Legends of Avantris - Stardust Rhapsody: Anthem | Ep. 7 | Ride the Lightning: Part 2

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

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Welcome to Legends of Adventress. I'm Mace Caffrey, and you're listening to Star Duss Rhapsody Anthem. All right, so you see the cruxity action strown out in front of you now. Co. firmly in, and I'm just going to explain really quickly kind of what's drawn out here. So you'll see on the map, and Richie's kind of perusing the sections. But the road stretches out in front of you. river on your left, those neon buildings on your right. Co is firmly in sector one.

We're going to say currently that the party is in sector zero. Big Thunder is in sector three. I see. And the redline tanker is in sector four. You are in a firm chase sequence. The goal here is effectively to catch up to Big Thunder. and use the mechanics on your co. You are on a bike.

Rhett and the gang, you are in the cruiser. You are to use the mechanics that are on your sheet. You have a cruiser sheet. You have a bike sheet. You have things that you can do. If you catch Big Thunder's car, you can do things to try and basically run him off the road. Oh.

Does Cash mean being in the same sector? Yes. Okay. Cash does mean being in the same sector as him. Got it. So you can't be one behind. You have to actually have caught up to the car. How that'll go is every round and basically we'll just do this.

Coe's gonna get there. We're in trouble. We're gonna be putting along. Coe says to fuck with them so that we can get caught up. That's right. That's right. That's slow him down. Yep. Got slow him down. That's why I'm here, baby. Um, maybe Ziggy can do some shit. Who knows? Maltrow. I was hit you. Sissers on the table. Yeah. Yeah, right there. Oh, that's right. Thank you. Um. Um, so basically, you're just looking to catch up, do some shit. it to the car. Oh, Golden Monkey Tier and Hires questions. I'm sorry.

Oh, yes. Golden Monkey Trier, ask questions as well. Yeah. I didn't hear you say that or I would help. It's been a long day. I feel they're energized, but I'm still a little... Yes. All golden monkeys, all... We have like a couple thousand or maybe a thousand. It's over a thousand. Yeah. Wow. No, ask questions. The most we have is dolphins. Yeah. But monkeys are out there.

Yeah, Golden monkey gets... They get to ask questions. They get access to all the They had access to all unedited episodes shortly after we stream them. So what I'm going to do is Big Thunder, Co, and Red are going to roll initiative. Oh, shit. Okay. As the drivers in the chase. Dude, I'm just right shot up. Do you have the truck stat block printed out?

Yep. Oh, I just had it on my phone, but... I've got it on my laptop here. How, um... I was looking at myself. distances like of spells from from I don't think that's been said yet that would be up to I don't think you missed it yet I just wanted to make less what was that Dan Dillon has so so if I if I want to cast a spell into the next section or the next section that's

I'd be counting by square I need the second page as well oh yeah one more page no that goes the cargo hauler oh oh yeah the cargo hauler just kidding oh thank you there's no I don't think that's just flavor text I think you're good with this. That has the bike on it, though. I've got the bike right here. Yeah, he could pull it up on us. Perfect. So our decks is plus one on the cargo haul. Yeah, we're not in the move.

So, oh, good roll, though. So you, what's gonna happen? So, oh, 18 for initiative. 18 for the cargo. All right, so. Free Fender probably loses. Co. Oh, initiative? Yep. And I'm using the Bikes Initiative.

Yep. Bikes Exterity, which is sorry I should have been ready. Dexterity is? That's gonna be A17. Okay, and Big Thunder got a six. Ha! So we're literally gonna go in this order. We're gonna start with Retco and then Big Thunder. And what we're gonna do is the crux of this for movement

is every round we're all gonna start with a dexterity saving throw. The DC is 15. If you pass, you move a space forward. If you fail, you remain in your current space. Oh, nice. When you say space, do you mean sector? Sectored, yes. So what will happen is we'll do it all basically in tandem,

the deck save, because if we all pass, we'll just remain distance. Yeah, nobody goes anywhere. Exactly. That makes sense. Now you do have the option as an action, instead of damage to basically dash, which will allow you to try and roll twice. And you can do that, I believe, the con modifier of your vehicle amount of times,

before you start to accrue exhaustion on the vehicle. Oh, well, shit, our con modifiers. high because we've got this beefy cargo haul. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I have two questions. One. Please. Rhett is driving and so what are we like are we picking our initiative order? Like do we just go on Rhett's turn in whatever order we want to go in? You will go on, yeah, you can decide, you basically act like at Rett will decide what happens with the car and you will all operate in tandem at this turn. Okay, and then in terms of figuring out like spell distances, like let's say I have a spell that reaches 60,

feet. Do I count squares into the next phase? Like is it 30 feet here and then 60 feet here? Like how do I determine whether I'm in range regarding a given spell? I would say that the average range of a spell unless it is a very wide distance is the next sector. Okay. Okay, that's easy. I've got some 60s. I've got a 120, right? Maybe 120 gets two? 120 I would say can get can make two. 60 would maybe be the next sector. 120. Could be two. 30 to 60 is the next. Thank you. Thank you. So, Rhett, everybody, Co, Rhett and Big Thunder DC-15 dexterity saving throw. All right brother, I've relied on you, you got this. I fail, we get a 13. Oh shit. We should have used

some shit. I'm rolling. Yep. I'm just gonna roll one still. I fail. Oh no. Everybody fails. Oh shit, so no change. Also failed. So we will all retain our position. on the map. Can I use my action to dash again? Right, we'll go first. Oh, sorry. But you can, on your turn, you can use an action to dash and go again. But Rhett can act.

Oh. I mean, we can dash it five fucking times. I think we, unless you have another plan. So I am going to... I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Before you act, Coe, you actually had advantage on that role because you are currently the fastest vehicle on the map.

Oh, shit. So if you're the fastest vehicle, you gain advantage on the role, I repeat that about how... we can do dashing up to our con mod times per day before our vehicle starts to be exhausted by it or take damage or away. So we have a lot of ability to dash. So I'm probably going to be using my action every turn just to dash and you guys do what you can to fucking... Yeah, I'm going to have to... I'm going to... When it's our turn, I'm going to ask what I can do.

15 exactly. 15 exactly. 15 exactly. So with a 15, you actually successfully gain one sector. You can move into sector too. And you now, you are pulling... You're racing forward as the bike. up this roadway. All these things are just pouring past you as you're gaining distance on Big Thunder. The car now very close ahead of you. And Rhett, I'm sorry, we'll now go to you. I am going to, so as the driver, I can drive and steer the hauler. And so that's the station that I'm in. I'm the driver's the station that I'm in. I'm the driver's seat. And I'm just going to use all of my movies. and I'm going to use my action to dash.

That's the first time today. Oh, okay. And I am going to, yeah, move our full movement, which would be 100 feet and then the dash would be another 100 feet, or 200 feet. Perfect. So I think you just roll the dex check again on the car when you dash to see if you can move into, and if you pass,

you move into the new sector. So using the movement and then dashing, do we get two chances? Do we get two chances or no? No, it just a dash. It just keeps you going. Okay, got it, got it, got it. Then we're dashed to try to gain distance. Well, we fail.

We're still in section zero. That's okay. The highway is moving left to right. I'm seeing the like street lights go like and pass- It's just these slithering snakes of neon pink, orange, blue, of this dull fade on your right

and this polluted river on your left. Depending on how absorbed red is on driving and focusing, he may or may not notice that I have unbuckled my seatbelt and I'm hanging outside of the window. I don't know. Trying to get a view on what's happening in front of us with Coe and Big Thunder. The range on my gauntlet is not very far, but I'm waiting and biting my time to maybe be able to do some shooting.

You're holding out the window and you're kind of looking and you're tracking and you're getting ready to start just peppering shots when you think that you've got in a range. I only have like a 30-foot range though, so it's not, I can't do it. I'll give it to you if you get within a sector then. Alright, that's very generous. Just for your knowledge. It's very generous. One additional thing, Rhett, at the end of every participant's turn,

you'll roll on the complication table. So I need you roll a D12. No, thank you. Oh, shit. You roll a D12 for a complication? Every turn? Just to find out if things get more complicated. Pay attention because you're about to find out, baby.

But it's not the end of... Because it's a chase! I get a turn, right? Ten. But it's not because we dashed, right? It's just something that happens. At the end of the end of the... Every participant's turn is that Jason goes on.

So before you'll roll on the complication table. What did you roll? A 10. A 10. With a 10, no complication. Oh, that's fucking God. And for frame of reference, just because this will be meaningful for you, Co.

When you roll on the complication table, the complication that you land on affects the next person. Okay. So your complication affects Coe. Coe's complication affects Big Thunder. Thunder's complication effect. That's cool as fuck. Okay. And so we got, oh, and so is it always roll at the end of our turn? The end of our turn. Got it.

At the end of each participant's turn, they roll in the complications team. All right, I'm caught up. I'm learning. Yep. Go. Oh, I'm sorry. Ziggi, you did not have an opportunity to get that. I see you take your seatbelt off and hang out the window and I'm like, all right, all right, this is just like racer epelon. If you can't outrun your past, you have to drive right threw it, and I take my, uh, my, I hear you say that I say, Racer Epsilon.

And I race, I race, uh, back to the back of the cargo door and I, I'm gonna open up the rear of the, uh, of the space. Um, and, uh, we're still in zero. We didn't make it to one. No. Right. It's pretty high. Our odds are less than one in, at least our odds are, our odds are 25% chance.

Yeah, basically. Oh no, yeah, almost exactly. I don't, well, we're, I mean, the, I mean, The trade-off, though, is you don't almost have to move forward. Sometimes the complication can cause them to move back. Exactly right. So it's not always just about, like, it's about... No, no, it makes sense.

Sustainability, basically, you know? Well, we're slow. We're a fucking cargo hauler. I'm not expected much here. I don't have a spell that's in range. I don't have... We're sitting pretty, bro. It's okay.

I know, I know, I know. I'm just double... I'm just looking. I'm just looking. Ziggy, sit down! Buckle your seat pedal. I'm gonna hold on to the loop at the... Yeah, the strap. You have the strap and you're getting onto that?

You know what I'll do is I will perceive. I will look behind us. Is anyone following us? Good fucking question. Roll a perception check because that's pretty fucking cool. Ah! You're a natural one man. You're holding on to the loop.

We're going on to wrap the law now could you? As you're flailing in the air and you don't notice anybody following you. Now, Coe, it is your turn. Um, I am just going to lean forward and all I do is I reach onto the radio and I turn the volume up louder as the music blayers and I use my action to try to this go again. As I lean forward, my eyes are glued on Big Thunder. I am frothed. I do not succeed. You do wrong advantage though. I don't know if you did.

You're the fastest vehicle on the road. You got it. You got a. 23. Beautiful. Oh! You filled with, I don't know, racing through your past or whatever Ziggi says. Yes, she's coming for that ass.

You crash into the new sector and you actually end up catching up with Big Thunder. You don't know if it's, you don't know if it's whatever the hell Rhett did to the bike or if it's just grim purpose, but you've been able to catch him and you now move into the same sector. You have used your action to accomplish this though, but you do operate in the same. same space now. I don't know if this would be like a draw or not a withdrawal or bonus action as I lean forward and I'm going to just be completely focused on trying to catch up. I'm going to lean down and punch the side of panel on my bike and a panel will open where my connobeau is sticking out and I'm going to grab it as it surges with electricity and and crackles with light. Yeah, boy. And I'm holding on for one hand as I am ready,

and I'm just staring forward with determination. Crackling with lightning, the Connebo feels comfortable in your hand as you surge forward now right on the tail of Big Thunder. And I need you roll in the complication table. A D12. That's where it might all go wrong. A one.

Oh no. But that's for him. That's for him. That's for him. A delivery hauler slowly backs into the street. Make a DC dexterity saving throw using your vehicle's decks. I see. Spread the needle on a failure, you lose one distance.

So depending on who's next in the rotation, you might want to roll something awful. Yeah. To fuck them up. Yeah. Well, it's like really good for Co. That's what I'm saying. You know, Rett could fuck Coe, Coe could fuck Big Thunder.

We got lucky. And then Coe just absolutely decimated Big Thunder. Uh, the delivery hauler, boop, boop, boop, begins backing up. But he's able to swerve around him just as about to cut into the road

as he continues to blast forward, but you're in lock step with him as you continue to move forward. He's already rolled his movement, so he stays where he is. You're still in the same space. But what you're going to see is that one of his goons is now, as you're right next to the car, one of his goons

is going to pop out the window and you see another Zorbrac with the flailing blade arms put the hands holding on to one of those large repeating laser rifles that has this energized drum behind it as it just starts

firing out laser blasts back at all of you. And I need everybody to make a DC 13 deck saving throw. We got this. He did. Not me. Am I that all deck saving throws? Where's my... I don't know if you have total cover so I don't think your advantage on deck saving throws.

Oh, I got it. Oh no, no, you're only advantage on the speed portion because you're the fastest be you know. This is a deck saving throw. However, in the hauler you have cover, so you add five. Oh, we kill. We crushed it. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got a natural 13. So just to just to stay right. 14, yeah, 19. Alright, so.

I get a 19. Let me just check out a couple of these. Oh, another one. Die, you fucking scum, boom! And anyone who passed will take seven points of damage to your vehicle. Anyone who failed will take 14 points of damage to your vehicle. We're okay. Oh, we're okay.

Our damage threshold is 10. We're good. We're okay. Oh, so, okay, I see. I see. Got it. So the damage threshold of the cargo hauler is 10, so you won't take any damage. All damage that's under 10, we don't take. Because we just bounce is off the hall. We all jerk like this.

So I think seven, right? Oh, watch out back there! Did you pass? I passed. You take seven, but you have some form of threshold. But it's only five. Oh, shit. So it's blasted into my bike as, oh, I was like, hey, I just got that buffed out.

Oh, as your bike will take two points of damage, though. Oh, okay. Yes. Oh, oh, okay. I think it's just whatever exceeds the threshold is what you take over. Got it. If it goes beyond, you take the full thing. It's like how the chains in the crooked moon

have a damaged threshold of 10 or 20 or something, but one hit point. Yeah. So we need to deal 21 hit points. My bike is taking two. And you're okay, you're okay. I suddenly remember the HP, I'm like, oh, yeah. We just hear the, the, the,

Plink off of the fucking van. Yeah. I wonder if it's just this song is little crunchy. Yeah. I can put something else on. Is it an issue with the music? No, we've been having a speaker connection issue where it's a little, sometimes it goes into like a muted place.

