But it's go, go Power Rangers, not go, go, go Power Rangers.
But the effort was there, I mean.
You bet you were fun on the playground.
I wasn't, though I you might enjoy that I tried to get the
playground to play warrior cat games with me.
I had a best friend that I would do that.
With Yeah Super Super didn't have a lot of friends on the
playground and. And with that, welcome back to
Dungeons Drive. A Warrior Cats podcast,
hopefully for one of these days, but for now, fuck.
We're an Apocalypse World podcast.
Arcade, apocalypse and welcome. What was the question?
Tits yeah, that I was going to get to that is that normally we
have an intro question, but I want each of you just to
introduce yourself and your characters for the the general
audience. I think we're going to like skip
right over intro question and dive right in because this
episode is like we're in on the intensity.
We're going to be able to like catch up in our catch up and
then we have a moment before we're like kicking off in the
action. But I don't like, I think that
this is ideally this is planned to be our our season closer.
And so I just want to dive right into the action.
So yeah, you guys introduce yourselves and I'll catch us up
on what happened last time and we'll dive right in all.
Right then, Hey everybody, I'm Theodore Stringer and I play.
Dillo. Trying to go back to original
voice still. One last ride.
For this final final episode final episode, we get the the
original sauce. This is like the the season
where your character is played by a different actor in every
episode and then the final episode that actor did his
research. Only it had been intentional.
What was the? Was there a relevant question?
That's just me. Hey, all right.
Take it away. Player 2.
Hi, my name is Player 2, otherwise known as Lawrence
Jennings and I play the Deluca's Chop House answering machine one
more time for your listening pleasure.
Player the third I am Michael and I play Spit the water
Bearer. And I'm Grace and I play pedal.
I'm M, I'm the GMI didn't say that up front, but I did say
that this is our possibly final episode in the season.
I just mostly wanted to dive right in.
Last episode was also straightforward in which we came
back to the mall fruit court, got a little bit of care and
went to gear up. In that gear up, our resident
machinist or robot, I guess there's two machinists.
So I don't want to say the singular resident machinist, but
Deham got an interesting piece to his his overall narrative,
the sort of ingredient kit to the lemon Pfeiffer shake at
Orange Julius, I guess still has to get to the bottom of what
that is, but has the like ingredients.
Safely in my tummy. In your tummy and in doing in
getting this sort of turned on a security bot that was dealt with
swiftly enough. Dill took some damage with a
people's elbow from the top shelf destroying it, but it
exploded and got him a little bit on fire and we saw the
efficacy of which fire deals with Dill.
It took him up pretty quick. The team got him out and he has
some burns and did not enjoy that.
But we're back. We we've made we made our way
back anyway back to the food court.
Opening the door, though find it to be a bit more of a mess than
we left it in the 20 minutes prior, 20-30 minutes prior
whatever in that there are various members of the wizard's
group with weapons and and and and all sorts of like battle
armor hot like high tailing whatever members of the crew had
been left behind branch on a Gurney, Twiggy, the kid,
whatever all off in into a gate that kind of bisects the the
food court that we had previously.
The dog pebbles the pack beast pedals new friend, though not
taken with them, came around the corner last minute because she
has dog. We're sort of left in this quiet
room, this quiet space with all three keys and a closed, you
know, very opulent, extravagant door bisecting the space.
It just sort of energy wise Reed's boss door, you know, I
imagine like a Kingdom Hearts style door.
You fight Riku in front of a big ass like wildly designed door
that you know is going to open and lead you to something.
But and you have the three keys to it.
It's relatively easy to get them into the locks upon any moderate
inspection. But we are here in this little
bit of space. Before we dive into the door, I
wanted to see if there's an approach to the situation.
I think most of us are in worse shape than we were in right?
With Deal having been burned and Spigot being crushed underneath
the falling shelves. I think maybe pedal avoided
damage and DM. Yeah, I'm.
Fine as usual. Oh, I've been injured for four
sessions. OK, so we're we're not in our
best fighting fit form to go into a final boss room.
This is true, tackling the last key that you the the the team
gathered was from the bully and because of the way that all went
down murder bot killing him in his secret room before he had a
chance to go off. Pedal had collected a number of
vials that could at least heal. If that is something people are
in need of and she wishes to give them up now.
It's true. It's true, I could do that.
It's true. What if we were going in at the
end, if it was still discussion time?
No no no no, I was just curious does if everyone remembers what
they got as their gear up in this last episode.
I hope I wrote it down. To that like technically
Lawrence got the lemon fight for stuff which I mentioned.
Which is so much more important? Well.
You already said. Mine.
What did you pick up in this most recent gear up?
I definitely did not say yours. My medicine thingies.
You got that from the last encounter encounter.
You got like a weapon in this gear up.
My long shirt. Yeah, you got the long range T.
Shirt, long range T-shirt, gun. Shirt Sniper.
T-shirt rifle, if you will. I totally forgot that I had that
gear. I should look at my gear.
I think you've got 3 long range shots left.
I think you used one on the the security bot.
I did. And I have the Bandolier with
four of the shotgun refills for my shotgun T-shirt cannon.
I think I have just like a really good slingshot.
Oh shit, you did. You got a slingshot with like,
what are they, firecrackers? I think you got like little
explosives. Cherry bombs or ball bearings or
something? Yeah, something like that.
I think they had they, I think they I explode because the idea
was at some point that you like, flash blinded the security bot.
I think maybe. I'm not sure.
I think that there was something with them being like
firecrackers, like individual M 80s or something.
We talked about that and then I thought at the end we talked
about them being like billiard balls with firecrackers on them.
They over her billiard. Balls ricochet and then they
could explode if you needed this.
Way to go. Mike.
I love it. The billiard balls is such a
good image. Mike wins Player of the Week.
And a good sound, too. The cracking of a billiard ball
on someone's skull is gonna bring joy.
You Marie Kondo. But yeah, we are.
We find ourselves in this quiet room.
We're geared up. How do we approach?
Pedal, could I talk you out of one of those healing needles?
Hell yeah. And I just poke him with it.
Oh yeah, OK, nice roll AD 6 pretend it's AD right, right.
I'm I'm quote UN quote roll AD three, but the D61 and 2-3 and
four five and six will be here 123.
Am I rolling or is pedal rolling?
She jabbed you. Yeah, I don't know Jabber.
I think she gets the roll all. Right Jabber.
Jabber, it seems. House rule.
It's the jabber. It's the Jabber.
High goes to the jabber. It's a 3.
It's a three. OK, that would be 123.
So you get to heal 2, heal 2 ticks on your clock.
Excellent. I will mark that right now.
You feel rejuvenated, more so than your average rest.
That took me to 50% less damage. That's not bad.
I know Dill starts at half.
I imagine if he was above half, starts at half or starts at
6:00. Anyway, I'm keeping the needle.
Keeping the needle, I got it. I got it below for the first
time in a few sessions last session, but now I'm back.
Back to half, Back to half. Back to half and not going
first, maybe going last. In the heels, what do you mean?
In the in whoever the order of going through this big.
Scare. OK, like going.
Going in, get a brush with death.
Mm Hmm. They set me on fire.
I'm no longer excited about being here.
Were you ever excited? Lawrence, how much help do you
have? Let's find out I have a one tick
before I die. Oh man.
Man your your arms are off. Yeah, I I'm pretty sure that
everywhere that doesn't currently contain the lemon
Pfeiffer mix is injured. I've used, I have used those
parts to defend the the center of my mass, my little tummy.
His arms and legs are all sparking up, his head is split
like in the center down into like 2.
My nose camera is cracked. Yeah, cracked for sure.
I. Think we big we all turned as
one and both and all just at the same time.
How absolutely fucked up he is. I am fine.
Oh. I have the lemon piper.
If I die, please protect the lemon Piper Piper.
How's the little guy? Where's the little guy?
Murder bot is fine as well, he is at full health.
From inside of D Ham, you here protecting Lemon Pfeiffer?
Is he actually fine? Because you said you're you were
fine and you're not. Fine.
I protected I so so my my my chest cavity where all my things
are. That's the safest part of me.
And that's where murder bot lives.
Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
Enough this is true and cannon that I guess if the Livin
Pfeiffer is safe, Murderbot would also be safe.
Well, do these things, are these things do anything, or are they
just? Freaking I imagine you can hook
him up to his oil. Like he's probably got some
tubing that does transport liquid and it would probably.
I don't want to leave him out of all healing, just I guess.
Can we like jump a car or something or?
I think the liquid would also work for him.
It would be and may be used as replacement like oils and
whatnot. If only I had my car.
Remember my car. I remember my car anyway.
You know, there's probably enough gear here.
If you needed a workstation for for anything, you could use this
place as a workstation. Yeah, I used this station to
work on me for as long as everyone will give me.
I mean if you in your ingredients you can use the one
of the syringes and heal AD 6 as well.
Or like D6, you know, equivalent to AD 3D3.
Spots. Rolling now three bats up to 1.
Yeah, it's hard. It's hard to transfer the liquid
over. I think narratively that tracks.
You heal one, but it's hard to. Feel 1% better?
Now you know she's got two more. So like if it if it didn't work,
maybe it's because of. Can I can I take 1?
Can I take one from from pedal and then also jam it into D ham?
Hey. I don't see why not, but she.
Even let me take one pedal. You're gonna have to roll for
it, pal. I grew up in the PvP roll.
I mean, I don't know. No, I'm saying if you're like
snatching something for me, I don't know what you're going to
do. My instincts are going to just
be to slap your hand away because I grew up in the maze,
bro. That's a Maze Runner pedal over
here. Pedal pulls out a gun from the
wall and shoots you. Yeah, I mean.
Both I'm just going to smack us or if he can grab without me
noticing. Shoot.
Me you roll plus sharp pedal and.
It's more of if he can if like can you take it from me without
me noticing? I think that would.
Because like it's in my bag. Like it's like not like a I'm
going to fight you because I don't like you situation.
It's more like a. Rolled poorly.
Pause sharp 5 + 3. Is 8 + 3 OK?
Yes, an 11. You notice, still rooting around
in your bag for sure. Jangle, jangle, jangle, tug,
tug. I'm not even using my hands.
I'm like snuffling at it. One of his hands is injured and
held to his chest. I like tap his forehead like,
hey, what are you doing? What do you want?
I'd like a healing needle. Well, how do we ask?
You can't just go rooting around in my bag.
