Daniel [GM] (00:00:30): Welcome to Explorers Wanted. We are a weekly Numenera actual play podcast. I will be your humble GM, Daniel Andrlik. With me today is Alex Finn. Alex [ChaCha] (00:00:44): Hi, I'm still kind of stuck on that idea of snakes, all of the snakes. And then? What if we're all snakes? Like you turn around and secretly you've been a snake the whole time. The only one who's been an obvious snake is Nix, but everyone else is actually a snake made up of snakes. They're just 52 snakes in a trench coat. Daniel [GM] (00:01:06): Stace Babcock. Stace [Nix] (00:01:08): I want to go ahead and say that Nix is not obviously a snake. Nix has snake-like tendencies, but they are relatively easy to hide at this moment. And if Nix ever got snake eyes, she would wear slotted sunglasses like it's the eighties. I've already thought this through, thank you. Alex [ChaCha] (00:01:23): Like those ones with the holes? Stace [Nix] (00:01:27): No, no, no, with the slots. Daniel [GM] (00:01:29): You're not thinking of Crowley from Good Omens, but like the actual slatted ones? Stace [Nix] (00:01:33): Yeah. Alex [ChaCha] (00:01:34): That aren't really sunglasses, they're like the party sunglasses? Stace [Nix] (00:01:39): Yeah, I guess you could say that. But I feel like they do something to block the rays of the sun, simply because there's material there. Alex [ChaCha] (00:01:47): Okay. Daniel [GM] (00:01:49): Marietta Jones. Marietta [Atalia] (00:01:50): Hello. I'm here, I'm attending, I'm not a snake. And also, I would like to say that Nix's fucking hair shed water and did the wave. So if that's not snake-like, or just not human-like, then I don't know, man. Pretty sure she's a snake. Alex [ChaCha] (00:02:06): Or a duck. Ducks also shed water. Daniel [GM] (00:02:10): Mm-hmm (affirmative), that's true. Sampson Davis? Sampson [Dili] (00:02:14): That was probably a Hufflepuff more than a snake. Stace [Nix] (00:02:21): Dili, you secret Ravenclaw. Alex [ChaCha] (00:02:23): Is Atalian a Slytherin? Daniel [GM] (00:02:25): Oh, for sure. Alex [ChaCha] (00:02:26): Okay, good, good. Daniel [GM] (00:02:28): Yeah. Yeah. Atalia is definitely Slytherin. Nix is Gryffindor. ChaCha might be like a really eccentric Ravenclaw. Sampson [Dili] (00:02:36): I feel like ChaCha is an exchange student from the French school probably. Marietta [Atalia] (00:02:42): That makes sense. Daniel [GM] (00:02:43): Oh. Yeah. Alex [ChaCha] (00:02:45): I mean, Alex in real life is Slytherin. Daniel [GM] (00:02:48): So is me, Daniel, in real life. Slytherin for life. Alex [ChaCha] (00:02:52): I prefer not to say. Sampson [Dili] (00:02:54): I was a Slytherin in the first version of Pottermore and then they redid the quiz and I got Gryffindor. Alex [ChaCha] (00:02:58): Gryffindor! Daniel [GM] (00:03:01): I'm Slytherin on both sides. Gryffindor is the fucking jocks. How could you be the jock, Sampson? Sampson [Dili] (00:03:07): Fucking, right? Fucking sucks. Stace [Nix] (00:03:13): I'm not the jock, to be clear. Alex [ChaCha] (00:03:18): Stace's face of "What the fuck?" Daniel [GM] (00:03:21): Stace is like, "What the fuck are you guys talking about?" Stace [Nix] (00:03:25): I'm on this podcast. Daniel [GM] (00:03:26): What kind of millennial are you that you didn't do the Pottermore quiz? Stace [Nix] (00:03:32): Oh, fuck yeah. I've done it. I'm Slytherin with tendencies toward Ravenclaw. Daniel [GM] (00:03:38): Nice. Stace [Nix] (00:03:38): I was thinking of Nix. Definitely a Griffyndor who's like, "I get seized, but I have these not-weapons." Daniel [GM] (00:03:44): I get seized, but I have these and then she flexes. I've got these guns. So it doesn't matter. Stace [Nix] (00:03:53): She's smuggling snakes ear. Daniel [GM] (00:03:56): Watch me Quidditch. It doesn't matter as long as we win the Quidditch match. Stace [Nix] (00:04:00): Yeah. Daniel [GM] (00:04:01): Okay. So who remembers what happened last time? I am going to pick on Alex. Alex [ChaCha] (00:04:08): Okay. So surprisingly last time, Atalia did not get stabbed. Daniel [GM] (00:04:15): That was quite a shock. Alex [ChaCha] (00:04:16): We were all expecting Atalia to get stabbed. Daniel [GM] (00:04:19): You can say that about any episode. Stace [Nix] (00:04:22): It was a very pleasant surprise. Alex [ChaCha] (00:04:25): Well, this episode, she failed all of her social roles and did not put any effort into them. And luckily her striking resemblance, minus the scar, to her mother saved her life. And now Nix tried to go into the water to find out where we are, but that rope was not long enough. When Nix came back, she's just like, "I guess more rope." We find out ChaCha does not have any rope. She has drugs. That was a choice. Stace [Nix] (00:05:04): Ah, yeah. Sampson [Dili] (00:05:07): It always is. Stace [Nix] (00:05:08): Nix has one rope. She has one rope. Marietta [Atalia] (00:05:10): ChaCha says, "No, only drugs." Stace [Nix] (00:05:13): These pills and herbs fall out. She's like, "What the fuck?" Daniel [GM] (00:05:17): Man, what if those drugs dissolve in the river? Which also approves that ChaCha is either a [inaudible 00:05:23] or a zoomer. Stace [Nix] (00:05:26): It all makes so much more sense. Alex [ChaCha] (00:05:29): So anyway, we decided to rest up, because maybe we all shouldn't go underwater rock dodging with low might pools. Just a thought. Stace [Nix] (00:05:44): Yeah. Alex [ChaCha] (00:05:46): Her name. I want to say Stannis, but I'm like, "That's a city!" Marietta [Atalia] (00:05:49): It's Stannis. It's like the dude in A Game of Thrones who dies. But it's a lady. Alex [ChaCha] (00:05:58): I did not watch Game of Thrones or read the books. Marietta [Atalia] (00:06:01): What? Are you a millennial? Alex [ChaCha] (00:06:04): Cause hear he gained his life through,No, who regained their life through vagina? Daniel [GM] (00:06:09): Lightning dude, the lightning Lord. He was called the lightning Lord. I don't remember. Sampson [Dili] (00:06:15): Are we talking about game of Thrones? Are we talking about the pornography parody? Stace [Nix] (00:06:20): Yes. Daniel [GM] (00:06:21): Yeah. Game of Thrones. Alex [ChaCha] (00:06:23): Yeah I tried to read the first book but I was like "This is not for me." And anyway, while we were waiting, Stannis was just like, "Yo, she looks like her mom, but she got this wicked scar. What up with that?" And there was some mad, mad hints that Stanus is actually enemies of Atalia's mother. Guess she made some choices to give up all of her wealth. Unlike some people in the real world who will never make that choice, even though it's the ethical thing to do. And ChaCha was just like, "I wonder if there are whores." And there was, there was a transparent whore who was just like, "Yo, I know buddy cop don't press buddy cop and then surprise [inaudible 00:07:15]. Stace [Nix] (00:07:14): Amazing. Alex [ChaCha] (00:07:17): Yeah. Stace [Nix] (00:07:18): That's what happened. Marietta [Atalia] (00:07:19): Campaign's over. Daniel [GM] (00:07:21): So yeah. [inaudible 00:07:24] has told you that... You wish that you would be less trusting of some of those you talk to and then faded away. That's where we left off. Marietta [Atalia] (00:07:34): Mm-hmm (affirmative). Daniel [GM] (00:07:35): What does cha-cha or really any of the other players? Sampson [Dili] (00:07:39): So during this hour rest, Dili's going to try to make something that will help him, probably. I feel like that was the implicit statement Nix was given during the crafting suggestion. Stace [Nix] (00:07:53): Got it. Sampson [Dili] (00:07:53): He's going to try to make something. Marietta [Atalia] (00:08:00): A snorkel? Sampson [Dili] (00:08:00): Give me a roll. Just tell me what you get. Daniel [GM] (00:08:03): 13. Sampson [Dili] (00:08:05): Okay. So since you don't have [inaudible 00:08:10], but you are still able to craft some rudimentary snorkels, right? For five people. What's the material costs on that? Daniel [GM] (00:08:20): Let's just say you've managed to make it out of .02 shins total. Sampson [Dili] (00:08:26): Dili presents it. I have snorkels. Marietta [Atalia] (00:08:30): Amazing! Sampson [Dili] (00:08:32): Well there're just tubes. That's fine. [inaudible 00:00:08:36]. Stace [Nix] (00:08:35): Nix puts it on, it's upside down. Sampson [Dili] (00:08:37): The other way. Stace [Nix] (00:08:39): Oh, I get it. Sampson [Dili] (00:08:41): Yeah. You want one hole to be above your head. Stace [Nix] (00:08:45): So brilliant. Cause there's only a couple inches. Daniel [GM] (00:08:55): The snorkels will definitely give you guys an asset and trying to get through this tunnel if that's what you're trying to do, the tunnel of water. Marietta [Atalia] (00:08:55): I'm not looking to hang out with bees today. Sampson [Dili] (00:08:59): So you don't want a snorkel? Marietta [Atalia] (00:09:01): I do want a snorkel. Sampson [Dili] (00:09:03): Oh, I'll just make a dog one for Jeskii. Daniel [GM] (00:09:07): Yeah. We'll say even like trying to mold it to her snout. Dili's that considerate he's really tried. He had to like take apart his rope. That was partially reeds and trash in order to construct it. But he was able to do it for Jessica. Sampson [Dili] (00:09:29): I'll also give that one to Atalia. Like I think you should try to put this on her. Marietta [Atalia] (00:09:33): I was like, okay, Jesse, we're going to go through the river.Tell us like explaining it in great detail to Jesse. Sampson [Dili] (00:09:42): Jessica kind of like tilts her head at you with confusion. Marietta [Atalia] (00:09:45): It's okay. This will definitely help. Sampson [Dili] (00:09:49): It's like, you're trying to explain quantum physics to a Cocker spaniel. Marietta [Atalia] (00:09:54): I'm hoping that if I just