And this one I think is intentionally produced to sound like it's coming through a wall. Let me just, uh, I see really quick. D-d-da-dud-dud-dud-da-dha-dha-dha-dha-dha-dha-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d. Oh, man. So who's, did Big Thunder go, by the way? No. Thunder just finishes.

Oh, yeah, he did. He zipped around the, complication table. Remember, he zipped around the fucking. Back to us. What's up? Back to us, everybody. Oh, there we go. Oh, it wasn't the song.

It was the song. My bad. That's not your fault. That's the song. This is the one. It sounds like live and learn. Yeah. Uh, Rett, as you're driving forward,

a stack of boxes falls into the street as they strewn across the road. You may roll either a DC-10 deck saving throw to dodge them or a DC-10 strength-saving throw to just blast through them. We're fucking blasting. Yeah. We're blasting straight through. We don't even hesitate. Yeah. We're good.

Uh, 12. Um, you race the truck forward. Yeah, you pedal on the metal. Oh, you look in the mirror behind you, see all these boxes fall. And you almost lose side of the truck for a second. And then, whoo-bliters. Boxes go in all sorts of directions. Splinters everywhere.

where the truck just crashes through. Everybody, please, all three drivers roll DC15 DECS. Oh, you got this. Check. Saving throw. Oh yeah. Let's fucking go. Natural 20. Let's go! I also roll the natural 20.

Oh, you bastard. Damn it, we all passed. So everybody passed. So we just stay where we are? Nobody moves. You retain your current distances. I mean, we can all move up. If you want to matter, that's why I have the extra zone,

but we can move into four, and you guys could move into one. Yeah, let's do it. So we move into one. Hold on all the, before you move, if we move, let's go get the full battle camera here. Is the, uh, the big tanker? Is the big tanker, the, uh, the red line truck?

Yes, yes. With moving as well. The big truck is basically always going to stay in front of Big Thunder. Okay. Um, so it will continue to move on. So they're kind of moving together. Yeah. So I'm right behind. And I'm, I'm right behind the fucking, uh, cruiser.

You're right behind the cruiser, not losing lockstep. Um, and it's at, at this point, you hear almost like a humming as you're all charging forward. It's hard to, the roars of all these engines, it's hard to catch on the wind, but for a brief moment you're like, what, what is that? What's that sound?

Come on, Rhett, they're getting away! When suddenly, oh my God, out of the alleyways. Oh, no. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Let's fucking get... Three Scarlet Eye bikers.

Boom! Kick out of the alleys from behind all these. Doo. Join the race. This chase. Now, as you're all tearing forward, and they will all just have them go. It's just like the escape from Gidmar and first fiction 23!

They will go at the end. Rep, it's to you. I just put my foot on the gas and I use my action to dash. Let's do it. Come on. Should we twit? No, no. No, big money.

Big money. 15. Let's go. 15. The 15. You may move into second, too. And while we pass this guy, hopefully, or unless it depends on who you guys. want to shoot or attack, but now you can put your turns.

If I can. You can absolutely. Now that these bikes have joined the field and they're in the sectors with you, now you can start laying covering fire out there. The moment I see this bike pop out of the alley and kind of like do this thing where like like up alongside of us as we begin to punch it past, I'm going to level the gauntlet and aim for the front wheel and just try to blow this guy away. Uh, you may try.

Just make a normal attack? Yeah, make an attack roll. Uffta. It's only gonna be a nine, unfortunately. I finally rolled a bad attack roll. A nine, high speeds change, you're trying to lock on. They just burst onto the field. Boom.

That magenta light fires out, but it doesn't quite find the tires as it scorches into the ground. Ziggy, can't them all. I'm going to start by using my bonus action. I'm going to yell back at RET. And watch your navigation, check your systems! And I'm going to use code efficiency. efficiency to add 1D4 to all of your navigation checks moving forward for controlling the vehicle.

Oh, thank you. Oh, hell. That's good. Let's go. Just like I boosted your tools earlier, Dan and I've been talking and control stations can be kind of its tools. That's fucking awesome. So, and with my action, how much... Real quick, I'm going to do a free object to interact with my camera. What's a button that looks like an elephant's foot and I hit it?

and from the roof of the cargo van, which we haven't noticed before, but chuk chook, chook, and coming down and swinging down will be the mag cable that is equipped on this truck. Nice. Hell yeah. Okay. And it does stuff, which I assume you have as well.

But it is a feature of the cargo hauler. I'm just gonna start real simple, and I'm going to type a script in very quickly. And I see, Pike's shot go wide. And I'm like, oh, hold on, I got it, I got it! And a small portal will open, and I'll catch it in the hypergrid. And just like I did in the tavern, sorry.

The space bar. A portal will appear right in front of the tire of this person. Fuck him up! Magic missile style, he'll take all three of these as I roll. Let's go! Yes! Five, four, nine. And five, so 14.

14 points of force damage to the front tire of this. 14 points of damage. Hang on, hang on, I have to pull this up. That's a mis-hap threat. No, this guy's just. I got the bike. I got the bike stat block. I know a missed-hirtress.

No, no, I got them here. You dealt 15 points of damage. That will all lay in. And I roll. 14, 14. Oh, 14. I'm sorry, 14. Just to be honest.

You redirect, you catch bike shot. You open up a grid portal. grid portal and boom, it fires out. It got a little bit bigger. It hit the bike square on and actually bent the metal frame of the vehicle. That's fucking good. It is now lost its entire damage threshold. So all damage that lands at it will hit cleanly moving forward. Nice, dude. And it will take two points of stress. I don't have the bike in front of me, Mike. Do you know how many points of stress you can handle? Is it five? Where do I find that? I had to use both hands, so I've let go of the handle here.

I sort of fall back and I'm like, all right, why I got this? Is Jess just KahnMod? No, no, no, no. It's if you take certain things. It's fine. You can take five stress. Okay.

And that bike's taken two. And that'll be the conclusion of my turn. Damn good. Rhett, please roll a complication for Co. That's a D-12, man. Get the 10 again. Three. A three.

That is the sack of boxes. Either DC 10 deck saving throw or 10 strength. Oh, Dx. As you see once again, strength. Oh, or decks, or strength. Yeah, on the bike. DC 10. Yeah.

You almost see these like goons off in the alleyways are like pushing hazards into the roadways to try and fuck you up as not all of them have vehicles to join the chase. D.C. 10, 8. Plus like for Visi is exactly 10. Beautiful. Oh, beautiful. As you see the, you see the

box is coming down as you're able to kind of weave through them as they're falling out of the sky on you. Holy smokes, that's cool. Go, it's your turn. I have caught up to Big Thunder in his car. What do I have the ability to do? So the general concept here now is you were attempting to forcibly run him off the road, to exert exhaustion. Should you choose to do that, what you're going to attempt to do is you will roll a strength check with your strength mod. When you do that, that will set a DC for a saving throw for him.

And if he fails your set saving throw, he takes a level of exhaustion. Or I'm sorry, he takes a level of stress. At five levels of stress, he'll have a defunct car. That sounds like something someone's smart who's trying to... Like you get hit a real hard with the baton. I'm going to basically smash this guy. You can hit him very hard. I uh...

Run... Zoom forward. Is he in the driver's seat or does he have a good driver? He is in the driver's seat. I am going to run up as I... No one drives Big Thunder Sky. Nobody does it. Hey.

You're always a shitty driver! As I am going to go. going to bring the connebo as it surges with energy and all of its splites glow with laser tips on all of its side. I cast Divine Smite. Nice. Nice. I make an attack roll against it.

Fucking gift. Nice that. Okay, that hits. Divine Smite, that is one of my casts. Actions. That is going to be 1D8 plus five. 12. Nice.

Five, twelve, uh, uh, 18, and then, uh, 23, 23 points of bludgeoning and radiant damage. Hell yeah, dude. Fucking unload on this, guys. You've broken his mishap threshold. Let's go! So you hit in with this crushing blow into the, into the Big Thunder's red car.

This streak of blue lightning explodes out of the conobo as this big gash enters into the side of the car. I'll describe that in a second. But you land a massive blow onto the side of this car. I have a bonus action. As I see it, I'm going to lean forward and with my boot, I'm going to try to smash in his window. Oh, yes! That's a bonus action. Fuck them up! That's probably gonna miss. Oh, no!

Bud, hold on, hold on. Just give it to him, the other one. Thirteen. There's no one. Turned around, hang on. Watch, I have the cruiser staff block here. 13 hits. Okay, I'm gonna roll damage.

It's not gonna do it much, but I got- You're just tracking him. I got a boo. You're fucking up his whole... Max damage. No, you got it. That is... That's 11.

Oh, 11. Oh, 11? I mean, you just kick glass in his face, man. You like, you kick your boot out, and you hit the glass of the car, and it shatters in at him. And you see a glass, oh, cut him on the face. Fuck you! Roll down your window! Fuck you!

Fuck you! Fuck you! And he's driving the phone. And he's driving the fog! And please roll a complication. That is the end of your shirt. That's the end of my turn. Holy shit.

Oh, that's Miss Abs. Yeah, don't do that. No complication of hers. However, however... Oh, that's right. You have to say. Sorry, God. You had...

You had such a brutal blow from the hit on the car. You've actually thrown out the steering of his car for a brief moment, and you see him start to kind of like spider and veer on the streets. He kind of like loses control. for a moment.

Spin it out. You feel in control, Saggio? You're slipping. You did the drink. Where is he? Don't leave us hanging. The car turns 45 degrees towards you from the blow.

You've thrown his back tires out. And he's going to basically move directly to the brink of the river. Oh, my God. Don't get cut off. Yeah, Jesus. Yep, like right there. And he's going to fight to

to straighten out. I see this happening and I'm like, I'm shouting. Oh, no! Oh, God, he's going to get run over. He's pulled the wheel back. His back tires, fucking, like, tailfishing, or fish tailing, as he's, like, kind of spinning is just barely able to keep the nose out of the river.

As you've, not blown his back tires out, but you've thrown the fucking car a skew. This is very bif tannin of this guy. He will, uh... Why don't you make like a tree and leaf? Um That was one of my divine, wait, I clicked Divine Smyde, but it didn't use a spell. Um, that's been happening to me.

Yeah, sometimes that happens. Or sometimes hitting Cass doesn't actually... What is huge? Do I get a free one? You might get a free one. Oh, maybe. Hell near me. Thanks, Dan.

Um, you'll see, uh, as, as the car barely straightens out, um, that same goon out of the side, uh, street side out of the car, we'll take the rifle out, and you'll just start peppering the buildings on the other side, and you'll see, as these laser blasts will go out, and you'll see the scorch marks burn into the building until one hits a reactor line as these crackling energy tendrils start snap and split as this reactor pull starts to crash down, and these crazy lightning tendrils start dancing through the fucking street. as everyone needs to make a con saving throw. We're okay at that. We're good at that. We're very good at that.

That's a 10. Well, we'll see. They've been relatively low, right? Like reasonable. Nine. Oh wait. Yours is it. Did your buff help? You do get a free. That's just new pal.

One free, divine smite. So you're- Hell yeah. Are you using the control? Hell yeah. To make that dexterity saving through? No. This is caught.

It's con. I don't think so. It's overcharging our systems. It's part of the whole, the vehicle itself. I'm in the driver's seat, but it feels like, I don't know. I don't think so. Unless it counts. What's the concern?

What's the concern? So I'm boosting his ability to use the control station, right? Does that give him the plus 1D4 to the saving throw? is the question. And I... The control, like, driving the car? Yeah, driving the car? Yeah, I would say, I mean,

you're driving the car to try and dodge the fucking power lines. You're steering the car in order to make this dodge. No, no, it's a con thing. But it's con. It's not... Oh, it's con. Hold on. It's the integrity of the vehicle. I've got blinkies. Hold on. It's what I'm interpreting that.

It's just ability to. Oh, well, either way. Either way, then it doesn't matter what the point. You do have your proficiency because you're proficient with bikes. Got them. Wait, you failed. I got an 11, whatever that. Oh, you passed.

Yeah, I wasn't adding my PB. We were very fined. Oh, you passed too then. It was DC 10. Sometimes lucky. So everyone hit will take six points of lightning damage as these tendrils lash up and dance and strike at your vehicles.

But you do not take the one level of stress that wouldn't come along with. Beautiful. And since we have done, 10 threshold for fun. Yep, we take no damage. Let's go. We're taking one.

The bike gets a little bit of the paint gets chipped off by one of the Zapps. And it is the biker's turn. We can skip them. Yeah, let's skip them. Just the one, oh, actually I guess just the one in your same square, that one, is going to pull up to the side of you.

and they're going to ignite these kind of like energy chains as they start spinning them and they peel back and whack them into the side of the truck. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. 20 to hit. That's that gets us. Our AC is 20 while moving. Yeah, yeah.

Shit. It'll do. 14 points of damage as this forced chain whips out and slams into the side of the truck. You guys have replaced... treat sieve? So only does four damage. Four damage.

Four damage. Four damage. We'll give the tat. And that is, oh, I didn't roll a complication for that. Oh. Nothing. Um. Right in that bell.

Rett. A stalled vehicle blocks the road. You need to swerve hard to duck into an alley to bypass the derelict without losing ground. You must succeed on a DC-15 deck saving throw using your vehicle's decks. And that's the bikers. Or is that me? That's you. Oh, fuck. Even Don thought it was living, learned.

Is it my turn? Yes, I'm sorry, yes. It goes to the deck. So I will make the deck save. We fail for it. Oh. That's okay. We got a six. That's all right. This is just, yeah, we're okay. We're fine. Look, as long as our movement, as long as we're knocked back a peg, we're okay.

This might knock a bell. The back is open. So what happens if we fail? We're going... And you feel what? 75 miles per hour. Oh, you failed the complication? Yes. Oh, boy, I'll tell you.

Oh, no. So in this episode, everyone but Mikey dies. Yeah. That's very funny. We'll see you on the other side, go. I'm grabbing a drink. We crashed the van and I just go find a dive bar. A creature soda for you.

