Tidefall | E19: "The Knife's Edge"

We're back. It's tidefall. Things are wild. Yeah, how are people doing other than the game to end the game to yes Yeah, there's nothing dangerous or scary Well, I should I could never get into Twitter like a mabeling in college and it's it's there That's all I know it.

Yeah, I'm the same I made it Twitter to like go into contest everyone's like I made my Twitter to get access to the reach beta like forever Never ever go nice. I probably like three tweets in the last decade or something I just I follow and get news from Twitter Keeps me up to date on things, but now it does nothing before it is gone. Yeah, I do like a lot of the baby animal Twitter accounts or like Recoon every hour. It's always nice to get a cute raccoon every hour.

That is a good follow I'm gonna have to reinstall Twitter now. I mean, yeah, or you could just make a little bad that googles a baby raccoon every hour But somebody already did though. That's true. Yeah, why do I do extra work copy paste?

Yeah, things things are they exist cool Yeah, how's how's life house things you just want to jump straight into the game because things are things are tense in the game So what I'm gonna do it works for me. Yeah, I don't know that there's much going on Personally it's summer now. Yeah, I guess it's not technically summer. It's almost say When is the first day of summer?

That's a 21st Canucks Okay, yep, that one I can't remember Between a solstice and a quick act. Yeah, I made that up just now. Yeah, it's pretty cool It's the most even that it's ever been We all strive to reach our own personal solstice Just started a cult I think Good Just a forward for stability I think we could all use a cult these days at times. Yeah, it would be nice I don't have time scary, but I'm trying to integrate myself into the fighting community.

So I must We'll see I'll probably give up Oh speaking of giving up I did start playing even line again Just really really like a math and looking at the pretty ships and then we'll see how long that lasts But have you been in a PowerPoint battle yet? No, I'm not good enough to be in a power Give me three years to play and then to get a PowerPoint battle, but so we're all developing our skill set. Yeah, 100% I'm slowly but surely building an isolation booth so I can start audio book recording So that'll be fun to see it. Really good productive.

Yeah It'd be surprising. I was sitting in my like just putting stuff away in my closet. I get really dead audio eyes in here It should make it okay or audio book studio. Yeah Yeah, I've seen up on a bunch of like professional VAs that do like commercial work and stuff like closet actually works really Well, so I know a couple of them like set up their little closet.

Oh, yeah, closet boots, and it just works really well, right? I am not using the fancy mic today, but that's okay. Yeah I'm just playing with you in D. This is my third game this weekend and uh, he's you've always played so much though I'm I'm just I'm weird and you can say addicted.

It's you know, I don't have a problem. I swear I could stop anytime I want it's so much social interaction. How are you not like exhausted right? I give myself 24 hours between them and yeah Lots of self care routine damn.

Nice. Jeff has actually managed to get his soul stenux. Oh damn. Yeah, look at that She's a cheap soul stenux Does that make sense?

Were we talking about that before we started recording after? I don't remember anymore. I think after but I don't know It's morning recording. We're all kind of you know, I'm a morning morning recordings are always weird and I'm also slightly on the alert So yeah, I love that because it means I have all day to do stuff instead of thinking about the recording all day But also it means I wake up early and then it's like oh no It's like nine something on a Sunday and I'd like to sleep until you know later if possible Right on it slacker that wants to sleep until noon I feel like I like the evening ones better because I wake up like my brain starts working at like 4 30 p.m So I feel like I'm still kind of like we're operating on like 70% but like that's what monster is for yeah I'm I got caffeine next to me as well.

So we're good. I miss the most supplements. I have water. Does that count?

Actually, yeah, all right. It's better for you. Okay. Yeah, so better for you Thinking and you know is good.

I follow is sponsored by water Water Gears water and yeah Speaking of brass Let's jump into it because we've got one of our squad mates are in a dire situation So it's not totally too long as much as you can be trying to You Yeah Time comes hero shall rise for my mitts and all we can do is hope pray Encounter the ticking seconds of the clock maybe stand strong tidefall and hope for the best for what is to come Sounds good Pretty bad, right? That's not how it is a shit Jeff come on. So The group of you is heading downstairs and Hera is not with you How long of this journey down into sort of the bowels of this factory would you how long would this happen before you realize? Hair is behind is it like ten seconds?

You know 30 seconds 20 minutes. I'm talking extreme Like how long would I before someone realized that Hera is not with the crew? You know, I think you know salts the guy that definitely keeps the eye on everybody You know and has he's going down to save in a couple minutes is like where the hell is she that stuff wasn't that good Something's out of place and he's got that like pressing sort of like something's really really really out of place in the back of his head Okay, flip would assume that if she isn't there she didn't want to be there and he's not about to go interrupt whatever she's doing, okay? Question for the group and I'm forgetting that's my bad as a DM did the form and open the door and show you guys Where does he actually leave you down?

He just showed in the left correct, right? He actually come down with you Yeah, he like left the factory. Okay, that's right. He showed you where wasn't he took off Okay, because he took off and then the like the crazy like the world is not I got he also look okay So it's right now it's flip flop salt and now they came down here, okay?

So yeah, how long would it be till it salt make is that like I think he's gonna stop? I think like the the nagging feeling of something is definitely off just stops him and I think Who's closest to me? I'm curious which one noticed that I just stopped moving flip word Yeah, I kind of assumed it was salt leading the way flip flop and then I was sort of like hang back a bit All right, that's what I'm dropping. All right, so just flip keep going with now.

I gotta go back and check I might be wrong, but I need to back and check where you're going. There's a bomb you keep going. I'll catch up. I promise Just don't talk about it And if it does just it's not all I have to do I mean this whole time eventually you're gonna have to like things like this Have a nasty thing.

Oh, well, you don't have to right now. Just if it comes up now bomb Her name was up. Oh, no, keep going with the kid. I need to hear the bomb.

Yeah, you are He gives you two thumbs up and then one of his little palm things like crackles. Okay, let's go find this Sort of like hats you on the shoulder and says you know he gives a nod and starts walking deeper down into the Underbelly the ship just and I think saw this gets down a flip level like I need you to keep going and do not turn Around until that bomb is taken care of. Do you hear me? Flip gives him a very confused and concerned look don't I?

Will catch up. I need to go back. Okay, the bomb. I got it.

Take care of it. Promise me He reaches his robot hand out Blumpin robot knows that's my guy got it. Brought you Isn't it the clank is it to hand to each other then sells like proud you runs off and heads back up Flip is crying. I think There's a few seconds where we see the three of you continuing down into the balls of the ship and You know camera watches with ice it's silent, right?

You don't actually cry or do you try? It tries try? Okay? Eventually quiet camera pains to follow salt.

Are you running jogging like how much urgency is there to salt? Like the only other time like he's felt this sense of like we need to get the fuck out of tears when that first assassin showed up on the Blue tide for the lint. Antis. So it's something similar.

He's like no, no, not again. Not again. I can come on fuck here Yeah, it's you're suddenly remembering like oh, yeah We were really worried about the assassin and then everyone just kind of forgot about it And now suddenly like all those memories is like flooding back to you right? So yeah, you're you're you're running, you know And like you start with I feel like you start with a jog to like not worry You know the other too much and the second you get out of thing you just like go on full sprints.

Yeah, okay cool So eventually you you you sprint up you get to the top where there's like a ladder that's you know pretty You're not like it's like a pretty steep stairwell that goes up into the like base of the the factory you know Right upwards sort of you know you get into the light and you see Hera standing sort of at the edge of the like bar like there was that you know Overlooked at the foreman to like look over the factory and she's just standing there and at first It looks like she's just observing everything and then you you look into like what is she doing there? And then you realize that behind her like mostly hidden behind her figure is another person Camera pans down a bit you look down and you see that She's got a hand on her shoulder and then a hand holding a knife to her neck so part of him wants to You know rush out there like fuck this I help so I think he's going to For some reason a perception check feels right here just to try to get a lay of the situation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay cool And it's of course heightened. Yeah, um, okay Yeah, how many is that key to blue?

It's one blue. So the way that it reads is two blue to allies or one to an ally That's right. Okay, we kind of leveled it with like I will give you one. Okay I'll just throw on two purples just just get a genuine gauge the room.

So you can notice and I'm you're given every I Am good once I find it. You think by now, you know where this is alright. There we go Yeah, I think just the stress of like everything happening I you so for the viewers he got a net of one failure and one advantage So you can't with the advantages, but you're just to sort of freak out about this whole thing to really get any meaningful information at the moment Right, it's I think the advantage is because the way I think he's trying to sneak around and you like isn't watching cuz as hearts and his ears and You know Can't really focus like accidentally bumps like a toolbox and you just hear the crash of tools Yeah, there's a big crash of stuff. There's definitely like a nutter bolt that like falls into the stairwell And it's just like we click click link is it like it was down into the bowels, you know underneath the factory right?

