Rays of Neon Episode 26 High Fructose Highway Hell

With Emmis in tow, Jaybird faces her deadlist test yet: a game of speed with the Big Corn coalition.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Turning like coordinated.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
So no, like they're they're like in traffic with everything.
They're not necessarily bowling people over, but there's a high
fruit TOWRST presence that just wasn't there before.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh no, damn Okay.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Currently everyone's playing it cool. They don't necessarily have your
plates like that or anything. There might be a situation
where they've like you know, told people look out for
your car description, but seamlessly getting into traffic the way
you did, keeping everything on the way it's supposed to be.
No one's going crazy.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yet, but my eyes are open, I'm watching. I'm waiting
because it's probably more when, not an if.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Exactly we're gonna say, ten minutes go by, you're gonna
have to roll dice again very soon because you going
to the exit where you're gonna need to take off
to get to the Exotic Transports Main HQ, and that
shit is cordon the f off Like they're just straight
up blocking the streets.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
They just made it interesting, that's all. It's fine, don't
worry about it. That's fine. Thing's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
And as turns he goes, are we doing this the
violence way or do you have a non violence way?
I have no preference for this swine.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
I never think about it that way. To be honest
with you, I.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Just go fast. Your GPS device is saying we should
take this exit, but that is a wall of cars.
How are you gonna get past it?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, no, don't worry about it. I got it.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Hey like the eyes the eyes widened. That is the
second and most amount of emotion you've seen on Emson's
space since you met him.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Have we approached driving in a high pressure situation?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
I don't know, Lydia. You're about to come down and
kind of a bunch of swat team corn bands that
are not allowing you to go to place you want
to go, and they may have surface to air missiles,
so perhaps it's high pressure.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Can I roll edge for hot shit driver to see you?
If I get the hold?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think you should roll eedge for hot shit driver?

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Love it? Okay? Here we go?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Not as good? That gives me hold one?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Okay? Oh no, you take those? Not hold one?

Speaker 3 (02:48):
So that means I can It gives me options from
a list.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yes, where you can avoid a danger, escape one pursuing vehicle,
maintain control of your vehicle, or impressed dismay or right in.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Somebody brightening MS doesn't count right?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay, good? All right?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Then let's assess the grand theft auto legally distinct type
brain is looking. I assume it's backed up. Can I
do something jankie like drive on the barrier or is
there like a ramp setup?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Hmmm? I think it's gonna be a hard You might
fuck up your car a little bit. It's a drop.
It's a drop, mm hmm. But you do see just
a piece of road that's just long enough that you're
pretty sure if you've gun it right and fuck with
the brector thrust, you can pop a barrier and get

(03:50):
off this ramp.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay, yeah, that's that's the option in front of me.
So let's do it.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
I'm gonna need you to act under pressure, my friend. Okay,
here we go, and add the car's power to that
as well.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
The car's power is somewhere on my character sheet. Here
we go.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Who can look at you?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I'm pretty cool, right?

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Do you want to tell me how you pop the uh?
Do you want me to do it? Or do you
do you have a vision in mind?

Speaker 3 (04:22):
On I am attempting to flutter and throttle the because
I imagine the car has something that like when you
initially like kick it on, it's like stronger to like get.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
It off the ground. Right.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yes, okay, I'm like fluttering that because normally it's a
big boost and none it maintains, is how I'm imagining
it works. So I'm trying to like engage and disengage
that quickly so that it keeps doing the hard thrust.
It's off in the landing as much as possible as
we drive off the edge.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
What I think I see in my head too. You
tap emis on the shoulder twice and you're like, when
I say so, throw yourself in the back as hard
as you can to get the weight down. I love it.
And you just give him the fucking three two one,
and then you kind of lean back in your seat
and he throws himself into the back seat. You hit
the h's your second deal a noss of the day,

(05:21):
and just it angles the car perfectly for the thrust
of the noss to chet even a diagonal upwards direction.
You pop the barrier. It's a hard landing. You drop
like sixty feet. Ye, there's no getting out of that,
But I don't know, there's no weird sounds coming from
the engine. Nice, your transmission's doing pretty eye. Okay, you

(05:42):
know you don't got any wheel axles or any of
that shit to deal with.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
It will be a joy to polish things up later.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
And yeah, the playlist skipped, you know, but that's not
I love it.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
However, how should they put this? That wasn't inconspicuous? That
was perhaps what the opposite of I was just straight
up conspicuous.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
It was fast though facts and you.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Are in an angle to get away. But there are
now five active SWAD fans on.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Okay, I love it and.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
That is where I'm gonna call it for right now.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Special thanks to Toys and Things in Danvers, Massachusetts, Reaper Miniatures,
Off the Wall Games and Hadley, Massachusetts, Games and Friends
in Springfield, Massachusetts, as well as Triple A Games Arena
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