0:00

I forgot has been detained. We've

0:03

been sent in to figure out why go

0:05

some way to clearing it up. Cloudy

0:08

was, I don't

0:10

know, trying to buy something from coffee.

0:13

And it wasn't going well. And one

0:15

thing led to another. And it went from, I'm

0:17

trying to buy something from him to I'm trying

0:19

to blackmail him into

0:21

giving it to me. They set up

0:23

a meet in a public place. That's

0:27

the last I heard about it. It's

0:29

the only way it works. You're famous. You

0:31

could have a gambling problem. Excuse

0:33

me? I wasn't allowed to gamble. Famous people

0:35

love gambling problems. But you're

0:37

allowed to gamble now. But,

0:40

but, but, but... If

0:43

I do it, it'll attract too much attention. And

0:46

if I do it, it won't attract enough attention. We

0:49

need just the right amount of attention. That Aria

0:51

Joy special. I've

0:53

been seeing all those, those internet posts about

0:55

coffee at the casino. And that's why

0:57

I had to come here and learn

0:59

the game for myself. Coffee?

1:04

You're not talking about the drink, are you? No.

1:08

Well, I don't know how much longer that guy's

1:10

going to be around. Is

1:13

he moving? Something like that.

1:19

Moving to the bottom of the ocean. Coffee

1:23

talked a big game. And,

1:26

you know, we made some wins here and

1:28

there. Coffee kept saying

1:31

that he was going to win the big one, the

1:33

jackpot. The big one.

1:36

He ain't going to win nothing anymore.

1:38

I love your hat, by the

1:40

way. Thank you. I got it from

1:42

my grandma. Cass

1:46

and Mako, have you decided whether or not you're robbing this

1:48

place? We're robbing this place?

1:50

I thought we were just also trying. I just

1:53

thought we could win real quick at some cards.

2:00

Get a little money! Are you good at cards?

2:03

Say again? Are you good at cards? No,

2:05

I'm good at winning. That's

2:07

in the trailer. Put that in the trailer. Yeah,

2:10

I don't think that's a good idea. I think... Oh,

2:14

I don't... Okay, let's... Yeah. I

2:17

mean, hey, we're looking at... We're looking for people who...

2:20

don't like it when people win at cards, it sounds like. Yeah.

2:25

And it's not interesting for me to try to talk you

2:27

out of this, so I think we should just do it.

2:29

Also, just to make sure I understand it, one of these

2:31

people is currently detained, and the other one is dead. Coffee

2:35

is detained, Cameron is dead. Yes.

2:38

How do you get to the detained

2:40

area? Are

2:43

you just asking the world this? No,

2:46

I'm asking it rhetorically. Figure

2:48

out through play, I see. It's

2:50

like... No, I have a plan

2:52

to get there by stealing... Right,

2:56

yeah. Oh, I know, I see. We're not

2:58

super sure who exactly is... Probably the Ithaca's

3:00

family. I think it's the Ithaca's family who

3:03

has detained coffee. That's correct. Yeah,

3:05

we know this. That's the thing we know. He's

3:07

been probably like... The

3:10

word I was reaching for was brig. He

3:13

did the casino brig. I

3:16

mean, we either steal money or try to

3:18

join the mafia. Who

3:21

controls the Siroini?

3:23

The Ithaca's family. Right, there we go.

3:27

Look, you said that like you're

3:29

watching... You're the lead character in a children's

3:31

TV show. You turn to the audience and

3:33

said, and who runs

3:36

the Siroini? And Ryan said, the

3:38

Ithaca's family. Unless

3:41

you want to try to find out

3:43

if the Ithaca's family are big monarchists

3:45

and we need to big time our

3:47

way into this. Is

3:49

this a time that you could lean

3:52

on being an Apostolician scion, Cass? That's

3:55

what I was saying. I was like, we

3:57

could see if like... This

4:00

level of celebrity here It's

4:03

risky. You know what criminals don't tend

4:05

to like the government. Yeah, right I

4:08

had it Well in

4:11

some cases where the mafia and

4:13

the US government worked closely together

4:15

To a sister try to assassinate local leaders, you

4:18

know Well, and they

4:20

work together during the war. So maybe there is yeah

4:23

Multiple and you already have a connection is

4:25

your connection is with hunter cash who is

4:28

An enforcer for the empty coast family Yeah,

4:31

I think this is our better play

4:33

make-up, but do we just want

4:36

a hundred thousand dollars? No,

4:38

I have no need for a hundred thousand dollars right

4:40

now Alright, well then

4:42

can I borrow twenty five thousand dollars? No,

4:45

I don't have any money. It's just like that.

4:47

Oh, you don't have it or want it. Okay,

4:49

right I want to do

4:51

this job and Then

4:53

we can come back and steal

4:56

money How do you

4:58

know hunter? From like the

5:01

expat community. Oh sure around

5:03

the way Yeah the

5:07

VFW Episthenes the

5:09

probably would be one of those here.

5:11

Well, maybe here thinking of like

5:13

veteran Hospital question

5:15

mark. Yeah, sure. That makes sense. Well,

5:18

that's why I give you a W just like a

5:20

veteran bar There

5:22

there's probably a particular

5:27

Bar here that is like that,

5:29

you know what I mean? That is the veteran bar.

5:31

It doesn't say that It's not it's

5:34

not called, you know The

5:37

Appis Cilician whatever, you know, it's not called the

5:39

New Atlantis, but it's like that's the vibe, you

5:41

know, everyone knows that Also

5:44

now that we've ID'd hunter

5:47

as Appis Cilician How let's use they

5:49

them for a hunter and also, you

5:51

know hunter cash is like a is

5:53

like an in-ring name their

5:57

Actual name. Are

6:00

there there? like the name of their government

6:02

name piano? Ah,

6:06

I see their last name is probably

6:09

like Castle Baddest or something like that.

6:11

You know that I'm. Yeah.

6:13

We got a real. We.

6:15

Are real post World War Two? live here? You

6:17

know what I mean. It's whether it's that the

6:19

to thing, it's that thing happening here. Pass.

6:24

we don't really have. this is not

6:26

really ah on some really good eats

6:29

you name's here in L looking a

6:31

greek baby names he now. Nazi

6:34

many agent good h you names but

6:36

whatever maybe even you call call them

6:39

hunter at this point us what they

6:41

go by. that's what their public name

6:43

is. you know because I made for

6:45

a fighter it might be tas right?

6:47

You might just call them cash or

6:50

thing that I had a slight as

6:52

that you're both passes though you know

6:54

what I means than thou at their

6:56

a Cast of Venice ah them. Then

6:58

you know there a class and tas

7:00

thing happening here which is very fun.

7:03

Ah so. So yeah, I'm.

7:06

Where do you me to adapt Bar you bring make up with

7:08

the of. Yeah. I.

7:11

Realize makers. Tied.

7:13

Up in the. Now I'm not tied

7:15

up since this bar is probably name for a

7:17

different shade of blue. I'm

7:19

this is the. Someone.

7:22

Put Switzerland's favorite blue. Sea

7:25

too soon as he didn't say

7:27

the ceo with us for a

7:29

while now. Ah,

7:32

Cadet Blue to debt? Well, that's okay.

7:34

Well, it's the Cadet Bar, which actually

7:36

does sound like some sort of military

7:39

bar. It's. I

7:41

looked up a list of blues in a

7:43

just jumped right out. His resume had blue.

