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Dark Blue Sea S1 E12: A Mutant Year Zero Actual Play Podcast
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Moss trades her raincoat for food with a newfound group of island mutants—only to realize the meal is Blossom, one of their own from the Ark. As more members of the same cannibal group secretly flank them, Caspian fires the first shot, sparking a brutal fight.
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SPEAKER_00with Dice. This is the Dark Blue Sea, a Mutant Year Zero Actual Play Podcast. If you're enjoying our actual plays, please subscribe to Stories with Dice so you'll never miss an episode. Don't forget to rate and review us, it really helps others discover the podcast. Follow us on social media to stay updated, share your thoughts, and join the conversation. You'll find the relevant links in the description of each episode. Welcome back to Stories with Dice and our Mutiny Year Zero campaign. It's another episode. It's gonna be a tense one, I think. Maybe, maybe not, who knows? If you want to know what's happened before this, go listen to our others. If you want to just start off in the middle, well, you could do that. You're free to do whatever you want. Just carry on
The Tense Standoff
SPEAKER_00listening to us. So I'll get straight back into it. It's been a bit of a tense standoff. You went to go and find out if you could trade with these uh these mutants or people that you've kind of like come across on the island in the zone. You found that they were gonna do a trade with you, Moss's shiny yellow jacket, raincoat, for food. And then they brought out Blossom, one of your own from the ship. It turns out that she was food, which also makes the difference of who are they eating back there? So, yes, you've uh managed to get her and start to walk away from them when Caspian has trailed someone who was flanking you and shoved the barrel of his gun into the back of this person and told them to shut up. You then let out a large yell and goes to turn around to uh stab you with his scrap knife. I guess, Caspian, what would you like to do? Fuck him, I'm gonna shoot him. Okay. Feel free, give yourself an extra couple of dice for being pointless range. Fuck you, you didn't do what I told you. Fuck you, you didn't do what I told you. I have three successes. The damage is two. So that's your standard damage, and you got three successes. Okay, which which gives you another two successes, so you'll be doing four damage if that's what you would like to do to him. That is what I would like to do to him, yes. Okay. Yeah, you uh you you take a step back and you shoot him point black range and you hit him in the head and his head explodes, and he hits the floor dead. I guess we'll uh we'll see what they decide to do. There is a large gun gunshot as everyone suddenly stops and tenses up. Can I attempt to tense up as if I don't know what's just happened? Because I'm like, Caspian's just shot someone because he's the only person he's not here. That's a gun. Yeah. So yeah, there you go. You've got a pretty much good idea what that is. Attempt to look equally as credulous to what's going on. Okay. Blossom sort of like has her eyes wide open as that is the case, and she sort of just tries to kind of hunker down as best she can. Yeah, I'll I'll actually drag her past me and half turn my back on them and effectively open my coat as she gets the other side of me. And just glance down at the revolver in my belt, indicating that she should take the revolver. Okay, well. She fumbles for the revolver and she takes it. That's what she's gonna do, thus the others all start to kind of move towards towards you.
SPEAKER_01I I think I'm just trying to go out of there. I really am not happy for fighting encounters, and I yeah, I n suspect highly that we're being outnumbered and I mean c couple of these people uh probably have guns, and I I just don't want to be here. So I start legging it. Well, I'm born it's not your turn yet, Moss. No, I'm just saying that too. Like I I sort of look around for like, you know, where's the way out of here?
SPEAKER_00You start to turn around and look, and you can see the person with the four arms who's got the scrap axe is basically steaming his way towards you roach. And so he swings at you, and then on the backswing, he attacks you again and he hits you. Uh would you like to try and dodge? Or can you do anything as a reaction with your um with your uh with your body? Can't do anything as a reaction, so I will try and dodge, I suppose. You can either you can either parry or you can dodge. So you can either fight or you can or you can move. Yeah, I'll try and swing round and parry it with my scrap axe. So that'd be a fight. It'll be a fight. Yeah, as you sort of he brings out the axe, swings it or scrap you bring out your axe, and as he comes on the backswing, hit your axe with his axe, and there's an almighty kind of clang as you sort of parry his axe away. Oh the other one kind of like comes running towards you and stops and looks at you, and then holds his breath, and you can see things start to pop out of his head. What looks like these little spores or something. Okay, so everything's kind of kicking off. We're the exit of the alleyway. You are at least what, another I've seen like ten people. There's about ten people in total. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna take a step back out of the alleyway and be like, and I'm going to yell at them to not follow us out of the alleyway, or the ten snipers that we have positioned around here will kill them instantly if they step in out of the alleyway. And I will attempt to manipulate them to not follow us. Can you make a manipulate a minus two, please? Let's see how well you blag. Do you want to push that? You know what? I will actually push that. Okay. No success for you at the moment. No. But my absolute battery. That was that is not good. You kind of like realize that no matter what you say, these ten guys are gonna jump you and stab you to death. You've got no sort of conviction in what you say or what you're doing. You just think this is gonna be the end. The only thing you can really do is just get the hell out of there. And run for your life, pretty much. That's what I'm going to do next turn. You coward. So there's the one who was sneaking around and didn't he just spate and then set off this entire thing. They were gonna never let us go. They were gonna eat us all.
