(The Secret World): MSL-North: Tha Boyz - Episode 10: The Pleasant Cove Signal Part 2

[00:00:00] The Secret World's Day, on the planet, were out in the world's day, and the rest of the day was on the planet.

[00:00:08] Time to learn the truth boys and girls. In the 30's, Prime Minister King kickstarted a hedge fund for investigating and hunting various paranormal phenomena.

[00:00:19] Now, fast forward along the lines of mysteries, blood, and maple syrup money throughout the 20th century

[00:00:26] and you find numerous groups across the country, unified under a loose collective,

[00:00:32] hunting strange creatures and tackling paranormal threats for profit.

[00:00:37] Don't believe the lies by the so-called news networks.

[00:00:40] The secret world is real.

[00:00:42] Here there be monsters, and the Monster Slayers League, north of the American border, is out there.

[00:00:49] Even out in Newfoundland, there's word of a new team known only as The Bites.

[00:00:54] And don't get me started.

[00:00:59] Hi, welcome to One Less Die, a discussion of Dave's Guns Actful Play Podcast.

[00:01:05] I was actually going to go with like, hi, welcome to One Less Die, a gun-fondler Actful Play Podcast.

[00:01:11] You should leave that as the introduction this time.

[00:01:13] Yeah.

[00:01:17] Yeah, kind of, maybe, no.

[00:01:19] It's not supposed to be, but whatever.

[00:01:21] The amount of machine guns and stuff we've gone through.

[00:01:24] That said, as punishment, who does everybody remember from last session?

[00:01:28] As punishment.

[00:01:30] You've got to go to the recap.

[00:01:32] I remember the game started with him getting freaky with a rat girl.

[00:01:37] Blue Jimmy.

[00:01:38] Nick, more rat, thank you.

[00:01:40] Yes.

[00:01:43] So I remember that much.

[00:01:45] Okay, so it was a town.

[00:01:47] Helicopter days.

[00:01:48] We helicoptered out.

[00:01:49] We came in.

[00:01:49] Car and fire.

[00:01:51] Yeah.

[00:01:51] Landed, right.

[00:01:52] We met the first guy.

[00:01:54] I took his phone away and got zombified.

[00:01:56] Yes.

[00:01:56] And then we tied him up.

[00:01:57] We did not kill him.

[00:01:59] We have not killed anyone yet.

[00:02:00] Yeah.

[00:02:01] Because we basically found out that through radiant damage we could purge the infested.

[00:02:07] The infestation, whatever it's called.

[00:02:09] It's a signal, yeah.

[00:02:10] There's some kind of a...

[00:02:10] Yeah.

[00:02:11] Whatever's an effect on this.

[00:02:12] Then we went to an old folks' home where we rescued a Sarah.

[00:02:16] Not Sarah.

[00:02:16] Her name is Sarah.

[00:02:21] It starts with an S.

[00:02:22] It's Sharon Seda.

[00:02:24] Okay, Sharon.

[00:02:26] That's why it's Sharon.

[00:02:27] A middle-aged woman.

[00:02:28] I wonder what the hell it is.

[00:02:28] She's a middle-aged woman.

[00:02:32] As you guys, because we are starting to have her in a safe house sort of situation.

[00:02:37] We're holed up at the marina.

[00:02:39] At a kayak rental house.

[00:02:40] Or a kayak rental office.

[00:02:41] Yes, because we got there and the dude is like, he's like shooting a shotgun at us through

[00:02:46] the door and shit and he ran away and we incapacitated him as well.

[00:02:49] Yeah.

[00:02:49] So we've been completely non-legal this time.

[00:02:51] If anything, Sharon has killed more people than you guys because she murdered a bunch

[00:02:54] of seniors who...

[00:02:55] With a sledgehammer.

[00:02:56] With a sledgehammer.

[00:02:57] Because they were all like, they were like zombie, like zombies swarming toward her

[00:03:01] in the basement of the old folks' home.

[00:03:03] Right.

[00:03:03] And I spent most of the game as a dog and Sharon didn't know I was a people until somebody

[00:03:08] brought up...

[00:03:08] You just turned back into a dog already.

[00:03:10] Yeah.

[00:03:11] We remembered everything.

[00:03:12] Yay.

[00:03:13] Also, you were...

[00:03:14] Sharon did inform you that there were some strange...

[00:03:17] She mistook you for some other paramilitary looking people that were in...

[00:03:21] That were stalking around town.

[00:03:23] Purple guys with G-like.

[00:03:24] She never questioned why you guys had an extra motorcycle.

[00:03:29] No, that's true.

[00:03:30] I think that was the least of her worries.

[00:03:31] Yeah, that's true.

[00:03:32] It could have been like one that you guys had found.

[00:03:35] You're a trained dog.

[00:03:35] You ride the motorcycle.

[00:03:38] I'm like a Russian bear.

[00:03:39] Yeah.

[00:03:40] It's a mix between Russian bear and Scooby.

[00:03:42] It's like, ro-ro.

[00:03:43] Ro-ro.

[00:03:45] Reggie.

[00:03:46] And then you maul a lady on camera.

[00:03:51] But yeah, so...

[00:03:53] Yeah, we left off with you guys in a safe house-like situation in the kayak rental place.

[00:03:58] And you have discovered that there appears to be a cell of Phoenicians in this town.

[00:04:04] This town has been afflicted by some kind of signal...

[00:04:09] Some kind of like...

[00:04:11] Some kind of signal version of the filth.

[00:04:13] Like a broadcast version of the filth.

[00:04:15] That's what it's called.

[00:04:17] It's called a...

[00:04:18] They call it...

[00:04:19] Well, actually, you guys...

[00:04:20] You're in your Gaia message.

[00:04:21] You did hear...

[00:04:23] Stop the...

[00:04:24] Or quiet the black signal.

[00:04:28] Right, because you guys also...

[00:04:29] This is sort of a half...

[00:04:31] Half given to you by your hunter crew, but also given to you straight up by Gaia, who sent you guys a message this morning.

[00:04:38] We were going here no matter what.

[00:04:39] Yeah.

[00:04:42] And I believe it was about like 10 in the morning when we left off.

[00:04:48] Somewhere around there.

[00:04:51] So, yeah, you guys have been in this...

[00:04:53] Hiding out in this kayak rental.

[00:04:56] Trying to figure out where to go next because it seems like there were like two options for you guys.

[00:05:03] You guys could...

[00:05:04] There was the radio broadcast tower.

[00:05:07] Or the...

[00:05:09] The post office, I think, is where Sharon saw the...

[00:05:13] One of the other paramilitary...

[00:05:16] The Phoenician person.

[00:05:19] Going...

[00:05:19] No, like walking into.

[00:05:20] You know, you say Phoenician, and every time you do, I think that they're a cult devoted to Phineas and Ferb.

[00:05:26] And I keep thinking of people that make lines.

[00:05:30] That's Pho-ne-ician.

[00:05:32] No, no, it's Phoenicians, not Phoenicians.

[00:05:35] Hey, potato, potato, man.

[00:05:37] I keep thinking of the ancient Hittites.

[00:05:39] Yeah.

[00:05:40] I mean, that's accurate.

[00:05:41] That's actually where they get their name from is the ancient, like, the people, the...

[00:05:45] The ancient sailors of the Mediterranean.

[00:05:47] Scott.

[00:05:48] I keep expecting to be like...

[00:05:49] Mer, why do you have to be right?

[00:05:51] Be left like us.

[00:05:53] It's the proper handedness.

[00:05:54] I keep expecting them to be like skirted and wearing a weird headdress.

[00:05:57] No.

[00:05:58] Throwing a spear.

[00:06:00] This is the modern Phoenicians.

[00:06:03] But, uh, yeah, so, um...

[00:06:06] What do you guys want to do?

[00:06:08] My dice prepared.

[00:06:11] All that talk earlier about your guns and you forgot to, like, get your dice and stuff there.

[00:06:16] Hey, man.

[00:06:17] Yeah, you're right.

[00:06:18] Could give them spears.

[00:06:23] I can't...

[00:06:24] The bounty hunter in Dresden Files.

[00:06:28] Okay, yeah.

[00:06:29] You know the guy I'm talking about.

[00:06:30] The one that protects the archive, yeah.

[00:06:33] Yeah.

[00:06:34] His spear.

[00:06:35] Do you remember his spear?

[00:06:36] No, I don't remember his spear at all.

[00:06:38] Oh, fuck, man.

[00:06:39] It's got a flamethrower in one end.

[00:06:42] And then it has, uh...

[00:06:44] It's basically a double barrel shotgun on either side of a blade at the other end.

[00:06:49] So he can stab vampires, pin them in place, and blast the hell out of them.

[00:06:55] And then when they're sneaking up behind him, he can pull the other trigger and set them on fire.

[00:07:00] That's pretty neat.

[00:07:01] That sounds awesome.

[00:07:02] It is awesome.

[00:07:03] A lot of parts that could break on that while swinging it, though, honestly.

[00:07:07] Yes, but I feel like he's got it perfected.

[00:07:12] Fair.

[00:07:13] Plus it's, like, high action, you know.

[00:07:15] Yeah.

[00:07:16] Realism can be over there a little bit.

[00:07:18] Just so you can enjoy it.

[00:07:19] But action movie logic.

[00:07:21] Yeah.

[00:07:21] Yeah.

[00:07:24] Yeah.

[00:07:25] So, yeah.

[00:07:26] What do you guys...

[00:07:27] What is your next course of action?

[00:07:30] So we're trying to figure out where to go next?

[00:07:32] Yeah.

[00:07:33] Do you guys have to rest?

[00:07:34] Yes.

[00:07:34] You guys have had, like, basically, like, the equivalent of a short miss.

[00:07:38] It's about, like, 10-30.

[00:07:39] We'll say it's about, like, 10-30 now.

[00:07:42] I have returned my full wisdom.

[00:07:44] Yes.

[00:07:45] Oh, yeah.

[00:07:45] You have recovered.

[00:07:46] That accent was awesome, though, honestly.

[00:07:48] Can you just talk again for the rest of the game?

[00:07:50] Only if I take more damage.

[00:07:52] Okay, yeah.

[00:07:54] But, yes, I believe...

[00:07:55] So, we were basically told by Sharon that she saw the Phoenicians...

[00:08:03] She saw a...

[00:08:03] Yeah, she saw one of the...

[00:08:05] One of the...

[00:08:05] Like, some kind of, like, paramilitary spec ops kind of looking for something.

[00:08:08] They were at, like, a...

[00:08:10] The...

[00:08:10] Where were they?

[00:08:11] They were skulking around the post office.

[00:08:13] Post office, yeah.

[00:08:14] I want to say mailbox.

[00:08:15] I'm like, that's not the word.

[00:08:19] But...

[00:08:19] So, we're thinking either stay on their heels or try to get ahead of them if we actually

[00:08:24] think the radio station is the source of this.

[00:08:27] Yeah.

[00:08:28] If you guys do test the radio station, blow it up.

[00:08:30] If we think that.

[00:08:31] Yeah.

[00:08:32] You guys do...

[00:08:33] Well, you guys can actually roll a...

[00:08:35] What else?

[00:08:35] An insight or an investigation.

[00:08:37] Like, this thing will ask me pretty powerful.

[00:08:40] You'd think.

[00:08:41] It makes sense.

[00:08:42] Sharon's explained that when it happened...

[00:08:45] When it was unleashed somehow, like, the night before, every audiovisual receptor was infected.

[00:08:55] But only locally.

[00:08:56] Yeah.

[00:08:57] Locally.

[00:08:57] Like, within this town, it seems.

[00:09:00] And, like, all radio, television, like, phones, all that kind of stuff, like, they are

[00:09:07] all infected.

[00:09:08] They're all affected by it.

[00:09:12] And you guys even...

[00:09:13] As soon as you came within range of the town, like, on your helicopter, you know...

[00:09:16] Yeah.

[00:09:16] You noticed that, like, you got the signal through the comms of your helicopter, so...

[00:09:22] What were we rolling?

[00:09:23] Either insight or investigation.

[00:09:24] Your choice.

[00:09:31] 19.

[00:09:31] 19?

[00:09:32] Okay.

[00:09:33] I only get to add a 7.

[00:09:36] 10.

[00:09:38] Uh, 22.

[00:09:40] 22?

[00:09:41] Okay, so, um...

[00:09:43] Two of you, like, go and check, actually.

[00:09:46] Like, you guys have this idea of, like, oh, maybe we should check to see if the radio is

[00:09:49] still broadcasting.

[00:09:50] And...

[00:09:50] But that's dangerous.

[00:09:53] That's true.

[00:09:53] We know turning on any sort of device could potentially...

[00:09:59] Okay, fair enough.

[00:10:01] I'm sorry to cut you off.

[00:10:02] No, do you like?

[00:10:03] Get no information.

[00:10:03] Do not!

[00:10:04] Yeah.

[00:10:06] Realistically, we wouldn't do that.

[00:10:07] At least, I wouldn't.

[00:10:08] I'm not doing that again.

[00:10:10] I don't want to do the accent.

[00:10:14] No one wants to do the accent.

[00:10:15] No.

[00:10:18] Uh, actually, no, I will give you this.

[00:10:19] Sharon does explain that, like, um, the radio tower, or, like, there was, when it all started,

[00:10:24] when the signal went out, um, there was, uh, she recalls hearing something on the radio,

[00:10:30] like, some kind of gibberish from the DJ there.

[00:10:33] Mm.

[00:10:34] Um, something about aliens, um, like, finally arriving and some of that.

[00:10:37] And then it went dark.

[00:10:38] Like, the radio station went dark.

[00:10:40] Okay.

[00:10:43] Sounds like going to the station's the right idea, then.

[00:10:46] At least it's another, it seems like it, yeah.

[00:10:48] It's a direction, at least.

[00:10:50] Yeah.

[00:10:50] Compared to us just sitting here and waiting it out.

[00:10:53] Yeah.

[00:10:53] Okay, so I'll just turn into a griffon.

[00:10:55] I'll fly up and land on the tower.

[00:10:58] I'm sorry, a griffon?

[00:10:59] With maximum velocity.

[00:11:03] Yeah.

[00:11:03] A griffon?

[00:11:04] What?

[00:11:04] Yeah, it's a type of helicopter.

[00:11:08] Are you a transformer?

[00:11:10] Sure.

[00:11:11] Yeah, okay.

[00:11:11] Okay.

[00:11:12] We have to keep affirming him.

[00:11:17] He's more than a CIA.

[00:11:17] Honestly, can't tell if you're joking or serious at this point.

[00:11:24] Are you rolling, uh, um, gaslighting on the tower?

[00:11:28] Oh my god.

[00:11:29] I totally could.

[00:11:30] I could keep trying to bring your one, uh, use.

[00:11:35] We are the Autobots.

[00:11:37] It's only one use on a group of people.

[00:11:39] Oh, that's right, yeah.

[00:11:40] It's infinite use on one person.

[00:11:43] God.

[00:11:44] God.

[00:11:45] Except that it has to be somewhat reasonable.

[00:11:48] And it's a transformer.

[00:11:50] Well, she already saw you transform from a dog.

[00:11:52] No, she didn't.

[00:11:53] She saw a dog crawl in behind the couch and a person crawl out the other side.

[00:11:56] No, you went in the bathroom, flushed the toilet.

[00:11:58] Right, like that was a person.

[00:11:59] Yeah, that's what I was.

[00:12:01] Yes.

[00:12:02] Which admittedly is hilarious.

[00:12:03] I could literally cast Major Image and make the dog come out of the bathroom now.

[00:12:08] You could.

[00:12:10] God, it's like a hologram perk from some military multiplayer game.

[00:12:17] Pretty much.

[00:12:19] Oh god, if you had the secret of the doppelganger, as well as...

[00:12:23] You could have a...

[00:12:24] You can't have both.

[00:12:26] An alternate, like another universe version of you pop up and just...

[00:12:29] That's actually physical.

[00:12:29] That was actually one of the archetypes that I very, very heavily considered.

[00:12:34] Yeah.

[00:12:36] But...

[00:12:36] Doggo.

[00:12:37] Doggo.

[00:12:38] Mm-hmm.

[00:12:40] But yeah, so...

[00:12:43] Yeah, what is the plot?

[00:12:44] Sorry.

[00:12:44] Like I just...

[00:12:45] I was doing that for roleplaying things.

[00:12:46] Because you were mentioning like turning into a griffon, so...

[00:12:49] Attack helicopter, radio tower.

[00:12:51] That is the simplest thing.

