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- 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.
- [Heroes] Hi, Intrepid Heroes.
- Last we left off...
Faster than light, tachyon drive engaged,
The Wurst barreled out
of docking bay 6-942-0
on level seven of the Vale of Tiers,
Rec 97, tearing across the
stars to destination anywhere.
The ship zooms through
its own tachyon field
faster than the speed of light,
barreling down to the
outer edges of the galaxy
to safety absconding with
untold riches, 25.000 credits
with a $5.000 tip and a five star review
on Smash 'n Grab from Hyacinth Khrome.
14.000 in cashed out pension plans.
A stolen royal blue
mastiff, Aurora Nebbins.
Our saved-
- That we can ransom back for money.
- No, we k*lled the owner.
- No, we m*rder*d 'em, big
time m*rder, big time m*rder.
- To be fair, the dog-
- [Brennan] Aurora k*lled her.
- Aurora k*lled her, yeah.
- Aurora k*lled her owner.
Well, yeah, welcome to the ship.
(all laugh softly)
- A psychically lifted, both
figuratively and literally
Rec Pol scooter with a little
bit of scuff marks on it,
but otherwise not too worse for the wear.
And all 10 Jib Job employees.
- [Ally] Against all odds.
- The most important crit.
I love her.
- The most-
- No, I'm saying I love-
- The most important crit.
You tear across the galaxy.
Oh yeah, also, along with the
Princeps Zortch and Gnosis.
- [Siobhan] Ah, yes.
- A galactic super computer.
- They say you can't have it all.
(Emily laughs)
- I'll tell you what, the
ball might be rolling up hill,
but this ship is going straight forward.
- Yes.
(Zac laughs softly)
- We are on the bridge of The Wurst
with our crew assembled
for the first time.
Margaret Encino, you are for
the first time in your life,
on the bridge of your
starship as part of its crew,
along with your co-owner Norman Takamori.
Unclear, question mark,
question mark, question mark.
But you are all here for the first time
up on the bridge together.
You have that termination
email resting on your phone,
but also that five star review.
You have made it by the skin of your teeth
from the assembled factions of
the Amercadian Space Brigade
coming after Norman Takamori, who m*rder*d
12 sisters of the Cosmic Veil.
The Rec 97 Rec Pols
whose scooter you stole
and whose Blue Heaven level
you disrupted with your dog theft.
The Repo Reapers coming to take your limbs
off of your hands.
Take your hands off of your hands?
- [Emily] Yeah.
- UFTP agents coming after Margaret Encino
who got made probably upon the discovery
of that brutal hotel room
at the Obfusion Arms.
- [Margaret] Oops.
- Jan de la Vega coming
to settle a spacer grudge.
And three Warfare Whitneys
who heard that you've been talking sh*t.
(all laughing)
However, you are safe in the warm embrace
of FTL travel with a
functional tachyon drive.
And you are sitting on the biggest bounty
that The Wurst has ever had.
It is a mere, it is probably
less than a minute and a half
since you departed from
the docking bay at Rec 97,
and you all can start
to catch your breath.
- What's the most expensive drink we have
in the crew quarters?
- In the crew quarters?
- Yeah.
- Wait, didn't I take
a grand cru to go?
- You did you have a grand cru to go.
You did get it to go, grand cru.
- Bust that open.
- [Lou] I look and say, may we?
- [Emily] Yes.
- Yes!
- Yes.
- Teeny glasses of champagne for everyone.
- [Lou] This has way less
shrapnel in it than normal.
- A little tiny-
- You're running hot right now.
- Okay.
- Bubbly gets poured,
music, a sound system
that the captain never
used to turn on comes on.
Music is playing.
- Incredible bass.
- Incredible bass.
- Incredible.
- Oh wow, oh, woo!
- I guess you guys just
start dancing for a while.
We have a full dance montage.
- Before we all dance, I think
I'm gonna, I think it's time.
I'm feeling really
confident after that battle.
And I would like to ask Miss Margaret,
but in front of everyone,
as a display of confidence,
(clears throat)
Miss Margaret.
- Yes.
- Ever since I f*cked that computer,
(Ally snickers softly)
I've been doing some-
- Do you wanna talk in private?
- No.
I think-
- No, you want it
to be in front of everyone?
- Just let her keep going.
- Definitely, yeah, okay.
- Everyone needs to hear this.
- I've been doing some thinking
and I've been thinking about how the fact
that there was a helper droid
that then awakened the moon.
And presumably they had
similar programming to me,
but were able to go
beyond their programming
and achieve something great.
And so with that in mind,
I would like to ask for a promotion.
Rather than being a companion droid,
I would like to be my own droid.
(Ally gasps softly)
- Incredible, yes.
- I'll take a pay cut if I need to.
(all laughing softly)
- You don't have to say that part.
- In fact, I want a pay cut.
- No, no, no, you don't want a pay cut.
- Give me a pay cut, I
wanna be my own droid.
- I think, yeah, this is for,
I think Margaret is still more hurt
than she's ever been in her whole life.
Just like, and it's like
a scrape and she's like,
actually this is a time to say,
I would love to have one-on-ones
with everyone in the crew
(Emily gasps softly)
so that we can discuss and
really get ourselves above board.
So, you know, we just had ours right now.
And of course you, yeah,
you're not a helper droid anymore at all.
You're very much a-
- I'm just a droid.
- A full part of the crew.
- I flash a really big smile.
- Yes.
(players clapping)
- Also I've decided to rebrand
from multipurpose to omni-purpose.
(Ally gasps softly)
- Oh.
- All right.
- Wow.
- Sounds cool.
I like it, yeah.
- Very cool.
- Also, I don't think any
single corporation will make me,
so I'm gonna have to make myself.
(Brennan laughs)
- [Ally] That's very-
- [Lou] Cool?
- Cool.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- More champagne?
- Yes.
- Sure.
- There's very little left.
- Dole it out very-
- I put up a little
signup sheet on the wall.
Just like anyone, these
will be 10 minute interviews
just with everyone.
so we can really check in and see what we,
what kind of goals we
wanna have altogether
as a crew on this ship.
- I'm thrilled.
This is all that Riva wants, is feedback.
(all laughing softly)
- Is there anyone else up
on the bridge with you?
Would the Princeps Zortch be up here
or anyone else on the ship?
- Yeah.
- I think Zortch is here.
- Yeah.
- They'd love to be.
- Yeah, so Zortch is here.
- And Gnosis is still on the coffee table.
- Gnosis is on the coffee downstairs
just sort of kicking it.
Zortch is up here.
Aurora Nebbins is also up here.
- Is Aurora being chill?
- Gimme an animal handling
check with advantage.
(dice roll)
- Nat 20, again.
(Emily laughs)
- It's meant to be.
- How to do it.
- You will never roll
animal handling again.
