I am back but starting the final part of episode one. So our heroes have gone into the Office the fancy room as as we call it. I really wanted to make that the potty room, but we could never get in I mean, yeah, I want to do my business. Yeah, I mean So so yeah, you guys are in this room.
What are you who's looking for what you doing? I'm trying to see if there's some kind of manifesto or some kind of log that tells me what was being developed here Is there a place is getting shipped to do a buyer's list, you know, just stuff like this What did this factory make and who did they sell it? You're going through like the desk to go through paper work. Okay, cool.
Um, roll me a Let's call it a Just a general knowledge check. I think it's our best video. I'm a son else makes more sense. Okay, I think I think I'll make the most sense Okay.
Yeah, that's a intellect. Yeah, I've only got two Just two green Let's do and one for one and one for yeah, okay, yeah playing a time. So okay to advantage It's it's hard to tell you when you go through it You just don't have the knowledge of the government. You don't know But you like you found papers that seem important Um, if you want to give those to someone else and give them advantage on their check Um, you can spend spend the advantage to like hey, I think this and this is important Can you look it over air these look important?
Can you take a look see? Yeah, I kind of take them over and I'm flipping through I think so given my background I'm looking for names So I'm trying to see if I can find to like I kind of have an understanding of like who the major player is players are like in terms of Families who are into shipping if I can identify like a name like I think I could figure out like who Bactress it from there. Yeah, it kind of gets my ideas. So I think I have proper upbringing if I would do anything Um, so remember what proper upbringing does I think it's spend strain and then it's I would assume it just gets me.
I believe it's you can spend a strain. I think it's a game either bonus. I'm gonna say it's one Success, okay, we'll look back for the episode to make sure we know exactly what it does So you take a strain it's like essentially like you like root back into the you know deep crev Like I'm yeah, exactly deep crevices of my brain Um, so then it's gonna be whatever your in like this to um, and then you go blue die because you can't do right important papers And then one hurdle and that's what you're rolling All right, so three advantage. It's three advantage And then you get one success automatically from your from taking the stress and then you have one disadvantage and then one failure So again, you like I think again you you're on that cost, you know, you know You got the right thing.
I think it like it de-stresses you a bit. Um, so you hear that stress, um, but you know You know that this is someone that used to be here that may have left the city But you don't exactly like you couldn't find the name You know, you know some basic information You know that there was someone that was here that was working on this project Um, and they left but you don't have any information to why they left and like the papers that you were looking through must have not Had the name it was just like the foreman did that like it was like titles. It was not names. Okay.
Um, well, they're going through paperwork What are you doing? I'm looking for credits treasure or cool stuff. Okay. Um, so cool stuff I mean, there's obviously the gun that's in the corner.
Yeah, you could do that um, yeah, definitely so we got the kid drunk We got him shot out. Let's give him a gun. Yeah, it's the logical next time a teenager. So it's fine.
It's just he's a blessing right through You know, absolutely drugs, you know Fuck it. Let's do it. I don't think his kid has one Okay, um, so yeah, if you just want to let go this like essentially just double the gun to grab it and like yeah Okay, I want to do that. Is that skull degree?
Yes, you got advantage because it like you've dealt with this thing before Um, and it's just a single purple. Let's see if we can succeed on something Okay, so that is two successes one failure to advantage one disadvantage you have a success and an advantage so we did it Whoa and then what is it? What is it? What is it?
You know, uh, so it like usually when you take something off like this Uh, something gets damaged or something is kind of nicked But with the advantage this thing comes off like pristine you find like the exact thing to like if I pull this you can take off Problem to just yanking it off right so like the belt comes with it like I've got this like rotator pistol thing Uh with an empty clip. Yep. So you essentially what you have is a rotor pistol. That's been modified Um, I'll take this essentially it's a rotor pistol with a belt belt thing on it.
Yeah, we'll work out details after the episode Sounds good. It is Tough to use right now. Oh, yeah, and like it's very much modified to be like attached to this thing You may need to do some more stuff to make it usable by a person. Okay, um, but you can do with that later But yeah, you got this like you look really badass like yeah It's like small fist with this like giant empty belt on it that this 12-year-old is holding like a strap It's a built-fit pistol, which is weird, but yeah, you've got this cool thing.
Do you guys think I'll need this? I'll probably buy your evening. Yes. Okay Talk that away.
Cool. Um, so what he's been that what I guess what else he is looking for so I take the papers So I just kind of pick a couple off the top and be like, okay So this is like a manifest like this has major information Like I I take a couple and kind of fold them up and put them in my pocket being like, okay Let's you know, maybe we can find something later. Okay Um from if you want um if you just like take all the papers that you know are important Um, you could just over time eventually go through them and find it it won't be like I look at it now It's more like like next couple of days when you're yeah While you're resting or whatever you can check it and then get all the other eventually but maybe something will click later Yeah, um, we're gonna show you got the factory government paperwork. What about the rest of these?
Is there anything worth keeping? I think I have everything that we need. I think the rest of it is just you 100% sure So I'll reach us into is uh jack and pull that imagine lights it Fine, whatever. Let's just burn the whole damn place down.
Come on. I've wanted to do this for months I was just gonna burn the paper, but if we go I'm gonna go in the corner You know to be fair. I did it up there you get at it. This is the fancy bathroom I've been wanting this for so long.
