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Hey, how's it going? How are we talking about Cloud
infrastructure? A, which is your upcoming
project that I think we're I think ryan'll are both pretty
stoked for Ryan. Yeah.
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here for listening. So, as hundred you said, yeah,
we're super excited for cloud and press one.
Like like, we were all kind of chatting before got motherships
a little bit overdue. So it'll be really nice to do a
little bit of a hack of Lonnie but still, you know, do you want
honored in all that? And you know, we also have we
have, we have this as well. This is not your first
Mothership project. We got hot stuff is Charlie.
And so for those that might not know you right now, could you
just introduce yourself a little bit?
Just say something about, who Worlds by W is and everything.
Sure, so my name is w. I am an Indian.
Tabletop role-playing game creator primarily working in
Mothership although I have a couple smaller ziens out for I
think Troy correctly one. Yeah there's a did a mini module
for lay on hands. Alfred valleys really cool solo
game but working in primarily Mothership now mostly published
my own work but I am publishing a couple pamphlets from some
other writers on the cloud, a project, but really focusing on
kind of weird and career games as the primary focus.
I talked about a lot of my work sort of centers around climate
Justice body horror try to make my work funny.
So it's not such a serious take on serious topics and yeah just
explore the space of Indie tabletop role-playing games.
It's a really fun group of folks and so, yeah, I guess I've been
doing it about Two years more seriously released towards the
start of the pandemic, which I know is some other creators kind
of got into things a little more seriously during that period.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean there was a huge boom. You know, I think with the
pandemic for a lot of reasons, you know, games especially games
like, you know The Wretched really really blow up the during
the pandemic, I think for a lot of reasons.
So I think within the in the industry it was very like I
don't call, I got a dark golden age, I guess like the world
sucked in a lot of like, you know, anxiety you know, and a
lot of creativity came out from it.
When starting With I guess a hot stuff since it's in my hands.
When when did this come out and in relation to take and what
we're talking about? So that launched last February
and I guess is it? I don't know what the first
scene month. I don't know which scene using
Quest got canceled. So there's this whole Zine month
things you month 2022. So it was planning to be as
inquest project but then became a Zine month project on
Kickstarter and it fulfilled. Two backers.
I want to say like July In August.
So about six months fulfillment time for that.
The idea, I don't know, maybe three to five months before that
prior then. Nice.
And what, what made you decide to make a game about Hot Stuff,
hot sauce and hookups So what I was thinking it really is a
pandemic game in a lot of ways, I didn't realize how depressed I
was when I was writing it and and I had other people read at
our my wife read and like, oh my gosh, I thought this is going to
be more fun. I think there is humor in that,
I think, I mean, I knew bread it so maybe you're better take on
it but it really is, Imagining this this Shore bleep component
that I had seen talked about in the one a Mothership.
I knew that this expanded Shore leave experience was happening
and so I really thought about what would surely have look like
in a Mothership alien kind of working-class sci-fi setting
look like and trying to explore both the horror and the humor of
that experience and then also bringing in sort of a career
perspective in terms of of you know, if you're going through
space and trying to be killed by an alien or The oxygen is going
to run out of your ship, your ship is going to explode.
I mean, you probably going to be having more sex.
So that was the other piece, that's reasonable going to a
specific location and then the tie-in was, there were some
stuff coming out around some hot sauce, manufacturer kind of
polluting, a nearby town, and everyone's eyes were burning
Sriracha so that the Sriracha factory was poisoning, the
around surrounding community. And people would come out in
their eyes As would burn and all sorts of stuff.
And so maybe there's some climate peace in that.
The setting is Port, tack Sacco, and it's sort of a hot sauce,
manufacturing Island. That that also tries to be this
vacation spot and so it's horribly polluted.
But it's creating these beautiful sunsets that people
are kind of seeking out for. I don't know all sorts of
Adventures but it is a solo compatible Mothership module for
between sessions and Mothership, which was sort of, I thought a
unique take on what you could do.
With a Mothership module. Yeah, I think I missed the Racha
gate. I don't think I ever like put
together heard about. So let's be clear.
That was the there. It's the Sriracha factory is
next to like an upscale neighborhood and it was so
interesting. It was the homeowners
association from the upscale neighborhood that was
complaining but the actual workers inside of the factory,
weren't at least, that was the article, read the time, I'll
know where they ended up on it but it's just or seem like a
fancy neighborhood. That had a problem that there is
a factory nearby. Why why I'm that I lived in
Chicago for a long time, there were a couple of venues really
cool, the news that folks would buy up and upscale Apartments
next to him and then make all these noise complaints and get
them so that I that's really just another another layer to.
That's one of the biggest draws for me is the pretty intentional
critique of capitalism that this sort of economic horror that
exists in Mothership. Yeah.
The things that first drew me to it and what I tried to explore
and hot stuff on truly more specifically, the I do love that
the like the dystopian core Pro like contract for it's like,
well, your contract sign and you have to do this, and it's like,
new didn't need this to survive, so yeah, very cool.
Very interesting. Yeah, those women act my next
question was like, why why Mothership, you know, between
hot stuff and Cloud impress, and that kind of stuff?
Like, what kind of Drew you to? Is it more the system or was it
more? I kind of like the this kind of
almost like a lure aspect they were talking about like the the
capitalist, you know, aspects and stuff like that.
Or was it the like the game mechanics are kind of pull you
in more to it? I started my interest in always
Tsar type games. I was watching questing beast
and I was doing it. I did some board game design for
a while so I really thought a lot about systems and the
importance of systems and mechanisms and I had some
fixation On those things and I would watch these 0s are reviews
from questing beast and others. And just these really weird
ideas that were really neat, magical items that did all sorts
of strange stuff. and started to find out about rulesets, I had
played Pathfinder and 3.5 looked through a lot of 3.5.
And so my experience was a lot of discomfort as a GM.
I'm sort of the forever GM when I play and a lot of discomfort
in Playing in spaces that didn't have really clear rules and
mechanisms because I was, I think uncomfortable at The
Improv components or unable with the, the friend dynamic or the
table Dynamic, which I feel very differently now.
So I came into this osr space. With a real interest in
primarily electric Bastion land. That was one of my first drill
Touchstone games where it kind of blew my mind.
And and it was at the same time that I was realizing that I
don't think my strength set really applied best to put more
game design. I had a game under contract for
several years and I was trying to make it this.
This multi-session solo Legacy game that that was really
narrative-based and had these evolving characters and had this
Rich setting and world and it's a difficult project for anyone.
And as a first design without a lot of development support, it
was not something that That was successful.
And so, I was like, well, I think what people most resonated
with these ideas were the, the world, the story, The Narrative,
the writing people responded, well, I had about 50,000 words
written for the story book, so people are really responding to
that. And so I came into role-playing
saying I'm really interested in building world and World
building. That's kind of the publisher
name. I have is Worlds by W.
There's a real focus on creating unique worlds in world-building
and so Realizing. Oh, I could do that in a way
that didn't involve a bunch of mechanisms.
Or moreover, I could do that in a way using other people's
systems the drawing Mothership. I don't think I was necessarily.
Particularly drawn to a D100 system.
One of my critiques of D100 is that I found a lot of new
Gamers. It takes like 5 to 10 minutes
for them to understand how to read a D100 which seems really
simple to more experienced Gamers.
I thought either was are serious conversation.
I had it with myself and maybe some other people in the
community about making Cloud empress.
I like d-10 Panic system game and that that might be, I don't
know. I so we'll just see how things
develop but the D100 really threw me off for a while and I
think throws off some other people.
Once you do it a couple times, it's not that difficult and I
can get off people through a session after a couple.
The percentiles are pretty nice too.
So if you folks who aren't familiar, probably be most many
people are, but you roll, two, d-10 and then one is sort of the
tens number. The others, the ones digit.
And then it's a roll under system where you rolling under
your target level character, stat.
But one thing I really found with Mothership that that really
drew me in was a really positive Community.
I joined a third-party Mothership Discord run by Ian.
Muesum and some other folks and that was a really positive
space. Folks are really open and honest
they're about How to run a business, how to how to make a
game successfully, financially, how to write and hire folks.
So it's a really open environment and so that was a
real draw and the other piece from more of the publisher side
of things Mothership and tkg, Tuesday night games provides a
ton of support for small Publishers so they have a store
they'll buy like anywhere from 25 to 200 copies of your Zine
which is really big for a small publisher and when your Excited
to sell 10 copies but there's this this community the other
piece I really like about it is there's some really intentional
Community moderation and we're talking there's this big talk
about licenses right now and obviously we don't need to get
into that all but one of the major is who's talking about
licenses one of the neat things about Mothership I think is that
there is a level of moderation in the products that are put
out. So each month Mothership module
that sort of branded does need Tuesday night, games approval
and what they're specifically approving as some branding
elements. But primarily looking for, you
know, transphobia homophobia, racism like things that make the
community unwelcoming for marginalized folks.
And so, that was something that, hey, this publisher is really
intentionally engaging with creating safe, and inclusive
communities. So, that's been another big
draw. So, I knew I wanted to create in
the mothership space. And so a lot of my game design
is come from. Well, what's new?
What could be new in that space? What's unexplored and Mothership
and how could I balance some of these like really interesting
horror elements the other piece I'll just mention going kind of
long in this question but I lost honestly, real has died.
I And having played like Pathfinder and explored 3.5 and
read a lot of 5 e at a certain point.
I am really uncomfortable with violence in my life, I would say
in general. I mean I take a pretty
practicing Buddhist. I take a pretty pacifist
approach to to life as I can. And so I think the thing about
mother ship, that was really interesting to me like some
other OS. Our games is You really are
fallible human beings in this system and the there are serious
consequences for creating situations of violence, for
making mistakes for doing risky. Stuff that I didn't find in a
more heroic fantasy setting and and that term like murder hobo,
it started to really rub on me that a lot of these heroic
systems are actually in this sort of superhero model where
there's sort of wanton destruction.
Constant murder without any real consequence to the characters
involved in. So that's, that's made me more
and more uncomfortable as the marbleization of everything is
sort of happened over the last 10 or so years, 15 years, Oh,
god really. Has it been that long since
2005? 2006.
That's really interesting. We've heard, I guess.
That's, yeah, yeah, anyway, sorry.
No, you're dumb. Try to do that.
Trying to do the math on it, but I'm terrible at math.
So I should just stop. I'm with herds as far as the
third party Discord in the the kind of Mothership Community.
We've heard that. I think spicy tuna said
something very similar as well. It's nice to know that it's like
there's such a strong things like this Discord was just like
Like everyone back in each other up for a Mothership.
It's like that's such a great community and I think it kind of
shows because there's always this content coming out from
other ships from all these great creators that work together or
work independently. But is of such a high quality,
I'm just like, well shit, man, I guess I'm going to get in and I
still haven't run a Mothership game and I have so much.
I'm waiting for one even drunk so much content and I'm
including this and the kind of segueing to Cloud Empress.
I think when Ryan and I both saw like the press kit, You will
immediately struck by like this stylized.
Like, you know, it's very, very much invokes like this nausicaa,
like Vibe. And, you know, I think not
Scotts Valley is wind and all Studio Ghibli has a very like
environmental, like facet to it and you're saying that didn't.
Like, this is also like that kind of like ecological game as
well, right? Mmm, it is really The sort of
central question, that's not necessarily always the central
question of play. But the central question of the
world setting is What does life look like when human beings
aren't sort of the central agents of the world and that
particular, but that sort of centered and nausicaa in these
sort of toxic for us and insects, but also in Iraq, a
sand dune, it's a world that's really dominated by San worms
and sandstorms. And so, As we are continually
faced with climate disaster, after climate disaster, what
might it look like. As we have to bend and shape our
lives around these things, rather than expecting the, the
world to accommodate our needs in.
And not just our basic needs, but our every want.
Yeah, the Western World or America.
So what was he like? Original driving.
Like creative Force for you creating Club.
A like this is something you've always He's going to have in the
back of your mind or we watching or reading, do nor reading you
also have the Earth's. He sees you have like some
strong heavy hitter series on your like creative Inspirations
by the way. I'm a huge Dune fan and Earthsea
so The primary, but just a tional.
The the piece of sand and the oyster that sort of started the
fall was Wanting to have magic and Mothership, which sounds
pretty goofy. But I really wanted a magic
system in Mothership. And I was thinking about spaces
that haven't been explored. I think one of the challenges
with Mothership Because there's so much creative output in that
space. There is some overlap and ideas
and so it's not uncommon for Some Mothership modules to turn
a little bit into this, like, haunted house, what's in the
ship? And what's the white creepy
thing in the center of the ship? And that's really fun.
And it can be written really well and executed, really well,
but I had seen so many people play in that space and do it
successfully. And so I thought well, You know,
I don't need to go there but I hadn't seen much science,
fantasy and Mothership in and I hadn't seen a magic system.
