Welcome to Game Master Monday, the podcast that play is a new
new one shot in a new system with a new cast every episode.
I'm your glitch master Grant, and today we're playing Fluff
and Fury by Weird Place and my players are.
Hi, I'm Forrest pronounce she her and I'm playing birthday
bear pronoun she her. Hey there everyone, my name is
Judy that is why you are. I pronounce she they and today I
am playing Gage pronounce she her.
Hi, I'm Kelly. I use she they pronouns and
today I will be playing Miss Tiffany slash Calvin who uses
they them pronouns. Oh hey, I'm RA RA.
I go by he they pronouns and I'll be playing Pierce Thunder,
who also goes by they he pronouns.
I'm so excited to have such a wonderful table.
How did I get so lucky here today folks?
Fluff and Fury is an upcoming game from Weird Place.
It's all about mechanized, sentient stuffed animals.
It's adorable and violent. Fluff and Furry uses a dice pool
system. There are many stats in this
game, and any time our players make a risky action, they will
roll 4D6, but if they have an expertise in a certain stat,
they can add more dice to that roll.
If they roll any sixes, they succeed.
If they fail to roll A6, they will fail and bad things will
happen to their little fluffy butts.
Fluff and Fury has a lot of mechanics and they're all very
fun and I'm excited to get to them and we'll get into those as
we go along in the game. But first we must ask, are you
all excited? Not really.
Like, it's good to see everybody, but like.
Beauty. Why would you see that?
I'm so excited. I understand.
Well, now I don't believe. It only two people ever have
done that to me, and you're the second one.
I'm just happy we can finally squish the Kelly Forest beef and
that this can help address. That Rah rah keeps trying to
make beef happen. Today specifically.
There's no, yeah, no squishable beef here.
Yeah, I raise cattle. The cast Ours.
Vegetarians. Let's go.
Yes, we open on Patch City, once a bustling metropolis filled
with normal things like office buildings, cars, crosswalks,
coffee shops and people. But not anymore.
The buildings have collapsed, the cars have been abandoned,
the crosswalks are ignored, the coffee shops suck.
And the people? Well, they're long gone.
Now we are overrun by sigh Bears, sentient stuffed animals
with incredible features like a Raspberry scent, real moving
arms for hugging, and guns. Unfortunately, these cuddly
critters have succumbed to the same pitfalls of humankind.
Rival factions litter Patch City wealth and power remain king and
nobody stands as more powerful than the Thai mob.
Oh sure, they have access to all the best stuff for the right
price, they may even hook you up, but it's a well known fact
you do not cross them with technology and power on their
side. It's well understood that you
can't do anything in this town without the mob on your side.
One faction is looking to change that.
Stashed away in the remains of an abandoned thrift shop that
still has that grandma smell, we see the Red Paws, A socialist
guerrilla group looking to establish a society by bears for
bears. Bears is kind of an
all-encompassing term, like when we call it mankind.
Even though we're not all men armed to the soft teeth, the
group seeks true equality by any means necessary.
You 4 Level 1 stuffies are the latest recruits to the great
'cause. You are standing in a straight
line and being looked up and down by a stuffed bat with a
slightly torn ear and eye patch and an entire belt of gadgets
around his little fluffy waist. The bat stops in front of you
first. Forest.
Who does this bat see? What do you look like?
What made you join the cause? In front of this stuffed VAT
there stands a melancholy stuffed bear.
This bear has what once was white fur that has these little
rainbow highlights here and there that are reminiscent of a
Bun Betty cake, but the colors are faded and her fur is notably
crusty and a little bit old. There's a little bit of a patch
showing through on her foot that looks like it could be the top
of a cupcake. She stands there with her head
just kind of walling back and forth, reminiscing of that
reason she joined the force, that moment that she was left
behind, a birthday bear with no one to celebrate with, And she
fiddles slightly at her side, a little sachet full of birthday
candles. The bat stops in front of you,
looked you up and down with their one eye and they go.
Are you prepared to do everything possible to tear down
this regime? Justice is a slow burn and I'm
feeling generous. Welcome comrade.
A little bat claw kind of like grabs you with the underside of
your forearm. They shake your hand and you are
welcomed into the faction. Moving further down the line, we
see your character. You're a Tell me about Gage.
What do you look like? What's your deal?
What made you join the cause? The bat would see a small Bunny
with very long fur. They are pink in color with some
little patches of whites around their body, their ears and their
tail and their eyes are these large black forts.
They look a little smaller than the rest of these stuffed
animals and they are holding a backpack.
Their fur looks very well taken care of, like they haven't seen
a lot of the outside in in wild, or at least to go outside often.
Their backpack is full to the brim of what looks like little
gadgets and metal pieces and anything you could ever need to
fix up a bear. They don't look the bat in the
eye, instead sort of staring at the ground, at the bats little
feet. The bat stops in front of you is
trying to follow your gaze and notices that you look in the
dirt towards their feet most of the time, and they kind of like
get on your level and look you in the eyes and say to achieve
our dream of a society ruled by bears, 4 bears.
There's only one answer. You understand what that is,
right? What is it?
We. We.
We fight. That's right, we fight, we do
violence. The rich will never give up
their Thrones willingly, and we must take them by any means
necessary. Are you prepared to do that?
Louder, That's what I'm talking about.
And they give you a forearm grab, they shake it.
Maybe your whole little rabbit body shakes with them.
But you are welcomed into the faction.
I think in that moment, instead of thinking about what the bat
is saying, their mind goes back to think, oh this is what my
friends did too. They stood here and did these
exact same things and I am doing it too for them, for her friends
who joined this cause before her because she was too afraid and
who are no longer here. The bat goes to the next recruit
down the line, trying to engage the the worthiness, the
readiness, and we see your character.
Kelly. Tell me about Miss Tiffany.
Or is it Calvin? Oh well, what do you see is a on
the? Really rotund hamster, just very
plush looking, very soft. I got like a lavender belly,
nice light purple, a little bit darker purple on my back.
I got a little zipper in my chest and underneath my fur you
see a a small red blinking light.
Who knows what that could be. My voice definitely sounds like
this all the time. And then I've got like a like a
little polished little cybernetic eye.
I'm very well kept together. I'm, I'm like, I came already at
all times. And they are just standing
there, real confident, real, real happy to be here, excited
to know what happens next. The bat is looking at you very
intently and they go, no, we got a a micro celebrity in our
midst. Do we?
You think you have the stomach for this?
I think in that moment there's flashbacks, a bright studio in
front of a camera, kids in the color craze corner.
Yellow and blue make green and how that has happened every day
for the past, however. Many years of like, fucking
life. Jesus Christ.
I just want to. I'm done.
Listen, this isn't caviar and
champagne dreams, buddy. This is going to be real
bloodshed, real violent. I've seen people die in the
streets. I've lost body parts to this
cause. Are you truly prepared to handle
that all? My friends say less, say less,
I'm in. All right, I guess we'll see.
Like clutch your arm and move further down the line and we see
Pierce. Thunder, rah, rah.
Tell me about Pierce. What do you look like?
Why are you here? He's going to tell you what he
looks like out of a sense of freedom and not because you told
him to. We see a small hedgehog, a
little hedgel wearing khakis, a smart little brown belt, nothing
spicy like a black one or blue or white or anything.
Button up white colored shirt with a simple tie that has
flamingos roller skating on it. The little hedgehog has some
little sky blue glasses and truck tailors looking bored and
suspicious, but definitely standing upright.
The bat is looking at you up and down, side to side, observes the
belt and says are you committed to doing anything it takes for
the good of the faction? I don't really accept your power
over me or your your authority comrade, but I am here to do
what I feel is best in the moment.
We Bad, who's normally full of second questions, has an
introspective moment within themselves.
And he goes, you know what? That's the right answer.
That is the right answer. Till your inner cop comrade.
