[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the Dark Star Adventurecast, where the stars are cold, the void is endless, and dangers lurk in every shadow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Out here, trust is a gamble, and survival is never guaranteeing.
[SPEAKER_01]: On tonight's Adventurecast?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm tracking it down, and I'm asking for a second.
[SPEAKER_02]: He said take a leak, but I don't know if I believe him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody go up in there for at least 10, 15 more minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Damn!
[SPEAKER_01]: So sit back and enjoy.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the Dark Star Adventure cast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back everyone to the Dark Star Adventure cast where we lost left arc crew.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were on Camiri 4.
[SPEAKER_01]: They had just met a very nice guard who owned a billionaire's hall and curious, they decided to trudge on down there and see what it's all about.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are also looking for a port to connect to that is beyond the firewall so that they can deliver a message to the neon lanes that show the superiority of the drift rats on this station.
[SPEAKER_01]: After doing this to drift for us, promises them that they will give them access to the docking bay where their ship is kept.
[SPEAKER_01]: So everyone, you are making your way down, the space station halls, to Rogers, Bill your tall.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's not long before you see the big ol' neon sign with an R on it, it tells you you've arrived.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next to Rogers is a locked door, and Felix, when looking at your network map, you can see that one of the firewalls ports that you so desire is just on the other side of that door.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are these like, what kind of doors are they?
[SPEAKER_01]: They are still metal retracting doors.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're split down the middle, and they kind of, like, start direct doors.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oops.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they open.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, like the entrance mechanism, like the locking mechanism on them.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is no handle or lock, but there is a control panel next to each one of them that, assumeably, in some way, you would interface with that to input a code or a thumbprint or something like that, you're not sure yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this is the famous Roger, so.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd look right next to your door, you know, I wonder, aren't there's another way in there and you're still in the main corridor So there's a lot of people around and it's bright bright right out.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, well, what here for the beer Might as well go have it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, let's dip in.
[SPEAKER_00]: I heard we had free drinks
[SPEAKER_04]: Just one round.
[SPEAKER_02]: I walk up to the nearest staff member of Rockers.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you go inside, you try to like zone in on who a staff member is, but the first net hit you is that this place is actually pretty busy and you realize it is the end of this space station's day.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the lights are starting the dim.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's getting on towards Sunset and Dinner and people are starting to leave their jobs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty busy in here, there's probably 50 people in a space that's probably acarpacity with 50 people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever that looks like, 100 square feet will say.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's five pool tables, and there's a long metal bar that has no front paneling.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you can see the bartender's legs as they're walking back and forth and talking to Patron sitting on metal stools.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a woman in the back of the bar talking to Roger.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when you come in, Roger goes, hey, any waves you will ever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, Roger and I go over.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yo, Roger.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was just telling my wife.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was explaining who I didn't have your names.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, so I was just telling my wife, if the new people come in, they get a free drink.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's not a lot of new people around here, so these are them.
[SPEAKER_02]: These are them.
[SPEAKER_02]: What a nice guy your husband is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I was just thinking that as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: How are we gonna stay in touch?
[SPEAKER_02]: But this is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's the best.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's always given out free drinks, which is great for our business.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it'll be.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll take a beer, and I put down five credits.
[SPEAKER_01]: Roger says, oh, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your money is no good here.
[SPEAKER_01]: For the first round.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your money is perfectly good for the second.
[UNKNOWN]: Ha ha ha.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you, thanks, Roger.
[SPEAKER_01]: His wife takes the credits.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or is each of you up here?
[SPEAKER_01]: She says, welcome to Rogers.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's pool tables over there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Looks like most of them are taken up.
[SPEAKER_01]: You might be able to find one in the back.
[SPEAKER_01]: And first rounds on us, of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we have more than just beer here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're looking for potato vodka, we have potato vodka.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're looking for potato vodka that we tried to make tastes like rum.
[SPEAKER_01]: It came to the right place and those are the three things we have and we have water.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll take some of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't have a lot of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess we could give you a little bit of our very precious water.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a martini.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you can just wait for moose over the top.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll take a vodka.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really happy.
[SPEAKER_01]: You each have a beer that most of you seem to be ignoring.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm tracking it down and I'm asking for a second.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_03]: I slide mine over to Haley.
[SPEAKER_01]: Roger has moved away and his wife has failed to introduce herself, and Roger did not give her name before or now.
[SPEAKER_02]: nor did we give ours?
[SPEAKER_01]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just kind of stairs that you're various ways of ordering a drink.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the sun comes over, who you heard his name before as Axel.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, hey mom, I got these ones off-worlders in my right.
[SPEAKER_01]: She kind of rolls her eyes at you, which she goes, as long as your credits clink on the counter, I'm care who you are.
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the neon-fang territory.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she walks off and starts taking care of other patrons.
[SPEAKER_01]: Axel says, they're worried about my mom.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's been working the bar longer than I've been alive, and I think that's longer than anyone should have to stand on their feet to work.
[SPEAKER_01]: What can I get you?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think Hayley needs another beer.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is your Hayley?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm Hayley with two wise.
[SPEAKER_01]: You want a napkin?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: He gives you a rag.
[SPEAKER_01]: Any kind of like motions I'd wrap her lip as he's pouring you another beer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I know our beer ain't that good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Drink a little slower.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's gonna take all of your orders.
[SPEAKER_01]: You relay the same orders that you gave before.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when it gets to Felix, a man that you didn't notice before who's sidled up next to you at the bar.
[SPEAKER_01]: Licks out a little cylinder from his sleeve.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, I don't know if I should say one of my deathsticks.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's the situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to say death sticks are actually canon in this game, but he flicks out his death stick and he goes, Hey, yeah, kid, why do you want to buy a death stick?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what are you running?
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't want to sell him this stick.
[SPEAKER_04]: What's the death stick?
[SPEAKER_01]: Mind your business.
[SPEAKER_01]: He reaches into his coat and he takes out four different cigarette-looking cylinders with four different colors on the filters.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got four different types.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not just potency.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's also type of high.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, this one, he lowers three of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's doing his all with one hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: He lowers three of them and keeps the moment the red filter's sticking up.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one will fuck you up real good.
