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Jan 30, 2018 1 hr 52 min

Nebulous Nights #5

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After starting a Sesshix match, the Knights get interrupted by two bounty hunters, apparently after Mirage in connection with the Giant Corporation. Speaking of connections, why does one recognize BONESTAR? What will this mean for Mirage? Why is Quarl so nonchalant about this all? And how is Dusty? Tune in to find out! Nebulous Nights is a FATE based real play podcast. This is a Patreon game, and the players are supporters to this podcasts. This Game Master for Nebulous Nights is Cody (@codedude3) Playing BONESTAR is Jae (@jaehighfive) Playing Mirage is Eli (@TheVikingBear__) Playing Morg Thrakka is Mike (@tokkan) Playing Zanthrop is Matthew (@matthewmmorris) Playing Sham is Robert (@cyberegg89) Voice for Mizar is Kai Avedovech (@StayStrongAlive) Voice for Alcor is Mike McMahon (@manmcmike) Made possible from support from: Tony, Trish, Eli, Mike, Matthew, Bailee, Nicole, Maddie, Phil, Ashleh, Steph, Zak, Jack, Pamela, Jan, Cody, Michael, Robert, Gwynn

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Greetings basically this is to episode 5. I'm your game of mayonnaise, but that one time, I'm not gonna fucking... The illustrious Cody Boker. And today we're about to...

Sorry, the nickname's been fucked up since birth. It's been fucked up since Jump Street. It's true. I don't mean to pick on you, it's just...

I can't help but think of a giant glava mayonnaise, and I want to think, I wanna think of Cody my friend, not Cody the Condom. It's been sour for a long time, let's just agree to this kid here. Oh god! Now I'm thinking of a slightly yellowed, pulsing sack of mayonnaise floating in space, throbbing.

The Game Custard. Yeah, the Game Custard. Jay, why don't you introduce yourself as you play in this face game that we play? Sure thing, my name is Jay, I am on the Amberville Heroes Podcast playing Dr.

Dudad, and I'm also playing Bobo Bobo Bone Star on this here show. And we also met some lovely people with us today. The person who gave us the custard, custerning, is Mike. Mike, why don't you introduce yourself and who you play?

Hi, I'm Mike, and I play Morg Thracke, the hacker. We also have your teammate, the illustrious Eli. Hi everybody, Eli here. I play Mirage, or at least I did, but based on how last episode went, I may have to make a new character.

Oh no. You guys are in team with Bone Star here, but we have the opposing side. We have the, I'm just gonna say, illustrious. Everyone's illustrious.

All of you, illustrious. Matthew. Hey, I'm Matthew, and I'm here playing Zantrop, and I don't want to think that we're all, like, on different teams. I want to think that we're all in this together.

How's your 2018 going? I'm gonna say good. And then we'll pass it over to Robert to introduce himself as the other part of your team, because you guys are in teams and fighting one another, and that's how this goes. Yeah, I'm Robert, and I'm playing Sean in this game.

All right, could we introduce all the people in the cast? Yeah, does anyone on the cast want to remind us what happened last episode on the Nebula's Knights? Nobody else wants to. Okay.

All right, I was supposed to do the finger thing, but no one can see me. So last time on Nebula's Knights, we played chessics, which is a cool chess-like game using Giant Max, and as the game went on, we, as players kind of got confused, and then at a certain point, these two other mechs fail from the sky. One of them landed on one of my teammates and killed them, which is not cool, and then started coming after Mirage, because they are representatives of the Giant Corps, and they are not fans of Mirage, and then Bone Star yelled, and one of them recognized Bone Star. I mean, I would necessarily say they're not fans of you.

They're definitely fans of you as much as they've probably been looking and snaking you out and whatnot. But they're not fans in the traditional sense. I guess so. There's some kind of similar things there.

They do want to get close to the game. They do want to get close to you. They do want to touch you, but they also want to capture you and take you back to their base. So yeah, it's like Eminem's stand, but in space.

Gotcha. They're fans in the fanatic sense. In the fanatical sense, yes. Well, they should not stand so close to me.

Ooh. That's very deep. You might have to call the police for that one. Maybe.

I'm on it. So everyone's on the board. We have our little makeshift board here of our Sesic's match match. Sorry listeners.

I'm not sure how to get this visual medium into your head space, but it looks real cool. But yeah, I'm not sure how to get this visual medium into your head but it looks real cool. But yeah, it's the last time I forgot who was last to go. But definitely someone.

Bounstar was yelling fanatically and one of the robots, the three armed one sort of turns around with a hand still on Maraj's commander's face and goes, wait, is that Bounstar? So what Bounstar is going to do is shoot a laser from inside the mech, cutting through the mech he's inside at the guy who recognized him, basically immediately as a reaction and being recognized. Okay, I'm going to give. I'm going to say, you know, I'm going to give you a compel, actually, as soon as the Bounstar puts up his hand and charges up his beam, I'm going to say you don't shoot him.

In fact, with you, your aspect familiarity goes a long way. Okay. And I will give you a fake point if you don't shoot him. I will not shoot him.

Okay. I'm going to go ahead and give you a fake point here. Thank you. And you recognize him, actually.

He's one of the other bounty hunters. He didn't actually used to work for the giant core. You remember that he worked for some other company, something like a plant-based one. But you and the partner that he's with actually did a lot of smash and grab jobs in the past.

Okay. So he's kind of a scummy dude. He's a bounty hunter. I mean, he's a bounty hunter.

He's a mercenary for hire. Like he's basically kind of like you. Okay. But like he's not out rubbing banks or anything like that.

No, no, no. Okay. So Bounstar's going to try to charge up and then start coughing. And then while he's coughing, he's going to sit there and start like walking towards the guy that he's recognizing because he's a little fluster.

He doesn't know what to do. He doesn't know what his name is, but he can't put it together in terms of who it is. Okay. He's not feeling very well.

Are you going to move like the mech forward one? Yeah, I'll move the mech forward one wherever his direction is. Okay. So you kind of like walk into the lake a little bit closer to him.

And there's no really like viewport on this mech. Like all of your guys's mech sort of have like that visor where like you can see inside of the cockpit and where the person is. But with theirs, it's more like, you just see like around places on the top, on the front. And it just seems like light is coming out of it.

So there's no way to see inside. But if you step forward, I think something will kind of like open up a hatch in the front And you actually see someone sitting inside and you see oh gosh, what is Juniper? I forgot the name is my own species fuck. Sorry, was it no not sorry the forum people Oh, I'm sorry the or the Vigorian.

Yeah, the goryans. Yeah, yeah, so it opens up And you actually you would see inside one of the Vigorian sort of like they have like that darker reddish skin But as you can see inside that he's you recognize them a little bit more now because you realize that this person Also just has three arms instead of the regular four. They sort have like a nerve where like the left one is and He sort of like waves at you and he presses a button kind of yells in the calm What the hell are you doing here? Why are you playing seshits with these fuckers?

What's his uh, what do I know his name? His name is Alcor Alcor Bonsers gonna say Alcor. Yeah, it's Alcor Alcor. Okay.

No wonder no wonder it's my conscience. I hate this shit Makes me feel sick. What do you want? Why are you here?

I'm here for the uh Cat lady. Oh Well cuz I got a shitload of money on this game Ah shit crap. I'm sorry man. You fucked up my hustle I just they're paying as big for this one.

I could probably pay you back. What is it a couple of creds? What are they paying you for the cat? Oh geez.

They are paying for upgrades. They are paying for everything I mean me and her could get her own ship our own fucking ship a big one too with a crew Bonsers gonna look behind him and go quarrel quarrel. What happens if uh, what happens if uh, you call like a a draw because of uh kidnapping Quarl's just like sitting on the ground across the way. I need to sort of shrugs.

He's like uh, there's I guess if everyone leaves the arena at the same time, I guess that uh, that could mean something but uh, the game is still on gentlemen So the money's still up? I mean, yes, uh quarrel It's uh, I have a sneaking suspicion that the situation has gone beyond shasics I feel like um at this moment that uh, we may need to uh intervene with the current situation Maybe finish the game later like a timeout, you know Uh, you hear quarl say if this was any other mission your objectives would be the same no matter what interferences would come along Uh, yes, but uh, this was supposed to be sort of like a trial or simulation and they they already killed a guy That was not for science That that was better Don't worry. The your cockpicks are pretty well built and uh, he's not dead. Isn't that right dusty and uh, you You hear like this like static crackling and this sort of like just weird noise I mean if he's not dead, he's most of the way here there.

