High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #167 | Open the Cargo Doors (Part 2)

Episode Date: December 6, 2022

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which they have accomplished. Hell yeah, we have. They have destroyed several key important Valkyrian supplies. Yeah. There is the potential that they can steal a planetary transport and maybe even one of the Valkyrian battle mechs, though it is somewhat damaged. Amazing.

Have the Seekers ever achieved that before? No. However, there are complications. There aren't, though. They are currently engaging a Valkyrian Inquisitor, an Acolyte of Shansara, and a large number of troops with more on the way. Things are looking dangerous.

Several of the party were spotted, including through true seeing, rendering the illusory elements of their disguises inoperable. And so we jump back in. I'm just an elf. Everything that is happening. Yeah. And so we jump back in. So everything that is happening. I believe that it was a brand new turn. I think it was.

The Inquisitor, who is currently engaged with Ayla and the rest of the crew, is going to use their action to do something. And then they are going to... Ayla, you have already used your reaction. You have not had a new turn yet. So they are going to... Ayla, you have already used your reaction. You have not had a new turn yet. So they are going to move away from you. They're going to move 30 feet away from you. Towards...

In sort of a different direction from what the acolyte is going. They begin moving off to the side. They move towards one of the buildings. So in the party? This one is a, you know, seemingly. But that is their action, that was their move. Wait, what was their action? You don't know.

For their bonus action, their drone is going to take a shot at... The Inquisitor's pretty smart, they're gonna shoot it. That's pretty smart, yeah. 23? Yeah. Four. Six points of damage. Force damage.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, no. Ah, sentry. What? It's a very famous voice from Lord of the Rings. Foggy Ship of the Ring.

Yes. Oh, please. Oh. Oh. Oh. I'm in the ring, please, ooh. Oh, God. Ooh, I'm in the ring, please. Very famous Ian Holm, Billbo Baggins from all the ways. Remember that? Rest in peace.

Ooh. Is he dead? He is, yeah. No. Not, it, what was it? Oh, I'll look it up, yeah. I remember seeing it. I just missed that. Yeah.

Oh fuck. Yeah. Sorry dad, dude. I almost called you dad there. Sorry daddy. Sorry dad. Sorry dad. I don't know what's worrying me because Kim was looking at me when she said it and I'm

like, oh god, has the dungeon died? Not again. No, I've kind of accepted it now. It's come back. I wear jumpers, I'm old. accepted it now. It's come back! I wear jumpers, I'm old. I get it. I'm older than you, but somehow... You're her dad.

Yeah! Who's I older than? Cedric? I'm going to enlarge and take on this golem. Oh, wow! I'm 30. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, hell yeah, let's go.

And it is, you have your normal lance at this point. Yes, I do. I'm going to do a level, let's go. And you have your normal lance at this point. Yes, I do like that. I'm gonna do a level, let's see. Well, I don't feel today. I'm gonna do a level three divine smite. Okay. 48. Remember, you have to do that when you hit.

Yep, so I'll do this first. 11 first. 21 to hit. 21 more hit. Sick, all right, let's do it. So I'll do this first. What? Eleven first. Twenty-one to hit. Twenty-one will hit. Sick. Right, let's do it. Four d8. Now this is a mundane lance. Yes, one d12.

Alright. It is also going to be half damage as the creature is resistant against non-magical weapons. But the radiant damage will affect it not only. Cool. I'll put an impossible... So if you can just do the physical damage for me first. Nice. We'll half that. Alrighty.

This isn't the lance that Sentry made, is it? No, I didn't make this one. No. I made a tentacle. Three, six... The flame lance. No, no, I mean the... Her actual...

The garbage one. Oh! The gangrenous... What is this voice? Why are you speaking like you're a tentacle? I don't know. 19 damage. How much of that, just before you move to the lights, was that physical? Only the D12 was physical, so that was six on the D12.

Six, so that becomes three, and then the rest of it, if it was 19, that would have been 13 radian? 13 radian, yeah. All right, so you watch as the radian damage just burns away and adjusts from this clear crystal. It's almost like holographic prismatic golem creature. It burns and turns from the crystal black, but the actual force of the blow is resisted. All right, that was first attack. First attack, second attack. 13. 13 does not hit. No.

No problemo. Okay, I'll just stay within his range but move between him and Fuego. Fuego's gone, isn't he? Fuego's in the mech. He's smashing. No, he did move next to the soldiership. Then I'll stay where I am. All right, Quill.

Oh, crap, I have to take a turn. So the ship is above us. How far away is it? It's directly above you. Then I'll just stay where I am. All right, Quill. Oh, crap, I have to take a turn. So the ship is above us. How far away is it? It's directly above you. It's probably like 15 feet up above you. 15? Yeah, it's like right above the mech. I'm a smart girl.

I mean, I guess I kind of want to try and get in there. Oh, okay. But I'll also, I mean, yes? Yeah, yes. Yeah, yes. But I'll also wang a shot towards the acolyte. Okay. The acolyte is no longer blinded, right? So it's the end of your turn? Yeah.

Okay. So I'll do... I'll do... I'll do a Chromatic Orb. Okay. And this will just be a second level. I'll do I'll do a chromatic orb okay and this will just be a second level

so plus ten to hit a fucking twelve rolled a two nice doesn't hit the twenty on that dice

is looking at me leave it to the expert yeah really yeah hey this guy's got 20 on that dice is looking at me. Leave it to the expert. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Hey, this guy's got a seeking spell now. He actually hits with it.

Yep. Kill him with your speed pill Pokemon battle. Right, anyway, so Manic Orb misses. Miss. Yeah, and I want to... Yeah, I mean, the back, the troop area is currently open. Cool. So from all other sides, any creature that's not at the back of the vehicle or facing towards the back of the vehicle, you have total cover against.

You are blocked line of sight wise. They cannot see you inside it. Great. I want to be in. Okay. Okay, Joe. The tech knight, if you are done. I'm done? In fact, actually, no. The Acolyte is going to use one of her legendary actions to...

She will use her Compel follower. Inquisitor, take down that transport. We cannot allow them to escape. And the Inquisitor with their Disruptor Pistol. I think you're fine. I can't allow you to escape. Yeah, how do you feel about that? Okay.

Make a wisdom saving throw. She didn't hear me say that! Joke between so many things. The disruptive pistol glances off the transport's hull. Cute. As it fails it. The tech knight will then go. So I'm trying to get in my head who is where.

You were engaging the knights. I'm currently with nobody. That's right, because everyone's literally moved around from, yeah, so you're next to the mech. Sentry is next to the mech with the golem. The mech moved actually a slight away, next to the mech with the golem. The mech moved actually slightly away. So you, Sentry, the golem, and the transport above. Mech moved about 30 feet away. Quills up in the transport.

