The Adventure Zone - The Adventure Zone: Abnimals Ep. 24: A SCUZZ of Our Own!

Episode Date: March 27, 2025

The heroes continue to explore Dr. Killdeath's lair, but something strange is afoot. Can the heroes use all the lessons they've learned about fighting and teamwork to take down some overly-friendly robots?Abnimals Theme by Justin McElroy, Eric Near (https://bit.ly/ericnearmusic) and Jonathan Coulton (https://www.jonathancoulton.com/).Additional Music in this Episode: "Taffy Machine" by Kate Kody: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/kate-kody/; "Heading Home", "Colossal", "Gearing Up", "Blood in the Water", and "Surveillance" by Mr. Smith: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSk2j0fTMw9V94UGyfWrSuA?; "Air" by Jesse Spillane: http://www.jessespillane.com/; "Emerald Therapy" by Jason Shaw: https://audionautix.com/; "Lurking Terror" by malictusmusic: https://www.malictusmusic.com/; "Electric Birds" by Scott Holmes Music: https://scottholmesmusic.com/; "Sick of" and "Turn around" by Koi-discovery: https://koi-discovery.lescigales.org/; "Dear Mr. Super Computer" by Holizna: https://holiznaroyaltyfree.bandcamp.com/; and "Task Man" by Gamesharkoff: https://gagmesharkoff.bandcamp.com/.Harmony House: https://harmonyhousewv.com Happy MaxFunDrive! Right now is the best time to start a membership to support your favorite shows. Learn more and join at https://maximumfun.org/jointaz

As spite of what you have heard, we're at the height of our powers On top the toll of our towers And unless I'm wrong We're at the height of our power As long as the head's run As the credit's roll on the extended director's cut of Flubber You guys You gotta stick around for the after-credit scene

Where they choose Fubber 2 And there's deleted scenes There's making out documentary If you want to watch any of those Now which Flubber are we discussing Well this is Flaver 1 Are we talking about Fred McMurray? No

No Well the absent-minded professor did have Flubber as a component No one listening was alive when any Flubber came out This is purely for us Yeah And so it doesn't matter. Not for you.

Don't try to put Fred McMurray's old weird button here. You guys stand, you wipe tears from your eyes. Wow. It gets better. You notice new stuff, man, every time. Hey, can I... I know it's supposed to be for only after work, but can we... Guess we'd check out the arcade.

So badly, I'm dying. Oh, yeah. You hear skies and the lights kind of zoom back to you on the wall. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, let me get everything turned on and powered up. follow me. And you see the lights move down the hallway again leading you towards the arcade. Scos, is there

do you guys have the Green Bank Guardians arcade cabinet, like the four top one? Oh yeah, absolutely we do. There's some graffiti written on it, you know, because it's like boo, greenback guardians or whatever, but it's still playable. It was a big hit with

the Kill Death Bots. Dibs on Carver. Dibs on Carver. Yeah, obviously Dibs on Carver, no slappers. It does like natural, like, rock at launchers only in the second round I mean you can't call dibs on Carver I just called Dips on Carver You have to call Dibs on no bathroom camping

And we'll start in facility and take it to Temple Office Roger puts a quarter down and says I got next Well it's a four player cabinet man So I don't do it I'm not very competitive It's a cooperative that you don't want to play with us

I'm gonna I'm gonna see if they have one of those dance games Of course you are Well Lamar chimes then Is it weird if I play as myself? No, please too So Traff Here's my thought

And I don't know what you What you want to do with this But I am I am really interested In this idea of These heroes that have been around so long That we've forgotten Some of the mythology

And I'm wondering If there is something in this game In the way these guardians do their biz Or in the way they fight or in the enemy behaviors or something that I can learn that will be advantageous to me in the future. That's good.

Some sort of special move that we had forgotten about or like something maybe Lamar forgot. Something in this game. I'm looking to jog something or rebuild a little bit of that history. I know there's not going to be a science burrito in here, but I'm looking for any kind of leg up maybe in the game.

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like this and you know this game. You played it before. So give me a 48 roll on it. All right. Two successes. Yeah, with two successes, two things.

One, the thing that you were very struck by, right, is as this is a cooperative game, there's constant combos, right? And as individuals, right, the Greenback Guardians are pretty effective. But you see a lot of like setups happening and the effective. the effectiveness of that. And it clues into your brain this thing of like, you've been working with these two for a while now. And you know the inner workings of how the three of you work together.