Right and I think you know the advantages is like you didn't get caught you know, it's almost like who's there? And There's a pause a few seconds later you hear this person say I'm Looking for the group of you and I found this one And I think here you feel a bit of the blade sort of push a little bit deeper than that not enough to let cut but like it's you know The threat is there. Yeah pressure. Yep.

Where are where do we go next? We're doing here salt. Hey, I think here Doesn't say anything I think she's got kind of like her hands up like just like in in clear view She's just kind of looking out over the over the factory floor just kind of looking okay. Where would your Weapon would be like if you had like your pistol would were you so relaxed that you'd like had like put on the desk and you were like, you know I thought away from it or you know, I absolutely on your belt.

Okay. Okay. I think I think she does have a knife like in her Like in a jacket pocket because she always does that but yeah, I think that the pistol's on like the desk next to Like the fanfiction the form of fiction Can I write can she do a super intense perception check just to see what if she can find anything significant sure This one is gonna be a bit trickier for sure. Yeah, yeah Wow, that's two successes the threat is definitely you're gonna take a point of strength like you're in a very very stressful situation But yeah, you do you do succeed so you're looking specifically for what exactly you're looking for weapons looking for things you're looking for what?

Definitely looking for weapons. I think the other thing is like anything that can be a service a distraction or at least like get it to where like She can maybe get some distance between her and do I know anything about these like do I recognize anyone? Do I know if it's you know guy? What have I got here?

Okay, so yeah, okay, so You know the knife press happens here neck that is a Yeah, it's a large, you know stiletto that is like ready to stab You at some point you didn't see it But at some point while they were positioning you up towards the the railing you felt the the butt of a pistol You know hit you in like the back of the waist or something So you know this person has a pistol you don't know the specifics of it, but you know that they have a pistol They're not just you know a person with a knife. Oh, they are a female They're not you know the voices and super feminine, but like you can sort of tell from your interaction with them that they are but it's like it's subtle Right Things around you. There's definitely on the actual like, you know, like form in landing There's like a couple things on the ground, but it's not necessarily like it's gonna be tricky to do a distraction But there's definitely like various things on the ground because you were doing you know you were searching this area Right, so probably you know some papers documents like you know small knickknacks, but it's lighter stuff It's not gonna be like giant big things you could like kick and make a like make alarm go off now There is the alarm at the desk, but you've been moved over to the edge of the railing But there's that alarm that you guys did to sort of pull the form up to the top That alarm is there there's essentially a button that would like send off, you know, like the big alarm signals that like hey There's an issue in the factory There is that just not necessarily directly at you and you do not know this person You just know that from what you can tell you they've got this weaponry seems feminine You can't exactly tell it's subtle if anything Yeah So So what happens next? So I'll tear up the kids downstairs.

I assume looking for for the bomb. What? What what do we go next? You want to kill me?

I want to kill you I think Tara puts her kind of slowly puts her hands down on the railing And kind of like leans into the railing a little bit And so she kind of like pauses for a second and doesn't say anything and she's like Look we both know how this goes. I'm not gonna tell you anything. You're not gonna tell me anything Do you mind if I do you mind if I have a drink? I've got a flask in my in my coat pocket.

Can I can I reach for that? They don't say anything But the hand that was like holding in the shoulder sort of like Opens up because it's a jacket, right? Okay, they just sort of like open up your jacket a bit looks down sees it and Grabs it out and pulls it to you to like essentially yeah hand it to your hand doesn't want you going into your jacket, but They they they grab it. Okay, it's and it's the glass potion bottle.

I think that's the thing that I had before so okay cool Um, so here kind of carefully grabs it and then like takes the cork and like bites it and like spits it away and like takes a quick Drink of it and if I remember I'd it tastes absolutely disgusting and so yeah, she needs a liquor face Okay, cool guaranteed to put hair on your knuckles And then just kind of like yeah drinks like I would say like yeah swings half of it down Uh, and then just kind of like pulled it It puts her hands back down on the railing and kind of just looking out over the back or floor Also, she should gain some Uh, was for that if I remember correctly Um, he Lee potion. Yeah, okay. Yeah, it's those things. Yes.

Um, those are yeah Returns now they uh, they immediately so you get six in a day Uh because it's the special painkillers or field craft admits. Um, the first one to six be Next one does five and that's because of my painkiller specialization Perfect. So actually that gets me back to um, cause this would be my second one Mm-hmm. So it gets me to uh, Lsem at six so seven eight nine ten eleven so it brings me almost back to full health Which is nice because I feel like I'm gonna need that.

So yeah, typically the first one five seconds for but yeah It's a plus one because of the painkillers specialization cool. Yeah, you drink this you uh, you get yourself Yeah, it's like yeah, it's you know, liquor, but it's you know healing liquor slash Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and I and I feel like when it was initially created by salt was a liquor in or was that something here added in? It was uh, so like I added it.

I can't remember though Or was it made with like a It was definitely a distilled liquor base like me some have a you know, just to give you a little bit of lore Whenever you take on a freelance explorer board mission You get an FMC crafting kit and most people talk about the tinctures you have which are the is the distilled base uh being closer to ethanol Um or like the strongest strong design you can possibly think of um, you know If you take too many of them, it's almost burn all in your throat, but uh, you're gonna feel better once it kicks in Cool. So yeah, there's a moment of you know, the immediate burning but then as it goes it uh, definitely yeah the the cocktail of drugs Um kicks in and makes you feel much much healthier Uh afterwards if you take your swag you drink most of it correct Um after it's empty, uh, the person takes it from your hand and sort of like knocks it to the to the ground Um and it's sort of in full ass. Yep. Okay, so yeah, it just it crashes and uh glass sort of shatters and I was idea one So So do we just want to start this?

We all know what's what's gonna be happening. I mean it seems like at this point we're kind of running out of time Is bombs, etc, which I guess yeah, you would know a lot about wouldn't you? A little bit. Yeah, I I know I know things.

I know what's going on. So So I think during this entire exchange salt is still trying to slowly but surely make his way up and over Okay And you're walking too underneath here you're walking over to like the stairwell over to the side Well, I guess my first question is like what's the composite of the floor? Is it just like a solid steel plate or is it kind of yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's it's a steel plate with like a metal railing and the metal railing is like It's not a solid wall.

It's just like, you know, like, you know, like a pole and no, no, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I think if I can if I can get under the Underneath the hole here's what I want to do Jeff. So I think And let me know if this is a story point worthy. Okay. I think salt notices a bunch of uh You know, whatever like you taint s or some kind of uh Bottles that they have to put in their torches to do the welding Okay, and If he's made it under that plate, I think he had the idea of like if I can just Offset it just a little bit.

Maybe I can mess up the footing So he starts taking a bunch of those bottles and wrapping it around. Let's say it would be the uh mirror support pillar where they're standing And see if you can blow the pillar out. Okay And you're trying to do this subtly because this person's pretty much watching you doing all of this like other than for the few moments that he was pulling I keep saying he sheet. It's again subtle.

It's gonna be using his yeah manish but ultimately it's generic But uh, they're watching you other than when they're pulling the Bottle out of hera's jacket and then throwing it down to the ground. Otherwise pretty much uh, she's watching you Okay, so do I need a roll to see if I can make it up there? Yeah, romey. You're gonna move there It's really more like this like a stealth check to see if they notice what you're doing.

Yeah, um, let me check It's gonna be tricky. Um Perception based off of cunning Perception is based off of cunning. Correct. Yes, okay.

Um, they're cunning is high. I'm gonna give you I'm gonna give you some blue dice because They are a bit distracted by hera for bit of it, but um, this person's cunning is very high So I'll give you two blues for the assistance from hera and then the general like angle All right, I'll sit Yep Unfortunately, no. Yeah, this uh, they're just the distraction for hera isn't quite enough and um, and you're able to do the thing But as you're as you're sort of like building because you attach the things as you as you approach the Like pole that's holding up this thing. They say ah, I wouldn't do that Shit, uh, yeah, hera kind of looks and notices that salt is there And kind of just with that with a look communicates Wow a distraction would be really fucking helpful right now So here's a question Jeff.

Yeah, so looking at her little square and I'm willing to spend a story point to make this happen. Okay, um, I kind of see like underneath. It's just a bunch of shelves of that stuff just around Yeah, it's definitely just it's definitely just like excess factory stuff. Yeah, it's like storage for other things.

Um, factory stuff. Yeah Um Because I have quick draw Okay, and I'm curious to just shoot when I see what happens But I also you're you're wanting to shoot like see if I can get these bottles to detonate and throw something off but got you Yeah, this is the calculations and insult head. It's like I either go up there and we duke it out or I try this Okay, yeah, I'll let you uh, yeah, why not? Yeah, let's um you've got quick draw there I think I think what is to have one of those bottles be like in a position you need Um that would like essentially hit the support beam that's underneath hera and the assassin That I think it's more going to like happen to be one in the right position, but I'll let you know that you can the quick draw Like that is your thing.