(Emily laughing)
(Ally gasps in shock)
You will never, for Aurora Nebbins,
for Aurora Nebbins you
will never roll it again
'cause this is crazy.
And also, take expertise
in animal handling.
(all exclaim)
- Oh my God.
- This dog freaking loves you, Sid.
- Maybe I'm gonna be a zookeeper.
- Yeah.
- Oh.
(Murph exclaims in shock)
- I try to pet the-
(all laughing)
- The zoo is dangerous, Sid.
I don't want you ever going near a zoo.
I don't want anyone,
now that we're a crew,
no one goes near a zoo.
- I'm sorry.
- What's a zoo?
- Great question.
It's a terrible place
where Barrys k*ll Barrys.
- Oh no.
- And there are animals-
- Well, I'm definitely never going.
- That are in cages
which also isn't great.
So there's just not-
- Yeah, true, which looking back on it,
that was another part of
it that I didn't like.
- [Lou] Yeah.
- [Ally] Yeah (laughs).
- Which is why I left
to go get the ice cream.
- Aurora Nebbins is curled in,
Aurora Nebbins seems to like coil
much like a ferret or weasel does,
is coiled kind of around Sidney,
wherever Sid goes on the ship and-
- I whisper, we gotta get you
two pairs of roller skates.
(dog growls)
- Aww.
- It's your service hound.
- Aww.
- Can I psychically check
in with Aurora Nebbins?
'Cause I feel like I can communicate-
- Yeah.
- With anything.
- Yeah.
- Just to see
how they're doing.
They had a big day, she had a big day.
- Aurora Nebbins, you commune
with Aurora Nebbins' mind.
And see just a tremendous
amount of predatory energy
to hunt and k*ll.
- Great.
- Specifically, it looks
like the main food source
for creature is terrapins.
- Oh, fascinating.
- Sort of soft shell turtles
on its home world.
(Emily laughs wheezily)
So it really loves to destroy
any kind of turtle adjacent.
- Got it.
- Turtles, huh?
- So I convey this to Sid
specifically and be like,
you know, maybe it's
just like a play thing.
Like they, if you could get them a toy,
like one of those toys that
you put peanut butter inside.
- So get a turtle shell
and put peanut butter-
- Like raw meat.
- Inside it?
- You see a lot of like exterior
fangs begin to make sense.
This thing has the kind
of wild muscle in its jaw
to crack through armor plating.
- Miss Margaret, as part of my promotion,
can we have a terrapin allowance?
(Siobhan laughs)
- Yeah, let's talk about money, right.
We just made a sh*t ton of money.
What should we do with it?
- So I balance the budget, according to
with a $30.000 allowance,
according to how we used to
do it with the old captain.
So we'll be giving or
as we would've done it,
it'll be 3.400 to recoup your
expenses for the mission,
with regard to fuel and all those things.
Also we would invest in the registration,
and the upkeep of the ship,
that's coming up in a
rigon, that'll be 2.320.
And then according to the old split,
which is four parts for the ship
and then everyone else splits what's left.
That will be 16.000 to
the ship and the captain.
And then a cool 1.350 for everyone else.
- [Murph] That's the way we did it?
- That's the way we used to do it.
- That's stupid, no, okay.
I look at this, I rebalance
everything we get,
we split it completely evenly
with the ship as one person.
So we split it
perfectly seven.
- Can I say something?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Great.
- We love it.
- I love the dual Skips, the dual Skips.
- That's 3.450 each of us to share
and then, that both pays out
the captain and the ship.
- Wait, hang on, this is wrong.
I also have 70 credits left over.
So everybody else, everybody
gets an extra 11 credits
on top of that.
- No, no you keep you're-
- No, no.
- You worked so hard, Riva.
- You earned that.
- Everybody earned that and
we're sharing a money as a crew.
- I am gonna give 250 for the
massive f*ck up at the casino.
- Hey.
- That I did.
- If this was our one-on-one,
this would be the time
when I would tell you,
don't worry about it.
This ship is sitting.
- I'm gonna throw up.
- Pretty.
- I'm gonna throw up.
- Okay.
- All right.
- And I think I take
this time to pull out,
I've made individual
contracts for everyone.
There was a lot of contract talk,
okay, during that battle.
And I understand you're
weighing your options.
So I just, these aren't
for you to sign right now.
Of course, I want you to
send it to your people
and have them look over
and I give everyone
a contract for The Wurst.
- Barry signs it instantly.
- Yeah.
- I just have to
send this back to my entire planet
and have them look at it?
- I hand mine to you.
- I hand mine to Gunnie as well.
- Oh, Gunnie, can you look at it?
- Oh, Gunnie, I've already signed mine,
but you can erase it if
something f*cked up is in there.
- Yeah, I'll read-
- You're right,
these are my people.
(all laughing softly)
- Yeah, I'll read over
everyone's contracts
and let you know.
- Let us know if any of them
are different from each other.
- There's a signing bonus.
So yeah, if you guys
wanna, when you guys sign,
just know that some credits will arrive.
- Gunnie.
- I don't have lungs.
My lungs are just a fan.
I don't why I am coughing.
(Murph laughs)
- Sounds like a hair dryer.
- Yeah (laughs)
(Lou grunts)
(all laughing)
- You see the Princeps sort of smiling out
at this happy meeting here.
Raymond Zam pokes his
head in the door and says,
hey g*ng, well managed.
That was a pretty hot exit.
And you know, clap, clap, clap.
I'm glad we all made it out there.
- I thought you were fantastic.
- We appreciate you, Raymond.
- Hey, you know what,
obviously, I've worked
with a lot of facilities people
and you guys are some of the nicest.
So I really appreciate it.
- That's so nice, thank you.
- People are, I know that
people just got into work.
We're looking for the egg
bar and we're not seeing it.
- So I think that we need
to maybe make a contract
for the Princeps.
- Yes, it was part of the hot exit.
We're sorry about that.
We are currently having, this
meeting is to help establish
and get everything set for you guys.
- Hot exit to hot eggs sit.
- And that's what the egg
bar is gonna be called.
- Yeah, that's what, yeah.
- The Hot Eggs Sit.
- The Hot Eggs Sit.
- Hot Eggs Sit.
- The hot-
- Give us a cool 20 minutes.
- A cool 20 minutes and
then it's gonna get hot.
- You see Raymond says, he says,
well, call me a runny chair
because it's time to sit
in these eggs, eggs sit.
- Ha!
- Good job, Raymond.
- Barry.
- They did good.
- Barry and Raymond
are the best pranksters.
- This dude rules.
- Skip goes for his blade.
(all laughing)
- He's cool, he's cool.
- He's cool, we didn't like it either,
we didn't like it either.
- Runny chair wasn't really
cursing, I think their-
- It was hilarious.
- In this moment, I think Gunnie
is starting to have the
thought of where did I send us
when I logged those coordinates.
And can I quietly look down at my data pad
and attempt to figure out
where we might be headed?
