Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll podcast.
My Name Is Ryan. And I'm Big Slamu.
Oh, that's me, right? Yeah.
I, you know, like I thought you were gonna say more.
And it's like, I'm Logan I I write things like the company
and other stuff. Hey, I'm wife.
I also write things. I mean it's still Fleet and
Publishing and Co developing blister critters which we're
playing today. Hey, I'm Tony.
I pretend that I can write things, but know that I can
illustrate things. I put together Blister Critters
and working together with a wise of the Stealth Plate Studio to
publish it to the world. Blister Critters is currently
crowdfunding on Kickstarter doing pretty well so far, so if
you like what you see, head on over to blistercritters.com or
look for us on Kickstarter to grab up a box set.
Yeah, so clearly we're playing Blister Critters today.
It says it multiple times on the screen, and we have now set it
numerous times. It says, I think at least three
times right now on screen. So we're playing Blister
Critters. This game fucking rocks.
I remember what episode it was, but we've talked before about
Blister, Critters, Hunter, but fantastic game, super excited to
play. As soon as we had on a, we had
wife and Tony on before and you know when we were doing that,
we're like, please come back And they did and they're here and
we're here and now we get to play the game.
So again, clearly the most important game happening in the
world today anywhere is this game right here.
And it is Episode 128 that you can go back and listen to a
little bit more about the, you know behind everything of of
what's going on with Blister Critters with White and Tony
previously or or just listen to this and and go back to the
game. But we're playing today, we're
playing Blister Critters. So Tony, our producer for the
day, why don't you tell us about Blister Critters for?
Sure, Blister Critters is a new tabletop game.
It utilizes still food Studios grit system as the kind of core
foundation for all the rolling and fun mechanical stuff.
Thematically, Blister Critters is a game set in a Saturday
morning cartoon where you play as mutated little animals trying
to survive, thrive, rebuild civilization if you'd like, in a
post human 90s suburbia where all of the humans poof are gone.
You don't know why. You have a Roach and turtle and
rat problems to deal with, but the humans have been gone for
about two decades and you, a mutated little animal left in
the aftermath, are scurrying about a humanless suburbia
dealing with critter problems. And that's kind of what we're
going to be exploring today, because Blister Critters does a
lot to really lean into being a a Saturday morning cartoon, a
core part of Blister Critters and now actually part of the
core box set because we hit the stretch goal are ad libs.
So we can actually add them directly to the box as a full
set of ad libs. Just like when you were younger
and you'd fill out a bunch of blanks with verbs and adjectives
and then you have somebody else read off this and really wacky
kind of combination of like phrases.
Everybody work together. Blister Critters utilizes that
to do a bit of pre session, pre episode world building and kind
of game prep. So when you're in real life,
when you have the box set, you could pass around the table
while people are getting their snacks together and settling in.
I've done that digitally and had everybody already submit there
so I could do a little bit more preparation ahead of time.
So I'm not going to ramble for too much longer.
We're going to jump right into this improvised infomercial and
then get right into actual play. All right, cool.
We the camera is going to kind of zoom in in full frame into a
like ATV screen CRT kind of lines going up a man like a red
striped suit and a little ice cream cap.
Big bushy beard is on screen. It's kind of wacky eyes all
bulging cowabunga ice cream. The chillest ice cream in all of
Orem UT. And the camera zooms way out to
quaint little Orem UT and zooms way back into the old man big
scoop of ice cream. Now that's a Robeson and like a
little like crawl across the screen.
For those that aren't aware Irbesan needs to turn red or to
blush. Just find one of our pink
trampoline shaped ice cream peddling vehicles cruising down
your block to try for yourself. Each truck features a spinning
rubber ducky with buns on top. And look, every time you buy a
cone, it goes cowabunga and there's like a the little ducky
spins around. Vanilla, No.
Way. Try our new Smooth town flavored
ice cream for that cowabunga signature taste that pasta
makers are simply smoking over. And it's just really dull Gray
bat of ice cream that like a man in like a kind of stereotypical
like kitchen uniform is literally just blowing cigarette
smoke into to give it that signature smooth town flavor.
But you got to act comfort comfort, Comfortingly, seals are
so hot we're practically melting out here.
Cowabunga ice cream cool down with the chillest ice cream
around and as the as the infomercial kind of ends we it's
going to end on this really nice image of the pink trampoline
shaped pink trampoline shaped truck with the rubber ducky and
buns on top. Cowabunga ice cream and it stays
on frame. There's probably like a number
that crawls by and there's like kids cheering in the background.
They're excitedly waiting in line, and the the sound of joy
and a little Jingle kind of fades off into like a really
dreary drone and TV Static kind of builds up and it gets like
higher and higher until it hits a crescendo and there's like a
hard cut to 20 years into the future.
The kids are no more. There is no line.
Overgrowth has taken over a city wall behind the the ice cream
truck, the big open window where a jolly man once passed out.
Ice cream is now boarded up. The spinny thing on top is gone,
and as the camera starts to kind of zoom in, it's going to phase
through the metal and you hear it's it's already begun.
Didn't you hear that whole deer gone?
How can it be gone? And there's another splat kind
of heard from the top of the trampoline roof of the ice cream
truck. There's a like, a frantic, like
older pig character. This is your borough leader.
So in Blister critters, the critters are all congregate into
small boroughs where they can get together and have a borough
problems, civilization and society problems, and they work
together to make things happen. This is your borough leader
Logan. Can you give a name to this kind
of frantic pig borough leader? Steven.
Steven, the borough leader, is like it's already happening.
They're pooping on the. Truck.
And as this pig is kind of freaking out, there's a a burly
turtle. His name is Merle, and he is in
front of you for he's kind of gathered you here and he's much
more calm and collected and goes, you know, I know it's
early. I appreciate your help.
Today's a big day. And now we've got and the pig,
another one. We've got a problem.
As you can tell, our our spinny duck is gone and the spinny
thing that once sat on top let me pull it into frames so
everyone can see, Merle explains to the four of you guys.
You already know this, but to to let everybody else in on it.
The spinny thing on top was used to keep the ice cream truck nice
and clean. The pigeons in the area they
like to poop on our truck. We don't know why, but with the
spinny thing on top, we were able to hit it nice.
Cowabunga would go off, the birds would disperse.
No poop truck and the pig kind of times in.
They're not going to want to. Deal with us if we have a poop.
Truck morals, yes, we have a big deal today.
We have a very hungry Burrow and it kind of cuts to deeper within
the truck. You can see there's like a tube
that fall follows under and it goes into a sewer grate where
the rest of the Burrow kind of takes place.
The truck is parked atop like a manhole cover, and there's just
a bunch of, like, hungry mice and little birds just kind of
kind of shivering inside the sewer.
Terribly hungry, Merle says. We have a We have a food
problem, and we're supposed to have a deal today with with Big
Notch. And Big Notch is quite
particular. He doesn't like a poop truck,
and he won't deal with us if we have a poop truck.
I need you for it to go out and bring back the spinny duck.
Find out who took it, bring it back by any means necessary.
And if you don't, a little Jimmy, he he's going to, he's
going to starve. And he pulls up like a mouse by
the scruff and it's just like a tiny mouse.
He's the kind of shivering he's. Like I'm hungry.
He tosses them into the background.
Ryan, if you could introduce your character and canonize one
like quirk or thing about the borough itself, like a weird
thing that the borough like kind of does by tradition or by
habit. OK, my character's name is is
Rod do I am a. Bat.
My let me get actually get to my character sheet.
My role is the know it all and I'm the thinker, so I am this
bat, but I have this like these old pair of like glasses that I
found for like a kid. But they're like way too big on
me and like broken in the middle so like taped together and I'm
constantly like pushing them back up because they fall down
over like my my, my bat nose. So he definitely is like the
nerdy know it all of of the group for sure and one thing
that that canonize about our borough gosh I don't even I
don't even know I don't even know context for for stuff.
I really, you know what popped in my head first was they they
got to do something with all the poop they scrape off the truck.
Absolutely. What do they do?
Are they repurposing it? What are they doing with it?
They got to what? What?
What's guano good for in a post human world?
Well, it's not even guano. It's just shit.
Sure. Yeah, yeah, they've.
Been They've been repurposing the pigeon poop for for for
fuel. Yeah, for fuel.
There we go. That's the thing that the
borough does. We Because if the pigeons aren't
pooping on the truck, they got to poop somewhere.
So we're we're pigeon poop collectors.
Yeah, Yeah. Merle kind of looked at you
knowingly, and we kind of helps you push the glasses.
I was like, I I appreciate you being here.
Oh. Thank you.
Yeah. Hopefully I I we couldn't gather
anybody else. I don't know if you're up to the
task or not. You you look a little on the the
small side but you know I'm glad you.
I'm glad you showed up. He turns to Hunter's character,
Hunter. If you could introduce yourself
and if you could tell me a little, give me like a a
personality thing that you, you and Merle have some kind of
history for why Merle is maybe more partial to you than to
Radu. Yeah, absolutely.
So I'm Rocco the raccoon, and Rocco is a kleptomaniac, as all
raccoons are. And he is also, he's a dasher.
So he's a very quick, stealthy, stealing boy.
And I think my relationship with Merle was like, I very much
imagine Rocco like every time the camera cuts to him, he's
like slowly grabbing something he shouldn't be just.
About to grab it. Yeah, even if he wasn't anywhere
near it at the time, like if he was like across the room and the
camera cuts, he's like grabbing something.
And I I think that Merle is like an older, like, fatherly figure,
like caught caught him trying to steal and like has helped raise
him to be somewhat of a better person, but also totally still a
kleptomaniac. So yeah, I think of Merle as
like Mike Ehrmantraut from like Breaking Bad and Better Call
Saul. That is like the archetype that
I that I like to ascribe for Merle.
So he's very much like that. Don't, don't do that kid.
And he kind of, as you're introducing yourself, he kind of
pulls you back into frame with the rest of everybody else.
You kind of bump into Logan's character, Logan, if you could
introduce yourself and kind of canonize a bit about the world
that's going to be outside. Is it, is it like frightening?
Are you cool with it? And what is?
What is your character's take on the world outside?
Yeah, I'm Bertle the Snapping Turtle.
I am huge. Like, compared to everyone else,
I'm. Not even in frame, just head up,
just. Hulking like just a a massive
turtle, Bertle was alive when people were around.
Bertel's like 120 years old, so he's been living in a river for
a long time. And then the river dried up
because of all of the stuff going on.
So he started walking around. Bertel has a ball peen hammer, a
human ball peen hammer that he carries around it's and he's got
a couple of can pull tabs tied to his knees as extra armor.
Bertle is the tank here. He's he's he's pretty, not
afraid of the world because he lived in it before.
Bertle's job in the borough is to like walk around and make
sure animals don't come in and hit him with the hammer and then
sometimes go out and protect groups like this.
Bertle was like recruited as the heavy for for today's rescue
mission essential. Yeah, and the borough it Bertle.
He is part of the borough technically for food purposes,
but wouldn't consider himself part of this community.
I guess Nice and Merle is my cousin.
Oh, OK, very nice, Merle says. I I appreciate you helping out.
You know, family's got to do what family's got to do.
We got a hungry borough. And you know, I'm.
I'm too old to be getting out there.
So I I really appreciate that you you stepped up to the
challenge today. It slowly nods.
And why, if you could introduce yourself and if you could
canonize, I guess a final quirk or trait habit, tradition of the
borough that you guys are going to be trying to help out for
today. Yeah, I think Slytherin on top
of Bertel and talking over Bertel and Merle as they are
talking, is a a snake, a cookery snake who is actually somewhat
aged. So she was not really around
during humanity, humanity, humanity.
However they say it, the critters.
But she is an older snake, fully grown, and she is bored.
She finds all this preparatory work really boring.
She wants to go do something exciting.
She is a thinker. She's very smart, but she just
immediately starts talking about how essentially the ice cream
truck is not just it's it's not just about food.
This is a place where people gather and people need, you
need, they need like space mate, like they need places to go to
do things. You can't just do things
underground unless you're beetle.
Is everyone here a beetle or termite or ants?
Raise your hand. I don't have hands.
And she's just really like kind of pushing the group to go, like
have a party, like go do something fun.
And her name is Cyndi Lauper's Sisters of Avalon, the Snake or
so because she had just been flown in to this area when the
poof happened and she was trapped.
Her crate was trapped and the only thing near her was one CD.
So she sort of learned all about humanity as she gained sapiens
from a single human object. So yeah she's she's I think if
unless Logan objects she's just riding on Bertel because you're
going to you're 2 like older reptiles.
So I feel like there's like a little bit of a a brother
sister. Thing happening.
It's a big show. Yeah.
Cool. She has the CD also like a
shield. Like, kind of like twirling it
on her her tape. Oh, nice.
That's awesome. Yeah, Merle.
Merle is kind of dealing with Mary.
Was his name Steve? Steve the pig in the back.
He's still kind of freaking out as every every few minutes while
you guys are kind of talking and introducing yourselves and
they're poop splats onto the roof.
And Steve the pig is like continuously freaking out.
I was like Big Notch. He's a particular guy.
He doesn't, he doesn't like when there's poop on the truck.
No one's going to give. Food to a poop.
Truck and Merle is trying to calm him down.
He's like, all right, like we've done enough talking.
Go we Big Notch is going to be here in a few hours.
We have to bring back the spinny duck before then.
And if not the little Jimmy and he reaches way back and grabs
the the little starving mouse again he's not going to be here
much longer Ding and throws him back into the the far reaches of
of the ice cream truck. It's like all right now now
scram, do what you got to do. Take anything that you want.
You guys have already kind of grabbed some stuff, but if
anybody wants to grab an additional piece of equipment.
So in blister critters your items and equipment, weapons and
armor are all categorized under the in game term capital S
stuff. Stuff is all human made or not
even necessarily human made. Like leaves and sticks can be
stuffed, but anything that you can find and pick up and
interact with is a piece of stuff.
Critters have a certain amount of stuff points, so inventory
space and you use stuff to bonk so to attack to whereas armor to
interact with the world if anybody would like.
Now, given more context for the borough or what's going on, if
you'd like to pick up an additional.
Piece of stuff. As equipment before you go, we
can do that now or we can get you guys out of the truck and
into the world. I think Rocco's going to go to
his little like like hiding hole that he has like probably busted
out of like the interior of this this vehicle.
He's pull out like he has like a little cloth bandana vest.
You know, he just got cut out and he puts like his ring of
like of stranger's keys, but he like fits it around himself like
a like a belt. Yeah, with the keys hanging on
one side and he like has a little marble and he puts in a
little bag and he pulls out his three inch button pin, which is
his weapon and slides it like into the key ring where it can
kind of split to be slid onto something else, you know, and
just. Hold it all kitted out.
Yeah, he just gets kitted. So that's.
Awesome. Is anybody else grabbing
anything else up? Yeah.
Myrtles like falling us are bertles like slower, slowly
falling asleep. So has.
Has enough stuff and I think I'm just beating.
I have a deck of cards in addition to the the Twirly
thing, and with one other part of my tail I'm I've got the
cards wrapped around in the middle and I'm like bonking
Bertle to get going like boy wake up.
Sweet, yeah, Merle says. All right, cool.
Get out there again. We only have a few hours, so
bring it back quick or Jimmy's gonna starve and he.
Merle kicks open the back door of the ice cream truck and you
guys are somewhat familiar with at least this first area here.
You guys are going to have to look through I guess the stream
you guys are familiar with. This first area, this big black
circle is the trampoline shaped pink ice cream truck that you
guys are emerging from. I made you guys little things
here. You guys are coming out the side
onto this sidewalk off to the right hand side and there's like
this massive like wall kind of overgrowth in leaves from this
like infinitely dense like hedge essentially that runs forever
off into the east so that we never have to go in that
direction. A number of parking meters and
like grates and cars are all parked along this sidewalk.
Here you guys come off to the right, so there's still like the
truck to your left immediately stepping out.
If everybody could give me a give me an instinct check.
So in in blister Critters there are your scores.
Instinct specifically is for perceiving the world with your
like natural animal abilities. So we're recognizing if there's
danger hearing something properly, seeing something
properly, if everybody could give me an instinct check.
So roll whatever dye you have ascribed to your 4/4.
Bertle has seven. Three and Ryan let.
Me get it? Three Everyone steps out into
the same green gunk, but only Bertel seems to feel like kind
of like squash under his big turtle foot.
Everyone else is kind of just ready and rearing to go.
I assume SO is just trying to to keep things moving.
But Bertel, as you step out, your big turtle foot squishes
down into like this weird green gunk that is maybe a couple feet
from the exit of the Cowabunga Ice Cream Truck.
It's gross. This not usually here.
No, it is not usually there. Usually there is like plenty of
bird poop and like trash kind of lying around.
