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A thousand meters down, inside a xenos labyrinth where chronometers give dates that haven't happened yet, the walls are made of scarabs and a tomb spider guards a cube that eats time. Reeb sets Pi Brain on fire to save him. It works. De Fuckerby was here first — he pocketed the Magos and left the monster running.
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three two one go excellent sexy welcome everybody welcome welcome back to another episode of war
and with the horrid screams of the damned and i like how our skull is filled jesus
that with the screams of the damned we are back with another episode
of warhorns
of warhams thank you all so very much for tuning this episode of warhams episode nine
which has been a wonderful journey since we do these like every other weekend uh for the 40k
thing of warhams it's like it's pretty impressive we've got here so far it's thanks to everybody
who's been tuning in telling people we're live all sorts of things and since i already did our
pre-announcement stuff kind of before this thing we're going straight into it i want to introduce
you to the amazing warhams of warhams and i'm going to introduce you to the amazing warhams
cast members who are here who basically make warhams it so you can recognize who their voices
are and differentiate them the one who has been playing pie brain pie brain played by speaker d
introduce yourself sir yes i am speaker d i'm one of the two lead writers of if the emperor had a
text-to-speech device i play pie brain he's good at hitting things with a sword and another thing
i wanted to mention clowns are pretty cool and next up we have weeb
van horn an inquisitorial acolyte played by erindale tell them about yourself i am erindale
as you said i am and i am also one of the lead writers on if the emperor had a text-to-speech
device and occasional voice actor and also so is his speaker and i and i am john the bear i am
playing lauren i am the sanctioned psyker of the group and next up our luscious rogue trader captain
of the debt collector captain zedek played by van horn and inquisitorial acolyte played by erindale
by hulky crow tell them a bit about yourself i am indeed hulky crow i am part and parcel a
voice actor for the emirate speech device and projects on the side uh captain zedek loves to
drink and pretend he doesn't have a problem and make an ass of himself the more cool he tries to
act and finally the person who hoards the ruin points the individual who deems us to become
destroyed adventuring in his time
the person who is here the fuckers up the most thurston hillman the game master tell him a bit
about yourself i mean hi um yeah uh i am thurston hillman i work in the rpg industry and then i
spend my every other weekend torturing these people it's my life i enjoy it and one of the
things that we want to do is one to kind of give people heads up uh
actually thurston i want to see if you have anything first any any uh-ohs that we did last
episode or any uh-ohs you might want to clarify or are we clean no i i we are we are clean to go i am
looking forward to this one awesome because uh because one of the things we want to mention
that like we're all not perfect sometimes you might get a lord thing wrong sometimes we might
get a uh a rules thing wrong because we use the system wrath and glory while playing warhams
and that allows us to do a bunch of stuff so for those of you who may be new to the streams
you'll you'll kind of see our cool
overlay that we have on twitch and if you're on podcasts you're kind of screwed i'm sorry so
one of the things that we have is that you'll see all these dice that are kind of on the screen and
for those of you who really want to help us out and really support the show so we can pay the
bills and so we can buy people yachts or whatever that um what you could do is donate to the channel
of direct donations we're the only ones that kind of make this happen that every time you give us a
donation depending on the amount which you can always check on the info tabs uh on your on your
device or kind of just scroll down you'll see all the details on it at the lower part of the of
the twitch stream basically kind of further down below in the info sections that you can kind of
see how you can help out the show on how you could help out the players survive because these does
do several things uh these guys do very different things as they go so you'll see the glory die here
which we always start with no glory die you kind of see them increasing here on the bottom left
these glory die allow us to basically dedicate
better our chances of succeeding uh to add more damage and do a whole bunch of other stuff
the bottom right is what you see are ruin points these ruin points are here to basically
score over the players uh because you guys helping us out if you see that we're doing too well or the
game master sees that we're doing too well he uses these to balance things out because we are very
powerful we could possibly mess up a space marine and they're like way high level we're pretty
powerful so he has those in stock in which he starts with four due to the rules of the game
just so he can kind of mess us up a little bit uh next up we do just kind of help us players out and
also you able to help us out with a little bit a wrath die you'll see these die right below my
portrait which are now kind of adjusting right now uh these allow us to like say for example
you've ever played like 8th edition or 9th edition warhammer um say for example you need to re-roll
all your failed hit rolls or something this is kind of what it does any successes that we did
not get because this is the first time we've ever played a warhammer game we've never played a
d6 system game any dice that did not succeed we use those or re-roll them or we're like there's
a really cool narrative thing i want to do and i have to let it happen and we can spin a wrath die
to make that happen so further on i think that's kind of an explanation how we do things
explain how things going on this is going through my mental checklist making sure everything's fine
but i think we're good i think we're ready i think we're finally ready to play some warhams
so so beginning our adventure i just want to give a brief recap of last episode where our intrepid
band made their way to the world of shady rock where times were great times were great nothing
bad happened and they went around they totally didn't punch a retirement nurse in the face or
anything hey man you gotta do what you gotta do it was a totally totally fun time oh
oh and one and one quick note for chat all the dice and stuff people ask us a lot of questions
about how i move the dice and stuff i do all that manually so if you donated didn't see your
submini polyp just give me a second i gotta go through a list so just just give me a second i
do everything manually but go ahead i'm sorry to interrupt oh no no you're good um and at the end
after having made various discoveries and as the pcs learned about the the strange transpirings
that happen in in shady rock they
they had the fog that encompassed this village seemed to retreat every time they made discoveries
eventually leading them on more and more clues and we ended last session with the our characters
finding this uh all-terrain transport just at the edge of the docks right by the large open sea
and our players went in and found out that this all-terrain vehicle had a had a message left over
from one slayer burgo defacropy 24 the
and so as we start this session our players have their characters i should say
have activated this atv and have gone under the sea the vessel churns to life
with electric energy as the motive force courses through it and it begins to lurch off of the beach
and into the water its spacious interior uh in the further front sections
has been lit up by a
dripping jet of salt そう
allows all of you to sort of move around a little bit stretch as it lumbers on this activated course down into the depths where slayburgo defuckery had made his way with this vehicle
what are all of you doing
you allow me to do these i will okay then i press a few buttons and then i activate my cogitators
and i go and then it should be working out uh please give me a second check
mad and disappointed after the beeps
all right let's go machine
yeah seven successes yeah yeah a total of seven that is absolutely enough you can tell that the
the vehicle stops rocking around and it seems to have got onto a much firmer path as you've
read these right outside the main viewport at the front of the vehicle you can see different sorts
of um
uh
fauna moving like fish forms moving around in the water though they're just silhouettes you see a
lot of like squirming eel like entities and then some larger some maybe the size of even a like a
grav vehicle that to just float in the distance as ominous shadows the water here has a sort of
light appearance near you because of lumens that are shooting out of your vehicle and
illuminating the area but further on ahead it is a
pitch black all of you can sort of feel this angling as the vehicle is making its way at some
sort of angle down and like you're not being tossed or turned by by the vehicle but you can
definitely feel there's sort of this like gravidic pull downwards and the vehicle seems to be going
further and further into the depths captain zedek is glad he's not telling this because he can't
this pilot
uh
you're breaking up a little bit there mr captain oh damn i'm sorry about that uh captain zedek is
quite happy that he's not piloting this vessel for once knowing that he can't possibly crash an
underwater aircraft into a void ship stop stop talking stop talking i mean what's the worst that
could happen no no you said the cursed words stop talking as as as you're thinking that zedek
you you notice that the the
the vehicle appears to have um a combo or a vox unit on it a fairly long range vox unit
uh that is built into the command cupola here you know this because instinctively you are always
aware of any long-range vox units because you are always desperate to get in touch with your ship
he's desperately lonely he has to make sure his homies up top are doing all right without him
oh
there's suddenly a a large bump and everything sort of lurches forward as it's clearly struck
something and the vehicle continues on wait who's driving it's it's auto it's it's an auto sequence
yes we should be careful uh though there are very few living creatures still on lemuria
i lost my first arm to a hail squid there might be more around here
what what's a hail squid i do not believe they will have the same fauna as your forge world but
it is noted at the very least shut up crackly radio we're talking
it goes over to the comm station ransom are you receiving
sir yes yes i can i can hear you is is something the matter
important
uh can i attempt to reroute power from say our rear lumens uh and uh attempt to uh bolster the
communication signal yeah you can give me a tech check for that kind of techie uh bullshit
i want to turn off i want to turn off the the back lights to power my time travel machine
yeah i'm turning off the ability for me to
give turn signals to the fish oh good good good good we're gonna get a write-up for that
i know it's being the right of sea to travel
make sure we have the right of bay
god damn for success is is enough to ts divert power from from the the back lights to the vox
unit which seems to to pick up suddenly
sir priority message per your request update on on the nursery situation we have four servitors
looking after tater tot at this time they are designated spar lightning cut alex dl solar aura
and zelnick signal breaking up sir emergency transmission complete and then it goes
completely into crack did he seriously just fucking emergency radio us
to tell us about tater tots fucking babysitters oh thank god i was worried we might not know which
servitors were looking after him he gets a proper upbringing you know that
signal why did you do that captain we needed that for important things
i didn't know he was gonna send the update now
when were you oh captain you and i are going to have a very long talk later about what is
exactly important for an emergency signal correction we will have a very long talk
after i've had a very long talk with you i'm going to have a very long talk with you
i'm going to have a very stiff drink oh goodness i am beginning to think that times are not very
great now times are definitely not great as lauren cinematically puts his hands behind his
back looks out in front of the front window what does lauren see through the dark abyss of the
undersea the eye blinks at you the eye that now fills the cover of the transport i'm molten beam
i get tackled lord so he doesn't do that i get tackled i just do not to fenestrate us
just get footballed yeah we are in a box in the ocean
it's not down where it's better it's not down where it's better i'm just freaking out
we are under exactly how many fathoms below are we by this point what does the system say
i would like to read the system uh yeah you you get a
sense that at this point you are probably a solid from from ground level maybe a thousand
meters below surface do not breach containment of this vessel we require the atmosphere to
remain where it is are you saying that shit i look back out yes and it's out there and we're
in here and he's the the point is is that it's out there we're fine for now don't blast a hole
in our
ship but what i want to know is where's the eyeball thump thump thump and at the at the front
the eye has disappeared but instead you see these immense tentacular limbs that seem to just slap
up against the front window you can't see anything beyond like suckers that seem to like
position themselves on the glass and then come off hey brain uh yes i recall you mentioning
something about lemurian
hell squid yes yes they are very powerful can easily rip manifold servitors to ash and dust
within their tentacle grip oh shit you're right uh i'm going to go to the
yes does this thing got any weapons on it uh you can tell that yes it does it has an upper mounted
um stubber
is that gonna fucking fire underwater no no it will not uh i have an idea
brain yes please turn on the windshield wipers
uh uh good idea press a button all right give me a tech check to use
uh then i would like a medicaid check from uh from reeb
that's gonna be three successes for my incredible tech check to turn on already
three set okay three successes excellent all the Medicaid spooling it's eight in a complication
okay beautiful beautiful beautiful i always i always i always like i always like these uh
first of all uh you activate the wind shield wipers uh they they push off and there's like
this like sound as all the suckers are sort of knocked off of it um but the tentacles move off
of the creature that that was slapping the broken tentacles we'll try to get them off of here okay
the empty tentacles and the magical locust sounds so thisprechen whoop mind dedicated to and incrementally
the front of your vehicle pulls back
Reeb
that's when you see it for what it is
and
you've seen this before because you've
done a lot of research on various
fauna forms
this is one of those
Lemurian hell squids
which is odd
because those are only native
to Lemuria
excuse me, um, Rain
I have to report something, I believe you're
Lemurian magos friend
yes
may have brought a friend
you mean to tell me that's
a Lemurian hell squid?
uh, yes
for some reason it has been imported
here. I unsheath my
sword. Now, wait, wait, wait
now the complication
the complication is
that a great
insult has been made, so as you were explaining
this, uh, Reeb
you somehow
present a terrible insult
to Lemuria as you're explaining
this. I will leave that up to you
as to what the insult would be
you and your great big
fish have been made apparently
in this particular planet
so could you please explain to me
why your blasted Lemurian
creature has found its way under the ocean
I'm gonna turn and look at Reeb
oh
not again
a Lemurian hellsquid
is among the most
ferocious predators in all the
galaxy. It is
the mandate of a mango's
biologist to bring them to
other areas so that we may study
their ability to kill and
be killed
this is a
scientific endeavor you
nitwit and if I have you insult
the mango's biologist of Lemuria
I'll be very angry
and I might start screaming
boom and suddenly the
entire vehicle shakes
as though it's rocked up on its side
as something smashes into it
okay
we might meet after that
yes
let's table this scrap
do any of you have any skills
that might give you information
on the activities
of a Lemurian hellsquid
and I'm gonna be real open to
interpretation of what skills you want to suggest
so I mean
I'm an auto-venom guy
can't I just roll a skull?