go she'll just follow me. It'll be fine. Yeah. Stace [Nix] (00:10:02): Next we'll interrogate. Stannis. Not interrogate literally, but be like, but she's she wants to dig up more info. Cause she knows Atalia's mom is a point of interest. Marietta [Atalia] (00:10:16): I don't know what Atalia told you too much about her mom though. Stace [Nix] (00:10:20): Oh, but Nix has known you for 10 plus years. Sampson [Dili] (00:10:24): Although I would guess that maybe Atalia hasn't mentioned anything, but I bet you in excess curious. Marietta [Atalia] (00:10:30): Yeah. I think that maybe you would have heard something from your mom and Atalia would have said, Oh, I just haven't seen my mom in a long time. So she would be like, you would know that there's something going on with it. But Atalia would probably not tell you. Sampson [Dili] (00:10:46): That's true. Like your mom explicitly said when you were with her in the invisible strings' episode, when you met with her individually, she said something about, it's a shame about her mother and contexts Atalia. Stace [Nix] (00:11:00): Yeah. And I don't know how long ago Italia his mom left. Sampson [Dili] (00:11:04): Along time ago. Alex [ChaCha] (00:11:05): It was like, she was nine. Daniel [GM] (00:11:08): Atalia was mostly raised by her grandmother. Alex [ChaCha] (00:11:11): She was nine when she came to live with her grandma. So like she had a foundation with her mom, but then the grandma was going to fix that. Stace [Nix] (00:11:20): I think that next would have picked up on some tension related to this topic as well over the years. Daniel [GM] (00:11:26): Its only fair. Marietta [Atalia] (00:11:27): Oh yeah. I think you would know that Atalia, like blatantly has been lying to you about her mom. Like, Oh, I just haven't seen her. I'm sure she's fine. But in reality, Atalia is pretty sure her mom's dead and her mom just disappeared and Atalia was left alone until her grandmother figured it out. I think Italia was alone for a few weeks before her grandma picked her up. I think she was like just squatting and her old house. So, and then her grandma picked her up and she lived there and then she met you, but she wouldn't move on. Just left me alone. It was fine. She was like, no, my mom's just traveling. It's also probably a different excuse. Every time you push her on a matter, Daniel [GM] (00:12:17): she's just living on a farm now. Marietta [Atalia] (00:12:19): Yeah. She's just traveling. She's just working at a residency. She's she's woofing. Alex [ChaCha] (00:12:28): She's a woofer now. Sampson [Dili] (00:12:30): She's just going out for cigarettes. Marietta [Atalia] (00:12:33): Yeah. It's four weeks later. She'll be back. It's fine.(laughing) It's fine. Yeah. So I don't think Italia has ever personally told anyone that Rue mom just stopped coming back. Stace [Nix] (00:12:54): Well, actually in that case, I don't know that that next would bring it up without some sort of indication from Italia that Italian wanted to know. So if there's no indication of that during this interaction next, not going to bring it up. She's not trying to cause like emotional harm. Alex [ChaCha] (00:13:10): I think you could still ask questions about it. I think Atalia would be curious, but Atalia has learned to never ask questions about it because her grandma never answered any of them. Every time she's asked to anything about it, it's always been shut down. So she really doesn't like, she has no idea where her mom is. Stace [Nix] (00:13:29): Okay. So I guess let me insight. Let me insight Atalia. Marietta [Atalia] (00:13:32): Inside Atalia. Atalia is pretending so good. Stace [Nix] (00:13:38): See if Nick's picks up that Atalia is actually curious because she's not really. Yeah. Daniel [GM] (00:13:45): You're specialized in social. So that will be a plus six to every raw. Stace [Nix] (00:13:49): I got a 14. So its a 20 in total. Daniel [GM] (00:13:52): Okay, And is Atalia trying to hide any of this thoughts on that? Marietta [Atalia] (00:13:54): No, I think Atalia is mostly observing, like trying to figure out this lady. And I think it's clear that she's thinking about it, but she's not sure like how to ask. Daniel [GM] (00:14:09): Okay. So it'll be a straight role for you. Okay. Marietta [Atalia] (00:14:12): And also Nixon knows her like really well. So I feel like a lot of it's. Daniel [GM] (00:14:17): Actually probably a plus three assets on top of it, is total 23, what did yo get? Marietta [Atalia] (00:14:23): I feel like anything with Atalia with Nick's observing should be an advantage. I'll add on 11. Daniel [GM] (00:14:32): Yeah. I was going to say, assuming it wasn't 23. So next you can definitely tell. Stace [Nix] (00:14:36): So yeah. So Nix speak when Italia isn't able or doesn't want or emotionally able or whatever. And she'll be just like the status you knew Atalia's mom. Daniel [GM] (00:14:49): You could say that. Stace [Nix] (00:14:51): I'm just curious because never met her. Me and Italia been friends for. I could tell you how long, like over a decade. Marietta [Atalia] (00:14:59): Yeah, actually it's been like 10 years now. More than 10 years. Wow. Stace [Nix] (00:15:04): Yeah. I know,fucking wild anyway. So just never heard from her or anything. So curious as to what she's been up to or what you can tell us. Daniel [GM] (00:15:18): I don't have much to this information. Stace [Nix] (00:15:21): Neither do we honestly. Atalia has been like, our info is 14 years out of date. Marietta [Atalia] (00:15:30): It is 14 years actually. Yeah. That'd be, that'd be about it. I think Natalia is like 22. And how old you are. I think you're like two or three or four years older, Sampson [Dili] (00:15:37): So Atalia is a baby. Alex [ChaCha] (00:15:40): Baby. She's pretending to be like such a big kid, but she's not. Stace [Nix] (00:15:44): Yeah. [inaudible 00:15:46] Atalia definitely have like a big sister, little sister, like at. Marietta [Atalia] (00:15:49): least two to four years older than her. And she was like, she idolized the shit out of you. Don't worry. Stace [Nix] (00:15:55): Anything you got would just be helpful because we haven't heard anything about her mom and lot me never, Daniel [GM] (00:16:04): Jimmy, a social role. Default is 15, but you've got specializations. So, that brings it down to 9. Stace [Nix] (00:16:14): 10. Daniel [GM] (00:16:15): So stands as, she looks at Atalia for [inaudible 00:16:19] what do mean to get? Alex [ChaCha] (00:16:22): I'm getting out of a bunch of things right now actually. Stace [Nix] (00:16:26): What do you stand as? Sampson [Dili] (00:16:31): But before that you doing jobs. Daniel [GM] (00:16:35): Who do you work for or where do work Marietta [Atalia] (00:16:35): I was working for the handlers. Daniel [GM] (00:16:40): Yeah. That makes sense. Marietta [Atalia] (00:16:42): Yeah. So my handler was killed when I asked me to join and I was like, what the fuck? Now? I don't know. I like to learn. And it was the opportunity I had the, hammer that I worked with family when I was like 12, Daniel [GM] (00:17:00): [inaudible 00:17:04]. Marietta [Atalia] (00:17:04): probably. But yeah, I don't know. I mostly did it because it gave me a chance to improve my skills. It gave me a chance to learn and put money in my pocket. I was really hoping to learn more. Marietta [Atalia] (00:17:18): I know I spotted that about bunch, but I've had no one to teach me since my mother left. And the things that she taught me were not actually the things I want to learn. Learning how to scam people be crate. but it's not, it's not like knowledge and growth and there's a lot more to learn, I guess. So I guess this is the way it did. Daniel [GM] (00:17:37): I got you [inaudible 00:17:41]. Marietta [Atalia] (00:17:40): It did but I've burned all those bridges. And the handlers would probably really like me dead at this point. So I have thrown in my lot, mom and Jared and I don't even know what the door is. So that feels great. Daniel [GM] (00:17:55): [inaudible 00:17:55] I understand. I remember being in your shoes once. Marietta [Atalia] (00:17:58): Yes, everyone does. Huh? Sampson [Dili] (00:18:02): Yeah. Daniel [GM] (00:18:04): Not everybody had your mother as a handler. Marietta [Atalia] (00:18:09): I haven't seen my mother since I was nine years old. Daniel [GM] (00:18:13): She's not one good thing is don't follow her. That's one sorrow after another. Marietta [Atalia] (00:18:20): good things. Don't really follow me. Other either at all, turn my face at the scars facing. Daniel [GM] (00:18:30): Yeah. Marietta [Atalia] (00:18:30): Babs have any idea who my father is. Daniel [GM] (00:18:33): I swear when I saw you in the lab, I thought you were her. I thought you would finally found me that you were here to kill me for a moment in the midst of flowers going through. I was grateful. I was still scared because you know, when it comes down to it, Sally, Anna coming to is not a word I used for her when she was crossed. Marietta [Atalia] (00:19:01): You know who my father is. You said I would be the right age earlier. Daniel [GM] (00:19:09): I don't know. [inaudible 00:19:13] I don't mean that. I'm saying, I think your mother had a kid because she decided she didn't want. And I think she vanished when she decided she didn't want to be tied down. I know that's hard, but I insulation was, Marietta [Atalia] (00:19:32): it's hard to say one way or another. It's not like she. Stace [Nix] (00:19:35): Atalia. What? Ask her, why your mom wanted to kill her mixes? Like right there. Sampson [Dili] (00:19:46): She's like sitting there eating, popcorn, those behind next. Just kind of watching Marietta [Atalia] (00:19:51): why did my mother want to kill you? You