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SNES Welcome

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back to Alien RPG. We're

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playing Fallout. This is episode 2.

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In our previous

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episode, the crew of

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the Aspara infiltrated the planet

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LV 187 to get to

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the colony there and

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they're attempting to find

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some xenobiological materials that

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they can sample and

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hopefully create an antidote or cure

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for a biological

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weapon that's being deployed

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on these planets through some border

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bombings by unknown parties.

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So the ship was able to get

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in and the planet is just a

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perpetual storm. They landed on the landing

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platform which started to buckle just a

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little bit, made some people nervous but

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it's not too bad and as

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they were looking around they figured, you know

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what, COMS isn't working. The

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command centers are all the way at

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the other end of this two kilometer

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long facility. Let's just jump

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back in the ship and go

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and just land in the rough

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grounds at the other end of

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the colony. We'll be closer

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to the command center. As they

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were heading back to the ship they

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see something, some huge

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thing. Is it an asteroid? Is it

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a crashing ship? What is it? But

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this giant fireball came through

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and crashed to the ground.

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You know, it seems like it's

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less than five kilometers away and

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the shockwave struck

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everyone it knocked captain

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dag me for a for a loop

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and And it and even

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kind of shifted the ship a little

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bit which is precariously perched over a

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large strip mine so

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we rejoin the The

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explorers as they are scrambling to get

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to the ship Captain

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he you alive II he okay Fuck

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what? Jesus

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captain Dagny. Do you require assistance? No,

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I I think I'm alright, but we

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We got to get to the ship that that

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doesn't look good Run

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time Yeah, he just

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starts running. All right, so

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everyone runs for the ship everyone

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can make an observation roll, please

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This will be your wits plus observation plus any

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stress that you may have acquired already Yep,

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I got a couple of successes on that nice

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zero successes zero

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successes from me, okay, seven times

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three stress Zero

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successes and I got a one on my

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stress dice for a panic You're

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fine, you're keeping it together, but professor

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clias and Myra as

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you guys are sprinting for the

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ship the sound of the rain

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and the winds You know kind

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of buffeting your helmet and everything.

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Everyone is is inside a mark

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50 compression suit but

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you guys hear Almost

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with a tonal pitch that's

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slightly lower you hear some

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kind of a Hiss

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of some sort kind of echoing almost

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as if it's all around you kind

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of echoing upwards and this

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kind of freaks you out.

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Myra of course has nerves

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of steel, almost

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literal steel, synthetic cables, but

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Professor Cleus please gain one additional

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stress as this sound just kind

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of runs up your spine as

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your boots are running up the

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deck to re-enter the ship. You

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can't push a failed roll can

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you? You cannot that's a that's

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a good point. Any failed

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roll is that that rolls immune

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to push. Could I push the

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roll for some reason to see where that

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hissing sound is coming from or?

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As being synthetic you are immune

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to pushes because you cannot gain

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stress. Oh yeah okay. Not

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used to playing it on Drakulli. Okay

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I think Myra just say like did

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anyone hear the hissing sound as

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we're running? I didn't hear shit

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and I don't care. I all

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I could hear is my own breathing

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in my suit at the clunk of

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my boots. Charging.

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And we don't have an idea of where

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that sound came from. It just

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sounded as if it was all around you now.

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So I think with Professor Cleus when he

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was panicking he he briefly looked back and

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was thinking you know would I be safer

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on the ground rather than this bloody ship

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and then he hears that noise and then just

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double times it again goes

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from being lost to being first and starts

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you know banging on whatever button it is

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to deploy the ramp. Myra

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says like well never mind and then just keeps running.

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What the hell was that? Was that the Colonial Marine?

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Did they fire a gun at us? Do we need

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to leave? I mean you know I want a biological

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sample as much as the next man but I don't

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need blown up. That's why

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it just happened there is nothing I've ever seen the Marines

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do. Everyone get on the ship and strap in. We're gonna

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get over to the other side of this facility as fast

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as we can. Dr. C. Sheima's

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already in her seat and

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strapping up. All

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right. Yeah, so everyone

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bolts up to the bridge, jumps

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into the accelerator couches, and

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let's get a piloting roll to get this thing

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off the ground. And

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is anyone interested in doing a contact of

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any sort? I was

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actually going to suggest, Myra, if you want to

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just check to see if we could check the

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density of the ground that

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we're going to... I don't want to have

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a cave in on us once we land. Yes,

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we should check for the ground density. One

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moment. How do I do

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that? You

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can give me a contact test, but for

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the type of test that you're going to do, it's going

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to be formidable, so subtract

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three dice. Okay. Captain,

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how did your piloting roll go? I

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got one success. Excellent.