absolutely
that is the absolute best
check
that is the absolute best check
alright so
yes
can I roll a psychic mastery
I hate you so much
you can
I will allow you to roll a psychic mastery
check if only to let you complicate
this and somehow
the anger now works
that's fine
that's fine
I'm such a
oppressive GM
but I'll allow this
I got a five
a five allows you to
recognize, Lorne
that there is a creature out there
it is not some figment
you're detecting the baseline
sort of soul energy
of this creature
but that's basically all I'm gonna give you
now Rave
I'm going to give you
information that is important
but the complication is going to tie it
back to you
Lemurian Hellsquids
are incredibly dangerous creatures
because
they are offended
when light moves towards them
in fact
the way to handle a Lemurian Hellsquid
is often to move away
from it with light
but if that light were to say
suddenly stop being bright
and just go out entirely
the Hellsquid becomes enraged
hmm
well
as if
if it were following a light
and that light were to turn off
it would get angry
well then I suppose
if that is the case
we need to
keep the light on
so we did need those turn signals
correct
how many lights are on at the moment
on this
surprise
the front lights
you've turned off the back lights
I slam the keyboard with my fist
and I do a tech check
to turn on the blinkers
excellent
so
oh yeah sorry
give me your slam tech check
oh it's going
it's going
let me tell you
it's going to be so good
when it happens too
we had so good
we had so good with the rolls early on
but then
then the betrayal
yeah
so
in this case
I'm just going to
unless it's a complication later on
I'm just going to say you slab down
and suddenly
the front lights dim a bit
as the back lights come back on
and the
the
the hell squid veers away
boy it's still going
I was looking forward to testing my steel once more
with those ferocious beasts
do not test your steel
do not fight things underwater with a sword
oh yes I did
as the leader of my squad
I have helped lead many raids
against erstwhile Lemurian hell squids
alongside me
alongside Asakari and Kim teams
then
yes were you wearing an apparatus
that allowed you to survive
and crush death
ah yes it is called a me
can I check that statement
yeah what skill would you like to use
to test that statement
would that be awareness
I don't believe that at all
sure
insight
insight
insight
insight
insight
insight
insight
sorry I'm dumb today
yeah yeah it's good good good good
we're gonna see
it's gonna be a
four successes
um
you're suspect
something doesn't quite add up there
there were slight modifications
but I'm very strong
and water is not very
grumble grumble grumble
and you hear the churning of rocks
and the front of the of the vehicle cockpit
seems to have this wash
as water is
under water
and it looks like you've started to arc back up
and you emerge from this water into this pitch black area
and then the vehicle comes to a complete stop with a ding
oh so this is like an underwater like air bubble or
something like that
seems like it
a quick thing before we continue
um for everyone just on discord
check your voice activation
just making sure
because some people are kind of like that
now tiny bit and that might be the reason
oh no just just double
check double double check make sure it's kind of lowered
enough but we'll see how it goes
it's mostly uh
speaker d and uh it was
hulky for a little bit but uh i think you fixed
yourself yeah yeah oh crammy i'll uh i'll mess
with it real quick good issues
okay
okay
we complicate all the time all right so yes you've
the vehicle seems to have stopped all
of the lights have turned off um it's
just given kind of this this acknowledgement
blink like the ride's over
i would like to
take my turn on the console and turn
the forward lights on again
sure
let's do it let's do a check
check it i feel good about this
one yeah you can give me a check check to try
to override it but when you're trying it it's airing yeah
you uh even with a four you
go in um you you try
to and what you're getting up are messages
that indicate that the vehicle is now
in power saver mode
okay
it's in standby
yeah
yeah it'll wake up in 10 minutes anyway
well we don't exactly have 10
minutes let's disembark
shall we
i i i i i disembark
from the thing i assume it's kind of like
a tube we're going down yeah
like what happens is the back of the vehicle like
opens up much like your arvis lighter there's
just a flat back that falls down
uh you find yourself in this
this cavern system
that um like some of you
i assume have different lumen units
on you um
i'm sure Characterics Brain has like i don't know
light goggle eyes that
just blast his eyes are just
lighting up things like searchlights
yeah yeah yeah um this is like
a cavern that's filled with
just all of these different rock
formations sort of spiky stalagmites
and stalactites and as
you're seeing all of these around
you hear the dripping of water
um you've come
out from this pool that's in a section of it um but all around there's just this this like sort
of dripping sound water seems to have lapped in here uh yeah and you see rock formations and
tunnels that lead off in various directions oh uh real quick gm could i uh head back onto the
vessel and ensure once it exits power saver mode that it doesn't leave without us
uh yeah you can tell um and i won't make you make a check for this um because zedek would
have found this out too the vehicle's in power saver mode for essentially a departure trip and
it won't leave until it's essentially authorized by someone to do so is there any way i can make
sure that it's us that authorizes it you can give me a tech check to input some kind of password
into it yeah uh can i add some can i take three uh wrath dice or glory excuse me
spend them big papa yeah do it up don't call me big papa that's big papa's gonna be the password
he's gonna enter nice a six and a glory oh a six and a glory glory though so you lose three
but then you'll regain one so you'll be down two now um oh i'm sorry he did the thing my bad
yeah he put three in for that um yeah and so so you managed to put in your password
you come out and then sort of join the rest of them no problem
the vehicle won't depart without one of you knowing the password only roll five dice
now you got it anyway it's fine yeah it only rolled the the five but that six is enough so
you're good so you're all in this cave system and and you have some some illumination uh from
whatever implements you have but what are you doing as you step out here the like the air
almost has this this coldness to it like despite the sort of humidity
from the water it's it seems fairly cold like just on the cusp of your breath would
would sort of miss the air it's not quite there but there's a chill
you want um you want to make life a little difficult for us you're thirsty oh okay what
do you want i am going to do a super ultra mega power psycher move and you want to use one of those
wrath and glory super advanced techniques where i get to exchange a power
for another power okay no but doing so i think i think we agreed on this house ruling because in
the book uh one of the previous issues now with the rise edition you can kind of like exchange
a psychic power because or else you're locked in for life and good luck getting anything else
i want to exchange flame breath with the best spell what it was previously called
orb orb although i just know now as as psychic torch psychic torch i i am totally okay with that
yeah
i think i now have to cast everything else with one more wrath die for the rest of this
session oh yeah as as you sort of between yourself do it absolutely well give me give
me that check with two wrath die for a psychic torch it's just uh because it wasn't written
down and because i'm dumb i'm just gonna do a normal smite which is kind of the same as it
was i remember yeah yeah you're looking for a difficulty too so yeah it is yeah that yeah i'm
looking for something to do work with you so yeah it is pourquoi me senor your
call is another special association of the crazy
insect
bonODO
go
and
thank you
for waiting
well
uh
i think
by
you
mark
wilson
bambus
The sort of aquiline head on your staff lets out this burst of light and you see the cavern and it has this sort of very organic appearance to it.
Some of this area looks like it's sort of formed by water erosion.
Do any of you have any skills that would be appropriate to identifying, you know, like the status of rocks and the like?
I'm looking through here and some examples might be scholar would be a good one.
Investigation.
Weapon skill.
Maybe not weapon skill.
I've tried that.
I'd be happy to check on that.
Yeah, awareness would be the other two.
Okay, perfect.
Give me a scholar check if you've got.
I'll give a scholar check.
I'm not very good at it, but.
I am learning.
Oh, that's one success.
Okay.
Captain Zedek rules this one.
Zedek spent some time in the mines, but he didn't care much for the rocks.
Yeah.
Okay.
Very, very good.
This is beautiful.
So as this is going on,
Pibrane, you like you're from Lemuria, you, you know, a fair amount about water, though the, the sort of mouth of this cave is experiencing some water effects, maybe the next 20 meters beyond.
It looks like this places has never really experienced like water damage, except over maybe tens of thousands, if not longer years ago, like this, this, the water that you're starting to see here.
It's all sort of clustered.
Near that pool at the front.
Otherwise, this place hasn't had any sort of liquid move through it.
I see any intriguing and out of curiosity, what is my complication?
Your complication is unsaid right now.
Good.
Well, I can tell you that water has not touched this place in some time.
More than likely, we are entering into the hotel.
With the greatest friends of mur Mickey the
computers outpost activity.
What we are going to face is more than likely going to be quite dangerous if it could compromise all of a Lemuran outpost in such a way.
But my forge weld is the mightiest in its sector.
I'm several sectors beyond perhaps equal.
Well, be hers.
Undoubtedly, there will be some survivors for in the worst case scenario, some ability to restore.
I call you.
How is my jeep a course?
I thought a possibility too.
We're like a little tree.
I still have a long way to find myself.
What was lost?
I do hate to break your little bubble there,
but you would think that if they had set up an outpost,
they would not have done it in a random underground cave, yes?
Ah, you would think that.
But the transport automatically brought us here.
We are aware that we are looking into some kind of Xenos crater of some description.
And more than that, it's not the first place someone would look.
Which means it's an excellent place.
Are you having this by the vehicle?
Are you starting to, like, move forward with Lorne's?
Yeah, yeah, like, Lorne, are you kind of leading the way with the gang all stabbed?
Yeah, yeah, I'm leading.
You carry on, and as you're having this conversation,
Lorne, your light catches something in that further on,
you see this reflection of metal for the briefest moment.
And all of you kind of see it as Lorne's psychic light.
The light reflects off of a steel plate
that is embedded in the chest of a servitor.
The servitor is this sort of bulky man
with this, you know, necrotized flesh
that appears to have just been, like, almost dissolved in places.
So more of the mechanical augmentations are showing,
and, like, the skin is kind of there,
but half of, like, a sludge slurry.
As it's fallen up against a bunch of rocks,
it looks to be holding on to something
in both of its arms,
clutching it very tightly,
this sort of metal object,
rectangular,
that has a, like, a screen on it.
It's clutching it as it's fallen back,
and its body dissolved.
Yes, Lorne?
Go check that out.
Go, go, go figure it out.
I don't want to touch it.
Oh, for goodness sake.
Step aside, will you?
Reeb's going to go up to this
and kind of beckon Lorne over
because he's got the fucking lightbulb.
I just, like, I flashlight like a kid in his dad.
Yeah, absolutely.
Let's see.
What happened to you, friend?
Let's see.
Excuse me.
Brain!
Ah, yes.
Dead servitor.
You may be in the status.
I will aid my friend Reeb in his endeavor.
As he's coming up.
Coming over, I kind of take my hand
and kind of swish off what the nameplate would be.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And, like, as you sort of, like, look at the nameplate,
you can see the word sort of embedded.
It's just on the chest underneath this box it's holding.
It just says Adam.
Okay.
Watch that thing, Reeb.
I point to his hand.
About to find out.
Are his hands like mechadendrites,
or are they actually like regular hands?
You can see there's...
There's, like, one arm that was clearly a bionic arm
that has sort of the metal underlay that's clutching onto it.
The other one is almost more of, like, a sludge,
but it looks like the outer, like, a lot of sections of it
were almost sliced.
Like, something tore and ripped it apart.
If you want to give me a Medicaid check,
you'd have a better idea of what did this.
No, I fully intend to do that,
so I'm going to slap that Medicaid button and get an eight.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, it looks like something very, very fine.
Like, this is, like, this thing was...
Like, this server was cut apart by, like, minuscule scalpels repeatedly.
Anything like my mono knife?
You guess probably more fine than your mono knife.
Like, and it looks like a lot of them.
There are hundreds, if not thousands,
of these tiny slice marks,
and clearly the servitor endured this,
probably made its way here and collapsed,
and, like, the sludgy effect of, like, its decaying
is more a byproduct of it being in a slightly humid area,
probably for an extended period of time.
Can I get a gauge on how long?
Not really.
You're not quite sure.
It's at least a month, if not more.
Okay.
And this box it's holding,
it's not holding it particularly tightly, is it?
No, no, you can take it out,
and you can see on it,
it seems to be some kind of storage unit
with a small hololithic display.
Okay.
Brain.
Yes.
If you could check him for any records,
like a recording of some kind in his little metal brain,
it would be helpful.
Indeed, I have a search for the black box.
It's lacerated quite badly.
I know.
It is weird,
but generally when things are stabbed,
they do tend to cease operation.
It's the nature of the lacerations that is concerning,
because even my little surgical knife here
is not quite as fine as those blades,
nor anything I doubt even Lemuria could produce.
Well, I wouldn't doubt that,
but what I would question
is if it was slain,
by perhaps a tiny Xenos form,
or perhaps a more advanced technology.
Have you found any, I don't know,
strange particles?
I am not a biologist.
I cannot determine them right now.
The corpse is badly decayed.
I just need you to check the records.
I'm going to investigate whatever this hololith is.
Yeah, so it looks like there's a two-button sequence on it.
The first one probably activates the unit,
and the second one probably plays whatever data's on it.
Well, I activate the unit, and I play what's on it.
Okay, so when you activate the unit,
immediately this hololithic light simulacrum appears,
and it's got this gothic script underneath it,
which shows the name.
I'm just going to show you the artwork.
It's basically this rotating model of a humanoid figure.
That is this piece of artwork right here.
Oh.
Made by Garrett.
Made by Garrett.
Thanks, Garrett.
The second button seems to play an audio file to go with this.
I assume you're going to press it?
Before I do, is this the Magos, or is this someone else?
It appears to be a Magos.
It just has the name.
The name Rohekta seems to be what you remember hearing
from your prior exploration here.
All right, then.
So I will play that, and I will hover close to Brain
so he may listen in.
Okay.
You play.
Hello.
Hello!
This is Junior Magos, Rohekta,
of the glorious Forgeworld Lemuria,
disciple of the Omnissiah, reporting in.
This is my first installment in a series of entries
regarding the Xenos architecture we have found
at the base of the crater.
I have taken a squad of loyal seconded Skitarii,
led by Alpha Beta Force,
We shall investigate the unearthed site
and discover what is with him.
This is Junior Magos, Rohekta, ending report.
Blessings to the Omnissiah and Lemuria.
And then the file stops.
That is very faintly informative.
Junior Magos.
I do hope he is all right.
Well, we shall have to find out.
And I believe this crater
may be the flood area
that we find ourselves beneath in this case.
Damn.
And I guess I'll be rolling tech
to try to secure shit from the servitor.
Do I have any recognition of...
And it's a long shot.
Lemuria is a whole planet.
I was just one small cog of it.
Of Rohekta or any one of his designation?
Give me a...
We'll say a scholar.
We'll say a scholar check
and I'll make it a stupid high DN.
Like, I don't know.
We'll say DN 10.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
Yeah.
You want to spend all that glory we got?
You could.
It's not really...
It's a long shot anyway.
It's really just...
I'm fine with you spending glory.
Yeah, dude.
No, I do.
I would rather save it for when I'm going to use
my HD stats to make a heart check.
Oh, I see.
All right.
Fine, fine, fine.
I'll do it.
Okay, okay.
Well, then, D...
Wait.
Your scholar check.
Is that the one there?
Is that the complication?
No, no.
Has it not posted yet?
I rolled it, but it didn't go through.
I'll try it again.
Roll 20 is being magical this Eve.
Yeah.
I'm going to love it.
Does this everyone knows
is going to love the rolling it?
We use roll 20 to do this stuff
and there's been awesome people
who've been, you know, working on it.
That's why you see the fancy roll thing.
They made the API to look like that.
But D10 is an accident.
Different system.
But if we really want the tryout foundry,
so if anybody knows of anyone
who actually has a completed system
of wrath and glory,
we really want to use the foundry of VTT.
So if anyone could figure that out,
that'd be great.
No one's made one yet
or made like an early beta
that doesn't even work.
So we're looking for that.
So here we go.
So with the free scholar, you do not.
You may, however, also give me a tech check
as you were trying to sort of secure the data
from this server as well.
And if you want to spend glory,
you certainly can.
I would love to do that.
Yeah.
How much are you spending?
I will spend two glory on this
and I rolled it without it.
Two more.
Six is exactly what you need.
Yeah.
So as you check into the data,
you can actually get something of a cogitation.
Unit out of the skull,
which is sort of half liquefied
after being cut open and left here.
As you as you go in,
you can find what appears to be a visual log,
which you can quickly jury rake
into the recording unit you found
to display a hololithic sort of recreation
of what the server saw,
which plays this this like brief looping scene
of fast movement,
through one of these cavern units
with a lumen light over over the shoulder.