[00:12:53] That being said...

[00:12:55] You're still up to me.

[00:12:56] Can Yuri hit anything with those missiles?

[00:12:58] He has not yet.

[00:12:59] Okay.

[00:13:00] He was flying aggressively trying to take out a dragon.

[00:13:04] That was airborne and maneuvering.

[00:13:06] This is a stationary ground target.

[00:13:08] That is full of holes.

[00:13:10] That the missiles can go through.

[00:13:11] Only has to hit the ground at the bottom of the radio tower.

[00:13:15] Yeah.

[00:13:16] Or any point on the radio tower.

[00:13:18] Yeah.

[00:13:20] Or the generator for the radio tower.

[00:13:22] Or the building that contains the sensitive equipment that operates the radio tower.

[00:13:28] If he puts missiles anywhere in that vicinity, we're good.

[00:13:33] But also, if he does that...

[00:13:35] Then he ruins Chris's investigation.

[00:13:36] That's what I was trying to say.

[00:13:37] Oh no.

[00:13:38] Go for it.

[00:13:39] If you want to do this, go for it.

[00:13:41] Go for it.

[00:13:42] This is a red herring guy.

[00:13:43] Just imagine he has this labyrinthine thing set up in the basement.

[00:13:48] We're just like nuke.

[00:13:49] So we've got a map of town, right?

[00:13:51] Yeah, basically.

[00:13:52] You guys have a rough layout of the town.

[00:13:54] We're Google Maps.

[00:13:55] No, we don't.

[00:13:55] We fire the flare.

[00:13:58] We call Yuri down.

[00:13:59] We give him the two targets.

[00:14:02] The radio tower and the post office.

[00:14:04] Just blow up both of them.

[00:14:05] Blow up both of them.

[00:14:06] Should we confirm if there's civilians in these buildings first?

[00:14:09] No.

[00:14:09] We probably should.

[00:14:10] I don't care.

[00:14:11] We really should.

[00:14:13] I've got zombified.

[00:14:13] This is bullshit.

[00:14:14] It's not the town.

[00:14:15] But we know they're savable.

[00:14:17] Point of order?

[00:14:18] Says Sharon.

[00:14:19] I was like, I live here?

[00:14:21] I'd like my town to be intact.

[00:14:23] That's why you don't care to say you're not...

[00:14:25] Is your house near the radio station or the post office?

[00:14:28] I live in the little development next to the downtown area, so I'm at least near the post office.

[00:14:33] You're not danger close.

[00:14:33] Shut up.

[00:14:36] I just want to point out, we're being given the literal opportunity

[00:14:40] to go postal.

[00:14:45] How often does this come up in a game?

[00:14:47] I love the dead silence.

[00:14:48] Sharon is just like...

[00:14:51] She's feeling very uncomfortable with her choices of friends right now.

[00:14:56] She's like, maybe...

[00:14:58] One of you guys catches her glancing to the door in that way of like,

[00:15:03] can I make it to the door?

[00:15:04] Sharon, I'd like to point out at this point,

[00:15:06] you've killed more people than we have.

[00:15:09] Self-def...

[00:15:10] Don't have to remind me.

[00:15:12] It was self-defense, but...

[00:15:14] I don't blame you.

[00:15:17] They're boos.

[00:15:18] They had it coming.

[00:15:21] Whether that is true or not,

[00:15:22] I feel like we should see if there's anyone in there that's savable.

[00:15:27] Because for all we know,

[00:15:28] like, there's an entire orphanage of kids hiding out in there.

[00:15:33] There was the classroom for the orphanage.

[00:15:35] Yeah.

[00:15:36] 30 orphans and 4 nuns in the post office.

[00:15:39] Definitely.

[00:15:43] Okay, so what's the plan, guys?

[00:15:45] We'll go to the radio station.

[00:15:46] Which one's closer?

[00:15:47] Well, I will say the post office is probably like...

[00:15:51] It's really just down the road to the downtown area.

[00:15:53] The radio station is up on a hill.

[00:15:55] You can see it off in the distance.

[00:15:57] It's probably less than a kilometer off.

[00:16:00] Okay, so we go in the direction of the post office,

[00:16:03] peek our head in there,

[00:16:05] but our main objective should still be the radio tower.

[00:16:08] Because we're assuming that's where this is coming from.

[00:16:11] I think we just came from downtown.

[00:16:14] So we're in the middle.

[00:16:15] The radio tower is one way and the post office...

[00:16:17] Yeah, you'd have to go past the docks area

[00:16:21] where there's the destroyed warehouse.

[00:16:24] And then you go into basically the downtown core of this place.

[00:16:28] It's all pretty small.

[00:16:29] Does anybody here have a digital watch?

[00:16:35] Yeah, probably.

[00:16:37] Okay, because my character wears a clockwork analog watch

[00:16:41] because, you know, I'm a classy bitch.

[00:16:43] Understandable.

[00:16:44] I want to put my ear up to his watch.

[00:16:47] Okay.

[00:16:48] Because it's not a smart watch.

[00:16:49] It's just a digital watch.

[00:16:50] Yeah, yeah.

[00:16:52] Okay.

[00:16:54] Do I have to make a will save?

[00:16:56] No.

[00:16:57] Okay.

[00:16:57] Okay.

[00:16:59] So, so far, of the electronic devices that we've encountered,

[00:17:03] the ones that receive outside signals operate on radio waves,

[00:17:08] so phones and televisions do this shit.

[00:17:12] But your watch doesn't, so it's not all electronic devices.

[00:17:16] Makes sense.

[00:17:17] Double checking to turn on the sight of my guns.

[00:17:21] Does it have, like, some kind of transmitting or trans-Steven kind of thing?

[00:17:25] No.

[00:17:25] Okay.

[00:17:27] Okay.

[00:17:29] So, logically, that really screams to me that it's got to be the radio station.

[00:17:36] Yeah, for sure.

[00:17:36] We know this.

[00:17:37] Well, I mean, do we?

[00:17:39] We know this.

[00:17:40] We've worked it out as players, or at least this is what we think.

[00:17:43] I'm talking in character right now.

[00:17:46] I thought we were having a conversation in character.

[00:17:47] I didn't know whether or not our characters are in the MTC.

[00:17:50] That's true.

[00:17:52] Yeah, Sharon's just looking at you guys like, what are you doing?

[00:17:53] Are they talking about in character, out of character?

[00:17:56] Yeah.

[00:17:57] Did I?

[00:17:58] As my character turns, for the audience at home.

[00:18:02] It should be very easy to see when your character's talking, because it's all fuckbot.

[00:18:07] Oh, fuckbot.

[00:18:10] You forget every time.

[00:18:11] I do.

[00:18:12] I do forget every time.

[00:18:15] Okay.

[00:18:18] So, what is this?

[00:18:20] All right.

[00:18:21] Well, let's get up on the bikes and we'll head up to the radio tower.

[00:18:24] Full fucking send, bud.

[00:18:26] Yeah, we should just buck it up there.

[00:18:28] It's rubbing off on me a little bit now.

[00:18:30] But yes, we should.

[00:18:31] Fucking giver, bud.

[00:18:33] Just going for a rip.

[00:18:36] All right.

[00:18:37] I will never get used to you, damn workers.

[00:18:41] What should I do?

[00:18:43] Says Sharon.

[00:18:44] Should I stay in the office here?

[00:18:47] Is the door broken?

[00:18:49] Stay here.

[00:18:49] Don't murder any old folks.

[00:18:52] Again, self-defense.

[00:18:53] Is the door broken?

[00:18:56] I don't recall what happened.

[00:18:57] I don't know.

[00:18:59] I think...

[00:19:00] Did he blast it open?

[00:19:01] I think there might...

[00:19:02] No, one of you guys was going to open it up and then...

[00:19:04] I say it might be some damage, but...

[00:19:07] It's still closable, though.

[00:19:08] Okay.

[00:19:09] So, here's the thing.

[00:19:11] Yeah.

[00:19:12] Just look over there for a minute.

[00:19:15] Okay.

[00:19:16] I'm going to give for my canary.

[00:19:20] Okay.

[00:19:21] I'm going to sneak over and lean on the door and just subtly mend under my arm as I'm leaning on it.

[00:19:26] He just picks up a little...

[00:19:27] He's like whispering.

[00:19:29] Mint.

[00:19:30] Mint.

[00:19:30] Mint.

[00:19:31] Mint.

[00:19:31] Okay, so the bird.

[00:19:33] Yeah.

[00:19:33] It's very well trained.

[00:19:37] And if there's trouble, you can send it to come get us.

[00:19:42] Okay.

[00:19:43] Okay.

[00:19:43] If there's a lot of trouble, don't ask questions.

[00:19:47] Just kill it.

[00:19:49] Fine.

[00:19:50] Yeah.

[00:19:50] Okay.

[00:19:50] It has a transmitter in it.

[00:19:52] I get a notification when it dies.

[00:19:54] It's a canary.

[00:19:55] Sure.

[00:19:55] Yeah.

[00:19:55] Okay.

[00:19:56] No.

[00:19:57] Don't...

[00:19:57] Don't look.

[00:19:59] Where's...

[00:20:00] Where's...

[00:20:00] Oh, I was doing a gaslighter.

[00:20:02] Where's that?

[00:20:04] Where's...

[00:20:05] Where's...

[00:20:05] Where's...

[00:20:05] Where's...

[00:20:06] Where's the gaslighter?

[00:20:09] I was doing a gaslighter.

[00:20:17] Interruption.

[00:20:19] Black signal leak.

[00:20:20] Detected.

[00:20:21] Override.

[00:20:22] Initiate jamming program.

[00:20:24] Receive.

[00:20:25] Initiate.

[00:20:26] Patchwork protocol.

[00:20:28] Witness.

[00:20:28] Last time on Dragon Ball Z.

[00:20:31] Implement the Davidish Manuscript.

[00:20:34] Witness.

[00:20:35] John, Jacob, Marcel, and Sharon, they figured there's two options.

[00:20:40] One, attack the post office where the Phoenicians were spotted.

[00:20:45] And two, attack the radio tower where we assumed the broadcast is coming from.

[00:20:51] While discussing, John casually mended the shotgun blast at the door.

[00:20:57] Sharon stayed in...

[00:20:58] Sharon stayed in...

[00:20:58] At the rental shop with shotgun in hand.

[00:21:01] The radio tower had no lights on.

[00:21:03] The front door was covered in the same crazy sigils.

[00:21:07] John used detect magic to see if they were warded or anything.

[00:21:10] No signs of magic in the area, though.

[00:21:12] The group spread out and surrounded the building, looking passively, checking the windows.

[00:21:18] No lights were inside.

[00:21:20] They converge on the back door.

[00:21:21] Giggity.

[00:21:22] The, uh...

[00:21:24] The generator is on outside.

[00:21:26] John turns it off, then checks the door.

[00:21:28] The door is unlocked.

[00:21:28] So he creaks it open.

[00:21:29] It's dark inside.

[00:21:30] Marcel goes in first.

[00:21:32] Shield first.

[00:21:32] Night vision on.

[00:21:34] Inside, the place is somewhat rent.

[00:21:36] A few of the main cables that run the station have been cut.

[00:21:38] John thinks that this being shut down is connected to the other signal being active.

[00:21:43] So he mends the broken wires.

[00:21:45] Always with the mending.

[00:21:47] Jacob theorizes that he'd get the station back and running.

[00:21:51] And be able to safely monitor and block the signal to the town.

[00:21:54] But it'll take an hour.

[00:21:56] Just then, his canary gets within range and delivers the message that a pickup truck showed up in town and is starting fires and looting.

[00:22:03] The group thinks about whether they should stay to do the signal, split the party to have Jacob stay and do the signal while John and Marcel deal with the rioters, or they all go.

[00:22:12] It's decided that the current threat of fires and loss of life is more important to deal with since the radio station isn't going anywhere.

[00:22:18] So they depart, hauling ass on their bikes to the town.

[00:22:21] When they get in the eye shot, they see the truck parked outside the furniture store.

[00:22:26] A fire inside the main display as commotion is happening inside.

[00:22:30] Up front, Jacob veers into a bush with his bike and emerges from it as a falcon.

[00:22:35] Stunning.

[00:22:37] Flying up into the sky to see the surroundings.

[00:22:40] Spotting a man at the truck with a shotgun and a sniper on a nearby rooftop.

[00:22:44] Marcel speeds towards the shotgun at full force, hammer in hand.

[00:22:48] Meanwhile, John power slides to a stop as soon as he's in range and steps off the bike.

[00:22:54] Initiative starts as a sniper shot at Jacob, winging him, turning him into a poof of feathers.

[00:23:00] Jacob is able to fly with his raincoat, mainly to position himself between the sniper and the sun so she can't see him transform.

[00:23:07] He emerges as a falcon again.

[00:23:09] On street level, Marcel rides up to the shotgunner and tries to hit him with a hammer, but missed.

[00:23:15] And takes a tumble on the bike, but lands okay.

[00:23:19] Not at my finest hour.

[00:23:21] The shotgunner takes a shot at Marcel, who blocks the shot with his shield and returns holy fire with the sacred flame, burning the filth out of the shotgunner.

[00:23:29] Marcel charges into the furniture store.

[00:23:31] John crouches down behind his bike, summons his assault rifle to his hand, and braces the gun on the seat of the bike.

[00:23:37] He clips the sniper with a quick burst, six bullets and a casting of Hunter's Mark.

[00:23:44] The sniper turns to the direction of the suppressed bullets, hitting her, noticing the cover that John decides to choose, and shoots the gas tank.

[00:23:54] The shot blows it up with one well-placed shot, sending John flying back a few feet and his gun flying into the bush.

[00:24:01] Jacob goes for the eyes as he flies down and claws at the sniper's helmet, ripping it open and taking an eye or two with his attacks.

[00:24:07] Incapacitating the sniper.

[00:24:09] Jacob turns back to a person and talks to the sniper, suggesting bringing her back to Templar HQ.

[00:24:15] She decides taking a cyanide capsule was the better choice.

[00:24:18] If she wasn't blind, otherwise you wouldn't have turned back in front of her because you wouldn't have to find another way to mask yourself.

[00:24:23] Yes.

[00:24:24] You should have taken contingent spell.

[00:24:26] On use of a good bear or two, and disarming her of other ways to end her life, the sniper is removed from the fight.

[00:24:33] I forgot about that.

[00:24:34] She took the cyanide pill to try to kill herself, and you're like, nope, take it, eat this!

[00:24:39] Yeah.

[00:24:40] Count her with a good bear.

[00:24:41] Yeah.

[00:24:43] Inside the furniture store, Marcel deals with the threat inside by burning the filth out of the other two inside, but not before taking quite a few chops from a machete.

[00:24:51] I was fine.

[00:24:54] Outside of the nearby post office, another Phoenician walks out with a glorious HK G11 assault rifle, which he unfortunately uses to shoot at the prone John, pelting him on the ground.

[00:25:05] Me, myself, Dave, weighed the option of what I can do and what I can't do to this man because I didn't want to harm the G11 because the G11 was innocent after all.

[00:25:17] Fireball would melt it, shatter would break it, acid arrow would melt it again, etc.

[00:25:22] So John gets up, shoots a quick burst of bullets into the soldier while retreating behind the burning husk of his motorcycle.

[00:25:29] The soldier shoots wildly through the bike, most of his shots still hitting John.

[00:25:34] To retaliate, John throws a hand grenade over the flames of the bike while strafing out from behind the flames to put more bullets into this tank of a man.

[00:25:41] He just wasn't dying.

[00:25:42] He took a lot of bullets.

[00:25:43] Upon taking more bullets himself, as the two just trade bullets it seems.

[00:25:49] Dan Keats style.

[00:25:50] Pretty much, yeah.

[00:25:52] They're playing shot for shot.

[00:25:53] Yeah, literally.

[00:25:54] John rushes in to close the distance while firing but his gun jammed on the next shot so he unsummons it and pulls out his stun gun and rushes in on the guy.

[00:26:04] Unfortunately, there's a deployable bayonet on the G11 that the soldier has and John finds out the hard way.

[00:26:09] Thankfully, his stun gun hits true and KO'd the soldier.

[00:26:12] In celebration, John grabbed the G11 and the mags the soldier had on him and started to run away.

[00:26:17] But I realized he had a job to do so he came back.

[00:26:19] Hey, remember that time you used a stun gun and it worked?

[00:26:22] Yeah, that time right there.

[00:26:24] I think I may have used a little sword.

[00:26:26] I'm not going to lie.

