Nebulous Nights #7 New Dawn

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Howdy, y'all! Welcome to this special episode of Nebula Snites. My name is Jay at J-A-H-I-G-H-F-I-V-E on Twitter, and I will be your GM on this magical journey through the stars. Wait, no, not GM.

J-M. That's like my initials. That's like my name. But it also sounds like J-M.

Raspberry Jam. Which I like. So don't go with that. Anyway, before I go off on a tangent here, I have some folks to introduce to you.

Up first, you may know her from the SHU podcast, Villan Underground, where she plays Dead Eye, but you also may know her from Goodlook's Bad Books or Nerdy Bits because she's on every podcast in the world. If you don't know, her name is Ellie. I am the podcast queen. Hell yes, and we praise you.

Second Star on Right and Straight On Till Morning, you can find our next guest on Generation Justice, Playing Scary Carry, and also constantly and furiously shipping on social media. She's up way too early for this ship. Her name is Bailey. He is not lying.

I got up before the sun did. And yes, I will continue to ship everything and draw fanart. You can't make me stop. Alex Lipsch with training order.

Don't get in her way. You're gonna get to mess. Up next, this guest plays the demigod Fiona right next to Bailey on Generation Justice. She also runs the tables at Geekly Game Night and is constantly theory crafting inside of her Twitch streams.

Her name is Maddie. I don't run it. I just usually there a lot. Well, running the tables means that you're cleaning up.

Oh, yeah. If you're running the tables at a casino, you're walking out with a big old fat pile of money. Because people get to hear this lovely voice. And finally, last but not least, this powerful podcasting powerhouse plays Robonobo on Villan Underground whenever he gets a break from being just getting married as shit.

He's getting married all over the place. You will know him and love him. His name is Will. Hey guys, I'm really excited for this game because it's the first one in a while that I'm not actually putting on a character voice for.

What? Does that mean you left your pan at home? Oh yeah, yeah. No, no pan on this one.

Oh, no pan. Boo. All right. Well, we'll have to figure something out then.

Anyway, let's get our show on the road. Our episode starts at a remote space station at the edge of this space sector. It's called Gampel Troppelis. Meant to be called Gampel Troppelis until somebody fucked up the copyright.

This planet, Space Station, it's kind of a hybrid. It's about the size of Texas. Big old thing. And we got a spaceship coming in right across the horizon.

Big pinks and purples in the sky. Lots of red and yellow little spaceships darting in and out the traffic sucks on this ship. Pulling into the bay right now. We have Ali's character and Bailey's character.

Ali, would you like to walk us through what your character looks like? Yeah, so Mari looks basically humanoid. She doesn't have much hair. She's got like a shaved head.

And her skin is like a very light purple color. And she walks a little weird. Like her feet keep sticking to the floor. Well, she has an octomy, which means that she's an octopus person.

Yeah. Yes, but she's in disguise. Nobody knows that. Oh, except for the sticky feet.

Except for the sticky feet. That's a believable disguise. I myself have been in that position before. I get it.

And Bailey, can you walk us through your character? Sure. My character is, and this is probably the only time I'm going to get to use her full name, is Alesty Visions. And if anybody at home is groaning, I've done my job properly.

She is a little bit, which is kind of the best way to describe it, is a seven foot tall stick bug with a jellyfish bottom dipped in glitter. She is very colorful, has sort of this ethereal look to her, but is probably not getting very nice looks from the people around her. Because her race is extremely bloodthirsty and vicious. She isn't.

You've noticed that usually you get strange looks, but when you pull them to the bay here, and you and Mari started going through customs, you realize this place is a little different because everybody looks terrifying. So you've seen lots of alien species that you've never seen before, and you have no idea what to think of. And instead of getting recoiled or being in fear, they kind of look at you and shrug. This is kind of a Wild West situation here on Gample Tropolis.

And as you guys work your way through customs, which is long and boring, which we're not going to do on camera, if you really want to go through customs, visit your local airport. What I would say is that after you get out of customs, you notice something right as soon as you walk out. Normally, there's like a bunch of taxis to get you across the planet that you've nearly landed on, or maybe some police stations or visitor centers. But as soon as you two walk out of customs, you see an enormous open-air market.

