The Adventure Zone - The Adventure Zone: Outre Space - Episode 3

Episode Date: December 14, 2023

The Babysitters make their way through a strange swap meet and an elemental enemy to continue their search for Laussa. Sebastian and Miles make a trade. Kate and Simon make a break for it. Thori gets hot under the collar. Special guests Kate Welch: https://www.instagram.com/katewelchhhh/ Gabe Hicks: https://instagram.com/gabejamesgames/ We're playing the Marvel Multiverse RPG: https://www.marvel.com/rpg Additional Music in this Episode: The Application of Aleatoricisim in Artificial Sound” by Omniman: https://www.jamendo.com/artist/433514/omniman; ”Abducted” and “Dancing” by Holizna: https://holiznaroyaltyfree.bandcamp.com/; “Over-Soul” by Evan Schaeffer: https://www.evanschaeffermusic.com/; “We must explore” and “Boombox City” by Moon Toad: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/moon-toad/; “Workings”, “Openface”, and “Skalski” by Eaters: https://open.spotify.com/album/27I9qGQGeEdfBo0g3lVnnQ; “Sound the Alarms” by Kirk Osamayao: kirkosamayo.com; “Odd Singularity” by 1st Contact: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/1st-contact/; choice” by Roman: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/roman/; and “The Unknown” by Jar of Flies: https://jaroffliesofficial.bandcamp.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

Hail and well met, true believers. It's time for another tremendous tale of suspense with the Adventure Zone, Ultra Space. Abombastic babysitters are like claustrophobic farmers, outstanding in their fields, played by Griffin Groovy McElroy. Justin Jiggy with it, McElroy. Travis totally rad McElroy. Gabe Gangbusters Hicks and Kate Keene Welch And they're telling me Nuff said

Buddy and welcome to the Adventure Zone Ultra Space Part 3 I'm your host Hi Once again I can't stress enough The video is such a small part This is for you This is for you guys

You know a foam finger sign Like a foam finger scale but it's a Thanos glove that he was waving to, like a child might, when pleased with a toy, they've received. That's actually, I'm going to, I'm going to hire Kate to professionally give my dad the look that she was just giving him 24 hours a day.

Because I feel like that would keep him about where he needs to be for my comfort, just to keep things tamped down. That is actually, if you're available in Ohio, it would be great to get you out there for a while just to give him that exact look. That glove is actually a movie prop.

That's the real size of Josh Brolin's hand. He is... He's got some mitts. Why does it sound like a box of broken dishes being... Why do you know what that sounds like? We've all moved. Saddows can't sneak up on you. Just rattling around.

It's like putting a bell on a cat. We are in... On the Planet Nowhere, in Starland's Bar, the headquarters of the... Guardians of the Galaxy. They're not seen any guardians as of right now. We have been pumping people in the bar for information on Corvus Glave because we're searching for Corvus Glave.

And if not Corvus Glave, the Glave itself. And currently, Simon, Wonder Man, and Thori, the God Dog God, are in a swap meet. Wastrow's afterlife, after party. and they were directed to the only reputable dealer in the entire place, a humongous flurkin, a large orange cat. And this cat has just identified himself as H-O-B-B-Z Hobbs. Turns to you too and says, Welcome!

If you're a shopper, I'm your swapper. What can I do for you? We are looking for a toddler. Are you a dog? Are you a cat? I'm a person. I'm a flirt? Yeah.

Hold on just to make sure I'm the weird thing in this building right now. Good point. No. Actually, you're pretty far down the bar. Okay, so you're looking for a toddler? I don't know if you understand what kind of swap meat this is. When he says looking for, first of all, what kind of swatmy is this?

It's kind of in the middle of nowhere in space. Like, are you going to lecture us on the Morat? Like, we don't do toddlers. But, well, anyways. No, no. We specialize in weapons, space travel gear. Just about anything you could want that doesn't involve toddlers. Do you have a sword that a dog could use?

Do you have any dog swords? Well, we've got quite an array. Would you like to know what we're selling? Or do you want to talk? Do you want to chat? No, just business, please. Okay, just business. Hold on one second.

I need to, I got black market access, and I'm looking at up to see what that is. Okay, here we go. Yeah. Okay, so one of my tags is black market access. Hey, Hobbs. Hobbs? Can I call you Hobbs?

Yes. Hobbs. Yeah. Listen, when my friend here, says we're looking for a toddler. What he means is a friend of ours has been kidnapped, a toddler. We are trying to rescue her. And you seem like a flurking in the know.

I'm sure that there is this level of swap me, right? We're more interested in this level of swap meat, if you know what I mean. Maybe some information, maybe some stuff that wouldn't necessarily be 100% legal. We're looking for information related to. Or directly about Corvus' glave, his glave, his location. So what can you help us out with? Well, yeah, I can, I have information on that stuff. I can definitely share with you, but I don't want to be a poo-poor.

But this is a swap meet. So, I mean, if you want information, you're going to have to do a little business with me first. And then I'll tell you, you know, all the information that I got. What do you think? Well, what are you looking for? What am I looking for? What do you buy? What are you selling?

Well, I'm pretty open-minded about stuff. I tell you what, here's what... We're talking dogs. I'll give you something up front. I'll give you something up front. Good business. No, I won't. Oh, damn it.

Okay. You just did a whole thing there, friend. The glave is not here. We have not... I haven't seen Corvus Glave. I understand that he hangs out here sometimes and is here a couple weeks ago. We ate. His glave is not here. I have never had his glave. Uh, but maybe it will be.

Uh, hey, Trapes. See that, see that guy over there? That table? That's Traips and man. Yeah, of course. He's an immortal whose lifespan runs backwards. You know, he's already lived in the future. Trapes! Do we ever get Corvus Glaves glave in stock here? And Trape says, yeah, about. 16 years from now. Some kid brings it in. Wants to get it appraise for date money, I think. I don't know.

You didn't really make a deal with her. So, yeah, it will, but it's not now. Oh, so, there, see, I gave you a freebie. Now let's do some business. Okay. If I just sit here and wait for 16 years, we will have luck in our quest. Well, sounds like he could, yeah. Yeah.

Uh, sorry. Uh, reminder about, um, we're trying to rescue a toddler from the Black Order. So, like, maybe waiting 16 years. It would be a teenager then. Yeah. Okay. So, um, Hobbs. Yeah.

We are not, uh, uh, insignificant when it comes to, like, power. Uh, sure. Sure. Sure. But you're going to need to give us a little bit of, uh, some, uh, you know, specifications. what are you in the market for? Well, I'll tell you what. Let's work it the other way around.