There are some mutations in some psychic abilities, psychic
abilities, and psionics, and things that I have seen but I I
like flying a spellcaster mean that to me is just so cool but
oh it's the coolest. It's always the best at any
point in time and I don't care what anyone says. and it feels
like at least from my perspective RPGs haven't done a
great job of Like a Warrior fighter class, they're just
getting like more muscular but the wizard is literally calling
Flames out of thin air. I mean the level of world
bending that's happening. And that's something I am trying
to deal with in Cloud on for us in that if you are a sellsword,
you're still may be using magic or mutations or things that that
do feel a little special and feel on par with them.
Magician class, but the other piece.
My experience of life is that power is very corrupting
addictive and damaging to people's lives and I think about
something like I don't know if you all watch.
Nope. That wasn't it?
A pretty cool movie? Yeah, I'm a little behind them.
A movie watching right now. So but a lot of the things that
from an American perspective, people want we see very clearly
is not good for us but there's this attraction to it and I
thought what if magically like that and one of my favorite
animes and mangas it's Fullmetal Alchemist and that's like
totally centered in this idea of Equivalent Exchange and the
consequences of bending, the rules of the world.
And so, what if that had, what if magic had an Component to it.
Some of the, the the magic in Cloud infrastructure really
functions off of this thing called chalk, which is this
physical residue Left Behind of the shells of these giant
psychic cicadas. And so there's a physical
component that people are ingesting and throwing and doing
all sorts of stuff with as sort of a gameplay, limitation
primarily, but also another kind of connection to the potential
addictions of different powers that We have in real life so
that was kind of the the start of it.
I am very nasik has played a really influential role in my
life and Studio Ghibli films and I started to see some artwork
that I felt like I couldn't create by this group called
catapult. Gotta wear these two folks that
doing some really amazing artwork and they were open for
commissions and and I had this idea about magic and so it kind
of culminated with with finding the right artist for the right.
Right project. And we've been working together
since I want to say, like, Baby, June, July, and putting together
a lot of artwork for this. Like I'll say the everything
I've read sounds amazing but you could not have found a better
artist or over a couple artist that encapsulates.
The vibe better like it. Yeah so that as soon as you see
the cover you're like I get it. Totally get it.
I got it. I mean you read it and just
reinforces and you're like I already knew it but this is even
better. Like I mean, Great job by them
and awesome to be able to reach out and find someone who's so.
I guess accurately, like depicts what you're going for, I hope
because it's stunning, it's absolutely gorgeous.
And one of the things I'll mention is the orange piece was
kind of my decision, I would say.
So, the all of the, what I saw their work was all black and
white line art. And I saw like this is
phenomenal. Same kind of reaction, I'm I did
the artwork for hot stuff on Shore, leave, and, and I I have
a certain style and a certain approach to that.
I wouldn't say I'm the most like confident artist, but I think I
can work within my limitations to create some neat stuff.
But when I saw some of the work they were putting out, I was
like, oh my gosh, this is amazing and The piece I think.
That's also really interesting about mothership is the success
that Mothership has with the punkish aesthetic of Mothership
with the Zero edition and even one he's Sean.
I mean there's still a lot of his own artwork that he's
created so it's all black and white to.
It's got a really unique style. I know scrap princess is doing
some stuff for the bestiary or Monsters were Aliens, whatever
41e. And so I think the other thing
that that mothership is created as a space for unique art styles
that stand out but maybe would be overlooked in a more polished
RPG space there is and I've heard Sean talked about this,
this really pervasive concept art style, that's very painterly
and and a little muddy in my opinion.
That you see in a lot of board game projects and a lot of
concept art in particular, and that stuff is really cool but
it's like super freaking expensive to get one and two.
I think there is so much of it that it's hard to stand out.
And I think one of the big pieces I'm always thinking about
what the projects I make first and foremost is, how is this
going to be different? How is this going to visually
look different? How is this going to stand out
from the other RPGs around it? Cuz like, when I was working in
the board game area, there must be a thousand to three thousand
games that come out every year and then there's, there's
hundreds it come out every month.
Ryan I'm looking at your shelf behind you, so it's what is
going to make this stand out both gameplay-wise visually and
narratively so that one I'm not wasting my time doing something
redundant but to like some people might want to take the
time to look into it whether that's downloading the free rule
book online whether that's purchasing a copy of, if the
game goes in that direction which obviously Cloud a has with
Kickstarter I think is you know, K on Kickstarter soon right?
It's been a real pleasant surprise.
I I knew I knew we'd probably pass our funding goal pretty
quickly. One thing I hear from
Kickstarter creators is we set our goals a little low so that
they fund quickly. So that there is some some
positive momentum in the first day but I did.
I had I have a decent amount of money invested into this project
and so I was like, you know, I need as long as I could print
these books, I'll probably get a little bit of that money back,
but I was like 2,500, like I'll get to cover the Project's team
that already has made this commitment, but I some contracts
with folks, so I was really like, okay, here's what I think
we could do at the low end. But to see I mean it was, it was
something like 29,000 in the first day.
It was just incredible. I was my jaw dropped.
Easy. I mean, you know, we we've been
chat on Twitter for a while now trying to get this all set up
and I think, you know, I sent you a message the other day and
it was pretty much just like we talked about Kickstarter a lot,
you know? And the way I mean you've been
talking about this project for a long time.
The pages is fantastic, the art, you know and that's one thing is
super important. You know people are incredibly
visual Kickstarter is incredibly visual like, you know, I backed
a lot of games that look great and Get up there.
Okay. And they back, first huge
numbers and they're okay. And then I bat games at the
artists like Matt and the no back very big and I get him in
there, just absolutely amazing. So it's really you know art is
such an important part and that's one thing when you find a
project that is fantastic and has amazing art is when
something is really really explodes and I really think
Latin priest has really got that.
You know, the idea is fantastic the art is absolutely Running.
And one of the things that I like, you know, I have all these
notes because we've been talking for a while now.
One of the things that I really enjoyed and I think we talked
about this too is just that there's a, there's a couple of
these games out that are kind of in the Indie scene that are a
lot of people, write a lot of stuff for.
And one of the things I love about cloud in Paris, is that
it's not stuff for Mothership. It's a hack in a setting and
it's Different using the same system which is really, really
great. You know, a lot of games like
Nave and into the odd and Cairn, get a lot of these kind of like
system hacks where you'll do something completely different,
but use like The Corrs. But you don't see a lot of that
with Mothership. And it was really, really
awesome to see a fantastic system used in a way.
That's not one of the things you talked about, like it's kind of
like space like haunted house, like it's not Just like on a
ship doing this thing. And I don't want to say, there's
necessarily like a redundancy to it, but like there's really,
really good Mothership modules. But when you get a Mothership
module, there always is kind of that.
Like, where's the alien kind of aspect to it?
So getting to really embrace all of these amazing Inspirations
you have like nausicaa like Fullmetal, you know, to see this
different world for it is really, really fantastic.
And I hope that with the success of this This project, it really
encourages people to take these different settings, or different
games, and create more things like hell, cloud and press like,
create something, that's new and unique.
Exactly. Like you're talking about
something that's different, not just something to add on to the
Mothership shelf, but something that's like stands alone, you
know, just just kind of attached to it as opposed to being
necessarily like they said on the same shelf over it. and I
would say, just to kind of echo that and to some extent, I think
one of the challenges science fiction is always had as Getting
caught and maybe some of the speculative pieces of science
fiction or how a ship works over the for me.
Expression of Human Experience or future, Human Experience, or
animal experience or life. So I think that can happen with
fantasy as well, but I think It's interesting, we talked
about and I've talked to a couple people about this
recently. We talked about RPGs as a
community but it's really, you know, Indie tabletop where one
commute, you know, there's a Twitter there's all these, you
know what but there's so many different approaches and
experiences within that Community.
I mean, one of the big things is I'm a publisher, right?
So I have very, I'm on Twitter to Market my games, and it's
also been a judge, people and support other people's work, but
my, I don't know if I, you know, I wouldn't, I wasn't on Twitter
before I needed to Market Cloud. I'm for us.
And I've certainly developed relationships along the way that
have been really awesome. And obviously, we're here now
because of that and having a fun conversation at least in my
opinion. So, but there's folks that that
are more in a punk aesthetic that that it's not about there's
no money to be had It's really for Creative expression.
I do think of myself more though in an as an artist who has this
sort of I think about So, one of the challenges of capitalism
that I really struggle with is that and I experienced this?
in some other settings in my life, but It feels like
sometimes people need to pay for stuff for them to Value it.
So if I were to give you something for free, you'd say,
oh that's cool. And not look at it, my in my own
life, I don't know if you all have like the epic game store.
Not are you do any gaming but epic game store which is the
competitor to steam? They give away games all the
time and I'm like 200 of their games.
Yeah, don't touch them and it's, it's not right because I should
say, well this is a free. Free game and I wanted to play
this game, but the fact that it has become free means that I
have some kind of like less internal investment and it's
really not healthy. And so, The reason I have chosen
to do more of a publishing approach to Kickstarter approach
for cloud. A is primarily because I want
people to see this and I want people to engage with the
ecological ideas and the climate justice, peace of it.
And just to play it and enjoy it and create certain types of
play. So I am engaging with that, like
marketing production, Kickstarter side of things to
try, it's all the necessary mechanism.
The you have to use is an artist in a capitalist environment, you
know. I think there's a lot of
legitimacy to what you just said.
Like yeah, I think people will value it more when they pay for
it and that's not maybe the best mentality ever.
But the the piece I'm trying to sort.
Of challenge a little bit. As part of this could be the
third of business strategy, but the core rulebooks intended to
be sort of this forever free resource with, with all the
content in there, it's not just a cut down SRD that I see, some
s are standard rules, documents is that what they're called?
Rough reference documents that RPGs put out and they like cut
out all the artwork and Like that's a, that's one of that
that's telling the story that's making the game better.
And I get why people do that because it does incentivize
people to buy the other product, but I'm like, you want you to
have this full experience. I don't want you to get the
ranch light version of cloud, Empress the heavy-duty a branch
that they don't tell you what the calories are in there,
whatever. But I mean, like, you said, like
it is, I mean, this is unfortunately in, you know, late
stage. Just open capitalism that we
live in. Now, you know, people will, you
know, pay fifty dollars for a t-shirt that has a label on it,
but if you take that same label off, you know, they'll be upset
to pay five dollars. So like it's just, you know,
people have become hoarders and whatnot of of stuff that's our
doesn't count. Yeah.
You know, it is it is one of the things I did when I talk about a
little bit um is this One of the things you brought up with
science fantasy vs. Sci-fi in that I know you know
you a lot of things you say and everyone watching will see us
both make Expressions. When you say it sounds a lot
like what this guy talks about a ton.
Both love Wizards. Both Le always play them like
huge into magic systems and a hunter is game is basically
revolving around the magic system itself.
Now it's interesting to me that you Shows Mothership to do
science fantasy. And why like what made you is it
because you're already kind of involved in Mothership
Community. You chose the system as opposed
to something like Troika that's pretty already signed the
werewolves of Wall Street is a Troika they should be switched,
right? I would say, I'm fairly
opportunistic about which systems, I use the reason we're
Wolves of Wall. It is a Troika Zine is because
it was Troika Fest. And so I'm like yeah.
Like so I'm really I'm I'm going with, I try to go with the flow
and see what's happening and and I'm as I was saying earlier
being a person who's really mechanism focused.
Now, I'm kind of like, I don't really care.
I mean, there's I have some preferences around systems, but
I think the warden and the collective group experienced the
community and that the table is such a bigger impact.
On what that play experience is going to look.
Like, I think the system piece is often a fantasy like anything
else. It's like oh what this system
you're going to have this experience, but It's really down
to the players there. How they engage with that
system, right? I mean there's certain
affordances that I think and incentives and punishments in
systems. I am generally like a systems
person. So I think about what does this
system incentivize and punish and reward and critique but I've
learned the other piece. I'll just say is like I think
about Bringing in more, we're in marginalized folks into the
Indie tabletop role-playing game experience that were, you know,
that I like so much that. So impactful to me.
And so, I wouldn't work in a system that I didn't feel like
was pretty accessible for that. And one of the reasons
mothership is fantastic, is the if I have it on my table, but
the, this is a cloud a character.
She put the fact that you can take a character sheet and just
read this and create a character and start in five minutes.
You don't need this session. 0 can be like 20 minutes because
in many ways, you're not expecting your character to
live. I think the other piece about it
is, I'm in my 30s. Now, I don't have the time I
did, and I think there's such a saturation of games.
It's pretty unreasonable to expect.
Even Cloud. A switch has all this fun
support and excitement right now.
I mean it's how many of you folks will even play it, right?
I mean there's just so much out there.
So part of the reason I have taken a specific design approach
where Luke gearing's work, for example, who I I know and I'm
doing some writing stuff with Luke's work, is phenomenal to
read and it changes me when I read it.
