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- Hello one and all,
welcome back to this 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.
- Last we left off,
our intrepid heroes were limping
out of Madrugada Station,
a sort of mining town encampment
for United Free Trade Planets.
Getting the hell out of Dodge once more
with a ship with no
shields, blasted to bits,
not refueled, after a run-in
with a double-crossing
proldier who alerted
that old shark of the system
Jan de la Vega, captain of the Lady Pike,
that you had made your way here,
but let's zoom out for a second.
You're on a ship that's
been blasted to bits.
You have a huge problem.
It would seem in that
some kind of cerebro-slug
has blasted its way into the brain stem
of your captain, Norman
"The Skipper" Takamori.
- Not a problem. Problem's a strong-
- Seems normal.
- I like him.
- Actually it seems that
having been brain-slugged
is something of an improvement
to our dear skipper
and has allowed the intercession
both emotionally and
financially, of Margaret Encino,
who having a bit of a quarter life crisis.
(Ally laughs)
- I see in my notes "Margaret's daddy."
- Yeah.
(all laughing)
- Yes, the events of the last episode saw
the new consciousness
of whatever invertebrate
now inhabits the host body of
the Red Hot captain and pilot,
as well as some realizations
about the nature
of this corporate galaxy
from Margaret Encino
indeed, it is a tough galaxy out there
and especially when people who promised
to always have your back,
get married to the kind of ruling family
of Crown and Scepter Limited, the holding
or the parent company of UFTP.
- Now I'm pretty mad at my friend.
- Pretty mad at your "friend."
- Okay, everybody, cool it.
- Pretty mad at your friend about...
- Like, dear friend, historically.
- So you chose during last
week's episode to roll by
this sort of hovering space
station over Rubian V,
the lithium moon surrounding
the gas giant, Rubian
to hear some rumblings of revolution
against United Free Trade Planets
from the Monarch of Rubian V,
and found out that the Princeps,
their eldest child of
Rubian V, had absconded,
last we left off, Margaret
had collected the information
that a signature of a ship
designated from Rubian V had appeared
at the infamous Rec 97,
Rec 97, one of the hundreds
of recreation stations
floating out in the galaxy.
Now the galaxy here in AnarchEra is
pretty lawless by definition.
You're living in AnarchEra,
proldiers abound, various
factions vie for power
in the power vacuum,
post overthrow of the
Incorporated Elysian Republic,
however there's lawlessness,
and then there's law-less-ness
and the various recreation stations
that populate galactic space, boy, howdy
do some wild shenanigans go down
on those Rec Stations floating in space.
Discovering that the signature of perhaps
the Princeps' ship
had absconded to to Rec 97 and
finding the ship's accounts
attached to the name Madeline Maud
a name of some personal
significance to Margaret Encino
as it was the pseudonym for
Lucienne Rex, your old friend.
- Yes, my friend. I know what
she checks into hotels under.
(all chuckle)
- Just friend stuff.
- Best friends send each other
a key card and a secret name
to check in under, okay?
- Exactly, so daddy Margaret
dropped 3.200 credits
on the beleaguered Red Hot,
which for all of you is
probably the biggest score
in a long, long time.
- The ball is rolling up.
- The ball-
- The ball
is rolling up the hill.
- Going up the hill.
- This is it!
Our luck is changing!
- Let's see if we can find
some luck in those stars, g*ng,
the ball's rolling uphill
and the Red Hot rolls out
of faster than light speed.
The Red Hot emerges,
the tachyon drive slows and
the krystal reactor core
of the Red Hot takes over as
enter real space, once again.
Ahead of you, larger than some moons,
is Recreation Station 97.
There are hundreds of layers,
the sort of mining encampment
that you just came from.
Madrugada station,
which has all sorts of chrome and steel
and very nuts and bolts, is dwarfed.
This Rec station
doesn't have any problem
generating its own gravity.
Like, it needs to do very little
to actually create its
own artificial gravity.
It is also stunning.
Metallic emerald sheen metal
creates this bright green neon pulsating,
even through the void of space,
you just get the vibe
of loud music playing.
On the upper levels, you see the dome
and the Blue Heaven level
of the real movers and
shakers of the Rec Station.
There is are some real galactic,
sort of, honchos here at Rec 97
and you see various middle
levels of the Rec Station
with casinos and nightclubs
and bars and restaurants
and all sorts of places where
galactic tourists can come
and avail themselves of
the amenities of this
interstellar hub and then down below,
you see as many of the lower
levels of the Rec Station
filled with various and
sundry seedy opportunities
and the sort of waste and industrial
compartmentalization and management,
all the stuff that goes on here.
As the Red Hot approaches,
truly the mass of the
Rec station begins to
eclipse your horizon
to the point where you
can no longer actually see
all of the Rec Station at the same time.
Red Hot comes in and
you begin to pull into
an available dock.
You actually hear coming in.
We're clocking the Red Hot coming in,
looking for docking, refueling, repairs?
- Yes.
- Copy that. You're gonna head
to Level 7, Vale of Tiers.
And you head to the Vale of Tiers,
which are a section of extremely debauched
tiers of the Rec Station,
right smack dab in the middle.
- Oh, T-I-E-R-S.
- T-I-E-R-S.
- And I was like,
wow where are we going with this, Brennan?
(all laughing)
- You pull into this docking station
and you begin to hear
some shouts from outside.
Immediately work has already commenced
while some of the dock
workers that started to,
- Get on our ship?
- Get on your ship.
- Oh, thank God.
- Yeah, truly.
- This time it will definitely work.
- Can I actually make a
suggestion? I think we should,
Margaret, this would be obviously
- if it was okay with you,
I know that currently our
escape pod is your apartment,
so it's like nonfunctional
as an escape pod,
but given what just happened to our ship,
I was wondering if maybe we might
wanna have an escape pod.
- I agree I think I should move
into the captain's quarters.
(cast crosstalks in agreement)
- Right on.
- Definitely cool.
Captain's quarters means I'll
meet you every single morning
with exactly your beverage of preference.
- Incredible.
Yes, okay, great.
So yeah, the captain's
quarters are huge, right?
It's like gorgeous.
- Enormous incredibly
well appointed.
- Incredible,
I completely agree
we should definitely have an escape pod.
- Skip's gonna take the
book of carpet samples
and walk into the escape pod.
(all laughing)
- Incredible. Margaret,
you walk into the captain's quarters,
again, very well appointed,
although not necessarily your style,
but, you know, you're at Rec 97.
You can get this thing taken
care of if you wanted to,
appoint it a little bit differently.
- Again, any interior design,
I can be your point person on that.
- Incredible.
- I don't see colors.
- Okay, then I'll help with that part.
- I see about 18 different
colors than you see,
but I don't see any red.
That's a much lower spectrum of color.
- Wow, the b*ttlefield
must seem very tame to you.
- What is-?
Oh, interesting.
(all laughing)
- Margaret, you walk into
the captain's quarters.
Well, actually, you tell me,
how is Margaret feeling walking
into the captain's quarters
of a hot dog shaped ship?
Where is your life at right now,
as you pull into Rec 97?
- I mean, great question.
I have a lot of questions in my mind.
Definitely wondering if
I'm making the right choice
or if I'm swinging too...
I feel like I'm a person of extremes.
So I, when I'm very
extremely into a business job
and I'm kind of like, I'm getting older,
am I really just leaving
all of that behind
and going psycho in this direction?
- Give me an investigation check.
- Okay, great.
(clears throat)
- It's a nine.
- You begin to interrogate
yourself and your choices,
listen, you're just
keeping your options open.
- Exactly.
- You haven't left United
Free Trade, you haven't left.
You're a one woman department.
- Your right, there's no one...knows.
- You're- and if you choose
to make an investment in a,
sort of potentially
profitable shipping business.
- This is just an investment.
- It's an investment.
- This is an investment and I'm moving,
this was actually kind of a nice room,
take down that wall.
Don't have this wall be all mirrors.
(all laughing)
- As you sort of go in here, by the way,
you do find a lot of
the captain's paperwork.
You find a lot of Skip's papers in here.
You see that there's some really unhinged,
electro correspondence
about, like, refusing to join
any proldiers' unions, or any,
like you see that basically
the reason that the crews
also not like not been getting any jobs
is just how antagonistic
the old captain was
towards like the U4F
or even, like, sort of old
former brigadier things.
So you're not like other than, like,
rolling up in strange bars.
You're not sure how this group
has been getting jobs in the past.
- Can I-?
- Yeah, go for it.
- Can I really just hone in and use
instead of working for work today,
just do a, like overhaul of the
ship and how we do business?
- Oh my God.
Yes, 100%.
- Cool.
So, we're gonna come back to
that in a second, absolutely.
Rest of the crew-
- I'm just shuttling you matchas.
- I'm just like, thank you.
Ahh-kah-kah-kah-kah
- So for everyone else,
what are you doing as the
Red Hot pulls into the dock?
Do we have a sense of when
we're gonna get caught
by the person who's pursuing us?
- [Lou] De La Vega.
- Did you guys jump FTL?
- Yeah.
- If you jumped FTL,
there is almost no way
for her to track you here.
So she would need to
spend multiple marbecs,
if not multiple malton units,
like at Madrugada
trying to see if anybody
else could find out
where you had headed off to.
- Now here's a question about legality
it's since we are living
in an anarchic time,
can we just change the name of the ship?
- You, oh, here's the thing.
- Can we make it
look like a bratwurst instead?
- I will say this right now.
- Sausage baguette.
(all laughing)
- So, you're actually, as we've discussed,
you're a nargon behind on
your like transmitter code
things. Your registration
also lapsed a Rigon ago.
So right now your shift
doesn't really even have
that name at all.
You have like, you're
not registered under it.
You, if you are re-registering the ship,
you could absolutely change
the name of the ship.
- I feel like we just don't
tell anybody that we're,
from the Red Hot,
I feel like we avoid the
situation we were at last time.
- Yeah, so we're gonna give it a new name.
Yeah...any pitches?
- The Blue Hot.
- That is the most perfect
idea I've ever heard.
- Blue...The Blue Cool?
- The Blue Cool.
- I mean, it's just a cool name.
- I'm not sure it works for our purposes,
but it's a really cool name.
- Cool.
- I like it.
- The Blue Cool!
- Everyone just make up a
name, whenever anyone asks.
- Yeah, exactly. I think
everything goes, right?
We don't need to be uniform.
- Yeah.
- Cool.
- Yeah oh, that's good.
We'll disseminate misinformation about
what our ship's name is.
- Full scramble.
- Right on.
- They scramble...
...which is one of the
names I'm gonna use.
- I like that!
- Sundry Sidney, the full scrambler!
- I like it!
- Full scrambler.
- You see, the bay doors open up,
you see a ton of your
Jib-Job workers, sort of,
Raymond Zam is there and says, all right,
well, time to go home.
You see they all go off to like,
after, you know, a long
time with you guys in space,
many of them are gonna go off to like,
transbeam back to wherever they're from
and then they'll come
back to work on the ship,
having a word, like a,
a Jib-Job space that
moves around the galaxy,
it does provide some unique challenges
to getting to work and back home.
But, they take this opportunity,
they'll head off the ship
and sort of wave goodbye to everybody.
- I'll make sure to be
as polite as possible
to maintain, like, good relations
with one of our revenue-
- We're, like, White
Lotus-style standing, going,
"Goodbye, goodbye."
Goodbye.
- Tips are welcome.
- Right on, right on.
- As we say aboard the Blue Cool,
"Right on."
- You see a young woman
in like mechanics overalls
out on the deck of this sort of outer tier
of the Rec Station, looks up,
sees the designation and goes,
"You guys know that your
registration has lapsed, right?"
- Yeah, we're gonna pay it.
- All right, you see,
she looks over and says,
we have standing orders when
you guys come to not administer
even critical aid without
first inquiring about payment.
- Well, you've inquired.
- I think we need to
grease some wheels here.
- Yeah, I look over at Riva.
This is a comms, I think this is a comms.
- Absolutely, absolutely yes.
Well, first of all,
I'd like to do an insight check
against this person.
(all laughing)
"Against?"
- Go for it.
- While this is happening,
can I create a distraction
by playing my g*n flute?
So I blow a song?
It's my g*n-
- Wait, that's how you introduce us
to the fact that you have a g*n flute?
- Yeah, exactly! That's-
- It's my g*n arm, but I can
make a haunting flute solo
that's sounds like it's a theremin.
- Oh, that's what I've been hearing.
- She's gonna cast a spell,
I'm gonna try to do that to distract them.
- I got a 17.
- All right, I'm gonna assume
that you're like granting them
disadvantage on their savings throw here.
Give me a performance, gonna
say DC 15 performance check,
to actually distract this dock worker.
- Can I sorta dance along just to help?
- Yeah, I think Gunnie's
doing an upper body dance.
Like, it's not a fun thing but
upper body's definitely like-
- If these guys help me,
can I do it with advantage?
- I'm gonna say...alright.
You give me your performance check
to see if Emily rolls with advantage.
- Well, I'm gonna get him advantage.
(all laughing)
by standing behind him
and going, "Yeah, okay."
- This is a team.