Okay. The tech knight is going to pull out like another little metal sphere, roll it into the middle of Aayla, Sentry, the crystal golem, and technically the transport as well. I need you all to make constitution saving throws. I will do it for the transport. Yeah, I was gonna say as in us two or the ship. What's the constitution of a ship?

Very high. 27. 32, actually, planetary transport. You rolled higher than a ship constitution- before have i probably um i only rolled an 18. not as good as a planetary vehicle the vehicle does still take some damage what's the hp of the ship uh no i'm not gonna tell you i was gonna help you that's fine i've got it i'll tell you once once you've had it for a bit of time, I'll give it to you, but right now, you don't know. We'll find out when it's done.

You've not had enough time to analyse it. So what do we get on constitution's bone throats for Ayla? 18. Success, but you're going to take half damage. Eight. Eight, you're going to take full damage, sentry, and then the crystal golem. Also you're going to take full damage actually. 31 points of force damage actually. That was so funny.

Yeah, 31 points of force damage. Is this 99? I don't know. And you and the golem, by the way, Sentry, are pulled into the centre of the sphere. So you're actually both shifted about 10 feet towards Ayla, who manages to kind of like... And you take 15 points of force damage, by the way. And you can feel the transport almost shutters

for a moment at those of you who are inside. It's like, you know, turbulence in an airplane. But it does manage to regain thrust. I throw up. Ayla. So I'm thinking the plan... Do you want me to kind of like lay the seat? No, I remember where it is. So, Quill

is in the transport now. He's flied up. It's about 15 feet above you. Just a little jump for you. Can I try and get into the transport? With your strength, you don't even need to use a charge on the hammer. You can literally, if you run, you can jump, I think, 20 something feet in the air.

You got a 20 foot vertical? What's your strength score? 25. 25. So with a running standing jump, by core D&D rules, I think you can jump something like half, so it would be 10, it'd be like 12 and a half feet jump. And then you have like your own personal height

to like grab on the side and put yourself in. And that's like, in fact, actually no, if you run, you can jump 25 feet in the air. If you stand still, Ayla can literally stand still and jump 12 and a half feet in the air. She'd be like, whoop. If Lyra's hanging out the window. You know, you said that she came in and sat down.

She's in the cargo bed. She was sitting in the cargo bed. is hanging out the window. No, you said that she came and sat down. In the cargo area. She was in the cargo area. In the troop transport area, yeah. How many people are alive? The Tech Knight? So currently, only one of the Rifle Corps has died is the only one

who's died. One of the Tech Knight is badly injured. A lot of the Rifle Corps are quite injured as well. Everyone else is looking, you know, damaged or injured in some way, but still fighting with it. We should probably murder somebody too.

So Ayla, you wanna get inside? Yes, because I don't have my hammer currently. Okay. Nova, I can switch with you, or Lucius, You've got range. I can keep this thing going. I can shoot. You don't know how to fly a ship.

I can shoot it though. I let go of the joysticks and I walk to the back of the ship. I don't want to do that anymore. I can shoot. You can. This is a bit more complicated than the twin star one. You will have disadvantage on attack rolls because you're not trained in this.

It's better that the power of the spells go to the killing. You have used your movement action. You can, I'd say that you can still take an action this turn if you would like. I'm gonna shoot the ones that don't require me to be far away. So, yeah, so you've got the point defense system,

which has a range up to 90 feet, and that can attack twice. You can replace one of those attacks with the primary cannon, which can only hit targets more than 60 feet away. It has to shoot at targets within 300, 600. How far away is the echoing? She would be, she moved 60 feet away, yeah.

Shoot her. Yeah, shoot her. She's just within the primary carriage. I want to shoot her. All right, okay. Roll a d20. Oh, no. That was shit.

It rolled from a 19 to a 9. 9 total on the dice. What's the plus for the... So 9 on the dice, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the plus for the... So nine on the dice, right? Yeah. That's going to be... Yep, hits. Can you roll 68 for me, please? 68? Mm-hmm.

Oh, fuck. I need a little more too. Uh... 17. 21? 21. 21 plus nine, I would say. 17. 21? 21.

21 is 9, so 30 points of damage. I don't know why I put these Ganassi Guard in here. I just have to scroll past them every time. 30 points of damage as she does manage to kind of try and twist and avoid some of the beam, but it does kind of catch her arm as she's desperately trying to fly and pull herself away from the combat. Cool. Can you roll a d6 for me as well, please? One. One, okay. The missiles have not yet replenished.

But several of the rifle corps do take some more damage. Oh, is that an ongoing? That's ongoing. I got in the shield. You did it. I did it. Big jump. You watch as another one of the rifle corps soldiers,

one of the ones that have been marked, they are looking around in a panic as a secondary blast from one of these missiles kind of catches them and incinerates them. The other one looks badly injured as well. So two of them are now down. Okay, at the end of your turn, Ayla, the acolyte is gonna use one of her legendary actions.

She can now see. And she will, who's still on the ground? We've got Sentry down on the ground. Everyone else is in the ship. Sentry from Florida. Right. She will... Sentry. Yeah.

She begins to conjure this music. Uh-oh. And you suddenly... Your body starts... Oh, no! You just start dancing. As you are overwhelmed by an irresistible dance. Yes! I love to dance. irresistible dance. Yes! I love to dance.

You begin a comic dance. Oh, no. So you may decide what is a comic dance in Sentry's manner. Is it just like a kind of mom shuffle, like a shepherd? Comic dance. Yeah. Like a rainy, like... You shuffle, tap your feet, and caper for the duration.

A dancing creature must use all its movement to dance without leaving its space and has disadvantage on dexterity saving throws and attack rolls. Other creatures have attack advantage against you. As an action, you can make a wisdom saving throw to regain control of yourself. As an action. Apart from that, there's no saving throw, it just happens. You are just... Doing the robot, just. Yeah.

That's a comic dance. So, yeah, you just start jamming out. Yeah, having a great time. And that is going to be her legendary action. Nice. Cast that spiel. Guys, why is Satchi dancing? The two remaining Rifle Corps members are going to take aim

and they're going to all attack the planetary transport. They're gonna try and shoot it down as best they can. First one is gonna be a hit. The second one is gonna be a miss. Second soldier is also gonna miss, but then their second attack is also gonna hit. So the planetary transport is gonna take 18 from the first and 18 from the second actually.

So two 18s, 36. I don't suppose that's within critical damage. I can't remember the name of it. Threshold. Threshold, that's the one. Although it is two individual 18s, I suppose. It is two individual 18s, and this creature has a different system.