And so I think I haven't, I don't think I've run any of
Luke's stuff. I don't run a lot of stuff that
isn't my own, except for other third-party, Mothership creators
for playtesting and stuff like that.
I it's a creative outlet for me to do World building.
So I tried to take every opportunity but I wanted
something that if someone just read it, it would be this.
Enjoyable experience, but also create a game that had one shot
opportunities. So if people only sat down once
and plate it, they could have an enjoyable experience.
But there is this world building peace with there's this larger
hex map where I wanted to make the cloud empress.
Setting feel like a living world and so even if players don't,
this is kind of a Dark Souls Alden ring thing.
But even if players don't touch these other parts, they have a
sense that it exists. Yes, I need.
Absolutely, it does a lot for a living world.
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, but I mean, it's funny the
couple of things you said, it's just, I mean, we're all in our
30s. So it just Echoes a lot of
stuff. Like I have all of these games
and I've I've read the majority of most of them, you know, like
60% of the time, you know of 100%, I'm all that kind of stuff
but you know me and Hunter talk about this.
A lot. What it sounds like a lot of
that was that Anchorman reference just roughing several
reference but um the older I get the less I want to fucking read
and I don't want to read a 600-page book to play a game.
And you know, one of the things that really pushed me away from
5 e sounds like something that kind of pushed you away from
Pathfinder to is like I don't want like the hero fantasy
murder-hobos mostvaluablepresea. Stuff like the love, the
complete lack of consequences, really bugged me, like I can do
anything I want, and the game is balanced so that I can
eventually fight a God and become a God.
And that's it. And I would much, rather like
open a door and I, you know, and just be like, wow, that that's
awesome. I can just like make another
character and the what really pushed me towards osr was kind
of that drive to get away from here on fantasy and drive to get
to systems. That were just a little bit more
streamlined and little bit like better.
Were designed to kind of do what you're talking about, like to
sit down and play just like one session or or get to the table
and like, you know, maybe like 10, 15 minutes tops, and not
have to, you know, I used to run a 5e meet up and I would teach
people how to play 5th edition and it's a three-hour.
It was a three-hour thing and took like an hour and a half to
teach about make a character like on paper, and I would deem
DB on and everything. And I'm like, I don't want, I
don't want that experience. I want to be able to give.
Yeah, that's him. That's pretty rough, on feel out
of five minute, character sheet, and get to play.
And, you know, and the old I get the fewer rules II want to have
to use for it. So what?
And I you're reminding me. I played bass guitar, middle
school and we tried to start all these bands.
And we would just sit and talk about band names or what song we
were going to play. And then we I never played with
a band ever because we just sit and talk.
And so it's like, I wish maybe I don't, I don't know, I didn't, I
wasn't very good bass player. It wasn't a major interest of
mine, but just start doing it right.
Safely. I Think like session zero can be
a foundational space, but a lot of these longer campaigns you
find out our I don't know or you see online are paid performers
that that have an obligation to be there or a professional
interest to be. They're getting together with a
group of people is really difficult and We all have these
one of the reasons I think artwork is so important and and
marketing is so important. Weirdly enough is that, if we
all have shelves of games, how do we decide what we play?
And so, thinking about The sales experience actually extends
Beyond someone's purchase in that, they need to now convinced
several other people to do this thing with them, taking off the
shelf. Yeah.
So how do you do that? Well, there's a lot of ways but
I think artwork a strong narrative hook and simple rules.
Those are the three probably best ways I can think of and a
familiar system or somewhat familiar system.
Well you know what we eat, what we did here.
Was we started Did a podcast and then we convince people, we knew
kind of what the fuck were talking about.
And then we get great people, like you to come on and talk
about it and then run the game for us.
So that's very solid to play. And I think I think I think we
should probably hop into that. I think with the time
constraints that we have coming up, it's about it's about giving
on 815 my time I think 1015 your time, I think that's good.
Segue into actually playing a game which is, which is the
other half of what we're doing today, so?
What? So we're going to play actually
some Cloud. A, do you want to give like a
quick little? I don't know.
Like the hook or the the what am I trying to say it like play for
easily Andy also for the cooking, he's in chat, I've been
messaging. Yeah.
But what are we doing today? In cloud in Paris.
So just for folks may be joining on cloud.
A is an expansive nausicaa inspired science fantasy
campaign setting for Mothership. I got that memorized the
Mothership RPG. But today, I'm excited because
About a explores some themes and Inspirations from Studio,
Ghibli, films, and miyazaki's work in particular.
But the thing that I felt like was really missing was some of
the, like horror and and awfulness that often
incorporated into his work. There's both the the tenderness
and the violence in the tragedy. And so, we're going to be
exploring that darker side of cloud Empress.
This is takes place in the rust bucket, which is an industrial
Wasteland of the Should people that lived thousands of years
before and you all will be delving into a deep and dark
tunnel. Nice for reasons, we'll find out
pretty quickly but it's called the last proxy so we'll see what
that all means. And who the last proxy is
Awesome. I am excited for it.
So um, if you're watching just stick with us real quick, if
you're listening it'll probably be the next episode.
So switch to that but we're going to switch to a BRB so I
can I can set some stuff up. Switch some stuff and bring and
Ian. So we'll be back in probably I
mean, I'm going to say five minutes but we'll see you at but
happens and we'll get to play some Cloud impressed.
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And now we get back to our episode Hello, and welcome to
the weekly. Scroll podcast brought to you by
the adventure archive, my name is Ryan and I'm still a gigantic
cicada W over here and I'm Andy. Hi.
And now we are going to play cloud in Paris which we are all
very, very excited for. I mean, if you were just
listening live on stream, you got a little taste of something,
that no one else is ever going to hear.
So you are You're welcome everyone out there and if you
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See if in the archive come check it out.
You'll get a little bit of that. Make it sound like it was like,
some, like horrible moment. We were just talking about the
cells and they don't, they don't get, they don't get, you know.
Some Cloud. A so if you listened to the last
episode, you got a little preview of what we are going to
be doing today. But what what I should have done
is ask you to do that here because I forgot we were
cutting. So not only are we going to play
clad a one, you tell us real quick.
What cloud in purse is and what we're going to be doing today.
So Cloud Empress is an expansive nausicaa inspired science
fantasy setting for Mothership the mothership RPG and
previously I shared an introductory Adventure that's
sort of an adventure e kind of Adventure if that makes sense.
But this one is more of an industrial horror body horror
one. So we'll talk a little bit about
that but you all will be diving into this this access tunnel
with some strange beings inside it.
The nesic. So what we're going to do real
quick is I know that Hunter and Andy have already rolled up
characters because it is very quick.
It is Mother Ship. But I have not because I was,
you know, building the layout and you want to work and all
that kind of stuff. So we are going to work.
Yeah. Go through billing, a character
real quick which is real quick and then we're going to get
started. So do since I'm the one that's
behind you just want to walk me through building a cloud
infrastructure real quick. Sure.
So that the cloud a character process, there are some
instructions, in the, the rule book itself, but it's all on
this sheet similar to Mothership.
One of the great things about mothership is all you need, is a
character sheet to give to somebody to start them playing.
So we're going to start by generating some stats.
These are the different attributes.
You have specifically when you're under pressure Mothership
and Cloud. A spikes tension is not a game
where you'll be rolling a ton of dice, it's really just when
you're in situations that are risky or dangerous, so, If you
want to go ahead and roll 3 D, 10 + 20 and that was will be
each one of your stats. You're going to adjust these
stats at the other side of the character sheet.
So you can write the numbers may be smaller in a corner with a
pencil or tighten a minute. 3D 10.
Reidy 10 + 20 gives me third. Did I really?
Yeah, gives me 30. Exactly.
That's for your mind step. So we'll do that a bunch of
times, that's 30. So, there are four stats and
Cloud on press, therefore stats and Mother Ship, but cloud and
precipitates are a little different.
It's mind, heart strength and speed mind is going to be
learning spells different types of logic, puzzles fixing stuff,
different kinds of things, like that heart is going to be
casting spells your ability to Understand certain situations
empathize with other people strength is going to be your
physical strength through Brute Force, melee weapons, and then
speed as sort of dexterity, but ranged weapons and your agility,
those kind of things. Testing.
So I got with adding my 20s like at 30 mimes, 40 heart, 42,
strength, and 33 speed, awesome. The other thing folks will
notice is maybe not, I don't know, but when we rolled the
stats, if they're slightly higher than those in Mother
Ship. So we've added, or I've added a
little bit more success rate for the stats and saves for some
particular reasons. So next we'll go down and we'll
roll your saves, the three saves, our reality.
Fear and body and that's 2D 10 plus 20 for each save.
While you're rolling reality is your ability to discern the real
from the unreal beer, as your ability to keep calm under scary
situations and body is your resistance to different effects.
Like poisons, different damage, following those kind of things.
I know, I know how to math a little bit.
Got it. So I got 30 to 31 in the 39.
Awesome. So next well, there is no
starting stress or minimum stress for cloud Empress.
So it's slightly different than Mothership in that it has a max
of 10 and there's no start. So we'll go over to roll, one,
d-10 for your age, and that's going to impact your stats,
which we can talk about. Once you pick your age, or roll
your age, I should say. So I'm rolling all the music for
a second. One d-10.
I got a three. All right, so you are grown,
this is sort of the adult age so you will get 20 to your speed
and -10 to your heart. oh, that's so each age group has a
bonus and a subtraction that sort of is a generality about
what age might do to us. There are no old magician's,
there are no old magician's for the number of reasons.
The magic of Youth. And the the last there's three
ages. And then there's this fourth
category called body Hopper, where you are use some sort of
magic to transfer your body between corpses.
So that's kind of the extra special, one that you can maybe
roll on a nine terrifying, guess base Lich space Lich, oh, my
gosh, does right off, right off the bat, you can be a space.
Let sure you go. So, I was cracked up to be
though. So, next, you'll actually pick
your job because you are grown, you can pick any of the four
jobs, there's sellsword lordling magician and Courier, and that
will give you an increase to one of your saves, or all of your
savings, depending on your class or job, and then, you'll get two
or three starting skills, think it's two for each and then
you'll get a certain number of bonus.
Girls that you pick from Below? Okay.
So what did you what are you guys?
I'm a courier. I am a lord Leng.
How did you not pick magician? I want to figure out magic was
an hour and a half to play. So, that's a good idea.
I was leaning sellsword. Anyway, so I'll just be the
standard this slashy, slashy bully.
So pick sellsword, sure. So you get 30 your body save and
then you can actually sort of pick blades or Firearms.
I'll blades. Fuck, I'm not a yeah.
Are you still listening to podcasts at all?
Hold on. Can I make a recommendation?
I would say roll your equipment first before you select your
skills. Oh, that's smart.
Yeah. So why don't you could be a d-10
for your Loadout? I did not run away.
So I might as well I get 69 and body of Miss am just throwing
that out there for everybody, really?
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I rolled a 9 for my
Loadout. Oh.
So you don't have your load of either?
I don't. Yeah, that's the one thing I
didn't do. Actually your Courier.
So your Loadout is heavy. Lifting exocet Skeleton suit,
which is 10 armor points. You have a statue which is
actually a weapon. It's like a giant mace, nice.
The person on it, and you also have a companion.
That is a water Bearer. So it's a called tardigrades to,
but it's sort of a floating little dog, like little
creature, that comes from an alternate Dimension sink.
And the the the stats for that stats for your weapon and your
companion, your water bear around the back page in the
equipment section. Dungeon.
And it sounds like you've rolled for your equipment.
Ryan, would you like a to roll a d-10?
I'll see what you got. Yes, I would love to do that.
I got a 2, so you get do list, robes.
You'll put these, you have a wearing, you have different
slots, so you just fill in your different slots for that, but
you're wearing some duelist robes, you have a dagger.
A blindfold and a wine jug. Interesting.
All right. Well that that mmmm.
Let me see if I can I see you. Yeah.
Okay. So am I put those into my
character sheet, right? So you have one Holdings holding
item that could be your weapon or you could be holding your
wine jug. Wearing is the the larger
clothing piece, the armor piece that you have on and then
everything else goes into your carrying one.
One item per slot do or my Doula strobes is at an armored thing,
or is that going to be something a little bit different.
I could just carry that or my my thought would be probably be
wearing that otherwise you'd be I think in your undergarments or
something like that. That wasn't small clothes,
thinking, that money. It's all I'm saying.
Do you say duelist robes? Yes.
Okay, all right. And then my blind.
Okay. All right, so I got I'm holding
my dagger. I'm wearing my Doula strobes and
I'm carrying my wine jug and blindfold and you still need to
pick your skills. I believe.
And then I get two bonus skills for being a sellsword.
Yeah, it sounds like you're probably gonna pick blades if
I'm not mistaken. Yes.
And then Street smarts and then you get to pick any two other
skills and just to make cotton purse, a little easier to start
than Mothership. All the skills are sort of the
same level so you just check off the ones you want and then you
will roll Advantage which is roll twice.
