three two one go excellent sexy everyone ready for another exciting episode of war it's not the orchestra cut it out well it's not a work voice it's yeah yeah this whole thing we're all normal now we're all normal now we're not green uh welcome back everybody to another episode of warhams episode 19 and we are very much excited to continue our unfortunate journey inside of a very much chaos infested ship and thurston hillman would you please take it away we begin today's episode with our ambassadors deep in the bowels of the carillon having exited from a cafeteria making their way to the sub spinal maglev which they have identified as being the only means of reaching the four of the ship and the strategium a blood spattered pie brain and lorn walk amongst the group pie brain having been severely injured by some of the possessed crewmen that were discovered earlier you are making your way to the ship and you are making your way to the ship and you are making your way down several corridors at the moment tight maybe meter two meter wide corridors that snake around leading towards the sub spinal maglev with various like descending stairs that you you take at regular intervals to go down and down deeper into the bowels of the ship along the way you find one of the walls is empty but at the far end there is a dull glowing console on the wall it glows with sort of a pulsing green light from a data from from a data unit that is built into the side panel of the the doorway the door itself is sealed it appears to be some sort of tight sealed door with a cog mechanicus on it there is only some civilization let us uh see if this is evil too i'm going to uh begin interfacing with this panel understanding it's secrets okay okay yeah so you come up to to the panel you can tell that the door is currently in a locked uh position it seems to be locked from the outside um the rest of you so so pie you're coming up with the rest of you just following staying straight behind The hall goes on for quite some ways. It's about a 20-meter hall from the last branch point you've come off of. As a precaution, I'm going to inspect the hall to see if there are any fucking vents. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can give me an awareness test. Oh, brilliant. I roll to look at the vents. Yeah, absolutely. I get two and a glory? Okay. So, like, you're feeling very inspired because you don't notice any vents. Something in the back of your skull is kind of twitching, like some kind of almost low vibration that you hear. Just this mmm. Can I pinpoint that at all? No, it seems to be coming from all around, almost like it's vibrating off the walls. Can I trace it on the walls? Are the walls just straight-up vibrating? No, the walls are not vibrating, but it feels like some very small sound frequency is bouncing off. Can I do a tech to get the... We have that radio with us, right? The box that we pulled from the ship? Yeah, yeah, we should still. Well, you have your combeads, which are connected to Pybrain's combead, which is on the servitor on the Arvis lighter, so it can then communicate to your starship. Would it be possible for me to use the combead in a way that would be more effective? Yeah. It would help track this source at all. No, no. This is some just kind of background noise. If you had, like, an Auspex, maybe, but, like, not a combead, that's just going to send a signal to the servitor in the Arvis. I rolled to create an Auspex. Okay. No. I will be next to Py watching him work at the door while he does that. I will have reloaded the flamer at this point. Absolutely. A little bit of two reloads, so that's good. Okay. And I will be taking position next to him. Okay, so Py and Reeb, you kind of head up to the console. Lorne and Zedek, you're a bit behind them, which you were when you were taking your approach out of the cafeteria last week. We were on episode. What are you two doing as you see that Reeb and Py are heading towards this console? Zedek. Go ahead, Zedek. Sure. Zedek will have reloaded his arc pistol at this point, not wanting to be caught. But also just trying to keep watch and pop any nasties that might surprise our noble Medicaid and tech adapt. Okay. And Lorne? Keeping psychic torch active and helping light the way. Yeah. Okay. So you still have two of these orbs. I assume one of them is sort of floated towards your allies and one of them is staying by you and Zedek. Okay. Yeah, I think one's bright enough to be near us and the other one's just like, oh, what's in that corner? What's ahead of us? You know, going all around. Perfect. Okay. All right. So, Pybrain, you've reached the data terminal. It sort of has this, yeah, like green scrawling text that indicates that the door is currently in a locked position. You wish to interface with it. I assume you're wanting to give me a tech check to try to access your way into this terminal. Yes. So if there's anything else I can find on this terminal, that would also be... Useful. Absolutely. Let us discover and discoveries, you get it. Yes. That is going to be three successes and a complication just to make us smile. Excellent. I always like seeing these. Okay. First of all, you're happy with that result? Oh, yeah, sure. Sure. Whatever. Yeah, like, oh, yeah, no, we... Don't worry, men. We've designed these doors. You need nine successes to open them. It should be easy. They're a very proficient crew. Or they were, anyway. So you're attempting to access this. You can tell that in order to properly interface, you're going to have to break open a panel here, which requires the use of your combi tool. However, as you go in to access this, there is a surge of... There is a surge of energy, of electrical energy that sparks over your combi tool. You've managed to access the door and can open it to carry on the path you need to go on, but your combi tool is stuck in the access port and immediately starts turning black as this sort of witch light dances off of it, these electrical arcs that spark in various shades of red and blue. Uh, can... Can I roll to attack it with the flamer? Uh, I mean, yeah. Like, you can just raise the flamer up to the unit and just go... If you want. Like, that'd be just a ballistic skill check. Speaker, you okay with that? I will move away from the unit. Yeah, about to say, you don't want to catch fire, do you, flammable skitari? No, I don't. As a matter of fact, my friend, who would never hurt me. Bye, why don't you, Becca? So I can... Any motions for him to get behind? Yes, yes, fine. Just put the combi tool out of its misery. It served me so well. Foosh. Yeah. You just... You torch the unit, like, causing the combi tool and the surrounding area to just char black. There's more sparks of electricity. The door, which has been opened, starts sort of spasming. You can... You can see it open and then close, open and close, and it's sort of just doing this dance back and forth. Reeb, you would immediately smell just this rancid, like, meaty, wet odor from inside that assails your nostrils, followed immediately by the smell of your promethium, which is now, like, filling the area with a, like, light electrical smoke. There's sort of this ozone and burning in the air. But as this is going on, and the sort of data, the data terminal has been burned, there's crackling from a Vox emitter at its top as another of those log entries plays. Zoran, can you play me number four? Oh, boy. Yes, sorry. Pressing five million buttons and hook. Guess that all that accrued leave means sweet fuck all now. Oh. Rest of the crew, I've run across are all dead, killed by other crew members. Looks like some of those crew took their own lives right after. It's like a fucking charnel house in here. While I was on the upper railing, making my way through the spinal belly, I saw a 12-deck crewman overwhelm an armsman, ripped her apart limb by fucking limb, and they picked up her shotgun. The fuckers passed the gift around like a gift at Sanguinala, and blew their own fucking heads off until there were eight of them left. Then they all walked away like nothing happened. They had the same eyes as Yakla. I need to get the fuck to somewhere safe. And then the door is just like cracking open. Again, sort of going back and forth with slight pneumatics. Are there any pipes nearby? No, nothing in the exposed hull here. Okay. Are there any lengths of anything that I could maybe pry off to try and jam the door with? You could probably, like, do a strength test to try to rip something off a wall here. Can I ask? Pye, could you assist me with this real quick? I need to see if we can jam this door open. Awesome. Yes, okay. I'm going to do a strength assisting with... Wait, what's your strength? Six. How about you do it? That's a good idea. Here we go! I got three successes! Yeah, you can, like, rip off a small panel on the wall, probably something by the charred, damaged area there that has been sort of, like, warped open. Okay. I will take it from Pye, and I will have Reeb jam it into the door frame to try and get the door to stop opening and closing. Maybe just wedge it open. Yeah, it's wedged. It doesn't fill the entire span of the door, but it's enough that the door has, like, maybe got maybe four inches of give, so there is still just this pneumatic kjikonk, kjikonk, kjikonk sound. But the door is not, like, closing entirely anymore. So it's not enough for us to get through at this point. No, no, it's definitely enough for you to get through. Sorry, sorry. When I say it's, like, moving forward, it's four inches from, like, the completely open position to trying to reclose. So it's most of the door, like, 95% of it is now open. But as you do so and sort of, like, push this down and keep the door open, the smell assails you from inside this dark room. Wow. I am used to such spells because it is my job to cut crap open. As we proceed, I would like to actually make a scholar check, if you don't mind. Before. Now, any Imperial servant, especially one that's worked on spaceships, would know that there is great danger in a Galafield failure. I want to know if the situation we've seen evolving here, having heard all of those logs, in any way, like, does this sound like it was just another typical sort of Galafield malfunction, or does this sound somewhat different, like this was maybe a planned operation, or anything that I might know from just parlance as an Imperial servant? Okay. Yeah, you may give me a scholar check. I am going to say that the difficulty number here will be probably five. Okay. Yeah. I got six successes. Yeah, absolutely. This is enough for you to tell, like, the types of... The scenes going on match some of the data you've heard on Galafield failures on starships. These sort of, like, equivalent of ship ghost stories that are passed from cruise to cruise and then make their way to little babies on little forge worlds of things that happen when the Galafield goes wrong. So this looks like there's no telltale sign it was anything other than just Galafield failed. Uh-oh. Yeah. And so for those wondering, the Galafield is the sort of device onboard a starship that protects it when it enters the hellish dimension of the warp. Ships in the Imperium travel by traveling through the warp. They utilize a piece of technology called a Galafield that allows them to be protected from all of the hell demons and hell things in the warp. Sometimes, however, Galafields can fail. Ships can enter the warp without their Galafields active. And almost universally, it's scenes of insanity and carnage, much like what is being experienced by our players onboard the Carillon. Well, that's good, I guess. There's just this sort of buzzing sound coming now from all around. Kat and Zedek will check his coat pocket almost instinctively to see if something is going off. No, no. There's no vox unit that is ringing for you. That's just a joke. But Lorne and Zedek... Now that the flames have sort of died down, and the smell of promethium is out of the air, and the smell of the burning electronics is out, you two both smell the sort of rancid, wet, meaty smell coming from within the room. On a scale of one to bad, how much worse is this than the sump we were in on the deck collector? Like, way worse. I would like to make a... Resolve? Determination? Um, it's not enough to, like, make you, like, wretch yet. You just know that, like, this is the outer edge of something absolutely foul. Oh, good. It does get worse. Yes. I've, uh... Lorne has casted, like, a super-tiny telekinesis. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Tr length, hardcore gang, we got three of the mechanics here at the end of this episode of the diyeơme lançés of the game, and for either of you who have a super-tiny telekinetic dome on his nose... Fuck you, that. I guess we have to keep... It's like that? I don't smell anything, Xavi. Funny. Customerytardf. Uh, funny. Describe it to me, Xavi. I can't... It smells... The... It's... The effluents. It's... Uh... incorporating my collagen... Uh? Woah. Did it smell like what the debt collector smells like nearly 24-7, Captain Xavi? ...No. It's... ship smells not that bad it's it can look it can be stinky sometimes but it's not this bad not even the sump smells like that like rot a thousand years of rot i highly recommend understand whatever you see is obviously abnormal we're going to see definitely don't touch it captain zedek no matter what you do i have no intentions of touching whatever smells like that gentlemen i fully intend to burn whatever smells like that that is an unnatural stench as you proceed forward keep your mind focused not on what is around you but on the calming certainty of prime numbers that doesn't bring me any calm at all pop no count prime numbers it works it works it works it works it works it works it works it works it works it works it works clone furrows his brow at the sound of math right so let's start two three five you see this is great i'm gonna roll leadership yeah go for it sure i'll pump two uh two uh glory behind this because it'd be nice if we got some resistance to fear and whatnot sure sure uh three successes to try to give us at least a die on an upcoming that's one success for every party member I will allow one player who is not you Pybrain to get a bonus die on any potential like checks they might have to make related to things where leadership would be relevant because of the power of prime numbers I will give it to Zedek thank you Kat and Zedek will feel oddly calmed by Pye's melodic reading off prime numbers that he doesn't understand and just kind of staring off into space take a drink from his flask in his coat pocket in an attempt to swell his nose and block out the smell okay so are you sort of all clustering together and then walking in together yeah I think so I think we're not gonna we're gonna be a group we got fucked up when we went a little nutso so I think proceeding forward as a group is the best idea okay you walk into the room which is approximately three times the size of the corridor you're in it's roughly a six meter wide rectangular chamber that goes on for about 30 or more meters you can't tell the sort of edge of Lorne's psychic light just lights the very far edges and as you enter you can see that the floor here is caked in corpses dozens if not more are just strewn about several of them appear to be missing limbs several of them appear to be missing heads there are some of them that are almost stacked up as though they fell on top of one another it's hard to navigate in here there's no straight path ahead but you can see sort of a flickering door light at the opposite end though the door there is open as well it leads to a set of stairs that descend down can I make it more difficult for us to navigate by making sure that I burn everything along the way as we pass it okay so you're just going to like be torching things it's like liberal intervals as you're walking I will take the back position and burn behind us okay first of all okay so so so yeah absolutely so you're going to take up the back uh who's going to go in the front pie should be in the front okay is that it could go after pie okay and then lauren and then reeb in the back perfect all right so you you enter this uh solemnly quiet uh like reeb you you ignite your your flamer and begin to sort of uh , moving it around uh I require all of you to give me a difficulty three conviction test ah as you enter this scene of utter carnage and you feel that just walking through this corrupts your very soul hey can I take two glory so I can boost that because I would literally have