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The moon outpost is a sound-research facility. The servitors only answer if you sing to them. The walls are lined with acoustic foam and bolter-splattered corpses in sea-green armor. Pi takes his first point of Corruption off a crashed Fury's dying machine spirit. In a test tube: Sean, a bored warp demon who confirms the Rubanias have been livestreaming tithe collectors getting butchered for ten thousand years as entertainment. Then the stasis pod opens — and a one-legged Blood Angel wakes up asking for Sanguinius.
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three two one go excellent sexy hope everyone's excited for another episode of war
i had to pause for a moment and be like oh god did they not get the memo
oh the chaos the chaos screeches were not here at the moment's notice but it was a
slight delay because that is the magic of the internet welcome back everybody to another
episode warhammer or pretty much warhams where we play the warhammer 40k tabletop rpg wrath
in glory we've been having a really fun time with it so far it's episode six everybody
we finally made it yeah we finally passed the first five episodes all the little infrastructure
changes have now transferred over and we just like to say really for all of us we'd like to
say thank you all so much for the support episode six would not even exist
without the support of everyone and everyone showing up for the streams telling their discords
that we're live telling everyone that we exist everything else also supporting us
also on the podcast versions as well everything's been amazing so far so we are super excited to
have you all here so of course it's not just me running the show this is a group effort
everyone who works on this pretty much is uh bringing the show to you and i would like to
introduce all of them today our motley crew the first one who is playing the show
playing our skitarii ranger today is oh speaker d i am the lead writer and one of the many voice
actors for tts and i play high brain and next up in our inquisitorial acolyte is played by
urn dill and i am also the lead writer right next to shoulder to shoulder with speaker and i am also
a voice actor on the show and i am also
evil and i am playing reeb van horn and the captain our rogue trader of the debt collector
is played by hulky crow resident spicy food enthusiast and also voice actor for the emperor
had text-to-speech device and the one leaning us to our doom is our illustrious game master who
goes by oh hello there my name is thirst and i'm the uncalled gm and i'm the gm for this game
i mean hi my name is thirst and i'm the the gm and i look forward to torturing our players
and you're all in for a great episode because i've been super excited for this episode since
the show started that's all and i am zorn the bear i played long who is the sanctioned psycher
and you all those of you who are watching us live on twitch will notice that we have
a nice little overlay here so there's several things on how this works especially for people
who are new uh to warhams uh one of the things that we do is a kind of donation-based instance
system for all the dice that we use because wrath and glory uses these different types of
dice to where we have these commissioned and all that fun stuff so i'm going to turn this off
you'll see at the bottom left that there's his gold style dice these are called glory
die at the beginning of every single one of our sessions we start with zero and you are able to
contribute uh to the stream and kind of help influence the game help us out a little bit
because these help out the players these allow us to make better on our roles uh pretty much
increase the chance of
success with these or to add a lot more damage to them so you're able to donate uh for these
dice basically there'll be a link either going through the chat box in chat or if you go to the
info tab on mobile or scroll down you'll see a big old donate section or whatever explaining what
all of these dice do additionally on the bottom right we have the ruin die these are for the
game master where he is able to ruin us all and he starts out with four because that's how they
are and then we also have a thing under each and single one of our character portraits here you'll
see our rings glow up as each of us talk you'll see those are wrath die they allow us similar if
you played any warhammer 40k tabletop with d6s any failed d6s that did not succeed during our skill
checks or attack rolls etc we're able to re-roll those failed die to hopefully get a bigger chance
of success because this game is run on the d6 system and with all of your contributions and
stuff we can hopefully survive
master corona us all and then speaking of our game master thirsty you have any other words to
say and what adventure do you have for us today oh oh um real quick um as usual just you know
rules stuff comes out please uh please call us out on it uh one rules thing that uh i have got
some answers to from last session relates to uh lauren's new psychic power molten beam we had some
confusion on that it is basically a line effect so there's no explosion element it just shoots
a line and kills everything in a line so that's how we're going to be playing it uh i suspect
that'll be fixed in the wrath and glory rules pretty soon but that's how we're going to run
with it uh so when we'll update from last session uh second quick thing experience we're holding off
on handing out experience until the end of this arc so nothing new on the characters just yet but
generally after every kind of arc of episodes i'm gonna load them up with experience so they
can get cool new abilities aside from that yeah i think we're good to go for this session
session six
with a little quick recap on last session just to bring everyone up to speed in case you missed us
on last episode our uh great pcs met with their their immediate superior catch you van nord where
they received their debriefing after a uh tense hug off and they were provided with ample points
for their efforts as part of the ongoing crusade that they are part of they were then tasked with
traveling to the world of scar garris prime to determine the exact height the world would be
providing considering the world hasn't been providing tithe for almost 10 000 years after
arriving in system our heroes traveled to hive zarkannon where they met with one amalthea rubania
and learned about the planet's history and a bit of information over dinner following that they were
taken to an apartment to rest up where they were accosted by a group of aberrant humans called
blood back to ambush them our heroes fended off the blood back confronted
amalthea about what was going on on the planet and that they needed the tithe for the crusade and
amalthea said oh haven't quite got any resources left but we have this this cool uh robot outpost
thing in our lower hives which the pcs rushed to find and after a quick negotiation with one of the
the under hive gangs they managed to find out that the facility they entered was a mechanicum
listening post that was connected still to
an outpost of the mechanicum on the nearby moon so as we start our adventure players are having a
quick briefing on board the the debt collector having returned in orbit over scar garris prime
where i believe we are cutting straight into a meeting in the strategium private room where
pi brain is demanding that the uh the rest of them immediately head to the moon to
investigate giving its importance oh take it away pie yes friends other people we are gathered here
today to discuss the current revolutionary discovery we have discovered on this place's moon
as you know the planet below us is awful and raises a hand ah yes lord ever read if it's
revolutionary does it revolve does it like turn because it's revolutionary yes moons do spin
because the omnisire wills it as it goes oh okay okay i i have a notepad out and i'm taking notes
now then on this moon lies a mechanicum outpost one likely littered with dark age technology
these are things not dark age but dark age compared to us shut up anyway the point is
ah once we arrive there we may gain enough for the quest of knowledge to be
venerated in the history of the martian priesthood for centuries millennia to come so we should go
ahead and do that right quick okay any questions any problems any questions quandaries zedek raises
a hand zedek you keep mentioning the martian priesthood you think that maybe the imperium
at large might benefit from whatever is up on that equally forsaken moon oh i didn't even think about
that oh yeah sure but
the important thing is the quest for knowledge
i am admittedly eager to find out exactly what is going on and why there are some well i'm still
trying to figure out what exactly the ones below meant by golems specifically these blood wolves
perhaps this could elucidate some things as the mechanicus is more likely to keep track of things
better than backwards blood rubes and yokels and everything else down there yes there's a
lot difference in what's up there and i had to take a look at the stone milhões of
Raveed illustration for everyone who will be my omega Martian looking to get rid of the
Lamp Money Dictator and let him out on his own you know what if i had a chance to run
this section of theeye on the moon right and am able to resume and face the
task of protecting the moon but if you don't are in charge of protecting the moon you should
take that responsibility until destruction is completely over well if we can still get
it back are we OK
you Casa
again, at least until you're... after.
It's an awful waste that all of that good technology falls into the hands of people
that are... that... Lord, give me a word!
...uh, adequate for the high technological, uh, uh, availability that is, uh, purveying
deep behind the door.
That is the wrong word and confusing. The point is, the less time we have to spend
on that purple rock, the better. We have a much better rock to spend our time on.
Sir!
Lieutenant Ransom appears suddenly behind Captain Zedek, seeming as though he was always
in the room.
Laugh loudly in our ears.
Startle me, Ransom.
I've just come to let you know that the Arvus Lighter is prepared and ready. We have
taken all of the...
Void suits and placed them on board in case they are required for your mission, sir.
Fantastic, thank you, Ransom. Uh, mind you, how many Arvus Lighters do we still have
left? I know we kind of lost... one. It was one, right? I don't think we can afford another
one right now.
I will have to check, sir. I believe they are plot-important, thus there is only
a certain number of them equal to the amount of plot on this ship.
I will have to check, sir. I believe they are plot-important, thus there is only a certain number of them equal to the amount of plot on this ship.
Ah, yes, plot on. Terrible side effect of, uh, being a protagonist.
Ah, yes, plot on. Terrible side effect of, uh, being a protagonist.
What in the bloody hell are you talking about?
Oh, three. Three, I apologize, there are three. Three left. Thank you.
Oh, three. Three, I apologize, there are three. Three left. Thank you.
Fantastic. Thank you. Have a debrief on what exactly plot is on my bedside sometime
in between now and when we don't die.
Oh, that's right, sir! I also have the other report you've requested. And Ransom
pulls out a small data slate and presses a few buttons with a small mouse, then a little
which causes the uh the vid uh the the hololithic display in the central table to light up and all
of you are suddenly assaulted with these these vid record images of um holo hololithic reproduction
of a scene on the ship and what you see is this small rattling child playing with blocks
assembling them into some sort of little tower before they all collapse and then in the background
is a servitor standing there with a shirt that just reads dad on it
oh now that's just precious that's just that's really good
oh he's just recreating the fall of his own society i know
and then the whole
i can't say the other words because they don't exist in this in this lore but
good what slang for heavens
what slang for heavens
what slang for heavens
uh reeve's gonna try to get ransom's attention here real quick
yes
good could you tell me lieutenant has there been any communication with our esteemed overseer
miss katya van noord
no the magnum morum victorium is set to arrive within the next couple of days we're not sure
exactly when they'll translate in system
no long band anything nothing okay well that's good
no the astropath winnick crevette is in the process of translating a different message which has come further afield closer to the ghoul stars but nothing new
i can only guess who that one's from but that's fine let winnick do what he pleases
he requests that you find any additional weapons in order to help clarify the the message
yes more more guns makes more message faster clearer
wonderful we'll try and take whatever terrible things they have on the planet
k they're not terrible
when i put my hands around zedek's throat i start strangling
they're not terrible take it back
back off back off back off
get your hands off me you aggressive automata
ahhhh sorry i'm under a lot of stress right now
and at the words of i'm under a lot of stress right now we do a george lucas uh sideways fade to all of you on the arvis having shits in your pants
shot out of the uh the debt collector is it is it is it cg and not a model oh yeah absolutely like
it's the exact same arvis you've been on but it's entirely cg now i'm surprised you can afford
just shaking in place under even more stress now as you hit some kind of atmospheric turbulence
uh entering into the unnamed moon over scar garris prime your uh your servitor pilot uh
one vezen neptune is currently blathering off further uh for the reports for the debt collector
we're just starting to tune those out now huh yeah you get used to it you get used to it
oh by the way i would like i would like to point out the mild freudian slip that uh
aka hulky had uh you called him lieutenant handsome
good i really don't handle my internet do your thing with that no don't do that
Do not!
It's like, am I the only one who heard that?
Moon, moon, moon, moon, moon.
Zedek, so the Arvis is making its way through the atmosphere,
heading towards the moon and the coordinates you have.
Zedek, I gotta tell you something.
What, Brayne?
Are you still mad about that strangling you thing?
A little. You kind of crushed my windpipe a little bit.
I'm glad I can breathe, but...
I'm sure I'll get over it.
Yeah, me too.
You're going to have to fix that later, yes?
Please, well, maybe.
What I wanted to talk to you about is I...
This moon better not get out to that...
reprobate, Camus.
This is an adventure begun by Forgeworth Lemuria.
Camus would like you to take credit for her horrible Forgeworld on Gaia.
Reap's going to, like, lean forward with his head on his fist.
You do realize that she's likely recording everything
through the various things that are connected to her, yes?
Such as the servitor who is belching out the information,
possibly whatever visual items that are on the Arvis lighter.
Augers, augers detecting installation at provided coordinates.
I lean over.
Hey, servitor, um...
Um...
Uh...
Which one are you...
Which one are you again?
Versa Neptune.
All right, cool, cool.
Do you have a volume button?
Yes.
I do the volume knob and just...
So he can no longer just casually turn it and sit back down and go,
See? Problem solved.
Augers also detect...
Wait, you want me to detect it?
No, no, no, turn it back off, turn it back off!
I don't miss the score!
At location, grid 389 by 245 by 445.
Yeah.
Where's that?
I don't know what he's talking about.
Can I, can I, can I just...
Do you have some kind of tech check?
No, this is not a tech check.
This would be a piloting check to note the coordinates.
Ha ha ha!
I can do those!
I'll make a pilot.
I'll make a pilot check, because that's what my character is supposed to be good at.
Yeah.
What do you mean, supposed to be?
It's theoretically so.
What do you mean, supposed to be?
Okay!
All right.
So Captain Zedek, with a total of six and a complication,
but with a total of six, you are able to successfully identify where this location is.
Now, the complication is, it's a little off the path you're taking.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, but the augers have very clearly detected something.
So you'd have to go out of your way, uh, from where the installation is to, to this other area to see what, what it's detecting.
Okay.
But it looks like the augers are detecting some kind of strange variance on the surface.
Well, I suppose we could check that out later.
It's, it is off the beaten path, so...
It's not super far off the beaten path.
Like, we're talking like a five, ten minute diversion from your, your incoming trajectory.
Oh, that's nothing.
We've made a planet almost fall in less than a day.
We can certainly do that.
Yes.
Very well, we will investigate this, but I want Gamu to hear this, and I point at the servitor.
Oh, I'm sure she will.
Its mouth is open, partly drooling.
This is a Lemurian operation.
Your assistance will be noted, and proper glories will be given to you and your forge world,
while any assistance rendered.
But I want you to understand.
I'm sorry.
This is the operation of a Lemurian tech priest, not a Skitarius, an explorator.
And God, I am one of those.
You may wish to wait for the self-congratulations until we can actually see the facility.
Its, its drooling mouth opens up to make another statement.
The servitor unit is unable to pilot off.
Arranged flight plan.
Manual pilot will be required.
Capitan!
Do we go now or do we go later, boys?
We go now.
May as well see what it is now.
All right, Captain Zedek, if you want to give me a second piloting check to just actually,
like, make your way to that location, now would be the time.
I'd be happy to.
Yeah, yeah, totally.
Another complication.
Another complication.
And a four.
I, I like this.
All right.
So.
Oh, boy.
Captain Zedek, you are going to, to make your way in that area.
I'm going to say this is a success with a four, but it's a complication.
I will get to what the complication is in a sec.
But for now, what you're able to do is move across this cratered lunar surface to a section
where all of you can kind of see it from, from looking through the cockpit.
There's debris strewn about several of the craters.
Over a fairly long area, but they're, they're smaller chunks of debris.
They look to be different form of painted metals and ceramics.
Reap's gonna look out the window and just kind of turn back to Pie.
Forgeworld Lemuria, eh?
Yeah, what about it?
Gonna continue looking out the window at the scattered debris.
This isn't Forgeworld Lemuria, you dunce!
Yes, but it is.
You claimed it was of Lemurian quality.
No, I said it was a Lemurian operation, as in my operation.
Zedek could turn his head around and shout back,
Hey Brain, does any of this look familiar to you? All this Mechanicus ruin?
Give me a second, I'll take a look.
I'm going to, I guess, can we get out of the Arbus lander at this point?