I mean did you hear his throat? It was so static-y Forget him. He's a pile. Uh, this is elk or again.

He's just suppressing another button Yeah, I look bonstar you got a lot right on this but I got a lot right on this too I could pay you back for this Elkord, you know what they say about me in a bars over in gamble tropples. What's that? Bonstar? They said anyone's ever beat me in a bet wound up dead You're fucking up my bet Elkord.

I want to kill you, but I will fight you if you don't leave He uh, the cock pit or that little panel sort of like slides down and you see the eyes light up again And he says uh, well then I guess this will be fun. What's up, you like? Um, that's all this has been going on. Um, is there only one exit from these mechs like is there like a backdoor?

There is only one exit from the the cockpit of this mech. Okay, how distracted was Elkord during all of the Talk what it had been possible for mirage to stealthily get like get out of the mech and go somewhere else Uh, go ahead. Romi. Uh, romi a character like your character stealth then.

Okay. Um Am I considered to be traveling alone? Yes, okay, so I'm going to use my stunt hidden from the mind's eye and I get plus two to stealth when traveling alone Okay, so that's a plus one on the dice Plus two stealth and then plus two from hidden from the mind's eye. So plus five overall Okay, uh, so as you start getting out of the back of the mech Uh, he sort of has like this arm on you All arm on the head of the mech that you're currently in and as you sort of like try to climb and escape Uh, he sort of like just shakes it a little bit and you sort of like fumble as you're sort of like climbing down some of the stairs to the lower Parts of the mech and uh, I'm going to give you a disadvantage here.

Okay, uh tumbled Okay, uh, it's it sort of seems like as soon as like the the the side goes on he sort of turns around and he says something Uh, it's sort of like side eyes you with the mech. Um, I believe With that, but who do you want to go next then? I feel like morgue is trying to do something by trying to run up and attack. Yeah, I Well, I think I had the uh beast slowly creep up behind the alcore Yeah, so I will uh transfer um control over to morgue and it is his turn.

Okay Okay, yeah, I'm uh I'm in a beast. All I know is bite So especially since the high concept of the beast is loyal beast with snarling pride and ferocity So I'm gonna try to uh fight the hell out of this this guy Sounds good So that's a distraction at the very least for uh, morage Where is his there is his fight is So, uh, it isn't here. Okay, so morgue's fight and the beast is for the role of the plus one. So that's the five So as you kind of run up on him He sort of uh meet you halfway with one of the other arms sort of when arm's still on Uh, morage's mech and he sort of like puts one down when hand down around your your muzzle Um, but you do get a boost on that.

So what is your boost against him? Trying to think of a in a way that would make sense for that also like And arms reach because since his arm is extended out to me next time I would be able to just chomp down on that arm All right, that makes sense in arms reach All right, who are you gonna pass the order to then? I am going to I'm gonna pass it over to Shomb I think because They're all tied up with that uh mizar Occupist thing also yes, so underneath it kind of goes over to shomb the other side of the field Uh coral is being sort of like talking with xanthrop and but between you Uh, there's sort of like these tentacles coming up from the ground They're sort of like these uh mechanical limbs that are like segmented at the very end They have these pincers and they're sort of like have been coming around you shomb Uh darwin is still like next to you within the strain lake But they're just sort of like surrounding you sort of like weaving uh and you're sort of like trying to pat them away Fine then children gather around They seem to be trying to grab at you as well Yes, so I'm going to try to use the whole ability of a dart to put it out of the sun And back towards the planes Okay, what is that involved? I believe it's a physique or something?

It is a physique role against their will All right, and on a plus two I can push it Actually, I think shomb just does it and he's just successful Mm. I agree. So I I believe that's how this game works, right? I'm still role involved So my met is four that's new proof that one plus four All right, uh, they actually got a plus four as well Um, but they're actually going to allow you to do the thing that you want and they will be pushed back Uh into the planes Was there anything else along with that ability?

Uh, no just Just trying to move it away from uh my command unit Well, my team's money unit So I So you sort of like stick it into the ground and like with it using it your shield as a shovel You sort of like pick it up off the ground and you see like the entire thing kind of like get unburied And thrown into the planes from the lake The like the lake itself the lake bed itself is just very muddy So you just mud starts splattering everywhere It sort of tumbles into the planes field and you see it sort of like get up on all of its limbs And it sort of like like kind of moves around a little bit Who do you pass it to? I will pass to Zanthrop So since Zanthrop is the spear he's going to use the spear tip so that he can attack one zone away from his current zone as long as it's not Agony so that he can just straight up attack the um Let's say called my czar With just the just the tip And uh, there's a wash on the dice so that comes out to a plus Jesus, I wish I could fucking roll like this in regular games They with their sort of like the multi limb thing as soon as you get the spear near them They sort of latch onto both of the sides and like hold it in place as your spearman tries to Push you into my aspect for a second. Let's try that again so that they have to reroll I'm kidding. That's my other character Okay, I was outside what aspect is that buddy I was like we're using aspects good Basically getting to them.

Uh, you sort of like hear this sort of laughter from inside Well, just kind of like it pours out. It sounds like mechanical and great So, would you so that's your experiment are you gonna do anything with a commander? Um G commander is not very good at anything. Um, so I went to remind you guys.

Uh, I feel like I didn't remember Remind mirage, but I think mirage kind of wouldn't get out of there. Um, uh, Uh, with the commanders you are those are your abilities But you also have the ability to change anything about the battlefield One of the things aspects that you it was created last time was that the field itself got up and turned So that way you guys were blinded. Um So you guys are sort of like facing the sun, uh, but with this you can do anything like, uh, If you want to be in the planes you want like a gust of wind to go through or like in the foothills You want like a dirty rocky terrain. You can create aspects by using your will.

Can I Oh, right. I just looked up. Can I create a sinkhole under my czar? Uh, yeah, that sounds like a legit thing especially in the planes Okay, I will attempt to create a sinkhole under my czar The dice were significantly nicer to me on this role.

So how's a plus seven do you? Uh, that will definitely get you two uses of sinkhole out of plus two Nice You sort of see a few of the uh, the tentacle leg started like falling into the ground and sort of like picks it up and puts it somewhere else and then it immediately starts falling Again, uh, so you have created this sinkhole here who you're gonna pass to? I will pass it to Dusty How's dusty doing? Dusty's not doing so great.

Uh There's like a shot that goes inside of his mech It's just sort of like goes over to him for a second and you see him like pushing pushing buttons and kind of like putting things There's blood there's like this green is blood all across his chest He's sort of like pulling out quills and sort of jamming him into into things and sort of like trying to pry things out Uh, he's just like pushes a button. So he's got a plan I don't think things are doing so great over here cap and then he sort of like pushes something else and it's just sort of like Stat camera like statics out for a little bit and pulls back Um, you know, Dusty's gonna pass it to Alcor It's not really like a choice. It's more like a damn thing, but uh Alcor's going to reach over and um Grab the rest of mirage's mech mirage you're still not out of the mech yet But like the exits basically like right there and they're going to start picking it up above their head And they want to create an advantage of grappled with their other two arms sort of one arm still on the muzzle of uh, morgue That wasn't too great, but they're gonna pick you up and create create advantage. Uh, grappled can you or meck?

Do I need to roll anything to oppose it? Uh, please no, you're not at your mech's controls So they have your meck grappled, but can I use my disadvantage to my advantage and tumble out of the exit? Uh, aspects are two-sided True If you give me if you give me a good enough roll, I'll let you use the advantage We can't use the plus two but if you give me an athletics of two three or better Okay, come on guys Okay, so that's a plus two on the dice and a plus two athletics for a plus four total All right, so as it's sort of like getting picked up your meck is sort of like lifted off the ground You do tumble out of the the final exit of it and fall onto the ground Hooray Now you're a tiny person in a field of robots. I have a plan I have a plan so dusty had a plan too Uh, so that is Al Kour's turn.

