No, Jazz. Apples are actual apples.
I learned a lot about apples when I worked at Juul.
Not when you worked at Trader Joe's?
No, I learned a lot about Indian food and Thai food when I worked at Trader Joe's.
But no, I learned a lot about apples when I worked at Juul.
I'll be damned.
Yep.
Damn.
I like them apples.
Thanks.
A lot, actually.
I eat one every day, pretty much.
Really?
I don't eat a lot of apples because I'm worried when I bite into an apple, it's going to break one of my teeth off one day.
I thought you were going to say you'd find a worm.
No, no, I've never had that food.
Worms are high in protein.
And he beat me to the joke.
I mean, so are bugs.
Yeah.
Worms are bugs, aren't they?
I don't know.
I wouldn't consider it.
Hey, what are we trying to do?
What are we trying to do?
Hey, Andy, when did you get off for the next in-person sesh?
I think it was the 26th.
So 26th is a Sunday.
Yeah.
Sunday?
That's a bad day.
Why couldn't it have been a Saturday?
Because it was the only days open.
Other people requested a Sunday.
Oh, so all you have is the Sunday?
I thought you had a...
No, I've got Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Well, I mean, obviously, I mean...
I guess Sunday is better than that.
Weekend.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, here, give me a second.
Wait a second.
I've also got the 12th off if you guys want to.
12th is also Sunday.
Yes.
But that's a better day than the 20th off.
What do you say?
I'm going to be out camping on the 12th.
Yeah.
We're...
Oh, well, I'm good for the 26th.
You guys can go over if you want to.
Yeah, I'm good for the 26th.
Okay.
Yeah.
We're going to do it in the basement.
My basement's open.
Nice.
Let me know which food you guys want, and I will get food ready for that day, too.
What are we going to...
Jollibee.
What time?
I mean, it's a Sunday, so you guys can come over.
I mean, I guess I would prefer not to go super late into the night.
Yeah.
Probably you guys who have to drive afterwards would probably prefer that as well.
So, certainly, earlier is fine with me.
It's like 3 or 4.
You guys want to do, like, a dinner?
Or, like, a 5 to 7, even, or something?
Or, yeah, like a 4 to 7.
I don't know.
Something like that.
Over dinner.
And then we can have dinner and keep going.
Sounds good to me.
Yeah.
All right.
Is that what you're thinking, boo?
Well, that's fine.
Whenever you get me, like, 4, 5, 3, whatever you guys want to come over, that's fine with me.
The basement is super comfy and air-conditioned, and it's got a nice carpet.
No, not carpet.
Wood floors.
And I will set up some tables, and we can have pizza or wings or whatever you guys want.
Okay.
It would be a good excuse for me to go get Pequots for you out of Chicagoers, Boo and Andy.
Pequots pizza is, it's like a Chicago secret, and it's like the best pizza in the city.
I hate it.
Oh, really?
I hate Pequots.
Yeah.
Really?
Why?
Yeah.
Just because it wants to be counterculture.
No, I like other stuff that people like.
I just really hate Pequots.
Well, I was wrong with Pequots.
I've never met anyone that hated Pequots.
Yeah, me and Melanie don't like it.
What kind of pizza is it?
Like square cut, pie cut?
It's a pan pizza.
It's pie.
It's a pan pizza.
It's pie.
It's a very thick pan, so it's like halfway between a pan and a deep dish.
I don't know.
It's good.
They use good ingredients.
It's my favorite pizza in the city.
I like it better.
Like, we usually get that.
If we're going out, we'll get that or like Lou Maldonis.
I like that better than Lou Maldonis.
What do you prefer then, Tiger?
There's, where do we get them here?
What do you like?
Roots or something?
No, I don't really.
I mean, it's fine.
Like, I don't, like, I, the first two times I had Pequots, it's, I haven't been impressed.
There's a place, J.B. Alberto's, where we usually go.
That's the place that I like the best.
I've had Alberto's before.
Is that the one where you always went to?
Yeah.
Yeah, I like that one.
That one I like.
Well, we don't have to.
Are they the one that gave you the garbage pizza?
Yeah, that was, that was awful.
And I'm not, I don't know why you keep bringing it up.
We can, we can either do a different pizza place or just a different food entirely.
There's a lot of options.
Yeah, that'd be cool.
I could even, I could even make you guys, um, carnitas tacos if you want.
Oh, carnitas.
Very easily.
Then I'll wear my clotas.
Clotas to carnitas.
Clotas.
Oh, colotas.
I had it wrong.
Well, uh, so the 26th, is that the set date for now?
Yeah.
Just put me on my calendar.
Okay.
26th at, we could just say four.
How about that?
26th at four.
Okay.
That was fine.
Wait, why did it do December?
And then just between then and now, let me know, is there one what kind of snacks you guys want?
And I'll have snacks and drinks and we can have something good for dinner.
And I'm assuming I'll pay for the snacks, but we can all split the cost of dinner.
Okay.
If that's all right, if that's all right with you guys.
Yeah.
I mean, I prefer not to.
Well, all right.
I prefer if you bought everything.
I'll consider covering yours, Tony, since you put so much fucking work into this, but only yours.
No, I don't want it.
I want it for free.
Well, you've already done the work, so.
I guess it's true.
How many websites are you running now?
Like three?
For this?
For this thing?
Yeah.
Yeah, actually.
No.
Oh, yeah.
Three if you include the podcast website.
Exactly.
Yeah.
That's a lot of fucking work.
Yeah.
Well, thank you.
But hopefully it's useful.
I appreciate it.
I acknowledge it.
That's all I ask.
You ask a lot.
That and free meals all the time.
I'll just bake up some chicken breasts for you.
Yes.
The chicken debt.
And have it out with witnesses.
Yeah.
Chicken debt has finally been paid.
Well, yeah.
I did steal you some chicken tenders from ISR's cafeteria.
Yes.
And actually, you cooked me chicken breasts one time.
So it was like a big dinner.
I paid it back.
I paid it back many, many times.
Yeah.
And yet you still don't let it go.
That's my iPad not charging.
All right.
Let's see.
I did listen to that entire train wreck from last week.
And it actually wasn't as bad.
That was a train wreck.
It wasn't.
No, you just you just got upset.
It wasn't that bad.
I wasn't.
I mean, we were all kind of lost.
So.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
We didn't get anywhere.
It was.
It was a Meyer.
I'm Meyer.
That's not entirely true.
So let me get this.
This prologue out.
Exhausted.
No thanks to the brilliant tactics of losing at Sabacc by Mac and Sarn.
RX managed to make friendly with Varanis, a Black Sun associate, by telling him about the shadier dealings of Kato Lichos.
Despite the crew having just robbed the Black Sun's data warehouse, leading to a barrel rolling chase, they managed to intrigue Varanis enough to gain some insider information regarding the Zelcom Tower.
But presently, the crew find themselves passed out at Chopper's Chop Shop on some makeshift beds consisting of speeder bench seats.
And they smell strongly of Ugnaughts.
What are Ugnaughts?
Those are.
I have spoken.
Yes, that's it.
What are Ugnaughts?
They're the.
Query.
What are Ugnaughts?
The I have spoken guy from Van Boren.
So I sent you the notes.
Oh.
Or the prologue for this week.
If you click on, just by coincidence, Ugnaughts, they're another CONCA journal entry.
So there's a picture.
Oh, that's cool.
I do see all that now.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
They are ugly.
And they smell too.
I imagine they look like pigs.
That is what the implication of the prologue is.
Anyway.
What are the implications?
Implication.
Different implication.
Okay.
And I know you're all kind of confused.
So you guys can probably hash it out in character and we can try and figure it out from there.
What are we doing again?
Wait.
I'm confused.
Are we rolling for dark and light side points?
Yeah.
Did you do that already, Pooh?
Was that you rolling?
I just saw Andy do it.
Andy did that.
No.
Andy's the champion at remembering that.
He's the only one.
And he's also the only one that uses them.
Yeah.
No, I used one once.
I'm pretty sure I used one once.
I've used it at least twice.
Yeah.
You've used it the most.
Okay.
Wait.
So, but none of you have, you know, none of you have rolled.
All right.
I'm going to send you more dice.
Yeah.
Cause mine is frozen.