I will let you choose between one of these. two things. You will either crash through the stalled vehicle, busing it apart, and take 30 points of damage, or you can poorly swerve around it

and lose one ground. We're crashing for it. You think Red's going to swerve around? No, we're going through! So if we break our damage threshold and our mishap threshold, we're just going for it. We're going for it. We have tons of HP, that's not what I'm worried about.

You'll take 20 points of damage and I will roll a miss-up. And we'll take a mishap. So we take, we're up to 24 points of damage. I'm not worried about our HP. The mishap scare me. At the start of your next turn, you've crashed so hard into this vehicle.

Your vehicle will swerve 45 degrees towards the river, and you're going to have to pass a check to be able to write the vehicle. It's going. I'm not faith in you. Mike check. You have a vehicle. Wait, you check.

So you crash through and I have the word with all the duck back into the van before you crash, but then you swerve and I almost go over And it's only because I'm holding on to the ocean bar that I like don't fall out the window and then I have a theater Fuck he's right. I should be wearing my seatbelt Oh my You guys get this bump and my head hits the top of the thing oh my frill fuck So I'm gonna use my action for a third time yeah to dash yeah Oh this is the start of your turn then you actually have to make that roll now. Oh, fuck.

Yeah, we gotta try to not, we're going to the river right now. You actually can't dash. You have to use your action at the start of your turn to hold the vehicle's core steady, or if you choose not to, which will involve you passing a DC-10 check.

Or if you don't. And it's a decks check? A DC-10 Dex or strength. Oh. Check. Do twist. And and it's an ability check, then it doesn't apply. Now you can add the 1D4.

I think I'm going to save my action and try to pass because it's plus five, plus the D4. Okay. And let's like twist once. Let's just once. It's strength. Strength through decks. Then, yeah, no, we got, we can't, we can't mess this up.

We wouldn't need a natural one to fail us. We would not. We would have a natural one. You're going to go wrong. We're good. See, never didn't have it now. Never did it. So we still probably are like over here on this side.

Yeah, we'll definitely like move towards that side for sure. But you've been able to use your. action to write the ships. You cannot dash this turn, but you do not leap off the edge of this crash into the river. Wait, did that cost my action? It cost your action to write, to do that check to write the... Otherwise, we're going to the trip. Otherwise, we're dead.

That's fine. We're fucking dead. I'm using my movement to stand to... That's your mishap. We immediately get heavy metal poisoning by diving into the bucket. It's over. No, I'm happy with Zone 2. No, we're good.

That's fine. Jesus. Their turns. I'm holding on the other shit bar, and I am out the window. And I try to level myself to take a shot at this guy in the same zone as me. Just trying to make a check here. I get another two, and I miss. There's no way I'm making this shot.

We're swarving out. We do a jersey slide across the whole road. And I think I have the shot, and that's when Rhett just goes. and I, yeah, and I take a shot. That's when the chain hits the truck. Yeah, it's a nightmare. And you're careening off. It's a nightmare.

I mean, the fucking shit is going crazy. I'm barely staying in this vehicle. Yeah, Dom knows what I'm talking about. The Jersey slide. Oh, yeah, we're Jersey sliding. In the reality of the world, they are not actually three squares apart. No. There's a massive distance.

It's just like sectors. Just consider the section, man. The twos are faded. I was rolling hot all night. I'm due for a cold street here. I'm going to catch that shot again. I'm going to... Thanks, Spike! You're really helping out!

And I'm going to catch... I shoot Ziggy. I'll cast Magic Missile. It's a 120-foot thing, so I'm going to go after the guy I actually know is already hurting. This bike back here. And I'm going to automatically hit,

so I'm just going to do... That counts. Four. Three, that's seven, and another three. That's going to be ten points. Ten? And that motherfucker's got no... No fucking armor.

And he doesn't have the armor. Oh, right. He's got no arms. You just need ten. String. Dammit. Dammit. So you...

Thanks, Mike. And you grab his shot and you redirect and you fire it at this bike. That lands dealing stress. And it hits on the mishap level. table with one additional level of stress which puts it at the twisted metal level and the bike shatters on the road as the tires come off

the metal tears in the shreds. The biker goes flying forward. Sweet, you hit the bike explode mishap button. You just see the body start tonguing. As you are just like are you just blasting forward? The vatis a bag of meat. You can just take it off the ground.

I see this explosion in the background, like this, literally a fireball just lifts up, and I'm like, it's an eight-bit, it's an eight-bit, a motion, bo-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-oh.

Oh, he's okay, there's a parachute. It's a really poorly, like, over-trawling. Me too, good, goodbye. Oh, shit, that's not right. That was. That was the end of my turn. That was the end of our turn. Oh, that was, yeah.

Okay, I will roll with D12. Oh, you roll a mishap? Oh, I'm sorry, you roll a complication for me. Seven for Co. Nothing. Nothing. 7 to 12 is no complication. Nice.

Let's go. Only one, two, three, four, five, six are complications. We roll, or we just all roll at some point. I just want to make sure I'm making games. Oh, it's the round. Yes, I'm sorry, we all rolled, but you had to use your, oh, but you roll your standard, the standard deck save. We all do the, is it a save or a check

when we're, at the top of each round? Dex check, it is a deck check. Using the vehicles. So I can use the D4. Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah. So let's, yeah, this will make sure we stay on, on task here. What are you looking for here, 20?

I annihil it. Here, well, here, just take this Yeah, yeah, yeah. 19 for that, for that, the top of the round one. Beautiful. Plus one. Eight. Ah!

Eight. Um, this is interesting, uh, because I failed, um, but co-past. So why don't we, then we should move back, everyone that failed should move back and she should stay where she is. Well, but I would assume. Am I able to let up if I see this guy yet? I'm not trying to just stick with. him so I would assume he falls back. You have the control to use that. You establish pursuit. Yeah, I'd say absolutely you can stick with him. He would fall back to Zone 3.

How do they do? Oh yeah. Oh, I can forget this fucking guys. Oh, they failed too. So I'm all going back one. So everybody goes back one. He's a guy. Big Tanger. Yeah, Tanger will move with a big Thunder. Um, he's slowing down, Sagio. Yes, I'm sorry, it's your turn. I am going to... I have smashed in the shit. I am going to...

I'm just going to do the same thing, or once again, I charge it up and... as the laser spikes on my connovo as I'm going to just keep trying to smash into this vehicle. Oh, that's very effortless. You crush it.

That crush it. You crush it. 24. Oh, that'll hit. And so then that is just 3D8, 7, 9. 9.

18 plus 5. 19. 19 points of bludgeoning and radiant damage. Jesus. For those that are couldn't score. So you once again

blast through that damage threshold. as the connoble will strike in, scratching, these big gas shit showing up on the side of the car now. You do not, however, push to the mishap threshold, but you do deal a solid blow of damage. I'm kicking in the door. Yeah, I'm broken, I'm on, I'm, I'm tilting. I am.

You're trying to kick the door on its hinges. I'm kicking the door off its hinges. Yeah, fuck this guy. Mechanically, the Big Thunder's car is currently at three points of stress. So depending on how you do, you get a- I'm trying to kick his door. Yeah.

You give it a try? That's a lot. I'd say that that's correct. Fucking fake, baby! The dice tell the story, my man. What the hell? I'll roll damage. Oh five, it's only 10 points of damage.

But I am, I'm on the side. I'm almost like, grazing on the side of my elbow. You were like, you know, the bike is almost like shuffling, as you're on the side, just slam. your fucking boot into the side. And 10 is the break point for a point of stress. So you've now move over four points.

Oh, we got them. We got them. One more to go. ...of stress is what it'll take as you're slamming your boot into the side of the door. Big Dents, huge gash, this pristine, beautiful... Oh, yeah. ...giant giant red car marred by Coe's fan.

I'm taking that other arm, Sogio! I'm taking it! You can see kind of through the window. He's not talking, you can see almost like, you think, He's just sweat as he's like trying to hold Trying to hold a distance ahead. Trying to get away with this tanker, but you're fucking shit up. Um, please roll on a...

Is that your turn? To be more than that. Roll on a... Oh, you zoom down the other side. Um, roll on a complication table for me. Oh, that'd be a D12. D12. Oh, good, we're good.

Nothing happens. Yeah, nothing. Oh, I wish it did. Top. Yeah, that's okay. That's all right. Fuck. Big thunder. That's all good. Big thunder.

I promise you you don't want to catch up, Co. I promise you I do. Big Thunder himself actually is gonna pop out of the car with this giant like gunmetal black This like dirty black Giant revolver

As he points at you And fires what is almost like out of this revolver Like fucking buckshot As he fires this giant plasma plasma the plasma pepper pot Um And Um Is that me or the bike?

Is he mean me or that? Well I think, you don't have covers, so I think, I don't know who takes this damage, but we'll say the bike Oh shit Plus five, oh I would roll it's a GM both But I'd also roll the gym both Yeah Um

That's 23 to head You get filled with lead 20th year ahead, I suppose, I suppose, I suppose as this giant, almost like, flaming black gun comes out, what are you going to do, shoot me? She hasn't learned. The scorching, like, blast shoots out in a shotgun pattern. And it catches you in the bike, dealing 13 points of damage as the gunshot rolls off.

13, probably to both of us, I presume. To you and the bike. Yeah, so I will take 13. It's a big hit. It's a big hit. Big hit. 13. And then I am going to also take it on the bike real quick.

And then 13, the armor's only. So 13 minus 5 is what? 8. So I've taken 11 damage total on the bike. I have, how many HB? 30. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

That does take my mishap threshold. It's more than my mishap threshold. So I just need to roll on the mishap. I don't get to... I roll it for you. Oh. Okay. You have... You can only have frozen steering.

The steering of your bike is locked up. That's the worst. When it comes back to your turn, you have to roll an action to... I'm sorry. You have to roll an action. You have to repair the steering on your... bike or you automatically fail ability checks in saving throws. Oh shit. You're just going straight. I'm just going straight. And you're going straight. And it's a, we'll say

when it gets your turn, but in case I forget, it's a 15 strength ability check. Let me make sure that's right. Yeah. It's a 15 strength that you have to pass. Um, turn pair. Yeah, you can do it. True parent. You got this. Um, bikers. I'll roll a complication. Fuck is a D12. What the hell? What's going on? Oh, that looks like honeycomb.

No complication arises. The bikers will... What's going on at? I can't see a biker job. The one biker is going to pull up next to the truck once again and swing in another, that another, like, blazing for chain as it whips out and slams against the truck but I'm assuming 16 does not hit?

No, we got 20 AC. 20 AC while moving. The chain crashes on the side of the truck but just bounces right off as they couldn't catch quite the hold as they needed to land on you. That's not the right thing. What do I need? I need something. Is it my turn? Yes. And no complication occurs. We all start by rolling our decks. Check. Yes. Crushed it. So this is where you get to add your D4?

12 plus four, plenty. So we do get to move ahead. Big Thunder fails and the Bikers fail. Oh my God. That's going in the... Biker drops back. We're spluttering now. He drops back, but then we move forward.

Yeah. So we've finally caught up. Yes! Baby! And as you finally pull up kind of next to the action, this has happened because you've just been kind of like we said, you've just been like confidently careening through all this stuff, shattering boxes, splintering out in all directions. As you pull up, you see what used to be this beautiful, a ghost, but beautiful, cherry red

car now just scratched and beat up smoke coming out of the front. Co's bike, however, also with several new scratches, sparks are flying out. You're the only, surprisingly, you've crashed through absolutely everything, taking a bunch of damage. And you're the only vehicle on the road that look relatively okay. Tories in the air, baby. Because we're just the fucking tank. Yeah, go ahead and move the redlock tank back as well, just why I grab. Oh, yeah.

Slow and steady wins the race, that's right. Oh my god. When I miss. We finally call him. I can't believe this shit. So, Redd, I think it's your turn. Were there any complications rolled? Oh, I did roll a complication, it did not trigger one.

Okay. A 50-50 chance to trigger a complication. If I can roll up at least a little bit ahead so that the angle of the mag cable could potentially hit it should one of my crew members decide to use it. Oh, shit. And as we're rolling by, I'm gonna have one arm on the, uh, on the, uh, on the, steering wheel, I'm going to roll the window down, and I'm going to pull my fucking sidearm out of my, out of my fucking coat. And without a word, I'm going to lean out and just try to fucking

fire at him if I can. That probably hits. That is a 20... That hits. Uh, something. And that's a D8 plus seven. Twelve points of damage. That's pretty fucking good. Uh, 12 points. Um, you blast through his, uh, his damage threshold for your turn, you spill the two points over. You've not hit the requisite 10 to add that final layer of stress. Got it. However, there are two more people to go for you. That's right.

Unless you have anything else to do. No, that was my action. What is the mag thing do? I'm happy to read it. Requires one crew and an open cargo bay, which is... Open cargo bay, which Ziggy opened up in the very first round of this whole thing. It's a simple weapon. Melee attack roll plus 5 reaches 15 feet, so we've got to be pretty close.

Hits. The cable attaches to a metallic target. If the target is a creature wearing metal armor or with metal body parts, it is the grappled condition, Escape DC-15, and as the restrained condition until the grapple ends, the crew can use a bonus action to retract the cable to a minimum of one foot, extending the cable up to 15 feet long, or to disengage the magnet if the attached load exceeds the hauler's towing cargo capacity. The hauler is pulled towards the load

and can't move beyond the cable length. Our towed capacity is 12 tons. I do not believe that his car weighs more than... Holy! Our cargo hauler weighs 9,000 pounds. Holy smokes. Okay, cool. Just wondering. So the question is... All right, what are you guys doing?

So, I'm, like, I'm, like, hanging on the other shit bar and I'm, like, half out the window. Ziggies in the back. Like, I'm trying to think, like, what would I do? in this situation. Oh, you do? Right? I just don't think that I would go for the fucking...

You wouldn't. I don't think I would go for the mag cable. You would... No, no. I think at this point, basically what I would be doing, right? We're driving like this, the seats this. I would hook my foot, like under here and like wedge my knee, like, up into the front of the thing and try to get up over to see if I can get a good line of sight on this guy.

