Actual Play - Red Markets T-Minus - EP 7.5 The D Team

[00:00:02] Hello and welcome to the Roleplaying Exchange. We have a treat for you guys here today. I'm Nick, I'll be running today's game, and we are playing Red Markets. I don't think I've come up with a name for this yet, so let's just go with the D Team. I was gonna say Character Fuddle. Or Character Fuddle. Or Y. It's just Y. What's it? T-Minus PPK.

[00:00:31] T-Minus TPK. Something like that. In case you guys haven't figured it out by now, or this is your first time listening to a game run by me, I like to have experimental tough spots in these Red Markets game. And all of them will be using the same one. All of them will be playing former Dependents.

[00:00:52] Their positive side of their tough spot is that they get a plus one to foresight checks, and they, once per client, can find out a weak or tough spot from that client. But the flip side is that there was a reason they were Dependent. They either start at half skills, or two locations have half the hit boxes available to them.

[00:01:17] And with that explanation, I'll let the characters introduce themselves, introduce their characters, who they lost, and why they were a Dependent to begin with. It's going to be super weird without Adam here to do his ABNs. But I guess what we can do are BCCs. Hi, I'm Brownie. I played with the group here with Red Markets a few times.

[00:01:39] I'll be playing L, who is a medical-centered character. Her Dependent is Vaughn, who's also played in other games before, because right now he's taking a thunder nap. And she has half hit boxes in both of her legs due to very bad knees. Alright, up next, this is Chris.

[00:02:03] I will be playing Marauder, who is an X-Raider. And Taker, who took a very bad head wound, causing her to lose basically a whole lot of memories. And so that's why she's at half skill points. Alright, I'm Krazon, or the other Chris.

[00:02:34] And I will be playing Squire, who was the former Dependent of one of my characters, Ecclesiarch, who I think was in a game run by Nick. And unfortunately, Ecclesiarch dug too deep into the bodies and has either gone away or passed. Squire doesn't really want to sit and talk about it. But she does have a strange amount of loot left over from, that look like they used to be Ecclesiarchs.

[00:03:04] She has half her health boxes in her torso and her left arm because of irradiated dust problems from up north. Just Canada things. Yeah, you know, just Canadian things. Just Canadian things. Thanks, Caleb. But yeah, so they have taken up the mantle and the sword and the crossbow.

[00:03:35] And they're gonna see how this goes. They're gonna carry on the legacy of Ecclesiarch. And carry it well, hopefully. Hopefully. With that good right arm. So all of you have found your way to Elevation. Good common ground to base a game out of.

[00:03:59] And individually, you have all been approached by a man named Barter. He goes by Bart for short. And he has pitched the idea to you of banding together with a couple of other people who really need some money. And doing a job for him. He knows that you've lost your dependents.

[00:04:28] And he says he's lost people on his own. And this would be a great way for all of them to get what they need. He has given you each other's numbers or identities. I don't know if you guys have Ubix specs. Nope. So you guys could talk it over if you wish. So instead of just vignettes with dependents, we could do a quick vignette of the three of you meeting up for the first time. Sure. Yeah.

[00:04:57] I was thinking that we might have. Up until this thing with Barter appeared, I was thinking we might have met each other through support groups on Lifelines. You know, people who are having trouble and or have lost people. But I like this as well. Yeah, just being contacted by our contractor. Maybe that's how you met Bart. Like through that, because he has lost someone too.

[00:05:26] But yeah, that also is a good possibility. So who wants to start? So Squire Marauder, I haven't seen you since last week's meeting. Yeah. Been having to get the sword honed and check my... Check the fal... The falconings of the arrows. Or the bolts.

[00:05:55] Yeah, and HP was sick. So I had to take care of him. Yeah, I kind of got Vaughn self-sufficient. He's just, you know, he's still having a rough time. So what do you think about this Barter guy? I know he's been to the meetings, but I don't really get a good feel on him. I... Don't... I don't know. I should point out the way my character is built. I have no sensitivity or any social skills whatsoever.

[00:06:25] What with the head wound. Perfect. He seems like a fair... Like he seems like he's one of us who's lost somebody and... Perhaps a fair person to do trade with. Well, I guess we all need that right now. Let's get over to him and see what he has to say. Do let's. Okay.

[00:06:55] So you guys can find out some information about the job if you wish. You could find, you know, the price, the type of job it is, and so on through a check as usual. So who would like to go first?

[00:07:09] I was gonna suggest, like, squire is going to go back to her roguish days and maybe stick a stealth into the person's home or hovel and see what they can find. Sure. Sure. You could try that. Yeah. All right. Would that be it? That would be my stealth. Yeah. What information are you trying to find? Like the price, what the job would be like? Yeah. I'm...

[00:07:38] What do you guys think? Should I go for the price or for like details on what we're walking into? Well, one other question kind of about the spots. Yeah. Do we just, quote, automatically get the soft and the weak? Or do we have to still spend a scam action to get it, but it's just automatic? Your scam action is an automatic success. Okay. Okay.

[00:08:00] You like go back through your former taker's notes or maybe you take a second to take a bit of time to sit down and think about all the conversations you had. And then you're like, oh yeah, this person said this. Or you find a note being like, oh yeah, this is about this person. But it still does take a scam action, right? Yes. Okay. It's just an instant succeed. It's just an instant success. Sort of like the hustler spot kind of thing. The networking check is always a success. Yep.

[00:08:29] So to answer your question, Crazon, I think it might be a good idea to figure out how much it pays. Okay. Or who the competition is, one of those two things. Yeah, I think that's probably smart. Okay. I will go with the see how much the money is because he may be trustworthy or fair for us for this dealing, but we should find out what we're actually getting into money wise. Okay. So that is a natural success.

[00:08:59] 2-2. Nice. With, I guess, the plus two for my stealth. But yeah, 2-2. Nice. Okay. You sneak into his, where he, you sneak into his office. He manages some caravans going through the area. He's part of the, the shipping hands group. Kind of. He more works with them than actually is a part of shipping hands.

[00:09:25] Because no one really wants to be a part of shipping hands after the whole mess with the train. And. I wonder why. The, the, the coup. The attempt of coup. The attempted coup. Yes. The attempted coup. Listen to the gauntlet. First gauntlet. If you haven't heard that before, it's pretty good. But yeah. You, you note that he has sold off a bunch of goods to set aside some money and some notes.

[00:09:54] He's got some notes planning out how much money he needs to spend for this job. And you see a note where he's going to start his pitch with 15 bounty. 15 bounty. All right. So I will, I will sneak out of the, after getting the, getting the, the marks and the, the information we need from his hovel. I will, I will sneak out of the layer and reconnoiter back to our, my, my compatriots. And relay that information. All right.

[00:10:26] So Marauder L, you can find type of job. You can find competition. I'd like to find out the type of job that it is. I'm pretty well known here in Elevation. You know, my, my husband had, had a part in, you know, all that business, but, but, you know, I made good friends with the old, the old leaders, the wife, after we had our kind of shared, shared activity. And so I've been in the social circles.

[00:10:54] See, that's a three over two, five over two. Just to ask around in the, in the social circles among the, you know, the wives of the, the enclave and, and find out what they're, they all, what's going on with the job. About the, sorry, you said the type of job. Type of job. Yeah. So they, they all say the same, like, oh, you heard about what happened to his, his wife.

[00:11:21] It was so sad and everything got, got, got killed out there. And one of the trade caravans that Barger had, um, Barger's gone around and said that, you know, it was a rival trader organization. Um, even though it looks like Raiders and, and he's, he's vowed his revenge from that day forth.

[00:11:46] You, you, you remember hearing during some of the, the meetings, the therapy group therapy, he is very angry about his wife's death and he vows revenge. So this is going to be an elimination job. Probably going to kill the people that killed his wife. Really funny if this, if this kid, this character, the, the person that got killed was one of the people that we killed in the, in our other game. Right?

[00:12:17] No, I, I really, I really think that if, if it's a rival trading company, it's probably the, the leftovers from Leroy's old, uh, shipping hands, you know, uh, his, his good old boys. The ones that, uh, the ones that, you know, didn't break from him when, uh, when he got taken out. All right. That's what I bet. Yeah, that's probably pretty reasonable.

[00:12:41] So for, uh, my action, I am going to, uh, head around just kind of intimidating folks. Uh, uh, into being like, yeah, you're not taking this job. This is us. This is our crew, which we haven't named yet. And see how they respond to, to see if anyone like fights back, like they're interested or something like that. So you can find the competition. Exactly. Okay.

[00:13:11] Uh, that is, uh, six over five. Okay. Um, so you, you go around being intimidating saying this is our job. And then one of the other people from your group therapy sessions, like, you know, it's, it's not, it's not your job until Bart says it's your job until then we all have a chance.

[00:13:34] Uh, it seems he's pitched this idea some up from, uh, with some other people from the group therapy and they've decided to band together to head out to possibly try and do this job. If no, they get it. Um, so there is a, there, there's another taker or taker group forming from the other therapy people that you have dealt with. Um, they haven't come up with a name yet. Uh, but you know, they say they're going to do well.

[00:14:03] They're sort of in the same condition as you guys though. So we should use networking to come up with a name first and then put that out there and just demoralize them. Um, do any of us have networking? Uh, I actually have one in networking. I think just one. It's more than me. Nice. So who actually we'll, we'll, we'll do this.

[00:14:28] Um, so L you find you, you hear that, uh, you get a call from, from next, you know, fellow former taker of, uh, former taker friend of, uh, Vaughn's. Well, he's been part of the, the, the support group too, right? Off and on since his, uh, since his friend kind of, uh, fell off the face of the planet. What was his name? Steve. Steve. Yeah.

[00:14:56] Since Steve, uh, they, they, they, they, nice man, such a nice, nice man. They, they, they found him, but he wasn't really the same afterwards or at least that's what, what next tells you. Yeah. Yeah. Next, next calls you up on, you have your Ubix specs or Vaughn's Ubix specs. Well, remember I have my own pair of Ubix specs. That's true. So you're Ubix specs. Yes. Yeah. Oh, Hey, Hey L. Oh, hi next. It's good to hear from you. Uh, is, is Steve making a recovery? Is he doing okay?

[00:15:26] Yeah. Um, he's, he's doing okay. Um, I, I, I heard that I still have some contacts in Elevation who are friendly, uh, besides just Vaughn and, you know, the other guys. And, um, I heard that you were thinking of going out on your own. Well, not on your own, but going out over the fence yourself.

[00:15:52] And, um, you know, I, I really owe Vaughn one for all his help. Back, um, back on the train. He, he really saved, saved me there. And I was wondering if you needed someone to negotiate for this job. Well, that would be great. And I'm sure he'll be really happy to hear from you. You know, he, he has his ups and downs. He's currently in one of his downs, but I think he'll be coming back up. Yeah. I'll, I'll, I'll give him a call after, after when I have a chance, but, um, yeah, just,

[00:16:22] just give me the contact info and, um, no, I'm, I'm happy to do you this favor once to, to negotiate on your behalf. Thanks, Nex. We really appreciate it. Beep. Beep. In the background or something. Beep. Beep. Beep. Okay. So one of you can, can play Nex. Um, hopefully you'll negotiate better as him than I did. Uh, no, no, that, that can't happen.

[00:16:52] Not allowed. Um, so yeah, you're, you're all set up to negotiate for the job for Burt. You know, it's an, a elimination job that is starting price 15 bounty. And if you beat a, a beat the other group to a taker name, you're at least one step on them. So I guess the next question would be who wants to role play Nex for this negotiation? Uh, I can do that if y'all want.

[00:17:22] Sure. I was just trying to remember what Nex was like. I think I ummed and awed a lot during the negotiations. And he sounded a little uncertain of himself. A little bit. So yeah, whoever's playing Nex will, um, use two for all their social skills. And you can make a call to Burt whenever you are ready. Okay. Uh, so I'll make the call. Oh, hey, uh, who is this?

[00:17:53] Uh, hey, um, uh, Uh, this, uh, Nex, uh, used to be a trader over in Elevation. Yeah, yeah, I think I've heard of you. Yeah, yeah. Remember, uh, we, we basically saved the Enclave, the breadwinners and me? Yeah, I think I remember that. I might have been out on a job back during that, but yeah, yeah. Rings a bell now that you mentioned it. What can I do for you? So, uh, I'm, I'm off doing my own thing right now.

[00:18:22] Uh, but I've got some, I've got some folks here who, uh, were really interested in your job. And I thought I'd, uh, reach out for on their behalf and just, you know, like, uh, get this, uh, you know, going. What, what, what folks? Uh, they call themselves the... Cut the leftovers. We cut back to everyone else. Yeah. How about the leftovers? I mean, that kind of makes it sound like...

[00:18:48] Yeah, it is that, but I was trying to think of like, like something like the breadwinners and like... Sourdough? Sourdough. The bread box. No, no, the bread box was the vehicle. Right. Um... The take, no, the takeout. Takeouts. Actually, I kind of like takeout. Takeout it is. That sounds good to me. Yep.

[00:19:17] Flashback. Takeout. Takeout, takeout, takeout. Uh... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's El, Marauder, Squire, those guys, right? Yeah, yeah, that's them. Oh, yeah, yeah, I approached them with the job. Uh... Yeah, we could talk about that. All right, excellent. And... Make that leadership check. Ties go to the market, 10-10.

[00:19:46] Uh, actually, we can say leadership is three. I'm pretty sure Nex had a leadership of three. Okay. Thank you for throwing that, um... Life Preserver. Yeah, I mean, I could look it up really quickly, but yeah. I think Nex had a leadership of three and everything else was two. All right, so that would mean, uh, four rounds then. Okay. Yeah. Four rounds of negotiation. Uh, would you like to go first there, Chris? Uh...