- Something is like hitting my brain
and its gonna make me like
(jauntily)
Ooooh!
Okay, performance?
Ooh, that would be a 15.
- Okay go ahead and roll with advantage.
- Okay, okay
...12
- Alright, so...
So the dock worker looks up,
what spell are you casting?
- Well, I would like to cast Calm Emotion?
- Okay you cast Calm Emotion.
- On them, which makes a
target indifferent about
creatures of your choice.
Us
- All right, so you see what happens is
you begin to use this psychic
power. As Gunnie looks at
a kind of jiggling Skip,
and this horrifying gunmetal
like gunmetal theremin,
which just sounds like cold tundra wind,
like and you feel calm emotions walk over
and she goes, I wanna be very clear.
I'm fully indifferent to whatever this is.
(all laughing)
- Okay, excellent.
- I don't know what's happening
and I don't care know.
- We are on the same page.
100%.
We have standing orders
that were from your captain,
from you, Captain Takamori,
to not administer even critical aid
without first checking in about money.
- And why would the
captain...would you think, do that?
That seems like an...
- I remember this, captain,
you were feeling very tight
at the purse and you said,
we need to be careful
about how much we spend,
but then now you said, make
sure to rescind that order
and I, your little helper
- so busy! - forgot
to rescind that order.
- My name is Norman "Skip" Takamori.
Rescind, baby.
(all laughing)
- Well, you heard him, yes?
- Right on.
Rescind, baby.
- Alright, fill her up? Let's do it.
Fill 'er up.
Okay, and they proceed to fill her up.
You see huge
14 foot wide tubes of like water
and fuel and different like,
coolants and reactor
fluids and stuff like that.
Begin to pulse into the ship.
For the rest of you,
is there anything that you'd
be doing during this time?
Right now, all they're doing is the,
they're not doing any repairs,
they're just refueling you now.
Which is, but they're
refueling you both for food
and for fuel.
- Great, so, we're back up to 15 fuel.
- So do we need to go talk to
somebody about repairs then?
- Give me an insight
check real quick, Gunnie.
- That's gonna be a cool 11.
- Okay, I'm not gonna be a meanie here.
I'm gonna say 11 high enough.
The command given to this
docking crew was fill her up.
- Yeah.
- Cool cool.
- Can we get them to fix stuff?
- Yeah, we'll tell 'em-
- Fill it up
with fixing things, too?
- Cool, amazing.
- And bolts.
- Cool, great.
- And shields!
- Oh, shields.
- And take that used
condition off of there.
- Okay, so Gunnie, do
you actually wanna go
and talk to them about what
they need to do out here?
- Great, I'll supervise all of this, yes.
- Amazing, you go out there.
The main dockworker that you
see out there is a young woman.
She's got like two sort of
like poofs of hair behind her
young black woman, she's
got the mechanics overalls.
She looks up at you as
you approach and goes,
"Hey, is your captain about to
rescind the rescinding or-?"
- Yeah we're gonna,
we're doing a full nine yards on this one.
Ball's rolling up.
So we're getting now, we're
getting ready to take off
if you know what I mean?
- Right.
- Ball's rolling up.
Everything's looking good.
- "Rolling up" like...?
Rolling up a hose?
- No, like a hill, a ball is rolling up.
- Ball is rolling up.
- Like our life is still bad,
but we're moving.
- Our life is bad?
- Well...
- I like our life.
- It's getting better!
- Rolling up.
- It's rolling out.
So while we're doing the full nine yards,
- So, we're talking full refuel...
- No, no, no, no okay,
conservative refuel.
We're only doing, we only want 10 units,
we doing 10 units of fuel.
Such a big game.
We want the whole back to scratch
and then...she's an old dinger,
but we wanted,
if you could take a little
bit of the rust off,
that would be great.
- All right, she's like, I'm just,
I just work here at the docking station.
I'd say you're almost close
to totaled on this thing,
but we can get it back up to working.
- Can I remind you, can we
get the escape pod working?
- And the shields.
- And shields.
- There's an old escape pod in there.
It's gonna look like an apartment,
If you could do a thing or two to that,
and kind of get that back up to snuff.
That would be ideal.
- You got it.
So, you have all the costs and everything?
- So, the cost of
getting 10 units of fuel,
taking off the used condition,
and then the full ship repair
like because of the lack of shields
that all is covered by the 3.200,
those three things.
- What about the shields?
- Shields come back with the fuel.
- Shields come back with the hull.
So those three things for $3.200.
- She's tells you that after
she goes into prices and says,
it'll probably be between
200 to 350 credits
to repair the escape pod.
- Margaret is daddy, right?
- Well, I think we should ask Margaret.
And I politely knock on the door.
- Come in!
- So, is anyone else going with Sid
to check on Margaret in the room?
- Yeah.
- Cool.
- As everyone leaves, I go,
they can get it started.
- I'm like watching,
- Yes.
- Like, I am just kind of like,
I'm like when a cat watches you work
I don't think we're gonna have
any problem paying for it.
- She gives you the thumbs up.
- You're weirdly up high.
- Amazing - by the way,
you see that one of
the tubes they attached
to the water filtration system,
there's a second smaller
water tube next to it.
It's only about five feet across
that goes into the Rec
Station's aquatic street system.
So you're fully able to, if you want.
- Oh great, so I don't have to robot this.
- You don't have to robot this
Rec 97 is fully accessible
to aquatic aliens
and all sorts of all
sorts of galactic beings.
- Makes such a big difference,
I mean the robot's fine but-
- Of course, exactly.
So Sid and Barry, you knock on the door.
I am now gonna need a kinda
like business check from you.
- Business check.
- We're gonna call this expertise.
So you're gonna add a
plus nine to this roll.
If there's anything else you
wanna do here to add to that
you're also welcome to,
we'll do it classic style.
15 is good, 20 is great,
25 is, like, beyond superb.
- Okay, cool and a plus nine
and I'm really just kind of
like restructuring everything.
I'm trying to like,
I wanna get us in all the
unions that we need to be in.
I wanna restore registration.
I wanna get everything above board
and it's like an actual working ship
in a way that won't put us on
the board for the shark lady?
- Depending on how well you roll,
if you roll a 25 or higher,
you can do all of this in a
way that keeps you completely
off the radar.
- Okay and I also wanna
research Armstrong brand
droid removers and like try
to find some sort of like a,
easy way to destroy them or
keep them off of our ship.
- Hell yes, I love it.
- Let's go.
- Advantage?
- How- you tell me if you're
achieving that somehow.
I don't think you get advantage here.
- Can I just hear miss
Margaret so hard at work
and screw off my calculator
watch, Handy Annie
and like shove her under
the door to go help?
- Uh, amazing - you hear a little,
actually, as you're working,
you hear a little knock at the door
and Sid and Barry are both in there.
Sid, you like zoom into Sundry
Sidney's vision for a second
and that like colorless
terminator landscape,
like looking at like
spreadsheets and documents.
And you feel this rusty in
your krystalline consciousness,
this rusty old protocol that
you haven't used in years
comes back online, of your
protocol android systems.
Your like executive assistant systems
come back online.
Sid, as you enter the room,
you may absolutely grant
the help action to Margaret.
- I used to do this, but
captain never asked me to.
- There is so much work to be done.
Okay, 21.
- 21! Amazing, cool, we love it.
So you're looking through
here - literally, like matcha,
suddenly on the desk in front of you.
You have like a real
desk for the first time,
and there's a part of this
where you feel an exhilaration
in your body of something,
this tangible and low stakes,
but high stakes.
Like at the level that you do work,
there's always 30 people
watching whatever you do
and in this one, it's like, oh,
I could restructure this whole enterprise.
- Today.
- Today, yeah, definitely.
So, first of all, there- on a 20
there's some stuff you can do
to basically make that 3.200
an investment in the ship
in become a real stakeholder in the ship.
Norman Takamori is the
sole owner of the Red Hot.
- Can I draw up some contracts
that- now we're co-owners?
- You can absolutely do that, but
it's gonna take the Skipper's signature,
but you basically are gonna--
- I have a feeling I can get it.
- I can guide the slug to do it.
(all laughing)
- So, you had those contracts
drafted up that are gonna
bring you on as a
co-stakeholder in the Red Hot
and you start putting all
kinds of paperwork, right?
Part of this thing,
there's not like back
taxes or weird stuff.
This was bought as army
surplus by the brigade
and basically the captain
cashed out his pension
to get this, you see
there's some...on a 21,
there's some weird old
documents about the brigade
kind of going out of its way to help
Captain Takamori get this ship,
which is weird, cause you know,
there's also some paperwork
here that he was kind of
drummed out of the brigade, sort of like,
all right take your
pension early and get out.
- Can I investigate that?
Are there like journals that can?
- Give me an investigation check.
- Captain's logs?
- That is a 13.
- 13, nothing, no records on the ship.
What you're seeing here is a
hole. You're, in other words,
like Margaret's like,
there's a story here.
There's nothing to tell
you what the story is.
You're just like, huh?
Weird bit of backstory
for old Captain Takamori
What's that about, right?
Why would people that were
f*cking you over also help you
kind of thing, right?
So that's that! Getting into
the business of it, right?
The business of the ship, you
see on that 21, you absolutely,
there are a bunch of unions you can join,
up to you which ones you want to join.
The two best options.
If you come on as an owner of the ship,
you can join U4F,
which is one of the United
Federation of Female Freedom
Fighters, post revolution.
It was founded by Nia Once, Molly Medea
and Leilani Qa'Kuraya in cycle 1AE,
there is basically a
protection for all of the
women revolutionaries that helped
overthrow the Incorporated
Elysian Republic.
They're one of the most
well-funded, well backed
proldier unions in the galaxy,
but there's some pretty hefty dues there,
there are other quick ways
to turn a dollar there.
But if you were to do that,
if you were to join up
with U4F, that would be
healthcare for the crew, that would be,
pension plans and other stuff like that.
That's a very involved process,
but you absolutely can get
started on that paperwork here.
- Okay, as I'm starting
it, it's all under my name
and can I just put like a
placeholder name for the ship
so that this isn't being like no one knows
we're not showing up on anything.
- Cool, so all your, in other words,
you're like loading the g*n
with these b*ll*ts right now.
Like paperwork is there, and
you can submit this stuff
when you're ready to make it go away.
- Yeah, I would love to talk
to the crew and be like,
what do we wanna- do we wanna
change the name or what?
Or yeah, I'm just leaving that blank.
- Two things you can do, short
term, is you realize that your
Jib-Job contract could
become way more lucrative.
If you hire a chef, having
fresh food in the kitchen,
bumps everyone's Jib-Job
payments to the space
and you can get chefs that work
for like a hundred credits a Nargon
and it would bump everyone's fee
from 10 credits to 15 credits.
So all those 40.
So it's like more-
- 50% increase?
- 50% increase on all the dues
that are getting paid
by your Jib-Job workers.
And the last thing is this:
one thing you could do,
literally right now, is
download Smash 'n Grab
you realize that the ship,
that the captain was doing all
this old word of mouth stuff.
There are networks and apps
and all kinds of different stuff
to find good paying jobs
without having to like walk into a bar.
- Like a jobs board?
- Like a jobs board on
the Rec Station servers.
So Smash 'n Grab is one service
that they hire proldier work out for.
You could, and on a 21,
you could get the ship online
and also it's super like it's super shady
in a way that helps you.
In that you don't need
to register your ship
under its real name.
- Okay, great.
Can I go around to everyone in the ship
and take really bad-a*s photos of them
that look really intimidating?
Just like I'm like, wait hold still
and I'm taking kind of like.
- I'm not sh**ting mid air just like.
- Can you fire the g*n? I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, okay, great.
We'll get that fixed.
- It's incredible that
this ship of actually
quite powerful mercenaries,
was just doomed by the
lack of a business manager.
- I actually use my g*n to
just blow wind in our faces.
- Yeah, oh wow you guys look so badass.
(all laughing)
- When we get over to this side of here,
what are the photos like
as we do this, right?
- I'm still like sitting like a cat.
- Oh wow, are we kneeling?
- Really erotic, honestly.
- Grrr.
- Gunnie changes his eye to red.
- Very cool.
- Yeah, perfect.
Wait, flex a little bit, flex.
- I mean.
- Does it costs money to flex?
- Yeah, of course.
I didn't ask for musculature.
That was too expensive.
I can do this.
- Oh, perfect.
Yeah, with that smile for sure, yeah.
- Oh is that a smile? Sorry
I was trying to be mean.
- If I'm really far
behind him in the dome,
it look like he's taller.
- Yeah perfect.
- Forced perspective? Okay.
- She's all the way at the end.
It's such a full room
between the two, ok great.
- Just like scrolling through
that weird job posting.
- Oh and after that,
do you wanna check about
the escape pod costs?
- Miss Margaret, there
has been a slight increase
in the price to make the
escape pod functional
and, as we respect you coming
in and taking the mantle,
we wanted to run it by you.
- Great.
- Would 200 to 300 credits
extra be copacetic with you?
- Yes.
- I f*cking skate off.
- Gunnie, it's a go!
- Okay great, great.
- That's gonna be a yes.
Wait, can I bring up the idea of
like seeing if anybody knows any chefs
that we can try to get on board?