This specifically feels like rubbery and sticky.
Not normally there. I'm gonna get the I'm gonna put
my big turtle hand and I'm gonna point this so his head down like
what is? So if you would like to make a
noggin roll of. Course.
In in blister critters your perception of human stuff, so
human knowledge and human things would be a noggin rule.
That is your noggin score. So if So, what can give me a
noggin check? Please yes and I have AD 10 + 1
because I'm a thinker. That is an 8 total.
Beautiful with an 8. You know this to be some
substance that is like stretchy and sticky.
Definitely. Man made comes from probably
like toys. It seems like it came off in
like a weird globule, and looking at it closer, you
recognize a number of like, small like orangish hairs
sticking out of it. To you.
That is odd because you're seeing it as like a piece of
human gunk, but there are some animal bits kind of attached.
Orange hairs? Well Bertel, I think you would
call this gak, and Commonwealth critters would call it
gaccetamol, but it is some sort of human made slime that was
used for mysterious purposes by our predecessor Intelligences.
Yeah, this stuff's not cool at all.
I don't think you're going to eat it.
So the interesting bit is there's another critter around.
Look the orange hairs. When you say that you can't eat
it, I imagine the cuts to Rocco. He's like.
It Tony, is that true? You can't eat.
It doesn't sound like something you can eat.
You can definitely put it in, you can find out, yeah.
All right, I'm not going to eat it.
If Rocco wants to try and and see how he no he like.
He's like bout to take bite and he say that and he puts it down
and then who's standing directly next to me?
Let's just say I look at Ratu and I just like without like
looking at Ratu. I like wipe my hand on them, you
know? Yeah.
Why did you do that? Rocco, as you like, are wiping
it. You feel like your hand like
it's like sticky, like it doesn't like come off right
away. You're trying to wipe it and
it's like this comical like and you're like.
Trying to. Yeah, you're trying to like get
it off and like it finally. Like it pops, snaps, and it
finally comes off stuck to the, I guess Radu's wing.
So no orange critters around, no obvious source of those hairs.
You don't see another critter around, No.
If you everybody wants. If you want to look around for I
guess more clues or or walk around and find something else,
you're more than welcome to. But there aren't any like orange
critters standing around with that are covered in green gunk,
no? Dang.
Yeah, Rocco's going to slink up this like line of cars and he's
unable to walk. He only slinks.
OK, cool. So yeah, he's like, it's like a
crunk and Emperor's New Groove where it's like not really
helping him hide, but he's like. Doing it anyway.
Yeah, and he's going to kind of look around.
He's looking for stuff to take. But by the way of like looking
around, he's going to look for some hairs as well.
OK, cool. Are you looking for more?
Like more of the orange hairs? More of the Green gunk.
I think more of the orange hairs.
Oh, OK, as you're, I guess, making your way further north,
if you want to make, make a noggin check.
So again, in Lister Critters, not only when you're trying to,
like, recognize human stuff, but if you're ever trying to find
stuff in general around the world, that'll typically be a
noggin check. I'm going to go ahead and burn
D4 grit to get advantage of my noggin check.
Beautiful. Because I want to use an
ability. OK cool, SO2 grit spam, where's
my pen? There we go.
And then for the noggin check at advantage I rolled an 8.
Actually I rolled an 8 and a two, but it's a damage, so 8.
Beautiful. Yeah, really quickly.
In blister critters, not only do you have health, but you also
have this reserve of points called grit, which you can think
of as like energy or stamina or focus.
So just then, Hunter burned some grit to boost the roll to push
him just over the top. You said there was a 10 total.
Yeah, well, no, it's an. It's an 8.
An 8 total. Yeah 'cause I have greedy little
hands which I burned D4 grit for advantage on noggin checks.
Sweet. So.
As you're kind of slinking around, not really being all
that sneaky, you're kind of just like literally jumping back and
forth across the sidewalk. You do manage to find, like,
this really faint trail of the orange hair, some of them still
kind of caught in the globule. You watch that you watch as they
kind of skitter about, and there's like a big, wet, like,
roundish kind of clump of it up on the side of the car that
you're up next to. Currently.
It's like on the door of the car.
Is it just big wet green hairy gunk mess on the side of the
car? I just, like, immediately just
appear next to the guy, like next to the rest of the group.
Just like kind of like staring down, like thinking handsome.
Let's all go check it out. Cool.
Yeah, everybody walks over, everybody sees.
Just like smaller red car. I move everybody up on the other
map itself. Everyone sees like this big
green, like wet, kind of like stain.
It's all gunked up on the passenger side car door and
everybody wants to give me AI would call this.
I would call it another noggin. Check.
Hell yeah. I rolled A2. 3.
Rocco is not interested anymore. I I found the green gunk.
I don't need anything more. In fact, is there the water on
the ground around me? Yeah.
There's like a there's like a puddle of like really, he's lost
interest. He's going.
To start, like wash his hands like raccoons do you know?
So he like, they're a little human hand, yeah.
Bertle rolled A3. So.
I rolled A10 so plus one is 11 so I got I got Max on that.
Beautiful and Radu. I rolled an 8 + 1.
This is 9. Cool, you two kind of the thing.
There's the camera. Like your eyes both take up like
part of the frame zooms in really quick and it kind of like
CSI investigates. There's like little gears and
little like facets kind of come out and you're looking at like
the big green, like wet stain. And just on the top of the car
you can see that there is a second, like you can see it just
from where you're standing and the camera like miraculously
pans to the top of the car. There's another green stain.
So because you maxed out, if you had to guess, it seems like some
critter or some beast or being like basically ran up to the
side of the car and then used something to jump over the car
seemingly further out into the street, moving left.
OK, I explain this to the group and I think naturally I look
both back. If there's like a trace of some
crazy, you know, race to the car and and if if not, then I think
I would begin Slytherin up the car stealthily trying to look
out onto the rest of the street. But maybe there's someone who's
better at, like, sneaking and looking around, But seems like
there's a there's a a trail we all need to follow, clearly.
Could I actually fly up into the air and see if I have, like a
better, better look? Yeah.
So I'll just be like flying next to the snake because it's like
Slytherin up. Yeah.
What do you guys kind of make your way up to the top and
you're looking out and about? Yeah, but I'll keep going then
with after. You're trying to go like a super
high vantage point. Yeah, just higher than the
truck. So I can see if I see like the
the path like farther or anything cuz I rolled I think
what I did roll like a nine. So, not, not terrible, not Max,
but yeah. So looking out and Radu, you
guys both see that there is a pretty distinct like second
green big splotch attached to this like little thing over
here. There's like fire hydrant over
by the great. So whatever was on top of the
car, there's another big green splotch kind of attached to the
fire hydrant. So that is the next, I guess,
spot of the trail that you're able to make out with your snake
vision from atop the car. Roddy, as you fly higher and
higher you see this, but as you go up you are able to hear like
sobbing almost further down the street.
Here you see like movement. Your vision isn't really great
as a bat. So further down the street you
can see there's like movement in one of the like higher floors.
Like if there's a like a balcony.
Seems like something is is moving up on a balcony further
down the road with your vision. You're not really able to see
any more of the green splotches from super high up.
So, question. I'm a bat.
I can't see anything once I hear the sobbing though, like I
definitely get a little like it freaks me out a little bit and
I'm gonna just like pull out my bottle cap and stick it on like
a little helmet just in case I have echolocate because I'm a
bad. It says I can high pitched
screech to get an understanding of the surroundings and then I
have like a + 2 to noggin rolls in the area.
So how big of an area can I like echolocate to to kind of get a
nice picture since I can't see very well.
I would say that the map that we're currently looking at and
then myself knowing what the other two kind of areas are,
I'll describe those, but your core understanding will be of
the map that we're kind of currently in.
Gotcha. I mean, yeah, I I'll do that
because it doesn't cost me anything.
I can do that pretty much all the time.
So yeah, there's no reason that I'm just like, you know, and
then like. Yeah.
And so zooming out again, you look backwards, I guess to the
east with this big hedge wall and you look back and it is like
literally an impossibly dense goes on for literally miles
don't go that way, big hedge wall off to the east.
Looking further to the north, you're kind of echo screeches
ping back and you know that further to the north there
sounds like some a number of like smaller.
I don't have to get that granular about it.
Further to the north, it sounds like there's like this bigger
great graveyard. So you hear a bunch of like
small stones kind of ping back. You would recognize those as
gravestones from the cemetery further to the north.
The hedge wall kind of continues as a bunch of cars further that
way further off to the left. You recognize that as the way
that the sobbing is coming from. But also the direction like
further off there seems to be like an alleyway and some more
cars. That is where the kind of
scuffling or the the motion is happening.
No, I yeah, I feel like I know the graveyard.
I tell people that I hang out there to feel cool, but I
definitely am too scared to do that.
And I just go like hide somewhere for a little bit and
then come back. So I like fly down to the group
and tell them I'm like guys. So it looks like if we go E over
the hedge wall, we're going to go in the right?
The episode hard cuts and there's like the colored lines
for a second is like that cuts back to a new take.
No, there's an alley in the north.
We should go that way. And I think, wouldn't you cut
away so the colored lines and you cut back to Radu speaking.
Rocco is now standing over him with his eyes wide like.
Don't say it again. Are we OK?
Yeah, That is that is your general understanding.
You've related to the group. What does everybody else think?
Yeah, sounds like a plan. Let's go graveyard.
Seems cool as hell. If I'd known there's a
graveyard, I would just live there, but it's cooler than an
ice cream truck definition. Yeah, it's my favorite place.
Yeah, although. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Ice cream at the graveyard would
could we drive the truck? All right, this is for next
time. First, let's get the spinny
thingy. Oh, are you guys trying to make
your way N then? Yeah.
Downtown. I think Rock is going to like
try car doors and like mess with the the these are the parking
meters up the street as well, right?
Correct. Just casually.
I don't care if anything actually comes of it, but just
for flavor, he that's just what he's doing as everyone travels,
you know? Trying to grab trying to get
anything out of that. Anything.
Yeah. As you guys were making your way
you you hit each one along the way.
The scene is going to transition over into the next area that I
have kind of loaded up here and you kind of hit each one as you
go. You managed to get like 1
solitary quarter out of maybe like 10 parking meters that you
bash in hard enough. We look back and see Bertel
catching up or? I'm like a mech.
I'm just like a mech for SOA at this point.
Just kind of like blumbering Forward.
I think it's a little bit of a moving rave happening on top of
Bertel, like SOA's singing what she thinks cool Human songs
would have sounded like, but that, Who knows what that sounds
like. I mean, I'm a snake, so I I
think I'm just hissing really weirdly off tune.
So yeah, it's like a mech and A and a nightclub all in one.
As you guys make your way into this like newer as newer part of
the street, the sobbing kind of feeds off into the background.
Who cares about that? And you guys are now at The
Walking down the sidewalk. I guess you guys would have been
on the other side of the road here.
Like, we just totally blew off the crying.
Like, yeah. Yeah, someone else can handle
that. That's some other, some other
team. Yeah.
You guys are walking down the side of the road.
The cars are starting to get a little little further apart.
And there's a number of, like, houses that are lined up on the
right of you guys at the kind of like balconies and stuff that
hang off the side to your left, there's like this large metal
gate to a cemetery. Radu.
What is the name of this cemetery?
Oh gosh, Saint Lucia's. Be really nice if it if it put
it in a color that we could read like that.
Yep. Sure, you guys are coming up the
Saint Lucia's cemeteries to your left.
If everybody could give me a, an instinct check kind of coming
around, I guess the corner appearing over to the graveyard,
a. 4. Beautiful 4444.
Is. All.
Around all. Day 5, Radu with your, I guess
not necessarily mechanically but with your better understanding
of the area from your echolocation.
Now that you're closer and you're it's still kind of
pinging back, you hear that there are not only there's not
only like the gravestones that you heard before, but some, a
number of like, smaller critters seem to be hustling about within
the graveyard. You guys can't quite see them
from where you are. There's like this really intense
and phony fog that is kind of roiling out.
It's a great day outside. The weather is beautiful, but
when the camera ever cuts over to the graveyard, it's like
stormy and there's like a lightning and fog is rolling out
from Saint Lucia's from within that fog.
You guys, or at the very least, Roddy, was aware that there are
a number of smaller critters kind of bouncing around.
Yeah. I'm really.
Can't make out and I have like my little legs and like my knees
are like shaking and like stuff like that but like I'm trying to
hide it like while I'm. Flying.
It's definitely intimidating, yeah.
Can't we? Can't.
We don't know who any of these craters.
Are they're just OK? Do we know anything?
Is it just Ryder's the only person who knows?
If everybody wants to make a, I would call it a noggin.
Check to see how familiar you familiar you are with.
I guess the area. OK.
I I rolled A4 and I hate these guys. 5.
With all my. Seven with all my bonuses and
necolocation and everything. Rodu once more, is the the first
thing to go to on the cemetery. Roddu is acutely aware, kind of
dawns on him all of a sudden. His fear kind of shook it off
for a minute. But Roddu is intimately aware of
the graveyard hamsters that we're already present prior to
the human poof. But in the posthuman world, the
graveyards are overrun with these smaller hamsters from from
your echolocation. From your understanding, they're
moving quite a bit more. They seem a bit frazzled and are
acting a bit like frantic in their in their motions flying up
you can see now the fog is like dissipating and if you see
little shadows kind of bouncing around on the inside.
Yeah, I let. I let them know it's the
graveyard goons, it's those hamsters, Oh.
Let's get them that. Grammsters.
Yeah, I guess it would be important to also note that the
that the hamsters Radu are not typically hostile.
They're not like friends, but they're not typically like a
force of evil. They are cemetery dwelling
hamsters. Oh, so this will be easy then
let's get them. Oh, OK, Bertle and I like,
center my bottle cap on again and pull up my sewing needle
like get my feet while I'm like, flapping.
Yeah, let's get wet. Let's do it all.
Right, I guess I ready playing cards to throw.
Sort of like Luigi's mansion style.
The gate kind of creaks open and the fog kind of rolls out and
there's like this really haunting music as you guys kind
of tiptoe in into the fog. And in similar fashion, the sky
is kind of brighten up in a really goofy way and the
hamsters are kind of just all panicked and running about on
the inside. It's gone.
Oh dear, it's gone.
Oh, they took it. Who?
Who took it? And it's like a number of like
smaller voices. The hamsters haven't really
noticed. You guys have walked in just
yet. I would say there's like from
what you guys can see like 20 some odd hamsters, probably more
that you can't actually see that are kind of darting in between
the different gravestones and going into tunnels that they've
built. They all seem to be shouting
about something that was taken or stolen.
Do they have any stuff like out and about there like camp?
Yeah, they on the the sides of the the tombstones have like
little tents that are pitched from like Burger King bags and
like fast food garbage. They set up like a really shoddy
town that are kind of built out of the the tombstone shapes.
Is there something specific that you're looking for?
I mean, he just wants, he's just going to steal.
He just wants to steal, so anything that.
We're going to tell us is if you really want to anything.
That looks like it's interesting.
Or is shiny coins, keys to add to my key ring, that kind of
thing. I'd like to stealthy move
through because I'm a stealthy boy and quickly and just be like
going through stuff as they're like panicking.
They're already panicking that something is stolen from them
and you want to steal some more. Go ahead and roll.
Make a That'll be We'll make a Noggin.
Check to see exactly what you find Or or actually no.
Make a scurry roll 1st to see how stealthily you're able to
grab something and then you'll roll noggin to see what you
actually are able to grab for. Scurry.
Beautiful. Yeah.
They're way too distracted to see a super stealthy raccoon
making his way through the crowd.
A. Four for noggin.
So yeah, you managed to find like a coin that is like not an
American denomination. You don't.
You've seen quarters and pennies and Dimes.
You don't know what this is. It's kind of oddly shaped.
It's coin like it's hard. And that might be all that
matters to you. You find one.
Yeah. Shines and it's metal and a
coin. That's That's the end of how
much he cares. As you're picking it up and kind
of looking at it, the camera is going to do this thing where
like you're holding in front of you and it's like nice and shiny
and in the far back kind of blurred out.
And as it comes into focus, there's like this larger statue
that is kind of like standing like nice and proud.
Maybe it has like Angel wings or it's holding some kind of cool
weapon. Whatever the figure, it's head
is gone. This massive bronze statue that
kind of sits in the middle of Saint Lucia, St.
Lucia himself is missing ahead. And you kind of Do you want to
do you want to roll to see if Rocco was able to put two and
two together or if Rocco's like I.
Would love to roll for Rocco beer.
Is it going to be noggin again? Yeah, it'll be a noggin factor.
Like, oh, that's weird. It's a weird looking statue.
I rolled the two. Yeah, you're like, usually those
those shaped statues have heads and you put the coin back in
your pocket. Yeah, yeah.
