three two one go excellent sexy all right everybody are you ready for another exciting episode of warholms no it's time for another episode of warholms welcome everybody to another episode of warholms i think this is episode 20 i'd like to thank everybody for coming back saying hello to us all and i'm excited to continue this epic dead space like adventure where we're all probably going to die now thurston test please tell us fuck you get out we're done professionally good luck good night everybody stop making fun of my channel points i know it's wrong yeah that's right it's all coming together oh yeah oh yeah yeah okay so we start quality content we start with four glory are we starting for no no no we don't i'm sorry you start with four ruin my bad yeah we start with none and everyone else has their wrath die so mr thurston yes please tell me how you're going to do this well i i mean i would have nothing dark or dastardly in store in fact where we last left off the uh our our intrepid band of chuckle fucks made their way into the the carillon's medicaid facility and managed to get a bit of rest after their encounter with various possessed crew members everywhere during that they they gathered up some equipment and are continuing on their way to the stratagem well bam let's use that poopy hells um we we left last episode with our characters leaving the uh the medicaid warden making their way towards the strategic access point uh going up these halls as as a reminder the halls here uh were unaffected by any of the sort of warp fuckery that has been going on over the ship however you've also noticed along the walls are small litanies that have been inscribed hymnals and praises to the emperor the state of the ship becomes worse and worse as less of these litanies show up as the walls become more bare metal you can see various darkenings of the hull and sections of rust and the smell becomes a bit more almost acrid in the air as though something acidic is assailing you your senses as you advance the lights flicker or the lumens flicker on and off and you can see in this this sort of front area of the vessel there are viewports that look out into the expanse of space and you see sort of the the light of stars coming in in regular intervals but you you all feel just something is something is strange as you are walking on there is a sense of unease that each of you feels as you continue on towards the stratagem up ahead you can see one of the the door the bulkhead style doors that admit access to different parts of the ships it is currently closed with one side of it opening about maybe a half a foot six inches or so before slamming shut you've seen this kind of malfunction before but the sound of it is what assails your ears as you approach as you hear these sort of servo units grinding in this as the door is is opening slightly and closing on one side hey stop that i say to the servos now keep going you're supposed to work well diplomacy has failed gentlemen uh i will attempt to uh interface here and uh what do you what diplomacy what are you doing the machine spirits how do you access it you can't just shout at the damn thing you know works for them who's the tech priest is it me or is it is it dream i believe it is me i head over to pie brain and i have a wrench and i go here thank you my brain use use the ancient form that i have learned over the past you know many years of my life otherwise known as the form of percussive maintenance you have learned the ancient rites i put my hands on his shoulder i'm squeezing deeply in his decrepit skin i am i meet his gaze proud of you from the best i i shed a tear as i nod to pie brain and go go go false pie brain yes all right pie brain will now face the most difficult challenge of his entire life the servo is on this door i think i'm gonna make a tech check to try to make them not fucked up okay so like try to figure out what's jamming it and get it yeah yeah yeah through percussive maintenance he gets a bonus from my inspiration right uh he does he does i will i will in fact count him as getting one edition of success automatically oh it's even better than my combi tool all right let's roll ah six successes and our favorite result a complication absolutely um seven action yeah so so you you begin sort of looking at the the servo units and trying to figure out what happened here and as you you two um you you note that you can figure out that something is jamming the the door and you're attempting to open the the left side of the door these sort of the left door itself so it moves open which might block or unblock the jam as you start working something falls and strikes you with a like large impact on the back of your head from up in the sort of uh sealed area above the the doorway um and and the rest of the party you all see this this object appears to have a a strange texture to it it looks almost it looks almost like a black a black cone that falls hits uh pie on the back of the head and then starts rolling uh pie you stumble back from this you also uh take one point of shock as you stumble back sudden impact of this and this this object sort of rolls away and you can see as the doors open um that there there's like a smearing of dark liquid on it as though uh something long dried but but you're you have enough experience now you can tell that that's some kind of blood uh all right i will examine this large cone for a moment out of curiosity yeah so so you you step up to it and what you see is uh what appears to be a a black uh cone that is in the middle of the door and it's in the shape of a helmet uh the face of which isn't colored black it's actually colored uh more of a yellowish purple color with gemstone eyes that stare out at you how evil does it look uh it it it doesn't look like something human would like humans would manufacture oh which means it's probably evil why do you see pie brian well we have a weird helmet with cone head gemstones at the here everyone take a look at this is there a head inside uh are you looking in there yeah i'm gonna just try to yank out anything that's in uh yeah sure um i want you to hmm uh let's see here yeah yeah you know what that that's fair you can like i i assume you're just like reaching in and no yeah it's like it's like a kid trying to get halloween from like they're like uh uh give me a resolve test it's like it's upside down just all halloween all hallows eve sure let's roll it it's five successes yeah you have like no problem reaching in and pulling in this like shriveled sophisticated head with stringed hair that comes down in like like almost like a broken doll like clumps of it fall off and onto the floor and wisp in the air a bit um but you've definitely uh ripped out a xenos head from this oh and i give it to him all right i'm going to hold the head what is the head do i need to do a damn test on this uh you can certainly give me a medicay or a uh scholar uh test to identify the head begs the question may i use my diagnostre to determine cause of death of this head uh yes yes you may all right is all right is it fresh i think you need a days to tell you how that Ps.i. head got there it's it seems as it seems as if it was cut off people die when that happens seven in the glory so what the hell is this head it is very important so the seven in the glory to what the hell is this head it is very important all right so so the seven in the glory so what the hell is this head it is very important all right so so the it is very important all right so so the it is very important all right so so the the ripped off or cut off uh so it's it's um okay a few things one this is the head of of the xenos known as the eldari uh particularly uh it like seems to match the the the uh piratical sort of faction uh not not to the drukari you had previously encountered this is a a far less aggressive uh sect though they are they are still certainly a plague on imperial worlds however your medicaid check while you identify that um the cause of death seems to be that the head itself popped off from pressure uh and looking around past the door that is now open you can see like bits and bobs of armor plates that have like flown around some even embedded in the walls it appears this unfortunate fellow was probably in the doorway when it closed and the pressure caused their head to pop off and enter into the sort of ceiling unit jamming the doorway mm-hmm rogue traders one hell of a party trick i'd suppose i hate it when that happens i will take the helmet with me no you won't well no i need to destroy it i explicitly stop him from taking any artifacts of the xenos no matter what he does yeah put it in the sack come on it's just a little helmet i add it to i add the head and the helmet to my inventory any artifacts of the xenos that path as well now that's not easy you may be 역hearted backpack okay are you putting i assume you're putting like the head back into that helmet yeah yeah it's sort of safe keeping you know i will put it i will put it stump side you know in towards the top of the helmet that way only the you know the skull is poking out of the bottom hey we have to keep this fresh i put tin foil over the opening part yeahあと nig at the time приготов 1 to listen n e a canmbra done so yeah there is aolu do the more stuff that needs to be put into here i dont see how you doing on maintenance do enjoy the rest of the show got straight crap too just wrap it around there put some tape over there for later uh so is the door open now yeah yeah oh yeah it it seems to uh to carry on though on the other side you can see that this section of the of the corridor that carries on towards that like you you check the maps uh this section is bereft of any of the ecclesiarchal uh text on the walls and as such it seems to have just this this foul rusted appearance everywhere and even as you step past the open doorway there's like a warm rush over you is the other part of the body on the other side of the door oh just like fragments of it just fragments of armor nothing of the body oh you you can get some of those pie just scoop them up just go i'm gonna try to make sure i'm gonna get it before reed gets past my brain a little kid's plastic like i was holding your top when we were making sandcastles before just left in my pockets and i hand him like a a very blue shovel and uh the very green broom and like here you go pat brain go get the bitch okay okay thank you and here's a button i do i do an investigation to get an idea of why this eldar exploded yeah i mean like your medicaid was enough to tell you like he was in the doorway when oh just the doorway was the reason he exploded yeah yeah yeah like he was in the doorway and that thing immediately went shut when he was in there oh it's a well he was trying to run towards the direction you're heading it is a well-known fact and i'm very surprised that you didn't know this reeb that even the most vile of xeno species are no match for the ecclesiarchy's famed and feared doryers reeb will pause for a moment staring blankly forward zedek you realize that we are no match for the ecclesiarch's doors which is why we are on their side and they won't hurt us isn't that right and zedek will just pat the door the door does not respond let's move on yeah that door's dead zedek i say shoveling shoveling uh corsair gubbins into this bucket yeah you get like a few pieces of their strange uh material armor that they wear any gemstones anything like that no no you do not find this in your individual soul and i am not giving you possession of someone's soul you fucking know why i am the shepherd of the way okay that will haunt my goddamn dreams uh yeah you you carry on i am the way that's chaos pie he becomes like hellraiser chaos pie oh good uh conveniently he has less blood on him now that he's turned to chaos yeah it's like it's like actually it's all in all an improvement you're the clean chaos faction back with soap you make your way through the the adjacent corridor again noting the sort of detritus and the poor quality here before there is another door which opens automatically at at um your approach as the door opens you are once again assailed by just this awful smell uh where you can see that there is a room that you can see up ahead like not not like the room previously that you had walked through with corpses but a larger rectangular chamber with sort of dull lumens some of which are flickering up above you get the sense that this was some sort of barracks uh or billings area where some of the the crew's shift workers would stay and you can see that all of the like the bedding has been upturned and there is a small room where you can see that a small pile of probably if you had to guess anywhere from 8 to 12 corpses uh with the sort of telltale garb of the ship's arms men uh torn asunder ripped apart and sprayed about uh the the western side of the room there is a continuing doorway at the opposite end here that you know connects to the prime arterial corridor that leads to the strategium Captain Zedekal throw his arms out and just say wait a second my peril sense is tingling something tells me we're going to meet more friends in the coming minutes no kidding captain yeah i think there might be some like crazy goblins or something here maybe we'll have to prepare goblins aside may i uh seek to continue my passive tactic of burning corpses absolutely are you going to take any kind of investigation of the area or are you just like walking in and burning well is there is there anything particularly out of order here i mean because i would just assume it's another like people lived here oh hold on we've been losing a lot of ammo maybe those arms men died with some spare clips oh good idea yeah can i check them for flamer ammo yeah absolutely would you like to uh let's see here you know give me an investigate check that that seems to be a question question uh can i do an investigate for everyone's ammunition yeah yeah i'll uh i'll i will allow this fellas may i pull three glory of course six it i don't think it's counting my uh the three i added to that no it's not that's annoying it doesn't seem to do that for me uh d6 the fallacies of all 20. that'll be another once it'll be a seven will that be enough to find ammo for everyone or shall i wrap it um with a seven i'd allow you to find one type of ammo okay i'm gonna wrap it okay uh i need to re-roll two more dice yeah that gives me an eight i'll allow you to find two types of ammo one one unit each okay who's short i know zedek is i think i'm not um so i don't have to worry about my pasmagon all right i resupply lauren's uh brain i find uh jamba just just caught your staff again i'm sure another shell will pop out hey there's one here you go i think i think because pi is still gonna be and especially now with the eviscerator is gonna be very close range i'm just gonna find ammo for me and uh absolutely yeah so you can find like one effective rounds worth for the the arch pistol uh It looks like, though it's not an ARC pistol-style ammo, it's something that can easily be used as a substitute as a power pack. You find that on a crew member who seems to have had half of their body ripped off and has the sort of name patch of Arno written on it. Arnold. Arnold. Arnold. And I do find a flamer. I find a reload for my flamer, right? Yes. And that's a reload, not one bullet, right? That's correct. As you said, one round, and I'm like, hang on a second. Sorry, one ammo's worth. You have one second of flame. Use it wisely. Along with that, I'll also let you know, it looks like the bodies here were in some kind of last stand where the door up ahead, they had built some barricades to try to block. They didn't take themselves off and have firing lines. They didn't care about behind them, but up ahead, definitely. Well, good thing we have to go that way, right, guys? Uh-huh. Look at Reed. Yeah. Totally. How fortunate. Well, if you don't mind, gentlemen, you can go on up ahead. I don't believe there's anything else of note here. I see, questioningly, looking at the GM. Nothing that you're seeing. All right. So, if everyone has any issues, I'd like us to move on, and also, I'd like to set fire to the barracks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, everyone kind of, like, makes their way towards the exit door. You turn around. You take a blast with your flamer. Make a ballistic skill check, just because it would be very amusing if you ran out of ammo on this. Hey, listen, I'm content with doing that. I know. It's an even trade. You don't even have to. You should. And, yeah, you sort of light it up, and then turn back and make your way onwards. This leads you to a much larger arterial hall. In fact, you realize, through all of this, you've essentially reconnected back to the primary arterial hall of the ship, the one that you started in before you sort of, like, ran off the path, went to the sub-spinal. This was, and, in fact, you see it as you emerge here, you can see the primary tram unit, the one you couldn't call on the main level from our first episode in this arc, that is sitting there, nestled in the cradle at the end of the line. A set of stairs lead up towards a sort of raised hall that connects into the strategium. So that's where the lazy bum's been the whole time. At least we have our method of eagerness. Instead of going through the burning barrack fun time again. Yes, on that note, can we make sure this functions first before we live it as our last, you know, ditch of it to get out of here? That is a good point. I'm going to try and just check and see if this is even active. Yeah, you can, you walk in there. You can give me a tech check as you sort of go in and take a look at the maglev unit here. Sure. That's six on the glory. Absolutely. So two things happen. One. We're able to tell that this maglev unit is perfectly functional and working. However, the train, like rail system here, doesn't have power. Which you previously identified was the issue. The sub spinal one did, which is how you were able to utilize that for transport. The power seems to have been cut off at the source. So someone in the strategium turned it off. So this train works perfectly fine. If you can reactivate the power for it, from, from the strategium. Yes, it seems as though that's our key out. Once we set this place to explode, we should do that thing. The second thing that you note of import here is that there is another data log that appears to have been hastily placed onto the cogitator unit of this. Okay. Well, why don't we take a listen? Time to hear what happened to church again. This is church. The strategium is fucked. I don't know what went on in there, but I'm not sticking around in case whatever did it comes back. I haven't seen anyone else alive, but I think there's a shuttle left in the docking bay. I'm going to take it. Get the fuck off this ship. Can't fucking believe this happened so damn close to my retirement. Anyways, I hope the emperor really does protect. It's always right before retirement. These things happen. Yeah, she sounds pretty young for retirement. So when do you guys retire? No, I'm going to say retirement age is like 16. Oh, Sadiq just laughs at him and just stares very grimly off into space. Retirement is for the weak. That's what I'm saying, but I wasn't going to, I wasn't going to say it like, cause somebody, okay, let's go. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yeah, so are you going to make your way up to the strategic? Yeah. So you head on towards the stables as you do, you can see that there's a strip of lumens in the hall that connects to them making your way. Here they depict various scenes of imperial triumph and history, showcasing various forms of the emperor, though all of them seem to be smeared with like dark brownish substances that have like embedded themselves to give the the ancient depiction of the emperor the effect of like crying blood. Excuse me. Could I look? Yeah. Could I make like a scholar check to see if I know what ecclesiastical sect this is associated with? Yeah, certainly. Oh, OK. Don't laugh at me, Erndil. I'm doing my best to use the skill I dumped a lot of points to do that I never use. I know we need you to do that. I'm doing it. It's six successes. Oh, we're kind of glorying. Yeah, you would recognize. That this this has a lot of a lot of ties to two ancient sort of depictions of the emperor very, very much a. A time in imperial history that truly venerated the emperor as as a living God and the spread of the church with with a six. You're able to pinpoint this particular fresco as. Being one that was very, very common at the time of at the time that is now known as the plague of unbelief. It's it's generally like thought to be around the same time as the age of apostasy. But the plague of unbelief was about a cardinal who controlled like vast swaths of the imperium and took all of that money and used it to essentially build a giant mega church. So frescoes like these often went out onto vessels. Like this, that might have been created with that wealth and vessels like this often would have been used to take that wealth and bring it back with them. Ah. This is a very storied ship, gentlemen. To know about it. Well, I could tell you this is from roughly around the time of the age of apostasy. These ships would go out among the stars and bring the emperor's light. To the unenlightened masses, and in turn, for bringing the light to them, they would bring back the the unenlightened masses riches to give to wonderful cardinal whose name has been lost to history by purpose or by accident. Ah, we resize very hard. Is it any wonder that the Inquisition can get nothing done when the ecclesiarchy is busy robbing people? I am surprising, but is it any. Wonder the ecclesiarchy can talk and convert so many people or the Inquisition keeps knocking them all off? I believe one would do better without the other, and I think you would prefer to have the Inquisition's edict. Well, I do admit it would be pretty nice if everyone worshipped the Omnissiah. Here we go. Oh, pie. It's OK, pie. We won't listen. OK, so where are we heading, boys? As you walk along these frescoes. You eventually come to a set of massive golden double doors that are inlaid with precious gemstones and lined with platinum pillars. The servos here are created using other fine metals as well and have actually been put into the fresco themselves, representing the organs of ancient imperial saints and cardinals. So with with all of that, you can see that even this fresco has been defaced with these sort of bloody smears. And at the center of it is the Emperor Resplendent holding his sword aloft. And as he does, he has this blood weeping down as the door itself has sort of cut him in twain with a slight little incision of where the two doors meet. There are cranks on either side to open this immense doorway. It's a friendship door. Very well, I get to the left one. Captain Zetik will go to the right one. And I'll form the head. I stand in the middle. Alright, try to keep up. And I'm just going to be using my sixth strength, just like rocking it like a fucking like I'm like like a power in a small city. It's going to be faster than the eye can track. It's going to be lightning red. And then Zetik can, you know? Zetik will use his three strength to embody these. Got it. Good. Now go. Oh, no. to attempt to turn it relatively fast. Alright, both of you, please. Both of you just for lulz give me strength. I'd be happy to. Can I spend two glory on this to try and run up high? You can spend more if you want. Fuck it, I'll spend... Do you want me to spend all the glory or three of it? Yeah, go for it. I want you to go faster. Oh, sure. Why not? I appreciate that Zedek's just like, I'm fucking doing this good. This is happening. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. That's a one. It didn't roll. It didn't do the glory. I'll do those first. Oh, God. Two successes on those. Let me wrap this. Oh, my God. Yeah, that... Oh, there you go. No, that's four, five, six. That's more than you right now. Two of them? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you have two fails on the glory as well. Six. Yeah, six. You beat them by one. So what happens is Pi is having very little difficulty, like, moving this crank and you see it and, like, I assume there's this moment where, Zedek, your eyes just narrow slightly. My face furrows and just gains more definition. As you call upon all of your family's ancient glories as you just start going. Forgive me. I must go all out just this once that I was sent before that I must go out just this once. Just imagine Zedek's super saying powering up. And as this is happening, the door, the door begins to open and you can hear that as it's moving, it's almost like a music box that starts playing the 41st millennium version of Hallelujah. It's probably still Hallelujah that starts coming through vox emitters above, timed to the cranking. You can tell that this is probably normally opened by servitors. So, like, as Zedek's going, it's like, hallelujah, hallelujah. As he starts beating up to try to go. I thought I thought you were going to say it was Jeff Buckley's hallelujah. And that's yeah. I mean, they they got things wrong. OK, the future is weird. As the door opens, you see before you a massive chamber that has this glass dome around it that looks out into space. And there's multiple tiers that rise up. There are a set of stairs that elevate to a much larger sort of central area in this command throne space where you can see what is probably the captain's throne facing out towards space, surrounded by walls that are filled with consoles in a slightly circular fashion. That is all accessed by a stairway that leads up from the entrance. And then there's sort of ramps around the outer edges of the room that go up to rows upon rows of cogitation units that sort of line the the first half of this spherical chamber. Hmm. Oh, are there any other doors past this or this? This this is the strategium itself. There's no other access point that you can see. OK, so we're bottlenecked, basically. This is the locus of suffering. You have reached the bridge. But like, all of you are like, this puts Zedek's strategium to shame. I'd hope so. Yeah, look at this. Look at this ship and look at who actually owned it. This reminds me of the basilicas on Volov Prime. I haven't seen one of these in years. I was about to say, it reminds me of an actual ship, Zedek. Yeah, ha ha. We'll talk about the sorry state of the ship later. No, what I'm saying is, if we find a way to salvage it, it would be a nice addition. Reeb. Reeb, my... Sorry, go ahead. I'm interrupting. My bad. Go ahead. Lord, we'll get to you in a second. Oh, shit. I apologize. It's OK. I forgive you. You are threatening me? Yes. Back to back to be threatening. You are attempting to. Reeb, as an inquisitor, you should know. We can't... There's no coming back. This is... This is nightmare on the ship. They're not going to save it. They're going to turn it into slag. If it even exists in a state of molecular flux after whoever's done with it. What I mean is we could find a way to jettison the strategium. After all, we're saying it was corrupted. If it were to be blown off. Doesn't seem to be in terrible condition. Actually, can I do a quick investigate to see if this area has experienced any... Funny warp explosions? Well, are you going to start spending time looking around? At this point, the door has just opened. So, I mean, you're not even able to see the full breadth of this room. You're just kind of at the little... You're like little bugs at the entrance of this immense chamber. Right. So if you want to, you can. But it's less like, oh, I make an investigate for this whole area. It's like, where are you going? Are you going to go up to the side ramps? Are you going to go up that central stairway to the central strategium with the command throne? Where exactly are you wanting to be? Presumably, as Reeve is entering in and getting an actual feel for how big this is compared to Zedek's strategium, he's going to think better of it and say, Perhaps not. That's a bit too much work. Yeah, and what is going to stop us from getting the place stolen by the big ship, Merangus? We need to figure about that, don't we? Yes. As very wealthy and shiny as this bad ship is, we will have to make do with Captain Zedek's shitty strategium. In a good way. You can tell that the door now is starting to close. Since no one is, like, continuing to crank. I'm going to head in. Okay. I assume we're walking around. Yeah, so Zedek and Pye rush back to meet the group. And shortly after, there is a resounding, echoing BOOM as the twin gold doors seal you in this immense chamber. Hmm. I'll figure out that in a minute. And I pat him on the shoulder. Don't let him get you down, Zedek. From the many adventures that we have gone on, and seeing the absolute terrible state of your ship, and the questionable birthday cakes and all the whatnot, you've done quite well with what little you have been given to you. And I admire that. There have been many chieftains that I have advised over, and I have to say, you're definitely a cut above the rest of them. You've done far better. So, for the while, I don't know if anyone ever has said this to Captain Zedek, but, Captain Zedek, bud. You've done a good job. Zedek will be actually touched by Loren taking the moment to show him human kindness, and he'll just look at him sternly and say, Thank you. Thank you, Loren. I needed that. He'll pat him on his shoulder. I'm like, you would have made a great chief. As high as that got, though. And I leave. You go around looking. All right. You weren't saying anything. If you were so fat, you would have made a good chieftain. It's all those cakes, Zedek. It's all those cakes. Thurston. Yes. Specifically, because Reeb is curious about the fate of Church, as it were, how abusive fate of Church went, he's going to try and see if he can find anything else pertaining to her around here, if that's possible, as a first move, if he can. So you're going to make your way up the sort of central stairs towards the primary strategium and then try to access one of the consoles? Yeah. Okay. I assume the rest of you are sort of following him up the stairs? Yeah, I'm going to be heading on in. I'm going to be trying to gain access to the majority of the systems. I'm trying to get back into the database. Okay, so the two of you are stepping up these steps and immediately going to cogitator units and starting to access stuff. Mm-hmm. Okay, perfect. Zedek, what are you doing? Following along behind. Okay. Thinking over the state of my ship and my body, apparently. Okay. Okay. So yeah, I kind of see it like you're coming up the steps, like Pyke runs off to one set of cogitator units, Reeb to the other set. There's sort of this, you know, large throne that's staring off into the distance. Zedek, you're kind of placing yourself behind the throne, like equidistant between these two and watching things. Loren, what are you doing? I'm trying to like go to all these access panels and I like press the button and I assume I see like a stream of information. Yeah. I kind of nod and I'm like, oh, yeah. Like I have any clue what the hell is going on. Which one of the two are you? Because there's basically two sets of panels. Loren has, or sorry, Reeb has gone to one and Pyke has gone to the other. Who are you going with, basically? Who are you showing? I'm just finding one that no one's touched yet. So I look like I'm doing something. Okay. Okay. But there's two sides, left and right. One has gone to each of them. Which side are you going to? I'll go on the right side. Okay. Cool. Cool. All right. Reeb and Pybrain, will you please give me tech checks for your respective actions here? Yes. Oh, oh, oh. Awesome, Speaker. You are activated. I hear the winds. Corn! I'm just being all... Four complicate. Seven and no complicate. Okay. So, Reeb, you were trying to find more information on Chirp, and specifically the state of the shuttle. Right? Yeah. You start accessing the data, and you can tell that the Carolingians are off-ship. Right. So the Carolingians had two shuttles, and both of them are currently off-ship. As you're sort of cycling through the dates, one of the dates is completely just like garbage data. Like, it looks like just scrap code, weird ASCII characters that pop up. Yeah. The other one would be a date that would roughly translate to when you know the Carolon was supposed to have entered the system. Like, within a few hours of it entering the Fimbria system, one of the shuttles departing. So presumably that one is hers, would be my guess. Uh... And your complication is that as you're doing this, you catch sight of something moving. Where? In the grating beneath you. Uh... Y'all. Okay. You just see some like, strange reflection of light down. Well, given this ship, he will make ready for it, but he's not going to break away just yet. Okay. Going to Pi Brain now. Pi, what were you looking for specifically? I'm trying to gain access, right, to the general capacities to, say, the engines, or say, you know, the reactor. I'm trying to find the means to access the thing that would allow us to overload the ship and blow it up. Okay. You can tell that that's going to require a bit more than a seven. And like, a lot more effort is going to need to be invested. However, with what you've rolled, as you're starting to gain access, I mean, this is still an Imperial starship. It is very difficult for one person to gain access. To most things. However, you are able to see certain elements of the vessel that have been put on lockdown. Particularly, you can see that the power for the primary maglev was deactivated, but it hasn't been put behind any powerful firewalls or encryption coding. So that's something you could immediately react. Okay. I'll... Oh, sorry. Yeah, no, no, no. Go ahead. I'll flip that. If it's going to take some time for me to be able to overload this area, then I would like to, perhaps, try to find information on De Huckabee and what exactly happened and where he might have gone. Okay. So you're going to start digging into that as well after you've upped that. Perfect. All right. Lorne, I know you were doing that. Lorne and Zedek, can you both give me awareness tests? Sure. I'd be happy to. I can sure make an attempt. That's a one and a complication. Good. I rolled a four. A four? Okay. Um, Lorne, you notice that things here are just very quiet. There's no other sounds but you and your allies here. It's too quiet. It is. And the clacking of cogitator units. But the clacking of the cogitator units isn't what you're used to. Like, normally you hear chattering of various different machine units all around the bridge of the debt collector. There's sort of this complete disharmony. Here, everything is almost activating in unison. Though the clacking of some of the devices here is all synced. Hmm. Yeah. You get, you get bored. I'm not that surprised. You, you have these people who are, who are looking around and doing all this data. You've sort of set yourself up to, um, you set yourself up so to speak to like do guard duty. Uh, well, everyone is starting to, you know, hacker man it up, but even Lorne is kind of pretending to. you