So not doing it. I'm just curious to see oh, okay Yeah, not do it. Okay, you wouldn't do that. You want to do that.

Okay. This is me thinking out loud thinking a lot perfect. Okay. All right So you want so I think he's gonna you know he looks up.

All right, you caught me. So I want to do this you want to duke it out You get there's got to be some sense of honor under that stupid maski oars Uh the honor As a fighter. Oh, we have honor But this one and uh dagger goes a little bit deeper into your neck and like draws a tick of blood This one has none left us before Uh, I was told to make sure if anything happened didn't happen this wouldn't go home So no, I don't have honor, especially not towards her. I think her at loudly Just kind of interjects with ow When that just to be a pain in the ass when the knife gets a little bit Pokeier, all right, and I think oh man You know what?

I also yeah, she's making heavy heavy eye contact like with salt like watching to see if she can figure out what he's doing Damn this is heavy Yeah, uh, he's got this though While while you're thinking about this the moments are heavy every every second feels like a minute every minute feels like an hour Uh, we're gonna cut to a below deck tough to see with with an L Like both give you some time to think and also like uh cut the tension a bit So I am here to cut the tension are you are you riding on flop or you're just walking down? Um, I forget how often you generally ride him or if that's just when you need to go fast Just don't need to go faster. I need to go vertical. Okay.

Cool. So it's been a minute or two silence is awkward eventually Nell says If you want to talk We can talk if you don't want to talk I get it. I can just shut up and be here to help Um, it's up to you. I just want you to know that what happened happened You don't need to say anything.

I just wanted to let you know that we understand things were tough But you tried what you could Well, we're in a life where we're in a life or death situation So if you could cut the bullshit and like Don't lie to me It's you know, there's no way that it's just okay. It can't be I appreciate you trying to spare my feelings and everything but It honestly honestly is um at least for me. I don't know about everyone but The the people there they remember you before you left initially you're still in a lot of ways that like you know The kid that got away the you know, we know weird way raised you in a very strange and confusing like we sort of You know, we were doing the research and you were Things happened. Um lot happened.

We know that we messed up You messed up lots of lots of shit went down but ultimately you tried to do something similar to what we tried to do but to An extreme We're all scientists. We know we know what that's like. So we understand I can't speak for everyone like speaking for me. I get it.

You tried what you tried um I still wish that uh He hadn't passed initially, but you tried And I think he he puts a hand on your shoulder is there like up do you pull away? What are some of the reactions there to that is he like he's trying to comfort you and I'm curious how you react to that His shoulder immediately tenses up. Okay, um before gradually relaxing Okay, so you don't pull away You just like it tenses for a moment and he feels that tension when he feels that tension He's sort of like loosens, but he doesn't pull away and um It loosens and then I think he gives you a quick squeeze and then he um You know disengages, you know doesn't want it to be too long and awkward, but like he wants to make sure like he's there so That's out of the way. Um The bomb dude.

Do you have plans? Um Not usually no At least you're honest. I was gonna find a bomb and then try and stop it Sounds uh sounds like a plan let's um scientist he turns back and looks in the direction of where salt went and um Notice his itself has not returned and at this point it's been after the brief conversation in midr to silence We uh Are we are we good? Um, he's not come back.

He told us to take care of the bomb and he'll do what he's got to do Sounds sounds like a plan. Let's uh, I trust him with more than my life Okay, let's uh, let's do it. I think he uh he starts going into a jog. Um, Oh, okay, we're moving.

Okay. We could go fast if you want to go fast. Let's go fast He raises hand for a second. He closes his eyes and he like stretches his face and Focuses there's a like a crunched like And when he opens his eyes his eyes have um cat like calic irises and a bit of his um, there's like Not long but like short whiskers grows and he's like, okay, let's go and he runs and he's faster than usual Um And unless you're gonna jump on flopping up hard to keep up with Scott because he's now like he's in full on, you know, hybrid animal form and he's going Flip raises his hands and stretches his face and it hops on flat Okay, cool And yeah, we see the three of you running down this alleyway and like it's you know, it's like stairwell turn stairwell turn You're going deep deep deep into like the bottom of the ship you get a feeling that you're gonna eventually make it to like, you know Bottom of the ship like underbelly essentially you're thinking where the bomb must be because there's not much down here It's pretty much just like empty alleyway, you know empty, you know Like passages now like it's like alleys, but it's all underneath ships.

It's just like, you know, metal things and pipe seam and maintenance core Yeah, exactly But you know, it's down here so you're just sort of following the path and hoping that it's obviously you didn't already pass it Um, you've got to see what bomb taking down the city's gonna be big and you shouldn't do it. Yes, so the group of you run Um, I visualized the communications tower from middle there solid when you describe the stairwell and then the tunnels Okay, cool Find a letter just here snake either quite a distance. Let's not get our podcast taken down, huh? Right.

Okay. Can I just listen right? sponsor? So That's Konami Okay, uh Okay, we uh the group of you group of you run down faster and the The second you pass one of the like turns in the alleyway the camera cuts back to the factory floor So is this where we're starting things?

Well, you don't want to duke it out. You've got no honor left Well, can you roll me a Uh, if it was dndo's just saying intelligence check, um, roll me a general knowledge. I'm curious on something And oh, hold on. I've got five people still you don't want that Um, okay, I'm good Okay, uh, you get the feeling that this person is just trying to buy time Um, the longer you're here the longer you're not dealing with the bomb down below So at any point they could have you know stabbed shot whatever Hera, um, but you're realizing that the words They're saying and the things they're doing is just them both fucking with you and buying as much time as they can So so I think once uh, salt the thing hits and mules Oh, man, someone like you I wouldn't have found her living if uh, you weren't trying to stall That or you're not that good of an assassin.

How much time you trying to buy? Um, yeah looks down to a like steampunk watch where it's like ticking click click About As much as I can I don't need to tell you much more than that I think I think as salt is laughing Hera kind of is gripping the bar and kind of leaning forward Kind of putting all of her weight down on it. Okay Uh, you're doing anything you're just like doing that with the weight on the bar and you're Yeah, I think she's just kind of tensed up With she's just grabbing the bar Just waiting to see what happens next and like if there's gonna be an opportunity Okay, you know the crushing weight of knowing this decision that you like trying to see the avenues Or like I can only see one and this could backfire so bad. I had three that have already gotten screwed So Right, right, right.

We're just kind of waiting to see if I can right Come on What's gonna be some more time if we do get out straight up? Last offer and he looks at heron kind of winks hoping to furious eye contact So what do you do? So he he's looking at me like right you want to kill time to do get out straight up Your call Okay, if you're ready then and that I'm actually gonna interrupt them with the quick draw thing No, I think it's like let her go. I'll come on up and uh, we'll do this thing Oh, I'm not letting her go.

No, no, that's why any uh, any quick draws and shoots the bottles underneath. Okay cool So yeah, since then start going to have it one be in the right position um to have this bomb go off cool. Roll me a Actually, it's the bottles are there. You just yeah, you shoot you shoot these bottles Um, it's like a small micro explosion.

Um, but like essentially definitely just wear the beam and let's see how good we do I'm just wondering what you want to see like how lucky this is whether you know again You're blowing up bombs in a factory where there's hydrogen so right a lot of those things. Yeah bombs in a bomb factory bombs It's not a bomb factory. It's it's a chip factory. It just happens to make things use this bombs You gotta use bombs to make ships.

That's that's the rules. Yeah, my understanding of it. Yeah Um, we do 100 roll as a reminder of one is bad 100 is good. We'll see where we land That is a 16.

So the bomb goes off you sweat the story point. Um, you will do the thing you do the distraction Um, it is going to mean that um when the explosion occurs Um Hera is going to take some damage. Um, but Hera has a simultaneous action that she would like to make. Uh, okay when it is appropriate Okay, what does it do?

Just so I sort of know um, I want to make an athletic check I think Hera has been kind of pushing positioning herself for a couple of minutes now to launch herself Athletically with much grace over the over the railing and onto the floor Which probably will end badly, but at least is not a knife Okay, cool. Um Ethnically and with much grace break your fucking ankles. Just fucking smash something. Yep.

Yeah, probably into an explosion. Yeah Roll me I wonder this is one. I thought it's a coordination I'll give you a thought is because you were like talk about how lucky you were like gripping with strength. Um, but it's gonna be less graceful and more just like with raw power I think it's like a gymnast thing.

I think it's just a like whoop over the bar. Yep. Okay. All right.

