Having made their way to the strange Dome surrounding the
ancient and ruined shopping complex once known as the
Greenbrook Mall, the Tedvillians have crossed its barrier in
pursuit of the engine petals. Visions have guided them into
this strange and dangerous game lorded over by a wizard in the
sky. This episode we examine the crew
as players in their deadly game. They must make a plan out of the
chaos in front of themselves. I'm Q and this is Wasteland
Pirate Radio WPR bringing you the uncut airwaves from the
blasted wastelands. Hello everybody, and welcome
back to Dungeons Drive, Insurance and Dice Arcade
Apocalypse. This season, a Apocalypse World
podcast about the citizens of Ted Ville.
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Apocalypse World AD 6 system following four strange people in
the outskirts of the town of Tedville.
This episode we fight a pinball machine.
Don't know much more than that so.
We're going to put our Dukes up, fight the pinball machine hand
to hand. It's not the arcade game where
you get to punch and try to punch as hard as you can, but
instead you have to fight a pinball in an alleyway.
That's the game and I'm M today we're going to do a question and
that's just mall talk. We're talking our favorite mall
activities because I guess it's got us nostalgic for mall time.
A mall talk theme song. I'm a big fan of Hot Topic full
stop on that one. That is honestly one of the
first places I'll stop at in going to almost any mall even
today. Not today specifically, but in
today's days. Most of the time when I go to a
mall now it's to just wander and to scope.
I don't really have a reason. The last time I actually went to
a mall was to buy shoes I left behind at home for a wedding.
When I got to the wedding all the groomsmen helped me go buy
shoes at the mall which was fun. We all went in our suits and
bought shoes for the wedding. I also bought shoes.
That was cute, but I made sure we walked by Hot Topic because
and into because I love that shit.
I love Hot Topics so, so much. I like the vibe of a food court,
but I don't like food court food in general.
It's not very good, but I like the food court vibe.
It's a good place to watch from. Not necessarily at the malls
that I spend time at or have, but and I like a good food
court. I feel comfortable around Orange
Julius. I don't know if that means
anything. That is maybe just the food
court though. It's like near the food court
across the way from. You're comfortable around Orange
Julius like entity. It's me, Orange Julius.
Hang out. Yeah.
I won't squeeze you. Yeah, the entity, Orange Julius,
I call him Orange, many call him both.
I don't know if it says much to my experience though.
At a mall is that next to the food court was the arcade in my
mall. You could always see it.
I never spent time in that arcade or many arcades, but I
always just like scoped it out like oh man, I wish that was the
vibe nowadays. It wasn't for my group, but I
was like, it would be cool to see and to be running about the
machines with friends. Couple quarters for a couple
games. Why the fuck not?
Instead, we went to Hot Topic. I do.
I do like a an arcade. I also never really arcaded in
the mall. I did see them but they didn't
have an arcade in in my primary mall growing up and then I was
grown up and you can't be a grown up in an arcade.
Someone will talk to you. Yeah, it has to also be a bar.
Yeah, it also has to be a bar. They also have you have to also
be doing adult things. You can't just do mall things.
Anyways, I'm Theodore Stringer and I play Dill, the T1000 of
our campaign, and Dill doesn't really have like mall pathing.
I I looked at the I looked at the thing, I saw you making that
face. I looked at the the thing as far
as how my arm works, that's basically how it works is I can
get I can get like off screen by a lot of harm and then I show up
next episode. Just to be clear, T1000 via the
survivability. T1000 via survivability.
Yes. Yeah, I mean, I know like I can
be killed very different ways. Like throw us both in lava,
we'll both die 100%. Tracks a. 100% tracks I might
have better resistance to like freeze damage but that's
debatable. Any who in the mall it's the.
Same as being burned, being frozen is like, Oh no, it's not
things. Things survive ice all the time.
Actually, that's a problem we're facing apocalypse problem too.
Sorry. Anywho, in the mall, I like to
hit a bookstore. I don't usually buy things in
the bookstore because I'll go in and I'll be upset and I'll be
upset because every bookstore in the mall is Barnes and Noble and
no Barnes and Noble has any respect for books.
They love Harry Potter still. Oh, horny.
And it's all so just you can still.
Find the first Warriors book in barns.
And. What about I?
Literally have to. Put it down from buying it
Grace. I understand.
I picked it up and. Round with it.
OK, that's what I just say. Grabbed it and then I didn't buy
it but I did grab it. Dude there's always like 1000 at
half prices you can get the whole.
I know but like it's just the concept of that I came across
and I was like, it's still for sale as a off the shelf fucking
book. It's insane for me.
As it should be. And what I said.
What about it? Maybe we're going to do a
Warriors season next, guys, this is.
I don't want to fuck that up so much.
No, you don't understand. I Grace's Grace's run as the
game master is going to be a Warriors.
I'll fucking ace that season. I'll be all over it.
Oh my God, the bugs. Yeah, no, my, my new, my new
warrior cat. What's what's a warrior cat name
is going to be like? Speckle Claw.
Speaking of warrior cat name, my name is Lawrence and I play the
T1000 because he's a robot. D Hale.
Oh, is that what that face was for?
You were like you're the T1000. I'm literally a robot.
As far as mall pathing, me personally, there's usually only
like two or three places that I want to hit.
I like to hit Hot Topic for the nostalgia value.
It's also kind of funny that now half of Hot Topic is anime.
I just think that that's an interesting crossover because
that was not the case when I was in high school.
Was it not? Not as much, no.
No, not at all. Really.
No. And I love things in the aisles
of malls. The last two times that I went
to a mall specifically for something, it wasn't in a store,
it was in the aisle. And the food.
Stores. You know those little.
Kiosks that are sometimes I. Like the kiosks, Do you like the
things where the people are going to try and flag you down?
The desperation. It's.
Not going to be what you think it is.
What I like is #1 Auntie Annie's.
I don't want to go to the one that's.
In the food. Court.
That one is busy. Yeah.
I want to go to the one in the aisle that's away somewhere
else. I smell it.
I don't. Read I Eat it.
In that order. The other thing is I got my
Google Fiber Wi-Fi router from kiosk in the middle of the mall.
That was just where you went to pick it up.
Store still to these days. Actually, as I think about it, I
have had a fun mall experience with Lawrence.
We were in a mall one time and we did hit up a kiosk that had
those rideable animals. That's true.
Oh God. Yeah, Oh my God.
They're not like go karts, they just like let you ride them
around the floor of the mall for whatever reason.
They're slow. Carts.
I've always wanted that and ride them.
Around it was so fun. Yeah, it was a good time.
We were college students. I think also from the Isle of
Mall. I mean the last time I sat on
Santas lap was at a mall but I was in my 20s.
Gabe and Ezra also sat on Santas lap.
I think the only times I've sat on Santas lap have been at the
mall. Wow.
And on that note, I am Michael and I play the water bear spigot
next. Time you sat on Santas lap
Michael. It's, you know, my mall
experiences are in the before time.
What was it like in the Before Times, Michael?
Back when I went to the mall with my one of my best friends
who's now my brother-in-law, they would sell swords in the
stores at the mall and my brother-in-law and I would buy
swords that we would then just beat on each other with.
The other two places we went were the music stores, when you
could actually buy CDs in the mall now that CDs are dead, and
the leather jacket store. Even if we had leather jackets,
you got to go check out the new leather jackets.
Leather jackets. That store smells good.
That's sick. The new season of leather
jackets is my favorite. Wow, I've forgotten.
Time It was worth it just for the smell.
They did, you know, they did have what the the faux Ninja
samurai store up into our mall days.
That's another one where you look in the windows and you're
like, well, I can't step in here.
You could buy the bleach sword, yeah.
I did buy the bleach. Sword.
I was going to say I, I imagine a child going in, you know, 1314
years old buying the bleach sword and having to carry it out
of that store is absolutely an. It was about 60% of the original
size. Like a peak moment of your
teenage years. What are you talking about?
Walking out to the car with the sword on your back across your
shoulders. Let's go.
I am Ichigo Kurosaki. I hadn't even seen that show
yet. And you bought the sword?
Yeah, it was cool sword. Big fan of your character art
that you've added, Sister O Mine.
Oh thank you, that was the art that actually inspired the
character that I saw on Pinterest.
I would love love Pinterest. Favorite social media app?
Great to know, but I wish I knew who you were.
Oh, sorry, my name is Grace and I play Paddle, who is nothing
and my character art is a really cool little robot lady.
And my ma thing is I love if it's like too hot and I want to
like go on a walk and people watch.
I will go to the West County Mall in Saint Louis and I will
just walk laps and people watch. So I'm I'm a big fan.
I've actually been to the mall like literally last week because
it was too hot to go. On a walk, what's a what's a
good people watch thing you've seen?
I saw a kid pants his dad and that was really funny.
Last time I saw someone fall really, really hard was like
just outside of the mall. Like that stuck with me.