[00:26:27] I really wanted you to read the beginning of that like Stiller.

[00:26:32] Like Stiller?

[00:26:33] Yeah.

[00:26:34] Ben Stiller.

[00:26:35] Outside, out of the nearby post office, another Phoenician walks out with a glorious H&K G11 assault rifle.

[00:26:47] So an Elcor?

[00:26:48] Yeah, pretty much.

[00:26:49] Yeah, that's an Elcor, yeah.

[00:26:52] The teacher from Ferris Bueller.

[00:26:54] Oh, Ben Stein.

[00:26:55] Ben Stein.

[00:26:56] Sorry, Ben Stein.

[00:26:58] Stiller is the other guy.

[00:27:00] Yeah, yeah.

[00:27:00] It's Ben Stein.

[00:27:01] Mm-hmm.

[00:27:02] Marcel and John tie up to pacified and KO'd enemies.

[00:27:06] As Jacob shows up, dragging the female sniper, he yells out to the others, cyanide capsule.

[00:27:11] So Marcel jams his hand into the soldier's mouth to stop him from breaking the capsule.

[00:27:16] On a tooth capsule extraction, John stabbing the soldier in the knee, Jacob turning the blade and some gaslighting to the use of a Russian accent.

[00:27:28] While using a flare gun to call in our Russian attack helicopter, Jacob makes the soldier think that the group are with the Phoenicians, too.

[00:27:36] Uh, they are tracking down a group of traitors, which Jacob claims that the soldier is.

[00:27:41] Suddenly, a black SUV peels out from behind the post office, where Russian Jacob suggests grenade launcher to John.

[00:27:49] Uh, he nods and launches two grenades into the distance, one at a time, the second one flipping the car over.

[00:27:55] On success, John opens the breech of the M203 and sniffs the excess smoke in a very, I'm touching myself tonight, like scene from Deadpool.

[00:28:04] Uh, Marcel suggests they go and take care of the SUV, so John jumps on the back of the only nearby working motorcycle, and they head off.

[00:28:12] Is that my motorcycle?

[00:28:14] No.

[00:28:14] Uh, maybe?

[00:28:15] Yeah.

[00:28:16] No, yours didn't get wrecked.

[00:28:17] Yours just slid.

[00:28:18] Yeah.

[00:28:18] His was in a bush.

[00:28:19] Oh, my body is in a bush.

[00:28:21] Yeah.

[00:28:22] Uh, the survivor climbs out of the flipped SUV, who is a Phoenician, too, but surrenders immediately, looking like a techie guy, not a combat guy.

[00:28:29] Regardless, Marcel drives, oh, dives in to rip out his cyanide capsule as well.

[00:28:35] He's not resisting.

[00:28:36] He's not resisting at all, but you never know.

[00:28:38] You could be lying.

[00:28:40] Uh, the tech's name is, uh, Mervin, who says he wasn't gonna use the capsule anyway.

[00:28:45] John takes the handgun off him and the extra-geolet ammo out of the back of the SUV.

[00:28:49] As they drag the poor tech guy back by the back of the motorcycle.

[00:28:53] Drag him all the way back.

[00:28:54] I don't know how far he went, but...

[00:28:56] Doesn't matter.

[00:28:57] Yeah, it doesn't matter.

[00:28:57] We groups.

[00:28:59] The tech, surprisingly, is still cooperative, and brings Marcel and John into the basement to see what they were doing.

[00:29:05] They wanted to capture the signal so they could sell it for millions on the black market.

[00:29:10] John's eye twitches at the idea of making millions, his ex-con, ex-bank rubber instincts kicking in.

[00:29:16] However, it's decided as Marcel takes his hammer to the server, stopping the capture dead.

[00:29:21] An EMP is in the basement for the purposes of wiping everything clean when they leave.

[00:29:25] So John and Marcel take it back upstairs.

[00:29:28] On the climb back up, John looks over his shoulder, thinking about using the men to fix the PC.

[00:29:33] For the purpose to see if Templar HQ would pay more to have the option to do what they will with it.

[00:29:39] You're gonna buy more attack helicopters and stuff.

[00:29:41] But it's worthless now.

[00:29:42] I made abundantly sure.

[00:29:45] Very safe and sorry.

[00:29:46] Jacob and Yuri drag the captives into the hind, giving Yuri his Tokarev to watch them, and shoot them in the knee if they move or talk.

[00:29:53] To which Yuri says that the one has already had his knee hurt.

[00:29:57] Jacob responds by handing Yuri a machete and telling him to cut the hands off than if he does.

[00:30:03] My canary arrived to deliver another message.

[00:30:05] Sharon had been taken, and was taken in X direction.

[00:30:09] To the north, technically.

[00:30:10] Yeah.

[00:30:11] Okay.

[00:30:12] With limited time, I turned into a hawk and flew away.

[00:30:15] I don't remember what I hid behind.

[00:30:18] Leaving John and Marcel to deal with the EMP.

[00:30:21] On arrival...

[00:30:22] We were downstairs in the basement, I think.

[00:30:23] You were upstairs.

[00:30:24] I was by myself.

[00:30:25] Yeah.

[00:30:25] Okay.

[00:30:27] On arrival, Sharon was tied to a flagpole with two Mad Max-like crazies on weaponized lawnmower and ATV, respectively.

[00:30:33] First one of the girl wins.

[00:30:35] Then we fight it out.

[00:30:36] They start to charge the pole.

[00:30:38] I considered letting them fight it out, but quickly realized they're headed for Sharon.

[00:30:44] Witness.

[00:30:44] It's alive!

[00:30:45] It's alive!

[00:30:46] It's alive!

[00:30:49] Apologies for the technical difficulties.

[00:30:52] Receive.

[00:30:53] Initiate.

[00:30:54] Remnant data.

[00:30:55] Execute.

[00:30:59] Warning.

[00:31:00] Incoming game.

[00:31:01] Yeah.

[00:31:02] And we're back as...

[00:31:06] Signal has been re-established.

[00:31:09] Yeah.

[00:31:10] So EMP worked?

[00:31:11] Yeah.

[00:31:12] It really did.

[00:31:14] We have discovered that Aaron is indeed a wizard.

[00:31:18] I've been fucking up electronics left, right, and center.

[00:31:20] Yeah.

[00:31:21] Other than that, you just have the gremlin...

[00:31:24] That's what he's referring to.

[00:31:25] Isn't there even like a...

[00:31:27] Gremlins from Shadowrun.

[00:31:28] Yeah, the gremlin...

[00:31:30] Negative.

[00:31:31] Yeah, negative quality.

[00:31:32] Quality, yeah.

[00:31:32] You touch electronics and they fuck up.

[00:31:35] So yeah, the two crazy trailer park boys are riding their doom machines into the middle,

[00:31:45] into the center of the trailer park, or what's left of the trailer park, with a pole

[00:31:51] with Sharon strapped to it to try and get to her first with kind of just flagrant abandon.

[00:31:59] Okay.

[00:32:00] No disregard for life of Lynn.

[00:32:03] Okay.

[00:32:03] All right.

[00:32:05] What's this pole look like?

[00:32:06] It's just...

[00:32:07] It literally is just like a flagpole that was in the center of the trailer park.

[00:32:12] How thick is it?

[00:32:14] Are we saying like a few inches thick?

[00:32:16] Maybe it's thicker than my wrist?

[00:32:17] A foot.

[00:32:18] A foot?

[00:32:19] A foot thick?

[00:32:19] Yeah, like it's...

[00:32:19] That's like this thing.

[00:32:20] No, it's basically like...

[00:32:22] It's a big...

[00:32:23] It's basically like a log.

[00:32:26] Okay.

[00:32:27] Okay.

[00:32:29] Okay.

[00:32:29] So maybe like half...

[00:32:30] Maybe it's probably like half a...

[00:32:32] It's probably closer to like half.

[00:32:35] Okay.

[00:32:35] Okay.

[00:32:37] And how is she secured to the...

[00:32:39] Rope.

[00:32:41] Rope?

[00:32:41] Yeah.

[00:32:43] All right.

[00:32:43] Then I guess I'm going to dive down to the ground at her feet.

[00:32:52] Yeah.

[00:32:52] And just before I land, I'm going to change into a griffin.

[00:32:58] Okay.

[00:32:59] It's happening.

[00:33:02] It's on recording.

[00:33:04] It's happening.

[00:33:05] But no, you've been a griffin on recording before.

[00:33:07] That's for you.

[00:33:08] When you're facing the dragon.

[00:33:09] Okay.

[00:33:10] That's the end of my anima there.

[00:33:12] Yep.

[00:33:13] Very good use.

[00:33:14] I have one anima left.

[00:33:16] Mm-hmm.

[00:33:17] Yeah.

[00:33:17] So you transform into a griffin in front.

[00:33:20] And like they immediately is like...

[00:33:23] Like before they come crashing.

[00:33:25] But then they like look at it.

[00:33:26] It's like...

[00:33:27] Oh.

[00:33:29] Griffin.

[00:33:30] I'm going to...

[00:33:31] Meet.

[00:33:32] Meet.

[00:33:32] And they both start like...

[00:33:33] Meet.

[00:33:34] Meet.

[00:33:35] Mine.

[00:33:35] Mine.

[00:33:36] And then they both like charge...

[00:33:37] Like both are charging at you with their makeshift battle vehicles.

[00:33:43] Wow.

[00:33:43] We knew that was going to happen.

[00:33:44] It's like...

[00:33:45] Yeah.

[00:33:45] And basically they're trying to like get to you first.

[00:33:47] To take you down.

[00:33:50] Yeah.

[00:33:50] So.

[00:33:50] Okay.

[00:33:50] Well then I'm going to go after whichever one is closest.

[00:33:54] Okay.

[00:33:56] Um.

[00:33:57] Let me roll initiative I guess.

[00:34:00] To see who's going to get to you first.

[00:34:04] By the way what's Sharon thinking about this happening?

[00:34:07] Screaming.

[00:34:08] Yeah.

[00:34:08] Just screaming.

[00:34:09] So much screaming.

[00:34:11] Yeah.

[00:34:11] There wasn't even a pause of...

[00:34:12] Ooh majestic.

[00:34:13] Ah!

[00:34:13] All right.

[00:34:14] So strangely enough the guy with the ATV with three gas cans.

[00:34:18] Oh sorry.

[00:34:18] Sorry.

[00:34:19] I didn't dive straight down.

[00:34:23] I would have had to do my falcon call.

[00:34:25] Yeah.

[00:34:26] And then I would have had to drive down...

[00:34:27] Dive down through the limbs of a tree.

[00:34:41] Um.

[00:34:42] But someone could have been.

[00:34:43] But someone could have been.

[00:34:44] Yeah.

[00:34:46] Um.

[00:34:46] So yeah you uh.

[00:34:47] Yeah.

[00:34:48] So that's how...

[00:34:48] So yeah.

[00:34:49] The guy with the ATV is the one that's going to hit you first.

[00:34:51] Um.

[00:34:52] He's got basically some gas cans strapped to the back of his vehicle with like basically makeshift

[00:34:57] Moltof rags in them.

[00:34:59] Mm.

[00:34:59] Um.

[00:35:00] Basically like the biggest fucking...

[00:35:02] The biggest baddest Moltof cocktails he can create.

[00:35:04] It's just a...

[00:35:05] Literally a gas can with Moltof rag.

[00:35:08] Yeah.

[00:35:08] Um.

[00:35:10] And uh.

[00:35:10] He's got a sledgehammer.

[00:35:12] He's just kind of like waving around.

[00:35:13] Yeah.

[00:35:16] And uh.

[00:35:17] Yeah.

[00:35:17] So he's going to hit you first.

[00:35:18] Or going to intercept you first.

[00:35:20] So.

[00:35:21] Okay.

[00:35:21] I got a 15 on my initiative.

[00:35:23] Okay.

[00:35:24] You go before him though.

[00:35:25] Fantastic.

[00:35:27] Fin-tastic.

[00:35:28] Wrong character.

[00:35:31] We should finish that one up.

[00:35:33] I mean we got to the season one.

[00:35:36] We got to the end of an arc.

[00:35:39] Okay.

[00:35:40] I'm going to call in my mimic airstrike.

[00:35:43] No.

[00:35:43] True.

[00:35:44] We're out of it.

[00:35:45] So what was that Aaron?

[00:35:46] I'm going to fly in.

[00:35:48] Okay.

[00:35:48] And uh.

[00:35:50] I'm going to uh.

[00:35:51] Multi-attack.

[00:35:53] Okay.

[00:35:54] You're.

[00:35:55] You're flying in but you're already on the ground.

[00:35:56] You just mean you're charging at him.

[00:35:58] Yeah.

[00:35:59] I mean.

[00:36:00] I'm on the ground.

[00:36:00] I'm putting on my wings spread.

[00:36:02] Oh for sure.

[00:36:02] Yeah.

[00:36:03] I'm full on griffining.

[00:36:05] Mm-hmm.

[00:36:06] The griffining.

[00:36:09] So I get to.

[00:36:15] Sorry.

[00:36:16] My phone's almost dead.

[00:36:17] That's where my griffin stats are.

[00:36:19] Did you plug that in earlier?

[00:36:22] Yes.

[00:36:23] Why does it die so fast?

[00:36:24] Do you want.

[00:36:24] Do you want the monster manual there Aaron?

[00:36:27] Sure.

[00:36:28] I just give you because I don't need it.

[00:36:30] For this uh.

[00:36:30] Fair.

[00:36:31] Okay.

[00:36:31] It's all of me.

[00:36:34] Here's the monster.

[00:36:38] Great.

[00:36:40] Okay.

[00:36:41] L-T-E-F-E.

[00:36:47] Refreet.

[00:37:05] Let's go.

[00:37:12] Also this uh.

[00:37:13] This particular uh.

[00:37:15] Barbarian guy is very rotund.

[00:37:17] It's a 17 hit.

[00:37:18] Hmm?

[00:37:19] 17.

[00:37:20] Should hit.

[00:37:21] Yep.

[00:37:22] 17 hits.

[00:37:23] Okay.

[00:37:24] So my.

[00:37:25] Beak attack.

[00:37:27] It's a die 8.

[00:37:38] Okay.

[00:37:38] So that's uh.

[00:37:39] 10 piercing damage with my beak.

[00:37:42] Okay.

[00:37:43] So 10 piercing.

[00:37:46] Uh.

[00:37:47] It's not like that as you start tearing through his uh.

[00:37:51] His makeshift armor.

[00:37:53] And I rolled a 19 for my claws.

[00:37:56] Mmhmm.

[00:37:56] That'll definitely hit.

[00:37:58] And they are.

[00:37:59] 2 by 6.

[00:38:06] Uh.

[00:38:06] 2 and 6.

[00:38:08] 8.

[00:38:09] 9, 10.

[00:38:10] 12.

[00:38:10] So it's uh.

[00:38:11] 12 with my claws.

[00:38:13] Okay.

[00:38:14] Uh.

[00:38:14] He is.

[00:38:16] So bloody.

[00:38:18] It's not even funny.

[00:38:20] Okay.

[00:38:21] Um.

[00:38:21] But he's just like.

[00:38:22] And you see like the black veins through it in his eyes.

[00:38:25] And like.

[00:38:26] Uh.

[00:38:26] By his ear.

[00:38:26] Like kind of creeping up from his ears and such.

[00:38:28] And just like.

[00:38:29] Oh.

[00:38:30] For Valhalla.

[00:38:33] Just like.

[00:38:34] Guttural.

[00:38:35] As guttural in that you're pretty sure he's also like internally bleeding.

[00:38:38] from your.

[00:38:39] From the wounds.

[00:38:40] But he doesn't care.

[00:38:41] Mmhmm.

[00:38:42] Um.

[00:38:42] And actually it's his turn.

[00:38:44] So he's going to swipe at you with the sledgehammer.

[00:38:46] Okay.

[00:38:47] Um.

[00:38:47] So.

[00:38:50] That is going to be a.

[00:38:53] Da da da.

[00:38:56] 25.

[00:38:57] Jesus.

[00:38:59] Well I rolled a 19.

[00:39:01] So.

[00:39:02] That'll do it.

[00:39:03] Yep.

[00:39:05] Uh.

[00:39:06] Ba ba ba.

[00:39:10] Oh.

[00:39:11] I guess I need to roll my hit points.

[00:39:12] Yeah.

[00:39:13] So when I had 10.

[00:39:14] Plus.

[00:39:14] 21.

[00:39:16] Uh.

[00:39:21] 8 and 10.

[00:39:23] 7.

