Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll podcast.
My Name Is Ryan. And I am the key master.
I'm Marco. I'm Madison.
Gary. Hey, look at us.
Hey, this. This is the.
Weekly Scroll podcast, like I said.
And today we're going to be playing Bug Busters, which is
written by Gary. And that's not just Gary, that's
Gary Snow of Daiku Games. How is everybody doing tonight?
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So Gary's been on the show before.
We talked at length about Bug Buster.
Super excited to play this. I'm really glad to have it on
Madison. Also, new player here on the
show. Excited to have them on as well.
Episode 115 it was Hunter. Yes.
Yes, go listen to that and you'll hear more about it.
Or you can just keep listening to us because I'm going to kick
it to Gary and Gary's going to tell us what we are playing
today. Well, thank you for having me on
the show and thanks for all the players coming today.
It's hopefully going to be a good time and bug Busters.
It is a game where it's set in the 90s and you are scrappy
exterminators that are fighting a secret alien invasion and
nobody really cares about you, but you want to protect the
world, so here you are, you're fighting off the aliens, and
today's adventure is going to be Connor's corn maze, which is
part of a play test that we're doing for bug Busters.
Very excited. I have AI Have a picture for
this. Where is it?
It's right there. Boom.
Connor's corn maze. Cool.
So. What could go wrong?
What could I assume? Everything.
And that's going to be fun. That's kind of the point.
So I know we talked about it like we said before on the show.
But getting into Bug Busters also, I I guess to start, like,
why are we going over a bug Busters today?
That's because it's starting to fun very soon, right?
Yeah, I don't have an exact date right now.
You know, the way all us indie designers are is that life
throws curveballs at you. And you're like, I don't expect
that project to be landing on my work plate.
So it's all kind of being juggled around.
But Bug Busters is coming soon. And you know what?
If it gets delayed, it's just even more time for me to make
sure it's good. And that part of the play
testing process is making sure that when it hits your table
that it's playing the way we want it to.
Fantastic. Really excited.
Obviously, you know, I mean obviously we're we're going to
get it. That's why we're playing it.
But the play of the game, why don't we?
I know we've all made characters beforehand.
Anyone watching can see we have names already which might not
make sense to you but they will soon.
So I guess if we do, we want to go through like the the basics,
like you know how, how we do the characters, the basic of the
role because it's pretty light you know elegant system.
So, So what? So how?
How how does it work? Oh, maybe.
Let's start with characters and just say there's three types of
characters. There's the smooth operators,
which are cool, and then there's the tough nuts, which are
obviously tough. And then there's the Jack of all
trays that kind of combine everything.
And there's four attributes. There's cool, handy, agile, and
tough. And from those four attributes,
when you roll your D 66 past, it provides some bonuses depending
upon what your past was. And then after that, as a
character building process, you get to add more tributes and you
also get to add specialties within those attributes that
give you a bonus. So it's basically a dice pool
system and your tribute is the raw score of it.
If you have a specialty, you get an extra die, and if you have an
advantage for whatever reason, you also get an extra die.
And at the end of the day, when you roll your dice, it's only
the top two that count. And so we have, I think a dice
roller and we'll see how that works online.
This is the first time we've done it in the actual play.
But from there you basically have a difficulty that you're
challenging. So if you have a a bug, for
example, that you have a difficulty of 10, you have to
roll 10 on the 2D6, the top two, however many your role and then
the damage is above and beyond or underneath.
So each role there's going to be damaged one way or the other, or
there's going to be a jinx, which is technically a success
on your part, but there's going to be a complication.
So that's basically all there is A to it.
There's some savings rows, but we'll get into that as we play.
Gotcha. So do we want to go through, I
guess, characters like what? What are we?
It's all you now, Gary.
You lead the show. What do we got next?
What are we doing? Sure, let's.
Well, based upon the screen, let's start with Marco, who's
playing Baywatch. Marco, why don't you tell us a
little bit about your character call sign Baywatch, every
character has a call sign. And why don't you tell us their
past and maybe their fight song and chill song which is part of
the character sheet. Yeah, so Bay.
Yeah, Baywatch is a Mid Westerner Lifeguard who was a
lifeguard at a public pool for many years and was really well
known for being very slick when in need, but also kind of a
little bit too rowdy on when not at work.
That's like Baywatch in nutshell.
Baywatch, the fight song that Baywatch has is the theme song
to the Power Rangers because he was sung that song to when he
was an infant and a young child to get ready for soccer games.
And the chill song is Fast Car by Tracy Chapman for obvious
reasons. And that's Baywatch.
Does he wears zinc on his nose? Baywatch has a has a dermal
right here. I think next on the screen is
Hunter playing Apollo. Yeah, I'm playing Apollo.
You know, the birth name, Carl Weathers, he at one point in
time he's done. He said many things.
He was a professional football player.
He may have starred in, he may have starred, absolutely starred
in some films, but ever since then, you know he's been having
a rough time. Since his big debut films, he's
been working as a art house seated performer and then that
shut down. So now he's taking up busting
bugs. Yeah, my call sign is Apollo.
I drive a Pontiac Ferrero or Fiero in 1984.
It's currently towed and impounded, so every week I have
to pay $100 on it. He's a smooth operator and his
fight song is Eye of the Tiger and then his chill song.
I'm going to go with Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult.
Then Next up is Madison playing Rewind.
Yes. So I'm playing rewind and my
background is a video store clerk and I took, I'm going to
take some inspiration from I've been watching a lot of 90s kind
of talk shows like old like school like kind of music video
sort of like TV show host sort of things.
And specifically, I've been really loving AB CS Recovery
that comes out of Australia. So like, Lee Winnell's really
early work. So I'm gonna try to draw some
inspiration from that kind of persona that he puts on screen.
And so for my fight song, I've chosen No One Lives Forever by
Bwingo Boingo, and my chill song is a jungle partner, the cover
by The Clash. So yeah.
Awesome. And finally, Ryan as Maverick.
All right, so Maverick, He is a former rodeo bull rider who just
took one too many shots and can't quite hold on as well as
he used to. You know, he, I was doing stuff,
whatever everyone else's and stuff.
I mean, that's him. His fight song is rodeo from
Garth Brooks. Big Garth Brooks fan and his
chill song is Mama's Don't let your babies grow Up to be
Cowboys from Waylon Jennings. Amazing song.
Yeah, so good and and that's kind of him.
He he rocks his Electro lash almost more like a lasso and and
that's it. I feel like I don't even know if
I have a car. It's got to be a Mustang.
But I I I still need a roll for that.
I think that's just my dream at this point.
That's him. That's Maverick.
That's the old rodeo cowboy. The tough nut of the crew, I
believe. And then just to back up
Baywatch, what do you what weapon do you have?
Oh yeah, I have the slicer dicer.
Which is basically like a a chainsaw with three spitting
plasma blades. Yeah, it's awesome.
And they can shoot off, but then you lose some of your damage.
I saw that too. Every weapon has a special
feature or special features. Hunter.
What's your weapon? I had the ZAP bat.
In Madison. I'm also rocking the ZAP bat
today too. Which is basically your bug
zapper that you'd find on the porch mixed with a baseball bat.
Yeah. Cool.
So is everybody ready to bust some bugs?
Oh yeah, absolutely. Yes.
Any last questions before we get going, everybody's.
We're, we're, we're roughly like we're we're all roughly set in
the 90s, right. Like that's how we are.
Yeah, it's a kind of a generic kind of 90s which.
And just to give you some background on the Bug Busters,
it was founded by Doug who founded the Bug Busters back in
the 80s during the Swarm wars, which is now legendary in the
Bug Buster world. But you have opened a franchise
on the wrong part of town, which is pretty typical for Bug
Busters. You guys are kind of like the, I
guess the dregs of society. You're working class.
Nobody cares about you, but you're doing good work in
fighting off this alien invasion.
So you guys are sitting around in the warehouse today,
gambling, maybe drinking a bit of beer.
Probably shouldn't be, but you are.
It's around 2:00 PM You guys are thinking about, hey, it's almost
quitting time. We're going to go to our local
dive bar, which is aptly called The Hornet's Nest.
So you're kind of gearing up for that.
You're playing cards. But then Helen, the dispatcher,
comes in and she is got a piece of paper in her hand and she
goes, I know you're having fun, but you know there's a little
bit of work to do around here. You know, The Smiths, the Smith
Farm? Well, they just called in and
apparently, you know Sadie little Sadie Smith, her prize
GOAT Elvis has gone missing. And Paul Smith says it's
something to do with some bugs. So I think you better go check
it out. I agree, we definitely should.
Yeah, I mean, that's our job. So we got to do, so we got to
do, right? No, it's need saving.
I'm ready all. Right on.
So as every Bug Buster franchise has, you have a bug mobile that
comes equipped with certain features and I think you've seen
them on your on the list of the play testing thing.
It's got a Fogger, it's got a whole bunch of things including
the the bug bot which is remote controlled, video car shaped and
described as a as a bug. And it's got some other kind of
weapons that you can choose, but you guys know what's in your
your truck or your car, but so who's going to be driving today?
Well, I think Madison is the only one with car right now,
isn't it? I'm into my 1982 Subaru Brat
that's stuck on one radio station.
Oh, it's the radio. Station.
Oh, the bug. Mobile.
Yeah, it has to be a bad radio station.
Like, I feel like it can't be a good one.
I mean, that's, I should mention that's a part of every bug
Buster. They get part of their pass,
they roll a vehicle and some vehicles are in worse shape than
others. Yeah, the brat's kind of a cool
little like. It's like a mini.
God, what was that giant one? It was like a car but had a
truck like. An El Camino.
It's like a yeah. It's like a mini El Camino with
seats like on the back. So I I'm definitely sitting in
the back because all I'm saying. We're taking the Bugmobile.
Now yeah you've got your standard you've got the
franchise bugmobile. So you can we're.
Not taking the brat out. Why wouldn't we just take
whatever? So you guys, have you, you're
you've been on a little bit of high alert lately because as bug
Busters, you're attuned to this kind of stuff.
And you saw in the newspaper recently that there was a
produce clerk that was bitten by a giant insect as they were
unloading something from a truck.
So that kind of got your, you know, attention.
And then you also heard that there was a crop circle in the
next county. And the sheriff is investigating
it. But the sheriff said, oh, it's
probably some cranky teenagers or, you know, playing a prank.
So all this stuff has kind of been like making you a little
bit worried about what you kind of do here at Bug Busters.
So you guys are driving out of town.
It's, you know, where the Smith Farm is.
In fact, a couple of you remember there's a Lover's Lane
out by the Smith Farm and you guys used to go hang out at
Lover's Lane. I won't say who.
We're all very close coworkers. We all used to go hang at
Lover's Lane. Happens in the Subaru BRAT.
Stays in the Subaru BRAT. So you guys are driving on the
outskirts of town and you're like, you know, you drive
through a bit of the suburbs that are in the town and you get
out there and you see a big billboard.
And and Ryan, if you don't mind putting up the bug Buster logo
or sorry, the Connor's corn maze logo again, you see a billboard
saying, you know, ahead Connor's corn maze, 2 miles turn left and
you guys know, like this is kind of like a little bit of a
tourist spot. Now in the last couple years,
you've heard about it and you've seen the advertisement for it.
And then you leave the highway when there's a sign that says
turn left, you're going down this old farm dirt road and
you're heading towards it. And then there's another big
sign saying Connor's corn maze, another 500 meters.
And you know that The Smiths are on the other side of the
Connors. So you head up there and you go
by and you see you pass the Connors location and you see
that there's you know some kids and minivans and the mums
getting angry at the kids and that kind of thing.
And then you see the Smith Farm a little bit further down the
road and I think we have might have a map we.
Do with the whole map. Sure, That's good.
So you can see the Connors or that barn area with the silo and
the Smith Farm is on the other side of the road there.
And so you, you pull in, I think, rewind your driving since
you're so good with the brat. And you pull in there and you
see Paw Smith, he's out there working on some, some something
out in the yard. He's like fiddling with
something. You see Moss Smith up on the the
porch and she's like cracking and chucking stuff.
And then you see young little Billy who's on a tire swipe.
He's just going back and forth. We like, park and unload the car
and like, Carl Weathers gets out of the car.
Yeah, like he's huge. He's like 6-2.
They like jumps out and lands on the ground.
Like he just got some raised. He like stands up tall and like
really dramatically looks looks around, you know?
Baywatch is shorter and going to like go up next to Apollo and
just kind of like slap upwards that on your PEC and be like
over under two sets of pincers, huh?
So Pot Smith acknowledges that you're there, and he starts kind
of walking over there and he's all hey, you, you, you, all the
bug Busters. Absolutely.
Carl. Went I I wait.
I reach to shake his hand. You know.
And he puts his hand out, nice, firm grip, and Ma just stays on
the porch. There.
She does the scene and a little little Billy on the tire swing.
He actually kind of looks like he's kind of giving you the
stink eye. So now do we we, when we
standard issue roll up, we're in like jumpsuits and stuff, right,
Like straight up? Standard orange jumpsuits with
call sign name tag on it. And yeah, you guys have all your
gear in the back 'cause you don't want to be like carrying
your your weapons and touch. Oh oh, I just thought we had
sluggle for the shoulder. So you guys.
Do like the jumpsuit with cowboy boots and a cowboy hat like
it's. A.
Part of who I am so. Yeah.
So Paul Smith goes well, I'm so happy you're here.
Sadie's prize Goat Elvis. Well, you know, he he, he went
missing the other day. And I don't know how else to
explain it other than like what appeared to be, well, I guess
I'll just have to show you. And he kind of waves you to
follow him. Yeah.
So you walk and and you're you're walking just past the
house. There's like a pen in the back
there and you see a teenage girl who you presume to be Sadie and
she's like petting the goats and she looks pretty distraught and
she's like petting them and that kind of thing.
And and Paul Smith goes, Sadie, Sadie, you come on over here and
you tell the Bug Busters what you saw.
And so Sadie comes over and she said, well, I don't, I don't
know, Paul, you you saw more than I did.
And so sorry, Ryan, I I should be probably be texting this
stuff. But if you can, put up that
little picture of the goat. Oh yeah, I can't think that fast
where I'm like, so Paul goes, you know, the other night I
heard a ruckus and I got my flashlight out and I came out
here to see what was going on. And just at that moment I saw
Elvis getting dragged through the the, the pen and he went out
the other way. I don't.
All I could say is it looked like now it's going to sound
crazy, like a giant bug. Sounds right.
Good thing you called us. Yeah.
And you can see a tear, a scud tear of running down on Sadie's
cheeks. It's OK, a Little Miss.
We're going to get you. Go.
When I. When the group started walking
in there, could I have like hung back and like went and go talk
to the boy instead? Because they got that there's
three of them. Sure.
Yeah, we can do that. Yeah.
OK. So Billy's kind of giving you
the stink eye and and do you walk over to him?
Yeah, I I'd, I'd slow walk over. I saddle up, you know, squat
down next to him and yeah. How's it going, partner?
He doesn't really shake your hand.
He doesn't quite know what to do.
But it Are you like really a bug Buster?
That's what it says right here on the jumpsuit, right?
Right. Out on the back.
Cool and like you guys. Like you.
Like kill, kill insects with guns.
And. Oh yeah, we wish them good.
We shoot them up. They splatter everywhere.
And just at this moment, Maverick, do you remember a
standard issue in the van is like there's a whole bunch of
T-shirts in there, various sizes.
Listen, I got something for you, all right?
You wait here while I go to the Y panel van by myself there.
We go. I was like, don't.
Bring this kid back to the. Car with you, dude, Come on, you
want to know? So I go in there and I like
anything that doesn't really matter.
I'm just trying to make a big show with this or whatever.
Anything that doesn't really matter.
I'm just like throwing out the back of the van.
I'm like one second like doing the whole thing.