I hair is just like whatever rolling her eyes like salt burns What's left of the papers? Uh, I want to see is there like a safe or something? Um, so and on the bottom drawer of the desk, um is like locked Um, so there's there's that there's no safe in there, but there's there's a lot to draw Uh, and then I say hey, uh kid flip swap whatever, uh, come here gun Like go and just like I take it. Is this midwiz?
Yes, I mean, I just can't do anything about it Pull it off the shoulder and like I just take it away because that's the right thing to do And then I just like I kind of like look at the lock for a second kind of line it up And then see if I can just like smash it like and see if that like Jimmy like if it's a really solid locker If it's just like a normal desk lock that I can just like hit uh, yeah roll me a Athletics check, uh difficulty you want so wonderful. All right, so one purple versus What's your bra? Uh two and then I have career skill with uh one rank so it'll be one green one y'all How many purples are there? Just one okay.
I'm just gonna eat it The lock was the door and the gun so um so yeah, that's what three successes and then yep You you pop it and like you hear less like click of like something pops into place and then it just like it Does that slow open ropens while I can she can grab it and pull it off? Yeah, is the gun demon shiro? Um Roll me just roll me one blue and one black Just Uh, no you're good. Okay, so yeah, maybe there's like a little bit of nick in the paint So I just yeah, I kind of like I hold it by that like I grab it by the belt and just kind of toss it back at him Like to see if he catches it like without without looking I just like toss it back Are you just like I just finished up and I just like pick like put my pants back on like in a hurry So there's like some drops on like the pant leg Uh, and so it goes and so it goes and then I throw a gun at you Is that like athletics to catch it?
You can work roll coordination if you want I'm not making you but if you want to Okay, so it's based on agility that's three greens And then a single purple. Okay, how hard you throw it should be a pose I just I touched it. She didn't like baseball at that you uh once it says once it says one to fill your three advantage So, uh, oh, yeah, right. That's a advantage.
So yeah, you succeed with two advantage Yeah, so I can't just like pop my shoulder out and it just lands back with the belt wrapped around it It's like a cool guy thing or like Yeah, and I salty give her a wink Salted it not bad kid not bad. I ignore it all Uh, so I'm just looking in the drawer like I'm not focused on anything like I'm just like, okay, okay So in the drawer there is a um, there's a bottle of some dark liquor. Oh, yeah, um, so you get that um, so so so laughing Hey kid, we might have some before yeah, oh, yeah another gun Not quite not yet. Give it time.
So I take the liquor and I put it I'm like in my like I'm assuming that'll come in handy later Um, there's also a And this like you're going through things and like there's a couple of papers seems fine and like you add that to the your You know bundle because these are obviously all important papers. Yeah, you got some important papers You got the liquor and then behind all the papers there is this like cylindrical circular thing with a bunch of gears on the outside of it Um, rome a knowledge check. Okay, there's no like no purple dice. I just want to know like in general how much do you know about this thing?
Yep, okay, so that's nothing with One advantage. Okay. Um, you don't know exactly how to trigger this thing, but you do know that this is a clockwork grenade That there's some government worker So I'm assuming if I know how to I don't know how to trigger it do I mean do I know how to safely like You know how to properly handle it, but you don't know like how long it'll take to go out You just don't you haven't helped out these where you've seen them been used But you just haven't dealt with them But it's there's some there's some mechanical thing about them that you know that they are very dangerous You know that it's safe to like pick up and handle but you don't know like there's not like pull you can pull but you don't know You don't want to talk about it right now, but you do know that and that's the end Limit like the great is too far. All right, so I kind of take it and like show it to salt like do Do this isn't like the ones that I've seen do you know anything is anything like It doesn't look standard issue.
Can I take a look at it? Yeah, I might be able to figure something out. That's mechanical. Look I kind of like show it look don't touch Okay Roll that with a simple Nice critical success.
That's critical. So um two failures. Well, but the critical success lets you do special stuff. Okay, so Special stuff.
I school Yeah, what is it that you know that maybe only know about these grenades? Well, I service a handful of gears on a new daily basis So based on the the rough size of some of these like clockwork pieces and maybe the length of the fuse I can determine about how long it would take with this thing to actually explode. Okay On the one thing you do know is you do know these things are unstable Oh mechanically if you ever roll a check and you roll these critical failures. It blows up in your hand Okay, so you know that if you're in a tense with yeah tense situation and you're handling correctly you can just And that's it's all dangerous.
So but only when you're like going to pull the actual yeah, exactly. Yeah, when when essentially when you're throwing it if you Pull it incorrectly. It just essentially blows up in your hand. Yes.
They are dangerous But you do know that they are you know, they're kind of devastated like they do damage of big AOE they you know it burns people Um, you know, it's a it's a large blast radius, but it is dangerous. Yeah, that's a scary Technical term I'm assuming so I mean you've seen those things go off I imagine it's not much different than that You see the kind of at the bottom of that pin or that where you yank it out Kind of at the base of that you see how it's a little close to that like the triggering mechanism Usually it's supposed to like kick off a timer and then it blows up But if you nick it right if you nick it a little too much the whole thing will just blow up in your hands So when you're pulling out you gotta pull it straight out and if you come at an angle that things just get blown up Yes, that's good to know. I'm uh, I'm gonna hold on to this and don't touch it Yeah, yeah, I mean my big question is like what's it doing here? Like what does some office guy who's managing a factory?