Okay. I have a pretty decent selection of, well, there's some weapons in there, but there's really things you might need for the perilous journey ahead as you withstand the almost limitless perils of space. Why don't you tell me something that the people in your little group, I assume you're in a group, because I see the earpiece, we'd like to swap,

and then I'll lay out a menu for you and tell you how much everything is, and you tell me what you want to swap to me. I'll give you a price, what that's worth, and then you can do some shopping. You are explaining to us to the very foundational ideas of shopping. Yes. What do you want to give me?

What can each member of your party give up? I try for a while. You see me turn my head to the side and kind of bite for a while, and I say, this is embarrassing. Wonder Man. Yes. Remove my collar. Okay. You need a good scrimge?

Convenient, Griffin. I dropped my collar down on a table. Each spike embedded in this collar is made of one half ounce of Vibradium, the rarest. mineral on this earth. And by this earth, I mean, the one we were just on. Okay. Okay, that's good. That's really good.

What else? I feel like I should be rewarded. I have enormous sentimental attachment to this collar. So, and the vibranium is incredibly valuable. Hmm. Um, make an ego check. I want to talk about Griffin's like, yeah, they can't see anything. And the way you just committed to a visual bit.

It's not a visual bit. It's a, if I have to spend another hour. He just wanted the dog color out. I'm going to use a karma to gain edge. That's a 15 total. Okay. All right. That's going to get you a nice chunk.

You got anything else than anybody in your, group. I don't even have to have it on me. When you say your group, I need to know where everybody is real quick. All right, because I think, I thought it was just Thori and Wonderbanger. Well, I'm going back to grab something from the WonderWagon. So if you guys want to give me something to take on the way back in, I can. Please don't leave me alone with this job. I'm super fast and can fly.

I will be back in like five seconds. Great. Well, okay. So, this is, this is awkward, huh? Okay, and I'm back. Dog and a cat in an outer space bar. What are we to talk about? Oh, what else you got?

This is a limited edition, unopened, vision action figure. It's the red and green print. You can't find this anywhere, still in the box. I've been saving this for a while now. This is, canonically, to the journey into mystery issues that we wrote, a limited edition worth a lot of money action figure. Okay, that's right up there with the vibranium studs. Yes, indeed.

I would say this action figure is worth as much as that vibranium. Point of order, Travis is cheating by giving dad action figures. That doesn't, that's true, but it is a reference directly to the comic books that we wrote. Yeah, double. Okay, so you're saying feeding dad's eager giving an action figure is the same thing. Yes. This is unlawful. Yes.

Okay. I got you. Is that it? Is that what you guys want me to total up for you? Because, I mean, that's... Sebastian, don't you have, like, a coat full of trinkets or something? You got big pockets, right? Yeah.

Yeah. What's in your pocket? I've got stuff for sure. Like a wand? You got a wand? No, I don't want to give him. I don't want to give him. I don't want to...

I need the stuff that I put... I don't put... A cool key chain? Can I say this? I don't put stuff in the cloak that I don't think I'm going to want later. Nothing? I have something that might be valuable. Oh, yeah.

Oh, good. Hold on. Let me look. Fuck. And then Miles pulls out a New York Metro card. Ooh. It's got like $755 on it. You're going to need that, though, right?

I have extras. Oh, oh, okay. I lose these all the time. I just found this one in my suit. Do you hear that $755 on it? Pretty good. That's good. Okay, I tell you what, this is, this is,

is good. This will get you a nice little shopping trip. No, make them give up a stuff. I had to give him up a stuff. Kate, give him like a cool arrow or something. I, well, I just, I'm next to Sebastian out in the other room and I'm like making this like shrugging.

Like, I also don't bring anything extra to space. Like I don't, like I, I, I, I don't, Clint made me these arrows. I'm not giving these up. Are you kidding? Clint McElroy, the plane's walking janitor. I did not know he was a fletcher. I've heard rumors.

Are they true? What about your sunglasses? Okay, no, it's fine. No, it's fine. My sunglasses. Take my action figure, take his collar, take the mentor card, what can you give us?

Okay. Here's the deal. All right. They're so cool. I don't want you to give up your sunglasses. They're so cool. You cut Kate off from a great moment deciding whether or not she's going to give

this cat her sunglasses. Okay, then let's go jump back to that. Are they nice sunglasses? I mean, yeah. You can tell them, tell them that they're nice, and they'll reflect all kinds of, like, gamma rays. They reflect gamma rays. And they can also, they've got, like, telescopic vision, and also they have, like, a built-in reticle, so, like, you can aim pretty easily with it. Totally radical.

Yeah, I would say they're, like, a little bit radical, yeah. A little bit radical, yeah. Hmm. Um, I'm a cat. Yeah, you don't need them. I'm colorblind. I can also just give you like $10,000. No, no, no.

I tell you what. He has lots of money. What? If you want to... No, I'm like a tycoon. Convince me that you want to give me those sunglasses. Give me a, uh, give me a, an ego roll. Okay.

Oh, okay. You want these sunglasses. Believe me. I'm not doing a good job convincing you. No. I can't keep. I can't take them. It's a seven.

It's a seven. I said, stepping out of character. No, I'll tell you what. You keep your sunglasses. I'm sure you look wonderful with them and I'm sure they fit your ensemble. Great. Thank you. I have a big diamond.

I have a big diamond. A big diamond? I just reached in to the cloak and I opened a portal to a dime. I have a diamond in here. I have a big diamond you can have. I looked in the cloak and it was a big diamond. I don't remember which of my many of interest it was from, but I had a big diamond in there.

I didn't ever know what to do with it. Because you get a big diamond and you think I've made it. But at the end of the day, what do you do with the big diamond? You can't make change with it, right? You can't, like, go to the bodega and, like, get smaller diamonds. I kind of forgot about it, but you can have the big diamond if you want. Diamonds aren't that rare in space, sorry. I don't know if that's going to do.

Oh, is that true? But they are forever. No, I'll take the diamond. I'll take the diamond. you what, here's what I'm going to do. Let's do some shopping. Let's do some shopping. All right. If you look in your documents, you will see a bill of fare. And these are all items that Hobbs is willing to trade to you. All right. Now, let me just say this. These are things, remember, that you do not have, for the most part, on the Warp and Wonderway.

And these are things that you may need for the space journey. For the listeners' sake, I'm going to read through them real quick. You all figure out, you have 750 credits worth of credit. There are Shiar flight patches. These are EV suits that protect you in space. And with a propulsion rated 4 out of 10 on Yelp, there are 50 credits each. A space night energy analyzer, a long-range sensor that follows energy trails.