to make all three of my checks yeah of course I'm going to take one as well so we're just going to have to make all three of my checks yeah of course I'm going to take one as well do you require any no so may I take a donor oh boy four you want just let's just use all the glory here that's a wise idea okay so okay nice job pie ah and I got a glory seven so pie you are you are a nerd to this you just walk through triumphantly uh I'm fine ah yes yeah uh okay is that a word no motivation it's complicated you're watermelon it's complicated but it makes it I guess three the complication yeah yeah okay perfect all right that's the first time I think wait, that's not resolve conviction conviction thank you sorry you're good In meta context, chat has steeled you against the wall of corpses with the wall of glory. But you make your way through. Even Zedek, just so you're aware of the complication for anyone who's curious, if you fail and have a complication, that immediately doubles the amount of corruption you take. Which can be very brutal. You are walking through this room and it's eerily soundless except for the buzzing that is still distant from the hall you've exited through. At regular intervals, Reap, you raise up your flamer and just go let out a spurt of promethium and begin charring the bodies behind you. Can you roll me a ballistic skill test, Reap? As you are basically just walking and giving again, liberal applications of your flamer to some of these corpses. Okay, perfect. Long journey ahead of us. Long journey behind us. Looking forward to having to go back through this although smelling ideally better. Did you hit the ballistic skill check? I did. Let me hit it again. Levitimid that doesn't go through. I look forward to missing a bunch of dead bodies as I roll a two. It's okay. Perfect, perfect, perfect. No, no, it's more I just wanted to make sure you didn't run out of ammo while doing this. Yeah, I know. Listen, I will treat any loss of ammo to make sure these don't get back up or otherwise really bad for us on the way back as a success. I'll spend as much ammo as I physically... I'll use my lasgun if I have to. I think in this case it's your... because you're not pressured or anything like that, you're doing very concentrated sweeps with your flamer, conserving ammo but making sure to get all of these bodies as you're sort of being very methodical as the rest of the group walks through this chamber laden with corpses. The buzzing sound seems to abate a bit. It's still off in the distance but you're making good progress through this area. Eventually you reach the end of the chamber that has a set of descending stairs that lead down towards some where you can actually see lumen light, thus sort of negating the need for Lorne's psychic orbs. You can see that there is actually a glow of lumen light from up ahead. I can't see this. I'm burning behind us. Sorry. Who wants to look at that? I will. I am Pybine. I will bravely look. Yeah, Py, you start making your way down the stairs and eventually you see it opens into a incredibly large maglev area. The maglev station you find yourselves in, the ground here seems to be defaced with all sorts of graffiti. Possibly some kind of tribe on board the ship has gone ahead or gang has just defaced the ground here. It's a maglev receipt station. Immediately to your left as you come down to the base of the stairs, you can see that there's a cogitator unit on the wall. You can also see that there are two maglev tracks, though there is no train in the station at this point. And then there are various paths that lead off. Up above, about five meters up are lumens that glow down. There is a message board along the sort of right-hand wall several meters ahead of you. That just reads with error messages that scroll in this almost like pink neon light. There's also track lights that seem to be on the maglev floor. And then there are various pillars that support the open area here. There's essentially another like opposite the like lowered ground area where the tracks are. There's another receipt station on the other side. Probably some you would guess like eight meters across. So there's basically like an eight meter wide, actually ten meter wide gouge in the ground here where you could see the maglev trains would come in and go from. Does this place look nicer than the dump before? No, no, no. It looks like it's less well maintained, but it hasn't seen as much use. Like there's a lot of people who probably come down here lounged like this place doesn't see a lot of a lot of use. So people just kind of come down here and scrub it. If you want to give me any like checks as you come down as far as what you are doing here. Yeah, absolutely. I need to call down a maglev and I swear by the motive force, if I need to pop, if I need to get out and push, I will. That would not be beneficial on a maglev. So Reeb, you've finished your your your , your flaming. You come down here. Ooh, a competition on a check. Yeah. So, so you go up to the cogitator unit and you begin checking and looking to call the maglev, which, which you, you begin doing. However, as you do so, there's a slight chime that begins to go off on the unit. As you can tell, you've triggered some sort of back up firewall unit on this cogitator station. Alert. Alert. Tram summoned. Unauthorized access detected. Tram summoned. No! Authorized. You guys authorized! There is a slamming of doors as a set of metal, uh, like large metal doors. Closed the stairway that your group used to come down here. Yeah, that bouts well. Oh, good. Well, it'll get plenty of those time for those corpses to smoke out at least. Bram. Bram. Bram. Pie, turn it off. Ah! I'm going to turn it off the pie brain way by smashing it in half with my power sword. Smash it in half. Smash it in half! That's right, I get straight six. I get arm restless, space marine, and win. You want to? I'll smash it in half. Why? Trap. And there's like this, this crackle. Can you give me a, uh, just a weapon skill attack roll? I would love nothing more, yes. Thank you. Here we go. Whenever it wants to load. That would be six sterling successes. Yeah, so you just like smash into the, into the unit. There's like, again, a sound of sparks. As that happens, uh, there, there's another sort of like side whine from one of the, the cogitators, uh, odd audio units underneath it. And it sparks out of the error message and then does nothing. It just dies. It's all right. Bye. What was the purpose of that? It was going crazy. It probably had terrible demons inside of it. Bye. Are you actually a Skitarii? Is your, is your response to any sort of technical malfunction to simply break it? You would do well not to call me that while I'm here. The only thing between you and the maglev. Now, if you'll excuse me, uh, there is a second, uh, computer, correct? Uh, there's one on the other side of the tracks. I'm going to jump there. I, I, I grab hold, I grab hold of Pybrain and I, I pull him back a little bit going, I'll, I'll get this one. If that's okay with you. Captain Zetick will put a hand on Pybrain's shoulder. Say it's okay. Py, you're, you're my favorite Skitarii. I have total, total faith in you. Yes, you are. He'll pat his head. Yes, you are. You're, you're a really good tank priest, Py. I'll show you all. Is there anything else in here that requires, uh, the ministrations of the flamer or is it clear in here? It's, it's like eerily clear in here. Good. That's, I love hearing eerily clear. What else is in this station except for the control panel that Py just split in half like a piece of cordwood. Uh, so there's, there's the control station. Uh, there's a waste, like a large waste unit, uh, receptacle. Uh, so there's, there's the control station. Uh, there's a waste, like a large waste unit, uh, receptacle. Uh, there's a waste, like a large waste unit, uh, receptacle. Uh, there's a waste, like a large waste unit, uh, receptacle. Just, uh, northeast of you, there's the sort of message board. There's a, a joining corridor that heads off further northeast. There's a door to the north that's closed. Then across, oh, sorry, and then to the southeast of you, there's another adjoining corridor. Then to the west, there seems to be some kind of, like, sitting reception chamber for people waiting for the tram. Then there appear to be at least two more, uh, two more, uh, jutting off corridors and a set of stairs leading up on the other side, along with the cogitator unit on the other side. And the only thing that we can use to control the tram at this point is on the other side of the station, because... Because the one on this side has been, been crushed, yes. Yes, good. Uh, alright, well, there's nothing really I can think of that I can actually, like, can I check the, can I check the trash can? Uh, yeah, you can head over to it. I gotta look out for anything at this point. Reeb is paranoid as all hell at this point, so... Uh, okay, so you're gonna head over to the trash can. Uh, Pybrain, you've kind of, like, stopped after destroying that, um, that cogitator unit. Lorne, you said you were going to handle something. Were you going to, like, go across the... Yes. The gap? Okay. How are you planning on doing that? I have an idea, but I want you to tell me. Yeah, so this has come, comes a little issue on this one, that, uh, at the very beginning of entering the ship, I exchanged, um, Levitate for Psychic Torch. And, um, are we going to continue keeping that now that this is a new session, or would you like me to do another exchange thing? Uh, if you want to do another exchange, I'll, I'll allow it. Okay. So I'll exchange, uh, what I currently have. I'll exchange Molten Beam for Levitation. Okay. And I will cast Levitation on it. So I assume this would be two Wrath's Eye on top of my first one, right? Because I exchanged one at the beginning. You want to keep one? Uh, I'll, I'll, we'll keep it at one. Like, I'll just say you swapped it out here. That's fine. Cool. So I'm casting Levitation on myself, which I get an 11. Uh, yeah, and with that, uh, you still have a, you have three, so you can... I guess I'll increase my flying speed by five meters, and also do the two one to increase plus one strength for determining what I carry while flying. Mm-hmm. So I will boost myself up for that. And Would you, like, for the, for the, what you can carry across, are you wanting to carry anything, or...? Probably not. So I guess I'll make myself, like, box speed. Yeah, yeah, okay. Cool, cool, cool, cool. And I'll, like, boost it up three, so I can now go, like, 15 meters very quickly. Yeah, so you can easily get across the gap. Yeah. I, I fly over, and I assume we have earpieces, where we can greater communicate with each other? Yep. So as I get over to the terminal, I assume it's either simple, or do I require the assistance of library? Oh, okay, so you're heading, like, you're flying over to the terminal. Yes. Okay. We'll, we'll, we'll get to when you get to the terminal, one sec. Because it's, the terminal's on the other side, um, opposite. Yeah. So it's, like, basically the 10 meters across, and then, like, 30 meters north. So it's, it's a fair ways away from where, like, Pi is, for example. Yeah, it's, like, I know I'm going, like, Mach speed right now. Okay. With, like... Cool, cool, cool. But, yeah, definitely wait. Yeah, okay. So you're gonna fly over there. Cool. Reeb is checking that trash unit. Uh, Captain Zedek, what are you doing? I suppose just kind of consoling Pi, because he's not, he's not being taken seriously. I'm not gonna be taken seriously! I consider him a serious detriment. Pi... Pi Brain... I know we don't always get along. Actually, we get along pretty well. Yeah, we get along great! Compared to the other two, we get along pretty well. Yeah! You, you seem to insult me the least with actual malice. So, here, I'll give you this as a, uh, pittance. Captain Zedekal Fussle will fumble with his coat pocket, searching for something, and he'll pull out what looks like a little, uh, mottled gold lapel. Uh, it just has clearly signs of being passed around or passed on for quite a number of years. It just has a little embossed smiley face on it, and he'll give it to Pi, or just pin it on his robes. I would, uh... Sorry, go ahead. Keep going. This is the, uh, the Captain's Star of Approval. You're, you're doing a good job. Just know I'm proud of you, Pi. Giving him a fucking gold star, you monster? It's, it's not gold. It's not gold. It looks like gold. It's not gold. It's bronze. I will examine this. Who else have you given this to? Nobody. It just kind of gets passed around. I am the first. Yes, I am the first. And a shout of for Lemuria that echoes through this, this wide open space. Um, Reeb, you were checking that waste you did. Can you give me an awareness test, please? Uh, you roll awareness to check garbage. Give me a one I'm gonna, you know, I'm in the mood, I'm gonna wrap it. That's absolutely. Oh, wow, yeah. I'll wrap it to a two. I hate this game. Would you like to spend any glory on your garbage? I don't know. Do we got glory to use? You're gonna miss the multi-melt that garbage can. I'm gonna give three glory. I'll believe. You better believe in me getting three more. Five. So you're checking through the garbage as, as like Captain Zedek and Piebrain are having this, this moment. You, you discover that like much to your non-surprise there, there's nothing. In the garbage can. However, however, as you're sort of like perusing through it, you hear something coming from one of the adjoining corridors, and you just hear this. We bought it. Nope. We bought it. Nope. I'm moving into position. I'm going to fire down. You, you look up in time to see emerging from the corridor is a group of five of those crew armsmen, and as they emerge, they turn. And like, they all look at you and you lock eyes with them, and they, they both just, as, as you lock eyes with each other, there's just this change in their, their repeat. We found. We found. You die. Um, alright, so we're gonna go into combat here and I'm gonna switch us over to a real big ol' map here. Um, in which you will see where you all are. Now I can see what the hell you were talking about, because it was hard for me to visualize that. That map. Yes. Yeah, this is gonna be a bit of a struggle. Yes, it's a big map. It's a big map, boy. Sorry, chat, you're gonna have to suffer for it a little bit. Yeah. It's almost like sometime ranged weapons are important. Alright, so, uh, in this case, Reeb, you get, you have to go first, because basically the only two people aware at the start are you and these things. Okay, I'm going to, uh, can I free action a shout of alarm? Oh, absolutely. They're on to us! Uh, really quick, uh, so there's like five of the regular ones, and then this one here, uh, sort of, the closer one, this one is clutching onto a plasma gun, which is glowing. No, absolutely not. You will not have that. You will not be allowed to have that. Uh, I'm going to move and I'm going to shoot my flamer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, perfect. Yeah, but you want to move basically, I'm guessing, like, up to here and then blast, blast down the line here, and if you get enough successes, shift it over so you hit the other two. I will move to here, but yes. Okay. Uh, so let me let me quick do a quick burnination. Hey guys, can I take the rest of the no, not the rest of it, I want to have one in case of interruption purposes, so can I take two? Sure. Do it. Kill him. Kill him. Kill! Kill! Uh, whoosh! Hang on, I think the counter also rolled really badly. And for whatever reason, whenever I put in bonus dice, it doesn't roll it. Weird. Uh, uh, let me just go ahead and wrath that and roll two dice. Okay. Because I didn't like those two dice, I guess. Wrath of a four. Two d6. Yeah, I get a five in total. Okay, so not enough to shift, sadly, but you are going to hit a line of them. Now, you were prioritizing, I assume, the guy with the plasma. Get rid of him. No, you're not allowed to have that. Yeah, so you're, uh, with that, you're going to get, let's see here, a total of four, five, three. You're going to get the plasma guy and the front guy. They're just going to get immediately burnt down from your flamer as you hose them. Foosh for eleven. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah. They just, they go down immediately under that. That, like, wash of fire. Um, again, since it's kind of like a surprise round, they, they get to take an action and they just sort of, like, form ranks and you see them, their, their skin is, like, bubbling and these, like, eyes form, not, like, out of their skin, but almost, like, layered on top and begin blinking. Their eyes have this sort of reddish fire that stare into you, uh, into you. Can you give me a resolve check real quick here? Uh, difficulty is going to be three for these, uh, rape. Sure, give me a moment to find that again. I know, I know, I know, I'm making you do all, all these awful things. I'll give you a one. Okay. Because my results are pretty bad. So, so yeah, you, you're definitely, like, you, you're feeling pretty afraid of these things. Uh, like, you've burned down two of them, but the remaining three seem to be completely unfazed by the death of their comrades, and they, they stare and they, they raise their, their lasguns almost uniformly with this, like, just eerie precision while chanting, we found, we found. And they, uh, they, they shoot you. You're gonna essentially take a, um, a two, like, two penalty any time you interact with this specific unit here. Until they die? If they, if they survive. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, okay. Um, we'll, we'll see if they last that long. Uh, but they do all raise their lasguns, uh, in, like, a uniform volley. Shoot at you. Uh, wow. I rolled, I rolled four with nothing. Yeah, I rolled an eight, so they'll, they'll hit you. Um, they will get two, like, damage, uh, bonus damage die because they, they hit you with the lasguns. Uh, and, yeah. Oh, but that was not free resilience. Uh, yeah. So, so you get, like, peppered by shots. Uh, that do hit you, but they are lasguns and your armor is able to repel the worst of it. Um, in fact, like, even some of your fear has caused you to recoil a bit so that you're, you're absorbing the, the wounds. Okay, that is the, the end of the quote-unquote surprise round. Uh, we come into, like, the regular start of round. Who would like to go first? Um, to set the scene, Lorne, you're sort of on the opposite end of this, this tram station to the northwest. You, you've seen these things. They've turned the corner. Uh, you, you've heard the sounds of the lasguns going off. Reeb and, uh, sorry, um, Zedek and Pybrain, you've heard, like, Reeb shout and then turn to see the whoosh of the flamer and the crackle of the lasguns as these possessed crew, crewmen have turned the corner. I would, um, I would recommend, uh, Hulky to go. So he can get in position and start doing stuff. That's what I would vote on. I'm cool with Hulky going. I mean, plan, plan. Uh, you're also a skivved. Oh, fuck, I made a mess. I made a mess on the map. You made a lie. Oh, Hulky's out of Warhams. Get him out. Tell me what you're gonna do and I'll, I'll tell you, like, don't worry about, like, the, the ranges or anything, because they're not correct. I'm, just tell me what you want to do. Uh, Captain Zedek's gonna move up with Reeb and just kind of rebuff him and help him out and take out these last three if he can. Okay, so you're, like, basically wanting to, to do, like, a rush towards your pal and then sort of assist? Yes. Yeah, okay. Absolutely. So you, like, start rushing up. Uh, you're about halfway to him. I'm coming! Captain Zedek's just gonna kind of run and shoot. Yeah, yeah. Stop and shoot so he doesn't get a penalty. Take a shot with your arcbow pistol. Here we go. Pew. That's a five. Five successes. Uh, that, that will, that will hit. Alright. Okay. And four. 14 at AP minus one. Yeah, you manage to crack off expertly two shots as you advance up, taking down two more of them. Um, the, the bolts of electricity flying out and striking them in the chest as you move. And they, they continue their, their mantra of we found, we found. And there's gargling as they fall down. Uh, okay. So that was you. Um, Lorne, my dear friend, you start hearing something coming from the Northwest. We boarded, we boarded. And there's like a chant of a large number of voices coming down the hall to the, uh, the Northwest. We boarded, we boarded. I see. Yes. Uh, but it's not my turn. It is not your turn. You just hear this. However, that is the turn of, of this, this, this new, new, uh, challenger who is approaching. Uh, all right. Uh, players who would like to go next. Hmm. I, uh, I will go. I'm going to run up, uh, weaving between the columns. Okay. Uh, I'm going to try to get in range of this, uh, terrible creature, take out my plasma gun. Okay. And hopefully, well, I, it was on overcharge, so I just de-overcharged. Okay. So you're like, I, I, I'm kind of a, I'm assuming you're like zigzagging like this, and then you're sort of coming over here to use this for cover, or do you want to be on this side? Yeah, I would, I'm, I'm kind of looking to, uh, uh, right about here because I'm, I'm, uh, trying to keep a lookout and I want to make sure that we're all like in a good place for it and hopefully get in close range enough to find my plasma gun. Absolutely. Yeah. You are, you are in, you're not in like short range or anything, but you are definitely in range. Okay. Okay. Uh, so I do not often shoot guns. Um, so this is an exploratory, uh, moment for me. Uh, I have rapid fire, but I'm not in short range. Could I get to short range if I'm out of cover? Uh, no, no, no. You would have to basically do a double move to, to get that close. Oh, okay. Cool. What's our glory pool look like? Uh, I'm going to spend two just, or I'll spend two just to make sure I hit. Okay. Uh, and. Sorry, I just realized I, I'm sorry. I keep doing five. Many things in the background. I'm like, fuck, so sorry. No worries. Uh, does two, uh, hit his defense? Uh, two does not hit his defense. And he's unfortunate. Hi brain was not a very good skit. Atari ranger. He really should have been in the vanguard. Yeah. These, uh, these bolts, just like you send a bolt of, of plasma that sears past this one and hits into the waste bin behind it and it sort of a. Ignites with this, you know, blast of superheated energy. Yeah. And you know what? I, I don't want this guy running around because we're undoubtedly about to get reinforced. I'll wrath it, even though it's just one guy. Okay. All right. Do it. Us. Let's let it go. We stand by the time now, the better. Yeah, exactly. Come on. Reroll time rewinds and allows you to rewind as you see all of this happen. And then you're like, nah, none of that. I sense. A dark future. Yeah. You, you, you like strike this thing, um, blasting it with, you know, superheated, uh, like, but yeah, blasting it with, with superheated plasma. It just goes bop. Uh, and then, yeah, yeah. That's a, that's a thing that happens and then it falls down quite a dead. Um, however, as if in response to that, to the south. West, you begin hearing the, we boarded, we boarded as like this droning comes through the hall. We boarded, we boarded, we board. So these, sorry, um, we boarded, we boarded and coming up behind you. Captain Zedek. You see a host of them crawling through the access tunnel there. Uh, Lauren, you still have to go. Hey, Lauren, you want to come back over here and then read, like, actually technically read as well. Technically read this. Oh, okay. Yeah. But who would like to go next? Uh, yeah, cause it's like, Lauren, come back over here and then wait your turn. So you can come back and do something. Um, shit, I guess I will, they're going to be way out of range of my flamer. I think you have a movement and a combat actions. You can always move, take, move, take cover behind something. So they don't shoot you later. Yeah, I will use the, I will use the empty trash can as cover. The issue is. This is the flamers really short range or, and that's the main issue. Yeah, it's, uh, yeah, I'm just trying to give suggestions. Yeah, no, I get you. Uh, do you think range 20 is somehow, hang on a sec. Wait, no, it's not that short range because somehow it's got longer range than my last gun. Go figure, whatever. I'm going to burn them because they should be, yeah, they're well within range. Yeah. So your last gun, your last gun's short range is 12. The, the max range on your flamer is 12. Oh, okay. However, your flamer is also a, um, assault weapon, which means you can sprint and still fire it. You just take a, uh, basically a two, two difficulty increase on it, on the to hit. Um. So you could sprint closer and be able to hit them. I will, you know what? I will redact my previous statement of getting behind cover. I will sprint. Where will that put me? Okay. So sprinting will basically move you like there. Yeah. I'm going to do my best. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So you, you just turn around, rush and like raise your flamer. Uh, so give me, yeah, give me a, give me a roll to hit on these. Yeah. I can't wait for this to suck. Uh, I'm waiting. I'm actually waiting for the complication where you've run out of ammo too. Oh yeah. We're playing this with like the famine skull turned on. Yeah. I love Halo 2. Halo 2. I'll give you a five instead with, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah. So you're going to rush up and just like wash them in flame. Now a five is, is going to be enough to, to hit. Um, and in, in a line, you're going to get three of them. Now you can see in the sort of front ranks. There's two of them. There is one of them that has a, a chain sword and a, uh, blast pistol and one that has a, um, a plasma gun. Which one would you like to, to hit? You can't hit both of them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm really glad that you hit both of them. Uh, when I'm able to hit both of them, if I use this new ref that chat has given me, I mean, you could certainly do the reroll and like, if you get some extra, uh, if you get, if you get an extra six on that. Yeah, absolutely. All right. We'll find out, yeah. Do it up. Uh, we do. Uh, yeah, so you, you just wash out the entire like front row of them. I, this is a troop, so you don't even have to worry about damage. Just hose them. down with your flamer uh the the the six behind though they they seem to to have their their last guns like at the ready and as as you rush into to or rush up to them and hose the front rank down with your flamer uh from behind like the the wall of flames and that you create you just hear their voices change from we boarded we to we found we found it is yes you found all right haven't you gone hit me um but they don't get to go yet uh lauren you are the oh sorry no i ha lauren uh you do start hearing more sounds of we boarded we boarded we boarded coming from the stairs uh to your south uh west and you see another host emerging walking down the stairs in a slightly uh tight formation uh what do you want to do lauren so my lauren himself would have flown over and not really noticed the super huge danger his friends but after hearing all of the we board boardeds i would highly suspect that these things are going to keep going and i'm going to keep going and i'm going to keep going and i'm going to keep going and not stop they've they've seemed to learn a grow they've come all directions and they're coming everywhere so i assume this tram is going to be a way to escape so lauren i assume i arrived already at the thing so i'm looking at the control panel i assume lauren will at least know how to like press the button to make it arrive well as as you can see it looks like the true like the the maglev train tram is already on the way like despite triggering the sort of alert um pie brain managed to call it so it's coming okay so i don't care about this so so by by there you've confirmed that it is coming uh and it looks like it is coming and will be uh docking essentially i'll mark it um it gives you kind of a an indicator but it'll be docking in effectively this area here that i'm going to highlight on the token layer uh right over here sort of south of you there will be a yeah little square there that's where you can tell it's going to end up cool okay so chat has screwed you in several ways oh perfect i love this and um and due to me missing uh telling you on one of their roles it was a complication i would like to put forth that complication to be an actual complication of some of these hordes is there possibly a ceiling that is crumbling on top of the hordes of the hordes of the hordes of the hordes of the hordes of the one of these uh tutors here um okay um that's a suggestion this is definitely yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i will i will stay that like there's there's nothing that would cause a collapse like the ship is structurally sound um what i will say for that complication is that one of the one of the remaining hordes has been delayed. Cool. Awesome. Yes. That would have been the one that would come out of this hole to your immediate west. Does my cursory glance see any environmental assets that will help deal with one of the hordes? I mean, most of this area is fairly open. You know up to the sort of northwest where the large one coming through the primary corridor has sort of these like electric message boards so you might be able to like overload it somehow and create some kind of like jolts of energy through that. The one coming from the stairs also approaching sort of a message board. All of the message boards, by the way, are just replete with error messages. You know, data not found, data not found. Those seem to be the major environmental assets here. Looks like, I mean, it's kind of just like a subway station in many ways. There's not a lot of things to utilize here. Yeah, so there's cover. There's a lot of cover, but yeah, so what I'm going to do is with the north northwest horde that's coming towards this tram control for those billboards that you mentioned, I'm going to cast crush on them because I know I'm not going to be able to hot wire them for them to electrocute anything. So I'm just going to cast crush on them and just make them collapse into a heap to hopefully block off that entrance. Okay, so I assume you're going to move out and then crush? Still not that far out, but yeah. Yeah, okay, okay, okay. I don't have to get all the way out there. I thought you were going to be a badass. My apologies. Nah, I'll be a coward. Let him go out there and just get mulched. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Give me a crush roll. We'll say the defense of this is like three. It's like, you know, it's pretty easy to grab. A nine will absolutely do it. So you're going to grab one of these and sort of just tear it down to create some difficult terrain in the area? Yes. You're not going to be able to block them off entirely, but basically what you do is you cause this board to collapse over so it's kind of like slanted on its side so this entire area, I'm marking here, they're going to have to crawl underneath it or scramble on top of it because the message board you've ripped off with your psychic might, it sparks and falls at essentially a 45 degree angle listing on the other wall, so they have to crawl under it or crawl over it to get through that area now. Excellent. I had to use a move in that, so I'm done. Okay, perfecto. Perfecto. That would be the end of, our first round here. Or sorry, first real round. We come to our second round. Who would like to go? I think we should start with Reeb. Can I continue? Yeah, that's a good idea. I'll snag the glory after that, if you don't mind. Maybe interrupt. So Reeb, I assume you want to move up and go Kadoosh? If possible, could I move to here and get cover and also flame? Yeah, absolutely. I would like to, I have a feeling I'm going to get stun buckled here in a second, so. Uh, okay. Time to fire. Yeah. I'll get a three-hit crit, which doesn't work because of Horde. Uh, yeah. Um, but you are going to, okay, so yeah, you're gonna do like a straight line. I kind of assume it's this tactical, like you back to the wall, turn over, like send a blast of fire straight down in a line. Uh, so yeah, you get this sort of like, wash of fire that just goes down like this and takes this entire line of guys out. Wait, does, wait, I forgot, crits don't hit us from Hordes, but do crits hit Hordes? Uh, crits do hit Hordes, um, however, in this case, it like, it's weird because they, how they work with flamers is, is like, you can't really crit with them because it's just area damage, so. It's the one downside to, to a flamer weapon. Also, are these guys not exploding like their previous fellows? Uh, these ones are, but they, like, they seem to be, like, blasting apart in sort of etheric, you know, wisps. Uh, but it's, it's definitely contained. You'd have to be closer to them. I mean, i.e. don't be in melee with them, kind of thing. I mean, they're friends, more or less. Yeah. Oh, no, cause their explosion doesn't damage them. Oh, yeah, we learned that last time. Correct. Come on now, come on, I'm sure you don't mind coming a little further. Okay, um, I am going to go unless someone would like to I would like to interrupt! Excellent, please mark down that glory, alright. Absolutely. Seeing, uh, that Lorne is isolated and not with the group, and understanding now that there are more coming, uh, and also understanding that my friends are very cool and badass, I'm going to make a running leap to the other column. Okay. Oh, boy. Okay. Uh, and I would like to, uh, try to attack one of the oncoming hordes. Um. Okay. Yeah. Uh, may I make a suggestion to you? Uh, you may. Um, you're currently using a ranged weapon. Yes. And being on my side, does it benefit you as of yet? Uh, no, but it lets me draw a lasfire from you to me, and I can take lasfire better. Oh, I mean, I can lock fire out of there. Yeah, but the thing is going to be on this side, so it makes sense for us to be here. And you don't have time to combat council, so what are you going to do? Yes, exactly! I'm doing what I said I would do. Alright. So you're going to give me an athletics. Jumping something like this is actually like, you're making a, like, pretty ridiculous jump. Uh, I'm going to say it's going to be difficulty six athletics to get across. Go on, chariot of fire, you can do it. I'll, uh, put two behind this. Okay. Okay. Uh, I'll put three behind this. Alright, sure. Can I make a narrative declaration on his turn? Oh god, uh, sure. Okay, so there was a time where Lorne, uh, Pybreen was taking care of Tater Tot or something, and we were teaching Tater Tot how to do graffiti on the walls to piss off Captain Zedek. Yeah, this is a very important lesson, yes. Just, just let's go for it. And, uh, we, we put flaming hot rod flame painting on Speaker D's legs. So for this... On my legs? It, it makes, yeah, on your legs. So it makes you faster. So, obviously, you're going to have an easier time making this jump. So what you're saying is, is that as, as Pybreen does his running jump to, to, like, bridge the chasm here, uh, as his cloak billows out from behind him, we see the backs of his metallic legs have, like, crudely painted fire streaks on them. Aww. I accept this. You may, you may, you may narratively declare that, and, uh, I will give you two bonus dice on this athletics check as a result of cuteness. Aww. Also orcologic. Yes. How kind. Let's go! Nice job! Oh. So, you manage to, to, like, bridge the gap and leap across. Over the proverbial reach! And, uh, I'm gonna come over here, and, uh, I'm going to... I can't see these guys yet. I can only... No, you could see them if you were down here, though. Like, if you went, like... Oh, if I were here, I could see them? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay, yeah. If you, if you kind of, like, hug the, the, the southernmost edge of this pillar, you jump across, go back to the pillar, got your plasma gun, yeah. Sure thing. Alright, in that case, we're going to see it, see these guys coming in. I assume there's a plasma guy, I assume there's a sergeant. Uh, they are, but they are both conveniently in the back where you can't see them. How very convenient. Yes. Um, regardless, uh, if I pump salvo... So, is this, like, a mob, or are these, like, eight... It's troops. It's, they're troops. Okay. So, they're, they're a mob, you can shoot them, and, like, overages will spill over. Okay, alright. But only, like, if I only got, like, if I shot, and I did, like, six million damage, it would just be one damage. Correct. However, if you shot, and, like, rolled however many icons above their defense, then you would hit that many extra guys. Oh, okay, interesting. Um, I just want to check something for, like, exactly two seconds. It's going to take me literally just, I need to scroll down because I was just on the page number. I want to be able to accurately convey what I am trying to do. Alright. I'm going to be using the spray shot, I believe. Or, uh, spray shot versus mobs. Would you allow me to do that? Oh, okay, okay, okay, so you want to do a spray shot. Yes. Uh, uh, attack is successful, hit an additional number of, uh, individuals in the mob equal to 11 salvo value, which is two. Yep, absolutely. Uh, now, remember, they have cover from you, so their, their defense goes up, and you are wounded, so the difficulty goes up as well. Okay, fair enough. So just remember that. You are wounded, difficulty increases, and they have cover. Okay, sure thing. I am going to- Although you can't do a spray shot, because it's a full round action, and you already did a move. Uh, I could do a normal spray shot. Uh, yeah. We'd hit two. Yeah, that's fine. Mmm. Ah, fair enough. I'll do that. Um, so in that case, I'll just reduce the, uh, difficulty by two, so just a normal shot. Um, I'll pump one more glory behind this. Uh, just to make sure I hit this time! Sure. Let's go! Four successes! Yeah, you, uh, you managed to strike one and take him out. Excellent! And that should also get another. Uh, no, you'll just strike one with- Well, with a, with a normal spray shot, it lets me target, um, what is it? It's something like that. It's, uh, it's like, basically it's a multi-attack, but you increase the DN by- Oh, I'm sorry, multi- Oh, ah! Guns! Hard! Sword! Greasy! Yes, I'm actually being, being generous, cause if you did that, you would've just missed, so. Are you? Yes. Well, cause it reduces the difficulty number by the salvo, which, it would be just plus two, but then minus two, so just be a normal shot for the expenditure of an ammo. Yes. Yes. So, I will let you keep the ammo and kill the guy. Alright, wait a minute, I'm taking too long, someone do something else! Alright. Good. Good. Sorry about that, guys. Uh, so you interrupted, so now I get to go. Ah. In which... Yeah. Uh, I am going to go... with these three. Who are going to advance down the hallway up towards you, Reeb. Double. Uh, they actually just come rushing at you. Brilliant. They drop their lasguns and come rushing at you with their hands outstretched shouting out, We found, we found, we found! I wrote to go to attack. And... I wrote to die. I'm not out of these. I mean, who knows, right? Uh, and yeah, they're, they're just like, incensed as they charge towards you. Uh, okay. That will hit me. So I will get eight and a complication. Cool. Uh... As expected, that will hit me, because... Yes. I don't, I don't, I'm not Graco right now. Uh, so look at you for... Uh, twelve. Twelve at AP minus two. Okay, so that'll put six past. Uh... Two. Get determination. And I roll three determination. Yep. I will succeed none of them. So you'll take six wounds as they come tearing into you. Their claws, like, raising up and down and just scoring over your, your flesh and going through your armor. That's pretty bad, but I'm not down yet. I got two left. Um... One sec. Okay. Um... Oh, what, do they not run out of ammo, Thurston? Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out. They, they do not run out of ammo. Um... Still good, because I prefer to take wounds than shock, because I can't recover shock. Yeah. Uh, so, so they've, they've, they've effectively like, rushed up. And... The complication is that I'm going to say, you've had your flamer ready. Um... If you want, I will let you basically disengage from them for free. So, like, basically, you've had your flamer ready. They come, they strike at you, but you're able to, to get off a burst of your flamer to get out of engagement with them. So that you aren't, like, taking free strikes from them. Yeah, I, I I'd rather that be like, he raises his boot and pushes back. Yeah! Yeah, yeah, okay, that, that's even better, yeah. Get back! You could, like, push them back up against the wall as, as, like, they've, they've scored into you and dealt some... pretty grievous wounds. Yeah, I believe in that. Yeah, uh, who would like to go next? Uh, I believe we have, uh, Captain Zedek and Lorne this round, who can still go. Lorne should go, because, uh, these morons over here have gone, so I think Lorne should go. Oh, fair enough, yeah. Lorne, do it. Okay. Uh, I... From all the way up here, I'm going to cast Teleclinic Dolma myself. Okay. Yeah. Absolutely. And then Wom. I succeed, and I will push... I don't think I can boost. So you can increase the range, because you can pump it up by two, so you can increase the range. Yeah, so I'll increase the range by, you know, increase the range, it could be near people, and then I'm still, yeah, I'm still levitating. Okay. So I'm immediately just gonna go... I can go Mach 7, because of the speed boost that we've done. Yep. And then go right next to Pie. Okay, yeah, so you... Fly up, the dome is around you, you've kind of, like, hunkered behind cover, so, uh, just so you're aware, uh, Pie, and this grants you plus two resilience, and you can make determination against mortal wounds well, like this is in, so it's pretty useful. Uh, okay, so I am going to go, uh, and this, this one at the staircase sort of, like, bursts out. Burst. Burst. I just want Pie to see just a glowing orb in the vast darkness of the hallways rapidly approaching him in dangerous speeds. Then it just goes like, Pie. Greetings, my dear dead Sonic friend. Sonic. Why, why are you dying? It's a long story. Oh, well. Is it longer than my story? No. Because once upon a time, I started telling him. Stay the line, horde of demons. We found. Um, and they begin unloading onto you, Pie Brain. That's rather rude. I know. Um, realistically though, I have to go like that, cause he can't be there. Okay. Uh, so we have seven of them that are firing at you with lasguns, just just, just, just going straight to town here. We'll see how this goes. Uh, they are just firing madly across the corner at you. Uh, there's a lot of them. Just weight of dice is coming at you. Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. That is a complication. Barely hit. Yep. Uh, oh, that'll be a complication? Yes. Perfect, perfect, perfect. Their power cells fall in as they come out shooting wildly at you. Click, click, click, click, click, and the entire troop's lasguns run out of ammo. Um, what is your defense right now, Pa? Um, I am, uh, ooh, my defense is actually, did it get better? I just looked at my stat sheet and I thought it was defense four, but it might be base defense five. So, uh, in cover, telekinetic dome. Dome doesn't give you anything to your defense. It's resilience. Oh! Oh, oh, in that case, uh, then I believe they're shifting two. Cause then it'd be, uh, seven. Okay. Yeah, so they, they just, like, go to town. Oh, no, they're shifting one. Uh, you're seven? Yeah, okay, yeah. Fair enough. Cause you also don't get your parry against this, cause it's- No, no, yeah, I'm, I'm rolling. Oh, you're going to parry the lasers. Yeah, no, I, hm. Okay, re-evaluate my defense. Bonus one. Might have been a little bombing myself. Perfect. Uh, only ten, so I think that- You're good. Yeah, so one. No, that'll do one to- actually, resilience. Yeah, cause my resilience is up, so I'm good! Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, what is the- is the dome plus two? Plus two. Yeah, nice, nice, nice, yeah. So thanks to the telekinetic dome, you, uh, you take no damage from that. However, the plasma gun is going to fire now. It's good, cause this one's gonna miss. Good. That one complicates as well. Oh, that's cool, that's cool. Can you mark me down a rune point? Sure can. I'm gonna re-roll this. Okay. Hold on a second. A six? Ah, still misses! Uh, so he dies in a pile of sludge, as even the dark gods cannot allow for him. You punished him! Yeah. Whoo! Um, and then I will fire a, uh, friggin' las pistol at you two, cause it's creepy. And that complicates. Uh, the las pistol is out of ammo. I will just mark this sad Zed unit as being out of ammo now. How unfortunate. That means they'll have to go into close combat, oh no. Uh, alright, Zedek, would you like to go? I sure would. Uh, Cam's next to him is sitting down and realizing he's useless and playing cards with a corpse. No, he's gonna move up to Reave and help him out. Okay. How are you going to help him out? I'm gonna shoot him. Uh, okay. Are you moving up and shooting? Yes, yes. Okay, so like, up to there and then shoot? Okay, yeah. Cool, give me an attack roll. Okay. Three. Uh, that will hit one of them. I would like to re-roll that. Absolutely, spend that wrath die, boss. Bop. Bop. Uh, yeah, you will hit, uh, one, two, two more of them. Uh, so you'll actually with, with your arc pistol, you will come up and go bang, bang, bang, bang. And, uh, you will kill all three of them. Okay. Very good, Gifton. Thank you for the assistance. Um, wait. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they, they all explode, but no one's in immediate range, so you're good. Bleeding very badly. Uh, this how, uh, oh, and say, uh, then this unit goes, they have to spend their entire action basically getting through the rubble here, so they aren't contributing beyond just, like, scrounging over the, the wrecked thing that, uh, the wrecked message board that Loren had torn down with his psychic powers, so Loren had sort of delayed that one for a round. Um, and then all of you, over the sounds of, like, firefighting and whatnot, all of you hear something. Uh, and only, only Pi and Loren can see it. However, uh, Pi and Loren, what you see is something coming down the, the tracks. Not from the direction of the fore of the ship, but from the direction of the aft of the ship. And what you see is some kind of swarm filling the air and this buzzing sound, like some kind of wings, and you just hear this, this mute sound of as perhaps hundreds of flying cherubs enter in from the bottom area here. And, you know, I told Reeve I never trusted those things, but he, he's a big fan of mine. So, right there. Um, and with that, uh, that is, uh, oh, sorry, and... Yeah, that's, uh, that's our round right now. Um, next round, who would like to go first? Uh, I feel like I need to do something. Okay. I'mma spend a wrath point real quick. Okay, sure. If it's cool with a lot of you, I feel like we're in the most danger. Um, so these guys are like, are some of these guys like, uh, security personnel? They're armsmen. Like, they're, they're predominantly armsmen. Okay, yeah, and a couple, when they die, they've been exploding, so there's been an impetus, right? Yeah. Uh, I'm gonna rule that when the sergeant exploded, that body happened to have a catch of frag grenades on him that might have rolled my way. Uh, can't do that, the sergeant's still alive. Uh, one of the guns sludged. Other in, well, when I kill him, that happens. Okay. Uh, I don't know. I narratively declare he is a piñata. Yeah, yeah. Can I narratively declare that he has frag grenades on him that, if shot, might explode? Sure. That's very nice of you, Thurston. Very nice of you, thank you. Thank you, my dad. This sounds like bullshit, go for it. I probably could have made this in a smarter way, but I'm not that smart. Uh, okay, let's get that fucking guy, then. You guys ever played RE Remake? You know the one dangerous zombie? I want that. No. Yes. Okay, cool. Two people know what I'm talking about. I bet I don't. I'm taking my gun! I don't need this sword! I don't need this! I'm gonna kill you! Alright, I'm gonna spend two glory on this, because this matters. And I'm going to try to target this guy to hopefully cause a chain reaction enough to get us out of the immediate blast zone. Sure. Here we go! Four successes! Not quite enough. I'll wrap it! There you go! Thurston, if it's any consolation, we are also throwing every single thing that we are getting to try and do this. Oh, I understand. I understand. That's fine. That's fine. If this is how you want to play it, I'm game. I'm game. Alright, you murder him with the increased defense. You, like, line up your plasma gun. You fire off a bolt. It streaks past all of these as they're all staring at you, saying, we found, we found, we found. And then the bolt of plasma actually, like, guts through the front three, hits the guy, explodes the grenades. It is a chain reaction as you wanted, like murdering all but two of them who stand sort of near the front, further away from the explosion. The explosion rocks the room and all of you sort of hear it. Dust starts coming off of the ceiling a little bit here. Okay. And in order to spare my friend Lauren, can I still use a move action? Mm-hmm. Okay. I'm just going to move over here so that when they do get into combat