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13x04 - Every Day is Our Wurst Day

Episode transcripts TV show, "Dimension 20". Aired: September 26, 2018 – present.*
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A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.

13x04 - Every Day is Our Wurst Day

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(upbeat music)

- [Brennan] Hello, one and all.

Welcome back to another thrilling
episode of Dimension 20:

A Starstruck Odyssey.

I'm your humble dungeon
master, Brennan Lee Mulligan.

With me, as always, are
our Intrepid Heroes.

Say hi, Intrepid Heroes.

- [All] Hi, Intrepid Heroes.

- Last we left off, we were aboard Rec 97.

That's right, folks, the
glittering emerald chaos

of one of the galaxy's greatest

and best recreation stations,

having just taken a job on
the newly-minted The Wurst.

Our crew came together under
the guidance and supervision

of new shareholder in this Amercadian

retrofitted freighter, Margaret Encino.

We took to the streets of Rec 97,

looking for credits
however we could get them,

and downloading the
proldier app Smash 'n Grab,

got hooked up with a job on the
Blue Heaven level of Rec 97,

from one Hyacinth Khrome,

who had a cool 25.000 credits

if you could make a doggy disappear.

That's-
- For a day.

- For a day. And maybe ransom it back.

That's right: a royal blue Mastiff,

by the name of Aurora
Nebbins, has to get gone,

and this is the job you have taken.

However, that's not where we left you off.

We left you off in a
totally unrelated matter,

in the spa of the Obfusion Arms
in the cycle 220 AnarchEra.

Here, getting all sorts
of lovely treatment

for the first time.

As we said, last episode,
the ball is rolling up.

- And we'll say it this
episode a lot, too, I think.

- We're gonna say it a lot.

- [Brennan] We'll say it a
lot this episode as well.

- We're kinda clinging to it. Yeah.

- It's sort of the gunner
channel's catch phrase.

- It's pretty much a catch phrase.

- [Zac] When I don't know what to say,

I say, "The ball is rolling up."

- [Brian] The ball is rolling up.

- [Emily] And then you say, "Fill her up."

- [Brennan] I will be honest;

something that people should
get used to in this galaxy,

our own galaxy, the Milky Way,

is that things tend to happen all at once.

An entire bachelorette party
was recruited underneath Riva,

in a Pleasure Putty MLM.

We found the hotel room for Madeline Maud,

which is connected to the
craft of the Princeps Zortch

of Rubian V.

Admiral Gust Weatherall
discovered "Skip" Takamori.

Something there.

We had a little bit of
a psychic feeling of,

"It's wearing off." What could it mean?

- [Emily] It's wearing off.

It also makes me think that
they're going to send someone

to make it stop wearing off.
- To re-up it.

- [Siobhan] Ooh.

- [Brennan] And not only
that, with a clutch Nat 20,

we got ourselves the room key,

under the name Madeline Maud,

and discovered that the card was connected

to one Lucienne Rex, your old friend.

- My good friend.

- [Brennan] Your good
friend. 25K on the line.

Almost disrupted, also, by a commercial

for one Warfare Whitney.

- Almost. We don't know
if it's almost yet.

- [Brennan] Yeah.

There's a chance it still
gets really disrupted.

Point being, a lot's happening on Rec 97.

It's a wild, star-filled void out there,

and you got to do what you can.

Folks, we come right back
to a beautiful, tiled room,

filled with steam, wonderfully warm.

Everyone having a good shvitz
here in the steam room.

Post-massage, robes either
on you or in your lap

or hanging up at the
door of the steam room.

Let's go around the table here.

Where are you in the steam room,

and what's the state of
affairs that we're in?

- I think Gunnie is
sitting in the steam room,

the only parts of me that can shvitz

are my head and my feet.

I think he's mostly
doing it for the company,

and just to be with this crew.

- Oh yeah, I'm also not in the steam room,

but I am in an adjacent,
very steamed up...

I guess it has to be the
same water temperature,

because we do have very sensitive.

- [Brennan] Give me a
Tech check, actually.

- [Lou] Me?
- [Brennan] Yeah, yeah, yeah,

go ahead, go for it.
- Oh no.

Oh no.
- [Emily] It could be good.

Why did I say that?

- [Lou] 18.
- Okay.

- [Brennan] Yeah, you and droid

probably should not be in here.

Come to think of it-
- I think we're going

to step out.

This is not good for my gears.

I wanted to do it, because it's
just been such a great day,

and the ball is rolling up,

but Riva-
- I'm in my Aguatunisian form.

I sent the robot back to the ship,

and I'm inside a pod.
- [Brennan] Amazing.

- [Emily] There's probably
an Aguatunisian masseur.

- [Brennan] Yeah, absolutely.

You can get an underwater massage.

- [Siobhan] I feel like there's
enough underwater people

who live here,

and maybe there's hot tub-
- You're underwater

in a hot tub?
- Yeah, there's flowers

floating in the water.
- Beautiful.

- [Brennan] You're in a
beautiful, beautiful pool.

How about the Skipper?

- [Zac] Skip has saddled up,

just right in front of wherever
the steam is coming out of,

sitting cross legged, no
towel anywhere to be seen.

Just getting blasted by steam.

Turning bright red. The front
side of me is bright red.

- Incredible. Yeah.

Still have not turned
those pain systems on.

- Oh, yeah.

I do think I had them on earlier,

but I definitely turned them off now.

- Oh my God.

- Incredible. Margaret?

- [Ally] Yeah, I think I'm so relaxed.

Just long day's work, reclining back,

drinking something ice cold
in this really hot steam room.

- [Brennan] Beautiful.

- I think Sid is not totally ready

to make the leap to being massaged,

so she keeps getting
up and trying to help.

And I think that she's
essentially talked her way

into giving the massage artist a massage.

- [Brennan] Incredible, amazing.

The massage artist is like,
"Okay, it's your time."

And what about Barry?

- [Brian] I think the Barrys
used to all hit the steam room

after a hard workout,

so I think he's just
staring off with a smile,

but also, it's a lot.

He's crying but smiling,

but pretending that
it's all from sweating.

- [Ally] Oh my God.

- It's crazy that I'm
sweating from my cheeks

so much right now.

Skip, you should step away from the steam.

(Zac hisses)

- My face hurts.

- Incredible.

Margaret, you're sitting on this room key.

Have you informed your crew mates?

- [Ally] I think so, yeah.

I think I told everyone
everything I heard.

- Amazing.

- [Ally] Because it's the morning, right?

Tomorrow morning.

Two things are happening at the same time.

- You guys are escorted
from the steam room.

Through changing rooms area,

but you guys all have these
fresh robes all the time.

Beautiful, cushy robes.

And there's a beautiful rock garden,

with white sand and some greenery,

and there's some singing crystals around,

that harmonize and create
this very pleasing atmosphere,

and a table laden with fresh fruits.

And there's a bunch of lawn chairs,

all around on a deck with
little assortments of fruit

and things to eat.

Riva, there is a heightened aquarium tank,

that has all these little flowers

and different things like that,

so you're able to just kick it right here

alongside everybody.

- [Brian] Just absolutely
go ham on the fruit.

- [Ally] Yeah. I have some rosemary water.

Something very tasteful.

- I think I've been trying not to say it,

but then I'm just, "So, Warforge Whitney.

What did everyone think?

What did everyone think?"
- [Brian] She sucked.

- Yeah?
- Yeah, Warfare Whitney.

She's like you, right?

- [Siobhan] I thought she looked like you,

but really strong.

- Yeah, I thought she looked like you,

but not as good, and not as authentic.

She was a wannabe. She was a knockoff.

- [Siobhan] Not as nice.

- [Brian] Yeah.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

You know how sometimes,
when a team doesn't win

the Super Bowl,

but they already printed
all of those shirts,

and those shirts get shipped
off somewhere random?

So then, you'll just see a
woman wearing a shirt that says,

"Broncos '97 World Series Winner".

- Am I the winner or the loser?

- You're the winner,
you're the actual winner.

And now, this counterfeit is showing up,

on commercials everywhere
around the Milky Way.

- Yeah, counterfeit.
Yeah, she's a counterfeit.

- Yeah, I think she sucks.

- [Ally] Yeah, definitely.
- She sucks.

- [Ally] Sucks.

- [Lou] Clearly, she sucks.
- [Zac] Yeah she sucks.

- Thank you.
- I mean, roller blades?

Come on.

- They look so fast.
- They're so 1997.

- They're not blades.
- [Brian] And then,

then they came back a
couple thousand years ago.

- But then-
- Then they went away.

- They went away.
- Then they came back.

- They did come back.
- Then they went away again.

Roller skates.

- [Lou] Plus, you can't
skate backwards on blades.

- You can't?

- You can. You just have to do-

- Yeah, but it's-
- I used to roller blade,

with the Barrys.

But then we switched to roller skates.

- [Lou] Mobile, you know? I think?

- [Brennan] Margaret,
you are sitting here,

and have this key card for the room

under Madeline Maud here.

And you guys also all have a room

that you're sharing upstairs,

which, to be very clear,
is a lovely suite,

but does have a single king sized bed.

And you can order cots from downstairs,

but that's the situation.

- [Lou] I don't need them. It's fine.

- Sometimes I just sleep-
- I don't either.

I might stay up and pace.

- Okay. And then you are a bed.

- I am a bed, and I
sleep with one eye open.

I'll just have one eye staring directly

at who is sleeping on top of me.

- [Ally] I'll sleep on top of you,

and I'll sink to the side,

and you can be in the
water on the other side.

- [Siobhan] I'm happy either way.

I'm not uncomfortable with either of it.

- [Ally] Okay, great. I do
want to go to this room.

- Yeah, if you want-
- I have a key to it.

If you need help, I've got a
couple things that I could do

to try and help you.

I'm pretty stealthy, and I
could turn security cameras off

as we go.

- [Siobhan] I can also
probably help with a lot.

- [Ally] Oh yeah, because
you can just appear in there,

in the toilet.

Wherever you go.
- [Siobhan] Well, I-

- Wherever you go.
- [Siobhan] I don't want

to actually do that,

because the chemical makeup
of the toilet is not great.

- Okay.
- [Siobhan] Especially for me.

- Look, I'm just spitballing here.

- [Siobhan] It's fine.

But there's things I
could do that could help.

- Great.
- Yeah.

- I'll probably just make things worse,

so I will just stay away.

- [Lou] I'm with Barry.
- [Brian] If you need

someone to sh**t a g*n, I'll come running.

- I'm quiet.

- [Ally] Okay, maybe the
three of you go to the room.

- Our room, not the room?
- [Brian] Not the room yeah.

- I actually think the brain-slug-

I mean, we don't know he's a...

I actually think that Skip
could be really helpful.

- [Ally] Yeah, definitely. Let's do that.

- [Lou] I'm sorry, you hit
it. Me and Barry'll stay

by the elevator.

You chat up anybody?
- [Brian] You have to

get cooking stuff.

- I can go grab cooking
stuff, if now's a good time.

- [Ally] Chef's tools?
- [Lou] Yeah, I can go

grab chef's tools.
- That's a great idea.

- [Siobhan] Barry and Gunnie
go on a shopping montage.

- Yeah, you want to go grab chef's tools?

- [Brian] Grab some chef's tools.

- I think they're going to the casino.

- [Lou] No, we're not.

- [Ally] How much money do
you need for chef's tools?

- [Lou] You gave me 50.
- [Ally] Uh-huh.

- That should be good. I mean,
if you want - I don't know.

- The food is so important
to our future income.

Do you want to just take 500
and bring back the change?

- [Lou] Yeah, yeah.

- [Brian] Can I do an Insight check to see

if Barry knows what Gunnie's-
- [Brennan] Give me

an Insight check.

You give me deception.

- [Lou] Can I have
advantage on this, somehow?

- Okay. Just 10.

- 14.

- Well, you see Gunnie
sweating and blinking a lot,

so you think he's excited to
spend this money responsibly.

- Dude, we're going to
get some nice stuff.

- I'm going to get some
great stuff. Great stuff.

- 500. Let's see, all right.

- If you wanted to make some more money.

I have a really easy
and simple way to do it.

- [Lou] Yeah, when I'm
ready for Pleasure Putty,

I will let you know.
- Great.

I use Subtle Control to
wipe that from his mind.

- We're getting chef's tools.

I'm getting $500 for chef's tools.

- [Ally] Okay, we've got
80 credits left total.

Take the 500.

- Of the 10.000?

- I think I take you aside and I'm like,

"Do you want me to go escort Gunnie,

and try to be a steady presence?"

- Oh, yeah, you think-
- Do you think that I need to?

I'll leave it up to your discretion.

- Yeah, I mean, if that's
something that you want to do.

Wait, what do you mean?

- [Emily] I know that Gunnie
wants to go to the casino.

- What about Gunnie?

- [Lou] Are you guys ready
to go? You guys ready to go?

We got to go get these chef's tools.

- It's 11 o'clock at night,

and he's going to go
find some chef's tools

at the kitchen store.
- [Lou] Gunnie's half way

down the hallway.

We headed out? What's going on?

- [Brennan] Gunnie's
got this beautiful robe,

over a cybernetic body.

- [Ally] You should water g*n him.

- We headed out? We headed out?

Whenever you guys are ready
to go, I'm ready to go.

- [Brennan] Amazing.

Margaret, You're heading
up to Madeline Maud's room.

- If anyone wants to help me with the-

- [Siobhan] I'm helping.
- [Brennan] Cool, Riva's

going to help you out.

And then Barry and Gunnie are heading out.

The only swings here are Skip and Sid.

- Skip's going to go with me.

- [Brennan] Skip's going
with Margaret. Amazing.

- [Emily] I have to be honest with you.

If I go, I will probably go to the casino.

- What are you talking about?
- I have done

a serious inventory of my mental-

- [Lou] Are you guys talking
about a casino down there?

I'm not going to the casino.

I'm going to get chef's tools.

- [Emily] I don't trust myself.

- Wait, but what's going on?

Okay. No, come with me. Come with me.

- I don't trust myself.
- Okay, great.

- [Brennan] Incredible. Okay.

So, Sid, Skip, Margaret and
Riva stay at the Obfusion Arms.

Barry and Gunnie head out.

Barry, you and Gunnie both hit the deck.

Probably the vastest size
differential of crew members,

an enormous Barry and short
king Gunthrie Miggles-Rashbax-

- [Ally] Oh my God.

- [Brennan] Hit the deck
outside of the Obfusion Arms.

Gunnie, what's the play?
- What's the name

of that casino?
- [Brennan] the Emerald Comet

House of Fortune.
- [Lou] Emerald Comet.

I know an awesome place where
we can get chef's tools.

- [Brian] Chef's tools.
- Yeah, it's one over.

It's real close to the Emerald Comet.

We'll take a downsy-daisy down to there.

- Downsy-daisy, right on.
- [Lou] And let's go

take care of that, let's go
take care of that, come on.

- Right on. Let's go take
care of that. All right.

- Is there a place that
would sell chef's tools

either in the Emerald Comet,
or near the Emerald Comet?

- [Brennan] Yeah, I'll call
it a DC10 Investigation check.

You're just looking
for kitchen appliances.

- That's not...

- Can I help? Because
I'm looking for it too.

I just assume we're going to get-

- [Brennan] Give me a
DC10 Investigation check.

- [Lou] I got a nine.

- [Siobhan] That's not a 10.
- Nat one.

- Nat one. Cool.

- [Brian] I think the
tools are at the casino.

- Actually-

- We can probably get tools
at the casino, I would think.

- I mean, they have a kitchen there.

They have a kitchen there.

- They have a buffet.
- [Lou] Yeah, come on, man.

- All right, let's go.
- Of course we'll find

somebody there who knows.
- [Brian] We'll find somebody

there who has-
- Oh my God.

- [Lou] The ball's rolling up, man.

- [Brian] The ball's rolling up.

- Anyone we talk to, anywhere we walk in,

it's going to have what we need,

because that's the path we're on.

- [Brian] Right on.

- You guys head to the Emerald
Comet House of Fortune.

You go back to the Vale of
Tiers, near where your ship is.

We're going to go back
to the Obfusion Arms.

We're going to leave you as
you approach the Emerald Comet.

Jangling, all sorts of games,
card tables, holograms,

slot machines, cybertronic
Pachinko parlors,

all sorts of wild things going on.

Back at the Obfusion Arms, what
are the steps you're taking?

It's a simple elevator
ride up to the floor,

and a walk down the hallway
towards where the room is.

- [Zac] Y'all have described
this pretty thoroughly

at this point-
- Yeah.

- [Zac] What we're trying to do.

I feel like Skip is trying
to figure out how to help

for the first time-
- [Ally] Yes.

- Front back?

- I was thinking we
could take the elevator,

and then I would turn it off,

so that no one else could enter the floor.

And then we could go out and turn

all the security cameras off,

and then we could just go into the room.

But sneak in.

- Yeah, I like that.
- I like that too.

But we'll have to sneak in and be prepared

that someone is likely in there.

Okay.
- [Siobhan] Well, I can also

cast Calm Emotions on us.

That only lasts for a minute,

but each humanoid within
a 20 foot radius sphere,

centered on the point that I choose.

We can make a target
indifferent about creatures

of your choice that it's hostile towards.

- Okay, so if we see someone-
- [Siobhan] If we see

somebody else-
- Even if we ran into,

they would just feel indifferent?

- [Siobhan] They would feel indifferent.

- I mean, as soon as they left

that 20 foot radius, they
would again be hostile to us.

- But then they keep running back into it-

- [Siobhan] As long as they
don't have g*ns, we're fine.

- [Emily] Okay.
- [Ally] Okay.

- [Emily] This is good.

- [Zac] You want me to watch the back?

- [Emily] Oh, the back. But I think-

- The look out, yes.

- [Emily] I'll shut off
all the stuff for you.

Both of you can go in there,

and then we can see what's
going on with the lookout.

- [Ally] Yeah.

- Yeah.

- [Siobhan] Brennan, does
the gunner channel exist

when we're not on the ship?

- Unfortunately, no.

The comms don't exist when you're not-

- [Siobhan] We don't
have interpersonal comms.

We can't do this.
- [Brennan] You could send

a message to the comms
systems for Gunnie and Barry,

but you do not have that surveillance,

unless you're onboard the ship.

- [Emily] Although, might I suggest,

with your ability to make
people fail their saves,

it might be good with Calm
Emotions, in case we encounter-

- Your telepathy has a range
of 120 feet, I believe.

- [Siobhan] Great.

- [Brennan] Within a short distance,

if you're all on the same floor.

- [Siobhan] Oh yes, then
just communicate through me.

- [Ally] Okay.
- And I'll read everything

that you say-
- [Lou] The spa counts

as a short rest?

- [Brennan] The spa does
count as a short rest. Yes.

- [Ally] Good.
- [Siobhan] Great.

- I feel like you are very intimidating,

and when you stand there quietly,

you could make someone nervous,
and give them disadvantage.

- Yeah. I say, we all go-
- [Ally] You can just look

extremely official with me.

- [Emily] Yeah.

I say we sneak in and figure
out who is in this room.

Great?
- Great.

- Does that sound good?

- Sounds good to me.

- [Emily] Margaret, you know more than us.

Is this a good plan for you?

