(upbeat dramatic music)
- Hello, one and all!
Welcome back to another thrilling episode
of "Dimension 20: A Starstruck Odyssey!"
I'm your humble dungeon
master, Brennan Lee Mulligan,
with me, as always, are
our Intrepid Heroes.
Say hi, Intrepid Heroes.
- [All] Hi, Intrepid Heroes!
- Ah, music to my ears.
Oh, victory, victory.
- What? We didn't.
We are not victorious.
- No, that was a victory.
- We kept a box,
there was nothing in it.
- No, we got a whole box!
- Except goo.
- Oh, that's right.
- But we got a box.
- Last we left off, our Intrepid Heroes
they were aboard the Red Hot
in the Hecatoncheires asteroid cluster
with a crate that they believed
was gonna be full of borinyum krystals,
but instead was full of some spoiled,
powdered imitation egg substitute, bummer.
You see, (beeps) AnarchEra 220.
The Red Hot, a hot dog-shaped starship
floating in the twinkling starlight
in the asteroid cluster.
And lying out on his berth
in the captain's quarters
with his own personal
med-kit hooked up to him
is the unconscious Skipper.
Who has been moved here
after some kind of weird reaction.
Hard to tell exactly what it was.
Could have been some
weird chemical reaction
of whatever spoiled the egg substitute,
could've been some bit of
the ship malfunctioning,
the ship took a lot of hull damage,
shields are down.
- I think it is my duty
as a companion droid
to be doing medicine checks,
but my heart is not in it,
so may I do them with disadvantage?
- You absolutely may.
- I feel kind of angry at Captain Norman.
- [Brennan] Yes, go for it.
- Okay.
That's a seven.
- A seven, the captain is breathing.
- I report that intel.
- It's good.
- We're all standing there.
- That's good.
- Actually, yeah I think
probably you are all standing
here in the captain's quarters.
It is also not lost on you
that the captain's quarters are way nicer
than any other part of the ship.
- I actually knew that
'cause I clean them.
- How much does he pay?
- This is the first
time I've been in here.
This is amazing!
- Yeah, he's been
auditioning new carpets too.
- He was gonna put carpet in here?
- Auditioning?
- He's bought multiple carpets?
- Multiple carpets.
- With what money?
- You can see there's a
book of 40 carpet swatches.
- Might just take these swatches
and use them as a pillow.
(gentle steady beeping)
- Beep, yeah?
All the vital signs are stable.
With the report that
your captain is stable
a moment of held breath releases,
it seems the captain will be okay
and you are just left in this situation.
I'm gonna need a couple
of rolls post-battle,
things can still get worse.
- Oh, good.
- I am going to need, first,
a charisma check from the ship,
with the current skipper unconscious
I'm gonna need the secondary pilot
to go ahead and give me a charisma check
for the ship.
- Okay.
Don't worry, I'm very charismatic.
- I'll direct that.
- Okay, go ahead and roll with advantage.
- Okay.
Well, I got an 11.
- An 11?
- 11.
- It's a DC 10 check.
The charisma check,
the ship taking damage.
None of the Jib-Job workers
were alienated enough
to end their Jib-Job contracts.
So you did not lose-
- That's shocking.
- Can we say that mechanically what I did
was that I heated up a bunch of coffee
and roller skated around
and handed it out?
- Yeah.
- For morale?
- You see Raymond, you see Ray Zam goes,
ah, Sid, thank you so much.
Ooh, this is great.
Do you steam the milk in a steamer?
- With my g*n!
And then I foam it like
a latte with my g*n.
Only a little bit of
b*llet shrapnel falls in.
- Yeah, you see Raymond,
there's also another
Jib-Job worker here, Autumn,
who is not part of the
quarterly graphics meeting.
She's actually unrelated
to their little startup.
She just uses the space to work
on what you would understand
to be stage plays.
Looks up and goes, oh
my God, this is so good.
Just a little espresso?
Mm.
It does taste like metal.
- Absolutely, which is
why I love it so much.
- Thanks, Sid, you're the best.
Appreciate it.
- No, thank you
for the positive feedback.
- Can I cast Affect Mind on Autumn
to make her like the coffee more?
- Yes, you can, I'll roll.
She rolls a five on the die and goes,
I love this coffee.
- Thank you.
Did you know that I'm programmed
so the more I please someone
the better I feel about myself?
- Huh, well, that's a lot to put on me.
But right now, for some reason,
I feel good about that.
You look over her shoulder and see Riva.
- I willfully pretend that it's my work
and I just mood skate away
like the most popular girl.
- [Brennan] Incredible.
- These Jib-Job people love me!
- Yeah, a little bit perturbed
by the incredibly violent space fight,
but plied with gunmetal tasting coffee,
the Jib-Job workers, it's 11 on a DC 10.
So they're like, you know what?
The free coffee is nice.
Incredible.
The other roll I'm gonna need,
give me a roll of one d20 and one d10.
Add them together, let
me know what you get.
- One d20, six.
66.
- Wait, that's a nine.
- Oh, nine.
- 15.
- Nine and a six.
- 15? Amazing, rolling high was good.
You are 15 Malton Units away
from your nargon upkeep.
At the end of each nargon,
your upkeep comes due.
So you've got half the nargon left
in order to hit that upkeep.
That's when your upkeep is gonna come due,
which is both 1200 Galactic credits
for the ship's upkeep and then 60 credits
for each of you.
I should point out that
60 credits per month
for all of you is a poor lifestyle.
Meaning that it is not very comfortable,
that's the bare minimum it takes
just to get you through a spacer's life.
But.
- And you owe, like, double that, right?
For all your parts?
- Double?
- Double?
- Oh, double, it's a lot,
we don't have to get into it, it's a lot.
- I've just heard you talking
in the halls before now.
- 16.500 credits.
- Just kinda curious.
- 16 thousand?
- He says it over and
over in his head a lot.
- Yeah, I was wondering what that was,
that's what you owe monthly?
- Yeah. (stammers)
Yeah.
- That's the base monthly rate.
- That's the base.
- That just covers the interest.
- Yeah. Yeah.
It's okay. We're figuring it out.
- Yeah, I mean, it makes sense to me
why you would be so-
- I don't think
you're gonna figure it out.
- No, we're gonna-
- That seems an unimaginable
amount of money to me.
- It's a lot.
- Do you know how much Pleasure Putty
I would have to sell to
make just 16.500 credits?
- What is, I mean-
- Yeah, what is the Pleasure Putty?
- What is the Pleasure Putty?
- Oh, I'm so glad that you asked!
Because, have I got some
information for you.
Now, whether you are a humanoid
who has one of the meat tentacle things,
or if you're a humanoid
that doesn't have one,
but likes the sensation of it,
or if you have one of them
but you also like the sensation of it,
or if you have one and
you like the other thing,
I have somewhat of a rudimentary
grasp of human anatomy,
but I think you all get the gist.
- I do have a pleasure
tentacle thing, yeah.
- Only one. May I have one to try it out?
- Oh.
- In the future?
- It does cost, so there
are several different packs
that you can buy.
So, the basic-
- Can I Sleight of Hand one?
- Unfortunately, it's
a completely contained
water system on the ship.
- Okay, I Sleight of
Hand against the glass.
- [Brennan] Plink!
- sh*t.
- [Brian] Easy, Sid, easy.
- I just wanted to put it in my g*n.
- So do you put the Putty on yourself
or does the Putty become you?
- I think it will be, once you have it,
quite self evident as to how it's used.
So there are six different
flavors that you can have.
- Flavors? Alright.
- So if you get a Basic Putty Pack,
it's a random flavor, but
you can get a six pack
and that is five credits reduced
if you were to get a six pack, okay?
And the flavors are, they're orange,
you can have chocolate,
you can have bizarna,
which is like a banana but ooh, jazzy!
- Bizarna! (laughs)
- You can have meats.
You can have ice blue flavor,
or you could have Murph's Little Beans.
And that's one of the
flavors of the Putties.
- Murph's Little Beans.
- Wow, Murph's Little Beans?
- Just so I'm clear-
- Very sexy, I'm told.
- It sounds like Max 2, right?
- I know that you're working
on the anatomy thing,
which I appreciate, is it...
You say tentacle.
- Yes.
Do you mean, (stammers) like genitalia?
- Yeah, some of the human types
have the meat tentacles
and some of them, they don't.
- Okay, I was just confused.
I honestly thought this whole time
we were talking about arms
and then I was like, a meat flavored arm?
That sounds weird.
- I see.
- I knew what we were talking about.
- I knew exactly
what we were talking about.
- Is there any way we can
grind this stuff up and
make it fuel or something?
- I was thinking maybe we
could put it in our g*ns
and sh**t it at people
and they would have to
succumb to pleasure.
- You know, as long as
you pay for the product,
I actually don't mind.
And if you'd be interested
in selling it yourself,
actually you'd be your own boss
and you get to make your own hours,
which I haven't quite
figured out how to do yet.
- I'm absolutely already my own boss.
- I am actually actively programmed
not to be my own boss.
- Oh, fascinating.
- Yeah, I'm kind of
programmed that way too.
I was made by a professor
who kind of bossed us around.
It was awesome.
- I honestly have too many bosses
to become my own boss.
Even if I was my own boss,
I would still have another boss.
- Yeah, as mean as The Skipper was,
I'm feeling lost right now.
- I know.
- No one's yelling at me.
- As all of you look around,
realizing that it's kind of true,
you are a little bit lost.
You see (fizzes) that
the ship has loose wires,
sections that are cordoned off from-
- Yeah, Gunnie, what's
the damage on the damage?
- It's pretty bad.
I mean, we are out.
We can't fix it here.
- I can report that we have zero shields
and 23 hull hit points.
- Yeah.
But we're out of the stuff that I need
to repair the ship on the fly.
So we would have to go
to a krystal station
to get this stuff we'd need
to then start making repairs.
Is there anything I can do now?
- Out of hull dice? No.
There's not anything you can do now.
All of the materials you would use
to repair the ship, you are plumb out.
- So there's nothing I can do.
The Skipper's down.
- What is the total amount
of money we have right now?
- Permission from someone else
to pickpocket The Skipper
and see how much is on him?
- Let's ask The Skipper.
- Yeah, we should ask.
- Skipper.
- Skipper?
- You guys look over and
see The Skipper laid out.
Beep, beep.
If you want, you can give
me a technology check
to assess the damage to the ship.
- Great.
A cool 18.
- 18's enough to let you know, okay.
A refitting.
An actual refitting
would run you 200 credits per hull die
that you need to repair.