And he like, opens his like weird little bandana vest and he
slides the coin into nowhere, you know?
The coin will be SP1. So if you have the space to take
on another another coin you would just add it to your to
your inventory there. Bertel, as you're kind of slowly
making your way about, there is a hamster that is like panicking
and running around and kind of bounces into the back of you.
Was like, oh please, did you take it or were you the ones
that took it? And all the hamsters like stop
all at once and then like 1 unified hamster voice.
Did you take it? Wow.
That's coordinated. Yeah, impressive.
Really. We keep.
Working on it. Well, I Bertel just got to look
around slowly do a full circuit. What?
And all of their fingers that we're pointing at you all like
point to the Saint Lucia missing head statue and it's like.
His head is. Gone.
Oh, that's as a non coincidence. We are also missing something.
Did it have this and the the hamsters kind of part way as
like a a larger hamster kind of comes out holding like it's like
we gathered all that we could find so.
That maybe we could. Figure it out and look this big
arm full of like green gunk with orange hairs kind of poking out.
And you? Just.
And it kind of just like sliders, like we had to clean
them off. We didn't want them to be dirty.
Of course, this was all that we could find.
We we thought and they're like poking it to see if it'll come
to life. It's not alive.
So, so you didn't take it cause none of you guys were green and
goopy? There's a word for this.
I know there's a word for this. It's clue.
Yeah, that would be the word brittle.
OK, Do you do you have any more of these clues, 'cause we we
need his head. It helps us tell the time of the
day. And the camera cuts to this
really like goofy and esoteric, like sundial thing on the ground
that the hamsters have put together, that the head would
keep track of the time of the day.
And with the head gone, they're like, we What time is it?
We don't even know. Is it night time?
It's at like noon, but they're like, we don't even know what's
going on. I can't tell if the stars aren't
out. Us neither.
Our eyes don't see that far. Clue.
Clue.
Where was the green stuff? All over it was slathered all
over. All over our guy Mr. Time.
Could you help us search around Mister Time?
Because there's only a few of us and there's more of you.
Grab hamsters, graveyard hamsters for where the green
stuff might lead. Like are there paw prints or
something, or is there a trail? He said.
Yeah, let me. And they they look about like,
Oh no, this was all the green stuff we.
Could find but oh also. And there's a a guy that kind of
comes up from the back. It's like.
I got this. And he comes up and it's a price
tag for a toy store Hunter. What is the name of the toy
store? Oh, it's oh, it's Big Bob's Toy
Emporium. Yeah, it's a price tag for Big
Bob's and it's like there was this as well.
It had the green goop and the key.
Kind of like throws it off for ideally someone to snatch out of
the air, but it might just fall to the ground again.
I would also like to say at this point Rocco is standing with the
hamsters, you know. OK, yeah, you're you're on their
side. You're like interrogating the
group. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like when they all spoke in unison, he also said things, but
just like kind of out of step, you know?
Nice. Can you make a make a vibe?
Check. Yeah.
How's my vibe, actually? OK.
Cool. So in blister, that's no case
for me. In Blister Critters, your Vibe
score is like your conversational ability, your
Charm, your Intimidate. If you're ever trying to like,
get along or go along, Vibe is going to be what you roll.
Is that a an 8? Beautiful.
Yeah. There's one of the hamsters,
looks up to you, kind of like, and I know how he's going.
To. School.
And he puts like an arm around you and you know kind of like
with gets you on board with everything that they're saying
here. Yeah, they hand off the the big
Bob Price tag. Sorry.
Can everybody give me like looking at the price tag, if
everybody could give me a noggin check?
That's a one. Myrtle is entirely just can't
can't even read it. Clue.
He knows it's a clue. He really, really does.
He knows it. Means something.
I got a seven. I love reading.
Beautiful. Do I still get to add my
echolocate to this? I would say so.
I would say that because we're in a new area, maybe you just
add 1 instead of your +2. OK, so then I got a 6 + 1 + 1,
so 8. Beautiful, almost.
At the same time, Radu and SOA kind of like their eyes kind of
pull the toy store and you guys know that the toy store is a
couple of blocks like W you have to essentially turn around to
find the toy store like a a block or two further W there was
a back entrance that is that is available.
OK, I think we've we've the clue has LED us to another clue,
which is the toy store itself. Yeah, I agree.
Unless we think the cramsters are so fun that we should just
hang out with them and say, you know, fudgy, we don't need to
find this thing. Yeah, we would.
I don't know how fun they are. You guys seem all right.
I mean, the goop is gone. We kind of need the head,
though. We don't.
We could party. We don't know what time it is.
So we probably would never stop. We wouldn't know when to go to
bed. But yeah, we really would like
our head back out. On second thought, I think, I
think we would like for you to leave and go get us the head and
then bring the head back. Yeah, you guys need to go get
the head. Subcontract.
You have to come with us too. Rocco as Rocco is like being
torn from the group, A hamster kind of reaches out longingly
like no friend The the scene kind of fades into a into a
later scene. You guys have left the cemetery
or or walking back down the road.
The sobbing continues and now is met with like this.
You guys all recognize it kind of as like a frog voice, just
kind of shouting back at the sobbing.
The sobbing is kind of indiscernible, but there's like
a a smaller frog voice. It's like.
Yeah, yeah. That's why.
That's why he's kind of. Yelling back at at the sobbing.
I'm going to put you guys back into the first area here.
I feel like I'm just like, riding on the top of Sewa now.
Who's riding on top of Bertel? Let me just look like like
Trogdor on like a turtleneck. It's yeah, it's like an APC.
This big mech's kind of stomping through the street here.
We're just a private military company now.
As you guys turn the corner, another bird kind of flies
overhead and more poop kind of splatters on top of the ice
cream truck. I flip it off, but I'm a snake
so. It's just the tail goes up, the
Steve the pig from inside. Oh no, not another one.
As you guys are kind of turning the corner, do we want to do
anything else in this, I guess this area or are we just trying
to get over to the next side of the map?
I feel like we should check out the crying.
Maybe, you know, we're here. Yeah, the crying is gonna take
place one over. Oh no.
No. Turtle is indifferent at this
point. It's just like just tell him
where to go. I feel like.
It's a little antsy. He would like to hit something.
Yeah, OK Rocco's like, and someone just, like, pulls him
back. You know, coming.
Got you on a leash. Being dragged along.
This big turtleneck built up of critters is brought into this
next area. A long road, number of houses,
cars off to the north. You guys see this yellow dot
here? A smaller frog?
He is wearing some kind of like paper like tunic armor thing.
You can't quite tell from how far off you guys are and you see
him waving his little froggy arm in the air, shouting up at a
bird that has like made a little home up in the balcony of one of
these like street side houses. She is the source of the
sobbing. It's gone.
They. Took it.
Oh no. And they're like, yeah.
That's why I said I told you. And these two were kind of this
ordeal is kind of happening in the middle of the road here.
Let me put the bird is up here. And it's like a, you know, kind
of a beefy frog just shouting up at the the very upset bird up in
the top. Do either of them have obvious
green goop or neither of them sound very orange?
Yeah, neither of them are are very orange.
The bird is actually a a pigeon prone to pooping on the truck.
The frog is like greenish, No green goop on them.
But looking around, you guys are kind of accustomed to picking it
out of a crowd. And you do see like splotches
kind of making their way from the tops of cars back into the
road on the side of the building.
Kind of just like all up and down the block moving further E
one of those kind of lands at the foot of the frog who's kind
of doing the shouting. Could I could I fly up to the
bird? Sure, yeah.
Yeah. And just like and like perch.
A perch. That's Perch, right?
Yeah, you like upside down, but. Upside down so it's like face to
face. Yeah, yeah, Sweet.
Yeah, you just like you land like face to face with this,
like, yeah. And I.
Like, catch my glasses and like, pull them back down.
Because now they're not falling down, they're falling up, you
know? The whole conversation you're
having to like. Yeah, just keep pulling.
Back back into frame. Yeah, as as you perch, you're
kind of face to face with this, like really, really upset
pigeon. She wears like like a faux Pearl
like necklace and she's kind of just like sobbing into her hands
like it's gone. It's gone and I know they took
it. Oh, I thought.
I thought, I thought if I did it at night then I wouldn't have to
worry. But Oh dear, it's gone.
It's gone, I wind chime. Oh, hi.
Oh. Hi, She.
She. Was just talking.
She was not like she didn't even know you had perched yet, she.
Oh, hi. Oh, hi.
You poop on our truck sometimes. Yeah, we do.
We do do that. Yeah.
Yeah, you do do do. On our truck.
Me, me and the girls, we we try to keep watch over the city, but
your truck is so shiny and clean it it hurts our little eyes.
So we try to poop on it to to make it not hurt our eyes and
catch the sun as much. But you keep.
Cleaning it off so we keep having to poop on it.
That's actually quite a reasonable thing to do under the
circumstances, I guess. But why are you crying?
They took my wind chime. Who took your wind chime?
I don't know. The green goop look it like it
just like a like a like a horror Stinger as the camera cuts to
like like a hook where the wind chime would have been just kind
of dripping with a green goop. It's like it's gone.
It must have been that, that gross little.
Frog. Down there is.
There. Is there goop like on the wall,
like on the facade of the building?
There is one like on the wall, but it doesn't seem like it kind
of like climbs up over. OK, do we have some of this?
Can I? I want to try and like use some
to see if I can stick to the wall.
Sure, yeah. You take a handful of it and you
like it doesn't doesn't take much.
It's very, very sticky, very viscous, and you just smack your
hand to the wall and a la Tobey Maguire you just and as heavy
and burly as Bertle is, you are slowly, you know, Tobey
maguiring up the wall. Bertle's very stoked.
I think I slide off your back bertle slowly and cartoonishly
with a as you go up the wall and I'm just staring in amazement
that at your gravity defying. I I don't.
Bertle doesn't go up far because this is probably the highest
Bertle's ever been off the ground and he's very not OK with
it. So he's like inches back down to
the ground. As you guys are like climbing up
on the wall and kind of interacting, the the frog has
shifted his ire and his shouting to Burley.
Get down from there. What are you doing?
I'm busy yelling at the bird and now you're climbing up to walk
it over here. I'm talking to you.
Rock is right behind him also like swinging.
Yeah, yeah. You don't have to roll for it.
He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. What the hell are you doing?
I you don't, are you trying to tell me to what to do?
Yeah, I'm telling you what to do.
That's my job. I run these here streets.
And I start reaching for the hammer that I keep on my back.
And I'm like, that's unfortunate 'cause I don't like anybody so,
but to like, take the ham, this human ball peen hammer, and
remove it from my back. You think that scares me?
That don't scare me none. I'm gonna murder you.
No. You're not you.
Could try. I'm.
Surprised little guy. I'm gonna try to kill this drug.
Are you up on the wall still? No, no, Bertel has removed
himself from the wall, 'cause he's really like.
Intimidatingly. Like, no.
Yeah, he's very, he's very scared of being off the ground,
but he's not showing it. As Bertel as Bertel is talking
crap. So spinning the CD to gain the
the attention of our perhaps opponent and spinning a tail and
she's explaining that this is all a big misunderstanding, but
this is just a distraction to set up Earl for a big hit.
So trying to trying to do do a little alley oop here.
Do you want to make a make a vibe check against the the frog
in question here? Yeah, I'd love to.
And I and I took the CD shield and gave it SP2 with the hope
that it would give me a plus one on such checks to blind
opponents or distract them. So Tony, if that's a cue with
you, I'm going to roll 5 + 1. I got a 5 + 1 which is a six.
That is going to do it. This frog is busy waving A
webbed fist at at Bertel and sees the shiny disc and is still
shouting, but his eyes kind of swirl up into the Cyndi Lauper
CD. Oh.
Yeah, oh, I'm going to give it to ya.
But it's like kind of watching as the the CD is kind of
spinning around, unaware of of Bertel's approach.
Yeah, So we're just going to talk it out.
There's no problem here. Just look at this thing.
Just continue to look at it and don't.
Look down over there, Right behind.
Oh. No, real quick.
I'm going to cut back up to while this is very clearly
heading towards a a splattery end, it cuts back up to Radu and
the birds and she's like, yeah. It's gone and.
Oh, no. Now they're going to kill the I
I don't hate him. I don't want him to die.
But he does bother me, so maybe it's OK.
I don't know. But you could poop on him.
I could poop on. Him.
Yeah, that would really show him wouldn't.
It. Yeah, let's both poop on.
We should both. Poop on.
We're going to do it together. Yeah, you go first.
If you could make do you so are you genuinely trying to like,
poop with the pigeon or. No, no, I'm a I'm a shy pooper.
I absolutely will not be pooping with the pigeon, but I would
love to encourage her. I would love to encourage her to
poop to poop though. Yeah, if you could she she's
definitely all riled up and ready to go.
If you could just give me a vibe check to see how much of your
encouragement is going to help her aim.
Do I so so boosting? Is this a before or after
situation? Before, Before.
OK so I have AD 6 on vibes, So what happens if I burn 33?
What happens if I burn 3 boost? You can burn 3 grit and you
would add three to whatever the result is.
So if you roll A5, it would turn into an 8.
However, if you roll A1, it's still a natural one and you were
kind of stuck with. Kind of like the gamble of
adding it to it to kind of, I don't know, maybe give you some
more insight. This isn't a terribly
consequential check, so you might not want to.
No, I don't want this to happen. Real bad.
But you would definitely want the poop.
Yeah, I'm feeling real. I'm feeling real, like you can
burn grit in. 3-6 or nine quantities, so however well.
Burn 3. OK, cool.
Yeah, so I rolled a 3 + 3. So that's six to try to get this
this pigeon to poop on the frog. I'm gonna.
I'm gonna give her a + 3 to her aim for that.
Let's see how she do. She pulled A6 on AD 6, so plus
three A9 for her poop aim. She gets all jazzed up and her
pearls are kind of bouncing around.
She's like, all right, cool and let's go.
And she think, like when you tell somebody you're going to
jump off and say, yeah, they're going to jump in the pool with
them. So I start.
Flapping. And I like go up, but like my
feet never let go of the ledge. And as she flies, I just like,
stop flapping and like, swing back down and just watch.
Perfect. Yeah, she's flying over and both
of these things are going to happen at the same time.
She is flying over. Poop at the ready, it starts
flying through the air. It's FA nine.
It's definitely going to hit. The turtle is distracted by.
So is ACD spinning turtle. I'm not going to have your go
ahead and roll your scrap. So in blister recruiters and
you're trying to attack or you're in combat, is the
attacker is going to roll their scrap die versus the I guess
targets scurry die to try and dodge out of the way.
Because the frog is distracted, he's going to be rolling his
scurry to dodge at disadvantage and bertle.
I'm not sure if your character has any additions or bonuses for
rolling. I do, but it's only but with not
for the hammer. OK.
So go ahead and just roll scrap to see if you're able to to
bring it down on them. It's a sip.
Beautiful. Let's see how he does.
It is definitely going to land. Go ahead and roll for damage.
That's my scrap press, my stuff, my bonk on my stuff, right?
Correct. So in blister critters, when
you're using stuff to do damage, you are going to roll your
scrap, which is your natural ability for combat, and then add
your debunk. So most stuff will have a bunk
die listed and you get to roll both of them at the same time.
For this big damage roll, I believe the Hammer has a pretty
high debunk as well. It's got a 12, yeah, it's the
great it's the great X of the game.
Yeah, I would like to IA rules clarification for me.
If I boost to Max, can I explode?
No, it has to be like a naturally.
Has to be a natural. OK, cool.
Damn, that would have been sick. I'm going to do a 14. 14 damage
total. Yeah, I'm just going to just
Wham. And it's fast.
Like, weirdly fast. Like the whole time.
Bertel is slow conserving his energy for stuff like this.
So it's almost like lightning fast.
How this huge hammer just like, clips into this frog.
As the as the hammer. Like the frames almost are too
fast, like blur lines and you can barely catch it.
People think that there's like a hidden frame in between.
They come back to the episode and try and find the missing
frames as the hammer swings around the the torso of the frog
is like another foot that way following the hammer, but the
head is like rip stuck behind and the poop splats on the head
as it trails back and his head finally snaps as to the whole
body. Kind of like elastic bands into
the Bush underneath the bird's post underneath Radu.
At this point it looked as that like an anime where the bodies
kind of rag doll as they kind of they kind of tumble over itself.
The frog kicked up a bunch of like debris and there's like a a
skid mark where the frog once was.
He's kind of crashed into the wall.
You can hear like he's not nearly as as brazen or lively.
You see like 1 lone kind of twitching frog foot poking out
of the the Bush. I did.
Slowly. I put the hammer very slowly
back onto my. The bird is like, yeah, we got.
She floats back over to Radu. And like, I got him.
I did it. I finally got him.