Uh, so he's gonna pass it over to uh I really don't want to pass it over to the NPCs guys. Uh, he's gonna pass it over to Darwin Uh, but I'm gonna have one of you guys controlled Darwin because I don't want to So Darwin is with you Sean. So why don't you control what Darwin does Darwin is in the dervish Okay, uh, Darwin is going to move towards my czar. Okay, and is Uh, yeah, just going to try to pin my czar down into the think hole.

All right, go ahead and give me a fight Oh, that was a terrible role Do you want to use uh the sinkhole? Uh, uh, uh, Yes, I'll use the sink hole. Okay, make to make that a plus three total Uh, the the little nimble bot that it is it sort of has like a small body But all of these tentacles around it, uh, unfortunately kind of dodge out of the your out of the way, uh, with a six They sort of like maneuver and skitter and uh, they hold themselves above one of the sinkholes They sort of like figured out where most of the sinkholes are as uh, Darwin comes in trying to swing her swords Who does Darwin pass it to? Darwin will pass to centatine Okay, uh, how far can it move?

It can only move one, but if you roll on athletics with four it can it can move Okay, I'm gonna try to roll athletics and see That wasn't a four it was like a seven or something I keep making up rules and then forgetting them Do we want to have a go towards the elk or or we still gonna fight the green team while they're busy? I was gonna have it go towards the alcore. Yeah, that makes sense Just because that seems to be the big threat and moment so far it seems at the very least everyone but Quarl on the green team is agreed that okay. No, let's deal with the interlopers first Yeah, that works.

Okay, so I got a wash on the dice and centatine has a plus two athletics. It can only move one Um, so with him only being able to move one do we still want him to move towards alcore or You have a nice sense. Yeah, okay. So he's gonna move up next to dusty and he's just basically gonna check on Dusty and make sure he's okay.

That's really all he can do at this point Okay, who's he passing it to? Um, he's gonna pass it to Who hasn't gone this round yet? Uh, Juniper Quarl and bone star. He's gonna pass it to bone star.

Okay. Um Bone star is going to try to get out of his mech Okay, is that something he can figure out? Yeah, that's something you can figure he got into it. So yeah, okay Yeah, I didn't know it's it's a bit of a reach with this guy.

Um, I'm gonna have him kind of explode out of the back of his mech In flight and when he flies he just looks like a skull on fire and he's gonna move towards the alcore and try to And try to climb on the mechs back where he thinks the opening hatch might be Okay I don't know. I don't know what to make you roll in this instance then. Well, I was gonna say if that works I could maybe try to create an advantage Sure, okay. I'm gonna have bone star start.

Um his entire body's gonna start to glow and he's gonna scream Take off your big boy pants alcore. Let's go fight and I'm gonna create the advantage of hotbox and try to increase the temperature inside the alcores mech I like it and I got a Sorry, karate. Um, we're gonna have to do something fun here. I um got all four.

I got all pluses. Oh, yes Okay, and I have a special ability when that happens Which is kaboom Whenever I succeed with style I get two invokes in the scene gets one in both. Oh shit. Oh shit Oh, no, I know what you're I know what you're yeah shit.

Okay. Oh, he's gonna have two arms pretty soon I I'm not sure what to do with that. Let's let's find out I think what's gonna happen is like you attached to the back of it you start heating up yourself and um Gonna give you a free free free provoke on something like that. Um, I'm just gonna say on top of hotbox.

You also get singed Okay, that works. So like um two advantages that are out there floating. Yeah, there's hotbox and there's also singed I'm not sure it's well singed, but I'm also going to say that there's another scene aspect on the board as well though Um Because it's gotten so hot in that area Um Oh gosh oil the lake I feel like the lake's too far away, but I feel like everything within one zone of that starts heating up as well. Okay, that's oh no Uh-oh In the spirit of how this works.

I enjoy so as you sort of like heat up You actually feel the mech also heat up as well and like the distribution of all of the heat sort of like goes through The rest of the mechanism like starts glowing a little bit and the entire area starts getting hazy He's just screaming clearly all the time. So maybe I should have stayed in my neck Speaking of which hey, uh Hey, Eli can mirage roll me a physique real quick as she starts sweating. Oh man Physique is not roger strong too I got a zero Yeah, bone start. What did you get on your roll together?

You got a four but plus your Okay, uh, I'm not gonna have you have you have you taken eight, but what I am going to do is um, I'm going to set it at here Let me just wait Okay, well, Eli. I'm sorry You take three uh physical damage from all of the heat that has been radiated off of this thing Okay, well that is all of my boxes. So from here on how to take consequences All right So that's fun. Um, my cat when the apartment gets hot too Did I already make a misargo crispy kitty?

I think so, yeah, okay So you're gonna pass it to coral or you're gonna pass it to juniper. I'll pass it to juniper All right juniper, uh, we had sham do or we had rubber do Darwin Matthew. What's juniper doing? It's me Uh juniper juniper gonna go in this in this block right here with my my czar my czar my czar and She gonna she can attack them all right two two uses of uh What I say it's blood the thing with the with the holes in the sink holes.

Yeah sink holes You have one use of sink hole. Okay. I will use the sink hole for that Uh, oh, it's good thing I did. Okay, so that's a plus three Unfortunately, it's not going to be there plus four and fight as uh to the tentacle arm Sort of pin the beast to the ground.

Oh, so what you're telling me is I won't be able to use bite the leg No, unfortunately not. I don't believe so. Oh, okay, so that's right Oh, do you want to make an athletic? Oh, were you rolling athletics?

What no, no, I I made the attack I made the attack I miss but I wouldn't use bite the leg so that I could try and not Come from um, you don't go ahead. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. I feel like that's a decent uh, a plus two Oh Don't say more than a plus two It's actually a plus two dang. Yeah, so it's more like nibble the leg No, but you do stuff this out from that I get a boost. Yeah, does you uh you tied it's it's like a single use advantage, basically Oh So basically kind of what you were trying to carry anyway, so I pass it to coral Uh coral uh sits there, of course.

She does. Oh, jesus christ And does absolutely nothing Uh, this could could coral not be like my mentor anymore He's kind of dick kind of sucks Uh, yeah, so coral just kind of like sits there and uh just starts uh sort of swaying back and forth in the mech Uh, but as it switches over uh coral's gonna pass it immediately to mezaa mizar And my zar is going to use a special ability called a very very appropriately named and probably stealing from somebody else Whirling dervish is gonna make a fight against everyone within uh one zone hit from it So I would like Everyone to defend against a plus four of fighting. That's including coral though, right? That is including coral.

Yes Good A lot of people to just realize yeah, yeah, because everyone was dog piling into the sinkhole Yep It's like a queasener Okay, so I need so I need xanthrop to make one for the spear. Yep, so i've got a plus two and juniper got a plus three Okay, so juniper takes one and xanthrop spear takes two no, okay And shan and darwin both of them take one damage So I'll mess with the junipers and darwin's And coral did not get hit he sort of like put up one of the blades and block majority of it But with that they are going mizar is going to pass it over to um mirage because i'm interested what mirage is doing now Okay on my mech Can I see like a power source or an exhaust port that if I were to shoot into could cause The mech itself to explode especially considering the overheating conditions that we are experiencing right now Yes, and okay, so um mirage is going to pull out her two pistols And take aim at that uh area and shoot Okay, um I'm gonna say the difficulty is That's actually not bad. Uh, i'm gonna say plus three. Okay, and what um advantages are on the field There's hotbox to use as a hotbox and one other use of what?

Of since there is Essential that's not the core of the robot itself. Okay. Okay. Um, wait hold on one second Maybe you can use your aspects against it is grappled so it's being held in place Okay, well, I so I want to use Ooh, I want to use a fake point or I don't know if I have to use a fake point.

I want to use the aspect the ends justify the means Okay Okay, yeah, so I will use a fake point to use that because I am just trying to save my own ass Sounds good Okay, so I got a plus two on the dice plus two shoot and plus two from that aspect So that's a plus six overall. All right, and is your goal to destroy the mech My goal is to destroy the mech and with that explosion, uh damage alcower. Okay. Um, i'm gonna say that he's gonna Have to roll something to block that and that's not a fight Uh, he does not it blows up in his face Sort of like he's holding above his head and you see it just rain down on him as he's being hit by all this trap No one whatnot and explosion just sort of like blows off and you see a part of one of the arms that was carrying your mech is Sort of like uh just sort of like sparking Nice Quite a bit.