Oh. Which I haven't fully worked out, but these guys are shooting. They're just shooting at the hull at this point. They're just... And you can hear the blasts, these magic rifles bedding against the hull. We then go to the Acolyte's full turn. She will, seeing that this giant transport

is blasting her out of the sky, is going to... is going to give up surrender wait is that dancing thing is that concentration yeah because

isn't it fly concentration you're right it is she falls off the sky because I don't want to wreck my I'm not going to wreck my head I'm an idiot

I forgot that yeah it's concentration I've done that to wreck fun at it I'm an idiot I forgot that Yeah It's okay I've done that No yeah It's concentration Except I did it in space Yeah you did

Oh no Actually I just remembered I have a special rule She has a thing Where when she uses A legendary action To cast a spell

She can fly up to 60 feet So she lands She can use that to land Wow okay So she pulls out the sky. Fair enough. And that is her special equipment. She has a special thing which lets her do that.

When she uses a legendary action to cast a spell, she can fly up to 60 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. So she uses that to land and then cast that. So whilst on the ground, she will move 30 feet away uh towards uh you know what actually she would see that like to prevent this like you trying to like fry her with this thing she's going to move to the nearest piece of cover and get inside one of the warehouses so she's going to kind of like tuck herself into one of the houses try and gain cover um and that is going to be... And then she's going to heal herself.

She's going to cost healing also. Fair enough. I'm an asshole. That's pretty asshole-y, actually. Yeah. I actually hate you for that. Yep. Full heal.

Full heal. Yeah, basically. It's always annoying when the enemy heals themselves. Yeah. Like, let me do it. Why are you doing it? Why are you not allowed to do it? Just because I can do it?

You think you can do it? No. Before we go in the mech, is going to pound on one of these remaining troopers. Where's my mech? Where's my mech? Nearly a natural 20 with this thing. And I actually hit.

Nearly. Does he hits. Nearly. Does he get advantage from them being lit up with the missile stuff or whatever? No. No, he doesn't. That will kill the third remaining one

who's already badly damaged by the missiles. He just and just smooshes a guy. Oh, God. Wow. Breaks his bones. And then he's basically like,

what are we doing? Get on the ship! Get on the ship! Okay. Yeah, he will like, he's only got one arm, and then he kind of gets in position, jumps up, like grabs onto the back of the thing. You kind of feel the transport zip for a second,

pulls itself inside like Titanfall. And it occupies the main thing that no more troops can really fill this space you guys can kind of fill it yeah it's pretty much oh wait no you're on here i'm on packed in uh i think is the only one that's nice um there is if you'd like a lay of the land, the Acolyte has landed and moved into one of the warehouses. It's currently taking... It's hiding. With the Inquisitor.

The Inquisitor is basically... Has moved 30 feet away. Is still out in the open. But he's running towards a building. Transport ship. 30 feet currently. Is there a side door or something? Yeah, you can hang out the back of the cargo ramp.

You know, kind of like if you imagine one of the Halo transport gunships, you can hang out the back of it basically. I will do that. Okay. And I'm going to twin a chromatic orb. Yeah. Okay. I knew you were gonna do it.

Aiming for the Acolyte and the Inquisitor. Okay, the Acolyte is in total cover. You can't see her. Is the Tech Knight still there? The Tech Knight is still there, yes. I will redirect it to the Tech Knight. So Tech Knight and Inquisitor. All right, so two attack roll on each target.

Sorry, I'll move this the other way so you get the full range. Thank you, I need the full range. Full range. Thank you. What was you roll? 15. To hit which one? Technite.

That will hit the Technite. Shit. However, Technite will use their reaction to increase their AC by four against an attack roll using their shielding deflection as the... Fair. All right. Then this is against the Inquisitor.

Okay. 26. That will hit. as the fifth. All right, then this is against the Inquisitor. Okay. 26. Well, that's nothing I can do about it. That's, I'm not doing a ninth level, that's crazy. I was doing it at sixth level. Do try and tell me what level before you cast the spell. It was in my brain, and why didn't you read my brain? I trust you, that's fine.

We just read our brains, Mark. Yeah, sure. I'm gonna do 18. Actually, don't. It my brain? I trust you. We just read our brains, Mark. I'm gonna do 18. Actually don't. No. Bad. So 40. Check for those ones.

42 points of acid damage. 42 points of damage. You watch as the acid coats this. I just stare at Quill while I fire it. Because he's staring at you, the other one does miss. But the Tech Knight might mention through. But the Inquisitor takes this engulfing orb to the back and sends them sprawling, coating them in this acid.

Ah, ah, she's screaming. The mask is melted partly away. As he smugly smiles at you. I can see right through your reflection. As he's smugly smiling, you just hear, Oh, God, it burns! Ah, ah! Just screaming. Dead. My ass! No! Ah! Just scream. Dead.

My head! No! I've been torn. Lucius, is that the end of your turn? Yes, because that's my action. I'm just going to move back in for cover. All right, no Vividra. So is the Inquisitor dead?

No. He's still alive. She is still alive. No, no, no, the Inquisitor. Yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh, she's missed. Oh wait, it was the Tech Knight. Missed the Tech Knight. Missed the Tech Knight. The Tech Knight, the Inquisitor, and the Acolyte are all still in play. They are. The Acolyte is now hidden, like has moved into full cover. You do not see

her. And Sentry is just below the ship? Sentry is just below the ship, dancing. Just booging. Booging. There is a giant crystal golem like trying to smash sensory up two things can i both eldritch blast the inquisitor and move the ship a little bit so i mean you can use your move action to move the ship 100 feet so i don't want to move 100 feet but can i move it so that people can see the acolyte you can try to you don't really know where she is in the warehouse, so she could be... You saw her run in there.

You don't know where in there she is. You might be able to. I'll move it a little bit. I don't want to get too far from Sentry, but I don't... Sort of, I guess, in between. You try and basically... You move the ship basically forward.

You would probably have to go about 30 feet forward to give the people in the rear the best chance of seeing inside where she was. You now can't see it because you're facing forward. You've kind of angled the back. I'm kind of angling the butt. Yeah. Can I still Eldritch Blast the Inquisitor?

I would say yes. I would say that you can sort of lean out the window. Hold on a minute. Roll it down, roll it down, roll it down. It's more like there's like a door that you have down, roll it down, roll it down. It's more like there's a door that you have to open and sort of like... I just like the image of rolling down a window. Rolling down

a window. Actually, I'm going to wreck on this, Nova. I'm going to say you can't, actually, because that doesn't make any sense that there would be windows on a cockpit for this thing. That would make no sense whatsoever. Yeah. Sorry. Can I momentarily step off the controls and shoot uh you could but you've already used your move to move the ship you would have to

move to the back of the ship and then fire out from it is there like an auto hover button i can you can leave it hovering but you've already moved the ship you chose to move it forward but you've already moved the ship you chose to move it forward to you can't all this to get an eldritch blast off i'm trying to kill some people here slam it into them can i slam the ship into no that's too good yes you could try random without ramming the ground yeah there you go see see i need you a better. You can just ping him in the head. I'm not gonna do nothing. I'm gonna shake the ship so Quill falls out, 50 feet of damage,

dive, and then I'm gonna squish him. I'll just fly. Nice. I would like to... Do you like to retcon the movement so that you can sort of leave the controls? Do you want to retcon the session, Kim? I do, I kinda do.