What's wrong? With you, I tried showing you
all of my teeth. Oh.
Banana Banana we need to work on.
It the way a monkey does. God, oh I hate that.
I hate that chimps are the chimps are the worst.
And chimps can't stretch their whole face back.
Right, it's a chimp hating account.
OK, I can't. No, don't put that on this
account. Yeah.
Chimps freak me out, man. They're too smart.
Vote This is a chimp hating podcast.
Yeah. Fine, I can't.
I can't cotton that I love monkey.
Anyways, can I have that? Can I have that syringe?
Yeah, yes. I've learned nothing.
I take it and I jam. It into DM.
Making. Eye contact with pedal jams it
into DM. Before I give it to him, I like
hit him in the head again like dumb banana ladies and
gentlemen. I heal.
For three. This time.
Yeah, you do. That's a.
Lot averages, lady averages came back for me.
Go on, get. I am feeling much better.
Press 3 to party. What does this mean for you
Deham? Did you like repair yourself
physically like? It it gave me the hydraulic
juice that I needed for my hand dexterity to come back and then
I just fixed myself just quicker.
Cool. I love it.
Less sparking you, more you
like, you know, welded the cuts together as you can do.
Some of my joints are being held together by multiple throwing
knives, but that's OK, it's a quick fix until I can get back
to the decab. Eventually you could be all
throwing knife. We didn't think about melting
the metal down from DCS is. Throwing knife.
Sisyphus is throwing knife, whichever one it is.
You right the first time. No.
OK, done with that. You guys are in a room, you've
got your keys, It's easy to put them in.
Are we ready to do so? I thought you said then the last
round that keys are useless because the doors are busted
open. Don't remind him of that.
Well, we we can go in. It's not Why are we?
Using the keys if it's open. There there is a door here.
They were coming through it and it's sort of just shut after
them. I'm I may have said the sentence
if the door is here like the the keys might be useless but.
That's just what I believed. That's just what I believed.
I believed what I was because. That's what you because that's.
What you said, you know, you definitely believe everything
that. Somebody chose remember, we
teach you how to play Mario Kart and you forget the session, but
you remember that I said the door was busted open.
I love. Listen.
Keys or nay, the door can be opened and in either way there
is a door in front of you passable because you know if if
closed you have keys. If busted open is busted open
making everything we did pointless.
I'm so excited to punch this wizard.
But the black space exists in front of you to to lead you to
what you believe to be the final board.
So do we have any idea how we want to do this?
Do we want to stay close together?
Do we kind of want to spread out what any thoughts from the team?
I wish to kill him with a knife. I mean, I like your thinking.
Thank you. Press 1 to go with D Ham's plan.
Well, have you canonically ever been inside of this room that
we're about to go into I. Don't think so.
OK, can I say yes? I mean, can I just say yes?
You can say whatever you want, it's your cannon.
Was boobies enough? Points to.
Make it up final room. It's really small and easy to.
And it's full of explosive barrels.
He's actually in the gym. He's actually in the closet.
Quite embarrassing. For some reason when you enter
the last room he's tied down to a chair and I don't know why.
We built the whole walls out of explosive barrels and the doors
really, really strong. That's actually my room full of
spikes, I don't know why. I don't know why you would hide
there, idiot. Canonically, ask my room of
spikes and they're all dead. Oh no.
If you think Pedal has been in there in her past of being in
here, you can give me like a weird roll and I'll give you
some info. Oh hell yeah, I haven't rolled
for weird in a long time. Maybe that's not true. 7 plus.
Oh wait, you know what it is? You know what it is.
Sorry, not a weird role. A cool role for visions.
Oh, a start of the session sort of vision.
Is 7 + 1, is 8. Hold 2 Not going to worry about
the number I'm holding. I'm going to give you a, as you,
you try to recall this play space, you feel this door is
familiar. You feel you've seen this door
before and you think hard to think past it.
And then and as to what lies beyond, you get flashes of
imagery that, you know, kind of call you back to this, the
pinball board that we've found ourselves on in the main play
space, though I guess not for a while as a pinball board cause
the two of the two of them, Lawrence and Gabe did it like
recently, more like an arena style.
And you guys avoided it. And almost entirely Mike and
Grace, it's been a minute since we've been on it, but this sort
of like black walled neon lines. There's lots of like flashes of
color and lights and it's blinking and there's a bit of
chaos. But this one is a bit smaller.
You're avoiding the pinballs, but lightly different, right?
It's still kind of the same game.
There's some targets you're trying to hit.
You see this tall tower power kind of firing the pinball at
you time and again. So you know, there's like other
forces at play in this space. I think what I'll give you just
like defined outcome is that through this door you would
likely be entering in the center of a rectangular field and
there's going to be targets on the other side that you're
trying to get the ball to hit. Beyond that, there's all sorts
of like chaos and flashing lights and traps around you that
you may face, but at a minimum you have that board.
I can even give you, I'll send a picture that is probably more
equivalent to a yay. We can see it.
You have little targets up here, these little black, black half
circles. I won't explain the rest, but
this is what I will give you. Through your flashes of memory
you get a little bit of a layout.
OK, I'm going to just say I described that to them because I
don't want to try and describe that.
Plus what I gave you was very like ethereal.
Hard to re describe afterwards. I don't know what's in there,
but that's kind of what I remember, what it looks like,
but I don't know what those targets mean or anything like
that. Maybe there's some kind of
shield we could put up and walk behind it.
Like is there role for detritus we can hold up like a table?
Or a drawer. Yeah, honestly with the the
breaking down of like, like this room has been ransacked right by
the members of the Wizards group.
My brain always wants to call them pin heads.
And then I'm just recalled to a different group called the pin
heads and I just don't really like, but we got the pin heads
here. I imagine who have ransacked the
room. There's probably broken tables,
the like, you know, like medical walling that has its little legs
but is is more like sheeting almost.
It's probably broken down that you could use as like sheeting
to carry. Tell me what you use as Shields
to. I feel like if one who were like
the tallest or strongest of us held it up.
In case you were worried about traps, it could at least be some
kind of shield. Dill Shield.
I don't think we should split up, I think we should stick.
Together, we should all stay shrouded under the Dill shield
or. We can just use the detritus.
No, no, dill. Hold the shield.
Don't become the shield. You don't want to go first.
Yeah, no, Dill doesn't want to go first.
We all go together underneath the dill shed.
Where's holding the shield? Has to go first.
What do we use as a shield? The wall like a piece of wall?
Yep, piece of wall, piece of table.
I'm just curious like what's the visual of of Dill going to get a
shield? I'm picturing like a jagged
piece of wood with like iron holding it together.
I'm picturing like Animal Crossing furniture in my head,
which is really helpful. I don't know.
Just like, you know, like your typical piece of detritus from a
wall. I was thinking office cubicle
wall. Yeah, if there's like a table,
if there's like sheet metal office cubicle, I can tear.
A big. Chunk of wine of wall out of the
wall if you give me a minute. RIP some countertop off one of
the shops on the food. Court, yeah, big chunk of
countertop is good. Yeah, something that's wide and
wide enough that can protect us and tall enough to protect the
tallest of us. Or we could hunch, I suppose.
That's like some of those places have sinkholes which would make
a good armhole for dill to hold like the rest of it to like
shield a long make a long shield for other people.
That's a good point. I jam my arm through a
countertop and wrench it on out. I like a top of a counter.
With the way that this place has
been ransacked, it's relatively easy just to like lift a
countertop off of it. Old housing, a little bit of
shake will remove whatever, you know, wanted to hold on from the
bottom. And you have yourself a pretty
sturdy wall to to stand behind and hold.
Why don't you, why don't you give me a hard roll and just to
see what kind of hand holds you have.
Is it? Did you get any bar behind it to
be able to hold or do you have to like wrap your arm around it
to hold it up? You know what I mean?
Oh, that's an 11. Oh yeah, you got some.
There's some steel bars behind it you can like loop your arm
through almost like a just a big tower shield.
Now Dill has a big tower shield but still doesn't want to go
first. Sure.
Does not. Well, how are we going to get
through then if somebody's in front of us defeats the purpose?
I know who can go in front. It is time murder anything that
you come across and D Ham opens his stomach and murder bot flies
out. Two Bang Bang just off the air
222 it says 222 as it starts moving towards the door that is
either open or has been opened. Yeah, OK, I'll follow Murder
bot. And I follow Dill.
The citizens of Ted Velt move, I imagine, through the door after
murder bot and then deal with his shield up as each of you
phase into this new space. It is memorable in that you've,
I mean, I guess you've been here before or a place similar
reminds you back to where we like first stepped into the cart
space. It's like almost endlessly black
space, though now you can see it seems like some of this like
demeanor is lifting and you can see like kind of faded out
concrete, almost walls. You're in a smaller space this
time rather than this endless black void.
They kind of shift in obeyed like their transparency is, is
his having issues? You're in like a little smaller
concrete room. There's three podiums in front
of you and then almost a copy pasted version of that door on
the other side of the wall. Each of you've got numbers on
your cheeks and I've got tallies for those numbers.
Lamal. There is a screen on the wall
that is slowly like ticking up to a higher total.
Dill, Your number is AT452540 thousand 525 Dham.
Your number currently sits at 46,750.
Woo, it's big yours at 26,900 and pedal.
We've sort of talked about yours, but it's having some
issues now that you're back in this room.
Yours has been what, 800-8135 for the campaign.
But since we've been in here, you've done a few things here
and there to earn some points. And I think the issue you've
been facing is that the new point total is like trying to
appear over the old point total. Not like it's changing, but that
a second number is kind of trying to appear.
And now that you're back in or now that you're yes, back in
this room, but now that you're in this room, that second number
is like glitching and fading out and you're left with like almost
a line through it going down now, I guess.
But the 800-8135, you still have your total.
And the screen on the wall above these three pedestals eventually
comes to a rest on 114,175 one 14175.
And on the three pedestals, the first pedestal kind of flashes
and above it appears a little like armored vest and it below
it reads 50,000 and then the second pedestal flashes and
above it appears like a + 1 gun and below it reads 50,000 and
the third pedestal flashes just a + 1 and it reads 100,000 below
the third pedestal. And I think with pedals roll
earlier it's enough because I don't I don't know that I like
giving you a shitty map was enough for that.
Mid range is enough to know that pedal You you kind of recognize
what these are. You got a plus armor.
