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EPISODE · May 20, 2020 · 56 MIN

Tidefall E8 (2/3)

from Des Moines and Dragons · host Paul Privitera

Last time on Tidefall... Our adventurers try to escape the Brass Guild sector. Things... don't go smoothly. First Flip almost gets caught, but Nell saves his hide. Then Hera tries to convert Leah to her way of thinking. Again, does not go well. So Salt beans her, gives her a slight case of brain damage. On the way out of the sector, guards confiscate Leah to relocate her to the nearest hospital. After getting back to the bar, things get tense (what a surprise). Nell finds out Maximus is missing and get's a little pissed. They wait it out, eventually Maximus shows up and tells everyone about Salt knocking him out. Eventually our heroes open up to each other. They are a big happy family again. While Hera goes shopping the dudes do "Arm stuff". Salt can't have a crappy arm forever. The group decides they need leads. So they search around town for Gabriel Cobb. After some sneaky skullduggery, they figure out where the boss man lives. So with a week and a half until "The Event", Flip goes in, alone, to do his thing. What will happen next? Find out, now.

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Okay, we are Interiming dude. We're not talking about any other crazy stuff. It's going on in the world. Yeah.

Yeah, you're getting We're not shooting anybody in the not dick. Let's go. No more no more shots, especially in the dick I can't believe I missed his dick If you catch out in the dick, I think it would have been like a 500-inch recruitment talk to you but not shooting them in the dick And then you just would have gotten the shit beat out of you And throw them in the alley. Let's find another one We're done with this whole silly quest like I'm out Don't care So Hera you are Interrogating this guy, but it sounds like you're doing less coercion and more of like I don't know You don't like it felt like a little bit of coercion because like you were it was that weird nice type of coercion We're like yeah, I could help you and then nothing bad would happen That's what I kind of felt like to me, but I like if you want to score or charm because I think both of them could fit there I think I think throughout all of this like my hand like I'm putting pressure on this wound and like I'm just like yeah So it's physically painful and I'm just like not breaking contact with his eyes So I think it's a coercion under the guise of charm.

So but I'm gonna say it. There's an element of threat to it Okay, which I think makes sense. I'm gonna be able to do this because you're you haven't like tied up in a room And you're he's surrounded so that it'll help you out. He's kind of freaked out Super that's that's there okay rolling And if at any point you you do have your like double the strain damage you do to someone so if now's the time you want to do that you could But it's more of a I don't know if I need to Yep, so that was accidentally a couple, but let's go with the last one which is to Let's let's just take the first one because whenever we roll play such a take the first Um, so see whenever I would think that it's the opposite but like all go with that that's fine What the reason why is I've had a Third or is I've had players in the past that like they see a bad one and they roll they roll it again really quick Because they don't like their results I don't play a whole lot of games with people like that anymore and I don't believe you know It was more like a standard that I set myself.

I appreciate that. Yeah, so yeah Anyway, it's basically send result you succeed you you take one disadvantage, so I think the disadvantage is Something about what he says I don't know over my coat No, I think it's more like what he says he said he's going to answer your questions But for some reason and you don't know if it's because it isn't true or if you think something's off of it something seems off Maybe he's lying. Maybe he doesn't know the full truth But something about this news off so the question really stayed to both me in the audience what the specific question was you're trying to get information Like what is the thing? Yeah, it's it's very much like, you know, we don't need to hurt you But like we're after we just want to know what you know about your boss who hired you like kind of like what do you know about like what this whole Situation entails.

Okay, so I get most information about the boss most information about the boss mr. Mr. Cobb Okay, so you're asking him about about again mr. Cobb.

It's like uh, okay, so mr. Cobb he She's like a big wig. He comes from somewhere he comes from somewhere else and a few back They they got this Researcher guy researcher Trafter tinker person and then he started working on on these little toy things and when that happened mr Mr. Mr.

Cobb showed up and and I think during this whole thing He probably like constantly looking back over to flip because he's remembering getting shot by flip So like there's no like says little toys flip stands up and like makes his way over there Okay, and like when when he's when you do that he like he stays like oh Yes, so after the guy who makes the toys showed up mr Cuz is momentarily just to like glare a flip You just stare down flip. Yeah, what the fuck are you doing? If you look down you can see his hands are clenched I think salt notices because he's been on this guy while here is focused on him. He looks over like all right flip take a breath So he came in after the the the bomb maker came in and he kind of manages him Um, he's coming shipments.