And looking down,
you can see there's a shattered lumen light
on the shoulder of the servitor unit.
And it seems to make turns and be moving at a quick speed.
Then there's suddenly this collapse as it falls forward
and you hear this like sound from behind it
and then it falls face forward,
cracks and then it repeats back to the beginning
and continues looping that final.
So there's no footage of what attacked it?
No, it seemed to be moving away from what attacked it.
But there was no noise.
There was no.
Yeah, it's like a shattering, chattering sound,
but you couldn't make anything out.
It could have just been background static.
But it could have been a million things.
Let's just keep on going and see what else we find.
We can't solve this thing here.
We need more evidence.
Wait, I think I know what they might be.
I've seen this before.
We're in the hive.
Oh, you have?
Yes.
They're gangers.
Gross little spindly gangers that are running around caves
all fucking with things and attacking people
who go down to them.
Because there's shielding stuff in the sun.
Those gangers are fucking with shit, man.
Those gangs are everywhere.
I know it's there.
A VoxCast told me there were tons of tiny little gangers
running around.
They're running around caves.
Yes.
With whole ganger nests.
Captain, we know you dislike the poor.
Let us move on, shall we?
I don't dislike the poor.
I happen to employ several thousands of them
with very meager wages.
Is that it?
Let's move.
You continue walking down the...
Moving on.
Literally moving on.
With more moving away.
Can I just say one thing before we move on?
Of course.
Zedek, Pi's expression does not change
because it is really hard to tell what his expression is.
And he is just looking at you.
And in the first time of your life,
you were probably certain Pi is looking at you.
He doesn't say anything.
But just the most disappointment you have ever had.
And then he just goes on.
All right.
All right.
So you carry on.
And the tunnels continue for a ways
until you reach a sudden stop in the tunnel
that you've been moving through.
And the stop is strange
because the tunnel expands into a larger cavern
that sort of its mouth opens up
to both the left and the right,
sort of yawning forward
until it stops abruptly at a sheet of black stone
that basically covers the tunnel.
It hovers probably a good 15 meters
from the base to the top of this cavern.
And at the absolute bottom,
sort of heaped up,
is what appears to be a ladder system.
Like one of those sort of ladders
that's made of not rope,
but kind of almost like a plastic
that has just sort of lumped and bundled at the base.
And then up about 14 meters
is a...
A plain shelf that looks to be
almost like a expertly cut hole
into this pure obsidian stone
that is like a perfect rectangle cut.
Hmm.
Squares.
I'm sorry.
I move in.
Brave as a little lawn can be.
All right, let's go.
Time's a-wasting.
Lauren, as you...
As you approach,
you kind of just get this sense of vertigo.
Your eyes sort of squint a bit
and you just have to take a moment to breathe
as you hold your light.
And the other three of you,
you notice the light kind of flickers
before it just reasserts itself.
I don't trust like that.
I don't like that.
I don't like that at all.
Reeb, can you use your...
Sorry, not you, Reeb.
Lauren, can you use your massive old man brain?
To tell what is happening behind this wall?
Thanks for nothing.
You have a massive old man brain.
Yeah.
Yeah, sure.
I...
Psychic science.
Do you want to ask psychic mastery
and see what you know?
Okay.
I got a five.
Ah, yes.
You concentrate
and the only thing you get
is a slight nosebleed.
Sorry.
Sorry.
You know, just take care of myself a little bit.
Go like, I don't know what it is,
but I definitely don't like it here.
But I guess the only thing we can do is continue forward.
See what's here.
How was that?
Get my staff ready.
Yeah.
Cartridge comes out of your staff as you cock it.
Where do those shells keep coming from?
I'm just, I'm locked and loaded, baby.
So, Dan, we have...
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah, we have two paths.
We have left and right.
No, you've come in from a tunnel
and it basically expands left and right.
So imagine you've been going through
like a two meter wide tunnel
and suddenly it expands out
to maybe 30 or 40 meters wide,
like an immense open cavern.
But the far wall,
maybe some 15 meters from the tunnel you've come through,
that far wall is just like obsidian stone.
Just a...
A flat wall of it, perfect with no blemishes on it and then the only way out is there seems to be
a rectangle, a perfect rectangle cut into that obsidian.
And underneath it about 14 meters down from that,
that hole is a ladder that looks like it might have been used in the past to
get up there, but it's fallen down and it's all bundled up.
Can I come in?
Yes.
Yes.
Let's go. I start running.
Oh, no.
Get back here, you!
You can't stay in one place!
The static runs after him.
We're being outranked!
Now we must face this danger!
We don't have to face it if we can run faster than it.
No!
We must stand on ground!
Frank, get back here!
I'm gonna run back.
Yeah, you can come back.
You're the tank.
I can't take this.
I was afraid of it attacking us
from two sides.
We will face it head on, then.
I am a brave Lemurian warrior.
I'm just terrified of being
killed in the back when I'm not looking.
I want to kill things in the front.
That is not being brave,
Brain.
I'll show you what brave is.
I'm gonna get my sword out and I'm gonna start walking
towards the source of the voice.
There you go.
You don't know where that voice has come from.
Alright.
I guess I'm watching it.
Come on, Brain.
Come on, everybody.
Continue down the halls of waves.
I mean, you can carry on down,
but there's a 14-meter
vertical surface
you have to overcome.
Oh, okay.
I thought there was a doorway.
There is a doorway, but it's 14 meters up.
Okay.
It's like a rope ladder that's bundled up
down below.
Yeah, like a rope ladder that was probably
very clearly set up to allow you to walk.
It didn't allow you to get up there,
but it is all fallen and like bundled up
at the base of the wall.
So clearly like this is just
falling down.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
Now I have the picture in my head.
I apologize.
I'm just gonna let it take down.
So whoop, whoop.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm good.
You have to roll me another dice.
No, it's supposed to be in there,
but it's being weird.
So I'm fine.
Okay, cool.
Yeah.
So you go up there and as you
as you go there,
you start unbundling it.
And like, I assume you're trying to bring
the ladder with you as you float up to
set it up again, which is easy.
Yeah.
So the rest of you, you see Lauren
psychically float up to the top.
And as this bundle is unraveling
underneath it,
you see another one of those
hololithic boxes that seems to have been
hidden by the by the bundled ladder.
And so, Lauren, you fly up.
There is a.
Black hole that just carries on to the limit of your light.
It yeah, it goes on all the way and then you just see like
strange markings that have been inscribed on the walls here.
But the remaining the three of you at the base,
you see Lauren fly up.
And as he does, there's, there's another one of those hololith
boxes.
As he, he's thrown down like the, the, the rope.
So we can kind of climb up.
Yep.
Yeah.
I set everything up and like, just like, ah, you're done.
I will climb and I will come to see this box.
Well, the box is at the base.
Like as he flies up, it just like the, the, the ladder bundle comes,
you know, straightens and you realize at underneath it was one of these boxes.
So it's on the level with you while Lauren's floating up to the top.
Oh, okay.
In my case, I'll, I'll grab it and make sure it's not damaged.
Yeah.
It seems to be in, in good state.
Uh, and then I assume Lauren, you set it back up, up top and then the rest of you.
Yeah.
All sort of climb up to the top.
So yeah, you're, you're now in this, this hallway, this, this like perfect rectangular
hall that goes on to the limits of the light.
Uh, but you've all climbed up.
Much, uh, what you got there, brain?
We're about to find out.
I believe these are more of the records of that, uh, junior me goose.
I'm going to open the lid and I'm going to activate the hololithic display.
And, uh, the same image shows up again.
Uh, you can tell that as you do so there's like a shattered servo skull in, in it.
Uh, and it just has a nameplate on it that reads Omega Mars, but it's been cracked and
broken.
Like this was a servo skull that was probably doing data recording of it and then was cracked
and they put it back in the case with this.
Any way for me to try to repair it?
Uh, it looks pretty, uh, pretty irreparable.
The, the college.
unit is fully destroyed, but
the hololithic recording is saved
in the box itself, so you're good to activate
that. I will
activate it then.
This is Rohector.
We entered the complex, which I
believe to be a xenostructure of
indeterminate age. Our
attempts to perform our spec sweeps
on the area have given
contradictory answers.
Some of these walls date back
millennia, while others
seem to be only days old.
A few still seem to confound
our chronometers and give dates
yet to transpire.
This substance is most interesting.
I shall have Beta-4R's troops extract
some for future analysis.
This is Junior Magos,
Rohector. Ending report.
Blessings of the Omnissiah
and Lemuria.
I'm beginning
to wonder whether or not
time really is good around
here.
Time seems to be very all over
the place, actually.
Is it even
real? Do we even know?
Oh, shut up, Zedek.
How fascinating!
We are dealing with
something that appears to be
manipulating time.
Yes.
This could be
quite an intriguing foe.
You mean
to tell me something can actually,
like, mess with
time itself?
That just skips me from
sounding like a layman, but that doesn't seem
possible. I mean, you can. You have a watch,
don't you? You can just, like, turn the hands
and you mess with time.
I want to give Loren
the same look that I feel that
Pi gave me.
Just absolute disappointment, like he
just told me.
Just Fenrisian smooth
brain, just going, yeah, you can do that.
Just one eye blinking
at a time.
Well, I have heard rumors
of ancient technology that
mankind crafted that could
do such a thing, supposedly
hidden deep inside of the
ancient catacombs
and libraries of various
forge worlds, perhaps hidden somewhere
by the machine spirits of the
Archmechanicuses up above, but
I myself have spent
most of my life as a
lowly skitari. I cannot
objectively claim it, but if there's a chance,
for us to reclaim this lost
technology here, or better
understand how to reclaim
it, then this is likely a
place of great significance. I can
see the genius of attempting to study
such a dangerous place.
Then let us press
on, brain. You first,
I'll get the light.
Yes, yes.
Right behind.
You start hearing this humming,
this, like, rhythmic
humming that gets louder as you
hurry on down the hall.
Go on, stop humming!
I can't help it.
Okay, it's alright, I'm not mad.
But something else is.
What? Now I'm really mad!
Somewhere down there, we should beat it up.
As you carry on
just a bit, you all catch
further
down this hall, which seems to stretch on
quite a ways, is
the sputtering light of a
data pad, or a data slate,
that's up against
the side of, like,
the corner of the floor here,
so where the corner meets the wall.
It's sort of at an angle. You can see
this green light sort of spewing
out from some letters that have been
written. And yeah, it seems to
just be giving off a slight hum.
Because this place is so silent,
it's actually,
aside from yourselves, the only thing you
hear.
I really,
I really,
I really like the interface with this data pad.
Yeah, you
walk up to it, and it's just got a paragraph
written on it. It looks like
it was part of a stack, clearly dropped.
The screen is cracked down the middle.
But the text is still very visible.
And as you sort of read
it, Pi, what you
read is,
Oh, what a dreadful place.
The light of the God Emperor
clearly doesn't reach this lightless hell.
Ah, but that
is what the light of Slayer
Bergo de Fakirby,
24th of my name,
is here to illuminate.
And that's
all that's on the data pad.
I will forge this later to say
incriminating things.
I'm going to put it in my pocket.
I am Slayer Bergo
de Fakirby, and I have a plot
to kill the Emperor.
I'm going to get a cool gun,
and shoot him in the brain.
I get the whole line.
24 times?
I get, like, just imagine the camera
panning to my face after
realizing who it's from and all that,
and you just get that very odd parents mode.
It's like, de Fakirby.
I'm just mad.
Dinkle Fakirby.
And you carry on,
though, further ahead,
you're not sure how long you've been,
in this hall.
Time seems to take a strange meaning
as everything around you is
just pitch black. The floors,
the walls, the ceiling.
The only sight of color
that you have is each of
you illuminated by Lorne's
psychic light in this dark
tunnel to wherever you're heading.
Oh no, we're in the Four Kings boss
fight. Run!
We all sprint.
You have to take
down the first one before the second one.
We roll! We roll! We roll!
We won't stop! We won't stop! This keeps budding!
Take a roll! Take a roll!
So, we're in the wrong fight, and now we're here.
This fucking
Vantablack tunnel that we're in, does it
actually go anywhere, or are we just walking into more pitch?
You're walking,
like, it seems like you have solid footing
underneath you, and you're continuing on.
After
the data slate, though, it seems like
you're just in pitch black for
however long. You're not
sure how much time has,
passed, and as each of you kind of
instinctively look at, like, whatever
chronometers you have, except for Lorne, who I guess
probably just wears a sundial, which
doesn't work.
I'm just, like, tapping it, like, come on!
It is midnight, according to my sundial.
Fuck!
And just as all of you, like,
Reeb, as you kind of get this sense, like, are we just
walking into a tunnel darkness?
Up ahead, you suddenly see
this, this lambent green
glow, just
sort of coming from the far end of the
hall.
What does, what does my scholar check
tell me about the color green?
Yeah, give me a, give me a
scholar check. Complicated
so I can tell you this.
Complicated so I can tell you
this cave is full of orcs.
Bites back on the menu,
boys!
Yeah, yes!
It's full of orcs!
It's all orcs
all the way down.
The color green is often associated
with the Xena species known as
orcwites. Ah, good,
I look forward to surveying them more
very clearly. I shall now whip out
my, my scalpel and
prepare to cut the darkness with it.
Excellent.
You, you, you carry on.
And the...
Okay, so you reach the end
of the hall, which opens up... Oh, go ahead.
Yeah, just, uh,
I guess, well, we're about to reach the end of the hall
and it's fine, I won't, I won't do it. I was gonna do it,
something in case, uh, basically, while
we were walking, I was going to have my power
sword trailing on the ground in a line
so if we were repeating where we were before
we would see it. No, no, it
looks like you've reached the end of it, so as you're thinking
again, this is kind of that, that time
as all of you were thinking, like
are we going in circles? That's
when you see this light. It comes very
fortuitously.
And as you, you sort of
head towards the, this, this green
light, you see that it opens
into a cyclopean
chamber. There's a
small landing pad outside the
door, but there's no ceiling
and in fact, up ahead of you
there seems to be no
floor, as a single
bridge spans this
immense chasm
towards this sectioned
area that glows with
strange xenos
glyphs and, and lampant
green light. Just gonna
switch that up.
And so
you're sort of, I'll, using the image
here, but you're, you're sort of at
the, like, this area
as this bridge connects further to
the platform. Stop doing that.
I know, haha, wrecked.
And that,
that bridge
seems to go on for
probably 20 meters
from where you are before it connects to this
large area.
Up
ahead, past the bridge, you can see
that there's two sets of stairs that
go up, again, sort of traced by
some of this lampant green.
