Daniel [GM] 0:00 Welcome to Explorers Wanted. We are an actual play Numenera Podcast, still. Once again, I'll be your GM, Daniel Andrlik. With me today is Marietta Jones. Marietta [Atalia] 0:41 That's me. Daniel [GM] 0:42 Alex Finn. Alex [ChaCha] 0:43 It's a-me. Daniel [GM] 0:44 Sampson Davis. Sampson [Dili] 0:46 Hi, I'm Sampson, I'm on my on my second can of Redd's Wicked Apple. You're welcome. Marietta [Atalia] 0:51 Thanks for the update. Daniel [GM] 0:53 And Stace Babcock. Stace [Nix] 0:55 Hey, what's up. I'm pouring James T. Kirk bourbon into my Star Trek mug. Marietta [Atalia] 1:00 Ooh. Sampson [Dili] 1:01 Hell yeah. Daniel [GM] 1:02 Outstanding. That is awesome. Alex [ChaCha] 1:04 Free XP for it? Multiple Speakers 1:06 [Laughter] Daniel [GM] 1:07 No. Stace [Nix] 1:08 Awww. I guess I'll just drink straight from the bottle, then. Daniel [GM] 1:11 Yes. I am almost done with a bottle of Grenache. And I don't know what I'm going to do yet after that. Who remembers what happened last time? Stace [Nix] 1:24 Oh, very well. I will tell the story. Alex [ChaCha] 1:25 Tell us a tale. Stace [Nix] 1:28 All right. So, each of our characters individually walks through this door in an alley labeled Explorers Wanted at some point, sat through an interview, and then went about their lives. About a week later, small children showed up with messages to come back to the place in the alley and meet up with the lady who has a name. Marietta [Atalia] 1:52 She has a great name. Alex [ChaCha] 1:53 Super great. Stace [Nix] 1:54 It's good name. Momma Jerrun. Can you say that one more time please. For the listeners. Daniel [GM] 1:58 Mama Jerrun. Stace [Nix] 1:59 Her. And first came Atalia, who looked like what, Marietta? Multiple Speakers 2:07 [Laughter] Marietta [Atalia] 2:11 She was tan with auburn hair and yellow eyes-. Unknown Speaker 2:13 It doesn't have to be that far into the weeds. Stace [Nix] 2:17 And then next came...I feel like it was.... Alex [ChaCha] 2:22 Dili. Stace [Nix] 2:22 Dili. Sampson [Dili] 2:24 He's a short boy. And nervous. Stace [Nix] 2:26 Yeah, nervous, short boy. And, then, in came ChaCha. Alex [ChaCha] 2:30 She's a hugger. Stace [Nix] 2:32 Hugger. Magical. Wears a red cloak with many pockets. And then last but not least, and late as always, I came in Nix, my character. And they had tea and small cookies, and were dispatched to some ruins two days outside of town. Where someone this lady, someone else this lady had sent, disappeared, and...searching out an artifact. So our party is to go, find the lady and the artifact. So, we set out, make camp, get attacked by flying intestine monsters-. Marietta [Atalia] 3:12 It was a real bummer. Stace [Nix] 3:13 Nix kills two of them. Not sure what happened to the third, and then-. Sampson [Dili] 3:18 Dili participated. That's what happened. Stace [Nix] 3:20 Dili participated. Dili got the first one, I'm not upset. And then-. Sampson [Dili] 3:25 That's right, I did get the first kill. Stace [Nix] 3:27 You did. Sampson [Dili] 3:27 Suck it. Stace [Nix] 3:28 Whatever. You just have that forever, it doesn't matter. And the next morning, wake up and head out. And we get near to where we think the ruins ought to be, but there's no ruins. And then, ChaCha sees something weird, like, this floating fire monster. And she says something cryptic about horrors, and wanders off. Alex [ChaCha] 3:50 Horrors or whores? Stace [Nix] 3:50 No one else sees that by the way, I feel like that's important...um? Marietta [Atalia] 3:53 Whooores. Stace [Nix] 3:53 Whores [/'hu?z/]. No, whores. No. Marietta [Atalia] 3:56 Horrors. Sampson [Dili] 3:57 Whores [/'hu?z/]. Stace [Nix] 3:58 Hor-rors. Marietta [Atalia] 3:59 Oh, like Diablo? Multiple Speakers 4:02 [Crosstalk] Stace [Nix] 4:02 Shout out to Diablo. Ter-ror. So the horrors - some horror, horrific creature-. All right. And, uh-. Sampson [Dili] 4:10 No, keep going for the next half-hour. Stace [Nix] 4:13 Just spiraling out. And she starts the- ChaCha starts to follow this creature. We all follow ChaCha and then we encounter some giant green spires made out of...green. Marietta [Atalia] 4:27 Green. Stace [Nix] 4:28 Synth! Daniel [GM] 4:29 Mm hmm. Stace [Nix] 4:31 And that's where we ended the last episode. Daniel [GM] 4:33 Okay, so you stand in front of these strange ruins that looks like a crystal formation that's thrust out of the ground, except it's made of green synth. There's a huge opening in a diamond shape in front of you,` with some blinking blue lights deep from within. You have been sent to try to find Mewin, the Explorer that was sent to find a particular item in these ruins, and your goal is to map out as much as you can. And hopefully return with Mewin and the object. Stace [Nix] 5:08 Well, you said that much faster. Marietta [Atalia] 5:10 That's a lot of optimism after our first combat. Daniel [GM] 5:16 Oh, come on. You guys hardly took any damage. Stace [Nix] 5:19 What do you mean? It took less than a minute. Nix crushed it. Marietta [Atalia] 5:22 Excuse you, sir. My [unintelligible] pool is not doing well. Daniel [GM] 5:26 Oh, yeah, well, you guys slept for the night so everybody's pools are back to normal. Marietta [Atalia] 5:30 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Stace [Nix] 5:31 Oh. Atalia only slept half the night, so she should only get half her pools back. I'm just kidding. Marietta [Atalia] 5:38 No. You want to fight this early in the morning? Daniel [GM] 5:41 Okay. Sampson [Dili] 5:45 Stace, what the fuck? Marietta [Atalia] 5:46 Anyway, onward, upwards. Green lights. We're doing great. Daniel [GM] 5:49 We'll have to implement a sleep tracking app for every character. Stace [Nix] 5:53 And also diet. You gotta watch that. Alex [ChaCha] 5:56 Water intake. Exposure to the, you know, electronic lights. Daniel [GM] 6:05 What do you guys do? You've got this, these ruins in front of you that have just been exposed. Incidentally ChaCha, you no longer see that figure that was beckoning you inside. Alex [ChaCha] 6:15 [As ChaCha] He ditched me. Marietta [Atalia] 6:16 That's rude. Sampson [Dili] 6:17 [As Dili] No, we didn't. We're right here. Alex [ChaCha] 6:19 [ChaCha] Not you, the horror. Stace [Nix] 6:21 [As Nix] Man, you're real cool ChaCha. You're, like, real strange and unique. Sampson [Dili] 6:29 [As Dili] Wait, what horror? What? Marietta [Atalia] 6:30 [As Atalia] Oh my gosh. Stace [Nix] 6:31 [As Nix] No, not a whore. Marietta [Atalia] 6:32 [As Atalia] Is this really what I'm working with? Sampson [Dili] 6:34 [Dili] What horror did you see? Marietta [Atalia] 6:36 [As Atalia] Objective! Exploration! Be on the lookout! She might be dead! Stace [Nix] 6:44 [As Nix] Who? Daniel [GM] 6:45 [As Dili] Yeah, that's what I'm saying. What horror? Marietta [Atalia] 6:49 Anyways, um, can I, like, look around and see if there's any evidence of her, like, going into the other direction, or even having been here, or is there anything that's like trying to eat me? I'd like to Listen and Search or Perceive. Daniel [GM] 7:06 It's gonna be some sort of, like, Tracking kind of roll I don't think Perception is going to be enough for something like this. So, if somebody has Tracking, it would be 9, otherwise it would be a 12. Marietta [Atalia] 7:21 [As Atalia] Any of you all trackers? Stace [Nix] 7:24 No. Alex [ChaCha] 7:24 ChaCha is good at Running, Climbing and Swimming. Marietta [Atalia] 