The Adventure Zone - The Adventure Zone: Abnimals Ep. 6: Rogue Robots!

Episode Date: November 7, 2024

A band of robots attacks the gala! Can our Abnimal heroes gear up to take them on? Majestica the Dragon Rider is performed by Sarah Moore: https://www.pixiesandpins.com/ Abnimals Theme by Justin McElroy, Eric Near (https://bit.ly/ericnearmusic) and Jonathan Coulton (https://www.jonathancoulton.com/). Additional Music in this Episode: "The Heavy Three", 'Bittersweet", "Right as Rain", and "Blood in the Water" by Mr. Smith: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSk2j0fTMw9V94UGyfWrSuA?; "The Party is Over" by Audroid MK1: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/audroid-mk1/; "Task Man" by Gamesharkoff: https://gagmesharkoff.bandcamp.com/; "Big Swing Band" by Jason Shaw: https://audionautix.com/; and "Air" by Jesse Spillane: http://www.jessespillane.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

When we're at the height of our powers Atop the tallest in towers to stay We'll never stop us now If you trust that we will do it with me much Until it's turning out just like to play When I'm a way So wrong is long But our mojo is strong

And unless I'm wrong And I'm not We're at the height of our power When we last left off Our heroes had been separated by the prototypes controlled by Artificial. We find Lyle, acts of Lyle, in the Gala's kitchens. There's a grease fire spreading through the kitchen. Lyle attempted to attack the big rolling robot, spherical robot,

with a metal spatula and a small saucepan, and the big spherical robot rolled right over him. Over with Navy Seal, Navy managed to tame. the robot on big kind of bulldozer-esque wheels. What are those called? Like the tracks? Like the tank, you know? Monster wheels.

Monster wheels. This robot, by the way, is... Treads. This robot is the fart buckle of the seas that I've decided. I've got on hit and planted the flag. This is our fart buckle. He's quite large. Yeah, no, I know.

Maybe you can see about, like, you know, maybe getting him and transiting him into a vehicle of some kind. And then, we've got in the main ballroom, we have Roger Moore along with a specialist Joshua Darnett, Knives on Feet, who is the hockey player swan, and gridiron, the football player pool, both of the Boring Road All-Stars, facing off against the Strongboy Robot, the Clockwork Robot, who has had one leg knocked off, and the spider bot, who is tripped by the tablecloths. And that swing you do, led by Agent Mingo

are playing some swing music to accompany There's no way they matter. There's no way they matter. There's no way that... One of your three heroes, Griffin, is very musically based. Oh, I guess that's true. Okay.

That's cool. I wanted to correct it. I think you said we were in the aquatic room. I did smash back into the trophy room. Okay. That was my next thing. Yes. You guys have smashed back in.

You see Artificial. According to you guys, you assume some sort of robotic man. I don't know about all that. He says he's human. Eating the trophy. He's just eating it. Well, one bite at a time.

It takes him a long time to chew up the silver. Okay. The way he's eating it, does he seem to be enjoying it? Or does he just need it to live? Good question. Okay. Do you want a, Griffin? Yeah, I'll roll.

Make a see if he's enjoying it roll for me. Sure, sure. Do my bug eyes help me with that? Yeah, you can use your bug eyes to sense enjoyment. Two successes. Six-five, is he enjoying it? Or is he just doing it to live? With two successes, he is not relishing it in any way, it doesn't seem.

And as you observe, you can see, like, where Roger had, like, cattle prodded him. Yeah. Right? You can see, like, little beads of silver filling in there and kind of, like, repairing that burn damage. Okay. And any, like, little minor cuts he's taken from, like, the glass breaking and stuff like that and just being knocked around. Those are kind of fixing themselves. Almost like, think about it like, it's almost like, uh, soldering.

Yeah. My heart goes out to him, but I've, I'm on the job and the protocol is to, like, remove this, this, uh, criminal from the equation. So I would like, can I just plow right into him with my new chariot of power? Yeah, since you are so thoroughly tamed the, the roly bot, why don't you give me a three, D8 roll. Okay. To basically see if Rolibat has any lasting. Three successes, seven, eight six.

Well, there you go. No, not at all. You're going to knock him. The trophy is going to fly out of his hands. He goes flying backwards. Now, if you imagine you guys are in kind of a 10 foot by 10 foot by 10 foot triangle. And then give me a second roll with 2D8s to see what kind of damage you're able to do. Okay, one success.