I mean, if, if, if you all have your void suits on, which I assume you would, you could land.
Now, this is where the complication comes.
Oh, yes.
Uh, Zedek, you are going to, uh, to be able to land.
Uh, however, there's going to be a piece of debris that's in your path as you land.
And so, you're gonna have to make an emergency, um, like, basically pulling the e-brake at the last minute to not hit this thing.
Which won't have any damaging effects to, to the ship, because you'll successfully pull it off.
But, um, the complication...
Is, uh, provided by, uh, one of our, one of our, uh, patrons, MakoGT, which is just entitled,
And that is when I ripped my pants.
And so, as you hit the e-brake, there's this tearing as you rip the pants inside your void suit.
I am incandescent right now.
Excellent.
Like, there's this, just this tearing sound, and only you can hear it from inside your void suit.
Suffer one wound.
Emotional crisis!
You're gonna have to soak that shit.
Thurston, Thurston, if I may?
Yes?
A shock, please.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I will, a shock. For Zedek, that is a shock.
I will add a shock to my stash.
Good. This is good.
Uh...
If you could see the bare metal of my light power armor, you would just think Gutsman's ass.
Duh-duh!
Duh-duh.
And then, and then you, then you land the, you land the Arvis.
Uh, and you can exit the, the rear hatch opens to this, this vacuum, uh, lunar surface.
Uh, and you see these, these pieces of metal debris strewn about.
They seem to be either charred, dark steel metal, though some of them have this, um, like, almost sea green texture to them.
Uh, like, like, kind of like a foamy, like, teal.
Like, teal look to them.
Oh.
Interesting. Can I make some kind of tech check to understand what these are, what broke them, if there's any burns or anything along those lines?
Yeah, um, you can give me a tech check to try to identify these as you go out and sort of examine them.
Okay. I'm gonna drop two glory on that, so that's all right.
F-famba me.
Laced.
Duh-duh-duh-duh.
So I will go and I will roll, examining all of these things.
Oh my god.
And I'm not a complication.
And I get four dice and a complication.
I'm sorry.
I'm just scared for when I roll.
That's good.
Uh.
Are you sure you didn't surgically take our luck away?
I just, damn.
I'm terrified.
Dude, every roll this session's been a complication.
It, it has. I kind, I kind of, uh.
All three rolls have been complications.
I, I'm, I'm pretty, I'm pretty okay with this.
All right. So, uh, with a four, that's enough to succeed.
Um, what you notice is that these are the fragments of a voidcraft.
Specifically, uh, these are a common naval strike fighter, a fury class interceptor.
Um, the sea green coloration on it, something you're not entirely familiar with.
But as, as you sort of look around, you can tell that these are older models.
Uh, not, not the current fury class interceptors that are active in the imperial navy.
But they're, they're very old.
You can't tell the exact age without, um, having like a full auspex, uh, sweep of these.
But you could tell they're, they're older model at least a couple centuries, if not far older.
Oh.
Oh.
This is a crashed fury interceptor.
Is there any sign of what blew it out of the sky?
Uh, so you're kind of like getting closer to it and examining it.
Yeah, this is, this is where the complication is going to come into effect.
And this complication's gonna be a bit of a doozy, I think.
Because, you know, not everything is easy.
Um.
I'm gonna use one of our other ones from Anonymous, uh, spelled with various O's and
3's.
Um.
Can you give me a conviction test, please, as you approach this?
Sure.
Sure.
What's the worst that could happen?
That could happen.
We all die.
We complicate.
Again.
Oh.
Wouldn't that be exciting?
Here it comes!
Here it goes!
Here it goes!
This is a failure.
Even worse.
We don't know.
We don't know.
We don't know.
Okay.
Um.
So.
You, you go, and you go to investigate this.
And, like, try to figure out just by looking at the hull.
But you feel, Pi, just the most agonizing, dark touch of some tortured machine spirit
that temporarily gets into, into your systems.
And you, you have this actual, like, immediate recoil as, as you go and, like, perform your,
your close inspection of this debris.
And, and this, this tortured remains of this fighter craft feels like it's screaming at
you.
And you, you back up.
But this, this whole event has changed you.
You've seen something you've never seen in any kind of machine you've dealt with.
And in fact, you're gonna gain one point of corruption for this.
Ohhhh.
Ah, it's finally here.
The first point of corruption.
Yeah.
To further elucidate this as though that was not enough for me to understand exactly
what this is, uh, Reeb wants to see if he can find the cockpit.
Unless that's smashed under a ton of rubble.
Um, you could tell that, like, there, there wouldn't be a cockpit that's left here.
These are, like, plates that have just flown off.
Like, this thing, and Reeb can tell this from taking, taking his time, this was a, a fighter
craft that was shot down and then hit the side of a crater and then spread its debris
out over the entire area.
Uh, can I do a, what would, what would be appropriate?
Like, an investigation to try and, you know, pinpoint the path that it took?
Absolutely.
If you wanna do, like, an investigation to sort of look around the crater, is that kinda
what you're?
I'm kinda trying to see where the, the drag is.
Like, where it splashed and where it, you know, spun out and where this little chunk
landed and possibly where the head landed.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.
Uh, give me an investigation.
I wanna, I wanna find the pilot.
Absolutely.
Ooh.
Uh, five.
Five.
Nice.
Yeah, um, you, you can tell that there's, there's not enough left.
Like, there's, there's chunks that have fused, there's chunks that have floated off.
Um, though this is a vacuum, there's still a very light atmosphere.
There's still a very light atmospheric envelope here.
Um, what you do find, and probably the, the most notable thing is, is sort of Pie is having
his moment off to the side, reacting to this malicious, lingering smell of a dark machine
spirit.
You find a helmet.
Um, and it's a, it's a helmet that you, you saw previously.
It looks like the same type of helmet that you saw when you were on, at Hivesar Cannon.
That sort of long helmet.
That sort of larger carapace armor that has that diving suit appearance.
Mm.
But it's, instead of being, like, a white, it's, it's the same kind of, like, teal-ish
sea green, though charred in, like, one side of it.
Uh, I give it a vigorous shake to see if anything falls out.
Um.
Like, like a head or a skull.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um, you know, that's a, that's a good point.
Um, and I will get you to give me a willpower test.
Terrific.
Uh, and I would like to add a...
Will's not great.
I'd like to add...
Can I add two glories to that?
Or the...
What are the...
These are a wrath die, right?
Uh, wrath is the reroll, glory is the add to it.
Yeah, I'd like...
Can I use two glories?
So I also possibly don't get a corruption?
Yeah, we're full up on glories, so use as many as you'd like.
I should use my conviction check.
I will add three to that, please.
Cool.
Do it up.
Think it'll happen.
Ah, terrific.
A corruption and complete failure.
Awesome.
You wanna, you wanna use a wrath die to reroll that?
Yeah, please.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I'm gonna, okay, knock down one wrath off of my...
And wrath does not reset between?
Or...
I forgot that.
No, no, no, no.
It'll, it'll reset if people purchase you more.
But otherwise...
Okay, so I'm at, I am at zero wrath now.
No, you start with two, so you'll be okay.
Oh, okay, so I'm at, I'm at one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There you go.
Also, I got two.
Two!
But it still keeps the, it still keeps the corruption.
It still keeps the, the corruption.
Um, or the complication, I should say.
Yeah, so, um, you're, you're, you shake it, uh, and what, what happens is, is as you
shake it, this head comes lolling out at you.
It's, it's mouth in this sort of, like, rictus scream, but that's not what frightens you.
What frightens you is this sudden pressure around your ankle that causes you to react
and stumble backwards.
And as you, as you stumble backwards, you, you see this arm, like, reaching out from
the ground that you didn't notice was there.
It's not moving or anything, but it, it almost felt like it was around your ankle, but it's,
it's just there.
These sort of, um, connecting points of the armor have broken off, and you can just see
these skeletal fingers reaching out.
Quick question.
Yes.
What is Reeb's willpower?
Uh, Reeb's willpower is...
Okay.
Oh, yeah, you didn't roll your glory die.
You spent a bunch of glory.
You did not add your glory die.
I added the dice to it.
Why didn't I do that?
Didn't, didn't seem to get it there.
Roll 3d6.
Yeah, just 3d6 there.
So I was, I looked at your thing and I was like, mmm, that should have your stuff in
it.
Yeah, you got like...
Oh, you failed.
You did nothing, so...
It's okay.
Yeah, I was like, why is it only rolling 3?
But, like, I put in the extra 3.
Regardless, that just, that just spooks you out for, like, very unnerving, uh, but nothing
else seems to happen.
We must destroy this place.
Uh, so the reason I wanted to...
This particular fight.
Sorry, I don't, I didn't want to interrupt that.
My bad.
This place.
This thing is evil.
This thing is in incredible suffering.
The machine's spirit calls out in agony.
The only responsible thing to do is to allow it to return to the motive force, and hope
that the main installation is not thus so corrupted.
Uh, GM, the reason I wanted to try and shake the head out of the helmet is because I wanted
to look at the head.
Yeah, you, you still got it.
Like, you, you, you're still holding onto it.
hand is what sort of startled you back but you've got the head can i uh okay now so now i'm going to
continue can i do a medicaid to see if this is a normal person or something i mean obviously you
don't even need to make a medicaid check for this it's it's a normal like human head it's got like
it's what you would traditionally associate with like naval officers has kind of the
handlebar mustache the only thing that's off is just the the sort of screaming leer on it
has an old head too and you receive back your wrath reeb ah good it is back after i already
shattered myself um dm yes is this uh so we're at the cockpit is there any possibility of getting
power back no no no no sorry like he found the head there wasn't a cockpit left this thing is
smashed just into pieces reeb spent his investigation looking around this crater
and essentially found like
the remains of the corpse that were hurled out but there's there's nothing left like what and
what you felt pie you know was like the last gasps of a machine spirit like holding on here but not
actually animate in any way the ship is fucked harder than my investments essentially basically
yeah
aside from that you can tell there's there's nothing else of interest in the crater um
you you get the impression that
there were two such fighters that made similar crashes in the area
perhaps i should have tempered my expectations nevertheless we will persevere and hope for the
best should we check out the other craft or do we just want to leave this place it's kind of
so there is another craft the other craft is in the same area like i can tell you now
it's the same type of investigation just no body for that one
oh yes let us investigate that one uh perhaps evidence of a conflict could be
utilized to better understand the situation at the mechanicum compound
yes compound then yeah um you you quickly investigate both both sites of wreckage you
quickly discover that yeah these were shot down or crashed by some malfunction you're not sure
which the wreckage is too badly damaged to tell uh but you're able to tell that there were two
theory interceptors that crashed on the surface here one of them had a particular
a particularly tortured machine spirit.
But with that, the second one does not.
The second one is completely inert.
That one took the brunt of the damage.
That's also why there's no corpse left.
With all of that, you get back in the Arvis,
and Captain Zedek, I assume you're going to
take yourselves back on course towards the outpost?
You got it.
Give me one more piloting check, please.
I know I'm going to regret asking this, but...
I'm going to regret doing this check.
Perfect.
Perfect.
And another complication!
Oh my god!
Holy dog shit!
You kids!
Okay.
We're going to die.
We're going to die, boys!
So you take control.
The automated servitor is not able to...
The automated servitor here is not able to take control.
Because you're on new coordinates,
you're coming in from a new vector,
it's not programmed for any.
So, Zedek, you take control.
Luckily, a three is enough to succeed.
And you find yourself piloting...
Zedek, would you like to spin a wrath?
He succeeds!
He succeeds!
He succeeds!
And you can't wrath the complication away.
So, when you roll the complication,
it just happens.
No, it wasn't that.
Sorry, I was dealing with a thing
and came back late.
My bad.
You're good, you're good.
Um...
So, you are able to bring the Arvis down to the facility.
Now, the complication is that
you, moments too late,
notice the presence of an active void shield.
That, essentially, this complex is built into the side
of, like, a cliff face.
And then there's just a hole that's a big hangar area,
and that hole is protected by a void shield,
which you can fly into,
assuming you're at, like, very, very slow speeds.
But you don't notice it right away.
Now, you're also not, like,
careening straight towards it at full speed,
because that would end you up in a cliff.
But you know enough about interactions
with void shields and high, like,
high-speed moving targets
that you have to kind of hit the brakes
in a very, very powerful maneuver.
Which you do.
But what that does is it burns out
some of the energy cells,
and the Arvis.
Meaning it's going to take a bit of time
for the Arvis to recharge,
so you can leave.
Oh, shit!
That's a complication.
Okay.
But all of you are jerked around inside the Arvis,
and suddenly you come to a stop,
and you've got these, like, dull lumen lights
that start sputtering on around you
in this immense hangar area.
That's it!
Great flight!
I didn't know there was a void shield there!
I'm sorry!
I wasn't being sarcastic!
I'm just very stressed!
It's hard to tell sometimes.
Okay, we're alive.
Is that an egg or a horse?
Do you have a void shield?
What?
I'm being genuinely curious here.
I'm no pilot.
Can we not see a void shield
when we're about to impact it?
Zedek was likely just...
I don't actually know if that's true.
That's...
That's the extent of my knowledge.
Can I make a scholar check,
or would that be pilot?
Okay.
What exactly are you wanting to know?
Would I be able to tell
if there's a void shield active visually
before we approached it?
Or would it be just invisible,
not until...
We need to know the extent of Zedek's fuck-up.
Uh, that'd be a tech check.
Oh, boy.
You know, I feel...
My ears are burning.
I can feel a corruption coming.
Okay.
And don't wing it.
Oh, that's not bad.
Oh, finally!
That's a four.
Is it enough?
That's a four, and it's not a complication.
Like, it's enough for you to tell, like,
you saved the shuttle
from basically imminent disaster.
But what Zedek wanted to know is
if void shields can usually be seen.
They can through ripples,
in this type of atmosphere,
like, it's very difficult to perceive them.
So the fact you saw it when you did
and realized it was active
was still a miracle.
Oh, thank you.
Thankfully, I don't look like
even more of an asshole than I am.
It's very clear that Zedek is simply stressed like I am.
He, too, is blessed by the Omnissiah.
Zedek, you...
And it is clear.
You also notice that there's an atmosphere
in this hangar,
and the void shield's keeping it in.
Oh, we can...
We can actually breathe in here.
You can take off your suits if you want.
It's thin, but
it should be fine.
Go on, go on.
I'm not going to take mine off
because I am concerned about the integrity
of the atmosphere and totally about nothing else.
I'm going to change the Omnissiah
brain cells, taking off nothing.
Because he's stubborn.
Because he doesn't need a void suit.
I, uh...
I at least take off my helmet,
but keep the helmet.
Like, strap it on my back or something.
Yeah, yeah.
For sure, for sure.
Okay.
So, as you guys
manage to unpack it and come out,
you see yourself in this immense hangar.
There is one other vessel that is here.
It looks to be a larger fighter
with sort of...
back-swept wings
that is landed
with a bit of a, like,
slate-gray motif to it.
I walk up to it.
Okay.
I start walking around it.
Like, is there, like, a way, like, an entrance
or anything else like that?
It looks like there's an open cockpit,
but you'd have to be pretty dexterous
to jump up to it.
I mean, this would be like a ladder to get up to it.