- I actually do know that
Gunnie is quite a good cook.
- Really? Gunnie could be the chef?
- And I can really sear
a steak with this g*n.
- Incredible, you and Gunnie
are gonna start catering
the Jib-Job just for right now
cause we need to start immediately.
Okay, we've got a lot of fees.
(all laughing)
- Technically we can start meal prep
because they've all gone.
So we can start meal prep now.
- Perfect, what's on the menu?
- What do humans eat?
- Great, we're off to a great start.
- I don't think Gunnie's there right now,
but Gunnie definitely just told Sidney
that he worked as a cater
waiter for a couple of gigs
Like in-between.
- Gunnie had one really funny story
of being a cater waiter, he's
just told it multiple times.
- So you're like, he's a really good cook.
(all laughing)
- So you get Sid and Gunnie signed up.
(all laughing)
...as the caterers.
- I wanna send out the most eloquent,
like update email to everyone
at Jib-Job being like
we are so pleased to announce,
we have catered meals at Jib-Job
and like have everyone say yes or no,
whether or not they're gonna pay more.
- Give me a persuasion check.
- Great, okay.
- Eeey - 27.
- 27? Margaret, inputting
that, you actually you see,
as you start filing them as the chefs,
there's pure like business magic
that you start filling out.
Every other member of
the crew, on a 27, gets
ancillary kitchen staffed.
So it's like, Barry's
the inventory manager,
and someone else is, like, food safety,
Riva's like food safety
inspector and you see--
- I can't touch the food and I
don't know if it's bad, okay.
(all laughing)
- As such, you see that you
get an immediate response
back from Jib-Job
being like we are elevating
you to silver tier status.
Thank you so much for
choosing to invest more deeply
in your Jib-Job leasing experience
and for all of your staff,
of course they will be
and it pings you.
Jib-Job is a very shady startup.
So there's no healthcare or
anything involved with that.
However, you do all get
three staff meals per day.
Meaning that food costs
for the ship have been
eliminated by Margaret.
- Yes okay, great, great,
great, in the email that's like
these are the two new chefs
I used the really intimidating
photos of you two.
(all laughing)
- And Barry's like half cropped out.
- You've been cropped out
and I'm like I'm so sorry.
- I thought I was in that one.
Do they wanna mention
the inventory guy, or no?
- For the first time
for the first time in game
of D&D, like, chefs tools
has become incredibly significant.
- Oh no, what kind of
check is that do you think?
- Basically once a week,
I'm gonna ask you all
to make a cooking check
and if you b*mb out,
there's gonna be some
really strong complaints.
- Can we buy chef's
tools on the Rec Station?
- I mean it depends, I got-
- Chef didn't sound too
expensive, by the way.
- Yeah, I think.
- I love it.
- We can buy some chefs
tools while we're...
I mean, guys, let's do it.
- Some chefs tools.
- Its like in one those-
- I'm assuming
it comes in a box.
- Yeah, those rollers.
- Also Margaret, you
have those documents for
Captain Takamori to sign.
You see Skip doing the
like full beast crouch
for the publicity photo.
- Incredible.
Hey actually, can we get your photo
with you holding this pen?
(Emily laughs)
- Great, and let's make it look like,
let's make it look more realistic, right?
Why don't you sign this?
I just start flashing.
If you can help him
remember his signature?
- Yeah I hold up like an example.
- I'm just gonna look
really closely at it.
- He's reading it.
- Okay, I send in Handy
Annie to guide his hand
but like behind.
So you can't see it in the photo.
(all laughing)
- Give me an intelligence check.
- I am very smart, but I only got a 12.
- Well, honestly,
it's been like a single day
of you being in this body.
So your eyes, like, you're doing what
like baby wildebeest do in the Savannah,
like get up and run right away.
These shapes kind of
swim into focus for you
as you begin to narrow in on them,
it's an object that's been
handed to you covered in shapes.
You understand that this is language.
So you get that this is
language captured on a page,
but there's also part of
you that's like, okay,
this is like a skill I have to unlock.
And on a 12, you don't
quite unlock that skill.
You know, it says stuff.
- I feel like I'm more
responding to their vibes
than the actual content.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- Right on.
- Incredible. Cool!
and Marg with that,
Margaret Encino is a full
investor in the Red Hot.
- Incredible, great.
- I think, yeah. I think we
all stand around and applaud.
Do we know what's going on?
- Congratulations, you hear a huge pop
from inside my g*n and it's scary,
but then champagne pours out.
- Wait what? Ew! No, no, no, no.
I don't wanna drink out of that.
- There's like some glowing shrapnel.
- Give me some of that g*n champagne.
- I love g*n champagne.
We don't, hey guys -
the ball's rolling up.
- The ball's rolling up.
- A toast.
- The ball is rolling up.
- This is the first time
I've ever had a checklist
while playing this game.
- I'm like got that done, okay
join the union, hire chef.
- Yeah and do you wanna
attempt to join to,
to get the application ready for joining?
- Yeah I can ask everyone,
well, I don't know
how important is that?
What do we think about,
I might join the union on
behalf of this ship, and
then I explain like all this
stuff that we get out of it?
- Gunnie, what would health
insurance mean to you?
- I mean, it would be nice.
It wouldn't, in any way,
eradicate what I have owed,
but it would be,
it would make maybe future
payments a lot easier.
- Let's get the ball rolling up.
- Do you have any info on
what it would mean for him
like going forward to
have health insurance
on future expenses?
- I would say on that 21,
it could alleviate some of the
burden of Gunnie's minimums.
- Okay, we don't have to,
I honestly feel great right now
and I think that I really think
that we're in a place where
things are about to start
really hitting for me.
So if we-
- Let's try to get you
some insurance though,
forget the ball rolling up.
Let's have it rolling on a flat surface.
- Yeah.
- Ball's rolling flat.
- Ball's rolling flat, yeah.
- All right, great.
I have all of the
paperwork ready to join U4F
and I just need to write
in the name of our ship.
- Didn't really nail that one down.
What's another name for a hot dog?
- A Wiener.
- Just a wiener?
- Wurst, brat.
- Oh oh.
- We could be the Wurst Cew.
(all laughing)
- Do you wanna name your ship The Wurst,
with a "U" instead of an O?
- Yes, The Wurst, exactly.
- Absolutely.
- I am now
proud co-stake owner of the Wurst.
(all clapping)
- Unreal, do you still have some champagne
in that g*n?
- Yeah.
- I pop another one.
- Christen the ship, yeah.
- Incredible, the cost you
had already talked about
were refueling 10 units
taking off the used condition
and fixing the escape pod.
- Yes that's what 3.200 plus
whatever the escape pod cost.
- Do you wanna re-register
and take care of those
like lapsed fees?
- I mean, that's, that's
another 1200, right?
Registration.
- I believe.
- I think just registration is 1200.
- Yeah I think we need
to ask Margaret on that.
- Cool, in that case, you guys,
you rename the ship internally
and are gonna apply to the
union with that name,
but you have not re-registered the ship
yet with that name.
- Don't worry guys, I've got it
and I fill up my
putty tote.
- You fill up your tote?
- Don't worry, I can do it.
- Riva, make a perception check for me.
- Perception, if I had the
perception to know, that is a 14.
- Oh, at the end of the dock,
you see a large pink factory that says
Pleasure Putty Factory
Outlet and Training Center
by Bargain Bliss.
Basically it is a functional
Pleasure Putty factory,
but kind of like the Ben and
Jerry's they have in Vermont.
It's like, we make stuff here
and it's where tourists
come to see how we make it
we're doing here.
So you see that place, one of the
main central hubs of this business
over at the end of the dock.
- Well maybe people who are interested
in seeing how Pleasure Putty's made
would be interested in
selling Pleasure Putty.
- Incredible! So Riva, you see,
there's big opportunities
there for you in terms of yeah,
like you're saying, getting
that registration coming in,
like a lot of money has been going out,
big, exciting things,
but a lot of money has gone out
with no promise of money coming in.
U4F, you're holding off
on until you get the ship
re-reg- because we'll probably
need to want the ship to be
registered in that name if
you're applying for that union.
- Yeah okay.
- So might wanna hold off on that
until you can actually pay back.
- A thousand credits.
- Escape pod was how much?
Escape pod ended up being
oh, only 200 more credits.
- So 3.400 is what went out to
get the ship to where it is.
- Registration is 1000 credits.
I will also say those repairs will take,
they got a full crew
working at oh, by the way,
at Madrugada, they waived the docking fee.
They did not waive the docking fee here.
That's another 100 credits.
- Okay so we're at 3.500, Margaret.
- Skip's gonna reach into
his pockets and find money
and see it for the first time.
'Cause I think the captain
had 150 credits on him.
- Yeah.
- Sees the like-
- Thank you, captain.
- Yeah, you hand over a little data card
that has some credits on it.
- Incredible.
- Incredible.
- I think I might - I
also had 100 credits.
I see the captain and
instinctually follow suit.
And give 100 credits.
- Yeah, I got 60.
- For the first time in a long time,
you guys had like back
wages and other stuff.
You see this newfound
belief in this joint venture
putting to the communal, put-
You guys are like
reinvesting in your own ship.
- Gunnie goes and reaches into his pocket.
And is like, I can.
- If it's what we're doing,
I just wanna- are you sure?
- I was saving up for
grenades, not my life.
- Here is my 150.
- 150, you got to spend
money to make money.
That's one of the Pleasure Putty mottos.
- I give the 150 back
- Thank you.
- No, no I take it I take it.
- You have my 60?
- I got your 60.
Do you actually wanna give 150?
- Yes I do.
- Okay yeah.
- Amazing.
- Come on guys, let me, I want
to do it, we're all doing it.
- Begging you.
- Skip.
- How much is it?
- 120.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah, the ball is
rolling flat, all right?
I'm gonna have money
coming in like gangbusters.
I'm not worried.
- You're right, it's an investment.
We're pooling our resources
- Wow.
- And we're gonna figure out
all the cost together.
- Skip is gonna see the
sweat on your forehead.
- It's gonna be great.
- That's 580 credits everybody.
- Ooh, baby and now at
least your food costs
are all taken care of by Margaret,
wrangling this better
contract with Jib-Job.
- Actually can we get a
little bit of that money
for spending cash,
so we can try and find cooking utensils.
- Definitely, yeah.
- I'm gonna say Margaret,
you've already established
a bank account for the ship
and you can give like
corporate cards out to people.
- I give one corporate card.
(all laughing)
Unless anybody else feels they need one.
- I flash it to Gunnie.
I probably, I give it, I go,
okay, these are the gunner cards.
Please, maybe don't
mention this to the rest.
I didn't get special cards
for every person, right?
- I totally understand.
- I'd abuse it! I'd abuse it!
- No, I don't think that.
- No, I would, I know myself.
- I'd abuse it.
- Yeah, I'm gonna say
Gunnie, actually, give me a
perception check real quick.
- Okay can I make one too to notice?
- That's an 18.
- As you're saying I'd abuse it,
you look out and do see the Vale of Tiers
is a fun neighborhood
over raised on another
sort of rotating tiers.
You see the Emerald
Comet House of Fortune,
which you know is one of the
best sort of gambling places.
There's some tables there where people-
- Hey, can I get 10
credits for chef's tools?
- Definitely.
- Thank you.
- I'm like really feeding
off of Gunnie's vibe.
So I'm actually gonna give
my card to Handy Annie,
and be like, clutch this tight.
- She freezes it in a block of ice.
(all laughing)
- Hey, whenever you guys are
ready to go get chef's tools,
I'm good to go.
- So incredible.
- Chefs tools probably cost
more than that, I give you 50
(all laughing)
- You give 50 credits to Gunnie.
Now, as you guys prepare
- full disclosure,
repairs and refueling is happening,
it will not be done
happening for eight marbecs.
Oh, so there's a bit, in other words,
there's a crew of 10
people making repairs,
but if anything f*ck up...
- Are you saying, if we
go to a casino right now,
It will be good?
- Yeah, that's what I heard.
- All right, is there
any other upkeep business
in house, on the ship before
you guys head off into.
- This is just annoying mechanics stuff,
but I am using my Ideal of the
Tranquil to take a short rest
and get my spell slots back.
- Awesome
- The spells I used on that man
- I think I wanna talk to Marge
for a sec and just say, hey,
first off, thank you for your leadership.
I haven't seen such
leadership since Barry One,
but I'll follow you to hell.
- High praise, I would
never create someone
who would attack you.
- Appreciate that.
But then again, would I attack me too?
Is there any Barry Nine
and Barry Syx? Anyway.
There was reason you wanted
to come to this Rec center.
Is there anything we can do
to help you with whatever
situation you've got going on?
- Oh great, yes, I relay all
of the information that I have
that the princeps is here somewhere
checked into a hotel that we know about
- The name of the hotel
is the Obfusion Arms.
Give me an insight check Barry,
and do it with advantage.
- Ooh, nice that's a flat 19.
- I think you watch
Margaret like fully divulge,
like personal, like
UFTP information to you.
It's just, again, it's a
huge, Margaret's new presence,
this new bizarre turning
point in the life of the crew
members of this ship.