And also yours wasn't for the, the destiny pool.
Yeah.
You just, you just roll the white dice.
So let me reset these.
How do I do that?
Zero and zero.
And.
Wait a minute.
This is a charging symbol.
All right.
I sent you guys the dice.
So who is that?
Andy.
Take that.
Boo.
Oh, two darks.
And now it's your turn RX.
Slash Ryan.
Yeah.
My screen is frozen.
So you can't see anything.
Wait, you want me to roll again?
Yeah.
Cause you didn't roll on the.
Well, I mean, you could just put the points in there manually.
Man, I had two light ones before.
Wow.
That sucks.
Ugh.
Yeah.
Such to suck.
Oof.
That is rough.
Yeah.
It's going to be one of those sessions, I guess.
Just one of those days.
So Andy, we'll just have to do our best with yours.
If you're frozen.
Okay.
Oh.
Chop, doc.
Or maybe it's just really laggy.
But it is eventually coming over?
Somewhat.
Okay.
As I remember,
you guys were sleeping in the chop shop because you were dead tired.
Exhausted.
Oh, we got, which reminds me, we got a role for obligation.
I am a droid.
I care not for your exhaustion.
Yeah.
Well, as a droid, I find your exhaustion noxious.
Okay.
Got me.
No obligation.
Got me.
So I'm assuming that Mac just woke up then?
With a pun.
It was the first thing out of his mouth.
That's about right.
Classic Mac.
So were you just watching you sleep?
What?
Was RX just watching you sleep?
Always.
I thought you, didn't you?
I thought you took naps, but you always were.
What?
Don't you shut down?
Uh, sure.
But my path, my sensors still passively scan my surroundings.
Like an Alexa?
Exactly.
That's my middle name.
Is it really?
Yeah.
What's your last name?
I don't have one.
You guys have a first in the middle.
RX Alexa 7-8.
No, RX Alexa 7-8.
So they were calling you the wrong thing?
Well, no.
I don't go by Alexa.
I'm going to flip a dark side point.
Oh, shit?
Yeah.
All right.
Sarn wakes up terribly hungover because he hasn't had Rill in a while.
and suffers too strain.
I knew we should have gotten me some Rill.
Yeah, that's the addict take.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
I'm suffering withdrawal.
I should have just gotten more drugs.
Now you're finally understanding, RX.
Oh, I understand medical and physiological processes.
He was formerly a surgeon.
Once upon a time.
I was also...
Surgery will fix my addiction.
I was also the leader of 10,000 battle droids.
But we don't talk about that, do we?
And a surgeon.
Thanks, Jack.
And you're missing a toe, so...
Well, that's because I gave it to you.
Doesn't change the fact that you're missing it.
Yeah, I do not see it as a deficiency.
Totally.
That's why you're not a surgeon anymore.
You couldn't balance.
Hey.
You boys, how you doing?
I'm Choppa.
I'm sleeping.
In case you forgot what I sounded like.
I did.
I thought you were French last time I talked to you.
No.
That was in your imagination.
This does sound like a much more appropriate Chopper voice.
Yeah.
I mean, like...
That's cool.
So, you guys are just sleeping here now?
Yeah.
I thought this was a...
Make yourself at home.
I mean, you could have knocked.
I knocked very heavily.
You did?
I knocked very precisely, and nothing happened.
Yeah, I didn't hear it.
Clearly.
Oh.
Well, what time was it?
Well, thank you.
Like, five or six?
Oh, yeah.
I was sleeping.
In the evening?
Clearly.
Obviously.
Well, did you have to sleep for 12 hours?
Wait.
Is it at night now?
Yeah, it's five or six at night now.
Wait.
Is it five or six?
I'm not really sure.
All we got is sundials.
Oh.
It's very confusing when you're at the center of the universe.
They don't really work like they do in the movies.
Wait.
Star Wars has movies?
No.
And also sundials in movies?
Like, aren't they like holocrons or something?
Yeah, those things.
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm about.
I never thought those were actually, like, entertainment.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, they're from Hollywood.
So, what did you guys...
What did you guys...
How does a sundial work on Tatooine?
All right.
I think...
It's always two times.
I mean, there's only one of you that's...
Are you guys from Tatooine?
Isn't one of you from Tatooine?
No.
I'm a...
No, no.
I mean, I've been here before.
I am from Genosha.
Oh.
We've been on Tatooine.
We were there for quite a while.
You guys ever been in the shanty town over there?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, have we?
I'm pretty sure we burned...
That's where I killed on radar.
I'm pretty sure we burned that place to the ground.
The shanty town?
Oh, no.
I mean, it was a tinderbox, really.
So...
Yeah, it went up pretty quick.
What were you guys doing yesterday?
You came here for a little while, then you left.
Then you came back.
Then you went...
Then you left.
What was going on?
We gambled, mostly.
Oh, did you win?
Yeah.
No.
No, I don't think so.
You're also out of a ship now.
These two are not very good at gambling.
What do you mean, I'm out of a ship?
We gambled away one of your speeders.
Are you sure you gambled it?
No.
You didn't.
It may have also crashed.
You didn't leave it parked outside a sabacc parlor?
No.
Your questions are eerily accurate and make me think that you somehow have recovered the crash speeder.
Yeah.
I got a pretty nasty call this morning from one Corson Fenn, who is the owner of the sabacc parlor.
And he said...
Oh, we remember his name.
The spider.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
The spider.
They said that there was...
Yeah.
My speeder bike was out there.
And a few lines were torn out.
Does that ring any bells?
I mean, that'll happen.
I have no idea what happened.
I think that's inefficient construction, I would have to say.
You know, it's that brand of speeder.
They don't make them very well.
They always break down.
Deception.
You can have my deception.
But you cannot have my monkey.
And it's against his...
Let's say it's his intellect.
What do I do?
It's going to be too difficult.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I didn't see what...
What was the outcome?
Damn.
I might have recently...
Success.
Oh, a success.
I really need a magnifying glass.
So you just lie to him?
It's just a thing that happens sometimes?
Well, I don't know.
Yeah.
The maker works in mysterious ways, I guess.
Yeah.
Those fuel lines, you can't trust them.
And whose speeder was that?
Your speeder?
Yes, that was my speeder.
I think my advantages should be like he feels so bad that he wants to give us more speeders.
No.
That's not going to happen.
Well, give me some kind of advantage.
Your advantage is I'm not going to kick your ass.
Over a speeder that almost killed us?
Come on, Chopper.
We go way back.
Well, we go...
It's not that far back.
Really.
At least six months.
And he flipped a dark point.
No, because it didn't give us a light side.
Oh, I must have not clicked it right.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, did you guys get any closer to finding this Kato guy?
Yes.
No.
We found out he's at Zelcom Tower.
And we also have some backdoor information for how to move around within the tower.
Oh, at Zelcom Tower?
Yes.
Okay.
That is what I just said.
No, I'm familiar with Zelcom Tower.
It's definitely a tower.
How many times are you going to say Zelcom Tower?
I just want you to know that I know the name of it.
All right?
And I'm not just some dumb beselist working in a chop shop.
All right?
Oh, I'll forget that.
Chop, chop.
Yeah.
I own this place.
It's named after me.
I mean, that was a fear of mine.
So, I'm glad you have allayed that.
Good.
Sarcasm is very hard to tell on these robots.
What is sarcasm?
That's pretty good right there.
Oh, I see what you did there.
Oh, yeah.
He's a saucy robot.
Oops.
What the hell is that?
Is that the alarm?
No.
Answer your communicator.
Who?
No.
You look...
Anyone.
You look RX and you see that you have a voice message.
Oh, I do.
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't actually have my...
Maybe I do.
Actually, wait a second.
I thought I kept it in one of these drugs.
I keep it right here.
Because I always might need it.
Well, if my kids are fine.
I keep it next to my heart.
They'll choke on it and die.
Then it's game over.
Well, no.
It'll just be gone.
They would if they tried to eat it.
It's way too big for that.
You'd be surprised.
I bet I could eat it.
Yeah, you're a grown man.
I bet I could eat it too.
I bet I could eat two of them.
As it is, Tiger.
You are also a grown man.
I didn't see the light.
I was a grown man.
What are you calling a grown man?
You man child over there.
All right.
Yeah.