7:45

This is a cool about this is fun

7:48

Sure now I'm the the old Cadet is

7:50

where Usury beat up with Hunter. Ah it's

7:52

on the lights. it's on me. I'm. ah

7:54

the slot machine for you know so you can

7:57

hear the sloths going in the background to as

7:59

you enter the bar but the bar

8:01

is like blasting jazz

8:03

over top of it so that it

8:05

loses the actually it's probably not blasting

8:07

jazz it's probably blasting like apostolician like

8:11

pop music you know whatever the the equivalent is the

8:13

degree you know what I mean whatever I don't know

8:15

what music is like on Apatolos right now but

8:18

it's that type of like apostolician

8:20

standards you know mid-century standards but

8:23

apostolician and I

8:25

have a first name give me it let's

8:27

do it or

8:29

in we kind of say it fast enough you

8:31

can get sort of to where you can get

8:34

sure or in hunter cash Casabetas you

8:36

just know you you maybe still just call them cash and

8:40

cash is cash has a

8:42

table has like a like a

8:44

four top in the corner you

8:46

know they don't you know they

8:48

don't sit at the bar they sit over in the corner

8:50

they have their little table so that if the someone needs

8:53

to come ask them something or couple people have to come

8:55

over and tell them something they have a place where they

8:57

can sit big big

8:59

you know body strong robot arm cyborg

9:01

arms you know the of the type

9:03

that not of the type that we

9:05

see later on Jackie actually we see

9:07

that these are um these are like

9:10

cyborg arms in a different way I

9:12

think we know Jackie we talked about

9:14

having full robotic arms I think maybe

9:16

cash has like reinforced

9:18

muscles and you can kind of

9:20

end like like almost like you

9:24

know turn of the century 20th century

9:26

like see through exterior

9:29

so you see like metal muscles

9:32

in you you know what I

9:34

mean that's reinforcing the actual muscles

9:37

very yeah really cool look dress

9:41

shirt top button on button no tie

9:43

on black slacks

9:45

dress shoes gator

9:47

dress shoes you know is

9:51

currently dipping a shrimp

9:53

in some cocktail sauce as

9:55

you approach hey

9:59

cash it going look

10:01

who it is yeah I

10:05

finally had to get over about damn time

10:08

bring it out now stands yeah

10:10

hey hey meet my meet

10:13

my friend here Mako do you

10:15

know you uh well

10:20

I can't all right

10:23

sorry what you do over mine take a seat drinks

10:28

I can't see you Austin okay

10:30

well you know let me tell

10:32

you something the listener has no

10:35

question what I asked drinks food

10:39

yeah

10:41

what are you having some

10:43

shrimp and old-fashioned old-fashioned

10:47

sounds great chicken tenders

10:52

and to drink no judgment

10:56

here old-fashioned and old-fashioned

10:58

all right let's get three

11:01

old-fashioned down and chicken tenders honey

11:03

mustard for for Mako here put

11:05

it in

11:16

the glass full

11:21

tender dip oh boy gross so

11:23

um what are you uh you

11:25

here for the

11:34

fight what are you here for um

11:38

no no not really um we're

11:41

we're here on a job you

11:45

working now who you working for

11:47

these days Cass um

11:51

you know I I'm

11:58

trying to just think of like a

12:01

nice just like you

12:05

know a nice denigrating

12:09

term for or a

12:15

dog I believe is what

12:17

I would call or a

12:19

really good dog I guess not like

12:21

not a writer for or like a

12:23

for for like

12:26

that role the yeah yeah like

12:28

yeah for not really

12:32

again they're not really cops but they're like or you

12:34

can't be CT suit oh

12:36

yeah suit isn't bad a cct suit or

12:39

a cct you know

12:41

function area bureaucrat yeah yeah

12:44

just some cct suit you

12:49

know it's it's hard all over yeah sure

12:51

is working

12:55

for the cct you

12:57

full-time with them are you no

13:01

no this is a contract job this

13:03

is a new outfit we're getting together

13:06

me Mako here we got a couple

13:08

others you

13:11

know if you're looking for no

13:13

I'm I'm a lifer at this point

13:15

okay all right

13:18

if you ever want out I can get you out I

13:20

like where I am it's our people

13:22

I've just created a horrible tragedy we

13:26

never hear from this person yeah it's it's

13:32

uh it's uh is where I want to be

13:34

I've been to the you know I've been to

13:36

Centralia I've been out to the other domes yeah

13:39

it's not us you know no offense to Mako

13:41

I get it I get it but

13:44

it's last little

13:46

bashing here on the planet so

13:50

cct has you here I tell

13:53

you Cassie saying this

13:55

ain't cct territory no

13:58

that's why I'm talking to you right now Yeah.

14:01

What can I help you with? Anyway, you

14:03

know a guy off a gato? CCT

14:06

guys, yeah. I know a guy off a

14:08

gato. I thought it was coffee.

14:11

Yeah, but like, I don't think

14:13

there's more than one. It's coffee off a gato. I

14:16

know the guy. Not guy off a gato? Not guy

14:18

off a gato, no. Um,

14:22

I forget, is that the right person? Yeah, coffee

14:24

is he him. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Um,

14:27

that's good. I don't know what the gender neutral for... You

14:30

know, the derogatory guy. Um...

14:33

Shithead. Shithead.

14:35

Yeah, that's right. It's

14:38

a language good. Mm-hmm. Because

14:41

that is what you mean when you say that.

14:43

Yeah, yeah. You just don't think that that's what

14:46

you mean often. Um, anyway. Um,

14:49

uh, you know... You

14:51

know where he might be at? Oh,

14:55

Cass. You're

14:57

stepping... Eyes gotta lay eyes on him. You

14:59

just gotta make sure, uh, for CCT that

15:02

he's here and then what? They come knocking? It's

15:06

not my job anymore. And

15:09

your job isn't to get him out of here. Your job

15:11

isn't to deliver what was asked

15:13

for. Your job is just to see if

15:15

he's around. And,

15:18

you know, around and above ground.

15:21

Uh, some people shouldn't be brought back.

15:25

Some people shouldn't be, uh... Yeah.

15:29

Yeah, you don't want to be the trigger man for CCT.

15:34

Maybe just the trigger person. Let's go with trigger

15:36

person with Cass. Uh, you

15:38

don't want to be the trigger person for CCT. That's

15:41

what you mean. Trigger Shithead. The trigger Shithead for

15:44

CCT. The trigger Shithead for CCT,

15:46

yeah. Um, no one's...

15:49

No one's getting shot. Oh,

15:52

come on. Cass. You

15:54

call your people and you say, yeah, coffee's

15:57

here. Coffee's here.

16:00

be XYZ

16:03

what happens they send in some some

16:05

tanks yeah I

16:07

don't I don't think everything a

16:09

tank after coffee coffee

16:12

is an excuse isn't it I

16:17

don't know I think

16:21

the you know this guy this guy

16:24

God love this shithead God love

16:28

you know he's friends with coffee just

16:30

wants to know what's going on you

16:33

can look up God love God love I

16:36

don't want to look up I don't want

16:38

to it's

16:41

not it's not the

16:44

war anymore it's not the war we gotta

16:46

make our way you're

16:48

right it's not the war anymore

16:50

it's real life and you're asking

16:52

me to make some real-life decisions

16:55

and I gotta know what's in

16:57

it for me or

16:59

why should I do this what are you

17:01

looking for you

17:05

ain't got what I'm looking for Cass maybe

17:08

I know who knows what maybe

17:10

I know who has what you're looking for I don't

17:12

know who knows what you're looking for I

17:16

don't know that you can turn back time I don't know that

17:19

you can go change the outcome of the

17:21

war I don't know that you

17:23

can get me my step back

17:26

get me back in the ring I don't know

17:28

that you can get me out of debt should

17:32

I have money at the casino yeah

17:37

my associate here might be able to help with

17:40

the last one it's not

17:42

in here you get

17:44

any money in here you're getting yourself a

17:46

contract to stay in here all

17:49

right don't

17:51

worry about that well

17:53

we give the money to you you're already staying

17:55

here no but if you got

17:57

it from in here I listen Such

18:00

as me, what do you think happened to

18:02

McCloud? What

18:04

do you think happened to McCloud? That's

18:07

not my business, is it? I

18:09

said what I can say. You'll

18:12

have to roll to get more. Yeah, I

18:14

hear you. Mm-hmm. Do

18:19

we want to roll to get more, or are

18:21

we good with knowing that McCloud... How

18:24

did we learn that again? How did we learn that McCloud's dead?

18:26

Are we... no, the McCloud's dead. Yeah. Yeah. Oh,

18:29

we did. We always knew that McCloud was dead. Okay. How's

18:34

your coke's might go? It's three. It's

18:36

one better than yours. Alright,

18:38

maybe you should... Maybe

18:41

you should convince... Yeah.

18:43

Cash that we can... That

18:46

we can cash them out. Maybe

18:49

use that. Maybe use that in the ring.

18:52

Yeah, that's good. Um...

18:57

Alright, so, I mean, if we're

18:59

rolling, then all of a

19:01

sudden that... I mean, that means that we don't

19:03

even have to offer money. Well,

19:06

you need a vector. We don't have. You need a vector. You

19:08

need a vector. This is the thing, right?

19:10

You need to explain how is it

19:12

that you're doing this thing. Describe what is it

19:15

that you're trying to convince... That

19:17

would make cash

19:22

betray the confidence of

19:24

the Ithaca's family. Which is a risky thing

19:26

to do. Why do they feel... Was

19:31

there something that I wasn't picking up on with the

19:33

money and if you get money here, you'll be stuck

19:35

here? You'd be rolling to understand more about that. This

19:39

is the thing. They were trying to gesture at

19:41

something with McCloud and then they won't

19:43

go more than what they'd said. That's

19:45

part of what the roll would be for. Okay.

19:48

But I think the casino is crooked.

19:54

Okay, yeah, I mean, I'll offer to come back. with

20:01

money for more information. All

20:03

right, what are you rolling? You're rolling three cokes.

20:06

I'm rolling three- Try to get some information up

20:08

front because what if the money thing doesn't work?

20:10

Well, that would be the, that would be, you

20:12

know, in exchange for a promise of

20:15

some sort of money, some sort of payout. Right.

20:18

Sure. I'm going

20:21

to roll three for cokes. And

20:24

so I can only use three action- No, not

20:27

four. Right.

20:29

And then I can use one

20:32

push die for, I guess,

20:36

for criminal. Sure.

