[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome to the Dark Star Adventure cast, where the stars are cold, the void is endless, and danger lurks in every shadow.
[SPEAKER_05]: Out here, trust is a gamble, and survival is never guaranteed.
[SPEAKER_05]: Onto Night's Adventure cast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you this planet smells like parts.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, you know, you gotta do what you gotta do.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're all humans.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Lee with two wise has some skills and they are like, violent.
[SPEAKER_07]: Those drives weren't that hard, punch right through them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now let's get out there and hack the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Going to a phesa, I'm getting my with phesa latte from with phesa bikes and then going to a phesa land.
[SPEAKER_00]: You get what fees the cinnamon on your wifis the latte.
[SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll pay for it with wifis the credits.
[SPEAKER_05]: I went to wifis and all I got was as well as it will fisa.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like that with this lousy bullet wound on with a phisa is that it's all paper straws and you're a phisa lattes.
[SPEAKER_04]: That that's the grand work is the is a paper straw.
[SPEAKER_04]: The cardboard straws.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I cardboard straws only.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the great work of the garden.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that the great work was making everything called wafisa because it's a real wafisa shit.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, God.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, so I guess last time you were making a way to Dr. Alara Voss who is supposedly at the start of four, which is a research base owned by Omni Tech Holdings and you were way laid by two guardians of the great work incredibly rude guardians.
[SPEAKER_00]: incredibly unfunned people.
[SPEAKER_00]: After seeing how well arms you were, they backed off, then they came back and decided to kill you and take your money, which they think is rightfully theirs in service of the great work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ali and Thorne were mortally wounded and brought back by the strength of good medical roles and Lazarus patches.
[SPEAKER_00]: After going back to your ship, you found it
[SPEAKER_00]: guarded by more guardians of the great work.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you decided to simply continue your journey to find Dr. Alaravos and hopefully find reinforcements to take back your ship.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're moving south.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a mile ahead of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You move cautiously through the abandoned streets of Wafisa.
[SPEAKER_00]: You do not meet any other resistance as you move towards a mistrata for.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is not long before you arrive at the door of mistrata for.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here you can see there's a great double door crafted of metal.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a digi pad off to the right, presumably to type in the code and gain entry.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a security camera up on the top right.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is starting to get dark out.
[SPEAKER_00]: The third to six hour day of Wolfisa is finally coming to an end and going into the eight hour night cycle.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, we're expected, aren't we?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's on the check after all.
[SPEAKER_06]: You may be right, but that might now be to our benefit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, we're for the same master.
[SPEAKER_05]: I walk up to the door, wave at the camera and look at the keypad to see if there's like a ring button to push.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's a call button.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, push that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I push the call button.
[SPEAKER_00]: The cameras were supposed to watch you and you walk up to the keypad and when you press the button, a light flick on on the keypad and you have the distinct feeling that you'll be watched from two different angles.
[SPEAKER_00]: A voice comes out from an unseen speaker.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes?
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you want?
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, this is a Felix Chamberlain with blackout one.
[SPEAKER_05]: We were sent here for a layer of moss.
[SPEAKER_05]: We've got some wounded here.
[SPEAKER_05]: So please let us in.
[SPEAKER_05]: Help us out and we'll be on our way.
[SPEAKER_00]: A layer of moss is here, but.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're currently not allowing entry into the start of four.
[SPEAKER_05]: Did you hear me?
[SPEAKER_05]: We're with Omnitek.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're part of blackout one.
[SPEAKER_06]: I believe we have the proper clearance.
[SPEAKER_04]: Injured.
[SPEAKER_05]: entrance denied.
[SPEAKER_05]: What slam the door?
[SPEAKER_05]: We were told to come here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Where are we speaking with?
[SPEAKER_00]: I am Dr. Alara Boss, and I'm telling you, entry to nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is no more an oddly tech holding research facility as it is a circus.
[SPEAKER_00]: I owe nothing to that corporation.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, great, because we don't give a damn about them either, but we've got a few bullet holes in us, and we'd really like to come inside and get them tended.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mind helping you with your injuries.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you must tell me why you are looking for me.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's understandable.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll need to receive a deep space transmission.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you think you're the person to figure it out?
[SPEAKER_06]: You're the most skilled Xenolinguist they could think of.
[SPEAKER_06]: That should be worth something, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll need to take the opinion of me as worth dirt.