You can see these, these
larger sort of stone structures
that jut out of the
polished obsidian.
Each sort of triangular
with cut-off tops,
though they also,
like, the one to the right
seems to have the, the remains
of some sort of camp around it.
You can see various
pieces of equipment and even a small
vox transmitter that's set up.
It's, it's super far away, but
Lorne's light, while it gives you
good view, the sort of lampant
green towards the
northern passage there, that's
illuminating everything. The only
thing is, is as you approach this
bridge, you see that it drops off
into pure nothingness.
Well, then,
ain't that neat.
And as you say that, your words
echo and come back at you.
Ain't that neat, mate.
Ain't that neat, ain't that neat, ain't that
neat.
Hmm.
This doesn't look like Lemurian
architecture.
I don't think this looks like Imperial
architecture at all.
I see.
But you know what it does look
like? What?
I'm not quite
sure. Let's just move on.
I was really hoping you would say
gangers.
I thought I'm not going to be with you.
Glorious green gangers.
Yes, I see them.
It's the green gangers. It's like that Vox
caster said.
If you had said gangers, I would have pushed you off the side.
That's where my
hidden psychic mastery comes from.
Can I take a rock and put frogs in the water?
Yeah, and pass it off the edge.
Absolutely. You can see there's like a
chunk of this obsidian
that appears to have been
inexpertly cut out by
something. In fact, as you
pick it up, you sort of look
and note that
the wall beside
you as you pass out of the tunnel,
the wall beside you is
riddled with
some sort of
projectile
ammo.
I mean,
that's...
I'm not about to go and be like, ah yes,
what do the slugs look like? Because if I...
I can kind of
assume what happened.
Is there
anything nearby, or is it
just like remnants of
very obvious interaction with the surrounding
area?
How so?
I mean, are there
bodies, are there corpses? You're not seeing
anybody, so across the bridge,
past the 20 meter bridge
and sort of that raised up area, you can
see the Vox transmitter
and some kind of
camp, Imperium technology
camp that was set up there.
You're not seeing any bodies or any
signs of any, you know, being
or creature here. Right
beside you, the doorway you've
sort of entered
at the sort of base of the bridge.
To your left, you can see the wall here
has been riddled with a few small
solid projectiles.
And then there's some chunks of this black
stone on the floor, which you can easily
pick up and toss into the pit.
And it's
I'm going to take a large
chunk of black stone.
Okay.
Is
is there any
difference aesthetically between
this and normal like stones that
are black? It just looks like
some kind of like fine obsidian.
Yes.
Reed,
perhaps we should take a sample
back to the day.
Let's get collector after we leave
this place.
I mean, I don't see a reason
why I can't just take it now.
Pocket a piece of
rock and put it in my bag.
Yeah, for sure. I will do the same.
This place gets a rock.
Everyone just grab a fucking rock.
Just grab a rock, everyone.
Zedek is actively looking for any tiny
little obelisk that glows green.
Just like, oh no, don't bring anything back to the deck
collector. He's stealthy looking for little trophies
to put in his room.
Uh, Lauren, I assume
we're before the bridge, right?
Yeah, you haven't, you haven't walked across the bridge.
Lauren begins to walk across it.
Okay. Okay. Yeah. So, Lauren,
your psychic light
takes you across.
Um, and you
start, you start walking.
Are the rest of you following Lauren?
Are you kind of letting him take the first walk
across? What's up?
I am not going to allow Lauren to get
too far ahead by himself. He gets
himself into so much trouble.
Okay.
I'm like me.
Absolutely. Going across.
Yeah, I guess we got nowhere to go
but across.
The only way forward is forward.
Okay, absolutely. So, so you all start,
you all start making your way
across, and can each
of you give me an awareness test,
please? I would love to.
No. Yes.
Okay, fine. It's not, it's not allowed.
You convinced me. That's how the, that's how the GM
rolls.
Okay.
I got a two.
I also got a two.
I pressed the button.
I swear to God, I pressed the button.
There we go. You got a four.
Okay. So I'm very aware.
Rube, you're, you're trailing
the Rube.
The Rube. Uh, no.
Rube, you're trailing the group, and
you're, like, at the
back, and you're walking as the others all
move ahead.
And you start
to notice something, and you
have to shake your head slightly.
Do you notice
Zedek's fine clothes
almost start to dissolve
in places? And
Lorne's robes seem to
almost be recoiling
up as though they were being
chewed by something.
And even Pie Brain's
robes are starting to dissolve
in patches around you.
So,
um,
ahem. Gentlemen.
Eh? Yeah?
Return around.
Now you are being attacked.
Ha ha ha!
And as all of you turn around,
you suddenly look down, and Rube,
you see it as they turn. It becomes visible
to you as though some fog
is lifted. And the three of you turn
to Rube, and you see Rube as
well. His clothes are starting to
dissolve. As all around you,
coming up from the sides of the
bridge, are these figures,
these minuscule figures
that have now got themselves all
over you. And they, they begin
biting and biting and
biting. And they look
like this. Thousands of
these. These tiny
metallic creatures
that are all over you.
I'm going to
activate, I'm going to activate Death Lotus
and spin around with my flamethrower.
Ah! Ah, wait.
Wait, wait, wait. But you see,
each of you has walked into my trapcard.
And my trapcard is, these things
begin biting, biting
and biting and biting into
you. So, I am
going to, as my
surprise action, this will
be against Lorne.
Okay. So you
know, that
complicates automatically.
Oh, perfect. Thanks to chat.
I love it. Thank you, chat.
Also, great.
Now my rules are being
stupid, too. This is so
useful for me. I'm going to try refreshing
one sec. Roll 20. Be better.
As Roll 20 is messing with you. Chat, guess
what addition that thing's from?
Yeah.
And as he let chat figure
life out, Thurston, as we gave him a
little bit of pause, describe
in detail what this scarab is.
Yeah, it's this
tiny, oh, wow.
It's this tiny mechanical
creature with these sort of two
feeder tangles coming
out of a mouth and these back
limbs and like almost like a bloated
fly made of
metal, but in the shape
of a scarab with these sort
of back wings that allow
them to fly.
And yeah, so this one
bites into you, Lorne. It will complicate,
but it's basically like a second
or third edition scarab.
Yeah, it's
I believe that second edition.
It's one of those editions.
Yeah, it
does that. And then...
It bites you
for eight points of damage.
So whatever your resilience is.
Which is a six.
Sweet. So you take
two wounds from this. You may
actually attempt determination, so...
Determination roll...
Go!
I'm going to roll for the others really quick.
Okay, I will do the complication
first because the
complication could affect things.
I'm going to see what kind
of complications I have that
have been... They all die. That's the complication.
What a coincidence.
Yes, yes, yes.
Oh, excellent, excellent, excellent.
So the complication
is that I'm going to
probably let Lorne
do something warp-related.
Sadly, not a lot of our good
complications here are appropriate for a swarm
attempting to eat Lorne.
So Lorne, my complication,
is going to be you're going to
get to go before they start biting everyone
else. You can take an action.
What would you like to do?
Are you literally taking your complication
and making me complicate?
No, I'm taking my complication
and giving you an action as a result of it.
Okay, okay, I see.
That can work out. Like, these things have freaked
you out so much they've freaked you
into action, which is not good.
Normally, they're used to people being scared
and, like, submissive. You
spring into action. I like that.
I got rid of my one
AoE spell for light.
I know. It was a good choice
this session. I mean, I can
still gather them all. So even
with Crush, I'm still able to gather all of them.
So it's like, so I'm able to get all the ones
that are on me and around me.
And I'm basically
just going to, you know,
just to prevent them from getting me,
I'm going to cast Levitate again
and go, whoop! So they can't
no more can get up on
me. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so you're going to float up. Okay, give me
I'm going to float up while I'm patting
crap off of me. Let me get you here.
Hold up. So I'm going to add the wrath
die and then, whoop!
I believe. Oh, very nice.
For some reason, yeah. So I
actually failed that because the difficulty
number is five and I rolled a four. So I'm going to have
to spend a wrath die to
make sure that happens. So re-roll.
Yeah. And I got my
I got a ten total. There you go.
You
blasted up.
So well that I'm just
going to spend, I'm going to boost
one up. Actually, I'm going to boost
two up
to basically
yeah, I basically increased my flying
my flying speed now increases by ten
meters instead of five because I'm putting two in.
Each one's five. So I'm going to
like, I'm going to
get my hell out of there.
I'm like, no!
You Superman fly up
ten meters getting a perfect view of this
entire chamber and you can see more
of these, these tiny scarab forms
are crawling up the sides
of the, of the bridge
towards your intrepid. And me being
so high, the light's now like beaming
down and it's just like,
they're everywhere boys! Wait, no, we're
in a cave. Hold up. They're everywhere
boys! Run
for your lives!
The other, I'm just going to
take the attacks on the other ones really quick
so I'm Reeb.
Reeb, your defense
is two. Okay, cool. That also,
that also complicates. That also complicates?
Beautiful.
Beautiful. Okay, so
I'm going to not
hit, um, Pybrain, but
Reeb, I will do eight points
of damage to you and nine points
of damage to Captain Zedek.
You may roll determination. Yeah, I think
Reeb, in your case, you're just going to take one shock
as they sort of are
on you nibbling. Zedek,
I think your resilience is eight, so you'll
take one unless you make a determination
check to reduce that to shock.
Trying to do that? I would be happy
to make a determination roll for you, considering how
rarely I do it. Sweet. Reeb, you don't have
to. You just take the shock because there's
no damage that gets to you on you. It's going to be a three.
Okay, so you're good. So you'll just take two
shock then instead as like they don't actually
bite you, but they manage to get around
and yeah, sort of. Now the
first complication
that would be against
Captain Zedek. So I'm going to say the same thing
in this case. Captain Zedek, you're going to
get a free action out of this. What do you want to do?
I am going,
to continue running across the
bridge to the other side, all
the while screaming out, I knew
it! The Green Gangers are putting
spiders in the ocean to make the times
great!
Alright, you rush across the bridge. That is
your action. Alright, beautiful.
Hold the fuck up!
So that's
Jesus. That's
our regular
like, that's the surprise round for the Scarabs.
Now, technically it goes to regular
initiative order, so the players, they may
choose to go. And either
Zedek or Lorne can still go because they just got
to act because of the complication. So
whoever you guys want to go first
can go first. Can I toast?
You absolutely can go.
Alright, I'm going to
envelop all of my allies in fire and
stop them from being attacked. So Zedek is
running out of the way, so the only person you would
envelop in fire would be Pybrain.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
It's been nice knowing you,
Speaker.
Got spiders
on you, man. Gotta burn you down.
Please roll
ballistic skill, Reed.
Wait, wait!
As the flavor comes up.
Oh, very nice.
Yeah.
Roll damage for me.
Can I shift anything over? I can shift
one, can't I? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Absolutely. So you get an extra damage dice.
Base dice or mod? No, it's base dice.
Base dice, yeah.
Just pies of ten.
Brilliant. Yeah,
you're definitely damaging these things.
You see several of them
fall down as charred
husks dropping. You've
done damage to this swarm,
but there's so many of
them. But yeah,
several of them seem to fall. However,
Pie
Brain, my good
friend.
So
you would be
now on fire. I don't
think ten damage
actually...
His release is nine, so it takes one more.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So...
Are the ones around him
dead is the question. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, you've destroyed several of them.
These things do count as a mob, so
your flamer's very effective
against them. It's doing a lot of damage, but there's a
lot of them here. Oh, good.
I have successfully done more
to Pie Brain than any of
the enemies we have fought so far.
Also,
he is now on fire,
which is... We are going
to learn about the on-fire rule.
All right, so
that's that. I wish
to use my mono-knife on Brain.
The
swarm of scarabs.
Sort of, like, recoils
back. And that's when
you notice several of them break off
from the side of the bridge, and
you can see that these things fly
with fluttering back wings.
And so they
seem to fly, and as though
they were, like, moving up in a great
wave, they try to crash down
on you, Reeb.
Let's see what they get
here. Was a two
hit you?
My defense is two, I believe.
Yeah, so it does hit you.
They descend on you and do just
eight points of damage. Oh, I'm sorry.
Someone just did a thing. That also complicates.
People don't like you today.
I know, apparently.
Because there's a lot of them, so it's fine.
So, yeah, these flying scarabs,
they just descend down
on you, and they start, like,
biting. It's more of a nuisance.
You'll just take another point of shock
as they're just, like, chomping into you.
And then the
complication in this,
case, I'm going to check
a thing real quick here, because
now that we're into regular initiative
roles, this is going to be a bit
different.
Our
complication for this is going to
be...
Oh, gosh.
No, no, no.
So, your flamer causes...
Basically, this would normally be
fall-prone, but what I'm going to say
is the complication is your flamer that's
washing over them is actually preventing
them from getting airborne, so you're
kind of... The complication is they're clearly
trying to move up to reach Lorne
as well, but your flamer keeps
them essentially on the bridge and in
front of you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You are suppressive
flamethrower-ing. That's their
go. Who wants to go next?
I'll go.
Okay, so let's
learn about on fire.
So, you're on fire.
At the start of your
turn, you take...
You take 1d3 mortal wounds.
Can I try to soak these?
No, because they're
mortal wounds. Only demons can do that.
That's why...
Remember in our
test games, I think I had, like,
Wall of Flame, which is so...
It sets them on fire,
and then it does mortal wounds.
It's super... That's why we're not
using it.
So, you take one mortal wound,
Pi, as, like,
your robes are now, like, combusted.
And some of your internals are...
Now, you may use your
action to throw yourself
prone and roll around in an
attempt to extinguish the flames with
an athletics test. While surrounded
by scarabs?
Yep. Correct.
Alternatively, you may
attempt to ignore the flames and take your
turn as normal, but you have
to make a difficulty
3 willpower test.
If you fail, you are hindered.
Okay.
3! Fire bad.
Fire bad.
Remember, the scarabs couldn't hurt me!
They were all a street fight!
I thought that was fun!
Yes, well, the fire is super effective.
What would you like to do?
Ah!
I am winning.
I am winning.
We will win! We will win!
We will win!
Would you like to stop, drop, and roll with all
the glory in the world?
I gotta ask!
Okay.
Yeah, sure, you can ask.
Is there a exit plan? Is there like the
green light at the end of the tunnel? Is that a way
out? Or are we...
That seems to be some kind of doorway. There is like
past that little, like, outcropping.
However, like, if you want
to start running, you're still going to be on fire.
I know.
So, 4 glory, right?
Oh, god.
4 glory?
4 glory. It's 4 glory.
1, 2, 3, 4.
4 glory.
We going. It's time. I'm going to act anyway.