[SPEAKER_01]: You'll be pulling a Sherlock Holmes.
[SPEAKER_01]: You'll be sticking around inside your house doing nothing just being high.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why that's the druggy that comes to mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's literally a lot going through it.
[SPEAKER_01]: He just spends all time in opium dens when he's not solving crimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: The other three, well, for those of you don't even know what a debt stick is.
[SPEAKER_01]: The green one.
[SPEAKER_01]: This will probably be good for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm selling them for two credits a piece.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the price doesn't get any better than that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Two credits.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a gold mine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Felix, I can't condone a purchase like this, but I gotta tell you that it's a pretty good deal.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm not asking you permission, Mom.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm got some pocket money.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't worry about it, Dad.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone's a parent of Felix.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's something happening psychologically there, but I'm not qualified to tell you what.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'll take two of those reds.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, two reds it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Aside from the credits, I put my pocket in a pack.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've had them for the job stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, a job, you say.
[SPEAKER_01]: He patched you on the back and he says a couple victory cigars.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't spoke as bad for your health.
[SPEAKER_01]: I made the deathsticks or your cigars, it was a metaphor, or a symbolism.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, enjoy the party.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean the bar, and he walks off, obviously I himself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Haley, make sure you get rid of those five credits because Axel's mom, Rogers, wife, did take those.
[SPEAKER_01]: Part of why Felix wanted to come in here is he was wondering if there was an alternate entrance into the spot next door.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd like to go around, kind of checkin' out what might be some weak competition, at least looking like that, but really what I'm looking for are ports adjacent to one of the walls that was next to the sealed door.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: So as you do that, I need you to roll.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a dexterity exert roll.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you don't actually do very good at the gaming.
[SPEAKER_01]: The people here probably play pool every night because it's not a lot else to do here in the neon-fang section of a camera.
[SPEAKER_01]: But near the front door where you came in, there's a lot of, you know, a crouture mop on the walls, a lot of paintings and beaded curtains and badges and stickers and all kinds of crap all over the walls, but it's a very clean establishment, it's just very cluttered.
[SPEAKER_01]: A midsole of that near the front door on the wall that he shared with the room next door, you do see a port.
[SPEAKER_00]: I throw down a couple of credits just to make it look realistic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Make sure that my spiked neon-fang hair really helps me blend in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Make my way over to Felix afterwards and point out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Check out that part of there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hold on, let me look.
[SPEAKER_03]: I pull up my map to see if that would be a valid port for me to use for the hack we need to deploy.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is not within the firewall.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're actually going to have to get inside of that room to use that port.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll go over it, and I'll get through.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to get into the other room.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, do we see a back door that goes to the kitchen or something or any door that goes in the direction of that hallway from inside of Rogers?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because otherwise, we're going to have to hack a door in the main hallway.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that might not be something you want to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're specifically looking around for the kitchen and the door with stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the bar is on the wrong, it's on the wrong wall, it's on the opposite wall, but there is a door that leads in that direction way in the back of the bar on the shared wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: And is Felix's map of like a physical map to you or is it literally just a network map?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a network map.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so Robert points out the panel and Felix turns it down and I say to Felix, what about that door there?
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that go to the same place you think?
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe we could check it out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, it's worth a shot.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why don't you go look?
[SPEAKER_03]: Come back on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me know what else is over there.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a pool table with a bunch of people around it and there's a jukebox.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm going to go see what's on the jukebox already abandoning the mission.
[SPEAKER_01]: This game master just played you like a fiddle.
[SPEAKER_01]: You walk up to the tube and just just conveniently in the direction that I want to be in.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a jukebox off in the corner and you make your way towards it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's an old fashioned jukebox.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course it's all digital.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no physical media.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's old fashioned in the way where a lot of the bands and singers are of several generations back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Probably from when the space station was first built.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can I see that door from here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty close.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's right next to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it the same kind of like sliding opening door?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a sliding opening door and there is a keypad.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're kind of flipping through, like you're pretending to use the jukebox as you're as you're taking a look at it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so you see like the void reveries, the astrosons.
[SPEAKER_01]: You actually recognize a couple of these, the solar wardens ended up, this is their first album before they really got good, but they ended up becoming like a classic.
[SPEAKER_01]: So people even your rage, still listen to them 60 years later.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Soling circuit storage by Black Hole Bloom is just pumping over the speakers and while you're listening to that and flipping through this and observing the door Axle walks up to the door and Simply presses his hand to the the sensor and the door opens and he walks through the door shuts behind them
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe it's any inch in marriage.
[SPEAKER_01]: A few minutes later, it comes back out carrying a box and walks over to the bar.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I pick a classic on the Duke box.
[SPEAKER_02]: What is it like, one credit to play us on?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, what do you want?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you want Gravity Well, Nebula Call to Astrosunds?
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me the Gravity Well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay cool, so it's like a heavy intense rock band with a lot of like electronic beats so you play their number one single that you can remember which is Redshift Revory.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm that was a good one.
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember listening to that one, you know, doing missions back, back in my home plan before I got framed and went to jail.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, probably when you get your first kiss with the Redshift Revory.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: Total pop.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a total pop.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great song to go with cut in someone's hand off.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're not gonna come back to the table with this classic song playing and I say well it looks like they're going in and out of there with a handprint sensor Those are hard to fool.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean not impossible, but this I can't really hack in very easily You know without being noticed and we don't even know if I can get into the system from that side I'm like twisted my destiny around on my fingers as I'm talking one of my desks
[SPEAKER_03]: Ugh, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, what do you think?
[SPEAKER_04]: Just don't cut his hand off.
[SPEAKER_01]: Axo comes over, as you're talking, and he puts his hand flat on the bar right in front of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he goes, hey, do any of you need another round?
[SPEAKER_01]: His hand is just sitting there so tantalizingly on the bar.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm good boss.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_01]: He flexes his hand slightly.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's right there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just factually, there's a hand on the bar in front of you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure is, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well, let me know if you want another drink.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd be happy to give you a hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he walks off.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was a eerie.
