Welcome everyone to Des Moines and Dragons Viking It's been it's been a hot minute since we've all been on the mic cold minute. It was hot. It initially was so long It was a cold minute. Yeah, it's been several cold minutes.
It is also winter We have our Russian babushka here with us today. Hello I'm bowls of borscht for everyone. I'm gathered here with the crew the full crew and nothing bought the crew so help me crew Do you think the J and J crew is for Jesus? Yes?
All right? Have you seen the stores? Absolutely What are you gonna go to fucking vacation like Bahamas or something? So yeah, we're here with everyone and it's been I think since December since we've all been together and it's now almost March So we're not gonna spend too long getting to know each other because I think there's a lot of for us to do today But in typical Viking sense, I'm going to start with the person actually directly behind me Charity technically in front of you are but if I went all the way around yeah, you're right the earth directly Directly yeah, what's up?
What's up? You had a terrible day? Terrible day. You don't have to explain the whole thing.
Mostly just a terrible morning. Please we don't have It's fine, but um I mean I'm in mourning. Oh, yeah, you had a character death in your off off mic D&D game off off. No shit her slam piece Yes, my brother slash father vessel.
All right. Let's yeah, it was a real fucked up That had to get resolved. Definitely didn't have to have sex with this character, but boy did you? Yeah, it's true and so it was a real important NPC and Did you give him like syphilis and he died is that how he died?
No, it's a little std title long painful death No, no, no, no syphilis. No, he didn't die with a hard-on But it was it was like pretty very like a pretty directly my fault that he's dead and Yeah, yeah And I've been feeling a lot of feelings about it So that's good I mean the means the game matters and that's good just as long as you deal with it in healthy ways That's well her character immediately cut herself after that. So I don't know if it was totally healthy Yeah, and that was I come myself after I tried to throw myself out the window. Yeah So, you know, it's a real Shakespearean Thing thing thing yeah for sure.
That's what the theater scholars that's really describing Death makes the heart grow fonder. Yeah, that's that's the thing. Mm-hmm. That's cool So what class just curious what class and race replaying I'm a tiefling barbarian.
Mm-hmm. That'll be cool. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And for a while there I was like Multi-class in yeah, yeah a little bit of a warlock Mm-hmm. Oh just a little touch just a little just a little just the tip of work just the tip of war Yeah, the tail great.
Thanks charity. No problem, and then I'm gonna go directly east of charity over to Jason Hey, is that east? No, it's actually south. I think west.
North is that way south is that way? Yeah, north is that way All right, how's it going? It's going well. How are you?
I'm good? Jason and I play offline a D&D game, but we it's the Conan 2D 20 system. Yeah, and we just had a really ripping good sesh on Tuesday Yeah, it was good. I liked it.
Is this you've dm before though is this like you're in a while in a long while? Yeah, yeah I've been liking it so far. Um, I think after last session. I really kind of found Thank you.
My rhythm. It was more about getting used to I really wanted to go through a full reel combat where there was like you know, die rolls Armor soaking you know all that stuff. Yeah, because there was you just don't know until you do that and I It feels good. I'm ready and I've got a good arc lineup for you guys.
So I can't wait for a super fun game I've really enjoyed the ruleset because it's so weird a 2d20 system is Anately a strange system to plan because I think d20 everyone kind of just colloquially knows how that works because it's been in the Ethos of D&D since it started right D100 is percent based so that is pretty easy to understand 2d20 is stranger Um, yeah, just not is yeah what I enjoy about it is it's built around succeeding rather than like limitations Um, so like the fact that you guys start off is kind of already Relatively exceptional people with good skills. It's you're there's not this ramp up for people waiting to become what they want to become You kind of start as you are and then you can fine tune it But I do like I my favorite part of is the bartering back and forth between yeah, you know Do you want to buy another die or you know that kind of stuff? That's really really fun for me So a plug for the Conan system in the moat is talking about yes, Modefias. They do it's fucking good They do a ton of really cool.
They have a bunch of RPGs that are worth checking out I own a couple But the the system in question Jason's referring to is that there is doom and there's momentum doom is used by the DM to add Danger damage or bad things to whatever's happening right and momentum is a pool of resource that the players have to succeed Do more damage or add effects to stuff So and those things are traded back and forth during play and it's of I love systems that do that sort of stuff really interactive and fun It keeps things flowing it puts the game on rails. So yeah, it's cool And I'd recommend anyone that wants to do like a D&D game, but maybe is tired of the D&D I fantasy. Yeah, it just comes with so much baggage of like this is bendy and D for 40 years And if you're like me and never read Conan because you're not older or just because you you weren't exposed to it Except maybe by the Arnold movies and check out Conan by Modefias and then lastly, you know, it's everyone No, no, I don't feel like I have anything to say great. Tim.
Yeah, what do you have to say? Hey, Paul. I haven't seen you since our chowdow show I think oh, yeah, no, it's probably right So you've you've come down to play mothership today. Yep.
You've brought some red squirt. Yep, ruby red squirt Yep, how do you like that compared to regular squirt? It's okay Is that your favorite kind of squirt? No, this is going well.