Someone can upgrade their armor and it's rank, someone can
upgrade their weapon or someone can get an extra in game life.
50,000 for the armor and weapons and 100,000 for the extra life
and the total spend is. Just over 100,000.
So the 100,000 is the the total amount that we have as a party.
It seems like 'cause me and D me and still have like 40,000 each.
Yeah, 114,000 is your your threes total.
It doesn't seem like Pedals total is included in this
challenge. That's rude.
I mean we could upgrade the throwing knife that I have
infinite of. Sure, yeah, it looks like you
can upgrade someone's armor and someone's weapon, or get an
extra life for. Someone who needs an extra life.
Or upgrade 2 people's weapons maybe if it comes back.
I yeah, I'm good on lot. I don't really.
I feel like I'm good. I don't like, I don't need a
life. I think we should do.
Cool. Then give me, give me plus one
knife, Yeah. Yeah, I think we should upgrade.
What do you do? D Ham I insert.
Stab it, stab it with a knife. Is there like a slot?
It's just a floating, like, plus one gun.
It seems to be like spinning on its own.
This whole like little sable put the arm that has the knife
throwing mechanism in it just like into the power up.
Yeah, sure. It flashes and blinks for a
second. And when you do like one of
those, what is it called? What, like Apex Legends, like
little moments where you, like, flick your knife around or
whatever. Yeah, I do a couple of knife
spins. Yeah.
And your knife has like little etches is in like jagged marks
on it. You know that it's it's a nasty.
It blows purple and it says Mountain Dew on it.
For sure, for sure. You got the Mountain Dew skin
says desert don't on it. Oh yeah, and you like flick it
around a little bit, you bring out a second to see that it's
also the same and upgraded and flick them back into your wrist.
I am all powerful. As D Ham does that, the point
totals tick down to 64,175. Your guys's totals on your
cheeks don't change, but the total on the screen.
And I can't believe my numbers are on a freaking count.
I have the highest score. I will say that hold on, let me
see what your. I did actually keep up with your
change. Your second number, the number
over the top of your first number would have read 801-9000.
So you did make some points. How many points did you make?
You made about 11,000 points. It looks like this this run
specifically though to be fair. What I will say about how I
counted points is that you and Spigot, your solo journey idea
was off the grid. So there was a moment like your
whole extra thing was to be under the radar and therefore I
wasn't counting points for it. But their thing was just kill a
bunch of dudes while on the radar.
So they were just like clacking up points.
You know, I can include that. I I absolutely can include that
11,000 points. It doesn't really bring us up to
another number, but you puts your team at a currently sitting
about 75,000 points. Well, it's the thought that
counts. I mean, you'd have to imagine
with that being the case that you've spent your 8 million in
the past at some point, Dang. When I get.
A new eyeball. Maybe.
OK, well, OK, So what? So we could also upgrade.
Yeah, we can upgrade. Someone's armor.
'S armor, yeah. Or another person's weapon.
Yeah. Well, should we upgrade another
weapon or armor? I'm not sure I'm good and.
Infinite long range knives is pretty good.
Upgrade them again is anyone? Yeah, doubly upgrading the
knives I. Mean we could double we could
double pack a punch the knives and then I've got.
Damage for knives. I just know that I'm not really
carrying a weapon and I don't have armor, I don't think.
I'll take damage 4 knives guys, that's fine with.
Me. I mean, I think that's
hysterical. I think that's.
I might take, I mean if, if well actually, you know.
Are you wearing armor? Do you have armor to upgrade or
a weapon upgrade? See, that's the thing.
Am I gonna get armor and A and a weapon?
You have armor, you've got a fuck load of armor.
Grace, you got +2. That's a huge amount of armor.
That's fair. I will say for you.
Like my thing? No doubt, no doubt.
Umm, I wanted to do point stuff. You're like looking around the
room and considering for yourself and you feel like a
little buzzing in your pockets, in one of your pockets.
And when you pull it out, it's the little like USB drive that
reads Wizard Killer and it's blinking.
There's like a little red light that's blinking inside of it now
as you stand in this room. I wave at the guys like, yeah,
yeah, you figure it out. It's Bigot or Deham needs a
thing. I say we give.
Him. Double points on the knives.
Double pack a punch knives. Go D ham.
Say less and I put my arm back in the gun.
Power up. And when you bring it out and
you're like flicking your now three knives around as you do
so, they're all like blue and neon lined like the like the
borders in all of your pinball games.
They have like neon tubes and bars going through them.
I'm gonna kill a wizard. I'm gonna kill a wizard.
There's Murder Buck in an upgrade too because you guys are
connected. Now 1111 but he points his guns
downward sadly. Pedal.
As you look around the room, you, if you know, you just sort
of scan while they're talking amongst themselves about what to
upgrade or excuse me, what to upgrade or what to change.
And you see a corresponding blinking red light like on the
opposite side, like the wall opposing where you guys are all
looking. And upon an easy further
investigation, can find the little USB slot like right below
that little blinking red light. Gross, but I'll stick it in.
You just you do so and. And I get it on the first try,
not where the you put it in it doesn't line up and you flip it
and you try it and it still doesn't line up well you have to
check like. Weights.
Well, I don't know, hold on, give me a cool roll to see how
cool you do this. Grace is psychic.
Come on. I saw this in my vision.
I know what side I need. That's true.
That's true, yeah. That's an 11.
You did. You did.
See it in your vision? You know what side you need.
Wizard Killer up and you put it in and a doorway sort of like
the line appears and it's really hard to see it like is you see
like a 50% opaque concrete wall and then void black behind it,
right? So you see this tiny thin line
appear shaping A doorway and then the door just kind of
pushes backwards and it's blackness.
And you step into just this tiny little room in the center under
one of those sort of tin circular lights that they have
in, I don't know, like it investigator rooms where they,
they punch it when they're trying to like interview someone
intensely. And it just shakes back and
forth like one of these lights, right?
Just like a little spotlight above showing down onto a rather
large machine. Do you have a description for
this machine or do you want me to describe your machine?
I always pictured it like Edge of Tomorrow machines.
Have you guys seen Edge of Tomorrow?
It's got Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.
It's one of the few Tom Cruise. It was actually like, I don't
know why I showed that fact, but there you go.
It's and the only thing I never got about those machines is that
they're like you're you're human.
Our show is so exposed in that that I feel like your meaty
parts are really easily get fucked.
Up. It's for the sake of acting.
Yeah. So it's got to be, well, mine.
'S real. So mine has like a glass cage
like cab thingy, like you can't see it, but I'm making hand
gestures. But yeah, Edge of tomorrow suit,
mech suit. But you have protection because
I, I'm not an actor. So I clear up my meat suit.
Yeah, I mean we would all be caring about the meat suit here.
Maybe the top torso portion of this is like more almost
Transformers style cab that you can slip into or like.
Fuzzy dice for sure. Fuzzy dice.
Fuzzy dice for sure. So it's got to be big enough
like a little cab to be able to ride in where you get to move
all the levers, right, I imagine.
Yeah, I don't know if you guys have ever gotten into like a
tractor or like an excavator. That's my question.
Is this like a suit? You literally have to move your
arm to move the arm? Or do you like move levers and
wheels and shit? You know what I mean?
Come on, I hadn't really thought about it until this exactly.
I haven't driven it since I lost my memory so.
I guess now that I'm thinking about it, now that I'm wanting a
cab robot controlling buttons make more sense than as of
tomorrow, Max style. OK, so scrap.
Yeah, there's edge of tomorrow. Same look, but it's more of like
Wall-e bucket, like square but with like arms and legs sticking
out. And they have guns, you know.
Yeah. Do you OK?
Do you control this with a remote control?
I'm in the, I'm in the, I'm in the core.
It's into. The cab of the.
Metro, you're in the you're in the measure of the Wall-e.
OK, it's more. Like the machines from Blue
People Avatar that they the soldiers drove.
I haven't seen that, but I believe you.
But it's got big guns. Yes, Mike, that's got to be what
we've been talking about for sure, dude, even though I know
that you've been describing something and then I've been
describing something moderately different, Grace.
But I do think that this definitely hold on.
I'm going to screenshot this and send it to the group.
I think that this kind of marries those worlds because I
do think I I've been looking at the picture of Edge of tomorrow
while we're talking about this. I'm missing this.
Just straight to the stream room chat where I send the Craig
messages. Yep.
Except instead of holding a gun, it has like guns on its arms.
Oh, yeah. OK, there it is.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Love that. That's great.
It also feels vaguely what, like Aliens the movie Aliens where
they have those like excavator suits that they use.
Yeah. OK.
Yeah. So something that is like
high-powered and of its own, you imagine that it could jump, it
could move it, it might be able to have some sort of jet pack
thrusters, all of which I'm willing to let this thing have.
And your little key just fits right into the, the, the slot of
the front. And then the that glass like
door opens up and you can clamber inside and, and acquaint
yourself with what feels like like it feels so intuitive for
pedal as she sits in this cab. Like no role necessary, no
nothing necessary. You built this and though you
don't remember, it feels like it feels just like moving to you.
Like you reach for the right thing and it stands up and then
you switch 2 levers and like the arms kind of stretch out a bit
and every move you make, this thing just moves like natural
movement. On your like legend keeper,
you'll find a tab called wizard Killer.
I wrote out in a fun method I think.
How? Oh my God, I just got that.
I was like, what is this gibberish?
Oh yeah, she. That's awesome.
I typed it out. I was like, this is overkill.
No, I guess not. I guess not.
I mean, I didn't really really look, but that's I like that.
That's cute. No doubt.
Oh yes, thank you for all this A. 100%.
Hey, guys, look, I'll pop out. I'll pop out.
The whole door opens like a garage now click, click, click
click click into space as your your suit steps out.
Or do you just step out? No, I step out in the suit.
Oh yeah, out into the black room that you guys are in, walking
suit and pedal I diggity. Oh, is what's her face still
with us? Pollen.
Yes, Pollen is with you. She was with you.
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was virtually uninjured from
the last situation as well. She says.
Ah, man, I, I knew you had, you had spent some time working on
a, on a, on a solution. I just didn't know it'd be so
much for us. I thought we'd be sneaking out.
Yeah, guess not. Heavy stealth.
I guess not. Heavy stealth indeed.
