediate danger but it is sort of I am gonna try to rely on US2 and see what the second thing is we send it up what do they say when the first the first the first one goes up they run the number numbers, what do they say back that's bad? How do they reject our first set of numbers? These were the credentials you provided at lunch, Pleasure Cruiser numbers. And, uh, let's see, give me. Providing illegal identification codes in order to leave orbit of a planet is a, as a, uh, class one felony. They're not illegal. They're not illegal. They're just, they're just wrong. They were

the wrong I gave the wrong ones I give the wrong ones I'm like I feel like I'm I'm like crawling over tag at this point and being like don't listen to him don't listen it's his he we're

we're there's there's other numbers he's he just doesn't know what he's doing I'm new I've never been a pilot I'm learning how to I'm only provide your other numbers pleasure crucial

All right, at this point, S2 steps up to the comms, grabs the handset. This is ISB detached mission, IOTA, 3-4-2765-5-5. Confirm identity? So this is a, like, Like, in case of emergency, break glass, this is an identity that the customs officer I've been working for ages, like a registration that he's created that wouldn't pass inspection with the ISB, but would pass inspection with like effectively a traffic stop. I think I'm I'm like pacing now in like in the back and and and um just like uh freaking out over the fact that like my ship my ship is going to get taken from me once again like that's my main concern here is that like my ship like I'm going to lose my ship again ISB 7482

Identification confirmed Our cruiser will remain in orbit to provide support services for your mission This tide detachment will escort you down to the planet Before returning to the cruiser Confirmed Please state capabilities and equipment list aboard ship transmitting now

and you get like the heavy cannons you get the full list you got an eight fighter compliment and and I think this is the point at which I see

on that list of fighters is my exes fighters on that list right I'm like oh fuck I like turn off the com. What's wrong? Nothing. It's fine.

What's wrong? It's nothing. I just think the situation's bad. We'll get out of this. That's okay. S2 at this point turns to to taggy.

Tagridum. It is imperative it is imperative you answer this question honestly and without a hint of self-delusion. Are you capable of flying the ship like you own it? Like I own it. If I owned it, do I have insurance in this situation? Leaf.

Would you be so good as to take us down to the planet? I would be happy to. I sort of like shove tag slightly out of the seat the other fake pilot chair to swim away I sit down I take like a little self-possessed like settling into the chair and I graciously gently glide us down

into the planet's atmosphere while side-eyeing tag like still kind of like not really buying the fact that tag is it like there's not something going on here. Right. Yeah. Are the Tye's going to land with us or they're just going to escort

us down? Obviously they're going to land with us. Not if we select a landing site where they can't. Love it. Yes. I assume like this is so we this is like sort of swampy plan it everything uh all right at this point like i've two questions one like uh how capable is

this ship like if we had floored it could this thing have dusted the tie fighters or is this like we have a really nice wagon it's a it's a it's a really like it's a nice it's a nice ship it is not we're leaving the tie fighters behind and out shooting them if it comes to it I think it, like, I believe it could because I've like, but it can't. Okay. But I can't. Like, I've done my work on it, but I'm still like, like, kind of, I'm new to, you know, this kind of thing. I've done a couple years of work on it to try.

And it's, and it's effective for what I use it for. But I'm, I'm greatly underestimating, like, the people that have pulled us over. And, like, I think if I would have been in the sea, I would have been able to handle it. But could you really? No. Right. All right. But this planet is like marshy and stuff.

Okay. Yeah. It's like a Dagaba vibe for sure. I was thinking more like almost like Bayou is like the, well Bayou is the first thing that I thought of. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. So S2 says, Thai fighters are very capable spacecraft. That's certainly true. But they don't go everywhere. and they can be tricky to extract from places where they ought not be. Try to find a soft patch of ground to put us down, someplace that an Imperial Starfighter pilot would not want to risk having their Thai fighter get bogged down and require some sort of extraction.

Sounds like a plan. Yeah. And I think so, yeah. I think we fly down with Thai escort and then as we approach this dense vegetation that we're going to like put down in like a swampy floor like ties do not have a strong structural bottom ties get held on by cool latches that slide them out as we saw in andor um and so i think uh the jail comes over and is like um isb 7482 we do not have the capability to make a landing here do you need further escort uh as to uh as to

uh answers no we appreciate the escort and we will be relieved to know you are providing overwatch if we require further assistance we will let your commanding officer know roger that isb 7482 escort out they began to pull away and our ship starts to put down i don't really have an exact pillar move for this but if you're all okay with it they're pulling away just as we finish landing, we're deploying the ramp. Laser cannon hits the ties. Yep. Two of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Abliterated. The last one, winged, spins, lands. So one, maybe just one of the Thai fighter pilots survived. No. Just the one. Just the one. It's very good. Uh-huh. Yeah. I'm going to say, um, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's,

We can figure out a scum and villainy thing for that. That feels like a thing, right? Which is like complicate someone's worldview and gain a token. And it's, I think it's complicating S2s. Or go ahead. What are you going to say? Is it not get someone involved in a dangerous scheme maybe? I guess it could be.

It's getting your ex involved in a dangerous scheme because now they're suddenly like at our whim, perhaps? Or like, there's now. They're just caught up in the, yeah, dependent on it. I think the way we'll play that, I actually, one of the alternate ways you can play is every pillar starts with a token, just like have some things in motion. And because we're especially trying to play a tight game in media res, we'll just say scum and villainy had a token there. And it gives it to the mandate, gives it to jail for. And then now we have jail like sort of set up as a set piece to come back later. Yep.

Perfect. Yeah, great. And in that case, I'm also just going to put one in the bond and one on the parliament and they're just set up with one. That way everybody has one Yeah, that makes sense But the scum and villainy has sent theirs, so they're going to spend theirs. So either blanket or a brand will have to do a move

or you'll have to do a scum and villainy move. Perfect. Okay, so we see this shit go down just as I think we were like hitting the ramp and it's like the shot from the ramp out to the ties getting shot down. Is there a reaction from Taggie to seeing the ties get shot down?

Yes, and I think that it's to try to swallow swallow unprocessed feelings. And I think that this feels to me like, actually what I think, but I think Taggy's response to this would be, would be to like look for somebody else's, look for help in this moment and like, is this a good thing?

Or is that a, is it, is that good? I think I, I, I, I'm, going to use a vulnerable uh token uh or or uh vulnerable move and try and gain a token and say why should i care why why would we why should i care that like better for us i don't know we've lost two on us and like fuck that guy we don't need to go like yeah i i gain yeah gain a token It occurs to me, I have a thought. So S2 responds to that, but actually, upon examination, that could be very good for us. In fact, this might be a way to get that imperial detachment off our back entirely.

Bear with me just one moment. Do I still have comms to the Imperial Cruiser? Yeah. Up above? Yeah. Imperial Cruiser, this is why we came in secret and we did not want escort. Three of your fighters are down. We are now under fire from a hostile force.

Our mission is compromised. We believe we can salvage it, but at this point we need you to withdraw from the system so that we can maintain our secrecy and maintain plausible deniability for our relationship to the empire. and you hear a different voice. Actually, does anyone else want to take this? Just because I feel like I've been hogging the... I can also do it. I just, whoever's in charge of the ship is like,

ISB 7458, cruiser pulling away. We apologize for our disruption to your mission. Understood. We'll attempt to recover survivors. Oh, God. Are we doing that? I'd say yes, too.

Well, we need to find, I cut the comms. Well, we do need to find any survivors. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. And then we see it pull off, and I think maybe this is seen. And we move into, like, actually going on the job. Mm-hmm.

The question is, do we go for the survivors first? or are we trying to locate the source of the blast? Or do we want to have an argument about that before the scene ends? Well, I think the question is, is the source of the blast a ship that is going to come, like, strife us? Like, are we about to just like, you know what I mean? Like, do we have time to sit here and chill? I was thinking a ground-kin.

