Expedition Untold Ch. 8 - "Cyber Troll" - Talltale Tavern

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Welcome back to the Tall Tale Tavern, the monthly one shot
adventure TTRPG podcast that also does campaigns.
I am your Tavern master and hostKyle and we are back for Chapter
8 of Expedition Untold and the continuation of Hugh's story.
Joining me at the bar tonight. When Hugh was young, he

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befriended Fire and Sun and reading books was just for fun.
Those days are gone all by himself.
He doesn't want to be all by himself anymore.

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Too bad, Hugh, you're all by yourself.
Welcome back, Becca. Start my intro with a gasp.
That was beautiful. It kind of makes up for the
emotional damage kind. Kind of a little bit.
A little bit. It's just you and me.
It's just you and me. I'm just.

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Hanging out tonight? Just hanging out.
You, me and and Ben Biofuel. What what a what a wonderful
thing. I think we should just get going
and jump right in and see see what's in store for our friend
Hugh in this. Dark.
What could go wrong? New World.
So let's reopen that book, turn to Chapter 8 and continue the

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story of Expedition Untold. Roll the intro.

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Previously on Expedition Untold it it was just a book club.
I was with my friends. A red ooze attacked a Shard of
reality and the barkeeper sent us into the stories to protect
us. At least I I think he was trying
to protect us. But the red ooze is corrupting
everything. The stories, our memories, our

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reality. We were able to save Zoonopia by
removing the ooze from Toad and we followed it through a portal.
It made us relive our memories, tried to change them.
Then it took us to the Maleficent 7, where the red ooze
had caused a horrible disease and had taken over Ella McCoy.
Everything seemed so good when we left Zoonopia that I thought

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it would be like that again, butI was I was wrong.
We completed our mission and defeated Ella and the ooze ran
away through a portal again. Before we left, Namby just
wanted to make sure people were going to be taken care of.
She was doing such a great job standing up for herself, but I
think her magic got away from her and she hurt someone really

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badly. And Terra was so upset and Nandy
looked so scared. I didn't know what to do to
protect them. The portal waited and I didn't.
I didn't want to go through, butwe knew we couldn't stay.
So we took each other's hands and we stepped through together.
I saw memories again, but it felt different.

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I stepped out into what I I think is crowning AI
achievement. I'm alone.
Everything is so overwhelming here.
The lights are too harsh, the buildings are too tall, and the
air is too thick. Where are my friends?
I'm Tiro promised we'll face it together.
Hugh Guenard. My friends are gone.

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I don't know what I did wrong. Hugh.
You stand on an unfamiliar St. in an unfamiliar world filled
with skyscrapers, lights, holograms, and machines all
around you. Amidst all the unfamiliarity is
a familiar face, a character you've heard stories of before.
A bald, muscular man standing tall with a tight white tank top

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on an unbuttoned Gray mechanic shirt with a name tag stitched
on to it and a hand reaching outto you.
I'm Ben. I know somewhere safe.
You take his hand and he transforms into a fully electric
Prius, shaping around you until you find yourself sitting on the
front seat and he takes off intothe night.

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As you drive through the windows, you see tall buildings,
pass thousands of lights, screens, sounds all unfamiliar
to you. But what is Hugh thinking and
feeling during this? I think his mind is just buzzing
with the over stimulus of the environment, frantically trying
to rack his brain, thinking about what he did wrong when he

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went through the portal and now just trying to get his eyes to
adjust to something so differentfrom the forest he grew up in.
You kind of look down and and kind of rest your hand, your
head into your hands. And just like in the Maleficent

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Seven story, when you had entered, you were suddenly in
cowboy attire, Old West attire and you notice that you are in a
setting cohesive outfit as well and maybe have a new augment as
well. What does what does Hugh notice

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as he kind of looks down? Yeah.
He looks down and he notices he's got some very like utility
leather pants, lots of studs in there but they're also like the
strips of leather are broken up to accommodate his hydraulic
Jack legs that he now has. There's like metal peeking out.

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Everything is honed and and justlooks extra strong like he could
jump super far. As you look out back out the
window, you see advertisements change on billboards and large
hologram images, kind of as advertisements go as you drive
along the cityscape and you can tell through glints of light

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that you are being scanned and the ads are changing, being
tailored to you specifically. What ads would show up for Hugh
as he as you travel through the city?
I think the the ones that would definitely come up where like
any sort of like ads for storiesthat are coming out about like

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the latest, like romance. So it would be something to do
with like, I don't know if there's movies in this world or
not. You see like you're, you see
like this romance novel that yourecognize as a novel and all of
a sudden it comes to life in like moving pictures, which is
just you've seen magic before, but this seems different.
Like you're watching the whole entire scene and you can see

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that this move, this book is that you have recognized before
is now a movie. And that advertisement is
hitting you. And it's all just so wondrous
and strange and weird. Ben picks up speed and starts
darting in and out of traffic. He takes a turn down a narrow
side street and then suddenly makes a hard left turn drifting

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towards a large closed garage door.
Just before impact, the car passes through the false
holograms to call hologram door and stops.
He transforms standing next to you and what you see is an open
garage with a large table set upin the middle covered in paper,
diagrams, plans, and then looks at you and says, welcome to our

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makeshift home. Before we go any farther, I need
to know that. I need you to know that you can
walk away right now, back to thestreet, to the world outside, or
I can show you around, introduceyou to some of the people here
and you can stay awhile. If you do that, you just know

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you can never speak of this place for the people in here,
for the things you see ever again.
Your decision I. Have nowhere to go.
Let's let's take you around and introduce you to some people.

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And he takes your hand and walksaround this big open area.
You can see that there are kind of areas that have been
sectioned off, almost like different workspaces in here.
And you walk over to an area where you see a tall, skinny,
pale skin, human with bright green eyes.
He's reading a book. Lad, will you join the table?

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Please Welcome Landy. Landy AKA Lad.
Landy, can you introduce your character?
Tell him, tell us what he is looking like and doing at this
moment. So.
Lad is in kind of a nondescript room.
It's got a pallet and a little desk with a stack of random

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books that he's picked up aroundNew Lisbon City.
He's got, again, pale ski, pale skin, green eyes, dark kind of
messy, long hair. He's got his heavy armor over in
the corner, but he's just sitting there and kind of plain
clothes. So he sees Ben walk in with

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Hugh. He puts his book down and stands
up and extends his hand. I actually.
This is lad here. I I'm sorry I I didn't.
I introduced myself, but I guessI don't know your name.
I need looking at you, Hugh Badness.

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You pauses for a second and thentries to channel his like inner
Mt Row. I'm I'm Hugh Guenard Rockbridge.
People call me Hugh. Well, good to meet you, Hugh.
I'm Lad. Hi Ben.

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Ben leads you around the area and you walk up to a a a girl
with lots of cybernetics on her face and she looks very
fatigued. And she is sitting and she is
fiddling with working on what looks to be some sort of metal,
small metal device. And you see a tool bag next to

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her with the name Dasher writtenon the side.
Viper, will you please join the table?
Hey, ballistic Kitty. Hello.
Welcome, Ballistic Kitty. Ballistic Kitty, will you please
introduce your character, What she's, what she looks like, what
she's doing? Yeah, so her hair is short and

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messy, shaved closely on both sides.
She looks a bit rougher around the edges than like six weeks
ago. Her new outfit is like kind of
tore up jacket and a black halter top and like, kind of
like same as you, Hugh got the the utility pants because

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everyone's going to get dirty and tore up.
Yeah, she's very tired. She's been working on this
device for a while now. It's kind of out of her usual, I
guess, skill set. She's using Dasher stuff.
She she clocks you come in and isn't too concerned with a new,
a new face being in the room. So she's like, hey, what's up?

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I'm Viper. Hi Miss Viper, I'm Hugh.
Staying with us now, you lose your family.
Yeah. Say it all of us, We'll be fine
here. Ben leads you further around the

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edge of the garage to the kind of last place.
In this garage you see a big cybernetic electric bike up on a
up on a stand, on a lift, and beneath it a shirtless man
covered in tattoos working on this bike.
And he he says, he says, BrotherBalo, we got somebody new.

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And Paulo, will you please join the table?
Hello, Mav. Welcome, Mav back to your
original world. I could be.
Seeing it from the other end. Will you please introduce Paulo
to Hugh and give us what your character looks like and what

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he's what he's up to? Sure, Paulo is shirtless.
He's wearing a a pair of like digital camo pants over some
black motorcycle boots. And you can see like he's been
working hard on this bike up on lift.
There's like sweat trickling down his back.
His back and his chest are covered in tattoos.

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Some of them are of dragon motifs and and kind of other
prison tats. And you see actually where both
of his arms would have been our two metal cybernetic arm
replacements and where the tattoos meet on his skin, meet
the metal spray paint. Graffiti takes over and
continues the tattoos down his arms as if it was all one piece.

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And you notice in the low kind of Gray light of the garage that
the the paint on his arms glows.But you notice around him
there's a a table with a number of pieces of equipment, not
just, you know, gear to work on on vehicles, but weapons.
And he's got a glass of beer anda scent cigarette smoking, like

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lying right next to him. And he kind of turns from the
bike and gives Ben biofuel, an eyebrow like, you bring another
lost puppy here. How many is this now, Ben?
I. Don't know.
We got a feeling about this one.I think he's been without a
family for a while and we're allabout family here.

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At that Paolo he, he picks up the cent cig and takes a draw
and kind of shrugs and he goes. That's fair.
And as he comes around the bike to see Hugh like for the first
time, he goes. Whoa.
Where did you pick him up? Be fit inside.
You've been, you've been workingout.

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So Paolo shoves a hand out to toHugh to shake.
And as strong as Hugh is, the grip that he gives is vice like.
And if he was paying attention, the figure that Paolo cuts is a
little different than she than he might remember from the book.
He looks leaner, He looks like there's a an edge to his jaw.

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He looks not malnourished, but thinner and and hungrier than
than he was described in the book.
Nice to meet you Sir, but I, I, I, I didn't lose my family a
while ago, it just happened. Maybe you guys have seen them
Hariangan. She's she's so beautiful inside
and out and a fire Janossi that just lights up every space that

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he walks into. I was with them and we got
separated and I'm I'm scared that they're lost somewhere
here. Have you guys seen them?
At this story, Paolo looks at Ben and it's like, is he on some
of the good stuff? Like I I know I got my stash and

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I don't have anything that makesme dream like that.
Lad, does he look like he's on some of those drugs that you've
been trying to clean up on this city?
Hugh tries to help and opens hiseyes really wide so that lad can
get a really good look. Yeah, Lad pulls out a little

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flashlight from his pocket and shines it up it he's eyes and do
a medicine check. Powell is looking around loud.
Like I've never seen Wave give hallucinations like that.
I promise I'm not one. 123 yes, you can tell that you know, you
go and inspect Hugh and Hugh is a 1/2 troll big green guy ears,

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big troll half troll ears. And this is not necessarily
unusual to you in this world, you know.
And so the the notes of, you know, different augments that
people do to their bodies. This is just you.
You are you don't really feel like they are judging you based
on your appearance. But he does a very good look.

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Glad you do a very good look at Hugh.
And you don't sense any sort of drug impairment or anything
along for Hugh? He's got some really unusual
cybernetics, but he's not on anything.
All kind of looks at him out of the corner of his eye like I
right. I buy this because Vlad is my

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boy and I trust him. Cute Look, If you're looking for
your family, we can be one in the meantime, but we're working
on something. If you're going to paddle around
with us, we're going to need your help.
I don't know. I don't know anything about any
of this stuff. When I read your guys's story, I
didn't understand half of the words in it.

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He's big enough, he'll be fine, right?
Are you sure, Paulo? I mean, we don't have anything
to knock down walls anymore. Ever since Dasher went poof,
this guy looks like he could take down a car all by himself.
To you, to answer your question about other people, I was
standing there on the street andI saw you step out of nowhere.

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It was like you stepped out of nothing and then you were there
on the street alone. There's a lot of people in this
city and something about you I don't, I haven't seen anybody
else like you around so. I'm not supposed to be here.
Well, hey. None of us are supposed to be
here. We were living in losing city

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six weeks ago and then, you know, the ass took over and kill
half the populace and we ran. So, you know, I left my gang
back there and my boys. And you could see like, there's
like a a clench to his jaw as hesays that.
Like he's not happy about admitting this.
What? What happened to Dasher?

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See his bag over there? You got to talk to the Viper.
I couldn't see it in the net. I I don't remember any details
really specifically about what happened.
Whatever I try gives me a splitting headache.
So what I do remember is going into the system and then coming

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out and everything was wrong. I woke up somewhere completely
different and I had a lad and Paolo with me and Ben was also
there as well, but then AI was everywhere.
It was chaos. I was close to Dasher and he the

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details are fuzzy for me too, but he told me once he had a
something in his head that woulddetonate if a code word was said
and I I don't know who said it, I don't know how it happened,
but all of a sudden Dasher was gone and it was chaos after
that. I'm telling you, man, it was the

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fucking AIS. It had to be He lives what, 20
years? Nobody guesses that cohort all
of a sudden pop. No way, man.
I don't know. It doesn't make sense.
How do they get in his head, Youknow, How do they know?
How do they know the word? He's had it forever.
He's heard hundred thousands of words.
He'd be something in the like the ad system, how they know

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what kind of ads work best for you.
Had to have gotten into his system somehow, something.
He had good fireballs, he had good ice.
We know that. I mean, you set it up for our
Viper do. You remember anything that was
the color red? Bad.

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No. Oh.
No. Kyle, can I?
He was going to frantically search around this room too, for
any red in it. Go ahead, Go ahead and do a.
You can do a perception check right now to like just get a
general area, a view of the area.