I don't really poop on trucks, but I just pooped on a frog.
You. Could you could stop pooping on
the truck though. The truck could stop being so
shiny it would be if I was able to poop on it more.
Yeah, that's a valid point. Yeah.
Anyway, our wind time is gone. Yeah, no.
Well, there's that. The the hamster.
We're missing our head, and we're missing our our rubber
ducky too, So it seems like someone's stealing.
A bunch of stuff that's a good target.
That's a shame, but it's gone. Yeah, yeah, that's a it's a real
shame for that specific reason, not for.
Us. Yeah, that reason, not any other
reason. Normally you guys hit the big
button and it goes cowabunga and it scares all the birds away.
So you know, it it actually it kind of works out that it's not
there anymore anyway, my wind chime.
We're we're we're looking for stuff and I feel like we might
find your wind chime and maybe we'll give it back.
Or not. I really.
Me and the other birds would really appreciate that.
We maybe we'd consider not pooping on your truck.
So if we find the wind chime, could you maybe not poop on the
truck? Is that it?
Could we? Can we can?
We like wing on that. Yeah, we could do that and puts
a big a big wing in there. Yeah.
OK.
Yeah, I'll talk. To the other birds while you
guys go find my wind chime and I'll see what we can do.
All right. Thank you for pooping on that
frog. No problem.
It's my pleasure. Yeah, all right, I'm going to
fly down to the rest of the guys and and tell them like, hey
guys, some. The goo thing took her wind
chime, and if we find it, they'll stop pooping on the
truck. Wow.
Well, good, great work. I can't believe that worked, but
yeah, no great work. Yeah, I feel like she's
definitely going to keep pooping on the truck, but at least maybe
for like a day or something that means you know?
Yeah, what's a day? I mean, that's like forever.
So yeah, no, that's job done. Let's go have a party.
Wait, wait, wait, don't. We're going to the We have the
job to do. Fine, Bryce.
Finally, the fine The wind time. And the and the and the duck and
the and the rubber ducky. Yeah.
It's a long To Do List. It's getting.
Longer bench quest just gets longer and longer.
More people to have to talk to and bring stuff back to.
Rocco. Just keeps repeating party and
he starts walking back in the direction of the hamsters, you
know? Rocco, as you as you're kind of
like getting ready to storm off back to to the hamsters that
welcomed you in in in place of where the the frog once was, his
paper tunic, his paper tunic kind of falls to the ground.
It is similar to the receipt, the price tag of Big Bob's I
believe was the name that we had given it.
Big Bob. 'S toe emporium.
Exactly. It is like a a buy one, get one
free coupon that has like a rubber band kind of punch holed
through and he was kind of wearing it like it was knocked
off of him when his body was obliterated and your foot kind
of steps on and you pick your foot up and look, I don't know.
I like, pull it up and I look at it and like noggins my worst
stat. Like he's genuinely dumb.
Yeah, So I like look at it and I'm like.
Sweet. And I I I think I throw it
towards the gang, you know, I throw it just kind.
Of like, get this out of here. Yeah, you.
Guys. I have like trash and shit on my
back, like like on my spikes, like there's like a can, like a
can plastic can holder on there and like bread bag ties and crap
like just throw it on there. I never check back there, so.
Sweet, yeah. It kind of just, you know soars
back and the the rubber band kind of hooks onto one of the
shell spikes. So you see the you see it kind
of kind of hook onto it and it kind of wrestles into the middle
of the of the camera frame. One of their big Bobs clue
marker makes itself readily apparent.
There's a little like there's a little ticker at the bottom of
the screen, like a little like Blues clues, like 2 out of the
three big Bob clues that popped in the frame.
Our mission like description in the corner of the screen like
ticks up. Exactly.
A little literal progress bar as you guys have gotten to the next
clue. Yeah, you guys are now in the
middle of the road. The bird.
You watch as the bird kind of flies off, having not told you
her name to go talk to the other pigeons about potentially not
pooping on the truck anymore. And the frog is like, you know,
barely alive in the Bush. Looking further down the road to
the West, you guys once again make out the the big green
splotches that kind of polka dot a trail forward.
Well, just seems pretty easy to follow the trail.
I don't know, I'm pretty dumb. Am I?
Is this a mistake like? No, I think we have to pretty
straightforward. I mean out loud Bertle's like,
is this is this wrong? Am I wrong?
Like no, I don't usually make choices.
People don't usually give this responsibility to me.
So. We're like 66% of the way there,
I think, by maths. What?
What's a math I'm. Not really.
Yeah, I I think. We're going to make the the
scene cuts to you guys basically standing you followed.
There's like a little montage if you guys like magnifying glass
following the the splotches through a couple of different.
Streets we we get the the, the Holmes hats on with like the
thing with like the Jack the plain jackets and stuff, the
whole thing. Yeah.
Yeah, you guys, there's a a montage of you guys like talking
to a number of other critters in need like Oh no, they've taken
my shiny spoon. And there's like this exchange
of like, yeah, of course. And you guys, all right, add it
to the list of like fetch quest things to go and get back from
whoever's taking all this stuff and it all, you know, a couple,
a couple hours later into the day right up to the limit of
when Big Notch, the other borough is supposed to be coming
to do a trade with your borough. That time is a very nigh.
The hamsters aren't aware. They don't know what time it is.
But you guys know that that the time is close for the deal to be
taking place. You followed the the green
splotch trail to ride outside the alleyway and they kind of
lead forward to the down the alley.
It's kind of like dark and there's literally like a sign
that says danger posted up on like one of the garbage cans.
I'm going to try to take the sign down.
Yeah, it comes down. It's like held on there with
like gum. He's like.
Yeah, And you know how, like sometimes mammals, when they're
crawling up stuff, they just pull stuff down, they look down
at it and they just keep going? Sweet.
Yeah, yeah. Perfectly.
That as you as you pull it down you hear another frog like
voice. Hey, what's the big idea?
You taking down our decorations? What are you doing?
Don't. Take that, put that back.
Put it back right now. That Berto's just going to start
reaching for the hammer. Just like oh God, don't.
Kill again. About the size of the other guy
that you guys had dealt with. He's like, what are you doing?
Didn't Tito, didn't tip, Tip tell you not to touch the stuff?
Where is he? He's supposed to be the guy in
the middle that's supposed to take care of whoever's coming
this way. And now I got.
To deal with. Go dispose him and bring him
back, because we need him to to be the other guy, the pincer
attack. If he's not here, there's no
pincer. Every one armed scissor
situation? Yeah, exactly.
This is me and the big guy, and a large frog kind of like pops
out of this dumpster. I'm just gonna put you guys into
the alley. Like that Naruto summons with
the. Yeah, and like lands in like an
Iron Man pose. He's wearing like a like a
bottle cap, almost like chainmail as he kind of hits the
ground. A much heavier, sturdier frog,
Rocco. Hides.
And they're like, didn't you read the sign?
And they point, they point to this like pizza box that has
like just gibberish just like like a bunch of just symbols
kind of scrolled onto the side of it.
Yeah, there's a, there's the pizza box and it's like scroll.
And it's like, can't you read? Do any of you guys read?
No. And you guys, for those of you
that can read, I guess like human, it's not inhuman.
It's not in any language. And he's like, all right, well,
since we got a bunch of dummies coming through the alley and
Tito is off being disposed somewhere.
I'll read it for you. It's like 3 big, like swirly
with a like a couple of lines drawn in, says Ribitrio.
Territory known affiliates only if we don't know you don't
enter. If you enter, you're gonna get
swamped. And by swamped, we mean punched
hide. Understandable.
But wasn't that really clear by the And he picks it up and he's
pulling it. And it's not.
It's just it's literally just like a big, big swirly mess.
We couldn't have been more clear.
Now you come in here, the raccoon toying on the signs,
he's walked off. He's not even here anymore.
So just just disrespecting our alleyway.
What the heck? Do they seem like they're about
to attack imminently, or they're just blustering and kind of
deciding? Like, yeah, they're they're.
I mean, they're upset. They're not like, yeah, they're
not just going to, like, punch you in the mouth really quick.
Like they're they're trying to get a rise out of you and I
ideally like, you know if you want to make a vibe, check to
get a better read on kind of what their intentions are.
Yeah, let's do that. I also well, yeah, I'm.
I'm also curious separately, but I guess I'm now trying to just
like, hey man, chill out like this.
Maybe we all can like, hang out together and be friends.
Oh no, no, this is fine. But but I'm also curious if this
if there's like gunk, you know if if this stuff we're looking
for is here basically. But yeah let me let me roll this
vibe check. That's a four.
With a four like it's you being the person you are, you think
that they're about to attack like they're looking like more
and more menacing. The big The big turtle has
topped out, and he is definitely beefier than the one that Bertle
kind of swatted off the first time around.
No worries. Yeah, Bertle's just going to
start walking forward. I'm going to start swinging my
hammer and if you walk into it, that's not my fault.
Yeah, legally that's true. Not that I respect laws, but if
I did. I'm gonna perch on Bertel's
head. And it's back.
Now, now wait. Oh, now wait a second.
Everybody wait. So the sign clearly says if you
don't know them, right? Well, you're the Rivet Trio and
I'm Radu, and that's Rocco and that's Bertel.
And that's so. And now we know each other so we
can be in the alley, right? Also legally.
True. I feel like when he pointed to
Rocco cause Rocco disappeared. I think he's now chewing on the
pizza box. Sign you.
Know. Nice.
Do you? Does SOA and SOA and RAW do?
If you guys want to make a combined vibe, check to see if
the larger of the two is He's kind of been doing some of the
talking. See if he's won over at all by
this this legal loophole in their legally binding sign that
Rocco is gnawing on. Yeah, how do you want to do
this? The law abiding.
Frogs. Yeah, yeah.
Law abiding bad guys. Do you want us both to roll or
you want somebody? Yeah, just both roll, Just roll,
both roll vibe and just out on each other and I'll take that.
OK, I rolled the natural one. So sorry.
So it was very just annoyed at these frogs, and it's too
obvious. Rodu, unless you roll extremely
well, is not going to be a great outcome.
Well, I ruled A3 which some would say is high on like AD 3.
There's like, you think we care about laws and civility.
We're a bunch of frogs that live in a dumpster.
We don't care. Did you read the sign or not?
We don't know you. And they're they're gonna like
approach. They're gonna be get they're
getting closer. I would.
I would caution everyone. I'd be like just go behind me.
This is fine. I.
Was gonna say it's fine, I I tried, I say to the frogs and
then I just hide behind. Yeah, you really tried my
patience. You tried.
You came in here, you. That guy tore down the sign.
He's eating it. And it cuts it back to Rocco's.
Just still eating the, still eating the sign.
Like we worked really hard on that.
We barely know how to write, we can't read, and we still put it
together with all our might. Now you're just destroying it.
You definitely don't know how to write.
I'll save it. I'll save it.
And the the smaller of the frogs he's going to be, if you guys
are able to look at the screen and I'll zoom in.
Since we're here we go look better on the stream.
The bigger of the frogs is F2, so frog two and the smaller of
the frogs is frog 1F1. The smaller frog is making his
way towards towards Rocco Eating.
Which? Is this guy?
Yeah. And Logan wanted to move
forward. Yeah, Bertle is now like
positioning himself between these frogs and the other
critters. Cool hunter, like I'll move him
a little further back and F1 is the first Frog is like kind of
stomping past Bertle. You see him like pull out from
behind his back like ATV antenna and he's like.
Oh boy, you. Put that sign down or you're
gonna get the stick, no. No, no, no, no, no, It's fine.
It's a very nice stick. And I.
Have AI have a human hammer Again, just beautiful drop
steel. I don't.
I don't care. I don't care.
He's gonna get the stick and then you're gonna get the stick,
'cause I'm a tough guy. Have you ever seen a?
I was just like, you know, I used to hang like humans were
around when I was. I don't care.
And like, slowly bringing this hammer up.
Yeah, he he's like Chernabog talking to you.
He's still holding this. He's.
Like I don't care, you think? I care about what the humans
did. I'm a frog.
I'm the biggest frog around. They call me Jeremiah the Frog.
And I would. I beat up guys like you for.
Breakfast. Mm hmm.
Very slow, very slow.
I'm gonna berserker rage this idiot and then his buddy.
Yeah, the frog, while you're like rearing up like is like, is
in this like a vamping mode where he's like puffing his
chest up bigger, but he's still like way smaller, pretty, pretty
puny next to you. How would you like to proceed?
I am going to activate my berserker rage, so I get 2
attacks for four grit and I'm The attacks are at disadvantage,
but the damage is at advantage, so I'm spending four grit.
I have 16 grit. I'm down to 12.
All right, I'm going to attack twice at disadvantage.
I would like to attack each of them once.
Is that possible? Because I'd.
Like to basically like swing the hammer one way and then swing it
back the other way, but I could also just take this idiot out.
I I think that the the smaller frog is definitely moved further
ahead to where it would be quite a reach.
You're already rolling a disadvantage.
It would be such a. It would be such a disadvantage
that you it wouldn't even be worth rolling the.
Bigger frog is farther away. Yeah, he's in the back.
He's F2. OK, then I'm just going to hit
this small frog. I'm not going to use the four
then because I want to save that from our big guy over here and I
will just bring it down, whereas.
Squash them down just. Straight down, yeah.
Just give me a give me a scrap roll.
Oh. Baby, that's a nine.
Oh yeah, he can't even roll high enough to get out of the way.
He likes Scooby-doo runs in place for his second as the
hammer's coming down. And.
Just just a ball peen hammer sized hole in the asphalt where
the frog once was his his antenna stick extends up into
the air as it kind of clatters down by the side of the by the
side of the dumpster. The larger frog.
Oh Jeremiah, no. Oh you guys.
Now it's just the rib. It's solo and I don't like that.
It's not as catchy and he's like mashing these big like frog
hands together. They have like coins and like
nuts and bolts kind of like fashioned to the front of them.
And he's going to, he's going to start stomping over to It's a
Bertle. Wait, did we?
Did we roll initiative for combat when I walked away?
No, we have not rolled yet. Bertle's taking care of
business. I mean, yeah, Do we want to roll
initiative, Tony? What's What's going on?
As he cocks back, everybody can roll for initiative.
Wow, they're. All crap.
So in Blister Critters, your Scurry Score, your Movement and
your like Bodily Abilities is tied to your Scurry.
So when you're rolling for initiative, you are Rolling your
Scurry Die. Everybody could give me a
rundown on what they got. I rolled a 10 out of 10.
I'm gonna burn grit. I'm gonna burn 3 grit.
So D 6 + 3. You got a 4 + 3.
That's A7. Oh, right.
I can burn grit. You can.
If you're a dasher, you get an advantage on the initiative, so.
So we've got 7. What did the rock will roll?
10. 10. I technically have advantage of
my first roll in a scrap. That's my bad.
Five or three? You roll with three with
advantage. I'm sorry.
Oh no, no, no. I didn't roll advantage.
I have AII don't have advantage on this.
OK, raw 2. 8. And this frog, Well, the six,
this is Zechariah the Bullfrog, Fist cocked back.
Rocco, you are up. You have rolled.
What did you Max out? Was that a maximum?
Yeah, I well, I have Bob and weave, so I have an initiative
advantage. So I rolled 21I rolled 3 and the
other one I rolled 10 so oh. Beautiful.
He's my highest scorer too, so. With fist cost back you enter
the the Speed force where time slows down for a second and you
see the what would you like to do with your turn is.
He still like taking steps into the punch.
Yeah, he's like he's like foot. He's like like half inch off the
ground. He's getting ready to.
I'd like he's not. Even like close to the face yet?
I'd like to pull my colorful marble out and roll it and try
to trip him with my colorful marble, which I think gives me 1
+ 1 to attempting to trip. Yeah, I would say that you going
first and it's a plus one, just give me a scurry roll to see if
you're able to like wedge it under and just the right.
I'd love to give you a scurry roll.
It's my best stat. I got a 7.
Oh fantastic. Yeah you you wedge the marble
like it's like just a hair above where his like big grizzly I
guess not grizzly. His like slimy, like bullfrog
hand is going to come down and. So I'm in like, I'm in like the
Speed Force, So I'm moving super quick and everyone's kind of
moving slow, right? For, for a moment, yes.
Not for every turn that you have, but for now because do I
play. Yeah, yeah.
But do I place the dice under it?
Do I roll it? Because I'm going to.
I'm going to narrate differently.
If you tell me you, you maxed out so like you're just trying
to pick him, you're going to. Be able, I like enter that Speed
Force moment and I like I have it in my hands and I'm like and
I like stick it right under his foot right before you and he's
like and I just I'm wrong way like that back to where I was
you know. Sweet like like nothing happened
like in and out. Yeah, totally.
Sweet. Yeah.