[SPEAKER_00]: What I'm hearing is you have a ship.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you want to take me away from what he said.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that correct?
[SPEAKER_06]: If you're willing,
[SPEAKER_00]: Who is your ship's cons officer?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me about your ship's electrical and cons systems.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a standard frigate.
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you want to know?
[SPEAKER_00]: How standard is it?
[SPEAKER_05]: Pretty boilerplate from what I could tell.
[SPEAKER_05]: That wasn't really my focus getting out here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have any sort of artificial intelligence on your ship?
[SPEAKER_05]: Nothing I turned up and you know, I was looking over the code pretty closely.
[SPEAKER_05]: Looking over the operating system, but I wasn't looking for anything in particular.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you searched your ship for bugs?
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you searched your ship for omni-tech holding spies?
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, if there were any in the cargo hole, I can guarantee you they're not in there anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm interested in leaving Wofisa, but my work here is not done yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm willing to make a deal.
[SPEAKER_00]: The depot's research base are lost.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're the rest of work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our goal here of studying foreign life and
[SPEAKER_00]: how it reacts in high methane environments in the hopes of perhaps colonizing some of the most dangerous worlds in the system has been stymied the great methane sense that power our our base here have been shut off the guardians of the great work have been systematically taking switching stations all over the city and turning them only towards their sector
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course that means that our base no longer has a methane supply, which as you know is what we'll see as known for.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, we do that.
[SPEAKER_05]: For sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, delete.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go to the methane switching station that's nearby.
[SPEAKER_00]: Turn it back towards us, destroy the controls, and then now give at least a few months of research time to my compatriots.
[SPEAKER_00]: At which point I would be happy to leave with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Knowing that my friends and compatriots can continue on my studies and it has not all been insane.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, that sounds great, but... Can you help us out a little bit first?
[SPEAKER_05]: We got some hurt people here.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a delivery bay on the back of Mr. Audafore.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the time you've circled around, we'll already have pushed something out of the slot door for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Travels south, a kilometer, you'll find a switch station at the corner of Fort Daphne.
[SPEAKER_00]: Careful, it's probably guarded.
[SPEAKER_00]: by the guardians of the great work.
[SPEAKER_00]: As they take these switching stations, they've been leaving loyal soldiers behind.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take them out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Switch the valves that we regain are methane access.
[SPEAKER_00]: And to destroy the valves, they can't take it back.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I'd be happy to join you for a few months and sojourn to the far region of the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I'd be happy to never come back to what he's ever again.
[SPEAKER_00]: had one too many with fiso lattes oh yeah let me tell you that created a whole bunch of methane for me those with fiso lattes who bought it now doctor is anyway you can tell us what is the great work oh the great work well to fully understand you'd have to know what thesis history but suffice to say the great industry of what thesis was gas mining methane specifically well
[SPEAKER_00]: They want to reconstruct what was lost to a ties back to corporations and abandon us and make the wolf eat the megacity great once again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, by doing that, there's something on the little people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whoever's left here, the researchers, the commoners, the people with no credit to leave, they're the ones that are suffering.
[SPEAKER_05]: I appreciate the help and we'll be back soon as we can.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you go around back of Mr. Out of Four and you find that there's a docking bay.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's basically a big double door with a slot in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And out of the slot, which is now closed, has been pushed for packets of the lift that are now laying on the ground in their shrink wrapped magnificence.
[SPEAKER_00]: tearing them open one at a time you administer them to haily and thorn and are you guys just trying to get back up to full hit points yeah okay so roll one d eight each and I'll give you back certain number of points and if you need to you can use the second lift for each of you as well so haily got a three so haily go ahead and roll another one d eight is running back up to full
[SPEAKER_00]: and Thorn, you're back up to full with a roll of seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: Out of four lift packs, you've used three.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Haley's second roll is okay, so Haley, you're up to full, Thorns up to full, and you have one more lift pack for a later date.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll hold on to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So everyone is now healed up to full.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have one extra lift pack, and you have a kilometer of space between you and the nearest switch station.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is getting dark.
[SPEAKER_00]: We were not allowed to access into the strata four.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are however a lot of derelict buildings around if you wish to rest for the night.
[SPEAKER_00]: What would you like to do?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd like to take high ground here if I can and see if I can get a lay of the land.