7:28 I'm good at Searching. Daniel [GM] 7:30 Searching might actually be okay in this case. Marietta [Atalia] 7:33 Cool, okay. I'm going to search really good. Natural 20. All right. This is my new dice for the evening. Sampson [Dili] 7:41 Spicy. Unknown Speaker 7:42 nice. Daniel [GM] 7:43 Okay. Nice. You definitely find signs of what looks to be maybe somebody actually set up camp here at one point before going in and you definitely see signs that somebody broke camp and went in and you definitely see signs. It shouldn't be obvious because a lot of this ground here is mostly exposed rock, but you're able to figure out little bits of what's going on, that one set of footprints went back towards Charmonde, and one went into the facility. Marietta [Atalia] 8:22 [As Atalia] Hey, Dili. Come look at this. I'll show you tracking. Sampson [Dili] 8:27 [As Dili] Okay. Marietta [Atalia] 8:29 [As Atalia] So, you see here is one set of footprints.... And I'll point it out to him. [As Atalia] Because Nix was showing you how to do watch the other day. Sampson [Dili] 8:40 [As Dili] You mean last night? Marietta [Atalia] 8:43 [As Atali] Last night, yes. Last night. Sampson [Dili] 8:45 [As Dili] I guess that was another day so fair point. Marietta [Atalia] 8:49 [As Atalia] Anyway, so that's why I think that she went that way. Yeah. I think it's pretty clear. Daniel [GM] 8:55 Dili's been schooled. Sampson [Dili] 8:59 Damn, Dili. Sorry. [As Dili] Okay. Yeah. Okay. Marietta [Atalia] 9:04 [As Atalia] Anyway, we should probably follow them, don't you think? Sampson [Dili] 9:06 [As Dili] Back to Charmonde? Marietta [Atalia] 9:07 [As Atalia] No. The other ones. Sampson [Dili] 9:10 [As Dili] Oh, I'm sorry. Marietta [Atalia] 9:15 [As Atalia] Anyway, everybody else? Tracks, lady, let's find her. Stace [Nix] 9:20 [As Nix] What lady? [As Atalia] Oh my gosh. Sampson [Dili] 9:24 Mewin. Stace [Nix] 9:24 [As Nix] Oh yeah. Sampson [Dili] 9:26 [As Dili] Have you been smoking those funny cigarettes again? Stace [Nix] 9:33 [As Nix] No. Marietta [Atalia] 9:37 [As Atalia] Anyway, onwards. This way I think to the lady and our payday and out of these weird ruins with the weird lights. Sampson [Dili] 9:46 [As Dili] Don't the tracks lead into the ruins? Marietta [Atalia] 9:48 [As Atalia] Yeah, we need to go find her so then we can leave. Sampson [Dili] 9:51 [As Dili] Oh, yes I like that one. Marietta [Atalia] 9:53 [As Atalia] Yeah. So, let's go find her. Also, aren't we looking for something some, like, Numenera? Cyphers? Sampson [Dili] 9:59 Oh, we're looking for an object and Mewin. Marietta [Atalia] 10:01 Okay. [As Atalia] We should be on the lookout for an object and Mewin. Stace [Nix] 10:04 [As Nix] Cool. You guys kind of seem weak so, you want me to go first? Marietta [Atalia] 10:13 [As Atalia] Yeah, sure. Also, do you see the footprints there? Stace [Nix] 10:16 [As Nix] Yeah. Marietta [Atalia] 10:17 [As Atalia] Follow those. Stace [Nix] 10:18 [As Nix] All right. Daniel [GM] 10:24 So, you head into the opening. As you come in, you see what looks to be, it's a pretty vast room that's leading in here and there's not much here. In fact, it probably looks like it was... you feel like somebody's picked over this area. Somebody else might've been here before you because there's not much to see. You can see these blinking blue lights that are leading to a smaller door on the far side and then there's also a door to the right and a door to the left that clearly seem to be the way the room curves, it leads down. The thing that strikes you... Actually, could everybody give me, I think it's going to have to be an Understanding Numenera check. Marietta [Atalia] 11:18 Oh, I'm good at those. Daniel [GM] 11:19 And the target for somebody with an inability would be 15. So, if you're trained it would be a 9. If you're specialized, there'd be a 6. Marietta [Atalia] 11:34 Nine exactly? Daniel [GM] 11:36 Okay. Sampson [Dili] 11:37 Natural 20. Daniel [GM] 11:40 Wow. Okay. Sampson, Dili sees that there were clearly sockets in the system, that there were probably Numenera devices in that maybe they could have been worth more, but they were definitely usable as Cyphers. You don't know exactly what they were, but all those sockets had been harvested. Somebody's taken all those Cyphers. Sampson [Dili] 12:03 [As Dili] Okay so if I understand tracking, I think somebody took some objects out of the wall. See these sockets? Marietta [Atalia] 12:12 [As Atalia] Yeah. Sampson [Dili] 12:13 [As Dili] They should have been full. Right? Marietta [Atalia] 12:14 [As Atalia] Yeah. Sampson [Dili] 12:15 [As Dili] Like footprints almost. Right Atalia? Is that right? Marietta [Atalia] 12:18 [As Atalia] Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Right. Sampson [Dili] 12:21 [As Dili] Okay. Marietta [Atalia] 12:21 [As Atalia] Wow. See, you are such an intelligent person. Sampson [Dili] 12:25 [As Dili] Thank you. [As Dili] Thank you. Dili feels very happy. Little smiley faces start peering around his head. Daniel [GM] 12:35 Literally, is that something that happens with Dili? I mean, this is the Ninth World. Sampson [Dili] 12:38 Yes. As I said in the first episode, he is a Wright who Crafts Illusions and when he's not focusing, illusions do start popping up around his head, very similar to how the mind palace was portrayed in the Sherlock's TV show. Yes. As I said in the first episode, he is a Wright who Crafts Illusions and when he's not focusing, illusions do start popping up around his head, very similar to how the mind palace was portrayed in the Sherlock TV show. Daniel [GM] 12:56 Right. Right. Okay. Sampson [Dili] 12:58 Yeah, very similar to that. Marietta [Atalia] 13:00 That's really cool. Sampson [Dili] 13:04 Do I know anything else about the sockets? Daniel [GM] 13:07 No, not, not right now. Sampson [Dili] 13:08 [As Dili] Guys, I feel really good about something. Marietta [Atalia] 13:12 [As Atalia] That's good to have a good feeling in these situations. Sampson [Dili] 13:17 [As Dili] All right. Daniel [GM] 13:19 So, you've got three doors, you've got a door straight forward and two doors on the sides. All the doors seem to be leading down. Those of you who have played with me before, which is all of you, have that same look on your face of horror having to choose between three doors. Alex [ChaCha] 13:37 It can lead to fists or it could lead to flesh. Marietta [Atalia] 13:42 Does it look like any of these doors are more recently used than others? Is it apparent which one she might've gone through based on her footprints from earlier? Daniel [GM] 13:53 I wish I could say that there was, but there's nothing here. This area is very clean. Alex [ChaCha] 13:59 But are there any unseen ghosts? Daniel [GM] 14:03 Not right now, actually. Marietta [Atalia] 14:05 [As Atalia] Nix, this one? Stace [Nix] 14:08 [As Nix] Yeah. It's pretty simple. You just always go right. Marietta [Atalia] 14:12 [As Atalia] Okay. Stace [Nix] 14:13 [As Nix] Right. Marietta [Atalia] 14:14 [As Atalia] Yeah. Why don't you go ahead and do that? Stace [Nix] 14:17 [As Nix] I am. Marietta [Atalia] 14:19 [As Atalia] Okay. Stace [Nix] 14:20 Okay, so. Marietta [Atalia] 14:21 [As Atalia] Great. That's great. Stace [Nix] 14:23 Nix forgets the trauma of these past lives she seems to have lived, Daniel, and opens the right door. Daniel [GM] 14:36 You open the right door, it takes