The Ted Billions stand victorious among the roar of the
crowd, a brief respite after the challenges they've tackled so
far. Will they be able to withstand
the onslaught of further ones? 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.
Leave it in. I'm just going to cut that out
and put that like, oh shit, right there and then I'm going
to transfer just like all this in anyway.
I want to earn points. This season shit, I'm all thrown
off now. Welcome back to the Dungeons
Arcade apocalypse This season, using the Powered by the
Apocalypse system to tell the stories of.
Fuck, something about good good wets.
Yeah, but good wets and it's good good peoples.
But I want to read it right because like, it's 6 episodes in
and I have, it's always been this season utilizing the power
by the Apocalypse system to tell the stories of the citizens of
Tedville and their quest to return the good good wets to its
good good peoples. I'm M and I am prepared the
prepared game master for this season.
He's in running the wastes out here.
We have a question to start us off.
If your character was in a Mortal Kombat style game, Mortal
Kombat, Tekken, Super Smash brothers, really any of the
fighters, the the, the side scrolling fighters or that kind
of thing, what would your finisher move be?
And I am going to do a finisher move for the goons of the
pinball session that we've been doing.
I feel like even if you were fighting A1 goon dude, like when
they went to do a like finish him finisher and you put in the
cool button combo be like 1 goon walking up like cracking his
knuckles. And then I feel like they would
do a rest. Like 1 goon throws you into a
bunch of goons and they do a wrestling style, like they'll
red Rover you off of each other for a bit, jump off of each
other's hands like they're in the of like a wrestling match.
Like big and showy right? Doing flips and tricks.
But the one goon brings his other goon buddies in to like
make it a gang activity. Because I don't feel like 1 goon
would have a solo goon finisher move.
Unless the secret solo goon finisher move is as he goes to
like finish you off and then you can see the pinball roll up
behind him and squish him and you.
I think that would be another funny like solo goon finisher
move if he brought in the pinball to be squished by the
squishy with them's the goon alone or do it's up to you and
the others with you. Them's the goons and this goon
here is Theodore Stringer, player number one of our table
today. I play Dill, the all around bad
bodied person. I'm not like super familiar with
any of the the punch em up games so I had a little bit of
Internet research just to see if there was anyone in them games
that do stretch their bones and bodies like I do.
And there is. There's one.
I found one. I found one it it it took me a
second, but I found one. I found a dude.
His name is Doll SIM. He's from the Street Fighter
genre of games. Let me just really quick drop a
picture here. Also Mr. Fantastic in Marvel
versus Capcom. Yeah, I don't that one that
didn't even register, but Mr. Fantastic would have been good.
I dropped a picture in there with him doing one of his
things. Mostly I think he does fire
stuff but he also stretches. Don't know why the Internet says
he has a soft body. And does Dill he have a soft
body? So yeah, no, Abdul was going to
do a Street Fighter attack. He would do one where he
stretches out and hit someone, or maybe stretches around them
and stretches them real bad. But I couldn't find a a stream
fighter that does that. Yeah, finisher where you like
Jake. Suit them into breaking all
their own bones. Would be pretty nasty.
Yeah, I hate that. Yeah, not a fan.
Not a fan. It would definitely require an
act under pressure role. Oh.
Sure, Oh sure. And my name is Lawrence Jennings
and I play the robot waiter D Ham, the Delucas Chop House
answering machine. I thought about it and I think
it's a Mortal Kombat style finisher.
You know, he says something to the effect of press 2 or no
knife and then they go to press 2 and he dodges so that they
press 1 and then he throws a knife at them and they just got
they just pass away. That's probably the one they.
Like have a shaky finger that comes out.
Beating them up. I'm beating them up viciously at
this point with my. Like if you did Mortal Kombat
for the Wii. Yep, 100.
Percent. That's wild using the sticks to
Mortal Kombat. Using the sticks to mortal.
Kombat it's. Like it's like when you're doing
what is it We sports resort and you're doing the freaking.
We boxing. We boxing or the showdown one
with you're hitting people with a stick and they all and you're
running around this beautiful like landscape hitting people
with a. Stick.
Yeah, it's like that, but I'm throwing knives at all of them.
All right, and I am Michael and I play Spigot the water bearer
and Spigot's finishing move until he levels up because I
haven't figured out the fully leveled up piece would be pulls
down the mask and barfs a pillar of water at you from out of his
brass jawed mouth and you die. And you die.
Yeah. I almost chose fountain as the
character but I was like I what if we go in the same direction?
I guess that would be OK but like I thought on that for days.
Fountain would like summon a pipe and fill you with the
water. Yeah.
And it may be in the future he will level up enough that he
when he grabs you by the back of the neck and puts Norman on your
face and Norman destroys you psychically and you crumple to
dust. That's really cool.
Fill their mouth with water and you cap them with Norman so.
They can't spit it out. Because Norman's like, Nah, I'd.
Love to see an advanced Norman move but we got to find out what
kind of personality Norman's got first.
Yeah, before I never really want that.
And my name is Grace and I play pedal and I never played any of
these kinds of games. I grew up with a weak, but I
recently played. So I don't have I don't.
My character has my face breaker.
So I guess my move is if you get within my arm's reach, I'm just
going to hit you as much as I can until you stop moving, I
guess, or I can get away. I don't know what that move's
called. That is a fighting move.
I just keep keep hurting you I guess.
Which I actually love as a choice.
But if it's if it's a move, if I could take any move.
My boyfriend recently introduced me this old game called Castle
Crashers. I played a game and the
character I like to play has a magic whale that throws bombs on
people. So I like that one that does a
whale distends from the sky and just poops bombs and kills the
people in front of you. And I like that move.
So if I can even move in real life, me grace, it would be that
move. Whale bomb move.
Yeah. Last time we did a race and you
raced through, you defeated the kid in the race.
And there was another person. There was another person,
Jonathan joined us to join in with the the race.
Wait, did we win? You did, in fact, win.
I thought we just wait. Last time I remember we ran into
the house like we didn't finish the pinball game, we ran away.
No. You didn't run into the house.
The house back on the pinball board is still blocked up.
You guys ran, but you you went to the Mario Kart game.
You needed the Mario Kart race. What?
You were there? Yeah.
What do you mean? One yeah, do.
You understand what? We're basically there.
Craig and everything. I do.
Not remember to interacting with my sister.
I do not remember Mario Kart, but that's fair.
I. Mean that's where the that's
when the guest joined us, Craig. Plate clip.
I thought that was pinball. It's been so long since we've
played. This was after pinball.
Yeah, you guys in the their first pinball board like
encounter. You beat up some dudes over
eager to join in on the match and captured the pinball, making
it hit all the buttons you needed to hit so that you could
get off the board and away from dangerous pinball.
You ended up in a cart adjacent scenario in which you drove the
dildo in a race. You did the Mario Kart stuff.
You went around the tracks. You broke some special blocks.
You started with a blue. Special blocks.
The special you. Actually got a You don't.
Remember any of this? You remember the?
Special blocks I remember because it was like an actual
game of Mario Kart because I sucked.
Yeah, and we taught you about Mario Kart, apparently.
It was great and real. About Mario Kart throughout that
episode. We ended the episode by smashing
dill into the front grill of the Dill Go.
Oh yeah, he got splashed real good.
They you jumped off of your vehicle and onto the kids
vehicle while you guys were like fighting side by side and your
goal was just to plant your feet and stop it Superman style where
you just like hold on and it stopped because it wouldn't
matter to you if you got hurt a little bit.
And then that didn't quite work, I think because of some failed
rolls or some other environmental.
I think I rolled a lot of fails also.
Yeah, you did a lot of really cool ideas, just backed.
By I kept trying to do stuff and then it just didn't didn't work.
Yeah, that was an unfortunate luck session because you had a
lot of really good ideas in that.
Yeah, you did that. And I think to get you back on,
they like kind of rear-ended his vehicle so that you could.
I think you even pretzel linked them together at some point
trying to like help that situation.
We hit the red button at the very end.
Yeah, yeah. And that's what mangled Dill
between the kids car and the Dill Go.
Yeah, it's luckily we in the end we don't need to remember what
damaged was caused because at the start of each scenario he
resets to to. Pop sack to normal.
Yeah, if he had taken any severe damage, he's they buffs it back
out, but you did finish the. Race back to like anime scuffed
up. I'm like a I'm like a My Hero
Academia character. Yeah, I like to.
There's like little dents in your face and you just like blow
up your cheeks and they pop back out.
Definitely like a My Hero Academia character.
Really just any anime where post fight after they got the shit
kicked out of them, they just like wait 20 seconds and they're
like all right round Round 2. You think I'm finished yet?
You. Haven't even seen my final four
spits out blood. But you did finish the race.
You ramped off the thing and into the finish line because of
that last maneuver sent the kid spinning out and you jumped off
of the rainbow road and back down onto the track, crossing
the finish line. And then we faded to black with
the cheer, with the like crowd cheering around you guys just to
like put a bow on the end of that race.
You could even see, I think like the kid might might have been
throwing a tantrum, but attempting to finish the race
and right confront you jumps the ramp as well.
But like a like light turning off in a big building in just a
wall of black turn, you know, like that click sound of a giant
switch turning. And then the wall of black just
starts kind of at the edge of the the area you are.
And the kid never exits from it. Nothing ever comes out of it.
It's just the crowd and you cheering in this like bubble of
space. Oh, I leveled up.
Last session, I think that's true.
I think that's. True, I leveled up and I still
and I've got I still gain 3 more experience.
I got my cauliflower head sure which is permanent.
You did. What you did?