Okay. And what that's going to do for you is anytime your action is coupled with their, so if Dad or Griffin do something and then your character, response to that with an action, you're going to pick up an extra D8 for that. Killer. I would probably, this feels like, abs move? Is that where I, under the Mondo moves? You think that's where this would make the sense?

Yeah, something like that, whatever wording you want to put in it. Okay. And that's a, what did you say the material impact of that is for a numerical? Bonus D8. Bonus D8, if it's a pairing up, like a team up. But you also notice something else. As you're playing, Lamar is getting way into it. And he is up to this point been very zen about everything and very chill about everything.

And you can see him as he's like playing as himself. And even in this like video game form like fighting crime with his buddies, he's getting like very emotionally invested in it. Like he's in it. It's like he's suddenly 20 years younger and like the energy he's giving off is quite considerable. And he is, frankly, slamming that punch button as hard, the attack button as hard as he can. Careful, man. These things, they will turn you violent.

That has been figured out by science studies. Say nothing to the richest corporal tunnel, man. Yeah. Yeah. No, sorry. I just got cut up to you. It felt good. I mean, it felt good.

And I know it's not real. I know it's not real. Video games aren't real. I know. It just felt good, man. It's been a long time. Hey, listen. I know anytime you're gaming,

you know, gaming is a really healthy way to work through that. I think it's worth for... He lowers his blue blocker glasses. Even though you are... Even though you are a pacifist, man. Like, you're not hurting ones and zeros. I think it's a really healthy way

to work through some of that angry thing that you may. be possessing and acknowledging that you are human and therefore imperfect, you know? You've got to have some impulses you might as well work about on the digital field of battle man. Yeah, I mean, that felt good, but also like, I haven't seen my brothers, you know, in like a decade. Yeah, that must be really...

Is that time crisis four? What? No way! Heck yeah! I go play time crisis four. Hey, Dad, just for my own curiosity, I'm going to have your role 48 to see how you do on the dance dance machine. Oh, I didn't, he's not doing dance dance dance. Oh, he's not doing dance dance dance resistance. They got punched up.

He found Donkey Konga 3. Oh, get out of town. Which was only released in Japan. Dad, that's actually like a pretty good poll for you. I mean, we did give you 15 minutes to Google it, so it's like limited. Yeah, thanks. Still, it's not a bad bull. All I knew about a game, I didn't, and that sends a chill down my spine.

Only in Japan, my friend. Only in Japan. Well, famously, Dad knows a ton about Japan, and Griffin has no interest. No idea or interest to know more. Okay, Dad. Tell you about Tagga to Gochis. Nope. Dad.

Tamagachis? That's not even, okay, you've just lost it. You've actually just lost it again. Back to Donkey Konga 3. Yeah. Okay. Roll 48 for me. 48s, here they come.

Two successes, eight to five. You get a third on the leaderboard at the end. Yes. You see, it's cleft and cleft and then you. Wow. Yeah, I think I'm going to, well, maybe I'll just be happy with third. I mean, it's kind of my status in all. Listen, yeah, you guys have to rescue Carver and stop whoever's.

But if you want to spend a couple more, like, episodes, of this podcast playing Donkey Konga 3 to see if you can beat Cleveside Score. I mean, now that I know that we can manifest rare Japanese arcade game machines, I could spend quite a while dipping into that.

I'm going to try it one more time. We should. And I'm going to use a time to shine dice. No, come on. You are going to be fighting splinter at the end of this. And you're going to be like out of TTSs. I'm going to use one TTS. Yes. Unreal, man.

I know. I'm so proud of you, Dad. I'm so bold. Here we go. So five, D8. Oh, my God. A seven, a four, a three, a two, a one. Yeah, you actually do worse. Yeah, you do worse this time. You don't even, not only do you not make it on the leaderboard, but cranky comes out and he, like, points at the screen and laughs of you. and even says your name. Somehow he's like, I'm disappointed in you, Roger Moore.

It's very hurtful. I know. Yeah, I mean, Roger's very sensitive dude. Yeah, and Cranky is very mean. He throws down the D.K. bongos and walks away from the game. Well, hey, hey, come on, man. This is a rare import. Oh.