with me, the resulting explosion won't hurt my friend. Okay, so you're like, you fire and sort of like, I assume, for cinematic sake, you come out of cover, fire as you're moving, and cool Skitarii don't look at explosions and just get cover. Exactly. Absolutely. Okay, so my go... Another group comes through this hallway here that that previous complication delayed. That's my go. Who would like to go next? Lauren? I think... Lauren should go. Lauren should move. I think Lauren should get those two guys. Wow, wow, okay. I mean, like, why did you leave me again? Because they were going to charge in. If they charged in, then you might have also been caught in the mortal wood blast, and Lauren has skin like tissue paper, so I was trying to draw them away in case they acted. Oh, okay. Yes, I was doing a cool around second place and it was cool. I'll come back to you. Hello. No, no. No! No! Okay, we'll do this. I'll hover. Okay. I don't know if those turbs are going to fucking kill us. Wait, the car's going to be there. I want the car just, Lauren, to be like, come get me, come get me, train. Just... You can't hear that shit. That guy's just sludged now. It's a bad movie, excuse me. Okay, what are you doing, Lauren? That's a really good question, actually. I've been sitting here thinking of what to do the entire time, and there's no good solution because everything's just frustrating. It's like, what do I do? If you crush them, right? Because the thing is, is that these guys are not going to really be able to get very good shots off on us. Well, because they have no guns. They're out of ammo. No, I mean these guys. Because they're so far away, we've got cover. We're hopefully inured from their shooting. And you've also got telekinetic dome up on me. Well, I have to be near you for that. Be near me for that. So, the thing you objected to before, I'll come back. Yes, that's a good idea. And now I'll cast crush. Yeah, now you can. That's what I was originally going to do, but you objected. No, I didn't. No, I didn't. I thought they'd roll the crush. Roll the crush. I am smart. I didn't know another horde was going to come. I didn't know another horde was going to come. I thought these guys were going to charge. You made this same mistake last session. No, I didn't. I don't make mistakes. In fact, because you made this same mistake, this is why you're currently at two wounds. You might actually think that's true, but I don't really believe in that. Roll the goddamn crush. I love you guys. I rolled a one and I complicated, so I'm going to have to roll one more. I'll spend a wrath. Yeah, you're going to use the wrath? I got a nine, so I can get all of them. Okay, but you still perils. You don't even have to roll damage. You're going to crush and psychically reach out and pop these two grapes. However, please roll me 2d6. We're just going to use the straight old table for these because we're in super serious mode. That is smooth. 41. Okay, so 41 on the Perils of the Warp Table. Would you like me to read it? Yeah, would you like to? Go ahead. It is Banshee Scream. A mighty roar akin to a sonic boom crashes through the air. Lesser animal life forms 25 meters or instantly killed. All others suffer 1d3 shock and must make a successful difficulty 3 toughness test or are staggered. How far away are we? Okay, here's what's going to happen. So first of all, Pybrain takes 1d3 shock and has to give me a toughness test. Easy. I hope. Please don't roll a 3. Okay, so you're staggered as this scream goes over you. Also, roll me a d3. That's how much shock you take. Actually, I'll roll it because I'm a bad person. And I will roll a 3 and feel good about myself. No, I'll roll a 1. But you'll take 1 point of shock. And then you are staggered. And what staggered means is your move is reduced by half. Can't run or sprint. As this happens, I want to point out, so like, Loren, you fly behind Py and like, you reach over to do your psychic crush. Describe, like, how you crush them. Like, do you reach out with your hand? What do you do? So, in pair with the psychic scream, I'm really trying to you know, really inspire Pybrain. He's been really hurt. He's made some mistakes. His pride might be hurt a little bit. So I really try to console him by using his battlecry by yelling for Lemuria. But it's so fucking ear-piercingly loud, it destroys his like, audio receptors in his head as I'm just casually just hand-crushing and turn them into little meatballs. And so, as you shout this, I want to point out what everyone uh, so, so, okay. Reeb and Zedek, you turn to hear this just ear-piercing scream. It's not enough for you to take any damage. But you turn in time to see this. And what punctuates it is emerging from the tunnel shaft is this swarm of, um, of cherubim that emerge. But they get caught in the scream. And I'm going to consider that, like, cherubs are sort of like rodents or small, small uh, like creatures. And so they are instantly slain by this scream. So this flying mass of cherubim, hundreds perhaps, fly in and then they're just, their heads start popping and blood. And they start, like, skidding down and landing on the tracks. And there's just this sound as they're rolling over. And you just hear this as they're crashing everywhere. Dead babies everywhere. Um, okay. And that's Loren's go. It's a Lemurian miracle! I'm sure this is the opportune time for a dead baby joke. But I'm just not gonna fucking touch this. This one, like, this unit, like, rushes over to there. Uh, but they have not, uh, they're not shooting yet. Uh, who would like to go next? Um, I have a question. Are all of the babies now dead? Yes. Okay. Uh, so in that case, there's no reason to set the babies on fire with a flamethrower. Um, just wanted to say that. Thank you. Nevertheless! Captain, unless you wanna go immediately, Reeve, I would like to go over to you and help you not die. Oh. Trust me, I am not a doctor. I, I think I will, I think I'd prefer to actually just heal myself. No, no, no, no. You have much more important things to worry about. Please, let me heal you. I have two wounds. I do not want, what is your, what is your, hey, hey, hey, Hilkie, what's your Medicaid at? My Medicaid is whatever I damn well say it is. How about you tell me what it is? You're being awesome. Career ability. Uh, it is more than one. Okay. That's not helpful. Tell me it right now. It's a prime number. So the big problem with that it's either Muria which are both still worse than mine. Also, I wanna point out, I have a natural Medicaid. I can move, shoot, and then Medicaid myself. Yeah. Oh. Charismatic. He is. You can't argue with that. Yeah, and Reeve is pragmatic and he doesn't want whatever is covered in his gloves into his wound. It might be nice if we had the good captain spit out these words. Captain, can you possibly do that instead? Reeve or Zedek, who's going? Pick, please. Captain Zedek will go. Draw their fire. He'll move up closer to the tracks and try and pop this horn that's closest to the tram. Okay, so I'm assuming you're gonna do a little rush over to here and then fire kind of diagonally towards? Yeah. Yeah, cool, cool. It's long range. It'll have a bit of a higher difficulty, but go ahead. Give me a shot. Okay, here it comes. So what's a one? Not with a one. Not with a one. The good old Captain Zedek dice rolling. Oh, yeah. Let's wrap it. Let's go. Imagine that could have been your Medicaid check. I know! And you would have had a memorable injury and that would have made you so much Actually, I don't know what it would make you other than injured, honestly. Green, perhaps. Hit the reroll button. Okay, can I? Yeah, let's just do that. A six. Six successes. That will take out two of them. The two at the far end. You'll snap off two shots from behind cover and drop two more of them. Which explode in sort of like psychic wisps as geist-like spirits come out of them and get torn into the immaterium. Yeah. I would like to note, though, that six is not a prime number. We boarded. Oh, fuck. We boarded. We boarded. We boarded. Reeb, you're up. Reeb. Yeah? Go. Here we go. Yes. Sorry, I've got a concussion. I'll tell you what. I'm going to... So, let me ask you this, Thurston. If I moved and then shot and then followed it up with a Medicaid attempt on myself, could that be done? Yes. However, the only thing you can really shoot at is too far away. Even with a... You would have to move up to like here and then you could shoot. I can't shoot these. They're all... Like, if you want to shoot them, they're all dead. Like, all of the cherubs have fallen, killed by the scream. Oh, you're talking about corpses. Okay. Yeah. Those up there. Better idea. I'm not going to shoot anything. I'm going to get in a cover over here and heal myself. Yeah, absolutely. We might behoove you to get closer to the tram. I don't think that's a good idea given the cherubs. Keep in mind, though, well, the cherubs are all dead, but keep in mind... Yeah, the cherubs are all dead. We just had this horde spawn in from where they were before. The second horde spawned in from here. Where you are. Huh. Yeah. If I were to make a suggestion to you, the pillar that was to your left before you moved would probably be the better place to be right now. I will go there instead. I will narratively declare that I do not do that and go here instead. Okay. Yeah. And now I will heal myself because I... Medicaid. Yeah. Yeah. Anything. Cool. No, that's not Medicaid. That's scalpel. Okay. I'll get 12 and a complication. Cool. Because the complication is making me extremely angry, I'm going to actually wrath that. Okay. Can you wrath a complication? It'll still keep the complication. I know. I just want to make sure that whatever I heal is well in excess of whatever the... So if you wrath it, you're only going to get one extra, like, roll. Oh, yeah. Because everything else gets... Never mind. I'll just take the four. Okay. So you'll get three and then you shift exalts. So you're actually... Yeah. You're going to get five back. Five back? Oh, yeah. Because four shifts and then your regular one that you restore. I deft Medicaid skill stitch up every wound except for one that is grazed across my face. Good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then for the complication... Yeah. I stitch my hand in. to my chest. We'll just use a good old classic here. Oh, nice. The optional regular complications that we're using. Physical mishap. You're clumsy or tongue-tied. You do or say something you didn't mean to, causing a problem. Causing a problem? What the hell would happen here with that? I assume that... Oh, here's what's happening. You're trying to get all of this and you drop your flamer. I don't have time for this. All right. Cool. That's that. That's that. And then I've got that. Oh, yeah. And... I call Zedek fat. No, I'm not doing that. For what purpose? To hurt him, it seems. There we go. That's the faux paw. It's like, I can't believe Zedek's fat has got me into this trouble. Wow! Damn! All right. Another unit of these horrifying things appears. At this point, all of you hear the whistle of a tram. And then we start the next round of combat. Who would like to go first? That's a really good question. We are directly in the firing line of the bad guys. Correct. I don't like that. Do I have anything that's good into groups? Not really, except side of my sword. But, Speaker, what if you weren't? What if you just shift again to here? Then they would obliterate Lauren. I mean, don't worry about me. Go forth and do what you can, because I'm about to adjust some things to make sure I'm tanky. Yeah. I'm not honestly super worried. I just want to be able to get to this fucking car. So what I'll do is I'll move a bit back over here. And I'm going to peeking a little bit out from the side, I will make a multi-attack onto the sergeant and to the plasma guy who are on the open. Sure. Okay. Yeah. We'll make it a salvo one, so it's just a normal. No DC, so we'll salvo it. Okay. There's no need to multi-attack. I'll just fucking hit the plasma guy. What the fuck am I saying? I'm insane. Okay. Yes. Okay, I spent two glory and there's a guy. Here we go. Wish me luck. Ah! Four and a crit. Crit. Plasma guy technically doesn't have cover, so you're good on that. He does have an increased defense because you're wounded, but that will just hit, so. Yes. And yeah, roll me 2d6 and we'll see what your terrifying crit is on him. Yes. Give me audio. Thirty-five. Fifty-three. Fifty-three is overpowering assault. Yeah, you just send the foe lurching away. Its sense is blurred, but it doesn't matter because it quite just dies as it's sent flying back into the cogitator panel behind its fellow mates there. Did I break it? No. Aww. I wanted to. We respect technology. Well, yeah, but this is all evil ones. These are all... Would anyone like to... Who would like to go next? I think it should be Lorne. I can go next. Well, if you're interrupting, I should clarify. Yeah. If anyone wants to interrupt. Does anyone else have any other plans they want to do first? Or... I would prefer that Lorne interrupts so he doesn't explode. I agree. Yes. Okay. Then I will spend the thing to interrupt. Thank you for the glory. Okay. I will hide behind the pillar. Yep. And, uh... I'm having a huge debate on whether to do this or not, because I can... Okay, so to explain the idea so people can have input if it's okay. Sure. I can do shape flesh, which literally will give me plus four resilience on top of my telekinetic dome. Which I would give six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. So, it's going to be very hard for them to damage me. Or... I could keep just what I'm doing. And just peek around and just keep crushing. Because I have levitate, and I go at Mach 7 currently. And as soon as the tram shows up I go I think, um... I think more crushes isn't a bad idea. Okay. Because, um... I wish I had... I should fucking ban Wall of Flame. We banned that shit that started this entire project, and now I'm sitting here going, this son of a bitch knew it. How's it going, buddy? How you doing this time, brother? Fuck you, Thurston. Fuck you. Big number. Yep. I'm going to cast Crush based on the squad that Pybering shot at. Yep. Totally. It's at the far extreme edge of your range, but sure. I have six. Yeah, so you can crush and kill three of them. Excellent. I do so. As you just, like, ring them out and hurl them around, kind of Darth Vader-y style. Yeah, it's like Force Token kind of deal. Yeah, exactly. And then there's, like, cracking, and they all sort of continue to explode, and this, like, we found, we found, and then from over here you're just hearing, you know, we boarded, we boarded. Okay, uh, I will go then, um, and... Unit moves up to here. Hey, Halky. Oh, hi, what's up? Oh, dear. You turn in time to see another group that has advanced. One of them at the fore raises a plasma gun and takes a takes a shot at you, Captain Maskadelche. I, uh, gonna spend a rune dice. Okay. Are you? Oh, god. Did that hit you still? Do you have four? What's your defense? My defense is two, so it does hit me. Oh, sweet. So it does hit you. I like that. I like that. I didn't roll a single thing to shift, but he's going, this one, like, turns the corner and sees you, uh, Captain Zedek, and you just hear this, like, we, we found, we found, and it's firing the, the, um, the plasma gun, but as it's firing, its own, like, hands are melting, cause it's continually pressing the button and overheating it, so he dies a terrible death, but he does hit you with a blast of superheated plasma! Uh-oh. Ah! Ouch. Uh, for seventeen at AP, uh, minus three. Oh! Well, that's really bad, actually. I think that puts him well over. Uh, it very well could, so AP minus three, you'll get five off of that, so you'll take twelve damage, um, but you do get determination. I would love to roll determination to not die. Absolutely. Here. Oh, it's a one. Would you like to spend a wrath? Anything that keeps me alive. Sure. Or glory, even, if you want to throw some glory at it. That might be a good idea. Can I spend some glory so I don't turn into mush? That's a good idea. Yeah, roll the glory first. Roll the, how much, how much glory do you want to spend here? Can I use it all? Yes. Sure. Absolutely. Okay, so, and then you can spend a wrath to basically roll 3d6 to, to see what else you get. You're sitting at four successes. So far. Six successes, so you'll take six shock, which I think exhausts you, but you'll reduce the damage that you take, uh, by six, which I think I only did six damage to you, so you'll just take