Mayday Plays - Orbital Blues: Crew 2, Ep. 3

Episode Date: June 1, 2022

Orbital Blues: Crew 2, Ep. 3 by Mayday Roleplay

Welcome to 105MDRP, your soul sound of the frontier galaxy. My name is Eli, and I will be your storyteller as I navigate you through an orbital blues. Why don't we just get around and introduce everyone today? We have a slightly altering face in the cast. Why don't we just start with Vince? Hello. Hello. I am Vince, and I will be channeling my inner Amanda,

and then playing Captain Ted. I just want a whole event where you eventually just play every single character. Listen, yeah, make it happen. Somebody one way or another. Bicariously live through all of us. We're full and emerging. Yes. Aaron, supercut, Vince is my day. Oh, good.

Aaron. Oh, you said my name. I think it shows our stupid. So you can just go ahead and skip. Yes. Tell us how you really feel. All right, Sharon's in the mood today. And Eli is gone. I'm the Dungeon Master now. We're doomed.

I've been waiting for this moment. Oh, now intros are done. Yeah, no more intros. Well, we lost Eli, so I guess we win. Yeah, we won Orville Blues. You all swan song at the same time. Yep. Oh, man, nuclear level swan song. Amazing. That would track for us to be real.

It could be pretty accurate. Well, I'm glad this happened right as we came live. As, yeah, right? Just get it out of the way. Yeah. Anyone, anyone do anything fun this weekend? Yes, Allegra, you know, you know, we didn't. You know, we have it.

You know, we are. No, I just want to check in. I don't I don't feel like I don't check in with you enough. How's it going? How are you doing? Everything's the best. It's a living dream in this whole of a world. Are you? Yeah, Eli, Eli, I found Eli. OK, well, they can't be seen in OBS, so I need to fix.

Hold on, hold on. It would not be a May Day stream without some technical difficulties. It's been a while. It's been a minute. Oh, no, we're not going to do that. Dust off some stained. Oh, no. Throwback. We're all one big happy family again.

Look at this. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful family. What did I did? Everybody introduced themselves while I was away. We did nothing while you were away. No, we never. It was like when the teacher leaves the room. It's exactly like that.

Well, Lager, did you introduce yourself? Good morning. Say good morning. I'm leg. I sound drunk. I'm not. I just have a bunch of corn. I'm very happy about it. It's frozen. I'm playing love.

Wrong. And last but not least, someone who has been featured throughout one of our friends here at May Day met. Introduce us. Tell us everybody about yourself. Hi, I'm Matt. I'm playing as Harrison. Um, yeah. I'm awful at this kind of things.

Matt makes cool shirts. Yeah, that makes cool shirts and has a thing called gemfirefly. And you should check it out. They're very soft. I'm drenching glitch. That's a thing, I guess. Yeah, he makes music. He does like a bunch of shit. One of our awesomest community members.

One of our, yes. And it's been very fun to have you here. Thank you so much for joining us. I am super excited to thank you for having me because you guys are awesome. Everyone's awesome and it's great. Yeah, we're just vibing today, folks. It's going to be a good time. Let's just have fun.

It's going to be a fun. We don't even need to know what to do today. I was super excited coming on here because it's like I get to hang out with May Day again. And I was explaining this to someone before and they're like, how can we get to do this stuff? And it's like, oh, because my life is dope and I do dope shit. Yes. Amen.

Oh, yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Put that on a shirt. That's an old Kanye quote. As always, this play, this actual play is intended for a mature audience as a futures. A mature content that I had a list for that I don't have. But you are warned. There are things in shenanigans about sad space bitches.

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shots and things that we've done. So be sure to check that out. Do we have any other announcements? Yeah, June 11 not loyal. Oh, hey, listen, listen, I'm going to ask me to be here in her stead. So I'm going to I'm going to defend that honor. So, you know, I'm saying the scheduling gods are never kind in the frontier. Yeah, that's right.

June 11. We've got the Orpheus finale. Hopefully coming. Yes. Very nice. Fingers crossed. Scheduling God's permitting. We will be wrapping up Book One of Orpheus.

It's going to be a dozer. The dozer. The tentative episode title is when there's no more room in hell. So do that. What you will. Yeah, I can. That's why I think last but not least, we've completed our Delta Green campaign doomed to repeat second arc.

But now the whole campaign itself, just the second arc. Just the second arc. We hope to come back for a third arc very soon. But we're we have 11 episodes out that are available or available wherever you get your podcast. 22 episodes total if you have not checked out the first arc. Or if you just need to get your nostalgia and your kicks out, you know, feel free to binge it over and over and over again. I do listen to the 80s episodes a lot because I loved them.

They're so much fun. They give me stress. Well, yeah, yeah. I just like being able to turn on the Internet and hear my friend's voices. That's super cool to me. All right, well, if there isn't anything else, why don't we get to it? Yeah, let's do it. Some believe that you're destined to cross paths with another for a reason,

not by chance, accident on purpose. You were meant to be here. You were meant to be there. It was written in the stars long before you were born. The day after reviewing the footage of a hijacking of a conglomal shipping container, a woman in a long white coat and a short bob sits in a lab full of cryotubes and plant life. She huddles over a microscope, introducing a solution to the slide of cells. She observes the interaction and takes note.

The bald man with the scar enters visibly chuffed, coming right up to her. Harrison was found waltzing through the Oberlin terminal. Are you not concerned? She doesn't look up from her work and she just adds solutions to the slide. Creighton, you worry too much. Consider it a solution to a bigger problem. The bald man grabs the microscope and checks it across the room. I'm not going to lose the integrity of this facility on a petty marital spat.

And you won't have to. The woman gets up from the desk, grabs a container labeled Minerva, and enters into a back area of her laboratory. Harrison, you were riding up an elevator to an office in the penthouse where you believe your ex-wife might be. You tried to slide and shuffle across the hallway, trying to be unseen by the cameras. And you eventually crack open the door and peek your head in. And sitting at the desk is a woman in a long white coat and a short bob.

And she looks at you and says, Harrison, it's good to see you again. Harrison kind of stares for a moment because he admits that he's disarmed in many ways. Because it's been a while since he's seen her. And all this rage has bubbled up in him and all the sadness. And she's still hot. God damn it. She's not even looking at you. She's still preoccupied with the pages of notes that she's kind of

scanning through and just at her desk doing her job. Yeah. I'm forgetting what her first name is. Gemmary, I believe. Right. Gemmary Lang. Yep. That's why I didn't stick like the name of my company.

So, so yeah. I think like leans into the room and then slightly closes the door behind him and says, Gemmary, it seems you are engrossed in your work again, darling. Well, a girl's got to make her money. See? And she kind of like points to the chair in front of her desk. Yeah.

I'm going to sit down. I was surprised, though, and she kind of like turns a page. I wasn't surprised to see you on that ship. It was very interesting. I was so curious that you would be there. What are the odds? Yeah. Well, I got shot by a pirate, so.

I mean, price to pay, I guess, to choosing to be an outlaw. Outlaw. Well, I guess I'll take that better than eco-terrorist, so. I guess they're one and the same at the end of the day. I mean, you could have done much, much more staying here. Hmm. You always did like generalize things. You're a great scientist, and you got a great ass,

but you're not great at seeing the full picture. You're a, you never were an artist. You painted by numbers, and those numbers forgot you in trouble. But those numbers are like the actual truth. Art is subjective, but like at the end of the day, I can create so much more efficient things than just what art can give me. Harrison, I think that's the difference between you and I,

and why my work kind of succeeded more than yours. Do you want to show me what you're working on? You haven't figured it out yet? It's a shame. I have one of your samples. Hmm. That's quite uninspired, military, very predictable, a little hacky, cut some corners, disappointing.

It's a prototype in the beginning of Trials, which you interrupted. Pardon me if I could have just watched those Trials, too. Yeah, drew mad scientist couple. So he's looking around the room trying to get an idea of what else might be up here. I mean, primarily it's just a more or less just a simple office. There's several file cabinets kind of scattered about.

She's really neat and organized. So she's not like it's not just like a scattering of just notes and stuff like that. And then her computer and her what she has at her desk right now. She's like several folders out. Yeah. All right. He's going to kind of clutch the jar that he carries with him

and slide it under his jacket a little bit more. Why did you even come over here? What are you trying to do? Um, well, I'm very interested in closure. And I don't like when people copy my notes and try to pass them in for a good grade. So especially if that's military grade. They were hardly your notes.

I just took a bits and pieces that were actually good. He just wants to shoot her now. Um, what you're doing is widely irresponsible. And not only are you putting more and more people in danger in that risk, you are also damaging the field of what we do or did. And in the long run, you are perverting what we agreed science was for. Or maybe I'm just on the frontier of something much, much bigger.

And you're just too afraid to join me on it and calling it ethics. All right. I admit I'm a little curious. Of what I'm working on. Yeah. Okay. Why don't I show you? She's going to like push like a button.

And there's going to be like a back panel that comes down. And it's going to open up to a camera that's pointed at her laboratory. And what you see is three people there standing there. Lev, Captain and Flip. Meanwhile, down in the laboratory, you all three have been kind of scanning through this lab, picking through flowers, trying to grab seeds, just kind of pilfering through all of this eclectic spread of science in plant life.

Flip, you had found a small cryotube of something that was labeled Minerva. But as you guys were kind of digging around with it, trying to glue it on one's back, you hear. They forgot about that. Yeah. I watched it this morning. I was like, God damn it. You guys hear like this kind of growling rumble that's coming from one of the

darker parts of the corner of the lab. Because this lab is not fully lit. And you see something coming out of the shadows. And it's fairly big and it's staring at you all. It's like, it's got, it looks kind of like a plant of some kind. Like it's got foliage on it. It looks very large. It kind of creaks and mones like wood, wood as it kind of lurches forward.

But it's got like also animal qualities to it. It's like a beast of some kind. And it's just kind of like, like kind of jarringly just moving forward. And it's growling at you. And it doesn't look friendly. Daddy, can I kill it? Yeah, light that ass up. Why don't we roll you three?

Actually, everybody roll initiative so we can just keep the narrative going. I forgot how the roll initiative again. D6 plus grit? Yeah, 2D6 plus grit. My quick guide open. I have an eight. I have a nine.

Oh, it's a D3, a D6. A D3, and then you add your sabbies. So one to two is one, two to three. Yes. Five, five, four, five, four, big four. Yeah, they all step on each other's toes at the same time. That is what we do best. Harrison and Lev is five.

Yep. Which one of you is the savviest? I think we both have the same two. And I'm going to put you first, Lev, since you guys are all contained, and then I'll follow up. We'll just follow up with Harrison on the same after. Sad siblings. Sad siblings.

And then four, four. And well, who's the savvy is out of you, Captain? And you flip? I got one. Ten to two. I got zero. Never mind. OK, so it's Captain, your first out of the two of you,

followed by you flip. And then let me roll or you're beastie. OK. Wait, Tiny gets initiative. You want Tiny in this initiative? Oh, you just said you're beastie, and I assumed that. Oh, my beast. Oh, my beastie.

I was like, damn, we're putting Tiny in danger today. All right. Without the gate. Who means? Lev, as this creature lurches forward and it looks unfriendly and it looks like it's going to eventually attack. What do you want to do? Are there any like Bunsen burner,

like welding torch things in this lab? Can I look for one of those? Roll me an observation check. OK. This will be all action. No, we got rid of it, remember? Oh, that's right. You still have the micro-net I gave you, too.

Ooh, six. Six. Yeah, you start like you just beeline for like the nearest like shelf and you start kind of like scanning for a torch or a Bunsen burner or something with fire, but you can't seem to find anything. Here just a lot of glassware and a lot of tools. Oh, shit.

OK. Put your lease away from this furthest away from the situation now. Is there anything else you want to try to do? I am just going to pull out my pull out my revolver and get ready. OK. Harrison, as the screen turns on and you see like the three members of your crew and this creature that starts to kind of work forward at them.