I'm like I got it and can I find a shirt and I I bring it out and
I think this one will fit you. How do you like this?
You want to be in a an unofficial, unofficial bug
Buster. Cool Mr. Cool.
And he he's so overjoyed he grabs it.
He's like, he rips off his kind of torn up shirt.
You know, you can see the Spiffs don't have a lot of money.
He puts it on and he's like he's, you know, proud as a
Peacock. He's like kind of wearing it
around. He's all, man, that's so cool.
And he starts like heading, starts heading over to the van
to see what else he got. Oh, well, I got a question for
you real quick, but did you see anything about, you know, what
happened? Something about a goat is all
I've heard so far. You know, I didn't see nothing
about a goat, but, you know, just there's been kind of some
strange stuff going on the other day.
Me and my buddy Jeff, we like to, you know, go spy on Lovers
Lane, you know, once in a while. So we got our binoculars and we
went down there. And we're.
Checking that out and you know, just at that moment, the whole
radio tower, it just kind of lit up, you know, just kind of crazy
like and it just it just like for like 2-3 minutes, it just
kind of, it shined up kind of super bright and then it just
went away. And then, you know Jeff, you
know, Jeff's brother, at least he, he likes to hang out, up up
the old mine. They'd like to go up there and
drink beer and lit off fireworks and such.
And he said he he saw something in the mine and he got a scrape
or something, but he couldn't tell his parents because he
wasn't supposed to be up there. How old are you?
12. Oh, all right.
It's a little better. It's not like he's like 5 like
run around spying on people's on lovers Lane.
But I mean, you should not, you should be careful to not get
caught doing some of that stuff because you don't want to be
called a peeping Tom. But I was your age once.
Well, thanks. Thank you for that information
bud. And you you can let everyone
know that you are an official unofficial bug Buster.
Well, that's awesome. And you know what?
If you need anything, I got a whole bag of fireworks up in my
tree Fort. You just let me know and I can
take them out, take out those nasty bugs.
Yeah. Where is the tree Fort?
And you can see like right outside his window there's like
a big giant tree with a tree Fort.
That's where this tire swings also hanging.
He's all I got to walk and talk to you if you need it.
That's good to know, bud. We might, we might take that
from you. I'm gonna go see what's going on
with these other people here, right?
I got to keep them in line, you know, kind of the boss and I
just ruffle his hair a little bit and I I go back to the group
while like they're wrapping up the just in time to see like the
tear come down or something. Cool.
And you can see Billy's like now he's he's walking a little bit
like Maverick, a little bit of a.
So we get back to our other group who's at the pen and you
can see Sadie's crying and she's a little distraught and she's
like, you know, all of us, he's, he's the blue ribbon goat last
year. I don't know what I'm going to
do this year. And Paul says to the bug Busters
of soul, what do we do? Well, we'll have to look around.
Yeah. Hey, well, you you got, you get,
you get busy. And I'm going to go back to what
I was doing because you know, Ma, she doesn't like it when I
sit around. Yeah, do any of you want an
autograph before I get out of here?
Everybody kind of Sadie and Paul look at each other like they
don't recognize you. Oh, OK, maybe maybe later.
Yeah, I just whispered to Madison.
Likes doing this again, huh? So, bug Busters, what's the plan
of attack and? So the Where's the Radio Tower?
I guess. Yeah, I I I impart all the
information I got from young Billy to the group and say not
so we got radio tower. Had some funny business going on
mine something scratch some key in the mine.
I'm gonna kids. I'm gonna throw that mat back up
here real quick so we know. So we're we're a Smith Farm
here. Radio Tower's way up there, and
the old mine's way over there. OK.
All right. And that's lovers.
Lane. Lovers Lane is on the way up to
the radio tower. It's like the side area.
That's cute. It's by the water and stuff.
I would make that listen to there.
Yeah. So radio tower.
Yeah, well, should we check around here first?
I have endurance, so I could just run to the other side of
the fence real quick and see if there's anything that was left
behind or anything. Sure, sure.
But yeah, but it takes forever because he does it in slow
motion. Hey, so Baywatch, you're heading
across the pen and you know, the goats still are kind of a little
bit skittish. You know, like they've seen
something, been traumatized, and so they're kind.
Of. And making noises and stuff like
that. And you can see at the far side
of the pen there's the fence there and it's it's a little bit
broken like, but not fully broken.
And if you, upon closer examination you kind of see a
like an ooze on the fence. What?
Color is. The tough to fur, well, ooze is
kind of like greeny slimy. Is the Is the fence broken in a
way that was like multiple pincers had torn apart?
If you were to describe it, it would be like, you know,
somebody tried to squeeze something through a hole.
Like back it, do we do we have anything to flex samples Is that
helpful? Is it like look acidic?
Is it like burning through what it's touching or?
It's just kind of just sitting there like abused, OK?
But you do have collection jars in the van just for these types
of things. Yeah, I'll just yell over yellow
Busters. We might want to Somebody could
get some jars over here. We got some.
Looks like Class A ooze. Carl Weathers runs back to the
car and grabs a couple of collection tubes.
Runs back. It's like here you go.
And you also notice the corn stalks there are kind of bent
and and bent over in a little bit of a spread past that where
that breaking offences. Like look like it was like
stomped on or looks like it was like something large was forcing
itself through. Kind of bent like something walk
through there. A lot of points at it and he's
like there's something over there and you can tell that he's
flexing his arm as he does that, you know?
Yeah. I also love the idea of Carl
Weathers, code name Apollo, only referring to himself as Carl
Weathers in third person. Like the entire time, it's a
couple of. Weathers will go get jars from
the van. You remember Carl Weathers,
right? I didn't really lose a hand to a
crocodile. I assume this takes place before
Happy Gilmore. You know, he's like between
jobs. He's waiting for that.
What Chubbs Peterson part? Yeah, the 90s were rougher.
Carl. Well, we should probably follow
the trail just a little bit before we leave now.
I agree. All right, Apollo.
Well, I saw your strong arm. Why don't you?
Why don't you go ahead. I'll be right behind you.
Do I? Is it assume that I have my bat
on me? Not at this point, but if you
need to go back to the van, you could get it.
Yeah, I like indicated. Like what?
Hold on. One moment might go back to the
car. Might get my bat like some test
swings. It's like, you know, it's like a
shitty cheap lightsaber. And that is, I'll say that's a
problem with almost all bug Buster weapons.
It's just when you think you're going to have a victory, you
never know if it's going to fail on you.
So just as a a foreshadowing of what could happen.
But so you get, you get your weapons.
Who's going to follow this trail?
Let's use our first action rule. So let's use puzzles for the
specialty and your cool factor. So your cool attribute.
And if you have puzzles, as in a a a specialty, you get an extra
die God. To mark specialties.
I don't have puzzles, but I do have a high cool factor because
he's fucking Carl Weathers, so. OK, so this is let's do a
difficulty of seven just to cool.
Not too hard. Ryan, I have a cool of four,
just so you know. Oh.
Oh, OK, yeah. So we're going to roll now on
the roller. So we got action dice and doom
dice. So what are we doing here?
So for action dice, is that how many cool you have?
That is how many cool I have. And for those of you listening
along who might be confused, Ryan's rolling all of our dice
tonight. So.
Yeah. And I don't know, Ryan, if you
can do like a on, is that from a website?
Can you do like a plus size just to make it a little bit bigger?
Oh yeah, so it when I roll it like.
Then it, then it kind of the. Dice roll.
It keeps getting longer and longer and longer.
OK. Yeah, but I can zoom on this to
get to this part. There we go.
There. So that's it.
Just four in a roll. Four in the difficulty of seven.
Boom. So 531 and five.
Yeah, we. Got 10.
Yeah, 10 top two dice. So yeah, you're following this
trail and it kind of, you know, gets less and less prominent.
But since you're such a good tracker, you go and you see that
it hits the road between the corner farm and the road and the
corner farm, and then the trail goes kind of cold as soon as
they hit the road. Is anyone like walking with me?
I'm behind you. So during this walk, I'm
explaining to you how like during the shooting of the movie
Predator, we actually walked with a guide.
And I I learned a lot of stuff while working with this guide in
the forest or in the jungle. And then, yeah, we had, we hit
the the like, oh, it's gone cold, let's go back.
You know you said it went cold. Where?
At the Smith Farm. At the road and you look across
the road and you can see the Connor farm on the other side of
the road. OK.
Right where? The yeah right where the corn
maze is the point. Like it terminates at the road
and can you do a Jesse the body? Ventura voice.
No. Yes, he still do a Jesse.
Oh, because he was a predator. You gotta.
I can't do. This.
It's been so long since I've actually seen Predator.
Yeah, me too. Now he just does conspiracy
videos, doesn't he? Yeah.
Yeah, now all I remember of of Predator at this point is how
great Arnold is in the last like 30 minutes of that and then the
the one handshake at the at the beginning where they grab each
other. They just started.
Flexing. Yeah.
I love that Arnold was just like, I want to make tons of
movies and just stuff all my bodybuilder friends with me like
the entire time. Like the entire cast of Conan is
just dudes that he was like ripping weights with.
Yeah. Well, what do you do that's
like, that's like the best, that's like right now, right?
Exactly. Except they they're making
millions of dollars. Just like us, yeah.
So we head back to the the Smith farm and I relay what we've seen
where it terminated and then my best guess of where it's gone,
which is to the Connor's corn maze.
Well, we think in gang. I don't know.
How do you feel rewind? Kind of kicking some rocks
around, not really wanting to go in the maze and kind of looking.
I think they got room for three legged goats at that next blue
ribbon thing. Feeling not so good about this
one. Well.
So we we know there's the radio tower, we know the mine, and we
know the maze. Do we think it's just one, or do
we think these things are everywhere?
I say we start with the maze because it's the closest, and
then we can move out from there. We the maze is also a fucking
maze. No, it's corn.
You just go straight through. I mean, like technically that
is, but. Can we see families at the corn
maze? Yeah, but there's some families
that when you went past there was like families and moms like
yelling at their kids and and that kind of stuff going on
there. Yeah, I mean nothing.
Bad is if if, if, if, if something was eaten, people
would be screaming. So we can always come back like
you know. But there probably shouldn't be
anybody at the radio Tower, the old Mana right now.
We could at least take a peek at that, especially during the day.
Yeah. Wait, did the attack happen at
night? It did.
Yeah, yeah, there's a flashlight.
Let's. Let's come back when it's night
then. Perfect tab to five bugs is in
the dark. When you where do you guys want
to go first then I don't care so.
My thought is to go the farthest and then come back the closest
versus to the closest and then have to go out to the farthest.
OK, there's there's logic in that.
Mm hmm. So old mine, is that what you're
thinking? Or radio Tower.
I thought. Radio Tower.
I thought radio tower, old mine, because we know something freaky
happened at the radio tower but if they had no radio at all, we
would be hearing about people not getting their shows.
So maybe just like traces up there.
Old mine, potentially something could be in there and then we
know something could be at Connor's Farms.
My thought is a gather a little evidence, maybe go, you know,
lost a blog or two, and then figure out what's really going
on down here. But, you know, that's just my
two cents. That's my, you know?
I'm into it. Let's do it.
I'm ready to follow nothing. Bad ever happened to mine.
So what's the consensus? Where are we going?
Radio Tower. OK, so you hop back in the the
bug mobile and you see Billy's on him.
He's got his T-shirts and he's like looking cool and he's
pretty happy. As you drive away and paw ways,
you're going out and you go up the dirt road and you're driving
past. And now you're going to be at
that point where Apollo stopped the the trail.
And you keep driving past that point.
And you see there's like, you know the there's a vegetable
patch on the right side of where the Connors is and there's a
like kind of scarecrow in there. And you go past that.
And then you get to a bridge and you cross the bridge and and you
guys know your kind of way around here because you've seen
lovers laying there before and you go past the bridge and you
see lovers laying down below and it brings back a flood.
Memories of all the good times that you had there as a
teenager. You guys are all washed up now,
by the way, just in case that wasn't apparently clear.
Happily so. Happily, I'm.
Playing Coral Weathers. Coral Weathers is the year as.
My knee clicks like 80 times as I bend it.
And then you you pass the the the road going down to Lovers
Lane and you go there and you see a sign on the road to the
radio tower that says SETI Research Center #586 turn left.
And you I assume you go up that road and you're you're going up
and it gets a little bit choppier, a little bit bumpier
because it's not like a well trodden road.
And you finally get up there and you see this like huge radio
tower. But at the base of it, there's
like a building and there's like, it looks like almost like
a concrete kind of bunker at the base of the radio tower and
there's a couple of vehicles there.
So as you as you get closer then you see that there's like a sign
on the door saying no entry permitted.
Call this number For more information.
We don't have cell phones because we find the Rotary
phone. Is there a car?
Phone? There's no, no, no car phone in
the bug mobile. Oh shit.
Well, Carl Weathers writes down the Number or Apollo Apollo
right now. Remember legally distinct
Apollo? Yeah.
Is it one of those things that everybody thinks is Carl
Weathers? And he just like he doesn't
actually tell people he's Carl Weathers.
The everybody goes, oh, you look like Carl Weathers.
No, I think he tells everybody he's Carl.
He tells everyone he's Carl Weathers.
I think he is in that Carl Weathers and he also tells
everyone, like when you're talking about reminiscing about
Lovers Lane, he's just like, I'm from, he's from Louisiana, you
know, like that's actually where he's from, by the way.
And Willie, I Googled it. The most.
Research we've ever done for a show.
Yeah, So, I mean, so there's a fence, right?
And there's no barbed wire on the fence or anything, right?
There's no fence at all. It's just like the the door,
like the there's like a sign near the door saying call for
like entry after like no entry permitted.
Call this number if you want to talk to us.
Is it? Is it no entry like on the
premise, or is it no entry into the building?
Just the just that's the sign on the door like so like you guys
are at the building you got there and basically a sign tank
you know go away. Carl's going to try the door.
OK, it's it's locked. OK, Is did we pass a pay phone
on the way up here? Because it's the 90s, so I
assume there are still pay phones.
At a gas station way back, you'd have to go or you go back to The
Smiths. Use their phone.
I look at the rest of the crew. Carl Weathers needs to pay for
my gas. Yeah, Baywatch I think is just
running around like the the fenced area, right, because you
don't have to get into the building to get to the to like
walk around the. Radio tower, right?
Yeah, no, you can walk around. It's like kind of just like an
open area, but like the but the bottom of it is a bunker and
there's just that one door leading in and out of it.
Interesting. Checking stuff out the
perimeter. Yeah, plug it.
So what's the plan? I mean if they like like we
don't need to go in the fucking building for to to go look at
the radio tower. So we'll let's true look, let's
look at what we can look at outside here, let's follow
Baywatch's lead and you know if we go to the.
Sign say when we turned up to the radio tower, it didn't say
radio tower, it said. Sebi Research Center.
Research Center. Yeah, but that was to the left.
We didn't take that turn, right? No that no, that's the.
One in the the radio. Tower the Yeah.
So this is not just Rayatal, this is a Research Center, and
there's some weird bug shit happening which may be totally
unconnected. But.
But it could also be Listen, I like where your head's at.
I think Carl Weather is going to try to force the door.
Oh. Like, you know, he's so bad.
He's just like and he pulls as hard as he can.
Let me just let me just for a second here.
I'm going to bring up one of the the bug Buster codes.
Oh, oh. Yeah.
Oh yeah, because you know, just to remind you the bug Buster
code is clever tactics over loud dramatics.
Keep it. Keep it covert.
Let your moves speak softly. Successes in silence, defeat and
noise that's been hammered into all the bug Busters.
So he pulls out his car. Phone.