Yeah, so he's going to take one. damage, you see a little bit more of like his, whatever the covering over his steel body is on his right shoulder. Yeah. It's kind of scratched up and ripped. Cool. I pet the, the tread bot on his little head. And I say, purr. Okay. I say in internet speak, like, throw, yes, throw down your former oppressors. Burr. I love you already It's that fast

Artie is going to go next He is going to attempt To scramble towards the trophy But he is Can I contest that in some way? Yes, you can What is your moving? I would love to blast the trophy

With like as he dives for it Just like hit it with a jet of water Not to like You know destroy it but to try to move it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, give me a 48 roll then, and I'm going to roll 2D8s. Oh, no, four failures.

The Lord giveth and he, take it away. Yeah, mark your practice point. Oh, I'll get that X-speed. I always get that X-Bet. I got one success, so he's going to kind of like scramble over, and he's having, like, a hard time getting back to his feet. So he gets, like, his fingertips on it, but he doesn't have, like, control of it.

You know what I mean? Okay. Let's jump over to Lyle. Lyle, when last we saw you, this big spherical robot has rolled over you. You took a little bit of damage. It's rolled past you. What do you do now? Fire extinguishers.

What do I got? Actually, have the fire suppression systems activated? They have not activated yet, but there are fire. You can see a fire extinguisher near the door that would cross over to the Galahol. You see a fire extinguisher on the wall next to, like, the stove top where the grease fire is broken out, and you see a fire extinguisher to the right of the big industrial refrigerators. How close am I to the flames?

If you look at this image here, right, imagine you're on the other side of the big prep tables. So you have about, I would say, after you moved those to make room for people to escape, about four to five feet between you and the flames. I want to grab something flammable within Reed. Maybe like a napkin or not like a towel, you know, like a dishrag or something. Catch it on fire and try to chuck it towards the ceiling to trigger the fire suppression system. Okay, so you definitely, it's not hard to find rags, right? There's lots of cleaning out.

Please. The greasiest rags. Well, we're going to roll to see how effectively the catch fire and how they interact with the system. So give me a, trap, if I can just say like, if I can be on. unfair. Because I shouldn't be able to just summon the most powerful rags at any moment. The greasiest, nastiest rags. The right amount of greasy rags. Give me a 3D8 roll, please? Yeah, absolutely, man. 6-4-6. That's a cowabungas. That's the cowabunga, my dude. With the cowabunga,

you find a nice, greasy rag. Just deliciously greasy. What are they even doing with us? and you chuck it up and it lands. Basically, you whip it so that it goes through the flame and catches, and then you throw it up. It's going to catch on the fire suppression system. And foam comes spraying out.

You see everything starting to smother the flames. The flames are dying down. And then I see there kind of just say like in the moment, like, Sorry, Phil. It looks like your creators forgot to make you phone proof. And I say that as the sparks are shooting out. Cool.

Well, no, Justin. That's awesome. Listen, can I say, I love how ambitious you're being with your request this season. It's collaborative. Yeah, I think you've grown as a player in terms of greed, which I think is lovely. It was just one idea. And if you didn't like it, like, sure. No, yeah, no, no, no, no.

It was just one possible path is that the phone made it explore. It's like another. It's one option for you. Yeah, no, yeah, I can definitely see. It was a cowabone. I mean, but whatever. It wasn't a mega cowbunga, Justin. As a dad, I am so proud to see how cooperative you two are being with each other.

That is so good. But Justin, as this fire has been extinguished, you do see that the robot having completed its spherical role in trying to get to its feet. It is momentarily distracted, finding the purchase on the ground. And you hear from the doorway opposite you, Pete, p. P, p. Yes, young man. Young man. What do I say? You see an abnimal.

From when you get tail slightly older, it's a shaggy kind of English sheepdog kind of looking guy wearing lab coat suit. You can see he's got big round spectacles, but with all the hair you can't see his eyes. Hey, what's going on? Partner, are you with me or against me? Oh, I'm going to say that I'm with you. My name is Dr. Travis Barker, head of Barker innovations. Jeez, man. Yes.

Let us give us a second to digest what you've done. Okay, got it. This isn't the first time I've mentioned Dr. Travis Barber. I know, but seeing him in real life is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that. Just let me know whenever you're ready. Yeah, I'm ready. Sorry. Okay.