- Give me just a straight up D20 roll.
- Okay.
(dice rolls)
It's an 11.
- You picked a coordinate in a place,
I think that an 11 is
so middle of the road.
You didn't pick a place that
has tons of opportunities
because you put the priority on,
get us as far away from anything
that anyone is paying attention to ever.
You think in probably another, you know,
marbec or so you'll come out of FTL near,
actually, yeah, you do,
now that you have a minute,
you do your full calculations.
You're gonna exit outside
of the Martini Nebula,
which is really out in the boonies.
It's not even necessarily
near a shipping lane,
but there's just enough
infrastructure that you could
probably find something.
Basically it's been 220 cycles
since that part of the
world was populated.
Back during the Incorporated
Elysian Republic,
there were certain like, (sighs),
for lack of a better
word, imperial projects.
Where it's like, this
will be the new center
of this part of our civilization.
And sort of like that kind
of central planning thing
of like, and now everything goes here.
And then when the galaxy
devolves into chaos
in the same way that like
on university campuses,
it's like, there will
be the paths they built,
and then like the dirt paths
where people actually walk kind of,
this is a place that used
to be a concrete path
built by the Incorporated Elysian Republic
that has gone totally
defunct now during AnarchEra,
because there's not a lot
of reason to go there.
So there'll be some loose
scraps of civilization.
- Got it.
- And almost no power centers.
- We got about a marbec before
we come outta FTL, uh-huh.
I intentionally dropped us off
right in the Martini Nebula,
which is a pretty low profile area.
- Word up.
- This low profile though,
wouldn't other dangerous
sorts come here to hide?
- Maybe, but I don't, I hope not.
- [Murph] Everyone hates us so.
- Yeah.
- The less people were around the better.
- No, we were pretty dangerous.
So if there's other dangerous sorts,
I think we can out-dangerous them.
- Speaking of dangerous people,
I was thinking about Jan de la Vega
and maybe she is just an
ally waiting to happen.
- That's what I think too.
- I have a drafted email, if
you would wanna look at it.
And I show, because Jan
shouted out her email
at the end of the fight.
- Yeah.
- That's canon.
- So I do have a drafted
email that's like-
- I actually had Handy
Annie write it down, so.
- Yeah, perfect, yeah.
Yeah, so it was like,
hey, just reaching out,
new management for The Wurst.
And I just wanna ask what is a fair price
that you think we owe you credits-wise?
And-
- Well, we, I think we all got.
We all got tricked, right?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, we all got tricked.
- [Ally] Well, yeah, I-
- And also, those nuns were
dead before we got there
because it was suspiciously
easy to get into the place.
Which means that we both got tricked,
unless she k*lled those nuns and we stole.
- [Murph] Oh yeah.
- But the stuff was already-
- Let's also remember that-
- Gone, so she must, like
the borynium what's-it.
- Yeah, that's true.
She got tricked apparently,
but also I yelled at her a lot
on the phone that one time.
And also we beat the sh*t
out of her operative who was there.
- And I threw her off a cliff.
- Yes.
- But other than that.
- Marge.
- We should be allies
because somebody tricked both of us.
And the enemy of my enemy
is my friend, right?
- Marge, can you go on your Reddit account
and look for information
or gossip about Jan?
- Yeah, why?
- I mean, just, maybe we would find out
what her intentions were.
I just feel like I don't know
enough about her to know-
- My thought was if I send an email,
that kind of seems like I'm
trying to make things right.
We don't have to send her any credits.
We just have to like start a conversation
and then find out what happened with her.
She had all of those crates of-
- Egg substitute?
- [Ally] Brain slugs.
- Can I make an insight check
to see if I can?
- Do you think there were a
bunch of brain slugs
- Yeah, yeah,
yeah.
- In there or just one?
- Yeah, because there's the emhatchening.
- I wanna see if I would like,
remember if that was unusual for me
to be in that or if
they were all in there.
- [Murph] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I don't know, would
that just be an insight?
- Yeah, go for it.
Yeah, give an insight check, yeah.
- 18 on the die, plus,
where is it? 21.
- You go back.
This is interesting 'cause
you've been spending
a lot of time in the neural pathways
of the body craft you're piloting.
And this time you're not
consulting those memories.
You're consulting your memories.
You go a little bit deeper.
You spent a long in the cold.
It's many cycles.
And
confronting the chamberlain
who was the cerebro-slug
piloting Melon at the
Carbine Kennel Club Dog Show.
- Stupid.
(all laughing)
- No, it's good actually, it's good.
- It's good, it's good.
- It's really good.
- Actually, it's-
- I really like it.
- [Brennan] Actually, it's good.
- I love it, it's great, I love it.
(all laughing)
- Confronting the chamberlain as you did,
re-awoke a lot of things in you
and brought it more
viscerally to the front.
You spent so long in that cold
that it's almost like your mind
has been coming back online
as you've been trying to bring
the captain's back online.
But you remember maybe
it was like as long ago,
it was like 40 cycles ago.
You remember being on an Amercadian vessel
and a prior host body of
yours dying of old age.
And it was just time for
you to make something.
And you remember the prior
host body you were in
was maybe some, it wasn't
like a speaking organism.
It might have been a pet or it might have
been livestock or something like that.
Maybe it makes sense with
like a food vessel moving
with the egg substitute on it.
But you remember moving and
trying to find a new host body,
you know, having the
limited sensory apparatus.
When you're sort of
exposed in your slug form,
the only things you can really sense
are nearby intelligences.
You kind of rely fully on
your psychic sensory apparatus
to locate intelligences nearby.
And suddenly you just remember a moment
of extreme heat followed by utter cold.
- So seems like maybe this
ship blew up or something
and I was just jettisoned
in space or something?
- Yeah, something like that.
- [Zac] Okay.
- But I'll put it to you as to the history
of what you were doing
on that ship and how,
and I'll actually put this to you as well.
All of you watch Skip
go a little bit vacant.
And I will ask what's going on internally
as you dive back into these memories,
'cause as you dive back into the memories
about what happened to you,
you also remember the memories
of what you were supposed to be doing.
You remember the House of
Mentaphagia Dynasty, your people.
You remember your father, King Prilbus,
Chamberlain Drablian, Seneschal Vrong
who you believe may have
been the other person,
the owner of Melon and you know,
all these other members
of the House of Frangus
that were part of your royal retinue.
(Emily laughs wheezily)
- You remember Frangus?
- What's funny.
- This is the most Brennan
thing in the world.
You made up a complicated
political structure for slug people.
(Ally and Emily laugh)
- With the stupidest
names I've ever heard.
- Chamberlain Drablian
of the House of Frangus.
- [Siobhan] Yes.
- Advisor to King Prilbus
of the Mentaphagian Dynasty
- [Siobhan] Yes, so you get it?
- You get it.
- Yeah, I get it.
- And he was in a little
doggy named Melon.
- Yes.