It doesn't look like there's a ladder.
It doesn't look recent.
It doesn't look recent at all.
Like, someone recently flew this in here.
You can tell there's, like,
a thin particulate of dust on it.
Like, it has dust on it.
You're not sure how much dust
would accumulate in this place,
but it's not completely recent.
Hmm.
Brain!
Brain, I need your help on this one.
Since you're the tech expert,
look at the engines of this thing
and tell me if you...
you can tell by, I don't know,
sniffing the suit or something
that this thing has been recently used or not.
Oh, yes, indeed, I shall.
And I'm going to...
Check, check.
...begin just climbing around it.
I've got my combi tool in my hand.
John Grievous skidding around it.
You know, skidding around it.
I'll be dropping two glory on this one as well.
Cool.
Good, good.
Let us see what you find.
And we're going to see
what my expert resource...
And there it is.
Cheap for our complications!
What is it with this episode?
Good lord, the complications...
All of our glory last time on Medicaid checks.
Yeah.
A three is not enough to successfully identify this.
You're looking for a tech check.
Would you like to spend a wrath?
I would love nothing more than to wrath this.
One extra success!
Yeah.
You don't know.
This is a type of fighter craft
you've never seen before.
I mean, that's not what he's doing it for.
He's trying to see if it's been recently used.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, check the engines.
Was it recently high?
Like, the tech check here
would be to identify it,
to, like, understand what it is.
He has no idea what type of fighter craft this is.
And when he goes around to, like,
check things he would associate with use,
like, he can tell it's been inactive for a while,
but the atmosphere here is very difficult to tell.
Like, it's...
There's an atmosphere in here,
but there's also...
It doesn't seem like there's been much happening here,
so undisturbed atmosphere doesn't really do much,
and it looks like there's some air circulation in here,
but it's very minimal,
not enough to disturb anything.
So this has been, like, almost preserved.
It seems that we have mysteries upon mysteries ahead of us.
We must proceed with caution.
I found this weird stone, by the way.
It looked like it hasn't fit.
Here you go.
And I handed it to the brain.
Not to me!
And it was like, you got your wrath back.
And additionally, it was like, well,
I was going to make sure no one else was here
that we weren't all aware of,
and I was about to blow up their escape plan.
No!
You're not going to destroy this!
Welcome to here.
Welcome to here.
Welcome to here.
Welcome to here.
Welcome to here.
You hear this voice coming from behind the fighter,
and, like, brain, as you're doing your path around it,
and, Lauren,
comes up to provide you this magical rock,
you see, and this is part of your complication,
built into the wall near one of the exit doors here
that's sealed shut,
is the upper half of a human torso,
this emaciated, gray-skinned human torso,
with its arms also adhered to the wall
and its mouth leering forward
with this immense vox grill coming.
It looks like,
like, this piece of artwork here,
except it's built into the wall.
Oh, dear.
Wall-vator.
Make a U-turn.
The Serviquire.
I'm going to approach this servitor,
but I fear no machine.
I walk up to it as well, curious.
I'm going to...
Okay, Zedekian.
And, uh, Reeb?
Oh, we'll follow.
I'm going to keep distance,
but I'm going to approach with them
just in case something stupid happens.
All right, so Reeb is kind of staying back,
but the other three of you are all sort of advancing up.
Perfect, perfect.
Where is here, servitor?
It looks at you with dead eyes.
Ah, good talk.
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, functionality?
Uh-huh.
One looks up at it.
Operator!
One!
Damn it.
I'm just trying.
That didn't work either.
Vocal commands not recognized.
Vocal commands not recognized.
Zedek will tap the screen and see if it lights up.
All right.
Fine.
As you tap it,
you see that, like,
it's...
it's...
got this thing.
this display on it that's displaying
the sort of rise
of its voice and sort of the rhythm
and tone of its voice.
Fine, I'll do it. And I look
up at it, and I go,
where are we?
Come on!
I accept it.
I accept it. Modulation.
Modulation.
Yes, I take a VX-84.
When
was the last time this
has been a person
or a mechanical
creature?
The
servitor
head tilts to the side.
Welcome to Warhams, the fucking musical.
I love this.
Data corruption.
Data corruption.
Cannot answer
your question.
When was the data
corrupted, my servitor friend?
Unknown, unknown.
Into the command center
you must go.
You can hear from very far back,
what the hell are you idiots
doing?
We are talking to a servitor.
Why are you singing?
This is a place
coated with the majesty
of the Omnissiah. They
sing their benedictions proudly.
It is a vertical
catacomb. You don't
sing, though.
Of course I sing. I sing all the time.
He sings their body electric.
Yes.
He seems to be going to approach the servitor
because now I have a question.
Okay.
It's either continue
like looking out half lifelessly
at all of you.
The thing that makes this even funnier is just how
grotesque it is.
Yeah, and the fact that it only animates
and starts like bouncing around and talking
when you sing to it.
I'm trying really hard to think of a tune.
I'm trying really hard to think of a tune.
I'm trying really hard to think of a tune.
Imagine every single time it replies, it bounces
up and down like some banjo-kazooie
looking bastard.
Yeah, like it's R as in like
a jerk in a mound.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
I have an idea.
Tell me, good friend
servitor.
Tell me who the blood wolves
are.
Unknown identification.
Can't tell
about the blood wolves.
Tell me who the blood wolves are.
They are not in my
cogitator banks. You will
have to go to the command center.
Where
is the command center?
Where is the command center?
I think they break glass somewhere.
Where is it? The void shield ripples
in the background.
Sorry,
sorry, Aaron Dill, for hopping.
Deeper in the
compound, I can
open the way.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Rainbombs are past
all the way.
Lifeforms left on this station.
I already asked it. It told me it did not know.
Maybe if you ask it again,
it may answer better.
We don't have to sing to each other, damn it.
Yes, we do.
We have to sing to the blasted
servitor.
It may respond. It's a Hammerstein model servitor
that has to respond to us at some point.
Why is the servitor program
to eavesdrop?
I appreciate the chat,
but the servitor is basically a big mouth
Billy Bass.
It's copyrighted.
Muting that shit.
Nope.
Seconds.
It's still legal.
All right, so.
Rain is going to
rip off one of the bars of gold
that's still on.
His chest for the formal dinner.
Throw it to the ground, because he means business
out of this formal attire.
He's going to take center stage
with the servitor.
Simple light shines on you.
Yes.
You listen here, my servitor friend.
La Muria's here.
Please comprehend.
La Muria.
La Muria.
That is the name of the forge world
here to reclaim you all
and put things.
That's right.
Now, please open the way
if you'll be nice.
I walk up.
I walk up the brain.
I pull out a script of Hamilton
and put it in his hand.
He's like, I mean, if you want to.
I mean, there's auditions going on
off up on the planet.
I might, might apply.
Welcome, welcome,
welcome, welcome
to modulation test site
theta VX 84
and it slumps down.
And as it does,
so you hear this pneumatic hiss
as the door behind it opens
and you can tell this door
is about a foot thick
and it has these immense
like metal bolts coming out of it
that unscrew from the walls.
And there's just this hiss
of incoming air
as the door unlocks
and presents you with a hallway
that you can tell
up until a few moments before
was probably just in a lifeless vacuum,
but now has had,
like, atmosphere pumped back into it.
Right?
Yes.
I have, I have a critique,
if I may, for a moment.
Okay.
Why did you rhyme Lemuria
with Lemuria five times?
Because it wasn't a rhyme,
it was a refrain.
Refrains can rhyme.
They can, but they don't have to.
You don't understand music
or the Omnifire.
No, I don't think I do.
Let us move on.
You are the leader.
You're the sequester, the bequester.
Well, I'm over it.
Let's go.
So you start making your way
into this hall.
And the thing you notice about this hall
compared to the hangar you're just in,
where in the hangar,
there were sort of these old,
like, rusted walls made of metal.
The walls here have this
black foamy texture to them.
And the walls have these, like,
conical protrusions at different points.
Also made of that black, foamy texture?
Yeah.
Oh, they're lined in ferrofluid.
So, like, how foamy?
Is it like, is it like an actual weird substance?
Or is it like strange architecture?
I mean, I will, I will tell you so you can picture it all.
It's, it's like that soundproof foam that you put on your walls.
It's just down here.
Oh, I get you.
It's the last time I've tried to.
It's a streamer room.
Oh, my God.
Lauren, come get your streamer foam.
This would be so good for my setup.
What's, what really sucks, I have, like, boxes of that in my closet.
Oh, God.
And, and yeah, you, you just see this hall is covered
and it carries on, though, as you take your first step in,
Pye, I assume you're the one, first one to enter.
These light lumens in the top corners begin to,
Yeah.
Pop on.
And you can see, like, further down from this entryway,
that foam starts becoming patchier.
And you see some more traditional walls with conduits and cables
and cogitator units that are all just dull and blank.
But all throughout, there's still these patches of foam on the walls.
Hmm.
What are they doing here?
What are they doing here?
I can answer that.
By all means.
Well, it's very common for the children of the Adeptus Mechanicus
to sing their praises to the Omnissiah.
In fact, surprisingly, there's many a song involved in the rites
of creating and maintaining different objects.
More than likely, this is a particularly devout installation, thus the foam.
It means, some means likely of insulating their auditory functions.
There's some.
There is Lemuria, sort of, like this.
But generally, we are pivoting towards other purposes.
Speaker, I am so mad at you, because that actually makes sense.
That's not bullshitting this time.
That actually makes sense, and I hate that.
I know.
Isn't it great?
And as you carry on for a little bit, like a couple minutes going down some of these halls,
you can tell this place is just labyrinthine.
The halls cut off at 90 degrees.
Everything is pure, proper 90-degree angles, by the way.
But you can see a hall that breaks off into another T-junction,
then a four-way junction, then two-way junctions.
You're very quickly having difficulty keeping track of where you are.
Crazy question.
So you said that the foam is on the wall, yes?
Yes.
Would it be possible for...
Can I take...
Can I take it off the walls with relative ease, or is it, like, very secure on there?
You could, like, you can sort of pull at the edges,
and you could tell, like, a good strength would rip this off.
Because I want to see if I can rip off a panel or two and use them as breadcrumbs,
so we don't get fucking lost.
Oh, yeah, that's a great idea.
Absolutely.
I don't have any...
I don't have my Hopsal and Gretel breadcrumbs to bring with me on this occasion.
Sorry.
Yeah, yeah.
You can just rip off chunks of the foam, too,
and just sort of drop it behind you.
Be careful.
That might be disrespectful to the tech priest that may or may not still line his halls.
We can put it up later.
Okay, but promise me that you will.
We will.
I have no intention of desecrating a place, and as someone's home,
we just need to be able to find our way out afterwards.
And as you say that, Reeb, all of you turn a corner and see a scene of carnage.
There are about...
There are about...
There are about...
There are about...
There are about half a dozen bodies strewn about the floor in that sea-green armor,
though this time you can see the full sort of carapace armor
that is just splattered over the area.
Chunks of armor have broken off.
Bodies are tumbled down.
They all seem to still have, like, slick blood on them,
but they're just, yeah, like, pattered over the floor.
Some of them in just...
Some of them in just...
What appears to be strange, nonsensical states of dismemberment.
Hmm.
What's everyone doing seeing this?
After the pregnant boss?
So how large are these teal-green?
They're just normal people?
They're humans.
Like, they're bulky carapace armor, but they're humans.
Oh, I see.
I see.
Reeb, could you attempt to gain a cause of death?
We might assume they fell in combat with the red ones.
Reeb is suddenly donning a very large,
overly comedically-sized medical glove with a snap.
Yes, I'm on it.
Yeah, and you walk down, and you see, again,
these different, like, solar-patterned void armor
that you saw previously.
Again, just a bit of a lighter sea-green color.
You start going through and checking the bodies.
Uh, give me a Medicaid check, Reeb, as you're investigating this.
Yeah, so just the thing I'm keeping an eye out for
is, like, why they're in such bad disarray,
because something that shot them to explode them apart like this
is something big and powerful
and either explosive or energy-based.
That's a 10.
My value?
That is a 10.
Explosive, energy-based, or, well, explosive, mass-reactive.
And you've heard of these type of weapons.
Yes.
Um, they are commonly referred to as bolters.
And this is what happens when a human
in any kind of substandard armor is hit by a bolter.
Oh.
Yeah, about what I expected.
Uh, is there...
Are there spent casings nearby?
Or anything that could be identified as a casing?
Unless these are, uh, caseless.
I don't remember if Gyro...
Yeah, there are large casings.
There are large casings, uh, bolt casings around on the floor.
I'm gonna...
Uh, hey, uh, Pai, how's your...
How's your tech?
Would this be a tech to, like, try and determine where these are from?
Um, like, you, with a 10 on your check,
you not only have enough to identify, like,
this was essentially a rocket-propelled grenade
that exploded in someone.
With a 10, you're also able to tell, like,
from your white dwarf,
which I assume you pull out and quickly reference,
this is, like, the...
quintessential picture of a person getting hit by a bolter.
So you know that this would be a bolt weapon.
I'm trying to more or less...
I'm trying to find out with the supposed tech check
if we can identify, like, the, uh,
kind of...
kind of bolter that discharged it.
Oh, yeah, that...
that would be incredibly difficult.
It would be a tech check, but it would be very...
I will hold that for later, so I can possibly,
if we don't get answers here,
bring it up later to our, uh,
our very large, very gangly engines here.
Sure.
Um, I assume during this,
Pi, are you looking over sort of the technical bits?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I, uh, you know,
I know they're bolters.
Um, the fact that they are bolters,
I guess, like, I'm vaguely interested in quality.
But really, I want to know, like,
are these guys arranged out in any kind of purpose?
Or are they just splattered around everywhere
because they were blown up by bolters?
It looks like they were blown up by bolters.
But what you, what you do notice is that
amongst all of the sort of detritus of their corpses,
the one closest to what you guess would be
the front of their formation
is clutching a plasma gun.
The rest all have sort of, uh,
like, older, those older lasguns that you saw,
the Calibrix variant.
But the one up front has a really nice-looking plasma gun.
I'll reach down and grab it.
Salvage.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll put the radium pistol to the side.
Cock the plasma gun.
We're going to find out who did this.
And if they try to do it to us,
at least we'll be ready.
And as you cock it, it gives this lovely, like,
whine of charge.
I was gonna say, is it like camera angle?
The blue glow appears along its coils
and sort of bathes you in its light,
giving this sort of strange coloration to your red robes.
I assume you kind of do, like, movie pose.
It's like, we're gonna mess them up.
You turn over, pistol to the side,
and the plasma gun just...
Just...
Yep.
I also appreciate chat who's pointing out,
yeah, of course, this is the episode
where the plasma gun shows up,
the one where it's Complication City.
Hell yeah!
Absolutely.
Actually, I have one last really important question.
Go ahead.
The important question is,
what color is the plasma gun?
This would be a lovely blue.
Yeah!
Compliments, Ty!
All right.
I'm not cursed.
All right.
Reeb, what was your question?
Reeb is going to very carefully and methodically
pick the lasguns out of each of the troopers' hands
and just kind of neatly stow them aside
because I would also like to, you know,
assist our astropath in having more guns
so he can work gooder.
Absolutely.
But for later.