Let's play the episode already great. All right, uh, without further ado We're gonna turn it over to our narrator to intro the episode don't go anywhere Radio broadcast station ID 1.145 lady night playback begin Lock halver and brendy are ignored emerald station a station The size of a small earth city floating in orbit above satip's moon type Everyone's station is going to be the location of an event that changes the colony forever This event referred to your fourth as the event It's with a complete loss of life with the entire station and event that never occurred even at the height of the civil war Up above video and audio feed from vegan session begin now So we begin today's episode with the normal green doss text that scrolls by reading viking and it fades out to black Fade back in on frankey watching tv so We see um Text on the bottom comes by Uh three days since the crew has last been together and then a frowny face emoji Um early during the waking hours of the station Uh frankey is found in her small quicks day unit. It's really no bigger than a closet We would best describe it and think of it in terms of those small japanese micro tells that are basically like it's got a bed A little tv thing right there. I mean, it's you can't even really stand in it Um, uh, we have we see her um she has headphones in and she is Sleeping while watching a rerun of the solar systems number one watch to sitcom hotel zero We see on the television screen the very ethnically diverse cast of characters are having a pitched argument The sound from the show is barely audible through the headphones.
We hear frankey's loud snore as we fade into the episode The screen goes static several times and the feed eventually cuts displaying a message that says feed error Franky, you're awoken to the sound of static blasting into the headphones in your ear Take the headphones off or out you see the uh message displayed on the uh on the tv that says feed error so frankey Crawls to the end of the bed and Shakes the little screen like pounds on the side of it. Yeah, the static like flickers a few times and uh the message remains uh feed error I don't get one minute of relaxation in here. Uh, yeah she uh Slides her boots on her shoes on or whatever lights a cigarette and walks out of the room Outside the quicksay, uh, the deck is totally silent the other quicksay units are all open Uh, so we imagine this as a long hallway with doors that are about the size of school lockers and just open open open open All the way down the hall people's personal effects are either in a state of being packed up or strewn about outside of their units Looks like almost everyone left in some kind of a hurry. Um, you see suitcases you see vax suits that have been discarded That's uh, that's what you see down the corridor.
Okay. I see that and I Uh Pop back in grab all my shit and Where's my door in the line of my close to like an end of a hallway? Am I kind of in the middle? You're sort of in the middle so you could go either direction to reach a bulkhead that would get you, um To the to uh access to another part of the station.
Okay. I'm gonna go right down the hallway So walking down the the hallway you've I mean Being a board a station is never quiet because it's so jam-packed with people and noises that any sort of silence would I mean, this is like the silence of space that you expect to hear when you're in a vax suit Doing a space walk outside of a ship is the kind of silence that it feels like and You get to the end of a corridor and a huge airlock door has been shut sealing this part of the bulkhead Um, this quicks day corridor sealing it off from this section of the station. There's a uh, uh green Uh monitor that's at the center of this uh, that reads security lockdown engaged Please see legacy or insecurities personnel for instruction And we'll cut from that and go directly over to lock and albert Green text scrolls across the screen, uh, and it says Um location number three diachi corp housing lock and albert you find yourselves sitting at a mic protein stand near the quicks day umbilical You were the only customers at this stand and we're thinking of this stand in terms of like remember and blade runner We had like the little noodle stand that's what we're talking about a very simple and there's a bunch of these sort of bodega style stands in this Big open air room. It's like a hundred foot by hundred foot open bulkhead where people can sell things by things Uh, there's food here.
Um, this is where like would be the equivalent of an outdoor mall But in a space station for people that live in the diachi corp housing, right? Um, and they youtube are sitting together, uh eating, uh, mic protein breakfast burrito or perhaps a mic protein Um, scrambled egg or maybe a mic protein waffle Uh, it's just you two sitting there and the really gross smelly sweat-stained employee is um filling up a couple cups of to go Uh, mic protein shakes for anyone that comes by and it's uh, uh, you two are sitting there amongst yourselves Uh, I'm um kind of eyeballing so i'm eating like this kind of waffle shaped thing, but i'm constantly eyeballing what uh albert picked Yeah, uh albert is eating some make protein eggs and just kind of poking at them And they're very uniforming their color and texture and everything. Are they like kind of floppy? Yeah, yeah, very rubbery i kind of get the sense that everything that we're eating is exactly the same as just shaped differently.
Yeah, yeah mixed pregs Protein eggs. So you say that the entire so this space this normally would be packed with individuals Um, but are there employees around or there's some shops that are close? So your stand is empty, but there are people in this space. Oh, okay So we're the only people at the smart enough to choose to eat the McBrotes.
Yep. I'll throw the McBrotes So i'm kind of eating this flavorless thing. I kind of get a idea of why i understand why nobody else is here albert Um, but your eggs look a little bit better than my waffle. You want to switch?
No, thank you. Okay, the eggs are Trying to pretend to be anything It's very fitting. Um So yeah, um So are we gonna go are we gonna go pick up Frankie soon? I mean i got she should come around soon She usually knows when it's time to go.
