Family Ties

SPEAKER_01: Hello and welcome to Sparks of the Past.

SPEAKER_01: We're now in session six.

SPEAKER_01: The last session dealt with the group at the undersea base, Elyon, and

SPEAKER_01: trying to figure out what happened to this particular clone guy of Mercer.

SPEAKER_01: They decided to be a little bit more gentle and talk to him.

SPEAKER_01: He explains that certain high political figures and military leaders are part of a

SPEAKER_01: clone rebirth program, that if they're willing to give up a lot of their

SPEAKER_01: generational wealth, they can, when they are destroyed, be reborn in a clone body.

SPEAKER_01: If the death is not public, they can return to whatever they're doing, but if the

SPEAKER_01: death is public, they have to leave the system.

SPEAKER_01: There obviously was something of people trying to stop him from going.

SPEAKER_01: The group decides to get his support in

SPEAKER_01: helping him get off system and not be possibly taken out by any other assassins.

SPEAKER_01: And in exchange, he gives the passcode for his data pad that the players have and

SPEAKER_01: access to his home

SPEAKER_01: on Jardin.

SPEAKER_01: The group then decides to raise the sunken ship boat.

SPEAKER_01: They are able to get there on the TSS Perfunder, and while Saatchi

SPEAKER_01: scouts ahead and is able to kind of explore some things, players are able to, with

SPEAKER_01: submarine and

SPEAKER_01: scuba suits, able to get inside, and by hook and by crook able to get the

SPEAKER_01: ship

SPEAKER_01: Pressurized and lifted to the surface.

SPEAKER_01: We ended last game with them having gotten

SPEAKER_01: the ship to the surface and having understood what is the basic part of the cargo

SPEAKER_01: and by selling the cargo they could probably get the ship at least into space

SPEAKER_01: without killing them.

SPEAKER_01: One of the things I have added in the Foundry if you are all interested is

SPEAKER_01: There's one called the Volante Shipboat.

SPEAKER_01: I'm going to activate this and this is actually a playable map of the smuggler

SPEAKER_01: shipboat.

SPEAKER_01: So people want to know where they're going and what they're doing.

SPEAKER_01: We have that.

SPEAKER_01: The beds that you see on the lower deck are all bunk beds.

SPEAKER_01: So there is a total of four singles and there

SPEAKER_01: are two doubles. And that should be enough for the players involved.

SPEAKER_01: Pilot is the only person that has an actual seat because they need an actual

SPEAKER_01: gravity assisting seat. Everyone else just stands if they're helping out with

SPEAKER_01: sensors and stuff.

SPEAKER_01: And people who are dealing with power are going to be where the power or the

SPEAKER_01: other piece is.

SPEAKER_01: So inside the

SPEAKER_01: actual cabin

SPEAKER_01: is pretty much going to be pilot and sensors, and everything else is going to be

SPEAKER_01: engineer people away dealing with the actual engines.

SPEAKER_03: So it's like a Jim Hadar ship where there are no siege.

SPEAKER_03: Except

SPEAKER_03: for the one. You broke up.

SPEAKER_03: You broke up and I could not hear you.

SPEAKER_03: Would you please repeat your statement, Steinbach?

SPEAKER_03: Yes. He said, is it like a... Sorry,

SPEAKER_03: I

SPEAKER_00: got it.

SPEAKER_00: So it's like a Jim Hadar...

SPEAKER_00: A warship from Star Trek Deep Space Nine where there were no chairs on the bridge

SPEAKER_00: except for the pilot chair.

SPEAKER_00: Yes.

SPEAKER_01: I did not know that reference off the top when I only heard a scattering of

SPEAKER_01: that.

SPEAKER_01: But yes, there's only the pilot chair.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Now, what do you guys want to do?

SPEAKER_01: You do have...

SPEAKER_01: Mercer is

SPEAKER_01: still on the

SPEAKER_01: medical facility kind of main area.

SPEAKER_01: The Profoundur is still underwater.

SPEAKER_01: But all of you guys are just bouncing on the top of the surface.

SPEAKER_01: Now that it's also been, by the way, pressurized,

SPEAKER_01: It is incredibly smelly.

SPEAKER_01: There is

SPEAKER_01: active algae and guck just everywhere.

SPEAKER_01: Now that it actually is breathable air, if you guys want to not be in your

SPEAKER_01: vac suits, it's pretty disgusting.

SPEAKER_03: I think I'll stay in my vac suit for now.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: It has been a little more than a hundred years of it being underwater.

SPEAKER_01: So it's going to take more than a pressure hose to get rid of the smell.

SPEAKER_01: You have coral in the venting and things like that.

SPEAKER_03: A

SPEAKER_03: free ship is

SPEAKER_01: a free ship.

SPEAKER_00: Can I start running... I think I have sensors.

SPEAKER_00: Can I start running diagnostics on the ship to see how bad it is so that

SPEAKER_00: we know if we

SPEAKER_00: move to repair this?

SPEAKER_00: I want to try to start putting together a list of what repairs and what parts

SPEAKER_00: we're going to do.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Here's the bit.

SPEAKER_01: With sensors, I will let you see

SPEAKER_01: some of the electrical things, but it's going to take someone with like a

SPEAKER_01: I'm a shadering more kind of vibe to figure out some of the other ones.

SPEAKER_02: Okay.

SPEAKER_02: That makes sense to me. You said a machinery sort of vibe, you said?

SPEAKER_02: Is that what you said? Yeah, like mechanics.

SPEAKER_02: Mechanics?

SPEAKER_02: Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: In the same time, I would go around with the mechanic stuff if anyone wants to

SPEAKER_02: do it with me.

SPEAKER_01: Steinbach got an amazing roll. If you want to roll your mechanics, and if that

SPEAKER_01: roll's amazing, I can just give the list.

SPEAKER_02: He's like, there's a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_02: I don't see why. Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_03: Mechanics,

SPEAKER_03: Normal, Public.

SPEAKER_03: Not great.

SPEAKER_03: It's good enough.

SPEAKER_03: I'm happy to give the list.

SPEAKER_03: Okay, let me pull it up.

SPEAKER_03: Actors.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: I'm going to read this and then I'm going to paste it, okay?

SPEAKER_01: Awesome.

SPEAKER_01: Damage thrusters. So all pilot checks when you're out of the water is going to be

SPEAKER_01: automatically minus one on the roll.

SPEAKER_01: Oof.

SPEAKER_01: The moment you push above 3Gs, even in space, there's a noticeable

SPEAKER_01: vibration across the entire ship.

SPEAKER_01: That's cool.

SPEAKER_01: Temperamental systems.

SPEAKER_01: There are generations of undocumented repairs behind the access panels.

SPEAKER_01: Electronics or mechanicals made to diagnose problems are automatically minus one on

SPEAKER_01: the successes, but does not affect the difficulty to repair it once you have

SPEAKER_01: successfully identified it.

SPEAKER_01: Then you have difficulty repair, minus one in all repair terms.

SPEAKER_01: Half the components have been replaced with parts from later models, civilian

SPEAKER_01: equipment, or other things that was never intended to fit.

SPEAKER_01: The next one is asymmetric drive response.

SPEAKER_01: One of the maneuver drive elements produces slightly more thrust than the other one.

SPEAKER_01: During emergency acceleration or violent evasive maneuvers, the pilot must make

SPEAKER_01: another pilot check at minus one or the ship will tilt slightly.

SPEAKER_01: This is not a problem during normal non-conobat or non-rolled flight.

SPEAKER_00: Sorry about that. I had a flight issue. Do I need to make a pilot roll?

SPEAKER_01: No.

SPEAKER_00: Okay.

SPEAKER_02: Well, it's a good thing we have an awesome pilot, because this is sounding bad.

SPEAKER_01: We're talking about all the things that are wrong with your guys' free ship.

SPEAKER_03: The good news is...

SPEAKER_03: The answer is everything, including the smell.

SPEAKER_01: So...

SPEAKER_01: Five is it does have a reputation amongst older spacers, smugglers, fencers, and

SPEAKER_01: customs officers.

SPEAKER_01: They may notice the hull configuration.

SPEAKER_01: All underworld contacts, you'll have a plus one on social checks.

SPEAKER_01: But in recognition by law enforcement can be a conversation of, oh, well, yeah, it

SPEAKER_01: was this other ship, but we bought it when those guys died or whatever.

SPEAKER_01: You may have to actually answer for those types of statements.

SPEAKER_01: How very Firefly.

SPEAKER_01: Six is damage centers. There's a minus one to all electronic sensor checks.

SPEAKER_01: The short range array works reasonably well, as well as does all internal scans.

SPEAKER_01: But the passive array has a persistent blind spot aft port.

SPEAKER_03: That's right.

SPEAKER_01: The Ghost Transponder, because there have been modifications to allow you to put in

SPEAKER_01: permanently linked transponders, it also allows someone to attempt to code a

SPEAKER_01: transponder on the fly.

SPEAKER_01: You have a plus one on all successes to attempt to disguise

SPEAKER_01: your ship's identity,

SPEAKER_01: but the way it does it is it pulls up registrations it has scanned before.

SPEAKER_01: So you might scan the Sky's sister ship and not realize that's what you're

SPEAKER_01: transmitting.

SPEAKER_00: What skills does it take to affect that, to try that?

SPEAKER_01: You could try to do it with a computer.

SPEAKER_00: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Because you're basically a photo program.

SPEAKER_00: Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying we're going to need to do that, but I'm not not saying that.

SPEAKER_01: And the thing is, most ships you can't at all, because the transponder is so deep

SPEAKER_01: inside the computer...

SPEAKER_01: You can't do it, but because they've ripped it apart to be able to put in

SPEAKER_01: the modifiers, you guys can try to hardwire and do it.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, obviously we'll flip through the CDs and see if there's one we like,

SPEAKER_00: but in case there's not...

SPEAKER_01: But here is another good one.

SPEAKER_01: Well-maintained.

SPEAKER_01: All maintenance costs are halved.

SPEAKER_01: Despite everything else, somebody loved this ship.

SPEAKER_01: The hull may be ancient and full of improvised modifications.

SPEAKER_01: All important machinery has been obsessively serviced.

SPEAKER_01: Wow, okay.

SPEAKER_00: This isn't the list of what is currently wrong with the ship.

SPEAKER_00: This is what could be wrong with the ship?

SPEAKER_01: These are all the ship quirks that are automatically there regardless of natural

SPEAKER_01: repairs.

SPEAKER_00: Gotcha. Okay, so these do currently exist. Is anybody making a list?

SPEAKER_00: I was going to paste it.

SPEAKER_00: Thank you, sir.

SPEAKER_02: But all these things can hypothet—well, not all of them, but 90% of these can be

SPEAKER_02: fixed with a substantial amount of money and time, hypothetically.

SPEAKER_01: I love the hypothetical word.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we can go with the word hypothetical.

SPEAKER_01: The way the ship quirk mechanic really works, it is entirely up to the storyteller's

SPEAKER_01: prerogative if they can ever be removed without basically just building a new ship.

SPEAKER_01: I remember- This is just a boat.

SPEAKER_01: Just a boat. It's just an interesting boat.

SPEAKER_01: Jumping around in the ship.

SPEAKER_01: When you guys get a better ship, you guys are just going to put this in

SPEAKER_01: the cargo bay of the boat, of your better ship.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah, this is not the end-all,

SPEAKER_01: be-all ship.

SPEAKER_02: That's beautiful that, I mean, like, sure, but, I mean, we're also, like, criminals,

SPEAKER_02: and maybe the Chronicle has the possibilities for a better ship, but we don't know

SPEAKER_02: that.

SPEAKER_02: Right.

SPEAKER_01: So it's only 30 times.

SPEAKER_00: But also, we do know that we're not keeping this ship, like, the idea is that

SPEAKER_00: this ship is where we live forever, because it's just an inter-systemary ship, and

SPEAKER_00: we have other things to deal with.

SPEAKER_00: This is a stopgap measure.

SPEAKER_01: Of course, Discord does not like me pasting this much text.

SPEAKER_00: This allows us to get to the other planets in system, though, which is a big

SPEAKER_00: plus.

SPEAKER_00: Once the engines have been, you know, cleaned up and modified, power has been topped

SPEAKER_00: off, and...

SPEAKER_00: A lot of those just standard maintenance.

SPEAKER_00: Just, you know, before we pilot anything, let me inspire you.

SPEAKER_01: You can really tell here who's for Scar had some character

SPEAKER_01: and who's didn't.

SPEAKER_02: I like how positive everyone else is. They're like, sure, we'll get a new ship.

SPEAKER_02: Why not? And I'm like, okay, you'll have a lot of faith in us.

SPEAKER_01: Okay. In main chats, I've put all those ship quirks.

SPEAKER_01: Now, I've also put it on a ship in Foundry.

SPEAKER_01: I am going to configure the ownership right now.

SPEAKER_01: Everyone can see this.

SPEAKER_01: So there's a ship called the Volante now on the actors.

SPEAKER_01: I've also put characters already on the crew, so you can roll directly from it.

SPEAKER_01: I have Laura on sensors, I have Jocelyn Steinbach on engineer, and I have Varian on

SPEAKER_01: being the pilot.

SPEAKER_03: Who's on jumping?

SPEAKER_02: There's no jump drive.

SPEAKER_02: Oh, so nobody.

SPEAKER_00: This is why we're not overly concerned with the ship.

SPEAKER_01: Who has astrogation higher than two?

SPEAKER_02: I have Jump Drive at 3, not including

SPEAKER_02: my numbers.

SPEAKER_01: I'm checking my astrogation right now, actually.

SPEAKER_02: You guys don't need astrogation.

SPEAKER_02: Because we don't have Jump Drive.

SPEAKER_02: No, I got it.

SPEAKER_02: I just thought he was like, well, who's good at it?

SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, I think a 3 not including modifiers is pretty good.

SPEAKER_00: Hey, I'm no good at it anyway, so it doesn't matter.

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: If it's not combat, it's recon and drones.

SPEAKER_01: That's what Annette has.

SPEAKER_01: Right.

SPEAKER_01: Recon and drones.

SPEAKER_01: Now,

SPEAKER_01: you can go 5G.

SPEAKER_01: So it basically is from planet to planet is probably

SPEAKER_01: four to five hours a planet.

SPEAKER_01: And to get to gas giants, it's probably 18 to 20 hours.

SPEAKER_03: That's like napkin math.

SPEAKER_00: That's, like, are you saying planet to the very next planet?

SPEAKER_03: Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: As I said, like, 5G is really not that fast, you know, system.

SPEAKER_03: Right.

SPEAKER_03: The old Harrier, you guys had 8G. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: You're not taking things down.

SPEAKER_01: Oh, and the one weird thing, by the way, on the mechanics is it has a

SPEAKER_01: fuel scoop.

SPEAKER_03: But you use fuel for jumping.

SPEAKER_03: Well, to get a

SPEAKER_00: bigger ship bay, we can have it gather up the fuel for our jump-capable ship in

SPEAKER_00: the future.

SPEAKER_01: Exactly.

SPEAKER_00: Can I confirm something, Patrick?

SPEAKER_00: Yes. There are a couple of these things, Damage Thrusters and Asymmetric Drive.

SPEAKER_00: Those stack, correct?

SPEAKER_00: Um...

SPEAKER_00: So if we are in an evasive maneuver and need to do a pilot check, we

SPEAKER_00: get a minus one from damage thrusters and we get a minus one from asymmetric drive?

SPEAKER_03: Damage thrusters?

SPEAKER_03: Yes.

SPEAKER_03: That would be bad.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: Theoretically, by the way, if you're going under,

SPEAKER_01: like, three Gs,

SPEAKER_01: Um, you only would be negative one.

SPEAKER_01: Right.

SPEAKER_01: You're only going to have to worry about the negative two when you guys are actually

SPEAKER_01: at, like,

SPEAKER_01: your full 5G.

SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03: Um,

SPEAKER_03: and hell,

SPEAKER_01: you know, even asymmetric drive, it actually is only going to occur when you're

SPEAKER_01: dodging things.

SPEAKER_01: If you slowly build up speed, that one's not going to count.

SPEAKER_03: Right.

SPEAKER_00: I guess I'm thinking, oh, a system patrol boat is after us, and we are dodging

SPEAKER_00: and weaving through an asteroid field.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03: Yes.

SPEAKER_01: Stack on the penalties.

SPEAKER_03: I'm

SPEAKER_03: so glad we have an awesome pilot.