I'll go in shipments. He's like he's not a normal foreman, right? He's big way he he coordinates and sends things out and he's not just Yeah, he's he's big time. I guess Hera kind of interrupts him and she's like do you know when he's gonna be around next or What do you know about his schedule as soon as we know where he's gonna be we can let you go Like it's gonna be fine and she just kind of like pats his like thigh like intimidating way Well, I mean most days he goes to to the factory to keep an eye on on on the the bomb maker Um, what do you mean the next because like he's he's here a lot?

Do you mean when he's leaving or because he's pretty much A house does he have like an apartment? Does he have somewhere where he hangs out at night? Where does he go? Well the The building that well you took me from that's his office, but also his house he kind of converted it it was just a house and now it's like a Well, it's a brass guild like was he there 20 minutes ago Yeah, he's he's there most nights Perfect great and then she just kind of like looks to salt like okay.

What are we doing? Tell me about the bomb maker. Yeah, who's the tinker you're talking about? Uh, well his name's Les he uh Is that Les do you know his last name is it uh?

Let's say his name Booker or something like that? Um What makes a look to insult and Hera? So as a reminder to both the audience and our players uh Les Baker is the guy the foreman from episode one that you were looking into Well, so he's like yeah, I think I think it's I think it's Booker, but I don't know I haven't really met the guy I just teased the tinker. He's the bomb maker Yeah, I know he No, he I mean originally he How do I I don't know how to say this he He's not like working a job.

He's like He's just living there. He doesn't leave. I guess he's kind of He's like super contract to a point where he can't leave and he has to make a bunch of Bobs and toy bombs and normal toys sometimes I think Cara just kind of stands up suddenly grabs both salt and like flip and like pulls them towards like a corner of the room and like stands Like with her back facing While you were giving first aid, so tied him up So I think she just kind of drives them to the the corner like with her back turn towards him And she kind of grabs them and goes like look if he's there now you have an opportunity but to potentially get this At least one if not both of them Maybe they're caught off guard like we're not gonna get a better opportunity than like right now Let's just go Let's go and let's just like walk in and say we want to talk to the boss and see what happens I'm going after less. I take the brains out of the outfit less They've got files on how to make these stupid things which they probably do like I would imagine yeah They have to have some sort of contingency like right?

I just don't know how big this thing is right. I'm curious where less came from so we can get to him We might be able to figure something something more out. I don't know So we want to go after less and not the bus So less is the brains behind these whole Lesser for Or just Exactly, but he's not like you know, he's he's still a big wig like important guys. Nothing doesn't know anything It's more of a he's not a big bombs Is the bomb maker and Gabriel Cobb is the Basically Sense I mean, maybe the boss himself could call off the bomb maker.

We just don't know at this point Well, I don't think we can just go Let's do this if we can scout the factory If it's too much then we can go after the boss still tonight. Yeah What do you think the chances are that we could get uh one of your cult friends to just watch this guy without any information like what he just like He gets all king to do it Oh, it's fair. Oh good gross fine All right, it's yells hey Joe Yeah, like not 10 seconds later you hear a knock at the door. Fuck.

Yeah. Yep. Hey Joe. Watch this kid We're gonna go some work.

Don't worry about it. Open the door and let them in Yeah, both Joe and Ryan are there like ready like looking at first looking off to like preemptively look at her and then flip so they're like oh Oh, uh, I think in this moment is like almost sold on selking like I think this is just a moment of like oh shit This is super convenient. I think I think I'm okay with I'm okay with selking Yeah, there's just this like clarifying moment of like oh my god. This is amazing And before like she's never gonna admit this so she like snaps in his face and she's like watch this asshole make sure he doesn't go anywhere He cannots um I would just do so.

Yeah, okay. I think they've just got like Everything exciting. I think it was mostly just okay. What do they have?

Oh, yeah, just pistol switchlights. God. We really just pick it up off of like a yeah, sweet We just like he disappeared out of nowhere. Like we just grabbed him At the bar and then like yeah Yeah, what's up with that?