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10 dice. What

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is happening? Taking off is

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really easy when the whole landing platform just drops

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out from under you. Yeah, it's like we're not

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really taking off, it's just the landing platform is

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leaving us. It's kind of

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this wily coyote moment, the ship didn't know it was

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supposed to fall. It's

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an Acme ship. Yeah, so

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the platform still seems fine.

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Again, platform accidents are a

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myth, but

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you are able to lift the ship up

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and you don't even retract the landing gear because

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you know you're going to be landing soon.

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Its feet are still sticking down

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and out from the ship as you're

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kind of hovering and starting to fly

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in almost like drone mode over the

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facility. Okay,

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so the ground and

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the way that the atmosphere

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is mucking up your

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sensors, you are unable to

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get a clean reading

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of the ground as far

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as maybe seeing if there's

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any lava tubes or

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anything like that underground. Yeah,

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I got no successes, so my

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room picks up on nothing. Yeah.

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I'll be trying to get it as close to

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the airlock next to the command deck

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as possible. I've got that

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information surely handy so I

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can, you know, my assumption is there

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wouldn't be an airlock next to somewhere that it's

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dangerous to land. Right.

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OK. The building. Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah. All right. So

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the ground is stony and it

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just has these these cut grooves

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in it. So there's no soil,

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there's no nothing flat.

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It's all just these cut grooves

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with just water running through these

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things, you know, from all the

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the precipitation that's everywhere out here.

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And with all the mining equipment and stuff

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like that, there's oil rigs and things like

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that. There's no flat

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place for you to set the ship

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down, but that shouldn't stop you. You

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know, the the feet,

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the landing feet are articulated

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and jointed in such ways

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that they should

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accommodate pretty much

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any terrain. They should.

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They're rarely tested with rough

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terrain, though. Do

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I need to roll anything for landing? Well,

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yes, let's have another piloting, please. OK,

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this is going to be more

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difficult, though. So take a minus

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two penalty on your test. So

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you'll use all the stress dyes. And so

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whenever there's a reduction in dice, it's reduction

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in base. I

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have one success, but I also got one

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fail on my stress dice. OK. And

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and so it is possible to

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have both happen where you are

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successful, but you still panic. It's

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only when your panic roll is

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a value of 10 or higher. it

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negates any successes that

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you had. But having a total

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of a nine is

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one of those instances where yes you're

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successful and you did something pretty

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bad. So drop item is your

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result and I'm going to interpret

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that in a slightly different way.

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So the ship is coming

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down, your landing struts are

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deployed and as you're touching

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down you can hear, everyone

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hears, the the whine and

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the stress as

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the landing gear is trying

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to conform to the

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terrain that it's landing

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on so it can have

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a stable landing. As

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the ship is kind of coming down

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wind shears begin to pivot

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and shift the ship right, the

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yaw begins to move and it's

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in such a way that one

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of the landing gears gets caught

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and everyone hears the

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moment as that landing

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gear is torn free of

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the of the ship. I mean that just

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echoes through the ship

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and the ship does land but

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it's now landed at a 20 degree

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angle, it's pitched over and

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so everyone gained plus one stress

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from that and

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you are no longer able to use

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the ramp to

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exit and get out of the

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ship. So what you're

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gonna have to do to enter

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and exit out of the ship is

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you're gonna have to go the the

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side airlocks instead of the the

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under the belly airlock or

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you can go

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to where the the escape shuttle drops

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out and you could like open up that

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door and kind of like a cargo fine.

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Myra can't get stressed but Camila's getting

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like plus one stress right now just

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in this just in this with this

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role and in this scene for sure.

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Yeah. It's like oh. There's

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very few places for us to go. Okay

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so captain as you're looking

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down this corridor you see

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something moving on the ceiling

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and it suddenly darts and

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leaps right at you and

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it looks like it

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looks like it's the size of

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a small dog but itself it

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looks like it's the cross between

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a crab and a spider with

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a super long flexible

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tail and it leaps at you

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and it's

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legs and tails spread out as it's

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coming right at your face and

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we will put a pin in the action

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there. Quite soon there will probably be

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some sort of pin Dagny.

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Yeah just want to hug. It's funny.

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We you know mothers we prefer the term

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face cuddler. Sounds

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more caring. Name of the episode

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