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It's only a 12. 12 You do a you do a glance, I mean, there's
like some normal Reds around theroom, you know, some blinking
lights around, but there's nothing that's like obviously,
you know, a red item or a bright, you know, a, a, a red
jar of ooze or anything, you know, sitting out and so.

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There's not a jar of ooze. Just yes.
Damn, how? How?
Inconvenient. Yeah.
Well, I'm out of ideas, all right?
I'm really sorry you lost your friend.
And memories. What?
Why do you ask about a? About the color red.

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Well, OK, I have AI promise. I'm not on drugs.
I have a, a kind of a, a pretty long story.
Gosh, I'm dear would be so much better at saying this.
OK, so I was at a book club withmy friends and we were in the
middle of picking these really good books.
I have them actually in my bag if you ever want to read them.
I I didn't get a chance to set them down before this huge red

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ooze attacked the Tavern that I was in and it latched onto
something called a Shard of reality.
And the barkeeper there is evidently super strong and we
didn't know it. And I think in order to protect
us, he sent us into all the books that were at the Tavern.
Oh, because, yeah, at this Tavern, there's a lot of books.
And they're all books made out of stories that people have

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told, including your story. But I didn't actually hear who
told your story. The book just is kind of there.
And then I, I read it. And so I, I actually, I've heard
of you guys before, but like I said, there were a lot of words
in that book that I did not understand what they were
talking about. But he sent us into these
stories and every time we get there, the there there's red and

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red signals the bad because the the red ooze has has corrupted
the stories and ruined it. Like in your guys's story,
Dasher doesn't die, he's fine. You guys, you guys beat the AII
think, although that there was some confusion at the end about
whether Viper's sister was OK. But you guys, I think one your
story's not supposed to be this way.

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So I think there's got to be some red here that's ruining it.
But my friends are a lot smarterthan me, so I that song I think.
You can are believe in yourself.Amazing.
Oh, I suddenly feel a lot more confident.

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You hear the voice of M Tiro through the in your head,
encouraging you as you tell thatstory.
That's not the craziest story I've heard, and they seem pretty
straightforward. You put it like that.
So we one in that story, we stopped the AI from getting out

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and our you know, it would be great if that was what happened,
but what happened here is Hihachi got out.
Aren't you telling me that there's a way to to go back
though? Well.
We can. We don't really know if if we
think things are getting kind ofreset after we fixed them, but

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yeah, here. And then he pulls out his
journal from his hip and flips to what?
How far into the journal would that be?
So crowning AI achievement was approximately released in March.
So that would be about 3/4 of the way through his journal.
He flips to it and you see a page for each of your characters
of sketches of you guys at various points in the story.

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And he points it and he goes, yeah, you guys.
So this has happened and two other stories so far.
And after, after we've been ableto kind of fight the red ooze
out of whatever it's infecting. So maybe this AI thing that it,
it always slinks off and it creates these portals.
And then when we go through the portals and then it, it beats

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the crap out of us and the portals.
And then usually, well, I guess if there's only been one other
time we we came out together andthen this time Semi came out
alone. Well, you, I don't know, I, I
can't make sense of any of that.That's a.
That's a lot. Sounds like a crazy video game

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system I. I don't know what that means,
but let. Me, let me let me tell you
what's going on here. What Paulo has asked you to be a
part of. I don't ever want to make you
feel like you have to do this because what we're doing is

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dangerous and that's putting it lightly.
We have a plan to re infiltrate New Lisbon City and deliver a
virus. And he looks over it at at Viper
and kind of nods his head. The virus that can take out

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Hihachi and we are leaving tomorrow morning for this plan
to take place. And you have to put it lightly,
we're not sure how far we're going to make it on our own.
If this has been something that you've helped with before, if
this, if we come in contact withthis red slime or evil entity

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and then you know how to deal with it, then you, I think we
may need you, but I would I can't ask you to do something
that's that's this dangerous. This is your life will be at
risk. And that's that's putting it
very lightly. Can't you fight you?

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Yeah, I swing a hammer made out of bone.
Pretty good at that. It's really, I mean my friends
kind of, they were the ones thatwere able to get the ooze out
before much better than me. But I will, I can't.

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I don't really have much of A life to maintain so I might as
got to try something. Hey, do you know I fight for
these guys? Because these are my family now.
I'd do anything for them, you know.
I fight not for me, but for them.
I fight for my boys last night in Mizman City.
If you can fight, you want to fight for yours, You want to get

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back to them. I think that's the only way you
come with us. OK.
So. So while while Hugh was telling
that story, Paulo leans over to LAD and it's like, this isn't a
side effect of the withdrawal, right?
Like that, Like this is happening, Like all this is
happening. The stuff she's saying is is

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real. I don't know if it's real, but
it's happening. OK.
And he's like, he like, shakes his head.
He's like, OK. Lad who has been assisting and
Paolo coming clean off the drugsis going to do it.

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An insight check to see if he still is.
That's going to be a 25. He's he's in withdrawal.
He is not, he's not high. He's like at the end of like a

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withdrawal from drugs. So he, he may be like at the
tail end of it, you know, right.But yeah, he's feeling rough.
Like there's he's, you know, notall that sweat is from working.
And Lad just kind of Pats him onthe back and I'm proud.
Of you water, this will make it better.

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What do you do You have any cybernetics, any augments, any
you know what those are? Perhaps, well I I noticed some
extra metal in my legs that's new that wasn't there before.
I'm kind of grossed out by it tobe honest, and I'm trying to not

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think too much about what they do, but.
Hydraulic jacks. I've got a pair also and I point
down on my legs. If you want to know more
specifically about them, I couldidentify them for you.
I could take a look. OK.

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I I reach over and I just like touch the the metal part of your
leg. You immediately blushes.
Your leg muscles and tendons arereplaced from machines powered
by hydraulics, which can adjust to swift movements and sudden
falls. Your movement speed increases by

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15 and your jump distance is tripled.
When you fall, you can use your reaction to take no damage from
falling. Making a standing long jump no
longer reduces the distance you can jump, so you can just stand
still and then jump. Like just wing, flee, jump.
Yeah, I was going to do that instead of walking everywhere as
I'm just going to, because I canactually just stand still, jump

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further than I can walk. I think, yeah, that's what I'm
going to just do now. There's still more to this.
Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. When you use your reaction to
take no damage from falling, youcan make a special attack with
your legs against a target within 5 feet of you.
If the attack hits, it deals it's normal damage plus 1D6 for

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every 10 feet you fell. You can't use this ability again
until you finish a short or longrest.
Definitely. Oh baby.
Crazy. Yeah, it's extra crazy
considering you can now teleporttoo.
That could be useful. Well, Hugh, thanks for joining

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us. I mean, we're a family here.
You're part of that family. Now.
We ride together. Tomorrow we can.
Well. He gestures to the table.
I can walk you over here. We can show you the plans and
what our plans are and how this is all going to go down.
And he walks over and you guys kind of surround this big table
in the middle of the in the middle of the garage with this

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light, you know, shining down atall these papers and, and and he
starts off. So first thing in the morning,
we're going to be taking a high speed bullet train to the
district of Setubal. That's the closest to new Lisbon
city and a transportation is going to be willing to take us.
And when we get there, I'll drive us to South Lisbon.

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It's an area, it's an old desolate city that's we're the
AI patrol. But that area was deserted as
soon as the event happened six weeks ago and New Lisbon City
went into chaos. Once we're there, I can get us
close enough to the bridge that takes us over the water to get
into New Lisbon City. The Tagus Estuary is a large

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entrance of the river that poursinto this water and this is,
this is Lisbon city, the area, this is like Portugal esque area
on earth. This is where the setting is, he
continues. Once we're there, then we need
to cross the bridge to get into the city.
That's where we're going to meetup with one of Paulo's old
contacts. My man Mouse, matter of fact,

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he's due for communication, you know, and he, he checks out like
he looks up toward his area of the hideout and there's a
little, there's a little like vent that's open kind of up
north, like at the top near the roof with a nesting box and like
a perch for a bird. And so he kind of looks up there
and, and doesn't see any, any birds there.

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And he's like, he's maybe a little late this year.
You know, this week we're expecting some more
communication from, from Mouse. He's my contact inside the city.
We don't use electronic communication.
We only use the oldest of styles, you know, humming birds,
like carrying messages, right? Pretty smart.
And diseases. Man, listen.

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The bird is fine, OK, It doesn'tcome in your area.
It stays in my area. It's fine.
You have a friend who's a mouse.His his name is mouse.
He's not a mouse mouse. I mean, he like uses a mouse,
but like, no, he's, he's a he's a guy.
He's just a guy. Oh.
OK. He's a good guy.
He's a part of the resistance inside New Lisbon City.

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Supposedly there's a group of humans fighting back against the
AI. They're the ones that will be
able to take us in. They'll detonate the EMP once we
get there to bring us into theirinto their ranks and then show
us how to get to the core of theAI to deliver the virus that
Vipers developed. And my boys are in there, man.

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They're fighting, you know, theygot me out of prison.
They can get me into Lisbon Cityand get us all in.
It'll be good. We could depend on them.
What do you think? You you still in.
Yeah. Do you mind, though, on the way
out, if we stop by, I think it'scalled the Hotel Tango.
There was when I stepped out of the portal, I was a little

(34:52):
overwhelmed. And there was this nice woman I
think that was trying to be helpful and I was a little rude
to her. And I just wanted to apologize
because I it wasn't anything shedid.
I it was just a lot going on. Is that on the way?
You don't need to worry about her.
That was a what we call a computer program designed to

(35:15):
suit your needs, and she's just looking for money.
I would stay away. Oh, I I don't have any of that.
OK. Hey, Hugh, once you come over
here, we'll we'll clear out someof Dasher's all stuff.
You can have his bunk and like, Paula heads over into like,
Dasher's area and like, kind of starts like shoving explosive,

(35:38):
like detonator cores and like, blasting caps and, you know,
boxes of plastic explosives, like just against the wall away
from like a little cot. Delicately.
Way too small. Way too small for for you, but
like it's something. Are you sure?
I mean it took me a long time tobe OK with them moving river

(35:58):
stuff it I can just sleep on thefloor.
I did it. I actually did it a couple
nights ago in between my friendsbeds at A at A at an inn.
It was really nice. I'm I'm good just on the floor.
I mean, listen, man, it's up to you.
If Dasher were here, he won't, he would would want you to use
it. You know, I we checked it, it's
mostly not booby trapped. Like it's probably fine.
But you know, you look like a big guy.

(36:19):
If there's a little, you know, fireworks or something and
probably you'd be probably OK. And he kind of smiles, like,
yeah, it'll be fine. I like very gingerly sit down on
the much too small for me cot doing like that thing where like
like when dads are trying to like be supportive of their kids
sitting down on like the play chair for tea time.
That's what it looks like. It's just a very, very oversized

(36:40):
person. Oh, Kyle, with my cool new legs,
am I now officially 8 feet tall?Did I?
Did I make it that last half an inch?
Yes, you did. You get a You get 1/2 inch from
your aunt, from your legs, from your cybernetic legs.
You get 1/2 inch finally. As tall as your.
Sister. Excellent, Ben says, all right,

(37:03):
let's all rest up. We got a big day tomorrow.
And he walks over to the to the garage side.
You know where all the where your cybernetic bike is Paolo
that you've been working on. And he just kind of lays down in
a corner on a, on a cot just surrounded by just metal parts
and, and, and just lays, lays his head down.

(37:26):
What do you guys do with the rest of the evening as you as
you go to sleep? Anything specific before going
to bed? Hew is going to draw a picture
in his journal and it is a picture of him, Namby and M Tiro

(37:52):
at their book club, specificallywhen Emtero was pitching his
book idea. And Namby and and Hugh are just
like in rapture, looking up at him, so happy.
And then tears the picture out and thinks of Emtero's nightly
ritual and and burns it, sendingit up into the there.

(38:19):
Anybody else have a routine theydo at night?
Anything that you your characterdoes before drifting off to
sleep. Question trying to make sending
more of a this world kind of thing rather than a magical
thing. Would it be more of like a

(38:40):
telephone call, just like a chipin your head kind of thing like.
Yeah, it's like a, it's like a chair you.
Have. Yeah, You have the ability to,
yeah, send a long distance message to anyone that you're
familiar with. And it's a special chip that you
would have. That's how I imagined it.

(39:01):
Would mine possibly be damaged or would just AI being out there
be causing an issue? You know that.
You know, that communication into the city has been like
basically impossible. It's like the entire, you know,
tech system inside New Lisbon city was shut down and, and the

(39:23):
firewalls had been put up that were, you know, deep firewalls
that that nobody's been able to,you know, break or get into, you
know, that the city is isolated.The other cities in this world
are run by other corporations, essentially.
Governments exist, but they're small and they're they're
they're puny. They don't really have much

(39:44):
power. All the powers are in these all
the powers in these massive corporations who six weeks ago
witnessed an implosion of the system in new in new Lisbon City
and saw that Hihachi, one of their own tech AI programs took
over. And so most of the world really

(40:05):
views this as an opportunity to fill the void that.
That company had to gain more profit and the world is
basically left this area alone left it alone to see what
happens. They don't want to go in and

(40:25):
expose their own tech because iftheir own tech gets gets
corrupted, then that could causean infection in their system.
Essentially that would, you know, could take over their
system. And so they're the world is
basically keeping a distance from New Lisbon city.
And if there are humans left in there, from their perspective,

(40:47):
the humans are are on their own against the AI and
communication's near impossible,except for very small instances
such as Paulo's contact mouse being able to send a message
through, you know, organic tissue of a real life bird to

(41:08):
him. And so that's that's the
limitation of being able to senda message.
You wouldn't be that spell, would you know that that spell
would not work to get into the city.
OK, I think regardless of it notworking, I still try.
I think I try every night just to see if I get.