No, I don't actually have the thing.
Okay.
But he's not talking to you live.
It's a voice message.
It's not...
I have a message.
Yes.
Click, click, click.
Play voice message.
Okay.
So, there's a message from Varanus.
And Varanus is saying that at Zellcom Tower, if you go to Coram's office, there should be some information on his computer.
Maybe, if you're trying to find out some stuff about some more proof and things about Kratos Letros.
Okay.
And where's Coram's office again?
Oh, sorry.
Coram's office is in Zellcom Tower.
Oh, okay.
And you should be able to get to it.
You should be able to get inside of Zellcom Tower through a maintenance bay in the side.
And he sent you some instructions on how to bypass the security.
Fantastic.
Let's go.
But he also warns that he's not affiliated with Zellcom, the Zellcom of Zellcom Tower.
And you really should not get caught.
Because that would make Varanus look bad.
And Varanus doesn't like to look bad.
I don't think Varanus has anything to worry about from us.
You're not talking to Varanus?
So you're just talking to yourself.
I know.
Did you guys hear what I said?
Varanus?
Yes, Mac.
That was a good joke.
Thanks.
I'm still sleeping.
Wait, what?
Well, man, he even tells Buns in his sleep.
Well, yeah, I can sleep and hear things, too, just like you.
I know.
Wait, who is this Varanus guy?
Impressed or ashamed.
I don't actually know who is Varanus.
He's our contact.
Ah, yes.
He is our contact.
From where?
The spider.
Oh, the spider?
Oh, you met him at the spider?
Yes.
Were you playing Sabacc?
Yes.
That's where I lost your ship.
You didn't lose it to Varanus, did you?
No.
No, it was someone else at the table.
Wait a second.
No, you came back on a speeder bike.
You gave us two.
Right.
You don't even know how many speeder bikes you had.
No, the other one was broken.
We already went through that.
I was pretty pissed about that, by the way.
Well, they're going to be more pissed when they find out you took their speeder.
All right.
Well, what do you guys want from me?
I'm going to get out of here and go back to work.
Maybe another speeder or two?
He's not listening anymore.
He turned around and started wrenching.
Who asks a question and then just leaves?
It was rhetorical, he says.
Oh, you answer that one, but not the last one.
Well, quit asking me questions.
Chopper.
Go back to wrenching.
He goes back to wrenching.
Chopper.
Chopper, can we borrow the speeder you've got here?
Hey, I'm wrenching here.
I'm wrenching.
I'll wrench with you.
I'll hold your hair back.
All right.
Roll a charm check.
Oh, God.
And it will be against his...
I don't know.
What is the opposite of charm?
Cool.
Okay.
That's just the instinct anyway.
All right.
Can I roll?
Yeah, it'd be three difficulty.
Oh, shit.
Do you want me to re-roll?
Yeah, that's fine.
Do you want me to re-roll?
Yeah, just re-roll.
Doesn't matter.
Okay.
I didn't know you were.
None of this matters.
Ah, nihilism.
It's so exhausting.
Hey, the first one succeeded.
I forgot what you were asking.
Oh, you were trying to wrench next to him.
And it failed.
Oh, I was trying to hold his hair back.
He held his hair back while he was wrenching.
He's like, get out of here.
Don't touch my hair.
Also, I don't...
Chopper.
I don't have any hair.
I'm a lizard man.
It was the thought that counts.
I like that you made him roll.
Did that roll actually change reality?
Anything?
Oh, it just made my life harder because now that I'm a man.
No, because if he would have succeeded, it's like, would he have had hair if he succeeded?
I might have.
You don't know.
Can't prove a negative.
All right.
Fine.
You guys can take a...
Is that a...
You can take a speeder.
And if you can fix the other speeder, you can take that one too.
Speeder car?
No, it's just a bike.
Can we have the speeder car?
No.
I see this one here.
That's not...
No, that's just a representation.
It's not literal.
Oh.
But can I have a speeder car?
No.
You take the bikes and you'll like it.
Dammit.
Get that.
Bikes suck.
How many bikes do we have now?
You have zero.
Oh, I have zero bikes.
No, well, you have one back at the...
Back at the...
Oh, that's true.
...Cahuna Wave.
The Kahuna.
Like, you own one.
You own one.
A red one.
Oh, it had flames on it.
Yeah.
How did I know that?
It was pretty.
Why aren't I driving it now?
That is a good question.
Oh, it's a great question.
And the answer to that question is that the operation called for you not to have it.
You were airdropped in into the building where you stole the data from the data warehouse.
Remember at the beginning when you were in the middle of that data warehouse heist?
Oh, yeah.
This all sounds very, very believable.
I have so many exciting adventures.
Hmm.
You wouldn't believe.
Okay.
All right.
Dibs on the bike.
All right.
Well, let's try to fix the other one.
Mechanically.
Yes, mechanically.
Okay.
Are you going to be its therapist?
Roll a mechanics check.
All right.
Do you want to roll the mechanics check?
Uh, yeah, sure.
Happy to.
Uh, you can't extend roll scale.
It's average.
Average.
That's what she said.
It's just a fuel line break.
Hey.
Oh, and you have an advantage.
Hey.
Now it's better than the speeder bike Mack wants.
Or has it aboard the ship.
Um, yeah.
I don't know.
It goes a little faster.
It goes a little faster than the normal ones.
Sarn's.
Than Sarn's bike.
No, not my bike.
Yeah.
That's why.
I like that as an advantage.
We only have two bikes.
Yeah.
You have two bikes and one's faster than the other.
All right.
And I jumped on the fast one.
You, you can't.
Well, no.
I'm, I'm already on the fast one.
Yeah.
You can't just do that.
You already picked a bike.
Stick with the bike you picked.
I didn't pick a bike.
Yeah.
You, you were over by the bike.
Max jumped on a bike already.
Okay.
So you're going to jump on the faster one with, with RX.
Yeah.
And I think I should probably pilot too.
Well, no, you're behind me.
Take that up with RX.
I think I should probably pilot.
This is why I wanted a car.
Oh, I'm pretty comfortable.
I'm pretty comfortable where I'm at.
Nobody wants to fucking.
The last time I was in a, in a vehicle with a robot driver, it got shot.
Well, I have plot armor.
By me.
I have plot armor, even from you.
What is this?
What happened?
Oh.
Chopper, why should we just walk?
I don't know.
Cause that's what Max says.
No one likes riding when I am the driver.
I am a good driver of speeder bikes.
Exception.
I have never crashed a speeder bike.
All right.
That is not a deception.
Fine.
That's fine.
Drive.
Are you guys still fighting?
All right.
Would it get you to stop fighting if I give you a sidecar?
Yes.
For that bike?
Yes.
All right.
Fine.
What does that, what would that even look like in Star Wars?
Take this sidecar.
You can fight about who sits in the sidecar, but just get the hell out of here.
Chopper.
Yes.
Can you put the sidecar, can you wrench the sidecar onto it for me?
Um, I don't know.
Hold on.
Pretty please.
No.
Oh, I found one.
All right.
You know, I can't say no to the ladies.
I mean, the men.
I just, I just wrench this here.
Wait, what did, what did you just say?
I said, you know, I can't say no to the lady.
I mean, the men.
To you, to you, to Sarn.
I can't say no to Sarn.
And he goes over and he wrenches on the sidecar.
It was, it was a gender identity joke, which it probably doesn't age well.
Yes.
I jump in the sidecar.
While he's wrenching it.
Wow.
You really like it in there.
Comfy.
Yeah, it is, ain't it?
Yeah.
And I can shoot more things from it.
Okay.
Like Ugnaughts.
And then you hear, you see, oh, what is this?
We'll just put something in the chat.
Oh, it is a sidecar.
Oh, it's popped out.
Yeah.
Was that in a movie?
I don't think so.
But hey, it's great.
Wow.
So now you're fastened on as a sidecar to RX's speeder bike.
All right.
Let's go.
Ride like the wind.
Away.
And then I drive off.
Wait, where are we going?
Talcum?
Talcum Tower?
Talcum Power.
I don't know.
RX is driving.
Zalcum Tower.
Talcum.
Talcum Power.
Look at RX and go, to Zalcum Tower, good sir.
With Talcum Powder.
Who are you talking to?
You.