[SPEAKER_03]: He said, let him know if we need a hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's consent.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he comes back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I forgot to tell you.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you need the bathrooms, they're back there.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a little bit of a storage area.
[SPEAKER_01]: You just walk past it.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's the bathrooms.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we get in that door.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just wave your hand in front of the sensor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, cool, cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I gotta go.
[SPEAKER_03]: So thanks.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks, I'll take another beer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, excellent.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and I know my mom took credit for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna give you this one for free.
[SPEAKER_01]: He pours you a beer.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's strangely enough, not out of a tap.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're pouring beer right out of like a jug.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good little chair that beer.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: I have Red Ruff already playing the background.
[SPEAKER_04]: I have my beer in front of me and I.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got a man's hand off.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not cutting it guys hands up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where'd it give us a hand axle?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It gives you the beer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Any eternity to you, Captain Thorne, and he says, did you, I thought I saw you over there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you put on, did you put on a wrenchiff reverie?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a classic.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a classic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I didn't think people obstation would even have heard of gravity.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know they're from here.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I didn't know that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Get in me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gravity well was my grandfather's time, but they rock so hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're in Nebula cult.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just, you know, they're both...
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't get into them as much, but you're totally right.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're the same kind of sound, they're both good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do like Nebula cult quite a bit, but we're gravity well walked, as they say.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nebula cult.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rocked.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, Felix, you're walking.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're walking back to the jukebox area.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we have to take a leak.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah, I put my hand over the sensor on the door.
[SPEAKER_03]: It opens up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shoot my head, boy, I really over-thought that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: On the other side is a small-ish room, probably 15 by 15 feet full of storage racks.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's all kinds of stuff back here, including jugs of alcohol, so they really trust people here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Apparently.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you just keep walking straight, 10 feet forward, there is another door that assume we're on to the bathroom.
[SPEAKER_01]: On the wall to your right is another door with a key access pad on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna, I mean, oh, I didn't communicate with you all before I went back here to say what kind of time I need.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you can't tell them now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope it was 10 minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna hook into the keypad on the locked door.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you tell him if there was a number one or number two?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I might tell him how long you're gonna be.
[SPEAKER_02]: He said take a leak, but I don't know if I believe him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He should be back by now.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I am, I am gonna hook into the keypad to try to open the door.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought you had to go to the bathroom.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can hold it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna be.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm on before.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you lied to Axel?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was gonna halt it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had to go.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just gonna hold it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: With eyeballs afloat, you plug into the jack.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so go ahead and give me your programming or hacking role.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, damn, what a good role.
[SPEAKER_01]: So with a 10, you easily act through this incredibly low security data port.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you now have access to the lights in this room, the environmental systems of the bar and this room and the bathroom.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you also have access to the opening, closing and security measures of this specific door.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't care.
[SPEAKER_03]: I see what all this security measures of the store.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing lethal, there's no like turrets that pop out, but it takes a code.
[SPEAKER_01]: If the wrong code is inputted three times, the door locks down until it administrators code is put in.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna open the door.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, the door slides open, and reveals the room that you could have gotten to from the main corridor.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's a door that leads, but directly across the room, leads out into the main corridor, and there's a bunch of storage boxes in here, and then there's an actual, honest, God-computer terminal attached to the wall, not just a simple port.
[SPEAKER_03]: I step into the room and, if the door doesn't automatically close behind me, I close behind me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I scan the room quickly to see if anything looks unbeen monitored in any way and then I sit down at the computer terminal.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a camera in the corner, it is on a swivel now and it does not swivel to track you.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is ARC cover the terminal.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's on a swivel mount, but the swivel mount's not moving.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's not moving at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's tracking you and it's not moving, and it's not pointing at you currently.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is pointed at the terminal however.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay, interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Outside the room, the red shift reverberary by Gravity Well, ticks off, and solar warden comes on.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you hear just the super hard rock and metal beats with the atmospheric cosmic influences of their predecessors kind of beaten through the wall at you here in this random closet in the neon-fank territory.
[SPEAKER_02]: I pointed Axel and then I pointed enthusiastically at the jukebox, like, oh, this one, too.
[SPEAKER_02]: This one's really good, bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just thumbs up him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hang on to your butt cheeks, and he pours you a free bear.
[SPEAKER_01]: His mom's skulls.
[SPEAKER_01]: I give it to you, Ely.
[SPEAKER_01]: His mom's skulls deeper.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
[SPEAKER_02]: Thorne doesn't drink on company time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to jail again.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're not going to drink for months.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see what happens.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's going to do the drugs with me instead.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have time to fuss around with the camera.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I just sit down at the terminal and I get to work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to need an additional programming or acting role.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was a really bad role.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to re-roll that as an expert.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's like your special skills and expert, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, you have re-roll a field role.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, once per scene.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great choice.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to reroll that and hope that it's better.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a 10.
[SPEAKER_01]: A 10.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so you start to program and you're like, no, no, this isn't right.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you back out of what you quickly realized is I think incredibly amateur tracking program that was in trapping you.
[SPEAKER_01]: A false road, a dead end in the code.
[SPEAKER_01]: You were going deeper and deeper along a network path that was simply going to reveal who you are and what your motivations were.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you chopped that line of programming off and you went down a different path.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, as I describe this, as a software engineer, I don't even as a person who's been a software engineer for 17 years.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have to describe hacking.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty easy.
[SPEAKER_02]: You just have to make a gooey interface and visual basic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's no cinematic hacking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the oil dripping off your nose, your glass is barely hanging on for dear life.
[SPEAKER_01]: You taps and things on the keyboard.
[SPEAKER_03]: I pull out a second keyboard from my back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I can't believe both keyboards at once.
[SPEAKER_01]: Four more hands come in and they're all typing it on all the keyboard.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, but I, I, I, I, I locate a copy of the image that I need to upload on a local network.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I type in the text that I need.
[SPEAKER_03]: Better, oh, I didn't read it down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Better a rat in the drift than a king in a cage.
