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[SPEAKER_02]: So he's fun to have a guest on, and this time we had Caleb Stokes, a ward winning writer.
[SPEAKER_02]: The play hits game Red Markets.
[SPEAKER_02]: We had a absolute fucking blast playing with this man.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was super fun and I hope you enjoy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's rock and roll.
[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome in to actual play and entertainment presents, Red Markets, a game of economic horror that creates drama and terror through scarcity.
[SPEAKER_02]: Capitalism a few more swirls down the drain, but zombies to keep it for becoming tubio.
[SPEAKER_02]: My name is Dave and I am actually going to be a player along with two of the usual suspects, you know, Mike and Kurt, but because we have a special guest.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if anyone can do, maybe I'll put in a little
[SPEAKER_02]: We have any award-winning author for Delta Green, the founder, and basically everything, for heaven on games, the designer of Red Market himself, and the October teacher of the month from the cable rock like Chamber of Commerce in 2018.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, I have the one in the only Caleb Stokes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, welcome to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: That last one's the real prize.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they don't give that one up to just anybody.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, thanks for having me guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: I appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're excited to have you on with us and play some red markets.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and you're not just playing any old red markets.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're playing the second edition of red markets, which I am current awesome testing and you can play test, too.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you want to download it for pay what you want, anywhere you can get games.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's drive through RPG, my Patreon, have it on games of a design.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I just thought I'd show it off to you, Jensen.
[SPEAKER_03]: You were so nice to play a game of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we did, we did run through it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You put out kind of an open call to everybody, come play my game and tell me what you think.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we did it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we had fun, and there is a little inside thing with people who listen to us.
[SPEAKER_02]: We always joke about even in our home games that Kurt survives everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: countless times.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll throw me under the bus right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: He was already wearing survived.
[SPEAKER_02]: He only saw anyone who survives.
[SPEAKER_02]: Our red market's game too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just throwing that up there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we'll see what the dice have to say about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want that to be rolled over that red market.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, he's he praised to the dice gods.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the invisible hand of economics that decides who lives and dies.
[SPEAKER_06]: I appreciate your perspective that the dice tell the story here, Caleb, because lately it really does feel like Dave has this like set right on me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'll turn it over to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dave, are you saying to play?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm excited to play.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'll get us started.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to set this in West Memphis.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is on the law side of the Tennessee Recession.
[SPEAKER_03]: So when it turned out that death was not as permanent as we'd hoped,
[SPEAKER_03]: and that all of those zombie movies had something to say that we perhaps should have listened to.
[SPEAKER_03]: The remains of the United States government retreated east across the Mississippi River, leaving behind a number of people in what you know called the loss.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that is where you live, because you are all takers.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're on-clave, which is the city of non-citizens that have been declared legally dead for breaking quarantine by breaking, I mean, being left behind in the band and when they establish quarantine, you lived an on-clave called spirit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Spirit is in an industrial park of pretty much everything you'd want to hide from a city.
[SPEAKER_03]: because it takes big trucking to do it, so, you know, utility pole storage, landfills, you know, distribution centers for hardware and like appliance repair places.
[SPEAKER_03]: But lots of fencing, lots of razor wire, and that is the number one real estate thing you are looking for when the dead rise up and try to eat you.
[SPEAKER_03]: So Spirit was founded by the former employees of a Spirit Halloween located.
[SPEAKER_03]: in the area in a destroy business and they founded the on-clave with the first takers for spirit which was a squad of animal and you know character mast takers that became so successful they retired and built a city of survivors in the flood plain between the two bridges across the
[SPEAKER_03]: And the big river crossing, which is a rail bridge that has been completely fortified by the Department of Homeland Correntine and Stewardship, or the DHQS, which is the CDC, Marines, Navy, Air Force, and whatever we had left of the Armed Services.
[SPEAKER_03]: turned into one giant military junta.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, being on this recession border right before the glut of dead in West Memphis that performed a basically impenetrable mode of cannibals, you have almost nothing to grow, you have almost nothing to sell, except a secure place to sleep behind fencing, and access to a culvert that bypasses the city.
[SPEAKER_03]: So anyone that wants to smuggle anything in towards the recycling of the United States goes through spirit and anybody who wants to smuggle anything out to the endless enclaves for their west and the destroyed remains of the United States go through spirit at least if they're in the south.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you're basically a hum of, you know, the scum and villainy.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, you are just a, and you live in a factory and improvised homes.
[SPEAKER_03]: The city is only as large as the streets you can take back.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you have takers that do work there in the grand tradition of the spirit crew.
[SPEAKER_03]: So,
[SPEAKER_03]: introduce your guy uh... your player your character what taker are you uh... bringing in to this on-clave of uh... desperate grassers uh... forage buys uh... you know slum lord crime bosses and uh... post-apocalyptic lunatics i think he's going first i try to be said nothing he goes first okay
[SPEAKER_06]: Alright, I'm gonna be playing a character called Null.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's just known as Null because he's a deep worshipper of the black math, which is God's math.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's trying to get the number of casualties down to zero.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's obsessed with that number.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's why everybody calls him Null.
[SPEAKER_06]: It will balance God's math one day when enough casualties are reduced so that the ratio of casualties to humans is once again restored to the way it was.
[SPEAKER_06]: And humanity has a great debt to pay.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it's Null's mission.
[SPEAKER_06]: To fulfill, to wipe that debt clean.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's kind of a post-apocalyptic paladin.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's got kind of a sword and board thing going on It's a riot shield and a machete that are his sword and board.
[SPEAKER_06]: He calls them the index and the reference desk because he's also a hobbyist librarian and In this post-apocalyptic world he
[SPEAKER_06]: is obsessed with the finer things in life and preserving a little taste of civilization.
[SPEAKER_06]: So wherever he's going, he's collecting books and he has a little silver teapot set that he keeps and he's always trying to have little tea rituals and get back to the finer things in civilization that we've lost.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, your character is a believer, which is someone as a result of, you know, all of science and physics being thrown out the window one day Decided maybe that should extend theologically.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you're you're finding the new truth in this a brave new world.
[SPEAKER_04]: Next, I'm playing a character named Smoke, and Smoke is a great old monk of a southern boy.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's young, but no one's entirely sure how young he is.
[SPEAKER_04]: Smoke likes to keep himself pretty wrapped up.
[SPEAKER_04]: He says that he catches a chill easily.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, he is a driver, uh, within the, the enclave.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, he's not a very good driver, but, uh, being this enormous hunk of muscle swinging around, uh, of a firefighter's ax.
[SPEAKER_04]: Everyone just sort of let's him drive whenever he says he's going to drive.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um,
[SPEAKER_04]: He seems like a pretty mean brute, except that he can be seen taking very good care of a young girl named Philly, who he's adopted as a daughter.
[SPEAKER_04]: He cares for her in kind of a...
[SPEAKER_04]: kind of a brutish sort of way.
[SPEAKER_04]: He swears around her.
[SPEAKER_04]: He yells at her, but you know that he takes very good care of her and would absolutely obliterate anything that was any kind of threat to her at all.
[SPEAKER_04]: He seems to have that same soft spot for most of the young people around spirit.
[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, that's smoke.
[SPEAKER_03]: Smoke your character is also latent, so in the shanky setting and the setting of red markets all you're not hiding it In the setting of red markets the zombie virus is not so nice and easy as to be a bite means a bullet even though some people think of this that way He is a cold carrier of the blight meaning it's got all of the horrible black sinues
[SPEAKER_03]: and uh... festering sores and uh... in fact is not sweat and fluids of a casualty uh... but you are still alive and it has not affected your brain um... now it's very bad if you got it because then you instantly become a zombie uh... but yes until then you can take a bite without becoming a monster and killing everyone in your team which is very useful for takers
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's interesting.
[SPEAKER_04]: So that's overlining there.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so I'm accepted as part of the end-clave, you are an example of doing the zone that you're allowed to stand in, where, right, without wearing protective gear, and most people have a gun on you at all times, but yeah, I accepted.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought he was like hiding all of that, but that would be if you were a new, and then your bone marrow was worth money, and then you would definitely want to be hiding.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you can't hide if you're late.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the, that's part of the problem of being late.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: So there's a lot.
[SPEAKER_03]: What are you looking at?
[SPEAKER_03]: Pretty much.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alright, I am playing greasy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am kind of a redneck mechanic, fix-all.
[SPEAKER_02]: You mentioned there's a lot of landfills and stuff going through.
[SPEAKER_02]: I could see him working something like that, going through stuff and scavenging parts, fixing things for people.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a friend, he's got his truck cap on, all bent up, and he has weapon of choice as a shotgun.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's pretty much like, you know, let's go boys, you know, one of those kind of guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's got a spost at good relationship.
[SPEAKER_02]: They seem like they're a happy, healthy, boat, unquote, couple as you can be in a situation like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It gets gets long with everyone's scavengers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone kind of, uh, I think would know a lot of people would do little favors over here and they're kind of like really enjoyed the barbersystem of being able to fix things.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's really smart.
[SPEAKER_02]: I could see that's why he would find a latent friend useful.
[SPEAKER_02]: That one here could help him go out there and get some shit sent him off there.
[SPEAKER_02]: How about you go down and get that one there?
[SPEAKER_02]: So I could see, I could see a friendship.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you said to your guys and actually a nice guy, too.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't be one of those.
[SPEAKER_02]: My shotgun wouldn't be trained on you all the time, I don't think.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you are actually your tough spot is your a roach, so in the parlance of the red markets.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone's gone through an apocalyptic event and everyone, you know, is pretty much got got over it.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're a roach, you've gone through losing everything at least twice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so you just cracked on everything in your humanity threats, um, so you have much, much fewer resistance of the thing that make you go permanently insane in the zombie apocalypse, as a bonus on any skill roll, if you want to burn your brain for extra checks, you can do so.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you can use your humanity points there beneath your dependence and references.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can use those like charges out of a gun You could use those like extra labor to run faster As long as you just give in to your crazy need to survive You don't own it on a checkmark Yeah, but it's a lot harder to get that back once it once it cracks
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay, so that's interesting because I think then, you know, he's very, I guess describe it with friendly and ye-ha, so I think what if you look into his eyes though, when he's doing that ye-ha?
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no ye-ha back now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, some of the friendless people I've ever met, not through the most nightmare things like them.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not true.
[SPEAKER_03]: okay yeah you guys are all in spirit um uh you are a taker crew uh if this was a campaign play what we would have done is we would have made this on clay of ourselves and to assess where it was at and what it's top exports and top imports were and
[SPEAKER_03]: you build a bunch of VIPs with relationships that would affect how you negotiate for jobs.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a one shot for us and we're going to skip all that, but I would like to see how your character is living and we can just do an easy, eye-dice role to get the system under our belts.
[SPEAKER_03]: So no, where do you live in this?
[SPEAKER_03]: And again, this is like a part of town you would normally get lost in.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's nothing but warehouses and fences.
[SPEAKER_03]: that have been cut together into sort of siege work streets that keep out the tens of thousands of dead streaming at you from the west and south.
[SPEAKER_03]: So where do you live in this impromptu city?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, it's going to be wherever most of the people are, especially the other believers of the Black Math, just being around worshiping, reviewing the ledger, and just kind of being a leader to help bring civilization to the people.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it sounds like a tint on one of the highway exchanges that over arc the area You can look down.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can see the hordes and their migratory pattern.
[SPEAKER_06]: So it's a good place for a black mask I've got a small collection of books in one of the tents.