4 glory.
The fire rises.
Alright, I'm going
to take a willpower test.
Are you saying what's effective against him, Gian?
With 4 glory?
Yeah. I love how you're not
using it to actually get the fire off you.
This is great. Yeah, totally, totally.
I have Zedek for that.
He'll pat me down.
Jeez!
Okay.
Don't complicate.
The man who friendly-fired me
with a fork.
Pybrane will remember this.
Pybrane will remember this.
Alright, roll me
the willpower test, Doug.
Alright, it should be processing.
Oh, good, good, good, good, good.
Good. There we go.
Oh, 1.
You want to spend a wrath?
You want to spend a wrath on that?
Well, first,
it doesn't have to pass, does it, Tia?
No.
It's a 3.
Let's reroll.
That's how it is.
Threat down.
There we go.
That's the most acceptable 6.
You realize
that, like, the flames are hot
and hurting you, and you are momentarily
like, oh, this is bad, but then
you rally yourself, and then
what are you doing while you are on fire?
My lungs, or what is
my replacement for my lungs, are being
superheated by the metal
that encapsulates it.
This is awful, and I'm mad
at Reap, so I'm going to grab
Reap.
Oh, you're running towards Reap, okay.
And I'm going to throw
him at the exit
to get him out
of the path of these goddamn
scarabs. Well, remember, you're both on the
bridge, so you haven't even reached the sort
of, like, raised area yet.
You're just throwing me further down the path.
Down the bridge. Which means I'm going to turn around and flame again.
Oh, wait, hold on. Okay.
So, I'm sorry.
These are, like, back here on the bridge.
And there's scarabs coming at us from it.
Yeah, up the sides of the bridge, attacking you.
Oh, okay. So, I can't
throw him to the other end of the bridge.
I mean, you could. He just, you might miss, and he might
fall into a who-knows-how-deep pit.
Well, I have
a lot of concern for the safety
of my team members.
So, I...
They attack many times and do lots
of damage. You elected to willpower
through the thing, dealing immediate
mortal damage to you.
Yes, because I want to be
the fucking tank. Okay, fuck you.
I don't care. I'm going to go.
I'm going to go.
I'm going to go with my sword. I'm mad.
One of you two has to
do something about this.
Okay.
Are you attacking with your sword?
I absolutely am. I need to channel
this anger somewhere, and that
somewhere is bugs.
Hey. Hey, Piebrain.
Yeah, Piebrain.
Why?
There's a complication from earlier that I said would
come back.
Remember that complication?
As you draw your power sword and start
swinging it around, it
starts to flicker slightly.
I noticed
before I got too far.
Just roll the attack roll.
I'll let you know what happens.
You're dedicated now, man. Let's keep going.
I'm in it, boys.
You're in it to win it.
Oh my god.
You rolled terribly.
You rolled like 10 memes, Raph.
Would you like to spend your second
wrath this turn to
re-roll that, Piebrain?
I like that Lauren's
already taken it off. That's great.
That's great.
I'm just like, I'm just waiting.
So I have,
let's review all the enemies I have in the room.
I have the scarabs.
You have reed.
I have fire.
Your sword now.
My sword is now fighting me.
Yes, you will, Raph.
Yes, good.
Nice, it's a nine.
Yeah, you can give me an attack roll.
Give me damage.
I'm going to shift two over.
Yep.
Just one, actually.
Just one.
Tarnation.
Oh no, two, two, sorry.
You roll minimum damage.
Yeah, two, that's right.
Two extra damage.
All right, should be going through.
As your power sword slices deftly
into the swarm of bugs around you,
as you are on fire,
your weapon starts just tearing through these.
You can tell that you have diminished
this swarm by probably over half of its size
as you are soaring through these.
As you are soaring through these,
as you are soaring through these,
as you are soaring through these,
as you are soaring through these,
as you are soaring through these,
as you are soaring through these,
swinging madly.
And that's when your power sword,
after various arcing swings,
crackles in shorts.
That's the end of that one.
I don't have a swarm to go,
so who would like to go next?
Lorne or Zedek, you're up.
I'll let Zedek go.
Zedek.
I can potentially help out with this.
Oh no, okay.
No shit.
Pie, Pie, are you okay?
No!
You idiot!
hold out your sword i have an idea i'll do it at this point oh no i know exactly what you're
gonna do yeah sword yes you're at the far end of the bridge i like i'm sorry i'll move back
towards a little move back to them so i want to illustrate this though because like we have
pybrain who's on fire on the bridge slashing through these things like 10 meters above
floating like jesus is lorn with the light that's illuminating this room and then you have like
reeb further back down the bridge whooshing with a flamethrower and zedek just looks up
sees the power sword go out and then raises the arch pistol to try to okay yeah sure what the
fuck i i'm
a gm i'm a gm who never lets you do anything make the shot let's see what happens absolutely
in the brain
you're also gonna spend a raft ice for a narrative declaration
i want to take this weapon that's notorious for fucking over mechanical things in the hope that
it will restore this mechanical thing show ahead
please i beg you oh my god
this is this is two rounds
you failed those as well okay okay oh my god
like zedek's like i'm helping and shoots and like at the last second a scare
him just like does a little little bite on the side of his arm and the shot just goes wild down
whooshing past the sword a clear meter away and then flying by reeb's head as he's washing these
down with fire bugs bugs
you lorne you are witness to this impressive display of camaraderie and teamwork what are
you doing
i don't think i need to do anything
i got an idea for you
i i have an idea but i want to hear what fucking disaster master you got
here's the idea i have for you well the arch failed to power up my power sword maybe you know
you might i just i just want to say straight up right now speaker i can't wait to meet your
character i know
you
unde
out
okay
so
okay
okay
so
here's what i can do
so
okay
these
these
things
a grid
but obviously i'm going to try to do this
instead of either in this title um so
explain what the hell i'm doing so i assume we the scares are crawling all along the side correct
yeah and they're they fly but the reason they haven't been able to fly up to you is because
reeb is suppressing them with his flame okay so i'm obviously just gonna live because i can
i'm basically superman at this point i fly back a little bit take up a position kind of behind
seeing everyone struggle or whatever i'm basically gonna go aim my staff and like with the tip of the
light there there's even a hotter light and i'm molten beam like a fucking light just just down
just carving through like a whole bunch of scared mind is to the right of my allies
but but if i can make a narrative declaration for it i'm okay to spin a wrath die which is
gonna screw me because i only have one wrath die left that uh i'm gonna i'm gonna do it and
kind of like a you like i go to the left curve it and go to the right like i'm like i'm trying
like circle
around my allies avoid your allies okay yeah real quick here real quick here are you are you also
maintaining the levitation or are you landing on the bridge yeah i can yeah i can maintain that
just fine okay so now you are maintaining two powers because you have the light and the
levitation so you're gonna the difficulty goes up by two oh yeah that's right i'll just not maintain
the light yeah i'm fine okay oh so the light you're gonna turn the light out okay i mean i
assume the super bright green light
ain't supposed to room correct i mean it's it's it does it does it gives everyone's on fire so
they're lighted up anyway that's also true i mean really pi brain is illuminating the room
yeah yeah in in the in the flames of the ground from the flamethrower lighting things up so
everyone could still see okay beautiful give give me the molten beam i will allow your u-shaped
molten beam as you home lander these yeah so i have to spin my wrath die so god i hope i don't
mess up also remember you have two yeah yeah my two wrath dice yes make a u-turn with it i could
still maintain two powers it's fine oh no no no you have the two wrath die because of the changing
your power so there's no i still have no i only have one that's only one wrath die not two oh okay
okay cool cool oh sorry one extra yeah yeah that's right all right and monby
as in as it loads oh god anticipation don't fail me
don't fail me here we go here we go let's go roll tony let's go oh shit i just had a i just
realized something that might be a problem that we that we may have just done to ourselves what
i just i i was thinking like fucking scarabs are bullshit aren't they supposed to be just
repair drones i was like wait a fucking second it's like yeah of course they're trying to repair
because we got something on us that they're trying to fucking repair that
i hate you well i don't think they i don't think eating the clothes is repairing it
we'll eventually see what happens with your molten beam you want to refresh the thing and i'll try
again i'll try to refresh it yeah roll tony is being weird today you know you know all that
build up and then it's like oh imagine bertman it's probably what's gonna happen oh there it
goes i rolled a three oh for fuck's sake
that's that's enough
to hit them though so that's not a failure uh let's see what did you get you got a three um
that will hit yes that will that will hit yeah that uh yes hitting is good i still hit so it's
fine yeah you can you can give me nothing went wrong yep so you're good i mean you know what
the damage is they're uh i can roll it uh it is you have to because they have a crap ton of wounds
yeah so this is one of those things where i've learned how to hit them
how to make you guys suffer
you cannot take any credit for this shit most of this is our fault yeah exactly actually that's
true i was like i i told i i told alpha in the outline for this episode i'm gonna have some
scarabs pop up a bridge i'm sure these chuckle fucks will make that fun thanks guys
okay so one thing uh a couple of things as we're waiting for roll 20 to figure its life out uh
brain you got to your wrath die back chat just gave me one of mine back which i want to use
that for you guys so i'm gonna have some scarabs pop up a bridge i'm sure these chuckle fucks will
that to re-roll the molten beam uh you just got one back and i just got my second one back so i
want to use that one the person just gave me to do a re-roll of the molten beam if it'll work okay
i'm just gonna just physically roll the darn things okay yeah i'm gonna try four five six seven
because it's being a pain five six seven so basically i get one two just two more so three
went out that is now 18 uh
18 damage and with the parties for me so i can kill as many of these as possible
can i use the rest of the glory to roll for additional damage
yes yes yes i've reset the api script so hopefully i'm just gonna roll the four here so that is one
uh one two three more damage i think 21 so 21 damage total as you just see me just rise
up and i'm just gonna roll the four here so that is one uh one two three more damage i think
just like behold the wizard
and your molten beam starts scything through them as you make it also do a line around your allies
and you you manage to cut down just enough of them that it seems the last few sort of dregs
retreat back down into the pit while their flaming corpses are falling down around um i'll have you
know you you defeated them by by two wounds well well played um but the group just entirely seems
to like retreat back down and i'm just gonna roll the four here so that is one two three four
down the hole and as you just hear the sudden like flames that are that are still crackling
on pie that seems to be the only sound and probably i don't know if pie's screaming or
something um so that is um well we now technically are still in combat time because
pie is on fire who would like to go first in the the fire the the combat round against the fire
who's fucking closest to him uh reeb and lorn has moved
up but is still far away farther away because he was shooting with the pistol can i medicate him
through the fire um wow i will allow you a medicaid check in the place of the uh the other
check to to try to suppress the fire yes i'm trying to fix him while he's the light is helpful
i need it i like something else on fire you move please please roll me the medicaid check
and we should see
um
I believe i believe that you can do this you believe that i can roll a four
a four a four is good enough you manage you know no fuck that i'm i'm i'm re-rolling that
oh okay okay yeah do it there's a nine you manage to completely suppress it
um and i will even let you restore the one wound to to pie as part of that
yeah i had to do something about that
and and suddenly the room is deathly silent again
no it is not
fair i mean aside from you aside from whatever screaming pie is about to to go on
please please regale us pie brain
do not grab my shoulders do that to me again
you are doing fine it's all right
have you ever had your lungs boiled
yes actually
then you should know it's not pleasant when they're in a cast iron casing
rebe rebe's like closing his eyes while the sound is blasting him
like the guy sitting in the chair with ride of the valkyries playing in the background
and all of your like clothing is all sort of like torn up and bitten apart in places
by the chomping mouths of those little scarabs so all of your clothing especially pies which is
like charred in many places and has like just
black splotches from fire
on it.
The next time we are in a situation
like this, I would kindly
ask you to please
point that thing towards
the enemy!
I did, in case...
Okay, the enemy better start on me!
You needed support! I was giving support!
I figured being on fire was
a damn sight better than being chewed to death!
I was... I am an unstoppable
juggernaut of mechanical
might! Two spiders cannot
kill me! Then why are you
scared of fire?
Because it's hot!
Zedek will walk up to Pi
and just kind of pat off
the soot on his tattered
bird robes
and say, Pi,
you were brave.
You did a good job.
Thank you, you're right, I did.
And by the way,
I'm more of a brave warrior
thing. I'm going to make a tactical
move.
Don't call me a coward, I go to make a tactical
move? Ah, you set me on fire!
From here on out, it's just running forward and smacking
things. Yes, we wanted
you to... Look,
I will concede that perhaps
it was not an advised tactical decision,
but you asked me to be the wingman
and I made you hot.
Oh my god.
That is technically correct.
We're moving on,
I feel for it.
Lauren, you like
trudge up to the end of the bridge,
go up the stairs,
and you see this base camp
where it looks like there was
very clearly some sort of
sleeping cot set up.
There appears to be
knocked over equipment.
There is the remains of a vox tower
that looks as though half of it has been
chewed apart.
And then sort of nestled between the vox tower
and one of those
pyramid-like protrusions from
the ground is another
case that looks like the
two previous you have seen that control
the
sort of row hecta data logs,
which is again clutched around by a servitor.
And as you approach the servitors nameplate reads
Robert Moser,
and it just clutches onto this box.
Though this servitor has clearly been rendered
entirely apart,
just down to the mechanical components,
like almost like a mechanical skeleton holding onto it.
I yell back.
I have another one of those logs.
We kind of...
Okay, I'll be right back.
Okay, I'll be right back.
Okay, I'm over the fire thing now.
What I'm going to do is before I go up to that log,
those logs,
there were a lot of dead scarabs.
Can I find
two
on the ground?
Yeah.
So
as you go
to
basically grab
the scarabs,
when you touch one,
it just dissolves into like chalk in your hand.
Not too hot.
They've been overcooked.
What about one of the ones that I cut into two?
Like any of them,
as soon as you interact with them,
they just seem to dissolve.
Fascinating.
I will grab some samples of the dust.
Snort it.
Yeah.
Oh, I can't do that.
Wow.
I know.
You can. Hurry up.
Hurry up. Okay.
And after gathering some samples of the dust,
I will head up to the recording and
I will attempt to see what happened here.
Yeah, you may press the button.
Please be gone.
Okay.
I pressed the button.
This is Rohecta.
After entering one of the larger chambers,
I discovered a seemingly bottomless void spanned by bridges.
This area also seems to play tricks on our auspex units,
which report radical depth analysis.
It also appears that our mobile vox units have become unreliable this deep into the complex.
I am having Beta-4-R establish a perimeter camp,
and then I am sending him and half the unit back to the surface outpost to report.
I shall stay behind to continue my research here with the remaining skitari.