What I leveled up into a + 1 to weird OK and I leveraged that
during the chase to try and reconnect to the other one with
like a antenna shaped cauliflower dish on my head that
is still there. Sort of like a little sun hat on
my head now. Wow.
Yeah, OK, that's right. Cauliflower hat, Dill.
That catches us up. I believe though, at the start
of last session and the reason it wasn't done is because we had
a guest and we're just trying to jump right in, that Lawrence
wanted to call for a redoing of checked stats because we checked
him wrong on him again. Yeah, I would love to be able to
earn XP from more than one stat. When when we tried to remember,
I think it was like it's now the.
I it would have. Been the third session.
Please don't make me. Cool, I don't want to be.
Cool before we start no one make me cool because even if I'm
cool, I'm. Weird and I can't earn points
for cool if I'm weird. Oh shit, I want to earn.
Points and now we're going to do it now, so going to have to go
around in that order again and starting with D Nope, not D him.
It's Dill who has the highest history with you.
Spigot has the highest history with me.
Spigot pick a stat for Dill to check.
While we're doing this, everyone uncheck all your stats so that
we can check new stats. I don't have any restrictions,
you can pick any stat you want. He's so low maintenance.
Yeah, it's. True for the humor value.
I I kind of like hot. I want to see Dill do something
hot. And I don't want.
To see anything. Hot, I protest.
I don't see anything hot from Dill.
It's true. The other one's going to.
Be weird because he's cauliflower for me too.
Hot no for me too. And these?
Things you just get experience when you are.
It's an implied request to be hot.
I didn't choose it. Hey, I didn't pick this.
And only blame that one on me. Mike pick it and Mike will have
to bear the responsibility. Yeah, Thanks, Uncle Mike, you.
Are most welcome. I've been giving Mike.
For the session, but hot and weird.
Oh. Man.
All right, Lawrence, how was your highest?
Dill. Baby Dill.
Oh, it's all the hot and weird. No, I am going to pick weird
though. Then you.
Say definitely pick Cool. I just remember how to play this
game. You can.
Hold, hold on. In this specific scenario, you
can also pick cool Oh because weird is this thing.
That you do need. Yeah, I'll go with cool.
Cool, cool and weird. Stick him with two skills
instead of three. Yeah, love it.
Doo Doo Doo spigot. That would be petal and she and
I have a history of four. So I do I need to reset that to
1 and take experience? Yes, yes, if you were at 4:00.
All right. I'm going to pick.
Wait, no, if you were already at 4, is pedal still the?
Highest, yeah, because I think I got the four session.
I thought it was. Just in that too.
So then it should have reset last session so that.
Makes it, yes. That makes it DM.
Stole it from you. That's fine.
I want to pick anyways. We bonded over the pressing the
red button. DM what you think for spigot,
let's do hard hard spigot cool, spigot hard.
Spigot. Cool spigot.
One fish cool, Doctor Seuss. Rhyme, Yeah.
Now I'm just stuck on what rhymes with spigot.
All right pedal, what is? Who has your highest?
Spigot and deem are both it too, so so you.
Pick. I mean I feel like spigot's got
a lot of terms, so I guess deem can pick one because it's
usually spigot. Sharp please, taking everything
in my power to not go hot. I would really prefer if you
didn't, but I suppose. People pushing for hot, neither
of which would be hot towards each other.
We know this. But I think I think that's got
to be restricted to one last name per.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like if you if you share genetic
material with the person, you're there's no one.
Pot. I really like the rule.
We should put that in the book. One last name per hot.
I'm going to go weird because this has been weird enough.
You're not like any of any of what is coming to mind here.
As far as waste? Awesome, I'm in love.
And then we need a pedal vision role.
Yeah, and but this would make me full experience, so I get to get
another thingy. Yum Yum Yum Yum.
Yum. That puts you at level.
I don't even know. I don't know.
I've just been marking the experience and then unmarking it
and then remarking. It Oh no, Dill's the one that
leveled up last time. That should be your next.
Level. That actually should be the
level, yeah. Plus cool, My plus cool is a
zero, so that will be A7. A7 on a 7 to 9 MC holds two.
OK, we're definitely doing a vision at the start of this this
time, OK, we are standing here in this little bubble of visible
space and the crowd is going pretty wild at your victory
chanting. You have different groups, some
chanting dickle dickle. I think that was our chant.
Just like a good. Like.
Sports chant and then you have a different groups chanting pedal
just like pedal, pedal, pedal. Everyone's, you know, assembly
chaotic and and all across. But you can definitely pick all
these up. You're scanning over the
audience in front of you. Out of the ground is rising like
one of those 3 tiered podiums with like first, second and
third. But your head is swimming as you
run your eyes across the endless sort of faces up here on the the
risers, your vision starting to come in and out.
Lots of input here, but your eyes rest on a face that stops
you from scanning dead in your flow.
An uncanny face, plastic and hard, next to all these just
human faces. Chanting, chanting, right?
And they are still. They aren't moving, they aren't
like cheering, they aren't jumping, they aren't clapping.
They're just still and staring down directly at you.
And. Your vision phases in and out
the way it does when you know you're getting a vision.
This mask is in front of you and up in your face all of a sudden,
and then it moves back just a touch from your vision.
You're in some sort of combat training room.
There are some dummies around. You can see weapons on the racks
lining the sides of the the room.
There's a few people. You can hear the, the the the
sounds and thumps of bodies in the midst of this training.
And the mask backs away from your face and person takes it
off and you see a short black cut kind of rough and some 5 O
clock shadow on a very tight jaw.
And they whisper while looking around.
They say, what do you think? You think these these are good
masks? They'll just kind of blend in a
bit. Do I talk?
Is it? Yeah.
Give me some. I don't know.
There's no vision. I was.
Are you saying that? The mask.
They're saying masks. I couldn't quite hear what you
were saying. I'm sorry.
The. Masks, yeah.
Yeah, the the. Weird.
The weird mask that looks like a mannequin's face that you
spotted in the crowd. Now we're in the vision, right?
And the person is taking it off and you see a a familiar face
when you know and recognize but couldn't place as.
I think they look real creepy, I mean.
Well, sure, but they're just meant to hide.
Hide our faces, You think? You think you'd catch this in a
crowd? And he puts it back on like,
stands up and looks around the room a bit.
Maybe at a distance of like if you're really far back in the
crowd, I wouldn't be able to tell it was a mask.
But if you were in like the first five rows, I'd be able to
tell. But not everybody's me.
Not everybody's, you know that. That's right.
We, we, we'll scuff him up a bit, try to make him look a bit
more human. He pulls it off and he like
slips it into to his bag. He turns to you.
He says pedal we got to get a back.
We got to get Root back and he sits down in a huff next to you.
I miss it too. Yeah, every day.
Well, you, you make sure the machine's in place when it goes
off. Me and Twiggy, we'll, we'll be
ready. I'll have Paul Pollen at the at
the ready also, in case we need any care quick.
But this is going to be big. Make sure that you're ready if
we can. If you see him in there, if he's
still alive, make sure you get that water bearer out too.
You can tell me he. Stops for a second.
You guys are watching just like, you know, various groups of duos
do, like judo flips on each other into the mat, right?
Doing the physical trainings. And he sighs for a second.
He says I know I can, I know I can, and you can count on us.
And the vision fades out as you stare at this man's face for the
first time. You recognize someone in these
visions. You know Branch, Why wouldn't
you? Freaking branch.
It's freaking branch and you are back in this space, the crowd
cheering. You have caught eye contact with
this still person. The mannequin face looks only
slightly more scuffed up. There's like a little bit of
bandages around it, but it it definitely clearly looks like a
mask while you're staring like you've caught it, it doesn't
seem like anyone else in the crowd is weirded out about it.
Everyone's got like accessories and accoutrements, so it's not
like it stands out next to everyone else.
But you definitely like that's it's a weird mask for sure.
And you cash that. And this is where we're going to
pick up here. As the podium is is rising for
second and third places though, no one else is here to catch the
other or to like get up on the other podiums.
Floating above first place podium is a big gold trophy.
They just need the trophies at us.
Catch this. Catch this.
Everyone's throwing choke trophies.
Like ice skating, but worse. No, the the the 1st place podium
is rising. There's a trophy kind of glowing
and floating above it. Big gold sports trophy wood base
with a little key sort of indented as it's like trophy
plaque on the bottom. Crowd cheering.
I'm going to give you 2 or and whomever else needs it a moment
to finish level UPS. Has everyone done their level up
stuff? Because I don't want to dive
into this while like. I'm done.
You're done. Did you grace?
Did you add +1 to your score as well My?
Score. What score?
You said you took, you took. Plus one.
Cool. Yeah, cool.
Yeah, so was it a 0 before? Yes, that's right.
I want points. Sorry, just making sure.
No, I appreciate it. I figured if I use cool every
time I have vision, I probably shouldn't have zero it's.
An excellent decision. I forgot to ask Emma's branch.
Cute. How do I feel when I look at
branch? How do you feel when you look at
branch? And is branch cute?
Don't forget that one. That one's also important.
And is branch cute? Of course.
Why wouldn't branch be cute? Branches, branches.
Branch, hold on.
Hold on, you're stopping me up because now I'm just.
I'm nervous because he's so cute.
No branch branches were just like main line hot like he's
very wide shoulders. They're cut.
You can see that like Ridge here, right where it kind of
indents and like it's a it's a it's a structured muscle there
on the shoulders. More bruiser type in terms of
like size, right, but conventionally attractive cut
jaw. There's a little bit of like
stubble. 5 O clock shadow hair is unkempt as much as anyone
else's is, but it isn't like long and scraggly At at some
point he has maintained it. What color is eyes?