All right, all right is the one you almost started but Joe is like Joe you try to save me good times good times Okay, so they like salute and you guys leave and they you know, they got their weapons out and drawn on the guy and So our salute just to clarify. It's like when you take a salt shaker and you throw it over your other Magnificent Okay We cut back to the travel on the ship This sign Okay, so you just need pretend like if they're one salt over your shoulder and we we see him the creation of this this salute Cut back to the present moment and the two of them are doing it to flip and flip. Yeah, I taught them that And You guys take off with salt gang guarding the prisoner Good. Yeah, I think her is dead inside a little bit, but she's not gonna say anything She's like, you know, this is useful, but I hate God damn if that isn't the greatest thing I've ever said I'm not doing it.

That's funny Okay, should we tell should we tell no and back to us about what we're gonna do? Nope, okay Heralock straight out. She's like no, no, no, they'll figure it out They'll find it Okay, what was the plan to talk to them was it like in a couple days you report back? Yep, okay I Yeah So I think But here's the deal so I think we get all the way out into the street We're still deciding and it's like but here's the deal We just picked up a guard off of the house the house is gonna be if we don't get back there soon They're gonna like know something's wrong.

I think this this might be our chance before think we probably don't have the chance to do both Is what I'm saying If one is in high alert, they're both gonna be in high alert. I feel like we just need to go to the house And and take up a boss Security at the factory The other thing I could mention is uh in this like jim heresy But if you bring the other NPCs in and make two groups you could hit them both at once But that's much more difficult to track and also we've seen you getting help with others doesn't always go well For whatever reason the three of you work really well together and anyone else just complicates things So it's the function. It just really kind of like gets in there and ordered you guys have focused chaos and anyone else cannot work So at this point, it's I mean I'll leave it up to you too, but and like she corrects herself immediately and she's like I leave it up to you salt I mean and Maximus have grenades Yeah, but they suck Yeah Babbers like we have to make a decision now So just cut the tie I swear to go and I think make a decision will go Much like it Why does I hate to admit it if we can hit both at once it might be useful Because we get the distribution guy and the bomb maker I'm gonna cut both heads off the hydra at once I guess for the record. I think this is a terrible idea But here is like, okay fine Let's bring in so now and what's his maximus, but I don't like it anymore.

You do a bloscope. All right So I think you know salt's hating this but you know, it's for the good of the take of getting things done Maybe maybe I should broach this. Oh, all right Maximus You get to sit down and not do anything Mm-hmm Tera rolls her eyes and just like Exasperatedly like goes back to the corner like of the alley for the outside and just like whatever She'll cool off eventually. Yeah, I don't like this either, but Okay, uh flip heads back in and up the stairs to know in Maximus's room.

Okay And uh, and it does my like middle of the night. So do you how do you just like knock on the door and hope that I don't I don't really have any Uh knowledge of social norms and what's acceptable So I hammer on the door. Okay. Just bang bang bang bang bang.

Okay. No, mr. Nell Okay, uh Probably and it's probably like 30 seconds later. Do you just continue banging mr.

Nell is really like a kid like an annoying kid. Okay, uh, and Like it's like, uh, any door opens with what what what kid what do what time it is There are good developments Developed develop developments and I'm going to I'm going to assume that they are very important because I just got a bit like an hour ago. What what do you know where cob lives? Okay, and cob he's the boss man, right?

Yeah, he's the he's the foreman or uh boss man. Yeah, boss man. The good word for it Okay, you know, you know where he lives. Gotcha.

That's good And you may have taken certain actions that have potentially put the house Maybe on some kind of an alert soon Hey What anyway, we really like it if you hold a whole Maximus went to the house to make sure nothing bad happened or to take cob we're gonna go check out the factory So You just pissed off big boss man. Everyone. We're not necessarily Not anyone has to go and make sure What? Or something like can go in and seize him or something You want us to go and Mm-hmm.

Okay Okay, so you found out who lives and you may have pissed him off and then you want us to get out. Yeah, gotcha Okay, glad you're saying Uh I need to be like turns in behind him and like maximus is like Sitting on the chair just like it looks like he's like half asleep like I'm handed arms is like so what's the kid saying and you know Quietly from the edge. So anyway, if you go down to our room over there Uh joe and a ryer in there with a guard that guard can delete you to the house. We really got to go And like his eyes go white like wait, so We abducted a guard Oh, so that's what you say you may have made him angry.

You mean you stole one of his guard gotcha I'm understanding also. There's a gate in food and I'm don't worry about it. Bye Me to know next was And he just like drunk like I don't know Okay, kid We'll go and Are we supposed to take joe and awrya with us or hey? That's totally up to you.