Okay. So the commander mech is gone correct. The commander mech is gone. Okay.

Cool. Um, is there any way that I can move Somewhere that's not hot or is is the area too big for me to move that far The area is quite big you can make your way toward alph of the arena, but it is exceedingly hot and exceedingly far Okay, I'm gonna try to make my way towards being off of the arena and hopefully Escape the hotbox. Um, I realize that it'll be difficult, but hopefully the further away I get the cooler it will be All right, who are you passing to? Uh, I'm gonna pass it to Let's pass it to alcower.

I want to see what he does No Alcower after like holding this body and uh getting hotboxed as well Uh, sort of like looks at the destruction kind of like below and uh, it starts to look around He's gonna actually see if he notices you running away Nope, yeah, he looks around and he doesn't notice anything. Uh, he's like shit Goddamn it bone star and he's going to start reaching around his body to grab bone star. Um, so bone star. I look at you make a fight All right, uh, I got a four Uh, he got a six so he's going to like try to fling you and grab you and fling you off of his body Uh, so you take two fizzip.

I am going to use my boost that he's being held back by his arm to negate that Uh, okay The damage of the movement the damage Okay So he sort of like grabs you and scrapes you off a little bit then gets pulled kind of away from you So you gotta kind of get flung a little bit away, but it's not like that far Is the sound morgue is making over the radio? Oh with that, I think we're gonna pass it over to um You know bone star that makes the most logical sense sure Um, how is his mech looking after rush made mess of it? Oh, it's looking it's looking pretty bad Yeah, so I'm just gonna as a floating skull. Um, just laser him right in the chest of the mech All right, go ahead and make a shoot Okay He's gonna try to dodge out of the way of that and he's going to kit A six, okay I guess I should use those advantages on yeah Yeah Use them advantages guys there everywhere like if you look on that page, there's a shit ton of stuff going on All right, who do you pass it to bone star?

I will pass it to um Sean We go back to the other side of the field where there is a group of people Massing up over this tentacle beast So uh Cody in the plains. What is the ground actually like? Uh where it is right there It's just sort of like sinkholes, but around in the plains. It's usually just like a wide open field sort of like Grasses and flowers and whatnot.

They're sort of like this other other things Uh could I use my stunt life binds away for there to be vines and roots? Oh hell yeah Okay, sorry One big point from me And I'd like to use my ski facility to control the vines and try and entangle uh my car all right what uh Let's see here. Do we have anything that you were supposed to roll for that or was it just like a thing that that was going Uh it was going to be empathy and I'm just not going to have a shoot yet Oh great All right, so go ahead roll me your empathy and then I will roll Their athletics to get out of the way That is two on the dice plus four so six total all right They get um they actually get pretty caught up in your vines Uh it looks like their mecca was not able to get out of there This species of plant is not native to this planet. How are you doing this?

Are you gonna try and do damage with this for you? Uh no this is an advantage, okay Um, I'm gonna give you an actually extra one. I'm gonna say tangled up And I will give you three uses of that because they are deep in there All right, who do you want to pass it to? Um Let's pass two crawl.

I want to see what he's going to do now that the iPos team commander is actually gone That's technically our team should have won. Yeah, that's that's technically a thing Uh so corona does get up and starts brushing off He is like there's like this little kill that the exemplars where he does it themselves up And he says well, I guess my team wins for the day bone star And he takes one step into the area with my czar and he's going to make one broad swing at the my czar Um I'm gonna roll against myself here. This is really weird It's more The mother's empty. I mean so let's fight this for he's going to use one of the uses tangled up Goddamn it, but my czar brings up two of the tentacles to block the very large swing.

Let's see here. What that be? Yeah, they bring up two of the tentacles to block in mid swing sort of like the vines ripping away and uh corals says oh I didn't realize that you would be this much trouble. I want to call it you otherwise You're watching and uh coral passes it over to uh Compass it over to dusty Actually, no not gonna pass over dusty.

Yeah, it's gonna pass inside that dusty is gonna show him him him struggling to do things You know what? I want to Nope dusty still fucked dusty passes it immediately to send a dime. What does send a dime doing guys? Uh quick question kody Uh did quarrel announce that over like loud speakers so that uh mosh could hear as well or just all of this is over loud speakers Okay, need to make note of that Just a second kill Quarrel Got it.

Okay. You blew yourself up man. Yes, but he called the giant company um Sentidine uh Sentidine is going to move closer to alcor so one square over And then see he's a dermish Uh and he is going to actually uh he's going to attempt to go further as well. Okay He got a plus two again Overall.

Yeah overall. All right, so he's not quite there yet. Yeah, he's almost there. Um And he's gonna hang out.

I guess uh he's going to glare menacingly at alcor Okay, waving the waving these swords in the air. Yeah All right, who are you passing it to next? Uh morgue juniper Darwin and uh xanthrope. I'll pass it to xanthrope All right, well jish mine Okay So uh xanthrope is gonna do something he's gonna do something crazy as check this out.

He's going to uh kill quarrelm Yeah, yeah, yeah Into the space with my czar and he's going to use the spears large sweep ability Uh so that he can try and trip my czar And he gets a plus one on that rollings versus athletics They're hucks and great. I needed I needed that plus one. Uh, so it's a total of plus three Now when you do that you have to say it out loud in a brooming voice LOUGHTO SWEEPER You said you got a plus three on that? I did all right.

Well, it meets them so you still get uh an advantage Crying give you back that bonus that that blue strather Crying All right, uh and then commander Hmm What can the commander do here? Vines My god, there are vines growing out of the plains that are that are ensnaring my czar Mm-hmm six second bloops Uh, let me uh, let me roll roll for vines Uh, that is a plus four for vines Okay, uh, the plus four for vines uh, you notice on top of the the already The actual vines that are growing out of the ground there uh, mechanical vines come up from beneath and start wrapping around my czar Oh, okay Tangled up the sequel. Um, I would like to say that you missed an opportunity to create some rain that stays mainly in the plains That's only in Maine So who are you passing it to Zentra? I'm gonna pass it to uh, let's go with juniper All right, Juniper surprise.

That's me Uh, and uh, Juniper, she gonna bite. She's gonna she's gonna be spite Isn't Juniper. Oh, no That's a plus four Uh, no Juniper is actually the the vaguarion and a plus four does Does be They're probably by one. That's good enough.

Good enough. Good enough Cody Uh, I don't know if the vines actually did other than I just figured they wouldn't be able to move but you know, did you reason? Is if then I also bit the leg Okay That's a wash so Uh, they do fall down to this so they are now perone. How badly did you do?

Uh, I got one below you. I got it too Okay, because it was if it was if I had a shift of plus two then uh, I could move them, but it's like I can't okay They are fine. They're on the ground. It's all bad.

Yeah, they have a lot of uh aspects against them at this point So it is very bad right now. Who you gonna pass it to? Um, who has yet to go this round? So we have Darwin and morgue yet to go this round.

Oh, let's pass it to morgue Yeah He looks like he's waiting to do something A hungry puppy dog. He is going to try to tear into the glowing hot Mac of alcore Okay I'm trying to use a fight to keep you off of him. So, uh, we have hotbox singed. Did he take a consequence with that?

Expoated arm. No, he did not Okay That was flavorful. Okay. Well, you do have two aspects to put push in there with uh So and what else was there?

Oh morgue still has his work right active also Yes, yes, he does you can also use the fart lake Because he's technically in fart lake Uh, no because he was there. He wasn't there He was there before that or he was there after the fart lake. He wasn't affected by it So it was just a focal plume of uh, yeah, it's just like a single plume. Yeah Okay, well I am since morgue isn't able to actually use his axe and the Mac he's going to do the equivalent of and just Try to make the teeth buzz saw somehow and okay, okay chain teeth and uh, yeah, he's going to fight with three advantages tagged and rolling I'm going to spend fate point to reroll That might be a good idea.