said that she was a handler. Sampson [Dili] (00:19:57): So, so live one way the handlers come to kill you. If you that they get a contract for it or they feel like you're a liability. Marietta [Atalia] (00:20:06): Yeah. Stace [Nix] (00:20:07): Oh shit. What if your pump pissed off the handlers? Just like you Italia. Marietta [Atalia] (00:20:13): Well then why would they be so invested in bringing me on. Sampson [Dili] (00:20:18): Stan starts laughing really hard. Like, Oh, are you kidding? Stace [Nix] (00:20:22): Oh yea. Sampson [Dili] (00:20:23): I've been worried all these years. This has been hunting me. She's in deep. She's the, she's the one who she and what's her name? Her friend. Tamara. Marietta [Atalia] (00:20:39): Tomorrow's dead. Alex [ChaCha] (00:20:47): This is Alex. This is, I mean, Gary said. Daniel [GM] (00:20:55): Tamara's dead. Oh shit. I'm sorry to hear that. Daniel [GM] (00:21:01): I'm sorry to hear that. Marietta [Atalia] (00:21:03): What? Stace [Nix] (00:21:03): What? Daniel [GM] (00:21:05): I heard [Saliana 00:21:06]. I was there when she told Tamara to look after you. Stace [Nix] (00:21:19): Excuse me. Sampson [Dili] (00:21:20): Nix, are you okay? Stace [Nix] (00:21:23): Yeah. Sampson [Dili] (00:21:24): Really green all of a sudden. Stace [Nix] (00:21:25): Well, she- Sampson [Dili] (00:21:25): Did I fuck up the snorkel? Hold on. Let me check. Stace [Nix] (00:21:28): Well, I killed her. Well, I feel kind of bad if- Marietta [Atalia] (00:21:33): She did corner me in a bathroom. She was not very kind. Daniel [GM] (00:21:39): Listen, Tamara has never been known as gifted with social graces. Stace [Nix] (00:21:46): Well, she- Daniel [GM] (00:21:48): I'm sad to hear things didn't work out. I know your mother asked if you ever went down the path of the Handlers. Tamara look out for you to make sure you didn't get too far out of line. Marietta [Atalia] (00:22:03): Well, she didn't show up until the end at the wrong moment, so never communicated that. Daniel [GM] (00:22:12): Like I said, that's a shame, kid. Stace [Nix] (00:22:15): She did seem to be actively trying to kill us. Daniel [GM] (00:22:19): They after you? Marietta [Atalia] (00:22:21): I presume so, considering they probably think I killed Tamara, so yeah. Stace [Nix] (00:22:27): Which isn't even fair. Marietta [Atalia] (00:22:30): I did take the items they really wanted. The first job we had was to acquire something for Momma Jerrun and it was in possession of the Handlers. Daniel [GM] (00:22:42): Oh, you grabbed it for the caller. Thank god for Tamara. That's honestly pretty impressive. That's good. Marietta [Atalia] (00:22:48): I can get out of shitty situations. I just tend to get into them in the first place. Stace [Nix] (00:22:54): Yeah, but I get you out of them, Atalia. That's like our thing. Marietta [Atalia] (00:22:57): It is now! Stace [Nix] (00:22:58): Yeah. Daniel [GM] (00:23:01): Well, that's the human, I mean humanoid condition, right? That's why we do what we do. Stace [Nix] (00:23:08): Emphasis on humanoid. Marietta [Atalia] (00:23:11): I'm humanoid. Daniel [GM] (00:23:14): Sounds like the caller chose wisely. Marietta [Atalia] (00:23:19): I hope so. Look, I'm not trying to kill you. I'm not trying to have my mother's vengeance. If the Handler's thing hadn't fallen into my lap and been the thing that I could be successful at instantaneously, it probably wouldn't have happened. Daniel [GM] (00:23:35): That's how they get you, kid. Of course it fell into your lap. They've been watching you since you were born. Creepy. Marietta [Atalia] (00:23:46): If it wasn't what had been bred into me and been trained into me as a child, the root of it is that I'm curious about Numenera. I want to learn more. I want to grow more. I want to gain skills that aren't just for stealing shit, but I'm good at stealing shit and good at getting out of trouble when I'm in it. Daniel [GM] (00:24:13): Yeah. I don't think that's what Saliana wanted for you though, or else she would have paid for it. She leans forward and she says, "Because trust me, she could." Marietta [Atalia] (00:24:19): I just don't know what the point was. She left when I was pretty little, and I've been with my grandmother since then. Daniel [GM] (00:24:28): Yeah. She didn't want to be a mom. It doesn't mean she didn't love you. She just knew what she knew. Marietta [Atalia] (00:24:36): I suppose. I don't expect to see her again anytime soon. I'd really like to know where my grandmother is now, though. The Handlers tried to kill her. Didn't go very well for them. Daniel [GM] (00:24:46): They did? Marietta [Atalia] (00:24:48): Yeah. Daniel [GM] (00:24:49): That's a pretty stupid thing to try. Sampson [Dili] (00:24:54): Why is that? Daniel [GM] (00:24:55): I'm just saying she'd be old by now, but she's still who she was. Sampson [Dili] (00:25:03): Who was she? Tell us. Daniel [GM] (00:25:07): She was Amaranth Stone. Time was you didn't need to say anything else but that name. People would stop whatever they were doing if they thought you had Amaranth Stone on your payroll. Sampson [Dili] (00:25:19): Quick question, Dan. Are you saying Amarin or Amaranth? Daniel [GM] (00:25:22): Amaranth. Stace [Nix] (00:25:23): Like the gemstone? Daniel [GM] (00:25:23): Like the gemstone. Alex [ChaCha] (00:25:27): What would the knowledge role be on [inaudible 00:25:30]? Marietta [Atalia] (00:25:30): Stone is her last name. Stace [Nix] (00:25:32): Tricksy Daniel. Daniel [GM] (00:25:34): Amaranth was a legend. Marietta [Atalia] (00:25:37): Definitely you can't get anything out of her unless she wants to give it to you. Daniel [GM] (00:25:42): Yeah, well. Stace [Nix] (00:25:44): And she gone, yo. We fucking stole that shit from the Knyxos and the Handlers, and we came back and [Jima 00:04:51]. There's three dead Handlers at our house and she is gone. We don't even know. Daniel [GM] (00:25:57): Oh, f'ing Knyxos involved in your... Let me tell you, it's been a long time since I've been to Charmonde. Marietta [Atalia] (00:26:08): Yeah, like we said, we left Charmonde for very important reasons. Stace [Nix] (00:26:13): Yeah. Marietta [Atalia] (00:26:13): Very important reasons. Daniel [GM] (00:26:13): Just surprised. I mean, Mara and your mom never had anything to do with Knyxos. Stace [Nix] (00:26:23): Tamara was straight running that auction for the Knyxos, dude, so that's changed since you left. Marietta [Atalia] (00:26:29): Yeah, and the Knyxos are building automatons. Sampson [Dili] (00:26:33): Oh, they're hiring out. Dili looks away just like- Daniel [GM] (00:26:37): I don't know what most of that means. Like I said, it's been easily 10 years since I've been to Charmonde. Stace [Nix] (00:26:45): Well, I hope that it'll be less than 10 years before we get to go back, but it's pretty hot for us. Daniel [GM] (00:26:57): Yeah, if I'm reading you right, you got problems with the Handlers and the Knyxos? Marietta [Atalia] (00:27:00): And the palace. Stace [Nix] (00:27:01): We like to be efficient. Marietta [Atalia] (00:27:03): And you know, with me around trying to make trouble with Guardians of the Night's Hope too. Daniel [GM] (00:27:10): Do you actually say that? Marietta [Atalia] (00:27:12): I'll roll my eyes at that. Daniel [GM] (00:27:18): [Margaret 00:27:18] kind of fades when you say that, but she says the Knyxos and the Handlers, they all come from the same camp. Sampson [Dili] (00:27:20): Same what? Marietta [Atalia] (00:27:20): Camp. Daniel [GM] (00:27:30): They all come from the same camp. They all come from the same line. Sampson [Dili] (00:27:34): Like same line of work or same umbrella organization? Daniel [GM] (00:27:39): Just saying the dialogue ended and next thing you know, they were just words. One of them was Knyxos and one of them was Handlers, and there were probably many more besides that I never knew. Stace [Nix] (00:27:53): [Stannis 00:00:27:55], do you mind clarifying that? I'm not following you well. Daniel [GM] (00:28:01): Give me a social role of 15. Nix will have an asset because it's gone this far. Then she's specialized, so that would be a six. Stace [Nix] (00:28:13): Eight. Daniel [GM] (00:28:13): You've come this far. If a caller sent you on something like this, it doesn't really matter anymore. The Knyxos and the Handlers are fragments of something else, something older, more widespread. Don't get me wrong, there have always been bit players. There have always been local players, but it used to be, at least in [Navari 00:07:39], that everything was run, everything answered to the Dialogue. That's what they called themselves anyway. Maybe their owner had a flare for the dramatic. Stace [Nix] (00:28:53): How long ago was this? Daniel [GM] (00:28:59): Somewhere between 70 and 100 years ago. Stace [Nix] (00:29:01): Oh, dang. All right. Daniel [GM] (00:29:03): Dialogue ended a long time ago, and whatever little thieves or little agents at the time tried to build their own little organizations and [inaudible 00:29:17]. In the case of Shallamas, that was [Caresaw 00:29:24], and he called it the Knyxos and [Whynos 00:29:27] in Charmonde, although he's not that different. For all I know, he's even the same person. You have little itty bitty players that create things like the Handlers in Charmonde or the Agents, terrible name, by the way, in [Bodeross 00:29:51]. All these little bit players coming out at the death of the Dialogue, making their own little kingdoms. Stace [Nix] (00:30:03): Did you say why Atalia's mom was trying to kill you? Daniel [GM] (00:30:05): Well, she was my handler. Stace [Nix] (00:30:11): Oh, you left the Handlers. Daniel [GM] (00:30:14): I joined the Guardians of Night's Hope and that was the end of it. I went