It's pretty staggering.
Like someone in a leadership
position over you,
looks you dead in the eye
and just tells you like an
important secret truth with
absolute trust, unflinching.
And I think even with
all the Barry Battalion,
everything else, like,
you know that's a significant
thing for a leader to do,
to be like, yeah, here's
what's actually going on.
Union stuff we're waiting on.
You guys have put a lot of money out
and right now we don't know
about any money coming in.
There the last opportunity on
that 21 business check you did
is Smash 'n Grab, the app,
which is shady enough that
you could try to get some jobs
right now if you wanted to.
Like that doesn't have
an approvals process.
You just put your ship we're the Wurst.
You've put that name in.
No, one's gonna find you.
- Yeah let's change it to We're
The Wurst as the full name.
- As the full name we like-
- Colloquially, am I
saying it- colloquially?
- Sounds good, there might be
an extra tongue dance in there.
- Formally we are We're The Wurst.
- Yes, so Smash 'n Grab is
available to you right now,
which you know,
like a lot of the sort of like
borderline social apps tends
not to work in the far
flung reaches of space.
Like if you turn it on and
you're out in the boonies
somewhere, it's not gonna do a lot.
Rec 97 is one of the greatest
metropolises in the galaxy.
So there are gonna be a ton of,
even if you started a brand
new account with zero reviews,
you probably still get some gigs.
- Incredible, okay I think I
told you all of that stuff.
I would love to maybe scan
like the news and stuff and see
if the Royal family is reporting
that the princeps is missing
or like, if this is a big thing.
- I'm actually gonna say, as
you all walk off the ship,
cause you've been trapped
in that tin can for a
little while you,
you walk off the ship together
and you see the Vale of
Tiers on Rec 97, open away,
bright neon flashing lights,
there's performing Androids
out on street corners.
There's all sorts of different
denizens of far-flung planets
and the galaxy.
- Is there an M&M store?
- Oh you know there's an M&M store.
You see a little sign posted
up going like that has a little
amplified speaker under it
saying while visiting the Vale
of Tiers of Rec 97,
walk in a determined manner, try to look
as though you know where you going,
don't look up, don't look
down! Welcome to Rec 97.
You see the up and downsie daisies,
which are these metallic rings
that just have levitating energy in them.
That goes up between the
rotating tiers of the station.
So people will just be like
walking down a sidewalk
or swimming down like an
aquatic lane or like gaseously
ambulating through a weird
gas nozzle and just hit this
thing and begin slowly
levitating up or down.
And as you walk out,
you see a big like public
screen displaying Rootersnoos
which a Rec Station
news, you see there is,
very Norman Rockwell, 1950s
looking red haired news anchor,
That has a big cybernetic eye
who looks out at the assembled
people, in the Vale of Tiers,
obviously pitching right to camera.
This is Rootersnoos
Ferret, Jimmy the Snout,
coming to you live open
rebellion on Rubian V
Reddit user Hotbox420, seems to think so.
Analysts say a military
intervention on the lithium moon
could have enormous impacts
on the galactic shipping industry
and a galactic diva
slips on a spacenana peel
and falls up a flight
of anti-gravity stairs?
Tune in tonight for more.
- Banana peel's going up.
- Cutting now to three
hours of tweets we found.
(all laughing)
- I just realized that
in a world where gravity,
where there's no gravity,
the ball going up is unexceptional.
(all laughing)
- That's one way to look at it.
I think there a couple of ways.
- At least this ball is not bogged down.
- So you do see that
there is news about like,
it's not a headline,
but there you see a news item
as you're like walking into
the Rec Station that like, yeah,
like there's rumblings of w*r on Rubian V,
which is not
a thing that would plunge
the galaxy into w*r.
It's a thing where it's like, oh,
this would disrupt galactic
trade and would be a big deal
because of the resources of this lithium.
- Okay, cool.
But there was no, like
this person is missing.
Its more like, there are,
yeah, there's like unrest.
- You didn't see that - go ahead and
give me an insight check if you-
Come on.
- Lets see...it's 5:00 A.M.
It is 11:55.
- No, it's 5:00 A.M
- That's a 16.
- We are in a warehouse
somewhere in the country
being moved around.
- We are in warehouse in Encino.
- That's a 16?
- Yeah.
- I think, you know enough-
part of your job at UFTP
is like managing- you're
a one-woman department.
So you do manage PR for
your own department.
You didn't see anything
about the princeps,
but if that headline has
made it to Rootersnoos,
you know that there
are other news agencies
that are probably working
that story right now, right?
Like, so it's I think you
think it's like matter of time.
- Okay and then like, I mean,
I probably don't even
have to roll for this,
but like I'm Reddit user Hotbox420?
- Yeah, absolutely, 100%.
- I knew that, yeah
and they didn't mention like
the incredible nude, right?
- It doesn't seem like.
- Can I log onto Reddit and
just see if it has any upvotes?
- It's incredible, there
has never been a comment.
It actually has broken Reddit's
record for most upvotes
and downvotes. It's like
breaking even, it's like,
- It's like steadily at 10.
- Steadily at 10.
- But it's so popular.
- Wait whoa, there's
thousands of votes inside 10.
- It seems to have really
fractured the community
in this subreddit.
- I do get the whiplash
of getting like hot,
hot news and then an insane
photo following that up.
- Yeah, 100%.
You know that this hotel
room under Madeline Maud
is at the Obfusion Arms, but
there's also, so you see news,
about that Rubian V thing.
So you think, you would
guess time is of the essence,
but not in a dead sprint kind of way,
it's like you probably have a
couple of Malton units before
that thing about the
princeps is widely known.
- Okay, cool.
Then I, yeah, I think
I start Smash 'n Grab
at least to just see what the options are
as we're walking around.
- Hell yeah, with those
dope photos you took before,
Go ahead and give me a
persuasion check with advantage.
- Yes
That is a 13.
- Okay.
- Wow we're rolling well today
- Can I give them my potent aptitude
and allow them to add a d4 to that roll?
- Yeah absolutely, go ahead and add a d4.
- There's some things
about the algorithm you
should know regarding Smash 'n Grab
if you wanna get higher up.
- Oh right yeah I've never used an app
that looked like this.
That's a 2 so, 15.
- Gets you to a 15, 15 is
the DC for a good check.
- Thank you so much.
- It's the same thing on all the tutoring
and customer service apps I use.
- Oh incredible.
- Yeah, what you have is like,
is like the worst ready for you.
You do like a PR thing and
Gunnie fully changes it
to like FRESH, GOOD, VIOLENCE, NOW
- All caps is a big thing, I mean,
you just put the keywords in there,
even if you're not like that,
like mine says that I can
teach Spanish, I can't.
But it's just a lot of people
are looking for Spanish.
You just put the buzzwords in
there that the people want.
- And no one checked,
there are no agencies
that are checking on the
veracity of what you're doing?
- No, absolutely not.
- Okay, great.
- So you head off into the station.
You are, you're looking
for the Obfusion Arms.
You all get to an up and downsie daisy
and it's near you're in
this cool little like
hexagonal intersection
where kind of five blocks
all come together.
Riva, are in your drone or
are you availing yourself
of the aquatic amenities of the...?
- Now, here is important question.
How does Pleasure Putty
interact with water?
- Fully good. Pleasure
Putty interacts with water
it's of an aquatic convenience.
It might get your water a
little Pleasure Putty-y.
- I'll robot it.
- Cool so you're in the psychodrone.
So you guys are all standing
at this intersection of five
different lanes that come in
near this up and downsie daisy.
- Can I just use my mercenary thing
where I basically can, like I can identify
like companies, including names,
reputations, commanders, leaders,
but can I use it to try and find
like a bachelorette party for Riva?
- You absolutely can, I'm gonna say.
- I wanna find like a
bachelorette party and like,
who is the girl in charge?
- Yeah for different reasons
I also need that info.
(all laughing)
- So at this intersection,
I'm gonna say you hear a raucous noise
coming from a bar called
the Brigader's Bier,
which you can see is like
an Amercadia classic,
like Amercadian drinking hole.
- I make eyes with Riva and I point out.
- Okay, you want to come?
- You're getting married!
- I think--
- She's getting married!
(all laughing)
- Amazing, at that moment,
You check your thing - in the
like 15 minutes you've been
walking, three jobs have come
through on the Smash 'n Grab.
- What are the prices?
- So a 15 is not super
duper high, however.
- That's good, you said it was
good. You used the word good.
- Yeah, here's the jobs that have come in.
There's a job that's 300 credits a day,
providing security for
New Eden tech shipments,
going to the Phoebus system.
It would be a two month contract.
So you'd be like running security for...
- No, right? We don't wanna be tied down.
- You're getting married.
- One whole rigon? A whole rigon?
- There's another one,
which is a 2K credits job
knocking over a pawn shop
on the Vale of Tiers,
retrieving an item from the Vale of Tiers
to return to this contractor
and it's it says in parenthesis
plus whatever you can grab
from the pawn shop.
- Whoa.
You get
- Wow spicy.
- Barry likes.
- Barry likes.
- A job comes in with
no name for zero credits
in the thing it says zero credits job
and you look in the description
of the job and it says,
don't wanna discuss over app.
Find me at Blue Heaven level,
which you know is the very upper most tier
of the Rec Station and it just says 25K.
- How about it?
- I mean I think that there's no harm
in going into Blue Heaven
and sort of scoping out.
I can send Handy Annie ahead
kind of work through her.
See who's waiting around, get
a feel for who it might be.
- Okay but we do have like
surveillance capabilities, right?
- I feel like 25K, let's
just go in sunglasses on
drinks in hand, let's just do it.
- Okay, wait no, sorry.
This is my role, this
is my role in the crew,
Well maybe not,
maybe let's do the hand surveillance.
- Barry slowly takes his glasses off.
- No we can all wear
sunglasses we really can.
- Can we vote all right yeah.
- Yeah, definitely we can do that.
- 25.
- 25? Okay definitely, definitely.
Okay yeah.
- Okay so what, Riva's gonna
flip some quick Pleasure Putty
and then we take another an
upsie daisy up to Blue Heaven?
- Maybe we can all real quick,
like back up Riva in her sales,
and then head up to Blue Heaven.
- Can I make an insight check on this bar?
- Yeah go for it.
- Because it's Americadian.
- Oh.
- Pretty bad, insight, sorry - five.
- It seems okay, on a five insight check.
It's called the Brigader's Bier.
It seems pretty standard honestly.
You see, it's like an
old, it's a legacy place.
It looks like it got remodeled
probably a couple cycles
back, but yeah, for sure.
- Skip, you looking
longingly at that building
is there - the bar?
- I don't know.
- Okay, cool.
- Can I look and see if
they're like what Skip wants?
Cause I think I am kind
of feeling a little bit
like bad about co-owning.
- I think like Skip is just like,
I think Skip wants to try to
like communicate to people.
Like, it must seem very obvious
that he's just trying to learn.
- Okay, yeah, yeah.
- So it's like, maybe there's
not even like a very clear,
like I wanna do this at the theme park.
I'm just like, what is a theme park?
- Yeah, I think I see that in Skip then
and I'm like, here's the
one thing you need to know
and then I like teach
you how to do that "W'
with your tongue.
- I can't personally do it.
(all laughing)
- Wow cool, he's a quick learner.
- Hey you can do anything.
(all laughing)
- He's getting better at learning.
- Let's move some Pleasure Putty.
- Yeah, I think I'm going to,
as we go in since this lasts for an hour,
I'm gonna do fourth level enhanced droid
because you're in your
droid body right now, right?
And I'm gonna do it on all three of us.
We all have advantage on charisma checks.
(all laughing)
- Barry starts to sweat when
he sees Gunnie get like this.
- Yeah, it's relations protocol.
So all three of us have advantage,
on charisma checks for the next hour.
- Oh, incredible.
- Okay, so as you're sitting here,
things are looking up,
the ball's rolling uphill.
You're on Rec 97.
Your ship's getting repaired.
Let me ask you,
there is a desire to go to Blue Heaven.
We also wanna go to the Brigader's Bier
and see if we can flip these
bachelorette party goers
and there there's also this hanging thing
about the Obfusion Arms.
Are you guys planning to
stay as a squad together
or do you guys, are you splitting up?
What are people doing?
Oh, it's all--
There's no pressure from
me in either direction.
I'm just interested to
know what the plan is
from all of you.
- I mean, I think it
just kind of seems fun.
We could like churn out
Riva's thing and then go.
- And then we go right
up to Blue Heaven raw.
- Yeah.
- Two sales.
- Guaranteed.
- Bar crawl for sure.
- Exactly, then I'll sneak away.
- Skip, this is called a bar
crawl and it f*cking rules.
- Having those jobs come in on
the Smash 'n Grab app, things
are looking bright for the Wurst.
You see, your ship's getting repaired.
You've got some extremely
exciting jobs coming in
and speaking about making
some cold hard credit,
you hear the raucous noise of
a bachelorette party coming
from within the Brigader's Bier,
classic Amercadian dive.
You see, it's been
retrofitted a little bit.
It's a little touristy, a little bit like,
the Amercadian space brigade
is an enormous faction
of these hyper military spacers.