I imagined it was like, yeah. Like the echo base style shooting out of the, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which would give us up a location to know where to find these clones, right? That's what I was setting up. How far away did that tie fighter crash? I'd say we could place them a little equidistant on either side of us like we get to commit to one or the other so like maybe 10 clicks out in either direction

one for the sources of blast and one for where it hit the ground Uh-huh So Yeah I think six will say I'm I'm shocked to say that I'm with leaf on this one

I don't really care about the fate of a particular Thai pilot. Our cover is intact anyway. Let's move on that blaster before they have a chance to get their defenses entirely in order. This could be a situation, six, like that time that we tried to get melons at the market. I'm going to spend a token to communicate a secret message to another bonded character. which no one else listening understands. And this was a time at the, when we went to go get melons at the market,

and you ran into someone from your life. You did not. Yes. Like, and maybe an X, maybe not. Maybe someone just important to you. To try to communicate to you that like, uh, actually that could be someone who's important to me,

even though I might hate them. And they treated me like shit. I want to, I, mostly, I want to find, follow up on that is what I'm trying to communicate to you I raise an eyebrow at you a single eyebrow and because I am a sucker for you specifically uh-huh yeah I look at S2 and I go one option we have I take Taggerton and we investigate the fallen tie and the three of you move ahead to the base we move forward both agendas at once we'll meet you back up when we assure when we are

sure that we don't have an imperial following us into our mission. Fine with me. Yeah, like, meta-wise, like, I'm okay. If we can balance the story out, like, having the party diverge like that, then I'm good at that. I think it'll be useful in some ways because it means that those of us doing the, it'll split us in terms of being able to have characters in each scenes. Yes, and, like, give time for private moments. All right, so, yeah, like, as two. response to that, I think, would be

you are aware you may have to close off complications. And I nod with no other words that Tacky could interpret in any way. Very well. The rest of us will continue on mission. And I think we part ways. Were you one of those great Star Wars shots?

Everyone leaving the ship and, like, you can hear the wild alien animals making all sorts of cacao noises and one lumber's in front of the camera for the wipe yeah um yeah um which group do we want to cut to next i guess we can go with mission group yeah so my suspicion would be we are not going to sneak up on this compound at all like we are not going to get far before some sort of patrol intercepts us um that would be that would be my suspicion. I'm curious, like, if you all see it ending up in a, like, are we headed for, like, some sort of conflict or battle or something, or we headed for a conversation, possibly us getting hauled in? I, I think we get captured. The night Aaron does have a,

And that's how. It does have a find yourself surrounded move. And I also have a get captured. So I was thinking, I was thinking we get captured. And that gives us the opportunity to like learn more about the clones as then Austin of as as a tag and priv. sorry not priv in six and

what's your ex's name again? I forget jail jail jail jail yeah jail like the thing you get trapped in and don't want to be in also rhymes with rail our king

avarose king king king king but yeah so I imagine that like then then unknowing to them like we've become captured and now the mission is to like like not only free us from from the uh from the clones but also convince the clones to also join us so yeah i don't know how everyone else thinks about that but no that all that all works

uh do we just want to deal with the um i guess the way i would see this like next scene like working at least the prompt for it would be i would like the portray to show up and just see how this group like handles it. And I will say here at this point, we are thoroughly now out of S2's competence and expertise. Like S2 is a, like, is a droid you see in cities, in like the heart of civilization. S2 can be like a negotiator and such, but like hoofing it across swamp land is not. Yeah, is S2 not like particularly built for?

for like swap reversal? Nope. Nope. Not at all. S2 is built for clean flat hospital floors S2. So this whole idea of like going over marshy broken ground for miles is going to be

is going to be quite a challenge. So yeah I feel like you know sort of like set the scene probably we've been like marching out for an hour y'all are easily and routinely outpacing s2 who is sort of clomping along and squelching along through the marsh

and also making a fair bit of racket doing so because s2 has to keep like rebalancing and like activating servos actuators to sort of balance and grip and that probably that is probably why it takes a long time for anyone to hear the sound of approaching speeder bikes and and yeah Rob I love that so those those the bikes sweep in I'm just starting what's up with this clone group huh we haven't done a lot of that are they still wearing clone armor are they still wearing are they wearing new shit are they I love the idea of it being patchwork, like, yeah, I think it's a mix. I, like, pad it over with all of the stuff they've had to repair it with.

Yeah, totally. How old are they? 20 years. Well, do they age, normally? Do they age? I don't know. I do know this. I do know this because I know for a fact that there is a clone who's alive at the Battle of Endor

and who's just, like, appropriately aged. Okay. You know, looks like 50s, you know. So this would be like late 40s. Unless they've had kids, in which case. Yeah. There's another generation, but yes. Okay.

God, what if it's a clone and another, what if it's like a dad and a son? Oh. Oh, rough. Yeah. I don't, you know. like a clone dad and then just a son like have

you know 18 19 you know what I mean the son of that clone is what I'm saying but I don't know I don't I don't this isn't we do whatever we want here no I mean I there's that like did they start like trying to create some kind of life for themselves or they prize secrecy

so much they didn't let anyone anyone in or are they like this dies with us. Right. That could also be that's there's, those are two different really wildly tonally separate ideas. I like kind of like the idea of this dies with us, but they're pained about it. Like they didn't think they could let anyone in because that gives motivation for why they

would want. Yeah. The children. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And our. Because I imagine this isn't a particularly populated planet with like other like people. or stuff like that. Like the way you described it, yeah. Yeah, like a self-sufficient sort of. The clone commune in the swamps. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So no helmets, I'm going to assume also.

So like pieces of like shoulder and like wear, but no helmets so we can see that they're clones. Yeah. The first, I think the first thing I remark on is like they all have the same face. as like they're sort of surrounding us internally. I'm not, I'm, I'm trying to figure out if that's like a familiar face to me as from my past or... How old are you? I'm, I think, like, mid-20s.

So if it's been a... Your childhood, they would have still been around. Yeah. I feel like they would have been. There's a little bit of exchange time, I believe, you know? Yeah. Like, I think it's a face I haven't seen since I was a kid, but is like a face I used to see, like, in and around my, like, upbringing.

Right. As, like, a protection. Yes. If your family was part of the imperial government here, they would have had clones around them as stormy. Exactly. You know, and those are what is. Exactly. it's like I'm suddenly

uneasy because of that recognition but I haven't perhaps totally I can't decide if I've placed it or not if I've like placed the face I've got some clone names here for us we got

fitted sheet obviously I know but they're all clones I obviously know this okay but maybe I didn't realize that the people who were there when I was a kid were clones, if that makes sense. That actually makes a lot of sense.

Sure. Sure. So now I'm kind of putting yeah, putting two and two together that like that's what those some of the clones became where like security guards or like, you know,

protection personnel for my family. So I think one of the clones on a speeder bike arrives first. Austin, give me a clone name. Screwball. Screw ball. They all call sign names.

I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you the generator I'm using for this so that we can have these. My current list includes screwball, blade, cross patch, rocko, brass. So I think one of them pulls up in the speeder first and skids to a stop the water splashing out. Oh, I think some of it hits S2. For sure. And I'm going to give a token to scum and villainy for the observant trait on screwball. I've given this NBC the observant trait. Keep your eyes peeled and gain a token.

And he shouts, I'm not going to do the accent. I don't know if anyone here wants to. I'm bad at it too. I can't do a news. I'll do the cadence as best as I can, but I'm not going to butcher the accent, you know. Yes. So he shouts out And over here

loudly to the other clones and then you hear other speeder bikes converging on this location You have a moment with just one clone Is there anything you all say or do As the other speeder bikes close in? I think slightly involuntarily

I like say Like I know you But but I kind of say it slightly under my breath and in a way that is kind of confused and like it's not necessarily heard by the clone himself but he maybe is like what what do you say and I'm just like nothing never mind

yeah he lifts a rifle and it's like what was that we're just here to talk nobody comes to Trelia just to talk well we're here just to talk And at that moment, all the rest of them close in, slowing their speeder bikes. And you've now, like, fully encircled. Allie, if you want a token for becoming surrounded, you're welcome to it. Yeah, I feel like surrounded. Yes.

And then I think finally, like, screwball after like eyeing you is like, well, if you're here to talk, what are you here to talk about? I think I look to S2 at this moment. Can I, like, I have like a little, like, sort of emergency satchel with me, and can I pull out a rag and, like, wipe them? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. One of the clones of the, with a rifle, yeah? Yeah, gun up as soon as you start to reach for that satchel. Absolutely not. Drop it.