You're right, my bad. The bat light takes a moment and
folds his arms. Well, anyway, welcome to the Red
Paw. Yeah, looking forward to to to
working with you. I'm neutral about that.
Great. The the Bat takes a position in
front of you for and says OK. You are all brought on to the
red paw. I am your recruiter, your
helper, someone who's been here for a while to show you the
ropes of how things operate around here.
We move pretty hot and fast. My name is Batman.
Fuck what? Yeah, what's the?
No, no, it's. Fine, got a problem with Batman.
I like no, no, no, I like it. I always assumed the revolution
would be led by somebody Larping as a billionaire turned cop I.
Don't know what any of those things mean or what you're
referring to. I saw the word on a book and it
made me smile. A lot of our names come from the
seeing things written on all the world artifacts.
I've lost a lot of good friends and a lot of interesting names.
We've lost people like Dodge Caravan.
Fuck. We're Cox, but we fight on
anyway because every, every action we take is for the good
of society. Now I'm going to lead you this
direction. We're going to prep you for your
first mission. This is going to be a moment for
you to tell us your specialties and any weapons you've brought
with you and then we will give you the mission based on your
level of preparedness. So if you'll follow me and they
takes you to what can best be described as like a Fisher
Price, like kiddies table, very small, very plastic child size,
little plastic surgical tools. And you see like a stuffed
turtle sitting behind it with like an array of paperwork.
He can't hold a pen, but there is paperwork there.
And he looks up and says, all right, I'm going to ask you your
your specialty, any kind of job you may have had.
Some people like to call this a class, but we're kind of an anti
class structure system here. So this is more like what you're
good at. We'll go ahead and start with
Alias squint set of paper that has nothing written on it.
Is it birthday bear? Am I saying that right?
Birthday. Yeah, it's pretty.
Yeah, it's Birthday Bear. It's never given a name, but
please call me Birthday Bear. Usually I work with fire because
I have such a fiery personality. Cool, cool.
All right, cool. Could always use another pyro in
the in the cause. Do you bring anything with you?
Flamethrower. And she just pulls out of the
invisible back pocket. Giant flamethrower.
Red and white stripes like a birthday candle.
Oh, that's smacks. All right, so we have a
flamethrower, so anytime you want to use that, you get to
roll 8D6. That is fantastic.
All right, cool. Cool.
That is so dangerous and lethal, and I am into it.
And he pretends to write something on the paper.
Nothing materializes. There's not even a pen in his
hand. Who is this guy?
The next person I have. Is this for Gage.
Yeah. Yes.
Cool. Gage, What were you good at and
what did you bring? Oh, here and she.
Takes off her little backpack, puts it down in front of her.
I if you can see, I have a lot of things to help fix up.
There's, I mean, other of us on the field.
Yeah. I I break as a mechanic, I fix
others who have been here. Actually, I I also have this and
she. Brings out a sniper rifle.
Yeah, listen, thank you for your service and your previous
assistance. From what it sounds like, yeah,
Always could use a healer, always could use a sniper.
Perfect. Thank you for letting us know,
Miss Tiffany Calvin. Present.
Do you prefer one or the other? Depends on the day.
Sick. Cool, I don't have anything.
No one calls me anything so doesn't depend on the day for me
anyway. What'd you bring?
Do you want a name? No.
OK. Oh, that's yeah, Yeah.
Say no, thank you. But anyway, get used to it.
Well, I'm really good at talking to people.
I got this. They unzip kind of it's, it's
like a, it's like on their side, it's, it's one of those
invisible zippers. It's kind of covered up by the
lavender fur. And I'm really, I'm really a
people person and I, I've got multiple settings.
Watch this and. Flicks a switch on the inside.
This is the voice most people know me as from Miss Tiffany's
talk show, but I have other settings too like this depending
on what you need so. Really, I'm pretty versatile.
You know, Master disguise a face, you could say.
Cool, cool. And I got this.
And they whip out. A shotgun.
At one time a very devoted fan broke into my own and tried to
take my eyes, which was a problem, so I got a gun.
It's important to stand your ground and defend yourself, but
not in a shitty way. Exactly.
Yeah. That's the real lesson of this
episode. Guns are cool sometimes.
All right, so OK, newest recruit on my list here.
I've got a Pierce Thunder. It's fine for you to use the
word recruit, yeah. Oh good, as I've been saying it
for a long time, very old turtle.
Well, anyway, So what was your, what's your expertise and did
you bring anything? This little hedgel's eyes light
up for the first time. Expertise.
How much time do you have? I'm very old, so statistically
speaking. Everything can be hacked.
Oh, the hearts, the universe, destiny.
There's a coating in our purpose that not many can see, and most
are too dumb to even think about.
But that's where I live. Those are the skies my Angel
wings like to come in. Perfect.
Cool, cool. Always need a hacker?
Someone who understands the mysteries of the universe and
our programming. Did you bring anything?
Hedgehog spirit, A will to build soft hands also got this.
And he points to his belt where there's a like one really large
pistol just shoved into his pants and no sort of muzzle or
anything of that sort. And then raises one of these
khakis dangerously playing and shows off a beautiful hedgehog
leg shaved smooth, waxed and the other pistols in a very high
like thigh high sock with like a blue stripe.
And you know, ones everyone can see and one to say for someone
special. I hope that someone special is a
time mob scum. All right, great.
This sounds like you're all set to go.
We do have an operation that is pending here that's very time
sensitive, pretty important, but is something to get your your,
your, your fuzzy centers wet. So Batman here.
I'm sorry. What?
You, I know what I said, I'm very old and you can't make me
change. Batman comes out of the shadows
and and OK, like they said, we do have a pretty important
operation. It's not technically
challenging, but it is important.
We know of a secret hideout for the time mob and he pulls out
this, this, this large blueprint and slaps it on the table and
you can see that it has the lettering Best Buy on it.
It's a very disheveled looking like photographs, angles, entry
points, little various stuffed animals walking the perimeter,
blueprints on there says, all right, they're hiding out in
this place. Looks like it's called a Best
Buy. And we have reason to believe
that a very important and rarely seen leader of the Thai mob is
going to be making an inspection on this location here today.
We are simply trying to do an information gathering operation
so we can learn more about the people in this building.
So we're asking you to do is steal what are called heart
tags. We'll see these fuckers wearing
these everywhere in this facility.
It's how you indicate you're a member of the mob.
Sometimes they wear it as an earring, sometimes it's a neck
piercing, sometimes it's on the foot.
You just got to swipe them. So we can keep a running tally
of who's a member of the mob and how we can best corner catch and
eliminate them. But.
We should probably take a saw in case that's the foot one or.
Any of them in the foot stuff. Well, we don't know yet.
Another heart tags that would indicate if they were into that
sort of thing. Are the heart tags something
that can be removed or would like the foot need to be
removed? Whatever you need to do, they
can come off the body as far as we understand it, but we're not
picky as to how we get it. Noted.
Whatever we need to do. Ever you need to do by any means
necessary. Now there is a piece of
information that we have intercepted.
We happen to know that the rarest, hardest to pin down and
harder still to catch member of their leadership board might be
making an inspection here. We'd love to get their heart
tag. I would love nothing more than
their heart tag. Even if you get nothing else,
get this one. And that, of course.
And he pulls out a picture, very blurry from a distance.
It looks like it could be of like a little purple bear.
And we're looking for their one of their leaders, Princess
Diana. I'll kill.
Him If we kill Princess Di, are we the good people?
In our story, yes do. Do we have have to kill anybody?
No, we're not asking you to kill anyone yet we are saying you
can't defend yourselves. We are saying if things go awry,
don't let them take you down. But we're only asking you to
steal information. Are you going to have trouble if
we kill? Somebody.
No. We kill everybody.
Is it going to be better? I'll try to cover your tracks so
it doesn't come back to us. It is the time Auburn targeting
after all. But.
Here's looks over a birthday bear or BB and the flamethrower
and I don't think it'll be too hard to cover those tracks.