Captain Takamori was a
brigader back in the day.
So places like this crop up a
lot on Rec Stations of in the
same way that like you go to
other places and people are
like, oh, a McDonald's! Just like home!
So this place very much
has that vibe of like
a McDonald's in another country, right?
You walk into the Brigader's Bier
and see big murals painted on the wall of
golden fields of wheat
from Kansas Amercadia
and a long bar.
There's an aquatic sort
of pool in the center.
You see that there are some
brigaders on shore leave
drinking off in corner somewhere,
and an enormous party of women at the bar
screaming and going
your're getting married!
Give it up for Zvoon!
And you see a crackling
glass olb filled with
points of lightening emanating
from a central dark purple fog,
touching the outside of the orb.
I am so happy.
And it appears that the
other humanoid women here are
celebrating their orb friend
Zvoon, who's getting married.
- Very cool.
- So I have, as my background,
I am a psychic adept.
So when I intend to learn
a piece of knowledge,
I often instinctively know where
or from whom you can obtain it.
- Amazing, so to put that
into the common parlance,
the alpha friend is this woman
named Mae who you can see is
the one ordering drinks
for everybody at the bar
who appears to be, and
she's just fully human,
but appears to be Zvoon's best friend.
- Great, congratulations to your friend.
- Oh my God, thank you so much.
- How many people is she marrying?
- Oh she's marrying a concept.
- That's fascinating.
- Yes absolutely! We're so happy for her.
- Wow, so your here to
have a good time, right?
So maybe you'd be interested
in having an even more fun time
by introducing some
Pleasure Putty into the mix.
- All right here it is,
give me a persuasion roll.
- With advantage, enhance droid
- Oh with advantage.
Okay, all right, persuasion is 23.
- 23!
Okay, 23 - you see, she looks
at you and goes, oh my God,
this drone is so fun! Oh my goodness!
You see she says, Zvoon look out,
we're gonna have to go
to the docking station
to open your orb,
to get some Pleasure Putty in there.
Zvoon says, "Oh stop you're too much."
You see that the bachelorettes
surround you and says,
okay so, wait a minute,
how does this work?
You walk around and you sell
Pleasure Putt- oh my God,
are we really, are we really
going to get Pleasure Putty for tonight?
- I walk up - can I look
really, really good?
- I would like to walk up and go,
did you say Pleasure Putty?
- Yes, Margaret, what? You
know I sell Pleasure Putty.
- That's incredible that
you also know my name,
you must be psychic! I'll buy 10.
I'll buy 10 of them.
It's such an incredible concept.
- That's very nice of you
since you're my friend.
Of course I'm your friend now, I'm like-
- I skate in and I say,
Excuse me you sold me
Pleasure Putty and as droid,
I'm incapable of orgasm,
but it's the closest I've come
(Ally gasps)
...to cumming
- Incredible, closest you've come to c*m.
Let's, I would like to buy 10 putty logs
or whatever they are.
- I come in with sunglasses on and go.
This is actually made me c*m hard.
(all laughing)
- Okay, so I'm gonna need
everyone on this side of the table
to go ahead and roll a persuasion check.
- Okay.
- Oh my God, I got two fours.
- I got a 15.
- 25.
- 5.
- Oh, okay.
Well, the average of
that is a 15, so, okay.
You see, it seems less effective
than what Riva sorta had going
you're talking loudly about cumming hard
and you see that Mae is
like, okay so, all right
you see Zvoon say,
how did you c*m hard?
- Just all the putty, made me gush.
- I used the bathroom after him.
- What, you thought it
happened in the bathroom?
- It did, I went in there by myself
and I just nailed the stuff.
Just me and the putty.
I nailed it.
- Nailed it.
And then, I destroyed the bathroom.
- Nailed it.
Fill her up.
- Skip, talk to Gunnie.
Don't learn anything from what I'm saying.
- Great, give me a
persuasion check real quick.
- Nat 20!
- So you see Mae looking around
at you talking about nailing
it hard in the bathroom
and looks over and goes,
hello, what's your name?
- My name is Norman "Skip" Takamori.
- Okay and you actually use this stuff?
- Yes.
- And you, well, you said "fill 'er up?"
- Fill her up.
- Okay well listen, my
friend's getting married.
I'm still single.
- Right on.
- Hey, if you're interested
in being your own boss,
this is going so well.
Riva's never had this go well before.
If you're interested
in being your own boss,
you could also sell Pleasure Putty.
So it's a scheme where
you're your own boss
and you're a part of a beautiful triangle.
That's three dimensional of
people who are their own bosses.
- Amazing, I am gonna, now
that we've introduced the real,
because you're not even
here selling Pleasure Putty,
you're selling becoming a
Pleasure Putty salesperson.
- I do have Pleasure Putty
to sell, it's not expensive.
Will not make us very much money,
but if I have somebody to sign up.
- Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and say,
give me one last persuasion roll.
Now that you're selling the real thing.
- All right, come on, please...
- Big money, big money.
- We need a win.
- Oh yeah, that's a 25.
- Yes.
- 25! So you see, Mae, looks
up, you see Zvoon goes.
Wait a minute - you offer opportunities?
Become one's own master!
Oh my God, so wait a minute.
So wait there's a triangle...?
- It's this beautiful three
dimensional triangular shape.
where everybody within
it, is their own boss
and the money travels
in different directions
that are different.
Nobody's the boss of the bosses,
but the money goes one way,
but everybody's a boss.
- A minor hologram of visual aid for this.
- The visual aid you
see, everyone goes, oh.
- Actually, I did just now get it.
- You see Zvoon goes,
As bachelorette of the
party of the bride to be
I command that all of us
direct your attention to Riva.
- Do we sign something?
- You do indeed! And I
take out a Pleasure Putty,
branded tablet that just has,
that you can just pass around.
- Oh my God.
- A tablet
starts getting passed around
to these various individuals here.
- While we're really winning,
Can I kind of like throw
out to the group like
you girls if you keep partying all night,
you should come meet us at our hotel.
We're all gonna be at
the Obfusion Arms Hotel.
- Oh my God.
- Later this evening, we're
all gonna meet up there.
- That's incredible, wait, is there, okay-
We sign up for this - is
there, but I don't know.
Like I always thought of
myself as a good salesperson,
but I don't know a lot.
Is there, do you guys offer courses?
- There is a training facility,
two buildings away from here
and if you would like to sign up,
I pull out a second tablet, different,
this is a different tablet than the other.
- On a 25, not only do
you get them to sign up,
to become like direct reports to you
to help sell Pleasure Putty,
they sign up for courses starting
10 minutes from now.
- I think Sidney feels like
a little bad and was like,
really thought we were
just gonna sell the putty.
(all laughing)
- Those women are going
to be their own bosses,
It's gonna be a beautiful story
for each and every one of them.
- Okay so someone does need
it explained eventually.
- Yeah.
- Incredible, so you see
Mae says, all right, girls,
finish up your drinks we are
going to the training center
we're learning to sell Pleasure Putty
lets get this bachelorette
party on the road.
- You're getting married!
- I'm gonna say,
we're gonna roll to see how many
go ahead and roll three D4 for me.
- Thank you. Ooo, I like this color.
Oh yeah, that's an eight.
- There are eight attendees
of this bachelorette party,
including the bride herself,
as they sign up and get
ready for the courses,
you immediately get - it's a
10 credit bump to you for
every person that signs up
and an additional five because
you referred them to courses.
That's 15 times eight,
you get 120 credits.
This instant forwarded right over to you.
- Oh, it feels good to be your own boss.
- Yes.
- Riva, I think that was ultimately
like a really fun thing to do
and as a bachelorette party,
I think they're gonna have a lot of fun,
but there might be some
people that we don't put
in the course direction
we just sell putty to.
- Oh yes because some people are bosses
and some people want to be bossed.
There's a lot of information
in the handbook about the sub
dom culture of humans, which
I find absolutely fascinating.
- Can I maybe borrow the handbook
from you? Just to kind of look at and see
what you've been reading.
- Well you do have to
it's a secret handbook
you do have to sign up.
- Oh, it's a secret handbook
that you only you get to see.
- The courses are only
for Pleasure Putty bosses.
- Well, I'll think about it.
- You just watch this group
of bachelor- of rowdy bachelorettes.
Start to finish up their drinks
and talk about going right
now to the training center.
Yeah, you see that as
they do this, Zvoon goes
I am so excited to become my own boss.
You see that some of the like
lights in the bar explode
as Zvoon gets more excited just to,
Zvoon you gotta calm down
remember you you're sort
of like gamma radiation,
blows stuff up if you get too excited.
Gunnie, give me a perception check.
As everyone else has already
been helping Riva on this one.
I just want you to give me perception.
- Nat 20.
- Really undersold that.
- Yeah, wow.
- He always does that.
- Nat 20!
- He loves to be casual about a nat 20.
- So, everyone else is very invested
while that's all happening,
you see there's a group of
Amercadians over in the corner
that look like shore
leave - they're wearing
their, sort of like, Navy whites.
You see that there's an older gentleman
on a nat 20 perception,
you see this is, like, top brass,
looking over, he was making
eyes straight at the Skipper.
- I have like a,
I'm almost signing up
for the Pleasure Putty.
(all laughing)
- Ah, hey guys, great job.
I was waiting for my in.
It felt like everyone
was talking about c*m
and I was like, I don't
know where I fit in, but-
- I could have arguably not spoken.
- No, no - very necessary.
- I think you sold it honestly.
- I think people are looking
at Skip in a type of way
that I feel like it's an Amercadian bar
and he's Amercadian, I
don't know what's going on,
but there's a guy in the corner who's
looking at him some type of way,
but not like the type of way
that people look at me when
they wanna come grab me and
take my money away from me.
But it's because I owe it to them.
But it's that kind of vibe.
- Are you suggesting
that we get out of here
or do you wanna kick their asses?
- Skip, do you recognize this person?
- Skip's gonna try to
look casually, but he's-
- Yes, be casual.
- He's just gonna go like this.
- You turn around like
that and the guy goes,
Hey, is that Norm Takamori?
- My name is Norm Takamori.
- Hell yeah.
You see this guy gets up. On that
nat 20, as he gets up,
I'm gonna say that you
actually know this dude,
because he's part of
the Weatherall family,
which have been like,
a big military family going
way back on Amercadia.
This guy's name is Gust Weatherall.
- I whisper, hey his name is Gust.
- Gust?
- Gust Weatherall.
- Gust Weatherall.
- He's a big deal, a big, big deal.
- And he walks over, puts
a hand out like this...
- Big Deal Gust Weatherall.
(all laughing)
- Ooh - careful.
You see, he says, how
the hell are you doing?
Norm, it's been a while.
I'm surprised to see you
come by the Brigader's Bier.
I still owe you that drink, huh?
- Okay.
- You see, he goes - barkeep!
We'll get two double death
commandos on the ready.
- I think Skip's gonna
try to like rack his like,
see if there's,
can I make any kind of check
to see if I can find it
in the brain somehow?
- Yeah, go ahead and give
me a flat intelligence.
- Nat one.
- This guy is being
really friendly to you.
- Can I probe his mind
and just read his surface thoughts,
and then psychically tell
the Skipper what's going on?
- Yes, so on a nat one,
what this guy's thinking
of when he sees Skip
is a derisive pity.
That's what you feel from this guy.
It's a derisive pity about
like, look at this guy,
never got the politics of the brigade
and bought the story hook, line and sinker
and we played for a patsy
because he was not good with people.
- Oh, rough. I'm actually
not gonna tell him
that, that's too sad. Let
him think that he likes him.
- Her first lie.
- It just not telling, it's not lying.
- This is a galaxy with
a lot of grays in it.
So within that thing
of played for a patsy,
that- you're getting like
largely emotional information.
When you hear "not good with people,"
you're getting the captain you knew
a guy who was truly like
mean to his subordinates
and so it's the kind of
thing where you get a feeling
that this guy's an as*h*le,
but his disdain for Norman,
it's a complicated relationship.
Like, here was a guy who was
happy to berate his underlings,
but who also didn't know how
to suck up to the right people
because he was kind of an abrasive guy
and like therefore, didn't have any allies
and therefore, we took advantage of.
Like, you know what I mean?
- Like not a schmoozer,
- Not a schmoozer.
- Like crew cut mean, not schmoozer mean.
- Yes, precisely on that nat
one, this guy said drink,
and he's talking to you really friendly.
You think it's possible
that there's a very deep,
intimate relationship, but you don't,
you can't get the memory.
But this guy maybe is like a former,
either a former lover or
a family member of yours.
- Give him a really-
I go in for a hug.
- He goes, what the hell?
Norman?
Easy, pal.
Get a fella a drink first.
- Fill her up.
- You see the barkeep is putting two
double death commandos on the table
in front of you and says,
you want another one?
- Okay.
- Fill her up?
- Fill her up.
- Makes the second one
puts it in front of you.
He says,
Jesus, Takamori
are you gonna drink both of those?
- Cheers.
- Cheers, he cheerses you.
He does, do you down yours?
- I do.
- Give me a constitution saving throw.
- Constitution, I only have a 10.