I've been busy. So I want to get like a read on any other buttons that she might have or anything like if she has anything that can manipulate maybe the lab itself or like an intercom or something like that. Roll in observation check. Is that 2D6 plus savvy? You don't know just 2D6. OK.

I have a nine. Nine. Yeah. You kind of like look on her desk and it looks like there's like a side panel kind of attachment that seems to be where she pressed to open up that system, but it looks like there's a couple buttons there. I mean, you're at a relative distance. You're not going to see little one, but you could assume that there's some type of

like manipulation she can interact with the lab and stuff like that from this location. Right. Gemma, do you have any stats on this creature? What's going on here? What are you measuring? What are your metrics? I mean, this is the first trial run. I've taken Minerva and I'm splicing it with actual animal and animal DNA.

It's a result and this is a result. You're growing bigger. This is the biggest one I've been able to conjure. He really wants to just shoot her. Oh, my God. We just want to shoot it. Anything else you want to do on this? I mean, you can't shoot her this.

You can't shoot her this round. Some of the documents on her desk, would those be in like reach? Could I grab something just kind of casually look at and read? Sure. You can grab it and then we can look at it next round. Sure. Yeah, I'll do that. I'll see if I can find something just kind of like review.

Just roll me a general savvy check and see how see what you kind of grab. Since you're doing it really quickly. Oh, max. 12. 12. Awesome. You grab like one of like an actual like manila folder of something. You just snatch it off.

It's like a blue folder. Captain. There's a fucking creature in front of you. And it doesn't look friendly. Yeah. What are you going to do? Yeah. So is there like we're in a lab?

Are there any like like big, big things of like like nitrogen, something flammable, anything that looks flammable that's near this thing? If you want to roll an observation check, you can. Let's do that. Let's do that. No, I had my savvy to that, right? No, it's a straight roll. This 2D 6.

Straight roll. Got it. Okay. That's going to be a beautiful 11. Yes. 11. Yeah, you go like the opposite way of where Lev went. And yeah, you do find like a bit of just like tubes of random like chemicals and stuff like

that. You're a captain. So you don't necessarily know what's in these tubes, but you assume that they're dangerous. Maybe there's like a symbol that's like warning labels and stuff like that of like safe handling. Got it. If I shoot that thing, is it going to get on the this thing that we're now looking at? Like if you toss it at it? Yeah.

Maybe depends on how how well you throw it. Digging it out. All right, let's do that. I'm going to attitude. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and just just eat this shit over at this thing. Okay. You'll be able to do that next round. I'm going to you at least have one of you like you grab both bottles.

You like turn around and you're like prepared to fucking chuck it. And I do have my shotgun, right? You do have your shotgun. You have both your shotgun and Teddy Zeppelin. And Zeppelin. All right. Flip. What are you doing?

Where's Tiny by the way? Tiny is like right here in like my jumpsuit. Just kind of like in the middle of your jumpsuit. Like he's a baby Bjorn and he's just watching the action. I think he I think he perks up a little bit because by now he's grown accustomed to violence. And I am bum rushing the creature and I'm going to try to shoot. Okay. While bum rushing it.

So if you feel I deserve some sort of penalty to my role for that, well, that's on you. I'll just raise the I'll just raise the eight to a to an to a 10. Since you're bum rushing. I always negotiate against myself. Yeah. You don't have to roll against it. I have to roll a straight roll.

How do I roll again? It's 2d6 plus plus your savvy, I believe. Well, I roll a one and a one. Can I do the thing where I sacrifice a thing to get a new one? Yeah, you can you can you can exert. You know, there's a quick guide. You can exert. I forgot that was an option.

You can you can roll. I'm sorry. You can exert yourself. I'm sorry. You can exert yourself by removing two one or two of your heart points in order to re-roll. Well, I burn one of my heart points, which means I go down to six and I roll another one. Yeah, you are. Yeah, you just what kind of weapon is this gun?

It's a big old shotgun. Yeah, you just like running, but like it's so unstable. So you're just like not securing it as you rack it and fire it and it just goes off like past it. Here's what I think is what happens. I'm running at the thing and I have the perfect shot lined up. I'm going to get the thing right square in its face. And then right as I'm about to pull the trigger, tiny sneezes. Oh, no, no.

Stops everything. Yeah. And it just goes off above it. But you're now like running full sprint towards this creature and stop won't stop. And it's the creature's turn. Great. Right. I told you shotguns are stupid.

And the creature's like doesn't even have to do anything. Doesn't even have to come towards you. Just like goes in crisis. What are you? You want a second? Yeah. Yeah, she said. Fire.

Yep. Fire. Take care. Repeat flip safe. We're looking at the tiny safe for you. You are going to you are going to take two points of damage as this creature just takes one big swipe at you. And it just knocks you on your on your ass if you kind of slide off the side.

It was kind of effortless. It's a little effortless. It's like running into a brick wall. Yeah. And it's going to like watch you as you slide across and it's going to kind of redirect itself and turn around and it's going to just start making its way and continue towards you. Wait, let's continue towards me. Yeah, it's making its way towards you.

It's swatted you a significant distance, but like it's now you your it's target. That should be everything. Left. Top of the round. Okay. I'm going to so Ted and I are on opposite sides of the lab. And where is where's flip from us? Is he on another opposite side or is he close to one of us?

I would say he's closer to you, Lev, given how he was swatted happens a little bit further distance now as they've kind of redirected themselves and making their the monsters now making its way towards towards flip. But yeah, you're on the same, at least on the same side of him. Okay. I want to go away from both of them so that we're creating kind of a triangle so that the creatures like stuck between knowing which one of us to go for. And then I want to start shooting.

Okay. So roll three D six, pull together two and the remaining dice will be your damaged. All right, let's see if we do anything here. Oh, oh, oh, and then six damage. Oh, shit. This is the best I've ever rolled. Yeah, you you just immediately like straddle that that kind of position and you just clock back and you shoot and you manage to get like just straight into one of its eyes

as the creature kind of recoils back and like you just see like like this group goopy kind of like greenish just acre kind of just like flow out of it kind of remind you of that moving goop that was inside that shipping container. Just out loud not knowing Harrison can hear me. I say, Harrison, your wife, the dick. She's not wrong. Are they not wrong? Anything else you want to do?

Do you want to get closer? Do you want to stay sticking your position? I want to I want to create that triangle of of creature in the middle us on all sides. And just I want it to have three options to go for and not always know which one to go for. Yeah, the creatures kind of like now recalling back and it's now kind of like looking at you looking back kind of at flip a little bit who's kind of just still laying prone on the floor. You've managed to get its attention like that.

Okay, I'm just going to like bang on like a countertop next to me and try and get its attention over here for like every time you like looks away like towards flip like you banging on it just like makes it just keep lurching back and forward and finally it's just kind of like more a little bit starting to get focused just on you. As it's kind of screeching at you. Harrison back up at the back up there as you kind of see the situation or you see like flip getting just smacked and you know then the initial shot of love as you see this creature battling out with your friends you can hear the work.

Yeah, you can hear the yeah like comms work for you for you guys. What do you have? Cool. All right. So what's on this? What's in this folder? What's in this folder is just scattered observation notes about the actual contents of what was in the shipping container.

Primarily what you got is that like goopy thing. It's looks to be like a type of organism that was created to kind of seek out and kill off like any living organism in its vicinity. She took my miracle crop and weaponized it. Literally turned it into a bioweapon. Awesome. And also like notes are kind of involving in terms of like also like terraforming and using this in a process of terraforming as to kind of eradicate local populations of life there

and then coming in with a secondary like the thing that they mentioned to kind of then terraform the area after the eradication of the life there beforehand. Yeah. It's what it's designed for. So I have the my book learning gambit. Is there any way to like comb through this and find any kind of like error or something to be like a jerk about? Yeah.

The only thing I'm good at. Like what do you mean you're running glyphosite tests? Glyphosite, yeah. God amateur, our bullshit is this. Exactly. As you kind of like scan it and stuff like that while this like thing is very malleable and it's kind of has like practicalities towards like being able to be adaptive and like work through different difficult kinds of terrain.

It still doesn't handle a lot of like environmental situations like extreme heat, extreme weather and cold, which is what kind of fell through with what you guys observed when it was sucked out into space and wasn't able to kind of keep itself together and just died out. So and also it doesn't have a very long like lifespan. So if it doesn't it isn't able to complete its task or you know before it dies out, you know, they haven't been able to like get it past like a couple of days or like a couple, a day at the most. Or like a few days, sorry, words.

Yeah. So Alja, I'm disappointed in your and the creature's half-life here. This is very, all this money you're putting into all these, all the energy that goes into making these things and they don't seem hearty at all, which is so what do you just need? Basic weed killer and then your entire operation's done. That's disappointing. Minor setbacks are minor setbacks. And that's why we're trying to figure it out.

Harrison, it's not like you could or maybe you could actually. Because I mean, we could stop all of this. What are you proposing? Come back to work here, put your mind to good use. Well, why don't we just first cut the bullshit? I need to do a therapy set. I have to be more clear about what I'm feeling and I'm trying to try to do. I know I hide in the erudition of my work and use terms and get verbose.

I am okay. 2% fascinated. You'd be like 4% impressed. Another 2% turned on, but really it's like 90%. You killed our daughter trying to kill me. You haven't said it once. And I don't see her in you at all. And it's just before my mother and dad, she did say that you were a snake and I joked that.

Okay, I kind of thought it was hot. But still, it's, you know, I didn't think that the analogy would include eating there young. And god damn it, I gotta say she was right. He just kind of stares at her for a minute. She like for the first time has actually like really paid attention, you know, the moment you mentioned your daughter. Or a mini mini. What happened with her was a regrettable accident.

But you also didn't kind of leave me any choice either Harrison. Oh, always so ambitious. Always trying to achieve and achieve and achieve. And for what? What have you gotten? What are all the acolytes that you have accomplished? You were just impatient. And when you get impatient, you get sloppy.

And since you have no creativity, you don't actually have a curious mind. You were bombing, you were bombing. Why are we not going to forget new level on? You blew up a train station. You've been sorry. It was loaded with those seeds that you know I hate. And they were going to go and they were going to use those things. And but it's not like you know that if they built the garden based on those,

it was just not going to work. So yeah, thinking about her when you were doing that. What were you going to be if you ended up in prison or in jail? What good would have that done to her? Don't don't pretend that you didn't have a hand that you're not just the same side of a, you know, the different side of the same coin. You're just as responsible in her death as I am. And you're just angry at me.

But we can work through that. If you give it a chance. I look at the notes again. Captain. You got two bottles of something. Something dangerous. What do you want to do? Suck on this.

Audrey too. We're just fucking yeet it out. Romy made us truly living through you. Romy either a grit or a muscle check because you're a little bit of a distance from them. So let's get this accuracy. All right, the strength. Oh, that's going to be with grit. That's six.

But I'm going to exert myself. Sure. I'm going to spend a heart bringing me down to six heart. And I can reroll. I can reroll that. Also Harrison take like three blues for the last couple of last couple of interactions because I haven't been telling you to take blues after we stop. Yeah.

No, that's that's legit. Some sad ass shit is happening. All right. So oh that one. Oh, that's going to be a fuck still seven. So no. No. You yeah, you chuck both bottles.

It kind of it doesn't hit them exactly. But it does hit like right around them and right in front of them. And it starts to just kind of pool and it's like acid and it's starting to just eat and cross the area right between that love and this creature. So it's kind of like separating. And though it's not a complete like damage, but it's at least kind of now has like this weird acid like wash across the floor in front of them kind of separating the two. Okay.

I'll take it. Flip. You've been smacked the fuck by a plant creature. Little broken ribs. Yeah. Little bruised, little hurt. Yeah. Kind of bleeding a little bit.

Were you at the Heartways again? Or. Oh yeah, you poof. Yeah, you're you really feeling it. But what do you want to do? So hear me out. I will always hear you out. There's not a lot of gravity here.