You just let him know that uh, whatever you guys want to do that I was okay with it Okay Which is pretty metal Cool. Nice. I see no Goans oh they have guns too Okay, thanks kid and he like he like passed you on the head. I'm gonna go talk with Maximus.

Uh, good luck with Less Or Okay, you didn't say the power. Okay, it's like good luck with the factory. We're gonna go. We'll deal with that.

We'll bring we'll bring uh your bodies with us Uh, we're not going into the house of the leader with just Well, the two of us they're more useful than they look I'm sure you believe that and then at that he close the door Well That takes care of that I think that's his hands and walks away. Uh, was salt and hair like 10 feet down the hall down in the lobby I think we're like waiting outside for him. I think it's like well, I wonder what he's gonna tell him I mean left at that factory and where's comes where we can barter or something to try to get the pull Better get to come out I mean basically we're always playing at this point is this makes it up But I'm just gonna say when he gets his two dumb friends killed because of some dumb shit that he does Like she points to salt and she's like this is all on you to like fix his shit emotionally Like I'm not dealing with this like that's fair This is all anybody like no salt just kind of looks obviously like it's taken him back like he knows He he's very much aware of uh the the torment he has wrought in the last Yeah Yeah, so I head back over Okay, so You head back to salt and hair uh who were like sent to down a lobby right just waiting all this out Yep, okay, they're gonna head over to the house and take care of cop All right, let's head to the factory. Let's not waste any time.

Yep. I think they like said I heard a jog I think it's just a matter of getting there fast as they can What they're driving from? Um, so then if speed is a factor let's have um whoever wants to roll me Um athletics or coordination or if something else makes more sense just to get back there quickly Street lights. Um, I'll let you roll.

Sure. Yeah, why not? Um, I do it then say I've got one rank in it so I've got two Check it out. I'll let the roll and I'll let you take every guys because salt also turns in it And then it'll be just a little bit too regular.

I guess it depends. Are you just trying to Trying to find shortcuts? You're gonna stand up. I guess how quick you try to put yourself to go I guess what the streetwise we're looking for the quickest way there and then Diving through streets if we can right?

Okay, so I guess I'll let you set the difficulty the I did both of the fast you get there So if you kind of standard one is going a little bit slow but safe if you go through you can find a lot of shortcuts But it's well You can use a Yeah, I got three purples in one blue because he's helping out Okay, so that's a failure, but you have a triumph and an advantage. So what does that look like? So yeah, you failed, but you've got a triumph even though you failed. So what does that try?

I mean, here is just breathing down his neck like I swear to god if he gets lost We don't get lost we probably get there maybe just a little bit slower Then we would have if he is just taking a normal route Okay, so you tried to find all these shortcuts, but the shortcuts didn't work out But you still save time you kind of got lost but I think and maybe the advantage is you were able to hide the fact that you kind of lost a hair Like a single beating yeah like so it doesn't take it doesn't save you time But you also don't lose time because you got that triumph and they don't know because you know it's been the advantage on that Yeah, I think I'll use my success to keep my standing up Okay, save my street cred Yeah, important role for that. Okay, so yeah, you get there take all these shortcuts and You know, you know your allies don't notice that this shortcut's not going to be helping but you're there you got there Yeah, we got like five minutes or something like that Yeah, and it's still the middle of the night, but you've probably got like an hour till dawn like Even when you guys went to cops house. So now it's probably like Very very late night like it's probably an hour away from morning like it's it's gonna be people gonna start waking up going to the factory All that fun stuff. Um, but you got time just not infinite time Oh So here like we get to the entrance or whatever in here I kind of pulls everybody back and she's like, okay, so we've got a couple of ways that we can make this work Option one.

We just kicked the door down make as much noise as possible. See if we can find somebody fuck the consequences option two Maybe there's a back way we find our way in We hide ourselves and maybe we can like just stay there until we get the opportunity Maybe not till the middle of the day, but it's a little bit safer in terms of like we wait for an opportunity To grab this guy personally, I like option two, but you know, if option two goes south There's always option one because why not quicker Uh, we're not on supertime crunchy. We still got what 10 days Well, I mean there are two people plus um about to go and like hit up the big house And we have no idea how quick they're gonna do that or how well I think there's four people going yeah, they don't count Oh Frankly, I hate all of them All right, let's let's still take option two but uh, try to be quick about it. It's getting their first.