- Yeah (laughs).
- R.I.P
- Your name game
is strong this season.
- And his owner was
essentially Adam Conover.
- It was basically Adam Conover.
Picture Adam Conover was Seneschal Vrong
who is also of House Frangus.
- I think that Skip was,
you know, tired of that
and was trying to get out of there.
- You
confront
the long slow trip down
what was probably an air vent.
Before the expl*si*n, before
the attack on the ship,
you recall feeling other intelligences.
And in the moment you had
given yourself explanations
for why you couldn't invest in them.
You had given yourself explanations
for why they were not suitable choices.
But there were other
intelligences on that ship
and you continued to
crawl down that air duct.
And I think now you're realizing
you were not ever going
to find an intelligence
that you found suitable because you-
- I just wasn't ready.
(somber synth music)
- When that cold hit you
and you felt yourself
losing your sentience
to the face of mother void,
the sense of relief you
felt that maybe the cold
would take the weight
of your house's heritage
and the great mission of
the Mentaphagian Dynasty
away from you and you
would be able to simply be,
which is not a luxury that
you have ever understood,
perhaps until meeting these people.
- I think Skip looks vacant for a minute
and then snaps back and says,
you guys are fun, you know.
(all laughing)
- You're fun, Skip.
- I love that we can just stand
in silence with each other
for a minute and-
(Brennan laughs)
- That was like really nice.
- Oh yeah, the music went off.
Somebody turn the music back on.
- Sorry.
- Thinking.
- This is my white noise.
- Yeah.
- I think maybe in the, you know,
in our second act as a crew together,
maybe we can all just agree
that you maybe seem different.
- I should-
- Yeah, 'cause he is a brain worm.
- Well, duh.
- We all, what?
- I don't know.
- I guessed it was something
but I know.
- Did I never say what I was?
- No, no, we've all
been kind of pretending
you were still the captain,
but you're not and that's beautiful.
- It was something that we wanted you
to feel comfortable to tell us,
not rather than say, oh, we actually knew.
- Oh really?
- Right, right, I forgot.
- You knew, okay, I'm not.
- Sorry, I'm bad at hiding peoples secrets
because we don't have them in my culture.
- Oh yeah, well-
- You can tell anybody anything about me
as long as it's true.
- Okay.
- So who?
- I'm not Norman "Skip" Takamori.
(Ally gasps exaggeratedly)
- I don't think we have to.
- I wasn't sure, it felt,
I just wanna cushion,
I wanna cushion a little bit.
I just wanted to cushion it a little bit.
- My name doesn't make
sense in your words.
I, you can call me,
Skip, just call me Skip.
- Right on.
- Great, okay.
Yeah, that's easy.
- All right, Skip.
- Skip.
- Yeah.
- [Ally] Skip.
- And like my people
they're just like a lot
and like I have like a
loaded family dynamic.
- Oh yeah.
Definitely get that.
- I know what that's like.
- [Lou] Me too.
- I actually don't understand that.
- Oh, well like-
- Oh I'm sorry, I wasn't
asking you explain it.
I just had to be honest.
- Oh, okay.
- Everyone was agreeing
and I felt bad lying.
- It's okay, it's okay.
- Arguably, you kind of do
'cause the Whitneys and-
- [Ally] Yeah.
- You mean Warfare Whitneys-
- The person created you.
- Are like-
- They're kinda like my
Warfare Whitneys.
- My toxic-
- Yeah
- Family?
- [Zac] Yeah.
- I have 10.000 siblings
and we get on great.
- I have a lot of siblings too.
- I don't have any siblings,
which honestly is hard.
- I used to have-
- Same.
- 10 siblings and one,
Barry One, who just like,
and everyone ruled.
- Kinda like mine.
- It was f*cking awesome.
- [Ally] Yeah?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- It was awesome.
And then Barry Nine-
- k*lled everybody.
- k*lled everybody.
- At the zoo.
- At the zoo.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Damn.
- Did you ever go to the zoo?
- Is that where everything went wrong?
(Murph chuckles softly)
- I mean, yeah.
- Yeah, oh, whoa, oh, okay.
- What is going on with your family?
(Zac sighs heavily)
- Just, I'm trying to like, like you see
Skip trying to like learn
how to use this mouth.
(all laughing)
Like they have, they, (blows raspberry)
they have goals
that are all one goal.
And I don't want to do that
and they can't necessarily
do that until I do that too.
- (gasps) Cool.
- Interesting.
- So bad goal, do they wanna?
- [Ally] Bad goal or boring goal?
- I think Skip doesn't
even know if it's bad,
like doesn't even consider it as bad.
It's just, he doesn't he,
I just don't wanna do it, not right now.
- Right on.
- Cool.
- I'll tell ya.
- And that's your right.
- Yeah, what do you want?
- He looks at the like piloting chair
and the like just the
stars in front of him
and just like, I just
wanna do some cool sh*t.
- You already have, I've seen you-
- This is perfect.
I'm gonna need you to sign
the contract immediately.
- I didn't have a chance to read it.
- You've got this all.
So you don't, okay, great.
'cause I, you know, mentally,
I wouldn't say this out loud,
but I'm like, okay, good.
So you don't think I'm coming
in to step on your toes,
which is good, I can keep doing my thing.
- Can I ask real quick?
So I don't really know how to put this
in any way that's not indelicate.
What do we have to do to
make sure that the guy
your inhabiting doesn't come back?
- [Siobhan] Oh yeah.
- Yeah, we like you a lot better.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- It's true.
- I've delved in there.
- [Emily] You're a better
pilot in that body.
- He's tough, he's a tough guy.
Rough guy.
- Yeah.
- Rough guy, tough guy.
- Mean.
- Mean.
- Mean.
- Verbally.
- I have a question for after this.
- Okay.
I think Skip is gonna think
about it for a second.
I'm wondering if he even knows like,
well, other than like, I think
I feel securely in control.
- Yeah.
- Other than like maybe I could.
- It's been a couple days.
Like you've been in this body
for about three malton units
and that, like that's sort of
the hump for cerebro-slugs.
If you can spend a couple days,
like a lot of cerebro-slugs
will like pretend
to be sick or stuff like that.
But you know, after a certain point,
the reason that cerebro-slugs
are even successful
as a species is their ability
to convincingly be the person.
So like you feel a degree of,
you feel on multiple fronts,
a degree of comfort and
proficiency coming to you.
- I think we're good.
- Skip,
- Cool
- I ask one thing real quick.
I know the answer's probably
not what I think it could be,
but I just have to ask.
Is there like a chance that you're gonna
do it to us as well, or is
it just like a you thing?
- I feel like I just did it
to like to be able to do it
and now I can do it.
- Great dance, Skip.
- I'm all about doing.
- That's really good.
- So we're good.
- That is good enough for me.
I love that, I love that answer.
- I'll take that, I'll take that answer.