You know, like when you think of when you when you see someone
falling or you hear about someone falling, the thing that
you think about, the thing that I think about is a little girl
just like catching the curb with her foot and full just kick face
into the IT was like, and I saw it out of the rearview mirror of
my car as I was driving away. And so I just had this great
moment of like, glorious laughter.
Oh, but I did laugh. I I did do a little giggle.
I couldn't help it. I I will get an escape and I did
see this but my stops. That I go.
To is I do actually have stops that I make a rotation.
I usually park by the Dick's Sporting Goods, which is by the
food court. So when I walk in, the first
thing I get, I get a delicious, delicious orange chicken sample
from the Chinese food place that I never go to.
But I eat the delicious sample and I go That tastes so good.
And then I put the toothpick in the trash and I immediately.
Keep on walking. Because I know that I'm going to
go eat at Sour Poo Japan and it's going to be delicious every
time. There is only one mall food.
Yeah, I will not. Yes I agree most mall food is
SUS and not worth the outrageous prices.
However, Tahu, Japan is the exception and it always will be.
And I will die on this hill. And every person I've taken
there, they've been I. Don't like Sabarro?
Every person I've taken it been like, wow, you're so right.
This is the best Teri fisherman of my life.
And I always I head at the Lego store to look inside, see what's
new because I'm in curious. And then I, I also go in Barnes
and Noble. And I also get angry because why
are in the average hardback? Why is it 30 dollars, $30 now
for a hardback? Not even like a crazy like
special edition hardback, whatever, it's noodles anyway.
But I like to see what's new there.
And then I like to peek inside a store called Francescas cuz I
like the trinkets that live in there.
And that's usually what I look at.
And then sometimes if I'm feeling whimsical, I'll step
inside somewhere else. And if I'm feeling extra hungry
after this Araku, I will go to Annie Anne.
The cinnamon twist pretzel. Not the Nuggets, the pretzel,
because the Nuggets are always dried out.
I'm a. Nugget guy.
They're always dry. Not when I get them.
Just dry Nuggets. What can he say?
Yeah, you got to. Get those Nuggets fresh
otherwise they have been sitting in that case for a minute.
The pretzels don't dry out nearly as quick fresh.
Nuggies, but if you want. The actual really good soft
pretzel. You should go to QuikTrip.
OK, go to QuikTrip and go into their little cafe thingy and go
on a kiosk. It is 365 or something like that
for a pretzel. They are doughy, delicious,
scrum scrum, delicumptious. Pair it with a frozen Coke and
it's like Oh my God, the best thing.
I got to cancel the podcast. I got to go to Quick Trip.
We'll. Be back in.
Two hours, we're all. Going to go to the mall really
quick. We're going to circle back.
Taking the. Podcast on the road, everyone
get out your phone. OK, so last time, last time on
was a couple episodes over the course of a while.
We. Did investigation of the crash
site. Drove out from the crash site to
the Green Brook Mall and parked in the parking garage.
Left our car there. Locked for sure.
Both cars locked up tight. We inspected the entrance
portico for a long long time and then entered it and got blocked
in by a pinball that shot us up. The tube came out found
ourselves on the pinball field as the ball rolls down towards a
hole in the back. It the difficulty behind this
last time on is that like there was the most engaging, I don't
know, the most important moment was that like last moment, which
in the end I felt like was delivered well, but doesn't give
you guys, you know, enough info to go on because I just sort of
shot it all out of wall. Like you would be receiving in
as you just got on to this very active, you know, energy high
field. So we're going to go over it
verbally and then I have a picture for you guys afterwards.
But we're on a pinball field. Pedal has been welcomed back by
this wizard in the sky overseeing this whole event.
The borders of the field. And there's even some like
columns and cutouts in the field where there's these walls that
raise up to little platforms that people are just filling up.
And there's a crowd like you guys are in the stadium and
being cheered and jeered at. There are three points of
interest that we are trying to get to that we know our safety
from all of our checks, all three of which have a door in
front of them all locked at the moment.
There is an area off of a ramp on the left side of the field
that leads up to a like a race track.
There is an area more towards the middle that leads back and
into a haunted house or AI say haunted house more like
decrepit, rundown, broken, broken wood, old, you know,
think like 70s horror movie vibe.
And then there is more towards the right, a really decrepit old
built up stone crypt with a circular door in front of it.
Each of them are opened in a slightly different way.
The big black tunnel up the right side is the tunnel you
guys come running up. I'd like to imagine you like
jumped down and ran into the middle of the field just for the
the narrative of it all for it to, you know, be that like
camera view spinning around you as the ball spins up and around
its ramp. So to get each of these doors
open with all of the info we have pedal nose some you guys
scoped out the field and all rolled well.
The one that leads off to the left and that cuts up on in a
ramp behind the house and into that circle 8 track is 3 lights
that are pressed up against the back of the wall.
You just have to hit them, have the ball hit them, in that
order. Red, yellow, green will get them
lit in order. The middle one that leads up and
into the house is blocked by a door with a big symbol on it for
electricity. And then we know that thing in
the middle will spin and point to an element that will get the
ball charged up. I'm just kind of interlacing
both observation info and grace. Like no air pedal knowing info
on top of one another to get that thing spinning, you got to
get that. You know, in a pinball game
where you get the ball locked in the middle of that triple little
thing, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
That's we're all locked in there for a minute getting you some
points. There's a point off to the right
side of the field near the ramps.
And then in order to get that crypt open, you have to get the
ball small and into that hole. I think that's what I'm going to
leave that at for now. I think with all the info, that
is enough of a starting place. All the surrounding area for you
guys is just people in, you know, stadium stands jeering and
cheering and the sky virtually overhead is this projection of a
old wizard who who has sneered at you folks and said, let the
games begin. Since Grace gave us a rundown,
quote UN quote. Yep, you're welcome.
Where are we in relation to this map right now?
Hold on, maybe I can. Do this and move you around, no.
It's not that cool. Yeah, it is that.
Cool. Excellent.
Yeah, just like loosely bam in the middle of the field, the
ball has been smacked back by those flippers and is rolling
towards you guys as we start this session.
It's a big ball. It's we're going to say like an
8-9 football big enough to roll over you and harm you pretty bad
if it were to hit you and you wanted to be unprepared.
It's a big silver ball and it's making that like very, you
imagine the floor to be wooden at minimum because it's giving
you that very heavy, almost like bowling ball, right?
Heavy full ball on wood scraping kind of sound as it rolls
across. But the things that we need to
start with really quick are 1A pedal vision.
I guess before we do pedal vision, we should get checked
stats because you don't have a checked stat in case this is 1,
you would get an experience from it.
Pedal lost. Checked stats.
Stats. We got stats.
Back into place, but we need to recheck really quick, so we'll
have to go in order. So Theodore, who has the highest
history on your sheet with you? Or I guess who do you have the
highest history with? There's a tie.
Between ham and spigot. So then you pick 1D ham.
All right, D ham pick. A stat of dill's that's most
interesting and we're going to mark it hard.
I want to do weird still because that's just so important to me
for a dill weird. It's both the dill and the other
one. I'm hard and.
Weird, I'm one hard. Weird guy.
Yep. D.
Ham, who has the highest history with you, Dill?
Cool, sharp, sharp as the. Knives you throw.
We got spigot it is. Pedal all right.
Grace, I'm going to. Say Sharp.
Sharp, OK. I'm going to say weird because
of that mask. Love it.
Cool, I know you're going to
say. That and pedal.
Who has the highest history with you?
It says D Ham, but I'm surprised by that.
But yeah, I think you've been. Handing out negatives too.
You've probably also. Rolled over with spigot you got?
Yeah. You might have hit 4 with.
Spigot so you reset back. To one or something like that.
Yeah, you're right, You're right.
You're right. Nice weird.
It's it's D him weird weird. That's how I talk.
To Weird Al Yankovic, I say, listen here, weird, you're on a.
First name basis. Let's do.
Sharp, you've been very observational.
You haven't really shared a lot of that, but you've been, you've
been, you've been looking at everything, even if you haven't
spoken about it. OK, now that we have your stats
pedal, let's get a Visions roll and that'll.
Be level up because that'll be my experience for the Max
experience pedal's going to level.
Up the fastest for certain. That's.
A six and a that's a nine pedal you're going to have.
To carry us because I am back to not being able to generate XP
from my main stat. Oh geez.
Damn it. Because I can't.
Once, once again, I whenever I do anything under fire, I roll
on weird instead. Dang it.
Which is not about, Dang it. I thought.
About that I was like how do I get because I remembered that
there was an issue I went in the wrong direction my bad.
So my only option is to be sharp, which I do have a zero
at, so I'll get some XP there. Okay pedal, You rolled A9, you
said? Also pedal.
Have a look at the improvements section.
I will do that. One side I just realized I never
changed my my numbers here. I will check.
The one that you have already picked here 7:00 and 9:00.
MC holds 2. That brings us to four and I'm
going to spend 2, I guess now to interrupt you and tell you you
have a vision. I feel like this is a good
moment to at like be curious about.
You have had some visions about some of these people and you
have some marked on your sheet that I, you know, I spoke about
in the intro about you having those visions with them.
