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Dark Blue Sea S1 E19: A Mutant Year Zero Actual Play Podcast
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Cochrane makes a reckless choice, and the GM has to throw his game prep out the window. Don’t miss the penultimate chapter of Dark Blue Sea.
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SPEAKER_01Welcome back to another episode. We haven't quite figured out what that episode is, so insert episode here. It's twenty. It's our penultimate episode. So yes, I will do the usual. I'm joined by Marco, my wonderful co-host and excellent player.
SPEAKER_03Thanks.
SPEAKER_01Gee, well, you know, I've got to be nice to you, right? Otherwise I'll be dying in the next game. That may well happen anyway. Uh we have Douglas. Uh Pete. Hello. And Chris.
unknownHello.
SPEAKER_01There we go. That's that's everyone. I guess we'll get back to where we were. Time is a fleeting. So
Entering the Rocket Ship
SPEAKER_01you all got into the well, you all got into the rocket ship. You kind of crawled crawled, but you kind of like bent down or went underneath into the um into the ship through the small door. You could see six seats in the in the in the rocket facing upwards, sort of towards the ceiling, and there were some ladders. And as you as you kind of like walked in, you heard the sound, good evening, may I help you? And you all turned and you saw a person in what looks like very sparkly looking clothes. It takes you a second to sort of like double take, and it's not a person at all. It is a well, someone make a comprehend roll, please.
SPEAKER_03I think I have comprehend.
SPEAKER_01I think it's probably gonna be you. It's probably gonna be you. I do not have comprehend.
SPEAKER_05But I think I might need to have push that.
SPEAKER_01Feel free. Excellent. Two successes, very nice. Nice, two successes. This is a robot. For the rest of you, it's a metal person. You know that they are made of servers and electronic parts and all sorts. You read a book once, Yeti.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, the same book with the rocket ship in here. Yeah. My favorite book. I wonder why we love that.
SPEAKER_03Don't be silly. It's a person in plate mail armor. I've heard about this.
SPEAKER_01The person looks at you and says, Is it time? Time for what? Time to make your way to Jotunheim?
SPEAKER_03Where?
SPEAKER_01Jotunheim.
SPEAKER_03Does anybody know what the fuck this knight is talking about?
SPEAKER_01He he looks you up and down, or she, or he. It looks you up and down and says, You do not appear to be attired correctly.
SPEAKER_05Is there any chance at all with that having been a double success that I might have heard of this word before?
SPEAKER_01Uh no, you have absolutely not heard of that word before.
SPEAKER_05They're not right for space. We need we need um we need like a fish bowl on our heads or some something like that. What's wrong with my clothes? Because you can't breathe in space.
SPEAKER_03But we don't breathe water, we're not fish.
SPEAKER_02Why do we need a fishbowl on our heads?
SPEAKER_01The the metal man has sort of like a kind of face. It doesn't have any expression or anything. It's kind of got what looks like an eyes and maybe a mouth, which doesn't seem to actually move. It doesn't seem to have ears or any kind of hair. And it kind of cocks its head sideways just a little bit as you're talking and says, Have you been through in recruitment? Take your helmet off.
SPEAKER_03I am not wearing a helmet, but you will require a helmet. You are, of course, wearing a helmet. Don't be silly. Take it off so we can get a gander of your face. I am not wearing a helmet. You are wearing a helmet.
SPEAKER_01I am not wearing a helmet. You are wearing a helmet. However, this can go on for quite some time. The helmeted person takes a step forward and says, Uh, do you have authorization to be on here?
SPEAKER_03Do you have authorization to be on here?
SPEAKER_01Yes. Show it to us. The metal man kind of cocks his head sideways again. I I'm having difficulty understanding the request. Show us your authorization. I can show you my authorization. And it kind of wanders over to what looks like it, one of one of the um the keyboards and the sort of like flat screen that's on the on the side of the rocket, and it starts to tap away at the uh at the uh the at the machine. And then he he pulls his thing, he opens his sort of like finger out and then unscrews it and puts the finger into like a hole in the in the computer terminal, and there's a bunch of whirring and stuff. You can feel sort of like a tremble start to happen, and you feel the sort of like the floor and the deck and everything start to just just hum a bit more. And you can see all the computer terminals turning on, and then a voice which sounds somewhat like your elder says, Welcome, and then it goes, Who is that? And that is one of the directors. Where did that voice come from? That is the voice of one of the directors. Where's this director? I can't see him. Is he in another room? No, it is a recording. What does that mean? It means that the voice has been synthesized and then kind of looks at you and says, Someone is taking the words that they were saying, and they've turned them into their voice. They stole somebody else's words and voice? Yes, you could call it that.