20:38

That makes perfect sense. And

20:41

I can say that, you

20:46

know, look, I've got ways

20:49

of getting people what they

20:51

want, even when those things are hard to

20:53

come by. Sure. Roll

20:56

your dice. That

21:00

is a six. You're killing it with these

21:02

sixes. I'll

21:08

send you a figure. What

21:12

are you giving? What's the adjective

21:14

you're giving here? This beats the

21:17

three, that cash.

21:20

Open. Sure. Fleeting. Open.

21:24

Does that make sense? I

21:26

don't remember if they're called fleeting adjectives here, but that's

21:28

what it sounds like. That's

21:30

what it is in my brain. Yeah. That sounds

21:32

right. I think it is. Sometimes you just

21:34

remember how a game works. Listen.

21:38

McLeod

21:42

was kind of a piece of shit, but

21:45

between us, none

21:49

of this would have happened if it wasn't for

21:51

the debt. McLeod.

21:55

McLeod got in heavy. A

21:57

lot of places, but here too. the

22:00

Ithaca and

22:02

so McLeod

22:05

became another

22:07

one of the assets from the family. I'm

22:10

not saying we shouldn't have coffee. I'm

22:15

saying McLeod

22:18

wasn't killed in some random fight. McLeod

22:23

was going after coffee on

22:29

behalf of this family. McLeod was like

22:31

an indentured mafioso. I wouldn't

22:33

use those words. And

22:37

who knows? You know

22:40

someone in debt like McLeod was in debt. Maybe

22:44

a little bit of

22:46

a free agent too. What's

22:48

the debt from? The

22:51

gambling. Just

22:55

gambling? Yeah

22:57

I mean I get it. Cameron was

22:59

a pro and Cameron

23:03

won for years and

23:06

then started losing a

23:09

lot at the

23:12

sort of tables where they let you play

23:14

with money that isn't yours and money you

23:16

don't have because they trust that

23:18

you'll be able to get it for them or

23:21

they hope you won't be able to get it for them

23:23

until the interest starts piling up. But

23:27

I would know anything about that. I'm

23:31

gonna connect both Hunter and Cameron

23:34

to the Ithaca's family. Both

23:36

of whom are in debt and

23:40

we are working for due to debt. Right.

23:45

So couldn't have come couldn't

23:48

have accepted your offer if they wanted to.

23:50

Sounds like Cass. I

23:53

wonder what the number is. We'll get it later. Getting

23:57

to the point where I think heads need to start

23:59

getting knocked together. Well, let's

24:01

come back to you, Adi. Where are you at?

24:04

I am trying to break into

24:06

the behind the scenes of the

24:08

casino. Oh my god, we just

24:10

jumped cut to Adi, like,

24:13

checking how much

24:16

gear the door has. We

24:20

get the image that we get really early in Counterweight,

24:22

right, of Adi ripping a

24:24

security camera off of the wall as

24:28

they begin to, yeah, check the give on

24:30

an exterior door. We

24:36

had a meeting the other day where Art

24:38

said I never want to see anybody traveling

24:40

somewhere, which this

24:42

is already in I'm Breaking Heads

24:46

mode. I'm

24:48

at the casino, I'm trying to break in. What

24:51

I am trying to do here is I'm

24:53

going to recharge my push dice. Mm

24:56

hmm. May I go to the dice

24:58

zone? Yeah, I'm bringing you over right

25:00

now. We have to finish moving dice after Mako's thing

25:02

too. That was rather sticky, right,

25:04

Mako? So that just goes back to your

25:07

discharge pool? Yeah, yeah. Okay,

25:10

me logging in to do my job.

25:12

May I go to the dice zone? Okay,

25:17

now I am going to establish the vector.

25:19

I am... Wait,

25:22

what are you trying to do? Let's just start there. Before

25:24

we establish dice or go to the dice zone, are

25:26

you trying to break into the back door of

25:28

a place? Try and break into the work

25:32

area of the casino and at the same

25:34

time, with

25:36

a kind of robotic speed, disable

25:38

the thing that would report that

25:41

door as having been broken into.

25:45

Interesting. Without being detected, which is really the

25:47

thing that you'd be kind of rolling against

25:49

here, so to speak. Yes, yes.

25:51

Because it's a door and Audi has the

25:53

strength of a small gang. Yeah,

25:55

getting through the door is easy. It's the second

25:58

part of that. trying to move

26:00

quickly enough to do that? Is that the play? The

26:03

door... I

26:06

think about, you know, when you go into a house

26:08

and you have to like turn off the security system

26:11

before the alarm goes off if you have the code.

26:13

This is a version of

26:15

that where Audi is trying to tamper

26:17

with the... The

26:21

way I'm picturing this is an extremely

26:23

fast precise motion, you know, taking the

26:25

door down and at the same time

26:27

shorting out the electricity in the frame,

26:30

in the door frame, or the touching

26:33

two wires together. This is something that

26:35

like an organic speed would not be

26:37

able to, you know, it's breaking

26:40

the door down and reaching into the thing

26:42

and touching two wires together. Boom, boom, boom,

26:44

yeah. In fact maybe that's

26:46

the, you know, it's Audi's

26:49

hand just breaking through the door

26:51

first and reaching into something beside

26:53

the door to short something. This

26:58

is... What is my verb

27:00

here? Prowl?

27:02

Which is funny

27:05

because you're punching through a thing but I do think, I

27:07

mean I'll double-check, let's look at verbs, huh?

27:10

Yeah, I feel like arbitrating verbs,

27:13

yeah, arbitrating comma... You're not attacking, you're

27:15

not punching, you're not hacking, you know

27:17

what I mean? You're not doing a

27:19

fight. I do think that

27:21

fundamentally the thing you're doing is getting into places

27:24

you are not wanted, which is

27:26

prowl. Yeah, I

27:28

think so. I'm just reading... What

27:30

is your prowl? My prowl is one.

27:33

Aha. Are

27:35

you going to spend any push

27:38

dice? I am, I'm going

27:40

to add coordinated. Interesting.

27:44

Okay, so that is one

27:46

action die and one push die.

27:49

And you know what? I'm also

27:51

going to add blunt.

27:55

Sure. What I am doing here

27:57

is not a... When

28:01

this all goes down, the

28:03

people in the security room, or rather,

28:06

once all is said and done, the people in

28:08

the security room will go, door 15C

28:10

was breached. We

28:13

know the violent manner this was done. I am

28:15

not tidying my way through this. I am just

28:17

stopping an alarm going off at

28:19

the moment. Right, right, right. Okay.

28:22

And in this sense, that is blunt. So I am

28:24

going to add one extra die

28:26

and two push die. Okay.

28:31

Rolling here. Based on our previous successes,

28:33

I'm going to roll a six. Let's

28:36

see. I'll

28:38

take a five. That is

28:40

a five. I am

28:42

going to... Let's see how this works

28:44

on my side. After players roll

28:47

the dice, dah dah dah dah, compare the dice

28:49

on a reaction rating. How

28:51

do I and can I? I'm making sure

28:53

I can do it on my side. Uh,

28:57

sorry, I'm just double checking. I understand

29:00

how to... Here we go. Outcomes?

29:03

No, that's not it. Uh,

29:06

okay. Step five here, this is on page

29:08

93, on contention. The

29:10

verb the target uses to react determines

29:12

his reaction rating. For each positive adjective,

29:14

object, or tag that helps him, he

29:17

can discharge a push die and increase

29:19

his reaction rating by one. I am

29:21

discharging one push die to

29:23

increase my reaction rating by one because

29:26

I am using the

29:28

cyber eyes of Little Blue,

29:31

who is one of

29:34

the Ithicos triplets, who

29:36

sees the camera go down but who

29:39

can then page back through

29:41

frame by frame as it drops

29:43

to see the one frame when

29:45

you come through the door.

29:49

And I need you to... Actually, I guess you

29:51

don't take an adjective on this, right? You just

29:53

don't apply one? Let's see. Uh...

29:57

With an effective action, duh duh duh duh duh. Yeah,

30:02

I think that that's true. I think that if

30:04

you lose... Yeah,

30:07

I primed the verb that I used. Yes,

30:11

you do prime it, which pretend you didn't.

30:15

Because Audie does not come into

30:17

episode one of Counterweight with any

30:19

primed verbs, but, you know... Alright,

30:22

determinate reaction. Here we go. Yeah,

30:29

I think that if that happens, you don't

30:31

actually... If

30:35

your action result is equal or less the target's

30:37

reaction, then

30:39

the action was do the reaction not effective enough

30:41

to assert a new adjective. After missing a role,

30:43

have the player mark the circle next to the

30:45

verb she used on the protagonist's sheet. This means

30:47

the verb is primed. Priming is the first step

30:49

of advancing it. If this is the

30:52

case, skip ahead to discharge push dice. So yeah, you

30:54

just discharge those push dice, they go into your discharge

30:56

pile, and play

30:58

continues. And in this case,

31:00

what happens is the alarm

31:03

goes off manually. Because

31:08

little Blue Ithicos, who is

31:10

the child of Big Blue

31:12

Ithicos, the head of the family... It

31:16

does Blue Ithicos, really, but maybe people call them

31:18

Big Blue, has

31:21

manually hit the button and says,

31:24

Intruder on door 56, intruder on

31:26

door 56, and

31:29

then they and their two siblings head out

31:31

the door, one of them grabbing a shotgun,

31:34

and begin to rush to try to converge on your

31:36

position. What do you do? Hmm.