I think we should move on to the mine and later on try and make a
call and get in. Here you you do know, like you
do know, that there's two cars outside of here, and there is
the door like. Just not Bang Bang Bang Bang
bang knocks Apollo in the door. OK, you, you hear like the
hollow sound of like footsteps, you know, like a stairwell, like
a concrete stairwell. It's getting louder.
And then finally the door swings open and there's this young kind
of like Eastern European looking guys.
Yeah, yeah. I'm, I'm Apollo, a member of the
Bug Busters. We're in town checking up on the
bug disturbance. Disturbance.
We got no disturbance here. No.
No good. We're good.
Well, we're offering free
inspections to you right now and I just walk forward.
You kind of like just push your way past him.
He kind of. He's intimidated by the.
No, I try the friendly like I'm the big strong guy.
I try like put my arm around his shoulder and like walk with him
in. So not not like Violet push past
him, but like, come on, I'm doing you a favor.
OK, let's let's roll your Convince.
He he's He might have seen Rocky too.
So let's roll your Convince at a difficulty of eight, and that's
your cool. Awesome.
I have convinced so I guess I take another one.
So my cool is 4 and I also have convinced that adds one more to
it, so 5. 5 And so top two dice on that.
I love a dice. Cool system.
Y'all. Oh wait, so yeah, so I'm
resetting this and how many have been doing again 5. 5.
Five. Oh shit, 11.
Oh, wow. OK, so Alexi's kind of like into
he, he remembers you and he's like.
Oh yeah. Yeah, OK.
And so you're showing him in and you there's like this like kind
of concrete stairwell going up into the thing.
And he's oh, yeah, yeah, I guess we, you know, check our bugs.
Check, Check our bugs. Will I?
Will I see as I'm moving through anything, really jump out at me?
Well, at this point you're still on the stairwell, but you come
out of into like a bigger area and you can see that there's
like almost like an inside the building.
There's like this like telescope that comes in from the building
and from the radio dish on the outside and surrounding it is a
giant catwalk and underneath it is a whole bunch of like, but at
this point would seem like pretty big computers to you,
like mainframe type of things, kind of like whirring and
spinning and that kind of thing. And then the catwalk goes up and
you can see there's an open window higher up on the catwalk
and there's two people up in our office there, just silhouettes
at this point. I'm like, wow, what's all this?
Very cool. Oh yeah, it's top secret, you
know, I I can't say, but it's. It's, it's.
You know, it's space stuff, you know.
Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
Mm hmm mm hmm.
Is any of y'all following me down here or am I just like?
Yeah, we're like, all right, so to the minds.
We just. Leave.
Finally got rid of Tara Weathers.
No. Yeah.
I mean, yeah, if, if, if, if, if you, if you went down there.
I assumed we'd all go down there.
Unless Baywatch. If you were.
If you. If you do the perimeter.
Yeah, Rewind, are you going to go down or you do do the
perimeter? I'll go down for sure.
All right. Well, if if rewind went with
Apollo, I was already talking about doing the perimeter with
Baywatch. So me and Baywatch, I'll, I'll,
I'll scout the perimeter. Why Apollo rewind got onto?
OK. So the let's do the folks on the
perimeter, you're kind of walking around and you see that
like a little bit up, higher up on the wall.
You see the window and you see two people in there and they
kind of look like they're kind of arguing with each other and
kind of like angrily shaking their fist.
But you can't really make it out.
It's just kind of silhouettes through the window at this
point. So that's something that you see
on the outside you? See.
Any bug? Bug, Business on the ground?
No scrapes, no no goohs. No.
And the the tower is kind of located in the forest, so
there's like trees surrounding it.
And so other than that, it's kind of like this, there's this
parking lot outside the the radio tower, but that's about
it. Otherwise it's surrounded by
forest. No.
Who argues a lot? People have seen bugs.
I I guess, yeah, technically they could.
Working off intuition here. Yep, you got it, Baywatch.
OK, so the folks on the inside Alexi is like, OK, look, look
for bugs here, Look. See.
No bugs. I don't see no bugs.
Well, you got to get really, it's going to take us some time.
We have to really examine, you know, you don't want to leave
this, especially with sensitive equipment.
So are you going to like, start examining or like, yeah.
Totally. I start looking around and and
seeing what I can see. You know, pushing.
On walls, yeah. Pushing on walls, knocking on
them. I should go.
I should go tell Lombardi that you're here.
I should go tell. All right.
So he goes away and he like starts running up that catwalk,
Lombardi's office, and he kind of runs up there.
So right now you guys are kind of in the mainframes looking
around for bugs as Alexi runs up the catwalk.
I look over at rewind. I'm like OK now?
Offer him an autograph for information or something I don't
know. Are there any like terminals
nearby for us to that we could access?
There are and one that might be kind of around the corner a
little bit that is out of sight from.
I want to go around the corner and out of sight.
OK. So you go up to the terminal and
you can see that it's like you know, 80s computer, like it's
well I guess 90s like early 90s computer.
And it does have a terminal kind of monochrome screen still at
this point. As God intended, right.
I got you the better screen. Yeah, it's like weird, dark and
like green text. And yeah, DOS.
Yeah, very good. Yeah, like I start.
I start. I've been on it, you know.
Are you? Do you have any computer skills?
I have electronics. Well, that's not computers.
That's. Well then, no.
But your but your handy skill, which probably defaults to two,
would allow you to kind of see what you could do for it.
Great. Yeah, absolutely.
OK, so this is a difficulty of 11 and you have two days.
Let's do it. I have a so real, real quick We
also all start with six lux dice, right?
That is correct, yeah. Oh, it is true.
And yeah, as a reminder to everybody watching, everybody
gets 6 luck dice. So players, please track those
as you use them up. And that luck dice allows you to
roll after a failed roll. And so that that's kind of the
primary purpose of that. But if you want to add a doom
die from your and then you get an extra black dice in your
role, and then you can actually get a higher, potentially higher
score. But then those Doom dice go
directly towards your trauma or your doom stack.
So to get an 11 and you only have two dice, you may want to
consider either adding from your Doom dice, which eventually end
up on your doom stack after you, or waiting to see if you fail
and then using black dice after. Can I do a combination of the
two? Well.
You generally want to don't want to use your luck dice until
after the fact, because yeah. But can I just go ahead and do a
doom and then if I don't get it then use a lot?
Dice. Yeah, you can.
You can use all six of your luck dice on those for all of you.
Let's use all of No, I'm shaking.
Yeah, So I'll go ahead of time. I'll take a doom, So it makes it
three dice. Yeah, so 2 white and one black.
Uh huh. That's it when we roll.
Yeah, ten. Oh, so close.
So. Then I'll use a luck die to re
roll one that 4. OK, well you just add Rhino,
just hit add luck just. Hit use luck, that's.
It just yet hit use luck and that's a three.
No, that's not helping you. So that's one luck gone for you,
Apollo. I'll use another one.
OK. Feeling lucky?
Oh shit. So you use luck again.
Yeah, and that's a six. 12 OK that's like, awesome.
So you so you use two luck die. So those are now you're down to
four and you don't know how you did it, but you went and you
somehow gained access to this terminal. 1234.
Zero Space 1 space 00 space 1 space So so So he would have one
doom dice on a stack right? His stack would start.
Now. So now you're tracking one doom
dice on your stack. Tracking.
Nope, Nope. OK.
OK, find on the viewer. So you see that there's like
there's a graph and the on that graph like last night there's a
huge spike of data that came in and you so you're looking at the
data and it's like something like weird happened last night
as far as like the whatever they're monitoring, all of a
sudden there's a huge spike in it and that's this point.
You can't really determine anything more than that other
than there was like a huge change on that particular night.
OK, I'm going to like backspace. I'm going to X out a bunch of
stuff or whatever, and it's not X out, actually at this point.
It's going to be, I'm going to go backwards in the like the
branch, not to where the start screen is, and I'm just going to
walk away, rewind, and be like something weird happened last.
Night and and there were some weird glyphs that didn't even
almost like, you know, when the computer goes haywire on that,
the weird glyphs that were part of that spike that they they
almost look like the computer generated them.
They don't look like anything you've ever seen before.
Yeah, I I I say all this to rewind.
No goats in the area are safe, is what I'm hearing.
Yeah, I mean, it seems like it we start, I think we're going to
start walking towards the exit. I think it's time.
OK, and just as you had there, this woman in her 30s, very
professionally put together, she gets to the bottom of the stairs
and Alexi's behind her. And you see, higher up on the
stairs, there's this man. He looks really grumpy, really
frazzled. 5:00 Shadow, perhaps going through a midlife crisis.
He looks pretty angry, and he's at the top of the stairs.
And Lombardi goes. So what exactly are you doing
here? We're checking for infestations
that are taking over the area and who.
Called the Bug Busters logo. Yeah, yeah, point.
But yeah, exactly, absolutely. Oh, the mayor called us.
It's. Town wide.
The the the mayor has no jurisdiction out here.
We're outside of city limits and we're a private Research
Institute and. Oh, I'm sorry.
I meant the governor. Oh, I I don't imagine the
governor would know what's going on around here.
Well, if you have anything odd to report, feel free let us
know, but if not, you're we you're clean.
I suppose that's good to hear. Yeah.
And I take, I take my card. You know, I assume I have a
card, right? Yeah.
And I give it to them. I'm like, please, if you think
of anything, call us. And your card is like an old bug
Buster card that they crossed off the name and they put Apollo
and they that's your new business card.
So she looks at it and looks at you up and down.
Yes, I know, I know. I am, in fact, the actor Carl
Weathers. Sitting back there, just rubbing
my wrist. Eating hairline.
Alexei looks like he kind of got caught.
Like he he's kind of like looking at you, like you got him
in trouble. That guy let us in.
No questions asked. I'm just an intern.
I I He. Looks like he's.
He looks like he's in trouble now.
Yeah. His he was like a Drago fan.
He was like. Cool.
Yeah, he. Dies he?
Dies. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think Madison, unless you have anything you want to talk to him
about, I I I'm willing to make an exit.
But if you want to make a. Congress make a smooth exit.
Yeah, well, I can't. Well, thank you so much.
Glad to know at least this part of the town is safe from the bug
menace. OK, And she, like, ushers you
out. And you can see the guy on top
of the stairs is like, really giving you the stink eye.
I smile at him like genuinely too.
Like, not a fake smile. Like I mean it.
You don't get any reaction from him other.
Than this doesn't matter, I did it for me so.
Does the lady look like evil? Is she wearing like the evil
pencil skirt and has like a mole and like the slicked back bun
and she's like kind of standing with your hands?
She looks very professional. No, no mole.
Unfortunately, no mole but the bun, right?
Yeah, she looks very professional and kind of like Go
Getter and Type A personality. Gotcha.
Just checking. Whereas the guy on the stairs
looks kind of more like disheveled and like I said, kind
of pot belly unshaven. And Alexis is like just this
young eager now disappointed young intern.
So you guys make your way outside and you meet up with the
other two that have been scouring the outside and you're
a bucket back at the Bug Mobile I.
Got to tell you something. There were people arguing, No.
OK. Yeah.
You know who argues? People who've seen bugs.
That could also be true. Yeah, I tried to explain.
I tried to explain causation versus correlation and it's just
just bouncing off the, I think too much so to cross a lifetime,
you know what I mean? So what were they arguing about?
No idea. What did you find out?
More than you, apparently. And then, yeah, I recount the
story of the weird underground facility full of like,
supercomputers and then like, the big data dump last night.
And the weird like glyphs that were computer generated and the
weird guy staring at even when I genuinely smiled at him and I
meant it. Oh, I said.
It's quite a winning smile too, so I don't understand why I
wouldn't respond to it, you know?
I know. Yeah, either better than Paulo.
Thank you. The only thing we busted in
there was Falco's dreams at some point.
So yeah. Oh, we got.
Everybody got in the Eastern European intern trouble, so.
Yeah, well. I just Paul was like that guy.
Listen. All right, Well, that guy.
We're like just like piling in the van as as as we recount
these things and and and. Seatbelts.
It's the 90s, everything's still metal.
We're good. So what's what's next?
We're hitting the old mine and then going back to Connor's when
the lights start going down. I think so.
All right, hit rewind. As we drive to the mines, the
radio station that it's stuck on only plays Tibetan throat
singing, so the vibe is really real tonight.
Oh yeah, I rock out regardless. So rewind, you're driving down
this bumpy road and you get kind of get to the main road and as
you're about to turn onto that main road, a big giant truck
just kind of goes and zooms past you, kicking up a big dust cloud
and kind of leaving you guys sitting there.
And so you can't almost even move it.
You see it heading down towards the Smith Farm and the Connors
and kind of nondescript big white rig with the trailer on
it. But it it came from over up the
over the mountain and these are kind of back roads you don't
expect to see like big trucks like.
This. That thing was falling.
Over Yonder. Maybe we should follow it.
Flip a bitch and let's. Go.
So you decided to follow? It now there's Tibetan throat
seeing like. You have to.
It's a good mood in the dark as the sun's setting.
I can see it if. If we're just like, spitting out
with the dust, I'm definitely hanging out like my with my hat.
Just like whipping it around like this like.
So you are you going after the the truck or is it going up to
the old mine? I feel like that truck has
something really interesting, like there's no reason for it to
be speeding that fast down. This desolate Hwy. of dreams.
I agree. To be nightmares.
OK, so you're you're following it.
You can't really see because there's so much dust that you're
like driving down the road and you're you go past Lovers Lane
game, you go past the bridge and then you go past that Scarecrow
game and the dust. You can see it's starting to
settle and that big white truck has pulled in and is backing in
to the corners. Pull past it a little bit and
we'll cut through the maze and we'll look.
And slowly creep the car up a little bit.
Turn down the music. So do you do you go like past
the Connors then and like just keep driving and then go to the
far side of the maze or and I don't think everybody can see
the the map that we see on the screen here but if.
Well, I can't see it 'cause this advertisement on Twitch.
Oh, and you don't sub to our channel.
Listen, Theater of the mind. Oh.
There you go. But on the map, if you go past
the Connor's house, that's kind of like the back end of the
maze. So make the call I can't see.
There we go, I. Can't see.
I'll send it to everyone except the person I do not have their
discord for. Yeah, maybe you can do that one.
I just. I mean, we we're in town busting
bugs. We don't need to.
I mean, and this thing was ripped.
It's a it's a it's a truck hauling down.
We don't need to like, hide. It's the middle of the fucking
day. Just park.
Let's get this thing going. Let's do it.
We have here busting bugs. We ain't out here like busting
our asses to do nothing. OK.
So you pull into the the driveway and you know kind of
the tail end and you can see it's like already starting to
get dusk and the mini vans are less than when you first passed
by it, but there's like still a few families in there.
But that big white truck is just backed into the barn.
So like that the opening in the back of the truck and the barn
are kind of aligned and you see a ticket booth and you see an
older, distinguished, I would say woman lady in her sixties,
70s at the ticket booth. Who's taking this one?
I took the last one. I nominate Carl Weathers again.
You handled that really well. Yeah, Carl was just talked
enough. My throat's starting to hurt.
Someone else thinks Marcos turned I.
Have. Muscles.
His muscles are tired from pointing at.
That way, yeah, they watch Go Getter.
You know, just I just look good. You know, that's that's why I'm
going to describe the way I go up and I say, hey there, miss
what's, you know, I'm here to help and I was just curious if
you've been scared of anything recently.
Let me just stop you right there, Sir.
I see you've got some cigarettes in your pack and you have some
wild rose darts. That standard issue that there's
no smoking on this facility. We have a fertilizer tower right
there, and if it got lit up, this whole valley could be blown
up. So please, no smoking on the
premises. I respect your safety.
I was born into safety. I've been in lifeguard forever.
This is just it's to fit in with the boys.
OK, I'll tell you what. No worries there.
No worries there at all. What?
You know. Yeah.
Have have you been scared of anything recently?
Also your greatest fears. That's a bit of an odd question.