SPEAKER_01: Yes.

SPEAKER_01: No, like, honestly, you guys having Alan losing two off the roll is not going to

SPEAKER_01: kill you.

SPEAKER_00: He says that now. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_02: Someone should fool me. He's like, I meant hypothetically, not actually.

SPEAKER_01: I also put, if you guys are looking at the ship under notes, the very bottom

SPEAKER_01: is after you've paid to get it repaired with what you are selling and salvage,

SPEAKER_01: that's the level it's at then.

SPEAKER_01: So the hull is patched and pressured tight, but several repairs are visual

SPEAKER_01: temporarily with mismatched plating and sealant around all breaches.

SPEAKER_01: Fuel tanks have been flushed and filled. You have enough fuel for normal operations.

SPEAKER_01: Power is unreliable during startup. You'll need several attempts before the power

SPEAKER_01: plant settles into a stable cycle.

SPEAKER_01: The drives are functional

SPEAKER_01: with the damage, quirk, and vibration issues.

SPEAKER_01: Life support is operational but pleasant.

SPEAKER_01: Filters and ducting are clean rather than replaced.

SPEAKER_01: The interior is still heavily water-damaged.

SPEAKER_01: Upholstery, insulation, wall panels, and storage compartments remain damp or

SPEAKER_01: stained.

SPEAKER_01: There's a persistent mixture of seawater, mildew, hydraulic fluid, ozone, and old

SPEAKER_01: machinery.

SPEAKER_01: This will get worse as the ship warms up.

SPEAKER_01: Gross.

SPEAKER_01: Electronics. Most critical systems work, but the connectors and wireies have massive

SPEAKER_01: corrosive damage. Random faults will be common.

SPEAKER_01: Sensors are operational with the existing damage sensor penalty.

SPEAKER_01: The cargo areas are usable, but some compartments still have standing moisture and

SPEAKER_01: corrosion.

SPEAKER_01: The crew spaces are habitable barely. The mattresses and soft furnishings should

SPEAKER_01: probably just be thrown away.

SPEAKER_01: Overall, it is space-worthy with a legal certification

SPEAKER_01: and deeply unpleasant to live aboard, but you can definitely get from point A to

SPEAKER_01: point B.

SPEAKER_00: That deeply unpleasant, I can't wait.

SPEAKER_01: Maybe we should just go to prison, I think, guys.

SPEAKER_01: I think that might be more pleasant.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, a Jordanian prison does sound quite pleasant, you know?

SPEAKER_01: Maybe you'll have a prison-filled day, like a TransStar day.

SPEAKER_00: Prison Star day.

SPEAKER_00: So Victor will put on comms out to teams that, does anybody know about salvage

SPEAKER_00: rights?

SPEAKER_00: Because if we show up at the TransStar dock in this ship while we are TransStar

SPEAKER_00: employees, Does that mean Transtar owns it?

SPEAKER_00: How do we ensure that we own this ship?

SPEAKER_03: That's a good question.

SPEAKER_03: Is that a broker? Is that like an admin?

SPEAKER_01: I

SPEAKER_01: have two trains of thought. One,

SPEAKER_01: Zoi was a builder, and one of his careers was Salvager, but I don't have

SPEAKER_01: any...

SPEAKER_01: You were always an independent salvager. You never had to work for a megacorp.

SPEAKER_01: So you're like, when I was a kid, we just would pick up whatever we found.

SPEAKER_01: But the legality of it on Jordanian planet will be an advocate role, which I don't

SPEAKER_01: know if any player does.

SPEAKER_00: I do.

SPEAKER_01: You do? I have it at one.

SPEAKER_01: Roll that bean footage.

SPEAKER_01: Oh,

SPEAKER_02: Laura, go.

SPEAKER_01: Go, Laura, go!

SPEAKER_00: Be inspired! Go, Laura, go! Leadership, yay!

SPEAKER_00: Like, for real? Should I put inspired? Or is that...

SPEAKER_00: Can I leadership her? Or can you leadership her?

SPEAKER_01: Yes, you can leadership her, especially since you sang the song.

SPEAKER_02: He's like, please don't sing any songs. I'm feeling very inspired.

SPEAKER_02: He's like, I'm almost there. Five more minutes.

SPEAKER_00: This is his leadership song. We rock it.

SPEAKER_01: No, like, Isaac's like, no singing, Daddy. No singing.

SPEAKER_01: I know.

SPEAKER_00: He says that, though, when you're not singing.

SPEAKER_00: You're just like, what voices are you hearing, buddy?

SPEAKER_01: Okay. So, yes, you do have a boon, Laura.

SPEAKER_00: All right. Cool. All right. Here we go, then.

SPEAKER_03: Woo!

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: So, here's the easiest way to get around it.

SPEAKER_01: Almost all of you join TransStar under fake identities.

SPEAKER_00: No, we didn't. I mean, not to just throw a wrench in that one, but we

SPEAKER_00: tried.

SPEAKER_00: And they're like, no, we know who you are.

SPEAKER_00: The one lady was like, yeah, I killed my husband.

SPEAKER_01: Well, you could sign it up in anyone's name and say you're picking it up for

SPEAKER_01: them.

SPEAKER_03: Prove it.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, so make a fake identity for

SPEAKER_03: the ownership paperwork.

SPEAKER_01: Right. Yeah. Prove it.

SPEAKER_01: And also, with that Advocate Six, I would say that

SPEAKER_01: you can put it in the name of any of your million and one fucking contacts.

SPEAKER_00: I do like that.

SPEAKER_01: And then the moment you're no longer having to try and start A, write it back

SPEAKER_01: to you.

SPEAKER_01: The good news is, is because it's so crappy, no

SPEAKER_02: one's going to want to try and steal it from us.

SPEAKER_01: I do want to know, as crappy as this is, it's still worth, like, probably $2.5

SPEAKER_01: million.

SPEAKER_01: I hear that.

SPEAKER_01: It still smells.

SPEAKER_03: For farts, if nothing else. It smells like cash.

SPEAKER_03: You guys have to, like...

SPEAKER_03: You have to think of...

SPEAKER_01: This is why everyone's first score should be a piece of shit.

SPEAKER_01: They would understand what's going on here much better.

SPEAKER_02: I mean, listen, my first car was, like,

SPEAKER_02: I think 18 years old, but it didn't smell terribly.

SPEAKER_01: You guys should think of this more like Storage Wars.

SPEAKER_00: Did it have working brakes? Was there plumbing pipes in the engine welded into it?

SPEAKER_02: It did have working brakes.

SPEAKER_00: There were pipes to the car also in the storage unit.

SPEAKER_00: They just weren't installed in the car.

SPEAKER_01: The fact that Varian can actually theoretically get this to orbit is an amazing deal

SPEAKER_01: for you guys.

SPEAKER_01: Sounds good. Do I make a roll or

SPEAKER_00: not yet?

SPEAKER_01: Well, you could definitely try to take off.

SPEAKER_01: It still has holes in it.

SPEAKER_00: We'll probably have some more repairing to do first.

SPEAKER_00: Can you do some mechanic checks?

SPEAKER_00: Like different people mechanic fixing different parts?

SPEAKER_01: Without a mechanic check, you can see the holes.

SPEAKER_00: No, I mean, like, to fix it. I

SPEAKER_00: think we need supplies.

SPEAKER_01: Right. Like, you need chip plating, and you need venting, and you would need...

SPEAKER_01: Like, you guys have the stuff to, like, patch up a hole.

SPEAKER_01: You don't have the stuff to actually make this able to handle a

SPEAKER_01: leaving a planet orbit kind of level of pressures and heats.

SPEAKER_01: So...

SPEAKER_01: I'm happy if you guys are interested in hand-waving, you sell the salvage, you get

SPEAKER_01: it to usable state.

SPEAKER_01: Do you guys just want to do that?

SPEAKER_00: I would like to do that just because, yeah, Stockbroker, the video game, is

SPEAKER_00: not exactly my favorite.

SPEAKER_00: But I know that there are certain people who do enjoy that, and I don't want

SPEAKER_00: to take that from them if they want to explore that.

SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's the reason I didn't play. I'm happy to have it hand-waved.

SPEAKER_01: There are going to be plenty of other times where we're going to have actual

SPEAKER_01: situations.

SPEAKER_01: I don't want to necessarily go into the aspect of how damaged your

SPEAKER_01: cargo is,

SPEAKER_01: since it has been underwater literally for 110 years.

SPEAKER_01: Right. Look, it's vintage.

SPEAKER_01: Vintage.

SPEAKER_01: Vintage.

SPEAKER_01: Vaulted. Vaulted.

SPEAKER_01: So,

SPEAKER_01: I would let anyone... I'm going to do...

SPEAKER_01: We'll do it this way. I'm going to do a 1d6 roll, and this is how

SPEAKER_01: many days it's going to take them to repair it after you've sold them the salvage.

SPEAKER_03: Take it.

SPEAKER_03: D6.

SPEAKER_03: It'll all be done in two days.

SPEAKER_03: That's pretty great.

SPEAKER_01: That's pretty fast.

SPEAKER_00: Since we have a time limit.

SPEAKER_01: Well, they don't want to be in any longer than they have to, because it smells.

SPEAKER_01: So, you guys are, you guys have,

SPEAKER_01: Varin can fly it sub-orbitally, like basically skimming it off the water to the

SPEAKER_01: repair place.

SPEAKER_01: They ask for your paperwork. Emma gives the paperwork of, oh, you know, there was

SPEAKER_01: someone shipped that sunk. Here's the paperwork.

SPEAKER_01: You know, there's all this cargo. If you take the cargo and repair to at least

SPEAKER_01: make it orbit-worthy, what's the kind of deal?

SPEAKER_01: He basically says, we can do it. We can definitely get it there.

SPEAKER_01: But it's not going to win any beauty contests.

SPEAKER_01: And you might want to...

SPEAKER_01: He's like, I'll throw in one of those little...

SPEAKER_01: Air freshener trees.

SPEAKER_00: I was thinking that exact same thing.

SPEAKER_02: We want a thousand.

SPEAKER_01: Can we just have one implanted into my nose?

SPEAKER_03: That's probably cheaper.

SPEAKER_01: And...

SPEAKER_01: So you are now back on, let's actually go to the Jordanian City.

SPEAKER_01: This is your weekend by the member because it did take you a week to kind

SPEAKER_01: of do all the other pieces that you had done.

SPEAKER_01: Let's go to activate the capital of Jordan.

SPEAKER_01: So

SPEAKER_01: all of that was taken to the

SPEAKER_01: Naval Annex

SPEAKER_01: and they're repairing it in the Naval Annex.

SPEAKER_01: You guys do have the password to unlock the pad, but I don't know if you

SPEAKER_01: guys want to do that here or do that somewhere else.

SPEAKER_03: You do have

SPEAKER_03: freedom to go wherever you want. Well, I would definitely feel more

SPEAKER_00: comfortable unlocking it here in the Trinstar area where the local cops just

SPEAKER_00: can't show up.

SPEAKER_00: But here or outer space is

SPEAKER_03: kind of my two thoughts.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I concur with that. I don't want to go out into the general population with

SPEAKER_00: things because I feel like that's, even though we're wearing TransStar uniforms,

SPEAKER_00: that's still more of a risk than I'm kind of willing to take

SPEAKER_00: to clear my name because they're already disappearing people.

SPEAKER_01: Do you guys want to go to your fancy housing in Transtar?

SPEAKER_00: Yes.

SPEAKER_00: I would also, yes.

SPEAKER_00: Fancy housing, fancy coffee.

SPEAKER_02: When we leave the ship, are we smelly or are we fine?

SPEAKER_01: I would say that you decide to go have an ozone shower in the fancy housing.

SPEAKER_01: You're probably smelly because on top of that, you've been on a stinky sub for a

SPEAKER_01: week.

SPEAKER_01: Stinky.

SPEAKER_03: Submariners are not known for their incredible hygiene.

SPEAKER_03: All right.

SPEAKER_00: Who's got the skills to operate the pad?

SPEAKER_00: That's not exactly where my strengths lie.

SPEAKER_00: Operate what?

SPEAKER_03: The pad.

SPEAKER_03: No one understands what you mean.

SPEAKER_03: That's me and Emily. Yeah, hold

SPEAKER_03: on.

SPEAKER_02: I don't think we have a hacker extraordinaire, which is unfortunate.

SPEAKER_02: Oh, I know how to use computers.

SPEAKER_00: We can go anywhere without

SPEAKER_00: being stopped?

SPEAKER_01: Well, you're in TransStar uniforms, so people are going to think you're TransStar

SPEAKER_01: employees. If you start acting like criminals or go be caught on the news, then

SPEAKER_01: they'll detain you.

SPEAKER_00: I have a question. Yep.

SPEAKER_00: Is getting,

SPEAKER_00: like, books from the university or,

SPEAKER_03: like,

SPEAKER_03: checking out books

SPEAKER_00: while in my TransStar uniform or ID

SPEAKER_03: viable?

SPEAKER_01: It kind of depends on the books.

SPEAKER_01: Can you kind of describe a little bit of what book you're trying to get?

SPEAKER_01: If you're trying to get like

SPEAKER_01: the Secret Mysteries of Social Solidarity, probably not.

SPEAKER_01: If you're trying to get like Biology 101, you can do that from your pad.

SPEAKER_03: Oh, like from the pad?

SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like it depends on what you're looking for.

SPEAKER_03: Is there any security on it?

SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm thinking, like, to get a book on,

SPEAKER_00: like, a how-to book on, like, life support or power,

SPEAKER_00: you know?

SPEAKER_01: You easily can get that.

SPEAKER_01: You can easily get, you can fill your pad up with basic ship knowledges.

SPEAKER_00: And, like, potentially use it and learn it during space time.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01: So there's normally a thing called the library, which your thing does not have.

SPEAKER_01: So if you have a library, the idea is you have every book you could possibly

SPEAKER_01: need.

SPEAKER_01: You're basically saying the book that I'm attempting to work on, I am downloading

SPEAKER_01: while we're on planet.

SPEAKER_03: That's fine.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_00: Well, yeah, why not, like, buy every book, basically, on the—you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00: On the skills list, and then—

SPEAKER_01: Well, I would—the thing is, I'll let you buy two without having a library.

SPEAKER_01: Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_00: Plus, they cost money.

SPEAKER_01: No. Oh.

SPEAKER_01: They don't. It's a space issue.

SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay. The idea is libraries are able to hold, basically— Like a

SPEAKER_01: Wikipedia level of knowledge, while

SPEAKER_01: your little pad is basically getting

SPEAKER_01: idiot's guide to life support.

SPEAKER_01: I'm going to let you have enough that you guys can get the bonus for education

SPEAKER_01: on one or two skills until you guys get a full library.

SPEAKER_01: Because the idea is when you finish that, you would need the next book and the

SPEAKER_01: next book and the next book. And so that's why they don't list the individual books

SPEAKER_01: you need.

SPEAKER_01: And they just all lock it into you. You guys spend points on having a powered

SPEAKER_01: library on a ship.

SPEAKER_01: And we only have one, one pad.

SPEAKER_01: Well, you have the pad of Mercers, which is locked right now.

SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh. Most of you would have, like, a generic-level iPhone.

SPEAKER_01: So I have no problem with you guys having one or two educational books on there.

SPEAKER_01: You're focusing on a particular skill.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_00: Going off of that, it does strike me that having the manuals for the shipboat make

SPEAKER_00: a model that we've got, probably not a bad idea to have in case it breaks

SPEAKER_00: down between planes.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: I like that idea.

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: It's basically your mechanics level for it.

SPEAKER_03: And so this ship does have a...

SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03: Sorry about that.

SPEAKER_03: I didn't mean to interrupt.

SPEAKER_00: No, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00: So I was thinking, does this ship have a life support or a power drive?

SPEAKER_00: Yep.

SPEAKER_01: The only thing that's really missing is a jump drive.

SPEAKER_01: It has bare-bones aspects of every other piece of a ship you need.

SPEAKER_01: By the way, there's even a turret to put a gun on it, but there's just

SPEAKER_01: no gun on it.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_00: That's what we have a robot for. I know.

SPEAKER_03: It's funny.

SPEAKER_01: Right on the whole and shoot it.

SPEAKER_01: Right?

SPEAKER_01: Oh, my God. I'm, like, saying, like, you know, I know it looks like a turret

SPEAKER_01: mount. It's actually a robot seat.