Um, so I'm gonna say this whenever you spend a fate point to reroll what aspects are you're using to To invoke because I know that's something we usually forget morgue is going to use the Use gets the job done no matter the cost All right, that works. What'd you roll? So have to Do the rolling who boy well, so that's I rolled a plus two on the dice and the And the beast he has a fight of four so that's six with three aspects. That's a 12.

Shit. All right They only got a five so you hit them for a seven Uh, you see them go down on one knee and that arm that was kind of like messed up before It's sort of like you see it hanging and dangling from a few bits of metal and now they will have the consequence. Um, unarmed nice And I'm going to use bite the leg because that's after making an attack. I'm going to make an athletics roll against them And uh, try to make them fall down All right Completely blanked out on the dice because that's two plus is two minuses.

So that is athletics. That's a three Unfortunately, they sort of like stand their ground They sort of like put one arm down on the ground and grip into the dirt as you try to pull their leg out from underneath them Uh, so you unfortunately don't get your advantage there. Uh, who do you pass it to? It's uh, just very one left, right?

Yeah, just darn one left. Oh, that's why Yeah, I guess that makes sense Darwin. Uh, so we have Robert Robert. What is what are you having Darwin do?

Um, I think Darwin's going to uh, attack on my, uh, triggering as many aspects as Uh, she can They got quite a bit Right now, um, they've got they are prone to their tangled up this equal tangled up and they have one lake preoccupied by uh, juniper So that's four that's four aspects. Yeah Plus they plus Darwin still has her own walk around. Yep So five Hey, oh, that's one of the guys plus three naturally so plus four and although some five aspects so 30 Against their Against their plus two Fuck Robert nice. Hey guys.

Hey guys. Remember that thing I said about aspects So I don't know what you mean by when you say that I mean aspects are real fucking good. Fuck Robert goddamn. All right.

Uh, so a two against the Two against this was at 13. Yeah 13 all right They take 11 damage as Darwin sort of like comes in with like just a whirling dervish of just like swinging and slashing other things Uh, but I'm gonna go ahead and say that something comes up as they're swinging in here Uh, their trouble comes in as well and the trouble is that they swing a little bit too frantically. Oh no Uh, I would like the I would like juniper and xanthrop to both please make uh defenses against a 13 I mean Obvious outcome right trouble may accidentally hit allies within zone Yep, but with for that. I'll give both.

Uh, I'll give rober and matthew both a fake point for that Uh, I got a plus four Okay, uh, it looks like uh xanthrop your spear is taken out of the fight And uh can someone roll for juniper real quick for me? Oh, yeah, it's me too. Sorry Uh That's a plus five That's a little bit better. Uh juniper doesn't seem as bashed inside of their mech as uh, Darwin starts like unleashing these this fight against them All right.

Well, that's that's the top of the order. So who's Darwin passing it to? Um Darwin will pass to I also for flavor i'm just gonna say real quick as this is happening as they're sort of like swirling you actually hear the syreese from the inside Yes to vow with them. Oh, like she's she's just having a wonderful time like she is Chopping things down.

She is so into it. She's like stabbing down into like the tentacles and like ripping them off Uh, they sort of like side swipe the beast and then like kick juniper's mech and put one foot on it Is this scream about devouring things? Um, so who are they passing it to next? Uh, Darwin is passing to alcore.

I'm to see the reaction to my zar going down like that. Okay, uh, that's actually interesting because alcore also is very very hurt in this instance Um, uh, they sort of like you hear this like weird high-pitched squealing from my zar and uh, you see alcore's whole body sort of like turn and look over across like the crabs across the way at them and uh, You see, uh, sort of like this mech start to like it's already glowing this weird red It's already heated up and starting to cool down a little bit But then you see it start to keep up again and like veins start like coming out of the neck Of the mech itself and like start crawling down the arms and the veins themselves sort of like pick up the arm that was like cracked off And you see on the back it just sort of like starts heating up again and it starts blasting off halfway across the arena Damn it. I had just gotten sent to dine to where they could do something next time And You can actually hear them screaming out uh my zar it's at this point you guys you guys didn't technically know their name before but they Yell out uh, they scream across the field uh, my zars name my zar and uh, yeah, they're gonna pass it over to bone star Okay, so I can't I can't um catch up to him just by flying can I? Oh, I'm gonna say you can without a good athletic troll because you are still like you're you're flying But you're by yourself, but I'm gonna say you can get there with a good athletic troll.

Okay. I don't I don't have athletic so I'm just gonna I'm just gonna climb back in the mecca. I guess okay and take chase Could I make a drive roll to see if I can catch up quicker? Now you can make a pilot roll.

Okay Uh, no, I'm gonna say no it's gonna have to be athletics with your mech. Okay. Well, it's a negative one Okay. No, you can move one.

You can move one space though. Okay. Yeah, I'll move um into Oh, wait, I can actually just move it. Can't the mechs move the total of the athletics bonus they have No, I have no athletics bonus, right?

But the exemplar itself has a plus two. Oh, gotcha gotcha Uh, the exemplar can't just move to actually yeah, okay, then yeah, I'll do that then I'll catch up to the one he's in and I'll take the skull and crossbones off the field for now All right. Do you want to attack as well? Uh, yeah, if I can still do that within the move.

Yeah, I'm gonna say you can I like the I like it interesting that way. Okay. I'm going to um catch up from behind it and uh, Grab it around the waist and try to uh, wrestle it to the ground soup like so Yes, I'm going for a half Nelson's souplex and that is a They unfortunately got a seven versus your five Okay, but as you sort of what's that bad? No, go ahead.

Go ahead. Yeah, as you sort of grab them You actually see that the the veins these like purple and red uh tubes It's all across their body at this point as soon as you grab them and try to suplex them You see the veins start like crawling over into your mech and start like inserting themselves into your mech as well Do they look um organic or like they look organic? Yeah, okay, so they're not mechanical Um, they look like if like a bodybuilder or something were to like flex and like their veins were to pop out But they were literally started crawling out of their skin These wounds just heal the worst biomex I missed the I went for a move and as soon as I saw that I got like surprised and kind of got taken aback That's fine. Yeah, okay, because I'm gonna have him be like, uh, just an ounce of the blood speaker Hey, there's uh, there's a there's a there's a I don't know what you call it a blood pipes on this thing All right Creepy crawlies Do you hear uh, alcour start chuckling but like instead of uh, as it sort of like turns to like look at you You see that it's the mech itself below the little eyes eyes things actually has a physical fleshy mouth with like Like razor sharp teeth and it starts chuckling and you see like inventing out some smoke Has it laughs?

Uh just farted also It's out of its mouth. I met it's venting like steam. Goddamn it. Who are you passing to?

Um, I'm not sure who's still left. I know we're pretty early, right? Yeah, uh, you just have you have everybody except for alcour Okay, um, I'll have uh dusty move next Uh, yeah dusty we get another shot of inside dusty's, uh, a mech god. Damn it dusty every single time Golden egg three with him every single time He's he's he's still struggling.

Uh, you see like a warning system pop on it starts flashing like this skull pops up And uh, yeah, no, he's he's fucked. Let's go to the other side real quick. Uh, let's let's see what uh, let's see what darwin is doing Other than probably tackling maniacally loving that she's killing everything I like to imagine she has a really high-pitched voice too Oh, no, she sounds like one of the chipmunks doesn't she? Yep, or sorry the chipettes.

All right. All right, whatever. What do you think she's doing? I think she's going to try and move towards alcour trying to okay roll athletics for me Let's get another attack Two plus Five All right, that's a seven so you can move her uh at least two so Yes into the clip if and And yeah, she'll just ready first rank for when alcour next me forward.

Okay All right, uh, who is again passing two? Morgan Okay, uh Morgan's going to move the beast forward too because the beast has a move of two And he he's gonna pop out of the mech and try to help dusty Okay So you sort of like pop out of the mech dusty's mech is sort of like crash in the ground. What are you gonna do to help him? Uh, I am going to try to roll engineering to uh, right?