[00:39:36] 6 and 2.

[00:39:39] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

[00:39:41] And I think I get one more.

[00:39:44] 21 and 8.

[00:39:51] So that's.

[00:39:53] Uh.

[00:39:54] 12.

[00:39:55] Uh.

[00:39:56] 19.

[00:39:56] 29.

[00:39:58] 37.

[00:40:00] 3, 39.

[00:40:02] 47.

[00:40:05] 47.

[00:40:05] So 47 plus 21.

[00:40:08] Okay.

[00:40:08] Alright.

[00:40:10] Okay, so you get eight bludgeoning.

[00:40:14] Eight bludgeoning.

[00:40:15] From the sledgehammer.

[00:40:16] As he's just gutturally screaming

[00:40:18] his throat raw

[00:40:21] at you and just pummeling at you

[00:40:23] with the sledgehammer.

[00:40:26] And

[00:40:27] then next up is

[00:40:28] Troy, who is going to attempt to just

[00:40:30] ram you and

[00:40:33] this guy.

[00:40:34] You don't know his name, but his name's Jim.

[00:40:39] I feel like he should have been shouting that

[00:40:40] as he was coming in. Jimmy!

[00:40:42] Yeah, it's like, Jim boy, you're going

[00:40:44] down! It's like, Jimmy!

[00:40:49] I'm going to

[00:40:50] cut your throat dry!

[00:40:52] Oh yeah.

[00:40:55] Wow.

[00:40:56] And he just...

[00:41:00] Did he trip over my tail?

[00:41:03] No, he hit a bump

[00:41:05] and the

[00:41:07] whole lawnmower just kind of flips over

[00:41:10] ineffectively.

[00:41:11] He ran over some barbed wire.

[00:41:13] Got tangled in the blades.

[00:41:15] He got...

[00:41:16] Oh god.

[00:41:17] The engine burst into flames.

[00:41:19] No, that's exactly it because I did say

[00:41:21] there's a ring of

[00:41:21] barbed wire.

[00:41:23] Yeah, so he just goes through it,

[00:41:25] gets caught in the blades,

[00:41:27] catches fire,

[00:41:28] and then just like

[00:41:29] starts to go off on an angle

[00:41:31] and he gets caught in it as well

[00:41:33] and like

[00:41:35] his legs get stuck underneath the

[00:41:38] mower.

[00:41:41] That's horrible.

[00:41:42] I wasn't going to kill anyone.

[00:41:43] Well, no, he's not dead,

[00:41:44] but he's definitely like

[00:41:46] his legs are mangled.

[00:41:47] He might as well be.

[00:41:48] He's just like screaming profanities

[00:41:50] and horrible obscenities.

[00:41:55] And yeah, I guess next up is

[00:41:57] talking around.

[00:41:58] So you.

[00:41:59] Okay.

[00:42:00] Then I guess I'm going to...

[00:42:01] You are going to kill

[00:42:03] Jim if you keep at it though,

[00:42:04] by the way.

[00:42:05] I'm actually just going to make

[00:42:07] a claw attack,

[00:42:08] but backhanded.

[00:42:09] I want to try to make this

[00:42:10] non-lethal if possible.

[00:42:12] Okay.

[00:42:12] Why don't you just turn back

[00:42:13] and sleep?

[00:42:15] Because then my...

[00:42:16] I don't have any anima left

[00:42:18] and I have no mode of

[00:42:19] transportation.

[00:42:21] Oh no, you have to walk.

[00:42:22] You're going to kill these guys?

[00:42:23] You don't want to walk?

[00:42:26] I'd rather kill than walk.

[00:42:30] So that's precisely right.

[00:42:34] So I get to add...

[00:42:35] Virtual problems.

[00:42:37] Secret world problems.

[00:42:38] Yeah.

[00:42:39] 16 hit?

[00:42:40] 16 definitely hits, yeah.

[00:42:42] Okay.

[00:42:42] So that's 2-9-6.

[00:42:45] 1-5, 6, and 4 is 10.

[00:42:50] Yeah, you just like...

[00:42:52] Like knock him off his...

[00:42:53] Like off the...

[00:42:55] Off his ATV and he just goes...

[00:42:57] Send him sprawling.

[00:42:58] Yeah, and he just like...

[00:42:59] Like he bounces

[00:43:00] and then just like goes...

[00:43:02] Like goes motionless on the ground.

[00:43:03] Okay.

[00:43:04] I'm going to go to the post

[00:43:05] and I'm going to just fucking

[00:43:08] destroy the ropes with my beak.

[00:43:10] Yeah.

[00:43:10] She's screaming and is like...

[00:43:12] Because she doesn't know

[00:43:13] who you are or who you are.

[00:43:16] Okay.

[00:43:16] And she's like cowering like...

[00:43:18] She's like...

[00:43:20] She probably didn't see you

[00:43:21] transform so she can't see you.

[00:43:22] Oh right, she did not

[00:43:23] see me transform.

[00:43:24] No.

[00:43:25] Okay, well...

[00:43:26] I don't have to change form

[00:43:28] to do this.

[00:43:29] I will summon the canary back.

[00:43:31] Okay.

[00:43:31] Okay.

[00:43:32] And then I have the canary

[00:43:33] hop onto her shoulder

[00:43:35] and then hop onto my back.

[00:43:37] Like with the motorcycle.

[00:43:39] Oh.

[00:43:40] And I'll just...

[00:43:41] Kneel down.

[00:43:43] You know...

[00:43:44] Fuck it!

[00:43:45] Sure!

[00:43:46] Let's do this!

[00:43:47] And she like hops on

[00:43:48] with like almost...

[00:43:50] Like...

[00:43:50] Gusto.

[00:43:51] Different crazed abandon

[00:43:52] because it's just like...

[00:43:54] When you've had a bad day...

[00:43:56] Yeah.

[00:43:57] And she's just like...

[00:43:58] Fuck it!

[00:43:59] I'm on a fucking griffin, bitches!

[00:44:01] Let's do this!

[00:44:02] Oh, you know what?

[00:44:03] Fuck it!

[00:44:03] One of them had a sledgehammer, right?

[00:44:05] Yeah.

[00:44:05] That's her weapon of choice.

[00:44:06] I'll go pick that up

[00:44:07] and hand it to her...

[00:44:08] Well, beak it to her.

[00:44:11] Sure!

[00:44:13] Buy Thor's hammer!

[00:44:15] Let's go!

[00:44:16] She's just like...

[00:44:17] Just giving up on like...

[00:44:19] On like...

[00:44:20] She's just being grounded

[00:44:21] or like logic.

[00:44:23] Just like...

[00:44:23] Good!

[00:44:23] She's giving up on being grounded!

[00:44:25] Great!

[00:44:25] Because we're taking to the skies!

[00:44:27] What?

[00:44:28] You definitely feel like some pinching

[00:44:30] as she holds on rather tight.

[00:44:33] I guess she's been working on those kegels.

[00:44:35] I'm sure.

[00:44:37] And yeah, you fly off away from Oakwood Trailer Park

[00:44:42] and the horribly mangled men

[00:44:44] that were conquering it.

[00:44:46] I feel like because of how ridiculous all this is,

[00:44:49] it could be explained to her

[00:44:50] that it was all a dream.

[00:44:51] Like...

[00:44:51] I mean...

[00:44:52] They're just gonna be seen as crazy insane.

[00:44:56] Nobody's gonna believe a goddamn thing.

[00:44:58] This is honestly probably gonna get chalked up

[00:45:00] to some kind of a gas leak or something.

[00:45:03] Yeah, probably.

[00:45:03] This is definitely like the craziest situation.

[00:45:07] But yeah, you get back to...

[00:45:09] Where?

[00:45:10] Like to the helicopter, the Heinz or whatever.

[00:45:12] I wonder where you're pinning a 5G tower.

[00:45:14] Oh god.

[00:45:16] You get to the Heinz tower...

[00:45:18] You get to the Heinz tower.

[00:45:20] As they are arriving at the...

[00:45:22] You guys eventually get to the...

[00:45:24] You see him flying overhead as a griffin

[00:45:27] with a lady screaming and screaming over the crowd.

[00:45:32] Like...

[00:45:32] Like the Doppler effect.

[00:45:35] Yeah.

[00:45:36] I guess that's mission accomplished.

[00:45:38] And then...

[00:45:39] Yeah, you guys basically are...

[00:45:40] At this point, you're in the crater

[00:45:42] and you see like there's some desiccated...

[00:45:43] Like some body parts

[00:45:46] and just slag metal and machinery

[00:45:49] and like warehouse buildings.

[00:45:51] But like most of it's just like a giant crater.

[00:45:53] Some of the water from the ocean is leaking

[00:45:54] a little bit into it, but not enough.

[00:45:56] Not a lot.

[00:45:57] But you're able to get this thing

[00:45:58] put into the center of the crater.

[00:46:03] Okay.

[00:46:04] And actually at this point,

[00:46:05] you guys start hearing kind of a buzzing in your head.

[00:46:08] First, you think it's Gaia.

[00:46:10] And then you start hearing...

[00:46:12] Then you start feeling a more discordant buzzing in your ear.

[00:46:16] Less of the harmonious buzzing of Gaia.

[00:46:18] And you guys roll me a wisdom save.

[00:46:22] Not a game.

[00:46:23] Just them, because they're in the epicenter.

[00:46:25] Activate Sargothrax.

[00:46:28] Wisdom?

[00:46:30] Wisdom, you said?

[00:46:31] Oh, not a game.

[00:46:36] Four?

[00:46:37] Am I not immunized?

[00:46:40] This is a different type of...

[00:46:41] This is something different.

[00:46:42] Also, you had a short rest.

[00:46:44] Yeah.

[00:46:45] Well, no, that doesn't matter.

[00:46:46] Like once...

[00:46:46] For the actual...

[00:46:47] For the controlling part

[00:46:49] or for the hypnotic effect of the signal

[00:46:52] that you're immunized,

[00:46:54] this is something a little bit more potent.

[00:46:55] I wish it took a moment to heal.

[00:46:57] What'd you get?

[00:46:58] Because I did not.

[00:47:00] Oh, I got 17, I think it was.

[00:47:04] Okay.

[00:47:04] Okay.

[00:47:05] You're getting it ready and all set up.

[00:47:07] You're like, okay.

[00:47:08] I was like, all right.

[00:47:09] All right, Marcel.

[00:47:10] Let's just hit the button.

[00:47:11] And then you hear in Marcel's voice,

[00:47:13] but it's not his voice.

[00:47:14] There's a voice overlaid.

[00:47:16] And it's like,

[00:47:17] won't you please stop?

[00:47:19] You don't have to do this.

[00:47:21] Just let me move on.

[00:47:24] If you don't,

[00:47:26] then I'll be forced to kill your friend here.

[00:47:29] And to who am I speaking?

[00:47:32] Some call me the Black Signal.

[00:47:34] Others call me Bad John.

[00:47:37] You can call me John.

[00:47:39] I mean, it's pretty bad what you're doing here, John.

[00:47:42] From one John to another.

[00:47:44] I'm also John.

[00:47:45] Nice to meet you.

[00:47:45] Oh, a kindred spirit perhaps.

[00:47:48] Oh, in name only perhaps.

[00:47:51] Such a pity.

[00:47:52] And he pulls out,

[00:47:53] do you have a knife or anything on you?

[00:47:55] Probably.

[00:47:56] Yeah, he pulls out a knife from Marcel's hip or whatever

[00:48:01] and puts it at his neck.

[00:48:03] It's like...

[00:48:06] Yeah, true.

[00:48:07] Will you?

[00:48:10] Sacred Flame.

[00:48:10] He thinks he will.

[00:48:12] Sacred Flame.

[00:48:14] Okay, yeah.

[00:48:15] So it was actually an initiative to see who gets it off first.

[00:48:18] Sacred Flame or the knife.

[00:48:20] Who gets me off first?

[00:48:21] Don't worry.

[00:48:23] I intend to damage.

[00:48:25] It doesn't hurt, man.

[00:48:27] You got two guys trying to get you off first.

[00:48:30] Oh, I'm sorry.

[00:48:32] I've just got some women riding.

[00:48:34] What's your deck set?

[00:48:36] Plus one.

[00:48:37] Plus one?

[00:48:37] Okay, so we got a 16.

[00:48:39] Oops.

[00:48:40] I got an 8.

[00:48:42] Okay.

[00:48:43] Like right down to the spinal cord.

[00:48:47] Jesus.

[00:48:47] Jesus.

[00:48:48] He just drops.

[00:48:50] He just drops.

[00:48:52] And for a moment, as the body drops, there is this black static figure of a Japanese man

[00:49:00] with glasses just staring at you and smiling.

[00:49:02] It's like, I'm sure I'll see you as another one of me.

[00:49:07] Goodbye, John.

[00:49:08] And he smiles and then kind of evaporates back into the static of the air.

[00:49:13] Did I not have time to Sacred Flame to him?

[00:49:15] Oh, yeah.

[00:49:16] No, yeah.

[00:49:16] You basically, you Sacred Flame to like it.

[00:49:18] That's what like dissipates him.

[00:49:20] Okay.

[00:49:23] Okay.

[00:49:26] He's now bleeding.

[00:49:27] It's pretty bad.

[00:49:28] Like, you're basically like bleeding out.

[00:49:32] Spare the dying.

[00:49:33] He's stabilized.

[00:49:34] Okay.

[00:49:34] Can't trip.

[00:49:35] Suddenly that wound just like heals.

[00:49:39] Well, he's stabilized.

[00:49:40] He may, I don't know.

[00:49:41] Is he still bleeding?

[00:49:42] If he's stabilized from a slash like down to the...

[00:49:45] That means you're not bleeding out anymore?

[00:49:46] Yeah.

[00:49:46] Yes.

[00:49:47] You no longer have to make death saves, but you are at zero hit points.

[00:49:50] Yeah.

[00:49:51] Can he still do anything or does he need to have one HP to do anything?

[00:49:54] He is not conscious.

[00:49:55] Yeah, no.

[00:49:56] He is.

[00:49:56] And if he...

[00:50:01] If anything strenuous happens to him, then he goes back to dying.

[00:50:05] He's also treated as helpless.

[00:50:06] So if anyone attacks him, he automatically fails two death saves.

[00:50:09] Okay, so effectively the wound, like the large slashing wound hasn't fully healed.

[00:50:15] Correct.

[00:50:15] But it's enough that it's not like going to kill him, kill him completely.

[00:50:19] It's not currently gutted.

[00:50:21] Great.

[00:50:22] So you feel the nick in your spinal cord, at the back of your neck, your throat, where

[00:50:29] like basically the blade hit the bone.

[00:50:33] You still feel that.

[00:50:34] I feel the trickling and like the horrible discomforting feeling of it.

[00:50:38] I gotta stop sharpening that knife.

[00:50:41] That's a trick.

[00:50:42] Wear some neck armor.

[00:50:43] You never know when it's going to happen again.

[00:50:45] That being said, healing works.

[00:50:46] Okay.

[00:50:47] So I'm going to heal him so he can do things again.

[00:50:50] That is 1d4 plus that.

[00:50:58] That's a total of five hit points.

[00:51:00] You're alive again.

[00:51:02] Yeah.

[00:51:03] All right.

[00:51:03] You can stand and block.

[00:51:07] That didn't go well.

[00:51:08] How you feeling?

[00:51:11] Yeah.

[00:51:11] Yeah.

[00:51:11] You definitely have like a frog in your throat.

[00:51:14] Or a knife.

[00:51:15] You can have a splinter.

[00:51:16] Yeah.

[00:51:17] Oh, shit.

[00:51:17] Yeah.

[00:51:18] I feel good, but I forgot to remove the knife so it's still stuck in his throat.

[00:51:21] No.

[00:51:21] He dropped it as soon as he did.

[00:51:23] It's like the ending of Paranormal Activity where she just like cuts, like slits her own

[00:51:27] throat and then drops.

[00:51:29] Mm-hmm.

[00:51:29] Yeah.

[00:51:31] So, yeah.

[00:51:34] Yeah, you guys just have to basically press the button to set off the timer for the EMP

[00:51:39] pulse.

[00:51:40] Okay.

[00:51:42] And then get three miles away unless you want all your electronics on you or like...

[00:51:48] How long is the countdown?

[00:51:49] You press the button to check it.

[00:51:52] Is Marvin not here to tell us?

[00:51:53] No, Marvin's still at the...

[00:51:54] Hi, you guys didn't want to come with you.

[00:51:56] Fuck, what if there isn't a timer at all?