You have a vision now kind of in the the reflection of the
pinball, like as it's rolling at you, your vision kind of fades.
And with this me only spending one, I want to ask who you are
and who you're with. My thought behind this is like,
what are you most interested in at this moment in learning about
your past? I think either how I lost my eye
or how I got this like prosthetic because like I know
and when I talked about it in my character design that even
though like pedal herself is like rough around the edge of
the scars and stuff, the eye, the prosthetic is like extremely
well made, very detailed, very nice.
And I have no like very minimal scarring fused with the meat
very nicely. So I think I would be curious to
see maybe the origins of my eye. Who did my eye?
Good, we did my. Eye so so good.
It was me, Deham. Okay, the ball is rolling
towards you and your vision sort of blurs in and out and you
blink and the ball is closer and you blink and you're seeing kind
of red and you're feeling a little bit of pain and your head
is swimming and you're seeing the lights above you still
flashing in that sneering face of the wizard.
But you're definitely in a vision.
You've had enough of them now to like, you did not just get hit
by the ball, but you've been hit by the ball in the past.
And you blink and you're in a dark room and you, you feel a
lot of pain and grogginess and you're only seeing out of that,
just like red bloodshot. I still your, your vision tinted
over red for whatever light is coming in the room.
You blink and there's one light above you and you see a shadow
kind of Crest into the light looking down over you.
And you see a mask come down and feel it over your mouth.
And you blink and you can see perfectly through two eyes,
though there's a contraption on your head and you feel a searing
pain behind them as you move about the walls of an old broken
down hallway. And you blink, and you're
chasing someone down this hall and cornering them, and they
turn around and try to fight back a bit.
And you blink and you're out of that contraption and you can see
and you're looking in a mirror. You see the reflection of
yourself with like, the red raised skin of a recent surgery
kind of still setting in. But you can see out of both
eyes. And you blink and the ball is
rolling at you and the lights are high on you.
And we are in the moment. And D him opens his chest cavity
and dishes come pouring out. Crash, crash, crash.
Sand. He pulled.
Yeah. No, no, actually he does it
like, you know how magicians can pull the tablecloth and not move
any of the plates? Dhab opens his chest.
He grabs a cloth at the bottom of his pile of plates and.
He Yanks. It out and then all the plates
come out and crash onto the floor.
OK, cool. I was.
Going to make you roll. You don't need to roll for
breaking a bunch of plates. He he he starts to swing the
tablecloth while he's running out of the path of the.
Pinball. And the tablecloth as he's.
Spinning it up in the air. It's getting wider and wider.
Is it? Yep.
Okay, I like that. Press 3 for the table that seats
so many you have to sit against the wall.
And where are you running 2 on this pinball board?
I'm going north, towards the buttons.
I'm heading to the place where the ball will have the least
momentum. At the apex of its journey.
Sure. The furthest away from where
it's been launched most recently, I guess.
Makes sense. Yeah, towards the back.
But away from the path of the ball, of course.
Oh, you should. Move the pin.
Yeah, this whole. Plan does not work if I am
flattened by the ball and I've already lost all of my plates.
G Ham breaks off in a Sprint towards the back of the wall,
out of the the course of the ball.
What about the rest of you? Well.
I'm going to head towards the red target to the right to see
if I can maybe entice the ball to come at me and start to hit
the targets in order. I don't know if the ball has any
sort of intelligence or is being guided at all, but that's what
I'm going to try at the moment. It has just been reflected by a
bumper, but always good to keep in mind.
Well, I can. Move my icon on the map.
What's this? Is this just like a fence?
Like a barrier between the red and the green you're talking.
That piece that sticks out perpendicular to the left of the
red? It looks like a barbed.
Wire correct? Just like a wood.
Fence just just for decorum, like it's a fence with OK, yeah,
some guidance for the ball if it were to hit that area, just a
normal. Fence OK making.
It. Theoretically on observation
more difficult to hit the red one from you know that left
angle versus the right angle I think Dill.
'S instinct is to get up if there is an up to get to.
And I'm I'm I'm looking at this little house looking guy with
the white circle next to the green.
I'm thinking maybe I can clamber up there somehow.
Roll the clamber. Sure.
Sure, you run back to Clamber up on a piece of the scenery into
the back and pedal. I just want to get everyone's,
you know, ideas in mind before I narrate.
Not going to like Clamber wasn't in my Gabe's Turn calendar for
this. Year.
Abe turn. Bingo.
Yeah, Bingo's the right word. We'll see what my turn goes now.
Looks like we're all going. In the same direction, huh?
Well. I guess I'll just be a sheeple
see pedal. Pedal the.
Character has insight. Grace, the stoned DND player
doesn't really have insight, which is unfortunate role for
insight. Has.
She knows but fuck if I do how to get through this freaking
thing and my cheek. I mean, I know how because like
you told us, but I don't know like how to make it happen
easier. I'm sorry.
I'm just gonna, I think I'm gonna see if I can hang out here
because I remember being hit wasn't fun.
So if I can use the decor as cover then I shall OK.
I like that. I like that because.
All. I know is.
All I remember isn't the ball really hurt.
I don't want. To get head again and hide back.
Behind that little fence, I lose.
My other eye I only have them. I mean I guess I have prosthetic
but I meet I attached to I love. It the ball continues to roll up
the field, Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh towards the back wall
here. I'm going to say mostly towards
the location that Dill's at, though Dill has a an idea to
clamber up for everyone. I would like a do something
under fire roll that is to get back here for Dilits to get back
here and clamber up. Let's see it.
Do I need the role for swinging a tablecloth in here?
I'm going to say that Dill, you can you you are welcome to do an
alteration if you want. This is there is a like a big
black basically like wall very similar to that wall that like
you touched and hurt your brain real bad.
That is segmenting that house like bifurcating it in half and
like creating a Dome around this field so you can clamber up onto
the roof that's sticking out, right?
You know, not to touch that wall ready.
That's just me, you know, giving you the the layout that goes up
another like 8 feet to a level that a bunch of people are are
standing up on and like cheering and jeering crowd, you know?
Not for long. So the the wall is preventing me
from getting to the crowd. Yes, you.
Would have to climb up that wall somehow and last time you tried
to touch it, similar material outside hurt your brain real
bad. OK.
Well. I still do want a clamber.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So.
Still from everyone, it's that do something under fire as the
ball. This is to get to the back of
the the the court. Oh.
It's 9. For swinging a Tablecloth in the
Air, 1313. OK the Clamber King.
Dig it. 9 for spigot, 9 pedal. 88 OK with a 13 dill is that
you're able to clamber up the stone doorway and then up on top
of the little roof there's a big stone Yep, exactly circle in the
middle of that that doorway that's like blocking off the
doorway. But this section of the roof is
jutting out from that force field basically.
And you have found purchase up here and some safety.
The clamber was a little difficult up on top of the
little box next to it. The hole in that box is
considerably smaller than the box, but the idea that pedal
gave you in the brief moment of entering this field is that the
idea is ball in that hole. We just got to figure out how
another 8 feet above your head, there's a little ledge that you
might be able to clamber up. But again, touching the wall has
not been not been good. The other three are pretty slow
in moving up this field. I'm gonna.
With my most of my body, kind of adhere myself to this roof and
then dangle my long arms down and maybe they'll dangle long
enough for someone to grab them. Yeah.
Everyone has gotten back here and into the back as these balls
are coming. I think the negative is is that
as this ball is coming, the negative is this round is that
no one is able to make it to Dill's dangling arms.
As Pedal is hiding behind the fence.
The ball is rolling up seemingly in the layout we've been given,
closing in mostly on on Ham as the others have made it a little
further up the field. Ham sprinting towards his
allies, Pedal, looking up at the the descending arms of deal.
I'm beyond. How comforting beyond.
Him. You can see the scowling face of
the wizard dressed man above you who says oh on the scenery.
That's no fair. We need to add more players to
this game and I've made them. Some dude, some other dude, some
dude also, and another dude have jumped down into the field with
you guys to play paintball 4. Dudes, it is just.
Three dudes. It's some dude.
Some dude also, and another dude.
Three more dudes. Have jumped down.
I think because of those negative roles, 2 of them are
going to jump down in this space and another one across the
field. Do they look aggressive?
Do they look angry or do they look confused?
Read a person OK? 8 + 0.
Hold one. Are they angry?
Are they angry We got? What is this character really
feeling? Or what does this character
intend to do? What does the character intend
to do? They're gonna hurt me.
Yeah, they're coming. At you, they're like coming at
you. They they have their hands up in
a defensive manner, right? They have.
They're a little lower to the ground, keeping their their
center of gravity, but they're moving towards you.
As the ball moves towards you, they're going.
To wrestle, yeah, they. Look like they intend to move
you, Dehan would like to shout at.
Them as loud? As his robotic voice box can
carry and say press 4 for a goal, he intentionally doesn't
say that last word to see what they say.
Boy, I don't know that they say anything.
I think they okay. I throw a.
Knife at okay. Yeah, yeah.