31:41

Inside the casino, there is no alarm.

31:44

Yes. What is this corridor that I'm in? What do

31:46

I see on opening this door? I

31:48

think it comes into us to a long corridor

31:50

in front of you and then stares up and

31:52

down, even though you came in on the ground

31:54

floor. Presumably you came in on the ground floor,

31:56

right? Yes. Yeah. Imagine you came

31:59

in, like, on a... doorway like near but

32:01

not next to a loading dock, you

32:03

know? And so I think this is

32:05

like it's what you imagine. It's kind

32:07

of what you what you conjure for

32:10

me was like the back hallways that

32:12

have the sort of like gray painted

32:14

floor, white cinder block painted walls, a

32:17

bunch of little storage spaces and maintenance

32:20

rooms. There's probably offices

32:22

on this floor somewhere if not on this

32:24

floor, maybe one floor up. The stairs are

32:26

made of metal going up and down. You

32:28

don't know which way the security room is

32:30

from here or security

32:32

rooms. But

32:34

the alarm is going off. I

32:38

am going to radio

32:41

Aria. Hello.

32:46

Hi. There's

32:48

an alarm behind Audie. Are

32:51

you okay? Oh

32:55

god. How

32:58

does Audie...

33:00

hmm... The

33:03

alarm is being raised. Meet me in the security room.

33:08

Which security room? Which

33:12

security room?

33:15

The sound of Audie's right

33:17

arm shotgun deploying. Not firing

33:21

just like unfolding itself out of the arm

33:23

or whatever. Clicking out of the arm. I

33:27

think I say I'm going to start

33:29

on the bottom floor if you can make it to the first

33:32

floor sweep and such. Over

33:35

and out. No, I'll let you reply. I

33:37

call please. Thanks. Got to go. Ma'am,

33:40

would you like any drinks or appetizers?

33:42

Ask someone who works at the casino.

33:45

Oh, I'm... Is

33:47

there a bathroom here? Absolutely.

33:49

I can escort you to the bathroom. I just have to

33:51

say we're... We don't

33:53

really smile upon people using their own

33:55

communications equipment. It's not part of a

33:57

holiday system here. The sort of reading...

34:00

you have is not allowed in the casino. So

34:04

if you come with me I'll lead you to a restroom. More

34:07

like a restroom. I beg your pardon I've spent

34:09

a lot of money at

34:12

this establishment.

34:23

You spent $17 at this

34:26

establishment. I you

34:28

should count their taps too. I paid for

34:30

their rounds. Well if

34:33

you'll come with me I'm sure it'll be

34:35

fine. I'm in a bit of a rush you see.

34:37

To the bathroom

34:39

I understand. I'll get you

34:41

right there. I know the fastest

34:43

route. That's very kind of you. And

34:46

leads you towards one

34:49

of these doors that goes into the back hallways. No the

34:51

alarm is going off.

34:54

Have the front of house people been

34:56

told? Yeah. Oh yeah. Is

34:59

there a security room in the back? I

35:02

believe that well you're being taken somewhere. You're

35:04

being taken to a bathroom. They're not gonna

35:06

not bring you to a bathroom. Can

35:09

I do like a discern

35:13

realities? That's a dungeon world

35:15

thing. What are we doing? We're

35:17

really just time travel. To

35:21

like to like see like if I can

35:23

into the back room and it's or it's like

35:25

this sort of like behind the mall sort of

35:27

situation. Yeah yeah yeah it's exactly that. Is there

35:29

like a is there like a sign that says

35:32

security? Yeah totally. Mm-hmm for

35:34

sure. But they are leading

35:36

you to the restroom back here and they're waiting

35:38

outside. It's like a single person restroom. You know

35:40

what I mean? They let you in and they

35:42

wait outside for you. They're waiting outside for you.

35:46

And then they're going to lead you somewhere else. I

35:48

was gonna try to lose them. You were gonna

35:50

try to sprint away? Well.

35:53

How are you gonna try to lose

35:56

them? I guess it's not like crowded enough

35:58

in the hallways to do like outside of hand

36:00

situation you can't you

36:03

can't unless you are

36:05

David Copperfield I don't know how you disappear in the

36:07

I mean once you get going you know what I

36:10

mean once you start running if you're able to out

36:13

race them then sure is there

36:15

a vent in the bathroom a

36:17

person-sized vent in the bathroom um scroll

36:20

die one there

36:23

is two there is not two

36:26

there is not I give

36:28

you good odds on that too you know you

36:30

know you know you personalized personalized vents don't exist

36:32

in real life they only exist in day effects.

36:34

If you look around most bathrooms they don't have

36:36

giant vents in them. Is there air in and

36:38

out of there? Should

36:42

I be concerned about my bathroom? How

36:44

many person sized vents do you have? One

36:47

but it seems like that's more than anything.

36:49

Oh that's the door. You're thinking of the

36:51

door. Knock

36:54

him out Arya. Are

36:59

you saying that? Is that a

37:01

suggestion? It's a suggestion from Jack.

37:03

From Jack to Keith. I have

37:05

a funny gun don't I? Oh

37:07

my god you do have a funny gun. I have

37:09

a funny gun and I have a funny whip right?

37:12

You don't have the whip yet. The whip

37:14

is in the next game. We haven't gotten

37:16

there yet. You have the bang. A heavy

37:18

pistol designed to intimidate is

37:20

what you have. It's

37:22

loud and powerful. Normal.

37:25

Good to have. Oh

37:28

this is the... is this the bells are ringing?

37:30

It is. It is. Sorry

37:33

I forgot that that's how that works. I forgot that

37:35

we share a thing. Yeah

37:40

maybe it's... Well...

37:45

Can I... Can

37:49

I try the move first to lose

37:51

them? You can do

37:53

whatever you want to do. You

37:56

do whatever you want to do. I have a better

37:58

move than I have a shoot let me tell you. I

38:01

guess I could coax them with my gun. Why

38:04

are we there? Tell me

38:06

what you're doing. Look,

38:11

it is not that big of a

38:13

leap from running away from the person

38:15

trying to take you to like

38:19

reprimand you in the whatever.

38:22

Yeah. They're stopping

38:24

off at the bathroom to let R.A.P.

38:26

or whatever and then bringing

38:29

them to bring her to the other,

38:31

the next place, the dungeon dungeon, the

38:33

regular dungeon. It

38:35

might be that you're going to be escorted

38:37

to the security room. Which

38:42

might be

38:44

where you

38:46

might not have to do anything. You might just be

38:48

able to follow this person. Yeah, you might

38:50

be about to just win. I don't

38:52

think Austin's tone implies that I'm winning. Austin

38:58

doesn't even decide who wins. Yeah, the

39:01

dice is good. Right. I know where

39:03

you're being led. Yeah, the dice is not... But

39:08

yeah, can I do on the way to the bathroom the

39:10

sort of... They're leading me, right? They're

39:13

not walking behind me? They

39:15

are walking next to you. Okay.

39:18

Well, then can I do the like, we're

39:20

walking together. I stop and take two steps

39:23

back. They have to react to

39:25

that. And I could be

39:27

running. You

39:29

have to tell me what you're doing. You can't decide... That's

39:32

what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. You can try

39:34

to do this. That's a move. Yes. That

39:37

to me feels like a move. So

39:39

that's three dice, that's three action dice.

39:41

Are you using any adjectives or abilities

39:43

or objects out there? You

39:47

got one good one. I'm energetic,

39:49

yeah. Energetic is moving.

39:51

That is moving. The dice are

39:53

discharged. I cannot use them, right?

39:56

No, now they recharge. The beginning of them are all they

39:58

recharge. Yep. So

40:01

I have the one from Enerdata.

40:04

Yep, pull it up to the dice rolling spot. Oh

40:07

I do that with my, okay. That is your push

40:09

dice, yeah, exactly. And then your action dice, you should have

40:11

three action dice total. Because you have three in move. So

40:13

you should have three action dice plus a push die. The

40:15

action dice are the white dice. Those are,

40:17

yeah. And then what's my vector for adding

40:19

a second dice? Of course a lot. I'm

40:22

going to see if I can get away and save these

40:24

dice for if I have to do a coke. Sure.

40:28

Okay. So go ahead and roll

40:30

those four dice. Okay. Random

40:33

side, close my eyes. Boom, that

40:35

is a six again. Unbelievable

40:38

dice rolls here. So

40:40

what adjective are you giving to

40:43

this attendant? And

40:46

are you going to make it sticky? Because

40:48

if you don't, they can just

40:51

take an action to unsticky it, right?

40:53

They're going to give chase is what's going to happen, right?

40:55

And they will be in the sort of like chase sequence.

40:58

Dazzled? Dazzled? Why?

41:01

How have you dazzled them? It's

41:04

impressive. It's the thing that I did. It's

41:06

impressive that you just stopped, I guess.