rogue. Stace [Nix] (00:30:21): Shit. Daniel [GM] (00:30:22): They don't forget when you go rogue from the Handlers. They track you down until you're dead and gone. Stace [Nix] (00:30:29): Well, what'd you have to do? Because you're still alive. Marietta [Atalia] (00:30:33): Yeah, I could take some pro tips at this point. Daniel [GM] (00:30:36): One, I got out of Charmonde. Marietta [Atalia] (00:30:37): Check. Stace [Nix] (00:30:38): Smart. Daniel [GM] (00:30:39): Two, I changed my name. Stace [Nix] (00:30:41): Atalia, change your fucking name. Daniel [GM] (00:30:46): And three, well, I changed almost everything about myself. I have so many different features. I can't remember which one was the original. I've changed so many times, but you know what? It doesn't matter. Sampson [Dili] (00:31:08): Were you able to do that with the help of the Guardians, change so many times? Daniel [GM] (00:31:14): One of the few fringe benefits of being connected with the aura with that much Numenera at their disposal. Sampson [Dili] (00:31:24): Right. Dili will have a contemplative look. Daniel [GM] (00:31:26): Listen, it's not my job to pitch you on the organization. That all comes back to your caller, but I'll just tell you this. I was doing very well as a contractor for the Handlers. I was easily bringing in a thousand shins on almost every job. Marietta [Atalia] (00:31:49): Damn. Sampson [Dili] (00:31:50): Whoa. Stace [Nix] (00:31:52): Wow. Thousand shin job, how rare. Sampson [Dili] (00:31:56): For me, personally. Stace [Nix] (00:31:58): Yeah. Sampson [Dili] (00:31:58): And I met Momma Jerrun. Used a different name back then, but I met Momma Jerrun and she hooked me up, showed me what we could do. I gave up Charmonde, but I've been working the mission ever since. Stace [Nix] (00:32:23): We call her Momma J. She seems to like that. Marietta [Atalia] (00:32:27): She does not like confrontation, however. Stace [Nix] (00:32:30): She does dislike confrontation. That is true. Daniel [GM] (00:32:36): She's a fierce woman. Stace [Nix] (00:32:36): She makes some mad scones, dude. They're just fire. Daniel [GM] (00:32:41): They are incredible. I miss them. I haven't been back to Charmonde, like I said, in over 10 years. Stace [Nix] (00:32:48): Yeah, I get that. Smart. Marietta [Atalia] (00:32:51): It's kind of a hot mess right now. Alex [ChaCha] (00:32:54): This stretch, I have one half of a scone left in her pocket. Stace [Nix] (00:32:58): I thought we were out of scones, like we couldn't prove to [Salah 00:33:02] that we were who we said we were, because there were no scones. Daniel [GM] (00:33:06): Yeah, but he didn't eat it. Stace [Nix] (00:33:07): Oh, okay. All right. Well, woo, man. Nix stretches. I'm feeling better. Me first, guys, and then you'll follow? Or Dili, you make your fucking- Sampson [Dili] (00:33:17): Should we tie a rope between us, like connecting us? Is that not what we should do? Stace [Nix] (00:33:25): Oh, I thought I would just tether the other end of the- Marietta [Atalia] (00:33:27): I thought we would go one at a time on the rope, and then once we can pull it back, i.e. there's no resistance from a human being being attached to the other end, excuse me, humanoid, we could pull it in. Stace [Nix] (00:33:41): Atalia, Your subtlety is incredible. Marietta [Atalia] (00:33:43): I'm so sorry. It's a difficult transition for me personally with you. Stace [Nix] (00:33:49): Is it? Marietta [Atalia] (00:33:52): Yeah. Stace [Nix] (00:33:56): I would be catty and be like, "Tell me how this is difficult for you," but in character. Marietta [Atalia] (00:34:00): How is this your problem? Stace [Nix] (00:34:00): Nix doesn't find this difficult at all, so she was like, "All right." Nick. Daniel [GM] (00:34:07): So what are you guys doing? Got the river in front of you. Marietta [Atalia] (00:34:09): Are you going for it, Nix, or do you want me and Jeskii to go first? Stace [Nix] (00:34:16): Nah, I'll go first, because it keeps going and I would hate for anybody to get past. Marietta [Atalia] (00:34:23): Okay. Daniel [GM] (00:34:23): Okay. So Nix, how are you guys doing this? Stace [Nix] (00:34:30): Oh, yeah. Nix first, for sure. Marietta [Atalia] (00:34:32): I guess I'll hold on to the rope, and once there's no tension for me pulling back, like when she's off of it, then I'll reel it in. Daniel [GM] (00:34:42): I guess I'm curious. How is Nix going back? Because we know 150 feet of rope is not enough to really get to where you need to go. Stace [Nix] (00:34:50): Oh, Nix has no intention of really using the rope beyond... Actually, Nix's plan is to take the rope through, catch herself on the rocks of the rapids, and maybe string it across if she can so other people can catch. Or otherwise, Nix will just try to leverage herself against the rocks and catch people. Daniel [GM] (00:35:11): Okay. For Nix, give me a 12th might roll. Stace [Nix] (00:35:18): All right. Double effort. 10. Daniel [GM] (00:35:24): Okay. So that means everybody else has a asset to trying to get through the tunnel and get caught by Nix, assuming that you're going one at a time and not trying to jump in all at once. Marietta [Atalia] (00:35:39): Yes to one at a time. Alex [ChaCha] (00:35:42): Would it be smart to send ChaCha next, because she's trained in swimming? Marietta [Atalia] (00:35:47): Sure. Sounds great. Alex [ChaCha] (00:35:49): I don't know. No, if anybody else has a better idea, because I was just like- Marietta [Atalia] (00:35:53): No, that sounds great. Go for it. Alex [ChaCha] (00:35:55): Okay. Daniel [GM] (00:35:57): ChaCha, it's a 12. You have an asset from your training. You have an asset from Nix and then you have your skill, so that's training. Sampson [Dili] (00:36:06): With a snorkel. Give her an asset as well. Daniel [GM] (00:36:09): The snorkel would give her an asset as well, so that brings it down to a three. Alex [ChaCha] (00:36:15): I got 19. Daniel [GM] (00:36:17): What would you propose as a minor effect? Alex [ChaCha] (00:36:20): Could Dili have made a net? Daniel [GM] (00:36:21): Out of the razor wire? I don't know if you could do that. You could say that with a 19, you're giving an asset to the next people who come. Alex [ChaCha] (00:36:31): Yeah. Daniel [GM] (00:36:33): Okay? Atalia, Dili and Stannis will have two assets. Who's next? Sampson [Dili] (00:36:38): Stannis, do you want to go? Daniel [GM] (00:36:39): Stannis will go. She's easily caught across. No problem. Not that you guys know that. Marietta [Atalia] (00:36:49): Dili, I'm here? Daniel [GM] (00:36:50): Yeah. As far as Dili and Atalia know, they're just sending people to their death. Marietta [Atalia] (00:36:56): Dili, I'm definitely here to support you, but I think you should go before I do. Sampson [Dili] (00:37:02): Okay. Before Dili walks in, he leaves his minor illusion to make a big, red arrow appear above his head, so that when he comes out, hopefully they will at least see the red arrow. Daniel [GM] (00:37:16): Okay. So you'll definitely have the assets from ChaCha, the asset from Nix. I mean, obviously the arrow can't add another asset, but I like it for flavor anyway. Sampson [Dili] (00:37:26): Right. Daniel [GM] (00:37:28): So it'll be a six might roll. Sampson [Dili] (00:37:31): Dili will spin one level of effort that has and get a 16. Alex [ChaCha] (00:37:38): Yay! Daniel [GM] (00:37:39): Okay. So Dili, you get across no problem, and you get caught up with ChaCha and Nix. Sampson [Dili] (00:37:47): All right. Marietta [Atalia] (00:37:49): Okay. Daniel [GM] (00:37:51): And Atalia, you are alone in the tunnel. Marietta [Atalia] (00:37:53): I'm not alone. I have Jeskii with me. I'm going to put a tether between me and Jeskii, and I'm going to hold onto her. I have her walk in with me so we can hold on to each other, but if we get separated, we'll still be attached. Daniel [GM] (00:38:12): Okay. So with all this other stuff, it would be six. Marietta [Atalia] (00:38:13): Okay. Do I have money to spend effort? I do, because I did the roll, so I'm going to do that. Woo! Daniel [GM] (00:38:20): Wait, you did the roll? Marietta [Atalia] (00:38:22): Earlier. I mean, I have full recovery. I have full [crosstalk 00:38:26] now. Daniel [GM] (00:38:27): Oh, got you, got you. Okay. Marietta [Atalia] (00:38:28): And that was 10, so we're good. Daniel [GM] (00:38:30): Okay, yeah. So you guys all get through this tunnel and you are now in this sort of wider cavern. The river's rushing through it. You guys can find your way to the shore, and the cavern leads out into bright sunlight and a marsh. Marietta [Atalia] (00:38:46): Well, I'll take it. Let's get out of here, huh? Stace [Nix] (00:38:51): Well, we got to get the cart. Marietta [Atalia] (00:38:54): Yeah, we got to go find... Ugh. Daniel [GM] (00:38:57): Wait, what cart? Stace [Nix] (00:38:59): Oh yeah. Full of statues. You'll know it when you see it. It's the real job that we have, dude. You were just like a side thing we were doing for [Salah 00:18:08], but we were really here to get the cart of statues. Daniel [GM] (00:39:12): But you already have them, right? Stace [Nix] (00:39:14): Well, yeah. We just got to go pick them up. Daniel [GM] (00:39:16): Yeah. They maybe help me recollect the stuff that I was bringing. Marietta [Atalia] (00:39:23): What were you bringing? Daniel [GM] (00:39:28): Well, there was this box of crystals. Marietta [Atalia] (00:39:29): Yeah. How did you get captured? What happened? Daniel [GM] (00:39:33): Well, I took a wrong step, and there's stories here about a craft that flies overhead, blue and vibrating. I don't know exactly how it happened, but I was there at the crystals. I took a wrong step, but the next thing I knew, I found myself in some sort