What color do you want him to be?
I don't know he. Made a word picture Game Master.
Yeah, yeah, God. What he has.
What kind of actor does branch look like?
What kind of conventional actor does branch look like?
I'm a visual branch like. Branch French doesn't want to be
compared to someone else. He looks like Smith Jenkinson.
You would know the movie if you were pedal, but Grace wouldn't
catch this reference. He looks.
Exactly. Useful for grace then, is it?
He looks. Like.
Jenkinson looks like a guy I've heard of.
I love Smith Jenkinson blimp Knights.
I can't react to it. For some reason, my brain, now
that I've gone down this rabbit hole, is imagining like a young
sort of Schwarzenegger type. Oh God, I do.
Not like. The young.
Where he's like big and thick a little.
Bit more conventionally. Attractive.
Less. Less old man Schwarzenegger that
we see now, More like small. Soldiers, that was.
I guess. And then I it's not cute.
I'm sorry, Arnold, but. You're not.
That was also an action figure and not Arnold Schwarzenegger in
the movie Small Soldiers. I say to myself, by the way,
that's why I was laughing so hard, because I said Small
soldiers. In the Jews.
Let's see, hold on, I'm going to find the small soldiers guy that
I'm talking about. This ones not bad.
Oh it's definitely this dude, except more cute cutesy.
Small great soldiers. What am I typing in here?
We. Go interesting one.
No way. No way.
Gabe's Gabe got it. It's that for certain.
Which which where do I go to find these things?
Important. Games the one it is for sure.
I sent the the toy I was thinking of when I said Arnold
Schwarzenegger, but Gabe sent Branch.
OK M OK MI love and respect you. This guy is not cute in my in my
opinion. I was thinking for body type.
I wasn't thinking like the face that sits on the man.
That he has sent a big the face is a big part of I'm, I'm sorry,
but practically the face you need.
Oh man. You know what now it is he's
like a. Branch.
OK Branch. It's the top.
One, if he's flexing like that, I'm going to zoom in on that for
the. Stream, look at that.
That's. Branch except branches also in
Wastelander attire. Andy's rag and bass.
And now branch and. Now everyone please welcome to
the discord call former governor of California branch.
I'm not. Cute here.
Oh man. Man seems.
I love that. Oh.
I find one that's my sister will admit he's cute.
I think I'm going to be at this a while you.
Know what we're going to do with that body?
I'm just going to keep doing this.
We're going to do that body with the face of Gregory Smith, which
is for some reason in the related pictures of.
Oh, he was in small soldiers. Yeah.
He deserves it. Then he might have been that.
Nude. This is Gregory Smith.
Smith doing some research, the ones that are coming up when I
googled is a child when I typed in Yeah.
Why is it aren't all the pictures a child?
He was once a. Child, I don't know why you're
getting those pictures, Grace. He's not.
Trying Gregory Smith, all these coming up are pictures of
someone that looks maybe as. Well, look up small soldiers.
Gregory Smith. Oh, sorry.
OK. Important Pics does the job
we're going to do the face of Gregory Smith plus.
Yeah, that is. Incredible body of Arnold
Schwarzenegger flexing in black and white because they didn't
have color photography. Yeah, Alan Abernathy is a
prototypical 15 year old boy, OK.
So this space and this body, OK, it's all about it.
You know what? We're going to go bottom
picture. It's all going to be pictures
Gabe sent us. It's going to be the face of the
kid at the very bottom, plus the body of Arnold Schwarzenegger
flexing. Oh God.
Not like any of this. He's also an other one or
whatever different kind of other one.
I have decided to picture him differently in my head just for
any future interaction purposes. If Pedal is going to be
attracted to Branch, I have to decide if he's cute and I talk
to him. Oh, that's good.
That's good. All this time of for sure Grace
not being attracted to anything we've sent and then also saying
but I don't know yet if I'll bring myself around.
I miss like somebody, okay? I have to remember I can't get
lost in this office. It's not me at all.
What a pedal. What with the the kit anyway?
OK, so that's branch. That's what branch looks like.
Thank you. Anything else you'd like to know
about branch? No, I mean, is he just, I'm
good. We're we're, we're showing,
we're looking for the branches there.
But he might do something. He might not.
Stay teeth, right? We need one chip on this one
'cause you guys are in the wasteland stuff and you need to
know that he's had. A the teeth is is important.
Yeah, yeah. I mean.
He takes care of him. Just one's chipped.
It's a branch. It's a fucking branch.
Anyway, here we are, the crowd's going wild, Pedals nodding
through herself. Good job Branch.
And for the other three of you who have not caught the eye
contact of AI, don't even know what to describe this man as now
masked figure in the crowd, you see the 1st place podium rising
out of the ground, trophy floating atop.
Well, I'm deaf and that's ours. Should we go get it?
Is there like stairs? I win, I win.
I do have to give somebody a boost and then up there to get
to the yeah. Were we supposed to already be
standing on it when it floated? D Ham is running up and is just
reaching his arms out like uppies.
You get the sense you might have already supposed to have been
standing on it when it started going.
Up, but there's the Tri. Level platform that you could
climb up with a little bit of ease.
I climb up to the top as far as I can go and I'm still holding
my hands up to the trophy like uppies like.
Uppies, you can grab the trophy. From I grabbed the trophy.
You do. It's a little, it's a little
heavy, but it it falls into your hands, metal will clink.
You hold it up above your head and the crowd goes.
Nope, I put it in my chest. You.
Put it in your chest. Like I like, I want to keep it
away from everyone else. I think they still go wild when
you. Grab it, I'm turned away from my
companions. As D Ham scrambles up, grabs the
trophy, and starts putting in his chest, it's pretty fast.
The podium immediately starts going down, and the sky in the
sea, a bull bubble that remains, begins to dim pretty quick.
This whole area just starts to sort of dim out, bringing you
back into that black room, though it is quite a bit slower.
Pedal. The masked figure starts to look
around frantically at that as Deham scrambles up and
immediately drops the sort of like I'm hiding in this crowd
and just starts pointing frantically down to the end of
the the like, Bleacher risers just pointing frantically.
And the others around him are like starting to look at him and
like, question what he's doing 'cause he like, punches into
someone when he points, but he's just pointing frantically, very
muscly. What is he pointing at?
What is? Do I see anything?
At the end, another masked figure, a lot slider this time.
Same kind of mask, scuffed up, bandaged in a lightly different
way, is just motioning you quickly, waving, waving fast,
waving fast, and the area around you is just dimming out slowly.
I also want to get on the. Podium I vote for.
How far away am I from the stands?
Like can I reach the mass people that they're waving me for?
You'd have to jump a low fence to get to where the risers are
and then run over there. It's not too far, there's a lot
of people up on the risers but they're all cheering for you so.
But these people are beckoning me towards them.
Is that what's happening? Or are they waving me somewhere
else? Uh huh.
The two of them them seem to be beckoning you towards the back
of the risers like they're trying to quickly pull you over
or like draw your attention to the back of the risers.
And just this is just pedal that sees this.
I don't know. So I know that Dill climbs up
with D Ham, as he has said, up onto the riser to scope out the
crowd. Is that your intent to scope out
the area or to just? Like I was feeling left out of
the moment that is happening IRL.
GM how do you feel about being? Hoisted, I think.
I think I'm just trying to keep the trophy away from you.
Like I don't want you to have it.
So I think you try to hoist me and I like walking away from
you, like off of the platform. Well, you're walking.
You're just going to walk in mid air now?
Grabbed. Grabbed and lifted tangential
property of trophies. Crowds going wild at this.
They're my points. They're my points.
I want those points. Spigot, you can see your two
allies you. Didn't give me a number to press
to give them to you. That basking in the victory,
celebrating goofily. You can see Pedal kind of
looking frantically back and forth amongst the crowd.
What do you do in this moment? I guess if I see her looking
frantically I would try and read a sitch.
Yep, go about what she's looking for.
You see the beefiest man. Shoulders taking up two seats.
That is a total of 8. Child.
She's looking back and forth. It's easy to see at the end of
the risers, A masked figure waving her on, trying to get her
attention and waving to her like come here, come here, come here.
As a result of that, I'm going to stay close to her her and if
she starts to move, I'm in a gesture to Dill and be him to
follow. Yeah, Now earlier pedal you said
you sprinted. Is that, is this happening?
Is this? Yeah, I'm gone.
If they're, if they are gesturing me, I remember them.
I'm gone. I'm already like I am.
I mean, this is a great moment. Spigot sees that and then looks
back at pedal like one last time.
Just as she starts to take off sprinting and dead sprints
towards the end of the risers, the crowd starts to there's like
a like what? Huh huh, huh.
What's going on, huh. Hush hush hush falling over the
crowd there. There's confusion.
There's hush 2 of you. Up on the platform you can see
Pedal and Spigot making a deadbolt for a fence running
towards the end of the risers. I think at this point the person
has disappeared under the riser, so you don't see what they're
running to, but you see the two of them making a dead Sprint
away from you as the. Area.
Is just D Ham and Dill that are going to do whatever the next
thing is. Looks down at Dill and then
points at Spigot and says driver.
Press 1 to follow that car. Press 2 to, I don't know, stay
here. Press 3 to give me all of your
points. Press 4 to give me all of your
points. You can.
See where this is going? Press 5 to and you're not going
to believe this. Give me all of your points.
Yeah, I guess. I guess I'll, I'll follow.
I'll just sort of tuck, tuck D Ham under one arm and swing down
like a big orangutan. Follow Spicket.
I think Spicket's the one we can probably still see.