SPEAKER_00: So now just bolt your legs onto

SPEAKER_03: this and...

SPEAKER_00: Are we uploading the schematics of the ship as one of the things that we can

SPEAKER_00: upload?

SPEAKER_00: Or is that just a given?

SPEAKER_01: I would say is that a mechanics.

SPEAKER_01: If someone wants to basically have a how-do-I-learn-mechanics

SPEAKER_01: skill, that is the schematics of the ship.

SPEAKER_01: Okay. It's the schematics of the ship when it was new, but we all know this

SPEAKER_01: thing has

SPEAKER_01: Hundreds of years of patches and alterations on it.

SPEAKER_02: Oh, so yeah, so I thought people meant, like, the schematics of the current ship for

SPEAKER_02: when we were fixing it so you could, like, pull up stuff.

SPEAKER_03: That's what I thought they meant.

SPEAKER_01: You've got to where it's new.

SPEAKER_01: No one would know exactly the schematics of the ship right now.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_00: Or

SPEAKER_00: Scotty making quick patches and keeping things running for a long time.

SPEAKER_02: Well, I like that.

SPEAKER_01: I think I'm going to run a

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was taking it kind of like a Han and Chewie with like, hey, you

SPEAKER_01: know, we really need to jump right now and you're deciding to rewire something in

SPEAKER_01: the middle of a gunfight.

SPEAKER_00: I have a question. You just growl at it and it works.

SPEAKER_02: If I was interested in trying to get

SPEAKER_02: like a chip implanted in my brain, how long would that take?

SPEAKER_02: Is that like an afternoon thing or is that like

SPEAKER_02: What's the downtime? How

SPEAKER_02: complicated is it?

SPEAKER_01: Well, first, it's a fair amount of money, which I don't know if you have.

SPEAKER_01: I probably don't know.

SPEAKER_01: Okay. So when we have the money, we can begin to address the time.

SPEAKER_01: The thing is, they would also register you based on your genetics, and then that

SPEAKER_01: would come up as you a criminal.

SPEAKER_01: So you have a few barriers for that right now.

SPEAKER_02: Fair enough. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you could try to do it through the Underworld, guys, if you got yourself a

SPEAKER_01: bag of cash.

SPEAKER_01: And they could they could wire that up for you probably in a day if you

SPEAKER_01: had enough money.

SPEAKER_03: Thanks.

SPEAKER_01: Back to the original bit, who was going to actually turn on Mercer's data pad and

SPEAKER_01: actually put in the code?

SPEAKER_01: And how about Soy and Emily work on that together?

SPEAKER_00: It is still Emma.

SPEAKER_01: Emma? Oh, that's what I was thinking as Emily.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no worries. Emily is my sister's middle name, so I'm kind of like, well, that

SPEAKER_00: wouldn't be too bad. Oh, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00: I'd like to be present for that. Okay.

SPEAKER_02: So, who is physically touching it?

SPEAKER_00: Well, I have computers one.

SPEAKER_02: That sounds like a suspicious thing to ask, but oh.

SPEAKER_00: Okay.

SPEAKER_00: Then,

SPEAKER_00: yeah, I think you should do it. Yeah, you should probably touch it.

SPEAKER_00: Would you like to be inspired?

SPEAKER_00: Because I think, with your little monkey fingers, you're going to touch it better

SPEAKER_00: than any chimp could ever touch.

SPEAKER_00: You're going to get a song?

SPEAKER_00: You can stroke it, that keyboard. You're going to sing Code Monkey.

SPEAKER_03: I love

SPEAKER_00: the song. That would be funny.

SPEAKER_00: When you think about it, you touch that pad, whoa!

SPEAKER_03: There we go.

SPEAKER_03: Okay, you definitely get your boon.

SPEAKER_03: Roll your computers.

SPEAKER_03: It picks up and says,

SPEAKER_01: Hello, Senator Mercer.

SPEAKER_01: Authentication accepted.

SPEAKER_03: How can I assist you today?

SPEAKER_03: Let's see.

SPEAKER_00: To query its backlogs of communications.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was trying to think of what to have because I doubt he has a

SPEAKER_01: file just labeled Grand Conspiracy.

SPEAKER_01: What was the name

SPEAKER_00: of that organization?

SPEAKER_01: Well, you can ask him the last three documents that have been edited.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, let's do that.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: He says first was a ticket bought off space.

SPEAKER_01: The ticket has expired, but our registry shows that it was used.

SPEAKER_01: The thing after that was we had

SPEAKER_01: pre-writing of your speech that you were going to give to the committee,

SPEAKER_01: and the other document you wrote in there was Research Topics.

SPEAKER_03: Let's look at Research Topics. I wrote those last two.

SPEAKER_00: Where was the destination of the flight that was apparently used?

SPEAKER_01: It was going to the planet called Provenance in the Jordanian system.

SPEAKER_01: It is a planet one closer to the sun from where you are.

SPEAKER_02: So Damien's not your character's name. Zoi is the one who's

SPEAKER_01: currently using it?

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I imagine everyone and their mother, though, is, like, leaning over this

SPEAKER_01: three-foot-tall monkey.

SPEAKER_02: I'm standing over in the corner, but I'm like, does this mean that Zoe is going

SPEAKER_02: to always have to be the person who uses it?

SPEAKER_02: Like, moving forward?

SPEAKER_02: Just wondering.

SPEAKER_00: Imagine whoever puts the code in next would be the person using it.

SPEAKER_02: I don't know. I just don't know if it, like, locks out other people or, you

SPEAKER_02: know, if it only recognizes specific people.

SPEAKER_02: I'm just curious.

SPEAKER_01: I'd be happy to answer that with a computer rule, Josh.

SPEAKER_02: I barely understand how to use computers, but sure.

SPEAKER_01: That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah, someone else should roll this. It's your question, Josh.

SPEAKER_02: It's your question.

SPEAKER_02: Okay, I'm going to roll it with a zero. This sounds like a great idea.

SPEAKER_02: Nobody else wants to.

SPEAKER_03: I love it. That was a great roll. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: That's an amazing role, Josh.

SPEAKER_03: It surprisingly was.

SPEAKER_01: So, no, anyone who puts in the code will theoretically be able to have access to

SPEAKER_01: it within a period of time.

SPEAKER_01: Now, let me kind of break a little bit more data down because you've got an

SPEAKER_01: amazing role.

SPEAKER_01: This sure sounds like an AI, right?

SPEAKER_01: Yes.

SPEAKER_01: It's linking to a governmental AI that has siloed

SPEAKER_01: sections for people in political power.

SPEAKER_01: Once it has the data that the clone of Mercer has left Planet,

SPEAKER_01: it will seal this permanently.

SPEAKER_00: Okay, that also then means that the person, well,

SPEAKER_00: I need to be told this, I guess.

SPEAKER_00: But if the person who left the planet...

SPEAKER_02: Listen, guys, I really barely understand anything about computers, but I have a very

SPEAKER_02: good feeling, and then continue, Patrick.

SPEAKER_02: And this is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01: It doesn't seem that there's a lot of intentional feedback to the Senate AI.

SPEAKER_01: It only is when you individually put in data, or there will be a timestamp every

SPEAKER_01: time you look at something.

SPEAKER_01: But they have no way of knowing it's not the Mercer clone.

SPEAKER_01: Because you're going fully with the code of the Mercer clone.

SPEAKER_01: But once the Mercer clone is a registered person in airspace, it will seal his

SPEAKER_01: senatorial account because he's no longer a senator.

SPEAKER_00: But it means that the person who took the flight was not

SPEAKER_00: recognized as Mercer.

SPEAKER_01: Absolutely. He bought a sticker for someone else.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00: I thought he bought a ticket for himself and someone else took his flight.

SPEAKER_01: Nope, he bought a ticket for someone else to

SPEAKER_03: go to Providence.

SPEAKER_03: Is someone speaking that I can't

SPEAKER_03: answer? It does feel like that, but I'm muted, so it's not me.

SPEAKER_03: I love how Josh phrased that, by the way.

SPEAKER_01: Because if Josh was muted,

SPEAKER_03: that would be the funniest thing to say.

SPEAKER_03: So I love you,

SPEAKER_03: Josh. Love you too, man.

SPEAKER_03: So

SPEAKER_03: what do you guys want to investigate? You guys have the flight, you guys have the

SPEAKER_03: speech, and you guys have his research notes.

SPEAKER_00: Are those research notes

SPEAKER_00: in a format that we could maybe send to our friendly officer?

SPEAKER_00: See if he can continue digging on his end?

SPEAKER_00: I guess we should read them first.

SPEAKER_00: I have my personal computer out, and I am making notes of what his notes are.

SPEAKER_01: I would say, like, while it's on the screen, you guys could, like, take photos with

SPEAKER_01: a phone so you don't actually even have a file transfer record.

SPEAKER_03: I like it.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: So

SPEAKER_03: here is the basic

SPEAKER_01: kind of pathway of the notes.

SPEAKER_01: First,

SPEAKER_01: this started about two and a half years ago.

SPEAKER_01: And what happened was there was

SPEAKER_01: A chancellor whose

SPEAKER_01: son did a registration to get into a university inside Soleimani space, like a

SPEAKER_01: Harvard-level university.

SPEAKER_03: And his

SPEAKER_03: genetic code came back unacceptable.

SPEAKER_01: So that chancellor asked Mercer as the head of genetics to investigate

SPEAKER_01: How this could happen because

SPEAKER_03: he was basically

SPEAKER_03: CRISPR born from two perfect Selimani.

SPEAKER_03: And so Mercer begins to investigate this

SPEAKER_01: and he's like, yeah,

SPEAKER_01: if you have a potato and a potato, you get a potato.

SPEAKER_01: You don't get a potato and a potato and it makes a garlic.

SPEAKER_01: And so he begins to start realizing that

SPEAKER_01: certain people,

SPEAKER_01: while undergoing normal medical procedures,

SPEAKER_01: are being affected by something that is

SPEAKER_03: changing their genetic code.

SPEAKER_03: So that's kind of stage one.

SPEAKER_01: And he's like,

SPEAKER_01: okay, I have to prove this then.

SPEAKER_01: So

SPEAKER_01: he knows that

SPEAKER_01: the president of Jardin

SPEAKER_01: was going to have a son be born.

SPEAKER_01: So as soon as the son was born, because he was like a friend of the

SPEAKER_01: family, he was there.

SPEAKER_01: And he took a physical genetic sample of the child.

SPEAKER_01: And then he was going to wait two years,

SPEAKER_01: and then he was going to take a new physical genetic sample of the child to

SPEAKER_01: show that they're changing the kids or the adults or the people.

SPEAKER_01: And he had other proofs that they were.

SPEAKER_01: It is...

SPEAKER_00: Can I have a clarification?

SPEAKER_00: Because you made it sound like they were already born with this change.

SPEAKER_00: You're saying that, like, something is...

SPEAKER_00: Actively changing them as they're going along?

SPEAKER_03: Yes.

SPEAKER_03: That's what he's discovering.

SPEAKER_00: Okay. Thank you. I just needed that clarification.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: And what he begins to believe

SPEAKER_01: is people are gradually changing. Oh, let's also give this one key piece of data

SPEAKER_01: before I move on.

SPEAKER_01: It's not enough of a change that the quick sensors or the quick blood tests are

SPEAKER_01: going to find it.

SPEAKER_01: It only comes up when you're doing a high-level sequence, which is only done when

SPEAKER_01: you need truly, like, you're going from, you're going to an elected office, or

SPEAKER_01: you're going to become a military commander.

SPEAKER_01: These are not things, they don't fully sequence you for small things like, hey, can

SPEAKER_01: I get into a building?

SPEAKER_02: This is basically like in Foundation, where Cleon's DNA is being changed, and no

SPEAKER_02: one else can tell, but But the people in charge of Purity know that he's no

SPEAKER_02: longer a pure Cleon.

SPEAKER_01: Mix that with Gattaca's, like, testing every minute, and the testing every minute's

SPEAKER_01: not picking up.

SPEAKER_01: Fair enough.

SPEAKER_01: By the way, Gattaca's one of my favorite movies ever.

SPEAKER_01: It has the Buffonzo badge of Purity.

SPEAKER_01: That's an awesome badge of Purity, by

SPEAKER_03: the way. It is.

SPEAKER_03: Gets you on the spaceship.

SPEAKER_03: So

SPEAKER_03: he believes that this is actually being prepared for blackmail.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, interesting. Okay. Yeah, I can see how the ramifications of that.

SPEAKER_01: People who are so obsessed with perfect genetic purity, who already are in these

SPEAKER_01: incredibly high political positions or military positions, there's going to be a

SPEAKER_01: moment where they're going to realize their kids' DNA is not with it.

SPEAKER_01: He was basically going to say,

SPEAKER_01: We can't trust the continuing genetic aspects of full sequencing.

SPEAKER_01: We only contest a recorded record of birth because he feels there are

SPEAKER_03: people here manipulating.

SPEAKER_03: So take that one big chunk.

SPEAKER_01: That was the primary part of his research.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Wow. Yes.

SPEAKER_01: Please ask. Continue.

SPEAKER_01: Please, please, please ask.

SPEAKER_02: Originally, we found out that there was a Psyker component to some of this.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's the next piece.

SPEAKER_01: I'll just go straight to that. Okay, so you got it.

SPEAKER_01: So, as he's beginning to try to research on who could possibly make these

SPEAKER_01: CRISPR-level alterations on people without them noticing,

SPEAKER_01: he begins to find the research that was done that you guys picked up of a

SPEAKER_01: group of people trying to

SPEAKER_01: create Psykers.

SPEAKER_01: And what this group has basically discovered, as far as he can tell,

SPEAKER_03: is by hard

SPEAKER_03: cloning known psykers into children,

SPEAKER_01: they can basically

SPEAKER_01: consistently make a one out of

SPEAKER_03: six of the clones is going to likely be a psyker themselves.

SPEAKER_03: Mm.

SPEAKER_03: They're able to Kind of make psychers.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah. And choose who becomes a psycher.

SPEAKER_03: Well, roughly.

SPEAKER_01: What the psychers have created is a new psychic power

SPEAKER_01: that allows them basically to, through incredible effort, to mentally crisper

SPEAKER_01: another person's body.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like micromanipulation.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: And they do it kind of in a twisted, cancerous way.

SPEAKER_01: They basically go, hey, those white blood cells are going to start changing a

SPEAKER_01: bit of your bone marrow.

SPEAKER_01: And as your bone marrow begins to replace the rest of your cells,

SPEAKER_01: eventually you're going to have 30% to 40% of you as this alteration.

SPEAKER_01: And within seven years, all of you will be that alteration.

SPEAKER_03: Can I ask an out-of-quest character question?

SPEAKER_03: Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: Are we at all interested in playing up, you know, issues of racial purity, which is

SPEAKER_02: kind of central to this?

SPEAKER_02: Or is that going to be unpleasant to people and we want to skip that?

SPEAKER_01: I think

SPEAKER_01: a concept of people believing that they are racially pure is a key piece that we're

SPEAKER_01: going to be talking about. We're losing what they are.

SPEAKER_01: The idea of them being pure humanoid is going to be a very concept thing versus

SPEAKER_01: them being

SPEAKER_02: Because I could understand characters being highly offended, like that basically

SPEAKER_02: the purity of the Soleimani people is basically being destroyed by these psychers

SPEAKER_02: and like they're kind of something that needs to be destroyed and rooted out.

SPEAKER_02: It's like a very insidious plot.

SPEAKER_02: But I could also understand players being like, I don't give a fuck, like it's all

SPEAKER_02: about like just clearing us and whatever.

SPEAKER_02: And some people would find that to be unpleasant and I just kind of want to

SPEAKER_02: take a tone of the room.

SPEAKER_02: And I have no interest in playing something that's going to be unpleasant to

SPEAKER_02: players,

SPEAKER_02: actually.

SPEAKER_00: Well, I thought that we've covered this before,

SPEAKER_00: but we do have a different

SPEAKER_00: makeup, I guess. Because it was very important to Peter's character.

SPEAKER_00: No one is speaking up, so I think we're good.

SPEAKER_03: Wait, so Laura...

SPEAKER_03: I'm hearing...

SPEAKER_03: Paul, did you not hear Laura?

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was like, oh no, am I still muted?

SPEAKER_03: No, I heard you, Laura.

SPEAKER_02: I can't hear Laura for some reason. I don't think he could hear you.

SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah, a little bit where she just...