I guess for this version, it's craft to try to uh If not help him out of the mech make sure that the mech isn't going to explode with him inside or anything like that All right, so why don't you give me like a a jaws of life roll for me? Oh, oh if it's gonna be jaws of life, I can probably use the axe for that Like for for cinematic reasons at least sure Hell yeah Sorry dusty. I'm not gonna spend a fake plant on that That's a one total No, it doesn't look like your axe is getting through uh the plating of this thing Well, it's getting through the plating but then like you get to like the cockpit area and it seems like the cockpits themselves are made out of more durable stuff In most situations that would be very beneficial I am going to who's left that hasn't moved yet. Uh, mirage was anthrop Centenage, senator, and juniper, shan coral and sandrope.

Oh, I think it's been a bit since mirage has done anything. I'll have mirage go Dammit. Oh, I can I can go over just into time also No, you already said you already said I don't want to uh Mirage is going to run as far as she can towards centenine Gotta weaving pick me up. Yeah And then she's going to pass it to centenine Who is going to move into the base pick her up and uh, I guess roll to try and move further Okay, what mirage has been able to move the zone over to centenine?

No, no, it's a large areas Um I did not succeed on being able to move more and i'll just leave it at that uh, and centenine is going to pass it to sham All right, cham what you want to? Charm is gonna roll to try and move a step over Uh, that A plus one No, unfortunately not gonna do it the people that can't move have to get a plus two at least and shan cannot move forward I don't think there's anything sham can do in that position then Who do you want to pass it to then? Charm will pass to Zanthrop All right, zanthrop is gonna try and get out of his back Everyone's getting out of their mess. Okay.

Well, he can't do anything else. He's in a he's in a cockpit Just well, you're the bot. No, you're not. No, I'm sorry He's in a cockpit in a regular in the pocket.

No, you're in the commander. Oh, yeah Commanders fine. It's just the spearman. That's not doing so great.

I don't know which one I'm actually in that it might end the commander Yes, you're in the command. Yes, you've always been in the command. You've been controlling the sphere remotely Oh, I feel so much better now You guys like god You can still use all the commander's abilities. There's still stuff you can do to affect the state of the give aspects Has mys are gone yet this this round?

Uh, no, they have not so they're still They're on the ground and covered in vines They're on the ground. They're still covered in vines a few of their their their legs have been cut off Cody what the xanthrop would like to do from the commando standpoint is get more vines with the intent of trying to Uh, get the the arms likes the arm slash legs straight out and like pin down to the ground Like completely immobilize my czar. Okay. Um, go ahead and roll me roll me a will for that then Like to make sure they dodge it Do so hot.

Yep. I got plus four All right, you get um I'm just gonna say you get the aspect. There's no invoking this one, but I'm just gonna say that their legs have been stiffened And they would have to over-conlate card. That's a real hard Ooh, mommy call them.

I already told mommy Calum, I see you have them effectively pin down. Yeah pin down. That's that's a much better. I like that aspect God, Cody.

All right Who you pass it to? Um, let's pass it to, uh, I don't know juniper All right, which is you uh, yeah, uh juniper is going to go for the base shit. Uh, juniper is actually knocked down right now Uh, their mech is actually juniper stands up No, they're like KO'd they have they got like destroyed when Jennifer uses her aspect of four arms for hugging Um juniper's a guy Well strategy if if you give me a fake point, I will say Yes, as long as you can in some way use that aspect to to do like put something out there as long as that has something to do with what you're about to do Oh, I was gonna say They just wrap their arms around themselves to make themselves feel better that they're knocked out on the ground Okay. All right.

Well, they can do that without a fake point. Yeah, okay. They do that And they they also feel one with the animal world when they do that Their other aspect one of the animal world. Oh one of the yes, they hug their usual one with the visual sale Uh, pretty fast.

I think Um, who still need go? Uh, so far it is sorry juniper, so it's coral coral and mirrors are at this point coral you go all right Uh coral you seem to have them significant, you know pin down Uh Coral is just gonna gonna like look around and see that you guys are handling things so coral is just going to stand there and watch Fuck coral Damn it curl Uh, but then it goes to my zars turn and they're trying to escape your uh, your little pinning here Um, would you get a plus four on that? Coral actually done anything that's game not really Matthew just get a plus four on your will roll for those lines. I will roll.

Yes Yeah, no, they are in for they try to like pull away from the vines but they're unable to overcome them good. Um So there goes the top of the order and uh, I think it'd be most interesting if alcor went first So my zars gonna pass over to alcor And uh, they're gonna move initially into darwin zone, but I believe darwin has an ability that shamp or robert ready Yes Uh spend one eight point To get an attack as they enter all right You have roll your attack That is two on the dice got three on darwin. So that's a five total Uh that meets uh, alcores as he sort of like tries to rush past Darwin darwin What does darwin do to uh kind of like, uh, wally him wally wally Uh probably the mech's arm just comes out and just goes for clothesline on Yes, yes So he's going to stumble a little bit. He's still going to try to make it through uh past actually still does a pretty good job Uh, so as he gets kind of like clothesline the side you see like bits of the metal start like coming off and those those little like tube start like Reforming the bottom and the top of the mech as he sort of rushes past Darwin He's going to make it into the foothills and then finally make it to the same space that my czar's in And he's going to start trying to pull away the vines that are they're pinning them down But does not overcome still he was able to move three He gets really good as athletics and he has um an ability Uh, what's his ability?

Kind of thing. Um, it's called mechanical formation where he uses his own body to form with any mechanics I'm just gonna say so we can pass it over to sham Okay, um I think I'm going to try to uh, trap alcor in the same vines that I sprouted for okay so Vines versus veins My money has unplants always Uh, that's not too good plus three title Let's see if he can Oh shit. Okay. Um, that's You said plus three Yep, you get a boost with that nice Okay, fine Can I grow a better to still try to move the guard forward one?

Yeah, now why don't I get that wrong last time? Uh, that is a full total. All right, you get to move your guard So what would they add? Forward done a proper action.

So I will pass on to phone star, okay, um Cody normally I need to be like three zones away to hit a shoot Um, but I think that this board is supposed to represent bigger distances, right? So how far would I have to move to be able to shoot that alcor? I'll say within one zone. So if you go get to the foothills All right, I'm gonna hold on okay.

No, except like an argument. Okay, okay, simpler is move uh, too Perfect. They're like some queens That works I will move over into the foothills and then just try to blast him while he's fighting the vines Okay, now how many of those advantages does he still have on him? Oh, he's moved out of the hot space.

Oh, he most of the vantas were already used. Um, I don't know where we're trying to track them So Though I if I remember right for fate, they're still around so if you want to sink a few fake points into it You'd still be able to do that then I'll sink some fake points. I don't do anything else with them Okay So I'll make a roll for a shoot. Oh my god.

I rolled three minuses. Oh You can spend a big point to reroll that. Let me see if I have an aspect that actually works though Because I think I built bone star without uh ever being able to take anything back Yeah, no that he's just gonna fuck up Um, yeah, I'm not gonna reroll so he ended up with you. Yeah, so minus three I ended up with a plus two plus whatever advantages are after that Yeah, unless you're just gonna pay a point on any of the advantages.

Uh, you don't have anything with that Uh, yeah, okay. I'll just skip and say miss them. That works. Okay, who you're gonna pass it to?

Uh, I will pass it to coral. Yeah All right coral will take a step forward and actually try to swing at alcore as they've entered the area That's pretty well Uh, you see coral sort of swing the large or that the exemplars have into alcore side and uh kind of as he hits it He sort of like kicks him in the chest and pushes him back and into the sinkhole into into one of the sinkholes that are in the ground his butt sort of like stuck and starts like flailing try and get out And uh coral points to sword at him and says listen I know I called you here, but uh, you served your purpose well And uh, you you hear alcore from like a mouth that's developed on its face. It says Don't don't hurt her, please And uh, I think that's where we cut away As the fight sort of ends And everyone kind of gets out of their mechs and there's some nebulous nights actually comes down from uh main base And they arrest both the people inside of the mech Uh in alcores mech, uh, there's a vigorian with three arms comes out He sort of has like a nebjul on one side. Uh, my czar is uh, octomaine And they sort of are arrested and taken away But you guys sort of like all me outside on the field They're sort of like these uh transport ships that are kind of dropping in for you guys And uh coral has gathered you guys all around and he looks around everyone says uh, well It looks like this training session is up to my team green team good job all of you Uh, sorry about the little interruption there it was uh interesting to say the least But uh, I'm excited about the next Task Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait How can you be sorry for it when you caused it?