And to which either of you smells things with your nose or other orifice, it smells fucking amazing. This food smells so good, and it's huge. But you are on the mission. You have to get to a bar a couple of blocks over from the spaceport, named the crusty ear, and you're going to have to walk through this market to get there.

Would either of you like to do anything before you start walking through the market? Well, I mean, if we have to go through the market anyway, why not get food? I'm so hungry. Right?

Okay. Oh my gosh, everything smells so good. I want all of it. Can I eat all of it?

Maybe not all of it. Well, when you're walking through what you see, there are lots of little stalls, and each is run by an alien species known as the Swaris, who look like a five-foot tall anthropomorphic mice. And all of them are cooking just this incredible food, but they're also all really heavily in competition to try to get you to eat their food. So if you stop to actually eat, you are going to have so much food, that you're all going to start swarming you.

So it might take you a little minute to get through there. That said, both of you have never had any food that tastes anything like this, and though it's not filling, it does smell really good. I want it. I want all of it.

I have the one she's so bad. I've got four arms. I can carry a lot of food. Let's do this.

I have four. I mean, two arms. So either of you take some food on the go with you. Yes.

Yes. Okay. You made the mistake of asking the IRL fat girl. No, I get it.

I've been there. I love it. The food is amazing. Yeah.

Well, you know, as far as I'm concerned, if you're on an alien planet and you know to either eat something, drink something or kill somebody, there's no point. Exactly. Exactly. So on your way, walking over to the crusty ear, you kind of get held up a little bit.

This is like a really busy sector of this space station. There's people holding up news discs and books and playing music, and they're constantly trying to pull you aside to get your attention to sell you clothing or a hat or a souvenir foam finger. But it takes you a little while. And while you guys are walking over to there, I'm going to actually cut to the bar itself, where we have Will and Maddie together at the same table.

Now, Will, Maddie, I'd like you to explain to the audience here exactly what you folks are on about. Let's start with Will. The gentleman sitting at the table is a human. He's got a few augmentations on him, a little older gentleman wearing a degraded beat up trucker hat.

So he's wearing overalls. He's basically a hillbilly redneck type. This is Ray Nathan, Charles Ray. He was originally from Hogsback, Georgia, and he was abducted many, many decades ago.

That's how he became to be a spacefarer. He's been put in cryo-sleep and taken out on and off to do odd jobs. So he's kind of like the janitorial staff at the casino hotel land. Yeah.

So and the nice thing about being a janitorial staff or being sort of in maintenance is that you were unlike everyone else on the space station are kind of treated like with a little bit of elevated status, because killing you would be the equivalent of killing a courier. Right? You can't make money if the machines don't work. So as somebody who does repair a work in janitorial work, you're actually kind of safer than the average do.

And then Maddie, what's going on with you? So sitting across from them is basically an androgynous looking android. They're wearing like a trench coat, some sunglasses, and they're just talking as well. You know, would I have seen him around because I also work in the casino or is he a high?

No, he's higher up than you, but it's also the sort of thing where he's not really involved in much. You know that from working at the casino that there's a really, really strong organized crime element. And you're kind of at the bottom of the food chain of that. Yeah, yep.

But on the other hand, Rainnath and Charles Ray, he doesn't really fall into that, because if you were to get all your maintenance people wrapped up in the mafia, they get killed pretty quick. So you've seen him working around that casino that you work at, and you maybe said hi to one once or twice, but for the most part, you kind of move in different circles. Right. So I'm just like sitting there, I'm shuffling some cards in my hand as I'm listening to him also talking with him.

Yeah, and I'll let you talk about it before that. Will, can I have you make a will role? Okay. I got a plus one on that role.

And if I can remember, okay, so it's a plus one. Plus one. Okay, so that's good. You are hungover.

And you remember that you were supposed to be here for some reason, like, like, like, Nadi hired you for for a job. You don't quite remember what it is. Okay. Am I at the table talking to her right now, or am I just in the area?

You're both sitting at a table. You've been sitting here bullshitting for a while, waiting for everyone else to show up. And you're probably pounding a drink or two because this bar has a three drink minimum. Oh, boy.

Three drink minimum. And it's pretty ruthlessly enforced by the hacker gorkin space or car tender that comes around your table and just as soon as you walk in drops three enormous piles of liquor right in your face. I will look over at him and I'll be like, good sir, do I really need to drink all this? And I'm gonna make a charm roll.