[SPEAKER_06]: I call it the library and I insist on quiet reading hours at least three to five times a week
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... nice so let's let's try a role for that then uh... for your quiet reading hours so uh... one year old research for me so that's a black and a red die and then you're gonna add your research skill to the black and there's nothing to spend on this because it's a purely mental activity where extra doesn't help so we call this a one and done role uh... so you roll it and we'll see how well your library is stopped yeah
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, so I rolled a three on the red and a one on the black.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so that wouldn't make it because we would add one of your skill that would make it too black and in order to succeed in the profit system, you need profit, you need to be in the black.
[SPEAKER_03]: So ties don't count, they're not good, natural ties might be good or might be bad because that's critical.
[SPEAKER_03]: So let me know if you get doubles when you roll them, but normally you're just adding one
[SPEAKER_03]: and you want that to be higher than the red, and that's the successor failure.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, somebody is looking for something vital to help them with their agriculture project in your library, but you failed your research check.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, what did they find instead?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, what's the other thing that no thought was preserving for future generations?
[SPEAKER_03]: Other than that crap, like seeds, who needs it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: They find a torn up coffee with the back five chapters missing of animal farm.
[SPEAKER_06]: No one knows how it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: These pigs rassled.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he's going to take that for his, you know, animal husbandry learning.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: My pig can't talk at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Smoke.
[SPEAKER_03]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where do they keep the latency?
[SPEAKER_04]: smoke lives in a handy dart with with no no wheels or suspension that's been tipped over on it side and it's actually pretty sweet living compared to a tent.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's he's a big old brute and he he convinced the previous owners that it was a better idea to let he and
[SPEAKER_04]: around them.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a bit awkward moving around the seats, but smokes mostly taking them out or repurpose them into beds, so it's pretty tidy in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Philly wakes you up early wanting to play what she want to play.
[SPEAKER_03]: There aren't a lot of kids on the on in the late town.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why does she want to play?
[SPEAKER_04]: She wants to play stony rats, which is where we hook rocks at rats and see if we can get them.
[SPEAKER_03]: That sounds great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so I want to call that an exert test.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, this is a toll-to-roll type of roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: So there's a second type of roll in run markets.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes you're expending resources whether you succeed or fail.
[SPEAKER_03]: So throwing something, the calories aren't coming back, whether you hit that rat or not.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what you would have to do for that is that the bottom of your skill page, there's the type of gear that everyone starts with, which is labor,
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so you're going to have to tick off one of those boxes and that buys your skill.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thankfully, it seems like Stony Rat is a game that smoke practices quite a bit because you have a free and exert.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to eat otherwise, exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, this is cool because it's also a charged role.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what a charged role means is, after you spend that one to add your skill, if you want to spend more labor charges, you just add to your skill.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that second one you took off would be a plus four and then it would be a plus five and then it would be a plus six.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you can keep doing that until you run out and die in the job.
[SPEAKER_03]: But do you want to spend more or just you want to use the one labor?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, it's not a, we're not desperate to eat.
[SPEAKER_03]: You died playing stony.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think warm self right out.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, that's a plus three to your black then.
[SPEAKER_03]: So roll them both.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, this is looking good except that I dropped my red detain of course, right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's important.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's 50% of the numbers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like like the throw dice off table.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where's he gone for?
[SPEAKER_02]: I've gone a lot.
[SPEAKER_03]: My buddy Aaron is put them in the other room before it's really made.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think it got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm back.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is this is looking good to voice.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, look at that.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is a nine plus three for the black and a two on the red.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, so that's way over.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you obliterate that wrap.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, eatin' good tonight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Smoke is the undisputed champion of Stony Rat.
[SPEAKER_03]: On lighten.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's more interested in, he's more interested in Philly.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, you gotta cock your arm further back.
[SPEAKER_05]: The release point has to be over here right here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Again.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Go!
[SPEAKER_04]: The training.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_04]: Compassion is weakness.
[SPEAKER_04]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_04]: She has to survive.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Greecey, where are you staying at?
[SPEAKER_02]: I would probably...
[SPEAKER_02]: Imagine there's like limited area where there's actually machine shops and where you can actually work on things.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd like to be somewhere in that area, hopefully even be a little bit known.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, people weigh if you can go in and use some shops here and there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So somewhere in that kind of district.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah they call it tire fire.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not currently going.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was there for like a year max But you know the ones that didn't burn are a pretty great barrier to the dead And so there's a pretty large work area in the landfill you basically turned inside out to create walls Where the machine shop has been set up in the open air so you're not using electricity for lights So yeah, yeah, what are you working on?
[SPEAKER_03]: So I live in like a tire bunker.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, well you could, you're working, you're working at the tire bunker.
[SPEAKER_03]: You could, yeah, okay, yeah, in a nicer place than the tire bunker.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, okay, well that's nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's, he's in there working on he's from at the dumpy scowel but stopped some parts.
[SPEAKER_02]: You think she's going to go try it to find people with need these parts, like I don't think it's like a tire rod or predicella services and the part.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Better make a little bit of bounty.
[SPEAKER_02]: That makes sense.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So normally if you were just some layman, idiot, greasy, you would roll rig for this.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you were a mechanic before this shit started.
[SPEAKER_03]: You actually know what you're doing.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you have a profession skill called mechanic.
[SPEAKER_03]: and that's at plus three.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, normally that can be a one and done role and you just roll it and either you know how to do it or you don't.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you also have a tool kit and that shows us how to use gear.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's on your other column of your character sheet right next to your skills.
[SPEAKER_03]: And your tool kit, if you spin charges off of that, they will assist your profession role.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you could roll that if you wanted to roll even more than a plus three, but it's up to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, should you just put your charges from your toolkit after you roll up?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you're always spending charges before you roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Got you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're always gambling.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cold to roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cold to roll.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, totally.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I would like to use my mechanics.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go and use my toolkit for a charge.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've been in charge of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're at a plus four to make this thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I wrote double zeros.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, even better.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that is a double even a 1010, so that's a critical success.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'll say you make a machine that like speed strips, the tires off of these act, these like wheels, like,
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, this job that people were doing with pry bars and these horrible frames they welded together.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've got this like pulley lever system that just chunks it right off with one pull.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, everyone's everyone's really thrilled.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gain to bounty.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you get tips.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: You did such a good job.
[SPEAKER_06]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_06]: Man, nice one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice, I like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's how I like the picture his is right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there you go, boys.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, we've been just trucker half.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That told you, you get it in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, infrastructure saves lots.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's how you do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is the beak on your trucker hat?
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it bent into a like a full circle?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what he's actually said every once in a while.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it doesn't when he's not squeezing it, it's just kind of like almost just over his eyes like centered on his eyes.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's like the beak, like he broke the gram kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, yeah, that's that's what's up, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, it's an old, what year approximately are we in if we're still falling the same relative calendar?
[SPEAKER_03]: Everything got worse and then there were zombies.
[SPEAKER_03]: I call it a near future dystopia.
[SPEAKER_03]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can imagine it getting worse and it did.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you can imagine getting worse and being stupid while it did it did that too, because capitalism was in charge.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can't.
[SPEAKER_02]: What did it make sense to have a hat from like an MLB team or something like that in old?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, definitely have a hat from an MLB team.
[SPEAKER_02]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna just represent the Canadian blood here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have an old blue jays hat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice touch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That'll be right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Playhouse.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So now I'm going to do what if we were in campaign play.
[SPEAKER_03]: I call the macro.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a macro economic event.
[SPEAKER_03]: So normally if there's in campaign play, we would go see all of your dependence, which are the reason you do this horribly dangerous job to support them, like Philly, like, you know, your spouse.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that would be central in repairing your humanity score, which is sort of the sanity mechanic of the game.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, we haven't established those characters yet, so we're just going to move past it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the macro is a thing that turns out the on-clave is not the mover and shaker of the world economy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes they are just in the way of it, and sometimes something big happens.
[SPEAKER_03]: And for you, on all of the flat screens, half burned out that you're running off the limited solar you have at spirit that are doing announcements.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see that the forecast up north puts a record unseasonal, which is a term that's kind of funny to you, Dislaping climate change, unseasonal rains up north heading down the Mississippi.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now you are not so down low that the Mississippi is a danger typically to spirit, but you're only way out of spirit is along the coast of the river far back enough away from the recession that they don't shoot at you but far enough away from the city that you're not overrun by tens of thousands of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: So when that floodplain fills you are going to be out of the job for weeks
[SPEAKER_03]: So your macro event is you need work, you need work that will pay you bounty, that will let you buy goods and services that are stockpiled and spirit and help you take care of your dependents.
[SPEAKER_04]: so that we can survive during this period of time that we know we're gonna be the period of time.
[SPEAKER_03]: You won't be playing the game, which is the reason you play Red Markets.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you can survive when you're stunned playing it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just a game.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll kill you if you do not meet.
[SPEAKER_03]: be upkeep just like real.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, no, some of those mechanics for downtime were crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we're not going to do all that, but we are going to say, you got to get your S to work.
[SPEAKER_03]: So where is your crew mate to talk about work when you're, when it's time to go back over the fence, where do you guys meet to hash it out?
[SPEAKER_04]: interesting.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're in a big industrial park.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you could do it anywhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: There could there are bars.
[SPEAKER_03]: There are restaurants for what they amount to.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean smoke is going to have to wear like a yellow monitor that says latent across the back of it gloves and a mask while he's there but I can show up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it makes more sense to have somewhere where we go meet where we go meet smoke.
[SPEAKER_02]: but he doesn't have to punch you up and roll through, roll through the city.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, whole between the fence where you can like pass cigarettes and stuff, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, or maybe there's maybe there's even like a building that's like easy to climb on top of and there's nothing much up there and it kind of gives us a, it's like almost like a nice view of the surrounding area.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, there's an old industrial school you turned into a table, you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the typical break for this.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so we're going to do the first part of a contract.
[SPEAKER_03]: If this was a score, you could just decide what you think's going to make money.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a little hard to do at the outset when you haven't made your own on clay, when you're not playing a campaign.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the other thing you do is a client will pay you to do something.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you can just go do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you have to find them.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have to bid for that job.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have to get a good price for it because they don't want to give it to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we're in what's called prep work.
[SPEAKER_03]: And in prep work, you just propose to me how your character would find information at.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can find out initially only one type of information.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who is offering a job?
[SPEAKER_03]: and you can do that however your character would do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it coerc?
[SPEAKER_03]: Do they go around slapping people until they give them a lead?
[SPEAKER_03]: That's possible.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like is it research?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it persuade?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's whatever you need it to be.
[SPEAKER_03]: You just explain how your character does the world.
[SPEAKER_03]: So all of you could do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: If someone has found a job, the other thing you can do is you can either find the equilibrium, which is the price for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: or you can find the competition, which is who else is going to bid on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you can't take those action until at least, one of you has found a job.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, two things say has an idea on how to find a job first.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, it would do research on how to find a job, and he would just kind of be asking around and hunting around town digging at whatever leads he could find.
[SPEAKER_03]: Perfect sense.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, that is a one and done role.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, roll your black and your red and add your research score.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so I rolled a five on the black plus one is six over two you just need to be is in the black so you have done research Well, all right, so let's see what job no figures out All right, so with your research
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, you have actually been keeping a journal recording drone traffic into and out of, uh, spirit, uh, because that is a major vital trade over the river that is one of the few things that doesn't have to go through the DHQS checkpoints because there's just too many of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, and you have heard over the great fine that the guy who runs your drone operation here at spirit named Sketer is looking for work because there's a slight hiccup in the drone delivery system is how it was worded to you on the streets with your journal keeping track of all these things coming in and out.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're getting way less traffic than you did even a few months ago.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, something is taking drones out of the sky, because you're a pretty major trade hub for smuggling across the border.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anybody needs to get something back from the loss into the recession.