Can we...
I have a Zedek.
Hey, Captain Zedek,
can we have some servitors fly down here
and pick up these weapons
while we traverse this area?
Some goons?
That I'm not sure of.
We don't know what's here.
We have radio communication, right?
You picked up the radio, right?
Right?
I picked up a little handset.
The void suits have comms on them.
Okay, thank you.
Yeah, but if you're talking interplanetary,
like, if you want to reach the ship,
you have to go back to the Arvis
because it's a bulky unit.
I will get it later.
We can convince Brain to install one in his back later.
The lasguns just, like, you can leave them here.
It's okay.
But they're all mastercrafted lasguns
because back in the day,
the Emperor cared about his boys.
Hey, can I...
You said the word mastercrafted, right?
Can I have a ranged weapon?
That's not a flamethrower?
I would like to have a mastercrafted ancient lasgun
because that could be cool.
Absolutely.
I will pocket one.
Cool.
Yeah, you pick it up.
You've got enough to, like, holster it over your shoulder.
Is the battery charged?
Oh, yeah, I should probably check that.
Can I do a tech to see if this thing even can take?
Yeah.
Um, your ballistic skill.
So for things like that, it's actually ballistic skill,
but you don't even have to make a test.
You're able to quickly check.
Everything here has been preserved.
Again, the atmosphere here was entirely shut down.
So the power cells in these are still actually active.
I'm going to take as much ammunition as I can for reloads.
Yeah, you basically have, like,
the common assortment of ammo reloads.
So I think it's three.
Good, good, cool.
I got a nice gun.
Yeah, you've got a nice gun.
And we went down to the corner and still we got him a nice gun.
He's a good guy.
Now I can attack at a distance further than.
Further than flamer.
Further than short.
Lauren will look at the dead bodies and go,
he's trying to see if anyone was wearing, like,
any convenient power armor or anything better than.
No, it's all care face.
I always die when air hits me in a different angle.
Damn it.
Lauren.
I'm getting you something better when we're back on the ship.
What are you doing during all of this?
I'm going to go over to Brain and just admire his gun and say,
Brain.
Yes.
That is a beautiful, beautiful firearm.
I have just one request in your forthcoming crusade of blood
when you kill people with that.
Oh, yes.
Please don't fire it next to me.
I don't want to lose my arms.
I will make no promises,
though.
I understand.
You can do this plasma gun is an excellent piece of craftsmanship,
but it is no caliper.
I don't.
Can you even plasma caliber your side?
Never mind.
Okay.
I shouldn't have expected any less.
I is there any indication of the direction that these bodies are going
or is it just steadily they were heading down the hall and the casings
are further down the hall, like the cluster of them?
It looks like whatever was firing the bolter was.
Standing at the opposite end of the hall and firing.
Okay.
But the whole carries on again, breaking off into numerous paths.
Oh, that's one of those.
Well, gentlemen, we have several options.
We could go into the right direction or we could go in the other direction.
And we have three potential right directions.
I believe I put my fingers up to my head.
They go.
Oh, man.
I take up my bones and cloud them on the floor and the bottom
shape forward any other suggestions.
What?
Hey, hey, don't diss the bones.
I rattle at you as they're having this conversation.
You could swear.
You hear something like very, very far down the right hall.
Just this.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Just dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
Dirt.
I am assuming that it is only me that can hear that.
Yeah, you're the only one who hears that during this, like the rest of the conversation.
Gentlemen, brief interruption.
Yes?
I heard a dirt down this right hallway.
You heard the din of a distant dirt down the darkened doorway of the hallway?
Yes, I heard a distant.
Dirt, and it has demonstrated to me that we are not Dallone.
Damnation!
It has to go meet our Dirt.
Well, I mean, you know, after scavenging around Bodhidhar, you know, he stands up and
looks down the hallway where the Dirt came from.
Okay.
Um, give me, give me a psychic mastery test.
Uh-oh.
Time to go to the Warp.
It's time, it's time for Zoran to complicate.
Nice.
Awesome.
The issue with me, uh, the issue I'm having right now is I've changed the dark mode of
the thing, so I have to make sure I can see it, cause it changed my character sheet, but
it's hard to see.
Oh, yeah.
Got it.
Okay, we'll put it in light mode.
I have a six and a glory.
And a glory, perfect.
Oh!
You feel this, this chill from down that direction, like this empty coldness.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
No, no, no, no, no.
I look at everyone and everyone will see, I have fear in my eyes going, there's something
terrible down that hallway.
Terrible enough to make you bald.
And I'm just shaking my head like, the heat is on.
back of my head, like, nuh-uh.
I was like, nuh-uh.
I was just like, I don't want to go
down there. We should leave.
That makes it very serious.
No, we cannot leave.
We have a duty to perform.
We do have a mission.
I thought...
We could look back down there
later and just explore
the other options? I mean, the bones
said go forward. This is down to the right.
I'm gonna follow the bones.
The spirits will lead us the way.
We must go forward.
The lawn is compelled by the motor force.
Let us cleanse
these vile corridors.
There's a whine of
plasma charging as you
cock it again.
I'm cocking it multiple times.
I'm getting upset.
I'm getting concerned.
He just keeps cocking it. He's never used one of these before.
He just continues to charge.
Lorne
goes forward down that hallway.
Yeah, okay. So you
carry on. Not the hallway of the dupe, but forward.
The forward position. Yeah, yeah.
You carry on making your way
forward, and then there's a holy 90
degree turn left, and then there's a holy
90 degree turn right, and
then there's a massive
square chamber up ahead
with
a raised platform in the
center about 5 by
5 meters wide. The entire
room is probably 20 by 20 meters.
It's a pretty massive room.
But this raised sort of stone
raised metal plinth in the
center, at the exact
center of the room, there's a
dais on it that has
what appears to be
like four cuts in it
and a red button on each
of the cuts.
Oh, it looks like a teamwork
puzzle, guys.
Well, I'm
out. I play with my bones.
Don't lose it, Dan.
I get the comedy crook
and hook him back into the room.
It seems as though we're going to have
to solve this puzzle.
I caught the gun again.
You're making it explode.
I can't wait for, like,
we're back at Hives Dark Cannon.
Guess we have to have a social
encounter.
It's literally, if he's
going to keep doing it, I'm going to get to the point
where I go, well, it looks like I have to smite somebody.
I'm going to go put a shotgun cell
inside of my staff.
Yeah.
You just ask Brain to, like, install
a shotgun pump
action to your staff that does
nothing that makes you feel scared.
Or learn a spell
that is just put a
shotgun shell into reality
and fire it.
All right. So, yeah, you see this
plinth in the center that has
these four red buttons on it.
Shall we, boys?
Yes, we shall.
There's literally
nothing else in here but a plinth of four.
There's nothing else in this room.
What could possibly
go wrong?
There are other directions to check.
We don't have to go right down for this.
No, we have to do the puzzle right
now. It's clearly interesting.
I want to do the puzzle.
This is not a puzzle. It is a button that takes four people
to push.
I assume the button, that kind of helped describe
because I, sorry, I've been trying to,
man, there's stuff on the side.
It's four buttons like as if it was like on a, like an
elevator kind of button, like just four nearby
or like four on each.
So it's basically like a raised plinth
about three feet high.
And then on top, like it's cut into
four different sections.
It's like a circular plinth. And then there's buttons
on each of those sections. So essentially
like a, like a buzzer button
you can press down on.
I'll pick a button. I get the one.
Why are we
pressing buttons?
Let's see what happens.
The motive force commands it.
And I'm going to crawl up and push the button next to it.
The bones have brought us here
and we must try, we must go past this obstacle.
I roll a Medicaid check
on the button. No, I press it.
So all of you press the button.
Zedek, I assume you're joining in as well.
With a final quick flourish, I will press the
remaining button.
And there's this, like all of the buttons turn to this
healthy green glow.
And then
you hear, or,
first of all, you feel the ground
shake slightly. And
the stone plinth you're
on splits into
four segments, cutting each
of you off with maybe
two or three inch thick lines
that appear in the floor as the
sections of the plinth sort of
spread apart. And immediately after
metal bulkheads shoot up
sectioning each of you off from one
another. Along with that
The bones have betrayed me!
As you shout
this, Lorne, that's what all of
you hear, just in time
for from the
ceiling, descends
that soundproofing foam.
Effectively cutting off
communications to one another.
As the foam puts you into these
like, sectioned off
like five by five
squares, or sorry, two and a half
by two and a half squares.
And a stool pops
out in front of each of you.
And from the ceiling
you send speakers.
And so you're essentially in this little
box room with speakers.
All of you, except for
Captain Zedek.
Captain Zedek, you notice
that the far wall of your little
little area is broken.
And in fact, it points off to a hallway
that has now become visible with the
recreation of the
reconstruction of this chamber.
They're sparking lumens off in the distance.
And you hear this like metal groaning as
The systems above you try to lower more of the soundproof foam into place, but it just kind of like crushes onto each other and like falls down in this massive broken foam.
And then one of the speakers that should be coming just collapses on the ground in front of you with this shattering impact.
And you can tell all the hydraulics above your booth are completely broken.
But for the other three of you, you find yourselves in these not comfy, but like, you know, pretty, pretty tight booths with big speakers now facing at you.
And, Lorne, you're first.
What is it like the horrific music that starts coming out and playing at you?
I was hoping you had figured that out, because now I got to think of music that I really hate.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Think of think of like the worst type of music.
And like, is it just like, you know, under hive like slang rap?
Is that what starts playing?
Pretty much.
Yeah.
Just terrible.
Just has no soul, no context.
It's all about that one person, the selfish lyrics.
There's nothing about, you know, community or anything.
It's just just terrible.
Like the rhyming is off.
The beats are just overbearing.
It's overbearing.
There's no one who thinks they're way cooler than they are.
It's exactly that type of music.
And you are trapped in a room with this playing at like a massive, massive.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I molten beam the speakers.
OK, OK, we'll come back to that.
What is the terrifying music you hear?
I can't I can't play it, obviously, because, you know, copyrighted music.
But there is one track in mind that just brings me to utter agony.
And I will not put it in.
I will not put it in our discord here.
And I will say it is dupe by dupe dupe dupe dupe.
How does it go?
How does it go?
Because I haven't heard it.
I can't listen to it.
But how does it go?
It sounds like carnival music, but like hip hop carnival music.
You got it.
You got it.
I actually got it.
Hold up.
Like that.
Yes.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
I can't play it on stream.
But look up.
So for those of you who don't know what the hell he's talking about, look up dupe dupe.
Pie brain.
What is your most like horrendous music that could be thrown to you?
Well, what plays in mine is actually really nice sounding.
It's this beautiful, like high quality, like mechanic is chanting.
It is.
To like an observant of the Adeptus Mechanicus that I can appreciate it.
It is gorgeous.
The issue is, is that it is a chant from Fort Royal.
Yeah.
Yes.
Absolutely.
It's like the Gryan National Anthem.
Yeah.
And that is what is playing.
All right.
Beautiful.
So we have all three of you like in these horrendous situations.
We have Lauren getting ready.
She's getting ready to Molten Beam, but then we cut to Zedek in his destroyed little cubicle.
Zedek, can you give me an awareness test, please?
I would be happy to.
Excellent.
You got a two.
Oh, a two.
A two.
Yeah.
Um, so, so you like after the smashing of the, um, of the speaker unit to the ground
and the like sort of grinding of all the hydraulics above you, you can tell it's perfectly silent.
You're completely cut off from your allies.
And then you just far down the hall, which again is only illuminated by flickering lumen strips.
You just hear this.
Boom.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
I should know better than to call out and speak to them, but I guess there's only one place to go.
I'll flick my wrist and begin charging my arc pistol.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Uh, yeah, you start and the light of your arc pistol is providing you some illumination.
But as you get just further down, you can see maybe 20 meters down at the end of the
hall.
Something comes into your line of sight and, um, it is.
Yes.
It is this immense construct that walks sort of parallel and then turns towards you coming in from an offshoot.
It is probably a solid 12 feet tall, and it has this immense grill mouth,
and both of what you think should be its arms are these tangled messes of cabling and wires that end in great speakers.
And it turns.
Done.
And it starts walking towards you.
I put my arc pistol at it.
Is it playing fucking Darude?
Yes.
And it's getting louder.
It's getting louder as it's coming towards you.
You got to take out Cyrus.
You can give me an attack roll, please.
Darude, Siren, Storm.
Yeah.
Please give me an attack roll against this thing.
I hate sand, but mostly storms.
I got a four and a complication.
Oh, I like that.
Yeah.
Please don't tell me it makes it louder.
It gets even worse.
Because now that you've attacked it, now it starts playing dupe.
No.
It starts running.
Yeah.
So you fire.
And let's see if you hit this thing.
I think you do.
I'm just pulling up.
It's lovely statistics here.
Yeah, you hit it.
Please roll me damage.
All right.
15.
At AB minus one.
Cool.
It's going to roll some determination here.
Cool.
You managed to hit it.
And then you realize your bolt of arc energy flies out towards it,
smashes onto its body, and then is stopped by some kind of refractor field.
That sort of ripples in the air around it.
Yeah.
And it takes like a ponderous step towards you.
And it starts walking very methodically and purposely towards you,
clearly having taken nothing from that shot.
And with that, can you also roll me 2d6, please?
Sure.
I'll give you 2d6.
Oh, no.
And your arc pistol suddenly runs dry from ammo as you hold down the stream the entire time,
trying to discharge it on this thing.
Awesome.
Uh-oh.
Well.
Yeah.
I guess you won't be listening to my electronic music.
Lorne, you were going to, I believe, give me a molten beam test, were you not?
Yep.
I'm shooting the speakers, so this terrible music no longer exists in my mind.
Sure.
And then crack a drack, and I roll a second match, that is a four.
Yeah.
Um, cool.
So you, you blast out the speakers.
No problem.
You don't even have to roll like, yeah, yeah.
19 is more than enough.
In fact, you see her through the metal here.
Cause it's fairly like, I said, I'm angling it like over where I think captain Zedek would have been or whatever.
Just like, yeah.
Like you would have been beside.
So you actually like crack open.
This hole in the wall and you see, like, just as you sort of tear down the, the wall with this line of energy, uh, you pop the speakers and then the wall sort of collapses down, uh, from the strain of like what you've done, sort of slicing it and it falls.
You can see Zedek has already moved up from his area and is firing at something in the distance.
I quickly, I quickly rush up.
So what we're going to do right now is actually, we're going to go into, uh, into combat initiative here.
Uh-huh.
Um, and so who would like to go first?
Uh, I guess me since I'm here.
Yeah, probably.
What a question to ask GM that the rest of us are listening to green day.
And I mean, we could take the combat round of, of Reeb handling dude tube.
You do realize that Reeb is not going to be fighting it.
He's just going to sit on the stool with like his eyes closed and his head, like is like chin on his head.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's just going to sit there like very frustrated.
Like, and I just imagine Pi Brain is literally clawing at the walls to get out of this.
I'm sorry.
Just for the record for added immersion.
I have currently got dupe by dupe, the official music video of 1994 playing on loop in the
background.
Good, good, good.
I have to root sandstorm on a 10 hour loop.
Okay.