She laughs. I pet the I pet pebbles in the
suit. If it takes him a second, he
probably acclimates, excuse me quickly, but like it takes him a
second, you know, there's a little bit of whimpering and
like eyeballing you as he approaches and sniffs the the
held out machine hand. Sniff, sniff.
D Ham's knife has been wickedly upgraded.
The points tick down to 25,000. I think now that the points are
below 50,000, some of those, the options kind of flicker and
change. The third one's empty, but there
is a healing syringe on the above, the first one in like a a
magazine like a gun magazine above the second one, each of
which read. See the gun magazine reads 10K
and the healing syringe reads 25K and you have 25,000 points
left. So you can buy another healing
syringe or a few of you can ammo up basically what?
Do y'all think is it more important?
I know we've still got one healing syringe and then a bunch
of unidentified syringes. I will never need bullets again
for the rest of my day. I.
Wouldn't mind healing syringe I think.
OK. I think now that we're down to
this point. Yeah, I would say healing
syringe because I've got ammo for my pistol and I've got the
shotgun, T-shirt cannon, so I think I'm good so.
Oh, and you found an extra magazine for your pistol.
That's right. Yeah.
I'm set go for it. I jam it on in there.
Oh. Do you do you use it on?
Yourself right away, scrap and use Bam.
All right, he'll roll AD 6 and he'll AD 3 worth of that right?
Whatever that equates to 22. You heal two more points.
You feel that, you know, I think you feel some of I imagine I
always imagine a burn like a really bad burn looking almost
raisiny like you've desiccated the skin in some way.
It like shrivels up some of that re rehydrates.
It's not as shriveled raisiny on your right arm now as it was
before. You feel like you could stretch
some life back into it. OK yeah.
And your your points tick down to 175.
Nothing to use there. I have one circus.
Peanut shows up for 175. Little snack, Little snacky.
Is there any jerky? A circus peanut and some jerky,
but the Jerky's 250 you just can't afford.
It there is jerky. Come on.
But you guys have a door to go through.
This is like a big red shiny, you know, opulently carved final
door. I would say we let pedal go
first. Dish really go in Guns of
poison. Well, guns of Kimbo, he's
prepared. Guns of Kimbo.
The machine falls to the side and then just shoots both of his
guns. I think marching order should be
pedal dill the ham spicket, yeah.
Murder bot first. After murder bot of course.
Yeah, murder bot and me murder bot.
Murder Bot is so excited to lead the charge.
That's all that he's ever wanted.
Murder Bot entirely first. And Pebble and pebbles can be in
the back. In your line comes forcing
through the the the red opulent door in front of you murder bot
charging ahead. We got pedal in her in her
wizard killer mech suit following this is built up.
This is scrap pieces. This is scrap tubing, whatever
she could find, wherever she could find it to build up this
suit in her like off hours, her her her side time.
But she did so well. There's definitely chunks of
Annie Anne's there. There's chunks of an Annie
Anne's built into the suit. Fantastic.
A faded pretzel on part of an arm.
Yeah, or like an and somewhere. Sound like the leg.
It says Auntie Anne's. You have like 1 strip of metal
you cut in half. It's almost looks like your leg.
Your robot's leg tattoo. Pedal.
Was that your name before you were a Pedal?
Are you Auntie Anne? Still smells like pretzel in the
in the suit. Oh fuck yeah I love it.
It so smells like pretzel. I need that for like, you know,
morale and stuff. Pedal kicking through the door
for like following murder bot the team coming in Shields held
high and and team behind the Shields Pollen, you know, doing
a little dive roll through with her, her T-shirt cannon gun as
well. All of you landing on the field,
a wide rectangular field in front of you on on the opposing
side. So we come in on on one long
side of the field and a short, you know, cross to the other
long side of the field in the center.
And at each corner in front of you are three targets, one in
the center and one at each corner.
A big tower beyond the wall that hems in this field.
Big tower in the center one it's it's a big opening yawning wide
at the bottom of it, overtaking this circle on the bottom as it
sits in the middle, the floor dropped away.
There really is no target in the middle.
It it almost like a pinball hole, like if the pinball were
to hit it, it would just sink into the tower.
The tower though, as you're entering is like slowly moving
in between three points, the middle point or either of the
corners. And as it hits one of those
points, the the the target drops away, revealing just a pinball
hole for the pinball to to fall into.
At the top, another hole where very quickly it like slides
open, revealing the silver of a pinball ready to be fired out.
There's a crowd Hemming in the space, all cheering loudly.
And what are they chanting? Dig, goal, dig goal.
I think it's that Crouch dig, goal, dig goal.
The crowd's going wild because they have loved your team so
far. Unbeknownst to you folks, they
have been watching. But from above, some of them are
wearing like, I don't know, like hats or they're holding like
clappers or signs that like let you know they've been watching
your game. Something from in the maze or
references from in the the House of Terror where we felt alone.
But they are showing now that they have been watching all of
the games and the crowd is just going wild for your team as you
enter. They've got.
Bootleg merch. They do.
I don't know if it's bootleg. I think that the crowd is, well,
the crowd is selling it. I guess it is bootleg.
I don't know. Yeah, I'm not getting any money
off of that. I guess that's true.
So yes, yeah, they got bootleg merch.
I'm going to sue you. Expect a notify.
For my lawyer they go wild. There's AD Ham Corner who has
the most merch. Yeah, and pick your favorite
right now. Like who's the merch?
Anybody. Got any legacy panel merch?
I was going to say pedal probably has the most merch
because there is definitely some like OG pedal merch as well as
whatever you've you know, garnered for yourself this time
around you're like. I was a pedal fan before it was
cool. I was a Pedal fan before it was
cool. There's a bunch of fans here for
Pedal that before it was cool. The crowds just genuinely going
wild for you. You can see above you in the
sky, the wizard's face, He comes down to like a point above this
tower, like the hologram on the sky above you.
You can see like sections down, almost like drains into this
tower, like it's projecting it, the tower that moves back and
forth between these points. And you can see a small shape up
there waving its hands around. But you're getting most of your
visuals from the hologram projected on the sky.
And the wizard congratulates you.
Congratulations for making it to my, well, final game.
Not many make it beyond here, but.
Throw a knife at the projection. Just, you know, to keep up
theme. Oh yeah, yeah, for sure.
But he does space itself. It flies up and sticks into the
ceiling and the. And kills him and.
Dies. No he you see his like image
kind of glitch out and he looks a little annoyed at that.
He says getting better at that huh?
Well, you will all soon join the crowd enough, but for now let me
show you why why this is the final game.
And as he says final, the the the, the, the sky like flickers
red and green for a second and the pinball you see like shines
at the top of the tower and it jolts back into the tower before
firing out directly at your pod of team bought in the front.
And he says, pedal, this one's for you.
And the ball is flying right at your team.
But Pedal's in the front because she's in her machine.
And that was the order we came in.
How big is the ball? Pinball.
It's the big pinball we've been dealing with bigger than like if
I would imagine that it takes like 2 1/2 of a someone to to
reach the height of the ball. So like 2 1/2 D hams.
I'm gonna act fast, then come around front of pedal, put my
shield, my big board, those machine, and then sort of soften
myself to make the first incline of a ramp so that the ball can
just ramp off of the shield and maybe into the crowd.
Oh God, oh give me AI. You're trying to soften
yourself, but it feels like a hard roll.
I'm here for a hard roll. I'm hard as hell.
Boss. You're gross.
How hard am I?
And +2 and experience. Hard, too hard.
So that's that's a 12. That's a 12.
You do just that. You jump in front, softening
your blow and like angling the board just enough to where it,
when it, when hits, would ramp up over you and over pedal the
robot and just kind of right back behind you guys, 'cause
you're against the wall and into the crowd.
You hear some screams of protest and pain from up there.
The crowd still loves it, except for that little pocket of folk.
Everyone else goes crazy over that.
You hear Tisk, tisk, tisk from the wizard and that ball starts
to fade out and you see the silver lining start to appear
back in the top of the tower as it shifts from the middle
section to we'll say like the right hole.
And he says, ready for my surprise shots?
MK Well, let's get this game underway.
And you hear a loud flip switch that the sound of a switch in
like a warehouse click echo right and some electricity
forming over top. And as you look up, you see the
dangling machinery of of a massive engine above you like
accumulating electricity into its point.
And it just like a drop, like a drop of of pure energy falling
down and crashing into the center of the arena is a similar
robot, though much less much more like refined and built to
purpose. It looks familiar to Dee Ham and
Dill, who have faced when we were back on like our our
distraction arena pinball. And it was just the two of you.
And at the very end, you were facing a bunch of forces.
And the wizard says that my general could take care of this
and drop down a big old robot on top of you.
This is what you're drawn back to, though, instead of, I don't
know, like shoddy exposed wiring.
This thing is like plate sheeting, and humanoid it is.
Oh no, he's got rivets. Pieces of it block pieces of it
right? It is a battle of built like
combat bot and it drops into the center and a little face
digitally comes up over the front with like 2 eyes and a
little :). And a number that reads 40
billion. Infinite Infinity 8 but sideways
on top of its eyes and it points, I don't know, like a a
rounded arm at the three of you and three little spinning
barrels start start up on the front of it.
And finally, to begin our game, another shot is sounded from the
top of the tower and a ball sails to the right of you and
hits the wall and starts this like, you know, in projection,
bounce between the walls like front to back, front to back,
front to back. And that's where we're going to
kick off. So you 5 will start with big.
Big bot has dropped down into the center in front of you.
Pedal. You recognize it, but getting
much more information beyond recognizing it will take some
focus right and the ball is start as it's it's it's arc back
and forth. It hits the back wall and shoots
towards the front before it starts coming back towards the
back wall. What do the five of you do You
have root on your team, so she so.
Are there any other ads or is it just the general?
Just the general and that's the only ad on the board, OK.
Then I'm I'm going to throw a knife at him.
Do we have a wing condition? Just beat him.
We have to get there's three targets on the back wall.
We have to get the ping pong ball to hit that.
But he's also gonna be attacking me as what we're doing.
I got a 13 to hit him. Yeah, the board hasn't made it
clear what your wind condition is, but that is a fair
observation. Based on Pedal's vision, that's
what I believe the wind condition to.
Be three of your knives pepper the front sticking dead into the
metal. It doesn't really stop it, but
bam bam bam, you know you're you know you're 9. 30 Stop it.
Yeah, exactly, exactly. And then I run out of the
trajectory of the ball. It's about time for for Pedal to
show us what her her combat bot's all about, I think.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think I can. If we know the wing condition, I
can distract it for like 12 seconds.