Keep the better result when you are using that skill or in a
situation that that school would be relevant.
So for those who can't see the character she right now.
Also on our, if you have the H page up, do you want to drop
that link into chat? As well, so people can actually
download. You can smoke a all that kind of
stuff so you can follow along if you'd like to.
But to just go through the scales real quick.
Actually acrobatics acting as has nation's big guns, biology
blades, bond with animals, chemistry chalk collecting
curses dancing, drinking dueling etiquette farming, Firearms,
fireworks, history mathematics mechanical repair medicine,
military order, mysticism, negotiation need a work plan,
identification poisons, radical economics, writing scrounging
singing, spell-casting Sports, string, instruments, It's Mi
theology. Thopter piloting, Wilderness
survival, wind, instruments, wrestling and blank.
So man, and there is a we won't do it now.
I'll just explain it or just pick what sounds fun, but there
is sort of a larger definition sheet in me.
Will's document that explains each one in a little bit more
detail, cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo. So what just real quick, what is
assassinations? Give me just like being better
at, I mean, clearly assassinating, but stalk and
kill humans through physical violence or subterfuge with an
uncanny ability. Yep.
All right. Got that one.
And I think I'm gonna go when I go, I already have a wine jug.
I'm just going to go drinking. All right?
And drinking as An alcohol ciders and water quickly, and
hold your composure better after drinking.
Anything you can drink whatever you want really?
Well, you got a trapdoor there, man.
He's technically a liquid glass. Anyway.
Sorry glass is technically a liquid.
So we'll roll you're traveling now.
So instead of a trinket, you're going to be traveling with
something. So why don't you give me a d
100? Just add to D town, and the
first die is the numerator and the no, not the denominator.
The first ones, the tens digit, the second zeros, You got a 77.
All right, so you're traveling with one mouths worth of golden
teeth. So are they my one now to work
hard? Do I just have the teeth?
All right, so one more distinction, this deep, I don't
I don't, I think I have like a pouch of a, my own source of
teeth. I don't think my mouth is full
of gold teeth. Are you go?
And then that's just an item that I'm carrying.
Could just be like a mouse with a gold teeth.
Okay. Yeah that's a single item.
Mouths words teeth dope. Okay.
All right, the final thing we'll do is you'll get to pick a name
and an alias. These are things and pronouns
and a portrait. I mean you can do all that kind
of stuff but your name there is a name sheet in the document.
Her known as oh, here we go. Okay, so you can roll d-104 a
name if you'd like to just get one from the table.
It has some different name categories, because I know
that's, that's sometimes a difficult decision for folks and
then you also get sort of a title or Alias.
So if you give me 2, D hundred D100, I can give you your name
in your email list if you'd like or you can pick some ways.
So I got a 10 and a 95. So your name is gored G ORD like
the I don't know what is it gourd?
G OU R d-- I think is like a squash, right?
Yeah okay so bored I just didn't know what type of vegetable is
it a vegetable to Burr? I don't know.
Anyway so tuber. Yep.
What was your second roll 95? So you could either be Cowboy
gourd or gourd the cowboy. I learned the cowboy baby, he's
big fan of the thighs, a middle name, so I'm gonna go Gordon the
cowboy. Look at the cowboy who doesn't
use guns, the Cowboys gourd and I'll go with Gord Gord cowboy?
I'm gonna go with Gore Gore to the Cowboy is what I'm gonna go
with. I'm gonna go with birthday, boy.
All right. And what protons will gourd the
cowboy have all use. All you see him?
All right. There are salts word.
So maybe we'll pop it over 100 year on my left.
So maybe Hunter if you want to introduce your character their
name and just their class and or job and what halves?
Yeah, I'm Cricket. The nine fingers.
Even though Cricket has all ten of his fingers I'll go with, he
him as well. He is a grown Courier.
All right. Andy last but not least, Bryn
mirror face and they are a green Lord, Leng, pronouns.
They them their faces actually like a almost Chrome like
substance which is the reason why they have the mirror face
wrapped in Royal battle casing. Its, they are carrying a
military rifle over their shoulder.
And a bag with a strange Stone ball with three holes in it.
Then and what was cricket traveling with Cricut is
traveling with What did I roll? Oh, I don't think I wrote it
down. I'll re-roll.
You give me a d 100. I can tell you.
Or I got 58. I have the wrong table, open.
Okay, a bag of red potatoes. There you go.
Yum! Oh yeah.
Hey, I'm just a bag of potatoes. Yeah.
Crickets hungry guy. Reckless, tend to be hungry.
Well, at any other piece about Cloud up press is, there is sort
of an inventory. You know, there's there's
different items listed in the rulebook, but it's up totally
barter system and he's okay, this world red potatoes actually
are likely more valuable than gold because you can grow
potatoes. You can eat potatoes gold.
A lot of junk all over the place.
There's a lot of medals everywhere so Gold's nice.
But potatoes might even be better to the certain person
who's hungry. Right?
Awesome. Hell yeah.
So where I got taken care of? I got potatoes, we're calm, take
those potatoes, and grown you all set to hop in.
I guess the the piece that I'll just share is you know I'll be
worn during the session. So, you know, some lines Against
Racism homophobia. Sexism other.
Kicking down in marginalized identities, that kind of stuff.
There won't be any sexual content that I'm planning and I
generally like to leave most sexual content out of my games,
just for the complexity, it takes time to do that.
Well, anything else that you all would like to me to keep in
mind, I guess, for Content warnings, for both viewers and
for you all this is planning to have some level of body horror.
I can You know, keep a, I planted not overly describe
that, but that will be present. Some may be claustrophobic
situations some dolls. I don't know.
People are freaked out by dolls or not.
I think that's about it. And then there is like guns and
violence in this game as well. Anything I should be aware of
anything that you'd like me to leave off the table.
There won't be. And I think, I think I'm
personally, I'm good with all those.
There are no children or violence to Children, either the
green class, I just, this will be specified in the rule book is
sort of like late team. So, even that group, the younger
Lord Leng, you're not a child, you're, you know, 17 to 19
something like that. Probably, That works for the
sake of just this one session, we'll just maybe assume that you
all have gone on, maybe one or two Adventures previously.
Yeah. Well I have heard about this
godhead. It's called the Disposable
cybernetic robots in this area sort of Revere.
This godhead, some of the other farmer lanes and people have
told tales about this this large God that lives under the
rust-bucket this industrial Wasteland.
And so you all are traveling down to gather some valuable
information about the godhead. The cloud a has gone missing and
it said that the godhead is probably the best person or the
best thing to locate the cloud Empress with it sort of
omniscience and ability to do all sorts of things that have
been promised. If you all find the clot, a, it
said that you will get your hearts greatest wish granted.
So it's for each one of you. So there's a heavy incentive to
finding the cloud a, in this particular case, that's sort of
the starting hook that that is sort of the default hook.
But obviously, folks can explore many different adventures and
And different reasons why you might be here.
You will all enter a sort of Subway opening, kind of train
car area. It's a large tube and as you
start walking in the darkness, you sense a presence behind you.
It is a large worm train, it's sort of a giant Stone, sir, a
mite Giant worm, it's not living but it's sort of just this giant
worm like shape mmm, it's slowly pushes you forward, not
physically. But as you start walking, it
sort of moves behind you, and as you start to try to go different
paths to avoid it. More worms, come in, close the
path. And so, you're slowly LED over
the course of maybe 20 minutes to an hour to a spot, that you
get a sense that someone's leading you towards, and Now, so
these are, these are Stone esque worms on the track right.
There is no track that you can count, but there are sort of
like, divots, it's sort of like a organic like, but metal
gadgets loop system that that you believe is sort of a
transport system for the ancient people that still seems to be an
operation to this day, but these large train cars seem to have a
controlling force behind them and So large and dense and
there's really no way through these tunnels, your sort of
pushed into this terminal area where you see a single figure
sitting in on a bench there, pretty far off, there may be a
field or two away and so you all have a moment to talk as you
stand in this large sort of it's like a wreck.
Oh, Roman train station. Whoa, it is pretty nice.
That everything's made out of this, sort of surround light,
plastic Steel type material, but you do notice that there's sort
of bullet holes everywhere like the place has been shot up.
Some of the columns have collapsed and it's relatively
silent. Oh gosh.
Darn y'all. Dream Warriors following us is
guy over there. What do y'all want to do?
You want to approach Him? Softly soft.
Like do we see any weapons on this?
This, this figure sitting, do they have any threatening
implements with them? That we can see?
Not that you can see an eight, they appear to be looking in a
direction away from you almost contemplative lie or like,
they're sleeping. You do see some movement, some
shuffling around their body, but they're pretty far off yet that
you can't make out the individual.
You know what? What's moving on them.
Awesome blink forward. Let's approach non-hostile.
Yeah Bryn will walk slowly towards the figure hands out to
show that they're not holding any weapons.
Getting closer. You the figure comes into more
clear view, your eyes, focus on them and you see something
rather Unholy rather disgusting. It is a being that that doesn't
look human. Or if it once was human is no
longer human, It's wearing or is sort of sort of this muscular
like exoskeleton and bits of that exoskeleton or even the
skin you're not sure which is which has been disintegrating
and and you see these small robotic balls almost with with
arms, like, like mites or fleas moving around on this this
figures body. What?
Looks like repairing stabbing And excising the different parts
of this figures body. While it sits waiting, what is a
setting appropriate exclamation like you know like like what in
the nine Hells or whatever, you know would be the.
So if folks are familiar with the Dark Tower series, I don't
know if anyone's read that but there are things from other
worlds that have made their way here.
So you could say what anything would be.
Appropriate because it might have come from a different world
or a different time. On this place is very slippery,
it's sort of the psychic center of the the universe in many ways
for some reason or another. So it's not unfamiliar to see
like a pink plastic lawn Flamingo, next to something
quite alien and disturbing. Okay.
Oh shit. Would be totally appropriate and
we did we just shot her Valley. Is that right?
Did we decide? We were Southern is the thing?
I mean I'm the cowboy some Cricket.
If you start, I would not be able to do it.
So I guess we're at least we two are both other now.
Get your own voice, man. I am literally gourd the cowboy
well you should call it. That's okay.
I am not gonna get this there. I'm the one who has been raised
in the way of etiquette, I will do most of the talking, so the
the figure is pretty disturbing. I'll leave it up to you.
Do you feel like any of your characters would make a fear
save at this point? Is this how much nasty stuff
have you seen? I, absolutely, I think that
Cricket. It doesn't matter how much nasty
stuff he's seen, he's not stable.
Able enough to just take this in, I'm gonna go make a fear
save. My guess is maybe Gourgeist.
Awesome. My guess is gored.
You probably familiar with what some nasty stuff with your
dagger and sell certain stuff. How about Bren any thoughts on
whether you would be horrified by this or not?
Well Brynn is inherently Fearless but also young.
So why not? Let's let's let the stats beak.
With a 77 beer. So one day still to be still
managed to roll and 8600. Okay, you'll gain one stress
from the failure. And why don't you describe what
that fear reaction might look like Where I can give you some
ideas to. I think Brendan's going to be a
freezer, just tell just like full-on stops like as your dog
looking away. The worst thing you could do in
a moment of danger just completely freeze.
Yeah, you hear a voice. Welcome.
Oh God. Britain's Wayne come here.
Me and the harm. Does my vignette disturb you?
Yes significantly. Yeah, I've seen it before stop
and Bryn says nothing such as the reality of small minds and
short lives. Nah fret, are they threatening
us? Why are you the person who led
us here with these big worms? Yes, this station is under my
care. All right.
I've called you here. Yeah, because you have sought me
out. Oh are you the godhead?
Of course, not. I am Vani the godheads custodian
boney's. Your phone either godheads
custodian, go Vani VA and I enjoy phony your letters.
So, can we can you lead us to the godhead?
Then, of course not. I have much too serious work to
Helen too, but I have need of your services and if you seek
the godhead, you will be a perfect vessel for my mission.
All right, I guess, we'll guess. We'll play ball.
Good, I'm much too important to do such tasks.
All right. Well, seems a little.
Okay. So this is one of them quid pro
quos, huh? What what does it add to a being
of a thousand thousand years? I think there's still a hand,
exactly. Okay, so anyway, I have much
work to be done. What made you like us to do?
I will make introductions to the godhead, but currently the power
has gone out in the in the in the godheads tube.
Also, the godhead is quite hungry.
Okay. Vani points over to a giant.
It's like the size of a small Boulder, but it's like a canvas
sack that like is full of blood. A giant haystack.
It appears that's just sort of laying on the has it been there
the whole time? Yes.
But you were a little distracted.
So he points to it and I'm like, It's like that is the godheads
appetites are quite since Essence.