Okay. Yes, Dr. Travis Barker from Barker Innovations, these prototypes, these robots, they're from Barker Innovations. You should have thought to made them foamproof as it explodes behind me. well we did externally Dorn it But if you can find a way to get some kind of Of that fire suppression vote inside the robot That should do something

Yeah Okay, no problem And I grab a scoop and Punch it into the eyehole Grab a scoop of foam And just show that phone right in its eye hole where the camera is, presumably. Come on a jam.

Huh. Okay. Cool. You can't tell him the weak point and then get surprised when he exploits the weak point. No, no, no, no. I think it's the repetition

of punching it. I'm going to punch that foam in the eye hole. But it just took my brain a second to parse what that meant in the English language. I'm getting a big scoop full of foam. Uh-huh. And then I'm depositing it inside of the robot. It's like how Bruce Lee used to dip his fist

in poison so that when he punched guys. Oh, you know what? Wait a second. Okay. Give me like a positional check right now on me, the robot, and Barker. So the robot would have to move towards you and then turn right to go like around the refrigerators. The robot is at the opposite end of the room.

So it's like a T shape almost. So robot at the far side, Barker to your life. It's currently. then it's like ball form. Yeah, attempting to stand up and get its pressure, but it's hard with the foam that's now on the ground as it sprays around it. Oh, but its legs are out.

Yeah, it's attempted to, yep. Okay, I'm going to give it a flying kick to send it rolling. Okay. Because there's going to be gaps in the... In the chassis. Because the limbs are deployed. Okay, yeah. Give me 3D8, because with the foam on the ground,

it's going to be easy to knock this thing. Well, I'm going to use my spatula of two. Everything's a drum, so it's gonna be 48. Perfect. And don't forget your time to shine dice. Is this my time to shine? Now, I really really shined. Dude, I pulled the trigger on that. It felt so good. Okay, yeah, I'll use two time to shine dice. I really want this to work. Perfect. So this can be 68th total.

Woo! Wow. Oh, boy. I mean, it's a five and eight and four failures. Yeah, so with two successes, it works. It works. It works. Thank goodness for this extra die, guys. Yeah. Yeah.

So, yeah, you get this guy not quite in the center. Like, this was a cue ball, right? You hit it just at the top to give it a little spin to it. So it goes and kind of rolls back a little bit. You get a little back spin on it. So it is off its feet back into the roll form and it is like kind of spinning around in the foam. and you see like the sparks and basically the power starts to drain from the lights in the eyes

and the lights that were kind of wrapped. You know, you could see through the various cracks and everything as this foam gums up the works. And you hear warm, boom, and it powers down. Could have adopted it. Just let you know that is an option that we could have a whole team of sweet robot pets. And then I turned to the doctor. So did you lose control of these guys or what's happening? Well, we've only lost control of the one of them who then stole control of the rest.

You need to stop artificial. He's, well, technically he's version 8.723. He does have a shut off if you can get to it. Oh, yeah, please. It's behind both ears, there's two slight depressions. You just need to push both at the same time and he'll power down. Perfect. That's exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks, doctor. But do try not to destroy him. There's, it's a lot of money and research that's gone into him. Hey, you leave the doctor stuff to you. Okay. And leave the adventure stuff to me, okay? If I need to hurt him, well, that's just a way that cookie crumbles, partner. Well, I said try, doctor, I understand.

I'm not going to try. Oh. Okay. Please? I'll think on it. Okay. We're going to jump back to Roger. Roger right now, you are facing the spider bot that had been tripped over, but he's starting to stand back to its feet. You have the clockwork bot whose leg got knocked off, but is trying to drag itself over to grab you. He got Strongboy. Who was momentarily, it has its head covered with a tablecloth. And you can see Specialist Darnett and I believe Gridiron trying to detain the spider bot, but they don't seem to be able to do it.

What are you going to do now? For just a slight moment, Roger closes his eyes just for a split second and feels the music from Agent Mingo in his band. That's when you do. And is really loving it. It's the, it's potato head blues, one of his favorite swing songs. And so he starts to do the Lindy Hop. And Lindy Hop, as you, I mean, you guys already know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lindy Hop is very improvisational. And as he starts to feel it, starts to do the Lindy Hop, starts to dance, he picks up a butter knife off the floor, which had, spilled off the table. They had to have been a butter knife, right? Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they had to have been. And charges... There's also a shrimp fork. I don't know if you need that, but... And, in charge...