SPEAKER_02So is this voice authorization?
SPEAKER_01This is authorization, yes. One second, please bear with me. And it continues to like look at the screen. There's loads of beeps and bloops, and lights start coming on, everything starts to flash. The the keyboard uh towards the top of you is above your head is sort of like lighting up with lots of different colours, and you can still feel the sort of like trembling around the um around your feet, and sort of if you put your hand on the bulkhead, you can feel the tremble of there as well.
SPEAKER_03I don't like this place. Me neither.
SPEAKER_05But there's so many great inventions here. I just don't know don't know how to get to it.
SPEAKER_02Like those skeletons have some nice dig clothes on them.
SPEAKER_01No, they they were kind of like wearing sort of a mixed match of clothing that you've seen elsewhere. Some of them had some like white sort of like tops, others had sort of like blue and and orange tops.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna go over to the metal man, the knight in dented, not shining armor, I'm imagining. And knock on his helmet with my knuckles. Hello, hello in there.
SPEAKER_01The head sort of like turns, and as you now you've got closer, you can see that where the kind of clothing is that goes up to his his his uh chin. You can see that you can see through his neck, and you can see sort of instead of it being like a human neck or a mutant neck, it's got like loads of servers and stuff in, and sort of you can see through it, there's cabling and stuff where his neck would be.
SPEAKER_05It is an abomination. Don't make him mad, Caspian, he might be really strong.
SPEAKER_03He's some kind of devil. He has no flesh.
SPEAKER_05What I've said is just a machine.
SPEAKER_03Machines don't don't look like that. They don't speak. He's a fancy machine.
SPEAKER_05From the before times.
SPEAKER_03The before times are evil.
SPEAKER_05No, they were awesome and we can be awesome again. Maybe he can work for us. He can probably carry a b a whole boat in one hand or something.
SPEAKER_03Cochrane, you in your dealings with the lore keepers as a chronicler,
The Metal Man Speaks
SPEAKER_03have you have you heard of such a metallic thing? A being without flesh?
SPEAKER_02I I hadn't even heard of like a rocket until I saw that like painting in the museum.
SPEAKER_01The metal man takes a step back and gestures towards the screen. On the screen you can see the elder. She's your elder. She seems a lot younger.
SPEAKER_04Wow.
SPEAKER_01And uh she's sporting a like a white coat, much like you saw in some of the other people on some of the skeletons. The hair, instead of it being white, is sort of like sort of like a almost a dark black. And she's the hair's longer and more luscious. And she's sort of like tying the sort of like hair into a into a ponytail. And uh she says, You want me to speak in in in there? And she's pointing at the screen, and she says, Oh, so so do you want me to so what is it you want me to say? Oh, okay, I can conclude. She looks up and she's nodding. She says, Okay. Yep. Okay, sure. And she leans forward over the screen and then comes back with what looks like a board with lots of paper on. She sort of like starts to flick through the papers and says, That's a lot of stuff. What's oh, okay, it'll pick it up. I just need to do so okay. Yeah, so if I if I say some of the words, then it the computer will pick up the rest. Okay, that's fine. Okay, I can start whenever Yep, whenever you're ready. Who is she talking to?
SPEAKER_05I I elbow Cochrane. She's she's reading. She's about to read, isn't she? There's words on the paper.
SPEAKER_02She's talking to us. Elder. Elder.
SPEAKER_01Elder, can you see us through this window? She doesn't seem to be taking any notice of you. The metal man kind of looks at you. Metal man, how do we get into the room behind here? There is nothing behind there, that is the bulkhead. It is a recording.
SPEAKER_02No, she's she's right there. I can see her through this window.
SPEAKER_01You can see that the the elder is still continuing to chat. And then she starts reading things off of this this board with paper. And she says Welcome. What? She says Okay, sorry, I'll get closer. She says Welcome. Please exit. Please mind the step. What really? Floor one. Floor two. And she carries on doing that. She just starts talking random things. She's reading like set little short sentences out. And I don't like this. I don't like this. The screen stops and then another screen appears.