- This is one of the most
powerful drinks in the galaxy
double death commando
consists of two scoops
of vanilla ice cream,
high colonian vodka, menthol de menthe,
extracts from certain poisonous tubers,
a two ribec zap of semi-inert positrons
and a one quarter dose of
pharmaceutical Kublacaine.
And all of that shoots down the hatch,
your tenuous grasp on the
controls of this body craft.
- Oh my f*cking God.
- Your interface with the brain
stem of this body craft is
your like slug body is absorbing
some of the effects of this.
- So, I guess I do- I down it and I go.
(high-pitched ululating)
(all laughing)
- What the hell?! Jesus Christ!
He goes, ah, okay.
Oh, well, listen here, Takamori, you...
Riva, you're on this guy's
surface thoughts, right?
He doesn't go to cerebro-slug.
You hear the thought, "It's wearing off"
and he says, well, take it easy, Takamori.
We'll see you down the old dusty.
And you get a pulsating red feeling,
Riva, of just peril,
as this guy walks away.
- Well, I can't see red.
So that sounds fine to me.
- Yeah, some sort of weird shade of blue.
- Skip, do you need a lift?
- Yes.
- Skip, can you - do you have
any access to the memories of Skip?
- I'm, like, pretty f*cked
up right now, I imagine.
I think- I'm trying to remember, but like,
I think what I would say
to Riva is just sorta like
Eh, kinda?
Not right now.
- I wonder if you could read.
- I wonder if I could get
into his deep thoughts,
deep memories, in a way that maybe-?
- He's gonna be so mad at us,
just be prepared for that.
- If he knows what we're doing right now.
- That is true. He would
be really mad at us.
- But if something is
wearing off and the captain
is gonna be a danger to us in some way.
It might be worth knowing.
- Your take on the "it's wearing off"
was that it's an incorrect
reading from this guy.
In other words, he didn't
know to think cerebro-slug.
- Right, but he thinks that
a thing that they did to him.
- Is wearing off.
- Is wearing off.
- Yes.
- Okay.
- Should we go to the pawn shop?
- Yeah.
- I think we're doing
- We got Blue Heaven
- We have a meeting
- Yeah.
- I can go to the pawn shop.
- Okay, no, no, no.
- How sick would it be if
I went into the pawn shop?
- "How sick would it be?"
- Maybe skip it, Skip.
- Skip it? All right.
(all laughing)
- If the Blue Heaven
thing doesn't work out,
we'll go to the pawn shop.
- Its 25k versus 2k,
let's just make the Blue
Heaven thing work, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
- True.
- We need a huge win.
- I mean, we already made 120 credits.
So that ball is...
- Yeah, Riva, though, in the future
I think we should talk
about just selling the putty
and not the whole package.
- The whole package
is...it's how people...
- Work in progress,
we'll put a pin in that.
- ...make their own time.
- Let's go to Blue Heaven
and make the deals.
- Everyone wants to make
their own time, don't they?
- So I think - I can
see through Handy Annie,
can I use Handy Annie,
to sort of case Blue Heaven and see like,
and see who's sitting by themselves?
- Can you use your
ability where you can see
who's like prominent and in charge
and maybe know their identity?
- Yeah, like basically, look
through Handy Annie's eyes
without any of us going in.
Since they have seen all
of our pictures already.
- Ohhh, you make a great point.
- They'll know us.
So I wanna use my mercenary
ability through Handy Annie
like send her in to scuttle about the bar.
- While we wait,
can I get the captain like
a plate of french fries
and a hot coffee to help him a little bit?
- Yes.
- What is this?
- It's a good idea.
- I know you will love it
Here, just dig in.
- There's still like a big plate
of like Amercadian corn cakes
that will soak up-
- It's salt, yeah, soak it up.
Soak it up.
- He loves it!
- Reach over with a napkin.
- Yeah, I'm just kinda rubbing his back.
- No, no, no.
- Don't eat the napkin.
- Amazing.
So you send Handy Annie
up to Blue Heaven level.
Go ahead and make a
investigation check for me.
- 13.
- Awesome, you get up there,
Handy Annie is scuttling around
a lone Android hand would catch suspicion
if it was not in public,
as it stands right now,
it's just as long as you're in busy areas,
it goes kind of unnoticed.
That means that you're sort
of confined to public areas.
So the question is have
you responded 'yes'
to the meeting on Smash 'n Grab?
- Yeah, I think everyone was so excited,
that I kind of reluctantly
being like we'll do it.
- Amazing. Handy Annie comes
across a small exterior cafe,
sort of white chrome, exterior tables,
little strange rotating neon umbrellas,
and then sort of a small
little espresso from this
very like chichi cafe
Blue Heaven is incredibly well appointed.
There are a ton of domes, regalia, villas,
and palazzos and things like that up here,
sort of like neon, cyber palazzos.
You see at the cafe where
you are supposed to meet,
you see there is a very
well appointed suit wearing
executive assistant Android
next to an idling Rec Shaw.
There's like a sort of
like very muscle bound,
kind of like working class dude,
like pulling the RecShaw to
get it to where you need to go.
But it looks like you had
guessed someone's assistant
waiting to like waiting here
where you've been said to meet
and then like a mode of
transportation to go somewhere.
- Okay, I think that's it.
Do I see like any identifying things
as to what company they
might be working with?
- I would say on a 13,
you don't see any company logo
and the vibe you're getting
is not like, oh, real,
like, black ops, bag man.
Like no don't fly any flags kind of thing.
You're guessing like personal assistant.
Blue Heaven has a lot
of residential places.
Now there are a lot of
big corporate headquarters
up in this level as well.
But the way this is re- 25
credits is a tremendous amount.
It is not corporate money.
Like a very rich individual
could drop 25 credits on something.
- Okay I relay all this
information and I say,
I think we've covered our asses.
Let's go in g*ns blazing.
- Okay, wait, before we go in,
I would love to just talk to
everyone and say you guys,
as a team, I feel like
we're really coming together
and I really wanna talk
to each person and say
something that I like about them
and just like Gunnie, sorry, Gunnie.
I'm sorry.
- It's fine.
- It's normal.
- No Gunnie like, you're
so good at what you do
and I just, I think,
your work on this ship
is not going unnoticed
And so far, we're making
a lot of great changes
as a group and I, we're
gonna join a union.
We're gonna get healthcare.
Barry you're so loyal, you're so strong.
I just feel like you're
gonna do a great job on it
and anyway, so I'm gonna use Sage advice.
So if I spend a minute
talking to everyone, they get.
- Proficiency and your intelligence.
- And my intelligence
modifier, which is plus five.
- To what.
- You're picking a skill
that you wanna give everybody as bonus.
- Oh sh*t.
- Yeah.
- Like persuasion or something?
- Yeah that's what I'm thinking.
Yeah, Skip, I just can't
wait to get to know you more.
You just seem like a really
different Skip, am I right?
Sundry Sidney, I mean
you're indispensable,
as a person working together,
you really helped me earlier,
with that matcha and Riva, what can I say.
Did you see that sale back there?
I haven't seen something
like that before in my life.
The ball is rolling up everybody.
- [All] The ball is rolling up.
- And then I'm also gonna,
as we're walking in,
just tag on master's advice,
which is when I use Sage advice.
Now the first time that
they make their skill check,
they gained an additional
bonus to the roll
equal to my intelligence modifier.
So the first persuasion
roll will be plus 12.
- Ooooh.
- Jesus Christ.
- How long does this last?
- The plus seven is until a long rest.
But the plus 12 is just the first roll-
- And do we still have advantage?
- The three of us have advantage
and I have a plus six to persuasion.
So I should maybe be the person
who is persuading things
because that is a plus 18.
- Incredible
- I wanna just double check.
- Yeah.
(all laughing)
- Its a plus 18.
- Margaret there's something
about what you said
that made me think that we
should really ask for more money.
Does anyone else really
get a strong feeling
we should ask for more money?
- 50K no matter what it is.
- We should just send Gunnie in.
- Yeah let me handle this guys.
- I think Skip is just like
listening as hard as he can,
like really feeling the
confines of his language.
Trying to like quietly
repeating everything.
Everyone says constantly.
- Okay, sorry rule clarification.
That is game breakingly good,
rules as written Sage advice
only lets you lend your proficiency.
The thing that lets you
add your intelligence
is masters advice.
- Oh got it.
- So we double that.
- You hold on to this bonus for an hour,
but it's single use.
So it's the first time you use that skill
you add Margaret's plus seven.
- Got it.
- Everybody's got like a
single plus seven b*llet
on a persuasion check loaded.
You guys all get into the upsie daisy
and with that clerian
call from Margaret Encino,
the ball is rolling up.
You all begin to levitate
through level after level,
after level of this Rec Station,
watching the lights and
the different cities,
literally as you're rising,
it will be like buildings.
Now the skyscape you're looking
over and you can see past
the neighborhood, the stars,
and then you move through
a circular opening
and it's a new city,
it's a new neighborhood
on the next tier up.
So again and again and again,
as you begin to speed up
and move by and just see
constant Emerald,
metallic, green cityscapes,
and endless stars as you up, up, up up,
and the buildings get
swankier and swankier,
and the clientele gets more
and more McCoy to fleece off
of them until arriving
in Blue Heaven level
and you guys enter out here
and you see for the first time
RecPols you see, which
are Rec Station police.
Now again in AnarchEra,
RecPols are basically here
just to protect like they're
like- the city government
is essentially limited to,
like, a commerce center.
It's like the business owners
of the Rec Station are like,
let's have security
to keep people from
burning our businesses down
and that's what it's completely obvious
to everyone that the RecPol
are not "civic servants" here.
They are here to stop people
from destroying business interests
- So different from modern day.
- So a group of RecPols that
have these big smoke masks on
these bright purple,
basically like, unitards
sort of offering like,
"Welcome to Blue Heaven level"
"Can we check you all in?" and you see,
you are effectively all
being like checked in here.
- You don't need to check us in.
- Wooh, let's give it a shot.
- Okay, advantage plus seven
- I'm gonna cast Affect Mind.
Choose the target within range
that isn't hostile towards you.
This guy's not hostile towards
us, he's just doing his job.
- You got a UFTP business
woman in front of the pack.
- Target must make a wisdom saving throw.
- Can I try a skills exploit thing?
- Yeah, what you wanna do?
- You attempt to predict the behavior
of a humanoid you see within 30 feet.
Make wisdom, perception
check contested by their dexterity.
If I succeed, the first saving
throw the creature makes
before the start of your
next turn has disadvantage.
- Whoa, awesome.
- Wisdom versus sleight of hand.
- The RecPol
You're trying to beat a
12 on your perception.
- I didn't get it.
- No worries.
- Wait what were you?
- It was pretty low.
I'm pretty good to this one
I got a nine - and I'm
trying to beat a 12?
- Trying to beat a 12.
- I'll use Defiant.
- Defiant is a one d4,
you get a three or four
you get there.
- Two.
- Okay, okay.
- So straight wisdom saving throw.
- Wisdom saving throw.
- Your DC is a 14.
You feel it does not work.
- Interesting.
Okay, interesting.
- You see the RecPol says,
No, I do. I do need to see his money.
- Right on.
- Oh great, I show my pass.
- Yeah, I show my ID.
- Okay cool, so this is the
first- your ship has checked in
now, all of you-
So, all of you have personal
ID that has checked in
Blue Heaven level, cool.
- That sounds like a bad...
- Yeah, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
- It sounds good.
- Only because people are looking for us
they have a bounty on us.
- If anyone's got a problem with us,
we'll just kick their a*s.
- We'll punch 'em.
- f*ck, we're being so stupid.
I just gave my official
UFTP pass to be scanned?
Yeah.
- All of you mosey on in.
- I put on the smallest little sunglasses.
- Mine are so huge.
- I changed my eye to blue.
- Riva just draws a pair of sunglasses
on this absolutely blank
psychic drone's face.
- I hand extra sunglasses out to Skip.
- I have looked like Weekend at Bernie's.
- You guys arrive at Emfertoir,
which is the name of the little cafe.
As you approach Emfertoir,
you see this very
handsome-looking, officious,
android stand up in a suit, nod at
all of you gathered here
and says "Greetings,
"thank you for your prompt response
"to the request from my mistress.
"I would be more than happy
to escort you to her palazzo
"where this business endeavor
can be discussed in greater
"detail and discretion."
- I'm interested.
Why did it say zero?
And then you had to put
the 25K in the message?
- Greater discretion can be
had at the mistress' palazzo.
- Can I do some kind of
like Mind Link? Not to talk,
but to try and like,
see if there's any information
in there as to who like the
person that they work for is.
- Also during this time,
Gunnie is fully getting in the RecShaw
- Oh my God.
- He's just helping you in.
- Hey, thanks Skip, ahhh.
- 'Course.
- Sorry, so you can make a
channel with them, absolutely.
- Yeah, but not like to chat.
I kind of just wanna like almost survey
and see like who do they answer
to, like in their coding.
- Give me a perception check.
- Okay perception - can
it be investigation?
- Yeah, it can be investigation.
- Ten.
- Private.
- It's a closed book,
Margaret, a closed book.
- And this is a droid, right?
So I can't, there's nothing
I can do against him?