That's not big noise Okay, so summary of what option two is You can Okay, so for I mean first thing you guys need to like scout this place out. So who's doing that? That's that's me frankly because I think I have the highest still I guess the question is Well, cuz salt has the like bonus is a perception like finding things So I guess the question is do you want to go more high and look down at the word things are happening We just want to have here a sneak the fucking and like, you know, mark on the end basically So If you try By the back of the collar and let's go let's go. Dougery would basically be like kind of like we did the do tells We're like you walk in acting with you on the place and like you kind of like because it's not it's kind of like streetwise Right, it's like kind of know you may know where the backdoor is but like you still be in the place and you're not necessarily sneaky so Yeah, I was running though if you just want to like walk in and like, you know actually you're on the place That's fine if we want to have salt or summer high and like at a lookout point that works if hera wants to sneak in that also works Should I bring out page the page again?

Well Is there a reason we can't do all three like that? Yeah, do both separately your page the page goes in just flop with us guys here Can you go up the side of the building maybe an upper window? Oh fuck. Yeah So I say uh, harrow out you and I try to find a back door and sneak in flip on to go up top with flop That's always cute people with their guards down right okay, so it sounds like let's have um So we're gonna have a bunch of things happening once so here is gonna roll a stealth check Salt is going to roll a perception check and salt how stealthy are you?

I have one rank in it. Oh, you're okay So I was gonna see if you were to give her disadvantage because right now you're not trying to be stealthy You're trying to keep an eye on things, but you're trying to know so you can stay minimally stealthy while she's like finding the proper self bath So here it's gonna make a self check salt time to make a perception check That's employee. Um, what is this thing? Conny.

Yeah, so you're gonna have your blue dice. So it's you one at a time. So first off. Let's do uh, let's do your perception check first So you're gonna have two blue dice cool and uh, we'll make this one a difficulty one This is a you're probably the easiest check dude.

What's going on? I know what things are but you guys don't so yeah, you roll yours first right perception and roll okay Next up is going to be here is stealth check. Uh, you uh, it's gonna be difficulty These things have uh, that so it's gonna be too purple I think unless there's a modifier here too purple, but they're almost gonna end up black dice because of something Uh, super purple and black and then yourself. I'm set on my end Okay, and then flip you are using streetwise you're basically like trying to remember like okay This factory and basically you're thinking like the factory that used to live This factory had like window here and factories are set up similar There's probably a window in this back corner up in the left and up and the right because you gotta like get airflow You know a lot of up and you're basically guy anyway in and then you're just kind of like sneaking up the front window what is your plan on getting through said window is there I guess would there be glass windows?

Most of these things are they literally like air vents to let out in and out smoke? Um, I'd probably be looking for something that I wouldn't have to break Okay So if that means a little bit higher difficulty, I think that's what I'm shooting Um, I think all that's gonna do is I'm gonna add in a black dice to like find the right one It takes a little bit of time, but it's not more difficult. It's just like a little a little setback Cool. Okay.

Uh, so two purple and black I'm gonna mind Then I'll narrate all these things. Okay, so first things first uh salt's perception check so salt had um Everything all out except you have one overall advantage. So um, you don't know what is guarding this thing But you there's definitely guards around. Um, I'm gonna say from the advantage uh, whatever it is they have uh lights Um, which like him basically whoever they are they are actively looking for people coming in because they're like either spotlights or flashlights or something along those lines Um, you don't know what they are.

You don't know where they are, but you know that there's you know people actually looking for people coming in Uh, Hera, you've got a success and two disadvantage or two threat Uh, so what I want to say is you succeed you're able to get in so you and you guys are going in the back door is that right? Yeah So uh, there are a few there's like a guard or two out Um near the back door, but like he's not at the door at the door He's just around and you're able to get around him just fine No big deal and when you go inside the back door, you're like inside the factory proper And when you open that door within about a second or two a light goes to the door And you succeed so you quickly get you installed inside close the door and then like you like shuffle down to the side But you were like a split second away from a spotlight catching you immediately Um, and that stresses you the fuck out because the last thing you want to do is open up a door into an into essentially enemy place And immediately get spotted so you can take two points of stress Uh, because like you were very close to caught And then flip you succeeded within it with an advantage So you're able to find a door i'm gonna roll a d4 to see like what corner of the places on Uh, one and two is front left right and bat three four is back left right, uh before So it's the front right room. So basically solve it here going in the back somewhere like the back center door You're going in the only door that has like an open uh non-glass window is the front right Effectively, that's probably where again they vent out something or like the two of the attaches to it like to rid of stuff That are center either way is open window You are very much disconnected from the others but you're able to get in and get inside Uh the advantage and is it that you're trying to spot things right With your goal is like get up high and find out where or what's going on in here Yeah, so sort of scout things out Okay, and Remind me because of flops like cyberlikes. You can just like spider-man up on walls and then you just grapple onto him so you can Essentially ride him.