Which means that there is a very low coefficient of friction between my back and this floor. So if I shoot my shotgun at this thing, it will have the added effect of propelling me backwards to safety. So are you saying you want to like shoot your shotgun to propel you away from the situation? And also try to hit the creature. But the added benefit is safety. Okay. Here's what we're going to do.

It's just physics, Eli. You can't you can't say no to physics. She can absolutely say no to physics. I can absolutely as a as a member of the engineering community. But like on the edge of the engineering community. To be honest, I will defy physics and defy gravity. But I will give it to you. Also, so roll me since you are using your weapon and you are technically aiming at the creature.

Roll me an attack. I'm going to give you at upper hand because last time I didn't have you roll correctly. So I'm going to give you advantage on this one. So roll 3d6 or roll 4d6. Take your highest three numbers, pull it together, and then the remaining dice is your damage die. Let's start with it. Roll 4d3. What did you roll?

I rolled a four, two twos, and a one. Well, you hit eight, so you do one damage. Well, no, I don't hit eight because I have to drop one of the dice out from the four. Oh, shit. So what would be the total? Well, the total would be the highest total I can make would be six. Okay, so you don't, but the priority is safety, so this is what will happen. You try to navigate that, your rib is broken, so you're having a hard time kind of positioning

yourself, but with the goal in mind of safety, you cock your shotgun and you fire it, it misses the creature. Absolutely. It kind of like bounces, ricochets up and just breaks like a fucking lamp above, but it does propel you backwards a little ways away, but you kind of smack up against a wall. I'm just going to lie in the corner and hug Tiny, who apparently has allergies or something because he keeps sneezing. Yeah, Pauline is a bit, yeah, he's like giving you little licks on the chin.

Trying to, because he knows that you're hurt. It is the creature's turn. It kind of recoils a bit because even though the shot didn't hit, it was close enough to get its attention, but between Lev still kind of banging and getting it, it's going to try to make its way towards you, Lev, regardless of the acid wash on the ground, and it is going to bite at you. Oh, chomp, chomp, chomp. Okay, yeah, it like crawls over that acid wash and you can see that whatever mixture

that Captain had put together is kind of eating away at that like flesh and fleshy bits and stuff like that, but it comes over to you and just opens its jaw and just bites down into your shoulder and now it has like a grip on your shoulder and it kind of starts to kind of shake you. You only take one point of damage, but it's got to use firmly gripped and is slowly like starting to put more pressure. You can feel it squeezing the pressure into your shoulder. That's it, Lev, it's your turn now. I am going to pick up, no, I already have my revolver in my hand. I'm just going to

try and shove my revolver in its mouth around my shoulder and pull. Okay, roll. Oh, yeah, baby. What you got? I had an eight and six damage. That makes me feel good. Yeah, you kind of like, it grabs you, it shakes you, but you manage to kind of get in between where it's kind of biting onto you and you pop it and it just kind of, you see like just the jaw

just like fucking shatter and explode. It kind of, again, recoils back and so it's still going because now it's just like from its top, like its lower jaw is just gone, but it's still got its top jaw and it's just bleeding out just fucking like green, just ticker, just flowing and dissolving all over the floor around you. But it's still up, it's still like reeling and stuff, but it's still alive. Anything else you want to do? I'm like trying to fix my ear that's ringing from being shot so close to it. And I'm going to jump over the little puddle of whatever the fuck head made to make it,

if it wants to come get me and has to go through it again. Okay, why don't you roll me, no, no. Roll me a grit check to see how well you get by this because it's a fairly, it's been fairly spread out across the floor if you dodge it. Absolutely, I do not. I rolled two ones. My shoulder is throbbing. I'm mad at Flip for still using a shotgun.

You're going to get one of us killed with that thing. And as I say that over my shoulder, I think I jumped far enough and I absolutely do not. Yeah, no, you step in it just completely on your left leg. It just starts to eat corrosively. You're going to take three heart damage for... Fuck, I took more damage from the acid than the monster. What have I done? I'm going to try and shake my shoe off.

Yeah, it's like eating through the rubber of the soles of your boots and stuff like that. It's pretty fucking nasty. Harrison, you're seeing all of this going down. You're seeing the sturdiness of this creature. It's still willing to keep fighting. It's still willing to keep going regardless of how much damage it's taking. Again, we can stop all of this if... Now, your specimen seems to be single-minded,

although simple and fragile for one gunshot to take its face off like that. He's going to just take the jar of seeds and just snap the chain and just put it on the desk. And she's going to see that it's made up of the sunflower seeds that our daughter loved, and it's just right there. And he's just going to watch the feed still, and he's going to hum that lullaby a little bit. That's it? That's it. More just quiet space between them.

No, that's cool. We'll just keep dying down here. There's nothing I can do up here. There's nothing I can do. All right. One second. Okay. Cap. Yeah.

This creature is job-bloody, still just mindless, trying to get at whoever. It's starting to turn itself around to go and pursue Lev who jumped over that acid wash and is dealing with the corrosive nature of it. What do you want to do? Yeah, not today, motherfuckers. I am going to move to, I'm going to try to get close with a close range of it. And I'm just going to fucking empty that shotgun right into this thing. Okay, roll me an attack.

Roll me three D6s. All right. So I got Nate with three damage. Three damage, okay. Nate, roll some things for this one. How is this day not dead yet? Oh, because it's a monster. It's a monstrosity of modern science.

Drunk lamp. All right. There we go. So you shoot this creature and it, you know, as it's slowly starting to pursue Lev, it's turned itself around. It's about to go back through that acid wash. And you just finally pop it into one of its like, uh, legs. Because the lake has been slowly being eaten by this asset.

It's just not giving any fucks about it. So you like, because it's already like in structurally weak, it just finally snaps it and collapses it, which causes the creature to just like plant right over that acid wash. And it's just starting to eat it. Hell yeah. And it's just starting to just like, it's slowly corrosively eating at it. And it finally just with the amount of damage that it's been sustained is now not moving anymore.

And it's starting to just bubble that green, ickery things. Everybody in the room, roll me observation checks, including you flip curled in the corner. I still got eyes. Nice. Nine. Eight for the captain. Eight for the cap. Five.

He will flip. Yeah. Flip, you're, you're just in like, just holding onto tiny, just waiting for the trouble to pass. But as the kind of dust settles in this creature is just bubbling on the floor behind you guys, the, the entrance that you guys came into slides open, several security guards come at in. Live one of those people you kind of recognize. Motherfucker.

As Creighton, Lieutenant. And standing right next to him is someone you also know. As Sierra fellows, as long as well as a mob of security force holding guns up. What do you all want to do? Well, I'm going to hug my dog some more. Do they, do they look like they're here to moak us or they look like they're here to take us? Yeah.

I mean, they, yeah. I mean, they have their guns up because you guys are weapons. You have weapons in your hands, but they have not, they're not like quick to like shoot y'all. Listen, listen, you see this guy right here? I'm kind of stumbling up to my feet. Do you see this? Do you see this guy right here? Yeah.

Oh, you, you genuinely answered this question. Yes, it's not a rhetorical question. Yeah, he's, he seeks a response. Um, the bald man with like a, a, like a giant stippling scar across his head kind of looks at you up and down. It's like, yeah. Yeah. He's a genetically modified mutant dog, not unlike that plant.

So you'd rather step the fuck back, buddy, or I'm going to set him loose. Don't fucking play with me. Roll me a savvy check. Great, my special. As, as somebody comes to address this, um, from the, the squad, um, what's the life looking like? Love is cold. Just cold rage has filtered over their face and you can see their hand kind of like twitching

on their, on their revolver. Like they're weighing, weighing the odds of, can I get a shot off before they kill me? Ted, Ted, Ted looks at you and starts stroking. The head of, they use Rex Machina. You want to fucking do this? Oh bad. Yes. It's fucking go time, baby.

What was that savvy? What was that savvy check? Hold on a second. Thanks. What was the savvy check? It's 2d6, right? I do have to put this. It was 2d6 plus.

It's 2d6 plus savvy. Yeah. So I get an eight. An eight? Yeah. Yeah. Plus zero. Plus zero.

Yeah. Somebody, uh, one of the, the troopers like goes to like kind of like smack you to like shut you up to like intervene. But he misses. It tidy ends up like fighting down on his hand as he kind of like swipes at you and just like chops really hard and the guy goes like, ah. That's just a small preview of what he's capable of. Creighton, uh, before you guys commit to this, um, Creighton looks at all three of you, um,

and tells you, you are surrounded. And you won't make it out of the building alive. Ms. Lang would like award with all of you, perhaps. We don't have to shed blood here today. Wouldn't be the first time you did it needlessly. And I can needlessly do it again. Chest is easy. Oh, I want to go so bad.

I want to go so bad. I know you're baiting me. Choice is yours. How many, how many, how many guards are there? There's, um, easily, uh, two men to each of you. Hmm. Well, they better find some more guys then. That's a lot and we're all hurt.

Yeah, you can, you can see that flip it, though defiant is hurt, bleeding and kind of like compensating for the side that he was kind of swiped on. I'll put my gun back in my boot. Yeah, I think a very wise decision was made, shall we? Yeah. All right. They kind of like circle around. You guys kind of huddled you guys up together.

X have you guys exit the, uh, the lab. And I think that might be a good time for us to take a break. Well, that's a good one. Good times to take a break. Good spot. Don't worry. We're just, um, we're just playing them. We have some kind of master plan here.

Yeah. Obviously. Obviously. Yeah. This is, this is all a part of, of, of, of, of our genius plan. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Yeah.

Sounds about right. It's back. That doesn't matter. We'll be right back. All right. I'm supposed to do that. Every day, Aaron, every day. Hi.

Um, welcome back to 105MDRP as we continue on with our playthrough of Orbital Blues. So the three of you have been, yep. Captain, Flip, Flip. You are being escorted, uh, by a squad of, uh, Laptis, uh, security. And they lead you to another section of a different, different lab on the same floor. Um, and as you guys kind of enter into this lab space, it's kind of like much different than the lab you were in. Um, it's fairly empty.

There's not much there. Um, there's no like tables. There's no like desks or eclectic spread of stuff. So it's kind of just more or less like an open room. Um, and as you guys kind of enter in with this squad, um, like a panel screen kind of opens up, and now you guys can see, uh, Gemery Lang, as well as Harrison, who is casually holding up notes, reviewing it, just kind of standing there. Traitor.

He's not a traitor. Okay, let's prospect this, what do you want me to do? Um, well, hello. Who, uh, I don't know any of these people who, she kind of looks at Harrison. It's like, would you like to- Oh, forgive me, where are my manners? Yes, these are my friends, the friends who have been helping me track you down. The friends who have been helping me track you down all these years.

Well, it hasn't been a year, uh, being like, we go back. This is my friend, um, uh, I think, um, I'm going to point to Scar. I go, Scar guy here, I think. Oh, I know him. He's going to die today. Don't worry. Cool, cool. Um, this is, uh, this is, uh, this is, uh, my, my friend Flip here.

He's, he's very intelligent. Um, and this is Ty. Ty, yeah, this is Tiny. Oh yeah, don't forget Tiny. Remember, um, and, uh, this is the illustrious Captain Ted. Hmm. Well, I guess it's nice to meet you all. Not the same.

You suck. Matter of fact. Did you see my ship? Did you see if my, I named my ship? You see that? You would have loved it. Sorry about your shitty plant monster. Yeah, that thing was lame.

It's, uh, I appreciate, I appreciate the, uh, the careful observation and the hope for slight improvement on the next try before you can improve it. Don't worry. Yeah, I'm going to improve your face with some buckshot, lady. That would make her nicer looking. Good call. I'm going to feed you to my dog. Yeah, I like that better.

I like that better. We don't want to poison Tiny though. I think that would kill him. That's a good point. How much vinegar and shit. Just a little bit. Oh, that'd be great though. We feed her to him and then he shits her out.

Oh, I like the sound of that. What do you think, lady? That sound good? Told you, you need more creativity. And then we light that on fire and put it back on her own doorstep. Oh, yes. That's a pretty good one actually. Her house destroyed by her own shit of herself.