Now, I'm going to use the butter knife. Charges towards... You'll see why, just a moment. Charges towards the spider bot as it's grappling with the other two. And does a whole Sam, Gamji, and Shilob thing at the last second slides under it and jams that butter knife right up into the... sensitive underbelly of the spider bot.

Okay. Okay. Let's see here. That was all narrated so well. And musically, you do have music going for you. Can you give me a 3D8, please? 3D8. I certainly can.

And here they are. Wow. A 2 and 8 and a 7. Oh, with two successes, you get in there, and basically what you can see exposed as you get underneath is where the left legs. it's like three coming from the one location on the left side.

You can see like the hydraulic lines there. And as you go underneath and you slide underneath, you're able to slice through those and you see the left legs deactivate. But now you need to get out from under it as quickly as you can because it is starting to lower down on the left side pretty quickly. What do you do? Well, first of all, he yells out a pun. Mugi-Woogie!

Buggy, Bugal Boy! I don't know what that means. Oh, like, oh, wow. Oh, man. That one had like a one and a half second to lay fuse on it. That one hit, I got a really sharp metallic taste in my mouth. And roll this out from under. Okay, give me a 2D8 roll.

That is a 3 and a 6. Okay, with a partial disaster, you're able to get out from underneath without taking any damage, but it like kind of knocks you, right, as you're going. So you're like, you get it and it's, you know, the force of it going down. It kind of, you clip it as it comes down. And you are sent sprawling onto the top of a table. And up next is going to be strong boy who is going to attempt to, well, first he's going to attempt to untangle himself from the tablecloth covering his face. He gets a partial success. So he's able to attempt to. to do it.

But he is kind of just wildly flailing to get at it. But it ends up very disoriented. He was going to try to crush you, but he ended up trying the wrong way. So up next, what are you going to have your team, your temporary team here to, Roger? Is it safe to say that the spiderbot is taken out of action? It is not a threat currently. Okay. then I want

I want gridiron to grab the spider bot by the legs and slam it into is it clock? No, who

one of a strong boy. Okay, here we go. Oh. Oh. So with a single success he goes to pull it off and he's able to pull basically one of the six legs off of the spider bot rendering it ineffective at this point no longer

or where he can't be repaired but in the swing at strong boy he does not connect okay let's jump over we're back with navy seal in the trophy room uh with ardy axel have you been able to get in there yet uh i mean at this point i would hope i have free egress to get in there yeah you've you've been able to make it in there. You connected through. So now we've got both Axel Isle and Navy Steel in the trophy room with the robot. I look at Axel Isle and I say, the rolling one, it's like our fart buckle now. So don't attack it. All right. Yeah. You should also know that there's a weakness. And I tell them about the weak point just in case it comes up. That sounds pretty easy. Artie is going

I mean, now that you know it, I'm sure it does, man that information was harder enough. How did you come across? Was it tort? Did you have to torture someone for it? Did you torture one of the robots to find out of the leap point? No, but I got really sticky. Okay.

What's Artie doing? Artie is grabbing the trophy. Oh, again? Drop it. That's what he wants. It's what he needs. Um, okay. Uh, I want,

to, I want to sort of render him, sort of broken so that he will be easier to reset. I could just try to plug both ears, but I don't know that I'm as coordinated as all that. And also, like, I would need to take a moment to really figure out where these little intents are. So is he still on the ground? What's his deal? He is right now kind of like hands and knees grabbing the trophy. Okay, awesome. Then I stomp up behind him. and I'm going to reach into my pocket and pull out. I see here in my additional inventory is the word Doritos.

And so I'm going to take this bag of Doritos and kind of like pop it in my hand a little bit, oh, to open the bag up, and then I want to jam it into his body in one of the holes left there by Roger Moore. Where'd you get Doritos? I just had them. Just says Doritos in my additional inventory. Dean gave him to you. Yeah. Yeah, Dean gave you in case you needed snacks.

All right. I kept my Doritos. I think back to Navy Seals' favorite movie is AI, starring Haley Joel Osmond. And there's a really scary scene in that movie where he tries to, like, eat like a wedge salad or something. And it just really messes him up so bad. And I think he dies. I think that's the end of the movie. So I'm going to try and do that to him now.