Okay, cool. So as he's climbing and you're like oh there boy and uh he goes up to that window You get inside and I think the advantage i'm gonna give you actually spot what's going on in here Uh, there are a couple two maybe three uh like pirates, you know Rascale members down on the ground and these guys they are not actively searching They're just like like two of them at a table and one of them is like sort of wandering around Um these guys have you know both guns and uh bladed weapon at their side They're they're not really wearing like they're wearing like armor, but they're more they're wearing dangerous They have dangerous weapons more than their dangerous armor Uh, but uh the bigger issue is you see up at the top of the factory and there's probably three or four of these things floating around There are these like clockwork um drones flying around that have these like small combustion just like making these like quiet but like not deadly quiet not deathly quiet noises And they're just like floating around and they've got these spotlights and they're looking around and the other one's keeping an eye out And you see on the top of them is this light like and the best way to describe it in real life is it's like an alarm light that we go off at that spot something So um essentially and there's no it doesn't like to be any good weapons or any it's really just it's just a search droid We'll search like clockwork like, you know machinery drone thing flying around Yeah, that's yeah, that's the word i was looking for And it's trying it's keeping an eye out and if something goes off the alarm's gonna go off and like whoa, wea, wea, wea, and let everyone know Shit is going on So you see that up floating around at the ceiling that's your biggest concern the guys are only an issue if the drone spots you And there so okay, so I said there are three guards and then i'm gonna say there's four of these drones And then um there is like the main factory floor and then on the Far end there is like a wall and there's two doors one on the left No, not on the front as far as the back it'd be ones directly under you and then one is on like back on the left So those were like these two other rooms. Okay, so that's what you said No, it's like a door there's doors. Okay.

Yep So i'll just do a really basic drawing so basically you went in on the front on the right Uh there and on the back and then there is a room Here and then a room here so there's room directly under you and there's room like caddy corner on the left of you Okay, so this is the pea corner Yes, effectively above the pea corner good cool Um, so yeah, i'm going to Was your plan at all to relay any information to them or are you just gonna like stay up near the ceiling and help them out as needed Because you go with to find out what's going on but then also do the thing i think i ended up um I think i ended up a little bit farther away from the back than i would like and heading back out to fill them in on information would be A lot of time so i mean the other thing you could do is and you probably and because you succeeded better than they did I think you got a little bit before they did so you probably saw the spotlight go turn and look at where hero was Heron salt and you see her duck over the side now if you want you could just climb on the ceiling down to them because none of these Guard like because these drone things they're looking at the floor but not looking up at the ceiling So if you just want to like crawl on the ceiling Guard mistake You probably need to make a check of some form to either stay quiet and or hold yourself as you know You're essentially holding your body weight through this entire thing but you're young kids so like it's not that hard Yeah, that's what i was that was what i was hoping to do and perhaps take out a drone or two Okay using mechanics Okay, so and how would you take out these drones would you like grab them and then try to like take off the alarm take off the spotlight or something? I want to take off the alarm. I think that's the primary the primary concern right now. Okay Uh, okay, then let's have you roll.

I think us I think a stealth check because you got to get to these things so either a self check or coordination check to Ride on flip in a quiet way to get to them and then it'll be a mechanic start to take them apart Cool. Let's do a stealth check. Okay, and i'll say the higher you get on this the more success to get the more of these things You can grab like one success you get one if you get two you can get two and then maybe like four you get three of them I don't think you'll fall unless you like roll a crit Um and the difficulty uh i'm gonna have they've got agility of two and you're only stealth so to be too risky. Yeah Okay, here we go So one success put a bunch of advantage so the success means you can get one drone, but what is all that advantage mean?