[00:20:16] No, you go ahead. I'll go second. I guess I should really bring up Nex's character sheet so I can know his spots. Uh... Yeah, I'll play them, I just don't know what they are off the top of my head. Uh... Yeah. One was paranoid and... Okay, here we go. Paranoid and loyal and true. And actually looking at his character sheet now, he had a three leadership and two and everything else. So that's good. Nice. It works out. It works out.

[00:20:44] So, he will lean back and, uh... He'll spend his time reading one of your spots. Uh, so he'll do that this round. Okay, well... You have to understand that these folks, they're all, uh... They're all, um, uh... They're, uh... Used to, uh... Used to dealing with takers themselves, you know? When you're... When you're so close to taker life, you pick up a few things.

[00:21:11] So even though they seem like a fresh bunch, they're actually pretty skilled already. And that's my deception check. That's, uh... That's a 10 over 2. Okay. Uh, and he read your loyal and true spot. So talking a little strategy on scams. Um, we should probably do the auto soft, auto weak. Uh, one round and then the next.

[00:21:40] And then the last one, um, whoever has the best intimidation or best idea on how to eliminate competition, um, should probably do that one. That's what I would do with this. Uh, what do y'all think? Yeah, that makes sense to me. Uh, I have an intimidation of two, so I'm probably the best there. Yeah. Alright, then I'll come out of the gate and I'll auto succeed on his, uh, soft. Okay.

[00:22:03] Um, so you remember Vaughn talking about, um, looking into a job with Bart offscreen from the gauntlet. Uh, and, uh, you said his soft spot, which is, um... Remember the dead. Remember the dead. He really, really thinks that we should remember those who fell during the crash, during the afterwards.

[00:22:28] Um, he's really big on, um, you know, keeping those in their memory and still living up to their, uh, expectations and their love and all that stuff. So, if you just talk about your loss, uh, making sure that, you know, you're doing this for them or you're doing it for his loss. How, um, it's honorable doing it for them. That whole kind of line of thinking. Um, doing it for the Gipper. Basically.

[00:22:58] Doing it for Steve. Deception. Doing it for Ecclesiark. Persuasion. Uh, so yes, you know that weak spot. And you also have two Will playing as next. Oh, good. Excellent. So, Bart will go. I, I know that knowing how to be a taker is good and all.

[00:23:21] But, you know, it's not necessarily going to translate over to them actually fulfilling the deeds. You know, I've, I've seen their condition. They're not the best, but I'm confident they can pull it off if they try hard enough. Now, I want them to succeed. And I know you want them to succeed. Why? Which is why you're negotiating on their behalf.

[00:23:49] And I have to say, coming back and sticking your neck and your reputation out for these people, your, your fellow, uh, former takers, wife and everything. That's, that's it. That's a lot. And I want to say that I appreciate that. And I think you're a real standup guy there, next. And he's just gonna play on your loyal and true spot. All right, let's make a deception roll. Damn. All right, so.

[00:24:19] He definitely pushes down too. Uh, it's like, I try not, like I, like rub the back of my neck, like try not to be, uh, a little flattered. Okay. Well, yeah, but it's also, I just, I believe in these folks. They're, they're good, good folks. And, uh, what was the, uh, spot again we, we just read? Uh, remember the dead. Like if you, if you bring up the dead people. Yeah. And like, I mean, keep in mind, like these, I'm doing it.

[00:24:50] I am doing it because of Vaughn and like, I, I've got a little bit of a respect for him, but like, it's not just about them. Like, L and, um, yeah, uh, Squire and, uh, Squire and Marauder have both lost folks. They've, they've lost people. Like Marauder's whole deal is that her husband never came back. She, she wants to either find him or just find Solace.

[00:25:17] And like, that's something that's important, you know? Remembering the folks who are gone. Okay. Make that persuasion check. I'm, uh, just gonna spend a will to make that a critical success. Just so I have some forward momentum. Okay. Um, you both would move into hazard pay, but since you got the crit success, I'll say you move into the hazard pay and he stays at 100% markup. Mm-hmm. Okay.

[00:25:47] Next scam. I'll just use my instant success for, uh, the tough spot. Is it tough or weak that we can get? Oh, sorry. Not yet. Not tough spot. Weak spot. That's what I was. Okay. Um, we know the person, not the job. Yeah. So, Squire, you remember, uh, Ecclesiarch talking about him and his crew coming across the caravan out in the loss and meeting Bart and talking to him.

[00:26:16] Um, and you remember Ecclesiarch saying that that guy has a real short temper. He's easily angered and he doesn't think straight. He definitely doesn't think straight when he's pissed off. Like they got some real good stuff from him because he wasn't thinking clearly. Um, so you know that he is easily angered.

[00:26:37] If you could get him a little mad, he might, you might be able to talk him into getting some extra bounty and he might not think too, too closely about that. I bet these are Leroy's leavings. We're, we, we, um, canonically, you know, we've been against those people before and they were nasty and they probably, um, murdered his wife in a very bad way.

[00:27:05] If you want to use that to rip, uh, fin him up. Okay. Uh, okay. Uh, okay. Um, Bart will start. Um, that's, that's good and all. And I appreciate that you aren't just moving on from your loved ones right away and you, you're helping me deal with what happened with my loved ones. And that's why I want to make sure this works.

[00:27:35] I need to get back at them. And I need this to succeed. If that means holding back some money for a follow up operation, maybe some of them get away. And I need to send more people after them. I need the funds on hand to be able to pay for that, which is why I can't just. Give all of your friends just a crap ton of money. And I would love to believe you.

[00:28:01] I just need to hold on to some in case there needs to be more action taken in the future. Oh, no, I get it. You don't actually care about your family and their memory. That's fine. Like, this is obviously just a perfunctory thing for you. But like, uh, I mean, I know if I was in your position, I would have, uh, I'd do everything I can. I mean, I've, I took a bullet to the face and, uh, I kept going, but you know, whatever. If you're not man enough, that's fine. I'm doing this for them. What are you talking about?

[00:28:32] This is all for them. Okay. Sure. If you say so. What? You don't think. Yeah. Yeah. Flustering him. Eight over five. You know what? You could have that extra bounty. You know what? If you don't think, would a person who doesn't care about the family offer them expenses or 100% markup, you know? Uh, so yeah, you pushed him.

[00:29:01] He, he pushed him back to expenses. Nice. Uh, so going into last round of negotiation after this last scam. Uh, so I am going to go to one of the other folk, uh, support groups, uh, house, uh, and post

[00:29:26] up right in front of their door when they're about to leave to negotiate with, uh, part. Okay. So pure intimidation. Roll that pure intimidation. Hell yeah. 10 over two. Okay. Uh, they open the, they, they go to open the door and you see it open a crack. I just like, push it closed. Nope. Make a little growling noise when you do so.

[00:29:54] Uh, you hear the, you hear, you see the shadows move to a side window. You go over to the side window and the blinds come up. They see you in the blinds quickly shut. And it's like that going around the house for, for a bit before. I'm just doing fucking bite of the hunter. Oh God. It goes like that before you hear them just sit down and not make any more attempts to leave the building. You hear crying. Jimmy won't get food.

[00:30:23] So yes, you've messed with the competition. So we go into the last round of negotiations. Um, you know what next? I think you're right. I think your crews probably, uh, one of the best options I have and I shouldn't splurge. Sorry. I got a little things got a little heated there and I'm willing to go even further.

[00:30:49] And show you how much I care about your, your guys group. Uh, in that I want them to have a level head out there and do well, which is why I'm going to give them some Soma to make sure they're good and clear when they're out there. So he's gifting. So he's gifting. He's saying he's going to gift Soma to you guys. Well, nothing I can do. Yeah. Nothing I can do to, uh, defend against that. Yep.

[00:31:20] Oh, hey man. That's sweet. So you often just give people drugs instead of actually negotiating because that's not what I'm here for. And with that, I'm making, I'm just doing an intimidation plan and saying like, Oh, Oh, Oh, that. So you're just trying to bribe me. Okay. Fuck it. Whatever. Okay. I'll take them.

[00:31:45] But, uh, I like, I grabbed them from him and I just stand up and I'm like, all right, well, thanks, I guess. Uh, but we're done here. And that is a four over three. Jesus. Okay. Um, yeah. So you cut them off. He goes, well, okay. Okay. Okay. Um, you got your, your, your people, they've got the job. It's fine. They got the job.

[00:32:14] There was another group of people I was talking to. They were going to call themselves leftovers, but just even hearing the name, it sounds like they're not even. Even cut for, for going out there. I mean, who wants leftovers anyway? Right. So leftovers when they get a takeout. So yeah, the job, the job's here guys. Uh, uh, give me that last leadership check to see if you go with expenses or a hundred percent markup.

[00:32:44] Okay. And remember, you've got that one last will you can use on this. Yes, I do. All right. I don't need to use it though. Okay. Uh, Bart agrees to pay you guys expenses. Dang. So that's 15 base job, double it for 30. There are three legs. So that's nine bounty for the legs.

[00:33:12] What's your guys break point? Is it, I know that, uh, squire has a break point of two. I never thought I'd say that. Oh, sure. Oh no. Yeah. I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll be suffering that with it with traumas and stuff. I have a break point of three. Uh, three as well. Okay. Okay. Some people have actual dependence to, uh, fall back out. Some people are cash. No.

[00:33:44] Okay. What else is there? Uh, equipment. Uh, your, your equipment's paid for you. You just don't have to pay upkeep. That's fine. We'll just leave it at that. All right. So I'm going to say when we go, when we go out, there's a scene where like a marauder hands Vaughn my cats. It's like, take good care of him. Don't worry. I love kitties. Next informs you that you guys got the job. Uh, tells you that you'll be making a 47 bounty plus your equipment's paid for.

[00:34:13] And then you are contacted by Bart shortly after. All right, guys. I tracked down those assholes that killed my wife. Uh, there is a trade caravan that will be passing through the area. I have an informant on the inside. Um, it's a woman.

[00:34:40] Uh, you'll recognize her with, cause she's going to be the one with, um, pink hair. There's going to be a caravan of eight people traveling through the area that I need you guys to attack and get rid of the seven people of the trade caravan. Attack and murder. Very hope that you keep my informant alive.

[00:35:07] If she gets injured, I will not blame you. But please do not kill her. She is aware that a team is coming in to attack the caravan. So you don't have to worry about that. Now, in addition to all of this, I do not want this blowing back on us. As you probably don't want to have that happen as well. We all know what shipping hands is like.

[00:35:37] This trade caravan, I am pretty sure, wouldn't be openly with shipping hands if it is with shipping hands. But we don't want any blowback whatsoever. Even if the people of Elevation who aren't associated with any of this just hear that we went out and killed people, they might not be happy with it. So we're going to blame those assholes from Salt of the Earth. S-O-T-E. They have a truck that will be in this area with a heavy machine gun on the back.

[00:36:07] I would like you to go there. Take out those raiders. Come on, Salt of the Earth is raiders. We all know that. You're going to kill them. You're going to take their truck with their heavy machine gun attached to the back. You're going to dress up like the raiders. And you're going to pretend to be raiders attacking that caravan.

[00:36:32] And I will give you a bonus if you do not keep the vehicle and you ditch it somewhere, let's say in the Cheyenne wetlands or some other rot or whatever. How does that all sound? Sounds. Sure. Sounds like something we can handle. I'm glad to hear that. The blackguards. The blackguards.

[00:36:58] So out of character, your three legs will be the first leg is going to be attacking the raiders from Salt of the Earth. Salt of the Earth is a nomadic group of the worst of the worst believer groups and just people who like to exploit an area before moving on. So your first leg will be stealing their vehicle, killing them and making yourselves look like them.

[00:37:26] Your second leg will be attacking the trade caravan. And then your third leg will be disposing of the vehicle. And that's out of character explanation. Yeah. Is there anything you guys would like to do for prep or anything?

[00:37:44] No, I guess just like he, uh, Squire will, will, will do a prayer to, to, uh, to the black math gods, uh, for Ecclesiarch to watch over her and then go on and ready, ready the weapons and such. El remembers that every time before going out, Vaughn would always talk about getting a weather report. So that sounds like something that she wants to try to do. Would that just be research and a Ubix charge?

[00:38:14] Uh, yes. Research please. Ties go to the market. Okay. 1010. There's been a lot of fighting between the DHQS and the Moths, some, some minor skirmishes. Uh, there's been outages in the Ubix network occasionally. Um, so people haven't had the best reports of the weather, especially because the fighting does attract them and move them around, um, from their normal, you know, downhill movements.

[00:38:43] Unnatural weather patterns. Yep. Yes. Uh, I'll just, uh, spend my time sharpening my axe and, uh, making sure my toolkit is, uh, working. Okay. Well, it sounds like you guys are all ready. Um, uh, I will let you choose, like, the, I will let you define your ambush. I will be lenient on, um, you know, the area that you're going to ambush the freighters in.

[00:39:11] Um, you can find them. They're driving a loud vehicle. But before we get to that, you guys need to head out and over the fence. So... Give me a self-control check, please, for leaving the enclave. I do not pass that. Two under seven. That is... Three over one. Six over one. Okay. If you pass, you're fine. If you fail, take one, two...

[00:39:41] Stress? Stress. Stress. There's a reason why Vaughn went out over the wall and you didn't. And you've heard the stories of what's out there. And... Your knees have always been a little... A little weak. But as you, you walk through that open gate, you hear the... The bell ring on the opposite of the enclave drawing casualties that way. Your knees feel even a little weaker. A little shakier. As you, you take steps forward and out into the... The loss.

[00:40:11] But hey, Vaughn made it back. You, you too. Uh, you, you can too. Hopefully. Okay. Hopefully. So... All of you spend a ration. And, uh, what type of ambush would you like to set up for the raider group? Uh, you know that there is probably at least two people. Because one needs to drive the truck and one needs to man the heavy machine gun in the back. Well, I think we should probably do it in a heavily rutted area where the vehicle can't go fast.