Could I interest you in some Peach preserves that we have
made at the Connor's farm? They are delicious, I tell you
that. Oh, I would love to, but I I'm,
I don't like to eat well on the clock because I'm in a jumpsuit.
And it is quite a nice jumpsuit, Sir.
And can I interest you in maybe some like carrots, celery.
We have a whole bunch of produce here.
Maybe at some other point, have you guys been really busy today?
Have you guys been, are you getting busier throughout the
week or is it kind of slowing down for you?
No more than usual. It is our busy time of the year
though. It's harvest and you know, the
kids like the corn maze in the fall.
It's kind of spooky, as they say.
I I also think it's spooky. When do you guys close?
Is it like before dark or? We are just getting said to
close that we're only open for another half hour and then we
send Hammy through the maze to clear out any stragglers.
That makes a lot of sense. Yeah.
Well, man, it seems like it's a little too late for us to be
going through. Well, we always welcome your
money. That's a, you know, that's a
good point. That's a good point there.
So what's Yeah, what's up with the do you guys, do you guys get
like big imports of your food here or do you grow it all on
site? We grow most of it on site.
The the occasional item might be brought in and we slap a little
corner label on it, but that's just between us two that.
Makes sense. Yeah.
I saw that semi. I was like, oh, they they can't
be more than just a fraction of what they're selling, you know?
Oh, that's They're just picking up a load for the grocery stores
they like to stock at night. Oh.
Fancy. That's really nice.
You got a few few little revenue streams going.
We do our best here to make sure that the Connor farm is
sustainable. Yeah, for sure.
So, OK, last question for you. As you can see with Bug Busters
and we're here doing a governor sent little cleanup and checks.
I understand that you guys spray the fields, but you probably
have heard about the larger bug stuff we do.
Do you mind if we take a look around?
No problem at all. If you just pay the $5 each for
visiting our maze. I'd be happy to provide you a
ticket. Oh, wow, That is so crazy.
You know what? I I'll make a deal with you.
We won't go through the maze. We'll do our inspection for you
on behalf of the governor. And you know, then we'll just,
you know, be able to go. After that, I'm afraid that we
do not allow people outside of the maze.
If you'd be happy to pay that $5, you could go in and
investigate yourself. But like I said, we're almost
closing. Wait, do we start with money?
I can't. I don't remember.
If you standard issue in the bug Busters, you have $100 petty
cash. Each.
No, just as a. Group.
We'd never see Carl Weathers again.
He'd be like, yeah, back to the hall.
He's looking. For is 100 bucks so.
Yeah, he's good. That was crazy. 100 bucks in the
90s? Hundred bucks?
Now it gets you like an avocado. Yeah, let's see how many of us
want to go through. I'm going to go talk to the the
crew real quick. All right, guys 5.
Dollars each and we can check it out or it cools in 30 minutes.
I mean, Carl Weathers is a fairly good and honest guy.
So it's like, oh, it's paper going.
Is that the plan? Yeah, yeah.
I mean, yeah, I've so did a lot of rodeos and there were a lot
of corn mazes, new rodeos, I'm just saying, well, so we're
worth it, you know, Might as well at least check it out.
With some hesitation, thinking about all the stuff I could buy
at the next convenience store run, I slowly agree like.
I'll also relay the information that you know that semi truck is
being loaded up with produce right now is was the explanation
I was given but obviously thing was whipping by.
So before we go in or do we want to split up somebody want do we
want to check that out? You don't split up in the maze.
Well, we're not going to the maze, yeah.
I mean like should we check out, Should we check out the semi
first since it's on a pickup order or should we ignore it?
Let's go check it out. Yeah, what could go wrong?
Nothing. Do all of you go check it out?
No, no. Is anybody.
We should be distracting the old lady.
Anybody got any sneak? Anybody sneaky?
We got sneaky boys. Yeah.
You're a. Stealth I.
Bet. Rewind.
Unless you're back flipping over there, Baywatch, I don't think
we need any hot dives. No, no, that would be cool.
Yeah. So why don't we go over there
and talk to the old lady and rewind?
Just takes a little stroll just to gander, you know, just to,
you know, over over there. So she sees you coming and she's
like, oh, Peach preserves the word must have gotten out.
Are you excited? Oh yeah, I do love me some
Peaches, darling. OK, rewind.
Now is your chance to do a little stealth so you have your
agile skill. Do you have do you have your
specialty in stealth? Yes.
So that's my three, I think, yeah.
If agile is, what is your agile? 3.
Three. And then if you have stealth as
especially, that's four. Yes, OK.
So we have 4. So this is, you know, pretty
easy. Let's do A7 as the difficulty.
So it's 4 action days, right? That's. 11 Easy peasy hey?
So you just like this is Connor is distracted and you go over
there and you can see there's a bit of a gap between where the
truck is backed up and the opening.
And if you kind of peek in there, you can see that there's
probably four or five people in what you'd probably refer to as
hazmat suits. And they're like loading boxes
that don't look like typical, like wooden boxes.
They're kind of more like industrial boxes.
Oh, OK, trying to like, peek a little further.
And are they saying anything like can I hear any like?
No. They all kind of have, like,
almost like hazmat suits, but they're not really talking.
They're kind of. Exactly.
So you could move closer they're you're basically kind of
watching them like take from there's a stack of them inside
the barn and there's other stuff in there too produce and stuff
like that, but particularly I think.
We're going to try to move closer then, yeah, why not?
OK, let's roll your stealth again.
I think we missed Ryan. So let's.
Do you have a couple? Oh, there he is.
I got. You.
If that were you, just hit roll again, it's the same.
It won't have. We have to reset, just hit roll
again. Sneakiest person in existence.
Absolutely. That's a 12, That's a that's.
A Yeah, that's a critical success.
Like crawling on the walls you're.
Totally invisible. Hey, so you're like you're like
right up in the in the shadows. They're not noticing you for
whatever reason. They got their suits on and
you're in the shadows. But you see that these
containers are like plastic, like like industrial plastic and
with like a lid on them and they're like locked shut on the
sides and they're going and picking them up from the the
end, like in the pile inside the barn and they're almost at the
end of loading them into the truck.
OK, so the whole thing is going to try to be getting back up to
go relay this in ration and take my crew away from the old lady.
Tell her. Tell them that she's full of
shit, basically. OK, so.
That's a great game plan. OK, let's do one more.
Just roll again on Sneak, and let's just say this one's easier
because you're just moving away. Let's do a 7th.
Action So question with the with like a Is there like a critical
I'm going to sneeze Sorry. Is there a critical success
mechanic in this game like or is it just a super good job?
A super good job for most actions.
When it comes to weapons, there's a whole crit table that
you roll A1D6 on. But generally speaking, like you
just like really did a good job on this one and it's a crit
success as an action. But with weapons, there's like a
whole crit table. Great.
OK. So another roll here, 06.
Bugged it, didn't I? Oh.
My shoe squeaks. It doesn't.
So you. Well, you.
Trip over, you trip over Rock and you see Grumpy Guy kind of
come around the corner. And Ryan, if you don't mind
showing that picture a hammy. Oh yeah.
Well, you do have a luck dye too.
Just throwing it out there. Oh.
Yeah, that is true. You could reroll.
Oh, maybe I'll throw a luck dye in there then.
So just hit use luck, right? Yeah.
OK, well, still 6.
Nice. Oh, you just burned a luck.
No. You can always do another lock.
I want to see where this goes. OK, so I'm.
Curious. Hope to see it.
Amy as Hemi, You see him there with his gumboots and his
pitchfork. What in God's name are you
doing? Needle to six, start quoting a
movie at him or something like doing my best like
impersonation. That's a good movie.
And he starts getting close with you, holding that pitchfork out
threateningly. And he he looks nasty, almost
like a, you know, country like you know you'd find in
Deliverance. Oh, nice.
OK. And you guys?
Love banjo, kid. Yeah, you've heard Tammy, like
from when you were at Lovers Lane.
And you remember, like Tammy kind of lives along the river in
an old shack. Really.
Subs. Mood kids used to tease him and
so he never liked the kids. What do you do in here?
Came stuttering over my words. And before I'm deciding, maybe I
should just start yelling for help.
So, missus Connor. Sees it as you guys are talking
to her and she goes now hammy you.
You'd be nice to the bug Busters here I caught.
I caught them sneaking around. They can't get in for free.
So do we see this kind of happening with his?
Pitchforks all rewind. Yeah, this is all kind of
happening now. Let me open.
Oh, I I told you the bathroom wasn't that way.
Rewind. We had to ask the the this, this
beautiful young lady here where the bathroom was.
And I I know you couldn't hold it.
Where? Where is the bathroom, ma'am?
You know I can't tell my left from right.
Yeah, Connor looks flattered. But you called her a young lady.
He's very happy now. Hey mate, just leave the bug
Busters alone here. Now, are you going to buy some
Peach preserves or going to take a tour of the corn maze?
Well I I think we're all, I think we all need let's do the
corn maze. How they actually how much are
the Peach preserves, by the way? I'm never Peach dope ever.
Well, for you young man, I I could give you a bit of a
discount there. We could give you a whole jar.
For $10. It is ideal at $10.
This is homemade. What's the norm price on them?
Peach preserves there. Should we are?
13 but for you 10 or maybe even 9?
How about not? You know what?
I will take those Peach preserves for $9, ma'am.
And these I made myself so I hope you enjoy.
Oh my gosh. I can only say that I'm sure
that I will. And so at this point I say
Midwesterners that are watching this don't send hate mail to the
weekly scroll for our accents of.
Unknowns. Our letters If you're watching
this, send your letters to. Ryan and Hunter, please.
Yeah. Yeah.
So what's that total that's going to be?
So I know you already gave me a deal, but if we do 4 admissions
and the Peach preserves. I I I can give it to you for a
little bit of a discount there, honey. 45 or not?
No, 28, That's. No.
I'm getting all mixed up. You got me all flustered here.
Oh well, no, you just. How about how's 5?
10/15/20, yeah. How about I'll just give it to
you as a gift because you're so sweet to me and it'll be $20.00
for the entry, but when you eat those Peach preserves, you tell
your friends where you got it from.
Well, listen, when I'm eating these Peaches, I'll definitely
be thinking of you, OK? OK, well thank you for your
patronage and like I said, we close in half an hour and you do
not want to be out there in the dark.
Well, I mean, not unless you're there too.
So you hand over 20 bucks for your petty cash, you put your
Peach preserves in the back of the Bug Mobile, and you head
into the maze. Yeah, give her a little wink on
the way, on the way out of the of the thing.
So it is getting dusky just to let you know and you are heading
into the dark. Now you guys might know that one
of the features of Connor's corn maze is that there is a giant
monolith in the center of it, and you might see that in the
map. And rumor has it this was dug up
by the people that used to own the farm before the Connors
bought it, and they've raised it so it's upright because it used
to be under the ground and buried, but now it's the
centerpiece of the maze. Always a good idea if you find a
arcane stone structure under the ground to raise it up and then
worship it, yeah. So I think we're heading in the
maze. Yeah.
Do you see that score I got on these peace preserves?
Just saying, you know. So for navigation, let's pick
who's the best navigator to get you.
I assume you want to go to the center.
Yeah. I mean, eventually we'll, we'll
get to there, yeah. And also be looking for trace of
the bugs and stuff, yeah. OK, so does anybody have to
navigate? He wants to navigate.
That one probably. Cool.
Cool is the base of Tribute for navigation.
So if you have a high cool, that's generally.
Good, I have 4:00. Cool.
I have 3. Cool. 4 screen.
Apollo and Baywatch in the front.
No, I I think Apollo has Apollo has a four.
Apollo's going to get back to the pointing again, yeah?
Yo. He actually resting.
Yeah, he's not pumped out anymore, so.
Well, because it's a little bit dark, let's do your navigate at
a difficulty of eight and you have four days to get there. 2-3
mm hmm. I'll take a Doom.
I'll take a Doom die as well. Well, you you did it with.
Oh, I did it. Yeah, hey, never mind.
Yeah, you got 8. OK, so you're making your way
there. You don't really see anything
that I say is like bug related, but I mean it's a pretty complex
maze for a corn maze and it's pretty thick too.
It's not like you can just like barrel your way through.
It's quite thick stalks where the maze is and you come to the
opening at the center of it and you see this large stone, like
ancient stone kind of structure and and Apollo you look and you
go, boy, those hieroglyphs look oddly familiar.
You might have seen some hieroglyphs carved into the
stone that looked like the computer hieroglyphs.
Wait, sorry, one more time on that.
The There's hieroglyphs carved into the stone monolith and they
look similar to what you saw on the computer screen.
Y'all. Hieroglyphs.
It's the same ones I saw the computer screen in the place.
Hey Carumba, we're. Talking about what?
Like that radio tower. Yeah.
I don't think there's. A radio tower?
Something weird going on. Well.
Is it a tower? It doesn't have a.
Radio a long time. Rewind your standard there and
you kind of feel the ground move underneath you just a little
bit, like almost a bit of a soft spot.
Oh, OK, like a slither maybe? Or like a scuttle.
It's just like the ground kind of rose up and rose down.
Oh, kind of doing that whip around, asking if anyone's seen
it really frantically. Anyone else feel that?
Do you want there, me Brown? It's ground, It's underneath.
It's it's moving. Did anyone else feel that felt
like just a split? Second, he's too busy.
He's like, what? Sorry.
Yeah, sit with me. Rats in the maze.
I think we need to get armed. Oh yeah, I I think I am armed.
Is no one else armed? Oh yeah, you took your ZAP bat
I've. Been like, I've been like really
shy to bring it around because I feel like it's like weird to.
Just confidence. In my.
Yeah. I I I yes.
We didn't, Yeah. I was going to say I would.
I would hope that before we went into the maze where we thought
bugs might be, that we would grab our our special weapons.
So if that's all right, I would definitely have my Electro lash
on my my waist. You know, maybe.
And Marco, you're starting to you're walking and you're
standing near this monolith and you're starting to smell
something and it's like kind of like stinky kind of odor started
to float through the air. Does it smell like the ooze?
It doesn't. The ooze didn't have a smell,
but this definitely does. Guys, do you smell that rent?
That wretched smell, mate. You couldn't fan that away.
Why would I bring it up if I did it?
This is a wretched So you say you.
Smelt it you dealt it is that is law.
That is, it should be bug Buster Code is what it should be.
But I'm proud, owner of the force, that this is a wretched
smell. I said Y'all better be holding
onto your weapons, no? At this point the smell gets so
strong that I would like each of you to make a saving throw
versus acid, which is the same as acid gas.
So on your character sheets you have a saving throw and each of
you can roll a doom die and what you're trying to do is get under
your saving throw. So most of them, like the saving
throw, will be between like two and four.
You're trying to get under it. If you fail it, it goes on to
your doom stack. Interesting.
Can I? Pull on my.
Just one do and die and is that OK?
This is just this acidy, pungent spell.
Can I pull on my gas mask? Next round, yeah.
And then I have I have a question about the weapon bonus.
So mine says no, save against acid.
Or it says warning, do not get toxins on yourself or oh, or
save against that. That's like a critical failure
is. Got you.
OK, perfect. OK, that's just the Doom Die
going. So we'll go left to right.
Is, is. Yeah, if you want to you can
either roll it on the screen if you want to just put one doom
die on for each one. So put it all just a one and
then we can roll across the screen.
So I have a question. So you said this is a save,
right? Yeah, so do we do our it's two
Dice Plus or like the Stats Plus or just a Doom die?
So just a doom die. So the way doom dice work is
until you expel the doom like the in this case the gas.
If you fail this one it goes on your doom stack and then you
roll again next time. And then same with like if it
was like a web or a sting until you basically get rid of it, it
carries forward until you finally pass the savings roll.
So in this case, everybody rolls one doom die, and if it's under
you're equal to or under your score, you're good.