Well, head turns around and looks at the, uh, the guards like, Hey, y'all like the taste of boot, don't you? Roll a, um, roll a muscle check. Oh, no, no, no, roll a savvy check. Okay. I appreciate that. That's a little savvy. That's a nine.

That's a nine. That's a nine. You can see the, the, the visible tension. They kind of like, you know, start to kind of roll the fingers around their guns, kind of tighten in the grip. You can see, you know, I didn't quite like that comment. Any of y'all got gold teeth? Or is this teeth?

They'll find out enough. Yeah. So I, uh, I'm like glancing back at love and just kind of, you can probably see that I'm trying to pick the spot, but I can also easily be suggested at any point. So just, it's like, yeah, it's, yeah, Harris is kind of like, well, we've been trying to get here this whole time. Now that we're here, it's like, I didn't really expect it to.

All right. This is like, we're just kind of, yeah, all right. Yeah. I think they're having just like a silent conversation over comms of just like, all we're here, what else are we ever going to do? Yeah. It's like, it's like a dog that's chasing a car and then he doesn't know what to do with it when he has it.

Yeah. This is the model I wanted anyway. Maybe you're right, Harrison. Maybe I do lack creativity. Maybe I should try new things like you say. Maybe we can do a trial right now. We've only been able to try this substance on animals. We can always see what it does to people.

What you genital bullshit is this? Harrison's holding the file and he goes back and he looks at it. He's like, obviously you based this on Minerva. You spliced down a little bit of oak for longevity. Didn't really work so well. Sensitive to different pressures, but it doesn't seem like you figured out why. And it physically makes me ill because it's something I've told you for years. And like, as like his hands are like in front of his chest

and hidden behind like the folder, he reaches for his gun and he pulls out and then aims at it and says, you should have used more mushrooms and he just fires. Yeah, roll me an attack. 3d6. 3d6. It's always a room for more mushrooms. Oh, three, right.

3d6, pull your two and damage dice so the remaining dice. Okay, good because I do not have enough until the third roll. I have a 9 and 3 damage. 3 damage, yeah. You pull the gun and like there's just that moment of like playful surprise as you just click the gun and fire it right at her. Pop pop. Pop pop, yeah.

You hit her and she kind of like takes two steps back. She's still kind of standing, but like she's now starting to kind of profusely like towards like the abdomen area where you you actually managed to clip her. Let's roll initiative. All right, that says there we go. Because you know, I realize I'm not even wearing my glasses. Pull the five. Five for the cab.

Oh yeah, Teddy. Who's savvier? I have a two. I also have a two. Here we go. You take it. There's there's there's going to be some catharsis here for you. So I'm full of rage.

Go grab it. Go go grab that catharsis by the neck. Slick, what did you get? Okay, Ted, what did you grab? Oh, I got a five. Oh, I'm sorry. Harrison, you're the one who I don't have three total. One second, let me roll.

That's a wrong one. Whoops. Well, you have a you have the squad. You have the squad. Yeah, damn. I'm excited. Time to be good. All right.

How many people up there with us? It's with you two is just you two as far as you know. Oh, OK. Yeah, you guys, you guys, you guys have been alone. Oh, well, I mean, you just popped off a gun. But it's just been you guys. Yes, just you two. Meanwhile, everybody else is a squad.

Downstairs as with including Creighton and fellows. The everybody sees the events that happen as you watch just two pops of the gun as you watch. Yeah, of a very loud gun. As everybody sees that over the over the columns. The squad kind of tenses up to that and try and like lifts and raises their guns, but they're not ordered to do anything. So they're not going to do anything this round because you have you initiated the surprise. Yes.

Next, her next initiative is Gem. She's going to kind of walk back after being shot and kind of lean back on the back of her like desk. Kind of, you know, she's like she's still bleeding from the initial wound, but she's still alive and conscious. And then she's going to pull like a letter opener though. And then she's going to arm herself and then she's going to try to attack you and stab you. Harrison. Yeah.

And as she kind of like goes back, she kind of manages to stick you like in the rib. Um, uh, getting like close to you as she kind of like digs deeper. Do you take four points of damage from that? Oh, shit. That's three. Oh boy. Yeah. She kind of like kind of like twists it a little bit and you're kind of just really

feeling it and she's kind of like looking you like hard in the square in the face. Um, that's her turn. Actually, I might be at less. I accidentally deleted my hearts. I can't remember what my total is, but I was at negative one of what I should have. You said you were at seven. Okay. Then yeah, if I'd say, if I'd say, okay, yeah, I'll say.

Okay. Good. Um, Lev, uh, you see, you hear like the sound like, oh, like kind of a kind of in like a half like turn of the sound of just guns slightly lifting, you know, and you can just feel the tension and electricity in the air of something's about to go down. As you watch the, what's being unfold on the plane, as you see both Harrison and generally laying just fighting out and Oh, it leaks out on the panel. What do you want to do?

Oh, today's the day. Uh, I'm going to pull the boot knife out of my boot. And at the same time, I'm going to wrap my arm around Sierra fellow's neck and pull her in front of me like a human shield. Okay. Roll me a, um, roll me a savvy check. We're going to, we're going to do a contested savvy check to see if you're going to be able to be fast enough to grapple.

Okay, let's see. Roll high. There you go. Get this. Eight exactly. Yeah, get him. I got an eight as well. Fuck.

So re-roll. Roll off again. Roll off again. Okay. And that was the rest of the game. Eleven. Nine. Nine.

Love is not a tall person, but Sierra fellows is just enough shorter that they get their arm around on either side and are just pushing on the, on the jugular and on her wingpipe. And they're, and then like the other hand has the knife just against her eye. And I'm staring Crayton in the eye. The eye. Bri Hadissa has been waiting years for this day. So good. So good.

That's fantastic. Captain, how do you follow? Oh shit. The glasses come off. Exposing is the whites of her eyes that are just run through with burst of blood vessels and hemorrhaging, just blood red. And I'm putting my glasses on because I'm blind as fuck. And just, just with the sickening grin on her face is just going to level that,

that shotgun at the rest of the crew and look to left, which one you want me to hit. Any of them save him for me. Oh, boom, just starts fucking shooting. Roll and attack. Against the squad. There should be six of them, right? So two to each of us, three of us, six. Yeah, there's six of them.

Cool. All right. I like those odds. What were those odds? Got a three. Got a three out of all of them? In total? Well, no, four in total, but three.

Yeah. Do you want to exert to re-roll some of those dice? I'm at six. So yeah, let me let me drop one heart to re-roll one of those, one of those ones. Okay. That's six. Total. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, you just pop off a blind shot, trying to see if you can catch as many as you can, but it ends up not really doing anything. As everybody kind of like ducks out of the way, as you fire off your shotgun. But the game is on now as people are taking coverage, everybody's kind of repositioning themselves and going to pop off. So it's scattered them, which is which is so good. Yeah, you scattered them a little bit, but they're still two to every man.

Is there a cover nearby? Um, there's like some like, like pillars and like work. So this is fairly just meant to be like an open space kind of thing room. But yeah, there's some like pillars or some like a little bit of like furniture, like office space stuff, but like it's a fairly wide area. Cool. Is that it for you, Ted? Yeah, that's it for Ted.

Ted, we just try to move to cover anything within close range that she can get behind really quickly and just just afford herself maybe a little bit of a little bit of perception. Yeah, you talk about against a pillar and stuff like that. You're you're good to go. Harrison. Oh, yeah. All right. I just got stabbed.

Cool. So, uh, yeah, we're kind of almost embraced. Yeah. Um, so I'm just kind of kind of bring my hand up and kind of like brush your hair behind her ear and just say for the data and just shoot her in the shooter in the chest. Roll out of tech. Close range. Roll out of tech.

Second one. Oh, 12. Yeah, 12 and one damage. Roll two, six is in a one. Given the position you guys are in, um, because that's not enough to put her down. Given the position you guys are in, um, you pop off that shot and like it concusses in like you're now ringing through your ears. It just kind of nicks her, but it doesn't really like actually do any real damage.

But now she's got another wound that's bleeding on her arm and across her arm and shoulder. So I guess we're in romantic. Yeah, but she's, she's, she's, you know, like before it's starting to sweat. She's starting to show those signs like if she's going into shock, she is bleeding out. Flip, flip, flip, but he flipped. What you doing? Yeah, I'm hurt and I have a child to care for.

So I'm scrambling around the room, trying to hide behind people and things that I'm looking for any kind of panel in the wall. Okay. Yeah, roll me an observation check as you're scrambling for cover. Observation check is savvy 2D, 2D, six, no mod. Eight. Nice. That's a success.

Yeah. You're like scrambling. People are repositioning themselves as they're being scattered by this very loud buckshot going across the room. You like wall up against one of the walls and easy, you know, there's an excess panel just like over there at conveniently right next to you. What do you want to do? Oh, I can like, I still have stuff to do.

Okay, I'm going to open. Well, I'll give you, yeah, I'll give you that because yeah, I'm going to open the panel up and I'm looking for like life support controls, door controls, anything. If I can vent all the air out of this room, that's what the start doing. Let's see what exactly is in there. Um, there are electrical like stuff for like light systems and like doors systems, nothing for ventilation. Oh, actually.

Yeah, you know, it's a lab. It would have some form of ventilation system. So yeah, it has that lights, doors and vents. So, okay. I probably can't do this all in one turn, but I'm going to start working on step one, turn the lights on step two, open all the doors step three, stop the ventilation. So there's no new oxygen coming in. Okay.

So you could start pressing, but like I'll give you the like opening and accessing what what's there. You can start pressing buttons next round on your turn. Sweet. Cool. All right. It's Creighton's turn. Creighton fellow's turn.

A fellow's is going to attempt to try to break your whole lab. So let's do a muscle check, a contested muscle check between both of you. Ten. Sorry, worse. Yeah, another nine. So yeah, she almost slips out of you like she tries to kind of like push the hold up, but you managed to kind of bring her back. I like let the blade of the knife just dig in enough.

Yeah, you dig in. And it's like her eye, like the peak of her eye. Like it's it's broken skin. So there's like a just like a little bit of like just a driplet of blood just starting to fill. So she gets the point that she's not gonna she won't be moved by you. Creighton, though, on the other hand, is going to pull his weapon and see if he can try to he's going to hold it to see if he can try to get leverage. He's not going to he's not going to pull the trigger because he does not want to necessarily

hit his knees, but he will but he will not also be threatened by you. At the very least, you'll have to do what I did. So make your choice. I think we can resolve this in a much deeper matter. And he's going to leave it at that. Top of the round is the squad as the squad has re positioned itself. They all go together on one round together. So the squad is going to take aim.

Cool. Yeah, so the squad starts popping off guns as you guys are all mainly for captain and flip as a squad reposition themselves, you they start to kind of pop off guns as you guys are scrambling to the pillars and to the panel to kind of get there. You guys they did succeed, but they only are going. You guys are only going to sustain one point of damage as you just get clipped by Rick, just some ricochet as you guys get up to your perspective holds. But other than that, they have not done.

That's all they're going to be able to do. Can someone give me like a lay on hands or something? How are you looking? I got like one left. Same. Eli, have I taken any blues for this? Yes, you would have taken at least a couple blues. Yeah, you would take in two blues for this so far.

Given the fact that you have seen across paths of and savory folks in your life. It is Jem's turn. Harrison and she's going to continue to, you know, if you're going to pop off, she's going to keep popping off. It fails. Yeah. She kind of like pulls out the letter opener and then she kind of goes as you,

you know, as she gets like shot, she goes to try to stab you again, but you managed to kind of like grab on to her. So now you both are kind of just in this like tussle of just back and forth of just now one holding a gun, one holding a knife as you guys are both now just struggling with each other. Lev, you're up. Okay, what are you going to do? You're in a standoff with Creighton using fellows as a shield. She's struggling against you, you know, because she's not going to go out just willy-nilly.