Whatever you're ready Um, yeah, I'm trying to think how tricky of it check that I want this to be. Let's do it again. There's no additional advice There's no threat at all right. There's not like a bomb or an assassin or yeah.

Yeah, it's fine cement floor Oh, like oh, yeah. No, that's the ship. We need to deliver on okay That is so good. She's actually a pro level gymnast and she's been hiding it This entire fucking time because that is one two three four five successes including one Yeah, four successes either way.

It's a big big success The way Roll 20 does it is it shows you the number successes in it, but one of those successes is also great. Okay. Yeah, uh, anyway That's a cray. Um, you do the two threat is definitely gonna be uh, you strain as you're like freaking out bombs are going off Like bombing shot exactly.

Yeah, um, so we are going to get to uh mitigate an amount of this damage that's gonna be coming through I'm going to um I'm gonna roll. This is gonna be a D8 plus two damage. Um actually everything's a detent so we'll do a detent and no plus two Like raw. Let's see what kind of damage comes through so it is it would be seven damage before your brawn and or other things What is your brawn?

It is or really your so because I'm at a Okay, so naturally your body resists two of the damage the um the Successes will let you reduce the damage by Three more. Um, what is the quick gonna do for you? You get something fancy special? Yeah, so I think Hera just launches herself with Uh kind of one hand off of the railing taking everybody by surprise because who would do something this stupid?

Yep, and I think she just kind of naturally lands in this kind of perfect over the shoulder barrel roll and ends up on her feet Just like much like she's not even expecting to land on her on her feet, but it just yeah this perfect textbook Okay, cool. Basically. Yeah, you're like ready to jump to that to combat is about to have it cool So you take it was seven minus two minus three so you will take um Two damage just from the bottom so you're able to maybe what you do is you like you land behind like a box So with the box sort of blocks a lot of the explosions from these you know again the hydrogen You know things that are going off you duck away But you do definitely like probably like in like the shoulder and face above the box You get like a bit of shrapnel in you but you are ready. Let's roll up some initiative.

Um Very briefly flip Uh, you do hear it's far. It's muffled but you hear a very like distant like of like uh small not a big bomb A small bomb going off through you know floors and floors So it's like it's more like you feel like almost like a pressure shift as she just goes off into you know the ship Gotcha. Yeah, so yeah, we see that um you're running galloping down Um the you know down deeper into the ship is their reaction from you is there like a Concern or you just like grim focus. Yeah, I would say like there's like a there's a zoom in on his face And you see like the smirk spread across his mouth and he says they're going loud Uh-huh and now as he's running quickly looks over to you.

Do you explain it? You just ignore it and continue? We've entered our element things can only look up from here. Just in the distance.

You just hear Kenny logins That is not uh public domain That's fine sure not yeah uh Now gives you a smart doesn't fully understand and continues running down these alleyways um Cut back up And let's uh quick let's let's take our first uh quick break and we can jump into like the fight proper in uh part two Um, so stay tuned. We'll be right back. Um, it'll be seconds for you in the minutes for us. Bye Perfection and grace in all things.

Yeah, good. Yep So the small explosion goes off Salt and Hera are down on the factory floor and this person has jumped to the back of the like factory wall Essentially when this motion happened, they jumped away They're at the back and the front of the you know the front guard railing is gone It's sort of like just like open air between the group of you We rolled the initiative off screen just because it's a bunch of annoying math. Um, but the uh assassin is going to go first So the group of you Um, see as they Initially pull out their pistol and they have to shoot it at Hera. They said they were gonna go after Hera So Yeah, yeah, they they are gonna take a shot.

Um, range light Hey tequila. That's what they're gonna do Um, okay, so I'm gonna just for us. I'm gonna do That just sort of shift the map so we're not removing all the tokens. Um, so she is at Um Actually probably medium range at this point.

So medium range is gonna be a two purple check saying if you guys shoot at them Um, so two purples and then a number of yellows and greens In determining amount I mean, you'll see Charlie. I said what I see five people. Yeah dice rolls Wow So that was four yellows versus two purples and she got hit by the dreaded double purple extra is double purple So that was a failure with a crit Um, which is my it's my favorite. No, it's it's a successful It's a failure with a good crit, which is my favorite result in genesis ever because she did not hit you but something very good happened for her Um, so the fire Yeah, like with genesis you can fail but had really good things happen or you can fail horribly while like it I love the system from exactly this.

So They take the shot and it explodes and it's when the you think it's just gonna be like, you know, a pistol What it shoots is like essentially a small ball that when it goes out It just shoots into like a bunch of like small little brass rivets into the box around Hera and the essentially Uh The box is sort of Explodes in your face and your hits sort of more by shopping with the box than by the gun itself You're gonna uh upgrade the difficulty of whatever you do next so it's gonna be trickier. You're gonna have essentially a penalty whenever you do so um, yeah as you Yeah, you just you have to like raise your eyes to like shield just all from all this like box shrapnel wood pieces Um going into your face and you're like you're sort of distracted who wants to go actually And then I think what they're gonna do is they're gonna run over to like the stairwell Um to like start heading down but at the moment they're like at the top of the stairs piston one hand dagger in the other Or stiletto um what he gets to who wants to first So thanks salt seeing the move like you know, his uh shield pot He's gonna go to get snaps out. All right. He's gonna go by the stairwell try to head him off Okay, you run the top bottom of the stairs shield ready.

Do you like take a shot or just like going all in on staying defensive? Um, well gotta do some damage. I think he's gonna try to shoot cool Let me go back to this Um at that distance it's just gonna be short range so just a circle purple. Um also put my end Don't get the yellows.

Yeah, everything's like yeah Also good. Yep. Quick Success. Um, what is the damage of your weapon and actually if you go to the weapons tab or like pull all your like stacks and stuff in What's that damage?

I can just throw it there. Uh for for okay So for damage um, yeah, one extra success essentially So what is he gonna do before? I read the because remember this is a word of piss. Let's also got brass knuckles.

I read the brass knuckles. It's five Okay, so five damage plus one from the bex to success is six, but what is while I look up her stats? What is you the advantage to for you? So I think um, I might gain just a little bit more because like I don't want to Give range to this fleshed pistol Basically, so I gotta keep them in close and tight that way it's harder to shoot Okay Um, and just as a note to you.

I missed it earlier. I'm not gonna have your role. Um, this person does have defense just from their armor and whatnot So you'll have a black dynamic checks you make to attack them just in the future. Okay.

Um, I have I have just you know What was there was I like defense? I have two myself. Okay. Cool.

Mainly or ranged? Uh, it's both I have two for both. Okay, cool. Okay.

Sounds good. So Oh, and then yeah, the other thing is they're a nemesis. I always read about it Okay, they put the combat checks in this target twice. So they're just hard to hit because they are hard to hit So That is that you're at the bottom of the stairs.

Um, you take the shot. You said five damage. Yeah. Okay.

So five minus that Is that okay? So we will do Um That Uh, Hera you were up. What do you do? Well, uh, I think first, uh, Hera is mostly just pulling splinters out of her face.

Um, She left she doesn't have a pistol at this point. Uh, she's got her dagger. Yes. The pistol was up on the desk.

Um, here There was a bomb went off. I'm gonna let's see what that pistol that you could be lucky. It could be flown out the window Yeah, it could have flown out the window and just be outside the factory. It could have fallen down near you or somewhere in between Right 36 it's bad.

Uh, but not the worst so Um I think if you look around you don't see it. Um, but I'll say yeah, there's no like extra broken windows. Um, it's probably somewhere Up top still you're not exactly sure where um, so Hera's gonna kind of go around to the other side and try kind of flanking So she's gonna try and make her way around So there's the stairwell You're actually going on the outside outside the building Uh No, let's see. I think she's just gonna like duck down and try and like sneak up So are they on the top of the stairs?

So the assassin at the top of the stair salt is like halfway up the stairs. Um, okay There's also so the stair was only way up there, but you know the bomb went off You couldn't do it just try to like jump up the like where you know the bomb happened because that railing is gone and it's sort of like, you know It's a bit more open. You can try to just you know climb up the side of this thing jump off a box onto the railing pull yourself up That doesn't you couldn't do Otherwise visually yeah, you could you could head outside and go up where flip did but you're not sure how flip got oh no because flip did the whole Ride on thing so which you've seen me do many plenty of times so you probably assume there's not you know there's something out there Um Can I look for any kind of improvised weapon? Uh, I mean yeah, there's a wide variety of like yeah wrench it like you could grab any number of things here Absolutely.

Yeah, I'm gonna be honest. That's that's what I got right now So I think heres these the fight happening at the on the the stairs And then just looks around for the nearest like Well-weighted heavy object that she thinks can Maybe make an impact and then she just starts throwing things at the assassin Trying to miss salt. Okay. Are you trying to hit her or are you just trying to distract distract?