41:08

Okay. Dazzled. Let

41:10

me write it down. Can I sticky that? Can

41:13

I be like, wow. They got juiced.

41:15

You ever watched like the highlight

41:17

on ESPN been dazzled by it?

41:19

I think, yeah. I

41:22

don't know the dazzled or juked. I think

41:24

juked especially is short term. You juke someone

41:26

for a second. You know what I mean?

41:28

Okay, sure. I don't know. You

41:31

just getting into a sprint past them

41:33

or behind them is enough to... You

41:36

got to give me something else that's more than just...

41:39

I'm going to stick you in terms of

41:41

like maybe I play some

41:43

music while I run away or maybe... That's

41:47

going to help them find you. I'm

41:49

going to read about the sticky adjectives really quick.

41:53

You could go the other way with

41:55

it and be like, this person is not

41:57

interested in working this hard. Sticky

42:00

adjectives are lasting, they persist through the scene

42:02

in which they were added and longer. Positive

42:05

sticky adjectives last until the end of the

42:07

following session. Negative sticky adjectives are damaged or

42:10

wounds. They last until they can be mended

42:12

with medical attention or therapy. What

42:14

if I do like a cool backflip? I

42:17

don't think they're gonna need to go

42:19

to therapy over it. I'm gonna be

42:21

like... You

42:23

ever seen a backflip so sick that you

42:25

had to go to therapy? I saw Aria

42:27

Joy in real life. And

42:30

I almost arrested her. I don't think that

42:32

this is not quite... I don't think that you

42:34

are describing things that are sticky adjectives.

42:38

I think that it might just be that this

42:40

is fleeting and that that's like we're in a

42:42

chase now. You're being chased, you know? But you've

42:44

juked them or you've dazzled them and that's fine,

42:46

but those are fleeting adjectives, right? They

42:48

are not... I don't think that that just gets

42:50

sticky because you've spent the night. It has to be... It

42:53

has to be a thing that would

42:55

persist enough that you have to go see someone

42:57

with the treat verb or

43:00

go get a cybernetic

43:02

prosthetic. Well, just like... I

43:07

just want them to be impressed enough that they don't

43:09

chase me. I

43:13

got a cyberdots, that's impossible. I've

43:16

never been so impressed that I was...

43:18

No. And here's the thing, Ally,

43:20

you can have that, but it's fleeting. Sure.

43:22

They'll be like, what? And then they'll be like, well,

43:24

that's stupid. I have to chase her, you know? My

43:27

job is to chase her. I understand. I'm

43:30

weak thinking about that person who ran. So

43:36

you're giving fleeting... Are you giving dazzled? Yeah.

43:39

Okay. Then yes, they are like, uh-huh.

43:42

And now are... And

43:44

then you break out down this

43:47

hallway and next thing you know,

43:49

they're like, wait. And

43:51

then they start chasing after you. And

43:53

they are going to roll against you. They

43:56

still have dazzled, right? But I'm

43:58

going to recharge my push. dice and

44:01

I'm gonna roll move for them. They

44:03

also have three and move. They

44:06

have cyber legs in fact. So they're gonna

44:08

spend one of their push dice on their

44:10

cyber legs. You should take your push dice

44:12

back. Yeah perfect. And

44:15

they are gonna take, oh

44:17

determined, perfect. Boom.

44:20

Wow that's a real doozy of an

44:22

adjective to have for someone who's changing.

44:25

What was the end of the term? It's up there

44:28

with... Determined. But they do have a heart dice. They

44:30

do have a heart die. Right? So this is them

44:32

undoing that. So I have to roll this heart die.

44:35

As a reminder, heart die are, they

44:37

can cancel out good dice. So

44:39

alright, multi-sided, random side. Boom. I

44:42

thought you were saying they had a heart die

44:44

from having them in. No. Oh look at this.

44:46

This is really good for you because the sixes

44:48

cancel out which

44:51

means they roll a one,

44:54

two, three, three

44:56

and six but their heart die was a

44:58

six which means that those two cancel each

45:00

other out which means their score is a

45:02

three point one. What is your

45:04

move? Your move is three. Oh

45:07

no. So you will either have to

45:09

take a negative adjective or discharge another

45:11

push die in order to resist

45:13

this basically. Sure. And explain

45:16

how. I believe that that's, again I believe that's

45:18

how that works. So I discharge it

45:20

by like using one of my objects or adjectives.

45:23

That is correct. Determined reaction, the verb

45:25

the target uses, for each positive adjective,

45:27

object or tag that helps them, they

45:29

can discharge a push dice and increase

45:31

their reaction rating by one. So

45:33

you would discharge another push die here to raise

45:36

your move up to four. Oh

45:38

okay, yeah. Can I do that

45:41

and use my hollow bracelet

45:44

to like project other arias? Oh

45:46

that's really fun. Yeah totally. So yeah

45:50

they continue to. Now I'm dazzled. Yeah now

45:52

I'm fucking, I mean they still have dazzled

45:54

you know. Now I have to go to

45:56

therapy over it. No sadly this does not

45:58

let you do that. But my

46:00

dice are discharged at this point. Ah,

46:03

her thigh goes back there, I move these back here. They

46:07

are still pursuing you, but they

46:09

are not on your tail in this moment. Mako

46:13

and Cass, Audie didn't

46:15

call you, right? Audie just called Aria? Oh,

46:18

Audie? I did. Well, it's a radio. Right,

46:21

that's my question. Well, if you can't call someone

46:23

on a radio. Well, we're all on the same

46:26

channel. That's my question, are you all on the

46:28

same channel? But I guess, did Audie give us

46:30

different channels to tune into so that they could

46:32

only talk to one of us at a time?

46:34

Yeah, I don't know. The reason that I didn't call

46:37

Cass and Mako was to

46:40

not blow

46:43

my cover in front of Cass. But

46:47

we could say that that call had gone through. It

46:49

really is dependent on whether we want that

46:52

information. Sure. Then let's just come

46:54

back to Audie. Audie, what are you

46:56

doing? Down the stairs. You

46:59

know, vaulting over one of the stairs,

47:02

banisters, and you're dropping a floor

47:04

down, your metal

47:06

feet chipping the cinder blocks of

47:09

the stairs. You

47:12

know, shotgun deployed. If

47:14

you are not familiar, Audie's right arm, maybe

47:16

left arm, one of Audie's two arms unfolds

47:19

into a shotgun. And

47:22

they are just, you know, stalking this fluorescent

47:26

lit corridor with

47:28

the shotgun, looking for a security room.

47:33

As you land, you hear

47:36

the footsteps of three apostolicians

47:39

as they rush down one of these hallways and

47:41

then begin climbing the stairs up towards you. And

47:45

you hear the sound of a shotgun

47:48

being cocked. And

47:50

before you can even react, you

47:53

then hear the sound of something

47:55

landing at your feet. This

47:58

is a, like a... enough like

48:01

a EMP, like a localized

48:03

EMP. Oh no. Basically. That's

48:06

the worst if they throw in a gas grenade, not a

48:08

problem. If they throw in a flashbang. Well, they saw you

48:10

is the important thing here, right? And

48:13

so I think that this is... We should have sent

48:15

a person in an autocast. That's

48:18

all. That would have done it. Um...

48:21

A human in an autocast would have survived the no

48:23

problem. Is this fight or is this shoot? They're

48:26

throwing a grenade. A shoot? Fight

48:30

is hand to hand specifically, right? Is it

48:32

specifically? Yeah, let's see here. Uh, fight. Yeah,

48:34

used to attack barehanded and with melee weapons. So

48:36

let's call this shoot. Range

48:39

weapons. Yes, and throw,

48:41

including throwing. Alright. Um,

48:45

so then, I've recharged my push

48:47

dice and I'm throwing

48:50

this EMP grenade at you. Four

48:53

action dice plus the EMP

48:56

grenade. That's one push dice.

49:00

What are you... What am I rolling against here?

49:03

Let's see. Move?

49:06

Yeah, what are you doing to try to resist it is actually

49:09

the question, right? I'm

49:11

kicking it. I'm just gonna kick this. Oh,

49:14

that's fun. That might be fight. Uh,

49:16

saying back as hard as I can in

49:19

that direction. What

49:21

is your... Which reaction are you using

49:23

for that? That feels like fight to me

49:25

more than like... Yeah, it's

49:27

kicking. Yeah, it's kicking. Right? What

49:30

is your score? My fight is three. Your

49:37

fight is three. Alright, here we go. Random size.

49:39

Side. Uh, that is

49:41

a six. That

49:45

is a six. And there's no way I

49:47

can mitigate this. You

49:50

could discharge, uh, what is it? You're

49:52

at three. And

49:54

I currently have, uh... Zero.

49:58

Zero, right. Yeah, they're discharged. are

50:00

currently discharged. So no. Alright,

50:04

I am going to give you

50:06

a sticky adjective. Okay. That

50:10

adjective is like

50:13

scrambled, like, like, like, surged,

50:16

like, zapped. What's a, what's a,

50:18

what's a good, this, what

50:20

happens to Audie when an EMP grenade

50:22

goes off at their feet? Oh,

50:25

it's even, and maybe you kicked it away far enough

50:27

that it isn't deadly. You know what I mean? Yeah.