six. Oh, god. And then be, be heavily, actually, was it six? How much was it? No, you did twelve. Twelve, that's right. So you'll still take six, so you'll be at zero shock and one wound. That's fine. As a small stun strikes you. I, to remind everyone, death is enabled. Death mode is enabled. That was their go. Who'd like to go next? I go now, please. Help me. I'm the last one. You are? I'm leaking. Oh, wait, no, Zedek still hasn't, Zedek, would you like to go? I'd love to go. No, I'm gonna go. Maybe you should get next to him, flame the crowd, and then heal Zedek of his health. I would love to, I would love to flame Zedek. You already did, last turn. Devote your life to the dark gods. Oh, shit. So my flasher's dropped, isn't it? So here's what you can do. Here's what you can do. You can multi-action to pick up the flamer, then take your move, then unnatural medik-k, then fire. The unnatural medik-k allows you, I think, to... It lets me normal negative modifiers. Yeah, so you just take the minus two to fire, I believe. Yeah, I would like to put the medik-k at the end, because that would be where it would go with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Pick up, move, fire medik-k, ideally. The difficulty, basically, their quote-unquote defense is gonna go up by two for the multi-action of pick up and moving. You're good. You can roll the attack. Here we go. I hope you guys are ready, because my ballistic is fine, but not... not that good. I need to wrath that. Yeah, yeah, I don't think you have any glory either, so... Wrath it! I get a five. Ooh! Okay, so you're gonna get a line of them, and then... you're ju... Yeah, you're just gonna get a line of them. Yeah, I wanna get the... Plasmo's already dead, so I don't care about him. I wanna get rid of the... these goons. Yeah, so... woosh, straight through them. Okay, and now... takes a quick second, and then turns on bullet time, and proceeds to uh... To heal. Yeah, give me the medik-k, Jack. Uh, that's crap. I'm going to use my last wrath. Absolutely. Here, take it. Holy damn! Glory! Uh, so I think that tops up our glory now, too, because we got a bunch... Thanks, Jack. Uh, also ten, so that's going to be one, two, three, four, five wounds back to Captain Zedek. Thank you! Rapid stitching. There! That is most definitely unnatural. Don't question it! Shoot them! Okay! Uh, Captain Zedek will... Are you... I'm sorry, are you finished with your turn, Erndil? Uh, yeah, that's about all I can do, I think, right? Uh, right? Yeah, that's... I've done liter... I think... Are you going to seize? Sorry, are you going to seize Captain Zedek? Yeah. I would like to seize. Okay, then I'll move this giant horde that I was super excited to do something with back. Okay, you may go. Uh, I'm going to retroactively use Gallows Humor and tell Reed that that is most definitely an unnatural medik-k if I've ever seen one, and we're going to heal some shock. Fair. Uh, I'm going to do a fellowship. I've only done this once. Oh, Gallows Humor. God, I wish the trait that I took was, uh, useful in this situation. I got a... four successes. So it's icons plus rank. Yeah. Uh, that's good. So you have four icons. Ranked to be six shock. I'm sorry, no, it's going to be seven shock to the party, as well as myself. Oh, good thing I didn't lose any shock. Uh, does that work for them over there? Everybody in the party gets it. Yay! All allies, in fact. I'm pretty healthy, so... And I'm going to shoot them, because I'm mad. Yeah, because I assume you're just shouting it over everything, so yeah, totally. So yeah, you all get seven shock back. Very nice. Nice, I didn't lose any. Certainly wish I did right about now. I lost one. You know, if you carry a battery around with you, I'm sure you can store the excess shock. I'm going to shove a bottle up your ass. Uh, are you moving at all? No. Okay. I don't want to die again. I'm right here. You can't shoot through me. Well, the thing is that you're going to be exposed to those individuals. Oh, fuck, you're right. Alright, well, moving up. Better hope you get them, buddy. Okay. I'm going to shoot them. Yeah. Mr. Multi-Action? Uh, well, no, they're going to... Were you going to shoot? You wouldn't have been able to shoot them, because they were behind this fucking giant wall, so... Yeah, yeah, they haven't... Sorry, I thought you were done with the gallows humor. So you gallows humor, then you're moving, then what? Shoot the mob in front of us. Okay. Lighten the load. Now, just remember, in the future, it's cool now, yeah, so you'll hit one, kill one. No, he did say he was going to shoot. Okay. Oh, he did, yeah. Okay, thanks. Ignore me, then. I am bad. Um, because technically... Technically, the difficulty on the gallows check would have gone up. Not by two, but whatever. It's all good. Uh, cool. So, bang! Pops one, comes around the corner. At that exact time, this group comes over to here. And then... doubles up to there. Who would like to go next? Or have you all... You've all gone, haven't you? We've all gone. Sweet. So now it's all up to your guys! Thurston! Yeah. Fair. Uh, and as that happens, we have the Maglev car come screaming in at supersonic speeds. The sound of, like, hurled, uh, homunculi cherub flesh washed and pushed around as the car comes into the area. So, there is now... a car. A vehicle. There are doors, which I am going to mark really quick. Um, just after I do this. Just so you can get a sense. There we go, there we go. You should have put a Ferrari on there. I should have. Uh, and then there is a door there. And a door there. Alright! Top of the next round, real quick. Alright. I think, Loren, we gotta go. So, I'm gonna do something. I know you can levitate. I'm gonna grab... I've been running away from you. I... Uh-huh. ...gonna grab onto your back and ride you. You're going to give me a piggyback. My arms are extended like a plane, ready for takeoff. Use your strength score, Loren. Why do you have to ask such... Why do you have to ask questions that hurt me? I wanna, I wanna rewind a little bit, chat, to when Loren was like, oh yeah, it doesn't matter what my carrying capacity is. I know it. I know it. I know it, because as soon as I saw this stupid fucking chasm, I immediately thought back to that, immediately gone, hmm, I'm gonna have to carry somebody at some point. It rewards me when choices matter. Well, what I can do, what I can do to kinda help with this, but it will prevent me from doing any offensive offensive actions, Yes. is that, cause I'm planning to do something really stupid. Oh, beautiful. To really help me survive this. So, depending on the psychic power I, particularly Peril's on, it may help us. But it's not my turn. Oh, I fucking, I, I think I know exactly what you're What are you gonna do? Okay. I mean, it's like, I don't have anything super exploding or whatever, but I have multiple things gonna stack. Yeah, you, you're spending your, your action to assume the piggyback. Okay. I will assume the piggyback. Okay, you're delaying your action. I guess. Uh, yeah, I could delay my action. I was planning on actually What I was gonna probably do, I'll tell you what I was gonna do, and you tell me this is dumb. Okay? Okay. If this is necessary, cause I don't know what you're planning. I was going to use that action, well, use your shoulder as a firing rest, and then um, spend my salvo to multi-shot, get these two guys out of the way, and let us just zoom into this fucking car. Okay, so I, I have a question to ask you. Yes. What happens after? When they can get into the car. Exactly. Which is why I don't think it's a very good idea. And why I was trying to talk you out of it. Now here's what we should do instead. Why don't you just zoom me in through this way, and then I'll use my tech interact to close this door. Okay, so, uh, Thurston, are the tram doors currently open? Yes. Why'd you have to do this to me? Because I love you. Like a brother. No, you don't. Alright. I do. Which complicates things. I was going to suggest I'll just fly us over to the other side, and then if the tram doors are closed, I'll just, we'll figure out a way to get in the other side. So this is a, this is a conundrum. Because we have a swarm, and Molten Beam can only do so well if I did have it. Correct. Which is why, fucking I wish I had all the flame. So, I'm sorry, is this door not open? They're both open. Yeah, we could just fly around and get in here, right? But they can still do the same thing. But then he could, basically what he's saying is he can delay his action, you could fly around, go inside, then he can run and close the door. Yeah. Yeah, okay, yeah, we can definitely do that. Okay. So Lauren is going to go first, then. Oh yes, so I'll go first. Okay. So, multiple things are going to happen. And this is going to determine if we die a horrible death or not. Oh, I'm, I'm excited. I'm excited. So here's the plan. I can recast, because I have a strength of one, by the way. So, I ain't carrying you. That's right. So, the issue is that levitation would have to, I would have to drop levitation and possibly do shape float. And if we want to do some fun things here, I can do shape float to give me wings, so that I may fly, but also cast it again to possibly be all like, hey, game master, can I naively declare that this gives me increased strength to swole warm it up? You wouldn't have to drop the shape, like you wouldn't have to drop the levitation. Remember, you can sustain as many powers as you want. Oh, I know, I know. The difficulty just goes up. I'm also going by game logic, because I've sustained it for a while. I don't know if it's been there yet. No, no, no, you can keep sustaining levitation. You have the dome and the levitation that are sustained. And you have a talent that lets you do this and not really suffer bad effects. However, if you add another one on, now the difficulty is going up. Yeah. So, here, let's do this. So, you could do shape flesh and then move, keep your speed. I would let you say you want to shape flesh to give yourself a bit of bulk to grab high brain and fly around. That's cool. The difficulty for shape flesh is going to be eight though, to do that. Um, I have a question. Yes. Instead of doing that, Loren, why don't you just crush, kill these two, and then just walk in? No, the other one sounds cooler. I cast shape flesh. Okay, cool. Beautiful. Do it up. I have eight exactly. Okay, so you like, you turn into the friggin' flying hulk here. I swole Loren. Yeah, I was just- I swole Loren, just JoJo theme up here in front of like, just as a shadow looms over him, I extend my, I extend my bulky arms out and go, go with me if you want to leave. Yeah, like, and suddenly buff Loren. You son of a- Grabbed, flies around. And I grab him, and I pick up Pie gingerly into my arms and I say, you swole come with me. He's like, we swole go in the sea of our flins. And I turn to follow him, turn to victory! And then we'll eventually, we'll just levitate Superman-like, just drop him off and I will yell at him, close the door! Close the door! Idly tugging at his beard. Well, this form gives you a weird- Oh, yeah, that, right! I'm going to interrupt if I can. Yeah, mark me down a rune point, please. I figured you might- There it is. And because this is the, like, I don't know, let's hurt Captain Zedek show, I'm just going to have these five up here go into a firing line and shoot at Captain Zedek. The smart thing would be to do the tram, but I just like hurting you. Absolutely. I always knew Zedek would go down in the firing line, but I didn't imagine it would not be his own crew. As they fire at Captain Zedek, they do complicate. Excellent. They're going to run out of ammo. Holy butts. Wow. Sweet. Look at how great this damage is going to be. It's going to be nine damage, Captain Zedek. Take that. Wow. I'm going to take that damage. That's right. Would you Determination that? Yes. Here we go. Good. Take some shock. Three. Okay, cool. So that's done. Then you go, I assume you're coming here and slamming this door shut, correct? As a matter of fact, yes. I'm going to tech check and, uh, yes. Ka-talk. It is shut. Um. And then technically I get to go. Um. This group starts pounding on the doors. You hear this We found. We found. Um. Who would like to go next? Reeb or Cap- Reeb or Zedek? Are you basically now just both going to, like, run and get in here? I would like to not be shot on the way over, so I'm going to attempt to flame them. Oh yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fire and then move? Yeah, absolutely. And I'm going to do that. Uh. I will fire my fire. Do your fire. Gun. Gun of fire. He's going to do the firing gun. Fire. Hook of flame. Fire is a froth. Oh, there we go. You'll take out two of them. And then I assume you're just basically, like, hopping down and getting to the door there? Uh. Yeah. Okay. Here's what's going to happen. So we save a bunch of time. Zedek, I assume you're going to do a similar thing. You're going to shoot and then run? Correct. Okay. You can roll your attack roll as you shoot. Boom. Four. And a compliment. You're going to run out of ammo again for your arc pistol as you shoot wildly, but you are going to take down two more of these. Then you are going to get here. All of these possessed crew members are going to start bashing on the side of the tram. This horrific, like, wall. Swolorn is going to come, I assume, and lift both of you up with one arm each. Well, I'm guessing, Pybrain, you're going to activate the tram. I'm going to activate. Look out the window. Look at the sergeant that's pounding on the window here. I'm going to say, Sorry, buddy! We boarded! And with that, let's take a quick break because we haven't actually had a break yet. Oh my god! 45 minutes. Pybrain earns that gold star. Fucking hell. Get a hero point. Oh wait, the wrong game. Okay. Be back in just a bit. See you in a bit, dear fellas. And we're back. Welcome back, everybody, to Warhams. Now, where were we last, Thurston? You have all managed to get into the tram of the sub-spinal maglev system for the carillon, making your way towards the fore of the ship. As you do so, you all have a moment to breathe as the tram makes its way towards the front. The doors have closed, the beating of those horrific, possessed crew members has stopped, and you all have a moment to collect yourselves. He's not collecting himself, he's going to heal the most wounded person here, which is... who? I think technically Pybrain. Yeah, but you can't heal Py yet. I am banned from being healed. Yeah. Did you medicate him? Yeah, last session. It's still within the timeframe. He can't do it yet. Yeah, not to Py, but... And same with Zedek. Both Zedek and Py have been... And yourself. Lauren, would you like to be medicated? You look very ripped right now. No, I'm... I deflate, turn off all the other psychic powers, and say, nope, I'm fine. Okay. There's just the hum as the tram is going through. You can tell that this... there's no, like, branching stations or anything. This is just a straight tunnel. Wow. There's the sort of, like, glowing console at the front. Pybrain, you can tell that there is another log entry that has been saved to this one. Guys, wanna hear how the bad thing that the church person said? Yes, just play the damn thing. Okay. Number five! Very well. Church here. I ran into Second Lieutenant Arnold, leading some of the armsmen back to the Ingenarium. No shame in admitting it. I fucking hid behind some wall panels as they ran past. Arnold was shouting something about taking control after the emergency retranslation, and not crashing into Fimbria III. I don't fucking get it. He already translated in system. So what emergency retranslation are they talking about? Anyways, I'm going to the Strigium. It has to be safe. Well, with any luck, we'll find her there. We're gonna crash into Fimbria III? Hmm. I don't understand the logic of these demon creatures. I don't need to tell you this, Pi, but having a demon-possessed ship crash into a planet that is otherwise not prepared for such an event could be catastrophic. Hmm. Yeah, but... You can give me a scholar check if you got it. Me or him? Both of you. Sure. Okay, I will skill you. Yes. Skill duel! I'll give you a three, and I will not be upgunned, or, you know, upstarted, so I will wrap that to a six. Aw, Pi almost looked smart for a second. You are smart! You just can't be smarter than me! I'm trying to Yes, both of you are smart asses. Wow. Alright, so both of you have studied a bit of the Fimbria system. Uh, on your way here. You do remember that Fimbria 3 is an ice