Is this real? Can I make a reality save to see
if this is real sure. Like my crickets like
questioning reality right now. You never just seen a second
blood before. I mean come on oversized sack of
blood. Yeah, I so I passed my reality.
Save you, everything's real. You've actually seen some of the
they're called disposables. These rickety metal robots often
with trees and branches growing out from their chest and faces
actually. Carrying around these bags and
meet and actually killing small animals and putting them in
these bags. So specifically to feed the
godhead. Well, you didn't, you had no
idea where these bags were going.
They all the same they did before you, you knew that and
there were reports of them hunting.
But now all of a sudden, you see, one of these bags and maybe
you are making that connection. Oh God, that's what's been going
on. The God has Z hungry.
God. Okay.
So as all God's eye So we you want us to go get the flash.
Yes. And and, and take this, and it
reaches forward and holds up sort of like a large clock key,
the size of an umbrella. I like, and leaning back as I'm
leaning forward. You know?
I mean, like my arms going like, really hesitantly leaning
forward to take the key. You can withstand the touch of
true beauty. Lena's.
That's yeah, I'm sure that that on some scale and some world.
You are beautiful. I appreciate you for that one.
More thing. Sure.
I need two batteries while you're out.
This should be about and the body moves, their arms are at
our its arms and kind of, you know, sort of a large block
size, okay, there should be two down there if you could bring
them back up that the station needs them.
Thank you. Sure.
Yeah. Which is which direction which
direction Bonnie points behind the column that they seem to be
almost fused into their sort of cords going into this, this at
all. There's not any noticeable like
at all or any kind of technology that you notice but it's sort of
like roots or IV clung to this turn.
This column and Bonnie points over.
And you see a massive pit. It looks like a access tunnel.
This this large sort of drop, its maybe, you know, eight
people laying down across. It's quite large.
And there's a stairway leading down next to the pit.
You do see a large turret. It looks like it has to sort of
large caliber cannons on it, and then a small door between those
two cannons. All right.
I feel like Brands, going first. Hey, I'm fearless.
You are your the de facto leader, right?
I think you should go ahead and Lead there bud.
Would you Curry the sack of blood?
And I shall go and friend starts walking down.
This will ya the rifle out with rifle in hand?
I guess I will. I love curry the sack of blood
since I Am The Courier. So Brent When you take up your
rifle, you take a stress. Oh, that's right.
Okay, unless you'd like to not do that, let's not do that.
Yeah, anytime you get a weapon out your, you know, that this
danger present. So your body sort of
automatically assumes that you're ready to shoot.
You're ready to fight. No, no, no, no, no stress.
Mechanically terms that. Do I subtract that from my
roles? Is that house dress works?
I haven't no stress. It's only relevant.
When you make a panics check Panic, I'll ask or will decide
to make a panic check when something like really scary
happens and something really bad happens, if you critically fail,
that's an example. To when you make a panic, check
your Trade, It Roll above your stress number, and then if you
roll a tour underneath, you'll take that result off the stress
of the panic table. So, there's a table and that's
such a bad stuff. There is one good result but it
could be anything from like getting additional stress to
firing on your friends. Just sort of depends so you
don't want to panic. But the more stress you take,
the more likely that is you can Remove stress by eating a good
meal. Having a full night's sleep,
sharing, good company, or good conversation, or spending a
peaceful our nature. So, there are ways to do that if
you take things a little bit more slowly but you are going
into a giant tunnel. So I'm not sure how likely some
of those things aren't to do be possible brynn's.
Going to handle the situation without pulling out their rifle
and slink down the stairs. You know, if we had a good
thought after, you know, we may be, we will be riding High.
I like this whole being an underground thing.
It's a good song Comfortable. I am proficient in operating
thought doctors blown them. Most of my life that does not do
us any good in this. Again, this moment I'm just
pointing out the fact that it's scary and dark here.
It's what does this feel like an oubliette?
Why don't you blyat on Brands royal battle casing?
They have a little light thing that pops up and starts
generating light, I guess it's like the ultimate spelunking
armor. Awesome.
You see the stairs without? It's sort of this, this concrete
material and then it ends in a long, long ladder down.
Looking in the tunnel. You can see that the walls of
the tube are even walls themselves.
They look like cabling industrial pipes.
It looks like this was a space not meant for the public.
It was sort of an access tunnel of some kind and you see, you
know, far below some kind of maybe what would be the floor of
this tunnel if it were to be raised?
Gosh. So I I work for a Industrial
corporate machine and end up in actual like service, tunnels
like this and it always creeps me out when I had some of these
things. So I have been down this ladder
and you can dip realize any notes on my, on my tunnel design
it's perfect. It sounds exactly.
Perfect. You don't need to be end of the
ladder either which indicates that it's it's several dozens of
Heads high like, you know, full people links down.
Okay, Brynn, goes over the side, being sure to use three points
of contact, as they are climbing down.
Ladders are a killer in motherships a good for y'all.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely gravity. Gravity does does do crazy stuff
and then when Brenda inevitably gets tired crawling down, wraps
up arm around and kind of just like hangs out.
For a second. Look, I'm so stressed out right
now doing the whole, like, giving a little rest and then
continues to climb if there's no incidents.
And I have like a, I have a water bear.
I have a tardigrade. Yeah, close around me.
We're doing his name is. Its name is Kimble.
Couple the tardigrade. Yeah, give us just floating
around me. Like, this is nothing and I
assume it's like, hey, like kind of like, gallops as its Slowly
moves to the are you now? Oh yeah.
I was looking. I looked up cute tardigrade to
find pictures of for my brains and I'm like awesome and and
Hunter you literally said this is so stressful.
So why don't you go ahead and take a stress?
Because it's, like, friend apparently has some composure
and this armor and maybe a lack of lack of experience.
It's a benefit here. I fail.
Oh no, you just take a stress. Oh, I just takes her.
Okay cool I wrote for you but that's fine words.
Either way, the rules are really only four when you're taking a
risk or an uncertain outcome that has danger involved, so
really encouraging word and is not to roll hardly at all unless
you're doing something that that is challenging like perception
rolls or anything like that and Mothership to which I really
like yeah. How about gorg what is house
gourd? Making his way down worried the
cowboy. Um, II feel like I'm not quite
as careful as brand, but I've been on a ladder.
I mean, I'm just going down. I have, I feel like, I have
taken a swig or two of this wine jug though.
So whatever I need to do for that, but I am proficient and
drinking. I think you're fine.
It sounds like you want to fall off this ladder but I'm not
going to let you know. I don't want to I don't want to
fall. I just want to look at this
ridiculous. His friend has read you.
You start to get towards the floor.
I'm guessing you can't fully get your like, all the way down.
Although it is sort of Illuminating, the area.
And as you touch the floor, you feel something slightly softer
than what you're expecting. Hmm.
How do you proceed immediately? Put back up on the rung and try
to like, try my best. Earth to look around and make
sure I'm not stepping into like some enormous creatures gullet.
As you look down, you notice a, not fully skeletal eyes but a
like corpse in what looks like farmer Ling.
We're so kind of farm clothes and a backpack no other corpses
around just that one just one that you can tell.
Okay, at least from here I will step down aside the corpse and
look around. Do it'll work.
An order because you've got freaked out by the by the Vani
situation. Why don't you make another fear
safe? All right.
Definitely going to pass this one.
This one is missing bodies but not not bodies like Von he's
weird. He's a hottie with her.
Yeah, Craven melee start rummaging through that backpack
and potentially even take the backpack for the islands.
Think crickets seen the body yet, so he's not that far down,
okay? Bryn.
You haven't said anything, so why don't Cricket you?
You come down and you make a fear save as well.
Oh summer. Oh okay.
Watch out. Looks like looks like somebody
fell. And of course somebody there's a
body down here him. Exactly what I was worried about
their guard, you make your way down.
Fine because this is Bryn finally called out, told you.
Okay, thanks, there's body because it was like, yeah, I
made one of those before. Hmm.
Really brings less interested in what is on the body and is more
making sure that there isn't something waiting to pounce on
them or whatever. Spinning around, you see more of
the access tunnel. There's sort of a quarter
quarter of the access tunnel that you're on, is alleged with
the railing move towards the middle of that.
There's sort of this large machine terminal and more tunnel
down below. There's another ladder and you
feel some warm air coming up and yeah, that's about it.
At this point you also see part of the wall has been ripped away
near that mechanical piece, but you're not sure what's going on
with that. Hmm.
So you say you said the wall near like which mechanical be
sorry, when time with that. So there is a and if you look at
the mini-map I sent you there sort of these.
These there's a level here and sort of hack a quarter of that
level is alleged that you can be on in the middle of that ledge
on the the sort of pipes and walls.
It was what looks like a breaker terminal.
Because I am potentially examine it with my mechanical repair
skill and see if I can get up and running or what it could be
a breaker for sure. So I think this is just sort of
an automatic, you figure it out. Cool.
This appears to be the breaker for the power that Vani
mentioned and the key that you all are carrying that large sort
of umbrella size key, you suspect that it would fit.
Mm-hmm. There's a large hole in the
center. I find, I have the guy have the
key, right? Only took the keys.
So, hey guys, check this out. I just push the key in.
Nothing happens. Huh.
I guess he wasn't lying about the batteries, huh.
The key has a Like handles on it like in would indicate that it
needed to be turned. Oh hi.
Why don't you make a strengths strength?
Check it is quite difficult to move and I can I help them do
that. That's up to Cricket, I guess,
no backup. I fail.
So one of the things just for the audience you always want to
feel for it and these games, so it goes and gets stuck and as
you try to move it, it just jerks in place but no power is.
Come on yet. I was close.
That was really close. You'll take a stress for the
fail as well. Perfect.
All right, so I want to like, all right and this kind of like
you know, your hands, you know, ones together a whole thing.
All right, now the way now and I would like to attempt to you
know kind of actually get this thing going where Kirk it
failed. Sounds like he's getting that
same method style of Jerking at. Okay why don't you roll a six a
vat? I'm going to say disadvantage
because you are trying the same way that it was Jam.
So roll 2D, 2D 100 and take the worst result.
He's my assassinations for this 2D 100's I got a 25 and a 13-0
nice. Yeah and my strength is a 42
kick ass so why don't you describe how you get it?
Get it working. I'll tell you in a second.
What I really think it was a spit on the hands of did it.
I really think that it really needed to get it kind of free
stuff a bit. But I just I feel like I would
start to like Like, do the thing, and it's not really going
anywhere. And I look back at Cricket and
the disk gives me this like, well, I can't fail after, I just
gave him shit for it. And just kind of just give it
like a big ol heave and see if it like pushes through whatever
is stopping it. The lights start to Glow around
you and a sort of circular piece pops out of the front of the
terminal and opens up. Go ahead.
Oh God. What?
It's me. Bobby.
Why? You're one step closer to the
godhead is he is he just yelling down, he on the, the, the, it's
like an eyeball with a speaker underneath.
That's not a spinning around and looking at you.
It's pretty janky liking, but it just sort of, like, spinning
around looking and you hear about his voice.
Yeah, this is. This is a new experience, I'm
glad we're getting closer. So good.
We go through here? Or do we go down?
Head, straight down without diversion.
Okay. Okay, the eyeball retracts or
unless it were you going to say something cord?
No, I just feel like this would be a really great like Hinson
movie. Like I can picture like the The
Muppets and like the the eye thing from like lab.
Like I feel like a labyrinth live right now with the things
are we going in the Dark Crystal territory here because it feels
really Dark Crystal to know you. And I'm doing that what you call
them? A bird voice, aren't I?
So in the the eyeball slides back and closes its lid, the
lights have gone on you now. See, like more clearly the
column that you're at, you see that you know it the the wedge
that you're on, it does seem like it'll support you but it is
sort of, you know, wearing away and someplace and you see a
another corpse that has sort of laying over the railing as if
it's been, you know, fell or flow.
I'm there or something. Mmm.
And both of these corpses. They look as if again, there's
sort of desiccated and dried but they're not, you know,
skeletons. There's something holding these
skeletons together. Those again since like mummy
skin still or other staring at like, middle the middle to late.
Something sort of drive them out.
It looks like, in this time like this, the skin pudding in the
fridge, you know, there there is that warm air coming up from
below. It's a dry warm air.
That's, that's important because it will keep it from no mold.
They're creating bacteria, is this one also dressed like a
like a farmer laying or yes, it's like another roles and
plaid or this one has sort of like a tunic.
And like a bandolier and a backpack and a small pistol.
Mmm. Good.
We could all be rummage. Oh sure, yeah.
Kick into of keys fell out. Yeah, I would like to rummage
disability Robbins. The other one did.
Oh yeah I was going to know. I think we guy.
I forgot to back to that all rummage.
The all rummage the other one as well.
You open the backpack of the other one and it's like sick.
Mush, there's some kind of like nasty moly mush in there.
And as your thing and some mushy cloth, it's just like a hot mess
in the backpack. You think Salvage?