All right, the uh the guy that's working at the McProtein stand uh fills up the last of his Quickserve protein McProtein shakes and leans over the counter and says uh, how's it where y'all from It's about to ask you the same thing. I've lived on emerald my whole life So that's an emerald accent. Mm. Yep Jory is prone to change and fluctuate As yeah, depending on how much sprite i have I'm a squirt guy myself.
You're a squirter. Yeah. Well, we're uh from parts unknown Space How long you been here? Oh just a hot minute Business has been good since that asteroid came screaming through the ship and laying people ain't been able to leave so business has been good I guess you could say that you got lucky, huh?
Well, thank god for that asteroid. Yeah Job creator that one. Yeah, you The word job creator you start hearing some shouting coming from It's probably about 50 to 75 feet away from you If we're thinking of this room that you're in as a large rectangle and we'll say you're in the lower right corner this bodega Um at the top or we'll just say again sake of ease of mentally picturing this the you're in the south southern eastern corner the north center of the room is a large bulkhead that connects to the center spire of emerald station Okay, the center spire is where basically all the admin stuff is It's where diascii corp admin is it's where legacy orin admin is it's actually where you guys got taken originally when you were interrogated by Legacy orin was in the center spire when we were tamed when you were tamed you were tamed That will always be one of my favorites from the show is the the adjective taint or verb tamed you were no no that's right It's a verb. I'm glad to have you guys here We'll get you through this.
Thank you. Uh the north center bulkhead a column of legacy orin security personnel in um Backsuits carrying weapons. They're they're eight abreast and they are pushing themselves into the room and Uh every other officer one may be carrying a baton and a shield and then the one next to him may have a pulse rifle that is leveled at the crowd and Shouting orders at them in uh ethno Mandarin or in english Um, so you have a couple people making and the order that you understand in english is get back get back get away from the door Get back. Um, what do you two do?
Uh, so they're pretty far away from us at this point. Yeah, like I said 75 to 80 feet away So you've got pretty good distance away from them. So we're we're kind of you know, the way I kind of imagine Uh where we're sitting is albert saying to my left So he's actually kind of closer to that direction So he's you know We're both looking at the commotion and he he turns back and looks at me and i'm not in my seat anymore And i'm kind of backed away and i'm kind of more in the middle of the room and i'm kind of looking around and I kind of Uh probably best not to get in their way. Yeah, let's uh, let's bounce.
Yeah, let's get out of here So, uh, you guys get up from your yeah, and at that point I think the bodega the guy the bodega stand immediately begins like like closing some stuff up He's like expecting a riot or something horrible to happen now riots on stations are not uncommon but they're particularly dangerous because In the same ways that riots can be dangerous in real life where if they occur in an enclosed space where people can't leave the chances of getting crushed or um riots turning in full-on Explosions of damage and humanity. It's a powder keg. So you get up and leave and a loud Beadoo comes over the god comms in the station and uh Attention duck two. This is your new chief security officer rom mehos speaking to you Emerald station is under a total lockdown all passage aboard any vessel is prohibited until further notice Please follow all instructions from legacy or insecurities personnel until further notice According to hsu colonial code in the event of a station wide incident local law enforcement and jurisdiction is handed over to apping security Operation thank you for your cooperation And so um these are kind of what the guys uh look like i'm showing the cast a picture of um armed personnel with uh gas masks I'm carrying pulse rifles and they're in riot here that bulky padded Material so where do you guys at this point people are moving away from the bodega stands or wherever they were standing and moving towards this uh growing um altercation between these eight security officers and the people in this room right what the fuck out You don't think this could be because of our little uh accident Well, I thought that that was kind of dealt with at this point.
Yeah, this seems new Um We need somebody to wag in their dong or something station wide that would be pretty big gong station wide dong hacking Um, I mean they just went into full military. Yeah, we I don't even know what they're doing. Let's get a little bit closer get a look Are you sure? Well, there's no other way out except through those guys.
Okay, and I don't really feel like getting chipped So you guys head closer towards this kind of on the you know, yeah You're not definitely not in trouble but trying to really pay attention to what's actually being said and what they're doing Uh, so you you see these eight security officers, uh, they, uh, the men with guns are They have their hands. I mean, they look like they're close to the shooting Um, they don't have them at rest. They have them pointed at the crowd and maybe that speaks more to how they're maybe not trained very well versus They're like trying to be aggressive. They look nervous.
Oh, they look terrified. That's not good because there is this could be a virus Uh, there's there's a huge um, huge There's now probably 30 to 40 people that are gathering and have made a semicircle around this line of men that are guarding this bulkhead All right, let's start looking through another way out of this place. Yeah, uh, central spire seems to be the main way out But maybe there's another way. Yeah, um, so really quick.