Carry on a pie.
you were saying well you know i probably like for like the first couple seconds i was like
i notify the superiors that there has been a mishap explain your purpose like trying to do
the sing-song thing and then just like after no response immediately just started going
you son of a bitch bastard i'll kill you and just started like ripping up this fucking
to start power sorting everything like just kylo ren and the dare yeah
okay lauren i guess if we're doing that let's start with lauren in the combat what are you
doing lauren uh i'm rushing through through the hall and i'm saying what's going on and
it's skewed over and i assume it's like directional speakers where i don't really
hear it all that well just a fake and then you turn to come behind zedek and it's suddenly way
louder and it's why you see this thing walking down the hall
lauren lauren
you're at it
you're at it
let's go i pissed off the dj and i didn't bring enough biscuits i need your help
i megaman the motherfucker with the bolton beam just okay yeah roll it up and with permission
i'm gonna use all glory die for damage well uh yeah i mean i don't know if you'll need all that
i glory no i don't glory yeah whatever that's an eight to go after it and i am going to then
kind of use all
all four or do we want to save some for you guys i i'd like to save some in case i have to work my
way out of this dupe prison i've put myself in okay i'm gonna do two then because we have four
total so and then so i fire as much as i can molten beam just a pure line for 24 damage um
yeah 24 damage is is intense and you you push zedek out of the way and like conjure forth this
beam of molten energy will you please
knock me down a rune point
um as as i activate uh one of this thing's special abilities uh the audiophonic warding
in which it you see as the as as the molten beam heads towards it suddenly these these strange
like alien glyphs glow all over it
its body this this tiny script of high gothic intermingled brief but just enough that as the
molten beam flies it reaches within about 10 meters of it and then shrinks down to nothing
and then dissipates
and now your concentration is just broken
i mean it's been a wrath fight not a declaration i
like iron man
and trying to get out
yeah yeah yeah
um roll me uh
oh may i give you the sound effect
yes
i'm worried yes
that's exactly it
wait wait
three two one and we're cutting hold go l
oh shoot
oh god
and i'm like charging through you cut open to like a power sword inches from your face
as as uh pie is there having thrashed the chamber pie was in i'm running up and like i assume you
assume brains like cooling down just having a like just finally like finally i'm out of this room
i'm like rushing over i grab brain
and i like push him and i'm like just dashing to the other one trying to like beam another one
and i kind of use my other wrath point to do that again for the other room because lauren's
so you're you're like like taking like three you're burning all your wrath just to narratively
declare how fast you were fucking psyching your way out of here fuck i spent my last
molten being passed except please roll me an extra d6 when you're done
okay
so just a normal mastery test you're meaning yeah normal normal mastery test and then another one
once you've uh once you okay and there is that one that is an eight total you're good and then
roll another d6 for me i roll a d6 for you that is a two perfect uh you find that you just have
like no control over your psychic powers like you are just like like uncontrolled using everything
because you just need to get out of here so you're like smart like yeah you cut into like
reeb who is like head down on on like hand chin on there uh and yeah reeb you see this and behind
is you
reeb reeb still basking in the the agony that is the music
my eyes are closed my ears are shut i can't hear a damn thing i mean i and i saw my running up the
reeb i grab him and i just like start trying to find exits now that i'm as a
as i can be okay that would that would be the end of your action uh we know that's all i can do
yeah we we come to either uh pie brain or reeb who would like to go next i would love to go
okay so probably stopped listening to the london philharmonic orchestra in his head
it's a lot more like bfg division uh and enchanted with just the sheer rage that he feels
towards 412 graia
and like ever like how far he is and how little everyone believes in him he's got his power sword
out does not give a shit about lorne and is just running at this uh at this golem saying
and is going to make an attack with charge sure uh translators note i rage and charge the enemy
i rage and charge the enemy
there's a scene there's like a there's like a like a psychic kind of like bubble thing that
kind of like goes at the top things london it's like a another dimension thing of a out of
nerd experience lorne kind of comes up to brain and this kind of space-filled thing
and kind of comes again you you don't care about me
and with and with his yellow braids the bubble pops
and lorne and his and his
like raising his power sword um okay give me your attack roll please uh i love nothing more
so kai's just bringing it down with eight dice yeah you can uh you can shift two of those to
damage if you'd like i would love to perfect
uh thanks that's going to be 13 with pen three cool um you you managed to nick into its side
slightly
um you you smack into it you you seem like you've done some amount of damage to it
but uh not a lot that's fine i can do this all day
uh then it will go um it will uh raise one of its speaker hands up under your face
um
um
I will complicate but i will hit you with a six uh what's your defense five five cool so i can't shift any damage which is fine but i'll i'll roll see what i get here
i'll get 12 on you okay um so i think i'm taking three of that ap minus one uh okay so i'm taking
an ap minus one yep yeah so i will try to soak it
determination please yes yes yes
oh yeah
for people confused about uh brain gets five if he's in melee for his defense
yes i do all right so i'm going to take uh two shock you say uh yeah two shock and then the rest
would be damage because you just convert to okay so uh and then uh will you please give me a uh
athletics test i would love to yeah
and uh we're i'll throw a glory at this sure
uh to complete i'll i'll spend the wrath on that one little cool cool cool cool
all right six in total with a complication okay so you can tell that
this thing is trying to push you back and like you're you're
barely able to hold on to the ground as it like basically puts its arm under you
and starts blasting these sonic waves that just and you're just being pushed but you're able to
to hold your ground just barely as this this blast is going off um there's no complication
for the uh the athletics test yeah you can totally counter-attack i have a complication
on it though because it made its attack um
can seem like it's you where you've hit it you've somewhat stunned it uh is what it looks like okay
cool i'm going to keep hacking at it with an all-out i'm not going to all-out attack this
do you think i'm nuts all right so we're just going to go you're right so taking my sword
uh we are how much glory we got left in the pool just one i'm not going to waste it
so taking my sword again pi is going to try to cleave further into this creature okay
do it and we're going to see how far nice a great absolutely article head yes so how many of those
can i shift huh uh you can shift its defenses four so you can shift to two of those so that's
pretty good yeah yeah very nice very nice so here we go quickly go for it
yes rolling damage uh not exceptional uh great no no it will
basically take the same amount of damage you did last time but roll me 2d6 for your
your combat critical to see what you do sure
uh get a 306 which is a savage attack which does a mortal wound to it as well and then
plus one mortal wound for every glory
you spend.
Oh, so I
will spend two glory then to get
two mortal wounds. Okay, so it'll
take that to sap our pool, I think.
Yes, I'm fine with it.
It, like, you
manage to bring your power sword down
on the other side of its shoulder and tear
in, going about, like, six
inches in, burning everything
and then pull
out, and as
you do, it sort of, like, has these sparks
coming out, and it's
still up.
But that was its go. I believe
that brings us to Reeb.
Yeah, so, hey,
here's the problem I'm having.
I don't exactly know how much damage this thing
is taking, if at all. Also, I want to
point out, why is there anime in the text box?
It's holding its head
in absolute fear.
Yes.
I'm going
to
now that I have a weapon that will not cause
Pybrain to be attacked
by fire and burning,
I will actually use this Laz
Gun. Okay.
I do not have the stats for it.
Because it's
I don't know if it's got, like, different stats compared to
standard Laz Gun.
It's just plus two to the attack bonus of it.
So, standard Laz Gun with plus
two attack dice.
Actually,
on second thought, let me look at
what are our options exactly right now,
besides fighting this thing?
There's, like, Loren is madly
trying to cut a new hole for you to
escape out of.
So the material that he's attacking is
metal? Yes, but he's
using his psychic melt-a-gun to
cut through it. I'm going to increase
the heat of it with a flamer.
Oh, yeah, totally.
Yeah, you turn to sort of add your
regular fire to this molten fire and
quickly, like, this isn't a massive
sheet of metal by any
stretch. So, the two of you
focusing on it, you just pop
that wall off, and you have a hallway
which essentially goes off
left
to where you entered the room, but
it carries on to a new hallway that wasn't accessible
before.
Okay, so
That's not helpful.
Uh
The other reason
I don't want to shoot with Laz Gun is because I did not
put the information into my sheet just yet
and I feel like that's...
I mean, as everyone else's turns go,
I guess you can find that information
and put it in. Yeah, I'm going to do
that now since I think that's my turn.
So you spend your turn flamering and
making a hole in the wall. Cool.
That brings us to the end of the
initiative order. It is now the top
of the initiative order.
Who
wants to go first? I would like
to go first and recoup
my absolute fear at being able to do
nothing to this thing.
I mean, Lorne's out of here,
so.
Lorne's leaving.
Yeah, Lorne... I literally
molten beamed it with 20-something damage.
Lorne's done.
Well, it probably only survived because a
ruin was spent. Lorne's
done.
And that's okay. That's perfectly okay.
Uh, Zedek feeling
a bit more confident now that
brain is going full rip and tear on this
machine. I'm not gonna... I want to say
poor machine, but I have zero sympathies for
this horrible tool. Uh, I'm
going to run up to it, uh,
unsheath my power sword from
its holster and just try
and drive it right into its other side.
Sure. Give me an attack roll.
One fat
attack roll coming up.
Boom. And it's complication
and I would like to spend
about a year on it. And remember, the
raft does not remove the complication.
Oh, I know. I know. Okay.
Mark me down. Alright. Okay.
Wow.
No. Captain Zedek
goes in to help and does
not help. Um...
Roll me 2d6,
Captain Zedek.
This is not a good time. I'm glad your entire time
was just to be a failure.
Oh, excellent.
Uh, you manage not only to do that,
you fall prone.
Great. As you go up,
hit it, the reverberations just, yeah,
go through your body and you slip.
Yep.
Can I make a willpower test?
Popeye.
Yes, you can give me a willpower
test.
That's another time.
Why do you do this to yourself?
You are terrified.
Just thought that was a good day.
Um, I will go.
Um, will you mark me
down another rune
point, please?
I'm going to activate a new ability.
It's
called Audio
Sandstorm.
Oh, no.
Can
Piebrain and Captain Zedek
give me an athletics test?
Ah, yes, they can.
Sweet.
They would relish the opportunity.
Oh, of course they get a glory.
Okay, so you get a glory, but that
doesn't count because you fail.
I'm going to spend another glory on this.
Uh, actually, that glory.
Because, uh, if I am,
I'm moved, I'm fucked because I used
counterattack. He doesn't, he doesn't get,
he doesn't get that glory because he fails the
test. Oh, well,
I'll spend a glory regardless if it's
okay with that class.
That's good.
Four? Okay,
you fail. Um, I
fail with four? All right.
I'll wrath
it, I guess. Okay.
All right, mark you down.
There you go, you succeed.
So, Captain Zedek, you are sent
back, um,
basically hurled five meters
away from it.
As this, the air around it
starts vibrating and you are
pushed back. Um,
you hit one of the walls
and sort of, like, slump down
from that. You take
one mortal wound from that.
Awesome.
As your back cracks and
you hit your butt right where you ripped your pants.
Um,
aww. Man, I am gonna put
one of the medicaid down when we get back
to the ship if we get back to the ship. So, activating
that was a free action
on its part. So,
it's going to attack
you now, um,
pi brain. Well, before
it does that, I will get my counterattack.
Uh, yeah, absolutely.
Uh, you will be at a minus, uh,
two penalty to attack us on it.
Okay. So, basically, its defense
counts as two higher.
Oh, uh, all right.
Uh,
I guess I'll add a glory
to it. Uh, the last glory
to try to hit on this one.
Okay. Go for it.
Oh, another
crit. Battle it. Battle it.
Absolutely. Yeah. And crit.
All right. And I'll shift one, I guess.
Uh,
yeah, you can
shift the one. Yeah. Okay, cool, cool, cool.
So, we'll roll the damage, eh?
For 15 damage, AP minus
three. 15 damage, AP
minus three. It seems that the
AP isn't being exceptionally good against
it for some reason. Um,
oh, wow. Okay. Uh,
it gets a bunch more shock,
but honestly looks like
it takes no damage from the actual
damage of your attack. Uh, can you roll
me 2d6? Yes, I absolutely can.
Oh, come on, baby!
62.
Ooh, I'm sure 62 is
good on the crit table. Let's find out.
Uh,
unspeakable carnage. Ooh, takes,
1d3 plus three mortal
wounds, uh, plus one for every glory
you spend. Uh, like, if you
spent it specifically on this, but you spent
it already, so no. Uh, roll me a d3.
Okay, sure thing.
Yeah.
Oh, I don't know. Oh, no.
I'll just roll a d6, I guess. There we go. So,
no, you got it. The d3 one. Yeah, cool, so
four. Uh, cool. Yeah, you, you managed to
stagger it back just a little. It looks
like it's finally taken some significant
damage from that.
So, how, how
bad does it look now? Does it look
like... It's got a couple gashes on it.
It doesn't look like it's stuttering
or anything.
Run, you fools!
Run! I can't! I counterattacked!
It starts when music
is too strong!
We have to fight, gentlemen!
Uh,
doesn't that make it the robot's turn?
Uh, no, that would,
that was the robot's turn. It's done.
So, now it's back to you guys.
Uh,
Lauren,
please, I encourage you to do your thing.
Cool.
Yeah,
the wall just completely collapses.
The flamer and your blast has just completely
destroyed it.
I'm gonna kick it down, look at where you're going.
And I'm running
up to another wall, and someone gave
me a wrath point, and I, and
I am using every
psychic luck possible.
Just thinking of the layout
of the facility, everything else,
I look at a wall,
because I see no exits besides
where that thing is,
and I immediately point at a wall and go,
and I'm using
another wrath die
to point at a wall
and start cutting
with another molten beam attack.
Yeah, roll me a molten beam attack.
And then an extra D6, please.
So,
there comes molten beam.
That is a D6.
Perfect.