As my move do something. Under fire as this one closest
to you starts to close in. I'm gonna say it starts to close
in on spigot because the ball is closest to you and kind of
rolling in behind you. It's gonna be an 11.
On 11. You're able to hit him with a
knife and send him sprawling off to the side next to Spigot.
Another is trying to get in the way of Pedal and Dill's pull up
in that moment up up there by the house, Josh Groban.
Me Dill is. This guy within reach of my long
arms. Oh.
God, yeah. With my panel, he's gonna get.
Dill. Is.
Reaching down, pedal is reaching up and this guy is reaching in,
trying to slap your arms away from each other.
He doesn't want pedal to get out.
He says no, you're playing this game.
As. He's.
Scrambling. I don't know.
I don't. Know that he wants to be in the
middle of there pedal is. Also, like, Pedal's not like,
enthused about needing to touch Dill's hands.
No, they're not. Good.
Like she's never touched his skin, but like, looking at it,
she's assuming it's not gonna be great.
Never touched his. Skin and she's never wanted to.
At least. As far as she can remember.
For you, things have felt weird since entering here again, you
feel alone. You feel since entering into
this like portico, you have felt think I I might have said it's
something along the lines of like more alone than ever
before, even with your friends around you.
Well, there's. Nothing so distracting as
violence. Oh God.
This guy's trying to stop you from pulling metal up.
So am I. Going aggro or am I?
Am I seizing by force? I'm happy to seize this man by
force. I guess I could seize pedal by
force or secure. Your hold on something seize by
force. So you're trying to secure your
hold on pedal to pull her up maybe?
Or you can exchange like seize force on him.
It looks like there's an exchange harm mechanic no matter
what. So you will be seizing force on
this guy, but you can by doing so take definite hold of pedal
right? Maybe you're maybe you're
shoving him out of the way in the moment or.
OK, I'm going to seize by force. Sorry pedal, but this is this is
how it's going to be. Damn.
Sorry, you're going to. Have to see this roll plus hard
roll plus. Hard OH.
No. Serves you.
Right for not rescuing me unless it was a crit and you're about
to like, squeeze the hell out of this poor, poor man opposite.
Crit Well, no. It's not no.
It's I've rolled a total of 5 so I think I get to mark 2
experience. Do you have hard checked?
I have hard. Checked and I have one
experience for my failure. Yes okay to experience.
This is how you power level folks on a miss.
Still choose one well. There is one definite way to
solve this problem, and so on a mischoose one.
I'm going to inflict terrible harm, OK?
You know, you reach out, you have both your arms reaching
down to grab Pedal's hands as they're trying to come up.
And this guy just tries to jump in the middle and break your
hands apart. We'll say you're just starting
to pick her up, right? So there's a little bit of
weight there. And you drop one of your hands
and just backhand him. And what occurs is you inflict
terrible harm because the needles in between your knuckles
poke out. I think in this moment they're
going to bend and break in your left hand.
You're going to scratch this dudes face up the side.
Your things is narco stabs between your your knuckles,
right? Damage on a narco stab is
something special, right? Yeah.
It makes him high. Narco stabs's harm and intimate
S harm means stun. Harm disables its targets.
I think because of the severity, like you were unaware of it.
You were just like lashing out to protect a friend.
It didn't go so well for you. I think it is going to cause
this guy some harm as you like slash him across the face.
Stun is still going to occur to harm there.
You're going to take also a harm from it as it has like bent and
broken in the back of your hand, exchanging harm in some form of
fashion. This guy goes sprawling to the
ground and you we're able to grab hold of pedal and pull her
up. You and pedal are now on this
roof. As you do pull her up, she like
tumbles to the side, but you keep her from touching the force
field because you know it's dangers.
Some dude is sprawled out on the ground.
Another dude is off in the corner in a in a heap next to
spigot starting to get up. Dumb dude also sprinting across
the floor and the ball closing in on ham.
No time to call it a new turn. It's all just one big thing.
I think I'm going to start taking this.
I think if I can, person by person, whatever makes the most
sense. And right now what makes the
most sense is Ham. The ball is right on your heels.
What you do well? Let me let me just really quick
consult the map I. Think.
My main priority here is I'm going to try and get on the
other side of the red button opposite of our boy spigot.
I'm still I'm still swinging this tablecloth above my head
and it is still getting wider. It's a very large tablecloth,
OK, And if the ball is coming straight for me, I'm going to
move. But the ideal situation is that
the ball reaches his apex somewhere between bigot and I,
and I'm going to throw the half of the tablecloth at spigot.
But I don't have control over the ball.
Well, give me a do something under fire.
That's going to be AI mean a big, big portion of these roles.
9. Also give me what is this roll?
Give me a sharp roll. Just a generic sharp roll.
I'll include some generic sharp roll 5.
OK yeah, you are running up towards this area.
I'm going to put you about here a little bit more to the north.
You're starting to cut around the edge of that fence as the
ball is rolling in close on you. I will also give Spigot a.
If you wouldn't mind doing me a sharp roll as well Spigot,
because you the other two are still in this moment of like
pulling each other up and having slashed the sky across the
space. Some dude and I haven't
explicitly told you this plan, I'm just running after you with
a. Tablecloth, yeah. 7 And that was
a that's a checked 1 So that's an experience, right?
It is. What I'll give you with A7 is
there is some curve to this ball.
Either there is a curve to the ball or from the bumper, the
bumper put some curve on the ball, but it has curved like it
was going in a Direct Line center straight up towards the
the tiny hole that it would have never fit into and across the
board has curved following Ham Ham in this moment,
unfortunately, you're not able to clear the fence.
The ball is going to strike into the back of you say la vie.
It's going to push you just through that.
You're going to like breakthrough the fence and like
shatter through that and fall against the wall.
But I think with that, it broke my fall and my body.
The reflection of the ball is going to bounce into the red
light for you because this is going to hurt.
You're going to take two. I get to keep my table.
The fence. Yeah, sure.
This is the win, win. You go rolling and kind of roll
up in it. You're able to get out of it,
you know? No, no, I'm limping now, but I'm
still swinging that tablecloth. Yeah.
And the fence is, like, broken down.
You broke through the decrepit wood fence that led up to this
old Ausoleum crypt style thing. There's part of the fence in me.
Yeah, right, right. You pull it out of you, You pull
it out of yourself. And then when you turn, it was
just in your chest cavity. What?
I. Made it leave it in.
There I I reach down to almost pull it out and then I think
better and I shake my head and I leave it in and I pat it pushes
it back through, but the ball hits that red bumper on the wall
and clicks and the bumper lights up, kind of blinding the two of
you for a brief moment. And it bounces off and girding
Spigot and another dude rolls back towards the wall and down
towards the bottom of the board. Realistically, though, the way
that Pinball's boards are set up, there should be another
bumper up on this right wall ball as it's coming down because
they have like you have more control on one side of the board
where that hole goes down a little higher up.
You got, we got to wrap it, we got to catch it before it's that
bumper and then run a circle around it really quick and I'm
limping. Awesome.
Oh, like stop. The ball, you're trying to catch
the ball. I want to catch the ball and.
Cheat at the. Game I want to win, but I want
to cheat. I love that.
OK, well the ball has passed you now and it's going up.
Another dude is starting to get up out of his heap and some
dude, I think he's stunned, stunned is going to last a good
minute. Some dude also, though, is is
closing in on the group spigot. You've been longest from an
action you did a you did a sharp roll to learn about the curve of
the ball. But what would you like to do
now the ball is bounced off the wall next to you, just avoiding
you smashed into your ally. So.
Another dude is still down right.
Another dude. Yeah, he's starting to get up
and like, recompose, recompose themselves.
I'm going to draw. My weapon and shoot him I mean
clearly I saw D Ham knife him and he went down so it only
seems fitting but if he's coming for us, I'm going to go for him.
A gun should. Work the same D ham when you
knifed him and he went down I think across your head, across
your forehead, you feel the metal push out and a little
screen like pushes itself out from your head and a score pops
up like 1000 points after you knife that guy.
Oh boy oh boy boy. Guess what I'm doing on my next
turn? Just starts peppering the crowd.
Just throwing knives loosely into the crowd.
What if they're worth more? Points in the crowd.
Bigot. Do something under fire or do
something to cause fire, Yeah. You could be a go.
Aggro, you're doing harm. It is.
I would say you could do that if there's something there you want
because this person is not prepared to fight back like they
are trying to the field. Hasn't really.
Been made for them yet, quite maybe in this moment.
Which is it? I think it's up to.
You if you want more straight line it's do something under
fire if there's anything I think.
It's more straight line. I think he's just gonna draw and
shoot. OK, roll.
Plus cool so. That's the a 9 + 2 is 11.
You do it. Do you know the damage for your
gun? Is that A2 gun?
9mm two yeah 2 harm close, loud. Okay bam this guy is hit again
and I think doesn't get up. That would be wild.
After a knife and a gunshot AS4 damage unconscious at a minimum
and spigot you feel a searing pain down the right side of your
face. Whichever, I think it's the
right side of petals face as it is and it now reads.