realize that you're not seeing anything but something does entice you you're looking at the back of this throne you know i was just gonna suggest is that it just wanders towards the throne anyway and kind of stares out thinking how about how much better this would be in his strategium yeah absolutely and so so as you you you sort of take your take your time to to look at it um staring at the back of this throne which has this strange sort of fresco on it looking at you uh you can see the the not this is not the emperor though this is some some some important saint whose name you don't quite know who is reaching a hand towards the stars with the light of the imperium and you're you're sort of like oh this is interesting and walking around it and seeing the the gilded nature of it and you this is a massive throne by the way like we're talking like five by five meters elevated up so you're actually having to do like a pace around it you you walk by reeb who's intently looking and then seems to pause as reeb notices something and you you take your first step up what is a marble set of stairs at the front of this throne again kind of coming up the side of it you can see the names of various worlds that scribed on the marble here uh beginning it at sort of the far right with a with a planet that you're not familiar with and then various other ones you you take another step up and then you see something sitting in the throne and i need you to give me a resolve test the difficulty of which will be five oh okay uh-oh here we go can i spend two glory on this that sounds like a good idea all right here we go that's a two let's roll the other two type first see here wow oh that's a six six that is those two glory uh make the difference my cabin you turn in time to see an abomination against reality writhing under the sort of envelope of the throne none of you could see it because the back of the ship's throne is so immense you see what can only be described as a conglomeration of humanity and horrors merged together it stares at you with dozens of eyes opening up your eyes and you see a burning and closing all across its bloated clearly semi-etheric form it turns to you as you would dare to ascend its seat and um well then captain zedek you're going to get to go first in uh this little situation what would you like to do wow huh for the first time i've been a lost for words i'm very appropriate i assume none of us all see this we're don't know none of you have seen this yet like the way to describe like the way like imagine that this this plinth you're on is a circle right and in the center of the circle is another circular like throne that's elevated you've only gone to the first banks of cogitators so you're just seeing the back of the throne zedek got curious and started walking around oran will yell out going zedek do you find anything i'm only seeing words you know i really do think we'd be running into more trouble here but things seem pretty i am very quiet here yeah i mean i really do appreciate that what are you doing die monster you don't belong in this world that's me what that is very very mean for you to say about pie yeah i just belong zedek would like to Draw his arc pistol and kind of do a combat super action hero dodge backwards and getting as far away as he can from this aberration and take a shot. Totally. It's a five and a crit. Five and a crit. That is beautiful. A five will definitely hit it. You can even shift one dice for an extra point of damage. Roll me 2d6 for that crit as you get the Captain Zedek special off before diving out of line of sight of this horrific thing. It's going to be a 26. Okay, and then roll me damage. Sure. With one bonus dice as well. 14. Okay, 14 and a 26. Ferocious reading. Ferocious rending your attack shreds the opponent's flesh to ribbons. Target suffers 1d3 more wounds, so I can do determination against this. Roll me 1d3. It also, you can increase this if you want to spend glory. Every glory you spend will do more wounds to it as well. We have a five. Say, would anyone be opposed to making this thing go away faster? No, go for it. Okay. Absolutely. Absolutely. Are you going to drop all five into it? Should I do all five, or do you want me to save one just in case we have to save one? One just in case there's like 12d6. Yeah. Absolutely. So we'll do four glory. Okay. So plus four. So 14. Okay. Yeah. You don't have to roll it. It just adds it. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, exactly. Okay. So perfect. Perfect. I'm going to... And then you have d3. So 2. I have some determination stuff to make here. Cool. It takes this, and you can tell you've lacerated it terribly. It looks like it's leaking out. It looks like your bolt of electrical energy has seared across it and caused it to weep more sores and staggers slightly. And then you dive out of the way. Okay. Gentlemen, I don't think we're alone anymore. And then it goes. What do you see? It... It... I suppose the best way to describe this is it flows around the throne. Splitting itself in half, in a sense. Moving more like liquid than a cloud. Yeah. More liquid than a corporeal thing to create itself in two split halves that rejoin on the back of the throne, revealing itself to every one of you now. For those of you who aren't Captain Zedek, can all of you give me a difficulty five resolve test? Ah! I can try. I see. Resolve, you say? Correct? The thing with the R? Yes. Uh... Ah, no. No. No. Come now, resolve. Yeah. If it ever doesn't work, on the top left of the sheet, you can just click use and I die. Zero... Zero complication. Okay. Ron rolls with a three. Okay. Lorne, are you happy with that? Or... Nope. Because you said the word. You said the word. It's a five. It's a five. I'm good. You understand. I can... Yeah. No, no, no. Reb, I... I know. I know. I know. Reb, I... I know. Lorne was a bit closer. That's why I was asking. Yeah. Okay. Um... So... Um... This is a terrifying entity. It is not a fearsome entity. So... Uh... Failure in this case is a bit more drastic than normal. Um... You will... Uh... Those of you who failed, which would be Reb and Pi, you will have to actually just run away from this thing. Um... You will spend all of your actions running away, and you will only... You will continue to do so until an ally gives you a leadership, um, that meets the requisite difficulty number to rally you back into the fight. GM? Yes? Do they just suffer the feared condition? Um... So this is not the feared condition. This is the terror condition. Oh. So they have suffered a condition, nevertheless. However, if you grant any bonuses to fear tests, they also apply to terror tests. Not necessarily bonuses. If you have anything that grants immunity to fear, you can grant them one extra icon on their resolve tests. Oh, okay. So if you have anything that gives them immunity to fear, you can basically give them plus one to it. I do not... Yet. Okay. I can make you... I can make you feel a little bit better and recover your shock, but I can... Uh... I can't do a leadership test until it's my turn. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So can I just... Can I just take it real quick and just spend my turn fleeing? Uh, well, its turn's not done. That was just it moving into line of sight of you. Oh, terrific. Good. Um... In fact, once it... Once it moves, it... It then seems to focus all of its eyes on Captain Zedek, and it speaks with mouth and speaks with mouths that don't come from it, but seem to speak from the vox emitters on the bridge in a chortling static that blurts out, The captain of the broken vessel that sails the stars. They laugh at you, but would bow if they knew the truth. Uh... And it's gonna make a psychic test, cause we like those, don't we? Lord! Your opponent! I can do that! Oh, it's gonna peril! I... Oh my god! It just... Oh my god! God, please! Just overload instantly! Well, I'm not happy with that. I'm gonna perils regardless, but mark me down a rune point, please. Okay. I will try to deny a lot of the witch. Uh, my defense... Yeah. It seems like... Go over to the last of those. It's two! Oh, good. So that will hit, but I'm still not happy with it hitting. So we're gonna... Oh, I would expect you wouldn't. Okay. Perfect. Oh, good. It still perils three times total. It perils three times now because of that reroll. Cause I rerolled into a third of perils. So this'll be fun. Um, it speaks those words and then it looks into your soul. And, uh, first of all, Captain Zedek... Wait, but I'm denying the witch. ... Oh, uh, okay. Yeah, I've tried that three times. I meant to fucking hear you. My apologies. He got drowned out by the voices of the void. Yeah. True. Okay, so this is the first time we denied the witch. So it's basically I cannot do my psychic powers on my turn because I'm doing it on this thing now. You deny thine witch. So how do I deny the witch? So the deny the witch will be... Basically, uh, it's a psychic mastery test. The difficulty is two plus the difficulty of the power you are trying to deny. Oh, great. Yeah. So you'll need a ten. Oh. Then we don't have a lot of glory. You can do it! Um... I will look... I will look upon the creature and I'll see, uh, would I know what kind of psychic power it's doing? Uh, you do not know what type... You just know that it is doing etheric powers and channeling them towards Captain Zedek. Well, let's... Good luck, boys. I don't like that. I shall deny the witch. And I only got a seven, but I have a wrath. I will do my wrath. I cannot deny him. You could spend the glory and you'll equal it and then you'd be able to deny it. It wouldn't... It wouldn't... You'd have to roll the glory and have to succeed the glory. Yeah. Fair enough. Yeah. So you reach out. You reach out, Loren, and try to stop this as you see these waves crash into Cap... These etheric waves that only you can see crashing into the captain who has once again met eyes with this horrific monstrosity. But it doesn't happen. I interrupt. Oh, what? May I... We had that one glory. We had that one glory. Would you permit me to roll that one glory? Someone granted to, but I'm going to say this happens after the system. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I will allow you to roll it. So if I can succeed, boys. Oh. I need... A four plus. Huh? Give me your energy. No! Well, technically, I have wrath, so I can reroll that, right? Try to bullshit the GM. I can reroll it, right? Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. No. Okay. Okay. 100%. You gave me the generosity to at least roll, so we'll keep going. Captain Zedek, you are struck in your very soul by whatever. These words have shaken you, but more importantly, they have burrowed into your mind. You take three mortal wounds. Fuck. Oh. as they just drill into you. But along with that, I require you to give me a difficulty three corruption test. No, that is not what Zedek is thinking in the moment. That's your conviction. That's your conviction. Okay. New York. 62. Can I have a wrath? I do have a wrath still. Actually, yeah, I will wrath it. Absolutely. Someone give me another wrath. Seven hit of glory! So you stand firm against the corrupting influence on your soul from this horrific monstrosity. I know who I am, and I know what I am. And I will not let whatever monster you are tell me otherwise. Cool. Who wants to go next? Should I just get my turn out of the way? Sure. Yeah, so you're gonna just, like, start running, correct? I'm heading up a big ship! He's gonna run towards the door. Yeah. You make your way away from this in, like, terror of this utter abomination against reality. That's perfect. As that occurs, it takes its second action. Good. At which point, you can see now that along the floor, it has these tentacles that sort of seep out from its body. Did you do perils yet? Oh, that's a good point. Thank you. Three perils. Yeah, no, no, that is very important. See, we... I got distracted by the deny, so that's my bad. Let's do this to... That's the worst-case scenario. He just turns into another chaos spawn. So it's gonna be this plus 30. So 66, that will be bad, right? Because immediately, like, a lot of people in chat will be like, Scarbran! Scarbran! But I'm like, Scarbran shows up, the campaign's over. More hands in. We're not gonna fight a legendary bloodthirster. No, I will fight him. And then you will die. Go get him, champ! Go get him! I'm gonna say, guys, I just looked over at the chat. All you guys rooting for perils, there are very few of these that work out in our favor. Hey, chat. Hey, chat. Thanks for reminding me. Hey, chat. Hey, chat. Thanks for reminding me. All right, so all creatures in 25 meters, so that'll be all of you at the time this occurs, take five shock. Terrific. I gain one rune. And my personal favorite, which will impact two people. For the remainder of the scene, all wrath dice, as part of a psychic mastery test, that don't result in a one or a six, must be rerolled once. Hey, Thurston, I'm exhausted. Oh, perfect. Yeah, yeah. Like, seeing this thing, and then it, like, channels this energy and these discordant voices coming out of the voxes, they just sap all of your internal resolve. You are exhausted. All of us, right? No, just me. No, no, no. You all take five points of shock, but if that takes you to zero shock, then you're exhausted. Remember, I only have five shock. Yes, yes. Mm-hmm. Because I got hit in the head by that elf. I am also exhausted. Oh, good. I will help. Stupid elves. Stupid elves. All right, so this, like, awful thing had taken its action, done that. Then we've gone to Reeb. Reeb had, like, started to run away, which basically, at this point, means you are making your walk action to get away from this thing. Then it goes, and as I was describing, it gets multiple actions. Its second action is that it leaves behind it a carpet of tentacular limbs, which seem to snake down into the grating, and Reeb, as you are moving away from this thing, you realize that what you saw, behind the grating, was, like, a vine nest of tentacles that run underneath the entirety of the strategium off of this thing's body. And just as you piece this together, one of them bursts through a grate near to Pi's brain. Can't worry about that now, running away. And makes an attack on you, Pi. Ow. Uh, which will crit you. Yes, it will. With an eight, um, and I think... However, you'll only be shifting one dice. Uh, yes. Yes, yes. So, we'll do that, and... Blop. I will do fourteen... Wow, fourteen damage total to you. No AP on that. Okay. Well, that's quite a bit. I will be rolling... I can't roll Determination. Oh, shit. You can see if I have a reaction for this to help you out. Um... Well, now! Looks like Pi is down to three wounds! Hey, but guess what? Huh. I'm gonna counterattack. Yeah, but guess what? You still have to get critted. I know. I'm gonna get critted. Oh, yeah. Let's do that. Yeah, can we get the crit out of the way so we can bemoan the fact that I can't heal anyone right now? Twenty-one. Brutal rupture! Ah! Oh! You take three mortal wounds! Oh, please, don't. Where were you when Warhammer was dying? You take three mortal wounds, Pi. Alright, well, I am now dying again. Okay, so you fall down from... This tentacle bursts out, wraps around your leg, you get ready to counterattack, and it crushes. Can I still counterattack? Is this even, like, an enemy? Or is this just, like, a ranged attack? Uh, this... This is an attack. You can counterattack the tendril. Can he add zero hit points? Oh, yeah, I can counterattack when I'm dying. Yeah, the question is, like, if I attack the tendril... Like, does the tendril have its own separate HP pool, or is it just... You don't know. I don't... You're right. That's a mechanical element thing that you wouldn't know. You're right! I think it's just a question mechanics. No metagaming! No metagaming! Uh... Uh... If I'm dying, I'm not running away. Correct. I mean, you're crawling away, theoretically. Theoretically, yeah. I won't counterattack, uh, because the reason I was going to counterattack was so I wouldn't have to run away, but, uh, now I, uh, it seems as though that problem has solved itself. Yeah. Also, remember, this is a great point to remind you. I believe you can spend, uh, is it wrath dice to get shock back? I know! It's a little bit... Like, shock is one thing, but we're kind of in a little worse... Oh, wait! No, I will counterattack, because there's no reason not to, because on my turn the counterattack malice goes away. Yeah. So, yeah, I will counterattack. Do it up. Do it up! Counter of attack. You're stabbing, like, this, like... That'll do. That's a good retort. Ten and a crit. I think that I am not a squid man! Oh, yeah, that's right. He does hate squids. Yeah. Call upon your trading against Lemurian squid thieves! Fifteen! Okay. Uh, fifteen? Uh, gosh, I should just take... I'm shot! Does that work? Do you have to re-roll it? I'm just gonna assume that what happens is, like, this tentacle is, like, writhing around your leg. You raise up your power sword and swing it down, and as you do, the tip of the tentacle forms into a head that stares up at you just in time to be hit by the sword. Yeah. It looks like my shifting hitbox was really against me this time. Yeah, yeah. This is... This move was unsafe on block. Chaos spawn. Are you... Are you using your new sword or your old sword? I'm using my Lemurian power sword. Okay. Just clarify that. Yeah, because you would have to draw the big guy. Yeah, yeah. And also, this gives me a passive defense bonus. Yeah. Let us go! Uh, fourteen damage. And then d3 mortal wounds. Oh, that's right. Regular wounds. Regular wounds. That is so one d3. And you can do extra wounds if you want to spend glory. Three. The clarifier was the decapitating thing. It was the headshot was the crit. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. The crit effect. I could say you could probably take four glory if you're up for that. Uh, well, with four... with, uh, sorry, seventeen damage ap3, does that solve this tentacle problem? It might. Um... I gotta say. I'll, I'll, uh, I'll be tempted to pump two more glory into it just to get to that sweet, sweet nineteen damage. I mean, the tentacle's part of this thing, so... If it's... Well, I don't know if I'm doing damage to the tentacle or if I'm doing damage to the chaos bomb. I think both are good. Yes. But I did a lot of damage. And I don't know if it's dead yet. So I'll do nineteen. Okay, nineteen? Yeah. You, you slash down on this thing and just sever it in half and then do a backstroke that cuts it down. And as you do so, like, the mass of the tentacle hits the ground, flops off of your leg, and you just, like, hear this slight, like, sizzling sound as it dissolves on the deck. Underneath you can still see writhing movement, but that appears to be it. Uh, for, like, this, this tentacle. It's not grabbing you or holding you in place anymore. I'll show you! Um... Okay. Very, very good. Very good. Oh, and also, since it did make you die, um... Uh, it, yeah, like, it's, it's, it's dealt, like, some severe damage to your leg. Almost like the wrapping around caused, like, burn damage from just how much it was crunching into you. And the speed at which, so your, your, your left leg has got this, just this, this sort of, not compression, but, like, almost, like, burning scorch from how fast that thing came up and grabbed you. Alright, that was its go. Uh, back to you. Uh, Lorne, you had denied, so you can't take a combat action, but you can, like, still move around if you would like. And then we also have Piebrain. Who would like to go next? Uh, I'll let Pie go, because it was gonna be my turn where I go, neat! And then that's it. Well, Lorne, but yeah, but you could, like, theoretically, like, even just hit him with a stick. Uh, no, he can't, because he did deny the witch. He, he got his, uh, he can do basically a move action to, like, Oh, okay. Uh, in that case, um, so I know that being dying knocks me prone. Since I'm tapped into the cogitator, can I potentially make an athletics check to instead, like, basically still be as immobilized, but kind of splay myself out back, leaning back on the desk rather than on the ground? I, I, I sure. You'll still require, like, a movement at some point to get up. I, I, uh, I can't move. Yeah. Okay. So I will, uh, I will try to, like, kind of basically be sprawled towards the back. I'm on my feet, but I'm still, like, fundamentally just fucked up. Um. Uh, three? Yeah, I mean, like, you could, like, sprawl onto it. Like, I, yeah, you're, you're fine. Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Uh, in that case, I, uh, I could, I could try shooting it. I think that might be the only, uh, but if I'm attacked again, then I won't have my weapon out. So what I'm going to do is, uh, I can't run, so I'm going to try to interface with the cogitator I'm already connected with, and see if maybe I can get some kind of automated defenses online. Bold move, Cotton. Exactly. Uh, give me a tech check. Absolutely. I'm going to be pumping, uh, two glory to this. Okay. Uh, four successes and a glory. Uh, you're going to leave me to wrap that? Yep. All right. Oh, nice! You are desperately scanning for anything you can, but again, like, you just don't have the access, and you're trying so hard. Like, you're able to note that, oh, there are some, some defensive turrets in here, but, like, as you're, like, access denied, access denied, access, access denied. Um, all right, um... Lauren? Nope. Lauren, you're go. Uh, I guess my movement actions, and I'm going to put myself in a position to where I am not going to be, um, tentacled upon. Okay, so you're trying to, like, look for a place where the tentacles couldn't burst out and attack you? Yeah, I'm trying, trying to get in a safe place. So, the way you can do that is by moving on to the plinth where the throne is. You'll still be able to see the thing, because that plinth is pure marble. Like, nothing is coming out of that. I'll, I'll do that, I suppose. Yeah, so, like, you rush over, you're kind of, like, behind it from the rest of your party, but you're, you're now in a much safer position. Yeah, I have to do the Heinz Al Ghul thing by standing there and then buff myself for five hours. Oh. I mean, you know, we do what we do. You jump in reverse into a corner building up speed for twelve hours. Yeah. So you clip out of the ship. So, uh, that is the end of our first combat round. Goddammit. Second combat round, who would like to go first? I think Zedek! I think Captain Zedek should go first. I think Captain Zedek should try to rally, uh, Reeb before anyone else gets too badly wounded, so I'll, I'll point something out here. Captain Zedek, you can do a leadership test. The difficulty is seven. Uh. Okay. Difficulty seven, and that will rally your people. You can opt to do one of them, or you can opt to do both of them, but then it's difficulty nine. Do it big and make it nasty. Oh my god. Uh. On all the glory for this, I'm guessing. That's a good idea. Yes. No such thing as interrupting this thing if it's just gonna kick our asses. Uh, yeah, I'll spend all the glory. Okay. All the glory has been spent. All the glory has been spent? It happens. Uh, Captain Zedek, how are you doing on shock, by the way? On shock? Uh, I'm, I'm not doing too well, but I'll get to that on my simple action. Okay, no, no, I was wondering, and I should offer this to, um, to Pi and Reeb, do you guys want to spend a wrath point during your previous turns to have gotten all the wrath I can get? Yeah, I'm willing to spend wrath on that. Okay, so mark Pi down the wrath point, and then you get, I believe it is your rank plus... Yeah, rank. Isn't it like rank plus tier or something? I think it's rank plus tier. Uh, checking. It is rank plus your tier. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so I have five shock. Cool. Oh, fuck it. Knocked me down one, too. Oh. That's kind of what I figured. Okay, great, and I'm not exhausted anymore. Yeah, for reference, that was why I didn't... Yeah. Sorry. You have no wrath. Lauren, did you want to do that as well? No, I'm pretty good. Okay, cool. Um, alright, so, yeah, yeah, back to Zedek, then. So you were, you've taken three glory, um, you're, you're gonna do this leadership test to try to inspire your folks. I sure, I sure am. Alright. Not bad for the base. We'll do another three for the die. I'm sorry, the glory die. Oh, yeah, yeah, roll the three glory. Okay, so you need six, and you'll get five dice to reroll. Yep. And I will wrath it. Yep. Uh... And then roll the three. Yeah, you need one more on two dice. No. Fuck. Hmm. Wait, hold on. There's one more glory. I'm sorry, yeah, one more glory that is there. I mean, you already succeeded on that four. Wait, did you? No, it would have been a... Yeah, the difficulty's nine. He needs one more. He's doing both of the people who are currently having... Yeah, I say take the last glory. If Thurston will allow it. Oh, yeah. I'll allow it without the reroll, just to keep things interesting. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. Need to get a four. Oh! You got a five. Okay, then it's gonna go. Ah! How do you... Actually, how do you rally them, by the way? I'm curious. What is Zedek's way of rallying his inquisitorial acolyte and wounded Skitarii ally? The Emperor's light and the Omnissiah's will flows through us today, lads. Do not die here. We are going to make this meatball man meet his end. And I would also like that to be my simple action for Gallo's humor. Ooh! Oh, I'll allow it. How much is that? It's just a fellowship test, and I get icons plus rank. Oh, yeah, okay. But everybody's pretty much topped off, so I think I'm the only one who actually needs it. Uh, he gave me an extra one. Cool. Here it comes. It's gonna be... Uh, wow. Alright, so that's... Seven. Seven shocks to myself and my allies. Nice. Nice. What a shame. Um... It's gonna go. Good. Well, can Captain Zedek move and attack on his turn? Uh, no, because you would have had to decline, because it's still an action to do. You would... Like, you can still move. You just can't attack, because that would have increased the difficulty by another two. Yeah. Which you don't want. Captain Zedek's gonna move back, because he knows not to get fucky with this with three wounds left. Okay, so, like, you're kind of moving back to where Reeb would be. Uh, so you and Reeb are close. Uh, Pybrain's kind of off to the side, sprawled on that console, and then behind this thing, uh, sort of on that marble plinth is Lorne. Um... This thing goes. Um... And this time, all of its eyes, like, sort of flow around its body towards its back left corner. All of them, like, almost merging together like bubbles in a... Like, you know, in water. Into one immense eye that stares at you, Lorne. Oh, I figured this was gonna happen. And then you just hear again the booming loudspeaker voice from it. The weak old man who comes from a world where no one is weak abandoned by wolves for his forsaken weird that will lead only to damnation. And, uh, it's gonna use a psychic power on you. Okay. Um... Let's roll it. Um... I think that's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, okay. Pop! That will also complicate, by the way. Oh, perfect, perfect, perfect. I'm also gonna spend a rune point to make this better because I'm not happy with that result. So mark me down a rune point. Four. I'll take a ten. Oh. Yeah. I will not be denying the witch. Okay. I will not deny it. Perfecto. Uh, its eye stares into you, and Hugh, you see something in that eye. Something looking into the depths of your existence, in fact. Uh, as it does, you catch sight of various vistas beyond cities that have impossible architecture. Avian creatures staring at you from above, taking an interest in you. Everything sort of just has an oppressive gaze all focused on you, and you feel your body erupting under this pressure. Um, first of all, are you, um... I'm going to assume you're not going to try to deny this because of the high results, but you could. No, but if you want, I can add some narrative flair of the bull guard that's in. Absolutely. That I assume that he's... I assume it's basically like he's making me see the worst things that paralyze me and all that other stuff, right? Uh, yes. You were, you were, you were feeling like energies of the warp coursing through you. Yeah, and it was like, show me some really, like, guard things, right? Maybe, like, sins of the past or something. Absolutely. It's, uh... Basically, like, Ron is now getting flashbacks of his old village in Fenris, where where, like, he was, like, advising like a nice young chieftain or whoever who was very proud, everything was healthy, but then he only sees fire and brimstone and multiple ships coming up to the shore and families that he's looked for, he's looked upon, and the chieftain's folk just, you know, not really having a good time when you really think about it, and just nothing but just terrible, like, war-torn areas of the village. Mm-hmm. And, uh, that causes you to gain two points of corruption, as you relive those. But this time, Lorne, you use your, you manifest your psychic powers, uh, in that memory, in defense of your people, but this time, uh, this time, it just goes terribly, terribly wrong. Um, uh-oh. Uh, terribly, terribly wrong. And... Oh my gosh, are you fucking kidding me? Random results. Um... You feel, you feel this mutating power seep through you, and as it seeps through you, like, when you use your powers, your psychic powers in your memory for the first time, this time, instead of what you remember happening, this time, this corruption accelerates your muscle growth, and you grow to be brawny and burly, and, like, almost inhuman in nature with the size of the muscles you grow. Are you serious? He's because... I'm not fucking kidding. The result of 41 on a minor mutation is you become a brute. Oh my god. I'm gonna look this up. Hold up. Hold up. I'm flipping to that page. What, where is it? Page? Page 290. 290? Okay, I'm flipping to it. The 41 result on the minor mutations table. Are you fucking kidding me? Okay, let's see. 41. 41. Brute. Corruption massively accelerates your muscle growth. You are brawny, and burly, but the increased muscle mass is obviously inhuman in nature. Your sudden growth grants plus one to strength and toughness. Most tools and devices are now too small for you to easily use unless you acquire modified versions. You suffer one difficulty that I appeal to do all tests that involve physical manipulation of tools, including range weapons. Would you fucking permanently turn me swollorn? You're swollorn. You don't know if this is permanent. It might be. Here's the problem. That's not just swollorn. That's, like, too swollorn. That's like if Lorne turned into the Giga Chad. Lorne, what's your new incredible strength stat? My new incredible strength stat is two! He doesn't stop growing! So, all of you see this happen. Lorne, again, you get two corruption points as, like, clearly the powers of the warp have hit your body and caused this rampant horrific growth on you. Jesus Christ. Who would like to go next? I like to imagine where I get all buff and stuff. I'm like, oh, it's really bad. Oh, no! I will go next because if this creature gets two turns then it's best, in my best interest, to do damage now before getting healed and take damage. So, I currently can't move. But, what I can do, seeing my friend begin to mutate and seeing all this terrible shit being said. I want to kill Lorne. I kill Lorne. No, obviously not. I escalate quickly. I'm going to take out my plasma gun and I'm going to see this overcharging. Oh, God. Okay. I assume I'm in short range. Um, yes. Okay. Full auto-fire. Okay. And as my plasma gun begins to heat up, I'm going to say Alright, that was fun! Now do me! And then I'm going to let loose with my plasma gun and protect my comrade. Okay. Please don't die. Please. Please. That right there is dimmer wrong. That will miss. Uh, I have one left. I'll re-roll it. Okay. Ah! There you go. There you go. Holy shit. I was so scared. I was waiting for that one. I was saying, Please! Not that I would wish ill on you at all. Of course. Of course. No, no, no. Alright, so you, you raise up your plasma gun and there's just like this, this like, I assume you're like struggling, your hands shaking to hold it steady as it's just becoming more and more unstable. Bolts of plasma flying. You're just being out at this thing. You can shift two dice on this. Alright, cool, cool. And a supercharge, I believe, does it add one or, sorry, two or three extra dice? Uh, so if you are using the, the supercharge, you deals an extra plus three ED. Oh, oh good. Three extra dice. You'll get five extra dice. Yeah, it's better than I thought. Alright, let's rock. 23 damage. 83. Excellent. Exactly what we needed at this hour because I don't think we did all that much damage to it yet. You start tearing into it with bolts of plasma that begin searing off of it. It is going to make a determination roll against some of that. Boop. Oh, I'm not a fan of that, but I'll actually, how much wrath, how much rune am I, I'm only sitting on one rune point. Eh, we'll have to take it. Okay. So 23. I'm sorry, I'll say it again. Okay. Was that? Did you use it? Just say it one more time. No, no, I'm not using a rune. Yeah, sorry. I was looking at using it, but I'm not. Alright, you begin blasting off like huge tears of it that splash against the fresco. Each bolt of plasma sending this etheric flesh onto the fresco, causing it to dissolve. And you actually see these like ancient cardinals on the throne wither in their flesh. Like the gold begins to tone down to bronze-ish. Oxidization comes, but even the frescoes themselves seem to change into like old skeletal figures who go from leading poses to like screaming in anguish. And with each bolt of plasma, you've clearly wounded this thing. And all of the eyes break apart on its back and rotate around towards you, Pibrain. Yeah, fuck you too. