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Nov 13, 2018 2 hr 9 min

Nebulous Nights #14

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The crew continues their fight with these strange spherical robots, while BONESTAR tries to look for the sniper. The situation becomes a bit more strange when more reinforcements arrive. Hopefully when all is said and done, the Work Force can provide something for the Knights so they can have a more solid lead than what they previously had. Nebulous Nights is a FATE based real play podcast. This is a Patreon game, and the players are supporters to this podcast feed. A majority of music used in Nebulous Nights is from Lapfox Trax, the Halley Labs R&D "selected research" which is released for use by the artist for anyone to use! Go check their other work at lapfoxtrax.com. Additional music in this episode is from OCRemix.org. "Far Away" is by Synesthesics and a remix of "Still Alive" from the game Mirror's Edge. "Embrace the Darkness" is by Ghetto Lee Lewis and is a remix of "The Great Hall" from the game Heretic. All rights are to their respective owners. The Game Mayo for Nebulous Nights is Cody (@codedude3) Playing BONESTAR is Jae (@jaehighfive) Playing Mirage is Eli (@TheVikingBear__) Playing Morg Thrakka is Mike (@tokkan) Playing Sham is Robert (@cyberegg89) Playing Akita is Logan (@theninjathief) Made possible from support from: Tony Srimongkolkul, Tony S, Trish, Eli, Mike, Matthew, Bailee, Nicole, Maddie, Phil, Ashleh, Steph, Zak, Jack, Pamela, Jan, Cody, Michael, Robert, Gwynn, Ben C, Hunter, Ben A, Trans Fur Productions, Logan B

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Greetings, base cadets to episode 14 of the I'm really sad I hadn't gotten into Deep Voice. But we just heard a little bit of our IPG screw. We just heard a little deep base of sickness from Michael. Hello, I'm Mike and I'm also somewhat under the weather, which is good for helping out my morgue voice because I mean, if I sound like this most of the time anyway, it's just going to be a bit more wet on the back end.

I play morgue the hacker G-tan. And then maybe the non-stick people. Hi, Robert. Yeah, hi, I'm Rob.

I play sham the cockra plant species. And of course, last but not least, and we're wrapping up the team, our newest member, Logan. Hello, I'm Logan. I play Akidi Yamaguchi, the bodyguard for hire, Biken.

He's a dog. He's a good boy. Eli's still on the podcast. He's just driving his face off right now.

If you probably heard some of that in the most recent episode, maybe not. I don't know. We're trying to play on a one of one section between me and him in which where Mirage has strange dreams, maybe sort of reality. I don't know.

It's my usual go-to with Eli. It's hard to schedule with him since you put him in solitary confinement for committing crimes against Halo. Listen, OK, you guys started and you guys are about to go into solitary confinement for insulting my good, good series Halo and Dr. Helsey.

I'm gonna fucking get cooker over here. He's gonna back me up. Me and him talked about literally a couple of nights ago. Yeah, I like to sit back and reflect on this moment in which I cured your sickness by getting you mad about Halo.

Flush you right out of your system. Yeah, it's like that comedy classic of Red vs Blue except it's both of us like, not with this nonsense. Can someone tell me what happened last time on Nebula's nights? So we don't want to hear about this.

Halo insulting. Last time on Nebula's nights. The gang started flying to Draenor and Mirage is currently on auto pirate. Who knows what dreams they may encounter.

Akita got introduced. The kids love Akita and Akita is a very good teacher. He's a icon and a good boy. The siege of Yajun is currently going on with the ghost planet attacking at Draenor is and the crisscross enclave is where our contact for the contractors.

Lattice work maybe needlework and the Octomaine and Akita joined the party after morgue and bone star complete a bad food eating contest to get a picture on the wall of a dive bar because decompression. Needle work turns out also may have contacts for portals and may have ends for contacts for God stuff, which is good for us. So we were all going to head over to the workforce HQ and morgue offered to let needlework experiment on him because he's a fast healer kind of as an ex or incentive to let us in. But that will have to be put on hold because schoolwork is being attacked by an evil magic eight ball bot.

So needlework went on to HQ, but we're the friggin nebulous nights. So we're going to help out. So we're canonically also good boys. Akita literally disarmed the eight ball bot or eight bot now and then morgue full on black knighted it by taking off its legs because it was getting annoying.

Still attacking us and butting and all that. Akita got sniped. So bone star flew outside to chase down the shooter. Sean put up a plant wall in front of the window to screen us from getting sniped from other positions and the eight bot called for reinforcements because we kind of dismembered it and more grifled for its surface thoughts by hacking it to try to figure out what the hell it was doing here.