[SPEAKER_03]: They go through you, vice versa, and the amount of drone traffic coming in is way down.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, you think Skeeter would have some work for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you think he probably needs it more than he's letting on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, well, so you two have prep actions as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can follow up his prep action and try and find out, well, I wanna know exactly how much I'm gonna pay, or I wanna know if anybody else is gonna bid for that job.
[SPEAKER_03]: Or you can find out a completely different job.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the way you typically write a red market job is you write three jobs because they're pretty formulaic and you can do everything with like a tweet size description and you're gonna do the one that you wanna do
[SPEAKER_03]: the one you bid for.
[SPEAKER_03]: So there is an opportunity cost.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you could find out a different job, you know, roughly what that job is going to entail.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not everything, just like every employer.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are probably in completely brief, but you'll know something of what you're getting into.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can either find out more about it or find a completely different story.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_04]: Smoke says, well, that's a stupid job.
[SPEAKER_04]: None of us can free and fly, and he wants to go off and beat up this guy that he knows to find out where there's a better job.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so you use a course?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so that is a total roll skill.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so that's going to take some labor, so you need to spend at least one charge of labor to do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, and if you want to spend more, you can coerce the hell out of this guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: I assume you're going after a latent, so you don't cause an outbreak and take down the entire city.
[SPEAKER_03]: But there are latent snitches, just like there's, you know,
[SPEAKER_04]: No, you know what?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think I am going after a latent snit.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think I'm going after someone who would be scared to see us of a latent snit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, just the threat of the plague carrier.
[SPEAKER_03]: That works as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll pay there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Look who came for dinner.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, I'll say that doesn't cost labor, but that's going to be all one and done.
[SPEAKER_04]: okay so and your course just to me asma intimidate this man and my coerces is not not great it's only a one but hey let's see what the day said no I'm in the red it's a five plus one is six under a seven
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah, you're you're doing that in the person like clutches their bag and goes like oh my god He's making a ratic behavior and then you see the guards of the street just all to like Don't down down like that's all like you have to complain.
[SPEAKER_05]: I wasn't doing nothing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I thought this was my house
[SPEAKER_05]: I got lost again.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, all right, I'm out of here.
[SPEAKER_03]: So smoke, you have categorically failed that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that is a one and done role.
[SPEAKER_03]: We cannot roll it again.
[SPEAKER_03]: No one is buying that from you again.
[SPEAKER_03]: What you can do is succeed at a cost.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the easiest way to do that is you have a potential called will that just flips your roll around So that would make it success.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the easy way to do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can also tap a reference.
[SPEAKER_03]: That means smoke knows someone who can get him what he needs It's just going to cost him something I'm the same old guy in failure and not learn about yeah
[SPEAKER_04]: smokes not an idiot I think I'm gonna use the I think I'm gonna spend the will okay and and flip the roll and and you know you kind of he he wanders off around a corner with his hand tie you know while the while the guards have the guns on him and then he he sneaks back around and and climbs into the
[SPEAKER_05]: I need that information if you don't mind.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, just the raw-tadacity of doing it after having that when he guns at your head is more intimidating than I will spin in your food part.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so your your snitch, silvecchio goes, all right, man, just please, please leave.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't come in here anymore.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to sanitize that old thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, God.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you do.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's disgusting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah, man, uh, the DHQS, the, you know, they're in town, they want some outside contractors.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what they are?
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, we're all dead and we don't exist until they need something.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, it's that they're just a flora guy who runs the forward operating base on the dystodo bridge.
[SPEAKER_03]: He needs somebody from our side of things to take care of a job form.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: It says it's something mechanical, but, you know, they can't exactly advertise in the news paper around here, since they're supposed to, you know, shoot us all on site and especially you.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, but, you know, they pay well, they got the government behind them, so... Now I know they pay well, you don't need to sell me on it, it's a good job.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, I'm leaving.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks for the information.
[SPEAKER_03]: You leave like through the window again, so I don't want to get a door back out the window.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, yeah, I understand, say hi to burn a dead for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, all right, so you know two jobs, so you know that the DHQS, the Sargent LaFluer is hiring takers, and you know that skitter, your in-home, spirit, drone, smuggler is also hiring today.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can learn about third-general or learn more information about either of those.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's crazy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Lefler needs a mechanic.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, he does.
[SPEAKER_02]: He does.
[SPEAKER_02]: My years perk up in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it looks like it's the right spot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: You might as well know something.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to fix anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: Woohoo!
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's so find some more about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you boys think?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I know what the pays are.
[SPEAKER_02]: You want to see who else is in on this ship.
[SPEAKER_05]: But it's up to you, what do you think, who you know all the mechanics, who else do you think be eating with?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's around and see who else is trying to get a nibble it out a little bit.
[SPEAKER_04]: And hey, hey, thanks for agreeing to meet out here, so I don't need to wear that fucking yellow poncho.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you just see that line I drew on the ground to don't step over it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know the line, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, we're called, well, uh,
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see you in a bit and I want to go back down and you know where I saw my stuff I'll through that maybe look for
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if someone else is someone who would know the movers who would be asking about jobs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe seeing like maybe someone a little higher up has come down to check on something and I'm like, oh right, they're not used here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I could talk to them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some shit like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So if it's social then you're just trying to like pick it up by staying around, you know, you're extremely close living area that'd be gone.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you had someone in mind, you were a talkerman to telling you some advice that'd be persuade.
[SPEAKER_03]: Looks like you have about both.
[SPEAKER_03]: You also have Ubix specs, which are the equivalent of AR glasses, and they are kills still connected to something like the internet, using high altitude weather balloons and our fancening near future setting, so you can still basically look online to find this information, but that would be spinning your research skill and burning a charge off your Ubix back.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going down to use Mac, I'm true child.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't reach out.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, that's the last thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the last way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, get the bill bent just right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, get that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Get it in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Definitely wear like a tank top.
[SPEAKER_02]: Guns out, boys.
[SPEAKER_02]: The bill's from rebel.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a success.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do I got?
[SPEAKER_02]: That would be a tithe.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, tithe 9 plus 1 and a 10, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so it wasn't a natural tithe.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a, no, all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So tithe go to the market, because you didn't profit.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not in the black.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so that's a failure same thing you can success at a cost so you could tap a reference And this would be an auto-success for the cost of bounty That you would owe that person later on, which is the current ceiling game or you could just spend a will on it right now
[SPEAKER_03]: That too bounty I earned earlier could if he's something maybe I can kind of flip yeah Yeah, and you can open up money you can run up debts in this game there are consequences But you can you can say I'm good for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and I just I got a big job coming don't worry
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that'll be it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so who do you know who the feds?
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't find anything, no one knows how much this is gonna offer or who else is competing for it and they're not talking to you about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who will definitely know this that you can call?
[SPEAKER_03]: Does you know who it would you've been here for five years?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I would say like the, I would think where he hangs out, the dump is a hotspot of people scavenging and going in and out.
[SPEAKER_02]: one of the dudes who either works there or who's just always there at the dump doing things maybe running paperwork no one who's coming and going in and out uh yeah they call them three fingers guess why yeah uh uh oh you always use that jump yeah three monster fingers three fingers always knows what's going on is it's going on greasy saw that tire thing you built this free clever oh you know no one doesn't like greasy
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that kind of looks around.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got a question for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got a big job on the horizon.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you know anyone asking what's the job with the feds.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyone else been asking about that or mentioning anything like that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Appreciate you going over the fence again.
[SPEAKER_02]: What else you got to do in this place, huh?
[SPEAKER_02]: I keep the blood flow.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can keep working here.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've got plenty of shifts.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll keep the impression.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a self-employed individual, like pull on the hat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'm glad you respect entrepreneurial spirit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now roll, roll network.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's equal to your charisma score.
[SPEAKER_03]: Add to your black.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, not the greatest score.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I smoked that one though.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is a 9 plus 1 for 10 over 1.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, with the success, he says, well, I'm also of an entrepreneurial spirit.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he holds what he's his tool in his hand holds up two fingers and that's why much he wants for a tap.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So two bands?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you're running me dry.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a big job.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, as long as my cut will equal that.
[SPEAKER_02]: If I get less than that, then how about we just split it 50-50?
[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't figured out all the details.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure you're going to come back alive.
[SPEAKER_03]: I won't want my two bounty now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you son of a bitch.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to have barking there three fingers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pretty soon it's going to be two motherfucking fingers.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to pull out the stuff that I'll give him.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll give him two bounty worth of the stuff that I got from my tip.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to have to gear stinging and be grudgently slatted over.
[SPEAKER_02]: You owe me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know I owe you right now, but you owe me, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, hey.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good business, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, I'll tell none of my boys.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody in the union's gonna take that job.
[SPEAKER_03]: We ain't working for no ducks.
[SPEAKER_03]: What the deal is?
[SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You ain't got no comments.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's all yours.
[SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate it, my friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're gonna make a big handshake.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, don't die.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's always trying not to.
[SPEAKER_02]: Help out that every morning when I leave.
[SPEAKER_02]: I ain't gonna die.
[SPEAKER_02]: It'll just walk away.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you don't know the starting bid on that job, but you know no one's gonna undercut your price because no one else is gonna work with the DHQs.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a powerful, nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice, but there are three of you, and that's it.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's your prep work.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got to get started.
[SPEAKER_03]: So Okay, what job do you want a bid for?
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you want to go for skater?
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't know the competition.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't know the equilibrium of that one Are you want to go for this job or you know you won't get bit against and you know it's a DHQX.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah Yeah, I think we got a hand up on that job, which probably take that one.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that Chris isn't for that
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, that makes sense.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm glad you agreed, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so for those of those falling long home, we're now moving into the negotiation phase.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this is a little mini game of social combat.
[SPEAKER_03]: that determines the price you're going to get paid for this thing and it's built using a pool of dice versus a pool of chips.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your chips are worth the number of players you have.
[SPEAKER_03]: So every time you get a chip that's minus three off whatever the dice roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I've had three chips.
[SPEAKER_03]: You'd be at minus nine for whatever the dice for all who the client is going to do everything in their power to chip down the price while they talk Your job is to
[SPEAKER_03]: stop that and add dice to the pool that you rolled before you get a quoted price.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the way that's going to work is that we're going to alternate between what's called a set scene where you send a negotiator to talk to Sergeant LeFluer.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they actually, and you are going to role play a full scene with Sergeant of the floor as he tries to get you to do it easier price and you try and get him to do a higher price.
[SPEAKER_03]: But everybody else that's not in the scene is going to be showing us what you did before you showed up to scam the living shit out of this guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because you never go in naked, you never go in and go in nothing.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're always doing everything you can to increase the price before you even show up.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we're going to alternate that until everyone's had a chance to do a scam, then we'll roll the dice and see what we get.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then there's a phase called the undercut, but you don't have to deal with that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: So first thing we got to do is we need a negotiator.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who are you sending in?
[SPEAKER_05]: It should probably be me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: I respect that smoke, but it ain't going to be you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I know it's not going to be me, not an idiot.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it you greasy with that southern charm?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I do.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't lay it on.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll brush the mallet and tweak the hat.
[SPEAKER_04]: I heard you had to give up too bounty just to even get anyone else to avoid taking this job.
[SPEAKER_04]: You sure you're that likable.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you say about the fuck?
[SPEAKER_02]: I do want to stay in that little upside down van yours.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where was the only motherfuckers that take you out on these drops, man?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I do a brother like that, fuck man.