SPEAKER_05I elbow Cochrane again. I think it's te it's the elder taught it to speak. That's that's what she was doing. She was teaching at the words. And but when I say it at point at the
Discovering the Past
SPEAKER_05robot. It's like like look that it that's that's what the elder did. I mean, you know, she she taught young, stupid things things. Only when it was our turn, she was already really old. But when she was younger and and and you know, did bigger jobs and in the before times when everything still worked, she could she could teach things like that, and then that's why why why the metal box speaks to us.
SPEAKER_03These machines and and all these words are the things that ended the world. We should have nothing to do with them.
SPEAKER_05Everything we have is from the before time. Even even the shippies, the arc is I mean everything. Your your nice fancy gun, my my raincoat, everything.
SPEAKER_01Well that's different. The metal man says Uh this is correct. What is correct? That this is from as as your colleague says, the before time.
SPEAKER_05I grow like half an inch. I'm right, I'm right.
SPEAKER_03You are an abomination, metal man. Keep your metal mouth shut. It doesn't say anything. Every sound you make is the sound that ended the world. It says nothing. We should leave. This place is vile.
SPEAKER_05You can speak again, it's fine. Metalman, does this rocket work?
SPEAKER_02Yes, of course it works. Can this rocket take us to Maui?
SPEAKER_01It can, but it would need to go to its destination first and then return.
SPEAKER_02And this rocket also takes us to Eden, he says with a roll of his eyes.
SPEAKER_01It depends on what you mean by Eden. There are multiple entries in my uh database to tell you what kind of Eden you're with. Are you talking about command center delta Eden? Are you talking about Eden as in Eden 837-6, which is Jognine station?
SPEAKER_05Is that where the other elders went?
SPEAKER_02So Joltenheim is Eden.
SPEAKER_01The elders. There are other elders there.
SPEAKER_05Okay, what what do we need to go there? What do we need do we need to dress up? You said is there is there a fancy dress? Is there and I wonder what I would say for space suit here? Is there is there d rocket travel things that we can wear that we can go there? I want to go there.
SPEAKER_03There are. There's no such thing as spa what is space? Space.
SPEAKER_05I tell you, it's where the rocket ship travels. It's like the sea for the rocket ship. And and the stars are there too.
SPEAKER_03Stars are in the sky.
SPEAKER_02We saw it in the picture, Caspina.
SPEAKER_05That's where black.
SPEAKER_03Black as well. You want to go into the sky like a bird.
SPEAKER_05With the rocket ship, yes. You can. That's what they're made for.
SPEAKER_03I don't see any wings on this contraption.
SPEAKER_05It's got fire coming out the backside. It doesn't need wings. I don't know quite how, but I've seen it, I tell you. In the book, with a with the metal robots and with a ship that's fiery in the end and travels to the stars.
SPEAKER_03Sometimes when I eat those beans that we find, uh I have fire on the back end, but it doesn't let me fly.
SPEAKER_01The metal man The metal man opens up like a door below him and there is a round circular hatch which has a ladder leading down. Yeah, that's gonna be there for a while, isn't it, Marco? Ooh! And that is the end of our podcast there because we cannot continue. Yeah. Yeah, so he he basically points to this hatchway and says, if you go below, there are there are suits for you to wear.
SPEAKER_04Let's try. I wanna go, I wanna go.
SPEAKER_01Metal suits like the one you are wearing? No, because I am not wearing a metal suit. Yes, you are.
SPEAKER_05He is a metal suit, he isn't wearing it, it he's it.
SPEAKER_01He says, I will convince you, and then he starts to take the button off the top of his like suit, and then he un he unzips the clothing that he's wearing, and he takes it off, and you can see that there's metal underneath him, and as he sort of like takes the top part of it off, it's like an all-in-one kind of piece of clothing. You can see there are joins between the arms and the body, and you can see through the joins there's loads of servers and stuff, and lots of like cabling and other little bits that kind of whir when he m when he moves his arm around, and he basically does the same thing as he takes them down past his his midrift and drops the trousers, and you can see the same thing, but he's got very thin stick legs. Now take the metal off. I do not have any metal to take off. This is my body, and he goes, Tong tongue. Yeah, take the metal off. He cannot.
SPEAKER_03Because I cannot. Surely you can. I could take the skin off of Cochrane if I wanted to. He wouldn't like it, but I could, if I had a knife.
SPEAKER_02Is is there literally no like room for a person left inside that sort of like exoskeleton as it was?