As like in like in a show everything slows down and we're
able to see like Rocko get back and everything like plays back
really quick and it's like this like blur frame of this big
black blur and Zechariah like and kind of like flops backwards
just like belly flies in the air a couple of the the the the can
tab chainmail kind of like flies off as he kind of like like when
Sonic has all the rings pop off and he gets hit some of the can
tabs kind of fly into the air and he lands with the hoof.
You really did it now. I'll say that he had like the
wind knocked out on him on that fall.
He's going to be stunned for this turn.
He's going to have a hard time getting up.
So you guys were able to, Rocco was able to put him down, at
least for the round or for, yeah, this, this turn here.
Radu, you are up. Could I?
I would like to fly over to the hole that Bertel made in the
ground that the the frog is at the bottom of.
Yeah, yeah, you do that. I would like to do 2 things.
One, I would like to pluck the TV antenna from the hole.
Absolutely. Yeah, so I would take that and
then I'm just gonna like, I wanna like lean over the hole so
the camera would be like looking out at me from where, like, the
frog is at the bottom. Me and the rocks are.
Yeah, yeah. So like from the frog's
perspective, it is be like I tried.
You could, you could have been a good friend of mine, but that's
too late now. There's this, like Naruto S like
flashback scene that takes way too long, where it's this this
poor frog's life where he just has never listened to anybody
telling him that he shouldn't do this and just gets walloped over
and over and over again. And this is like just another
time to add to the list of times where he thought that he could
take somebody on and gets flattened.
This takes three episodes and it comes big.
All but all flashes back to just him and his existential days at
the bottom of the hole as Radu grabs the the antenna from them.
Is there anything else you'd like to do for your turn?
No, the CCR lyric was enough. Beautiful.
So you are up. Oh, I'm actually Radu add the TV
antenna to your inventory. I don't know, I don't offhand.
I would think that it's like A2 SP, but I know it's in the quick
start, specifically what it takes up.
So it is your turn. The bigger frog is still kind of
shimmying and rolling himself over.
He's having a hard time. Yeah, I think after the three
episode flashback, during that time it's been cutting to SOA,
kind of gathering Chi to throw the cards that it's.
I don't know how exactly this works, but it's like a Gambit
card throw thing, but with her tail on her mouth.
So she probably says her catch phrase, but it never comes out
clearly 'cause she has to use her mouth.
Yeah, so she's like saying a lyric from Cyndi Lauper's
Sisters of Avalon, but you never really hear what it is that she
thinks sounds good when she's attacking.
So anyway, I'm going to, I'm going to throw Ricky J style
cards with my mouth at the big Farrar, trying to cut them, cut
them in the cut them in the feet.
Beautiful. I'm rolling scrap.
I got a A7. Yeah, he's not going to be able
to move, so it's definitely going to hit pretty bottom
there. Realistically, I I I should have
prompted you if he's stunned. He's not going to be able to
really move out of the way so you would have just hit
automatically. Go ahead and give me what did we
just discuss? It was your scrap +2 for each
card, so. And then I'll knock down a card
on the number of cards remaining, correct?
That's that's a natural 1. So it's only three damage, but
it had 18 cards, so it goes down to 17 cards.
As he is like kind of wrestling about, you whip the card around.
A misheard lyric kind of slips out as it flies through the air.
And as he kind of picks a webbed foot up into the air, the card
like, gets caught like like a like a thumbtack in the bottom
of his foot. Oh God, what is this?
What kind of a cod? Y'all are using cods?
We got sticks and we got fists, and you bozos are throwing
cards. Oh, when I get up, you're in for
it. And he's like grabs the card and
like tosses it behind and kind of balls it up.
So unnecessary. We also have ball peen hammers.
Did you see the ball, Peen Hammer?
Did you see my my ball Peen fist?
That's not a thing. Yeah, it is.
And he's trying to get up and you watch like a little bit of
frog blood kind of trickle out and then he's, he's, he's, he's
going to be stunned. It would have been his turn as
he's kind of getting to his feet.
You watch. Something.
Paper cut as he's like not able to fully stand down on that foot
anymore. He's kind of hopping around.
Bertle is your time to shine. Yeah, I there's like a wet, like
like suction sound as I pull the hammer out of the hole in the
ground and just kind of lumber over, kind of disinterested.
And then just, you know, deep breath as now I'm going to burn
the grit to rage. This dude, he's stunned, huh?
Yeah, until he comes back around, you would be the last
person he's like, stunned for. So do I have to roll to attack
on this? No.
Beautiful. So I get 2 damage rolls at
advantage. All right, an 11 and a 15.
Jesus Christ, yeah, as you bring the ball peen hammer around.
There's this. I say real quick.
I say, Ah, Shell, here we go again.
That kind of rings out in this ominous drone as everything
slows down. The camera zooms in on all the
fine little metal scratches and wear.
The final flex of Jeremiah kind of fly off of the hammer as it
kind of picks up speed. Fire starts coming off the back
and as it collides with as it collides with this like cantab
armor. There's like this second where
like in cartoons when two things kind of like hit each other and
like shake and and bustle for a second, there's like this like
split second like hesitancy before the hammer.
Just like Mega Man explosion as the armor kind of like shatters
off of him and the hammer just and the hammer kind of like puts
a big spike out of his back and similar to Tito tip tip that was
thrown into the Bush earlier. His body flies backward his head
stands there for a second and he goes and he flies backwards back
into a garbage can and kind of topples it over.
And as he kind of he's please we're just here to we're just
here to defend the big guy the the green guy.
He he gives us this cool stuff and and a place to stay.
We don't want any trouble, don't want any trouble in there, in
there. In there.
Pulls out like a long key. Just in there.
In there. Is again.
Please, please just let me stay. I'll be ribbon solo.
Please, no more.
Please no more. And he's like literally
groveling. Like covered in trash.
Big hammer sized hole, his foot still kind of bleeding.
They please. Tell him what?
They want the big guy. I want, I want.
Just don't don't mention that I was here.
Just tell him. Tell him.
Tell him I'm dead. Tell him I'm dead.
You should be dead. I'm not entirely sure why.
You're. Yeah, of course I yeah.
I should be dead and dead. That's why I'll go to the
cemetery. There's some cool hamsters
there. Yeah, I know they're they're
nice guys. They never did me wrong.
I I'm not like a cop you can like.
He says, OK, good. We don't like cops around here
anyway, so I if he was a cop, then I would.
I don't know what I would have done.
I just thinks I'm not. Killing me.
Genuinely impressed, I guess. Sure, yeah, if you can survive
that, that's 25 damage. Hammer hit.
He like the way he is like like like no torso like.
As he starts to leave, you see that he is like just a torso
with arms at this point, like from the bottom down, Zachariah
is like, yeah, I'm going to go live a nice life, no cops in the
cemetery, and I'm going to be good to all the little hamsters.
And as the you guys like, watch them slowly.
It's way too long of a scene of him, kind of like dragging his
body out of the alleyway from where you guys came.
And as he finally turns the corner, he's like, I'm turning
the corner in my. Life I'm going to do.
Things right. He stops moving as the final
life trickles out of Zechariah the Bullfrog and the camera
really kind of hard cuts back to you guys, like just kind of
dismissing that that they had spent like basically 3 minutes
watching him crawl to his death. You guys are back in the
alleyway. Rocco has key in hand.
Attached to the bottom is like one of those like key tags with
a little bit of writing. Rocco might not be able to read
it, but it says Big Bob's Toy Emporium and I tried to read it.
Third and final clue at the bottom.
Yeah, you can try and read it. You roll noggin.
I rolled A6 on noggin. It finally clicks 33, clues in
and you're like, Oh yeah, and then it holding it up.
You look further down the alley, this place off here to the left
there's like a big door like Big Bob mascot painted on the
outside like a fire exit to the back side of the store.
Yeah, say goodbye to Zachariah. There is like a a door.
Big Bob's is painted on it and all the green goop kind of gets
more and more messy as it gets closer.
There's like a A1 big kind of over top of the the handle here.
Have you ever seen that that GIF of the raccoon scooping all the
dog for you to calculate the bowl and holding it out and like
running, you know, that's exactly what rock goes like with
the key towards the door, you know?
Yeah, you run over to the door and you tell me, what do you
try? Are you just trying?
Are you trying to throw the key into the lock?
Yeah, I'm definitely going to try to.
I'm going to scurry up and like, grab the doorknob.
Is it like a doorknob key or like a lock?
Like actual like bolt lock. It's like a door.
It's a doorknob key. It has the IT has like the big
handle and then like a little like thatch lock at the bottom.
Yeah, he's hanging on like the doorknob.
He puts it in. Yeah.
You as you put it in like this, wet like has like kind of has to
Pierce through like the green gunk in the hair as it's coming
off and you are turning it. At jink.
In the door you feel like the you feel like click and there's
like a a gust of kind of like stale air kind of like hits you
as a door is like open by like 1/2 inch the door, the door is
open. Da da da da.
The 3rd and final clue marker kind of goes away.
And you guys, at this point we're all standing on the other
side of the door. Do we all just want a hard cut
to being inside of wherever we're going?
Absolutely. I also, by the way, I'm really
enjoying like the use of cartoonish hard cuts in this.
Like I think it works amazingly well.
Yeah, I I one of the things that I I encourage in the book as
well as to really lean into those kind of tropes for like
scene transitions and for keeping the narrative kind of
flowing. Just be like we're here we're
doing the problem now. I think I I I enjoy doing it as
well. It's it's fun on on the part of
the the GM to incorporate those and to keep everything kind of
moving as fast as is going to be as fun.
I think as we're walking all our eyes as we're talking about
other stuff, it's like the 4th wall break of we're looking down
as the third clothing pops up in that mini quest of like find and
open the door like goes away and like this sort of heads up
display. And Skyrim, marker of Big Bob's
Emporium kind of appears over the top like location
discovered, and it kind of fades out again.
Yeah. Oh, that's weird.
Oh yeah, that happened anyway. Yeah.
You guys come into this abandoned toy store, Big Bob's
Wise. What is the theme of Big Bob's?
Like what kind of like stick or or thing that Big Bob's really
go for and nail? Like they probably sold a
specific kind of toy here. Or they at least they're all
themed a certain way. Yeah, I think Big Bob's was.
A lot of it is classic 80s, nineties, Japanese inspired boxy
Mecca. But I think the owner was Greek
and had a soft spot for mythological stuff.
So there's kind of a weird mashup of like Poseidon and
Voltron, you know, like everything is kind of side by
side. So there's like maybe a window
display that's really confusingly like sort of Greek
style, like mermaids with just like laser gun shooting, you
know, transforming mechanized boxy robots so that it's it's a
little, it's a little bit hybrid Every everywhere you look.
There's not like one style, but definitely I think toys seem
fun. Well, I just do a mermaid tail
with a gun. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, maybe that's the symbol, right, Bob Drewitt, that's.
Big Boz mascot is the is the bottom bottom part.
Mermaid tail top part is just the end of a pistol.
I think Big Bob wanted to be an artist but maybe wasn't as good
as you Tony, so. Did an infinite amount of trog
doors until he found one that matched his specific
sensibilities right? Looking across you guys are kind
of panning the area. There are a number of specific
things. So in blister recruiters when
you guys are entering like specific locations, it's
encouraged in kind of the producer, GM ING section of the
book that you give players the option to kind of flesh out and
add kit like canonical things to the world to interact with.
So earlier on we talked about the borough.
Now that the now that we're entering kind of this final
location for today's episode, entering this toy store, I want
to give you guys the ability to add some like big features to
this almost final location. So Hunter Rocco, there is like a
large display in the top of the map here.
What was like the big brand new toy being added to Big Bob's
like weird Mecca Greek fantasy toys.
He's Greek, right? So it's it's a big display of
like of like drawstring, like talking Zeus toys, you know,
like very much like Woody from Toy Story where you pull the
string and it says something, but it's just Zeus, like a bunch
of them. He pulls back and he's like,
I'll strike you down with lightning, I'll have sex with a
horse, you know, or whatever, Who says?
Fantastic. Yeah.
There's like a whole display a la Toy Story.
There's like a literal, like two aisles where it's just boxes of
Buzz Lightyears, but it's just boxes of this Zeus toy that that
is how I'm going to depict this, this Zeus figure in the bottom
of the map, Ryan Radu, there is like this big pit, like a big
like box full of like smaller toys that are kind of like
mentally you grab in and grab kind of like a random one out.
There's like a bunch of them. What are these like smaller toys
and bobs to emporium? Oh gosh, how Greek do we wanna
get with this? I feel like it's just a bunch of
like remember, I don't even know if this is still a thing.
Like remember when Happy Meals and and the the big kids meals
and stuff were like a thing and you would get like the little
toys of the different things. I feel like it's like that.
But remember when like Hercules came out and there were all
those like plates and stuff. Like, I feel like it's like
that. But it there, it's like the
collectible of some like obscure Greek cartoon movie that came
out. And it's collectibles of like
the figures from that, just these little probably pieces you
shouldn't give to kids, 'cause they might eat them, yeah.
Are they like maybe they're in like those little like capsules?
Yeah, almost like a like a what's it called?
Like a gotcha pong. Yeah, so.
But instead of them being like in a machine, just like a big
tub, where you just reach in and grab as many as you can with one
hand. Sweet.
Yeah. From the movie Hercules, these
little figures are kind of contained into these little
tubs. They're kind of rubbery and
squishy. Big Hercules kind of pop you
out. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. So looking out, you guys pick up
on the big like Zeus figures, The Isle of Zeus figures.
Off to the top, there's this. There's a couple of really
toppled over shelves where toys that kind of spilled out.
These weird Mecca Creek abominations are kind of
scattered all over the floor to the left, the Gotcha Pond.
Like grab pit. Yeah, a number of like swirly
pits and just like aisles full of toys kind of scatter out in
front of you, some of them toppled over.
It's kind of a big mess. Green gunk kind of like is kind
of like stringy, like spider webby.
Almost like if you imagine like a spider web dungeon but just
covered in green gunk orange hairs and you cannot see it from
your current location. But at I guess technically the
front of the store where the windows would be pouring in
light that have been covered by like newspapers and ads and
stuff. But you hear like kind of like
metal clinking and stuff rustling about.
And it's all punctuated by a loud cowabonga.
The one, the one known for being on top of your ice cream truck
kind of echoes out in this empty arcade and you hear like that is
what you guys are currently Privy to.
I like, I feel like right when I get a cowabunga, like, like he
like Rocco sits up on his hind legs and like looks towards the
sound and like starts scurrying, you know?
Cool. You guys are free to move about
or do what you would like in here you can the the rustling is
kind of continues after the after the I'm sorry after the
Calabonga ring got rings out like just like metal clanking
and stuff shifting around at the front of the store.
It's currently like obscured by a number of aisles and stuff.
Hunter is saying that he wants to Rocco is going to kind of
move forward. Do you want to go up and over or
down and under this kind of like big blockade of shelving?
I I think Down Under, I think I'm going to do this stealthily,
you know? Would you want the way that the
shelf has fallen? It's kind of like at an angle,
so you could crawl up under the shelf that is kind of toppled
over and is resting on the other one.
Would you have to kind of crawl up under there?
Yeah, I think so. That's very raccoon, right?
Like small enclosed space. Feels secure, very easy to hide
and yeah. Just give me a scurry check
please. 7. Beautiful.
You kind of rustle over a number of like smaller toys and kind of
are kicking them to the side. You come out the other side and
you see at the front of the store, right by the door, all
right, what what would have been the front entrance of Big Bob's.
There's like a large shopping cart filled with like big like
shiny stuff. Notably at the top there is the
rubber ducky with buns on his head.
I can pull that back on screen 'cause I think it is a fun image
it. Is in fact a fun image, so.
This rests atop the the cart full of stuff.
With a closer look you see that the Saint Lucia's head is also
kind of near the bottom and the wind chimes kind of clatter off
the side. All of the different fetch quest
things that were added to your list, they kind of like check
off 1 by 1 in your head. Notably messing with the carts
is a small it's a strange looking critter To you it it
looks like not super normal. It's a bit larger than most
critters than you interact with. It is Bunny like in shape, so
kind of rabbit shaped, but it has a like a long orange foxtail
and you're watching it kind of mess about and kind of
reposition stuff. He's kind of muttering to
himself, strange as he is pulling one thing down, he kind
of turns around slightly and you see that one of his hands is a
large like green goopy, like a large green goopy hand with like
almost like 120 fingers than you're used to seeing.
And as he kind of uses it to put something up, he pulls it back
down and looks at it and it goes stick slap, grab, stick slap,
stick slap. And he's like, I heard you.
I know, I know we're going to do it.
We we sticked and slapped all day.
We grabbed all day. We got enough stuff and the the
the hand is talking to this critter.
Stick. Slap.