Ah. It's over.
It goes on your doom, dye. Gotcha.
All right, so Baywatch, Baywatch first.
You got a one? You're good.
Let's go. All right.
And then Apollo got a 2. You're good all.
Right. Rewinds me.
Got a three? Rewind is that good for you for
your your savings role for acid? I have a three for that one with
that, you're good. OK.
All right. Well, 123, let's see what's
next. Oh, good.
All right, that's good enough for me.
I got a three for for acid 2. Hey, so you guys are all good
and you do have standard issue gas masks, so it'd probably be a
good idea to pop them on at this point.
And you see the ground in front of you.
You've seen the movie Tremors, right?
There's a heave. All.
All 80 of them. Are there that many?
There's never one past the first one so as you see the the ground
heave and up through the ground pops up And if Ryan, if I can
get you to put on the gas worms. Gas, worm.
Hell yeah. Here we go.
For for the record, there are 7 Tremors movies, so all right,
which is still quite a few. I had no idea.
So you can see the little fumes poking out its mouth area and
the teeth around its mouth area and it pops out and it's going
to lunge at who was the closest, which was rewind.
So this is the way initiative works in the Bug Busters.
It's actually a little bit like PBTA in that sense.
But what happens is the monster, MPC, whatever, basically it's
going to do something and it is up to you how to react.
So it's almost like tipping its hand.
It's not going to hit you at per SE.
You could do all sorts of things.
Whatever you choose to do, whether it's fight it, run away
or whatever the case might be, is up to you as far as your
actions going. But it is lunging towards you.
Can I do like a really dramatic flailing jump away.
It like ends up me like landing on my stomach with a hard like
you got. Your bat Handy.
You could even, like, swing your bat at it and knock it away.
I I could, yeah. OK.
That might be cooler, right? Well, at least it would like
knock it senseless. Hopefully like take up my bat
and try to do a spinny thing but doesn't really work and then I
try to ZAP it then. So in this case, the difficulty
of the gas worms just for everybody's knowledge.
So there's no secrets to what the difficulty is.
It's a 7. So whatever your handheld weapon
proficiency is if you have a specialty in it, but otherwise
it's agile because you're or actually I think it's tougher
than that. Sorry if I that's OK.
I'm pretty sure it's tough. Two weapons, Agiles, Blade
weapons. And firearms.
So I'm pretty sure it's blunt. So that's going to be your yeah,
blunt weapons, scroll bars, ZAP bats and that sort of thing.
So whatever your tough is and if you have a specialty in blunt
weapons, you get to add that or if you want to add Doom dice in
order to do it. And the difficulty is 7.
All right. My tough is 2.
So with the specialty and blunt weapons, does that go up to
three or? Three dice.
OK. So yeah.
OK. Three please, Ryan.
For the option that is a total of 7.
OK, so you hit it, and only there's no plus or minus in.
The way damage works is like if you're over, the damage goes to
it. If it's under, that damage goes
to you because it's an equal. There's no damage other than
your bat damage. So what's your ZAP Bat damage?
The ZAP bat damage is a + 2. Is that correct?
So two points of damage goes to the the bug.
And on a tie like this, there's actually like a bit of a jinx
effect, and that's what we call it in Bug Busters as a jinx.
So as you hit it, one of the sparks flies off the bat and
starts to like smolder in the corn stalks that have been
falling on the ground. So it's starting to light on
fire here. Oh crap.
Well, I did all I could do. Two points, two points to the
gas worm. Great.
And now you guys see a rewind being attacked by this gas worm.
What do you do? You're all within proximity that
you could probably jump to aid. All right.
Well then I'll I'll, I'll rip off my Electro lash and try to
take a slap at that sucker. Yeah, Carl Weathers is no
coward, you know? Yeah, all right.
So my Electro lash uses, Is that going to be?
So I went with the bat for tough, but then switched.
So it's agile for Electrolash. Fantastic.
Good job. Not my primary stat.
So then I'll just have. Oh, I still have three in Agile
though. What kind of weapon is a lash
though? Is it a bladed weapon?
Is it a a blown weapon or is it? Awesome.
Something else? It's basically like a whip like.
You but it is there a way to get like a because there's a blunt
weapon specialty and a bladed. Weapon specialty.
There's a handheld weapon I and play testing I'm.
Sometimes the naming conventions change, but it's it's agile like
it's your body moving yet, so it should be agile.
Gotcha. But I mean like, so there's no
specialty for whips? Yeah, it should be handheld
weapon, so if like blade. Oh, like blade.
So if I had blade weapon specialty, that would happen.
Yeah. Oh, dope.
So I have a blade weapon specialty.
I picked Acrobatics and blade weapons, so that gives me 4
dice. All right, I got.
Four, that character sheet might be.
There's a new there's a new as play testing goes, you keep
changing things. There's a specially called
Handheld Weapons, which use your electrolash vibrate to show
who's the boss. Oh cool, that's exactly what I
would I I wanted to pick the thing that was closest to the
whip, so that was would have been my attention.
Anyway. So I got a 4A4A1 and A5, so
that's a nine. OK, you nail it with two points
of damage plus do the electrolash damage, which is 2,
so. It should be two, yeah.
So it looks like you really took a bite out of this.
Nice. So I just whip this thing back
and it's like charging up and I just, yeah, right across it,
yeah. And it's like the the corn
stalks are really starting to smolder now and Baywatch and
Apollo before you can like kind of jump into the fray, you hear
behind you the ground kind of moving and you see another gas
worm bust out of the ground. Hell yeah.
This. One.
This one's ours. Yeah, I'm gonna hit him with
that legendary Carl Weathers backswing, you know?
The old car weather backswing that everyone knows.
So absolutely, hopefully significant moment we all
remember. Is that on Wikipedia?
No, it isn't. I I was thinking about the his
character from What's the I'm Sandler movie, man.
Oh. Happy Gilmore.
Happy Gilmore? Yeah, but I realized I
canonically said this is before Happy Gilmore, so there's
nowhere to go with that. Yeah, this is like, you know
when actors like go on like police patrols to like, learn
how to, yeah. I'm researching a role right
now. Yeah, so I'm going to hit with
my my ZAP bat. I have 4:00 and tough and I have
blunt weapons and specialty specialty 55.
I'm probably going to smoke this thing.
I made him to be tough and cool like that was the whole point.
Is that? Oh, you got a 10/6 and four for
your Max size. That's a 10.
And then ZAP bat is 2. OK, so you got three over the
seven difficulty, so that's three points +2, that's five to
this worm and it's and like you see a bit of like green ewes fly
out of it as you smoke it and Baywatch what do you do does?
That mean it's dead or no? No, no, it's still it's still
live. Yeah, first thing I do is I'm
like lighting a smoke on the fiery corn.
And I was like, I told you all the wretched smell.
And I got my badass slicer Dicer and I was like, and I have Agile
and what firearms. I don't want to take the -1 yet
because I can do the plasma ring, but I'm, I'm just going to
do a close up just, you know, just kind of attack on it.
Well, this is like the chainsaw with the three spinning blades,
plasma blades at the end of it. So the difficulty is A7 and how
many dice do you get to roll? Three, it's the Agile, right?
Or would it be tough? Agile.
OK, cool. Three.
OK, No doom dice, No nothing. You're good on three.
Can I add 2 Doom dice? Yeah.
Yeah, 2222 Doom. All right, here we go.
All of that together gives you a nine.
OK. So you got two over, so that's
two points of damage, plus how much for?
Your. Vibe OK, so that bug just goes
and you slice it in half and so the top half goes flying one way
and the bottom half goes flying the other way and you still got
your smoke in your in your mouth.
Letter Rick. And back to Rewind and Maverick.
You still have a a a worm in ahead of you.
Oh, so, like the haves are like, do they have, like their own,
like, minds? Well, there's no there's there's
two, so. There's two, OK, it was like, Oh
my God, this thing just doesn't die.
We're going to be here for a while.
And I should probably describe it better.
These things are about four or five feet long.
OK. They're about.
So they're not. Oh.
They're little. They're not cute.
They're not like Tremors, They're Labradors.
Yeah, absolutely. Four or five foot long,
Labrador, yeah. Common.
No, we're finding nothing happen, all right.
What we're doing rewind. I think I'm going to I do the
ZAP bat again. I usually only have like 1
function during combat. Well, and the fire is starting
to get in your estimations. Everybody like it's probably
going to get out of hand here pretty quick if.
It doesn't get is that quick. Yeah, all right.
So how many dice in my roll if your ZAP bat?
So it'll be 3 for the tough and then.
Yeah. 3. You don't have blunt weapons.
Yeah, the blunt weapons I got. It's.
Two then, plus the blunt weapons.
Three, right. Yes, O2 and the blade, right.
We gotcha. Right.
Right, Yeah.
So you got a four and a five. That's nine.
Oh, OK. So you hit it as well.
Yeah. And so your damage for the blunt
or the ZAP bat is. +2 OK. So this one, you like clock it
over the head and it kind of limbers down and it's like kind
of shaking there on the ground and and just kind of quivering,
you know, the way insects do where they're like twitching,
but it kind of looks disgusting and this fire is now like really
out of control. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm jumping on
that thing with my with the old boots and trying to, trying to
stifle it out. The old boots, Yeah, I was
looking through our gear. I don't think we have anything
to deal with that. I mean, should we try and like?
We could have just not lit a cigarette on it and done
something earlier with it, but I mean, it was cool.
Smelling bugs? Should we try and, like, stamp
out some of the corn? No, we should.
Run fire yet, it's. A fire we're going to.
Die. It's like there's no.
Anything. There's four of us.
Unless it's how? Like is it uncontrollable now or
can we still potentially? You could, you could.
You could still potentially put it out there if you put all your
it. Starts stopping, Yeah.
The. I guess or made for.
Oh, there does too. Yeah, yeah.
I take I well. Oh, it's a jumpsuit.
Never mind. I was going to use my.
Take your jacket off. Yeah, it's going to be real
Baywatchy. Takes his jumpsuit off.
He's just in his underwear. Yeah, it's just red trunks,
yeah. I'll stop.
So you guys are stopping it and kind of smoke is kind of
billowing out. And through the smoke you see a
figure come out from the other side of it and you recognize
Hammy with his pitchfork. And he does not look happy with
you. And he's I told you not to come
in here. I and he's like.
Get out. Get out.
You have giant worms. Yeah, I'm going to pick up what
happened, like. Well, the the worm, the worms
are kind of now like kind of toasted in the.
The evidence is gone. There would be like, but they
came up through the ground, right?
Yeah. So we'll point to the the to the
holes in the ground when a thing came up out of the thing.
Hammy, calm down. He puts the pitchfork right up
to you and he's all get out of my corn maze.
Oh, all right. Sure.
Yeah, and I I take off. OK, so now it's like really dark
and it's going to be maybe no. I mean like I run away from
handmade deeper into the maze. Yeah.
On your own. No, I mean, I hope everyone
follows I. Follow as well, yeah?
If we're going to cut into the maze deeper, yeah.
Yeah. Cool.
Hey, you know, it's it's getting like super dark and it's getting
tough to navigate. It's waypoints in the like sky
with the the hills and that kind of thing.
So, like, you are essentially lost.
You're going to have to do some fancy navigating to get past
there, and Hammy didn't chase after you.
But you can hear him hollering that he's angry.
He's like you can hear him over the corn maze and as you go
deeper into the maze you can hear him less, but you are now
deep. Good.
Bro, well, I. Mean.
Let's start another fire. Yeah.
So, I mean at this point we're we're away from from who are
that that that psychopath. We already saw the monolith.
Was there something else we needed in here?
I took off just because he told me not to, so I do.
I didn't really have a plan. I appreciate y'all following me
though. We're A-Team.
That's a good ass kicking team. Absolutely.
Right. That's right.
High fives all around, like very 90s, like jump Cut high 5, like,
you know, yeah, freeze frame while we're all in the air
except one person whose feet are still dangling.
Well, I mean. I guess we know we killed some
bugs and they said they're probably gone from this area.
Let's let's look somewhere else. Well, yeah, let's just get the
fuck out of here then. Let's just pick a direction and
fuck this corn. I mean, just go.
You don't need to. It is not a cage I.
Mean that's true, Yeah. Or so back-to-back to the van
hit up the mines. Yeah, OK.
You don't know quite which way to go.
Oh yeah, we do. It's it's that way.
Yeah, once we're out the corn, we'll find.
Some this is going to be a Navigate 11 whoever wants to.
Well now so. We're trying to get out of the
maze because my thought is to go.
Back to the but you wanted to go back to bug mobile and like, Oh
yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Well, if we just get out, could
we just be like, oh, that's a road, and then get back?
Or it's just so dark that even when we get out, we won't know
where. We're right.
Eventually you'll come to something.
Gotcha. All right, Anyone have to know?
There's a there's a water, there's water on one side and
there's two roads on the other and there's a hill eventually.
I couldn't use resourceful for navigate because I what's
resourceful? No, I couldn't.
OK. So resourceful, just also the
type of action that you can take as part of the resourceful which
falls under cool. And for people watching at home,
that's like, you know, as an example, like we had a incident
where there's some bugs attacking somebody in a
restaurant and they didn't have their weapon and they used the
resourceful, resourceful role to have some salt and they were
able to pour it on the slug thing, that kind.
Of oh, smart. Smart.
Yeah, well, it's the only thing I.
Got cool. Is gambling, Yeah.
I can make a navigate roll if it's cool.
I mean it's 4 for me. OK.
So I think I said the difficulty was 11 to get out.
Do you? Want any doom dice or anything?
Yeah. Unless you.
Unless you just want to go and see what happens, we.
Can. No, There's no doom on there.
Just one. Yeah.
And you still got luck too, right?
All right, let's see what happens.
You got a six and a three. That would be a nine.
Let's hit one of those luck dies.
All. Right.
Did you track your doom? You put doom there.
Yeah. So track that is on your stack
I. Have two dooms so far.
That's lower you you. It's still a nine.
I'm got you know what? We'll use another one.
Same exact role. I'm out.
Farewell all. Right so.
So at 9 it's just short of a left hand.
So you're you're you're pushing through the maze and eventually
you hit the the the water the the river and that you know on
one end of the river higher up going upstream.
You know just from being at Lovers Lane that's Tinder Falls
downstream is where the bridge likely is And also you kind of
know that's where Hammy's shack is that's where Emmy's area is.
We. Check out the Shack.
Yeah, go upper deck in I. Think we're I think we're going
to go upper deck hammy in the shack.
You know it was. You're heading that way.
Head towards Hammy's shack, so there's a trail along the river
edge, you know, people go fishing there and that kind of
thing. And then as you get closer, you
see the bridge off in the distance, but you see this like
shack and this doesn't have any lights on at the moment, but you
presume that's probably hammy shack just from the description
of it. But it's the lights are off and
it looks like really beat down, really kind of.
It could fall over at any minute type of place.
I tried the door it. Looks like.
It breaks right off. There.
Well, despite it almost falling over like the door is locked.
Try the Windows. All the windows are secured
shut, yeah. Can we just dry the door open?
Yeah, somebody strong could probably get in there pretty
easily. But is that bug Buster code?
But tough. But it's not.
Yeah, I mean, yeah. But Hammy's not very nice, I
mean. But is he a bug?
Are we busting hammy? I mean.
We just killed 2 bugs on the premise, so I feel like we might
need to kind of push through code.
We're not. We're not.
You're Billy thinks you're in charge, so.
Well, I mean, Billy's right, I guess.
I mean, do we have a regulation about when we need to to bust
bugs, we bust doors? For the good of the people.
Yeah, yeah. Is the code of Doug OK with this
since we just saw bugs or should we?
The Book of Doug. There's a number of bug Buster
codes, but they always try to to push on you during onboarding
and they have like little placards around the warehouse of
all these codes. We feel like we should break
code because hey man, just kill two bugs.