(41:29):
A response. I'm trying to contact my sister
Lorelai to see where she is. Is she alive like?
Give me an archive. Find her.
Oh boy. Oh.
Boy, first roll. Oh my gosh, what is that?

(41:52):
Oh, A Lambdama B. And that's a natural 20.
That. 2020. You have tried, you have tried
this like every night and just gotten static.
You know, you send a message every night and it's just not
working. And finally the night before you
head out on this trip, you send a message and don't hear the

(42:17):
static. It finally goes through What's
your sending message that you that you send?
You have. How many words do you have?
I have 25. 25 words. So what are your What's your
message that you are sending to your sister?
A It's me trying again after sixweeks now.

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Just want to know if you're OK. Where can I find you?
Hope you're OK. You hear her voice back.
I'm OK. I'm with the resistance.

(43:05):
We're ready for you tomorrow. We're ready, period.
I love you too. OK, she doesn't want anyone else
to know, but she just has like just like a silent tears just
like rolling down her face as she's like she's sitting up in

(43:28):
her her hammock that's like stretched across like those like
hydraulic like car lift things, you know, so it like stretched
across the top. And that's her like little
place. She just kind of keeps touch
herself as she dozes off. Amazing.

(43:49):
Anyone else with a bedtime routine?
Anything else at the end of the night?
Think a lad probably walks around to say goodnight to
everyone, kind of like in a wholesome way.
Yeah. So he's used to checking on
Paulo before he goes to bed, buthe swings around and says

(44:12):
goodnight to everyone else also.So when when lad walks by,
Paulo's like little part of the his little Bay like hey man, no
guy sounds like he's got some books.
You should check that out man. Maybe you can trade for
something. I know you're always reading
that at like tired old paperback.
Get some new stuff. I've been thinking that myself.
How far away are you guys because as soon as I hear the

(44:33):
term books he would be like. You hear it?
You overhear it? Yeah.
Do you? Do you want something?
To yeah, I would. I would love a book.
I can trade you for one of mine.I have two books that I think
you'll love. OK, so the first one is called

(44:53):
Power Word Friendship, and then the other one is called A
Treasure Greater than Gold. I've only gotten to read the
first chapter of both, but I they just feel amazing.
So one of them is about how a group of friends get together to
host a poetry reading night to save a local bookstore.
And then I flip in my journal tothe page that I drew of M Tiro

(45:15):
as the main character in that book that I showed them on the
1st, like on the last night of the book club.
And I. I, I, it's, yeah.
And then and then a treasure grader in gold.
It's about pirates in search of real treasure.
But then they find out that actually the real treasure
that's more valuable is like thefriendship they make along the

(45:36):
way. And then I flip to the page of
Namby, swinging over the pit of alligators that I drew of her
after I read that first chapter.You can honestly have both if
you want. I can just get more Oh, I guess
I don't know if the lending cartactually still exists.
I don't even know if my parents are OK.

(45:57):
Well, you can still have them. I I don't really have much time
for reading right now anyways. That sounds very wholesome and
Ladd grabs a a book of about bombs and explosives.
He means it as trade. Yeah, that's one of that one
anyways. It's 1 of dashers old books,

(46:22):
thought you might like it. Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll read that
tonight. I honestly don't think that you
could read, but you had it anyway.
He he really liked the pictures man.
He was good with the he was goodwith diagrams.
All the electronic components toa bomb knew it back to front
man, but at the words. That makes a lot of sense.

(46:42):
He always was asking me like, hey, you know, how do you
measure, like, gunpowder? And I was like, this is
something maybe you should know before you start compiling, like
pipe bombs and stuff. But he I, you know, he never
blew himself up. He was 100 for 100, batting 100,
you know. Bat a visual learner, yeah.
When you guys said pictures, I imagined it literally just being
like a sketch of a little explosion, just like over and

(47:04):
over again. Anything else for this evening?
Yeah, as as as kind of Ladd and Hugh walk off to discuss books.
Palette kind of watches them leave and sets out his like his
bag, his like kit that he's going to he's preparing for

(47:26):
tomorrow and he's set out his his, you know, mil spec micro
SMG and his Cortana that he stole from the street samurai
that was murdered at the tech Noir club by, you know, a crowd
of dancers. And, you know, he sets out as
like plated armor vests in his magazines and he starts, you
know, making sure they're all ina place like they can, you know,

(47:47):
you can put them on tomorrow first thing and then kind of
making sure that the coast is clear.
He piles a bunch of amp and Valhalla and grind and night
light and fuels into his bag in like a secret compartment and
stashes it away under his his work table.

(48:08):
And then he kind of grabs a washcloth that's like, you know,
hanging over a utility sink, like, wipes himself down a
little bit and then settles intohis on his cot.
Great. As you all drift off, you all
drift off into into sleep and slumber before this big day

(48:28):
tomorrow and wake up in the morning and you quickly get
ready and leave Paolo. You go and check the the area
where the bird flies in and you don't see a note there.
There is nothing in that spot this morning.
Do you make anything of that? No, this was always the plan.

(48:52):
If we were to call it off, he would let us know if something
catastrophic had happened. But no, the mission is the
mission. We're a go.
Is there any food at this place,at this hideaway?
You got to ask a lot of cook lads, lad cooks for everybody.
If there is there any like ingredients in the kitchen?

(49:14):
I think LAD probably has like one of the eternal stews that
just, like, sits there on a hot plate and he periodically puts
more ingredients in and people just kind of grab it as they
need it. Now you see kind of this.
Yeah. So you see like a a bunch of

(49:35):
random bowls sitting next to this giant pot of just steaming
liquid AM. I going to make OK, I got it.
So Hugh kind of walks over to you guys and goes, I hope you
don't mind. I don't know whose Stew that
was. It smells delicious, but I used

(49:58):
the top of it. The with the steam, you can
actually make really good dumplings with the steam of
other soups and broths and things like that.
So last night I made I made these little dumplings and they
they help give just like a little extra health.
And then I hand out these like kind of wet.

(50:19):
I just realized steamed dumplings to all of you, which
is part of my my chef's feature that I got.
So now you guys, can you eat them now and get the three temp
HP just to like have it or you can also save it and as a bonus
action eat it to gain 3 temp HP.It might be worth it just to

(50:42):
have it now, I was going to say.How long does temp HP last?
Like until it's I think it's just until the next long rest
usually or until you like use that.
But yeah, because I know the dumpling itself, that's the food
lasts 8 hours so you don't have to eat it right away.
But it's also kind of just worthit to.
It'll reset at the next long rest anyways now.

(51:04):
That's straight down Paulo's gullet.
He's like immediately in his mouth and he's like, man, this
is good. You got a cookbook?
Hey, lad, if she got a, if he's got a cookbook, you should grab
that from him. Man, this is good.
Yeah, lad, lad pops it. Yeah, I didn't have a book for
it or anything. I, I just, I kind of just wing
it. Congratulations, you're the

(51:26):
you're the new Cook I. Could take this small bite and
then just like takes another small bite and just like savers
like each bikes like this is probably the best thing she's
had in a very long time and she wants to make it last as long as
possible. I just realized I have seven of
them to hand out. So watching like who makes the
best nummy faces? And this this is me as a Baker,

(51:49):
knowing that I like hone in on this so much.
I've had Vipers. Sounds like she had a very good
nummy face. Who else had a very good because
I have two extra now. Ben Ben does not prefer
dumplings. He prefers mostly good
batteries. You know, things like that have
a little shock to them, a littlebit of electricity and so the
mushy dumplings, not his style, but he does eat it.

(52:13):
All right, Vlad or Paulo, who has the best yummy face?
Do you guys want to roll for performance to see who does the
best? Yummy too as you.
As you guys eat, do a dumpling and see that she's got, what, a
couple left? Yeah.
What's it? I have one left so Viper got one
another one so Viper you have. You 2 roll.
Performance. Don't eat the second one cause

(52:34):
temp HP doesn't stack so just keep that.
One. Oh yeah, that's.
Right, I got a 10. So my running streak on Tall
Tale Tavern. I always roll.
Well for shit that doesn't matter I got a 20.
A natural 20. It wasn't natural.
It was a 1920. Great.

(52:55):
All right, you get the extra dumpling so, but yeah, don't eat
the second one until you use up those other temp HP.
Deal. So I have an extra 1 you said
that I just hold on to. Yeah, hold on to.
And it's just a bonus action to eat it if in the fray of things.
Where do I want to put this? Was our rest Kyle.

(53:17):
Was our rest. A long rest.
Long rest, yes. All right, so I gain a heroic
inspiration because I have the resourceful feet.
Is that a 20? 20 that's a 2024 feet, isn't it?
It is it OK? So what was it tell?
Us about your yeah, heroic inspiration that you get.

(53:38):
Well, I think he just, he like Paolo, bounces off the bed.
He's like finally ready to like this.
This mission has been weeks in the making.
You know, he's got this like pitin the stomach.
He hasn't been able to shake because he left his boys in the
city behind. He's a leader without a troop
like he's he's the leader of this, you know, biker gang in

(54:01):
the city and left all of his crew behind and knows they've
been fighting the AI since he left.
So he like can't wait to get back, cannot wait to to leap
into the fight. And he's, he's been preparing
for this and and he knows that he's going to be tempted to use

(54:22):
every and any resource he has, including things that might hurt
himself to accomplish his objective, but he's willing to
do it. He's committed.
So that's that's the source of his heroic inspiration.
He wakes up like the day is finally here.
Let's do this. And that works as like AD M's
inspiration, like you can rerollAD 20 check with that, which is

(54:46):
pretty cool. So great.
You guys all finish off your breakfasts and get ready and
head out and you get to the highspeed bullet train and you take
that train to the district of settable from the city that you
were in. You're in Almudenya.
Almudenya was the name of this city as as the waters rose in

(55:11):
the world and forced population more north, the more African
population came up. Southern population came up and
really took over the city of Madrid and renamed it Almodenia,
which was a historic name for Madrid.
And so you take this high speed bullet train out of Almodenia to

(55:33):
the district of Santa Ball, the closest to New Lisbon city that
you can get. And you arrive and you go to the
street and you await Ben to transform into a Prius for you
all to pile in. And he says, I've been meaning
to tell you all. I got some upgrades just
finished up, a little more space, a little more family

(55:55):
friendly. And he transforms into a large
electric Hummer. And through the stereo, you can
hear his voice. Vintage 2024 also got a new
stereo. I can actually talk to you all
now. And so you all pile into the
Hummer and take the highway out of the city north towards S

(56:16):
Lisbon. This highway is barren.
Nobody else is going this way. As you leave the city, you pass
some, like, massive warehouses on the sides of the road that
serve as these big supply factories that create, you know,
organic food for the populations.
This is like the rural area of this world.

(56:39):
And you look up and see the sky that's just perpetually clouded
with smog, even in this area where you're outside of the
city, technically. And you drive for a while.
And eventually you approach S Lisbon, an area that was
previously inhabited by lower income people supporting the
grand city of New Lisbon across the Tagus Estuary.

(57:00):
To the elite, the city was seen as a Leech attached to the grand
metropolis across the Bay, and what you now see is basically
desolation. Once Hihachi took control of New
Lisbon, the people in this area fled.
Ben slows to a stop. Paolo looks like Mouse is right.

(57:22):
I don't see any AI patrols out this far.
Anyone see anything and everyoneroll perception?
Mav do you have a dice tower? Is that was that yours?
I do Nice we can NAV. What was your role for your
perception? I got a nine, which I could

(57:43):
explain by Paolo looking around going, man, I grew up here.
No one ever gave a shit about this place before.
Why would they give a shit aboutit now?
And you can see he's kind of like thinking back about what it
was like to grow up here and andhow awful it was.
Hugh, what was your role? 17.
And Viper. 17. And lad. 13 for me. 13 Hugh and

(58:09):
Viper, you guys, you two look out and see your eyes kind of
look in the same direction and pretty far away, like like very
far away. You feel pretty safe from your
position, but you see a like mechanical tentacled figure kind
of moving across the top of a building.

(58:30):
It looks like it's, it's like a humanoid form that has these
tentacles coming off of it. And that's basically what you
can see from this distance. You can see it crawling.
It has a large like red light onits head basically that's that's
kind of shining forward as you're seeing it kind of move

(58:50):
across the tops of building really far away.
Is that normal for here or is that like a what is that thing?
That. And Viper points at it and also
gets everyone else's attention to see it as well.
It's an attack century. That is one of the AI that we
will be bringing down so that wecan get by.

(59:13):
Are there a lot of them? There should be one per guard
station if our Intel is correct.There should also be another one
inside as well. Now that Viper and Hugh have
pointed this this lone drone soldier out, can we see if it's
like along our path? Do we need to circumvent its

(59:36):
patrol? Route.
Nope. It's it's moving.
It's moving away. And you Yeah, you asked Ben that
question. No, we're close to we're close
to the subway. Shouldn't be an issue.
All right, I, I think we proceed.
And so carefully and quietly then rolls forward, driving

(59:56):
through the city that is just desolation.
There's nobody here. There's trash.
There's garbage. There's buildings that look like
it's been destroyed, windows broken, totally looted.
And he drives until he stops at an unassuming door in the side
of an unassuming building. And he transforms out of the car

(01:00:18):
form. And you guys all kind of land on
your feet as he walks up to the door.
And he grabs the handle and twists.
And as he does so, he transformshis hand into a mechanical rotor
and an axle. And he starts spinning the
handle of the door extremely fast until it stops.
And then he pushes on the left side of the door near the frame.