- Androids do have
krystalline consciousness.
You can attempt to do something here,
but it might not be that successful.
- Can I ask something
and then roll an insight
or investigation based on like
facial cues as a response?
- Yeah I think so.
- Okay can I say, are
we meeting Miss Maud?
- Give me an insight check.
- Wow, that's like impressive.
- You have no idea how
bad the roll was, too.
(all laughing)
- I said retrieving it.
I was like, just leave it there.
- Throw it away, get it in the trash.
- It's an 8.
- You guys see Margaret
sweating a little bit.
- Alright. I put my sunglasses on.
- Let's get in the thing.
I just start rubbing the seats
the RecShaw, come on guys.
- Okay, I'm gonna get in the
thing, I'm gonna cast battle
precognition on myself
so that I up my AC to 15
'cause I have a bad feeling about this.
- I will as an action,
manifest my ideal to tranquil,
to get my, a thing, my spells back
and then I would like to just
kind of like hook onto the
edge of the Rec Shaw and
like rollerskate behind.
- Hell yeah.
- Just doing some sick tricks.
- You just link in.
- Some sick tricks.
- I know this is stupid, but I,
Okay, so that was a eight.
That was an eight on the die.
- For sure.
- I have an ability where
I can add no, no, no, no,
no, no die, just in total.
I can add a superiority die to it.
Do you think adding a six,
say I max out to that 8...that's a 14,
is that gonna help me?
- Think your superiority die's a d4.
- You are correct, so if I max out the d4-
- And we pop that up to a bad 12.
- I think its not worth it, boss.
- In this line of business,
sometimes you get ambushed
and then you just have to
beat the sh*t out of everybody
in the Barry Battalion
sometimes people would
pay us a bunch of money.
Sometimes they would just be like, hey,
come to the small room, and
then a bunch of dudes are there
they jump down, Barry 3's
got your back, he jumps up,
he upper cuts, Barry
1's on the other side,
actually no Barry 1's the professor,
I'm so sorry for confusing the Barrys.
It happens sometimes
Barry 7 is the one who
always has your back.
- Ones and sevens do look very similar.
- I slap the side of the Rec Shaw and say,
Let's get in the thing.
- I get in, I get in.
- You guys take off down the street
and Salazar opens a gate wide
and you go into an
extremely expensive garden.
You see that there is like
an enviro modified garden
with like real alien flora all around.
Like, keeping plants alive
on a station with this,
with all this recycled air
and there's no weather,
like it never rains here.
This is very chichi stuff.
You see an enormous P.K. on the front
and you see underneath
it says "Welcome to the Palazzo Khrome"
and Salazar ushers you inside
and brings you to one of those like
immediately the vibe
here is, old lady rich.
You walk into a side
chamber of where it's like,
all of this furniture is
like gilded and antique
and precious and sitting
on anything in here
is going to be miserable.
Like, none of this
furniture is for sitting.
None of these plates are for eating.
None of these halls are for walking.
This is an incredibly expensive museum,
that someone is living in.
- Can I say have a little
sock that I put over my
roller skates, respectfully?
- Booties?
- So they don't roll?
- I appreciate you doing
that, Sid. I was gonna say-
- Stepping with tube
sock-covered rollerskates.
- Oh my god.
- Salazar allows you all to sit and says,
"Can I retrieve some tea, coffee, water,
"or sparkling beverage?"
- I'll take the sparkling beverage.
- Absolutely.
- Coffee and whatever I just ate.
- I'll have a cabernet? Is that nuts?
- Oh, will you give us alcohol?
- Is that on the table here?
- Can have a cabernet?
- The hospitality of the palazzo di Khrome
is, of course, renowned far and wide.
We have one Cabernet,
one we wanna Cabernet over here?
- Two cabernets, yeah.
- Can I get a bottle of Grand Cru on ice?
- So you want a full bottle?
That's the drink you
want - is a full bottle?
- I want a table.
- Yeah I mean,
you don't have to bring
two glasses of cab,
just bring the bottle, we'll split it.
- Maybe some bread for the table?
- Do have a list of apps?
- I can't eat in my current form,
but if you have any psychic donuts,
I'll take some for later.
- Do you have psychic donuts?
- Of course...
- So: bread, psychic donuts, two cabs.
- Moments later,
he comes back with an exquisite
bottle of champagne on ice
and a bunch of glasses, a small,
incredible ceramic turine
with like olive oil
and balsamic in it
and sort of swimming around.
A sort of like wax paper bag
of table bread, and also a
shimmering hologram donut.
- Gunnie fully gets up and does a dance.
(all laughing)
Like, we're - this is
it, guys! This is it.
- We're taking this job! No
matter what, we taking this job
- We got the new Skip, Margaret's in here.
I mean, this is incredible!
- Margaret, you have really
done a number on our business.
- This is incredible
- Okay, don't thank me yet.
- Too late.
- Any of the times, like
we've gotten jumped,
like the Barrys got attacked,
it was not in a place like this.
- Exactly!
I thought psychic donuts was a joke!
And he brought one out!
- I feel like it's a good sign
that they brought out the champagne.
'Cause you would not pop a
bottle of expensive champagne,
if you're planning on k*lling people.
- Come on.
- You see, Salazar says
presenting her ladyship Hyacinth Khrome.
(all clapping)
And you see this old woman
walks in - platinum white bob
wild, like leopard print
horn rim sunglasses inside,
you can tell they're prescription.
Prescription sunglasses,
weird like leopard spot,
but black and white silk
overthrow, like scarab crusted
with jewelry and necklaces.
She's gotta be like 4'10" in heels
and has a just incredibly groomed
Norwich terrier in one arm.
- Just like Barry said, I
will go to hell for her.
(all laughing)
- I meant that for Marge, not for-
- Yeah but I think it applies here, too.
- I think that dog
psychically has gone to hell
I read some very dark
thoughts from this dog.
- I'll pour her a glass of
champagne and serve it to her.
- My darling, are you
serving me my own champagne?
- Yes, yeah, I'm a companion droid
so this is what I do.
- Oh, I heard about you,
I think, I saw you in a
commercial or something.
- Yeah.
- It was the one with all the
curses in it. It was awesome.
(all laughing)
- They banned it.
- You see she says, No,
there were no curses,
This was Living Doll Cybernetics.
You're the new droid from
Living Doll Cybernetics?
- No, what commercial
are you talking about?
- Oh, I must be mistaken,
we come here to discuss
some present business
as I believe...very well.
- Is Living Doll Cybernetics
doing a multi-purpose droid now?
- This is for business...
- I'm a little distracted, Gunnie.
- I'm sorry, what's the question?
- Is Living Doll Cybernetics
doing a multi-purpose droid now?
- I feel like this is a quick Google...
- She says no, not a multi-purpose droid.
Salazar put... do you have it?
Do we have it on the DVR?
- We don't have to watch.
- We do not have to watch commercials.
- We do.
- Okay, we will.
- All of you watch a screen come on
and a commercial play: "New
from Living Doll Cybernetics,
"the latest answer to your Android needs."
You see, resplendent in pink battle armor,
the exact shade of your
candy striper dress,
huge g*n, masked figure, like zero face,
sort of like visor to helmet,
wheeled, roller blade feet...
(cool rollerblading sounds)
- Flip!
(laser blasting noises)
"...From Living Doll Cybernetics
"the answer to android violence
"newest and first in a line
of battle competent droids..."
Block letters, like steel brushed font,
"Warfare Whitney!"
and you see a visor comes back.
It is exactly Sid's face,
and goes "I have one job."
- No, you don't! What about pleasure?
What about the protocol?
- That robot sucks.
- Yeah, that robot sucks! Anyway,
Mrs. Khrome, we are so
excited to work for you
and take employment in
whatever form you're offering.
- So this is, well, do you
want any details about it?
- Yes, definitely, hi, I'm Margaret.
Great to meet you, Mrs. Khrome.
- Oh, very well. Well, as you all know,
I'm Mrs. Hyacinth Khrome.
Discretion
is the order of the day
My terrier, Mabrow...lovely, no?
- What?
- Beautiful terrier
Malborough?
- Mabrow.
- My terrier Brabow?
- You guys, we speaking the same-
- You making fun of me?
- No.
- He would never.
- Unfortunately, I find
myself need of assistance
with very little time...
...left.
My arch rival...
Myalor Nabthacks.
She has been a thorn in my side
for cycles and cycles and cycles
and now she thinks that the last minute
she can waltz into the
Carbine Kennel Club Dog Show
and take the blue ribbon from me?
I don't...think so.
I don't think so.
- She can't.
- She can't.
- She's not allowed to.
- No, because the dogs are the ones
that win the blue ribbons,
it's not her at all.
- Does the name Aurora
Nebbins ring a bell?
- No.
(all laughing)
- He's...ah...he's...ah...
Yeah, no.
- Myalor, that trollop,
says for nargons now,
"Oh, I don't-
"No, I won't be submitting,
no, in the kennel club,
"the Carbine Kennel Club, no.
"Oh, you know, ever since Patsy passed,
"I could never enter another dog show."
- Who is Patsy?
- Her old pooch
who kicked the bucket some cycles back.
- And why is it bad that
a dog would kick a bucket?
- You guys, we gotta hear her out.
It means "died."
- It's dead. The dog died.
- Can I actually get another
Grand Cru? 'Cuz I finished it.
I appreciate that the ice
isn't even melted yet.
So no need to be refill the ice.
(all laughing)
Salazer looks and goes,
and he goes to get another
thing of champagne.
She says, I feel that 25.000 credits
is an ample payment for services rendered.
Tomorrow morning is the 78th Cyclical
Carbine Kennel Club Dog Show at the dome
here on Blue Heaven level.
I want you to take Aurora Nebbins
out of that dog show.
- Kidnap the dog?
- Well, we don't-
We just have to take her out, or you see-
- I want you to break that dog's legs.
- Ohhh!!
- Ohhhh!
- I look her right in the eye and I go,
I'll break that dog's legs for 48.000.
No, no!
Can I roll persuasion?
- No, no.
- As in persuasion - or deception?
- I am too drunk to give the help action.
- Okay.
- It's a 10.
- 10, gotcha.
- Even with that, plus...?
- Plus eight.
- I don't think you, so you see,
I'm not of a mind to negotiate on price.
- I would like to use my subtle control,
which is a part of my class.
Where, as an action,
I can cause a creature
you can see within 30 feet
to make a wisdom saving
throw against my universal force save DC.
And on a failed save,
They forget a single
aspect of a conversation
observation, or encounter
that I was present for
in the last 10 minutes.
- Incredible, cool.
- Can I do my-?
- Yes, we'll do contested.
- I'll k*ll the dog and then I'll kiss it.
- That's c*ck.
That is a 18.
- She's gonna roll this with disadvantage.
What do you do to just
momentarily distract this...?
- I just go,
(Zac coughs)
- Is the man all right?
- I think so.
- She goes, what were we talking about?
- Nothing, absolutely nothing.
- We will do it for 48.000 credits
and I roll a persuasion.
Go ahead and roll persuasion.
- With advantage.
- With advantage.
- Unless being drunk means
I don't have concentration.
- Can we, like, ask her
to do something else?
- Also, we're not gonna
break the dog's legs.
- Yeah, persuade her about that.
- And I wanna get paid so
let's get take that out.
- That's a
32, to persuasion.
- 32, she looks at you and says,
- And we're not gonna break dog's legs.
- But we're gonna feed it like good food
and it's gonna be like,
not like froofy super health food.
So it'll like take it
out of the competition.
But the dog will have a great day.
- Yeah, we're gonna feed it Iams,
and its coat is gonna look like sh*t.
- For 48.000 credits...
For 48.000 credits?
I want you to make a mockery of that dog.
- Done.
- But you see, she says,
or for 25.000 credits,
You may do as you wish
and just make sure the dog doesn't compete
in the dog show.
- Okay, so stretch goals,
- Great.
- Mockery.
I'm good with that.
- It's all in.
- 30k, we'll give the dog a bad haircut.
- Great.
- This dog does not possess hair.
- Okay.
- Oh, it's a hairless dog.
- We could give him a tattoo.
- It is a royal...
- We'll give him a tattoo.
- I don't wanna give him a tattoo!
- Which one is it?
- If you, listen, you
seem a reasonable robot.
So what I will say is this,
- Bleep bloop.
Aurora Nebbins is a Royal Blue mastiff.
She will appear tomorrow at the
Carbine Kennel Club Dog Show
at the dome,
you will have a very short amount of time
to infiltrate the dog show
and for 25.000 credits,
simply remove the dog.
The price you have asked, that 48.000?
I am sure you will be
able to reap that cost
and more, ransoming the dog.
- We are taking the dog.
- So, I will be happy to supply
you with the contact details
for Myalor to make this ransom exchange.
Our interaction will
end at 25.000 credits.
Does that sound amenable
to all parties involved?
- We shake hands.
- Yeah, she shakes hands with you.
- One last thing before we go?
And you don't, if you, we would love it,
it just would help a lot.
If we could get just 500
credits right now, for expenses,
that would be perfect.
- No.
- Right on.
- I can only use my thing once a day.