So follow Spicket. I mean, pedal will say at the
point which you guys jump off and start chasing after pedal is
like made it to the fence and I'd like a do something under
fire from everyone. The moment pedal reaches that
fence, there is consternation from the risers and at least the
front row is quick to react. And it's kind of like a wave
from there that they just start rushing to push pedal back from
the fence. Don't cheating.
You hear screaming. No, you can't.
You can't stop the game. No cheating.
You've got a game to play. You hear like the crowd, you
know, just various shouts from the crowd.
There's a thing under fire that'll be a 10 for me.
Elia an 8. An 8 for Dill 6.
That's a nine for Spigot. What is it that I'm doing under
fire? The doing under fire is going to
be following pedal through this on rushing crowd as she I mean
it's kind of up to you if you choose to follow.
But as she like hits the fence and leaps it because she's
chasing this person, I imagine she doesn't just stop at the
fence, she leaps it and starts chasing around and behind the
risers. The crowd is like coming off of
the the risers trying to half chase her, stop her from leaving
the play area that has been made-up in on the other side of
this fence and other half trying to just stop you guys from also
leaving the play area. So I would say the under fire
unless you'd like to do something else with that is
following pedal. I do.
I have. I have an idea, but it's not a
very good idea I don't think. So if anyone else has an idea
first. I will say that with these Rolls
pedal, you've made progress, bigot, you said an. 8-9.
Nine that you're able to make it over the fence as the the the
crowd is starting to get to. You're fighting through.
They're grabbing at your clothes, just sort of trying to
tear you back. You can keep up with pedal, but
in doing so, they're going to RIP something off of your body
like a not like your arm, but they're going to like take a bag
or take like a pocket, you know, with something in it.
And you will lose a material of some kind, which I guess in this
case results in what are they called.
Barters. Barters, yes, a barter and for
the other two with the weighing down and the like struggling of
D ham trying to get down and like run with you, it seems like
at this point you are slowed down and there is a crowd in
front of you kind of separating you.
You need to act quick if you want to follow pedal under this
as the area around you is blackening.
There's a crowd in front of us. Yeah, they're starting to like
hit this fence and jump it and wash towards you.
Well, I know, I know of one thing that I could do.
I also have a thing I could do. I, I think I, I, I lift one hand
and I plant it on the shoulder of my good pal Dill.
My my good acquaintance Dill and I grip your shoulder and then I
just start with the other arm. Just start letting knives RIP.
I'm just throwing them. I'm not necessarily aiming for
lethal hits or anything like that, but I'm I'm making a path.
OK, just. Fucking Gatling knife gun.
This is formation #3 we'll have to remember this one.
Formation 3 I do like. That we'll need it again.
What Dill's My idea was to sort of huck D Ham at least part way
over the over the crowd. You can do that like I could
start. Throwing dice while you Chuck
me. Mission 7 I do like it, but the
other idea would would be to hug him and then run back into the
fence and do something awful to distract the crowd so that the
other three can escape. And then I'll do whatever the
the next portion of Mario Kart or whatever is if I'm, you know,
stuck here. No, I'm gripping your shoulder.
I already said that. I'm going to roll now.
All right, you can try and throw me.
You could probably do it, but I might be down an arm.
Now I've got the other thing I can do is I'm inhumanly flexible
and I can impress, dismay and frighten people without seizing
things by force. Is this still under fire?
Go aggro, What are we feeling for me to start throwing knives
indiscriminately? You call spontaneously throwing
knives of people going aggro. You know when I hear that
happening. I would agree go aggro gives you
what is it cave and do what you want.
Force your hand and suck it up like you can get something in
this trade or whatever, you know what I mean?
Oh, lay down fire. Lay down.
Oh. Is a is a battles of battle.
I think that's actually what we're doing here.
I like lay down fire OK? Yeah, because there is a.
Allowing another character to move or act freely, which opens
up basically the path, right? That's really good.
Good goal, I got a 10. Yeah, choose three.
Choose three of the. 4. Wow.
All of them except inflicting harm.
You provide coverage during fire, allowing another character
to move or act freely. You provide supporting fire,
giving another PC Plus one choice to their own battle move.
You provide suppressing fire, denying another character to
move or act freely. Yeah.
I throw 3 knives. One of them is called covering.
The other one's called supporting.
You know, called suppressing. Yeah.
I mean, you do that incredibly well.
You start spitting out knives and dill in front of you.
You prep to like make yourself big and scary to scare these
people off, But immediately 3 or 4 are dropped in in front of
you. He's hitting like kneecaps with
knives. He's not, he's not necessarily
going for kills. He's going to clear this like
crowd out in front of you. Kneecap, kneecap, kneecap,
kneecap. And people are going down in
front of you, allowing you to move or act freely and follow
your allies. All right then, I've got one arm
wrapped around D Ham sat up on my shoulder, and the other hand
I've stretched real big. It's my my pushing hand, so I'm
just going to sort of linebacker my way through through this
crowd. And I think with this spigot, as
you are about to like tear free of this bag, a knife hits the
guy behind you too. And you're not going to lose
that barter in order to get through because your knife
thrower behind you has done so well with his shots making up.
I'm going to say that's the plus one battle, you know, choice to
your battle move. Nice.
Your bag starts to like RIP off but that knife hits them and you
would like strap it. You pull it up and hold it to
your just as you run around the side pedal.
Behind you, you hear your allies a little bit of consternation as
this is beginning to occur. Right spigots just starting to
get grabbed. As you come around the edge of
this corner you see the thin, more wiry mass person that was
calling you over is way ahead. About halfway down the risers.
They were dead sprinting and they reached a steel column
holding these risers upright. They cut around the steel column
and disappeared. They should have passed like on
the other side of that column, right, like they should have
just column is only so big, like 18 inches wide, right, 12 inches
wide, however wide. This is random thoughts like
once your body can barely even hide in that little gap of the
two steel, you know flats, but they just like whoop right
through dead Sprint and then they stop as you're like running
and you see their head like poke out and they quickly wave you
over. You're about halfway down that
by the time your allies come roaring around the The Edge
crowd behind them rushing. It's a big old crowd of folks
just in chaos and running behind Dee Ham hurling knives behind as
Dill is rushing spigot directly in front.
You follow up. Continue to follow.
Yeah, I do a quick peek over my shoulder to make sure the gang
is gang and it looks like oh man, Dee Ham throwing knives.
And then I turn around and I keep looking at because I can
see that they have eyes on me. So I'm going to keep going and.
As you dirt this corner, you see a flashing sort of flickering
light hanging from above. And in between these two steel
beams supporting the risers is a metal just like inlet, like a
little metal service room. It's metal, metal walls.
There are little pipes lining up and you like look around the
edge and there is just clear space there.
Like this space should not not be here.
But looking in from this angle, you see this weird mechanical
room. You know what I mean?
There's like the little pipes that like cutting bunches coming
down from the ceiling and cutting into a wall.
These are metal walls. It looks built in.
It looks like you should be underground in this moment,
right? Not really befitting being under
this. Those pipes don't really seem to
go anywhere because this room is just kind of present.
But there is a metal hatch in the ground, one of those big
wheel hatches. You have to turn the wheel to
open and it is open and the masked person is pointing and
waving, pointing and waving so fast.
Are they saying anything at this point?
They are not. Is the rest of the gang closed?
Like I don't really want to jump into a hole without a backup.
Yeah. I think with with all of these
roles, you guys, the the gang has the time to like catch up to
you and jump into this hole with you.
By the time they've caught up to you, though, the the dimness is
setting in like whatever light is escaping under these
bleachers, it has started to dim out like it's it was maybe dim
under here and now it's like almost black under here.
Even D Ham's light is not creating too much light in this
quickly escaping encroaching darkness.
So it's not like the never ending story.
Yeah, I think, I mean, this is a moment to decide for the
runners. There is not time for
conversation as The thing is dimming.
You can say a few things if you choose to.
I'm not going to stop you from talking.
You guys can speak. The dimness is encroaching
quickly and you know you'll be back in that black space in no
time in front of you. Weird mechanical room with a
hatch behind you encroaching. I'm going, I'm going down the
Hatch, y'all. There's something about my past.
They I know. So I'm gone.
And I, you know, look at speak it like you're probably coming
too, right? There's like, yeah.
Two gestures go. I'm following you.
It's like. She jumps and.
Looks back longingly as she falls.
Please come. Please help.
Are we being chased? Yep, crowd behind you.
Does the Hatch have a detachable lid?
It has, it's one of those like metal, almost like submarine
hatches where you have a little bit of a a wheel to spin to.
OK, so it's got a hinge. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
OK. Yeah.
I was going to maybe drop D ham down the hole and and sling a
lid, but I can happily pull it down on top of us instead.
Yes, yes, fully. There's the same kind of wheel
on the inside, right? Where you can grab it and pull
it and tighten it. Yeah, I'll grab the wheel and
swing down. My weight will pull the lid down
and you know I'll figure it out from there.
Then I'll be down the hole. Down the hole, the sound of the
metal hat shutting above your head echoes in the the the
maintenance sort of hatch you guys find yourself in
maintenance hallways think like concrete walls, the pipes and
the beams running through the ceilings, leaking noises off in
the distance, black mold kind of glowing and growing all over the
walls. The masked person does not stop
except to look behind them quickly.
They finally say come on quickly, hurry, hurry, hurry.
And they continue, just ever so fast pace quickly down the
halls. Do I recognize the voice?
You do. I'll give you at a minimum you
do and you can give me a see, Is there a move good for this?
Probably an open your brain roll if you want to try to pull at
that thread. OK, eight.
Good. Good enough?