- Yeah, this is a good plan.
- Okay.

- I got to get in there.

- [Siobhan] Your dopamine is spiking,

in a way that-
- [Ally] Excuse me.

Get out of my blood stream.
- [Brennan] Amazing.

- [Emily] Can we take the elevator,

and then I'll cast Off on it?

- [Brennan] Hell yeah.
- To stop it, so that no one

else can come up?
- Amazing.

Is there a save associated
with that, or no?

- No, it's just any device
that requires a software.

"This power allows you
to activate or deactivate

any electronic device within range,

as long as the device is not
being wielded by a creature,

and has a clearly defined
on or off function

that can be easily access from
the outside of the device.

Any device that requires a
software-based shutdown sequence

to activate or deactivate
cannot be affected

by On slash Off."

- Awesome.

I'm going to go ahead and rule that,

yeah, that all checks out to me.

Elevator rises up.

You get to the 28th floor
of the Obfusion Arms.

All the way up.

- [Emily] Can I sh**t it
with an electrical bolt,

to short circuit it?
- [Brennan] Awesome.

- [Emily] Just to be more dramatic.

- Yeah.
- [Ally] Yeah.

- Picture Warfare Wendy, or
whatever her f*cking name is.

- You see there's a little
neon, crackling electrical

EMP magnet orb hits the elevator.

Elevator emergency shuts
down, and drops four inches,

so there's a little step
up into the hallway,

as you fully unpower the elevator,

and then hit the security cams.

- There you go, Miss Margaret.
- Thank you.

- [Brennan] Cool.

You know that shutting this off

is going to absolutely conceal
your entrance to that room.

However, depending on
how much scrutiny people

are paying to the security system,

they may notice that those
things have gone offline.

- [Emily] Well, there's a back
door for us to get out of.

- Skip, what's the move from you?

- I think Skip is following along.

As I understand it, I'm
supposed to be near Riva,

in case there's some sort of save-

- Yeah.
- [Zac] That I could maybe

make something have disadvantage for.

I do want to have, as much as possible,

see what is going on in the back door,

because there's, I guess,
some driver or something

coming up in the back.

- Tomorrow morning.
- [Brennan] Tomorrow morning.

You and Margaret step out
into the hallway, and Riva,

you can swim down the hallway.

The hallway has an adjacent up above it,

and there's about a one foot
panel of glass in the ceiling,

so that you're swimming above the hallway,

looking down at the air breather hallway.

- [Ally] Insane visual.
- [Brennan] Looking up,

seeing an Aguatunisian swim over you.

Sid is posted up in the elevator.

You two step out into the hallway.

You see that there is a staircase.

You see that, in terms
of accessibility points,

you connect to that operative
mentality and are like,

"What are the access points?"

You're certain there's other
staircases on this floor,

but the one that comes from
the offices in the lobby

is this one right here.

You're like, "Okay, if
someone were going to be

coming from downstairs,

they would not probably go
all the way out to the end

of a row of suites."
- [Zac] That's just

unnecessarily long.

- [Brennan] Unnecessarily long.

You're like, "That's the
main artery staircase

in the building."
- I'll just post up

by that.
- [Brennan] Hell yeah.

- [Ally] Cool.
- Yeah.

- I'm like...
- That's good, yeah.

- And I go...

(all laughing)

- I go, "Uh."

- [Brennan] Awesome.
- Can I get one of those?

- [Ally] That's so
loud. The loudest smile.

- [Brennan] Margaret, it's a
bit of a trip down the hallway.

This thing is not right near the elevator.

There's not a turn before,
but it's that weird thing

of walking probably 180
feet down a long hallway,

looking back at the elevators
far back behind you,

through this hotel.
- [Emily] I'm going to take

Handy Annie and catapult her to Margaret.

- Little android hand
pops up on your shoulder.

- I put the hand in my pocket.

I look casual. One thumb in a belt loop.

- [Brennan] Go ahead and
give me a Perception check.

And Riva, if you're swimming
along with Margaret,

you can do the same.
- Oh.

- Ooh.

Let's see.
- [Siobhan] I got a 14.

- [Ally] 11.

- [Brennan] 14, 11. Nothing much to see.

As you said, it's like
11 o'clock at night.

You're walking by these hallways.

It's so static here. It's a
hotel. It's incredibly uniform.

The only thing of note is
that there's one open door,

and there's a member of the cleaning staff

changing some of the sheets.

You move along towards the
room that you're going past.

- [Siobhan] Can I message everybody,

"Steal some extra shampoos and
conditioners," as we go past?

- [Emily] I leave my post to-
- No. God f*cking damn it.

- Riva.
- [Siobhan] Uh-huh.

- This is 180 feet down.

If you want to get
everybody in your telepathy,

you might actually have
to split the difference

from where Margaret's going to be

to the rest of your companions
back at the elevator.

- Uh-huh.
- As you say that,

give me an Insight check.

- [Lou] Why we making an Insight
check? Why we need Insight?

- [Ally] Come on.
- A 12.

- All good.

- [Ally] I hate this.
- [Siobhan] God damn it.

- [Emily] You have that look in your eye.

- You have had that look
in your eye since lunch.

- Baby. I'm baby.

- [Zac] All good.

- When we were recording
the Adventuring Academy,

and Brennan was like,
"Things are going so well,"

I was like, "You're going to f*ck us."

- Yeah.
- Whatever do you mean?

Margaret, you walk up
and approach the door.

It is very silent in this hallway.

- [Ally] I was going to
say, I try to listen.

- Give me a Perception check.

- [Emily] I think you
can do with advantage,

because of Handy Annie.

- Yeah, you can.

- Okay. 20 not Nat.
- 20 not Nat.

But because of the advantage or no?

- Because of the advantage.

- Cool. Totally silent.

Can't hear anything. And
the doors are very heavy.

They have the little
key card thing that goes

in front of them.

This is a nice hotel.
No expenses were spared.

Handy Annie jumps up on your shoulder,

and a seam opens in the skin,

and a little screen comes down,

measuring ambient electricity,

and you see, as it
orients towards the room,

the dial goes up like crazy.

- Ooh.

- They're watching a movie.

(Brennan laughs)

- [Ally] Okay can I do
something kind of shady?

- [Brennan] Yeah.

- [Ally] I would like to
go and talk to the person

who works here at the hotel
who's restocking stuff.

- [Brennan] Yeah.
- And say I locked myself

out of my room.

- You already have a key, don't you?

- I know. I just want
someone else to go in first.

- [Brennan] Amazing. You go back-

- The hotel staff person?

- [Brennan] You go back to the
member of the cleaning staff.

- [Ally] Yeah.

- Incredible.

You walk back to that room,
see the person changing sheets.

They turn around. This is an
enormous, broad shouldered man.

Grizzled, short blonde hair.

Turns around to look at you.
Says, "Oh, hi. How can I-"

- [Ally] I am so sorry, but I
cannot find my key anywhere.

I'm just in this room down here.

I don't know if you've seen me walk

up and down this hallway,

but I was wondering if you
could pop my room open.

Then I can show you. I'm pretty
sure my room key's in there.

- Oh, got you. Go ahead and
give me a Deception check.

- [Ally] It doesn't feel good.

Okay, let's see. 16.

- [Brennan] Cool.

- Cool.

- [Brennan] Go ahead and
give me an Insight check.

- It's good to have Riva on range.

- 21.

- The guy looks at you
and says, "Oh, sorry.

You locked yourself out of your room?"

- [Ally] Yeah.

- [Brennan] If you head back downstairs,

there should be somebody
at the front of the hotel

to help you with that.
- Yeah, but my key

is right there on the
other side of the door.

You don't have one of the universal keys?

You can't pop me in there? I
can show it to you right away.

- Margaret.
- Uh-huh.

- Couple things occur to you very quickly.

- f*ck.
- [Brennan] In a moment,

before I narrate what happens.

- Well, he's a grizzled, buff person.

- I'm going to say a couple of things.

- [Ally] Okay.

- It's 11 o'clock at night, right now.

- [All] Mhmm.

- Why are they cleaning?

- [Brennan] Why are they cleaning?

- Why are they cleaning?
Why are they cleaning?

What is he cleaning?

- You look and see the sheets
are not done very well.

And from the cleaning cart,
a blaster p*stol comes out.

- From him?
- [Brennan] From him.

Drawing on you.

The door bursts open behind you, Zac.

Surprise, surprise: we are
not going to go to TaleSpire,

but we are going to roll Initiative.

- No, no, no.
- I think we're gone.

- [Emily] No.
- Us walking around a casino.

- I rolled a Nat one.
- [Ally] Really?

- I rolled a 23.

- That's a three, in actual Initiative.

- [Brennan] Okay.

- [Brian] Good thing we were
together for the massages.

- That's when we needed to be together.

- [Brennan] Okay. Who
got higher than a 16?

- I did.
- [Brennan] Okay.

What did we get here for Sid?

- 23.
- [Brennan] 23 for Sid.

What did we get over here?

- 19.
- [Brennan] 19 for Skip.

Bada-boom. Did anyone get
between a 12 or a 16? No.

- God damn it.

- And then what did Margaret get?

- [Ally] A seven.
- [Brennan] What did Riva get?

- Lucky number seven.
- Three.

- [Brennan] Okay, we're going
to resolve this super quick.

Sid, you hear the noise
of a blaster p*stol

off in the corner, and the
door opening up by Skip.

You're by the elevator.
- Are these in opposite

directions?
- Opposite directions.

- [Emily] Okay. But I don't see anyone?

- If you step out of the elevator,

you will see the people
coming out of the door

next to the Skipper.
- [Emily] People?

- People, it looks like.
- [Emily] Okay, I want

to throw, as a bonus
action, a stun grenade

down past the Skipper.

- Okay.

Skip's going to have full cover,

because he's posted up by the door.

- Uh-huh.

- Go ahead. This stun grenade.

That's a bonus action, correct?

- Yeah, that's a bonus action.

- [Brennan] Okay.
- I'm going to try

and do that first, and see what that does.

There's a DC14 Constitution saving throw.

- DC14 con saving throw.

- [Emily] Yeah.

- Okay. One succeeds, one fails.

- Okay.

The one that succeeds,

now I'm going to use my
action to just sh**t.

- Okay.

I will say, of the ones you just stunned-

- Uh-huh.
- These two guys coming up

next to Skip are hotel security.

- Oh. I don't want to do that, then.

- [Brennan] One of them is stunned,

and you hear another
noise down the hallway,

but it's probably 80
feet down the hallway.

- 80 feet.

Okay, I think that I can,
when I throw a grenade,

use it to get a little extra speed.

Can I spend a kinetic
die to get extra speed

from the grenade?

- If that's an ability
you have, then absolutely.

- I think that's a Corsair thing.

- [Brennan] Cool.

- Do you want me to look it up right now?

- [Brennan] Yeah, take
the time to look it up.

As you're doing that,
we'll just go a little

out of initiative order.

Skip, what are you doing?
- Okay, there are two

hotel security next to me.

- Two hotel security
have come up the stairs,

due to the hotel stuff going on.

- Can I make an Insight check
to see what they see of me?

- [Brennan] Yeah, absolutely.

- My Insight is 16.

- [Brennan] 16. They're fully surprised.

You are going before them in combat,

and they were not ready for to pop off

the moment they stepped out of the door.

- [Emily] Okay, it says,

"Additionally, you can use
your tech empowered self

when you hit with a ranged weapon attack."

Would that not count for a grenade?

- Would not count for a grenade.

- In that case, I will just
use the rest of my turn

to cast Disarm on the not
stunned hotel security.

- [Brennan] Amazing. Okay.

- [Emily] It's a dex save.
- [Brennan] A dex save.

Bada-boom.

- [Emily] Or strength.
They can choose which one.

- Copy that. Throwing a
grenade's not a spell at all.

Awesome.

Oh, fails to save.
- Great, then I actually

can use my kinetic dice on this,
so I get an extra 10 speed.

Disarm them, grab their weapon,
the one who's not stunned.

And then I have 35 feet of movement,

so I'll spend that to get closer.

- Amazing.

Skip, on your turn. you see
Sid skates out of the thing.

A grenade, flash bang
goes up in the staircase.

One of the dudes is badly stunned.

The one who's not, a truly cartoon magnet

pops out of Sid's arm,

and that guy's blaster p*stol is gone.

- It's a blaster p*stol? Cool.

- [Brennan] Yeah. Go throw
that in your inventory.

Skip, it is your turn.
That guy's still there.

And there's also a
stunned guy next to him.

- I'm going to use my fighters
exploit guerrilla style

to use Disengage as a reaction.

- Amazing.
- [Zac] And I'm going to

full run down the hallway
towards these two.

- Awesome.
- [Zac] And use my bonus

action to Dash as well.

I'll try to get all the way to
the shot that was over here.

- Hell yes.

It's Movement plus Dash plus
bonus action is 90 feet.

You can get into the room
with Margaret if you want,

or you can post up in the
doorway if you want, as well.

- I want to get, I think,
in the room with Margaret.

- [Brennan] Hell yeah.

Sid, you're skating away
after some of these guys.

You see Skip move with
a speed you've never.

Arms completely neutral,
sprinting at a 45 degree angle

down the hall.
- Can I look to see

if he's wearing roller blades?

- Not wearing roller blades.

- Phew.

- [Brennan] Just running.

- [Zac] Roller blades suck.

- [Emily] That's what he said.

- [Brennan] Incredible.

Now, other hotel security:

other dude goes to his stunned
friend, grabs his p*stol,

and is going to take a shot at Sid.

That is a hit.
- [Emily] Okay.

- Sid-
- Wait a second.

But we're not supposed to
hit these people. All right.

You know what? I'm going to Energy Shield.

- [Brennan] Cool, what
does Energy Shield do?

- [Emily] Plus five.

- [Brennan] To your armor class?

- Yeah.

- [Brennan] He still hits an AC20.

Deals eight points of
energy damage to you.

- And when he does that, I say,

"Just so you know, I
could have shot a little,

angry thing of fire at you as a result.

But instead, I just
chose to protect myself,

because I'm not trying to fight you.

Just stun and disarm you."

- Okay.

In the room-
- [Emily] Okay, I'm going

to f*ck him up next time.
- In the room,

this huge, dangerous-looking
dude, blaster p*stol.

And he's going to take a shot.

- [Zac] And I have just run in here too

- [Brennan] Yeah, you've
just run in here as well.

Actually, that's going to be his priority.

You see there was a moment
where he was basically

going to tell you to put
your hands up and surrender,

and then a dude sprints into the room,

arms going straight behind him
with the force of the wind.

No joke, rolls a Nat one.

- [Ally] Yes.
- As you run in,

he goes, "Ah."

You flatten out on the ground.

Marge, that's you.

- I run to the room and
I use my key to open it.

- Okay.

- [Ally] How far away
is that? Is that close?

- I said 180 feet away,
and I said this place

is 80 feet from the elevator.

- [Ally] It's another 100 feet.

- [Brennan] Another 100
feet to your main room.

- Oh, then nevermind. That's crazy.

- We picked a real great
time to go find chef's tools.

The big mission, we're
like, "We're going to go

get chef's tools."

- [Ally] Can I try to investigate and see,

is this guy with UFTP?

Or is this a third party muscle?

- Give me Insight.
- [Ally] Okay. Hey.

That is 15.

- Because you said it right to my face,

you assume this dude is UFTP,

and you assume it's why
he didn't fire on you,

even though he had to drop on you.

- Okay.

- You think this guy
probably knows who you are.

- And he is just freaking out right now?

- Dude ran into the room,
screaming like an alien,

and you fired at him and missed.

- As a bonus action, I
can use Critical Analysis,

so I'm going to use that to target him.

- [Brennan] Cool.
- Which means that,

instead of using my strength,

I can use my Intelligence modifier.

I'm going to grapple him
and try to get the g*n

out of his hand.

- Hell yes. Okay. You're
using your intelligence.

I will let you know the
number you have to beat.

This guy's going to add his strength.

This is going to be an
Athletics check from him,

which means he's going
to add his Proficiency

to this as well.
- Cool.

- Okay. That's a high roll.
You're trying to beat a 17.

You are adding your Intelligence to this.

Do you have Proficiency
in Athletics or no?

- No, I have Proficiency in Intelligence.

- In other words, you're just
adding the flat plus five.

To beat this dude, you
need a 12 or higher.

- 21.
- Oh, baby.

You see this dude go and fire at you.

Marge, you are a shark.
That's all you need.

You reach forward, grab his pinkie,

bend it backwards to
break it, and he goes-

- [Ally] Krav Maga, m*therf*cker.

- And you've got the g*n on this guy.

- [Ally] Great.
- Mhmm.

- [Ally] Who are you?

- Incredible. That is your
action, to make that attack.

You have bonus action
Critical Analysis on him.

That is your turn.

You'll be able to make
an Intimidation next.

Riva, that's you.

- [Siobhan] Great, I would
like to cast Affliction

on this guy.
- Where he just gets

a back tattoo?
- [Siobhan] Yes.

- [Brian] A sick shirt.

- It's a sick-a*s shirt.
- Amazing.

- [Siobhan] He has to make
a constitution saving throw.

On a failed save, the target
gains one slowed level,

takes a minus two penalty
to AT and Dexterity.

And then, on its turn, it
can use either an action

or a bonus action, not both.

- Wow.
- [Siobhan] it's basically

the opposite of Haste.
- [Brennan] Got you.

- And then, if a creature
attempts to cast a power

with a casting time of one action,

roll a D20 on 11 or higher,
the power doesn't take effect

until the creature's next turn.

- Incredible. This is against your save.

You said this is a Wisdom save?

- It's a Constitution saving throw.

- Okay. He's a little bit better at that.

- [Siobhan] I would imagine
he is, but it's a cool spell.

- Unbelievable that I am
being betrayed by my own dice

to this degree.

That is another natural one.
- [Ally] What?

Yes.
- [Siobhan] And I would like

to use Quicken.
- [Brennan] Mhmm.

- [Siobhan] To do Psychic Shunt.

- [Ally] Ooh.

- Which is, "Use the psychic
energy to thrust a creature

you can see to the ground."

- [Brennan] Mhmm.
- "The target must make

a Strength saving throw,
and on a failed save,

takes 1D4 kinetic damage and falls prone."

- Okay. This is against the same target?

- The same target, yes.
- And one is Cantrip,

and one is-

- One is a Cantrip.
Psychic Shunt is a Cantrip.

- [Brennan] Cool. That's a 19 on the die.

He successfully does not go prone.

- He's upright. All right, well.

- Incredible.

- [Siobhan] This one works,
and that's enough for me.

- Amazing.

You watch this guy
truly being hit by waves

of psychic energy from Riva.

We go back to the top
of the order with Sid.

- Okay.

I think I'm going to try
and keep it nonviolent

with this hotel employee.

I think I just want to try
and disarm him as well.

- Awesome. You just disarm him as well.

- Yeah.
- [Brennan] Cool.

That's another save?
- Yeah.

- [Brennan] Cool.

Nat five on the die. Magnet stays out.

- And then I say, "This
is not your fight."

And then I'm going to
kinetic die to go an extra.

30 plus 15. An extra 45 feet.

- [Brennan] You zoom into the room.