Roll me a HG.
will i will now roll you the six of the d that is a five good uh you don't even have to roll damage
it just blasts through and you find yourself like suddenly you're connected to this new hallway by
blasting through a random section of wall you you you see this new hallway you can you can now get
access to that looks to be a a larger arterial hallway that'll give you plenty of places to run
off into well i i try to inform by yelling pass all the derudes and music and stuff or at least
make ream aware go like we have to leave now it's just that thing's dynamite it took an entire
beam and just tanked it perfect uh okay uh who wants to go next uh reap or pipeline i'm pretty
sure it's just me right or no i haven't gone okay yeah he reacted so uh you go ahead first i'm i
need to think about what the hell i'm gonna do okay uh i'm going to make another attack um at
this point i'm a little
nervous about this guy i'm not gonna all out attack though okay um yeah so we're just going
to uh just make another attack sure all right i'll hit i'll shift one well because shift would
make you miss because it's defense four oh well yeah no but uh oh oh wait did i only get three
that's on the dog yeah yeah no i'm having a stroke you got it you're good you're good okay
all right and 13 damage again
uh it seems to take that pretty well um it somewhat shaken up a little bit but it's still
there it looks like you didn't do any more damage with that swing again it looks like every time
your power sword is coming in it's sort of being pushed back i need assistance i can't take this
thing down alone run you fool i can't yes you can you have legs
no they're not get up here go uh okay so in this scenario i looked at the stats properly for the
las gun this thing actually has rapid fire which i don't know if everyone else's has
um i mean like weapon it's a it's a weapon property but you basically get an extra damage
die if you run into short range with it okay uh so i'm going to how close am i to this thing
yeah you're about 15 meters because like you're all sort of clustered in that middle area well
you are uh you could move and get into rapid fire range and still be outside of its crazy
field yeah because short range of this thing is 12 so i'm going to do that i'm going to get within
12 of this thing and i will do a ranged attack with this funny new las gun i have
cool lauren you basically break off from the rest of the group running screaming down the
halls reed but you have this moment where you see lauren run off you then turn back and pop
the corner and take the las gun and you're like oh my god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die
take a shot yes and now i rule the thing hopefully i have slotted this in right
oh so i got it there you go nice nine to hit that'll do i forgot one because i'm in short
range for so rapid fire oh yeah that's right well that yeah so you can bring three of those
dice up so three more damage yeah all right so three bonus dice on the add that one extra bonus
dice for um rapid fire so yeah okay so so damage bonus of three uh four because the rapid fire
i'll do three four okay good
that's not bad uh yeah you hit it um sadly it seems to just bounce off of it
good well at least i know at least i know what i'm going for now
mm-hmm what's good i'm always worried that baby was like oh the lower ap
weapon is the better it is against it no that's the uh that's the end of uh that's the end of
this turn uh next turn who wants to go first
i would like to go okay zedek you're knocked prone five five meters away oh geez i am not
gonna have enough movement to get up but i will do my best is that a kind of feeling like a piece
of shit because he's just getting everything thrown at him takes his chain hit flask out of
his jacket unscrews it takes a drink
looks down kind of sad it's like no legends are not made on being a bitch get a kick down
legends are made by those who dare and i fucking dare to be stupid yeah rapidly put my flask back
in my jacket i get myself back up and i since i can't melee him i'm going to oh oh i can't
as as as you as you realize
that your pistol is out of ammo and you haven't
reloaded it yet
as you're sitting there realization you have like it's like this is the image of like a
faded out thing of lauren coming behind your head as if i'm like you're thinking of a memory
of lauren it's like it's like and and and wise lauren has once said get the fuck out and run
i'm gonna try and reload the gun
the ghost image of lauren facebook
and then you're like i stand up and i reload my gun
so start of uh start of the the vox golems turn uh it maintains its aura as a
free action uh because it can do so for a number of rounds so uh give me an athletics test please
hi brain i would love
you broke up you broke up the internet your internet it's been your day internet no
no speaker day
it's internet
sorry my internet yeah it's thundering
oh shit
all right try again
okay
uh athletics test please
oh no i'm back
sorry about that it's lightning and i you know
all right
athletics test please
athletics
let's go for
let me
let me
let me
yeah you you managed to hold your ground which is good um it's gonna hit you with its vox smashers
again before it like that i'll counter-attack oh yeah go ahead yeah i don't have my hopes about
do it up yep i'm believing you go go go go that will miss this time because it's auras up so you
take the penalty to hit it uh yeah
yeah so you swing and your sword just goes off to the side and then it raises it it's two vox smashers and pushes them straight at you
uh four does it does it and i can counter-attack him again uh you only get one reaction a turn
ah but a counter-attack i can do twice oh that's right because you get a certain number yeah
and i will uh i'm going to what's the second counter-attack from is it if it misses or
no it's if i'm targeted i can make it i can make it i can make it i can make it i can make it i can make it i can make it i can make it
i can make basically as many as my rank times two thanks to counter-attack oh yeah yeah but does it
have to be like something attacking you to do it yes just because okay so the the the field doesn't
trigger a counter-attack that's a passive thing that hits everyone the attacks would trigger your
counter-attack though oh all right yeah so then i suppose but but he misses with his his things
anyways so uh who would like to go next
you
already out here boys you're ready lord has already given his warnings and he's like yelling
at the hallway that he has opened up for everyone saying move it let's go down this way well i guess
it just leaves us reed and pie yeah i'm i'm checked out my my guns can't can't hurt this
thing i got no ap i've got a knife so i'm bailing oh no i already went sorry he made his
so like i might think i have like like those airline like glow stick things and i'm like
directly towards the hallway i'm like this way this way let us go this way
what are the negative consequences for shooting a gun with melee
uh for shooting a pistol in melee um do you basically just use your uh
agility
instead of initiative all right can i use an interact real quick yeah what are you looking
to all right um i'm going to take my plasma gun and i'm going to throw it at reed because i can't
use it right now oh well okay yeah i i can't i can't use it uh i'm i can't run because i've
been counterattacking so why are you throwing a plasma weapon at me because because your gun
isn't doing anything this might help
you're
you're
you're
you're
doing
and i'm gonna do more stupid things before the night's up i'm going to uh make another attack
sure
sadly i've committed it probably would be wiser to leave but i committed it i don't have well
uh yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna spend two glory um on the damage dice because i want to fucking hurt
this thing
all right with 15 if you might understand okay i am does that do anything uh it might we'll see
how my determination goes it might
um it does do a little bit it looks like a wound or two got through
um yeah at that point i'm not i'm not liking this um can can you spend a rune point for me
yep
uh i am going to um have it utilize the second ability of its audiophonic warding
and uh that's going to restore
one d6 wounds i'll get three back cool as it glows and like the various appendages start
like wrapping around and fixing themselves at this point lauren has already like made
some kind of a deal with me so i'm going to have to do something about it i'm going to have to do something about it
he's already paved the hallway you know and it's like he's already put down like lines with like
the reflectiveness to them he's now like like he's now putting like there's giant vegas signs
right by the thing and laurence is sitting there just tapping his fucking wrist like i have i'm not
fucking around is lauren on zamboni at this point like pretty much yeah no no he's in one of those
like the the outfits that they wear when they're like directing planes after they land just like
this way this way uh okay yeah so that that it heals i believe that's the end of the initiative
though i guess reed now has a plasma gun so i don't have to make any check to grab this extremely
volatile piece of tech hardware that pie is so callously thrown at me no no i'll let you make
them to fucking withstand some shit don't do i have to add the plasma gun to my inventory now
you would yes just roll a ballistic skill test though we'll see if you hit i can
do the the math in the background please do yep yep you're good this is just my flat ballistic
are you going to overcharge it no i assume not a fucking plasma gun uh your plasma gun
misses as the bolt of plasma goes wide what are you doing the small miniature son whizzes by pie
pie be glad he didn't complicate i'm very glad i'm going to now back away with my remaining stuff
goodbye okay yeah you fire and then like you steal pies
gun like absolutely okay uh this brings us to the next turn in the initiative who would like to go
first uh well at this point it seems as though we are in a quandary um i cannot move
it's a new turn it's a new turn i did use uh counter-attack since then though
oh yeah baby yeah yeah yeah so i'm stuck where
i am for this turn so instead of trying to pour more damage onto it seeing the my ranks
narrow uh i'm going to try to make a uh tech check actually and i'm going to see if maybe
while i'm right next to it i can do something to disable these insane fields it has protecting
itself or maybe counter yeah counterman some uh operations with him let's let's let's see it
come on let's show me your improved tech skill
does he wait for it everyone waits for the rock okay
but you okay so sadly pie you do not like this is arcane technology of some hitherto forgotten
era of time the warding is something you've never seen but something is visible to you
and it makes your steely oil run run cold as you see the manufacturer's mark on the back of one of
these speakers
of forge world graya
i will kill this thing i will die
also give me uh an athletics check lauren hears the rage and he just puts his hand
to his temple just like we're all gonna die
a rage in charge in place a complicate and a complication the complication is me
being uh fairly beneficent and um you you make the check which is it is now pushing you away
with this field it's generated um and it sends you sprawling back five meters away from it but
you don't take any damage so you basically stumble back finally losing your balance uh you don't take
any mortal wounds from this but now it is sort of like freed itself from you being right by it
uh captain zedek you've reloaded your pistol what would you like to do
how close is brain?
uh he would be right beside you now because you got pushed in the same direction
in fact it's exactly like the picture we have except except reeb and reeb and lauren are far
away
giving up this is dumb
brain
one lighter later we'll edit this in post i grab brain and i try to just drag him away
as fast no i need to kill it we will kill it later when it is not about to kill us
all right so well i feel a little
i think we're gonna take our our break right here real quick and then we'll come back at about five
or so i see all right let's take a break we'll be right back everybody
yeah
blame
I mean what do you like more do you like pizza with bone or without bone
this is the kind of stupid shit i'd expect from people who thought the moon landing was real
you have to have bone pizza it i love the crunch
chicken wings on your pizza you rat
look look we can all agree that we will murder and sacrifice anyone who puts pineapple on pizza
but the motherfuckers who go boneless pizza need to do this not there is there is dissent in the
houses the last rod is a barrel cup and chars that's all i'm gonna say there's no excuse
we require a choma meeting to discuss this
you invite me
welcome back everyone to all hams i think we're fucking running in this scene
i think i think pi brain finally fought something he couldn't kill in one hit
it would have taken me a couple more give me another round dm put me back in coach
put me back in
uh we we return to the to the ben the benny hill music going on as our party is madly dashing through the corridors of this mechanicum outpost uh at this point since lauren is an old man his companions have reached up to him
what are you doing
what you notice is that this this golem creature that you were fighting moves particularly slowly
oh
can we just
like walk can we walk but act like we're scared and running fast
and like just just casually just going like a normal stride ah it's getting i don't know as i
look back this is a scooby-doo now yeah by the time by the time you've you've like caught up to
lauren this thing is far behind you you can just sort of hear the
in the back oh is it the ghostbusters theme now what
i look behind like oh
so
it's not that scary i point at its ceiling and
molten beam it for debris to fall upon
it
uh you can't you can't quite like see it
because it's like behind like turned corners but you could like cause a
debris
that's what you want it
as soon as i see it like oh it ain't that fast
yeah gimme a gimme a molten beam test please
absolutely you don't even have to roll damage you just you cause a section of
the roof to collapse around it and and sort of blocked it out so you can get infected and can't go anywhere till you see it so uh that's just what it's like giantарm nueva multi earthen Colonium Beams Test About Death At Even Sideway Modern Relief R&D Track Every Moment Welcome World Fest магазin the real home theater two or three days a day to play with your children every day fucks
collapse around it and and sort of block off its path temporarily cool all right good job boys
and i move on we need to have a plan yeah we go forward like the bone said
no we shut up about the bones the bones are not very accurate we're being chased by a creature
some side of automata or other sort of corrupted i look back at the said thing chasing us trapped
into the debris and then look back at brain i'm like what we have a moment we need to think about
how we are going to destroy it or any others that we find on the way that's when you notice the hall
that you're in has several corpses in it these ones are different from the ones you'd seen
previously um reeb you would easily identify these without having to make a check they're in like the
the the attire of a like adeptus administratum workers like how you did that just as i opened
my character
sheet again today of course i'm impressed like that administratum they're not blown to bits are
they uh it looks like some of them have these distortion marks on them um you can give me a
medicaid check to identify how they died ah there's the complication but i still have a nine
oh yeah with the nine that's enough for you to note um the the way these people died was from
massive sonic impacts like
their their organs were crushed by sonic vibrations good and the complication is is that
you notice or start hearing that the the debris behind you is starting to to get knocked apart
and you can hear this time's up time to move i'm beginning to move forward we can talk on the way
brain and and you you start like continuing on um and as you continue like running down the halls
and moving at a brisk pace uh you notice more corpses that start lining the walls here and the
further and further down you get the the more the attire starts to change like very subtly
oh what uh scholar test if you've got it ah oh i can do that i'm supposed to do that i don't really
got it but i could like take a wild guess i really believe myself
this time i believe in the heart of the cards long there's not no much about the universe
and he only gets to do we're gonna complicate uh zedek you're the one who noticed the company
there's no real chance to complicate on this um but zedek you would you would know this is like
looking at basically like the adeptus administratum over the millennia wow there are generations of
people up to and including like
maybe a few centuries ago worth of imperial dignitaries here so based on what i'm seeing
it seems like every what's the word i'm looking for every incremental advancement the
administratum has had every element of their attire it seems like each successive advancement
has made it a little farther than the last i really hope we don't add to this pile
zedek take any thoughts of failure and delete them from your hard drive there is no chance of
failure uh lorne you however feel this this tug this this psychic emanation coming from a chamber
just ahead of you the bone's right boys something's down there
hmm yet another challenge
let us steal ourselves
all right of course old man walking up to the door i assume we all getting like a like left
and right side of the door and yeah i'm prepared to get in i'm gonna have the plasma gun out this
time i'm gonna watch that back later but yeah yeah yeah um yeah lorne you you managed to
activate the door and kind of peek around and what you see is a man-sized glass door
glass cylinder that's filled with this smoky blue green red purple mist that sort of congeals and
shifts around the walls here are entirely covered in soundproofed material but also these
these large speaker units at regular intervals
i see what is inside of that container
zedek you take point
against my better judgment i will i will use my power sword on the container
and brace myself with my pistol the other hand in case something comes out
so you're just like gonna walk up with your power sword and like just crack the glass
is
really what you want me to do do you want no no no no no no no we need to understand what's inside
of it are there any like nearby like uh servitors or like panels or anything we can use to get more
information um there is as you look you can see there's a door at the opposite side and beside
that door uh coming out of the wall is another one of those those like servitor torsos that's
built into the wall i'm not singing again i will i'll tell you what i'm going to do i'm going to
help you
attention servitor you must service us tell us the purpose of the room
and you hear a voice from behind you
oh no that one doesn't speak anymore he doesn't sing either