Like what do they need with like a high power? I'm assuming this is like stable high power I mean, yeah, it's there's a turret guarding the room a grenade in the lot like some shit was going down Makes you wonder about that liquid you're stashing your pack too. Well, we'll make the kid test it out later. That's fair Is what else is what else is in the room?
Um, so other than like the door that you finally go you see that like really inch it like all these like clockwork gears that together have been like manually locked room boom Um, there's the window to the outside that uh salt noticed earlier There's the big desk and then there's this uh fairly large like um book display But instead of like where you would like essentially instead of having a bunch of other is a bunch of different like weird little like clockwork figurines It's like kind of goes a little animal figure but they're all made of these like weird little clockwork like like many many creatures essentially But they're really kind of like you know like this like I'm like, you know get that in your hand like cogs and brass Yep, just being punk knickknacks. Yep, just being punk knickknacks Chachkeys, just being stuck Yeah, and that's like it's like it's one of a dog and you know a bunch of animals mostly um dog bird Gonna need the dog one winning. No reason. No reason at all.
Can I get that? Can I get that third one? I mean, I mean behind the glass like or like the cabin? Okay, so yeah, I just like I take I'm assuming and it's like too high for him to reach Gently gently Yeah, so when you look at it, there's like there's a Spinner but you like grab it like with your hands on like spin it Frank and then when it goes it like it just does like like a Flapping doesn't actually fly it just does a basic motion cool They don't do they look particularly valuable or they just kind of Just play pieces to a certain person.
They're probably very valuable They you know they made like a person that likes these type of knickknacks You know it's like you're gonna go to a random shop in the window where they've got a bunch of that they really care about But most people like us just a little knickknack whatever touchy. I'm gonna take one I guess I'm gonna take a little horse a horse. I'm an error on the um have you seen a horse before or is it this strange? I mean I've seen a picture of a horse.
I know it's a horse because I see like in there's like fairy tale books Like knights and shining armor. I think I've seen I've seen what a horse looks like Yeah, because like mostly animals like birds really common Um any fish life life that like happen to be near the surface people have seen but like most animals are not like they're like people know that Rambled around that's only been a hundred years or so since that you know stuff happened But like seeing a horse is nothing but they definitely you know people's grandparents lived through it So they knew animals um but you probably yeah, so you've heard about horses you've seen a picture No, you think that do you spin a little thing? Yeah, it does the like the pop pop pop pop Like both front and back legs like the move of a horse move cute I I mean this doesn't do you think this is the kind of thing that they would have like manufactured here Is this just I mean it just seems kind of random very misleading Anything else on this bookshelf um there is one very large like you know like one of you know thousand page book Like it's just giant one giant book. I mean you look at it looks like a manual to create It's it's both a manual to create or build these things in a very like specific way, but it's also Um like management instructions.
What do you do in case of fire? What are you doing like it's kind of everything? It's like you know a one and all book to how to run this but so from an HR perspective and from a like how do I create the thing? So the the book would would imply that this factory made Joshy But then had an unstable grenade and pistols inside of the main office There's definitely something that was going on.
I think I'll be here to do something else It must be really valuable. It's also what government would fund the creation of little fun toys Oh, Joshy's So that's a real word So salt goes up to flip turns him around pulls a shirt open and he looks at the gear on his back Okay, I kind of like lean over like like what are you? Is this it? I'm looking for some kind of distinguishing mark to see if there's a manufacturer or like a maker's mark Hey, look at your little horse you said.
Yeah, take a look at it. Does anything match Do I see anything so am I like a little toy now? Just how are you reacting to like being moved? I'm kind of like locked up and I'm just like what in the world are you doing trying to get you answer so she You've got a 30% stake in this so remember that 35 She's quite good.
She might have dropped at 34 So yeah, I'm looking so I'm like turning over the little horse like it's really like small So I'm looking but like and then trying to like glance over at the kid and like see if there's any marks that that match up Or if there's you know like a maker's mark or something that would be me a clue Romeo perception check that's what you see close my eyes for a second and flex and The gears and they back start to spin slowly nice Uh, so that was early perception. Yeah, no, do you believe this the raw green? I agree or but no ranks. Okay.
So one success Um, you so you do know that like the technology is the same like it's clockwork technology Which like is kind of record everything um, but there is There are certain tells that certain manufacturers may have or may not have and whatever is built into him is much more complicated than anything in these little creatures Um, there's something like some of the some of the gears are like much more like much tighter even in the small little creature because they're like very intricate But then there's other ones that are like just huge like powerful Whatever it is that kind of keeps him moving is much more complicated than whatever little trinkets was running these creatures So similar technology either different builder or very different amount of money is put into one person I say as much to salt and I'm like, I mean, it's not surprising I mean it to make a little creature walk versus to like make a person alive again Like that's a different level of technology, but I don't see anything like immediately similar Was there anything on that? Get away from them and pull my shirt back. Town just like are you okay? Are we done?