I kinda really do. That's not on the table. It would be great, right? Because then we could start this whole mission again. Let's start over. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know what? No, I'm going to move towards the,

I think it's more other people can do stuff, so I will move so that they're closer to the acolyte. Sure, okay. But the, yeah. I would say that from the ship, you could try and do, I'd say you could use your action to give somebody the help action, like as in like angle the ship. Yeah, I'll do that. Who ship, you could try and do, like, I'd say you could use your action to give somebody the help action,

like, as in, like, angle the ship. Who do you want to give it to? I'm going to help Quill with his chromatic orbs. Ooh! You specifically. Specifically. You can't do anything else. Sentry, the girl is just going to try and punch you. It has advantage because of you dancing.

I'm probably really annoying, right? God, I just can't. Like twos and threes. Just twos and threes. Oh, God. Just twos and threes. It's the dancing. It's just so hard to hit you. You do like nuts and stuff. I hit it at 10.

I hit it at 10, it's 50-50. I do like a back-to-back. You just happen to be like, at the right time, the partner swings over. Second attack, 25 hits. There we go. Jesus Christ. Today. 25 hits. Jesus Christ.

And today. I love that even the dice are chaotic. 25 points of bludgeoning damage. Yeah, that'll do. As it sucker punches you as you are dancing along. Fuck! You guys watch as the building the Inquisitor is running to, more of these Rifle Corps soldiers

are now beginning to fan out and they are getting in a position that they are gonna start taking shots. The Inquisitor, still alive, is gonna use the rest of their movement. They are just gonna dash to get inside the barracks building that they were previously, that they were running towards. And that is their turn, Sentry. All right.

So you can use an action to try and save out of the dance. You can still attack, you just have disadvantage on any attacks you make. If I wanted to, could I still Misty Step and get up into the ship? Technically, you can. Yeah, your movement is zero, but you're teleporting. Yeah. Yeah, I'll Misty Step up into the ship. Just continue.

Hey, guys! teleporting yeah yeah mr step up into the ship just continue hey guys she's also large so next to the mecha here now no space like centuries like dude dude oh that's not coverable okay i can still do my action to try and break out of it you can awesome uh it's a wisdom thing it's an action yeah sure. It's a wisdom save. Damn. It's an action. Yeah, Misty's step is a bonus action. Wisdom save 22. That is a success. Hey! Hey!

Dancing steps. Hello. All right. End of turn? End of turn. All right. I believe she starts dancing the same way. Quilt. Oh, no, you're affected too.

So I can't really see much beyond just the boys running towards us now, right? Like the Inquisitor is in a building. You see the Inquisitor in the building, the Acolyte has run into one of the warehouses. Nova has angled the ship and you are pretty, like you were scanning with your mighty perception. That's what I'm going for, yeah.

And looking around, either she's become invisible, she's teleported away, or has somehow managed to get somewhere else, because you are scanning this warehouse, you can't see her in there. Okay. Could be invisible, could have teleported away, could be ethereal, many things. If I can't get a shot on the Inquisitor is what I'm... I'd say you can, you can sort of lean underneath and sort of try and...

Oh, no, sorry, the Inquisitor is in a building, yes. The Inquisitor ran inside. Barracks. Yeah, barracks, yeah. There is a Tech Knight, yes. The Inquisitor ran inside. Barracks. Yeah, barracks. There is a Tech Knight, one more Rifle Call within shooting range, but then you can see another squadron of shooters coming up. Is there... Shooters!

He's got a shooter! A shooter! Is there anywhere within 25 feet I could go that would get me a shot on the Inquisitor? I would say there would be a very difficult shot through a shot on the Inquisitor. I would say it would be a very difficult shot through a window in the barracks. Like, you might be able to try and...

But Aayla, but Nova lined up the shot perfectly for me. She didn't give you advantage. Uh... Because then I can use my other 25 feet of movement to come back. Sure, I would say, yeah, they are going to get three three quarters cover. I'm gonna look at Lucius and say, oh, that's how you do it. Oh no, this is not gonna work. What level are you passing?

And I'm gonna fly out, it's fourth level. Okay. Chromatic Orbs. So I've got advantage. You do? Well, you have plus five AC currently. Yeah. 21.

21, they have plus five AC. It's a miss. Oh! Snatched against the side of the building. Like there was this tiny shot, but the window, the wall, their perspective was unbelievable. I helped you as well, man. I'll come back I think I got him

I've got the perception to know that I didn't I can't let Lucius know that I think I'm going to remove that spell We need to kill that guy by the way You see the Tech Knight running off, and you see them holding up their hands to their head, and then that's what you see. I mean, if they...

Can I shoot any weapon on the ship that can smash through the window of the building? The primary cannon could probably destroy the building. I will do that. Yeah. Sure. I rolled a d20 for me. Oh god, okay.

The primary cannon, by the way, deals triple damage to buildings and objects. Let's use that. I like that. I rolled a 19. It hits. Can you roll 68? Yes. Good lord. It hits. Can you roll 68? Yes.

Good lord. Roll 68. I rolled a 68. Oh, you need one more? Bam. Here, I'll do this one for you. Wish I hadn't. That wasn't great.

You can have it. 9, 10, fifteen, nineteen, twenty-six. Twenty-six? Triple twenty-six for me. Why? Triple it. Because that's for the 70 points. Seventy-eight. Seventy-eight.

Eighty-seven points of damage to the building. The primary cannon detonates the kind of carves through kind of like... Carves through part of the wall. The section of the building, the kind of one quarter through kind of like, poof! Yes! Carves through part of the wall. The section of the building, that kind of one quarter of the barracks is basically destroyed. It collapses, the wall breaks down. Make a deck saving throw for the person inside,

for the people inside. It's a natural 20 on the first one. Does the laser carve through them? You don't know. No, it destroys the building um but you yeah you watch as just the ceiling collapses like this kind of like shaped stone kind of breaks and collapses in you hear cries and shouts you don't know how much damage you might have done or who who was affected but you've definitely damaged this is the barracks right yeah with the inquisitor rim

yeah they were probably ganassi in there, right? Maybe. They're all outside. Some definitely came outside. Some came outside. At this point, the base, this kind of barracks, this kind of supply depot is in retreat. The Rifle Corps members start fleeing.