you a little bit to figure out the opening mechanism, but it's not too difficult. Stace [Nix] 14:42 And Nix is not that smart, so that makes sense. Daniel [GM] 14:44 The door opens and sure enough there is a narrow corridor leading down. Stace [Nix] 14:49 All right. We're going down for real. That was just Stace. That wasn't even Nix saying that. All right. Daniel [GM] 14:55 Okay. The lights starts flickering and following you. It's this blue light as you go down this ramp. You see these lights leading down and you go into a room, and in that room you see a large space. There are two doors, one on the left, one on the right, and there is a beam of light shining down in the center of the room that is significantly brighter and more solid than the rest of the ambient light here. And there's something else you notice here. There's a lot of dead bodies and skeletons that are carefully stacked or in some cases, mounted on the wall displayed. Sampson [Dili] 15:44 [As Dili] I hate this room. This is bad. We should turn around. Alex [ChaCha] 15:50 We rummage through the corpses. Daniel [GM] 15:52 You can, is that what you want to do? Alex [ChaCha] 15:54 Yeah. Daniel [GM] 15:55 [As Atalia] I don't even do that. Okay, so you start looking through the corpses. A lot of them are skeletal. Some of them are rotting. Give me an Intelligence roll of 9. Alex [ChaCha] 16:08 14. Daniel [GM] 16:10 These are definitely trophies. Something has killed these bodies and arranged them as trophies. There isn't anything necessarily of value within them, but the bodies, someone is very proud of these kills. The bodies are not always obvious where they're from. Some of them are humanoid. Some things are much less so. Alex [ChaCha] 16:34 Important question, are they missing any bones? Daniel [GM] 16:41 It's difficult to tell because they are arranged in such a way that you can't really determine with 100% surety what they are, what they were in life. The humanoid ones, like a lot of times there was only half of the body there so you're guessing that they're humanoid, but you're not sure. Marietta [Atalia] 17:01 [As Atalia] Well, this is incredibly disturbing and not what I signed up for. Sampson [Dili] 17:04 [Dili] Yeah, I'm not a fan of this. Stace [Nix] 17:06 [As Nix] What? Guys, this is, like, totally what we signed up for. Sampson [Dili] 17:10 [Dili] No, we signed up for one object and one living woman. Marietta [Atalia] 17:14 [As Atalia] I'm in acquisitions. Stace [Nix] 17:18 [As Nix] That's why they're paying us. Daniel [GM] 17:21 There is still that bright light shining down in the center and then the doors to the left and the right. Stace [Nix] 17:26 [As Nix] Yeah. Right on. We always go, right, like, let's do it. Alex [ChaCha] 17:32 Can we throw something into the light? Daniel [GM] 17:34 Yeah. What do you want to throw? Alex [ChaCha] 17:35 I don't know, grab a skull. Stace [Nix] 17:37 Throw Dili. Sampson [Dili] 17:38 What? Hold on, what? Daniel [GM] 17:39 What was that? Alex [ChaCha] 17:41 Just break off a skull or a femur and throw it into the light. Daniel [GM] 17:44 Okay, so you break off a skull or a femur, say you break off a skull and you it in the light, it becomes suspended in the light. And for a moment, that's all that happens. And then you see that skull suddenly begin decaying into dust until it is just a mist in the air. Sampson [Dili] 18:06 [As Dili] Oh god. Alex [ChaCha] 18:10 [As ChaCha] This is why you check. This is why you check. Stace [Nix] 18:13 Damn, that was cool as hell. Sampson [Dili] 18:15 [As Dili] What? I think that means that none of these bodies, or it's not necessarily true that these bodies have been here for a long enough time that they decay. I think they were dehydrated. Daniel [GM] 18:28 Some trail mix. Marietta [Atalia] 18:31 [As Atalia] I don't know, man, this isn't my favorite door. Can we try a different one? Stace [Nix] 18:36 [As Nix] Yeah. We're going to go right. So, Nix goes to the new right door. Daniel [GM] 18:43 Okay. You go to the right and you find another chamber. This one's circular in shape. There's this wall around you. In the center of the room there's a crystalline object, quite massive. It's floating and slowly rotating, seems to be held in place by an unseen force and you see disturbing, impossible colors that seem to refract off of it and there's something dark in its center. Can everybody make an Intellect Defense roll of 9? Sampson [Dili] 19:24 14 for Dili. Marietta [Atalia] 19:25 19. Stace [Nix] 19:27 Let me just casually make this roll. Daniel [GM] 19:29 Nice. Stace [Nix] 19:30 I got 17. Alex [ChaCha] 19:30 19. Daniel [GM] 19:33 Wow. Two minor effects. What did you get, Stace? Stace [Nix] 19:39 17. Daniel [GM] 19:40 Okay. These colors, you get the feeling like for lesser people that aren't familiar with these colors would have caused mental trauma because they are definitely not, they do not fit in the visual spectrum. They are colors, you recognized that they are colors, but they do not gel biologically with your minds. Those of you who got the 19 can see clearly that there is a preserved head of some massive creature in the center of the crystal but it's too dark to see what it is besides that it vaguely looks like a head. There are the walls of course. There is a door leading out of this room or you could go back the way you came. It's up to you what you want to do with the walls or the door or whatever. The walls he was to have strain. You're not sure if its carvings are actually circuitry in the wall. Sampson [Dili] 20:39 Dili will investigate the wall circuitry carving things. Alex [ChaCha] 20:45 ChaCha's going for that head. Stace [Nix] 20:47 Okay. Daniel [GM] 20:48 Okay. Let's start with Dili. Dili, you're just looking at it? Sampson [Dili] 20:51 Yeah. Stace [Nix] 20:53 Touch it. Sampson [Dili] 20:55 I think he will just look at it, maybe take out one of his darts and poke at a few interesting parts, like a juncture or a depression or something. Daniel [GM] 21:07 Okay. When you touch the juncture, you see parts of it light up and then it seems to, from that circuitry, you can't see any pores or anything like that but from that circuitry, there seems to be a magenta paste that seeps out of it. The walls do? [As Dili] Hey guys, the walls are bleeding. Bleeding? Possibly. I don't know. Magenta. Yeah. Stace [Nix] 21:34 [As Nix] That's gnarly. Marietta [Atalia] 21:36 Is this a Numenera thing? Can I make an Understanding Numenera roll? Daniel [GM] 21:41 You absolutely can. It'd be a 12 for a normal person. Are you specialized or just trained? Marietta [Atalia] 21:51 Yeah. I'm just trained. Daniel [GM] 21:53 Okay. So, it'd be a 9 for you. Marietta [Atalia] 21:57 I rolled a 4 unfortunately. Daniel [GM] 21:59 Yeah. You have no idea. What about the other Nano? Alex [ChaCha] 22:03 Does it interfere with the head? Daniel [GM] 22:06 I guess, yeah, you are preoccupied with the head. Alex [ChaCha] 22:09 Giggity. Daniel [GM] 22:10 Dili, you have understanding Numenera, don't you? Sampson [Dili] 22:15 I took training. So I guess that like, I assume that I'm cancelled out my like natural inability. Daniel [GM] 22:23 Right. Sorry. So it's a 12 for you though. Okay. Sampson [Dili] 22:26 Four. [As Dili] This wall's weird. Daniel [GM] 22:27 You have no idea. Marietta [Atalia] 22:28 [As Atalia] Yeah, it is weird. I'm having a hard time looking