- [Emily] Okay.
- [Brennan] Go ahead,

give me just a passing Intimidation check,

if you'd be so kind?

- Oh yeah.

- Come on.

- You're like-
- [Emily] I have a plus one.

- On your corner.
- 11.

- It's an 11. You say,
"This is not your fight."

And the guy doesn't look intimidated,

but he's really considering

that this might not be his fight,

because he's like, "I'm
going to give medical aid

to my friend," turns to his buddy.

- It's another blaster p*stol?

- [Brennan] Yeah, another blaster p*stol.

- [Emily] I think I
just have all these g*ns

magnetically attached to my g*n.

- Incredible. Skip, that's you.

- [Zac] Okay. We're in
the room with this dude.

Just this one dude?
- This one dude,

who's getting waves of
psychic heat on him,

and just got his g*n stolen by Marge.

- I think Skip,

some instincts are rising in him.

I'm sure this situation
is more complicated

than he wants it to be, but
also it's simpler to him.

- [Brennan] Yeah.
- And so he's just going

to take out his Vibro-rapier and f*cking-

- Stab this dude?
- [Zac] Stab this f*cking guy.

It feels like he's threatening his friend.

Also, I want to skills
exploit Angle Perception.

- [Brennan] Yeah.
- I can't tell if that's

an actual action, or if
it's just a free thing

I get to do on a turn.

- Let's find out. Hold on one second.

- Sorry.

- [Brennan] No, this is all groovy.

I was not anticipating combat
here, but here we go, baby.

- [Lou] You guys came prepared.

- [Brennan] I guess so.
We'll see what happens.

- [Ally] Yeah, the big
g*ns. Both completely gone.

- [Lou] Yeah, the big g*n is gone.

But you guys got Sid and-

- [Emily] You got one g*n.

- I mean, we definitely got the g*ns.

- [Lou] Yeah.
- Yeah.

- [Lou] Woulda been overkill.

- [Brennan] Okay.

With your skill exploits, you
can use them a number of times

equal to your Intelligence
modifier per long rest.

We haven't hit that
yet. You're good to go.

And it doesn't take an action.

It's part of the attack action.

- Okay. Cool.
- [Ally] Cool.

- I'll do that.

- [Brennan] Cool.
- And so I'm going to

roll Perception versus
his Sleight of Hand.

- [Brennan] Cool.

- 15.
- 15 does not succeed.

- Okay.

- [Brennan] You're going to
roll the attack straight.

- Okay, cool, and I'm next to an ally,

so I get sneak attack right?

- Yes, you absolutely do.

- I will just roll to see if I-

- [Lou] k*ll him, k*ll him, k*ll him.

- [Siobhan] If you just k*ll this guy

and get no information from him.

- Hell yeah.
- Dirty 20.

- [Brennan] Ooh, that certainly hits.

Go ahead and roll damage
plus sneak attack.

- Okay, that's a D8 plus a D6.

- Yes.

(Zac screams)

- [Ally] Yes.

- Oh my God, a six and a seven on the die.

- Team.

- [Brennan] Marge, you
go, "Who do you work for?"

And next to you, the captain goes,

and the guy goes, "I'll
tell you everything."

And his neck opens up and he
collapses on the floor, dead.

- [Ally] Okay. Good job.

We'll talk about this.
We will talk about this.

The heart was there. You're here, right?

- [Brennan] Yeah, Riva's
out in the hallway-

- Turning your g*ns on my g*n.

- [Zac] I'm going to look.
Can I investigate his body?

- Give me Sleight of Hand.

- Sleight of Hand? Okay.

- [Ally] He's dead though. Advantage?

- It's about doing it fast.
- [Emily] I'll do it

with Handy Annie.
- Okay, 22.

- [Brennan] 22. You're figuring this bod-

You feel adrenaline, and
you make more progress

figuring out this body in moments.

The slug body on that brainstem
is eating the adrenaline

and goes like, "Ah, okay."

You see these fingers fly
through this dude's stuff.

You pull out a credit.

You pull out a galactic credit card.

You pull out a UFTP clearance badge.

You pull out a fake personnel document

for this dude's employment at the hotel.

- Cool.
- [Emily] Okay.

- [Ally] Can I say, "Put
on all this clothes"?

Is that crazy? Are they
all bloody? They're bloody.

- [Brennan] Oh yeah, covered in blood.

- [Ally] Okay, never mind.
- [Brennan] Covered with it.

- [Siobhan] Does the badge
have a picture on it, though?

- No. Badge does not have a picture on it.

- [Ally] Oh yeah. Take
it, take it, take it.

- Can I grab the credit
card to go grenade shopping

after this?

- [Siobhan] Wait, no, that's
a UFPT credit card, isn't it?

- Yeah, and it's going
to get shut down soon,

but I can use it until that time.

- [Brennan] Now this is the
proldier mindset at work.

- [Emily] I'm going to
grab it, and tonight,

before it gets shut down,

I'm going to buy so many grenades.

- [Brennan] Incredible.

- With which shipping address?

- [Zac] Out of the back door of this room.

- [Brennan] These are hotel
rooms. There's no back door.

You see a big plate glass window
looking out over this level

of the Rec Station.

- Okay, got you.
- The blinds are drawn,

so no one outside was
looking into the room.

- [Zac] Go for it.
- However sh*t has gone

extremely sideways.

We come out of combat.

The dude at the end of the hallway

is attending to his friend.

However, you know that
it is a matter of time.

What do you do in this moment?

- [Ally] I book it to the room, to get in,

hopefully with you guys.

Say, "We got to get into this room."

- [Brennan] It's incredibly
clear to you, Margaret,

there's no world in which this dude

is in this room doing cleaning.

He's clearly a plant here.

And if the Princeps in the
room were keyed in on it,

there would be no need to
disguise this operative.

The difference between
this person being here,

and there being a stationed UFTP-

- Outside of the door.
- [Brennan] Outside

of the door, speaks worlds of difference.

- Yes.
- So, you rush down

the hallway.

- [Siobhan] Can I just
have a look at this cart?

This cleaning cart that
he has; how big is it,

and could we potentially
hide a person inside of it?

- Incredible question.
I'm going to say, yeah.

With a successful Sleight of Hand check,

you could hide a body in this cart.

- Great. Why don't we
put his body in the cart?

- [Brennan] Mhmm.
- [Ally] Oh.

- [Siobhan] And then-
- [Brennan] There's also

a cleaning cart here,
full of cleaning supplies,

with all this blood on the floor.

- Right, why don't you do that?

And I will use my psychic
powers to clean up this room.

- [Ally] Incredible. Thank you so much.

- [Siobhan] Yes.

- An upside down telekinetic
Aguatunisian, fingers here,

and just cleaning solvent
floats, bippity, boppity, boo.

- [All] Like, a really f*cked
up Beauty and the Beast.

- [Brennan] Yeah.
- But it's crime clean-up.

- [Brennan] Yeah.

Alakazoo- and it's just
a body slowly tumbling.

Folding in half.

You hear bones snapping
as it rolls into the cart.

- [Emily] Definitely watches
it for a little too long.

Like a Broadway play.

- [Zac] I'm cramming shampoo
and conditioner in the bag.

- Get as much as you can.

That stuff is worth a lot of credits.

- [Brennan] Incredible. You're
taking care of the room.

There still is that hotel security,

who's doing his best not
to hear whatever the f*ck

is happening in that room.

You rush towards the other room,

have the key card, swipe and open it?

- Yeah.
- Boom.

All of you that are in
the room see the hallway

fill with blinding light.

Margaret, you are blinded.

Get your hand up a little bit too late.

You see, in silhouette, floating in space,

there is a humanoid alien.

They turn around to look at you,

as a pulsating quasar of
energy fills the hotel room.

You feel, rattling in your
bones, a brilliant warmth,

and the feeling of a
cosmic super-intelligence

filling every part of your body,

and the humanoid floating in space

next to this whirling vortex of energy,

sentience and matter, goes,
"It's not what you think."

We're going to cut from there to

Barry and Gunnie!

All right.

We move to the awning
of the Emerald Comet,

level seven of the Vale of Tiers.

Oh baby.

A house of fortune, where
a man's luck can change.

Incredible.

(Brennan mimics slot machines)

"I hit it, yeah!"

You see people smoking at slot machines,

people playing more of
the fun arcade games.

You see little parlors with
skeeball, Pachinko parlors.

You see there are some tables of people

actually playing blackjack, dealer games.

And off in the back, you
see the beautifully ornate

double doors leading to
private games of poker, stud,

hold 'em, all sorts of
real high rollers suites,

so to speak.

They got to have chef's tools here.

- Got to have chef's tools.

- [Brian] Have chef's tools.
- [Lou] They have to.

- Have to have tools.

- What exactly are we defining
as chef's tools? Knives?

- [Brennan] Knife, pot.

Oven.
- Full oven. Okay.

- [Lou] Do we not have
an oven? Do we need-

- [Brennan] You have
full ovens. The ship is-

- [Ally] Yeah.

- [Emily] Those would be
good for an amuse bouche.

- Yeah, perfect. Perfect.

- [Lou] I feel like we-
- One clam.

- We find the chef's tools,
and then we can leave. Yeah?

Does that sound right?

- Yeah, that sounds right.

- Yeah.
- [Brian] That sounds right

to me.
- [Lou] Cool.

I'd like to look around for
somebody who works here.

- Amazing.

You see that there is a
c*ck waiter who walks up.

- [Lou] Hey, can I?

- [Brennan] There you go.
- [Lou] Thank you.

- [Brennan] There you go.
- [Brian] Thank you so much.

- That's delicious.

- It's like a beautiful
Old Fashioned or something.

Incredibly-
- It's got little cherries

in there.

- I love the little cherries.

- [Brian] I don't hate that.

- [Lou] Can I have another one of these

with more little cherries?

- [Brian] Yeah.

- [Brennan] Yeah, absolutely.
What table are you playing at?

- [Lou] Oh, we're not playing.

We're just here for a quick-

- [Brian] If we have to play-

- [Brennan] If you want
to just take a seat

at one of the blackjack
tables, I can absolutely.

I'll come back.
- We'll have a seat

at one of the blackjack tables.

- [Ally] Oh my God.
- [Lou] Before you go,

we came here, because we're
looking for chef's tools.

Kitchen equipment.

(all laughing)

- Is there a chef in the back?

- Yeah.

Presumably, they use tools.

- We didn't see a Bed, Bath nearby,

so we figured we'd just hit up the casino

for some chef's tools.
- [Lou] Chef's tools.

We're here for chef's tools.
- [Brian] Yeah.

- Let me go ask.

I'm actually going to talk to our chef,

and just see-
- [Lou] Okay.

Thanks slim.
- Hey, there you go.

And you see he takes off.

So you're both sitting at
the blackjack table here.

The dealer looks over at both of you,

there's digital hologram cards being slid.

It's almost like the cards are sliding

on an air hockey table
over the green felt.

- [Lou] Yeah. Very cool. Very cool tech.

- The dealer looks over
to both of you and says,

"Ante up?"
- [Lou] Oh no, no,

we're not playing.
- [Brian] We're just getting-

- [Lou] We're here for chef's tools.

- Free drinks.
- Yeah.

- Chef's tools.
- [Lou] We're here

for kitchen equipment.
- [Brian] Yeah.

- [Brennan] The dealer smiles and says,

"Of course. On the house."

And just takes two one
credit chips and puts them

in front of you.

- I mean, we're here.
- [Brian] It's free.

- [Lou] Yeah. Yeah, I'm in.

- [Brian] We've been on the
same team. I'm on his team.

- [Lou] Yeah, we're on
the same team. Yeah.

- [Brennan] Amazing.

Are you going to pool
your credits and stuff

and have one play together?
- Yeah.

- [Brennan] Cool. You take two credits.

Go ahead and roll a D20 for me.

- Okay.

That's a 15.

- You hit. You double it to four credits.

- The ball is rolling up.

- Free money.
- [Lou] The ball

is rolling up.
- [Brian] It's just

rolling up.

- sh*t, we got four. Let's do it again.

- Okay, you have four credits riding

on this thing right here.

I'll say you play another hand
before the waiter comes back.

Go ahead and roll again.

- Oh, that's just a two.

- Cool. Credits leave.

- That was fun.

- Dude, we need a huge win.

- [Lou] The ball's rolling up.

- [Brian] The ball is rolling up.

- We've been great.
- [Brian] 500 credits.

One hand.

- Barry. Barry.
- [Brian] 500 credits,

one huge f*cking hand.
- [Lou] Barry, Barry.

Barry, come on, man. Come on.

- [Brian] We need a huge win.

- [Lou] It would be crazy,
right? It would be insane.

- [Brian] It would be awesome.

- [Lou] It would-
- We'll come back,

it'll be like hanging out with
the Barrys, just celebrate.

- Yeah, right? We'll
all go to the spa again.

We'll get a spa on the
Wurst. We'll get a spa.

- We get it-
- [Brennan] And more cherries.

Here you go. More cherries.
- Oh, awesome.

- [Brian] No matter what.
- [Lou] Awesome. Hey.

- [Brian] Just the one hand?

- I'm going to need three more of these.

- [Lou] One hand. One
hand. One hand. One hand.

- [Brian] One hand.
- That's it.

- [Brian] We're done.
- We're done.

We'll never play again.

- That's it?
- [Lou] That's all.

- [Brian] One big win.
- Yes.

Sir.
- [Brennan] Yes.

- [Lou] Did you find out
about those chef's tools?

- [Brennan] You see, give
me a Persuasion check.

- That's an 18.

- I spoke to our chef.

We don't have a formal system
for selling our kitchen's

tools and implements or utensils.

- [Lou] Okay.
- By the way,

that is the word, is utensils.

- [Lou] Utensils.
- Cool, cool.

- It's not that the chef
is opposed to the idea.

We just don't have a means
or system of transacting-

- [Brian] We understand that.

- [Lou] Yeah, that makes sense.

- But what I can do is find
out where we get them from-

- That would be perfect. Can you do that?

- [Brennan] Yeah, absolutely.

Because obviously, the kitchen
is using their utensils,

but we might have a supply
closet somewhere more.

- That's great.
- [Brennan] More drinks.

Another round of Old Fashioneds?

- [Lou] Another round of drinks.

- And some utensils.
- [Lou] And some utensils,

if you have them, and if
not, where we can get them.

- [Brennan] Amazing. Absolutely.

Dealer looks in and says-
- 500, all in. Let's go.

- All right, this is-
- [Brian] This is fine.

absolutely-
- [Lou] Ball's rolling up.

Ball's rolling up. Ball's rolling up.

- Don't use those old f*cking die.

- [Brian] You got this.
The ball is rolling flat.

- The ball is rolling up.

- It's not even just rolling up.

- [Lou] We need a big win.

- [Brian] We need a big win.
- We need a big win.

- We need one.
- Honestly, ball's not rolling

up anymore; it's flying,
straight up in the air.

- It's up. Ball is up.

- [Siobhan] I might actually faint.

- [Brian] Ball is-
- [Zac] Okay.

- [Brian] Up.

- [Ally] My palms are sweaty.

- The ball is up.

- I need you to commit
to how we're going to do

this Box of Doom roll.

There's 500 credits riding on the line.

We can either have a single straight roll,

or we can have two rolls in a row.

If it's a single roll, it's
going to need to be higher.

If it's two rolls, you will
need to beat a number twice,

but it will be a lower
number that you have to beat.

You can roll one die.

In that case, you have
to beat a 13 or higher.

You have to roll 13 on the die to beat it.

- Easy.

- [Brennan] Or you have
to beat an eight twice.

- Can I use my Potent Aptitude
on this to count cards?

Or is it a flat roll?

- You may use Potent
Aptitude to count cards.

- [Emily] Yes, baby.
- Okay.

- Theoretically, I have
to choose one creature

other than myself.

I can't use it on myself.
- [Brennan] Okay, so Barry.

- f*ck.

- No, we're letting Murph roll?

- [Brennan] One roll.
- [Siobhan] No.

- [Brennan] We need-
- [Lou] One roll.

- [Brennan] One roll.
- [Ally] Oh my God.

- [Brian] Gunnie is full-

- [Brian] Gunnie.

We need a win.
- We need a win.

This cements that the ball is rolling up.

This says that we're on
the track of victory.

I'm going to pay off my debt.

You're going to k*ll Barry 09.

Our life is going to be perfect.

- Everybody keep calm and Barry on.

- [Brennan] That is an eight.

- No.

- [Brennan] Even with the
maximum roll on Potent Aptitude,

you would be one away from
the number you needed.

- What's the maximum roll?

- You watch the dealer
pull an Ace and a King,

and not even bother dealing
out the rest of your hand.

Dealer blackjack, dealer
wins. 500 credits vanishes.

(whooshing)

- Oh my God.

- Can we have those utensils?

- [Brennan] I'm going to need
a Deception roll from you,

because you counted cards,

I'm going to need you to
disguise that from the dealer.

- [Ally] Oh my God.
- And that's a 18.

- Okay.

(Ally laughing)

- [Lou] Is that guy back yet?

Is that guy back?

- Okay, more Old Fashioneds.
Here you go. Great.

I spoke to our supply manager.

- [Lou] Real question.
I'm going to cut it short.

Can I have it for free?

(all laughing)

If I can't have it for free,
it doesn't really matter.

- [Brian] Do you know
anyone who will buy a g*n?

Because there's going to
be some people that are-

- [Lou] I put a g*n on the
table. Can we bet this?

- Can we bet a g*n?
- [Lou] I have my light

p*stol, can I bet this?

- The dealer looks at you
and says, "Absolutely.

You can absolutely."
- Roll again.

- How much is this g*n worth?

- The g*n? Hold on one second.

Trade this for chips.

- [Brian] I want to
trade the g*n for chips.

- [Lou] They're going
to be so pissed at us.

- [Brian] You're so stupid, Gunnie.

We shouldn't have done this.
- No, no. Barry.

- [Brennan] Is this a light p*stol? Okay.

- [Brian] You know better than to-

- [Brennan] You see the
look, and the dealer says,

"I can provide a hundred
credits for the p*stol."

- [Brian] What about? What about?

- Hey, we turn it around.

This is where we turn around.
This is where we flip around.

- What about a heavy repeater?

- [Ally] Oh no.

- [Brennan] Heavy repeater?
Says, "Absolutely.

If you want to put a heavy repeater up,

I can go ahead and give you 400 credits

on that heavy repeater."
- [Lou] That's 500 credits.

- [Brian] We take that and we leave.

- [Lou] No, no, we double down.

- [Brian] I'm out.
- [Lou] The ball is

rolling up.

- [Brian] We f*cked up.

- We take the 500-
- [Brian] No, no, no.

- [Brennan] The g*n, the heavy repeater,

and the light p*stol
move across the table.

- Let me have this already.

- [Brian] We f*cked up, we f*cked up.

- [Lou] We can double our money.

We're going to walk back
with double our money

and kitchen utensils,
and our friends are never

going to know.
- This episode's started

in a spa.
- [Lou] We're going to buy

your repeater back.
- [Brian] They're already

winning.
- [Brennan] Barry,

I'm going to need that roll.

- [Lou] No, I want to roll.
- Oh, you're going to roll?

- I'm going to roll.
- [Brennan] Okay.

- [Emily] Don't use that die.
- Yeah.