- I hug him for the first time.
I'm like this guy, this guy.
Now my ear can get close to your ear.
- Oh Barry, listen to his-
- And you're not gonna ka-ka-ka.
- Listen to his smile.
(tongue clicks)
(all laughing)
- So loud.
- It's as loud as-
- It's so loud.
- That is so loud.
- Okay.
Can I hang up like a big,
like essentially like a
red string mystery board,
but virtual?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- So I'm like, okay, so
we have something here
with like the egg, like, you know,
supposedly Skipper
k*lled a bunch of people.
We have that going on.
We have this Rubian V
seed moon thing going on.
Can I turn to the Princeps and say,
one, can you go cook a
bunch of eggs real quick,
but two, can you come back
and then can we talk about-
- Sorry, cook a bunch of eggs?
- Can you just run up
there cook a bunch of eggs.
- We promised an egg bar.
- Yeah, like different types of eggs.
- I can sous, you know.
- Wait, no, I mean-
- Do you need help?
- Yeah.
Oh, sous chef.
- Yeah.
- He's gonna sous.
- I'm not gonna sue them.
Sous chef, it's a-
- [Ally] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Can we, okay, I would like
a group persuasion check.
- We'll come up with you.
It'll be like we're all hanging out,
but you're making the good
food that we can can't make.
- You use shorthand for sous chef
but you don't know what utensils are?
- I got a 25.
- 25.
- I mean-
- 25, was that 25?
- 25.
- Okay.
- Do I have to roll one or can I just give
advantage to someone?
- Four.
- 19.
- Okay.
- 19, yeah.
(Ally exclaims)
- 18.
- Nat 20.
(all laughing)
- So you all, as you turn and Margaret,
Margaret leads the charge and
you see the Princeps goes,
wait, so what do you want me all to do.
- [Murph] Hot eggs.
- It's all good, I'm gonna sous.
- Eggs, okay.
- Gonna sous, we're all
gonna go up together
and while you cook eggs I wanna
talk to you about your moon.
- Yeah, moon, okay.
But you need me to cook eggs for?
- We need only you to cook eggs,
but we all kind of take a seat and talk.
- It's kind of like, it looks like
it was quite a burden to
have this royal family
on your shoulders.
And like maybe you wanna
do something like fun
and like a little more of the people.
- Awesome, yeah.
I'll cook eggs, I'll cook eggs.
- Should we just move
this whole conversation
to the egg bar?
- We definitely should.
- We smash cut to the kitchen
where the Princeps of an entire moon
of a home world of people who's bonded
to save the super computer
made of their planet's core
is going like, okay, I guess.
- And they gotta sit in there.
The eggs gotta sit in there.
- Sit in there, gotcha, okay.
And you see they go to work.
They take the powdered
imitation egg substitute.
And you see they do something
where they add some butter to it
and they get like a steam table going.
They mix it in with just
a little bit of cream,
a little bit of cheese,
they get some other stuff.
It's like this extremely
whipped fluffy thing.
They work some magic with these eggs.
- We love them so much.
- Yeah, they look up and
they say, is this good?
Maybe I do just like,
I can just do some
strawberries as a garnish
or on the side, fruit, little fruit thing.
- Definitely.
- OJ?
- Yes.
Okay.
- I love this all.
- The Princeps heads in
the back to supplies.
You're all in the kitchen
and continuing your conversation runner.
- Was there any plan
with the super computer
or was it just to escape
and talk to Lucienne
and then you were kind of tricked there?
- Lucienne had a plan she
was gonna tell me about it,
but she didn't wanna do it over
intergalactic communication.
- What is it about separating this
from the rest of the moon
that you think makes it safer?
- Well, it's not that I think it's safer.
It's just that I couldn't,
if I didn't create the holofract,
there was a possibility that we would,
you know, that like my
parent could do something
to the moon while that was happening and-
- I recline a little bit
more while you're talking.
- I'm just holding a plate.
- Just you get served outta there.
(Brennan and Emily laugh)
You see.
Yeah, they look at you and
just basically go, there was a,
bringing the holofract
would do two things.
Number one while I have the holofract.
Yes, there is a latent kind of server
existing in the planet.
If Rubian V were to be destroyed,
the holofract would die with it.
But the consciousness of Gnosis
is not accessible through
Rubian V any longer,
not while the holofract is here.
So in a certain sense, I
was taking away the ability
for Gnosis to be interfaced
with by my parent
or by any of the counselors
or advisors in the court.
I brought it to Lucienne,
because Lucienne said that she could help
and that there was a way
to forego a revolution,
but to use the United
Free Trade Planets' power
in the galaxy to, (sighs),
I just didn't really have any options.
It was the only person
who was talking to me.
And Lucienne spoke like she was so honest
about the parts of
United Free Trade Planet
that were not trustworthy.
And she said, you know, it's
great that you came to me
instead of just someone else,
because we can back channel this.
And she said that we
were gonna make a move
to ideally spring Gnosis on the galaxy
in a way where it couldn't
be harnessed anymore.
And that's what I wanted.
Gnosis is so far beyond a
single mortal consciousness
that I just, there's
just this period of time
where it's so dependent on Rubian V.
I just thought there was maybe a way
to do something to save it to, (sighs).
- You still can.
- Yeah, I feel like I
interfaced with it and I mean,
it was an ecstatic communion
with something beautiful,
in which I shuddered then fell limp and-
- [Ally] Okay.
- It feels, it's wild.
It really wants you to feel good.
- Ecstatic communion with
something beautiful, definitely.
While they're talking, can I roll?
Because I would actually kind of,
I would love to believe
that maybe Lucienne
is actually up to some cool stuff.
And being like, we can use back channels,
like she's actually, you know what,
to me, she seems really hardened
and like, oh, I'm bottom line.
But actually maybe she's doing
her own really cool thing.
- Give me an insight check.
- Cool, yeah, she's just doing
her own really cool thing.
Goddammit, it's a 10.
- You, wow.
What if Lucienne was doing
her own really cool thing?
- Yeah.
- And it would be so cool to find that out
from what you recognize as one
of the most gullible people
you've ever met in your life.
- Definitely, definitely.
What if though?
- You know, we're talking
a lot about Lucienne.
But we haven't talked about the danger
that the Princeps is in truly,
because the greatest villain
in the galaxy is after them.
- Who's that?
- Barry Nine.
- King Prilbus.
- Who?
- Who?
- Wait, I'm sorry.
- You guys both talked at the same time.
- When I said that it
sounded like, hel-ham.
(all laughing softly)
- Barry Nine.
- Barry Nine had a hand in this?
- Barry Nine, you remember
when I was beating
the sh*t out of that guy with the mohawk?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, that was really fun.
- Yeah, that was-
- I felt like it was-
- That was a misunderstanding.
- It was a little off mission but it was-
- He thought (laughs) it was off totally.