(01:00:39):
And he pushes the door open and and what it does is reveals a
set of stairs that lead downward.
And he beckons you forward, and you all walk down together into
this, that dark area that has some very, very light lighting.
And what you find is that you'rewalking into an old, forgotten

(01:00:59):
subway station and then speaks as you walk.
There's used to be a subway station beneath the city until
it was shut down. For decades, New Lisbon funneled
their toxic waste to South Lisbon, supposedly recycling
what they could and discarding the rest.
Turns out the major corporationsdidn't care for conservation and

(01:01:22):
were pumping it straight down into the earth.
It worked for a while, until theanimals in these tunnels became
exposed to the toxic waste, altering their evolution and
breeding capabilities. Over time, they formed mutants
which desperately wanted to findthe source of their food.
The toxic Icker S Lisbon was forced to close the subway's

(01:01:45):
routes, but they came up with a way to keep the mutants down
here and out of the city. And you all step on a platform
and Ben points down the tunnel where you can see a red laser
shield blocking the entrance of like the subway tunnel.
As the subway travels forward, the laser shield drops briefly,

(01:02:05):
then reforms as a subway travelsthrough.
They tried this for a few years until people just stopped using
it for fear of the train stopping where the mutants could
get you. So it got shut down completely
until we gave it a new purpose. And he walks over to a large
switch on the wall and he clicksit on.
It's a big switch. It just junk clicks it on.

(01:02:27):
And the subway service lights goout and black lights all around
the area turn on, lighting up the entire area in this
fluorescent graffiti. And above the subway tunnel
entrance, written in the writtenin red, the words hell way glow
brightly. Welcome to the hell way.
Trigger the subway track which drops a shield and go as fast as

(01:02:48):
your wheels can turn so you can make the next shield drop.
Otherwise, you're stuck with themutants.
Man, I don't remember you telling me stories about this.
And racing in the tunnels is crazy.
I can't believe this is part of our our plan, man.
And he's like, Powell's like, this is a bad idea.
But I'm really excited. Yeah, I crew is initiating her

(01:03:09):
her mage armor, which in this world is just like it's like a
force shield that like goes around the entirety of her body
and it's like got honeycomb pattern on it and then it's
there for an instant you can seeit and then it's gone, but it's
there. Seeing that, I think Hugh's

(01:03:30):
going to activate his journal too.
Use that to free up his bonus actions.
So let's see, Mav doesn't like this part of the story, so you
can just. My absolute favorite part.
OK. So Hugh is still very upset

(01:03:56):
about everything going on, but it's trying to game, face it.
And he reaches down and he touches his journal, and a small
bit of ink comes out of the journal and pulls on the ground
and forms a small harangan with light colored fur and a big

(01:04:17):
fluffy sweater on. And use beloved Namby comes out
on the top. I rolled #78 and Namby's here.
Oh my. Gosh, get in here.
It's. Amazing you.
So you so you do this and in this world you touch your
journal and realize that this islike instead of ink, it's a

(01:04:40):
hologram. And so you look and see little
hologram namby standing there silent, but you see the face of
your friend. You know your friend that that
you've been missing that that brings you comfort.
You can see that Hugh had been kind of resorting back to a

(01:05:03):
little bit of like that body language of like like a little
kid like kind of hunkering down trying to like be as small as
possible. And then when Namby forms, he
kind of stands back up to his full 8 feet and puts puts his
giant shoulders back that just like flex under the muscle T
he's wearing in this in this world.

(01:05:26):
And he is ready to crush some shit with his bone crush.
Amazing. I love it.
That's that's so great. You get some confidence.
Amazing roles so far. This is great.
And so Ben transforms back into the Hummer.
This time it's a the roof is offand so it's a completely

(01:05:47):
convertible Hummer. If there's any mutants that
decide to attack, I'll need you all to fend them off because if
they slow me down too much, I won't make the second laser
shield and we'll be as good as mutant shit.
Now it shouldn't be too hard when we race this, of course,
it's pretty scary. These mutants fly in and out,
but they tend to be pretty small.

(01:06:08):
It's nothing I don't think you can handle.
But once we get through, that laser shield will go up.
Then we'll be in the clear and we'll be right next to the
bridge. There's a subway exit that this
will go right up to. We'll be able to get to the
bridge area. Now I'm going to need somebody
to sit in the front seat to helpme with the to help me hit the
gas when the light turns green. We got to go immediately.

(01:06:30):
So with another person hitting the gas, one of us should be
fast enough, quick enough on thegas so we can go.
So who wants to sit up front? Mechanically, is that someone
with good decks? Because that's.
Yes, that would be good. That would be good.
Initiative is what we need. We're looking for.
Look up pretty Oh my decks is like I'd say pretty mid tier.
So if anyone feels excellent about it, week now.

(01:06:56):
Yeah, if only we have like a really like sprightly little
rabbit with us. Yeah, I know.
I've got a + 4 to initiative. Better than me.
Yeah, better than mine. Yeah, for sure.
OK. Will you sit down in the front
seat, take the front seat and you guys all pile in as well?

(01:07:18):
I do want to know what your order is.
So Paulo, I got you in the this is vintage 2024 Hummer, so it'll
be driving sides of the. Color is it I have to know?
It's black. It's it's black.
It's. Black, Yeah, is there.
Is there under? Is there under car neon?
Is you got the under carriers neon on?
It I don't think he does. I don't think Ben does.

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He's a more simple guy likes themore, you know, the muscle vibe
of a Prius, you know the, the that's his, that's his vibe.
So he he's not adding a bunch offancy whirly gigs to his to his
to his Hummer. The question I really have is,
are the car seats his skin? Because that wasn't fully
settled in the original episodesand I, Hugh, needs to know that.

(01:08:01):
I'm pretty sure there is a thereis a mole on one of the seats,
right? Yeah.
On the dashboard or something? I don't know if it would help or
hurt. All right, Yeah, Let's just not
know it's better. Than that, than that man.
The seats are a little cracked. I need some some moisturizers.
Yeah, rubbish and use their in in there.
Oh, gross. I don't know why that that's
what that's the part. That got me but.

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The dry skin that you have to moisturize your seat before
sitting on it, That's terrible. That's terrible.
OK, so I have. Powell's up front.
Yeah, we'll do. Yeah, we'll have you on the
front left. You know the driver's seat and
who's up front with him. Feel like I can do stuff like

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from the back as well. I don't think I need to have a
window open for that necessarily.
It's also in the back. Yeah.
Is it better if? He's got the longest legs.
I can, yeah. I can sit up front.
I guess I'm trying to think of like where, where would be the
best place to swing a hammer from?
Probably up front. It's all pretty close.

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So you guys will be all pretty close in in this car.
Is there a moon roof? Is there a moon roof?
It's. It's all, it's all, yeah, roof
is off. So it's a convertible for this.
OK, OK. So they could just like bop bop
like. Yeah, we'll do that.
And I have a reach of 10 feet, so we're all good.
I'll sit up front so that I can push the seat back and get some
leg space. Where do you want to place

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namby? Namby.
She could be in the she. Could.
Be in the like, yes, yeah, she'san echo, so she can really be
anywhere. Yeah, she can be wherever she
wants to be. You could put her on the hood,
but you're you're still not sureexactly how Ben sees outside of
the car. Is it the headlights?

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Is it more like cars? You wouldn't necessarily know
the answer to that, but but you know that if she was in front of
you guys, it would block your vision as well.
And the nice thing is, since I can attack through my echo, I'll
put her in the back. That way I have full coverage of
the entire Hummer. Nice.

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I love it as a Hummer because I actually grew up where they make
hummers and so they're like everywhere.
It like it's like my culture is coming out.
Some people have cool things. I have Hummers.
It's so rare to see. Now I know.
Let's see, Viper and lad. Are you Viper?
Are you behind Hugh or Paulo? I'll be behind Paulo.

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OK. Yeah, and that lad that puts you
in the back right of this. With no leg space 'cause my
seats all the way back. Yeah.
Yes, you have. No legs, rough.
You all pile in and you and Ben's voice comes on the radio.
You'll notice you'll notice something new as well.
You see that big green button onthe shift?
We've just got it installed. It's called surge.

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If it looks like we're not goingto make it, hit that button.
It'll give me the juice I need and then the center console
opens up revealing 4 auto injecting pens filled with green
liquid liquid. I got enough for each of you to
have as well. Just slam that needle in your
thigh and press the button. You'll be able to get you'll be
able to do what you need to do and this surge acts as an action

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surge. That is an item interaction for
you all. Paolo is absolutely grabbing
one. He's like, yeah, this is this is
this is more of my alley, man. And.
In fact, Paolo is going to slap that bad boy into his quick

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injector. One of his augments is a a quick
fix injector. It's an easy use Injector is
installed in your body that can deliver drugs, potions, or
chemicals. Allows the user to use their
reaction to inject and use theirreaction to inject a dose of any
fluid to the user. But I don't need to do an item
interaction, I could just do a reaction if I want.

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OK, so you could you could use it as a reaction to take an
action basically. Yep, is how you can use that.
As a BLAD actually has immune system booster which means drugs
don't work on me, so I won't go ahead and I'll go ahead and pass
my additional 1 to Paolo as well.
Give me that man. You know, you know I know how to

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use this. Just today.
Just today. Listen, that's how it starts,
right? Then Biofuel rolls up to a large
metal plate on the ground in front of the tunnel and puts his
front two wheels on it. You here in the station.
Please stand back as the train doors close.
On the wall, an old stop light wired to the track lights up

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red. Stand back as the train leaves
the station. Ben Revs his engine.
The light is red then. Boop, boop, boop.
Boop. The light turns yellow, then
green. The shield wall drops.
You step on the gas. Paolo and Ben roll initiative.

(01:13:04):
Crash Team Racing. I rolled an 11 Matt the
greatest. The wheel spin and bend soars
for it as the laser wall drops. He goes, goes, goes, and then it
grows, slams on his brakes and stops right as the laser shield
goes up and says, ah, we weren'tgoing to make it, we got to try
again. And so he turns around and goes

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back to the plate, puts his wheels on it.
You hear the station. Please stand back as the train
doors close. Stand back as the train leaves
the station. Ben Revs his engine again.
Real. The light is red then.
Boop, boop, boop beep. The light turns yellow, then
green. The shield wall drops.
You step on the gas roll initiative again.

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All right, there we go, 20/30/20.
And and Ben got a natural 20. So you guys step on that gas at
the exact same moment, surge forward.
Everyone else in the in the car.Your head hits the back of the
headrest as it, as Ben surges forward, closes to close the
tunnel and you pass through the shield wall as it just narrowly

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shoots up behind you. Ben's headlights turn on and
you're travelling through darkness at a very high speed.
Who has dark vision? I do, lad.
I also have the ability to give everyone dark vision so if that
would be useful. Talk to me.
I'm gonna go ahead and use that ability which is called Eyes of

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Night, so dark vision out to 300feet and I can share it with up
to 5 willing creatures. It lasts one hour, so I'm gonna
go ahead and do that. While while we're travelling
down the the tunnel, Paulo, having forgotten to do this, is
going to pass out earpieces. There's probably wind howling

(01:14:53):
past like the wood pops down can't hear each other, you know,
screaming over the wind. Paulo passes out earpieces,
communications pieces that he tells everybody to pop in their
ears. And then all of a sudden it's
like you can hear each other in your heads.
There's like there's no wind. There's no it's like the the
communication is clean and and all of us can hear and speak to

(01:15:16):
each other regardless of any kind of ambient sounds
happening. It's good that you clarify that
you told us to put it in our ears, because there's a very
strong possibility that he wouldhave gone to like put it in his
mouth just assuming it was something like edible.
It's. Like a bean.
He's holding a mechanical bean, you know.
What are you supposed to do withthat?

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And so you guys are travelling through the darkness at a very
high speed. The tunnel curve splits, dips
and rises. And as Ladd uses his ability,
all of a sudden, you know you'd seen Ben's headlights go on.
And then everything is illuminated to you all.
And you can see everything in, in, in in Shades of Grey and
black. As Ben is expertly navigating

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through this track, you start tosee movement off on the sides of
the car. And you see dark forms and as as
the headlight kind of shines as you pass around a corner, you
see the like glint of light hitting the backs of eyeballs
flash as you make a turn. You look out and you can see as

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you're passing these mutated humanoid figures with like
swollen arms and legs and other features, and these like death,
like groaning faces. There are a lot of them.
As you turn down the next hallway of the next part of this
tunnel and they are everywhere on either side of the track, you

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just hear Ben's voice. These are bigger.
And fear starts to grip at all of you.
Everyone make a wisdom saving throw.
Paolo, what was yours? That was a Nat 20 baby.
Nice. Nice.
For a for a 20 because I have a + 0.

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Hugh. 14. And LAD 1717 and Viper. 11. 11
You all succeed. The DC was 11 and so Viper just

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narrowly you all feel that fear grip at you.
Ben's got to make this save too.He has a + 7 to this roll, so he
needs at least a four on this dice.
This will be very bad if he doesnot hit at least a four on this
dice. Come on, don't Kyle it up.
Roll up. Don't, Kyle.
It up. Don't you pull a Kyle?
He rolls A7 so he's great and sohe does not become a subject to

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the fear effect. And he drives forward past all
of these bodies. And then suddenly a flying dark
mass hits the side of the Hummerand it like rocks the side of
the Hummer. And you look in this this
humanoid face with like fangs, and it elongates its jaw and
screams. On the other side of the car you
hear thump, thump, thump, thump,thump, thump.

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And a massive black form with three legs rocks against the
side of the Hummer. 2 humanoid faces look up from this, one
gnashing its teeth violently, the other screaming as if as if
it's in pain. Everyone roll initiative.
Oh my gosh. So Viper, what was your
initiative? 7.