The the like the the like leather ish backpack, you think
you could save it if you wanted but it's kind of nasty on the
inside. I don't think I want it with the
other body. You find out a pistol with three
rounds in it. And looks like there were some
papers and other Things in the backpack.
But again, everything's kind of, I guess it.
Yeah, it looks like there may have been food in these, these,
your one because it's closer to. This are, it's sort of like,
dried up like, carrots and little like, vegetables and
stuff, like really shrunken and dark, but they're, they're not
molding as much. Gotcha, gotcha.
So the kind of get like me. Has my channel systems and is
that Craig more usable with with this one?
Yes. Okay.
Can I go? I'm just want to shake all that
stuff out and at least just have the back, it does a backpack
count as a carrying item. Um, I would think not, no
problem. It would so attacks, put it on
over, as you shake it off, like the things had falls off, and
some of its arms fall down and you hear all, like and then
here, like, do we hear drums in the Deep?
No, you fool of a toque. I'm not 14.
Or guns at. We have a gunner with us
Brenner. You, are you a gun person?
I am you already have one of those.
This slung right over my shoulder, which is all this.
I guess. I'll just hang on to this one
for right now, but I'm not. Yes, my favorite.
You should hold on to that one. The bandolier.
No no ammo in the bandolier. No, is the Bad lyrics, decent
shape, the rifle. The pistol was actually empty.
And there are three rounds were in the bandolier so that it
looks like the pistol had been fired.
Brain will light rain will take the bandolier though.
Yeah I might need to kylos and could I load the three rounds in
the pistol? Oh sure.
Yeah. Is it like?
This is like, you know, six shooter pistol.
I think with this one it is that we were doing that what that
sound effect was Yeah, let me see what I'm giving you.
Um, okay, so revolvers in this world.
There's there. Three barrels.
And each one can each one is loaded and you could fire them
one at a time, or there's like a double trigger that fires all
three at once e. Gotcha.
That's a ball. Barrel pistol.
Say. Can you see that?
Yeah, there we go. All right.
That's still I'll take it. Yeah.
You grab the pistol, you put it on your body and you start to
hear God the typical hum of Machinery From Below.
Is it deafening or is it just like like soft at this point?
Soft and growing louder coming from the tunnel?
I'm here we go. He turned it on.
Let's descend down or gets too hot.
What does it sound like? It's alright.
Good. Is the sound like a mechanical
sound or like a growling growl. It sounds like an elevator.
Okay. Just and so it's you're going to
move forward on that. The ledge is that what crickets
doing? Yeah, as you start to move
towards, there's a ladder down another letter down to, the
right. There is what looks like an
exploded opening in the cabling and you can peek through a
little bit and you see it exposed room.
That's, that's got some lights on on it.
Nice to see anything in the room.
You see like shadows and you know mounds of something or
other but you're not sure what those Mounds are I do.
Good. Hey Come check her out.
Yo, an opening Brands, going to head down the exploded cabling
towards the exposed room. Walking, through the cabling.
You step on some mechanical parts of some of the Disposable
robots that UNC in the city. So, there are dead robots
throughout this tunnel. And it looks as though their
pieces are mostly okay, but they're Chest have been like
exploded. Hmm, interesting.
Okay, this is not bode well for old cricket.
You have to duck a little bit as you go through and you enter in
a larger rope. It's fairly silent.
Except you hear a flushing noise and some water so it should be
hitting on. Maybe a peanut glass or
something and you here in the darkness.
Oh, hey, what is this? Can I like I have biology as one
of my skills? Can I like try to puzzle out?
What creature would be making that sound or type of creature?
You can tell that it is a mechanical noise.
Oh, it's a mechanic like, but it's a sound meant to imitate
organic life until it sounds almost like a human voice, but
there is a mechanical tinge to it and it's higher much higher
pitch than than what, you know. Anything but a small child would
make. Oh, I think it's I feel is nice.
Maybe it's a robot child. Okay, friends going to enter the
room cautiously and if you are under the slide deck, that's
slide 3 as what we're looking at.
Now, the cracked sort of opening, is towards the bottom
of the page, if that makes sense.
And you look out. And you see several shelves, if
there is some flickering lights and some dust in the air,
there's some sort of like ambient light and you see Rows
and rows and rows of dolls. These dolls though are all
missing their skin. They are exposed Metal Frames
and like plastic tubing tissue and they don't appear to be
human dolls. They appear to be some of them
are quadrupeds sort of animal like dolls and other them sit
sort of square but their heads are much too.
Large to be that of a human's and they start to like Syd's
room from Toy Story. They all start to, they all
start to turn and they go friend friend, what and you hear a lot
of like From the ones that can't talk, they just go.
All right, well, you're gonna say we proceed in whatever
Direction takes us away from this.
Fucking nightmare Fest. Please.
Dear God, you hear the splash again, of all the loser in the
distance. One.
Which direction is The Water Somewhere deeper in the room?
Oh God in the room that where they in the room with the dolls?
Are you looking around? You see that.
There are four different openings in the room and then a
larger opening that's been collapsed like by some beams and
stuff. That looks like it sort of leads
out into a different area of the space.
I kind of leaned forward and I look like so on this, like
little map, the wall, the hallways are kind of an angle
because I like P4 and look right, look left and like here,
what's in there? Sure.
Yeah. So it's still quite dark the
room to your left, as you peek in, you see a table and a ton of
trash and, and sort of some kind of wall with capsules on it.
I'm human sized capsules. And then towards the right, you
see a ton of fur everywhere like like neon pink and blue fur,
sort of cold balls everywhere. Okay.
I'll answer that question then, what crusted I was I mean, I
assume that's where they came from, some of the Dolls, you
know? Free.
Let's go Ben's going to turn to some how far away are the dolls
from us. They are all around us like one
one person. Length like four or five
arms-length. I'm using the arms as a length
of measurement. Sure, why not?
Yeah, it's four or five arms away so they're quite you know
you could get to them quickly but you have some distance
between you two and do, they look like their mobile or do
they just look like they're turning their heads and
speaking? They all sort of fidget but none
of them seem to be one sort of spins on its side.
But none seem To be able to walk or at least not have chosen A
Clockwork toys kind of doing their Grim, boughs elegantly and
speaks to the dolls. Hello friends.
We are in search of batteries, do any of, you know, if there
are batteries nearby Anyone anyone else?
So it seems like the only three noises they can make our, like,
some gotta roll mechanical noise.
Wheezing or friend. Nice, hell yeah, perfect.
All right, let's rise glow and continue to watch you though.
I'm gonna go ahead and check this room to the left and start
looking around. See if II know I, you said there
was no, I saw it trash and stuff but I get closer it's going to
make a difference by sea. Our chart.
Yeah, a lot of difference. I've never gaven move into that
room on the left. You enter the room and you see
like candy wrappers everywhere like prepackaged food, wrappers,
like hundreds of uncovering the room on one wall.
You see what appears to be some kind of machine that these
rappers would have come from vending machine.
I'm not sure necessarily, you know what that is or not but a
vending machine. There are two Two like sleeper,
capsules. One is open and empty, and there
is a one of the robotic mechanical disposables that
you've seen, with some vines coming out of it side and moss
growing out of it. And it's sitting totally Frozen
with its hands up towards one of the capsules that it's like bunk
beds almost and it's sort of holding its head up towards the
higher bunk bed but there was the unopened capsule.
Yeah. All right, so I want to open the
capsule. As you get closer, it starts to
move its arms and and and got a mutter things in a robotic
language that you're not sure about it.
All right, I am not dissuaded for my course of action.
You open the capsule easily and inside you find a skeleton.
But the the skeleton, does it look entirely human?
The skull appears to have some growths on it.
Other than that though it does seem to be human sized.
Okay. They seem like they're maybe
wears clothes in there at one point but that guy, it's
everything sort of been No way by time.
Gotcha, India any any any gold teeth in there?
Ready. Yes.
Kick very as your tricks now. Okay, I'm sorry.
No no I don't think so. I don't think this is the spot.
There is a little robot praying though and that's off-putting as
well though. Not as much as the the room of
dolls. So Brendan's.
Going to examine the praying robot.
It seems to have power. It's like human-sized.
Yes. Yeah, it is.
It's sort of a spindly almost skeletal like robot,
interesting. It is made out of rice metal,
which is a metal that that tends to degrade much more quickly and
also fuel plant life, you know, from from your studies.
So it actually, Actually, the metal itself is sort of a
roading and plants are coming out of it.
Oh, that is a cool robot. You can plant in the ground and
half that a having gross stuff, huh?
But and you know that that's where the name like disposables
kind of comes from is that they were sort of maybe design that
to last as long as they currently, have I gotcha?
Interesting. Does it have a battery in you?
You believe that they are solar powered.
So there might be some small batteries but not the size that
Bonnie was describing like a butt exercise, their, you know,
take out the so I say we continue to move through this
multi-chambered facility and fine, we're looking for and get
the fuck out of here. Uh agree.
Let's check out some other rooms then so I'm done.
Check out that room. I was across.
That was covered in the fur. You make your way through and,
and the dolls continue to watch you and Screech.
They're quiet songs, the room is ceramic and tiled.
There, it looks a lot like a shower towards one wall.
There is a ton of sprayed fur again, neon pink red, some
mixtures green and none of it seems to have biodegraded in any
way. And there are one, there's a
backpack With a handle on it. And then there's two other
backpacks that are sort of laying on the ground, that look
like they've exploded a lot of fur, like, out of them,
something happened and there's just like for everywhere as if
there was an unintentional explosion.
I'm Gonna Leave the backpack, the handle alone.
So, Yeah, I guess is the room that I just entered?
Am I like looking this correctly?
There seems to be a doorway to another room in it.
Yeah it's sort of an L shape and there's another room.
Okay. If I say would have any interest
in checking out that backpack that has not exploded instead
Sure, why not? There we can be friends.
We'll take a look at this backpack.
Examine it to see this is this backpack bomb.
It's a bomb. It's fairly simple in its
design. It has a single trigger and a
switch on the top. And there are some colors on the
switch, which you believe to be the colors of fur, that that
might be indicated based on its size and weight.
You believe that it could have been operated by a human child.
It's like a party favor. Is that what I'm looking at?
I'm looking at like a party favor.
It's definitely. It's definitely like, you know,
a backpack gun without with a backpack, but I mean, it does
appear to be a front for a gun of some kind of Forgotten.
It's like a fur flamethrower. Okay, that's interesting.
I'm going to take this for flamethrower and we like a
gorgeous, you looking for some, it could this be this good.
You button eyes or is this just like like shoot.
Yeah fun. Yeah, exactly.
Um, you don't your I don't think you believe that it poses.
Most things much danger hold on. You also don't know how it fires
at this point. You suspect that it sprays in a
certain way but you're not exactly sure how it works.
Um, pulling the trigger, the fur that's there.
I'm going to pick up a little bit of the fur that's there.
And turn to Does anyone have fire?
It has a sticky coating to it. As you pick it up like it, like
it is sort of adhesive on one side.
Mmm. Okay.
Interesting. Interesting.
Okay, gonna take, gonna take the, the backpack with me then.
Cool. Use start to see movement down
the hall in the room that you had not explored yet.
Yet there is a what appears to be another disposable in a
longer sort of shawl or coat. That's covered in Weeds and
twigs and stuff and it's reaching up into a machine,
trying to get something. But that's all you can see from
that sort of opening in the room.
This is all sort of like very smooth and circular and sort of
organic, but very very kind of pristine and clean at least in
this area besides the fur. So this is functioning.
Sorry, gopher? Yeah, no, sorry it's so is it?
Yeah, same question basically. Is it look like it's like stuck
in a position, or is it actively like doing an activity?
It looks like it's actively doing.
It's changing its position and trying different things but not
very quickly. But it is there's a looks like
that a robot trying to get into reach up into some kind of
dispenser of some kind. Oh, and 100, Maybe.
There's a disaster. There's a disposable.
There's a disposable that still functioning is reaching into a
like a conduit or something. Trying to get something.
I'll help you out the Disposable.
Here's your first and goes. Hi.
Hi hi. Hi ho, hi, ho.
Hi and waves. Tio Hello.
Hello. Hit him with the fur gun.
No. Why?
Why would I do such a thing? He's naked.
Yeah. Be fashionable.
He they have plants growing off of them.
Correct? Yeah.
Weeds and stick since up their
image, number five. Ah you look in your oh so
they're well covered. There are there.
Confound their coat is interesting in that it has sort
of a zebra pattern to it underneath a lot of this Stuff
that that looks shiny and quite fancy but also covered in crap.
I do you want help reaching the thing?
Work. We go work.
We go. Heigh-Ho Heigh-Ho.
I see. And the Disposable points to the
machine and tries to put its arm up again and then Taps its
throat, I reach into the machine.