The people in the barracks start fleeing. The Ganassi guards that come outside, they basically all start making a run for it. They run towards carriages. They hop on any vehicles and things that they can get out of here. And there is a general Saxon alarm, like a whoop, whoop, whoop. And everybody is just running. A Saxon alarm? Yeah, a Saxon alarm.

Was it Klaxon? Klaxon. Saxon would be a bit different. Saxon's an awesome alarm. Imagine that, just a bunch of Norsemen. yeah saxon along with the clacks did i mention that i've been up since 5 30 this morning uh thanks to jetlag. I'm wrenching it now. But yeah. So, at this point,

with all of you on board the transport, you can choose to try and keep trying to find this Inquisitor, trying to destroy people here, or you can make a run for it. At this point, the enemy forces are in retreat. You can try and make sure that you can basically be run for it. Like, what's the plan? You've, like, at this point, the enemy forces are in retreat. You can try and make sure that, like,

you can basically be like, that barracks, we're going to turn it to rubble and just make sure nobody is left alive inside. Or you can be like, let's get the hell out of here. Or it's up to you. It's your choice. But at this point, I'm going to drop us out of initiative. The bad guys are all just running at this point.

I'm pretty sure the guy, the big guy that ran into the barracks that Ayla just shot, he knows that we are who we are. He knows we're the storm chasers, not just Ganassi. He knows that with the storm chasers that's bad, that's really bad. So he definitely needs to... She. She. They've got a mask on.

Yeah, that's true. Blast them. And I'm assuming, Yeah, it's true. Blast them. And I'm assuming, which is terrible of me. Blast them. You wanna, because we've heard. They've probably told people already, but I mean. In that case, double mishmash. We need the element of surprise with this ship,

so if we make a move now, hopefully they don't know where we're going, so we can get to the tower before, and get in. As in now? Yes. Yeah, I think we need to do that right now. There's no way we can use this ship at a later date. No.

Let's use it now, get in the tower, and then once the jig is up, we're already inside. So no more stealth? I don't think we should ever try stealth again. No, I'm up for that, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, what do you think, Caleb? Don't forget, stealth is not just making stealth checks like Lucius did.

Deception, persuasion can be part of a stealth mission. Speaking of which, there's just a lady in the back. There's quite a few of you who are very good at that. I fell in the shower. I forgot my name. Yeah. You forgot it. You did. So you fell in the shower. I fell in the shower. very good at that i forgot my name yeah you did so i got a plus five yeah yeah i've still got the

captain yeah so hopefully that lasts about an hour right yeah okay okay i won't have too long left but if we go by the time the transport gets to the tower you will have about 10 minutes and then we're gonna have to ailer smash around i do that. Is everyone feeling okay to go straight to another thing? Nova's already pointing the ship to the radar. Guelph, are you okay? The ship is still taking shots. I'm just not gonna have us in combat, but like, I'm not gonna rake attack rolls.

If this continues, they'll probably do a bit more damage to the ship. I think while this conversation is happening, Nova's already kind of lifting the ship up just to try and get out of the range. Not know not saying i'm going but i'm just trying to yeah you're making it harder for the shots and stuff yeah so like it's like dinging away maybe like a little point of damage here and there but like certainly enough that it's going to cause some damage but yeah we just look over him where he goes in the just dead, he's been shot. Like the Expanse. It's a boy.

Ah! Yeah. That bit was so harsh. You get 30 healing from me. Oh wow, okay. Yeah. Right, so everyone says we go straight to the thing. Yeah, let's do it.

We're going straight to the thing. Yeah. All right. As fast as the ship can move. Is there time for a short rest on the... No. Oh. Because if you did the

dominate person spelled in as well i it takes about it takes about 50 minutes to get to the the way you need to go via the transport because it moves very quickly especially if it's i mean while we're on this yeah yeah yeah so it takes 50 minutes to get to the thing a short rest is an hour um so you could do it but then the domination had dominate monster for like 10 minutes yeah so and yeah so yeah it's it's basically going to be nearly about to end i'm saying that you're going to have like around 10 minutes left of it when you arrive can i spend this 50 minutes asking captain lyra important information yeah what kind of information do you want no but what important information should we ask the detective? Code phrases, passwords, schedules, what's in the thing?

Have you got a data pad? She will tell you I don't have it on me. No, it was in the barracks. With the rest of my thing, I apparently blew up. Yeah. No, no, no, because she has a data pad, but it doesn't have... It's just a list of orders and to-do lists and things like that. She'll tell you that like, I don't know anything about the tower.

My station was this barracks here. Are they able, the Inquisitor there, do they have the capability of informing the tower of what's happening? They have the ability of informing other forces who will then be able to contact the tower. I'm assuming at this point that you're basically dominating, like saying answer all of our questions truthfully. I'm just telepathically... Like, tell me what you know. Anything Nova, I'm basically commanding them to answer questions

truthfully. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's what I'm figuring. So she's just telling you what she knows. Yes, the high ranking Valkyrian officers can all communicate and likely pass messages on. Whether they... I don't know if they'll... No, she just answers the questions. She can't infer.

She has to just do what she's told, so she answers the question. If you were to be kicked out of a ship, how would you best try and survive that? I'm not asking her that. Uh, Lucius is, so... No, no, but Lucius is telling... Lucius can command her to do whatever he wants.

She would say, I would likely try and direct myself towards a nearby body of water or a structure that it looks like I might be able to grab or slow my fall in some way. Is there any verbal password being used by high-ranking officers? Yes, but it would depend on the location.

I only know the passwords and phrases for our supply depot. That's where I was stationed. What do you think about Starbane? The Emperor? The Emperor is misguided. He has abandoned Shansara, the guiding star. She is knowledgeable and beautiful, and I will follow her always. I mean, listen to yourself very well i mean not as a

command but i mean like you're just you're part of the delusion you've been manipulated i mean that wasn't a command so she's and it's very easy to do because i'm doing it to you right now that wasn't a command so she doesn't do anything. Have you received... Tell her to answer truthfully again. Great. Have you received any communication in the last, say, 30 minutes? No. Okay.

No chatter from your local barracks? I do not have devices that allow me to communicate with other officers but that's lovely well um are there any parachutes or anything in in the cargo here doesn't look like it it looks like that there are like um ropes that are detached and they drop down to so you can descend a rope it's like um if you've ever seen a black hawk down like when the gunships like they drop the ropes and they have sailed down i imagine I imagine we're much higher than those ropes would be. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right now, yeah. I don't want her on the tower.

Right. Because she's going to lose this... I'm going to lose this control before we let her. Sure. No, I don't think we have time to land anywhere, do we? No. No. Well, we can't land, so... I mean, she's going to be on the I mean, she's gonna be on the tower. Or she could not be on the tower.