That is unexpected.
You are sitting there.
You wanted to drive.
So, be my chauffeur.
To Zalcum Tower.
Away.
Okay.
Boom.
I'm not sure why you put up such resistance to that for a small amount of time.
That was a very small resistance.
Such small resistance.
You know, character building.
Ah, that's what that is.
How away have we gone?
Okay.
Yeah, you guys, you ride over to...
Who's that shit?
Oh, you can see that?
You're not supposed to see that.
Oh.
I was like, who's that goddess?
The goddess.
Just over...
Looking over Coruscant.
I mean, that's a good question.
It's not like a surprise character that shows up.
It's just in the book.
So, I was like, yeah, we'll put that on there.
Yeah, come back, lady.
All right.
Looming over its surroundings, the Zalcum Tower is home to...
The goddess.
Looming over its surroundings, the Zalcum Tower is home to a shipping company that delivers goods between the core worlds and the Outer Rim territories.
Its headquarters, in sector 1265, is bustling with visiting clients and traders during business hours.
But now, the place is dark and apparently closed for the day.
I guess it took you a little while to drive there.
It's now nighttime.
And Zalcum is closed.
Nevertheless, there appears to be some activity going on around the building under the cover of darkness.
And a small shuttle departs from an upper docking pad as you approach.
I think we should land on that docking pad.
I agree.
You guys aren't landing.
Oh.
You're on speeder blades.
Oh, we don't.
Oh.
Well, we should go find that door that was left in the message.
The loading bay, was it?
It was the maintenance bay.
Maintenance bay.
I think we should find the maintenance bay.
Door.
I agree.
Okay.
So, you walk over to the side of the building, said it was the maintenance bay.
And on the side of the building, there is a blast door.
You see a computer pad there.
That presumably opens the door.
It's like a number pad.
RX, you're up.
Computers check.
Okay.
So, it'll be...
It'll be...
Since you got information from Varanus about the entrance to this door, this maintenance bay,
it's going to be an easy computers check, rather than some other type of check.
Well, that's a lot of advantages.
Yes, it is.
I don't know how they would come into play.
Can we say that now he knows the passwords?
The door opens silently.
Okay.
So, you open the door, and on the other side, you're in a maintenance hangar.
It opens silently, and nobody notices that you opened the door.
Good.
We have to...
Are we sneaking in, guys?
Yes.
But you're in a hangar.
It's mostly empty, and it's dark.
Don't worry.
I'm good at stealth.
I'm good at trying to be good at stealth.
No, you're not.
You are very good at trying.
That's all right.
That was not a compliment.
All right.
What happened to us, guys?
You used to be a family.
You're in the hangar, and it's a big, empty building, but you do see a door on the far side of the hangar that looks like it connects to the rest of the building.
It's a little bit lit up, so...
Is there...
Is that the only door in, if I look around more?
Or is there, like, an elevator?
Because didn't they say we should take the elevator to someone's office?
They did say that.
You can roll an average perception check to see if there's any other doors in the...
In that hangar.
You perceive nothing.
You got him.
Zing.
That never gets old.
No.
Never will.
Okay.
So, should we walk up to that door?
Yeah, let's do it.
But sneak.
Just in case.
Use all of our cunning.
Okay, well, then all of you need to roll...
If you're going to sneak, all of you need to roll stealth checks.
That's fine with me.
All of us?
Average?
Well, I mean, all of you are walking in there.
You can't just one of you be stealthy.
What was the difficulty?
Average.
Look at all those dice.
Who rolled a boost die?
I did.
Oh, because you got a stealth.
You got a stealth bonus.
You're right.
All right.
I apologize.
We all succeeded.
You all succeeded.
I got a triumph.
How would you like to spend your triumph?
It cancels out our extra threats.
Honestly, I think you could just use your four advantages for that.
And use a triumph for something else.
Okay.
No, I walk over and as I'm sneaking around, I managed to be able to see that elevator door as well.
That I was looking, that I could not perceive earlier.
So if you can see that, then it's through the hangar door.
So it's still the same door that you have to walk through.
Oh, okay.
On the other side of that door, down a hallway a little bit, you can see elevator banks.
Okay.
So the triumph is that somebody accidentally left that, that hangar door open.
No, no, no, no.
That's the, that's the triumph that you can see that far.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Well, the whole thing.
Maybe they left the hangar door open.
Yeah.
Okay.
Sorry.
You see, you guys sneak across the entire hangar.
You're somewhat stealthy.
You're in the shadows.
And you come up on the backside of that door.
You haven't gone through the hangar door yet, but you're right there next to it.
Did you just turn your lights on, Mac?
It's shadows.
I'm moving in the shadows.
I was surprised he didn't put his goggles on.
I, I, they, they are out of, they are in my bathroom on the ship.
I thought you were going to say in your bathroom right now.
I mean, they are.
They are, but.
You got to keep your swimwear, honestly.
Okay.
So you're, you're back across on there and let's have somebody discuss amongst yourselves.
Roll a perception check about what's on the other side of the door.
I mean, we already know that a little bit further down the hall, there's some elevator banks because of your triumph.
You could see from where you were.
But in order to see if you perceive anything else, probably a perception check.
Which one of you guys wants to perceive some stuff?
I've, I've got a yellow and a green dye.
Uh, perception.
I forgot where it went.
There it is.
I have really bad perception.
So you guys don't want me to.
I have two green and one yellow.
Okay.
Well, that, that's you.
All right.
Roll it.
Wee.
And I failed.
You failed.
I didn't see anything.
It's too dark in here.
So, so you look, you look through that door down, down, uh, down the hallway.
Uh, but you can't see a lot cause you're afraid to get too far into the door.
Um, but from where you were, you didn't see anything.
All right.
Let's just, let's just keep sneaking over to that elevator bank.
Yeah.
Let's sneak to that elevator.
So.
Okay.
We go to the elevator.
You're going to go all at once.
You're going to go one at a time.
Let's say.
I'll, I'll go first.
Okay.
Check it out.
Since I've got the best stealth.
That's fine.
I have to go to the bathroom.
Okay.
Where'd he go?
Bathroom.
Oh, we probably should wait for him.
He's probably getting, he's probably getting his, his goggles.
Oh, right.
His robot goggles.
His robo goggles.
All right.
Break time.
His robo goggles.
All right.
Fine.
Everyone go get a leak.
Okay.
Thank you.
I think that I'm still drunk.
I didn't want the big breakfast.
Wednesday, Argo.
Sell up embargo.
Watching Netflix and cry.
Hi, Andy.
Hi.
What's up?
Hi.
What's going on?
I don't see a little shit in the toilet.
How's your job doing?
Doing okay?
It's going all right.
Yeah?
Are they working to the bone?
No, not really.
You like it?
Yeah, I stand there and I play a game.
That's basically what it is.
You like it more than when you were cooking?
Mostly.
Mostly?
That's good.
I still enjoy cooking, but to do it as a career is...
It's hard.
Oh, I believe it, man.
I'm glad you found something that's a little bit more, at least operational.
You know?
Yeah.
I know you're having art.
Yeah.
How's the kids?
The kids went back to school already, right?
Yeah.
How's that been?
It's been okay.
We hired a more...
Finally hired full-time staff, so I just got done training this guy today.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
So, hopefully...
We've been short-staffed for over a year now, so hopefully now with this guy, we'll...
And if he's hopefully not going to work, sticks around, we won't be too overstretched then,
so...
Yeah, it's going to make it easier on you, too.
Is Ryan okay?
Yeah.
Oh, he's back.
I'm out of space.
Let a look upon your face.
Change that stupid block.
All right.
So...
All right.
Why'd you kick Craig out?
Uh-oh.
That's not good.
I guess I haven't really been using Craig's recordings anyway.
What?
I'm sure he's still in there.
He's not in there.
I don't think so.
What happened to him?
His bare face is gone.
He's pissed.
I've been unexpectedly disconnected.
He must have heard about the break.
He probably went to take a piss.
Yeah.
Bear piss.
What other kind of piss would it be?
He's a bear.
He's not taking a rabbit hole.
I'm recording.
Hi, Craig.
I hope you're happy.
Okay.
Yeah.
First thing he recorded was me saying rabbit piss.
Yeah.
That's going to be...