I was just grabbing a rag. I don't care what you were grabbing. The droid can be wet. They're better that way. You like your droids? That's right. I'm just kind of like, I'm just like, all right, dude. And I lift my hands are up, and I just slowly place them at my sides and just like, all right, all right.

at this point yeah so S2 I guess still dripping with with swamp at this point says how long ago was the was the rebel ship that was

that was rated two weeks yeah yeah that's yeah okay two weeks ago two weeks ago you rated a supply ship. You were seen. Footage was taken, recorded, and you were unfortunately identified. Your secret is out. We are the tip of the spear of an organization that has a great interest

in what has become of a lost clone unit. Our hope is that we can reach some sort of mutually profitable arrangement but I do need to be clear killing us will not preserve your secret you've been found the only choice left to you now is what you were going to do with that

lousy seps that's what they are screwball we should kill them right here I think screwball gives a quick series of hand motions and two people pull off in the speeders in the direction of the base I'm like he's like going and immediately informing people about like being made

but, like, he doesn't say anything out loud. They've been working together for this long. Their clones, like, they have procedures for everything. And looks back and is, like, to whatever your clone is named, and it's like... Cross Patch. This is Cross Patch. Looks to Cross Patch. And it's like, you see Seps everywhere, cross patch. Seps are everywhere.

We're not separatists. We're just trying to live like you guys are. S2 asks somewhat incredulously, Do you think that war is still going on? Of course the war's still going on. The separatist, sir, what was the official name of the separatist cause? Confederate Confederation. Confederation of independent systems?

Yes. The cis, yeah. They went down a long time ago. They fucking lost. The Confederacy was wiped out ages ago. There are no separatists looking for you. We're not with the separatists. But you stand against...

We raided one of your ships, you said. And that ship had weapons. It wasn't from Corrissom. no it was not we represent a new movement in the galaxy speak for yourself like I said sex

tie him up and I think screwball is the cautious one here and it's like wait wait wait wait if it isn't separatists hunting us then who ship did we just shoot down wipe Yep

Perfect Yes Great Deep in the jungles Um Also I'm going to give another token To scum and villainy Because you definitely did the

Project Overconfidence and gain a token on Squashash That's exactly yes Uh huh Yeah Great But can I immediately then give it to As to who doesn't have a token Who's in that scene

who what's what's our token situation yeah let's give it to i'm going to give it to s2 because the thing that i immediately did and what i was trying to build towards was um uh where to go um uh oh it's from it's from the character it's not from the thing um uh make a wrong head of assumption about someone and give them a token when you act on it which was your seps your bunch of separatists tie you up don't listen to what you say don't You know, call it separatist propaganda, whatever. So go ahead and take one. So have we been captured now?

Oh, yeah. I think that's the implication that you'll wake up in a cell if you want to take a token. Yeah, I'm going to add a token for getting captured. So six, the thing is when we were deployed, we had a group up. And six stops you mid-sentence and, like, stops you from walking into a giant spider-web and moves you around, and then you continue. Thanks. There were the troopers, and there were the pilots. And they didn't really mingle, but for the ships to have good camaraderie, there were these events, like these socials, where you would have, you know, you would drink, you would have drinks, and you'd try to get to know the other people.

and I hit it off with this guy, Jail, and he's great pilot, really loyal, really? Eyebrow going up again. Yeah. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure Jail was one of the ones chasing us. And I don't know if he got blasted out of the sky just now or if he was one who got shot down, and I don't know which would be better, which would be worse. Oh, God, I need a second.

Like, how does six take having a connection like that? I think she's silent for a while, like, in a way that kind of makes taggy sweat. And then she's, like, serving together, it's a certain kind of bond. some people make it a little messier than it should be but any experience like that it brings people together and i get that i do but you left tag you left there's no you can't unburn a bridge like that stuff you but you could build a new one i never really got to talk to jail about the things i was feeling that wasn't like i wasn't like how the relationship was do you know what i mean we don't really talk about a lot uh but i think if i could i might be able to get through to them

the way that you know you helped me get on the right track of things i need you to hear what you're saying i need you to put it in different terms you're saying, let's go talk to this Thai pilot that just got shot down. That's, you already wanted to leave. You were already on that path. I don't think that's the case for your friend. You said you don't know him particularly well. No, we knew each other very well.

Not in the sense that matters here, Tack. I just thought we were better than to like write somebody. off just because of what they're an imperial i was imperial were you made the choice to stop that isn't a choice he's made yet you know what here i get it you want him to have a chance i'll give him that but i'm not going to stop to convince this is not we have a mission tag he gets one chance one chance that's all I'm asking for

I'm going to take a token for I thought we were better than that which is one of my vulnerable moves do we stumble upon him or do we want to cut back to stumble upon him stumble upon him I think you should stumble upon him what's he doing is he I actually

who's going to take jail yeah who's playing jail who has jail in their hearts like jail's big Jail's going to be a big personality. All right, All right, Allie. I believe in your ability to be Jail. Great, great, great, great.

You have beat a center of attention and gain a token, reacting over the top manner, and gain a token. Yeah. Feel free to add other things to Jail to you, because right now Jail is just dramatic. I imagine Jail probably has some other cool tags, too. Okay. What is JL doing when we stumble upon their damage,

not destroyed tie fighter or are they even there no i think they are because i think like my feeling is uh or jail would be kind of complacent here and think that i've got a ship that landed partially intact it still has communications he is still back on the why is the cruiser not answering my uh hails uh step and so we come up on the tie Yeah, I think you come up to jail, like, standing outside of the cockpit, like, switching to his, like, personal calm at this point to try to get in touch with, like, his superior to be, like, you know, unit 4206. And I think we approach from the trees, and I'm trying to, like, hold you back as I point to Blaster from the trees. Do you race ahead of me?

Yeah, of course. I, like, immediately try to get in between where your blaster fire would be in. and him so that you couldn't pull the trigger without hitting me. Tag, Jack, you stay back, I mean. Jail, jail, hey, jail. God damn it. It's just like, turn on heel, like, angry look that just, like, drops to, like, shock. What are you doing here?

What are you doing here? I got shot down. I was on a mission here. You were on a mission here. I'm working here. What are you doing here? It's a long story. Put your hands up.

I draw a blast. My hands up. Okay. Jail, it's me. I have fucking disappeared. I am no longer in the background of the shot. Just let, can I come over there and say hello? and could you put the blaster down

and could we talk about the incredible luck of running into one another? You could come over here. Okay. Would this be put someone in immediate danger and give them a token if jail is holding a gun

to tag? Okay, thank you. One off the mandate. Uh-huh. Well, and I'm going to walk over to you and I'm going to say, okay, look, I'm very close to you. Nothing funny happened. Can we sit down and talk?

I don't have anything I want to talk about with you. You don't have anything you want to talk about with me? We haven't seen each other in like months. Yeah, when you left. Well, that's what I'm going to talk about. What are you, one of those rebel scum now? What are you even doing out here I think I also think jail should get a token for reacting in an over-the-top manner in this moment one to the band-aid I reach out and put a hand on your gun and I'm spending a token to use an object or skill for my past in an unexpected way in the past in the past the that charmed you was you were the hot shot ace pilot at the imperial dance and no one was willing like you have a wall of ice around you and I just marched over to you and like asked

you to dance right and I've just done it again I'm just like gun down like push it down it's me let's talk and I'm spending that token to like your palms are so fucking sweaty My palms dripping. The gun sparks. Overwhelmed. I don't know how I'm going to start with this one. But I guess I should start with one I'm at six. And then I'm going to slowly explain what the last...

I'm very slowly going to explain my disillusionment and et cetera. And I think we should cut away at this point. So I don't have to just... do that right now going back to clones as we wipe again okay do you all want to wake up in a cell are you at a table with your hands tied behind your back and like talking to clones I think good I mean I imagine that you know time has passed on this planet the sun is sort of we're like in this like sort of sunset uh time of day at this point and we're tied up around like a makeshift fire campfire

and there's like some small like there's a little encampment here like some small huts and like makeshift shelters and things like that and there's a group of clones standing in front of me S2 and Priv and we're being interrogated. Do we want to bring blanket in here? It's blanket time, I think, right? Blanky time. It's going blankie mode.