SPEAKER_02: I'm going to disconnect and reconnect also. I just think it's getting...

SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: We're going to have Laura talk. Can you give us a one, two, three?

SPEAKER_00: One, two, three?

SPEAKER_01: Josh, you heard that?

SPEAKER_01: Yes, I did.

SPEAKER_03: Okay, Laura, can I have another one? I can hear you.

SPEAKER_00: One, two, three.

SPEAKER_03: Oh, you heard that?

SPEAKER_03: Colb, you heard that?

SPEAKER_03: I heard you.

SPEAKER_00: I didn't hear anyone else.

SPEAKER_01: Okay. That's weird. You must have right-clicked and muted Laura.

SPEAKER_01: It's the only answer to what we just seen.

SPEAKER_00: I don't think he was back in the chat yet when Laura said her one, two,

SPEAKER_00: three.

SPEAKER_00: Laura, say one, two, three.

SPEAKER_00: One, two, three.

SPEAKER_00: I hear you.

SPEAKER_00: Okay. Okay. Awesome.

SPEAKER_03: Go, Laura.

SPEAKER_00: So...

SPEAKER_01: Where I think Laura was going is Peter's character was a key concept of this genetic

SPEAKER_01: purity.

SPEAKER_01: But Peter's not here right now, so...

SPEAKER_02: I mean, my character is also pretty pure, but, like, I'm fine to, like, drop it.

SPEAKER_02: I just wanted to know if that's, like, an interesting thing for Rabbit Hole or if

SPEAKER_02: we're like, we don't give a fuck. Like, that's kind of what

SPEAKER_00: I want. Well, I feel like it's... Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01: Does anyone not want to play it?

SPEAKER_01: We're asking here for the X card, and if people do not want to play this.

SPEAKER_00: I'm a pure Soleimani. I think most of us are.

SPEAKER_00: I've been trying to play it in a cool,

SPEAKER_00: low-key fashion, but not really low-key, I guess, because I do talk about Monkey Boy

SPEAKER_03: a lot. My character

SPEAKER_00: is a pure Soleimani, but I don't think I'm on the

SPEAKER_00: Praying with the, we is the master race.

SPEAKER_01: Okay, so, the way I understand it, and what I think people are concerned about,

SPEAKER_01: like, in our culture, when we talk about, like, genetic purity, it's

SPEAKER_00: very much

SPEAKER_00: a thing races do, right?

SPEAKER_00: The Somali version, they don't think of it as, like, that way.

SPEAKER_00: They think about just being the best that they can be, right?

SPEAKER_01: They do think they are chosen people.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: They do feel that there is a certain genetic aspect of them to be the most

SPEAKER_01: populous thing in the stars.

SPEAKER_03: They do feel there's some type of a manifest destiny.

SPEAKER_03: I don't want to cloud those over.

SPEAKER_01: Do they feel that every other race needs to be eliminated?

SPEAKER_01: No, they don't.

SPEAKER_01: Do they feel that they're going to put everyone in concentration camps and gas them

SPEAKER_01: because it's cheaper than a bullet? No.

SPEAKER_01: They absolutely feel that just as time progresses, they're like, let's look at the

SPEAKER_01: last 50,000 years of history and so many humans have stretched farther than any

SPEAKER_01: other races

SPEAKER_03: that has ever existed.

SPEAKER_00: It's a very 19th, 18th century view of it.

SPEAKER_00: They're the best, so they should lead, and our leading will eventually

SPEAKER_00: make everyone at least almost as good as us.

SPEAKER_01: I will also put this for people who are feeling uncomfortable about the piece of it.

SPEAKER_01: What they've basically talked about is it can't be trusted anymore.

SPEAKER_01: So on both sides of it, even if you feel that's the greatest thing ever, that

SPEAKER_01: like, hey, you know, Soleimani are important, what you basically heard from Mercer

SPEAKER_01: is the purity of the Soleimani race is no longer pure.

SPEAKER_01: We can't trust it. We have to either stop this taint of it or just move

SPEAKER_01: on.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because I feel like to ignore it is to kind of take away from the

SPEAKER_00: setting, but we don't have to like,

SPEAKER_00: I don't know if anyone saw that Annie wrote something in the chat.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I just wanted to add it on it.

SPEAKER_00: Sorry, I thought you didn't want to speak.

SPEAKER_00: Sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00: No, I didn't want to speak over anyone, but I wanted to make sure my thoughts

SPEAKER_00: got put down.

SPEAKER_00: But

SPEAKER_00: I think that in settings like this where it's fiction and we're kind of exploring

SPEAKER_00: ideas and it gives us something to

SPEAKER_01: have our players chew on what our characters are mulling through is a fun layer of

SPEAKER_01: distinction,

SPEAKER_00: especially in a fictional setting. And then we can all say, well, OK, that does have

SPEAKER_00: parallels to real life.

SPEAKER_00: You're right. If anybody is having trouble with those layers and

SPEAKER_00: they're too close to the heat, then that's a good X card play.

SPEAKER_00: But

SPEAKER_00: me personally, I've got enough layers that I feel comfortable talking about this

SPEAKER_00: without it

SPEAKER_00: accidentally

SPEAKER_00: turning into a discussion about real politics or real

SPEAKER_00: ideologies.

SPEAKER_01: I would like to also bring up one other kind of weird parallel just in the

SPEAKER_01: greater Traveler universe that I know the pirate players got to experience.

SPEAKER_01: The ancients, the actual precursor race that did all these major things that

SPEAKER_01: affected the world,

SPEAKER_01: their basic Neanderthal descendants are one of the prime races of the Traveler

SPEAKER_01: universe.

SPEAKER_01: So the idea that there was an absolute pure sense and then they eventually decayed

SPEAKER_01: into these other things is kind of I,

SPEAKER_03: at present,

SPEAKER_00: do not have an issue investigating these things.

SPEAKER_00: If there gets to be a point where something comes up and I am uncomfortable, I

SPEAKER_00: will voice it at that time, as I imagine most of us would.

SPEAKER_02: Okay, I just thought it was important for us to talk about it before people were

SPEAKER_02: like, this is not what I signed up for.

SPEAKER_02: I definitely imagine my character is, you know, he's a little bit of a grease

SPEAKER_02: monkey, sort of like mechanic-y sort of guy.

SPEAKER_02: But I imagine him as someone with intense loyalty.

SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, he was in the Navy and he really loves the

SPEAKER_02: empire that he's a part of, even though he's a tiny cog.

SPEAKER_02: And so I imagine this would...

SPEAKER_02: You know, feel like someone's destroying the bedrock of the Foundation.

SPEAKER_02: And so, Like, if people were like, okay, I thought that it would be kind of

SPEAKER_02: like, you know, as time goes on and he, you know, and, you know, more people,

SPEAKER_02: you know, he sees, you know, there's more camaraderie because we, I think that part

SPEAKER_02: of the cool thing about us having a monkey and a robot is that, like, you

SPEAKER_02: know, he gets to see the humanity in everyone else as opposed to being like, oh,

SPEAKER_02: you know, robots and monkeys and dolphins are cool.

SPEAKER_02: Like, You know, where, like, I think a racist would be, like, with, like, an

SPEAKER_02: asterisk, like, this one is cool or that one is fine.

SPEAKER_02: And I think that over time, like, the concept of being, like, oh, perhaps the

SPEAKER_02: bedrock of their foundation was, oh, I was a racist and this is a problem.

SPEAKER_02: Kind of, like, heat of the night sort of thing.

SPEAKER_02: But I can imagine that that's, like,

SPEAKER_02: not thoroughly thrilling for people. So I just didn't want to, like, go down that

SPEAKER_02: road where, like,

SPEAKER_02: nobody...

SPEAKER_01: So, let's get a quick breakdown of what's in the document for research.

SPEAKER_01: Part one is he realizes people are being genetically changed and are being either

SPEAKER_01: blackmailed or preparatory blackmailed by some particular force.

SPEAKER_01: When he investigated this particular force and who could have done this, he

SPEAKER_01: basically learned that social solidarity had found a way to create psychic clones

SPEAKER_01: The psychic clone program has basically branched off and to basically make sure that

SPEAKER_01: they're not eliminated and they have political power and all this other kind of

SPEAKER_01: classic psychore stuff have been basically

SPEAKER_01: infecting the genetic codes of key political figures to make sure that they can

SPEAKER_01: not

SPEAKER_03: challenge them in the future.

SPEAKER_00: Does he have an idea of who the people who are changing it—he knows what they

SPEAKER_00: can do. Does he know who they are?

SPEAKER_01: So he

SPEAKER_01: feels that there is some subset of social solidarity that is running these programs.

SPEAKER_00: But he doesn't know—I guess that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00: He doesn't like Joe in accounting.

SPEAKER_01: Let me break two more pieces just to kind of expand it.

SPEAKER_01: Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_01: He has that child data that he was telling in the conversation where he took it

SPEAKER_01: from the infant and then he took it a few years later.

SPEAKER_01: That is in his house.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: So if you guys need physical proof, there's a physical proof that you guys can try

SPEAKER_01: to get.

SPEAKER_01: He feels that

SPEAKER_01: he asked for a private meeting with a head of Social Solidarity to investigate

SPEAKER_01: These claims

SPEAKER_01: and that head of

SPEAKER_03: social solidarity is on Providence.

SPEAKER_03: Interesting. Okay.

SPEAKER_00: That he sent someone ahead to do

SPEAKER_01: or to give the information or to, hey, can you answer to these things?

SPEAKER_01: Because remember,

SPEAKER_01: about now is when he should have been

SPEAKER_03: presenting to

SPEAKER_03: the Senate.

SPEAKER_03: Right.

SPEAKER_03: So.

SPEAKER_01: If he would have gone there and he didn't come home,

SPEAKER_01: he couldn't have presented.

SPEAKER_01: So it was his attempt to kind of do a pincer attack on, I'm going to,

SPEAKER_01: he can get a message from Providence because it's all in the same system in a

SPEAKER_01: matter of five to ten minutes.

SPEAKER_01: And they could have basically said, oh, X, Y, and Z is their response to your

SPEAKER_01: arguments. Like when the news report puts out a defamatory thing about someone, you

SPEAKER_01: know, we called for,

SPEAKER_01: A response to our opinion, and then they said nothing.

SPEAKER_01: He basically had someone.

SPEAKER_00: No comment at this time, or no comment at the time of reporting.

SPEAKER_01: Right. He sent someone to Providence to basically ask the head of Social Solidarity,

SPEAKER_01: what's your opinion on this?

SPEAKER_03: But then he died.

SPEAKER_03: Then he died. My opinion is, is you know too

SPEAKER_02: much and you should die.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: It does give some evidence, though, that also the

SPEAKER_01: people who would have tried to stop this information would have been psychers.

SPEAKER_01: And thus, you guys feel a little bit safer.

SPEAKER_01: Maybe you guys were mind-manipulated in the act of the shooting.

SPEAKER_01: Maybe they did teleport bullets.

SPEAKER_01: Maybe you just now are like, okay, well, if he was trying to stop a Psyker

SPEAKER_01: takeover of Social Solidarity or Jordanian politics,

SPEAKER_01: Psykers being involved are pretty high.

SPEAKER_00: Right.

SPEAKER_00: Which I guess, like,

SPEAKER_00: Solves how we were framed, which, you know, at least is a measure of comfort.

SPEAKER_03: Right.

SPEAKER_03: Any questions about the paperwork or what it might reflect before we

SPEAKER_03: move on?

SPEAKER_00: And there's no clue to the identity of the guy that he gave the flight to?

SPEAKER_00: Like, the flight information isn't like current information where it lists a

SPEAKER_00: person's name?

SPEAKER_01: No, but someone could attempt to

SPEAKER_01: fast-talk or hack or find some type of data.

SPEAKER_01: Like, you have the flight number, and you have the seat number.

SPEAKER_00: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: You could try to be like...

SPEAKER_03: Who took that seat.

SPEAKER_03: You could try to

SPEAKER_01: do it in your normal Solstack way of someone knows.

SPEAKER_01: Someone.

SPEAKER_03: But

SPEAKER_03: you have the seat, you have the flight number, and you know the seat was taken.

SPEAKER_00: I'm just contemplating, do I want to try to hack the space airline to get a

SPEAKER_00: manifest?

SPEAKER_02: Do you

SPEAKER_02: have contacts, right? Maybe one of your contacts could like

SPEAKER_02: Hit up the company and get the information without hacking.

SPEAKER_00: A lot of my contacts are kind of shady people, like smugglers and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00: Or there's one that's actually a guru, so I don't...

SPEAKER_01: It is transport.

SPEAKER_01: It's what? I'm sorry?

SPEAKER_01: It was a transport-like flight. Like, maybe smugglers would know about transports.

SPEAKER_00: Well, okay. Well, let me look at my contacts list then.

SPEAKER_01: Exactly two contacts, one's a criminal, and one just says someone who works at the

SPEAKER_01: spaceport.

SPEAKER_01: Someone who works at the spaceport, you could be like,

SPEAKER_03: that's the guy who was there loading that flight.

SPEAKER_03: All right, hold on. This guy might work.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah, this guy will work.

SPEAKER_03: Hold on.

SPEAKER_03: Can I copy this? Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_01: Carefully compartmentalize one call set personnel under provides access restricted

SPEAKER_01: travel grants. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, OK, travel clearance.

SPEAKER_00: All right, so I'd like to reach out to Mark Duncan.

SPEAKER_00: OK,

SPEAKER_01: you can reach out to Mark Duncan

SPEAKER_01: and you give the data and he returns.

SPEAKER_01: First, he says with

SPEAKER_01: What do you need it for?

SPEAKER_00: Well, does he say anything about, like, hey, you're wanted for murder?

SPEAKER_01: I

SPEAKER_01: imagine you're sending the message to him under one of your multiple cover

SPEAKER_01: identities of being a Substack agent.

SPEAKER_00: Okay. So he doesn't actually know me as

SPEAKER_01: M.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: He knows you as

SPEAKER_00: M. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: We were just talking about that show the other day.

SPEAKER_00: I'm going to say something a little vague. It has the potential to blow a case

SPEAKER_00: wide open.

SPEAKER_01: Okay, but it could get me in trouble. It'll be with you in ten minutes.

SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, I owe you big time then.

SPEAKER_03: I have a question.

SPEAKER_03: Sorry, after you're finished.

SPEAKER_00: I think I'm done. It's going to be ten minutes.

SPEAKER_01: Okay. You get a record and you get a photo of a

SPEAKER_01: woman in a black kind of uniform.

SPEAKER_01: Her ID is encrypted and it is that she is actually

SPEAKER_01: a Solstack agent.

SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay. Camille Dufour.

SPEAKER_00: I have someone in my office named Renee Dufour.

SPEAKER_03: And she's a major.

SPEAKER_00: Okay.

SPEAKER_00: And I don't know that name at all, right?

SPEAKER_01: I'll let you do an admin or an associate to see if you know her.

SPEAKER_00: Heck yeah.

SPEAKER_00: An admin or a what, I'm sorry?

SPEAKER_01: Advocate.

SPEAKER_03: Local gadget.

SPEAKER_03: Laurel.

SPEAKER_01: By the way, you stole the boon from the previous leadership on this.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, sweet.

SPEAKER_03: Isn't it great to have great leaders?

SPEAKER_00: It does.

SPEAKER_02: The previous Traveler campaign was blessed to have a

SPEAKER_03: good leader, too.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I don't know anything.

SPEAKER_03: That was actually a little dig at Steimach and

SPEAKER_02: Kolb, but they were silent.

SPEAKER_00: I don't know what the dig was, yeah, we were great leaders, and you were a

SPEAKER_00: good leader, so, you know, no digs. That's so sweet.

SPEAKER_00: I mean, you weren't a great leader, but you were a good leader.

SPEAKER_03: Thanks.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you led us right to the best swarm of places on planet.

SPEAKER_01: Delicious.

SPEAKER_01: Okay, so yeah, it basically was a Solstack person who was working for Mercer that's

SPEAKER_01: the only person he could trust and be secretive enough with this machine.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: All right.

SPEAKER_03: Who's next?

SPEAKER_03: Me, please. Okay.

SPEAKER_00: All

SPEAKER_00: right.

SPEAKER_00: So I have – I only have one contact, right?

SPEAKER_00: My guerrilla contact, but I have three allies, and allies are better than contacts.