[00:51:59] We'll find out.

[00:52:01] You take a few steps back.

[00:52:03] I'll push the button.

[00:52:04] A few steps back.

[00:52:05] Yeah, you press the button.

[00:52:06] But the helicopter...

[00:52:07] You have a minute.

[00:52:09] I was just going to say the helicopter is still on the ground.

[00:52:12] Yeah, you have a minute to get to the helicopter and get the helicopter three miles away.

[00:52:16] Fuck.

[00:52:18] So, I'm going to say...

[00:52:19] Okay, we'll have to push the button again.

[00:52:20] Hmm?

[00:52:21] It takes me.

[00:52:24] Do you?

[00:52:26] Is there a stop button?

[00:52:26] No, roll in sight.

[00:52:28] Is it just a big shiny red button and nothing else?

[00:52:31] Basically, yeah.

[00:52:32] I'm going to hit that again.

[00:52:35] 11.

[00:52:36] Okay.

[00:52:37] You're about to...

[00:52:38] What?

[00:52:38] One last person to get into the radio.

[00:52:39] That's so...

[00:52:39] No, no.

[00:52:41] Hang on.

[00:52:42] We should just run.

[00:52:43] We're wasting time.

[00:52:44] So, you...

[00:52:45] For...

[00:52:46] I think there's a bike nearby.

[00:52:47] Yeah.

[00:52:48] We biked here.

[00:52:49] Oh, do we bike here?

[00:52:50] No, you had to walk it all the way here.

[00:52:52] We're fucked.

[00:52:52] No, no, no.

[00:52:53] We're absolutely fucked.

[00:52:54] You're not fucked.

[00:52:55] It wasn't that far.

[00:52:57] If you run...

[00:52:58] And by that, I mean if you roll a really good athletics, I will say you guys can make it

[00:53:03] back to the helicopter within 20 seconds.

[00:53:07] But then the helicopter has to get three miles away in 40 seconds?

[00:53:14] It's impossible.

[00:53:16] We're done.

[00:53:17] Oh.

[00:53:18] I'm just going to sit down.

[00:53:20] I'm going to fire a flare in the air and sit down.

[00:53:21] Hope that they see it and take off immediately.

[00:53:24] Okay.

[00:53:24] Wait.

[00:53:25] I'm rolling that one.

[00:53:26] What?

[00:53:27] You fall.

[00:53:28] So, EMP.

[00:53:30] The helicopter's still on the ground.

[00:53:32] We are...

[00:53:32] I will say the helicopter was probably still...

[00:53:35] The propeller...

[00:53:35] I will give you this.

[00:53:36] The propellers are probably still going because you never told them to stop the thing.

[00:53:40] No.

[00:53:40] The helicopter has to get three miles away from the blast radius.

[00:53:43] It's going to blow up in one minute.

[00:53:44] It's going to take me and Marcel roughly 20 to 30 seconds to run back to the helicopter.

[00:53:50] We're not going to die.

[00:53:51] It's an EMP.

[00:53:51] Yeah, it's an EMP.

[00:53:52] It's only going to...

[00:53:53] It's going to destroy electronics in the store.

[00:53:56] Oh.

[00:53:57] So just shut the helicopter down and disconnect the batteries.

[00:54:00] It's going to fry everything in a sill.

[00:54:03] Is it?

[00:54:04] He said...

[00:54:05] That's what the Phoenicians said.

[00:54:07] It is an old Russian helicopter.

[00:54:10] It's probably mostly mechanical.

[00:54:14] If you want to put your faith in that, I'll make a roll.

[00:54:16] There's probably some sensitive electronics in there like navigational equipment and...

[00:54:22] I don't know if it has a radar or anything.

[00:54:25] Communication stuff.

[00:54:25] All that.

[00:54:26] Going to be toast.

[00:54:28] But the mechanical bits are still going to be fine.

[00:54:31] Yeah, but like...

[00:54:32] Yeah, we should totally shut it down.

[00:54:33] I think he's right.

[00:54:35] Because it's better for it to be on the ground, shut off, than attempting to get away and being

[00:54:41] shut off in midair.

[00:54:42] And then crashing a burn.

[00:54:44] Well, I mean...

[00:54:45] Yes, but helicopters can actually glide for some distance.

[00:54:49] And they can land safely even when they're...

[00:54:53] Even when they're shut off mid-flight.

[00:54:55] They don't immediately go...

[00:54:57] Well, they do, but you can keep them level while it's going...

[00:55:01] And glide, basically.

[00:55:02] And kind of glide down.

[00:55:04] It's not a pleasant landing.

[00:55:06] No.

[00:55:06] But it can be done.

[00:55:09] Yeah, as long as your pilot's good enough.

[00:55:13] Too bad we don't have an orc pilot.

[00:55:15] Hey, Merrick?

[00:55:16] Yeah.

[00:55:16] Right?

[00:55:18] Oh yeah, you've read those books.

[00:55:19] So I couldn't write anything about the Russian stuff.

[00:55:21] But all American military aircraft are hardened against EMP.

[00:55:26] And this is post-Cold War.

[00:55:28] Post-Cold War.

[00:55:29] So it should be hardened against EMP.

[00:55:33] You guys can run it and tell it, shut it off!

[00:55:36] Take the battery out!

[00:55:37] Shut it off!

[00:55:38] What's that?

[00:55:39] Well, you can't.

[00:55:40] Calm down.

[00:55:42] You get up onto the crater and you're about to run.

[00:55:44] Quickly look over your shoulder and you see he's just on his face.

[00:55:47] Like...

[00:55:49] I have like eight hit points.

[00:55:52] Yeah.

[00:55:52] Yeah, he like tried.

[00:55:54] He just slipped it.

[00:55:55] He just like face planted into the dirt and rock.

[00:55:58] But you should just keep going.

[00:56:00] Yeah, so I'm going to be running with my hands flailing.

[00:56:03] I'm going to be like, shut it off!

[00:56:05] Roll athletics.

[00:56:06] To see how fast you can get there.

[00:56:09] See how many times the five second loop of me running in the distance gets reset.

[00:56:15] Is that like a Monty Python?

[00:56:18] Yeah.

[00:56:18] He's running for ages.

[00:56:22] Like, we're in 18.

[00:56:26] That's a total of fucking...

[00:56:29] Okay, yeah.

[00:56:29] You get there in like...

[00:56:30] 26?

[00:56:31] You get there in 15 seconds.

[00:56:32] Okay.

[00:56:33] Like, holy shit.

[00:56:34] You're running.

[00:56:35] You should go into a marathon.

[00:56:36] Hell yeah.

[00:56:37] But unfortunately, I get there.

[00:56:38] I'm like...

[00:56:40] You have to turn it off.

[00:56:41] You have to turn it off.

[00:56:41] What is it?

[00:56:44] What is it?

[00:56:46] What is it?

[00:56:46] You got to turn it off.

[00:56:48] Turn the what?

[00:56:49] Turn off the...

[00:56:50] What do you...

[00:56:50] Shut it down.

[00:56:52] Oh.

[00:56:53] Okay, okay.

[00:56:53] All right.

[00:56:54] All right.

[00:56:54] Well, uh...

[00:56:55] Smit...

[00:56:56] Uh...

[00:56:56] Yuri!

[00:56:56] Kim!

[00:56:57] Kim!

[00:56:57] Let's go.

[00:56:57] Turn this off.

[00:56:58] Hey, look.

[00:56:59] Like turning off all of his...

[00:57:00] All right.

[00:57:01] We turn it off.

[00:57:02] One minute.

[00:57:04] EMP...

[00:57:05] Yeah.

[00:57:06] Yeah, basically.

[00:57:07] All right.

[00:57:08] Um...

[00:57:09] Odds or evens?

[00:57:10] Me?

[00:57:11] Yeah.

[00:57:12] Who wants the...

[00:57:13] Who wants the honor of...

[00:57:15] Like...

[00:57:16] Um...

[00:57:17] Of if the...

[00:57:18] If dude turning it off was a good option.

[00:57:20] I'm not.

[00:57:21] You call.

[00:57:21] Okay.

[00:57:22] Apparently Russian military aircraft...

[00:57:24] It's...

[00:57:24] It's...

[00:57:24] It's better EMP-hardened than Americans.

[00:57:26] Evens.

[00:57:27] Evens.

[00:57:28] Okay.

[00:57:29] Um...

[00:57:30] Yeah.

[00:57:30] No.

[00:57:30] Um...

[00:57:31] The power...

[00:57:32] Like it goes...

[00:57:33] Like you...

[00:57:33] You see...

[00:57:35] Just...

[00:57:35] All manner of technology...

[00:57:37] Of electronics and technology...

[00:57:38] In the...

[00:57:39] In the town.

[00:57:40] Just...

[00:57:40] Blowing...

[00:57:41] Like fizzing out...

[00:57:42] And like...

[00:57:43] Like shatting...

[00:57:43] Like splattering with the...

[00:57:45] Sparks and such.

[00:57:46] Mm-hmm.

[00:57:47] Um...

[00:57:47] Like Hawaii after they declared that fireworks are illegal.

[00:57:50] Jesus Christ.

[00:57:52] Like the...

[00:57:53] Like the...

[00:57:53] Yeah.

[00:57:53] Like the transformers on the...

[00:57:55] On the...

[00:57:55] On the power lines.

[00:57:56] Or all the power poles and stuff like that are all like exploding.

[00:57:59] Yeah.

[00:57:59] Um...

[00:58:00] Like everything's just going off.

[00:58:02] Um...

[00:58:03] And uh...

[00:58:04] Like uh...

[00:58:05] Even like all your...

[00:58:07] All your electronic devices.

[00:58:08] All your...

[00:58:08] Your phones and stuff like that just explode.

[00:58:10] Like start fizzling and stuff like that.

[00:58:12] Um...

[00:58:12] If we're inside the helicopter does that make us hardened too?

[00:58:17] I don't think so.

[00:58:18] No.

[00:58:18] The door's open.

[00:58:19] Yeah.

[00:58:19] The door's open.

[00:58:20] It'd be like...

[00:58:21] It'd be like...

[00:58:21] It'd be like...

[00:58:21] They're in chastis and stuff.

[00:58:22] However you're like...

[00:58:23] You're like...

[00:58:24] Nothing seems to be going...

[00:58:25] Like there's a little bit of smoke kind of fizzling from certain bits.

[00:58:28] Like certain like devices and stuff in the...

[00:58:31] But like you don't...

[00:58:32] Nothing like explodes violently or anything.

[00:58:34] Like everything else that's happening in the town.

[00:58:36] Um...

[00:58:37] You guys all hear a bunch of cries...

[00:58:40] As if cries and terror that are suddenly silenced.

[00:58:43] After a few moments of just like ambient screaming.

[00:58:47] Mm-hmm.

[00:58:47] In and around the town.

[00:58:49] Um...

[00:58:50] And then like they suddenly go quiet after a few moments.

[00:58:54] And...

[00:58:55] Um...

[00:58:56] You guys wait like...

[00:58:58] A fairly long like time before you like...

[00:59:01] Should we turn this...

[00:59:02] Should I turn...

[00:59:03] Try the...

[00:59:04] Try the helicopter?

[00:59:07] It seems like it's over.

[00:59:09] Okay.

[00:59:11] Wait an extra five seconds.

[00:59:13] Okay.

[00:59:14] And then he goes and...

[00:59:16] Turns on...

[00:59:17] Like sets up...

[00:59:18] Hits some buttons and like...

[00:59:19] How do we turn on a helicopter?

[00:59:21] I'm not a doctor.

[00:59:22] Bunch of switches and shit.

[00:59:23] Um...

[00:59:24] Yeah.

[00:59:24] And then like...

[00:59:25] And then like...

[00:59:26] For a moment you're like...

[00:59:27] It doesn't like turn on.

[00:59:29] And then he just like...

[00:59:31] Yeah.

[00:59:32] And then it kind of kicks back in.

[00:59:33] The hind is good.

[00:59:35] Okay.

[00:59:38] That's the sound of it turning back on.

[00:59:40] Yeah.

[00:59:41] It's a GPS moving back on.

[00:59:42] Yeah.

[00:59:43] It's had to have a Garmin sitting on the...

[00:59:45] Yeah.

[00:59:46] On the dash.

[00:59:47] Uh...

[00:59:47] But yeah.

[00:59:48] And then uh...

[00:59:49] Everybody roll me perception time.

[00:59:50] Or uh...

[00:59:51] Perception.

[00:59:51] Oh.

[00:59:54] There's a 20 to that one.

[00:59:58] 21.

[01:00:00] 21.

[01:00:01] 19.

[01:00:04] Uh...

[01:00:05] 12.

[01:00:06] Well wait.

[01:00:06] I'm...

[01:00:07] Way up in the air.

[01:00:08] Am I even rolling?

[01:00:10] Hey, you can still roll.

[01:00:10] Yeah.

[01:00:11] Okay.

[01:00:11] So I rolled a 12 and uh...

[01:00:15] Oh no.

[01:00:15] I get to use my wisdom.

[01:00:16] So it's uh...

[01:00:20] That's a dirty 20.

[01:00:21] And I do it with advantage.

[01:00:23] Okay.

[01:00:23] You don't.

[01:00:25] I'm just gonna give it to you at the...

[01:00:26] Okay.

[01:00:27] Uh...

[01:00:27] What did you guys get again, sir?

[01:00:29] 21.

[01:00:29] 19.

[01:00:30] Okay.

[01:00:31] You guys...

[01:00:31] You guys like...

[01:00:32] Suddenly realize like...

[01:00:34] Because like...

[01:00:34] Even with like...

[01:00:36] Even like...

[01:00:37] As quiet as the place was...

[01:00:38] Before when you guys first showed up and like...

[01:00:40] Everything was like very quiet and like...

[01:00:42] Everything had already happened.

[01:00:43] It was...

[01:00:44] It's suddenly even quieter.

[01:00:45] Because there's no more of the ambient sound of static or electronics.

[01:00:50] Um...

[01:00:50] That just kind of prevails human civilization.

[01:00:54] And then you...

[01:00:55] But then you hear a sound that kind of pierces that dead silence.

[01:00:59] The sound of sirens.

[01:01:01] Mm-hmm.

[01:01:01] And...

[01:01:02] For you...

[01:01:02] It was the sound...

[01:01:04] Of sirens.

[01:01:07] Hello darkness, my old friend.

[01:01:10] Uh...

[01:01:11] Yeah.

[01:01:11] Um...

[01:01:11] As um...

[01:01:13] You uh...

[01:01:13] You're up in the sky and you see...

[01:01:15] Um...

[01:01:15] Just a...

[01:01:16] Large...

[01:01:17] A large swath of first responders and so like...

[01:01:19] Coming into the...

[01:01:20] Coming through...

[01:01:20] Like...

[01:01:21] Coming down the road.

[01:01:22] Into the town.

[01:01:24] Um...

[01:01:24] So how are we going to explain this?

[01:01:25] Yeah.

[01:01:26] Yeah.

[01:01:26] How are you guys going to explain this?

[01:01:27] Or are you going to just like try and get the fuck out of there?

[01:01:30] Because you have a helicopter.

[01:01:31] They're not in town yet.

[01:01:32] But they will be in...

[01:01:34] In town in minutes.

[01:01:37] Um...

[01:01:37] Cheezing.

[01:01:38] I think...

[01:01:39] I think yeah.

[01:01:39] Cheezing it might be the best.

[01:01:41] And you're just going to have to land midair.

[01:01:44] In the back of the helicopter.

[01:01:45] Just fly.

[01:01:46] I'll just fly to where we're going.

[01:01:48] Or that.

[01:01:48] Yeah.

[01:01:49] It's...

[01:01:49] It's fine.

[01:01:50] I don't know how long you can fly for.

[01:01:51] Newfoundland can have another...

[01:01:52] I got about...

[01:01:53] I get...

[01:01:55] Uh...

[01:01:55] I think it's...

[01:01:56] Three hours?

[01:01:58] Oh man.

[01:01:59] This is nice.

[01:01:59] I gotta check something.

[01:02:00] You're sightings of a griffon being followed by a millage woman.

[01:02:03] I need to be escorted by a Russian attack helicopter.

[01:02:07] I need to check something because I'm really curious.

[01:02:10] Is gander between St. John's and Pleasant Cove?

[01:02:15] Are they going to take a gander at this happening?

[01:02:17] Well no.

[01:02:17] Because I think you guys may inadvertently create a new urban legend.

[01:02:20] The Gander Griffin.