Grab. OK, does the hand the pair that
have any eyes on it? It does have two two kind of
goopy green eyes, kind of like float and mess about in a
cartoony way. They're not like organic
eyeballs with like things attached or just kind of like
drawn on. I was going to like, shadow this
guy. Like, you know, you ever watch
like a video of somebody where like walking very close behind
somebody and like mimicking their movements just in their
blind spot at all times. But now I'm worried because
there's another set of eyes. I think Rocco's dumb, but I
guess he's not like, not that dumb.
So I think I'm going to, I'm going to go back down.
I'm going to peek my head back down and I'm going to scurry
back to. I feel like I'm going to.
Yeah. I think specifically Bertle.
I'm going to get like up to Bertle and like you're really
tall. So I climb up here a little bit
and I like. Can you hear?
Like hands long? It's kind of grown.
I can't understand you. If you talk that close.
My ears are like the holes in the side of my head.
It's like a drum in there. So and I was like, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Guy, come on, come on.
OK, yeah. I mean, I've had the hammer out.
Still like, let's go. Should we all go?
There's never been a time when Bertel wasn't.
Rocker, by the way, does not wait.
He bounced back where he came from, like going under the
shelf. And.
Like. Is everybody going to be
following Rocco under the shelf or are people taking some
different routes? I'm I am on top of Bertel unless
Logan objects, I'm doing whatever Bertel does, but yes,
trying to get Bertel to go. After Rocco, get under the
shelf. You you've lived with your like,
spiky big body for a while. You know they're trying to crawl
up under there. You're probably going to hit and
clatter some toys that might not be as sneaky.
Oh. Bertel doesn't care about the
sneaky part, he's just there to to get through.
So if it looks like I can you. Can fit, it'll just make, it'll
just. Yeah, no worries.
Doesn't care, Rocco. Stealth isn't a thing for
Bertel. Sweet.
Bradu wants to like fly up to, I assume like the rafters, and
he's just gonna be like like following the party, like
sneaking, but he's like upside down and just like walking.
The. Top.
Yeah you Radu, with your ability to kind of see it first you you
see again the the critter or I guess you don't see This is the
first time you've seen the critter kind of a little bit
oversized for what you think a rabbit should be.
Long orange foxtail and big green like goopy hand right arm.
And you watch him like arguing with it for a second and he like
flips it and it kind of stretches way out and grabs
something from like the front counter and you hear like stick
grab and it comes back and he kind of like peels off like a
like a big snow globe that he grabbed from the top and sets it
on the cart you at that that you see climbing above, kind of
mirroring them. The rest of you guys are
crawling up underneath the shelf.
Does it actually? Look like his arm or something
he's holding. It looks like it's attached to
his arm, like it's kind of like bubbles up and gets like
blistery and kind of like tenderly as it gets closer to
where it seems like it's affixed to his arm.
So he has one of those sticky hand toys for an arm, basically.
Exactly this. This guy has like a massive
sticky hand arm that peels off I I think.
I think at this point I can show you what I had for him.
Please be the right one. Yeah, that's the right one.
Let me make him a proper size so you can actually see him and get
rid of the map here for a second.
He has like a big green sticky hand arm that's kind of attached
with blisters and stuff up to it.
If everybody actually I want to have the three that are crawling
up underneath, can you guys give me actually just bertle a scurry
roll at disadvantage please? That's a one.
As as you're kind of crawling through one of your one of your
spikes like latches on to one of the new.
Like Zeus drawstring toys and as you're kind of crawling through
you're like this is actually going kind of well so far and as
the string gets like longer and longer it ricochets back hunter
what does it exclaim what is like this toys like catch phrase
that it that it sings out. Oh oh, it says.
God. Something about Prometheus being
eaten by an eagle I feel like. It can literally just be that.
Ah, my liver. Stop eating my liver.
Giant Eagle. Please stop.
That's what you get Prometheus. It's this weird back and forth
conversation where there's multiple voice actors in the
booth trying to get the line in all at once, and it echoes out
into the toy store. This toy didn't do very well.
That's why there was a lot. So kid friendly.
Yeah, Big Bob. Big Bob's a toy store.
There's a horse in my bed. All of that.
Kind of rings out. It's one easy the the the the
spike has ripped the string off, and the Zeus toy is now
literally just on the loop, just spitting out every recorded line
that he had. It's Roddy.
You the worst Greek God to pick. It's like nothing he's done has
ever been positive. It's all horrifying.
Roddy, you see that the critter at the front quickly turns
about. A big like sticky hand, I don't
know, affixed in hand. And the sticky hand is like
slap, slap, slap, slap. I know, like, where are they?
He isn't able to. He doesn't seem like he sees the
group from where you are. It doesn't seem like he sees
them up underneath. He can hear where they are.
Obviously he's looking about if there's anything that you would
like interject. He's starting to make his way.
Let me put the map back together and I'll get rid of the spinny
thing. Put the toy store back in.
Put him back over here. Make sure that it's all in the
shot. And he's starting to come
towards the group. Yeah, he's starting to make his
way over towards them. So he was over here messing with
the shopping cart. Him and his sticky hand are kind
of making his way around this like a large like display with a
bunch of smaller toys. He's rounding the corner of a
shelf and he's going to start making his way towards this like
fallen area here. I want to tell them that he's
coming, but I don't want to give away my position up on the
rafters. It's fine, I can fly.
I'll just be like, hey guys, he's it's coming.
Do you wanna give me AI? Guess not.
If you want to give me, give me a scurry roll.
Scurry got AD 8 for Scurry. Do I have any bonuses from
anything at all for Scurry? Let's see.
Nope, I don't. All right, let's see what we got
here. I rolled.
Oh, I rolled 6 out of eight. Yeah.
Beautiful. You're able to kind of flutter
down out of you and you kind of come up the rear and you tell
them. Yeah.
You. You tell me what you tell them.
You're able to screw around back.
Oh, yeah. I just like to undershoot the
shelf. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get up on her like it's, it's,
it's, it's, it's it's it's coming.
It's it's it's got a gross hand. If you, I'm sorry, my brain just
like. Exploded.
Ryan, if you could give me if you could give me a noggin roll
to for Roddy to specifically know that it is like a sticky
hand and like what attributes a toy like that would have, OK.
So I got D 10 + 1. I have an echo located so I
don't get the +2 for the area. Or can I echolocate or?
It's listed as a as a free power, correct?
Yeah, it's free. I would say that you're able to
do so. OK.
Well then, yeah. So then 10 + 3, that's a 8 + 3,
so 8910, that's 11. Beautiful.
Yeah, right. As you're about to explain, your
brain kind of goes blink like mine did, and you kind of let
out an echolocating thing and it pings off the goopy, stretchy
hand and comes back like, Oh yeah, I know what I was going to
say. And you explained to the group
that it is some kind of weird critter stuff, hybrid thing that
has this massive sticky hand. And Radhu explains to the group
what a sticky hand is. If anybody isn't aware, You know
there's stretchy toys that you guys could get, yeah.
It's a hand that's sticky. Those things are awesome.
So. Yeah, a sticky hand that sticks
to stuff that's shaped like a hand.
And Roddu explains that it is a fixed attached is a part.
Is it like a part of him out of out of game?
A little bit in blister critters.
Occasionally in the world some of the stuff will come to life.
So like we we had like the antenna or even like the big
spinny thing on top of the the truck.
Occasionally stuff in blister critters is cursed with a
sentience. These things are called bliffs.
So blistered stuff and this stuff is like pretty
unintelligent. It only really knows what it
used to be or what it used to do.
So if it was a pair of scissors, it would know cut and snip and
slice. Because you guys are dealing
with a sticky hand. It knows stick and slap and
grab. Strangely enough you guys to get
back into the game. You guys have never seen this
happen before. But somehow the the bliff has
been affixed through some power, through some ability, and has
replaced the arm of this critter here.
And it kind of, as it gets closer and closer up to like his
joint, it kind of blisters and gets all like grotesque and and
tenderly in black and transitions out into like a long
oversized sticky hand that he is opposable and sentient.
Roddu says all of that very succinctly and very quickly,
quietly. Rocco doesn't understand any of
it, so it's just so we're clear. Sounds like it needs to get hit.
I will say that at this point he's getting a bit closer to you
guys. Yeah, right.
Can we aim for? So it's two different things.
We break the two things apart and then maybe they'll not be
able to work together or something.
I mean are they stronger together or stronger broken up
just? Going to hit the whole thing.
Yeah, I mean, you could just hit the whole thing.
But told me. I know you could just hit.
You're going to probably do that no matter what I say, but.
It's going to hit the whole thing.
What seems funnier, I guess, to the group?
Like, can we bust them up? Maybe they're not mates and
they'll actually fight each other.
Rocco's gonna if if are there any like drawstring toys around
us? There's the one that that just
got. Just one.
OK, Well. Never mind if you want to roll
for noggin to see if there's any more.
I mean at the toy store there's plenty of Drawstring Strap
Drawstring Toys. Just give me a noggin roll to
see if you kind of if happened to find another one in the mass
of toys, you're I. Rolled A3.
Yeah, sorry, no more Drawstring toys.
There's a number of other toys that might that might like click
or make some kind of smaller noise, but nothing with like a
speaker on it. Well, while they're talking,
Rocco and his totally empty head is just going to start pressing
buttons and like messing with stuff, so.
OK, yeah, you you're finding different toys and you're
hitting a button a little like a rocket kind of fires off a
little plastic pellet fires out of one and the other one's arm
kind of karate chops down. There's any number of toys that
are mangled up up under here? Perfect.
You guys are all clustered up. Let me actually move you so it's
better representative of actually what's happening
currently. So you guys are all kind of up
underneath the shelf here. The critter is coming closer and
if you're slap, slap, I know I'm going to.
Whoever is, I'm going to slap a guy.
You don't have to keep telling me I'm going to slap him.
Slap, slap, slap and the you can from where you guys are you can
see like like Bunny feet with like like claws that are almost
way too big protruding out of the front of them.
It's kind of clattering. Tip tapping up kicks aside like
some kind of Greek themed, like fake telephone looks kind of
clings off to the side and he says whoever's under there I I
got a gun and I'm not afraid to use it.
Come out and we won't have no trouble.
Oh, Bertel had just come out, Yeah.
Yeah, he's just like. Just I was, you know what?
Like, let's just go. I'm just going to walk out.
Is anybody attached to Bertel still?
Is anybody alone with him? So it's going to hang back and
my my plan is if as to at the right moment distract in maximum
fashion by actually flinging the CD as hard as I can to just try
to get the this beast to kind of like look away right when Bertel
is ready to to attack. So I'm going to try to hold that
action if possible, sure. Rock is going to walk out with
the karate chopped toy in front of him and like kind of waddle
it like it's walking, you know? Yeah, but just like directly in
front of him. Radu.
Radu would like to fly back up. OK, are you trying to be
undetected? I don't care.
No, I'm I'm fine to just if if if I see Berto just walking out
the front, I'm cool to just swoop out the back and you know,
no, yeah, let's try to sneak attack it then.
I guess if if, if, if Berto's walking out the front and we got
the karate choppy toy, I'm OK to try to like, you know, get up to
the top on the rafters, yeah. Yeah, just give me a give me a
scurry check a. 2. With a two you are able to get
up into the rafters, but the the sloppy hand is like slap, slap,
slap, and he's trying to get the attention of the of the critter.
Slap, slap and the hand is like kind of like waving in your
direction. Let's see if they're able to
survive each other hard enough. No.
It's like slap, slap, slap. And the critter kind of like
grabs it by like I guess it's neck but like the wrist.
And he's like, I'm going to slap him.
I'm going to do it and he's like, this is my gun and he
looks at the three of you guys that have like got major way out
and so he's now he's holding it like a he folds the fingers down
and he's like, I'm not afraid. What are you doing here?
Just to to clarify, Roddu was able to get into the rafters
undetected because the sticky hand was not able to to
communicate. So you are you are currently
hidden. Roddu.
What's the big idea? You come into my stool.
What happened to the Ribich Rio? You're stealing everybody's
stuff. Yeah, I got that.
You you guys must be from the ice cream truck.
Yeah, that was a that was a good one.
That one's going to make me some good stuff.
Can we have the stuff back? No, I need it.
OK, well, I'm going to have to hit you with this hammer, no?
He puts the guys like I don't want to be hit, but I also need
the stuff. I mean that's those are the
choices. You got you got two choices and
he separates the fingers. You got two choices.
Strange gun. I can use this this this weird
gun. You've never seen a gun like
this before, I know. You're right.
This weird gun on you? Or you can leave without your
stuff and go back to whatever stupid super Bureau you came
from. You know, I haven't had a gun, A
weird gun used on me. That seems interesting.
It's going to be interesting and then Big Notch is going to give
me all the food and then you guys aren't going to get any.
Oh, it's just you're working with our friend.
Well, he's going to be my friend when he sees all the cool stuff
I got. OK, well, I'm going to hit you
at the hammer, so if you're going to shoot me, shoot.
Me, he's like he he reels his hand back and as the hand kind
of like is like flying backwards You guys you guys hear like
clattering out from behind like the register.
You're PP please. I'm hungry.
And a smaller like weird fox rabbit scurries up to the the
gun wielding man critter pulling at the tail.
Papa, we're hungry in a second, like miniature critter, they
have normal hands. Comes out like, please, we're
hungry, please, we're hungry. And he gone in hand looks back
and he's like I told you not to come out.
And he's kind of dealing with these smaller, strangely
differently accented critters. They went to a boarding school.
Yeah, it just seemed to be his, his, his offspring.
We're kind of tugging out his tail.
The gun has lowered a slap, slap, slap, slap.
Rocco's going to like, waddle up the toy to the little baby and
then like, hit the karate chop button a bunch, you know?
OK yeah, you waddle up to the critter and it's not going to
think to move out of the way. So as you hit the button it just
a karate chopped. The wink hits this small like
rabbit fox in the head. It kind of like flattens down
and has like a a silly Looney Tunes bump come up over his head
and the guy goes and doesn't even think.
Just like it's just going to full on.
Just thwack Rocco with the gun the start calling it the sticky
hand just thwacks Rocco full on across the bow.
With the Sticky hand. You can roll Scurry to see if
you can't get out of the way, but he's going to roll Scratch
to attack. I did roll scurry and I crit
failed. I have.
A + 2 to dodge. I don't know if it matters
because like crit failed. No.
When you crit, fail and blister critters, you just you just
straight up that. Does seem fair so.
In Rocco's excitement of blinking this child on the head,
you are caught off guard as the sticky hand just like you get
sucked into it for a second before the impact actually hits
and then you're just like like set flying backwards and tumble
through the store. You kind of like there's like a
a trail of like dug up like tiles as you as you kind of rest
at the back and the critter says I needed this stuff.
I caught wind that you was doing this deal and we're hungry.
You look, I got the hungry guy. There's like 40 more of them.
And I need this stuff for big nuts.
We're hungry guys, too. You think he's the only ones
that's a hungry? What?
I don't. I'm not a politician.
OK? So I'm going to hit you with
this hammer, because it's my job.
If you hit me with the hammer and I'm dead, who's going to
take care of the little ones? No one's going to be able to
steal to bring them stuff. I could take to the alligator to
get food. Look, girl, that makes sense to
you. Or is this not not a simple
transaction actually? And pathetic.
Here. I I mean, I'd probably eat your
kids. I don't know.
Why would you the what the we're we're like 20 years beyond that.
We don't do that kind of stuff anymore.
Oh no, of course not. Oh, OK well, good.
Don't worry my kids. If I'm dead, I don't want them
to be eaten. I'd rather they just stop than
be eaten by a turtle. Like, I just.
I hit stuff with the hammer. Does somebody else want to try
to be diplomatic here? I guess.
You know, I I got about two seconds before I'm going to
start swinging hammers. Around.
Yeah, I was going to do some sort of surprise distraction Y
thing, but I feel like realistically this seems really
kind of ridiculous to to. So she she slithers out from
beneath spinning the the, the CD to try to get all the attention
on her way from Bertel just in case.
So Bertel, if you need to attack, you know, hopefully
this, this, this critter is not looking at you.
But yeah, she's like no. So all right.
There seems to be some confusion.
We could distribute food rationally so everyone gets food
at the party so we can all party on and hang out and not have to
eat each other's children, which seems barbaric.
That was something. And she liked gestures at these
toys that are kind of about an era when humans did that.
She's like, I don't know what was wrong with humans, but they
also made beautiful things like Cindy Lauper.
And she spends the CD into her, like it's the optical effect
that is the essence of rock'n'roll.
So you know, therefore in conclusion, let's all just
return the stuff together in such a big notch together and
work it out together. So it's not about you versus US.
It's all of us and no children to eat in, at least today, at
least by us, unless we're really hungry.
Is anyone really hungry? No one's that hungry right now.