[SPEAKER_01]: See if we see any of them
[SPEAKER_01]: guardians, doers of the great work in our near vicinity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so what does that look like?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you trying to climb up one of the skyscrapers like three or four or five stories?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I'd prefer to go to high but accessible building with a view on a main road and basically use my good old fashioned binoculars in LASIC to see as far as I can and especially look for anybody who's petroleum.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, excellent.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is anyone else going with Robert?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, but I'll go into the ground for like we can all go into the ground for whatever building he finds and see if we can set up for the night because I do think we should probablyunkered down for the night also looking for access points because I'm gonna try to get some more information about the area or see if there's any systems that I can get in on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so are you setting up camp on the ground floor of that building or somewhere else?
[SPEAKER_00]: The ground floor of the building.
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree and I'm finding a building where I can survey reasonably around it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have comms so I can communicate if somebody's coming and letting the injured rest as much as possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thorne and Hayley, do you guys have anything you want to add?
[SPEAKER_04]: Honestly, I think Hayley had just hoping to finish up her recovery.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think we're just on the man did the moment.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, sounds good.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Felix on the ground floor, you set up camp while Thorne and Haley begins to just rest and you're, you know, trying to make their comfortable.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you building a camp fire at all?
[SPEAKER_05]: What's the ambient temperature like?
[SPEAKER_00]: So here on Wafisa, there is a dense swirling fog that is currently blanketing the area.
[SPEAKER_00]: It carries a faint metallic tang to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The temperature hover is at a damp, sixty-three degrees Fahrenheit, which for our European listeners, too bad, it's sixty-three Fahrenheit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to tell you the Celsius.
[SPEAKER_00]: Boom, bottom.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's cool, but uncomfortable as moisture clings to everything around you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is damp and any wood that you find that's not already undercover.
[SPEAKER_00]: is as damp and practical and unusable.
[SPEAKER_05]: We are inside, so is are the buildings offline, there's no heat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, but we're inside right out of the damp at least.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you're inside a lot of the windows are blown out, the doors are off their hinges, but you are inside and you're dry.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, I think that'll have to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: So don't campfire as Robert Ross makes his way up to the fifth story and pulls out his high power binoculars.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go ahead and give me a notice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Int.
[SPEAKER_00]: So as the sun is setting over the city of Wofisa on the planet of Wofisa, you move your TL-three binoculars across as much of the cities you can see before other buildings begin to block it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are in one of the taller buildings of the area, however you're only up on floor five.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you look
[SPEAKER_00]: over the lower buildings and around the tower buildings where you can.
[SPEAKER_00]: Time passes.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're up there for a couple hours as Felix is downstairs sitting in a camp and everyone is enjoying a Spartan dinner of whatever rashes you have on you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not long before you start to see patrols.
[SPEAKER_00]: It seems to be irregular, not on a particular
[SPEAKER_00]: like timing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like it's every hour, but you do see two, three, four men at a time walking by with flashlights, brandishing guns.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I come downstairs y'all.
[SPEAKER_01]: So quite a few patrols coming this way.
[SPEAKER_01]: You might have seen some lots.
[SPEAKER_01]: I suggest we make our way up one more story.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take a position where we can ambush him if they come to control us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all ready to move?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that sounds right to me, Robert.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good eyes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we saw some lights go by here, so I think it'd be good to get up before.
[SPEAKER_06]: Lawrence, I got already.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mostly asleep, so someone's gonna have to stare him.
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't worry, hey, come on.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_06]: What?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, it's time to go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, up one more floor, then you can go back to sleep.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't you worry about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I carry him like a big old baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't carry your ass so I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, thank you Robert.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's perfect.
[SPEAKER_06]: I take one credit and I like put it in his leg.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's for your trouble is my friend.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you make your way up, and no campfire still, everyone beds down for the night.
[SPEAKER_00]: Robert, ever vigilant, takes out his binoculars and sweeps the landscape once again.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a good thing you moved, because in the twilight hours of the night, as we get towards three AM, a patrol goes by that actually enters your building and looks around on the first floor.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can hear voices echoing.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't simply come in and leave.
[SPEAKER_00]: They weren't searching.
[SPEAKER_00]: They hang out.
[SPEAKER_00]: It seems that they chose this derelict building as their clubhouse for the night.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're probably trying to avoid guard duty as much as they can.