[01:02:24] Let me just double check guys.

[01:02:25] I just...

[01:02:25] For shits and giggles I'm curious.

[01:02:27] Yeah.

[01:02:28] You...

[01:02:28] If you fly over land to St. John's you will fly over Gander.

[01:02:33] Which is one of the big cities in Newfoundland.

[01:02:36] And you can spark the urban legend of the Gander Griffin.

[01:02:41] Deal.

[01:02:42] Alright.

[01:02:46] Being ridden by a middle aged woman wielding a sledgehammer.

[01:02:50] I don't know how much they're going to be able to see from way up there.

[01:02:53] They just see someone.

[01:02:54] You hear like a mad howling.

[01:02:56] She's now like...

[01:02:57] She's gone just hysterically like having fun with this.

[01:03:00] Yeah.

[01:03:02] You're not sure if she's broken.

[01:03:04] Or if she's just like...

[01:03:05] She just decided...

[01:03:06] She just let go.

[01:03:08] Yeah.

[01:03:08] Of like being serious with this.

[01:03:10] Because this is just ridiculous.

[01:03:11] She's on the fucking back of a griffon.

[01:03:16] And yeah.

[01:03:16] You guys fly all the way back out to...

[01:03:19] You just leave it.

[01:03:21] Leave all that.

[01:03:21] That...

[01:03:22] Yep.

[01:03:23] What are you supposed to do?

[01:03:24] Yeah.

[01:03:24] No.

[01:03:24] That's fine.

[01:03:25] We fade to black.

[01:03:26] And then transition back as Jack McGregor...

[01:03:30] Or Jack...

[01:03:31] What's his name?

[01:03:32] Jack Samson.

[01:03:33] Your debriefer and boss.

[01:03:37] Is reading the paper the next morning.

[01:03:40] As apparently there was a massive gas leak in Pleasant Cove, Newfoundland.

[01:03:46] And that caused a lot of...

[01:03:48] Caused mass hysteria and riots.

[01:03:50] It's...

[01:03:51] I mean literally there's no recording devices that...

[01:03:55] All fine.

[01:03:55] Yep.

[01:03:56] Apparently some of the crazies made it to some of the towns north of the...

[01:04:02] Or just north of the town.

[01:04:04] And like some of the townsfolk out there like on the outskirts of this whole situation reported

[01:04:09] strange goings on and some of that.

[01:04:10] And that's like what had been brought up on social media and stuff like that.

[01:04:15] But yeah.

[01:04:16] No one really...

[01:04:17] Like everyone who was found in the town by first responders, the ones that survived, most

[01:04:22] of the town didn't survive.

[01:04:23] Mm-hmm.

[01:04:24] That weren't dead upon your guys' arrival.

[01:04:27] Yeah.

[01:04:28] But like the people that survived and were found alive have no...

[01:04:34] Recollection.

[01:04:35] Recollection of the last 24 hours.

[01:04:37] Excellent.

[01:04:37] They are in a haze.

[01:04:40] They seem to be suffering from...

[01:04:41] Obviously suffering from the effects of the gas.

[01:04:45] Some kind of natural gas.

[01:04:46] The whole...

[01:04:47] Pleasant Cove is completely cordoned off due to a natural disaster.

[01:04:53] Or like a natural gas leak sort of thing maybe seeping out of the ground.

[01:04:56] And the communities that are north of it that like have to go through it to get to there,

[01:05:01] they are evacuated and...

[01:05:02] What about the...

[01:05:03] What happened with the trailer park Mad Max guys?

[01:05:07] They are brought in and probably sent...

[01:05:09] They're sent to...

[01:05:09] If you dig into it, you find that they are actually sent to like an insane asylum.

[01:05:14] The one guy survived?

[01:05:15] He got fucked up pretty hard.

[01:05:16] Oh, no.

[01:05:16] Yeah.

[01:05:17] They both survived.

[01:05:17] But they are just completely...

[01:05:19] One is now a war amp.

[01:05:20] Yeah.

[01:05:21] They're both...

[01:05:22] Yeah.

[01:05:22] They're basically both like fucked up.

[01:05:24] Like they're both like getting help from like the local...

[01:05:27] Like at the hospitals.

[01:05:28] Like they won't walk again.

[01:05:30] Yeah.

[01:05:30] Even the one that you fought and said that he won't walk again.

[01:05:32] Like he had too many...

[01:05:33] He suffered too many bad injuries.

[01:05:36] Okay.

[01:05:36] And they are basically just in mental health care.

[01:05:42] A lot of people in Pleasant Cove are probably dealing with like mental health care stuff.

[01:05:48] With what happened.

[01:05:49] But yeah.

[01:05:51] If you guys...

[01:05:52] Are you...

[01:05:53] You're debriefing with Jack.

[01:05:55] Are you also debriefing with the Templars as to what's going on?

[01:05:57] Because you also have...

[01:05:58] You brought back three...

[01:05:59] Three...

[01:06:00] Three...

[01:06:01] Venetian agents.

[01:06:02] Yeah.

[01:06:02] That were studying this thing.

[01:06:04] And they were like...

[01:06:04] It seems like we always bring pets home.

[01:06:07] You're saying that.

[01:06:08] Like while you're like...

[01:06:09] Like while you're like...

[01:06:10] Have them in like your brig.

[01:06:12] Or your makeshift like brig.

[01:06:13] It's like...

[01:06:14] Just looking through the mirror.

[01:06:15] It's like...

[01:06:15] Feels like we're always just bringing pets home.

[01:06:17] Pretty much.

[01:06:19] Just hoping that Daddy Sonic's like...

[01:06:21] Please can we keep...

[01:06:23] Please Daddy Sonic.

[01:06:26] What was the line?

[01:06:28] Please don't...

[01:06:29] Daddy Sonic.

[01:06:29] Can we have an aerial...

[01:06:30] Or an airstrike.

[01:06:32] An airstrike.

[01:06:33] Yeah.

[01:06:33] Oh my god.

[01:06:35] But yeah.

[01:06:36] So what do you want to...

[01:06:37] So yeah.

[01:06:37] Are you surrendering all three to the Templar?

[01:06:41] Or are you keeping...

[01:06:42] Are you gonna...

[01:06:43] Are you gonna like have some...

[01:06:45] Do something with Mervin?

[01:06:47] Mervin did help.

[01:06:49] Like he pointed out everything.

[01:06:51] Showed us how to show it down.

[01:06:52] This is not my decision.

[01:06:53] I did not interact with him at all.

[01:06:56] Yeah.

[01:06:56] This is all you guys.

[01:06:57] I did not say a word to him.

[01:06:58] That's fine.

[01:06:59] We're having a conversation.

[01:07:00] You think so?

[01:07:01] Yeah.

[01:07:02] Well either way...

[01:07:03] If we're gonna give the Templars...

[01:07:05] We...

[01:07:06] At least telling them...

[01:07:07] Like he...

[01:07:08] Assisted us.

[01:07:09] Yeah.

[01:07:09] This one's cooperative.

[01:07:10] Yeah.

[01:07:11] The other two not.

[01:07:11] They will be...

[01:07:13] He basically spilled his guts.

[01:07:14] Not literally.

[01:07:15] You're...

[01:07:16] You're talking with like the...

[01:07:17] You're actually at each Templar HQ with these guys.

[01:07:20] We'll say like...

[01:07:21] Before you want...

[01:07:22] Before we get back to Jack and such.

[01:07:25] I don't...

[01:07:26] I wanna pull up a...

[01:07:27] We should turn the others over to Gaia.

[01:07:29] No.

[01:07:30] Okay.

[01:07:30] So here's the thing.

[01:07:31] The full justice of the Immaculate Machine.

[01:07:33] That's...

[01:07:33] That's not how Gaia works.

[01:07:34] Gaia works through proxies.

[01:07:36] She doesn't actually...

[01:07:37] The gears of the Immaculate Machine.

[01:07:39] You'd be like maybe giving them off to Zubbery.

[01:07:43] But that's about...

[01:07:44] Honestly, they're better off being sent to the Council of Venice or the Templar.

[01:07:48] Or your own...

[01:07:49] Like whatever faction you are.

[01:07:50] Does the Templar training area need some new test dummies?

[01:07:54] Those demons that they have tied up there.

[01:07:56] Yeah.

[01:07:57] I wanna pull up the Templar headhunter people.

[01:08:01] Cause I wanna...

[01:08:03] There's a fucking...

[01:08:05] I was cause I was...

[01:08:09] There's a particular character I wanted to like have like you guys talk to about this.

[01:08:14] But I can't remember their name.

[01:08:16] Was it Daddy Sunak?

[01:08:17] No, it's the...

[01:08:18] It's another person in the Templar.

[01:08:20] Oh yeah.

[01:08:21] Dame Julia Beatrix Tyburn.

[01:08:24] The Supervis...

[01:08:24] The Special Assignments and Supervisory Agent.

[01:08:29] Also, older than dirt herself.

[01:08:32] The red says of the description?

[01:08:33] She is basically the embodiment of like the tough, like elderly, like badass, like old woman.

[01:08:43] Yeah.

[01:08:43] She is a knight of the Templar.

[01:08:45] She is probably the oldest knight of the Templar that anyone...

[01:08:49] That any of the new people have ever seen.

[01:08:51] Oh, she's the chick from Red who uses the ma dukes.

[01:08:54] Basically.

[01:08:54] Yeah, yeah.

[01:08:55] But if that character uses the fucking Claymore.

[01:08:58] Is that named Judi Dench?

[01:08:59] Yeah.

[01:09:00] Yeah, it's basically...

[01:09:01] Yeah, yeah.

[01:09:01] Basically, picture Judi Dench.

[01:09:03] But with wielding a Claymore like Joan of Arc.

[01:09:07] Okay.

[01:09:07] That's basically what she is.

[01:09:08] Anyway, so Dame Julia is just like...

[01:09:11] I love how a lot of the characters in Secret World Legends are based off of like real world

[01:09:16] actors like Jeffrey Combs.

[01:09:19] Or Jake Doody Jens.

[01:09:20] This is what it has to say about Dame Julia.

[01:09:22] One of the most senior members of the Templars, both in rank and age, Dame Julia represents

[01:09:27] the Order's old guard.

[01:09:29] The Templar are nothing if not bound by tradition.

[01:09:31] In a never-changing world, they are stalwart, standing fast, a constant that can be relied

[01:09:37] upon.

[01:09:38] Dame Julia strives to embody this constancy, having served since before the Great War, though

[01:09:45] it's best not to ask her age.

[01:09:47] Even so, she is not unable to evolve.

[01:09:52] Now the Great War, are we talking like the First World War?

[01:09:55] Yeah, because that's the Great War.

[01:09:57] Yeah, so she is a elder badass.

[01:10:01] And yeah, so basically, yeah, she's...

[01:10:02] When you're like, it's like, oh, they can't...

[01:10:05] These guys will have to be burned.

[01:10:06] She just like, just cracks her knuckles like, oh, don't worry, Darius.

[01:10:11] These ones will be going to the special room.

[01:10:16] Okay.

[01:10:16] We'll make sure they talk.

[01:10:18] Not that one.

[01:10:18] He's okay.

[01:10:20] If you say so.

[01:10:21] And Richard Sarnack is like, yes, this one seems a lot more cooperative.

[01:10:26] I'll give you a full explanation, debrief of how he helped us.

[01:10:31] Excellent.

[01:10:31] And it seems like he's unwilling to go back to the Phoenicians, so...

[01:10:36] And he helped us enough that I'd almost recommend him getting a clean slate.

[01:10:40] I wouldn't go that far, but...

[01:10:42] I thought I'm back.

[01:10:43] He's a pussy.

[01:10:44] But he's our pussy.

[01:10:46] That's okay.

[01:10:47] Quite the way with words there.

[01:10:49] Mr. Landry.

[01:10:52] Landry.

[01:10:52] Landry.

[01:10:53] Sorry, I can never remember the last name.

[01:10:54] I can never remember my name.

[01:10:55] What's my last name?

[01:10:56] Deer.

[01:10:58] Blackstone Deer.

[01:10:59] I know, mine's a pun.

[01:11:00] Yeah.

[01:11:03] But yes, we will have a discussion with this nice young man and find out exactly what he knows.

[01:11:11] Yeah, no, if you guys...

[01:11:12] I can tell you what we've been doing and some of that.

[01:11:14] Yeah, no, no.

[01:11:15] As long as you're not going to throw him back to the wolves or anything.

[01:11:18] I bet.

[01:11:19] Yep.

[01:11:21] And he looks at you guys like, oh, thanks for not killing me.

[01:11:28] Thanks for being useful enough to not warrant being killed.

[01:11:33] You did the right choice.

[01:11:35] You did the wrong choice of trying to run away from me, but you did the right decision after the fact.

[01:11:39] I heard.

[01:11:40] After the second grenade.

[01:11:41] After the second grenade, yeah.

[01:11:42] I like how we're jokingly saying this in four people.

[01:11:45] It didn't work.

[01:11:46] It's definitely stuff.

[01:11:47] It's like, yeah, so they, like, it's like, well, I guess, well, maybe I'll see you around, you guys around.

[01:11:53] Maybe, or maybe we won't.

[01:11:55] Yeah, maybe.

[01:11:56] Now, I do have a special request.

[01:11:58] If you can ascertain any information about the Serpents of Eden, I still have a grudge against them.

[01:12:04] So, we will look into it.

[01:12:07] Those are the ones that were dealing with that grow operation.

[01:12:11] And the Crassies.

[01:12:13] Yes, and the Serpents.

[01:12:14] We destroyed our Volkswagen bots.

[01:12:17] That's the main reason we hate them.

[01:12:19] This is the one where you called in that airstrike.

[01:12:22] Yes.

[01:12:23] Very well.

[01:12:24] Yes, Daddy.

[01:12:29] That's what he called in.

[01:12:32] Yes, we will have some, we'll get back to you on those.

[01:12:37] It's nice that we don't have to call in airstrikes anymore.

[01:12:40] We just are the airstrikes.

[01:12:41] We just are the airstrikes.

[01:12:44] Speaking of, we had Jewish face lasers.

[01:12:47] God damn it.

[01:12:51] Speaking of, actually, I suppose for the capture of these traitors, this traitors faction members,

[01:13:02] and the destruction of what seems to be a zero point black signal,

[01:13:11] would you like a financial compensation or some upgrades or requisition upgrades to your previous requisition?

[01:13:22] Upgrades to our previous requisition?

[01:13:25] Do we have something to make it more subtle?

[01:13:27] Like, a way to hide the weapons on it, if nothing else, like properly?

[01:13:31] We can probably, some of the boys down in the labs can probably fit it with a...

[01:13:37] Cloaking device?

[01:13:38] What?

[01:13:38] Actually, yes.

[01:13:39] Yes, actually, yes.

[01:13:40] A whole cloaking device?

[01:13:41] Yes, we...

[01:13:43] Gentlemen.

[01:13:45] I know you're fairly new in the world of secrets.

[01:13:49] In the world of secrets, but...

[01:13:52] We have ways.

[01:13:53] We can get you.

[01:13:54] If you wish for the upgrade to be a cloaking device, we can certainly make that happen.

[01:13:59] I love it.

[01:14:00] I'm not against that idea.

[01:14:02] All in favor?

[01:14:03] Say hi.

[01:14:04] Hi.

[01:14:04] Hell yeah.

[01:14:05] Hell yeah.

[01:14:06] It's basically going to be like a bond sort of device that basically refracts around.

[01:14:09] To the thing.

[01:14:10] Like, Ben's Light kind of thing.

[01:14:12] Oh, okay.

[01:14:13] Of course, probably designed by Orochi, but...

[01:14:17] Or one of their subsidiaries.

[01:14:19] But we stole it, fair and square.

[01:14:21] No, no.

[01:14:21] It's purchased.

[01:14:22] Because they're a corporation that we buy from.

[01:14:25] Ew.

[01:14:26] Okay.

[01:14:27] They're sort of like...

[01:14:29] We're stuck with them.

[01:14:31] We can't not buy from them.

[01:14:32] Even though we know that they do dirty secrets.

[01:14:36] Monopoly and all the cool shit.

[01:14:38] Yeah, basically.

[01:14:38] They own like...

[01:14:39] They're basically the root of all the megacorps.

[01:14:44] Is the G11 a Orochi weapon?

[01:14:47] No, it's actually...

[01:14:48] It's a master Orochi weapon.

[01:14:49] It's actually...

[01:14:50] I'm going to say...

[01:14:50] It's just command, man.