That's going to be the name of the episode.
It wasn't even in the episode.
That's how you know you're that good.
Are we getting on this elevator or what?
All right.
So you guys are still...
You're still hanging out by the door.
And Sarn said he made some kind of hand gesture at everyone.
Like some kind of stealthy hand gesture.
Exactly.
He's...
That's what he...
But I think he was signifying that he was planning to sneak out into the hallway.
Yes.
Okay.
That's what this means in Ryloth.
Yeah.
So if you're going to do that, it's going to be an average stealth.
I'm stealthing it.
No.
What the fuck?
How do I even use six advantages?
Okay.
So I'm going to say that you go into the hallway and you...
You're going across for like some kind of bush to like hide by the bush and like the shadows using your elite training.
But you do...
You are a herd.
Let's say.
And you have six advantages.
Would you like to notice something with your advantages?
Yeah.
That I have a bunch of rocks in my...
That are like around on the ground.
Okay.
That I can pick up.
And I can throw it somewhere to like distract them.
Okay.
If they come searching for me.
Okay.
So my six advantages are six rocks.
Yeah.
Let's say it's a set of things that you throw just to mask where you're coming from.
So you do fail in sneaking in that there is suspicion being aroused, which is going to make sneaking harder from now on.
But they can't triangulate immediately on where you're at.
And now you're hiding out by a bush, right?
Like a fern?
Like an office fern?
A fern, sure.
And roll an easy perception.
Anthony.
You perceive nothing.
But I have a triumph.
Oh, you do have a triumph.
Oh.
I have something that could work.
Maybe?
Triumph is auto-pass.
It's not?
It should be.
Yeah.
Do you have any way you'd like to suspend your triumph?
I don't have any idea.
Okay.
I'll say that your training kicks in because you are a stealth master and a bounty hunter.
Assassin.
You know that there would be something around here that should turn the lights on or off.
Let's say it's a switch of some sort.
And in order to switch it, you're going to need to make a computer's check.
You don't know exactly where it is, though.
But you know there should be one here.
That's your triumph on that.
So I can't make a computer check, though?
You're not by the switch.
You just know that there's probably a switch around here which will make your stealth checks easier.
If, although they may suspect that someone's there.
But they should make your stealth checks easier if someone can find it.
So go ahead and let everyone know.
All right.
Hey, guys.
Yes?
I have to whisper.
There should be a switch around here to shut the lights off.
If one of you can find it and turn it off, that would be great.
And very much needed.
Is it this?
That sounds like a light side point.
Do we have any?
Yeah, we have one.
I flip a light side point.
Is it this switch right here?
No.
I'm just kidding.
No.
I mean, perform a computer check on it.
And it's going to be easy.
I think.
Okay.
That hurts.
You go to switch it.
And you push the button.
And it's like one of those smart switches.
And then the screen just goes off.
But you do have five advantages.
He muted himself.
Oh.
All right.
Okay.
Can I spend your advantages?
Unless you have something.
Okay.
For whatever reason, it doesn't turn the lights off.
But it does show you where the switch is to turn off the lights that you're looking to turn off.
And the switch is on the other side of the door.
You would still need to make a stealth check to get there.
But you know where it's at.
And you have to make the computers check.
Okay.
Seems like it.
Oh.
He's muted.
Yeah.
That's why he's been giving you the finger and thumbs up.
Yeah.
I'm eating chips.
I didn't want to annoy you guys.
Oh.
Okay.
Good.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Well, my stealth sucks dick.
Okay.
Now, here's something you could do.
I don't want to take away your...
Well, never mind.
You can go ahead.
No.
Take away my agency.
What can I do?
No.
I...
Well, your stealth is bad.
Your computers are good.
Sarn is probably a little bit closer to the switch.
If he can manage to get closer, you could probably throw him a boost die by helping him out with the computers check.
Deal.
Oh, okay.
Sorry.
Get closer.
I just want the lights on.
Off.
Wait.
What did I say?
The exact opposite.
They're already on.
Look.
I mean, they're not on.
They're in like a nighttime mode.
Like in this picture in the bottom.
It's like...
It's dim.
But it could be completely dark.
Okay.
So, I have to sneak over to the...
No, no.
Ask Rx.
Other side of the door.
So, the door to the hangar...
I'm already in that hallway.
So, the hangar goes into a hallway that's like this way.
So, this is the door of the hangar.
It's a hallway that goes this way.
There's a hallway that goes that way.
You're closer into the...
Like by the corner.
On the other end of the door...
Like in this hallway, then the elevator bank is down here.
Closer to you...
On that hallway, there's a light switch.
So, you would just have to go from over here to over here.
Okay.
In the hallway that's parallel to the door.
Okay.
Gotcha.
And it's an...
It's an increased difficulty, right?
Because they are...
So, it's going to be a setback...
Because they...
Suspect that there's somebody...
Going around.
Because someone...
Some asshole threw rocks.
Threw six rocks.
For some reason.
Well, it worked for a second.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, you're able to successfully cross...
And get right in front of that...
That data pad on the wall...
That seems to be a light switch.
All right.
And I threw...
One of my other advantages...
Is I threw rocks to where I was standing...
So, they don't know where I'm at currently.
Okay.
So, they're all confused.
But they are walking back and forth...
Looking for someone at this point.
Because that extra bit...
That extra bit...
Got their cockles raised.
Six.
All right.
Six rocks.
That might be a coincidence.
But...
Eight rocks?
Eight.
Probably not.
All right.
You're right by the...
Okay.
Yeah.
I'm right by...
All right.
So, what should I do?
Push the buttons in this sequence.
One, two, five, seven, three, two, five, seven, two, five, one, three, three, five, nine.
Slow down there.
One.
What was the next one?
Two.
Well, Mac had one of them.
One, two, five, seven.
All right.
Okay.
So, wait, hold on.
Oh, yeah.
You got a boost.
All right.
I failed in a triumph.
You got a triumph.
So, you did...
So, you were unsuccessful in turning the lights off.
But, you got a triumph.
Damn it.
I shoot the switch and it turns them off.
Okay.
You shoot the switch.
The lights go off.
But now they know exactly where you are.
There's two security guards coming right to where you're at.
Now, they can't see you directly.
But they're coming right toward you.
All right.
Stealth check.
I run out into the big room and just start making really loud noises.
Okay.
Help.
I'm a droid.
I am lost.
The lights are off.
Ah, security.
Help.
Security.
And they say...
And the security comes and they swarm onto you.
And they say, what are you doing here?
You're not supposed to be here.
One of them.
He's still eating chips.
Robot, why are you eating chips?
I was hungry.
I am lost.
I am a protocol droid.
I was tasked to serve the boss of this place.
Okay.
It's a deception check.
And it's going to be hard.
God damn it.
Why does it have to be so hard to lie?
Oh, man.
I thought you're lying to be fine.
No, I have one green.
Oh, that's not good.
Against a hard check?
Nothing.
Okay.
Check failed.
With threats three.
Yeah.
And he says to you, you don't look like any protocol droid that I've ever seen.
Wait.
And then he goes...
Wasn't it the saw hand?
And we...
And the third...
And the third hand, which looks awfully like a surgeon's hand.
So...
Wait.
It's completely dark.
They can't see anything.
And he goes...
He goes to...
Fair enough.
So one guard starts to go...
To, like...
Arrest you?
And...
And starts sneaking up behind him.
Okay.
Um...
That's...
That's gonna be...
That's gonna be a sneak attack.
Yeah.
I'm gonna do a sneak attack for a sleeper hold.
What check is that?
Wait.
Who's sneaking first?
Sarn?
Well...
Light switch?
Probably.
Hey.
Well, actually...
No.
I think...
Hey.
Mac is probably a little bit closer.
Um...
Just because you move further away to get to the light switch.
So...
Mac, you're technically closer.
I don't know if you wanna go or if you wanna coordinate with Sarn or what.
But as this is going on...
The...
They're starting to apprehend...
Uh...
RX.
For the time being.
All right.
They're going to hang out.
How...
How well can we see in this area?
You can see him just fine.
Because by the time they...
Because he jumped right into the light and said...
Hey.
I'm right here, guys.
I...
I think he was trying...
He was trying to deceive.
Didn't work.
But he's like right in the light.