8 An impression. You know them, you trust them.
You can't put faces to them. But whenever you think about the
name, you remember now Branch. You remember Branch.
You remember this thick gentleman bruiser?
Type. Gentleman Branch.
And in those memories you can see Branch laughing with like a
drink in his hand, right? You know you're laughing and
there are some blurred faces around.
And even in that blur you get that like same kind of body
type. Like this person is there in
your memories next to Branch laughing with you guys, but you
just can't put a face to them. They're running, it's dark, it's
stressful right now. OK, but I trust them.
Sort of same team, same team, kind of vibe, yeah.
OK, well then I guess I'm following them.
It's quick, it's sharp, turns in and out, in and out.
Is everyone following quickly? Does anyone stay?
Is anyone like stay back for I just want to what is goals in
the moment? The moment that hat shuts right,
the person takes off and pedals like looking around, kind of
frantic and then I imagine following a bit parsing these
memories. Keeping pace with pedals I.
Don't really know what what else is around.
Is there anything else distracting?
As you get down to the bottom of the ladder that had you up
there, there is maintenance tunnel leaving leading off in
both directions. Pedal and this mysterious masked
person went One Direction and then you can see like pedal and
Spigot taking a right into a doorway.
There's a couple doors up and down this hall, black mold it
like to the left at the opposite direction.
Lots of black mold covers those walls and it seems to be like
growing up the hallway this way and you can see it in little
corners and spaces but there's a few doors off and in down that
direction for sure. Definitely stuff to explore down
here. OK, I think because we are in
the midst of a chase sequence, friends plus doors ranks higher
than doors plus mold. So if there's nothing like
explicitly distracting, I'm going to follow Do you want down
or do you still want to be my parrot?
No, I like it up here. I.
Make sure you're not scraping his head on the same way.
Yeah, the next. Question is the is the tunnel?
I turn on my flashlight eyeballs.
That's great need. That he has to like arc his head
to the side to keep his head from.
I'll just make myself shorter. Fuck.
You make. Yourself.
Yeah, Short. Enough.
Is it? Is it just the legs that are
shorter or is it like proportionally the whole body?
What? Part of you, you make.
Sure, it's just the shins. The shins are where I start.
So it's just feet, feet and thigh, Feet, feet, knee, thigh,
feet. And thigh, feet and.
Thigh. He just pulls the shin bone up
next to his thigh bone and just leaves it there.
That that process is audible if D ham yeah, terrible, but down
the hallway. It's fast-paced being at the end
is like you're keeping up with the bigot is literally having to
stop to like point like let's go, let's go, let's go.
This person is not stopping to wait and pedal.
How are you following? Are you following along with
like like, yeah, talk to me about how you're following
because I don't want to keep saying like all pedals ignoring
this pedals like doing XX way like how is this sitting with
you as you're chasing this person?
I mean, this is the first kind of concrete meant like vision
memory I've had since we started this campaign.
So I think that she's really following this thread and
remembers branch and remembers there was some kind of job.
Clearly it went awry. Did you say the name Root?
Did you say root? Earlier I did.
We had. Twiggy.
Back Twiggy and Pollen are at the ready.
I think is along the lines Twiggy and Pollen at the ready.
We have to get root back something in that realm.
All right, so we all have related names.
So either we're a crew or we're a weird family or something or
both or both, or it's a found family that's a crew now.
And so I think I've just. We just coincidentally all have.
A plant name. The first time it popped into my
brain that branch could be brother is when you said is he
cute? And I was like, I have to make
that decision right now. Wait, is branch my brother?
Because branch my brother. Then that's very different.
Than if I made that decision and then tried to.
Someone that. Could be attractive to many,
except apparently, to you. Now I'm confused.
I really OK, I'm just wanting to connect the dots.
He's not your brother. He's a good.
Thick gentleman.
To be specific, I I decided no in that moment.
Got it, got it 'cause it's, yeah, 'cause there's, I got to
know some background information that like, I have to know, Grace
has to know just for my sanity. And if I can't genically relate
it to Branch, I'd also think he's cute.
I will give you the security that I'm not going to give you
the out of promising that you will not have to flirt with your
brother in a campaign where sex is on the table to then give you
an NPC brother to find cute. I promise you that it's not a
game I will play. That would be.
Fucking wild, dude. I was like, Grace, their sex
move. She's like, I don't know if I
want to play this game. And I was like, no, no, no,
listen, listen, listen, listen. Listen.
Do it.
Just choose not to do that and it's OK.
Right with you. Yeah, but like what if Gabe
chooses to make a sex move? Because then I just have to
listen to my brother play code, do you?
Think he would do that? No, I'm just.
OK, no, I think what she's talking about is just the pure
sibling discomfort of listening to your sibling.
Being a make. A move on.
Yeah, anybody that's true. I I am just trying to follow as
closely as I can because if this person isn't going to stop, I
don't want to lose my chance of figuring out more details beyond
branch and other. I do love that.
So yeah, it is pedal keeping a close follow to this person and
Spigot being like the intermediary.
Oh yeah, Pedal's not waiting. She's just gonna help it.
I get can like hear her running and like hear the noise and be
able to figure out which direction also is there?
Is it completely dark in there? Like how can we?
How can I see this person that's waving me on?
It is dark. This person has like we'll say
they've cracked a glow stick as they're running in between there
are sparse flickering like drop lights from the ceiling, the
metal rimmed held bulbs, lights that are just flickering on and
off. There's a few bar
phosphorescence that are blinking in that that ringing
kind of light bulb sound you can hear as they turn on and off.
It is sonically probably it's pleasing in this area.
And as you're running and Spigot is kind of keeping the
intermediary like let's go this way.
Go, go, go, hurry up. I'll fuck running up ahead like
Connor Carter this way. Go, go, go.
Like it is a maze. You've turned right at some .4
times before. You like go straight and you're
not in the hallway. You recognize, you go up a set
of decked stairs and then down a set of stairs and through a
door. But no matter what, you're in
these like maintenance hall, always this person that you're
following along seems to know where they're going.
At some point, you guys come up to a sliding glass door with a
red room sign above it that just reads 03/3 in like blinking pale
pink letters on this red sign. And they slide open the sliding
glass door and on the other side you can see a fucking just
infinite line of shops, like you're in an actual mall, Like
you're at the entrance of a mall right here, shops.
And it's dark. You can see some like moonlight
trickling in from an above skylight.
It's only lit by this natural light that is seeping in from
the massive tiered window above you.
Just endless shops. There's some balconies up ahead.
You think you could maybe get up there.
You could see an area where it drops off into like a little
escalator down. And they like slide that door
open and they like motion quickly for everyone to come
take a bit. And they like look around as
pedal runs in for the the rest of everyone to catch up.
And you guys run into the mall, feet clacking on the tile floor
and the glass door slides shut behind you guys.
Again, the only light in here is filtering in through the roof
that moonlight. And you can see the Halo of a
yellow light off up and around the corner.
There's some light up there that's shining out into this
hallway. But first, once you guys are all
in that person just quickly rushes up to pedal and spins her
around and gives her a giant hug and pedal.
You feel, I don't know that you've had a lot of like
physical comforting since you've woken up, like you might have
had a hand on the shoulder from spigot, right?
But you feel warm and embraced in this moment.
And you hear the voice behind that mask.
I, I thought we lost you a pedal.
And you can feel them like shaking, like a sense of total
relief is like washing over them and they sniffle, sorry.
And they push you back a little bit.
And they're like, we got to we got to get to the, the food
court. Come on.
And they sniff a bit and they
like, push up ahead. Wait, are the gang with me?
Yeah, gang, gang's all here. I didn't want to leave anyone
behind in the maintenance hallways unless anyone wants to.
The door can stay open if someone wants to hang out in the
maintenance hallways. If anyone's curious and
continuing their journey in those hallways, that that door
is still there. The the shops, are they closed?
Are their gates down? Are the doors open?
It's. Spotted of both, some are fully
like gated over glass still intact.
Some are open, some are glass broken behind the grates like
totally kind of random assortment.
Some are fully open though. OK.
I mean, I am curious about about these shops.
He wants to find something to squeeze.
Yeah, Dill's hungry. And like, it's not been entirely
unpleasant, but it's been mostly unpleasant.
I could use some some toxins and essential oils.
Essential oils give me a. Would you eat a fire
extinguisher? Quick Queue?
Would you eat that? No.
That's like poison, isn't it? It's.
Like whipped cream for you? It's mostly it's baking soda in
those. Yeah, but isn't that?
Is that a chemical? You don't.
Want to eat poison is that Would that not be considered a poison
if I just ate baking soda? I'm giving it a.
Goo. It wouldn't.
I mean like a lot.
I'm going to get started right now.
What happens if you eat? Interesting.
I'll let you know in a few hours the.
Contents of a fire extinguisher is what you're looking up right
now. I'm just curious.
Oh, it's not good. I mean, I'm surprisingly not
good. What is?
This. OK so I guess a small small
dosage will cause like a a sores in your stomach but large
amounts can lead to kidney damage and heart failure.
Poison. Depending, yeah, Like there's
different, there's different chemical compositions of the
foams depending on, I guess, what kind of foes.
We're we're reaching the point where Dill also has taste he
cares about. Like I guess I.
Mean it has to be a poison is the thing it's like.
Oh, not just poison us like a poison.
Well, then you can eat batteries.
Because batteries aren't poisonous.
Because. We've done like fumes.
I don't get into the weeds here. But if I eat battery, I die.