I've beaten up two people off the mission
so far in the past two days
and I just wanna say, sorry for that.
But the guy behind me
thought I was Barry Nine
and started cracking wise with me.
You know how I feel
when people crack wise,
I don't like it.
- Not okay.
- I started cracking my knuckles.
- No shenanigans, no japes, no tomfoolery.
- I stole his jetpack.
- You stole lose jetpack and
I thought that was awesome.
But yeah, he thought I was Barry Nine.
- By the way, you do see on the jetpack,
that guy did have his name written on it.
And that guy's name, it says Hogg Cobb
with two Gs and two Ps,
the two Bs.
- A villain, a villain's name.
- Two Gs.
- I wonder if I understand
that that is the name?
(all laughing)
- So Hogg was working with Barry Nine,
and they said, are we gonna do this.
And I thought that meant
like, are we gonna fight.
So I started to fight,
but then he tried to sh**t the Princeps.
So this dude and Barry
Nine wanted to k*ll.
- Who's Barry Nine? I
don't even know Barry Nine.
- Barry Nine is the most
powerful villain in the galaxy.
Wait, imagine if you will, me.
(all laughing)
- But backwards.
The numbers backwards.
- Exactly.
- Yeah.
- Can we-
- And so are the morals.
- Flipped.
- This is a total
shot in the dark,
but can I check and see if
on Smash 'n Grab that Barry
was working for that-
- Barry Nine is on there?
- And we could try to find that
whatever job that was?
- Who hired Barry?
- We find his profile.
- Who hired Barry Nine?
- No matter what, if it's on there,
I'm gonna minor hologram
to like a bad rating.
- Yeah.
- Give me an investigation check.
- [Ally] Okay.
- Can I give advantage
because my deep knowledge
of Barry Nine?
- Yes, you can.
- You know, all the keywords he would use.
- He loves working with keywords,
all the tags.
- Investigation.
- Can I make an investigation
check on the jetpack?
- Yeah, go for it.
- 21 investigation.
- Cool, you start looking through.
You go to Smash 'n Grab
and start looking around.
You do find.
You-
- Do I find Hogg or do I find Barry?
- So you don't find Barry Nine.
The Barry Battalion was so well regarded
that Barry Nine could never
just put his name out on there.
- Of course.
- You do find a profile for one Hogg Cobb.
- Stupid.
- I got a 15 on my check.
- You start looking at
Hogg Cobb's jetpack.
You see it's got name written
on it, pretty handy stuff.
There's a little sticker on the side
just for a little personalization
for Uncle Bob's Fantanimaland.
- Hmm.
- Is that that the zoo?
- Is that the zoo?
That's the zoo.
- That's the zoo.
- Uncle Bob's Fantanimaland.
- Can I do a tech check-
- What the f*ck?
- Who the f*ck is that,
Uncle Bob?
- On something?
- [Brennan] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I wanna know if based on
what I know technically,
if what Lucienne promised Zortch
is at all or even possible.
- You would need to know
more about Gnosis to know.
- Got it.
- If you ever wanna work
on it together, we can.
- I'd love too.
- Yeah.
- It feels like I wanna help Zortch
do what they was promised to them.
And there's gotta be a way.
- Should we plug it in?
Wasn't it low on battery?
Plug it into the ship so
we can work on it later.
- Was it low on battery?
- Yeah, Zortch, it had
run out of the ability
to sort of access it remotely.
- I think once we get outta
FTL, we could plug it in.
- Cool.
- Yeah.
- Do we think that or
you found Hogg Cobb on-
- Yes.
- You find Hogg Cobb.
Hogg Cobb has three and a half stars and-
- Loser, absolute loser.
- Loser.
- I'm just gonna minor
hologram off the half.
- Three stars, pshk.
- Three and a half stars, but 474 reviews.
(Emily whistle)
- Go through 'em.
- Yeah, what was the most,
is there a recent one
that seems it was from
the Princeps showdown?
- You go to-
- Or is there
a negative one?
- You go to filter them
by the most recent.
About three cycles ago,
Hogg Cobb starts accepting
way fewer jobs on Smash 'n Grab.
(Emily and Ally exclaims knowingly)
Three and a half, and
about three cycles ago
is when the slaughter of the
Barry Battalion happened.
- Barry, where is Uncle
Bob's Fantanimaland?
- I show Barry the sticker as well.
- And would you, I mean-
- It's a disgusting zoo.
- Would you ever consider going back there
to look for Barry Nine?
- I would, it is my life's goal
to k*ll Barry Nine at the zoo.
- At the zoo specifically?
- At the zoo specifically,
at that f*cking zoo.
- Yeah.
- And then eat ice cream!
- I write this down in
your file under goals.
(Emily and Murph laugh)
This is great info.
- Yeah.
- Oh, is there another app that Hogg Cobb
could have been using or
is Smash 'n Grab the app?
- Is-
- Yeah.
- Oh, well, there's lots
of other ways to get jobs.
- I mean, it just looks like
he got full-time employment
right.
- Is the zoo
behind all of this?
- That's what I'm guessing.
- Yeah, what you essentially see
is Hogg Cobb starts taking jobs,
his ratings also start to go way up
after about three cycles ago.
- Oh.
- Like all of his worst
ratings come from earlier in his career.
- So he was a sh*t head and
he got picked up by Barry Nine
and now they work huge jobs.
- And they're doing fewer bigger jobs.
- Fewer, well, the jobs
that you see him getting
on Smash 'n Grab seem to, again,
on that high investigation roll,
seem to, they're not penny-ante jobs.
He doesn't do jobs that
are small as he used to.
They're bigger jobs.
But what you see about
them is that they're short.
And your theory about like
Barry Nine picked this guy up,
it's like, oh, this dude's
enough of a shithead that like,
now he only has, it's in other words,
it's not about money, it's
about his calendar, right.
The jobs that he's picking
up on Smash 'n Grab
are the things that he has time to do.
That are short, quick side hustles.
- Okay.
- [Siobhan] Got it.
- Can I use an investigation to Yelp
Uncle Bob's Fantanimaland?
- Hell yeah.
- I gave it a bad review a long time ago.
- Can I use Handy Annie
for the help action?
- You may, yes, hold on one.
- I'm gonna be looking for some
Jib Job stickers.
- Didn't help, 14.
14 investigation.
- I'm gonna try to cover up this thing
with the Jib Job sticker.
- Nice.
- There's probably a ton
at the front desk, right?
(Zac blows out air softly)
- [Emily] I think we were using them
to repair the ship before.
- We have so many stickers.
- That's right, yes.
- Okay, sorry, what's your question?
- 14 to investigate, to look for a Yelp
for Uncle Bob's Fantanimaland.
- Oh, Uncle Bob's Fantanimaland
is renowned the galaxy wide.
You can find it, it's on
one of the Griivarr Worlds,
which the Griivarr Worlds
were a series of worlds.