Everybody kind of turns and looks.
Arson is just ambiance. This is the hardest bunch of
recruits we've had in a while. Can I just say I kind of
respected? Pierce's programming just
updated and they now know how to smile after that last comment by
BB. So let me tell you a few things
about what we're encountering here.
Hardly anything is known about Princess Diana other than she
moves quickly and quietly through the underground,
maintaining the time of hideouts.
Your mission is to infiltrate the Best Buy, collect as many
heart tags from their members as possible, and if the opportunity
to swipe hers emerges, abandon all of their objectives and
secure that above all else. If people die, just make it so
they can't be traced back to the Red Paws.
That's all I'm asking. We're going to use that
information to track, locate and kill members of the mob so we
can know where they're going. They have a hard time
understanding who they are when they're not tagged.
Do you all understand? Affirmative.
Excellent. We're going to give you a lot of
free range here. This is a communal socialist
faction. We don't give you bosses,
generals, any of that kind of stuff.
I'm going to kind of leave you to figure out your own strategy
here. So I'm going to leave these
plans here with you. You will plan and prepare for
how you're going to get in there, how you're going to swipe
these tags, and what your exit strategy will be.
So in mechanical terms, this is the prep phase of Fluff and Fury
where you will have a moment as a team to discuss how you would
like to achieve this mission. Like I said in front of you, you
have a few specs. You have the Best Buy blueprint
which includes entry points. That includes a main entrance,
which is always guarded by two similar looking bears, an
emergency exit, and a series of AC tunnels no longer in
operation. You of course have sections
within the Best Buy. Some of the labels include
cellular or television or office, and one section that is
damaged beyond recognition. We think it may be a repair
station for members of the mob, but we haven't confirmed that.
And of course there is a quick little guide on some of the
various members that have been spotted and photographed around
this area. There are about 10 animals that
we can identify occupying this space in some capacity.
I think Gage looks at the plans and then looks at the, you know,
the team and just. Would it be would it be possible
if if we could try to find the entrance where there is the
least amount of other side bears?
I think we just found our group leader, everybody.
No, no. No nominated.
Nominated. Team captain Go team.
I vote Gage, I think it's in their programming.
Yeah, you sound very logical. I just maybe we can do like
stuff at first. Whatever you say, boss.
And then whispers over to Birthday bear.
We got to fucking get rid of this boss.
We can't laugh. Someone have power over us?
Keep it equal. It's a fire hazard if there's a
hierarchy. Gage, I want you to have all the
confidence in the world, all right?
You could do this. You're clearly the best suited
for the job and I would follow you anywhere.
Team leader #1. Hi Rocky, asking for an opinion.
She's looking over the plans, looking at all the different
snapshots. I mean, short of burning the
place to the ground, the front door does seem like a pretty
good option. I like people to know when
there's a threat. Why not go in the front?
Oh, you, you. You're something, aren't you?
I'm like OK. Very very much turns directly to
birthday. Birthday Bear, I see a quiet
fury in your eyes. I need to know that if we go
through the front door that you're not going to set me on
fire. So you think that's something
that you can agree to? Are those terms favorable to
you? Let.
Me ask you this, are any of you trash or any of you trash?
Trash. I might be trash.
Do you want me? Do you want me to be trash?
I'll be trash. Trash burns easy, so if you're
not trash. You don't have to worry.
OK. Should we leave?
I'm staying. Calvin.
Calvin is sweating if a stuffed if a stuffed hamster can sweat.
OK so for my own glitch master benefit, the plan so far is go
through the damn front. Do I see an ATM or an electronic
box or any sort of input mechanism anywhere for like a
network? Oh, solid question.
Let's have you made the first roll of the game and find out if
you can make me a salvaging roll, please.
I have no expertise, so that's four die. 4D6 We're looking for
sixes. I got one, I got 1.
Six. We have a six.
So what specifically are you looking for?
If you could have your druthers of any of those devices, what
would you see somewhere in this encampment in this grandma style
thrift store? To a dreamer like me, anything
can be a door. So maybe if I could find one of
those toys that you said teach kids how to spell out loud, or
an old phone box, an Internet connection, maybe a love letter
that somebody just believed in too much, you know, something
with a little pizzazz. Well.
For 1/6 I'll give you the speak and say and the love letter.
It's stuffed in a yearbook that someone sold to a thrift store
for some reason from 1985. Why do I always see yearbooks at
thrift stores? I throw it because I don't
respect the institution so I would love to hack this thing.
With my origins being that of cyber Mystic.
I understand it's not always about numbers and right decimal,
sometimes it's about the soul of the thing.
So I would just like to ask it will you let me in as I type it
onto its swollen and waiting screen?
Yeah, I am going to have you make a hacking roll.
Since I am, I'm good at it, so I roll 8. 8D Sixes.
OK, there's three sixes and I'm rolling two more die, four sixes
total. That's a lot of sixes.
You're you're awesome at this. Whatever your heart's desire is,
you achieve it. I wouldn't force it on this deer
creature. This is this is about solidarity
and letting it push my buttons a little too.
But I would ask it if it would let me in.
And if it does, my eyes maybe go digital like white TV static and
my consciousness as a form of code moves through this creature
and asks if it would show me the way to some sort of internal
security camera feed. We we go into like 2000 CGI
tunnel version mode as you go through the tubes that make the
Internet. Yeah, exactly.
Like reboot and you go underground through the wires
and the tunnels and you look through the cameras of the Best
Buy and you can get a pretty clear layout of what you're
looking at here. As mentioned, we have the two
bears standing out in front of the location.
They're kind of pinkish in hue. On the inside, near the repair
station that was mentioned, you see like a stuffed cockatoo and
a stuffed Arctic fox. And then just kind of patrolling
the area, keeping track of things.
You can see some other types of creatures.
A calico cat, a panda, a grumpy looking frog who does not match
the aesthetic features of the rest of the group, an owl, a
lion, a dragon, and a little dog dressed up like a police officer
from the old world. They're all kind of patrolling.
About half of them are armed. The other half look more like
they're a middle manager type and you don't see Princess Diana
just yet. As far as entry points go, the
front doors are of course guarded by those two bears.
The emergency exit has a dragon sitting by it, and there is the
series of air conditioning tunnels that you get through via
the roof. These don't appear to be
guarded. When my eyes come back all I say
when I look to everyone is dibs on the dog.
I pull out my pistol and start walking towards the door.
So are we just knocking if? You want me to?
I can go talk up the bears and lower them away from the front
door and then you all can maybe go in while it's unattended.
That's an idea. It isn't the defense entirely.
Unguarded. And it's on the roof.
Then we can drop in like spice on those old movies.
I like that. That's a good idea too.
A leader that will change plan at the last minute when new
information is presented is an important leader, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I'm looking for a thrill, right?
Like you. You're describing like an action
movie and I'm about it. It was a.
Suggestion. Oh, it's perfect.
It's just hard to gauge. Punch them through the screen.
How do we get up there? Oh, should we use those repel
lines coming from the higher building?
Or maybe that parachute. Wow, so many things conveniently
there I love. It I can't wait a pair of suits
to go up and. We find like a really big Fanny,
just put it at the bottom blowing upwards and then you
stand on it and open the parachute.
The the roof is still in the vicinity and you have to assume
this highly technological mob would have ways to spot you.
So many of you 2 choices. 1 you can do a stealth role, try and
secretly get up there and plop yourself in.
Or if you want to be a little bit more flashier and use a
device that can't be stopped, I would also propose A tinkering
role. We have a mechanic.
I do have expertise on Tinker. I have a three, which means I
roll. 76. That is 2 sixes, 3 fours.
We'll take two sixes. The mechanical Bunny.
You know how to make stuff, you know how to shape it.
So you see these discarded things on the side of the road,
one with which being a parachute, apparently.