[SPEAKER_06]: what's uh... what's now is currently uh... uh... i have a one uh... yes i guess but all right yeah
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so unlike first edition, you do not have to be entirely specialized in negotiations to get through negotiations, though it does help if you have a silver tongue But greasy will do so greasy you have to go North a bit through a Underwater half underwater culvert of drain from off
[SPEAKER_03]: and it's, you know, it's filling up, you're kind of waiting through it, but it's the only way to get to the DeSoto Bridge without getting shot by the DHQS snipers that are that close to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You pull up to a side gate in this like razor-wired,
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, double reinforced forward operating base on the other side of the bridge, where they keep, you know, young DHUS recruits, trying to get there, you know, tour of the loss, which means, you know, stepping 30 feet into the world in which you live in every day.
[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, it's pretty typical, you know, they expect people out of the gate, you ring a bell, you're smuggled in the back.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're supposed to shoot you on site, but no one's going to make money doing that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, they take you in, uh, and you're led up to the top of this like storage container, sort of tower operating base, and, uh, you see this guide wire that runs from the, the wall of what you call free parking, which is this giant ghetto of where refugees got off on the other side of the bridge, um, and where they keep most of the military presence.
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... and then a guy gets on this guide wire in this sort of like gondola thing and you know all the way down the bridge note not touching any part of it because it's mine to hell and back and he's coming towards you as you know a private sets out like a shitty old lawn chair for you to sit in and then you know brings up a chair for
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, he, he, he, he steps off and glicked my hat off.
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, yeah, it, it, it shakes your hand.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me see you skin, you know, a Vayner, are you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, fuck no, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lift up my shirt.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, tank top.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just trying to send those infected over here expecting to get a deal from us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'll go anywhere near that motherfuckers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Good.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's good to know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, actually, that's a lie.
[SPEAKER_02]: I should start off with honesty.
[SPEAKER_02]: We do have one.
[SPEAKER_02]: We send them out sometimes, you know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I have my own work.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you tell us for them?
[SPEAKER_02]: They have their uses, but, you know, they do not talk about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Send one here?
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not talking to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're using.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, so, so, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sergeant Lafler.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was asking for somebody who has some mechanical experience.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, that's your boy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got an optics problem on the train line.
[SPEAKER_03]: Needs fixing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can't quite send my boys to do it, it doesn't look right, but you can fix it up real fast for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Part of the sound wall that separates the city from the train tracks fell down, or need somebody repair that before you distress the passengers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, what are we looking at for for tools, what what any any there any plans anything I can look at it getting idea of what's going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, you're not going to have the ability to pull it up there.
[SPEAKER_03]: We just need to obscure it for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a truck or something around there, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Get that rigged up, parked in front of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: That'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh shit all that's it just had it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you people don't have gas though, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll get you some of that gas private.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, he he brings up like this like fucking crazy three prong gas tank with like diesel and gas and like a diesel gas mix that like some common stupid DHQS 3D printed tactical gas can
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... but uh... he gives you uh... yet it's got ten charges of fuel in it it's enormously expensive like you could probably make a sizable amount on this job selling that back at the on-site uh... you sure this enough yeah just to get it in front of that wall you should be fine we got satellite on it and i'm looking bigger than a semi-trailer you can probably do it with a panel man
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, just, all right, but that fuels you and you can use it to start a fire or whatever you people need to do Yeah, so he is bribing you that is his tactic in negotiations that adds a chip to the price Oh, I see he has got four dice.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have it one definitely against your four dice
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, you can't you can't turn down a bribe everyone needs money out here, so that's the one one I'm pretty happy that's that Yeah, the way you can resist But you resisted before you showed up, so who did a scam Before greasy ever showed up to this kind of situation
[SPEAKER_03]: And if you're scamming, you can do a few things.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can manipulate the price.
[SPEAKER_03]: That could be advertisement for your services in the on-clave.
[SPEAKER_03]: That could be threatening to damage more walls.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it has to be done faster.
[SPEAKER_03]: That could be anything you want to do that you think will add 1d10 to the pool.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's your manipulate scam.
[SPEAKER_03]: The other thing you can do is you can find out
[SPEAKER_03]: That's going to let greasy play him to get a better price later in the negotiation.
[SPEAKER_03]: After he makes an initial offer, you get to come back and haggle and the more intel you have on Sergeant LaFlor, the better that is for greasy's ability to do.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think Null's gonna try that.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna do a little bit of background research on Sergeant LaFlor checking with some of my contacts and see what I can find out about this guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so how are you figuring out that information?
[SPEAKER_06]: I go down to a pub where some of the ducks, the young ducks go to drink and go around and buy a couple rounds and play nice for the night and try to make a couple friends.
[SPEAKER_06]: See if I can find anybody with loose lips.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, that makes sense.
[SPEAKER_06]: So is that persuade?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I think that would be a persuade, unless it's a research, but look a persuade.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm in the red now same thing applies.
[SPEAKER_03]: You could spend a will if you want to and then you could succeed You could tap a reference because you did this before the negotiation started so it's not like you were poisoning their drinks and failed or something like that Or you could just let it go and miss that scam
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, I think I'll spend a willpower point, but one quick question.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't have any references listed because I would add in.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have any.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, once you got a reference, and you wouldn't be like, he paid him immediately.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't have to pay him immediately, um, but if you failed to pay them, there are consequences.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that was just, it's blank so you can write down people you owe money.
[SPEAKER_06]: I got it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think this time I'm going to spend a willpower point.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's important.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they aren't really, um, he's not really biting it, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: He's not really, uh, nobody's really wanting to talk to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: All the people that come to drink in, um, spirit are people that they can't like court martial and put into forced labor for violating quarantine that blatantly.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you're talking a
[SPEAKER_03]: stone eye psychos that get a kick drinking with the pores that they shoot when they're ordered to do so So they're probably have a real reverence for those guys because they've been doing the gods mass for a long time and that really That tickles my fancy and they they are sort of Ridiculing you for doing it for things other than money or country here, you know good drugs You know like they do heroically for patriotism
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, but as they're doing that, they let slip while they're just sort of openly mocking you, um, that like it's very funny that you're trying to learn more about La Flore because he is like the most, I think the term they use is optic cucket.
[SPEAKER_03]: member of the DHQS they've ever seen he's trying to play politics he's trying to get all of his superior officers to love him and they talk about like he was even bitching about the rail because they can see spirit and it's gonna like piss off those muckety mucks on the train tour and so you've learned one of his spots in that he is trying to hide spirit from view
[SPEAKER_03]: The reason you're repairing the soundwall is so that if somebody comes out on the DNHQS train, especially some recession needs to
[SPEAKER_03]: who believes everything they see on the news about what the loss is supposed to be like.
[SPEAKER_03]: He doesn't want them looking out the window and seeing your giant sprawling smoke stack shanty town when everyone over here is supposed to be dead and we're going to reclaim the country any day now and uh... yeah like so you give that information and greasy is going to be able to use that very well in his haggle fates so good job okay
[SPEAKER_03]: Great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: So as they're mocking you for your face and just accepting it, they reveal a bunch of damning intel about their superior officer, which is a proud US military tradition.
[SPEAKER_03]: Back in the set scene, LaFlor is talking.
[SPEAKER_03]: So
[SPEAKER_03]: About we were talking about the invaders, we've got, we're on all your specs, we're signals niffing everyone over there to look out for you know, meaks and terrorists and assaults on the recession and I noticed you spent a lot of time talking to that smoke fella.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, I understand they can do labor for you, but I don't want any of them seen.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've got some high-flute people, and it's in the bad message if we have uncontrolled infection variables like that in the workspace.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what he is doing is he is trying to banter with you, banter is going to add a chip unless you resist it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can resist it with one of your own charisma skills and how would greasy come back in this guy's medicalist, classist, colonialist, dismissal of your employee as a reason to give you less money.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think what I've able to like try to flip on all of that, so like you want these people hidden, but yet, you know, I have some influence over them, so it would be terrible if somewhere accidentally out in plain sight.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the kind of avenue I think he would go with.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that that's kind of like something down the rails you would roll?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I would say that is probably coerc or deceives.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you don't plan on doing that, you're just threatening it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I have a threat in it with my plus zero on it, but I do not have a business.
[SPEAKER_03]: You could bring things going into your business.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, you could just be yes or of course, sir.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would never say that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would, you won't see a peeper of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, he's not going to be there.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's not going to check.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's scared to die.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, yeah, you're, he's a manager.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're supposed to lie to those people.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, yeah, you couldn't.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, that's fair.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I would, well, it doesn't seem like a problem.
[SPEAKER_02]: smoke smoke will listen to me I can make sure the undesirable are at a side out of mind that's what you're asking Yeah real push way
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, eight over four in the good way.
[SPEAKER_03]: In a good way, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: He looks at you like real squinty.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like he's he's going for steely eye general assesses his troops.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's he's landing at like needs to put his sunglasses on.
[SPEAKER_03]: But
[SPEAKER_03]: After a while, you've seen your entire community die multiple times, and it's not really shaking your resolve or poker face.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's like, all right, all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I understand.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just, you know, make sure they're working in a behind the scenes.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you prevented that chip.
[SPEAKER_03]: So good job.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's great.
[SPEAKER_04]: Clutch roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: So there are two scams left.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you get a scam as well, greasy.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you wanted to do something for your show, but smoke, you also have a scam.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's no sabotaging because you don't have competition.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's another thing you could spend your time doing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you could get another piece of intel about La Flour, or you could try to add to the pool of dice.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're currently a four dice to roll for your price.
[SPEAKER_03]: And one, yeah, I want to add to the pool of days.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: What do you, how could smoke do that?
[SPEAKER_04]: And I have to admit, I'm actually still a little, like, unclear on what the actual job is.
[SPEAKER_04]: Because you're job is preparing the sound wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: But they also want to next to a train track that's going to be by that separate.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: The view of the loss, which is the post-facalipic wasteland you call home.
[SPEAKER_03]: and the covered isolated train track that's supposed to, you know, keep everyone not looking at the horrible despair as they go further into what the DHQS calls resettlements, which are official enclaves for the government.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they don't want to see the ports, aka you.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you need to cover that up before the next train ride comes by.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so that's just, so we're not, like he doesn't need a mechanic to repair the wall.
[SPEAKER_04]: He needs a mechanic to get the truck moved in front of that gap.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I blocked it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, so what are some ways that I could add a, add a diet of this wall?
[SPEAKER_03]: You could talk about and convince everyone that like there's not a working engine within 200 miles anymore of this area.
[SPEAKER_03]: So increase the scarcity of how hard this is going to be.
[SPEAKER_03]: you can talk about how what a badass your crew is and you know how nothing can stop you and your previous exploits you could do reoffend and like sneak into some sort of spirit government office and like plant false information.
[SPEAKER_03]: Research or some hacking online any of that would work none of those none of those things are anything Like what smoke is built to do is purely like a exert fight wield Move shoot Are there latent of fights because somebody films that and sells it to recession people online and if you're doing it for your brand and you kick some guys I asked that helps your life.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: What's our what's our cruise name?
[SPEAKER_04]: Did we come up with a name?
[SPEAKER_03]: You did not I just put them as the moths is standard.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a that's a character pre-gen thing, but you can make it up whatever you want
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, whatever, boss, that's good to me.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, yeah, so this is what Smoke's gonna do.
[SPEAKER_04]: He knows that, well, he doesn't know he's stupid, but greasy and null told him that we need to make ourselves seem more dangerous and more effective and that I might have to get into those latent fights.