And that was the last episode as far as we remember. Anything else? I don't remember anything else. That was it.

I think Akita started to leave the room with schoolwork. I think that might be where we sort of pick up. So you're sort of helping out schoolwork sort of outside of the building outside of their apartment, which has been completely destroyed. It just looks for Ins Act.

Sean, you have put a wall of vines in front of the way. Unfortunately, there's a big old gaping hole wherever bone star had left. More you sort of have in front of you this robotic sentient creature sort of like with a gigantic eight ball for a head. What are you guys doing?

Just going to continuing on helping schoolwork down. Does Akita know that the thing called for reinforcements? More did more say something about that beforehand? I probably would have.

Like that that seems like something that everyone would need to know. If he would have said something, Akita is going to call the workforce HQ, trying to call in for reinforcements of his own. Oh, right. I like that.

I know exactly who you're calling to. So you have like, so what device do you use to like call in? Is it like a just a cell phone? It's probably like some sort of a phone or something like that, like a little tablet thing.

You kind of call in and you hear it sort of ring for a little bit until you hear the line pick up goes, Hi, this is the workforce. This is network speaking. How may I help you? Hey, this is Akita.

I got the alert that schoolwork was in trouble and I have safely gotten her out of harm's way. We encountered some sort of robot and apparently it's called for reinforcements. So we may need reinforcements of our own to get out of here. Give me one second.

And you sort of like hear kind of like a waiting music. And then you sort of hear a space program. You know, it's like you hear a different voice come on. This is sub network.

We're on our way. Don't worry about it. We have detected a few incoming missiles. We're sort of dealing with that at the current moment.

Where are you guys looking at specifically in the building? Just outside of sports apartment. Got you. Is there anyone else around work calls over near the gaping hole?

He hears that the background goes, Oh, is there other people with you? They said there's some sort of night guys. Oh, fuck. All right.

Give me one second. You'll work to know who they are. Like before you even say anything, it goes to like another thing. Damn it.

They're very, they're very like really bad about just throwing it to other people. Even though they all end with work, they're very bad at actually doing it. You got another person on the line and it's a boy. Let us work.

What's going on? You say nice? That I speak here? Yeah, I've got two nights.

There's a plant guy. I don't remember what he is. Wait, what is more? You can I'm a J 10.

He calls over. He's a G 10. And there was a bone dude flew out the window. A bone dude.

Oh, all right. Well, we'll be right there. Give me a few seconds. We're just kind of setting for some things up here now.

School work. OK. Yeah, I got her. All right.

Yeah, my bye. Yeah, my bye. Yeah, my guy. And he sort of like hangs up and it seems like they're maybe on their way.

All right, I'm going to start heading down the stairs then. What's what's up? What's your more doing? Oh, morgue is going to continue rifling through the eight bull bots mind to try to figure out who the hell they are and why they are here attacking school work.

All right. Go ahead and give me another. What do we say that hacking would be burglary? No, it's will.

Will. Is a plus four plus four will get you that information. You sort of do a deep dive into this person's well brain to be quite honest. And things I don't change anything because that would be space illegal.

I mean, technically what you have right now is kind of legal by several corporation standards, but you sort of do a deep dive. Things don't look similar to what you've ever seen before, but you sort of are getting things through the headset that you have is actually helping you out quite a bit, sort of identifying sort of important systems that you probably just need to ignore and finally getting into like the sort of RAM or short short term memory. You're sort of like going through it. You see the head on the eight balls sort of like switching between different like weird emoji has like a semicolon and a frowny face on it right now.

And as you're getting deeper, you know that these people are from the AVL speed league. This is sort of an organization most like like it's really odd because it's like something you just found was like, oh, we were sent as assassin slash kidnappers by the NFL. So so as it does seem like the job is a snatching grab doesn't seem that they're meaning any harm to school work. You also like there's like two folders here.

One of them is sort of labeled like information in facts. And there's like another one that looks a little bit infra like interesting where it's just like this weird cloud. It's like a weird blob and like you get the feeling that this is sort of like this creature's emotional center and it seems to be in a turmoil turmoil turmoil turmoil term, I don't know. I'm going to try to steer clear of the emotion part other than maybe send a general message of shh, it's okay.

And try to dive a bit more into the job info for the the snatching grab from the AVL speed league. I'm not sure if I should, if more will have to start doing some like local Wi-Fi tracking to see like, okay, or these guys and does schoolwork have like a golden tentacle for throwing or something like that. So as you're sort of like digging in deeper, go ahead and give me another will roll for that. Okay, that is a five.