[00:40:42] Yeah. Maybe with rocks or something. Not really like on an open road or in an open field or anything. That sounds like the best idea to me. Yeah, like, and maybe with some, some roadside cover of some kind, like a... Uh, do you want like a billboard or something or... Oh, what about that part of the highway that has the billboard but then also had the, uh, the minefield for a while? And all the roads all pockmarked. But people still like to go through there because it, it's still, it's a shortcut?

[00:41:11] I, I won't say minefield, but I'll say, like, there's, um, ammunitions that didn't detonate. Yeah, I know that callback. Yep. That sounds like that might be a good area. What do you, what do you all think? Yeah, seem, there's some good vantage points and hiding spot. And the road would be rough enough for the car to take it slow. I mean, I, I have a bow. Same at max. How, how, how long range are the, are your bows and crossbows?

[00:41:40] I have to stay, I have to stay pretty close to the road. My, I don't really have a handgun. Oh, oh god, I need to look at your carriage sheets now. This might be terrible. I'm mid-range. Oh, god. Mid-range. Well, if we can get there early, I can try to use mechanics and my toolkit to see if I can, like, undermine a few of the mines.

[00:42:09] Remember, we need to keep the truck driving. I was more thinking just, you know, where they already blew up so there are holes and so it's easy to, easy to, you know, have to drive around them and drive slow. And maybe we could, um, can, can we set up like a thing that would fall in so the front wheels would fall into a hole they didn't know was there? Like a tarp? Like a tarp? Yeah, like maybe a tarp with some dirt on it. I don't know. I just, I just saw that on the, on the, on a Ubik show.

[00:42:35] Uh, if we know where they're coming from, we could put down a, we could find some kind of way to like basically block the road. Like get some logs and, and put them onto the, uh, like basically cause a, like a blockade of sorts. So I, I will say that, you know, that they're patrolling the area looking for targets. Uh, if you do something on the road, you don't need to worry about attracting their attention.

[00:42:59] But if you do something like slightly off the road, I will ask for a reason why they would drive slightly off the road. All right. So what I think we should do is get some, just go, go full on Vietnam and just make like a plungy pit. Simple. I like it. Just remember, we have to be able to drive the truck afterward. There's replacement tires, right? Looks at the, uh, five year old or five years old, uh, cars on the side of the road, the rubber deteriorating.

[00:43:30] I mean, we don't necessarily have to put spikes at the bottom of the pit. We could just basically. Just something where they get stuck a little bit and then we have to, it would take them a little while to get out of. That sounds like a good idea. Yeah. If the asphalt is pitted as well as it, or like, and the road is pitted as much as it is, might be easier for us to just dig the, like make them wider. I suspect what we'll actually need to do is get one of the mines from the minefield to blow a hole in the road that we will, that we'll then need to cover, uh, with the tarp. So that's out of character. Yeah.

[00:43:59] So you want to make like an obvious trap that they would stop and have to disarm? Is that what you're saying, Chris? No, what I'm saying is that it's not an obvious trap that they would have to stop and disarm. It's we are literally taking one of the mines, we are putting it in the road, we are having it explode, and then we are covering that with like a tarp and dirt. Oh, okay. I see what you mean. You're using a mine to create a hole quicker. Yeah. Okay. Percussive excavation. Yep.

[00:44:26] That would also possibly attract them to that area because they, oh, somebody got hit by a mine. Maybe we should go over there and fuck up the rest of their day. Yep. I will say that would work. Just remember that'll bring in casualties. Perfect. Okay. Squire says that with a little too much enthusiasm. Is that the one meme of like that monkey puppet where it's just like side eyeing you? Just like, yes, Zane and Malene.

[00:44:56] You see a sheen off the blade as Squire says that. You think it's, well, you hope it's a red, a faint red sheen instead of a black. Oh God. Okay. So foresight for the best area to put that? Yes, you could, you could roll foresight. Let's see. That's a four over one. Okay. I'll, I'll. Okay. So you succeed in that. You, you find the best area.

[00:45:25] Um, you find an area where there's already some, some divots from the exploited munitions previously. So you could make an even deeper hole if you wish, or you could, um, cause you, you find a good area to, to set up in. I will need scavenge check to scavenge one of the munitions to use to make a hole. You've got the best scavenge. Um, I don't have scavenge. I have a one. I also have a one. So. It's one of you two.

[00:45:56] Well, you want me to do that while you're. You can take Crazon. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, you can take that self control check. Yeah, no, I was gonna say, watch me clearly fail it. And then it's just that scene from Bad Boys 2 where I just. Crazon's chest only has 10 hitboxes. So he technically could lose all hitboxes at once. Okay, well I didn't. It turns into that scene from Lethal Weapon where there's a mine on the toilet. And for some reason, uh, Twyre's sitting on the toilet and realizes there's a mine. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:46:24] Uh, I got a, a, a, a, a, yeah, nine over six. Okay. Um, so you recover the munition and you can detonate it. And you just wanted to cover it quickly with a tarp. And hide before the Raiders come. Is that what your guys plan was? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Like they're like, hide maybe up top by the, like near the, if there's a, again, like a,

[00:46:54] one of those, uh, billboards or something or some kind of cover and ready my, my Crespo. Okay. I will also be getting into cover nearby and I will, when they do roll up, be activating the dead eyes. Okay. Okay. I, I, I string my bow. Uh, so you detonate it from a distance.

[00:47:18] Would one, uh, could one of you, uh, mark off a charge on your handgun or something to show that you shot the munition to explode it? Or I guess you could make a athletics check or a mechanics check to throw in a rock, throw a large rock or rig some timing mechanism. My handgun's hungry. So if someone else doesn't have a hungry thing or wants to do that other thing, that would be great.

[00:47:47] Uh, I have a bow, but I can, I can set up a timer mechanism for, uh, the mechanics in my toolkit, right? Yes. Okay. Yeah. So I'll do that. Okay. So I'll spend two charges on my toolkits and didn't need to do that. That is an eight over four. Okay. Uh, you have it successfully detonate, uh, from while you were at a safe distance. Uh, you run in quickly and throw the tarp out. Uh, give me an awareness check, all of you.

[00:48:17] Eight over seven. Uh, that is an eight, eight, uh, but it's not the natural kind. I do not have awareness. Default. Default. Yep. Four. Okay. Um, I believe you said you succeeded ill. I did. Yes. So while Marauder and Squire are quickly covering up the tarp with dirt, you see 10 casualties,

[00:48:43] seven shambles away, uh, coming out of the brush on the side. I'll, uh, yell and signal and wave at what's going on. Yeah. Ready to crossbow and get ready to start shooting some casualties. Okay. So all of you give me your shoot checks and such. Okay. Dang. That is a, uh, 11 over one.

[00:49:12] That is a seven over four. Okay. 12 over seven. Okay. Uh, you knock out three of them. So there are now seven casualties, six shambles away. I will need more shoot checks if you're going to stay and fight. Well, if we don't, they'll follow us and we won't be able to hide. It's true. Mm-hmm. That's a 10 over seven. Uh, that is a failure.

[00:49:41] Um, and keep in mind, you two guys, you two can do, um, uh, full offense while I have to reload. I have to redraw bow every time. Gotcha. Do I have to do that with the crossbow? Um, shoot. You do. You do. Yeah. Yeah. I do not have the pump action. I have capped clunky cumbersome mid range, single shot specialized. Since I got the option for full offense, I just got another eight over five.

[00:50:11] Okay. Squire, did you hit your shot? Um, it was a four over one. Okay. So they're now four casualties, five shambles away. Another round of shooting. Oof. That's a, that's three under 10. Okay. Uh, that's a failure. Okay. Okay. Oh. Well, I got a five over four.

[00:50:41] Nice. And I guess I'll finish out this clip with full offense. Okay. With a seven over four. Okay. There are new, now two casualties, four shambles away, and you could hear the noise of a car in the distance. I'm going to go hide next to the road. Yeah. Yeah. Since I have to be closer. It makes sense there'd be casualties anyway with the sound. Yep.

[00:51:07] I'm a, I'll, I'll get, move two shambles away and like behind a rock. Okay. Yeah, about the same. Like find, like back off and find some cover. Should I make stealth checks? Oh yes. Please give me stealth checks all of you. I will say that because of successful foresight check by L to find a good location, you get a plus one to your stealth roll. Oh cool. In addition to your normal stuff. All right.

[00:51:35] Well, that's a, um, a, uh, 12 over nine with the plus one. That is an eight over two. That's an 11 over seven. Okay. You guys are stealthy. It's as if you never left the enclave. Um, so. You just play hide and seek with the wife, other wife's kids. So the vehicles come up.

[00:51:58] You see that there is the flatbed truck with the heavy machine gun. There's a person on the back manning the heavy machine gun and there's a person driving the truck. But you also see that there is a motorcycle with the sidecar. There's someone driving the motorcycle and there is a person with a rifle sitting in the sidecar. Okay. They, they come up.

[00:52:23] The car honks lining up the cat, getting the casualties to walk towards it in a line and the engine revs. And it goes forward and squashes the two remaining casualties. Um, and as the vehicles start going around, making sure there's no other casualties, the motorcycle falls into your pit trap.

[00:52:52] Ah, shit. The marauders. I should say marauders. The raiders, uh, yell for a bit. You hear the vehicle stop and the person who is driving the truck goes to help the two other people try and get the motorcycle out of the pit trap. All right. What would you guys like to do? Uh, I'm going to draw a bead on the, uh, person on the gun who's mounted on the, uh, machine gun. Okay.

[00:53:22] That's what I'd like to do as well with my dead eyes hack on. Okay. I would like to shoot the person that had the rifle if they're out and about. Are they out and about? Are they like still trying to get recover from the motorcycle? They are, they are out. They are all around the motorcycle talking about pulling it out. Um, you notice that the two drivers have handguns. Yeah, I'll do that. Unless we want, I'll just all like hang up on like focus fire on one. I think the one is on the, on the heavy machine gun.

[00:53:52] Sounds like a good idea to me. Yeah. Okay. Then yeah, I think I'll, yeah, I'll do that as well. Focus fire on what we all just like try and gang up on the, the guy with the big nasty machine gun. Do we want to do our initiative? Do you guys have? Yeah. Do you guys have ghoul net or no? No, I got nothing. I got no tech. We just talked ahead of time. Had some plans. Yeah. Okay. Speed plus speed. Plus black. Okay. Okay.

[00:54:21] Uh, that is going to be an eight. Eleven. Yes. You're not going to believe what I just rolled. Oh no. I rolled dice for each of them and they were all a three. And this is a surprise round anyway, right? Yeah. Fuck. All right. Let's do this. Let's start this party. Leroy's leave it. All right.

[00:54:49] I guess since I'm, I'm up first, I'll, I'll fire off my arrow. See if I can get a headshot. Yeah. Go for it. Hell yeah. That's a critical success. Okay. Uh, I, I forgot to mention beforehand, but, um, in my games, I like to do random damage. So, uh, just roll a, a d10 for damage again and we'll double it. Okay. Uh, six damage. So 12. Okay.

[00:55:19] Uh, yeah, there's just a single arrow that strikes straight through his throat, straight through the throat and the guy falls. Um, give me a second. Slumps over the machine gun. Okay. Wipes out the others. One of the Raiders notices this and yells out and just yells. Uh, so, um, I was about to say Sparky L your go. Okay.

[00:55:48] Well, I guess since, since that guy's down, I'll go for the guy with the rifle. And that is a 13 over five. Okay. A little damage on location. Uh, that is, uh, three to the seven. Okay. Three to seven still up. All right. Oh, that's in the body. Yeah. And I will crossbow the guy who's shouting. Okay. Yeah.

[00:56:16] That's, uh, we'll say the driver of the, um, the driver of the, the flatbed itself. Gotcha. Uh, that is a nine over five. Okay. So I got to row the, uh, damage. I think it is, uh, roll roll. Unless you're doing like a headshot. I mean, I wouldn't mind doing a headshot on him. So. Okay.

[00:56:42] So what, what did you get without, uh, what would you get for, uh, your roll again to hit? Uh, seven. Seven over. Oh, okay. Sorry. Hang on. Wow. Um, eight, eight. To hit. Okay. Don't create success. Roll, roll, roll, die for damage. Let's see how much damage you do to his head. Oh, Jesus. Okay. Oh. One.

[00:57:12] One. Okay. Uh, so he yells and the arrow goes through and you see like a nice little divot or a track in his head, but he's, he's dazed and confused. It goes through his ear. Basically. Like not, not through the ear, like into the, into the head, but like the robe. Yeah. He's got it. He's got a new earring. That was a surprise round. So back to the top with, with Marauder.

[00:57:41] Would it be fair for the surprise round to be full offense for people that could do it? Oh yeah. You could do that. Sorry. Well, that's a 12 over two on that. Okay. Again on the guy with the rifle and that's a seven to the O. Seven to the head. Okay. Okay. He drops. He drops. You just see us. Mist of red come from his head and he, he drops. So there's just the two drivers left. So back to the top of the turn order. Okay.

[00:58:11] With Marauder again. This is, uh, most successful ambush I've seen in this game so far. Well, don't worry. I've only got a one in longbow. So. All right. Uh, I guess I'll try to take out somebody. One of the other, uh, folks. There is the motorcycle driver and the flatbed driver. The flatbed driver got a arrow glancing off his head. All right. So he's probably distracted. Uh, let's go with the motorcycle driver. Okay.

[00:58:41] 10 over six. Okay. Roll location and damage. Okay. Uh, that's 10 damage to hit location eights. You just hit him straight in the chest. Gut shot. He, he lets out a cry, uh, and just falls to the ground into the pit with his motorcycle. Jesus Christ.