[SPEAKER_00]: From one floor up, you hear their raucous laughter.
[SPEAKER_00]: You hear the clinking bottles.
[SPEAKER_00]: You hear the swears, the dirty jokes, the fight that breaks out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as Dawn breaks, you hear them get up and leave.
[SPEAKER_00]: Robert, you see them out of the window and follow them with the binoculars as they move off to the east.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stumbling drunk.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you hadn't moved, there may have been a nasty fight this night.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good job y'all.
[SPEAKER_05]: And thanks Robert.
[SPEAKER_05]: You really saved our ass on that one.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you know Robert I just want to say you didn't need that by on a guy to see that you did well, man.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_01]: It only cost me a million dollars.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fuck you, next is Corp.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, man.
[SPEAKER_05]: Fuck, next is Corp.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now what do you see we get on with the job?
[SPEAKER_00]: So you get up and you begin to make your way back out to the street in the light of a new day.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you have a little bit of a distance to go and you'll arrive at the switch and station that Dr. Alaravos told you about.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would like guys for all onboard to move slowly and use the buildings for cover.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, basically exactly what I was going to say was we should keep flow and quiet and you know keep our eyes peeled.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so the four of you move out into the light of a new day, the dawn on this planet is beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of the rich pinks and purples of old earth, you find yourself looking at the greens and yellows of a foreign land.
[SPEAKER_00]: The different mixture of gases in the air, although still breathable, and sometimes smelling a bit foul, create a beautiful mix for the nearby star to reflect off of.
[SPEAKER_00]: The air is crisp, the fog from the previous night burns away as the sun of this world crests over the horizon.
[SPEAKER_00]: After a kilometer of moving your way carefully through the streets, you find yourself looking at the switching station, an unassuming building amidst a block of other buildings.
[SPEAKER_00]: The station is not very large.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is simply two stories tall with a double door on the front.
[SPEAKER_00]: On the roof, you can see a guardian of work, rifle straps securely to his back.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's sitting on a chair, looking out at the sunrise.
[SPEAKER_00]: He seems to be appreciating it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The door is closed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are there any buildings in the near vicinity where I could get a level view of him?
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a lot of the buildings in the area are two stories, are taller.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, what do y'all think?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do y'all want to scale one of these and try to take them out?
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know how many words it's said, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: No idea.
[SPEAKER_05]: I wonder if there's an access point I could get in.
[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe get a few of the inside.
[SPEAKER_05]: Getting to the security system.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_06]: We just can't risk being spotted.
[SPEAKER_06]: It looks right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's not paying attention, but.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is there a computer terminal or anything like on the front of the building?
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a double door closed.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a keypad.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then one side of the building is pressed up against the building next to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The other side, there is a narrow alleyway that leads off to the back.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are no windows or anything else on the front of this two-story building.
[SPEAKER_06]: and he's facing towards the building that it's right up against or the alleyway building.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, if that's the plan, I need everyone to roll a sneak decks.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, guys, it's gonna be bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure everyone is excellent at that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so three of you sneak forward quite adaptively.
[SPEAKER_00]: The fourth of you, Felix, sneak forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: What seems to be loudly, but isn't that loud?
[SPEAKER_00]: And this guy is two stories up and distracted as he is he, is he crying?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's looking at the beautiful sunset.
[SPEAKER_00]: Single tear, courses down his rough cheek and into his thick beard.
[SPEAKER_00]: He wipes it away and then nervously looks around.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, nobody saw him cry at the beautiful sunrise.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody noticed his vulnerability as the four of you sneak into the alleyway on the southern side of the building.
[SPEAKER_01]: Felix, I've been telling you, you gotta oil them, these uh, I mean, we've been talking, but since that's probably how nice one-on-one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I think, do you all see a terminal up over here, do you see anything that we might be able to tap into?
[SPEAKER_05]: These legs are not my fault.
[SPEAKER_05]: The newest or military fucked it up when they put them on me.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've been trying to fix them, you know that Robert.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can get you a great deal on some WD-forwardie.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it doesn't work, man.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know I've tried.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is a source spot, we're here, we're safe.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are no ports here in the alleyway, but as you move your way back to the rear side of the building, you do find that there is a rear window, but there is no port, and there's also a ventilation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very small ventilation hole, probably no larger than a child's could fit through.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Felix, would you like upies?