If anyone calls him Blanky, he loses it. And some people do. And some people do. So, yeah, I think Blanket is probably serving as de facto leader. That probably just makes sense at this point. And I'm picturing he has something, like, painted on his, like, the shoulder pad of his armor. Maybe it's like the Republic

insignia, but with like decorations on the outside, like some sort of like horns or like an animal. Like, it's turned into something. Yeah, I love that. That's great. And he has the largest paldron of every, the largest and most intact pardron of anyone there. And so

Blanket comes up, oh wait, maybe I shouldn't play blanket considering I'm going to interact with him like a whole ton. Yeah, let me, I'll roll with Blanket. I'm going to give Blanket also. ancient. I know Blanket's not actually ancient, but the ancient move set is really useful for someone who's a veteran from, you know, the tell a story of long ago. It doesn't have to be 500 years ago, right? And he has a sense of age, right? He's the wizened one of the group. That's exactly it. Yes. And then what was the other, what was the one that he already has here? Oh, yes. Is that vengeful? Is that vengeful? Yes. Ventful. Okay, cool. Reference of time you were wrong, just strong for a clone. cool um i think what's the cell like what's where are you being held what's the um what's the what's the cell like where you are oh i kind of imagined us in like a open like like an outdoor situation where we're interesting it's it's like sort of like uh like dusk is settling in right

and we're kind of like our faces are lit by by the campfire in front of us and there's just like a kind of line of clones standing in front of us interrogating us. Your hands have been tied behind you. Yeah. And S2, something has been attached to your back.

Nothing's happened, but there's something attached to your back, right? And I think, yeah, blanket looks up, and it's as just as described with the big paldron, and I think that they're like, you know, some sort of cool face tattooed, Blanket doesn't give me a lot to work with in terms of cool face tattoos.

But, you know, like, maybe, okay, wait, wait, wait, wait. What if blanket is just, like, full body tattoo situation and is blanketed in tattoos? Oh, I like that. And it's a different tattoo for every clone that he's ever served with or that he's ever lost. I love that. So just covered head to toe in tattoos and is like, we even had visitors for a long time where'd you come here from?

Yeah, I'm not surprised by that. We're in the middle of nowhere. By choice. Where are you lot from? From somewhere else? What matters more is why we're here than where we're from? I'm going to be asking the questions.

We'll get to why you're here, but I'd like to know who I'm speaking with before we get into deeper matters. I'm Leif. Leith. This is us, too. And that's Priv. Hi.

Prid Alkin. Nice to meet you. Mandalorian spear, Priv. Yes. Is Mandalorian? Yes. You can tell I'm a bit of Lory Because I have a white woman with flawed hair

A medical droid, a Mandalorian, And a rich girl Come into our camp What business could you have with us That isn't deleterious to what we have going here. I think I like I like

kind of get jumpy at the at the rich girl comment and I'm going to try a vulnerable move of telling someone why I've had it worse than them. Yes, this is such a swing. Oh, I love this. It's going to be such a mess.

but um i i i think i i i um like puff out my chest a little bit and say uh you have no idea who the fuck you're talking to like you don't know there's a reason there's a i come from nowhere from no from no one you've no you have no idea what i've seen Keep talking. And I'm definitely I'm I think I'm starting to

I think maybe more so my like my resentment and like anger at the idea of of like the clone indoctrination

comes out a little bit more of just like well hmm hold on let me think I think maybe maybe

within gaining like trying to gain a token I'm trying to evoke your sympathy and give a token to you blanket if it works which I doubt it is but I'll say like

I come I come from nowhere I come from no one. I have no one. Here you have, what, your brothers, your family? I have no family. I'm here on a mission,

and that's all I'm here for. And I'd like to do that and get out. He walks close to you, very close, and says, Pekara, I recognize the accent. A long time ago, the Mandalorians, and looks over at Prive, conquered your planet, and you still

have a few small ticks from their linguistic patterns. So, steps back a step, I'll say again, a medical droid, a Mandalorian, and a rich girl. What brings you here, and how could you be anything other than trouble? all right at this point s2 pipes up well perhaps I'm just here to check on my patients were any of you ever

did any of you ever come through the 700 second field hospital unit in your service to the grand army of the republic seems likely someone here has just you need to do I'm going to be one of the previous. Yeah, totally.

Or a new one, maybe. Yeah, sorry, go ahead. No problem. I'll take screwball. He, like, points to, like, a long scar down his arm that clearly, like, continues onto his back. And he's, like, patch me up good. Are you telling me? And he likes that question sort of trail off for you to fill in.

the odds are good that's my work it could have been one of my colleagues i was a trauma surgical droid and it was my responsibility to look after clones as best i could but of course i had to do that within certain restrictions you asked if our presence here would be deleterious to whatever it is you are doing here, however it is you are living your lives. Well, of course, in some ways it has to be. I know what you are running from. I was part of what you are running from. I operated on thousands of clones in my time.

12,723, to be specific. Back when I was working with you, you were all aged 16 to 28. I see you're older now. I struggle to recognize our shared past. I wish I could let you live in peace. I wish that I could let you stay disappeared. But I can't. We have been sent here by the...

the rebellion. They have become aware of your presence. You hit one of their freighters two weeks ago. It is their hope that you will join them, that you will take your expertise, your training, the survivability it must have taken to endure these many years, and bring them into the service of a cause greater than yourself once again. That's what our commanders believe. For myself, I confess, I'm not so sure. I am not so sure that those arguments, those motivations would still work on a clone, given how admittedly abused they were all those years ago.

There's like a moment, I think, where you see some of the clones, like, look genuinely shocked to see anyone say that and especially a medic droid yeah like to recognize that out loud is this like powerful moment it's just felt in the room um and actually i think i'm going to um invoke a space between move create an unexpected connection between people and give them a token back to Rob and I think one of them comes forward and cites the name of a different medical base and was like I was there I was there when our unit got lost and your units like your line of droids

when we decided to leave the security droids tried to stop us the medical ones came with he turns

and looks at his comrades. I know we don't have a lot of reason to trust this one specifically, but I think there's... Maybe they can understand. Trench, sit down, says blanket. He just, like, completely, like, like, taken it back. I got very vulnerable here.

Beautiful words from a noble brother. but don't you remember why we came here to begin with we were fixed up by droids like this why so we could be sent to our deaths again there was no scar fixed for its own sake no arm sewn up so that the bleeding would stop only so that it could carry a blaster again if we go out there we We'll be breaking the promise we made 20 years ago to not let ourselves be weapons to anyone on any side of this war. I'm going to spend a token to, I guess I'm going to gain a token from draw a parallel between then and now and then declare that I will never forgive someone and give S2 another token. to Rob is token rich right now. Poken rich. I've got, oh, go ahead, Natalie.

I was just going to say, I think I will gain a token in this moment and scoff at someone's commitment to their principles. And just say, yeah, you've been really comfortable on this planet for the past 20 years. So you haven't seen, you don't even know that. the war is over. You don't even know what it's like. You've no idea what's going on out there. The lives that are being taken. Maybe even lives that you care about.

I care about my brother. Oh, yeah? Something funny, Prue. I think to support Leaf here, I am also going to take a token by saying, um don't be naive in thinking that someone else won't come for you and i think if you're okay with it at that moment start a story overhead yeah uh-huh like jumps out of hyperspace um stepping out for a second my thought is they ran the isb code yeah uh-huh yeah yeah yeah definitely and this puts like us and the

clones in it together to try and survive that's a way we can like form bonds with the clones that sound good uh-huh definitely uh jail did you did you call jail um and then you hear from the radio in the tie like um um uh transmitting in the clear uh to the vessel claiming to be ISB 7528 your this identification was also

invalid fucking hierarchy in order baby yeah uh-huh and surrender and you may

surrender and submit to interrogation and then we see the ties like spreading out over it and that all got heard by jail Well, at this point I've explained, I think the part of my story that I've focused on has been why I left and all the things that I'd seen and had not, I was just about to get to the part where I explain, Jail, I'm going to have to do this last bit really quick. You should come with us.