With all your hull dice depleted,
that's a cool 1400 galactic credits
just to refit the ship.
Now that would normally bring your shields
and hull points and shield dice
and hull dice all the way up,
but because your shields
got totally blown out
in the last fight, that's
another 200 credits
on top of that.
So you're at 1600 credits
sitting there right now.
Given that it will take
a day or two to fix
that's another 40 or 80
galactic credits on top of that.
On top of that are also
the fact that your ship
is currently Used, there's
all this upkeep work
that's not technically vital,
but it means that your ship
can have these catastrophic failures.
If you wanna try to
repair the Used condition,
that's another 1.160
credits on top of that
to actually get the ship like brand new.
That's not including the lapsed payments
on your transmitter codes
and your registration.
If you wanted to cover that,
that's another 120 credits
for the transmitter codes,
which is pretty cheap
all things considering,
the registration's price here,
that's a thousand credits to do that.
Refueling costs to get you back
to actually refueling,
'cause it is 200, sorry.
It is a hundred credits of fuel a day
to fly this thing in real space.
You are on a third of a tank right now,
that's 2000 credits to go back up to full.
Restocking food portions on the ship,
obviously, 'cause you guys
aren't allowed to touch
any of the Jib-Job food.
So to restock your personal crew larder
is another 800 credits on top of that.
None of that begins to
touch the 1200 credits
that's coming due at the end of the month,
nor the 60 credits per
person for each of you.
And then of course
there's the 16.500 credit.
- That's my own business.
- I pickpocket The Skipper
to see if he has a credit card.
- Guys, we're looking at
about $6.500 in upkeep.
Like... (stammers)
- We don't need it to look nice,
we just need it to be
as it was an hour ago.
- Just to get it on its feet,
we're looking, and if we're skipping fees,
we're looking at around 3.200.
- I'll pay it.
I need you guys to take me to that planet
with the revolution.
- Wait, wait.
- I'll just pay it. That's fine.
Now, can we do all of those repairs
on a specific planet?
'Cause I need to go.
- From where are you getting?
- I mean, we'll do whatever you want.
- Miss Margaret, fresh matcha?
- Yeah, please, are you cumming?
Yeah, let's...
- I think my pleasure wires got crossed.
Yes, I am.
- Amazing, Margaret, as you say this,
I'll just cover it, because
again this is, you know,
it's a hefty price tag, but this is not-
- I think 3.200, especially taking out
all the extra stuff.
- That's not paying our registration,
that's just repairs,
getting some food back,
honestly-
- And the fuel.
- Not getting that much food back,
a little bit of food.
- Okay, great.
- [Lou] And about half
full, not a full tank.
- Great, we'll do a conservative,
just to get us started,
but I can probably get us more money.
Let's go.
What's that planet called?
- Rubian V, it's a moon,
but you can head there
right now if you want to.
- Rubian V moon?
Alright great let's get there.
- Rubian V is a moon, yeah.
- Oh, quick, Gunnie's being on ships.
What is, how much,
could we make Margaret
the skipper right now?
Would that be mutiny?
- That is mutiny, but there are, again,
this is AnarchEra, you're on the border
of a neutral zone right now, so.
- Why don't we do a light mutiny?
Where if The Skipper comes back-
- My plate's kind of full right now, guys.
But I would love to
foot the bill, let's go.
- [Lou] Okay.
- Unofficial but real skipper.
- Real skipper, and we'll,
instead of throwing him
out of the space airlock,
you can have a job still.
- So Margaret, you get
a little, bloop, message
from Lucienne Rex saying, time to talk?
- Yeah. I excuse myself.
I wave some sort of virtual pay,
here's the 3.200.
- Of course, anything.
- You have to give it to somebody else.
If you give it to me...
- Yeah, right, right.
- Don't give it to me.
- This should be
the new skipper, right guys?
- Put it in my purse! I hold up my g*n.
- I'm looking down the barrel of it, okay.
- Incredible.
You have that credits.
You can go punch in the codes
to get to, if you wanna
take a jump there you can,
or you can pilot to Rubian V on your own.
- Do we have enough
fuel to get to Rubian V?
- Yeah, you do.
- Okay.
- Yeah, for sure.
- And where can we get the repairs done?
- Rubian V is a UFTP planet,
so it would have the
refitting stuff you would need
to go there.
You can just take 10 minutes
to get the codes exactly
right, get the equations.
Amazing.
Margaret heads back to her apartment.
Sid heads up to the bridge
to start piloting to Rubian V
as you head back to the main room.
Riva, are you gonna head
to the bridge as well?
Or are you gonna go somewhere,
for Barry and Riva, I wanna
know what you guys were doing.
- I was gonna go check in on the captain
and see if I can feel any
signs of life in his head.
- You go to the captain.
- I guess I'll go, I'm kinda pumped
that Sid's getting to fly the ship
so Barry's just standing there, alright,
not just for blasting stuff!
Gunner channel, moving up in the world.
- Roids and droids, let's do it.
- Incredible, so all of you
head off with this wild thing
that this United Free
Trade Planet executive
just dropped 3.200 credits
like it was nothing.
- I think I'm like a dog, a stray dog
that you've fed right now.
- Margaret, as you walk back,
you do know that there could be a headache
in jacking a ship like this.
Because you know that this
dude had Brigade connections
and the Amercadian Space
Brigade is notoriously grouchy
about people messing even with people
that they've kind of discarded,
they still have that
sense of ownership over.
- If he comes back?
- Yeah, yeah. It could be a hassle.
We're gonna cut from
here to another space.
(dramatic electronic music)
A space of darkness.
Wet, warm darkness.
(Brennan squelches)
Zac.
Your character.
Your real character.
You,
for time out of mind,
you have been suspended
in cryogenic slumber.
Unintentional, the freezing cold of space.
Something changed, you
moved somewhere warm.
With gravity, humidity,
tactile senses...ready, poised.
Something moved. Opportunity.
Moving on it, you've entered a space
and you feel ahead of you
finally, your target,
your home. (squelches)
You rest easy with a shiver
of comfort and security
wrapped around a brand new brainstem.
The controls of this body-craft
begin to ripple through
your consciousness.
You immediately understand.
You have heard of these before.
They're not uncommon in the galaxy.
They're quite far-flung.
You have found a human being.
And its controls,
of course, light up is not a term
that you would use,
but (whooshes) a brand new system
comes into being in front of you.
Where does your interest go?
- As I'm sort of floating
in this new space,
I feel like it's like
when you have been skiing,
snow skiing, and then
there's like, oh, a lodge!
And I am going to check out
whatever is just the most
basic of understanding
of just survival movement.
Like when a baby giraffe is born
and it has to learn to run immediately.
- Okay, so your first thought
is baby giraffe, right?
- Yeah.
- Riva, you are looking at the captain
and from unconsciousness,
the limbs in the bed flail
and the captain launches upright
and stumbles into the room.
Give me a dexterity saving throw.
(Zac laughs)
- That's a dirty 20.
- You leap forward. Run.
Your tactile senses,
you log into this
body-craft's tactile senses.
You are experiencing gravity.
And as you attempt the basic movement,
you can sense that the body wants to use
some of its appendages for
movement more than others.
- Yeah.
So I think I immediately jump up.
But realize that's not right.
And just start running.
- Amazing. What speed
do you try to run at?
- Full speed, straight forward.
- You smash into the wall
and take five points of damage.
Bam! Riva, you see this.
- Skipper, Captain. Are you okay?
- Can't fully understand
how to control my eyes yet.
And so I'm trying to access language.
- Amazing.
You sense-
- You actually don't need language
to communicate with me.
- Ooh! So.
I'm gonna need an insight
check and a deception check.
- Great.
I think I get advantage
on those from Empathic.
- Oh, that's right, that's right. Hold on.
- I also got a 26.
- [Brennan] Oh, amazing.
And what did you get?
- Oh, I got a 12.
- Riva.
You reach out and your mind ripples over
and slightly permeates a
brand new consciousness
in The Skipper's body.
- Hello, stranger.
- I definitely don't
wanna talk in my brain.
So I'm going to-
- Oh, okay.
This is the only way that
I can communicate, so.
Also, just so you know,
because people seem to be
sometimes uncomfortable about it,
I can hear everything
you're saying inside.
- Wait.
- Okay!
- Wait.
- Wait for what?
I'm waiting.
I can tell the others
to wait if you'd like.
Who are you?
- Hmm? I sprint away from them.
- Cool, give me a dexterity
saving throw with disadvantage.
- That is going to be a...
Oh, I have.
That was a nine.
- A nine.
You hit a wall again,
take another three points of damage.
Boom.
You sense, you might wanna grab
some your sensory stuff
in this new body-craft.
- Cool, I'm gonna try to
access just being able to see.
- Give me a piloting check.
- Alright.
- You might want to open your eyes.
- That's a seven.
- A seven. Cool.
You have a couple of different choices
for stuff that you can open.
You choose to open your mouth.
Your mouth opens.
You're having a hard time
using this sensory organ
to get a good sense of the room.
- I try to echolocate.
(Zac yelping)
- You manage to find the door.
Riva, you lose the Captain momentarily.
Gunnie, you are in the reactor core
and see The Skipper with
some of the sensory wires
for the vital signs still attached
and ripped out of the wall,
walking down the hallway, going like this.
(Zac yelping)
- Guys, I think the light mutiny is over.
Just be ready, I think
the Captain's awake.
- Wait, wait.
- What, Skipper, what?
- Wait.
- Wait?
- Wait.
- Wait?
- Wait.
- Okay.
Guys, he's headed to the bridge! (laughs)
- Pretend we were just cleaning it,
pretend we were just cleaning it, Sid!
- No, I know! I put it into
hypergear, we gotta outrun him!
- He's on the ship!
- I think this makes sense!
- Amazing, you kick it into hyperdrive.
Incredible.
As you jump to, you kick
in the Tachyon Drive,
go faster than light.
And (whooshes) in
faster-than-light travel,
Skipper comes aboard the bridge.
Skipper, you've managed
to open your eyes now,
you have opened your eyes,
you've been doing some echolocating,
unlocked basic speech, but you
see Barry and Sid both here.
- Captain Norman!
No one tried to pickpocket you
while you were unconscious.
- Yeah, Skipper, and
there wasn't a mutiny,
light or otherwise.
- Yeah, so that's just
kind of filling you in
on everything that happened
while you were unconscious, sir.
- Wait?
Wait.
- Do you have a lozenge in your mouth?
- No.
Looking for the words. Hold on.
I'm just looking in my brain.
I don't know what all of the buttons do.