at it. What's the thing? You know, the thing? Sampson [Dili] 22:35 Your eyes? Marietta [Atalia] 22:36 [As Atalia] No, the color that's not the- Sampson [Dili] 22:37 [As Dili] Oh, yeah, that hurts. Marietta [Atalia] 22:40 [As Atalia] Can we leave? Stace [Nix] 22:42 [As Nix] I mean, I could try to, like, figure out the wall. Marietta [Atalia] 22:47 [As Atalia] Do you understand Numenera? Sampson [Dili] 22:48 [As Dili] You can't punch it. Stace [Nix] 22:51 [As Nix] Sometimes. Sampson [Dili] 22:51 [As Dili] Don't punch it. Stace [Nix] 22:52 Sometimes. Daniel [GM] 22:53 Go ahead and roll. If you don't have understanding Numenera it'll be a 15, unless you want to spend Effort. Stace [Nix] 23:00 I have a 16. Daniel [GM] 23:02 Nice. This appears to be some sort of food stuff. Alex [ChaCha] 23:07 Lick it. Stace [Nix] 23:08 Like healthy for you? Daniel [GM] 23:09 Yeah. You think that it may not be the most appetizing thing in the world, but it appears to be something that is generating a nutritious paste for consumption. Sampson [Dili] 23:21 The snozzberries taste like snozzberries. Stace [Nix] 23:23 [As Nix] Guys, this is, like, some food, man. And she just sticks her finger in it and then licks it. Sampson [Dili] 23:33 Dili just cringes in disgust like, [As Dili] What? Oh God. Daniel [GM] 23:37 You're pretty confident that this is nutritious. It tastes terrible, but it is nutritious. Stace [Nix] 23:43 [As Nix] Oh, this is awful but, like, good for you. Sampson [Dili] 23:47 [As Dili] You're just eating it? This is- Stace [Nix] 23:50 [As Nix] Yeah. Guys, I told you, like, sometimes I get it. Like, I just look at things and I understand and this is one of those times and it's food, man. Marietta [Atalia] 24:02 [As Atalia] I'm really happy for you. Daniel [GM] 24:04 While everybody is playing with the new food or arguing about it. Stace [Nix] 24:09 Like, Nix is like, takin' some. Daniel [GM] 24:11 ChacChaCha approaches the crystal. There is a preserved head inside. How would you like to try to get at it? Alex [ChaCha] 24:19 Can she knock on the crystal? Like, [As ChaCha] Hello? Daniel [GM] 24:23 You can try anything. Alex [ChaCha] 24:26 I think that's going to be her first choice, knocking on the crystal to see if the head is still alive. Daniel [GM] 24:33 Okay. When you knock on the crystal, that strange color seems to pulse around your hand and you feel a little bit queasy but otherwise fine. Alex [ChaCha] 24:47 And if she tried Understanding the Numeneras? Daniel [GM] 24:51 She could definitely try that. Are you trained or specialized? Alex [ChaCha] 24:54 Trained. Daniel [GM] 24:56 Right. So, for you it would be a nine before any Effort if you wanted to use Effort. Alex [ChaCha] 25:02 We got us a 17. Daniel [GM] 25:07 Okay. So, breaking through the crystal's purely a physical act. It will generate a bunch of that color pulses, which will be more difficult to withstand. It will be difficult for you to push forward with it, but you could do it if you wanted to try to break through the crystal to get to that. But there'd be some risk associated with these color pulses, which seem to be a way of releasing whatever extra dimensional energy is holding this crystal together. Alex [ChaCha] 25:46 Does she get any idea that, “You should break this crystal, ChaCha. It's a good idea, ChaCha.” Stace [Nix] 25:53 that's a good idea. Daniel [GM] 25:54 I don't think your Understanding Numenera tells you one way or the other. You just know what you can do. There's nothing obvious to indicate-. There's some risk in breaking it open from these pulses of color, but there's nothing to tell you that you should do it or not. That's totally up to ChaCha's personality. Alex [ChaCha] 26:13 Because I don't think ChaCha wants the head if it's not alive. Dead things can't love ChaCha. Daniel [GM] 26:20 At this point, I will offer you an XP. Sampson [Dili] 26:24 It's our first GM intrusion. Multiple Speakers 26:26 [Oohs and aahs] Alex [ChaCha] 26:28 Our first optional one. Stace [Nix] 26:30 No. It's our first one when we get paid. Sampson [Dili] 26:35 Well, it's not really optional because none of us have XP to subvert it. Alex [ChaCha] 26:39 Oh, true. Well, I guess we're taking it. Daniel [GM] 26:43 Okay. You get one XP and who will you give the other XP to? Alex [ChaCha] 26:48 Oh, this is hard. I guess Nix because we need to keep the tank alive and powerful. Marietta [Atalia] 26:54 Smart. Daniel [GM] 26:55 Okay. Alex [ChaCha] 26:55 Power that tank. Stace [Nix] 26:57 Thank you. Daniel [GM] 26:58 ChaCha, you reach out and do you have this compulsion to try to, you think that there is a spot, a weak spot in the crystal that you think if you hit it hard enough, that you could at least make a crack and make a start. Alex [ChaCha] 27:13 Okay. ChaCha goin' do it. Daniel [GM] 27:15 Okay. You punch the crystal and as you do that, there is a flash of that color. However, after that flash of color happens, you notice that your hand is encased in the crystal formation around it and you are trapped against this crystal. Alex [ChaCha] 27:33 [As ChaCha] I needed this hand, but juggling does. She's going to use Onslaught against the crystal to affect it physically. Daniel [GM] 27:48 Okay. Please make a 12 roll. Alex [ChaCha] 27:52 Okay, we got us a 19. Daniel [GM] 27:56 Okay, so that is, do you want a minor effect or the extra damage? Alex [ChaCha] 28:01 Minor effect. Daniel [GM] 28:04 What would you propose as a minor effect? Alex [ChaCha] 28:06 Her hand getting loose. Daniel [GM] 28:09 And that would be a major effect because that would resolve the whole thing. Alex [ChaCha] 28:12 Yeah. Well, then I guess we're going extra damage because that's the only thing I could think of. Daniel [GM] 28:18 Okay. You definitely detect a slight crack in the crystal at this point, but your hand is not free. You think, even though you can't see the shadow moving, you can't see anything to indicate that. You almost feel like you can hear, now that you're touching the crystal, almost like whatever head is inside there, as if it's laughing. Alex [ChaCha] 28:43 She's doing onslaught again. This crystal. Daniel [GM] 28:47 Okay. Physical again? Alex [ChaCha] 28:49 Oh, yeah. Daniel [GM] 28:50 Okay. 12. Alex [ChaCha] 28:53 An angry girl. 13. Daniel [GM] 28:57 Okay. You definitely hit it. It seems like you hit it with force but it doesn't seem like it does anything, crystal's too hard. At this point, the rest of you have heard a loud sound of concussive force hitting this crystal twice. Sampson [Dili] 29:16 [As Dili] What was that? Marietta [Atalia] 29:17 [As Atalia] What's going on over there? Alex [ChaCha] 29:20 [As ChaCha] Son of a bitch is too stupid. And she's going to do Onslaught again. Daniel [GM] 29:27 ChaCha, over the edge of the crystal, you see this strange serpentine but familiar form, this serpentine form of this face with glittering black teeth as if it's smiling at you over the edge of the crystal. Alex [ChaCha] 29:45 Can she do Onslaught on that face, like, mental Onslaught? Daniel [GM] 29:50 You can try anything. Alex [ChaCha] 29:52 Mental Onslaught on that face. She's angry. Daniel [GM] 29:56 Okay. So, if you're going to aim towards that face, it's going to be an 18. Alex [ChaCha] 30:02 19. Sampson [Dili] 30:04 Oh. Alex [ChaCha] 30:05 Fight me, Face, fight me. Daniel [GM] 30:08 You want a minor effect or do you want the