Let me know. Okay. I won't believe this is dice. We'll lick me.

Okay. Come on. Oh boy. It's not good.

I got plus two because I got negative two. Okay. He says, uh, you know what, uh, I, uh, I gotta make money somehow, but I'll tell you what I'll do something special and he walks behind the bar and then he grabs those tiny umbrellas and he puts one in each one of your drink. Oh, thank you.

Good sir. Just yeah, no problem. Got to make money. Well, hell you keep them coming over here.

I don't care if fancy pants here's gonna be drinking theirs, but I need some hair on the dog. Oh, Ray, Ray, we know I know you. I got you. You're good.

All right. Right. You can't be drinking this much. Man, I had a hard night last night.

I, I, I don't want to hear it right now. Well, just what am I meeting you for anyway? Ray, remember, I approached you for that job. Job tonight.

All right. Yes. You got to remind me, you know, I've been in and out of crowdsleep for years now. So my, my, I lost some things.

I lost some things. Some of the medication, been on the opioids, you remember them? It's been a while, but they did thanks to my mind. I'm gonna like leave it real close and we're like, we're going to see it from the boss.

A person of mine comes up contacting me asking me to get the item from the boss. I was calling it a quasar. They want the quasar. They're playing modify for it.

All right. Hell yeah. I'm down with that. I mean, this, this job can go and shove it.

Many of these people can't wipe their ass without me around here. I agree. Both of you know that if you were successful in steering the quasar, you would have by your own planet money. Wait, did you just say by your own planet?

Yes. Who are you talking to? Right? Hey, don't, don't judge me.

I'm not judging you. It's at this time when Mari and Elle walk into the bar. And what you see when you both walk in is a relatively big open floor establishment with a big old bar and a bunch of a bunch of chair, chip, but I can't talk tables and chairs. They're all just completely full, even though it's the crack in the morning.

You also see the hacker gorkin bartender and as soon as you walk in, he points his finger at you and then points his finger up towards the bar where you can see there's a bunch of pictures of him with international space celebrities and as well as a photo of a flaming cow skull that says both pill-eating contest winner and ban from this establishment underneath it. And then right next to that is assignment says three-drink minimum. Nice, nice, um, self-insular. Yeah, you're gonna do it again.

Wrap the brand. So yeah, you see that there's a three-drink minimum where both of you go up and order something? Yes. I mean, yeah, we've been eating.

I'm totally thirsty. I just do all the interesting other world liquors. I want to try all of them. Oh, right?

I wonder if they have a like, um, hypnotic stuff where it's like super swirly in a shadow. Okay. He actually hears you saying this and he goes, he kind of grunts to himself and you can see him grabbing a bunch of stuff with his hands and starting to mix a bunch of crazy shit together and goes, I'll bring it out to your table. It'll be good.

It'll have a lot of color. Thanks. I'm so nice. I'm so excited.

Yeah. Right? And, uh, you are supposed to meet again. You are supposed to meet a android and you have a photo of her.

So you can see that she's kind of on the other side of the bar. Uh, I think that one over there. Oh, don't point out somewhere. Oh, but okay.

I should have, I should have specified this is just important. This is just for character, but they go by they, them pronouns. So we assumed with the word androgynous. Yeah.

No, I appreciate the heads up because to be perfectly frank, I wasn't sure. So it's good with me. Yeah. Well, that's why I was high going for it.

But yeah, I don't know if I would have given them my name, but what I know what they look like. You would know what they look like because when you hire them, you hired them out of like this database of basically schlubs for hire. Um, it's got a better name, but you know, your notion of higher. Yeah.

That's what I'm starting to feel like because everyone currently is drinking it up like a cool. Yeah. You better man up paint pants. What the hell you think this is?

It's a bar. So, um, yeah, you do notice that your, your contact point is here. Uh, Mari and Elle. Oh, yeah.

All right. Let's go. Just gonna take a hold of Mari's hand because we've traveled before and yeah, she's the way we both have problems. It's sticky, by the way, her hand is shiny.

Oh, she doesn't get the floor is sticky to. Yes. Not your, not your feet, the floor. This is kind of a dive bar.