Okay, I think okay cool And again while she does it yeah, let's see what it happens first. Yeah, um, so that is going to be Um Invise weapons The range is engaged but you're just throwing it so it's fine. Um, bottle of fish size rock. Yeah, cool.

Okay, so Let's roll this up. It's gonna be but do you move it closer? Because right now it's a bit further but if you're moving up at all like trying to get a better angle you could Otherwise it'd be too purple but if you're gonna move up with you to be just the one good question where you want to move to I don't want to get shot Uh, but I think she moves it and close to find a better angle Okay, so you move up to get a better angle and then potentially climb up the wall like next round if you want to okay cool So that is just gonna be a single purple But there is going to be effectively three upgrades because one you had to deal with the shrapnel in your face And then the other two because it's just hard to hit her. She's very dodgy.

Um, so Uh, you're good to roll it whenever Yeah, salt's fat. How does in the way, so yeah, so I think I'm going to use Uh, could she what we say she's close enough to be engaged range because uh, if that's a no then never mind but For you, I mean, I don't think you're quite an engaged you're close But I think you've got to like get in next turn because you like not the assassin a Hera. Oh, here. No definitely not.

No way Okay, uh, you can roll it up. I would say do ranged light is kind of the best one or maybe brawl It'd be either one of those I think is what makes sense here. Um, I think we're gonna go ranged light. Okay All right, another weird one.

That's a failure and advantage in it. Great. So that is yeah, so You do fail. You don't hit them, but what is I guess what does the crit do you don't do any damage what you do something useful?

So I think yeah as Hera is just like lobbing rocks and like pieces of debris and like tools. Um, I think she like um She throws a couple of them Like she there's a couple of like things to trip on in in the the footpath of the assassin So I think she's changing the environment and and maybe hoping maybe maybe there's a greater risk of the assassin tripping on like a bottle or something Okay, there's there's just debris up on the the pack. Okay. Cool sounds good.

I'll just throw a little thing It could potentially affect salt because he's also he turns up moves on stairs, but yeah the stairs are now covered in like bottles and Like yeah, I feel like if this rocks and more like, you know pieces of like broken You know wood and like you probably weren't throwing like metal slabs from the thing Yeah, it's like it's pieces of like metal from the box that got shot or you know things from the explosion rocks You weren't throwing any of those bottles correct. That'd be a different story. No, nothing. Nothing explicit.

Okay, and I think I think while she's doing it She's just like Venting her rage a little bit just kind of shouting obscenities at the At the assassin just kind of mindlessly like you stupid asshole Fuck you. It was not my fault Your boss sucks and just a lot of things And I'm sure like just bouncing off of the the metal staircase like yeah Yeah, she's a lovely and falls over dead from the shame. She takes a d4 damage at disadvantage on the next no Okay, so I would like to use upright or fancy upbringing whatever that one is And she's visually visit viciously calls her a peasant. Okay.

I thought you're pulling an actual like Genesis Oh for a second. I was like wait, oh, okay. Fancy upbringing. Look at this stupid peasant Okay, she goes back to the factory owner's daughter persona.

I like it Anyway, so the assassin As Hera is a bit out of range and salt is quickly approaching she Takes a few steps down the stairs and raises her dagger to stab you But because of what Hera did she's got a roll the coordination check to see if she trips in or has any sort of complications due to the debris on the stairs And she unfortunately is fine So I think we'll do those she's gonna use those two advantage to use To advantage they can do add okay, so add to boot any allied character next to them The character so she does is when she's going down the stairs she kicks one of the bottles into your face Um, she's gonna get a blue dyeing what she does next It's a good move. Yeah, so yeah, it visually she jumps down kicks it in the face You have to like raise her shield to block it which sort of like pulls away from the defense that you know from the stabbing Oh, you know I mean I'm into it Okay, just love a good face kick Green blue dye from that you said you have two defense correct. Yep. Okay, and then two purples Um, okay two defense two purples because it's melee and then the blue dye from uh kicking the bottle Holy fuck balls.

That is a lot of successes. I've never seen that rule before right? You bro. No shit Okay, so She gets it's got an extra one two three four five successes.

So those five successes Um, it is only a Two damage weapon which two damage plus five turns into seven But it has pierce five which we're going to ignore five of your soak Jesus So the damage initially is low but basically essentially it stabs through it It's just it's it's a sharper dagger than I think you realized you raise your shield and it just goes like right through your shield Then she like stabs it into like your shoulder right? So Like oh shit So she moves up stabs you uh, that is your turn who wants to respond? I want to respond god damn it So okay, so now she's got the you know the dagger in the shield So I think he's gonna try to contort it a little bit and come for a point blank shot Okay Okay, so just like pull her in one direction. She wants to keep hold of the dagger.

Okay, cool Right, oh, roll me. I feel like before you make your attack roll I feel like that feels like I'm gonna grab a check and throw me athletics just like pull her to get a little edge on this Or bro. Oh, yeah, I'll let you use bro, but it would be a damage check. Let's just be like a way to throw her off.

Yeah. Yeah, let's do that Um, okay Say I'll set a few ideas. Uh, so yeah, my it pop up was acting funky. Let's do two purples with two upgrades.

Okay, cool. I'm good There we go Wow Even versus two reds here today's a net of Three successes one threat the threat is definitely going to be you take a strain as like your life for that situation Chicks if I'm gonna show you this pop up that sure just shows you some like special special things you can do Um So I think I know what you're going to do with this, but I'll let you narrate it So as he's pulling in, you know get the gun Point blank range Um, and after he takes a shot he feels the release and you hear his tink and the dagger gets snapped the blade snaps off Yep, okay. Cool. Yeah, you just snap it Yeah, you gotta pull she tries to hold on to keep hold of the dagger and doesn't realize how strong you are and how Already the shield is and just snaps in half and I think she looks down to the like she's got like a dagger with like the stub and looks up At you with like eyes a bit wide.

I'm like don't blink bitch and he shoots cool. Love it. I made that shield. Yay You did Uh, okay.

Um, she's got one defense and the two upgrades, but it's gonna be two purples. Oh, you're shooting in shooting in shooting um very close I feel like that adds a disadvantage, but I don't know I'm looking up. We'll just say squirt for now and uh, roll it up All right, ready. Yep.

Here we go Okay, so with that uh that is a net, um, a net of two successes. That's your damage plus one the damage is five, right? Yep, okay. So five plus one is six before her soak Uh, so she'll take a couple points of damage Three Boom.

Okay. Uh, you just like holding I guess yeah, that was your maneuver and then your action So I'm gonna like run away with your move. I assume you're holding no no I um You know he sees red so cool Man, so like googled genesis shooting and engaged and I don't know how to fuck my brain tight It says like when wahaha holding in engaged I just I just have to share this in the real 20. That's what my brain types good.

I know that's just for you guys not the audience, but Well, nonsense. Yeah. Yeah That's our title Houding in engaged now when why uh hooting in engaged yeah, cool. I'll throw that in the select right as later I mean, uh, what's her out to here is gonna scale the wall uh and try and get up there on to even footing behind the Behind the fight.

Okay. Um, romy either a coordination or athletics would be sort of the two checks that makes sense here whether she's in like Uh, there's already Cool. Okay. Yeah, just grab and just pull up with you know clearly yeah, we've we've established master gym status I do enjoy like initially campaign.

I have some reason thought of her as like and maybe this is just like I think if like the female character being much more Like live and actorvatic and she's like no, I'm just strong. I'm a strong bitch. Fuck you Destroying it. Yep.

Swill is hell. Uh, yeah No, she just pulls herself up because she and like me can do a pull up Uh, and then yeah, just launches herself up there and gets behind the fight. So hopefully cool. Um, yeah, let's do Um, it's not gonna be it's only two purples but because of like the exploded thing It's a bit harder to get a grip so i'm gonna add a black on that as well.

Uh, i'm gonna be more Oh my god. When is this gonna turn? You guys are rolling really good and i'm i'm loving it but you're right. It's I can't wait to try and defuse this fucking bomb right?

Oh god. We want to boom there goes a whole part of the city Uh, yeah, so that is uh one two three four four successes straight No chaser. Um Was that just where a successor was? I forgot what that was.

Oh, this was to put yourself up onto the really basically Yeah, you put yourself up. You look around and what you see is the desk has been knocked over to the side It's like you know because these explosions have been like toppled papers have gone everywhere um and uh Window the one there was the one window that flipped opened and the other window has at some point was also crashed and smashed Um, there is your pistol on the ground sort of behind here like over to the right near one of windows It didn't like it's probably like on the edge of the window like leaning like you know So create a strong adjustable take away. Yep. Um and how I'm gonna go fuck it.