If that's up to you, you know, if you want to break code,
that's up to you. Carl Weathers isn't that type of
guy so. Well, I mean, if we go all the
way down to the very last page of the handbook that we all
have, it says work hard, keep your wits about you, and always
follow the bug Buster code. That's all I'm saying, all.
Right. You're right.
I'm sorry, I got it. I see.
We just so. You could.
You could pick a lock. That's always a possibility and
that's in the. I'm pretty sure that's.
Yeah, bug Buster code says do crime, just do crime quietly.
I have like nothing in handy, so if anyone else has a good handy.
I have two in handy. I also just have two in handy.
Well, you always have doomed ice.
That's true. I'll do it.
I was going to knock it down, so I'll do it.
All right, so you get handy with it instead.
Handy. Or whatever doom you're willing
to put towards it. Or you could just let it fail.
Maybe even use lock dice. Let's see two doom dice and then
I'll use look needed. OK, what's the?
What's our? What's our?
4 total into. This two difficulty difficulty
is 7. Seven.
OK, damn. You know what's great?
Your regular roll is a 11 and your two doom dice together is a
6/6. That's a 3012, that's what I
call that. That's like, thank goodness for
the Doom. So track those two Doom and the
door just like, pops perfectly open to like, everybody's, like,
totally impressed. With help, no?
Worries guys, I used to be a lifeguard.
Did you really? Yeah, I'm used to saving lives.
So you the door swings open and it's dark in there.
I got a flashlight. OK, you shine the light in and
this place looks kind of like the shambles.
Like there's crap kind of piled everywhere.
There's like an old wooden stove in the corner and there's like a
bed, but kind of oddly there's like ATV with a whole stack of
VHS tapes. Seems somewhat out of place for,
yeah. Some guy who lives alone has a
bunch of unmarked VHS tapes on his TV.
Nothing weird ever came out of that.
I don't know what you're talking.
About Yeah, you're right. It's always super normal.
That's incredibly well adjusted behavior.
Are. You said they're not marked like
they might be. Homemade.
No I I. Just said, there's a whole bunch
of tapes there, but if you examine them, there's there.
There's not like, you know, weekend at Bernie's, VHS or
anything like that. They're all kind of they're all
kind of like recordable tapes and there's like different dates
scribbled on them. Oh shit.
Yeah, I'll, I'll pop one in. Do you pop any particular one in
or just the? New state OK like whatever.
The most recent date. It's lifeguard thinking.
I like how your brain works. It's lifeguard thinking.
Hasselhoff thinking. So you pop the one in and it, it
had happens to have the date of yesterday on it, which is the
newest one. And you pop it in and it's
really grainy. And it looks like from your
estimation that it's shooting pretty high up.
Like, it's not like there's a camera that's shooting high up
in the from the cornfield or from the vegetable patch, and
it's looking towards what might be a road and a whole bunch of
corn husks on the other side of the road.
So it's kind of filming like a roadway and it's black and white
and really great. And it's just like.
Steadily, steadily, just like that's all you kind of see.
Once in a while you see, like you know, a moth fly through the
scene. Is it?
Does it look like that's like it's pointed towards the corn
maze, like Connor's corn maze, or it's?
Pointing away from the corn maze.
If if you were to guess if the filming was on the corn maze,
it's pointing away to onto the road.
Oh, and does it look like? Because we would kind of be able
to tell if it was. Basing this either like the
Smith Farm where we could see the farm part or like kind of
that front yard area. Yeah.
As you're kind of looking at it, you that does look like the
Smith fence on the other side of the road.
I'm going to look for the VHS with the date of the incident
with the Elvis. That's the one do you currently?
Oh, that's the one right now. Yeah, but you're at the
beginning of it. Can we just Fast forward and
like make make it go super speed X4X8 you know?
Sure. So there was Fast forward and
rewind I think in the 90s. That's about it.
I don't think yeah, this. Whole multiple choice for.
X. Two.
OK, grab me the Roku remote. Well, as you're fast forwarding
it, all of a sudden there's like a little bit of a blip and then
it goes away. So you might want to stop.
Yeah, and do that. We're all watching.
We can all see this or. Whoa, you You back it up to that
spot, you hit play a game, and you see what looks like a large
insect creature. If you can only see shapes and
shadows, go across the road towards the Smith Farm from the
coronaries. Does it look like it has more
than two sets of pincers or is it like the IT almost?
Looks like a giant. Movies.
Looks like a giant scorpion. That's different.
Oh shit man. This is a terrifying movie and I
was in Predator. Yo, hammy sucks, dude.
And then shortly after, you see what looks like that same shape
come back from the Smith farm with another object in its
grasp. No.
Elements. Cut back towards, underneath the
camera and out of sight. This is no chupacabra, I'll tell
you that much. Nope, that's a bug.
It's a big bug, yeah, and we got to bust it.
I'm blessed. All right, so here's my
thoughts. Clearly the bases at the
Connors, we already found bugs at the Connors, the thing went
across the summit farm came back to the Connors.
I think it's dark already. We get the fuck out of here
before Hammy gets back and and we go check out like the barn or
something like where where we you saw those clearly not
produce produce boxes and fucking hazmat suits and we find
the bug and bust it. I like that order, yeah.
Because I don't think my thought Here's the thing.
Here's my thought. Before we even get too far.
I know we're talking about gold. The old mine.
I'll bet you the old mine, the leads under the Connor farm.
I put any amount of money on it. How much we got left?
Like 80 bucks. I put 80 bucks on it.
That's some movie shit. That's all of our money, though.
Well, then I guess you know the money.
Yeah, but we're maybe against ourselves.
We win either way. That's all I'm saying.
Actually, dollars to Donuts here.
Doesn't fucking matter, You know what I mean?
All right, so let's let's get in the whip, you know?
Yeah, bust some bugs. Wait, yeah.
Oh, you want to get in the whip? You don't want to check out the
barn. Well, here's the thing, the whip
is by the barn. So when we get to the whip, we
got to the barn. Yeah.
So let's just, we know that hammies is near.
Like we know where the road, like when we see the stream and
we see hammies, we know we can get to the road and just like
kind of walk down the road, right?
Yeah. OK, so we just got to get to the
road. We walk down the farm.
It's not like it's a million miles or something.
We'll just walk back. We'll sneak back in and we'll go
to whatever, the bar in the farmhouse, the silo, you know,
the main house if we need to. But clearly these people are
involved in this, so. Yeah, and we have a bazooka in
the bug mobile, so. OK, let's do it.
Let's. Do it we out walking.
OK, so you. You get, you get to the bridge
and you climb up onto the road and you're you're walking down
the road and you're passing along.
You're starting to get to where the Smith farm is on the other
side, and then it looks kind of oddly familiar, probably to the
video that you just watched. And if you look to your left,
you see a scarecrow up on in the corner side of things, and the
angle looks oddly familiar. Is it beneficial to get rid of
the feet? Well, I think we would like, if
we know where the camera goes, let's just to avoid the camera
so we're not on the film in case Hammy's out there creeping.
It's not like a live feed, right?
He's he's recording this and pulling the video later on, so.
That's true, yeah. Still better not to be on the
video, though. Well, the other thing too.
I mean, Hammy's a creep, but he does work for the Connors.
But why would he video it? Maybe he's trying to get
evidence. Maybe he kicked us out because
he thinks that he's helping us and he's just a weird old dude
with poor social skills. I.
Bet he's a good guy. Listen, I don't want to think
about him having a goat, is all I'm saying.
Fast forward montage. That's.
The guy with the 12, that's the guy with the van and the 12 year
old. Yeah.
All right. Listen, I I stayed, I kept the
12 year old away from my van. That's all I'm saying
specifically, right. Let's just well the thing came
across the road too. Do we see like if we if we go
from the Smith Farm to where the thing went in, is there like a
pathway, is there a tunnel? Is there something can we
explore where the the thing would have gone back to the
thing or the tracks? It looked like it was just like
going through the maze like there's no tunnel per SE.
It was just like firing. Oh, interesting.
All right. The corn.
Not the maze, but the corn. Let's avoid the camera.
Let's stick to the edge of corn maze and get to the back of the
property and just start busting and.
Do it. OK, so you guys are making your
way through let's. I'm not going to make it like
you guys are moving fairly stealthy through the corn maze.
Every now and again. It's like nobody's expecting you
and you start to get closer and closer and you see the barn does
have some light glowing from some of the cracks.
You can kind of see it kind of shooting out of the barn and you
start getting up to it. Now if you want to go further,
then it's going to require a stealth role if you want to get
closer. All right.
Well. Are we all going in or we just
have one stealth up and check it out I think.
Carl Weathers is going to go. In yeah.
Well then fuck it. Let's all just do it.
So can we are we geared up for now We all we.
We said we had our weapons for begin, so we have all the things
that we need on us, our normal pack and our.
Weapons and the bug. The Bugmobile is still in the
front of the barn. We're at the back of the barn,
but like and not the Bugmobiles like in the parking lot on the
front side. Yeah, I think this is definitely
that point in the movie with the camera angle of the four of us
like just making sure we're sensed all in and like the thing
and we're just like. It's.
Lots of bugs, you know, the whole thing.
And then we just start like clumping towards the barn, you
know, OK. So you start getting closer, and
who's gonna Who's the worst stealth, stealthy person?
Who's agile? Who's the worst agile?
I'm going to make you be the scapegoat.
I got two in Agile. I have 3.
Oh, I have stealth though, so I have 3.
You have three. Anybody just have two with no
+350. So a a lot of us have three,
yeah. So.
Why don't we just roll a Group 3?
All right, 3A Group 3. Has anyone taken the.
I haven't used a Doom dice yet. Can I just for the group, throw
a doom dice in there? All right, so that's three plus
a doom dice, and I'll use a lock as well.
OK, what was our? What was our?
Difficulty of eight. Yeah, so I'll use a lock on that
too. OK.
And another one. And another one.
God damn it, luck dice are broken.
No one to roll the. Ball.
Two more, two more. Use.
Use two of mine. It's a group.
Roll.
Use one of mine even lower. I used my last one.
All right, Nine. OK.
Wait, so I use 123 so 3 lock are gone.
OK. I have one doom and.
One doom. OK.
So you get, you get up to the
edge of the barn and there's enough of a crack to kind of see
into it. And you see that there's another
stack of those similar cubes that rewind saw.
And there's nobody in the barn until you see somebody coming up
from like out of the corner. There's like a bit of a trapdoor
under the barn and they're carrying up what appears to be
stairs going down to the trap, carrying one of these cases, and
then they put it down and then they go back down the trap door.
I'm going to go poking. So you guys are going to go
inside? I think Apollo said he was going
to go poke you I. Think.
I'm not going to poke the box. OK, so you make your way in
stealthily and you get there. There's nobody around at this
point. You get there and you come to
the boxes and there there's these two clasps on either side
of this case, like a plasticy type case, and you pop it open,
you take the cover off and there's a big black orb like
this. It's kind of cloudy and black
inside of it and it's just like kind of like a Jelly.
We know what this is. And do we know what it is?
Well, of course we know what this fucking is.
It ain't our first busting bugs. This is a egg, right?
It's like a giant caviar. The old fashioned way though.
Whatever. This is breakfast.
Just what this is. That's what I'm telling you.
Delicious. Yeah.
Yeah, I I sneak, I I put the cover back on.
Whatever I took off, I put back on.
I sneak back to the group and I relay at.
I'm pretty sure that's an egg. Let's go get the bug bombs.
I thought we got all of our gear right.
I don't. I don't.
Well, I don't know. If we brought, did we bring the
extra stuff? From the bug Mobile Air Bombs
and yeah, we. You don't have the bangzooka or
bug bombs or RC bot the bug bot. Do we need all of that?
I mean, here's the thing. We can go in guns blazing, but
they're people though, so it's kind of different than going in
guns blazing with the. Yeah, but they're bad people.
Maybe that's a that's an assumption.
I mean, they're harvesting giant bug eggs and putting them into
cases and exporting them from their farm to somewhere else.
I feel like it is an OK assumption to assume that they
are not just having special breakfast with these eggs.
You might have a. Point.
Or it could just be some weird rich people.
Because, I mean, Caviar is fucking disgusting.
Yeah, I'm cool. I'm cool with going in.
Listen, all right, if we're the the bug mobile is literally
right on the other side of the barn, right?
We could we could just go grab our gear and we know, like,
listen, I've never gone to a place where we suspected bugs,
saw a case with an egg and a trapdoor leading down and been
wrong about the thing we wanted being down that trapdoor.
So my assumption is that, and I know I'm assuming again and if
that makes me an ass, makes you one too.
I think there's there's there's no I in assume.
All right. There's you and me.
We're doing this together. That's my pep talk for the
group. Let's do it.
So let's. Yeah, let's go gear up with all
of our stuff and head down that thing.
Head down the the alleyway, the, the hatchet.
That's cool, yeah. Yeah, I feel like super good if
we all just like throw a bug bomb 1st and then just go in
like that feels. No, I think we should.
Let's sneak down and use the bum bombs to escape.
Now my question about the bug bomb.
I I try to turn the accent off so it sounds like I'm not in
character. Is this like a smoke bomb or is
this like a bomb that explodes bugs?
It's a an explosive bug bomb, yeah.
Oh, so. Yeah, yeah, 20 foot blasts.
We have 6 in total, and. Nobody has a bug blaster, right?
No. See bug blasters.
They have like incendiary fog that you can like fill caverns
with. They're pretty good.
And then ignite it. That is, that's pretty freaking
cool. I.
Have. The slicer dicer can like 'cause
like disrupt electronic devices or attract metallic objects.
That's pretty cool. It might be helpful.
The magnetic field disruption, yeah.
Uh huh. Freaking Shield.
So the bug mobile, just so you know, the inside of it has a
cubics, which is like an old flash cube thing that shoots off
light and distracts your enemies.
It's got the Thorax pump that it's like a harpoon gun and when
you shoot it in, it like just continuously pumps it full of
toxins after three rounds. The Bugzuka, which is like a
major thing, but you can only really shoot at once and then it
overheats and bug bombs, which are good to throw in and you got
your bug bot RC which you can drive in and record to see
what's going on, like a drone and your grappling gun.
As well as all the. Weapons you have.
Yeah, so let's go grab the Thorax pump, the bug, Zuka, the
bug. Bombs like everything that we
can carry and let's just get in there and bust.
I'll take the RC car. Yeah, I'll take the Thorax pump.
And the RC car, it's like, you know, I'm sure you've like, you
know, you just have like a drone, you can drive it into
wherever for stealth investigation.
Yeah, I mean, I feel like we should get back to that little
undercroft like trapdoor and throw the RC car in and drive it
through. Oh, we were thinking about just
guns blazing. Rewind, What's your choice of
weapon? I'll take whatever you don't
take. Rewind What are you grabbing?
Anyone take the grappling hook yet?
It's a fun one. I saw you.
Yeah, I'll do the bugs you can then.
Yeah, we can all have a bug bomb or two and and yeah, so we RC
carton or are we just gearing up and getting down there?
I'm mean let's just I'm. RC I'm RC car, I'm down.
Throw the RC car in there and drives around.
All right, we we gear up at the truck, we get to the opening and
Apollo Chuck's that RC car down there.
What are we doing? Absolutely.
You guys get gear up and then you you're all set and you go
back in there and you see a guy placing a crate down just at
that moment. Sanctuary.
Time. What was that?
One of the guys in the hazmat suits is putting a crate down
and looks up and sees you. Oh, hello.
Nice. Carl Weathers.
Wait, no one got the cubics? Well, that was an oversight.
Yeah, what does he do? He turns and he's He drops it
and starts running down the I'm, I'm.