Are you out of your mind? You're a criminal. No, I should be taking you in. You should be, but you're not going to, because you know in your heart that you're working for the bad guys. We thought we were joining up with the heroes, like during the Clone Wars, but that's not the case. I explained it to you. The things that they had us do were not heroic things. Maybe you can't see it because you're in the tie fighter and you're like far away.

But it's like the stuff that we do is, it's been. bad. Can I ask, Austin, what do you want for your character here? Do you want jail to be convinced? No. Okay, good. No. I would be like stabbed in the stomach or like shot in the, like, yeah, no.

I mean, jail puts you in mortal danger. Yeah. My character is going, I have something to do. The first thing I think I'm going to do, like move, that is to have the radio come on again and go. typewriter 178 please report your location and whether you are capable of apprehending any of the known fugitives

you also have kill orders confirmed standard operating procedure was sober I think to really dig the knife in in timing here there's like the show on jail's face where he's like

considering what tag is saying right and then at the the like the hiss of the calm and the like can you detain this person jail moves to like bring their blaster up again which gives six the opening to sort of move against him and then six who is now on top of the tie fighter uh is going to use the strong move appear at just the right moment to save a person or their plan um and uh that's a strong move but because i'm the loyal has a unique mechanic called a link move. Because it is targeting my bond, I give you the token instead of spending it for my strong move. So when I do things to help you, it gets moved instead of spent.

And so I pop up over the tie fighter and just the moment your blaster starts going up in the back and collapses onto you, like arms over your shoulder. Yeah. And like, you. And like, you. And like, lower to the ground, I don't have the words. I don't have the words. I don't say anything. And like, you know, I run my mouth a lot. Tag runs his mouth nonstop and is now just like quiet with the fact that this is the right move and but doesn't like to say it. And then, you know, looks up at the tie fighter and says, what do we do? and I think she slides down and comes over and are you still holding the body or did you put it down?

I lowered it. I think I lowered it to the ground and I think that he's dead. I don't think that there's no, there's final looks at each other, but there's no final words between them. Unless, I guess, J, unless you have something to say as you're dying from a blaster bolt.

Oh, no, I think that we have the... Yeah. The Osha was cut off and then, yeah. wars so the last one could be the Wilhelm scream right uh-huh great and so you're still looking at the body like back and forth and i take you by the shoulders and turn you away and i say the same thing you do every time in a war attack you keep going don't slow down don't let him catch up with you I want you to make it out of this, okay? And that's going to involve knowing when to move on.

I know you couldn't hear it earlier. I get it. I really do. Bonds with those that you served with are strong. But sometimes you've got to know when they're severed and never coming back. And if you want a moment, we can keep it. Otherwise, I want a way to blanket. Yep.

Summer never coming back Yeah, cool Blanket has It's like, you know, hand in the air Stations everybody Get those birds off the ground We got hostiles incoming, et cetera Looks at the three of you

And is like You're really with the rebellion Yes You know how to fight then Yeah you'll find out I think I think

S2 actually has the right response Regrettably that brings us to the rub eyes narrow you need to if you untie us you'll find out

I can fight I can't speak for everyone else but I can fight but you're going to need to undo these picks up the Mandalorian spear and then walks over

behind you and then like cuts the the you know the rope from both of you and pulls the like EMP charge that was on the back of S2 off and then tosses the spear back to Prive and is like

if we're still here tonight If we're still here in the morning, then we can talk about your little offer. By the way, I'm going to go ahead and add another tick. I did this earlier without mentioning it, but there, of course, is the sacrifice thing. Yeah, the fate. The introduce a threat standing in the way of your mission. That tie or the Star Destroy showing up is definitely that. And I think now that you've had your bonds cut,

Reveal a chance to escape with a rapidly closing window. Fated characters must choose individually whether to retreat or forge onto the objective. Those who retreat are spared this fate and no longer share it. Instead, they must live to tell. They must live to tell. So I feel like that's another tip. I guess there is, yeah, there's an opportunity for us to leave the clones, try and get back to our cruiser and, like, just get out.

And just get out. Or we stay and defend. Right. I think that's for all of us. We all have that opportunity at this moment, right? because even tag and six could just go right back to the cruiser instead of the yacht instead of going back to instead of trying to meet up with y'all right yeah i think i think internally leaf is is trying to figure out how to get back to her cruiser and get off the planet like this for now there's no she hasn't she still hasn't found the reason to

stay so she's like moving pretty shiftily like there's still a speeder maybe that now is abandoned yeah do you want to get on the feeder

Is it clear to the others in the area like to the rest of the parties is it clear to S2 and Priv that you're eyeing this thing? I think not S2, but Priv, yeah. If I were to

get, I think S2 is like more concerned. I don't know, maybe S2 sees it. But I feel like Priv would be better positioned to make like a like a like reach out a

to reach out and like get, try and convince leave to stay. but I think I'm like sort of like backing as like the commotion is happening I'm backing towards the speeder bike and like I've like got my satchel again

I'm like sort of like keeping an eye on everyone but staying pretty quiet um yeah I think recognizing that and maybe recognizing that this is an opportunity to sort of like re-solidify our relationship. I'm going to give you a token as like a throughway into the scene.

The lateral move is ask a player or a pillar, what can your character, what can your character share that would make me feel sympathy and then give them a token if you share it? And I think the way that Prive would set Leif up to share that is sort of doing the check-in of being like, hey, are you okay? Like, do you feel nervous right now? Like, you know, we have to do this or whatever, the sort of like that thing. Okay, I think Leif responds, like, do we? what is even what is your commitment to this like why why are we here why are you here I think people need an opportunity to to to feel secure and that's what they've created here

and I think with their help we can create that for other people but you know that we need you know the way that we've been running things isn't enough and if this is a way to get stronger then we for who for everyone for for we can either force them to to to to to we can either force them and and threaten them so they have to feel like they can they have to protect themselves or we can help them here and work together if I get on the speeder bike I can get off this planet and I can be done with this I can

I don't what more debts do I owe where would you go anywhere else not back to Kara I'm curious about the idea of like finding a way for your character to move beyond the concept of deaths like some way of suggesting like there's something more important than owing people something like what you give someone is itself like important forms bonds but I don't know how to communicate that to your character necessarily right now but but some way of just like the way you're viewing the world is the reason why you're having these trouble yeah I think like I'm like I'm kind of searching for like the thing that's going to make me stay and I think maybe

maybe Prive reminds me of like the lost kids or something I think maybe that's forces me to like think outside of myself. I think I'm like too much in like my own self-serving position and I have to like find something to break out of my own worldview um i actually have a oh go ahead rod did you have something no is that you

no okay i have a thought here which um could be which could be good um uh i think this is the moment where um you get a someone here's going to get a call from um um um um um you get a someone here's going to get a call from who all had new sicko again I knew sicko you knew sicko okay and six no sicko okay so I think both of your

comms goes and like the crackly hollow call of from sicko and before sicko can even finish like the quick introduction and you know sicko is like I'm just calling to check in on the mission

and before he can finish Dystra Alama Deistra is going to like push him out of the call and be on the call using reveal that you've been one step ahead this whole time

and gain a token giving the parliament a token here and I don't know who wants to play Alama if anybody has that in them I could happily do it but if somebody else wants to I can also up to you Totally

The thing that I think The thing that I want her to be calling in about Is like she has now seen That the Star Destroyer has been You know, through her government role She gets an update Whenever a Star Destroyer is within a few sectors or whatever

And a new one has been deployed to this planet That she has sponsored this mission to go to What the fuck is going on And she's calling to get an update And then seize her daughter on the line and is specifically calling to just confirm are the clones there yes or no or can we cut and leave this mission to die right um sacrifice and sacrifice it right do we need to get you support so that you can we can hook up with these clones or is this mission scuffed

you know right and yeah i i think she she lights up on the screen and she's like like she pushes him out of the way and it's like, are the clones there or leave? Leave. What are you? What? And she like looks over at Sicko for a moment, curious. Off the call, like off the screen. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think Sicko is extremely pleased. Oh, yeah. This is exactly, like, the motivation that, the reveal that he knew that would get me to stay. And now maybe get some extra funds in this moment. There might be a long-term cost for this maneuver, but. Turns back to you and is, like, suddenly, like, question the clones is gone, and it's, is there really a Star Destroyer above you right now? I'm beyond confused at seeing my mom standing with sicko.