What was that, Ola? What? I heard it. Look, I'm just going to. My perception is 32, I heard it. It's really hot in here. Do you mind just cracking open the cargo door at the back? Are you commanding?

Someone. Is this what we're doing can you just crack open the door i don't i don't know which part is it he's flying lucius i don't that's fine it's at the back yeah but people do it all the time you're asking me to directly open the door. Kill someone who is restrained? Nova, he is the captain. Not on this ship. No, I mean, Lucius is the captain. Not on this ship. No, not on this ship.

I mean, any other suggestions? Captain Lara, do you have any suggestions? To what? Knock her unconscious when we get there. Let you go. Land, I will tell me to go somewhere and remain there until... You're going to remember this. I will remember this.

I want you to remember that... Forget this. Forget it. No, no, no. Remember that... You can't command somebody to forget something, unfortunately. I could try banishing them. Yeah, are you native to this, to Eros? No. I'm from Gideon Prime. No, come back. Could try banishing. Yeah, are you native to this, to a rose? No. I'm from Gideon Prime.

I can banish. You can banish. Would you like to go back? Yes. Okay. Perfect. You wanna do it with me? I don't know.

Could you? If you could, that'd be great. I could banish. Please, please. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. I'll report this when she gets back. When the spell ends, she can do whatever she wishes. I know, but it'll give us 10 minutes.

It won't, because I think you'll- Please don't report this. I will not report this. And have a great time in Gideon Prime. I will have a great time in Gideon Prime. And I'm sorry for all this, okay? That wasn't a command, so she doesn't say. I've taken full control of her, so I guess-

Accept her apology. It is soaking in, but she's just unable to do anything about it yeah accept our apology i accept your apology thank you she says i'm not apologizing can we get that in writing i do not have anything to write uh do i no maybe when you're back on gideon prime yes don't absorb all the propaganda Look for other sources of news about Shantara. I will try. Okay.

If there are any available. Yeah, I imagine that's an issue. You know, after you're gone, just live your best life. I will live my best life. Be who you want to be. Just send her. I will be who I want to be. Send her.

Send her away. Banish. Oh, by the way I'm assuming you are basically saying do not resist the spell yes that means I don't have to worry about making a saving throw and I guess as soon as she disappears outside it breaks yeah because 60 feet yeah range she's gone is she more than 60 feet away she is is, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And as long as you maintain concentration for a minute, which there's no reason you wouldn't, she's gone. I think that went well.

I'm not talking about Justin. I'm just going to say you two came fucking close to me being like, okay, put your alignment as like awful. I was going to say, yeah. Yes, I command you to jump out of this fucking meet. Pushing a dominated person. Defending yourself in a combat situation is fine. Yeah.

You were like, Nova, he said. I did. That's like the most slimy minion of a villain. No, it wasn't. Yeah. Boss. Killer. Yeah, killer, killer.

I wasn't, I mean, I didn't want Lucius to do it. I was just saying, though, he currently is dominating this monster, and he's the captain. You were saying he's the captain of the ship. No, he's not. Not this ship. No, he was the captain of the ship. No, he's the captain.

Yeah, that was you. That was you. It was slimy. It was smeed. It's happening. It was smeed and hook. That was just like, you're fucking hell.

Right, anyway. Yikes, you guys. That was mainly lucian you could have just dropped it it has knocked around conscious change of heart any other suggestions unbelievable oh yeah we've got banished oh yeah pressuring me to do that like nobody i wasn't pressuring you to do that you just had control of the door anyway moving on moving on. I just didn't know where the button was. I think that went about as well as we could have made that happen. That was terrible. I'm not talking about just the interaction

with the captain there. We destroyed that base. I had a great time. Freya was just like, got to smash stuff up. Yeah. It went terribly. No, no, no, no. And people know that we were really here.

Yeah, I'm fine. You're fine? Yeah. Old Bessie here, and he's like You're fine? Yeah. Well, okay. Old Bessie here, and he's like slapping the neck. She took a beam. You've already named it Bessie? Yeah. Okay.

I mean, it's my neck. Fair enough. Yeah, it is. Fair enough. I'm gonna paint it red with flames. Yeah, hot rod red. Hot rod red, maybe. What's a hot rod?

It's a type of dish we get. It's like a hot dog. No, it's a hot dog in Vortenstahl, but it's a spicy hot dog. It's a hot rod. Couldn't I just... What's the plan when we get to this tower? Okay, yeah, so, but yeah. Because we don't have that long.

I think... We have a ship, we have a mech. We're trying to find... We vaguely know where they are, right? Vaguely. We know they're on the upper floor. The apartment is in the upper floors of it. But we don't know where they are.

I think if we go in guns blazing, mech blazing, it's going to be a problem for us. I wonder if we should let Fuego away. Use the mech in other missions take it how are you going to get the mech from the top of the building to the bottom of the building and outside he is the captain Nova open the cargo door

I mean the mech can probably do a pretty decent fall you're not going could it do a pretty decent fall. A tight fall, yeah. You're not going. Oh. I think... Could it take the fall? It seemed pretty durable.

It would take damage, but yeah, the rider would be protected. The pilot would be protected, but the mech would take damage. It's a tower like a vertical slab. Yeah. It's super tall.

It's not like a pyramid. I mean, there's probably like a slight slope to it, but like not enough that you couldn't grind as well. And also, it's probably like sloped and then it goes very...

It's like... Discreet. No one would really encourage the destruction of primary architecture. Never open the cargo door. No. You're going. I am the captain. Look at me.

I'm the captain now. I'm the captain now. Well, okay. So, I mean, what's the plan when we get there? Presuming that we are not immediately attacked. Oh, we could do, Lucius has the outfits, the expensive outfits, right? But also, Quill, you could locate Creature

because you've seen one of the- Well, I mean, that's, but I'm just assuming that the moment we land, if we are even able to land there... It's a problem. Instantly. They're in, like, dorms in a corridor, right? And they have their own locked rooms, which they can't come out of. Did you bring some lockpicks? Are you joking? What do you mean?

He's genuinely not. That was the student dorms. This is a completely different thing. We've done that. Yeah, we did that. That's why I had to be like, are you joking? I thought you were doing a bit so i was going to write about it it's not funny why are you making a bit about that we've done this see we've done open the cargo doors I've got somewhere I need to go.

New Hyrule was me. Okay. What the fuck's in the tower? The council members. Are they in dorms? All you know is they're being held on one of the upper floors. Is there a science department? There is. Yeah, there's scientific research on the lower levels.

But the upper part of it is exclusive access. Yeah. So the fancy robes and stuff. Fancy outfits. That's where they are best. When you go home,

go watch Mission Impossible. Go watch the fucking Rose episode. What's wrong with Mission, I think it's Mission Impossible 4 with the tower in Dubai. Yeah. Okay.