I just, I just wanted to know if you would eat a pie
extinguisher. That was, I'm sorry, it was a
very innocent question. I'm sticking with no is the
answer. You can't squeeze it for juice
is the like. No, but not because it's not a
poison, because if you squeeze it, it explodes and then you
can't eat it. Yeah, you squeeze, it explodes,
and there's powder everywhere. Well, you can make your mouth
really upsettingly big and eat it all.
In there and just chew. It's like a bomb went off inside
Kirby. I'm like a strict, I'm pretty
strictly liquid diet, that's true.
Eye extinguishers are very accessible my.
Insides would not handle that well.
Those are some very solid solids to change it up with.
Give me an examine closely as you pass by these shops moving
down this area. And you'll find Arsenic Alley
where they only sell poisonous. Eye sharp is bad.
That is a six. So there are a few that are
totally gated over the stuff inside.
It's it all seems generic, like you don't see any name brands on
anything. It's like white boxes.
It's white cartoons. It's one egg like why?
Why not one egg on a little pedestal?
Like all of it's very like generic and it seems super fake.
In a lot of the the the broken open ones, you can see like some
of these like containers, these white walled containers, boxes,
jars, whatever packing peanuts have spilled out.
There are cartoons around both open and spilled on the ground
long time ago. Some closed but nothing like
even in the open ones anything that opens seems that it's been
looted through and anything closed it's just not drawing to
you. Like it's just seems generic
boxes, like I said cartoons an egg.
Dill feels like this is all still maybe Dome adjacent.
This might all still be some kind of weird illusion or
something. Dill doesn't know how we were
teleported from here to there and whatever.
What was quite real in any of that?
Dome game. This all this could be props or
something like dill doesn't have that like specific set of
thoughts. It's just like, feels SUS.
That's the vibe a lot of this gives you for sure.
Props is a great word. OK, so back to the chase.
Yeah. You know, not so much of A chase
this time. As you guys come up the hallway,
your feet clacking on the tile floor.
Around the corner, you see a circular room.
A few stalls line its edges. There's like one in the middle
called Orange Julius, and it's empty.
It's it's closed out, but it's still here.
And in this, yeah, there are bright yellow, like stand lights
like you would use at a stadium or like on set, right.
Creating a circle around this food court, shining light
outwards and creating a bright bubble of light that, you know,
once you reach this this turn point, you can really see.
And they've created this little Dome of light and the person
moves in that you've been following.
I take off their mask. Some long hair falls down,
having been tied up by maybe a tie in the mask, long uncut for
quite some time. She has soft features, a few
scars running up and down her cheeks and around her mouth
area, thin and slight. And she comes running up and
says, Twiggy, I, I found him. I, I got Pedal.
I, I brought her back. And you see a, a face of a very
young child. Sit up.
Oh, Pedal. And a young boy, also just
raggedy hair kind of around his face, comes running up to you.
Pedal and hugs you just like, right around the waist.
Almost way too, like way too tight.
You feel kind of squeezed. And now that she's taking her
mask off, the name pops into your head.
Pollen. You've been following Pollen
this whole time, and that only leaves Twiggy, the young one
holding you. I guess is there any way for me
to roll? Either open my brain or examine
closely or something if I can figure out who these people are
to me? Anyone.
Any of them? Either I think both are good
roles. Open closely feels like you're
examining the environment, finding clues and putting them
together right? Whereas open your brain is like
all these visions are finally making sense.
Whichever 1 you feel you want to role for.
Do we decide, if examined closely, Phil, is it under
Sharp? Yes.
OK, F + 2 to either. So I think I'm going to open
your brain. I'm using weird.
I've used it twice now. I need to check that.
Open in your brain. I'm going to open my brain.
Oh, that is a 9 + 211. Yeah, my brain's still open.
Yeah, the memory phases back into your brain of branch and
Twiggy and pollen. And there's another middle-aged
woman kind of hunched over in her build.
She looks a little more frail. That, you know, is rude.
All of you are laughing over some sudsy beverage you've
cracked open. Probably warm, right?
You're just having a good time around the campfire.
That memory like a snapshot in your brain of all these people
you've spent your life with, these people, friends, family,
like you know that they aren't your family, but this is like
your tight group. This is your group.
And while the mall around you looks wrong, it all feels kind
of familiar. You've definitely spent time in
the mall your group had. We can even zoom out from that
fire that you're all kind of around to see that you're in
this burnt out mall, though it is ancient and rumbling around
you. Not like the well maintained but
decrepit, you know, abandoned, I guess small you have found
yourself in. This is your crew.
Do I have a vibe of like one I'm closest to just like just that's
what my only system Like is there one of these people that
like pedal is closest to or is it all?
I mean, it only feels right to be branch at this point.
OK, got to be branch. He's LED you down this down this
road. He's my my homie.
He's your, they're all your homies, but you're tightest with
Branch. He is not here at the moment,
however. Oh Oh yeah, I was in branch.
He did not follow along. You got you got pollen and
Twiggy. I think at this point as I'm
like opened my brain and I've remembered like a little bit
more details about who these people are in my hand is like
reflexively stroking Twiggy's hair kind of just, you know,
stay comforting. And like, just like, it's a, it
feels just like natural, like I am doing, like I remember now
that I'm remembering them, I'm like, oh, yeah, of course it's
tricky. Yeah.
He likes it when I do this with his hair.
I love that he his almost bawling seems to quiet up pretty
quick as you do that. He seems to really relax at you
stroking his hair Paul and says I can't believe you came back.
We thought you would, but branch Branch he knew you would and he
made us prepare. I just didn't think I just
didn't think it would be safe. You got out and I it's felt like
so long pedal. Where where have you been?
Why is it taking so long? How long has it been I?
Don't know, we lose, we lose track down here.
The the time never really changes.
It's, it's felt like, I don't know, a really long time.
I guess it's, it's, it's hard, hard to say.
I don't know. It's it's just been sort of
night down here since you got us in.
This is a gang. I feel awkward because I don't
remember these people and it's very emotional here, like this
is a gang. It's Beckett and and D Ham and
and Dale. I'm in the midst of setting D
ham down and. And this is my buddy Dale, and
they helped me get here. It's.
Great to meet all of you. Do I live?
Here now, any we we do, but that's just because it's
quieter, I guess, than engaging in all of the the games He
throws them through up there. I'm sorry, sorry, I pollen and
she waves and she says that's she points to the the boy,
wrapping his hands around Twiggy.
He'll if you guys need any help, he's he's good with the
bandages. Why don't we, when we come in
and take care of some wounds, get a bite?
We can we can chat. D Ham waves and says hello, I am
Deluca's chop house answering machine.
Did I win? And then he takes the trophy out
of his chest and holds it up in the air.
Yeah, what did I win? Well, as she reaches over and
she grabs she's may I? No.
Okay. She pulls her hand back.
She says the trophies not worth much, but the key will get you
into the the the last room. It's one of the the three you'll
need to open his door. I won one of three keys.
Yeah, I mean, it doesn't, it's not, it's not like a real prize,
you know that, right? It's just like to move on to
another stage in his game. Well I know now and now I'm
disappointed and Dehams whole body slumps and the trophy
starts dragging along the ground and D hem says no, press 3 to
grieve. He takes his finger up and he
presses 3 no. Well, that's a sad.
That's a sad robot. Really curious what would have
happened if if Dill had stayed behind now.
Me too, me too. When you were like, I might stay
fine. I was like it was about to get
interesting. But in the meantime, while Dill
is or while D Hem's grieving, Dill has gone over to sit down
with the bandage person. Because like, I don't mind.
I wouldn't mind getting healed back up to full.
Plus I think it would be very interesting.
To see him try to heal you. Yeah, just to see him like your
bones are gravel. What's with?
You. I love that.
Let me look up what a battle Angel does, which actually now
that I say that, I don't think it really matters because
overall it's heel, but you're just a weirdo and that's the the
problem we're facing. So it's not normal heels ING.
You're just a weirdo. Let's see, work on them like a
savvy head on tech. Oh, interesting.
Well, what's that mean? Yeah, now I got to find out what
savvy head on tech means. Not a thing to speak.
That would be fucking crazy. Oh yeah, the healing touch move
with the Angel. Yeah, the kid says.
Yeah if you. Guys, I found your family and
I'm throwing knives in them. I found them dead.
Oh shit. Well, there go the Allies.
Sorry, we were gubering talking. About about a healing touch and
a knife. Pedal says no, yeah, I can just
just come on back to my shop. And he pulls aside like a little
divider and there's like a, oh, a medical table with the, the
fold up in the middle, right, a little cart of, of, of needles
and scalpels and whatnot. He's got all sorts of gear back
here, seemingly scrambled together from no one.
Kit and Dill enters and he says, oh what is?
I'm imagining the the ceiling is lower in this little space, and
so Dill hunkers down like a bad gorilla and you like there's a
whole series of pops and cracks while his spine adjusts to that.
Whoa, I so OK, so I I'm pretty good at healing stuff up.
I don't know how to fix your head though.
I've never had to like, do full surgery.
Press 3 for batteries. Press 4 for.
There's nothing wrong with my head.
Assorted poison. What's wrong with my head?
Press 5 for bleach. Then what do you need help with
if it's not? I'm bleeding internally.
Oh, just like just like a lot. And I shake myself, and I kind.
Of kind of makes that sound from across the room.
Yeah, it needs to get all back back where it belongs.
This. Is Oh God, I can, I can help out
with that. I I think goodness.
He opens up a little drawer and rifles around.
He pulls out a vial. He looks at you.
He shakes his head. He puts it back and he pulls out
a different one and he grabs a needle, pops the, the top on it
draws and he says, I, I mean, it might sting, but it's going to
help. It just sort of jabs it into
your thigh, pushes the plunger and you are going to heal with
some sting. I guess He's going to, oh, if he
fails, he has to open his brain to you.