SPEAKER_00: One of my allies is an influential Soleimani party member, and another one of them

SPEAKER_00: is a crusading journalist.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_00: What would you like to do? I reveal this information

SPEAKER_00: to the party.

SPEAKER_00: What do we think about

SPEAKER_00: funneling some of this

SPEAKER_00: to either of those?

SPEAKER_02: When you said party, I thought you meant the Soleimani party, and then I realized

SPEAKER_02: you mean the players.

SPEAKER_00: No, I mean the

SPEAKER_02: Soleimani party.

SPEAKER_02: Oh, you do mean you're revealing the information to the party.

SPEAKER_00: I misunderstood. Yeah, I'm revealing the information to the players, that I have an

SPEAKER_00: ally that's influential in the Soleimani party, as well as a crusading journalist,

SPEAKER_00: Roman Juma.

SPEAKER_02: I'm fine with information.

SPEAKER_02: I think these details, like that this particular guy has it and where it's located,

SPEAKER_02: that's something we don't want to share. But I think the vague details...

SPEAKER_02: The more people who have it, the less reason to kill us.

SPEAKER_02: I think that's what I think.

SPEAKER_00: I feel like that will cause chaos.

SPEAKER_02: Maybe, but every person you share it with, keep in mind,

SPEAKER_03: may be killed.

SPEAKER_03: That's all.

SPEAKER_03: I would like to bring up an angle, too.

SPEAKER_03: Until you guys have proof,

SPEAKER_03: it's like saying, hey, you know, there are extraterrestrials.

SPEAKER_03: But we know where the proof is to get the proof.

SPEAKER_01: Do you know where Mercer said the proof is?

SPEAKER_00: We know where Mercer said the proof is.

SPEAKER_02: He's like, we're not going to be there anymore.

SPEAKER_02: He's like, I removed it before the Chronicle began already.

SPEAKER_01: In tilting your grubby hands, you should understand that there is no proof.

SPEAKER_00: So here's my thought.

SPEAKER_00: Instead of risking ourselves to go and get this proof, if I feed this information to

SPEAKER_00: Roman Juma, the crusading journalist, as where – like to go and get the – where

SPEAKER_00: he can go and get that proof from the senator's quarters

SPEAKER_00: and let him be the

SPEAKER_03: fucking –

SPEAKER_03: do with the B&E.

SPEAKER_01: Is everyone cool with the Crusading Journalist doing the act of going into Mercers?

SPEAKER_00: I think that's a good way to get them killed because they already had Mercer killed.

SPEAKER_02: I don't mind. I just want you to know that, one, there's a decent chance they're

SPEAKER_02: going to get killed.

SPEAKER_02: My general out-of-character understanding is that

SPEAKER_02: storytellers don't love that sort of stuff being outsourced.

SPEAKER_02: And finally, what if this person is suborned or psyched?

SPEAKER_02: I will say, Colt, by the way, if the person attempts to acquire them, they will

SPEAKER_02: be just as successful as the players are getting the objects.

SPEAKER_03: I think it's a bad idea. I

SPEAKER_00: think it's more a great person to have if we need to apply pressure.

SPEAKER_00: We go, we get the evidence, we get enough pieces to clear our name, and then

SPEAKER_00: we have leverage of, oh, we have a contact in the press that can get this

SPEAKER_00: out, but you should just clear our names and then we won't represent this proof out

SPEAKER_00: there.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I prefer it.

SPEAKER_01: What about a dead man switch?

SPEAKER_01: What about if you put all the data that if you don't respond to it every

SPEAKER_01: 24 hours, it goes to the journalist?

SPEAKER_01: I dig that. I'm with that.

SPEAKER_00: I might suggest 48 instead of 24 in case we get sent on a mission or

SPEAKER_00: if we have to go off-world.

SPEAKER_01: Well, depending on what he sends back, the next one needs to be 48 or 24

SPEAKER_01: hours.

SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, so we are going to go send the guy to do it as opposed to

SPEAKER_00: us doing it.

SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01: Colm has the dead man switch. Every day he has to respond.

SPEAKER_01: If he responds with A, he has to respond again in 24 hours.

SPEAKER_01: If he responds with B, he has to respond every 48 hours.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00: And if there's a duress code, it goes out immediately.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: Got it.

SPEAKER_03: I like that idea.

SPEAKER_00: Do you like that idea, Colt, because it's your guy?

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I like that idea. That's kind of like what I really, like, yeah, yes.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_00: I want to be useful, and this is what I have to be useful with, so

SPEAKER_00: yes.

SPEAKER_01: I will also say, by using both of them, you can guarantee

SPEAKER_01: that her data

SPEAKER_03: won't be blocked by the government.

SPEAKER_03: Hell yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: Because you have one government person and you have one journalist person, you can

SPEAKER_01: wonder team, wonder twins combined.

SPEAKER_01: Their powers combined. To try to stop that data.

SPEAKER_03: I'm here for it.

SPEAKER_03: I'm here for it.

SPEAKER_01: Thank you.

SPEAKER_01: I even think just to show that it's going to happen easier is you're actually going

SPEAKER_01: to have it transmitted off of the planet Carson where there's less like authority.

SPEAKER_01: And it's going to be transmitted to the entire Jardinian sector.

SPEAKER_01: So even though Jardinian may have a lockdown on media, it's going to hit one planet

SPEAKER_01: after a planet after a planet, and then it's going to hit the ships, and then

SPEAKER_01: it's eventually going to keep reinfecting the data.

SPEAKER_00: The blockchain of evil.

SPEAKER_00: Yep.

SPEAKER_00: No, a blockchain of good. Yeah, I was going to say, maybe not evil of information.

SPEAKER_00: Blockchain fighting evil.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: So,

SPEAKER_01: who is going to...

SPEAKER_01: Now the players are going to go to the house.

SPEAKER_01: Who wants to go

SPEAKER_03: to the house?

SPEAKER_03: I'm happy to be a backup. I've been muted.

SPEAKER_03: Sorry.

SPEAKER_02: Now that we have a smaller party, are we still breaking up the party?

SPEAKER_02: Well, I think that...

SPEAKER_00: I don't know, man. The whole lot of us going to one guy's house just

SPEAKER_00: seems like...

SPEAKER_00: I'm overly cautious all the time, so... Okay, then I'll stay back.

SPEAKER_00: No problem.

SPEAKER_00: Well, if you want to go, that's different than all of us going.

SPEAKER_02: No, no, no. I just thought that, like, with nine people, it was, like, a lot.

SPEAKER_02: But at seven, I was like, maybe we should just all stay together.

SPEAKER_02: But I don't think that my character is...

SPEAKER_02: I'm not especially Marshall.

SPEAKER_02: I'm not a computer hacker.

SPEAKER_02: I think Investigate is probably going to be the most relevant skill that I have,

SPEAKER_02: which is decent. But besides, I don't know if we have a lot of investigators, but

SPEAKER_02: besides that, I don't think I'm super useful.

SPEAKER_02: So I'm fine staying back.

SPEAKER_00: Would it take a lot of time to upload life support and power?

SPEAKER_00: I don't think any of us have that.

SPEAKER_03: Upload what to what?

SPEAKER_03: To the pad.

SPEAKER_03: Or are you guys taking it?

SPEAKER_01: So, by the way, the pad is not going to act as a skill.

SPEAKER_01: We have multiple pads.

SPEAKER_01: Right.

SPEAKER_01: It's not going to act as a skill. It's when you guys have literally weeks of

SPEAKER_01: doing nothing, you can read that to try to learn the skill.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, that's why I want to upload it.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah. Everyone has two skills that they're looking for on their phones.

SPEAKER_00: Cool. Okay.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'd probably stay back then, because, yeah, not to declutter.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Presumably you guys would want Annette, the powerhouse gunfighter of the group.

SPEAKER_01: Yes.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so she is required on most away missions.

SPEAKER_02: Wait, who's protecting me while she's over there?

SPEAKER_00: So she is away mission priority numero uno.

SPEAKER_01: Annette, are you back from the bathroom and interested in going?

SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, yeah, sorry, I've just been quiet, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_02: Does anyone else have Investigate? Because if there's no Investigate, I should go,

SPEAKER_02: otherwise then I'm going to stay.

SPEAKER_00: I technically have Investigate at zero.

SPEAKER_00: But, yeah, that's not particularly helpful.

SPEAKER_00: I do not have Investigate.

SPEAKER_02: If you'd like, I'll come because I added a two, not including my attributes.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: So,

SPEAKER_01: every player that is coming,

SPEAKER_01: I'm just going to make a blank map where I'm going to put them on.

SPEAKER_03: We've got to go to scenes.

SPEAKER_03: Great scene.

SPEAKER_03: Great.

SPEAKER_00: I'm going to step away real quick and fill up my water bottle.

SPEAKER_03: I'll be right back.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: And

SPEAKER_03: we are going to activate blank.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: So, before I get

SPEAKER_01: any aspect of confusion, I just want to, again, go down the list of who is

SPEAKER_01: going and who is not. Okay. Annette is going.

SPEAKER_01: Kolb, are you going?

SPEAKER_01: Yes.

SPEAKER_01: Peter, you are not going, because you're not here.

SPEAKER_01: Josh, are you going?

SPEAKER_03: Yes.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Laura?

SPEAKER_00: No.

SPEAKER_01: Alan, no.

SPEAKER_01: Right.

SPEAKER_01: And Steinbach, yes.

SPEAKER_01: Daniel, are you?

SPEAKER_00: No.

SPEAKER_00: I know.

SPEAKER_01: Study investigation on one of these books

SPEAKER_01: that we've been downloading.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: So...

SPEAKER_01: The four players that go in, as they are going to this particular high-rise, he has

SPEAKER_01: basically

SPEAKER_01: a penthouse suite in one of the towers.

SPEAKER_01: You guys go over and you use this personal code to get in.

SPEAKER_01: You're going up the elevator, and as the elevator opens entirely on his floor,

SPEAKER_01: you,

SPEAKER_01: without any role,

SPEAKER_03: hear

SPEAKER_03: People stop moving.

SPEAKER_03: That's bad.

SPEAKER_03: I become weapons ready.

SPEAKER_03: Does anyone have a...

SPEAKER_02: Wait, so we're currently in the hallway, and we hear there was moving inside the

SPEAKER_02: place?

SPEAKER_01: No, so this is one of those penthouses where the elevator opens

SPEAKER_02: inside the apartment.

SPEAKER_02: Oh, I see. So it goes ding, and it opens up, and all of a sudden

SPEAKER_02: you hear rummaging, and all of a sudden it goes silent, and we're like, fuck.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: Hmm, that's not...

SPEAKER_03: I'm like, guys, um...

SPEAKER_01: If anyone wants to roll a Military Tactics at zero, I'd be happy to get it.

SPEAKER_01: I know no one has that one.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: You do it.

SPEAKER_03: One of the plans might be is to have Soshi

SPEAKER_03: fight from the ceiling.

SPEAKER_03: Because if they aim at her, With all of her incredible armor, you guys are not

SPEAKER_03: going to get hit in the crossfire.

SPEAKER_03: Because you guys are much softer than she is.

SPEAKER_03: That is offensive and accurate.

SPEAKER_03: And she can walk on walls.

SPEAKER_02: Yep. If you're going to move forward and go at them, do you want to

SPEAKER_02: go at the ceiling?

SPEAKER_02: That's less in our direction.

SPEAKER_00: Okay, and then I give a quiet nod and then start to gecko spider up the

SPEAKER_00: outside of the elevator shaft.

SPEAKER_00: I want to protest against the idea of a gecko spider.

SPEAKER_00: I don't like that.

SPEAKER_00: Robot gecko spider is a thing now.

SPEAKER_01: Let me see if I can do this on a better way.

SPEAKER_01: Is that you throwing up?

SPEAKER_00: Yeah. No, it was me making sounds. Just like, oh, God!

SPEAKER_03: What are you going to do?

SPEAKER_02: So, I get... Can I do, like, an investigative role?

SPEAKER_01: One second.

SPEAKER_01: I'm still setting up from her actually walking out.

SPEAKER_01: No one else did.

SPEAKER_01: No worries.

SPEAKER_01: Sorry.

SPEAKER_03: That's okay.

SPEAKER_01: I just...

SPEAKER_03: Vandri is not the quickest to do a...

SPEAKER_03: We don't want death. We want not death.

SPEAKER_02: Listen, we're okay not doing combat. I don't know that there needs to be combat.

SPEAKER_02: There needs to be combat.

SPEAKER_00: When Sochi goes and prepares to enter, I will follow right behind.

SPEAKER_00: I

SPEAKER_00: crouch, combat stance,

SPEAKER_00: clear the room.

SPEAKER_03: I'm probably the second best armored.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: So, as though she comes out,

SPEAKER_01: a home guard police shoots past her

SPEAKER_01: into the elevator.

SPEAKER_01: They look like home guard police.

SPEAKER_01: And

SPEAKER_01: why is there... Oh, because I pulled off all their guns when you guys stole them.

SPEAKER_03: Hey,

SPEAKER_03: hey, hey, hey.

SPEAKER_03: Let's see if I can do it the easier way.

SPEAKER_01: Does Peter have one of these? Yes, he does.

SPEAKER_01: We're just going to duplicate Peter.

SPEAKER_01: Actually, now I've got to do it the other way.

SPEAKER_03: Items, Navel.

SPEAKER_03: Well, that's

SPEAKER_03: you.

SPEAKER_03: Close.

SPEAKER_03: You have one.

SPEAKER_03: You have one.

SPEAKER_03: Okay, they all have their

SPEAKER_01: guns now. Okay, so now close that, go back to combat, go back to the

SPEAKER_01: first guy, and he is going

SPEAKER_01: attack Victor.

SPEAKER_01: It is going to be with the Bane because you have the cover of the elevator.

SPEAKER_03: That is still a fairly

SPEAKER_03: strong hit.

SPEAKER_03: Steinbach, you should have the ability now to spread your damage.

SPEAKER_03: I'm sorry, is it on me?

SPEAKER_03: Nope, I said Steinbeck, you have the ability

SPEAKER_01: to spread your damage, and I've never heard a statement from Steinbeck.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, apologies, I had just gotten back to my...

SPEAKER_00: My wife also arrived home while I was getting my water bottle, so...

SPEAKER_00: Apologies. Alright, so, spreading damage, we are being attacked, then, I take it?

SPEAKER_01: Yes, you just took 21 damage.

SPEAKER_03: Oof!

SPEAKER_00: Um...

SPEAKER_00: Let's see. If

SPEAKER_00: I...

SPEAKER_00: It has to go to Endurance first, and then I can spread it over Strength and

SPEAKER_00: Dex?

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: So, dump your entire Endurance, it's 9.

SPEAKER_01: And then you can dump it into...

SPEAKER_01: Dex would then take you to 18.

SPEAKER_01: It's 12 points.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, 12 points, I'm going to have to do 6 and 6, so that I don't

SPEAKER_00: die.

SPEAKER_00: No, you only die when you lose all 3. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00: You're not going to

SPEAKER_01: lose all 3. I do think...

SPEAKER_00: I'll still split between Strength and Dex.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah. So, Victor takes a shotgun blast in the chest.

SPEAKER_02: Are we all still inside the elevator? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: He rolled that with a Bane, by the way.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah. So, the only one who's out of the elevator is Soshi.

SPEAKER_03: Oh.

SPEAKER_02: And

SPEAKER_02: what did he call it? Said he was going to leave.

SPEAKER_02: Culp said he was going to, like, spread out, right?

SPEAKER_02: Or no?

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I said I was following Soshi.

SPEAKER_00: I'm crouched low.

SPEAKER_00: So she went high, I've gone low.

SPEAKER_01: Okay, so the next personal combat character is Victor.

SPEAKER_01: Victor, do you have any medical capability?

SPEAKER_01: Do you patch yourself up, or are you

SPEAKER_00: going to have... I do have a couple points in Medic.

SPEAKER_00: I apologize, I did think that in...

SPEAKER_00: When you lost Endurance, I thought you fell unconscious.

SPEAKER_01: Is that not true? It's true because you lost it all in one turn.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: You're right. You're out cold. Sorry.

SPEAKER_03: And okay. So we're on the second home guard police.

SPEAKER_03: He's got a suit.

SPEAKER_03: So she's out. So there's no.

SPEAKER_03: That is

SPEAKER_03: 15, but the armor is going to take most of that off.

SPEAKER_03: Okay, you should have a damage chart

SPEAKER_03: for you now.