of lift. Then I was inside that ship and tried to grab the crystals and leave, and then- Marietta [Atalia] (00:40:02): Wait, ship? That was a ship? Daniel [GM] (00:40:07): Yeah, and then its arms came and grabbed me and threw me out. The next thing I know, I'm lying on the ground and that creature made of bees found me. Sampson [Dili] (00:40:17): Made a beeline for you? Sorry. I'm sorry. You continue. Daniel [GM] (00:40:23): It was... She pauses. It was horrible. The bee man talks with the locals, I think [inaudible 00:19:33], or it or whatever it is doesn't understand human feelings. It's a machine, and I was a puzzle for it to solve. I'll be honest. I've been trained very carefully, but I would have told it anything it wanted, but it wasn't concerned about what I said. It just wanted whatever it could figure out about me. Thank you for coming. I know you're being paid, but thank you for coming. Stace [Nix] (00:41:05): Oh yeah, we would've did it for less, but Sal is paying us pretty good. So you got some stuff you need us to pick up? Daniel [GM] (00:41:12): Last I saw, it was on that ship. Stace [Nix] (00:41:16): You need us to hunt down a ship? Sampson [Dili] (00:41:20): Could you describe the ship, and then can Dili make a cyber lord, if such a role exists? Daniel [GM] (00:41:25): Listen, it's a blue ship. It's known to fly over these parts. It's sleek, but it starts off cylindrical and then ends at a point. But it flies over these lowlands, these hills every few days or so. I was only on it for a minute or so after finding myself there, and I lost the package and was thrown free. At first, I felt that creature was healing me, but then once I was... Daniel [GM] (00:42:03): At first I thought that creature was healing me. But then once I was healthy again, they just started trying whatever they could to... Daniel [GM] (00:42:07): I don't even know what they were trying to figure out. They could've asked, I would have told them. Sampson [Dili] (00:42:14): Sorry about that beeline joke, by the way. It just feels tasteless now. I'm sorry. Daniel [GM] (00:42:23): Okay. Marietta [Atalia] (00:42:24): We do have to go back kind of close to venom [phonetic 00:42:27] though, to get the heart. Sampson [Dili] (00:42:29): So are your crystals on the ship or were they dropped when you were? Daniel [GM] (00:42:35): I think they're still on the ship. Sampson [Dili] (00:42:37): Okay. Daniel [GM] (00:42:38): My experience is you don't get very long on it before it figures out you're there. My failure was that I didn't have a tight enough grip on the case before I was thrown free. Sampson [Dili] (00:42:50): Are you good to try again with that, or should you go back to Shallamas? Daniel [GM] (00:42:59): She kind of takes a deep breath, straightens her shoulders, and she cracks her neck and she says, "The mission is what matters. I can do it." Sampson [Dili] (00:43:12): All right. We should probably get the cart back first, right? Marietta [Atalia] (00:43:17): Yeah. Cart, find the ship, sounds like a new mode of action, game plan. We can find something to haul the cart while we're at it. Stace [Nix] (00:43:27): I'm right here, Atalia. Marietta [Atalia] (00:43:29): I'm just saying that horses, for instance, move faster than you do. Are there horses in the ninth world? Whatever the ninth world equivalent for a horse is. Daniel [GM] (00:43:37): Probably a nene [phonetic 00:43:37] would be the default one to think of. Marietta [Atalia] (00:43:43): Yeah, definitely. Daniel [GM] (00:43:44): There's sort of like pale, fleshy giraffes. Marietta [Atalia] (00:43:49): Amazing. Stace [Nix] (00:43:50): Nix is trying not to look offended. Marietta [Atalia] (00:43:53): Well, I just don't want you to have to be so consumed by that. Stace [Nix] (00:43:58): Yeah. That's fair. Sampson [Dili] (00:44:00): We need your might for other things. Marietta [Atalia] (00:44:02): Yeah, definitely. Stace [Nix] (00:44:04): Okay. But I could pull it. Marietta [Atalia] (00:44:06): Definitely. That's not even a question. Is that a question? Was that a question? Was that what the problem was? You are so strong. You are so muscular. You are so powerful. Your might is just incomprehensible. It is so enormous. Is that what you needed to hear? Stace [Nix] (00:44:22): You had me, Atalia, until you clearly just went over the top. Marietta [Atalia] (00:44:26): I mean, that is how I feel about you. So if my feelings are too excessive I'm sorry. Stace [Nix] (00:44:32): Oh, never dude. Daniel [GM] (00:44:36): Nix, give me a six intellect roll. Stace [Nix] (00:44:40): Oh sure. Oh my God. It's a five. Daniel [GM] (00:44:47): Yep. It makes total sense that you would continue to pull the cart. Sampson [Dili] (00:44:52): Nix feels in itching in her brain and then it goes away. Marietta [Atalia] (00:44:57): I feel something. Oh, sorry. It's gone. Stace [Nix] (00:45:01): All right. Well, God damn it. Is it hard to find the cart Daniel? Daniel [GM] (00:45:07): You haven't left the cave yet, so you tell me. Marietta [Atalia] (00:45:11): Yeah. Based on the direction of the water flowing, could we go the opposite direction of that, so theoretically go back to where we were? Daniel [GM] (00:45:21): So outside the cave is sort of a fen area. I think with Nix's training in navigation you could probably figure out the way that you should go if that's what you want to do to get back to the cart. Marietta [Atalia] (00:45:34): Yes. Stace [Nix] (00:45:35): Yep. Daniel [GM] (00:45:36): It'll take you by the hive, but you could probably take a long way around if you wanted to. Marietta [Atalia] (00:45:41): Yeah, we're definitely avoiding. Daniel [GM] (00:45:43): Okay. So as you make your way across the fen you hear this weird chorus and it sounds like voices, but also weird sounds, sounds you don't recognize that are clearly animal, but it's weird that they all seem to be talking in the same proximity to each other. Sampson [Dili] (00:46:07): What's that? Stace [Nix] (00:46:09): I don't know. Daniel [GM] (00:46:10): Well, you see across the water there are a number of essentially creatures over there. You see a couple of human people who seem to be kind of babbling to each other. You see also a strange bird like creature in the water next to them that's making strange squawking noises. And then at this point I will offer Atalia an XP. Marietta [Atalia] (00:46:36): Yes. Daniel [GM] (00:46:37): Who will you give the other one too? Marietta [Atalia] (00:46:40): Oh. It's between- Stace [Nix] (00:46:44): Give it to Sampson. Marietta [Atalia] (00:46:45): Yeah, okay. I'll give it to Dili. I was going to give it to you because you did push me to ask those questions about Atalia's mom, but Sampson needs it. Sampson did give me an XP too, to re roll, that I wasted. [crosstalk 00:47:01] Thanks Sampson. Stace [Nix] (00:47:02): That futility should be reworded. Sampson [Dili] (00:47:05): Thank you. Daniel [GM] (00:47:07): One of those sort of humans in the water looks at you, Atalia, and says, "Your mother is waiting for you in Shallamas. Marietta [Atalia] (00:47:16): It fucking took her long enough. Can I insight check this creature? Daniel [GM] (00:47:27): Sure. Marietta [Atalia] (00:47:31): I don't know. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to do. I'm so like... Daniel [GM] (00:47:32): Okay. So give me an 18. Marietta [Atalia] (00:47:36): That's a four. In like a good way or in like a, she wants to kill me because apparently I killed her friend way? I didn't. I inadvertently did. A friend of mine did. Daniel [GM] (00:47:52): No. This is one of the heads in the water telling you that. Marietta [Atalia] (00:47:55): I think Atalia is responding to the head in the water. Daniel [GM] (00:47:58): Okay. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't strike you as this person is deliberately lying to you. It's an odd thing to say out of the blue to somebody. Marietta [Atalia] (00:48:14): Um, care to elaborate head in the water? Daniel [GM] (00:48:18): Sure, come closer. Marietta [Atalia] (00:48:20): Atalia takes half a step closer. Daniel [GM] (00:48:22): I have a hard time seeing you from here. Marietta [Atalia] (00:48:26): Atalia will move a little bit closer, but keep a foot back, obviously. Sampson [Dili] (00:48:32): Atalia, this seems like a bad idea. Marietta [Atalia] (00:48:38): It does seem like a bad idea, but I'm so curious. Can I tell what the head is? Does the head look like someone I know? Daniel [GM] (00:48:44): It's not recognizable as somebody you know, but it does appear to be a human male speaking. He has short dark hair and a salt and pepper beard. Marietta [Atalia] (00:48:55): What's your name, kind sir? Daniel [GM] (00:48:59): What was that? Marietta [Atalia] (00:49:00): What's your name, kind sir. Daniel [GM] (00:49:02): Come closer. Stace [Nix] (00:49:03): Atalia, no. Marietta [Atalia] (00:49:06): I'm pretty close, my dude. I don't know what to tell you. I was just in this water. Sampson [Dili] (00:49:12): Dili is going to touch Atalia on the elbow, just like, "Let me try something." And then he will cast minor illusion and a copy of Atalia will walk forward towards the creature. Daniel [GM] (00:49:28): That's good. So give me a deception roll, Dili. So it is going to be a 15. Sampson [Dili] (00:49:36): I will put a level of effort into that. Marietta [Atalia] (00:49:43): Is there any way I could assist him? Daniel [GM] (00:49:46): I don't think you know what he's doing, that's the problem. Marietta [Atalia] (00:49:49): Okay. Sampson [Dili] (00:49:50): So I put a level of effort into that, so it should be a 12. I roll a 15. Daniel [GM] (00:49:55): Nice. Okay. So this figure seems to slide closer to this figure that is looking like