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Um, it's going to go. It barrels towards you. This was predicted. It barrels towards you. And as it does, this mountain of flesh creates this mouth that forms. And inside of it, you can see faces and eyes. Staring through as it comes to try to chomp on you. Um, let's see how this goes. Does it pass by Captain Zedek as it barrels towards Pi? Uh, Captain Zedek would like to make Attack of Opportunity. Captain Zedek would like to stab him. It's not going to enter Attack of Opportunity. No, because you pulled back to where Reeb was, so. Yeah, I gotta say, as I was running away, you ran pretty far. Yeah. Well, you were move-actioning away because you were exhausted when you made your thing, so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, it, but it, it just barrels and, like, this chomping maw comes towards you, Pi. Alright, here we go. I'm... That equals my defense. That will hit, then. Ah. Um... Oh, wait. No. No, it won't. I am wounded, you see, so my difficulties all go up by one. As, of course, as, of course, do all of yours, if you've got wounds on you, but, uh, that will miss, and I am, I am not in the mood of spending that Rune Dice. I, I have plans for that. You have another one now, by the way. You have two. Oh, thanks, chat. Thanks. I'm still gonna save it, because there's cool things I can do with that. Uh, who would like to go next? How terribly fucked up is he? You would have to spend a test to know, like, you're right, you know, because this isn't like we're dealing with, like, a normal guy. This is a fucking chaos spot. It's impossible to tell. Like, like, yeah, like, like, the fact that its eyes have, like, bled over to your side, it does not have a hit point bar above it, alas. Yes. Uh, to answer chat's questions, pie is usually defense five and melee, but I do not have my power, so I'm out, so I am not. Yes. Okay, I won't counterattack it with the butt of my rifle, then. Oh, sorry. Uh, alright, uh, I believe that leaves us with Lorne or Reed, right? Which, Reed can go, Reed can go. I can go last. It's fine. Okay. Uh, all right, well, I guess I'm, like, I guess I'm fine, so I'm just gonna run over to pie and do my thing. Do the medikit? Absolutely. Well, I kind of have to, otherwise he will explode. This is true. This is true. That would be terrible. That would be terrible. Terrible. Uh, oh! By the way, I can finally use the chirurgian's tools. Functions as a medikit, plus two bonus dice to medikit tests when a character is dying. Hell yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It's, it's almost like, it's almost like I had intended things for this equipment. Game design. Here we go! Medikit! Medikit to the moon! Medikit! So this is the default, that's an 11 and a glory. Oh, damn, son! With the additional two dice, that's nothing. Uh, how much wrath am I saving? I have one wrath. I'm just gonna save it at 11, because that's sufficient enough to make you not die. Uh, so, uh, so DN3 responds to the command, uh, DN3 restores a wound. Every shifted exalt, which in this case you could do four, restores another wound. So you could restore five wounds to him. I will have to, I mean, I don't see any reason why I wouldn't when I shift him. Oh, no, no, I'm just like, if you wanted to spend a wrath to fish for more or whatever, so. Uh, yeah, it's my last wrath, but honestly, I don't want him going under, under a massive a damage attack again, because I have no idea how much the bite does. So I'm going to wrath it. Okay. Yep. So, uh, that'll be, yeah, 12 now plus 2d6. Uh, that's now two more, so seven. That's a 14 in total. Yeah. Yeah. So, but two more for the shifting, so he'll get seven. Yeah. So congrats. You're, you're one point away from full health. Optimal efficiency restored. Uh, it will go. Ow. And as, as it's, as it's, oh, are you interrupting? Do it. Just do it. Yeah. I might as well. It's mostly, unfortunately, it's going to be more mostly for selfish reasons, but, uh, it's just a basic, the, the, the issue is that I don't really have, I can't heal anybody. Like I can heal myself, but I can't heal anybody else. It's, which has been my biggest criticism of psychic power. So far, I really, but the med act, then Medicaid, huh? Fuck. I keep bringing up out of natural Medicaid when it actually matters. Well, it's like the only thing, uh, like, I mean, for me, my shock's only down. That's it. And I was literally going to fix that issue and then buff myself. So I don't get completely just swapped in one hit. True. I've had three wounds right now. Cause I cared. I also remember you can restore five shock just by spending a wrath point. So yeah, I know, but, but regeneration, cause I'm at full wounds regeneration. I just keep getting a shot back every turn. That's true. I'm going to do other stuff to increase my resilience. Like that. Yeah. So, okay. So are you going to interrupt? Yeah, I'll interrupt so I can buff myself. So if this thing does go after me, then I won't immediately die. Absolutely. And, uh, you know, as I'm screaming, go door and smash. I'm now just buffing myself first. I'm gonna cast regeneration. Uh, just so I can start declare everything you're doing first before you roll it. So tell me what you're doing. Yeah. So I'm going to cast regeneration and then I'm going to cash shape flesh. And I want to just do those two for now. Okay. To make it safe. So the difficulty on both of those goes up by two. I haven't done a psychic power yet. Yeah. So it's bay. So it's just two because I'm doing two, right? Not four. Exactly. Okay. It's basically for every action beyond the first, it's a plus two. Unless you have like unnatural or other abilities. And I have that talent where I can do two of these without penalty. Which you're not. So, yeah. Yeah. So regeneration first. Bloop. Okay. Which five, which I'm going to have to wrath it because otherwise it's not going to work. Absolutely. Yeah. There you go. Which I get a 13. Yeah. Let's see. So that's going to be, I'm going to boost that, I guess. Let's see. Yeah. I need, I need an eight to do it. I guess I can pull up. So you can take one, two. Yeah. You can take two. So what my policy is like, yeah. So I can do every one. I can do every one. So you can do two shock or a wound. Yeah. I'll do the shock because I feel like I'm going to have to deal with that more. Okay. So I get two more shock additional, right? So it's three a turn. So I'll immediately come back up three. So now I'm going to now cash sheet flesh and I'm going to harden my outer skin, give me plus four resilience bonus if I get this off. I need. Okay. Difficulties eight. Okay. So. Well, yeah. I can find my thing. Sorry. Psychic powers take five million years. Magic. Psychic magic. Magic. Psychic mastery. All right. So you. Yeah. You can see the wounds are five and complicated. I said I can't wrath that one either. You absolutely could. I will do. You'll still get the complication. Psychic ability. Nice. There you go. So nine. You won't be able to do any like power like potency increases on this, but you can shape flesh. Yeah. So I'll do that. So you were getting your resilience as a zero. Did bring up. Was there a special psychic thing I have to deal with as well? Ah, no, because you did roll a one and six. So you're actually good. So wait, roll me one D six for the first power. That's right. The weird psychic thing. Yeah. Yeah. One. Yeah. Okay, we're good. Okay, perfect. So here, just roll me two D six for the perils and we'll just do the plus plus ten to it. Excellent. I got a forty three. So that'll be a fifty three. So your perils is interesting. Visions of possibility. An awful droning buzz surrounds you, drowning out all speech. The drone penetrates the mind. All creatures with the psychic keyword have to make a difficulty for intellect. And if you fail, you are staggered and suffer one D three shock. Ooh. And this one is a psychic, right? It is. And it has a it has an intellect of one. It fails. Hooray. And it complicates. You can't complicate on these types of the dream. Shock is terrible here. Okay. What's the matter? Is the chaos spawn have terrible shock? No. Who knows? Terribly traumatized this creature is like a million fucking hit. However, if you succeed the intellect test, you do gain one wrath. Well, just to make sure that's for all of us right now. Roll. No, just just you. It's psychers only. Yeah. You and it. Oh, I have an intellect of two. Wonderful. Yes. So you could roll six. And then if you want to roll the one side. All right. You just take one D three shock from all that shock you gained. I take it away. That's fine. But I'll still I'll still bring it back. Right. Right back. It's going to go. Okay. I. Yeah, it's going to go, which it will be the last action of the round. It's going to take its third action this round for those counting. And it's going to use its tentacular attack on you. You've made your inspiring speech. You've rallied the troops. People are moving around. Lauren has got it. And then these tentacles just burst out from the ground in front of you and come to swipe at you. Okay. Let's see what happens. Also, Thursday. Question. Okay. That initial attack where it wasted my ability to have confidence in myself for those mortal wounds. Yes. I could have fucking re-rolled them. I could have rolled the termination because of my funny button. Remember that next time. Good lord, I am terrible and I do not hate. Actually, wait, you're defense too, aren't you? Yeah, but it's a melee attack, is it not? Oh, that's right, so you've got your parry. I'm going to hit him with the cheetah's shuffle. I learned this technique. Wait, no, you don't even need to because it's it's wounded. You have a power sword which gives you plus one parry, plus one defense. Yeah, so you don't even need to do that. Unless Thurston feels the need to get back to the porch. Oh no, I'm going to save those. However, as we end this round, the party seems to be rallying against the awful creature. How about we take our break here and we'll come back? We'll be back in five minutes. Let's see if we survive. See you in about five. Don't go anywhere. See you next time in the Glitter Dome. Preserves. Just apricot preserves. That's pretty nice. But have you considered a compote? It's but it's like you can't use it for everything. I mean, but you could use it. Yeah, like I've had like oh, we have no jelly, so I'll have to get some apricot preserves. On fish? Well, not often on fish. I mean, I suppose you could eat that if you were like a psychopath. Look, I mean, Greenland shark is a it's an acquired taste. Yeah, we're already in enough jam as it is. I think you're just joking. Which one of you chuckle fucks is taking your action? I want to hurt you, so let's get back into this. I think I'll go. Yeah, let's let Pice Brain go do it. Pice Brain? Ah, fuck, I missed the joke. All right. I will take out this Terminator and I am going to charge. It's right beside you, so you can't charge it. Well, I'll leave and then come back. Oh, okay. Okay, I won't do that because I actually All right, fine. Then I suppose, hmm, all out attack. That'd be really funny, but it's always almost always a terrible idea. Ah, I'll just normal attack. Okay. Follow me, Oriath! I'm wondering how this thing was made. God. All right. That is going to be five successes. You will just hit with that. You can't shift any. Damn, that's rough. All right, I will I'm going to actually spend glory in the tank for an additional damage die here because this is a brutal weapon. All right, so let's roll it. God, that's sad. Oh, my gosh. Yes. You rolled a two. I did not roll very well. Wait, hold on. This is a brutal weapon after all. So it does slightly more damage than it looks like. Yeah, I know. I know! Oh, yeah. Okay, so you're right. It doesn't matter at all. Yeah, correct. All right, well, in that case, you can enjoy the somber lovely taste of 16 damage AP for. That's good, but still, like, it could have been so much better. It hurt. It's not looking good. You tear into the... As you were sawing through. And it looks like this thing, like, you can see even the holy sculpture on it almost glow along its metallic and crafted hull, giving off this holy aura as you saw into the side of this thing, watching the eyes and mouths and faces on its flesh shift out of the way as you dig into its horrific form. It will go. Okay, that's, like, its opinion. It is its opinion. It forms a wall of claws from every part of its being that dives straight towards you, each of them as though ripping apart and trying to tear you in tens of thousands of directions. Boop. A five, which I think... It does barely hit, yeah. Barely hit. He won't get to shift anything. I'll take that, then. Um... Yeah, I'll take that. We'll just go into damage. Okay. Damage. 16 and AP minus 4. Did the same thing back to you. Great. Well, that's fine, I guess. Jack keeps family wounded. I assume you already adjusted for him. Oh, oh, oh, no. Yeah, you're right, you're right. Okay, here, here, here. One sec. Here, I'll make... I'll make it worse, I guess. One, two, three, four, five. Mark me down a rune point. Oh, good. Chad, you're really funny, you know that? Thanks. I mean, they're just looking at us here. They're just looking out for me. Oh, look, two more, so I still can't shift any... Actually, no, I still can't shift anything. So we're good, we're good, we're good. All right, yeah, so that Mamma Mia Pteria, that is quite a spicy meatball. Let me just quickly calc how much I'm going to need to try to soak. All right, so that's 12 damage coming into me on my home address. Um, that's not great. We're going to roll some determination. Absolutely. All right, we can soak... We're going to soak five of it. Keep me on one shock. And that is going to... Oh, we're going to have to go to zero shock to be alive, I believe, because... Yeah, I need to go to zero shock to be alive. So I'm alive on one wound. Okay, and as you, like, cling desperately to life from this thing, I'm going to go to zero shock. I'm going to go to zero shock. I'm going to go to zero shock. I'm going to go to zero shock. I'm going to go to zero shock. I'm going to go to zero shock. It's like tearing apart. Its many mouths speak to you as it begins this rending attack. And you just again hear, this time not from the loudspeakers. This time it's coming from the mouths, from the hands, from the eyes, everywhere off of this thing. The metal man who must constantly prove himself, lest the priests of water be right in their assessment of your failings. Can you ever return home? Let's find out. counter attack yeah okay all right um this one i've already been hit if i get hit again i'm down um ah fuck it whatever we'll just make it a normal attack let's go eight there you go finally there we go there we go uh we will be able to shift three okay uh uh swell and dd dandy let's go for me all right those three are extra damage as well so that's going to be 16 plus 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 damage so 22 damage ap4 wait isn't that 16 damage and then plus two more because there's two you're right you're right you're right you're right right right yes i'm so sorry i didn't realize it was immediately calc'd in because i had to manually calc the threes and shit yes so it should be 18 my apologies cool cool , i don't mind if my attacks shit because like i'm not the damage dealer anyway but i'm gonna let me see here so if i were to a melee attack with one of the power the that power sword that i've since absconded with from the last session not the last session with the last area uh that would be a it would be minus four yes um because i'd be doing two additional actions right um no because you have a natural meta case so um i mean for the attack because doesn't it because i'm multi-actioning doesn't that reduce the just by two just by two you take it just yeah because you're doing two actions because move doesn't count oh so if i but you use i'm gonna do two metakays oh if you're gonna do two metakays then yes minus four yeah okay good just wanted to make sure uh in that case i'm gonna swing at it with that power sword at a minus four yeah okay so that's a bonus minus four let's see if it actually plays ball with it this time don't don't put the minus four on your stuff it's just increases it's basically the defense you're hitting so you don't have to make any modifiers okay that's fine uh i don't i mean whatever right yeah yeah five good okay yeah i will i will flail my power sword ineffectually because i'm not worried about that i'm going to now unnatural medical okay i guess what uh oh wait no he's not i'm not worried about that i'm going to now unnatural medicaid okay guess what uh wait no he's not жд okay guess what uh wait no he's not жд dying so it doesn't count uh i will medicaid pie yep unnatural medicaid uh two wounds to him with that good enough all right pie you're on your own i'm going to run over to good luck man when you move it does attack you fine i'm at full health uh it goes at you with with its mouth that comes out in a clump of flesh towards you and tries to bite you in the air question power sword out does that give me bonus plus one to your defense uh what does that put me at combat not enough uh what will it put you at it'll put me at four which will only mean i can shift two of these okay boop uh not reach resilience uh so 18 damage so let's see let me see here so armor for no ap no ap so it'll go down to 14 14 and so i will now roll determination terrific that's bad uh determination with three dice gets to me one so that's uh i can't take any shock actually never mind oh yes i can i'm at full shock so i'll take it to four four that's still too much i'm at zero uh yeah so it it basically like takes this massive bite at you as you try to disengage from it um like you can get the the the thought that it would like normally terry like try to hold you in place but it can't because it's doing it as a reaction in this case so you you just take this this like awful thing you stagger away and then basically fall prone um as as this is hit you um as as you take that it also does a trump or a memorable injury like again this thing like this bite almost sears your your right side like you feel almost like a burning acidic sense on where it has bit you in your side as you go skidding to the floor as you run away from it all right so what's the injury specifically uh just just basically like a bite mark but like it it feels like a burn and then you're like oh my god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die burn on your side chaos bite wound how was it received chaos spawn then the spawn will go no it won't because i'm going to interrupt unless lord wants to interrupt i had a question i was just going to try to catch oh sorry ask your question sorry ebb uh so since i can't reach zedek can i redirect that medicaid check to myself uh yes i will i will allow it sorry okay cool