We'll say 2000. OK, when?
Some dude also gets within range.
Dill is prepared to like, jump down upon him.
God. From above.
Thanks. I love that.
That's a lot.
Of dill right on your head. That's a lot.
Of dill in the head. A dill in the head is worth 2 on
the roof. Spigot has gotten rid of another
dude. The two on the roof.
Dill has said he's waiting for some dude to compose himself and
get up before you pile drive him, whoever.
Whoever gets whoever is a threat and comes within range of my
jumping down on them is gonna get jumped down on.
So I'm just, I'm lurking above like a play DoH gargoyle.
Yeah, yeah, OK. Cool, Yeah, you have that
stunned dude who's like thrashing on the ground,
grasping at his slashed face and then for.
His sake, I really hope he's not the one that gets here first.
He's had enough if he stands. Up.
He's getting pile driven. He's getting the.
Full deal, I'd stay. Down or you're going to get the
full deal. Then let's see what pedal does.
We have some dude also who's running up.
I'm just going to replace that for another dude because they're
that's more different. So we have some dude and another
dude. Another dude's running up on you
guys. The ball is heading towards the
South side of the field. For the record, that sounds like
another excellent piece of merch.
The full dill. Yeah I was thinking a dill.
A dill in the a dill to the head is worth 2 on the roof or
something is also solid. It's going to be an entire line
of dill related merch with no context.
I've. Been thinking about how to
change bushel in a pack to like a Dick all in a I'm pretty here.
For no context, dill as merch. I I'm looking at my weapons I
don't have any long range anything.
I just have my face breaker and my brick.
I did also. Consider throwing you at one of
the guys. Do you have my face breaker?
So is the face. Breaker just another brick.
No, it's a glove with nails. Wired or.
Knuckles nice. It's just like.
Glove of Hate. Glove of.
Hate the Lucerne? Of gloves.
Yeah, so I got my globe of hate and I got my, I got my for my
brick yet, because I need that for who knows?
Got one? Ranged weapon, you got to use it
right? I have.
One range weapon, literally, and then that's it.
It's a brick brick. So if Dales are going to throw
me, I don't, I guess I'm going to like read a situation I
suppose to maybe see if I can like figure out a strategy on
how to get the ball small or. That is A4 plus A6.
That's a 10 + 2 is a 12. Wow.
A4 Never. Sounds good, but when you add a
six it's always good. I'll give you 2 pieces of info
with this. It all.
Where the ball is currently on our map on that like South side
is like it's skating along the wall that it, you know, that big
tunnel comes out of comes out of a tunnel that leads around a big
ramp that leads around the field.
So that ramp is like wicked above your head, but it's
underneath currently a little tunnel that's much thinner than
the ball. And you, I think muddling
together some like foggy experience and seeing it now,
you know that if you can send the ball up that other ramp the
opposite way, the only exit it's going to have is down that
smaller tunnel, something that's gonna shrink it.
You know that that's the shrinking like ramp.
You just gotta get it to come. Currently it's under that ramp,
but you need it to get up and around that on the ramp.
Does that make sense? Yeah.
Yeah, cool. I wish I could just say and I
yelled that too. OK, what's the what's the second
thing? Oh, the.
Second thing is that in looking up and around and seeing that
ramp and scoping everything out, you can see the wizard scowling
and you know that that like you get a sense immediately.
There's I, I think a lot, I'll give you off of some of his
readings When you roll well, because you've played these
games before, you've played with the wizard before, whatever that
means. He's going to do something to
put the game in his favor. If we we examine the field,
we're in a favorable position and he doesn't like it when it's
in favorable positions to, you know, not him.
So you know, he's going to do something to put put it in
favorable position. And I will give you, I think
with that you can either get a + 2 to dealing with that or you
can give a + 1 to Dill as or to two.
Yeah, Dill's the closest to Dill and like, give him the warning
as well, right in time to get a + 1 as well.
Yeah, I think I, I, I don't want to include Dylan because he has
much, literally quite better reach than I and, you know, many
brains or you tell. Dylan ideas?
Hey. Hey, Banana.
You see that? We see that ramp up there.
I point up towards where the ramp is with the little hole in
the tunnel and whatever. Yeah.
We need to. Get the ball up there down the
tunnel, and that'll make the ball small enough.
I can't explain how I know. I just, I've done it before.
I guess I don't know. We need to figure out how to get
the ball up there down through the tunnel and it'll get small
somehow. Does that make sense?
Understand Banana point back at first of all, I have no idea how
smart Dallas cuz I've seen him do some really like interesting
things that seem smart, but also some things that I'm like, why
are you doing that? And then you feel a rumble
beneath your feet. All of you do as the table gets
tilted and I need everyone to give me a do something under
fire in order to well D Ham is already in a heap on the ground,
Spigot is on the ground so he can stumble to a knee.
But the two of you on top of this building will need to give
a roll at +1 as what comes out of Pedal's mouth is hold on.
Like she is unable to keep herself.
She feels the rumble coming and just shouts hold on.
And that's enough to give Dil a bonus as the the tilt begins.
Yeah. I forgot to give him a bonus I
just told him about. No, that's I mean.
That's OK. You wouldn't have known, you
know what I mean? Like you wouldn't have known the
bonus. You just knew you knew there was
something coming. So I gave you this the something
coming. I also.
Rolled the 10. There's a 12.
A10 and a 12. Yeah.
Dill grips into the the rotting shingles of this roof and pedal
kicks her feet in as well. And maybe they hold on to each
other just enough to keep each other shaken through this
rumble. It's enough to send the ball
away from the wall and into this upper bumper that I talked about
earlier that should have been there.
And it bounces off and what should be in a straight angle
towards this left side yellow light.
Right. Again, We see what is only known
in baseball as a curveball, as the ball just starts to come
around. I'm drawing kind of an arc.
Like this would be the arc, right?
But. I am.
You know, going through the whole arc, just to give you the
idea of how wide that curve is, virtually it's coming back at
the red light and around whatever obstacles are there on
the the side at a wide arc cutting right back towards
spigot and Ham. The tilt and the bumper together
have given it the angle it needs.
As we'll say, another dude has gotten down to some dude to help
him up, and some dude also and started chasing after the ball.
This guy though, is just running after the ball haphazardly.
We'll say she in this case is just like wild for the ball.
Like hands out in front of her tripping over herself, running
after the ball. The dude who is helping the
other dude stand up, I stand. Up. 1st and throw a knife at it.
How? Traumatizing for the guy on the
ground. 4. Yeah, I mean your knife goes
wide and gates off across. What type of role was that, by
the way? Don't increase.
It's still it's still only a four.
But my thought was going to be either a go aggro if you wanted
something to do there. There's like active things go
aggro gives you or if there's nothing go aggro gives you that
you want. It would be do something under
fire because this guy is focused on fighting you.
Neither matter. Go ahead.
I throw a knife. Yeah.
OK, Yeah. Your your knife goes to skating
off and this guy is able to put his arm under the dude and he's
going to pull from his buddies belt.
Turns out he wasn't helping him out.
A gun but a deal on the roof is worth 2 as a pile drive.
Let's see it that sounds like. The title of the dill in the.
Roof is not. What you want, you know, I
thought. About that earlier too with the
good one but like press 2 for a dill.
Like I think we had that. On the second episode too and it
just didn't click right. A dill on the roof.
Is first press 6. To be connected to the.
Tin roof is. Not bad either.
That's good instead of. Fiddler on a Roof it you know.
Dickle all. The way.
Dickler. That's an 8.
Not.
Dickler, not Dickler on a roof, but that is an 8A giggles and
this is are you seizing by force with this attack?
Are you doing something under fire just to do it?
I think I've. Got to take advantage of a
seized by force just because all of my attacks are grab attacks.
Yeah, yeah, no, it OK Yeah, I'm gonna I'm going to try and seize
this this gentleman by force on a 7 to 9, choose two these these
final two. We're going to inflict terrible
harm and we're going to impress, dismay or frighten the enemy.
Nice. Can I designate the crowd as the
enemy that was going to? Be my choice too.
I love that. That's awesome.
I mean, I think you just come down atop this dude, like
holding your knees behind your back just.
Point hands. Like.
A demon, give him the. Robin from Teen Titans, give him
the fucking. Robin from the Teen Titans is
awesome dude. Does he make us?
Sound. Does he make it?
Does he make us sound? Does he jumps like ghost?
I don't know. Dill makes a sound.
But this guy's about to. Yeah, I still have.
Something he said this guy makes.
His squish I I'm. Not.
Gonna at all done harm, sure, on the narco stabs, but on the dill
drop his life. Dill drops good.
The tail drop, it's terrible. Harm.
Terrible. Heart.
Yeah, inflicting terrible harm. You crush this dude.
There's a little bit of moaning in the heap beneath you, but.
You're going. To take two harm from this drop,
though in this you are going to the stun is that this guy is out
of Commission for some time. You're going to take two harm
from your we'll say knees as you have pile driven this guy or
your your fingers, your hand. He's almost certainly going to
die of infection, whatever. All.