That's 250 creds. There is a Cree's sole bow. This is something that you are familiar with, Kate, because you have used them before. It's a weapon that shoots limitless energy bolts. It's a bow. It's 200 credits. There are stark healing nanobite inhalers.

Stick them up your nose. Heal all the way to your toes. 30 credits each. You only got five available to you. Layla Miller's glove. This is a personal force field with four three-minute charges, 185 credits. There is a dashboard hula dancer. It dances on your dashboard, 70 credits.

There's an amulet of pama, chameleon device that allows you to be invisible by assuming the form of something else in the vicinity with two five-minute charges, 200 credits. And then you've got two items, for your vehicle, two vehicle modification things. A food synthesizer, take a wild guess at what it does. It's 150 credits.

And a ship weapon of your choice for 500 credits. It can be a laser, a phaser, or a mazer. Which is a sound weapon. Okay. Also, there is a party enhancement line, which is a Sentinel robot, which is a big-ass robot worth a thousand credits. We don't have to do that. We can't afford that anyway.

Why are you teasing it? Yes. Because it's already written down here. I already have the dashboard hula dancer in my mouth. I just, okay. Oh, that's the only thing I wanted to. I just assumed, yes. Okay.

So discuss. How many credits do we have? 750. 580. I mean, I think we should get the solebo of the things that are here that seems pretty useful. Yeah. I could not agree more. Now, Clint, I've fired one of these.

before, is it, is it, is it, is it sick? Oh man, it is sick. Wait, is that not what you're asking? Six good. Six good, yeah. Oh, it is sick as sick. It's like bad used to be for your, your people. Can we, oh, then it's not sick. Can we exchange a one bow for, for this bow and get store credit? What, uh, what do you think that bow's worth? this this this bow this bow um well it's kind of iconic you know it's been

it's an official like avenger bow so it's one of those I actually do have I should not be I have a trait called signature weapon okay um so I am known for owning and using a specific type of weapon like Hawkeye's bow

you pawned in space to a cat for Molnier take it I don't like here wait how much Yeah, dude. Shit, see what that's beer money for months.

I'm going to get an ATV. Boy, it looks nice. It's got a little blood on it. Yeah, well, I like it that way. Yeah, I do too. I think this is worth a lot, personally. So in my estimation, if I were to trade you my signature beau, which I would come back for and buy, re-swob for,

I think that's worth at least one big ass robot. I don't think it's, I mean, I can't give it away for less than a thousand credits. I tell you what, I'll listen, that free space bow. Pretty good. I understand, but we have the credits for that. I don't need to trade you my bow, but I'm giving you an extra offer. I will, I'll tell you, I'll tell you what. Give me, give me an ego check.

Give me another ego check. Okay. I got to check my ego with a, one. All right. You got this. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. And I'm actually gonna, yes, I'm gonna try to, I want a fantastic success so bad. Come on. Okay. Well, I didn't get fantastic, but I did you get a six, five, six, three plus one ego is a total 15. It's pretty good. Tell you what I'll do. I will trade you even up for the two bows and throw in another 100 credits to your total.

That'll give you 850 credits and you get the bow. Now, we haven't even decided what to use the rest of the credits we do have on. So maybe let's hold off trading away your pit. I was trying to get us that big-ass robot because it does, I mean... The robot sounds cool, but also just when I inject. If there's a long-range sensor that follows energy trails and that cosmic baby probably puts off an energy trail, Or the slave.

Yes, she absolutely does. We could follow that. I'm just saying we can afford everything except that. We don't. Hey, listen, I know, hey, Kate, I see you in your eyes. Oh, a big-ass robot. Oh, oh. But you have an energy man and a goddong and a spider boy and a magic wizard.

Hey, hey, spider man. It's also a big-ass robot, though. Where do we even put it? We don't even know what the robot does. We don't even know if the robot's cool. Listen, guys. I have some history with robots. Some of them are real pieces of shit.

Okay, that's true. There have been some bad robot. Oh, is it a... Oh, ask him if it's a bad robot. Oh, yeah. Outside, I think. Yeah, we're not there. Is it a cool robot or like a piece of shit, like what's this vibe?

What if it's basically Vultron? It's actually... Wait, which one? Ultron or Voltron. Oh, my God, you're right. That's the two guys. We got three glasses of robots, bud. Ultron and Voltron.

Which one are we looking at? Which one you want? Which one you want to know about? Voltron. Oh. This robot is a laundry robot. We don't need this robot, no. We don't need this robot to do laundry.

It looks really cool. Okay. So let's get the one that tracks energy. I'm going to hang on to my other bow. I also want to say the only details we have about it is that it's a big ass robot. That could be it's a big robot or it could be a robot that is just programming. A giant. Gout Primo Delier.

I don't think I need that. I don't think I need a robot. It's a robot with a big ass. Oh, excellent. So it's a big, it has a big ass, and it just does your laundry?

And it sits on that big ass and does your laundry. Okay. No, hold on. I'm back in. Okay. Okay, come on. I got people standing in line.

Let's go. Let's go. What do you want? The tracker. The energy analyzer. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Okay.

That's, uh, you get the, a bow free. We're not trading the bow. Back on. We're not trading in the other bow. No. Okay. And we're going to get the, of course, the Hula dancer.

And maybe the amulet of Pama. I'm excited about the amulet too. Yeah. And let's go ahead and grab, as long as we're at it, one of those nanobit inhalers. This is great. You're doing math faster than dad could possibly calculate it. That's 750. Yeah.

We're going to get away with murder here. No, that's 550 so far. No, it's not. Crebo, 200. Analyzer, 250. Oh, I thought you were trading in the bow for the boat for the boat. No, no, no. Stop to get a horny for the boat, Dad.

Who said no four times. Okay, 720. You're up to 720. It's not even real. Now, really look at that list, you guys. Oh, my God. No, don't. Actually, really, just buy some stuff.

I want to fight a space wizard. You throw in the bow. Okay? You throw in her bow. and I will give you all that stuff plus four Shiar flight patches Okay

The EV suits There's five of us though Yeah I don't need it I know but I can't I can't I don't I also don't need it We'll take the four suits Okay And hey

Just start heading for the door gang Pleasure doing business with you And you and also with you Hurry back to Hobbs Guys, do I, do I go in there and give him my bow or no, we just got to get a bow. We'll just get them off. We're ripping them off. Great, great, okay.

Okay, okay. So wait, wait, where? Okay. Did we go in there or what? We never went in. We never, we've been out here on the Wi-Fi this whole time. We're going to go get the bow now. Okay, I'll be waiting for your bow.