And I think that that's important enough.
To roll. How tricky on a 7 to 9 heal one
segment, so you heal up to 3:00 rather than 6:00.
But you're also opening your brain, so roll that move next.
Good gracious. I want to say I want to be able
because my my character, if I had another character have sex,
I can give them a move from my playbook.
Would it? Would I be able to to?
I don't want to have sex with Twiggy, not to say that.
Thank you for. Specifying.
I was very strange about where this was going.
I knew it couldn't have been. I would like to perhaps give
them one of my moves because I have a move I could give them
because they've done. This or Twiggy?
It should be pretty obvious to you, Game Master, which one is
not one that I've yet used. I don't want to say it for the
table yet. I think that this is really
interesting. I'm more than willing to open it
up past a sex thing, but I think what this is is like it's on the
needle. Like you haven't exchanged
anything with the child. Like my imagination is insects.
It's bodily fluids, right? Like you're exchanging bodily
fluids at some. Point yes yeah, that's why I
wouldn't I there's no way I could give them the other one no
or my or my Lily of the pits. But I think because they're
opening their brain to the psychic maelstrom, I might be
able to give them my third one on a failure.
Like if it's. Something that's on the needle
and the needle touches someone else that tracks to.
Oh yeah. That also tracks.
I could definitely see see that, but this is specifically for the
open the brain, OK, even like temporarily like if we said next
session. Yeah, I can see that with an
open your brain roll. See what he rolls.
What is an open your brain? That's plus weird.
So he got a nine. This is mid realm.
I think that Oh, this is interesting.
I think with a nine A9 is on the high end of the the mid I'm I
might say no, but also perhaps they've got just like a brief
flash of what it's like to be dill.
OK. Yeah, that I like that.
I like no transfer, but he does see something like in this
connection with you. Or even like he like, 'cause
I'm, I'm folded up wrong, I'm still gorilla dill.
So like the bodily sort of the bodily sensation of just being a
very different shape. A goradilla.
Gorilla but with forearms is, you're right, so much worse.
Gorgella Supreme. That's me.
Oh, ah, young. Doritos Locos Gorgella Supreme.
I think it's quick, but I think that so he injects you with this
serum and normally he's used to feeling this big connection and
being able to dive in Dick deep and pick out parts I tried to
move. Past it.
Dive in deep and pick out parts of your psyche.
And he? Scrambles back.
He scrambles, he scrambles back and like bumps into the cabinet.
A few things clatter and he's like scared of whatever's inside
of you. And he says, I I'm sorry.
I usually have a stead of your hand.
I anything something to eat. And he like won't meet you in
the eyes, and he just like backs out down the wall and around
escapes you. I won't take my eyes off of him.
He's like sweating by the time he.
Just the rest of me doesn't move.
My eye is just the eyes, like a, like a.
Painting they they move out and they follow to the side.
No, they don't. No, no, but my my face does like
push back so that they can continue to follow from their.
Sockets. Started to like fish.
Eyes on the side of your head. The socket follows him, the eye
does not. Yeah, and he goes and gets
something to eat and I remain sitting in in his little medical
alcove. That's where I've decided to be.
There might be poison in there. There might be poisons in.
While Dill is getting medical attention, what are the other
three of you do? There is food around D ham.
There's more than enough supplies to like, fix up
anything if you need. But in general, you guys are in
this like food court turned into a habitat, right?
We're in the food court. Is there like a door to the
parking lot anywhere nearby or like a big window?
There is a SO down the hallway you guys came from leads out
into the big open. What would be like entrance sway
above you, giant glass ceiling, right teared up to almost
pyramid style and then down that like but just past that, what do
you call those that like area with the big opening?
There is just more hallway and there are doors.
There seems to be a couple of doors here, especially in the
food court that look like they go back to like a service
hallway right for workers. In the mall, but as you like
look around there doesn't seem to be any like signage that says
parking this way. There's nothing that's like a
now I'm just curious. I'm going to try and summon my
vehicle by remote control car. Can you do that?
I mean, I I figured it was remote control.
I think I'm remote controlling it even whenever I'm driving it.
You know what I'm I I like, I like that I like you being able
to summon the Batmobile. Yeah, I kind of imagined it like
oblivion, you know, like you press up on the D pad and you're
and the horse is there. I turn around.
The horse is there. I do like that, but yeah, you
press the button and. Press 9 for car here now,
please. Instead of a there is like a no
connection error that pops up over your eye panel.
You know you can read it, but my nose panel could also probably
read it. Doesn't connect, fails to
connect to the decab. That might be the first time
that's happened to you too. That's weird, I guess I'm back
to manual dexterity and I pull out a drill from my mid and
start drooling myself. Back together.
I'll let you exchange a harm for a barter.
Sure, if you have a harm to heal up.
Yep. And sure do.
I got a lot of harm. Yeah.
I think you can even heal up to 2 with this area and access to
like a healer. There's here, there's an Angel
here. You're working on yourself like
you can do up. To I also know, but like have a
weird background in machinery. If there's like a help person
feature in this, I know that's in D&D, but I don't know if
there's. There is a help.
Let's see. There is a Oh, and I think it
plays in with history. So why don't we do it?
Because we never get to play with history help or interfere
when you help or interfere with someone who's making a role.
Role HX. So Lawrence, do you have like a
work on machines role? Like how do you work on a
machine? I open my brain and I ask the
machine what it wants me to do to it, and then I do it.
Yeah, that's things speak for sure, for sure, for sure.
None of the rest of that. I feel like there's got to be
something that engages with your workshop, but it doesn't, you
know? Nope.
It's just there. It just exists and I can do
things with it. Like now I can add a life
support system to my workspace and I can now work on people
there. You know, whenever I can use it
again. And there's no role for any of
that. Nope, full heal.
I don't have to role for it, I just do it full.
Heal just to give grace. Something to add to bro.
Why don't you give me what is that?
Probably plus sharp. It feels like to work on
yourself. No matter what, you'll get it to
7. It could be simply because he is
mechanical, it could be just sort of a a copy of the battle
angels healing touch move just for himself specifically as a
robot. That makes sense.
Healing Drill. Me.
I do like that. So yeah, Grace with a helper
interfere. You can pull him up to three
heal if you can pull him up. So helper interferes roll plus
history. So plus your history with D Cam
specifically, you're going to roll plus that. +2 that is A7.
That is A7. There's nothing around here that
you can think of repurposing, but you have, I think in your
time together, you've collected some of the screws that have
popped off D Cam and you know that they fit.
All you got to do is file them down a little bit or whatever.
So you can spend a barter to help him heal up another one if
you want. 7:00 and 9:00 you expose yourself to cost in this
case. And there are holes in me just
for reference before this healing begins.
Like I am sort of like leaving a small trail of dishwashing sand
as I'm walking around. Yeah, if you so he healed too.
If you want to help him heal a little bit more, you can spend a
barter and explain like what you use to patch him up.
It doesn't have to be the screws.
I think I already used my only barter to help heal spank it.
Did you just have one barter? I think I only had the one.
Yeah, it. Is actually possible because she
didn't have a lot. I really was very minimal.
Oddments worth 1 barter? Yeah is what's on this list.
And you did spend 1 barter to heal, unless you changed that
after you did it. I.
With me I might have, but I also might not have.
I'm going to say it's here right now since we're looking at it,
I'm just going to say worth 0 barter, but I'm going to say if
you want to spend that last barter, it's present.
That is fair that she does. I could.
Definitely imagine as soon as petal says I want to help you
repair yourself, DM immediately just starts going through her
stuff. Just takes whatever.
This will fit. This will do I'm.
Going to I mean I'm going to leave it up to you pedal since
it is your currently one barter if you want to spend it, DCAM
can heal an extra. It's fine.
You don't need to screw my ass. I can screw my own ass.
There goes your Walkman. She hands you the screws to
screw your own ass. Oh, nobody said that.
I feel like I don't want to press. 8 to screw your own ass.
Found the. Title Press 9 to watch me screw
my own. Ass shit all right spigot in
this space. This is I imagine this is our
like been to barter time. You know, the the snack, the
rest, the the moment before I give pedal her obvious she's in
this moment conversation. You guys are resting.
Spigot wants two things. He's got one tick of damage she
would love to have the Angel look at, and then he would
barter for food and snacks. Teller Seller Yeah, the Angel
will try a heel here. See if he has to open his brain
to you. He does not.
He rolled A10 so he is going to heal you one.
It's always just one heal with the Angel but.
I'll take it. He may open his brain so he does
heal you that one tick. I think for you it's just some
bandages. What part of your butt like how
are you hurt in what way you think in this?
Moment, it was in his shoulder, it was a through and through in
the Dilgo when we were having the shootout in the desert.
I think pedal is actually that's that's what she spent her.
Barter on was to patch that. Specific.
Oh, that's right. So then maybe I didn't take that
one off so. I mean, I imagine that across
that you might have gotten hit or struck in some of the combats
going. On yeah, so maybe it's some
lacerations or other things that just needed to be bandaged up.
Yeah, you've got some. You've got some Rd. burn on your
on your forearm or whatever. He's just going to wrap a
bandage around with some healing ointment.
You heal up that one barter, and then you want to spend a barter
to or you heal that heal up that one harm and you want to spend a
barter to snack up for the team. Yes, yes I do.
Yeah, you know what, I'm not even going to take that barter
for snack because you guys are in a food court and they got
stuff. They're going to they're going
to grant you stuff. But I like the the usage of that
like, you know, digging around, you guys are having snacks and
taking a breath, still watching the child pedal.