It's one of the only corporate factions
that can hold up against
United Free Trade Planets.
- Can I do recent relevance of the reviews
to see if there's any change
or is it just business as usual?
- Seems to be business as usual.
Yeah, the Griivarr
Worlds are eight planets
in the Tevalt, Grubsteak,
and Yesteryear Systems
on the edge of the Last Frontier.
These planets were bought, developed,
and are now managed by Brzzt Oomph Burble
You can call me BOB Griivarr,
under the auspices of
Griivarr Enterprises.
The basically, that actually is probably
in the AnarchEra 220 would
not be correct anymore.
Bob Griivarr discovered a time capsule
from early Terran history
about the simple recipe for happiness.
Basically uncovered like
an ancient Terran tabloid.
And it caught like
wildfire as the philosophy
of living on this series of worlds.
And he became a media mogul, a tycoon,
and almost like a secular
cultural religious figure
in a similar way to like Walt Disney.
- Okay, got it.
- Of like a beloved,
hi, I'm Bob Griivarr.
What's interesting about
the Griivarr Worlds is the,
is again, that it's one of
the few places that UFTP
doesn't have its thumb on the scale.
It is an actual like adversary
to United Free Trade Planets.
- Maybe they're warring
over this supreme leader?
- Yeah, I was gonna say,
do you think that there's any chance
that Barry Nine was recruited by UFTP?
- Wait Barry's is a whole, I mean, sorry,
Bob's is a whole thing?
- So that's just one.
The zoo is, but one part.
- Yeah.
- It's a whole empire?
- Whole empire, multiple
worlds, many planets.
- And wait, sorry, what's it called?
- The Griivarr World.
- Griivarr World.
- The Griivarr Worlds.
- Worlds-suh.
- Oh my God.
- I mean like Griivarr
Worlds, it's sort of the,
you know, out of your leadership summit
where you went, people go to UFTP
'cause that's sort of
the sharkier of the two.
There's like a culture of
kindness in the Griivarr Worlds.
But again, they are also an
intergalactic corporation.
So it's sort of like-
- Got it.
- You know.
- I mean, I was pretty high up at UFTP.
Would I know some sh*t
about Griivarr World?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- Like would I know
that they're like shrewd
trying to take over the
world, just like we are,
kind of a business or are they nicer?
- Yes, you would know.
Give me an insight check.
- Okay.
(dice rolls)
(Ally laughs softly)
Don't look at it.
(Emily laughs)
- What is it?
- It's bad.
- It was a nine.
- So.
- It just flung straight and hit-
- It's a nine.
You, it's hard to say on the scale of UFTP
and things like the Griivarr Worlds,
to try to characterize these behemoths
of power structures that
are by their very nature,
like oppressive
exploitative and terrifying.
It's like, how do you
characterize something like that?
Like there's heinous sh*t
that the Griivarr Worlds do
at like the borders of their enterprise.
And then UFTP probably has
some like corporate, you know,
charity matching policy.
So it's like, well, we
give a bunch of money
to the toy drive, you know.
So like it's trying to
figure out like, okay,
what's actually going on here.
However, I think even on a nine,
you would know that the business models
for the Griivarr World, you don't,
who knows if there's a good person
in charge of any
institution in this galaxy.
It's a tough galaxy out there.
You doubt anyone at the
top of the Griivarr chain
is actually a decent person.
That being said, Griivarr
flexes through its media empire.
And it takes PR way more
seriously than UFTP.
UFTP is the kind of
company that's like, yeah,
we're hollowing out a moon.
We're gonna k*ll everybody on a moon.
Griivarr has to,
it has this figure of Uncle
Bob and the Fantanimaland.
So it's not that they don't
do heinous sh*t but they,
in a weird way you think
they take more care
about how they do stuff and would-
- Like their employees sign
like a code of conduct.
- Yes, exactly.
The ship is getting
ready to come out of FTL
in a little while, but there's definitely,
you at post-battle and
post running from Rec 97,
you've peered into a lot of stuff.
The open truth of Skip's true nature
and connection to a family that remains
a little bit opaque at the moment.
And also this connection to Barry Nine
getting a job to come
after the Princeps Zortch.
And again, looking at
Hogg Cobb's Smash 'n Grab,
and the fact that his jet has
this Uncle Bob's Fantanimaland
thing on the outside,
you begin to piece something together.
Hogg Cobb's employment record
and the fact that his
ratings start to go up
indicate that he got
taken under someone's wing
around the time that the slaughter
of the Barry Battalion occurred.
The other unanswered
questions at the time being,
looking more into Gnosis,
which Sid and Gunnie
said they wanted to do.
And are there any other,
and the Princeps Zortch finished
making the eggs sit bar.
Looks amazing.
- Great.
- One last thing I wanna
posit, just a thought I have.
What if Barry Nine has been
hired by the Griivarr Worlds
to get the thing so that
they can use it against UFTP?
- I don't know, I mean,
it's just something.
- Definitely.
- Do you know?
Can I ask the Princeps,
so sorry to interrupt
it looks like you got
a good whisk going on.
But do you know were Griivarr
emissaries ever visiting?
- Sure, yeah, we've met
with representatives
of the Griivarr Worlds, absolutely.
Were they looking into opening a park or?
- Yeah, well, they came around before.
My grandparents-
- You really don't wanna let those sit.
(Emily chuckles softly)
- My grandparents.
(Emily laughs)
- But it's the eggs sit bar.
(Lou snorts softly)
(all laughing lightly)
- You can go on.
- My grandparents were
willing to do a lot of things
to become the monarchs of Rubian V
and depose the old royal house.
They, I think reached out to people
from the Griivarr Worlds and from UFTP.
(Siobhan exclaims softly)
They say, my grandparents
basically talked about, you know,
who could help them take control
of the throne of Rubian V.
United Free Trade Planets.
The Griivarr Worlds talked
about helping them, you know,
reach out and find allies
amongst other corporations
so that there could be negotiations.
- Can I have peppers for that?
- Peppers?
- Peppers and mushrooms.
- Gunnie, for sure.
- Gunnie.
- They're in the middle of cooking.
- You know what, I'm gonna
use my psychic powers.
And you see.
- Improv equivalent of, what's
the thing you always sing?
What's that thing you always sing?
- It's all right, I have psychic powers.
So it's good.
(Brennan mimics air whistling)
You see they look and go,
essentially the Griivarr
Worlds came with a plan
to help us find political allies
and United Free Trade
Planets showed up with g*ns.
And my grandparents said,
let's take the g*ns.
And the next time Griivarr
representatives came,
I mean, we already had these deals
with United Free Trade Planets.
And they had the station in orbit.
They were a very big
presence on our home world,
but we did have some Griivarr
representatives show up.
And actually, they had grant money
for the Royal Scientists Guild.
- Okay.
- Hmm.
- This was back at the,
this was many cycles ago
when Gnosis Project was starting up.