Oh my goodness. So as Mari's walking, all you hear is like the sucking sound of your feet. Does it sound like those little sticky hands? It's getting dirty.

Your feet are getting dirty. You're just like dancing in a big pile of caramel. Mm tasty. Yeah, right on the feet, baby.

Um, and if you two are walking over to the table while you're walking over, Maddy want you to make a notice roll. Okay. Do I even give myself a note? No, fuck.

Oh, you've done this hit. I'm not done with it. I was like, yeah, I'm not doing a character voice. God damn it.

Please. I'll shoot you dumb it in a bag of hammers. I'll look over at him and I'll be like, boy, shut up because I'm on dealing with this right now. All right.

So since you didn't make the notice, real Maddy, you suddenly feel a hand on your shoulder. Do I recognize the hand? Um, you're right. Yes, you do actually.

This is an enforcer that works for the mob boss with you. His name is the nose. He is the nose. He is wearing a skin tight, sleek black bodysuit with a big old red head scarf wrapped around his head entirely so you can't even see his eyes mounted or face.

Um, uh, charming. You know that the reason why they have the nickname of the nose is because you can kind of see these. He's got a big nose underneath that scarf. Oh God.

Yes. I will look up. I'm gonna be like, no, it's good to see you. It's good to see that you're here too.

Everybody's here on time. That's good. I need to go get a drink or three. Oh God.

I hate this. It doesn't policy here. Eh, it's fine. I get used to it.

You're gonna have the anti-drug pill. I'll drop a few for you guys. You take one and you're not drunk for like 10 minutes. Well, I'm not, I kind of, you know me or my my, you know, yeah.

I know that you need to get ready. So go get comfortable. You're gonna tilt this operation if you're not comfortable. And then he walks away.

That's the nose. You want to sober up. You better crush that shit up and snort it. It's got a time release on it.

That breaks the time seal. You can hear the nose adios you walk by. So everybody kind of gets to the table at the same time. The drinks are the drinks are brought to the table by the bartender.

The nose you can see is drinking extremely strong silt liquor. Will you got your your classic algae beer brought out to the table, which it tastes kind of like cremaile, but it makes your nose tickle. Uh, Ali, Ali, Ali, you have a drink that looks like a swirling galaxy. And Mari, you have a drink that kind of tastes like 70 different fruits.

Yes. Yes. It's very, very good. Once you all sit down at the table, the nose pulls out a blueprint of the casino that you've been hired to rob.

Now, this blueprint does have like a basic breakdown of what's how many floors there are and which floors are which, but I do want to point out to Ray Nathan Charles Ray. There's also detailed electrical schematics, security schematics, pipes, vent systems. If you needed to know anything about this building, you would probably be able to know it, but it is pretty detailed. So anyone without that kind of experience would probably just see a map.

Hey, yeah, I did some time as a, as an apprentice, for a fusion generator. And first time I did that online, I did it wrong in my foreman. He got so pissed because I didn't started a black hole. But you know what, I learned from that and did the wiring next time I called him up and said, I need you to run through this.

And he was like, right, Nathan, you got this, you got this. So I did it and flipped them lights on. And now every time we pass that system, I'm like, I did that. I did that.

Just the whole time you were talking, Alan's just like looking at you like with complete infatuation and saturation, just that's the most interesting thing she's ever heard. Oh hell, yeah, little help me and you go back a long ways. I seen you in a dog stage. I know I missed you so much.

I was just gonna get lost looking at a drink for a minute. Oh wait, wait a second. What smells like Rhett Baloney? Was y'all messing around with him Chuckie cheese types out there?

Chuckie cheese. What's baloney? I want to eat it or drink it. What is it?

Oh, it's this cultural thing they have on earth. It's so good. I don't know what it's made of. I think he's done not to ask.

But it's like these really thin little slices and it it tastes kind of salty. It's not horrible, but it's like a staple for the poorer parts of America. It's really cool. It's really good.

What the fuck you mean by that? We mean by poor America. I'm just saying when I was on earth, I noticed a lot of people. What would you say that?

Guys, guys, can we not start talking like this at the moment? We're trying to focus on the plan. When charming speaks up, Mari's gonna look at charming and go, Hi, I'm of the Cali family. I am Mari.

Who are you? I'm charming. Just charming. Mari, you know one thing.