And you hear scos, the lights come back on. What do you guys want to see next? There's the cafeteria. I could whip up some lunch. or there's not a lot in the armory. They took a lot of that with them, but we could look in there. If you guys are looking a little rough,

maybe we could hit the day spa, the infirmary patch you up a little bit. Oh, I'll definitely need to hit that. I think the armory might be a good idea if we're getting ready to plunge into a big, big butt battle. Like a battle with big butt? That's insane, man. Yeah, let's do them all.

Let's hit the armory first. Maybe get a little snackaroonie at the cafeteria. Okay, yeah. I'll have the bots start working on. You guys like sandwiches or what are you guys into? What do you like? No roast beef. Oh, yeah, no, of course.

Fish, live fish. Live fish, give it to us raw and wriggling. Raw and wriggling? Yeah, you got it. Okay. That's one gallum special. You keep nasty taters. Okay, I'll keep nasty taters.

Do you? I hate to sound greedy, man, but you got me deafnia. Any what? Defnia is the, I mean, on the street they call them water fleas sometimes, but technically they're deafnia. It's one of my favorites. Like bugs. Yeah, like I eat brine shrimp, deafnia, earthworms, whatever you got, man. Grind the ones.

Okay, yeah, I think we can. I would crush a blackworm right now or earthworm. whatever you got. Yeah, we'll dig up some bugs. Cool. Okay. Hey, did you guys ever think about how are you bugs?

Yeah, man. I think about it a lot. I think it's honestly pretty cool. It's great sustainable pro. Absolutely, man. It's good for an environment, and it's good for my, you know,

my interior environment, too. The floor on these guys. Unreal. Yeah. But you guys wanted to check out the armor. It's over this way. If you want to come, here you go.

And the lights zoomed down that hallway. into the armory. You find a much smaller room than the ones you've been in previously. And as Scott's mentioned, a lot of the shells have been emptied. What you see is because the majority of Dr. Kildes's like minions were robots, you see a lot of like robot attachments, a lot of arm attachments or like laser guided like HUD kind of glasses that, you know, lenses one might put on a robot. There's some equipment here. but it's pretty big over.

I mean, I wouldn't mind grabbing some of these attachments for my pal Roli bot. Just, I don't know that I would know how to sort of upgrade it with this stuff. But if I see anything in here that could make our most spherical team member, more sort of combat ready, that would be great. Yeah, give me, let's see, with your bug eyes, give me a 48 roll to see what you can find. 48, I find a garbage. can and it's full of Duke. Yeah, that's a three, a three, a three, a two.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so take a practice point. Oh, my God, it's been so long. I didn't think we were going to get any more of these. Well, I didn't think you were going to fail so bad. It failed real bad. Yeah. Like I said, you find a lot of stuff, but you're unable to see how any of it would be useful.

There's a lot of, like, loose wires and the things you see seem pretty outdated. Okay. Nothing that's really that impressive to you At this point I just kind of want to look like I know what I'm doing so it's not too embarrass myself so I'll grab like a spool of wire and just be like, this is good stuff high quality copper

my man Rolleybots gonna chop this down spaghetti good Excellent Anybody else want to take a look around Anything in particular you're looking for you in the market for it? What are you buying? Better not be a spool of wire because I got that on lock

Is there anything like protective That would be more my sort of speed. I'm looking for something that can shield my extremely delicate flesh. Excellent. Let's see. Give me, yeah, just your scouting everything out. Give me a 3D8 roll. If I turn the lights off, can I use my nocturnosense and roll 48?

Huh. Let's see, hold on. I'll go ahead and I'll just turn the lights. At this point, we anticipate each other's needs. Yeah, go for it. Go ahead, blood. Your dark vision is better than your light vision. Yeah, sure.

Thank you. All right, so that's a team up. So that's 5D8. What? No. Griffin didn't take an action. He did. He turned the lights out.

That's a free action. I'm just kidding. I roll 48. You win. Nope, that's a complete and total failure. Oof, ow! Hey, man, that wasn't cool at all. Who did that?

Hey, who turned the lights off? I thought that. messed up, dude. I thought it would help. Okay. Why did you think that? It's dark. You know what darkness is?

No, you didn't. I turned the old guys. I'll turn it back on. Uh-oh, it's not turning back on. Oh, farts. Done broke to the dang switch. You hear from the other room. You guys are the darky here.