- [Zac] This is-
- I got to beat a 13?

- 13 or higher. Single roll of the die.

- [Zac] I love this.

- [Brian] Do we think that your luck

is that much better than mine,

that it's worth giving
up the five, for the-

- [Lou] Oh, is it?

- That's a six.

(all laughing)

- Gunnie!

- [Brennan] I'm going to need-

- I need a ride home.

- This is Margaret's money.

- I'm going to need another
Deception roll from you.

- [Ally] "Oh is it?"
- [Zac] He didn't count cards

that time.
- I didn't count cards

that time.

Unless you let me. Well, it
doesn't matter. Unless, no.

No, no, no. Gunnie isn't counting cards.

He believed in the heart of it.

- Oh my God.
- Oh my God.

- [Brennan] If you want, you
can count cards on this one,

and I will let you make
a Technology check-

- Yes.
- [Brennan] To roll 2D4.

- Yes.

- Okay. First of all,
give me a Tech check.

We're trying to beat a DC20.

- That's a Nat one.

(all laughing)

- [Brennan] I'm going to need a Deception.

I'm going to need a Deception
check with disadvantage.

- That's a 16.

- Is it okay if I lay down on the ground?

- That's a 12.

- [Brennan] Okay.

You watch your heavy repeater,

and you watch your light
p*stol move across the bar.

You watch them move across the bar.

- [Lou] Okay. I'm going
to put up my Vibro-dagger.

- [Brian] No.
- [Lou] I'm going to

put up my Vibro-dagger,

and I'd like to also put up
my tinkerer's implements.

- [Siobhan] Going to
rip this book in half.

- You have to, if we get the 500 back-

- [Lou] Yes. Okay. And then that's it.

- We're gonna get the 500 back.

The ball is rolling up. Never forget that.

- You feel a hand on your shoulder,

and you look up and you
see that there are two

aviator-wearing casino security saying,

"Hi, sir, is it all right
if we have a word with you

for a moment?"
- Yeah, of course.

What's up?

- Just come with us for a minute.

- [Lou] Yeah.

- Hi, we noticed that you were asking

one of the member of the
staff about kitchen utensils.

- Yes.
- [Brennan] Understood.

We just wanted to talk,
because we take security

at the casino very, very seriously.

What we're going to do
is we're going to ask you

to leave right now.

- What's up? You want me to go? Why?

- [Brennan] We detected-

- All one word? "You want me to go, why?"

- We detected movement
in your cybernetic eye.

- Oh, okay.

- That was interacting with
the hologram interface.

We have a very complicated
security system.

- It's on the fritz. It's acting up.

- [Brennan] Give me an Insight check.

- That's a Nat one.

- [Ally] No.
- [Lou] It's acting up,

but it's top of the line.

You don't have to worry about anything.

- Lou is not allowed on
his own ever as a player.

- Barry, you're seeing
this conversation happen

a little ways away.

You give me a Perception check.

- [Zac] You really just
have to let the whole scene

wash over you.

- [Ally] I'm going to
really need an inhaler.

- I was ready to trade our
g*ns and cut our losses.

I got a f*cking four.

- Oh no.
- Amazing.

- Guys, I have brandy
in the car it's okay.

- [Brennan] They say, "Okay,
Acme-Ashmun cybernetic eye.

Can we get a serial number
on that, if that's okay?"

- Yeah. I give it to him.

- [Brennan] Okay, give
the serial number. Okay.

We're not seeing any report about a break

or malfunction on this eye.

Do you want to register
a report on that eye?

- I should. I have a guy.
I'll just take it to him.

- [Brennan] Okay, but we need to ask.

If there is an issue
with your cybernetic eye,

we can issue a report on that right now.

If we don't, then we're
going to have some-

- Run.

- [Ally] Oh my God.

- [Brennan] You run.

As you do, you see one
of the guys puts a finger

to surveillance and hits, blop.

And you see, because you gave them

the serial number to your
eye, they flag your eye.

Over the screen of your eye,

you see a big message beacon comes up.

It says, "Notice from Acme-Ashmun.

Your loans have been
transferred to Repo Reapers."

- [Ally] No.

- Gunnie keeps running.

- Cool. You see-

- [Ally] Repo Reapers.
- [Brennan] Repo Reapers.

You see, suddenly, plink,
plink, plink, plink.

Four messages arrive in
your inbox immediately.

One of them says, "Welcome to your new

Repo Reapers account."

Another one says, with
weird tildes and hyphens,

in an all caps subject head
on the email, "Where are you?"

Another one underneath that says,

"Repossessing cybernetic limbs."

The one under that says,
"Location needed: urgent."

And then has alarm emojis underneath it.

- We got to-
- [Brian] I'm running.

- [Lou] We got to find everyone else.

- [Brennan] Cool. So, no chef's tools.

You leave from the Emerald Comet,

a little bit lighter
than when you came in.

- [Ally] A little bit heavier in the soul.

- What?
- [Brian] What was

with the second play?

- You were the first play.

- Right, the first play.
- We needed a big win.

You were right.
- We did need a big win.

And then it was clear that
we were going to lose.

This is frankly-
- It's not clear.

The ball is rolling up.

- The ball is rolling down now.

- No, it's not. No, it's
not. It's not rolling down.

- [Brian] They're going
to be so mad at us.

- [Lou] I can already tell
you they're mad at us.

I think they transferred my balances

to some really, really bad guys.

We should probably get off-world, sooner-

- [Brian] Right on.
- Rather than later.

But hey, things are
still looking up, right?

We've got this crew.

- This is Barry 09 behavior.

- You're not Barry 09. I'm not Barry 09.

- [Brennan] Where are you going?

- The Arms.
- [Brian] The hotel.

- You're going to the
Obfusion Arms? Amazing. Okay.

The four of you, up on the
28th level of the hotel-

- [Ally] Oh my God.

- [Brennan] Margaret, spots in your eyes,

you can hardly see.

There is a collapse.

You feel a thud of
somebody hitting the bed.

The rest of you, what are
you doing in this moment?

Sid, Skip and Riva.

- [Siobhan] Well, I'm cleaning.

- [Brennan] Oh, yeah.

- [Zac] I mean, if there's
an absurdly bright light

over there, I guess Skip is
like, "Going to go look at it."

- [Emily] I think I'm
going to investigate.

- You see that the light-

- [Zac] Put my sunglasses down and run in.

- [Brennan] You see that
the light is fully gone now.

As you see that, Margaret,

you're trying to get your vision back.

You look in the hotel room.

The hotel room is rockstar level wrecked.

Obviously, whatever telekinetic event

was happening in here has
taken everything off the wall,

flipped the mattress over.

Place is in shambles, effectively.

Unconscious on the bed is Princeps Zortch,

who you recognize.

They are a metallic teal-skinned alien.

They have some blue, silky outfit,

and weird little baseball cap,

some jangly jewelry on themselves.

And in the center of the room,

that fell directly from
the center, and thudded,

slightly damaging the
floor, is what looks like

a very heavy, complex silver shape.

More reflective than silver, even.

It's either chrome or something else.

It is a nested series of lined polyhedral

telekinetic things.

The outer level has
thudded into the floor,

and the inner polyhedrons are orbiting

or gyroing around each other.

It's a piece of psychic tech
you've never seen before.

- [Emily] Would you consider
it an unfamiliar weapon?

- It is-

In the right hands, yes.
It could be a weapon.

- [Emily] I touch it
and spend a Tech point

to have Proficiency with it.

- Okay, give me an Intelligence,

Wisdom and Charisma saving throw.

- Okay.
- Oh.

- It's a Nat one on Intelligence.

- [Brennan] Okay.
- That's a five on Wisdom.

- [Siobhan] Oh my God.
What is going on today?

- And 18 on Charisma.

- Okay. Okay.

- I didn't think it'd be this dire.

- [Brennan] Sid, you walk up to it.

Hey, good news. You're proficient in this.

- Okay.

- Getting you out of a
Nat one. Would that help?

- Wait, I re-roll Nat ones.

- [Brennan] Your re-roll
Nat one's Intelligence.

- Actually, that's a 21 Intelligence.

- [Ally] And then the
other one was a what?

- A five.
- [Brennan] A five Wisdom.

- [Ally] I can heads up
and add a D4 to that five,

if that would bump us
into anything better.

- Okay.
- You can try.

Yeah, here you go.

- Two.
- [Brennan] Two.

- Okay. It's to seven to 21, seven, 18.

- Okay. You do not lose your Intelligence.

You don't lose your Charisma.

All of your senses are overpowered.

You watch Sidney go full neutral.

She's having a ground up software update.

You're from the ground up,
updating your software.

In your head, you are
seeing flashing images

of a quintuple quadrillion
terabyte hard drive.

Just like-
- It feels good.

It feels good. Everyone, get
your hands on this thing.

- Oh my God. No, I hold you
back. I hold the captain back.

- [Brennan] As it is coming
in, a super computer,

unlike any you have ever felt before,

you are installing drivers

on your crystalline consciousness.

You succeeded on your Charisma.

Had you failed the Charisma save,

you think that your ego
would have been wiped.

Your identity would be gone.

You made the Charisma
save, so Sid is still here,

and you made the Intelligence save,

which means that you
understand what's happening.

It's just that full, ground-up,

"Oh, we can't sense things
anymore. No more Perception."

You got a full, hard reboot.
Turn the machine off.

Sid is off. And Zortch
is also unconscious.

The thing is installing drivers on you

to be able to communicate.

That's where you are,

as this supercomputer is like,

"Here's all the software you need

to even be able to understand what I am."

- [Ally] Who said, "It's
not what it looks like"?

- Zortch. The Princeps Zortch.

They are unconscious on
the lopsided mattress.

- [Zac] They said that
before they went unconscious,

or after?
- [Brennan] Yeah.

The were floating in the air.

You opened the door, as
they were doing some wild

psychic thing, and it was creating a ton

of electricity and light.

And they said, 'It's
not what it looks like."

And they collapsed.

- [Ally] Can I do a quick
Investigation check to see?

Since I know her so well,
any traces of Lucienne?

- [Brennan] Give me
Investigation, and with advantage,

if you're looking for
Lucienne-specific stuff.

- Okay.

That is a 19.

- You immediately crack into
the Princeps Zortch's phone,

and see correspondence with Lucienne.

A big wall of text from
Lucienne, being like,

"Hey, want to make sure that you're safe.

Remember: don't leave the hotel yet.

I can't guarantee your
safety outside the hotel.

Haven't heard from you in about
a marbec. Everything okay?

Still good for tomorrow?"

Question mark. Question
mark. Question mark.

Skimming back earlier in that process,

there's some care here to not speak

over textual interface messages

about anything too incriminating,

but very quickly you just pick
up from the correspondences

that Lucienne back-doored Zortch

successfully away from
Rubian V to get here.

And, based on the language
Lucienne is using in these texts,

you think Zortch got charmed by Lucienne.

You think that Zortch is not aware

of what a player Lucienne is,

that Zortch fully trusts Lucienne.

- Okay. I type back.

What do I write back?

"Yeah. Still on for tomorrow."

- [Brennan] Cool. Give me Deception.

- Okay. 21.

- Amazing. You get an immediate tap back.

"Great. Glad to hear it."

Riva, you hear a little
pling go off on the dead body

of the dude whose body
you've folded in half

and put into a cleaning cart.

- Okay. Can I, I guess, Psychic Push Pull?

- You can float-
- [Siobhan] Essentially,

mage hand.
- Yeah, yeah.

- [Siobhan] Has flown to me.

- [Brennan] You mage hand the phone up.

You don't have any tech
powers to unlock it,

but you see a little
text message that says,

"N-C-C-L-C-B."

And then the content of
the message is encrypted.

- [Siobhan] Hmm.

I guess I take the phone
over to the other room.

- [Brennan] Awesome.
- [Siobhan] Because I feel

like probably Marge has a better-

- [Ally] Is this code? Is this UFTP speak?

- Give me Perception.

(mellow music)

- It's 12.

- It's not UFTP code.

- [Siobhan] Can you unlock the phone?

- [Zac] can I make a Perception
check at the staircase?

- [Brennan] Yeah, yeah, go for it.

- [Zac] Those guys there.
- [Brennan] Yeah.

- That's great. That is a 24.

- Dude's gone.

The hotel security's gone,

which means that your time here is pretty-

you are not sitting pretty.

- [Zac] Yeah.
- [Brennan] In the situation

that you're in right now.

- I'm going to run, check
out the far staircase,

as a way to get out.

- [Brennan] Mhmm. Yeah.

Sid's incapacitated. You
have this giant device that-

- [Emily] I think when you wake me up,

I might know something about the device.

- And you have the
unconscious Princeps Zortch.

- [Zac] God damn it.

I'm going to run back to where y'all are,

and look to both of you and be like,

- Let's try to get to our room, maybe?

Can you carry the Princeps, and we run?

And I'll try to push the cart?

- [Zac] Yeah, I try to jostle her awake.

- Anyone that wants to, if
you want to try to get Sid

up and awake again, it's
going to be a Tech check.

- [Ally] Okay.

- [Zac] I don't think I know what my Tech.

- [Brennan] You can
make a Technology check

to try to get Sid to boot back up faster.

I would say there's a possibility-

- [Emily] I mean, Handy
Annie could maybe help

with a Tech check.
- [Brennan] Handy Annie's part

of the software reboot.
- [Emily] Oh. Got you.

- With that, I would say
you probably don't want

to fail this check by 10 or more.

- [Ally] What do you have to yours?

- [Zac] Plus four.
- Okay, I have plus five.

So we're looking good.
- Can I help you?

- Yeah, you could definitely lend aid.

Margaret, you're going to
roll with advantage here.

- Okay.

Hey, 18.
- Okay. Awesome.

I will go ahead and say, on an 18,

you can start to boot up
Sid a little bit faster.

If you have any means
of pushing that roll,

then it's possible that you could get Sid

back up and running right now.

I don't know if you still
have your Defiant feature.

- [Ally] I do, yeah. I still have Defiant.

- [Brennan] Okay.

- [Ally] D4?
- Mhmm.

- Three.

- 21? 20 Was the DC.

Sid.

- Sorry, everyone.

I just thought that would
be a more interesting way

to learn about the object.

- As you come to, a
vast super intelligence

that is completely inhuman in character,

but your Android consciousness
perfectly bridges the gap

from what a human being
is to what this thing is,

because you can tell that
it doesn't understand

what it's experiencing, but
it is experiencing an emotion.

And it takes a lot of
interpretation to get there,

because it is so alien,

but you realize that
it's experiencing fear.

- [Emily] Someone made an
artificial intelligence,

and it's afraid, and I think
that because it's afraid,

it's very destructive now.

Someone I think made a consciousness,

and is irresponsibly not
ushering it into this world

with any sort of understanding.

- Are you still touching it
or touching it no longer?

- Do I get a sense that
it would be dangerous

for me to keep touching it?

I just did it because I
thought it'd be more fun

than an Investigation check.

- [Brennan] For sure.
It was more fun for me.

Yeah, for sure. Absolutely.
Successful. It was very fun.

What I would say is-

- [Emily] I probably do unhand it, though.

- As you go to unhand it,

you see the pieces in it are whirring.

You see those pieces go
stable, and stop moving.

They are still hovering. None
of the shapes are spherical.

They're all polyhedral, but
contained within each other,

they were rotating in various
orbits and directions,

but now are still hovering,
but frozen in place.

It looks still. It looks
more magnetic than anything.

As you pull your hand away,

you see this computer has a
memory of the Princeps Zortch,

and an interface with Zortch.

Again, this thing doesn't
understand what emotions are,

but you feel that connection,

and feel a sense of attachment
to the Princeps Zortch,

and you see the last thing
that Zortch was trying to do

was to communicate to this
thing that it is a part of,

and somehow also the whole
of it being called Gnosis.

- [Emily] Gnosis. Starting
with a G, I'm guessing.

- [Brennan] Yes, it is.

- [Emily] Okay.

Riva, before we go,

are we trying to get Princeps out of here?

Because if we are, I can buff myself up,

and I can carry them out.

But I'm wondering if we
try to cast Calm Emotions

on this poor computer.

- It will only last for a minute.

- But I mean, think about it.

If you're having-
- [Siobhan] A panic attack.

- [Emily] A panic attack, a
minute could really buy you

some time to work some things out.

- [Siobhan] All right. I'll
give it a go. I'll try and cast.

It doesn't have anything in
here about droids or anything.

It's humanoids only. Humanoid
within a 20 foot radius.

- [Brennan] I'm going to say,
give me an Insight check.

- All right.
- [Emily] Yeah.

Maybe we can tag team it.

- [Siobhan] That is a natural one.

- You got no idea how
this f*cking thing works.

- All right.
- [Emily] Okay.

Then, do we want to wrap this up

in some hotel bedsheets
and bring it with us?

- [Ally] Yes.
- [Siobhan] Yeah.

I think that that's-
- Yes.

- [Siobhan] Let's get out of
here, and then we can explain.

- [Brennan] All right, Sid
roller skates out of here

with Princeps Zortch of
Rubian V over one shoulder.

You've got a big old bed sheet with this-

- Is it still floating in a sheet?

- The object, the outer
shape of it, is not floating.

It thudded to the ground,
but the things inside it,

its central casing appears
to be affected by gravity,

at some times.

Margaret saw it floating when she first

opened the room door.

But it's about this f*cking
big. It's a hefty device.

You got it in a sheet over your shoulder.

Riva, you're swimming down the hallway.

Margaret, anything else that you're doing?

- [Ally] I want the cart
with the body in it.

- You got the cart with
the body in it. Incredible.

- [Emily] I'm going to do one last thing.

Can I put a hologram around the bed sheet

to make it look like he's
holding just a bunch of balloons?

- Hell yes.
- [Emily] Okay.

- [Brennan] You got a bunch of balloons.

So, where are you going?

- [Ally] Our room.
- [Siobhan] Our room.

- I think go to the ship.
I think we're f*cked here.

- Yeah.

Yeah.
- [Ally] Yeah.

- Okay.
- [Ally] Okay.

- [Emily] Let's skate to the ship.

- [Brennan] Okay. Couple rolls
are going to have to happen.

First-

- [Ally] Can we take
everything when we leave?

Obviously, their cell phone, all of this.

- [Brennan] Yes, yes, yes. Absolutely.

First of all-

- [Emily] Oh, and we've
got this fricking person.

How the heck are we going to
disguise carrying this person?

- I think we should hide the cart-

- [Emily] Okay.
- And then leave it.

- Why don't we take the
dead body out of the cart,

leave it in this room.

Put the unconscious body in the cart.

- [Emily] Okay, great.
- Disguise the cart.

- [Emily] The hotel cart
and a bunch of balloons.

- [Zac] Should we pull a fire alarm?

- [Emily] Yeah. I press
on, on the fire alarm.

Let's f*cking run.
- Fire alarm goes off.

Chaos in the hotel.

That's going to create advantage.

If you're trying to get out of the hotel,

I'm going to need a-
- [Ally] Oh, I forgot

that I'm a polygot.

- [Brennan] Polygot. Yes,
yes, yes, absolutely.

- [Ally] Can I read N-C-C-L-C-B?

- It is not a word in any language,

but that will allow you
to make a Lore check.