I'm gonna go straight at the assassin. I'm just gonna kind of like while she's hopefully distracted by salt Uh, I think she's I think she's just gonna go um try and get yeah running with a dagger and trying like get behind her So I think is this something that's out of turn jeffers have to be on my turn. So I have something called coordinated assault And it says once per turn so that might answer my question here character I use a talent to have a number of allies engage with your character equal to your ranks and leadership Uh to add advantage to all combat checks that make it to the end of your character's next turn So yes, so that one yeah that so it's an activation talent. Um, it takes maneuver to do so like maneuver is like in your gun or doing So like when you like rip your shield that would you maneuver for that turn So on your next turn you can do you can spend your grenade assaults or essentially do something to give some directions to have anyone engaged to get their bonus DICE or That advantage not dice.

So Cool, but yeah, here you run up and stabber Uh, yeah, I think we we try and get to the Uh, we we try and do a mirror of previously and just get the knife up to her throat Okay, cool. Stay out of possible. You know for place. I thought you run forward and then stab in cool.

Um, you've got two purples with two upgrades But she's assassin. I'm given a view art That's gonna be melee, right? Yeah, melee Alright, unfortunately now I think she she hears um you and it's probably like as you're running over this You probably inadvertently like kicked one of the bottles and she like heard and like duck down and you like just barely I'm go over but she's just stupid than that. I feel like Cara just tries to do that the yelling Cool, cool.

Um the two Disadvantage the two threat is going to be it's not gonna be stress because I think you're not stressed out moment You're just like going in a blind rage. So what it's gonna be instead is um On That character and I'll care okay on your next chapter here one black dice Cool As you're just like sort of like blinded by fury here Doing dumb things like yelling and giving away position. Yeah, okay Um on that note it is the assassin's turn We'll do one around and then we're gonna see what flip is up to you. Uh, just to give you heads up.

So the person um is going to Um Spend a story point because everybody else works on to do is I'm gonna do a story point to do the thing She um is going to stab at one of you and shoot the other one of you Um stab and zagadoo because yeah, she's got the dagger with one and the gun with the other so the stab Stabbing Yeah, no, that's gone. Yeah, that is gone. Never mind. You're right.

I'll take the right way back. Um, she's taking a shot As I looked up afterwards, uh shooting in engage range adds an extra difficulty so it's a plus one purple so She's gonna take the shot. I think it's gonna be at hera like ultimately salt is a threat But hera is her primary target So I think she does this she's sort of like uh ducks down Aim's the gun and she like she waits for a second to make sure she like it's center mass So she's coming over to me to aim and she takes the shot. Oh boy.

This was done. Do you have any defense by the way? I have two you have two uh Nope, I yep, I have range one Okay, and two so Yeah, so counts right Yeah, so we'll reduce the damage by the so 10 million Okay, so you said one range defense correct that's correct. Okay.

Um You can see now we're gonna get the results of the shot and then like and we're gonna cut over the flip Okay, so Bleeding out Um, so it's a really one check but plus one because of the melee range so Boop That is a single success. All it is is a single crit Um with the crit we are going to um, what does this gun have it's got? Um, oh This is pierce 4 he had this thing. It's actually no because I changed this weapon it's not pierce 4 It's going to be Something else we're not doing pierce because it's essentially a brass shotgun.

Oh, okay So we're going to do its damage is 4 plus there's no extra success Okay, so it's gonna be for damage the critical rating is 2 so what it does with the crit is it's going to hit you with the critical Which means I'm gonna roll a d100 and something bad is going to happen based on what happens or you do that Can I spend a story point? To do what? I think her is in a trip I think she's gonna trip and fall on her face On one of the bottles that she threw up earlier. So you want to you story point to fall down And miss the gunshot I the gunshot happened.

I what I'll let you do is I'll let you spend the story point to avoid the crit I like it done. Okay She falls and the guys less effective Okay, did you have this right point? No, but I will So yeah, you avoid you avoid the crit, but you will still take the For damage that ignores your peer your soak because it's got yours or no it doesn't appear. So it has something else instead So yeah, I'll find out what it does.

We'll continue on. Uh, yeah, just for damage subtract about your soak Oh, so did I do my soak? Yeah, so if I damage before your soak if you got two so it'd be too damaged perfect. Okay It's fine I think here at like yeah, she uh, there's like a bit of debris that she felt and she's just in that this blind rage status Where like where she's just gonna like fucking go in there and Cut a cut a throat and then I think she she trips and falls like really hard like on her side Uh, and just let's out like an ungodly fuck As she gets shot and is on the floor things are going well.

Yeah, okay Um, and then who we have to do on her to go next then or we want to sell to go are we We're gonna finish this like round so it's her the two of you and then we jump over the dissolves So I think salt's gonna take advantage of the change in uh Change in uh where the focus is and he's gonna flip his pistol over to brass knuckle mode. Okay And of course now he's like you are shooting my crewmate To a quote team four star you push the goku button you shouldn't have done that so um He's gonna as he's got the wide opening now because dumbass look away You just here's quick like flip click and he's gonna take a swing at the guy. Okay. Cool.

Roll her up Go to my weapons because I keep going away. All right. We want brass knuckle rotar pistol melee. Joo Boom Okay, man.

Just that was a net and yet you guys are getting very lucky. Uh, that is a net of three advantage and one success Which is a crit so what did you do so I do have on my uh Brass knuckles disorient three Okay, when hit by this weapon the target is disoriented added black for three rounds to all skill checks Nice. I like it. Um, so there's that has for the crit Um So it says here I can do something vital Okay, can I get them to drop their gun?

Um, Yeah, I love that All right Then it's not destroyed but you can like yeah punch it Yeah, punch it like a brass knife you like punch them like the wrist to like open up like they're clenched on it Yeah, right so I think it just it's so damn hard with that opening. Um, you know see some teeth fly out and pure street fighter action Um, yeah drops the gun and uh, I forget that so the damage is for an evercrant so what happens? Okay, so the link risk work what is so if you're gonna use what's the training weapon? The crit rating is four so I didn't have enough advantage for that so I use that so you can Okay, so yeah, you can use that for this audience.

So if you're gonna use the crit to like activate the critical correct Yeah, okay, so that you really do 100 and then it's going to be there's essentially a uh Does it do 100 table basically that says what happens? So just slash our D 100. Yeah, I can use my macro if you want, okay 67 so on a 67 That is scattered senses the target moves all blue from skill checks, um until the scrita injuries healed So somehow any bonuses that they may have they're going to lose Um what I was going to say is for using the the shotgun pistol thing in melee Um that is gonna give a blue so now that's essentially gated so you could get a bonus for her uh pistol So that's what that's we'll do there even though good Because it made no sense for this to be pierced because we're not I'm not a character from the sci-fi setting So we're not using you know like here with the flesh Yeah So, um is that your turn? That is my turn.

Okay, Hera you are up Well, first of all, she's gonna have to scramble to her feet. Yep. That'd be either maneuver or your movement That's gonna be the maneuver and then I think she's gonna try and get within range I imagine she got like halfway there And then so she's gonna try and scramble into Uh, knifing range. Okay, cool Um with knifing range you are good to go you can actually black die because of the desorient thing So I'm gonna be where the floor face.

Yeah, yeah, uh, okay. One second here All right, that is a uh Of a single failure. So it's real bad. Uh, unfortunately you were just having a hard time hitting um, hitting her She's too fast.

Yeah, she's very quick for you. Um, so you know different if like, you know, yeah, but yeah, she's just very very quick She swings and misses. That's what happened cool So we cut down to below the below the ship and flip you have run Uh, what feels like miles, it's probably not been that but adrenaline is going especially once you got on to flop And you've gotten to essentially the bottom of the ship. Um, you like open yourself up and you realize like you feel a breeze And first like is there like, you know, something down here making no and you you turn a corner and like you are Underneath the ship and you actually like if you look down, you can sort of see water way way down And it's slightly approaching as the ship is sort of listing downwards.

Um wind is coming Uh, how fast is the wind let's just roll? Um, it's a heavy breeze, but not like a hurricane force But yeah, there's a breeze here and you look around there these like rafters going underneath the ship and you see what is very clearly Um, probably 30 feet away from you. Um, the bomb it is Bigger than a person. It is huge.

It is bigger than a bomb you've ever seen Um, it puts the chocky bombs from episode one and two to shame this thing is massive Um, the reason why the bomb Affected like the top of the ship is because the bombs are huge and it's mostly destroying the internal workings of the ship But it's also big enough that it's also damaging, you know top side mostly damaging the ship itself to keep it so it can't fly And it's falling apart, but yeah, this thing is here. What do you do? This thing is big. This thing is huge What's next?

What's keeping it attached to the ship? Is it like sitting on a rafter? Um, it's actually been like welded to the ship They've spent some time here. Um, fuck monitors.