Right. So what we need is little suction pads. Sucky cups. Yeah. Climb up, climb up. Is that the one where they detonate something in someone's head and their eye goes weird? That's three.

What? I hate that bit. That sucks. Anyway. Anyway. Yes, maybe the noble outfits could work. Our transport ship, we could treat ourselves as VIPs. You have,cius is still

wearing a valkyrian officer's uniform that's handy i could be your guard you could pose as prisoners yeah um well maybe um look at this i'm gonna roll a d100 for me either way i think the mech if fuego is coming with, it's not in the mech, but the mech should stay in the vehicle. I think that's our getaway. There is one spare set of engineer pilot overalls in here. Cute. You wanna be the pilot?

I am the pilot. Open the door. Open the cargo door. Who's the least, she's the pilot, Lucius. No, it's more snivelly. That's too sinister. Go like, she's the pilot, Lucius. No, it's more snivelly. That's too sinister. She's the pilot, Lucius. I'm peeling round my bottom.

It wasn't snivelly. Yeah, you weren't snivelly enough. It's probably going to be better used on Sentry or Quill because they're less humanoid. What are these outfits like? They're noble outfits. They're like wealthy ganassi outfits um they will yeah like they like there's probably a dress like a long robes like a kind of so we're gonna have to augment the outfit that you already have so that because

you're century otherwise i've also got this face plate which is hiding my other face yeah like centuries um like centuries disguise like if you dress her up in different clothing like it would which is hiding my other face. Yeah, like Sentry's disguise, like if you dress her up in different clothing, like it would still work. There's still a character underneath. Yeah, there's still a character underneath. The difficulty, I don't think Quill can really wear the noble outfits. He's the only one that can't really work for.

All right, Quill. Because it's Birdman. Not my colour. I push open the cargo door. Yes, Captain. I'm the Captain. But yeah. All right, so Quill, we can't disguise you.

I mean, I'm still in the Canassi disguise, so that's... Does your nose just fall off at that point? It's just the guy guy truesighted. I don't know how much he communicated that though. Also, is this Nova, this technology, does the transport ship get messages or anything? It's to shit. Does the transport ship get messages or anything?

Is it connected to anything? It would be connected to a system actually. Yeah, it would be. And yeah, it would be um and yeah it would get messages yeah there would be about 20 minutes into the flight uh there is a all systems broadcast um that is dispatched across all valkyrian systems okay That is basically a summary of what happened. Our supply station has been attacked. We believe it to be members,

we believe it to be the champions of Arois in disguise. They have stolen a planetary transport as well as a baffle mech. We do not know their current location. We are looking for the missing transport. You know, be on high alert. We have alerted the Ganassi forces, yada, yada. And yeah, it is, yeah, it is completely.

So basically no point. Smash and grab? Smash and grab? Smash and grab. Smash and grab? Can I get my hammer if we're at this point? I think as soon as they see that ship, they're going to know it's us.

Yeah. And if they've said champions of Roas, they know it's us. So basically I can use my hammer, right? I can get rid of this piece of shit and use my actual... Yeah, can I put my armor back on? I will tell you that

having Quill's true identity revealed, therefore also ruining Aayla and Sentry's disguise, but also kind of hinting at who the entire party may have been, combined with the amount of very visible destruction, the people who were left, the people who got away, and who could report information, your incognito score is now zero. Yeah.

Whilst your incognito score is zero, you are basically hostile to the entire city. You cannot disguise yourselves. You will be attacked on sight no matter where you go. Unless you are in fresh like the Lucius Noble disguises is a way that you can still be somewhat disguised. But you would then be at disadvantage with social checks to deceive others. You would basically be able to get back enough points that you are no longer attack on sight

for those of you in the noble outfits. Would we be kind of okay? Because we were in the shop. I would say that Lucius and Nova also may be able to just about get wide, but even then you are going to be under heavy suspicion because you are attached to this transport that's been stolen and everything else. So we, about 10 minutes after that broadcast, so when you're about 20 minutes out of the tower, another broadcast comes through.

Oh, here we go. And this is from Shansara. Oh, hi. Valkyrian forces, due to the attack this evening, I have been speaking in an immediate emergency communication with Harmony. Our mission must be accelerated. Oh, for God's sake.

Prepare everything within the next 24 hours. 24 hours? Okay. I think we need to change our tacks. Let's not go to the tower, because I don't think that's going to serve... No. Much, much, much, much, much, much, much.

Much use. What have we got? We started making headway. We need we got? We started making headway. We need to find, we started making headway on where the Magitek devices were. We don't know where the planar teleporters are. We kind of do. We were just verifying.

That's what I just said. The Magitek devices. Yeah. They're underground. They're in the statues. They're underground in four different elemental environments. Somewhere near the statues.

You don't know exactly where, but you have a vague, rough location. And they're being built in different parts, and they were gonna be brought together. We're gonna have to just go there. Yeah. And do it. But we need to send people to all,

to three of the other ones. We can take one. We need to mobilize. That was Tornado's suggestion. You don't have to do that, but that was Tornado saying that that would probably be the best way to do it whilst other things were just going.

We need emergency contact with Tornado. Didn't you say that basically we unlocked a bit of research that said, yeah, gain knowledge on how to disable the devices in saving the students. We know how to, we just need to find them. Specifically. Fuego can basically be like,

okay, well, I can tell, I, I, I, we have an emergency system. If a safe house is ever breached, we have a system to sort of reach out on an emergency. I can take you to one of those locations. This is it, Fuego. But what are we going to do about this?

And he kind of gestures to the transport, like, if they're looking for this, I don't know where we can hide something like this here in the city. I think we need to... We're gonna have to use it. Or use it to... Disrupt as much as we can.

Okay. I just had an idea, and it's a terrible idea, and I hate myself for having it. Okay. All ideas are open now. Yeah. What if we use the ship to destroy a statue? Drive it right into it.

Because if we destroy a statue, they don't have a focal point to load one of the devices. That's going to really rile up the citizens. Yeah, it's really bad. And also it might drop on the head of citizens. Yeah. We could maybe put something in place to make sure it falls a certain way. Maybe if we have a team that goes forward. Maybe it's one of the statues. Okay, so there's four statues like that.

Maybe one of the water ones. We can get it dropping the water. Hey, listen, I hate to be the one saying this, but you said that if we don't stop this, the whole city goes, right? Yeah. Look, I know it's bad, but people, and people might hate the Seekers, maybe they'll hate the Champions of Erois, but if we can save everyone's life, isn't that worth it?