All right. So much. Here we go. Might take us a while to find it. And the diamond? The diamond? Oh, yeah. I'll bring you the diamond.

I'll bring you the diamond. Can I take the diamond in? Yeah. Okay. I teleport in and I hand in the diamond. And I say, you know the bad thing about knowledge? You can't take it back. And then I grabbed something from the table and teleport out.

So I'd like to do a spell to see if I grabbed it and teleport it out before he could stop me. Okay. Could that be ego? Yeah, I think it would be. Okay. That was my character sheet. If we were going to rob this, man, we should have just done that before. Yeah, I wish I'd know. 14. Okay. Yeah.

And, you know, I don't know how many repercussions are going to be since this is a black market swap meat and being run by an intergalactic criminal named Wastoral. All right. Yeah. It succeeds. And you go. But you did leave the diamond, right? Yeah, I left the diamond. He can have the diamond. Okay. And I get back, I teleport back on the ship. and I say, no hero should have to be without their signature item. And I take out the collar and I hand it back to Thorey. This is a great kindness.

This is a great kindness you have done it, Sebastian Druitt. It's no problem at all. I could tell how sad you were. Love this thing. Oh, that is good. Oh, it looks so good on you, Griffin. Thank you. Thanks. He looked weird without it, didn't he?

He looked weird without it. At this point, I think he should just keep it like, when I see him now, even outside of this show. If he's not wearing it. For sure, for sure. There's going to be people who cosplay as you with the color. You know that, right? Absolutely.

It's going to be me first. Let's install the analyzer or whatever we need to do. Sense it. Turn it on. Okay, I think you would just give it to Death Locket when you get back on the Warp and Wonderwagon. Cool. And she'll extend a cable to it and says, oh. It's USBC.

I see. Oh, good. Yes. All right. That's great. You all ready to take off? Yeah. Hobbs is real pissed. Here you go. Punch it. Okay. All right. Brace yourselves. You take off. Takeoff's not as bad. Lockett seems to be kind of getting the hang of this. But as you're leaving the atmosphere, Thoree, in your head, you hear a telepathic message that says, call me tovarish I don't you're breaking up sorry so you're zooming through the darkness of space

no sorry dad we have the headlights on oh right okay we got to be careful with these game masters yeah blackness of space uh Becca says oh this this analyzer has a lot of interesting information

not only is it telling me where to go for the to go to Flinix Cluster and we'll be there in just literally less than an hour. Sick. Do you want to know anything about the Fluster, Flinix Cluster? Where would be the best place within it to store and hide a child?

Is there a child-sized compartment or cabinet or shelf? I don't have that much. I've just got some general stuff from a brochure. We'll go general. General's fine. General's fine. Flinix Cluster is the brainchild of Glebella Flinix, a former member of Novacora, got fed up with the long hours and low pay and lethal annihilation events that came up every week, and decided to join the private sector. The fluster is a thousand spheres of different sizes and metallic hues, all forming one massive spherical shape. At the very center of the cluster is a sphere containing a powerful, ionic force emitter that keeps all the spheres together in the shape.

Oh, yes. One of those two. It's either great or bad for me or bad for me. It's my strength and my weakness. What's up? Each sphere has its own environment and its own function. I mean, it's for people to rent or lease. Some use the spheres for storage, some for habitation, some for containment.

Glebella judges nobody. She just provides a service. She doesn't care whether some might use their sphere for something shady, something dangerous, something boring. It's no business of hers. People just follow the rules that can use the sphere. It sounds like you have used the spheres before. No, but this brochure is very well written.

Okay. Does it say on there, and it would be a weird thing to include in the brochure, but what the defenses are like, how violent they're likely to. be? Is there like a guard thing? Or is it like, yeah, come and goes, you please? No, the defenses are all internal. You see, the only connection between each sphere are transmat machines. Okay. And you have to have the transmat machines and the specific codes to know which sphere to go to. You may be transmitting a thousand different times and God knows what's in each sphere. You got to know where you're going. You've got to know where you're going.

and able to get there. Boy, that's deep. Wherever you go, there you are. Suddenly, a loud, annoying claxon starts to sound. And a light on the dashboard starts to flash. Becca has to make a sudden stop. What on earth would it have friction? Nothing on earth.

Everyone looks through the front windshield, and there, before the warp and wonder wagon is a figure. that seems to glow with a silvery sheen and a voice that almost reverberates through the very walls of the wagon that says hold stray vehicle

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Smash me, Mommy. Smash me, Mama. The sirens a little. Why do we do this to ourselves? Strand me, baby. Strand me, baby. So, yeah, this is my brother, my brother, me for maximum fun on Mondays. It's just like that.

It's just like to have more of it. There's more of that. What do you do? I'm a huge fan of this guy. Do you like this guy? I cannot tolerate. I kind of wave. Do we have a CB radio or something? No CB radio.

Okay. Is it outside the ship? You probably have pretty good hearing. Yeah, he's floating in space outside the ship. So we're all inside the Wonderwagon. And he's outside on the other side of this vacuum shield. What do you call a windshield when there's no wind? Okay.

And he's just like stopped us there. Just a shield. Okay, I just want to make sure I understand. Yeah. Kate, you like you like the. The Silver Surfer. I just, I've never met him before. I don't know.

He just seems so cool. I've met him. Yeah? Yeah. Storm and I fought him back in like the 90s. He's kind of an asshole. Why is he nude? Wasn't he the emissary for like a creature that wanted to destroy Earth?

Yeah, that's Galactus. That was, yeah, Glacus eats planets. Oh. He has to hail the Galactus. He shows up. He's got, like, no people's skills whatsoever. So, like, he's an absolute, he's an absolute cop. I mean, the times I've met him, a jerky paura beer.

Yeah. Yeah. That's actually not that far off. I started, like, waving my hand, like, in the windshield. We're good. Yes. Simon, does, if you know this guy, can you, can you talk to him? I'll try.

Oh, yeah, yeah. That would be great, because if I talk to him, I'm going to lose my fucking mind. Yeah. Uh, hey, bud. Hey, can you see me? Oh, hold on. Wait. You see me?

He's kind of peering through the glass trying to... I take my glasses off, so my eyes are, like, glowing with the ionic energy. It's very visible. And when you do, when you do, make a vigilance check. Sure, sure, yeah, yeah. Catch these hands. Vigilance check. Not my strong suit.

Uh, 14? Okay, yeah. With this vigilance check, when you took your sunglasses off, the glass. off. The glare from his silveriness was a little abated. And you can see him a little more clearly. Some bad sunglasses. Yeah. He's, uh, pro-glare sunglasses. Yeah, that's what they were. Extra glare. It's cool as shit, man. And you, you notice he's not standing on a surfboard. Oh. He's, he's standing on a, like a large, rounded stone that's kind of flattened at the top and the bottom. Like a boogie board?