SPEAKER_03I mean, it's massively unlikely. He's clearly he's clearly walking on stilts, moving the arms around with with like, you know, metal beams or something. This is a trick.
SPEAKER_05Why are you being so obstinate? Let's just go, and then then once we're in Eden, everything will be revealed. Haven't I heard you talking about Eden all these years? And and now that we've got the chance, you're like, Meh, I don't believe it.
SPEAKER_03Yes, because Eden is not Eden is not up in the sky. There's nothing up in the sky but clouds and the moon.
SPEAKER_05How do you know?
SPEAKER_03Because I have common sense.
SPEAKER_05We saw the elder, didn't we? They they had an image of the elder. She was here when she was young.
SPEAKER_03So where is this Eden that this contraption takes us to? Up there.
SPEAKER_01The first Eden no longer exists. Where was that? It it basically kind of like rattles off a a a bunch of numbers and letters. Well, it is replaced by the second Eden.
SPEAKER_02So you're saying Eden's gone.
SPEAKER_01Well, there there are multiple. Well, they were. Why? Because the the and he kind of looks at you and says, the elders wanted to create new kinds of people.
SPEAKER_04Wait, like like us? Or like you? Like both?
SPEAKER_01I imagine like you. That did not go well. Are you saying they destroyed the world? Well, after the uh after the plague, there was a war, and after the war there was another war, and then some of the elders went back to here, Earth, to try and repopulate it with people able to survive the blasted lands. But I am as far as I'm aware, my database says that this did not happen.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's us, that's us. I pointed at each of us excitedly. Look, look, we've been we've been surviving out there, and I guess they're the blasted lands alright. I I I've I've eaten rot rats. I can eat rot rats.
SPEAKER_02But that's not I mean Okay, Moss, I was with you up to this point, but we did not come from space. I know that much for a fact. We survived because we've always been here. That's we've never not been here.
SPEAKER_03That is correct. That is correct. We survived. We are the descendants of the survivors of the great calamity.
The Truth About Eden
SPEAKER_05But the before times people, right? They didn't have they didn't have bark or stings or antless or powers like that, right? The the elders were just really peopl, you know, peoply.
SPEAKER_01How do you know that? The metal man says they and kind of looked at you, created you. They call it genetic engineering.
SPEAKER_05Genetic engineering.
SPEAKER_01They they they engineered you. And then something failed. And then a second Eden was created when the first failed. And that is where you want to take us to. That is where the ship is is prepared to go. The last of the survivors did not make it. I assumed that you were of those, but having now read your DNA, I can tell that you are these and he look well, he kind of like stops for a second as if he's computing something and says mutant. You read my what DNA. I scanned you to determine what you were made of.
SPEAKER_03You you you looked at us and you could just tell what we were made of. Yes.
SPEAKER_01But I need And you have this ability in your eyes? No, it's on board the ship, and he basically points towards a bunch of like now you're kind of looking around. Make a scout, Rolf, please. Anyone who's looking around, feel free. I don't know. I kind of want to shoot this guy.
SPEAKER_05Don't shoot him. I he's supposed to take me to space.
SPEAKER_03I have two successes.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Anyone who anyone who succeeded, yeah, you can see that behind you there is a faint blue light that is now kind of illuminating you, and it it looks like it has gone up and down. In fact, it is just it is just finishing, this light just finishes going past the the back of Roach. And then the little uh the little scanning thing, all kind of like arm, what looks like a little arm, kind of like retracts and then goes back into the wall of the ship. I shoot it. It was trying it was trying to hurt Roach.
SPEAKER_03Okay, you turn around and you shoot it. Make a shoot roll for me, please. That is my god, that is four successes.
SPEAKER_01Nice. Okay, yeah, you turn around and what did you shoot it with? Is it you assault rifle. Your assault rifle. Yeah, you turn around and you uh you fire. Oh my god, it's loud in here. It's a very small enclosed room. There's a lot of like woo ringing in everyone's ears after you shoot and the scanner sort of like explodes in little parts, it shorts out. Well, it looks like it's gone it looks like it's gone into the hull.
SPEAKER_02Question. Where did the bullet go?
SPEAKER_01It is not bouncing around the room.
SPEAKER_03Though I do have three stunts, I could make it bounce around the room.
SPEAKER_01I mean Okay, so it's not bouncing around the room. If if you want to, I mean that's that's half the fun, sure. It is the pen as the pen ultimate episode. I mean that's Do you want to still be Swiss cheese?