- Yes, please.

- [Brennan] Make it with advantage.

- [Ally] Okay, thank you.

13.

- It's a contact on the phone.

So whatever N-C-C-L-C-B is,

it is a saved contact in
this transmitter device.

It's an entity. It's a person.

There's a reason that it's reached out.

- [Siobhan] All right.

Maybe if we can unlock this
phone, we can leave a message.

- [Brennan] Yes.
- Yeah.

- Do you want to leave
the phone with the body,

or take the phone?

- [Siobhan] I'm worried
that the phone will-

- Can you take-
- [Emily] Oh.

- [Zac] Take a picture of the content?

- Yeah, let's just grab the
number and then leave the phone.

- [Brennan] To get the number you got to-

- [Ally] Yeah. Yeah.

- [Siobhan] Let's take the phone.

- Ditch the phone. Okay.

- Oh, ditch the phone?
- [Ally] I think we should

take the phone.

- [Brennan] Cool.
- it could have tracking.

It could have GPS.

- [Brennan] You take the phone.

- [Emily] Can I do a Tech
check to see if it has GPS?

If I think it has GPS?

- Yeah. Give me a Tech check.

- [Siobhan] Galactic Positioning Service.

- It's 25.

- [Brennan] Hell yeah. It's got 100%.

- We will be tracked if we take this.

- Is it worth it? Can
you unlock it quickly?

The fire alarm is actively going off.

- [Brennan] Give me a Hacker's Kit check.

This is going to be Intelligence

plus Proficiency plus seven.
- I think, while they

are with this, I want to
make sure we get ahead-

- [Zac] Just start going?
- Yeah.

- [Brennan] As you go for it,

I'm going to tell you right now,

the DC on this is going to be 23,

so you got to hit a 16
or higher on the die

to unlock the phone right now.

- 16 exactly. 16 exactly.

- [Brennan] Unreal.
- Finally.

- Woo.
- We needed you at the casino.

- [Lou] Where were you?

- [Brennan] You unlock it.

You see it says, "Just
heard back. Coast's clear."

"Just heard back. Coast's clear.

Stand down for the night,
but stay in your room

and keep your phone on you."
- [Ally] Okay.

- There's hardly any text history here,

but you see that the dude,
in an early earlier message,

like three messages back, is like-

- Lucienne's fiance.

- [Brennan] Natalia Cicero
Connie Lee Carter Bajar.

(Ally and Emily shouting)

- [Brennan] Hell yes.

Hell yeah. There it is.

- Okay. Okay. f*ck. Oh, and she's hot.

I take his gross-a*s bloody
body, put it in the bed,

tuck it in and write, "XOXO,"
on his chest, and leave.

And leave the phone.

- Incredible. You leave
the phone there, amazing.

The only thing you're absconding
with is the Princeps Zortch

and Gnosis.
- [Emily] And Gnosis.

- [Brennan] Go ahead and give
me a group Stealth check.

The fire alarm is going,

but the hotel security
that saw you did get away.

So I'm going to say it's
advantage, disadvantage,

it cancels out.

It's a flat stealth roll.
- Okay.

- [Brennan] We just
need two of you to pass.

- 22, baby.
- [Brennan] 22.

- [Siobhan] Seven.

- [Brian] 26.

- [Brennan] 26 and 22.
- [Ally] Okay, good,

good, good.
- [Emily] Oh yeah.

- Three.

- [Brennan] You see Sid
with the Princeps over here.

You guys are rolling along.

You smell something.

(Zac snorts)

You stop. You see an old trash chute.

Sid, you can absolutely
bust that trash chute open.

Get a grappling thing
up, and you guys can drop

28 levels down and head out the back door

into the Rec Station.

- [All] Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- I really want to cradle Gnosis.

I feel so protective of it.

- Let's get the dog.

- [Siobhan] The dog.

- [Emily] That's not
till tomorrow morning.

- [Siobhan] Oh God.
- [Lou] We got to get out of here.

- [Emily] I am gonna

look for a grenade shop on the way out,

because this credit card is
going to be gotten rid of.

- [Brennan] Okay, we're going
to now need a flat luck check,

to hope that Gunnie and Barry run into-

- [Lou] Everyone or-
- [Ally] Who's making that?

- [Brennan] No, I think
I'm going to roll it

in front of the board.
- [Siobhan] Oh God.

- I think I'll call it an even coin flip.

- [Zac] Hey.

Luck's on our side today.
- [Ally] Yeah.

- Ball's rolling uphill.

- [Brennan] The ball's
rolling uphill, g*ng.

- [Lou] Always.
- [Brennan] Okay. 11.

You want an 11 through 20,

and you don't want a one through 10.

That is a nine.

- [Ally] Oh my God.

- [Brennan] You head off into the night.

And where are you headed?
You're headed back to the ship?

- [Emily] Back to the
ship, but like I said,

I do have this credit card
burning a hole in my pocket,

so if there is somewhere I
can buy grenades, I will.

- Okay.

I'm going to say that
at least you head back

to the Vale of Tiers,

to the same level that your ship is on,

and there are grenade stores there.

About 45 minutes after that
happens, Gunnie and Barry,

you walk up to see a throng of people

outside of the Obfusion Arms.

And you see that there are Rec Pols here.

There's fire department here.

There's a whole bunch of people.

What are you doing as you
roll up to this place?

- [Brian] We're moping.

- [Lou] Yeah. We're definitely moping.

- Do you think they did
this? Are they in there?

- Maybe. Should we check?

Do we have any means of communication

that's not longer distance
means of communication?

- I think yes. You have means.

You can easily contact the ship.

I think you can contact
the ship no problem.

- Great. I check in with S?

- [Brennan] SQ is the ship's-
- [Lou] SQ.

Hey, SQ.
- [Brennan] Hello.

- [Lou] Has the captain
boarded the ship recently?

- I do not believe that the Skipper

has boarded the ship recently.

- Okay, they're not back at the ship yet.

- In a metallic raspberry
suit with a pair of shades,

and extremely shiny, gelled hair,

you see Henry Cavill-looking
dude walks up.

Very square jaw, walks up
and goes, "Hi gentlemen.

It's a pleasure to meet you.
My name is Agent Oscars.

I work with a private security firm

tasked to Margaret Encino.

Are either of you
familiar with Ms. Encino?"

- No.

- No.

- [Brennan] Go ahead and
give me a Deception check.

- Why? Jesus.

- [Siobhan] No.

- The slowest no.

- 12.
- [Lou] Nine.

- [Zac] Lou, I want to buy you-

- [Siobhan] I think you
roll worse than Murph.

- I don't want to only buy you new dice.

I want to crush your old dice.

- Yes.

- [Siobhan] I threw them
away and he took them back.

- [Brennan] You see that
this guy goes, "Oh, okay.

You're not familiar with Ms. Encino?"

And you see takes up a little holo-screen.

This is you-
- Right on.

- In bathrobes.

- [Ally] Right on.
- [Brennan] Eating a lovely

fruit medley.
- [Brian] Right.

- And this is you talking
to Ms. Encino here.

And this is you.
- She told us she had

a different name.

It was

Danny.

Danny C.

- Okay.

It's your understanding
that this woman here

is named Danny C.
- Danny C.

If you had said Danny C, I
would have said, "Of course."

- We've just come from the
casino and lost a lot of money.

- [Lou] Lost a ton of money.

We should head out.
- [Brian] Should we head out?

- We should head out.

- [Brian] Actually, we're
worried about missing Danny.

- [Lou] Yeah, what happened to Danny C?

- We're actually, at the moment,

very worried about Ms. Encino's safety,

so we'd love to have you come
and talk with us if you can,

about any known persons that have been-

- [Lou] We're currently working a gig.

We're prepping for tomorrow,
so we're actually engaged,

but we'd happily come by
tomorrow after we're finished

with the job.
- Okay. Understood.

Well, thank you for your time.

- [Lou] Thank you.

- And get him. Just get him.
- [Ally] No.

- [Brian] I grab Gunnie and run.

- [Emily] I have weapons.

- I have three g*ns.
- [Lou] And I have

my data pad, okay?

- [Brennan] Okay, you see this guy

very calmly says, "Get them."

- I grab Gunnie and run.

- Incredible. Okay.

You start running out of
here as fast as you can.

Where are you running to?

- [Lou] Ship.
- Okay, so you're

just running straight for the ship.

- [Zac] Oh my God.
- [Ally] Oh my God.

- Are you using anything?

- [Lou] Yeah, can I cast Flash on them?

On whoever's chasing us?

- Hell yes. You can cast Flash.

- 6d10.

- Wow.
- One, two, three, four,

five, six.

- [Brennan] Okay. There
are four agents right here.

Go ahead and roll.

- Eight.

17,

19, 20.

24.

33.

Any of them have 33 points of health?

- Three of the agents go down.

- They go blind.
- [Brennan] They go blind.

Boom. Three go blind.
Barry, anything from you?

Or you're just sprinting?

- I have the Brawny feat, so
my carrying capacity doubles,

so I assume I can carry-

- [Brennan] Gunnie, no problem.

- [Brian] Gunnie, sweet.
I'm just going to dash.

- [Brennan] Okay.
- [Brian] I'm just going

to dash away 60 feet.

- Incredible.
- [Brian] And I guess

I'll bonus action, just
in case, go into the zone.

This is how I go into a rage.

So, I put bigger sunglasses on.

- [Brennan] Cool. You
go into the danger zone.

I'm going to say this right here.

Go ahead and give me a Perception check.

- Why-
- With sunglasses?

Does that mean disadvantage?

- Why do you even offer me?

- [Brennan] Why do I
offer you these checks?

- Why do you offer me rolls?

Right, that's a 14.
- My king.

- Wait, why does it say two Perceptions?

It doesn't make sense.

- Yeah, I don't know why.
You must have messed up.

- I must have messed up. I have.

- Cool.
- [Brian] 14.

- Some cybertronic part of Gunnie's arm

produces a blinding flash of light,

which gives you just
enough chance to get away.

The main agent you were talking to,

appeared to be the leader, is unfazed.

However, I'm going to
offer something to you.

You can have a foot
chase through the streets

of this level, with the
agents chasing after you,

if you so choose.

However, the rotating
tiers of the Rec Station

have this artificial gravity on them.

Normally, this is
traversed with these upsy

and downsy-daisies that send people up

through the various
levels, slowly and safely.

It is possible-
- [Brian] That I can

freaking jump one?

- [Brennan] You could freaking jump one.

- I do it.

- Barry, Barry.
- [Brian] We got this.

- [Lou] The downsy-daisy's over there.

- We're rolling up.
- The downsy-daisy's

over there.
- [Brian] We got this.

Hang on.

- [Brennan] ♪ Highway to the Da-♪

(all laughing)

- All 4'11" of me is like-

I get underneath Barry's arms,
and hooks around his legs,

so that he's little.

- [Brennan] First of all,

I'm going to need-

- [Brian] We're the worst duo.
- Oh my God.

- [Brian] We're the worst.

- We are the Wurst Duo.

- [Brennan] Go ahead and give me-

- You're the Wurst Duo.

- I'm going to say it's
a DC20 Athletics check

to prevent any and all
damage from going to Gunnie.

Any damage that happens to Gunnie

impacts his least cybertronic components.

- All right. Advantage
because I'm in the zone.

- I have one more Potent Aptitude.

- [Brian] Okay.
- [Brennan] Okay.

- [Lou] So I give that to you.
- Okay.

- [Brennan] Amazing.

- Okay.

18.
- [Lou] And you can add D4,

unless you rolled a D4.

- [Brian] I did not roll the D4 yet.

- All right. Roll a D4.

- It's got to be a two. You said DC20?

- [Brennan] DC20. It's
got to be a two or higher.

- Oh my God. I'll roll
it right here, please.

Please, please, please, please.

(all cheering)

- [Brennan] You will not take...

- That was SO not guaranteed.

- That was deeply not...

- [Brian] Just confidently
narrowly almost dying.

- Literally, you're running.

You see the agents. You're in upper tier.

You know this place is
crawling with Rec Pols.

If you do a foot chase
from here, you're f*cked.

And you see that the Obfusion Arms,

in order to have the best
possible view of space,

is near the edge of one
of the rotating tiers.

So you see that again, you're pointing

to the downsy daisies, and
you just pull a hard left,

go towards a shimmering
plate glass screen,

overlooking the edge, and
roll, go into your shoulder.

Bear hug Gunnie into
your chest. Danger zone.

- [Lou] Not too tight, not too tight.

- [Brennan] And just start cometing down.

I got to ask.
- [Brian] Yeah.

- Are you just trying to
go to the next level down?

Or are you going straight-

- [Brian] I'm going to the ship.

- [Brennan] Okay, here we go.

- [Brian] We're going to fall-

- [Siobhan] Oh my God.
- [Brian] Wait.

How many feet?
- Can you carry him?

- No. Of course not. I
have minus two Strength.

- If I die, just leave me.

- [Lou] Never.

- [Brennan] Wait.

- [Siobhan] Oh God.
- [Ally] No, no, no.

How many levels? How many levels?

- Okay.

- [Siobhan] Those are candies,
right? You're just hungry?

- [Lou] He's raging.

- And he's raging.

- [Lou] He's raging. We're okay.

- [Emily] Raging is so many points.

You have to do 80 damage.

- [Zac] We were at a spa today.

- [Ally] Yes.

- We had a dog job to do.

- Is this our worst day of Dimension 20?

- It is our worst day.
- We said that last time.

We said that last time.

- [Emily] We nailed-
- Every day is the worst day.

- We nailed our mission.
- [Zac] But we're

the Wurst crew.
- It's our Wurst day.

- It's our Wurst day.

- [Brennan] Okay.

- [Brian] Right on.
- [Ally] Right on.

- [Emily] Every day is our Wurst day.

- We nailed our mission as well.

- No. Come on.

- [Brennan] Three. Eight.

14.

22.

24, 29-
- [Brian] If I die like this,

I'm fine.
- [Brennan] 35.

- This is the coolest-
- A beautiful jump.

- [Brennan] 38.

- The coolest jump we've ever had.

- Warrior's death.
- [Brennan] 58.

45.

56.

- You got to stop soon.
- This is halved.

This is all halved.

- No, but...

- 67 halved...

is 33 points of damage.

- I have six health left.

- [Brennan] This station
has hundreds of tiers.

You hit terminal velocity.

Something activates on your blast armor,

so you are covered in a corona,

like something entering atmosphere,

as you blast through layer after layer.

f*ck' Danger Zone!

- [Lou] Barry, why haven't we hit yet?

- [Brian] I overestimated.

- [Brennan] Hundreds of levels down.

You're zipping in between.

You are dodging neighborhoods.

Full neighborhoods,
rotating in outer space.

- I regret everything I did today.

- [Lou] No, no, you don't.

- [Brennan] You smash
through the atmosphere core,

smash through a plate glass,

almost like a Chrysler
building-esque top of a skyscraper,

go all the way, ricochet
off another building,

and slam into the ground.

Damage is halved, because
you were in the zone.

You stand up with six hit points left.

Gunnie is completely unharmed,

exiting from the downsy-daisy.

You beat these guys-

- You can't tell me the
ball's not rolling up.

- The ball's rolling up.
The ball's rolling up.

- [Lou] That's my guy.
Let's get to the ship.

- I need to go to bed.

- Okay.

You converge back at the ship.

- [Siobhan] Do they beat us?
Did they get there before us?

- [Brennan] You guys see-
- [Zac] A comet.

- Yeah, a full comet
through multiple levels

of the Rec Station.

Jesus, I feel delirious. Unreal.

The amount of swings taken
today is unparalleled. Okay.

The doors of The Wurst open up.

You guys see a message on the ship's comms

from Gunnie checking in.

- I do want to have
maxed out the credit card

at a grenade store.
- Okay.

If you want to,

I'm going to go ahead and actually say

finding a grenade store on this level

of the Vale of Tiers is not hard.

Go ahead and grab those grenades.

You have to give me a DC22 Hacker's check

to hack the data card that
the credits are stored on.

- [Emily] I have Proficiency,

so that's my Intelligence
plus Proficiency.

- [Brennan] Correct, yes, yes, yes.

- Nat 20.

Finally.

Just let me know how much
money I can spend on grenades

and I'll do it privately on my time.

- [Brennan] You do it
privately in your spare time,

on a Nat 20.

I'm going to say that there
is a sweet 500 credits

on that data card.

- [Zac] Oh man.

With the change they have,

we'll be up 800 credits today.

- Oh yeah, exactly. Definitely.

- 910, actually.

- [Brennan] Incredible.
- [Ally] Hell yeah.

- You have 500 credits on that data card.

You successfully hack it.

Few minutes later, you guys
see a critically injured

Barry Syx arrive back
with Gunnie on the ship.

- [Brian] Hey guys, we f*cked up.

- Yeah.
- Multiple people

are chasing us, we lost all the money.

- Yeah. They are all-
- [Brian] That was separate.

- [Lou] There's somebody after us.

- That was in the casino,
after us being irresponsible.

But there's also somebody after you.

- You said you weren't
going to the casino.

- Well, we decided-
- The chef's tools.

- [Lou] That was the best
place to find chef's tools.

And then we had a drink.

- We f*cked up.
- We f*cked up.

- [Brian] We f*cked up.
- [Lou] It was bad.

It felt like things were going well.

- [Brian] We'll give you a
proper apology after we leave.

- [Lou] Yes.
- [Brian] People are looking

for you.
- What's the highest

that you guys got to?

- Zero. Never anything.
The money that we had.

I sold my g*n.
- [Lou] Sorry, sorry.

- [Brennan] You got to
for. You did get four.

- We won four. We were up four.

- [Ally] 400?
- [Brian] Up two.

- Two. They gave us a free two.

Because we had an Old
Fashioned, or a drink.

And then-
- [Brian] We lost

our two g*ns.
- [Lou] And then we lost

our two g*ns.
- [Ally] What?

- We have to leave.
- Okay, yeah.

- Wow.

- Are our ship repairs done?

- Can I have them show me a hologram

of who was looking for me?

Do I recognize this man?

- Can anyone create a perfect-

- [Brian] He was so handsome.

- [Lou] So handsome. Really strong jaw.

A ruby red suit. Slicked hair.

- I don't think this
person is familiar to you.

- [Ally] Okay.
- Yeah.

- [Brian] They were specifically-

- [Siobhan] Would the
uniform be familiar to her?

- [Brennan] Those are UFTP
agents. That's private security.

These are not the soldiers of
the United Free Trade Planets.

These are the operatives, assassins.

- This ruby red person?

- People wearing those
raspberry, metallic suits

are k*ll switches for UFTP.

- Incredible. Let's go.
Let's absolutely go.

- [Zac] No dog?
- [Ally] Yeah.

What do you guys think?

Is there any way to get the
dog on our way out of here?

- I just want to point
out that this is going

to tank our rating with Smash 'n Grab

or whatever it's called.

- [Lou] We can-
- I don't think we can afford-

- [Lou] Just circle the block?

- I think we should-

- [Siobhan] Can Margaret
just circle the block?

- I think we should hide
in the shadow of a planet.

- They know that we're-
- [Brennan] Margaret.

- Connected with Margaret.
I think it's too late.

We have to change the
name of the ship again.