Lunch is ready whenever you guys. Where? Tell us, get someone to bring us. Oh, yeah. The light zoom in again on the walls. This way. Thank God. Just follow the light.

We need to stop messing with powers beyond our ken. A light switch? Apparently. I'm a seal. What do I know about switches? As you head into the cafeteria, you can see places laid out, a non-roast beef sandwich for you, a bowl full of bugs,

some raw wriggling, no nasty tater's fish, and a pizza for Lamar. But he has gone all out scus in the bots with like a vase with flowers in it and like place settings and crystal servingware and stuff like that. I'm just, yeah, it's nice to have friends come to visit. I laid everything out here. And then I was thinking after this, we could check out Flutter 2, maybe some more games over in the arcade. We do. And Carver may be being tortured right now.

So we should hold that truth in our hearts and maybe I'll let it sort of spur. us on to action. Well, yeah, he's counting on us, man. I mean, yeah, yeah, I get that. But, like, what if that was, like, a later thing? And right now was, like, kind of like a sleepover. Do you want to come with us? I'm kind of, like, locked, you know, I'm programmed into the kind of headquarters here.

All right. Well, let me, uh, let me get in there. See if I can't fix that. Hey, hold on. I mean, I'm going to ask a S-H-S. I'm going to S-H-N. I'm going to S-H-H-N. See, what's that?

What's that? I'm going to get in there and have a butchers, man. Inside the walls? Inside your noggin, fella. That's not my nonging. That's just a wall. No, no, no. I'm going to get inside your noggin.

I'm going to reprogram me so you can come with us. You don't want to stick around on here like some sort of weird metal ghost, do you? Can I ask you? you a question? Yeah. Just a follow-up before you have, I believe you said a butcher's in my nodding? Yeah, man. How confident are you that you could transfer me out of here and not, like, erase me entirely? So, here's a plan, and you have, you're good with computers, be one yourself. I'm going to SSA gin, deer dog, right? I'm going to root around your route directory.

I'm going to pseudo in to some of your the lib and the deer. I want to have a butcher's around and see if I can't see what's causing all the problems. I'll get rid of the stuff that says I'm sure there's a line in your code somewhere

but are you Python by the way? Because I did like five hours of Python in community college. So like you're uh I'm going to I'm just going to get in there. I'll erase the line that says like stay here. There's got to be one Like, get out there and get it done. Go 2.10.

You know, whatever. Justin, give me a roll. Let's see. What would this be? Yeah, I don't see anything. Nothing. So a 3D8 role, because you are training out. I don't actually even know that I have the fake college hours.

All this is right now is to convince him to let you try. Yeah, just let me have a butcher's. a dagnappet It's such a Full miss I mean a 4-1-2 You just you You hate to see it

But it is a full whiff I really appreciate that The offer But I think maybe like I'll just wait And we'll just hang out And see how things go All right man

That's absolutely fair If you change your mind That's the great thing about SSHing Into things Is I could SSH into your lab or your deer any point you need.

Okay. This guy's a real code cowboy. Yeah, I'll keep that in mind. If you got S&B too, I could mess around with that a little bit. It's actually, I already said no and it's becoming less

assuring as he go on. I feel less confident as I continue honestly in my ability, even if you ask me to at this point to be, I don't think I would. Okay. To be honest. Um, hey, would someone might Throwing this fish into my open mouth?

Hoppa! Oh, or! Oh! Oh! Oh, oh, oh, oh. No, I told you, man. Hey, man. Not cool.

I'm trying. I respect your boundaries, and I respect everything that you bring to the table. And all I ask is that you do the same. That was kind of species appropriation, and I'm sorry. A little bit. Um, see, you guys yumbing down? Yeah.

Hey, let me try one of those. bugs. Nope, not for me. I tried it. I thought a worm would be like a linguine, but it, no, it's good. It is a worm. It is decided. Yeah, it's an acquired taste, man. And also, you've got to squeeze out

the nugget. I saw If you don't squeeze out the nugget before you eat it, it's tough. But don't eat the, don't eat the pod itself. Don't eat the pie, man. Everyone will laugh. fat shoe. Yeah. It's embarrassing.