Yeah. How do you, what do you do?
What do you do in this moment? I think they've given you a
little bit of space. So you can, you know what I
mean? You can, you can take time for
yourself. You can do whatever and I can
bring in PCs and if you're trying to talk to them or
whatnot. But like how is this sitting
with pedal? I think it's obviously
overwhelming because it's just been a blank in my head.
Everything, everything has been blank except for like the small
patches here and there with the visions.
And it's not like any visions aren't inherently like helpful
because sometimes visions are really vague.
So finally there's people and I kind of know who they are and I
can feel like the pressure of whatever time has passed between
us, but I have, but I don't remember them.
But I I feel I remember more things with this current gang
than I do in the other gang because it's just still so
vague. I'm just kind of 1 foot on each
side in the middle. Yeah.
And I'm worried about branch because branch a branch is yet
to appear. As your allies are getting
looked over, you, I imagine are detached a little bit like off
to the the side, just kind of watching and trying to parse,
you know, these memories and these thoughts.
Pollen approaches you and leans up against the I don't know, the
table you're sitting at and looks back at D Cam doing work
on himself still Dylan and like Twiggy leaving Dyl like looking
behind him kind of scared and spigot laughing and going in and
getting his arm wrapped up. He's seen Dyl.
He knows that's uncomfortable, but that's Dyl.
And she says quite a quite a crew you got for yourself here.
Are they? They're strong enough to get to
get rude out. That would perk up Spigot's ears
if. He How much does he weigh?
It depends. I'm.
I'm trying to be. I'm.
I'm feeling cagey. I don't really want to confess
that. I don't remember anything.
Do they react to my eye? If I always had to that, yeah.
They don't seem to that doesn't seem to be.
OK, so. They don't seem to care about
your eye, in which case you would imagine you had it with
you know what. I mean, yeah, yeah, I can.
I can infer. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Context. Yeah.
I'm feeling like I don't want to.
It's a very it's a very public small room.
I don't really want to have to confess that, that I don't
remember these people. It's going to be emotionally
charged. I'm I'm, I'm being vague, like
it depends. I hope so.
We don't really have a plan. Yeah, when you broke out the the
with the water bearer, we thought we would have the
opportunity to get her, but he's had her on such tight lockdown
in the house that we just, we haven't been able to get in.
It kind of feels like it was fucking pointless in the end,
you know? And now we're down Branch.
Like what? Happened to branch.
She's starting to get like really worked up.
I, I mean, he didn't make it to the the door.
If he's able, if he, if he's able to keep his cover,
hopefully nothing. If he's just part of the crowd
again, hopefully nothing. But it won't last forever.
Like everyone out there gets targeted at some point.
And when they find out it's branch behind that mask, it's I
don't want him in the house either.
We just, he didn't make it to the the door.
So we'll have to figure out if we can get him back out.
As long as he's keeping his cover.
Hopefully nothing but she seems like worried, like she's
chomping at her nail beds and shit.
Was that about a water bearer? That feels like something.
Yeah, that feels. But not something Jill's going
to ask about, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think her, I
think her her out like her her saying like all feels like it
was all for nothing kind of turned into a little bit of an
outburst. Like she seems kind of angry.
So I guess everyone's like, you know, eyes are drawn in on that
and she looks around. She says, sorry, this has just
been this has been tough. We we missed you, pedal where?
Where have you been? Twiggy's like poking his head
out. What is that place even called?
Like I don't even remember. Christ doesn't remember Ted.
Where? Tedville.
I was in Tedville. I was helping pick it, fix the
water machine. I I gesture my thumb over to
forget. Hopefully.
I'm hoping like somewhat like to divert her attention literally
anywhere else. I'm like even gesturing like
look over him. That guy, that's what I'm
talking about. That guy.
He held me not. Held me, but I was with him.
Pickett had lots of questions about the water bearer they're
Speaking of. She says you, you look like
another water bearer, I guess out with one and then with
another, huh? Sorry that Yeah, you guys have
been in this mess so much. I'm I'm here to untangle a piece
of the mess. A lot of untangling.
A lot of untangling what? What has Pedal told you guys she
like? Looks around the room at you.
I would look at pedal. She looks at pedal.
Pedal's eyeballs are so big. Like sure her head is turned so
her not just not facing pollen and her eyeballs are huge.
Looking at Spaghett. Slowly, Dill's Hell had peaks
above the curtain that walls off the Infirmary.
Also looking at Pedal now. Spaghett comes out with his arm
bandage like what the fuck? You hear the drill stop on D
Cam? Yeah, No, she looks at, she
looks at you pedal. I guess you don't see that.
But she looks down at pedal and she says you didn't tell them
anything. Why did you bring them into this
mess if you weren't even going to tell them what was going on?
Fuck, I don't think they knew. I was in an, I was in an
accident. I don't remember anything and
we're just here for half instance.
Are we still inside the tunnel? You guys are.
Inside the, inside the. Mall, Yeah.
Like bubble a light you, I think you're peeking up from behind
the like infirm. Imagine like little partitions,
you know, just like little metal, like we've set them up,
pulled them out from a clinic or whatever.
But I mean like the the space that we're in, the larger mall
space, are we still inside of that black bubble?
Am I still cut off from the other one?
Oh, I see what you're saying. No, since cauliflower head you
have normal dill, you'd like feel the connection to to the
other one. Or feels normal anyway, as much
as you normally do. You don't feel alone, OK?
I'm going to flip over to the other one and take a step
through the the curtain. And as I'm stepping through the
curtain, I'm shifting from gorilla to good proportioned
man. Gordilla.
And I say if I may put forward a hypothesis, it seems to me that.
You hear a jostle from the Infirmary, the kids kind of
panicking. I didn't do this to him.
I'm very sorry. I did not do this to him.
I injected normal stuff. It seems to me that when the
this mystery Water Bearer and Pedal escaped this facility some
months ago, they were pursued by either members of the goon squad
here or roving bikers of some sort, that their vehicle looked
perhaps valuable and they were attacked.
And during that during that attack some sort of explosion
happened. Concussive forces being what
they are, and Pedals recent memory has been buried by the
dramatic forces that would have been applied to her cranium.
And she looks down at pedal quietly and Twiggy kind of steps
out and starts kind of walking up to pedal doe eyed.
And they both look very like like the first time you see a
close person to you in the hospital bed.
You know, you know, you know they got into an accident,
right? But when you see them, it's like
a oh shit, that's real, right? This like real moment of it
setting in where she got hurt and they're both just kind of
approaching her and Doe Ided her.
And D Ham steps out and places a hand on Dill's shoulder, the
other one's shoulder, other dill, and says Precionia dos
para ES cuchari ESO en espanol. The other one presses 1 and says
not a must for Fr. DM shuts down I.
Was so Joyce. Oh my.
God. And then who was which one of
these plant people is the one who's been applying questions
and like asking us? Pollen.
OK.
The other one reaches over to Pollen while they're sort of
having a moment and gives for kind of a tap on their shoulder
and says, while I do sympathize with the flood of emotions you
seem to currently be experiencing, the implications
of my statement are that our entire party does not know what
is going on here. Please explain.
You really don't remember anything.
She hasn't really stopped looking at pedal.
No, answer those questions. He's freaking me out.
Yeah, I'll do my best. Twiggy come over here.
He like rushes up and sits next to her and she's like gather
around. It's a got a lot to go over.
What's the what's the last thing you remember?
OK, let's do a blast through our history stuff.
Dill. What is?
Who knows you better or worse than they did before?
I mean. It's got to be, it's got to be D
ham on on this one, just for that good goof.
You are his turret base, you guys know that you work well
together. And also for being my my turret
parrot. Formation 3 is killer.
Formation 3 is killer D ham who knows you better I think I.
Dill. It's Dill.
It's definitely dill both of you plus.
Finally, somebody who immediately latched on to my
penchant for vicious violence. So far, everyone.
Thicket help. Thicket help for sure.
Thicket help for sure bigot. Who knows you?
Probably pedal, who knows that I've got her back because
through the whole chase I followed, I followed her.
I told her to keep going. So it's probably pedal that's.
A really good point, no questions asked.
Pedal bolted and you were just there sent it.
That's a good point pedal. That's why I was probably going
to say Spigot because I knew that he was.
I even did my little hopeful like, you're going to follow me
down this hole, right? I'm not going to stop, but you
are going to follow, right? Like it's too late, but.
Please follow. Please follow.
OK, cool. I'm not alone.
Sweet. OK, we will pick back up next
time talking to Pollen and Twiggy.
Reunited with the figures in her memories, Petals head spins with
the flowing images of their times together.
This is her family. Though they are incomplete at
the moment, she now has backup to bring them all together
again. 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. You can find the images
mentioned in this episode posted alongside the transcript over on
the Patreon. The link, along with the rest of
the credits, are in the episode description.
That's all for this edition of WPR.
I'm Q See you next time. I did say in that moment that we
wouldn't be describing any of these scenes that will like fade
to black. You do a.
Roll. Yeah, I did.
Once I had that, I was like, cool, I don't want any kind of
detail. I don't want to know anything.
I just thought that would be extremely funny in that moment
if I was like, no grace, you're safe, I have an NPC for you.
There'll be some detail. It won't be your brother.
It'll be your character's brother.
Stupid. OK, not, not your brother.
Super, super not. I decided in that moment.
No, I just thought never. Even said the brother word.
You should have never brought it up.
You asked. It first.
You did it first to. Be full.
Hey pedal, you know how we're not related?
Oh, thank God. That's.
Actually, how that conversation started, we just passed that
sentence.