SPEAKER_01I lost my raincoat for nothing. I yell over my shoulder as I run.
SPEAKER_00So the um the leader, the de facto leader that you spoke to who had the spear, he uh looks you square in the eyes, Moss. Um and uh he says Drop it! All you've got is just the sort of like the box of stuff in you leave make a is it wits? I think it's wits.
SPEAKER_01Actually, the the thing we're talking about is fairly big, whereas it's like an ammo box.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's an ammo box.
SPEAKER_01I'm thinking like th sort of, you know, like hurling this in front of somebody's feet could be could be actually quite a good I mean not exactly weaponizable, but you know, it's it's gonna hinder them. Might break a toe.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you could break a toe.
SPEAKER_01So so yeah, I'm gonna I I I I feel uh again, like we're so outnumbered and all. Like this is uh I'm I'm happy to do it. Hell held this in the general direction of their toes.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you you you just throw it down in front of you towards the first toes. They're like really close to you. You're like and it makes a horrible noise, the trinkets and stuff that you had come flying out, and he kind of takes a step back. Caspian, it's you, my friend. Mike rifle is has a range of long. So is this prick right here in front of Roach within that range? Uh Anchorback? Yes, but Roach is sort of in the way. Not really. He's not in my line of sight. I think his token's gonna walk about because that is roughly where people were talking about him as if he was there earlier. No, his his token's right here. That's me. No. That's you. That's he's disappeared. Okay. Yeah, sorry. Sorry, Cockrid. Well, Caspian can't even differentiate between his own friends. He's just like it's all foods to Caspian. Cool, that's quite clearly in the line of sight. Okay. The guy at the top, though, who's making his way down this way, is definitely not. He's in my range, okay. Easily within your range. I'm gonna shoot that motherfucker. Cool. You don't have any modifiers, it's just a straight roll. Kind of a combat encounter. God, let's see. This running away starts to look better and better all the time. Well then, push the roll. No Was that your fancy new assault rifle as well? No, it's the scrap rifle. It's like it is. Yeah, I'm gonna do it. Alright, so obviously from all that grunting, I've I rolled really badly. I've lost an agility point, and it looks like my gun is damaged. Yeah. You hear a crack sick noise, which is probably not the noise you want to see just after the gunshot, and you can see that there's something wrong with the mechanism.
SPEAKER_01What are you if we survive this? I'm sure I can fix it for you.