Um, I did a quick drawing Um, so the station for all intents and purposes for navigating and making it easy to understand, um, is There are five, uh, it basically makes a cross and the, um, and I can maybe post this a link to this so that people listening it makes sense But the center spire is this center, uh, mass here and it's connected Um, at the bottom and on its left and right sides and top side Um, the side to its right is the dock yard where all of, um, ship traffic is uh, goes through And, um, the dock yard is connected to a, uh, mineral processing Uh, what's a better way to put it would be, uh, a mineral processing part of the station And then, um, and that is connected to the top of the center spire Um, to the left of the center spire is, um, more housing and it's specifically actually where a prominent sect of Christianity, there's a large chaplainic gathering of christians that live there The very bottom of this cross that we've made is the, um, diasicorp housing Which is the part of the station you all have been staying in because it's pretty cheap to live there and stay there For a short period of time The only way to get to the dock yards is either through the center spire or through the or through the mineral processing at the top And so they basically create this so we may need to go if there's a but so if they're really basically preventing people from leaving This so let me ask this, sorry, my brain's not okay This is your questions are probably the same questions our audience has so this direct place that we're in Is it directly linked to center spire by like some sort of not an umbilical but basically a thing right? Yep, but we could if we were able to accept like if there were no guards there, whatever we'd be able to leave this Traverse across and go to center spire. Yep. So that based on what i'm seeing is there a way that does this connect?
Then maybe to the christian sect area. Yes, there are way and that's to go the long way around Yeah, and um, when I draw these like single points of contact That's just saying that that is that there are paths that way, right? There would definitely be other bulkheads similar to the space urine that would probably also be connected to the center spire Through an umbilical that might be under guard also Okay, um, I just don't want you to think that this is literally representative that there is one corridor to the center spire One corridor to the dockyards. It's just directionally that is how they connect.
Okay. Hey, uh, al i think we're gonna have to go through the flock Through the flocks section, you know, yeah, I think you're right We maybe they're trying to work on locking that down, but if we move quick, maybe we'll have a shot If I know these diascii corp types that they're gonna shut down the central spire and not give a fuck about the other sections So hopefully we'll be able to make it the long way around. All right, let's hoof. Let's hoof it So you guys hoof it and we cut back over to um Frankie So frankey we we cut right back to where we were before and we see you um looking at this uh, this panel that says Uh, I mean, I'll literally read it back to you, but um, it's locked.
It's locked bro. This is what it says Huh I put my head into one of the closest Little hostile rooms or whatever and the screen looks the same it says feet error or whatever. Yeah Huh? All right, Frankie, you know, calm cool and collected puffing on a cigarette walks to the other end You begin traversing the other direction Um, and we have to do a lot of abstracting when we talk about like directions and distances to places because like a space station is like a three-dimensional object And um, I think dnd players are very used to things existing on a 2d plane in a grid.
So, um, when I describe directions It's less literal and more using our imagination to kind of place things in our own headspace That said you head down the opposite way down this corridor. We're laughing elbert saying here as well. Yes They were in uh microtel quicksay units also, um, maybe they weren't next to you, but you know where their units were Okay, I want to check their rooms So you you go back to their rooms and you've they look Um, I guess I don't know how either of you would leave your room in the morning if it would be like in messy disarray Uh, also you have your gear with you just so that's clear Um, but they look like they cleaned out their gear you guys are probably expecting to make some progress on getting your bounty and getting out of here today So their stuff is is gone. I don't know if there's any porno mags or anything that's sitting on the bed I was just gonna say there's a bunch of like wadded up tissue in mine You're not okay.
I'm not Fine. Okay. I'm not Whenever you whatever works best for you Great, Frankie finds wadded up tissues in locks room. Yeah, but that's it.
Otherwise, there's no Yeah, let's get the sniffs space space sniffs Didn't get the in-bat to breakfast this morning. I see it's all right. Well, um See what's down this way Walking further down the corridor. You see The more rooms are in the same shape that you found the other rooms many of them are open with personal effects turn about like people We're getting out in a hurry And you you continue walking down the corridor until you see a um Like a a couple plastic barriers have been put up And there is a metal detector that's been knocked over and you see a a ton of blood A big blood stain on the floor next to the metal detector and this is about 35 40 feet away from you You see this uh this barrier set up in this uh pool of blood Well Where there's blood there's people You know the old adage where there's blood there's people similar to whether smoke there's fire I dig it keeps walking walking over the space adage Where there's stars and there's blood Yep She keeps walking You uh you approach the barrier and see that um this it looks like there was a Like stuff had been pushed over like a mass of of people like went through Um following the same path that you were following uh things looked tipped over that way and leaned up next to um the Metal detector actually in between the metal detector somewhat tucked and out of the way out of the way is a man in legacy or insecurities um security gear He's got a um armor plated vest and he's got a submachine gun that he has like tucked and pointed shaking as you walk towards him Good morning See for me alone Honey, I'm not gonna hurt you I seem to be the last one left on this block.
Oh Do you have any medical supplies any he puts the s submachine gun down Maybe he's tired. Maybe he doesn't care if you're actually a threat or not and he goes to his stomach And you see there's a couple bullet wounds that have penetrated the plates and there's a dark red stain that has Moved all the way down his the bottom of his stomach and has soaked like his pant leg And looks to be he's the one that's been bleeding and making this pool of blood over here What happened? We were trying to oh it hurts. We were trying to Here and trying to gather people peacefully and Shots rang out and then they ran over the blockade Someone shot me.