I'm. Really hungry I.
Also, I'm hungry. You're not going to eat yourself
or your brothers or sisters or whatever.
No. No.
OK, great. So I don't know if I can if
that's distracting slash convincing enough, but yeah, you
can. Definitely try to make a vibe
check against against the clitter here.
I'm gonna burn three more grade. I got.
I've. I've.
I've got a better grade. Yeah.
So I've burned 6 so far. All right, D 8 + 3.
I got a 7 + 3. That's pretty good.
So 10 total. Yes, that is maths.
He was OK. But if you take the stuff back
and I can't go talk to Big Notch about doing this deal, like then
you get the food and my kids are hungry and I still got this
freaky on and there's a slap, slap, slap.
No, no, we all go together including slaps.
I mean I don't know maybe slaps has to stay behind as slaps can
only do slaps. But you can come you the part
that isn't the slappy part. And with together we talked
about slaps. I wish.
I could probably remove that he's.
Trying to whisper where slaps came here, but he's using the
hand to do the whispering, so he's just whispering into slaps.
It's an anti stage whisper right?
We could actually sort that out here, and then we could go
together, sun slaps with your kids and get the kids fed.
And then we just have a party. Because this is getting
ridiculous. We haven't had a proper, like,
dance. I haven't seen anyone, like,
snogging in the corner. There's been no funnel cakes.
This is just, you know, a bunch of of misadventures and
something. Big Notch is going to have
funnel cakes, that'd. Be I don't know.
I just made that up. Have I even ever had a Have I
had a funnel cake I'm going to roll noggin to?
See if yeah. See if you've ever had a funnel.
That is a four No. I saw that somewhere.
I decoded the the human words. Now assume it's a cake that
sucks you down into a cake universe.
With like bonus kick. Coins.
And at the end you get out again anyway.
So what do you think? And he goes, that all sounds
really convincing, but and is there going to be enough?
Do we have is there going to be enough space And he like kind of
walks over to his thing and uses the hand to like it kind of
pulls open like this big like trash can lid that was covering
stuff and there's like 100 some odd of these little rabbit like
little hamster things. He's like we multiply.
We we make like rabbits in here and there's like a number of
other like rabbit foxes that are like the parents kind of taken
care of is like and we're all hungry.
We all have a different accent and we we all need to be fed.
This is really a question for you guys.
Do you think that there's enough space at the borough to bring
back like 100? They're like hamster size,
they're mostly children. Is there space and or quantity
enough of food inbound to bring on to essentially double the
size of the borough, or is it going to be easier to let a
couple hundred of these things starve?
I think scarcity is a manufactured product of
capitalism. So yeah, yeah, Rocco thinks it's
a great idea. I so Ragu's like calculating
like up in the rafters like listening to all of this.
One of my know it all perks is the the good noggin on my
shoulders. So when presented with the
puzzler problem I can solve it. So can I like calculate in my
like, bat brain if like I think if we get all this stuff
together, if we'll have enough for all of these things?
Realistically, actually work out like logistically.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Does it have you roll or is this like a thing that you know?
So I gained advantage on rolls to decipher, solve, or discover
the solution. Yeah, I would say that you
would, It would be a noggin roll that you would roll to damage.
So that's now I can add a bunch of grit to this, right?
You can add as yeah, 3-6 or nine or come down.
I'm just going to the end of the episode, so.
Yeah, I'm just going to add like like 6 grit to my advantage D 10
+ 1 roll. So that'll take me down to a
number, let's call it that one. And then I have the world Azure,
so I get 2D10 plus seven. I rolled a four and a nine.
So nine, so 16. To.
To calculate like I'm like pushing, I'm like pulling my
glasses back down as I'm like doing this and it's that GIF
where it's like that Lady that's like this but like the the maths
is like going around and then it just like clicks, like the light
bulb like brains up the room above everyone Is it like my
idea, like clicks above my head. Yeah.
And I'm just going to be like now, now wait, guys, I think, do
I? I guess I I know the answer, but
what is the answer? Yeah, yeah.
So in in doing all of the the intense calculations there is
technically like logistically not enough space for everybody
to be comfortable. But with some like excavation
and some expanding into the infinite like hedge maze that is
behind to the east the the forbidden lands, it is feasible
that some kind of agreement could be made.
It would be tight. Food is already scarce for the
borough. The deal that you're supposed to
do would push you guys forward for a while.
So introducing a large contingent of new mouths to feed
is going to make moving forward with the borough pretty hard.
But it might just mean that another solution in the future
has to be made as well that. That's also a lot more things to
help too. That's like 100 more things that
can go look for food. So yeah, I'll swoop down and
tell that to the group and be like guys, listen and I like
talk. No jutsu like the group of like,
I know you've had it hard. I know that the Slap Hand isn't
isn't ideal, but if we work together as a community, as a
borough, we could make it work. There's enough food and we can
return. We can return the head to the to
the to the gramsters and we can return the the wind chime.
Because if we return the wind chime, then the birds stop
pooping on the truck and then we'll be able to get more food
from big big nuts or whatever, and and we can get the big notch
big. No big nuts is better.
And and we can we I'm just saying we can make it work the
the math math the numbers it would like there's the IT it
works we can make it work. The the critter considers this
and he kind of looks over at his family and looks back at his
stuff and looks back like out of his hand and it's kind of
mulling it over and he goes put her there and he puts the big
sticky hand out like in agreement.
Essentially like you got a deal, kind of agreeing to to work with
you guys and it puts one big hand out for whoever to grab
onto. Rocco is just now scuttling back
to his feet. The whole situation was resolved
while Rocco had stars kind of dazed over his head.
Rocco's going to shake his hand with both hands.
He's going to. Go shake him.
All right, well, we got all this stuff.
I I still got this stupid hand, but I guess we can deal with the
stuff first, Yeah? I can take your hand off if you
need. Yeah, is it a medical emergency
or just annoying? Like scale up one to.
Ten I don't know. I don't know what's going to
happen to me medically, but it's really annoying.
It would certainly boost my mood if I wasn't attached to it
anymore. Oh yeah, I will just put your
just throw it out. Just throw throw your arm out
there. Just put it out.
Just put one long like it unfurls and there's like a a
hard like scenes transition to like it being like like propped
up on boxes like a spotlight like a weird looking medical
hack together. A shot of Burrell stand Bertle
standing over and the critter like I never even told you my
name. As you have like I tell, I guess
you tell me what you're going to do.
I'm going to use the beak because I'm snapping turtle, so.
I'm going to bite it off. I'm going to bite it off.
I'm just going to like, line it up with my eyes on the side of
my head. Line it up as best as I can.
Can I get a spotter to like, make sure I'm in the right spot?
Thank you. Yeah, I assume so.
It was on the top like kind of like looking.
Over so so is like cartoonishly being like the dental like light
thing with the the hangs over and the thing on the side, just
like coiling around as needed with like maybe a card.
Things are are popped up like. She's holding the cards up with
her muscles to just make like a little room so that this is, you
know, there's some privacy, there's some decency here.
Right and then. Be flying and he's going to have
like one of those, like old school doctor's lamps that just
had like the the metal thing with like the the light on it
like shining down. Yeah, sweet with Rocco.
How are you? Rocco's playing with toys.
The Rocco's be. Shooting up over the partition
just. Like.
Pull on the. Draw.
Screen. And you're like, you know,
Lightning's flying out brother or whatever the the Woody the
Woody's Zeus analogy. There's a horse in my bed.
I like that. One I feel like the arm.
Goes to like a bed. I feel like the arm goes to like
that. Weird.
Yeah, like the Ren and Stimpy thing, where like when it gets
gross, the art style slightly changes to like a little bit
more realistic, like when he's like grading the skin off of
himself and stuff like that. If we could have a roll from
I'll have a noggin roll from wives from from So what to keep
the lights on to keep all the tools in check.
If I could have a I'm don't roll them yet.
I'm going to do a roll from Logan from Bertle that is a a
scrap check to like beat down and bite the arm and then if I
could have a noggin check from. The TV antenna to be like
pointing to, like, exactly where he's supposed to be biting.
Give me a noggin check to be pointing in just the right area
and then I'm going to have each of you guys roll and add them up
the number that we were trying to beat or the the target goal
for it to go as smooth and as clean and as flawless as
possible. We are looking for 20.
Well, I'm going to add 6 grit to mine.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm nine. I'm gonna add 9 grits.
I'm not gonna be burning any more grit after this roll.
Oh my gosh, because they're adding so much, I'll just add 6.
Rocco's just fucking playing with toys, but you don't have a
really serious moment. And he's like, I'm like setting
two guys up and I'm hitting the karate chop buttons on either
one, you know? So they're like fighting.
They're keeping like 200 hamsters entertained.
Oh, nice. OK.
It's a 13 total. Oh, nice. 17 total.
But that'll do it. What did you roll, Radu?
I got I got a 4 + 1 is 5 + 6 is 11.
OK, so where where like for? Like 41 or something.
Some crazy number, yeah, like you had said the the art style
like dramatically changes as there's like sweat literally
coming out of every pore on the critters bodies.
Whether they have pores or not, they've grown them and just like
this really intensely overly painted style was like the eyes
are kind of bulging, you can see the red behind them and Radu up
above has the antenna on. It's like you can hear like a
collective heartbeat. As borough kind of rears back,
Beak opens up wide. The action figures in the
background are kind of in slow motion as the beak is coming
down and as as the hand, the hand his his eyes kind of go
wide with a panic as the beak is coming down.
The critter is saying his name, but because we're in slow motion
it is and a hard cut to black, it kind of comes back with the
back to the correct art style. There was like a loud, like,
awful bone crunch and kind of squeaky cut to black.
We come back and there's like a, a nub.
It's been like wrapped in like receipt papers on top of where
his name is James, where James's arm used to be.
And James was like, oh, thank you.
And he puts out his nub to shake your hands.
They go, I'll get used to that. The the hand is like kind of
clawing around in the background, kind of like
octopusing its way and spidering its way on the floor and slap,
grab, slap, grab. He he's still kind of scutting
around in the back. You guys did a great job with
the surgery. It seems like James is going to
be fine. The Hand, unfortunately, is
still very well alive and scuttering about in the back.
James is like, well, since we're leaving, we can just trap him
here. We could, we could do anything
else with the guy. I really don't want to.
I don't want to be around him anymore.
But it looks like we got all this stuff to to hand back out,
so we can go ahead and get on to that if there's anything else
that you want to do in this kind of weird, weirdly themed
establishment before we do, like a montage of you guys kind of
giving stuff back. If any of you guys would like to
like pick a a toy or like a thing to take from Big Bob's as
kind of like a reward for the end of the episode, A piece of
loot. Something to to scavenger loot
from this Greek mech themed toy emporium.
You don't have to have it right now if you want to think on it,
but if you do have an idea, let. Me just take an action figure,
one of the Crowley chopping Greek soldier action figures.
I don't know. Bradu.
Oh, I don't even know. I'll just, I'll just swoop down
and and grab one of the Gotcha Pong balls and just see what I
get later, I guess when I open it up and get my Greek, my
little Greek, you know, toy thing.
Yeah, So what? Yeah, I think.
I think she would try to use a rule that's in the book, which
is crafting, to make a container.
So she would try to make like something that's like a sock and
maybe remove some so she can put her head out and then attach it
with a harness like a chariot toy so that she can kind of
wriggle along and be pulling a chariot that will act as
somewhere they can put a bunch of stuff.
Especially since they have a bunch of stolen goods to return
in order to like get back to like, you know, kind of a narco
partying. And they also have these
children. So, you know, maybe there that
can be a whole train of of Chariots attached it.
It depends on, you know, whether there was really a limit here.
But yeah, it's also probably just.
Like mechanically you can you can probably have like 1
chariot, but for the sake of like the episode story wise
there's going to be like a string of Chariots.
So moving forward if you want to play so again she'll have like
the one that has its own like dedicated SP.
Yeah, this is like a one off. She just wants to get stuff back
for for this adventure, this, this episode.
And Bertle. Bertle's going to get into like
a paint kit and give himself like a nice wood linen camo.
That's awesome. Yeah, you find one off theme,
but they had one in the clearance section.
Someone had returned it to the wrong store.
They didn't care. They threw it on the shelf
anyway. I don't think Bertle can see
color, so he's probably like bright orange and a yellow and a
green, but it looks good to him. You stuff that in in your pack
and there's a a quick montage of the stuff all the animals are
kind of helping bring down the Bing, the big spinny toy comes
down off of the cart and then the wind chimes kind of clatter
as they make their way. And we're going to like kind of
cycle through as all of them are kind of stuffed into the socks
and the different wagons and like baskets all attached to the
back of SOA. You guys are like talking to
each other and the the smaller of the fox rabbits are kind of
talking and helping you guys out acutely holding up like things
that are way too big. But there's like six of them.
So they're able to kind of walk the the train behind.
We're back outside walking down the street, and you guys are now
out front of where the sobbing pigeon was back and her and her
stoop still kind of sniffling. You guys stop at the bottom big
caravan. There's like there's like 300 of
you guys, like like little fox rabbits follow, following what
is like six or seven of you guys kind of leading the pack.
The camera kind of pans further back and the hand is like
splatting along, trying to follow, but it can't quite keep
up with the group. You guys are out front the the
pigeon's house and she looks down.
I was like, oh and comes down like oh by wind chimes.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. And she's like is grabbing them
with her wings and is like holding them.
Like I talked to the girls and we're going to, well, I can't
say we're not going to poop, but we're going to certainly do our
best to not poop on the truck near the truck.
Maybe sometimes, but you know, on the truck specifically, we're
going to do our damn best. Well.
No, thank you. I I we appreciate that.
If you guys ever need, you know, some kind of reconnaissance or
some aerial stuff, we'll, you know, just give us a holler and
then one of us will come pile and it's cool, cool.
And one of those and the the bird team will come and we'll
help you out. Thank you.
We really appreciate it. And she takes her wind chimes
back up to the thing and clicks them over the hook cut to you
guys in the cemetery, passing this like absurdly heavy bronze
head. And it like essentially just
takes Bertle handing it over to these hamsters.
They kind of get sucked down into the dirt a little bit.
They don't actually catch it. There's way too long of a scene
of them trying to roll it up the side, and then they try and pull
it up with ropes and you guys try and fly it up there.
It's a it's a it's a mess. It doesn't get back atop St.
Lucia very easily, but the head does eventually get on top of
the statue, albeit backwards. The hamster, the the hamsters
kind of gather around real quick as you guys are leaving and
they're like, if you guys are ever, you know, needing help
getting through the forests nearby, let us know.
We'll do our best to make it a safe travel.
We got some some burlier guys that don't like coming out in
the daytime. So you know, now that we know
what time it is, they might be more liable to come out and
actually do something for us for once, and they wave you guys off
out of the graveyard. Rocco is with the Hampshire's
like waving at. Everyone as.
They leave. You guys, the the camera is back
to you guys pulling the caravan up to the ice cream truck and
all of the other fetch quest items have been dispersed from
the caravan. Now only remains the spinny
thing to go up top of the rubber duck with buns on top and pull
back up the other stuff. As you guys are, you know,
getting back together, you can hear from down South to here and
from inside the ice cream truck, you hear Steve the pig.
Oh, God, they're here. It's the Dodge.
He's here. Oh.
Do we have it? Do we have the thing?
You guys are outside the truck, but you can hear Steve the pig,
the borough leader, kind of freaking out on the inside of
the truck as the the fanfare of Big Notch's caravan seems to be
approaching. I'm going to try to put the
thing back on top of the track. Yeah, walking.
Is everybody going to work together or is it just Rocco?
Oh yeah, and we'll, we'll, we'll get like, the wave of fucking
little baby rabbits to like or see this thing like, up onto it
too. You know, and that's exactly
what it looks like. You guys start off by like
dragging it, like is it scraping against the concrete?
But James and his legion of smaller James all kind of wave
up. And it's there's one big fluid
like, and it literally comes on top and it phoop does the flip
and twink lands kind of perfectly back on top of of the
truck. Once more.
You hear Steve on the inside. Oh, what was that?
What was that? And Merle is going to kind of
poke his head around the side. He's like oh.
They did it. Yeah, you hear Steve on the
inside kind of bouncing around like yeah, beep, beep, beep is.
Cow, cow, cow, cow cowabonga cowabonga.
As the the button is being like mashed the the the duck starts
spinning around the top again, and bouncing on the trampoline
are a couple hundred of the little James bouncing around in
celebration. From the South, a large caravan
led by this like massive alligator, Big Notch is
approaching. You guys make your way into the
truck and are, I think really by the borough leader having saved
the day, the hunger and the lives of 200 Smaller James as
well as your borough mates will be well fed.