i turn and i face this new aggressor it it's just the churning mist in the cylinder
oh
who are you
yes yes Reeb
sorry
can I
this feels like something that I might know
is this some kind of medical device
you can
give me a medicaid test for sure
oh good I roll medicaid
on the giant mechanical tube
oh it's a glory at a seven
yeah like you would know
that you often like medical
places utilize this kind
of technology to store
useful gases like analgesic
mists and so forth
it looks to be the same principle
though there's
like various different arcane technological
bits and pieces
around it that you can't quite decipher
I tried to do a
mastery test
yeah please do
see if I can discern if something is a fuckery
with it
sure
I only get a five for Lorne
there is some kind of entity
of the
the immaterium
that is inside this
you feel some presence
like that of being in the warp
inside this cylinder
that thing's got warp fuckery
boys
yeah and so as pies you ask what it is
that's what Lorne shouts it's warp fuckery
who are you
oh
oh well then
I guess I can drop this
the accent a bit
hi there
sup
go back to the other voice
hi
how's it going
no you know what I am
so I guess it doesn't make sense
I can't do my usual
oh tremble before me mortal
well you're a demon
I prefer creature of the warp
but I suppose demon
by your limited mind space
is fine
beg your pardon
well this seems like it's going to be promising
what do you want foul warp creature
what do you mean
what do you mean what do I want
you were the one who asked a question
and I answered it
you did all of this presumably
did what
this place
no no
they put me in this bottle
and then tested on me here
kept shooting sounds at me
they made me listen to things
or made me talk and then see
see I don't know what
my voice did
I don't know
I've been here for like 10,000 years
are you some kind of idiot
no
I'm Sean
oh
it's okay
I can put you out your misery
put my hand up to it and you just start seeing the
like an iron man ring kind of
like start raining the molten beam
I can just do it right now
lord lord lord
don't let it happen
oh please
oh please
oh please
please let me out of here
I've been here for 10,000 years
and all I want is to be let out of here
I'm not letting him out
I'm destroying you
that's fine
I'll go back in the warp
that's cool
that's that it's way better than this place
do you know how annoying this place is
sometimes there's this thing that walks around
and all I hear for like 20 years straight
is it's the most annoying damn thing
oh my god
oh my god
that's that's the that's the sentinel they put here
I guess guess the people haven't been back yet
who is they
the people like you
they had darker red
but but they were like you
they they ran this place
describe them to us in exact detail
and cooperate with everything we ask
and we might let you out
well they were they were like you
we should not let the demon out of containment
I am a warp entity sir
demon is a slur to me
I don't care
I value my soul
no listen
I have decided
I have decided
that we are
we are pro demon
we are pro
we are demon likers
my hand is like turning to the right
like a turret straight to brain
and I just want everyone to know that
we're good
and if you like
inside of his his hands
or like inside of his sleeves
and they're
oh see there it is
there it is
oh great
they're pointed out to uh
lorne and uh reeb
or I'm sorry
lorne and uh zedek
in the kitten in his sleeves
and they both have their fingers crossed
we are such big friends
so
so we're definitely not going to betray you
if you help us
okay
okay
okay
okay
right
all right
what do you want
I just want out of here
stop just a moment
damn you
what are we making
please
reeb's kind of had enough at this point
he's been sitting behind
while everyone's like
oh we're going to talk to the demon
no we'll break the demon out
so it can destroy us
I'm just gonna take my fucking inquisitorial symbol
I'm gonna slap it onto the edge of the tank
just so it's
what's that
what's that
this doesn't look familiar to me
does it look familiar to you
I have been here for 10,000 years
is that something new
I need to ask
does the term imperium of man mean anything to you
oh yeah
that's goldie boy's thing right
goldie whom
goldie boy he was he was taking over everything
oh he must be talking about our blessed enemy
goldie boy grabbed me and put me here
gave me to the red robed people the devil is here
the devil is here
the devil is here
the demons are as stupid as the denizens
oh my god
stop it
look
what is your crime that got you placed into this very large air tank
why do you all
why do you people always assume it's a crime with my people
I was just floating in the warp
having a grand old time
when one of your goldie ships came by with a net
picked me up
and then the next thing I knew I was in this tank here
and they were doing tests on me
and I'm a grand old man
what
I don't know they've just been wanting to hear my voice to put it through speakers to
it's really annoying
I'm sorry aren't you are not supposed to be like insane tempters
this is the most unhelpful least tempting creature i've ever met
do you understand the warp
do you not understand the warp
the warp is impossible
infinity everything can be there like my name a lot of people judge me for my name oh sean the
warp entity oh but you're not like kad banda or corebacks no i'm just sean and i'm a very very
decent warp entity it's not infinity it doesn't have everything i'm not there idiot well then you
you he's got a point no better moron all right so i think we could i think we can save the
ignition let's wait wait everyone everyone i have a question that not you entity uh do we care can
we just keep going yes let's go leave leave it there all right let's go i can tell you how to
stop it how i mean it's hard to stop by debris i'll just start pushing everybody out through
the doorway
it's getting closer you can hear it getting closer
stand no you've taken a stand yeah you guys you guys i wasn't i don't actually like team
i'm pretty pretty low on the hierarchy of things that i like all right fine but you guys uh i'll
i deal with warp stuff whatever how do we get rid of it
who is just gonna hit it you've just you've got to you've got to get it in here okay
then then you just
activate with the the cogitator there you might need to do some manual stuff
you turn on the sound dampeners in here and it can't use any of its sound stuff okay
ah then then you should be good they kept doing it to me they were like oh you don't need sound
sean we don't want to hear your voice sean then then nothing happened then then that thing couldn't
do anything in here bran check to make sure what that thing says is true go check the car to make
sure it doesn't like open his door or something
yeah yeah yeah yeah give me a tech check
yeah this is important i'm gonna spend two glory on it absolutely
you can tell that yeah like it looks like there's some activation runes that you can
use uh that would essentially turn this place into a big like ambient noise
chamber like there would just be such background noise that any actual sound would be completely
stopped
but it means you couldn't talk for example during that but you you sure could uh stop all of the
sound based things that the golem was doing okay i think in lieu of another option that might be
true see i'm i'm a totally nice person i just want to be a good person i just want to be a good person
i just want to be a good person i just want to be a good person i just want to be a good person
to go back to the warp and not be in a tube anymore are we not why are we listening to a
demon i'm with reba on this one okay wait
what if we were to get this creature into a void shield
we i grab brain ship and i turn him and i look at him dead in his fucking flashlight headlight eyes
and i tell him to let go of the springsteen's hand because we are going to be in this game for so
i go we're using this method you checked it you confirmed it worked we're going to use a sting
and i'm going to molten beam that thing so fucking hard it has explodes do you understand me
okay i press turn off sound button oh yeah yeah so so as you do like the speakers begin emitting
this vibrating sound throughout the area and suddenly none of you can talk anymore so none
of you can talk to each other um and with this i stand in position right in the middle walking
towards you once i think it's in range hands up and molten beam full power i want in fact
so much power i want to do it unbound okay three so so sorry the two extra dice
okay yep so all right just to make sure i
do this right because we haven't done this in a while i think it's bonus wrath dice correct
it is you basically you'll roll the check and then roll two extra d6s afterwards and if either
of them is a one you'll parallels cool but it's two extra dice towards you so yeah um it's coming
towards and um yeah please please give me please give me that check what are the rest of you doing
is lauren has like set up none of you can talk because the sound dampening has gone on uh reed
what are you doing
reep reep the sound happening has gone off i'm about to say
reep's just gonna like take cover because if we're just doing gonna like let all the big
heavy hitters do shit you know okay i would like you okay you have a plasma pistol
oh let's just check okay cool so you're getting ready you're gonna you're gonna hit it as it
comes in captain's attic what are you doing i'm going to ready my arc pistol
okay you can give me a ballistic skill check as well
i have excellent uh pie brain what are you doing having turned off the uh the sound dampening what
are you doing every fiber of my being wants me to charge at this thing with my sword and carve it
for lemuria but i don't trust this fucking demon so i am not moving i have my hand on the sound
dampener system the moment there is any unusual activity from the sound dampener system i'm going
to charge it up and down the fucking case i would rather we get killed by this thing
okay okay and uh lauren will you please will you please give me your your molten beam cool we're
gonna go here it comes there it is roll me two extra d sticks because this matters oh no
roll me two extra d sticks
oh thank you guys
Showdown to the last episode of Board Games.
Oh, no.
It's been a real great show so far.
Okay.
Let's see here.
I believe how this works is...
Sorry, so you would get a 65.
Roll me two extra d6 for the extra two dice.
You still have to roll those two other wrath dice.
So you got 65.
They're at the end there.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Because there's the perils result,
but then there's two extra dice that you have to do.
Yeah, those are right there.
That's what's added into it.
Yes.
Then you have to roll the perils result,
which is another 2d6.
Which I just rolled.
No, no, no, no, no.
There is 2d6 extra dice.
Oh, sorry.
You've got them.
I see.
You've actually got them in the thing.
Okay.
Sorry.
No one else actually does that properly.
Okay.
So actually, let's...
I see it.
Yeah, yeah.
So here's that thing.
You've got it right.
You've got it right.
I see it.
And the one of the extra die was a normal success.
And the other one...
One was a one.
Sorry.
Normally, people don't add that in correctly.
Yeah.
I got it right.
No, no, no.
Yes.
Okay.
I see.
All right.
So it's 65, which is why I was,
oh, no, because that's on the high end.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm horrified.
Well, guys.
I wish I had wrath dice,
so I could, like, increase the rest of the dice.
Thanks.
Thanks for all the lore and fan art, guys.
Oh.
Thank you for your cat inside the clove.
I love all of it.
Surging warp energies.
The air begins to shimmer and distort.
All creatures suffer 1d6 shock.
I gain one rune.
And all wrath dice rolled as part of the psychic mastery test
that don't result in a one or six must be re-rolled.
So all of you gain 1d6 shock.
So I'm just going to roll it once for all of you,
because I am...
Yeah, we can just...
To make it easier for you,
we can roll it so it's categorized.
Yeah, fair enough, fair enough.
Yeah, so I'll roll our own thing.
So I take five, which I have a lot of shock,
so I'm okay.
Cool.
And yeah, the rest...
Ooh, Captain Zennec is, like...
You see these, like, arcing energy going by.
Yeah, Pi, you see it as well.
The air is shimmering multicolored
as everything sort of distorts
and circles around Loren's hand
as reality buckles and turns.
Can you roll the damage for that blast?
And you...
Yeah, yeah, sorry.
And I would like to input
as much glory die as possible into this thing
if it's okay with the power.
Absolutely.
Go for it.
Doing good?
Okay, so we're going to do all four.
So thank you, chat, for assisting.
And then...
And I want to spend the wrath
that chat also gave me to re-roll.
Yep.
As much of that damage as possible.
Absolutely.
And we will get just an additional more.
So that is 24 damage.
Whoa.
That is...
Yeah, that should do it.
Also, I forgot.
I'm also going to be heightening up
a thing as well
to where...
Oh, heightening one more.
So I just need to roll, like, one more decent.
Oh, yeah, please.
Yeah, so there's this additional one.
That will be nothing.
So it's that.
So it's struck by that if it...
And it's also on fire.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, Reeb, you'd hit.
You didn't get any...
Chris, can you roll me 1d6, please?
For your plasma gun that you fired?
Here we go.
Yeah, so it's an extra damage.
So 16 from your shot.
That also adds into it.
And then Captain Zedek,
I believe you fired your arc pistol.
Which complicated.
Yeah, yeah.
That did complicate, didn't it?
But you still...
Oh, no, you missed, too.
So get rekt.
Great.
Roll me 2d6, please.
Okay.
34.
34.
Oh, perfect.
You drop your weapon.
As, like, Reeb lines up this perfect shot
and hits at the exact point that the molten beam strikes,
you manage to drop your weapon.
And then your weapon discharges.
I'm going to spend a rune point here.
No.
Oh, dear.
And, like, all of you are lined up and Pybrain is back.
But Zedek, for some reason,
the shock of seeing everything the world around you ripple
as this psychic backwash goes
causes you to flinch and you drop your arc pistol.
And the arc pistol discharges.
What direction does it discharge?
It discharges towards the cylinder.
All right.
Can I...
Since I didn't make an attack
and I was waiting for something to happen,
can I do something?
What would you like to do?
I want to jump in front of the discharge.
Yeah.
You know what?
Sure.
I will allow you to make a...
In this case, I'll say initiative test.
Pybrain.
The difficulty will be four.
All right.
My initiative...
Oh, God.
And we don't have any resources.
You don't have any
and you've burned all your wrath, so...
Oh, God.
One.
That's how convenient it gives you one
in the next, like, ten seconds or so.
Yeah.
Holy shit.
All right.
Can I burn a wrath to re-roll my...
to hit?
Yeah, but it would change the complication.
Yeah.
Oh, damn.
All right.
We don't have any lookouts, sir.
We don't have any mooks.
Damn it.
Damn.
Rest in peace, Master Chair Brigade.
Okay.
Let's go.
You're giving a wrath.
You're just giving a wrath.
Oh.
Oh, I was giving a wrath.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, hit the re-roll.
Oh, God.
It's one dice.
Can you do it?
Oh.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Do, do, do, do.
Can you do it?
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yes!
Oh, there you go.
Oh, no!
Captain Zeta, can you roll damage
for your arc pistol, please?
Yeah.
Oh, dear.
Okay, so 14 with AP minus one on to you, Pye.
Okay, so let me think real quick.
How much damage am I taking in?
I've taken actually a bit of damage thus far.
So I've got seven wounds right now.
I'm at resilience nine, I'm gonna spawn.
So that is going to be...
Six.
Six.
Six.
I can have one wound.
Excellent.
It hits you dead in the chest.
Describably.
As it hits you dead in the chest.
As it hits you dead in the chest.
As it hits you.
And you spin around, preventing it from hitting the glass case.
And as this is all happening, the molten beam is seared into the chest of this advancing
Vox Golem.
And then this molten sun goes flying into it, reaching into the chest cavity that has
been exposed, causing it to explode into dozens of pieces scattering across the room.
And then it collapses dead.
And none of you can hear it, cause there's still the...
There's still the voice dampening going on.
I spin my staff around.
I pointed at the staff and went out from the staff and I imagine there's some smoke and
go, foom, just an actual foom sound happens.
And then I plant it down, turn around, announce my triumph and realize nothing's happening.
And I looked at our brain and I vocally tried to say, and it's just...
Bwn!
Bwn!
Bwn!
smoking, like, special
beam cannon hole that is
just... I am just going to, like,
leaking oil everywhere, just
go to the
terminal, press
the turn sound
on button, and just say
For Lemuria!
Oh, yes!
Well, I guess
you did pretty good. I mean, I was hoping
that blast would hit the cylinder and let me go
back to the warp, but, I mean, you did
pretty good there. You killed it, and at least that way
I won't have to listen to its music anymore, so
thanks for that. Yeah, you're welcome. Alright, see you later.
I start leaving.
Wait! We have to do some things!
Why? As you turn, like, you
turn towards the door, Lorne, and
it opens up into a large chamber.
Actually, wait, wait, wait, wait. We're going to hold.
We're going to hold. Before all that,
I want to pick up Brain,
because we have a
connection. I understand his desire.
So I bring him up, like, are you good?
You good? And I dust him off, like, okay,
I have a cat.
Pose on it. Pose on it.
Make sure the symbol's shown.
Like Captain Morgan in, like,
just show how triumphant you are.
And we start
taking pictures, and I'm like,
okay, okay, does this one look good? Does this one look good?
You look really heroic. This is Zetikit
pose three. I think it's a good one.
Zetik, is this the right pose?
Yes, it's the right pose.
I kind of get over, go over to
Brain and get under him.
Do that one. It's page 40. Page 40 on Zetikit.
Okay, page 40.
I want to go over to
Brain while it's happening.
Just get his arm
over my shoulder. Just, like, hoist him up
and just, like, give a point at him. Like, this guy.
This motherfucker right here is
the bravest among my lot. I love him right now.
I bring Reeb over.
I encourage Reeb.
Let's all get a group picture. Let's all get a group picture.
I, like, psychic
float the camera and stuff so it's in position.
And I, like, I pose
the robot like we hunted a deer.
And we make sure that a guy
or whatever is shown. What psychic power do you have for that?
Uh, it's called the telekinetic
hand thing or whatever.
Can you give me a psychic mastery test?
Go fuck yourself.
How do I do it?
Don't do that!
I'm fine.
He's fine. Yeah.
Can you roll me two extra dice?
No.
God damn it.
Alright, fine.
I'm good.
Okay, you're good.
So, wait, I'm floating it there
because I am unbound so it's too
wrath-tied for anything else that I do now.
So it's like, so we're holding it up.
It's like we hunted a deer. We showed
Forgewood Gaia. And we're all like,
Yeah!
I take the picture with the psychics.
Yeah! I was so close, too.
I guess I could have to keep waiting here.
I guess you are.