Like we heard you we heard that you called them down This is true. Yes Do you know how much blood dusty lost? Could have died in there cuts over to dusty on one of the one of the uh, little things and they're wheeling them away And he sort of like has a finger up flipping you guys off And uh cuts back over to coral I told you the cockpicks are made very well. I mean you experienced it yourself.

I mean it's pretty much halfway indestructible I mean I made the room out of it after all um, so it's pretty impenetrable at this point And yet he still got fucked up. He's he's fine. He'll do he'll be a food recovery I like the squirrel You don't like what? I don't like how you uh hire bounty hunters and then uh narco I like that much at all.

I mean, they're still going to get paid But when you put me in a jail We're not we're not some sort of official police will hold them for a while until they cool down Make sure their wounds are healed and whatnot. Let them on their way It doesn't seem very sporting though. Yeah. Yeah, I'm getting second thoughts about this I'm I'm sorry.

I mean, this is the way that the tasks are supposed to go. They're supposed to learn They're supposed to teach you all. Well, let's uh, aren't in these missions that we Isn't this supposed to be a trust building exercise? But so far all you've done is run what modicum of trust we had for you We trust each other a lot more sure, but how can we trust the chain of command now?

If they're gonna cut us off to the wolves whenever it serves their purposes. What's the point of being here? That's the point of the nights. You live in our galaxy Things are run by corporations at any point in time things can go.

Hey, why? We want to make sure that you are able to take care of your own in the battlefield at any point in time something can go wrong I believe that one of you and he looks over at xanthrop has this feeling firsthand, especially with the white star battalion. Uh, dr. Professor Sugan, um Are you suggesting that in the middle of a mission?

We're going to be betrayed by those we trust most in order to little lesson I'm saying that you have to learn to shift on who you trust in the middle of battle and the people who are next to you Are the people you can trust. I know I was with you in this fight, but uh, it was more for Larry Hey, Cody What while this conversation is going on um mirage would like to try and uh breach quarrels mine and find out what terrifies him most What do I need a role for this? Um, okay Uh, make me a what did we base your skill on empathy or will empathy or deceive? Um, where the main two Okay, I'm gonna say it's empathy.

Okay, um, but I'm gonna use uh, he's going to use a fake point as you reach into his Okay, I'm also gonna use a use a fake point. Um, and either use Point from I'm not sure if single-minded or to let these no cure for paranoia works better for this probably single-minded No, the latter actually okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Come on Okay, so that's a plus three on the dice plus three empathy plus two for the aspect so a plus eight total You take two points of will uh damage As you look into his mind and you see the things that he fears and it's it's very odd at first because nothing seems to make sense And then you just see a massive tentacles and then you see this woman's face as she's sort of Uh, she's sort of walking along a planet that is just it's just completely barren and in the far distance You see a blue star this woman is very tall and she has like this hair and dreadlocks kind of all the town She has this really spandex too. That's tight to her body and uh, as you see her walking Um, she sort of like turns slowly into a massive tentacles that sort of like spill all into the ground and then start growing and growing And it starts to crawl deep inside of the earth You sort of see it tunneling inside and it finds the core of the planet and it slowly starts sucking away the heat and the energy And it starts to die and as it starts to die the the the planet itself starts to move in weird ways Where like bits of it start like coming off and it starts like shifting like a Rubik's cube almost only It's a sphere and it shifts and it shifts and it shifts and you take damage as you see it starts shifting And you start understanding that it's part of what uh sugon fears the most and loves the most And then you see these blueprints of this room that he talked about and the Next task that you guys are about to embark on it's the non-euclidean room And uh At first it starts to hurt and then you start to feel okay as madness sets in Oh shit Okay You take us of your consequence of maddened maddened maddened Maddened the mat the maddened and then Got mad. Uh, so would this be two four or six?

Six. Okay Does does he get a fake point for getting intrusion like that? Quested right now. He'll get he'll get more later.

Don't worry about it. Okay. Oh, it gets worse. Don't worry I have better than a fake point.

I have trauma Chicks dig scars, but you can't see mental spirits. Oh sure you can They just look different Corals kind of like standing there for a little bit you notice he hesitate for a little bit as this kind of goes through But none of you none of the rest of you kind of like realize what's happening sort of hesitates for a second I'm sorry The bottom line is we provide for you and even though I know that I call these people in the nebulous nights will protect you with the Admos survivability we will outfit you all to do what you can to protect those around you Your worries aren't with the chain of command your worries about the people around you The people of the sector themselves. So even if you can't trust us trust yourselves to protect those That's what the nights are about We're not police. We're not cops.

We are individuals who care about the sector Now that I can get behind It's maybe we should change the name from nights to like rogues or something though because it doesn't seem like a very nighty thing to do but I'll get the job done. No matter what the cost is so Work kind of looks at everyone except Carl and goes like well at least I know I can trust you guys and Rauch why is your nose bleeding? Marajas knows it's not bleeding. She just has a very far off look And she slowly begins to like scratch her arm and can't see the stuff Not enough to like draw blood but just it's like there's an itch and she just keeps scratching it and doesn't really say anything Uh those giant core people really fucked her up shit Yeah, not cool.

Uh, uh, quarrel Dünofer comes over and he over comes over and he hugs Zantrop Samaq and he says I'm so sorry. I could protect you Oh there there It's okay. I was in this one to be fair that one is um was like a surrogate. It's it's oh, it's it's leaking everywhere Oh, that's disgusting sort of like oh, okay.

I'm sorry Ah, what the hell and work joins the hug So you guys all get within the transport ship and uh get get transported back up to nebulous nice HQ Coral lets you guys know that the the next task will be tomorrow at least until uh Uh dusty can kind of get back their strength and uh for you guys to rest and recover Uh, is there anything specifically that you guys want to do when you guys get back to nebula and hq? Let's have a meeting crack open some beers with uh the two teams and Try to fake like separate team meeting but also group team meeting to kind of show like no hard feelings I'm not like an everybody meeting. Not like a marajian team meeting Maraj would go straight to her room and would sit on the bed with a gun pointed at the door And just sit there in a separate one pointed or tell It's the deer hunter now baby. We're deer Got to watch other space tears space tears So the space most out of really bad ones.

Oh, yeah All right, so maraj is going to the room um morigas grabbing some some some space alcohol beverages Enough for everything go in the main room. Yeah, are you inviting your guys as team members over dusty and sanidigm and and darwin and uh, Juniper for sure Okay, I'll go to the meeting if there's a meeting in colp All right, anything's anything being set up the meeting or Um, hello. I'm zanthrop I'm a god. You may know that already.

Hi. Um, we've only known each other this short time But I feel like we shared a significant number of experiences together as a team or teams as it were and um, I just want to say that it was a pleasure to fight beside you today against those uh hideous bounty hunting Uh dimwits, uh, and um at the same time I feel it was important to say that Um, it was not right for quarrel to put us in a situation where we were to be uh fighting against one another in such a way and um I would like to foster a truce between our two teams for the greater good That's the truth Uh, that's where we uh Essentially what I would like to do is without so much as telling him to his face Uh, express our disinterest in quarrels games. He's been running with us Uh and rather uh be a team of one rather than a team of two in order to essentially tell quarrel to uh, Stick it where the sun doth not shine. Oh, yeah, flocking up.

I'm on board with that He tried to try to take money from me. Fuck here. Yes money. Yes.

Well, he also almost killed several people today who did not deserve it Well, I can't dusty. No offense to you. I don't know what you've done in your past But quite frankly that was there was a devastating uh destruction on your part On your part so much on your person He's got like his face wrapped up and everything he just sort of like waves a cast And you assume that he gave you a thumbs up his thumb is just always in that position Quite Well, I don't know i'm not a planned guy, but uh, you want me to do some just ask i'll be around Juniper kind of pipes up and he's just like, uh, I don't know my dad kind of put me through some tests back home But it wasn't like this like this is this seems crazy like I just had a fight aboard Uh now could you just want a boy? Yes.