world. Um, that's has, like, it's almost entirely frozen water. It's almost twice the size of a Terra standard planet. However, you've found the Carillon well past like, Fimbria 3. It's close to, it's between Fimbria 2 and Fimbria Majoris at this point. So, like, when this happened, it would have had to have been a while ago, and it's been drifting since. Huh. Um, Reeb, you would also note that it would be, it would be strange for them to have emerged here after anything related to warp travel, because generally, in order to keep ships safe, they go to the system mandible point, i.e., like, the outer extremities of a solar system, in order to enter the warp, because doing so inside solar systems is often very dangerous. Seems to me like someone may have had an effect on their flight plan, so to speak. Hmm. Possibly an internal resistance. But it seems as though the resistance was rather ferociously squashed. Not surprising. Nothing is really normal in the place as we go, it seems. I've sort of come to realize that. It's very interesting. Haven't had a chance to cut anything particularly interesting open yet, though, that hasn't been laced with chaotic energies. Hmm. I know what you mean. Nothing normal around but us. That's putting it lightly. Bram, Doc, and the tram stops, and there is this pneumatic hiss as the door opens, and sort of this, uh, like, temperate air comes back into the cabin. Wow. Here we go, gentlemen. Forward! Forward! And, well, wherever you're from, honestly. You walk out. There are lumens here. The strips on the wall seem to be not, um, vibrant, but it looks like whatever backup illumination systems are here are running fine. Um, you can see right ahead there's a set of stairs that go up and around. Which, you go up and you find yourself going up multiple landings of stairs. These ones have sort of a stone finish to them. Along the walls here, you can see that they are inscribed with holy ecclesiarchal mantras praising the Emperor. How fresh are these? Uh, like, it looks like whenever the ship was made, these were inlaid into the Oh, okay, I'm sorry. I thought you meant, like, someone had written on the side. No, no, no, they're, like, inlaid, like, they've been, like, etched in as part of the construction. This is an ecclesiarchal ship. Hold on a moment. Something you see, Poe? Wait, wait a moment. Perhaps, have I misunderstood something? This was, uh, de Fuckerby's flagship, yes? No. Ah. This was a ship de Fuckerby got transit on, which belongs to the Missionarius Galaxia, which is basically preachers at the edge of the Imperium. Hmm. Okay, so this couldn't have happened that long ago. Maybe there are still survivors. Don't let us go forth in check, Pi. The issue with the issue with things of this name and nature is that seeds of rebellion, no matter what their origin, spread extremely fast or extremely slow. Let's just be cautious as we go forward, because we don't know exactly how converted this entire place is. When in doubt, I will defer to your judgment. He just walks forward, and I'm just walking a direction forward where I think it's the most natural way to get to the helm of the bridge or something else. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah, you continue walking ahead, and as you do so, you can, like, hear your footsteps echoing down the halls as the stairways end, and you find yourself in sort of a dull blue steel-ish corridor. There appears to be one section that is all plasteel, sort of this translucent or, sorry, glasteel. This translucent glass that you can look through to see a large chamber. Reeb, you immediately can identify it as a Medicaid ward. Oh! Lucky ass. I think, anyway. Will you be able to repair my internal damages? Possibly. I need to see what's in store for us here. So, can we approach it or is there anything interceding? No, so it's basically a plasteel wall, and then there's a set of, like, plasteel double doors that, again, you can see through all of this. And the double doors appear to be unlocked. It looks like you just have to hit a command on the adjacent terminal, and with that, they open. I believe this would be an excellent time for us to recuperate somewhat, provided these area is clear. Could you please open the door for us? Mm-hmm. I will hit the door open button. Yep. Door opens up. There's sort of this, like, grinding sound of gears as both doors pull back to open up. There's this cool, almost like, this cool air with a bit of analgesic mist in it that hits all of you. Kind of like, almost like a weird minty taste as well as you walk in. This place is incredibly, incredibly clean. All of the surfaces. There are various desks, beds. Along the back wall, you can see there are shelving units stacked with goods. There appears to be some sort of case in the far end of the room. Like, roughly the size of an augren. A large sort of shelf case that's closed. Mm-hmm. Riebel, take a deep breath. Ah. Medical sterility. Nothing like it. Right. Well. Let's take a quick look around, gentlemen, before we set about to replenishing medical stocks. Shall we? Yeah. I'm looking for the giant-looking save point and or typewriter in the room. Uh, yeah. The Resident Evil 2 save room music begins playing. Yeah. Better than dead space, like, you know, computer terminal. Somewhere on the wall. Yeah, exactly. And you know for a fact, Mr. X will not walk into this room. He will come up to that door and stand there, but he will not walk in here. I at least actually try to find, like, a legit terminal around. Yeah. There appear to be various Medicaid terminals here. All of them seem to just deal with basic crew information. Some of them seem to have locks on them, but they all seem to be general use cogitators. Um, as I soon re-implied, everybody else is going around. At least try to access any of it. And try to see if I can see any medical records of, like, recent appointments in what people have dealt with with past people. Like, say if, like, oh, this person you know, came in with, like, a weird mutation on him and like, any story I can glean from that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, what kind of skill check would you like to give me for your research here? Good question. I'm tired of this psychic mastery. I'll psychically press the button to do the correct thing and I guess to... fuck. It's like, what, I keep immediately I keep looking through my skills going what can I bullshit and get away with? But I'll just do a scholar, which I only have two, and I get nothing. So I find nothing. I can't read. No, you you're able to get through. All you're finding in the data is very common. Like, you know, Krumen Zandarius came in reporting a cough somewhere around three months ago. Nerd stuff! I go around to the corner and meditate. Yeah, absolutely. Captain Zedek, what are you doing in here? I'm just cracking jokes about the fact that we're woefully out of our depth and going to die again. You're not drinking medical alcohol? No. Just kind of follow along with Ree, looking over things that look kind of suspect. Like, we probably want to be careful about what's in here if everything else is kind of infected, rotting, dead, undead, and prone to every sort of malady we could probably imagine. You're going to mix medical alcohol with apple juice and drink it? You're not going to do that? I am not making a Dr. Appletini. I'm a nice Steve Halligan. Oh no, I'm sorry. It's a doctor's orders. Alright, so you're sticking with Ree while Ree's doing his stuff and sort of wisecracking. Pybrain, what are you up to? Well, I am very eager to no longer be internally bleeding. I was looking forward to that. Beyond that, there's no signs of anyone being goofed in here. I'll just do a quick scan. No, there's no bodies. All of the sheets here look pristine. It looks like this place hasn't seen any active use in a while. There's just sort of the big shelving unit that's sealed in the corner of the room. Otherwise, everything else is kind of exposed. There's a lot of equipment here that you could start going through. Yeah, okay. I'll go through the equipment while Ree prepares my procedure. You know, I'm a little curious as to why this place would be untouched while the rest of the ship was so goofed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's much like ever since you got out of the lower tram, there's been no sign of any of the problems ailing the rest of the ship. You start going, looking over the various items here. You can see there's lots of medicinal goods along the walls, sort of behind the stack shelving units on the walls. You can see that there's more of that script in the walls, more hymnals from the ecclesiarchy documents. You see a lot of notes from the lectitio divinitatis, various praises and hymns to the emperor of mankind. But while you're investigating these, you find several notable items. First of all, you find an auspex unit. Ah! It's a handheld auspex. You also find a diagnoster. Okay. So these are all actual equipment pieces. So a diagnoster, for example, is plus one bonus to Medicaid tests to detect diagnosed diseases, injuries, and ails. You also see three doses of stims. Hmm. And a full set of chirurgen's tools. Hmm. So chirurgen's tools are a variant of a medkit. They function as a medkit and also grant a plus two bonus die on Medicaid tests when a character is dying. Interesting. Ah, I will go and bring what I found to Reeb. Yeah, so Reeb, I assume you're looking as well. I was going to kind of save you for last. Are you going to be looking around? You can see that Pi is sort of like perusing the periphery of the room. What are you doing here? Reeb is trying to take in as much as he can as quickly as he can because he will not have an opportunity like this to stock up and take stock of their situation like this for probably quite a while. Okay. So he's looking for additional stimulants, other kinds of chemicals he can possibly use with his Medicaid knowledge to either fabricate or mix together into some kind of assisting stimulant in terms of like combat ability or just like keeping shit away from us. And he's also looking for actual records of what's happening here and maybe just like evidence of anything possibly happening in here that's bad. Sure, sure, sure. It sounds more like you're wanting to investigate the area. Is that right? That would be a fair assessment. Yeah. Let's give me an investigation check. Okay, that's still pretty high. Not if I do that. I'm going to re-roll that because three's crap. Sure. Wrath gets me a six. That's still my glory. Would you like to throw any glory at that? Can I throw two, guys? Go for it. That'll get me one extra, so that's a seven. Cool, perfect. Yeah, so you start going through everything here. You can see that the, as Lorne discovered, even with his lack of any check, the data here is pretty mundane, what you would expect to see from a vessel. You do see that there was a routine medical check-up on the party of one Sleabogo de Fakrby when he came on board the vessel. Though they're just like all essentially notes that indicate everyone checked out. You do, however, find a personal addendum from the ship's chirurgeon and physician that indicates his excitement at getting a look at the physiology of one of the Adeptus Astartes. That's alarming, but sure. Can I look into that one at all? It's simply just a note that indicates that this chirurgeon was excited, the specimen as he refers to it as was in excellent health as would be assumed of one of the Emperor's angels, even one as young in his lifespan as this one. He goes on to make a commentary on the use of the the phrasing of bub a lot and how it was a strange sort of vocalization that this member of the Astartes made, but that is it. Yeah, can I try to find anything like a console to cross-reference that with? Because I don't like the sounds of that at all. Sure. Can I go over to the one that Lorne is using actually? Yeah, yeah, like Lorne has like walked away from it having like raised his hands up and stepped on it. Touched it. He touches it. Birds are hard. So I'll do a scholar on that then I guess. No, uh, like yeah, you can give me a scholar actually, that's a good option. That was a fuckin' five. Pain in my ass. Yeah, okay, so a five um, what a five tells you is that it looks like they didn't keep any of the actual data on DeFuckerby's party. It looks like there was an inspection done and per their authority it was simply just a make sure that none of them had any pathogens or anything like that. Which all appears in order. It looks like they were admitted onto the vessel and went through a quick medical screening like you would expect when you're doing long-term travel on a vessel. Uh-huh. Um... Alright, so that's not terribly helpful. I don't like the sound that there was just a space marine here with like no confirmation and they were calling him a specimen, so that sucks. But hey, we'll deal with that as we come to that. Uh, do I find any medicines that I can use or any sort of stimulants? What kind of things would be available that I could co-opt for cops? So essentially what Pybrain has discovered represents the treasure trove in here. The three stims, the diagnoster, and the chirurgian's kit are all of pretty big note to you. There is also sort of that sealed larger cabinet unit that none of you have investigated. Uh, that appears to have some kind of mechanical lock on it. Ooh, I could have missed that. Investigate it. Can you say that again? I could, and I did, and I'll investigate it. Yeah. Mechanical lock, eh? Yes. Well, I may not have my combi tool, but I'm still a tech priest. I will attempt to open it. Sure. Okay, here we go. Four. Uh, you're able to access it, but you discover a door that it appears to have some kind of gene locking on it. Uh, it would... You'd need a higher check in order to open it than a four. Uh, you're guessing it's probably difficulty eight in order to open it. Okay, I will spend two glory, if you guys don't mind. Okay. Uh, yes, because this seems rather important. Alright, so that's six, and then I will wrath the rest. Okay. So one, two, three, four, five, six. You need two successes here in order to hit the magic number. Uh, yeah, so I will get it with um, three. Yeah. Three. Cool. After some tinkering and some checking around the area and conferring with Reeb, you manage to identify that the specific gene lock is, uh, for one that is uh, for an individual designated Chief Prosthelitizer uh, Decorias. Mhm. And you get some of the genetic code from the samples here and place it on the device, and it chimes, and this locker opens. And as it opens, you are uh, met by two objects. The first of all, uh, the first of these objects, uh, and Pi, you would recognize this immediately, is a set of um, austere but light-grade power armor. Oh! It has sort of a, a black and white color motif uh, inscribed with various filigrees of of, like, angelic figures and the, the sort of symbology of the, of the ecclesiarchy of the Emperor. There is a, an immense image of he who dwells on Terra's face, somber eyes closed on the chest piece. Um, behind it, however, uh, sort of strapped to the back of this is an immense chainsaw unit. Uh, you recognize this as an eviscerator weapon. Which is a, one of the most brutal chain weapons in existence. Wow. Uh, Sorry, go ahead. It's beautiful. Does this look like old tech? Uh, it looks like well-maintained old tech. Hmm. Concerning. We cannot allow these to go down with the ship. No, absolutely not. I'm very peculiar. We'd terrible if it fell into the wrong hands, I mean. With your previous scholar checks, you'd know, like, like, the Missionarius Galaxia often employs, like, a lot of decent tech when they are going to the fringes of the Imperium and bringing the Emperor's light to the unenlightened. Specifically, those unenlightened who show any form of resistance often meet his light in vicious ways. So, looking at this armor, this is definitely just like, this is like human power armor, right? Yes. This is, this is effectively, uh, per the rulebook, this is a set of light power armor. Um. Which any of you could wear. Who wants to draw straws? I've already got power armor, so please one of you three take it. Yeah. It's tempting for me because it would give me an extra point of strength. Um. However. Hmm. Lauren, do you want a melee attack? It would give you an extra point of strength, but no one can use your auto-queerness. That is true, but my, it has equal defense to my auto-queerness. Yes, but what I'm saying is, is if you took, like, this and put it on, your auto-queerness, you