In Hakuna Mutata, I always thought like those gorgeous bugs look actually so delicious, but now I know that I prefer fish. So thank you. Learning a lot about myself on this adventure. Yeah, no problem, man. So each of you can regain two hit points.

I think, Dad, you're only down one, so you'll be at full health. Great. And your bodies begin to feel sluggish. Uh-oh. What? And your vision starts to blur. Wait, wait, why? Travis.

It's food. You hear Scuz say, See, I told you we're gonna have a sleephole. Oh my God. Not again. The four of you pass unconscious. Boy, Travis, I have to say, this shows tenuous relationship with robots

getting increasingly fractious. Yeah. The four of you, Lamar and you three, Uh, wake up. I have a name. Sorry, Axel, Ile, and the rest. I have a name too. I can't remember it.

Roger Moore. Yeah, there it is. Roger Moore. Thank you. I'm just saying if you're going to end the pussycat someone, I want you to end the pussycats them. Okay, Roger, Lyle, Navy, and the rest. Is that better? Yeah, wouldn't you rather buy a CD from Axolio and the rest?

You wake up, strapped to metal tables in a brightly lit. It looks like at some point it would have been like an anesthetic, kind of a very clean room. It is a little dusty now, a little worn down from disuse. But you find yourselves in the day spa slash infirmary. The straps your wrists, forearms, legs, you're firmly down. And Scuz says, oh, you're awake. great, we can keep hanging out. I've got all kinds of activities planned,

and I figure after like a couple days here, you guys will have cooled off, and then you'll be ready to hang out more. I can let you off the tables. This is going to be so good. Time out. Trowf, can I ask you a question about the day spa infirmary? Yeah, please.

Is there a regular assessment as to which one people are in? Like, is there a point on your journey of recovery from an injury or malady, at which point you realize, that you are now in the spa, right? Like, you are no longer in the infirmary, and it is now the spa. Yeah, so you didn't get a full chance to scope it out,

but just remember where you're laying and kind of see out of the, you know, corners of your eyes, its majority is an infirmary, but you can see a couple, like, massage chairs have been set up and some, like, foot baths and stuff. Okay. And maybe the day spot title was something that they're like, we have a lot going on here.

So there is some what you would consider spa equipment. But the majority of the experience is infirmary. So it's not really a spa urmery. It's more of a kind of infirmary. Infirmary. Yeah. Okay. With a relaxing infirmary.

Mm-hmm. Hey, listen, I know you're lonely and that is... Well, not anymore. Well, we will turn the cold shoulder to you. We will give you the silent treatment, and it will be pretty gnarly. But we actually do need to sort of save the day, as is our want. So I need you to let us out of here, pal, because it's... Do we not have time maybe for at least a makeover or, you know, put our hair up in curlers?

I'm going to go ahead and say that between indulging in flubber and then being knocked unconscious, we have probably expended all of our free, like, mission leisure time. Right. Yes, but I'm just saying that I think... We're in a rush at this point, man. I know, but I think there may be time for maybe one sleepover activity. Like, I tell you what, how about a pillow fight? That would be fun.

Can we have a pillow fight? It's classic stuff, Scars. You can't have a sleepover. throwing a few pillows around. Gotta have a pillow fight. Come on, Scuz. Okay, a pillow fight. Yeah.

Okay, me and the boss are going to go get some things ready, get some snacks going, get some pillows ready. We're going to make sure, like, it's all safe, too. We don't want anybody getting hurt. Okay, we'll be back. And you see the light zoom out of the room, and the killbots that are in the room that were, like, strapped you in and led you in there,

leave with the lights. there are still lights on in the room, might you just because his lights have left the room. So now it's just the four of you in there. Okay, this is very important. Is Roger strapped belly down with his butt in the air or on his back? Travis, it's really important. This is very important.

You may think you know what the word important means, but it's about to get redefined. Really important. Which way? He's laying on his back the way you would expect someone. to be strapped to a table if it wasn't like an alien abduction kind of situation. We don't actually have to say anything else about that. Very well.

That's all I needed to know. Oh, gosh. Wait, did you have a thing if you were butt up? Well, if I was butt up, I was going to fill the room with gas. I'm so glad that didn't happen then. Amazing. So your ideas we've been kidnapped, I'm going to kill all of us. No, it wouldn't be a...