This is actually Griffith. Griffin is using his mega. Megamondo move. I. I, where he deals with his, he uses the power of his knowledge

of the movie AI. Yes. To shove Doritos into a robot. Yeah. Robots whole. No, my one weakness. I'm gonna use a couple of, no,

that would be the second weakness because we do know about the other week. Right. This is the weakness that unlocks the second weakness. I'm going to use two time to shed dice. Do I get to use... Now, I'm using an item.

Does that mean I get 3D8 for using an item? If you were going to tell me how, like, this hunger, like the actual usage of the food, but I'm going to say that you are not using Doritos for their intended purpose. I am. And so. To fill up a robot's belly. I don't see what else.

What else did they make them? Why else did the Doritos sciences make them? That, okay, this actually makes a lot of sense to me because it says there are fights hunger and robots. Yeah. So I say, yeah. I've diagnosed an issue. Let me call tech support. They say you need some new computer chips.

I'm just like jam him in This whole Really good Okay yeah You said two times To shine dice To give me 5D6 Or 5D8

Two successes Thank Christ Two successes You get those Doritos in him You get those Doritos in some of his cut And for the first time I've you see A sort of an emotional response

In which he turns 360 His head 180 His eyes glowing red And then he I say I get it I also prefer cool ranch. Oh my god. He attempts to bite you with like his diamond-edged robotic teeth. Yeah. And he gets a one, a three, a four, and a two. Yeah, he's having some trouble because of the Doritos, I bet.

The Dorizos are really crunching him up in there. Do you say derisos? This is why I always tell kids to reach for healthy snacks. Yeah, these will straight up kill a kid. Remember kids, there's nothing wrong with vegetables and fruits. except that they don't come in cool ranch. We all pause to look at the screen. And then just DM Travis Lenton goes, I think that Doritos are sometimes food. Don't do it all the time, my man.

But it's okay to live a little. Don't you worry about it. Not one Doritos. No, it's not like that. No, Doritos are sometimes food. Everything in moderation. You don't have to balance an anti-Doritos message with a pro-Duritos message.

The entirety of our existence. I'm not saying I'm being pro-deritos. I'm saying I'm Doritos neutral We cut to a kid offering another kid Doritos on a playground Freeze Freeze frame Pause

Is this familiar We cut to a kid Watching this show And eating Doritos is like So do I eat the Doritos or not Guys I'm so confused I'm really hungry Is it okay

What's the I'm willing to try I guess cauliflower Just tell me what to snack on Can I eat them at the same time Does one cauliflower equal one Dorino Where are we at? Yeah, so he is, he's crunched up a little bit.

You can see he's got one hand wrapped around one handle of the trophy. But at this way, I will also say those diamond edge teeth, he is snapping kind of left and right. Like at your hand, basically. So I did a good. So I made a great choice, you're saying. Well, we can. Listen, he is definitely not operating from a strategic point. Yeah.

He is definitely, you know, going haywire. Cool. but he is not, he's not unarmed, right? Okay. This is not going to be like, just touch him. I look up at Lyle, I say, Hey, uh, are you the gadget guy? We haven't really figured out which one of the three of us is sort of the gadget guy.

Oh, wow. I had really thought about it before. I wasn't the gadget guy on my last team, but hurry, I figured Roger would be the gadget guy. Doesn't he, um, you know, have some sort of cue or moo or, I don't know, I don't know. Well, he's over in the other room, paling around with the barnyard fart stars. Yeah. Sorry, I'm super... I don't know what those guys have that we don't.

You know I can hear you, right? We have our calm system. I, well, I shut it off so we could talk crap about it. Yeah, I'd turn it off. We're trying to have a character room in here, pal. It's just like, you know, I get it. It's falling in with the old crew. It can feel nice. you're some familiar, sorry, can you hack this robot or whatever? And then we'll...

He's trying to eat my hands, man. Oh, I, uh, no, I hit it in the two weak points with the two points of my axe. What? I hit it with the hatchet man in the weak point. Okay, he has two depressions. Right, the axe hits them both with the width of the neck. On either side of his head.

Okay, I hit... Okay, I'll just use my hand. Fine. Are you trying to get an extra dice out of that? No, I was trying to not let him bite me, so I was trying to use the axe to press the self-destruct button. Now, you do have, I will remind you,

your saucepan and your spatula. And a bag of Doritos. If you ever heard of hitting a robot weak point with a spatula, Travis? Oh, you know, you're right, Griffin. I put my Doritos in him too. Listen, I say, I get it.