- Neither do I, you just-
- I'm also a pilot. So if maybe...
I see what's happened!
Obviously the Captain is feeling unwell
from going unconscious and so he's having
a momentary lapse of
memory of how to pilot.
Do not worry, Captain
Norman, I will pilot for you
and again, no one tried to pickpocket you!
- We can't stress that enough.
- [Zac] Okay.
- Hi, this is Riva, I'm
just on the gunner channel
so that's everyone I think
except for the Captain.
- What up, gunners?
- Just so you know,
I don't think it's actually the Captain.
I think it's something else
that's controlling the Captain.
- This guy was kind of
nice, so I was wondering.
- Yeah, that's what I thought.
- So far this creature
has not said anything that
was deeply demoralizing.
- He told me to wait
without calling me an idiot.
- My sense of self is intact
after one interaction.
- Yeah, probably if it was the captain,
he would've said, "wait,
coward" or "wait, idiot."
He just said "wait."
- Or, why should I have
to tell you to wait again,
when he didn't tell me
to wait the first time.
- Give me another piloting check.
- That is going to be a 17.
- As you hear this chatter over the radio,
you can hear the end of the conversation
that Sid and Barry are on
'cause you're back on the bridge.
"He didn't say anything demoralizing",
you begin to pull some flashes.
You know that this organism
that you have commandeered
is Norman Takamori, The Skipper.
And you have a series of
flashes of deep outrage,
entitlement, cruelty,
misdirected self-criticism
cast outward at other people.
And I want you to make a
perception check for me.
- Does it relate to ships?
- I'll say in this case, yes it does.
- That's going to be, sorry, perception?
- Mhmm.
- That's gonna be a 17.
- This psychic being on the
ship has really f*cked you up.
This is a bad state of affairs
that something has clocked
that something is wrong.
As you're sitting here gauging the danger,
all of the stress you are feeling,
all of the anxiety you
are feeling at the fact
that this craft you have commandeered
is now suddenly maybe in
risk of being discovered,
all of it melts away.
You are on the bridge
and you look out through
the panes of glass.
You don't know what you're seeing.
Endless void
and beyond counting,
twinkling stars.
You've never seen
something this vast before.
You have an understanding that that space
has to be what you knew as the Void.
Your perception of the Void
was just your experience
of being frozen by it.
And this,
this endless scape of stars before you,
sitting there, waiting.
Shimmering.
In the vastness of a galaxy
full of untold stories.
- I report on the gunning channel.
He smushed his face against the glass!
He smushed his face against the glass
and he's blowing his own breath on it!
- Just fog.
- Zac, what's going on
with The Skipper right now?
- I think Skipper is, having been frozen,
just floating through space for so long,
is seeing it in a place that is warm
and relatively comfortable in some ways
despite the possibly
hostile situation I'm in.
And seeing that he is in a vessel
that has the ability to make a choice
and move wherever it wants to go.
- You look at this vessel you are in.
And it's like some sort
of matryoshka doll,
you're kind of in multiple
craft at the same time.
You are piloting this body
that you know has the capacity
to pilot this larger craft you are in.
You understand that this
is something artificial.
For the rest of the crew of the Red Hot,
you have two of you on the bridge already.
Riva, I assume you can come up here.
Gunnie, are you coming up to the-
- Yeah, I'm gonna follow.
- Yeah, so Gunnie, Riva, Syx and Sid,
you are all up here on the bridge,
looking at The Skipper
gaze out at the stars.
And, Skip you also look
and see the pilot
controls of the ship here
that Sid is stationed at.
- Yes, Captain?
- So I'm...
- The captain.
- Norman, the captain,
Skip Takamori and-
- Is that what you wish to be called?
- Yeah.
- Skip?
- Then your wish is my command.
- Call me Skip.
- Do you like the name?
- So cool!
- Oh, he's a cool guy.
- That was so congenial!
- He's a cool guy.
- Skip.
- How're you doing there, fella?
- I'm pretty good, how about you?
- Big Barry Syx! I go
over and I shake his hand.
- Skip, can I make you a drink?
- If you want to.
- What would you like to drink?
- He's furiously looking
at memories and trying.
- Give me a flat intelligence check.
- Okay.
That is pretty good.
That's a dirty 20.
- Dirty 20? You can remember
any liquid you want!
- Latte?
- I make those really well.
And the old Captain
Norman never wanted them,
or he wanted substitute milks
and I just simply don't
have access to that.
- Oh, never mind.
- Oh, you need substitute milks as well?
- Or whatever.
- Whatever?
- It's crazy!
He's open to other things!
- I'm gonna make you
the best latte you ever had.
- Options!
Can I do a lore check
or some kind of check
about of the nature of this thing?
- Give me a lore check,
anyone who wants to.
Obviously Riva's communicated
what has sort of gone down here.
- Can I telepathically explain everything
that I've seen to Gunnie
to give him advantage?
- Yes, yes. Absolutely.
You can get advantage on
that lore check for sure.
- That's gonna be a dirty 20.
- [Brennan] Dirty 20.
- I got an 11 so I'm really
focusing on the latte.
- Amazing.
- I'm using Minor Hologram
to make it smell like f*cking autumn.
- Skip's in the corner going
Norm, Norman, Norman, Norman.
- This guy's hilarious!
- I like him.
- Norman, Norman.
- Maybe it was a near death experience
that rewired him to be nicer.
- On a dirty 20, there's a lot of things
that could be going on.
Obviously the old Skipper maybe has had
a sudden change of heart
or there's some other stuff going on.
There's also other stuff
in the galaxy, you know.
There's psychics like Riva,
there could be some
sort of psychic empath,
telepath kind of stuff going on.
This could be some weird lasting effect.
You've read of certain tractor beam stuff,
Cerebroslugs, you know, other stuff.
It could be anything really.
- Okay.
You know? I'm into it.
I like it.
And I'm feeling Norm, the Skip,
I'm into this.
- New Skip?
- I'm into new Skip!
- Kinda into new Skip.
- You know, Captain, as we are talking,
I've been an unpaid intern
here on this ship for a year
and I was wondering if I could
maybe move up to assistant.
- Okay.
- (stammering) Cap, I feel
like we've talked a lot
about how the quality of this crew
is up to better missions.
You've often said that, shut the hell up,
get the hell out of my room.
And I'm wondering, would you be open
to doing kind of bigger
and better paying stuff
in the future?
- Okay.
- Captain, maybe it's
actually a really good time
for us to revisit the grenade budget
that I made a PowerPoint
and showed to you.
I can just pull it up right now.
And it's just a lot of
pictures of me with grenades.
Yes, you can see.
- I love those pictures of you.
- It's a great calendar.
- Gets like this.
Puts his face up to it.
Okay.
- Oh my goodness, oh my goodness.
I get to take so few personal victories
and that was one!
- This is awesome.
- Never been this proud to be on a ship
since I was piloted by Barry Two.
- I feel like this is what humans say
it feels like to have
a substitute teacher.
Can we watch a movie?
- Okay.
- I have wanted to watch a movie
with you guys for months!
- [Brennan] We cut down
to the Jib-Job space.
There's a small little plasma screen
over in the corner and
it's just all of you
on a sofa.
You have some popcorn that Sid's made.
- Yeah, it's coming out of my g*n.
- [Brennan] Yeah, pop, pop, pop, pop!
- Spits it out.
- Zac, do you think
Skipper is keyed in enough
to figure out that maybe-
- There was something going on?
- There's something going
on, that you've been made?
- Can I make an insight check?
- Make an insight opposed by,
I want a group deception
just from our four crew members
that are present here.
- Group deception.
- Guys, we got this.
- I have a plus one.
Can I use Handy Annie?
- Yes you can, for advantage, yeah.
- I got a six.
- I got a 17.
- 17.
- 15.
- 15.
- Grenade budget's a go.
- [Lou] 19.
- So wait, 19 15, 17?
- 17.
- So we're gonna actually take the 17
'cause in other words, two people
made a 17 on the deception.
Let me know your insight, Zac.
- I only got a 14.
- Okay.
Things are going great.
It was a close call for a second.
Close call for a second.
But you think you flew in under the radar.
The psychic kind of rattled you.
- Oh, I think that they don't know?
- You think they have not clocked you.
- [Lou] I guess we all just watch a movie.
- We're calling you "New Skip."
- I'm eating popcorn
that's just falling out of my mouth.
- I'm definitely sitting right next to you
just feeding you popcorn.
- [Ally] Falling out of your mouth.
- For all of you, because you know
that something is going on,
but it seems like a way better deal.
Actually, all of you
give me an insight check,
you give me a deception.
- 13.
- What's that?
- Nat 20.
- Nat 20? Incredible.
- Can I use Handy Annie?
- Yes, yes, yes, for advantage.
- I wanna try and crit against you.
- I got 19!
- I also got 19.
- God, the one time I've
ever not wanted a nat 20.
- I know, incredible, incredible.
Well, I'm gonna say that we already have,
so this is not for,
you have been made by the crew.
We don't have to retcon that.
But I think that for all of you,
what this deception thing is about
is it's not that you are hoodwinked.
It's that I think the deception is
all of you realize.
I think you kind of actually
know what's going on.
You have a firsthand
account of what is going on,
but I think all of you
look, and there is a real,
this deception is not
I've been hoodwinked.
It is a sleeping dogs lie situation.
- Not gonna ask questions.
Skipper rules now.
- I think I'm just like,
I don't know, he got rebooted.
- This is a perfect day.
We got money to fix the ship.
We're getting better jobs,
it's all working out!
- I'm gonna be swimming in grenades.
I'm gonna make a ball pit of grenades!
- Oh my God, it's gonna be incredible.
- That sounds very dangerous.
- Dangerously fun!
- Incredible.
So, all of you are on the thing there.
With that deception,
go ahead and give me
one last piloting check.
- Good Zac react.
- That is a 24.
- 24.
- I remember the pilot seat's up there.
Take a break from this
movie and go check it out.
- Yeah, you're checking it out.
You go and are just sort of interacting
with the pilot's thing up there.
The rest of y'all are watching the movie.
- As soon as he leaves we
all start talking about it.
He had something going on, right?
- Actually, what do you say
as you get up to walk out to these guys?
- I...bath.
And point just out of the room.
- Bathroom?
- I close my eyes and run.
- Oh yeah, as you say bathroom,
you do feel by the way,
there are some systems
that I leave it up to you
to turn on.
So right now, you have
taste, smell, sight.
You have hearing, language is on,
you have some loose memories.
Motion you have.
There's some tactile
sense stuff going on here.