No, it's thicker than that. It's got like a snowboard-shaped handle. You also noticed that he is holding a very long broom of the same material. Oh, fucking. No, fuck, dad. There's still time. Dad, it's not too late to change this. It's not the silver surfer, is it?

No. It's the silver. I'm going to ruin your joke, Dad. Don't you dare. Don't you dare take this from her father. No, Travis, don't. His whole life has built this. Yeah, it's not the silver surfer.

But he does fly up a little closer to you, puts his hand on the windshield so you all can communicate a little bit better. And when he does get closer, you notice that his silver machine has kind of a yellowish gold tint to it as well. And he says, Okay, listen.

Yeah, I'm not the Silver Surfer. Okay. I'm the Samarian Sweeper. By the way, Samarium is 62 on the periodic table. So it's not bad. I want you to know, Dad, I actually thought you were going to say Silver Swiffer, and I was very worried about that. This is actually better than what I thought of it. Well, it was actually a curling joke.

Okay, fantastic. Oh, great. Yeah. Okay. Somebody make an ego check. Me. Wow. I'm dad.

Wait, who's got good ego? Justin, what's Druid's ego? Five. Oh, yeah. Then you should make this ego check. Druid, make an ego check. I did, I did, baby. Okay. Oh, right, 14.

All right. Okay, so the sweeper looks up at you guys and says, it says, look, guys, I'm not really a herald of Galactus. I'm just kind of auditioning. Oh, okay.

See, Galactus sees everything, man. I mean, everything. And I'm hoping if I catch his eye, I can get the gig as his herald. He's a planet eater. You know that, right? I know.

But he has great benefits. Okay, so all that in mind, we're on a rescue mission for, like, a two-year-old girl, so kindly, and pardon my French, move the fuck out of the way, if you don't mind. Well, look, you're the first craft

that's come along here. You heard him about the kidnapped toddler, right? Yeah, yeah. The first 48 hours are incredibly vital in the instance of a kidnapping. Oh, hell. And he waves his broom, the stone on which he's standing,

zooms away from him, and then flies in, slams into the warp and wonder wagon, Roll for a mission. Oh my God. Yeah, I'll fight this fucking guy. Thank you. I'm glad we stole this guy.

Yeah, me too. Dad, I thought it was you. I'm going to learn how to bite ass through a spacesuit today. Bite ass. I'm here to do two things. Roll dice and bite ass. Yeah. What's this news name again?

The Samarium, which is an actual element, sweeper. And this guy doesn't have like a jumpsuit that has his name on it or anything, does he? No. Okay. Just check it. It's because we're the humans. All right. So initiative is set.

Thori, you're first, then druid, Wonder Man, the sweeper, Miles, Hawkeye. So, Thoree, what do you do? I hop out the airlock. According to the Marvel Wiki, Thori is capable of interstellar flight. So I can travel through the vacuum of space without a seat. distance. No space suit required for me. And I'm going to, I guess, doggy paddle over towards the Samarium surfer, or a sweeper. And I say, quick, death lock it.

What is the melting point of Samarium? Bad Google. Okay. That's not bad. I have no idea how to do that. Hey, man, I just Googled it. It's a bad number. Yeah, it's pretty high. It's one of the higher numbers that I know about. Amanda's just posted the answer in chat.

It's around 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. 1962, to be exact. Good year. Okay. I'm looking 1,962 degrees Fahrenheit. Do you want to know anything else about Samaria? No, that's all that's sort of relevant in this exact moment. And I open up my mouth.

and I'm going to use Thori's signature attack, which is an elemental blast of fire. I'm going to charge it up real good, I guess, to 1,962 degrees Fahrenheit, which seems really, really hot. So hot. Super duper hot. So elemental blast, I make a ranged attack with an edge and an enemy in line of sight, and I can spend extra focus, which is sort of like,

manna in this game to sort of boost the damage of it. So I'm going to spend 20 focus to increase the damage of it by 10. So I'm going to make a ranged attack on

this hater with edge. That is a fucking 20. Let's see if we can't get it out to the 21. No, it's a 20. So that's 19 damage plus 10. 29 damage against this amount

29 damage Ouchy Uchi That put a little Kibosh on him Yeah Not completely Is he looking a little bit Melty and fucked up now

That was mine too Okay cool He looks a little melty and fucked up Great we'll take it Okay Druid you're up So he's melty He's fucked up

We're loving this I am I have a lot of magic Power which is the thing So that's always tempting to want to use magic. Well, the first thing you do, you're still inside the Wonder Wagon, right?

Oh, I can't get out of the Wonder Wagon. Yeah? Why not? We have suits. You have suits. Oh, we got our space suits. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, now I'm outside the ship. Okay, tell me where the opening is. You slapped on that, that ChiR patch. What? Yeah, I slaps on that ChiR patch. And I, and I, but where's the, and I, but is it, where's the, Where's the exit of the ship? Oh, it's just that little side door you guys always went in and out of.

Is it like the side door? Okay, and he's in the front of the ship, right? Yes. Okay. I am going to cast images of, sorry. Yes, I'm going to cast images of icon. Images of icon, is what I would guess, actually. Cool.

And I'm going to create an illusory duplicate. of someone and I'm going to create a duplicate of Galactus. Have you met Galactus? Yeah, it was fucked up, Kate. I wish you'd been there, actually. It was crazy. You never think it's going to happen to you

and then you're like, okay, I'm telling Kate this later. It's crazy. You never think you're going to meet Galactus. And then all of a sudden, and you always say, like, you tell your friends like, oh, I'd fuck him up. But you get in front of him, Here's the thing they don't tell you, Kate. He's fucking big. He's so big.

You will get freaked out. But I just made a regular size of Galactus because I don't want to freak him out, you know? No, no, no, just kidding. He's gigantic. All right? Brilliant. Yeah, so that's a big galactus. I've got to spend my five focus here.

And then I'm just there. And I seek up next to this guy and I'm like, Oh, come on. What? You know, like Galactus always says. I love this. Oh. You're here?

Hello. You are... This is exactly how I like it. Oh, man. This is an honor, sir. It's a pleasure. What was your name? Oh, I am.

The Samaritan. William Sweeper. My real name is Riley Rad. And, oh, this is, this is an honor. I can't wait for you to see me kill these guys. This is so very cool. Okay, but remember my number one rule, no killing. I have gotten such a bad reputation, but I've always told people no killing ever 100%. everything else you're doing? I'm wild about it over here. How do you consume whole planets without killing somebody?