SPEAKER_00On the cluster, it does make a very large club. I am going to, when I get a chance, if you tell me if I can do it an hour or later, that's fine. Swap out the rifle, put it back on my shoulder, and get the assault rifle. Yeah, you can definitely throw the scrap rifle, which you kind of over your shoulder, and then next next turn you can scrap out your assault rifle. Okay. Alright, well, the others seem to be closing in, but they're being quite cautious for whatever reason. They they seem to sort of be allowing the the leader and the rest of them to kind of take you all on rather than them kind of doing it. But the guy that you shot at, he kind of looks at you and he sort of like starts to run towards you. Sees that you're kind of changing your weapon over, and as he does so, he starts to inhale, and you can see he then rushes forward and exhales, and that fire appears out of his mouth and it roars towards you. That's a good mutation. I'll steal that. He's scanning arm's length. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it kind of like he misjudges how fast he gets to you, and it kind of just appears in front of you, and it just you can feel the heat, but it doesn't actually do anything to you. Or does he does he burn his dead comrade? Well, his dead comrade probably gets a bit of a bit of a singing, but he isn't quite close enough for that either. Right, so Roach, it's you, my friend. Take it, this uh guy with the scrap axe in front of me is he's got his head in the game. He does? He's yeah, so I'm I'm just gonna have to take a swing at him because he's not gonna stop, so Take it you're gonna axe him to the potential head. I think I'm gonna have to. Oh, some one success. Do you want to uh push any of that or are you happy with what it is? I'm gonna keep that as it is for now. Okay. I'll just parry the damage of your scrap axe. The damage is three. Okay. Yeah, yeah, he he's that's that's nice. Yeah, you hit him with the axe. He sort of sort of starts to move back a bit and tries to uh parry, but he fails to do so. And your axe cuts straight into his sort of like arm and chest, opening up a massive lacerated wound. You can see sort of sinews and stuff pop and pin, sort of starts to bleed, and he sort of shouts with this horrible sort of like scream and kind of staggers backward as blood is now just streaming down his chest. I stumbled right. Oh, where are we? We are the rest of the said guys are all sort of uh figuring out what they're doing, uh but they don't seem to be uh attacking. Right. Moss, that's
The Fight for Survival
SPEAKER_00you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I I hope that the you know tossing my box has sort of bought me enough room to keep running.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah, you can by all means if you want to make a move roll. Or run. Ooh, and no success, unfortunately. Yep. You're kind of you're kind of caught flat-footed, really. They're kind of pushing towards you, you're trying to like throw the box down, you kind of go to move. There's rubble and and rubbish everywhere. Do you want to try and push it? You'll take some damage.
SPEAKER_01Hilastically, I think I think this this situation is threatening enough to make me wanna push it. Yeah. And still no success. And I guess I did not go in the lesson last time.
SPEAKER_00No, you do do kind of like you kind of stop, and as you kind of start to turn to run, you sort of run almost into this other person that's been breathing fire out of his mouth, and you're like, whoa.
SPEAKER_01I mean, at least I don't knock myself out this time. It's fine.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. You're not knocking yourself out or anything, so that's always good. Right. Well, I guess last but not least is the rest of them. Okay. This is the episode folks, this is the episode where we end on us turning into a stew. Yay. Right then. Well Game over, man. Then everyone on the island dies because we took all the boobs. Blossom turns around and aims the revolver squarely at the the leader and opens
Blossom's Revenge
SPEAKER_00fire. What's the damage of your revolver? It's it's got a bonus of three on it as well. That's a pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, it's a genuine article. It's a proper revolver. Right. Well, she is going to roll up. So yeah, she turns around with the revolver, points it squarely at the guy with the spear, and pulls the trigger. There is a large gunshot from the revolver, and the guy with the spear staggers backwards as he takes one to the chest, and she shouts, That's for fucking eating my brands. You chalum blossom. I guess the uh the others kind of like step back, kind of seeing that you're all sort of fighting. They're sort of not willing to engage, especially now you've used firearms. The guy with the uh of the forearms is kind of just looking at you and eyeing you broach his sort of axe that's on the side. Sort of like drops out of his hands, and he kind of like drops down to his knees, and he kind of seems to be going very pale, and then he falls backwards and he appears to also be very dead. Okay. The guy with the s the guy who stopped and kind of like really started as a sort of like think, kind of sort of been pushing himself. And you can see that around him, you can see sort of all these little spores appearing, and you can see that he's basically building up this sort of like area effect around him. The spores don't seem to be coming out towards you, they just seem to be sort of like in a in a loose sort of couple of meter sort of pan around him, but he doesn't seem to be doing anything else. Right, I guess then this leaves you, Cochrane. You're next. Okay, so two of the guys directly in front of us are down. There's Spory guy, and then there's the guy behind us who is kind of dabbling with Moss at the moment. Well, Moss is basically running behind him.