Yeah. Grab that grab leverage,
grabbing you feel like a mechanism, but there's nothing
like it. It feels like some kind of
vending machine, but you feel like you can in the vent sort of
comes up and stops you from getting too far there's sort of
a flap door that They have. So can I use my mechanical
repair skill to try to get it to release if there's anything
still inside of it? Yeah.
Why don't you make a stat check out of damage for that and why
don't you use? I guess.
Tell me how you plan on doing that.
Okay good. A brute force.
It like what, you know, I think I'm gonna try to like search
around and find a release mechanism.
So why don't you make up my mind?
A mind. Step check at advantage.
I pass. So only with Advance though, you
notice that there's a latch that you think you can pry open that,
that is sort of a mechanical apps that you're familiar with
that. That also has may be rusted a
little bit over time and you open it up and you find that
there are, there is a single voice box left.
It sort of looks like a mechanism, and it has like a
cute bear on it with a like a smile on it.
And Some errands? Yeah, it's in an ancient
language. You can't necessarily recognize,
but you see sort of a speech bubble and you sort of put two
and two together that it would be sort of speech-related.
Okay. It does.
The little guy seemed like he still wants it.
Yeah. What would that say?
I would say. Yeah.
Ho ho ho ho ho. Ho.
And it waves at you some more and tries to like it doesn't
come at you but it just sort of waves that you and tries to
encourage you to Commit to it. I give it to it and it does like
a slow bow as it takes it. I'm gonna back and then turns
over to a a machine with some claws on it and stuff and like
takes its robe off. And you see that it is sort of
covered in Moss and it looks pretty similar except for this
large row and then it like stands in the machine and it
like points to the the Go Button.
There's like a big button for a child's hand.
And this green button and it keeps pointing at it.
I hate it. I had the button.
Let's see. Okay on a Seven or eight or nine
or well? Okay, so seven, eight or nine
things are not going to go well, for this robot.
So we'll see what we get. Oh no.
Okay, I got a nine. So as the arms start to move
they start to rip apart this robot.
Instead of like putting the thing into its its neck, it
starts to put it in its chest and just starts to like tear
open. Its just as it struggles.
Huh. Okay.
See you later. Hi.
Hello. How are you?
It's sort of emotions to you like this.
Can I save it? You could try.
I would like to try to save it. How are you gonna try to save
it? I'm gonna try to again use my
mechanic skill to figure out how to shut down the machine or
reset it to do what it's meant to do.
Okay, why don't you make a another mind?
Check out advantage. So you could stress from
failing, you didn't critically hell did you know?
Okay, so you exit, you think you're going to turn it down,
but you actually increase the power, and this thing is just
like, very quickly ripped apart, but unfortunately, it explodes.
So something or has been ripped open.
So why don't you all take d11 d-10 of damage?
So, I'll roll for. Well, you can Who should?
Well, I'll roll for each one of you.
Unless anyone has a good reason why they wouldn't, I guess is
anyone not super close to this happening?
I guess that would be my position.
No, I think I'm pretty close by and I would live with.
I would be sitting next to next to them.
Okay? So we'll start from top to
bottom chord. You're going to take 8 damage,
it's 10 damage per wounds, so Are still good at you don't need
to take a wound all damage in Cotton persist uses exploding
dye. So if you've got a nine I'm
going to re-roll it and adding to that total.
So that is a that's yeah that's a 94 Cricket, which makes sense.
So you took fifteen damage know, is that another nine?
That's another 90 know. Okay, so you took 1821 damage,
but who didn't ask you Cricket? Oh man.
So you're going to roll two wounds on the wound table and
you going to want to try to roll low on those wounds, okay?
Let me pull up the winch cable, and then I'll roll for Bryn.
Here's the bring. You took three attract actually
Cricket. If you have any armor, I don't
remember 10 points of armor. Yeah, awesome.
So you subtract 10 from that, so you take 11 damage so you just
roll a single wound but your armor is going to be totaled.
That okay, Moto my armor, you still like you could still carry
it with you if you want to get that but it's not going to
provide any. You could get it repaired later,
but it's not going to provide any benefits until it's
repaired. And then I Cool, I rolled an
eight on the wound, so I have a wound that ends you're
traveling. You're no longer play this
character for until the next adventure.
So what this might be as that like you get blasted backwards
in this, this fiery wreck, I get concussed.
Yeah and you just like our you're out of it like to move.
You feels like it would be too much Danger.
ER and so I guess it's up to gourd and Brynn.
What you're going to do about that like are you going to head
down? Are you going to head back?
And you know and the adventure it's sort of up to you at this
point Hunter will give you a new character or you know, or will
will will certainly get it. Get you up that ladder man.
Yours, I think we have like 10 minutes off the tee.
You should keep going. I'm down to just hang and enjoy
this. So I'll be here.
We are kejriwal when your character takes 3 seconds,
you're gonna Hunter the the praying disposable robot that I
watched this all happen. Sort of start spraying next to
you and as it spraying it decides that it's going to join
the other players. And now you're going to be this
sort of reverent other disposable, but your stats are
going to be like 20. You're going to have like really
bad stats. This perfect.
That's amazing. I'm cheaper down, you don't?
You have like no chance of failing a reality, fear save.
But you have like, 24 all Shropshire stats.
Okay, perfect. And like maybe one moon or
something. I don't know.
Okay. Do we have any other rooms to
explore in this area? Or is that the there is there's
one more cross, right? Oh, and you should all I think
you should all. Make a panic Chuck.
Yeah, that's a good idea because that this I think the fire and
stuff like probably really messed Cricket, huh?
So why don't you both make a panic and just will take a
stress first and then make a panic roll and you're trying to
roll above your Panic number. All right.
So let's find one stress, plus the, additional stress forever.
You taken any stress yet? I, this is my first dress.
Okay, perfect. Yeah.
So you're okay. Chill.
Dude, I have to stress. I rolled a four.
So I believe that. Good damp the Cowboys.
Fine Gore. Did you pass this wall?
I did it. So you're pretty early in the
Venture. I guess you're kind of comes
with the territory of going. In this tunnel, maybe.
I feel like I always have like a little bit of a buzz to so it
kind of takes the edge off some of like some of the fear and
been Panic just a little bit and I just I just want to go over to
Cricket who's like clearly days. Oh yeah, I are.
All right, well buddy will will will grab you on the way.
We back. All right.
Yeah, but before before brand goes about exploring more, they
take a little time to just make sure that that crickets not in a
position where they're going to like bleed out and die and like,
can basically get them like, in the, like recovery position, you
know, not going to use the just, let's just check me out.
On them, sleep pods, we can like shut it and like oh, that's a
brilliant idea. Let's do that.
I will praying robots. Just like I'm just like
following you guys around. Um, so you are load Cricket into
the sleep pod and I guess, shut the door.
Do you do anything else? Not all the way?
We'll make sure it's like, it's like mostly close.
But not. Yes, correct.
Yes, is exactly where it's gonna die.
We all such a also. Register homage his body real
quick for something I can help while he he doesn't need to use
of it, I guess. Yeah.
You can take whatever you want or I guess that'd be uptight
Cricket. What did you have on you?
I had a broken egg substitute suit and my statue and a bag of
red potatoes. Oh, my water bears.
So yeah, a little tardigrade you know something I'm just gonna
snatch that and it's like stuffing in the sleeping pod to
and he can just keep the. I don't think I think the
charter grade would like, kind of stay behind with Cricket.
Yeah. Because they're pretty.
Like two couriers, I would say yes.
So I rummage and there's it's not much.
There's not a rummage humble stuff.
So I'll just leave him with his things.
You don't want my statue nice statue weapon, blood blood to be
exactly what his armor so you know mmm-hmm how about mouthing
blades? You know okay I got it.
I do sellswords I technically a man Edge Lord really in this one
because I am a master of both lazy and assassinations anyway
so off we go you have fun there Cricket will be back Back.
Oh boy, okay so totally not responsive.
If we go into, we go into the other room, there is a
disposable is a greenhouse. So there is a glass window.
There's it seems like a log long tunnel up and there's some
actual natural light or what you perceive to be natural light and
every 5 to 10 minutes or so, there's a flush somewhere maybe
or some kind of liquid motion and it hits stuff.
Start. It's like every 15 minutes but
you've seen it happen. Maybe once now the water flushes
down and goes on the greenhouse and there's cracks in it that
the water drips down into buckets and disposable that has
a small, you know, several flowers growing from it stands
up, slowly grabs the water and then starts to pour it on what
look like some, some orchids in the room and then puts the
bucket back and then goes back to sleep.
Yeah. So that's that's kind of what's
happening in this room. There's sort of what looked like
in Tech planners that have been broken open but flowers and sort
of dirt piles around the floor and on the shelves and flowers
that you've probably never seen before, bit of a testament to
the Ancients that this, that these disposables continue to
Function like this. Yeah, quite spectacular flowers.
We haven't seen before. Yeah, is this is this where
you've been getting the solar to continue to function?
He's just, he's just going to the entire time.
I just appraised. Robot does anything look like a
battery? I mean this what we're looking
for, right? Was there anything else that we
were looking for bread? It's just battery and feminine
the lion, feeding the gods head. We got the we got the second,
another sack of me and we got the lights on so we just need
batteries, right? Well we didn't get anything.
We have the sack. We didn't get anything for the
godhead to eat. I thought that stuff that was in
the sack. I thought the whole point of
sack Hmm, might need more. You're here Cricket.
All right, sorry. Yeah, just keep praying.
Just I just not tall. How tall is my little, it's
probably like 6 foot tall, but it's really skinny.
It's sort of like a like pipes almost with some of that Rice
metal casing, that sort of dissolving away.
We'll come back to this room later if we figure out a need I
guess. Emmys party.
Yeah, so that was everything, right?
What would happen? Do you think if I plucked one of
these, I think it would get mad at me.
Give it a try and I pluck a little one Turf.
Yeah, I want to pluck. What not like?
I mean I don't like one that seems pluggable not one.
That's like man I should leave that one alone.
It's and he you know what I mean?
Yeah, so you pluck a small flower, maybe put it in your
jacket or hold it and look at it, you got it seems like a
very, you know, flowers don't grow like this anymore.
It seems pretty fragile in a difficult world.
And so far, nothing kind of makes you think a lot owner.
Really does. Who said that?
But let's head back out to the ledge.
Yeah, yeah actually start to leave the room, spraying
disposable and watering disposable both starts to walk
towards you sort of trying to grab you essentially this way.
Does from leaving Yeah, but they are pretty slow moving.
And they're specifically going for you gourd, I got damn it.
So I'm just gonna put the fire back.
And then the water and robot stops and the other robot stops.
Well, I mean I of course it's fine.
I'll leave it my My elders told me once that flowers used to be
used for medicinal purposes, perhaps those flowers are
valuable. Well, I don't want to be slowly
chased around so we can just leave it Knocking.
I can snag it as we leave. If I really want it, but I feel
like, oh, don't live that moving.
That slowly. There's no way they could catch
us. Climbing up that ladder.
So, on the way out, See the leg. It'll be like one of those like
snails, that chases you forever situations, not prefer not to do
with that sounds good. Okay, we go back to the ledge
and look down so as you get to the ledge there is a large face
looking at you. It is sort of a what looks like
metal skeleton face with a single red eye facing you, and
it looks to be attached to the large.
Elevator platform that has gone to this level to meet you.
Oh, Howdy hello Rin. Boughs, graciously to the giant
metal head. Are you the godhead?
God had. Bony are you are you talking
about big oregano? God, everyone's always coming to
see big oregano over here. I'm doing a southern exit, 24.
Not going to do a Southern accent.
Listen, it is contagious. Everyone only fun to see big
oregano, no one's ever wants to see little oregano.
Ours, different little oregano course, and can.
You introduce who you are beyond your name?
What what, what do you serve? I like playing games.
I like making friends. Do you want to be my friend?
She awful only in this tunnel? Yep.
Do you also eat sacks of meat? I could try.
No, I'm an asshole, right? Nina, listen.
Um, but what is your current? So so so we we look at is this
some like robotic thing on the elevator elevator itself?
Like, or it is the elevator as to Like, rails on the sides.
It's a flat circle and that in the middle, it's sort of a mound
that is like a spinning skull, like, that's sort of built it,
does it? It's not like exactly like a
skull that looks like a robot face.
That's kind of creepy, like a skull with a single red eye on
the side of it. There's no railing and on the
side of it, you see what looks like Von.
He's corpse laying sideways. Oh hey.
So um who what's that? Right there.
Oh, that was Bonnie's, not a good friend.
I don't like vodka. Oh, you know, I wasn't as much
of a fan either. Yeah, he's always coming down
here. I hate Vani.
He's always messing with me. I was asking me to do stuff.
Never wants to play any games, right?
Okay, what kind of games do you like to play a little oregano,
fun games you ask? I'll take you down too.
Reagan. A little be fun.
I think that's where we need to go.
I have no voice in this situation.
I'm just a little praying, Robotboy.
So a little looks. But what do you think?