[SPEAKER_03]: The GM so nice he didn't make me actually remember it and I type all that in along with the drift rats in second year Yep, do you do it in ASCII or do you have a graphic I see if I go find a graphic on the local network?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, yeah, it's time to drift rats slow it was out there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I find the graphic on the local network and I plugged that in Center at nice sleep of the text pick a nice font and get it loaded up
[SPEAKER_01]: You actually couldn't find a driftfront logo on this network, but you could find a neon fangs once you just use that and erase the fangs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you fix the colors though, too?
[SPEAKER_01]: Make sure you fix the colors.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Make it red.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, made it red.
[SPEAKER_03]: I said a neon green.
[SPEAKER_03]: I said it.
[SPEAKER_03]: If possible, I tried to set it with a time delay to kick off in 10 minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you can definitely do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, back out in the bar, you guys are kind of all watching the door.
[SPEAKER_01]: UC Patrons go in and out of there over the next 10 minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, we should check on Felix.
[SPEAKER_01]: Axel's behind the bar, who you've been talking to, Tritian Intensely, Captain Thorne, says, Hey, where's your friend?
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought he went to the bathroom, but a lot of other people have gone in and out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you's okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you know, he sometimes has trouble because of his prosthetics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Robert, you think you could maybe check on him, Haley, when you... Oh yeah, so sometimes I got a pulling off the toilet sometimes, just let me jump in there, we're up there.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Robert, you get up from your stool and you head back to the jukebox area.
[SPEAKER_01]: You enter into the storage area, Robert.
[SPEAKER_01]: The bathroom is straight ahead of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: A man is just exiting the bathroom and he passes you with a nod.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's a door to your right, which is closed and has to keep that.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a bunch of other storage stuff back here, like a ton of beer and food and all kinds of stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just worried about the guy nodding at me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a, you know, a gentlemanly But he's harmless He's leaving the bathroom giving you a nod Take that as you will Mm-hmm I took it some type of oil Man, Robert He's like, I just destroyed that toilet, buddy That was the nod to give you Good idea there Oh, he was just saying, hey That's what I thought He also gives you that tight lips smile That white people give each other
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm so good at that smile.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know exactly what you mean.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm doing it right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm doing it right now as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he gives you that smile that we all give other white people.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is the minimal amount of recognition you could give another human.
[SPEAKER_01]: The type lips smile.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he gives you a small nod.
[SPEAKER_01]: If it was a nod on there like it's a little like he's better than you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you raise his eyebrows at all?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, complete neutral.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then this tight smile and he just raises his eyebrows and locks.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, actually, yeah, because that's what I do every time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he goes back out into the bar.
[SPEAKER_00]: After he gives me the little shining tries to give me a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little.
[SPEAKER_00]: I step into the bathroom and it smells awful in here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perfect, um, because I like, oh, the greatest possible situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: I step out and go, whoo!
[SPEAKER_00]: Damn!
[SPEAKER_00]: Bill is going to need a couple more minutes y'all.
[SPEAKER_00]: We need to make some ice up in here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody go open there for at least 10-15 more minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Got damn!
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you yelling?
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a
[SPEAKER_01]: The music is like kind of muffling you a little bit, but people hear you and you're like, oh, and they kind of back away from that area as you walk back to the bar.
[SPEAKER_01]: It'd be so embarrassing for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Felix, you're finishing up in more ways than one unbeknownst to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: As I finish too, because I think I'm going to need an excuse for why I was so long.
[SPEAKER_03]: I pop one of the desks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I make my way back out to the bar.
[SPEAKER_01]: you pop it and use it or just pop it and have it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, I pop it and use it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you pop it and it starts giving off this loyingly sweet smell like melted down gingerbread cookies rammed up your nostrils.
[SPEAKER_01]: It smells delicious but it's too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: As you leave that area, people kind of recoil from you a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have no idea why.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're hobbling out and smoking your jet stick.
[SPEAKER_01]: Indoorce?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no one says anything to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I can't agree the whole space station's indoors.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like a shit-a-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-
[SPEAKER_01]: So your friend Felix has made his way back to the bar after doing something to the bathroom, according to Robert that is unhumane.
[SPEAKER_01]: Felix doesn't seem to care.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's just almost skipping up to the bar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes you've got to give a courtesy flush.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might blotch O-ring if you're trying too hard like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: O-rings are fine, Robert, and I blow in the toughest
[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, don't get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, are we ready to go?
[SPEAKER_00]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm ready to go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go have some more fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: As you're all exiting Rogers, Roger is near the door.
[SPEAKER_01]: He goes, hey, are you heading out already?
[SPEAKER_01]: We're just getting started tonight.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wait, what's the main attraction?
[SPEAKER_04]: Everyone's been talking about a party.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, you know, we're getting on towards the weekend now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's the end of the day, everyone's getting off work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Things are just going to keep picking up, and things are going to get wilder and wilder.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, what, Roger, Roger, I'm from a pretty backwater place.
[SPEAKER_04]: What do you mean by wild?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we're going to do a lot of drinking, and we're going to play a lot of pool and probably going to push the pool tables aside and there's always a good, a good bit of dance and that happens.
[SPEAKER_04]: What about fighting?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, no, we try to keep the piece here.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't really like it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, all right, yeah, sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you just leave.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's me, I'm interested.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wait.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no way to come.
[SPEAKER_04]: He was going to pop off and say something like, oh yeah, we're going to rid you like drag some of these rat people out because guys I'm starting to get really concerned that these people are really nice and pale.
[SPEAKER_03]: I say too ugly.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a break.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, we have one more important thing at least to take care of before we can party.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, we're gonna go.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I got it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Bye, Robert.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, very well.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're welcome back in a time and hey.
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to Camero 4.
[SPEAKER_01]: and you exit back out into the corridor and find that the stalls have been collapsed and kind of pushed back against the walls.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lights on the station have dimmed on a timer and become much warmer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything has a nice yellowish tint to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's obvious that this is their version of nighttime year on Commirfor.
[SPEAKER_03]: So nice out of no.