But it's going to be like Hulk fighting Thanos in Infinity War.
So, you know, only if we know what we're doing am I going to
stand and just get walloped on for a minute?
Yeah, I'm scrolling. I'm scrolling my thingies on my.
Think we're going to depend upon pedal to distract this thing
while we try and get the targets?
Sounds like maybe the way to go. I'll.
Try and. Shoot and pedal your there.
I think that there might be more functions of your suit than just
beating down a door right there may be like communication
features, stealth features. I'm okay with you like
interjecting something that you built this suit to do right,
because this is like this in in my cannon was petals ultimate
weapon against the wizard and his his antics right.
So you would at 8 million and above points have an idea of
what he has to offer right, and maybe have built safeguards.
So if you have ideas of things that it can do that are beyond,
I put a few things up here top like when it says beyond the
above normal movement, right, it includes, it includes making use
of its weapons, special movements, carrying great loads,
whatever, whatever. Like maybe you can dive into its
communications. Maybe you can, you know, try to
break down the connection between these things.
Like this whole place kind of seems psychic and electronic.
And I think that you might have more ways in than just bashing
down a door. Just so you know, you're feel
free to like improv what it's got 'cause we didn't really get
to build up what this suit can do.
Is this robot have a person in it too?
Or is this just a completely? You're the person in it.
No, no, the other one. Oh the other one is pretty
similar in build to yours, but rather than like a glass box
being on the front, there is like a digital screen covering
up any apparent signs of there being someone inside.
Just a digital black screen. Got it.
OK, well, if the everyone else could be focusing on the ball
and figuring out how to get that onto the targets, I'm going to
dude it with like a like a little rocket locker situation.
Like Tony Stark in his first suit.
You know how he has like those little things wreck?
There aren't very many missiles in there.
Sure, but it's not like a giant missile.
No, sure. Like a little like a little
single rocket you fire off at it.
What's your I think we picked a weapon.
You pick like the. Tank missile.
I think it was through discord that we messaged about your
weapons. If we're talking about shooting,
yeah. Also wanna take a pot shot just
to see what happens with one of my balls.
Yeah, if Dylan wants to shoot first, let let let Gabe do his
thing and I can look it up. What you got, Gabe?
What'd you say you wanted to do? My initial thought was I was
going to actually shoot at these targets back behind here because
maybe they don't have to respond to the the pinball.
Maybe they we can just shoot him with something and I've got some
things. Got a game gun?
Fire off one of my pool balls. Oh, you also have just a
slingshot and pool balls. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
For sure. Yep.
Just just shoot it off, see what happens.
Yeah, act under fire, probably. 7.
You fire some pool balls off at the because he's off on the
right. He's off on the right target.
Now you fire some pool balls off at the mid, the middle target
that is just become present since he shifted away from that
space in his tower, the whole tower kind of sliding along the
back wall pretty smoothly. Your pool balls hit it and crack
and shatter and send the pieces like flying as they do when they
hit. I don't think that anything else
happens, like there's no note that the target has been hit.
There's no like lights or Ding Ding dinging that goes off.
OK, no informative. Just some ammo shatters out.
Yeah. Pedal, have you seen?
Yeah, it's 50. It's the 50.
Yeah, 50 caliber machine gun blah blah blah yours your starts
rotating too and fires up. Jesus.
Yeah. These are two big boys.
These are two big I. Really don't want to get shot by
any of these because my arms will not prevent the lemon
Pfeiffer from going kaput. I have one more thing that I
thought about also that is that I don't want to reveal yet, but
I have one more thing that I or have already thought of that I
want my machine to have. OK, it's not now though, you
fire off your. Yeah, I'm, I'm firing the fuck
out of it, Yeah. OK give me a 1 mark 1 charge on
your your suit and then give me an act under fire which is just
your normal roll plus cool I believe.
Cool, I got it. Yeah, OK.
First one is a dirty 10. You fire off your shots and
pepper also the front of this. We'll say you pepper the front
of the screen. It cracks parts of the digital
screen that that cover the front of it.
And I think with the 10, you actually see thing the the
digital screen glitches in phases a little bit in between.
You know you cause damage because this glitching occurs,
right? But in between you swear you see
like green bubbly liquid inside and then it flashes back to
black. Apple size.
Apple Pfeiffer, is it run by Apple Pfeiffer Spigot?
You're the only one that hasn't acted.
Give me what are what are you up to first?
Are you just like waiting to see or you examining?
What's your like take on this? Are we just like waiting for
others to go? Yeah, no, I'm kind of watching
the pinball that's in play, see if I can kind of figure out
which way it's going to see if maybe I can call on Dill to help
us to help redirect it towards a target.
So I'm staying I'm trying to stay back from these two metal
monsters while sort of plotting next moves.
Then give me, let's see, maybe a stitch.
Hack Beast is with me too so but I don't.
Know the hack with the gang? Yeah.
Let's see, Rita sich is sharp with plus sharp.
Roll plus sharp. That's not great.
That's a 5 + 2 A7. A7.
You can ask one question from this Rita Sich list.
What should I be on the lookout for Is good?
Which enemy is the most vulnerable?
Could be neat if you could like twist that into, you know,
where's his big weak point? Oh yeah.
Who's in control here? If we're looking for like,
where's the wizard's box? Let's see which enemy is
vulnerable to me, Which enemies? Well, I think I know the biggest
threat. So yeah, if I guess if I'm
looking as the enemies, as being the targets, which enemy is most
vulnerable to me right now? Is there one of these targets
that I'm most likely to be able to get by redirecting the ball?
Or where should I focus my attention, if that if that
works? Yeah, So if he is like, and
unfortunately if I've noticed, I'm just not, I'm trying to
learn how to be better at describing the shapes I draw on
my notebook. If we, I'm going to draw a shape
here. So if he's off on the right side
of the board, right, he's got these three holes.
So he's at the he's at a corner across from you guys.
If he fires his ball, his goal is to not rebound it into the
open hole clearly like that. That would be how he has chosen
to fire this ball. So you know that if he fires his
ball from this right turret, you can see the angle.
It's like bouncing down and around the holes, right?
So that it would continue around the board unimpeded unless
something changes. And his hope, you would imagine
after seeing this, is that it hits one of you to change.
His. Path he's created this like
field hazard for you. It's bouncing in between the
holes, so you know that someones going to have to do something in
order to arrange like affect its trajectory.
Whether that's you, I think you think this to yourself, right?
Like Dill stepping in front with his shield and redirecting it.
You guys could work together to like take that brunt off of him
or the robot getting in the way and taking a a hit for someone
on its own. It is masterfully planned to
bounce around the board and you could probably bet with a role
like that to end up back at, or I guess with with your question
anyway, to end up back at the turret eventually.
Like he wouldn't have to move if nothing changed to catch the
ball almost. OK.
Yeah, with a, with a role into observing your environment.
I think in your observation, as you're like watching and
examining actually give me give me an open your brain role to
tie some stuff together for in your observations all.
Right, that's weird. So that's I'm a + 0, so that
will just be a straight die roll and that's an 8.
And that's an 8. The machine above you seems to
be outputting a lot more power than a machine of its size.
You can see that a lot of work and effort has been put into
like the way that this machine projects its power.
It is fielded currently, but there seem to be lines like
dipping in and out of the the ceiling and into the wall like
all the way down that lead to some of these targets.
Like there are output, I don't know, output like meters or
sensors or whatever behind these targets that he's created into
some sort of a game, but would impact the machine above you
with the way that it's running and it's churning and chugging
and like there's probably like Pistons pumping up and down.
The way that it's doing that. I think you get the idea is
pretty intricate and difficult machine wise to pull off.
It takes a very specific kind of power source or mind in order to
to do anything with a machine like that.
OK. I'm going to have to ponder what
to do with those cables and what to do with that machine.
I think I'm going to share, I'm going to move next to Dylan,
kind of share my plan of trying to redirect the ball to start to
hit the targets. And I'm hoping maybe Pollen and
Pack Beast will stay with us as we work on that.
Pebbles. Sorry, Pebbles, the pack.
Beats pollen and pebbles. Not that's funny.
The ball bounces off of the wall behind you folks and skirts up
the the the field towards the front wall.
And as it hits the front wall, you see that front wall like
shoots out a little bit and creates an angle and the ball
bounces directly at your group rather than as it twur to bounce
around your group. But the the wall itself seems to
be maneuverable from this tower. And I think with all of Spigot's
observations, it's relatively easy for you to dive out of the
way or warn your crew of this. I'll let you choose.
You either get a + 1 to you dodging or you can give a + 1 to
your crew dodging. I would give the plus one to the
crew. OK, pedal, you give me an
agility roll with because you're in your robot.
Anytime we do like dodge or well actually, you can tell me.
If you want to dodge the ball, you can give me agility.
If you want to do anything else, like withstand the brunt of the
ball, you can give me power. Everyone else again, it's either
hard to withstand or sharp to dodge, I bet.
I'm going to. This idea of redirecting the
ball, I have this big shield, would I be able to like catch
the the ball on this big shield and redirect it just sort of
pivot and and let the ball's own momentum carry it towards one of
the targets? Yeah, yeah, that feels like a a
withstand roll just to keep the shield up behind this force of
the ball. 8 + 2 is 10. I rolled an 8 to avoid.
Ten OK pedal. You rolled an 8.
You are in front at this point. No Dilla stepped in front of
you. I think Dill's 10 makes your
eight kind of moot 'cause he just totally does his
successfully. He brings up his shield and
protects you. You jump out of the way almost
sloppily, like stepping over yourself.
You would have dodged, maybe gotten hit a bit, but it all
seems kind of unnecessary as Dill is able to like just hold
position and redirect the ball towards left bumper, middle
bumper, or like left target, middle target.
You want to cross the field. You want to get the middle
field. Probably left target.
You redirect the ball, angling your wall.
It slams into you, sending you back a couple steps, but you're
able to stay true as the ball redirects towards the left side
of the field and towards the left target.
You can see the tower start to move very quickly towards that
left target, like skate across the back of the field but with
your just instant readiness to reflect.
And. Good role.
The tower is unable able to make it that far.
It like makes it 3/4 of the way before the ball hits the target
and you you see a bunch of lights go off across Ding Ding
Ding. The crowd goes like wild and
then the tower clicks into that space.