He said it was a weak point, but that's not the only way to take out a bad guy. If we return to Doritos later, it won't be funny. This is the only time it can be funny. Right, right. So I'm going to put Doritos wherever I don't see Doritos. Okay, give me a 3D8 roll unless you want to add anything else.

No, no, no, this is good. I already weakened it. I ready the Dorito hole. It's primed, baby. It's good to go. Farts. 2, 28. Okay.

With one success, you throw the bag at him and all those Doritos, he gets a mouth full of Doritos, but they get past the diamond teeth. And when he bites down one corner of those jagged Doritos, the corner just jams straight up into the roof of his mouth. Pops off one of his brackets. Yikes. And if you've ever, oh, man, does that suck? Right? and he, you see a, like something pops loose in the, like, left side of his jaw.

And his teeth do not seem to be closing the same way that they were before. The power of Doritos. Roger, do you want to, I turn my thing back on? Roger, do you want to get in here and jam your comedy roll of three? Are you ready to jam your Doritos or do you have big snack plans for those later? No, I have cheetah. I don't, but where were the Doritos? I didn't even see any.

Look at your character sheet. That's the way we saw him. Do you have them too? No. I straight up forgot I had a whole bag of Doritos in my pocket, which is crazy, because they're so low. No, I think what he said, Dean gave him Cheetos. He brought one of those, like, snack bag.

Oh, he brought, like, a variety. I get you. Oh, I love a variety pack, man. It's like you can snack on anything you want. It lets, really lets you be the boss of your own snack toys. You fellows need me. So Roger's going to charge away from the fray in the ballroom and go bursting into the trophy room to help his friends. Nice.

Roger, give me a 48 roll. A five, a two, a four, and a five. Calabunga, dude. You come charging in horns first with his back to you, with Artificial's back to you. As you come in, you name. him right where his ears meet his jaw from the back and the two points of your cattle prod horns nail him right behind the ears. And you see his body first go rigid from the electric shock and then. Then rigid with pleasure from the Doritos flavor.

He likes them now. Yeah, it feels just a second of euphoria as the Doritos really hit. As the doritos As the high of the Doritos hits Yeah And he says This is what it means to be human And then powers fully down

All right, he got it And I yell Nacho Doritos What? They were a show No, no Like not

No, you weren't changing possession of anything And you had Cheetos Ah, that's true How about this? Cheetos Cheet Cheat

Cheat Cheat No Cheat on Cheat on Does Cheetah on those? Don Cheadle? Chester

Cheetah. Hey, the one with wheels is my pet now. He's kind of our fart buckle. Just so you know. Hey, how about this, dad? My coach was wrong. Cheetahs always win and something like that. He didn't use the Cheetos.

Citos always win. Cheetos always win. I don't think you use the Cheetos, though. So, like, I don't know how it's germane. I was eating the Cheetos as I charge. He said that. Cool. I heard it. So in the aftermath, you see the River City First. The enforcers are kind of cleaning up the mess, clearing away rubble.

They have taken away all of the robots that are not Rollybought. And you see Dr. Travis Barker specifically like working to strap artificial who is still powered down onto essentially a gurney. You hear him excitedly talking about all the different changes they're going to make for the next version. that's definitely going to go with a different element to repair other than silver, trying to figure out how it even got to hear, how did he get out all of these things? Looking around the room, you see a bunch of faces popping back in. Walter Russell is back with his little lackey shrimp man. You see the Wolfgang Catering Company cleaning back up.

And you see the members of the Barnyard All-Stars talking with Agent Mingo and with specialist darnat. What do you guys do? Roger's going to walk up to the bandstand and put a 20 in Agent Mingo's tip jar. Hey, man, that's my drink. Oh. No, I'm just kidding, man.

Thank you so much. That's just a little performer joke. Thanks, brother. Hey, I liked your moves out there, your moves on your hooves. You know what I mean? I liked your riffs. You had some great riffs.

In your music, my friends. My friends. My friends. My friends. That's what I'm known for. Anytime you want to perform with us, you let me know, man. And grid and knives, thank you for helping me out there with those other robots. Ah, man, it was just like old times.