SPEAKER_03: I see it.

SPEAKER_03: Apply damage.

SPEAKER_01: Yep.

SPEAKER_01: And you pick how you want to do it.

SPEAKER_01: Even if you're at no Endurance, I don't think you go down.

SPEAKER_01: I think as a robot, you go down when you are out of the stats.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, 11 to apply 20 Endurance, so I will just apply.

SPEAKER_00: All to my Endurance, I'm still at nine Endurance.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Okay, and now we're back in

SPEAKER_01: combat, and we're on Dan. What would you like to do, Dan?

SPEAKER_03: I

SPEAKER_03: think I have

SPEAKER_02: some medic.

SPEAKER_03: I think I'm gonna try and patch up the guy who looks like he's bleeding to

SPEAKER_03: death.

SPEAKER_03: Okay. Steinbach, you have four endurance.

SPEAKER_03: Sweet.

SPEAKER_03: Victor gives a...

SPEAKER_00: ...breath

SPEAKER_00: as he wakes back up.

SPEAKER_02: Don't be so dramatic, Victor.

SPEAKER_01: He's got shot in the chest.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: He had a gushing chest wound.

SPEAKER_01: You, like, filled it with foam. He takes the breath, like, don't be dramatic.

SPEAKER_02: That wasn't what I said in character. I thought it was funny for players.

SPEAKER_01: Oh, either way, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: Okay, so Victor is no longer down.

SPEAKER_02: You're like, Dan, you saved my life, but you're a real asshole, Dan.

SPEAKER_01: Tass, you're up for the roll.

SPEAKER_03: It's just a flesh wound.

SPEAKER_03: I'm attacking.

SPEAKER_01: Are you going to attack the one that... Are you going to attack the one that

SPEAKER_01: shot...

SPEAKER_01: Steinbach's character, you can attack one that hasn't acted yet.

SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna attack the one that hasn't acted yet.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: Roll that mean footage.

SPEAKER_03: Big brain.

SPEAKER_03: Wow.

SPEAKER_03: And

SPEAKER_03: it's a mess. I'll say he ducks, though.

SPEAKER_03: He ducks.

SPEAKER_02: I liked your moxie, though. It was strategically a good idea.

SPEAKER_00: It's doing something wrong, because it has me taking a minus two, and it should be

SPEAKER_00: a plus two.

SPEAKER_01: Let's take a second to look at your weapon.

SPEAKER_03: So I'm going to open up your laser pistol.

SPEAKER_00: It says... It does say plus negative two.

SPEAKER_00: Because it says skill none, and I have laser at two.

SPEAKER_03: Um...

SPEAKER_03: Why does that say scale that?

SPEAKER_03: Let's

SPEAKER_03: take a second to see if you just have an old laser piston before I fix

SPEAKER_03: them.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: Okay,

SPEAKER_03: roll again.

SPEAKER_03: The skill went none again.

SPEAKER_01: The skill went none again, even when I pulled it on your sheet.

SPEAKER_01: If I go to your sheet and I add this other pistol,

SPEAKER_01: And I go edit,

SPEAKER_03: it still says skill none.

SPEAKER_03: Is it that your skill...

SPEAKER_00: He's got energy at one. Energy at one, and slug at two.

SPEAKER_00: Regardless, I'm skilled. It should not be skill none.

SPEAKER_00: Right.

SPEAKER_01: It has to be something with the way that you're...

SPEAKER_01: Your skill was written.

SPEAKER_01: For now, what I want you to do, let me look at how it showed your

SPEAKER_01: role.

SPEAKER_03: The last one said two.

SPEAKER_01: When I looked at the role, it's a skill DM2.

SPEAKER_00: The DM, it should be a total of two.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah,

SPEAKER_01: so the second one did role correct.

SPEAKER_00: Okay.

SPEAKER_00: I wish I could see it. Like, see what dice it rolled to verify that it's

SPEAKER_00: doing correctly.

SPEAKER_01: It says you rolled a five.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but like, what were the two dice that were rolled?

SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03: I want to see if I can try something here. If I go...

SPEAKER_03: Attack DM2.

SPEAKER_03: And...

SPEAKER_03: I...

SPEAKER_03: Click on that one again, and I click on Edit, Attack CM2, and I'm going to

SPEAKER_03: click Attack.

SPEAKER_03: And it says...

SPEAKER_03: Oh, why does that say negative 2?

SPEAKER_03: Okay, I clicked on 2.

SPEAKER_01: Okay, so that now is negative 2 plus 2.

SPEAKER_01: Okay, so that is correct.

SPEAKER_01: It's negative two, plus twos, and plus two.

SPEAKER_01: You have two at the skill, right?

SPEAKER_01: Or you have one at the skill?

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it gives two.

SPEAKER_00: You should have a plus one from his dex and plus one from his energy.

SPEAKER_01: Okay, so that's rolling at least that one is right.

SPEAKER_01: We'll just make sure that one's correct.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Because the thing is, I have to recode the character sheets, which I can't do while

SPEAKER_01: we're doing this. Yeah, sorry to have found a bug.

SPEAKER_01: No worries, I'm happy we found it and we'll just work on it during the week.

SPEAKER_01: But okay, so you are shooting one that has not acted.

SPEAKER_01: So

SPEAKER_01: let's pull him up and let's have him take that damage.

SPEAKER_03: And

SPEAKER_03: that is unconscious.

SPEAKER_03: Nice work, nice work.

SPEAKER_03: Okay, now we're on and out.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: One down, four to go.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: Are you going to go straight laser rifle on one of the ones you have enacted?

SPEAKER_00: That's correct.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Do you want to click the attack roll?

SPEAKER_00: Yeah. And I just click the red attack button on laser rifle.

SPEAKER_00: Yep. Correct. Yep.

SPEAKER_00: Bip.

SPEAKER_00: No modifiers.

SPEAKER_03: Single shot. Hit attack.

SPEAKER_03: Bop.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's perfect.

SPEAKER_01: That's the way that roll goes.

SPEAKER_01: Roll that beautiful bean damage.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, 22 would be a death. There's no way that Homeguard even with armor can throw

SPEAKER_01: out

SPEAKER_01: 22.

SPEAKER_03: Apply.

SPEAKER_03: Apply.

SPEAKER_03: Actually, he's only unconscious.

SPEAKER_01: Doubly.

SPEAKER_01: He lost all of his endurance and all of his dex.

SPEAKER_00: All's Endurance

SPEAKER_01: and all his decks. Boom.

SPEAKER_00: He's done enough for me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: I will move on to the next part.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that is bleeding to death.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: This robot

SPEAKER_03: is helping.

SPEAKER_01: That has not acted. He is going to shoot Annette with a shotgun.

SPEAKER_01: She just blows people away. 14. Sweetheart.

SPEAKER_01: There's your pop-up.

SPEAKER_01: Oh, yuck.

SPEAKER_01: And it has to go to Endurance first?

SPEAKER_01: No.

SPEAKER_01: Your first damage total has to go to Endurance.

SPEAKER_01: If you've gotten damage, you can go to anything you want.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: And I honestly think maybe as a robot, it might not even need to go to

SPEAKER_01: Endurance first.

SPEAKER_01: It hit an art ticket, like it hit a PowerPoint, it hit a whatever, it's not

SPEAKER_01: like a human

SPEAKER_03: body, so.

SPEAKER_03: So you take less damage?

SPEAKER_03: I don't know if it works like that, actually.

SPEAKER_01: The thing is, she automatically has a higher natural armor than most people,

SPEAKER_01: and

SPEAKER_01: she has like 40 endurance normally, and she has 11 dex and 9 strength.

SPEAKER_01: She has a lot she can head off.

SPEAKER_01: It still sucks.

SPEAKER_01: It still does major wound damage, so...

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Now we are back on the top of the list.

SPEAKER_01: We are

SPEAKER_01: on another home guard who is now going

SPEAKER_01: attempt to shoot casts

SPEAKER_03: because casts did not go down.

SPEAKER_03: And he is going to attack.

SPEAKER_03: And it's

SPEAKER_03: not actually going to be very much strong because you have the Carface Armor.

SPEAKER_03: So it's only going to be six damage. Okay.

SPEAKER_01: We are now back on

SPEAKER_01: Steinbach, who is now somewhat conscious.

SPEAKER_00: I did something wrong, because...

SPEAKER_00: Yep, I did something wrong.

SPEAKER_03: I accidentally applied 10 damage instead of 6.

SPEAKER_03: Oh.

SPEAKER_03: Can you fix that, or do you need me to do that?

SPEAKER_03: I figured out how to fix it.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_00: So, being jerked back to life and being told, don't be so dramatic in

SPEAKER_00: the moment that Josh's character is distracted.

SPEAKER_00: I see one of the enemies over his shoulder and it looks like they're sort of

SPEAKER_00: pointing the gun in our direction.

SPEAKER_00: So one hand reaches up cinematically and pulls Josh down to the side a little bit

SPEAKER_00: as the other hand draws my pistol, the Liberator pistol, and I start firing at one

SPEAKER_00: of the other guards that has the shotgun.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: Rule type normal.

SPEAKER_03: Yep, that's a hit.

SPEAKER_03: Hit for nine damage.

SPEAKER_03: Okay, let's

SPEAKER_03: go to the sky.

SPEAKER_03: He is

SPEAKER_01: holding onto

SPEAKER_01: his chest as he is bleeding directly out of his chest.

SPEAKER_01: You basically shot in between his neck and the

SPEAKER_03: flag vest.

SPEAKER_03: Nice.

SPEAKER_03: And it is Dan's turn.

SPEAKER_02: Okay, so, you know, I'm gonna, you know, if I gotta fight, I gotta fight.

SPEAKER_02: So I'm gonna do a gun combat, I guess.

SPEAKER_02: So I guess I have my shotgun thing is what I would have.

SPEAKER_02: So I just roll gun combat slug? Oh no, actually it says I have an attack

SPEAKER_02: pistol. Where's my

SPEAKER_02: equipment?

SPEAKER_01: It says you have an assault pistol right down on your character sheet under the

SPEAKER_01: attacks.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but I would have the combat shot. Can I switch it by dragging it?

SPEAKER_02: Is that how it works?

SPEAKER_01: No, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_01: Never mind, I'll just

SPEAKER_02: keep the pistol. It's simple.

SPEAKER_01: No, no, it's fine. It doesn't.

SPEAKER_01: So all we do is we click that as you're carrying it, and then we're going

SPEAKER_01: to Box away your assault pistol, you now have that as your attack on the left.

SPEAKER_02: And so now I just hit attack and that's it?

Yep.

SPEAKER_03: I missed with a seven still, wow.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: I will say, though, it makes the

SPEAKER_01: guy duck.

SPEAKER_02: What number did I need to hit with a seven missed?

SPEAKER_02: Probably eight or more, probably, right?

SPEAKER_01: Probably eight or more, yeah. On two does, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but I'm not a shooter, guys.

SPEAKER_01: Cass?

SPEAKER_00: I, uh, I'm going to continue firing away.

SPEAKER_00: Uh, is there, like, a take cover, uh, mechanic?

SPEAKER_00: Or shoot from cover?

SPEAKER_00: Uh, there's a take cover mechanic that takes a turn.

SPEAKER_00: Then I'm going to blast- I'm gonna blast him.

SPEAKER_00: I keep on blasting.

SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'm gonna do the roll just so we- so we don't have to worry about

SPEAKER_01: the mechanic.

SPEAKER_01: Um...

SPEAKER_01: I'm going to do the attack, and you hit

SPEAKER_03: 14, that's going to take another one out.

SPEAKER_03: Okay,

SPEAKER_03: there is

SPEAKER_03: one that is still up, and it's Saatchi's turn.

SPEAKER_03: You are muted, by the way, Annette.

SPEAKER_03: Sorry, I was solving a logistical home issue.

SPEAKER_00: We've got first day of school tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00: Ooh!

SPEAKER_00: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: It goes well.

SPEAKER_00: Is it my action? Is that what we're up with?

SPEAKER_01: Yep, it's your action. Only one last target left.

SPEAKER_00: Well, then that last target is who I'm

SPEAKER_03: going to shoot.

SPEAKER_03: Okay. Laser rifle.

SPEAKER_03: Pew, pew. Okay.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that guy's dead. 22.

SPEAKER_03: Yep. Okay.

SPEAKER_01: They're all dead or bleeding to death.

SPEAKER_00: As soon as they're all down, I

SPEAKER_00: quickly disconnect from the ceiling and

SPEAKER_00: land on the ground and then drop to one knee because I'm damaged.

SPEAKER_00: I say we've got to move fast. They get a backup on the way.

SPEAKER_00: I secure the home guard, take away their comms.

SPEAKER_00: Even if they're dead, I handcuff them with their own cups.

SPEAKER_01: Okay. As you're this close, can you give me an investigate?

SPEAKER_01: Me or him?

SPEAKER_03: Kolb is the one who's touching them.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah,

SPEAKER_01: you notice nothing.

SPEAKER_01: You pack them up, you get all that going.

SPEAKER_01: Now every other player can roll a recon to pick up the key data.

SPEAKER_03: Wow, Steinbach.

SPEAKER_01: They're

SPEAKER_01: like, a bullet to the chest to make sure you have keen awareness.

SPEAKER_02: He's hyper-aware of all the pain and everything else going around.

SPEAKER_01: Wow. And Annette also got a five. Okay.

SPEAKER_01: So you notice that there is a secret door behind his television

SPEAKER_01: screen.

SPEAKER_01: You guys open it up and you see that he had...

SPEAKER_01: Five different actual example samples of people who had one aspect of the genetic

SPEAKER_01: code and then how it changed.

SPEAKER_01: He also has a bit of a research piece of how he thinks the changes are

SPEAKER_01: occurring genetically.

SPEAKER_01: And he has a few photos of people who he thinks are part of

SPEAKER_01: this

SPEAKER_01: social solidarity opposition group.

SPEAKER_01: He also has a communicator hidden there and

SPEAKER_01: he has a

SPEAKER_01: laser pistol which is very similar to Cass's.

SPEAKER_03: I would also say he has probably $200,000 in credits in there.

SPEAKER_03: Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_00: I think we take everything from the vault.

SPEAKER_00: If

SPEAKER_00: the samples have to be cryogenically frozen, we might have an issue there.

SPEAKER_01: It's almost like

SPEAKER_01: blood

SPEAKER_03: drops on slides.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: And then there's basically a readout next to it of what the results are.

SPEAKER_02: So then no investigate skill is needed for this, is what you're saying?

SPEAKER_02: No, this was recon because

SPEAKER_01: it was all...

SPEAKER_01: It's kind of a huge place. He has a palatial kind of...

SPEAKER_01: That's ironic.

SPEAKER_02: So there was no reason for me to come anyway, and I almost died.

SPEAKER_00: Well, you fixed up Victor.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I would love you to fix me up too.

SPEAKER_00: I'll do a minute.

SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah, you want to do a first date on Cass?

SPEAKER_00: I believe in you. You're going to be so good at this.

SPEAKER_00: You're the best doctor ever.

SPEAKER_02: I just want to note that I specifically made this character to not be the Baron,

SPEAKER_02: and he is not nearly as good of a medic.

SPEAKER_02: Sorry, you're very inspired. I was supposed to do a boon, sorry, but it's still plus

SPEAKER_02: two.

SPEAKER_01: A five is as bad as—oh, so plus two.

SPEAKER_01: I'll let you roll again with the boon.

SPEAKER_00: I feel bad now I stayed back.

SPEAKER_00: I thought we were trying to keep numbers low.

SPEAKER_01: There you go, six.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Actually, I think he's fully healed. Yeah, that fixes me.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that first aid sealed him up.

SPEAKER_02: Can I do my robotics on the robot?

SPEAKER_01: Yep, you can.

SPEAKER_01: And your robotics is a science, right?

SPEAKER_02: Yes, we fixed it, I think.

SPEAKER_02: Can I boon that one also, since you got a bunch of successes, I think?

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you got two. You can find out.

SPEAKER_01: Okay, so that's six.

SPEAKER_01: So Annette instantly heals six.

SPEAKER_01: Let's take it that there's no dex problem right now and her endurance is...

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: You basically do that by like putting wires where they belong and like quickly

SPEAKER_01: welding stuff shut.

SPEAKER_01: Can I medic myself?

SPEAKER_01: No.

SPEAKER_01: Since this is the first time people have been heavily damaged, let's kind of go over

SPEAKER_01: again how the healing scenario works.