[SPEAKER_01]: spot a screen on a wall nearby.
[SPEAKER_01]: It seems as though your hack has taken place correctly, better a rat in the drift than a king in a cage is placed across the screen with a high res image of a drift rat insignia.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
[SPEAKER_04]: It does look pretty good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Classical, mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, we didn't want it, I guess we can go get our ship, no?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, we could probably just get out here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess you saw it down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, wait!
[SPEAKER_01]: You see Roger and the other guard who was kind of partying in the bar with everyone as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're running at you from the bar saying, wait, come back here!
[SPEAKER_01]: What's the matter, Roger?
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you guys kidding me?
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_01]: Seriously?
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_01]: The drinks were supposed to be on me and he gives you back your five credits.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you guys didn't get the money.
[SPEAKER_04]: Stop with this.
[SPEAKER_04]: Axel was just so great.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a fair exchange of goods and services.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, don't worry about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it looks like I'm off to a rough night at any points at the screen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some drift rats got in, we're going to have to go, you know, reboot the router.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a big deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: But obviously the drift rats here, so we have to go find them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take your five credits.
[SPEAKER_01]: I said the first round was on me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and uh, what's again?
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the station, you know You're a sweet group of people and I can't wait to get to know you a bit better.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're always welcome.
[SPEAKER_04]: I brought us Thanks, brother Oh, I love to your family You wait it's goodbye.
[SPEAKER_03]: I tell you guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a walk away people so much for gobble the machines
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, I'm worried about you Felix.
[SPEAKER_04]: I wonder what's up with this wife though?
[SPEAKER_02]: She's probably the one who has to pay all the bills.
[SPEAKER_04]: Such a trail, I was, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: She does the books, let's tell her.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he doesn't know what this is going to be for.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that was going to be, that was going to be if they got to eat tonight.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you make your way, act up north, docking bays, you know, 40, 50, finding yourself at that corridor
[SPEAKER_01]: Here, you have that 10-foot wall of storage containers and metal sheeting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Box is still on the wall with his friend with his sought-off shotgun.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as you round that corner, you can already hear Box talking to his friend and that high pitched voice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you come around the corner, you guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, whoa, whoa.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh!
[SPEAKER_01]: The little drift rat wannabes have come back from the new lame territory.
[SPEAKER_01]: You hear what I said?
[SPEAKER_01]: I said new lame is pretty funny, I made that mine, I made that up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you uh, did you do the thing?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's done.
[SPEAKER_03]: I said I do, and of course I did it, it's done.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, calm down, calm down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, geez.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, hold on a minute, let me go get all rust claw.
[SPEAKER_01]: Will the term if you did the thing good enough for rust claw?
[SPEAKER_01]: Just stay right here.
[SPEAKER_01]: He disappears.
[SPEAKER_01]: Comes back a moment later with rust claw.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I saw what you did.
[SPEAKER_01]: I both eyes firmly planted on those screens and I was very delighted to see when that awesome logo of the Drift Rats appeared all over the station.
[SPEAKER_01]: The neon lames will never forget who the real gang and controller of Camira for is Will they one hundred percent you were real losers he spits And since it's there's no outside here when he spits and you look down to the spit You see there's like thousands of patches of dried spit on the ground nice Which is what what which is what Rob was rolling around in No, that was neon territory Yeah
[SPEAKER_01]: They have different spits.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, a promise is a promise.
[SPEAKER_01]: He brings you over to the side of the barricade, and a portion of it gets pushed out from the inside, and you're able to walk in, and then they grab some handles and they pull it back into place.
[SPEAKER_01]: You'll lead you down the corridor, pass several open docking bays.
[SPEAKER_01]: Most of them are just full of equipment and crates, some of them are full of like, some of them have like derelict fighters and them like broken or like...
[SPEAKER_01]: Most likely disrepair strike fighters, ones that probably can't run, and please you all the way to docking base 72.
[SPEAKER_01]: The door shut, and there is a data pad, and there along the seam, our countless scorched marks, bent metal pry marks, blood, and then a big spray painted fuck this right across the front.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna put it to the SD card that we got and then we'll enter the data pad.
[SPEAKER_01]: No sooner.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do the contacts of the SD card touch the side of the port than the storage spring open instantly on extremely well-oiled hinges.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll now be damned.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, and there's your merchant class chip in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, anything else in there is ours, but you're welcome to the ship.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I don't think there's anything else in there, but feel free.
[SPEAKER_03]: I pop the SD card back out and walk in.
[SPEAKER_01]: E and two drift rats go and with you and start poking around to look into see if there's anything else.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they're largely just ignoring you.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you go over and you use the SD card once again to open up the back.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the very very back of the ship slides open very slowly like a very long ramp.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the only way to get on and off the ship.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as it's opening, rust clock comes over and says, so that card just opens everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: It opens what I needed to open.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we'll be taking this ship after all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rollin' this ship if.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's pleased for her.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would put my chin in the face halfway through that sentence.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, as soon as he even continued, she was ready to function.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm rolling initiative for two drift rats and one rust claw.
[SPEAKER_01]: These are not the two drift rats that were manning the front.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is not box in his friend, these are two other drift rats.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look at those are our friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some of their people you have interacted with.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, it seems as though Rustclaw got the drop on you because he won the initiative role.
[SPEAKER_01]: The quickly pulls his knife, his advanced knife, from its sheath, and attempts to plunge it into Felix's chest.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_01]: He hits you for two points of damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we'll be taking this ship after all.
[UNKNOWN]: Hey!
[SPEAKER_00]: Robert, I step back gain distance, but an angle that gives me essentially a line of sight on him as much as possible, quick draw up my gun with my gun slinger ability and shoot him in the face with a combat rifle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, try to go ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna go ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well, you hit him for how much damage?
[SPEAKER_01]: Looking like a 10 piece of damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that is so much damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so much in fact that you blow a hole straight through his face out the back of his spell and leave a scorching blood mark along the side of your brand new ship.
[SPEAKER_01]: He collapses to the ground, letting go of the knife that is still embedded in your friend Felix's shoulder.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we knew he was gonna betray us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's clean these rats up, y'all.