Oh, fuck it hurts. Do you really have do you have any medical supplies here here here and she uh takes the cigarette out of her mouth and puts it into his mouth Healing stick and he takes a long drag from the cigarette. Just hang out of this for a minute and uh You have first aid? Nope, okay, but I have art But so uh Frankie She wears she usually wears like overalls and uh so she takes The shirt off that she has on under her overalls and like balls it up and holds it to his chest.
Okay roll a uh You'll make a first aid check. You don't have it. So you'll just make a base intellect check for me and um Yep, okay That's a 38 right. Yeah, that's a 38 my intellect is 29 Okay, so uh I'll give so this was the other thing that I was going to do that we I think we experimented with this once before Um that I can give you advantage or disadvantage which gives you plus 10 or minus 10 either way.
Oh, yeah, um, so um I can give you plus 10 on this role Um, so that would have been a 48. No, so sorry on your scale. Oh, I'm my scale. So I would have been a 39 And I rolled a 38.
So you succeed you rolled under. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah After all under not over.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so uh, you so the Um the cloth it soaks up a lot of the blood and you can feel like that his breathing gets a little less panicked and Um, she's able to relax a little bit more. Oh, thank you so much.
Um My comms dead comms all over the station are down. I can't get a hold of anybody. Why were you gathering people? Uh, there's a quarantine.
There's something that happened Oh, we're not sure what they think it's some sort of biological attack. We had to quarantine people Glad I got the memo Yeah, sorry. I guess I like almost dead. So I would feel more bad for you.
But you have no idea how Never mind Shall we move on then? Yeah, yeah, here help me up. Okay Do you help him up? Yeah, I guess that's why you said okay, uh, so he he leans on you puts his arm over your shoulder and in his other hand He's um got his um submachine gun with a strap around his shoulder.
Okay. Um If we go down the corridor if we make a right there should be another checkpoint. I think Basically we're keeping everybody out of the center spire and out of Fuck the lower decks here. It's where it's real bad So where do we need to go?
We need to get to the center spiral center spiral. Maybe you need to take all the pressure off your body Just here. Let me hold on to that and I reach for his gun He hesitates giving it to you at first, but I think realizing that yeah He's gonna need to keep pressure on this wound. He hands the submachine gun over to you Excellent So for your reference uh charity Um submachine gun is the smg.
It's on the bottom here Just make note of its stats on your character sheet not that you'll definitely use it soon But you might uh we'll cut back over to lock and albert while you make note of that So lock and albert so you guys are heading uh where exactly are you headed to? Sorry? We're heading to the christ conclave or whatever we're calling it. Yeah, the the flock the flock I like that.
I dig that so The flock as it's uh kind of slang name on station is the location of the fertility assemblies chapel Okay, they're a christian sect that's entire purpose is getting people pregnant in space Because it's really hard to do and they have techniques that people use that allow for safe gestation and impregnation in space Uh you guys are uh, I guess firstly, I'll need some checks from y'all So the first thing I would need y'all to make Is a d100 for me one of you needs to roll a d100. Um, don't care who go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead.
Hey, pretzel me 78 78 Okay, um so uh Running down a uh and and this entire time you've been following signs that are like fertility assembly this way and there's been uh You've moved through pockets of people gathering um trying to get to the center spire and empty Hallways that are normally jam packed with people and smell of body odor and and farts and it's been You make it uh, already flock you you've only got maybe uh 20 or 30 more minutes of navigating these winding streets to get to the the flock and you come to a um an intersection and in the intersection is a bunch of uh, they're wearing legacy they're in legacy or in securities colors, which is uh red and white And uh, they're in full hazmat gear. They've got like not like vac suits. They're in like protective rubber Uh, like biological you would know these from the war that these are old um confederate suits for when uh life support would get switched Uh, there's a tendency for the confederates to switch life support in hsu ships over to a hazardous chemical cocktail to kill people inside ships Uh, and so they're wearing these old confederate hazmat suits and they've got pulse rifles slung, um along their uh, waist And as they as you round the corner and see them they also see you and one of them levels a weapon at you And they say uh, the one without a weapon aimed at you puts a hand up and says you too over there stay where you are And he begins to approach towards you Um What do we got around us? Do we have any access base and even yeah different like, you know, there's all sorts of tubing and shit Oh, yeah, I mean think like the nastromo on aliens where there's just like like vents and sub mechanical um ports, uh, I guess i'll need you to roll a And albert, I want you to roll a fear safe for me.
Okay, I rolled the 50 and my fears are 25 Okay, so you gain one stress for me, please. Oh no And then we don't have like observation or anything right? Well, i'm looking I think it either just um I'll just rule that yeah, there's um No, so we'll just say there is one like whatever we don't need to roll it There is one just know that if you make the choice to die for it and try to escape that that may In turn i'm with it. Okay, so as i'm looking and i'm i'm I'm looking for a way out of here.