Um, I get the one that's closest to where uh, para and salt are coming in and i'd like to recover a straight Okay, recover straight and then you you're able to be like, okay, that one is gonna go over the surface because they're rotating round, right? So you're like that one is gonna go over there. I'll figure out okay that one be right over here is that one i'm over there And you do this thing where you're like climbing across the ceiling like intercepting its path and then as he's there And how do you like this flop lower you down do you like spider-man with your legs downward? How does this look like describe to the audience?

My uh, I wrap my legs around and hook the feet together and I Like mission and I like that like really intense like downward pull up into like oku does. Yeah, it's nice. Okay, I've got a brother. I can handle this Oh, yeah, I forgot that you're really strong.

I was wrong dude. I think I think kids are weak But no you are strong so okay, you you go down and then you grab this thing and then roll me a mechanics check and then this one this thing has a What is this thing's brawn this thing has a brawn of five Uh, so it's it that is a lot. Oh wait, hold up. That's four hold up.

No, this is not a bra five Uh, because this thing's these more things. It'll be brought up three Just in the different types these things a little bit that so yeah Well, there's like there's the search droids and then the rescue droids and there's something to both and this one is specifically search droid Rescue droids also like did people out of role. Uh, it's not one of those so yeah, not not think five That would be a lot bigger and stronger so it is definitely three um because you've got that I'm gonna give you an automatic blue dice So one advantage if you want to use a story point you can but I know do you have other blue dice from this room center or is that for more for Creating things that's for um, I'll check the specific wording, but I'm pretty sure it's just for Just for inventing new stuff or modifying makes check to construct new items or modify existing ones Modifying existing item. I'll give you that yeah two more blue dice You're sure if you're modifying an existing object It's not a person it's a drone so yeah Just grabbing it like the eye stocks and just like yanking them enough with the wires like You can use three points.

I will now okay And then if you want to click that button on your end yeah sure well Boop two two okay And roll it up it should upgrade one of your dice if it's not I know rolled the mechanics check already Oh, you did I see you use this that to get a success yep, I am blind okay So you've got one success and for advantage. So first off, what did that advantage do for you? Uh, that's a good question. Um, let's take a look at like our results here here show players so I would like to learn the desire of the drug.

No What is what is the point of the drone? What does he feel? I would I think from here. I have a strong understanding of the path the pathing that these drones take and so I would like a blue Stealth check around the remaining ones and if I could pay that information to hair and salt Yeah, basically.

I was gonna have a blue uh, so the way these drones work is there's four drones three of them just go around In a circle right they just hit the four corners Uh like so they just go you know each corner boom boom boom boom and one of the ones you grab is one of those The last one is kind of in the middle and it goes back and forth from the room Um basically from room to room. He's keeping out on you know the two rooms one that was near where you entered and the other one on that side door Okay So you drive one of the ones that's like scouting around but then there's one they're like keeping out on these rooms The ones that's keeping out on the rooms are is floating much lower to the ground the other ones are floating fairly close to the ceiling Gotcha And yeah, now everyone will have a blue dice when dodging these drones and then one of them now can't set alarm off So if someone that's an alarm off what i'll do is i'll just roll a d3 and number one does not work Okay, check it out So uh, Hera you duck in behind this crate you get you insult inside uh salt again You didn't you something had these lights we didn't want sure what and maybe you like You kind of saw some lights coming out from various windows and as soon as you get inside and like hair pulls you down behind this crate You look up and you see these drones flying around with all these lights going around But now you guys are like you're in the shit You do the drones flying around you don't know where the guards are uh, Hera how many success you have you had one So maybe Hera you saw one of the guards it was like wandering around you did not see the guys on the table But both knows where you guys are and knows where everything's at because he's on the ceiling he did really well in his checks So what he gets do Assault anything to slip to tear up who goes next? I think i'm gonna uh Salt's gonna pierce head out just a little bit just because he's trying to find stuff that looks like an office Just like the last factory we were in way back into episode one and two Looks like it's not a perception check then. Oh, yeah, I'll let you roll that.