[SPEAKER_04]: He hasn't been in them for the last few years, but it's time for Smoke to make a, make a reappearance.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so it's not dangerous in that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not going to kill you, but it's horrifically demean it It is a blood sport for the entertainment of people that live and comfort and what used to be first world living standards wall
[SPEAKER_03]: you live in an upside-down van and fight in other poor people for their entertainment um but uh that's gonna require a self-control role so that is under your ADP so what's your ADP my ADP is only a one yeah so roll two dice and add plus one to the black okay
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is, this is for actually like, in preparation for flavoring and preparation as, you know, a slap your muscles and they take pictures of you and they weigh you and you see the other poor guys, you know, begging for food to do this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's not fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, listen, I'm in do this for you, greasy, but I want a bigger cut.
[SPEAKER_04]: If I'm going to do this, if I'm going to do this again, if I'm going to legit myself to this again, not going to animal.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you shut up.
[SPEAKER_02]: You motherfucker.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're good.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's on chat.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's got nothing to do with me.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got to impress chat.
[SPEAKER_03]: He points to a flat screen TV.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's this is Twitch stream, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is this is live all over the world.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like everybody's watching underground fights.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, like self control.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, self control.
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[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: And now you roll flight risk.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this is a costume roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're going to have to spend labor to get your fight skill added.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can overspend if you want to spend more.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it kicks a mask.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now he's all right.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll spend one more.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that would put you had a plus three if you got a two and fight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you spent.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I've got a two.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: I. Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I spent one extra.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I give you a plus three.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now I need a good
[SPEAKER_04]: C'mon me!
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not great, Caleb.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a...that's a...that's a 4 plus 3 is 7, but doesn't come close to a 10.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, now you can't tap a reference to keep from getting your ass kicked.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a bit too urgent to get some of his business guy in my second kill.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, we're not even in the actual.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not even in the game yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not even just getting a high.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the beauty of Rudd.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no, I'm getting a high price.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then go out there and get fucking shoot on, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Smoke goes in and he he's he's he's not his head's not on straight.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's embarrassed and he's actually like gotten a bit soft since he was in the pits and and yeah He gets smoked.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's not spinning.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Smoke gets smoked.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're you're scam fails.
[SPEAKER_03]: You did not add getting your ass kicked on live TV Did not increase the price would greasy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can I ask sorry guys
[SPEAKER_03]: all right we're back in the set scene so uh... the floor continues going uh... because uh... you know the other thing have me a bit worried is that you know you got to inspect on work were tracking out of you are your migratory patterns all over the place only been here year to have a new have an inclave before that some go wrong there like to work with winners you see
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a crazy angle.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, greasy kind of like shifts and it's seen a little bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll put my motherfucking winner in the best picture you got in this whole place.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, find me to get to me, you know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Thumbfucking dummy out there, try to get that track on you need the best one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Get that chick on and you need to go in fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, maybe I came here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've only been here a little while, but make more money here.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I go over the money is.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not running for many things, uh, any failures in your past, aren't you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: You see, it doesn't have failures.
[SPEAKER_02]: I fix everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, we're all persuaded.
[SPEAKER_03]: Prevent that next to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I got this one to six over three.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go to one.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you've got LeFoera wrapped around your finger.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: You hear about that tire lever?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll say yeah, he's super impressed by that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, you made that.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have a scam as well, greasy.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what do you do before you show it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you learn more about the floor?
[SPEAKER_03]: Or did you try and manipulate the press?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I'm going to manipulate you.
[SPEAKER_02]: You mentioned about the scarcity.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think he's going to play off of that even what he talked about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's not too many people that can fix shit that can.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's, that's, that's, that's where he's going with.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so if you wanted to like, um, I'd call that a scheme roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like if you spent a charge of your specs, you could just find every mechanical forum for people in the loss in the area and be like, yeah, there's nothing left.
[SPEAKER_03]: No vehicles work anymore.
[SPEAKER_03]: The engines are all gone.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everything's been stripped.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, if, if you just create scarcity, you will buy nature be able to charge more for the job.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, done.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'd like to do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I spend one off your specs and Start lying on the internet another product economic tradition.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, sorry, which role did you say that?
[SPEAKER_03]: That's going to be a scheme.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's going to be All right, it's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_03]: A little working my intelligence.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, no, that's good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nine over two.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: All this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you were up to five dice now against one chip.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, um, that worked well.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you're back in the set scene.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's he's finally ready to do it He does and I'm gonna roll him before he gives you the offer Boy Okay Oh, he is stingy
[SPEAKER_02]: The vermouth.
[SPEAKER_03]: 14 bounties the best I could do 14 bounties.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're in the Hagelfins.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is where you bring up his spot.
[SPEAKER_03]: He needs this.
[SPEAKER_03]: He needs this to go off and he's gonna fuzz up.
[SPEAKER_03]: When you bring that up, you get to re-roll like one of these shitty one dice I have.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so how are you gonna roll play that it's not a skill it's not a skill roll You're gonna get it because you have the intel Greasy gets to play that whatever they want to play it, but it gets a it gets a new die.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah He has 14 bounty takes his hat off and like rubs his head and and does a little walk and like just looks out over everything 14 bounty those Team's pretty important is Big Wakes coming on that train.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm poor folk, I just... Or team value, I take me a little while to get to crew.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know that kind of money, I think this is a little more important to you, Mr. Mr.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sergeant, left fler.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that maybe you can squeeze a little tighter in the pockets, and I'll make sure that none of them suits.
[SPEAKER_02]: The work was on down there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Broal two dice, tell me which is highest.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ooh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Two ten-sided dice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ooh.
[SPEAKER_02]: A five.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, he looks you over and goes, all right, I can do 18.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I think Santa, that's a might be better, my friend.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, just head back on and the bill so then that's that's final offer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: The handshake.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's 18.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do the job 18.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now that doesn't count what you pick up on the way.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the contracts are not fair.
[SPEAKER_03]: This system is not balanced.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's probably not enough to make profit.
[SPEAKER_03]: do whatever you can do more than that but um yeah I had a perfectly balanced formula existing for this in the first edition and it was really complicated and no one liked it so I'm like fuck it's nice for you guys to play with the real rules um yeah uh so yeah you are you are currently an 18 bounty for this job all right you can come back and tell us yeah back the back the stairs 18 bounty that's okay that's that's all right I got
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it's been to you to get it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, he asked you on your specs.
[SPEAKER_03]: He sends you a satellite image of the fallen sound wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can check where it's like been concrete fallen over outside where the train tracks are.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they're not really worried about casualties getting through because the train tracks themselves At the bridge or heavily defended and the trains certainly don't stop for casualties So they just kind of run through the zombies Um, but, you know, he does want it cleared up so he doesn't have to see your horrible little shanty town Uh, yeah, hide the floodlands, yeah
[SPEAKER_03]: But it is only one shift away so it's a narrative encounter away outside and is there anything you want to do before you leave on your job?
[SPEAKER_02]: But I guess my question would be, are we we're intended to go find a vehicle and then get that vehicle parked in front?
[SPEAKER_03]: Unless you own a vehicle that you could abandon there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think that sounds like it.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's no shortage of vehicles abandoned everywhere in the law.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Finding one that you can get working yet is why it would be good to be an extremely skilled mechanic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because it's probably gonna be cludged together from whatever else you can find in a parking lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah Oh, all right, so yeah, we meet up on our little rooftop.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're draw the line in the ground to make sure Why got oh 18 it I got hey good job 18 each
[SPEAKER_02]: I could really use a team down now, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: You get a whole bunch of books.
[SPEAKER_05]: I can finally get Philly and I stress to where.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I needed a drink, I was choking all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, it's 18 total.
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not a grumpy old one.
[SPEAKER_02]: I talk like a redneck, what am I doing?
[SPEAKER_02]: We got 18 boys.
[SPEAKER_02]: And long listen though.
[SPEAKER_02]: I paid two off the top to get this, so that leaves, I'm taking my two back.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got 16 in the divide.
[SPEAKER_04]: What?
[SPEAKER_04]: What in the hell are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_04]: 14.
[SPEAKER_04]: How do you split that three ways?
[SPEAKER_04]: And where are we going to get a truck?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I guess we got some figure enough to do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't good boys.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, now 14 split three way.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do we got?
[SPEAKER_02]: Who can do math here?
[SPEAKER_02]: He looks over at no.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can do math.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's six for me.
[SPEAKER_04]: Six for no.
[SPEAKER_04]: And four for you.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, you're math is shit.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're math is shit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Look, is you spent too bounty?
[SPEAKER_06]: After you factor in the four that you took off the top, it seems to balance out quite nicely.
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
[SPEAKER_02]: What are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you go to do this mechanic job without me.
[SPEAKER_02]: You throw on your poncho, wave goodbye as you go.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll be honest with you gentlemen, I'm just excited to get back out there and kill casualties.
[SPEAKER_06]: Getting paid.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he's just icing on the cake.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we're helping you with your math, so there we go.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I take my two back off the top.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll give you up the rest.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll find some shit.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll throw that in the pile, too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't be me, everything up.
[SPEAKER_02]: You fool.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, and I get the first pick of what we find.
[SPEAKER_04]: I get my two back, you get first pick.
[SPEAKER_04]: You undercut us.
[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't understand shit.
[SPEAKER_04]: You did, so.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's how you did.
[SPEAKER_04]: On the other hand, I guess, me get my ass kicked in the pits didn't really help much.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, no shit.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, relax.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't want to say even that, like, La Flourme on the fucker brought that up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I should actually, we should actually tutorialize this.
[SPEAKER_03]: You did get your ass kicked.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, um, roll black and red.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll see how damage works.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, we don't, we don't need to see it.
[SPEAKER_04]: We just, we need to see it.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's important.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_04]: Rough, brushed jokes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, shman, smoke is made of stiffer stuff.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a nine and the black over a five and the red.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so I'm gonna be nice and I'm not gonna do the fool's thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the way it typically works with the image is the black is the amount and the red is the area.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, so that would be nine stun, no, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: To your torso where the guy just worked your kidney like a speedbag.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, um, I'm not going to do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll let you take a, I'll let you take four stun to your, to your body.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so those are diagonal slashes.
[SPEAKER_03]: That won't kill you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's also, yeah, remember this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This isn't it.
[SPEAKER_04]: It feels a bit killy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Again, we have it less big compound.
[SPEAKER_02]: How's how that ribs feel?
[SPEAKER_02]: Not great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I told you to rip it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't want it like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know what's my idea?
[SPEAKER_02]: It was my idea for you to go down there and beat somebody up.
[SPEAKER_02]: You made up your own idea of getting asked.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was mad.
[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, where else are we gonna get this bad?
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, listen, 18 bounty, fuck.
[SPEAKER_02]: Six each, I get first pick what's out there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or I take my two off the top, and you motherfuckers can argue about who gets first pick.
[SPEAKER_02]: Deal.
[SPEAKER_02]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, hell yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody roll self-control.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: You add yourself control and two more because you want to go kill casualties because of your faith.
[SPEAKER_03]: So self-control actually gets easier when you do things your faith demands and harder when you do things your faith is against.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you have your adaptability plus two as a result of being a believer.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody else is just rolling their adaptability on their black.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I love that.
[SPEAKER_03]: He did every business.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then the one, one on the black, but I get plus four, for that, for a five over three.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the fear means you're about to go do God's holy work for humanity.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: The fear is the sign that there is an opportunity.
[SPEAKER_03]: The mistake of previous days, the death.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not having a positive is definition of good work, but yours is a KD.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's something that can be game-a-fucked.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anybody else fail?