Do you ever have like steam come on or is it mostly clockwork that runs you? Very infrequently. I've got a little only a night a couple small holes on my shoulders Uh that when I when I get a little too hot like you'll see visible seams It's almost kind of like when a truck is like slowing down and just like Yeah, uh, and it's only like in extreme situations most of the time like the exhaust comes out so infar Not infar frequent, but so such little so Like when your heart is beating yeah like fast constantly always exhausting here But when in high stress situations you can actually see it okay So like when we were at the bar and they were like drilling you it was probably like a constant Yeah, okay, but you know since you've calmed down it's probably it's little first here and there but otherwise Okay, cool. Oh just curious But take on comparison era was there something on that bottle you stashed in your pack I kind of pull it out and like shake it a little bit to see if it's like I'm assuming it's liquor But like this is the first time I'm actually examining it Well, let me take a look at that.
I'm very familiar with liquor Yeah, okay No, and I like pull it away from it like no Maybe later and I kind of look and see if is anything is it labeled or um, yes, there is a label with a manufacturer on it Um, it's just called um iron tris t-r-i-s I've oh is there like it's a corkter. Oh, yeah, it's a big cork Um, the words iron tris and then there's a symbol of like a wave Um, it's like the company symbol. I like pull it out and smell it. What does it smell like?
It smells like very strong and ordinary I I was kept from emergencies. I yeah, I handed this out like okay bottoms up Salt definitely takes a sip. Yeah, and it's it's definitely strong with the stuff from last night This is this will give you a good couple nights. I like I like take it back and also take a sip like yeah Do I do I this format was he had good taste do I recognize it as like anything like I recognize it as particularly ritzy or um less ritzy and more Who's wrong?
It's like when essentially what she goes down. He wanted to be able to get real fucked up Basically and then get native green after they after they inch take a step up What kind of put this put this hand out for the bottle? I like take a stand and like shake it nice with you. Don't mess with me.
Okay, like I'm maybe when you're part of the team Okay, sure thing and then so like I kind of like I'm just brushing him off And I kind of like sit up and like lean up against the desk like trying to think like okay, so do I get some later? Thanks dad. I mean So I'm just kind of like talking about I'm thinking like okay, so Nobody like left in a hurry like nothing went wrong. It seems like they like funding moved around that you know that kind of stuff just happens market demands change you know, nobody like it wasn't like an emergency but like This guy left this grenade here.
So he clearly like left but it was worried about something people don't just leave unstable grenades in a Destor and it was still locked. So what like what does that tell us? So is he still alive? Did he disappear?
I don't see anything. I mean we don't know like maybe and as a note None of the paperwork like it was all put away in drawers clean And it was not like there was an array of papers that were pulling it was just everything was put away It was like they just went to work and then they didn't just leave one day and never came back. Yeah, exactly I don't think we're gonna find out anything else here. I think maybe we Is there anywhere like is there like a?
There's gotta be like a city manager or something. Maybe we can find some sort of records office Maybe I can get in and talk to somebody Figure out like if there's something specifically about what this was I mean, maybe if we figure out where the funding was coming from like maybe it was Maybe it was military. Maybe it was some rich persons like pet project like I we can find something out I just need some time to look it up. I can see it follow the money find the rat Let's see what's going on with the with the machines.
We never really look at them. We just kind of live here Uh, but I can take a closer look and see it now. Hey, I'll knock yourself out kid All right, let's let's lock up leave this office, right? But hold on when you say lock up.
How do you lock up the door window? Uh, knock out some more of the glass like Knock out the other windows to make it look like yeah, this was totally ransacked before Take a look. Okay. So just the machinery like in the factory.
Yeah, I was gonna go like do like a mechanic Oh, yeah, I'm a mechanic's role. Um, it'd be difficult to because if real rundown okay, I have a touch on one One time Uh, that's one failure and one advantage. Okay. Um, so you you know You're not sure what these things built.
Um, but you do know that whatever they were they they haven't touched a long time But you know and you kind of have better ideas of how long it's been. Okay, it's been Um, probably somewhere in the range of two or five years. Okay, they're not completely fully rusted over But they've like started that process of like he's having a special a long time. Um, But again, you can't tell what they built but whatever it was that they haven't touched on you know, there's like a deep layer of like Every touch that's like not like clearly like anything on the outside has been like rustled through much but anything like on the inside There's like a deep layer of dust and like they haven't touched but they're not like fully rusted through industry.
Okay These are really old. Uh, they haven't been run in years Uh, heirlines over and says thanks. That was really helpful. I'm taking 2% from you Seems for me.
Okay. How long you been here? Here I've only been here for this factory for three or four months. It's been run down the whole time.
What time is it at this point? Um So you guys woke up in the middle of the night until that stuff you guys never went back to bed. Okay, so it's it's probably like an interesting Night peak hours of the morning. Um, um, speaking of since you stayed up and then you didn't get you got me an hour of sleep I'm gonna have you make a resilience check just to see if you were like how tired you get because you're starting to realize like Oh, it's about to be morning and I never really slept.
I can yeah, I need a Starbucks right now. Uh, I'm gonna up the stakes So, uh, it's gonna be difficulty too. So it's gonna be instead of two purple to be one purple one red. Oh, no Yeah, that's enough.