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Or trying to get past him. So Yeah. So there's just kind of like the guy with Roach and then one other guy who's doing spore things at the moment.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yes, correct. You know what? Do I know anything about these spore things or I like I'm at like I I assume I don't know anything about these spores apart from uh white concede, right? Make a wet scroll or a bit troll. Because if not, I'm gonna actually just punch him in the face and take whatever happens, happens. The spore guy's over here, so you'd have to take a run up and put it in the back. Who's the closest guy then who is not in this guy is the uh guy that's just taken a round to the chest. Then okay, then I will ignore the spore guy and I will just wallop that guy in the face. Yeah. Hopefully, you know, he's after he gets shot, he's slightly distracted when I just punch him. Go on, wallop him in the face then. Let's see what happens. Just one success. Okay. You do two damage for some reason. The two damage? No, it should be one, right? I might have just copied it. Is it f is fist is one, isn't it? It should be, I think, yeah. Yeah, it is, unless you've got I've got it at two because I've got the on-arm skill. Yeah, I think uh that's because I copied the might have just duplicated across from the knife. So it's one damage. You kind of like you punch him in the face. Yeah, he he surprisingly enough was very distracted with being shot in the chest, and you lamp him in the face and he kind of like stumbles backwards and lands on the floor on his back, right? Then it's Caspian. I'm annoyed that my mutation is only good at arm's length. I mean, you could get towards him with your movement action. Good, and then he'll roast you like a fucking Alright. Uh but you've taken off your assault rifle. Yes, I have my assault rifle now. Suppose I could shoot him. Yeah, I'll do that. I will shoot him. Any pluses? Yeah, plus three for your assault rifle. If you go into your weapon and you actually use your No, I understand that. I'm uh the I'm wondering about the There's no bonuses for for anything else. I mean it's long range as is is your range, so it's just a standard roll. Is it long range, you said? Yeah, I mean your the range is long, so for you. So actually That's a plus one. The book says long range is plus one. Page eighty-two. Oh, that's for sneak attack, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, no, it's fine. You're within range, so no issues. You just need to just shoot. Jesus. I have two successes and two explosion symbols. I will not be pushing this. You won't be pushing it. Damage is two, correct? Uh the damage is two, that is correct. Uh so yeah, you one gives you the success, and then the other one gives you the extra damage, so you to he takes three damage. Yeah, so you uh you aim your uh your assault rifle at him and pull the trigger. I assume you're just firing one shot. Yep. And I'm screaming, die, you motherfucker. Yeah, you shoot him square in the chest, you shout him, and he obediently obeys and hits the floor dead. Well nice. Okay, mostly done. See, we're not we're not outnumbered. Because fine. We're doing fine. We're teaching these moralized how to make it. Caspian can't see into the alleyway right now, so Bridge, it's you, sir. Yeah, I'm eager to create a change of leadership in this group, so I'm gonna step forward and hit the guy who's been shot and punched. The guy's basically stumbling on the floor, he's on his back, kinda lean over him and just whack him with your axe. Have an extra plus two dice to just kill. An extra two. Not that you really need it, or you might do. I mean, I've seen how you've been rolling today. Yeah, that's true. Ooh, three successes from Rose. What do you do to the guy? Yeah, I'm d I'm basically executing him, so yeah, I guess I'm trying gonna try and decapitate him, it being the traditional thing. Yeah, you grab him by the hair and then just basically swing your axe into his ch into his neck, severing it a couple of times, and then there's a pop noise as the head comes off. Yeah. At the moment you do that, they the rest of them howl and scream and just start disappearing across into the various nooks and crannies and running into the ruins, leaving just you the dead. The guy with the spores, he just runs off, leaving this like horrible sort of like middle bit of spores just hanging around the centre bit of the alleyway. And then as quickly as they it all kind of happened, you're alone. There's more where that came from if you don't stop eating people from the ark. Only Caspians allowed to do that. We've already established this. I guess. These the these dead bodies here, what do they have on them besides their weapons? That's right. Let's just loot them, shall we? So yes, they have some some scrap weapons. The one that that you had had a scrap knife. But they have no form of armour or any belongings of any kind. One yellow coat.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, I want my stuff back. Is the coat still intact or did it suffer in the uh uh it's got a nice little hole in the in the chest. Yeah, that can probably be ended.
SPEAKER_00And there's a lot of like gore and blood around this lapel of the washon. I mean, to be fair, it's a raincoat, right? Yeah, exactly. So I'm taking this guy's scrap knife. Okay. And this guy axe, you said. This guy up here. He had yeah, scrap. No, he had a spear, sorry. He had a scrap knife. Scrap spear. Scrap spear. I'll take that too, because maybe we could use it at the arc. Yep. If you want to loot the bodies, basically you've got the the other guy had a scrap axe. The other one has a scrap spear. And everybody else has run away. Leaving a scrap spear laying around because they ran off with that thing. Blossom turns to you, Roach, and gives you a massive hug. Good to see you, Blossom. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_01What happened?
SPEAKER_00We got grabbed as we were outside the ark.