Steve, Steve the big kind of shakes each of your hands
greatly and he reaches back and kind of shuffles through like a
a box that's kind of kept behind the counter of the ice cream
truck. And he pulls out like 3 like
plastic metals, like really the really cheap ones, like a big
number one on them. And he says for saving the
borough, for saving the borough, for saving the borough.
And that kind of goes on for 200 as each of the little James make
their way through. The four of you guys are kind of
in a in a safer, calmer part of the borough sometime later.
What are each of you like eating?
You guys got this big food store.
The deal went through, no problem.
Big Notch was very impressed with the truck, how clean it
was. The big spinny thing on top said
he'll be back soon now that you guys are all kind of relaxed and
recuperating having a meal together as the episode is
coming to a close. What is everybody eating from
the the food infusement I'm. Going to try and find any like
lettuce. Plenty of lettuce.
Like leafy greens, just like marching.
Cool. I think stale garlic butter
pizza crust. Yeah, 2 decade old.
Had you been at the refrigerator for very long?
It's fine. I'm a reckon, Sam.
Yeah. So.
I think SOA is partying on top of the truck and trying to get
others to party with her, of her friends in the borough and you
just and she slightly declines whatever food is being offered.
But you see the shape in her snake torso of several of the
children, like, like clearly the the silhouette, or you know, the
the shape as they're being digested as she's dancing and
spinning. And Pradhu.
I think if if it was able to be in there, let me like chocolate
covered crickets or something like that, like some like
delicacy of of bugs. You can, yes.
There are chocolate covered crickets, though they are 20
years old, much like the pizza that Rocco was eating.
I don't know if Rod was more bothered by the state of the
decay, but they had one lone bag of chocolate covered crickets in
in Utah to to dispense over to to Raghu.
No it doesn't. Bother me, I'll eat it.
That's fine. It's it's my guilty pleasure.
The four of you guys all eat on your your gnaw on your foods
respectively. The the, the smaller James
Junior's kind of poke and prod at the side of of so and as as
we kind of like Looney Tunes Circle fade out.
The camera's going to open back and it's just the hand like
plopping slap, grab, slap and grab and a webbed foot emerges.
Tito big ball peen, hammer hole rustles out of the bushes
missing like also missing his legs.
He crawls over to the hand and Webbed Hand and sticky hand
collide as like a a horror sting hits and the end credits start
to roll. And that is the end of our
episode, you guys. Awesome.
Great, He doubled the Burrow size.
And fed everybody and a crazy ominous ending implying about
Part 2 with, you know, some frog products in the neighborhood.
And we defeated the bad guy without violence.
We didn't murder hobo everything with our critters that are
blisters. I do love the whole fact that,
like, Logan's character was so strong that we could all just
kind of fuck around the entire time and it's like he's just
going to hit it. And we'll be.
Fine. So yeah.
That was that was a blast, though.
I really can't tell you how much I enjoyed that.
Yeah, I thought. I thought.
I thought it was a good time. I I do enjoy like, I liked it.
The the final boss guy that was set up as like the actual cool,
fun combat that we were going to get to do.
Like it was also just like yeah, it this isn't, you know this
doesn't make like why would we why would we have to fight you
if we can just feed everybody and like, Oh yeah, I guess that
makes sense. I had thought about it that way.
We're good. Animals, I mean, come on.
Exactly. Like it hadn't crossed his mind.
Like, no, I have to. I have to screw them over to get
food from him. I was like, oh, but because of
that, I didn't. I didn't get this show, the cool
piece of action artwork that I had for James.
Oh shit. Got the live artwork happening.
Tony Grasso. Like, I wanted to be able.
I wanted to be able to fight. I'm definitely going to use him
again in the future. I think it's such a cool, like,
combat idea. So I'm glad.
I'm, I'm happy. I'm glad that it all was.
We had a good mix of like social interactions and then like
Bertle handling combat for everybody.
I like that kind of combat kind of moves.
It's hard hitting and we're not like lingering on it for for too
long. It's kind of, it isn't
mechanically leans into it being super slapstick or it's like
yeah, I just gave him one hard hit with a hammer and now we're
going to keep moving. Yeah, I don't know.
What did you guys think? I've I've, I've GM Ed a bunch of
that. I've played a couple of games.
I think this is. Probably my first game.
I think this is probably in my like top five actual plays we've
done on this channel. Amazing.
Yeah, I I can't. I I really, I mean, when you
guys came on and we talked about this game, I was like, oh, I'm
going to fucking love this and play it and I'm like, oh, I
fucking love this. Like I think this is a great
project. I really appreciated how much
forward movement there is built in like we talk, I kind of
mentioned the hard cuts we were playing and then even like
having one person who is incredibly strong in combat and
that allowing us to just like that's a moment that they can
shine. Like we could have all been in
combat characters, but it was cool.
Like everyone got to do their own thing and we had a combat
character who had those like shining moments and we didn't
have to worry about everyone, like thinking about what they're
doing. And then we just kept moving
forward. It's nice that there was such a
flow forward of it. It didn't feel like we really
got stuck anywhere stupid for that long, which we all know
happens a lot of games. And there were kind of times
when we were all just kicking around.
And that's when you go, you're like get hard cut.
We're next part and it almost is like more comical that it's just
like us being stupid and like hard cut.
We're in the next room, you know.
Yeah. And I I enjoy doing that as like
as a producer because I think that sometimes players can feel
like stuck or they don't know like what the clue is or maybe
there isn't. Maybe like the room is just
empty. And like do we really want to
like role play? OK, now we leave.
We close the door behind us. We make sure that it's locked.
So, you know, hard cut. You're outside.
Something new is happening in the same way that a cartoon
would move forward. Or sometimes I like doing it.
I don't know if we if we it happened this episode, but I
know that I've done it in the past where a critter is like
there's no way that like this is gonna be a problem.
Like they're they're definitely not gonna be upset with us And
then I hard cut to I'm upset at you.
This is definitely a problem. And then we can just.
Keep. Moving.
Yeah, I don't. I I agree that that it helps
everything kind of keep moving. Yeah, I think there's.
I think the genre really helps just that in general too.
Because like so many times in in role play, you can be like, this
isn't simulationist, but like there's still a sense of like
your character died, you have to bring in another one.
But it's like I need to have a good reason to bring them in.
And it's like, no, you fucking don't.
And in this, like, you absolutely don't like you can
get rid of all of that stuff by just making a cartoony, which
all of us 30 pluses can like feel the nostalgia of.
So not only is it like fun because we know exactly what
you're talking about every time there's like a reference to it,
but like you said, you can just like chop through all those bits
the way a 30 minute cartoon that's really like 17 minutes
with commercials is gonna chop through those bits and just keep
getting to the action without having to even worry about that.
And the gonzo aspect of it continues to kind of feed into
that too, where you don't have to explain anything.
Nothing really matters to that extent and it makes sense and
always fits because that's the style.
So. Yeah, and there's definitely two
sides of that, right? I know that I produce it.
IGM it very zany. So like in the book, it gives
you the option of running games very cartoony or more hardcore,
or where you would play out more of that more serious stuff.
I definitely lean on the zanier stuff.
That's how I like to run it. It's looser and it's just the
way I prefer it. But I know that like Wyeth
enjoys running games that are that have a bit more going on
that are more serious, and I enjoy playing those games as
well. Where the world is a bit.
It still has a lot of this stuff, but it's more grounded
and you can feel a bit grittier in it and you're still, if
anything, the cartooning is in those games shines in a in a
slightly different light because it's juxtaposed kind of hard
with everything. Why do you want to talk about
that? Because that's kind of your
wheelhouse. No, I was just going to say it
struck me. It's actually not that
dissimilar because when I lean into the more animal, I suppose
the cartoon, just the way that IGM it, not without thinking
about it, but it works the same Because it's like if you think
about if my cat met another cat, he's not going to actually try
to instantly kill it for no reason in like murder hobo
fashion. Like I kill it and take its
gold. Nor is he like trying to RP like
realistically, like hello Sir, let's become friends.
Like animals are kind of like cartoons in that way where
they're very sort of random. When they leave the room, they
just fucking leave the room. So I think it actually works
either way. It's the same game.
Do you know what I mean? It's not a different game.
It's just like like I I when I describe animals in this post
human world, it's more kind of like Walking Dead feeling.
And when Tony describes it, it's very, very cartoony.
But I think it the same game shines and it's it's like very
fun both ways and has all the same logics of like, OK, what?
I don't know like because you're not in a human society and
you're really thus, like you're not either murder hobos or like
Knights of the realm. Do you know what I mean?
Like the narrative structure is you're you're a bunch of animals
hanging out doing animal stuff, which is kind of nice because I
actually think it means like when you meet an animal with a
bunch of baby animals you you could be like, I don't know.
I mean I'm a vicious animal. But more realistically I think
you could I mean in a cartoon setting especially you're going
to be like I don't know let's like find a way to be friends.
So it let's there's as a GM I think like Tony you get to push
us toward combat because we're animals slash we're cartoons so
we can get this kind of looney tune like dust UPS or you can
push us toward like I don't know like we're like let's all hang
out and like resolve this another way And I and I think
that makes for fun storytelling that's a little bit different
than the typical kind of murder hobo like yeah tactical like I
close the door, I open the door, I get the gold you know like
like point you know movement based games.
So I don't know, it's it's fun, it's fun to play.
It just shows animals too because because like for
example, like mouse rooter, one of the things that shines with
mouse order is like, you know, your mouse.
So you don't have those like human things.
You're like, I'm just, I'm the little fucking mouse.
Like it ease like a cat would chomp me in like 2 seconds.
So like, it kind of takes you out of that weird human
simulationist bit. And I think this game really
feeds into that too when you're cartoon muting animals.
Like you can get rid of a lot of those like human tropes and and
and play the game more as the game than like the way that like
the human brain, human tropes work.
So yeah, I like a lot. So, blister critters, the
Kickstarter you have what, 24 days left?
I think you're at $11,300 ish, right?
Somewhere in that realm. Something about that, yeah.
You guys just hit a stretch goal for the for the Ad Lib book.
Yeah. So Tony did it.
This this game. Yeah, and we did.
We started this game with it and that was really, really cool.
I was a lot of fun. Also seeing because I picked, I
was like, what's the stupidest adjective I could pick?
So thanks for that. What's What's forward-looking
for stretch goals in the project?
Why? Sure.
Yeah, there's there's a whole bunch.
So this is a lot about funding and just like the cost of
physically printing stuff. And big shout out to Logan, who
we've been working with to develop these, this box set,
because I published books, but not a box set full of stuff.
And Tony had a really fun vision for like tools that you could
use. So it's a smaller book.
And then you have these other things, like the Ad Libs book is
a bunch of you'd sort of use them.
Ideally, you just write on them and have fun with your group.
If you were sitting around a table, you know, on Discord, you
could do like we did today where you could you could DM everyone
and be like, hey, can you fill in these, You know, an
adjective, A noun, A verb. But the next stretch goal to
answer your question is, is 15 K We'll do a second set of
stickers. So Tony's designed one set of
blister stickers. There's like, mostly, I think,
critters and beasts on the first one.
And the second one would have, I think, a lot more stuff and
environmental pieces. And that's really just because
we like stickers and Tony's art is rad.
A20K. Yeah, the stickers are cool.
We're trying to actually pay everyone who's been working on
this some sort of bonus, regardless of how well we do in
terms of actual, like, profit. Like, even if we don't have a
profit, we're going to set aside that just to pay everyone, you
know something. And then 25K, we're going to add
the character sheets as a separate pad again.
So like there's a character sheet in the book, you could
copy it. There's a free PDF, but you
know, this way you'll have a pad of 52 character sheets, like
you'll have the ADLA book, like you'll have the book all in the
box. And AT30K is something that
doesn't go in the box because it is a separate sort of cost.
But it is really cool, which we really want to do, which is a
producer screen. So it'd be a three panel screen
with again Tony's amazing art rules on the back and the thing
we're trying to innovate which I mean you don't hold us to
exactly what's going to look because I don't know this has
been done but we really want to do it with our printer is have
drop insurance for the cards. The cards come in the box
already and we want to have basically plastic sleeves built
into the producer screen in the top.
So you can put cards in so you know showing the art to the
players and then you have the rules as the producer on the
back and have maybe four to six of those across the three
panels. So that you could actually have
like for example the Rivet trio I think is 1 card, but if you
wanted to have say 3 frogs you could have your your different
critters and beasts that are NPCS facing the players and that
would just add a little more visual connection, especially
since there are cards in the box.
The cards are fun, the art is great.
So those are the ones we've announced.
We have a lot of other ideas, but those are ones where we felt
like priority. If we can just get the money to
to print them we would love to include those.
The the screen would be offered as an add on just in terms of
cost, but the others would be in the box.
So yeah, we're hoping to make it as cool as we can before we
essentially run out of, you know, time funding people's
attention, right. But yeah, it's going to be 20.
Four days though. I mean, this was a blast to
play. I'm like, if you were watching
this, I know that we talked about games a lot, but if you
missed this Kickstarter, you would have made a mistake.
This is awesome. And it was a blast.
Thank you both so much for coming on and playing this and
and Logan, thank you for coming on the show.
Awesome to have you on. Anything that you're working on
right now that you'd like to talk about or?
Oh God, always. I'm working on this with these
guys. I love working with wife and
Steel Fleet. Check out Steel Fleet.
Also like please Steel Fleet, the the flagship game from Steel
Fleet Studios. Incredible.
It uses the same grid system. Really, really innovative,
really fun. I got to play for the first time
in packs unplugged in December and had a blast.
This is my first time actually playing Bliss Recruiters.
I've been in the production end of it for a long time and I had
a blast with it. So this is a lot of fun for me.
I'm always working on stuff. The company is always going, if
you play it, let me know. I love it when people play that.
You can check out my stuff at Logan, Dean, dot Games.
I'm also, you know, a freelance producer, designer and writer.
If you have any work or need anything or consultation on a
game you're working on, hit me up.
I love talking about it. Would love to help you out.
Would love to give you tips of your crowdfunding or just trying
to figure out an idea. Got time?
Hit me up. Other than that, I have some
stuff I'm trying to finish up for this year, but I don't know
if I wanna talk about it right now, so I'm just gonna pass pass
the mic there. You go, I'm just gonna say this
is this this situation here is like the dream when I started
this podcast and and then Hunter quickly joined is just like 3
amazing people that have come together do this amazing project
and are still doing like awesome stuff on their own.
And then actually getting to not only meet but talk to multiple
times and play with so that other people can see and
experience an awesome project. So thank you all so much for
coming on. This is like Hunter said this
game is fantastic. I'm so excited to actually get
it and be able to play it more. But it was such a good time and
you guys are all great. Like I said individually and all
together this was a great experience.
So thank you so much for coming on.
I'm finally glad I got the chance.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, thanks so much.
Well, we'll be playing more blister critters on the Still
Fleet Discord server if you want to join Tony and me and others
as well, our friends. But we, the two of us, run
games. So if anybody watch this and
wants to try it seems fun. There's a free quick start, You
can come play with us and of course, we appreciate anybody
back in the Kickstarter and we love the weekly scroll.
So thanks so much for having us on.
It's it's super fun. We'll make sure that every
what's up? If I could hawk a couple blinks
for the Kickstarter in terms of other things that we have going
on blister critters wise thank you guys for having us on the IT
was a pleasure last time and I had a really good time running
the game for everybody today. We're currently funding.
We have you know we're going to be running through to the first
week of March and hopefully we're able to get through some
more of these March 7th, some more of these stretch goals.
In the meantime, if you enjoyed the actual play, you enjoyed
watching, the Quick Start is currently available and free on
Itch. It's linked on the Kickstarter
page. We're also currently running a
game jam for Blister Critters, the Critter City Crawl.
So if you liked what you saw and you would like to create a
location like Bob's Toys, there is rules and information and
resources available on the Itch page.
We're going to provide a link for that somewhere as well.
Those submissions are open and ideally we get a bunch of those
in and we can put together a cool little Zine at the end of
it and feature some some cool locations.
All of that stuff can be found at blistercritters.com.
That'll take you right to the Kickstarter page where you can
back the project to get a box set, and the quick start is also
there. So if you just want to try it
out, the free quick start is also available, linked pretty
high up on the page. And and we'll make sure that
when this hits the the pod and the VOD that if you just go down
in the description, we'll have links for Logan, we'll have
links for Still Fleet, we'll have links for Blister critters,
direct link to the Kickstarter, link to the quick start
everything. So go down there click all of
those if you're watching or listening and we'll make sure
that they're big and bright for you.
So you can definitely get there and give these people your money
so that they can make this game even bigger and better than it
already is, which is fantastic. And you know where all our links
are. I've said them a million times.
It'll be down there too, so find us wherever.
But again, thank you all so much for coming on.
Super appreciate it and it's been a blast.
Yeah, yeah, later. Thank you guys.