extra damage? Alex [ChaCha] 30:12 Extra damage. Daniel [GM] 30:14 Okay. You hit the figure and it makes a shrieking sound and disappears, and while you're doing that, you notice the crystal started to crawl up your arm. Anybody else want to do anything? Sampson [Dili] 30:28 [As Dili] ChaCha, what's happening? Dili will run up to the crystal. Daniel [GM] 30:33 You could definitely see that ChaCha's hand is engulfed up to the elbow. Sampson [Dili] 30:38 Panicked, Dili will use his ability, Right Tool for the Job. Daniel [GM] 30:42 Mm-hm (affirmative). Sampson [Dili] 30:43 This ability, if I have at least one iotum, I can fashion a temporary device that provides an asset to one physical, non-combat task. I would like to take out an io and use it to-. I'm thinking those ultrasonically toothbrushes they use at the dentist to break up plaque. He's going to fashion something like that but for this crystal. Daniel [GM] 31:08 Oh, okay. Okay, you're going to do it. What does it look like when you're using that? I assume you're trying to use it against the crystal. Sampson [Dili] 31:18 Yeah, king of loosen up where ChaCha's hand is and where it's attached to the crystal. Not remove the crystal from the arm but at least separate the two. Daniel [GM] 31:27 Okay. Okay, you're going to get an asset that, and I assume ChaCha is anxiously, constantly trying to get free, right? Alex [ChaCha] 31:37 Yeah. It's like a dog or a cat is stuck on something, just jerking and doing the weird flips. Daniel [GM] 31:45 Are you sure? Because I've seen a lot of cats where they'll get stuck on something and they just lay down like, "Well that's it for me," until their owner comes. Alex [ChaCha] 31:53 Oh, my cat just freaks the fluff out and she starts flailing like, "I'm going to ninja flip out of this, don't you worry." Daniel [GM] 32:02 See, now that's the opposite reaction my cats have when we force a costume on them. Marietta [Atalia] 32:08 Well there's your problem right there. Alex [ChaCha] 32:10 Yeah. They want to feel pretty. Stace [Nix] 32:12 Yeah, they want to they want to wear them Daniel [GM] 32:16 Yeah, you go ahead and you're trying to get free. Dili has this asset, so he's got two assets on this. Dili, are you going to apply any, you're trying to do this technically, do you want to apply any intelligence effort to this? Sampson [Dili] 32:37 I guess, can I? Daniel [GM] 32:38 Right now, you are at a 9. If you want to apply intelligence Effort, you could get it down to a 6. Sampson [Dili] 32:46 Yeah, I think I would love to do that. Daniel [GM] 32:49 Okay, so I assume you have an Edge in Intellect, so it only costs you 2 Intellect points. Sampson [Dili] 32:54 Right. [As Dili] Nix, Atalia, can you come here and help? Marietta [Atalia] 32:58 [As Atalia] Yeah Daniel [GM] 32:59 You can have a max of two assets on something, so you can't. Sampson [Dili] 33:03 Oh really? Daniel [GM] 33:04 Yeah. Sampson [Dili] 33:05 Okay. Daniel [GM] 33:07 That's in the rule book. Two assets max. Stace [Nix] 33:11 Read it. Sampson [Dili] 33:12 I challenge you, Stacey. Did you know that beforehand? Stace [Nix] 33:24 [Nervous laughter] I don't have to answer that. Sampson [Dili] 33:25 But I think just for flavor you would still call out like, [As Dili] Nix, Atalia. What's up, fucking bullshit's happening over here. But he would still start pushing, trying to snap that crystal off. Daniel [GM] 33:38 Okay. Sampson [Dili] 33:39 Dili rolled a 4. Alex [ChaCha] 33:40 Can you juggle with one arm? Daniel [GM] 33:42 It sounds like Dili fails on those one of the two people with XP wants to spend it. Alex [ChaCha] 33:51 ChaCha would like her arm still. Daniel [GM] 33:53 Okay, ChaCha will spend her XP, so that Dili can re-roll. Sampson [Dili] 33:58 15. Alex [ChaCha] 34:00 Yes. Daniel [GM] 34:01 Okay. There you go. You managed to break the crystal free. And ChaCha's hand is now free from the crystal. Alex [ChaCha] 34:10 Is it covered in crystal or just now a hand again? Daniel [GM] 34:15 It's just a hand, you are free. You've broken free of the crystal. There are a few little bits still on you, but you can wipe them off. They don't seem to have any life of their own separate from this major installation. Alex [ChaCha] 34:29 She's going to throw one of those shiny rocks at the crystal that Dili gave her. I can? Daniel [GM] 34:35 Okay. It hits crystal and is immediately in cased in it. Sampson [Dili] 34:40 [As Dili] ChaCha, what did you do? Alex [ChaCha] 34:42 [As ChaCha] Stupid thing wants laugh. She's very angry. Sampson [Dili] 34:47 [As Dili] The crystal wanted to laugh, ChaCha? Alex [ChaCha] 34:50 [As ChaCha] I was going to break it and going to fuck up the head, and then it started laughing. Sampson [Dili] 34:59 [As Dili] Okay, well, no one's laughing now. Your hand looks good, so whoever's laughing at you, dammit. He didn't get the last laugh, did he? No, okay. Alex [ChaCha] 35:12 [As ChaCha] Stupid snakes. Sampson [Dili] 35:13 [As Dili] Yeah, snakes. Okay. Marietta [Atalia] 35:17 Anyway. Let's get out of here, maybe. Out of this room at least. Stace [Nix] 35:24 Um, what's the door situation, Daniel? Sampson [Dili] 35:29 It's on the left. Stace [Nix] 35:31 Ohhh. Daniel [GM] 35:33 So, there's going to be a door, and to the right. Stace [Nix] 35:36 [As Nix] Yeah. I always go right. Let's go right. Sampson [Dili] 35:42 [As Dili] I don't know. The last two rooms we've gone into to the right has sucked. I think we should go to the left. Marietta [Atalia] 35:48 [As Atalia] We could also go back. Stace [Nix] 35:50 [As Nix] You always go right. Dili, for someone who didn't even want to leave town, you suddenly have some opinions. Sampson [Dili] 35:59 [As Dili] I'm going off the facts, lady, and these two rooms suck. I think we should go left. Alex [ChaCha] 36:06 I think Chacha is going to bust through the right door. Sampson [Dili] 36:08 [As Dili] Oh. Stace [Nix] 36:09 Yeah, do it. Daniel [GM] 36:10 Okay, so ChaCha busts through the right door. Inside, do you see a relatively small room. There's a door on the far side. In the middle there is a machine with a receptacle for small objects. Alex [ChaCha] 36:23 She throws another shinny rock at this receptacle for small objects. Daniel [GM] 36:29 Okay. There is the door. This thing shuts. There is a flash of light and it opens up again and you see that small shiny rock again, but it has to be metallic eyes attached to it that are looking around furtively. Stace [Nix] 36:47 Can I ask a quick question? Daniel [GM] 36:49 Yeah. Stace [Nix] 36:50 Are these small shiny rocks that we're just tossing everywhere Shins? Sampson [Dili] 36:55 No. So last session-. Stace [Nix] 36:58 Okay, so those weren't Shins? I thought that they were Shins. Sampson [Dili] 37:01 No, Dili salvaged some Shins, but these are the two used Cyphers that he didn't get anything from. Stace [Nix] 37:11 Also small and shiny. All right, cool. Yeah, I'm okay then. Alex [ChaCha] 37:17 She's like, "Are you just throwing money at things?" Stace [Nix] 37:22 Listen, it seems like a ChaCha thing, kind of. Alex [ChaCha] 37:24 Yeah, yep, yeah. Daniel [GM] 37:25 Yeah, these eyes are just looking back and forth, frenetically. Alex [ChaCha] 37:32 ChaCha goes to pick up the now eyeballed shiny rock. ChaCha pokes it between the eyes. Daniel [GM] 37:38 The eyes zero in on you. Actually, in the eyes or in between. Alex [ChaCha] 37:42 In