SPEAKER_01: First aid has to occur

SPEAKER_01: within rounds of the damage.

SPEAKER_01: If you guys wait a scene or two, you can't first aid at all.

SPEAKER_01: After that, only endurance can naturally be healed with time.

SPEAKER_03: The other stats can only be healed with surgery.

SPEAKER_03: Right.

SPEAKER_01: So, you cannot add any other first aids. You cannot do any other medics.

SPEAKER_01: You have to be on a medical bed undergoing surgery of them pulling pellets out of

SPEAKER_01: your chest.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah, guys, I'm not in good shape here.

SPEAKER_03: I... Mr.

SPEAKER_03: Bless you. We grab and go.

SPEAKER_00: I need shawarma.

SPEAKER_00: Should we make it look like the place got tossed, like there were criminals hunting

SPEAKER_00: for other things and they just found the vault?

SPEAKER_01: The place is pretty tossed, by the way.

SPEAKER_02: Are you worried about the people having seen our faces?

SPEAKER_01: They're all dead. I thought they were all dead.

SPEAKER_02: Oh, I thought they were bleeding out, so good luck.

SPEAKER_01: They're not getting medical attention. No one's first dating them.

SPEAKER_01: They're going to be dead in four turns.

SPEAKER_02: Okay, I just didn't know if, like, when the police show up and they go into

SPEAKER_02: an ambulance, they're like, it was the criminals of state.

SPEAKER_03: It was Dan.

SPEAKER_03: Jacuzze.

SPEAKER_03: Exactly. I don't want to be jacuzzed.

SPEAKER_03: So,

SPEAKER_03: yeah, let's grab this stuff and we'll get out of here, you know?

SPEAKER_03: Sounds good.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: Victor, though, is also not bleeding to death because he was first-aided.

SPEAKER_01: Yes. If you're not first-aided, you do keep losing endurance and stats until you

SPEAKER_01: die.

SPEAKER_00: I'm still at 17 points of damage, effectively, spread across my three physical

SPEAKER_00: stats.

SPEAKER_01: Right.

SPEAKER_01: And Sashi is definitely, like, leaking hydraulic fluid.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: In need of repair.

SPEAKER_00: Your check engine light came on.

SPEAKER_02: You know, I think I really tried to do a decent job with you guys.

SPEAKER_00: Versace, would that be a mechanic check when getting back to base?

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we've done it once before.

SPEAKER_00: We'll figure it out.

SPEAKER_01: But I'm good enough to move.

SPEAKER_01: I'm imagining Sachi also has just like one piece of electrical tape to cover the

SPEAKER_01: check engine light.

SPEAKER_01: Nothing's wrong.

SPEAKER_03: It's actually like a floral decorative washi tape,

SPEAKER_01: like

SPEAKER_01: filigree art over myself, like a notebook.

SPEAKER_01: So by hook or by crook, you guys get back to the Transtar apartment with your

SPEAKER_01: shotgun shredded uniforms and

SPEAKER_01: leaking DNA across the floor. Yeah,

SPEAKER_01: so everyone's now back in the apartment.

SPEAKER_03: You guys look like you need drink.

SPEAKER_03: I've had more fun days than

SPEAKER_03: that.

SPEAKER_00: It went pretty smoothly, all things considered.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think I patched people up pretty well, I'm gonna say, considering that, you

SPEAKER_02: know, that's not my thing.

SPEAKER_00: So would a medic check be for surgery, or is there a different thing for that?

SPEAKER_01: So here's the thing. If you guys want to do surgery on him on the dining

SPEAKER_01: room table, we can deal with that.

SPEAKER_01: You're actually going to be doing surgery.

SPEAKER_01: You're going to be opening him up. You're going to be pulling metal out of him.

SPEAKER_01: Would that be a medic check?

SPEAKER_01: It is a medic check. My question is, do you want to literally be doing that

SPEAKER_01: on the dining room table?

SPEAKER_03: Will he survive without it?

SPEAKER_02: Well, he's been stabilized. So, yes, he'll survive without it.

SPEAKER_02: The question is, can we take him to our companies like medical facilities?

SPEAKER_02: And the truth of it is, either we're staying anyway and we'll make the money to

SPEAKER_02: pay it back, or we're going to run and it's going to be irrelevant what we

SPEAKER_02: owe.

SPEAKER_01: Or

SPEAKER_01: you do it on the table and no one finds anything out if you guys have

SPEAKER_01: great rolls.

SPEAKER_02: Does anyone have a particularly good medic?

SPEAKER_02: Because I don't think we have crazy medics.

SPEAKER_00: I have a medic plus two.

SPEAKER_02: That's not great.

SPEAKER_00: What's your education?

SPEAKER_00: Oh, my education is plus two.

SPEAKER_00: That's not bad. It's a plus four. I will boon him.

SPEAKER_00: That's actually a pretty damn good roll for you guys to randomly be exploring

SPEAKER_01: in Steinbuck's chest.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: As you wish.

SPEAKER_02: I would rather take him to, you know, a medical bay, but it's not my life,

SPEAKER_02: so it's up to you guys. It's okay. Put stick in mouth.

SPEAKER_03: Be quiet.

SPEAKER_00: I have a medic to an education of plus one.

SPEAKER_00: Can I assist him?

SPEAKER_01: Okay, so the way I'm going to do that, because he's arguing probably by the

SPEAKER_01: leadership. So first of all, the leadership, but I'm going to figure out how we're

SPEAKER_01: going to do this.

SPEAKER_01: I'm

SPEAKER_01: going to say this.

SPEAKER_01: It would normally be equalized because you guys are doing surgery without a surgery

SPEAKER_01: at all, or like a doctor's office, or a med bay.

SPEAKER_01: That would normally be a bane.

SPEAKER_01: This leadership would make it equal. I would say with Zoi aiding, you're back to a

SPEAKER_01: boon.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah, let's do the boon one.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: So, Alan, feel free to roll your medicine roll.

SPEAKER_03: With a boon, right?

SPEAKER_03: With a boon.

SPEAKER_03: Wow.

SPEAKER_03: Yay!

SPEAKER_01: One off of perfect. Holy shit, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: Steinbach, you want your dex before you want your strength back, right?

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and nine is where it kicks over, so yeah, I want the dex back, and

SPEAKER_00: then whatever's left is strength.

SPEAKER_00: Okay,

SPEAKER_00: so you're healing 14.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, that leaves me just down two Strength and down five Endurance.

SPEAKER_01: Zero,

SPEAKER_01: two Strengths, five Endurance.

SPEAKER_01: Okay, so that is the

SPEAKER_01: first part of the surgery. That is basically four hours.

SPEAKER_01: They can keep going.

SPEAKER_03: Would I keep going with the Boon?

SPEAKER_03: You've lost the leadership.

SPEAKER_03: You would be going with a neutral.

SPEAKER_03: Do you want me to keep going?

SPEAKER_03: He has a great fucking role, man.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think we keep pushing it.

SPEAKER_00: Ken, does anyone else have leadership

SPEAKER_01: to inspire

SPEAKER_00: me?

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the guy on the fucking table who's been put under for you to be ripping

SPEAKER_01: pellets at me

SPEAKER_00: sometimes.

SPEAKER_01: Okay, fine.

SPEAKER_00: So I'll keep it as normal then when I roll again now, right?

SPEAKER_03: Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: All right, well, I hope you don't die.

SPEAKER_01: A

SPEAKER_01: four, that's a great success. Man, you actually are healed.

SPEAKER_01: So the gist of it is...

SPEAKER_01: I am your dentist.

SPEAKER_01: You are wrapped up in druggie, and I would say that you're basically...

SPEAKER_01: Build character.

SPEAKER_01: Basically, because you guys had the double medics that actually had a decent amount,

SPEAKER_01: because Zoe and Alan, you negated the aspect of basically doing it on a kitchen

SPEAKER_01: table.

SPEAKER_00: I give Zoe a high five.

SPEAKER_01: Can we do Saichi?

SPEAKER_01: So, people who are

SPEAKER_01: not in the leadership group, or those two, or the unconscious, could do mechanics to

SPEAKER_01: help Saichi.

SPEAKER_00: Can I help after? Because, like, I have a plus two mechanic as well.

SPEAKER_00: No.

SPEAKER_01: This is literally you guys doing eight hours of constant surgery.

SPEAKER_01: You're not.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: Understood.

SPEAKER_01: Does anyone have a mechanic other than that?

SPEAKER_01: Like, Cole, you gave the first leadership, so you're out.

SPEAKER_01: Josh, actually, Josh, it's a new scene. You can try to do another Great Waters.

SPEAKER_00: Okay.

SPEAKER_00: I mean, I have mechanic, but I'm also unconscious, or just regaining.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I honestly, I think Josh is really the only one who knew, because I don't

SPEAKER_01: think Lauren has any mechanics, or...

SPEAKER_00: I do not believe I do. I'm looking at my sheet, I just don't know where

SPEAKER_00: it's under.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'd call it that. It's only out. It's only out.

SPEAKER_00: It's its own thing.

SPEAKER_00: I see medic.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, there it is, it's under, okay, I see it.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's between leadership and medical.

SPEAKER_00: Yep, I have it at negative three.

SPEAKER_01: Okay,

SPEAKER_01: so yeah.

SPEAKER_01: If Josh is not here, I'm going to just roll for Josh.

SPEAKER_01: Josh asks you here, you're here, you're not here.

SPEAKER_02: Oh, I was muted. No, no, I'm here. I've been talking for a while.

SPEAKER_02: I just thought you all weren't replying to me.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so what I was saying is I have robotics, but my mechanic is better.

SPEAKER_02: Okay, but you'd prefer it for the robotics?

SPEAKER_01: No, no, no. You can roll mechanics.

SPEAKER_01: I'm considering robotics as, like, the first aid, and mechanics as you're taking

SPEAKER_01: time.

SPEAKER_01: Okie dokie.

SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's it.

SPEAKER_03: Oh, my God.

SPEAKER_03: I broke

SPEAKER_03: it.

SPEAKER_00: I am a delicate, fancy piece of machinery.

SPEAKER_02: I guess I should have used robotics is what I should have done.

SPEAKER_00: Despite all the armor, I am a Flintall.

SPEAKER_03: Oh no.

SPEAKER_03: Do I not bleed?

SPEAKER_02: I guess the good news is it wasn't a botch.

SPEAKER_02: That's the good news.

SPEAKER_00: I mean, you might have butted a gasket, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02: I can guess it's better than Saichi needs to re-roll a new character.

SPEAKER_01: I

SPEAKER_01: will say that you've stopped Saichi's leaks.

SPEAKER_00: Good.

SPEAKER_00: But you've created more, different ones, somewhere else.

SPEAKER_01: Well, like, no, you're like, you know, you don't need that piece of armor.

SPEAKER_01: I could just shove it in this hole next to that leaky pine cone.

SPEAKER_02: Sorry.

SPEAKER_02: I just want to note that there was no one helping me with leadership and boons,

SPEAKER_02: okay?

SPEAKER_00: Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: And it was a plus four

SPEAKER_02: roll, okay? It was a plus four, and it still went to a minus one.

SPEAKER_00: Sure. No, you gave it your all.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you did great.

SPEAKER_00: You did great. It just, you didn't do great.

SPEAKER_02: The

SPEAKER_02: RNG, the last roll was phenomenal. The RNG is just not, I guess I was done.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: So, you guys have a lot of data. You guys actually have some cash.

SPEAKER_01: You could use the cash to professionally repair a net.

SPEAKER_03: I'm

SPEAKER_03: down.

SPEAKER_03: Wheel me down to fries!

SPEAKER_00: Could we take Sachi to a repair station? I feel like there's fewer questions with a

SPEAKER_00: robot getting messed up than a person getting messed up.

SPEAKER_00: Is there a micro center?

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly. You guys just got a fair amount of credits.

SPEAKER_01: You got 200,000 credits right now from them.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, I meant to go to Transtar's repair bay.

SPEAKER_01: Like, keep it in the house. Oh, so you could say why...

SPEAKER_01: What are you going to say that she was damaged by?

SPEAKER_01: Weapons malfunction?

SPEAKER_02: It was in the last action that we had done when those people were under the

SPEAKER_02: water, and we just didn't get around to repairing yet.

SPEAKER_01: Anyone who wants to throw an admin role to try and start to repair her, I'm

SPEAKER_01: happy to accept that role.

SPEAKER_00: Admin is based off of what? That sounds like you, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: I'm going to leadership that.

SPEAKER_03: I'm going to...

SPEAKER_00: I've admitted zero, but I have...

SPEAKER_00: Is it intelligence? Is it...

SPEAKER_01: Josh got a plus three on the roll.

SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay. I'm going to watch leadership tier.

SPEAKER_01: Sorry. I need a call for leadership because I'm waiting for the actual roll.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: I did say I'm going to leadership. I said it out loud.

SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00: Maybe it was me.

SPEAKER_00: It's all right. I use education.

SPEAKER_00: Okay, so... I have an admin with a small bonus.

SPEAKER_00: Okay.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because if it's based on education, my education is three, so that's my bonus

SPEAKER_00: because I only have admin at zero.

SPEAKER_00: So if you've got...

SPEAKER_00: Your plus three is going to be bigger than my total bonus.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00: But I did get a boon?

SPEAKER_00: Yes. Just want to clarify on that? Okay.

SPEAKER_03: I have faith in you.

SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00: They're going to fully repair her.

SPEAKER_01: Cool. I get...

SPEAKER_00: A touch-up job and to get the sticker for my next 50,000 miles.

SPEAKER_00: I feel like it's that scene from Wizard of Oz where they're like polishing it.

SPEAKER_00: I was thinking the same thing.

SPEAKER_00: So she now has a Transtar logo.

SPEAKER_01: Exactly. The problem is, especially now, is repair plates have Transtar swag on

SPEAKER_01: them.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: So if you ever need to pretend to be a trans-star robot, you're like, see?

SPEAKER_01: See? I got a Turbo Tim's bumper sticker on my ass.

SPEAKER_00: Turbo Tim's.

SPEAKER_00: What's the cap?

SPEAKER_00: You get 10% off, though, if you've got a Turbo Tim bumper sticker.

SPEAKER_01: So Turbo Tim's is a local joint that Laura has fallen in love with because all

SPEAKER_01: of their locations have caps.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they just have shop cats, but they have like 15 of them, not just like

SPEAKER_00: one or two. Yeah, like there's a room devoted to the cats.

SPEAKER_00: The waiting room has all the cat trees and stuff in it.

SPEAKER_00: So you just, you show up and you pet two cats that are lounging on the

SPEAKER_00: desk. And then you go in the other room and pet the other cats.

SPEAKER_00: And then there's cats in helping with the cars because they're everywhere.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah,

SPEAKER_00: it's pretty great.

SPEAKER_00: You go there after hours and you stare at them through the glass.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: Annette does.

SPEAKER_00: Well, I have, because I've had to drop my car off, and you're like, what is

SPEAKER_00: that moving in the windows? And I'm like, oh, it's the 101 cats.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's the cats at the windows, because people come for late-night drop-off.

SPEAKER_00: Anyway, yeah, so.

SPEAKER_03: Funny stuff. So I'm... Do I have to push a button to repair?

SPEAKER_03: No,

SPEAKER_03: I've done it all. Oh, cool. There it goes.

SPEAKER_03: Boom, boom.

SPEAKER_03: Boom.

SPEAKER_03: And...

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: So, you guys have the data.

SPEAKER_01: You guys have to decide now. Are you guys going to go back to Transtar as

SPEAKER_01: the weekend ends?

SPEAKER_00: This is a hell of a weekend.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, a very rough weekend for Victor.

SPEAKER_01: Victor's like, I'm not hungover, you know?

SPEAKER_01: Oh, no. I'm hungover from the opiates.

SPEAKER_02: So, the question is, is there any way for us

SPEAKER_02: To replicate that, or it's just the slide and there's no way to make a copy?

SPEAKER_01: Well, the whole point of the slides is you have physical proof.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I was wondering, can you make a duplicate so we can send it to

SPEAKER_02: someone else? But then it wouldn't be physical proof.

SPEAKER_02: Fair enough.

SPEAKER_01: I just figured it's worth asking.

SPEAKER_01: No, this is literally like what you would like have in the evidence locker.

SPEAKER_03: This is the actual evidence.