[00:59:11] All right. I guess I'll try and finish the job with the truck driver. Ooh, that is going to be a five under six. Okay. Uh, arrow flies by the driver finds nothing but air L. Well, I'm going to keep my twitch just in case I need it. Oh shoot. Sorry. I guess you should have gone after Chris. Damn it.

[00:59:37] Oh, well, no, if it's, if it's my first turn, I'll definitely shoot again at the driver guy. Yeah. And that comes up to a 13 over eight. Keep rolling real high on these. I don't know why. Uh, and that puts an eight to the nine. Okay. Um, you put two in the upper torso. Um, another spray of blood and he falls down. Uh, you have wiped out all of the. The. The. I don't know.

[01:00:07] I don't know. Damn. I don't know why Vaughn talked about like this was so hard. This seems pretty easy. Yeah. Just like stand up and flex. Yeah. That's really impressive. Squire walks over to grab his, uh, his, or their, uh, their RFID, uh, arrows. I would need a scavenge check for that. Okay. You need. So you need a scavenge check? Yeah. The, the, the RFID arrows gives you a plus one to scavenge checks. I believe.

[01:00:39] The mere fact that I have RFID arrows is the only reason I actually can scavenge for them. Guys, I got a three under nine. That one arrow. Yeah. I got a six over three. This literally the only thing I can scavenge for is my arrows. Okay. Yeah. You, you get your arrows back there. Um, broader because they were sticking out of the people and you knew where they were. Uh, squire just in the background sifting through long grass.

[01:01:08] Squire can't quite find, uh, their arrows, but yeah, you, you have a motorcycle. You have four uniforms that you could use to look like members of salt of the earth. And you have a flatbed with a heavy machine gun in the back. I'm already on the, uh, I'm already, uh, in like the flatbed and just going beep beep motherfucker. So you could scavenge the bodies.

[01:01:37] I'm just going to do them as a group and you can scavenge the casualties. Well, let me just say, I hope, I hope that since they have those pistols and they didn't get to use them, there might be a refresh in there. Roll me some scavenge. I do not have scavenge, so. I will roll scavenge on the casualties. And I'll roll scavenge on the pupils. Okay. You want to do the casualty scavenging first? Um, that is, oh God, uh, five, five. Crit failure? Not crit failure. It's not a nat five.

[01:02:07] Unnatural. It's just, yeah, unnatural five. Yeah, okay. I was going to say this has got real downhill for Squire. It makes sense. This character is not. Good character. He's got cancer. He's now vector. Oh shit. Yeah. Uh, there is no bounty on the casualties, but as L checks the bodies of the raiders. That's a five over one.

[01:02:35] Uh, you find two refreshes of handgun ammo. Cause I am almost, I already used a refresh and I'm almost out again. Yeah. So, looking at the heavy machine gun in the back, that will require a heavy machine gun skill to use if you wish to use it. Or you can default, I will say, you can default under, uh, whatever your normal shoot is. Speed. Speed, yeah.

[01:03:06] And there is, uh, so it's normally, I was gonna, let me just take a screenshot for you and I'll post it so you have easy access to it. This is a refresher too, if we're like defaulting. It's, you have to get over your potential or is it? Under. Okay, yeah. Under or equal your potential. Okay, cool. So, so it is hungry. So, so it is hungry. But you do see that the vehicle had a refresh of heavy machine gun ammo in it.

[01:03:33] Well, just out of curiosity, uh, can either you two drive? I can only drive kind of in, in, you know, easy, easy situations. I can drive. The arc never taught me how to use a mount. I, I, I, I have a driver's license. Well, I have a, I have a bounty too, but, um. No, no, like I have an actual, like, I, I.

[01:04:02] Okay. Well, it doesn't sound like probably taking both vehicles is a good idea, but we could probably hide that, uh, motorcycle with the tarp and maybe sell that later. Um. I mean, we could also put the motorcycle into the flatbed. Yeah, I don't know how to use the heavy, heavy gun anyway, so it's probably a good idea if I don't try. Uh, out of character, I have a drive of one. Anyone else? Yep. I've got zero drive. I have zero drive, so. Okay.

[01:04:29] The 10 skill point character has the one skill that you guys all need. It was destiny. I made a point to, like, try to have at least one point in some stuff. Wow. This is gonna be interesting with shoot. Yeah. So, uh, I guess I'll be driving the flatbed. Uh, let's try to get the, uh, motorcycle in there. And we could, we could sell it later.

[01:04:57] Okay. So is that like an athletics or resistance to like, push that sucker up? Yeah, give me resistance to load the motorcycle. Well, unfortunately I can't really help with that. Alright, I got one in it. Let the cancer patient do it. Jeez. I've got melee. Um, I actually did pretty well. Seven over four. Okay. You managed to boost it up there.

[01:05:24] You detached the sidecar and then you throw the motorcycle in there. Yeah. You know what's weird? Ever since those bombs dropped, I've always felt so much stronger in my right arm. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, God. Yep. Always look on the bright side of life. Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da, ta-da, ta-da. Uh, okay.

[01:05:53] Uh, so you have your disguises. Uh, fortunately two of them died to headshots. So the, the, the, uh. I mean, they're marauders. I mean, blood on the, on the, on the outfits are kind of expected. Yeah. But it's not like torn up with like a hail of gunfire. Um, so it's still usable. Just patch another piece of like padding over the, over the, the holes.

[01:06:15] They've got like shoulder pads with spikes on them and they got like various intimidating things drawn on them. We look positively villainous. I have a story about that, but that's for after the game. All right. So, so I would say that I should probably ride inside. Uh, and then, uh, squire, you can go up on top and, and be like, you're going to use the gun, even if you're not going to use the gun.

[01:06:45] And then we can all just ride. All right. Okay. Should I be using the gun? I think that, I think that should be an in game, like an in character thing that she says, like, should I actually use the gun? Uh. Well, I remember watching this movie where a guy who didn't know how to use a gun just shot the thing they were driving. So can that, can that gun dip down that bow? Uh, no, the, the, the, the vehicle cannot be shot with the gun. Like it, it can't shoot itself. It can't shoot itself. Okay.

[01:07:13] Well, you can use it for intimidation when we start, but I don't know if you'll be able to hit anything. Yeah. I'm, I'll, I'll have my crossbow ready. Oh, I, I forgot to mention that the truck also has the armored upgrade. So you could use it for cover. And it also has the off-road upgrade. Oh, so I can use it as a battering ram. If that's what you wish to do, yes. Yes. Yeah. Do we want to do that guy's just like ram them and then. Well, I mean, we don't need, we really don't want to take it back.

[01:07:44] That's true. So long as we get that, that motorcycle and that sidecar off the back so it doesn't get damaged and we can maybe drive that back. And we have to try not to hurt. Pink. That's right. Yeah. What did he say her name was? All I heard was pink hair. Yeah. Uh, he didn't. Oh, well, I'm going to call her pinky. Okay. Okay. So are we ready? I'm like, I'm like already in the truck. Yeah. I'm waiting on you two. I'm on the back.

[01:08:12] I, I, I tap, I, I guess I like, I knock on the, on the, on the roof of the car. I'm just going to dust off the seat a little bit and make sure it's got a seatbelt. Okay. I'm ready to go. Uh, the seatbelts you can see were cut. Oh, that's too bad. We can go. All right. I'm kidding. They're going to be seatbelts. Um, but yeah, you can, I, uh, buckle up for safety. Yeah, we go. So you head off. Away we go.

[01:08:39] Uh, so next leg, uh, just mark off a fuel of gas. We'll say there was nine to begin with. So now there's eight. I'm sure that won't matter too much. Hopefully. Um, if we save it, we can save some, we can collect some of that gas. Maybe. Release gas up the motorcycle. Yeah. Worth four bounty H. I will need an awareness check from either L or I, I mean, uh, I guess all, all three of you can give me awareness checks. All right.

[01:09:08] You're not just going to necessarily drive up on them right away. I'm, I'm just thinking about one John Mulaney thing where it's like, do you ever just zone out? Like I'm driving. Like, are you paying attention? I'm driving. Well, how did I get here? I remember that all the time from, from, you know, before, before the crash. Yeah. I'm apparently just like fast, like trying to like make sure like the C is like, maybe I can use this thing. Cause I rolled a non natural six. Yeah.

[01:09:39] A natural six, six. So I see nothing. Out of curiosity, if, if you default on the, on, on the gun and then you use a will, will you count that as a success? Nick? Uh, yeah, I'll allow it for fun. Yeah. For fun. For fun. And also it's a heavy machine gun. It's not like you're firing single bullets. You're going to have like a trail of bullets to lead into your target. Yeah. Oh God.

[01:10:09] So just keep that in mind there, Squire. You can really try real hard and focus really hard and get it to work. I'll try it for the one time. And then that's how, that's how I'm going to just spend my one will. That one target that was fucked. Hopefully it's not the, hopefully it's not a pink haired one. Now, now Squire, just remember, I hear they really don't like hockey. So that's one failed awareness check.

[01:10:38] How did, uh, L and Marauder do? A success for me. I, I did not default. Okay. Well, I saw whatever it was coming up. L, you guys stop at a distance. You see the caravan. Um, you, you sort of try and find an incline in Kansas. It's, it's a little hard, but, uh, you find one to look down at them from. Uh, and you see them coming down. The road.

[01:11:05] There is two carts being pulled each by a donkey. You see that there are eight people in the caravan. Um, you see there is a woman with pink hair, like you were told. You see that they all have guns of some sort. If you could succeed, I'd give you more specifics, but they all have guns of some sort.

[01:11:33] Except for one person has a spear. And how is his pinky armed? Uh, pinky, pinky has a gun. Okay. Just making sure pinky is not the spear person. No, pinky, pinky does not have a spear. Okay. But yeah, they, they all seem to be, uh, circled around the two donkeys with the carts and they seem to be moving down the road in that formation. The person with the spear is in the front of the circle around the carts.

[01:12:04] You know what spears don't work good against? Trucks. I'm just imagining, uh, squires just gonna get like impaled. Yep. Oh God. Oh, my one functioning lung. Oh. Well, that or the radiator, but that's okay. So how would you guys like to approach this situation?

[01:12:27] I'd like to use some foresight to figure out a good area to either block the road, uh, and then open up with, uh, the heavy gun or a good spot to, you know, fly out of the side and just sideswipe a bunch of them. And a rolling foresight, I got an 11 over four. Okay. Maybe, yeah. Sideswipe the ones that are on the side that are, that doesn't have the pink haired person. That sounds like a really good idea. There was a overpass.

[01:12:56] It wasn't really like an overpass. There was like a rest station for the interstate that, you know, was used back when society existed in this area, um, where you would pull off the side of the interstate into a parking area. And the actual rest station was like in the middle of the two highway lanes and you'd cross a bridge to get to the middle from the two parking areas off the side of the highways.

[01:13:22] So, you know, that was a short distance back and you could use that if you wish. That sounds like an interesting idea. Maybe we could block one side of the bridge with the motorcycle and then kind of pin them in with the truck. Uh, it wouldn't be like they are on the bridge. They would be going under the bridge. The highway goes under the bridges and the bridges go from the, the side parking lots up over the interstate to like the middle island where the rest area is. Okay.

[01:13:51] Well then we could, we could station me up there on the bridge to shoot down, down on them. And then you guys could do what you do with the truck. I don't know how that sounds to y'all. Sounds like something, something that somebody other than me should be doing. I can drive it. Just I'll, I'll sideswipe whatever we need done. Yeah, it would be, it might be advantageous to have somebody from above, basically the flank. This, this may be a lame attempt, but can't someone else do that? Weak spot?

[01:14:20] Weaseling my way out of being indirectly in harm's way. Nick? Uh, I, if, if the final agreed upon decision is to have you up top, I will say you will get it. But until you guys solidify a plan, uh, you don't have it until that point. I like this plan. Oh yeah. Yeah. No, I, I like this plan. You all, you all can, can sideswipe them and use the machine gun and I can just cover you from above. Head wound.

[01:14:48] I, I don't realize I'm being, uh, messed with. Once again, if that's, if, if this is the final plan, you'll get it. Works for me. Yeah. Same. Like. Excellent. I, I really, I just pictured you just doing like the hands like excellent. Not while they're looking at me, no. Okay. That sounds like a good plan. Do we all want to get, uh, get in positioning and wait for them to come on over? Mm-hmm.

[01:15:18] Do I need to use a stealth to kind of hide myself up there on the bridge? Um, no, uh, you don't need to use it on the bridge. It's, it's. Got like wood. It's like an old sort of wooden paneling on the side with windows that you could look down upon the interstate on. So you could just like not be in the windows. Uh, the other people, you don't necessarily have to worry about stealth because you're going to be driving in on a giant loud truck.

[01:15:45] But did you, who, who wanted to attack first? I'll say you could at least plan that part out. Like, did you want L to engage first from the bridge or did you want to just drive in from the side? Well, I think I could shoot down them on, from the bridge and then they get distracted and then the truck roars in. Yeah. I think that's probably the smartest move. Yep. And you have the cover of the, the bridge basically for, and the height. So. And I've also got my dead eyes, which of course I'm spending charges on.

[01:16:14] So are we ready to get that party started? Let's do this. Okay. I will need a, a ration from you to, for like backtracking and then waiting there for them to come up. Um, but other than that, you're fine in your setup for the ambush. Okay. That sounds good to me. Uh, sword, crossbow, chainmail. Uh, sword, crossbow, chainmail, heavy machine gun, you know. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

[01:16:44] So they're coming down the highway. Were you waiting, you were waiting for them to come up, not directly under the bridge, but pretty damn close to it? Pretty close to where, to where the truck can just roar in and run right over. Okay. And I can be distracting them from the other side with the gun. So the vehicle is sort of out of sight. I'm not going to give you a self check for hiding the vehicle.