between, like where it's nose would be. Daniel [GM] 37:45 They definitely go cross-eyed. Alex [ChaCha] 37:49 ChaCha is not angry anymore because that's hilarious. Stace [Nix] 37:53 Nix throws one of her sling rocks in there. Daniel [GM] 37:56 It shuts, there's a flash, it light opens again and one of your sling rocks now has two metallic eyes on it that are looking around. Stace [Nix] 38:03 Oh, dope. She puts all of them in there. Daniel [GM] 38:07 Okay. They all now have eyes that are looking around kind of frantically. Stace [Nix] 38:14 Wait, are they intelligent? Shit. Daniel [GM] 38:16 You don't know. Sampson [Dili] 38:17 [As Dili] Hey Nix, can I get one? Can I see one of those? Stace [Nix] 38:20 [As Nix] Yeah. Listen though, like, next time we're in, like, the forest, if you find a good sling rock, you got to give that one to me if I'm going to give this one to you. Sampson [Dili] 38:29 [Dili] No, I just wanted to check that's not a sentient thing, just mechanical eyes. Okay? That's all I'm checking. Stace [Nix] 38:40 [As Nix] How would I know, man? I just got it. Sampson [Dili] 38:43 [As Dili] I'll give you your pet rock back. Don't worry about it. Stace [Nix] 38:45 [As Nix] All right. But you got to give it back or an equivalent sling rock, with or without eyes. Daniel [GM] 38:50 You're trying to do an Understanding Numenera roll? Sampson [Dili] 38:52 Correct. Daniel [GM] 38:53 Okay, and you are Trained in that, yes? Sampson [Dili] 38:56 My inability has been neutralized. Daniel [GM] 38:58 Okay, so in that case it's a 12. Sampson [Dili] 39:00 13. Daniel [GM] 39:02 Okay. The eyes themselves are not sentient, but they are on a sub routine. They are designed to identify stimulus and provide that to some neural system, whether it's artificial or organic. Sampson [Dili] 39:22 Do I get the sense if that neural system is local in the object or going off to somewhere else? Daniel [GM] 39:31 You think it's supposed to be whatever's in the object. Sampson [Dili] 39:34 Okay. Daniel [GM] 39:35 You would have to do the same investigation against the machine itself to know more. Sampson [Dili] 39:40 Okay. Interesting. Dili will give back the pet rock to Nix. [As Nix] I don't think these things are intelligent, so totally okay to throw them at monsters, yes. Stace [Nix] 39:53 [As Nix] Awesome. Sampson [Dili] 39:55 Dili will go investigate the googly eye receptacle. Daniel [GM] 39:58 Okay. And so this one would be a 15. Sampson [Dili] 40:04 Dili is going to use the level of effort in this one. Alex [ChaCha] 40:07 Can ChaCha help? Daniel [GM] 40:08 First of all, I'm going to give you an asset on it because you've already figured out the eyes, so it will be a 12. If ChaCha is helping you, it'll be a 9, and then if you want to spend a little of Effort, it'll be a 6. Sampson [Dili] 40:20 Yeah, he won't spend a level of Effort. Daniel [GM] 40:22 Okay. Sampson [Dili] 40:24 16. Alex [ChaCha] 40:25 Whoop, whoop. Daniel [GM] 40:26 Okay. So you know that this device will take any device that is inserted to it, whether it's organic or technological, and it will try to find whatever's the closest to a neural network, install two additional mechanical eyes, and try to tie them in to the mechanical network to give them additional stimulus. Sampson [Dili] 40:51 [As Dili] All right. So if I'm understanding this correctly, thank you ChaCha for helping, I think it just gives any optic you throw in their eyes, if it has the facilities to process that information, it will. But otherwise it seems like the eyes are pretty useless, congratulations, Nix and ChaCha, you now have googly eyes on your shit. Alex [ChaCha] 41:16 ChaCha tries to put Dili's hand in the machine. Sampson [Dili] 41:18 [As Dili] No. Nope, Nope. Nope. Dili is going to resist. Alex [ChaCha] 41:23 For insulting in their googly eye pets. Daniel [GM] 41:28 Is ChaCha just going to let that slide or is this contested roll? Sampson [Dili] 41:33 I'll fight you, Alex, I'll do it. Daniel [GM] 41:36 I think it's a contested roll. What? Okay, in this case it is going to be a Might versus Might. Stace [Nix] 41:49 Hold on, Nix is not down for this, so Nix is going to help Dili. Daniel [GM] 41:54 Okay, so Dili will have an asset. So Dili, you have a +3 before you spend Effort on your Might role. Sampson [Dili] 42:00 Dili is not spending effort. That's already rolled. Daniel [GM] 42:05 What did you get? Sampson [Dili] 42:06 11 plus 3, so 14. Daniel [GM] 42:08 Okay, what does ChaCha get? Alex [ChaCha] 42:11 Hoping I get low, 13. Daniel [GM] 42:14 That's not good. Unknown Speaker 42:17 because it was on like the edge of like 15 and something I'm like, Alex [ChaCha] 42:19 I had rerolled because it was on the edge or 15 and something. I'm like, "I going to re-roll it because it's on the edge. We're not going to google-eye somebody's hand." Daniel [GM] 42:27 Okay. Yeah. Dili with the help of Nix is able to pull the hand away from the device before ChaCha can push it in. Stace [Nix] 42:34 [As Nix] Yo, ChaCha, not cool. You can't be interfering with someone's Journey like that, you know? Sampson [Dili] 42:41 [As Dili] Yeah, also, my hand, what the fuck? Marietta [Atalia] 42:45 [As Atalia] That was a little weird. I think we should leave this room. Let's go to another room. Stace [Nix] 42:50 [As Nix] We go right. Sampson [Dili] 42:52 [As Dili] There's only the one door. Daniel [GM] 42:54 There's only one door here on the far side. Marietta [Atalia] 42:56 [As Atalia] Okay, it's all you. Stace [Nix] 42:58 [As Nix] Oh, well, that's the other rule, like, if there's only one door, you go through it. All right? She goes. She goes with her bag of googly eyes. Daniel [GM] 43:11 Okay. You find a room that's lit in gray light. There was some machine on the far wall and there is a door to the left. Stace [Nix] 43:25 [As Nix] That's the other rule. If there's only a door on the left, you go left. Sampson [Dili] 43:30 [As Dili] Where did you get these rules? Marietta [Atalia] 43:33 [As Atalia] She went to school, you know. Stace [Nix] 43:34 [As Nix] I wrote them, man. Alex [ChaCha] 43:39 How many shiny rocks did ChaCha have? Two or three? Daniel [GM] 43:43 Two. Sampson [Dili] 43:44 One's in the crystal, so she should only have one at the moment. Alex [ChaCha] 43:47 Yeah, I'm just like, would she throws her google eyes at the machine or is google-eyes now bae? Marietta [Atalia] 43:53 [As Atalia] Anyway, other door. Leave the machine alone. We're here for a purpose, right? Stace [Nix] 43:58 [As Nix] Don't forget, like, Atalia, like, don't forget we're also here for the voyage of discovery. Daniel [GM] 44:06 Okay. Yeah, because you are supposed to map out as much as you can. Alex [ChaCha] 44:10 Understanding Numenera on the machine. Sampson [Dili] 44:13 Dili is going to help. Daniel [GM] 44:16 So, with the asset on the assist, it would be a nine before your training, ChaCha. If you want to spend up to 30 minutes studying your book of Numenera, you can use that to bring it down to a six. Stace [Nix] 44:32 [As Nix] We need lunch anyway, right? Like I got some of this paste. Sampson [Dili] 44:39 I can see Nix saying that to herself. Stace [Nix] 44:41 I didn't say that in character, whatever. Alex [ChaCha] 44:43 Yeah, we'll just do it straight up. It's a 9? 