But...
Oh.
Their backs are to you.
The...
The guards.
So they can't see Sarn.
They're a little bit to the side.
I guess here is probably what I was thinking conceptually.
So this is fairly accurate.
Does the light make me look fat?
Uh...
It makes you look heavy.
I don't know about fat.
Can we both sneak up on these guys?
Like...
And clunk him on the head?
Like Fred Flintstone?
So...
Let's see.
What kind of check might that be?
Is there a communications check?
Is that like a stealth?
Is that like two checks in a row?
Yeah.
Stealth and melee maybe?
Yeah.
What's the difference between brawl and melee?
Is that...
Is that brawl mostly just for fist fighting?
Yes.
I think brawl is like...
Hold on.
I think brawl is without weapons.
And melee is with weapons.
Oh yeah.
I'm definitely going to...
Use the butt of my gun to hit him in the back of the head.
Okay.
If...
If you guys can both succeed a stealth check...
You can have the first two initiative slots.
Okay.
So...
Average?
For what?
The stealth?
Yeah.
It's...
Average.
Yeah.
These dice are loaded.
How does that even happen?
Yeah.
We might have to look into that.
I'm going to...
You guys are going to have to buy dice and just roll them manually.
When you're going to trust me?
Oh.
We're just going to have to...
I don't even want to see your face.
Just put it right on the dice.
Oh.
Okay.
So you go to sneak up on them.
They hear you coming up.
And...
Roll for initiative.
And let's add this guy to...
Fighting.
And fighting.
What do I roll for initiative?
Um...
I think you're...
Vigilance?
No.
Cool.
And...
Wait.
Did I roll...
Oh.
Wait.
That's against...
It's against...
Yes.
But let me look at this to see if there's a way...
Roll NPCs.
Wait.
You were able to do it before, I think.
Let me just change these.
Yeah.
For whatever reason...
They have all your tokens as...
Is...
Hostile.
Sounds about right, actually.
Well, based on your rolls.
Okay.
And...
Okay.
Now...
I think if you go to...
What does this do?
Roll initiative.
Can you see...
Can you go to the fist tab?
At the...
So there's the chat.
Then there's a fist, which should be combat.
Do you see that?
Yeah.
There's two NPCs and three PCs?
Yeah.
So...
I don't know who rolled that, but don't...
Roll a second one.
And then...
Somebody roll the next PC.
The first one had...
A fist next to it.
Or like a dice next to it.
Oh, we can't...
Right, roll.
Cool?
Uh...
Or Vigilance?
It'd be cool.
And then just...
Do I have...
No, there should be a dice icon...
Like next to the PC.
Do you...
Let me share...
I can share my screen.
But...
I'm confused.
I'm sorry.
Because I...
I just don't know what...
What you can...
What you can see versus what I can see sometimes.
I just thought I was supposed to roll a cool check.
No, I'm trying to do it fancy-like.
So...
Oh.
You can see my screen now?
Do you see up here...
In the top...
The top right...
This is the chat window with all our rolls.
Uh...
Looks like RX rolled...
Initiative.
Sauron rolled initiative.
And then here...
There should be one that has a dice next to it.
In the combat.
Do you see it?
Uh...
Let me pull it up.
Uh...
Yeah.
So I said that?
Yeah.
That'll roll your initiative.
And then...
Just...
Uh...
Vigilance or cool.
Uh...
Cool.
And it's cool because you're expecting a fight.
Oh.
That is pretty cool.
Uh...
Oh, fail.
Okay.
So...
Um...
Your first slot is a PC...
PC slot.
Whoever wants to go.
I'll shoot first.
Okay.
I want to shoot at the one that is...
Handcuffed in RX.
I'm...
I'm intending this to be...
Fairly accurate in terms of...
Placement.
So...
You guys are within...
Like an...
Like an average distance.
Okay.
Well...
Actually, no.
It's just...
It's just short distance.
You're at short.
So...
Short is easy.
Okay.
And you're going to shoot at which one?
The one that is handcuffed...
Cuffing...
Alright.
Okay.
So let's say that's what he's like...
He's the one that's a little bit closer.
So you're going to shoot at him?
Yeah.
Okay.
That's it short.
Oh, I should probably take a aim too.
I have...
Hold on.
I have something for the first one in...
For the first roll in combat.
You do.
It's like quick draw, right?
Something like that.
Quick strike.
He...
So it adds a boost die.
Okay.
Quick strike.
Add boost per rank of quick strike to combat checks against targets that have not yet encountered.
Okay.
So it's a boost.
Okay.
All right.
So that's...
12 damage.
Plus a crit.
How did you get the crit?
Don't...
My...
Oh, it's only two advantages.
Sorry.
Yeah.
I don't know why.
It says critical three, but I don't know what that means.
Wait.
How many?
Yeah.
One, two, three, four.
You actually have four advantages.
No, that's success.
I'm sorry.
You just have one.
I don't know what that critical three means.
I'm going to have to find that out.
Two advantages.
Okay.
So...
Um...
This guy is...
Dead.
How do I make him dead?
No, just disappear.
Hmm.
It's time I disappear.
Er...
No, not that one.
This one is dead.
Okay.
Can you see the little skull on him?
It's kind of hard to see.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Um...
And he's dead.
Uh, you have another PC slot.
I'm assuming Mac...
Well, it's not going to be RX.
It's going to have to be...
Like...
Well, I guess it could be RX at this point.
Oh, I'll go last.
All right.
So, blaster pistol.
And then we're short range, right?
Yep.
Okay.
And then no difficulty.
Just average difficulty, right?
Uh...
Uh, one difficulty.
So, it's one purple.
Because you're in short range.
How do I make it go the opposite?
Uh, right-click.
Right-click it, yeah.
Okay, so you...
Zing.
You shoot, but don't...
But you don't hit him.
Um...
You do have advantages, though.
Yeah.
Um...
Can you describe where the...
With the area again?
Um...
You're in...
Basically, the T in a hallway.
You've got...
Okay.
To this end, there's a hallway down here with some elevators, which...
You're ultimately going to.
This is a hallway here.
And the door where you came from is, like, here.
Um...
My advantage is that they think that the blast came from the other direction, on the other
hallway.
But you're...
Because it's still dark.
Okay, so they don't know...
Let's say that they don't...
Well...
They don't necessarily know it's two people?
Is that what you're thinking?
Yeah.
I mean, you have four advantages.
Okay, so...
Yeah.
I'll say that...
Because they don't know exactly where it came from...
When he makes his...
His shot...
It will be at a disadvantage.
Which is...
A black die.
Does that make sense?
I'm sorry.
You're...
You glitched out.
What did you just say?
I'm saying...
You said that it's still kind of dark there.
They're not entirely sure where you're at.
Okay.
So, it will be...
It'll add a setback to his next shot.
Okay.
That is really interesting, that thing that you said.
Oh, you seen it?
Yeah.
What?
Should I not?
There's a...
There's a new module in here...
That...
That gives you ideas of how to spend advantages.
And I just saw it come up here, so I clicked on it.
And it says, some ideas for spending results for ranged light.
And it has a couple of things here.
Oh, I never...
These are just...
Ideas...
On how to spend advantages.
So, if I had three...
So, if I had four advantages, could I use one...
Could I have used one to say the target dropped his weapon he was wielding?
Well, according to this idea, yes.
So, we can try that.
Well, the check failed, but...
So, that would be a fine...
Yes.
Yeah, because the check is whether or not you hit them with your attack.
You didn't hit them with your attack, but those four advantages could have...
Narratively, you could have said...
Sort of thrown him off balance that he dropped his weapon.
Okay.
Is it too late to do that, or is that...
We're already past that point, right?
Okay.
Well, whatever.
Yeah.
We can do that.
Yeah.
For drop...
So, for spending your four advantages...
Let's say you spooked him.
He didn't know exactly where you were.
So, it's still true what you said.
It's still dark.
And he didn't know exactly where it came from.
It spooked him.
And he dropped it.
His friend just died.
He just got shot at.
He dropped his weapon.
And it's his turn now.
So, he's going to spend a maneuver to pick up his...
His weapon.
Then he's going to shoot over in Sarn's direction because...
That's where it came from first.
So...
Okay.
And it's close.
So, one difficulty.