SPEAKER_01You were outside, okay.
SPEAKER_00That's good at least. We we we we we were going out to get water from the from the tap or the pipe, and we got grabbed, and they they they took a load of the others and yeah, it just wasn't good. Are you the only one left? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Sunshine's over there. Pointed to the like You point to the the the the the little the little the little campfire that's uh burning. See there's I'm gonna go over and put the fire out. Okay. You go over, you can see there is a a lower leg on the uh fire and slice is taken out the back with its calf. Is there any more of her around, or is it just a leg? It's just the leg that you can see there. As you all kind of make your way over there, she says, Yeah, they they they they had us in there there's a number of buildings sort of like towards the the east, and um yeah, I think some of our companions are there. She then throws up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well these guys in the neighborhood I don't think it's really that safe to stay.
SPEAKER_00It's probably getting quite late in the afternoon as well now. I was just gonna suggest we we get back to the ark, we take Blossom back and let let Elsa know what what's happening out here. Well, it seems like a good plan, she says. She hands you back your revolver. Seems to hang very close to Roach. I give her the spear just so she has a weapon. Yep. That's great. She takes the spear. She says, I think there's the there's only the rest of them. Um I I didn't see anybody else.
SPEAKER_01So that if we got the rest of the arc together we could try and take them out. That seems good. If there's not a hundred of them somewhere, you know, hidden.
SPEAKER_00No. No, there's only them. They didn't appear to have any guns, so there'll be six
Planning the Counterattack
SPEAKER_00of them left. No, they all had they all had uh had weapons. Now there's there's nothing in the description that says that the person is aware that when I steal their attributes. So I'm gonna spend a point, a mutant point, to steal her agility and bring it back up one point of agility so I can go back up to five. I'm a bastard, I know. Okay. She feels very fatigued anyway, so she she definitely wouldn't know us. Okay.
SPEAKER_01And you know what?
SPEAKER_00I'll spend one more and I'll uh restore my empathy. Damn it, I'm gonna use my mutation. Okay, cool. Right then. Well, what's the plan? We prefer to return to the arc. Let's go north. Avoiding that spider zone. Yes, that's good. You head north. Okay, that's fine. I take it you're just gonna speedily head north because you've searched the zone, so that's fine. Correct.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't want to be ambushed by the remains of that gang.
SPEAKER_00Okay, yeah. So you uh you head north back into the forests, so you're gonna sort of like cut across into the sort of like diagonal as it were. Yeah, I mean if we can if we can go this way. Or we can go straight and then Well, you can just kind of like cut around the the end part. Yeah. I mean, we can make a beeline for the coast if that's you know.
unknownWhatever.
SPEAKER_00Can you all please make a or take a point of rot and make the make the other roll that goes with it? Does that mean you roll two dices if you have two rotts? Indeed. I have two radiation symbols. Exactly what everybody else gets. Grab the load. Nothing for Cocker. Nothing for you, okay. Wait, hang on. Is my role showing up? No, it's not. Good. Okay, let me try that again. Yes. Okay. So yeah, you uh you make your way through. I I can't seem to find the rules for rock. Yeah, and I forgot.
SPEAKER_01I think we're fine fine for the moment, and then we need to try and wash it off when we get home.
SPEAKER_00I think Barco might be in trouble. Because I think it's if you mark the symbol, that's when bad things happen.
SPEAKER_01Oh, shouldn't you ever want the uh roll the biohazard though?
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm. It's one of these things where if you roll a success, it's a bad thing on rocks.