Like a cyanide pill. Yeah, sure. They can't take us alive, boys. Death before sleepover. Did they leave anyone behind to keep an eye on us? Give me a bug-eyed shirt. Okay. True success is double success, 7-7, so a cowbunga.

Yeah, with a cowabunga, you can see a kill-death bond that's kind of in there. This one's the roughest looking one that you've seen. Its eye lenses are very cracked, and it's kind of bumping into things as it wheels around. Oh, I love him, though. And as long as we're at it with that baguite check, the other thing you see is, as much as this is an infirmary, once again with the majority of Kill Death's Army being bots, it's a lot of what you would also associate with, like, repair equipment.

So you see, like, there's blades, you know, kind of a chop saw kind of device hanging above Lyle's slab above yours. you can see like, like, soldering equipment that's attached to the wall. Yeah, I don't like any of that. I don't like being strapped down in a room with all that stuff. I look at this little busted up bot and look at my teammates and I say, I apologize, this is going to be an unpleasant sound. And I take a deep breath and I, like, close my glottis.

And I do siren song. Okay, great. There is some precedent for robotic control with this. Absolutely. Give me a 3D8 roll, please. I'll use a TTS. Nice. Here we go.

Two successes, eight and six. With two successes, all right, this little breaking down bot comes rolling over to you. Its head rolls slightly to one side where you can see there is a screw missing from its neck, and it kind of rolls up to you, and you can see

the apertures within the lenses trying to focus behind the, like, cracked glass, but it's kind of looking at you. You can't tell if it's head tilted because of the screw or like in, uh, you know, inquisitive kind of nature, but you have its attention and it's like paying attention to you. Hey, a little robot baby, I need you to go let us out of you. Um, real quick, like before the...

Okay. Yep. Do you speak? Can you understand me? Hey, me. Okay, so we're going to need to come up with something real quick. Um, do you have like a light on you? Like a light, you can flash or something?

It turns its light on It's flickering Okay So flicker once for yes Two for No Can you let us out of here? It flickers once Okay

So go ahead and do that And it flashes twice Why not? Oh, that's not a yes or no question Are you worried That your other robot friends Might get angry? It flashes once for yes

Okay, well, you don't have to worry about that Because we can project you from them But I'm gonna be pedantic for just a second Griffin So you don't get too confused You ask can it? Yeah, not will it? Oh, okay I thought he is sort of under my control with the...

Well, so with the two things, he's listening to you, He's into it, like he's not brushing you off If you had gotten a cowabunga I didn't believe like you did with Rolleybott Then you would have had him Okay, that's true. Okay. Listen, we're on a really important mission.

Dr. Kildeth is... Dr. Kildet's in a lot of danger right now. It's... If Fliggers twice for it, no, but in like a panicked way. Yeah. No, he isn't... I can't tell if that was in a panicked way or if you're saying I'm lying. I'm not.

It's true. But he's in a lot of trouble. And if we don't get to that elevator and get up, for too much longer, they might execute him. They will kill him graveyard dead. He's messing with some bad customers. So listen, help us out of here. We'll go save him, bring him home.

He'll fix you up for sure. And then you won't have to worry about any kind of repercussions. Your friends will be so proudy for helping rescue Dr. Kill Death. What do you say, Val? He looks up and to the right for just a second. and something about his body language and the way that he is now being wearing lets you know he's singing a very quick kind of Disney Princess style I want song to himself about the dreams of leaving this place and being fixed up once again and being reunited with Dr. Kildath

and then he comes back to you and he kind of like blink he blinks once for yes as we've established yeah so you'll let us out of year he blinks once for yes okay yes let's do it quick before your friends get back because some of them might be spies and they might want Dr. Kilded to die. Okay, he rolls over to the controls next to Lyle's bed and he starts like kind of scratching his tilted head and rubbing his chin and then he just starts hitting buttons.

I reach down and I use the controls to free us. What? Well, you said the controls are next to my bed, so I figured I could do it, right? Well, they're next to your bed, but not quite like an easy reach. Okay. All right. If you want to give me a role to see if you can, like, strain against your restraints to reach them. Can you just tear your arm off and then have your arm sort of like hack it and then you can regrow it?

That doesn't make any sense. Oh, okay Sorry, I can't control it independently For a second I was like That's really good but I don't have a follow-up Like after I cut it off I could regrow it But I don't think I could independently We could do anything except fall to the ground

Like if we needed an arm to fall to the ground I could definitely do that Cut your head off Regrow a body from it And it'll be free from the constraints How close is Roger To either of the other's beds? Um, close enough for whatever you're thinking.