[SPEAKER_01]: The two drift rats look at each other and just run.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thorn.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is the door to the ship open?
[SPEAKER_02]: It is slowly opening, but it's not open yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's about 25% open.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it clear to me that the other guy is about to flee?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because if I'm still in like reaction mode, he might get a laser in the chest before he has a chance.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're only sure that one of them is fleeing.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's getting a laser in the chest then.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, poor guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, better safe than sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it doesn't need any more holes.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going to quickly pull out my laser pistol from a toolster seeing that all this is happening in a flash.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I try to put a laser through the guy who has not yet run away and is still standing right near by Felix.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've rolled a one.
[SPEAKER_01]: To mirror Robert's critical hit, we now have a critical miss.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you take out your gun and you go to like quickly snap it up and take a shot and you fumble it and you're like grasping to like grab your gun and make sure it doesn't just go off and someone else's face.
[SPEAKER_01]: Felix.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I, I just stand there really with the knife and my shoulder and as his face got blown off I just looking for a second to go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
[SPEAKER_04]: And so I'm going to go up to the guy nearest to me and punch him in the face.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's very simple.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's very straightforward.
[SPEAKER_01]: Apply fist to faces.
[SPEAKER_01]: The guy that is fleeing in the guy that is near Felix are equitous to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to choose.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I'm going to for the guy who's fling.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm running to the guy who's fling.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: To punch him in the face, he's not getting out of the room.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a blood range.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're all this kind of people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like Felix would be fine.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: They got this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you missed with the sevens.
[SPEAKER_01]: You do three-shock damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: You run up and you punch him in the side of the shoulder and you go like, hey, add a boy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he goes, ah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he keeps running.
[SPEAKER_01]: The guy that's not fling and takes out his auto pistol and he unleashes a barrage of bullets upon Thor who tried to shoot him a moment ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: Seven misses you I assume it does a hail of bullets ricochet off the side of your shiny new ship Which is actually an old ship, but hey, it's new to you Robert
[SPEAKER_00]: At this point, I start moving towards the ship.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want anybody to activate and reinforcements.
[SPEAKER_00]: I shoot the guy that's playing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I shoot him right at the back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jeez.
[SPEAKER_00]: 21 to hit with a 16-man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man, so you whip up your combat rifle and once again just decimated another combat and boom, you shoot right past Haley and blow out the spine of the fleeing drift rat.
[SPEAKER_01]: is spying flops out of his back and clatters against the floor.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Lee, it's just like literally standing there roaring.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like literally just going, RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
[SPEAKER_02]: I've got my handle on my weapon now for sure, but just in case I put my body strategically behind that of my friend Robert and keep firing it though.
[SPEAKER_02]: Look guy who's shooting at me.
[SPEAKER_02]: It looks like I managed to land one with a 19.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, 19 hits for two points of damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you shoot him with your laser pistol and you nick his shoulder and he goes, I just sign up for this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like, you have a nice thing on your shoulder.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I got to just sit on the ground looking at the nice like, how?
[SPEAKER_03]: Wait, no, ow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, Lee.
[SPEAKER_04]: Run up to whoever's the Southern guy, and I also punch him in the face.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Lee, just just going to get one hit in.
[SPEAKER_01]: You sprint up to the guy who's looking down on Felix, frasping his shoulder that he's got nicked on with a laser pistol.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: An attempt to decimate his nose and mouth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Replace his brains with pure, A-ly fist.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and that's going to do it with a 21.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he falls to the ground, a bloody pulp.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, and the crowd goes wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: You take his unconscious body and you've got him in a headlock and you sue Plexum.
[SPEAKER_01]: You two are frightening.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he's already dead.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone's just watching Haley just do a fair, just various WWE moves against this guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who are the rats now?
[SPEAKER_01]: And his dead body just flopped around or see people's elbows just throat.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's just a corpse at this point.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to go and you all hop into your new ship in a Mealy figure out how to start it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Use the code.
[SPEAKER_01]: Insert the SD card.
[SPEAKER_01]: Use the code to unlock it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Open up the Anger doors and fly out And I think the knife out of my shoulder Sure
[SPEAKER_01]: The view from the cockpit is a dizzying swirl of stars as your ship tears away from Cameri 4.
[SPEAKER_01]: The station's glittering lights shrink behind you, but there's no time to admire the view.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your sensors are screaming.
[SPEAKER_01]: Two strike fighters have broken from the station's shadow.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are sleek silhouettes gleaming against the void.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bright flashes of laser fire light up the blackness as a creek towards your vessel close it fast.
[SPEAKER_01]: The targeted repeater chirps incoming threat detected.
[SPEAKER_01]: The controls how many your fingertips as your ship jolt from an impact.
[SPEAKER_01]: A moment of static buzzes across the cons before a crackling voice cuts through.
[SPEAKER_01]: The strike fighters are faster and more maneuverable than your ship is like your vessel tax-bore of a punch.
[SPEAKER_01]: This battle isn't just about survival, it's a test of your cruise ability to work together under fire for the first time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Stations everyone, get in your stations, we got combat.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sir, yes, sir.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm down to the guns.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert, what can you tell me about these fighters?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, sir.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I pull them up on screen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Robert, you take a look at the radar, read out, and you ping the enemy ships as they close in on you once again.
[SPEAKER_01]: They appear to be two standard strike fighters.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, they get close enough for you to get a visual off your port bow and you see that they have been spray painted heavily in various colors, probably gang affiliations from that space station you just left.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess those drift frats didn't appreciate how we left things.
[SPEAKER_01]: They closed in and begin to fire your own on you once again, but you all get to act first.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, we got two mugs on a port.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to take them out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Only one way to deal with riff raffle like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Lee, make sure you get those cannons primed.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ready for the pew pew.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert, make sure you keep the engines primed.
[SPEAKER_02]: We may need to move around quickly.
[SPEAKER_02]: But for now, just keep her steady.
[SPEAKER_02]: Felix, see what you can do to get the systems in order?