I am like, what the fuck is going on? And I just like shut down. I'm just like in like almost like a just like catatonic state. I'm just like answering the questions like yes. And like immediately starts making hand motions like off screen. for like arranging things to happen like like potential backup or something like that and turns back to you and it's like do you all have an exit yes and she like pauses for a second like and there's this pain on her face i want to take man mafah in the scene where leda is with uh

later meets the uh the tradcast yeah yeah uh uh specifically the sun oh the sun yeah the sun the son from what's his face yeah yeah yeah and like her face in that scene and she looks at you and goes do you have the clones with you will they will they leave the planet with you they might leave a lot of reason to leave i know you don't have a lot of reasons just trust me right now, but we're going to do our best to get you out of there if you can bring the clones with you. There's a lot at stake here, Leif, perhaps more than you know. I know we haven't always seen eye to eye, but I believe you could do this. I believe you always wanted to do more and I know I'll ever let you be a part of that, but you're a part of it now. So, if you can, for Pecara, please try to bring them back.

I'm like, I've just like, I'm silent, I've silently nodded. I think like I'm so overwhelmed with emotion of like seeing my mother in this context and also knowing knowing like the what it means to bring the clones back is to like bring them back to die essentially is to bring them back to fight for us and I just I like I like like and like. silently nod and sort of like let the hollow like drop and look back and like i'm scanning the faces of the clones that i'm meant to bring home to sacrifice and as the hollow falls you hear a leaf leaf don't we still need to and i um cuts off or actually no i think it's uh not we still need to It's, I just need to say I know that's off. I think this is actually

then you looking out on all the rest of the clones here is I'm going to complicate your someone's worldview and gain a token of scum and villainy as the thing that you notice is like there is no deliberation between these guys. There is no, can you help me with this? There is only helping people with this. There is no debt.

There is no. no, you know what I mean? None of that shit happens. They just are in the moment of preparing for what's about to happen to them and how to best protect each other. And there is this brief moment of like seeing, oh, there's another way of being in the world that is not so transactional. Yeah. I think in this. Or, right, and not secretive.

Right. Totally. I think in this moment, I'm like, I think I'm inclined to be more protected. of the life that they've created here. And I'm like, even though I'm seeing my mom on the side of something that isn't what I thought, I still see the like the exploitation of like the act in terms of like this is just a different type of searching for disposable you know

like soldiers or actors in for her aim like whether that's for the galaxy or for like herself I like it's still I can't help but to read this as like a selfish ask

that yeah this actually gives me I think a really beautiful way we can like set up the ending of the story um which is to say what if our sacrifice and our mission is not in service of the the car and resistance what if it's in service of the clones right no i think that that's where we've been going yeah yeah okay yeah is is protecting them versus getting them on board exactly yeah yeah yeah i'm now i i think that's i think that ask from my mom was like the final nail in the coffin so I think this is like

this is like yeah how do we protect the clones from this incoming attack and then protect them from like being sought out again yeah okay I really like that um where do we want to do we want to cut back or do we want to keep this scene going um I would love to know what the hell tag and six are going to do here because there's a we've introduced a really interesting tension between these groups and i don't even need to play this out as a scene but i am curious to see how they answer it in action which is six's big last thing to tag was keep moving don't throw your life away um and now we're in a situation where the uh uh where um i'm blanking on names um leaf i really did almost say luxe leaf just learned the opposite lesson

which is there are things that are more important than your own personal life and there are things that are that you can comprehend in this other way and i'm curious how we synthesize those perspectives and more importantly just on the action what does six and tag do do we head to the ship are we heading towards where we think the clones are to try to you know hook up with the rest of the crew would get, and get caught up on what all of this is, you know? I think we go to the rest of the party, and this is planning a little far in advance, and if we want to play to find out more than this, that's fine, but just as we try to, like, wrap out this arc.

An idea I have is perhaps that tag ends up getting tasked with living to tell in the sense that someone has to say the clones were wiped out, and six wants it to be tag. And being like Which isn't true What you're saying is I mean we can do that scene Because a thing is Six could have been on that call

And just not said anything And could have heard all of that play out Because we mentioned that Sicko has both of Sicko would have contacted both of you Right So you could have quietly just had that on As we were trying to move back through

the jungle without being seen Or through the Bayou without being seen and could give tag that order to head back to the ship to hang to head low and and when it's all sudden done go back and tell them oh everybody died but me my thought is that we meet back up because i don't think six quite has that motivation got you that's what you want to build towards yeah yeah seeing the other group in action might make her feel that and be like okay we do actually have to sacrifice ourselves here but not everyone does right right in fact there's actually a purpose there is a purpose to living and a purpose to dying and what it is about

is knowing which is which. So then, yeah, I think we are going to try to get back as quickly as we can somehow. Maybe we've... Star Wars time. We've Star Wars timed it. Maybe we've got the tie fighter up. We don't have speeders because we're far from... Whereas in the middle of the fucking jungle, maybe we got the tie fighter up just enough to, like, crash it again within walking distance, to hover over, exactly.

it's like spinning and screaming and the clones like look up and they're like oh shit does anyone in our party here say anything about the Thai fighter that was clearly the one that went down what's the reaction oh actually I think probably broadcasting over radio

like I think S2 come in this is six S2 come in this is six oh go ahead Natalie no no no no go ahead S2 come in this is six S2, come in. We've commandeered this vessel. It's not going to remain in the air very much longer, but we are, and it cuts off as, like, it sort of crashes again. Like, the engines cut out, and it comes to, like, a skidding halt before it can even be shot down. And the two of them, like, start to climb out, like, scuffed, but not. It's Star Wars, it's Star Wars, baby. And the two of them climb out. And, yeah.

who's the first to say something S2, do you have anything like mission, like mission sit rep for six? Yeah. Or um um yeah like so yeah

S2 comes over and like first things first like says the complication dealt with looks at tag Six looks at tag for a second Tag nods and it's like dealt with

and she sighs but like yeah back to back to S2 looks back to S2 looks back to S2 good

other complications have emerged as you can say beautiful At this point At this point At this point S2 sort of looks over

the clone force that's starting to ready for their defense I've been standing here for a few minutes trying to envision a possibility where they win this fight

with your expertise in clone tactics and combat do you see them having a positive outcome alone or with our help i think i step forward yeah at this point and say we're helping them six looks over i'm eyebrow raised yeah i think i'm i'm moving towards a strong move of defy an order in order to succeed against long odds and spending a token for this so I'm

I'm now anti-mission new mission protect the clones and yeah protect their their like secrecy way of life here and I think

six is going to start for a second to like doubt you like six is about to say that's not why we're and then blanket yeah I was I really desk you've got to be kidding me and she just

her blaster goes to her side yeah we just draw I think we I draw on you 100% um she doesn't is I guess what I'm saying oh I see what you're saying

in a way that is so shocking for six her blaster just dangles at her side Commander Tane Blanket I know in this moment

I'll say that's incredible Thank you Natalie A medical A medical droid A Mandalorian A Mandalorian A rich girl And a traitor

Why shouldn't I kill you right now? I deserve that. Are you leading some new tots into their deaths? Is that what you're doing? Do you know about her? You three? Left us high and dry at the climax of the campaign on Bacara. Join the enemy.

So when I said, or not me, so when my men said that they'd caught some seps, maybe they weren't wrong. Does tag do anything? I want to know, I know it's another character because does tag do anything finding out that. Oh, you just, you know, what the hell is he talking about? sex Listen Listen I

I did abandon you Yes But I didn't abandon The cause We We We weren't on the wrong side

Or so we weren't on the right side And if you'd been out there If you would If you knew what that shit means you would know that too. I didn't want to leave you behind. I didn't want to leave. And she looks out and sees screwball and sees cross patch.

And like there is a tear welling in her eye. And she's like, I didn't want to leave any of you. But I knew you weren't coming with me. And we, I couldn't do it anymore. We weren't helping anyone. You didn't even ask. And fire is a blaster bolt over your shoulder. Get out of my camp.