His fingers are bent backwards as the force of gripping.
The sound deal makes is. Yeah, there's a brief silence
and the crowd erupts into like a crazy roar.
They're loving this still. You feel a searing pain on your
cheek and you get, we're going to say, 5000 points.
The crowd goes wild. They're loving it, man.
What did? I do to get my 8000 beats my
boobs. 8000. And eight No 80,000 and 85
points no. Because it's 1/3. 580081358
million points. Well that's a lot more points I
go think about. Holy shit, I just earned 5000
points for a cool thing. How long what?
You must have. Killed somebody incredibly you
did like 3 flips. It was.
Either one incredible kill or I've suffered for so long.
We'll see when I start handing out high loads of points.
OK, you have executed the guy beneath you.
Let's see. Absolutely crushed another dude.
I do. On top of.
My next goal is to get these three guys are are like bumpers,
right? The three black circles, yes.
Yeah, they're like bumpers in a triangle.
My next goal? Is to get in there, get in there
with my stretchy dill body, OK? OK, let's hear from Spigot.
Pam has thrown some knives and Pedal has at least scoped out
the field. What you up to, Spigot this
ball? I'm gonna progress it just a bit
around the corner here. Not too much time had passed in
a pile drive. So I I have two thoughts.
If I saw the guy pull the weapon, I wanna go get the other
gun. Mm hmm.
And I don't. Know if I've caught on to this
as a player? I did, but I don't know if
Spigot has the idea of the tablecloth, so you.
Could do a what? Do a table on your brain roll
like a weird roll just to see if like spigot gets the same shit
that Mike got. If that is like a hold.
Up. OK, yeah, let's I like Norman
and Maddock. Norman.
Thinking. Are you picking?
Up what Dhem has, and if you don't, yeah, you could.
Ask Norman about it. What's that about?
All right, tablecloth. All right.
Roll for. A tablecloth open.
Your brain that is a straight 8. I mean.
I think with an 8 I'll explain his trap and I think that'll be
a perfect explanation for an 8 is because I don't actually know
for sure either. He's using the tablecloth to
trap the ball in some way. In what way and how?
You're not quite sure, but like he would like to trap the ball
with the tablecloth. In what way and how, I'm not
even sure, but it's what I've got.
Well then great if. I've gathered on to that.
I would grab. If he's swinging it, I would try
and grab a a piece of it. He's in a heap.
On the ground now so you can like help him up and grab the
other side of it. Oh, that's.
Right, That's right. He's he's partially impaled with
a fence. I forgot about that.
Yeah, I would go over to him, grab one end of it and then run
back over to my corner. Perfect.
It reaches the whole way over. It's exactly. 24 by 24.
It's a very big. Table that is a big.
Table the ball. Is whipping into the corner this
some dude also just fucking tearing ass after it?
Another dude has died twice now. I almost put him back in but
he's died. OK.
Does anyone want to take an action before you guys have
basically pulled this sheet in between yourselves in the spot
you see the ball curving into? Yeah, to catch it.
Yeah, I have gathered the plays. Anyone else, dill or pedal want
to do an action before the ball does that?
Can I? Like try and tell them about the
path and the hole and the you need to get it up there.
For sure, for sure. I think you can just share.
You can share that that info readily, I say.
Hey. And then I tell them.
I thought you were gonna just stop it.
Hey, I tell them hey and I. Point and I make my fingers
smaller and I point again smaller I.
Tell them. And then they.
Know. Now they know.
And that, guys, is improv. OK, we're gonna do a scene up
here. We're gonna ask for suggestions.
But first we ask you to suspend your disbelief and only think of
the things we say out loud. No out forces.
Did you have anything, Bill, before we the guy beneath you
that you stunned dislike stunned the goal?
With. Getting in the bumpers is sort
of a have a more controlled reflection of the ball's bounce.
So that's where Dill's headed. He wants to get in between two
of these three bumpers to sort of be able to slingshot it in
the direction we want it to go. He doesn't quite know what
direction that is, but he's he. He sees a Dill roll.
OK. I think even just like
strategically, no matter who you are, it makes sense to just let
the ball roll past and then run behind it into that spot.
So I need the 2 of you keeps doing cease by force.
And I feel like in this case to keep of hold of something you
have you don't have it, but in a for a brief second you won't.
Yeah. So this is to see what happens
in that brief second. I think let's see if second one
becomes 2nd 2. So instead of choosing to take
definite control of it, you can choose to keep definite control
of it. So you can just choose to catch
it if you can get something in here.
So both. Of you give me a roll plus hard
and we'll see. Just see what happens.
Oh, roll, roll really high. Roll like a 30.
Yeah, that's that's not even close to 30.
That would be with my -1 that's a three and mine.
Is of. Course with my plus 1A grand
total of 3. Yikes.
OK. And it's any fail that I get to
mark a thing or does it just a marked experience?
No, it's any fail. Any fail.
OK, cool. I bubbled up.
Yeah. Oh, OK.
Is there any level up perks that can get us out of the situation?
No. Unless there is a new savvy head
move that I can use to go back in time and roll back, there's a
lot of. Other things not like that.
But there might be like. Pluses to but.
Like stats or like choose something from another book that
could help? Yeah, I could get up to A43 is
the highest. No, I mean.
With a + 1. My role would equal four.
Yeah, that would not help. I think what?
Occurs is the ball hits the sheet and you guys are ripped
off your feet and slam into each other behind the ball just like
your. Pure force.
That beads is still wrapped in wrapped in the sheet though.
Oh yeah, no, no, no, you get because.
On the miss you can. Still choose one, and I imagine
you're a bit like you're not trying to inflict damage on the
balls. You can still catch it.
You still catch the ball. The ball pulls you off your
feet. It's going to slam you into one
another. Each of you take a damage.
I would love the Three Stooges this to be able to catch this
ball. Yeah.
And the ball drags you a bit and hits the red bumper again before
it stops and the light stays lit.
But the ball has stopped for a brief moment.
You guys have a second. The crowd seems to not love
that. They go into kind of a tizzy,
but throw a knife at a guy. You guys get each 500 points.
Only 500 for this. Oh my God, no, I think you're
right. You caught the ball early.
I'll give you 1500. Oh, good.
Now they've caught the. Ball.
Can Dill catch a hold of them? Can we see?
Can I seize them by force? They basically come to a stop
like it it yeah, it skates up against the wall and they they
catch the ball and it does come to a stop.
They've got definite hold of the ball basically.
Where's that move? Well, the second worst human
thatopede, they're on the ground in a heap.
The person running behind the ball, if you are heading towards
that, so we'll say ball is here. They're in a heap on top of one
another right behind it. And dill, if you were running,
you know, towards that this person is coming up on you.
They were still chasing the ball and they seem to have gone into
a rage now the ball has stopped. Can I grab?
Them or the tablecloth or whatever and like swing the ball
into some dude also. Some dude also is coming.
You can muster up your big ol strength.
Which role do you want to use for this this?
Is probably a do something under fire role because I'm just I'm
basically just trying to swing the ball over him and if if if
it goes well, then maybe back around and towards one of these
things and just sort of catch him in the arc of it.
But the most immediate concern is flattening this gentleman and
I think my human strength and reflexes come to bear here.
So I've got to ask you to choose one of the options under my
contamination. It says here that you're the one
who chooses. My bad for the previous time for
maybe I have chosen. Personally, I vote for a + 2 to
my role, but well, of course you.
Do. I think.
All I'm going to give you is that middle one, you're not
acting under fire, but it like the back half of that sentence
when a normal person would simply been be incapable.
I think like a normal person would simply be incapable of
lifting this ball up and your two allies, like that's a shit
load of strength in order to do that.
And it this feels harder to do than it has before.
Like utilizing that I rolled an. 11 So you.
Do it. You swing the ball up, you grab,
we'll say that you don't lift up your allies, but you grab the
sheet from where they've bound it together and you pull it out
of their hands and swing the ball up and threw this person.
Do you want to like launch the ball off towards one of these
lights or do you want to drag it over there and swing it at the
paddle? Basically have it as a Mace or
like as a morning star, you know what I mean?
Like it's a wrapped up big old ball.
It's very, very heavy and that is very hard for you to lift.
You know that you can feel. I'm not trying to.
Lift it. I'm just trying to guide it as
it's rolling. Oh, sure, sure, sure, sure.
In this case, it is more of a slide because I imagine you're
still keeping it in the binding, right?
So you're just sliding it along the floor just to knock them
over, to knock her over as she's chasing.
Yeah, I imagine. So, you know, swing it around.
It isn't. So much that it's heavier than
it should be or heavier than other things you've lifted.
You lifted a bus to pull it at you, like, tore the hat, you
know, a wall off a bus to reveal your cool car at some point.
But you feel that strength like leaving you in this moment.
You still feel very alone. You feel very disconnected from
the other one. OK.