Atalia and then emerging out of the water you see this strange crab light feature which two pinchers. From its head are strange, somewhat stiff cables from which the heads of multiple creatures are attached and babbling that chorus. And at that point I need you all to role initiative. Sampson [Dili] (00:50:27): Fuck. Stace [Nix] (00:50:28): Fuck yeah. Marietta [Atalia] (00:50:35): Excellent. This reminds me of the three doors. Is that what it's called? The book? Or is it the four? It's the Stephen King Gunslinger series. What's that book called? Daniel [GM] (00:50:55): I haven't read it. Shit. Marietta [Atalia] (00:50:55): You haven't read the Stephen King Gunslinger series? Daniel [GM] (00:50:58): Nah. Marietta [Atalia] (00:50:58): What? Sampson [Dili] (00:51:01): I've only read the first one. Marietta [Atalia] (00:51:03): Wow. It's so spooky and fantasy sci-fi. How have you not? Stace [Nix] (00:51:08): Daniel can't read, that's his secret and his superpower. Sampson [Dili] (00:51:13): Daniel has never read a book in his life. Daniel [GM] (00:51:16): So the thing was is that I worked in a bookstore for most of my teenage to early twenties and so I was all snooty and refused to read those Stephen King books. Sampson [Dili] (00:51:27): That's fair. Daniel [GM] (00:51:28): Because I was a douche, as most people are in their early twenties. Sampson [Dili] (00:51:35): I rolled a two, Dan. Daniel [GM] (00:51:37): Okay. What did other people get for initiative? Marietta [Atalia] (00:51:42): I got on the floor. Stace [Nix] (00:51:44): I got an 11. Marietta [Atalia] (00:51:46): A natural 20. I've been saving it all day. Daniel [GM] (00:51:52): Holy shit. Okay, and Alex? Alex [ChaCha] (00:51:54): I got a 13. Daniel [GM] (00:51:56): So first up is Atalia. Mr. Crabby heads is coming at you. Marietta [Atalia] (00:52:02): I think I'm just going to... Sampson [Dili] (00:52:05): Towards her or the image? Daniel [GM] (00:52:07): Roughly the same direction. We'll see how it works out in the end. Sampson [Dili] (00:52:10): Okay. Marietta [Atalia] (00:52:14): I think I'm just going to onslaught it physically. Daniel [GM] (00:52:18): Okay. So that will be a 15. Marietta [Atalia] (00:52:22): Okay. And I'll put two levels of effort into it. Daniel [GM] (00:52:26): That makes it a nine. Marietta [Atalia] (00:52:33): It's a 14. Daniel [GM] (00:52:33): Okay. You definitely hit it. It doesn't look like it was that hurt, but it was hurt. So next up would be critter. There's a couple of choices for tactics here. It's going to try to attack Atalia with both of its pinchers. So first it's going to try to grab her. So Atalia, you will have an asset from this illusion, which makes it a 12 speed defense role. Marietta [Atalia] (00:53:02): Okay. That's a 10. Daniel [GM] (00:53:02): Okay. Stace [Nix] (00:53:09): Nix will take that attack. Daniel [GM] (00:53:10): Okay. So Nix, you will take the attack. You get grabbed by the pincher instead. You jump in front of the pincher. How do you do that, if you want to do a dramatic flair there? Stace [Nix] (00:53:21): I don't know if it's too dramatic, but Nix will just see the claw coming back for the grab and shoulder check Atalia out of the way. Daniel [GM] (00:53:34): Okay. So it will grab you with that claw and since it's got you grabbed it will take the other and snap at you. You will take five might damage. And I'm sorry to say that you will move one step down the damaged track. Stace [Nix] (00:53:51): Armor or... Daniel [GM] (00:53:53): The five can be resisted by armor. Stace [Nix] (00:53:59): Got it. Daniel [GM] (00:53:59): Okay. Next up is ChaCha. We just saw Nix get grabbed by a claw and very seriously hurt. Alex [ChaCha] (00:54:13): I think ChaCha is going to shoot the arm holding Nix. Daniel [GM] (00:54:20): How so? Alex [ChaCha] (00:54:22): With her ray gun. Daniel [GM] (00:54:24): With her ray gun. Okay. So that gives you an asset. So that brings it down to a 12. Alex [ChaCha] (00:54:30): I got 18. Daniel [GM] (00:54:31): Okay. So that's plus two damage. Okay. Stace [Nix] (00:54:39): So question, if the creature is actively hanging on to Nix is she still hindered if she's trying to bite them? Daniel [GM] (00:54:52): Let's say that she isn't hindered in this particular case. Alex [ChaCha] (00:54:55): Can ChaCha shooting it in the arm that's holding her gave her an asset? Daniel [GM] (00:55:02): Probably not unless you did it in lieu of damage or something like that, or you got a 19 at least or something. Stace [Nix] (00:55:15): Okay. So essentially Nix is hindered. Daniel [GM] (00:55:17): She's not hindered, because since she's being held there, if she's trying to attack with her teeth she's fine. There's no hindrance. If she's trying to fight her way free, that's another story. Stace [Nix] (00:55:33): She's one down the damage track I mean. Daniel [GM] (00:55:35): Yes. Stace [Nix] (00:55:36): So she's hindered in all- Daniel [GM] (00:55:38): No. One down the damaged track does not hinder her yet. Stace [Nix] (00:55:42): Oh. Daniel [GM] (00:55:43): One down to the damaged track means that effort will cost you one additional point and it also means that when you're rolling if you get extra damage you can only get at most one extra damage from the roll itself. Stace [Nix] (00:55:57): Oh, okay. Cool. I misunderstood that, then. So Nix, yeah, she'll go for the bite. She's trained in unarmed attacks. Daniel [GM] (00:56:06): Okay. So that brings it down to a 12. Stace [Nix] (00:56:12): Bite would be might or speed? Daniel [GM] (00:56:15): Might. Stace [Nix] (00:56:16): Might, effort one. Yeah. So it's a nine now? Daniel [GM] (00:56:21): Mm-hmm (affirmative). Stace [Nix] (00:56:21): 12. Daniel [GM] (00:56:21): Okay. So yeah, you get the bite in and you do seven damage, right? Stace [Nix] (00:56:31): Yep. And the crab is hindered. Daniel [GM] (00:56:32): The crab is hindered going foreword. Stace [Nix] (00:56:36): Mmm. Crab meat. Daniel [GM] (00:56:38): Okay. Next up is Dili. Sampson [Dili] (00:56:43): Dili is going to, I think, move his image of a Atalia and then have it seem to be charging up some attack like it's going to do something and if the crab doesn't get out of the way or do- Daniel [GM] (00:57:00): It's going final form essentially? Sampson [Dili] (00:57:02): Yeah. I was also thinking kind of like Solar Beam, like kind of a Bulbasaur thing. Yeah. Basically I'm trying to draw the crab's attention to this image. Daniel [GM] (00:57:14): Oh, okay. Sampson [Dili] (00:57:15): I don't know if it's draw the attack necessarily. Daniel [GM] (00:57:19): It kind of is, but we'll use slightly different rules. Sampson [Dili] (00:57:22): Yeah. Daniel [GM] (00:57:23): So it's going to be a 15 intellect roll. No, it's hindered so it'll be a 12 intellect roll. Sampson [Dili] (00:57:28): Awesome. Daniel [GM] (00:57:28): Because it's got Nix's venom in it. Sampson [Dili] (00:57:31): I'll put a level of effort into that, get it to a nine, roll the dice, and fucking get a three. Daniel [GM] (00:57:40): Do it. You know you want to. Sampson [Dili] (00:57:44): I think I will spend an XP and re roll that. I rolled the 19. Daniel [GM] (00:57:53): Okay. So what would you propose as a minor effect? Sampson [Dili] (00:57:56): It's a minor effect in combat. Can the crab thing drop Nix as a minor attack? Daniel [GM] (00:58:05): A minor effect? Sampson [Dili] (00:58:05): Sure. Yeah. Daniel [GM] (00:58:07): Yeah, absolutely. Sampson [Dili] (00:58:07): Yeah. So Atalia's illusory image will start to kind of absorb power somehow and then the crab was just like startled enough that Nix can slip out. Daniel [GM] (00:58:20): Okay. Okay. I'm curious though, what does Atalia charging up look like in Dili's illusion? Marietta [Atalia] (00:58:26): Like the Avatar? Sampson [Dili] (00:58:28): Kind of, yeah. Like some blue light coming in around her eyes and then her eyes are glowing the same color blue. And she's T posing. Stace [Nix] (00:58:39): They turn black? Daniel [GM] (00:58:40): Yeah. And Atalia is on the sidelines like, "Fuck. I don't look like that." Marietta [Atalia] (00:58:45): My aesthetic is black, Dili. Come on. It looks dope, though. It's just not my aesthetic. Sampson [Dili] (00:58:53): Well, it's not you, so do something. Marietta [Atalia] (00:58:57): My friend didn't go well. Daniel [GM] (00:58:59): So Nix is free and there will definitely be an asset to the next person who has to deal with it. Next up is Atalia. Marietta [Atalia] (00:59:09): All right. It's just the one guy? Daniel [GM] (00:59:11): Mm-hmm (affirmative). Marietta [Atalia] (00:59:12): And the physical onslaught didn't really do anything is what you said. Daniel [GM] (00:59:16): It did something, but not as much as you thought. Marietta [Atalia] (00:59:20): All right. Well, I'll see if a mental onslaught is more effective. Daniel [GM] (00:59:26): Okay. You're just going to do a straight mental onslaught or are you going to add any effort for damage? Marietta [Atalia] (00:59:30): Do I get to know what I'm pitching for first? Daniel [GM] (00:59:35): You have to say and then it either hits or it doesn't. Marietta [Atalia] (00:59:37): I'll do a level of effort to hit with it. Daniel [GM] (00:59:42): Okay. So that brings it from a 12 down to a nine. Marietta [Atalia] (00:59:45): Okay. That's an 11. Daniel [GM] (00:59:50): So it takes two damage. It does not like that. Next up is its turn. It is going to swipe at Atalia. Atalia, you will have an asset to this from Dili's illusion and it is also hindered. So that brings it down to a six speed defense. Marietta [Atalia] (01:00:10): And that is a six exactly. Daniel [GM] (01:00:13): Okay. The other claw is swiping towards Dili. Dili please give me a nine speed defense. Sampson [Dili] (01:00:22): Nat 20. Marietta [Atalia] (01:00:23): Amazing. Daniel [GM] (01:00:25): What would you propose as a major effect? Sampson [Dili] (01:00:28): As a major effect I would like Nix's venom to finally hit its central organ and that kind of jarring is most of the reason that Dili is able to Dodge it. Daniel [GM] (01:00:47): Okay. Okay. So at that moment the venom hits its sort of central nervous system and the cloaca blooms. Sampson [Dili] (01:00:59): The cloaca blooms? Daniel [GM] (01:01:01): Yes. Sampson [Dili] (01:01:01): Oh no. Daniel [GM] (01:01:04): In terror. In missing you it gets scared and it's going to use its move to start retreating. Marietta [Atalia] (01:01:11): Excellent. Daniel [GM] (01:01:12): Next up is Alex. Alex [ChaCha] (01:01:15): ChaCha is going to let it retreat. Daniel [GM] (01:01:18): Okay. Cool. Is anybody else going to not let it retreat? Stace [Nix] (01:01:22): Nope. Marietta [Atalia] (01:01:22): Nope. Bye. Daniel [GM] (01:01:24): Okay. So this thing has run off from you guys and you guys are in the quiet about this fen. Stace [Nix] (01:01:33): Nix grins at Stanis with her venom fangs. Marietta [Atalia] (01:01:37): Could we leave now? Sampson [Dili] (01:01:41): Yeah, we should leave. Marietta [Atalia] (01:01:42): I would like to leave. Daniel [GM] (01:01:44): Nix, your tummy rumbles a little bit. Stace [Nix] (01:01:47): Hungry? Sampson [Dili] (01:01:49): I could probably eat. I don't know. Stace [Nix] (01:01:54): What is the Nix hungry for? Marietta [Atalia] (01:01:56): Do you want to eat a football size thing again? Do you remember that time you did that? Does it need to happen again? Daniel [GM] (01:02:04): I don't think Nix knows particularly. She just feels hungry. Stace [Nix] (01:02:06): Guys, we could have ate crab, but that's all right, it can go. Sampson [Dili] (01:02:11): Do you want to chase it? Daniel [GM] (01:02:12): So what are you guys going to do next? You guys could try to continue to find your way to the cart, or what are you going to do? Marietta [Atalia] (01:02:18): I would like to get the fuck out of here at least. Sampson [Dili] (01:02:21): Should we get the cart first before we eat? Marietta [Atalia] (01:02:24): We could think about food on our way to the cart and see if something... Sampson [Dili] (01:02:29): All right. That's a good plan, Atalia. Marietta [Atalia] (01:02:31): Also you can eat and walk. It's an amazing thing. And Atalia will pull a little bit of a ration out and nibble on it. Stace [Nix] (01:02:39): Atalia, my whole thing is walking. I want to make that clear. Marietta [Atalia] (01:02:43): Can you eat and walk? Stace [Nix] (01:02:45): Dude, yes. Marietta [Atalia] (01:02:46): Let's do it, man. Sampson [Dili] (01:02:49): Is that a might roll or intellect roll? Daniel [GM] (01:02:50): So you guys walk. After about a day and a half, you get your way back to the cart. Stace [Nix] (01:02:57): Holy shit. Daniel [GM] (01:02:58): It appears to be undisturbed. Stace [Nix] (01:03:00): Nix hitches up. Daniel [GM] (01:03:02): Stanis looks at you like- Stace [Nix] (01:03:03): Nix hitches up. Speaker 1 (01:03:03): [inaudible 00:00:03]. Are you serious? You don't have livestock to carry this for you? Stace [Nix] (01:03:09): The livestock got killed, I think. Speaker 1 (01:03:14): What? Stace [Nix] (01:03:14): It's been a life experience. Sampson [Dili] (01:03:16): We never had livestock. Stace [Nix] (01:03:18): Well, I would assume that they had livestock for the other cart, Dili. Sampson [Dili] (01:03:22): Oh yeah. Stace [Nix] (01:03:24): Yeah. We had to build this whole cart, [inaudible 00:00:26]. it was a bad situation. So unless you got livestock in your pocket. I'm going to pull this. Alex [ChaCha] (01:03:35): Well, I'm saying maybe instead of trying to go all the way to Shallamas or to the ship, we should be having towards Elderbriar. It's a small town, but they've got to have... They have livestock I think. We could buy from there. Sampson [Dili] (01:03:50): Dili turns to ChaCha. What's Elderbriar like on your list? Speaker 2 (01:03:56): Is it the next on ChaCha's list? Daniel [GM] (01:04:00): It is not one of the no-no zones. Speaker 2 (01:04:02): ChaCha gives a not out of like, yes approval. Daniel [GM] (01:04:08): We all saw, sorry, not her head. Speaker 2 (01:04:09): [inaudible 00:01:11]. Speaker 2 (01:04:12): All right. Good plan Stanis next, just start talking. Daniel [GM] (01:04:18): Is that the right way Stanis? Speaker 2 (01:04:20): So Elderbriar is a little South of where you guys are, but like not so much that it's totally out of your way. Like Nicks it is obvious to you that if you have some sort of livestock to help or pack animal to help drive the car, it would be much faster on the path towards Charm's. It's probably worth the 20 mile detour to Elderbriar. Speaker 2 (01:04:50): Let's do it, man. I'm so impressed by your pulling this card, but it just seems like maybe we could be more efficient. Daniel [GM] (01:04:59): Because you guys have been going for a while. At some point, you're probably going to need to camp midway through, even though it's not necessarily that far distance. So how'd you guys handle that first camp night? Speaker 2 (01:05:10): I'll do a watch. My stats are pretty good. Sampson [Dili] (01:05:12): I feel like I can also do a watch. Speaker 2 (01:05:14): We trained him. Speaker 2 (01:05:18): Turns out the secret was coffee, Sampson [Dili] (01:05:20): Who knew...Coffee, Secret to watches. Speaker 2 (01:05:24): Nix is just going to sleep in the wagon. Sampson [Dili] (01:05:28): (Stanis offers to do a watch.) Speaker 2 (01:05:30): Fuck. Yes. Stanis, fucking welcome to the team. Sampson [Dili] (01:05:34): (Nix offers a fist bump.) Sampson [Dili] (01:05:34): This will give you a fist bump back. Speaker 2 (01:05:40): [inaudible 01:05:40] nano or more like a Klaver a Jack type. What you do? What's your gimmick. Speaker 2 (01:05:47): She grins at you. Sampson [Dili] (01:05:48): I don't know what that means. Speaker 2 (01:05:51): My special is being dangerous Dili, let's leave it at that. Marietta [Atalia] (01:05:55): We want to know your focus and your descriptor. Sampson [Dili] (01:05:57): Did you shoot fireballs? Marietta [Atalia] (01:06:01): Here was this partially out of phase. Sampson [Dili] (01:06:03): Do you fight with a horn? Daniel [GM] (01:06:04): No. Daniel [GM] (01:06:07): Stanis agrees to one of the early watches. I don't know if you guys, how do you guys handle that? Marietta [Atalia] (01:06:14): I'll do the one after. Daniel [GM] (01:06:19): So Marietta, when you take over watch and you seem to be quiet, Stanis goes to bed. Daniel [GM] (01:06:26): Things seem relatively quiet until it's time for you to wake up Dili. Marietta [Atalia] (01:06:30): Alright. And what happens when I try to wake up daily? Daniel [GM] (01:06:34): Dili? You do wake up, but before you wake up, you have a dream. Sampson [Dili] (01:06:40): Oh boy, here we go. Alex [ChaCha] (01:06:44): You're seeing an odd image, but it's familiar. It's from a perspective that's higher up than you're used to, but it walks as the queens spittoon and people start walking out to it and they get thrown side to side and it walks over and it holds up Kartha and you make this chittering sounds and Kartha doesn't seem to know how to respond to it and gets thrown across the room. It goes over to loan shark-eye and lifts him up by the throat. Then makes that chittering sounds and loan shark-eye spits in your eye and then everything goes dark and you wake up. Daniel [GM] (01:07:38): So Dili wakes up, I guess, breathless and sweaty. Marietta [Atalia] (01:07:48): Hey, sleeping beauty. Marietta [Atalia] (01:07:56): You seem to be a little out of breath. Sampson [Dili] (01:07:58): Is it my turn for watch? Marietta [Atalia] (01:08:01): Yeah, had another dream? Sampson [Dili] (01:08:03): Yeah I did Marietta [Atalia] (01:08:06): So one was kind of like [inaudible 01:08:21] that happened again? Sampson [Dili] (01:08:24): Yeah. This is actually the third one. Sampson [Dili] (01:08:28): Oh. You know, once things happen three times, it's kind of a trend. Marietta [Atalia] (01:08:34): Yep, that makes sense. Sampson [Dili] (01:08:36): Statistically speaking. Yeah. So I know when I said before you were like pish posh, there's no way that could be true, but three times? Same perspective? Marietta [Atalia] (01:08:47): Yeah. Sampson [Dili] (01:08:48): Were they the same incident. Was it like the same exact dream or was it like a different thing? Sampson [Dili] (01:08:55): Same perspective, different moments. Marietta [Atalia] (01:08:59): Ok. Sampson [Dili] (01:09:02): Pollos is dead. The yutongue tide belt is coming to get me. And I think it kind of reps the queen spittoon just now assuming that these dreams are happening in the moment. Yeah. Marietta [Atalia] (01:09:22): Scripts were so good. Like it just like lit it on fire or Sampson [Dili] (01:09:27): I saw Kartha get lifted up and broke. Right. Marietta [Atalia] (01:09:32): I mean, he's not the biggest individual, but I personally would have a hard time throwing him. So that is impressive. It gives me an idea of the scale. Sampson [Dili] (01:09:43): I guess Dili will throw up a small image about three feet tall. Cause I don't think Dilis illusion range can actually fit the automaton at this point. Marietta [Atalia] (01:09:55): How that's so cool. Sampson [Dili] (01:09:57): Thanks. Marietta [Atalia] (01:09:58): It's like a robot. Sampson [Dili] (01:10:01): I had a hand at the design anyway. Also loan shark guy, probably dead. He spat in my thing. Thanks. Marietta [Atalia] (01:10:10): Did you give it a moral compass where you like very strict with its like parameters when you made it