50:29

But it hurts you. Yeah. It's

50:31

just a terrible feeling. It's like, um, pins

50:33

and needles. It's, you know, it's just

50:36

like, what's the ongoing damage?

50:39

Um, I think scrambled is

50:41

really good. What's that mean though? Like when would

50:43

that kick in? Uh, when would that hurt? When

50:46

would that you put a hurt die down? Uh,

50:50

trying to act precisely or,

50:53

uh, with, with, um, like,

50:56

uh, discretion, uh, trying to

50:59

take, um, uh,

51:02

like, uh, dexterous movement action. I'm going the

51:05

other direction. Sorry. This is like, uh, this

51:07

is like the season of the wire where

51:09

McNulty's asked, uh, where's the one place that

51:11

they, what's the one assignment you don't want?

51:14

And then he gets that assignment. You've just

51:16

told me the opposite of what you want,

51:18

which is you don't want to be weak.

51:20

And so you've been weakened. Um,

51:23

the EMP makes Audie lose strength

51:25

in their, in their body, in

51:27

their limbs. Oh, wow. Um, uh,

51:29

it is harder for you to

51:31

get forced behind your motions. No

51:34

more punching through doors. No more punching through

51:36

doors. No more, no more

51:38

being as strong as a small

51:40

gang. Um, is there a better

51:42

word than weakened? Strong as a tiny gang.

51:47

Saph is not bad. Uh, let's just go

51:49

with weakened. I said it first. So go

51:51

ahead and let's add weakened as a sticky

51:54

adjective on Audie. Damn

51:57

stick a little, a little dot next to

51:59

it. it's sticky. Gets

52:01

all on. It's just so good. And

52:04

yeah, it goes off and you feel like there

52:06

is a, it feels

52:08

hard to hold your body

52:11

up in this moment. And

52:13

one of them calls up to you. This

52:15

is, of course, the Ithico's triplets, teal, sky,

52:18

and little blue. And

52:21

Skye who threw the

52:23

grenade goes, uh,

52:25

uh, get on the ground and we won't throw another one. Now,

52:33

this is a good way to go to jail.

52:38

Um, this is a good way to go to jail.

52:43

Uh, it's

52:50

tough. What is the audience response here

52:52

feeling so, you know, like, like you

52:54

said, sapped, you know, for the

52:56

first time probably ever. I don't

52:58

know. I don't think audience has had an EMP

53:01

deployed against the before. Yeah. I'm

53:07

going to, Agent 47 this, I'm going to, I'm going to

53:09

fake surrender. Okay. So

53:12

you just stop in place. The

53:14

three Ithico's kids

53:17

come up. They're, they're not kids. They're young,

53:19

but they're not, you know, they're like, they're

53:21

shitheads. They're three shithead, 20 something.

53:23

You know what I mean? Maybe

53:26

they're even, one of them is like high teens,

53:28

like 19, you know? Uh,

53:30

uh, and, uh, one of them has

53:33

the shotgun pointed at you. One of

53:35

them has the, the one of them

53:37

has like knuckle dusters, you know, like

53:39

that sparking. And the other one, uh, is

53:42

the one who threw the EMP sky. And

53:45

sky produces like, uh, like

53:48

an electromagnetic set of like, they're

53:51

like handcuffs that don't, um, they're

53:53

not, they're like two different bracelets,

53:55

right? Um, and they're, they're going to aim to

53:58

put one on your left hand and one on your right hand. And

54:00

when that happens, they

54:02

magnetize and bring your hands – they would

54:04

if they succeeded this – magnetize and bring

54:06

your hands together to lock them in place

54:09

basically, you know? And

54:11

maybe sense of sort of another electromagnetic

54:13

pulse through you that makes you more

54:15

compliant in some way, maybe further saps

54:18

you. But

54:20

that's what their goal is, but it sounds like before they can

54:22

do that, you're going to Agent 47 them. I

54:25

am, yes. All right, recharge your push

54:27

dice. I am – What are you

54:30

currently? Weakened. Bar.

54:33

Yes. Weakened orty is still

54:36

regular shithead. That's

54:39

right. That's right. I'm always

54:41

saying this. I

54:44

hear orty's weakened in this one. Okay,

54:47

let's see. This

54:52

is nothing else together. So I am

54:54

going to roll fight. Which is?

54:56

Three? Is that right for you? Okay.

55:00

And the thing

55:02

that I am going to try and do is a, you know, moment

55:04

of sudden rapid

55:08

violence. You

55:17

know, knock the knuckle duster out – you know,

55:19

break someone's wrist, knock the knuckle duster out of

55:21

their hand, knock two of their heads together. And

55:24

ideally, you know, if things go really well, I'd

55:26

like to try and handcuff one of them to

55:28

the other one. That's

55:31

really fun. Okay. What

55:33

are you – are you using push dice? You

55:35

know I am using push dice. You got three of them.

55:38

Okay, number one, I am

55:40

tough. Number

55:44

– is orty fair? No. Orty

55:46

is not fair. Hello. Damn.

55:50

Is Pikmin fair? Okay, one.

55:53

Maybe led so. I am coordinated. Yeah,

56:00

I Think

56:03

coordinated might be what's letting you target multiple

56:05

people by the way You need a particular

56:08

push die and you have

56:10

to you have to specifically So

56:12

the way multiple targeting multiple people works is not just

56:14

like you get to just do it for fun Yes,

56:16

there's a significant rules. It requires a

56:19

specific adjective or tag. I

56:21

don't have a valid vector for all targets I

56:23

discharge one push dice to do it and Targets

56:27

determine their reactions individually.

56:29

That's right and I think

56:33

the I Don't believe

56:35

that that push. Do you roll the

56:37

push die or just you just charge

56:40

it? So this love just a charger

56:42

here is getting discharged because I'm attacking

56:44

right three. Yep time three

56:46

two three One

56:50

second one second The

56:53

way what do you three were you asking

56:55

about how many people am I currently fight

56:57

three three three teal sky in little blue?

57:00

Yes, okay Right.

57:02

That's it. I don't have any more dice to spend I'm

57:06

true and you have one heart die which will roll

57:08

in this mix and again, it'll cancel out whatever it

57:10

matches Okay, it rolled a four and I cancel out

57:13

three fours. What do you cancel

57:15

out two fours? So you

57:17

had three four one, but you also have a six I

57:20

have a six And

57:22

that's just gonna be higher than any of their

57:25

their scores. All right, let's

57:27

determine these reactions individually Uh-huh.

57:31

It is a three a four and a

57:33

four So

57:38

that that's good for you my

57:41

friend it is good for me Let's

57:43

see Yes, it

57:45

this is 40

57:48

breaks the rest of the person holding the

57:51

just an explosion up from the ground I

57:55

want to be honest about weakened but also this

57:57

is like a very robot made

58:00

of metal. Sparking

58:03

knuckle duster goes you know skittering

58:05

across the floor, or he kicks

58:07

it into kicks it away. That

58:10

person just goes down you know clutching their wrist and

58:13

then I'm going to handcuff

58:17

the other two to each other

58:19

and knock

58:21

their heads together. Perfect

58:24

good. What are you

58:26

giving them? Do I give them individually

58:29

or do I give it to them as a group? Spence

58:31

push dice to increase severity of each

58:34

adjective individually. Giving locked

58:36

adjectives each to three different characters would

58:38

cost... so locked

58:40

remember a lot locked takes two. So locked would

58:42

cost six push dice. In this case if you're

58:45

trying to do sticky you it's one per. And

58:48

in this case you only have two. Yep

58:50

so maybe it's the two you

58:52

handcuffed? Yeah I'm gonna handcuff those

58:54

two together it's little blue and

58:59

who's the next most threatening one or do you would be able to

59:01

get that one? The

59:03

real thing here is like one of them

59:06

is good at punching, one of them is

59:08

good at throwing and shooting, and then one

59:10

of them is like the leader who

59:14

is like a little of everything and like

59:16

cokes. Let's do leader and throwing

59:20

and shooting. Okay so

59:23

that leaves sky as the one or sorry

59:25

at least little blue as the one free

59:27

one. Yeah that's good the the kid of

59:29

the Ithaca family. Yeah the young one. The

59:31

two were together

59:34

incapacitated. Love it.

59:36

Great. And I'm giving the little

59:39

blue whose wrist I've broken

59:43

the fleeting adjective stumped.

59:46

I don't think little blue's wrist is broken

59:49

enough to where it's a hurt die unfortunately.

59:51

That's true. It's pain.