[01:17:09] So, but you don't have like a clear sight on this, but you see more specifics there. L, uh, you notice that there are a couple of rifles in there. There's a shotgun. Uh, but the person with the spear is a latent. And one of the people's with a rifle is a latent. So you at least have two latents in the mix. And I don't really have any way to communicate that, but I'll, I'll keep that in mind for my actions. Okay.

[01:17:39] And I know who I'm targeting with the heavy machine gun. I was already going to do that to the spearmen. Sorry. You can take your opening shot there. Um, L to signal to everyone that the fun is going to begin. All right. That looks like that's an eight, eight naturals. Shit. Nice. That was a really nice one. Who are you targeting?

[01:18:06] Uh, I would say I would be targeting, um, the latent with the rifle. The latent with the rifle. Okay. Roll location and damage. Unless you're doing, you know, called shot to the head. Why? Yes, of course I'd be doing called shot to the head there, a latent. Okay. Roll damage. We'll double it. That's a six. Goodbye latent. So you guys are walk. They're walking.

[01:18:34] You pop up, you line up the shot through the window and you fire down into the latent. There's just a, a tinkle of breaking glass. And then. Yes. And then a large burst of both blood and blight. And that's your go. Give me a drive check there. Roger. Roger. All right. As we just war boy this.

[01:19:02] Uh, that is a seven over one. Um, I'm going to use that will I just got to make it a critical success. Okay. Uh, you're driving in. Were you lining it up on people or one of the carts? Uh, one of the carts. Okay. I think that will, that'll maximize the chaos. Okay. Uh, so you're, so you do so. Uh, I will need both of you to give me awareness checks as the vehicle roars to life and flies

[01:19:30] across the landscape towards that unfortunate donkey and his cart. Um, that is a five over three. That's okay. I agree. I do not succeed. So you're, you're flying in there. You see, uh, a headless body falling to the ground.

[01:19:52] Um, and you see a bunch of people looking around surprised, but squire, I don't know why I'm having trouble remembering your name out of everyone's, uh, squire, you notice that the spearman at the front of the caravan is latent. So you spot that note so you can take your turn for the surprise round. Yeah. I'm going to gun him down with the heavy machine gun.

[01:20:22] Oh my God. You're going to use that will. At least you're going to try. Yeah. I've spent that will if I have to. And if you succeed, just keep pouring those bullets in. Yup. So I just rolled the black on default. Yes. Oh boy. Oh, that was an eight. Uh. Uh, do you want to use your will? Yeah. I'll say you could use it for, cause this is just a for fun game. I'm spending a will. Okay. Uh, so you, you hit and you said you were targeting the latent, I believe. Yeah.

[01:20:51] Uh, so charge. So the heavy machine gun is automatic. Jesus. But it is hungry. Okay. And it also has spray. So how many charges? So you have a bunch of things you can do with your heavy machine gun. Now that you have hit. Now that I've hit it, I'm going to spend a bunch of charges. Uh. So you have eight charges to play with. Do it, do what they used to call hosing it down. Yeah.

[01:21:20] Uh, we like to call this the hoser. Oh yeah. Uh, yeah. I'm going to, should I just, you know, cause I like that's, I don't have any other will. So I like, I'm, I'm switching to my crossbow after this. So you have eight charges to play with. Yeah. And I have hit the guy. Uh, you have, you have hit the latent. Yes. I just want to know if you want to hit a second target or deal extra damage before we. I'm going to just deal extra damage on the latent. Just mow him down.

[01:21:49] You're, you're dumping all eight extra charges into killing that latent. Yes. Okay. Roll location and damage. Oh for fuck's sakes. Or like they say over here. Oh for fun. No. Oh my God. Snake eyes. Are you fucking kidding me? Well, what does it mean when he pours all seven extra shots in there though? Does that add seven more? Uh, there's, there's eight extra shots.

[01:22:19] So he deals nine damage. It's not dead yet. To his leg. Oh no. Oh no. And, and you start, you hear that. Squire, you hear. Oh no. Just as the vehicle impacts the cart and you hear the braying of a donkey. Uh, good go everywhere.

[01:22:47] Uh, I need both of you to give me resistance checks for the impact. Fuck. And I think I also need to give you a self-control because donkeys are cute animals. Sure. Yes. Agreed. Oh, now you roll high. Oh man. 11 over eight. Crit success. Crit success. Yeah. Okay. I put my seatbelt on. You guys managed to, to hold on and you're not jostled too much from the impact.

[01:23:15] I succeeded on that self-control check, by the way. Okay. I won't make that a level three or four check, so you're fine. You don't lose anything. I'm with that. Everyone roll initiative for this fight. Yep. Oh, that's not very good. Oh, God. Christ. So that's, uh, that's, uh, a nine. I don't suppose we'd allow that whole full offense for the, for the surprise round, would we?

[01:23:46] Sure. I will allow that, but you're not getting an aim action on the second shot. Totally. You're not going to be, I mean, you could do a called shot, but you're not going to. Uh, I'm just going to be, I'm just going to try to shoot into that called shot on that latent fella up front. The one that just had its, its leg like vaporized. Well, you know, he can still hop after you. Yep. Uh, so that would, that would be a, what is that? It's a 13 over four. So I think that's a success.

[01:24:16] Okay. Roll damage. I assumed the call shot was to the head. Yeah. That was a one to the O. One damage to the head. Okay. Yeah. Glancing shot. Okay. Well, I tried. Okay. Oh God. Everyone's initiative. I got, I got a lot of initiative rule. Give me a second. And then just so you know, uh, for my first action next round, I'm going to have to reload my gun and then, uh, maybe use my Twitch to shoot.

[01:24:43] In retrospect, probably the smart move would have been to shoot one of the latents so that they immediately went vector. Oh yeah. Well, except I don't like those. Hindsight. It's 2020. Mm-hmm. So you're saying hindsight is a nightmare. I gotcha. Yeah. Hindsight is the number of, uh, hip boxes you should have in your torso. Mm-hmm. You're fine. Oh no, this is fine. I'm great with this.

[01:25:13] This is, this is, I just love that. Right. So I'll just mention, I'll just mention that if that spear wielding latent hasn't died yet, he's, um, either part-time or, or full-time and not just a mook because he's taken a total of 10 damage so far. Oh yeah. We're fucked. Yeah. No, we gotta, we gotta take that guy out. But he's a fancy one. He's the mini boss or the boss, just the boss.

[01:25:42] Well, he's the boss and then he's the boss again in about two minutes. Yep. This isn't even my final four. I'm sorry. God. You're talking about that Pokemon stuff again. I hear you. Yeah. The U-beasts. UBC. No, it's now the cryptid, cryptid hunter. It's all right. You know, I've always preferred, um, a fearsome critter rancher. Hmm. Okay. I'm going to type in the initiative order here so we can all see it.

[01:26:11] All right. We're just feeling some air. It's okay. Yeah. Okay. Uh, so initiative is as follows. We have, um, does anyone have a 10? No. Just imagine a group being like, tonight on RPX. Oh no. Yeah. As Krayson just destroys a latent leg with a machine gun. With a heavy machine gun.

[01:26:41] So, uh, the whole oh no thing is, um, one, uh, when my wife's, uh, grandmother died, we all had, like, all the extended family got together to, um, make food, like, to, um, have a funeral. And we decided that, oh yeah, Laura, man, I will just make eggs, eggs benedicts for everyone.

[01:27:09] So, our brother-in-law went out to, like, get all the ingredients. And then, like, as I'm getting ready, I'm like, hey, uh, Freddy, where are the, where are the English muffins? And he just looked at me. And this guy's just, like, a stoner and a half. And he just goes, oh no. Like that. Wow. I've known people that have said it that way, too. Yeah. It's so fucking funny. See, I just think of the, the one, like, uh, commercial.

[01:27:38] It's like, oh no. But I can't remember. Oh no. It's like the Play-Doh dude. Essential dread. Yeah. Oh no, Mr. Bill. Yeah, Mr. Bill. That's his name. Oh no. The opposite of that is the, the Kool-Aid man. Oh yeah. Oh no. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. You betcha. As I just pour sugar in the coffee. Yeah, sorry. So here's the initiative order. Jesus Christ. Well.

[01:28:06] For those about to die, we salute you. Okay. Uh, so handgun F is going to go. Um. Were you like driving through the cart? Or were you like hitting the cart and then like stopping there? I was basically trying to cause a shit ton of chaos. So I'm, I'm going to keep moving. Keep driving. Okay. So.

[01:28:36] Uh. How very salt of the earth are you? L. Handgun F is going to take a, what looks like a flare gun out from their hip and point it up where you are and fire a flare? At me or at up? At L. Oh boy. Up into the wooden, wooden walled bridge. Yeah. Yeah. It's a faux wooden wall. It's not really like wood per se, but yes. Yes. Up there on the bridge.

[01:29:05] That doesn't sound like a good thing at all. So. Would you like to dodge? I would love to dodge. I was born to dodge. Well, not really. That's it. Would that be in athletics? Yes. Oh, well that I'm defaulting. Oh no. And I'm not succeeding. And I'm guessing that since it's not for fun, we can't use will on that. Uh, no, no. You can use, I mean, the whole game's for fun.

[01:29:33] You could use a will on that if you, if you want. But it's just a flare. Well, yeah. So, no, I didn't, I didn't dodge. We'll just say I didn't dodge and see what happens. Uh, so a flare, uh, streaks up and you hear this shrieking sound coming from the flare as it crackles and flies up. Uh, take, take one damage to your torso as it flies in through the window and scorches you a bit. But. Is that killing?

[01:30:04] Uh, yes. Okay. Killing to your torso. Flares usually don't do damage, but I feel like taking a shot from a flare should do a little damage. Uh. Well, it's not going to feel good. I'll tell you that. Yeah. And, uh, so the flare is lit. It lands, it comes to rest in the, the bridge and it's blinding light just fills the bridge. And it's also shrieking and making noise and making it hard for you to just hear anything. These guys are suicidal.

[01:30:32] I think I, I think I know what I'm going to do on my turn, but it's a little ways off. Yeah. Yeah. So then, uh, rifle one is going to act and try and shoot the heavy machine gun person on the back of the vehicle. What? Uh, so would you, would you like to, to try and dodge there, squire? Take cover? Um, yeah, I'm definitely dropping away from the, from the turret to grab my crossbow and shit.

[01:31:02] Uh, so is that a, the car is armored, so I'm safe. That's athletics. Okay. Yeah. But, but he's, he's up on the gun shooting. So there is a spot that he can be shot. So that's why the dodge is to get into cover. 11 over seven. Okay. You managed to duck down behind some armored pieces of the car and you hear the, the, the tinking of gunfire, uh, uh, as the, the gun that where you currently was is now lit up with bullets.

[01:31:31] Pinky's going to go. She is going to fire at the vehicle, but no damage is done. Shotgun. Shotgun is going to try and shoot the tires of your vehicle. So let's see how good you're driving it. I'll say if you did a, if you pass a driving check here, Chris, it's going to be, uh, you, you drove into it in a way where it's, it's hard for them to get shots off on the vehicle. All right.

[01:32:02] I did critically concede, succeed my driving check before though. I do want to point out. Yes. But I'm just being like for the follow through and everything. Like, uh, that is a nine over eight. Okay. Yeah. Uh, he fires. At the tires. Um, none of the tires pop. I just realized that means critical success. Eight, eight. Even better. Yeah. You, you, you followed through the donkey of the cart and you turned quickly, just making

[01:32:31] it hard to hit the tires. Such a small target on a fast moving vehicle. Um, Squire, it's your go. I guess I'll, I'll rise up. Uh, do I got a bead on that, uh, on that latent? Uh, yeah, you could, you could pop up and shoot the latent. Yeah. Um, that's what I'm going to do with my crossbow. I'm going to try and finish the job. And with the crit success on the driving check, you know, you don't have any penalties to shooting. Uh, can I do a headshot or aim for a headshot or just, uh. Yeah. But that would be like a default shot.

[01:33:01] Okay. Don't want to do that. Uh, uh. Fuck it. No, I'm not going to do a headshot. I'm just going to shoot at him. See where the dice goes. Okay. For locations. Fuck. Five over nine, or five under nine. Okay. Uh, you try to light him up and miss. It's almost like he's twitching. Marauder. You're in your vehicle.

[01:33:29] You hear bullets tinkering off the side of your vehicle. Uh, I'm going to do a donut to take as many people out as possible. Okay. Uh, give me a drive check. If you succeed, you hit one person. If you crit succeed, you'll hit two people. Alright. Trying to avoid pinky. Yes. I'm going to spend a will to make that a crit success. Okay. Um, I will say...

[01:33:56] Roll me damage for each person. Alright. No, I guess two damage rolls. Eight damage to hit location three of the first. So I think I just basically destroyed someone's knee. Yep. Oh, not the knee. The bumper will do that to you, somebody. And nine damage to hit location eight. Okay. Uh, you sort of swing the back around. The tires crush one person's leg a little bit.

[01:34:24] And the side of the back of the vehicle just slams into the chest of another. We'll say that is rifle person two that you hit in the leg. And the shotgun person. Because the shotgun person was close enough to try and shoot your tires. And I'm saving my twitch to, uh, dodge. That's fine. Uh, so the latent is going to go. Uh, the latent is going to take their spear and chuck it at you, Marauder.

[01:34:54] There's a reason I saved my twitch. Yep. Marauder already dodged this turn, so this is going to hit. Remember that vehicle is, is armored. Yes. Uh, but he's not in cover, um, because he got up to shoot. Like, he can use it for- Oh, you're talking about Marauder or Squire? Oh, Squire. Sorry. He's firing a, he's throwing at Squire. My bad. So I can't, I can't dodge? No. Hope you didn't bleed on that spear. Mm-hmm.