Okay. Well, shit. You very easily calm this eight ball person down sort of like plugging in some certain things sort of giving them some certain, basically executing some protocols within their own mind. They do seem to calm down.

You dig deeper into the information system and you get this back. No, the AVL speed league doesn't have anything personally against schoolwork. It's like sort of a joint venture between lumination and the Avril speed league. It doesn't seem like either one of them have a personal interest into this.

They're basically both paying back a different organization to do this. Unfortunately, these assassins or these sort of kidnappers don't seem to have the top level information. Gotcha. It's almost as if they realize that robots could be hacked and want to make sure that the grunts don't have that kind of info.

Maybe also, I think that's just like a general thing. It's like, if you hire somebody, you don't really give them the top level info. Just in case. I heard somebody to hire somebody to hire somebody to do a job.

There you go. Remember that help that I gave you a few seasons back where you really needed that top player? Well, it's time to call in that marker. That kind of stuff.

Yeah. So more while you're sort of deep diving into this person, sort of calming them down. Sean, what are you doing? You've got your vine wall and whatnot.

You see bone star across the way. He's sort of getting closer to where you think the shooter is going to be. I'm probably going to run out with a key to and try to keep them defended. So I'd like to morph my arm into like a tower shield.

Oh, nice. And just sort of like making your way down the stairs, sort of like checking to see if there's anybody else. Yeah. So I think with that, Morgan should have seen behind a little bit of key to and show him you guys are making your way down the building.

It's a very tall building. You see some of the other like occupants of this apartment complex, sort of like looking out and peeking out whatnot. As soon as they see you guys, they sort of like either some of them shrink back into their homes or they just sort of like kind of linger. You see like this woman with like some tea, this, this like woman coil out.

She's sort of like sipping some tea as she's watching you guys. But everything seems to be okay. As you go down these stairs, though, you notice like the lights flicker on and off and out of one of the elevators sort of steps very slowly. You see this perotian sort of like beak feathers everywhere, but they're sort of like clad in all black and they step out and they sort of look over to you.

Akita, you recognize this as sub network. You sort of like waves at you. Hey, so how are you doing? All right.

Could be better. Days not so great. Man, you guys picked a hell of a time for this. Yeah, I don't know.

This is a little bit of my head. I don't know what's going on. I just wanted to get schoolwork out of here. Yeah, get to get the elevator.

I think we can get to get schoolwork in the elevator. I'll take it from here. If you want to deal with, I guess these balls, these flying fucking balls. Like what the hell?

Who sends balls after somebody? Flying balls? Yeah, they're just like flying balls with like numbers on them. It's really weird.

Oh, I think I got one of those upstairs. That makes sense. All right. Let's go ahead and scroll over here.

Do you want to do you want to go with schoolwork or do you want to help your new friends out here? If you guys go work, I can help these guys. All right. Also, wonder work is going to be here soon.

I'm sorry. Of course, when Lattice Work gets involved, the first person he calls is wonder work and this is not going to go great. All right. I can deal with that, I guess.

Yeah. All right. Just be careful and just if he starts like looking your direction, just kind of keep out of his way. He's an ass.

Anyway, I'll take schoolwork from here. All right. I'll hand schoolwork over to him and I guess head back up the stairs. So you and trauma started to head back up the stairs.

You see sub network go inside of the elevator. It closes and then it like immediately opens again and they're just they're just gone. You guys got stairs, find more. You still sort of like digging through the stuff.

And this was when we'll go to bone star. Yeah. Hi. You're outside flying around doing your thing, looking for this shooter, where the hell they are.

You can't seem to find them. OK. So I would like you to roll me a notice roll. Well, that's a problem.

I mean, it's not a problem. I'm just not going to pass. Yeah, negative two. Yeah.

You can't seem to find where the shots are coming from. You're sort of like, you know the direction because it's like, OK, it's obviously from these 50 buildings, but I still don't know the direction. But even with a negative two, you obviously see out of the sky are flying with Sean recognized last time out of the porthole that you made in this building. You recognize not recognize, but you see these seven balls flying in the sky.

They seem very round, very shiny. There's a yellow, red, blue, purple, orange, green, and weird brownish nasty color. They seem to be coming right at you. OK, I'm going to say, hey, you guys see a sniper on here?

They stop sort of like flying at you. You see bodies start like coming out of the bottoms of them, and you see all of their little faces or wherever the numbers are sort of like go black and you read off of their visors. Stop. OK, we will take care of the situation from here.