Yeah, they wanted they wanted to make sure that um, it wouldn't just fall off or anything else But yeah, it has been it's been like connected to the ship. It's gonna be tricky. You can try to unwell that that would take some time Um, you're not sure when it's gonna go off. Uh, you could also that would be my first order of business I think is trying to get some indicator on what time do I have?

Okay, cool So you run up to you run up to the ship, uh, now let your side, um, or you run up to the bomb not the ship You're at the ship and I have really can you like blinking red lights or like physical tickers? Something that would tell us what this thing's gonna go up Yeah, he gives you not uh, yeah, all uh and he goes around the other side and he's looking around and looking for things Um, sure. Roll me I was gonna say lord, really you're a mechanic. This is like your thing.

So roll me a mechanics check I need to clear all those dice for fighting assassin. Okay, I'm gonna give you a short point. Um Actually, I'll give this right when you're actually trying to disarm this is just trying to know what it's gonna go off. Okay, sure.

Cool. Yeah, you're good to roll Okay, uh, and can I get a blue dye because now is helping? Oh, yeah, definitely. I know helping and then do you have any other talents that'll give you stuff on like That's not what I was going through.

No, not for this part. Maybe for the later parts Yeah, yeah, they disarming itself to give bonuses, but for like knowledge of okay, cool Sweet Three successes. Okay. So what you can see is there is essentially a um Trying to think how to describe this thing.

Um, it is a series of Clockwork They're not clocks. They're like a number of gears going together that when connected they're all good like this gear goes to this gear There's like one central gear that is going and look you can't tell exactly when but you know that this thing has been going for a while and it's Near the end. Um, it's some you know somewhere between the range of like Two minutes to ten minutes. Um, you can't get an exact gauge because you like you don't have you don't have the time to do the math To figure out how many rotations does it take and how many rotations, you know is left?

Right, it's it's getting close, but there's so many different gears from a quick glance You can't figure out exactly you can spend some time on that or you can spend time on disarming the bomb Well, let me I want to take a look at the timer since it's a physical gear that's going to detonate the bomb Is there any way to either stop that gear or turn it in reverse order? Uh Yeah, you can roll back the odometer like a fresh bill or stay off yeah the the hard part about like yeah, there's a lot of And I'm not an expert on gear mechanics. Um, but yes, you can uh roll me a mechanics check to see what you can do with this gear Gotcha uh Oh new Also, some net of zero success is three advantage. Um What do you want to do with that advantage?

Um, let's see in this situation Uh, what can I do? That's quite a bit of your choice. This is kind of a social kind of a really but like we can't read this Maybe I just get like some insight into like I'll spend two to get some insight into how like I don't figure out the timer Necessarily, but maybe I get some insight into another aspect of the bomb that might make diffusing it easier and get that blue dye Uh for the next check and then I'll spend the last one on stress. Okay, cool.

So you got a blue dye on your next thing Uh, okay, so yeah, you're unsure exactly how the gears work I think the promise is just there's like there's like 15 gears going into the one and it's really hard to tell like if I stop With this one will stop the other ones you probably can't force the main ones to stop because there's a lot of gears Building into that system which makes it really, you know, you know, efficient. Um and you're unsure if you could you know A lot of powers we know it just sticking in a A clink is gonna like, you know, it may just crush whatever goes into it, right? So it's tricky. You're not exactly sure But you didn't learn a looking at it.

Yes, some of the inner workings of this bomb Okay, um Let's do one more round of like trying to figure out this bomb and then we'll jump back up top So what is next you've learned the gear? You know, you've got a little bit of time. You're not sure exactly how much time so I think it's Exactly stop the gears. What's the ignition mechanism?

So whatever Like what is the nature of this bomb and how does the gear tie to the ignition? Uh, and how simple would that be to dismantle? Okay, um, it looks like from the end of this gear mechanism there is a um, a pipe that sort of goes into a Essentially, it looks like it's like a steam vent and that vent is going to heat up something on the inside You're not sure what, um, why clear chemical compound? Um, so the gears are a timer to set off heat and the heat is going to be the ignition for your guesses chemicals because you just came out of essentially a hydrogen A bomb factory not really a bomb factory, but you know in your eyes a bomb factory So the fun part about like the steam punk aspect of this is that like, you know, you talk about like bomb diffusal It's like wires and shit to like plastic explosives, but right now I'm thinking what if I just bent that pipe?

Yeah You uh, yeah, you could you could use that and then you divert the heat elsewhere. Um, that could that could be a thing Uh, yeah, that's what we do. You want to try to bend the pipe and try to uh, let's start here I have a secondary option if that doesn't work to buy us some time Okay, so this one I'm gonna give you this right point to give you some extra options, but make this a bit trickier Um, but it is a it is a thick pipe. So it's a tough check So still mechanics.

It's okay. I'm gonna blue down this one from your uh, investigation before. Oh, you should have it a blue actually before Ooh, yeah, that's what I'm saying. I may have changed things unless you're using it.

It doesn't matter. I'll just use it here Use it here. Okay, so blue upgrade and purple. Okay, I'm good I'm just taking a look at my talent real fast Um, I am modifying an existing item so I can use my ranks and inventor Okay, and that gives you a couple blues right I get two blues for inventor two more blues.

Okay. You have three cool Um, why do I have two story points now? I had zero just a second ago Did both of us move one is that what happened? I didn't touch it that there we go.

That was like, okay, uh, jeff You pull up some ship I'm gonna move it onto the white because that may have been what I did. I mean if it's not maybe you'll never know Okay, go for it. You're good. Cool.

Switching back over to the skills tab this There we go. Here we go. Wow So You got two successes, but you got one two three four five six advantage Um, you do successfully bend this pipe. What does the advantage do?

The advantage is really the question because there's a lot of it Well, let's see how much do I need to get up to full strain. I'll spend two for that Okay, um, so that leaves four which is quite a bit. Uh, I'll learn about the bomb's greatest fear Okay, um The bomb's here that if disarmed, um Because then his his goal in life is removed Um, just slowed. Let's see I guess like with the advantage I want to make sure that like the bomb is for sure disarmed like I know that in my heart of hearts Um, so like I'm not about to like turn around and the bomb goes off.

Yeah um, okay, so I'll give you some extra information here. So when you you turn this pipe and it's now essentially just like instead of shooting Um at the boiler compound. There is it's you know shooting off out, you know into you know the air Um, you do notice that earlier on the pipe is a much smaller like sub Pipe that no not a sub pipe. Yeah, it basically essentially the main pipe is like the main act activation But there may be a secondary thing that is like an internal mechanism that may take it's if anything can take a longer Um, because before instead of shooting like 95 percent of the pipe It's gonna be doing a like more internal going through, you know, other places But it's gonna take time but there is potentially some more steam going into this so there's like a failover There's essentially it's a fail safe.

Yeah, yeah, it's a fail safe that yeah somehow this pipe gets messed up There's like a more internal workings essentially if like you know someone comes in hits it with a bat like you know A lesser find version what you did. Um, you know or like an animal comes in and messes it up. There is another way But it's definitely a long you definitely had a bare minimum bought some time and you've got more options Um Nelton's the corner. How are things going?

Um, I heard noises Uh, well, it's not gonna blow up right now. So that's good. What was that a possibility? I thought we had a couple hours still.

Oh no, it was like we we got here with minutes to spare I'm glad we didn't help your friend. Okay. Uh, good. Um What next I think next up if we've got enough time and I will take a look at like the how it's welded to the the bottom of the ship and Like do we want to yeah, maybe like You like it.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, you like it. Okay. Okay.

And then from that he looks at you It's like, okay, let's uh, let's uh, let's start on that and then we'll cut back up to the upstairs continuing the deadly deadly fight It is a new turn is the assassin's turn the assassin no longer has a dagger has their shotgun pistol thing And you guys are starting to surround them is disoriented and disoriented. Yes, that's the black guy Let me put that little token on there as a reminder. Otherwise, I will forget. Thank you for that.

Um, okay. Um, so I realized that okay so what they're gonna do is And your brass knuckles is being essentially Okay, yeah, I'm just trying to do what they do. Uh, they're going to spend their maneuver to attempt at Actually, there'd be more of an attack and I don't think it would do that if their goal is to kill. Um, so I've got the shot.

Okay, I think what they're gonna do is they're gonna jump at Hera and try to uh, get her and put the gun Close to your frame and shoot it off Um Their concern is they they can't take you guys both out. They want to make sure that these hair is taken out Even though, uh, salt is the one that is pelting the fuck out of them. Um, her is the prime target So with that Um runs up close. There's a black dye from the disorient and then an extra purple for doing it in melee And then we are shooting Range light boom boom boom Shot is taken So with that, um You are going to take the pistol is a damage of four Um, so it's gonna be five damage before your soak.