Do you wanna turn on
endocrine nerve ending stuff?
Do you wanna experience?
- I would like to turn that on
if I was going to touch the pilot's seat
or something to see what this is about.
- Cool, do you wanna turn on
pain systems as well or no?
- I don't think so.
- Cool. Leave those off.
- Can't wait for that to backfire.
- As you point out of the room,
there's no pain receptors on,
so you guys see the huge welt
on the Captain's forehead
from the couple times
he ran into the wall.
Just appears to be
throbbing there on his head.
You head up and you get in that pilot seat
and with a 24 piloting check,
you take off to Rubian V.
- Yeah.
I just feel the controls of it
and just realize that I
can actually make myself
move in the direction I wanna go.
- True old baby.
- True old baby!
We're gonna cut to
Margaret Encino's apartment
at the back of the ship.
Margaret, 3.200 credits transferred.
And you see that little
message from Lucienne.
- Great, yeah, I hop
on the phone with her.
- Hologram projector.
- Hey, I know why you're calling
and my congratulations on your engagement,
present is in the mail.
- I appreciate it.
I appreciate it.
How'd everything go?
I notice you jumped on mute
for most of that conference call.
- Oh, yeah.
But I was paying attention
and everything so we're good.
- For sure, for sure.
- You're calling because?
- Just wanted to check in.
I got your message about the promotion.
- Oh yeah, okay, yeah.
- Obviously, you know I'm
gonna be looking out for you.
- Mhmm? (laughs)
I just think it's so funny, right?
I mean, okay, let's just point out
the elephant in the room.
We fought to get to where we are
and you married into the Scepter family?
You accepted a promotion based off
who you're married to?
What is going on, girl?
- What do you want me to say?
- I want you to apologize!
- You see, she looks at you and says,
it's been years!
Margaret, it's been years.
You want me to apologize?
- Yeah, I know.
No, I just don't understand you.
What's going on?
- I don't wanna be a f*cking cog.
- Exactly. So you wanna be King Cog?
- She takes the platinum cog necklace.
- She's wearing it?
- It's off her neck.
- Okay, okay, she picks it up.
- Picks it up.
Looks at it and says,
how do you think this galaxy works?
- Randomly and with no impunity at all.
- You said we fought to get where we are.
I'm still fighting.
I had to fight hard to get what I got.
Both at UFTP and beyond.
This engagement, what do you
think that is, not fighting?
- Whoa, do I know what that means?
- Give me an insight check.
- 18 plus a lot. So, yeah, 24.
- You see-
- This is a career move?
I'm asking with my insight.
- Yeah, you realize that what she said,
I mean, has to be, has to be.
(Ally laughing)
- Okay.
I'm kind of doing a little dance.
I'm talking to her and
I'm doing a little dance.
I'm like, this is so sad.
- Sad?
- Yes! What is?
- If I wanted to see
sad, I'd go to Reddit.
- Oh, f*ck.
- You think I don't know?
You think I'm an idiot?
Margie, you're getting sloppy!
- No!
- You stopped fighting. Not me.
You wanted to have my back?
Then why did you start to lose your nerve?
- So she has seen my whole post?
Okay.
Okay. Okay.
Okay. How do I spin this?
Can I do a roll to maybe spin this
and keep my job?
- Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
She's gonna add a tremendous
amount to insight.
Are you rolling deception right now?
- Yeah, plus six.
- Let me know what you get.
- Come on baby, come on.
f*ck!
- I just hit a nat 20, for real.
- No way!
I posted that 'cause, you know,
everything works, it's a pendulum swing.
I'm pulling the pendulum back
just to get a bigger payoff,
you know what I mean?
You don't know what I mean.
- You're on that ship in your apartment?
- Mhmm. The hot dog one?
- Yeah, you're on that hot dog.
- Yeah, where I live.
- Yeah, for sure.
Why do you live on a f*cking hot dog?
- I'm sorry, always on the move.
There's nonstop diet chip stock here
that I can eat guilt-free.
And a lot of cool artist
types live here, okay?
- There it is!
- There's someone working
on a screenplay, I think.
I don't know.
That was kind of cool.
- For you to keep that promise we made
where we would always
have each other's back,
you needed to stay at my back
and you lost your nerve
somewhere along the way.
Oh, one woman department,
got it all covered.
Multiple meetings a day.
Making time for your care, boss-a*s b*tch.
What's that Reddit post about?
Why are you headed to Rubian V right now?
You think I don't know?
- I think...
Ah, f*ck! I don't know what to do.
- As you are lost for words,
she looks at you and goes,
you can feel any kind
of way you wanna feel.
But in the story you tell
about what happened here,
where I betrayed you? you
better f*cking flip that around.
I never betrayed you.
You dropped the ball, you lost your edge.
I had to pick up the slack.
I did what I had to do.
Which of us is at Crown
and Scepter, you or me?
- Yeah, you are.
Okay, give me a couple days
and I'll get back to you.
- [Brennan] If you need a couple days.
- Yeah, just a couple days.
I'm going through a little
bit of a free fall, okay?
- [Brennan] Alright.
- Can I look out the window on my door
and can I see anyone in the crew?
- We're definitely blaring the movie.
- [Lou] Yeah, we're at the Jib-Job.
- Actually, yeah. Give
me a wisdom saving throw.
- What?
A saving throw?
- That's the last thing
I expected!
- 16.
- 16, okay.
You just look out and see
a group of adventuring spacers
eating popcorn together and laughing,
watching a movie.
Yeah, you look out there
and see the camaraderie.
The joy of having survived
whatever this battle was
and coming together and
Lucienne turns to you and says,
yeah, reach out in a couple days, Marge.
Let me know.
You know where to find me.
- Platinum cog forever.
- Bloop.
And the call ends.
- I don't know where I get it,
but I do one of those
things from every movie
where I'm kind of leaning against the wall
and I slowly slide down
it while eating a yogurt.
I'm having that very iconic female moment.
Just like.
- A diet yogurt too.
- Yeah it's a diet Boston cream pie yogurt
and I'm just like, what am I doing?
- It's 30 calories.
- But something in me
is drawn to this group!
Yeah, I know.
I don't know.
I don't wanna lose that job
and I don't wanna lose
all of my clearance badges
and stuff so I can't tell her off, but,
there's nothing there, I
think, there's nothing there.
- A profound emptiness
colder than the void
fills the pit of your stomach.
Make an insight check
and a deception check against yourself.
- Insight.
13 plus 6, that's 19.
Deception, plus, 12.
I do have insight on myself
because of the yogurt.
- Because of the yogurt, you collapsed.
Yeah, you don't wanna lose your job,
you don't wanna lose your clearance.
You fought real hard for all this stuff.
What of the stuff that Lucienne said
hit you the hardest?
- I mean, it's really sad
to see someone that you really respected
throw themselves into
something so fake so hard.
What a life.
- So really it's the marriage
more than anything else.
- Yeah it's like marrying someone
in a big conglomerate family, like narsty.
- Yeah, narsty, this weird.
Well it's also,
I think on that insight
check, two things happen.
Number one,
a delusion that has been crumbling
in your head for a long
time, finally goes away.
When you graduated from business school,
even though you knew there
was gonna be dirty work,
part of you believed in the meritocracy.
Part of you believed yeah,
you gotta be cutthroat.
But if you are, you get to
the top of the top of the top.
Not really.
- No.
- That delusion dies.
And also, yeah, you see the thing
that keeps come back to you,
the fakeness of the thing.
Lucienne in this fake marriage.
Lucienne walking down the aisle,
Lucienne kissing this scion
of this ancient galactic house.
- Can I look her up,
what does she look like?
- Oh.
- The new Scepter wife.
- Oh, the scion of the?
Natalia Cicero Connie Lee Carter Bajar.
- Too many names.
Yeah. Do a hotness roll?
- She's stunning.
- f*ck!
No, even as stunning as she is,
this person's heart isn't in it.
So it's still sad.
- Why do you think Margaret is so certain
that Lucienne's heart is not in it?
- Yeah, 'cause she leveled with me.
She was like, I'm putting in the work,
this is part of me putting in the work.
- Hell yeah.
You finish your Boston cream diet yogurt.
It leaves a sort of acetone film
over your tongue, teeth and cheeks.
- I'm not gonna brush my teeth tonight.
Just to feel something.
- Do you depart from your escape pod?
- I mean, yeah, I'm gonna dip a toe
in whatever the f*ck my new life is,
I'm gonna go watch the movie.
- [Siobhan] Margaret, we're
watching "200 Fast 200 Furious."
- What's it about?
- You know, it's family.
- Family, mostly family.
- It's mostly about la familia?
- They actually haven't
said any other words
but family so far.
- Wow, cool!
- It's a person who
looks at another person,
they go, "Family." and then
they do something crazy!
It's awesome.
- Okay, yeah.
- You take a seat and
start watching this movie,
it feels pretty good.
After movie night turns in,
people need to get their rest.
Not everyone needs to rest
but most of the biological people here,
you know, Barry needs to rest.
As you start to bed down for the night.
(dramatic music)
Let me ask if anyone does anything
before arriving at Rubian V the next day.
- I do want to approach
Riva and be like, hi,
I don't know if you sleep or not.
- Well, what I do is I float in the water
and half of my brain
goes to sleep at a time.
So I can actually still talk to you
when I'm doing it, just one
of my eyes will be closed.
- That's cool. Fish
are better than droids.
I was wondering-
- Not a fish, Aguatunisian, continue.
- I'm so sorry.
- [Siobhan] It's fine.
- I was wondering, what does it feel like
to be your own boss?
- Oh my goodness.
Well, I feel very bossy.
- Okay, you feel bossy.
- And I feel myself.
- You feel like yourself.
How do you know what yourself is?
- Oh.
Well, you are organic matter,
so I can just show you
and I just psychic dump on you
the feeling of being myself.
- (gasps) It's beautiful.
- This incredible moment of this android
up against the glass with this fish,
with this Aguatunisian psychic.
- Del Toro wishes.
- Yeah, del Toro wishes, exactly.
Yeah, you have this flood of feeling.
But of course, equivalent exchange,
I think Riva, you also see
some of Sid's backstory.
You see the fleeing from Handy Andy.
Coming aboard this ship.
And a deep fear of displeasure.
It's interesting 'cause
you have this full feeling
from Riva of being an organism.
It couldn't be more different.
Riva comes from a species
in which breeding is very hard,
but when it happens, thousands
of baby Aguatunisians
are born at the same time from a clutch
and communally raised.
Riva never had any
expectations put on them.
Sid was designed.
In other words, people that are like,
what's my purpose in life?