I don't know what that means. Where's the sniper at? You see them? They all look towards each other and they look back at you and say what's the name for?

Oh, there's someone shooting them in that building over there. That's what I was looking for. I know what y'all are doing. We can take care of the sniper from here.

You know there was a sniper. All right, I'm going to try to find him. See you later, guys. One of them reaches out towards the yellow one does and then like the other one just put their hands next to his and just sort of put it down slowly.

Is this a greeting? No, it's like a they try to go no wait. And then like one of them was like, no, no, no, no, no, just let him go. What do you want me to wait for a big guy?

He's just like the others. And you see him like with his robotic arms like shrug. They look like like skeleton sort of like just the metal and sort of like the way the pneumatic tubes are they sort of like are all sort of bare. Oh, no.

Are they really shiny? Yes. Especially their heads. Oh boy.

Yeah, couple arms and legs for a bone star. I am going to come back and start walking towards and be like, look, I don't know what you guys want, but you seem like really good company. They all like look at each other. There's like this anime sweat thing, a modicon up here.

One of their eyes. You guys can possibly be using all those bones. Could you? Oh, God.

This is not something I expected. Like they started like looking at each other and sort of like kind of like some of them shrug. Some of them are just sort of like pointing just like kind of like gesturing with a big old question mark. And the one of them comes up the other the yellow one goes, no, not all of them.

If we give you. Oh, can I buy some from you? They're cool. I can I want some?

He they like go up to you and shrug and sort of like you see them sort of mess with their arm and they arm just sort of like falls off and they like get it. They take it off. They pop it off and they like slowly put it in your direction. Okay, cool.

Bones are well, rip whatever bone he already has out and throw it on the ground and then put the news to anyone in. So whoever's on the ground is going to get knocked in the head with the femur or something. Okay. You throw the femur and you see one of them sort of dives down to catch it and then they hand you the this metallic skeletal arm.

Yeah, this is fucking cool. You guys are great. You showed us the sniper. I mean, you guys are acting weird, but I mean, you seem really really another notice.

Zero. They're all caring sniper rifles. Okay, cool. You'll just like into this conversation and the one that caught the arm kind of flies up to you and sort of is, you know, this is like it just messes you.

This is payment. Oh, no, I'll give you real money. I just don't need that shit anymore. The thing's way shinier.

And they start like, can we keep this? No, give it me. What if we want this is payment? Why would you want money?

Because this is cooler. Should I can argue with that? You got me. Good spirits.

It's all. They start asking you it's like, okay, well, have you had anything like bigger bone wise? Oh, no. I've got a whole ship full of bones.

Do you usually take, you know, bipedal bipedal creatures or have you ever been like other things before? I'm pretty agnostic. Okay. Now this is all coming up as like text like really quickly.

Yeah, it's okay. He watches an FTV and he knows how to read a scrolling bar. Okay, he's an anime fan. No, he's not only.

Okay. Yeah, I'm the stock market just to make it. Well, as you were sort of talking to these people about bones and sort of like what else you could transform into, you don't notice the other four get away and fly towards the building after the stream phase and sort of gets released from your mind. You sort of come to your senses.

You look down at your hands. These are your cute little button pause. This is your hands. This is the ground.

This is grass that you see below you. And as you look up, you know, you're yourself. You feel intrinsically yourself. You don't feel like anybody else.

You are Mirage in this place and location, but you feel different. You feel ethereal. And as you look up, you see a large sun above you, but surrounded sort of around the sun are different masses of dirt with grass on them, all facing towards the sun. It's almost as if the sun was the center of this small place, but there are floating islands, floating land masses encircling the entire thing.

On some you see far off, there are marble structures and other places you see metallic buildings and skyscrapers. You see people far off. They're sort of like ants in the distance sort of digging and doing what they would. But around you, the island that you're on is just grass.

And the neighboring islands are just scenic views, mountains, rivers, sort of pour into the great beyond. And as you sort of look around these islands, you just see stars in the far distance as if beyond the ground is just space. And you hear a voice in your head timid. Oh, oh, hi.

I didn't didn't. Hi, sorry. I didn't mean to you were you were having dreams and I was just bored. Hi.

Hi. Hi. Who are you? Where am I?

What's going on? This is, um, okay. So I explain this all the time. You're not trapped here.

You can leave anytime you want. Okay. I'm the one trapped here, but, but I get to do fun stuff. Like, like, okay, like, all right.