That's why I send a Harold. I say everyone off. Galactus is hungry and he doesn't want any casualties. Good. Okay. I'll try not to kill him. Wonder Man, you're up. That was foolproof.

Wonder Man flies out. Also doesn't need a suit. And is going to use elemental grab to attempt to grab that fool. Did that pop up? Yeah. So I'm going to make an ego check against his, an ego attack, excuse me. 15 against his melee defense. That, that hits.

Okay, great. The melee defense is 14. That hit. I am going to use a carmuntlet feeling. See if I get that fantastic success. No, it was a 15 again. That means that I've grabbed the target with my element. And breaking free, it requires a successful melee check against the target number of 20.

Wow. Okay. What is your element again? Ionic energy. I've got him basically just think of like a big ionic hand. It's just kind of holding him. Like an action figure. Cool.

Okay. Okay. Hold on, wait, real quick. Riley? Hmm? Yuck. Yikes. That was Galactus.

That's Galactus. Give it some feedback. Yikes. Ooh. No, no, no, no. I got no problem. No. It's sweet that you're worried about me.

But no, I got this. Watch. Watch. I love that Riley, by the way, I love that Riley read that as worry and not incredibly dismissive. Which is a, ooh. Oh, but he's strong. So what does he have to do?

Make a melee check against 20. Against 20. So he'll do that at the start of the turn because he's up next. Right? Yeah. Yes. So it's a melee check. That would be 17.

So he's stuck there. He's stuck there. Okay, listen. Hey, while I got you. Let's chat for just a second What do you say? Not we're in battle Listen, hear me out

I hear me out Galactus is watching I'm indestructible So how about I let you go You give me a couple of good punches And then we pretend to run away No Can I at least roll for it?

Yeah, roll for it Yeah, that's right Yeah And let me see Wait a minute That would be an ego check. And I'm making a deal.

So I've got edge on action checks. What's he need to convince Salarium? Well, the ego defense is 15. But this is big. Well, I don't even know. There's absolutely no way. I mean, I have edge on it, but I rolled a nine.

So even if I bumped that up. You could do try for a fantastic success. A fantastic failure, at least. Nope A nine again Geez Listen I appreciate you thinking about me

But no Miles you're up Ooh This is weird Everybody's in space I haven't I've been in space I haven't had to be

In space I was in the Winnebago And everyone's like This is fine There's also a giant Maybe space got outside Where there was no context Under where that man came from

Everybody's cool with it This is bad The dog's outside Two men are out outside. Kate, this is, are we, Kate, what's happening? I'm slapping a patch on. I'm like, I'm going outside. So I'm going to go. Okay. Miles, that's a patch on. Swings out, gets on top of the Wonder wagon, and just sees everything happening. Wonder Man, are you electric proof? I'm, I'm pretty much everything proof. Yeah. Cool.

I've got a Venom Blast. Samar-R-R-W-Sweeper. Well, Wonder Man's holding him. Samarion. Samarium. Samarium. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm going to Venom blast.

Time out, because I'm trying to look and see, it feels real O-P. If I could just hold him until you roll at 20, like, I feel like you should still be able, if you have any, like, distance things. Yes, there's a difference between pinned and grabbed, I believe. Because if you hit me, it breaks my concentration. it wouldn't actually hurt you no no not you i'm saying if the sweeper because otherwise

i'm just going to keep holding him round after round and that doesn't seem well let's follow this let's follow this logic here and let's let's let the action take place and see what happens with this venom block cool all right so that is a ranged attack that is a 13 um

but i'm going to use another karma to roll with edge 16 against their defense. That hits. And then that is 14 points of damage as Miles kind of like pulls a little bit of electricity from the Wonder wagon itself and then arches it directly into this sweeper. Making sure not to actually shock Wonder Man too much. But it kind of like...

The surfer. No, no, no. But which defense wasn't it? Agility. I mean, that would also hit me. Yeah, so the way the grab works is you can try and make the roll and only target the sweeper, but you make it with trouble. Or if you don't care who gets hit, you just make it normal. Yeah, I have the power, so it's okay if you want to hit me.

Well, let's follow this. Yeah, let's go with this. I'd say it knocks Samarium sweeper for a good chunk, but it also disrupts Wonder Man's concentration. Is that fair to say? And he's free from the grass. That's not what I meant to do. No, you hit him. Hey, you hit him.

That was good. Hawkeye, you're up. All right. I'm floating out in space. How many spaces away, mechanically, would you say the Sumerium sweeper is? Oh, not far. I'd say he's well within, I mean.

He was touching the windshield when he started to fight. Right. Yeah, 10 feet away, maybe. Okay, okay. So I can't snipe him. All right. I'm going to go weapons blazing on this guy. So then I'm going to make

I'm going to focus my attack on him I'll make an agility check compare it to his agility defense So we'll do that Okay pretty good Yeah I'm feeling like a two Like a 19 probably is going to hit his agility defense It's going to help that

It's going to hit that 13 agility Yeah yeah yeah Okay so then on a success He'll take half regular damage Or on a fantastic success Which I can try it for then he takes full damage and I can make a bonus attack. So let's just try for, let's just try for, I'll spend a karma.

Okay. We'll try, we'll try, we'll try for, not 41 karma. No, just one. And we'll try for Fantastic Success on that middle dark. Yeah, you go. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, my God.

Holy shit, we needed to lose. Oh, we're superheroes, you guys. So that hits for 40? Yeah. Holy shit. And I can make a bonus. attack with this power against any available target with the same effect. Let's go one mogen.

Not as cool. That's good. Whoa! I was too flabbergasted that it worked. Yeah. So my second arrow, I'm like, oh, no. Yeah, it's maybe not. Not as good.

But let's just focus on the cool part. I think I should be able to give Kay Edge on that role because I as Galactus am right there. I could absolutely distract this guy after you got hit the first time. Like, oh, no. Like, he's definitely going to look at me, right? I will do that because it's such a great gag. I haven't had enough effect on, I think having Galactus there should fuck him up a little.

Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Okay. Take an edge. I'd re-roll one of the ones. I did. I re-rolled one of the ones and it was also. Oh, no.

Kate. Hey, listen. Roll 20 if you're listening. It feels like 99% of the time. as we've re-roll with edge, it's in the same number again. I'm saying it to Glitch Kay. Roll six more times to see what happens. Staying behind it.

Okay, let me give you a little sit-wrap. Samarian Sweeper is down to about a third of his health. That hit well. And Thori, you are... And we're untouched. Just... Yep. Come on, man.