Well, I'm going to swing, swing the ball over this, this some
dude also. And if I can arc back around and
and launch it towards either the green or the yellow, that's
gravy. Maybe I don't let go.
Can I jump and follow it and just hang on?
Have it drag you. Behind it, yeah, I think you
can. I think that's just like, I
think the only thing I'll impose on that because you had a really
good role on your your thing is some damage because it's gonna
drag you behind it. If you like, throw it and hold
on, right? Some bumbling damage as you
bounce on the ground, holding on.
Or you can roll for it. Try but on a failure I might
give you some more stuff. I'm at like 7.
Or 8 harm. That's fine.
Wait a second. 123 only has 6 sections.
Each. One harm is a tick you are at
like if you've taken 8 harm. All of those boxes should be
checked if I've taken. 8 harm there's I am between the six and
the nine it's. It's like a clock that you're at
3:00 harm 6 o'clock 911 midnight dead.
Yeah. Yeah, the, the, the sections of
the clock are like split up. It's like quarters of the clock
for 3/4 of it. And then it's like small pie
check sections in which you are like at 9, you should, you are
limping, you are breathing heavy, you are hurt, but that is
only three ticks of damage, so. Each tick of damage fills
another just a box. Yeah, so 4.
Ticks of damage would put you at 10, right?
Yes, I figure. Because of the way that the
ability functions, my harm at the beginning of session reduces
to 6 I suppose 6:00 and I have taken 2 harm since then.
So you would just. Be at the 10:00 mark 2 harm past
that would be the 9:00 and then the 10:00 I have.
Not reached the painful and temporary temporarily
debilitating stage yet. Here we go.
Yeah. All right.
This is. Banged up for sure.
Back to the moment at hand. You can guide it towards the
yellow easily. You can let go and throw it at
the yellow, choosing your own angle, or you can hold on to it,
letting it drag you behind it for a damage mark.
Or you can roll again to try to mitigate that.
But I guess with them really bad something may go negative.
Does anyone? Else have opinions It hurt me
so. Bad to catch it.
Please keep it yellow is. The next bumper we need you just
walk. It over there, just walk it.
Over there, push it against. The yellow, OK.
Yeah, I'll just push it against yellow press.
Yellow with the ball. You begin to drag the ball over,
we hear the ball just scraping along the floor.
Some dudes still rolling in the pain.
I'm going to say honestly, Dyl, as you drag this, like each step
you get like 50 points, 50 points, 50 points.
Like as you're dragging it towards the thing but you're all
of you hear a ker chunk and. A Ker.
Chunk sound of another. Ball.
No, no, no. You're thinking of Ker Chunk.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You even confused me.
Sorry. No, I love.
That that's a. Callback.
If you're a loyal listener. You hear the Kurt chunk and the
sliding of another ball coming up and around and you look up
and you see the the wizard shaking his head.
You think that would stop me? And the bottle ball is like
whipping ass around the the ramp, but you are dragging the
ball towards the yellow. Let's go to pedal.
You're up on that roof, You see the ball rolling around the ramp
towards the playing field on the ramp above you.
Do you see this? Some dudes starting to get up
out of their stupor and I'm going to say one more person
jumps down over here, one more person.
I throw a knife at that guy. I'm going to let I'm going to
let pedal do something. I ready got a knife with that
guy. You can throw a knife is the.
Guy like starting to climb up towards me so I put the beats
down on him. They are.
Just standing up at them. They're getting they're they're
finally coming out of their stun from Dill's narco stabs in the
back of his hand and just standing up and you I mean, you
know that they're going to go into attack mode soon or play
mode soon. They're going to like their goal
is to get points too. Everyone's point hungry out
here. I'm going to.
Say if if they're within reach I might just like bend done and
punch him in the head with my with my glove of hate and see if
I can just get one of my nails through his eyes.
Yeah, you lay down on the roof and just swipe your hand down
trying to catch him as he comes up.
I like that. Yeah, fuck it.
I mean, do something under fire just to bash this dude.
I mean, is it? Under fire or is it?
I mean, I'm not doing something under fire.
I'm just deciding to lean down and hit this guy in the head.
Is that under fire or is that just like being violent?
I don't understand what the difference is the do something.
Under fire roll is like your most basic bread and butter.
It's like because the the results are on a tin, you do it
on a 7 to 9 you flinch or hesitate and on a miss you fail.
That's like the ultimate. Mechanic is also governed by
doing something under fire. You are trying to directly
inflict harm on someone that's also doing something.
Yeah. I I was wanting to roll for plus
hard because my thingy makes you roll.
So for. Plus for weird.
So I get +2 instead of hard but OK.
I mean I rolled great anyways so it's fine.
OK, but you're. Just trying to.
Power level, yeah. I hit him very hard.
I see, I wanna. Be I wanna do violent.
I mean, I'm OK. With the, I'm OK with the
outcome. In this case, if you level twice
in one session, we'll deal with something, but you've already
leveled up. It's true.
Fine, fine. It's and without pluses it's
just an 11. You do.
It you reach down and just fucking to harm the guy off his
feet was starting to get a grip of the field again will not
anymore. I was aiming.
For. His eyes specifically so he
can't see the ball or the court or the anything he.
Can't see him. Pedal.
You knock him off his feet and on the end of your your like
face breaker is a part of a broken face and that is his
eyeball. Oh.
Sick. Mostly because that guy.
Is gone. I'm sure the crowd loves that.
Yeah, but your. Score changes from 8 boobies. 8.
009135. My boobies.
I'm gonna have the artist. Update the art every episode
with a new score for you. Everybody has to have a new
score too. Then everyone gets one.
That's true. And funny, Your syndrome.
If we were tight with the. Artist.
That would be very funny to do. I mean all.
You need is really the picture that has the scoreboard ready to
go that you could just change that.
I. Do love that, but I don't think
I put a scoreboard in the initial.
I would need to do some work on that and at that point I feel
like I yeah, no thanks. Hopefully it'll go away.
Yeah, whatever. Anyway, because I don't want to
have a scoreboard forehead. I already have such a wild face.
Too late, sorry. It rests right on top of your
little lights. And now it says 1000.
And I like to think yours is, like trailing across itself.
Got a unibrow scoreboard? Yeah.
You pop that guy's eye out of its socket, and there's just
this last person on the board for the moment.
You're dragging the ball over. This ball is coming up and
around Bigot and D Ham. We got one more person coming
over. I know that D Ham was ready with
a knife to fling across. So let's see what you got here,
Ling. Here we go.
Out loud, that's going to. Be Yeah, I say press 4 4/4 fling
and. I roll A9.
Fling shrink. The Foley here is done by our
own strings. Thank you.
Aw, man. My mic's not picking up that
sound. Only Craig can hear that sound.
I'm trying to figure out better ways to not always be handing
out damage because there's no reason in this case to hand out
damage. No, you know what it is.
You hit them with your knife, bam, 2 damage drops down to a
knee. They're still sitting there,
they're still active and aware. They have a gun drawn, pointed
at the pinball, still dragging it behind him, but you can feel
it in your arm. Wherever you store all your
knives. There's there's a jam up in
there and you're going to have to unjam it in order to keep
flinging knives. You have like a little pouch,
I'm going to say maybe in your arm where you store them all so
that you can just flip your arm out.
Wow. Your.
Infinite knives are jammed for the moment.
That's tragic. I start running at that guy that
I hit with the knife. I start dead Sprint, dead
sprinting. Fear kind of crosses his eyes
real quick. 500 points across your or 1000 more points.
The point number doesn't matter, but your points will go up when
you do cool things. Keep doing cool things, point.
It's like who's? Lying to sit.
Anyway, the points don't matter. Yeah, right.
Right, but you won a high score, so get one.
I mean I already. Came in with 8 million so I feel
like I'm OK. Dill keeps dragging the ball, I
imagine towards yellow. Are you going to do anything
else still? I mean if I.
Can do something to drag the ball faster, he drags it.
Real good. He was dragging it before, but
now he is really dragging it. Now I'm really.
Doing it, I think it's. Doing something under fire just
to keep this up, you know, drag it faster, Dill, don't get
caught up in all this. The eight dill.
Trucks this along as the ball comes down the ramp the second
ball coming down the ramp here curling around it's heading
towards those bumpers. Dill is moving over here with an
8 Dill. I mean speed is not really the
issue for you here it's that there's a dude with a gun drawn
on you spigot. You haven't gone in a moment and
there is one person on the field.
This is 1 MO person They have a gun drawn on dill as he is
trucking across the field to towards yellow.
What would you do about it? You see your robot friend with
the arm jammed up trying to unjam their knives?
Yeah. I've got to protect Dill and
give cover to Ham so he can unjam the ham.
Oh, I'm not. Unjamming it at all, I'm dead
sprinting at this guy as. Long as I've I've got a shot
where I'm not going to shoot ham in the back of the head, I'm
going to shoot it. Oh, right, right.
I'm going to shoot it one more person.
Something under fire. Easy peasy, yeah?
That's our, that's. Our main role.
I'm gonna put the ball between me and this guy while he's being
shot at and just I'm gonna push it from the back.