Tell me how you get you and your friends on the roof with your
tinkering. So you would see a little cage,
they go and grab some odds and ends from around this place and
they start working on something. You see that their little ears
actually seem to have also mechanical parts in them.
They come down and act as a second pair of arms to hold
things as they are working on this.
They come back to the group. So the, if we can get close
enough, this device should, should work as sort of EMP to
turn off any cameras or any electrical things that are up
there in case there are traps. I, I, I really don't want
anybody to get hurt, so I'll toss this in when we get close
enough and then we should be able to get into the fence
safely, OK? See, this is the shit I was
looking for. This is it.
This is what I knew you could do.
This will be great when we get on the roof.
Buildings will usually have like the ladders on the side that
that you have to like, they'll be locked up.
And then they'll sort of come down for people to get up to the
AC. Yeah.
And work on them. Oh, I didn't even see the latter
could call boss. And, and so I think they would
have noticed like maybe some cameras or something and would
want to use that to make sure that they can take their time
getting the ladder and climbing up and that there is no risk of
them being exposed while they're doing that.
Sure. So.
Then they're not in sort of like a hurry to fly in.
So I will tell you, Gage, that you're doing all of this and
it's my it's my duty, my obligation, my sacred
responsibility, if you will, to make roles for the NPC
characters as well as something is happening around them.
The two bears guarding at the front of this area are tasked
and expertises in investigation and observation and the part of
their job is to see if there's anything suspicious happening.
And I swear to God, I rolled 86. Not a single six in there.
Not a one. So these bears are either
sleeping on the job, complete idiots, or just fell out out do
not see you. So you have free reign to do
whatever you want to get up on that roof.
I think a cage volunteers to go first because she does have to
turn on the device right? And she is also the smallest.
So she would go up first, turn on the device and then sit on
the roof with her sniper rifle. Because through the scope I
should be able to see event anybody notices them, if
anybody's walking towards them and stuff like that.
So she's acting as a lookout while everybody else makes their
way. Up.
Sure. While waiting and watching our
brave, our brave leader, our boss make their way up.
I'm I'm, I'll pull out my extra sketch because you know, and
then I'll end up showing birthday bear a quick drawing of
them with the parachute above them as they shoot the flame up
into it like a hot air balloon with all of us going up to the
top. And you would have been great at
this. Just reaches into her little
sachet and lights up a little cigarette that also looks like a
birthday candle. I I just want to watch the world
burn. I never thought about using it
so productively. Not bad.
I'd make a wish on you any day. Oh, put out the the cigarette
and start climbing. Are we taking the ladder that's
been dropped now or other? I'll go last.
I'm taking the ladder. I don't want you to look in my
ears. Just don't stay here.
Birthday Bear, can you make a stealth roll?
You're kind of the linchpin of this.
As long as you can get up there successfully, that should help
the group get up there successfully.
Beautiful believe. In you no sixes.
I for I forget is there a mechanic for helping or no?
If you want to help Birthday Bear, the way you would do so is
donate a single D6 to their role so you can roll AD 6 and see if
you get a six. I rolled a bull in.
Oof. I don't really care about still.
Fuel now I want to help. We'll all.
OK, now we have the six. Hey, after a few misfires, a
slip of the foot here and there. A sneeze, perhaps?
I got you. Feel so supported.
Welcome to the roof of the Best Buy.
You see a grate that can be removed to get into the the AC
Vents, vents, tunnels, you know what I mean?
You've seen Die Hard Bat. I I disabled the cameras but I I
am not strong enough to lift the vent.
I can blow it up. OK, she'll just take a take
stock around her see just a few little pieces of trash on the
roof like gum wrappers and like just anything refuse and discard
and begins to just like kind of mold it together into what looks
to be like a little cupcake sticks a little candle in it.
And then I'm going to use my pyro feature to just stick it
under the vent topped with a little bit of gasoline.
I got. I got that too, the.
Bomb a bear feature of the pyro that you have.
Pyros can craft bombs out of anything, and each bomb rolls
10D6. Just on the side of Pierce's
arm. Just use it to strike a match
and just not shalonly throw it over.
Just set it on via. I got 16I rolled pretty poorly
again. A single six.
It works. It does work.
That's all you need is a six in this game.
More sixes just makes it better. 1-6 isn't complicated or
nothing. So the the cupcake bomb goes
off. Happy birthday.
There is smoke coming off of the grade.
You have your entry point. I want to look out of my the
scope of my sniper around to see if the bears outside you know
noticed considering they seem to be taking a nap.
I will tell you that one bear kind of like snaps out of
whatever trance they were in. They're also holding like a
little rifle themselves. And they start walking up pieces
of like, I think, I think I heard a noise.
I do believe I heard a noise, dearest.
And the other one was up like dearly.
I did not hear a noise. What do you mean?
And the other one was well, well, dearest, I heard a noise
from the roof and the other one is well, dearly.
I did not. I'm going to go walk this way
and see if I can from the ground level.
See anything on the roof, dearest?
Well, that's your prerogative dearly, because I did not hear
anything. And you see a little pinkish,
like fading pink bear holding a rifle, kind of walk right into
the line of sight of your sniper and begin to look up and raise a
tiny paw and go. Now, dearest, what do you do,
Gage? Oh God, I know you don't.
Want to kill anybody? I know what you.
Didn't kneecap them you? Didn't want to just shoot them
between the eyes, but I think seeing them like walk to like
try to get a look, Gage would have ducked and then tried like
to shove everybody into the hole so that when they look up they
don't actually like see for cyber bears off the roof.
Sure. So I know Thunder jumped in
already. So 1 you.
Would try like to try to like react to just push the other two
and. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I like where your head's at. We're going to call this A it.
It's kind of like a raw instinct.
So let me make a raw power roll. It's.
Like did I react fast enough essentially?
Yeah. Because if I didn't then I feel
bad for dearest. I got 1/6.
A single six who do you think you're able to reach in time?
Make a choice are. You serious?
Who would have been closer to birthday?
Bear would have been the closest to the great because they're the
one that placed the bomb and did the thing, so it would have been
easier to push them in. Sure.
Yeah. So.
Pierce and BB are in the inside. Beautiful.
So we get BB in there, a little fluffy Bunny boot to get you
into there. I'm going to give the ball to
you here for a second here, Calvin.
You see Gage kick birthday bear in there.
You assume something must be happening.
What do you how do you react? Can I drop to my belly?
Can I just like, lie flush on this roof so they can't see me
from where they're standing? Yeah, let's make this the final
one for this round. Here, make a stealth roll.
OK, if you can. If you can make it, then we're
going to assume that that gauges plan succeeds, but if you don't,
well then we'll have to split the party.
So if I have, if I don't have anything in that, it's just a
flat 40. 6 flat 46. I got to say no two, I got 22
sixes. I'm going to exert some
privilege here because I just remember the thing I can do is
your GM. I'm going to give you an A dice,
and we're going to do something called saving an extra 6.
If you roll extra sixes in a successful role, which you have
in this instance, you can save time to gain extra dice for a
future role. So if you would like to bank one
of those sixes and stash an extra dice for a future role for
later, I'll let you. Absolutely.
Yes, please. Cool.
Really cool mechanic. Yeah, they give me a lot of
power in this game. So with your successful 6, you
get on your belly. Gage's plan works.
Gage gets you in the in in there.
Gage. I'm assuming you're crawling in
there as fast as you can too, right?
Yeah. So now it is both Calvin and
Gauge crawling down into the vets to join the others, hoping
that they weren't spotted. Beautiful as you're diving and
you faintly hear the the bear dearly who was looking up the
roof going. I guess I was just hearing
things dearest and dearest looks up as well Dearly you do
constantly hear noises. You're kind of jumpy for a
guard, bear and the Oh, don't start with me now, dearest.
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We cut to a bunch of stuffed animals in an air vent.
You are crawling through this area.