SPEAKER_01Oh.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Well, everything anything that isn't a success on this one. Is it in the threats in the zones, the chapter? I'm just checking, having a look. I don't think it is. I think it's travel through the site. The rot. There we go. So the worst thing the rot is permeates your body and builds up inside you. In fact, yeah. So you by the time you've kind of gone all the way down and all the way back, uh, you've got your point. You also get one point. Okay. Fectioned rot. So every turn you suffer a rot point, you immediately roll number of base dicing with determined amount of rot points you have. For every failure you roll, you suffer one point of damage. So actually the radiation is fine. It's when you roll the biohazard sign here. Well, yeah, Chris, you were right. Well, you're all good. So no issues for any of you. So that's fine. Okay. You uh you make your way through the zone and you make your way back to the ship. When you get back to the ship, what are they doing on board the ship? So we have some cropland that is being currently developed back in the island to the north of the zone. But you know you're helping them, so they are just getting on with it. Okay. Wait a second. The cropland is complete. So could someone roll me 3D6? I can do it if nobody else wants to. Yep. I'll leave that for you, Marco. 3D six coming up. That is an eleven, yes. Oh wow. You'll be very pleased to know that your food has now gone up to twenty-five. Oof. The croplands have come in and yeah. But here's the issue. To access them, you now have to access the lawkeepers who can to get them, or you have to take that island by force to get the crops that will come from there. Yes, we did take away the only other boat that could actually bring food back and forth. Yes. So uh they will have a lot of food and they will be doing very well on the island, thank you very much. But it doesn't benefit the ship until either you make amends or you take the island by force. But you get back to the ship, I presume you want a you want to speak to uh Elson. Yes. So not to speak to Elson. Okay. You guys can do that, I'm going to my bunk. You want a painting? Plus, I don't care what Elson has to say anyway. Well, that's fine. Somebody has a phone to pick with Elson. Is this a new information? Yeah, to basically force me to go to visit him at the first place. Are the rest of you want to go to Elson or do you want to go do something else? Uh yeah, I'm definitely gonna go see Elson. Uh yeah, you you go to Elson and he again, you go down into the bowels of the ship, everything smells of that engine grease. He he he basically takes you to his audience chamber, which if you remember is sort of like an old engine, and there's that grid grating on the floor, and he's sort of sitting on a kind of like a chair with various tools and stuff sitting around him, and Finn is there, the underboss, as well as him and a couple of the others. And very quickly, you kind of like come in. Blossom goes over and tells him what happened. He gets really angry, but then she says that you guys managed to sort of rescue her. And Elsa says, with his sort of that stupid big grin on his face, he says, That's true. Yes. Like, oh my god, that is a stupid grin. I want to eat that grin off his face. The grin itself does not change, it is like permanently stuck in that grimace. Also, his head is massive compared to his body. I'm so very grateful for this. So very grateful I'm not doing the grin. And he says, What can I do to help you? I mean, you've saved one of my own. I look at the other two and go, I guess we could do with some more resources.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Of course. I could do to help with that. Grub. If um Yeah, yeah. Fighting cannibals is, you know, hungry work. Okay, I can we can do that. We we can absolutely do that. And I I would suggest that we put the ark on alert. That's a very good idea. And I would uh very much like to go back out there in full force and take these fuckers out. I agree. I'm more than happy to do that myself. I look across the blossom and uh go, maybe you'd like to lead the party. Love to, she says. Yeah, maybe we maybe we could do that. Sure, I think that seems like a good plan. We can arrange it for tomorrow. How many did you say there were? Well, there were about ten, but we took out at least half of them. Okay, well we can there may be more there may have been more of them hiding in the in the ruins. We're we we're unsure. Well, we could definitely go go hunt them down. That seems like a good
Strategies for Unity
SPEAKER_00plan. Then we'll know that we're we'll have a safe safe area. I could also use some more bullets, Mr. Elson. Sure, I can I can arrange that. Not a problem. He says uh Zippo, silly can arrange that. There's a uh guy wearing a big sort of like trench coat with like lots of scrap bits all over him, and uh he says, sure, I can do that. Thanks a lot, zipper. And he kind of wanders off. Purposefully got his name wrong. So Elson, is there uh a new leader of the rugged crew yet? No yeah, they're still trying to figure it out. Yeah, well fuck them too.
SPEAKER_01Actually, now that we're here and you know, like the the as the whatever negotiations for uh better supplies and such are going on, I'm I'm gonna sort of slip away and look for my mate chaos, and I hope nothing's happened to them through all this turmoil. I've not tricked on them in forever.
SPEAKER_00Roll me a d6.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, is that not two d6, one d6. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_00Has chaos already been eaten.
SPEAKER_01It's a nice safe middling roll.
SPEAKER_00A safe middling roll. Well, that's what you'd like to think. No, yeah, chaos is there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I I give um I give them one of my mysterious soft items printed with a pretty museum picture. I don't know what this is there for, but they they had these they had these hung on the wall and they were huge and they had little ones to take away. And this is nice and soft. Maybe you can I don't know. Use it for a pillow or something.
SPEAKER_00Thank you. That's that's that's that's really kind of you.
SPEAKER_01And I sort of, you know, tell how we were gonna go exploring and I was so hoping to find great stuff to like build my new inventions from. But then this this art place with the statues, that was I mean, like that wasn't as utilitarian as I would have wanted it to be, but it really blew my mind with being so beautiful.