59:54

Yeah it's pain maybe it's broken but like the

59:57

second you're out of here little blue is gonna put some sort

59:59

of like Cybercast on it some sort

1:00:01

of like like a slap bracelet that

1:00:03

reef really You know what

1:00:05

I mean? But you're free to

1:00:07

run forward and and I think if

1:00:10

that are you running forward is that what your plan is sure? I

1:00:13

think you run smack into Aria. Oh Honey,

1:00:17

I'm being chased You

1:00:19

can hear the footsteps of someone saying get I

1:00:21

mean the footsteps. I'm saying get back here That

1:00:23

would be funny, but you can hear footsteps and

1:00:25

someone says get back here All

1:00:29

new chase shoes Get

1:00:31

back here. Yep. I'm back back here. It's

1:00:33

with each foot. Yeah Save

1:00:37

your breath for running and let your

1:00:39

shoes do the talking. Wait, what does

1:00:41

the acrid guys to say? The

1:00:44

what who the guy in ache would oh? I

1:00:47

don't know Philippe that's the

1:00:49

dog cartoon. I don't know. I don't know It's

1:00:53

here comes a special boy They

1:00:57

hear comes a special boy. This is

1:01:00

yeah, they say stop stop running We

1:01:03

just hold it copy this image here for

1:01:05

people who haven't seen the dog cartoon I'm

1:01:08

gonna put this in the chime. It's

1:01:11

the way that they cut each

1:01:13

other My

1:01:23

mom sent them to me What

1:01:26

what do they do watch and then Philippe

1:01:29

Panelists of history overlapping each other thing here

1:01:32

comes a special boy Well, it's also very

1:01:34

funny because the setup is as if they're

1:01:36

charging, but they're not charging they have to

1:01:38

stay plugged in Anyway

1:01:42

Aria it looks like be easy

1:01:44

about to run. Oh, yeah Aria and Audie. Oh God

1:01:55

I mean I Could

1:01:59

just take this person out or

1:02:01

try to. Yeah,

1:02:06

I'm thinking I could just close slide them and

1:02:08

let Aria go but Aria is running towards where

1:02:10

I have just taken out a bunch of people.

1:02:13

Is there like a door or a stairwell nearby

1:02:15

that we can duck into? Sure.

1:02:20

Yeah, absolutely. It is it is funny perfectly

1:02:22

timed to have accidentally made things worse. I

1:02:24

think this is better because you're two against

1:02:26

one at this point, right? Oh,

1:02:30

yeah, but it could have been

1:02:32

none against none if Aria didn't

1:02:34

get a call from Aria. Sure.

1:02:37

That is true. What is this door labeled? Nothing.

1:02:41

Okay, in we go. Aria,

1:02:43

it's another hallway. It's another long

1:02:45

hallway. It's a thinner hallway though

1:02:47

and it's carpeted so you know you're moving

1:02:49

into office space or something like that. You've

1:02:53

gone from like a double wide back room,

1:02:55

you know, hallway to like to

1:02:58

like a office complex

1:03:01

hallway. Your phone is ringing somewhere.

1:03:11

What is our next best move here?

1:03:15

Do we just go door to door in the

1:03:17

side the side rooms like a sweep and clear,

1:03:19

you know, or do

1:03:21

we try and make distance from this

1:03:23

pursuer? Aria? Do

1:03:28

we still want to be inside of this building? I

1:03:32

mean, I came here to look for

1:03:34

coffee. Yeah, to

1:03:37

look for coffee. I

1:03:40

should have let myself be arrested. You

1:03:48

can go back. You can we can still be

1:03:50

arrested, Aria. That

1:03:53

would be so funny. It'd be

1:03:55

very funny. I was chasing us and we just stopped and

1:03:57

I was like, I

1:04:00

was looking for my friend! And

1:04:02

then... Hahahaha! Oh, you know what

1:04:04

I'd say is, you've been upgraded from the type

1:04:06

of place you were going to be arrested to.

1:04:09

You're gonna be brought in for questioning, and

1:04:11

now you might be arrested. You know what I

1:04:13

mean? Hahaha! But are they

1:04:15

hiding... But that's what I'm... That might be in your favor.

1:04:18

That's what I'm saying. She's gonna follow you. Right. You

1:04:21

can what? Well, you would be arrested with me. No,

1:04:23

no, no. You're gonna go get arrested on your own.

1:04:25

I'm gonna follow you and break you out. Hahaha! Hahaha!

1:04:28

When's when we find coffee? Hahaha! Do

1:04:31

you have some sort of tracking device?

1:04:33

Ooooh! I'm gonna follow Arya on foot!

1:04:35

Oh, I see. It's the scene... Arya

1:04:39

running forwards sees Adi, and

1:04:42

goes, I'm being chased! And

1:04:44

Adi says, turn around? Hahaha!

1:04:48

Oh my god! Hahaha!

1:04:50

Or he just ducks into a side

1:04:52

room to spend nothing, and holds the

1:04:54

door shut, so Arya can't follow them?

1:04:57

Hahaha! Arya looks back

1:04:59

for like a sign of help, and either

1:05:01

Adi is gone, or Adi is leaning just

1:05:03

around the corner, with a finger up to

1:05:06

where their lips would be if they had

1:05:08

lips. Hahaha! Hahaha! Hahaha!

1:05:11

Hahaha! Static claves and

1:05:13

then shush shush! Wow. Hahaha!

1:05:16

Is this what you're doing? I mean, I'm up for it. This is

1:05:18

no role required. You are, Arya. Hahaha! You did

1:05:20

say, now I should have been arrested, and

1:05:22

now I am giving you an opportunity to

1:05:24

be arrested. Hahaha! I also feel that Adi

1:05:26

throwing Arya under the bus

1:05:29

on their first mission together is very

1:05:31

in character with the way the chime

1:05:33

develops. Hahaha! Hahaha! I'm

1:05:36

down with it if you are. Let's

1:05:38

do it! Hahaha! Can

1:05:42

I, can this be, can I get

1:05:44

like a narrative advantage here though?

1:05:46

Can I get like... You're

1:05:48

now being deliberately arrested. Hahaha! What

1:05:50

do you mean? Hahaha! Can

1:05:53

I be arrested really impressively? Hahaha!

1:05:58

Can I dazzle even in the bus? Can

1:06:01

this be like a coax and then they

1:06:03

get like a, I don't know, no, I

1:06:05

don't know. I'm just letting it happen. You

1:06:07

don't need to adjective anybody for this. You're

1:06:09

getting arrested. Right. No, no, no. I

1:06:12

just saw in the process of being arrested, I could get

1:06:14

like a, um, a boon, so to speak, because

1:06:17

I'm doing it deliberately now. I don't think that that's,

1:06:19

no, it's not the system. It's not how this game

1:06:21

works. No, I see what you're going for. You're actually

1:06:23

like getting advantage on your next role. You're only half

1:06:26

arrested if I succeed in the role. You know, the

1:06:28

thing that's going to happen here is they're going to

1:06:30

put you, you know, you're going to be led to

1:06:32

the same place that coffee is, but not put

1:06:34

in the same cell effectively. Right.

1:06:37

Okay. So, and if you wanted

1:06:39

to be like, Hey, can you know, can you, can

1:06:41

you be annoying enough that they just put you in

1:06:43

coffee cell or something? Then maybe that's

1:06:45

a thing you could try to roll for, but, but

1:06:48

you know, I don't think that that's, that's up to

1:06:50

you how you want to do this. I that's

1:06:54

a stretch. It is a

1:06:56

stretch. It's a stretch,

1:06:59

but dazzle so bad that they need therapy,

1:07:01

not a stretch. Well, just

1:07:03

being like, who is that girl? Oh my God. It's

1:07:05

just like, I think he's a fucking jaggy. Jagging you whole. We

1:07:08

were, we were in a different system by the

1:07:10

time that worked. I know, I'm just saying, I'm

1:07:12

just saying. The world shifted in change. This

1:07:15

is the way that people think about

1:07:17

Aria Joy. That Aria Joy doesn't

1:07:19

exist yet. That Aria Joy

1:07:21

is a glimmer in this Aria

1:07:23

Joy's eye. Aria

1:07:25

Joy is not the pusher yet. You know,

1:07:27

this is the thing. Aria Joy

1:07:30

right now is idle, idle smuggler.

1:07:33

Aria's spent all of that time being like, I wish,

1:07:35

what could I have done to dazzle that guy? Yeah,

1:07:38

exactly. The

1:07:40

answer, by the way, was get the shit

1:07:42

beat out of you. Where

1:07:46

this all goes with Jackie eventually. So yeah,

1:07:49

this, this ploy works. You're

1:07:51

led into the back, the

1:07:53

back to an area that

1:07:55

is effectively four

1:07:58

like tiny, single bedrooms

1:08:00

that have been made

1:08:02

of gold, like with glass walls. You're in

1:08:05

like, you're in like the magneto prison from

1:08:07

X-Men, except it is,

1:08:09

it is like a low quality one

1:08:11

bet, like, you know, queen size bed,

1:08:13

bedroom at a casino, and there's four

1:08:16

of them next to one another, you

1:08:18

know? There's breathing holes,

1:08:20

you can probably talk the coffee through the breathing

1:08:22

holes, and you're like next to

1:08:24

coffee's, you

1:08:27

know, cell, basically. And you see this

1:08:29

happen, Audie. Can

1:08:33

you do me a favor and at least stream, Everybody

1:08:37

Dies on Earth on

1:08:39

Music Match? Yeah,

1:08:42

I'll get right on that. Everybody

1:08:44

dies on Earth? It

1:08:47

was for Earth, sorry. Everybody dies

1:08:49

on Earth. That wasn't the song

1:08:51

below it. It's

1:08:54

also not Everybody Dies for

1:08:56

Earth. Everybody dies on Earth.