Cool. Look at this thing. And you see all around you, the grass sort of turns into a field of flowers and you guys see, look cool. This is just like my playground.

It's I'm trapped here and I can't do anything. So I just like make stuff. But then when like people like you, I guess like dream, I can sometimes be like, Hey, what's up? What's going on?

Um, so hi. Before anything, I guess my name was, uh, uh, Dattanian. Cody, do I recognize that name? No.

Okay. That's like, that is a very, Dattanian is like a very, it's a very quillist name. It's like, it's almost like a John. It's nice to meet you, Dattanian.

How did you end up here? Oh, that's long. Sorry. Um, sort of subjugated by which like a long time ago and, um, I was sort of like sent here and sort of placed here.

We didn't agree, you know, sort of like a deal gone wrong kind of situation. I thought I'd do some things and she was like, Oh, no, that was the right thing. How dare you? And then she sent me here.

So she was a very powerful witch. Like, oh, like, let's not make this weird. Okay. What did you do to end up here?

Like, like I did some things for like, I, she asked me to do some things and I did them. Like I had to go get some things and then like I brought it back to her and then like she was, she was like, okay, this is the right thing, but like also you did it incorrectly. Bye. Okay.

Okay. What did the witch ask you to do? Don't be to go get some stuff. Okay.

I need more specifics. Please. I mean, like it was just like some materials for I guess whatever she wanted to do. I went, I went to go get it.

I got it. I brought it back to her and then she was just like, no, you did it wrong. And then she just like sent me away. Okay.

What was the witch's name? Oh, fuck. Um, shit. Um, that's not something I thought about in a long time, you know, like, I mean, I just called her the witch.

Oh, I called her a bitch. I called her a lot of things when I got here. I'm just able. Yeah.

Hey, hey, hey. Huh. Okay. So why am I here?

Uh, okay. Um, well, you know, I get bored sometimes and like, you know, I sort of have like a purview of like the galaxy and then like only people strong of mine can be brought here or something. I don't know. I've talked to like some weird people.

You're probably about like the most coherent out of all of them. Most of them just getting restart destroying things, which is not nice. I'm just, I'm bored when it's on my talk to you. All right.

I can do cool stuff, like check this out and then sort of around you, you can make a sort of space amphitheater. So grows out from the ground and sort of this, you see this large auditorium and you see sort of like an arrangement of Quillos and Octomains and the Goryans and they're all on stage, dressed fancally and they start playing a wide range of instruments and there's sort of some like classical background, space, classical background music. Shit, that's dope. Real quick, you're not going to try and convince me that like you're my father and then try to get me to help you take over the universe or anything like that.

Um, no, maybe, I mean, listen, listen, if I struck everything under like the handbook, like this would be very boring. I mean, I would, I personally would prefer if you didn't do that. Okay. Um, just because then, you know, I'd have to kill you and it'd be a whole thing.

That would be, that would actually be a lot less boring than what's, but you know, yeah, you have to worry, I understand. I get it. I'm not your father. Okay, cool.

Cool, cool, cool. Um, I think Maraj is going to try and assert some of her will on a small patch to see if she can create stuff in this space. Ooh, I like this. Um, and go ahead and show me a flat room.

Either if you have it out, roll me a will. Otherwise, just throw me a flat one. Um, that is a three. So what, what is this, what is Maraj trying to create?

I think, well, first, what is Maraj wearing or how does Maraj look in this space? What is it like? Maraj is going to look down at herself and see if she's wearing clothes, if she's naked, if she has a physical form. I think Maraj is wearing, does she have a favorite outfit?

I feel like her favorite outfit, her favorite outfit is one she's not worn since she left the vieres and it is the casual training outfits that she and her war pack had made for them. No, so like the war pack made this for themselves? Yeah. What does it look like?

Cause she's in it right now. It's a, it's a sleeveless shirt that is red and yellow and kind of like a some type fitting shorts so that if they are trying to do exercising and stuff, the extra fabric doesn't, you know, doesn't have to get in the way. Yeah. Like bunch happen.

Yeah. However, she also has, she has a band on her arm that has the inscription of the names of the war pack. Okay. And she has a, she has a necklace that is a blue scale shell that she has not worn since her war pack died because it was given to her by someone very special.

I think you'd look down and it's the, it is the outfit, but I think when you look down, you notice that it's not there anymore. Mm hmm. And I think that's what you create. Okay.

And you could create this small little thing and I think the ton you notice it doesn't sort of intrigued and oh, well, I mean, that's not the first time anyone's done that, but usually they just make like weapons and stuff. That's, that's okay. I guess you're different. Okay.