(01:18:35):
Seven loud, What was yours? That would be a 4A4 on Hollow.
18. 18 and Hugh. 18. 18 OK roll off you 2 just give me another

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initiative roll. Well my that would be 21 for me
then. That's only 15 for me, so he
goes first. OK.
Ben goes last in this initiativeas he is driving you through and
so we are at the top of the initiative.
Paolo, you see this flying. I mean it's like a huge human.

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This is humanoid figure like thesize of Hue and bigger the
bigger than this bigger in like the torso portion size of hue.
That was weirdest weird way to say that it's bigger than hue.
It's as a. Measurement now.
Yeah, it is like 1. Point.
Like 1.5 hues, massive head thatthe jaw is like slack and

(01:19:43):
there's sharp teeth that that are just gnashing around on this
this beast that has wings that are misshapen and gross.
It's like this Gray form in thisdarkness and massive claws
that's on your right, that's on the right side of the car.
On the left side you see these this like 3 legged hunk of mass,

(01:20:05):
like running alongside bend biofuel.
And these two heads, one that's gnashing its teeth, one that's
like screaming in pain on your left side and you're in the
driver's seat on the left side. What would you like to do so?
Am I in melee range with one or both of these?
If you're if your range is five feet, you're within melee of the

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of the big big three legged thing on the left side.
OK, but but I'm if I were to take a ranged attack against the
one on the right, I would not bedoing so with disadvantage.
You would because you have an ally, you have a an enemy within
5 feet of you, if that makes sense.
So because the other ones there you you get disadvantaged.
Got it. OK.

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In that case, Paolo stands up like in the the like puts 1 foot
on the seat, 1 foot on the like the well of you know where
you're like the full over your feet would normally be and draws
from behind him the samurai sword that the part that Ladd
and Viper and Hugh, if he has a good memory for the for the

(01:21:11):
story, would remember was fielded by a street samurai that
was mauled and and killed by thedancers to.
Protect the Marquis. And Paolo has dedicated himself
to the study of this weapon and maybe ingested a couple data
programs. But he is now a street samurai,
which means that the first time I draw, he draws a melee weapon

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in combat. He gains advantage on his first
attack, and if it hits it does an extra.
It does extra damage equal to 1D6 plus his proficiency bonus.
So for his first attack, becausehe's a fighter, he attacks
twice. I'm going to try to hit the
thing on the left with with thisgleaming black steel.

(01:21:56):
The first was a net 1, so it's agood not.
Going to hit. And the second was a 23. 23 will
hit. All right, let's do the damage
dance here. All right, 2 + 3 is 5 plus my
proficiency bonus, which for a strength attack is 3, so I get

(01:22:19):
11 slashing damage. OK, and because of my
cybernetics, I have muscle reinforcement.
When I hit a creature with a melee attack, I can shove it,
and if I win the contest, the creature takes an additional 2D6

(01:22:39):
bludgeoning damage. So he is he is going to fall
back and try to hit this thing so hard that he throws it
against the wall of the tunnel. But we have to, we have to have
a contested strength roll here. Yep.
And again, because of muscle reinforcement, I have a +2.
It's my strength bonus and he rolls a 24.

(01:23:04):
That's good. 24 It rolled a 23. It rolled a 23 And so yeah, so
you're able to slash into this, this mutated, this mutated form
and you, you feel the sword, youknow, the samurai sword cut
through flesh and skin and and you are able to shove it thin 5

(01:23:25):
feet away. I can push it up to 10 feet away
and not get prone. Amazing.
Incredible. And I need to do an additional
2D6 pleasure damage. That's 5.
K. 611 Bludgeoning 2. Amazing.
So you, so you, you slash and, and get your samurai sword in

(01:23:48):
there and then shove it and it and it push, you push it over
and it's got three legs. It's not very stable on its feet
and it's able and you are able to throw it to the side and it
goes prone on the ground. And right now in this like, you
know, setting, it's still within10 feet for the rest of the
round until it gets to Ben's turn at the end.

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But it's prone and Ben's moving fast.
And you suspect that it's you'regoing to be able to leave this
thing behind when it comes Ben'sturn.
After the slash and and sending this thing sprawling.
He. Continues the slash of the sword
through and whirls around him with his left hand for his
second attack. Raises his micro SMG to fire a

(01:24:32):
blast at the the mutant on the other side of the car and
because he is now no longer in melee range with anybody, it is
not a disadvantage. Amazing Incredible.
Does a 17 hit? Sure does.
Yes. All right.
And this is it's 11. That's 15 piercing damage.

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Amazing. You shove this creature to the
side and whip around with that SMG and and this is like a burst
gun, right like this is like a it just RIP into it and this
this creature just takes these bullets on it on its on its
body. You see a bullet go through a
wing? Anything else for your turn?

(01:25:19):
I think, yeah, that's my turn. With apologies to to Hugh for,
you know, firing off an automatic weapon right in front
of. His face.
You know, the gun goes off and it's like loud in your ears.
Hugh, it is your turn. All right, I am going to take
two swings with a Bone Crusher at this thing next to me.

(01:25:46):
I was afraid you were going to kill all the monsters Mav before
I got a chance to dwell on them.Like back off my monsters man.
OK, so my first attack is going to be a 24 to hit.
Yep. And then the second one is going
to be an 18 to hit. Both hit.
Whoa, 2 eights on that. So 30 bludgeoning damage and

(01:26:11):
then I'm going to use my crusherfeet to knock it back 5 feet off
of the the car. Good Lord. 30 bludgeoning
damage. Woo.
Yeah. You smack it with a Bone Crusher
and it like goes in you, you hitit once in the chest and like,
it's like, these bones are just like, not well formed.
You know, this isn't a solid ribcage that you've hit before.

(01:26:32):
The bones are just in disarray. And it just crunches into it and
it takes a massive blow with thewith the, with those two strikes
that you do and you push it 5 feet away and it it's wings like
flap in the air as it's 5 feet away from the from the car at
this point. Anything else for your turn?

(01:26:55):
I'll have Namby take a swing at it.
How does it look? Does it look 5?
Yeah, it looks pretty bad. It's taking a bunch big, big SMG
shot and then it took the those two huge hits from your Bone
Crusher. It's it's not looking great.
Yeah, so I'll do that. So we'll say that Namby's

(01:27:18):
spiritual weapon manifest, whichis her sword where the hilt is
the sun. And notice that I, Brooke,
remembered the part of the sword.
So I'm going to take an attack through the Unleashed
incarnation feature. Oh Namby just quit.

(01:27:42):
Oh good job Namby you you all have heard of the the crit
master or as some call her the the Croat goat.
So. Gross.
I hate it so much. The.
Past does some. Crit It's Croat of.
Course. Look, you earned it, Barrett.
OK. You've heard it in a first round

(01:28:04):
of combat there it is. Just a one.
One of them's a Nat 20. Amazing.
Namby does 28 bludgeoning damage.
Yeah. That does it for this as Namby's
sword and this is like a hologram.
So you're used to this inky kindof like black form and this is a
hologram that really has more color to it.

(01:28:25):
And Namby's sword lights up withthat the with the power of soul
and the sun and just stabs into this this flying creature stabs
into it and it like flaps for a second and then just like
tumbles off into the darkness and is away.
I need to get me to one of those.
Viper, you are up and the two monsters that were aside the car

(01:28:49):
are gone. Give me a Give me a perception
check first. OK.
Kyle, do I take that to me that we're going to leave the prone
monster behind in one in one round?
Once Ben, once Ben goes, then yeah, it's like because we're
sort of in this, you know, stuckin movement a little bit here,

(01:29:09):
but it's there. But it's fallen prone and you
guys are moving fast, so this isall kind of happening at once.
That's. Going to be a nine.
A nine, yeah, you don't you, youlook around and don't see any
immediate threats, but do see all of these, these mutated,
swollen, disgusting humanoid forms that are just around in

(01:29:29):
this in this tunnel. Seems good, seems safe.
Think you guys got them all. I'll just kind of like reach out
and reach into my pocket of my jacket and bring out this this
little orb that is my my fine familiar.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. So it's just showing on there.

(01:29:50):
But now it's it's out and it's just kind of like hover nearby
at. The ready is orblet on the
character list. No, it's only player characters,
but if I ever like roll Viper, Orblet will be there too.
Yeah, yeah. OK.
Does Orblet do anything for her for its turn?

(01:30:12):
Well, I can't see anything happening that's dangerous to us
right now, so I'm not really telling it to do anything.
It I could see through it if need be, but it'll just leave me
deaf and blind. There's not much going for it's

(01:30:34):
it has blind sight, but that doesn't really help it like be
like things, right? And blind sight would help if
anything was hidden. This isn't blind sight like it
can't. Nothing can be hidden within
like. 10 feet, yeah, Within 10 feet, it's, I think it, that's
the range of it. Cool.
Is Orbla like an owl? Is that what it looks like it's

(01:30:55):
like? A it's just, it's just an orb.
It's just like imagine, imagine a Destiny ghost.
That's just the orb. Does it have like a little?
Yeah. Eyes up, fighter.
So you summon it, it will have it a little turn after yours.
Is there anything you would do for on your turn?
It's hiding. I'm just, I'm slunk down.

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I don't have much when it comes to weaponry, it's more of like
attacking like inorganic things in machines and vehicles, not
you want. To take the dodge action, that
way in case you're it'll give them disadvantage if they try to
attack you. That is a great idea, old dodge.

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You take the dodge action and the you spawn orblet who
immediately tries to get your attention to look off the side
of the car as one of these humanoid forms reaches an arm up
a swollen arm and reaches his head up and screams and goes to
bite you sick. I would like to use my.

(01:31:58):
Disadvantage. Oh, OK.
And that is a 12 to hit with disadvantage.
That is a miss. It's my major armor.
And misses and everyone else sees this humanoid form kind of
like crawling up on on to bend biofuel.
Oh futs, those were on the side.And yes, in in typical Kyle

(01:32:20):
fashion, I rolled so terribly oninitiative on all these monsters
and say lad, you are up. I am going to blast that arm
with some flames. OK, so it's going to be a
Dexterity 16 save for you. Rolls of 16.

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Unfortunate that is going to be my turn.
I really miss Emtero's silvery barbs.
Yeah, yeah. So you, was that a spell?
So cast a spell. Anything else for?
Your turn. Like hand trip, Yeah.
If you have a bonus action spell, you could use a bonus.

(01:33:02):
Spell I just have healing stuff and no one's hurt, so I'm good
You you. What was that?
A fire bolt spell? Is that what you used?
Or sacred flame? Sacred flame, Yeah.
So you try to target this, the sacred flame on this monster,
and put it right where you thinkit's going to be on this arm.
And then the arm bends backwards.
It bends in the wrong direction that you expected, and it's able

(01:33:23):
to make the dexterity save on that.
And then it is Ben's turn. And for Ben, he is just ripping
forward. You see a Gatlin gun kind of
like pop up in the back next to Namby and aim at downward at the

(01:33:44):
at this humanoid mass and he is going to use this Gatlin gun
attack. Namby loves Gatlin guns.
Ben, where did that Gatlin gun come from?
Where was it stored? Where was it?
Where was that? Story.
Sorry, another secret. And he rolls.
Oh man, does he even hit? He doesn't even hit.
And I technically asked for a disadvantage to and yeah, he

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doubled didn't hit. Wow, that was terrible.
The gallon gun, he tries to aim at it right close to it with the
with the gun and just fires around and lights up.
You can see a little bit more color as the as some of the
other things are getting lit up as you guys are driving, surging
forward and that is his turn. He is driving forward.

(01:34:29):
You all look forward and you cansee a few of these monsters
reach out with their arms and like stretch out and, you know,
put their hands onto like Ben. Ben as he's going and he's kind
of ripping and like breaking arms off as he's going.
But one sticks, one sticks to the side of a pretty large

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beast, one of these mutated forms, and it's stuck there on
kind of the front wheel well on the front.
And you can tell that it's affecting Ben.
And if it stays there, if it's still there by the time Ben's
turn comes around, then he will be grappled.
And so that's what you see at the front left of the car at
this point, Paulo, it is your turn.

(01:35:14):
Is the arm on the grappling the OR attempting to grapple the
front left tire? I'm in the driver's seat.
Is that melee range for me? Yes, as melee, that's that's
melee range. OK.
Powell's going to drop his microSMG, it's got a sling, so it
just kind of settles down onto his hip and he's going to grip

(01:35:34):
his Cortana with both hands because it's a versatile weapon.
They can turn it into a 1D10 slashing weapon and he is going
to hack away at this arm to try to free Ben's wheel.
Another attack. First attack is a 21 to hit.

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Yep, that'll hit. OK, for I was really well for 11
damage, 11 slashing. He's going to attack again.
Shit, that's in that one for seven to hit.

(01:36:16):
Yes. And you missed the second
attack. You cut through that arm,
though. That's kind of like attached.
It's just this big, this gross massive flesh that's attached to
his wheel well and kind of in the mechanism there and you're
able to cut it pretty good. It looks not like it's look like
it's, there's just a couple tendons really holding it
together and just sinew in the middle, some bone.

(01:36:38):
Anything else for your turn? Yeah, he's going to action,
search and attack again because he's he's closest to this thing.
It's this is his responsibility now.
He's like, no, hands off my friend.
And so he attacks again. Maybe Ben is into it though.
I know my friend. He's not into this.
OK, wheels. You don't touch the wheels.