That's a great. Idea Yeah, you curl around the
ball to protect yourself. Yeah, that's a 10.
Oh yeah, the gun goes off as Dill gets around the edge, the
bullet bouncing off the edge of the the pinball, tearing the
sheet a bit. Not much and another gunshot
rings off and this person falls to the ground.
Another 2000 points for you. Ow, I think.
It's a straightforward shot from here.
You're dragging the ball with you.
Even with a little bit of tilt, as we've seen so far, the ball
is going to hit the bumpers and come back in the time in which
it takes the ball to get down to the bottom and get up.
Dill is able to hit it against that yellow thing with enough
the yellow bumper with enough force, no problem sending the
yellow light off. So you know this tactic is
working. Does he get any points for
yellow? Oh, sure he does.
Another 2500 points. Good job, Dill.
Let's see. OK, this ball we're going to
say, though, is coming straight at Dill.
It isn't much of A jaunt to the green and then the ramp is right
there. But in the time I think it takes
to get over here, anyone can be over here to do anything.
Still dragging the ball. What does anyone do about the
incoming second ball I have? An idea, OK, I wanted.
The idea is to get the ball sort of between so that as this ball
comes in it, it hits the ball and knocks it into the into the
green gives you that. That croquet like cool.
OK. Or snicker.
Yeah. Yeah, like.
Cool. And the idea?
The idea is to to move the ball into this position and then hop
up on top of it and go and, you know, go for a ride and maybe
it's a short ride and I go flying off, but at least I don't
get smooshed by either of the balls immediately.
True. True.
OK. I think just from someone I want
to help roll to like help Dill get this into position in in
time. Yeah, I am.
Giving this one more person my whole back doing this maneuver
well. One more person got killed with
a gunshot from your your boy, whoever.
Yeah. I'm gonna one person roll ball
plus HX with Dill. You'll be the person to help him
position this ball properly. We had more than enough time.
Is Dill. Faster than I am, I mean, sorry
not dill DMD ham was. In a perfect as it was in a dead
Sprint, it would be easy for you to re angle to get to your boy
Dill. Yeah, 'cause I had.
To stop and plant my feet to take the shot.
So if Dill's still in motion, that makes more sense, OK.
And we got pedal watching the field, making sure the ball, I
mean watching the ball, but you're above you're out of
danger. That's so great.
You're just. Watching the game, controlling
it. Already.
Already scored plenty of points, so D Ham plus history with Dill
plus history with Dill. Here we go.
Oh boy. Plus Dill plus one.
That's going to be a big 11:00. Nice.
You're. Able to help Dill get up in here
and then you hike him up there and dive out of the way as the
balls collide. Like a pool ball game.
What, like a game of pool? I love pool ball game.
I love. Going to the football game
house. And the stationary.
Wrapped ball is shot with force at the green button and smashes
it and you hear a little repetitive alarm chime like a
reward alarm chime go off and some some single white lights
above that door with the red yellow and green lights above it
and the metal sliding for that door just slides with quite a
lot of noise into the ground. Now we just need to take the
ball up through a loop de loop. Yeah those two balls bounce.
I will say that looking down that path, the perspective
shifts in such a way like as we've seen the field and no like
watch it so far. One, the second ball hitting the
first ball, both are now bounced and moving around the field.
We've lost control of that ball in opening this door rolled out
of the the cloth. But as you like look down that
path, your perspective shifts in such a way like it's almost
confusing for your eyes. And as we knew through one of
the observations in the first episode that these these three
areas are areas of safety from the pinball game.
They are their own sort of sections in some form or manner.
We haven't gotten to discuss that or get to the bottom of it
yet, but that is the safety from the pinball game.
And as these two balls bounce down towards the bumpers on the
bottom of the field to be reflected back up at you, I
imagine that we cut off and into this open ramp we've just
created. Yeah.
Got to be before I say. We do.
Is there anything else that someone would do instead if
there is? A window to not have to worry
about pinball game. I think we should take it.
Like, I know the wizard's going to punish us, probably, but I'm.
Hoping by the time I see the wizard, my knives are unjammed.
So yeah, let's see who punishes who.
Yeah, pedal. Pedal pedal is going to just
going to hop down from the roof and make a break for the whole
where we stay because that's just.
If we if we can. Find a way to escape.
Bill's gonna try. And catch pedal catch me.
Catch her, Yeah. She's jumping off the roof,
right? Oh, OK.
I was like, OK, stop her, let's do this.
Yes, I was like. Oh.
No, feels like no we're. I was like gonna do.
Something stupid. I think with the time that we
had, that's like an easy transition pedal jumps and Dill.
Dill extends his arms a bit, catches her, though that feels
harder than it has in the past, Getting them back, you feel it
kind of pop back into place more than you did before.
But you, as a team, run off and down this open path.
As the balls close in on the back of this court, bouncing
harmlessly off the walls on either side, I say thank you.
Banana and I give him a little pack.
And our. Perspective begins to shift up
and out as we run down this long dirt road and into a
countryside. Around us.
You can hear the chirping of birds and the revving of engines
whipping off and up little dust clouds as they cut off around
this edge. And then all goes black around
us and we and then we as the audience fade to black.
There's two sections of black. And as we're fading to black the
first time, Deham says, Gee, Dill, I am sure glad you brought
that whole ball with you. We might need it.
No, both balls on the court. Ding couldn't have held on to
that sheet, huh? No way.
I was on top of it tablecloth. I think before we fade, fade to
black, we we cut to black that first time.
And D Ham says that. And then in bright neon letters
in the blackness appear, says create your ride.
And you can even hear the fucking narrator say that.
And then it fades to black. Yeah, I just did.
And we'll create our ride. And then.
Yeah. And then you say that.
Yeah. Yeah.
So quick history questions. Quick history questions, Dill,
who knows you better than they used to Pedal, Pedal.
Yeah. I agree one to Dill.
D Ham who knows you better than they used to.
Spigot Spigot knows I'm on site. Yeah.
Of danger I'm. Throwing a knife at them, God I
love that. OK spigot, add +1 spigot.
Who knows you better? I would.
Say it's probably Dill because he knows I've got his back
fucking. On site homies the twins over
here. Knives and gun.
If knife misses, gun will kill. Just I like I love that like the
knife robot coming around and just wildly throwing knives and
whether he hits or misses moves to the next target.
And then there's the like really well trained gunner just.
Finishing off the. Leftovers.
Bam bam. Bang, I need.
I need. To figure out what number to
press to get DM to go Full Auto knife throwing, press 73.
For Full Auto knife throwing. I bet there's a.
Manual press 9. 9999 99 It takes a.
While yeah, you just have it's, it's Full Auto, as full as you
can press the 9:00. 9. Swing 9 swing 9 swing.
Pedal who knows you? Better.
I would say Dill because, you know, he picked, he caught me
and he got me up on the roof. Gang, gang.
We've been had some bonding time.
Yeah, the two of you had. A bit a bit more of a moment in
action together takes me. To a -1.
And I think. That's the first time that you
have shared info in a strategic manner.
Everything else has been, it's been you trying to share it in
character with while your character was kind of nervous
about it, right. But that happened and you were
like, I want to tell him. I tell him yeah.
I got. I mean, it's I do it.
And I do it. Well, I do.
It. So, well, better than anybody
actually has ever done it, no. One's ever done it like I've
done it all right? Dill Plus One.
We'll come back and figure out what's on these race tracks next
time. I can't.
Wait to fix my knife arm. Yeah.
Knife. Arm.
Out of the frying pan, the crew find safety from their deadly
game. But what?
Awaits them out on the tracks and have they truly escaped the
fire? This episode was produced and GM
D by M Williams, featuring Theodore Stringer as Dill,
Lawrence Jennings as Deluca's Chophouse Answering Machine,
Mike Harrison as Spigot and Grace Stringer as Pedal.
Music. Composed for the season by Chris
Rogich. Additional voice overs by
McKenna Lynch. Other credits can be found in
the episode description. That's all for this edition of
WPR. I'm Q See you next time.
So I am Hick. 1st, I'm going to sneeze now that I've let's see
that what I this is a this is a program you ran because you
don't have allergies as a robot or did they give you allergies
as a robot? About a month ago, somebody
pressed 18 to have you sneeze in a month.
They said it was a tip. It was kind of rude.
That guy's name is I almost called him Larry, but that's
like you're in name. I cannot name that shithole in
PC after, you know, that guy's asshole Larry and he's not
allowed in the bar. But it can't be Larry.
No joke. I almost said we'll call him
Mike right after I said that. I am so.
Sorry, this is I'm not. Lying.
I had to stop anything. Else in both.
Cases. Let's call him Book or desk.
The name. Of the the man who flew my plane
from Dallas to Gago, his name was Kenjamin.
Kenjamin. No it.
Was not it was He introduced himself over the intercom as
Captain Kenjamin? And I thought to myself, that's
not a real name, that it's my This is Kenjamin.
And this guy pressed 18 sorry to got him off the go wildtangent.