What are you going to do? I'm going to look Creighton in the face and slowly drive the knife into her eye. Roll an attack for that. Since this is knife to a gunfight, can I roll it up her hand? Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, yes, I mean, yeah, it would be up her hand regardless because of the level of closeness that blade is to.

Priority. Oh, I love that. I had a 10, so five points of damage. Damn, kid, damn, kid, that's amazing. Yeah, there's something really troubling about the way someone just slowly stabs somebody in the eye painfully. It's like very vindictive. It's not very kind at all as you just jab it into her.

Love is cold and violent, like their face has just turned to stone and rage and they're dead eyeing this man as they slowly drive the knife deeper. Yeah, that's digging deep into those troubles. That's at least a few blues on that one. Yeah, that's valid. Anybody else watching that, Ted? Ted's probably busy ducking fire. Okay, I assume nobody else is watching that, so I won't call for blues checks for anybody else.

We're probably hearing it just like that. Yeah, you're just hearing the guttural scream of somebody because fellows is like fucking up against that shit, you know, because that's just fucking nerve and pain. That's fucking awful. Holy shit. Yeah, that's amazing. You don't want me to play a selfish character. I'm playing a selfish character.

There we go, baby. You know what, I'll say what the screaming Ted would look over, so I'll make the blues check just to be on the safe side. Sure, roll the blues check. No. Erin, if that screaming bothers you, you can also roll a blues check if you want to be bad about it. I think you want me to roll a blues check, so I'm going to roll a blues check.

No, never. I got 13, so I rolled two sixes. So I'm going to go ahead and take that one blues. Oh, shit. Yes, please. I rolled a seven. No blues for you, Erin. You are too busy with the panel and being hurt.

No blues for you. No, I think no blues for you. Ted, it is your turn, though. You've gotten used to say one last thing at the end of my turn. Troubles ruined. Oh, okay. Troubles of blue in. Well, we'll fully address that on your next turn.

But you're, yeah, you're feeling it. Ted, you've managed to get yourself up against a pillar after running past a whole wide array of bullets. You get clipped by one, but here's a flesh wound. You're starting to feel a little, you know, warmed down. You know, what would you like to do, though? Okay. So, um, Dave's Rex Machina, what are the mechanics of this?

There's a block of C4 in this thing. Do I just arm it and then toss it? Is it like a suicide vest thing? Like how does mechanically? I think it was throwable. I think the goal was to either plant it, walk away from it, or chuck it. Or eat it. All right.

Yeah. Is there a cluster of these assholes? Yeah. There's a lease like, um, like, yeah, like three and three, they're kind of like clustered on each side and stuff like that together. Yeah, something in the odds. I'm going to go ahead and reach into Dave's Rex Machina, flip that switch, arm it, and then

yeah, roll me another muscle check. Let's see, uh, let's see how far that throw is. Muscle ain't great. Muscle's a big, fat zero. So let's check it out. Well, none of us take muscle. Oh, Aaron probably took muscle. Or grit.

I will allow you, um, grit on this. Okay. Because you're digging it. You kind of got to dig it a little deep. That's six, but I'm going to spend, I'm going to, I'm going to drop a heart, exert myself. Um, so that brings me down to three, but I'm going to roll that. I'm going to re-roll that too. So six, that's a nine.

Nice. Yes. Yep. Nice. Yep. That's what makes some shit. Okay. Let's see how we're going to do this.

Okay. Now, now that I know that you're going to make it and reach it, roll me that attack so I can see how much damage that, that as a whole rule that at an upper hand, because it's a fucking bomb in a small room. The bomb in a fucking small room. Yep. Love it. Love that.

Oh, I like that even more. Hello, darlin. Uh, we're going to go with, um, nine with five damage. Nice. Very nice. Yeah. Love, roll me a savvy check because you're close enough to this. Flip your far away enough to escape the, the residual array.

It's a bomb. Oh, it is a bomb. In a small room. That's a big Amanda move. Oh, whoopsie. It's like fireball in a, in a tavern, you know? Yeah. Yeah.

There's no shrapnel. So that's true. It's just the, just the concussive way. The concussive, the concussive force. Yeah. That's an 11. Can I, uh, rotate? So Sierra fellows takes the brunt instead of me.

Oh man. That's so good. Yeah. Yeah, you can. So she failed her, her savvy check. So great to have you succeeded though. Um, so yeah, that like you, you just over the pillar, you just chuck Rex Machina and you just see this stuff.

T-Rex just float through the air. Like, and just land on the ground. It kind of bounces a little bit and just goes off and like, bit old bomb. You just see like three bodies, just like, you know, flail out. Yeah. I like to think that all of this is happening in slow motion. I'm just imagining the T-Rex bouncing in the low gravity.

And everyone kind of just looks at it. Smile on the T-Rex. Like the eye lights up and blinks. Faster and faster and faster than stuffing. Just fire and stuffing. It's so good. Squeaks when it hits. Yeah.

Yes. Love it. Um, yeah. The blast kind of rattles through the whole room. Far enough for waves. Flip your, your, your fine. Um, uh, Creighton kind of gets kind of pushed through, but he's able to kind of hold his up and he doesn't like,

uh, like fall over and get knocked over. Neither do you. Leg as you kind of flip Sierra over, kind of just to keep her ahead of you. So you guys are still in the same kind of predicament. None of that really changed the game. Harrison. Like you heard like through the, like you're, you're holding,

you know, got a gun in one hand. You have a knife in the other hand. You are, um, you hear like the, the sounds of gunshots and fire and now in a giant explosion behind you through like that panel that you guys have been listening on. What do you want to do? Um, I kind of like glance over my shoulder to wonder if it's set off. The, uh, the, the rigging on the elevator, um, I'm probably not

going to be able to know in the moment. Um, but I figure I've got her with the, the, the letter opener pretty close to my face. So I'm going to see if I can push her off me. And then, uh, if I can get a shot in. Roll me a muscle check. Oh boy. And we'll contest, we'll do a contested muscle.

Uh, uh, 10. And seven. Um, yeah. You, you guys struggle for a moment, but you finally just get, just get that momentum and you just are able to, to shove off. Um, yeah. Roll me, uh, that attack if you want to shoot her. Yeah, man.

I made a really bad pulp fiction extended arm. Just kind of see what we get here. Oh, oh, now another double six and a one. Uh, I'm going to exert myself to re-roll that one. Okay. Where are you at? Heartways. Uh, I will be at two.

Okay. Well, another one, nevermind. Okay. Hold another one. Yeah. No way. It's not a, it's just not enough. You're, you're, you're both just clinging to the, to the end of this.

You shoot her again. And, um, it's just, it just hits her in a non-vital area. But she's, you know, that, that code is just kind of just starting to just, you know, be covered in sanguine blood. And, you know, and she's huffing and, and, you know, just bleeding out. And you're not looking great either. Just both of you just maddeningly looking at each other, just huffing, angry, you know. Yeah.

I'm going to have trouble brew as well. You're going to trouble is brew. Yeah. Oh, I'm out of options. Otherwise, I'd swan song. There's trouble in swan song. And that's all we got. Yeah.

But I'm at nine blues. So hell yeah. Same here. So yeah. So okay. Yeah. What, what's kind of like the song and the vibe as you're kind of settling in, as you guys are both kind of staring at each other?

Um, I'm actually like listening to my list, like really softly, my headphones. So it's like a, it's the song that I would recommend if anyone wants to look it up. It's a suburbs by Mr. Little Jean or, or feel it around by washed out. And it's this kind of like haunting kind of like memory of good times, but it feels like it's been washed out or choked down or faded in many ways. So yeah, he's kind of confronting all of his emotions all at once and recognizing that like the woman he fell in love with is just an absolute monster.

And getting rid of her is probably saving humanity. So, so yeah. All right. Flip, you've found an access panel that has access points to lights, ventilation, and the doors. Uh, you hear a giant explosion and cussiveness and the, the slew of body parts that just kind of erupt from a section. Um, what would, yeah, actually, everybody wrote me a blues check because like no one gets really used to that kind of shit. That's a six, so no for me.

No blues. Seven, no blues. Five. No blues. Can you use a blues? Did you roll? No blues. Yeah.

I mean, teen Twilight, teen Twilight, eight phase by nothing. A custom to violence. A custom to violence. You're adapted. Anyways, so now you found this panel. And you have some time to do something now that Ted has kind of opened that up with this, this, uh, a cuss of glass. What do you want to do?

Step one, kill the lights. Okay. Step two. Step two, open all the doors, all of them. Okay. I can still keep going? Yeah, I'm gonna give you, I mean, they're button pressing, so I'm gonna allow you to button press. Step three, cut off the flow of oxygen.

Okay, so you're gonna open doors, cut off oxygen and turn off lights. Yes. Which means that there's a clock ticking now. I don't know how much air we have, but. Yeah, like, oh, because you're cutting, yeah. So yeah, you managed for this entire second floor, you've cut off the oxygen ventilation systems as the lights now, like people are starting to get up. You know, like Ted, you are kind of seeing like the other squad of people have kind of

like put their attention to you now, because they, you know, you focus on one group. The other group is now about to retaliate, they're pulling up their weapons. And it looks like they're about to fire at you, but as they do that, the lights just go. And everybody turns, but then you just get like strips of light as there's three doors, because this is a fairly large laboratory just open wide and there's only light coming out. Are you, are you cutting light to the whole floor? Are you just cutting light to the room? I'm trying to get rid of all the light, baby.

Oh, then yeah, no. All you hear is the sound of like doors opening, but it's fucking pitch black on this floor. You've managed to cut off at least this whole room. And if Harrison or you guys were even to see this, but you guys are kind of enthralled in your own problems, it's a screen kind of just turns black as it's just too dark for the cameras to kind of pick up. But now it's dark and nobody can see shit. Would they get light from the monitor going my side? Yeah, I would say that there's just like a light faint glow of just that TV blue light,

but it's not really enough to cast in a lot. You have, you have to be like really close to the panel to really feel that light. Nice. Are you going to, are you going to, you can move hair if you are trying to get out of here and try to leave. I'm going to scream, okay, time to run and I'm going to book it out the door. Okay. Yeah, I'll say you're, you're making your way towards the door, but it's also pitch black. So, you know, you're making, you're making, you're intending to head that direction. Okay. Yeah. So it's Creighton's turn now. He, he has, he repositions himself because he,

he got hit by that blast same as you as you guys kind of are, are getting back to it. Then that's also at the same time where he like tries to pull his gun and again, and the lights go off. So he's now in the darkness and he hears this, the sound of flip going, uh, you know, let's go. Um, he's going to take a shot. It's going to be at disadvantage at against Oz because yeah, that was going to hit. Um, yeah, he fires it, but it's, it's more so that like you can see just the flash of light as he pops off his gun, like the, the, the flash of the barrel just illuminates just all around it. And so you can kind of release without it,

just be able to finally see where you are, where your position. Um, and he's going to then just use his movement and charge towards you, uh, in an attempt to like tackle you after he does that. It's not going to be able, he's not going to be able to connect. He's in the position of trying to, that's his next move is to like tackle you. Uh, and he's on the way. Um, fellows is, is, is secured with you. Uh, he rolled low. I'm not going to have you contest it. Okay. Um, top of the ramp, squad. Um, yeah, they're, are they also alive after that bomb? Three of them died because that's a bomb. And it destroyed them. Um, because they take damage, they take group damage like that. Um,

but there's still three left. So, um, because they were separate and, uh, not positioned. Um, they, though the lights are off, you know, Laptis industry is leading in technology. So there's a level of night vision abilities that these groups have. Um, because they are in a text situation. It's not going to do them much justice, but we'll see. Did they just have like handy? Oh, yeah. They probably got my night vision. They probably got your NVG contacts. They're hot. Yeah. They're high, they're making hybrid creatures and all sorts of shit and weaponizing the world. Um, it's not like, like the best of it, but come work for Laptis. We have dark vision.