(01:36:59):
The wheels are are the pristine they're OK with well cap.
He maintains them. You don't touch the wheels.
This is a 25 to hit. Yes, that will hit all right. 4
12 damage, 12 slashing damage. 12 slashing that does it and you
breakthrough the bone and that tendril holding been there is

(01:37:21):
gone that massive arm. So I have another attack 'cause
I attack twice. Whenever I use the attack
action, can I reach the arm thatattempted to savage Viper?
Yes, yeah. And that is a Yep.
And that's one of the that's like a humanoid form that's on
the back. You can see it's like right next
to her, like on the side of the door reaching and trying to bite

(01:37:43):
her. 'Cause she's, she's sitting
behind me. Yep.
Got it. OK, so melee range again.
Yep, melee range. Excellent.
He's going to carry through thatattack to the front wheel and
try to sweep up behind with likean uppercut for the the thing
that's on Ben's side on the leftfor a Oh dear an 8 to hit. 8

(01:38:05):
does not hit all right. But he misses, and that is going
to be his turn. OK, Hugh, you see that that
mutated human on the back next to Viper?
That seems to be the only only threat at this point.
OK, I'm going to take my two attacks, my 2 normal attacks

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through Namby because she's likeright there too I'm guessing
right? Am I understanding that right?
OK, well first one's a 26 and 2nd 1 is a 17.
Both hit. And that'll be 28 budgeting
damage. Was that two hits or three?

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That was two hits. Two hits you, yes, you smash
into this thing and kill it. Any specific way you kill this
this thing on the back? I think holographic power of
soul shoots out of her sun's sword and just fries this

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monster. Just kind of explodes it into
sunlight. Amazing.
Pixelated sunlight. Yes, this pixelated flash of
sunlight blasts this monster offthe back, and you all travel
forward on Ben. You look around, there's no
other monsters clinging on. There's some still some threats
as Ben is swerving, going through the tunnels.
He's doing a good job expertly avoiding.

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And you can see the end of the tunnel in front of you.
And before the end of the tunnelon the side of the platform,
there is a massive, massive hunkof of mutated mass.
This is just a beast that has its, its jaw, you know, wide
open. It takes its hand and grabs at
its own flesh and rips. And as it rips its own flesh, a

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spray of putrid green like acid poisonous looking material goes
in and goes to hit you all. Everybody make a constant
Constitution saving throw as you're hit with this nasty,
disgusting poison spray. Paolo, so I have I have bone

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coding as a one of my cyberdeck enhancements since you get a + 2
bonus, the constitution ability check checks and constitution
saving throws and I rolled A1. So I am going to use my my
inspiration to re roll that D20 because I really don't want to

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be poisoned right now. All right, 14 + 2 is 16 plus my
actual con modifier 3. So a 20.
Sorry, 19. 19 OK, that is a save, Hugh. 23.
That is a save Kitty. Viper.

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Viper. Yeah.
That's a 10. A10 Lad.
It's gonna be a 17, a 17. Yes, the saving throne that was
16. So Viper, everybody else gets
hit with hit with the this venomspray and is able to shrug it
off. Viper, you are going to take 21

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poison damage from this as you it hits you and it and you just
take a breath in at the wrong time and you start choking on
this venom and you are poisoned for one minute and Ben has to
make the save as well. Yep.
Question about namby. So I don't know what her con
would be. Do I roll a safer 'cause she

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does take damage and if she but she's also like an illusion?
Can she? How do we get saving?
Throws or. He's immune to all conditions.
Oh, if it has to make a saving throw, it uses your saving throw
bonus for the roll. OK, so.
Go ahead and roll for her. Come on, namby.
OK, we're good. We should be at least.

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That's a 24. 24, yes. Lose it if namby goes down.
Namby is unaffected as the venomjust like goes through her
hologram and she smiles and Ben is able to pass that as well.
He rolled a 12, but as a hum in his Humvee form he gets a + 5 to

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his constitution, so that's nice.
Ben surges forward. You see the end of the tunnel
and he drives through it and just as you drive through it,
the laser wall goes up behind you and you are all safe at the
end of the subway tunnel. We all alive, everybody here
out. Oh.

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I'm going to go ahead and. Oh, you can also eat your I
want. To save it though.
How does the poison affect her out of combat?
It's it will last for a minute and then it'll it'll go away.
So this will. She take any additional damage

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or no? No, won't be taking any
additional SO. I'm just going to heal or do a
cure Wounds for her. Then actually I'm going to do a
healing word for now. So it's going to be add 7.
I'll kill you again later if youneed it.
Kyle, do we have, do we have more than a minute to to take a

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breather before we enter the next second segment of the?
So everything's calm in the subway area, and Ben transforms
and and and just says I'm sorry.I thought that would be safer.
The mutants, never. They didn't used to be that big.
It's been a while since I've been down here, but this is much
different and they didn't look like humans before.

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Palace slaps them on the shoulder.
Like good driving. Mano got us through.
I There was a guy trying to grabyour tire, you know, I had to
take care of that. Yeah, thank you, brother.
And he's kind of shaking it off at this moment, kind of taking a
moment to recollect himself. That was pretty great of him.

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Sure. How you doing man?
I'm OK. You know, weirdly enough, that
wasn't the weirdest thing I've seen in the last few days.
I didn't enjoy it. It was pretty gross.
And but then he kind of like looks over at his hologram.
Nam baby, he's like, but it it'sOK.

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While we're out of combat, I'm going to go ahead and do a cure
Orient also OK, so we don't haveto worry about it later.
Add another 13. Me.
Yep, I think that does it actually.
And Ben seems to recollect himself a little bit and says,
all right, I know we got to keepmoving.

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Next step of the plan, everyone can get back in the Hummer and I
can cast Camouflage self. I'm going to turn invisible and
that'll get us close enough to the bridge.
And Viper, you got your EMPI. Do.
Once we get close enough, Viper,you let that EMP go and we'll be

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able to get on the bridge. Paulo's going to while they're
taking a second, he's going to set down his like bag, you know,
his his like combat bag and dig out a silencer and and screw it
on to the barrel of his micro SMG.
It's like we're going quiet now,right?
This is the We were loud before and now is everything quiet.

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Yeah. Man, you ever see anything like
that before? Man, the mutants I saw before,
they were like dogs and and likegas and shit, you know?
I never saw. I never saw.
People, this was this was totally different.
They never look like us. They never look like humans.

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Fucking corporals, man. If that does not silence or
impact your weapon at all besides just making it quiet
because I have an ability that can make your it can muffle it
for a minute. So the silencer it's it

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significantly muffles the sound sound of the gunshots, so the
shot can only be heard from halfof the weapons normal range.
But while the silencer is attached, a ranged weapon attack
with the weapon automatically misses a target beyond the
weapon's normal range. So if I try and hit anything
beyond 40 feet, I automatically miss.
I can't. I can't shoot at long range.
If you would prefer I could justgive it a muffle of my own and

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that will create a small field of silence around the firing
mechanisms and muzzle for the duration, which is one minute.
Any attacks made with the weaponmake no sound, it only.
Lasts a minute though. Yeah.
And it doesn't impact like any of the range or any of that

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maybe? You'll hold on to that one
because I think it's going to get loud and I can keep this
pretty quiet for now. But you know, when Ben starts a
bunch of people and this big guystarts swinging the hammer,
we're going to need it to be quiet.
Maybe you hold on to that, OK. This only works for a firearm.
Hey lad, lad, you got any guns man?

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Is it just me? I don't have any.
I forgot to. Let's buy one.
I left my gun in the West. Would that work for a Gatling
gun? It's a firearm.
Yeah, right. Could be useful for a gun on my
back. OK.
Completely quiet Gatling gun. That sounds pretty cool, I like
that. Noted.

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Good. Yeah.
If I have to hold on to that, I think we need it.
We need it soon, no? Well, I'm invisible though.
I can't attack. They're also it'll get dropped.
And so if it comes up, if we need it, we're probably going to
be in deep shit already. He tried kind of walks forward
and you can kind of see from a vantage point outside the tunnel

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of the OR kind of up some stairswhere the subway entrance is.
This is more of an open subway. This is like like there's much
bigger doors. This isn't a secret entrance
that you're just going up the main staircase and you can see
in the distance the bridge. The bridge is massively
fortified, huge guns, rockets, huge artillery, tons of

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movement, tons of AI sentries with their large tentacles.
Like walking around everywhere. You can see that there's a lot
of them in this, in that area. Getting to the bridge without
using the MP would be impossible.
But you can see the see the direction you you need to go.
And Ben, Ben says, all right, once we get past the guards, I'm

(01:49:13):
going to I'm going to go, we're going to go quietly so we don't
alert anybody on the bridge, butwe're going to have to take out
those guard posts on the way. Are you guys ready?
Real quick here, hand these out and I pass forward to everyone
of you what looks like a wristwatch and these are I

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explained as the anti EMP devices that you'll be wearing
that will protect you and all your cybernetic stuff from the
CMP device. So you just activate it by
turning the face of the watch clockwise and it will like
activate. You'll be safe.
I'll put it around your your shift stick then.

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OK, great. Shifter, that's where it's
supposed to go and. Remember, I still have that
button. If we need me to go, we can
press that button. That button you got to have your
your surges left. Paolo looks over at Viper.
Like I love that you think that as arrest is the gear.
Shit, that's so sweet. It just seemed like the only
place to like put it on this. So so Paulo tries to put the the

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wrist like watch on and because of the sleeve of his jacket and
his like metallic arm, he can't quite do it.
He's like trying to get it on it, just like won't.
Snap, he made a bigger version for you.
So he, he just. Takes the sleeve of his leather
jacket and just rips it off so it's just metal arm now and then
straps the the thing to his wrist and he's like it's good.

(01:50:44):
More movement. This is.
It's fine. Yeah.
Yeah, excellent. All right, let's go.
And so he transforms slowly, this time more quietly into the
Hummer. And you see him transform into
the Hummer and then shimmer and disappear.
And you all climb into the Hummer, try to find the door

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handle and and get inside and then moves forward and you can
see one of the patrols kind of walking by on its tentacles.
You can see it's this like humanoid body almost that you
can tell it's can can move its arms and legs, but it doesn't
seem to prefer to use those as it's walking on its tentacles in
front of you, these big metal arm tentacles.

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And the humanoid body like lookssomewhat organic, but mostly
cybernetic. It looks like it's been, it's
like this body that's been takenover by this massive of tentacle
and metal is what it kind of looks like.
Big, big red light glowing from its head as it's looking with
this, you know, glassy red eye and it moves forward.

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He slows down, it moves past andhe's able to move forward and
get closer to the bridge. As you get close to the bridge,
you see that there is a large kind of lasers that go through
and this is different than the laser from the subway.
This is going to the the laser that blocks this one you can
tell is like a scanning sort of device where if those of you

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who've done the you, you guys have that part of this plan know
that that would reveal anything that would be invisible then
can't drive through that. And so he creeps up forward and
gets close and is in the middle of most of this artillery and
most of the the embattlements and the sentries are walking

(01:52:36):
close to him. There's one that's looks like
it's on its way that it's going to walk into Ben.
So how far are we from the the loser?
You are in. You are.
You're in position. OK, let's do this thing.
You're up, kid. This is the moment, right?
I'm not, I'm not going too fast.This is the moment we're doing

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the thing. OK, So I'm, I'm, I'm hurting the
gears on this thing, this littledevice and I let it begin.
OK, you are able to turn it on without a check and it's like a
shockwave goes out from it and the lights go out that are

(01:53:19):
around the artillery droops downand the and the arms on these
tentacle beasts, they just can'thold it up and they just all
drop and all the AI is down in this area.
If you were to look in the distance, you can see the lights
are still on. It's limited range, but your EMP
works and you can tell that you've deactivated it.
It only had one charge. And Ben moves forward at a quick

(01:53:40):
pace, driving around the the AI centuries and drives through the
constructs, through the artilleries, pointing down and
onto the bridge and moves forward.
And you guys continue to move forward and you look back and
after about two minutes, you cansee everything come online in
your in your rear view and nothing seems to react.

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They don't know any any better, right?
They're just like, oh, they don't.
Know anybody? Better.
Everything looks normal. So now we're between like guard
posts on this bridge. Yep.
And so you are approaching the first guard post, and you can
see that on this bridge there are a series of three guard
posts. Each one of them has an alarm on

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the main floor and there is a guard sentry that is there.
And this is all Intel that you had received from various
sources on how this security works.
And so you can know that there is a guard on the main floor.
On the 2nd floor, it's open. It's just a kind of a tower that
that doesn't have a roof. 2nd floor is a attack sentry on top

(01:54:47):
of that. And then there is if you go up a
floor, there is a sentry gun that's like on a post.
So like, and that post is on thecenter of the second level.
And so you can see your you can see that you're approaching this
first guard sentry outpost on this bridge.
You look left and right bridge is pretty high off the ground,

(01:55:08):
but this is like a massive bridge.
It's 8 lanes on both sides. This is the way to get into New
Lisbon City. You look down below at the
water. It looks brownish, greenish.
It doesn't look great. This isn't like crystal blue
clear, wonderful water. You look up at the sky that is
just perpetually clouded and youlook forward and see the city of

(01:55:30):
New Lisbon that is dark. You see smoke coming up from 1
of the towers. The city looks dark and doesn't
look like there's a bunch of activity going on there, but you
can see signs of destruction. One of the buildings looks
destroyed a little bit. There's smoke rising from
another one as you creep along on this bridge.