because there are some rules that you need to follow with that kind of thing? Sampson [Dili] (01:10:22): No, because that's not what my chop was. I was basically hired to make sure it interfaced with the bodies that they had started building. So I didn't consciously put anything in it. You have the face, like maybe this might be a two way street, you think, is that what you're going for? Marietta [Atalia] (01:10:47): I can't say whether it's true two-way street. All I can say is that when I tested it before, when I scanned you before there was definitely a connection between you and it, I can't say whether or not, it's not a human, so I can't say whether or not it's having like your dreams, it's dreaming about the things that are happening with you. Marietta [Atalia] (01:11:05): There's definitely a connection on the other direction. Daniel [GM] (01:11:13): Dili at this point, I will offer you the next day. Marietta [Atalia] (01:11:15): Oh shit, ill take it. Daniel [GM] (01:11:16): Who will you give the other one to. Sampson [Dili] (01:11:18): I'll give the other one to get one to Atalia, since she's listening. Marietta [Atalia] (01:11:23): Thank you, that wasn't so good. Daniel [GM] (01:11:27): Atalia when you're talking until you see him suddenly go stock still. And in fact it's like this whole musculature is straining and Dili everything phase. And once again you see that image of the hand holding up a bloody face of loan shark guy and you hear that chitter and cry. Then there's a moment where it stops in the, of how it looks in the mirror. And you see this enormous automaton body that you had been working on of various colors of set, because it was really, they were looking for the finest quality, not necessarily consistency when they brought you the materials and it turns most of you, but it still has that face, that face that you remember that was imprinted on the Mount Irvine and it makes chittering sound then stairs into the mirror. And then you hear amongst that chittering something more intelligible. And it sounds like I Adillah Brim and that's where it will end this episode of shit. Sampson [Dili] (01:12:48): I was half expecting it to call me father there for a second. Sampson [Dili] (01:12:54): I'm coming for your soul father. So Marietta something about Atalia for this upset. Speaker 1 (01:13:01): Oh gosh. Small but satisfying [inaudible 01:13:04] for initiative is a rare occurrence. I like this Atalia being the dream whisperer for Dili pretty well. Just like asking me questions that Dili needs to hear to think about it. But I'm curious where that will go long-term. I just really liked Dilis relationship with, I mean, Atalia relationship with Dili, makes me happy. Sampson [Dili] (01:13:30): Yeah. It's fun, and I also like it too, because it kind of reinforces some of Dilis preconceptions about nanos being all mystical about stuff that he treats as scientific. Alex [ChaCha] (01:13:42): I feel like Dili kind of forgetting that Atalia was a nano kind of plays into that because in his mind, nanos are also pencil pushers. At least the ones he's had to deal with as a right. So to C-1 that's more hands-on in Atalia and also ChaChas. Been a learning experience. Daniel [GM] (01:14:03): Right. And Nick's, isn't really used to nanos who aren't guests on Oprah. Marietta [Atalia] (01:14:11): Yeah. Atalia still has it out for the nano that's "training" next to it's mom. Daniel [GM] (01:14:17): Let's get back to Shallam to deal with that. Marietta [Atalia] (01:14:20): 10 episodes from now. Remember this, we [inaudible 01:14:24] exactly. Daniel [GM] (01:14:26): We have a segment that we do each week called player intrusions. That's where we offer you, the listener. The next piece, check out something that we think you would absolutely did, this week is Staces turn, Stace, What would you offer our listeners [inaudible 01:14:41] checkout? Marietta [Atalia] (01:14:42): I would offer our listeners expedous checkout to check out Elders Scrolls online, Greymoor, the newest expansion. Not really talking about the base game, which although very cool. And if you haven't checked out the base game, you should definitely check it out. They're like free play weekends, occasionally, stuff like that. But I'm going to talk specifically about the expansion packages, Western Skyram is the setting. So Eastern Skyram is a normal part of the game. It's been there since release, but Western Skyrim's part of this new expansion. And I got to say that it is a little bit darker than usual for ESO gets into some scanners. If you played Elder Scrolls Skyrim though the single player game, it starts out with fan service just for you. And it continues from there. What is that look Sampson? I can see you. Sampson [Dili] (01:15:41): What does fan service just for you mean? Marietta [Atalia] (01:15:43): No, I just mean like it's well, I can't, I don't want to spoil it. The opening is very familiar to those who have played Skyrim. Alex [ChaCha] (01:15:50): You thinking of fan service in the anime terms, aren't you Sampson? Stace [Nix] (01:15:53): I was, that's why I was very confused. Marietta [Atalia] (01:15:56): I'm talking about fan service in the sense of you give the fans what they want with the nostalgia factor. Stace [Nix] (01:16:01): Yeah, maybe not the nostalgia but yeah, fans and what they want. Stace [Nix] (01:16:08): Okay. I feel like I've learned a little bit more about what you want Sampson anyway. Fan service in the strictest sense of the term, as in it's just some callbacks and throwbacks and stuff like that. And I don't want to get too into it because I don't want to spoil, but it does feature some vamps if you're into that Marietta. Yeah, yeah. Vampires and I'm playing through it as a filthy PT casual, and I'm really enjoying myself in the story and the new public dungeon and Canton. So definitely if you've got the cash and you've got the time check out Elders Scrolls online Greenmoor. Marietta [Atalia] (01:17:04): Now's the time. Sampson [Dili] (01:17:04): If people wanted to reach out to us to tell us about the podcast, or Elders Scrolls online, whichever the expansion may be. How would they do that Marietta? Marietta [Atalia] (01:17:15): If they were wise, they would just go straight to our website, which has explorerswanted.fm and all of these resources are on there, but we are active on Twitter for ed explorers wanted we're also on Facebook explores one in podcasts and Instagram at explorers wanted podcast. And then relatively recently we launched our patreon, which we have some wonderful patreons now. We are very excited about that. But we're looking to expand if that is a thing that you could support us in, we would be very appreciative. I know that the world is a strange place right now, but we would love to make more content for you one day. Marietta [Atalia] (01:17:53): And then if you really want to hang out with us, which would be actually my personal favorite thing is if you come hang out on our discord server, we're very active. We like to chat, we share memes, we share plant pictures. We share animal pictures, we share tabletop, video game. Anything really? We talk about current events and the news and there's channels for all of them and or posting them and their click and clack and all day. E-board great. Come hang out. We're desperate. I'm personally very desperate. I would desperately appreciate it. If you come hang out with us in our discord, thank you, that's all. Sampson [Dili] (01:18:31): Along those lines. You know, the best thing that you could do for us at this stage and our podcasts existence. Sampson [Dili] (01:18:40): If you like to show would be to tell a friend and tell them what you like about the show and why they should listen. The second best thing you could do for us is leave us a five star rating and review on a podcast directory, whether it's Apple podcasts, Stitcher, podchaser, any of those. And speaking of which, we actually have a brand new five-star review on Apple podcasts. Stace [Nix] (01:19:10): It is titled the podcast makes you want to role play again. This group makes you want to play role playing games again, and gives you hope that players will help build each other's character up in amazing ways. They contribute and hilarious and brilliant way to the world of Newman era through the GM's epically inventive story. The fact that they use Monte Cook consent in gaming clearly shows through in the trust the players have for the GM and the way they feel ownership when contributing to the story collectively, everyone should give them a try. You won't regret it. Sampson [Dili] (01:19:43): Awesome. And who was that from? Stace [Nix] (01:19:46): That was from Nicholas Taylor. Sampson [Dili] (01:19:48): Okay. Awesome. Thank you so much for the review. If you didn't like the podcast, if you just thought it was mehh or you actually even hated it, well then your time comes soon, live life to the fullest, feast on the iron sweetness of your enemies hearts and sticky victory, for it won't be long before the hive man comes to collect you. If you want to reach out to us individually on social media, you can find me on Twitter at andrlik, a N D R L I K. Stace [Nix] (01:20:26): Follow me on Twitter at Stace window. Sampson [Dili] (01:20:30): slammed potato. Marietta [Atalia] (01:20:35): you can tell me what encourages you to run, especially away from Realty. Stace [Nix] (01:20:41): And if you want to tell me anything about how to Twitter and I'm on Twitter. Sampson [Dili] (01:20:51): That's all for us. Thank you all for listening. We'll be back next week as we will for every week in the foreseeable future, have a good night or day or whenever you're listening to this and.