I have dark vision. Hey, did they say dark vision? I have dark vision. It doesn't even do them any good anyways. Um, because I rolled low. Um, they're just popping, but they pop off shots. Um, as you flip or running, you just hear the sounds of just ricochets and the darkness just and, but you don't feel anything. You don't hear anything. Um, spray and pray and nothing, nothing, nothing hits. Muscle fire, strobe light. Yeah. Yeah. Muscle fire, strobe light. Gem is now disarmed since you managed. Oh no, she still has the knife, I would say. You just pushed her away. Um, so yeah, I mean, she, she's kind of looking at the situation and I think she's going to throw the knife at you,

but she's going to take, uh, she's going to try to book it out of the, out of the office and make it for the door as well. So I'm going to roll like towards the elevator. Well, she's at least trying to leave the office. She won't be able to go anywhere like that, but she is, um, trying to escape. Um, okay. She, um, yeah, she tosses the knife and, uh, since you are, where are you at blues wise? Cause you're on troubles, cause you're on troubles of brewing. So you're, you take, you take a blues damage instead of heart damage. Okay. So yeah, I'm at nine. Nine. Okay. Yeah. Um, she takes three point, you take three points of damage from her as she

throws this knife directly at you. Um, yeah. So we go into blues and not into heart. Since we're troubles. Yeah. Troubles of brewing is that you, you exert blues during this period at the end of the scene, then you take the repercussions of, of falling into that. Um, um, as we, as you slowly kind of gain, actually like, what kind of like, no, we'll, we'll deal with troubles later. Um, she kind of throws that knife at you, stabs into you. Um, but she's slowly kind of staggering and trying to get to the door. I mean, she's not moving fast. I mean, she's, she's taken so much damage. Um, but you know, she's also at this point terrified and is not getting anywhere with this. So she's going to try

to run. Um, Lev, it's your turn. Um, you hear the, you hear the sounds of what's like, you saw that burst and you could see like Creighton looking at you. Um, and then you start hearing the sound of boot steps, like me charging towards you in the darkness. Um, what are you doing? I would like to rip the knife out of her head, uh, and sidestep and just have the knife forward so that he runs into the knife first. All right, roll me an attack for that. Where's this violence coming from? Oh, holy smokes. It's always been there. It's always, it's always been. I just use it for good, usually and not revenge. Love it. I'm vengeance. I'm going to exert some news, one of my heart to reroll. Okay. They're not one of my heart,

one of my blues to reroll because I'm, um, you're in the blue. What's the, what's the sound, what's the sound and the vibe and stuff like that? Cause like you're just kind of, I feel like it's always like a tunnel, tunnel vision kind of situation where you're, you're, you're hyper fixated. You're, you're tunneling in on this, but like what's the overall sound and vibe going on? Uh, it is Mumford and son's, um, Dust Bowl dance. Yeah. Uh, yeah. I listen to Lev soundtrack all the time. It's good, real good, but thank you. I'm very proud of it. Uh, can I, can I exert more than once? Hmm. Yeah. You, I mean, you can, you can exert as much to, uh, as much, uh, points as you want

for how as many dice as you have rolled. So, but you just can't reroll again. Once you've exerted those dice rolls. So you can, oh yeah. So you can do two more if you want to. Yeah. All right. That's eight and three damage. Eight and three damage. Yeah. You, you, you kind of like push off fellows who's still kind of reeling from that. Like, you know, in now in the darkness, one eye shy, uh, you kind of just kind of kick her to the floor, just push her down. Um, and then as Creighton tries to bomb rush you in the darkness, you just had that knife out. And so when he goes to tackle you, you just plunge the knife straight into his side as you both kind of are, you know, you, you have to fall into the weight

of him. Um, as you both kind of collapse on the ground, but you managed to sink a really good under, right under the rib, just a good shot. Um, as you now are fighting close to each other in the darkness. Um, Captain, you, some of the squad you saw, uh, was about to pop off on you, but the lights went out and then they started firing wildly, but nothing managed to hit. Um, but now you're in the darkness and you hear this, you heard the sound of flip, like in the distance saying, let's get the fuck out of here. Um, what do you want to do? So can't leave Lev and Lev is in a very vulnerable position right now. You can be all involved and can. I'm full of rage. Yeah. No captain will leave their

people behind. Um, and so at this point, the mentality is over Lev so they can take care of business and fucking, so keep these three surviving squad members off of them. So just going to start pumping rounds down range at these guys, uh, just in the general direction of their muzzle flash and just cover Lev, keep him suppressed. Yep. Cool, cool, cool. Roll me those attacks. You got it. Against the squad. Oh, that's cocked. Uh, it's nine with one damage. Nine with one damage. Okay. Yeah. You, you were able to at least give them, uh, cover fire. Um, you managed to hit one person, but between the exchange of gunfire, you know, you, you guys are just exchanging cover, you know, just to hold off, but neither one is gaining over the other. Um, but you're going to

stay put. Harrison. What are you doing? Um, so you mentioned Troubles and I think Harrison's Troubles that would be coming up from this, probably be the lovesick. It's, it's, yeah. So, uh, he wants to end this because he understands that the next step is he has to get the fruit of the data. So, uh, but he doesn't want to shoot her in the back. So he's going to run up and see if he can turn her around, block eyes with her and then finish it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So do I need to rule that attack? Okay. Oh boy. I'm after exert. Um, let's say we roll these two. Oh, much better. Okay. Uh, four damage. Four damage. Yeah. Fine. Yeah. She's, yeah, she's kind of like staggering over, stumbling a little bit and stuff like that. You managed to

finally just turn around, get her on the ground and you just hold up the gun and you're just standing over and you guys are just looking eyes at each other, you know. Yep. And she seems to like go to say something and you just don't even give her the chance and you just pop and you just straight in the heart and she's dead. Uh, yeah. Take, take some blues for that. I can, I can take blues while in brewing trouble or trouble. No, actually, no. Cause we'll, that's the trouble comes from that. Never mind. Don't worry about that. Yeah. But you are four blues left and three heart. Four blues, three hearts. Cool. But yeah, this is, um, you'll also gain a gambit with this as well. So if you want to look sure that over, um, but the dust kind of settles and she starts to

just kind of pull out around, um, she's dead and gone. Where else do you want to, uh, start like I got to get into a computer. So if there's any biometric stuff like that, I would drag her over there to do it. So if it's open, then great. I'll start fishing through files. So yeah. And I also want to see what buttons on our panel do. Okay. Yeah. Um, you just leave her for a moment, go towards the desk and we'll, we'll get into that when your next turn. Um, um, let's see. Uh, flip, flippity, flip, flip. You are running through this lab. I'll say with that you probably make it to finally to the door. Um, what are you, what are you trying to do at this point? I am looking for, I'm going to take my little flashlight out of tiny band all year so

I can see shit. And I'm going to just kind of look around for some sort of, I don't know, PA system. Okay. Roll me a, uh, observation check. See if what you can find in the dark with your little flashlight. Six. Yeah, you're, you're, you're, you're trudging through this hall. You're kind of like looking for a panel or you're looking for something and it's just really, even with a little flashlight, it's enough to like give you a general like where you're going direction wise, but you can't suss out of PA system or an intercom on the wall. That's all I wanted to do. Um, are you good? Are you keep moving like out of the, like are, are you trying to get out of the building at this point? Are you, there's no more air. Yeah. I don't think people

understand that there's no more hair. Yeah. Nobody, nobody quite, quite knows that. You did, you, you just said run and nothing else. I forgot to tell people that there's no more air. I get on our little comp thing and I'm like, Oh yeah, by the way, I feel like I probably should have mentioned this sooner, but there's no more oxygen. So you might want to hurry up and follow me. Yeah. You're like, love is like in the midst of being bought. Um, all right. So you're making your way out, out towards the building you and you and little tiny, um, it is Crayton's turn, um, Crayton brunts that knife, um, kind of tackling you to the ground as now you guys are kind of in engaged in a close combat quarter situation. Um, but he's going to fucking swing and, and try to

punch the bug out of you. Yeah. I'm going to exert for him. You're going to take four heart as he just starts. I take half damage though, right? Because I'm troubles brewing. You take half damage. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, right. Um, and that comes out of blues because for troubles brewing or heart. Um, you take, uh, you can, you can take it out of your heart. Oh, my heart. Shit. Yeah. Oh, no, no, no, it takes out of your blues. Okay. Um, but he's like just, he's been, he's like crack shocking you in the ribs, just like, but he's a bigger, he's like a fairly larger dude. Um, and yeah, he's just wailing on you and

you're taking some really hearty damage from him. Um, but that's it. He's going to, he's going to continue to continue to be with you and engage in you and just, um, you know, square up. Uh, squad is going to continue to engage with you, Captain, um, since you were actively fighting at, firing at them. That's fair. You are going to take two points of damage as they pop up. Where are you at? One. Fuck. Yeah. You're, you're, you're going back and forward and they finally, you know, finally one just lands you. You're pretty good. Um, and you, you're starting to feel that warm

sensation coming off from one of your sides is feeling blood and not looking good on you, out of here cap. Um, Gem is dead. Uh, so she's out of the initiatives line. Love. You're up. Um, Krayton's just hammering down when you beat the fuck out of you. Um, you still got, he's still kind of like, you know, got the knife and you haven't really quite removed it, but he's not, you know, he's not going to, he's unrelenting at this point. Um, what do you want to do though? Love their, their free empty hand goes and starts worrying the side of their jacket. And on the inside is the military, uh, like script,

uh, pocket. But you know how in some military jackets, the name is like written on the pocket. The pocket of love's front pocket is missing or the flap where the name usually is and it's sewn on the inside and there's just the name Hadesa B and they're worrying that side and they ripped the knife out of Krayton and they shove it up under his chin. Fuck yeah. Roll that. Okay. Now can I use the upper hand that I would get for knife to a gun fight since I didn't need it last time? Sure. Sure. I'll allow it. All right. Well, that one's gone. It's fine. I'm gonna exert three. Okay. I'm out of blues. Oh, that was so worth it though. Uh, nine to hit five damage. Yes. Give it to me. Yeah. Let me kill this motherfucker.

Yeah, that's technically, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you guys are, you guys are struggling for a moment. You know, he's, he's been like fucking wailing on you and eventually gets kind of in a position where he can kind of get his hands like around you and he thinks he's got the upper hand. He's slowly like just putting pressure around you but you, you just finally just yank the knife out and just get it right. Just clean through like his upper jaw through his jugular and just gets it and you just like, just for a moment, like you just feel like a level of tension and then the body just kind of releases and now it's just dead weight on top of you as you kind of like push him off. One more stab for good measure. Yeah. Clean shot and it's just for double tap but yeah,

you're in the darkness. Um, actually I forgot because we are at the top around you. Ted and Lev roll me grit checks. That was covered in blood. Yeah. Love is truly dripping blood. Uh, five. That's eight for me. You're starting to feel a little lightheadedness, a little tired. So, um, as the room is slowly, the more you're exerting yourself, the more you're struggling, you know, the more you're fighting, the more oxygen you're taking in and the less oxygen is, is, is accumulating,

especially in this space because you're still in a, in a smaller room. Um, yeah, captain, it's your turn. Um, what do you want to do? The squad is still kicking. Yep. You are hurting. Um, where's your blues at? You feeling any blues yet? No, so I, I was at three. I think I've got one. So it should be at, but I imagine I must get because with the bloodthirst trouble, I probably have gained a couple. Yeah. Yeah. I will say you got at least two more through all of this. So that'll take me to about six. Okay. A couple of shots. Um, yeah, so brain and body parts for a moment. Yeah. That's here. Yeah, as your bloodthirst.