[SPEAKER_02]: He's gonna need all the energy that you can get to fire those cannons.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hi, I capped it.
[SPEAKER_03]: God, what are all these tools?
[SPEAKER_03]: Ah, alright, I think everything's lined up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Try to get all the buttons.
[SPEAKER_03]: All the systems in order.
[SPEAKER_03]: New to the ship.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, Halo, you should have everything you need.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well...
[SPEAKER_04]: a gun's a gun, and I shoot, and I put all of my strength behind it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Boom!
[SPEAKER_01]: Haley's muscle is flexed as she works the gunnery.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fair enough, fair enough, fair enough!
[SPEAKER_01]: Bring the multi-focal laser with its incredible armor piercing power to bear down on the first strike fighter.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is a hit for one damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a lot of damage, but the armor piercing is so strong that it carines straight through the Strike Fighter's Hall.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's nice to get like butter in dealing that full one point of damage to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: One full point.
[SPEAKER_03]: I shot it, Ali.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, girl.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks, boop boop.
[SPEAKER_04]: felt good.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going again.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now shoot that same ship.
[SPEAKER_01]: You bring your multi-focal laser to bear on that same strikefighter once again, but you go wide.
[SPEAKER_01]: The laser shoots past the strikefighter, making this side of the space station behind it.
[SPEAKER_04]: No one saw that one.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what next time, Haley.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first strike fighter that you shot at, swings around.
[SPEAKER_01]: You frantically swing your senses around to keep it in the clear spot on your radar screen as it opens fire on your afte.
[SPEAKER_01]: Its reaper battery fires out in great bursts.
[SPEAKER_01]: And hit!
[SPEAKER_01]: First, next points of damage, tearing through the right side of your cargo bay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Captain, there's a crisis on board.
[SPEAKER_01]: Talk to me, Felix.
[SPEAKER_02]: What are we dealing with?
[SPEAKER_03]: That last shot graze our cargo bay and it'll put it up to the outside.
[SPEAKER_03]: I gotta get down there and fix it right away or worse toast I'll support you forever.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can I get up from my chair and I start running this outside so I can down and I'll I'll do with this on my next turn.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, great.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Felix
[SPEAKER_01]: as a left the engineering and calms departments completely bereft of anyone.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're effectively two departments short on your next turn while he runs down to try to fix this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately there's no one else that can do it because he is the fixer.
[SPEAKER_01]: so Felix rushes down to the cargo bay to try to stop everything from rushing out into the vacuum of space.
[SPEAKER_01]: Meanwhile, the second strike fighter, world's around to your opposite side, flanking you, and takes a potshot at your back engine.
[SPEAKER_01]: With a 12 at misses your armor class of 14, which is good because it was ready to do some massive damage to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: The reaper battery
[SPEAKER_01]: Round 2 of Space Combat.
[SPEAKER_01]: What would you like to do, Captain?
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it's getting together.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really going to need to know if you can find that hole breach.
[SPEAKER_02]: Haley, see what you can do about taking out that one fighter.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert, see if you can take some of Vasive maneuvers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Felix, I'll take over the comms this round.
[SPEAKER_02]: You focus on finding that hole breach.
[SPEAKER_01]: Robert, what would you like to do on your turn for your department?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think I'm gonna keep her steady, try to maintain course, make sure that I can get haily as clean as a shop as possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna do my duty.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you do your duty well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, who's next captain?
[SPEAKER_01]: Talk to me, Felix, who do we got?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right, don't hear, we're all fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: So if he hooks his down at the whole breach with his toolkit, luckily it'll swallow enough I can accommodate it so I try to put a quick fix in place.
[SPEAKER_03]: Someone will fix, to fix this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, yeah, 12, great roll.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you spend this turn hastily putting a large piece of sheet metal over the hole that was blasted in the hall.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got it mostly good, some air is still escaping, but you're able to repressurize the cargo hold and have it stabilized.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice, that's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just going to quickly take care of the comms duties.
[SPEAKER_02]: Make sure that now that the breach is dealt with, all the systems are coming up online.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I'm going to need Haley to take a shot.
[SPEAKER_04]: I am going to fire the multiple laser.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, here it goes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Eleven is not enough to hit their armor box.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's fortunate to like.
[SPEAKER_04]: Haley is like still feeling super psyched up from just beaten that guy's face in.
[SPEAKER_04]: She re-rolls the damage and also hits for one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice, so using your special ability, you turn your miss into an auto hit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, you only get one damage, but this guy is now taking two total damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though he has armor, you slice through his armor like butter using them fairly weak, multi-focal laser, but it doesn't do a lot of damage, but he gets straight through armor.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, it was a laser sound.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just a slowly drifting through the space.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, Captain, is that everyone on your team?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that is everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, here come the Strike Fighters.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first Strike Fighter that targeted your cargo hold targets the same area with his Reaper Battery, and at least as a barrage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, 16 is and up to hit your armor class.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take 9 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: It uses.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the second Strike Fighter, zooms around, staying on your flank, and once again targeting your rear engines, the Reaper Battery booms in the soundlessness of space.
[SPEAKER_01]: and hits with an 18 for 9 points of damage, don't get to take your armor into account, by the way, you have two armor.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well, we're going to keep it together.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to use a captain's action of keeping it together.
[SPEAKER_02]: In an attempt to protect the engines, I think that we take a hit to the cargo hole instead.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so you nullify that last hit, so into the attempt to not take massive damage from this hit, you run over to the controls and pivot the strip to the side, the cargo hold on the same side that Felix just fixed gets smashed in, but the compartment right next to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not sure what was in there, but you see it venting into space.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever the previous owner had put into that cargo hold is now lost to the void.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody get all powers that we can to the weapons and let's try and get these guys off or back so we can get out of here Robert get ready to make a spike drive as soon as we're able.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, sir.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Lee.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna line you up for a shot We're gonna do this.
[SPEAKER_02]: We can see if you can at least finish off one of them and we could bring this down to a one-on-one Okay, so what are you doing?