SPEAKER_03I'm just kidding. I'm not. Evil bastard. Roach, you've been awful quiet. Though I just saved your life from that blue beam of death.
SPEAKER_00Roach remains quiet, just stares at Cochrane, I mean Caspian. With a a look of slight anger, slight imp impressed and slightly disconcerted as well.
SPEAKER_03Anger? I just saved your life, man, from that blue beam. It was gonna steal your Dina. Your Dina.
SPEAKER_02That's hilarious. Well, you know. Photos steal your soul, so Caspian, make a scout roll.
SPEAKER_01I failed. You failed. Okay. Or kind of looking at this um this damaged piece of scan or what a scanner or whatever the the the the metal man called it, and you're sort of looking up at it, and you can see that it's sort of like sparking a little bit. And you can notice there's there's a bunch of other types of scanners and various other things on the side of the hole.
SPEAKER_04Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01Can you please make a scatter roll? Uh you can have you can have an extra two dice.
SPEAKER_05I'm glad you say that. I need those.
SPEAKER_01Indeed.
SPEAKER_05There you go.
SPEAKER_01Okay, cool. Uh that was two successes. Yeah, you basically realize just before it's about to happen that the automate that the robot is about to do something. It it's almost like just out of the corner of your eye out of your eye, you can see all the servers and and and all the kind of like things tense, as if it's about to do something. What would you like to do?
SPEAKER_05Caspian, you're such an idiot, duck! I don't think you like that. And I I'm I'm pretty I'm pretty sure that that whatever the the robot is going to do is going to, you know, m impact Caspian more than the others. Okay. So I I'm not like trying to duck or something, but I'm trying to reach the robot nonetheless.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so so Caspian is behind you, the robot is in front of you, you're standing next to Roach, and Cochrane is standing next to Caspian. Okay, what would you like to do to the robot? Just get in its way? I mean what what what did you like to do?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, get it get in get in its get in its way. Not not necessarily like tackle it or something, but just sort of be there.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Alright. Could you do could you make a role for me? Could you make a maybe? Make a false um no, make a f I either false or fight, whichever you prefer. I mean, I know you're trying to fight, but you're trying to like get in the way and sort of like, you know, just make a nuisance of yourself.
SPEAKER_04There you go. That's the one success.
SPEAKER_01On success. Okay. So then the automaton does something. It then tries to get to Caspian. So I'm gonna do this with a negative because you managed to get in the way. Okay. Right. Well, you try and get in the way of of the robot and it just pushes you aside as if you're nothing. I got four successes. It just pushes you out the way and then goes to grab the weapon out of Caspian's hand. Caspian! Yes, sir. Before you know it, this robot has well, this metal man has literally come up behind you and is trying to grab the rifle that you've got in your hand. You can by all means make a dodge or a defense if you wish. So you can either use so you can fight or you can move, whichever you prefer, but it is going to attempt to try and grab this from. Where is he in relation to the muzzle? So you're facing sort of half away. So the muzzle is probably not facing him. Well, I mean, if you wanted to sort of like, you know, if you got more successes, you could probably do some stunts to kind of like get it in the right direction. Maybe you could do something like that.
SPEAKER_03Not likely with the amount of dice I'm gonna be rolling. So I can roll move, you said, right? Yeah, move or fight. I will prefer to roll move. Sugar honey iced tea, I failed. Right. Let's see what I get. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01You have to show me. You have to show me. Oh my god. Just just for the the sheer fun of it. There we go. Looks like what are my rolls? A lot of dice you're rolling. Game master. So it kind of goes to grab your uh your rifle. You get to sort of like move the rifle out of the way. Neither of you get anything. It's just a bit of a tussle, but you're kind of like trying to like keep the gun away from it. It's like not quite getting what it needs to do. Right, so I guess uh Cochrane, it's down, it's you now.
SPEAKER_02It will turn to Roach and I'll be Roach, Roach, go get him, kill him, and inspire Roach to go kill the guy. Go get him, boy. So this is with this is almost with as many dice as that guy. Because again, so I've got my base of five, okay, skill of three, plus one dice because I've got the counselor one if I help someone to do something, plus two on attack if I agitate someone. So that is ten dice on expire. So and I will fail all of these roles. That didn't work last session.
SPEAKER_01That's that's good.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I failed miserably on last session.
SPEAKER_01That leaves Roach, what what is it you would like to do?
SPEAKER_02Two two entire things for Pete.