We just have to change
the name of the ship.

- [Emily] Who votes for hiding
in the shadow of a planet?

- [Brennan] As Riva says, change
the name of the ship again,

you realize you are sitting on a potential

to cover your trails right now,

because the old captain
let the registration

of the ship lapse.

Normally you cannot, middle of whatever,

change your ship's registration.

That's some pirate sh*t, right?

You're not allowed to do that,

but because they're waiting on you

to re-register, your
registration's fully lapsed,

you have an opportunity to change

your ship's call sign right now.

If you pay that registration fee,

anyone that's looking
for you on the Red Hot,

if you change the name right now,

that will update, and there
won't be logs for Red Hot.

- Definitely. Yeah, we change it.

- [Brennan] That's 1200 credits.

- [Ally] Okay.

- Do we have it?
- Yeah.

- Daddy.
- We just sleep in that ship

and tomorrow, we steal the dog.

And everything's fine.
- [Lou] Everything's good.

We'll make 25.000- 48.000 credits.

- [Brian] And then no
one ever let me or Gunnie

be alone ever again.

- Okay.
- Absolutely.

I'm never alone, personally,

because I can hear
everything all the time,

that everybody's thinking.

- [Emily] I think that's what's going on

with that Gnosis weird thing.

- Wait. What?

- We found a magical-

- [Lou] What did you guys
do? The hotel was crazy.

- [Emily] Well, we went in, we retrieved

this unconscious person-
- Yes, we did.

- They were connected to-
- [Siobhan] We stole

a hotel cart, which is incidental,

but perhaps they would care.

- I unload shampoo and conditioner.

- I think they had a device that helps you

know God essentially, or tap
into a universal consciousness.

And it's maybe irresponsible
artificial intelligence,

because maybe we don't have the capability

to handle that sort of knowledge.

But we stole it, and actually
he's not holding balloons.

That's just a hologram.
- [Lou] Whoa, what?

- [Emily] I release the hologram.

- Oh. Well that's a little disappointing.

Wow. Okay. Okay.

Do we know what, who, why?

- Is there any mark of the
manufacturer on this item?

- Give me a Technology check.

Either of you can give
me a Technology check.

- Dirty 20.

- 25.

- On a dirty 20, you're looking at it.

You have a deep connection to this thing

that Proficiency granted to it.

You're looking at it.

You don't see a maker's mark
or design on it anywhere,

nor do you think there's anything else

in the universe like this.

And you can affirm that,
because as you look at this,

on a 25,

you are looking at what you understand

to be a holofract.

A holofract is

a machine that serves
as a part of something,

and also the whole of the thing itself.

Actually, do you want to examine this

with any tools or-
- I can get in there.

I didn't get to hawk my tinkerer's tools

before we got pulled out.

I also have my mechanics kit.

- Do I get the impression that,

if I touch this thing, the
same thing will happen to me?

- No, you don't think so.
- [Siobhan] Like Sid?

In which case, can I cast Telemetry on it?

- Yeah, for sure.

And just get a sense of where
it's been, and its past.

- You choose one object that you touch

throughout the casting of the power.

If it's an enhanced or modified item,

you learn its properties
and how to use them,

whether it requires attunement,

how many charges it has.

And if the item was created by a power,

you learn which power created it.

- You touch this and find its properties.

Its properties are endless.

This is a super-intelligence
that you believe

it's hard to put a cap
on what this could do

in skillful hands.

This could-

- [Siobhan] World ender, world creator-

- [Brennan] Kind of thing.

It's possible that if this was attached

to a powerful enough transmitter,

it could completely
dampen all communications

throughout the galaxy, rendering
space travel impossible,

and orphaning every
single world in the galaxy

in an instant.

It's also possible that
it could completely copy

and share all information,

making everything readily
available everywhere.

It could probably design
perpetual motion if it wanted to.

You see all of that,
and you also see again,

its attachment to the Princeps Zortch.

You get your tech stuff
in it and look at it.

- Do do I need to ask for permission?

- Yes.

- May I?

- The supercomputer doesn't
appear to have sensory apparatus

to know that it's being asked for this.

- [Emily] Well, it's good manners anyways.

I hand it over.

- [Zac] How's the Princeps doing?

- Breathing. Stable. Just unconscious.

- Can we tuck them in?

- Yeah, you can put them in
a little work area. For sure.

- [Siobhan] Can I also use
then Telemetry on the Princeps?

Because if I am touching a creature,

you learn what psychic powers, if any,

are currently affecting it.

- Yes, the Princeps is
under the Stunned condition.

and it is a psychic power that manifested

from its interactions, or
from their interactions

with Gnosis.

A holofract is a concept
you're familiar with

in theoretical computing,

which is basically that, much
like how if you cut a piece

of something that can create a hologram,

it still creates the
full image, just smaller.

This appears to be a partial fraction

of a much larger thing.

And you're looking for
what its manufacturing is.

You think the genesis of
this may have been synthetic.

It may have started as
artificial intelligence.

When you look at the
maker of this holofract,

this is an organic computer.

This computer grew.

And you think that the
thing that it was cut from,

the thing that this is a piece of,

and what its power really
and truly is as a sentience

that carved itself out of raw materials,

a Silicon-based super-intelligence,

if you had to guess the size
of what this thing comes from,

what its actual corpus was,

probably about the size of the moon.

- Rubian V?

- [Lou] This is just a small
piece of something much bigger,

that's out there.
- [Emily] I think we need

to find it and reunite it.

- Isn't it that moon
that we just came from?

- I have a defibrillator. Can
I use that on Princeps Zortch?

- Zortch? Yeah. Go for it.

- Great. I'm going to go
fully defibrillate them.

- It's not what it looks like.

- What does that mean?

- [Brennan] I just
didn't want you to think

I was f*cking the computer.

- [Ally] Now, that only makes me think

you were f*cking the computer.

- [Brennan] No. I know.

- Can I do an Insight?
- [Brennan] Yeah.

- Yeah, can I do an Insight?

- I got a 13.

- A 16.
- They have complicated

feelings about how good
it felt to interact

with the computer.

Okay.

- [Brennan] I was not
f*cking the computer.

- [Lou] It's okay.

- [Brennan] I was not
f*cking the computer.

- Did I f*ck the computer?

- No. But how did it feel?

- Really good.

- [Brennan] It feels really good, right?

So, it's a complicated thing,
because you're just trying

to communicate, and it
just feels really good.

- Better than Pleasure Putty.

- [Lou] Welcome to The Wurst.

- [Brennan] Yeah. Where
am I, and who are you?

- [Siobhan] We're The Wurst.

- Crew.
- [Ally] I'm from UFTP.

I'm UFTP, and I show my badge.

- [Brennan] Oh my God. Wait. Okay.

So, I hurt myself interacting-

- You slept through your
alarm. It's the morning.

No mimosas, sorry.
- Oh. sh*t.

Okay. Is Lucienne coming or no?

- [Ally] It's me instead.
Hi. I'm Margaret Encino.

- [Brennan] Hi, Margaret. How's it going?

- [Ally] What did you think of Lucienne?

- I thought-
- [Ally] What did you think

about her?

- [Brennan] I thought she was nice.

- Yeah, she's super
nice. She's super nice.

- [Brennan] What's the
energy I'm getting right now?

- [Ally] Oh, I'm just wondering.

You know someone so well, and you just,

"How does that outside
world see this person?"

That's really interesting info.

- Okay.

- I give them a glass of water.

- Well, thank you.

- [Ally] The plan is changing,

so we're just going to take you with us.

- Am I being kidnapped?

- No, no, no.

- Can I leave?

- No.

- [Lou] It's a very dangerous situation.

- [Ally] Yeah.

- I think we should be honest.
You are being kidnapped.

But I think that you'll be on our side

by the end of this conversation.

- [Ally] Wow. Master manipulator.

- I'm sorry. Your lies were so obvious.

- No, it's true. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

- [Brennan] Okay.
- [Zac] My name is Norman

Takamori.

- Okay.

I need to meet with Lucienne.

I had a ball. It was like a silver ball.

It was not quite a ball,
but it was you know?

- [Ally] What kind of significance
does that have to you?

- [Brennan] It's my birthmark.

- Excuse me? It's your birthmark?

It's not the computer you were f*cking

when I walked in through the door?

- Right. I already talked about that.

- [Siobhan] Now, I am a psychic,

but you don't have to be to know

that that is, as the humans say, bologna.

- Balani?
- [Siobhan] Bologna. Bologna.

It's actually spelt completely
different from bologna,

which I find fascinating.

- Bologna.

- [Siobhan] A city in Italy.
Not pronounced like that.

- [Brennan] The important thing is this:

I am a member of the
Royal family of Rubian V.

- [Ally] Oh.

- [Brennan] And actually, I
am going to need my computer.

I'm going to need my computer back.

- [Ally] And then what?
What are you going do?

- Actually, you're under arrest.

- Oh. Hey, why are you
laughing? Are we flirting?

No. Should we get out of
here? We're still at the dock.

- I think that we should get out of here.

- We changed the name.

- Yeah, we changed the name.
We're going to hang out.

- No, we can't change.

We look like a freaking huge hotdog.

- You wanted to just go back-

- [Lou] Talk about the block.

Hide on the other side of the moon.

- We need to leave the dock and hide

in the shadow of a planet.

- [Brennan] Go ahead.

Anyone that wants to can make
an Investigation check for me,

to determine your exposure.

- [Emily] 15.
- [Ally] Great.

- [Siobhan] 17.
- [Brennan] Cool.

- [Zac] Can I do it? Never mind.

- [Ally] 19.
- 19.

Determining your exposure.

You used your card to get

a room for everyone at the Obfusion Arms,

and to get massages for everyone there.

- Mhmm.
- [Brian] Right on.

- You used your card to get
those resources for everybody.

- [Ally] Yeah.

- In terms of who people saw,

they have all of you guys talking,

but once you guys got to the 28th level,

all the cameras go dark.

Once the cameras go dark,

the only thing that hotel
security sees is Sid and Norman.

You're never spotted by
any security up there.

It's a risk.

There's a possibility that the
agents are asking after you,

because they are legitimately
worried for your safety.

The agents that came
after Barry and Gunnie.

Clearly, some stuff is going on.

If Lucienne actually gets alerted,

and someone connects to her, like,

"Hey, did you know that Margaret Encino

is also staying at the Obfusion Arms?"

- [Ally] Then it would tip.

- [Brennan] Then it would tip.

- [Ally] Okay.

- But if that connection hasn't been made,

they may just be like, "Margaret
was with people in the spa.

And then later, those people
attacked the Princeps Zortch."

And some hotel security.
- Okay.

I think, then, I will
just completely level

with the Princeps and be like,

"Okay, this is all of our
past history with Lucienne,

throw that out the window."

- [Zac] All of ours?

- [Ally] Everybody, every single person.

- She's in love with-
- [Ally] She's a bad person.

And then, if I have to pull
up emails and stuff too,

I can use that, but just,

she wants to squash the
rebellion on your moon.

She wants to k*ll you.

- [Brennan] No, she doesn't.
- [Ally] She's bad.

- No, she doesn't want
to squash the rebellion.

- [Ally] What does she want to do?

- She told me she organized
a safe passage for me,

away from this.

I don't know if I can trust you guys.

- Okay.

- They look out and say, "I'm sorry.

I don't know if I can trust you."

- I also connected with your computer,

and I also don't know if I
f*cked the computer or not.

So, we're both living in that ambiguity.

It's really beautiful, and
I think that I want to do

whatever is in the
interest of this computer

that I might have made love to.

- I'm Reddit user
Hotbox420. This is my body.

Oh, sorry, and then this
is the previous post

that I posted about the rebellion.

- You?

Actually, I would like both of you

to make Persuasion checks with advantage.

- Okay. I also haven't even
used my Sage Advice yet.

Okay.

22.

- [Brennan] Amazing.

- [Ally] Persuasion?
- [Brennan] Yeah.

- 20. Not Nat.
- [Brennan] Cool.

You know how to turn this computer on.

You have that ability.

Gunnie and you both arrived
at the same conclusion,

based on your earlier Tech checks.

This thing is incredibly
powerful, but what it did,

where it was fully on and sentient,

requires a pretty intense energy source.

What was going on in that
room is not sustainable.

If you wanted to hook this up,

the ship is a f*cking star ship.

It has plenty of energy
to run this holofract.

But you would need to interface.

To turn this back on, it's
going to need more juice.

Its internal batteries have run out. But-

- [Emily] I think I'm just
trying to level with them.

I believe in whatever this tech is,

and I also think it's really powerful,

and I would like to safeguard
it from the wrong hands.

So that's me trying to extend
an olive branch to say,

"You know, maybe our
intentions are aligned."

- They register what
you're saying is true.

They smile and go, "Okay."

And they look over, see
you holding your phone.

- It's a photo of me.
That's a photo of me.

- [Brennan] They say, "You are Hotbox420?"

They take your hand, kneel in front of you

and kiss your hand.

- And then I show them the email.

We know she just said it. Never mind.

I don't have written proof, but-

- [Brennan] You don't have proof.

- [Ally] I'm telling you
right now, Lucienne is evil.

Lucienne is marrying into-
- I think they want

this tech for something bad.
- Yes.

- [Brennan] My parent,
the Monarch of Rubian V,

they found out about Gnosis,

and they found out that our planet,

our moon had arrived at
this super consciousness.

There was a artificial
intelligence that was made

probably about 15, 16 cycles ago,

that was made by scientists

working for my parent on Rubian V.

They developed an artificial intelligence

that was supposed to help our
people, help our civilization.

It was originally an intelligence

that was supposed to aid communications.

There's been so much strife on Rubian V.

Obviously, the w*r that
my grandparents fought in,

which was where the contracts

with the United Free
Trade Planets were signed,

and communications disintegrated so much,

and they were basically making
an artificial intelligence

that was supposed to be a helper for us

to communicate with each other.

In creating the computers for that,

they had developed a
technology that would tap

into the innate power sources of Rubian V.

As you know, our home
world is a prized resource

for that exact reason.

- [Ally] All the lithium at its core.

- Because of the
composition of the planet,

the machinery that the code
was using to write itself

began to draft its own software,

and very rapidly its own hardware,

building its own physical structure,

at first within computers,

but it got out and it
started drafting itself

into the landscape and
eventually into the core

of the planet.

Our moon has become sentient,
and not only sentient,

but a super-intelligence.

- So, it's not lithium rich
inside that's being mined?

That is a being?

- The being's consciousness,
it permeates the world,

and as UFTP has continued
to mine out the core

of our moon, the substance
is being taken away.

Gnosis seems to be able to rewrite itself

without losing any of its consciousness,

even as so much mass is
moved out of the core

of our home world.

It still exists, and like you're saying,

it can create this holofract.

It's not a one-to-one ratio,

the physical space that
the consciousness needs,

and the fullness of the consciousness.

However, if the home world
were to collapse, if-

- [Ally] This is like a seed?

- I had to get it off. I had
to get it off my home world.

And my parent,

they want to rebel against
the United Free Trade Planets,

because they think that
they can harness Gnosis,

and Rubian V can become the
heart of a galactic empire.

And so, I told Lucienne about Gnosis.

I told her, and she said
that she would be able

to stop my parent from doing that.

And so, she said, "Come to
Rec 97, bring the holofract.

We'll work all this out, and
we can save Gnosis together."

- Right. She completely lied to you.

I will be able to prove
this to you somehow,

because I know in the very near future,

she's going to be extremely angry at me,

and I can show you that,

so if you just hold with
us for a little bit longer.

- We don't have that phone, right?

- [Ally] The dude's phone? We
don't have the guy's phone.

Does she have any sort of
a tracker on your phone

or Gnosis that you know of?

- No.

I only got to the Obfusion Arms

about two malton units ago, if that.

- We should check anyway.
This Lucienne is...

- Yeah.

Can I do a Technology
check to see if I'm getting

any sort of tracker on there?

- [Brennan] Go for it.

- Okay. 15.

- You're not picking up a tracker on them.

You see that the Princeps
Zortch touches around

on their clothes and says,
"Oh, sh*t. My phone."

And you realize that their phone
is probably on a nightstand

back in the Obfusion Arms.

- [Ally] I think grabbed it actually.

- [Siobhan] Margaret grabbed it.

- [Brennan] You grabbed
the Princeps' phone?

- [Ally] Yeah, because
we were looking at it,

and it was, "Still on for
tomorrow?" "Yes, we're still on."

- [Brennan] Yes, that's
absolutely correct.

Yes, the Princeps goes, "Oh, thank God."

- [Emily] Can I disable location?

- [Brennan] Yes, absolutely.
- Yeah, yeah.

- You disable that. Boop boop. It's gone.

- [Ally] Cool.
- The Princeps looks and says,

"This is a lot to take in."

You see that they start to
cry these really viscous,

gooey tears that come out
of their eyes and they go,

"I'm not good at this stuff.

I don't know how to trick people.

And I just wanted to save Gnosis."

- [Emily] I think you did
absolutely the right thing.

- Yeah.
- You did awesome.

We're all really bad at talking to people.

- I'm rubbing their back.
- Yeah.

- You're going to fit in awesome here.

- We've got a coworking space.

- I hope you're the good guys,

because I'm just trusting
pretty much everybody.

- Right on.
- [Lou] Want to watch a movie?

- Okay.
- [Lou] We got some

good movies downstairs.
- Great popcorn.

- They take Gnosis in
their arms and hold it,

and they watch a movie.
- [Ally] Yes.

- Can we talk real quick
while they watch the movie?

- Yeah, absolutely.
- "We're family, we're family."

- What the hell are we doing?

That's a super computer,
and the UFTP wants that.

It just feels like a lot.

- It feels like if it
gets into the wrong hands,

then there's going to be some kind of-

- We can't-
- Catastrophic event.

- Leave them here.

- [Lou] Sorry, that's my alarm clock.

I have tutoring later.

- Okay, no, we have to keep them.

But do we still figure out
what to do with the dog?

- I think we can have
our cake and eat it, too.

- We're on a kidnapping spree.

- [Ally] We've lost a lot of money today,

so we do have to do the dog.

- And I will just say,
if we were going to do

cuts or anything,

my cut is going to replace
the 500 that we left.

So, I'll kidnap the dog for free.

- That's very noble of you, Barry,

but you don't have to do that.

We'll split.
- The maths on that

is absolutely incorrect.
- We'll split.

We'll each sack 250.

- [Siobhan] Do we have
disguises in the ship?

Because I feel like people have seen us.

- [Emily] Let's think about
where to put our ship first.

Again, I just feel like
the shadow of a planet

is a really good place to hide.

- Does the escape pod work?

Can we fly the escape pod off
and fly the escape pod back?

- [Emily] No, because then
they'll ransack our ship

and we just got it fixed.

- You have a message from Mona,

who was working here, being like,

"Escape pod was a little bit trickier.

Couldn't get to it today.

We will grab it first
thing in the morning.

We'll be ready for you by
the time you disembark."

- Ask her if she wants to
buy some Pleasure Putty.

She just looks a bit lonely.

- Thanks, Mona. Sounds
great. Yours...Gunnie.

PS: would you want some Pleasure-

- [Ally] Yes, Captain.

- Would you want some Pleasure?