Up the stakes just upgrades it basically versus one because I have nothing. Yeah So you get the feeling you're about to really tired. So that is one failure one disadvantage one success one advantage So essentially all knows out um, which means you failed. So you were getting you're just like suddenly just like and you uh gain um Two points of stress as you just start to get like tired and you realize like, oh, this is this is gonna be a long day, huh?
That tracks. Yeah. Yeah, I know that feeling. Oh, yeah, everyone knows that feeling So yeah, it's like starting to become morning.
Um, you found this stuff. You know here You said you've got all the paper so the important ones and then the ones from the drawer You've got to like you've got everything basically Why am I caring like all of a sudden like I'm just tired and I'm like like I am done with like we're clearly not gonna go back to bed There's like cockroaches and shit everywhere. I just like take like all of the the heavy thing Like take I'm assuming it's on like a folder or whatever in the bottle just put it on and I just shove it It's all like let's just get the hell out of here. I I need some actual sleep.
I have look I have a room in that in that we started at or like near there. I'm assuming Um, let me just go. Let's go back across the city. Let's grab my stuff I'm gonna catch an hour of say you want to know first you kind of look like you need it Either that or three shots of whiskey in an espresso.
I'm sure we can take care of both of them. So we've done a quick one of espresso You got a bunch of like very hard. So we've done coffee and we've done tobacco So in terms of like agricultural processes that like clearly are the most important to save like Yeah, done seems seems like it to me. So yeah, it's more like a water was like a very synthetic.
Yeah, there's some weird drug in it That just wakes you up, you know, yeah, yeah steampunk equivalent. Yeah, okay. So like here's what I'm like Let's just go back to my How do you hold? Okay, and then let's let's go through this paperwork Let me see if I can run down some some information like from the the legal side of things and you can go from there Okay, so you guys head across town um takes a couple of hours because it's a bit further away But you're able to find your way there.
Um, and yeah, this one You're just sort of tired You just like pass out on the bed while they go with the paper because you're you're gonna real tired of this one Yeah, so like I'm so we get into this like I'm assuming it's kind of like a shitty Airbnb Like there's like maybe a couple of like little apartments and there's like a lobby Like maybe with some sort of like boarding house woman And I just kind of like shove yeah I just like tell salt and like I just kind of point to like this like little bar area and I'm like look Go do whatever the hell you're gonna do and like let's send me back here at noon I'm gonna go pass out not yourself so have fun and I just kind of walk up out stairs done Okay, so yeah, what are the two of you can do while she's sleeping? Alright flip let's uh go through this but a reason why we can't get a drink I was gonna go get like a croissant Yeah, hey, but miss out on free booze. We might guess Both both be quick this uh generosity trains drying up. Do you want a croissant?
Oh shit, that's all you gotta say. Yeah, let's go man. All right. Okay.
See you guys go to get croissants. Yeah. Yeah, uh, there's uh There's a there's like a door up. Oh, there's just like bakery kind of over by this side of town I know pretty well and I usually have You know, I think your discount like a like a breakfast pastry in the morning.
Okay, so yeah, and I think It's just a stall or is it like you know like I think it's like in a building. Yeah, they've got like their Their products kind of out about okay So yeah, and I think when the two of you walk in like most of the people in here are much, you know, they're not like You know kind of homeless kid and you know grizzled veteran like you know you guys definitely stick out of it Um, and I think when you know you go up and like they've had suspicion that you've been kind of making some things earlier But because you were you know a kid and it looked like they didn't mind as much but now that you're coming with him They like looking you up. Hey, hey flip what's Hey, uh, hey Jerry Dad, this is jerry Hello, jerry. Are you uh mr.
Flip surprise? So glad to finally meet you um flip spin coming in here and we try to take care of him. He's good kid. Good.
Good kid Glad to hear it catch. Uh, I try to catch salt's eye Uh kind of like making like the keep stall him like keep him busy Kind of hand gesture at him. So uh flip spin telling me about this bakery Nothing but good things. What kind of products do you make here?
I mean all all sorts we've got you know morning morning the lights and you know soft and some You know just all sorts of things to really clean, you know give you a bright and early, you know Good morning flip. It's told me that your croissants are particularly good. Is that true? They are good.
Um, but you know he normally doesn't buy anything Can you tell me about the butter? Butter contents of your croissants like I'm very particular about my my pastries. Oh my god My family uh Is a fan of croissants. Can you tell me about the butter content?
Oh, it's it's it's impeccable. Just it's it's it's to die for so How many of these butter croissants can I uh can I ring up for you? And she pulls out a piece of paper and how before we and uh salt kind of looks at flip like I know what you're doing hurry up and Nick them like before we decide on croissants. So show me your other baked goods first and foremost Flips off to the side kind of perusing through a collection of like danishes and croissants Uh, he's feeling like a cheese danish today instead.
Uh, so he's gonna grab one of those and uh and a croissant for Resolve efforts. Okay, roll me a skill dagger check You bet um you have advantage from him helping you disadvantage because they know that you steal stuff Which adds a balloon black. Okay. Um, and then also by default and let's get difficulty Uh to do verbal.
Okay, I don't think I'm gonna use a story You could upgrade to the other person really can plot twist like man missing out as the bakers the whole time. Okay, so that is That's a lot of failures Which somebody can we throw this versus that one success? Uh one failure, uh one success two disadvantage to advantage so one disadvantage and The something else knows out. Okay.