This is, all right. I'm gonna, I'm feeling awkward. I'm not going out. This is not usually what I'll be here, but like I can't.

All right. Hold on. And then you see the sun start to dim a little bit. And the Tonian's voice goes away.

And more as you sort of are kind of done with this one, you see the whole mobile is sort of blocked out, the sort of light kind of comes out as you see sticking. It's very large ball head through is the number six. It's very large and green and blends in with the vines. And you see them sort of just the ball head sort of comes in and like clacks to the ground.

And then you see ports sort of like appearing out of it and then it grows arms and legs and gets up and seems to be ready to fight you. Oh, there's more of you. Okay. Well, 80 over here don't have any info.

Maybe you can let me know. Why the hell are you like I know you're trying to make it grab for schoolwork, but why? You see on its on its little display, where is schoolwork? Shit, man.

I don't know. They left. If you want me to repair your buddies arms and legs here, that'll be extra. It appears it says no, leave him.

Okay. You see the eye in the middle of this sort of like magic eight ball sort of like opening start to glow like go from like this black screen to like this bright white. Romeo athletics or whatever you doh you used to dodge this bullet that comes at you. Can I use fight to dodge that or would it be athletics?

Okay, I don't have that and I don't have the stunt yet for checking the ground to dodge for using fight to dodge shoot, which is one of the next ones I want to grab. So that's a two. Well, that's actually going to dodge by two because they rolled a zero. Hooray.

So you see like that sort of like glowing white and then all of a sudden it opens up and you see like this opening and it fires a large look at you from across the room. And at that this time you guys walk up the stairs and you see a bullet sort of go through the apartment door and like hit behind you guys as Shauna Keita, you guys walk up the stairs back into the room and you also feel the building shake. All of you do. And from either side of this like sort of apartment corridor you see a orange ball and a purple ball sort of bash through these the apartment hallway and they are now sort of like getting up and you sort of see their arms and legs.

What are you guys doing? Well, that's not good. Um, does Shauna go first or? Let's just say more.

You already went. So we'll have more. We'll have the green guy. Then we'll have, uh, we'll say Keita and then we'll have purple go and then we'll have sham and then was it orange?

Also, I have a picture of cue balls out just to remind me, which is. Man, we really got to walk out for that red stripe. They're, uh, they can drink you onto the table. I'm glad someone got encromed at that.

You're welcome. So next in the order of Keita, what do you, what do you do? You sort of see these people bust through the windows here and they sort of grow their mechanical arms and legs and start walking towards you guys. What colors are they purple and more is battling green.

There's also purple and orange next to you guys. All right. Um, I'm going to say, uh, you guys want your arms gone too? I'm going to roll provoke and try and get them to back off a bit.

Okay. So I'm going to say you guys, both you and Sean on either one of these guys, the purple were the orange one. You have a plus one, one time use of, uh, stalled. Oh, and, um, I also forgot I'm in defensive stance.

Oh, yeah. That's right. So you sort of like do this stance kind of next to Sean and Sean, you still have like your tower shield out. Yeah.

Okay. Can we just take your back to back? Cause that looks really cool. You sure?

Cool. You like your defend buddies. I love it. Purple continues to sort of like step towards you.

They sort of stop, uh, probably about 15 feet away from you guys. And, uh, again, they're sort of white, uh, ball in the front sort of lights up and then it opens up to a large slug almost and I need you to dodge a plus four. That will be a neutral on the dice. I have plus three athletics and then the plus two to the defense.

So that's a five. Oh, right. So you sort of like duck out of the way and you sort of like kind of just move Sean a little bit halfway through and, uh, you see the orange one almost get shot from halfway across the room. All right.

Sean, let's do it. Okay. So can I get a pretty cool to actually create an advantage with my tower shield? Uh, sure.

What are you, what are you thinking? Uh, just a defensive boost. So that one of us can grab the one. Okay.

I like it. Yeah. Okay. Just give me like a, uh, what are we using for you?

Is that empathy or will to do the, uh, my body, uh, my body morph is on physique. Physique. Okay. What'd you get?

I got a plus three. I'll give you a two times the use of a plus one tower shield. You sort of like only met like briefly, but it seems like the two of your sort of like kind of in sync and you sort of just kind of like bump a key to and sort of like point to the tower shield and you're just kind of like, I got this. And, uh, next is orange go or just going to fire their missile at you guys and get a little bit, finally a better role with a plus five against Sean.