Yeah. What have you got? Let's get out of here. All right. Yep. Just going to start trying to get out. Okay. Are you going to do like cover fire as you're trying to run just to try to skate off the goons? Okay. Roll that attack as you are making your way. Got it. Oh, uh, nice. Okay. That's 10 with four damage. Nice. That's great. Yeah. You're popping off fires and you managed to knock off at least one guy, you know, as you're holding suppression fire and this, I will say with this role, this can also help you live on, if you choose to just straight move on your next round on your next turn. Um, let's see. Creighton. We are Harrison. We're back to you. You've killed your wife and you're kind

of settling into realizing that. Uh, what do you, you were making though you, you understand that you need to get the data. So you had it to her desk. So what are you trying to do? Um, if I can uh, lift a local copy of the data, I'd be interested in that. Otherwise, destroy all of it. Um, would you have something to, uh, recover data on or actually roll me an observation check? Being in an office, there might be something that you can snag. Yeah, I'm good at that. Oh yeah. 10 I'm good at that. Cool. Yeah. You kind of like start shuffling through it and you find like a disc drive that you can, you can upload stuff to. So you kind of plug it in, start jumping the entire local drive, whatever's on there. Um, yeah, any information that I can, I can swipe?

I will. Anything else that I can't, I'm going to wipe or encrypt or lock. Uh, no one else should ever see this again. Okay. With that observation check, as you are, uh, as you are, um, slowly uploading, it's like, it's slowly going, you know, it's a lot of data that they're, that you're trying to, to upload. Um, you hear, uh, you hear a, a explosion outside, which you can only assume is your thermite. Oh shit. Okay. On the elevator. Perhaps somebody had attempted to call the elevator. Um, yeah, but you're so, it's slow bar, slowly just uploading. Um, anything else you want to try to do while you're doing that, looking around? Um, yeah, I mean, I'm just going to, I guess, start looking through the office. Uh, I'm also, uh, nostalgic. So if I can find any like keepsakes

or pictures or anything like that, I'm going to take it. Yeah. I mean, you're, you're shuffling through, um, it like she didn't have anything really on the top of her desk outside of like all the work and stuff like that. No, like open like mementos, but like, you know, you, you kind of start shuffling through, um, her desk drawers and stuff like that. And eventually like one of the top drawers kind of pulls out, there is an old photo of you and, um, your daughter and, uh, and her like at a really probably one of the happiest times, probably out looking at sunflowers or something like that. Um, was she wearing the, uh, the wedding ring still? Yeah, she was. I'm going to take that before I leave. Okay. Cool. Yeah. So you're, you grab,

are you going to take the photo with you? Yes. Yeah. Take the photo. You, you know, you're slowly waiting for this to upload and as you kind of like are just now quietly here in this moment. Yeah. Reload to. Okay. Yeah. That's a good idea. Flip. Uh, you are making your way, uh, making your way. What are you, what are you doing? What are you, how are you trying to get out of here? Well, the way we came would be nice. Okay. Yeah. So yeah. So you're, you're going, you're looking for the, the service elevator and it's not hard to just follow the, the same hallways back to where you were. Um, you look at the one hall, um, hallway, um, that leads to the where, um, you know, actually roll me an observation check because

we'll resolve something really quick. Five. Yeah. It's darkest fucking here. Um, so dark that you don't really notice people or slowly like coming through the hallway. Um, until it's kind of like too late, roll me a savvy check to see if you can kind of duck into like a side hallway, uh, or something like that before they catch you. Six. And no means to exert. Oh, um, I'm sorry. Savvy is 2d6, right? Yeah. 2d6. Yeah. Six. Okay. But you don't have any heart points to, to exert really, do you? Not if I want to live. Not if you want to live fair enough. Yeah. You, you kind of duck into a hallway and you're hoping that nobody saw you, um, as some, some guards kind of like pass by. I'm going to roll a little,

I didn't roll an observation check for them. Tiny don't sneeze. Tiny don't sneeze. You get into the hallway and you hold up against the wall and then, you know, for a second, you're just hearing like a sound of a radio people walking by and then tiny does sneeze. God damn it. You hear what seems like people like coming towards you. And like you only, you kind of like, as you like, you're just like up against like a door, like there's like a little just like alcove or something, whatever it's called, right before the door is, you're kind of like pressed up against it and you do see kind of like a barrel of a gun, but then it just pulls away because they rolled a low on the observation

check. So they didn't, they decided not to go further past the point and they, they go towards the, um, where Harrison, where you know where Harrison left you last to go up that other elevator. Um, and then you hear, there's only one guy. Yeah. As far as you can tell, because you rolled low on the observation check, you only know for sure that there's one of them. Um, but you go, uh, but you hear like what they're calling for the elevator and when they do call for the elevator, uh, you hear an explosion and then just, uh, the sound of loud noise is like an elevator drops through, you know, and crashes because you're on the second floor, it goes past the second floor and then you just hear a rumbling

from underneath of, of something happening, of that explosion. Actually, it'd be moving incredibly slowly, but whatever. Aaron, no. What is science, Aaron? Try to tell a story. Um, anyways, you hear metal screeching down the side of it slowly, whatever. Um, um, and then they kind of, uh, you hear some, a little bit of like, like noise and stuff like that. And then it sounds like they've, the people are like going away. Like they hear like a door opening maybe to a stairwell instead as they're trying to get, go upwards. Now you're once again alone in this hallway. Um, I would have looked at it tidy and I'm going to say, when we're,

when we're out of here, I'm getting use of allergy shots, buddy. He's just like, um, that'll be your turn. Uh, let's, let's go for the squad. Uh, grit checks all around for everybody as you are still on this floor with no oxygen. I was at 13. 13. Nice. Yeah. 11. 11. Eight. Leg. Eight. No. Oh, you all succeeded. Yeah. You're still feeling, you're all, you're feeling it. You know, you're feeling that it's dwindling. Um, but Lev and Ted, since you guys are both making your way out of this lab room as Ted has successfully laid cover. Um, once you get into the hallway, there's a little bit more oxygen

there because nobody's, nobody's been breathing it, um, outside of flip. Uh, but it's keeping you guys going, you know, but you're, you're starting to, you know, that you should, you're getting that sensation. Like I should get the fuck out of here. Um, so Lev and Ted, um, you guys are both together and you guys are both on the same initiative technically. So what do you both want to do now that you guys have Elise gotten out of the lab and you're now in this dark hallway? I assume you're both trying to escape, right? Get out of this building. Yeah. Yeah. Um, okay. Can I, I want to have my, my gun out in a held action to shoot if we hear anyone. Not, no, that's a bad idea because that could be Harrison or Flip.

Good catch. Um, damn. Yeah, I know. Did you just say damn? I'm just going to have a held action to pull my pistol or to pull my, yeah, to pull my, my pistol up, but not necessarily shoot. Okay. Checking targets. Yep. Cool. Cool. Um, Captain, are you doing anything particular outside of just trying to navigate through the halls? No, just, uh, kind of sticking close to 11. I think at this point maybe leaning on Lev a little bit because, uh, definitely bleeding out. Yeah, you're both, uh, you're both the heart. You're both the heart. You're both the heart. You're just huffing. Do you guys have any means to, to, to look down the hallways and stuff like that, a flashlight,

a glow stick? I hoped out, hoped in, hoped in a lighter. I, I literally told myself I had two things and they are my weapon. All I see is a shotgun, baseball bat, and sunglasses. Sunglasses would make it darker for you. They would. The anti-dark vision. Anti-dark. Yeah. You guys are just shuffling through the hallways. Um, roll me observation checks to see if you kind of can suss out that you're going at least the right way. There's a couple hallways on the way. Uh, it's a 10. An 11. Yeah. Yeah. You guys kind of remember, or just kind of based off memory, just remembering how far you guys went down one hallway before you took that turn. You know, so you guys are slowly behind flip, who's just a little bit of ways ahead of you

on this one. Um, but you guys would have heard in the distance the sound of a slight explosion and that elevator slowly, but quickly falling through the floor slowly for us quick, or quickly for us slowly for Aaron. Um, was that our way out by the way? No, that was the, that was the secondary elevator that Harrison, where Harrison split off on you guys. Um, Harrison. Yep. What are you doing? That was my progress going. Am I good to go? Yeah, I'd say you're good to go now. All right. It's finally loads. Beeps gives you a little. Go up and hit that white button, full, full, full, full thing. And I'm going to lock it and change the password to something ridiculous. Okay. Yeah. No, you're not. Yeah. Just a key smash. Yeah. That's what, yeah. That's basically it.

And then smiley faces and all these ridiculous things with it. Yeah. You, you wipe the drives, you, you do all of that. You change the password. Uh, and you're going to leave. Uh, yeah. So I'm going to do a comms check and say, uh, Twilight, I, uh, uh, I, uh, I'm kind of trapped up here. I didn't expect to make it out of here, but it seems my business is done. Um, any ideas? Good to hear it's fucking live. Any building would have stairs. Any with less cardio. I mean, I'll, yeah, yeah, I'll take the stairs. Sure. I mean, if you want to wait until I can get to Edmona, I can come get you, but. Yeah. So I'll slow her in too. All right. I can start making the stairs. Okay. Uh, does she have a key card or anything like that? Maybe, uh, maybe for

case I run into any kind of security door. Yeah. She would have a, she would have a security, uh, key card much different than the one you have, um, from the security, um, security guards that you, you pawn those initial ones off of. Um, yeah. So you're going to, uh, you find the stairwells is easy enough. It's, it's, it's not that far from the elevator. Um, yes, Aaron. Sorry. I just realized your hand is up. You could jump and be fine. I don't know if Eli would let that happen. Aaron. I was right. You're also in a side of a dome. Um, so that doesn't make gravity higher. True. Not wrong. You want to test it?

I have what, three, three heart left. My blues are flushed. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah. Yeah. My new game is hard and go hard of gold because I've always tried to do the right thing and it has always hurt me. I love it. So does that mean end and we get to pick a thing that comes back to us now? I would say that because we were transitioning out of combat into a more of a, let's run and, and see if we can make it to the twilight. Mm-hmm. Then I would like enterprise against you. Uh, if you lose and choose one of the following, gain a new trouble and a new BNB, restore your missing heart, increase the stat by one to the max of three.

Yeah, you're actually, you're probably missing heart. Yeah, that's good. We'll go for you too, Aaron. That is good news. Good call. So we're at full health. Like, yeah, you might fucking make it out of here alive. Some of you. Yeah. All right. So that's just what we'll pick. Or does that happen automatically? Oh, you can pick again. But you guys are still like physically hurt, but like you'll be able to sustain more damage and get yourself by because your knife, your wounds don't go away. No, just fueled by rage more. Yeah. The spite is what keeps you alive at this point. Oh, goddamn right it is. That is. So I don't know if there's too many actions. I want the,

so I'll wipe the drives, take the keycard, wedding ring, and I kind of want, I want to destroy any physical files. So if I need to just chuck a thermite at your desk or the filing cabinets and just take off. Yeah, we're, we're in like a, I'm going to just maintain initiative to keep action going, but this is more or less just loose stuff. So it's easy enough for you to get the drive, wipe it. You can smash the computer if you want to just kick it off the desk and just cracking like stop on it. And then yeah, and then you make your way to the stairwell. The hard drive that I took, I also did. Okay. Yeah. Cool. Because I don't make it out here, no one's just going to take that off me and redo it. Good point. Yeah, so you grab all that stuff.