Tackling. OK, make your agile move to
catch him and because he's in the hazmat suit is not very far,
so it's difficulty of 6, OK? I have acrobats if that helps.
Yeah, that does. Nice.
Let's. Go.
We're right. Four My throne out.
Four, four. No dooms.
Two DOOM. We'll do 2 Doom.
Whoa, whoa. 2. One doom.
Two Doom. One No party did.
One, but you got 10 that's. All.
Right. So you tackle him to the ground
and it's, you know, not like a like muscular bug or anything
like that. You just like tackle him down to
the ground and you got him kind of pinned there and his like you
can hear him mumbling and stuff underneath the hazmat suit.
I'm I'm going to like, yeah, I'm going to like try and shush him
as much as possible. I don't know if that's like
pushing his head or not too bad, but like, you know.
Like when you actually punch your brother or something like
that, it's like. And maverick, maverick from your
rodeo in days, this is like your bread and butter here in the
bar. And there's rope.
There's like. Oh yeah, A hog time up.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
Chuck him in the corner, throw a hay Bale in front of him and not
worry about it both hands up, you know?
OK, so he's tied up there and Bigwatch choked him out, so he's
kind of unconscious and tied up. Now he can conduct your plan.
Who wants to go down and put the bug bot in?
I would like to switch to the hazmat suit.
Oh, oh. You get. 4D chess.
Yeah, you get an extra luck. Dye.
Oh. Maverick, you get a luck dye for
that. Yeah, delete one of the ones I
used already. All right, so and I will
carefully brush off my hat and set it aside and I will come
back for you. All right.
So then do we even need to do the RC bot or do you want me to
just scout in there? I say you just scout in there.
I would pull this thread and see where it goes.
Yeah, let's just do that. Then I got decent.
I got, I got like 3 sneak if I need, but I don't even need to
sneak. Here's the thing, here's the
thing about people in working gear is if they just act
confident they can do anything they want.
You'd be surprised what Orange Festival you do.
So I just confidently stride down.
I would like to have my Electro whiff though, like tucked into
the hazmat suit still like and if if the hazmat suit can
actually go on over my bug suit that would be even better.
I don't know if I can double suit it.
No. OK, you can get your get away
with the sticking your electrolash in, but that's about
it. OK, yeah, no vibro knife in the
boot. You can do a vibro knife in the
boot. All right, let's do it.
So I just confidently stride down in and like I'm looking for
more boxes. OK.
So you go down this stair, it's kind of like a industrial
stairs. So it's that is permanently
there. So it's not like rickety or
anything like that. And on the the ground there is a
bit of a like a metal kind of pathway even though it's like
cavernous on the sides and you go down there for about 50 feet
or so. Just to ask, what's the rest of
the bug Busters doing at this point?
Little in our thumbs. I I think Carl Weathers is
waiting. Like I think we're we're down in
the place and we're like kind of camped out.
We're hunkered down. Are you down?
Are you in in the cavern or up above?
I would say I would. I'd be in the cavern.
That goes for everybody. Yeah.
OK, so you guys are underneath in the cavern, waiting to see
what comes back. And I.
I I do want to say the the code word for get get funk in here
and start blasting this. Yeehaw.
Everybody. And we and we would know that
of. Course, yeah, absolutely.
We've been working together for a while.
Standard. Standard.
More standard. That is my standard code word.
I think y'all, if y'all have your own, that's fine, but you
know yeehaw means get get her done.
OK, all right. So Maverick, you, you're walking
down and you're starting to see the cavern open up a little bit
wider and you see two other hazmat suited people kind of
like fussing over stuff in the corner and like kind of moving
and stuff. And there seems to be something
in the far, far corner of this bigger part of the Cafford that
you can make out of shape. And it's kind of moving and it's
big, but you don't really know exactly what is.
You've never seen anything like this before?
Yeah, I confidently stride towards it.
OK. And the folks, the other bug
Busters, You're standing there kind of waiting for the yeehaw
and you hear the trapdoor go slam shut behind you.
Yeah. Yeehaw.
I think we're going further in then, right?
It should could slam shut, right?
Yeah. Yeah, I guess we will go further
in, I mean or we just stand here which is really only two
options, so. OK, so you start making your way
down now, I guess. So as you get closer, you start
to make out that this is like a large queen insect in the
corner, and it's got an egg sack that's slowly shooting these
black balls through the egg sack, and the people are
collecting them. The two other people are
collecting them and then putting them into the containers and
locking them. Nope.
Tick. Great.
Awesome. Yeah.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Yeah.
What's what you call that? Ovipositor, right.
That's is it Ovipositor. No, that.
Yeah. Right.
It's like anyway. Uh huh.
Not yet.
Uh huh. Yeah, so I guess we're going to
keep moving towards whatever this horror is that Ryan's
experiencing. So could I If I Yeah.
Is there Is there any? Is that it these people are just
collecting the eggs? Yeah.
There is. So looks like those two were
tasked with collecting and putting the eggs in, and you,
your person, was tasked with taking the egg out.
Great. So I confidently, I guess, is
there boxes of that? It looks like they failed
already. Yeah, there there's there's more
empty ones and they're they're constantly just kind of loading
more. OK, I grab one.
Like because clearly I'm the guy that's taking them out.
I grab one and I just head back the other direction.
OK, so you do that. You pick it up.
They don't think anything of it because they're busy.
They've got their hazmat suits on.
And I'm just doing my job, just doing what I'm supposed to do,
carrying a boxes. Pick one up and you take it back
and then you're going down the the trail back and you see three
familiar faces coming. Towards you, Yeah, I just
chucked the box and I'm like, there is a giant.
I mean, exactly what you think is happening right now.
It's a giant bug. Squirting out.
Eggs. And these people are collecting
them. So my thoughts are, blow up the
giant bug and get the fuck out of here.
I agree. Yeah.
All right, so we don't want to
kill these people. I mean, we are not supposed to
kill these people. So let's get these two out of
here and then we go back up through the trapdoor.
The the trapdoor is closed now. Why?
Why'd you close it? Yeah, I don't think it was us.
Well, is it locked? We like to huddle together when
we were waiting for you. That's a later issue.
That's a later Let's Do bug queen first, trapdoor second.
I feel like if we're going to set the bug zooka off down here
in this enclosed cavernous space, we should make sure we
have an exit. I could be wrong though, please
tell me if I am. So I'm Carl wasn't going to
answer. And he walks back, and he tries
to open the door. Hey, so you guys head back to
the door hatch. So I.
Think we I think let's chain along.
We don't all have to be in the same spot, but we can do like a
unless it's massively distance away.
We just want to make sure the Hatch is open and get the bug
Zuka out and just be ready to blast.
Are you just worried that the bug Zukas might, like, take down
the cavern? We're in a cave, no?
That is, there's no way that would happen.
It's not like it's not an explosive thing.
I mean, I think it's a shoulder mounted cannon that fires a
deadly blast. Oh, you're right.
That doesn't sound like an explosive thing at all.
My friend may watch if if I am the voice of reason.
In this situation, I feel like we are doomed, is what I'm
saying. We can check, we check, we can
check the Hatch. I just, yeah.
Paul Wet is going to walk back and check the Hatch.
Yeah, why don't you just do it for me, All right?
Yeah. Done doing it.
So Carl Weathers, you get out there and you go to open the
Hatch and it's it's obviously like secured somehow like
whatever the the trigger is that you're trying to pull is not
working. What if I push even harder?
You you can try to break it does.
Just to ask, does anybody have an Insecto Sonic?
You've really been pushing this insecto Sonic Man.
I wish we would have picked one. I I just, I couldn't remember if
you did because there is a a door locking.
No, but. I have convinced, so can I,
like, convince the door to open? No.
Yeah. OK.
Well. So you can try to pry it, I
guess, with your strength. Yeah, somebody.
'S gonna try try to do that. It's it's very strong though
I'll warn you like you like look at it and it's like difficulty
of 10 like to just pry this thing open.
I have a tough four and I'll go ahead and add a DOOM to it.
Bucket add 2 DOOM to it. Yeah.
That's Max, right? Max.
The 6th dice in a pool. Yep.
Nice. All right, What's the?
What's the? What's the difficulty?
11 I think I said 11. Or did I say 10?
I can't remember. Now I think you said 10 the
first time. You can get your green.
Time you got any? Luck left?
No, that's a 10. It is a 10.
Oh, it is a 10 because that's how math works.
A six and a four. Sorry you try.
Hey, you look at me. You pry it open and you and
there's probably enough room to kind of like squeeze out one
person. I'll squeeze out.
OK. So you squeeze out and you see
as you're squeezing out, you see Hammy looking down at you.
Hi. What in tarnation are you doing
here? Well, we're about to bust some
bugs, but we were just locked down here.
You know why we were locked down here?
I might have had something to do with that.
Oh, you friends with the bugs Hammy?
I'm not friends with anybody. I looked down.
What's What's blocking the trap door?
It was like a secured like mechanism.
Oh, like, so you, like pried it open to squeeze through like
it's you just basically broke the door?
Cool. Can I release the mechanism now?
Yep, you can kind of like, do that.
But he's got his pitchfork on you, though.
Listen, Hammy, we're just doing the work we're meant to do.
We're kind of killed. Some bugs.
You don't want these bugs. They're attacking people on
goats. You see, Hammy kind of pause for
a second and all right, let's do this.
Hell yeah, Hammy Steven. Good guy.
From underneath the thing I'm like called it.
Yeah, so I'm gonna release the mechanism.
OK, so you open a gate. I called out.
I'm like, I'm like do the bazooka Bugzu.
Right. All right.
So then Baywatch has a Bugzuka. So that's that means me and
rewind, rewind, we got to go get these people out of here, or at
least warn them enough. Yes.
Yeah, well, you know what? No, no one knows.
Nothing yet. I'm in a fucking hazmat suit.
I'm going to go down and tell them I have a problem with the
egg stuff up here and they need to come up here.
You hide, Baywatch, you hide. And then let me get these people
out of here, All right? So I'm going to go do that.
I'm going to go back to the group and to those people and
just be like, did that guy talk at all when he came up with the
hazmat thing? No, he was kind of mumbling
because he got tackled. So great dope.
Yeah. OK.
Do I feel like like have people heard me OK through this this
thing or has it been a problem the whole time?
It's it's mumbly like OK, like it's it does disguise your voice
a bit. It's like like.
OK, so I'm going to go back to those guys and just be like kind
of like waving as I woke up to them and just in a very mumbly
and I'm trying to try to kill my accent or at least make it more
Midwest, I guess a little less of a draw and I'm just going to
mumble kind of be like a problem need you and just like just
thumb and then just start walking.
OK, let's roll your convince and.
Sick. And with, because you're in the
hazmat, it's actually a benefit to you, so it's you get an extra
die roll. OK, let's make A7.
OK. So then, so that gives me 3 and
I'm going to go ahead and use, let's say, two Doom.
No, fuck it, let's use three Doom.
I got I got a big stack. How's their doom for their DOOM
stacks, by the way? I've got.
Five against the 13. I'm at 4.
I am at I'm at 3:00, but I might have missed one, honestly.
I think you did for two. Maybe.
Yeah, yeah. Rewind, you got to get doomy.
I know doomy with it. OK.
So a total of 11. Not a.
Single One of my doom dices Part of it either, So needed those.
So they start to follow you up your way.
You can kind of if you turn back you can see them coming, but
they look confused. They're like, you know what's
going on and you can hear them kind of yelling that to that
effect. It's a problem.
Problem. Let's go.
And I I go all the way to the thing and they just like go out
of the Hatch, you know? And I'm like just calling up and
like just continuously, just like waving them and like maybe
getting more frantic with it a little bit.
Just be like, come on, you know. OK, so you head up the stairs
and what's the plan for the rest of the bug Busters here?
I think as soon as we can, we're just rushing the queen, yeah?
I'm guarding the Hatch. I think so.
Well, I guess you're. Going to have these, you're
going to have these two guys that come up and see Hammy and
the other bug Busters all standing around there.
Yeah, that's fine. We're here to buy things.
I think I'll, I'll, I'll try to hide then you know.
Well, the door is like, I mean the door is twisted and
everything. Like I guess what I'm saying is
you're probably going to have to deal with these guys.
That's something I. Guess I'll deal with the guys.
Then yeah, I mean, we got a pitchfork, we got a pitchfork on
them, we got a vibro knife on them.
We can just basically March them out of the barn.
And I have my, I have my, my bat out, you know, I'm like.
Stand down, I'm. Carl.
Weathers So these two guys in the hazmat suit get up there,
that Hammy's got his pitchfork. You guys have your like, arsenal
up there and they're definitely nervous about doing anything at
this point. And they see their buddy Porter
with all the hazmat suit on, all tied up.
And rolled. I pop the hazmat off and I go
get my hat and I pop that back on and I'm holding on with a
knife for the hazmat suit and like my, you know, like zipped
up, but it was just my knife. So then I think rewind got
everyone got a bomb, a hand bomb, like a bug bomb.
And then we got the we got the bug Zucas.
However you guys want to do that because there's an Oval positor
that looks like a nice bomb location and stuff, but I don't
know, I'm holding people hostage upstairs.
Well, the bug bomb has a 20 foot radius blast, so I think rewind
or neither of us should really throw that right now.
So you 2 have explosives. You decide what you're going to
do with them. Yeah.
I got the blaster. I'm going to do that.
OK. You.
If you want to throw the bug bomb, you could throw it first
and then I can go. In.
Yeah, I'll do that then, Yeah. Or use your normal weapon,
whatever your preference is. I'll throw it.
Or something else? I'll check it.
I'll just give it a good check. So that'd be agile, right?
Yeah, Agile. And then if you have throwing,
that's another. I don't, so it'll be a 2.
OK, well, it's pretty straightforward.
Throw like you just have to get it in the general vicinity.
So it's going to be an easy six. Nice.
OK, two die and. No doom, just make sure.
Oh, I'll throw a doom there. Yeah.
You know what I'll throw? Two dooms.
Boom.
Two dooms. Yeah.
With the Doom dice and your regular dice, you got an 11 I.
Mean. That's not bad.
I've done worse. That's.
Well, that's really good because it was only a six and then with
11, that's five points plus the two from the bomb.
So that was like a. Oh, wow.
You hear a you hear a scream. Of.
Oh God the. The Queen obviously pissed from
that. And you hear it like.
The scream and the scream is getting louder and closer to you
through the the dust. And I'll just say because of the
repercussions of everything take, everybody has to roll a
tough saving throw. So there's saving throws that
are special for bug Busters, but a tough saving throw.
So four saving throws. And to get under your tough
otherwise you just take one dude so it's a one die saving throw.
One die across for everyone. OK, Baywatch 3.
I'm good, yeah. OK, Apollo 06.
So that's one doom to you, Apollo. 3 for rewind and A2 for
Maverick. Yeah.
And a. Two for tough.
So, oh, you take one doom from that?
Oh, I feel slightly more foreboding for.
Boating I have a question. Did the bug bomb, like, take out
a bunch of eggs too? It's tough to tell because
there's so much smoke there like, but Rewind got it in like
a really sweet spot, like that was a nice location that it
rolled into. So yeah, my thought is as soon
as the blast happens, I'm going to be like getting up close and
trying to make sure that I just don't mess with this thing.
OK. But yeah.
Through the smoke you see this. I don't know if we have it on
Brian, if we have that picture. I think I cut out the Queen.
What's it called? Barn, possibly.
Oh yeah, I got barn. Oh, there's I see two people.
That's barn. And if you look in the very top
corner, you might see, well, you can't quite see up higher at the
rafters, but there's a queen out there, trust me.
All right, that's us. We even got the pitchfork from
Handy. All right, so are you blasting?
What's up? Yeah, so first of all, the Queen
comes through, and one of the things that happens when there's
such a high difficulty based upon, like the bug, you all have
to make a FEAR check. OK.