Is there any way that maybe you can kind of talk this guy down or something? Yeah, give me a second I mean if it's a medical thing, maybe right help. That's a lot of words. Cool.
Uh, I think I see something just Sure keep busy. Yes, uh albert puts both of his hands up and says hello. I'm a doctor I'm doing the same thing, but i'm looking at them like looking around and stuff so you I'll get to you in a second albert lock you see a small mechanical access shaft. It's like a port that's about Three feet wide that you could just like kind of if you dove into it you could crawl Army crawl through the and that would be a chance to escape.
I'll keep it in my back pocket for now Okay, uh albert so you put your hands up and you say i'm a doctor Yeah, the the the man that looks to be talking to you They both carry pulse rifles, but only one of them has it aimed at you And the the guy that has his pulse rifle down looks to be the one speaking to you It's hard to tell though because they have reflective uh bronze colored masks school and um, they're just talking out of these speakers at the center of their, um, Their hazmat out suit You're a doctor? Yeah, my name is dr. Albert quang So he turns to look at his partner and the guy next to him with the gun lowers They just a little bit and puts up a finger to as if to say hold on and the guy talking to you turns to both of you says uh One moment and the guy with the gun now turns to go talk to and you would see past them now There is a body that's lying on the ground and it's covered from its torso up in this weird orange almost like gelatin kind of looks like there's a jellyfish that has somewhat grown from its skin and is encapsulated it's top half of its torso and uh, you see that there are um leg is the orange security people that are kind of flanking it looking out to keep people from getting too close and there are uh, diachi corp, um, they look like Geologists are like trying to examine this thing and like they have instruments attached to it. It's very strange That's what you see what do you do?
Do you wait for him to come back to you giving you an chance to act now or wait for him to come back? Um albert kind of over the shoulder whispers to lock like I think we can get into the central spire from here But we might need to help them with whatever that is Uh, fuck. I'll um I've never seen anything like that before we could crawl through this too behind me. I can get this thing open I think I can kick it in but I bet they have this whole place on lockdown.
I don't think we're gonna get out of ship I kind of want to hazmat suit. Yeah, you and me both man Um hang on a sec. Do you boys have any extra suits? They uh, the one turns and looks and says we're talking with our commanding officer right now Interestingly, we may need some assistance then you said your name was dr.
Kwong. Yes. What was your first name? Albert.
Do you have any other identification you could provide for us? It's back in the um The micro-tell they turn and look to each other, uh, and he says we'll look that up Just wait here and uh one of the geologists guys stands up And you can tell he's a geologist because he actually has a dashy corp like exo mining patch on the side of his Um suit and these guys look to be in vac suits The they are not in any sort of hazmat which means this is a hodgepodge of shit. Yeah, they're not really prepared for this Hey, doc. I think I think they were caught off guard pretty bad.
I think we were caught off guard Yeah, uh, that's where the proteins actually both of you make bodies safe for me real quick See we have an alien parasite. We roll in like strength. There's something on body. Oh, I'm sorry.
There it is. Yep Ooh, I fail just missed. Yeah, okay. I think I got shit.
Yeah, I also think I have to shit. You feel just the McProteen Drop it just a cent, you know, it's like I kind of want to just put my butt in this like little opening that little that little place where we might crawl Through I kind of feel like I if I just put my butt in there, I just put my butt in there. I'm like, oh, I kind of I'm sorry. I think I farted.
Oh, it's so bad. Oh, no. Oh, I really need hazmat suit now. I kind of start laughing So the guy with the the pulse rifle um puts it down all the way now and he comes and approaches the two of you and says uh, Dr.
Kwong yes, uh, you've been approved. You're gonna need to come with me. Who is this? This is my assistant.
He's a nurse Hi, uh, my name's Locke. Well, that's my nickname. It's my name is jesperson hamlock That's why people call me Locke. I know my parents would cruel joke Okay, uh nurse lock comms have been down.
I can't reach my co, but we have a desperate need for anyone with any sort of medical training Um come with me. You need to tell me what's going on first. Yeah, um I if I'm going to help I need to know what's going on all we know is that there's some sort of infection We think there's been an attack on the station in attack like sort of biological attack What's the protocol for a station that's in quarantine? Protocol is to lock down all uh Lock down the center spire and to only allow a proof of personnel into the ship into the shipyard The station's on full lockdown.
Uh, you'll have to come with me and hurry things things have escalated. Okay, we need suits And so uh, he turns and um barks orders at a couple of the other um security personnel watching one way and uh one of Them leaves that post to come to replace this guy and this guy uh walks at a uh brisk jog with his mag boots Uh, well, no, we have artificial gravity so he just runs down the corridor, um with you to ding dong and toe So we cut over to frankey and um you come to learn that this guy's name is jean uh simons Fuck out It's like jean simmons, but oh, okay. Did you not get that right? I didn't know that's good So you you and jean have had a good conversation.
Um, he's told you about how he wants to start his own uh band But it's been really hard. He's actually kind of hitting on you, which is weird because he's still bleeding and dying Um, out of boy. I'm used to it. That definitely seems like something jean simons would do For sure He's not dying but i'm still trying to get some puh.