He's got a broom? Yeah, that's, yeah, that's his main source of power. I'm going to just grab that and yank it away from him with my powerful dog jaws, as if you were a normal human sweeping with a broom near me. Now, if he loses that, will he turn into a human in space and then just die? That is the optimal result of this action for being. Is it? So, yeah, I'm going to grab that shit and I'm going to rip it out of his hands.

Okay. I don't have any... You know, I have a trait. Would that be melee, you think? Yes, yes. Certainly not logic. I have enhanced physique. So I'm stronger than regular humans.

Treat me as one size big for lifting, carrying, swinging, and throwing things. So, yeah, I'm just going to grab this with my mouth and throw it very far. Should I make a melee a sack roll or just a melee check? Or what do you think? I think, I think in this. case the melee non-combat. Would you say this? Now this is combat. Okay. Let's see how this goes.

That's a 6-5-1, a 17. I say that succeeds. Yes. Okay. Then I rip it out of his hand, look for the nearest black hole and just chuck it as far and as fast away from him as I possibly can. A fun note for those at home.

Thori is the only one I think of the group who doesn't have the heroic trait, the heroic tag. So he's fine. No, in fact, I have the bloodthirsty tag. When you do that, when you take the broom and throw it away, he does one of those cartoon things where the legs are flying, you know, going back and forth real fast in the air, you know, like wily coyote does when he runs off a cliff. And the stone just starts flying out of control.

It's flying everywhere. He was controlling the stone with the broom. Oh, no. And it actually zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, and flies right through the illusion of Galactus's head. Shit. And so Sweeper turns to you, he turns to Galactus and says, what's the deal?

Do you have the power to turn it in corporeal? When someone disappoints me so much, sometimes I just fall apart. I caught you slipping. Caught you slipping in a major way. And I'm so disappointed in you that I don't even want to be here anymore. Yay, Farrell, you have slim Galactus with a wounded heart because of how bad I caught you slipping this time.

The slipping killed the beast. I gotta be honest. This is not how I like it at all. You weren't doing it just how I did. But then you let a dog take your broom. And I was actually heartbroken of that. And I don't like how you did that at all. But I, I, I'm sorry.

That's okay. I have a question, and I don't care, but are you going, because I'm Galactus, but are you going to die out here in space without your broom? Because I don't want that on my conscience. No, it'll originally, it'll eventually come back to me, I guess. But that doesn't, I think I'd rather die than, disappoint you and not get the gig. No, I'll be all right.

Don't worry about me. He's definitely not going to die, though, out here in space. No, I'm not going to. Where do you live? Do you have a way home? Not really. I mean, I moved out of my mom and dad's basement. Transition, my friend Mr. Rogers, says transitions are seldom smooth.

And you remind me of that today. You've got a long walk home to think about how I caught you slipping and how you didn't do it. I like that. Goodbye. Is he gone? Yeah, he's gone. He disappeared. And then Simon is

Slash is slowly flying back towards the ship. Did Galacticus just quote the old guy, Captain Rogers, or Captain America? Oh, they're both old guys. Mr. Rogers? Yes, Captain America. Steve Rogers. No.

No, Miles. Mr. Rogers. With the shield. Jesus. I think we should go. That was a very large illusion for me to keep up. What? And I am exhausted.

Is the stone still zooming around, by the way? Yeah, don't worry about it. Thanks a lot, you guys. Thank us. Thanks a lot. I gave you two different opportunities to walk away, one of them, including a chance to impress him. So which one of us is the dick? Okay, I guess you're the dick.

Now move. While we are all outside, can we get some quick walkies on the books? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's get you some walks. I attach a web to Thori, like a leash. Okay. And the sweeper is kind of flailing around like, you know, a kid learning how to swim in the direction of the way this.

Then the broom win. Once you get your broom back, you'll clean up after the dog, right? Yeah. Yes. Wait, don't just agree to that. You don't know. No, I'll do it. I'll do it.

Don't know. Oh, you guys just head that way. The flusters. No, we have a scanner. Thank you. Oh, fine. Great. You just got an answer for everything.

This conversation is actually done now because, as I mentioned, we are in a bit of a rush. How about do you take an anger management seminar when you get a chance? I'm a pacifist, you piece of shit. Passivist can still be angry. Yeah, he's not wrong. He's not wrong. I'm going to wedge him. Is that against Pat?

If I give him a wedgy, how does that fit in with pacifist nature? You're sounding a lot like Jason Statham from Crank. Oh, my God. That your knowledge of media is so confusing. Okay. Okay, on we go. Good job. You have defeated my Samarium sweeper. Good. But nice job with the Samarium sweeper. I'm going to have to upgrade these bad guys. That's okay. I have superpowers. Yeah, we all do. Okay. So, on we go. You're flying to space towards Flinix cluster, the Fluster. And you're following the energy trail using the... Is it really a nickname if you say the full name? And the... then the nickname after it every single time.

I think eventually it's just going to have to be the fluster. The fluster. It's time. It's the fluster. It's the fluster, aka the clinic's close. So you head towards it and it's magnificent. You head towards what? You head towards the fluster.

You head towards the fluster. You go sail them by one of the landmarks. There's a great big asteroid with a huge indentation. It's like a bowl. It looks like a dog bowl, which reminds you, uh, Thory, that,

uh, you haven't eaten for a while. Um, and then you go sailing up towards the fluster. Um, as you draw near, a round hatch appears on one of the larger spheres on the outside. Fluster.

And from it extends a cylinder about eight feet across. And there are clamps at the end of the cylinder. Death lock it does some maneuvering she's really starting to get the hang of this she flies up and successfully docks with the cylinder

anchoring to the warp and wonder wagon right at that door that you all went out the only door it has okay Sebastian time to use your psychic powers to locate Lausa somewhere in here so just try to lock in to her

with your psychic powers. I can tell you right now that's not going to work. Like your psychic magic or whatever? You're a wizard, right? So he's like psychic magic and try to like... Do you think wizards are psychic? Psychic magic is a very different kind of magic than what I can do.

We're actually not sure why I can do what I do. I didn't learn it or anything. My dad was Dr. Druid, but I didn't get it from him. I have... This is going to sound weird, and nobody really understands but I have some monster blood. Is it a psychic monster?

What? No, it's just a regular ass monster as far as I know. I don't have any special sight. Are you a werewolf? No, actually, good question. No, I did think that, I know. I thought that for a little bit too,

but it turns out I just get really, like, freaked out by the full moon, is the thing. Unrelated? Yeah, just unrelated to that. I just don't care for the full moon. Do you remember everything when the full moon comes? I mean, does anybody, you know? What?