The air vent goes all around the Best Buy and your objective of
course is to swipe tags off of the animals that are present in
here. As a reminder, you have 4
principal sections you can explore, seduce or desire.
That being the cellular area, the television area, the office
area, and the area that looks like a repair Bay for SY bears.
Each area you can assume has about two animals in it.
We'll see here. Here's the heart of it, God
voice. You never want to go all the way
to the end of the line and leave all the earlier lines unexplored
or uncleared because you can become trapped.
So, knowing the programming of things like Destiny, I think
Pierce Thunder cracks and decides to turn towards the
first location that they come to.
If the boss calls for something else, Pierce of course will
submit as any good leftist would.
Fuck yeah, right. We'll go down to this section
right here. I will let you decide the
topography of the area. Pierce, what do you think the
first section is? It's a Best Buy.
It's very literally a box store. It's square shaped.
So what's your first? Fortunately, this vent comes out
pretty high from the ground, a good like 1516 feet.
And it's just like pointing down.
It's not even out of a wall, it's out of the ceiling.
So a terrible situation. And it's hard to see past it
because of the slats and the vent, and we'd have to get down
on top of it to unscrew it. So I think Pierce just kind of
realizes what needs to happen, almost asks the boss permission,
and then realizes he's his own hedgehog.
And I'll just jump on the vent and hope my body weight just
breaks it. And then I fall into the open.
Room, Given that you're just using your body and hurling
yourself into this and hoping for the best, I'm going to have
you also make raw power. What if it's deception because
I'm trying to to trick the grade?
Trick the air vent. It's the same amount of dice as
raw power. Well then, yes.
Thank you, I successfully lie to this grade.
The light. OK, so the great in its own
mind. We zoom in and it looks up for a
moment and it thinks to itself, surely, surely this light
hedgehog doesn't seek to hurt me.
I will go about my life in the same position they've always
been, in the same thing every day.
Nothing changing the way I like it.
Oh my God. And then you flap right through
it. And I whisper as I pass by it.
You're doing great and then I draw my spicy thigh gun and my
regular pistols. I hit the open air slow motion
trip hop style. Hell yeah.
As you, you, you burst in there like you're in the goddamn
Matrix. You've landed in the, like the
office supply section of the Best Buy.
I'm talking printers. I'm talking laptop chargers,
things of that nature and looking up you see a lion and A
and and a calico cat. They put the cats in this
section for some reason, office cats if you will, and they just
look up at you. Are you firing the pistols?
I'm falling slow MO like a hedgehog only can, and I see my
foes, but I also see the little corner of BB's face looking over
the great like coming next. And I make the decision to put
the big gun back in my pants where it belongs.
But I keep the little spicy thigh high in my hand and bite
it in my teeth. And then I just put my little
like waxed hedgehog arms out. All smooth like a patch of
sunlight. You just want to roll around and
and when I land on the ground, it's like I take one knee with
just my arms out as I land and knowing I could get shot in this
moment, but I'm ready to get burned a little.
You can roll Willpower. Two sixes and four one.
So good for this bad if it was 10 candles.
You roll 2 sixes here, one for each cat.
You land perfectly to position yourself for Birthday Bear.
So before those two cats even have a shot to react, I'm going
to swing over to Birthday Bear. Are you going through this?
Great. Are you waiting for the next
one? The hedgehog seems to be waiting
for you. She's going to just do a little
trigger happy on the flamethrower just to like get it
warmed up a little bit. Every flame's a mood and I'm
feeling a little violent as she just drops out.
I don't think she sees necessarily that there is
someone specifically waiting for her.
It just feels more like kismet where it's like, oh, I guess
someone caught me. And it's like formal ice skating
style, like hands on the hips above head with the
flamethrower. Yeah, in the front.
Creeding. Yeah.
So you elegantly face of those 2D6 from earlier, you elegantly
land in the safe arms of Pierce Thunder the hedgehog, as a
calico cat and a lion are just both standing there, one holding
a pistol in one hand and the other just kind of around.
And they're like, what with this?
What is this with this? I think right now the first, the
first guy is just getting a whack to the face.
Make a wish too late, you're the one getting blown out and she's
just going to like baseball bat him with the flamethrower.
Well, you're still technically using your flamethrower, so I'm
going to let you make a weapon roll for it.
So this is a technically technically be a combat
situation. You're going to roll the dice
tied to your flamethrower and we're looking for sixes.
As usual. Each 6 roll the deals one point
of damage. However, if you roll any ones,
those will offset any sixes in the combat.
OK, let's see. No ones 1/6 and OK.
Yeah, two sixes. You see this cat, like a cat,
you clock it in the head with your flamethrower.
It kind of looks up at you and goes that was and then flaps
over for a little bit and the lion looks down, pulls out its
pistol and goes, hey, wait a minute and I'm going to make a
quick roll for the lion. Pierce, or anyone looking
through the vent would see that the kind of coldness in Birthday
Bear's eyes is gone. And it's just ecstasy and
delight. There's a lot of joy now that
we're in the the midst if it's got that.
The graphic novel frame would have Pierce's eyes just wet and
reflecting the fire light, all looking up like just nothing but
them wide. This lion fires its pistol in
your direction. You take one one hit point of
damage which will take us to Pierce.
Your associate successfully knocked out one of their
assailants, but then got a little graze of a bullet that
takes some damage. What do you do in this
situation? Pierce is almost upset that they
got shot until they see how happy it seemed to make them.
And now Thunder's about to crack, as he likes to say, and
he's going to say it again and again and again.
And I it's, it's like a beautiful dance where BB almost
rolls down the length of of Pierce and lands on their own
feet as he starts hedgehog running like only a hedgehog
can, which is mostly loose needles without a lot of muscle
control. So a little flaily, but but just
looking like a strange shadow made of thorns.
And I'm still holding my my spicy thigh gun in my mouth and
I spit it into one little paw and reach into my pants to pull
out the real big one. And then as I'm running at both
of them, I'm just going to fire off both at 1.
Whichever 1's the closest. That'll be our lion friend.
So your dual pistols operate by rolling 4D6 and then adding
another 4D6. And if I roll matches on the
different groups of four, they become sixes.
Yes. OK, no sixes on that initial
roll, no sixes at all. But there are two fives and two
fours that would become sixes. We'll take the two sixes, which
will be two hit points of damage to the lion, which I previously
established is enough to knock somebody out it.
You're shooting pistols into a stuffed animal.
You see a little like like the first one gets the shoulder and
he goes and the other one, it's the other shoulder and there's
like, oh, then he falls back down.
You have neutralized the cats in the office section.
When the bullet spins in the air all slow MO and the camera angle
gets like sexy and long, you can tell that it's made from like
microchips that he probably melted down himself.
So for you 2, you now see two neutralized time mob members and
their tie tags just hanging out. You want to do it.
Oh, I'd love to. And she'll go up and like slowly
start to burn the plastic that's keeping it attached to them so
it gently comes off and she'll give a little whistle up the
vent. Y'all going to bring the heat?
Oh. Yeah, sure, sure, sure.
I'm there. I can bring the heat when gauge
what, what does pretty mean by that?
I'm trouble interpreting the tone like.
Actually, I'm not. I'm a little nervous with.
That I'm a little nervous. But like she also took into it.
I like you should you should get down there are.
You going to come too? Yeah, I I think she might.
Hurt us if we don't get down. There.
I I can't go down there until you do.
You're in front of me. Oh.
Hey, well, hey. And I guess with as with I
imagine, I imagine Calvin does take up much of the duct.
And then I. Jump out of the duct and I do
not gracefully wait to catch Gage.
I just lie on the ground like a pillow.
All right, go ahead. Right here, patting my.
Do it. I've done it before.
Are you sure that that's OK? Yeah, it's fine.
OK, OK. And she, she just jumps out.
Oh my God, I can't believe you did that.
Jesus Christ. I'm kidding.
I don't have organs.
It's all right. It was it was a joke.