Why don't you come on back, man. Huh? A little more training, a little more hard work. You'd be ready to go on more missions with us. You know what I mean? You know, Grid, I appreciate your offer. I think it would be very interesting. But, you know, I think as long as I was a member of your group, I never was very good at following orders. Yeah, but we don't work on that, man. noticed that. No, no, no, no. What I'm saying is just now, I was giving the orders, and we had a lot of success in there. And I just don't see that happening all the time. And I really kind of like

where I'm at right now. Here at the gala? No, I mean, with the fellows I'm with. He's our leader. Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. We set him up, we saw the potential you guys squandered, and we made him the big boss, chief. I'm the leader and the gadget guy. Oh, okay, well, it makes a lot sense. Everybody, wait, wait here one second.

He goes running off, he goes to the RV, and he comes back, he goes, well, you know, it's, as you know, it's tradition on planet pigskin. If you're going to be, the leader, you're going to need one of these. And he hands you a patch in the shape of a sea that you can embroider onto your uniform anywhere to mark that you are the captain. I'm, I'm, boo. Yeah, it's just $25, and it's all yours. Yeah, and you probably shouldn't attach you with anything permanent until we can sort of talk. Yeah, we want to make sure you put it on the right shirt.

Right. Will you take a 20? Would you take a 20? Yeah. I mean, I know I gave you a $5 bill earlier. Okay. I take the 5 and I take the 20 back out of the drink, the tip jar, and I give him 25. Okay.

Yeah, it works for me. There you go, man. Listen, if this ends up not working out, you let me know, okay? What a butthole. I think it will. I mean, I am the leader. I go over to Knives on feet. So, what kind of equity?

Do they offer you here at the point? Oh, we do not get to pay the money. Oh, no. No, we get a room and board. Okay. Well, I'm going to give you a phone. And we've got the cable with all this sports channels. Yeah.

That's not great. I'm going to give you my business card. It's just like a napkin that I've written just called Dean. He's like our guy with Dean's phone number on it. Yes, okay. Let me give you my business card as well. and he gives you his business credit. It's very professional, very embossed to a confusing degree.

Embossed in ways and places you didn't even think could be embossed. Well, Paul's sort of in your court. I will consider this a formal offer. I do not play on the court. I do not play with the ball. I do the buck. I do ring. You know what?

I take the piece of paper back. You know what? Thank you. Thank you so much. It was so great to meet you. Can I have my business call back? Because where's the only one that is. This was a gift.

Okay. I turn in black. The boss thing is not cheap. Who's in charge of fire safety around here? Everybody kind of looks from one to another. And then without really a lot of commitment, everybody kind of points at specialists darnet. Incorrect.

It's me. Listen. I had an active blaze in your kitchen, and it took a real act of heroin. and a feat of dexterity to trigger your fire suppression. It's not supposed to be a solve. It's supposed to be preventative. When was the last time you had this inspected?

They all look at specialist darnet. Yeah, when did you, when did you do it? What? It's not my, I do, I'm, I'm, no, I'm, okay, you can tell my boss. I don't want to get you in trouble. Just probably, you know, now you don't want to get any trouble? You should be careful about the tone there. you got a real list of fire safety hazards.

I'm with the heart. I'd hate to shut you down. I don't even work here. That's what everybody says. Perhaps a hefty bribe would be in order. To what? So we can have a little... I'm actually going to say that as DM,

I don't know if you mean Agent Darnett bribing justice. Yeah, to hush it up. Okay, but he doesn't actually work. He doesn't work at the stadium. I'm just trying to get us a little mood. Sure, yeah, I'm down. I always think. And I get it. I do. Navy.

Yeah. You feel a tap on your shoulder. Yeah. And you turn around and you see a shaggy dog man. Yes, I'm well handled today. I do. Oh, sorry. My name is Dr. Travis Barker, Innovations. I do want to say, thank you for not completely destroying Artie. There's a lot of Doritos that we'll need. Were we not supposed to destroy him?

Oh, no, I spoke to the fireman one, and I asked him to consider not destroying Artie. Oh, I didn't catch any of that, man. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, it's fine. We'll just have him detailed. That's why, um, that's why, uh, we, uh, we, uh, we shoved all of the eros, rather than, you know, blow it up.

You're welcome. Yes, I appreciate, yes. I, I did kind of blow him up. I kind of. Oh, that can be fixed. That could be your pet. Oh, good. So what?