SPEAKER_00See that Chaos's Chaos's eyes glaze over as you talk about that.
SPEAKER_01Kindle uh rekindle the conversation with the uh cannibal battle in which I totally did something else other than run away.
SPEAKER_00Well Chaos is absolutely happy to put his own name down to go and find those cannibals and kill them. So yeah, he's like, well, I'll speak to Elson. I'll go and have the goal this expedition, and we'll go and kill ourselves some cannibals. I hate cannibals. He's never met a cannibal before in his life, but he hates he hasn't met Caspian yet. Not yet. So while she's doing that, Moss is doing that, Caspian when Pete, I'm sorry, when Roach and Elson are discussing Rhett's gang and whether or not they have a new leader, Caspian will suggest, hey man, with this with this threat out there, these people are taking our our they're taking our people and they're eating them. We are at war and we need to be united. We can't be fighting amongst ourselves anymore. No more individual bosses. There needs to be one leader, and Elson, that should be you. Yeah, it should. Yeah, it should. I don't know if the others are gonna agree with that. Well, stay know what is stay no the threat. Once they understand what's coming for that, I think they will. Well in that case, we we well, I mean we should have a meeting. We should have a meeting. I agree. The arc is at war. Yes. I I like this. Caspian is stirring up shit. Says okay, yeah, we'll have a meeting. Yeah, yeah, a meeting seems like a plan. Alright. I'll um I'll call I'll call a meeting. Do we wanna uh get the others involved as well? What do you mean the others? On on the island? Yes, they should be aware, I think. Elson, may I suggest that maybe you propose power sharing model first, you know, a council. Well, that didn't happen that didn't work last time. Yeah, I know. But no one had the uh power advantage to hold it together. So we're not really a council then are we? I'd be the one leading and they'd be what, advisers? You've got to offer him something. Look, man, we we offer them it's temporary. He's our war leader, and once the threat of the cannibals is over, then we will return to power sharing council type governance. That's what I think. He leans forward and goes, For a bunch of independents, you're all quite sneaky, aren't you? Hey man, I don't want to be eaten. Well, neither do I. Okay, well, why don't I do that then? I'll I'll arrange to get them back here, we can have a conversation with them. Sorry, Roach. Could you do me a favor? Sure thing. Can you get our boat back? Someone took our boat. Someone took our boat? Didn't Arwin's gang take our boat? Yeah, but they don't have it. They lost it? It's gone.
SPEAKER_01How stupid of them, how irresponsible.
SPEAKER_00How completely boneheaded. See, our Arwin's gang doesn't deserve a seat at a table. They're so incompetent. They're going to get us all killed. So they can stay being farmers and providing us with food. Well you have you have the boat. So can you go and deliver the message to Anwin? Yes. I have the only remaining boat, is what you're saying. Yes. That's what I'm saying. Other than the small kind of like skiffs and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I was just trying to make sure he didn't know that we had the other boat. No, no, no. He doesn't he doesn't seem to he doesn't seem to know that. Yes, I will I will I will relay the message. Well, I'll uh I'll think on that and I'll see if I can get one of their well I suppose it's it's gonna be one of the others, but we'll we'll see what we can do. Okay. We'll have a meeting in a couple of days. I salute him. He says, uh, this is for you, and he hands you a ammo tub of of bullets.
SPEAKER_01Wow, we're gonna finish off those cannibals with that.
SPEAKER_00How many bullets is in this tub? Thirty-two bullets in the tub. Oh. Wow, okay. That means I have thirty-seven bullets in total. That is for he he he well, he assumes that that's for the group. I'm the only one with a gun though, but yes. Okay, perfect. Thank you very much. What about grub? So he will give you let's grub to see how, but he doesn't have a massive amount of grubs. Boss, I'm gonna need you to fix that scrap rifle for me. Oh yeah, sure. So you get four grub and three water. Sounds good to me. Okay. Oh, you want to fix the uh the scrap rifle, do you? Okay, well you kind of like leave the le leave his chambers and you kind of go to sort of like do a bit of rest and recuperation. And in doing so, you would like to repair scrap rifle.
SPEAKER_01It's bulk gun. My rifle is bulk gun.
SPEAKER_00Uh your poor, poor little rifle.