[SPEAKER_02]: I rolled up one on the black that I get plus two to give me a three over two, so I can't fuck it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, who
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I get a scratch and I'm going to swallow my shotgun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, all right, they set up the alarms and you go out the east gate and you look across the river to just the smoke pouring off the wall that they've built on the far side of the Mississippi from and then you see in the distance the the new core and texture skyscrapers with the
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... magnetic apartment locks and you know viral sniffers and all that fancy stuff spiring up where they're re-adventing the city on the inside
[SPEAKER_03]: you hear the drones of the kill swarms buzzing over the top of the Mississippi, you know, looking for any idiot, dumb enough to try and run the river during daylight.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's fine if you just stick to the floodlands and far away, you know, too far out for the sniper shots, in case any of those DHQS assels gets bored on the other side.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you go walking through the
[SPEAKER_03]: blasted out industrial wasteland on the edge of West Memphis that was abandoned since the crash.
[SPEAKER_03]: So everyone's been labor just for huffing it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're walking and then who is on point?
[SPEAKER_04]: uh... i mean smoke could be on point he's he's got his arms and legs wrapped in heavy carpet armor and uh... the axe uh... over his shoulder uh... but he doesn't really know what he's looking for so i don't know if greasy needs to be in front because he knows there's no cars currently here you're you're in uh... you're in a basically a they didn't build anything here because it just flooded out multiple times a year
[SPEAKER_03]: So you're in large open fields and you don't want to go closer to the city because that's where There's way too many things right.
[SPEAKER_04]: I remember that that's nice to be like in a wide open space because you have those sightlines.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that would be green That I need you to roll smoke I don't say nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't have anything in green This bandages are wrapped so tightly around as I
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I know.
[SPEAKER_04]: Get no idea.
[SPEAKER_04]: Eight.
[SPEAKER_04]: Gracie.
[SPEAKER_04]: Over there.
[SPEAKER_04]: You think that's a muscrack?
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you going to pocket full of rocks?
[SPEAKER_02]: I do have a pocket full of rocks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was kidding.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got to go.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see smoke while he's talking just disappear down off of the little buttress levy you guys are walking off of as a hand comes out of this boggy mud and grabs his foot and starts pulling down You should roll it.
[SPEAKER_03]: No smoke.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I will.
[SPEAKER_04]: My labor is going fast by the way
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, but he's this is going to cost later because it's a physical thing so you need at least one to get your skill and do you want to spend more everything?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, I don't want to spare.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can't spend an even one.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Go on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah 10 over one
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, yeah, he manages to grab and kick it off as it like this mossy, like guilly suit of mud on this casually and it's teeth clacking after him comes up and he manages to kick it into the deeper mud and the lowlands and it gets stuck even harder and can't get out and you see now the teeth is clacking and it's agitated it there's
[SPEAKER_03]: there's a bunch of them that you know they can't swim so they just drift with the current if the water you see this flood land there's a ton of them just completely mired unable to get out just crashing around oh my god like a land mine formation around you just like arms and head arms or head just sometimes they're very face down because they don't need to breathe most of these are naked
[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, there, you know, been stripped of anything that would give you bounty, you need ID to get bounty and score extra, but the noise is attracting some from up the hill closer to the city.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you see, you see a mob break through a fence and start shambling towards you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, they're far enough away.
[SPEAKER_03]: You could get away, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Or you could try and stay on this relatively dry land and encounter them.
[SPEAKER_03]: They have clothes on.
[SPEAKER_03]: They might have some bounty on them.
[SPEAKER_03]: But they're also unencumbered by the mud.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you would need to get to them before they get mired in the mud.
[SPEAKER_03]: And there's no bounty for you to possibly get even if you kill them.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what do you want to do?
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you want to rush towards these casualties and harvest them?
[SPEAKER_03]: And in attempts to get what they have on them before they reach the big mud flats that you're passing through Are you just want to keep moving on your way because there no there's no way they're going to catch you when they get mired in all that shit Oh, wait I get the fuck out of here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's go boys.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you sure there's a debt to be paid here?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, mother.
[SPEAKER_06]: The wonderful opportunity.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got lots of deaths to pay later on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're a little crossing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get the fuck out of here Well, all right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, hang on didn't we say that any bounty we find his hours?
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, oh, you guys are fucked.
[SPEAKER_04]: This could be some Where it look at it.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like one little Bob it'll probably take like what 10 minutes?
[SPEAKER_02]: You ever been out here before boy?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, one little mob turns out to have a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a lot of a
[SPEAKER_05]: in their bag for the fuckers.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we promise it'll be fast.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's make this quick, boss.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I can call the boss.
[SPEAKER_02]: Who's the boss?
[SPEAKER_02]: Who you call the boss?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's not.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure, the fuck ain't Ponjue.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're the boss.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're a fair boss.
[SPEAKER_02]: Running a democracy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fucking beautiful thing democracy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, look for a goddess.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mother.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the casualties are coming.
[SPEAKER_03]: They are currently at long distance.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you had a long gun like a shotgun, that could be a task attack where it's just one roll to see if you get all of them and see how much it costs.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you guys are melee or handguns with null and smoke.
[SPEAKER_03]: your more hands on so you can run a car sort of a levy area that's still dry and get to them when they're still headed down the slope but then you're going to be in range so that's the only way to do it you got to get a bit of a stock gun is it shit the shotgun will be loud that will drop yeah ain't shit in that I don't even want to go over there my fucking official science you can use it but you're still going to be in short range they're much faster
[SPEAKER_04]: And if I use my hand gun, yeah, shoot the shoot, you know, ability doesn't take labor, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: It does not, it takes bullets, yeah, but you will do God.
[SPEAKER_03]: Skills damage, meaning that you will kill that many casually.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the way I track this, just for everybody who's not watching us, is I just roll, so I'm letting you decide if you want to do this because we're learning the mechanics.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I rolled a seven black and a red five, black is mass, that's the number of skulls you have to pop.
[SPEAKER_03]: five is rush.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is how fast they are coming at.
[SPEAKER_03]: If red is higher than black, they're gonna get there this turn.
[SPEAKER_03]: If black is higher than red, you've got one turn before they get there.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then they can only attack in melee, and that's when you're in danger.
[SPEAKER_03]: So there's that.
[SPEAKER_03]: However, your takers, so your professionals,
[SPEAKER_03]: So you don't roll for hit locations like you do with people.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you get a hit it does the hit and you don't just get one of them You do skill damage.
[SPEAKER_03]: So like if your wheel this three and you get a success You don't kill one of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: You kill three of them because you are a taker and this is the only thing you practice
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not like they dodged or flinch for if they see flesh and they make a straight line and you're really good at interrupting that straight line with something sharp pointy So yeah, that would be how it works.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you're at seven five you guys could both engage and get into melee range and try and take them down before they get close enough to get fast you are are what do you want to do?
[SPEAKER_03]: can we have a short range action before we get into short range action is the me rolling the ducks if they were at a long range where your pistol can't reach I would just say there's seven of them you would if you succeeded spin seven charges they're all dead if you fail I say spin seven charges plus one detend because you missed and then they're all dead but once they're a short range they see you and they start coming faster
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so if you two are going to engage in your quiet range, uh, it's going to be up close.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, it's going to move towards them quietly at first, but building speed and he's going to get to a run and engage them head on.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[SPEAKER_06]: Zero approaches friend.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that is a tolder role.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you've got to spend one labor to swing your machete.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, obviously Okay One labor Okay, so then that's my fight or my wheel will be wheeled.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes Okay, now you can spend more and add to your wheel.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you're at plus three because you spent one you spent four you'd be at four five be five.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, I'm not going to spend any.
[SPEAKER_06]: I rolled a 10 over 3 plus my 313 over 3.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Describe, know the capitating or how does he just kill three of them as they're running at him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, so he just, like I said, he starts slow and then he picks up speed to a jog, eventually he's just coming full tilt to the sprint and he just the first one just at a full run.
[SPEAKER_06]: He jumps in the air with his right at shield and just box one clean off and then does kind of like a barrel roll and pops up and just cuts the heads off of two more that are right behind him and then just kind of crouches down with his shield sort of on the ground and the machete up beside him.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the thing about melee tactics is they damage both mass and rush, so now he's down now.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's down to 4-2.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you've only got four skulls left to crack, but the thing is, every taker gets to act before the zombies they're slow.
[SPEAKER_03]: So if you want to jump in on this smoke, you could shoot, you could dive in with your axe, what you want to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: yeah smoked as he's he's used to being in the front he forgets sometimes how uh how uh aggressive not can be in uh in his uh in his god-given uh pursuit he's gonna so he's behind so he's gonna actually pull out his handgun his silenced handgun and uh kind of cover null a bit so he's gonna run and kind of stand his ground and and take uh
[SPEAKER_04]: Some of them infected that are around him.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so that's going to be spinning one off the handgun that you have because that's the total roll of the shoot check.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then if you want to spend more by just pumping rounds down range, you are more likely to hit.
[SPEAKER_03]: So anything past that would add to your skill.
[SPEAKER_03]: So if you spent two charges, you'd actually be at plus three.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pretty would be actually plus four.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so I'm gonna spend two.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, we'll, we'll make sure he's got good cover here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Plus three and, uh, plus three shoot.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go, come on, baby.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ooh, that's great, uh, that's 11 over eight.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, you don't two of them, is it like two shots?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's, sorry, it's an, it's an eight and an eight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's an eight and an eight natural.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's double damage.
[SPEAKER_03]: Describe how you just basically put your hand over no shoulder and ice the four of them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just like that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just, just, just, just quick, fast.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, you all take a kind of surprise that it actually works.
[SPEAKER_03]: You all take a hushed moment.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can hear it still hear the muddy ones that can't get to you up here, thrashing around, but otherwise it's just the wind.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't see anything else coming through that fence, up the embankment.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're good.
[SPEAKER_06]: You hear a dry sort of chalky scraping, and if you look over it, no, you'll notice that he has a little chalkboard mounted to the inside of his right.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's healed and he's tallying the seven kills that we just got.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, fuck, that was pretty quick, boys.
[SPEAKER_04]: Smoke, it's going to wait for you to say.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a lot more satisfying using the axe, but, uh, yeah, it's effective.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's see what we got here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone's to roll scavenge.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're not latent, don't create fail on scavenge.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, maybe I better scavenge.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have a good scavenge role too, but I don't like that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, scavenge.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not going to do it though.
[SPEAKER_04]: I only got a three under a five.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's been will.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not spending my second week here, and the market's out to get five years in.
[SPEAKER_03]: It turns out pants aren't really meant to withstand shooting your cannibal guts out and wandering 24-7 in a wasteland.
[SPEAKER_03]: So not a lot of ideas.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing here.
[SPEAKER_03]: You killed seven.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's nothing here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no feels good, but you didn't find any bound.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, we'll fuck that, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we got seven.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, you got less bullets now, and you're more tired And we've maintained balance for today.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, Mother fucking bout.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're gonna hear about this shit all day All right, tell me more about the balance.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, shut up.
[SPEAKER_04]: He said he says it just to bug greasy.
[SPEAKER_06]: He doesn't actually Let's go talk about God's math all day.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, eventually the ledger will balance
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, it's been another labor as you spend the rest of the day walking.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, God.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I just added this mechanic in second ad.
[SPEAKER_03]: It has no mechanic.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just think it's funny to ask, where do you camp that night?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like what abandoned thing do you secure to sleep in that night?
[SPEAKER_03]: hmmm have we approached this covered rail yeah you're gonna you're gonna get there in the morning but yeah it you're losing the light okay it's not a great idea to
[SPEAKER_06]: do your Mac on dirt.
[SPEAKER_06]: I bet camping in a tree is a big floodplain right or their trees.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're getting away from the floodplain.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're having to get closer.