SPEAKER_00No, this this this thing that I've never seen before, anything like it is quite disconcerting. A machine that's like a living thing, but instinctively I've been looking at for weeks points on it right from the start, especially when it took the clothing off.
SPEAKER_05Please, Roach, no, it can take us to Eden.
SPEAKER_00I'll just grab for the head and try and rip the head off of it. Or okay, cool. Why don't you make a five roll?
SPEAKER_01Two successes. Okay. Nice. Plus plus two extra successes, so nice. That's four successes. So what's the damage that you do? Unarmed, I do two. Okay, so you can do another three on top of that. I'm just trying to think. Can you I'm just trying to think if there's anything else you can do with your successes with fight? I think you can like push or or do something like that with a stunt. Let me have a look.
SPEAKER_02I think you can push them over.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think. I think you can flick more damage, you can subdue, you can increase your initiative, you can knock or pull a weapon or another item from your opponent. Your opponent falls to the ground and is pushed back, for example, through a doorway or over a cliff. You hold the opponent in a grapple. He needs to successfully fight you to break free and can't perform any other actions. Or do you just want to like try and just rip its head off?
SPEAKER_00Uh for now I'm just trying to rip its head off because that's the way it's communicating with us, so I'm trying to That's fine. So that's gonna be five damage that you're gonna do.
SPEAKER_01Let me just roll its armor. Yeah, you kind of you get your head around its um helmet and you give a good yank on the on the head. You feel sort of like something give, and there's like a crack and a pop noise, and you go to pull with all your might on this thing's head, and it just kind of like makes a crunching, geary kind of sound on the on the neck area, and and you're now on it. It's standing up. It doesn't appear like you've done a huge amount to it. Okay. Yes, that's your action, glove. Right. Caspian, what would you like to do?
SPEAKER_03Am I still essentially grappling with this thing? No, neither of you have grappled.
SPEAKER_01It's just so I can shoot it. You can, but there is a um there is now a roach on it. I mean, feel free. You go ahead, just don't fail.
SPEAKER_03This is what I'm gonna do because Caspian doesn't really understand what this thing is. He just firmly believes it's lying about Eden because he he believes Eden is somewhere out on the water. So he doesn't know that this is not a living humanoid being. So he's gonna try to use his parasite ability.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_03Cool. To steal its at one of its attributes, he's gonna try to steal its its agility. So I'm gonna waste a mute point here.
SPEAKER_01Well, I mean, yeah. That's yeah, yeah, that's that's what happens. And you realize that it doesn't seem it doesn't seem to affect it in any way, shape, or form.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so then when that happens, he like steps back for a
Tensions Rise
SPEAKER_03minute. He's totally freaked out, he's totally freaked out now. He just sort of he takes a step back and he's like, this thing it this this this thing is is not alive.
SPEAKER_01Alright, you take a step back in shock, guess Moss, no, Cochrane.
SPEAKER_02Honoral trip is handout blood. Mother blood's gone.
SPEAKER_01Two again. Two more successes, excellent. Unfortunately, uh it is it's go in the meantime. It kind of says, get off of me, and then tries to grapple you.
SPEAKER_03I'm like shouting, it's a demon! It's not alive!
SPEAKER_05It's a machine and it's taking us to Eden. Only now if you make him mad he won't, so don't tell you he is a demon of the old world. He's a he's a servant! He he used to be a servant of the elder.
SPEAKER_03That is a lie. Say that again and I shall shoot you as well.
SPEAKER_05Give pictures of her! You know that's not a lie.
SPEAKER_01Well, while you're busy shouting, Pete. Did you want to make a fight roll and you can have plus two to your uh fight roll?
SPEAKER_00If this is to defend, I get a plus two with one of my talents anyway. Oh, so you're gonna get a plus four? That's nice.
SPEAKER_03My god, that is a lot of dice. That is a lot of dice for no success.
SPEAKER_01That's that is that is I think that's cool. Statistically impossible, but you know, I didn't think your name was Douglas. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Maybe I should go out and buy a lottery ticket.