So once again, if one dive across each for a saving throw
all. Right Baywatch 4.
I have a four. OK, so you're good.
Two for Paulo, 2 for Rewind. Yeah, six for Maverick.
I'm 1/3. OK, so that fear sticks with you
until next round you got to do another save.
So I'm up up top. I the, so the whole the rumbling
and stuff like that. I'm like, I fucking knew it.
I knew I'm. Or it's gonna go, Oh no.
The only two down there are are Baywatch and and Rewind.
Sorry, my mistake. So, Apollo, I think you got an
extra doom last. Yeah, with the blast that you
didn't get. Oh, I.
Thought it was just blowback like it it hit all the way back.
You weren't that close, I thought.
I thought you were down there with them, so my bad.
No, I'm less. I'm less doomed now.
Yeah, I'm. Less doomed and just to double
check because the way the saves work right you got to you you
get to +11 of the saves correct like if you're cool in creation
during the character creation. If it your cool goes down to
your saves, and then if you upped one of any of the saves,
that's the save that you chose to up.
So it's only one of the saves that you chose, right?
Perfect. OK, I just I chose right then
because I chose. OK cool.
So after passing the fear save then.
Now you let her Rep. Got a shot?
So this is the bug Zuka. Uh huh.
OK. Is that and that's an agile
check for I have. Firearms.
Yeah, firearms. OK, so I have firearms, so it's
a four and then I'll add 2 Doom dice.
Hell yeah, you will. And the difficulty for the Queen
is a 10. Oh, you got a 10 there, buddy.
OK, so hey. Did you want to try to luck up
any match? Damage or anything?
Yeah, I'm going to luck. Another four I need luck to.
Do it again. Yeah.
Yeah, I have all six left 5I. That's good.
That's one point. Ever.
I'll rock with that, yeah. All right, so 11 plus damage
plus weapon damage. So 1 + 5, yeah.
OK. And you hit it and it kind of
took it. It didn't look like it was.
It didn't look too worse for the wear after you.
You took it, but it like it did a lot of damage, which is good
rewind. Me again.
I think I have another How many bombs did we all take down?
Was it 2 maybe? Yes, you have two.
Yeah. OK.
So I'm going to try to do my bomb check again.
So I have the agile of two and then I'll.
Throw and you're now kind of close that the bomb's probably
going to cause. Like you'll have to make some
saves on top of that. But you did you take the Thorax
pump? Who took the?
Thorax. Oh, I have the thorax pump you.
Have the grappling hub. Oh, that means you take it on
three rounds. Yeah, maybe we would yell for
help after. Well you guys know you guys know
that something's going on at this point and and and rewind if
you wanna like you have your other weapons too that are like
not as. Right, as destructive.
Destructive to everybody? Maybe I'll ZAP at it then, yeah.
The the ZAP at has like a a dinger option like you know.
Baseball. Dinger that you could actually
shoot from a distance here because you're still kind of get
in closing range. Us who are up top, like, start
heading that way because I feel like at a certain point we're
going to be like, OK, the explosion happened, look, let's
go in. Yeah, let's let rewind and make
an attack, and then it'll You guys will start coming into the
fray. Cool.
I'll just do, I'll do the dinger then.
That sounds good. OK.
Is that tough again? It is agile actually.
Because Agile. OK, so two.
Yeah. And then maybe through Doom on
that as well. OK, did you do you?
Oh, it's agile, but does blunt weapons because it's a bat help?
Do you have blunt weapons? Not.
Not because it's almost like a. Like.
Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Shoot it.
How many doom? How many doom you want?
I'll do 2 again. That seemed to work good.
All right, so you got an 8. Yay.
OK. So you missed.
Yeah, unfortunately do. You want to use.
Any luck? How many luck you got?
Left. Yeah, I'll use a I'll use a
Luck. Yeah, I'll use one. 06 on the
luck for an 11. Oh.
Nice. So that's a good a point of
damage. Plus for that is 2.
Yeah. That queen.
Really. That queen really be We taking
hits, yeah. OK, so the the other bug Busters
come down and you see this all taking place and now the Queen's
kind of in the middle and there's all four of you around
it and it's like pretty ferocious.
Now the two people that just came in, do your fear saves
because these are new. This is new.
To you, dope. All right, this is for Paulo.
Got a one? I make it.
And I got a two and I'm good on that because I have.
I put a bonus in my fear. And Baywatch, I think you still
had to get through your fear. Is that correct?
Oh, who did somebody have? To go with it was me that
failed, yeah. OK, so let's do one more. 3.
I have a three, so does that perfect.
You're good now you can. Now you can fight this.
Ain't afraid of no bugs. OK.
So let's just go on, let's go on the screen just right across.
Let's for ease. Baywatch, what are you going to
do? I'm.
I'm slicing and dicing. OK, so you get your slicer dicer
out and he goes. Yeah, I'm already close to the
Queen. So difficulty.
Difficulty is 10. This, this queen, is mean and
tough. OK, I'm so agile 3 and then I
don't have blade weapons, but I will.
I'll just do 2. I'll do 2.
Doom SO5. So what's that put your doom up
to? I have 123-4567.
It brings me up to 9. So then you only have like 4
left, OK? All right, 055, that's a 10.
OK, so you hit it. It does weapon damage, but there
will be a complication, but it doesn't do.
Oh, it's a jinx, yeah. So what your weapon damage, this
was for the slicer dicer which is 3 hey and then and the jinx
is like as you were slicing, you hit one of the poles in the
cavern and it's like starting to kind of like crumble a little
bit. Perfect.
All right. Power.
I'm going to, I'm gonna, I'm gonna hit it with a bat.
I'm gonna hit it with a bat. If I use one of the special
features of the bat, which is like, I don't know, like zinger
shoot a supercharged electric ball towards the enemy.
When you swing it like a Babe Ruth hitting a dinger, like is
that just a range attack with that essentially?
It's just a range attack. So would that use Agile instead?
It would use agile and stuff. OK, well, I'm not gonna do that.
I'm. I'm just gonna beat the crap out
of it, So OK. So fire up the bat and let her
rip. Yeah, I have a four to tough and
then I have blunt weapons SO5 altogether.
OK. No dooms.
You good? How many dooms do I have while
I'm stroll over? Yeah, usually.
Let's use one. Make it 6 dice.
Boom. So you got 10 as well?
OK, so the bat does a extra two and the queen.
You can see it's now like screaming and it's kind of like
it's hurt. It's not as tough looking as it
kind of felt before, but at the same time you get the same
pillar and now it's like really starting to crumble the cavern.
And if it's keeps continuing to get worse, you might have to
avoid some rocks doing agile safes.
So just a heads up. OK so I'm going to get out the
Thorax pump so and that's an agile because it's it's range
right Yeah. And then so all So that's only
three for me because I don't have guns.
And then I'm going to throw three Doom dice on that for Max
Doom Let. Me cross.
One that gives me 7. So I rolled it up.
Six, six, baby. Cool.
OK, let's roll on the crit table as well.
All right. So the crit table, just so that
we know it's A1 dice 6 table. The one is a weapon malfunction.
So with the crit with great responsibility comes, or great
powers comes with great responsibility.
Do not roll A1 because that's bad.
And then the other ones are good.
OK, so well, I'm going to I'll roll one action dice just for AD
6/2. Double damage.
So the the Thorax gun is 3, she's a 10, so that's five.
So it's 10 damage, right? Yeah, that is a hell of a lot of
damage. Boom.
You and you like, tear off one of its appendages with that one.
Like just. Well, and I Thorax pumping too,
right. So it's like it's stuck in it
cuz I'm pumping it full of goo. Is that what's happening?
Yes. And for three rounds it does the
same weapon damage, so. Oh, not, not the same double
damage though. No, not the same double damage,
but the weapon damage for three more.
They say that that's crazy. So the thorax pump, it does 3,
is that correct? So then next round automatically
it'll take three, and then the round after that it just takes
three right off the top. I think I jumped over or rewind.
Yep. Or rewind.
Now your turn. Sorry, I got I got excited for
the thorax pump. That's OK.
Oh, I think I'm going to do the zinger from the ZAP pad again.
That was seemed to do pretty OK. Are you tougher or agile?
So is that higher? What's your?
What's your higher attribute? Tougher.
Agile's higher than my test. Yeah, you can do a zinger.
OK, I will. So that's three for me.
And then I'm going to add I'll do three DOOM, do maximum doom.
Oh, your three without the Doom is 555, so you have a 10 total.
Nice. OK, you hit that pillar game bad
for. That cavern, though.
Oh yeah. So it does the ZAP Bat damage
and the cavern is like now crumbling.
Each one of you do an agility save to see if you can get away
from the following rock. All right.
I'll go across again 4 for Baywatch.
I don't avoid rocks. Is that just one doom you?
Got one Doom? 3 for Apollo.
I also do not avoid the rock. Two for rewind.
I'm actually good then. And two for Maverick, so I also
avoid, yeah. Hey.
And just so we know, how's everybody doing on their doom
right now? How many do you have?
Me. I'm at 10.
I'm at six. That's seven, Yeah.
I'm also at 7:00. OK, so you guys are well over
halfway in most cases. OK, so the queen is pissed.
She is going to take swipes at all of you, and I assume you all
want to do combat of some sort. So let's go.
Let's go back away Again, Baywatch.
So what is the like mechanical benefit of using my Slicer Dicer
as a shield because it has the plasma shield deflection engaged
the rotating plasma blades in the defensive stance to create a
temporary plasma shield. That's good for bugs that have
like kind of energy blasts, which some do.
Oh, damn. All right.
Well, I just. I'm in.
I just attack it and then. OK, so it's a + 3 damage.
And what's your score? What are you, What are you going
to roll? Here I have 3 for agile and then
I won't push Well, I'll I'll push look if I need to.
I'm not going to push 2. 36 and a four.
That's 10. Here, bringing this guy right
down. Yeah.
OK. So quick question, if like if I
don't push luck to try and get a higher roll, is this just like
is this going to well, I don't know would is it, is there
potential that's like really falling down or is it going to?
Yeah, I mean, if you, if you keep it up, this whole caverns
going to cave in on itself. Yeah, I'll push left, then let's
push left. 6/6. Oh wow.
And so that's a crit. Yeah.
Nice.
Yeah, nice. And dice, baby.
Let's see what you roll on the crit table.
OK. 3. That is a recurring damage to
the bug the next round for whatever you did.
Nice and. That's five, right?
So you got two? Yeah, five.
And then so 5. Next round, take this Queen is
really hurting. It's like, yeah, you basically
sliced off another of its appendages and it's like leaving
its egg sack. It's like just trying to get out
of here. But Apollo Rewind a maverick.
You all have attacks before it tries to get away.
It's Apollo. I'm I'm hitting the, I'm hitting
it. I'm giving it the goal, the goal
hit with a bat, so five can. It do me you good.
No, I'm rolling 5 dice. I'll be fine, probably.
I don't know. You're rolling 8.
Maybe I won't be fine. So we know you're out of luck,
right? Sorry, You're out of luck.
Yes, absolutely. OK, so you got too too doomed.
To you? Oh, I'm doomed.
It's doomed. What's your stack at now?
8. But you still got a little OK,
so it swipes at you and kind of clips you and puts a scar across
your face. Rewind.
All my acting career. I'm also going to swipe at it
with the bat, so that would be a two and then I'll throw a DOOM
on there as well. OK.
That would be a six turn. Any luck?
Oh, I'll throw a lock in, yes.
Six. So that's total 10.
Great for the cavern. Oh.
Great for the cavern. So bad.
OK everybody make an Agile. All right, I'll go across the
board. One for Baywatch, 5 for Apollo,
2 for Rewind, one for Maverick. You'd say 5 for Apollo.
OK Maverick, you can see this queen is going to bugger off.
This is perhaps unless you chase after it.
This is might be a parting shot because it looks like it's going
down the far end of the cavern. I have the Thorax gun in it,
right? Yeah, and I've been marking.
That's an extra. Yeah.
It's like it'll drag the Thorax gun with it.
OK, All right. So I don't need to do anything
with the Thorax gun. It's just going to keep doing
damage, right? Yeah, it pumps pumps from the
gun. Cool.
All right, well, I will figure out the most damaging thing that
I have. I can't do a hidden trip wire
trap. I don't think it'll hold on to
electromagnetic field. I think the trip wire, You know,
the snake. I think I just got to hit it.
I don't think any of the specials really do anything for
me. Maverick, you're winding up your
lasso just like back on the farm.
OK, so that's agility with bladed weapons, right?
Yeah. 1234 I'll throw two Doom dice on there 6/6 baby.
Oh shit. Holy shit.
Hey, roll your crit and see what happens.
Come on, two, let me get a Two, get that double damage.
Three. That's a recurring damage,
right? Yeah, recurring damage next
round. But guess what?
That you don't need the recurring damage.
It's and it like eases into like and kind of slumps into the
corner and a little bit of twitching and it's egg SAC is
still pushing eggs through even though it's disattached.
And it's like the eggs are still kind of coming out.
Nice. But the caverns like rocking
down around us, right? Like the?
Caverns like falling and like. Probably not a good idea to
stick around there too too long. Yeehaw guys.
Yeehaw. We did it.
Yeah, and race up out of the cavern.
Well, that's probably a good time to say job well done.
How many doom did you have left out of curiosity?
Lock and lock. Three left I have 4:00 left I
have 5. Cool.
So I think that's a hopefully a fun adventure that you had and I
appreciate you guys doing a little bit of a play test here
for Bug Busters and it's not been obviously it's finished
form but hopefully good enough to get the games going.
No, that was super fun. I will say if I actually had to
stack 9 D sixes on themselves, that feels like it would have
been pretty difficult get into 13 shows like a lot.
So I can imagine the use of Doom would be a lot more difficult in
person when you know that you have to actually stack it onto
your stack. Yeah, definitely.
But yeah, great time. Thank you Madison and Gary for
coming on the show. Love the system.
It was really great. Hope you both had fun.
Marco, thanks for coming back on as always, you know.
Yeah, I'm so happy to play. Yeah, yeah.
And you didn't kill us this time?
Which is great. I owed.
I owed you all something. Yeah, we all, I think we all
almost TP kid ourselves with that camera.
Now, so yeah. So yeah.
Yeah, the environmental part was really good piece of the.
Bus. Yeah, it was great.
And again, Madison, thank you so much for being here for some of
the show. Really appreciate it.
It was fun to have you. Thank you so much for inviting
me. That was really cool.
That meant a lot. So, Gary Bug Busters coming out
eventually. We're we're keep there.
Right if if my boss lets me have some actual free time.
There you go. It's gonna get launched, but you
could learn more at daikugames.com/bug Busters or
the quick URL is Bug Busters dot Ltd, which you might see on the
screen there. And so you can follow it on
Kickstarter and get notified when it launches And if you want
to be part of the play test. If you go to my website
daikugames.com, there's a Discord link.
I have a pretty sleepy Discord, but we're going to be doing some
Bug Buster play test on there and you're welcome to join up.
Yeah, absolutely. We're gonna make sure, we're
gonna make sure we put all the links to everything like they do
normally in the the podcast link into into all the rest of it.
So you can find all of the wonderful people here on the
show and definitely go follow Bug Buster.
Super fun, light, but really enjoyable system.
This is exactly the kind of system I like, and I know
Hunter's a big fan of the dice pool, so this is really great.
I do love the dice pool system, yeah.
I did like this a lot. Actually, I was like, this is
good. This is exactly what I like.
So yeah. Yeah.
So yeah and easy enough that like as I already knew what what
what dice people had sooner than later.
So I could just be like I know that that rewinds thing is 3.
We got this. So super fun.
But yeah follow along. Follow us here on the show.
You know what our socials are it's linked on everywhere.
Again thank you both so much for being here and we will see you
all another time. Bye everybody.