SPEAKER_01: There are a few angles you guys can go. By the way,

SPEAKER_01: you can go to the political figures that are actually affected by this since their

SPEAKER_01: names are on it.

SPEAKER_02: But what if they want to kill us because we have bad information that someone could

SPEAKER_02: have used to blackmail them?

SPEAKER_01: They're giving options, Josh. Not saying they're good options.

SPEAKER_02: He's like, I'm gonna admit that that's a terrible option.

SPEAKER_01: You guys could do another Transcar Week just to keep undercover.

SPEAKER_01: You guys could

SPEAKER_01: use your $200,000 and I'll take, or fly the,

SPEAKER_01: because the ship's going to be repaired by the end of the weekend, you could fly

SPEAKER_01: your ship's bike to

SPEAKER_01: This planet where you know the Sol-Sec guy

SPEAKER_01: was interrogating the Sol-Sec personality person about these psychers.

SPEAKER_00: My thought would be

SPEAKER_00: the samples and the data get put as part of the dead drop package to go

SPEAKER_00: to the

SPEAKER_00: journalist.

SPEAKER_03: And then, yeah,

SPEAKER_00: the TransStar stuff is kind of cushy, and it keeps us away from the law for

SPEAKER_00: right now.

SPEAKER_00: So maybe we do another week of TransStar, and then next weekend we fly to the

SPEAKER_00: other planet. Or how long is the round-trip flight to the other planet?

SPEAKER_00: Is it going to be a

SPEAKER_00: day?

SPEAKER_03: Is it going to

SPEAKER_03: be a day?

SPEAKER_03: Probably a day.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: So if we wait until next weekend... You're going to spend some time there?

SPEAKER_01: So, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: If you guys want to do another Transtar Weekend, you guys can do another Transtar

SPEAKER_01: Weekend.

SPEAKER_01: Because you guys do realize when you guys ditch your jobs, you guys are going to

SPEAKER_01: be persona non grata and Transtar is not going to be protecting you from the law.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: Well, we don't get the feeling they're going to narc on us.

SPEAKER_02: They're just going to be like, okay, well, you used up your 30 days.

SPEAKER_02: Are you staying? We can be like, actually, we're not going to stay and it's not

SPEAKER_02: a problem.

SPEAKER_01: But you haven't used your 30 days.

SPEAKER_02: Oh,

SPEAKER_02: so then what if we just stay to the last day, right?

SPEAKER_02: Then we leave.

SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's fine.

SPEAKER_01: This has literally been seven days.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we are one of four.

SPEAKER_02: So what do you guys think? I think, let's wait until it's over.

SPEAKER_02: Thanks, no thanks.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, I'm, oh, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01: Go ahead, Laura, let us see.

SPEAKER_01: Well, let's let Laura speak and then I'll say my piece.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, I just was saying, I feel like we should ride Transtar as long as we

SPEAKER_00: can because we can be doing both things.

SPEAKER_00: We can be investigating while under their umbrella of safety.

SPEAKER_00: If we leave that umbrella, it

SPEAKER_00: makes us having to find investigative elements like three times harder.

SPEAKER_00: Yep. And my only...

SPEAKER_00: Yep, my only counter to that is

SPEAKER_00: as long as we don't keep feathering ourselves to Transstar such that we become more

SPEAKER_00: indebted to them, you know, because that could become a hard tether to escape even

SPEAKER_00: as we're trying to beat these allegations.

SPEAKER_02: Do you think Patrick would do that to us?

SPEAKER_02: That doesn't sound like something a storyteller would do.

SPEAKER_00: I

SPEAKER_00: got stickers now.

SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_00: I got stickers now.

SPEAKER_01: I got stickers.

SPEAKER_01: Here's my one thing that you guys should think about.

SPEAKER_01: Mercer is still sitting at a base that could be assassinated at any moment.

SPEAKER_03: That is very true. If you guys are going to go do transtar stuff, no one's

SPEAKER_03: going

SPEAKER_01: to be sitting defending him.

SPEAKER_01: And his data all just went down the lines of the Secret Service because the Solstack

SPEAKER_01: agent

SPEAKER_03: took the hand scan.

SPEAKER_00: Can

SPEAKER_00: Laura's character have enough of an executive authority to assign a couple of us to

SPEAKER_00: quote-unquote maintenance in the same area as Mercer so that two of us

SPEAKER_00: could act as guards?

SPEAKER_00: Well, some of us are literally security.

SPEAKER_01: I would let an admin role

SPEAKER_01: hide Mercer on the profunder.

SPEAKER_01: Ooh, I like that.

SPEAKER_00: Hold on, I'm writing a note.

SPEAKER_00: What was the name of the planet that this Camille person went to?

SPEAKER_00: It started with a P.

SPEAKER_01: Camille went to, I'm pulling it up,

SPEAKER_01: Solar System, Providence.

SPEAKER_01: Providence.

SPEAKER_01: By the way, just so everyone has a concept, because it's going to happen more often,

SPEAKER_01: this is the

SPEAKER_03: planetary systems.

SPEAKER_00: And I just want to repeat again, or clarify again, and I apologize.

SPEAKER_00: Camille was going to go and visit who on Providence?

SPEAKER_00: Because I just realized I never made a note for that.

SPEAKER_01: Executive of Social Solidarity to be interrogated.

SPEAKER_00: Social Solidarity, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: Are any of the various moons inhabited?

SPEAKER_00: Many of them.

SPEAKER_00: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: Allion and Retsaland actually have oxygen atmospheres.

SPEAKER_01: Cool.

SPEAKER_01: Doreena

SPEAKER_01: and Sanctuary have underground bases.

SPEAKER_01: And the rest are kind of more Titan Mooney like where there's going to be a

SPEAKER_01: base or two, but not like a ton of people.

SPEAKER_00: Okay, cool. Thank you for the clarification.

SPEAKER_01: No. Okay.

SPEAKER_03: Sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00: I was going to say, well, I'm rolling something.

SPEAKER_00: I don't remember what I'm rolling.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's what I was going to ask. But maybe someone wanted to give you some

SPEAKER_02: coaching first.

SPEAKER_01: Didn't you just roll with

SPEAKER_03: leadership, Josh?

SPEAKER_03: Then yes, sure.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_03: Come on. There we go.

SPEAKER_03: I don't want to be too hammy about it, but I also wanted to be hammy

SPEAKER_03: about it.

SPEAKER_01: Two's enough that you guys can hide him on as cargo.

SPEAKER_00: I

SPEAKER_00: hope he doesn't mind the smell.

SPEAKER_01: And you're like, you're a loader now, Senator.

SPEAKER_00: Senator Loader.

SPEAKER_02: He's like, I don't like the smell. I'm like, hmm, does death smell better to you?

SPEAKER_00: Damn.

SPEAKER_01: Um...

SPEAKER_01: And I imagine you guys are going to hide. Oh, no, you're going to leave the

SPEAKER_01: ship at the repair dock until you're ready to fly it, I can imagine.

SPEAKER_00: Right.

SPEAKER_00: Because it's actually owned by the other person that Laura, the other person's name

SPEAKER_00: that Laura put on.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's owned by, I don't know, I never designated one of my contacts, but it's

SPEAKER_00: owned by one of those contacts. Jamie McDreamerson, I think, is what we said, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: The one issue that's going to come into play, by the way, if you guys spend

SPEAKER_01: your entire month at Transtar, is someone's going to have to pay for those docking

SPEAKER_01: fees.

SPEAKER_03: Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_00: Well, hey, we happen to have 200,000 credits.

SPEAKER_02: Why don't we calculate that now and save that amount of money for everything else?

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: To be generous, you're looking at probably 2,000 a day.

SPEAKER_01: You're looking at

SPEAKER_03: another 20 days.

SPEAKER_03: So 40K in docking Vs.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah, not a ton.

SPEAKER_03: I mean, that's still 20% of what we found, but sure.

SPEAKER_03: Easy come, easy go, Fremont. That's the truth.

SPEAKER_01: That's how things travel in Traveler.

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: So, I think we have a plan and a direction.

SPEAKER_01: Next game will be another Transar Day.

SPEAKER_01: Back on the undersea voyages of the Profoundur.

SPEAKER_01: And he's got a lot of questions of like, well, where did you guys put the

SPEAKER_01: ship?

SPEAKER_01: Who the hell is this dude?

SPEAKER_01: My cousin Jimmy? You

SPEAKER_01: know, Jimmy always wanted to see the inside of the subway.

SPEAKER_01: So,

SPEAKER_01: I hope you guys had fun.

SPEAKER_03: There was a good combat, good investigation.

SPEAKER_00: People got all their things. Great game.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: Totally fun.

SPEAKER_02: I guess it made sense for me to come anyway.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you totally kept people alive. So, I mean...

SPEAKER_01: I don't think Steinbach would be alive.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: Without that first aid role being as successful, he wouldn't have gotten back up.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: I'm not even supposed to be here for this shooting.

SPEAKER_02: And you're like, what if you put that Band-Aid on me?

SPEAKER_02: I'm like, maybe, sure.

SPEAKER_01: I do also say that, like, Alan's, like, super surgery, like, getting Steinbach to

SPEAKER_01: not be basically a Colby Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_02: I remember that. That's funny.

SPEAKER_02: Weeks.

SPEAKER_00: Weeks of not doing anything.

SPEAKER_00: Thank you all for making my character, you know, still alive.

SPEAKER_01: When Colm says weeks, I need to really clarify this.

SPEAKER_01: I think he had three weeks of being ill, and you're like, oh, that's not so

SPEAKER_01: bad. We were playing day by day.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: One game was one day. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: Remember, I took

SPEAKER_00: the tough feat, and I got like three extra hit points out of it, basically, and

SPEAKER_00: I was like, is

SPEAKER_01: this really going to be? And every time I took a wound, it was like, if

SPEAKER_01: you had gotten one more, I would have been cold for that game.

SPEAKER_01: And I took like seven hits during that campaign.

SPEAKER_01: Right.

SPEAKER_01: My guy was very much, I don't want to get hit.

SPEAKER_01: That's why I have an entourage.

SPEAKER_03: You, me, and my guards!

SPEAKER_00: It was still worth it.

SPEAKER_00: It was still worth it.

SPEAKER_01: So next week, I'm going to try to gather people together to have an in-person game,

SPEAKER_01: and we're going to see how that works.

SPEAKER_01: I hope it goes well.

SPEAKER_01: Now, the week after that,

SPEAKER_01: we are going to not be playing on the 21st.

SPEAKER_01: The 21st is Yom Kippur.

SPEAKER_02: That makes sense.

SPEAKER_00: Why do we not complain that day?

SPEAKER_02: Yes. I thought, Yom Kippur, are you sure?

SPEAKER_02: So the 11th, it starts by Shoshana. Oh yeah, it's Sunday night into Monday night, I

SPEAKER_02: see.

SPEAKER_01: Right.

SPEAKER_01: So the 21st. And it's also like the least day you have to take off methodology

SPEAKER_01: of the entire high holiday method.

SPEAKER_01: Like, there is literally only, I think, four days you have to take off the entire

SPEAKER_01: high holidays.

SPEAKER_03: It's pretty good this year.

SPEAKER_01: So, the 21st is going to be a no-go.

SPEAKER_01: I'm going to work with players to see if we want to try to find a

SPEAKER_01: day that week, or if we just want to

SPEAKER_01: push it to a month of the 5th,

SPEAKER_01: because that week is also the week that my dad's in town, but I imagine he's

SPEAKER_01: not going to want to hang out with me at 8.30.

SPEAKER_01: So...

SPEAKER_01: I will try to be in touch with people of what is viable times.

SPEAKER_01: If people have a suggestion, feel free to put it in this Traveler chat.

SPEAKER_00: Can we coordinate through Traveler chat so that everyone can see it?

SPEAKER_00: Because some things get lost on Messenger.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if you guys have a thing that deals directly with just the Traveler game,

SPEAKER_01: yeah, go ahead and put it here.

SPEAKER_00: Okay, thanks.

SPEAKER_00: Other than my recovery, which doesn't seem to impede gaming in the least,

SPEAKER_00: I've got nothing blocking me, so I'm pretty open.

SPEAKER_01: I'm in this weird phase of where I'm going to be having a lot of high

SPEAKER_01: holidays, and I'm going to have a lot of work,

SPEAKER_01: and then I'm going to be in Florida.

SPEAKER_01: Wait, so are you coming to New York still?

SPEAKER_01: The problem is

SPEAKER_01: the day of

SPEAKER_01: Alan's wedding is a Sunday, okay?

SPEAKER_01: That Monday morning, I need to be in Florida giving a presentation at 10 in the

SPEAKER_01: morning.

SPEAKER_02: I hear that. I'm not saying you should. I'm just wondering if you're still coming.

SPEAKER_01: No, so I'm trying to figure out what's going on.

SPEAKER_01: One of my co-workers said, oh, you probably can flake the first day, but we won't

SPEAKER_01: know until the schedule's done. It may just be partner day.

SPEAKER_01: So I gotta figure out what's going on.

SPEAKER_01: But

SPEAKER_01: if you did want to come for His Sheva Brockus, you could come for those days.

SPEAKER_02: You mean...

SPEAKER_01: I found out that my fiancé and her family, when they were making deals with the

SPEAKER_01: Hall and stuff,

SPEAKER_00: Half of the wedding has to be paid for in cash, apparently.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_00: And I was like, why?

SPEAKER_03: And I was like, not my plan.

SPEAKER_03: That's not my plan.

SPEAKER_00: You know?

SPEAKER_01: Wow.

SPEAKER_00: That's intense.

SPEAKER_00: Apparently, they got a good deal on it, but I'm just like, hey, hey,

SPEAKER_02: hey, hey. You're like, you do know I'm not a drug dealer, right?

SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: Could you be? That would be so helpful.

SPEAKER_00: Dude, I don't know

SPEAKER_00: why I'm not making babysitters, babysitting stuff.

SPEAKER_00: We got the blueprint.

SPEAKER_00: But, like, no.

SPEAKER_00: It's kind of crazy. I am happy I got a job when I landed here.

SPEAKER_00: But, like,

SPEAKER_00: that is...

SPEAKER_03: It's been heavy on the mind.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: That was funny. It's like, you have cash?

SPEAKER_03: No.

SPEAKER_00: No. You're right. You're right. Yes, I have cash.

SPEAKER_00: I have a $20 bill. Right?

SPEAKER_00: I will contribute.

SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah. Right. Because until even the house is sold, you don't have physical cash

SPEAKER_01: like that.

SPEAKER_03: No.

SPEAKER_03: No.

SPEAKER_03: Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: I don't know.

SPEAKER_03: Whatever.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: So...

SPEAKER_02: I'm wishing you the best, man. That's rough.

SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's a rough one.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: So, Josh, if his plans are that intense, my plans are only less so.

SPEAKER_02: Well, I put it in my calendar. It'll let me know what's up.

SPEAKER_01: Yes.

SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I will be pushing people more for a solid date next week, but I

SPEAKER_01: just want people to realize the 21st is

SPEAKER_01: a no-go.

SPEAKER_00: I can't come on the 21st either.

SPEAKER_03: It's funny that. No, you can't.

SPEAKER_01: It's

SPEAKER_01: the only reason.

SPEAKER_02: We'll give you an excuse this time.

SPEAKER_01: Well, it's also silly, though.

SPEAKER_01: I don't think it starts on the Monday. I think it starts at the end of

SPEAKER_01: Sunday, right?

SPEAKER_00: Of course, yeah. It's Sunday night.

SPEAKER_01: So, like, one could argue, like, oh, we'll break fast and have game.

SPEAKER_03: Interesting.

SPEAKER_01: You know, what's up?

SPEAKER_01: Fast is going to end at like 8.20 something.

SPEAKER_00: I don't think I'll have the emotional capacity for that.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, neither will I. I'm just making sillies.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah. Maybe if we were 16. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: So

SPEAKER_01: we'll see you whenever. Don't worry. We're going to make it work.

SPEAKER_03: Okay.

SPEAKER_01: So, everyone have a great night, and thank you all for coming.

SPEAKER_01: I appreciate everyone who takes the time and effort to come to these.

SPEAKER_01: Thank you very much. Thank

SPEAKER_00: you, guys. Thank you for the time and effort in running these.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah. 100%.

SPEAKER_00: I have a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01: One question, since I'm now paranoid about needing a character when I die.

SPEAKER_01: What's the budget for a robot?

SPEAKER_01: We did a million times.

SPEAKER_00: Okay.