Yeah, drink of death. Yeah, you're my shot Guys love gun what's the shootest fluence all over? You uh, you're following the instructions that he gave you and you come to a um, you you round a corner and find uh, A ton and when I say a ton you can't count how many people there are just um bodies that have been Shot and they're they're like slumped over and Um, you see bullet holes and you see bullet impacts around the walls I mean it looks like this was a firing squad like this massive people just were cut down by automatic gunfire Uh, make a fear save for me, please 77. Oh, oh, that's a critical fail.
So um add two two stress for me, please and you get a physical uh, so this What happens to franking when she sees this carnage? Uh, she freezes she like locks up and she drops the guy Ow Oh, fuck what happened the hill kind of station are y'all running around here. I don't I didn't do this obviously Fuck what happened in here? They shouldn't have shot all these people it had to have been really bad Oh, god.
Where are we um, let's see he looks up and is trying to identify Uh, where he is based on something maybe something he knows about what the different parts of the ceiling may look like he's like I think we're we're We're five minutes away from the main umbilical There should have been a checkpoint here What do you mean should have been? Um, well where you found me there's supposed to be another one. We have them set up in cases of a lockdown like this It's pretty serious. We've never actually run one like this before For a biological attack.
Oh, fuck. Hey, help me up again I help him up. I could be a little any like pulls himself up and again like really leans with his body weight onto you Um, this is bad, but it's okay. I'm I've got my um Um, um, my security badge.
Um, I'll be able to get us through any checkpoint we come across. So Just uh, you can just help me Get it down. Uh, sorry. It's just Very tired.
All this. We got to get to the central spire. Yeah. Yeah Once I just got to lay down and you feel his grip like loosen on your shoulder a little bit And if you don't catch him, he falls to the bulkhead or he falls to the deck No, I can catch him.
So you you now like catches full weight as he goes, uh, length and his breathing becomes a little more slow and um shallow and he looks to have gone unconscious Fuck Okay, uh, I Carium Fireman style Uh Didn't continue in the direction that we were going. Okay kind of like step over bodies. Yeah, and um, the uh, the silence again in this wing of the uh station is Defining in that way that you see all of these People they most of them look to have been wearing their diasci corp Um, uh, coveralls They look to be like the working class people of the station And uh, a lot of them their emotions and expressions frozen from when they were killed and they looked they look Terrified of something and walking through these bodies You uh, really have to steal yourself, uh, to focus and push through but you do and Uh, make it through and see once you kind of get through the weight of of bodies you find that there's A pile of shell casings from guns on this side of the of the corridor and um You you pass the shell casings and Um, the last bit of instruction you got was to make a left ends over so you make a Yes over and um see that there, uh, is a Uh, doorway, um, that looks to an airlock door that looks to have been Broken in that they sort of like scissor closed and Yeah, so they They like scissor closed and they're not quite closed all the way and you see the Security panel that would be next to an airlock door. Um, just a pretty standard looking panel It's got like a big red lever that mechanically will force open these doors in the event that you need to This panel looks completely smashed and broken and these doors are only partially closed only partially scissor Only partially scissor Okay, so I go to that door and uh And above the door is a sign that says main umbilical, uh, center center center spire this way cool, so I go to the door and A physically try to like pull it open more.
Uh, I set gene down and like Fuck with this door and get through it. So as you're fucking with the door Uh, you hear the sound of a panel from the Uh from the hallway Uh a heavy piece of plate steel slam down onto the deck which makes it really loud The loudest most deafening symbol crash that you've ever heard as this thing clunks to the deck behind you and out from inside of the uh out from the wall is this gelatinous, uh Well here, um Behind you so from basically pile of bodies a bunch of bullets some space and then the door You're trying to open wider and where's this double blob? Um between the bullets and you okay? So it came from where I just came from.
Yeah, it looks something like this. Um, it's you see it's got the uh, It's lower torso looks to have the same coveralls that a diachi corp, uh, worker would have but from the torso up There's this weird translucent mucus that covers its upper torso and makes like a a false Larger torso if that makes sense because it's it's layered on top of the body And you see the skin is and muscle is somewhat dissolved inside of this mucus exposing skull and tendon and fiber and there are You swear you see electrical current and contacts run amongst this mucus and see little arcs of light that flicker Sort of like a like a cuddlefish or those deep sea anglerfish You see like little strips of light move through and this thing's body kind of angles towards you and it begins shuffling, uh slowly towards you It's about um, I'd say 45 feet away from you. Okay, um, you'll have uh at its current rate of movement. You have about a turn Uh to decide what to do.
Okay So again to this door can I get through this partially? You totally can get through this door easy peasy lemon squeezy lemon pleasey Uh So, okay, so I get homeboy and I toss him through the door. Hold on. Okay So to get homeboy and toss him through the door is a turn just so you're aware.
Okay. All right, that's it then Yep, okay, and then uh on the following turn this thing will get close to you and do whatever it wants That sounded rapey. It's not like that. It's not it's worse Uh, but it it'll just do whatever it decides Okay Still rapey, but i know what to mean.