19. Stace [Nix] 44:50 It's a 919 Daniel [GM] 44:51 Ooh, nice, minor effect. The ultimate purpose of, it's not clear, but it appears to be designed that if you put any object in it, it will stitch a series of metallic wires to it, presumably... Alex [ChaCha] 45:07 Google eyes go in the machine. Daniel [GM] 45:09 Yeah, presumably the wires have some sort of purpose for whatever device it was originally intended for. It's not clear if it would have any value to another device. However, you do think if you put a googly eyes in the machine, you do think there might the wiring might allow it to provide some sort of projection capability? Alex [ChaCha] 45:34 Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Yes. Daniel [GM] 45:38 Yes, so you put that in. It definitely threads wires through the eyes, which seem to close as if in phantom pain, and then they come back and then the machine comes out and the eyes now they've got a reddish tint to them. Alex [ChaCha] 45:56 She goes and shows Nix her upgraded googly eyes. Stace [Nix] 45:58 [As Nix] Damn, let's do mine. Daniel [GM] 46:02 You think you can activate these eyes actually. Alex [ChaCha] 46:06 We try that. Daniel [GM] 46:08 You activate it and you see a variety of confusing scenes from some ancient starfaring species. When you see images of stars and space and closeups of stars and strange planets, and creatures that they are only partially physical before the image fades and the eyes go dead. Alex [ChaCha] 46:37 [As ChaCha] Oh, I killed google eyes? ChaCha, sadly puts google eyes in a pocket. Stace [Nix] 46:43 Left. Daniel [GM] 46:44 Okay, you enter a room. It's a room that is an odd shape, it's sort of trapezoid shaped. You're entering in from the base side, so you're in the center of the base, the wide area. The two far corners, they have one device in each corner, and there are doors leading to the right and left, seemingly down. There are the devices, one of them seems to be a mass of wires that seems to be glowing and you also see another device that looks more like a diamond shape that's glowing with a purple, almost black light color. It's very quiet in here. Sampson [Dili] 47:39 In a weird way? Daniel [GM] 47:40 Yeah, it's really silent. Stace [Nix] 47:42 [As Nix] Hello? Sampson [Dili] 47:43 [As Dili] Hello. Dili's going to go to the left. Daniel [GM] 47:48 So, incidentally if any of you said hello, there is no sound when you make your mouths. The mass of wires glows in responses sound, but no actual sound occurs to your ears. Stace [Nix] 48:03 [As Nix] Whoa. Daniel [GM] 48:04 Once again, no sound, just a glow. Sampson [Dili] 48:06 Dili starts screaming and waving his hands at the other party members. Daniel [GM] 48:11 There's glow but no sound. Sampson [Dili] 48:13 I guess Dili is going to go-. Is anyone paying attention to Dili? Stace [Nix] 48:16 Yeah, yeah. Marietta [Atalia] 48:16 Yeah. Stace [Nix] 48:17 Nix is giving you double thumbs up. Daniel [GM] 48:20 Dili calms down little bit, and goes investigates the mass of wires. Alex [ChaCha] 48:25 ChaCha helps. Marietta [Atalia] 48:28 So there's no other door in here? Daniel [GM] 48:30 There are two doors, one of the right, one of the left that seem to be heading down, then there are the two devices. Marietta [Atalia] 48:38 Okay. Oh, right, can't talk. I guess I'll step back into the other room. Daniel [GM] 48:44 As soon as you step back to the door, back into that room with the metallic wire device, all of a sudden sound returns, just the background noise that you would expect. Because one of the odd things is that you're used to the fact that even if you're not aware of it, there's a constant sound that's going on. And that's the sound of your own blood in your ears. But when you step in the other room, that sounds is gone. Marietta [Atalia] 49:14 Weird. [As Atalia] Yeah, guys. Oh, all they can do is see me. Daniel [GM] 49:18 Yeah. Marietta [Atalia] 49:19 I'll wave at them from the other room. [As Atalia] Hi, maybe we could talk. Alex [ChaCha] 49:27 But we're investimagating. Sampson [Dili] 49:30 Yeah. Dili wouldn't see Atalia. Stace [Nix] 49:31 Nix waves back. Marietta [Atalia] 49:33 [As Atali] Anyway, a game plan would be nice, guys. I stand here and watch them. Alex [ChaCha] 49:46 Crying. Marietta [Atalia] 49:47 On the inside and on the outside. Daniel [GM] 49:54 Just a single tear going down the cheek. What do you guys do the ones that are in the room? Alex [ChaCha] 50:00 Investimagating. Sampson [Dili] 50:01 Yeah, investigating nest of wires in the one corner. Daniel [GM] 50:06 Okay. That is, for you, it would be a 12. Sampson [Dili] 50:11 Is that with ChaCha helping or? Daniel [GM] 50:15 If Chacha helps, it'll be a 9. Alex [ChaCha] 50:17 ChaCha helps. Sampson [Dili] 50:19 7, damn it. Daniel [GM] 50:21 Yeah. You have no idea. Sampson [Dili] 50:23 Dili tries to explain why this doesn't make sense, but then he realizes, [As Dili] Oh. Daniel [GM] 50:29 There was no sound. Stace [Nix] 50:35 show in text. Oh, okay, here's Daniel [GM] 50:38 Okay. Here's an idea. Do you have any skills in either social interaction or performance? Sampson [Dili] 50:47 Of course not. Daniel [GM] 50:48 Okay, go ahead and roll a d20 for me. You can use the intellect to apply effort to it to get a plus three if you'd want. Depending on if you want to spend that. Sampson [Dili] 51:01 No, I don't think I will. I think Dili would think like, [As Dili] Oh, words are easy. I can just write in the air, right? That's how that works. Daniel [GM] 51:08 Okay. Sampson [Dili] 51:09 Natural 20. Daniel [GM] 51:10 Natural 20. Alex [ChaCha] 51:11 Nice. Daniel [GM] 51:13 With that I will say it is obvious what you're communicating back to them, which is what? Just to be clear, I am not giving you the ability to write words in the air. I'm saying that you can pantomime somehow with these images what are trying to communicate. You are playing charades with a projector. Sampson [Dili] 51:34 Nix and ChaCha will see three or four red circles appear across the tangle of wires and then question marks up here above them saying that this is an area that just doesn't make sense. This area should work. This area, that's not how physics does any of that. So, what, what, what? Daniel [GM] 51:59 Okay. Stace [Nix] 52:01 Nix is like, [As Nix] Sometimes, I can figure shit out. Daniel [GM] 52:05 If Nix wants to try it, it'd be a 15 Understanding Numenera roll for her. An 18. Alex [ChaCha] 52:09 Oh my God, that's amazing. Daniel [GM] 52:11 Okay, so this mass of wires apparently is designed explicitly to absorb sound and turn it into light. Stace [Nix] 52:19 Nix is like, [As Nix] Huh. And goes to the door on the right. Alex [ChaCha] 52:26 ChaCha follows. Daniel [GM] 52:28 Okay, you go to the door on the right. What does Atalia do? Did she stay back in the other room? Marietta [Atalia] 52:32 I guess I'll follow them. If I see them going towards some of the other doors, I'll throw my hands up and follow them. Sampson [Dili] 52:39 And Dili will look longingly at the other corner at the crystal and then follow Nix. Daniel [GM] 52:44 So you find an interesting room here. In this room, you see an area along the far wall the is covered in world resin like secretions that are covering the area. It looks like they were laid down over months or years by some type of creature or biological process. It looks somewhat slick. There's also, in the far-left corner away from the secretions, a small beam of green light that is shining down. Far right, there