And I'm like... I'm like leaning on the front of the vehicle, try to get up. front of the vehicle trying to stabilize my hand just to try to see if I can shoot one of his wheels. Put him down! A good shot on the wheel well here. I don't want anything to affect this role. Oh shit, I should put that. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say for frame and reference at this point, you're probably all moving somewhere in the frame of like 100 to 110 miles per.

Let's fucking go. We're maxed out. This is... The truck is sturdily fast speed. The truck is speeding down the road. down the road. The cruiser and the bike could go faster but are so fucked. They've basically fallen to this speed. It's just insane. I'm sweating for sure. I'm breathing heavy. I'm trying to like focus on my breathing and like just

try to shoot. I mean for the wheel well. Oh god damn it! I got a 10. Oh that's 13. Yeah no good. Oh god damn. It's not gonna be cinematic today. Oh man, that's cool of shit. Not gonna be cinematic today. I wanted you to hit it man. Your elbows in my eye, Pat.

I rolled too many 90-20s already. Too many 90-20s. Zee- You're like in my lap and I like swir a little bit on accident and you miss the shot. It's all good. I'm like trying to brace. Can't fucking see the road, Pat. See you?

I know. I see all of this happening. Dude, end him, bro. This is a fucking nightmare. End him. I will happily end him. I will see the fireball of the motorcycle that exploded that I destroyed. That I destroyed. Somebody used it.

I would love to, but I'm not the mag cable guy. I'm hacker man. I've got tricks, I've got tools. I see this massive fireball coming from the racer, from the motorcycle that I destroyed, and I'm like, and all of a sudden, this massive green scan line of hypergrid energy captures the fireball and shrinks it down into a pops.

and then I look and I reach out getting a line of sight into the window and the passenger seat of the car. I'm going to cast fireball. I'm sorry. Flaming sphere inside of the fucking... Not fireball. Flaming sphere inside of the shotgun seat

as he's going to suddenly see this massive explosion of fire emerge. It's still being contained by the green energy of the hypergrid as the app continues to run its code. But a circle spiral A filing loop of fire is going to emerge inside of the car. He's going to take 2D6 fire damage.

There's not, there's not saved. It just happens. No, no, no, no. He needs to make a dexterity saving throw, DC15. He takes eight fire damage, and that's going to persist as I dedicate all my RAM to concentrate on the spell. Nice. We got him! We got it! Go get him!

That'll be the end of my turn. Oh, let me... Let me miss hat. Miss that. Nine. You're good. Well, how much damage you do? What was the outcome? I did, I did a nine points of fire damage.

And there's a flaming ball of heat in the past. Do the guys on the inside? Yeah, yeah. I cast it inside of the car. Otherwise, it would just, it would just go whoosh, right? We're moving on 120 miles per hour. 110. 110 miles per hour, 108.

You see, you see, this burst of green. You see, if you're looking in the back, maybe, maybe Pike, you can see this as you're holding on, you kind of, you kept the corner of your eye. You see this almost like strange copy. As you look over also, and Coe, you'll see as well this, this ore up here as Big Thunder, what the fuck? And then boom, as this will go off inside of the car.

Yes. This is not an explosion. It is a sustained ball of fire that I am running. It's a small sun. It is an orb of flame. These guys are cooked, literally. You don't know exactly what happens inside the car, but you know that you've put this giant orb of flame

in the lap of a guy riding in the passenger seat. And as this goes off, you see like a pulsing burst as suddenly there's a swerve in the car as it goes like this on the road. Oh, shit. And then it flips. Ping pong between us. And then it flips and it spins and it just like at 110 miles per hour cartwheels up the road.

It collides. The force of the explosion causes it to collide with the red line tanker ahead of it. It takes out the back wheels. Both of them spin out across the front of the ground. Break, break, break, break, break, break, break. I'm bring it, I'm bringing, I'm bringing! This crazy gash has cut into the red line tanker as you just see a spurt of this gushing,

a crimson red liquid, geysering through the air as this now slickness comes across the ground. The tanker goes up in a flame. As all of this happens, a rolling blackout hits. Darkness falls all throughout the camera. You all, the only lights in the area, the neon lights on your side are dead, nothing across the river.

Everything is black. The only thing is the illumination of the flame and your headlights coming off of the tanker as you pull to a stop. In front of you, you see flipped over on the top of the car, sitting on the hood, the supercar

in its twisted twisted metal form you don't catch movement and the flame lightly licking on this oil tankers it goes up the only real illumination of the area with this crazy red streak

of glistening liquid reflecting the light as it kind of dances throughout this pool as you all slowly bring yourself to a stop. I,

so you know I can't steer, I can stop, right? I can slow down and stop. You can slow down and stop. Okay, I am going to just immediately pull back as I'll come to a stop

and I'll call out to them. We got to make sure this guy's fucking dead as I will leap off of my bike. I'll jump out of the vehicle as soon as it feel like it's safe enough to jump out and throw my jacket back in. It's sweating.

There's fire everywhere. It's hot. And I'm going to shout out for coat. No, we need them alive. We need to find out a supplier. We need them alive. I moved the fire ball. The ball of fire out of the seat as fast as soon as I hear that.

Would I be, just for flavor reasons, for more reasons, would I be able to have taken my, as they were spinning out, could I have quickly fixed my bike so I could zoom past and do a sick of gear slide? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay. I'll zoom. Obviously.

10 miles per hour you fix the bike. I'll go past and then I'll do a sick Akira slide, uh, aura slide as I go around the wreckage. I'll

kick out the kickstand and I will leap off my bike with my connobo. Raised. Don't kill him before we find out a supplier. Fuck, you're right. You better be fucking alive,

Sakiyo. I will bring the truck around so the open bay is facing all of the wreckage. And I'm gonna leap out as soon as we're at a stop, presumably with at least with Pike. Yeah. And do I see any movement? Do I see any signs of life? Inside the record. Oh, boy.

And you'll start to hear as from behind you catching up slowly are the other biker goons as they start to approach the area. Oh shit. Roll in six. Six. With a six, it's extremely difficult to make out, but you feel like for the slightest moment, you did see movement coming from the driver's side door. He's allowed, but we got company,

and I'm gonna basically ignore this, expecting that Coe's gonna deal with that. I'm gonna start, if they're approaching us, I'm gonna fucking start going on these guys. I'm running right behind, right? And I'm using a Wacom style tablet pen, and I'm moving it across, and you can see this massive orb of flame

that is following me, and, uh, racing forward as we catch up. I'm going to run past, I'm presuming, and maybe this is true, but I'm envisioning that the two drivers of the truck are horribly mangled in like this thing, in the tanker. Horrifically, I don't give a fuck about any life in there.

I am running over to Sagio, to Big Thunder, and I am trying to see, I don't know if there's flame that's going, I am going to try to rescue him. If his car is on fire, I am trying to rescue him. I never thought I'd be fucking doing this. Trying to pull him out of his own vehicle.

You come around the car as you approach. You call out to him. You better be alive in there, Saguay. Live. And it says those words ring throughout the air that as you start to pull around the side of the car, would anyone be generally kind of towards the road near the car? We would actually be, in the scheme of this weird...

Basically behind the... Who would be closest to the red card at this point? If I was coming around the side. Yeah, not even close. I mean just, unless you mean second close. We're waiting for the cavalry. But I would say that we would at least maybe start to get close and then we turn.

It's one of those things where we're like basically making sure that he can't fucking bolt it, right? While she's dealing with him, we're trying to protect the rear here. The driver's door is gonna rock it off the hinge. And it's gonna fly like 60 feet back down the road. What the fuck? As he punches the door of the car with his cybernetic arm, the door leaps off its hinge and scatters,

the grinding sound of metal dimming as it moves down the street. You'll see as big thunder, bloodied and broken, stumbles out of the car. Um, he'll stand up. You're gonna wish you fucking killed me. Go. Because you're running out of time now. I had more than aspirations of a nice life.

I was getting ready to change the fucking game. And I'm gonna give you a little bit of taste of what Red Line can really do. Um, and he takes out this weird looking injector. Um, not just those two points. This has like four jagged prongs that come out. As you see, as he punches this plunger down, you see rocketing all throughout his body,

that red glow as his muscles start to increase, as the tension of his body starts to rage and expand. The pupils of his eyes turn this eerie, deep red as he injects this mutated form of red line.

It's at this point that the biker goons start to pull into the area and they look out at the scene they see this now hulking form of Big Thunder place

on the battlefield. Oh shit. Oh shit. Please please don't break my arm Please don't break my arm Please don't break my arm For one more time I'm gonna need everyone to run for a miss Let's go!

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a folk horror tone for Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition and don't forget to snag all the extra goodies like dice, miniatures, plushies, a tarot deck, and more. Thank you. So these are the goons. Yep. They got off the bikes. Stand back up. This is us.

This... This is the gout! These are the... This is the wreckage. It's basically all fire and shit past that. Don't go... Yeah, the wreckage basically ends that section of combat. Yeah, they got it, bro.

The whole background of what you're looking at, like, you're cinematic and you're... Your cinematic environment is as you look at Big Thunder, behind him is this flaming wall of burning metal. Glistening at his, is this pool of spilled red line. On the left, you start laughing it up. On the left, you don't know what's in store. On the left, the flaming light of the fires kind of dancing in the pollution of the river. Look, I've seen one of us. As you stand on the shoreline facing off against Big Thunder.

Can you really quickly tell me what goons, what numbers those are? We got a three, a four, a one, and then I'm just going to make another two. No, two should be somewhere. It doesn't matter. Just grab the pen. There is. Okay. And we got it two.

So one, two, three, and four? That's correct. Okay. And then B2. And this will be for the beans. That's hilarious. I'm gonna put them over here ahead of time. 20 to 25.

No, actually, not this time. Oh. Oh, no. I got an 18. You may go first. Thank you. 15 to 20. You both got 18?

Okay. Wow. Who? Oh, Rhett and co. What'd you get? I got seven. That's very funny. What happened? He just accidentally retracted his comment.

He tried to pin it. It was just goofy. That's all. And Co, you got... Oh, four. Four. Go check out Samons. Use our link.

Zamon. Zamon. Exclamation point. Zaman. That's Zaman. You see these warbling lines of red energy, energy crackling through the veins of Big Thunder's arms.

You see him kind of pulsing down, up, moving all throughout his body, like living energy. Damn. You've been trying to catch me so hard, go. Let me tell you what you've won. A one-way trip back to your fucking friends. Tell him I said hello. And he'll run... This guy sucks.

He'll run at you and charge. He's taking thunderous steps. He's now grown just a little in size and doesn't quite tower over you, but he stands tall above you. Oh shit. He's gonna punch forward with the cybernetic arm. You're a big guy. For you. For you.

He's gonna punch through twice. Once with his normal fist, the other with the cybernetic arm, that'll be at 12 and an 18 to hit. 12 misses, 18 hits. 18 hits. You're finally a big man, Sagiyo. I'm proud of you. As the punch lands of the cybernetic arm,

you take three points of damage as he lands a clean blow right in your abdomen. But as the fist connects, you feel almost this concussive pulse. as something else hits you and you take five points of thunder damage as the force of the blow echoes through your

Wow, are you really? That's fucking crazy. We're both risos. We're all resisted to each other. We're all resisted to lightning, that's all I got to say. We're all of the storm, baby. It's like 24 that couldn't hurt each other. Because their claws weren't silvered.

And you took two points? Two points of that of that of an air. You'll see as that kind of echoing thunder punch lands, you almost see like he feels invigorated by that connecting with you. Do you get knocked into the water? No, it's not move you back in a direction. It's just like a punch that feels like a hits twice.

You do not get knocked in a direction. That could be coming. And that is his turn. Pike. In this situation, would I feel like Co has it handled? Or would this be like, it's prison time, baby, and like I would feel like that I would want to return the favor of you basically saving my life?

I think whatever you think. I think that I am having this one-on-one duel. I'm going to think I have it no matter what. And so it's a matter of, do you want to just let me duke it out? Do you want to knock some goons? Some goons? I think... What would Pike feel in this moment?

That's tough, dude. Whatever your heart tells you, man. What I would ask is, as bounty hunters, in this situation, would you go after the mark while Rhett is like... I think I would turn to you... I would think back to prison, and I would think about how we fought with each other. shoulder to shoulder. I would look to

Wret and I would say, can you handle these guys, this riff-raff? You fucking goater, we got this. And I look at Ziggy and kind of give him a nod. Are we going to kill him? We're going to fucking kill him. I'll be back. And I will use all 40 of my movement to move 15,

30, 35. And with the last five feet of movement, I'll jump in the air and I'll say, surprise, jackass! And I'm going to, but with my initiative, You see in, these rolling blackouts in this fire from the distance, Co, you might even just see

as I start to glow just a little bit. And I use my uncanny metabolism to gain back all of my focus points and heal 1D6 plus 5. So I'm going to heal 10 points of damage. I'm so focused on Big Thunder that I don't even really realize you here until you're leaping up to attack them

with a firelight. And you'll see. a bit of like a radiant glow from me, this, this, this magenta glow as I will use Flurry Blows and I'm going to hit them three times and see what I can do here. The first one's gonna be

a 26 to hit. The second one's gonna be a 16 to hit. That'll hit. And the last one is going to be a 13 to hit. 13 will hit. Wow! That's gonna be 10, 12, 27 points of damage over three hits. All

bludgeoning. No magic. You, you almost look at first like a shadow moving through the night, illuminated just by the flame until your fists start to glow. One more source of light appears as you move forward and you start slamming in punches and you're feeling really good as you land each one of these blows. And as you connect with his body, it is the sensation of like punching a of fucking hanging beef. Your blows are landing. He's a no-mo. He's, he's like,

he's got damage to nullification. He's got damage absorption, not nullification. And you're getting the same. He barely takes note of you as you land, admittedly solid hits. I'm trying to give code just any edge. Even if I'm just a fly on this guy's shoulder, I'm just trying to give her any advantage.

That's my turn. Got it. Ziggie. We're going to get him. We're going to get him. We're going to get him, but I can get him from over here. I'm going to first use a quick command, and I'm going to move the flaming sphere ball on top of this guy. He's going to need to make a dexterity saving throw, DC15.

Which guy? This one here. one here. Can I share a space with them? It moves into the creature space. Oh, shit. There they go. Number four needs to make a DC blah blah blah.