uh so you'll get a uh the difficulty just increases by one but honestly it's not going to matter much for you because you're mostly caring about the oh that's no good uh wow actually it does matter because we're in a hard complication now is not the time for this to be fucking up yep oh wow and you have like wow you guys are tapped on your points here yeah uh all right so you'll get one wound back as you try to uh try to medicate yourself um i get one point back but i complicate so why don't you tell me what that is the complication what's a what would be a good guy do you have any suggestions of how you might complicate here reeb any fun uh any fun patreon ones or uh no no no no i've not been using the fun patreon ones to build up some some good ones also because you know spoopy serious time for this arc um table why don't you just fuck me over and say i fail well i just why don't i just take one extra hit point of damage and it's like ah you you're healing yourself and then bleed out a bit from the wound on your side usually if you need help usually complications are an unfortunate circumstance of what you're doing so what we can probably say is that you are you're slowed because you stumbled or something and you know hurt your angle or something you could always yeah you know what i'll say that the complication is is you you still fall prone you get that the hit point back so you're not dying but like you still fall prone is literally literally as it bites me and i'm put into dying status yeah i feel myself before i hit the ground yes and then you land and you're like okay organ still in places um i'm not out of range of it but now i'm at one hit point all right uh and then i believe someone was interrupting correct yeah yeah so i think base zedek yeah so go forward zedek if you want to mark that glory down zedek sure what are you doing uh captain zedek's going to get closer to try and get as close as he can to reeb to try and defend him as he tries to get away get away from him you monster and zedek will lash out with his power arc our arc pistol i don't have you're you're not a melee with this my super power arc pistol super pistol super pistol kill gun okay okay okay absolutely it's gonna it's coming yeah it's not coming it's a super roll it's a super roll i probably should re-roll that you also do manage to parry off the attack from the tendrils that were still in front of you yeah i should probably re-roll this uh but but it kind it kind of messes you up with your shot so you you could re-roll if you want if you want to spend that last wrath point although we did get some glory i could spend some glory i mean i'll allow it party i feel like i'm gonna spend some glory i'm gonna spend some glory i'm gonna spend some i feel like um keeping the glory on top is probably more important i agree all right i'm gonna wrap it let's let's do it let's do it take that last wrath point captain zedek here we go shot six it's gonna hit yep let's go it's gonna be 16 damage nice yeah it's like it's crackling this thing is just wailing and thrashing about you can see it's almost lost like half of its mass is just like it's just like it's just like it's just like it's just like it's just like it's just struck into it um it is not looking uh like healthy anymore it's not looking confident it's wailing it's it's it's thrashing against its material bodies uh like boundaries here i'm sorry am i able to make a i think i did my simple action already i think my my colleagues could benefit from a little healing word yeah that's correct i'll i'll i'll allow your your your witty as long as you amuse me with it i didn't think of a pun beforehand usually i have these on tap yeah i know it's not fucking failures oh fuck let's keep this battle electrifying i don't know figure something out spawn like ah let's this battle is going to chaos i don't know you can go back to whatever mouth of hell you crawled out of you nasty all of its eyes you and are disappointed um brawls is a deuce yeah yeah yes i see you too and i'm not interested roll your fellowship but you're reducing the total by two i don't know saying nasty wasty did make me laugh don't do no minus two roll ecstatic minus three it'll take no less jeez you restore nothing and make god have mercy that's not true oh wait oh fuck you no i restore one wait no it's two because minus two and i get plus rank oh yes so it's technically four two you restore two okay oh my god you shot back boys we're back in the game ah that'll that's nasty wasty boy nasty that's all i got it's going again all right let's see what the nasty wasty boy does oh its eyes are still on pi brain hey use that use that like a couple hit points i gave back to you or whatever i'm gonna try god damn it um it is it is like unleashing a torrent of psychic energy as all of the eyes and grasping hands begin to glow with spectral light and seem to act like this thing is a focusing lens of the warp into you pi brain oh fuck ah that will be a seven um let's see here um fuck it i'm gonna spend a rune point on this mark me down one please that was your last one it is my last one um there we go okay too good um it goes in and and begins to sear into your stall doing d3 plus one mortal wounds to you by brain so take three mortal wounds ah can i uh soak with the determination nope they're mortals ah i'm down okay so that puts you dying yes Okay, also give me a conviction test. Difficulty three. I... I'm going to spend two glory on this conviction test. Take it. Go for it. Six. Okay, you hold your conviction against the pure warp light that is streaming into you as you feel it going through not only your corporeal body, but your machina essence, your code that supports the various parts of your body. Okay, I believe that brings us to a lorn. Yes. Okay. I'm trying to calculate all the garbage that I have gone, because I'm sustaining two powers right now. Yes. So the sustaining two will give you a plus two, because you can sustain one for free with the thing you took. There's just a plus two difficulty to do the thing. And I feel it is now, and the main reason to do Deny to Witch, because basically if I did it then, then I wouldn't be able to damage this thing, but even if saving him, it still would totally mess him up. So it's a combination of like, I'm just going to stand here the entire encounter kind of deal. All right. So I have to make a decision. Do I do crush or molten beam? Because I'm thinking molten beam, because the issue with crush is that I'm pretty sure this thing has the strength to basically break out of it immediately. So I'm not going to mess with that. So, so molten beam is going to be the thing. Here we go, boys. Fire your molten bean. Fire the bean, fire the bean, bean, bean, bean, bean. We have beans inbound. Beans? You just want to be a going to do, you'll basically see. Tactical bean inbound. You'll basically see small Lauren basically come up, bring his, bring his hands together with his new found body that he has now acquired. And then you'll hear him go call me on me. And then you'll basically see him go. And I rolled an eight. That should be all the things. Can you roll me 2d6, please? 2d6 it goes. Oh, 65. Okay, no, no, no. So you get another wrath on that. So you actually get a 10 against it. Excellent. Which would allow you to shift the two. No problem if, or for potency, I suppose. Yeah. So one more additional damage die, I will be rolling. If I remember correctly, because we had to edit this so many times. And then we will roll a die mod. What? What? Oh, it will be 20. Yeah. I also would like to pump, if it's okay with everybody, at least two glory into it to do two more additional damage. That's fair. Yeah. Do it up. There we go. So it is in total 22 points of damage. Now you have to go run and a ginormous fiery beam goes forth to him. It hits it in its back, searing it. And like instinctively, all of the eyes come off of Pipe Brain. And rotate around towards you, though they're now moving around erratically. This thing is very rapidly reducing, reducing, reducing. There's this, there's this moment of, of like panic from this entity now, as you can see it. It's, it's holding on with every little bit to its corporeal existence, but it is still alive. And it's going to take its third action for the round. And it's third action. Fire the beam. Um, well, it used its claws. It's going to burst up a cluster of tentacles, uh, as it's now, like, focused its, like, eyesight on Lorne. It's bursting up a cluster of tentacles at Pipe Brain. Ah! Uh, he's dying. To try to finish him off. As they emerge and begin to just descend on you, Pipe. As this thing has, has already ripped you and seared you with psychic energy. Mm. Uh. I believe that fails. Yeah. I rolled a five for audio people. Yeah. So. Yeah! Ah! Because your defense with you act, wait. Yeah. Your defense right now is what? Uh, it should be five. You don't have your sword out, though. Oh, shit. No. In that case, it does equal my defense then. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, and then... Le Damage. Does ten points of damage. Uh. What? It's not that bad. Like, a wound. Uh, well, I am at no wounds, which is bad, but I do have, uh, Determination, Outer Wazoo. Do you have any shock left? Yes. Okay. He has lots of shock. Good. Oh, I don't have lots, but I have enough to take that. So I take one shock. Okay. Perfect. Um. Ah! Ah! Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That, uh, that... You are a monster! You can't hurt me in a way that matters! The tentacles are just moving around you, slapping and, like, slithering around your mechanical form, but that is it for the third round. We now come to the fourth round. Who would like to go first? I will probably take it at the top of the round, being at the center of the blast zone. Would you prefer that I heal you instead? No, because then he'll act, and he can wipe out what you heal me for. Okay. So if he, if he, uh, whaps me, then I'm... If I get hit with a... What are your options, exactly? Because you are dying, and you're in melee, so if you try to leave, he'll get you any. Well, I'm not going to... Pi never leaves melee. Okay. She stays in it until someone falls down. If you try to attack him, then it'll be his turn where he hits you. Well, the thing is, is that if I attack him and then he uses his turn to fuck off, then, uh, and also if he hits me, then I get the counterattack off, whereas if he leaves on his turn and then hits me, then it's harder. I'm trying to optimize damage! Your, your assumption is that it will try to leave. It might. I don't know. Can I, can I please just heal you? At least often. Wouldn't that require you to, wouldn't that require you to get within range of a tentacle, and then get fucking bapped again? I have enough hit points I can go into dying again. You said that before. You went into dying. I don't want you to die. I don't want you to die. Listen, dying is just the step you take before you die. That doesn't make it feel better! It's better than dying. If you would like, I will allow you to heal me, since I don't want you to sit on your hands. And it might save my ass. Thurston? Yes? How many Medicaid actions can I take in a turn? You can only Medicaid a person once. It, Medicaid is kind of like- I don't want to save a person, I mean like, multiple. Oh, as many as you want. Everyone increases the difficulty. You can unnatural, your unnatural, uh, talent, like, somewhat reduces that. But, um. I don't, cause based on the wording of unnatural Medicaid, it doesn't dictate that, uh, if I'm able to use it multiple times, uh, Medicaid multiple times. When using the test with the selected skill, reduce any difficulty modifiers by double your rank. It says two against zero. So double my rank? Yeah. So that would be six. Yes. So you could do up to six without any penalties on the Medicaid, yeah. So I, so I, I really can just do three with no penalty. Yes. Now the problem is, is you can't like, like, you can move Watts and do, like, so you could Medicaid yourself, move, Medicaid. If there were two people adjacent, you could like, Medicaid yourself, move, Medicaid, Medicaid, which is totally okay. But aren't I next to Zedek right now? Hm? I'm next to Zedek? Yeah, you are. You are actually next to Zedek. That is correct. Then I would like to Medicaid him, Medicaid me, run Medicaid Pi. Absolutely. Cool. Do it up. All right, folks. Here the fuck we go. It's time for this fun thing to happen. Uh, you're not dying, right? No. Okay. So I will just heal you normally. Oh, that's right. I was dying last time. I didn't add two. Oh, well. That's okay. Uh, Medicaid you for seven. Oh, thank you. So you get, well, you get, you get, you get, you get, you get, you get, you get, you get, you get, you get a... Well, not seven total. Seven hitpoints, but I get a seven on the tomorrow. So you'll get two hitpoints back Zedek. Good enough. Okay. Or two wounds. Two wounds. I am also not dying. Thank you Qara, I appreciate your existence. I'm going to Medigame myself... ...for a five on that test, so that's one, I think. Yep. Fine enough, that puts me at two hit points. Good. Then rush over to the, the broken down Pi brain. Again. sprinting over there i'm i'm not i'm not in melee range going out i'm going into melee range is that okay absolutely i mean is it a problem uh no no no no it's like you can move into melee and do your thing okay play brain he gets two because of courage and toolkit uh how much shock do you have one can i stim him as well as medicaid uh that would be another action okay so like theoretically yes because you tech oh wait no that would be another action then i would have then i would have then you'd have penalties yeah yeah no so in that case i roll medicaid on you you get 10 and a glory so you get five wounds back uh you get more than that because i had oh because you no no no no remember it's it's three and then it's only based on the shifts oh only the shifts yeah yeah so it's it's five you get the one and then the numbers there you can shift berndale if it couldn't make anything more perfect that was the dulcet tones of the struggle bus passing by yeah all right yeah i'm fine with this action honestly unnatural medicaid has already paid for itself multiple times over so that was very much that was quite nice yeah he's the healer all right uh i'm gonna go yeah no you're not i'm gonna wrap up oh okay cool all righty i would love to do the stupid charge thing but sadly my charge food doesn't work here you can't charge in melee yeah so in that case i will just attack once more with the sermonizer oh good three really that's that's it please currently not hit oh my god i can't i don't have wrath i can use glory oh yeah i got a wrath yeah let's not do that please oh shit the eight so i clicked it twice so yes okay i'll shift the two sure and i'm going to you know what this guy's on death's door right i mean maybe he looks very weak now like he looks like he's struggling to maintain his form you know i keep asking as though you're gonna yeah okay i'm just gonna use four glory to get the brutal like that's the thing i do with basically so how wounded are you player character like i feel like a two out of fourteen yeah two out of fourteen all right let's go oh my god that's cool that's cool it's still good it's like you continue to sign to it it's good but still look at all those tiny bad numbers i know wow what the hell i'm curious it is struggling to hold on to everything that would be 18 yep struggling it's still around damn kill it let me get him let me get him oh he's gonna attack um he's gonna go uh because you can't interrupt twice in a row so oh wait can i i have a question what can i as a simple action after that attack stow my eviscerator and take out my power sword um so that would that would kind of cheapen that wouldn't it i yeah yeah probably yeah yeah then you could just do that every turn and you're right i haven't really been you for like drawing weapons at all this combat immediately immediately i went immediately to like the fucking warhammer 40k competitive play mindset of like people that would use that to say stuff so no no the answer is no and response i'm going to hit you both speaker yes that line of thinking is just whack i'm gonna get you i'll get you bitch you can all increase your shock by two he regained that penalty from earlier with that yeah i'm shocked a natural shit poster let's get it um and then i am going to uh hit both of uh you um this will your defense will go up by two for each of these but he is clawing into both of you with a multi-attack reeb and uh reeb and um pie brain starting with pie brain amber his wounded condition yep uh it doesn't matter over that much for him well it wouldn't be enough to only shift two yes which i will do so 16 hard work why don't you well i will go over again now wait what i wasn't坏 but let's just spend time on the safe end the safe end has been fully dealt with you have been millones with me um let's not talk about it that is not great for me part because it imbedded everything wait to die in fact it's only going to last very long that it is already long enough to kill you okay uh uh and reeb as it does this all of its eyes is like focused on you and it just speaks in this again voice that is now like gasping like it's it's struggling like oh one who always speaks with the voices of others and yet cannot is cannot find his own authority do you even know who you truly serve and it like attempts to slash out towards you um uh so let me let me ask the question here so i'm up by two it's down by how much it's down by one because it's wounded and i have my power sword out so what's