This is Junior Magos, Rohecta.
Ending report.
Blessings to the Omnissiah and Lemuria.
Uh, at this point, I think we're gonna take our break.
Alrighty.
Yes.
Alright, we'll be back, chat in a moment.
Thank you all so much for sticking with us.
We'll be right back as we take- we're gonna stretch our legs and take a quick break.
It's imperative you watch it, Hulky.
I mean, it's- it's like a cornerstone of the internet.
You gotta watch how to grapefruit your main.
Yeah, you gotta- It's an important- it's an important video.
It's an important sound as well.
You have to learn how to do it, so.
It's just- it'll give you tinnitus.
So, I'll be announcing my departure from the Warhams' cast.
Just because I wouldn't watch the video, come on, you're being unreasonable.
I'm not watching it, it's not- I don't like it, I'm- it hurts my ears, I'm- I'm sick of
it.
I'm being bullied here.
I- I can't.
I can't.
You're not being bullied.
Door's right there, Hulky.
We got like a million people we could get to replace you.
You win.
I'm fine.
I'll be right now.
They will all be willing to watch it.
Goodbye.
Welcome back to our new, uh, player-less adventure, um-
Play the game by yourself, nerds.
Leave.
Fuck.
Yeah.
We are back.
We are back.
We are back.
Playing this by himself, being like-
Still.
Oh, shit.
I was just going to say, so as we- as we get back to everything, our- our- our
group has just found this small base camp that has been completely ransacked.
Up- up ahead.
Past this base campsite, there seems to be, uh, an opening with sort of this green glow
coming from it, and past it, you can see that the refined sort of obsidian stone that covers
this area disappears again, and past it is- is another sort of expanse of cavern networks.
You can see various tracks that are quite evident in the- in the dirt as you- you look
past.
It seems to go on from this chamber, as though connecting to something out.
What are we all doing?
Hmm.
Well.
This is very interesting.
But.
I'm gonna get this thing to work!
Then I'm gonna try to fix my power sword.
Uh, yeah, give me a tech check.
Yeah.
I don't know why-
As you're, like- like, hitting it and trying to get it to react.
Yeah!
Let's see how it goes.
I'm gonna- I'm gonna pump two glory into this.
Okay.
You can spend more just in case, if you need it.
Boompit.
Boh- beat.
It will be boompit.
Let us see what happens.
Let us boompit.
Let us see what happens!
Oh, you said it, man!
Oh, you said it, man!
So, uh.
So.
But before anything-
Yes.
So.
It's a brain.
Aing.
You want to know the, uh, the unfortunate part about this?
Well, it's- it's...
Um.
What?
Oh, yes.
Chat has deemed it
with their contributions
to make that a complication.
You did what?
Would you like to know
what the complication is?
That seven tech check,
unfortunately,
has to be a complication.
Would you like to know
what the complication is?
You can blame the individual Grimstone.
I'll tell you later.
No!
You!
I'm in hell!
No!
Okay.
Well, let's keep going.
I've shown nothing bad will happen.
As you continue on,
just past the sort of doorway
leading back into the Capron system,
you see more scattered
sort of detritus
on the ground.
It looks like
the remains of a boot.
There's some
tattered red cloth
with blue stripes
that looks almost similar
to the style of robes
that Pi Brain has.
You also see embedded in the wall,
having seen some of this before,
are three immense craters.
And on the ground,
Pi, you would recognize these,
are three bolt shells
from a bolter.
And on the ground,
you would recognize these,
are three bolt shells
from a bolter.
And on the ground,
you would recognize these,
are three bolt shells
from a bolter.
Hmm.
Intriguing.
I will examine them.
Perhaps there will be some evidence
of whence they came from.
I don't know.
You don't have to give me
any kind of check for this.
You start examining,
and when you do,
you get a sense of the area.
It looks like there was
some kind of engagement here,
probably against more of those
tiny Xenos forms
you just encountered,
those mechanical scarabs.
However, one thing you do note
is another data pad
that's sort of a part of the data pad.
It's sort of nestled by the boot
and with two of the casings beside it.
This one looks like
it was dropped face down,
so it didn't have any of that glow.
It wasn't noticeable.
Quite possible it was just dropped.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Wait.
The Aurea does not often
utilize bolt weapons.
This must belong to the fucker bee.
Fucker bee.
And as you say that,
like, yeah,
we cut to Lorne's face saying,
fucker bee.
And then you pick up the data pad
and turn it over
to see the text sort of glowing at you.
What does the annoying man
have to say to me?
The Magos has clearly lost his faculties.
He seems to think it's a good idea
to go deeper into the cave system.
Were it not for the importance
of this mission,
I, Slayer Burgod,
fucker bee 24th of my name,
would have given up my life.
I would have given up hours ago.
I am simply at wit's end
with my companions.
One seeks to burn everything in her path
while the aspiring angel of death
keeps referring to me as
Bub.
Hopefully this little sojourn
will come to a quick end
when we find the errant Magos.
It seems as though we have
quite an eclectic assortment of people
we must kill.
Well,
I'm not looking forward to it.
A person with a flamethrower
and a, uh,
aspiring Astartes?
Do you practice
to become a space marine?
Uh, possibly as a scout.
Hmm.
Intriguing.
I should hope we can simply convince them
to betray their stupid idiot man
who controls them.
But he beat us to the punch.
We must be quick about it.
Well, one of them seems to prefer
lighting things on fire,
so perhaps at the end of the day
I could just light you on fire again
and convince her of our intentions.
Ah, yeah, well, perhaps I could throw you
off the bridge and we'll see what happens there.
But I don't think we can.
That's my point.
Does anyone have survival?
Uh, I have some.
It's a bad point.
Do you guys have survival?
Give me a check.
Yes.
I actually think I do.
Uh, let me see if I messed that up.
Something that's not psychic mastery?
Let me check.
Let me check.
So we have...
Yeah, yeah, it's willpower,
so I have like a six.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You guys can give me a check for it
if you want to.
I got a glory.
I got a five total.
I get a two.
Okay, okay.
Uh, Reeb, you're able to somewhat help Lorne out,
but Lorne, you definitely see tracks
that are moving through some of this.
Get down there.
Tracks.
Yeah.
What do you smell, boy?
Tracks.
They're going this way.
Go get them.
Get an orb.
Go get them.
Ha, ha, ha.
Roar, roar, roar, roar.
They're like just crawling.
As you're like on three limbs with your,
with one arm holding up your lit staff.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's not lit anymore, but...
Oh, that's right.
Would you, are you...
It's lit up.
The game system's dark.
Okay.
Oh, okay.
I'll light it again.
Yeah.
Because you want me to complicate.
I mean, sure.
That's, that's fine.
I'll make you make another second.
Okay, well, we'll do the, uh...
Um...
We'll just do the smite roll
because I haven't added it on yet.
Yeah, that's fine.
And, uh...
You're good.
Oh, nine.
This time, this time,
it's, it's like this immense torch,
uh, even more powerful than before.
And you start just like rushing down
through these tunnels.
All the way,
your companions are following you.
And each of you,
you start seeing more like scattered sides of battle,
more sort of torn cloth.
You make your way further and further in,
taking these winding turns
as Lorne is leading,
you like, like this,
this dog,
this wolf
towards a destination.
And finally,
you come across
a shattered servo skull
that looks as though
it had flew into the side of a stalactite
based on its placement.
Its skull cracked open
and underneath it
in two manipulator arms
is another one of those hololithic boxes.
As I, as I get up to it,
I'm like,
I was like,
I found it!
And imagine,
I don't know if you ever saw it,
but I saw like,
like,
like Team Fortress,
like Gmod videos
where I just slither all around.
Oh,
just all around it.
And I stopped and I'm like,
I found it!
There you go.
I will open it
and press the button.
Yeah, yeah.
Press the button to play
and tsk, tsk, tsk.
This is Ro Hector.
After a week,
I was forced to abandon the campsite.
Strange,
strange Xenos forms
attacked the site,
bursting out from the walls
of the depthless pit.
They swarmed from the pit
and overwhelmed half of the Skitarii
before we managed a regiment.
I lost the others
in the tunnels nearby.
All specs have stopped working.
I can't tell where I am.
I think I'm close to something.
I hear something.
Something
screaming out.
This is...
Oh, heck,
the blessings.
Why is it screaming?
Oh.
Well then.
Ah!
I don't think
these
mechanical creatures
are supposed to scream,
are they?
If they are Xenos,
there is no end
to their depravity.
We must be prepared
for anything.
The tracks continue on from here,
Lorne.
They're that way.
Stay behind me, gentlemen.
If you don't, you can stay
slightly in front of me.
No, I'd stay slightly behind you.
Only if I can point where I'm going.
I did that way.
Alright, and I'm going to
lead the way.
You continue on.
Eventually, the cavernous area
ends, and you come
to another immense cyclopean
chamber. This one,
the walls almost
seem aflame with
green light, as two bridges
span this chasm
to the left and right with
another depthless pit in between
them. Further up ahead
is a
massive rectangular
arched doorway that is
inscribed with hieroglyphics on its side
that seems to go further into the
complex. As you step into this
room, all the sounds
of your footfalls deaden
as you touch some of the obsidian
stone here.
We're going to move forward?
I'm signing.
Proceeding.
This little light of mine,
I'm going to let it shine.
I'm just sorry.
This little light of mine,
I'm going to let it shine.
I probably shouldn't
be talking that loud in here
if you don't want to attract...
This little light of mine,
I'm going to let it shine.
Lauren, please stop. I'll give you a pudding pop.
I'll give you a pudding pop.
This little light of mine,
I'm going to let it shine.
You begin crossing the bridge.
Did you have...
Can I roll an investigation
to scan the surroundings for any
particular signs of
non-green
activity? Absolutely.
I will totally.
I want to see if I can find any other hints
of
something.
I roll a four.
With a four,
what you're able to tell is that the light
seems to be coming from these slits in the ground
sort of beaming out from some
technological apparatus.
You can't see, but as you start getting close,
you see the walls.
That's when you realize the walls are
coated in these
thin veneer of more of these
scarabs. And in fact,
the walls here are entirely
made up of moving
scarabs, as though the walls
just undulate with their movements
as they slowly
clamber over one another.
They don't seem to react to you,
but they just...
Just move.
I'm going to take the rock
from my bag, and I'm going to throw it
on the ground.
A moment later,
the wall seems
to, like,
running water,
a swarm of several
dozen of these little scarab forms
come off and skitter towards
the rock on the floor and grab
it. And like a little errant
like,
cool, they sort of move back
the way you entered,
clutching the rock.
Gentlemen,
please dump the rocks.
But hold on.
They only reacted once you threw it on the
floor. Maybe we
can still leave with our bounty
in tow. Let's
discuss that when we are actually leaving.
Let's just pick up the rocks
when we're leaving, not going in with
the rocks.
There's still more out there.
I like my rock. I'm going to take my rock
and drop it. And the same thing,
the wall just leaks scarabs
which come and pick it up and then
shitter off away towards
the entrance. Zedek,
whatever you may have absconded with,
also please empty your bag.
Zedek shifts his eyes
to the side very
rapidly, but sees the party is not going
to let him leave it without
an empty hand, and
ugh, fine.
Tosses the little obelisk out.
And they come by and clutch
it and again scamper off.
Let's keep going.
No, nothing can even happen to make you go insane yet.
I will fucking keep bolting you,
you understand me?
You continue walking forward,
eventually reaching the doorway at the end
of this chamber.
Past it, you see more rocks.
What you know,
notice is the
connecting chamber seems to have
suffered some immense collapse.
The adjoining chamber has
rocks that have fallen from the
ceiling, smattering down,
creating all sorts of debris.
The walls here also seem
to no longer be visible. There's none of the black
stone,
the obsidian, the glowing green.
Instead, it's just dull
brownish rocks all around.
However, what you do notice
is up ahead,
towering at the opposite end of the room
is an immense
ziggurat-like
structure that rises
up from the ground,
probably some seven
by seven meters layered
up, on top
of which is this
glowing
fractured green
crystal that
almost floats in the air
suspended. As you
step into the room,
the ground here,
you see it has that same
sort of dark metal
feel, like this dark obsidian,
but sections of it appear
to have been ripped back,
revealing
strange conduits and
cabling with green energy
pulsing through.
You enter
into the chamber. What do you do?
Rebe?
There are no exits aside from the way
you came in.
Rebe, do your history books
tell you anything about whatever
that is? Because I
gotta tell you, I don't get a good vibe
from that at all. You need to realize
that as an old Xenos acolyte,
I'm not very well
informed about these
kinds of things. Do you have any idea
how many Xenos build large
monolithic structures with
strange shapes to them?
No. No?
Let me think. Rebe's gonna put a finger
up to his forehead and just kind of like rub
it slightly, trying to recall
anything with a five and a
glory. A five will
not give you anything on this.
You attempt
to think. You gain
the glory from
more your concerns of
what you're seeing, but you don't have any
idea what kind of foul
Xenos would create this particular
thing.
Ugh.
I'm the faintest.
I have seen
many battlefields, and I have
studied
Lemurian technology.
Might I attempt
to make a tech check to understand
what we're looking at? Are you going to
get close to this thing? Yes, I have
no fear. Okay, absolutely.
Is anyone going with Rebe?
Basically, this is a pretty
large chamber that you're entering.
From where you entered, you're
about, oh, let's see.
Let's see.
Let's see.
Let's see here. I'm staying with the group
as we go forward. Okay, you're about like
15 meters, so are you just all going to walk
up together towards this pyramid?
Yeah.
Okay, so you get within a
meter of the base.
Pi, you can tell that the
way that this thing is steeped, you
could probably climb up it
if you want to.
I love climbing.
I'll do it. Give me an athletics check.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, sure. Let's see how this
goes. Don't fuck it.
I'll try really hard. Oh, a six.
A six is perfect. So the
three of you that are not Pi, you kind of
remain as Pi. It's like, I'm going
to look at this and begins climbing up.
You find yourself climbing up towards that
floating crystal near the apex.
The remaining three of you are sort of
at the base looking around.
Pi, as you
climb up,
give me a tech check.
All right.
I am going to be dumping all of our glory
into this
with the permission of the gang.
Shit. Go ahead.
Do it. You need it.
Yep, absolutely.
All right, here we go.
For Lemuria.
Well, that's going to be
a rivalry roll for me there.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Yeehaw.
Oh, 11.
That's better. So you come up and you see
this fragmented crystal that sort of floats.
It's in the air.
You understand
that technology like this
alien technology
is very, very
different to the holy
mechanicum and that with the will of the
Omnissiah. So as you're
looking at this, you tell that
whilst
many, many different species
have heretical ways of interfacing
with their technologies,
you know that some
are based on
touch and like mental
impulse like MRU.