El never stops talking about earth to the point where you think it's like Narnia doesn't even fucking exist. And also, you know that you've not re-nathin once or twice. And he also talks about the same place. So as much as you like these folks, you are kind of under the impression that they're out of their fucking minds.

That's okay, because I am too. Okay, good. Just making sure everyone's in the same basket axe. No, charming is not sick as that.

Wait, you slick her now shit. You shut the hell up. Talking here. Okay, so you can while you're talking, the nose slowly moves his scarf off of his mouth, and you can see the bottom part of his mouth right underneath where his nose would be.

He's got a very pale gray skin and a very humanoid looking face. And he says, well, we don't have a lot of time, so let me walk you through it. There's a party in the casino today. The boss is going to be taking his best goons and getting them destroyed.

That means that there's an opportunity for us to take what's there without him noticing. So what I would recommend is that you put one person following him around, you put one person on the prism, and then you put one person in the party room as well. He likes to move around. He's probably either going to be in the party room on the second floor or the high roller's room on the fourth floor.

He spent some time in there trying to pick people up. That's kind of gross. I'm going to stick near him or else he'll suspect something. I recommend that we make securing the prism the highest priority because after that, you will need to get the power to the casino for us to escape.

On the fifth floor basement, there is an emergency elevator that we could use to get out. But if something goes wrong, here are also ventbators on the fourth floor. Those just happen to be through the sewage vents. Mmm, eww.

I'm going to go to the second floor basement right now in the hammock party. I'll keep an eye out for you. You should all go through the sewage grate. Charming, you know how to get in.

I do. That I do. I don't care what you guys do. I'll know as soon as the prism is taken, and I'll head towards the bottom floor.

Does that sound like a deal? Crazy. Sure. Hey, yeah, we can do that.

Just remember our agreement, though, as well. Charming, I remember our agreement. But we agree that we get the prism first no matter what. Right, right.

All the rest, we can figure out after that happens. Fine. And he pulls up his chair, kills his drink, and walks away. That was fun.

You four are just stuck there in the bar trying to figure out how in the hell to make this happen. I can get us in easily through this, through the basement, through the sewage vent area. I have uniforms, IDs for you. No one really checks them anyway because that's the shitty job on the bit possible.

Now who wants to do what? Well, you know, I can't be up in that high roller slope. That's that's too rich for my blood. But you know, they got respect racing up there.

Go, Junior's doing a show in this weekend. Oh, he's expected to win. Rainy thing. Go ahead and give me a lower roll.

Okay. I got a two. Okay, that's pretty good, actually. You know that if this is what they're really taking as a quasar prism, this really kind of super rare gem that has hyper condensed amounts of energy in it, they're probably going to need you to take it out because it's dangerous and could probably blow up the entire space station if they dropped it.

Yeah, y'all won't be touching that. That's y'all not certified. You're non-union. That's you're going to have to leave that to me.

I was hoping you'd say that because you seem to know the stuff better than I do. Hell yeah, I do. And so if Rainy thing is doing that, that leaves the other three of you to split your attention between three different floors. The second floor basement where this boss is having his party, the fourth floor basement where the quasar prism is being stored, or the top floor of the casino in the high roller's club.

I'll let you talk it out and figure out where you want to go. Don't worry. We'll cut anything that isn't cinematic. Well, we already kind of established that Rainy thing has to be the one that takes it out.

So I think you should go to that one. Yeah. Where is that? For floor basement.

The basement floor, the is that the security electric and everything? Yeah, for floor basement. Okay, got it. So and then the other one is the private club zone or the high rollers.

So I'm pretty sure I'll go either way, your either place would be perfectly okay. So I'll let you pick where you might know. Well, my specialty is infiltration. So I'm not entirely certain where you need me.

Do you want to be with rich bloods or do you want to be with the goons on the second floor in the basement? Give me the second floor basement. Okay. I will say one thing very quick.

Before you go too far, you do know that they will not even let you on the fifth floor unless you show off how much money you have. That's not a problem. Okay. Okay.

That's all I sort of hired you. I'm really good at that. I have a three-game race. So do we have El going up to the top floor and Mari going to the second floor basement in the party zone?

Yes. Yes. And so then turning where are you going to end up? Oh fudge.