can't hand that off to someone else in the party. Oh, I know. I know. So, like, I guess, uh, the main utility would be, we could give it to Reeb, um, but- I could pass my Carapace to fuckin' Morn. Yeah, cause then you'd get to be- Yeah, my armor's already the same as his, basically. Honestly, I Hmm. Cause, like, if it were, if it were heavier power armor, then I would be, uh, more like, oh shit, cause strength, strength 8 versus strength 7. It's appealing to me, especially if I try out that Eviscerator. Um. Does he need to improve his stats to use the Eviscerator, is the question. That's, that's actually a really good question, cause I need to find it real quick. Uh, no, however the Eviscerator is an unwieldy weapon, so it's, it's more difficult to use in close combat, for example. Right, yeah, it gives you a plus 2 difficulty number. Long range. That would be useful to have, yeah. Um. Oh, and yeah, oh my god, 12 base damage with a melee weapon, for me. Actually, it would be 13. Yeah. Extremely funny. That is extremely funny. I think the Eviscerator I should probably grab. Especially since everyone's got power swords. I, I would vote, um, speaking here, get the Eviscerator and Reeb get the power armor, because I have psychic powers that get me resilience anyway. And even with the additional defense, I would still get, like, kaploopled a lot. So, I, and you don't have any way to bring up your resilience, and I can do some psychic bullshit to bring mine up to, like, 12. So, you're good. I agree with that. Looking over the stats, the plus 1 strength isn't as necessary for me. And, uh, Reeb will benefit a lot more from the 4H armor. Yeah. And you have a chance to melee more than me. Exactly. Power armor it is. Uh, we'll go over that in a bit, I guess. What can I, so, we'll, we'll go over the specifics, I imagine, after the game is done here. About, like, what I'm adding to my inventory in terms of medicine and other crap. Yeah, I, I can send you the summary, summary of the inventory. Yeah. Uh, but, like, you can, you can put the power armor on now. I assume, because the save music is playing, you are, you are taking a proper hour regroup, uh, which will allow you to, to heal up. Um, at this point you can all just restore your wounds in shock between Reeb's abilities. Um, Reeb, I assume you are, you are going to take this power armor, spend the time putting it on as well. Uh, Pybrain, you are now pulling out the, the eviscerator of this immense, this immense, uh, chainsword. Absolutely. Can I make one question, DM? Yes. I'm gonna spend, uh, a wrath point. Narrative declaration. Mm-hmm. I wanna just see, just on the, uh, hilt of it as I'm inspecting it, that this eviscerator was made in Lemuria. I hate you. No. It was made in Metallica. There you go. Oh, Metallica! Those guys! We love Metallica! I was gonna say, no, it was... And it has a name inscribed in acid. On it. What is its name? The Sermonizer. Oh, that's dumb. Well, Sermonizer. Hmm. We're going to get you a new name. I will wield you well. Even to Sermonizer. Uh, almost as if it responds to you as you speak to it, it, like, slightly revs again. Good. We shall do such things. Guys, I feel pretty good about this. And, like, as you turn, you then see Reeb now, like, be decked in this white and black power armor with gold filigree on it. It's not like... I assume you're wearing your outfit on top of it, like... Yeah, the coat is going over top of my normal character... It would go over the carapace normally, so it's... We're gonna have to probably see about getting that changed a bit later, but hey. I ain't changing this art. It's expensive. You're wearing that coat on top of it, sir. It fits. It just fits. Fuck you. If my underwear can show through my ripped pants and power armor, your character looks exactly the same. Oh my god. I'm just salivating over this thing. Six base damage dice. Oh, trust me. I put this in this treasure trove going, I'm going to give Speaker D hope before I take it all away. Thank you, hope man. Why are you talking too high? The whole machine speeded to something. I don't care. Who cares? Who cares? Oh, I almost... I almost, uh... Wait. I almost made... E.D. That's in the damage space. We'll talk about it later. I don't want to make the prequel game mistake. The omniscient axe error of a million damage. I see. We will handle it. Don't worry. Okay, cool. So, yeah. So with all of this, you've managed to sort of re-equip. You've got some gear. You've all sort of like basically suited up. At this point, as this sort of finishes up, there is a chime. Cap... Oh, sorry. Captain. Yes? Hello? This is Lieutenant Ransom. Oh, right. I forgot we were laying through the servitor. Yes, Lieutenant Ransom. It's so good to hear somebody else, although it's through a voice that is completely monotone. Hi! What's up? I'm just imagining the servitor saying that. Hi! What's up? Yeah, like Ransom on the bridge. How was your day? The Cap... The Marengo has hailed us requesting a status update. Captain Zedek looks at the party. I have a text saying shit's fucked. No. What if we were to tell them things were normal aboard? They would deploy their forces and many soldiers would die. And might be corrupted and make more things for us to be shot by. I... I definitely believe proper protocol deems is necessary here. We don't want to risk any more innocence to this plague, but... Please give them an accurate report. We may get proper assistance sent towards us, so they can secure their, uh, salvage rights. We... If anyone asks, we have these when we talk. Yes. Oh, absolutely. If we are honest with them, they may elect to simply shoot the ship. Then they pay... Then they pay the blood price that all traitors must pay. How are you... You can't do that from here. Well, I'll go there. You can't go if you're dead. Then we're dead! What are you talking about? Just imagining Pybrain, like, last Jedi princess laying across space with a chainsaw Yeah, yeah. It's like, that would be it, because he'd be floating out, and he'd be like... Cut through the fucking hull, murder everyone. And then, like, on a couch, he's, like, eating bonbon. He's like, urgh, that shit was so tass. And then, pssh, it just hies there on, like, a bug, and just starts punching the glass. Everyone's freaking out. I'm coming for you. You hoes are dead. Captain, what should... How should we respond? We have encountered resistance on board. Non-friendly parties. We could use reinforcement. But if they reinforce us, and not kill us, they might get some goodies on board. I want you to make a leadership test for this. I would love to, and fail spectacularly. Please don't complicate. Please don't complicate. Heavens. You don't want to know what's an unfortunate event, though. Uh, no. Cat did donate to complicate it. Motherfuck. I have a request, uh, DM. Yes? Can I be the complication? Proceed. Yes, please. Captain, you can't order these people here. There are demons! They're going to die, I'll be corrected, especially when we're planning on blowing up this ship. And I'll say that loud enough for it to be clear. Like, on the bridge of the Death Collector, there are demons. You, Cat, and all the crew are turning to Ransom, who also is just kind of staring shifty-eyed to the side. Captain? Is there something you're not telling me? Now you've done it. Tell the truth, Zedek. Shit's fucked. We're trying to get out of here alive. Don't tell them that. All right, Captain. I will indicate you are making progress on foot through the vessel. I will continue to stall as best I can. Please send reinforcements. Please, God, send us some meat for the grinder! No! Wait, I count to Zedek, and I go, Tell him to ask for reinforcements at a normal speaking speed, but then reply to any other questions they have very slowly. Just say it loud enough for the servitor to hear. It's basically just like, Servitor, tell them that they need to send reinforcements to secure their loot, and we will provide assistance. But if they ask for any specific details, I want you to answer like the... like five times slower than that for everything they ask. And make it really annoying. Gentlemen, we can't have reinforcements. This place needs to be destroyed. We need to escape and shell it. No shit. But if we send reinforcements, it doesn't help us. It just gets... We're sending people to their deaths so we can get out. Hopefully it's the members of the other ship, not ours. It's the Imperium away, Pi. Sir? Should I send the Rattling Auxiliaries over? No, they are valuable to our crew. Make the other... Make the Marengo send reinforcements if they want their shitty loot. Understood, sir. Welcome out. Hmm. Well, that ransom should buy us some time. Pi looks very perturbed. Pi, why are you... Why do you suddenly have a conscience about sending people to their death? Well, because people aren't sent just to die for no reason. When you send people to their deaths, it's for duty and stuff, and no one in the Imperium actually sends people on missions that will probably kill them for no reason. Everybody looks at the camera. I need to point something out to you that's extremely important. A moment ago, the Marengo was threatening us for this position. They would not have let us take this ship. Quite possibly here to pull off whatever Mr. DeFuckerby has set up ahead of time. We can't be certain one way or the other. All we know is that they are here and they were impeding our ability to investigate this ship normally under without duress. Why are we opposed to letting them spend resources on us that would otherwise be used against us? I have a very good reason. Such as? If we were to destroy them, then they would merely be recycled into the motive force. But if they were to be attacked and killed by demons, we don't know what happens to their souls. We're going to destroy the ship anyway. Well, yeah, that's fine. It's okay to kill people. Hi, Brain. What the fuck? Okay, I want you. People, I've got this internal morality for PyBrain that's never come up. Oh, yeah. He's insane. It's great. Strap in. In my readings of the Libere Xenologis by the other well-known traitor, Janus Drake, this stuff happens. We just do this to each other. It's just who can outbackstab the other rogue traitor and not die. Oh, you are rogue traitors. That is right. And think of it this way. If everybody gets on the ship and all those guys get on the ship and then we blow up the ship without telling them, they're in a weaker position. Well, I don't like it. They die. We get out scot-free. You get your new sword and we're all happy. Well, I don't like it, but we'll see where it goes. Let's just try to get it before we blow them up the good old-fashioned way. That's what I think. Hey, good question. Wasn't fucking PyBrain killing innocent people on the Death Collector? Yes. That was not his compunction. I'm sorry? Please, tell me your motive. PyBrain to rewire him. . I'm gonna take away that gold star, mister. No! There's a lot of... Get your wanted murder priorities straight. They're really... The only reason why... Okay, I will explain for the class. He doesn't like it because demons are involved and demons will fuck up. He believes killing is okay because everyone is just recycling the motive for us. He doesn't like the idea of you sending people to get possessed by demons. That's what he has discomfort with. And he's also... He's also incredibly naive about how the Imperium actually works. Yeah, but if they... Okay, we'll think of it this way. We're using them as a distraction if they do come and help us. That means there's less people to try to kill us. And when we blow up the ship, they all die. Exactly. They'll just return their motive force back to the Great Circuit in the Ethereal. Okay, but we gotta get real steppy on blowing up this ship and killing all those people. We have to. Cool, let's get onto it. Look up the terminals and look up where the blow blow bits are. Okay. I'm gonna do that. We are ambassadors. I'm so glad that we took some... that we had to take some preschool level fucking steps to get to this point. I love you. War hams, ladies and gentlemen. War hams. Pybrain, you were able to pull up the ship schematic from here, having access to it previously. You can tell that this is the four Medicaid deck. It's reserved for officers and honored crew members and VIP dignitaries, which quickly explains why it's barely seen any use. You can also tell that this is directly below the primary entryway into the ship's strategium. Mhm. Okay. Well, it seems as though we are somewhere where we need to go to that place. And I pointed the strategium. I think that's where we need to go, then. Do we have any...actually, we don't have... Either we will have the knowledge to overload the system and blow it up, or do we need to grab explosives? You could tell that you'd have to be in the strategium just to see what the ship's overall status is. That's where you're going to get the most information, and could do, as Pi would know, the most damage. Can I pick any chemicals that are in the area real quick? Can I do a Medicaid to find out what chemicals could possibly be volatile and explosive if mixed in a certain way? Absolutely. Give me a Medicaid check. We'll say Difficulty 4. We'll give you a Medicaid check. Difficulty 4. With the page loads, it gives me a Medicaid check. I believe in your Medicaid check. Uh, yeah! Find some things that are absolutely corrosive when they are combined together. Not quite explosive, but like very corrosive. Then I will ensure that the containers are not cracked, and I will store them in my inventory. Excellent. Please mark that with an asterisk beside it. Good. So at this point, I'm assuming you are all doing your final prep. Pi Brain, you lead the charge out with your new eviscerator. Captain Zedek, you follow. Reeb, you have your power armor, have got your concoctions and head out, and then Lorne, you are sort of taking up the rear. And as you have this dramatic exit from the ship's Medicaid and make your way towards the Strategeum, where the Emperor knows what is, Lorne, you stumble. And suddenly, everything goes black around you. And you feel yourself as you struggle to get back into reality. You find yourself on a chair. It's cold and metal. And it's touching bare skin. You've been stripped down to just the briefs at this point. And you've been manacled to the back of a chair. It's complete darkness around you. I hold my resolve while also freaking the fuck out. What does that sound or look like? Move on. And as you sit there, you just hear a voice from the darkness beyond. Well then, your friends have given me much. Now it is time to see what you will tell me. Okay. I'm waiting on you. It's like, usually the evil spirit thing continues after this. These trips are very common when you get high in Fenris. And you like, shout this back into the darkness, but there is no response. And then you kind of come back into the hall, having slightly stumbled behind your friends. They didn't notice, so I keep going. Okay. And you walk on. That is where we are going to end today's episode. Hooray! Now I can die. Thanks everyone for joining with us today. I hope you all had super duper fun times. I'd like to say thank you to our guitar arranger, Speaker D. Indeed. If you would like to find more of me and my complicated, inconsistent moral system, you can find me at SuperSnakeKick on Twitter. You can find me on the YouTube as Speaker D. And you can watch if the Emperor had a text-to-speech device or I do voice acting, and I'm one of the lead writers. I'd like to also thank Arundel, who has been playing Reeve Van Horn, our inquisitorial Sorry, everything shipped there for a second. Am I still here? Yes. Yes, my name is Arundel. I am lead writer on the show for TTS, and you can find me on Twitter at Arundelio. I sometimes retweet the thing, and I also make other cool, fun, hot takes, such as video games and other things. Also, I got an upgrade, so I feel good. And I am Zoran the Bear. I have been playing Lorne, the sanctioned Saka, and Lashley, well not Lashley, actually we have Hulky Crow, who has been playing our rogue trader, Captain Zedek. That would be me. You can find me, if you'd like to see my idiotic musings and occasional meme posts, on Twitter, at Hulky Crow. Occasionally in Zoran's lovely Discord server, he is wonderfully made. And, of course, nobody fears the nosebears. And finally, I'd like to say thank you to Thurston Hillman for running the campaign and being overall an awesome friend. Aww, thanks, buddy. 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