- I know my purpose.
- Oh, we don't have purpose.
- Okay.
And then I wanna take this feeling
and close my eyes and
go into my programming
and try to hack myself
to bring some of Riva in myself.
- Give me a hacker's
check with disadvantage.
- Disadvantage, okay.
- Can I help her do this?
- Yes, if you'd like, go ahead and roll.
- It's gonna be 25.
- Oh!
- Incredible!
- [Zac] With disadvantage?
- Oh, no, she got help.
- Yeah, rolled straight.
You go in, what is the thing
you are trying to unplug
or change about yourself?
- I think I want to be
able to want something
without needing someone
else to want it, too.
- Let me ask a question.
You want to be able to want something
without needing somebody
else to want it too.
- And without thinking
of a practical reason.
I know I can want grenades
because that means I
can protect my people,
but I wanna be able to
want an ice cream cone.
- Are you currently aware
that anybody else wants you
to want an ice cream cone?
- No.
- It's already done.
- I can want an ice cream cone?
- You become aware that in
wanting to want an ice cream cone
without having checked in with anybody,
it's a very YA novel protagonist feeling
to want to want something
is the want of wanting it
and you wanted it without
anyone else wanting it.
So you already did want it.
- Everyone's gone down for bed,
but I skate through the hall saying,
I want an ice cream cone!
- Yes!
I wake up out of sleep,
assuming this is just
ice cream Barry night.
Yes, Barrys, ice cream!
Oh, all right, Sid? Yes, ice cream!
- It flashes back to the last time
you were holding a big
tray of ice cream pops.
- And then I try to put
an ice cream in my g*n
and it just keeps melting
'cause it's so hot.
- [Lou] Oh my God.
- The other hand, the other hand!
- And I retract the other hand.
- Barry, yeah, you have that moment
of cheering Sid on and
then the shadows lengthen.
You remember the last time
you were holding ice cream.
- Barry Nine.
Barry!
You guys just hear me yell my own name.
- Your own name, yeah, exactly.
All your night terrors,
you're yelling your own name.
- Barry?
- Barry!
- Barry!
- Barry!
- Barry?
- Can you guys stop?
I'm trying to tutor kids.
- Do you have a second job?
- Yes!
- Wait!
- We cut to the engine room.
We actually pass by Gunnie's actual berth
but Gunnie doesn't actually
sleep in his berth.
What is in Gunnie's berth as we go by it?
- Probably stuff from the Jib-Job
and Margaret Encino's stuff.
I think if it meant that Margaret
was gonna stay on the ship
and we were gonna make more money,
it was like, I don't really,
Gunnie doesn't really have stuff anyway
because people who he owes
money would come and take it.
So Gunnie has a bedroll that he rolls out
in the reactor room and he just sleeps
under the glow of this giant reactor.
- Reactor glowing, you
attach a couple of hoses
and nozzles into your cyborg body
that begin to basically clean your blood
as it goes through.
And from prone, you
begin to holo-interface
and you see a kid that goes down and goes,
hi, Prof, Doc, teacher.
- Yeah, that's fine.
What's the homework today?
- We start with, this is basic calculus.
But I actually had a question
about the algebra homework.
- Okay.
- And my question.
If you're doing a complex equation
where you're trying to
solve across an equation
for two different
variables, how do you...?
- Can you just upload,
will you just upload your homework?
And I'm just gonna
knock it out real quick.
- [Brennan] Awesome,
great, done, thank you.
- Oh my God!
- Great, send it back, next.
Just move on to the next kid.
- Go ahead and give me a,
we'll call this just a
raw intelligence check.
- That's gonna be a 10.
- You make 20 credits.
- Good night.
- As your cyber body recharges-
- That's less than they
would pay a classmate
to do their homework.
- Just carving that money
out wherever you can.
- It makes me realize
what a bad deal we have
for the Jib-Job people,
they're paid 10 credits a week!
- Oh wait, yeah, credits
are worth more, then.
Never mind, never mind.
- Margaret, I think as
other people disperse
to go do their thing,
you're still sort of,
I think that you haven't checked
on Captain Takamori in a while,
you haven't checked on The Skipper
in a little while.
But you know that he got up,
it came up during movie night.
You are up on the bridge
because I know that you were the one
who called the shot to head to Rubian V
and you see The Skipper headed to Rubian V
up here right now, as
you go faster-than-light,
Tachyon Drive engaged.
- I go check on him.
I didn't really know
the guy that well, but.
- Yeah, he was just the person
that you had your arrangement with.
- So we're heading to Rubian V.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Cool.
- You have a couple
different places that you,
actually go ahead either of you
and give me a lore check.
- [Ally] 20, not nat.
- [Brennan] Cool.
- Worse.
- Cool.
Rubian V is a lithium moon
off of the gas giant Rubian.
There's a couple places
that you can dock there
to get the repairs you need to get.
It's up to you.
There's Madrugada Station
which you can go to,
which is United Free Trade Planets,
it's their space station
in orbit over the moon.
The moon's in orbit around the gas giant
and this is an orbit around the moon.
Then there is also Shriagmaus
which is the capital city of Rubian V
where the monarch,
Xhirhaus, reigns, basically.
There are a couple other smaller stations,
but those would be the two main places
that you would do a refitting.
So it's your choice to
either go into orbit
at Madrugada Station
or to head to the moon's surface.
- Okay.
I'm trying to keep up
appearances at work I think,
so I do wanna go to the UFTP station.
- [Brennan] Cool.
- So I relay that to him.
- Yeah, I think, truly had no reason
to go here at all in my mind
so I'm like, okay.
- It's been a couple of marbecs
and the body is coming more online now.
You've stayed here a little bit longer.
As you look in, you see this person
and are able to access the memories
that basically this woman
has been subsidizing
this captain's lifestyle
that you took over.
I think you also are
beginning to understand
the degree to which this captain
was not that great of a guy.
But as Margaret comes up
and tells you to basically,
when you come out of
FTL to make coordinates
for Madrugada Station and dock there.
I think you see that this
person is wealthy enough
that they were not being
taken advantage of,
but certainly Margaret
was financing the ship
and I think you recognize
that that's what's been going on.
- You're important.
- I start crying. (laughs)
Okay.
Yeah, thanks.
- [Brennan] You share this moment.
- The word economy on this guy,
and I just start walking away.
- Yeah I think you see that clearly,
something has happened with The Skipper
but that just cut through years
of your absence of therapy.
Something.
- I need to go to my room
and take care of a couple things.
- Amazing, you go to your room,
take care of a couple things.
Go ahead and make a...
Make a perception check for me.
- Just flat, just regular?
- [Brennan] Yeah, flat perception check.
- That is only a 13.
- Your new body-craft is
secreting some weird stuff.
You're detecting some kind of,
you don't have pain systems on, right?
- Mhmm, not yet.
- There's a buildup of something
in your lower appendages.
It's some substance that
the body is secreting,
it's secreting it more and more.
It's internal, so it's not
leaking out of the body
but there's an internal
secretion happening.
And additionally there
is, how do you put it?
And also you're getting
some kind of sensors
from systems that you haven't put online
but they're happening
in or around your eyes,
which you've now sort of put together,
okay, that's the organ that's
giving me this new sense.
A bunch of new senses have come online
for you like sight and sound.
Sound is much more like touch,
which you do have in your body-body.
But not to this degree,
there's a couple other senses
that this new body-craft
is giving you access to.
But you're like, okay,
there's some kind of
signal from around here
which I think is an organ
related to this new sense
that I just picked up.
Yeah, that's what you're getting right now
as you come out of FTL.
- Hmm.
Can I look in a mirror?
- Yeah, you look in a mirror.
Yeah, you look in a mirror
and see that your eyes,
what was originally sort of white
around the outside of your eyes
is now getting more bloodshot.
You're seeing a lot more red there.
So that's sort of interesting.
- Am I forgetting to blink?
- Go ahead and give me a piloting check.
- No!
That is a nine.
- A nine.
So you have not figured out how to blink
but you have been doing it.
You move your eyelids with
your fingers up and down,
which is what you think.
So, boop boop.
But for the most part you are seeing this,
yeah, I don't think you
know what's going on.
- Hmm.
I guess I will look for,
I might track down Barry's room.
- Cool.
Yeah, you go find Barry.
Barry, it is coming to be morning.
You get up, it's been
a wild turn of events.
But yeah, you see that the captain
is standing over your bed, staring at you.
- Oh.
- Hey.
- Morning, Skip.
- Good morning.
Yes.
- Right on.
- Right on!
- Right on, man, yeah.
- And I leave.
(all laughing)
- I will say that Barry
has many, many times
had another one of his
clones just show his body
and the other dudes would
always just say right on, man.
So that was just like, yeah, cool.
It's been a while.
- I feel better.
- Amazing.
For mechanical purposes,
take a level of exhaustion.
- Oh!
- f*ck.
- [Brennan] But you got
no idea what that is.
- Wait, can I see that he looks tired
and looks like sh*t?
- It looks like he stayed up all night,
standing at the pilot's
console flying the ship.
- Hang on there, Skip.
- Right on.
- Did you, right on, it's early.
When did you wake up?
- What is it? What is...
What?
- Like, you go into bed,
you close your eyes.
For a solid six to eight, preferably.
Or you can do three or four.
- I don't remember.
Maybe...
- Pulled an all nighter?
- Couple thousand years ago.
- Give me a perception check, Barry.
- Eight.
- An eight on perception.
I think you see his legs
shaking a little bit
on an eight.
- You need a rest day, my man.
- I've just gotta rest?
- You need to chill.
- Okay.
- [Brian] Yeah. You need to relax.
- Where?
- You can just relax in here if you want.
- Okay. I lay down on the ground.
- You lay down, you see
his legs shake violently.
The secretion is lactic
acid in your quads.
So if you had your pain sensors on
your legs would be
destroying you right now.
- Okay.
- But you see his legs shake.
- I see his legs?
Oh, you need a foam roll. You
need a foam roll, brother.
'Cause the Barrys worked out all the time.
So I do a physical therapist, I'm like,
is this cool if I roll on here?
- Yeah.
- Alright.
So I roll on his legs.
- Yeah, you guys get a good,
you come to, it's breakfast time.
You see that Barry's
rolling the Captain out
on this foam roller.
- I think I enter the breakfast thing
in a crazy outfit, like a kid
who just dressed themselves
for the first time.
And I think I address everyone and say,
I just want everyone to know,
because I've never been
able to say this before,
I don't want grenades
because they keep us safe.
I want them because they
make cool explosions
and they destroy stuff
and they're f*cking fun to throw!