I don't know. Half of me wants to say I want to go to the second basement floor. What half of me just wants to be with Ray. Can I do both?

Go on to be in two places at once. Like see like make sure he gets to the place and then go upstairs. So you want to basically escort him through the fourth floor to get him where he needs and then go upstairs after you know he's good. Yeah.

Okay, that makes sense to me. In which case, I'll probably put you two together first and then have you move on once you know everything is good. As much as you don't think this the fourth floor basement is too scary. You don't know that there are at least like 10 or 12 armed guards that patrol around making sure everyone's here.

And I feel like me being a common worker down there would have a better chance of getting past them than just him by himself. Absolutely. They all recognize you and wouldn't think twice about you. They might have some questions about your friend but he's also an employee.

So it shouldn't be a big deal. Yep. Okay. So let's go ahead and move on.

I'm going to split these scenes based on the room that folks are in and I'm going to go ahead and start with L. So you left the bar and you went to go to the casino that you're going to be hitting up. And one thing that really sticks out to you is that everything on the space station is very bright and very colorful. And it kind of it's almost like a Disney world for weird stunted adults.

But this casino in particular is garbage. It looks super cheap. There are pieces falling off of the front sign. It's called the cash hole casino and they have like an anthropomorphic credit sign for their mascot.

It does give you a big time check each side. Well, that doesn't really bug. She's pretty like mellow about everything as long as people are having good time. She doesn't care.

Yeah. So when you walk through the front door, you know, there's a ton of people having a good time. There's a bunch of like carnival games and food and all of that stuff. And as you walk through the room to get to the elevator to get up to the top floor, you notice that there's like probably a thousand people on the floor.

So many super bright and all these or is it so cool. We also noticed that people are when you walk by them, they seem to some of them kind of turn their heads and start getting kind of weird looks on their faces. Like aggressive weird or like, what is that weird? It's like, oh my gosh, what happens?

Almost. You can tell that some of the folks, because you have so many different alien species in one place, some of them are rapping to your pheromones, even at really low levels. So she's gonna get a little self-conscious about it and start like running her wrists together because it's kind of what she does. It actually increases the amount of it.

But she's just kind of hoping that the majority of them are not gonna reactivately towards it because she doesn't usually know how people are gonna do it. Sure. And it seems like in this case, they're just more curious than anything else. So it's nothing too scary, but you can definitely tell, oh, there are a lot of people here and they do notice me.

She's just gonna keep smiling and waving and acting like maybe she's used to it, but inside she's just like internally screaming like, don't look any. Okay. You actually, a couple of people who look like they're dressed as attendants come up to you, but then as soon as they get away from your pheromone, they kind of like look funny and then turn around and walk away. Okay, that's interesting.

They were just gonna try to sell you on like some knick knacks or some drinks, but they just kind of, for whatever reason, buttoned up and turned around and walked away. When you do get to the elevator and there is a quilless attendant there, quilless are kind of looking like elves, just very humanoid aliens. And he says, we're too dear. I would really, really like to see the high roller suites.

I've heard they're really cool and I just, I got paid this weekend, you know, I want to burn a little money, kill some time. Okay, so like I find myself absolutely enraptured by you and I'd love to give you anything you need, but I'm afraid I'm gonna get in trouble if you're not well off, if you're not rich. Oh, that's not a problem. Oh, and she's just gonna like pull out like I would assume is the university version of the black card.

That's not a problem. It's okay. I don't want to get anybody in trouble. I promise.

Oh, oh, you sweetheart, let me get you up to the top four straight away. Thank you so much. You're so helpful. I'm just gonna like touch your shoulder.

Yeah, and he's going to kind of bristle and you can see the quills on the back of his head stand up straight and he outshares you into the elevator. And as you go up the elevator, you notice that there are, there was a mounted machine gun in the elevator, just right above the ceiling pointed directly whoever is in the elevator. And it is not moving. It's not active or anything, but you're starting to get the impression that this place might be not classy.

Once you get up to the top floor, kind of a different thing though, the doors of the elevator open and the floor is just a perfect colorful glass with constantly moving geometric shapes. The walls look like opal. They they're a pale shade of white, but then you can see rainbow when the light dances across them. There's about 100 people in here.