Yeah, and you've got your two blue which i'll give you now um And it's just one purple i'll give you that uh because you got experience with this stuff All right and rolling it And I clicked it we'll see what happens And then she'll hit eight more times. I think that's actually Damn, okay, that is 4-6 that's in this and for advantage. Okay, oh my god You you're in a position where you're at and this is by no control of you There's not a percent here i got you here, but you have to be in this angle where you can see directly into both rooms And you can tell what room is what? The room across from you near the front of the uh factory that room has a big glass door or glass window on the right side a door And when you look in that window again, you see like an office Um, a desk bookshelves like that is very much like that's that's important dudes room And then to the right you see it's like you see it's a small window like maybe like a foot It's like something that like a prisoner would have in like low security You're like they've got a little window up to count on your the ceiling And there's one of those and you can kind of see uh through one of that And you just see like you can't see inside of it But you see like there's a little bit of light in that room and like it's kind of flickering or there's something There's something in that room so important office and then something else and there's like in there currently on And then the other lights is all the you know the drones going around right Mm-hmm succeeded succeeded violently well Um is there a cover like pretty much the entirety of that wall like crates and random other debris There's there kind of stuff all over the place if you guys are able to now you have to make a self check to avoid these drones But uh, you know, there's stuff everywhere You're you're not gonna have a hard time hiding from the guys because there's so much debris That's why the burns are here because the guys can't keep an eye.

Everything because there's too much shit Right I think uh, I want to tap on parasholdering like point to the small room because like self-thinking is uh Like if less is in there, he's not gonna be in the big important office. This is off hours He's probably in there So I tap and just like over there Over there Hera hera nods and kind of Tries to scout in that direction. See if we can get there Rummy and okay, so foot during all of this you kind of see salt and hair like looking around and make like they're pointing out One of the rooms and they're like nod to each other. They're heading that direction What are you doing this?

Are you gonna continue trying to disable more of these security drones or are you gonna head down to help them out? Uh as I see them start to move, I'd like to probably try and take out a few more drones Okay, cool Rummy let's do the same things before you can only either sell the coordination and then you'll be really mechanics check And then you'll have a blue dice on that because you kind of know their path already cool All right, I'm gonna roll a stealth check Oh I didn't give you the guys Let me let me roll your blue dice real quick because that made me get that disadvantage. You got a lot of success Let me roll this one way That's nothing okay, so But you've got one two three four five On the stealth check and one threat so I think the threat is Well, no, this is all of the drones are gonna get all the drones Yes So this dresses you all because you're realizing you're going very quickly and it's dangerous because if you know that if you Fuck up Now you could really fuck up because you're touching you're fucking all of them But now you're able to make a mechanics check to take these things apart as before you're gonna have a Nice on this because you know how to work and then you get another two from center And then it is seems before difficulty three three people there's all the same old drones I am going to use a story point now to upgrade. Okay This is a big this is a big check Oh 100% yeah One two three four five successes and one of those was a triumph And then three threat and that threat is 100% you just getting stressed the fuck out Because you're going it quickly from drone to drone boom boom boom So you're like you're dissolving the inside like I could really fuck up It's bad.

It's really bad. You just feel hair as hand like at the back of your head like the phantom As I shoot the guard in the night every point Is just like the strain is just the the feeling of hair slapping him, but it's like just like So, okay, and then yeah, what does that obviously get all of them? What is the crit? Like you do you think you're like reprogram them or completely disassemble them or do other things like it's kind of what you want to do You got full of creative right here Think fallout, you know I think it's unreasonable to say I can I get to disassemble all of them, but maybe like oh no I just I just I don't attach it I pull everything apart and I've got like a handful of some nifty parts I could use Okay, yeah, if you want to Yeah, just on your chair to sheet in the like inventory section you can just add in a like clockwork to own pieces Like one of them is completely disassembled Okay Okay, and during that I was going to have Hera or salt make a stealth check But he doesn't know what he rolled like He rolled like 20 successes between those two rolls, so yeah, you don't need to make a stealth check I think you try to act so be and then you like realize the lights stop going down towards you and like they're all The lights are still working, but they're not looking at you and like you like look up and when you notice this and like flip is masterfully jumping from like drone to drone pretty much Just like taking them apart and like ripping off the top alarm bit and like he's he's a master of you know Salt looks up like that a boy.

Yeah To this this room and There's basically a single window up in the ceiling and then a door and everything else is bearing Uh to someone check on the door someone stick there they're heading the window or what? I think Hera goes straight for the door knob just to see is it locked? Okay, so check in the room or what's all doing during this? Try to look in the window Okay, she's checking the door Okay, so I think Uh, we close up this part with uh Hera goes to the door and like shakes the door handle and it's like it's like it's like it doesn't turn And then salt sticks his head in the window and he sees it guy sitting at a desk writing a note And then uh, we're gonna end this part and figure out what happens in the final part Stay tuned

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