- Hell yes. Hell yeah.
- Things are great today!
- [Brian] That was cool.
- I haven't smiled this much in years!
- I don't remember the last
time someone came to my room
and asked to be foam rolled!
- What? Did that happen?
- Right on.
- Right on.
- Right on!
- Right on!
- The Red Hot comes out of
faster-than-light travel, boom.
The gas giant Rubian. Whoom!
A luminescent red gas giant.
Deep, blood red.
The storms in Rubian are filled with
quintillions of tons of diamond dust
in a deep red gas planet.
So it shimmers and shines, whoom.
And you see tons of
moons circling over it.
There's more than a dozen
moons circling the planet.
You've come out and you see Rubian V,
which for being a lithium moon,
that lithium is at the core.
It has an atmosphere, it has oceans.
It's about one third the
size of Earth for reference
so the gravity on it is quite light.
But you see in orbit around
that is a space station.
And you see Madrugada Station.
United Free Trade Planets owned.
This is basically like a company town.
More than half the population here
works for United Free Trade Planets
the rest are contractors
or other people like that
but it is set up to, it's
not a top secret UFTP base.
There's a lot of people that come through
and basically avail themselves
of the services here.
So a lot like the way that a gas station
would be corporate,
but still its customers
would be all sorts of people,
that's the way that Madrugada
Station works, right?
You see there is a central spire
and then a bunch of rotating
quarter-mile wide panels.
It's like a central
spine with little shelves
going around a central spine.
And there's tons of ships
coming in to dock here.
Additionally, because you've elected to go
to a UFTP station, docking fees are waived
with your clearance.
- Great.
I beep us in.
And then I, yeah, it's a garage door.
I swipe my pass and then
I look to everyone and go,
the cafeterias here aren't that great.
I would say three stars at best
but it is all you can eat
so I hope that that's okay, you guys.
- Do I know if mercenary types
might be hanging out in these cafeterias?
- There are proldiers on station, sure.
Not as much as if you were
at a full rec station,
it would be proldier city.
There'd be tons of things like that.
But if you're looking to use
one of your features, absolutely
you could use it here.
- Yeah, I just wanna ask around
for a little extra work.
- [Lou] Yeah.
- See if we can, you know.
- See if we can get a
contract or something.
- Exactly.
- Yeah.
- Amazing.
So let me go ahead and ask, first of all,
about the refitting.
Gunnie, are you gonna
be working on the ship
during this time, or?
- I mean, as much as need be, yeah.
We've got all the money we need
for fixing the damages.
Then the question becomes,
we're doing a conservative fuel
so we'll spend 500,
get five units of fuel.
Assuming we didn't spend too much
going to Rubian V?
- You only spent two fuel units
going to Rubian V.
- So we're on eight, so
let's do 700 on fuel units.
So that brings us 1100 extra.
Now we could use that to, you know,
pay some of our late fees,
but we could also get a
bunch of stuff in the ship.
- Do you know what I wanna do?
- No. What?
- What?
- I wanna just buy cool sh*t!
I say, f*ck the late fees!
- That's what I want to hear!
How much-
- Right on.
- What do you think, Skip?
- Okay.
- Could we take off some of
the Used condition with $1.100?
- You absolutely could.
So, to be clear, refitting is 1400,
another 200 for the
replaced shield batteries.
That's 1600 credits gone.
- Okay, so we just have 900 credits then
in that case, I think
with seven fuel units.
- And then getting seven
fuel units, absolutely.
So, so far you've refitted,
you replaced the shield battery.
You got fuel units back.
How much do you have left?
- I believe it's 900.
- Okay, to repair the Used condition,
it's 1.160 credits.
- I give the extra 200.
- [Brennan] 260?
- Yeah, sure.
- Alright, mark it down.
- Great.
- Gunnie, you can take
two Malton units here
on Madrugada Station.
And you can get this thing like brand new.
- You guys have fun.
I'm gonna be here having fun.
- Incredible. Okay.
Amazing, so, and obviously,
these days of work, you're still going out
into the station to
get stuff and do stuff.
Let me know what you guys
are doing on the station.
Obviously, Margaret, you're
the one who made the call
to come here, so maybe we start with you.
What is it you wanna do at the station?
- I have to take care
of a couple of things.
I think I'm gonna talk to UFTP people,
really seem completely
normal, like I'm just at work.
Oh, this is, you know, my personal vessel
that I live on, we're taking care of it.
- Give me an investigation check
and then also give me a persuasion check
for doing your job.
- Okay, great.
Investigation.
- Full miss.
- Full miss.
- Full miss.
- Is a 13.
- 13, okay.
- What was the other one?
- Persuasion.
- Oh, great. That one is good.
Where is she? Oh.
23.
- 23.
You are talking to an old
pal of yours on the station.
As you guys, whoosh, the Red Hot comes in.
Lands, you're in outer space.
So the docking port comes in,
you don't have to engage landing gear,
you're in zero grav, but space
station creates the grav,
you come out on this long hallway.
As the hallway opens up you see
a couple of UFTP security
and an old buddy of yours.
You see he's got bright,
shining white teeth,
two cybernetic eyes.
This is Higgs who is an android
who is an executive assistant android
to the person who runs the station.
But you see Higgs walks up and goes, ah!
Margaret, pleasure to see you.
- Higgs, how are you?
- Fine, fine, fine.
- Can I use my high persuasion to kind of,
just to smooth this over and just-
- Yeah.
Let me ask, what brings
you to Madrugada Station?
- Oh, well I have to
do a little bit of work
that's all gonna be
remote and we were nearby
so we had a couple of repairs
that need to be done on our vessel.
- Amazing, happy to hear it.
Moves around, you see, Sid,
this android kind of clocks you
for a moment as well, sees your get up.
- Can I speak to the android via our...
- Yeah, you can open a channel.
- I open a channel and
I say, hey, how are you?
- Oh, I'm quite alright, I'm
doing what I'm supposed to.
- Okay.
Have you ever wondered if
maybe there's a benefit
to doing what you wanna do?
If maybe there is an advantage to it?
- He says, I can show you
what gives me a feeling
of doing what I want to do.
And he opens his whole channel to you
and you feel thousands of
other androids of his line.
- How do you do that?
'Cause I've looked for
other androids in my line.
- He in this channel, he's
not broken eye contact
with you, Margaret, he's still talking,
but you just hear through
this telepathic channel,
he gives you his designation number
which is five digits long.
And he opens you and
you see Sundry Sidney,
model amount, one
serial number 001, beep.
- Does that mean I'm the first
or does that mean I'm the only?
- Both.
- Okay.
Okay, that's a lot to process,
which is what we both do.
Because I've known many humans
who desire individuality
but as an android,
I have only ever sought
to lose myself in my line.
- You see, in that channel, he says,
I do not know why you are
the only of your line.
Great sorrow and great tragedy comes
with being the keeper of souls.
- What does that mean, keeper of souls?
- Of your line, you are the only one.
There could be many. There could be many.
- So I'm the patent?
And if they scrap me, then Sundry Sidney
is gone forever?
I look at Margaret so haunted.
Even though she can hear none of this.
And I hold hands with Margaret.
- Yeah, so anyway, I was
just gonna touch base
with a couple of people.
- Is this your g*n arm?
- Yeah, I'm just holding the g*n.
- [Brennan] Holding the g*n.
- Please hold my g*n.
- Yeah, you see he looks at you and says,
I'm sure you've heard some rumbling
of trouble over on the moon.
- I definitely have.
Working so close with
all of the leadership,
I'm sure you've heard of
a number of promotions
that have been going around.
Yeah, I did hear about that.
What is going on there?
- He says, monarch feels
like they got a bad deal,
what can I say?
- Are there people that are pro-monarchy?
- Well-
- 'Cause they could ruin us.
I try to really like...
- Yeah. Give me a persuasion roll.
Actually you've already got a 20?
- Yeah.
- You see Higgs looks at
you and says, you think so?
Have you run the numbers on their military
and what it would...sorta cost-benefit?
Entire moon made of lithium,
that's a lot of McCoy.
- Yeah, I guess I'm thinking with my heart
and not my brain. (laughs)
It happens to the best of us!
- It's all the same.
I don't have a brain, I have krystals.
- Definitely. Definitely, my man.
- If you had to rate this interaction
on a scale of 1 to 10.
- 10!
- Amazing.
- Absolute 10,
I fill out a little form.
- Oh, incredible!
- You are a joy as always.
- Oh, thank you.
- There are a couple of
things I wanna do here
and I think, can I roll or something?
'Cause I would love to find someone
who is in touch with what's going on
with the people of the moon.
- Yes, absolutely.
You go to do that, for everyone else,
as Margaret heads off with Higgs,
what are the rest of you-
- Oh wait, I don't wanna be with Higgs.
I don't need anyone from UFTP
to know that I'm actually
trying to find this out.
- So you just wanna go secretly find out
some stuff going on with
what's happening on moonside?
- We are kind of looking
for jobs and stuff
if you wanna-
- Yeah, maybe we all stick together
but that's just what I'm
hoping to accomplish.
I wanna hear the human side of this.
And then I think I also wanna...
It feels like my a*s is kind of covered
with work and stuff hopefully.
- Yeah!
- I think I wanna go back on that Reddit
and from the same user,
just scroll through
and find like the f*cking
hottest nude that I have
that's neck down and just
post that from the same user.
- You... (laughs)
- I just want her to know
that I know she's looking
and move on with my damn life.
- You immediately get a
lot of comments on that.
Basically saying like, hi, question,
you asked for a revolution to occur
and there were a lot of questions we had
about sort of what you meant-
- I'm not reading the comments,
I'm not reading the comments.
- And the timeline on that,
and your follow-up was to post this.
Are we to understand that this is you?
Is this an encrypted message?
- Can I cast Off on Margaret's phone?
- You saw it over my shoulder,
I was picking which of
very similar nudes to post.
- Okay, I'm getting
into impulsivity but no.
- Incredible.
So you post that.
Yeah, Margaret is sort of unraveling.
- Lucy needs to see, alright?
We've had enough out of her.
- For everybody else,
what are we doing on the station?
- Well, so obviously, because
I'm an aquatic creature,
I personally cannot go onto the station,
but I do have basically a
droid that I can puppet,
like a construct that I
can psychically puppet.
- You have a psychodrone.
- Psychodrone.
So I have a Pleasure Putty
tote bag, messenger bag,
that I fill to the brim with
both samples and leaflets.
- Wow!
- And I'm a very empathic person,
I think I'm just gonna go in and find
who I feel like would be
open to being their own boss.