Yeah, so um so I think I think you're like trying to figure out what to get and you're just You're you're just stunned by indecision. Um, I've never had this much opportunity Um and I think when this happens, um the the lately stuff was like oh flip What would you like? I've already started wearing off something um with your with your dad So what what can I get you and she's like got her paper out? I see I see you I in those those uh cheese ones.
Oh, um dummy Help We'll take one croissant and one cheese danish. Okay. No, she's like 3% from you. You're not here I'm telling her about this by the way.
That's his mother. She uh, oh, I'm sure she's a wonderful one. She Yeah, it rings it up and uh it'll be uh two credits for the the to the to there enough She takes it and pockets it and uh again very nice to meet you finally probably gonna meet the family of mr. flip here Absolutely.
And now you guys both have you know She can't wait to try the baked goods of jerry and co for the first time legitimately She she nods and calls like oh, yes, it'll be good. I'm like she's going to a very knowing smile. Let's go As they're walking back like you know, you owe me two credits. I just got to fish us too out and handsome She pitched like hold on to it.
Okay. Uh killing a kid. I have two credits. I just don't like paying for stuff I understand I paid for a lot this uh particular uh day or two So we uh we I think fast forward too.
You guys have had your breakfast. You've had your drink. Oh, absolutely Yes, you know, you're not going all in it. It's just a morning morning shot right here at dog There's like a there's like a scene where uh salt teaches flip a little bit about how to like sit liquor As opposed to just like full mouth.
I will whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, enjoy it It's a ball though. I know but that's the beauty of it Sippet kind of like it. It looks sophisticated like Hera Which is kind of really mean, but you kind of like it kind of we're gonna have that conversation later. Okay Do you evidence experience beauty?
No, no, no, no, no, no, let's get to these papers Um, we've had enough light discussions today. We'll get to that next life lesson by typhon All right, let's look at these papers. Okay. Um, roll me just roll me a general knowledge check No difficulty because you've got all the important stuff.
Um to see what's going on Wanted advantage. What advantage so you again, there's something off of these papers. Um, you don't know what it is but everything like Seems to go in a direction and like when you're following the channel like this goes to this this goes to this but then like it's missing something or Like something in the way this stuff was documented was not done properly. Um They're they're just lines missing or they're referencing projects that don't exist or something something's off Something is being hidden and you can't figure out what it is.
There's definitely something else going on here Hey flip look here. You see how uh, you've got one transaction heading off this way, but there's no buyer I think these are dirty. What do you document? You think they're dirty?
You said okay, so the transaction and but there's no buyer Just the fact that the money landed somewhere but didn't say where that sounds like a someone's dealing on the black market Yeah, totally sounds like that So flipped. You know anybody there I can get info from uh, yeah, yeah, I can I can do that Black market right? No, no, no seats all that. Oh, sorry.
You've been going to get any of them. I was in an accident I have to appreciate your enthusiasm So we're looking for somebody who like market own transactions, but basically money laundering What money laundering have you heard of it? Like the money laundry? Yes, okay, somebody that takes money and makes it go places where people can't find it.
So you need a black Market right you can ask about money. Yes flip. Okay before we go. Let's go get hair up.
I feel like she needs to be a part of this Do we have to we do have to how long has it been? It's probably been a hour and a half. It's like late after Late morning. All right, so I'm gonna walk up to Jordy since it's that same bar, but Jordy.
I'm gonna get a large calf drink Trust me. So I walk in hands it over. Okay, and then here is just gonna kind of like it clearly She hasn't gotten a lot of sleep, but she kind of sweeps downstairs and sits at the bar and like Jordy I'm gonna need a large calf drink Make it a double please. Thank you and she just kind of sits down and like pour the double shot Is it over?
Hey Jordy? I don't want the others to hear but can I get a glass of apple juice? Sure I can see Mrs. Back and you know hands you and like the two of you see him with this yellow drink like that looks familiar.
Oh, it's so hot Apple cider, uh, they're a flip. Oh, man. Yeah, just a couple of pals getting messed up in the middle of the day Middle of the morning, but I see what you mean. Here.
I just is like not talking. She's just like looking About to murder somebody and like just can't find the right person yet. So so salt seeing this is like So I think I might have made a headway or at least something I can find out You look here You've got all of these credit transactions going somewhere and they listed that the money was gone or it moved But no like nobody Is listed as a recipient. So yeah, so we're missing a buyer.
So here's all business now and she's like, okay We're gonna focus on this so flip has told me he's got a somebody that is the mess around the black market specifically money laundering Oh, wow, I'm sure flip really does have those things but in like she's over the flip like yeah, okay So you're gonna lead us to your to your contact then I yeah, like how do you guys want to do this? Do you want me to bring him over here or do you guys want to go meet him at his we'll go see him? All right, don't want to threaten him until we have to I'm gonna roll street wise this equal. I know go for you Yeah One difficulty You wanna upgrade this?
Yeah, let's get that So turn on the green not super positive about who I know Okay, okay, so it's what three sixes one failure one disadvantage. Yeah, so success is in a disadvantage total So I think in your head you're thinking I have to get it right half you've got this moment of like if I Get this up. They're gonna all my shares man. Yeah, yeah, you're gonna lose so many shares So you gain a get a point of stress.