Okay cool. It's like a frat party Jello kegger Or whatever Tow tow tow tow Tow tow Hey, man. Come on down to tow tow. We've got pukashell necklaces No one wears those not even frag.
Yeah, they fucking do not my my mind. They do So, um, sorry, if you still go ahead and throw him through the okay So you pick up jean simons body and push it through his boych this on the other side And then this thing shambles closer towards you and it reaches out with a mucus covered arm and attacks you Oh god Bam pum pum pum pam. For god's sake simons Hit you make a armor save for me Damn Fucking a that's a 90 as a 98. No, that's a 58.
I lied. Okay, so it hits you um, so you you take um, well, I'll just do damage first I don't think i've ever got damage in this game before you take 27 damage Okay, so this thing reaches out and uh, you expect this claw this thing covered in mucus to be like soft and jelloey But it's quite hard and it's claws underneath Uh rip at your coveralls and create deep gashes along your arm and up through the near your clavicle Um, it's quite a bit bleeding and it hurts a lot roll a sanity save for me. Well, you're fucked I'm not wearing a shirt either. I'm just wearing overalls now.
I'm country bunking in it Tits out Tits out from a rambi 22. That's so that's uh, that's a save made it and it's a critical success So go ahead and um add one resolve to your sheet Okay, and subtract one stress from your sheet So remember resolve is a flat modifier against panic rolls and stress So resolve is a flat negative modifier and stress is a positive modifier. So you want more resolve you want lesser stress Um and uh your turn to do whatever it is you wish to do cool. Uh, so we're running again this thing's hard Do you know what i'm talking about?
About it about it. I mean it's closeted attack to you it felt like substantive like there was mass and Substitute substantive Substitutive. Okay, cool. I'm gonna shoot it.
Okay, shoot the fuck out of it I'm gonna shoot it in its brain. Okay, do that. Okay, I do that. You want to do it.
How do I do it? Okay, so you make a combat roll for me And um, okay, so really quick so and we've never done combat before so this is good. Um and after we do this we'll go to break so SMGs are fully automatic um, which means you can uh Let's see some machine guns. You need military training to not blow your load.
Yeah space. Are they fully automatic? I think I think on earth some machine guns are typically semi automatic. Well in um, but you can modify them make them fully I'm trained in rim-wise and firearms.
Oh, if you have training in firearms, then you uh, you can shoot bursts Which means you can add plus 10 to this role nice, but it's an expert skills. Wasn't that 15? Uh, oh, yes So you'll roll yeah, you roll your firearms skill. That's right.
I know your combat you roll combat You add 15 Okay, so yes mic so you'll add the 15 from firearms to your combat and then plus an additional 10 since you're shooting this burst So overall add 25 to your combat and you're trying to roll below that number 32 plus 25 That number is that number 58 58. I'm trying to roll under that. Yes, Jesus Christ Well, nope. And if you want um, you can take a stress and reroll your tens die The other one I will take a stress.
Okay. It's lost stress. Uh, we're back to stress stress. Okay Nice So some machine guns do 4t10 damage.
I think wow. Yep here. Oh, sorry. Yep.
I've got some too. I got it I got it. I got it. I got it for a good time Plus the six 22 plus five 27 damage nice nice nice.
All right. Give it right back to that goo monster Hell yeah, gabagoo. Hey, gabagoo. You uh, you're shooting for its brain, right?
And this thing is so like it's up in your shit. So um, how do you disable this thing? I shoot it. It doesn't die, but like describe to me what this scene looks like.
Okay, so okay, so I Flap home boy through the door, but I'm not through the door and so I'm like up against the scissor the bottom scissor. Yeah, you are great I'm not like send fan art. Please. Branky Please don't know god.
What have we started? We might have to do a like an age check. Yeah on our side after this Anyway, okay, so she's not like she's not like totally upright because she's like flopped this big boy through the door and uh Turned so and then turned around and there's a cello man coming at me And so I'm kind of like up like my back is up against the scissor and I'm like I have to like point up at him Yeah, and just the bullets rip through and throw this weird mucus substance all over and you know I'm talking about the bullets like tear through the material and you see the inside of the skeleton and the tendon and this weird luminous circuitry just gets blasted apart by these bullets throwing like pieces of skull and tissue and Muscle all out the back of this thing's head and it slumps over to the ground and is twitching and it's still like reaching out trying to Grab at you and attack you but it's disabled and it's not able to get up. So what do you do?
Okay, so it's not really defending itself and you can't really see so you just do it and No, I don't want to shoot it. I lied. Okay. Take my crowbar.
Oh, okay. That's just going. Okay. So we oh that's great.
So we fade out on The camera pulling back further and further down the hallway We see the the bullets and the the bodies and way way way in the background. We see Frankie just Hey-makering this thing with this crowbar and throwing like goop up on the walls as this thing's Insides get pummeled to little pieces of jello. Cool. So speaking of jello, we're gonna take our first break So don't go anywhere.
We got part two episode five of Viking coming right at you here a little bit