- Alright, we're scrounging up
some Pleasure Putty credits here,
is anyone else hitting the station
looking for work or money or pleasure?
- I'll come with whoever's
looking for work.
- I'm looking for a contract.
- I'm looking for work, but
I'm also deeply distracted.
- Yeah.
Okay, you're deeply distracted,
you know what you're doing.
What's Skip up to?
- I think Skip is just
practicing talking and stuff
and moving around.
It's still very puppety
looking and, I mean sure.
I feel like-
- I'm gonna say that
Skipper, Barry and Gunnie,
'cause you need to go
get supplies and stuff.
So you head to a nearby spot,
it's around the corner
from where you're getting
supplies filled out.
So you all head to this place
called The Drone's Throne
which is basically just a drinking hole
near the spaceport.
You're going into some places
away from prying eyes to go look for
what you're looking for.
Let's go ahead and have you roll a,
I would like a profession check here.
Let's go ahead and roll
a persuasion check.
- A nine.
- Okay.
So this psychodrone, it's this
yellow crash dummy looking
robot walking around with a tote bag.
And you see that there
is basically just a guy
on a street corner.
You see he's got a weird
little silver alloy cap
and he's spinning a sign
to a nearby sandwich shop.
Hey.
- Cool spinning!
- Yeah, you want a sandwich?
- No, I don't.
Are you interested in being your own boss?
- Okay. Sure.
- Are they gonna do it?
- Oh, okay.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Well here, Pleasure Putty is a way
for you to be your own boss.
And-
- I think he's kind of hot.
- Hot or high?
- Hot!
- So, what you do is you just sign up here
and then I give you a starter pack
to be a Pleasure Putty salesperson,
as your own boss.
And then any commission that you make,
I, as my own boss, make some cut of it
and then I give some of that to the person
who's above but also
below me on this pyramid
that moves around where
everybody is their own bosses.
- You a real robot?
- No.
No, I'm not a robot.
- You look like a robot.
- I'm not.
Humans often call me a fish person,
but that's actually quite inaccurate
because I'm not a fish at all.
We're not fish, it's a different thing.
- But you're a real person, you're bio?
- [Siobhan] Yeah.
- Got a mouth?
- [Ally] Oh my God!
- Yeah, I got a mouth.
- Wow, you thought he was so hot, wow.
- I officially change my mind.
- You got a mouth, you got a butthole?
- Well actually, it's a complicated,
it's different from what
humans would call a butthole
because it's just a general
waste excretion hole.
- Cloaca?
- No, that would be on
Earth birds and fish.
And again, I'm not a fish.
- The point is this:
You can eat sandwiches.
- Well, actually...
- Wow, that flipped.
- Now is he hot again?
Now is he hot again?
- If he works at a deli, he's hot.
- Your mouth and your butthole
are connected through a series of tubes
and a sandwich would navigate that
so maybe he's brilliant.
- It's not a sex thing,
it's a sandwich thing.
- You need a butthole
to get rid of it.
- I'll tell you what.
How much for a Putty Pack?
- Oh, it is 30 credits for a basic pack.
- Okay.
- But,
if you want to sign up,
you give me the 30 credits to sign up
but then technically
the Putty Pack is free.
- Yeah.
Okay.
Go get 10 sandwiches.
- I actually don't need any sandwiches.
- Go get 10 sandwiches, come back.
You see, he by the way, has not exhaled.
It's just he keeps inhaling
from this cigarette
and says, go get 10
sandwiches, I'll sign up.
- How much does a sandwich cost?
- [Brennan] Two qua-credits.
- What's a qua-credit?
- A qua-credit?
- Yes, is that different
from a credit?
- A qua-credit
is a quarter of a credit.
So it's two qua-credits is half a credit
so five credits gets you 10 sandwiches.
- And then you'll pay me 30 credits?
Well, that's a bargain,
absolutely I'll go and
get some sandwiches!
- Amazing.
So, on that nine persuasion,
you come back with a bag of 10 sandwiches,
that guy is gone, fully gone.
- We're gonna go find that guy.
- He does work at the deli!
- Yeah, Riva, you go,
but you have 10 delicious sandwiches.
- Well, I can't eat these sandwiches
but maybe my crewmates like them.
And that guy will probably come back
so I'll just wait for him.
- Oh!
- Oh, no!
- Just a yellow droid
standing on a street corner
with a bag full of sex
jelly and 10 sandwiches.
- Sex putty.
- Sex putty. Incredible.
Skipper, Barry, and Gunnie,
you guys arrive at the Drone's Throne.
This is a fine drinking establishment
here by the spaceport.
Go ahead and make any rolls you wanna make
in terms of looking for work.
- Can I actually go with them?
But I'm despondent so
I just sit at the bar.
But 'cause I have my background features,
I know mercenaries, I can
identify their companies
including names and reputations
and commanders and leaders.
So basically can I go there
to be pointing out who
they should talk to?
- Absolutely, yes, yes, yes.
So you go there pointing out
who all of them should talk to.
- First of all, guys,
drinks are on me, alright?
- Well, they're on Marge.
- Yeah. No, no.
I was tutoring last
night, I made 20 credits
and drinks are on me today.
'Cause I feel like things
are turning around, Skip.
- Right on.
- Right on, right on!
- That's just great!
So I just, I just want, you know.
This is the beginning of something.
And it's real good.
And I know it's all turning around.
This is how it starts.
This is how it starts.
- This is momentum.
- [Brian] This is the
ball starting to roll.
- This is momentum! Yeah!
- Up the hill, yes!
- Okay. Bartender.
Give me four?
Yeah, four.
- [Brian] Sid, you alright?
- Yeah, Sid, did you want any?
You were quiet that whole time.
- I'm the only in my line.
- Yeah.
Barry gets devastatingly depressed.
- If I go, Sundry Sidney's no longer.
- If anything happens to Barry Syx,
that's the end of the Barry Battalion.
- So make it eight drinks.
- My name is Norman Takamori.
- Damn right it is, Skip.
- I don't know if I have enough for eight.
We'll just get eight. We'll get eight.
It's fine!
This is where, the ball
is rolling up the hill.
Eight drinks for me and my friends.
- Eight-
- Make it 12.
- The ball is going up!
- I don't know the
reason why, but right on.
- Alright, go ahead and
throw down 10 credits.
- Right on, 12 drinks.
- Okay, half of my side money, okay!
- Round of drinks lands in front of you.
Yeah.
I'm gonna say for those of you here,
go ahead and give me a
group persuasion check.
- Okay, does anyone have good persuasion
that I can help?
- I only get a plus three.
- No, I got a plus one.
- Alright, I got a plus two so.
- Negative one, so.
- If only I was here.
- Nat one.
- Seven.
- 15.
- 10.
- Okay.
So you guys clear a 10,
so you guys buy more
drinks than you can drink,
slam a bunch of them.
You point, there's a
guy over in the corner
who looks like he's sort of holding court
at this little corner booth
that you are all welcome
to approach if you want.
- Him.
- You think he's the guy?
- Alright, we all going or what?
- Him.
I'm gonna watch from afar
in case anything happens.
- We got this, come on, guys.
Ball's rolling up the hill now!
- And yet life is so precious.
There's only one Barry and one Sid left.
- Can I just like do a
really desperate arm squeeze
on your mech suit and cast Enhance Android
so that you have advantage
on charisma checks?
- Ooh.
Gunnie is feeling himself.
- [Brennan] Amazing.
- My eyes shine just a little bit brighter
and I'm like, let's go handle this.
- I'm a little rocked
at the moment, Gunnie,
so I'll just follow you.
- Hand you one more drink.
- Okay, so here's what happens.
A clone falling into a
hole of grief in himself,
a brain slug, and Gunnie
really feeling himself
walk up to this dangerous
looking older proldier
in the corner who looks up.
How's it going, stranger?
- Buddy, I can't even begin to tell ya.
The ball is rolling up the hill!
And we're wondering if you were, if you...
We're wondering...
We're wondering if you
wanna be a part of the roll
in that you know someone,
(chair clattering)
sorry, you know someone who needs help
from some real hot g*ns.
- Now, you've been granted advantage.
(all laughing)
But you already rolled a nat one.
So we're gonna roll the
second advantage die,
but you're going to actually
roll it with disadvantage.
So you're gonna roll two D20.
- You did so bad you got disadvantage!
- So roll disadvantage for me,
this is a persuasion check.
- I believe.
- [Lou] Great.
- [Emily] I know I'm powerful.
- First one's an eight.
- Okay.
- Second one's a 17.
So the eight is an 11.
- The eight is an 11, gotcha. Okay.
- I don't know why I said it that way.
I got an 11.
- You got an 11, copy that.
So you see, he looks and says,
oh, you're looking for help.
Or you think I'm looking for help?
- Or someone you know.
- Oh, okay.
Well I might be looking for help.
What's the classification on your ship?
- Freighter.
Type II.
- Oh my God.
- Wow.
Okay, what's the call sign
on that freighter you got there, hoss?
- What is the call sign?
- The Red Hot.
- Docked earlier today.
It's called the Red Hot.
Big old hot dog looking thing.
- Can I Minor Hologram him to,
I can create an odor,
can I have him smell
like expensive perfume?
- Perfume!
- [Brennan] Okay, so Sidney,
you rollerskate over.
(all laughing)
- Just, lilacs fill the air, jasmine.
- Laughter didn't come
out, I just exploded.
- I can do it from 10, (laughs)
I can do it from 10 feet.
- You can do it from how many
feet? How many feet away?
- [Emily] 10 feet.
- Okay, so you rollerskate
to 10 feet behind Gunnie
and blast a small m*ssile.
And a expl*si*n of lilac scented smoke,
boof, covers Gunnie.
(Zac gasping)
(Lou coughing)
- But distinctly expensive.
(Zac gasping loudly)
It's distinctively expensive,
someone would know.
- Incredibly expensive
perfume comes blasting
out of your android body.
- Barry can sense, Barry's
not a super smart guy,
but the Barrys were cool so he senses
that this is going really wrong.
So he throws his sunglasses on,
he goes, sorry about that.
I just ripped a*s.
My farts smell awesome.
'Cause we f*cking rule and we kick a*s.
My name's Barry Syx, I'm from
the Barry Battalion, alright?
Only thing that could take us out
was a trip to the zoo.
- [Lou] And he's not
lying. He's not lying.
- Before that we f*cking
kicked a*s and guess what?
We didn't take names
'cause we didn't ask 'em.
Have you got any contracts
on the more expensive side?