The tower. The target drops below the floor
and you see the wizard's face scowl above scowls for a second
and he says you're you shouldn't be doing the game this fast.
You don't want to pass up your friends, do you?
And lights shine up from the bottom of the floor next to two
dangling targets next to this machine. 1A small child that you
recognize, Twiggy unconscious and dangling next to the the
machine on the ceiling and one large and just fighting against
its bounds to get out a branch. The affected Hulk like branch
trying to fight these chains that bind it but unable to break
free. Still also dangling next to this
machine. And those lights stay up like
angling at these two people from down below.
That target goes off and a big light turns on above it, and the
tower slowly clicks back into the middle space, putting a hole
down there. The other target doesn't come
back up because you've already hit it.
You got left in middle target now.
And our friends are where in regards to the target are they?
Right in front of the target. Well, above you.
They're above you next to like a big generator that's rooted into
all this. Got it.
What are they suspended by? Thick chain, OK, less thick for
the child than for the big dude. Maybe rope for the child.
Literally like it's a kid. I don't.
Think I throw I throw a knife at the rope.
Am I? Am I under the child?
I throw a knife at the rope. Give me a sharp roll.
Here I go, snake eyes. No.
No, Twiggy just got killed. The shape like.
The. Air and then goes like pendulum
swing to come back to neutral. I don't think any noise is made.
You just struck the form. Fortunately, I'm a bad shot and
I hit it with the the hilt. I think you you strike the main
body and then slowly it starts to slump forward and then like
roll down the chain. Your knife may be sharp enough
to break whatever link it was at, right?
And then it just slowly unwinds it and just drops it.
Yeah. So the body of Twiggy falls
through the air, but because of your snake eyes 4 Max, I imagine
you're not underneath of it as Twiggy's.
But you know who could be murder bot flying through the air to
save the day? I'll try, I haven't taken action
yet. Murder bot floats quickly.
Let's see what murder bot rolls. Oh.
Murder bot shoots the child with his guns.
Uh oh. No, you.
Tell me what Murder Bot is rolling for.
Is this a sharp roll? Hard roll?
Cool roll? What is this cool cool roll?
Murderbot. I don't know who his stats are
but I feel like it's cool. Murderbot gets under the shape
and the shape crashes into Murderbot.
Murderbot and the shape hit the ground.
Murderbot was unable to carry shape.
I'm going to make a roll for Twiggy here.
A death saving I did. But the The Shape hits Murderbot
and Murderbot and The Shape hit the ground with a crunch.
I'm proud of you. You gave it your best shot.
I say if. You did.
You did.
Your style. You hear a groan from the shape
above Murderbot, but Murderbot like glitches out and gives you
a face down sound. The ball though, hitting the
left bumper hits that corner and reflects like back at a wall.
It's continuing. It's like bounce around.
It doesn't phase away. Danger still present.
What do you let's see Pedal and the bot.
I think that it's going to take its first action and sweep,
sweep its rotating barrel arm up towards Pedal.
Actually, this is going to no, it doesn't do that.
You see, so it it it threateningly started to rotate
up its gun and it's still rotating.
It lifts up on some like little jet thrusters on its feet is
going to try to like tackle you and shift you to the side out of
this Group A go aggro roll. It's trying to move you away
from the group so it can take care of you and it's going to
roll plus hard. A poopy.
A10 on a 10 + 10 on A10 plus force your hand and suck it up.
Cave and do what you want. So it's just gonna force forward
and like, like hook its arms down in a, in a, in a 90° angle
and hook up up under your arms and drag your feet forward and
to the right. And we'll say like it kind of
spins around and tries to put your back towards the ball.
So it's like ready to redirect just like Dill did, but with you
as its wall. What do you do?
Or, or the team does? It has hooked you and is like
dragging your feet along the ground and putting you in the
path of the ball. I'd roll to help, but I've got
no history. I mean the. 0 is better than a
negative. I suppose that's true.
Yeah, you don't want me to roll to help?
I've got a minus. No, actually, that's what
Spigot. I could also roll a nothing
bonus, a flat roll. I got a + 1 so I could help.
Am I is my face facing towards them or am I facing away from
them? Like the robot that you're
encountering like. They're dragging me.
You're probably like right up against it.
OK, I'm gonna try and kick it if it's got my arms clamped down.
Yeah, kick his robot right in the balls.
Kick him in the balls. Ouch, my servos.
Have a guy roll to kick him in the balls if you can tell.
If you so there is The Cave and do what you want.
If you can tell me what you want from this, is that just to stop
carrying you? Is that to make them back off?
What is your? I want my goal is to kick it so
it like beliefs is a hold on me and then my next move is that I
thought it would be cool because of all the tech stuff, because I
figured there would be another robot that we would have that
I'd have to robot dual. I thought of like an electronic
net that like I fire from my. That like websites.
Are on yeah like I throw a computer at them clank no that
like electrified net that could like fry the the robot and I
rolled and I don't know what the plus is but I rolled A9 I don't
know what. It's going to be plus hard or
no. It's going to be plus your
power. Plus power +2 OK 11. 11 you so
it picks you up and tries to like put your back towards this
ball, but you're able to swipe your arms like windmill down and
around to break their hold on you, right?
Does it have balls? Even 11 can't get in the balls.
You kick it where it's balls would be.
I don't. It's a robot balls on a robot.
But you kick it, you know where its balls would be.
You hear some grinding. Oh.
Yeah, D Ham blushes. Perverts.
It's true, it's like truck nuts, but they built testicles onto
the robot. It's the worst truck nuts ever.
Bot balls is what they call them.
Right in a spot ball. The bot struggles and grasps at
where it's it's testicles should be and drops to one knee
briefly. But the big bit is that you've
done so in front of the ball and as it's like struggling, it gets
struck in the back by the ball and it it changes its
trajectory. Three, a bit bouncing now a
little bit more wildly. It directs back at the middle
hole, but the tower being there now is just a hole and the ball
will say slides right into the tower and you can see it form
back up at the top like they're ready to fire it angling now
down or like at the direction of the party.
The bot though struggles a bit in this striking and some of its
servos are whirring and and sparking out and you can see the
digital screen flashing in and out.
Now when you see the digital screen flash out, for just a
second, you see the shadow of like, a humanoid figure in this
green liquid, like floating up and down in the green liquid
before the the screen and comes back on.
Then the robot tries to push itself to its feet.
You raise your arm and fire the net and it envelops the robot
and shocks it a bit. And it seems to be struggling to
get up to its feet. Should give it a withstand roll.
That's what I mean. It's struggling to get up to its
feet. You can see the electricity and
like, I think the way the like, you know, the skeleton would be
seen in a cartoon when it's a person shocked, you see the
like, Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry.
See a small skeleton indoors. There's a can of tuna.
But they're trying to make their way to their like, force the
robot to force them to their feet and the tower facing a ball
down at your team. How do we position?
What do we do before the next volley is fired?
I'm just going to get out of the direct trajectory if the if the
robot looks like it's and get past you for.
Should all stand directly in front of the targets.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, there's only two
targets left. So I think Deham is going to run
off to a target not checking on the safety and well-being.
Come fire the ball right at the targets.
I mean it us. Not I'm not going to check on
the well-being of the child. Roll my child.
Nice. The kid made one moan and makes
no more noises. The the team runs and splits up
and jumps in front of the targets.
Like come on, get me. So can we can we send Pollen to
get the kid? If she doesn't want to go get
him then Spigot would go get the kid to get him out of the way.
I think that's a great point. I think Pollen would be all over
Twiggy, running over and trying to like scoop him up and get him
to a safe corner of the field. I imagine she, like, scoops him
up and tries to hide behind Dill.
Seems like the mobile wall, right?
Yeah. Yeah, Dill, that pays no heed to
this. As you turn, just like
examining, she's trying to like stay behind you, pedal dodges
kind of out of the way to a safe place of the field and Spigot,
D, Ham and Dill all shore up in front of the two targets.
Like fire at me. If you're going to fire the
turret above you folks, having to fire and bounce it like bank
it off the back wall in order to hit one of these targets anyway,
is holding its fire. And you see the wizard above you
scowl and tisk and says I'm going to need help from the
crowd. We're going to need to pull them
back onto the field. And a few of the more fanatical
crowd members start to jump down off of their like riser barriers
and into the the opposing side of the field. close in on you
folks. There's probably like 8 of them
closing in, four on each of these groups.
Guys don't know anything about upgraded knives.
I pull out. I pull out a handgun from my
from my chest cavity and I am akimbo.
Knives throwing out of one hand, pistol being shot in the other
hand. Yeah, I think between him and
the Gatling gun on Pedals Robot, I think we're probably fine.
It's a nine for me. I punched the target just to see
what happens. Give me a hard roll 7.
You feel a jolt through your system as you connect with it.
With the seven, you level up on the hard roll experience.
You feel a jolt through your your system and it shocks like
like you grabbed an outlet, like you feel a good sharp shock to
your fingers. You're you're the knuckles that
connect with it taking one through armor.
Nothing else occurs. Lights don't go off and and all
that. Speak.
It's gonna draw a shotgun, but he's gonna wait until they get
close before he fires. Pedal.
Yeah, I mean, I think I'm also gonna, I don't think I want to
start just shooting. You don't.
I mean no. I'm asking, I just want to make
sure. I just want to have like be
ready. I just want to be ready, you
know, I don't know what our big game plan is.
I just kind of. Want yeah, I think the just
start shooting part of the game plan is probably handled at this
point. I think I just want to be ready.
OK, why don't you give me a sharp role to like, examine the
field for your best assault point, right?
That's a nine. Oh, plus three to Sharp, thank
goodness. You stand back and watch as your
allies start firing knives and guns into the the crowd that's
jumping off of their barriers starting to rush for you.
Just trying to force your team away from the targets so that
the Wizard can seemingly target you guys better with the ball.
Pollen isn't so much of A help as she's trying to carry Twiggy
now, right? She's just trying to keep him
off the ground and behind Dill. Wherever the safe is part is,
this is the only moving barrier in the the room.
This robot is starting to struggle against the restraints
of this electric net and like stretch it out trying to
breakthrough in this moment that you're like watching this occur.
I think you get some inklings on this robot.
You get the idea that you helped build this robot with all you've
seen. There's someone piloting this
robot, though you're not sure how directly because they're in
a VAT of liquid right now. Like whatever's inside that
robot is liquid and there's someone in there.