[01:35:22] Uh, that is interesting. Three damage to location two. Which one is that? What location is that? It's one of your legs. My left leg. I got my leg! It's your right leg. Yep. That's, sorry, how much damage? Uh, two? Three kill damage. Oh, god. That would almost take my leg off. Gah!

[01:35:52] Ah. Ah. Ah. Handgun M is going to reveal why he's M and, uh, take out a Molotov and try and chuck it at the vehicle. So you can use your Twitch, uh, there, Marauder, if you want to try and not get hit by a Molotov. Would that be, like, drive the Twitch? Yeah, it would be drive, drive Twitch. Okay. Dude. Yeah, yeah, you're still, we still have control of that vehicle. Oh, fucking.

[01:36:20] I don't know what the dice are being very nice to me right now. I feel like David. Crit success? No, not a crit success, a success, but... It's a blessing in purple.

[01:36:33] Uh, so, the Molotov, you see, you see it arcing through the air at you and you manage to just hit the gas, uh, and spin out of the way in time as you see the flames in your side view mirror, uh, bloom up from the side of your vehicle. It hits the truck bed, just like the very corner. So, like, the corner of the truck is on fire right by, uh, Squire. Yup.

[01:37:02] Very, uh, very dramatic looking lighting. Uh, rifle two is also going to fire at Squire, unfortunately. Finally. That's... 10 damage to location 4. Oh no. Oh fuck! My right leg is just pulverized. You're dead! No, no, no, it's his leg, it's his leg. Uh, but the damage does carry over to the chest if it was, uh...

[01:37:30] Oh, it was a full 10 though, so... Yeah. So there's no, uh, carry over damage. Witheree? No, you already had two damage because it's... Oh, I thought you said that was for the left leg. Uh-uh. Because that was, that was... Yeah, it was... Oh, it's the other leg. The spear, the spear's in my left leg, and then my right leg just goes away. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, I'm like cursing, it's like, no, no, no narrow to the knee! No narrow to the knees! Even worse, it's not even the cancer leg. So your leg is bleeding out.

[01:37:59] Yeah, also it's my left arm that has cancer. Or that's, uh, that's horribly emaciated. Yeah. Great. Love it. Um... I just, I hit the, I guess I hit the, the flatbed. L, you can go now. So what I really want to do is kick that screamer thingy down off of the bridge down, down to below. Okay. Let's get it out of here. Uh, athletics check. And that'll be a default.

[01:38:28] And that will be not a pass, and so I'll use a will, so I get a success. Okay. Uh, you scoop it up quickly and throw it out with, uh, without hurting yourself by handling a lit flare. Well, I was hoping to kick it, but that works too. Yes, yes. Okay. And that's, I guess, what I do this round other than reloading on my twitch. Okay. Uh, top of the turn order.

[01:38:51] Where the handgun guy, handgun F, is going to take a shot at you, L, since you reappeared in the window. Fires another flare. No. Uh, so you can dodge if you wish with an athletics check. Okay. Well, I don't really know if that's going to be all that successful. Oh, but it is. Uh, that is, uh, I managed to default on that one. Rolled a one.

[01:39:22] Okay. Uh, you duck for cover as the handgun bullet goes through, uh, what little bits of glass are left, and you hear it hit the far side of the tunnel. Rifle one is going to... God. I feel bad, but you're the only one like that in an armored vehicle. Yeah.

[01:39:48] I mean, we could say that I fell to the bottom of the flatbed, because I've lost both my legs, practically. Or one leg's got a spear in it, and then my other leg's gone. I mean, let's be fair, Nick. That's reasonable. Yeah. Rifle one is going to, uh, try and get to a better position. Uh, so the vehicle, like, he's going to run for cover. Uh, so the vehicle can't easily hit him. Unless it wants to, like, also slam into, you know, a wall or something.

[01:40:18] Um, so rifle one is going to run for cover. Pinky is going to do the same. Shotgun is still going to try and shoot the tires off your vehicle. Marauder. So you can use your twitch to drive the vehicle out of the way, if you wish. Five over three. Okay. Yeah. You managed to not get the tires exposed to the shotgun person. And Squire, it's your go.

[01:40:48] I, like... Roll a d10 for bleeding out. Oh, great. Yeah. Okay. Two. Your chest takes two damage. Five. Kill damage. I am... This is fine. Everything's fine. Well, if you can last until the end of the fight, I've got a first aid kit over here. So I'm going to just, like, get into position, like, through, like, bloodied teeth and, like, pain. I'm just going to, like, get up and try and, uh... Screw off a shot at that fucking latent.

[01:41:15] Uh, the one rifle person who's not in cover has nine damage. The shotgun person has eight damage. The latent is heavily, heavily damaged. Yeah, I'm taking out that... I'm trying to take out that latent. Okay. Um, actually... I gotta go for a headshot. So, uh, I'm gonna default it. Okay. Against my better judgment. 10. Default on what? On shooting. Or, for the headshot. Because called shot.

[01:41:45] Oh, called shot, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but not defaulting. Oh, okay. Sorry. Uh... Okay. So that is... 12... Uh, over nine. Okay. Yeah. The latent drops. As you put a couple rounds into their head. And now... And then we're gonna continue the leg for a leg, uh, situation. And I'm gonna get sniped in the head or something. Probably.

[01:42:13] I mean, you should technically have your dodge to fall back into cover. Yeah, I'm gonna allow that. Yeah. Alright. But Marauder, it's your go. I have a sling on my axe. Which means it's quick draw. Okay. And I want to do something extremely fucking dope. Okay. Oh my god. I want to drive by behead someone. Yes! That's what I thought you were gonna say.

[01:42:42] I will consider this like a charge attack. Where you make a check, a drive check first. Uh, if you fail, you open yourself up to damage. But you can still make the attack. Unless you want to call off the charge. And not take any damage. Uh, no, I'll take that. I'll do that. Okay. Part of the memory that you lost is the memory that this is a bad idea. So, give me that drive check. Uh, I failed that drive check. Okay. So, I'm gonna take damage.

[01:43:11] So, you can either call off the attack and not take damage. Or you can take damage and also deal damage. This is too dope an idea. I'm sorry. Okay. So, were you attacking the shotgun person, uh, rifle person two, or one of the handgun people? Um, take, uh, I'm gonna take out, uh, handgun M. Okay. Uh, so he will get an attack on you. Well, hopefully I'll get his head off before he can.

[01:43:41] Take six damage to your chest. Sure. Uh, as you lean out the window and he's just like, fuck! And just fires pot shots at you. And then you swing down with your axe. Make that axe attack. 10-10. Critical success. Yes! He, he, he screams, firing his handgun at you. You, you, you don't even feel the pain. You just feel the slight impact.

[01:44:08] And you, you, you rock, but you use the momentum to rock you back and come forward with even more momentum and just take the head clean off. God, just, hey, can I, can I add to this a little bit, Grazon? Considering that was a critical. Yep. Yep. Uh, I'm going to spend a charge to make this a weighted attack so it's knockback and the head hits somebody else. Uh. Just for fucking the beauty of it. Sure.

[01:44:37] Yeah, that's fine. Moves out the door real fast. So bad, this is so badass and so terrible at the same time. Okay. So then, Rifle Person 2 is going to go. He is going to fire at Squire again. Mm-hmm. So you can try that dodge check.

[01:45:01] Normally you can't make athletic checks while you are bleeding out, but since you just simply have to fall to the ground, I will allow you to do it. It's less like me actually doing it where it should be just like sliding off of where I was like, where I was like leaning on. Yeah. Oh, hang on, hang on. Yeah, no, that's a failure. Uh, 6-6 unnatural. Okay. Ooh, what'd you say?

[01:45:31] Ah, take 4 damage to location 1. Location 1? So that leg didn't fall off quite yet? Yep, it's, uh... Sorry, how many damage for that one? 4. Hey guys, I think we're really good at this. I think so. I'm down to 3 in my left leg. Okay. I pulled that spear out and then like a bullet went into the wound. Okay. L, your go.

[01:46:00] Well, I think I'm going to pop back up in that window and shoot at that rifleman that's almost dead. Yes, that's rifleman 2. He is not in cover, so you could do that. That's great. That would have been a failure, but I'll use a will. Okay. If you want, you can roll for location and damage, but I'm pretty sure that you can't roll a 0 on the damage, so... Well, that would be an 8 to the 8 if there was an 8 left, but I don't think there's an 8 left anymore. For 7 of those 8.

[01:46:29] You put a couple of rounds into their chest and they just drop to the ground in the middle of the road. Alright, so handgun F's turn. I guess he's going to do what he always did, fire at you, L. Well, that means I have to dodge, and of course I'm already out of twitch and tactic this round, so I don't think I can't. Oh no, you're at the end of the turn order, so it's back to the top of the turn order.

[01:46:58] Oh, okay, yeah. Well, then I will dodge, and I will default, because I don't have any athletics, and I do not. I got a 4 over needing to default to 2. Okay. And I used my last will. Last time. He will deal... Man, my dice really sucked tonight. 3 damage to location 2! Oh, well, that doesn't feel very good. Oh yeah, you have the weak ankles. That's one of my bad legs.

[01:47:28] Oh boy. One of my 2 bad legs. So this is the first time that we've actually... One of our bad limbs have been hurt, right? Yeah, so... Yeah, I still have a left arm and a torso that haven't been touched, so... You have 2 kill damage to your torso, if you're right. Yeah, that's right, yep, sorry. Yeah, so after taking those 3 kill damage to my leg, I've got 2 damage left before that leg stops working. Doing fun, guys. Update on the character funnel. I am literally the only one not bleeding out. Yeah.

[01:47:58] Oh, not yet. I still got 2 whole hit points in that leg. It's okay. So, Rifle 1, now in cover, is going to try and shoot Marauder! Because there's a slightly open door that they are... They might still be slightly leading out of. Oh, fuck. It was just such a dope idea. It was. It was so metal. It's like a dieselpunk berserker there.

[01:48:27] Use athletics check to lean back in and slam the door shut in time. Let's try! Okay. Athletics, 1 point. Nope! Take 6 kill damage to location 1. I'm doing random damage and still hitting legs. It's red markets. It wouldn't be red markets without leg damage. Alright, well that's... I'm fine still.

[01:48:57] Luckily it wasn't your pedal arm. Or your pedal leg. Pinky is going to see that things are starting to work out. And she finally turns and opens up on shotgun. And kills shotgun. About time there, Pinky. She had to make sure that she wasn't going to lose the fight. Yeah, that's true. Don't want to put all your eggs into a basket until you realize whether it has a hole or not. Exactly.

[01:49:26] I mean, to be fair, we're now down to like... Yeah, we're down to two battles. This turns to tide. Yeah, yeah. So, squire, it's your go. I'm going to try and fire on hanggun F. Okay. Oh, for 6 under 10. Okay. Do you fire and miss? Yep. Marauder, it's your go. Alright, who's the most damaged between the two of them?

[01:49:55] They both have actually not taken any damage. Well, somebody's about to take an axe to a face. Rifleman 1, I did say position himself so he couldn't get run over without causing the vehicle some trouble. But handgun F is in the middle of the road. Yeah, so taking out handgun. Hoping that you can take out the fucking guy with the rifle, L. Are you doing the charge attack again? Yep. Okay.

[01:50:21] You just see a crossbow bolt, like, miss that guy, and then you just come in to deal with the dropper. Okay, that's, uh, succeed on my charge. Okay, so you don't have to worry about being opened up to an attack. Make that swing. Ha! Hell yeah. That is a 12 over 9. Yes. Okay, roll location of damage. Uh, 5 to hit location 2. You take his swing and slice the leg of him.

[01:50:50] Uh, keep in mind, I also have plus 1 killing damage. Oh, so it's 6 to 2. Yeah, and they fall to the ground, yes. Under the wheels? No. Please tell me there's a little extra damage there because, you know, driving. Yeah, yeah. And L, you can go. So, remind me, is awareness a free action? Yes.

[01:51:17] So, can I roll an awareness to see if our shenanigans have brought us any friends? Good thinking. Make that roll. Oh, I'm glad that I have, uh, what is that? Uh, 2 in awareness because that makes that a 10 over 9. Okay. You see one casualty slowly walking down the bridge from what was the rest area. Damn. Hey, guys. What's going on?

[01:51:46] They are 6 shambles away. Just 1, 6 shambles away. Up on the bridge with me, though, right? Yes, up on the bridge with you. Well, then I've got a little bit of time, so I'm going to, uh, just, uh, try to, uh, hit the, uh, the rifleman down there. Okay. You can do that. And I'm glad I've got my dead eyes because that makes that a 12 over 10. Roll, roll for damage. That would be a, uh, 4 to the 8. Okay.

[01:52:16] I'll put a couple rounds into their chest. They're both wounded. Not having great days. I mean, really, none of us are quite having good days right now. I mean, I'm doing all right. Not shot, but, like, I'm not dying. Yeah, I hate to do this to myself. Do I need to roll for another bleed effect thing? Yep. Oh, yeah, you, uh, you forgot to do that on your turn. Roll, roll for bleed. Thank you for being honest about that. Yeah. Uh, seven.

[01:52:46] Uh, you now have nine total damage to your chest from bleeding out. Welp. Okay. You, and you already had half a chest, right? I had half a chest. Well, that's unfortunate. So I think I expire. No, no, no, no, you still have one hitbox. Oh, do I? Because I had, I have, I currently have eight in my torso. No, you start with 20, 20 hitboxes. Yeah. You halved it down to 10. Yeah, and then I lost two. You took two damage from the first bleed. Oh, okay. And seven damage from the. I got you, okay.

[01:53:16] From the second bleed. Oh, God. So you're in kind of dire straits now, is what I'm hearing. Yeah, I'm, I'm like, yeah. Yeah, it's, it's not good. Good. Feeling very lightheaded and very. I don't want to die in Oklahoma, or in Kansas. So the, the casualty moves to five shambles away there. L, but it's top of the initiative order. Handgun is going to get up and try and fire at the person that just tried to run them over.