That's like the dodge. I mean, where was pretty damn good also for was good, but not what they're shooting is supposed to be. I mean, one could say that for was great ladder jokes. Uh, so I'm going to take one of those plus ones from the tower shield and take, um, it was a five on the dice.

Yeah, five on the dice. So I take four damage. Oh, yeah. You see, you feel that slug hit you in the middle of your chest pretty hard.

It doesn't seem like these bullets, I keep calling them like bullets and slugs. They're like bean bag size and seems to hit you to knock you out rather than just to kill you. Was one that shot me last time a bullet or was it a one of these bean bags is when they're probably like, Oh gosh, I'm gonna say like, uh, like if you took a soda can, you just start turning it on its side and you like filled it up with like a bunch of cement and used it as like a bullet, but it's like, if that was your head, it could also probably smash it like a melon. Okay, so this is, was that what shot?

I mean, last time because I'm still shot from last time. Oh, no, which shot you from outside was like an actual bullet. Okay. From this neighbor.

Same thing as what shot me then will at least partially know it shot at me. No, it's it's very different. Like this is sort of like embedded into your skin and you're sort of like still bleeding from where this thing is shot you. All right.

Back at the top of the order more. Well, this thing attacked first. So like, man, dude, I gave you a chance to just talk it out, but fine. I took out your body.

I'll have to take out you two and then I'll help start collecting a pool set. Whoa, rolled plus two on the dice. So that's a six fight. They only get a three in the sort of dodge out of the way and you get kind of clipped one of their arms and you see it sort of like fall.

I don't want to say lifelessly, but like it seems to be disconnected now. Okay. And I start just snacking. Just snacking.

Like, man, this is I'm going to the hang of this because at least eight here put up a fight you like, man, this is easy. Try to rile it up a bit. Okay. Get it so angry that it doesn't call for reinforcements or anything with that.

It's sort of like you hear it sort of worrying and you feel this strange feeling in the room as you see the eight ball sort of is dragged sort of halfway across the room and all the the opening spots where like its arms and legs comes out sort of like gets sucked inside back inside of its body and you see the six ball right here suck its own arms and legs inside of its body and they're sort of like floating and the eight ball zooms towards the six ball and it hits the six ball and starts bouncing off of the sides of the room. I need you to roll me an athletics to dodge as this six ball tries to tackle you or you can roll a fight actually. I'll say this is also a fight. I will roll a fight for that.

I honestly thought that they were going to fuse together and some sort of hellish guitar fusion to make out fourteen or something like that. So that will be eight plus five. Okay. I only got four on the dice so I take a single stress it.

It sort of like sucks you in the back as it sort of bounces around the room but then you see like the eight ball sort of slowly sort of spinning like going to one side of the room. Then we go back to outside in the hallway. Akeeta. Alright so they shot at us so I'm going to run up and attack the purple one.

So a minus one on the dice and a plus four so that'd be a plus three. Yeah. You sort of go towards this purple one. What do you do to it as you sort of get four points of damage?

I'm going to do anything with this arm to your legs so I kind of want to force it like grab it and face it away from us and just hold it if I can. Okay. I like that. I was just sort of like grabbing it so it's like little face doesn't like pop open again and shoot you.

Yeah. Okay. You sort of like grab it sort of face it away from you. Just kind of restrain it.

You hear it like worrying and trying to resist. It's going to you know what I'm going to say it's going to try and like get out and try to shoot you again. It's going to make a physique roll. Go ahead and roll me a physique against it.

Just sort of hold it in place. So a minus two on the dice and a plus two physique so zero. Okay. Well, um, they got a negative two.

Their physique isn't that great but also my role is on the head. Because they're just ahead. They're mostly just ahead. All right.

So you're like holding this thing you hear it worrying and it's almost like seems to be breaking itself trying to get out of your grasp. Oh, Sean, what are you up to? I'm going to chart the other one and just give it a massive punch just increasing the size of my fist as I do it. Oh, I like it.

That's a plus one. Okay. They, uh, this one sort of like stands its ground and sort of gets in that position where it puts like one foot behind it and grout like sort of puts its arms out. You hear it sort of like cracking a little bit but it holds your fist back.

And then with that, you guys hear a worrying from the outside and coming through the open holes that they made originally is the number seven ball and it comes over and it hits the purple ball in the before and then that one gets knocked out of your hands. Actually, let's make a let's make a contested fight wrong for that or a physique roll for that. All right. That's a plus three.