So they're they're piloting it, but are they doing it directly
or indirectly? You're not sure, but you did.
This feels like prototype to the bot you're in now.
The bot you're in now a lot more mobile, a lot more quick on its
feet. I think this one's sort of
prototype Y as it's trying trying to struggle against this.
You like recognize the way that it's moving and whatnot.
The others. Let's see D Ham, what was your
do something under fire? It was a 67892.
It was an 11. Nice spigot, why don't you give
me one too? You're waiting till the right
moment, but you're the close range.
D Ham's The Long Range. Under fire, that is going to be
a 10 + 2. That's 12.
Damn with the two of you. They die before they recently
die. Yeah, I mean the two of you, we
got knives flicking, some of them die in mid air on their
drop to the ground, pinned up against the wall.
Some of them, just like some of them dive up under a knife, it
cutting a cheek as they like swirl under it, only to come
face to the face to face with spigots like T-shirt, cannon,
flat gun that just launches them backwards as they bounce and hit
the wall. Also Dill, you're acting as a
shield. What was your goal in this
moment? Did we get, did I get one from
you? I just want to make sure I'm not
like forgetting. I don't think I got one from
you. No, I don't really have a goal,
but I did level up and I took the I took the the perk blood
crazed. So when I, when I deal harm, I
deal plus one harm. And I'm what I'm, I'm going to
say that Dill. Dill up until now has really
only been consuming toxins and poisons.
Oh, no. Oh.
Boy. A dude jumps at the front of
your your your big like counter shield and tries to like stab
you behind it. Are we talking of what do you
do? Like he's, he's like dangling
over top of the shield. Yeah, he's like holding on to
your arm. Wait, no, because you have back
braces. He's like found a grip in the
front of the shield and he's trying to swing his around
behind to stab you holding the shield.
Just for the sake of the moment, we're going to say that my other
arm is busy doing something, so I'm just going to like bring the
shield down so that he's within bite range and then take a bite
out of. Him.
Oh man. I think a big bite.
You feel your your your whole gullet with this dude.
'S nasty 1 He goes from like yeah come here to like oh.
No, let me out. Let me behind the shield.
Keep the shield here. My phoneticism so far.
I am now afraid. I don't like this so give me a
sucker. Someone we never got to roll it.
This dude is unsuspecting and helpless to this attack because
he he thinks he has the the upper hand entirely.
Like you're just in defense mode.
No way you could bite his arm off.
You know what? Because this seems like a thing
that I'm just going to do and it's just going to happen and
it'll be horrible. I'm going to roll plus hot.
Oh. God, but why?
Get the man's arm in your mouth and you go.
There's the other thing that hot is like the it's seduced or
manipulate. I think intimidate falls under
that purview as well. No it doesn't.
I think it, I mean, intimidate does fall under high.
It's, it's, it's all of the the charisma base that we would
think about D&D being I think is the hot role.
OK, well I guess the the reason that I'm going to give is, you
know it's clear off if you don't want to be like this guy.
Sure, sure, the others won't come near this shield.
And that's a nine. And that's a nine.
This dude falls to the ground. You spit the arm out.
Drinking in what blood passes becoming I imagine blood craze
but realizing that it's just a poison as any poison is such a
loosely defined term to someone who consumes them.
Who knows. I imagine at some point, even if
you can consume it, you would there would be some things you
would maybe just imagine are poison because they didn't give
you the nasty feeling that food normally gives you.
But maybe if we think about blood, like spigot could ingest
it without being poisoned. And so maybe this becomes a
loose like barrier in this moment where we realize that we
can actually drink more than just poisons.
But who knows? I think Dill just.
Hungry, Dill, just hungry. As you consume flesh, bone and
some blood in this bite and the dude falls to the floor, I
think, yeah, I think you get that.
The the dude is down at your feet just like clutching what
lump of an arm remains and rolling back and forth.
And the three dudes behind them with their pipes in hand or guns
drawn facing your shield or like spread out, backing up just a
little bit, creating a little circle around you because they
don't, they don't want to get in and get bit either.
They've created this like pocket of uncertainty around you.
On the other one I've just sort of imagined spicking and D ham
together on this one since pedals coming in from the back
against the robot and there's you know, 4 or so dudes like
closing and around you guys. D Ham has been launching knives
beautifully hitting in the head in the head as like two or three
get close in behind and under. D Hams knives Spigots gun is
there to just meet their faces and blast them backwards.
They send tumbling though the crowd doesn't seem like
satiated, more of them are jumping down in just trying to
get you folks off of the bumpers.
The pinball is fired, it careens through the air and smashes a
dude into the wall as it hits the back wall and rebounds off
moving through some of the crowd that has jumped down.
The wizard laughing and chuckling like with Glee at all
of the chaos happening beneath. You can tell that this is this
is the game he's after. It's not necessarily defeat
those who are challenging him, but it's the chaos that he can
cause in his games and the fact that these people are just
willing to dive in. He's like getting off on from up
there. You can see him projected onto
the sky with that like weird sense of ecstasy on his face as
he's loving this pedal. You can see the robot regaining
its feet, breaking free of the tethers of this electric net.
Pull out the second but stronger electric net.
The first net was a tester, the second.
One first one was the prototype. This is the full result.
I'm just gonna shoot the everyone fuck out of it I guess.
Hell yeah. Do I only have the the 50 night
the the continuous? Yes, that was your weapon.
That is just your your, your weapon of choice.
You just have this like continuous 50 caliber that you
can blast it with. Is there like a weak point I'm
noticing that like I could mark, you know, focus on?
Or give me an open your brain roll.
I think I've I like I said, you, you were you recognize this like
this seems like prototype to the one that you're driving now,
even though the one you're driving is like scrap built.
You can see the design. That's another nine.
Another 9, the cockpit. The cockpit seems to be the
weakest point. It is really well shielded on
all these points. It's shielded on the cockpit,
but you notice that like as you have struck the cockpit, it has
taken the most like it. It glitches, that screen leaves.
You've gotten some info on what's in it, that point, like
if you can get past the shielding with some focus fire,
that would be its focal point, right?
There's a driver in there that you can target.
Then I mean, sorry, whoever's in there, they're getting shot, so
I'm just gonna shoot right for that weak point in the cockpit.
Do something under fire. It's trying to get up.
You're trying to put it down. Whoa, it's a 12?
Wow. As it's trying to get up, you
unleash this 50 Cal just fire after fire the the loud echoing
of these shots fill the room and the first few shots like hit it
and send it back onto it's like 1 foot one knee right?
And then you blast through whatever shielding there and you
see the glass kind of crack and shatter and one area and some
green liquid start to pour out and then you shoot it down in
the lower portion and it shatters down there.
The the digital screen just disappears, leaving this green
opaque almost tank in it, glass shattering and liquid pouring
out of it along with a body attached to some like tubes.
And and then like long, I guess it's all tubing connected to
different parts of their body, their mouth, their like eyes.
There's probably like a Google set on right and a young slender
body just kind of falls out and tumbles to the floor.
Still at first, I think after a few moments, there's a little
bit of like a a a shake there. They don't seem to be in a great
position, but they do seem familiar.
Is it right? That occurs and you have that
thought. Seeing the body is this root,
right? You know that it is in this
moment. Oops.
A lot of the vision around you guys starts to glitch and faze
as the body of root hits the ground and tumbles away from
what tubing and and what not connects its the parts to the
wider robot. It like rolls away and the the
goggles fall off and fall to the side.
The digital screen around you guys, around the playing field
starts to glitch and phase and have issues.
Like it starts to, yeah, give you that like glitchy error,
kind of phasing. And the the wizard's face in
between the glitches seems to scowl.
But you notice a, for those of you looking up at this board and
trying to get a control on it, notice a sense of fear or I
don't know, like discontentment in that face as it phases out
and you folks are left in this broken down concrete, almost
circular stadium. This little circular area.
There's two tiers of what would be standing space.
You're like in a little courtyard in the, in a central
circular courtyard, concrete, what seems built into this old
mall that is all like crumbling down around you craze thin and
gangly. People fight wildly at just like
dug holes in the ground. The the the psychic shimmer over
the top of this situation seems to be fading away now that route
has been disconnected from this robot.
But as you like look around, crumbling tower in the center of
one of these walls doesn't seem like it can actually move so
much. You folks find yourselves in
this old decrepit like courtyard of the mall.
We made some jokes about the courtyard being the baseball
arena for the mall, but that like would be where you find
yourselves in the food court. When we saw the the the
escalators leading down like MC Escher style around this
courtyard. This is like that quote UN quote
courtyard. We were kind of seeing in all
the psychic things. Now that root is disconnected,
this like digital psychic barrier you have found
yourselves in seems to be fading out and in the center, suspended
from what little ceiling remains is this thrown together,
scrappily built chugging machine.
All of the people around you are looking around kind of wildly
from both of their tears and and start to go into this crazed
kind of scream like we've broken their connection to reality.
They start to panic and RIP at the concrete around themselves
and some of them are straight up just banging their heads into
the piece that they get. Others are like breaking down
walls and hucking them at at at another group across the thing.
A few are coming together and starting to crazily come at your
group in front of these dug holes in the courtyard.
A few are going towards the tower and starting to like RIP
out, try to RIP out pieces of the tower.
You hear a a voice from above the tower try to shout above the
den, but with all of the screaming and like upsetted
moaning around, you're having trouble hearing what's being
said. You catch the glints, the the
like little freckles of like no or no get them.
But no one seems to be listening to this voice that exists above
the tower. There's chaos all around.
Rube Pollen is just trying to protect Twiggy from, you know,
maybe from a few people. She shoves a dude back.
He tumbles. He's like moaning and screaming
and clawing at the air. Anyone.
Does anyone have an action in this chaos?
We win. We win knife.
Yeah. Pedal Can your robot jump?
Probably. Because.
I was thinking about shooting that machine above.
Yeah, I was thinking about you jumping up and grabbing that
machine. Yeah, Deham will spend his time
defending the group, isn't. The engine?
Don't we need something in? There, well there I think there
are parts to the water bearer machine, but I I haven't
verified that those are in there.
But that was my next thought is that's why I kind of want her to
grab it and pull it down versus destroying it because what if
that's where my machine parts are?
She fucking lights it up like this, Yeah.
No. Oh, fine.