[SPEAKER_05]: Man, I'm not that small.
[SPEAKER_05]: The window.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, to the window.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't fully explain the back of the building is an equally as skinny alleyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the side of the building and the back of the building are just alleyways that are like forfeet wide.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so they just build these all around, basically.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, mega city life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hashtag.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's building all the way down.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, Robert or Ali, if one of you want to give me a boost up, I can look in that window, see what I see.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll give you a boost.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so, Haley, I'm not gonna have you roll because you're strong AF.
[SPEAKER_00]: You effortlessly pick up Felix onto your shoulders and then just tear a leader, lift him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just standing on your palm and just lift him up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just shoulder press and right over your head.
[SPEAKER_05]: I got metal rubble legs.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, you do little buddy, don't you?
[SPEAKER_04]: No problem here.
[SPEAKER_00]: No problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: Haley, boom, shoulder, military shoulder presses you up to the second story window where Felix, you actually have to crouch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Otherwise, you're going to be way too visible.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when you look through this top window, you can see that there is an empty room in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there is a open door that leads out into what appears to be a hallway terminating in a staircase that goes off to the left down.
[SPEAKER_05]: Alright y'all there's a room up here it's empty but I don't know if it's gonna be empty for a long while I'll be check something I'm gonna check around the edges of the window that I can see if there's any like sensors that would alarm if the window was opened okay roll notice wisdom eight
[SPEAKER_00]: okay with an eight you trace your fingertips along the edges of the window while looking inside as much as you can through the pain glass you see no wires a electrical or otherwise you see no sensors no electronics nothing that could possibly be tripped by you opening it alright everybody alright I'm gonna pop this bad boy open to see if we can get inside I know I can't see you I'm on the shoulders of a giant
[SPEAKER_04]: I lift my arms and give them a double thumbs up.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hold on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Push him higher.
[SPEAKER_00]: I lift thumbs up.
[SPEAKER_00]: She just fucking shocks you up to the roof.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you take me high?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get copyright strike now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to try to open the window.
[SPEAKER_00]: It slides open effortlessly.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, I'm going to, as quietly as I can, pull myself in to the room.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've already rolled a sneak check previously so I'm going to continue to use that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You pull yourself into the room and slowly let yourself down into the floor.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can hear two voices coming from outside of the room quite a distance away.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not sure if it's on the same floor or on the lower floor.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: What else do I see in this room?
[SPEAKER_00]: This room appears to be a storage room of sorts.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are several different cabinets, all of them closed, and there's also a bunch of shelving along the southern wall.
[SPEAKER_00]: But all of the shelves are completely bare, probably rated or just simply destroyed over time.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, I look down.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's clear.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thor, you get up here too.
[SPEAKER_06]: I look at Haley as though preparing for a boost.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not quite as light as Felix, I don't think but... Oh, doesn't hurt to try.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're probably about the same because I'm at Robo Lakes.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's your strength, Haley?
[SPEAKER_04]: Fifteen.
[SPEAKER_04]: Peace is growing.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can lift door no problem.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't like, I'm not as light as Felix, so it's going to be a pro.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you lift him as though he were a baby.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't like a little husky.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm very strong.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like a fat baby and you lift him up.
[SPEAKER_00]: You lift up the fat baby that is torn and you shoulder pressing up to the window.
[SPEAKER_05]: I help him in.
[SPEAKER_00]: I crawl in.
[SPEAKER_05]: What is it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but here's a real question.
[SPEAKER_01]: How are we going to get Haley up?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think she's going to have to stay on my shoulders and she just bolts up in that and got damn girl.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hold on.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have to think I can do that.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, I'm pretty sure she has a ten foot standing jump.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's reasonable, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let me just calculate real quick and no way in hell.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but you can live for Robert Ross up.
[SPEAKER_00]: If his Afro is not too heavy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: All I'm saying is she can definitely dunk in my question is how we're going to get her up in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think she's going to have to stand on my shoulders and then pull my ass in.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_04]: That might be the best way.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, let's do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Robert, what is your strength?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sitting at a thirteen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and Haley's a big dog.
[SPEAKER_03]: Haley's big.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'm going to need you to roller exert.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, wow, nice, great roll.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so Hayley clumsily climbs onto your shoulders and your thighs of granite just absorbed the immense weight that's being placed upon your fairly skinny frame.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, don't let's see Afro.