They're all dressed to the nines. There's like a dance floor, a couple of bars, a couple of card tables. You also see them kind of being shady to the staff. You see a couple of people spit on them.

You get the impression that you're kind of among extremely rich pieces. And your shoulders just sag just a little bit because she always hates it when people are rude. Just like at home. And you notice that finding the boss up here might be a problem because you don't have a description on it.

Do we have communicators of any kind or like a way to talk, wait, don't we detect each other or something? I hate to say like space phones. I would say that you and Mari do. Okay, and I assume that because charming was going with Ray Charles and they would probably have to go in the same direction.

They may still be together. So I'm just gonna text Mari and be like, do you know what this boss looks like? Do I get the text message? You do get the text message and you do actually know as well.

You actually saw a news report about this guy like six months ago. He is a nine mile long tape worm coiled up to look like a human in a humanoid form. And the reason why he saw him in the news was for a massive amount of bank fraud. So he was actually really queued up to go to debtor's prison until he pulled off this like miracle in court.

And so he's kind of known as the guy who got away. He got off got free with defrauding people out of billions of dollars in money. Does he look like does he still look like a worm or is he? He shaped like a person because all of the worms are coiled on top of each other.

And he wears really, really expensive like three piece suits and gloves and jewelry. So you kind of get the impression that he really wants to look like a person. So I will I will text back. Look for a pile of worms in a human suit.

How many emojis? Like three winky faces. You get the text and go ahead and make a notice roll L. Okay.

I'll ask you either. I'm not dumb. I'm ADHD. I'm real dumb because I'm a negative one.

Okay. I get it one. Okay. Well, you definitely don't see him.

But when a there's a bartender near you who sees you kind of like slack jawd looking around the room. And he kind of he gives you a hand motion to come on over. He looks like a large parrot, like a almost like a parrot person. It's a species of the Perotians.

And he says, what are you looking for, honey? I can see like around. I'm just taking it all in. It's just so colorful and bright.

I love it. You guys have slot machines up here? No, slot machines are for uh, urchins. But they're so fun.

We're not about fun up here. We're about decadence. This is where you go to live without rules and live without laws. But I suppose we could get a slot machine if you really wanted one.

No, I don't want to bother anybody. I'm just going to keep looking around. I heard a rumor that you guys was boss hangs out in here though. And I just I'm so curious who would run something like this.

It's I've never met somebody that owns a casino. I've met somebody that owns a mall. Oh, um, our boss, huh? Boss four.

Boss four. Well, let me ask you a question. Have you ever met the big guy before? No.

Okay. This is my first thing here. Okay. I'll go ahead and make me empathy roll.

Oh, I can do that so well. So well. And that is a plus six. Okay.

With a plus six. You can tell that this guy is pretty susceptible to your pheromones. And not only that, but you can tell that the effect that his your pheromones have on him is that he's getting more comfortable with you and he wants to talk to you and he's kind of really getting engaged. The more you talk, the more he's kind of looking at you over and getting excited, kind of like a happy puppy dog though.

Now, that's a sexy thing. Yeah, my other people want to be my friends. I love people want to be my friends. Yeah, he really wants to be your friend.

He goes, well, um, well, she's, you know, I just met you, but I feel a connection between us. I don't know if you feel it. Um, I would, I'll tell you what, he's having a private party today. And I think he would, he just left here to go down to the to the party room.

And I'm not supposed to let anybody know, but I, for a hundred thousand crads, I'll give you an invite. A hundred thousand. I think I can do that. And she's gonna like reach over and just like, just the smallest little puff of the pheromones is going to go out.

And then she's like, you guys have, and she looks and she's trying to find one of those machines where you could just basically get the credits or whatever. Cause I don't know if you just like swipe things. I don't know how he goes. He's currently works.

The way it works is you just hold your equivalent of the black card up and he sees that you have the money and kind of nods. He holds his own up and they touch and then the money's transferred. Cool. She's just got to do it.

All right. So you can, as soon as you left those extra pheromones that you can see his eyes are like fully dilated. He's drooling around his mouth and he's kind of starting to look a little disheveled. But he does hand you over like a little ticket and on the side on the ticket itself is this Vos Voor's amazing birthday party.

You got this special invite because you're a special person. Present this to the elevator and you will be taken to the best party of your life. Hey, oh, it's just birthday. I should get him something and she's gonna like, trail off for a second in thought.