Take your people. We don't want you here. I think I step in here, perhaps, and, and look at blanket and say, we need to get through this, we need to get through this fight. She can, we can get rid of, like, we can leave. We can get rid of her tomorrow. we can get rid of her tomorrow but we are going to need all the manpower we can get

if you want to have a chance at seeing sunrise and I'm holding to like I'm clutching two two like long long daggers and I'm like shaking with fury

because I I think hopefully Blanket can kind of see like my newfound hatred for for six and like

the like I have like I want nothing to do with her but I want to I like our chances are at survival our odds are better if she's here and I also have additional stuff six is going to do but go blanket's response first yeah I blanket response is simple and is you're going to end up with a token six, which is just

how can I trust that you won't turn your back on us again? And that is how are you going to do better than what came before, and you're going to take a token from some of the villainy. And she drops the blaster

to the ground. And she walks up, I assume, Blanket's bastard. Blaster is still up, yeah. And she walks up and puts her chest to it. See that kid over there, B? I promise I've spent every moment since I left the battalion

trying to figure out how do you let someone fight what they want to fight without sending them pointlessly to their deaths. I don't know that I have any answers. But I do know.

I know that I didn't. I had no idea... I had no idea what to do when I left. But I'm not going to do it again. I'm not going to pass. up an opportunity to let you all stop. It is all I ever wanted.

The war is over being, and you and the rest of the boys got out. And if I, if the last thing I do is make sure it stays that way, God, at least I didn't abandon you completely. didn't abandon you complete me and there are tears streaming down her face so shoot shoot if you're gonna shoot but if you don't tell me you've got a ship and I can fly it I'll make sure you get out of here lowers his gun walks like parallel to you no eye contact and says, pick up your blaster and at least die for us this time

and walks away. Shee. Okay. Time check. Yeah, we're up on it. I mean, I feel like we kind of have the outline of the thing, right? Yes. I think we can do like some dramatic death scenes in the next 20 minutes or so,

I can just be you one big because I think I got one thing that because one thing I can do is a reveal a crucial tool is already on hand. What they one of the things they hijacked from the

rebel supply ship was a load of proton torpedoes like a munitions crate full of proton torpedoes. Let's fucking go. And we know that specifically they are like they aren't really looking for the clones they're looking for our ship right correct so we get that we get that shit aboard uh leaf ship and

we could send someone or everyone up to be captured uh and then tracked it aboard and then blow it basically turning it into a big torpedo itself that blows up from the interior of the Star Destroyer. Yeah. I feel like I could get the resolution really rolling. Sure, good. And then you would deal with needing to clean up the Thai fighters and any ground troops that could report back or could escape theoretically.

So what you end up having is this sort of like... Well, I feel like the end of this is the clones are going to have to go on the run again. maybe not if we torture all these fucking people sorry go ahead but they're going to have their last coordinates i kind of figured like the it would be right the escape on whether it's my cruiser or not i mean i guess in rob's sort of description the cruiser is like the distraction that can get us off planet so if we can you set that up and then just kind of get the clones anywhere else, then that might work. But I think, yeah, the Imperials are going to have the last reported coordinates of where all, like, this, the Star Cruiser.

But they don't know that. Oh, God. No, no, no. Go ahead. They don't know that the clones exist. They only know that we exist. The only people who know that the clones exist are the rebels. Like, they know we were faking ISB.

So they probably think that it was us who shot down the ties. and if we send someone back oh go ahead I'm actually sorry to some of this conversation should go into character because this beat comes about like yeah yeah yeah the values like we're

so I would just say like imagine S2 pitches I'll burn a token Um, okay. So S2, uh, turns around and looks at the group. I don't see any scenario in which our efforts separately or combined can defeat a star destroyer and it's attached stormtroopers and fighter wings in a conventional engagement.

I have computed the possible outcomes as many times as I can, given the time we have available, and I simply cannot see an outcome where we are victorious in such an engagement. However, I do know that two weeks ago when this clone group boarded and captured a rebel freighter among the materials they stole was a crate full of crateful of munitions if that is still on hand I do see a possibility

where we arrange to have the munitions armed and taken aboard the heart of the Star Destroyer unfortunately I do not think you will all like the plan that I've come up with for that Leaf specifically. Spit it out us too.

Spit it out. I know that shit means a lot to you. Unfortunately, it now also means a lot to the Empire, and they are looking for it specifically. They're looking for it to investigate what it is up to. If they see it, break orbit. They will try to disable it and tractor it aboard.

once tractor to board inside the Star Destroy Hangar, if we detonated the proton torpedoes, I believe it would cause chain reaction explosions throughout the Star Destroyer and result in this complete destruction.

And just flatly, no hesitation, I'll fly it. No. No, you're not going to fly it. She looks over the tag. We need you here helping to tactical supremacy and having an edge. I'll fly it.

No. No one's going to fly it and blow it up from the end. That's stupid. We just... Taggant, Leith is correct. Our best size of success are if she flies it. She is a better pilot. It is her ship.

You don't even need to fly it that good. You're going to go up and get it tractor. I could fly it. We have to make it look good tagged. And no, you're not going to fly it. You're going to go home, and you're going to tell the commander that all the clones died in this attack. Clones are going to die in this attack. We're going to win.

They're not going to die. That's right. But if we don't tell them that, they keep coming and coming. This happens again. And two. And tag, they don't need me. They don't need my tactics. I think the last thing these people want to hear is me giving the motors.

They know what they're doing. They've been doing it with each other. 20 years, tag. All they want to do is be out of this. And... God damn it. That's fair. all right fine

and how the hell do I get out of here and why don't we all just try to get out of here we just send one person up in the ship and the rest of us can just one to fly one on guard duty when they take us in we have to get all the way on board the ship

if we're going to set off those chain reactions that right us do that is correct one for security one for flight looks at Leif. Leaf nods. You're not taking my ship again.

I'm flying my fucking ship. Um, and then I think she says, I guess you weren't kidding when you said you were in this, huh kid? You wouldn't flinch. Did I defy your expectation? Yes, he did.

love to use a move i'm gonna spend a spend a token for that um yeah i think the defying of the expectations is that i'm ready to self-sacrifice for the sake of the mission the person that was willing to or was so ready to get out yeah do we want just two of us to sacrifice ourselves and the rest of you go home? It feels like that could be possible, but it's not... Well, I have a pitch for S2, but I don't know if Rob is interested in it. Which is like, these clothes are getting old. Yeah.

They could use a medical droid, but I don't know if that's like... I don't know if that. S2 might want to continue to be a spy for the rebellion. Well, so yes, but also S2, I think would... probably like s2 could probably articulate this in the scene actually if it came up but uh yes let's keep it let's keep it in character which is i think tag is confused still yeah and it's like so what leaf and six you go up and blow yourselves up in a blazy glory and the rest of us just hang out here how do we get back to the rebellion how do we do the work that matters

i'm it looks at look at oh go ahead miss you have something rough well i think I mean like we're also coming up to sicko sucked like we're part of a we're part of a bad self yeah like this is this is not the rebellion you are looking for yeah like ultimately like i don't i don't have a oh yeah we have to go we have to get back to sicko and like like a llama or whatever get the next mission yeah i'm not sure that's the yeah i'm not sure that's the play it's we're all like this is a parting of ways and it's possible like it's kind of like

there's kind of two thoughts I have one is that there will probably still be some kind of other battle even once the Star Destroyer goes post style there will be some like ground attack troops being sent as well as some fighter craft

so like there will be work for like tag and priv to like be helping with and then after this like i don't know i don't know that um yeah i think part of the answer would be telling tag that like we need to find it like he we or he needs to find a different cell right to yeah right all right all right i got i think i think i know i have i have an answer that S-2 could give for that.

Taggerton. One of the things the six and I have tried to explain to you is that each of us in our way and our past found ourselves serving a cause we believed in wholeheartedly only to realize it was not worth that devotion. And by the time that realization hit, it was too late. We were already compromised and stained by the things we had been made to do.