Did you go through any sort of ceremonial scarring or bodily hute mutilation? This is for my studies. This is separate from the other situation. You got to eat the board afterwards also, right?

Right He shakes his head. Yes, and you see Darwin's on the other side sort of rubbing her hands together. He's sort of shaping her head Yes work holds out a first and thanks and kind of puts out both One of them like so that he'll be able to uh double fist bump double double dabs He double dabs here. Uh and just as uh So kind of back to the matter at hand.

I don't recommend that we actually uh kill quarrels We've got to put them on spit roast him in the kind of up into very small pieces and put him on a pizza with some pineapple Not recommending that yet Uh, I'm essentially just saying as we that we uh stick it to the man So you're you're proposing a Deadpool society type standing on desks. We refuse to participate in your proposed actions Oh, well, we'll wait for him to tell us what the conditions are for winning such a thing And then uh just because he's got so much pride in this maybe we uh the what it was we would call the green team throws it intentionally Bone star if you were so uh Interested maybe you could make another wager on this. Well, no, here's the thing though. This guy He's planning on us doing this, you know He's he pissed us off on purpose So whatever we do come in there you gotta assume that either there's someone in the room that's gonna tell him or he's predicted He wouldn't bring on someone like you or someone like me Without thinking he could deal with us.

So we're gonna need I think to get our revenge outside of the games Well, we have it too tomorrow to really mess with him I've just suggested throwing that out. Yeah, I would suggest all your normals all you um non gaseous people Go get some sleep great couple beers relax. Bones. Are you flammable?

Yes? Okay. Thank you extremely You want to go in you want to go and start shit tomorrow, but here's a problem. Do you know what an non Euclidean room is?

I'm sorry. What's in yeah? Oh, yes, of course I know what an non Euclidean room is okay Well, I should probably tell you that I've tried to start shit in a non Euclidean room many times and each time it never works Cody can I would like to roll my super intelligence? To learn more about a non Euclidean room And as a walking library, I would also like to uh, yeah get my bonus from my will as a part of that as well What I'm saying is what can you tell me about non Euclidean rooms?

They're very curvy Uh, so Maybe it's really hard to explain it. I like to explain it non Euclidean. Maybe that's not the right definition of it Uh, but like you know how there's like a point a to point b. You're a scientist.

You know this right? You know, there's there's a segment a line a line goes to a line segment. Yeah, it's a segment, right? Yeah, like uh with the neon Euclidean room, uh, the line may fracture In several instances it might like okay sure the line's going straight for a little bit But then it's like over here and then like it's over here So the point from point a to point b is very nebulous in a way, how to get from point a to point b You said the you said the thing.

I did say thing That's good. That's the same thing. Uh, so so figuring out how to get to point a to point b It might be the key on how to get pasting a non Euclidean room But it doesn't seem to have any way shape or form that it makes sense that you're supposed to get to 8.8 a point b Physics is surreal Yeah, yeah, we're we're used to doing everything in a Cartesian relative perspective of X y is at axes But if those axes are instead of being straight lines are now curved and we're not used to it immediately now if I could make a wrinkle in time And I was able to form the tesserac Would IPA from point a to point b very easily? I mean, maybe he's trying to break the room Uh But yeah, that's what you know about an onion clear your room.

I guess I guess what I'm saying is let him finish his games I will fuck alone I'm suggesting maybe like a custard pie to the face or maybe we jam in senses. Oh, oh, you're just oh, you're just oh, you're gonna Oh, just pranking it. Oh, yeah. Yes.

Oh, let him let him know that we don't approve of his tactics Oh, well, yeah, you should prank him right now. Yes. We have till tomorrow. So yeah, there's so much food in there Let's just all throw the food in his room.

I mean you could kill the man with a grapefruit Let's do it Pop-so-it just like I killed a man with a space strawberry once Really Logic the conversation continues on as like the camera sort of like pans away towards Towards other decks You guys are sort of at the lowest part of the ship and it sort of pans away to other parts of the ship And there's like a little holding cell and you see the two people from before the three armed vigorian and the octopus I mean sort of like sitting in the nsl and they're sort of like just playing cards and The the large big orients sort of like mutters something under his breath and the octamine kind of like shakes her head and she's like Yes, yes, I know yes, I know but on the bright side here they may let us out. Yes. So just Glad you made it out alive Kind of like shake about their heads together and sort of like hands out with the space Maybe it was nice That's how we'll end it for today and then next session You guys can figure out maybe you guys talk to the night and figure out a way to prank him before the test Maybe you guys want to fuck up the test somehow You guys can figure out a player Play truth of dare. I don't know play like the thing where you say I didn't do a thing and then everyone Stress that they did do the space there space never have I ever Work comes up with a very weird convoluted plan to put pants onto Carls back and then have them write that so they can fall down Look how you're gonna make pants to put on him and then pull them.

Yeah, okay. All right. Oh, that nerds good take it It's so much extra humiliation when someone puts clothes on for you All right, well, thank you so much for listening to Nibby list nights number five If I don't know if you guys wanted to hit us up Maybe talk to us maybe online sometimes you can like add us at s8 s house studio or at s8 you podcast If you like what you heard today, maybe give us some ratings and reviews Give us some more stars to put in our universe preferably five of them because like we need more come on Yeah, I don't know if you want to talk to any of us like me or any of these beautiful people you can find me at code 3 You can find me at jade hig hiv and you can also find me Some game night streams for the s8 card game. So please come and hit me up dme dropping my geeks or my mentees or however the source You can find me at the Viking bear underscore underscore and you should check out my other show hoof and sword where I play a failed magician pony And you can find me on twitter at token tokan And I occasionally play a variety of people on the redacted files podcast which can be found at trf podcast on twitter And i'm Matthew Morris and you can find me at Matthew and Morris and hey if you look long enough on itunes you're bound to trip over something i've And i'm rob and you can find me at cyreg 89 and I will have something more to add next time next time Yeah Fancy my eyebrows are wiggling.

All right. Uh, thank you so much for listening something blah blah blah i tuned all the netmutes.com blah blah uh See you next time space cadets Golem golem golem golem. I made you out of clay golem golem golem. That heathen's well now pay What am i supposed to get?

I don't get it. It's like the dreidel song except with the golem. Oh, okay But i'm assuming other people have come up with that also But I remembered it for whatever reason that I thought of that like 10 years ago And then forgot about it because it was weird And when people hear this uh two months from now in the bloopers and they're like but that was like two months ago Why is he doing this? This is gonna be terribly out of season.

It's gonna be out of fashions and terrible Um, I made it not too long ago. Uh, Mike made it a really good one. I was like anything you could do like it better So I made this real shit one If someone will tweet at me when this drops, I will tweet out a screenshot of it cool That sounds good. I'm hopefully someone will remember that But you see the enemy the enemy might be my desire Can I can I get my meck?

My mother meck can I do some meck exception here? No, you're still safe in your meck you're controlling that one remotely anyway, so In two wounds at once Yep, so if it's a meck inside of meck is that like a Japanese nestle though? It's meck exception. It's a turmican It's a meckin Um it's called mechanical formation where he uses his own body to form with any mechanics Oh, he's like that that kid from heroes Then dc your tb show No hero is the Japanese guy he could stop time Uh, so that's our course turn he's gonna pass it over to Do you guys look like by both so far away from me and hugging a robo corpse?

That was bad, bad looood jig, bad, bad looood. Webword? Webword? I know what you're referencing, but I don't know anyone actually else would get that.

For the extent of me? Yes. Of course. I listen to the shit in big blocks, so I listen to like eight episodes of The Sing Show in a row, and then remember absolutely fucking about it.

Oh, I'm gonna get that. Well, you're in so many podcasts, it's hard to keep them all straight sometimes, probably. True. All right, so you guys can...

Okay. Cody, do we need to redo the intro? I feel like I stepped up into it really. I would like to put a special shout out for the past two episodes to the people playing Myzar and Alcor as the voice actors.

Myzar is played by Kai Avidovich. You can find them at Safe Strong Alive on Twitter. You can also find them on a podcast called The Sidekicks, which has a few episodes out, and on Tumblr at feur-fight. And Alcor was played by Mike McMahon.

You can find him on Twitter at manmickmike. Thank you so much for helping out with this project.

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