Okay as you as you're just But you do fine fine, you know, you've got a guy. I mean, you know of a guy you don't know the guy But you know of a guy. Yeah, they can help you in like the he's not he's actually kind of close to with the factors Because it's kind of a shadier mark your part of town sure so just like sound like hole in the wall like maybe like hook a place Yeah, it's like some bar that in the back. There's like a room where stuff happens and you know who knows what I'll have it back there Your tiny child mind wouldn't understand What just take us there flip.
Yeah, just take it. Yeah, so like we're gonna head to the uh, I don't know Like a good name for this bar purple. Niple nice purple. Niple it is Go the purple.
Niple but we're gonna head around in the back, okay Okay So I'll kind of shoot a hair that look like take my own follow follow my lead. All right, be cool Kind of leads them kind of through we guess we can measure drinks first and so I'm assuming do they have the like a to go Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's just very like cheap and crappy like kind of hold things together But like it kind of you know, it's a little bit so you know, yeah, I'm gonna drink it really quickly because you know, yeah Yeah, yeah, I'm like swinging it really quickly. Yeah, let's just get out of here. Yep.
All right. Yeah. All right So like kind of flip and flop kind of take the lead as they walk. This time like they're like since he's not shit-faced Very confidently kind of striding through the streets Like he's keeping them in mind, but it's a little hard to keep up.
He's very used to kind of like just moving independently There's every time where yeah, you you kind of wind through people. You're not you know, and you have to remind oh wait, no No, it's a little bit Kind of back over to the industrial area Kind of on the outskirts of that before it gets really like factory heavy And there's this kind of like two-story kind of building and at the there's some weird thing at the top level But at the bottom level, there's like a little blinking purple nerball sign Good. All right. So like just come around here.
You're gonna head down the stairs I'll knock on the door. All right, so I grabbed hair before you down the stairs. I'm like Something is fishy. I almost feel like the government's working with the brass kill.
This is too fishy I mean, it doesn't every you know every fishy thing isn't necessarily the brass kill I mean, there's a fair chance of being paranoid. I mean, I agree something's fishy, but we'll see We'll keep our eyes out, but I'd be willing to bet you a share Like a percentage and a half that it's not the brass gilt 1% of it Well, I mean, I because I I'm the last like I've been with the brass gilt more recently than you've had an encounter with them And when I was with them I don't know they were feeling there wasn't any active like like work that I was aware of that they were working with any government contracts At least that's what they want you to think whatever Let's go cut the chattering guys. We got stuff to do and I just like shoot him a look like no shut shut up No, I'm not dealing with you this early in the morning Let me let me do the talk after you flip and kind of heads down to the down to the stairs And do does like a like a like a thieves con knock like boom boom boom boom boom boom boom Okay, and a few seconds ago And then the door like you hear like one knock second knock The door opens All right, let's head into the purple and purple gang Lay on flip And uh, yeah, when you went side like definitely people I you know the kid No, they like look down and they like they kind of look confused Um, but like, you know, I like grab him and pull him closer so that he's like not like wandering off ahead and it's like clearly With us. Yeah, cool.
Yeah, and you know, you guys go inside, but you're still in the way You're like with them. Yeah, totally like this is my contact. I'm not Yeah, what somebody else run in. Yep Uh, yeah, so I kind of kind of go in like uh kind of cut through this crowd to uh, I guess not much of a crowd just to handle people Yeah, there's not a lot of people in here to the back uh, this VIP section I guess really it's a pretty cool wall.
Oh, yeah, it's it's I mean the main building would have more stuff But back here is just like a probably person or two in the desk in the back. Yeah, so yeah You go inside like the two normal people like they kind of side-eye you But when you go in there's this desk and there's like a bunch of like paperwork and they like look up and they say a name Flip and flop and two guests. Okay, and they like no, no some stuff down Hera just looks at salt like I can't do with this Um and what what might you uh, what might you do? Yeah, what might you be needing today?
Flippin flop he puts his hands down on the desk and kind of like makes deep eye contact with the guy It's like we want to learn more about some the money laundry Hera like here's him and just like here's him started and then just like grabs him by the scruff of the neck and pulls him back and like just throws him towards salt Like you guys take care of this excuse me the money laundry. No Look at sort like here. I just kind of pulls down and she she uses like all of her like Coercion abilities and is like look we have a question about a government contract that has something to do with an old factory We're just looking for information. We're not looking for any sort of information about money laundering And we're not accusing anyone of anything like that because we're definitely not cops Like this idiot kid who's gonna get us caught So I'll find this all just funny as all hell.
Um, what is your um presence? Uh, it is three I'm making a role to see how they react to this Okay, so she like looks at you like looks you up and down looks you up and down and go looks the kid Yeah, you're not cops. So, thank you And like briefly look at the kid look back. He's not a cuz either the dog's not a cop Okay, so this fact and I assume you would give like a location, you know street address or whatever it is that they describe stuff On eight street.
Yep. Oh, yeah, the factory night street. Um, you need to describe it and they go So you're looking for a what a fire and we're seller Yeah, and I just like I pull like one if not like so Looking at the pages like one that's like relatively innocuous Like that just has a little bit of information and I just kind of pull it and say like so we're looking for Any buyers that would have been associated with like this name. Okay.