Like, sure, maybe they hate us, but at least we stop this disaster. I can't risk civilian casualties, Fuego. But, right, but if you don't, everyone dies. Yeah. Right? Like, I don't know if I'm just missing something here, but that's what it sounds like to me.

Like it's either the whole city, or it's maybe a couple of hundred, maybe a few, I don't know how many, I don't know, but it's not the whole city. But what if it was your parents, or your sister, or your partner that was killed by this? Yeah, I'd hate your guts. Yeah, I'd hate you.

What options do we have? He would be alive, though. We need to disrupt this within 24 hours. I mean, can't you just go kill the Shansara? Like, I just saw you guys, like, kick ass. Why don't you just go kill her? Stop her that way. The city won't, like, I mean...

She has people that she controls. I mean, maybe they would still do it. She has people that she controls who would pull that trigger as soon as she was in trouble. Shit. Yeah, if we killed the guiding star, that would martyr her. Fuck. As much as, believe me, I would like to just do that.

The problem is, we can go get her after, but we need to stop the teleport first. Right. Damn. We need to know how many first. Right. Damn. We need to know how many people we have total. Do we also know if breaking just one statue will be enough to stop it? No, we have to break all four.

I don't know, I don't know. I would say that between Nova's thoughts and your communication with Bolt and others, it's one of those things where if you destroy one of the planar generators, like these devices, the more of them you destroy, the better. If you destroy one, they might still be able to activate it. And it would still be bad. It would probably be worse. But they might think that they can still

activate it there's a chance that it might work you know but if you destroy all of them they can't do that they just can't activate the system at all if they've got what even one remaining they could technically still try it and you don't know I mean that but they'd have to be pretty desperate like the city would have to be in their favor to do that yeah um now the nice thing is your incognito score is ruined but because that was a military target it doesn't affect your influence on the general population you guys still have the influence you've built up on the city you still have people on your side because that was a valkyrian forces you didn't

like go out and take you know it's different to atlas academy where you know that was a a renowned thing with vortensar this was a purely valkyrian supply depot like you you you know yes you killed a couple of guards and things like that but they were like in a in a military base basically um so ruined your ability to sneak around but it didn't affect your in the seekers influence on the city i wonder if we can get the Seekers and us to cause more problems like this, like destroy a statue, etc.

and basically make it so the citizens are nervous about teleporting Vortensar to a new place while there's still the Seekers causing problems in it. Make Vortenstar unlivable not unlivable but just like until they ran out this problem why teleport the problem with them i uh

yeah you could definitely do something like that the consequences of that would be the seekers would be forever besmirched as this villainous organization. Could we create some kind of projection using all these screens in the city and send out a message, at least root that seed that this is dangerous and it's being rushed and planar magic is gonna tear the city apart. Need to get Nova and Neo on a screen.

You believe that that is absolutely possible. The difficulty would be you would need to find where that system is ultimately controlled by, and you've got a good idea of where that is. Do we? It would be in the central core, the most heavily protected part of the city. I'd suggest doing that.

It'd probably be where Harmony and Shansara are based. It would probably be in whatever... Right in the heart of it. Yeah. The other option that I will offer you, because Nova knows this and you've studied this, if Harmony and Shansara were to do a broadcast, like a message,

you could try and hijack that. That wouldn't necessarily be from their place in the city. If Shansara's saying that they're ramping up their plans for within 24 hours, they're going to have to tell the citizens that, which means they have to make an announcement. If you can find out where that's going to be and when and how, you could try and interrupt that and use that as an attempt to try and convince everybody. That, I would would say is also

possible so what if so i have the teleportation crown i i need to reattune to it but what if quill you used your eye to see where the broadcast is from and i probably can't teleport straight there but um yeah you need to know where it is there to hijack it unless you have to physically be there to put your own image there you would yes you would need to be okay it's like a broadcast studio like cameras and stuff like it'd be i somehow doubt that harmony and shanzara would just stand by politely while i'm like hey their plan is stupid no we need to get in there and seal off that it is at this point as we need to get in there and... Seal off that one. It is at this point, as you are still flying in the transport,

trying to decide where to go and what to do, you begin to see the lights of another transport. In the distance, not quite in range, but looking for you. As one of the only other... I mean, it's pretty obvious flying this this thing around. Yeah. Above the city. So the question is, what are you going to do? You've got enough time that you can put this thing down, try and hide it somewhere, or you can fight.

I say we go discreet. I think we hide. We hide. Yeah. Let's bring this thing down, shut it off. Okay. Yeah. Before you go, do you know anyone around here? We hide. We hide. Yeah. All right. Let's bring this thing down, shut it off. Okay. Yeah.

Before you go, do you know anyone around here? Best place is either we dunk it into the river, like near the water district, and we try and hide it in like one of the sort of the docks areas, like the sea, or we take it to the fire district and a factory there. The smog should help us evade that thing. We try and hide it there. It is also night, so like, yeah,

like if you kind of turn off all the power and stuff like that, you can kind of do a matrix and depower it and let the squiddy go kind of. Let's go to the fire district. I actually think we should go to the water district because the water statue is the one that's, it's lying down. So it, no, it's not. It's the earth statue.

Yeah. It's the earth statue, isn't it? Yeah. Water and fire are standing up and Earth's overhead. Yeah. We can just lay low for now. Yeah. We can send Seekers to blow up a statue with this ship

that is qualified to do so while we interject a broadcast. Okay. And get to the center. I'll take it to the fire district. All right, just to save some time and to kind of keep things moving, I'm going to make you roll. You do manage to lose this other planetary ship.

Like, it comes close. Like, again, like, and you can see that there are other airships patrolling around. And when you land, every screen, your disguises, your names,

your visage as champions of Eros is plastered everywhere. And the streets is immediately in a military curfew. You can see, like, just glancing out, sneaking out, like the city is now in lockdown. Red security alert. Moving around is going to be difficult. But you land, you hide the transport transport you hide the mech fuego puts

out the word to contact tornado and norfair and the rest of the seekers and that is where we're gonna pick up next session yeah oh boy you slip in one shower and this happens i'll tell you what bloody fell it was not it was not the shower You were fine. Lucius had a great plan. He did some great work. But, yeah, things happen, you know? Things have happened. But we have a mech and a drop ship. But not just that.

Transport ship. The story's in a cool place. I like it. You guys have been pushed now, like, this is hero time, right? Or is this anti-hero time? Like, you know, what's the greater good the greater greater good you've put over in such a moral conundrum I have done nothing you can turn the other way we'll do whatever is needed yeah you can

look like a hero hey thanks so much for doors thanks so much for joining us I am the captain open the car grab you the car grab me doors thanks so much for joining us open the car grabby car grabby doors thanks so much for watching this is the end of the episode take care

we love you goodbye goodbye bye bye bye bye bye