Oh, you rolled those privately?
Oh, I didn't mean to.
Can I make this public?
Reveal to everyone.
Okay.
There's the roll.
He does...
One damage at Sarn.
My turn?
It's not your...
It's a PC slot.
Oh, it's a PC.
In fact, it's got to be RX because RX hasn't gone yet this turn.
So...
They were going to handcuff me.
Did they ever succeed?
They did not.
Sarn blasts the guy before he could put cuffs on you.
Okay.
Who's facing me right now?
Are any of them facing me right now?
Or did they all turn from the gunfire behind them?
This one turned to shoot at Sarn.
Okay.
Well, can I draw my weapon?
That would be a maneuver.
What'd you get?
Yep.
Can I take a second maneuver to take aim?
That would cost you strain.
I do want to know where your weapon was.
They did not see a weapon on you when they approached you?
Where was it?
I'm not saying you don't have it.
I'm just saying, where was it?
So, my upper arm on my right side is hollow.
There's just like a plate there.
And the plate can move.
And the gun was under there.
Okay.
So, I just...
I removed the gun.
Which was somewhat surprising.
Well, no.
He hasn't seen you yet.
You're still moving.
Yeah.
And then I just swivel, take aim for a strain.
Okay.
And fire at the one nearest to me.
Okay.
Which is, I'm assuming, close range?
Or was he close enough to be considered?
Okay.
No.
No, no, no.
This one...
The other one would have been...
This one, I'm going to say, was just going to be one difficulty.
So, close range.
I get a boost for aiming.
Sure.
Did we take your strain?
I'll go ahead.
That's...
I'll have to add it.
Okay.
How do you say it?
I got it.
Success is three.
Advantage is two.
So, I think that means I do...
All right.
How does that work again?
I think I do, like...
Because it's, like, damage per success, right?
Yeah, but it's already calculated into the 12.
It is?
Because your blaster rifle do nine.
Oh, I see.
And each success is three.
Perfect.
So, you do 12 damage altogether with two advantages.
We might have to revisit whether or not you could have hidden a blaster rifle in your arm.
But we'll just keep going on here.
Um...
So, I'll just make a note for me to think about that more.
Would you make it more comfortable if it was in my leg?
Bigger space?
Um...
No, but...
But...
I think...
What it should be...
Is that...
The...
His wrist can, like, open up.
And the barrel of the gun is that it's, like, four arms.
When I've seen that...
Or it's just...
When I've seen that before in here, those are usually pistols, not rifles.
I'm not...
I don't really want to make an argument of it now.
But in the future, maybe going into this, we would say...
This is what we're carrying going into this.
And this is how we're concealing it.
But for the purposes of this, we can just keep going.
Honestly, I just thought I had my gun on my back.
Because I always thought I had my gun on my back.
Which is...
Which is fair.
But it...
Also, those...
And we were doing this on the fly.
But the people that were...
That stopped you...
Would have noticed the gun on your back.
And not...
I mean, they might have.
They told me I was not a protocol droid.
And they may...
And they were going to arrest me.
Yeah.
That's fair to you.
Wouldn't the gun on my back be part of them?
Notice me not me being a protocol droid?
That's believable, too.
Which is why I'm not going to say you can't have had your rifle in your arm.
Or wherever it was.
Just something in the future that we can...
Or I would prompt this about, maybe.
Because, theoretically, that would make your deception harder.
In the future.
That's true.
Right?
If you were carrying it on your back.
But...
In this case, it's...
I should have said...
I'm hired as a bodyguard droid.
You could have been.
But...
Also...
Whatever.
Just...
Just in the hypothetical.
Regardless...
Um...
You shoot at this guy.
And...
You...
You blast him to bits.
He's...
Super dead.
Very, very dead.
Okay.
Hey.
Super dead.
Alright.
I go through their pockets.
Um...
Wait, no.
They're still in the live guy.
There?
No, there's only two.
So, Saren killed the first guy.
Uh...
Mac shot and missed the second guy.
And then...
Rx.
You...
You ended up killing the second guy.
Yay.
Um...
Okay.
You can...
It's gonna be an average perception.
Don't fail me now.
Uh...
You failed.
I failed.
Um...
And there's a threat.
So...
You notice...
See, it doesn't...
It doesn't give me help spending results.
Only fucking advantages.
That's lame.
Um...
As...
As you look through, you see...
That his wrist has a light that's beeping.
Which seems to suggest that...
They're not the only two security guards in this building?
Okay.
Can I take that comm link?
What?
You didn't notice any comm link.
Well, the thing on his wrist.
Oh.
You said...
Okay.
All right.
I thought you said I noticed it.
All right.
You know...
No.
You noticed the blinking light on his wrist.
Yeah.
You can...
You can take it.
All right.
So you're gonna take the thing off his wrist?
Yeah.
Okay.
Because maybe if it is a comm link that I can overhear what...
The defenses are saying.
Okay.
Right now you don't hear anything.
You only see the blinking light.
Yeah.
Okay.
Now what?
All right.
Should we move the bodies?
Yes.
Are there bushes nearby?
Yeah.
I was...
I was just hiding under one...
Or behind one.
Before they...
Before they found us.
Let's...
Let's move the bodies...
Into that bush.
Over there.
I may have peed over there too.
So my...
Sometimes we move bodies in the bushes.
Yeah.
Real...
Family building right here.
It's a bonding moment for us.
Bonding moment.
Exactly.
I do appreciate a good team building activity.
Yep.
These are...
This is a nice bush too.
Notice the cut.
It's very, very well...
Well, very well maintained.
Is it a fern?
Is this a fern?
It sounds like a fern...
An anferny if I've seen...
If I've seen before.
So you guys...
An anferny...
You guys pile up these bodies...
These two slouching men...
Behind a tree...
That is an...
Indoor potted tree.
Well, the pot's pretty thick though.
The pot...
A pretty big pot.
The pot's pretty...
No, the pot's...
Yeah, it's pretty thick.
It's a hungry tree.
But it doesn't offer a whole lot of...
It's just...
They're behind there.
It's also pitch black.
Okay.
It's better than nothing.
You're right.
It is absolutely...
Absolutely.
By the time they find these guys...
We're going to be long gone.
Hopefully.
It's just a funny image...
With two slouched men...
Behind a...
Potted tree.
I have a very skinny tree.
Okay.
You guys just hid the bodies.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's go to the elevators now.
Finally.
Let's get in them.
Okay, so you guys...
Do I have to do anything to get there?
Oh, I should probably move these guys.
I wish I had a tree icon.
A tree?
Tree.
You guys run down the hallway.
You do see...
Over by the elevator.
But like a little bit further away.
There is another security guard.
But he's just...
Chewing bubble gum.
You get up to the elevator banks.
And there is a computer pad there.
Wait.
Where's the...
To guard?
Uh...
You're right.
I should put him on here.
How come I can't...
Deselect?
There we go.
You guys are together.
And over here...
There's a...
There's a guy...
Just sort of looking around.
Like...
He's a security guard, but he's not right next to the elevator.
So...
Hallway.
There's another hallway here.
And up here, there's a security guard...
Closer to another door.
Um...
But you guys are by a...
A...
A bank of elevators here.
And there's like a computer pad.
Alright.
Work your magic.
Put the gun away first.
Put it in your foot.
They'll never check the foot.
Okay.
It's a hard check.
Can I...
Wait.
Can I...
So I...
So the fact that we got help from...
What's the space on passwords for here...
Doesn't help us here at all?
No.
He got you into the building.
And he told you where to go.
He told you you gotta go to...
To Coram's office.
Alright.
Fucking fine.
I mean, you guys can try to go back to the spider at this point.
But you're gonna have to sneak out...
And go back to the spider and play more sabacc.
And see maybe if you can...
Shut up.
I succeeded.
Alright.
So...
Um...
What does that look like when...
When you succeed?
Uh...
Well, I...
Jack into the computer.
And...
Uh...
It spins around a little bit.
Like R2-D2 style.
Uh...
And...
Uh...
Then it just opens.
Okay.
So the doors open.
It's an elevator.
And...
Then what?
I imagine you guys pile in.
Go.
Yep.
Way to go in.
I just wanna get in this elevator.
Alright.
Fine.
You're in the elevator.