yeah what's your base defense my base is three so that'd be plus two so that puts me at six that fails uh wait your base is three you get plus one for your power sword so four yep plus two because multi-attack uh yes correct yes correct and it does anything it's wounded yep so it does miss you um all right and i will figure out a but make your counter attack because this might not this might not be a big deal yeah also complicated i can't do that all right let's go five five weapon gets stuck um five that will just hit this oh wait you're using the sermonizer aren't you yes so that will miss because you take the additional penalty because it's the unwieldy what if i spent some glory i mean you certainly can well then let's uh you guys i'd be terribly offended if i spent the rest of the glory making sure this thing's not gonna hit i would be offended yes yes i'll allow you to take like two or three okay i'll take three that yeah no we we are judging you now oh no that'll skadoodle your dices now three oh oh that's right that's good enough that'll hit yes a total a glorious total of nine all right well you get to shift anything uh you can shift one lovely yes all right this one's gonna do it well oh god fine so uh it doesn't a piece of what it does it you tear this thing down the middle with your weapon however do you remember all the possessed you've fought on this ship before yeah what happens yeah murdered all of those it's kind of a lot of fun it's kind of a lot of fun it's going to blow up i know yes yes that's why i stayed away and the brazilian stuff um the only ones in range for this will be reeb and zedek or sorry reeb not zedek fuck you zedek theric energy washes over you pybrain is fucking fine um this is a kind of brutal explosion my apologies in advance um can i kind of like do some fucking falco bullshit and throw my refractor field out to guard somebody oh sorry i did that wrong okay what are you talking about i don't i don't understand smash i don't know how he does the shield thing that's just bullshit four uh okay so that will deal 14 points of damage to both ap no no way as this thing explodes in a blast of warp light so i have eight resilience and four so that's so i got i take 10 damage i guess i'll i guess i'll termination okay uh terrific uh i can take one that i take nine nine wounds okay yeah i'm at zero and i'll be taking five wounds chet is saying something about a dm complication okay people really get really antsy on this stuff it complicated and the weapon got stuck oh on the slide oh cool yeah yeah sorry sorry the weapon got stuck there but then he blew up so that that was it we we already resolved that uh gm i got a really unfortunate question to ask you how much can i go from alive to dead or do i have to go from dying to dead i know you go from alive to dead basically what happens is is you go from alive to dead and then if you take damage while you are dying um then that increases the severity of injuries you take no i mean i meant like can i go what is the threshold for dying again oh i think it's like double your starting wounds or something oh shit i think so let's find out i think it's yeah if you get uh hit with like so like i have eight right so if i uh accounting for resilience took 16 damage yes uh then i would just instantly die yeah um yeah here's the problem i was at one hit point yeah no no it's your maximum it's not your what your current is yeah you're fine you're fine no but like i took nine yeah what's your what's your total wounds though eight yeah i would have to do 16 to kill you to die i'm just done good so you're you're you're you're just dying now which is usual dying as usual uh my brain um you will take damage but you're already dying correct yes yeah so i take five damage i could soak for more but um so instead you you're gonna take a traumatic nebulous sometimes okay uh so this explosion will do a traumatic injury as this warplane blasts over you like an explosion uh hitting you in the torso both of them um which this is a severe injury that stays with you um it crushes your chest your any of your human organs that are still in there including your mechanical support are crushed any toughness tests you take from now on have a plus one difficulty penalty minimum do i not take any of that you don't because you you just go into dying so you take basically like a memorable injury which in your case is going to be you get a battle scar like you just get a scar from this whereas pie has now taken he's already taken his memorable injury this is the traumatic injury as your your chest plate is just indented from this blast and then there is the the screams of thousands of voices that then just echo and then you're like oh my god i'm gonna die i'm gonna briskly get out of here engage attendants anyway how one piece does well forейчас so i just want to open that hair basket yeah could you please make a talk down the inside positions in the bedroom and stop leaving you alone in the strategium that is now bereft of anyone else sprout i rush i rush forward as this i'm going the pie you haven't seen the thing explode running towards him better go past him and go down to rave and go rave rave rave and go reap okay please no don't encourage him to become general grievous please uh but yes lord you rush to read you rush to read i don't think there's any way i can actually help them unless you're gonna allow me to do regeneration uh no no no no but you don't need to like at this point you're out of combat like it's not like they're bleeding out or anything now that the immediate threat is is reeb can essentially just like medicay uh out of combat some of you back up but there's no immediate threat so like reeb can get up he's he's wounded uh but he's not like going to continue to die at this point i am i have finally accrued two memorable injuries and it's really funny excellent good yeah i help up and i didn't walk over to piberry and help him up captain zedek will have rushed over to pi to save this poor dying lad you magnificent bastard you can't you can't leave us that easily i will not but i do need space because my internals are satisfied it's not great i can see that reeb in a minute oh god you're still alive hello medicay yes of course just gonna stick your thumb in your mouth and pop the vents back out uh yeah you'll get a wound back which is all you can do out of combat like that that's fine for me uh will you go over to pi and attempt to okay let's see about fixing some of this no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no oh oh yeah oh i was dying so excuse me for sticking lorn as this is going on okay loren as this is going on you notice something floating in the air near whoa cheesem uh yeah i'll get that role in this lot floating in the air though right where that that creature used to be is this like maybe inch rip in reality. This bit of unlight that floats there. I need to see it floating in the air. Would I know anything of it? You could tell that this is some kind of etheric phenomenon. You could try to sinuscience it if you want. I would like to. Yeah, yeah. And while you're doing that, just to relay it for everyone, Reeb rolled a 12 on a Medicaid check to heal Pi, so we'll heal Pi five wounds back. He's also dying, so you get two extra, right? Yeah. Let me roll that. Okay. Yeah. I pull out the Inquisitorial Ding King and fix the damage. Ding, ding, ding, ding. You're still having difficulty breathing, Pi. This is really, like, again, long-term damage to your internal... Come on, again. And, and, and, Lorne, yeah, with your sinuscience, you complicate now. Sinuscience before chat worries. You can't complicate sinuscience. So, all you can really tell is that there is, like, a small fracture in real space. This could have long-term repercussions if you, like, fucking stayed around here way, way too long, but right now it's just this stable tear. Could I try to... potentially take some time and repair it, knowing... because I suspect if I leave this alone, it could really tear even more and cause some really bad juju, possibly absorbing the entire ship? Absolutely. So, so that would be, that would be, like, a longer-term psychic mastery, where you would, like, do some stuff. Now, since we're getting into some, like, longer-term, the, obviously, the immediate threat seems to be abated at this point. So... the Medicaid's done. I'm getting the impression, Lorne, you want to spend some time working on this. Absolutely. Seems like there might be a time crunch with this. Seems like there might be a time crunch overall. What are the rest of you doing? And I'm going to start with you, Pybrain. What are you going to do after you kind of get the immediate wounds out and have a chance here? All right. I will be holstering my eviscerator, which has served me well, but I have seen merits of the Muri, and technology as well. I am going to then, after making sure my shit is reloaded in case another thing attacks, I am going to head to the Kachatator, and by the Messiah, I will gain access. You will not deny a priest of the Mechanicants! Basically, long-term work on that. Perfect. Reeb, what are you going to be doing? Reeb is going to make sure that no one is watching him, if that's possible, just, like, letting everyone do about their business, and he's going to slink away to the command console, probably the one that would, like, direct the ship. Like, go over to the throne, which is, you know, back to everyone so you could get there and people wouldn't really notice. Precisely. Yeah. I'm going to see about maybe plotting a collision. Of course. With what? You know, the funny other ship that is threatening us with its big guns. Okay, okay, okay. Perfect. You're going to go to Captain Zedek. Captain Zedek will be, I suppose, helping Kai get to the console, since he's greatly concerned about this poor dying Skitarii. And possibly looking for anything to bring back the deck collector. Or salvage from this horrible, horrible ship on their way out. Trophies! Absolutely. Alright, so what we're going to do is we're going to start in the order I think most appropriate here. We'll start with Pybrain and Captain Zedek as you were, like, madly, uh, Pybrain trying to get command of the ship in some way, shape, or form. I believe your secondary that you'd previously stated was you were trying to find any, like, information on DaFuckerB and, uh, his involvement on this ship. Yeah, we came here to find out what's going on with that guy, and I'm going to unravel this conspiracy if it kills me! Absolutely! Give me a, uh, give me a tech check. And, uh, Hulky is going to give you a, uh, just a flat plus two bonus to this from his assistance. Oh, nice! Inspiring words. Alright. I'm going to spend two, uh, glory on this as well, since this is quite important. I believe. Alright. Alright. Uh, nine successes. And a complication. Absolutely. Alright. You are not able to, as you guessed, gain command of the ship. And, in fact, your attempts to do so have initiated several, like, high-security lockdown procedures as you've tried to brute force. Because I believe your tech use is very similar to your combat style. Uh, brutal and upfront. Yeah, he is confrontational. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so you are, you are not quite able. And, in fact, you, you trigger some stuff which might have some, some consequences down the line for, like, Reeb, who is trying to do some things. Uh, but you do find some, some information on one Sleherbergo de Fakrby, the 24th of his name. Ah, good. What you are able to determine, uh, is that this vessel, the Carillon, had rendezvoused with an Adeptus Arbidus, this security station, on its way back from its latest mission of, again, sort of preaching the word of the Emperor to the masses at the edges of his space. There, they were requisitioned by ambassadorial authority to transport de Fakrby and his associates along their path back to the Fimbria system. Shortly after picking up de Fakrby, the vessel was attacked by Eldari Corsairs. However, those Corsairs were beaten back since the vessel was already reaching the, the mandible point and able to translate into the warp. Uh, the records of that indicate that it was a very, very brief skirmish, only a few borders, made it on board, they were cleaned up. You, in fact, see that all of the Xenos, uh, influence on the vessel was removed with a citation of a malfunctioning door between the Medicaid facility and the Strategium, which was something that was marked to be fixed once they went into dry dock. This also correlates as to Lieutenant Arnaud's position because whilst you could open it from your side, the door was not accessible from the other side. So, you detect all of this, learn all of this. The Carillon then translated into the Fimbria system. It then made its way towards Fimbria Majoris. Along the way, Slaburgo de Fakrby and his cohorts decided to requisition one of the vessel's two shovels. There's complete logging of this. The shuttle departed and made its way out of the ship. Roughly 30 minutes after the shuttle departed, the captain executed a warp jump without raising the Geller fields within the system. The translation into the warp lasted approximately 30 seconds to a minute before the ship retranslated back into real space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I have very good news. I no longer need an excuse to murder Tevhakavi. Now we can just do it. As this is going on, Reeb, you are going to try to plot a course with this vessel, is that correct? Yes, what do I have to roll for that? What skill are you looking to- I'm assuming you want to try out some sort of tech thing. I am no captain of any ship. I'm looking to- we have no crews to help dedicate anything. I presume I can have control of the ship from this panel, would be my guess. It is a situation where as you're looking at it, you would still need access codes that you don't have. What can I do from this panel? You can give me a tech check to find out. I'll give you a four, is that sufficient? You're not able to get any kind of control. You're not able to remove an Imperial vessel with a four on tech. But you are able to tell now that Pybrain has locked out all of the command functions with his brute force's attempts at hacking. You're also seeing the spatial grid around the Carillon and the basic Auspex sweeps. And you can see the vessels, the Marengo in the distance, and then opposite the debt collector. But you also see some small pings that are now moving from- From the Marengo towards your position. Can... Hmm. I wonder if this is a stupid idea or not. Can I look into any sort of store- Like, I can't obviously direct the ship, because I don't have control access to that. Correct. What... I'm not going to shoot the weapons. I want to know, what is the ammunition like on this ship? It looks like it's actually very minimal. There were some weapon batteries. And, like, a Prowl torpedo launcher. The torpedoes appear to be out, and some of the weapon batteries are damaged. But you do not have any access. Well, not to the weapons. Can I have access to the ammunition storage? You can detect that there's some ammunition there, but, like, you don't have any access. Again, like, this... Imperial ships do have enough basic stuff to prevent someone from getting on the bridge and, like, very quickly, you know, detonating ammo. Right. But you're now seeing this, like... The biggest thing you're getting with your tech check is something is now pinging towards you. Gentlemen, it appears the Marengo has had enough of our idling and is now sending individuals to come and check on us, or is likely sending torpedoes to destroy the ship. I cannot tell, because certain someone has been hammering his head on a control console. You're welcome. Oh, that's bad. Let's talk to Lorne real quick. Lorne! Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I sure can. Yeah. I have no wrath time, so that's a five. Okay, yeah. A five is enough for you to get a handle on this tiny breach. You're not quite able to close it, but you're like, Sort of moving your hands in ways to feel the ether around this and sense the presence of the imiterium. This is like warp taint. This is not a good weird in your eyes. This is an ominous thing. A danger I detected as. I will basically sit cross-legged and begin to basically meditate and highly concentrate on this rift. As everybody else does their thing. Yeah, so like, I think cinematically how this is playing out is you're obviously getting this sense early on while Pi Brain is working on his cogitator console, Reebs at the command, Deus, Zedek's helping out Pi. As you start to see what's going on, you sit down and enter this meditation. Your eyes are open and everything around you gets still. We don't really hear any words from anyone around you, though you can see, that Reeb has now got up off the throne that is shouting there is pointing between Pi and Reeb. Clearly a continuation of their discussion of the lockout of command systems. So you don't hear any of that. You are like, the camera's taking your perspective and zooming in on this tiny little slit in reality. And you are attempting to blot out the shouts and gesticulations of your comrades as you stare at this. This little pinprick of unlight that floats where once this horrific abomination was. And as you focus, everything becomes clear. Everything seems right. And then you hear, oh, hi there. I didn't think I'd see you guys again. Oh, you son of a bitch. It's you. The fuck are you doing here? Well, you know, that's a funny story. I'm Sean, by the way. It's been a while. I know who the fuck you are. You should probably get out of there. I'm seeing some of the ripples and I think you're getting shot with torpedoes. And I kind of like you and hope you can make it out there. Good. Well, if you like us so much, I'm insane what you've been capable of doing. Then how about you bring us back to our ship? Oh, I can't do anything like that. I mean, you'd have to wish me there. Do you wish me there? Oh, Lord, who are you talking to? I look back at him. I look back at the scenario. I'm sure everything's still deaf because we're just kind of closed in. How? Like at this point, you've kind of like you've kind of taken yourself out of the trance and you can see like Reeb and Pi at this point, I assume Reeb and Pi are like up and just shouting. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I look at you and I'm like, How are you here to manage to lock him? You always complain, you know, you're in a poison. I'll go find the access codes. You're the tech priest. Unlock it. Well, we get check, priests make the security system. I find the security code. I was really hoping you would tell me if the torpedoes were like getting real close and what the torpedoes are. That'd be pretty neat. We don't know what they are, we don't know. So do you, do you say that? Like, do you say that aloud? and i go the fuck is that over there tell me what is coming oh i think he's gotten insane again what's going on what is something approaching i went back into the demon obviously abandoning like yeah you're now you're now staring and like before you meditated to make this conversation much like pie brains tactics you are now brute force using your psychic powers to make this conversation continue in a non-meditating state in fact like it's almost like you're reaching into that tiny slit and slightly opening it with your psychic form just to like allow conversation to happen uh and and you just hear hear the voice come back to you uh in your mind oh yeah looks like they're making their way i mean it might take an hour or two i don't know if you'll have enough time to get out of there you might though what do you mean might well if you ran i mean i i don't know how fast you can move you might be able to make it through the ship we go hmm it's like i'm like i'm yelling at a bucket to come back out going hey did we turn the power to the tram oh yeah yeah okay cool later nerd i close the warp thing and go we gotta go those are torpedoes as you the rift closed like okay bye good luck i do not how do you know the torpedoes what's going on it's what fucker i just know we need to fucking leave let's go i get like i i imagine i wouldn't know where the tram is and everything else i fucking run wait wait and then i'm gonna press download and i'm just gonna download a copy of that video footage onto my computer and i'm gonna go to my computer and i'm gonna go to my computer and i'm gonna go to my computer and i'm gonna go to my computer and i'm gonna go to my computer and i'm gonna go to my computer and i'm gonna go to my computer and i'm gonna say yeah absolutely just one two okay now okay now like as like lauren okay we're gonna we're gonna go cinematic here because i didn't describe it earlier i'm imagining minds of style of just fucking running uh here's what's gonna happen first of all the doors of the strategium are closed but lauren even though i technically should have indicated that the the mutation wore off at the end of the car it hasn't and in fact you come to these doors and with with your allies still taking their time your strongest member pi brain focusing on the terminal you even with your strength of two rush the door in an attempt to open it you go boom and like as you you like grab with your your like even larger than a starty's bulk uh into the door frame and pull the two doors these two immense golden uh frames as you do so this energy this this mutation is leaving your body and you you are slowly like losing the muscle mass you are you are losing that size but you push and push and push until the doors both go flying off slamming into their side outcomes you fall down back to your original size breathing heavily as you have used the last of that horrific warp taint and excised it from your body in one display of physical prowess and then everyone else starts running up to you as you make your way towards the tram we gotta go go go go go go go go go i internally thinks that was really impressive i guess he must have found a button all right let's go yeah like you you're you're all like running and and we see this sort of lumen flickering as you make your way through that that gilded hall uh with the murals of the emperor you make your way down the stairs you you get into the tram as you do so you can see in the distance hordes and this time the horde is numbering possibly in the hundreds some of them with weapons others not but but they're so far away they can't even shoot you from here as you rush into the tram uh and and activate it sending it careening down the spinal side of the vessel and as it is moving you feel the first shudders of impact on the carillon um and and the lumens of the ship and as you are moving down this tram that is taking its way uh bringing you to the to the rear of the ship where your shuttle awaits you get these flashes of light that display these horrifically possessed moaning masses that are turning and reaching towards you before disappearing as as the tram just zips by and eventually it docks at the opposite end of the station giving you only a few moments of reprieve and you can tell that all of the the awful abominations that had been in the aft of the ship where you'd encountered them had stopped and you were able to get out of the ship and you were able to get out of the ship and you were able to get out of the ship and you were able to get out of the ship and you were able to get out of the ship and you were able to get out of the ship and you were able to get out of the ship and you started to move towards the front in an effort to reach you so now the back of the vessel is bereft of anything well this would be an excellent time to marvel the architecture if we didn't have to get the fuck out of here let's go i'm gonna go a hop on top of my brain's back and tell him to go i carry the lorne i'll throw it i need to we are all running you you continue running you continue running you enter into the into the shuttle bay another shuddering you're shaking the vessel you can even see the stars starting to move you hear the sounds of explosive detonations uh far from behind you as something has clearly struck the prow of the vessel uh you see your arvis lighter there waiting for you i'm tapping zedek on the shoulder with my staff on that contact contact the boy contact the boy on the ship of the thing that start the engines start the engines we need it let me have that thing revved up and ready to go there's no point there's just a server there's just a server that we already the engine zedek raises wrist up to his mouth servitor turn the ship on we've gotta go now the servitor responds go go go get to the shuttle tech priest gamu 4224 has indicated that there are additional problems i grab zedek's like wrist and yell and going i don't give a fuck what who says we're going and then just slam his wrist and i and i and i whip pie brain in the back going faster faster i'm gonna get on all fours i'm just gonna be jumping over terrain crawling over it with my claws at the ready we're going yeah and like all of this is happening in like the camera sort of does this parallel shot of you running through the deck and like opposite is just the like downed form of one of the cherubs that has fallen on the ground and we we see you and we're like oh my god we're going to die we're going to die we're going to die we're running through the shuttle bay from one of its cracked eye lenses your reflections of all of you boarding the back of the shuttle and we see the debris raining from the top of the vessel uh as as it's now taking massive structural damage and as soon as you get it um i'm assuming captain zedek you are pushing that servitor you're like you can't trust this to a servitor you're going in yourself you're putting your piloting to the test here is that right of course i'm gonna deck that servitor just basically kill it as a push get out of the way i don't need you yeah you you take that that half living being and just disconnected get in the pilot see check everything give me a piloting test that i totally think you can do i believe in you captain and if you fail then we all die captain zedek you have this moment you see like you jump slide in push the servitor down get the get the shuttle revving you you take off and again all of this is kind of happening in this like monocle reflection of one of the cherubs that's staring and we see the shuttle take off and its engines go and shoot you out into the void and as you fly off into the void one of the struts of the the landing bay completely collapses and we see the the impacts now from from the shuttle outside the vessel as torpedoes waves of torpedoes are smashing smashing into the front of the ship and the damage is rippling through its spine the vessel is shuddering your your shuttle is making its way far out from this vessel captain zedek you can you can see it now as as it is exploding fire rippling across it it's its entire bow waving and weaning and then in a single moment something strikes a critical system a weapons a reactor it's impossible to tell but there is there is a there is a brief new sun that explodes into being for just a moment luckily the arvis is equipped with with visual dampeners that protect all of you but there's just this massive flash of light and then this sound as your shuttle is rocked and as this is happening and you are hearing and experiencing this you you you then hear this cry this this scream of something that has existed for eons and seconds at the same time that washes over you before the carillon is no more and you are flying in space mission accomplished uh another happy landing you got the landing well yeah lauren i knew that ship is horrible it knew it was we were in there it hadn't it knew it was we were in there it hadn't it knew it was we were in there it hadn't reason to fire torpedoes at it, especially if they were going to salvage it. I don't know. Suggest you hail the debt collector, for I fear that we might have to battle fairly soon. Instinctively, Captain Zedek, as Lorne puts these thoughts in your mind, you check the aspects of the Arvis, which are basic, but give you some idea of the tactical overview, and you can see the vessel, the Marengo, that has started to break off and is moving away. Captain Zedek will hail the debt collector. Hello, Captain. Or did you make it? Is everyone all right? We're all here. We have to prepare the Medicaid. Yes, yes, prepare the Medicaid. Okay. But the dear Captain LaCroix. LaCroix has decided that our mutual engagement is no longer mutual. Please ready weapon batteries and fire upon the fleeing Marengo. Captain, they're well out of range. If we fire, it'd strictly be, well, at this point, just a just a ceremonial display. We need better guns. I need to kill that damn ship. It's okay. It's okay. We live. We live. We live. We live. We live. We live. I'm going to put my hand on Zedek's shoulder. Zedek. Yes, spy. You were one of the only people not to be at all startled at the sight of that terrible creature. And it was thanks to your leadership we were able to prevail. You have always been a friend to this servant of the Mechanicus. And I will see to it that if we are ever able, I will do everything I can to help you. I will do everything I can to help you. I will do everything I can to help you. everything in my power to make sure you get what you need for the debt collector. I embrace him further. I will make sure you get a big zappy gun, a big, big ship, big, big one. Woo big! And as you shout out woo big and embrace, Zedek, you land the lighter on the embarkation deck of the debt collector. The back door hisses open. What are you all gonna do now? Captain Zedek's gonna return Pie's embrace with one of those manly, like, power handshakes and just, like, grapple his hand and just let him know, like, I owe you a debt too, Piebrain. As a friend of mine, you have proven yourself time and again. I owe you far more and we will, you will get that tech priest status you have always, signed for. One way or the other, you will show those people, I think they're people, on Lemuria, what for. Well, you're right. And I am already a tech priest, but you're right! Sure, whatever. You can share whatever, I don't believe you. Uh, GM? Yes? Because I didn't necessarily get to talk about it when we were on the strategium. If, after Pie and Zedek, like, break off, can Zedek just, like, look down and see whatever he managed to pilfer from the strategium in terms of a trophy or some kind of, then it all goes in, like, a heirloom cabinet in his quarters of just reminders of the terrible things they've done or seen. I will say that during that fight, a chunk from the plasma blasts that were flying, I will say a chunk of the back of the throne fell off and was, like, this, this, this imperial saint who seemed to be well-preserved. Like, this chunk of gold displaying an imperial saint that's maybe, like, eight inches of gold. Awesome. That will look nice in the case next to the crappy little crown I got from the divine lord of war. Absolutely. So the shuttle has docked, and you've returned to your embraces. Are you all going to... Where are you all going? Let's start with Pybrain. What are you off to do? Or are you going to all head to the strategium as a group? What's the plan here? Well, we should probably actually figure out the situation before we break off on our own. Let us see what's going on with the strategium. Yeah, that's where I'm going. I agree. Let's debrief. So basically, all of you get off as a group. Yeah. Okay. So all of you get off as a group, and you begin heading off towards the strategium. However, our camera does not follow you. Instead, it stays on the lone shuttle in the shuttle bay as diligent crew members rush out. They rush out to begin cleaning the arvus and spraying it down from any infections or anything like that. And one of the menials comes up to the back door and begins scrubbing it. And we watch this for just a few seconds until there is a cracking, whining sound as its head turns around 180 to stare at the camera with a cocked look. We boarded. And that's where we'll end for today. No! Great! Thank you, The Sten, for another great episode. Thank you very much. Thank you. I am so fucking proud of all of you. You all got to show off, like, all of your bad fucking skills this episode. And that fight was, like, was probably one of the hardest I've fucking designed. And you, like, I'll be honest, that first fucking moment when Captain Zedek burned all of your fucking pool of glory on that first shot, I'm like, oh, man, now they're all going to fail their resolve tests. And some of you did, but you managed to rally. And each of you fucking really showcased what you could do. And fuck, you all deserve a big hand for that. That was awesome. Oh, thank you. It's all thanks to your wonderful DMing and storytelling. Very good job, everyone all around. And thank you, chat, for doing such a good job coming around, coming to say hi to all of us. So thank you, everybody, so much for watching. Remember, we're going to be getting some more test episodes of Warhams Fantasy going. Also, if you want to know anything and everything about us, you can visit us at warhams.com where you can find more about us as individuals, characters, and learn more and more about us as time goes on. You can always get up to date updates about us. 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And I am also one of the largest speakers. lead writers of the aburra at a texas beach device uh you want to find me i am on twitter uh too much at at super snake kick and i am also on youtube under the name speaker d uh and i i my uh i i charge next up we have aaron dill who's been playing our editorial acolyte reed van horn yes i'm earned you can get me at earned dillio on twitter for whatever the hell you want on that hill site uh nothing else that's all i got i have been playing lauren the sanctioned psycher and our amazing captain zedek leader of the one who runs the debt collector ship that we all sell on played by hulky crow that's me uh i am a on again off again voice actor on if you ever had a texas speech device and a couple other associated projects you can find me pretty much only at at hulky crow on twitter i post funny pictures and memes sometimes you can also find me on zorn's discord server which is a wonderful place where all the other fans interact with each other and say many wonderful things and also torture us which is very funny finally i love you all finally we have our game master who's been running all of our sessions here mr thurston hillman which you can find him at on call gm on twitter woo and after that i need a smoke because hot damn that was the session but i don't smoke so it's probably just going to be path of exile okay we'll see you all next time thank you all so much for being around here please tell everybody about us if you liked what you saw please tell the world about us that really really really helps us out a ton thank you everyone for contributing thank you everyone for being here we will see you next time and you can always check our schedule warhams up tv goodbye farewell please be safe you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you Thank you.