And she's like, I forgot to ask what your name is. I'm so sorry. It's so rude. My name's Al.

Well, you were trailed off and thought he passed out. That happened. It's just gonna kind of like look him over. Does he have anything like particularly interesting on his body?

Oh, make you a noticeable plus two plus two and you have a bad notice, right? Yeah, I know. Okay. So if you look him over, you notice that he's got an interesting looking key ring.

And if you take a look at it, you can see that one of the things that he has a key tool says elevator. Well, might have like bar lists are napping and she's gonna reach down and like try to like take it and just like shove it in this lease of frank looking bag. She has in the bag. Yeah, you've got the key.

All right. So I'm going to cut over to Ali. Ali, how are you going to try to get in the second floor basement? Do I do I?

So as I'm walking to the elevator to try and get on the elevator, do I notice anything going on there in the elevator itself? You notice that there's basically always an attendant as well as a mounted weapon on the ceiling to prevent problems from breaking out? But could you make me a notice for sure? That's a bad role.

That is a zero. Actually, that's not too bad. You do know that there is an emergency vent in the elevator. And although it's pretty small, you could probably flex your way into it.

Okay. And if you get to the vent system, then you know, based on the blueprints that you guys are looking at, you basically go anywhere in the building. Yeah. So I'm going to get into the vents.

I'm going to try and get into this. Okay, can you make me a stealth roll or a, what's the thing that gives you your you have like a shape shifting thing? Yeah. So I have a stunt that's called anywhere my beat can fit.

And I get a plus two to burglary when I'm trying to get into a small space. Okay, can you make me a deceive roll and a burglary? Where to see first, that is a plus three and burglary. Oh, hello.

That's beautiful. So that is a plus six. A plus six. Holy shit.

Okay. Not only were you able to like hop in that emergency vent when the attendant wasn't looking, you didn't notice the camera in the elevator, tracking you whatsoever. It's almost like you're invisible. So you sneak into this vent system.

And from the vent system, it's not really well labeled. You can almost tell that whoever built this building cut a lot of corners, but it is relatively safe. There's not a lot of like air moving through it or anything. So are you just going to try to explore these vents to get down to that floor?

Yes. Okay. I'm just going to say that's pretty easy to do. You know, you know, your way around the vent system you've been here before.

So mental image here. Mari has completely dropped her disguise. So she looks like an octopus and she's just like slowly suffering like pinmealing her appendages and suffering herself along the event passages. And every once in a while, you come across like a fan or whatever, but you can use your tendrils to kind of just slow it down and slip your way through.

You do get to down to the second floor basement and you can tell it's the second floor basement because there's incredibly loud music playing. And it sounds like this wonderful combination of a rap and country. Okay. It's the most popular genre of music on space.

So it's kind of Joe? Yes. Every song is got a joke. Oh, kill me.

So you're in these vents and you see that there are actually a couple of vent openings. There's one that would drop you out in what kind of looks like a private lounge. Okay. There's one that would drop you out right above the bar.

And there's one that would drop you out inside of a side room, like a supply closet. I want to go in the supply closet. Okay. Can you go ahead and make me a burglary roll?

Yes. That was slightly less good. So that is a plus five plus five. Okay.

That's pretty good. Once you slip into the closet, you notice there's a very small person in there about 12 inches high. Okay. And he's puking his guts out.

But because you're successful with your burglary, he doesn't notice you at all hanging from the ceiling from the vent. So what I would like to do is kind of like cling to the vent and the ceiling and try to disguise myself as part of the ceiling until this guy or person stops puking their guts out and opens the doors so I can sneak out with them. Yep. He's like, he kind of looks like a 10 inch tall.

Human being. And he is kind of puking and puking. And while you're waiting, I'm going to go ahead and cut over to everybody else. Will and Maddie.

Or I should say, Ray Nathan Charles Ray and Charming. You get all dressed up in your official casino worker outfit with your ID badges. And Charming, you get to take him to the staff entrance, which is kind of on the cliff near the casino where there's a building that you can enter through. And when you get there, you know, there's a couple of guards that check your ID, they kind of look you over there.

Okay, you're charming. You can go through. But one of them does stop and go, who's the guy you got with you? Charming.