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What is your plan of attack on this guard post?
As you know that the bottom floor is an alarm.
On that same panel is a hacking panel for Viper to get to in
order to deactivate the the guard post.
Really quick, Paulo, you mentioned all this is above the

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table. So Matt, you mentioned earlier
that Paulo gave us some earbuds or those for, again, just
reminding Katie. Yeah.
So all of us. So we all have earpieces that we
can communicate with each other.I think the range is like 1000
meters or something. But we can all communicate with

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each other on the shortwave. And so it's unaffected by EMP.
It's verbal only, right? It's not like in the hood, OK?
Verbal only. So coming up to this first guard
post, can we see any like century drones outside or are

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they all? Is it just this like massive
building? It's just the guard post and in
front and, and past the guard post are a, are a set of massive
artillery, massive guns that youdo not want to come into contact
with. And they are kind of scanning
the area. You know that if you deactivate
this node at this guard post, itshuts down this it shuts down

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the the guns, but you don't see any other sentries, just the two
that you as you approach, you can see one inside through the
windows and you can see the one up on top kind of scanning and
looking around. So as we're, as we're rolling
up, Paolo turns around on the seat to Viper and is like, hey,

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can you, can you maybe pulse this guy?
Yeah, I have. I have this EMP grenade that we
could also lob up there. Well, I think we take the guy
out on the 1st floor first, right?
That's the plan. He's the guy that may activate
the turrets. We got to get to him first.

(01:58:01):
But can you, you know, do some things in the net, maybe get
into his head and and like, makehim, you know, disable him?
I can pulse him and if they bailtheir conceive they'll be
stunned until the next until theend of my next turn.

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That's a good amount of time, I would say, to do some damage.
I say we stack up on the door, you pulse them and then we go.
We we enter, we go in and we take them out.
Reading this, it says constructswith the electronics feature
must succeed on the Constitutiondating through.

(01:58:45):
If pulse, if the, if the, yeah, if it talks about electronics
and these have electronics on them and I will let that work if
that makes sense, Yeah. Yeah, all.
Right. And you know that the you know
that the plan as you have thought of it, once you leave
the car, then initiative will berolled.
And you guys are, are understanding that this guard on

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the bottom floor will activate the alarm.
That will be its goal to activate the alarm.
That's its, its role to alert the rest of the AI of an
intruder. That is, that's kind of your
Intel on the situation that you've that you've known.
Do we have has mouse informed uswhether the electronics in this

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guard post are shielded or not? Would the Would the?
Would a pulse of this kind disable the alarm itself like
the control? You would you would have yes.
If it is electronic, you would you would assume that it does
that it would cancel that. Smart smart.
OK so can I see within 60 feet of me that guards entry like

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through like a window or? Yeah, you can see him and kind
of in the middle of this guard outpost, it is by, it is a 15 by
20 square with stairs as part ofthat, but basically 15 by 15
square then there's stairs adjacent.
And before we hop out of the car, I'm going to give Viper

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Vigilant Blessing, which has an action, and I give a creature
that I touch advantage on the next initiative role.
OK. Make sure that you're ready.
That is vigilant blessing. Smart.
OK. Are you guys, are you guys
ready? All right.

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OK, so you drive up and and thendrives up right to the front of
this guard sentry. You snap your fingers, everybody
jumps out of the car. Everybody roll initiative.
Every time. Well, remember you roll twice,
you have advantage on it. I yeah, I did roll twice.

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I tried to help you. Might have to have Hugh save us
by running in and bashing this thing to death before it gets
the control. I rolled very badly.
Oh good, this is going off swimmingly.
I also rolled very badly. Great.
We're doing a. Great job.

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So Kyle, real fast, potentially dumb question is there's also a
like a one of these octopi things up on the seat on the
roof too, right? Yes.
It's just the one in the room istaking precedence because of the
alarm feature. Yep.
The alarm is down there. The one on top is known as a
attack sentry, and this is one that they they you, you guys

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have been kind of briefing you alittle bit on these different
types of sentries. The one on top that does more
damage and is a little bit squishier, but it is a one that
is there to eliminate threats. Paolo, what was your initiative
role? 9.
Nine Viper. What was your initiative role?
1010, lad. It's going to be a 7A7.

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Q. Well, hold on to your hats,
guys. That's going to be a four.
Oh, no. Yeah.
What did Ben get? Oh no.
Wait, what is Ben Roll? What's Ben's initiative?
Yeah, he got, he got, he got a 17.
OK, OK, hold on, hold on. I have the Alert feat which

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allows me to swap initiative with one willing ally.
Oh, really? And Ben is the definition of
willing, I believe. So I'm going to swap with him
and Ben is going to take my whatever it was set 9 roll and I
am going to take 17. Excellent.
As you get out of the car, Ben like ejects you from the seat to

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give you a little bit of boost as you are like shoved out of
the car do. You want me to roll for my
familiar because it says have toroll their own initiative?
Yep. Yeah, you can roll initiative,
OK. OK, go ahead.
Watch it be like a not 20. That'd be crazy.
That's an 8 8, so you go. Before LAD.

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OK, OK. As you all step out of the car,
I need to roll to see which ones.
Which one? The Gatlin gun on top is going
to see you first and is going toattack.
That's going to be view. You're 1, Paolo, you're 2, Viper

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you're you're 3 and Lad you're 4.
Namby's there too. It's gonna it it will.
It can. It can recognize holograms as
lesser threats, so it's gonna attack Viper 12 to hit it.
Misses. It misses its shot, its first

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one, and its second one is a an 18 to hit.
It starts firing down at you andyou take 13 points of piercing
damage. Paulo, you're up all.
Right, so understanding that I'mI like I'm looking at the our
Intel and the the description ofthe the tower.

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Does the Intel of our of this tower match what I'm seeing?
The Intel of the yes exactly yes.
The Intel that you got is exactly what you see with the
for the tower. OK, so how far away am I from
this drone in the middle of the room?
You're basically starting at thedoor.
All of you are OK. So I'm maybe 10 feet.

(02:04:44):
Yeah. All right.
It looks like it's. I have 15 feet from the door to
the control. I'm going to move.
Past. The drone and I am going to try
to beat it to the control and then turn on it to attack with
my you know, Paolo's going to get to the control and post up

(02:05:10):
in front of it to deny access bythe drone and he's going to
rattle off two shots with his SMG once he gets there.
But getting by it, I believe I'mgoing to have to take an
opportunity to attack. No, because you're going into
its range and not leaving its range because he's like in the
center of the room he can get toit's 5 feet everywhere except

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for like the staircase is way, way out of it.
Got it. OK.
Well in that case, I'm not goingto want to draw disadvantage by
using his SMG. So he's going to letting the SMG
hang by his side. He's going to draw his Cortana
and then post 2 hands to it and try to go to work on this drone

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while putting his back to the control.
OK. So the first attack is a nine to
hit. That's probably not gonna hit.
Will not hit. 2nd a 18 to hit. 18 will hit.
OK, we're gonna do 11 slashing damage and then with my bonus

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action, I'm going to slap that injector for Action Surge into
my bloodstream and he's going toAction Surge again so you can
attack two more times. Nice.
That's another 18 or another eight damage slashing and 5.

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Oh sorry, 88 does not hit all. Right.
So I think your grand total of Ithink it was 19 slashing damage,
is that right? Yep.
And then Paolo like slams his back up against the control to
like put himself in between bodily in between the the drone
and the control. OK, anything else for your turn?

(02:07:11):
No. OK, the sentry on top is going
to crawl with the with its mini arms down to the main level and
it sees you blocking the panel for the guard sentry to get to
and it is going to try and grapple you out of the way.
And so the attack sentry walks up to you and it is going to

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make a grapple attack. And so that's going to be a
contested role, your strength ordexterity or your acrobatics or
athletics. See.
It's going to be, it's going to be athletics.
So from my, from Paolo's muscle reinforcement, his arm, his arms
are not just cybernetic arms, but they've been reinforced.

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The, the cybernetic muscles in his arms have been reinforced.
So he gains a + 2 bonus to Strength ability checks and
Strength saving throws. Nice.
OK. But I'm gonna add a + 2 to my
Athletics, which is already a + 6.
All right, It's a 19, so that's a 27 string.

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You pass as it roll A14 on that check it is a that is a bonus
action it gets to make with a grapple and so it fails that
grapple check. You just you push the tentacle
out of the way and that is goingto hit you with three tentacle
attacks. First one is a 21 to hit that

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will hit for 13 bludgeoning damage.
OK. Second one is a 17 to hit.
That won't hit. For 10 bludgeoning damage and
3rd is an 18 to hit. Ten hits for 21 bludgeoning
damage. Gosh, it rolled well in that

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last one. Are you still standing?
13/10/21. Yep.
OK, yes, he's still up. He's he's, he takes those hits,
he's got this plated vest underneath his, his like ripped
up jacket and they deflect some of the damage, but not nearly

(02:09:20):
enough to to significantly reduce it.
OK. Yeah, it throws its tentacles at
you. You see this red glaring eye
staring down at you? The guard Sentry is next.
You guys really messed up on these initiative rolls, but this
guard sentry is going to try andgrapple you out of the way as
well. And the guard sentry walks up to

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you and you need to make anotherathletics check.
All right, see it? No, that's good.
We're we're all I. Was looking at Kyle's face.
I have a 25. It rolled A20 you save and and

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beaten down by the first one. The second one tries to grapple
you out of the way and is not able to.
The guard sentry can make 2A tentacle attacks now and it
swings one that's like a blade tentacle toward you and that is
a 23 to hit. That'll hit, and that is 11
points of slashing damage. OK.

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And it's second. Tentacle swings at you.
This one's thicker, hits you like a hammer. 13 to hit.
Misses. And you duck and miss as you
take all of these tentacle attacks except for the last one
and miss. And that is the guard's turn.
Viper, you're up. Hey.
Do you want? To maybe pause them now.

(02:10:50):
So above the table. Here's the thing.
If I do the pulse, that means I'm shutting down the place that
I could hack to instead shut them down, correct?
Yeah, you understand that you will that you will need to hack
it to get rid of the main artillery.

(02:11:11):
And so the the the pulse will deactivate the whole electronic
system. So you won't be able to do that
until it comes up. That will give you that could
give you time to address the other the other AI.
You know that from your researchon this panel, once you get up
to it, that this is something that you had been able to get

(02:11:32):
one of the units from and practice on.
You know that this is ADC 10 investigation check to be able
to hack this unit, which you canget to right now with your
movement. You could get around Paolo and
try to make that check to to to kind of get over it, if that
makes sense. Yes, hacking it would or would

(02:11:56):
not disable the sentries themselves.
Like it would, it would disable the sentries themselves.
It's either a long battle of attrition, of health, or I try
to just shut it down as soon as possible.
I'm just not realizing that. Piper has Paulo's full
confidence. Oh.

(02:12:16):
Man. So everyone positioned right now
in that room like are all clustered around.
It's good clumped. It is clumped as hell in that
corner. There's a, there's the two
guards and there is Paolo back there with his back against the
wall defending the panel. And you can get there because
there's not that much you you can get through this difficult

(02:12:39):
terrain to get to the panel. I feel like pulsing this one is
probably best bet. We'll try again at the next
guard station. OK, so yeah, I let Pulse go.
OK, so the guards will have to make a constitution saving throw
or their stunt till the end of your next turn and everything
else will shut down. I guess the DC is at 14.

(02:13:01):
That's what my smell save is. And this is Constitution, yeah,
Yes. So first is the attack Century.
It rolls an 18, so it passes. The guard Century rolls a
natural 20. Oh.
My gosh. The panel.

(02:13:24):
They can't get the panel. Yeah, I can't alert it either.
The guard sentry on the the sentry gun on top goes down and
anything else for your turn. Yeah, I'm going to action Surge.
OK. So because I'm going to need

(02:13:45):
another action. And this is the, this is using
the surge, the stab surge thing,right?
Yes. So this gives me back my my
action and I'm going to use my elemental emitter.
A small arcane battery is installed into my body.
So I'm just drawing up all this energy and then I'm going to

(02:14:06):
release it into like a Thunder wave.
So the saving throw for this damage type is a Constitution
DC-16. Creatures made out of inorganic
material have disadvantage on saving throws caused by the
cyberware. As an action, I can use a free
hand to launch a burst and I'm going to do it in a 5 foot wide

(02:14:30):
line and I'll tell how low to GoPro the neck.
GoPro. Hopefully you had some movement
left to do that. Maybe.
On his next journey, we'll have I.
Was gonna say I can't do it as AI can't do it as a reaction If

(02:14:52):
if you have movement left and you should because you you
shouldn't have. You had to use a whole lot of
movement. You could shift to their side
without leaving. And make it like a 5 foot like
first line instead. Yeah, I'll do that.
I'll shift in a position that hits the two sentries and does
not hit. How low, preferably?

(02:15:16):
OK. And they have to make a
constitution safe and they have disadvantage, I think.
Yes. Yeah, Constitution saving
thorough. They have disadvantage because
they're constructs and it's DC-16.
Tax entry rolls a 19 with disadvantage.
Good Lord. You're not rolling very Kyle

(02:15:37):
right now, and I need you to stop it.
So the. Guard The Guard Century rolls
with disadvantage and rolls A9. And so guard.
Century fails. So on a successful save they
receive half damage. So I got to roll 66 for the
damage. Here we go.

(02:15:57):
Damn 66. 66. Good gonna.
Be 21 for the one that rolled a nine.
And how do you want to split this one?
11:10. No 11. 11, yeah.
Round up. Oh, round down.
Yeah, round, round down on Day 10. .5 rounds up to 11. 21 for

(02:16:22):
1:10 for the other and that's Thunder damage.
OK, and next you got your owl ororblet not?
Oh my gosh. Get Orblet.
Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna send that forward.
And what does orblet do then? It doesn't really do much.
Probably can take like a a disengage or dodge action.

(02:16:47):
Or. Give a or give a advantage to
somebody for something, maybe like a.
Yeah, like a help action. Interesting, So if I like hover
it kind of like a block above where they are, is that
considered a flanking mover? Oh yeah, we wouldn't use
flanking rules on this, but it would give you could give
advantage to one of your other one of your other.