[01:53:44] Which means the handgun F won't be able to dodge next time they are attacked. But he's going to get that shot off on you, Marauder, unless you wish to dodge. I do want to point out to Squire that I don't know that you're bleeding out right now. Yep. All right. So yeah, I guess I will dodge and then just try to ram them. Okay. Roll to dodge.

[01:54:15] Nope. So, so remember that that, that truck is still armored and you're inside of it. I don't know if that counts or not. He's, he's, he's, he can use it as cover. He's, he's, he just leaned out to try and attack. That's, that's why. Um, it doesn't like automatically armor you, but you can use it as cover though. Unless you're, you know, in it with the doors closed and everything. Um, so that is nine damage to location four. Going for the legs again. The, my other leg.

[01:54:47] No. Uh, and rifle one is going to try and shoot back at L. Well, I, I, I, all I can really do is default on there and I don't make it. Okay. Uh, six damage to location six. Well, that's someone that I had full boxes in anyway. It's not great. And pinky is going to fire at rifle one. See how much damage she does.

[01:55:16] And she puts down rifle one. Hey. Yeah. I'll just kill this bastard. There's the handgun guy in the middle. Uh, squire. I'm going to need a bleeding check. Unfortunately. Oh God. Okay. Nine. Nine. Oof. Uh, yeah, you're, you're down. L. You see. Squire just. Stop moving in the back of the vehicle.

[01:55:42] Uh, if you wish to make an athletics check this time, I'm saying you could get to him in time to use the crash kit. Or her. I forget if squire is a male or a girl. Yeah. Well, that sounds like something I'd like to try to do, but that'll again be defaulting. Oh, here we go. Just rolling it right now. You guess I'll see Ecclesiarch soon. Well, that's a two, which equals my speed. Okay. So you do it.

[01:56:11] We skipped ahead there a second. So before you rush down, Marauder does have a chance to act. Handgun F is left. And I did say that they cannot dodge. So you can get that attack on them. All right. Beep, beep. Beep, beep, beep, motherfucker. How much damage? Uh, a lot. Let's see. Okay. Are you just running him down? Yeah, I just ran him the fuck down. That's nine damage.

[01:56:39] Yeah, you, uh, you, he's firing at you. You swing back into the vehicle after being shot. Turn around. You see the red. Not sure if it's the blood or the anger. And you just. It's the last thing you remember of them is just the brief flash of fear. As they go under the vehicle. It's that scene from Mad Max or, uh, Road Warrior. Where, like, the guy just gets, like, hit by the truck. And just blows up. Something like that. I think that's called a splorch. L.

[01:57:08] You rush down. Fast as my little damage. Marauder stops the vehicle. Um. You, you jump in the back. Uh. Crash kit in hand. So you can make a first aid check. Or I don't, I don't know how crash kit works off the top of my head. I've only had it used on me. I've never used it. Well, I have this fine, fine document sitting over here. It's called, uh, the Veblen Goods. That's where, where the crash kit upgrade is available from.

[01:57:36] Oh, where did I find that? Well, where, where all your fine RPG supplements are sold. Well, I do know that it takes the rest of however many charges bring your kit, which is unfortunate because this kit has been untouched. Yeah. Well, and it brings somebody back from the brink. I'm thinking I still require a successful check. I don't think it does actually require a successful check. I think you just spend the charges. Well, then whole ten charges of first aid kit just went directly into, uh, Squire right there.

[01:58:07] Spend remaining charges to make a precision roll to revive a recently deceased ally with one stun shy of lethal damage on body and or head where applicable. Okay. Make that roll. Well, I'm glad, again, uh, that, well, I would have passed anyway, but it's a 12 over 8. Okay. Okay. Uh, you are not bleeding. You're not feeling good. You're not feeling good. You have nine kill damage to your chest.

[01:58:36] Uh, is that how it works? Sorry. And one stun. And one kill and one stun to the chest. To the chest. And I will say you have nine kill and one stun to your leg. Jesus. Not today, Ecclesiarch. It's fine. Take a salt tablet. Yeah. Smelling salt. At this point, Pinky comes over.

[01:59:04] That, that, that was a hell of an entrance you guys made. Well, you know, you get good things when you, when you get takeout. Yeah. Yeah. We'll, we'll have to remember that. I almost didn't think you guys were going to hold it together there in the end, though. I'm glad you did. You just see a hand pop up over the, with a, with a thumbs up. I, I like, I open up the door of the truck and like, I stand up in, like, I'm obviously

[01:59:32] clearly dizzy and just like, fall over. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Um, I guess I'll clean up here and make it look like a, uh, I don't know. I'll, I'll, I'll clean up here and make things look a little, little neater. Um, I'm sure the casualties will be coming in soon. You can see, uh, the, the black figures in the distance heading towards your location.

[01:59:59] Um, there's the one casualty that's sort of like half leaning out the broken window, just reaching out towards you guys. We should probably just put this truck up on its side and that'll, that'll take care of that extra little bonus we, we got offered there. Sure. How are we going to put it outside? Well, we could drive it up onto a little, little thing and then just tip it or, you know, just leave it here, I guess.

[02:00:25] Bart, Bart didn't want this looking to look, look, looked into too closely. Uh, I think he wanted you guys to, to ditch the vehicle. Yeah. Yeah. We'll need to drive off and just like ditch it. She gestures towards the, the non flattened donkey and goes, I could always write off on that on my own, had my own separate way. Um, well, you guys go do that. Well, that sounds good. I think we've got about a leg of, of hiding this truck in front of us. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, sounds good. Sounds good.

[02:00:54] Um, uh, yeah, I'll, uh, gather what I can here and, uh, I'll let you do what you need to do. Just give me one second to scavenge. Is that all right? Yeah, that's, that's fine. Uh, I mean, I, I could do it for you if you want. Uh, roll sensitivity. Oh, I got some of that. All of you can roll sensitivity. All right. Well, I succeed on that. Ah, that's a 10 over seven right there. That's a natural failure.

[02:01:26] One, one snake. She's trustworthy. Squire's feeling pretty woozy right now in the back of the truck. All I, all I'm looking for is a first aid kit to help patch up my friends here. That's all I'm really looking for. And anything else we'd leave it alone. Marauder. Did you, you pass or fail? Uh, I passed. I can't. I, I, I don't have awareness. Oh, sensitivity. I don't, I don't have sensitivity. Oh, okay. Um, L, you, you get the feeling that she really doesn't want you looking too closely at these bodies.

[02:01:56] Well, well, if, if you don't want, if you want to help me out, that's great. I'm just looking for a first aid kit. Like I can tell that she, like you said, didn't want us to look. I just need a first aid kit to help us patch up because I use my whole one here on my friend. Yeah, that's, that's, that sounds good. Okay. Um, I, I think one of them had it somewhere around here. Um, you probably know where that is faster than I would. Uh, so rule scavenge. Well, my scavenge is a 10 over eight. Uh, you find a first aid kit.

[02:02:25] You can get six bounty. And you find a pair of, uh, Ubix specs, which appears to have been disconnected from the Ubix network.

[02:02:46] And you're just looking through it and you find some messages on it about dropping off supplies at certain points for various moth safe houses. Uh oh. Well, that doesn't sound too great, but I'm not going to react to it now. Got to get this truck away. Got to patch up some friends while we're doing that.

[02:03:16] Okay. But I will take that first aid kit because, uh, because mine's all out right now. Yeah. So she gathers up some of the guns and supplies for herself. She says she's got to sell it to, she's got to bring it back to, to sell and make some money off of this. Uh, you know, share it with Bart. Uh, good work. And she hopes to see you again. And she, uh, unless you do anything else with her, she will ride off on the donkey. Nope. I don't think so.

[02:03:44] I think we can just, uh, drive on off there towards the sunset and then, uh, dump this, uh, this truck. And then we can maybe ride some of us riding the motorcycle on back. Sounds like a plan. It's a seat, motherfucker. So can I do some first aid once we distance ourselves a little bit away from everything? Yeah. You can, you can roll first aid. Uh, I don't think that I'm allowed to use any on, uh, Squire because the crash kit took that away. Or do you, are you going to allow a little bit of first aid on Squire?

[02:04:14] I, I will say that you can't heal his, um, you, you can't heal his, uh, torso. Torso, yeah. Sorry, I was trying to remember the location that he was bleeding out or died from. Yeah, the torso. So you could heal any other body part. Well, do you, do you want some help there, uh, uh, Squire? Yeah, I could, I could use some help on this leg.

[02:04:41] It's, uh, he says, as you look at like the vaguely gangrenous leg already. Okay, no, no, it's my left arm that's gangrenous. Well, that's okay. Well, I, I rolled a natural nine over four. So that would be a success. I didn't pour any extra charges in though. So you can have nine, nine, whatever you want to do everywhere but your torso. Okay.

[02:05:06] Uh, then I will put, uh, yeah, I guess I'll put six into my leg, my right leg, and then three into my left leg if that's possible. Yeah, sure. Sounds good. Would you like some looking to there, Marauder? Yeah! Um, like just huge fucking gash in my thigh. Well, here, go ahead and take four to do with whatever what you want there, because that's a four over two that I succeeded on.

[02:05:35] Okay, so I'm just gonna remove two killing on my right leg, my left leg. And then I'm gonna look down at my little, little, you know, injured leg there and I'm gonna try again. Oh! Okay. That's, that's nice. That is a, an O over seven. So I will just heal up a leg and a little bit of an arm. Okay. Because that leg doesn't need to be falling off now. Okay. So we got our leg of truck hiding in front of us. Yeah. Did, did you want to discuss what you found on the Ubix specs?

[02:06:05] Well, that's a very good point there. Yes. So you know how she was being a little shifty. I don't know if you noticed when I talked about looking through everybody's stuff. Well, I found a pair of Ubix specs and they were, uh, were, were turned off. They had the, the, the airplane mode on. Not that there are too many airplanes around anymore. And, uh, so it said that they had some drop-offs to make at some locations for somebody called the Moss. I think those are the guys that they don't like the DSQS.

[02:06:32] Uh, oh, but I also found six bounty. That's good. On top of all that. So it seems like maybe these were the good guys. I don't know. We're working for the good guys anyway. I mean, nobody's a good guy, but the better guy. He's like, Oh, this is over my head. Yeah. This, uh, well, we were, we were playing the part of blaggards.

[02:06:58] Well, let's just take care of getting rid of this truck and then getting paid and then maybe not doing any more work for this barter guy again. Yeah. He, I mean, not, not to say we, we tell him that, but you know, just not pick his jobs. Hashtag yikes. We, uh, we got his revenge thing over with. We don't need to talk to him again. Well, now that I'm seeing, I don't know if it's really his revenge. Uh, but Hey, well, we're, we're here. Let's just get this over with. Okay.

[02:07:29] So where do we want to, so where would you like to dispose of the vehicle? Uh, Bart did, um, recommend the try, uh, try and preserve. I believe is the actual, is the name of the location. Uh, it's like a, uh, I was about to say a floodplain, but no. Like a wetland? Wetlands. Yes. That's the word. It's like the, the largest inland wetlands in the United States. It's in Kansas.

[02:07:54] So you could ditch it there or ditch it off of, uh, uh, into a gully or whatever you prefer. Let's just go find us a drainage ditch over there by the wetlands to just tip it over into after we get our motorcycle and as much fuel as we can take. Too bad. We don't know, uh, any like DHQS territories in the area. Cause that could, uh, give us enough plausible deniability as well. Yeah.

[02:08:20] I think any of us are quite experienced or smart or have the, the know-how for that yet. Yeah. Nope. Let's just see what we can do there. Uh, what, what does that require any checks on our part? We could do some foresight. Uh, yeah. Give me a foresight to see if you know of any areas in that area where you could hide something really well. Do either of you have more than a two effective foresight? I have one. Yeah, I've got one. Well, but you get a plus one cause of your tough spot. No, that's true.

[02:08:50] Yeah, no, it's still just a two. It's still, it's still just a one. Well, since, since you have the two, why don't you roll that there, uh, squire? All right. Five over two. Uh, you, you scouted out that area with, um, with Ecclesiark before the, um, before you started feeling a little, little weak. Yep.

[02:09:17] You know of a nice little gully that you were planning on learning casualties down into and then just, um, either pouring gasoline down or you didn't, you didn't hash out the details, but you know, you know, a nice little dumping area that you could hide this vehicle in. Yeah. Yeah. There's a gully we could, uh, we could take it off too and just dump it at the bottom. It's where we, uh, we're going to plan on doing a bunch of, or like doing a bunch of casualties in, but then I got sick. Okay.

[02:09:48] Well, well, let's just get that motorcycle and that sidecar back up and running again and get it filled with gas from the truck and let's get it in there and out of here. Sounds like a plan. Okay. So as, as you're preparing, you've unloaded the motorcycle, you've gassed it up. Um, so as you're getting ready to push the truck down the gully, tip it over, whatever, um, all of you can give me awareness checks. Oh, look, all those casualties. We don't know.

[02:10:17] Oh, that's a natural zero zero. Ooh, that's a 10 over eight. Uh, I guess it would be a, uh, 11 over eight. Okay. You ever just zone out? There we go. Okay. Uh, the two people who are paying attention as you're getting ready to push your giant heavy machine gun laden vehicle into a pit.

[02:10:44] Um, you hear the faint sound of a helicopter getting louder. Are we able to push it in the pit and then run away real quick? Or is it going to take too long? Uh, you, you could do that. I just wanted to give you a chance to hear the helicopter before you decide what to do with the vehicle. What about when I critically hear the helicopter? Uh, you have enough time to push the vehicle in and start running away if that is what you wish to do.