[SPEAKER_00]: do not touch the after no no no you know what you go stop it and then you solder presser is high up as you can just grabbing onto her the backs of her knees and just wavering her up as high as you can paleo you're able to just barely grab with your fingertips onto the window frame.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm actually pretty impressed but
[SPEAKER_00]: So you grab onto the window frame and your grip breaks the cheap plastic of the window frame as you grip it and pull yourself in and clumsily fall to the ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm still using everyone's previous sneak checks.
[SPEAKER_00]: You hear two voices downstairs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone can hear them kind of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when Haley clumsily climbs through the window, the talking stops.
[SPEAKER_05]: We freeze.
[SPEAKER_05]: I freeze.
[SPEAKER_05]: Freeze.
[SPEAKER_05]: Unclip my laser pistol from my belt.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need the three of you to roll notice.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, eight seven eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: So all three of you, your hushed whispers, and then the creek of footsteps climbing the stairs.
[SPEAKER_05]: And there's no word to hide in this room.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a bunch of like skinny storage cabinets that are like lined up against the walls.
[SPEAKER_00]: No closets, no bed to hide under, nothing like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I would like to try to get behind one of the storage cabinets, so I'm not seeing the lift to come into this room.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think out of the three people in this room, you're the only one that's small enough to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think there's only one spot to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you go into the corner and you wedge yourself between two storage cabinets and hide from view of people coming in through the door.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if they go all the way into the room, they'll be able to see you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and I've got my laser pistol that's already.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thorn and Haley, what do you think then?
[SPEAKER_06]: So I was thinking we get on either side of the door.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, I'll get on the side that does the door look like it swings open on a hinge or slides open.
[SPEAKER_06]: The door is wide open.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, so yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just get on either side of the doorway.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's the best we can do.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I'm just gonna quickly, I don't even know if there's time to stick my head out the window until Robert was happening.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not going to, I'm actually just gonna go up to the door.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the door does swing open.
[SPEAKER_00]: It swings open away from the side Felix's on.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, well I like to be behind it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so you go and you tuck yourself behind the door and you can see between the crack of the door and the wall.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I can't just gesture for Hellia.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Haley, you're on the other side.
[SPEAKER_00]: And full view of anyone that takes even one inch of a step inside of the room, they're gonna see you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Robert, you have no idea what's going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your friends have completely disappeared.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just whistling, Dixie over here, y'all.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying not, I'm trying to keep my cool, but I deeply want to be like, hey, y'all, how's it going?
[SPEAKER_01]: But I don't, because I'm cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, there we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: You hear the creeks of the footsteps as they approach the doorway.
[SPEAKER_00]: Haley, you're the only person that really matters right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you go ahead and roll a sneak intelligence?
[SPEAKER_04]: So, what, I have imagined because I'm like, regardless of how the sneak goes, I'm not betting on it going well, but I'm preparing to, cause I have my revolver, but
[SPEAKER_04]: planning on grabbing one of the guys as soon as he comes through shooting the other one and then some order of things.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so sneak.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yes, sneak intelligence because it's not about moving quietly.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about understanding eye lines.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so you, with a seven, tuck yourself into the corner to best you can.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're like, well, if he moves here, what are the chances that they approach the door from this angle or this angle?
[SPEAKER_00]: And you move yourself and you squish up against the wall, the storage cabinet next to you is best you can so that no one will see you until you're ready to pounce.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone else is completely hidden unless these two men walk into the room, like, full tilt and go all the way to the center of the room.
[SPEAKER_04]: So am I able to, like, aim my revolver right now to, like, once they're
[SPEAKER_04]: Enter the room like it'll be at the right height to like shoot them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's a great question.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would like to shoot one of them basically in the head and then immediately punch the other one.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a hit roll modifier of a plus two for shooting from a prepared firing position.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so yeah, so you're using a prepared firing position, so that'll give you a plus two.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you aim your gun at what you assume is going to be head height and you wait.
[SPEAKER_00]: You hear them walking closer and closer.
[SPEAKER_00]: You hear a hurried whisper.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wait, was it over here?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, just what?
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_00]: And you hear them move closer and closer.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you see a face as a man slowly sticks his head into the room and locks eyes with you.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I shoot.
[SPEAKER_00]: roll that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't forget your plus two.