[01:14:51] I guess here now...

[01:14:53] It was...

[01:14:54] The reason why I never made it a full militarized market...

[01:14:58] Is because the protests are stolen by the Phoenicians.

[01:15:02] So the Phoenicians use it specifically.

[01:15:04] Okay, cool.

[01:15:05] I love it.

[01:15:07] Now we have some.

[01:15:08] We have two.

[01:15:10] But yeah, so...

[01:15:12] So yeah, that's what you guys did with the Phoenician agents that you guys captured and such.

[01:15:18] And you got some compensation for your efforts with that and all.

[01:15:22] And even dealing with the Black Signal and such.

[01:15:25] When you get back to home base on Belle Island with Jack and whatnot.

[01:15:29] What are you guys doing with Sharon?

[01:15:32] Well, I mean...

[01:15:34] Sharon is like...

[01:15:35] She's a little bit more unhinged now.

[01:15:38] But she's like really intrigued by the whole...

[01:15:42] Was I able to make that whole flight non-stop?

[01:15:45] Yes.

[01:15:46] Okay.

[01:15:46] So then when we got back...

[01:15:49] And we landed...

[01:15:50] I guess I would have had to have...

[01:15:55] Shit.

[01:15:56] You would have had to shit.

[01:15:57] It's been a few hours.

[01:15:58] That's true.

[01:15:59] That's true.

[01:15:59] Okay, so then as a griffin.

[01:16:01] A large sized creature.

[01:16:02] I'm going to force my way into a bathroom.

[01:16:06] Close the door.

[01:16:08] The door frame like...

[01:16:09] I don't know how this...

[01:16:10] You go off to like a park somewhere.

[01:16:12] And just go into like...

[01:16:13] You know how they have those public washroom areas?

[01:16:16] And then you just like walk...

[01:16:17] Like walk behind and in.

[01:16:18] Yep.

[01:16:19] You...

[01:16:21] And sadly...

[01:16:21] I was going to say...

[01:16:22] It's like you walk in...

[01:16:23] You hear a scream.

[01:16:24] It's something like...

[01:16:24] It comes running out.

[01:16:26] And then like you come out...

[01:16:27] Then you hear the toilet flush.

[01:16:29] Yeah.

[01:16:29] And I come out.

[01:16:31] Okay.

[01:16:32] And she was there.

[01:16:34] You dropped her off...

[01:16:35] And then you went into the bathroom.

[01:16:36] Okay.

[01:16:37] And she's just looking at you.

[01:16:38] It's like...

[01:16:40] You're the griffin?

[01:16:42] That's a pretty sweet codename.

[01:16:44] I should go by that.

[01:16:46] That was...

[01:16:47] That's so fucking cool.

[01:16:48] Yes it was.

[01:16:50] Imagine if you will.

[01:16:51] You're the first woman I've ever let her ride me.

[01:16:54] She blushes.

[01:16:56] Imagine if you will.

[01:16:57] You would transform back first...

[01:16:59] And then...

[01:17:00] I rolled.

[01:17:01] So you as a human...

[01:17:02] You would push out a griffin-sized turn.

[01:17:04] Oh my god.

[01:17:05] Yeah.

[01:17:06] I did roll her...

[01:17:07] Insight you on that 20.

[01:17:08] It's like...

[01:17:08] Oh my god.

[01:17:09] You are like...

[01:17:10] She's now...

[01:17:10] At the end of all this...

[01:17:12] She actually fully understands...

[01:17:15] That I was the dog.

[01:17:16] And I was the griffin.

[01:17:18] Yeah.

[01:17:19] Mm-hmm.

[01:17:19] She's like...

[01:17:20] It's like...

[01:17:20] So I mean...

[01:17:22] I guess I gotta...

[01:17:24] I guess I don't have a home anymore.

[01:17:26] Point Pleasant.

[01:17:27] Or a camera.

[01:17:28] Give me that.

[01:17:30] I'm here by the way.

[01:17:30] No it would have been...

[01:17:31] Well if you were...

[01:17:32] Were you still...

[01:17:32] Were you in that three years ago?

[01:17:33] Three mile radius?

[01:17:34] Was it a digital camera?

[01:17:35] It was.

[01:17:37] Okay then it's wiped.

[01:17:38] So it was probably wiped.

[01:17:39] Yeah it was probably...

[01:17:39] We did not get three miles out in time.

[01:17:41] I don't know.

[01:17:42] Was the trailer park three miles out?

[01:17:44] No no.

[01:17:44] It was within the two mile radius.

[01:17:45] We didn't start the helicopter until after...

[01:17:48] Oh that happened.

[01:17:49] So unless you flew three miles in that time.

[01:17:52] Yeah.

[01:17:52] So the camera fizzled as well.

[01:17:54] You had to run.

[01:17:54] Okay.

[01:17:55] But yeah so she's like...

[01:17:55] Oh yeah I guess I have to...

[01:17:57] I guess I'll have to find a place somewhere in St. John's for a bit.

[01:18:00] If you're ever...

[01:18:01] Want to get a pint or something like that...

[01:18:03] Well here's my number.

[01:18:06] Yeah?

[01:18:06] I have to get a new phone now too.

[01:18:08] We got a place.

[01:18:09] Do you?

[01:18:10] Yeah.

[01:18:10] Like it's pretty big right?

[01:18:13] Our headquarters?

[01:18:16] What?

[01:18:17] Our headquarters?

[01:18:18] I'm not.

[01:18:18] Yeah.

[01:18:19] Yeah.

[01:18:19] They all live...

[01:18:20] They all live off site.

[01:18:21] I don't.

[01:18:22] I live on site.

[01:18:23] Oh do you?

[01:18:24] I thought you lived in town.

[01:18:26] I don't know.

[01:18:27] I guess you could...

[01:18:28] If you want like...

[01:18:29] I mean you could live there.

[01:18:29] I just wasn't aware.

[01:18:30] I thought we all had our own places.

[01:18:32] Okay.

[01:18:33] It's fine if you don't.

[01:18:33] I had never given it any thought.

[01:18:35] Okay.

[01:18:36] I thought we did do a session where...

[01:18:37] Like part of a session where like I asked you guys...

[01:18:39] Where do you guys live?

[01:18:40] Like do you live on site or do you live like...

[01:18:42] Okay.

[01:18:42] Well you're going to have to look that up because I don't recall.

[01:18:44] Yeah.

[01:18:45] You can also offer like her...

[01:18:47] Like to say at her...

[01:18:48] Your place or something like that.

[01:18:49] Yeah.

[01:18:49] Yeah.

[01:18:49] Um...

[01:18:50] And uh...

[01:18:51] I guess we'll uh...

[01:18:52] We'll induct her into the secret world.

[01:18:55] Yeah.

[01:18:55] Because she...

[01:18:56] Also she wields a hammer pretty well.

[01:18:58] Like I mean...

[01:18:59] She's kind of Templar material.

[01:19:00] Mm-hmm.

[01:19:01] And also if we get her a lance then that means I can have a knight while I'm a griffin.

[01:19:06] You just want to take in all the strays don't you?

[01:19:08] I do.

[01:19:09] I like taking in the strays.

[01:19:10] Yeah.

[01:19:11] The most important thing is...

[01:19:12] You can never tell anyone...

[01:19:15] I mean...

[01:19:16] What you saw.

[01:19:16] I mean I assumed that.

[01:19:18] Yeah.

[01:19:19] Are you able to shapeshift a saddle?

[01:19:21] I don't want to have it killed you.

[01:19:22] I really don't want you to have it killed me.

[01:19:24] You have to have one nearby and put it on.

[01:19:26] Um...

[01:19:27] I mean I suppose we could make...

[01:19:28] We could look at trying to make a magic item that I wore as like a bracelet or something.

[01:19:35] Or a backpack.

[01:19:36] Mm-hmm.

[01:19:38] That changed into a full size saddle if I became a griffin.

[01:19:42] Otherwise we just have a saddle hanging inside of the hinds.

[01:19:47] Oh.

[01:19:47] Like what's that for?

[01:19:48] We don't have a horse.

[01:19:49] Hang on.

[01:19:49] Hang on.

[01:19:50] Griffin walks in.

[01:19:51] You can bind a weapon.

[01:19:52] Can you bind gear?

[01:19:53] Not that I know of.

[01:19:54] Damn.

[01:19:55] I mean if you want to let shit happen.

[01:19:57] Yeah.

[01:19:57] You can...

[01:19:58] Yeah.

[01:19:58] We can...

[01:19:58] We can bind some magic gear.

[01:20:00] The magic items in...

[01:20:02] That are presented in this are trinkets.

[01:20:06] Yeah.

[01:20:06] To make it similar to Secret World.

[01:20:08] It also does...

[01:20:09] But it does actually say that magic items, magic items, like regular magic items can still be

[01:20:15] made.

[01:20:15] They still exist.

[01:20:16] Yeah.

[01:20:17] Yeah.

[01:20:17] Yeah.

[01:20:17] Yeah.

[01:20:17] Yeah.

[01:20:18] Yeah.

[01:20:39] Not from the Templar, but from...

[01:20:42] Actually I'll say you guys...

[01:20:44] When you guys get back to Jack...

[01:20:45] When you finally get to Jack in the debriefing and he's looking at the news page like wow that's

[01:20:49] a hell of a thing there that you guys did.

[01:20:53] Good job boys.

[01:20:53] Good job boys.

[01:21:24] Address to you three.

[01:21:27] From who?

[01:21:28] Didn't give a full name.

[01:21:29] Just had Zed as an initial.

[01:21:34] He's my favorite character from Police Academy.

[01:21:37] So yeah.

[01:21:37] Forget all of his quotes otherwise I would do that.

[01:21:39] You guys will get...

[01:21:41] He was the...

[01:21:42] He's the greatest wizard in sort of truth.

[01:21:46] It's...

[01:21:47] Also the most badass villain in the party.

[01:21:47] It's addressed to you guys.

[01:21:49] It's not each.

[01:21:51] We got a one million dollar check.

[01:21:55] Okay.

[01:21:56] Okay.

[01:21:57] It's a good start towards our warship.

[01:22:00] I mean...

[01:22:02] Destroyer.

[01:22:03] I mean...

[01:22:04] Corvette.

[01:22:05] Not the car or the boat.

[01:22:06] Oh.

[01:22:07] Can you get one of each?

[01:22:09] Can you each drive Corvette?

[01:22:12] The only other...

[01:22:13] You guys like...

[01:22:13] He hands you guys the letter and stuff like that.

[01:22:15] And basically it's just like...

[01:22:17] What was I saying?

[01:22:18] Is it just money in the office?

[01:22:19] No, no.

[01:22:19] It's not.

[01:22:19] No, it's not.

[01:22:20] He hands it to you guys and you guys got like...

[01:22:22] Basically it's like...

[01:22:23] It's a bullap sack with dollar bills.

[01:22:25] No.

[01:22:26] I'll say it's a million dollars.

[01:22:27] Basically it's like a...

[01:22:28] It's a check.

[01:22:31] It's basically like a USB kind of thing where it has like basically the digital data.

[01:22:36] Okay.

[01:22:36] Like the busy digital money kind of thing that you guys can put into your...

[01:22:40] So it's a USB stick shaped like Scrooge McDuck?

[01:22:43] No.

[01:22:45] But you...

[01:22:46] The letter is basically...

[01:22:49] Good job working for the good of Gaia.

[01:22:54] She works in mysterious ways and so does the evils of this world.

[01:22:59] We'll keep in touch.

[01:23:01] Zed.

[01:23:04] Okay.

[01:23:05] So you guys could like...

[01:23:06] If you want to try and look into that later day like who the Zed guy is or...

[01:23:10] Maybe they'll send you guys some more...

[01:23:13] Like some more jobs in the future or something like that.

[01:23:15] Who knows?

[01:23:16] But that's all you get.

[01:23:18] You basically get a million dollar paycheck from this.

[01:23:22] From a mysterious person.

[01:23:24] Alright.

[01:23:24] Dave.

[01:23:25] Mark it down.

[01:23:26] Sure.

[01:23:28] One million dollars in a helicopter cloaking device.

[01:23:31] This is a good mission.

[01:23:32] Yes.

[01:23:32] Yes.

[01:23:33] I agree.

[01:23:33] And two G11s.

[01:23:35] Yeah.

[01:23:36] Yeah.

[01:23:37] One of the things we're going to do while we're between missions is see if I can break

[01:23:39] one of them down.

[01:23:40] And then make a Ma-Deuce that's based off a G11.

[01:23:44] Caseless.

[01:23:45] Caseless Ma-Deuce.

[01:23:46] Well, sir.

[01:23:46] We're trying to replicate the G11s.

[01:23:49] Because that's cool.

[01:23:52] Mm-hmm.

[01:23:53] But yeah, that was the Pleasant Cove signal.

[01:23:56] Comments, questions, suggestions.

[01:23:58] Okay.

[01:23:58] So we need to get Sharon a breastplate.

[01:24:02] Okay.

[01:24:04] A Warhammer.

[01:24:05] And a Light.

[01:24:06] Do you want to just talk to Richard Sonak and get her into the Templar?

[01:24:10] No, we're going to get her into our group.

[01:24:13] Oh, into the...

[01:24:13] Which is only contracted as part of the Templar.

[01:24:16] True.

[01:24:16] Okay.

[01:24:17] So yeah, basically it's like the ragtag version.

[01:24:19] Yeah.

[01:24:20] Well, you guys have to wear the red cross.

[01:24:22] She can just wear a blue cross.

[01:24:25] So she's health insurance?

[01:24:27] Well, Aaron, you know who's prominent in Newfoundland?

[01:24:30] The Orangeman.

[01:24:32] That's true.

[01:24:34] So I think actually the logo for this little campaign was basically like an orange.

[01:24:39] It was like orange with an NHL sort of thing.

[01:24:42] It's like the Monster Slayers League.

[01:24:44] The MSL.

[01:24:45] Oh, nice.

[01:24:46] That's cool.

[01:24:47] Yeah.

[01:24:47] But yeah, so yeah.

[01:24:50] Yeah, it's up to you guys.

[01:24:51] You guys can basically use some of your funds to gear her up or something like that.

[01:24:56] Yeah, I'll use my money to gear her up some.

[01:25:03] So now you have a backup Monster Hunter, basically, because she seems pretty excited for this.

[01:25:11] I will tell you, so she...

[01:25:14] You find a little bit about her if you're like conversation...

[01:25:17] Yeah, we went out for beers.

[01:25:18] Yeah.

[01:25:19] So she's a middle-aged woman.

[01:25:21] She was living off of a lawsuit payoff.

[01:25:24] And she was filling her time pursuing a career in art photography.

[01:25:29] Although she hasn't gotten very far in that.

[01:25:33] So she's got a steady hand and knows how to use a scope.

[01:25:35] Yeah.

[01:25:37] I managed to snag a sniper rifle.

[01:25:40] That's true.

[01:25:40] Yeah, that's true.

[01:25:41] I think you took the bolt out and you left the gun, I think.

[01:25:44] Nope.

[01:25:45] I did take the gun.

[01:25:46] Oh, okay.

[01:25:47] I took the bolt out in case she managed to break the bonds and take the gun from me.

[01:25:53] Yes, yes, yes.

[01:25:54] But yeah, before she was trapped in the basement of the senior cell and stuff like that, or the

[01:25:58] senior cell, she was...

[01:26:00] When all this stuff started happening that night, she basically saw the chaos erupting

[01:26:05] around her and grabbed her camera and began documenting the incident.

[01:26:09] Thinking that there might be something worth to this.

[01:26:13] And yeah, no, she seems really...

[01:26:16] Like, after the shit she's seen, she seems like something maybe has changed in her.

[01:26:23] Like, before she was kind of like really untrusting and really worried about this thing.

[01:26:27] But after all the crap she's had to go through with you guys, she's like kind of changed in

[01:26:32] that she's kind of gung-ho.

[01:26:34] She's actually more and more interested.

[01:26:35] She's got like her first taste into the secret world and she wants more.

[01:26:39] So.

[01:26:42] Okay.

[01:26:43] All right.

[01:26:45] All right.

[01:26:46] But yeah.

[01:26:46] How many NPCs are going to be in the helicopter now?

[01:26:49] We're bringing all of them out simultaneously.

[01:26:51] We've got Yuri and Yuri.

[01:26:52] The hind can fit a lot of people.

[01:26:54] That is true.

[01:26:55] We've got Yuri and Yuri.

[01:26:56] Janine, or Jasmine, is just like your...