Exactly right. Oh, natural 20. Okay, he'll take half of 11, so it'll take five points of fire damage. And then I'm going to, all right, this is going to take a lot of memory, but let's do this a try. I'm going to cast Shatter right here.

Oh, oh shit. I think that hits RET 2. Oh, God. Really? What is it? It shatters a 10-foot radius. That should hit it. Well, but here's the thing.

It's from the point it's 10 feet. So if you just do it like here. Then I can hit them all. Then you can hit them all. Okay, I'm gonna hit all four of them. They all need to make Constitution saving throws. All four of them? One, two, uh, close enough.

One passes, two fail. Well, what's the DC? The DC's 15. Okay, two fails, three fails, and four fails. but one passes. Okay. The one that passes takes half of 12 points of thunder damage as I delete a section of air, of atmosphere, and it creates this collapsing vacuum that just, boom, explodes in all directions.

Oh, yeah, that works like gangbusters, wow. That'll be the conclusion of my turn. That's fucking cool. You like deleted the space. Yeah, as you... You create this vacuum void, and it works. It works quickly to fill him. And it explosion is cough and his burst.

Rhett? Ziggy, get back. I've got them. Get to safety. Help for... Oh. Well done. As the ether tank

on my back will spin and work. Liquefite as it soaps up my grav canon. The singularity gets pitch black, almost sucking in. firelight as I will cast my once a day or once a week, whatever, half-powered Vertex, my special move. Oh my God. As I love, why did we come here? No, these guys are the most red shirt or red shirts.

And they die horrible, horrible deaths. As I back up a little bit right between them, a, uh, often a sort of swirling, almost black hole starts to swirl. And Dan corrected me last time, and I didn't read this properly. So even immediately, they, uh, it's in 30 foot emanation. They're all in it. And I should be out of it. Yeah, they grew up. Yeah, you're out of it.

You can definitely get in. Yeah, I back out of it. Their bikes get sucked in. The bikes start to like get pulled in. Yeah, if you put it a little back here. Is this just everybody? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'll do it here to get their bikes too and just fucking suck it all in.

The bikes are like, like getting, Oh my god. This is devastating. Anyone who, any... So how much damage do you do? These guys are the only make a strength saving throw or take one D8-4 damage. These guys are the equivalent of peasants and you've just unleashed like absolute fear and hell.

Oh, natural one. So yeah, they fail. That's crazy. And they're all pulled 20 feet closer to the radius. So do the bikes fail? Uh, I don't, can they even pass? I believe that they automatically fail a dexterity of exterior

I think they're automatically without a driver. Did they get crushed? Tell me how much damage you do? One D. Oh, I should probably roll the one D&A. Don't mind if you do. Eight force damage. Holy shit. Okay, just to set the scene, these are guys

they never went to high school, they skipped high school, they fell into drugs early. Oh, yeah. They've never left this place ever and now for the first time ever they're witnessing a singularity. They're witnessing a graviton event. Also, if you look carefully... They don't know what's happening.

If you look carefully inside of the sphere of fire, there's a helmet with a skull like slipping around. You see this warbling, dark spherical graviton anomaly with sucking in this flame core right at its heart. As it swirls

and gathers, these bikes almost begin to tornado around it as well as these people. As they swirl around until the gravity finally crashes everything together. And bone and metal is indissarble. And flame. And flame.

And everyone, bone metal and flame, as everyone is crushed into almost a fucking compact cube as this, as this square, a circular sphere of organic metal mass. metal matter lands on the ground, spilling out onto the ground beneath it. Oil, blood, it's impossible to tell what's oozing away from it now, as all of them are dead. Wow. Well, nice job. I got him!

Rett's a little horrified. I mean, you've seen plenty of... Everyone's a little horrified, Rhett. That's a fucked up thing to do. But this reminds him of the days where this was literally what he was hired to do. That was some of these troops that they never went to high school. They got drafted by the military, and they got crushed with machine metal bone. They didn't know what's happened.

We didn't even get to their turn, you know? Yeah, they had no. This just got dark. Okay. And Bell steals himself and turns to, Don't worry, I got him! I got him! That's the turn!

You did it! That's all I got. Holy shit, dude. That's fucking gold. Wow. Go. I am going to, with my back to the water, I'm not thinking of I'm going to pivot around and knock them.

I just, I'm just saying, you are always a fucking junkie, but at least now it's a fair fight as I'm going to swing in with my Connobeau. That's a miss. What is it? It is, it's definitely not good. A 10. A 10 is a mess. 10 is a mess.

I am then going to, as he dodges out of the way or blocks it, I'm then going to take my one hand off of my Conabo and try to get a gut shot on him to return the favor. Nice. 14. 14 hits? That's good. Okay.

So as you swing in with the Connobo, he moves this massive hand and grabs your wrist stopping your attack in action. as then you take the opportunity to find the opening and you hit him with an upper cut straight to the gut. 14, that's only going to be, Bibu. That is going to be eight points of bludgeoning damage and he's going to get pushed back, knocked back one, two, ten feet.

Oh, shit. I'm going to basically charge after him. Hell yeah, dude. I'm going to charge after him. Here we are, shoulder to shoulder. Like the old days pike, I guess it wasn't that long ago, as I am going to make sure that I...

It's like the old weeks. I am going to get around you this way. Yeah. I'm not in between him in the water. That is my turn.

Bonus action, yeah, I'm good. Well, this is perfect. Thanks for the help. I don't know what I was thinking hitting you for all your strong posture. Shit. You always had one clear weakness. And he'll he has his arms open like this as he claps his palms together

And this cacophonous thunderous boom rings out and everyone who can currently hear Yeah, needs to make a DC 13 Khan saving crew Don't worry about these guys they can hear they're dead No Khan you say Con I say 22 I just hit it I just hit it I hit a 13

I had a 12. Wait. Oh, shit. Now, do you get anything? You got to have something. Hold on. Do I have any kind of e-fer on anything? I don't, I doubt it.

Just the collapse. Just the glass. I rolled a 10 with a plus 3-de-con. I fail. I fail. There's no other way to say this. I also fail. If you succeed, so if you were 13 or higher, barely.

Fucking barely. You take seven points of damage. Is that thunder damage? It is thunder damage. If you, well, 14 or 15. No, I'm sorry, it is not Thunder damage. Oh, shit.

How did it? You're about to find out. If you passed, you take seven damage about to be determined. If you failed, you take 14 points of damage. And as he claps his hands together, you see, as he makes this motion, the lines of red streak moves towards his palms, almost in a hungering fashion. As he collapsed together, this red circle almost extends out from him. And as each one of you are hit, you see almost these lines drawn from you to him.

As any of the evidence that you had struck him previously is almost entirely erased. As all of you feel sacked. The fuck, man. No, thank you. So you like drink our energy? Yeah. And you now know that you take necrotic damage. Shit.

I failed. I took 14, but as an etheron, I use kinetic density. And just the denseness of my physical form blocks out this inherent necrotic damage. I rolled an 11 on the D12 plus my PB. I reduced with the damage by 13. Nice. Holy shit. And the next time I deal damage before the end of my next turn, the target takes extra

force damage throwing it back at him. So I'm almost... So you only take one point of damage. So that's very relevant now. I still take all the other effects of failing, but I only take one damage. Okay. So anyone who failed is now deafened.

Yeah, I was going to ask. I was still deafened. So you're deafened and you're deafened. So I failed, I'm deafened, I will take the full amount, except that I shit my pants. This is I hear my character, she. I turned to Rhett to say, called it, but you can't hear me.

No one can hear it. What is that? The singular. Co and I hear everything. As this terrible kind of red energy waves out, and you feel your power sap from you, Rhett, you're able to kind of take it, but you feel that drawl almost on your innate life essence.

He'll say, And there it is! The weak ones you surround yourselves with. And Pike, it's your turn. Yeah, so this thing's going to hit me, and I'm going to feel it, even though I passed, I'm going to feel it deep in my chest. You're going to still feel that pull one in your life.

And it's going to stagger me for a minute. I'm almost going to lose my breath before I kind of center myself and stabilize. And I'm going to move around him, but for flavor, I'm going to find an opening and run at him and slide beneath his legs, through his legs, since he's so much larger than I am. And it's not that hard with the oil and the red lying spilled all over the street, just to kind of pop up on the other side of him.

And this guy's bigger than me. I fought guys who are bigger than me. I am going to fight tactically and Florea blows and try to basically deliver three shots to his left knee and try to start to bring him down and weaken his legs. Before you do, I'm going to have you roll 1D20 for me on the table. Oh, God. Okay. Seven.

I'm not wearing my jacket so it doesn't get ruined. It's in the truck. It's in the truck. I said I left in the truck. That's right. Okay. What do we mean okay? Nothing?

That's it. All right, I attempt to flurry. I attempt to flurry that blows this guy. And again, just for flavor, I begin, like, meticulously targeting his, like, his kneecaps, like, his left knee to try to, like, bring him down. Yeah. Oh, my God. I absolutely whiff on both. And I'm going to take one more attack to see my landing.

What did you get? Uh, an eight and a nine. Okay. And then a 13. 13 hits. So one of the attacks will land. I'm absolutely rattled from this concussed. You find the ground to be a little slicker

than you'd expect it as you went to kind of slide through his legs and you actually move a little bit further back. I misjudged the distance. Then you were ready as you threw out the first two punches. You close the gap a little bit further and you finally find purchase with one slam as your fist. Seven points of bludgeoning damages. I'm just trying to weaken this guy's knee.

Seven points as your fist lands thunderously, right? knee and it feels like punching granite yes um Ziggy how's this guy looking perfectly fine he's looking almost untouched he healed all of the damage I did we don't feel almost essentially okay as far as we can tell um grapple him is that a good idea I can pull apart like Velcro you almost got a spitting That almost had me. That almost had me. Oh, man.

That's so fucking funny. BAT! No! Oh my god! You were doing half long ways! You said that there were like streetlights that had fallen over, and their electric cables were all surging. Is that still true? That was... Depends on what you'd want, why you're asking.

I mean, that would have been like a little bit furthered back in the car chase. Like you're moving 110 miles per out. You would have progressed a little bit beyond that. Okay. Then I will endeavor to make a direct connection with the hypergrid. I am going to type a few things. I'm trying all my scripts here. Let's try them all.

And I'm going to cast Witchbolt, or I'm going to call it Tether Protocol. Yes, it does lightning down. lightning damage and yes he's immune to that. Resistance. Resistance. But I'm still, I want, I don't want to kill him. I'm going to drop it as soon as I think that he's near death because I do not want to do lethal damage to this guy. So all I'm doing is just running this current through him. I need to make a range spell attack. You currently do not feel as though you're in danger of dropping him with. I, well, 16 to hit.

Yeah, 16 will hit for sure. Yep, yep, yep, yep. And his AC is actually 12. Oh, shit. I don't know why . I'm going to do. I think 13 is the lowest that it hit him so far. Well, I'm going to do 19 points of lightning damage to him. So he'll take 10? No, he'll take, uh.

You can change the damage type, I say. Oh, I'll do that. Oh, I'll do it. Oh, man. My apologies. Oh, thank you. You're a king. I do it again.

I don't mean to tell you how to play your class. No, no, no, no. But you may as well play your subclass and fry this asshole who kill all my friends. This is a subclass thing. and I thank you for reminding me. This is the gridrunner subplast. I'm going to use a gridrunner feature.

It's called Hot Fix. I can use, up to my intelligence modifier, these per day. I'm going to spend my reaction, and I'm going to use it to ignore the resistance of one target. So he's going to take the full 19 lightning damage. Oh, shit! And let's perhaps consider that for future spells as well.

You bypass his defenses. Holy shit. But once per round, we're going to be able to. to be able to do that. So let's think of a Middle League. What? Wait, that's for the full round? Well, only because I won't get my reaction back until the beginning of my next turn. So I can only

do this once per reaction. So I... But then it's persisted? Or just... No, it's... I don't think it lasts forever. It's just for that one time. It's just for that attack. It's for the Feltas. I'm not turning off his resistance. Got it. Got it. I'm just using this for the one time that I'm casting which ball,

which fortunately, um... Do it. I... I open up. This green Uncharged lightning bolt that comes from the hypergrid, different than natural lightning, different than real world lightning, of course Stripes into him, and he feels lightning for the first time in the real way. He takes 19 lightning And it does absolutely almost surprise him to feel a direct shock from lightning. It's just like a power cable and he'll turn in your direction almost questioningly to see what you're just hit with As he does take a solid blow from that. RET, Code, you're on deck.

Oh, God. Well, I definitely want to do some kind of damage here. So he looks pretty, he looks pretty solid, don't he? He's not looking bad. He's looking pretty fucking imposing. Yeah, this is rough. I am going to,

I'm going to save my spell slot and use my machinist. Bizz, and I am going to... I'm just gonna shoot him. I'm gonna turn, and I'm gonna get shoulder to shoulder with Ziggy, and I'll say, you're learning quick, kid. Oh, thank you. And we'll fire at him, and that's a natural one, so I hate you to coer play.

Hey, you took my picture. Dude, they get sucked. You just to kill them. Yeah! Uh, Pike is torn and tried. He's dead permanently forever. Thanks guys. You're out of everybody.

It's been a pleasure having here, Andy. This is a little micing over here. And you don't actually accidentally hit somebody else, do you? Is that... Is that... What? It's a natural one. I automatically listen to miss. It's up to you what happens.

How bad is what you're shooting? It's just my normal black. It's my normal shot. D8. D12. Don't do it. That's simple. It just goes wild. This is bad enough. Yeah, we're deep shit. They're right there.

All right, rat. Your blasts. But I want to kill your blast. It's fine. Friendly fire is more common than you think. He knows. Friendly fire. He's a soldier.

He knows. The government tries to keep those numbers. I don't know how's it is you've convinced me. Friendly fire in my rhapsody? Oh, shit. More likely than you, ah! Wow. You've done well. Your quibbly's good.

Oh, God. Move on. I did, move on. Touch these, make these. Okay. Co. I don't think I have any bonus. I am going to reach into my vest,

and there is. there is a super like roughshod, like vial of some sort of stimulant as I stab it into my abdomen where I've been really cracked and I hit the plunder and I wince as I cast cure wounds on myself. Nice. It's called cure wounds, right? Yes. It's called cure wounds.