That's a plus three. I think it like hits you and sort of like reverberates you getting a little bit of like a boost on you probably next time but the seven ball just sort of like careens off of it and like bumps all the way across the room and shum I'm going to need you to make a either a physique or a fight roll against this thing as it hits the ball that you were fighting with number five and tries to hit slam you. Can I use my tower shield to boost my on this? Oh yeah.

Yeah. So that's for as well. Okay. It doesn't seem to like phase you whenever they sort of like clack together but these balls will go wild in this hallway and we'll go outside to less wild balls.

One star. Yeah. That's me. Yeah.

One, two and three had just been seen to be talking you up talking about like different like bones and structures and whatnot. They'd be talking about like all the cool things that they found. There's a really great museum on a planet far away. Oh, he started talking about museums and shit.

Yeah. Oh, I pretty checked out. Okay. You're sort of checked out.

You start like, okay, wait, there was more of you. I'm looking around for the sniper. Okay. While the walk is trying to talk to me.

Okay. Oh, roll me another notice roll. They haven't really even heard them shooting in a while. So this is vicious that they're not shooting.

Let's see what I get here. A three. As you're sort of looking around looking at some of the buildings, you notice sort of below you, there seems to be like some people sort of getting out of the building out of the apartment building. There's like emergency vehicles and whatnot.

There seems to be a Therasops down there sort of wearing like full like superhero regalia, like just bulging muscles. They have like these like these, it's almost as if like someone covered them with completely glitter. They're shining. They're constantly smiling.

They sort of look up at you and they wave very like widely. But as you're looking down, you see from one of the buildings, there's like a little like a little metal piece sticking out as if a muzzle of a gun. Like down by the superhero, like you're looking down at the superhero, but like you're sort of right above one of the buildings and one of the buildings like windows is open and you see like a little metal piece coming out. I'm going to go towards that then.

Okay. So you sort of fly down there. The ball seemed like as soon as you like go away, they're sort of looking at each other and they're pointing down at him and then some of them pointing to the building, but you fly down there and you get in front of this, whatever this metal thing is and inside you see you see another robot sort of either robot or someone in a large mechanical suit. And oh gosh, would you even recognize it?

It looks like a... Is it all white? It looks like a... It is all white.

It's like all white, like almost gun-dom-ish type thing. It's got like silver decals on the side. Okay. So it's kind of like maybe hot-rotted up with lots of colors and it looks cool and neat and sleek.

Like yeah, all the colors but they like... The base is definitely like a white silver, but like any colors coming off of it seems to be like reflecting the light in such a way that it's like that cool rainbow effect. Yeah. Does it look like the other robots might take a cue from this one?

I finally got that. Goddamn it. I'm a monster. Just a little bit.

Yeah. But they seem to be sitting there with this just enormous sniper rifle sort of in their hands leaning back on a chair sort of sitting there and it sort of looks at you and kind of does like a little salute. Oh, okay. Okay.

I'm gonna... I'm just gonna go head first into him. Okay. That seems like a physique roll maybe?

No, I'm trying to beat the shell out of him so I'd make try for fight I guess. Okay. I'm just gonna counter it's fight. I only see one sniper rifle around here, all right?

Yeah. Got a four. It got a plus three. Ooh.

Okay. So one damage. As you're getting closer to it, it almost looks like it has a crown on top of its head. You sort of see like a lot of detail within its like suit itself and as you sort of bash into it, it's sort of great.

Like tries to grab a hold of you and push you back but it's not doing such a great job. And you see sort of the sniper rifle sort of fly across the room and you hear in a low metallic voice. I didn't think you'd be here. Oh, sorry.

Are you the sniper? Tell me. You hear like this. Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh.

Of course not. I'm not the sniper rifle. Well, you were using it though. What?

That thing. And points over to the sniper rifle you see on the ground. Yeah, it's not sentient. It doesn't look sentient.

Were you using it? You got your hands? I was dancing with it. I don't have to kick your ass on it.

It does look like it sort of like scuffed a little bit and sort of like wipes off itself. I'd like to see you try the whole star. And so bone star just sort of like sits in front of you sort of ready if you're about to attack it again but it's not moving. You need to mind your own business, stone star.

Okay, just going to turn or no. You can take another action if you'd like. Oh, I'm definitely going to. I'm just going to say hell yeah it is and I'll give him a big old leprechup.

Alright, another fight. This time actually as you're sort of bringing your arm up he sort of grabs it and twists it. Okay. Please make me a physique roll.

A physique roll? Yeah. Ooh. How about negative three?

Okay. You get the feeling that he has you right where he wants you and he's going to get an advantage because of this. Okay. I'm going to spend a fake point on one of his abilities.

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