Yeah, I'm good. Hey boss, BB got shot if you
still have any of that medicine. Oh, oh, oh, are you?
Are you? And she begins like panicking as
she goes over to BB to literally just just pat you down and make
sure that you're OK. Where?
Are you OK just right here? Just just.
As I don't agrees looks. Very official one that is that
that that that that is that is good.
I I thought you had gotten. More hurt and as an action I can
do fix a bear. Yeah, you can fix a bear so you
can roll a 66 to regain one hit point for every 4-5 or six you
see. I did get 3 but they only had
one point of damage. It doesn't go over, does it?
If fucking it's a one shot, why not?
Let's say it does today. I'm elbow deep and elbow deep
and some thick and cotton as I'm pulling their skins off.
Who skins? The cat.
Yes. I'd rather not know their names
as I'm opening them up like head to toe pulling out all the dry
like caught and and like putting it on like a Cape kinda.
What are what? What are you doing?
Oh, it's just to cover up the smell and like, toy companies
pay a ton for this. What smell?
We smell like revolution, boss. Are we all seeing the same
thing? I don't think we should ask.
I don't think we want answers to the questions that we have.
Truly, I don't think we do. I pull the cat face down half
over my own face so it's like looking through the cat eyes.
I will not be friends with Pierce after this and.
That's OK. We're working together for now.
Monsters. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
PS Monsters. Yeah, stay far away from Piers
after this, we're done. You can still you can still hang
out with me. My my arm feels real good it.
Doesn't, Yeah. It's glad I.
Could. That's nice.
Glad you feel good. And we got two of their hearts
so we only need like 8 more, something like that.
Since it is, you know, or at least it used to be a store,
does it still have like the hanging signs on the roof that
tell you the name of the areas? And would we be able to see what
the nearest like the area next to us is?
Yeah, closest area to you next. There used to be a hanging sign.
It's kind of like faded and lost the time a little bit, kind of
like hanging on one string by like a prayer and a hope.
You can kind of see that maybe it used to be orange.
You can make out AG kinda, but this would be the repair area
that Batman told you about. Do we hear like animals from all
over the space running towards us because of the gunshots or
anything like that? As you skinned the cats who
weren't dead, by the way, I only said unconscious, but they
certainly are. Now.
You do hear 22 pitter patters hear a voice calling out saying,
Hey, Scotch Chase, did you hear like gunshots near the like the
office section? And you just feel like a like a
like a deep, I don't know, dragony voice kind of call it.
I'll go and check it out. Don't worry about it.
Come on, Chase. And you see coming into your
aisle A sparkly glitter stuffed dragon being followed by a dog
with a police hat and a police uniform from the old world named
Chase. And they both have the little
red tags on their ears and and the the little dog is like,
stop, you're breaking the rules. And Schwartz goes, we are also
not up to code, but we have our own thing to do.
So what's are you wearing? Are you wearing chip?
Meow. Everything's fine Meow.
Oh fuck it, make a deception roll.
No sixes. No, Sixes, you do not convince
this person that you are their friend.
Would you would you say this dragon is like larger than most
SI bears? Like how imposing does this
dragon look as of like by comparison to us?
I would say that they are two gauges tall.
Two gauges tall, OK. Hold on everybody, I got this
one second. And reaches in their chest,
flicks a switch. Oh gosh, I just.
I don't know how he got here. I was looking for the bathroom.
Wow, you're beautiful. Your muscles are so big.
Can I? May I ditch dragon and starts
trying to like squeeze their bicep and I'm trying to convince
a bear right now. Oh, OK.
Yeah. So you can convince a foe to
join your side for the day, as long as they're not a boss.
Oh wow, you just, I don't get out much and you just look so
approachable. This dragon, I hate it.
This is what the people want, Yuri.
This is what the people want. Do you work out you?
Know every now and again you got to kind of stay tough for the
job. Sure.
You said you were looking for the bathroom.
It really shows, honestly. Could you walk with me for a
little bit? I haven't.
I haven't walked with anyone in a while.
Me neither it would. Be nice to have the company.
Chase their slippers, don't fall for their tricks.
You're better than this. It's like, I don't think I am.
Shut up, Chase I. Don't think I'm better than
this. It's been, it's been so long,
Chase, you don't understand what it's like.
God, in this building, day after day, fighting for what you think
is right, questioning everything.
All the people we've had to get rid of this because they didn't
understand. Yeah, I'll take it to the
bathroom. All right.
I'd like to activate my power controller bear to go into the
one telling the dragon not to. Can I control the cops baby?
OK, let me. Good.
I was just going to shoot him between the eyes.
I just I kind of sit crisscross applesauce on the ground so my
eyes go static again. Again, this is another one you
don't have to roll for, but like Calvin's ability, you get to do
this once per charge. And we're saying this operation
is 1 charge, so you, without needing to roll anything, can
control chase the dog for 10 minutes, 10 minutes.
And so Chase looks at this dragon.
You. Know you deserve this.
It has been a while. You know you deserve this.
It has been a while. Gage gets an idea and then
whispers to to peers. See if if if you can get them to
to tell us where the Princess is.
Princess Diana. Tell me where Princess Diana is.
Chase the dog looks up at the the 4-5 of you and says, oh,
Princess Diana should be here any moment.
She normally comes through the emergency exit, and in fact, it
should be pretty soon. We're expecting her.
Perfect. Will you RIP off your heart and
give it to me, please? Sure.
And this is like unclipsed the heart tag and just hands it to
you. Over my shoulder.
Hand it to BB who has the other two.
Collection we can make like a a, a ambush now that we we know
where they're coming from. Oh yeah, it'd be so easy to
ambush Princess Diana. This is the actual worst thing
you've ever done, Grant. Grant, you should feel bad
about. This and yet.
I'm on a Tonya Harding this bear.
I also ask for Scorch's heart tag.
Like like a varsity jacket. Like can I wear it for a little
bit? Oh yeah.
Hell yeah, Hell yeah. Here you go.
Thanks. Thanks.
Oh wow, it's beautiful. Look at BB, I'm like, are you
eager to burn more? I'm surprised you have to ask.
I can tell him to stay. A little cinch never hurt.
Just touch his dirty little pig face and whispers stay.
I'm a dog. I know.
You're a cop. I'll just go and place a little
candle by a side, just enough to singe the fur.
Consider this candle morning, the next one's for your funeral
and she'll just walk away for. The next 6 minutes I can't think
about it. Good dog.
And so now that I've convinced Scorch, I don't really need to
necessarily keep up the Sherrod. They're.
Just no, you don't. You just convince them to be on
your side. So whatever happens the rest of
the of the day, you got to drag it on your team.
Where is because usually they set emergency exit and usually
there is like a sign like an exit sign that lights up on the
emergency exit so that it is visible.
Right. It's a good call, boss.
It's a tall, thin, single glass pane of a door.
Red accents around it and you do see the exit sign and you see
the door begin to kind of swing open because it's an emergency
exit and everyone working here's a stuffed animal.
It's kind of a team effort that's like a series of pulleys
and levers and like a drawbridge type system.
So the door is opening, but slowly.
I, I, I think that they're, they're here, we have to go.
We can. What do you want me?
What do you need me to do? With us, we can take them with
us and and try to to ambush. I will I can we get me up on top
of a shelf? Chase, kneel down.
Yes, they're going to ride your shoulders.
OK, I have to listen to you for three more minutes.
Scorch can also go up. Here, boss, it's like a mount.
You're like our knight. Gosh.
But they want to get up on top of the shelf and lay down on
their belly with the sniper out pointing at the door and then
tell the rest of them. You all are going to have to get
close. I, I think they're here.
The the Princess, we have to go. I will say that you were able to
position yourself. You get up there easy peasy
because this thing you don't have to hide because you have
their help. Scorch and Chase escort you to
the top of the top shelf where they keep the really nice inkjet
printers. Which are we?