That is a cure wound. 2B8. Excellent. 7 plus 6 is 13 plus, what's my charisma? 13 plus 4 is 17 points of healing, thank God. Damn. And so 17. And then I am going to shift around and say,

it's you and me, Pike. Let's just keep beating this shit out of my. him until he tells us what we want and you are going to tell us who your supplier is who's your distributor and I am going to once again as I do that I'm going to leap around with a roundhouse kick and I'm going to make an attack roll actually there's someone no 13 hits yep it's right 13 you're on it it was he got just 13 oh yes far as we know right now his AC is 13 six point no you know his AC is 12 well every you guys know is on it you

I did not hear. I only saw her 13 hit. You were in the bathroom, I think. I'm kicking him very possible. Into this wreckage. Oh, shit. I don't know what that does. How hard do you hit him?

I hit him only for six points of damage, but mechanically, I'm using the knock push. What is the weapon master call? Shove. My lighty beam is connected to them and you're shoving. Oh, roll an additional D6. Oh shit. That's weird.

One. Maybe it's a different event. As he crashes into the to the burning metal of the car behind him. He'll take an additional one point of damage from the force of your blow, landing on the front of him and crashing into the back.

You have a bonus action? That's all my... Oh, that was. Oh, okay, okay, okay. And I am getting up in his grill, so he... I'm, like, trying, I'm pursuing. And you're outnumbered, Sagiyo, just give it up. That's my turn.

The only thing you're gonna hear out of me, Co. is me laughing while it all fades to black. Oh shit. This guy saw. This big Thunder guys are real. That's very funny. Uh, coat, a 19 to hit you. 19 that hits me.

Uh, with the 19. Why don't you just stay over there while I deal with your friends? Uh, as he'll backhand, uh, he'll backhand you. Um, and you'll take, um, seven points of bludgeoning damage. Okay. and three points of what feels like thunder damage, the second portion of the blow concussively kicks in. And then he's gonna look at you, Pike,

and with the 20, he's gonna swing his other fist at you. That hits. I have a 19-AC. That'll do the trick. Tonya, what is the old UA artiposite? Artificat, see? Artificat. And they... You take seven...

Seven points of bludgeoning damage and five points of thunder damage as you for the first time now feel his fist collide with you and as the as the knuckles first touch already is a brutal shot But then you feel this this thunderous second crash as a different force hits you unless something I am gonna use my reaction to attempt to deflect attack If the attack includes bludgeoning damage it does I may reduce the attack by one D10 plus eight Let's go. The bludgeoning portion. That's the question. I would assume it's only the bludgeoning portion, but it just says when an attack roll

includes bludgeoning, piercing, and it hits you, you can reduce the attacks total damage. Yeah, that's it. Total damage. By 16. Hot damn! Wow! So that's the whole damage.

I am just using my opponent's mass against them, and I just move and I just redirect the force. And I don't get hit, and I just watches the force. kind of, I feel the wind as it goes past my head, but I just move out of the way, move it. Yeah, you know that this is gonna connect with you. You almost cannot dodge it, and so instead you're able to grab

it and shift it past you as you guide him away from you. That's fucking cool. And it's your turn? If you haven't learned by now, Pike's fighting styles basically open by going all out and basically like sizing up his opponent. And now that he

realizes that he can't fold him like a cheap suit, I'm gonna make one attack and then use my bonus action to patient defense. As I've now learned that this guy can't just, I can't just brute force this. I'm not co, right? I've sized up my opponent. And I get a natural one. So I land the blow, but it does nothing. My fish just bounces off.

Yeah, that's cool. And I take a few steps back and I use my bonus action to patient defense, which will give him disadvantage if he attacks me. Oh, okay. Okay, good to know. An advantage on deck saves. That's right. Very quickly to snipe something from chat,

I do an okay R2D2 scream. It's really the... That was Andy that you were hearing. No, I was the one screaming. Yeah, Andy was the one screaming. That was my point gets sucked into a black hole voice. Really, anyone gets sucked into a black hole voice. That was excellent.

It was one of your best scenes of all time. Thank you. Instead, what Ziggie's going to do in this moment is he's going to be like green light is flashing from his grid boy is this connection of green link. It's still snapped to... Quick correction, I'm a liar. Patient defense is just, I can take the disengage action as a bonus action.

And dodge. That's if I spend a focus point, that's focused patient defense, where I disengage and dodge. So I'm just disengaging and I'm gonna dance around Coe to the other side. I don't leave her, but I'm no longer within five feet of him. So if he wants to hit me, he's got to move. Got it. So this would be within five feet.

Okay, well, I'm gonna be here. I'm still gonna leave her. Yeah, that's right. I have a shitload of movement. I dance around Coe and just basically repositioned to try to keep him moving. I want him to keep moving his head. I want his head on a swivel. I don't want him comfortable. That's my turn. Okay. I still have this connection of lightning between my grid boy and between SaGai. Power cable. It's a power cable. It's a tether of sorts. And I am also running additional scripts to try and stop this guy. But I know that I can't knock him out.

I'm going to do lethal damage if I hurt Saggio. So I yell out and I go, So, Rhett, I don't want to kill this guy, but it's important that I help with the fight. You tell me when I need to stop. Fry him! And I turned to Rhett, and what actually happens is Rett hears... Yeah, I can't hear. You guys are both dabbed.

And I can't hear either. And I am going to overcharge the Witchbolt. He's going to take... And I'm going to use my feature again. Five lightning damage. and it's actually going to be lightning damage as I once again use my reaction to make sure that he is no longer resistant to that.

And I'm going to have him make a, oh no, I'm just gonna roll it. That's gonna hit. That's gonna be a beam of hypergrid energy soars forward as I cast scan lines. He's gonna have the lines on him 1D8. There you go, 1d8. Yep, yep.

That's gonna be three radiant damage to him. And he can't go invisible until the start of his next. Oh, good to know. Yeah, very important. And that was coming up. I'm just running script after script, just doing my very best. But I can't hear anything.

I'm just telling Rhett to get my physical attention and not knowing that he can't hear anything either. Sure can. Bet, you're out. I am going to, how's he looking, by the way? Healthy. As an ox. He's taking some blows, not quite bloody,

but he's looking not terribly bad. I'm going to just come up ahead here, and it's like that scene from saving Private Ryan where his hearing gets knocked out. Stumbling. My sense of the house is knocked off, and all I know to do is shoot my fucking gun, and I will attack him.

That hits. Big money. 14 points of force damage. Big money. Ooh. As this blast fires out and it lands cleanly against the center mass of his chest, he's taking these blasts, but he's starting to actually show somewhere. Go. It's your turn.

I'm going to just smash my connovo against him. That's gonna hit. Do I do it? I am going to, no, I'm going to, that'll hit. I'm going to do 1D, oh, 1D10, right? I'm going to count it being versatile. Nice. Nine plus.

You should just cast this, eh? 14 points of bludgeoning damage, as, I don't know, and I can knock him like further into the wreckage. I don't know how that works, but whatever, I'm just, maybe. I would say you can't, at this point, Where he's at, you can't push him back through it. He's up against, I'm smashing him. But if you're knocking him up against hard metal

on the other side, I'll allow you to roll another D6. Hell yeah. Another one. That's okay. So what's the total? What's the total? That was what, 15 plus 16? 16.

And then I'm going to lunge forward with my head. I don't give a shit that he's taller than me now. I'm going to try to smash my forehead against his face. face. Oh, damn. Du bop, chew up, that's still 15, yep, that'll hit. That's gonna be six, yeah, this die sucks. That'll be six points of legend damage. Yeah, he is six points.

I'm only rolling that set of dice. I just, I don't, my bag is downstairs somewhere. But the shy Halasi's over there. You, to paint the ass, dig into that thing. You knock with your Conabo into his chest, and the force knocked him back into the car, and you fuel this reverse. fuel this reverberation almost through the, through your weapon as it holds so strongly against him. And it's almost, you get the sense, almost dazed by it, and you find the opening to slam in your

forehead into his head, and that even knocks back. Oh, man. We're just dead here, Sakio. That's all we want. Oh, I haven't had this much fun in a long time. and it's big thunder to you. And it looks like your friends want to have some fun.

So why don't we invite them to play along? And he'll, he'll charge at Wrette. Oh, fuck. Does that, do I get an opportunity attack? Yeah, I mean, if he's moved outside of your range. Yeah.

Yeah. That'll still hit. That'll still hit, think. That's crazy. Oh, it's a three, though, because of great weapon master. So three plus five is what? Eight points of bloodshade damage.

Eight points. As he moves past, you catch him on the back as he runs towards Rhett. Cool attack, let me show you what I can do. As he pulls back with both fists and throws two attacks right at you. The first is a 17. Misses.

The next is a 22. Oh, you know, you got it. You got it. As he is about to connect, you'll see from the singularity this like, this force field pops up, almost like the space itself is bent around me, as his hand just can't penetrate the force. Oh, yeah. And my AC is increased by five to 23.

Hell yeah. Yep. For one round. Yeah, just for the turn, just until his next turn. I will say this. As his fist is crashing down right in the front of you. You see this pulsating, almost rampaging a red energy coursing, bouncing through his body as these red lines are dashing all over the place. As it connects with your shield, the force lands, you see the movement as a second thunder strike also caught

by the shield and the redness of his, in the veins of his fist, almost like bundle up as they coil for a moment, and then scattered back up his arm. And for a brief moment, you almost get the sense that he winces, like that caused him pain. Oh, shit. Pike, back to you. As I watch him, like, run away from Coe and I, I decided to try to switch up my strategy here.

5, 10, 15, 25, 30, 35, 40. As again, I do a kind of a wide-swinging arc. But this time when I use my flurry of blows, I start peppering him with blasts from the gauntlet. Trying to hit him with radiant damage instead. So I'm going to fire off three blasts from the gauntlet here. That is unfortunately an 11. But the other one's a dirty 20. And then the last hit will be a 17 to hit.

So two hits, two radiant hits for a total of 15 radiant damage over two attacks. The first one goes away. wide, but then I zero in and I fire off two more as I'm trying to hit him square in the back. And as those shots ring out and the blast land, you can see the scorch marks almost moving in. The racing red lines have been coursing through his veins, you're starting to notice almost a slowness to them. As they don't have that kind of rampaging charge anymore, they're moving. But it's almost, you've seen the slow die. down and he's starting to look a little bit rough.

That is my last focus point and the end of my turn. Ziggy. I will step back seeing his sudden charge. I'm going to go, I'm going to join pipe. And I'm going to run over behind him. And this entire time is an electric green beam of hypergrid energy continues to pulse towards him. I'm going to use my reaction to eliminate his resistance

as I use my bonus action once again to feel three points of lightning damage and I need him to make a wisdom saving throw as I attempt to overwrite part of the code that makes him possible. DC- Oh, sorry, oh, I thought you're saying cool shit. You're fine, you're fine, you're fine. Oh, wisdom? Yep. Two. Seven necrotic damage.

Fire and narcic back at him. Uh, as you, uh, you do that and he takes it. makes another solid blow. Brett, it's you. Before that, when Ziggy sidles up next to me, can I say something to him? Please, yeah. I'm like, I'm like sweating.

It's just a nightmare, you know? I'm like, I'm running out of juice. As you siddle up to me, and I'm still, I don't even look at you, but I'm still lining up against Big Thunder. I just say, please tell me you have some of that surge garbage on you. I can't hear you.

That's right, I don't know you're dead. What? And that's the end of our turn. What do you mean? You can't hear me. And it is the blackout still in full effect. The flames rising higher from this oiler. The area around you is becoming burning hot.

If you weren't exerting so much energy in this battle, you'd be sweating from the flames alone. Rhett, it's to you. I am taking aback by almost getting hit and seeing this guy right in front of me. and my cannon will, I'll turn a crank on it, and I'll pull the trigger, and the cannon will sort of swirl

as the barrel sort of opens up like this, and it directs the gravitons out in this massive cone as I am going to use my alternate fire mode. And I'm going to use this suppression cannon. He needs to make a deck saving throw against my spell save D-save. I don't know if that's a second. Jackass.

What is it, wait, what is the... Just fail, just... I roll the nine. I just don't know, I don't know what to add. Oh, it's Dex. Dex, uh, 12 total. That fails. Okay. He gets blasted by the gravitons.

He takes three force damage and he's not prone. So I basically, I just want a... I just, yeah, basically, I'm doing suppression fire. I'm trying to suppress him. He gets knocked down, thrown. He thinks he knows how my back up. So he can take a reaction if he wants to attack me while he's prone, but I'm going to back away from him if he wants the opportunity attack me.

He can do that while prone? I believe so. Nothing's stopping him. I think it's like a disadvantage. Yeah, I would think so when you're prone, right? I'm not sure. Actually, that's a great question. I'm going to look up the prone condition right now.

Just real quick. Just so I know, because I feel like I... God damn, that's funny. He thinks he knows how myself works. You have disadvantage on attack roll. Yeah. So yeah, absolutely. I'm not worried about this guy.

Do we have advantage on attack? A attack roll against he has advantage if the attack is within five feet. So you do, you have advantage against him as well. So I'll rule at disadvantage. The first is a natural 20. Oh my god, you can't do it again. And he flails at me as I back up and... Oh, he's gonna get him. When you blast out, he almost takes one step.

takes one step back, like he's fighting the effects of this, of this torrent of Graviton energy, and then he slams back into the ground and cracks the street under him as the force crushes him down. He's now looking pretty bad. This is, end him, go Nova. End his ass. Great fucking work, Brett. And I'm going to run forward as I leap. And it was always like, you were always a fucking bully as I lunge forward and And now I'm gonna show you what I do to bullies! And I'm going to attack at advantage with my conno bow.

I hope I don't get two natural ones. That'll hit. I'll hit. Crit. But I am smashing. I don't care. I'm using a bonus action to smite as laser spikes here on my connobo. As I am going to smash in.

I'm going to deal, oh, 15 points of bludgeoning damage. And that's max damage. Max damage. Fucking go. 15, 20, 23. Yep, it's 8 radiant damage. 8. 8.8.

8. 8. 8. And then 26 points of damage. As I am slamming down with my connobo as it's glowing with laser as I use my final spell slot to surge it with energy. See ya. How do you want to do this? Yes.