[SPEAKER_00]: Man has brown hair and blue eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has stubble.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has very kind eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: You think he might be a, you think he might be a Scorpio.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, in another life, you and him may have connected on an emotional level.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think in another life, I would have hit him.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wait.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm a lawyer.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can reroll this.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, you can make it hit automatically.
[SPEAKER_04]: I make it hit automatically.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so the man with the kind eyes in one dimension would have lived because you rolled an ape, but you decided that this man who has a family and kids, he must die.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you use your warrior ability to make sure that you murder this man.
[SPEAKER_00]: You deal, oh my God, six points of damage.
[SPEAKER_00]: You blow his head clean off with the overly large side arm that you carry for some reason.
[SPEAKER_00]: on an old world bullet courses through his temple out the other side of his head and penetrates straight through the door that Thorn is hiding behind a kitty corner and Thorn the bullet embeds in the wall right next to your own head as the man on the other side collapses to the ground and in the hallway you hear a startled gaffed and then you hear a thudding footsteps as a man begins to run away all right
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, I hear it was gunshot and I stick my head out from behind the filing cabinet to see what's happening and hear the guy moving up the stairs and as I see the body falling before I step out to pursue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so you step out past Haley and you see a heavy set man trip and fall at the top of the staircase and begin to try to scramble head first down the staircase is upper half is still visible though.
[SPEAKER_05]: I would like to shoot upon him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, you guys are ruthless.
[SPEAKER_00]: What if these are just normal people?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, you know, it probably are.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's actually a question.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are they wearing the the armor of the guardians of the or the great work people?
[SPEAKER_00]: What if I said no?
[SPEAKER_00]: You're a little bad.
[SPEAKER_05]: I would probably still be shooting him.
[SPEAKER_04]: And for a penny and for a pound.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What if I said they were wearing the robes of aesthetic monks?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, you know, you got to do what you had to do.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're all humans.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but I mean, that's all theoretical.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are wearing the armor, but I just wanted you guys to question your morality because you were awful people.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're just going around killing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, who am I running this game for?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm learning so much about you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You give me a gun.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've never imagined that stuff would say, and then I wait for the man to walk in so I can shoot him in the face.
[SPEAKER_04]: Look.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Lee with two eyes has some skills and they are like,
[SPEAKER_05]: Finally, Robert's gonna be so mad he missed all this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Step to still controlling Haley and Steph is more psychotic than I thought.
[SPEAKER_01]: My immediate reaction to when the gunshots go off is to run out into the clearest shot I have of the guy sitting and watching the sunset magically enjoying life and shoot that motherfucker in the face.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, what is wrong with you guys?
[SPEAKER_00]: Felix and Robert both give me a role to hit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need Robert's role to hit to be at a minus two because he's two stories down shooting up at an angle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Felix, you're just a flat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, actually, Felix, you get a plus two because he's prone.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, bunch of fucking psychopaths.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so deeply sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know you're enjoying the sunset, but I run up out there and fire a twenty two with my combat rifle with sixteen points of damage.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as you run out, the man hears the footing of your footsteps and he looks down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tears still in his eyes from viewing the beautiful sunrise just moment before.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the look on his faces.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, who is this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Will this be a new friend to enjoy life with?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then... You send him to the infinite black.
[SPEAKER_05]: You kill him with this.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can kill three people with that shot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, inside Felix takes aim with a plus two, which puts in that a eighteen, which hits the prone slightly husky man that's scrambling to get down the staircase and slants a bullet into his spine.
[SPEAKER_00]: The man screams in pain and begins to roll down the stairs, thudding heavily.
[SPEAKER_00]: He continues his bloodied crawl.
[SPEAKER_00]: Screaming.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh no, please no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, there's so noisy.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hailey, don't want to help.
[SPEAKER_00]: By they do mean people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will try to shoot at this guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dorn starts to come out from behind the door.
[SPEAKER_00]: Haley, you shove it closed on his face again.
[SPEAKER_00]: As you walk back out to the hallway, lean over the railing and take a pot shot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go ahead and roll the... It's just what I imagined.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dorn just behind the door in the kitty corner.
[SPEAKER_00]: He keeps trying to come out of people keep disclosing him back in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh man, so an eleven is gonna hit this prone guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry down from you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Boom, four points of damage.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your pistol echoes.