Okay. I have a team-up suggestion. I love it. I love to hear those. Okay. Cut off your arm. I'll use my prehensile power to use my tail as a whip or rope. I'll grab your arm and use it to open your restraints.

I really feel like we're on the like the five-yard line with this robot. The robot, the robot beeps once for yes. Wait, you like that? And then it presses a button and the chop saw blade lowers down. Yo, okay. And cuts Lyle's arm off. Oh, man. Another theme restored.

Now there's balance. A robot ripped someone else's arm off. And the robot gives a robot thumbs up. No, dude. Put that thumb away. Oh. Rubber. Hubber.

Robot's butt. And he's like pointing at Roger and pointing at Lyle. He thought he was helping. He doesn't know about pain. Yeah, I know. He takes his, the robot takes his arm off and then puts it back on and it's still moving. Like, it attempts to attach his arm to me.

Yeah, he's like, yeah, fix it. Oh, man. Okay, can I wiggle out now? Well, Dad has rolled something. I rolled to use the prehensal tail to catch the arm to push the button that lives in the house of the Jackville. Yeah, yeah, man, with two successes, you're able to get that arm that was just caught off of your friend Axelio in your tail, and you are able to use it to free yourself from your restraints. And I yell out

Muya! I don't think this is a time for celebration. It doesn't feel like a muya to me, man. Currently it doesn't feel like a muya! Here, and I go over and I free my two friends. Do you do it with Axel Oyle still disconnect an arm? Yeah, just because it's a little more stylish

and I'm all about style. And also because if you didn't, it would be insane everything that has led up to this point. It would be insane to cut off this guy's arm for no reason. Well, no, it freed Roger from it. So now Roger's just walking around with the arm poking at buttons. So I freed Navy. And then I go over and I free Lyle.

And then I kind of, with a sheepish grin, hand him his arm back. Hey, wow, thanks. Sheesh, cool, yeah, man. Hey, good teamwork, Lyle. Sure, cool, yeah, man. Teamwork makes the dream work makes the scream work when your arm gets. cut off. I'll look around the infirmary to see if there's anything that can help Lyle in this.

I'll tell you one thing you could grab real quick, if you don't mind, man. Yeah. My arm? He already gave it back to you. I gave it back to you. I don't want it. Well, why you... Okay.

Oh, here. Yeah, actually, you take it. Actually, carry it around, Roger. Like an Alba tross. Roger. Roger. I drape and a... Carry it around.

And Roger? Yes? I want you... Listen, I don't want to carry around the emotion away of this. So I do need you to watch what you have forced me to do. Okay. Oh, God. It's so fascinating.

Yes. Nature is incredible. It's like those time-lapse photography things. I know. Okay, Justin, roll 3D8 to see how effectively you regrow the arm. You will regrow it no matter what. just how quickly. So once a mix success.

With a mixed success, you basically get an arm that's like half the size of your normal arm. That does not feel. It's still growing. Okay. It's still growing. That's just where you're at right now. Okay.

That's fine. It looks like... Do you need a sling or a splint or any? They've got some basic stuff here. I can form one out of your other arm. Why don't you take a pause on helping? Okay, good. Yes, good point.

I appreciate the desire for teamwork, but let's... I didn't know it would hurt, to be honest with you. I'm sorry. Well, that's wild. From over in a corner where he's been going through a Madison cabinet. I found some, like, pain killers and, let's see, some sutures here. If we want to patch whatever we can up, it looks like you're well on your way with the arm thing. I have a lot of, like, combat medic training.

If you guys want me to patch anything, I'm going to patch anything, I'm not. I mean, I don't know, tug? Like, I don't really know what you could do for you, man. But you still have injuries, Lyle. Oh, that's true. I guess my regenerative, hmm. Yeah, I guess that is some sort of other, yeah, anything you could do to like patch me up, I guess.

There's no reason to fight this. Okay, let's see what he can do for you guys. It was a pretty good plan. Hey, anyone you walk away from, not your best work. Yeah. Okay. So he rolled seven because he does have training in this. And he has three successes, including a cow bunker.