Slom me. I would like him to instinctively reach up with his atomic arm, and I want to come down, and as it connects, it pulses out, shattering like in full metal alchemist. Yeah! As his robotic arm smashes, leaving a clear connect to his head and smash his head to knock him out. You do that in shock.

Because I'm screaming. I'm going absolute fucking agent. As the Conabo crest down, you were screaming, as he'll lunge his arm up going to catch the Conabo as it's crashing down. As it strikes his palm battered and bruised, it just starts to split and then explode as it moves easily like butter through every section in the arm until it's completely obliterated off of his body, and you land the rest of the strike directly into the top portion of his side,

as you non-lethaly have defeated Big Thunder. And you see the racing of this red line coursing through his body as it slows, slows, slows, and then moves to almost a stop, but it collects over his heart. And as it collects it in a central location over his heart, it pulses, pulses, pulses. And in each pulse you see his form get a little smaller, a little smaller, until he's back to normal size, and then until he's sapped a little deeper, and he grows just a bit skinny, as if it's totally sapped his energy.

Oh shit. As the light then fades from his chest. You have any idea how hard it was not to fucking smash his brain? I turn off wishbowl. I am going to, as he's weak, he's up against the wreckage of the car. As he's unconscious, I'm going to take my boot and smash on his one living arm that has not been shattered into the wreckage. I'm going to lean down, uncork the flask that I have, and use my last point of Leon. hands to pour it, force it down his throat and regain his consciousness as I'm smashing his arm

into the smoldering wreckage. Oh, hopefully to a very painful effect. Oh my God. You are grinding your boot into his arm against this burning hot metal car. You can almost hear the sizzling of the skin as it rests against the flaming metal connected behind it. connected behind him. You're leaving one arm over the knee as you uncork the flask and pour down

your last bit of healing liquid as he That's better than you fucking deserve, Mrs. Humaystey. You're going to tell us who the fuck your supplier is. Who is your fucking source? Fuck you, Co. I... Fuck you.

Without hesitating, I broke your other arm ten times. Let's see if I can get to 10 before you pass the fuck out or die. I smash again Trying to break his arm I hear at this point. What was that? Can I hear my is my hearing back? Oh, that was just for one round. Oh Yeah, it was a yeah Oh you're sure you asshole. I said sir I'm over top of him as my boot is on You're supposed to roll for it but my boot is on one of his arms and I have him by like the the scruff as I'm screaming in his face

as I have his other leg, his other foot beneath my foot. Like I'm trying to pin him down, my elbows in his gut. I'm not trying very hard to keep this guy alive. Ugh. You're a distributor. You're fucking lucky that I realized I fucked up and I'm trying to change. That's the only reason your head is still

anything more than a pile of fucking mist and gore. Do you understand that? And I am just like fucking staring into him, trying to make him, trying to intimidate, trying to torture him into, I'm torturing him to get the name of his distributor, to get the name of the distributor of the sector. Roll a strength intimidation check at advantage. Oh, let's go. I love fifth edition rules as they're used. Mace, what are you doing, you might ask at home? I read a rule book.

I run a rule book. I mean, Mikey told me I was a rule I could do. Yep, I think you're all right. I think you're gonna be okay. That is... I'm proficient in this. 18. 20. So I do, plus five, plus... Bingo. You hear the burning of his flesh as his arms pinned against the door.

Ah! Do you have any idea how close I came? Do you have any idea how close I came to heaven at all? That's all I wanted from nothing to something. And you sacrifice your entire fucking neighborhood to get it and you still fucking failed. I don't care about what you want. I don't care about your fucking sob story

or why you, what we had in that neighborhood wasn't fucking good enough. All I need to know is who is giving you your fucking red line and who's giving it to the rest of the fucking sector. And we are gonna come for them. And you are fucking lucky that I'm made new friends. Otherwise, you'd be dead and you'll be able to spend the rest of your pathetic fucking life

in a fucking prison if they don't fry your ass. Fucking tell me, Sagio, for Mrs. Umay, if she ever mentioned anything for her free fucking peaches. And as you're saying all this, you're grinding your boot into his arm against the door, and you start to hear, you could all hear the sickening crown sounds. of cracking bone as Coe is brutally crushing his arm against the door, and you hear the snapping and the crunching. Ah! Well, I guess none of it fucking matters now.

I was dead the second you stopped that tanker. So I guess why the fuck not? Oh shit. Yeah? You wanna know who's getting it all to the sector? Well, good fucking love. Because the next one up is Grobulous J. Wheel Fox. And good fucking luck if you think you're getting anywhere near him.

Where the fuck is he? I stomp on his arm. I try to break it again. That hesitation at all. If he's afraid of this. Oh, God. Don't you fucking kill him! You're gonna get your fucking money.

Don't worry. Alright, you, as you're crushing his arm into the door, you'll start to see as he'd been kind of like holding a tight fist. The fist will go loose as his handle start to hang limply as the side. As Co's boot is now the only thing holding the door up as he started to lose feeling in the arm. Wheel Vox. Weedil Vox. he's on Cherix Cherx

he runs a club Cherics the Glitz room Thank you for fucking cooperating and doing one good thing for the fucking community in your pathetic

fucking life as I am going to pull him off of the heap and I'm going to turn to Brett I'm going to turn to Pike and I'm going to turn to Zicky, and I'm gonna, like, hold him up. I didn't kill him.

Maybe. Maybe I'm a fucking bounty hunter after all. Good fucking job. Now, let him go and get the fuck out of the way. I'll let him drop, and I'll kind of take a step back from him. All right, stabilize him, cuff him. I'm gonna go up to him. I'm gonna pull out of my, out of my jumpsuit.

A needle. with a large syringe and plunger. Don't you die on me, you big fucking bitch. And I'm going to start to stab it into his heart and fill him full stimulants. As I cast him out of dying. Fuck you guys. And I...

I pull out the... The ether manacles, and I start to, like, restrain him and realize that he only has one arm. He does only have one arm. And around the ankles, just fetter him. I'll put him. around the ankles and, uh, fuck.

And then I'll kind of just fall back on, uh, on my ass and just sort of finally take a breather. His arm, uh, hanging. I'm okay. His arm hanging limply at his side. Um, chains around the ankles. Everyone kind of taking just this moment, uh, to catch their breath. Um, he'll just. I'm presuming that if I look over like 60, 70 feet from here, there's a small singularity filled with corpses.

That's long gone. Yeah, that's dissipated. As fucking savage as ever, like a rabid dog, co. But I don't know what I expected from a fucking Tetsuo. How about the next time you see your sister, you tell her I said hello? As soon as he says that, I'm gonna walk over and kick him across the face to knock him out. And you do so. His ankles are restrained, his arm loosely at the side.

He's barely standing. And without missing a beat, in a flurry, you twirl around and boot hits jaw cracking it. The next and possibly last sound of bone crunching, you'll hear as Coe stands furious over the crumpled form of Big Thunder. Once there's like a moment where everything kind of just like calms down for a second, I instinctually go for my left pocket. It's not there because I'm not wearing my jacket. So I reach in my back pocket.

I pull out a cigarette, but it's broken. And it's Tetisitora, you fucking prick, as I spit on his unconscious body and I just walk back to, I'm getting a fucking bike and I I walk to the bike Anybody got a light? Yeah, yeah Oh A massive ball of fire

Wow, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, hey, slow down You look over the giant flaming tanker As a sphere or selects a section of the flame and it starts to just float towards you Oh, no, Ziggy, I'll come to you, don't move Hold on Bye And the blow torch in one of my tools.

And it's like I ripped off the broken and I don't have a little bit of cigarette, but it's just enough. God, you better have die. I'm gonna like get back up on my knees and I'm gonna check his pulse to make sure this dude's not fucking dead. And as soon as I'm sure he's not dead,

I'm gonna lift him up and throw him over my shoulder and carry him back to the truck. You check his pulse, and it's thready and faint, but it's there. And you think, though he's in rough condition, he seems at least hesitantly stable for the moment. How's your bike? The van got thrashed. That's fucked up again, but at least I can fucking ride.

Once I throw him in the back of the cargo van, I'm going to search for his gate pass if it's on him. And if it's not, I will search his, the mangled wreck of the car. That's using your fucking brain. But I need a gate pass. Yo, it better not be on fire in them. We're toast if it's in the bucket.

As you look over at the car, as all the vehicles go up in a giant plume of flame. And as you rifle through his pockets, you check his jacket, you tap his chest pockets, you rifle through his pants. You find a couple of things.

A couple of kind of folded pieces of paper. that you just stuff in your pocket, you do in fact find the premium gate pass. Let's go! You also find a vial of gleaming red liquid with two prongs on the end of it of an injector of red line. You also find a second vial

of dark green liquid that looks like the... the, it looks very similar to the poison that you saw in the cannery as you were walking by that they were applying to the weapons. They must be green line. This is Washington, D.C. That's very funny. That is very funny. That is pretty good. That is pretty good.

I will take the red vial. I will throw it to the ground and I will smash it with my boot. You do so. And I will keep the green vial on me to just inspect later. for what it is, but I'm not being caught. With what happened to Pike last time, I'm not fucking keeping Red Line on. There was a truck full of Red Line.

Is that a totally? So when the car, when this all broke out and the car was like spinning, it's all over the road. It blasted a geyser of Red Line up into the air. It's strewn all about the road. And as the tankers gone up and flame, it's been spreading out onto the...

Whatever that 7 I rolled. I was going to... say, well we can save it. I'll tell you what it's going to happen. All right, okay. Just maintaining games thing. Um, uh. I need know if I'm going to develop an addiction to that. I'll just, I'll tell you right now. You don't have an addictive personality.

If you, if you enrolled, I can't wait any time I want. If you rolled a five or lower, I was going to hype you up on Redline. Oh, fuck, I wish I got that I was going to say that as you, as you, as you like, as you like, slid through it, you got some, like, you know, it's a giant pool of on the red line. Oh, absolutely. I knew what I knew what I do. It's, it's like, it's, I was, I was, I was gonna say you're gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna get a little hyped up on what would have been standard red line, not what he was on.

Yeah, that's a special shit. That was, that was enhanced. No, he had the primo shit. That was scientifically enhanced, like, fucking red line. So you find, you find all this. You crushed the red line under the vial. You pocket that green vial of venom. you take the premium gate pass and you slide it into your pocket.

Coe is coming back around with her bike in tow, just kind of walking it over as you all meet back up at the truck. I'll look at Co. You okay? I'll fucking live. Why don't you spend the night on the ship? Got nowhere fucking else to go. You only got one.

Gate pass, so I guess I gotta put it back in the van. That's why I asked. And I just, I'll ride the bike. I'll, uh, uh, myself, myself. I'll turn it off, uh, take my connobo, put it back in the slot. Wait, wait, wait, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I just learned about this thing. Just give me a sec.

I go up there and I use the mad cable. I'm doing something. I use the mad cable. Oh yeah, you can easily pull the bike in. I'll run it around, I'll put the Connobo back in its slot, I'll shoot it. And I'm, I swing the giant magnet from a more than an already- Paises a little toaster, and it makes it a fucking on it already is.

It magnets the bike up, very gently, and I'll slide it over, and I'll bring it into the bed of the truck, and I'll let it down, and I'll detach it. You do so, definitely. That's exactly what it's intention. That's the point of it. It's to be used in such a fashion. And you wanted it and you got it. The Matt Gabriel draws the bike in. Nobody has had to exert themselves to get it into the truck.

You are all loaded up. The bike, big thunder, one missing arm. I get in the back with Ziggy. You're in the back of Zygi. I'm not trying to get a shotgun. What's going on? Do everybody in? Do you have any games on that thing?

Oh yeah, I've got tons. You want to play something? What do you got? Well, I've got... I list a number of games. Yeah, Rhett, we're in. Everybody buckle up. I wait for three clicks.

Before I... Classic, damn. I click it. Click, click. You hear struggling in the back. I'm recounting, too. I will drive to the nearest gate to get the fuck out of the... At least for now, probably to come back tomorrow night,

but for tonight, I want to get back to the Rhapsody. You, why were you, what are you thinking about, why were you thinking you have to come back? Well, in case Coe needs to, I don't know. Oh, no, okay, right, yeah, yeah, yeah. I would want to, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, I hear you. Anyway, it's, it's, I'm going on, all right,

I'm going to the Rhapsa. So you find, you retrace your pathway back through the roadways. You reverse Neb, Ziegkin, you know, is depth at it now, you can pull the nav up to the closest gate to the upper crust. My navigation takes them through a drive-through Taco Bell because I'm very hungry. Can we just have a little food? I mean, it's been a long night. I guess we've earned it.

You load up on naked chicken jalupas. We'll have three taco boxes. Ground beef. Oh, can we stop at Stevens Magma Chicken? Jesus. Do you want any sauce with that? No, never mind. We're going to go to Stevens Magma Chicken.

I don't know that was an option. It's good. I mean, who knows when I'll be back at this place? We go to Stevens Magma Chicken. You go to Stephen's Magma Chicken instead. They serve sparsier than I expected. I like a little bread that they served with it. And so we're all sitting in a Stevens Magma Chicken parking lot.

Yep, yep. Eating chicken tenders. Take you back to college. You're in the steepest-bagged chicken barking lot. And you're all in there just housing spicy chicken tenders, dipped into a delicious sauce. Beattie shit. Absolutely beat to shit. And we're all crammed in the van, eating.

You know, guys, food always tastes better after a near-death bounty. You're telling me, this is delicious. Oh, can you pass some of those waffle fries? I got the honey butter. It's just, I shouldn't have... I took the risk. You know, I rolled the dice. the dice. What do you fucking expect?

It was much sweeter than I think. First the chili pizza, then the honey butter fries. Why, that's not a savory sweet. You ordered honey on your fries and then you're like, I got honey all over my fries. I got honey all over my fries. I'm gonna, God, that's funny. I will have gotten like eight orders.

And I house all of you. I can eat that? Are you eat the fries with cup of honey? I am. Oh. Even though you were complaining about us? Yeah, I mean... Just fucking fry.

Fucking look at me. Jeez. Ziggi, you know what? You surprised me. Why? You may have struggled to beat me at their affair, too.

That's not fair. You want to know how Pike and I became friends in the cam. How's that? The one thing, when you look at all those, when you're in prison... You've been to prison? No, you've definitely not been to prison.