- Do any of your friends
have Warfare Wendys
in their employ?
- I just saw the commercial today.
- Can are we watch the commercial again?
- No, I think we're good there.
- I wanna see it again.
Show it to me again,
I wanna watch f*ck' Warfare Wendy.
- Okay.
- All right, we've got
a job.
- Let's get outta here.
- She says the dog must be abducted
or destroyed prior to- your choice,
what, up to you, prior to its ability
to compete in the dog show. If
it competes, the deal is off.
Should you be successful in your mission,
Where should I make rendezvous
in order to remit payment to you?
- Here?
- No, that will not be an option.
- The ship?
- You will never set foot
in my house again.
- The ship?
- The ship.
- Is that okay?
- We have an incredible
ship called the Wurst
and it will be docked here and I can-
- It's still called the Red Hot
til we made the registration
- I mean, can we just give
you a number to wire it to
so that we're guaranteed payment
and we don't get skipped out on?
- I will be handing an
encrypted data card.
I will not be wiring spacers.
- We'll be staying at
the Obfusion Arms Hotel.
- The Obfusion Arms?
Very well, I can meet
you at the Obfusion Arms
if you so wish.
- Great.
- Cool.
- Cool.
- We are meeting a lot of
people at the Obfusion Hotel.
- You think that bridal party is gonna go?
I think they said, no.
- I'm gonna grab all the
food and stuff that we got
and I'll take whatever we didn't eat
we are not leaving it here.
- Can we take bread?
- Can we get some sippy cups for the wine?
- Is that all right?
- Salazar grabs some to-go
boxes and hands them out.
- Would your Satrogi dog like
little nibble of psychic donut?
- You see, she looks down at
the little Norwich terrier,
Mabrow, and goes,
he eats exclusively money.
And she stands up, and walks out,
she does- she turns around and says,
if you do, I actually could...
If you wanted to make more,
I could pay you 150.000 bajar shillings...
- I don't know what that means,
but no.
The face made after that.
- All right, standard credits, fine.
You see, bajar shillings
are a extremely discontinued
defunct currency.
- Incredible.
- I shall rendezvous with
you at the Obfusion Arms,
following the event at the dog show
for which I will be present
and certainly very shocked.
- So is that tomorrow
morning or tomorrow evening?
- Tomorrow morning, bright and early.
- One last question.
Now, are you interested
in becoming your own boss?
- We grab you and drag you out.
- You guys skedaddle.
- As we skedaddle, I'm a little worried
that we might have to sneak
back into Blue Heaven.
So can not kind of like
do a scan of the area
of any other points
of...ingress? Is that a word?
Because I'm like,
we had that weird interaction with the guy
and I'm kind of wondering
if it's gonna be a hassle
trying to get in again.
- Yeah, if there's like-
like, a freight elevator,
that kind of thing.
- Something like that, just like-
- Oh yeah, you can- give
me investigation check
to try to find an easier
way out of Blue Heaven level.
- Can I give her a help action?
Like, look around?
- Wait, I reroll ones - Failsafe!
Yeah, baby!
25.
- Amazing, yes, you absolutely do.
Actually, what you can probably do
is just find a like freighter hover truck.
It's making deliveries up here
and you could either try to bribe a driver
or just like muscle your way
into the back of one of those.
- Okay I point it out so everyone knows.
- Can I use telemetry to get
the, like route for this truck?
So we always just know where the truck is?
- Yes, absolutely.
You use your psychic ability,
so this truck trundles its way
out of Blue Heaven.
You guys like jump into
the back of this truck.
Probably some sort of bribe,
like an easy 10 credits will
grease the palm of the driver
to let this happen.
- I've got it, guys. I've got it.
- And you guys make your way
back down to the Vale of Tiers.
What do you do when you arrive there?
- I just, ahead of time,
I think in the future,
maybe we shouldn't break dog's legs.
Like, can we all just agree that's-
- Yeah, we're definitely just gonna,
we're gonna capture the dog
and we're gonna hang out with it.
- Right.
- Cuz for me, it's already a jump-
Like, the Barry Battalion
used to save dogs
and now we're kidnapping.
So for me that's already a leap.
- We can think about it as like
saving the dog from having to perform.
- Yes, and I can get there.
- I think we're gonna
show that dog a good time
that its owner doesn't normally show it.
- And then we're gonna hand
it right back to the owner
for a bunch of money.
- Yep.
- Right on.
- The important part.
- Okay, great.
- Can we go to this hotel?
- Yeah, I guess we actually
need to get rooms there.
- Oh yeah.
- Yeah, what do you guys think?
- Well, we told people that
we would meet them there.
- Let's do it, let's head to the hotel.
- Or I guess we're supposed
to meet them tomorrow
so we could sleep on the ship tonight.
- Wait, the ship's gonna be all good soon.
- Yeah, I mean,
we've probably got a couple marbecs left.
- I'm crunching the
numbers and being like,
- Tomorrow morning, head to the hotel.
- Maybe we should stay on the ship?
- That's great.
- Let's do it.
- You could put rooms on your UFTP card.
I mean, that's something you could do,
but there's that has a whole level
of complications to it as well.
- I mean, if it's just
about casing the joint,
we can go, like, poke around
without renting a room.
- Yeah, definitely.
- One of those, like, I mean,
hotels just have lobbies that
you can just go to, right?
That's the whole- a thing with-
- Have you guys never stayed
in a really nice hotel before?
- We don't have hotels.
- What is a "hotel?"
- Growing up I have, but not recently, no.
- Do they have like,
can you get like a massage at this hotel?
- Oh, for sure. The Obfusion Arms--
You can tell that Lucienne
forked over some cash,
like this is a visiting
Monarch of an entire moon
coming to a Rec Station.
The Obfusion Arms is, honestly,
probably a couple levels
up from the Vale of Tiers.
Not quite at the Blue Heaven level,
but it's some swanky digs, for sure.
- You guys, we're about to come in to...
- Big money!
- The ball is rolling up.
We're going to the hotel.
Everyone's getting a full body
massage, slash, tuna, slash,
- I'm gonna meet you guys there.
I'm gonna go grab some chef's
tools and I'll see you.
I'll see everyone there.
- Okay, oh, great.
I'm gonna actually send the
robot, then, back to the ship
and I will be here in person.
- Great, we're all gonna share one room,
but we are all gonna get massages.
So that's nice.
- I can't wait!
- Yeah.
- Wow, I mean, I've
given so many massages,
but never received one.
- Oh my gosh, how exciting.
- Huge. Huge.
- Aguatunisians don't get tense,
but I do like the
sensation of bodily touch,
so I will take it.
- So, you- now is this
going on the UFTP card?
Okay, cool.
- It certainly is.
- So, you throw down on that UFTP card
and you're gonna get 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6 massages.
- Cool.
- In one room?
- In one room.
- Can I send a message out?
Can I kind of cover
for myself a little bit
with work and be like...
...what am I gonna say? f*ck.
I'm in, like, recruitment.
- Hell yeah.
- Yeah, so I'm just,
I'm here for a little bit
of a recruitment outing
and I'll be out of the office.
I wanna have like an out of
office kind of auto reply
to any emails that says
that I'm in recruitment.
- Go ahead and make a deception roll.
- Yeah, I've only been rolling twos today.
So, this is deception?
Deception.
There's a plus six to that.
Hell yeah.
- Oh...yes.
24.
- All right, okay, there they are.
- Hi, this is Margaret Encino.
I'll be out of the office
for the next few nights.
- I know this is a role
playing episode thus far...
I'm gonna do a Box of Doom roll.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- 24. Cool
Odds are in your favor.
There is a plus 10 to this roll.
- One.
- One.
- Box of Doom got that, right?
- No, come on.
- Okay, I saw 10 on the side.
What the heck is next to a 10?
Oh, it might've been a seven.
It might've been 15.
It might've been a 12.
Might've been 17.
Might've been to f*cking 2!
f*ck, it could've been a 20!
8, 16, 3?
- It could have been anything.
f*ck!
I just rolled a nat 20
when I threw that away.
- So, you grab a room
at the Obfusion Arms.
So, you guys arrive - this resplendent
it's like a- in the way that this galaxy
has a lot of retro elements,
this is incredibly art deco,
like, wild sort of like
1920s-esque, I think
like Great Gatsby-style,
but all in like chrome
and neon and brightly
saturated colors, as you arrive,
there's this sort of bright
orange wrought iron like
Fleur-de-lis that are sort
of vibrating and humming
with krystalline energy.
And you walk into this opulent lobby.
There is a fountain in the
center that you can tell,
has like a krystal consciousness
singing in the center of the fountain.
There's hanging chandeliers overhead.
You walk in.
Yeah, they've got a room for you.
It has a single bed and
there is also a water bed,
which is literally like
attached to the aquatic systems
in the hotel.
So you'll just be in basically
like a big latex balloon
full of water in the room.
- So you'll be one of the beds.
- Latex?
- So we can like slap it around?
- It kind of wobbles.
- You can kind of like...
- Sorry, Riva, sorry.
- This is fun.
- No, it's fun!
- Can I go up to the concierge
and try to chat them up a little bit?
- Hell yeah. You guys see the spa opens up
and you see that there is a
concierge just for the spa saying,
I believe we have some massages this way?
- Are massages good?
- Great for tension.
- Especially for you.
we were doing a little
bit of foam rolling,
I believe? This is gonna be that plus...
- Can I get a massage?
- You can get a scalp
massage or a foot massage.
- Okay, great.
- Not bad massages.
- Not bad. I'll take a scalp massage.
- Two of, I would say, favorites.
- You are all escorted off to
go get some lovely massages.
Margaret, you go over to the concierge.
What you say to the concierge?
- Hi, how are you doing today?
- Oh, I'm doing fine, thank you.
How are you doing?
You are Miss Encino, correct?
- Yes, exactly.
Lovely to have you. I just saw
that booking came in today.
I'm glad we were able to accommodate you.
- Me too, okay while we're talking,
can I try to do my charmer feat,
which is my charisma versus their wisdom.
- Versus their wisdom, here we go.
- Okay.
- What'd you get?
- 10, 11.
- Did you say 10-11?
- On 11, you see them fully charmed.
- Ohh, what are the odds?
I am rolling so terrible today.
- So, you see this concierge
look up at you and just go like
oh, it's such a pleasure
and again, you have an 18 charisma.
You're like young, charming, attractive,
wealthy, like, very, very bright.
You see this guy go like,
and truly there's
anything I can do for you
please let me know.
- I would love that.
You know what I was actually
hoping to try to meet up with,
I think there's a potential client here,
and I don't want them to know
that I know that they're here,
but I would love to be able to
run into them like at the gym
or something. Can you tell me where...?
And then I ask about...
Oh yeah, Madeline Maud.
Oh, whereabouts is her room?
- Go ahead and give me a persuasion check.
You're doing this with advantage.
- Okay, great.
- Nat 20.
Nat 20 and a nat one.
Whoa, that's crazy.
- He looks at you and says, oh, of course
and you see you've got
him because you see,
he looks and says, oh,
I actually see here.
Yes, well obviously,
you know where Madeline Maud's room is
a lot of the corporate cards
that go the credit cards
that go out with UFTP agents
will have encryption on them.
So at your level,
a lot of the cards read the exact same
so that people can't,
so that those numbers don't get shared out
in a lot of places.
So he says, obviously,
under the same card,
you realize that it's an encryption
and Lucienne must've paid for the room.
So he looks and thinks
that this is you basically, and says,
well, you would know, and
produces a card key for you.
- Perfect.
- Oh yes.
- What are you doing after this?
- I normally, I'll have
a staff meal and a drink
in the hotel bar,
and then I'll make my way home,
but-
- very cool.
- Yeah.
- Wow, yeah, how long does this last?
Is that crazy?
Oh, it's a minute.
No, it lasts for a minute, okay.
Thank you so much for all your help.
This was incredible.
- Yeah, and you obviously
still want room service
for the two of you tomorrow?
- Yes...now what did I say before?
Was I going breakfast?
Or was I going like champagne?
- You said you wanted a
short breakfast service
with some mimosas, I believe
and then you said, oh,
we are supposed to keep a doorman
at the back entrance for transportation.
- Great, yep, all of that
still sounds perfect.
Thank you so much.
- Amazing.
- Amazing.
- Hell yes, you got some good intel, homie
and you had that card.
- So I have this card.
- You have a room card and you
have the number of the room.
You have Madeline Maud's room.
- Okay, great I go and get a massage.
- And that's all for this
episode of Dimension 20,!
Tune in next week and we'll see you then.
Bye bye!
- I know that Gunnie
wants to go to the casino.
- What about Gunnie?
- You guys ready to go?
- Ante up?
- Oh no, no.
We're not playing.
- We're just getting free drinks.
- Losing this would be
the biggest deal ever
professional to professional.
- We need a win.
- We need a win.
I'm gonna pay off my debt.
You're gonna k*ll Barry Nine.
Our life is gonna be perfect.
- Feels good! It feels good!
- Okay give me an intelligence,
wisdom and charisma saving throw.
- Help him now or he'll die.
- Lou is not allowed on
his own ever as a player.
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13x03 - Wrecked on Rec 97
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