[SPEAKER_03]: You had it south a bit towards the Great River Pat.
[SPEAKER_03]: The big pass over rail bridge that the government secured.
[SPEAKER_03]: They didn't mind that because they use it pretty frequently.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, you're moving towards the south of West Memphis.
[SPEAKER_03]: So.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, trees are good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, people don't look in trees.
[SPEAKER_03]: People look in buildings.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, not a lot of people out here doing the full aerobor and ranger thing It's a wet.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's the weather like to know it's wet and miserable.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's it's raining and you're the shit's gonna flood soon.
[SPEAKER_03]: You should get this job over, but uh Yeah You still live and rough you take us
[SPEAKER_04]: I, I pull out, I climb a tree and pull out my shame poncho.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would put it over my head.
[SPEAKER_04]: Try to sleep.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, every makes fun of the shame poncho until it rains.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the only time.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is worth anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: What about pushing on through the night and just fucking going?
[SPEAKER_03]: If you, if you want to be scavenging and trying to repair a truck in the middle of the night, you can do that, I'd be fine with it.
[SPEAKER_05]: How many flashlights did you bring?
[SPEAKER_03]: I got enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: You ever heard greasy running out of flashlight?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have eliminated flashlights used to be gear you had to buy it upkeep.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I have removed that because it's so annoying for people.
[SPEAKER_03]: But we'll be able to see something tonight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just not very well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, again, if we want to keep moving greasy?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I guess we did.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hands up keep moving.
[SPEAKER_04]: Chris, what's his hand up?
[SPEAKER_04]: Man.
[SPEAKER_04]: Smoke's gonna put his hand up too.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, there we go.
[SPEAKER_04]: They went against greasy earlier.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Get out of that fucking tree.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's move.
[SPEAKER_04]: Spend our extra labor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys are going through the night.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_04]: Caleb.
[SPEAKER_04]: I have no labor left.
[SPEAKER_04]: What's going on?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you can refresh.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's part of the game.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: How?
[SPEAKER_04]: Remind me how I refer.
[SPEAKER_03]: So under your int skill.
[SPEAKER_03]: the number you have in hand is the number of times you can completely refresh charges on one item and labor counts including labor because you had more than the caloric minimum and gatorade instead of water you know the good shit right that that is what that represents and when you're talking about your physicality it can also be charges in a battery bullets in a gun
[SPEAKER_04]: You know what it is?
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a whole bag full of old like sour peach candies, but they're so old that they're kind of gray now, but they they still pack a bunch and save some for emergencies.
[SPEAKER_04]: Five hour energy drink.
[SPEAKER_04]: So what if it was called fuzzy peach?
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not normally if you wanted to refresh your labor.
[SPEAKER_03]: You just erase it and you can just say you do it whenever so you can wait till you've spent all of it And it's erase it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't need to other things.
[SPEAKER_03]: It takes time to refresh them because you have to reload the gun or recharge the battery or stuff like that Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, you push through the night So you go to this area like most areas in the United States that still had rail when the crash went down It was an industrial wasteland of urban decay
[SPEAKER_03]: If you want to find some place that, you know, is the butthole of your city, walk the rail tracks, especially if they have any kind of industrial traffic there.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're in this area.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thankfully, a low population density.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, going at night, you know, you get the feet and you hear the shuffling of casualties and the snap of their teeth.
[SPEAKER_03]: down dark alleys, but you keep moving at a brisk job and you keep the light on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Only when you need it, the good thing is it makes some harder to find you too.
[SPEAKER_03]: And eventually you get to using the satellite imagery that you got from the floor on the specs, you get to the fall and sound wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: and you see where it's downed in this sort of abandoned industrial yard where you look like there's a bunch of trains that were pulled off the tracks before the sound wall got erected by the DHQS and abandoned there, a bunch of old cars and a bunch of like warehouse you shit like where you live now but just that never got recovered or filled with people and it's just been decaying for five years.
[UNKNOWN]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so yeah, you're at the scene.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can investigate what happened to the wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can look around the area for a truck.
[SPEAKER_03]: You could go on to the tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: You would all you see is a big hole in a giant concrete wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, there it is, boys.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lock up that motherfucker.
[SPEAKER_06]: Take our bodies.
[SPEAKER_06]: As soon as we get there, no is concerned by the hole in the concrete, and I do start investigating to see if I can figure out what might have blown a hole in this concrete or... All right, do you have any technical skills that would help you with that?
[SPEAKER_06]: Or... Technical skills, not really, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: Reoffend is crime.
[SPEAKER_03]: Rig is a technical skill.
[SPEAKER_03]: That would help figure something out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, okay, I'll roll a rig to see how something, if I get any ideas on how something might break this wall.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, nice roll.
[SPEAKER_06]: So the nine plus one is 10 over two.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, you're, you think it's probably just rock, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like they built it real fast, like they do in all sorts of core and texture.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, shoddy but we'll hold up against somebody throwing a shoulder against it.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what you want to get zombies, and that's what you're expecting.
[SPEAKER_03]: They didn't seal it right, the rebar rusted, you know, that's what you're expecting.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's till you see the scorch marks where they connected to either side of the concrete panels.
[SPEAKER_03]: Probably third might if you had to guess.
[SPEAKER_03]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this was put down intentionally.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is not what LaFlor said.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is not something that just fell down Hmm and the sun hasn't come up yet.
[SPEAKER_06]: All of you can in fact roll glee isn't okay Nope I roll the 903
[SPEAKER_04]: to understand.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys are trying not to cock.
[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously, the rain is helping.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, the rain makes lots of sound since the casualties all over the place.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're trying to be quiet and keen to go with hand gestures.
[SPEAKER_03]: You think you hear some shambling inside the train corridor right off the end of the bridge where you're at.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, which wouldn't be uncommon.
[SPEAKER_03]: They get in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, there's not 100% fences all the way along the train tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, but then, no, you think you hear like, was that French?
[SPEAKER_03]: Was that a snippet of French coming from the train tracks?
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you guys hear that?
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, I tried to move like up to where the train tracks are from where I'm standing and see if I can get a better like you.
[SPEAKER_03]: uh you're you're you're looking around the the the sound wall and you you see down and you see there's like a you see a flash of red light and then it goes off real quick and then you hear some more whispering and then you you see another like like longer red flashlight pointed against like running along the rails for a little bit as somebody's walking with it and then it shuts off again and you hear more whispers
[SPEAKER_06]: You guys see that, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: We got company.
[SPEAKER_06]: How far away are the lights that I'm seeing?
[SPEAKER_03]: They're like a hundred yards down from hundreds of yards further west from where you're standing at the hole in the...
[SPEAKER_06]: And the whispering, it seems like they're talking about us.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is that the strength of them getting?
[SPEAKER_03]: You could have sworn you heard a wee in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like a wee wee.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like a, like a, like a French.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, that may wee.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Dolls gonna call out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Balls-Jura, come on so bad.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nothaf, fuck.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, all of you railself control.
[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 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_03]: I rolled a six over four.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hope you're fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, you see, uh, those red lights pop on all go towards you.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you see those laser sights all pop onto you right as you pop around to the other side.
[SPEAKER_03]: of this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now extremely painted, you know, lasers going up and down the hole between the sound panel and red lights.
[SPEAKER_03]: You hear some shouted French.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're getting a call from
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a whole duck operation out here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my fuck the colony.
[SPEAKER_02]: What are you boys?
[SPEAKER_02]: You're asking me?
[SPEAKER_02]: Fuck no.
[SPEAKER_02]: I answer you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna hang up and the call.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're getting their colon right back?
[SPEAKER_03]: Not the fuck.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think you better take that call, greasy.
[SPEAKER_04]: So Kurt still in the, sorry, no, it's still in in the hole in the wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he probably would all go back when laser sites came out.
[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't want to control them.
[SPEAKER_03]: It probably, you can just be glaring in them if you want.
[SPEAKER_03]: With the, if so, they're on your skull.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll pull, I'll pull back behind your cover.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to start scrambling out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, spend a charge of your specs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bojo?
[SPEAKER_03]: Howdy partner, are you lost?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, well, that all depends on your definition of lost, I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, do I know what I'm gonna say?
[SPEAKER_03]: Do I know what I'm gonna say?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do I know what I'm gonna say?
[SPEAKER_03]: Do I know what I'm gonna say?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do I know what I'm gonna say?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do I know what I
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, oh my god, you're here right here on the call.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not really in person, kind of guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you hear the sound of like feet hitting the ground as they've jumped that barricade or now moving up on your side to flank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Really think it'd be best if we talk, friend.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it looks like you've already self invited here, like a little pop-in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, that's cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're friendly.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're friendly, folks.
[SPEAKER_03]: When you come out on the tracks?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I'll come out on the tracks, shoot.
[SPEAKER_03]: You want to see me first?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my god.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you bet your hats, I do.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, I'm coming.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, a shoot to a video feed, you see a guy walking in the darkness away from those red lights on up the train tracks, you see where you're at and, you know, he comes around the corner, he's got his hands up, you see a dude wearing you big specs, he's got like a bunch of rags hanging off of him and looks like a like a like a hooded helped like sort of gilly suit kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: and otherwise just you know close uh... ball got a bunch of scars on his face hold his hands up just want to talk didn't expect to see him out here late at night you you and me both my friends might want to come on the tracks we didn't clear out there we didn't clear that parking lot they come up on your back mind if i have a small please hold
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, okay, I'm gonna, I'll save my charge, he hangs up and keeps there with his hands, he's running in.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, we had a lot of put our heads real close together for a little conval here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Conval, I think we got much of a choice, fellas.
[SPEAKER_04]: Caleb, I think.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sorry, our characters are smarter than we are in this world.
[SPEAKER_04]: So we're assuming this is just another group of takers.
[SPEAKER_04]: We don't recognize them.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're not from our on-clav.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't recognize them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, if we'd done a campaign, you would know like who your original competitors are, so you'd know the other on-clavs around.
[SPEAKER_03]: None of them speak French.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's odd.
[SPEAKER_03]: real outside or it has like some pretty high tech it appears like yeah stuff um not that they were ducks yeah no but it doesn't appear they are you just really wants to talk to you yeah uh let's hear him out greasy are you two on the fucker stay down here and I'll go up uh uh at least I can maybe shoot him with a shotgun before the motherfuckers kill me you still got your punch
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I don't have it on.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll go up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll keep my ends up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey friend, where are you from?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll just down the way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah?
[SPEAKER_02]: That place called Spirit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why aren't too many other places around here?
[SPEAKER_02]: So no point in lying to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, from spirit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we we we heard to look at it when we were coming in.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're from out west.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, uh, like you said, I did not expect to define anyone out here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Seems uh seems like a strange place to be bumping into people.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we were out here doing some work.
[SPEAKER_03]: We were about to wrap up.
[SPEAKER_03]: You out here doing work?
[SPEAKER_02]: I suppose you could say that you, uh, and I'll look over to you where the concrete walls are damaged.
[SPEAKER_02]: We was told that that wall was falling over.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was like that when we got here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I heard us to repair the tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, come again.
[SPEAKER_03]: I heard us to repair the tracks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Who hired you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Train company.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's the, I need to, I need to make, is there like an insight?
[SPEAKER_02]: What's the insight checker?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you have Gwyneth?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I need to, I need to, yes, read vibes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Definitely 1,000%.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, uh, 10 over 8 in the good way.
[SPEAKER_02]: In the good way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's what's 9 in the 8.
[SPEAKER_03]: Read and vibes.