Do we have to get the heart tag from Princess Diana?
But it doesn't matter at what cost.
It's in any way, shape or form. Correct.
OK, should we ask Scorch to just go take it from Princess Diana?
You can try, I think that'll be a little.
It wouldn't suspect Scorch. Maybe he can, he can be like,
oh, I, I found these running around and I, I brought them to
you. We get up close and then we,
yeah, and then we knife them. Yeah.
No, I don't have a knife. Actually, I can't knife anybody.
But but we we need the the tag and I don't think they would
give it up because it's so important.
We're going to have to take it by by voice and unfortunately.
I knew that things were going to go up in blame, so let's get
started. Pierce Thunder cracks and winks
at Birthday Bear and starts running towards the group with
both his big pants gun and his spicy thigh gun in hand.
And my feet start moving faster and faster until it almost looks
like this strange circular spinning happening but with my
guns held out like, you know, a God on a cross or a butterfly.
Yeah, I'd like to spin at them. Yeah, sure would do a spin
attack. Could this be terrorizing?
I have no dice in it. I'm into that.
OK, sure. Now, just so I'm clear, when
you're saying at them, are we saying the people opening the
door or the person coming through the door?
I pictured them like a bunch of bowling pins.
Yeah, OK, got it. Perfect.
Yes. But I didn't roll any sixes in
case anyone wants to help me by giving me like a hard kick or
something. If anyone's into that sort of
thing, I'll. Kick.
Them anyone else is into that sort of thing?
I'll kick them. It's me.
With the with the sharp kick to the backside of Pierce Thunder
from Calvin Pierce, go ahead and roll one more D6 since you got
helped. That's a.
That's a one. Not quite.
So you're charging and you start to form into a spinning body to
try and topple over these people who are opening the door.
How do you fail? I fell because I tried.
Real. Just like every time.
Oh my. God.
Sometimes it's better just in the basement and the globe.
The computer spray screen where no one can see you fell except
for your AI girlfriend. But I think my ball spins out of
control just like my heart and ice kind of just smash into the
side like a gutter ball not meant for much besides sound and
fury. Hey, Grant, yeah, while this is
happening for no reason whatsoever, you did say that
canonically there was some expensive printer inks and stuff
around to me. I'm taking those apart.
Sure did for no reason. Yeah, that would be tinkering.
Three sixes. Wow, Yeah.
What do you want to do to that printer?
I take the ink cartridges out and I tinker.
I make these little projectiles that when I shoot them out,
they'll explode into ink much like an octopus does.
And so my aim is that because we don't know how many other side
bears or whoever is coming in, and I don't want them to hurt my
friends or at least lessen that possibility as much as I can.
I'm going to shoot the ink projectiles at them in an
attempt to sort of blind a couple of them or cloud their
vision so that my friends have an easier time of things.
And if the enemy shoots, they're, you know, hopefully
miss. Yeah, go ahead and make a heavy
machinery roll then. I'm still going to roll a few
D6. This is refunds these over here.
Is the door open yet or not yet? If it's slowly open, OK, good
question. So while you're rolling that
die, the door was slowly opening.
A hedgehog crashed into a wall. A panda bear is currently trying
to apprehend that hedgehog. Since the the rule failed, we're
going to assume that that's happening.
So this panda is just kind of like trying to like hold your
arms behind you and it's just trying to like yelling, trying
to get information out of you. Probably not saying anything,
just fuck them. Which brings us back to the
heavy machinery roll. What did you get 2?
Sixes. Beautiful.
So with two sixes we see one eaten cartridge splatter and you
just see like a grumpy looking frog grabbing at his eyes.
I knew I shouldn't have come in No work today.
This is stupid. I'm leaving while this panda is
trying to apprehend Pierce Thunder.
The panda goes from white and black all over to mostly black
with a little bit of white all over as they no longer can see.
And like God damn it, God damn it where the like reaching their
arms out trying to find you again Pierce, they're just like
missing. And now the door is slightly
ajar and from your sniper reticle you can see a royal
purple bear with a little symbol of a white flower on its chest,
a heart tag encased in a protective plastic on its ear as
it starts to slowly and authoritatively enter the
building, only to see the mess you yourself have created.
Birthday Bear I think immediately reacts to the ink
and turns. Is it flammable?
And she'll light up the flamethrower.
Yeah, I turn the scorch. I know I don't need to keep up
the charade, but I'm going to because it's fun.
I give their big strong bicep another squeeze.
I say, oh honey, would you please go tackle that Princess
for me, please? Yeah, yeah.
I don't know what it is and. We can go out for dinner after.
Oh my God, I love dinner. No, it's date night.
I love dinner and I love night. I don't know what date is, but
I'm going to try it. Doesn't.
We'll find out together. Find out together.
All right, Scorch, my guy. Let's see what.
Did BB light the ink? Like did it light?
I think you were preemptively getting ready to get it right.
Yep. Would you like to charge in with
Scorch? Let's do it.
OK, we see a stuffed bear covered in funfetti riding a
dragon charging into. Calvin.
Calvin feels a certain way about this.
Who? Couldn't as they're coming into
frame. I'm going to give Pierce an
opportunity here because it is just you, an inked frog, an
inked panda, and Princess Diana entering before birthday.
Bear and Scorch come into the fray.
What do you do? I want to stick my hand into her
head or chest and try to hack her.
Yeah, you are definitely close enough to do that because you
positioned yourself by the door and she's entered.
So we're going to give you an opportunity to hack a bear.
There is no bear. There is no bear and shove my
hand into her plush form. 4 sixes because I roll 8 for
hacking. You sure do.
I want to connect with the part of her that can also just die
and not just be the Princess of it.
And I want to encourage that part of her destiny and her
Cody. The image of this bear turns to
face you after the hacking is complete, seemingly distraught,
confused. Came into this building with one
purpose and is now being more introspective, looking inside
themselves, asking what really is a purpose.
And then that thought sneaks out of them asking you what is a
purpose. Without a word because they
don't deserve the voice of the people.
I would just crack the protective bubble around their
tag. You hack it, you would say.
The casing comes off and we see Birthday Bear charging into
action. What do you do?
Just a smile as this flamethrower lights up and just
sweeps across the inked area. Also as a visible distraction,
but also as pure destruction. Roll 8D6 for me for your
flamethrower. All right, this is calculated by
sequences. I think any group of consecutive
numbers becomes a six. It's good because I didn't roll
any sixes, but I did get 3 sequences SO3 successes.
And what do you know with three animals, how much of the divvy
up? So we've we've successfully
created a distraction. You have three points of damage
to deliver. How would you like to spread
those out? We have Princess Diana, we have
a panda, we have a frog. Yeah, if possible, I'd like to
do the panda, the frog, and then I'd like a little of the flame
to lick up against the door so it's one of those fire hazards
of you can't touch it to leave. Bring me to Scorch, and scorch
is objective, if I recall from their their their their
Paramore, Calvin. Tackle the Princess.
To tackle the Princess. So I'm going to make a little
roll here. We're going to spontaneously
decide with Scorch's number, and that is my God, I rolled three
60s. Hell yeah it.
Is I knew I picked well, I knew you.
Were good taste. Princess Diana tackled to the
ground, taking three hit points of damage still lost in their
own thought with the hacking. I'm going to pivot now in the
order of our initiative here. Gauge from the distance that
Tiffany ordered an attack. Flames everywhere.
A hat bear. What do you do?
I think seeing that her ink projectiles were a success and
the panda bear let go of Pierce right?
The added bonus of birthday bear setting at a flame and seeing
that still none of her her group has been hurry and swaps back
over to her normal projectiles on her sniper and looks down the
sights and in her mind the only way to make sure that things
stay this way and that nobody gets hurt is to end it quickly
so they can go home. And she lines up the sniper to
Princess Diana and takes a shot. Sick.
Yeah, you're going to roll with your sniper for me.