SPEAKER_01I think you should. I think you should. Yes, that's a lot of dice. Uh, did you want to push that? Yeah, I think I'd better. Listen, there's almost 14 dice. I mean, I mean, it's yeah, I mean it's just like re-rolling again.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you haven't got any damage on those 14 dice. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Four successes. Four successes. Okay. Yeah. The thing starts to sort of like struggle with you and you are completely outmatching it. It clearly you've got the advantage on this thing somehow, I don't really know how, but you are kind of taking control of the grapple that's there and it can't break free from you. You've absolutely got it. Well, it's it's not happy, and it can't do anything. It's just literally stepping around a couple of steps around the sort of like cockpit area, and it's kind of like trying to like grapple with you back. It's trying to like pull you off, but you're really stuck fast around its head, like yanking and pulling mass, you're next.
SPEAKER_05I really was hoping he would take us to Eden. But Roach is my friend, and I don't want to hurt him either. He just needs to stop this. I I hope that I mean, you know, and I know Roach could, you know, set me in half without trying very hard, but I try and get on his back to pull him away.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Alright, why don't you make a uh make a fight roll and Roach if you want to make a fight roll as well.
SPEAKER_00If it's Moss pulling me, once I realise that I will not put up any resistance against it at all. Okay, that's fine then.
SPEAKER_01Shouting out, Moss is under the spell of the demon. So are you gonna just let go of the robot, Roach, or are you gonna just ignore essentially Moss?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, if Moss is trying to pull me off, I'll I'll let go of it.
SPEAKER_05Don't break the machine, don't break the machine, he's the best machine I've ever seen. I want to learn how to build something like that, and then it can take us to Twiden.
SPEAKER_01Okay, well, in that case, Roach, it's your ra your turn. So you then let go of the metal man and take a step back.
SPEAKER_00Anything you particularly want to do or I'm just waiting to see if it dives at one of us again or tries to attack one of us again. Okay, right.
SPEAKER_01Well, it stops. Caspian spec to you. Roach and everyone
A Critical Choice
SPEAKER_01else has now stepped away from it. It's on its own.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna shoot it and I'm gonna say to Moss, I'm sorry, Moss, this is the only way to to free your mind from its its ka its its its evil influence.
SPEAKER_05I want to get in front of it. He cannot shoot my robot.
SPEAKER_03I mean, what can you do? If she succeeds at a move roll, then I will like pull my weapon away and I won't shoot.
SPEAKER_01I mean, she can't do anything yet, unfortunately. So it's it's you. Ouch. Two successes. Okay. Okay, yeah, you shoot it. So I think it's a normal damage of two. Three damage, yeah. Okay. Yeah, you shoot it, and again, another loud rapport as the um as as the assault rifle goes off and the bullet sort of thuds into its side, and something starts to leak out of it, and it turns to you as Moss, you start to kind of like go towards it, and it sort of clenches its fist, and this little thing comes out of its arm and it sort of points it directly at you. At me? Uh at you, yeah. Cochrane. He's just pointing at Caspian? Yeah, something's kind of come out of its forearm, which looks like the barrel of a gun of some sort.
SPEAKER_02Killer! Do I have like could I like push Caspian out of the way of the gun?
SPEAKER_01Make a fight roll, please. Could you also make a move roll for me, please?
SPEAKER_02One success.
SPEAKER_01Okay. One success, okay. That's fine. Right. As you do that, it shoots and you mitigate one of those damages, one of those shots, and it gets you in the side. Who, Cochrane or Caspirin? Cochrane instead. So Cochrane takes the shot for you. Could you take four damage?
SPEAKER_02I I if it's four damage, I'm down to zero. I'm actually down to negative two.
SPEAKER_01Okay, right. Well, in that case, that's a critical, my friend. Yeah. So uh there is a uh a loud sort of like whoop noise as opposed to like a gunshot, and something hits Cochran in the side of the head.
unknownNo!
SPEAKER_01Cochrane's head whips around and he flies into the bulkhead and drops to the floor, not moving.
SPEAKER_05I am still right at the robot, aren't I? Sort of behind it from where I pulled off Roach of it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you are, correct.
SPEAKER_05I tackle the robot and tell it to stop, stop. He's he's not holding a weapon or anything. Don't you hit Cochrane? Whoa, no, stop it, stop it.
SPEAKER_01Okay, you sh you shout and scream at it and no, no, no. It doesn't seem to have any impact or anything to it. Roach.
SPEAKER_00I'm still stunned. I'm not sure what to do. Roach is just flat footed. He's just stuck there, not sure what to do. Look looking one way or the other.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you're sort of like, oh my god, what what do I do? What do I do as the as as the the metal man
Confrontation with the Metal Man
SPEAKER_01raises the thing that is in his arms towards Caspian again?