[SPEAKER_03]: You didn't need to roll to read the vibes were fucked.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now you're starting to see why the vibes are fucked.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see in their guns?
[SPEAKER_03]: Guns look like standard isn't for, but the attachments look like the wrong brand.
[SPEAKER_03]: None of these guys are speaking when you are around, and none of them are speaking English.
[SPEAKER_03]: They seem to have one spokesperson talking to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: By repairing the tracks they seem to be wiring big wads of some myelin wrapped thing to them
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, and the guy talking to you, uh, has burns, but they aren't fire burns.
[SPEAKER_03]: They aren't, uh, they aren't, they aren't burns from like the sun.
[SPEAKER_03]: They aren't burns from latency, uh, and so that probably means radiation.
[SPEAKER_03]: So if you had to put money on it, you're guessing these guys are Canadian separatists.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe kebba quah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, the whole first strike thing against Canada to stop the undead outbreak, um, you know, you thought the tariffs were bad, uh, Canadians are not the big fans of their southern neighbors anymore, uh, to the tune of like,
[SPEAKER_03]: desperate suicide bombing, hatred of U.S. Institute.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh shit, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So taking out the disparage, the DHQS would not like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't appear to be taking out the bridge.
[SPEAKER_03]: He appears to be taking out right after it gets across the bridge, which means it would probably derail.
[SPEAKER_03]: knock out all of the soundwalls all the way around it and let's say a big word of casualties that just heard a dinner bell akin to a TNT blast go poor across said bridge
[SPEAKER_03]: The HUS has the entire army over there.
[SPEAKER_03]: They can probably stop it.
[SPEAKER_03]: They can blow the bridge themselves, but this would be a disaster in your current economic market.
[SPEAKER_03]: This would be huge.
[SPEAKER_03]: All that smuggling shit you do with the DHQS now, kiss that shit goodbye.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're gonna shoot, yeah, we don't want that.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's gonna be crackdown measures that it's gonna be terrible for the smuggling.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, if you knew it was going to happen before it happened and positioned yourself correctly, it might not seem to be bad or the moss, but, um...
[SPEAKER_03]: So, what do you want to do?
[SPEAKER_03]: Your job is to park a truck in front of this shit and they don't appear to care about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: But if, but these guys all have guns on you, the guys come up in the parking lot to where Nell and Smoke are hanging out and just sort of appraise them and
[SPEAKER_03]: they look like they've had rough lives and some of them are wearing like red leaves with skulls on them are our bleeding Canadian flags and just glaring you both down real hatefully what I love it what do you want to do is scary and see this is justiation or it's a good fight what what do you want to do yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I don't think greasy wants us to be a gunfight.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, what were you hired to do, friend?
[SPEAKER_02]: Fixed that there a while.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a little, little, little mechanic job.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: I ain't no soldier.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's looking me.
[SPEAKER_03]: They, they just want you to fix the wall?
[SPEAKER_02]: It just nods.
[SPEAKER_03]: That works for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some contractors, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Never real a fish.
[SPEAKER_02]: That sounds so.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks a little get through.
[SPEAKER_02]: You want some hair?
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I think we're all good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: My boys can help.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're almost done here.
[SPEAKER_03]: We take her's got to help her out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like that hat by the way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: 2025 World Series champs last time they wanted before all the shit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I reckon you have a little bit of a work to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Seems a little above my pay grade.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Best to ignore.
[SPEAKER_02]: I believe they said.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nods you just gonna build a new wall and you can use plywood what's your plan?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh Well the fuck yeah, I was just gonna pull a find a find a truck and park it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh Hell we got you cover hold around right there Yeah, you talk to some guy some guy runs off jumps through the hole.
[SPEAKER_03]: He goes running into the dark at the parking lot
[SPEAKER_03]: You see in an alley that you hadn't seen before, a bunch of headlights pop on.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this guy, you know, pulls what looks to be like,
[SPEAKER_03]: you'd say like an APC chassis with like a shitty rental van type like panel van hooked to the back of it to make it like fuck up the shape it goes like the engine sounds better than anything you've ever run out here and pulls it up is like you just want to park in front of a panel yeah what do we got that mind if I
[SPEAKER_03]: We're gonna not want to be seen in that car.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's where you came, came here in?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not running so great.
[SPEAKER_03]: We can just find a new one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I know someone who can fix him shit at it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I find something else to park there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I mean, you don't listen to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I don't want to leave you out in this rain.
[SPEAKER_02]: They offer friendly fella.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, I'm a fellow of America.
[SPEAKER_03]: We gotta stick together.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sold out, he holds out your hand for a handshake.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's 10 bounty at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: In his hand?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, hold on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mother, fuck it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Otherwise, it's so complicated.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'll do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Take my hat off and walk around and like, Eastern and circle for a second.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not complicated, friend.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're job's finished.
[SPEAKER_03]: Go home.
[SPEAKER_03]: We have no quarrel with spirit.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're just people trying to survive.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's all fine and Danny, but I seem you too, just trying to survive.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some of us have higher colleagues.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, no, I know about the math and the, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I've heard all that shit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, it's weird motherfucking thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, okay, but what if someone is doing their thing and trying to survive?
[SPEAKER_02]: But what if they do kind of fucks up how somebody else is trying to survive?
[SPEAKER_03]: And what do we do then?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I guess we make sure those people are okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: He puts another tin bounty in his hand.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, this shit's stressing me out.
[SPEAKER_03]: This and brother, I can't spend it where I'm going.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm asking you to go home.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm asking you to kiss your kids on the head.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm asking you to have a good night's sleep.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm asking you to do it again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I fucked up that sign now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mother of God.
[SPEAKER_02]: A office smoke comes up behind greasy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I feel I need to talk to my boys.
[SPEAKER_02]: Take the money.
[SPEAKER_02]: I use it that punch, yo.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not going to damage spirit.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's far enough away.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're secured enough with your fence.
[SPEAKER_03]: You will be okay from the casualties.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have no fucking idea what this is going to do to the entire economy of the area.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, this greasy is concerned at the moment.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, but how concerned is greasy?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's greasy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Concerned enough to fight these... Yeah, to get more down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Autists?
[SPEAKER_03]: or is he concerned enough to say, hey, nobody go out tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to be home counting my 30 bounty.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's about as concerned as he said.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's second 10.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, sir.
[SPEAKER_02]: We could even take the truck back with us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you know, I think he's something, I don't think that truck's no good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was kind of thinking that too, but wait, he's talking, I don't think we'll eat that truck here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that truck's going to be drone strikes pretty much the second this should happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I would not have that parked next to my house.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, you also have the gas.
[SPEAKER_03]: So if you're not spending that on the truck, you can sell that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that is where they size all amount of bounty.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're not wasting it getting a panel man up here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, this fellow friend, this, uh, this, uh, this is a friendly Canadian.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, be so, be so, be so good, get your known for being friendly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so right here.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a hat.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, uh, uh, well, fuck.
[SPEAKER_02]: Unless you got any objections over there, no?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think we have any choice.
[SPEAKER_04]: And this is like making the best of a bad situation.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a great way to handle it.
[SPEAKER_06]: We've got one gun, and these guys have automatic weapons with laser rifles and gillysuits.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alright, there my, my friendly Canadian.
[SPEAKER_02]: It looks like that we will, we will park your truck.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can happily take our, our little payoff here, and I think we'd just move the arm back.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you guys say?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think that's a great idea.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now as a fellow takers, obviously, you're going to protect our trade secrets, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, and see shit.
[SPEAKER_02]: I came out here and drove a truck and then just happened to find 10 bounty in the back seat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lucky me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sounds good.
[SPEAKER_02]: 20.
[SPEAKER_06]: Easy job.
[SPEAKER_06]: In and out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Back home for the ran.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's play your working with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: You think you have to find yourself in spirit?
[SPEAKER_02]: You come, you come, look, that's up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's good to have friends.
[SPEAKER_06]: to pleasure to meet some gentlemanly Canadians.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, it's this fucking, we, that's our greasy mutters for themselves.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maple G-Hunt.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah?
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, and that's the end of the job.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you got 38 bounty total plus whatever you can sell the gas once you get back.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, man, you guys don't know about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you do carry it there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so if you split that three ways and if you count up the upkeep of all of your gear, plus your number of dependence times three, because that's what it takes to support them, that's your overhead costs.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you'll see how much you scored, basically, if you want to get video game me about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But
[SPEAKER_03]: on that but that's a point of red markets job so for instance if this was a campaign you've just derailed a government train full of tourists you know to see how safe the loss was so guess what your next macro when we get back to spirit on clay the economy is going to be very different i would be offering
[SPEAKER_03]: Very different jobs.
[SPEAKER_03]: They would have very different prices and requirements.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you got like if everyone learned that you knew the terrorist attack was coming and didn't do anything, that would give you like a rep spot.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that would affect every future negotiation you have because you were the people who didn't do that or if you saved everybody, you would have been the people who did that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, contracts are like little one-session things, but if you play
[SPEAKER_03]: the more you do shit and the more you come out and the more you talk and scam your way through, you build the sort of head esteem of consequences that ends up affecting your whole angler.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, shit.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love that that was Canadians.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you're
[SPEAKER_04]: Man, I love how I can see more in this game how the role playing happens and the world development and the story development and how everyone's crafting this together in a way that I hadn't really felt before.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, there's a lot of Lori in the book like Laura stuff in the book for the market because it's good to like think of like because it's never just economics it's not mainstream it's international it's politics it's intrigue it's all its corporations saw that stuff so that's all in there for them but like the micro economic which is what concerns your player characters.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's like, oh, yeah, where do you go?
[SPEAKER_03]: Who offers that in your neighborhood?
[SPEAKER_03]: What's your inclave do for that?
[SPEAKER_03]: And how you build all that stuff up?
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you decide how it goes by putting your feet on the levers of power by which jobs you take and how you perform them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's easy to campaign to build your own enclave, and essentially like determine what your economy looks like.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like we have constantly, what do you know of change?
[SPEAKER_04]: How can you trade and get more what you need?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think I hope the game works for you guys to watch that, but yeah, it is very much.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it does thrive in a campaign setting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because by.
[SPEAKER_03]: by then you've written a whole story for your business and you've got a retirement plan and also it's wacky stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, that's like the end goal, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: To be able to retire in those nice spires with the magnetic doors and yeah, as you're walking home and here the explosion behind you, I imagine you're all thinking very hard about retirement and hoping it comes soon before anyone comes to question you about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you would like to try a game of red markets, please go check out the second edition playtest.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm accepting playtest feedback on the beta for anyone who cares to play it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't have to buy it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's free online on drive-through RPG or H.I.O.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's pay what you want because I can't make it completely free, but if you want to play zero for my
[SPEAKER_03]: unfinished untested game.
[SPEAKER_03]: I completely understand that.
[SPEAKER_03]: The price of admission is you got to send me a feedback form and I'm accepting feedback through all of 2025.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then next year I'm going to work on revising it and we're going to try and get a second addition out some time.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I appreciate you give it a, give it a try without the guy who created it running it because that's where I really would.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, but listening to this could go a long way towards helping you run your own game.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, that's a great way you tutorial.
[SPEAKER_02]: Joy through it.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was fucking fantastic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I currently have a playtest campaign of me revising all the second edition rules.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so a lot of the rules change in our wrong.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so maybe don't listen to that as an example, but it's behind a pay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, on heaven on games open design.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, once I get a like 2.1 beta done based off this year of revisions.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to run just an open no pay podcast and everyone can hear me, uh, AP it, you know, for free awesome example.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: That sounds great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we really appreciate it and we're going to get you back and do some more of this because that was Fuck those a lot of fun, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Creeky.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
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