is a body crumbled there that appears to be human. Actually, correction, two bodies crumbled there in the corner. Stace [Nix] 53:33 Like, fresh? Daniel [GM] 53:35 You'd have to investigate to be sure. Stace [Nix] 53:37 Nix investigates to be sure. Daniel [GM] 53:39 It's pretty obvious that these are relatively recent-ish, they're not skeletons, they're not desiccated or anything like that. Marietta [Atalia] 53:49 Are either of them female? Can we identify them? Daniel [GM] 53:52 One of them appears to be female. Alex [ChaCha] 53:54 Ba ba ba bum. Stace [Nix] 53:55 Nix searches their pocketses. Sampson [Dili] 53:58 Quick question. We can hear again? Daniel [GM] 54:00 You can hear again. So one of them appears to be female. You're searching the pocketses, I believe you said? In full Gollum mode. Stace [Nix] 54:10 Yes. Daniel [GM] 54:10 You searched their pocketses. Give me something about searching or anything. That is a 12. However, if you've gotten anything in searching or investigation or anything like that, that would be a 9. That's intellect, if you want to expend effort. Stace [Nix] 54:32 Yes, all my Intellect points, Daniel. That's fair. I choose to be trained in searching for 10 minutes. Daniel [GM] 54:41 Is that one of your abilities? Stace [Nix] 54:42 Yes, I have Confident Outlook, trained in one task for 10 minutes. Daniel [GM] 54:46 Okay, nice. Stace [Nix] 54:48 Oh, I got 19 now. So, burned that for no reason. Daniel [GM] 54:52 Very nice. Okay, what you're able to decipher is you do figure out pretty quickly with a 19, I won't make it all mysterious in this case since you got a 19. One of these is definitely Mewin. She's got crumbles of the scones that you saw Momma Jerrun's place on her fabric. She has a notebook and inside it has a drawing of something that looks like a pyramid and some notes there that appear to be in some Cipher, a code. And with a 19, I'll also say that on the other body, while you don't find a lot of information besides the fact that they had daggers and they were killed by apparently Mewin. The only other thing you find is a strange patch on it and that patch has the image of a hand and a blade on the field of purple. Stace [Nix] 55:58 Hey, I'm sorry. Marietta, is it Italia or Atalia? Marietta [Atalia] 56:02 It's Atalia. Stace [Nix] 56:04 Okay. [As Nix] Atalia, this is the chick you were talking about. Marietta [Atalia] 56:09 [As Atalia] Wow. That's really impressive. That's so cool. How's she doing? Stace [Nix] 56:16 [As Nix] She killed this guy. She's dead. Marietta [Atalia] 56:20 [As Atalia] Oh. Stace [Nix] 56:21 [As Atalia] And check out this patch, man, and this code shit. Daniel [GM] 56:25 Would I recognize any of these? Atalia, the patch you recognize as a symbol for the handlers that you worked for. And that's where we're going to end the episode. Marietta [Atalia] 56:44 Me work for bad guys. Never. Stace [Nix] 56:47 Marietta, tell me what's going on. Marietta [Atalia] 56:50 I don't know. Sampson [Dili] 56:52 Tell us your whole backstory, go. Marietta [Atalia] 56:54 Well. Stace [Nix] 56:56 Tell me now. Marietta [Atalia] 56:57 I had a happy childhood. Daniel [GM] 57:03 What did Chacha do? Alex [ChaCha] 57:10 It sounds weird but the googly eyes, they made my day. Yes, we all have googly eyes now. I love it. Daniel [GM] 57:22 That's a good answer. Okay, cool. Thinking of awesome things, we have a weekly segment that we do player intrusions where we tell you something that you should check out, or something that you should care about because it is awesome. Alex, I believe this week is yours. Alex [ChaCha] 57:41 Yes. Daniel [GM] 57:42 What would you give our listeners an XP to experience? Alex [ChaCha] 57:47 Animals, more specifically pets. But don't go out and buy a pet just because you want the XP, because that's not how pets work. Daniel [GM] 57:58 What's awesome about pets? Unknown Speaker 58:00 Right now, like my chubby, chubby dog, she is so happy to go on car rides. I tricked her to go on a car ride to the vet and she was just so dumb and happy to be in the car and she wanted to sit in my lap while I was driving, and she's just a sweet ball of love until you betray her trust in a reveal yourself to be a vet. She was so excited to meet new people until she found out they were vet techs. And then she's like, "Oh, hell no." Daniel [GM] 58:22 Okay. Sounds good. Marietta, where can people find as if they want to talk to us? maryada working people aren't as if they want to talk to us. Marietta [Atalia] 58:40 They can find us on the social medias. We're on a lot of them. It was brought to my attention that we should maybe invest in some Tumblr time that we considered adding. But, we have Twitter, we have Instagram, we have a website, we have the Facebook page, and the Facebook and the Instagram are @explorerswantedpodcast. The Twitter is @ExplorersWanted, and the website is explorerswanted.fm or is it explorereswantedpodcast.fm? Daniel [GM] 59:12 It's exploreswanted.fm. Marietta [Atalia] 59:14 Oh, man, we got the good domain. Sampson [Dili] 59:17 I think that we're going to be successful, we need to be on a platform that allows for lewd fan art. So Tumblr is, I don't know, maybe not the best. Stace [Nix] 59:26 Yeah. Marietta [Atalia] 59:27 I don't know, man. Alex [ChaCha] 59:28 We need a fans-only. Stace [Nix] 59:29 We just got to get a PornHub account. Sampson [Dili] 59:34 I was just thinking DeviantArt. We don't need a whole production about this. Stace [Nix] 59:39 PornHub, the new Tumblr. Daniel [GM] 59:42 We don't need Sonic impreg porn. Alex [ChaCha] 59:46 I mean, I know a guy who'll get it for us. Stace [Nix] 59:49 You said that with a lot of confidence, Daniel, and I'm not sure it's true. Sampson [Dili] 59:56 That was very specific, Dan, what's up? Alex [ChaCha] 59:57 You got a background you want to show us? Daniel [GM] 1:00:00 No, that's okay. Marietta [Atalia] 1:00:02 Anyway. Stace [Nix] 1:00:04 Yeah. But I've seeen some things, so I do, unfortunately know what you're talking about. Daniel [GM] 1:00:09 Yeah. But yes, absolutely talk to us via the socials on our my page. If you enjoyed this, the best thing you could do is tell a friend about it and tell them that you liked it. The second-best thing you could do is leave us a five-star review on whatever your podcast network fracker is, whether it's iTunes or whatever. Five-star reviews will help us a huge amount in getting started since we're a new podcast. If you have constructive criticism, feel free to reach out to us via the socials. If you really hated the podcast, keep that shit to your fucking self. We don't care. And, other than that, we can all be found individually on the socials if you want to reach out to us and tell us wonderful things and hopefully not shitty things. You can find me on twitter @andrlik, A-N-D-R-L-I-K. Stace [Nix] 1:01:09 You find me @stacewindu, just like Mace Windu but Stace Windu. Alex [ChaCha] 1:01:13 You can find me @realteaunicorn at Twitter. Sampson [Dili] 1:01:20 You can get me complements and virtual head pats @slampotato on Twitter. Marietta [Atalia] 1:01:25 And you can find me on Instagram. @imonahike, all one word. Follow me. Okay, thanks. I'm on a hike. All one word. Follow me, guys. Daniel [GM] 1:01:36 Thank you all for listening, be back next week with another episode. Have a good night and... Multiple Speakers 1:01:42 Bye!