A piece of the metal falls down and it says water chip as it's
obliterated by 50 Cal Fire. Yeah, I mean, it would make
sense that my robot could at least use kind of a jump on how
high can it be anyways? I bet it can jump higher than a
house. I mentioned the the access to
some sort of jet like booster. I imagine that you've, I think
Pedal has played these games with the idea to beat them one
day, right? Or not just playing the games.
To play the game, we need to escape with our group.
So you've probably put jet boosters in here in order to be
able to do those high jumps when needed.
I don't see why not. OK, I rolled A9, I don't know
what that would be plus, but agility I guess.
Yeah, +2, so 11. 11 there's no choice.
Then pedal spigot points up and says you know what about the the
engine above and pedal aiming her gun decides not to just RIP
it in half with the Gatling gunfire, but instead leaps up
there and just sections the middle chunk out of the ceiling
and pulls down lots of little electric fire happening.
Whatever digital glitch may have still been occurring around the
field to to to project any sort of scenery immediately shuts the
moment the machine is removed from its its middle routing.
And I think with the 11, you land safely too, with a big
crunch and a heavy like like like you jumped down from a high
thing with a 20 LB box. Like you get a oof, right, but
you hold your position with this machine in hand.
There's a bunch of extra bits coming off of this.
But I think in the moment, having removed the engine
spigot, you can see parts of the engine you're looking for like,
you know, bound in by various machinery in the big chunk that
pedal has removed from the ceiling.
The crowd as a whole is going absolutely bonkers.
It's it's sort of all chaos on the field.
Like ants, they're climbing down the walls towards your group or
up the tower towards the wizard like they're not.
It's sort of on, I don't know, there's no one left, right to
the safety. It's just crowd is is is is
totally barreling over everything at the moment.
I think at most your team is sort of hemmed in by this crazed
crowd. How do we, I know what Deham
said. He was just fucking hurling
knives into the crowd, trying to keep them off.
Is there a way that our group deals with this crowd
encroaching much? I think much like the bully in
which there was a moment in which we could have spoken.
We shut off the like Wizards communique with the group and
now he's being raided upon. So there's not much of like a
oh, you've got me, haha, you beat me because like it you, you
just like turned off the TV so he couldn't say anything and now
he's getting gotsed upon. You can hear some screams and
like of of like protest from up the tower but I don't think that
besides the no get them you can hear from like actual in person
yelling from like way up there. I mean, I guess the plan would
be to sort of puddle up together if Dill's still willing to hold
up the counter to kind of protect us from the onslaught.
And then as needed, we can, you know, thin the herd.
I don't know if peddle if you've got the dexterity to pick up
root, or whether we need to try and get to root, or whether it's
too late for root. Yeah, and what happened to
branch? Branch is also.
Branch is still hanging in the air.
Oh my God, but. You could put the engine down
and then jump back up and get branch.
Yeah, I guess I need to get that guy.
I actually members of my gang, man, Let's maybe.
Just be the moment where you start over.
No gang anymore. I get yeah, I guess I should
jump up and grab branch if someone else if someone.
Can hold the engine for me. I might just like see if if root
is even like alive or if I definitely shot her up because
that's a bummer if I did that might it's my bad.
Yeah, I mean, I can take my counter and like try and plant
it in the in the ground to make an actual wall for us to hide
behind. It's going to have a hole in it.
That's OK. It's a good shotgun hole I can
peek out and. I don't think I'm the one to
deal with medicine, so I guess I can hang out with the engine.
Yeah, sort of. Last stand you drop the the
counter into the ground and the team huddles around it, firing
their shots off around as whatever crowd encroaches pedal
leaps up. As I leap up, can I also use my
arm and mow down a bunch of people?
Of course, course you can. Of course you can.
I think we're speaking narratively at this moment.
Like you are able to drop the engine right into Dill's care,
right? I think Pollen probably jumps on
pulling Root back behind. Root seems injured.
Root is not unaffected by the battle that we've had.
I think that there's probably like a bit of rag doll going on
as, as she is unconscious and probably bleeding a little bit
here or there. But pollen, you know, grabs the
body and drags it behind and doesn't stop as if, you know,
doesn't give you any notion that she's dead.
So I imagine that because she's doing these actions, you get the
sense of life, but you can't focus on that too much.
You got to jump up, you grab branch, you snap them from the
chain. You're mowing down some of the
crowd, The crowd's just crazed. They're not necessarily going
after you folks with the, you know, focus.
They're just tearing apart the situation.
Pieces of brick and stone are hurling in parts of the walls
are breaking down because they're just crazed at this
moment. Knives are flying from D Ham,
the shotguns going off as the as it's like tubes are replaced so
their flat gun goes off. Dill holding the wall or hucking
what pieces he can protecting the people.
Behind him, jaws with my. With my balls.
Out of people who get too close. Crack aiming at jaws only.
Is it stopping people? Like do they do like are they so
crazed that they ignore? Are they running around with
their jaw flapping around or do they go down once they've?
I think most of them go down. There's a few of them that that
when they go down, you can see their jaw just like hanging from
the top of their head that they're trying to like crawl
towards you because they're still just like they've been in
this digital, I don't know, dream craze for so long that
they're just snapped out of it. I think they're in a mental
shock at the moment. Yeah.
You just took them out of the Matrix.
Animalize, right? You didn't even tell them you
were going to. Because that's true.
We did. We did.
Take them out of the matrix. Yeah, exactly.
That's that's the vibe, right? Like just a total like loss of
reality in the moment. Destroy seems to be like get
they'll get all this excess out of my way and I will be safe
again. Pool balls crack, crack, crack,
crack and pedal lands behind the group.
Branch in hand. He's struggling.
You pull the chain off of him and let him go.
He just goes wild in the crowd, grabbing dudes and hucking them
into other dudes and using a dude as a weapon.
Like you get a sense of awareness from branch.
But he's changed a bit like branches in there.
But he's he's got this hulkiness to him now, right?
But your team is now hemmed in like semi circle backing up to
this wall. You guys have your, you know,
knives and guns going off to create your semicircle of
safety. But it's slowly like Hemming in
with the crowd. Can we can.
We end with the decab coming in. Can pedal punch a hole through
the wall behind us? The decab can.
Oh yeah, we've busted the shit. Yeah, we could get our vehicles,
yeah. And the decab is towing the
Dillmobile that's. What I was thinking.
You hear a go off, that's it. Crashes through the wall the
finally the button finally works for D Cam as the the the decap
crashes through the wall door open ready for him to hop in.
I mean that probably crashes in right behind you guys as that as
that opens up an outlet for you. Of course big enough for the
robot and we never made Pebble moves in this, but fucking who
cares. Pebble was mowing down dudes as
the as they come in. I say we booked it.
Does the decap have any transport for for others or is
it it's just you we've always talked about?
No the decab is just for me, but the decab was towing the the
dill mobile. Crashes through the wall and the
dickle just bounces up against the back and comes to a stop and
you guys get into the the decab. I imagine the back held up by
mech suit pedal just mowing down the crowd as your team slowly
starts to make their way out. She grabbed the engine on the
way out. I've got the engine.
Oh, you've got out. And a big magnet comes out of
the D cab and sucks up murder bot. 2222 get sucked right back
into the magnet. Yeah, the team shores up into
the like onto the Decab or into the Dico mobile as the, the, the
cars back up slowly and, and angle out and start their their
line just right back out of the hole that the the the decab has
created in this wall and into for the first time in a while,
sunlight, which is forever existent.
But you guys haven't felt in a while and into the sunlit, you
know, blasted wastelands around the the mall.
And for the first time, quiet and a little bit of safety.
You can hear the steps of the the robot pedals in running
behind the cars be able to keep up.
She's got the speed of a car, so why wouldn't she be able to keep
up? And by the time her charge
reaches like a limit where she has to slow down, you're far
enough you can see the Green Brook Mall on the horizon behind
you. Smoke coming up from the first
time. The actual mall itself, no
longer a black Dome on the the horizon.
That black Dome gone. Just the decrepit remains of the
Green Brook Mall, smoking actively in the moment as you
guys find yourselves here and in the the quiet wastelands once
again. The heroes returned victorious,
though time seems to have passed differently on the outside of
the Dome. The Tedvillians were expedient
and their retrieval of the new water bearers engine.
While the ailing engine no longer runs.
The stores brought in by fountain have not been tapped,
and with a little bit of work, the replacement is easily fitted
to the pump house and the flow of clean water is replenished.
In the preceding weeks, the streets of Tedville are awash
with new faces, the dehomed members of the Wizard's strange
cult. While some have had their grasp
on reality shattered completely, others return to their full
faculties and become a part of the community.
Some join Dill in the junkyard and utilizing the extra hands,
the other one gets to work building something under tarp
and behind closed doors, adjusting the intake of poisons.
The other one finds itself in control more and more, building
kite like contraptions for their junkyard boys to take to the
skies and aid in the raiding outside of the city's walls.
Spigot returns home with his head held high and dismisses
Fountain proudly through her judging gaze.
He grants the members of his crew a water bearer's token,
making them an honorary part of his community.
He is grateful for the excess of hands he finds around the temple
as Petal and the Blunt Brotherhood join his team.
In between the large load of work to produce the water, her
crew works in earnest to help fortify and improve the town
from within, its walls Sturdier, its citizens safer.
Deham immediately quits Deluca's chophouse and disappears into
the wasteland with his now stolen vehicle.
As the weeks go by, strange Flyers begin to make their way
back to town. Flyers for a unique experience.
A multi course menu celebrating the many flavors and textures of
Lemon Pfeiffer at the new Orange Julius right outside of town.
He and his permanent employee of the month Farm bot run the best
restaurant this side of the apocalypse.
And with that our story draws to a close.
A town rescued from the brink of collapse, a community
strengthened. This season was produced and GM
D by M Williams, featuring Lawrence Jennings as Deluca's
Chop House answering machine, Theodore Stringer as Dill, Gray
Stringer as Petal and Mike Harrison a spigot.
Music composed for this season by Chris Rogich, Additional
voiceovers by McKenna Lynch. That's all for this edition of
WPR. I'm Q See you next time.
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Chimps. I don't.
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chimpanzees. Chips up there in like like my
like up there in like top 8 animals I don't want to be
trapped in a room with. They really are.
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love them. Just, you know, from afar.
I like knowing that they exist. I like seeing video of them.
Yeah, if it wasn't for them, where would I be?