(02:17:12):
You can help Pablo grapple. Yeah, that's, that's I wanna set
it like above, like if not flanking then just like above,
close enough, you know. Yeah.
So you can, you can have Yeah, so Orblit was flying around and
is going to distract them for and you would, you could pick
somebody to help with a, you know, with one of their, you

(02:17:33):
know, checks or whatnot. You could say if you want to
help Paolo, you could send it over, send that orblet over to
Paolo. Yes, it's over, Paolo.
OK. Cool lad, you're up.
So how is Paolo looking? Very bad, my friend.
Like if you could help me, that would be really great right now.

(02:17:53):
Like really great. Like if, if anything, you have
some of those, you know, those healing mites, you know the
nanobots you got in your pocket.They would.
I would like that very much. OK, OK, let's see.
I am going to do a couple things. 1st, I'm going to cast a

(02:18:19):
third level healing Word for Paolo and that is going to be 14
healing. Not great, but OK.
Is there a specific? Word that lad says for his
healing word. Heal motherfucker.

(02:18:46):
And I am also going to do a let's see, I think I'm going to
do a sacred flame on let's see the which are the two that are
in vicinity. Guard and Sentry are both right
next to each other. All right, I'm going to do the
guard sentry. Actually, now I'm going to do

(02:19:08):
the attack sentry. OK.
And that's going to be a 16 decks DC.
Rolls of 19. These are very non Kyle rolls.
Not Kyle Rolls. Not I don't like.
This. You told me you were our roles
were going to be switched for this, didn't you?

(02:19:31):
With your new dice tray or something?
You said that our that we're going to roll.
Yeah, my loving husband got me this gorgeous dice tray that I
hate because it's jinxed. It's beautiful and it was loving
and kind and perfect. And when it's switching our
roles? OK, so it succeeds on that role,

(02:19:52):
so what's the damage? Does it take damage on it then?
No, it takes no damage on success, anything else, But I am
going, yeah, I'm going to go up and put myself in front of Paulo
if possible. There's.
Room for that. There's not room to take his
place. Yeah, you should say where
you're. I think I have slightly an idea.
So just maybe stay there, Stay where you are.

(02:20:14):
Good. Hugh, you're up.
Is there space to shove him out?Apollo out of the way.
You would, you could get, you'd have to get through the, the,
the AI sentries and then you could get to Paolo and, and you,
you would be able to move him. But he's like surrounded by
these, by them. So it's like they're backed into

(02:20:35):
a corner and Vipers in there too, casting in a line.
So it's a lot of people. You'd have to move them at least
10 feet, which would be like 20 feet of movement.
You know, that makes sense. If if Hugh was wading into this
room, Paolo was like, watching Hugh coming to this room is
like, oh thank God, just hit himreally hard man.

(02:20:56):
Yeah, I'm just going to shift and I'm going to hit Namby and I
are just going to square up. We're going to start with the
attack one because you said he was squishy, so we're going to
start with that one. One's a Nat 20.
There she is. There she.
Is there she is. That's a 19 on the dice and I
forgot what my modifier is. I don't know, like it's, oh,

(02:21:18):
it's 27 for the second one. OK.
And then Namby's gonna square upand the third attack is gonna be
a a 24. Yes.
Real, actual hero. Yes, you does not miss.
You has adopted all of you 'cause he's very alone.

(02:21:41):
So the first one's a crit and then you got two other one, two
other shots, OK. What's easiest for you, Kyle?
Do you want them just like one hit at a time?
Sure, if you want. Yeah, we'll do one hit at a
time. That's fun.
We'll see the crit damage and then the other damage.
OK, crit damage is 21. OK.
And then second attack is going to be 12.

(02:22:05):
OK. And then third attack is 15. 15
OK, you you hit it squarely the the first hit and then two
additional hits you and then andthen namby wailing on this
attack sentry denting it in its arms, its tentacles you hit it's

(02:22:26):
like body that's humanoid, but mostly just metal.
It just feels like it just feelslike you're hitting wiring and
it's got this like fleshy casingto this this like arms and legs
body that hangs from the middle of it and it is still standing
and but definitely very much less health than what than what

(02:22:47):
it had. That I'm.
Very much less health than what it had.
I'm going to use, I'm going to cringe as I pull up the syringe
and I am going to surge myself with the the drugs, OK?
He's doing drugs. I'm going to do it.
My action surge drugs. I do not approve.
And take three more attacks. OK.

(02:23:13):
All right, I got 21, a 25 and a 19.
Yes, all three of those head. All right.
First one is 12. OK.
Second one is 8 and then third one is another 12. 12 it had 12

(02:23:41):
HP exactly left exactly that with that third, with that final
hit, you take Bone Crusher and smash it square in that red eye
and smash that red eye and it goes.
It goes dark and the attack Century falls to the ground is
dead. And that I believe is your turn,
right? Anything else?

(02:24:02):
Your turn. I'm done.
OK. The Paolo, you are up.
Paolo is so proud right now. Paolo's like beaten to shit and
then Hugh comes in and just wallops on everything and then
like injects himself with some drugs and then does it again.
Paulo's like like crying tears of joy.

(02:24:24):
He's like, this is this is beautiful.
This is the beginning of like wonderful friendship.
So Paulo is going to use Second Wind as his bonus action to gain
1 D 10 + 7 hit points back. And that's going to be, oh, I

(02:24:46):
rolled really good on that 15 hit points back.
Guys I'm sorry but on the video you will look back on this and
see me flip out freak out for a second.
Because I looked over. My shoulder.
Yeah. Because.
Because I've got Ben Biofuel standing back here and then
forgot. So now I.

(02:25:06):
Have to show you guys so this is. 1.
Does has a a Vin Diesel cardboard cut out full size and
he's been standing in the cornerand I forgot.
About him? And then I looked over my
shoulder and saw a man standing there and yeah, freaked out and
so. He just wants to watch, you know

(02:25:28):
all. Right.
So while as as Paolo uses his second wind a little like like
section of his right shoulder like lets out a little like
gaseous substance and he uses a dose of grind, which is

(02:25:51):
something that he can do as a toxic avenger fighter.
Whenever he uses second wind he can consume a dose of drugs and
with with grind I'm allowed to add one D4 to any strength check
or strength based attack role. So he uses his second wind the

(02:26:12):
drugs enter his system. Lad, I'm sure is shaking his
head, but like you see his like Paolo's eyes dilate immediately
and his, his like muscles flex and he looks at this thing
that's just savaged him and he draws strength from the, the
flow of the the chemicals in hisbody.

(02:26:36):
And he is going to wail on this drone that's left in front of
him. So he's going to spend his two
attacks on this drone. So that's 18 + 1 + 6 to hit.
So it's a 25 to hit. Yes it will.
I'll do the second roll to hit here.

(02:26:57):
That's 18 to hit. That will hit.
All right, so he's going to do. We got 8 and then another 8, so
16 slashing damage. And how does this thing look?
Less than half good. He's a He's a little bit thicker

(02:27:20):
than the other one. He's, he's like feeling the flow
of the drugs in his system. And so he's going to grab the
second surge Cam that he has like whatever inhibitions he had
before. As soon as the as soon as that
grind hit his system he was likewe're in, He slaps it into his
injector and he's going to give himself an action surge which he
will immediately use for another2 attacks is.

(02:27:43):
That your last one. It is 19 to hit. 19 hits.
And 25 to hit. We both hit.
So we'll do another. There we go, 9:00 and 7:00.
So another 16 slashing damage. 16 You hit it for 16 slashing

(02:28:06):
damage, and you lop off one of its arms, one of its tentacles,
anything else for your turn. No bonus attack.
I'm not moving because I my back's up against the control.
So he he stands tall. He stands tall and he does an
ability that was not on your Intel sheet, on your dossier,

(02:28:27):
and it is. He is going to spin and whirl
his his tentacles around rapidlyand everybody in there needs to
make a Dexterity saving throw. Feel like I've seen this before,
sounds familiar? Does it lad?
15. And Hugh?

(02:28:50):
11. And echo. 01 SEC.
Yeah, that's right. Oh no, Namby got A7. 7 Orblit
How does orblit do? OK, Orblit is oh gosh, that's
+4. So Orblit got a 12. 12 and

(02:29:13):
Viper. I got you, said Dex.
So I got a nine. Nine Viper and Paolo 11/11.
The only person to save is Landyon that.
Everybody else fails as he whirls his arms rapidly around

(02:29:35):
and you all take 19 points of bludgeoning damage.
And Landy, you take half of that.
And as it whirls, it takes. And you see a tentacle hit poor
Namby and Namby's Yeah. You let's out a blood curdling
roar as Namby dissipates. My orblet's up by. 1.

(02:30:01):
One point, excellent. That's its turn and Viper, you
are up. Can I activate sorry, use my
reaction when I took that damageand activate my regeneration
feature? Yes you can.
For the first time that I ever remembered.
That you remembered I. Remembered.
I'm so proud of you, I. Rolled my first D4, that's a

(02:30:24):
three, so I'll get 3 back and then I get to do that five more
times because of my con modifier.
Oh, I'm growing. On your turns, excellent.
Yeah, on my turn. You start to, you activate that
half troll regeneration and thatwhirl, one of the scrapes you
look starts to heal up and Viper, yeah, you're up.
Is there room for me to squeeze in and try to hack, or is it

(02:30:50):
still pretty clustered? You can't hack right now because
it's disabled from your pulse bell.
I feel useless. I'm out of range of that other
sentry, right? Oh, no, you can get to him.
Yeah, he's like, he's yeah, you can.
You can absolutely get up to that sentry.

(02:31:11):
I mean I mean my Orblit. Oh my gosh, I forgot my orblit.
So I'm going to send my orblit over to just funk touch the the
sentry and use decompose. Nice.
Excellent. OK can't believe forgot about
that thing I prepped last time. Give me this spell attack roll

(02:31:33):
yes so. I rolled an 18 and I have a
spell attack bonus of 6 so it's a 24 hit.
That will hit. Go ahead and roll your damage.
4D8 necrotic. Let's see whammies.
OK, that's A1 whammy, but I got a 15 twiddle.

(02:31:53):
Orblet touches it and you can see it's metal just starts to
rust and decompose and go away. It's still up but it's not
looking very good at all. Anything else for your turn?
Bonus action Add down that dumpling.
OK, you eat the dumpling. Excellent.
Just down it lad, you are up andthis entry looks very, very bad

(02:32:15):
now. All right, I'm gonna, for the
third time, try a sacred flame. You can do it.
It's gonna. Be a deck.
Deck 16 Deck 16 Natural one. Yes, give me a crit damage roll
on this. I'm gonna do my best.

(02:32:37):
Give me a. Crit damage roll on this failed
deck save. That would be 15 total then.
Yes, exactly 15 hit points had left, so it it just is as as it
decomposed. It was so focused on that could
not miss your sacred flame. Hit it and take out the guard

(02:32:57):
sentry. The guard sentry is down.
It is quiet in the guard station.
You look out the window and don't see like you haven't
really made a big ruckus. There's nobody, there's no other
centuries coming. This is a kind of remote area of
this bridge and the time runs out on the pulse spell and
everything comes back on and Viper you are standing next to

(02:33:20):
the unit where you can hack intoit.
I go to it, I check it for anything suspicious like traps.
Parole investigation. Let's go.
OK, that is a 24. 24 You walk upto the panel and a moment of

(02:33:41):
panic hits you because the panel's different than what
you've been practicing. There's a higher DC for this
hacking check you were expecting.
ADC of 10 A fairly easy check tohack this.
This is a different system. You think you can figure it out.
Investigation is your hacking check for this.
Anything else I can? Use.
The DC and the DC goes up from 10 to 16 on this.

(02:34:04):
So not it's not impossible you feel like you can figure it out,
but the DC is 16 on this hackingcheck.
Can Orblet help her Can. Orblet can orblet can do some
some help action. So proficient in investigations.
I guess you could. I was trying to think of like,
he was like, what? How could Hewitt help in this
situation? I don't think that I I have to

(02:34:26):
rule that you cannot help with. A computer.
You can do it. I believe in you.
Your fire burns bright. Oh, advantage either way, right?
Yeah, Yep. Advantage.
OK, we'll say it's or or blank. Going down to help, it's
terrible. So that one is not good also.

(02:34:46):
OK. That's gonna be, it's an
investigation, right? Yes, investigation.
Can I give guidance? You can.
Add D4. OK cool cool cool.
That helped. My advantage was a 5 + 6
investigation 11 plus you said D4.
D4D4. 16. 16. Oh.

(02:35:11):
No, it's a four, so it's a. 1515the system seems to alert a
little bit and then like it's like a warning symbol, almost
like it's got one check on it that is a security threat but

(02:35:33):
doesn't activate anything. You can do another hacking
check. I give guidance again, OK.
And you can have. You can have the help.
As well. Yeah, like come on Orb, but help
me out. OK, This is this is already I
had a 16 plus 6/22 plus guidance.

(02:35:57):
Excellent. You failed the first time and
the system almost activates and then settles down.
As you are hacking into this yourealize you had one more chance.
If you had failed a second time then the alarm would have been
breached. But it did not because you
successfully hacked into this guard station and hit the

(02:36:18):
deactivate button and you can see the massive artillery that's
just past this guard station powers down and and goes down.
And you look ahead at the bridgeand you see the other two guard
stations, the massive artillery on the next one and on the third
one as well goes down. All three guard stations have

(02:36:42):
been activated by hacking this one node, something you.
Weren't expecting, yeah. And that is where we're going to
pause the story and come back next time with you and the
Scrowning AI achievement clan. So thank you to all the players
this week, Becca, Mav, Landy andbless the Kitty.

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