Hello, Roger. I haven't seen you in a while. You are, oh, you just about due to stop by to get a refill of your musly ex, aren't you? Yes. Um, I am feeling a bit peckish. Yes, I am. Yes. Man, my fourth mu-pun in the entire episode.

Love it. Um, yes, as a hero, if you wait too long, if you don't come really up, um, you could, you could, you can lose your abilities or worse. Absolutely. Yes, I will be swinging by to get my mooseley. Excellent, excellent. Now, as for you two, you've taken such great care. First of all, we tried to get Rolibar to come back with us,

and we simply could not. He seems far too connected to this one here, the Seal Man. Well done. He's sort of my pet now, because of my actions. Okay, well, we'll consider him Let's call it field testing He can stay with you for a while How about this?

Sure, for as long as he lives And I live As long as you both shall live Yeah, until he crosses That beautiful rainbow bridge Or I do Amen! Wait a minute, I guess we all cross

The rainbow bridge eventually, huh doctor? We try not to think about it too much Is there an abnormal heaven? Oh, pretty dicey stuff I can say for sure there's a hell Excellent. Now, as for the two of you, does he have a model number?

I keep calling him like the rolling one or treads. No, we just call him rolling bond. Okay, we'll think of something better than that. Yeah, feel free. Whatever he answers to, that can be his name. Now, I do notice, it seems you three are just starting out in the admirable business.

Was this your first mission? Uh, we had a sort of thing that happened where we met a famous guy, but we aren't going to say who it is. Was it Mark Buffalo? No, it was Carver from the... When you say that, his face, from what you can see, he's once again very fur-ridden, but his body tightens. You see tension now in his shoulders, and he leans in very close to you and says, that is not possible. Carver is dead. You understand?

Oh, okay. I guess I was mistaken. Well, then it was a tortoise who sure looked a lot and talked a lot like him, and I'm his biggest fan. So, yeah, I probably don't know what I'm talking about. You keep that amongst yourselves, you understand? Can I get a read on what this guy's deal is now? Yeah, give me a role to try to figure it out. Bug eyes?

Bug eyes for body ligands? Big old bug eyes. Oh, the cowabunga, tripping. Success. Cowbunga triple success. You are getting from him not like a denial, not a disbelief, but rather a kind of protective. He knows and doesn't love that. Okay, great. All right. That's what I assumed. That's the feel you're getting. I say, don't worry, hush, hush. I obviously could tell you we're in the know. So, yeah, this is not public information. I see, well, as I was going to say,

it seems that you could use some armor or perhaps some sort of protective barrier. Perhaps you should stop by Bucker Industries tomorrow, re-up your musli. We could show you around, and one of my colleagues will be able to maybe set you up with some kind of defensive technology. Is that something you'll be interested in?

Yeah, we'll take any tech you got you got to give us. I don't know how much we can do in the way of compensation, but... That's okay. You've done enough if you're protected the robots. We'll call this first one on the house. So you're going to be using your practice points to trade those in for armor and any upgrades like that in the next session. Oh, okay.

And you see he sees the colleague you're saying, talking about it and weighs them over. Oh, yes, yes, yes, come this way, this way. And over and he walks like a ginger cat person. He's got a little bit of roundness to him. He is much shorter than all of you. And the doctor, Dr. Barker says, yes, this is my colleague, Dr. Snyder Arden Fields. He is maybe one of the best in defense technology.

Sorry, I did not catch your names. What are your three's names? Navy Sue? I'm Axelio, man. Axelile man. No, just Axelowel. Oh, just Axelial. And Roger, of course, I know why.

Yes, meet Dr. Snyder Arden Fields. And the ginger cat man says, Oh, please. Nobody calls me all of that. Just call me Snarf. Do you feel good about it? I feel great. I don't know if Snarf is a cat.

Let's start there. Let's start there. I don't know that Snarf is a cat. Well, he's in the Thunder cat. cats. Very good point. Mm-hmm. Yeah, very good point. And he's definitely not made out of thunder. Yeah, you look at him, he's a cat with a dragon's tail body.

Yeah, that's so weird. Maybe a dragon with a cat's face even. Well, so cat. All right, chat. Time for a poll. Snarf. Attention. I am Majestica, dragon rider, warrior, and highly skilled individual. I want you to remember that humans have a very different structure. They do not have a lava-resistant coating on their outsides. Do not let them play in the lava no matter how often they ask. Side effects would be dire.

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