I wouldn't do it. Well, in Britain. No, you want. I'm sorry-in-coded right now. He see. Jesus Christ. You see all these scared little boys and girls and everyone else.

But I saw Pike, and I looked into his eyes. He's a killer. Just like me. Just like Rhett. You're just like us. And I'll give you a nudge. It gets easier every time.

I suppose that's right. I mean, technically, I have the highest body account for the last 12 session hours. Exactly right. Oh, that's, that's a high score! I mean, who knows how many people those sentry guns killed? He doesn't. Yeah. And you're on the way to Jeffrey's Magma Chicken, you pull past the cannery for just a second.

Just a mountain of bodies. It's just scarlet eye goons piled up, all with just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, shredded auto-turret bullets torn through their bodies. I'm on account four for assisting Rhett with the Singularity. I killed the one passenger guy on the motorcycle, and I killed the passenger in Big Thunder's car. I killed that one guy. You remember, he turned into dust like the end of the Revengers.

And I didn't tell you guys this, but I think I killed two guys in the bar. No, yeah, yeah, no. No, you definitely did. That went from, oh, it was technically erect, until now I did it. Make up your mind, sign. Look, let me offer you a piece of advice. Don't keep track. Please don't keep track.

I definitely won't keep track. Nine. He's got to spread you. It's got a deal of time. Level of ferocity. You'll say 24. We'll say 24. That gets me to 3.3. It's like...

It's like... magma chicken. It's got to be Stevo. It's got to be some sci-fi. Steve-o. Stevo. Stevo's magma chicken. It's a zero for the O. We finish our chicken. Yeah. And we drive to a gate. The food down here is actually much better than it is

on the top slice. It's all a bunch of fancy shit up there. Now it's way better down here. We go to the top slice, and I will take us back to the port, the spaceport. You go through the, you pull up to the gate, you see two cyber badges and that gun mech

standing off to the side, and you'll pull up, and mind you, the truck's fucked up. And you'll, you'll, like, roll up kind of like almost smoky right up to the gate, and they shoot you the most unbelievable, like, in the fucking way these guys are getting through. And you roll the window down, and you pull out this gold-colored pass, hanging out the window. It's deluxe. And they, like, well, safe travel, sir, as they scan the pass, and the gates fly open

as you are now able to ascend the ramp to the top slice. And you drive up that same like four or five minutes almost as you kind of just go up this spiral ramp until you break back out. out and it's the first time in probably at this point two maybe even three weeks that you actually once again see the sky breaking out past those highways you see that just the the beautiful cotton candy neon starway above you and it's probably at this point it's a little darker it's it's moved to kind of like firm night probably even the middle of the night Oh yeah, it's got to be late as fun.

Yeah, super late as fun. As you make your way back to the Rhapsody. And you pull into the Starport and you take the truck back to, well, maybe you'll drop the party off the Rhapsody really quick. And you drive the truck back to the rental return station. Yeah, I'll get my bike into the hangar. You get your bike into the hangar and you drive the... Well, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I love it.

Basically what I would do is I want to make sure, I wanna wanna like fix it as much as I could before I would turn. So I'll drop them off, I'll do a quick tune up and I'll drop it off. As we are walking, as you drop it off, you're dropping us off, we're getting ready to get on the Rhapsody, right?

I'm gonna just look to Coe and I'm gonna say, listen Coe, I know you weren't exactly thrilled about the space, but you ever see the way waves of light move in an Aurora? It's like a cosmic dance. I think you're going to love it. I... I've only been on shuttles and, you know, mass transports.

Maybe. Maybe it'll be beautiful. I don't know. Here's what I propose. I think I'll drop the truck off. Let's spend the night here. You take this. If you want to see to Mrs. Ume's affairs,

deal with the grocery store in the morning. Say your goodbyes. She has family. She is, she is a next of kid. I think she owned it maybe with her brother. He's still alive, younger brother. She had somebody and I'm not trying to pressure you and I'm not trying to say you should feel like you needed to say goodbye. I wanted to give you the option. I can't look Mr. Ume in the eye. I can't look a brother just yet. I'll give him a call at some point. Regardless, this is yours. And I'll hand you the premium gate pass.

Case you ever make it back here, you want me to drop you all for a couple weeks. Thank you, Red. But in the meantime, welcome to the crew of the Rhapsody. I'll stick my hand out. I guess I have to get a fucking license. Sure do.

I'm gonna squeeze as hard as I can. I know he's an ethron, and so I'm like, I'm like, you can't. Yeah. Fuck! And if you wouldn't mind, if you could show her to the brig, if you want to carry him and leave him in there.

Gladly. Hey, this will be your first lockup. All right. Come here, you ugly fuck. And I'm going to grab Sauggeo. You pick up Saugio and you slump him over your shoulder. And he's noticeably lighter. Not significantly so.

obviously he's missing an arm but something a little bit more than that he's lighter as you have him slumped over your shoulder as you make your way onto the rhapsody and this is the first time you've seen this ship and you're in awe of it's kind of you get the sense

of someone who appreciates loves your own mechanical bike you can tell the care that Rett has kind of put into this ship It's beautiful in its presentation as you approach. And walking through it is even better as this grand hangar kind of extends out in front of you.

You see, for the first time, first time presumably, off to the side, the sparrow docked in the hangar bay. And you might even move your bike up next to it, right up next to it. It's like so small in comparison. Yeah, it's a little thing. Yeah, compared to the personal ship.

Yeah, my eyes are just like, why? Fuck, Pike, you weren't kidding. Not bad, right? God, that thing's beautiful. It's even better when you're out there. That's fast as fuck, too. Oh, yeah. Well, maybe one day you could teach me how to fly a starship.

Absolutely. You don't have to ask twice. Come on, let's pick you out of room. Not the one with the swamp water. Not the one with the swamp water. Trust me. And you all make your way back onto the ship. You're able to fix the truck.

I'll reunite with Hank for the first time. I'll give them lots and scratches. He'll help me tune up the truck just for like maybe not even an hour. I just want to do it once over. Try to fix what I can. So they're not digging me on the fucking bill at the end. You're doing the best that you can

with what you got to work with. Maybe you forgot to fill up the gas. Anything else. They're working with that. in perfect condition. But it comes back on E after you've been driving around, and they slap you in a thousand-note penalty.

300 notes a gallon. Damn it. There is the whole bounty. And you all, you reunite with Hank, you know, a bunch of scratches. He helps you fix up the truck as he's kind of happily around you, excited to see you

back. You have a dog bot? Why did you never mention this? He's my buddy. Hank. He's a very good boy. Hank, this is coach. He's a new member of the crew.

Help pot. Show him around. Do you have many digibones? Yeah, I do. Don't get into too much trouble. I'm going to drop this. I'm going to give them so many digi bones. Well, they're apparently very expensive.

Yeah, and if you're doing that, it's coming out of your set. salaries, not the ships. And give him scratches. I am going to, uh, I'm going to just pick up Hank and just carry him around. He would love that. He is tiny in your arms.

Hank's already kind of a small-ish dog. In your arms, he looks like a teacup bug. He's even somehow more adorable as he's pulled up in your grand embrace. Okay, where's my room? His legs kind of like swaying as he's shift from the side. I would just lead you to the open spaces

and let you pick whatever you want. Yeah, I would pick the one that just feels right to me. The one that doesn't have the pond water, the one that feels... I would have more crew cabins. Yeah, you have several. You have some that are just like open. I have at least like six or seven. Open and blank.

And you find one you find one all kind of in that same like dormitory corridor maybe one or two rooms just down from Pike, not that far away and you you find a room that you feel like kind of begins to resonate with you.

Not because of anything that it has in it but almost because it is extremely barren and it's this empty room of promise that you can really find a space to make your own that kind of draw that draws you in. You do reach underneath the pillow and find a letter.

Dearest Porsche. He said not any of those rooms. Not those rooms! Oh shit, that was the much room. No! He said grown stuff. That's not much room. Oh, I should have known.

When we get to that, when we get to the rooms, I'm gonna let Hank go and he'll scamper off, and I'll kind of walk in as Pikes behind me. I'll take a look, and I feel that, that sense of potential. And I feel a little numb. I have, I help him with getting Big Thunder into the brig

and locked up and I'll do this and say well I guess I put my bags down but all I have is what's on me and I'll pat my vest and I'll reach in and I'm going to pull out the cricket. As many times as that big fucker punched me

he still didn't smash this little guy. I guess you are lucky cricket and like I imagine he's a barren room and like maybe there's like a dresser next to like a bed and I'm just going to put the cricket on the bed and I do the little chives. This is a fucking do.

And you and the cricket, this autumn cricket, are the only two splashes of color in this cartridge gray room. It's beige and super Nintendo color. Yeah, super Nintendo colors room. As you stand

there for a moment, just watching the quiet song of the autumn cricket as it plays you its tune. All right. I guess I'm gonna be a bounty hunter. All right, and if you need anything, my room's just down there on the right. One has a day to knock.

Thanks for giving me a place to go. I guess I could have found somebody else from back home to crash with, but I'm done getting people killed for a while. By the time I'm back from the rental car place, my hope is that everyone's long asleep. I'm sure I had to get there and I would just walk back. I take my time.

I don't sleep a ton, but I would get in to the ship. I don't know if anyone would be away. If everyone's asleep. I would say, Rand. Everyone's asleep. Everyone's asleep. You're only met by Hank. I'll sort of walk in and... Hey, buddy, I know I'm Miss Q.T. And I'll just sort of kind of introspectively walk through the halls of the Rhapsody after being away from the ship for a really fucking long time.

For probably the longest I've been away from the ship in years. And I will sit down at my desk and I will start to just look through my records of the guilds and just find out where we're going to drop this guy off and start

to think about where we might want to set a course. And once I have sort of once I know where we're taking this guy, I would ask Hank to set the nav computer. and turn on autopilot, you know, if it takes a week or whatever, you know, get going. Yeah, so you, so the Rhapsody begins to kind of once more word to life and shift and shuttle as it raises out of the holding clamps at the Starport and you slowly begin to pull away

from Makuro City, Makaro City. And you look, you go to your terminal, you see, you see, you now with one of these distributors, one of these main planetary distributors of Redline for the Scarlet Eye Gang. What's the payout? Where does it turn in? And you find the closest GBG or the Bounty Hunting Guild outpost to you and you set a quick coordinates. You can also kind of start to do a little bit of the brief research. You might punch in the name that Big Thunder give you and you would pull nothing. But the planet, Jerichs, that is within your sector. That is relatively easily to travel to.

You would go to the GBG first, the GBG outpost. But you think maybe after that your next step is to head here. And you begin to plot your course as the Rhapsody lifts up in this. space enters into this beautiful, almost like sea current, this kind of like neon, magenta, bluish, pink, warbling ether wave as you kind of enter into it. The ship begins to rock and twist as you sail away with your coordinates set towards the GBG. Yeah, I would basically like, I would basically stay up all night, right?

And like, this would be probably in the morning, you know, by. the time, I don't know if you all would be like close to be waking. I think I would probably only try to nap for a couple hours and I would probably be- I'll need four hours. You know I also don't sleep very much. Yeah, and so I think- I would join you as if we're like writing the actual ether currents. Yeah, I would be, I would have, since we're not going to use any gates for FTL, I would find, I would make sure that Hank is, you know, navigating to the ether currents and using that to, um, you know, and you would know that the relevance of this GBG outpost being in the same sector of

that you're in as well as this next planet, is you would not need to use any of the FTL gates. You would be able, should you, or ones you could maybe use to make this trip shorter, but should you choose, you can fly these ether currents instead to take normal kind of journey times towards these outposts and planets. I think we're sticking to the currents, and I think anyone who would wake up in the morning would find Wrette

on the bridge, we're just looking out at the beautiful currents, holding a cup of coffee. I will, like, stand in the back as soon as I, like, get to the huge, like, viewport of the... I've seen, like, I'm looking at, like, out the portholes as I'm looking by, but as soon as we get to, like, the cockpit in the common room, and then the, the whole bridge above that, I'll just kind of stop in the back and be like... You've had a lot of new experiences. You've been to prison yourself, but you've never thrown someone into bars. That's very new.

You've traveled a bit, but mainly on transports. You've never quite been on kind of like an interplanetary journey quite like this, on a ship like this before. Seeing the true unfettered grandeur of the rhapsody of space, the spreading out in front of you, you're stricken in this moment. Wow, Pike was right. Beautiful, ain't it? Yeah, hold on one second.

I will set my mug of coffee down, and I will hustle down the half-flight of stairs down to the lounge, and I'll walk up to where the coffee machine is, and I will grab a mug out of the cabin or co-a-cup of coffee, and I'll run upstairs. Morning. Morning. Cheers. Cheers. You look at my boss now or something? I mean, technically, yes, but I don't like to see. it that way. We're all part of the same crew. Good because I don't deal well with authority.

So I didn't expect so. And all sort of turn and sort of face out the viewport and just take it all in. It's as you're standing there, the two of you together as you look out the viewport and you see this shimmering waves of the ether current caressing against the ship. You start to see it first one, and then two, and then suddenly almost sailing with you, this pod of ether whales begins to surround the ship as you all sail together through star dust as you make your way through space. You have never seen anything like this before. Does this happen all the time? Not all the time. I mean, ether whales are a relatively rare size. but God it fucking never gets old. Let me tell you. The door behind you

opens and Ziggy steps through. Oh hey, Cole. Oh cool. Wales. Uh, coffee ready? And I'll race down and, hey, who took my cup? I'm gonna have to make my own pot? Just brew more, damn it. I'm having the wonder of the beginning of the middle of Jurassic Park when they first arrive at the island when they first see the dinosaur. And I am like absolutely just awestruck at just these whales flying through space. And I'll kind of like just sit there and I was like, maybe I was meant to be among the stars. And for the first time, in a long time, for you, Co, you're filled with hope.

You feel this sense once again, what you thought you had lost, you feel almost this homely settling in with your now latest bounty locked in the brig once more and your coordinates set to the GBG outpost as you sail with a pod of ether whales through the Stardust Rhapsody that's where won the session damn well done mace oh well done oh baby but that fucking hits good I mean, yes, actually. Fuck the red line. I want to fucking get my fix.

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