Print? What do you think?
Giant praying robot? That, that seemed like a yes, to
me. So I guess.
Let's go on to the elevator with the dead creature and the God
had thing. You get on and it slowly starts
to lower, be on the ledge and then little oregano says, I'm so
glad you like to play games. So, let's see what game you're
going to play. Oh God.
So I'm gonna play bounce house. So it's all of a sudden goes
with me and it starts bouncing up and down button.
Like so you jerk and then all down and then jerk again and
fall down. So why don't you both make a
body save wonderful. We need to or I feel Smart Tim
is I thought, yeah, I feel as well.
How about the cord? I succeed, I succeed.
So Gord I don't know what you're thinking, but you probably just
Klingon and maybe hold on, or hold on to the little Reagan.
Oh, head itself. I think praying disposable.
You're just flung off. So, why don't you take a wound?
And Brent, I think you have a chance to catch on to the side.
So take a stress for failing and then why don't you make a tell
me how you're going to try to to not fall off.
Essentially, you're like flung up in the air and and sort of
falling sideways. I think you're going to, for
sure, take one D 10 damage and then we'll see if you can
continue to hold on. Okay, so you got I'm not, you
got nine know, I knit for. So you took on 14 damage, okay,
13 damage and I have to roll on the weight.
Well, how much did little robotic?
Why don't you run the one table? It's just a straight-up wound.
I think you have to wounds. You just took a window down,
right? Okay.
Okay, flung off the thing and I was like, let's do character
sound. What's it gonna be this up
wound? That rattles my beliefs.
Excellence. I actually find it very funny if
the pregnancy by got that it stopped.
I have a I have a wound that knocks me on my ass.
I cannot act during next round of combat.
So I think you've actually been flung to the level below and
you're you're, you know, did worse for wear but you're like
you know, you're kind of waved down there.
So I start praying, Brent, I think I think you because you
took the damage I think you just landed on your side.
But if he still bouncing, so you all have another round of
Bounce. You have, like, you all both
have a second to act now or a couple moments to act before
little oregano is like, let's go again.
Bryn is going to find the nearest thing that is like
structurally attached to the elevator, mrap the rifle strap
around it, to hold breath. In place I don't think there is
anything. I think it's totally flat and
there's no railing. You can try something else but I
don't think there is any kind of at least from where you are in
the middle. All right.
Then brings going to lay flat on their stomach.
In the middle to try and make themselves less as less bouncy
as possible. How about you both?
I'm gonna take a swig from my wine jug.
In the hope that much like man, I'm not gonna make it so.
Oftentimes you know, if people get an accident, if they've been
drinking they are loose and take less damage than people that are
all tensed up and stuff. So obviously, I'm really going
to try to go with the flow. I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna,
I'm just gonna go with the flow, is what I'm gonna do.
And that's what that's what I'm doing.
So we're going to see what if little oregano wants to keep
bounce house or doing. Okay.
Yeah. So I'm little oregano.
I'm game. Yeah, it didn't spin spin, and
start spinning and he let me know which I think he's just fly
off. I don't think well, maybe you
could hold on the edge. Why don't you make a spits?
Well, no, I went to the center, so I do, you didn't.
Okay, I think I would have a chance to find that at the
center, but if I laid down at the edge, I have mine.
Hold on to something with either.
You could do yeah. A body or speed save and I'll if
I didn't know you were at the center.
So I think you would you get Advantage for the strap?
I think you could attach it to a little Reagan has had.
Okay. Yes, perfect.
I'm going to pass either body or speed, whatever, whatever I
take. Well, so you you like your strap
pulls tight but you're still holding on.
It sounds like gourd. How about yours?
It's kind of right? I avoided the fair, I think.
So you picked you picked an interesting approach of going
limp. I think you're just going to fly
off cord clamp as much as I went with the flow.
Like but you decided to bring out a wine jar.
And Swig a big Swig but is your mid-weight good like done
drinking and you just like get out into the area so why don't
you take that word? Yeah.
A whole whole whole wound. I'll take one of your great.
What am I rolling for what? Wound 2010.
One day. Ten.
Wonderful. Let's see what we got here.
I'm gonna get on the one table. It's a wound that rattles my
belief. Oops.
Yeah, so welcome to the club. So Brendan gourd like how have
these like experience has changed you?
I think little Reagan is like, where'd you go?
We're going to friend go. And starts to spin around to
look for you. You land next to praying
disposable and you see, like there are a number of other
skeletons and Bonnie's Force, like in this area that have all
been kind of flung down here now.
Kill. Don't, you killed them little
oregano? It's not my fault.
They should have. They should have played better
your games. Are terrible.
Every single one of them is terrible game.
You don't want to play anymore. I would love to play a game with
you. That wasn't about killing
people. I'm not killing people.
I'm having fun. It's not my fault.
You can't hold on. There is no difference, little
oregano. Find well, I'll let you off,
then you don't want to play anyway.
And a little oregano, like, scoots down, and to the level
that the other two characters are at Bryn like walks off.
Just like, completely just drained.
And walks over to gourd to check to see if Corte still alive and
sits down and And looks at praying robot and says, I hate.
Mechanical constructions, I will never be.
I will never be able to. I will never be able to think of
it, the same. They just want to kill me.
They just want to figure out like, light breaks, his psycho
and lightly Pat, your face. Yeah, breaks in cycle.
He's now his he is now afraid or excuse me.
Prin. They are now afraid of
mechanical constructions. So, yeah, they have a fear of
mechanical construction drawing away from this little.
Touching, you still screeching gourd?
How have you been changed by this experience?
Well, I'm trying to think of what gourd believes him and I
feel like it's just the blade in the Bottle.
Um maybe maybe you don't trust the bot, maybe you're like more
skeptical of the alcohol. Now.
You're like, that's why. I mean I feel like I would just
be laying there in a heap of skeletons and Varney.
Avani like I think I want to say balls.
He had like giant like some type of balls attached to him, right?
The time, you do not see those mites, they're like, little Mike
Balls. You do not see him here, right?
So not not volleyballs, I feel like yeah, that I like I feel
like if so it's a wine jug, so how about it broke?
Um, and I feel like maybe get some sleep somewhere down the
hall and I feel like maybe being tipsy for that situation.
She was probably not the best move.
Um and maybe being tipsy for future situations.
Might not be the best movie there and I feel like that's a
the wrong way. Yeah, I know.
But yeah yeah. So you're kind of like like that
was a bad decision. Yeah.
So we'll probably call it there just to loosen Exposition, you
know, you are on this dual Edge. There's another breaker, there's
another hole on the wall and you start, To see Candlelight and
here chanting from below. And as you look down, you see a
score of mechanical bodies covered in candle wax and you
know, glowing lights of them moving around as we sort of, you
know, as you sort of figure out your next moves we pan up and
you know just for good measure Cricket starts to come to and we
see several of the skinless dolls slowly walking.
And the corner and looking into the room and then we cut away
and that's sort of the end of our time together.
That was that was great. Yeah that was awesome.
I the science fantasy aspect really shines through that and
ways that like a lot of like the mothership Adventures, I have
read don't and I really feel like that's like a strength with
Cloud impressed that I'm really excited to see his this weird
like Environmental Like science thing.
That like just really is is interesting.
I haven't played a game that really like billions into it
like so those. Awesome cool.
Yeah, that was great. Thank you so much Lush with
curiosity everywhere. Like I'm so fascinated by every
little thing going on and I'll just like spoil one thing.
This is the first time, you know, this is pretty recently
developed, but you will find additional bodies avani
throughout. Tunnels back that way.
Yeah, that's so they're just another kind of mystery for
that, but I'll just see two for folks that maybe haven't played
Mother Ship before. If we were not closer to the end
of the session Hunter we would have just rolled up a new
character and been like, no, we found a traveler who was like
scared of the, the elevator, you know.
So it really especially getting players back into the game.
If there is an MPC that they're comfortable thing, it seemed
like Connor. You were kind of having fun with
that. Yeah, that's just bottom in.
To an NPC. But if it is going to take a
little bit longer, just throw in, you know, hey, there's you
know, and you probably seen this in some other games that have
sort of a high fatality rate, but, you know, you just throw
that character in anywhere. You can find a spot so they can
continue. Yeah, just getting back in the
action is more important than like necessarily like being
perfect for the like fitting into the story and stuff like
that. Just because think I'm going the
other piece. I'll just mention.
Is like what? No one died technically.
But when a character does sty, there's this first table.
And so, you roll on the curse table and that is a second
chance for your character where your absence is scattered
through the universe. And there might be voices, or
alternate versions of yourself that come back.
And so, there's everything from like your soul is bonded to a
nearby object to your body as much older.
Much younger. Your changed into a chimera you
become a ghost. You could be animated object,
which I haven't seen yet. But I'm really looking forward
to someone becoming a bitch. I like a dresser.
So those are, those are some of the goofier aspects of the game,
but, yeah, I'm glad, I'm glad you liked it.
And yeah, I think hopefully that showcased a little bit of the
horror elements for folks that yeah.
Yeah, absolutely. Oh yeah.
So um, do me a favor. The cloud and Bruce is still
going on Kickstarter for cuz today is January 21st.
Yes, that's correct. Yes.
So you're right. It does.
So if you're listening and we'll get this up I guess on YouTube
sooner than later, when does The Campaign actually end the
campaign ends, Thursday, February 9th, so really
encourage people to back it on Kickstarter.
We're still doing stretch goals. So there's a number of like,
both physical and digital stuff. It's shipping friendly to the UK
Canada and the US. But also we do ship to the EU.
Although there are some complications with that and
there will be some like pre-order and Retail options if
folks don't want to use Kickstarter or don't have them,
you know. Money on them right now, the two
pieces of it is the rule book. There is a setting book which
would include this adventure. There's sort of five biomes, one
of these being this industrial biome with an adventure, in each
one of the biomes. And then a larger hex map.
That that also covers these biomes Mason, I had five
different authors that I really love some.
Some Mothership regulars in a lot of new folks to the
Mothership space. They each wrote a pamphlet
Adventure that takes One of these biomes and sort of
reimagines the world up to up to them and in a specific location.
So pretty neat. What they're coming up with two.
That's one of those can you are? They are their names available.
We even that's not exactly Kickstarter.
Let me make sure I get them all right, but I should know this by
heart but I do but Alfred Valley who has done some really awesome
Mothership and solo work. Joel Hines, it is Sebastian.
You Kiana shot and Sam Lee Lee. So, that's the sort of Team five
writers that bring some really unique perspectives to the And
part of the real idea, this is, it will have its own kind of
open license. So people can create work within
the cloud a setting if they so choose, that'll sort of also be
compatible with Mothership, but the idea is like, creating a
world. I think I mentioned earlier that
it's sort of between realities or it's sort of this, this
slippery space. So you could put in other
Mothership modules, you could put fantasy.
Like, anything would really work in it in this sort of dreamlike
state, and you could bring in some cloud of person.
Perfect tones or ideas, but there's not a lot of wrong
answers that I really want to encourage people playing the
game and people think about writing for the game, like a lot
goes for this this world and you can be really creative and, you
know, there's a, some Tears for Fears lines that we didn't get
to in this particular Venture. So there's just like all sorts
of goofy stuff that can happen in the something very
interesting in and where can I think the John feeling earlier
but where can people find any of your other?
Tough right now. You is a primal your page?
Yeah. So Cloud a.com is more
impressive about Claude impress Worlds by W.
It's dot h. Dot IO is where I have my other
games and then I'm at Worlds by w at Twitter to I do some stuff
over there and then I have a messed up an account and Discord
and all that kind of stuff too. It doesn't.
Yeah, so listen. Thank you so much again for
coming on, really appreciate you being our first guest of the
year and helping us get through some of the, some of the, some
of the technological stuff that we had to reset here.
So, really appreciate that is just really excited for for
cloudburst. I can't.
So what what is the? What's Target fulfillment?
Actually, get this in our hands so we can start playing it on
ourselves when we see what I said on the kick.
I mean, I do tend to try to Use pretty conservative timelines.
So ideally it's around August to October.
So it's about six months is the plan.
We'll just see the one challenge about the pride project doing
so. Well, as there's just like, more
happening in it more times than to deal with and distribution
gets a little slower. All of this stretch goals are
really meant to not be more content.
In terms of like stuff that's going to delay the project Fact,
that's one of my obviously pet peeves of kickstarter's as like.
Yeah, 100% more content but it comes out two years later.
So I do want to get this to backers within a reasonable time
line. So I think I said you luck.
I think, I think yeah. Somewhere between August and
October but the, the digital files will be out probably two
or three months before that, so people can start playing with
those. Obviously the rule book is,
well, maybe not obviously the current work in progress rule
book that we use. Is online right now.
The introductory Ventures online, the character sheets and
I'll buy post free monthly content on my newsletter.
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So you can follow me over there too if you want some content in
the meantime, fantastic, super excited.
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