Yeah, I mean, like, I just, uh, I think it's what game. Yeah, well, I mean, you finish a book and you're like, you remember every page, yada, yada. But no, uh, psychic magic is not me. I can sense, uh, hold on, actually, uh, I can do something. And then I sense supernatural. We're fine. So we're just traveling with a space werewolf and everybody's fine. with this. Yeah. I mean, I'm just doing...

I'm a ball of energy in like basically a man suit. Yeah. I don't... I do not look at... I was sorry, that was Travis speaking. I guess it also applies to Wonder Man, but... Most of the crew compartment has been absolutely destroyed and trashed

in a fit of primal rage. I blame the werewolf. Oh my God, wait, if you're God of dogs, are you druid's god? You'd have to ask him. Only one day a month or three days, admitting on the Lord. Okay, so, Dad, I, I was a sense supernatural.

Okay. 16. 16. All right. What do I sense? Wow. Nothing. Nothing.

Fair enough? No supernatural people, places or things? Okay, so last was not here. Yeah. Okay. Within 100 spaces per room. Oh, yeah. Well, within, yeah, that's like 500, 600 feet.

So, no. No, you do not. All right, what do you do? Go inside the hatch. Yeah, there you go. But Wonder Man goes first. Okay. Because he is invulnerable and full of hit points.

All right, so you walk through the cylinder, and at the other end, a circular hatch opens. You walk into what looks like kind of a sleek reception area. there's a very tall desk. Hello desk. And behind it sits a majestic looking silver-haired woman with more than a passing resemblance to Glenn Close, the Earth actress. She's the trio of devices, Dad. She belongs to all of us.

There is a trio of devices floating around her. They look like, what, small cameras, projectors. And as you walk in, the room is just blasts. with the loud sound of the Jackson 5 singing the song ABC. These I recognize. And Glebella turns and says, God, I love those kids. Oh, hi.

Welcome to the Fluster. I am owner-operator Glebella Flinix. That's how it gets his name, Flinix Cluster, but its nickname is Fluster. Oh, okay. What can I do you for? Yeah, so my friend Corvus Glaves, saying me to pick something up from his sphere.

But I left in such a hurry. I forgot to get him like the location of it. And he's like waiting on it. You know how that guy can be, right? So is there any way you could like look up for me if you can take time away from your modeling career? Look up for me what the location of his sphere might be? Mm-hmm.

Um, you know, um, this is the most secure facility in mutter spiral. Discretion is kind of my middle name. And she flicks a button. And one of the projectors pivots towards you and holographic letters appear in the air that says Globella Discretion Flinnett. I would have guessed her middle name is beautiful. Oh, you are. You are.

This energy is making me hugely uncomfortable. Back off. Yeah, me too. These spheres are connected by transmit devices. That's what keeps it so safe. You got to know the code to get into the sphere. It's a three-digit code to get into most spheres. Some of them are six digits.

And some of the six-digit ones are available. That's maintenance stuff. But no, I'm not just going to... Well, are you sure? Because I have a certain amount of presence, which helps in me getting... people to do things voluntarily for me. Yeah.

And I'm famous. Yeah, you do. Yeah. Is there? It's a great. It's a great question. Wait, who is in charge, actually? She asked, I feel like Kate's in charge.

Should we have a vote? I feel like Kate's in charge. Theoretically, yes, Kate is the leader of the babysitters club. Okay. According to the canon. It's a huge. It's a big canon. Got it.

Okay, Kate, do a vigilance check. I will. Canon, I will. Okay, 14. Okay. I needed 13. I'm sorry, I'm supposed to tell you that ahead of time. Okay, yes.

You walk over to the console, the TransMAT console, and you see that there's a place for three spaces for a symbol to be entered in. One letter, two digits. this thing will only work in a certain order. Think of it as one of those AAA triptics. You got to get to the one spot to get to the second spot to get to the third spot. Not every sphere is connected to every other sphere. Okay.

I relay this. If you all want to go someplace, it's very simple. Put in the first, you know, code and go there. I have good news and I have bad news. Okay. The good news is I believe we have been given a significant hint to the location of Corvysclaves' sphere. It was written on the jukebox napkin that we received back in the bar. The bad news is I did eat that napkin pretty much right away as soon as we were.

We got aboard the Winnipega. Yeah. That's fine. I remember the numbers. Oh, thank God. I thought that I had made such a big whoopsie. No, I knew you were hungry. Thank you for understanding.

It was, what is it, X-26, right? X-26. There was X-26, Y-19, and Z-73, but X-26 was the drinking song. Right. Seems like we should try it. Yeah. Unless he did cheat on her.

And then it would be Z73. No, Y19. Let's do X26. I like X26. No, you know, that's good thinking. Okay, so you do add the code. Okay, one last thing.

Oh, crap. Hold on a second. And her face seems to distort and grow fuzzy. Ah, crap. Hang on. Philtron's off. And those projectors, deep power and Globella shows her real form.

Instead of looking like tall, majestic Glenn Close, she's a short craggy woman that looks more like Juno, the caseworker from Beetlejuice. And she hops down from her very tall stool and walks over to you guys and says, listen, one last thing, all my tech uses ionic energy.

And something you bozos are carrying is really fritzing up my Philtrons. Just just be careful. careful tossing that ionic shit around, okay? Studley or whoever is carrying this ionic device. Because then there may be more than these stupid projectors, fritzing up, if you know what I mean.

Isn't it just Wonder Man? Yeah. I turn it. I turn and I look at everybody and I'm like, anybody? Got an ionic device that they want to leave on the Winnebago? Anybody. Anybody want to leave?

Anybody. Does anyone have? I'm not getting, no, no, man. Oh, is it you? I mean, am I a, sorry, am I a device? Am I a device? Technically. Yeah, no, I am.

I'm pure ionic energy. I'll try to keep that under wraps. Thanks for the note. Okay. That's good. All right, what do you do? What do you do? I punch an inch, X, X, X, K.

X, 26. I punch that in, X-26. Okay. You all are gathered around the transmat. You punch in X-23. X-26. X-26. X-26.

I was testing you. You vanish. You vanish. And when you all reconstruct, the other end of the transmet, oh, you are in utter darkness. Complete and total darkness. There is an unpleasant, acidic smell. with a pervasive whiff of decay. It's almost overpowering.

It's very warm in here, and there is just a cataphanie of sound, a chittering, clacking sound from hundreds of different sources, and the sound is more than unerving. It affects you on almost a primal level, making you, babysitters, for the first time, fearful. It's fun. A worker-old network.

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