That has not happened to you yet. But I do have to break some bad news to you, which is that I do not believe Seco, our cell, our commanders, I do not believe they are worthy of such devotion. And if you wish to continue to serve the rebellion, I do not think you will be serving it as part of the same unit. For my part, I see I have other responsibilities here

with these clones that I have to answer to. Nod's. That it sounds like we should probably try to get you all to the ship. Which I imagine is, you know, on top of the tie is now, combing around once they find it I imagine they're going to put some like you know some sort of ground transport down to try to investigate what the hell's going on in that ship and so what I imagine part of this is is like we got to get to the ship we have to kill any storm troopers who are investigating it we got to get the proton torpedoes on board and you all got

to try to get out of here and that's probably what this is now right right right right get it captured, et cetera. So, yeah. My suggestions, oh, go ahead. Well, I was just, I think I, leaf looks at Priv, and like, I think there's been the kind of, like, leaf's, like, softened slightly and is, like, looking out at Priv is, like, kind of like, kind of like, like or just like individual in a sense and it just is like looking to her to kind of see like well what is she going to like if what is she going to do what happens to priv like there's like a slight worry like creases across her face yeah um i think um i think um

like throughout the discussion here Priva's kind of stayed quiet because I think that she similarly like still believes in the rebellion obviously but also like has sort of like the hometown like I do believe that people should be able to defend their homes and like

it is worth to like secure the sanctity of this place because, like, she also could have had a life that she wanted to be in. If other people had not come, then, like, complicated it for her. So I think, like, recognizing Leaf's sort of concern here is, like, and also sort of sexes in that moment. Like, if Leaf and Six are sort of joined here and being, like, we'll be all right.

I'll take care of tag. We'll make sure you complete your mission. We'll have your back. When I see you say that you'll take care of tag, there's this moment of like intense gratitude in my eyes. And I look over at Leaf kind of with like a grim smile, understanding that like I can't protect her, but I can give her what she wants.

I can make sure she gets to do it. and so we've sort of traded roles here and I think I say to B to blanket do you is there any chance did you manage to keep any of the 170s

dark 170s the fighter yeah there go talk to screw job screwball Go talk to screwball. That's screwball.

Screw job is over there. Scrobs are out. Clothes these days. They're getting their names. Weirder and weirder. Go talk to. And I think I like look at Prive and I'm like, just get into one of those ships. get him off planet

someone's got to say that this all went south there's no point coming here those are troop transports she like points up as they come down just make sure he gets to the ship in one piece okay

I'm right here I'm gonna be fine I'm not a baby it's been a hard day and we're going to get to the end of the day I'm not convinced either of you are going to die yet sometimes things work out remember she smiles so genuinely at that like what it means to

to have someone who has that belief and says um what was the thing you said at first like uh if i can remember yeah it's okay um and she's just like you're not going to die that's right you're going to see this mission through i trust you tag you got this you got this we got this sure we got this leaf you ready ready let's go and i think we break yeah i think that that's we don't i can imagine this going in a way where everyone does live you know you could you could plant that ship on the on the in the hangar and then escape somehow still and time the bombs to blow out off blow up in a pod or something yeah totally right or steal yourself a ship and get out you know you never know you send up an art too unit for y'all yeah

wait wait wait wait wait wait wait leave could demonstrate a skill no one around no one knew she had you're right exactly that autopilot turn on that autopilot there's all sorts of stuff we could do to get out i have so many tokens i have a thousand tokens I have also harvested a lot of tokens So you can So listeners at home Could you know

It could work out Create your own ending I think we can leave this open ended And we can see What happens to our game? And who knows if we ever come Maybe we could come back To these characters

And there could be A surprise outcome Season cliffhanger A season cliffhanger Exactly Jess thank you so much Maybe and or lives Maybe Andor has so many tokens.

She pulls up on a jet ski. Exactly. And he says, this jet ski is hyperdrive. Get on. We're getting out of here. Thank you, Jess, so much for facilitating this. Thank you. Yeah, this is really fun.

Where again can people check this out if they wanted to play this or Galactic 2E? You can find Going Rogue on my Itch page, which is just from online. dot itch.io and just from online. itch.io slash going rogue. There will be a bundle with this and Galactic together, so everything you need to play, that will be available for a month following the release of this episode. So just go to the Going Rogue page. You'll find that bundle at the top. You can also find that and all of my other work on my website, on my Twitter. So that's just from dot online for my website or uh just from online on twitter twitter.com slash just from online um i make a lot of things uh i make another game called i have the high ground

i was going to say you got a shout out i have the high ground thank you uh yes that one you can get physical copies of i have a physical copy of it over there in my room pointing you can't see it's the blur but i have a physical copy right over there so i have uh about 50 physical copies oh yeah okay that's how it works but anyway that's very cool it's relatable um so yes it's a two-player dueling game of banter posturing and capes and it's about the melodrama before a duel where you're like just talking to each other and trying to show each other up uh it ends when the first blow is struck um so you can also get that game on my itch and a few other places it'll all be linked there. I'm also just about to be contributing to two different Z-month crowd funders for

two different games. The day this releases, I believe, one of them will be online. That's candied blood. Think like Willy Wonka, more evil, you're trying to like be the one to win the factory and like undercut everybody else. And also you turn into food as the game goes on. That's great. I am one of the stretch goal contributors. I'll be converting the system into a with Deasco playset. Nice. It's that much cool fun. Hell yeah.

That's rad. Thank you. Shout us to Fiasco. It's such a good system. And then, let's see, I'm also on another ZE month project. I'm one of the writers, along with Seda, who was the design consultant on Going Rogue, and Rie, who was one of my earliest playtesters on first and second edition of Going Rogue, Rihanna Daily.

We are working together on Xenamaps versus Mini Adventure, Mini Adventures. is a 35 map zine of like prototypical dungeon maps by David Glass, cartographer and the creator of the project. And we made one-page adventures, system-neutral, play them in whatever system, whatever... Huh, interesting, any system, huh? That you want to use, and they're just one page ready to go, mini-adventures, sit down, you don't have to prep anything,

as long as you're good to do some stuff ad hoc. And so that'll be up February 2nd. and you can back that too. So both of those projects are available. My other games are on my itch. I'm also an author, and you can find my written work on my website. And then I'm also looking for games writing, freelance work, and full-time work. So if you are looking for gameswriter, design consultant, I do all that.

And you can contact me via my website. Which was, again, jess.dot from online or just from.orgonline? Jeff's from Dot online Yeah From online Is not a top of the domain Yeah

Weird Anyway thank you so much again This was a blast If we think about it Kind of every domain Is dot from online You're right That's kind of what we're labeling

It's kind of what we're labeling Anyway Sorry go ahead I know I think that that's it I think that's all we got I don't think we have any of We'll be back

next week with or two weeks from now with the next Cold Wars arc, right? Yeah. Rob, is that right? Yeah, back. Two weeks. Back in two weeks. I guess while we have the space, it is worth saying thank you to everybody who contributed

to Friends of the Table's fundraiser for the National Network of Abortion Funds, which is why we did this. Again, that was such a big out-twelling support, and we really appreciate it. Thank you to Natalie and Rob for agreeing. to play. Listen, we put ourselves out here on the shit often and it could be easy to forget that it's stressful to be like, I'm going to perform

into a microphone for five hours. Which is how long of this recording was. I have no idea how long the final episode will be. Probably still pretty long. So thank y'all for putting yourself out there and trying a new type of game that many of y'all haven't played. It was a block. Thank you for taking us through it.

And it was truly such a pleasure and so much fun to do. I'm so glad. Thank you so much for having me on. And it was wonderful to see what you all did with my game. Just like, yeah, absolutely great. Thank you so much. This has been fantastic. All right. Well, until next time, please rate and review us on your podcast platform of choice. And remember, they won. They all survived. Just like Cassie and And And Ador. And Melton and Jennerosa

And K2 Even K2 was fine in the end He got back up He got back up He's a sturdy droid Yeah He had a backup Charge up a little bit

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Make K2 Hit the Gritty Please I will do anything Please All right Kina Kina Lloyd

shows up at the Keen-O-Loy edit of Road 1. He's there. I know he's there. There's one way out. It's this ship I brought. Get on board. Get in, losers. Here we go.

I thought Keito-Loy was going in Fortnite for a second. Oh, also that. He's there, too. Yeah. Who do you think drives the battle bus? It's Keen-Loy. It's Keen-Loy. You can picture.

To the bus driver. Thank you to the bus driver. Thank you, Keenolai. I always thank the bus driver. Always, always, always. Thanks to Keenaloy. I'm going to be able to be.