So you get
the sense that to do any sort of activation
or get any sense of opening this or
understanding more about it,
you
need to touch it. So
you go and you
reach your hand out.
I sure do.
Press it on the side of the crystal
just to get a sense of what the substance is
to analyze it. And as you do,
you take a
step to the side as
this entire
immense
pyramid
splits into four
distinct segments.
One to the northeast,
southeast,
like basically like the four cardinal directions
splits open and begins to
slightly turn
reorienting itself in the chamber
and the crystal, the cracked
crystal
lowers down into the
center. And like you're standing on top
of this thing and there's
crackling energy
that spikes in towards
the crystal that's floating there.
And as this
immense
ziggurat's pyramidical
structure opens
into these four segments,
the shattered crystal moves to
its heart where it floats.
And you get the sense as though something's
broken out of this crystal,
like the way it's shattered. But when it
finally finishes opening,
there's just the sounds
of the sort of electrical arcs
inside it. And then you hear
this like sound of
something falling
like and hitting the metal
floor below.
And you just...
Piebrain,
you don't notice it,
but Lorne,
Zedek, and Reeb,
you see as this immense
thing has opened up in front of you
and
crackling with strange
energies. As it split
open, something was inside it and
fell out. And what fell
out onto the floor is
a small metal cube.
Handheld.
Something you could easily just pick up
in your hand.
Hmm.
I grab it.
Oh, sorry. Who grabs it?
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Lorne mainly points
to it and goes,
woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.
And I phantom grip it.
Okay.
As we wait for the roll.
Just say that things
happen and things occur.
Absolutely.
Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.
Okay. We'll just do two of these.
One, two.
Sure.
I see it there. Oh, you grab it.
I got it. No problem.
Oh, never mind.
I got it.
We'll take that one.
You grab it.
It flies into your hands,
though, as it, like...
No, I'm not touching it.
I ain't touching that shit.
What are you doing with it, then?
To hover? I'm just holding it up.
Okay, yeah.
It picks up and floats in the air,
sort of moving it,
just like a floating display.
As it floats in the air, though,
Lorne, your nose, again,
starts to bleed just a bit.
Ugh.
Yeah.
It's not good.
It's not good, boys.
It's not.
Step us...
Move aside and bring the thing closer to me, please.
Yeah, I hovered to him.
Just as long as he's not, like, near the thing.
I'm also going to approach this cube.
At this point, I assume I know what's going on.
I think you, like, slide down the side of the pyramid
to regroup with your allies,
and you kind of all sort of move off away
from, like, this pyramidical structure that's floating,
kind of forming a little square,
together, as you're all beside one another
with the cube sort of floating.
We are cautious, Reeb.
If it is technology, it may be best if I examine it.
I'm going to make sure that it is not...
Well, given the fact that I don't feel like
I'm necessarily burning up,
it is safe to assume it is not radioactive,
which is a first and foremost.
That is not safe to assume, but go on.
Well, you know.
I'm going to pull out my mono-knife,
which I use as a scalpel.
I guess.
And I'm just going to rotate it using my knife.
Can I see any...
Is there anything on this little weird cuboid die thing?
It is a pure silver cube.
Perfect.
Like a cut of metal.
There's no...
There's nothing else on it?
Like, nothing on the faces?
No.
Tapping it with my knife.
Is it solid?
As soon as you tap it,
the cube...
The cube stops
with enough force from its movement
that you kind of have to move your hand back.
And it stops mid-air.
Lauren, you feel your psychic power
immediately be cut off.
And another nosebleed begins to come down.
No, not the other nostril.
And then, as though it was like an object
in three dimensions,
it shifts to almost 2D
as it unfolds itself
like how you would make a cube out of paper.
It unfolds to become the flat paper
with the sort of three bottom
and then like upper top.
And then...
a wave of corpses flies out and surrounds you.
And from this cube,
perhaps two dozen skitari bodies
litter the floor around you in red robes.
They've been tattered, broken apart, cut.
All of these bodies land and tumble.
Clearly, the retinue of Ro Hecta
that has been just thrown out of this cube.
And then something else flies out
and heads straight towards the entrance
of the cavern you came in
where it like immediately ends and turns
and looks...
looks at you
as you stand in this sea of skitari corpses around you.
And what it looks like
is this immense mechanical creature
that has similarities to a spider.
Though for some reason,
it has a fin on its back
that's been crudely adhered
with some sort of duct tape adhesive.
And these various limbs move up and down
as its head plate looks at you,
with green and red eyes.
And it seems to, like, jitter and move
as you're all in a morass of skitari corpses.
All right, who wants to go first?
We're in combat.
Mon Bates!
Light brain on fire.
All right, no.
Yeah, definitely, I think Alpha Strix,
you should go first, so, you know.
Forest Folly!
Three Glory!
Going right in, boys!
Absolutely.
Just chuck, chuck, go,
and just immediately moan.
Sure.
And now you're going to miss.
Let's see what happens here, friends.
Yep.
And...
Actually, I only need the three dice
on the fight.
The course was going to...
Nah, whatever.
I did it first, so it goes to activate.
Okay, okay, so you've got, you've got,
you raised your hands up.
Yeah, I want to use the Glory dice to do damage.
That's what I wanted to do.
I did three for no good reason.
For some reason, obviously,
we're all totally just going weird,
so we're going to do a quickle.
So, basically, one, two, and then boop.
So, that's going to be...
I got a...
Last one's a six, so that's fine.
The other one's a four, so it's like...
Alpha Strix, one, two, three.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Yeah, so...
There's that.
I'm going to spend a...
I'm going to reroll the found ones.
That's one, two, three, four, five, six.
I got to roll now.
Get that to one, two.
That is going to be...
One, two, three, four, plus the six.
So, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
To hit it.
So, I assume I hit it.
Can you mark me down?
Oh.
Okay.
Rune point?
It's like...
I mean, I still got to do all the damage first, but yeah.
Oh, no, no, no.
Mark me down a rune point.
Got you a rune point.
As it rears back as you raise your hand,
and you see underneath its body,
it has these prisms that start to blow underneath it.
Oh.
And let's see how many I get.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine.
I am just one shy of the prize of denying the witch on you.
I feel rather gloomy seeing those prisms.
Yes.
So, not everything goes.
So, your beam goes out and strikes it, though, again.
You just feel this wave go over you as, like, you feel weakened by this.
And please roll the damage for me.
Okay.
Because you can just roll it normally.
I know what it is.
Okay, cool.
So, 18.
Perfect.
My two glory didn't come in, so...
Wait, does the glory just automatically apply it, or no?
Do I have to roll it?
You have to roll it.
It's extra damage.
Okay, okay.
I added it in there.
Oh, sorry, no, it's extra damage.
It's just flat extra damage.
My apologies.
So, it's two extra.
So, it would be 20.
Okay, yeah.
You take this immense blast, which strikes into it, sears through it.
It's kind of hurt.
Like...
You've ripped off some of its back plating with this blast.
Yeah.
It begins moving its legs.
I want to dedicate...
I don't know.
What's its defense?
I have to get to its defense.
I want to take the dice that I rolled and establish it more on the damage.
Okay.
Let's say, just because I roll a bunch of dice, let's just say I just put three up for just three more damage.
Yeah, so with its defense, you can get...
Checking here...
Yeah, you can get three more.
Perfect.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
Yeah, so all of that just...
And that thing is just tough.
You sear across its back, and its hull has this immense, like, gash that's molten and searing.
But it's still up.
And it goes now.
No, it doesn't.
I'm spending a glory.
Glory has now been spent.
Can you mark me down another rune point?
Sure can.
Boop.
So I may go first.
Wait.
I thought you all spent another glory.
Okay.
Boop.
Glory spent.
All right.
You may go.
Not one step further, abominable intelligence!
And I am going to move my fat mechanical ass.
And I believe in you, Pi.
Okay.
My token, for some reason.
I believe in you, Pi.
Go, my peace, Katari.
Go, my brave little toaster.
For Lemuria!
And I will do what must be done.
Can't miss.
I believe in you.
All right.
And you not believe in your friends.
Swinging with my power, with all of my might.
Swing it.
Swing it.
Swing it!
I believe in you!
No big pressure.
No big pressure.
No big pressure.
Swing it.
Swing it.
Just go with what you want.
Swing it.
Go with what you want.
Rush and swing.
Swing.
I'm going to swing.
I'm going to go with what I have.
I'm going to swing.
Swing.
I'm going to hit her with that big sword.
Better make it hit.
Better make it hurt.
Better kill her in one shot.
Better kill her in one shot.
All right.
It's time to just roll dice, I guess, instead.
All right.
Cool.
We'll do that right now.
Okay.
Waiting.
There we go.
That's Drun succeeded.
Not all right.
wrong
I'm sorry
keep rolling d10s it's chaining
all right there we go
1 2 3 4
5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12
13 total
you can shift
yes
you can you can shift
3 then
the power roll
so you go and chat
we can't do anything about
oh
nice
you take
3 yes with ap3
which is amazing on this thing
you skewer it underneath
the weapon coming up
and it cleaves through
a bunch of it you hear the
popping of these like internal
circuits and it just
pops out the other side it is
incredibly
incredibly poor looking
but it's still standing
don't tell me now
so so is anyone else
going to try to interrupt and go or
is that we got three glory in the
we got three glory in the pot boys
sure you do
is that a core or rib
I don't have a whole lot I can I'm gonna
wait for a moment
I gotta I mean you can
go and set
set it on or him and me
on fire or I can go and
try my my weapons not gonna
pet it I think not very easily
but well if there's a bunch of
skitarii on the ground maybe they have like an arc rifle
with them
I'll look after
something else goes
so Zedek's the only one who
would have to go on this are you
are you wanting to interrupt Zedek
I would like to use that glory absolutely
lower down
two left
uh
uh
uh
actually I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be
super brave yet but I'm still gonna move
up
uh
one that thing should have denied the
witch me but failed so my thing went
through
and inside and discord does garble
because when we talk all at the same
time it's gonna do that so that's just
how technology works
so sorry yeah we can't help that like we
can't fix discord
yeah continue on I would like to
aim at the okay absolutely
yeah
I mean sure I'll get a bonus die to my attack roll I've reset the api so maybe it'll be faster we will let's find out if not roll manually
we're getting there
uh gosh dang it
yeah this is so annoying this is why I want to switch to foundry but no one made wrath and glory for that thing
all right roll them roll them bones uh regularly please mr zedek
okay
I'm working on this
I'm working on this
we'll be a ballistic skill
ballistic skill with a bonus dice
ballistic skill funny moments
the rare times that I actually have to
memorize the oh there it is oh there you go
wow that misses
that misses yeah yeah total fuck
I like that
oh
is that him firing again or is that just a federal one that didn't go through
uh no that's
that's him firing again
I think so right or did you click
Click it twice, Zedek.
Click it twice.
No, no, no. It's the reroll.
It's the reroll.
Okay.
Sweet. So that's cool.
So you go, you
raise up your pistol. You actually still
miss.
Which is not
good.
And you
unload
with
your weapon. It goes
Don't tell me it
hits his sword now.
Don't give him ideas.
It's a good idea.
It works.
Sweet!
And it
hits. I'm going to say it.
It does. In this situation,
it hits the power sword.
Because you have that complication
that was banked.
Oh, I do have that complication that was banked.
Don't worry. I remember that one, too.
Um, so
this is it. This is it.
This is the thing for it.
And now it's going to go.
First of all,
as the arc hits
Pybrain's power sword
that's embedded in this thing's chest,
Pybrain pulls the sword out. It's so crackling
with arc energy.
I'm going to spend a rune point.
If you can mark me down.
Okay. You have one left.
I do.
As it opens up its chest
and begins spewing.
It's spewing forth a swarm
of scarabs.
Oh, no.
I don't know how to fix that.
It does that, which is a thing.
But then the
Tungurgan
looks down at Urib
and you can tell what it's doing
is it's raising back
and slashing
down with these immense
claws it has in front of it.
It is
going to hopefully
make an attack roll.
If not, I'll just roll it myself.
Let's see.
Let's go, roll 20.
Let's go.
I believe.
I believe. There we go.
Does four hit you?
Nope.
I carry it because I have four defense,
one extra with my power sword and melee.
What rings you got?
What rings you got?
Okay, cool.
But hey, guess what I can do?
You can hit it back.
Yeah, you can hit it back. That's cool.
Go ahead.
Let us cleanse these vile streets.
Do it.
Let's go.
Not a complication, though.
But I do get five successes.
You will hit it.
You can't shift anything.
You will hit it.
You can roll any base damage on it.
And then your power sword sputters out
completely dead.
Thank God.
Alright.
Oh, sorry.
I had a two to hit you. My apologies.
Nice.
Alright, so it's...
Whatever it wants to roll, you know,
it can do that.
You can just roll the damage dice and tell me.
It's going to get the hurt,
which isn't good, but that's okay.
We suppose.
It's perfect complications.
Ow!
I will take the damage when you roll it,
unless you spike it.
And then for the...
Oh, shit. Yeah, I can spike it, can't I?
Yeah, yeah. But that's fine.
You can roll it and then just let me know what...
Okay, I'll...
But it's going to take its second action,
because it was multi-acting.
And as it does that,
its mouth opens up
and it unleashes a beam
of particulate matter
that shoots out from its tiny mouth
towards one Lorne.
No!
No!
Oh, oh, by the way.
Yeah.
Someone just contributed to make that a complication.
For me?
Yes, for you.
Okay, yeah, that's fine.
Yeah, that's cool.
Oh, I don't think a one hits you, does it?
No.
Wow, what a shot.
Wait, well...
My defense is technically one,
so does matching means it wins, or do I...
Yes, it does.
So everything can hit me,
so everything's going to automatically hit me, so I...
Well, no, I mean, I could have not rolled a five
on those four dice, but that's okay.
It does hit you.
No, I mean, like, it's nearly impossible, so...
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You have to roll a zero to not hit him.
Yeah, yeah.
Correct, which, I mean, can happen on D6s.
Let me see here.
Here.
Its mouth opens,
and it hits you for 12 points of damage.
All right, I'm down, boys.
Oh, no.
He's dead again.
So much to where it goes over half of what I got.
Okay, cool, cool, cool.
So that's going to matter.
Can you determination that a little bit?
I can't.
Well, you can roll determination.
I can roll, like, two.
It's still taking me out.
Well, then roll it.
Why is it every time?
You got to try, man.
I cannot serve.
I cannot.
I can't go even if I'm less down.
It means I have to heal you less if it works.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Heart of the cards.