[02:11:13] But it is a helicopter with air superiority. So, uh, you would have to hide from it if that is what you want to do. Yeah. I think stealth might be the best option after we drop this, uh, truck into the gully. Well, I agree with that. Uh, so let's just, just chuck it on in there and then I can go stealth away and you all can stealth away too. Yeah. Um, uh, uh, Marauder, uh, we got, we gotta, we're gonna have to push this in and hide.

[02:11:43] We got incoming. Oh, okay. All right. Let's do it. All right. So, uh, roll resistance for somebody or, or just, or do we just push it in? Uh, spend ration. You, you push it in. Just spend the ration because they, you push it in after spending the ration. And all of you roll me stealth checks to see how well you hide from the helicopter. Well, that's a five over two. That's a four over two guys. I'm sorry.

[02:12:16] Four under seven. I'm getting gunned down. I think this officially means this game is now profitable. Oh yeah. Yep. I am holding onto those six bounty. How, how, how, how, how screwed am I? So you managed to hide in some tall grass or under some trees. Uh, but squires looking around and maybe it's the bum leg. Maybe it's the wheezing.

[02:12:41] Uh, maybe you've just had enough, but the helicopter spots you and it circles for a bit and it starts to land by you there. Squire. Oh God. Um, I can, do I recognize, is there any like recognizable, like, uh, logos or anything on, uh, markings on the, uh, the helicopter? You notice the DHQS logo on it. Fuck.

[02:13:07] Um, I'm a, I, I've got an idea here, but only if I have to come out of the bushes. I guess I, I don't know if my character would run. I guess I'd just stand firm if I would know I'm caught. Um, I guess I just like, I, I, I, I see them like landing. Like they, they've got me. I just pull up the sword and put it down and like, hold it, like hold it in like kind of a, uh, like it's in front of me, but like down. And like, I'm holding on, like hold, like leaning on the hilt. Okay. It lands.

[02:13:36] Two, uh, there's, there's two pilots or two people up front. Yep. And then two soldiers get off. They all have helmets and rifles, except one person gets off in basilisk armor, lash mic, helmet. Uh, and you see a logo emblazoned on the side, on the arm of the basilisk armor. You can give me a foresight check to know that symbol.

[02:14:07] Don't tell me it's a pork pie hat. So that is an eight over two. Uh, it is the logo of a wrecker crew as what you guys call them. Um, they are a reclamation squad, uh, with a F, uh, fancy script F emblazoned over it. Um, so just a little, little story.

[02:14:33] Um, after the crash, those survivors of project utility, the people who waded through cities full of vectors, escorting civilians out, uh, the badass of the badass. Um, they would be grouped together as reclamation squads, groups of five or six people to be sent out to do the things no one else could do. This person is one of them. Well.

[02:15:01] And you recognize the F as the group called Phenalum. Phenalum, one of the few groups left, they have a reputation for being efficient, one of the few groups left for only being made up of project utility survivors. Uh, usually it's a project utility survivor in charge of a group of five underlings. But this group is known for being still full project utility people. And he has stepped off the helicopter and is walking towards you.

[02:15:30] I have an idea that could potentially save, um, Squire, but I don't know if I want to trade Squire for good things. So out of character, this guy is one of the most management sources you could find in the game. Or the most fucked. Yeah. As I stand in front of a black knight, basically. Goddamn. Um.

[02:16:00] You there. You there, Squire? Yes. I'm here to pick you up and take you out. Can I roll a sensitivity on that? Bart sent me. He said you earned your due. Son of a bitch. Well, if I'm hearing that, I'm not coming out of nowhere. That's a four over two on a sensitivity. He's here to pick you guys up.

[02:16:30] Take me home? Or take me? He said take you back. Back could either mean the recession or back to where he was stationed from. Uh, you, you don't know precisely what back means. But back would be someplace that he thinks of as back. Not what you think of as back. Yeah. Yeah. Uh. Bye, guys. Where's, where's your, uh, where's your little buddies?

[02:17:00] Okay. Fuck. Out of character. I don't know if I could. I. Is that a character? Should I, should I bluff this? Or. And say you guys died? Or like, oh, like I was the only one? Oh, man. I do not know what you should do. I can't. I have no deception. Not only do you have no deception, but pinky saws all go off together. Yeah. Yep. Fuck. I have no, I can't. Shit. Uh.

[02:17:26] So you're, you're standing there thinking, and this wrecker, this reclamation squad person, uh, shouts up, if you're here, come out. We could find you. Plus, like I said, you earned it. We're getting you out of here. Taking you back. Four, four walls, safety, square meal every day.

[02:17:54] Better than your little, uh, what is it? 50 bounty or whatever. You don't have to worry about taking again. You did the DHQS a favor. And we're just gonna pay you back. And I mean, like, take care of you the nice way. No bullets. Seems like a little, uh, little old Bart has a soft spot for you. Uh, from my hiding spot, can I?

[02:18:23] With my Ubix specs, see if there's anybody nearby that I can try to contact, like this guy? Um, you, you see all of these soldiers have Ubix signals, and then no one else is in the area. It's like they suggested a middle of a wetlands area where people usually don't go to. Yeah. To ditch the vehicle. Cool. So, we know that canonically the Ubix specs have, like, the eye tracking movement thing so that you can basically type out and send a message without making any noise, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah.

[02:18:50] And if not, it also does say in the book that they have, like, uh, some, uh, there's, like, a thumb pad that you could also type some out, some stuff out with if you want that option as well. Uh, spend a charge on my Ubix to send a message to this guy, what about our dependents? He taps his, his Ubix built into his helmet. Uh, ah! Ah! We could get them out, too. Uh, Bart will arrange that.

[02:19:19] You just tell us where they are, and we'll get them to safety. Uh, I do not have sensitivity, but I also just do not trust this guy, so, uh... We just can't have word of this little false flag operation getting out to the wrong people. That's why, uh, we're treating you so nicely. If you were to disappear, some things might, uh, not add up. If you're in the recession living nicely, why would you, why would you cause any problems? See, we're not all that bad.

[02:19:49] Uh, can I roll sensitivity? Uh, yes. Myself? Yes. I also, I did succeed my sensitivity earlier. Like, he was on the up and up. Well, I don't know that. I know, I know, but I'm just like, he is on the up and up, right? How does this sound to me? 12 over 5. Okay. Uh, he is here to take you back to the, uh, maybe not necessarily the recession, but someplace controlled by the recession. Free parking? But, you know, not, yeah. Well, that's what I was gonna ask.

[02:20:19] Not talking free parking, right? Uh, you, you don't know. No, that's what I, I keyed that in. Not talking free parking, right? Question mark. We could set up something, like a... WITSEC? Yeah, we, we could, we could set up something. As long as you keep quiet. Sensitivity? Is he lying? Again? No. 4 over 3 this time? He's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's telling the truth. Well, this sounds like a, uh, dream come true.

[02:20:45] You know, no, no, no casualties, no painful knees, none of that. Uh, L will come right out. And. Uh, Marauder? Uh, I'm waiting to see what other people say. Like, like, if somebody else stands up, I'll stand up, but. I've stood up and I've walked over to, um, where Squire is.

[02:21:12] And I, while it may not occur to your character, if my, uh, dependent gets taken, guess who's cat sitting? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I will say before you, you guys walk out, he does say like, I'm here. Uh, he, I, I will say he adds on, I'm here to take you back to settlement Liberty. From there, you'll be taken to the recession. Just so he clarifies. Like, you're not heading straight back to the recession from this location. Right. Still, this sounds like a deal that L couldn't pass up. Yeah. Nope. Definitely. Gonna have to get up.

[02:21:43] So yeah. Yeah. Squire just like, yeah, no, I'll, I'll accept. I'll take this. Cause. I've got nowhere else to go other than to just continue Ecclesiarch's, uh, mission. So yeah, just, just one little thing. We're going to need your Ubik devices. Just a little, little guarantee, a little safety, but, uh, welcome aboard. And the DHQS thanks you. And he puts out his hand and gestures towards the helicopter.

[02:22:09] I will hand him my Ubik specs, keeping the disconnected currently pair in my backpack. That's fine. Yeah. I'm, I'm 100% expecting to be Pinochet, by the way. Okay. Uh, you guys. L looks over to you, Marauder, gets you a thumbs up and a smile. Square walks over to the, uh, salvation or doom, depending on what happens. Board the helicopter. Yep. And fly off back towards settlement liberty.

[02:22:41] And we'll end it there. I've got a question. What? Did we just make our, our, uh, make, uh, or do we just make the, uh, the villains for the, for, for the campaign? I don't know what you're talking about. Shit. Maybe this plays into the campaign. Maybe this doesn't. We'll see. We'll see. I mean, if it does play into the campaign, you do have to take the path to lead you to

[02:23:12] what just happened. Yeah. I mean, we'll see. Questions, comments, concerns. How'd you guys like the game? How'd you guys like the tough spots? Any critiques? I think the, uh, only having 10 skill points to start with for the tough spot is a little too crippling. 15. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I agree. I agree. Probably make it like 15. Yeah.

[02:23:39] I was just going to, as far as the, um, uh, the hit box location thing, it, um, I feel like it's probably, it's, it's not bad. It's circumstantial basically on like where you get hit and where you, where you put those hit locations. Yeah. Or those, uh, those, uh, negatives on your hit locations. Yeah. Um, cause that was a pretty nasty fight, but we all survived. I almost died. Barely. Yeah. I mean, I almost died, but I mean like, yeah. And I guess, yeah.

[02:24:08] If, if, uh, if Brad hadn't had a crash kit on his character, uh, that would have been the end of, of, uh, squire. But yeah, I, I realized it's, it's real random for the, the hit boxes, which is why I had to do two attacks, two fights so I could maximize the amount of shots that are fired at you. Yeah. Yeah. I, I know you joked about this earlier, but putting both of the half hit boxes on the legs in red markets is kind of hard mode.

[02:24:33] I was expecting it to go way worse than it did, but I think it also makes you like think a lot more about what's going to happen because you are so fragile. Yeah. I like how I got like, I didn't have my, I had full hit boxes in my legs and I'm the one that almost lost my leg. Oh, both my legs. I mean, I almost lost the leg too. Yeah. Well, when a armored vehicle flies in and just takes out a half your caravan and meanwhile,

[02:25:02] the heavy machine gun on the back just tears into a person. They're going to be firing at the person, the heavy machine. Oh no. I, yeah, I definitely painted myself a target. Just like that one guy painted himself a target when he was like just the gunner on that car, on that truck initially. I'm honestly impressed. We managed to do that and like not die. Yeah.

[02:25:27] I think the key was you completely executed the, um, the Raiders. Yeah. Because the Raiders were supposed to like soften you up a bit and not really like kill you, kill you, but make you some of your, your resources. So towards the end of the, the moth fight, you, you would be a little haggard, maybe out of refresh.

[02:25:53] Um, but I think with the bleeding out, we kind of achieved the same effect. Yeah, pretty much. You're honestly too nice with the two handgun refreshes. Although I only had to use one of them. Yeah. It also would have potentially been good, even though I know we were trying to keep, keep it like one leg to do this, one leg to do this, one leg to do that, to potentially have just thrown a leg in that you could have either made easy if we were already, you know, beat up or make it harder on us if we weren't beat up enough, uh, to try to accomplish those goals.

[02:26:23] Yeah. I was, I was nice and didn't have too many extra things in because I just wanted to test the spots and make this like a fun game. Not really too crazy. I feel you. But I'm glad you guys enjoyed it. Yeah. You accomplished a really good game here. I, I like how tense it got again. Whenever the DHQS shows up, I get very like anxious just in general. So I was like, oh God, this is, we're going to be at like, we're getting gunned down.

[02:26:52] The most management of management forces walks up to you. Fuck. Before you said, oh, barter sent me. I was thinking, well, do I want to trade these moth locations for these drop-offs for Squire? Or is that just too evil? That was going to be my, my, my bidding piece. Like, hey, I've got these locations that I can trade you for letting us go. No, that's something we can sell them later. Yeah.

[02:27:18] But yeah, it's, it's, it's like they knew who to, to choose and motivate into doing stuff. Uh, sob story about losing a dependent, uh, asking people who have no one to support them to come back to the recession so they can't squeal. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. They, they, they fucking got us dead to rights. Yeah, no, absolutely. Like that's actually really deviously like ingenious of them.

[02:27:42] Like just to like go into those, uh, lifeline, uh, uh, groups and just hire on like suicide squads. Yeah. And, and if these people disappeared, just have some people look like you in an area get seen, uh, fighting and oh yeah, those, those dependents were dependents for reason. It's no wonder they died out there in the loss. Yeah. Mm-hmm. It's insidious. Yeah. But we, we got, we got, we got out guys.

[02:28:12] We did it. Yay. Yay. We may have inherently fucked the, uh, political balance in the area, but we're out. Mm-hmm. Fuck you got mine. Ugh. Like it's, it's good ending, but I don't feel very good just because it's DHQS that's pulling the strings. Red markets.

[02:28:41] And I did choose a, uh, dependent that is the dependent of a character that I like to play. Yep. So, eh, there can be alternate realities. It might be okay. Yeah. I mean, I killed off Kleziark at the beginning of this game. So, fuck. I mean, they could, you could, like, you could have, you could, you could also have L be like, hey, Vaughn, I got us a way out. And Vaughn could be like, nah, I'm good. This, this reminds me of the whole, uh, shipping container thing all over again.

[02:29:11] Too good to be true. Exactly. We'll see. Have to come out of that thunder nap first. Do we want to end it here then? Yeah, I think we've, we've reached a good stopping point. We've kind of all gotten our thoughts out. Yep. We did do a lot of things this time, but what didn't we do, Chris? We fucking sure as shit did not think this through. Nope. All right. Good night, internet. Good night, internet. It will. It will.