- Honestly?

- What the hell, Skip?

- [Brennan] You get a response
back a few seconds later,

being like, "Sure."

- [Lou] Thanks, Skip.

- Okay.
- Okay. Guys.

We should stay. We should
stay. I might have a date.

Later, later.

- It's movie night. You see
the Princeps watch that movie.

Barry's badly injured.
You guys take a long rest.

The next morning, the
Rec Station obviously has

a little bit of like a malton unit cycle,

where it changes the quality
of its artificial light,

just because there's enough species

that have circadian rhythm.

That's a little bit
helpful to change the light

color gradient on the
light in the Rec Station.

As that occurs, you all arise.

You've got enough time
to get up to Blue Heaven

before the Carbine Kennel Club dog show.

- [Emily] I'm going to
go in on that freighter.

- [Lou] Yeah.

- [Emily] Bypassing the-

- The person-
- [Emily] Yeah.

- You guys see the Princeps
walks up and is eating

some strawberries from the kitchen.

Looks around and says, "Hey, so sorry.

I made some French toast
with some creme freche.

Just a breakfast with-"
- What?

- [Emily] What tools? With what tools?

- We have chef's tools?
- [Emily] We have chef's

tools?
- [Brennan] There's a ton

of utensils in the kitchen.
- [Ally] Incredible. Okay.

This is kind of a stretch.

- [Brennan] There's a big
box that says, "Jib-Job,"

and it says, "Utensils."
- [Brian] Utensils.

We were looking for chef's tools.

- We were looking for chef's tools.

- [Lou] Yes, it was utensils.

They told us that before
we had to run away.

- Do you want to go on
a dog napping mission?

- [Ally] Yes.
- [Brennan] Yes.

- Really?
- [Brennan] Yeah.

- [Ally] Okay, come.

- [Brennan] What's a dog?

- [Ally] Oh, incredible.

You're going to learn so much today.

We want to show you how
much you can trust us.

Come with us for a day in the life.

- They always said life outside
the palace would be nuts.

This is fun.
- [Lou] I'll tell you, it is.

You get out and it is crazy.

- Yeah.
- [Lou] It's going to be fun.

You're going to have a great time today.

- [Ally] We're going to have
to leave Gnosis here though,

because that computer
could be snatched from us

when we're in the outside, I think.

- [Brian] Do you guys feel
like leaving it unattended?

- What if we just duct
taped it to me really tight?

- I think it's a good idea to it-

- That I couldn't even be disarmed.

- What about balloons?

- It's this big. Isn't it this big?

- It's large.

- [Lou] I mean, this will be quick, right?

- Yeah, so fast.

- [Emily] We can't lose this.

- [Zac] So fast, so easy. Let's go.

- I feel like-
- Just tape it to Sid.

- I say we tape. It's the most-

- Let's go. We're taping
it to Sid. Let's move.

- [Lou] Is Raymond around?

- You guys are supposed to
alert the Jib-Job workers

if you guys have a scheduled departure.

- Let's get Raymond to watch it.

- I don't trust a random Jib-Jobber with-

- It's not a random
Jib-Jobber. It's Raymond.

- Raymond has a thirst for adventure.

- [Brian] What is Raymond going to do

if that Henry Cavill-a*s
dude shows up with a blaster?

- Use the ship's correspondence

to let you know that we're under attack,

and then you zap back to your body?

- [Brennan] That would work.

- I mean, that works for me.

- [Brian] All right.
Should we put it to a vote?

- [Lou] Sure.
- All for duct taping it

to Sid?

(Emily laughing)

- [Ally] I'm the same.

- [Brennan] And then all for
leaving it with Raymond Zam

on the ship.

Amazing.

You got a thing, and you see Raymond.

- [Emily] When you stop
trying to please people,

you realize how much they displease you.

- Oh my God.

- Raymond hits you back and says,

"Okay, do we have a scheduled departure

for when Jib-Jobbers
should be back on ship?"

- I think by about 10:00 AM this morning.

- [Brennan] Okay. He says, "Great.

I'll let everyone know that we're having

a scheduled departure at 10:00 AM."

And you see, a couple of minutes later,

Raymond shows up, got his nice
little crisp sweater vest.

And he goes, "Hey Gunnie, how's it going?"

- Hey, good to see you, man.

We'll be headed out soon.

We're going to go take
care of one more thing.

We're leaving some real precious cargo

that was sent by Jib-Job Corporate.

Just make sure if anyone
tries to touch it,

comes anywhere near it, give us a call.

- [Brennan] Sure.

Do you want me to put it
in one of the file cabinets

where we keep the Jib-Job stuff?

- You can leave it out.

- [Brennan] Okay.

So you see a deific
planetary supercomputer

rests on a coffee table,
next to a bowl of fake fruit.

- [Emily] Wait a second.

- [Brennan] Raymond Zam
sits there, and is like,

"All right, you guys have a good one."

- [Emily] I think we should
put it in the bathroom

under the sink.

No one would look there.

- [Brian] Unless they hated toilet paper.

- [Lou] But they probably wouldn't-

- [Brian] It would just
make sure it stopped.

- Exactly I don't think if somebody-

- Skip sprints out of the plane.

- [Brennan] We leave. We're done.

You guys walk away and you see-

- [Ally] On my way out,
I go to Raymond and I go,

"Losing this would be
the biggest deal ever,

professional to professional."

- Okay.

- This is a really big deal.

We really like the work that
you've done here so far.

- [Brennan] Great, yeah, yeah.

Do you want this under the sink

or do you want it on the coffee table?

- I want this wherever you're
going to be able to see it.

So it could be under the
sink if that's where you go.

- [Brennan] Probably coffee table.

- [Ally] Yeah. Great. Okay, cool.

Firm handshake. Just
the firmest handshake.

- [Zac] Can I pull Raymond
aside for 25 minutes?

- [Siobhan] There's French
toast in the kitchen.

- [Brennan] Ooh.

Raymond has never reacted
stronger to anything.

It's amazing. He says, "I saw the email.

We're upgrading to full
kitchen. Okay. Jib-Job!"

- Rallying cry. Jib-Job!

- [Ally] Jib-Job!

- [Brennan] Great. All
right. You see Raymond.

Raymond walks in. You guys all head up.

You grab the freighter
truck. I'm going to roll.

- [Zac] We might not get the money.

- [Ally] Why?

- [Lou] We're supposed
to meet at the hotel.

- [Brian] We can send a message.

- [Brennan] You guys
recall that Hyacinth Khrome

is going to be at the dog show.

- Right.

- [Brennan] If something's gone sideways,

there's a potential to fix it there.

You guys get in the truck.

The truck driver looks over
and says, "Blue Heaven. Huh?"

- Right on.

- Price has gone up since yesterday.

That's going to be 40 credits.

- I've got it guys. I've
got it. I've got it.

Would you take it in Pleasure Putty?

- No.

- I understand. I understand.

- [Brennan] All right. You
toss over a cool 40 credits.

Up you go.

- Yes. Yes.

- [Brennan] A Luck check.

(upbeat music)

- This is all great.

- You feel the truck stop.

Hear the noise of some Rec Pols outside.

You see the back of the
truck gets knocked on.

Sound stops. Goes away.
Truck continues on.

- Ball's rolling up.

- The truck pulls up to The Dome,

the ritziest, poshest club
in all the Blue Heaven level.

This is the crown jewel of Rec 97.

You see there are full
red carpets rolled out.

This is a full gala of the Rec's biggest

and best dog owners.

How do you approach once
you're let out of the truck?

- Can I get an Insight
or just an Investigation?

- [Brennan] Yeah, go for it.

- [Ally] I have forgery kit.

Can I forge myself an
entrance to the thing,

and walk around looking
like I've lost my dog?

- [Brennan] Yeah. Give me a Forgery check.

- 17 Perception.
- [Brennan] Cool.

- 18 Investigation to figure
out what the situation is.

- And I got a dirty 20 Insight.

- [Brennan] Amazing.

What's that?
- Fail.

- Fail. Fail-

- [Zac] I got 11 Perception.
- [Brennan] 11 Perception.

Fails here. 20 Insight.

The vibe here is a little
bit like this might just

be a Smash 'n Grab.

You see there is security here.

There is Rec Pol around,

because there's all these
highfalutin people here,

but also you're so deep in
Blue Heaven at this point

that you're in the level of ritzy

where the ritzy people don't want to see

the things protecting them.

It's like, "No, no, I don't want a Marine

with a huge r*fle at my dog show.

No, no, no. That stays at the borders."

Here, everything is lush
and positive and nice.

So, there's not too much security around.

There's some other androids.

There might be a Vercadian
protector here or there,

but that looks like private security.

That looks like if you
don't f*ck with that person,

then their droid won't mess with you.

- [Siobhan] And do I see
this weird hairless dog?

- On a 20 Insight. Did anyone
get above a 15 Perception?

- [Lou] 17.
- [Brennan] 17.

You're looking around for your person.

You're looking for-
- [Ally] Aurora Nebbins.

- [Lou] Milo.

- [Brennan] The name of the owner-

- [Ally] Is Milo?
- Is Myalor Nabthacks.

And you're looking for Aurora
Nebbins, a royal blue Mastiff.

- [Lou] Yeah.

- You never heard of a Royal blue mastiff?

A freakish 20 foot long monster.

A blue weasel with
bulbous solid yellow eyes,

and teeth both in its mouth and protruding

from the exterior of its mouth.

Some on the outside of its lips.

It has a huge ship's chain
around its neck and goes...

(Brennan shrieks)

And just claws at the ground.

And you see there are a couple of androids

holding it in place.

It is a space monster.
- [Lou] Is the trucker gone?

- Trucker's gone.

- I think that's it.

- Very good, Aurora. Very good.

- If we slapped a tattoo
on that thing right now,

it would lose, and we would have got it.

- [Siobhan] No, no, no.

- [Ally] Oh my God.
- I think we have to find out

how people are judged.

Because what if-
- [Brian] We need to make sure

it's not in the show, though.

I think it's not about whether
it wins the show or not.

Look, I can carry that thing.

- [Siobhan] I was going to say,
I actually think I can too.

- Yeah.
- [Lou] Okay.

So between two of you-
- Put the gunners on it.

- [Lou] You get hands on it.
- I think that we can

carry it.
- Gunner channel takes that.

How much time do we
have until the dog show?

Can I ask a passerby? How
much time until the dog show?

- About 18 martrons.

- Okay. 18 martrons.

- Oh my God. 18 minutes.
- I think,

if you all can create a distraction,

I can enhance droid double
my carrying capacity,

and the two of us can
carry this thing away.

- [Ally] Do we have to
incapacitate it first?

It'll be wailing all over.

- [Brennan] You see it coils up and hisses

and spits venom into a dude's face.

And its owner's like, "Beautiful dog."

- [Ally] Oh my God.
- [Lou] I can blind it.

That's the best I can do.
- [Ally] No.

- [Siobhan] I can calm its
emotions. That might work.

It's not humanoid.

I can't, because it's
not f*cking humanoid.

- What if we-
- Wait, go ahead.

- [Brian] You have an idea, Skip?

- What if we break its legs?

- It definitely isn't the
type of dog I was thinking of.

I'm more open to breaking
this thing's legs,

but I don't want to.

- Skip. Hey, I love that enthusiasm.

Maybe we just let it
loose. Is that a thing?

It looks like-
- The 25K to have it

not compete.

- But what if we let
it attack the handlers,

and it attacks a bunch of
people and murders them.

And then it can't compete.
- I don't know

if that's included in the judges' eyes.

- They just said beautiful
when somebody had acid

spit in their face.
- [Lou] Okay,

maybe you're right.

- [Ally] What were you just saying?

- What if we give it steroids?

- [Lou] Do you have
steroids on you, Barry?

- [Brian] I think I just had them

naturally pumped into
my body when I was born.

- [Brennan] Welcome one and
all to the 78th Cyclical

Carbine Kennel Club dog show.

- [Ally] Okay.
- [Brian] What do the androids

look like?

Can we just-
- I cast Critical Analysis

on the-
- [Brennan] Announcer?

- [Ally] No, no. Sorry. On the-

- Dog?
- On Aurora.

- [Brennan] On Aurora
Nebbins. Yes, absolutely.

- [Ally] Yes.

And so then, I can use
my Intelligence modifier.

I would like to choke it out.

- [Brennan] So, let me get it clear.

- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

- [Brennan] On the dais
entering the space,

you're going to run up
and choke out a weasel,

about as large as an elephant.

- [Lou] 20 feet.

- [Siobhan] The CIA is after you.

- [Ally] But where are we?
I thought we were backstage.

- [Brennan] No, no, no.

You're just out on the curb,

looking at the entrance dais to The Dome.

- Eyeball. How much does this thing weigh?

- Maybe north of a ton.

- [Brian] Okay. My carrying
capacity is doubled.

Your carrying capacity is-
- I can make mine doubled.

- [Lou] So what would that be?

- [Emily] What is normal
carrying capacity?

- Calculate carrying capacity?

- [Brennan] A ton is 2000 pounds.

- [Zac] Can we hack the androids?

- [Emily] Is it androids
taking care of it?

- [Siobhan] Yeah. There's two androids.

- [Brennan] Also, for
those that got Perceptions

and things like that, this is very public.

This is the red carpet.

Going inside, the grooming
areas are more sequestered.

- [Ally] That's where I
thought we were. Totally.

We can wait until we're there.

- Do they look like there's any guards

that are by themselves,
that we can knock out?

- If you can actually
knock out the androids,

I might be able to make
the dog hallucinate

so badly that it runs away.

- [Emily] Okay. Then, you know what?

I actually have a grenade
that disables electronics

within the blast radius, and
they need to be rebooted.

- [Lou] Are we doing this
here, or should we go inside?

I think that's the question.

- [Ally] We go inside, obviously. Yeah.

- [Brennan] Amazing.
You go up to the front.

You see security sort
of checking people in.

- [Emily] I'm not even trying
to go in the front way.

I want to just sneak in.

- There are-
- [Brian] Probably handlers.

You did a forgery check and it was bad.

- And it was bad. But can I try again?

- You can go to talk to
security if you want.

- Right. I would love to.

- Is anyone not trying that?

Is anyone going to go
find a servant's entrance

to the club or something?

- [Zac] I'd love to try to Stealth in.

- Yeah, I'd like to try to Stealth.

- [Brennan] We have two
stealthers here. Who's going with?

- I'll go with Margaret and
I'll use Calm Emotions on us,

so that anybody within a 20 foot radius

is not hostile to us.
- I'm going to give Margaret

Potent Aptitude.

- [Brennan] You're all going
with Margaret to the front.

- [Brian] Yeah. I'm going
to go with Margaret.

- [Brennan] Okay. Four of you go.

Let's do stealth over here.

- Nat 20.

- 21.
- 21.

- [Emily] Nat 20 becomes 26.

- Amazing.

Sidney, you skate away and you see

there's a weird joint pop
as well, from the Captain.

And I think the captain
can move like an animal

if he wants to, a little bit.

Incredible. You go through the back.

- [Emily] I think with my Nat 20,

can I look for a huge secret exit?

Wherever I go in, I'm looking for a place

that we could smuggle this dog out.

- [Brennan] Oh, hell yeah.
There's a back loading dock.

- Yeah, okay.

- You go to a loading
dock. As you scoot in-

- [Emily] I cast Off on the garage thing.

- You cast Off on the garage.

So it's easy. You just go in.

There's servants back
here that don't super care

about stopping anybody.

You guys just hug to the shadows.

You see the thing that you hit Off on.

Give me-

- [Emily] Technology?

- [Brennan] No, give me
a Charisma saving throw.

- God.

Seven.
- Okay.

It's all good. You hit Off.

As you walk through, though,

it looks like there's
certain things back here.

Skipper's unaffected,
but there seems to be

some anti-android stuff back here.

Nothing that you can't handle.

As you skip through,
it scans your ID chip.

Your serial number.

- Can I do a Deception or something?

- [Brennan] Yeah, give me a Deception.

- Think of a different...

Oh God. Five.

- You go to try to stop it.

This is normally not a problem for you,

because you're not registered anywhere.

So, normally, android
things can't pick you up,

because you're a prototype.

You were never put on the market.

You don't even really have your barcode,

because you never were for sale.

Your line never got printed and made.

- [Emily] Yeah.

- [Brennan] You see a
little thing go boop,

and there's an out of order thing.

There's an error message.

And then it comes up and says, "Whitney."

- I knew it was going
to happen. I knew it.

I f*cking seethe in my
f*cking roller skates.

- [Brennan] And it registers the error.

It goes boop boop, Whitney.
And then it goes away.

You both are in the back of
the club though. You make it.

But you do know that
that got filed somewhere.

Everybody else, you are at the front.

Margaret, you approach security.

- Hi. Yes. I would like
to charm this person.

- [Brennan] Yeah, go for it.

- That is my Persuasion
versus your Insight.

That is a 17.

- A 17.

17 versus there. Okay.

This person says hello.
- [Ally] Hi.

- [Brennan] Hi.
- I'm checking in.

And this is my entourage.

- Oh, understood. And what
name would that be under?

- My name is Danny C.

- [Brennan] Danny C. I'm
not registering a Danny C.

I'm so sorry.
- Really? Wait.

- [Brennan] I'm not registering a Danny C.

This might be my mistake though.

You can see that it's working
on them to some degree.

They look very much in the
space of very important people

come here who maybe f*cked
up their own credentials.

Riff raff wouldn't be here.

When there's a mistake like this,

this person is apologetic,
rather than suspicious.

- [Ally] Got it.
- Danny, we really need

to get inside.

- I know. I know.
- We really need

to get inside.
- I know.

- Is it possible that
there could be another name

that this was under?

How large is your party?

- Let's see, it's what?
One, two, three, four.

- That's it.
- And.

- Oh.
- The Princeps.

Six of us.

- I see it says, oh, party
of six. Oh, wonderful.

Could it possibly be under Callister?

Could it be under Rogers?

Could it be under Salazar?

- Yes. It's definitely under Salazar.

- [Brennan] Okay, party of
six for Salazar. Perfect.

And prints out a bunch of passes and says,

"Should I hold onto the sixth one

until your last guest is here?

Or would you like to
hold onto this yourself?"

- [Ally] Oh, we'll hold
on to this ourselves.

Thank you so much.
- Of course, of course.

- I'd like to use Subtle Control
to wipe this person's mind

of that happening.
- [Lou] Incredible.

- They have to make a Wisdom saving throw.

- As you walk past, they look
up and go, a little confused,

like they don't know what just happened,

but then they go back to their job.

- [Ally] Incredible.
- [Lou] Nice.

- [Brennan] Hell yes.
The ball's rolling up.

- [Ally] Yes.
- Rolling up.

- [Ally] Salazar.
- [Brennan] Cool.

- Salazar.
- [Siobhan] Salazar.

- All of you walk in. All
of you scooch into the hall.

You see that the dogs have
already made their way

back to the more private quarters.

There's some other people out here.

You see Hyacinth Khrome
over in the corner as well,

and realize you probably
only have 12 martrons left

until things are getting started,

so it's possible you got
some ground to cover.

Because there's also the
thing that Hyacinth Khrome

thinks that she's meeting
you at the Obfusion Arms.