SPEAKER_01Moss, will you make my rifle better? Uh yes, but not with this role right there. I think this needs pushing.
SPEAKER_00I've seen worse rolls, but yeah, that's a pretty bad role.
SPEAKER_01Oh, there we go.
SPEAKER_00There you go. Much better. Look at that. I think she would have broken your gun. Four successes. That's amazing. What a sad thing.
SPEAKER_01What will this rifle be able to do now?
SPEAKER_00Right. If you make the roll you construct you fix it, that's fine. And it now shoots like lasers. That's fine. You repair it. More successes means that it's you can basically repair that up to the total, but I think it only is a plus one. Is that correct? Marco, your scrap rifle. You've only got a bonus of one. So that's fine. So how do I repair it? I just put the one back? Yes, just um just put the one back. Okay. I'm looking at the the description and saying stuff like durability increase the gear bonus by one? You can if you're actually making it, but just fixing it. This repair is souped up. Yeah, if you if you if you'd have tried to make it, you could have added to the durability, the armor protection, damage, that kind of thing. That doesn't count if you're just fixing it. Thanks, Mike. Yeah, nice. Nice done. You're and that's how uh yeah, that's how you do the rest of the stuff. So by the time you get back, there's a uh a large uh a large painting in the in Cochrane's quarters. Aww. How how well did it survive the full deal output? Well, it's got sort of like a bunch of squares on it now, but yeah, for the most part, it it it looks pretty much the same. I mean I'm I'm guessing that Cochrane is probably not an art connoisseur, but therefore isn't that fussed by the the crease marks and the and the loss of paint. I guess there's like particularly big bits of paint missing. Like you might go down and see if you could find some paint and then like paint it back with some like machine paint or something like that, though. Amazing. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, you add some bits to it. I mean, it looks great. Or just like, oh, I vaguely remember this boat was brown, so I'll put a brown splotch there. So it looks a bit like that restored like picture of Jesus, maybe. Yeah, you kind of like make it sort of back the way it was. Inverting. It looks exactly the same. Exactly the same. Add stuff's quite ridiculous peaking. Obviously, it didn't take a lot of time. How hard could it be? Yeah, you guys kind of rest up, and uh, I'm gonna generously mean that it say that if you've got any damage, if you've had suffered any trauma, you can have that bat over the intervening times. So by all means put all your stats back
Cleansing the Rot
SPEAKER_00up to normal. Oh, look at that. How nice. And then what I need to do for you all is assume you're gonna get clean and decontaminate yourself from the rot. Do you just gonna sort of like bathe in the ocean or are you gonna actually go out of your way to clean yourself? I imagine we would clean ourselves like the most efficient way that we've been doing it on the arc since day one. Really? Firm bristly brush so your skin's red. In that case, can you make some rolls to get rid of your permanent rot points? Well, I don't have any permanent ones, I just have two. How does it have to be? Yeah, temporary. So now when you c when you're when you're decontaminating, or when when the rot leaves your body, every time you're about to lose one rock point, roll one base dice. If you roll a one, the rot point stays and becomes permanent.
The Calm Before the Next Storm
SPEAKER_00Permanent rock points stay with you for the rest of your life, no matter what. So and because I have two points, I roll two d6? Maybe one at a time, but yes. I just rolled the two single dice as I'm player five, apparently.
SPEAKER_01So I don't know why why that's player four.
SPEAKER_00So that's fine. You lose both your rot points and they go and they don't become permanent. So how many do you have, Pete? Two. So if you roll a single D6 and then another single D6, permanent, that becomes permanent, and your next one is fine. So you have one permanent. And then Marco just for you says that's fine. Oh that's permanent, so you get one permanent. Oh, okay. So I lose one and then the other one goes over to the permanent side. And then you kind of take a bit of time to sink some sea shanties to sort of sit down with your fellow mutants to relax. You definitely can sense that there is a different feel to the ship. Things have calmed down a little bit once they had done until Elson's now sort of ramping up to have another meeting and then go out into the zone and to uh hunt down these dastardly feral mutants. Every time we're gonna come back, there's gonna be like, now there's like a lot of flags around. Now everyone's wearing like uniforms. They're wearing armbands. It's just like, oh no. We haven't quite got there yet. It's fine. Draw the line at armbands. I mean, that's that's not gonna be the case. You guys have got a culture of two. Right. You've already instigated fear of the other, so I think there's only like a few more factors we need before it's dictatorship.