You don't kill me from the negatives and higher.
You just heal me, and then I go up.
It makes more sense for him to not try to lose shock,
because he's...
Oh, no, no, that's fair, that's fair,
because what's going to happen now is...
By the way, just point of order,
it takes 14 damage from the power sword, 83.
Oh, okay, cool.
It's...
Yeah, okay, got it.
Final one through.
Yay.
It looks pretty beat up.
Who would like to go next?
See, this is what I was waiting for.
I roll to...
I roll to use a flamethrower on Lorne.
No, I'm medicating him.
Purge this wretched body, dead words.
I can't even do a fucking multi-action.
I just need to make sure he doesn't explode and die.
Yes.
What do we got?
We got two glory, and I have one wrath remain.
So I will just...
Roll medicate.
No, I don't even click the button.
Why am I even...
I...
Yeah, the button's just not working right now,
and I don't know why.
Oh, wow, okay.
Okay, you got like...
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
Does that complicate?
No, because the last dice is a two, so you're good.
Okay, so that's good.
Yeah, good.
Ignore that roll.
You got the first one, so that's good.
So you will heal him back.
He's back up, which is fine.
He's at zero now.
Yes.
Also...
Cool.
Lauren, can you roll me a d6?
Sure.
And whoop.
I got a five.
Cool.
You, from that blast that hit you, you now develop a twitch.
I will allow you to interact.
Like, work that into your character however you would like.
So it goes back to me.
I'm going to have the scarabs go right now.
Mm-hmm.
And they're just going to move underneath
and start fixing up the papa spider.
It's not allowed.
They can't do that.
I'm sorry.
Well, I'm sorry.
They just did.
Well, fuck you.
Papa spider's getting a little swole again
as all these little scarabs start...
They start moving over it
and, like, using welding things
and just burn it while it's there.
Yeah, you can see that this immense spider
now has all of these scarabs.
It's, like, spat out moving over it
and, like, sealing some of the damages.
But that brings us back to you guys
at the start of your action.
What would you like to do?
Can I take it and heal Lauren again?
Absolutely.
You can spend another...
Just so we can learn the wrath and glory thing.
I don't think we actually went through this.
Do I just go continuously negative
and he has to heal through the negative
or any healing and I'm just back up?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no.
Any healing, you're just back up.
Okay, because he's healed me before,
so I'm already now back up, right?
Yeah, because he got a nine last round, so...
So I would be healed, like, two or three wounds, right?
Yeah, so he basically restores one wound
for a successful three,
and then you can restore four...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I just want to make sure,
because if you get shot again,
I want to make sure you don't become Chunky Salsa.
Oh, if anything shoots me, I'm dead.
So I can't really...
As long as I'm alive,
that's all you need to care about.
Yeah, you restore four total.
Okay.
Okay, let me...
But who wants to go first?
Let me make sure that this is understood.
I'm wanting to make sure
you don't actually physically pass away.
I'm trying to make sure you at least go unconscious
when you get shot.
It's fair, because if I double your wounds,
you die, die.
You'll die.
Die, die.
Die, die.
Who wants to go first?
Wounds total or current wounds?
Total, total.
Okay.
Hey, Zedek.
Yeah?
I'll trade you my plasma gun for your power, sir.
So I'm going to...
Can I go first and heal him
just to make sure in case it shoots him again?
You can go.
He doesn't pass away from natural causes.
That's a good idea.
So the only way for that thing to kill me
is if they roll...
If that damages me more than a four...
Or if it's 14 or higher.
So I'm going to...
So every time it hits me,
it cannot kill me
if it rolls lower than that.
I'll always be brought back
if you heal me.
Unless I spike damage real high.
Yeah, he would have to hit me
with a 14 damage or higher
directly on me to kill me.
So no matter how much you heal me,
or even if I had one itch point,
he cannot...
It's not what my current is,
what my max is.
Ooh, that's much better.
Yeah, you don't need to anymore,
because I'm going to get hit no matter what and die.
Or go down no matter what,
or go unconscious no matter what,
because he does so much damage.
You will heal him for three, though, with that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
I will go.
Because I'm explaining that
no matter what you do,
you cannot stop it.
I'm trying to stop you from dying.
No, you cannot stop that.
There's nothing you physically can do to stop it.
I have my hit point total, which is seven.
You cannot make that go higher.
So if he rolls a four...
Four or ten on damage or higher, I die.
No matter how much you heal me,
you cannot stop that result.
Yes, I'm aware of that.
I'll discuss it later,
because we're going to get stuck on this.
Let's move forward.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm just trying to make sure you understand.
Don't worry about healing me.
I understand how it works.
I'm not sure you're understanding what I'm getting at,
but we'll talk about that later.
Yeah.
Yeah, because don't worry about it.
I will go and constantly blast.
I will go with the spider.
I would like to spend the glory to not let you go.
Oh!
Okay, go ahead.
Go ahead, Sprint.
Captain Zedek is going to move up
and toss his power sword to Brain.
Oh!
Better than anyone else.
Make a throwing attack at Brain.
Yeah, yeah.
You have to make a ballistic skill.
You probably have enough movement to just...
And you stab him through the back.
Wait, you probably have enough movement
just to hand it to him.
Oh, shit, you're right.
Yeah.
That's...
I just wanted to show...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was going to shoot, but now...
You can still shoot up there.
Hey, Zedek, while you're here, grab my plasma gun.
I take Brain's plasma gun.
Cool.
All right.
I would also like to shoot.
Yeah, go ahead.
I'm going to hit him with the art gun.
It's not a named shot,
so I'm going to take off that damage number.
No, it's going to also take a penalty
because you're multi-acting, so that's good.
That's true.
Yep.
Okay, here you go.
That's a new shot.
It's not actually going to roll,
so I'm just going to roll.
I take six until it actually pops up.
Yes, good.
Just waiting.
It's good.
Waiting.
I'm going to roll 20.
The world will happen for me.
Give me a wait.
Just roll manually.
Yeah.
Every time it's combat.
Roll 20 doesn't help
when we're trying to do combat in a fast manner,
and we're just like, come on.
Yeah.
Come on, roll.
Wait, it's awful because, like, over...
Two, three, four, five.
Five.
That will sadly miss
because of the double action.
Oh, dear.
Yes, that's fair.
And we will not take the complications.
Thank you.
Yeah, we won't take that.
However, I will now go,
and I will go to town with you.
No, you won't.
Yes, I will,
because you can't do string seize the initiatives.
Okay.
That's what you're going to sound like
in a second after I'm done with you.
Wait, you're going to hit me?
You're approaching...
Oh, you're approaching me?
No, I'm having the spider go.
And the spider...
Okay.
The spider is going to go,
and it is going to attack you.
This time, it's seemingly focusing on you
and raising all of its big, scary limbs
and going, glob!
And I will roll terribly,
so you will still be able to counterattack me.
God damn it.
Yeah, fuck you.
Yes.
Ah, and with my friend Zedek's blade,
I will cast you from...
Memory!
Oh my god, and complicate,
and...
Okay.
We'll spin a wrath.
So four doesn't...
Yeah, we're going to...
A four just hits, which is nice.
Oh, in that case,
I wouldn't have spent a wrath if it hit.
Okay.
Cool.
Yeah, I just won't be shipping anything.
Well...
Okay.
I'll roll a damage.
Nice.
14 again.
AP minus three.
Yeah, your weapon goes up into it.
Tears out a bunch of it.
It is looking so bad now.
Its internals are starting to leak out.
Like you're seeing metal chunks fall to the floor from it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that was its go.
Who wants to go next?
Me.
Yeah, Lorne.
I will crawl here.
Okay.
And I will molten beam it.
And the...
Just end those scarabs.
Because they're right there.
Yes.
Yes, you may.
You may roll the beam.
The beam.
Yes, the beam.
Molten beam.
Molten beam.
I'll keep our glory as it is.
I will utilize my last rune point to try to prism stop you, you punk.
Yes, you will.
I will.
Molten beam as my light is shining.
I point forth and say,
My little Adam.
My little Adam.
I'm going to let it shine.
And then it's just...
And I complicate.
And I'm going to spin a wrath to reroll the other bits and get a 10 total.
I still complicate.
So what amazing wrath issue ding do I get?
What do I get?
So...
So...
I'm just a game master.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
I still succeed in all that, in which I'll just roll the damage.
You do.
You do.
But it's like...
So I'll just roll it real quick.
And it's 18.
That's all I can really do.
Actually, I want to boost...
Can I boost anything?
Yeah, I can actually.
I want to boost two to be two additional damage die.
So which I'm just going to roll.
Yeah, do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Yeah, just two real quick.
I am going to...
They're both one.
Nothing happens.
Okay.
Okay.
That's still going to...
Just be enough to take this thing.
But I'm going to...
I'm going to turn this complication into an awesome narrative moment.
I'd like to thank one of our servitors, actually, Spar Lightning Cut, for this warp-related complication.
Time bends.
All living creatures regress back in time briefly.
Now, I'm going to change some of the flavor on this particular complication to work with the scene.
But, Lauren, you start to, like, see as though...
Like, Pie Brain and Zedek and Reeb, all of them seem to, like, look extremely young as, like, everything seems to almost stop in place as you've seared through.
Like, your molten beam goes out.
It hits this spider in the head and sears through until the head actually pops and explodes the entire creature and the swarm with it.
But then...
Then everything stops and you see your companions and they all look, like, younger.
Like, Zedek looks in his teens and then Reeb, like, looks much younger and Pie Brain looks the same somehow.
I wonder why.
Yeah.
And as this goes on, like, there's a stutter and you notice your molten beam retracts back into your hands.
And there's this, like, blur of movement.
As the spider repairs itself back to its full, intense appearance.
And you see it staring towards you, Lauren, looking at you.
And you know fear at this creature's appearance as it looks at you, its eyes staring.
But then all of this seems to stop again, this movement around you.
And suddenly the spider seems to, like, dissipate into...
Tiny particles that are being pulled magnetically towards you.
And suddenly you look down and in your hand you see that you're holding onto that metal cube.
And the spider, broken down into particulate matter, flies into the cube.
As do all of these corpses that you're now noticing at the base of the spider.
That all fly in.
These red and blue.
These blue-robed corpses that all fly in.
Everything goes into the cube in your hand.
And you hear this voice.
This voice that speaks.
Though it's not your own voice.
And you just hear this.
And that is what you get for attempting to assault Slayer Burgodafakrabi, 24th of my name.
And then there's a snap.
And you find yourself.
Back to where you were.
Your companions looking the same.
The tomb spider collapsing on the ground.
And the room is silent as the last of the guardians have departed.
D-Fucker B!
What just happened?
What just happened?
The spider is dead on the ground?
The spider has exploded across the room from the molten beam.
Its fragments have landed into the floor.
It is completely ruined.
Is all the bodies still here?
The Skitari bodies.
Yeah.
All line the area up here.
By where Reeb is.
What did D-Fucker B do?
D-Fucker B.
I suspect he's possibly instigating all of this.
Then he will pay.
Yeah.
i'm going to walk up to lauren let me see the device i hand it over all right i'm going to
fiddle with it i'm going to see if there's some way pointing it out at the corpses to put them
back into the device you don't seem to be able to to utilize it it seems to just be this this
nondescript cube in your hand now can i use tech to get it to function you don't feel like it's
active at all right now like it's it seems dormant for whatever don't worry about that now brain
let's just make sure everyone's okay first and let's see what brought this team down here
i'm going to stow the cube on my person yes we must uh
oh jesus car
we must
learn what happened here to these brave skitarii who gave their lives in this labyrinth
are you going to to take a look at all of the bodies strewn about here
yes would you like to give me a tech check on some of them i would love nothing more than to
roll tech all right oh shit i do not have six extra dice in this right now
uh still have the glory big bump i'm gonna spend uh three on this because this seems
absolutely
absolutely
okay let us see what happens oh five and a glory yeah um so with that you're able to get
much like you did with the servitor you're able to get a bit of visual data that you can plug into
to one of the hololithic units and it seems to be the the audio visual data of one of the skitarii
it seems as though the the skitarii advanced into this
chamber at some point and when they came in there there was a man who you recognize in the visual
feed as slayer burgo de fuckerby uh with beside him this sort of like cowering mewling row hector
who looks like pale and gaunt and malnourished and looking looking up in in in shock and but but
but between
between
this skitarii's viewpoint and de fuckerby is this immense spider creature that immediately turns to
the skitarii and begins just destroying them tearing them apart ripping them limb from limb
hurling them down and then the the audio video falls to the side and you see much of what like
lauren saw with de fuckerby holding out this this cube and sucking everything into it
and then de fuckerby like looking down at row hector and he's like oh my god i'm gonna die
hector and then just saying as the the video seems to stutter uh as it like flies into the
cube and the last sort of images you catch are this like tumbling eyesight and you just see de
fuckerby turning as the cube is finishing it is suctioned and like it's well row hector it's time
we must go i have important things to attend to now and then blackness
and that
is i think where we're going to end today's session
and that's the end of today's episode thank you so much chat for being here for those of you
still interested in what stuff and you haven't wasn't here at the very very beginning for news
announcements stay here to stay on stream after we do our outro and stuff because we got some
stuff to announce but currently let's go ahead and reintroduce to you your cast members
get tarry ranger wielder of the power sword destroyer of of little tiny scarab things
pyre brain played by speaker d yes hello i am speaker d and you can follow me on at speaker d
on twitter and you can also find me on my youtube channel which is also speaker d and next up i'm
because i told you alkylite savior of lawns healer of all the most one of our most amazing
party members reed van horn played by erin dill yes i'm erin dill and you can find me on twitter
at at erin dillio i post very frequently about things that not pertaining to tts and extremely
infrequently about things that do and i am zorn the bear i have been playing larn you're currently
on watching on my channel and all the other stuff next up we have our rogue trader captain of the
debt collector campton zedek played by hulky crow yes i am indeed hulky crow you can pretty
much only follow me on twitter at hulky crow i post about memes usually like occasional things
you might see some updates from my personal life and some food that i like eating and the one who
has been tormenting us the entire time who's making this all possible the game master thurston
hillman hello and thank you everyone for uh going through the madness of today's session i
told you i was going to do a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a
we've got spooktober and we have one more session left in our in our spooky month
our 10th session it's kind of uh i think i think it'll it'll hit a lot of uh good notes so i look
forward to seeing you all then and uh maybe we will continue some of the stories we have going
the 31st so hope you're going to arrive a lot of spookiness it's going to be the spookiest episode
i i swear
okay
so so with that we'll see you next time on warhams so love you all very much thank you all for being
here goodbye so long see you all next time bye
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