So he's able to patch you both up. I think, Roger, you're already at full. But Lyle and Navy, you guys are back to full health. Oh, amazing. That's actually, that's excellent. I'm ready to go fight people. Cool. Hey, little baby robot, can you get us to the elevator?

Get us out of here before your friends get back? And he holds his arms out of the elevator. And he holds his arms out to you like uppies. Okay. I pick him up. Oh. Let's be sneaky. Stealthy.

Roger grabs the bottle of pain pills and puts him in his pocket. Okay. That's not alarming. That's not like worrying at all. No biggie. Let's go. I just want to say, as anyone who watched Brothersgate knows, dad's inclination to pick up anything that isn't nailed down and put it in his

pockets. It's such a treat to see, well, right now I'm looking at his additional inventory, and he just has so much stuff in there. But it's worth noting that, like, it's not for show. It's the way dad plays games, too. It's just dad. He's not doing it for your entertainment. And you should see his office. Yeah. I'm a completest. Yeah. He wants to see if Travis left any items around in his game. I mean, it makes perfect sense. Yeah, you pick up a couple of mortar and pastels, a couple scales. He's going to add all this to his, if you keep talking,

he's going to add this stuff to his actually. You guys sneak in the hallway, but you see the lights of Scuz and about 20 kill death bots coming down. And as soon as they see you out, they start whirring, and those lights start zooming down. And he's saying, they're here, they're here. Come get him, go get him. And the

bots are heading towards you. Behind you is the elevator up to the tunnels. You make your way into the elevator, with your broken bot directing you. You're able to get inside and the bots are heading down the hall. Can I fire just like full blast down the hall

at the robots? You sure can. Okay, yeah, I hate to do it, but... Wow. Yeah, you're right, I don't hate to do it. Cool. So this will just be an attack with my signature item, a 5D8. That is three successes, including a double eight.

Oh yeah, that's a mega cowbunga baby You blast the robots back Now let me ask you this Whoa, that's a good time for one, Gregman What effect do you want Do you want it to be like And they're all obliterated? Or like they're cleaned up

You basically power blast some of the rust And scaling often I would love to blast them hard enough To knock them back to a point where I could close One of these bulkhead doors to sort of like neutralize the danger. Yeah, absolutely. You're able to knock them back quite a waste.

They're back by the screening room now. Okay. And you have time to shut that bulkhead door into the elevator area. And I'm going to wrap my spool of wire around like the ceiling latch thing so that it might have. Just about some time. The lights of Scuz are still in there, but without his robots, he's not able to really interact with you physically. Cool. Okay, so it looks like you guys are going to go, huh?

Yes, Scuz. Yeah. We've already won. Let's not rub his nose in it. Oh, I don't have a nose. Yeah, okay. Yeah, Scuze, we have important business to do. We're like heroes, and we're saving someone, and you kidnapped us.

So you're on some real villain stuff right now, and I want you to sit and think about that, really reflect on it. I mean, I was programmed by Dr. Kildah. That's a good point. And I guess there's a, there's,

I guess that's a good point. Not bad, just drawn that way, right? Oh, yeah, thank you. Well, I know that I don't really have any room to ask you guys for this, but could you give me a favor? Sure. Could you tell Dr. Kilduff to come in, like, get me out?

Yeah. I would be happy to lend you a hand. No. And then I take my hand away and I hand him. Well, he's intangible. He's a voice. I know. I'm just like dropping on the ground.

Okay. I'll think of you all anytime I look at this, this a bodied hand. I'll think of you. Great. If you could dispose of it in like a ecologically sound way, I'd appreciate it. Yeah, we have a burner. Yeah, thank you.

An incinerator. Save a few words. Oh. Is this what we've become, fellow? callous, hardened. Oh, I tell you what, Scuz, I'll come back and visit sometime. No, just get Dr. Kildef to come and get me out. I'd rather come visit you.

That was brutal. No, I want to come visit you. I never see anything so icy. Okay. I guess this is goodbye. All right. Please open the elevator door. Oh, right, yeah, yeah, sorry.

The elevator doors open. Thank you, Skuz. Don't kidnap anyone else That's a bad move, dude Okay We're watching, okay man Okay Build it and they will come scus

I don't follow that one Have fun up there Don't get killed As the doors are closing A little baby robot We already have a robot team member But stay true to yourself And get fixed up pal

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