Okay, so that's three Okay Okay, once again your shot, um getting a bit yeah a bit bloodier Um and with the two advantage. I think what he's getting with this keeps in heat what she's gonna do is Um, there. Yeah, they don't um Going to spend the two advantage to add black that target characters next check and actually what they're gonna do is as they're you know Sort of leaned away from salt. I think what they're gonna do is they're gonna kick Uh one of these bottles or you know one of the very specific three that's on the ground Into saltface sort of like throw you a bit off.

Maybe not just as a TV black on your next check Love a good face kick. All right. Not a face kicks. Oh, what's the next So I think you know, he's uh seeing uh is uh, he's gonna he was coordinated assault Um to let uh A hair I know like, you know, he'll just say up and left like hopefully she'll get it Um, because another thing and how many identical that it just says uh because I Pretty let's say verbatim.

I have it down once per turn your character I mean he's a talent to have a number of allies engage with your character earlier ranks and leadership So I have two is add. I'm assuming one is his advantage to all combat checks They make until the end of your character's next turn Yep, um, so Okay, I thought it was a number of okay. I got a number of advantage. You really should it's just a number of allies.

Okay. Cool. Yeah, so Yes, yes, yes, cool. Let's see.

And what else am I gonna do? So I think uh He's gonna try to get the assassin half a era. So I think he's gonna try to keep all the rest knuckles It's just bull rush them with the shield. Oh, gosh.

Okay. It's kind of like a tackle almost. Yeah, okay. Cool.

Um Two purples the black from you getting distracted Uh, okay, I'm set. All right. What? Sorry.

What am I rolling before we go there for? Um, so you're not you're not trying to attack You're trying to just um, yeah, you're trying to bull rush trying to get around. Okay, get them. Yeah, get away Uh that feels like Athletics to me.

You're just trying to like push them Question I have for you. I try to Get them off of hera or to you know on the other side of them is the wall Which is where the windows are if you want to push them out the window that's a play but that's even much I'll let you try it if you like I think his ultimate thing is what's really worked for him is like if I get him up against a wall and they Can't move like I'm just gonna I'm gonna finish it right here. Like I'm going to be have no mercy I will expend every ounce of my gun. I will beat you until my knuckles my grass knuckles are broken You know, just that's his goal.

Uh, a away from hera be I'm finishing it. Okay, so not so okay So you're not necessarily trying to knock them out of the window. You're just trying to get them away from here I'm trying to get them away from hera. Okay, cool.

That's that's an easy check. Okay. Okay. So do we do I keep looking at brawl just because it feels very beefy, but all right athletics I'll let you I'll let you use brawl, but I won't crease the difficulty because like you're really just using raw strength and not necessarily I feel like athletics is more finesse based and that's not what this is You know, so I'll let you roll.

Yeah, because really you're so used to your weapon. You're almost like a part of you I'll give it to you. I think we're gonna campaign not necessarily nowadays like your shield is part of you. Okay.

Yeah, all right All right, well said Jeff. Yep, right here we go Well, that's the first in the game that I can know interesting that is a net of one success But a critical failure came in with that. So first off, what is the forward advantage deal? So the forward advantage So they never dropped their gun, right?

correct so Let's see Thinking about stuff Because then I'm gonna have a response as well from the critical um failure. So just to know right so I think what happens so I think the the jam Using three of that is one of the options is when a dealing damage to a target Which I'm not so that may just because it says something about disabling a piece of gear rather than dealing wounds or strain Um, I kind of feel like you know the the hit is so violent that maybe when they hit the wall or what have you the uh The hammer on the gun got bent so it doesn't work as well. So it's like it's jammed almost You're trying to like damage it. Yeah, um just in the in the fray is kind of like my thought for one of the options Or the other option I have is forced to talk to drop a melee or a range weapon their wielding switch to me makes a little bit much I think that would make some more sense because yeah, we're not doing damage to it.

I think that would make more sense Okay, so I think you know in the bull rush, you know comes up hit some so hard gun drops Um Get some against the wall down cures to see with this despair. Okay, so yeah the despair the critical failure of this game Um, so you push them off of hera. Um, the two of you are like closer to the wall now. Um, digitally Uh, their gun is dropped and then on their end that despair is going to be that um you Basically, it's it's a weird situation, but uh when this occurs they pull out The the gun drops.

There's a moment of panic. They pull out the like Um, the half sheath thing of the of the dagger and it doesn't have much What they do is they stab into where the shield pops out of your arm and they get into there and they like Twist and the the angle of it like basically fucks up the shield in a way that it's not gonna like Break but it's definitely giving you less protection. Um, less defense less. So like the angle is off It's very much the way off it's less a part of you because like they've somehow like damaged this piece of gear It can still be used, but it's like fuck that a bit Like defense is gone down.

Yeah, the defense and if it gives you any so the so would and even spoke without my one Yeah, and if this occurs again, then it may have more problems because like breaking something that's part of you is a trickier repair It can be done. You've got flip, right? Um, but it's a trickier repair Right. I kind of see like you know the way that I've sort of visualized this it's got a system of springs that kind of hold it in And want like a couple of them have come loose.

So if I swing it too much like you kind of notice there's a flop Like it's not as rigid on maybe the top section of it. So I have to be mindful of the left side Yep And yeah, especially with like, you know, you've even used this thing for you know months now and like it's off a bit and that's just like mentally Is very weird, right? Right. It's like suddenly, you know, if you ever like, you know Had like an armbreaker like you know, I've heard of people like if you like lose a finger, you still want to try to use that kind of thing Right like oh, it's there, but it's it doesn't work quite the way I'm used to, you know, right?

So cool Okay, um, Hera What do you do? Um, I think at this point, off of you not their weapon was knocked to the ground Um There the moment are currently basically disarmed We're gonna go in for a throat stab. I think there's just one one last big Effort to get in and get a stab in Okay, cool. We're lucky to get the automatic um Adventure, yeah And i'm gonna give you another one because i'm gonna give you a blue dice as well because like flippin or salt is very much like in the middle of A lot of things helping you pinning them making the weapons away.

You're gonna just not make it Teamwork is going on. Yep. Whoo. Okay, right?

Yep. That isn't that No, even how how that works Yeah, the two successes even doubt wait hold up. Okay, but You do get the automatic advantage from uh salt saying so you have one advantage dice you can spend if you want to spend your guys's last point you could to buy a single success i'm nervous about Using that in case Well, i'm gonna use Right I still got ready for nothing or ready for nothing ready for anything so in my back pocket still still one But i am ready for nothing which is That might be a show Can i uh can i use that advantage to get her pinned Um It's lots of a pin it'd be something small than that but like you could maybe give some give a blue die over to the next thing that salt is Yeah, just yeah, just kind of take her attention. Yeah.

Yeah, it's yeah It's also a pin more of like you know she'd duck out of the way and now because she's paying attention to you She's paying less attention to salt. Yeah, let's do that. Cool. Okay, uh is her turn Um up against the wall.

I think what she's going to do this is the second turn of her disorient she is going to Roll to try to escape your pin I'm going to send a throw point your way to upgrade what she does so she's got a black what is your uh Braun four four. Okay. Uh one two three four. He's a beefy dude.

He's rolling Man boy one two three and green Um Okay, success with a threat. Um the threat is going to be um threat is gonna be Uh, you will get either one of you will get to do a blue die whatever you next to this person Um You've got in some way like an advantage, but she ducks out of the way grabs the pistol on the ledge And then I think what she does is run past Hera to the side of Like the railing where the like really like the it's like the railing's like frayed and like starting to fall But she's like puts sort of her back to that pulls the two guns and some maneuver I think no, I think all that's gonna be like her action. Um Something from maneuver is just gonna be now. She'll be oh, yeah, but there will be yeah No, the threat was that the maneuver is going to be she's going to aim her shots in both of her guns at Hera Um to do something god damn it Um Next turn she made uh duel blast her what uh what do you guys do?

It's your turn and one of you guys go blue die and whatever you do whoever goes next is she still in an engaged range Uh for you engage salt it's short All right, uh I think I gotta try can I Can I tackle so she's she's got her back to the ledge right back to the ledge. Yeah There's like a half railing there that's you know been sort of semi destroyed by the explosion off But yes, she's like got her back there back to like a wall where she if she needs to she could like jump over the wall to try to treat She doesn't even pin up against a wall. So let's go away from that. It seems fair.

I think Cara Raises her knife arm as if she's gonna go in for a stab And I think she runs and tries to take out her knees and and trip her backwards off the ledge. Okay, cool um, so You're gonna get an automatic blue Any other thing to help if I'm understanding it with uh coordinated assault It's my next turn is uh when she gets automatic advantage. Oh So she's still having a gun. She has me right.