We're happy to take them off your hands.
- Go ahead and give
me, I guess intimidate?
Give me an intimidate with disadvantage.
- He gets to roll with advantage.
- Okay, intimidation, I have a plus four.
- Skip heard that he said his name
so he walks forward and goes,
my name is Norman Takamori.
- It is!
- Okay, this is gonna be at disadvantage,
give me intimidation.
- No!
- [Brennan] Yeah, 100%.
- Oh my God.
Okay, lower one is a 10, so 14.
- 14. The guy looks up at you.
We are all weeping at the table right now.
He looks up at you and
says, Barry Battalion, huh?
- [Brian] Right on.
- Last I heard, not too many of you left.
- Just me and Barry Nine.
- Hmm.
Just you and Barry Nine.
Well, if you're interested in contracts,
I should tell you about
an interesting contract.
- Now we're talking.
- I lurk to hear so that we're all here.
- He says, it's the one
I took earlier today.
- Okay.
- Captain De La Vega, we got them.
(all gasping)
We're gonna cut from there
to Margaret!
(all laughing)
- Was that the stupidest
thing we've ever done?
- Sorry, I ripped a*s.
That's up there, I think that's up there.
- Only a zoo?
- [Brennan] Only a zoo!
Oh my God! (laughs)
- Brennan, the way that
you play along with us
while deciding how exactly
you're gonna punish
our deep folly...
- Perfect, it's perfect.
Margaret, you said you
wanted to get away from UFTP
and do some actual research yourself.
What kind of research are you trying to do
on this UFTP satellite station?
- Okay, so I don't know, I guess I just-
- [Siobhan] I'm sorry, I'm not looking.
- A squad of four people
and the best anyone's got
to persuasion is a plus two!
- I'm just imagining your
friend about to get into a fight
and just spritzing him! (laughs)
(all laughing)
- Ooh, ooh.
- Okay.
- Okay. Amazing.
- Amazing.
- 10 feet away is a
really funny amount away.
It's very visible.
- Very visible.
It's like from me to Murph right now
is about 10 feet, to blast someone.
So, Margaret, you say you're looking
for moonside information, you're looking
for information about the monarchy, right?
- Yeah.
I mean, is it as cut and dry as
these people are sitting
on a lot more worth,
they've been tricked by this company,
companies are evil?
Is it just like?
- Well, so it's a
complicated thing, right?
Obviously this is a monarchy, which is not
the most progressive governmental system
in the world,
but it is the monarchy of this moon
that was bought by UFTP
you know, maybe 40 or 50 cycles back.
So it's a question of basically,
effectively what happened was
this monarchy came about as
a noble house on the moon
that rose to a position
of a moon-wide monarchy
due to the backing of
United Free Trade Planets.
They basically rolled in and said, hey,
we'll fund your overthrow
of your rival houses
if you grant us some mining permits,
not a big deal, ba ba ba ba ba.
And basically the monarchies
had a couple dozen cycles
to figure out that was
an incredibly bad deal
and that UFTP is hollowing out their moon
as rapidly as possible.
So it's complicated, but
not that complicated.
Their world is being
hollowed out by the company.
- Okay.
I think I just wanna talk to,
I wanna try to find someone cool
that is in the know and that I can maybe
keep in contact with if
I need to, I don't know.
- Go ahead and make an
investigation check for me.
- Okay.
(dramatic electronic music)
12.
- 12, okay.
You are not able to find
a premium ally moonside,
but on 12 investigation, I will say this.
You do get some intel that a member
of the royal house of Rubian V
did recently basically
go MIA from moonside.
One of the children of
the current monarch,
the Princeps Zorch.
Now, the reason this catches your eye
is that that obviously,
the monarch has several offspring.
Zorch headed out and
you're not able to find
any place that they may have gone to
except for tracking
down a docking signature
at a rec station for a Rubian V craft
in the right timeframe.
So there's a couple of things,
it's not a sure-fire thing, but it's like,
okay, if you filter out enough stuff,
Rubian V's not a huge homeworld
with tons of stuff,
there's not that many craft
with this planetary
designation out there around.
So that's probably gotta
be the Princeps' vessel.
And you look through that
and see that there is a deluxe hotel
that there was a reservation at,
with the name Madeline Maud.
Madeline Maud, which you see is attached
to the credit account of the ship,
which is how you're able to find it.
The name Madeline Maud
is a name you recognize.
Madeline Maud, high-level UFTP executives,
much like celebrities, often don't use
their real names when they're checking in.
Madeline Maud was the name
the first time you and
Lucienne stayed in hotels
for a business conference.
And Lucienne told you if
you wanna come hang out
in my room later, I'm at the
hotel under Madeline Maud.
- Okay.
f*ck. Ooh!
Evil.
Okay, I guess I wanna go back to the group
and maybe try to get to that hotel.
- Amazing.
The hotel is at one of
the galaxy's most wild
and debauched rec stations known.
- We will fit right in. (laughs)
- You go to find your crew.
Do you try to hit them up on a transponder
or something like that?
- Yeah, I think so.
- Amazing. So you try to hit them up.
As you walk away, the destination
for that hotel reservation is Rec 97.
You hit up the transmitter,
what do you say in your
message to everybody?
- Hey, I'm probably getting ready
to head to the next spot.
How are the repairs going?
- Are we alive?
- [Emily] I don't know.
- We cut back to all of you.
What do you do after this proldier
in the corner says this?
- I guess do we have a communicator thing?
- Yeah, you do.
- Everybody get to the bar,
this guy just made fun of the Barrys!
And I go to f*cking deck him.
- Amazing. Go ahead and
make an attack roll.
- Does he have a weapon on him?
- I have, my fists are decent.
- No, no, no, the guy
that we're talking to.
- Oh yeah, he does, yeah, for sure.
- I'm just gonna f*cking deck this dude.
- Oh, for sure.
- Yeah, for sure.
- Oh, sweet, 22.
- That hits, go ahead and
what's your unarmed damage?
- D6 plus my strength.
- Incredible.
- Seven damage.
- Seven damage, wham!
You hit this guy right in the chin.
He goes back, on his transponder
you see Captain De La Vega come up.
The captain of the Lady Pike.
Who looks at all you and says,
well, well, well, I bet
y'all had a big laugh
sending me 14 crates
of powdered imitation egg
substitute, didn't ya?
- Yeah, it was hilarious.
- Well, I want you to know something,
my friend here took up my signal.
Lady Pike's on a Tachyon Drive right now,
we're heading right to Rubian, babies.
So I'll get you in my
sights real fast now.
Nobody makes a fool of Jan De La Vega.
Ain't that right, Needles? Yeah!
I'm gonna m*rder all youse guys!
Oh, the guy also says,
I don't like that you hit me either.
And you see he takes a swing at you.
And fully misses.
- Can I take an off-hand attack
and hit him two more times?
- [Brennan] Yeah, go for it.
- 18 to hit on my off-hand.
- Go for it, roll damage.
- Six that time.
- Can I just try to punch
him in the face too?
- [Brennan] Yeah, go for it.
- I wanna punch him too.
- I don't know what I
add to just a flat punch,
unarmed strike, what is that?
I rolled a 13.
- You would add strength plus proficiency.
- Okay. So 15.
- 15 does hit absolutely.
- So I'm just gonna, I think it's a D4?
- Yeah, but you also
add your sneak attack.
- Oh my God.
- Oh my God, dude!
- [Brennan] And Sid, you take
an attack too if you want.
- Yeah, I got a 17.
- 17 hits.
- Eight damage.
- Eight damage, Jesus.
- You know what? Bonus action Target Lock.
And then I'm gonna go ahead
and use a kinetic die.
Not great, but.
- Is this guy still sitting down?
- [Brennan] (laughs) Yeah!
- 10.
- 10?
So this guy had a scary moment
where he was like, Captain
De La Vega, I got 'em.
The whole bar turns to see you
just rollerskate kicking
this guy in the head.
You're just wailing on this dude.
Fully unconscious in
his seat, bam, bam, bam!
- Rollerskate wheels on teeth.
- Incredible.
- Can I grab the transponder?
- [Brennan] Yes, you can.
- Great. Is she still there?
- Yeah, Captain De La Vega's still there.
- Hey, so we didn't know either.
So it wasn't a trick on
you, there was no tricking.
- It was a dirty trick.
- It was not. There was no tricking.
- Let me tell you something right here.
Tricksters get trucked, okay?
That's-
- I'm gonna grab the transponder
and look at it and say,
my name is Norman Takamori.
- That's right, Skip.
- I hand it to you.
- Alright. Listen up.
The Barry Battalion, no, sorry.
The Gunner Channel is coming for you.
So don't talk to me
about you coming for me
'cause you can't come for me
'cause we're already coming for you.
We already took out this
guy, it was easy as hell.
He sucked.
He said a f*cking mean thing
and then we just beat the sh*t out of him.
And that's what we're gonna do to you
when you show up, as*h*le!
And then I hand it back to Gunnie.
- So what sort of a message here,
you're saying- (laughs)
(device beeping)
You end it. You end it.
Margaret comes on the
transponder, also Riva.
You guys see Riva comes
in on the psychodrone,
just on a street corner
with a bag of sandwiches.
- Hi, I've got sandwiches,
I am waiting on someone.
- We gotta go, guys, let's get in!
- Wait, how many Maltons do we have
before they got here?
- They could be here at any second.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, let's go.
- Let's go let's go let's go!
- If this guy has any money
we should take his money.
- Can I disarm him and take his g*n?
- Yes, you absolutely can,
you grab a light blaster p*stol
and you head on out of here
with a still badly damaged ship.
Nothing happened!
- Wait, we didn't fix it at all?
- No, you got into a fight
within minutes of getting on the station!
You head into faster-than-light travel,
headed for Rec 97 and you are gone,
that is it for this
episode of "Dimension 20!"
- We're gonna figure
out how to do something.
We're gonna figure it out.
- I mean, I probably don't
even have to roll for this,
but like I'm Reddit user HotBox420, right?
- Yeah, absolutely, 100%.
- I knew that, Yeah.
- You're getting married!
- She's getting married!
- I down it and I go. (yelps)
- What the hell? Jesus Christ!
- As a droid, I'm incapable of orgasm
but it's the closest I've come.
(Ally gasping)
To cumming.
- Hey, his name is Gust.
- Gust Weatherall.
- He's a big deal.
- Big Deal Gust Weatherall.
- Hey, oh, careful!
- Can I actually get another grand cru?
'Cause I finished it.
I appreciate that.
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13x02 - Rolling Up the Hill
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A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.
A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.