Look at Jim one last time. Big old Ed. And you make it to the, you make it to the stairwell. But as you kind of like are starting to make your way down, you do hear at the bottom of the stairwell that like, you know, door open, you hear boots on the way up, you know, you were addressing. Last time I was in a stairwell, I got shot. So that'll be your turn, Harrison. Flip. I would say you can keep pressing on if you want to and can make it to the elevator finally. If that's what you want to do. I would like to, but I would like to try to hold the elevator, meaning I want to keep anyone that's not us from getting in the elevator and give everybody else a chance to get on to this elevator. Okay, sure. Yeah. You have your

gun still. Yeah. Yeah, you just take a position, hold an action, standing at the door, waiting for any somebody, anybody, you don't know. I swear to God, if you sneeze one more time, I will put you up for adoption. He kind of like sinks into your jacket, trying to hide, trying to keep from sneezing. But I'll say you've you're holding a line on the on it for your turn. Nobody seems to be around quite yet as the other people as current security has already made their what are starting to make their way up. Who beans? Top of the round. Okay, Lev and Ted. Roll me observation checks, you guys are still moving along, but you guys just can't see because

it's dark. I just want to see how you are continuing on. If you roll one, we'll make it. We don't add anything to that, do we? No, no mod adds to observation. That's a three. Eight. Okay. Yeah. Ted, you know, you're, you know, trying to hold it together. So it's really hard to see. And even with this darkness, it's like, you don't know if it's like, your consciousness going out, or it's just darkest fuck. But Lev, you're holding on, you know, with with Ted, and then it's a little bit of slower process for you guys. But eventually, you guys would get out into that like foyer, and you see flip out in the darkness, like one hand holding like the shotgun, the other one with like a flashlight kind of just scanning, like briefly sees you guys. And now you

guys are all reunited once again. It is getting, you know, very no oxygen up in here. So getting real sleepy. You started to really feel that tire, you know, lightheadedness, you know, but the elevator's right there. And we got way, we're waiting for the other one. He's going to take too long to get to us. I'll meet us there. Sweet. Eli, for your knowledge, I took blood thirsty as my trouble through grit as my gambit. Great. I can that I can have damage once per session. That is awesome. That's awesome. No, I'm sorry. Wait, what? That wasn't the one I wanted to take on stop. I wanted to take unstoppable. That was

the one I wanted to take. Nice. So you guys clamor into the elevator, close the elevator door, and you guys start going back down into the tunnel area that you guys initially came out of. Y'all look like shit. And pretty, pretty fucking rough. Harrison, you hear kind of the sounds of like boots and stuff like that coming up. You're also, you know, you're okay, but like, you know, you're hurting and stuff like that. What do you want to do? How do you want to negate? Are you going to try to negate these guys? You're going to try to engage them. You only hear the sound of like two people. So is there like a, maybe like a floor plan or like an evacuation thing like on the wall that

might show like a second staircase or other way? Because if I have her key card, I can probably get in and out on any floor. I'm thinking. So I could probably just. It's easy enough because they're like, you know, like those things are kind of illuminated for emergency reasons. So you would find one easily on there and it does show that there is a secondary staircase. All right. Yeah. If I can do that and maybe jam the door behind me and take off, I'll do it. Okay. I'm just going to roll me. Roll me a savvy check to see if you can do all of that undetected. Oh, no, that's great. Total of five. That's like exert myself. I guess I could do that. You want to? We roll this one or another one. Yeah, you

manage to swipe the card and you open up the door, but like you underestimated closing it quietly and you still make a significant click noise. So you know that like you're going to have to, if you're going to try to get out of it, you're going to have to move. So I assume you're going to just start booking it towards that second stairwell. Yeah. Oh yeah. All right. We'll leave it at that for right now. Left head flip. You guys are all together. So we're just going to do, we're just going to cut back and forth. You guys spill out of the elevator once you get hit the final, the bottom tunnels. Let's just, for movement's sake, let's just roll general savvy checks just to see if you guys can remain under the through the tunnels undetected without

getting encountering anybody on the way as you guys are trying to get out of here. We'll take it as a group. Yep. That'll be at 12 for me. Seven. I'm going to use, I'm going to exert and re-roll. Just got its aid. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. You guys are like holding each other up, trying to keep everybody shuffling and quiet and stuff like that. There's occasional times where you hear security down one corridor, people moving, trying to scan around, trying to figure out what the fuck is going on. You guys are managing to stick to the shadows and ignore stuff. Roll me another round of that as you guys are going to hit the initial cargo bay and see if you can get yourself out of the facility. Nine. Nine. Four. Four. Exerting again. Okay.

Also just got it to eight. Oh, mother fuck is you. It's so close. Or comfort. Yeah. It's just like so many people are just like moving just around and stuff like that. So you guys are kind of just taking that advantage of the general uncertainty of it all. And you guys managed to at least get yourselves out of the facility onto the street. Are you guys, are you guys now making it back, trying to get yourself to Twilight? Trying to. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You guys start shuffling yourself. Harrison, you hear like as you like make it to the end of that hallway, the sound of like doors opening on the other side as you weren't able to evade it. So there are people in the on the same floor as you as you're making it. Roll me an observation check to see if you,

since you are in the dark, unless you have something to keep you illuminated. Yeah. Gonna exert one more time. Okay. I'll do it. Nate. Okay. Yeah. It takes you a minute to kind of get your bearings and stuff like that because you are just kind of rushing out. You are still hurt and you know, starting that that it's starting to come the wave of like, you know, how your body is actually feeling. It started to come back. But you make it to the other stairwell. And now you're just starting to just skipping stairs and making crashing into walls. Probably as you like halfway down finally, you know, as you get like two, two, two rounds down here, the door open and you can see like somebody up top,

you know, clocking you as you're running running down. They're going to fire, but ricochets off the stairwells and stuff like that. You kind of hear you see it kind of bounce off a little too little flicks of light, but it's also very dark in here and with the tight space can't quite catch you. But you're still making it down. Roll me another, roll me a savvy check. See if you can make more distance between these two guys and at least get down to the second floor. I got two sixes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. They're pursuing you 14. Oh, wow. Yeah. You slowly get a little bit of distance between them as you can hear just the sounds of heavy boots. Just just nothing but boots running down as you just echoing through

this hall. You finally like push into the second floor where you initially had gotten off that stairwell back into the back into that hallway and eventually back out into that foyer. You see the elevator and you go and you have to wait for it to be called back up to your floor. I think as soon as we make like we clear the outside, I'm telling Harrison, we're outside, hurry up. Got busy right now on my way. Just get on busy. We got to get the fuck out of here. Can I quickly get a heart check on everybody? Heart. Yeah, I just want to double five. Oh, five, one, flip, two, three. Okay, cool. All right. Funnest spot. Okay.

Are you guys are making this ship without him? You're not waiting for Harrison outside. Are you guys? I know where it is. I'll figure it out. Okay. Yeah. It takes a while because you guys are also in a secondary zone, in the other zone area, but you guys are pushing through the streets, staggering around and eventually would make it back to Twilight. It would take a significant amount of time, but you're now back there waiting as we wrap out Harrison and see if Harrison's going to make it. As soon as we hit the ship, I'm sprinting for the cockpit and turning everything on. And like my foot is on the break. It's in gear. As soon as Harrison clears our airlock, we're gone. Yeah, you're running, you know, you go and then you're talking to the terminal, you're trying

to get it all set up to clear yourselves to fly out. Nobody really knows what the fuck is going on. Therefore, you know, they don't assume that you are the reason that something's happening over there at the facility. Harrison, roll me. Roll me another savvy check. As you're making your way out into the, you're into the foyer, you're waiting for the elevator to open. So I wanted you to see how quick you're going to get into that elevator and get it closed. Okay. Yeah. Very good. Um, yeah, you, you clamor yourself over to, you know, you're waiting, you're pushing the button, you're pushing the button, you're pushing the button. Eventually you hear like in the distance the sound of a door being opened from the stairwell and stuff like that. And footsteps eagerly like

trailing through the hallways and stuff like that. Finally, the, the, you hear the dang and doors open, you just like rush yourself in and now you're, you know, you're trying to close the door, you're pushing the button over and over and over again. And just then you see like, you know, the two, two security here, the, um, the hallway, see the doors slowly closing, pops off rounds, you just see ricochets, like just three stars, but the door finally closes. And you start going downwards. Roll me a savvy check to see how well you can escape out of the, the, the tunnel area. Yeah. I rolled an 11, so it's a 13. Yeah. Holy shit. You're sneaking through easily enough, trying to, you know, you navigate with ease. Only one more. Once you get to the

loading dock to see how well you can clear the facility. Do it. I'm going to exert. Right of the dice, guys. All right. Eight. Eight. Yeah. You, you clamor out. You had this pause for a moment and stuff like that, hide behind a car as some of the group passes by, you wonder for a moment if they're going to get you, but they seem to just keep moving. And you exit out of the facility into the streets through, you know, through to the other, the other section where the terminal is, you eventually clamor on to Twilight. So I clear out of the ship. Yeah. You managed to get on the ship. Yeah. You cleared the same checks everybody else did. Let's go. I slam the door and take off.

Yeah. You get cleared access in the time it takes for Harrison to finally get himself there. Yeah. You managed to clear traffic and you guys exit as close to like light speed as I can get us to be. Yeah. You, you eventually, you know, clear airspace or space, space, space, space, space, space, space. Hey, you head out, you head out into the drift once more. We'll beat a little bruise, a little hurt. Little somewhat alive. Oh, man. Oh, my. How are you guys? How is everybody, you know, now that you've finished our deal and, you know, anything you guys want to do or say to each other, wrapping it up.

Yeah. I just want to say that our descent out into the void is actually going to happen very slowly because first we have to get into orbit. No, no. We take off at the speed of light. Fuck you. I do cool pilot shit and we fly away. We also have a hole in our ship. Our orbit. Oh, yeah. I saw that. Oh, that patch in your ship. Yeah. Oh, you mean the glory hole that I'm never going to fix? Yeah. Oh, god. Yeah. Exactly what that is. Stuff like a dishwasher against it. Yeah, especially for like Lev and Harrison who like dipped into their troubles and stuff like that. You know, that's that's a lot of like shit. So kind of just now that the dust has kind of settled and shit happened, you know, where are you guys at?

I think as soon as we make it into like the void, I go down the stairs and I find Harrison and I just hug him. Yep, Sam. Is she dead? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How about uh, you haven't changed at all? Oh, no. Like uh. Covered in blood. It's a good look. I might keep it. Hanging out with Ted too much. Mmm. I might go. Tighter hug. Oh. It doesn't feel any better, does it? He's kind of like, he's just kind of crying now. Yeah. So, hmm. I think good intentions get us here. I have to look my mom in the eye now. My other mom. I'm gonna just clean up before I do that. Don't want to scare the kids. Sure. Yeah.

Kids, right? Yeah. I bet they'd like to learn from you. Oh, that'd be fun. Yeah, let's do that. Let's set that up. Yeah. Teach my siblings. I was gonna pull the uh, the wedding ring out of his pocket and use what's left of the chain that he had for his jar and he's gonna put the ring on that and clasp it up. Captain. How are you doing? He'll hurt. Yeah. Captain's probably, I'm hoping, getting some medical treatment aboard the ship. Yeah, there's a med bay. I owe Ted some stitches, so. Yeah. Yeah, probably pulling out some buck shots, some slugs, but yeah, just glad the crew's intact. Holy shit. Holy shit. Yeah. Any last things for Flip and Tiny? Yeah. Are you also sitting with Ted in the med bay getting help? No, there's a bigger priority

because that was a lot and Tiny probably got dirty, so I'm going to give him a bath and then brush him out before I go get help. Oh. Your priorities are in the right order, sir. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Ted's getting stitched up. You can look down the way like there's a washrooms not too far from the med bay and like in a sink, there's Flip just scrubbing little Tiny. Oh, Eddie hates it. He looks so sad. Oh, he's shaking a little bit. He's tolerating it because like, you know, but you flip him out, you brush him up. He forgives you as you put him in his pocket. Yeah. And you guys sail off for another day and that's where we'll leave this. Yes. Wow. Yes. Well done. He planned to kill us and we said, fuck you. Yeah. You did say, fuck you.

I was ready for a crew one finale. Yeah. No, no, no. No, no, no. We're going to be chaotic and we're going to live to see another day. Well, well, Allegra's dice rolls nicely done. Allegra's dice rolls this time. The only time I've ever rolled. Well, save those up for this. Why don't you? Logan's not going to survive the finale now. Logan's death now now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was awesome. Thank you, Eli. You'll just be a ghost. So let's hear him. Well, thank you. But that doesn't matter right now because we all lived. We all lived. Yes. Well, thank you guys so much for including yet another chapter of Orbital Blues. We'd be sure to be

back soon for another tale. But until then, live your dreams, Spacemen. Have a good one. Thank you, Matt, for joining us. We appreciate it. Matt, thank you.