1:08:59

Everybody dies on Earth. Every

1:09:01

day people die for Earth. Okay, yes.

1:09:04

I have a song here called Everybody

1:09:07

on Earth Dies Alone, that's on Spotify.

1:09:09

I know, that's the licensing for Everybody Dies,

1:09:11

Every Dies Every Day on Earth, so I

1:09:14

did a cover of it, and it's uploaded.

1:09:16

It is not on Earth, it's never

1:09:18

on Earth. Everybody is getting

1:09:20

worse. Everybody

1:09:23

dies on Earth. Everybody,

1:09:25

every day dies on Earth. He's

1:09:32

idling skitter when she lets her cook.

1:09:38

She's on nothing. Hooray,

1:09:41

every day everybody really truly

1:09:43

is down right, her song.

1:09:45

You have to upload it as your different

1:09:47

title every day because of the algorithm. What

1:09:50

do you decide to say every

1:09:52

day everybody dies on Earth? Sorry

1:09:59

from the bottom. still there.

1:10:01

Because if you listen to all of

1:10:03

them, then they'll start recommending my other track. Okay,

1:10:06

I see. You're

1:10:08

right on that. Cass

1:10:11

and Mako, you

1:10:16

know, Cass's security

1:10:19

radio has beeped and

1:10:21

keeps beeping. And at one point, Cass

1:10:23

is like, I have to check

1:10:25

into this. And

1:10:27

you know, taps, you know,

1:10:29

their temple and

1:10:31

like to change their display screen that they're

1:10:34

looking at inside of their own, you know,

1:10:36

augmented reality thing on the holidays. And

1:10:38

it's like, you're

1:10:41

here from the CCT, huh? No.

1:10:45

Cass already said this. Cass already said this. Yeah,

1:10:47

I know. This is

1:10:50

a fun lie.

1:10:53

I'm going to

1:10:55

give you 45 seconds to get out of the bar. What

1:10:59

happened? It seems

1:11:01

like this little crew you put together went loud. Oh

1:11:04

my God. Okay, Mako, let's

1:11:08

go. Get on our little bikes. Wait, dude.

1:11:11

You know, we left the bikes. Bikes are at the

1:11:13

front. Yeah, you didn't ride the bikes into the, into

1:11:15

the casino, up the escalator into the bar. Sorry,

1:11:18

I was, I was skipping down to the front

1:11:20

door. You do just get out of there. Yeah.

1:11:24

What do you two do? And

1:11:27

maybe end here for the night on whatever you set

1:11:29

up for your next actions or

1:11:31

your next like your plan of action, maybe. I

1:11:35

mean, there's a part of me that thinks

1:11:37

that we should also get arrested.

1:11:41

That was part of my original plan. That's

1:11:44

how it would go in Ocean's 11, you know? We

1:11:48

would all meet up in the jail and it

1:11:50

would all be part of the plan. Well,

1:11:53

do we, do we don't even know about the jail

1:11:55

or where the jail? That seems to have not been

1:11:57

told to you now. Mmm,

1:12:00

I bet Danny Ocean knew right he had

1:12:02

that little 3d mobile That

1:12:05

was the color. Yes, you're right Do

1:12:08

hey, I'm gonna try my I want

1:12:11

to try my communicator

1:12:13

thing Hmm,

1:12:15

maybe they didn't take that take it

1:12:18

from people take go for it Really

1:12:21

good. I turned I turned to the channel that gives

1:12:23

me both both

1:12:25

Aria and Hi

1:12:32

Hello No,

1:12:34

great Um Are

1:12:39

you what did you do? Things

1:12:43

escalated Aria has been

1:12:45

taken to the I nearly hit the brig

1:12:47

again Aria

1:12:49

very shit minded Yeah

1:12:53

Aria did something Wow,

1:12:56

I Mean

1:12:59

without consulting us I

1:13:04

don't think it would he has an answer for that? Um,

1:13:07

right cuz it's not what happened Yeah,

1:13:10

that's why because it wasn't my room

1:13:13

they did take Aria's Communicator

1:13:15

by the way and gun and they're

1:13:17

not just yeah, I actually

1:13:20

forgot that audi was hiding in a corner

1:13:23

Right. Uh-huh. Yeah, and so

1:13:25

I wouldn't have had their thing. Yes Uh

1:13:30

Hey Austin, yeah, I don't want to make

1:13:32

homework for ourselves But isn't it very likely

1:13:34

that they are listening to this communicator right

1:13:36

now? If I incarcerated someone and

1:13:39

they had a communicator on their body The first thing

1:13:41

I would do would be you have it to my

1:13:43

belt. Yeah I

1:13:45

think there's some security folks standing around

1:13:47

a desk looking at the the radio

1:13:50

as this

1:13:52

conversation happens And

1:13:54

let's just hang on that conversation, but let's go to

1:13:57

Aria and coffee in next

1:14:00

side-by-side sales already you say anything to

1:14:02

coffee and coffee is like so

1:14:05

what are you in for that's

1:14:07

what people say in moments like this right what

1:14:10

are you in for I had a

1:14:12

phone and they tried me to arrest me and

1:14:14

then I ran to try to find us the

1:14:16

friend who called you're Aria Joy

1:14:18

mm-hmm you're the

1:14:21

pop you're the you're the everybody

1:14:23

always is dying person uh-huh you're

1:14:25

like everybody's dying all the time

1:14:29

dying men to all of

1:14:31

their good women to dying girls

1:14:34

to all of their boy

1:14:36

friends to all of their

1:14:38

good women to all the

1:14:40

women we protect this

1:14:43

is a real song this is Ali's real goddamn song soldiers

1:14:49

of sorrow yeah I'm on it

1:14:51

I'm on it I'm gonna link

1:14:53

it uh-huh say

1:14:55

Andrew W that's

1:15:09

his counterweight name yep mm-hmm

1:15:11

replacing him mm-hmm you

1:15:15

still are you still on earth

1:15:18

well for now everybody everywhere dies on earth

1:15:23

everybody but

1:15:26

wait yeah what do you what do you say

1:15:28

other than the chorus of everybody yeah other than

1:15:30

singing it yeah you

1:15:33

know that one right yeah yeah

1:15:36

I know that one hmm

1:15:39

the sad song you

1:15:42

can't stream it in here what

1:15:44

are you in for what

1:15:47

am I in for I killed

1:15:50

a guy I killed

1:15:52

someone always

1:15:58

all the time every day Hey,

1:16:01

what's your name? Um,

1:16:06

it goes to shake your hand but there's

1:16:08

glass there and so like makes

1:16:11

like a, makes like a fist and like

1:16:13

puts it up against the glass slowly like

1:16:15

to dap you. I'm

1:16:18

coffee, coffee off a gato. Ahh,

1:16:22

rapidly poking the glass, I'm here to save

1:16:24

you. I'm here to save you. Case

1:16:28

changes instantly. Do

1:16:30

you have it? Did you get it? Um.

1:16:35

I think, I think McLeod had it. I

1:16:37

don't know where he put it but you gotta get it.

1:16:40

It's dangerous. Orth sent

1:16:42

me? Orth, Orth sent you. You're

1:16:46

not from the, you're, are

1:16:48

you, are you an operator? What are

1:16:50

you? Is

1:16:55

it undercover? Are you really, are you a joy? I'm

1:16:59

a pop star slash

1:17:02

independent, uh, mercenary. You

1:17:05

don't have it. What? You

1:17:07

better rest it. Oh my god. What's to

1:17:09

find you? There's a whole team.

1:17:12

No, don't be scared. They're

1:17:16

not gonna let me out of here unless

1:17:18

I give it to them. But I don't have it.

1:17:21

What's it? The card shark.

1:17:25

You don't know anything. Those guys?

1:17:27

Those guys? No. The

1:17:29

AI I had? You,

1:17:34

uh, Orth didn't, maybe Orth doesn't

1:17:36

know. How much deep? And

1:17:38

then someone calls in from outside, knock it off you

1:17:41

two, no talking. And like

1:17:43

leans out and looks at you. And

1:17:45

then leans back and you can hear

1:17:48

Audie talking to Mako over the speaker.

1:17:51

And they, when they do that. That's my thing. Hey.

1:17:54

Now I'm adding the

1:17:56

card shark. to

1:18:01

the thing spelled

1:18:07

believe it's spelled like this k

1:18:09

r d s h a r

1:18:11

q i was hoping it would be a

1:18:13

queue oh yeah oh

1:18:16

yeah i'm

1:18:18

putting a question mark after it as

1:18:21

that is part of the mystery yeah