I can't believe I have a picture
with the author of Zetiquette.
Now, if you'll excuse me.
I, uh,
I'm just going to act now
and as Pi is trying to get up
to do whatever he's doing, I'm gonna pull back
on his, uh, like, the nape
of his hood for a moment
and I'm going to wheel him around and be like,
You still have a gaping hole in your chest.
And I take out a drill.
I appreciate your...
I think their Medicaid tools for him are different.
Just hold on a second.
That's a lot of damage.
I'm going to take my power sword
and I'm going to, uh,
we gotta pick capture.
But I want to get the physical part.
I want the physical part of this creature
that shows this was made in
Graia.
I'm going to cut it off
and I'm going
to take it with me.
Sure.
Graia has been performing
potential
artificial
abominable intelligence
experiments
here and have
captured a demon
uh, a warp entity
and put it
into this glass thing.
There must be
evidence and recourse
against the Forgewelt
and a Mechanicus
investigation. I must inform
Lemuria and Mechanicus
delegations of the Crusade.
How can you inform Lemuria? Isn't it gone?
It's not gone.
You thought Lemuria was... I just
don't live there anymore.
Yes, yes, Pye. Yes, this is
all wonderful. No, no, no. Hold still.
Okay.
Oh, complicated.
Oh.
Oh, no. Is it just like you
fix him up but his, like, symbol
is upside down?
Don't you rail so hard.
Wait, wait. I have a suggestion.
One, are we going to do a
patron one real quick?
I like, there's one that could work into
this, which is just...
Do that one.
What was that noise?
Try it. Go do that one.
It somehow triggers a sound
and
this causes panic in a character
due to the danger and
possibly has that character,
you know, perform some kind of domino
effect. So, um...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Would you...
I would say
maybe whatever sound...
you hear causes you to freak out
a bit more, PyeBrain, and want to
get out of this particular room with
all due haste.
Yeah, we need to get out of here.
I can't make a good sound because the demon inside
of my body knows it's a good thing.
We gotta go. And I'm just gonna kind of, like,
pick, um, um, uh,
grieve up under his arms.
Like, while he's performing surgery,
I just run forward.
Yeah, you, you quickly, um,
run towards the doors that lead out
and they lead to a new chamber that looks
much cleaner,
and much more active than the previous
chambers you've been in. Rows of cogitator
units and screens that dance
with light as you enter into
this, uh, this, this chamber
that has, like, an overlook onto the lunar
surface through a, through a view glass.
Uh, something that you, you note
that's pretty impressive as you come
in here, though probably not you, Pye. You're, you're
more focused on the cogitator units everywhere.
But, uh, Reeb, you see
a... Excellent. Uh, you see a
large stasis
tube in the
corner of the room. Very
similar to the one that you saw
on Farthem IV in the Divine Lord
of Sciences, uh,
chambers, though this is maybe
three or four times
the size. And it's pushed up
like a casket up against the
wall with crude cabling
like bolted into the,
uh, into the, the systems
here. Like, this was just some kind of
patch job.
No more ratlings!
Come on now!
They couldn't possibly have ratlings
this far away from their home.
It's a giant ratling!
Oh no.
Just real quick point of
order. Did I gain any
wounds back from that Medicaid check?
Uh, I got a six.
So, GM?
So, let me
pull up Medicaid here, and
uh, so it's three,
uh, is the, is the check. Did you
get any glories on that?
You did. You can shift one, so you can
restore two.
Uh, a natural Medicaid reducing
the difficulty. Oh, the
DN. But you've only got one glory, so
you can only get two, so. You get two
back. Okay. That works, though. Up at
three wounds. Yep.
Cool.
That'll, uh, yeah, you see
just pick up a tube. Okay.
Uh, yeah, Reeb, you go up to it.
You just see this, like,
cloying, blue
analgesic mist and
frost along the, the interior
of it, blocking your view inside.
Uh, Reeb's gonna do
his characteristic, take a knuckle
of his finger and, like, lightly
knock against it. Okay.
It goes, like, clonk, clonk, clonk.
Um, as you're doing
that, uh, Captain Zedek and
Lauren, what do you do as you see all of this? Starting
with Captain Zedek. Uh, I'm
gonna look around the room for any sort of
command manifest or any active
terminals. Uh, yeah,
you, you see an active terminal.
I would like to approach it
and see if I can access its data.
Sure. Uh, you wanna give me a tech test
for that? I would be happy to,
and I would happy to not complicate on this
one. I would look forward
to seeing a not complication, but we'll
see. Well, it's still a fail,
so it's, well. Um, yeah, you, you
go up, and these, these terminals are so
strange. Like, they're so
sleek and filled with,
with lovely, like, user
interfaces and things
you're not used to that are scary
and you don't know how to do anything without,
like, a scary green command line.
Zedek hate automation.
He hate ergonomic.
I don't know how to do this. Ergonomic?
Lauren, what are you doing?
I'm chillin', man. I'm just
having them figure that out. Just, like, looking around, walking in.
Yeah, okay. Just straight up chillin'.
Uh, Pi, what are you doing? I'm
seeing my good friend Zedek
having a crisis.
I will approach him.
Are you having a problem
with the devices? I may
help you.
Yes, I don't like how
they look, and they are too new
for my old blood to deal with.
Ah, actually, looking at these,
do these look new, or do they look old?
They look
impossibly old.
Why would they be new?
These aren't new.
These are ancient tech.
Now, we must tread carefully. I am
not the most expert tech priest
in the universe, but I
can still attempt to gain
knowledge on what is going on. And I'm going to
try to do just that. Okay, give me
a tech check.
Boist.
Boom! Ten
successes! Wow! Ten.
Oh my god! Brains!
You can, uh, actually even
shift two of them to access this
super quickly. Um,
and what you find is that
this is a Mechanicum
research outpost.
Uh, and this Mechanicum research
outpost, uh, did a lot
of testing on sound theory
and, like, travelling of sound
over vast distances.
And, like, the use of some, like,
psychic elements in the
transmission of sound, and
various things relating to
just sound quality and
testing. Um, you can
see that, along
with that, there
have been regular transmissions
between this place and a
listening post on the surface
for about the past ten thousand
years, during which there
were routine requests from the
listening post on the surface, uh,
regarding data
that would
tap into the station's
um, hololithic cameras
and displays.
So someone from the surface,
uh, of Scargaris Prime
was requesting the video
feeds from this place regularly
over the past ten thousand
years. And you can even see
some of the, like, the names
associated with the data requests.
...
All right, um, do we have any,
like, uh, recordings
of those data quests, or, like,
Yeah, um, you start going through, and what they all
are, like, the first time
when you activate is from just, like, a couple
thousand years ago, and it's this
like, round, paunchy
man in a white
getup that looks very similar to
those on Hives are Cannon,
um, and has this, like,
somehow familiar
appearance, and he's surrounded by all these other
nobles in white, and they all,
they all appear to be just looking and pointing
and laughing, as though
they're watching the vid feeds
coming in from this place, and, like,
one of the nobles in the back sort of
pats the man in the front on the
shoulder,
Well, you put on
a good show, Rubania!
Look at the Empyrean folks run!
And it's
all videos of
what appear to be, like, white
and gold-robed nobles,
and then, suddenly,
like, in some of them, the robes aren't white
and gold. They're
sea green,
and they all seem to be
pointing and laughing,
and you see the vid feeds that they're watching
in time with the recordings of them
watching, which is,
these people have been watching
various groups of administratum
tithe collectors
encounter that
golem.
These motherfuckers.
And I'm immediately, like,
I'm just vibrating
and just see the sparks
going everywhere.
Lauren's just getting ready
to molten beam another thing.
And that happens,
Reeb, you are,
you turn to hear this
as
the stasis unit
begins to uncouple and open.
Quickly
downloading those logs real quick.
Absolutely.
Download everything,
brain, everything, video,
all of it. And this mist
begins to, like, seep out.
Staff is
pointed. And then
you hear this, like,
this cuthunk as something hits the
floor, and then this awkward cuthunk
and the mist is sort of covering
half of the room. Reeb, it's coming towards you.
Do you kind of, like... I thought I was saying
I thought I was standing next to the tank. You are.
So do you step back away from?
Are you in the mist, or are you...
I'm going to stand and
greet this thing.
Against my better judgment, I'm going to do that.
Alright.
What stands before you
is something that can
barely be called human.
It towers above you.
Easily, easily
three, four,
maybe even more feet higher than you.
It's hard to tell. You get a sense of
vertigo staring at this thing.
It wears slate
gray armor. It's
humanoid. One of its
legs appears to be burned
entirely off, and it's come out of
this stasis unit, hopping on
one leg, and in its other
hand, it holds this sword
and it
looks out at all
of you with this
grim determination on
its scarred face, and
in a gothic tone
it looks at all of you.
Ooh,
are you?
Ooh!
Uh-oh.
Crazy question. Yes.
If I were to roll a Medicaid,
just to possibly get
some very, some
friendly points with this no-doubt
very pleasant
gentleman we have here before us,
could I possibly roll a Medicaid
to assist him?
Um, you could, but he's
giving off such an aura of threat, you don't
think getting near him or making any
sudden movements in his direction is a good
idea. All right, I will...
I don't... I don't think
that's no good here.
Ooh, I say again, and he
raises, even though he's standing on one leg,
like, sort of back-leaned up
against the wall, he raises
his sword towards you.
I am
Pybrain of Fortworth
Lemuria, and we
have freed you from a stasis that we do not
understand.
Have...
Has...
Has the Imperium sent reinforcements?
You...
You are from the
ancient war against the Warmaster.
Oh, you
know, then you know that
that Scargaris Prime has
turned. I... I must
warn the Sigilite to me. No, no,
no, not the Sigilite. No, I must
warn my liege lord, Sanguinius.
Oh, bad news.
Bad news about that.
Little, little, little
tidbit. Um...
He's at the farm.
I know. I must... I must warn the
Emperor. He... He was the
one who had the Sigilite dispatch me
here personally. I must warn
them. I do a persuade
to try and get his attention for a moment.
Absolutely, you can.
Uh,
so I shall roll my persuade.
Wade. Marine!
Please hold for a moment.
Oh, a
one and a complication. Spectacular. Nice!
Awesome. You might... You might wanna
fucking stand and wrath!
Yeah, I'll wrath it.
One of my, uh...
Oh, no, I had two, so now I have...
I have one again. Four.
Four's? Um, alright.
So...
Oh, what's a good complication
here? Um...
Gosh. Like...
You know, you...
You are just
stumbling over your words. You are
caught in what is known, and you
know this medical term is, like, transhuman
dread. Seeing this
thing, it is hard, and your complication
is you seem to get his attention and, like,
calm him a bit, but, like, the way
you deliver the line is...
isn't how you intended. Like, you say
something just completely, like,
unintended and perhaps
even a bit stupid-sounding to him.
Hmm.
Terrific. So what do you say?
Marine, please
hold in this exact spot, not
moving for one moment.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
The moment has passed.
Now, he... he
raises his sword, pointing
it menacingly while still balancing
on one leg.
Now, you will tell me
what has happened while I've been
in stasis. And on that,
we're gonna end for this
week's session.
Oh, you asshole!
It's 7.08. It's fine.
Oh, man!
Thank you. Thank you
for joining us, everyone.
It's been very
exciting. Thank you, Thirsty,
for another dubstep session.
And thank you to
all the players who have
been here. Remember,
after our exit and everything else, you probably
want to stay on, because we will announce
the tribes of the deck collector name.
On this, if you're watching, if you're listening
to the podcast version, it'll be announced
on our social medias and stuff, and all that
bits. And also,
as an update, this is episode
six, so all this now starts
going behind the gated system. But
if you don't contribute at all, or whatever, that's
fine. This is intentional. These
episodes will be coming out for free
basically two weeks after they've aired, which
is two weeks from now or so.
So, just, if you can't
afford anything because of COVID and all this other
unfortunate life stuff, don't worry.
You get to see it no matter what.
So, with that, let's go around
and say who was who.
One, the
sword master who has been
destroying the world of
basically, Melee's
Katari has been played by...
I am Speaker D!
You can find me on Twitter at
at SuperSnakeKick.
You can find my YouTube, which is also
Speaker D. And,
um, you can
say something
nice.
To somebody you love.
And the one, our Medicaid check
extraordinaire, inquisitor, acolyte,
Reap Van Horn, has been played by...
Not really an
extraordinaire right now, but I am
Erndil, and I played Reap Van Horn. You can
join me at
at Erndilio on Twitter,
and you can, uh, help
me destroy Speaker D.
That's right. And the
captain of the debt collector,
our resident rogue trader, Captain
Zedek, has been played by...
HulkyCrow.
You can find me at
at HulkyCrow on Twitter, occasionally
on Discord under the same handle, uh,
gibberish numbers after that,
and comfort me
in my, my failure
to perform my duties
admirably today.
And I have been your
host, uh, Zoran the Bear.
I've been playing Lorne, and
the one that's just,
that's just being, who keeps
trying to get warp entities out of tubes
is...
Sean. Sean is a nice
individual warp entity. No, he's not.
Now, hi. Uh,
Thurston here, Uncle GM. Um,
one day I will learn that putting
an unbeatable foe in
front of an unbeatable
sword-wielding Skitarii is
not a good idea, but, you know,
um, I look forward
to the commentary on
this one. Uh, no, um,
this has been a great episode. I
think the end of this episode, uh,
maybe, uh,
the starting up some extra lore stuff
that people might be interested in, and I can't wait
to keep this story going. Um, yeah.
A lot of cool stuff to come. Yay!
And with that, I'd like to
thank everybody on Patreon, who
has also helped us reach some several
goals, by the way. You guys have done
absolutely awesome helping us get up
there, so thank you all, everyone who has supported us on Patreon.
If you always want to support us, it's
patreon.com forward slash warhams,
where you will now be able to get to see these episodes
as soon as we're basically done with them.
And if you're subscribing to the Twitch and don't want to do anything,
Patreon, basically as soon as this gets converted
over, only subscribers from episode 6
on out will be able to see these,
uh, the VODs once we're done streaming
once we're done here. So thank you all very
much. And so, you know, as a quick
reminder, no more are the
VODs coming up on Alpha's channel. They're coming up on
my channel, which is ZoanTheBear, or
youtube.com forward slash ZoanTheBear.
And if you want to be part of the
tribes of the debt collector stuff, uh,
we're about to pick the names here in a moment, uh,
once we go to our end screen here. Um,
but yeah, you can definitely join the Discord.
Discord.gg forward slash
ZoanTheBear. You can always find
the information down in the Twitch information down below.
Podcast people, uh, best of luck
is always Twitch.tv forward slash ZoanTheBear,
where we stream this every other
Saturday-ing at 1pm
PDT. So if you guys
are always lost at what
the schedule is on the Discord, we put in the schedule
in our Twitter at, which is
at WarhamShow, where we put all the
information, things that's going on, etc.
there. Thank you all for watching.
Thank you guys for playing.
Thank you, Thirsty, for game
mastering. It's been an absolute blast.
So now, let us go
forth and end it.
Thank you all for watching.
We will catch you next time.
Say goodbye, everyone.
Say farewell.
Bye.
LaMurrie is not
dead, by the way!
So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen,
goodbye.