[01:27:00] Not intern, but she's basically like your research gal and the receptionist at the base.

[01:27:07] We got one!

[01:27:08] Yeah, basically.

[01:27:11] And I think that's really it.

[01:27:12] You got Sharon now.

[01:27:14] You got Yuri and Yuri.

[01:27:15] Jacob.

[01:27:17] No.

[01:27:17] Jacob is...

[01:27:19] Remember, we're going to soft wreck on that.

[01:27:21] Oh, okay.

[01:27:22] When you guys...

[01:27:23] When you...

[01:27:24] Try to get Jacob.

[01:27:26] Like from...

[01:27:26] Yeah.

[01:27:27] But he referred to Yuri.

[01:27:29] Yeah.

[01:27:29] He referred to his cousin, Yuri.

[01:27:31] Yeah.

[01:27:31] And then you guys also got another Yuri who was a Russian human.

[01:27:34] Of course.

[01:27:35] Who was the pilot.

[01:27:36] So, yeah.

[01:27:37] I feel like only why named people need to be NPCs on the ship.

[01:27:41] Now we need an Ilmo.

[01:27:43] Ilmo.

[01:27:44] Ilmo.

[01:27:44] Oh, Ilmo.

[01:27:45] Yes.

[01:27:47] Because...

[01:27:47] It's like, the government doesn't want us going here.

[01:27:50] What we say is, fuck the government.

[01:27:53] It's from Alan Wake 2.

[01:27:55] Oh, okay.

[01:27:56] And for anybody listening, I just liked...

[01:27:57] I did...

[01:27:58] Jacob from Alan Wake 2 just like flips the...

[01:28:01] Like dual flips the bird to the...

[01:28:03] When they say fuck the government.

[01:28:05] Yeah.

[01:28:07] But yeah.

[01:28:08] Anything you guys want to know about the scenarios of this was...

[01:28:12] I basically like took a pre-existing scenario by Ross Payton.

[01:28:18] And converted it to the secret world.

[01:28:21] What would have happened if I had tried to isolate the signal from the radio station?

[01:28:25] So, the radio station is a red herring and not.

[01:28:29] I was right when I said it was a red herring.

[01:28:31] It's not quite.

[01:28:32] Right, because it's basically a way for you guys to capture...

[01:28:36] To study the signal and capture it.

[01:28:38] And even jam the signal without dealing with these...

[01:28:42] Without using the equipment from the Phoenicians.

[01:28:44] Or from the covert team that's also in the town.

[01:28:48] When you guys show up.

[01:28:49] But they would have been able to copy the signal and get it.

[01:28:52] Yeah.

[01:28:53] And...

[01:28:53] Like...

[01:28:54] I probably wouldn't have had...

[01:28:55] Yeah, but you said we could jam the signal.

[01:28:56] Yeah.

[01:28:57] So then if we're jamming the signal, they wouldn't have access to the signal.

[01:29:00] No.

[01:29:00] But then at that point, they'd be like someone jamming the signal.

[01:29:03] They'd go after you guys.

[01:29:04] Then they would come to us.

[01:29:05] Yeah.

[01:29:05] So you guys...

[01:29:06] Yeah.

[01:29:06] If you guys had started jamming the signal, you were...

[01:29:09] We were fucking up what the Phoenicians were doing.

[01:29:10] So they would have come for you and probably would have...

[01:29:12] I...

[01:29:12] There was a couple times in the...

[01:29:14] Like...

[01:29:14] Before the game was starting and like during the game, I was like...

[01:29:17] I just want somebody to get sniped in the face.

[01:29:20] Like not you guys, but like just like one of the NPCs.

[01:29:22] Just like...

[01:29:23] Like right before we ended last session, I was...

[01:29:27] Tempted to have a...

[01:29:29] Like it end with...

[01:29:31] With Sharon getting sniped in the shoulder.

[01:29:34] Yeah.

[01:29:34] Through the window.

[01:29:35] But I didn't want to introduce that just like that right away.

[01:29:38] I felt like I didn't really want to introduce that.

[01:29:41] But yeah.

[01:29:41] So like basically, I would have had the radio station for this.

[01:29:44] Like you can...

[01:29:45] You can find the signal.

[01:29:46] Like find out what the signal's frequency is and jam it from the radio station.

[01:29:50] You can't...

[01:29:50] But you can't like copy it.

[01:29:51] But the copying stuff is from the technology...

[01:29:53] The equipment that the Phoenicians had.

[01:29:55] Yep.

[01:29:56] That's actually kind of what I changed in the scenario.

[01:29:59] Because the scenario as it is, you can do it at either location.

[01:30:01] Yeah.

[01:30:03] And yeah.

[01:30:03] The Phoenicians...

[01:30:04] As per the scenario, the Phoenicians or the covert team that's in the town...

[01:30:08] We're already in the town.

[01:30:10] And they have set up a bunch of like secret...

[01:30:11] Basically like bug.

[01:30:13] They bugged the whole town with like mini cameras and stuff like that.

[01:30:17] You guys would never have been able to notice unless you were actively looking for them.

[01:30:22] Yeah.

[01:30:22] But if you didn't know they were there, then you would...

[01:30:24] I wouldn't...

[01:30:25] I didn't have you guys roll anything because you wouldn't be able to know.

[01:30:28] Also in regards to like adding a sniper and everything in all of that...

[01:30:32] Yeah.

[01:30:32] I'm happy with that because my character is like specced as a sniper.

[01:30:35] So it's nice to be able to actually sort of do that sort of thing.

[01:30:38] Yeah.

[01:30:38] Alicia, Nathan, and Mervyn are like...

[01:30:40] Alicia is a covert like black ops like sniper kind of like stealth character.

[01:30:45] Yeah.

[01:30:46] Nathan's the leader of the cell.

[01:30:48] And then Mervyn is the tech guy.

[01:30:50] And Nathan and Alicia are like dedicated to the cause and are...

[01:30:54] It specifically says like they will not break very easily.

[01:30:59] But Mervyn is just like as soon as he sees trouble, he tries to book it.

[01:31:03] You know what that dynamic feels a lot like?

[01:31:06] The first game that you run for Shadowrun.

[01:31:10] Oh, the...

[01:31:11] Yeah, the food fight.

[01:31:13] Yeah.

[01:31:13] It's a lot like that because there was like two like badasses in there and the one nerdy guy in the truck.

[01:31:19] Yeah.

[01:31:19] It's the same sort of dynamic.

[01:31:20] Yeah, the shaman in the back.

[01:31:22] The shaman or the drone guy in the back, I think.

[01:31:24] The dwarf trigger.

[01:31:25] Because they always are.

[01:31:26] Always the dwarf trigger, yeah.

[01:31:28] Yeah.

[01:31:28] But yeah, anything else about the scenario?

[01:31:31] About the...

[01:31:31] The combat was really fun and dynamic.

[01:31:34] Yeah, it's a shame the recorder didn't catch that.

[01:31:34] I like how it fucked up a lot, but it's fine.

[01:31:36] Huh?

[01:31:37] It's a shame the recorder didn't catch that.

[01:31:38] Oh, fuck.

[01:31:39] I forgot.

[01:31:39] Like, man, it was so good.

[01:31:40] I know.

[01:31:42] It's so annoying.

[01:31:43] I don't know why it...

[01:31:44] Like, it's so weird that it acted because it recorded 27 minutes and then just froze or just stopped.

[01:31:51] Yeah.

[01:31:52] And I have no idea...

[01:31:53] The screen just showed it's still recording.

[01:31:55] Yeah.

[01:31:55] Like, I had to like turn it off.

[01:31:57] Like, I had to take...

[01:31:57] We had to take the batteries up for it to work.

[01:31:59] So it's just weird.

[01:32:00] But yeah, I'll write up...

[01:32:01] I'll do a write up of what happened.

[01:32:04] I'll try and like do it kind of flourishy.

[01:32:06] And then I'll maybe...

[01:32:07] Yeah, and then I'll record it.

[01:32:10] Maybe ask you guys to do some readings of it.

[01:32:12] Like for your scenes and stuff like that.

[01:32:14] For like choice scenes, yeah.

[01:32:15] Yeah, some choice scenes and stuff.

[01:32:17] And then we'll just kind of like throw it together and I'll make it kind of like a signal intercept sort of thing.

[01:32:21] It's like a...

[01:32:22] So the session itself...

[01:32:24] Those of you hearing this, you've already listened to all that.

[01:32:26] Yeah, you've already heard it.

[01:32:27] So we'll just explain what you heard here.

[01:32:28] Well, but this is sort of the after action sort of thing.

[01:32:31] So yeah.

[01:32:33] But yeah.

[01:32:33] And actually the session should still be pretty decent because it's like 27 minutes plus however long that will take.

[01:32:40] Plus an hour, which is what we've been at right now since we started recording again.

[01:32:46] But yeah.

[01:32:47] Yeah, the black signal.

[01:32:49] The signal in the scenario...

[01:32:50] So this scenario is pretty open-ended.

[01:32:52] There is no origin for the scenario.

[01:32:54] So you're able to just kind of like create, add your own origin to where the signal came from or whatever.

[01:32:59] And put this adventure into a campaign.

[01:33:04] When I first read this, because it's a Ross Payton scenario.

[01:33:08] And Ross Payton is awesome.

[01:33:09] So anything that he writes, I'll read something on it.

[01:33:15] And I read this and I was like, this is perfect for John.

[01:33:18] The black signal from Secret World.

[01:33:21] Because John, in the setting of Secret World, there is a frequency that is the filth.

[01:33:27] There's a frequency broadcast variant of the filth that contaminates through a mimetic virus.

[01:33:32] As a mimetic virus.

[01:33:33] And it's basically Naira Lethotep as a signal.

[01:33:38] So if you guys experience it visually or audio-wise, when you roll your will save or your wisdom save,

[01:33:48] if you fail, you start taking wisdom damage temporarily.

[01:33:55] And once you hit zero, you're now under the control of the signal.

[01:33:59] And basically under its influence.

[01:34:01] And that's what happened to everybody in this town.

[01:34:03] Like 99% of the town was infected.

[01:34:06] Because this thing's like DC check for when it first went off was 30.

[01:34:10] It is slowly diminishing.

[01:34:12] Like by the time you guys get in, the dex check is 20.

[01:34:17] And then...

[01:34:18] Will check.

[01:34:19] Will check.

[01:34:19] Yeah, the will check.

[01:34:20] Yeah, the will check is about 20.

[01:34:22] And then over the course of the day, it goes to 15, 10.

[01:34:24] And then by the end of the day, it dissipates and hops to another town.

[01:34:30] Oh, really?

[01:34:30] And it's not stopped.

[01:34:31] Oh, damn.

[01:34:32] And then the cycle begins again.

[01:34:34] That's rough.

[01:34:35] So basically, it was jumping around looking for...

[01:34:37] It spends about a day and about a full 24 hours in the town after it was unleashed by the guy who owned that...

[01:34:46] Who bought that warehouse.

[01:34:48] And then the crater and the explosion was created by the device that he used to summon the signal.

[01:34:55] Yeah.

[01:34:57] Yeah.

[01:34:57] So that's basically why there's that giant crater and such.

[01:35:00] Mm-hmm.

[01:35:00] And then the Phoenicians found word that like the...

[01:35:04] In my part of the setting, the Phoenicians got word that a member of the Morning Light cult from the Congo had left Africa and gone to Newfoundland.

[01:35:15] And they were coming to investigate.

[01:35:16] Because anything that's coming out of the Congo and that sect of the Morning Light cult usually means that they're dealing with filth.

[01:35:24] And occasionally, the Phoenicians know that they can...

[01:35:28] If they can either deal with the filth or if they can catch whatever it is of the filth that's here, they can sell it on the black market and make a tiny profit.

[01:35:39] Mm-hmm.

[01:35:39] Somebody will always buy filth.

[01:35:41] Yep.

[01:35:41] Mm-hmm.

[01:35:43] So, yeah.

[01:35:44] That was basically what had happened here.

[01:35:45] It was a cult member from the Morning Star...

[01:35:48] Or the Morning Light showed up in town.

[01:35:50] Rented the place for a few months while it prepped up his device.

[01:35:53] It's testing this frequency...

[01:35:56] Testing this basically transceiver trying to summon a broadcast of John.

[01:36:06] Because John's been...

[01:36:07] So, John is from 2012.

[01:36:10] Like from the events of the MMO.

[01:36:12] Like from the Japan arc of the MMO.

[01:36:15] And he, in the setting for the tabletop RPG, he's still out there somewhere.

[01:36:21] Like in the airwaves.

[01:36:22] Yeah.

[01:36:23] He's just a signal that can infect electronics that receive and transmit signal.

[01:36:31] So...

[01:36:32] There's no way to deal with it really?

[01:36:34] Yeah.

[01:36:35] You can only just basically find forks of him or like copies of them that she sends out.

[01:36:39] Mm-hmm.

[01:36:39] And just wipe out the technology that he's in.

[01:36:42] Because once the technology is dismantled, he has no way of getting out and basically just dies with it.

[01:36:48] Yeah.

[01:36:49] So, yeah.

[01:36:50] Yeah, he's sort of a...

[01:36:52] Not...

[01:36:53] Like a loose end that you can't really cut.

[01:36:55] You can't really like tie back up.

[01:36:56] Mm-hmm.

[01:36:57] Because he's sort of...

[01:36:58] It's sort of hard to like stop.

[01:36:59] You can't stop the signal.

[01:37:01] Yep.

[01:37:02] But yeah.

[01:37:03] So, um...

[01:37:05] I think that's basically what the setup for this adventure was.

[01:37:09] So...

[01:37:10] Mm-hmm.

[01:37:11] Anything else?

[01:37:12] I really gotta figure out some way to get better at little saves.

[01:37:17] Yeah.

[01:37:18] It did not go well for me at all today.

[01:37:20] There's a feat that lets you pick four skills to get proficiency in.

[01:37:26] I should take that.

[01:37:27] Yeah.

[01:37:28] Really?

[01:37:28] Just harden your will to...

[01:37:30] It's like, no.

[01:37:31] I'm assuming that works for saving throws as well.

[01:37:34] Correct me if I'm wrong.

[01:37:35] I think so.

[01:37:36] Saving throws are a skill that you can take.

[01:37:39] Are they a skill you can take?

[01:37:40] They're a skill that you get through your class.

[01:37:44] Yeah.

[01:37:44] Mm-hmm.

[01:37:44] And I don't think secret architects give you any bonuses to that.

[01:37:50] I think it's just the class.

[01:37:53] Yeah.

[01:37:54] Whether or not some of the feats give you bonuses to...

[01:37:56] I could have that boat for a hundred grand?

[01:38:00] Yes.

[01:38:01] That's amazing.

[01:38:02] What boat are you talking about?

[01:38:03] It's an ex-Coast Guard vessel.

[01:38:08] You guys just gotta...

[01:38:08] We were looking for the Corvette.

[01:38:10] There's a close thing you can find online.

[01:38:11] I mean, Canada doesn't really have much in the way of Corvettes.

[01:38:15] And that is, like, awesome.

[01:38:16] I did see that someone took the styling of a Corvette car and made a boat that styled like it.

[01:38:24] Like, with the brake lights and everything on it.

[01:38:26] Nice.

[01:38:28] It's not Corvette-sized Corvette.

[01:38:30] It's a large offshore speedboat Corvette Corvette.

[01:38:34] I'm just saying, this boat might actually be large enough for us to land behind on.

[01:38:40] No.

[01:38:40] No.

[01:38:41] No, it's not.

[01:38:41] No, it isn't.

[01:38:42] Yeah, I'm looking at that.

[01:38:43] No.

[01:38:44] Mm-hmm.

[01:38:45] It might be.

[01:38:48] Do you know how big a hind is?

[01:38:51] Yes.

[01:38:51] They're big, man.

[01:38:54] Yeah.

[01:38:54] I hear what you're saying.

[01:38:56] I don't think so.

[01:38:59] Anyway, I guess we'll talk shop.

[01:39:01] Yeah.

[01:39:02] Off recording.

[01:39:03] But yeah, nothing else to say before I turn off the recorder?

[01:39:06] No.

[01:39:07] No, I think we're good.

[01:39:08] Okay.

[01:39:09] Well, that's it.

[01:39:11] And thank you all for listening.

[01:39:13] And we'll see you all next time with the Monster Slayers League North.

[01:39:16] Bye, internet.

[01:39:17] Bye.

[01:39:18] Goodbye.

[01:39:18] Goodbye.

[01:39:18] Goodbye.