The doors close.
But it doesn't move because you guys haven't pushed any buttons yet.
You do see...
Uh...
Directory.
Uh...
On the left of the...
So the doors close.
On the right, there's buttons.
On the left, there's a directory.
And...
A directory of personnel.
Oh, where do you go?
Oh, we look for the guy that we're supposed to go to.
Yeah.
On the directory.
Do you know his name?
No.
I didn't think that was my job.
Anybody else remember the name of the guy you were supposed to go to?
Um...
I will say that Varanus told you today which office to go to.
In fact, I think I just said it a couple of seconds ago.
But...
Varanus?
No.
Not Varanus.
Okay.
Hint.
Just tell us the name.
It's...
I could just tell you the name.
However, I will tell you that Rx got a voicemail from Varanus.
Okay, so I listened to the voicemail again.
The voicemail tells you that Coram's office is probably where you want to go.
Why do we have such a hard time remembering this guy's name?
It's...
It's not...
When I say we...
It's...
Because you're idiots, probably.
It's a new...
It's a new guy, though.
It is a new guy that you haven't heard before today.
Okay.
Okay, so Coram's office, you look at the directory.
Coram is at the 19th floor.
All right.
Let's go to the 19th floor, fellas.
I pushed the button.
Okay.
You pushed the button and the elevator...
I've been on mute this whole time.
What were you saying?
I said...
I was like, Rx, replay the message.
Oh, you did.
Then you went through this whole spiel.
Tell him to listen to the message.
To the voice message.
No, that wasn't me being coy.
It was you being on mute.
Yeah.
Then I said I pushed the button.
Oh, well, it's too late.
Mac already pushed the button.
No, I said it first.
Okay, fine.
I was on mute.
Just because Zarn has a history of pushing buttons...
Oh, no, you didn't.
It was somebody else that pushed the button.
You shot him for it.
So, no, you don't get to push the button.
Yeah, he's just a little obsessed with that.
Okay, so you're obsessed.
I'm mad that I didn't get to press the button.
You did not get to push the button.
In fact, Mac pushed the button right before you could push it.
He pushed it underneath your finger, almost that your guy's fingers had touched.
I kick him with my robot toe.
Your robot toe, don't forget, is stuck in the outright position.
Yes.
Okay.
Are we ever going to fix that?
I kick him very lightly with my robot toe.
Oh.
Convincing.
The elevator takes off.
You guys zoom up.
It's a jet propulsion elevator, because why not?
Yeah, it's something to behold.
And you guys zoom up to the 19th floor.
It takes no time at all.
It comes to a smooth stop.
The door is open, and you're now on the 19th floor.
The lights are all dimmed, but it's kind of like, it's not dark.
It's just, it's dim because nobody's in there.
Kind of like when the lights are on low before the motion sensors go off.
That's why that's happened to me.
But you're on the 19th floor.
Okay.
And you walk out, and on the wall, there's a couple of arrows.
One points right that says to Bezleman's office.
And then there's one, did I say right?
Bezleman's office is right.
And to the left is Corman's office.
Corum's office.
Okay.
Well, I think we want to go left, guys.
All right.
Let's go left.
Okay.
Yeah.
Another adventure.
Left.
I'm trying.
Okay.
So you get there, and you see the door to Corum's office.
There's a plaque on the door that says Corum's office.
It's 1930.
That's just the number?
Because that's what it is.
And it's locked.
Well, there's a door.
Presumably it's locked, but you might want to try it, I guess.
I want to open the door.
Okay.
So it tries to open the door.
It turns out it's locked.
All right.
Smuggler, unlock the door.
All right.
What's my, is that a combat skill?
It's going to be, it's combat.
It would be, how are you going to try and open the door?
I'm going to try.
I have some.
Skullduggery.
Yeah.
Skullduggery.
I have like a lock set.
It's an average skullduggery check.
Average skullduggery.
You have a lock set?
I should.
I mean, can you describe it narratively?
Just for the sake of a narrative game.
Oh, look what I found in this pocket.
I have this little lock key.
I didn't even know I found.
Where does it even come from?
Was it just in the vest?
Yeah, it was just in the vest.
That vest is full of surprises.
It's just this random lock key that I can use to do it.
What's my skullduggery again, you said?
I haven't got that far yet.
I don't remember where skullduggery is at.
It's in alphabetical order.
Yeah, I see.
I see.
No, sorry.
I couldn't find it.
It's the one that starts with skull.
Oh, God.
And then just regular everything?
It's going to be average.
So two difficulty to die.
Fuck.
This thing's broke.
The battery's out.
Fuck.
Of the kit?
I swear, I'm going to get this fixed, guys, and this will work.
Okay.
All right.
Can you use your saw to cut open this door?
Yeah.
What is this?
Well, we're supposed to be visiting this fella here.
So someone hacked this door down.
It'll actually have a son.
Oh.
Okay.
Sorry.
Oh, turns out.
Sarn.
Yes.
Roll a perception check.
And let's say it's average.
Okay.
This perception thing is...
You perceive nothing.
However, you do perceive some threats.
You perceive nothing.
I want to make T-shirts for us for this.
It just says, you perceive nothing.
There's something wrong with these dice.
You notice that the elevator's lights have lit up.
It appears that they're moving.
Okay.
Well, I get in position behind, like, a wall to see if anything comes out of the elevator wall.
All these two bozos try to find a way to open the lock.
You guys have one move of time before it looks like that elevator's going to open.
All right.
I try a secret knock.
Don't waste that.
Why would you waste the one unit of time that we have with a secret knock?
Roll a...
Roll...
Oh, my gosh.
What would this be?
It's got to be a skullduggery, right?
I like skullduggery.
Skullduggery?
Yeah.
It's got to be, like, an extreme, though.
Yeah.
It's going to...
It's a daunting...
It's daunting.
It's a daunting skullduggery, which means four difficulty die.
Four?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
All right.
What do you expect to happen back there?
I have two advantages, though.
So, you do a secret knock on there.
The door doesn't open.
What do you think your advantage could be from that?
Let's see here.
I hear somebody's in there, though.
Or is that...
Can that be it?
Like, or like...
There is nobody in there, though.
There's nobody in there?
Right.
The...
God, I'm trying to think.
Am I advantage?
I don't know.
I can't think about any of these damn advantages.
No, it's hard.
It's definitely hard.
It's the hardest thing about the system.
But I'm trying to think.
What could it be from doing a knock on there?
How about this?
Okay.
The janitor who's working in the building heard me do the knock.
It says...
It's walking over by.
And that's just an advantage.
Okay.
So, it just so happens that as you knocked, that was the thing that attracted the janitor's attention as he's walking in the hallway.
And he turns and looks.
And he goes...
Huh?
And as he does that, he looks at...
Well, hold on.
He looks at you.
Notices you.
Then, the elevator door opens.
And two more security guys come in.
The janitor's right in between you and these security guards that just walked in.
And that's where we're going to end it.
I start blasting.
No.
No, I was going to start charming.
I was going to charm the janitor.
Don't start blasting.
No.
I'm going to start blasting next time.
No, I'm going to charm the janitor and he's not walking in the room.
You're going to have to think about it for a week.
There are two security guards.
Yeah, but if I act like I've been employed by Coram,
and I'm his new diplomat,
then the janitor will believe me and let me in.
No, I'm blasting.
But wait.
Who can I torture?
You could torture the janitor.
You probably could torture the janitor.
But you don't have any time to do that.
Let me just charm the janitor.
He'll open the door.
We'll be golden.
I don't have any time for you to charm the janitor either.
You can't go to the suite and the security guards are at the end of the hallway.
The janitor needs to survive before you can torture him.
I don't plan on him surviving.
What?
I mean, wow.
I'm going to protect this janitor.
I'm so surprised.
I think he's wearing a vest.
It's your fault that he's standing there.
You shouldn't have knocked on the damn door.
No, no, no.
It's going to be fine.
He's going to let me in because he's going to think I'm a new employee.
When do you think this is all going to happen?
Before the security guards see you talking?
Hey, man.
I'm a new employee.
You're not going to flirt with the janitor?
Yeah, I'll flirt with the janitor.
Good night, guys.
All right.
Good night.
He's not going to survive.
You're not going to survive.
I don't.
Not now.