- [Brian] Can you send her a message?

- [Siobhan] Yeah. Can I psychically?

She's less than 120 feet
away from me, right?

- Yes. Yes, she is, so you can do it.

- [Siobhan] Great, so can I say,

"Hi, change of plans? We're
just going to need the credits.

Sorry, hang on. Please hold."

Where should we say to
meet her afterwards?

- [Ally] Our dock.

- The casino.

- [Zac] Is she going to
go all the way there?

- [Ally] Have a droid
send it to the casino.

- [Brian] At the casino.
- Have a droid-

- [Brian] We just won't go.

No one else is in
trouble until you see us.

- [Siobhan] Okay. Thank you for holding.

At the Emerald casino-

- [Lou] The Emerald Comet.

- [Siobhan] The Emerald Comet casino.

If you could have just a drone send it

to care of the Emerald Comet casino,

we will pick it up from there.

- You hear her thoughts back, saying,

"I have no idea what sort of
technology is allowing you

to just speak in my mind,
and I don't know who you are,

or what you're talking about.

The Emerald Comet? Interesting."
And you see her walk away.

But she heard the Emerald Comet.

- [Ally] Okay.

- [Lou] She's playing cool.
- She's playing cool.

- God, she's good.

- She's so cool.

- [Brennan] Amazing.

What do the four of you
do here in this space?

- [Siobhan] Well, I think we want to get-

- Is the Princeps with us?
- [Ally] Yeah.

- [Brennan] The Princeps is there. Yeah.

The Princeps is here and the
two of you are in the back

area looking around.

What do you all do?

- I think we should clear the way,

and maybe knock a couple of
these people unconscious.

- [Zac] Yeah, I want to
get a lay of the land

a little bit,

and also see if there's any other

giant animals back here.

- Yeah, if you want to split
up and look for this thing,

go ahead and give me Investigation check.

- 15.

- 23.

- On a 15, I'm actually going to say

that you find Aurora Nebbins.

You find the room there.
- [Emily] Okay.

- [Brennan] 23, you're
scooting around looking for it,

and you clock Aurora Nebbins
as well, but are distracted.

You look around and see
a little area behind you,

and you see that there
is a groomer with a dog.

The owner of the dog is not present.

There's a little peach,
pink pug that turns around,

looks at you.

And the pug leaps off,
and the groomer goes

and grabs its leash real quick,

but it sniffs you and you
see the pug starts going...

(Brennan shrieks)

- Can I get Insight check real fast?

- [Brennan] Yeah. Make an
Insight check. Go for it.

- That is only 12 actually.

- 12. You don't know.
This pug's going berserk.

- I scoot away from it

because I don't want
any attention right now.

- [Brennan] Okay, you
scoot away from that.

Other four out with the
Princeps, what are you up to?

- [Brian] We got to get
into those pens, right?

- [Ally] Yeah, we start combing the back.

- I found the room that
it's in, so I'm posted up,

trying to look natural,
but darting around,

looking for them.

- Cool.

You are posted up, looking
around. You are backstage.

It says, "10 martrons until places.

10 martrons until places."

Voice comes on. Time is of the
essence. You're moving fast.

Now, Aurora Nebbins has
moved out to not as private,

but a small staging area.

It's not the crowd,
it's not the spectators,

but there's probably a
couple dozen people in here,

groomers, people managing dogs.

And there's a bunch of different dogs

that are on their things.

Hyacinth is one station away,
glaring at Aurora Nebbins,

and Nabthacks, her rival.

And you guys see, as you get away,

this peachy, pug, screaming.

And keeps looking right at the Skipper.

You see an owner has come over,

and you see the pug starts
freaking out at the owner,

and you see the owner says, "Whoa, Melon.

What's up, Melon? Sweetie.

Do you want to say something to daddy?"

This big blond pompadour.
"Say something to daddy."

(Brennan groans)

And they start just sort of
making out off in the corner.

All of you-

- [Emily] Can I just make
eye contact with everyone,

and be like, "I'm just
going to get in there

and hop on this thing, giddy up."

- [Siobhan] Do it sneakily,

because there's a bunch
of crazy security stuff

in this place.

If they see us stealing
this very valuable dog,

we're going to get in trouble.

- Can I-
- I think we got to just-

- I know I said I didn't
want to hurt the dog,

but this isn't a dog.

This thing spits acid.
Let's just knock it out.

- [Lou] Are there still
androids holding it down?

- Aurora seems to be somewhat calm.

The androids are stationed
to either side of Aurora.

- Are we going?

- [Emily] Okay, I'm going
to try and hop on it,

and ride it out of here and
that doesn't work, attack it.

- [Lou] Great.

I think at the exact
moment that Sid hops on,

I'd like to reboot one of the androids.

- Amazing.

So you're going to go to
get in position, right?

Are the rest of you all
standing in a clump?

Are some of you getting near the doors?

You see there's doors, security
and other stuff like that.

Where are you all
positioned at in this space?

- [Siobhan] I want to be close
enough, so within 60 feet,

to be able to cast
Hallucination on this dog.

- 60 feet is also, I think,
my distance from the dog.

closer to the door.

- Amazing.
- I am just going to,

on the opposite side of
the room from the animal

that's yelling at me.

- Can I block the door?

- Yeah, you can get in the doorway.

- [Emily] I'm casting
Enhance Droid on myself

to get advantage on Wisdom checks.

And I've got an ion grenade in my hand

that I'm ready to throw.

- Can I make the skills
exploit Angle Perception

on the blue mastiff?

- [Brennan] Yes, you can.

- [Brian] I'm just
going to get in position

to blast some people.

- Hell yeah.

- Did you say that-
- One last roll

on the peach pug?

Can I figure out what
the f*ck is going on?

- Yeah, do a roll on the
peach pug. Go for it.

- 12.

- As Sid is starting to get into position,

Barry, you're over by the door,

and you hear a voice
over your shoulder, say,

"What's up, you f*cking Jamoke?

Nice disguise. You look
like a f*cking d*ck."

- Who the f*ck are you?

- You turn around and
see just a weird-looking,

very out of place here,
a weird-looking armor,

partially space-armored lunatic.

Very wide-eyed, got crazy green Mohawk.

He's like, "Syx, I thought we
were going afterwards, man.

But, sh*t, we got him right here."

- That's funny as f*ck, dude.

You know what's going to be way funnier

than everything you're saying?

- What's that?
- [Brian] When I break

your f*cking nose.

And then I just whack him.

- [Brennan] You see, he goes...

You guys see before the plan goes off,

Barry f*cking lays a dude out.

And he goes, "What the f*ck, man?

That's not part of the plan."

- Oh, what?

- Give me an Insight check.

- [Siobhan] Oh dear.

- Two.

- [Brennan] Two. You have no idea.

He's like, "What the f*ck, man?"

- [Brian] I keep kicking his head.

- You hear an alarm go
off. Security sounds.

As you look over, the pug
busts out of its chains,

rushes over to you and leaps at your face,

and jams its tongue into your eye.

As it goes in, you suddenly
feel a wash of chemicals,

and you hear a voice deep
inside you go, "Your majesty.

It's you. We've found
you, after all this time."

- [Zac] You must be mistaken.

I don't know what you're talking about.

- Prince Valdrinor.

- What?

- [Zac] I am not ready right now.

You must leave right now.

- [Brennan] Your father-
- [Zac] I order you to leave.

- You order me to leave?

- I order you to leave-

- [Brennan] Sire, your
father, King Probis.

- What the f*ck?

- Shut your mouth.

If you ever speak of this again,

I will wipe your line from existence.

- We leave from that interaction.

You hear alarms going off.

You see that the captain
has gone fully catatonic

as this pug has buried its
tongue under one of his eyelids.

Just holding a pug.

sh*t has gone sideways.

You see Hyacinth Khrome.

In your head, you hear
the pug say, "It is time.

The great imhatchening can begin."

And the tongue is removed from your eye.

The pug turns to the owner and goes...

And you see the owner pulls out a g*n

and starts blasting into the crowd.

- I mean, I'm just going
to hop on this creature.

- [Lou] Reboot, at the same time.

- [Brennan] Cool.

- [Siobhan] Hallucinate.

It's the scariest f*cking
thing that you've ever seen.

- [Brian] I still think this
dude is part of the plan.

- I'm going to Minor Illusion

a super hot version of this blue Mastiff,

right through that tunnel, hop on it,

try to do an animal handling,

and throw an ion grenade over my shoulder,

to try and f*ck up all the equipment.

- Okay. What checks are you making?

- I'm making a minor hologram,

and then also throwing this ion grenade

to f*ck up the things.

And then I guess an Animal Handling.

- [Brennan] Make an animal handling check.

You have Enhanced Droid on that.

- [Ally] Can I...

- Okay. 18.

- 18. And what is the
hallucination you're creating?

- It's a Wisdom saving throw, and-

- Before you do that, can we say

that I do my Skills Exploit?
- [Brennan] Yes.

I rolled. It failed on its
check. It got Natural two.

- Okay.

- [Brennan] It fails its saving throw.

- The most cute and fluffy
thing you've ever seen,

which in my mind is the scariest
thing to this scary thing.

- [Brennan] Yes.

- [Siobhan] Just poofs
into existence behind it,

and tries to hug it.

- [Ally] I use my blaster
to blast its chains

or ropes or whatever.
- [Brennan] Hell yeah.

A bunch of blasters get
drawn. You hit the chains.

Androids fall back, you
jump on this thing. Hyaa.

Aurora Nebbins rears up, looks
over at Myalor Nabthacks.

As the chains snap, Myalor says, "Oh no."

This thing goes and bites
Myalor Nabthacks's head off.

- [Emily] I could get a bonus for that.

- [Brennan] You see
Hyacinth goes, "Holy sh*t."

You see that this dude
underneath you says,

"What the f*ck, dude?"

Takes out blaster, says,
"We're supposed to do the job."

Points at the Princeps
and fires at the Princeps.

- [Ally] No.
- Bonus action, guard.

- [Brennan] Bonus guard.

That is a Nat one on
the disadvantage roll.

You boom, body out of the way.

Princeps dives for cover,
grabs onto Aurora Nebbins,

snakes through the crowd, you hear-

- [Emily] I want to fall back on the tail.

What is that called?
- [Lou] Like on a bus?

- [Emily] Yeah. Drifting or whatever.

- You hear, "Welcome one and all

to the 78th Cyclical Carbine
Kennel Club dog show."

You see Jimmy the ferret.

Rootersnoos ferret, Jimmy the Snout.

His dais is destroyed as Aurora
Nebbins surges through it

into the midst of hundreds
of onlookers, screaming.

18 is good enough to ride this thing,

but it goes out through the main dog show,

and a bunch of Rootersnoos
cameras all on you.

- When they catch me, I say,
"I've been Warfare Whitney.

You can't trust me."

- [Ally] Oh my God.

- [Brennan] The Princeps Zortch,

they are holding onto one
of your roller skates,

as Aurora Nebbins crashes out of there.

- [Zac] Am I still conscious?

- Yeah, you're good to go.

Once the pug removed its
tongue from your eyeball,

that communication was closed,

and the pug barked some kind of order.

You immediately thought

that the pug is a superior to whatever,

that the pug's owner is probably
also another cerebro slug.

- I see.

I will look at them with a deathly stare,

and then just keep
running after my friends.

- [Brennan] You see the pug
looks after you and just goes...

(Brennan barks)

Hell yeah. Okay.

You see the captain is sh**ting this pug.

Incredible.

You dip out of there. Gunnie,
Margaret, Barry, Riva.

What's going on?

- [Brian] I also leave.

- [Lou] Yeah, I'm going to run with Barry

after Aurora Nebbins.
- [Brennan] Cool.

- I throw myself at
Barry. I say, "Carry me."

I go, dip out of this
business, back to the ship.

Can I get the ship ready to leave?

- You start booting up
the systems right now.

As you do, you hear some
chaos and see messages

coming up on your personal comms,

from Pleasure Putty
headquarters at Bargain Bliss,

saying, "Mx. Riva, Please
tell us how and why

you acquired these most recent subs.

We are finding their
desire for the program

difficult to manage."

- I got them because one of
them was getting married,

and I'm very good at
my job of being a boss.

- You're getting the ship up
and you're getting these emails

from Pleasure Putty headquarters.

Something wild happened here.

As you get the drone and run away,

Margaret and Gunnie, you
have the least heat on you,

so you just dip the hell out of there.

- [Ally] Yes, yes.

- [Brennan] And start to run.

Barry, as you start to run, the
blood covered guy behind you

goes, "What the f*ck, Barry?

Your disguise is f*cking stupid.

Your f*cking number's backwards."

- Where's Barry?

- "Oh sh*t." This guy f*cking
jet packs out the window.

- Barry!!!

- Am I anywhere near this?

- [Brennan] You are. You're still-

- [Zac] Can I just jump on the jet pack?

- [Brennan] Absolutely. You jump on.

Guy smashes out a window.

You see there's another
guy nearby who says,

"It's all happening."
And just unloads as well.

It looks like a lot of sh*t went sideways.

- Can we dip out the back way?

So I'm not on any news channel.

- I want my face to be the face of this.

- Yeah, yeah, perfect.

- [Brennan] You are fully
clocked by Rootersnoos,

leaving here-
- [Emily] I'm winking

at every individual camera, flexing.

- [Brennan] Amazing.

Gunnie, Riva, Barry,
you make it out of here.

Skip, you jump on this guy's jet pack.

- [Zac] Grabbing his ankles.

- [Brennan] You grab his ankles.

He takes you out to the street.

He goes, "What the f*ck, man? Stop.

This wasn't even supposed to
happen now. What's your deal?"

- [Zac] Give me that.

- He lands on the roof and
gives you his jet pack.

(all laughing)

What the f*ck, man? Tell
someone I'm up here.

Tell someone I'm up here.

- I circle back and just
roundhouse him in the face.

- [Brennan] You zoom
away in your jet pack.

Sid, you ride this f*cking hellish dog.

Go ahead and give me one more
Animal Check with Persuasion.

- Really bad.

- [Brennan] I'm sorry.
Animal Handling. Yeah. Yeah.

- Yeah, that's going to be a 10.

- A 10. This thing is
delighted to be free.

It is hard to control this monster.

Just zooming through
Blue Heaven, screaming.

You all get to the downsy-daisy.

- [Zac] I'm going to go to the casino.

- [Brennan] Okay. Yes.
You have your jet pack.

- [Ally] Yes.
- [Brennan] And you also have

that bonus action Dash.

You get there. Go ahead, get there.

You see, waiting out front
is the android Salazar.

- [Zac] Give me that.

- [Brennan] As you depart,

I'm going to roll a Luck
check in front of the board.

- [Ally] Okay. Yeah, definitely.

- [Brennan] You want high.

- [Siobhan] Great.
- Here.

That's a three.
- [Ally] f*ck.

- [Brennan] You see Salazar
standing there and saying,

"Absolutely. I would be more than happy.

I just need confirmation from Ms. Khrome

that everything's gone according to plan."

- Give me that.

I pull my p*stol.

- Incredible. You pull a g*n.

Go ahead and give me Intimidation check.

- 12.
- [Brennan] 12. Okay.

Salazar says, "I don't wish for violence.

I simply wish for confirmation.

I don't see Aurora Nebbins yet.

I'm supposed to get
confirmation from Ms. Khrome."

- [Zac] Can I make a Perception check

to see if I hear or see
any sign of Aurora Nebbins?

- [Brian] Or the TVs.
- [Zac] Or the TVs?

Yeah, if there's any live footage playing.

- Yeah, go ahead and give
me a Perception check.

- That is a 22.

- You point to a screen
streaming Rec Station news

and see a helipod chase looking
at Sid and the Princeps,

weaving through beautiful
boulevards on Blue Heaven,

in a cop's high-speed chase
of this monster dog weasel.

All right, that'll do it. Here you go.

A 25.000 credit card
lands in front of you.

You blast away. All of you converge.

You see everybody converging here.

You get to the Pleasure
Putty factory first.

You beat everyone here. The
rest of you are coming down.

You get Aurora Nebbins
to the downsy daisy.

- [Siobhan] Yeah.
- You begin to sh**t down

just this levitating monster thing.

- [Emily] Everyone, I think
I'm taking a liking to her.

Bring her aboard the ship?
- No.

- [Siobhan] Absolutely not.

- [Brennan] You've got
things up and booted.

You see, poking his
head in, is Raymond Zam.

"Hey, we're still waiting
on a couple of Jib-Jobbers."

- [Siobhan] Hi, Raymond.
- Hi.

Hey, waiting on a couple
Jib-Jobbers to get here.

Just want to know, because I
see the engines are booting up.

- [Siobhan] What's their ETA?

- Should be here in the next five to 10.

- Okay, five, yes. 10, no.

- Okay. Are we expecting a hot exit?

- Medium heat. I think a medium rare.

- You see, he goes and opens
a little Jib-Job cabinet,

and takes a laser r*fle out,
and just goes, "All right.

I'll be posted up, just to provide cover

for the Jib-Jobbers."

- I love a man that's good at his job.

- [Brennan] As you're flying back,

you hear loud, raucous noises
from the factory outlet

Pleasure Putty training center.

You hear,

"My own boss, my own boss.
My own boss. My own..."

- [Siobhan] Maybe more like two.

- All of you rushing in, you converge.

Barry, you're there with
the drone in your arms.

Margaret, Gunnie, Skip you're hovering,

or waiting for them to round the corner,

and the Princeps and
Sid on Aurora Nebbins,

all converge as, boom,
an enormous expl*si*n,

like the kind you saw
at the Brigader's Bier

Hot Pleasure Putty raining
down on all of you.

As it touches your skin, it feels so good.

- [Ally] Oh my God.

(all groaning)

- [Emily] I've heard this
about horseback riding.

- [Brennan] Skip, at that moment

that you've got the credit card,

you got a 22 Perception, right?

- [Zac] Yes.
- On the ticker underneath,

the Rootersnoos ticker,

you also read, "Wanted:
Norman "Skip" Takamori,

for the m*rder of 12
sisters of the Cosmic Vale

in the Hecatoncheires Asteroid Cluster."

- My name is Norman "Skip" Takamori.

- You all converge.

As you converge, you see putty mongers

fleeing from the exploding putty factory,

and converging behind you
are a group of Rec Pols

on scooters saying, "Stop.

Return that royal blue mastiff at once."

And you see, also coming
from the other way,

a squadron of Americadian
space brigadiers going,

"Norman Takamori. You're under arrest."

I'm going to need everyone
here to roll Initiative.

(all groaning)

That's all for this
episode of Dimension 20:

A Starstruck Odyssey.

Tune in next week as we rush
to get back on The Wurst.

See you in the stars.
- [Ally] Oh my God.

Honey, we're up to
18.900 credits over here.

- I'll always remember you.

- Carry me.

- Oh.

- Pick me up. Put me on the ship.

- 16 is the DC.

- [Ally] Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

- My future is changing.

- That's a six.

All right, soldiers after this. Oh no, no.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Oh, Mr. Miggles-Rashbax,

we're here to reduce
your monthly minimums.

- No one's getting your legs, Gunnie.

- My legs have never been safer.

- I throw them around
my neck, like a scarf.

- Wait, that's actually rocking.
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