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, Lee the gunner?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm shooting my multi-focal laser Well, he's gonna miss unfortunately.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I try again
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, worse.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: For Mrs. Eden Wider.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is not going to happen the last time, guys.
[SPEAKER_04]: We might need to move me to a different station.
[SPEAKER_01]: We might need Robert on the guns.
[SPEAKER_04]: Possibly.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's looking grim for you as you've lost almost half your hit points and barely scratched the strike fighters at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're closing in for the kill.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep, we have to switch off.
[SPEAKER_01]: Apped-in is your team done for the turn?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, Strike Fighter number one moves in to shoot the cargo holds that even further trying to just decimate that whole side of the ship.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Reaper Battery booms across the void of space.
[SPEAKER_01]: Eating for six points of damage, the second Strike Fighter flanked you on your half-side once again, the looms of the Reaper Battery is one of the misses with an eight, though.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know a Death Strike Fighter moves in for a closer shot next round.
[SPEAKER_01]: More of that Robert, more of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: We could try to escape, Captain.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you think our chances are, Robert?
[SPEAKER_02]: Can you get us out of here?
[SPEAKER_02]: I can start in with try.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert will send all power to the engines.
[SPEAKER_02]: Get us out of here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will support the bridge.
[SPEAKER_02]: Felix, do your best to make sure the systems are in order to send all power to the engines.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then, Ale, you cover us.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, it's good out of here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and rolling for them to pursue a five because of the minus one.
[SPEAKER_01]: These unskilled pilots can't keep up with an actual all-me-tech certified pilot.
[SPEAKER_01]: You rush away from them getting out of close range combat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, a strike fighter can't shoot that far away.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to have to pursue you and succeed on the pursuit before they can attack you again, and that's exactly what they intend to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first strike fighter is going to roll once again.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need you to roll that exact roll again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, hell yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's your scene.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, good thing you rolled that, too.
[SPEAKER_01]: No kidding, Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: 16 and 9, they are unable to pursue you.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're unable to close that gap, which means they're unable to fire upon you, and it is once again, your turn, Captain, what does your team do?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm considering the possibility of some damage control while we have the distance, but it would be taking a risk.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's just keep going.
[SPEAKER_00]: Robert, just keep blasting us full speed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that was a big 15 on that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: The strike fighters are unable to pursue within 11.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are now two clicks away from them, far, far out of range.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, so far out of range, they turn back towards the space station unwilling to attempt pursuit to that far away deeper into the sector.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have officially escaped the strike fighters and comere for.
[SPEAKER_01]: Felix, you arrive back at the bridge after sealing up the cargo hold.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're safe.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've made it out of range of the strike fighters, which you notice have now turned back towards, come here before.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thorne is on the bridge.
[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, Robert and Hayler are at their stations elsewhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thorne doesn't seem to have noticed yet, but your station is beeping quite obnoxiously at you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd have to see what this is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, Thorne, you didn't notice that never mind.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's see what we got here.
[SPEAKER_01]: X reads out across an old fashioned command prompt.
[SPEAKER_01]: It reads, attention, vessel registration, incomplete.
[SPEAKER_01]: Please provide a designation to finalize initialization protocols.
[SPEAKER_01]: This will be your ship's official name.
[SPEAKER_01]: Please choose wisely.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh boy, um, hey y'all, we got, um, well last piece of business looks like the ship is a name or a sort of identification, I should say.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, and to be a got many ideas, maybe like JTX, 1275.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it weird to name a ship after your mother?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what's your mom's name?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm coming down.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just generating the curious.
[SPEAKER_00]: No wait, what about the scapegoat?
[SPEAKER_03]: I love it a little ominous let me tell you a little ominous, but it's fierce whatever makes y'all happy That just got a punch in the words the scapegoat don't yeah go for it Let's start typing it in what tells a goat.
[SPEAKER_01]: I still want to hear about thorns momma.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey watch you Robert The terminal reads now Please press why I confirm and just try again us chance every good I just gesture a thumbs up and a smile.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not will blame you
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: The designation accepted registering vessel as the scapegoat.
[SPEAKER_01]: You will now be known by that to every space port, planet, and frigate.
[SPEAKER_01]: You come across.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope you chose wisely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell me about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And with your new designation, you fly off into the great void and make your way towards Dr. Alaravos.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the end of our session for tonight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's take a moment and hear from our crew about tonight's adventure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Scott who plays Felix.
[SPEAKER_01]: What was running through your character's mind during this adventure?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it was uh, started out like an interesting day, but you know, ended up like many others.
[SPEAKER_03]: Acts of computers, bits and drugs, figs and holes and spaceships, just all for all, ended up having a pretty good time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stephanie who plays Hayley.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hayley was like crazy psyched because she's been chasing after her sister.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's in a team now with Robert Ross who famously also worked with her on the strike unit six and now she's off on her own adventure so she's excited perhaps overly excited given her bloodthirsty nature that I think she's a little shocked by but she was also very pleased that she did again follow in her sister's footsteps by not being able to shoot
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, some things didn't quite go as I expected.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I did get to get greasy.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Love that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody, everybody knew I was a spectacular distraction, blended right in as a neon thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Got to be a good distraction from my buddy Felix, got to watch Haley, salam some dudes, and then well let's just say miss some shots, ain't nothing wrong with it, I have was there about a thorn, you ran a tight ship, great job, that's why you're all captain, and you know what, we had to run away, not for the first time, but it's to fight again another day.
[SPEAKER_02]: and a Captain Thorn played by Brian.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, this definitely wasn't the kind of mission I was expecting, but it's the most action that I've seen since I joined up with this corporation.
[SPEAKER_02]: Last time a big corporation sent me on a mission that didn't go as planned.
[SPEAKER_02]: I ended up in prison for way less than what we did today.
[SPEAKER_02]: Definitely keep my eyes on Robert and Hayley.
[SPEAKER_02]: They definitely know what they're doing and if they don't want to get on their bad side.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I...
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm worried that Felix is gonna get us in a lot of trouble.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's our game for tonight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening, and please, join us next time on the Darkstar Adventurecast.