[SPEAKER_00]: through the switching station, as you put this poor Husky man out of his misery.
[SPEAKER_00]: Above you, you hear a body foot against the room.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you hear Robert say something, you think it might have been like, Yatsi?
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not sure, though.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I actually wasn't gonna give Chase, I was just gonna check the possessions of the guy dead in the floor and front of me here.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for the third time, you attempt to exit out from behind the kitty corner.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I first looked with a grimace at the bullet that went through the door and nearly killed me as well.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then I step out finally from behind the door.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now it all of my friends are out of the way.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I just check this guy's pockets.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to fast forward and assume that you guys search all three of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: You find
[SPEAKER_00]: three rifles in the same disrepair as the two guys from previous so you may or may not want those they're fairly cheap and they don't work very well they actually have a chance to misfire that's pretty high you also find thirty seven credits if someone wants to write that down and
[SPEAKER_00]: I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: On the man on the roof, you find a family heirloom Momento.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he has the same sort of rifle.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has the same sort of armor.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has a couple credits on him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thirty-seven total across all three of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he also has a picture of an incredibly faded wrinkled picture of a woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps his mother, perhaps a long loss to love.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to know for sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: No way of knowing now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, Thorn is looting.
[SPEAKER_05]: I do want to make sure that there's nobody else in the building.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I am working with Hayley to secure the area and also letting Robert in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you open the front door and Robert's able to walk right in.
[SPEAKER_00]: You look around the switching station, which is comprised of three rooms on the first floor and two rooms on the second floor.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no other guardians in here at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you find the computer terminal that controls the switching station.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, let's finish what we came here to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you are denied access because you don't have the access card.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, she can't have the access card.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I mean, there's no problem for me.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll attempt to hack in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great role.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fairly unguarded utility in this, like, municipality.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's really no security put on to it at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Besides what you end up finding out is an incredibly common password.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're like, oh man, how am I going to log in?
[SPEAKER_00]: Then you just type in admin admin and then you're ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you have access to the switching station.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, let's say down.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: I look for a way to repoint the events to the army tech holdings facility.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then basically sabotage the system to shut down so it can't be changed again.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, that's no problem at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: You point the methane, pipes back to routing towards that portion of the mega city, and then you disable the controls as best you can.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you're not positive, but you think someone could probably reactivate them as a computer terminal is still standing.
[SPEAKER_06]: Think you're saying if the terminal wasn't here, they wouldn't be able to.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but I guess that's true.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just glance at Haley.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sounds pretty simple to me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll punch it.
[SPEAKER_00]: For Haley, you walk up and just give it the business.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just punch the hell out of the screen, keyboard, very hard drive, and hard to tell.
[SPEAKER_04]: Those drives weren't that hard, punch right through them.
[SPEAKER_00]: You punch a light switch this nearby because you're not really sure of what's connected to this computer.
[SPEAKER_00]: You like punch like an I beam, that's just the boarding, like the place, you're like, yeah, definitely.
[SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, it's just, you already got it, it's just that.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, all right, that right there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Got it, yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was it, yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: So all that's left is for you to go back to Mr. out of four and see Dr. of our voss, but right at time for tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll have to continue that adventure another time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's it for tonight, but before we go, let's take a moment to hear the thoughts and feelings of our crew about tonight's adventure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you this planet smells like farts, but actually been a real good experience.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got rested up.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully, me shooting that guy on the face doesn't turn my force.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know what, this all started off into pretty
[SPEAKER_04]: pretty rough place for me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was like bleeding out on the ground, but started looking up when surprisingly Dr. Voss offered us a pretty good deal and was just really glad that for once the fight ended up going my way and making some contemporary art out of a computer terminal.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, we met that boss.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, Met is a strong word.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you know, I didn't really like her insinuations that I didn't do a good enough job checking out the scapegoat.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, I mean, I am more than capable.
[SPEAKER_05]: And there was nothing at any, anyway.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now she sent us on some mission to route some methane around, which, you know, Hayley got to work out some of her frustrations on technology, I suppose.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it all ended up all right.
[SPEAKER_06]: I knew this Dr. Voss was gonna be a bit difficult, but I was hoping that she would just come along without too much trouble.
[SPEAKER_06]: Either way, it doesn't seem like there are any witnesses.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now all we gotta do is see if we can actually get the scapegoat out of here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for listening, everyone.
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