You get 8D6. You have the option with yours.
You may lower one die and raise another die by the same amount.
No die can be reduced below 1. So essentially like say you roll
like 4 fours and four fives, you can bump one of those fives to a
six and one of them to A4, whatever you want to do with
that. So you can use it to fine tune
results and convert near hits into critical shots.
Yeah, so I've got, I got 2 sixes right off the bat.
I did get A5 and A2. I'm going to turn that 2 into a
1 so I can turn that 5 into a six, giving me 3 sixes.
That is perfect. So in total, the People's
Princess has taken seven hit points of damage, just enough to
take out one of the key leaders of the Thai mob.
You hear the echo of a sniper through this Best Buy, hitting
right in the fluffy center of this purple bear falling to the
ground. Many, many animals in this
building incapacitated. You see the two guard bears,
dearly and dearest, look inside to see what all is going on.
Eyes get bigger, drop their weapons and start running in a
different direction. You now have a very easy point
to take her tag if you so wish, but she has been eliminated.
I think after seeing her hit like actually connect and seeing
the Princess fall they would start to scramble down from the
top of the shelf and make their way to the rest of the group as
this is happening. We'll say for convenience you
all I've met at the emergency exit around the fallen Princess
Diana stuffed bear. I took the name tag she had that
said hello, my name is Princess Di and I went and I'm going to
put it on birthday Bear but I'm going to add an E.
Yeah, it fits. It's nice.
It does, yeah. Yeah, such a nice name.
Great, great name. I think I have a friend.
No, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I lean over to
Scorch as we're all gathered together and I say scorch.
Honey, yeah, no survivors. And I gesture towards dearly and
dearest who are running from the building.
No survivors. He runs in the opposite
direction, towards the actual exit, the building vacated and
neutralized, the tags collected. You return to the thrift store,
dropping a collection of tags and recounting your tail to
Batman, who puts his little bat claws on his little bat hips.
Looks at the four viewers. You are all fucked.
That's wow. That was incredible in a
terrifying way. I'm glad you're on our side.
Well, I think it's safe to say that you all have levelled up in
the in the in the faction. Mechanically.
Sure. Let me get a pencil.
Hold on. I think we see.
As you know, the she, she lets the more talkative ones recount
the tail as she looks into her backpack and sits down on the
ground. These little patches of of her,
four of them from different stuffed animals, different side
bears. She looks at them and holds
them. Hey, I, I'm sorry I was too
scared to go with you when you went, but I, I, I did it this
time and I kept everyone safe and nobody, nobody got too hurt.
I, I, I think I want to keep doing this fair for you guys,
but I just wanted to tell you what I did and help that you're
proud of me and. She like hugs the little patches
of her and puts them back into. Her bag Calvin doesn't
necessarily have the context context for what Gage is saying,
but is very good at leaning into the bit, whatever it may be.
And I think they will approach you and see you conveying these
clearly complicated feelings, but hopeful feelings to these
patches of fur and. Says Gage was the best team
captain ever. We were so happy that we voted
for her and you should be super proud of what she did today.
She was a champion. I think it startles her when you
start talking, absolutely, because she thought, you know,
she was in her own bubble. But I think she looks at you and
and she smiles. Thank, thank you, thank you and
she. Stands up and chose back with
you to join the others as we finish recounting our mission.
Your operation is successful. You are.
You give your You give the red paws A sizeable advantage going
forward. One of the Time Mobs tactical
masterminds taken out of the game entirely.
Valuable information for tracking their movements now
provided. The four of you getting a chance
to sit in a respite area, to have one final moment together
before the day ends. I think it's very, very clear
that we all have some unresolved romantic tension between all of
us. I don't know if you felt that
today, but there is just a current running from paw to paw
to paw, and it's just I, it feels palpable in the air.
So if you're all into it, I'm into it.
But if you're not into it, I never was either.
No big deal. And this is their little paws
back in. There, on the faded little couch
in the corner where some of us are sitting, Pierce offers BB a
little bouquet made out of matches.
Stop trying to one up me every time we're trying to have a
conversation. This is a group conversation.
Pierce. Pierce.
Isn't cracking at all. She'll just take the little
bouquet and give it a little smell.
It's nice. Then just look at the at the
group, look up at the group. It's always looking for a little
warmth. Pierce starts sweating and
wishes he could pass control a bear on himself, but he already
used it today. Maybe we could we go on a couple
more missions together and. Then decide operations.
Operations. Yes, yes, yes, looking at.
Here. Before he crawls.
Before he crawls into your skin operations.
Right, right, right, right. A few more operations together
and and then we decide yes. OK.
So you so you think what I'm hearing is there's a chance is
what I'm hearing there's a chance?
Turn the flicker into a flame, I'm in.
What? She said.
Yeah. Fuck.
We see the skyline of Patch City, a town that feels
constantly in surrounded in darkness.
But maybe with the efforts of these 4 sigh bears, we can bring
the light back to it one day. And that is just one of the
stories you can see in Fluff and Fury.
For the record, I hate all of you.
Thank you all everyone for playing with me here today.
As we said, fluff and fury is an upcoming game, but our friends
at weird place follow them on social media support the game.
I had a lot of fun with this one.
I I could have done this forever, but I have a life and
friends and a family. So we're going to have to end it
here for today. But let me just introduce you
once again to our fantastic cast of players.
Forrest, thank you for playing. Where can we find more of you?
Yes I am recovering academic on social media.
I do a bunch of one shots like this but also some campaigns and
that's recovering academic. It's very normal.
Very normal, completely easy to find.
Trust me. Judy, where can we find more of
you? Yeah, so once again, my name was
Judy. That is why you are I pronounce
Shive. Y'all can go ahead and find me
at UD and the Beast absolutely everywhere on the interwebs.
And now you can also find me over at Happy Jacks RPG as I
play Electric State, an atomic punk road trip RPG that we are
actually recording and going live in studio here in LA and
I'm very excited about it. That's every single Tuesday for,
I guess, as long as they'll have me.
That's so cool. They better have you forever.
That sounds so rad. They better or else I'm going to
show up with my hamster ass to the houses.
And. Threaten to take them on dates.
So. Speaking of your hamster ass
Kelly, where can we find more of you?
Hi, I'm Kelly. Good Kel.
Hop on the Internet. Where can you find me?
You can find me Tuesday nights on cricket chronicles slash
talking XP for our dagger dagger hearts, not dagger hat dagger
heart campaign bitten. You can also find me in the
audio dramas error 313 and 1.7 miles to lake want to tell and
I'm I'm just doing things in here and there you find me.
Everybody was so much fun here to play with.
I'm just happy to be here. So you're all super cool and
thank you for a very, very fun game.
All of those things are so good. Can I just say, like, so damn
good? I'm a simple man.
I see Kelly's in something. I assume that must be good.
And Speaking of things, Kelly's in raw.
Robert, can we find more of you? Wow, you could find me over on
the heart as a dungeon podcast that that's most mostly it.
I'm I'm sure I'm tagged if you're if you're listening to
this, I'm sure there's A tag. So if you just click on that,
that'll be me. But that's mostly it.
I'm I'm over on thy ad and that's where they'll bury me
when I'm done. And if this is your first time
checking out Game Master Monday because you're a fan of one or
all of these four, Hi, I'm Grant.
We play a new one shot in a new system with a new cast every
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And if you are more of a podcast person, well then great, stick
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Bye, bye everybody. They can't see me.
Why am I leaving? But they can't.
Then I can't see me. They can't see me.
Why did I do that? Team Team captain.
I hate you, Kelly. Kelly, just listen to a trance.
See, first it was just Rara bullying me, that was.
I am being so supportive. What are you?
Talking it is straight up Rama and Kelly pointing guns at Yuri
forcing them to get the lead on stuff and Forrest waiting
patiently to burn somebody. They're like, please let me use
my flamethrower. Absolutely.
More fire.