Um, can you either roll me a Charm check or Because you know how this works What's a what's an acceptable like game question of like how so we've been paying for things and like ones like yeah So do I know how much is an overpay? So it kind of depends if you like because a weapon costs a couple hundred That's like a permanent thing right like a night stay or an amule would be like one to two Um, so like to get information you could you could get information for you know five or ten Like but the more you pay the better So like if you were to give ten that would be like if you were to give like a hundred That'd give you everything they had and you would ever hear So that's kind of the scale is what this would look like so hera pulls some bills because I'm assuming paper money like Hera pulls a couple of bills does like a really cool like pass over and just like slips like a 20 over okay Uh cool, so she looks at she looks at flip and she's like and she just points and then yes And she's just like this is yours now flip just shake his head points back No, so looks you can add it to the tally he's already too down with me too What so she Triles Grams and you know pop you know like opens up a drawer pockets it encloses it And then like turns one moment and she like turns back And there's like a big file cabinet of like a bunch of different papers And she's like I went through it rustle rustle through a bunch of papers and eventually finds you know this like folder She opens it up pulls it out and is reading down Hands hands on her face and goes You are looking for a mr. Less baker that man is the former foreman of that factory he uh Well, I don't have exactly who we sold to but you've got his name um And she like she stops one more second she goes back okay And she you know she's going through it going through it going through it I was back so Something was going on there that Was not good. Um, and then he sort of skipped out on town he left very quickly one night No one really knows exactly what happened to him, but he he just he just left um Hopefully that helps but unfortunately because of the speed of his departure Um and the secrecy of whatever dealings he was doing we don't have more than that Okay, you can find more is she and she kind of just says, you know, thank you Like and she like tips a credit and she's like and she pulls tips.
Yeah, you keep your information people happy lesson number one Um, and so she because you know, we're gonna have to come back here in three months because obviously So she kind of pulls them aside and says look there's only so many places he could be on in this city Like there's a finite amount if he skipped town, which it looks like he did He left left. So I think our next bet from here is we've got a kind of Let's check like a port like is there like an airport or like a way out of town? Um Yes and no, I mean like the airport is more for like smaller base vehicles. Um, there are places where there's like Sometimes I'm just like a scavenger where it other larger ships could connect up to it You could check there You could check there you could if you wanted to go back to the factory see this any other now that you have his name Maybe some of those papers that you left could potentially be useful.
Um, it's kind of up to you Whether you want to go to the port because whatever was he left a long time ago, so It may be like Like it's not likely they went before it's gonna know unless there won't be any like a right because it wasn't like made a fess Years ago, right? So and you don't know what because many many ships have gone through the ports since then right so you may need to get more specific information Now that you've got that name You can probably you may want to find more either with the papers you've got or combining those papers with the ones back at the factory I say we were treating out of here take a look at those papers could take a look at the factory Maybe you stop at an official records then since it was a government factory Right, okay, let's yeah, let's head that way So we're kind of relatively close to that that factory, right? So if you just wanted to like go to the factory and like spend a day going through papers If you just want to focus on that that's a perfectly like acceptable thing to do just like all you guys go through papers That becomes the thing you do. Okay, okay.
Cool. So before we head out like I kind of just like walk back up to the desk What was your name again? So this is to the black market lady black market lady Um You can call me Rosanna. I will I will do that Rosanna Rosanna This this mr.
Baker if that's what we're gonna call him He had friends right like he hung out with people like and he did stuff with them and as most people do they have friends Yes, how much how much would it cost to get those friends names? You better be going somewhere with this I'm gonna go to their friend's house You have a really finite amount of resources left to work with he waste my money I swear to god Fine give me give me 10 credits and then come back in a day and I'll see what I can dig up You got 10 to spare And then here is like fine whatever So Okay, so yeah, there's there's this moment where I think everyone see everyone sees flip like Waiting he's like do I and then hair up pulls out the 10 and gives it to her Salt tosses 16 over to her like with a dumbass. Yeah, okay, and then you guys go back to the factor Okay, thanks So this is probably mid-day late afternoon other time you guys get there and you're planning on just like saying the rest of the evening At night just go through paperwork and go through Cool. I'm assuming I'm heading back to my hotel room at some point.
Okay. I'm not sleeping in the dam Yeah, so yeah, you'll be there most of the day just going to all the papers But when night would have well, yeah, when I would fall you would head back to sleep on a proper book So I think a few hours goes by and you guys are going through things And just suddenly like you guys are like deeply embroiled in all your papers You just hear this loud bang and I think you wouldn't like you you uh, sorry. I'm pointing in real life, but um, yeah, I know Hot casting so salt you notice that uh you look over towards the door and um three men and the homeless man walks inside Um, roll me a perception check for a quick This is like getting being nice to people get to you. I'm just saying Shot him in the head.
Um, roll me you got a blue dice and a Plus whatever you normally have nice three for cunning Okay, so yeah, you succeed. So Um, they they look up and they like point and they say it was the end of it is the homeless man He points at the the group of people mostly usalt like this man He's the one that broke into the in the office there they found stuff and then you look to the people and they are clearly Um guys with the with a symbol of you know the brass skills and they like they pull out they pull out weapons And we'll find out next time what happens on type salt salt looks in here told you And that's that folks figure out will they survive will they oh boy? I'll get shot while they you know