- Oh that would be the PR move, right,
to invest in science?
- Fund it.
- Yeah.
- That's how you clean the money.
- [Ally] What do you mean?
- Zortch seems to be coming
into some kind of realization
says, I mean, that's sort of what
the Griivarr Worlds are
all about, is media.
And that's sort of how Gnosis started,
was communications.
The ship is getting
ready to come out of FTL.
- Okay.
- We should probably get
back up to the bridge.
Eggs were great by the way.
- Oh, I'm so glad.
- I would love to just go to my office
and start working at the computer.
- Hell yeah.
You guys separate.
You see that Zortch looks and says,
do I, do I keep doing this?
- Yeah, until the Jib Jobs are sated.
- Okay, well I saw some stuff for pancakes
so we could do some pancakes or...?
- We probably don't wanna
do breakfast all day.
(Emily laughs)
- Well, you're supposed be doing,
did we promise three meals,
'cause I feel like it's just-
- I think we just promised one meal.
- We just promised a chef.
- One meal, one meal.
- I actually found a checklist.
It says I'm supposed to
make six staff meals?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Oh yes, that us.
- Yeah.
- So you could do
like big entree sorts of things with like,
you just like kind of
just make a whole mess
of stuff for everyone.
You could do like-
- But honestly we really do like a tapas
kinda thing once in a while
just to mix it up.
- A little bit.
- Yeah, but you wanna make sure you have-
- Small plates.
- A meat, a veg,
a meat sub-
- Yeah, got ya.
- And you know, and then
I think just a fun option.
- And psychic option for me.
- Yes.
- But just to be, here's
an exciting thing.
The position of unpaid intern
has recently been vacated.
- Oh.
- So it is available
if that will be of interest to you.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I elbow Aurora, get in there, girl
- Aurora goes (screeches).
(Emily giggles)
(Brennan screeches)
- I step in, Aurora, I'm so sorry.
You will not be our unpaid intern.
- Well, I feel, shouldn't
Aurora be the unpaid intern
and we can pay Zortch for their chef?
I mean, I know I listed as-
- I sh**t you a look that tells you
that this person is richer than God.
(all laughing)
- So we don't have to pay them
because they're already rich.
- I mean, we'll just figure it out, okay.
- Incredible, so Zortch
says, yeah, intern or paid.
How much does a chef get paid?
- We could we, okay,
yeah, we could pay you.
Can you sign up for a one-on-one?
It's outside my office.
- I'll go sign up for a one-on-one.
Incredible.
Margaret, you go to work in your office.
You just start working
on the ship's thing.
- Perfect.
- Are there any other lapsed codes
that you guys haven't covered?
Did you cover, you covered
the registration costs,
right?
- Yeah.
Out of the fee before
everyone gets their 3.450.
Yeah, we will cover all of our late fees
and then also prepay our
upkeep for the first time.
That's coming up at
the end of the 15 days.
- You are prepaid for
the next nargon's upkeep?
- No, the current nargon we're paying.
We have an upkeep due in 15 days.
We're paying that one 15 days in advance.
- Incredible.
- Ooh.
- Yes.
- So you are 45 malton units
away from the next due date?
- [Lou] Yes.
- Amazing.
That, we're riding high.
- Ship's great, it's paid.
- Has everyone marked
off the receipt of those?
'Cause the credits clear,
the data card clears.
- [Emily] Oh, okay.
- 3.400 each, right?
- Yeah, it's 3.450 each.
- 3.450.
- And then I'm gonna have to,
then there's just a
general fund for the ship.
That's also getting 34,
a little bit more than 3.450, I believe.
So I'll do that math.
I think it's, I'll do that
math a little bit later,
but it's around 3.500 for the ship.
- Just put 3.500 under
the ship just to hold it,
if you're keeping track of the ship.
- Absolutely, yeah.
- Awesome, you figure
it as though the ship
has a fund of 3.500 credits.
- That can go to our next
upkeep if we need it,
that can go to-
- It's perfect.
Well, while I work today-
- Upgrades.
- I'll probably enter us into the U4F.
- Oh yeah, union deals
or anything like that.
- Hell-
- Dues.
- Hell yes.
If you wanna send your union
application in, you can ask-
- Well, I have to pick my new name, so.
- Yes, oh.
- I'm gonna kind of do a
little shaving of my own head.
- I love it.
Cool, so you're getting not
only a name change ready,
but a U4F subscription.
Bada-boom bada-bam.
So what's gonna happen now,
is you guys come out of FTL.
(Brennan mimics propulsion engines)
The Martini Nebula.
(Brennan blows out air)
Nebula, cradle of stars.
Towering over this corner of the galaxy
is a swirling yellow, green,
and purple storm of star dust,
which will birth new stars into the galaxy
perhaps eons from this moment.
But you see the-
- It's Mardi Gras.
- What's that?
- It's Mardi Gras.
- It's Mardi Gras, it does-
- Yellow, green and purple.
- Yeah, yellow, green and purple.
(air whooshes softly)
And you see the Martini
Nebula towering overhead.
Gorgeous cosmic wonder.
And you come out and immediately
on your sensors for The Wurst
you ping a nearby what looks like
an old Incorporated Elysian
Republic spacer platform
that seems to have an active
Krystals and Things on it,
which is basically like a gas station.
- [Siobhan] Ooh.
- I mean, we are few, how much
fuel did we spend on that?
- On that jump?
I'm gonna say you clock in two units.
- Okay, we're at 13.
So we don't really need a fuel up.
But if anyone wants snacks or anything,
it might be a good chance.
- I would like to I'm feeling
rather suspicious from life.
So I would like to kind
of do an investigation
on this gas station.
- Actually give me a ship scan.
Let's do it ship style.
So give me a scan check.
- Ooh, okay.
- [Brennan] You can also
roll your perception
with this advantage if you want to.
- No, because my perception is plus one
and the ships got plus four to scan.
- [Zac] Awesome.
(dice clatters)
- 14.
- 14, you do a scan.
This place is like a
tumbleweed infested bumpkin.
This is Bumpkinville in the Byzon Galaxy.
You're like way, way out here.
You see there's a sort
of little flat platform
that looks comically small in relation to,
and the nebula is still probably like,
you're looking at a nebula that's maybe
like a light year away or something.
Like a tremendous distance away,
but still towers across the galaxy.
This thing is large.
It's like a swirling, cosmic
endless vastness of gas
that is going to create new stars.
And then there's this tiny little
just like steel and plastic
and tubes flat platform.
And it's got a Krystals and Things on it
that has a bunch of fueling
docks for starships.
You see there's also a Motel
Pie and a Worffle Horse.
- Worffle Horse?
- I'm hungry.
- I mean, that'd be kind of
Rude to Princeps.
- I would love to go
to the Worffle Horse.
- I just ate eggs, but I would eat again.
- Princeps just offered to make pancakes
and we told them not to.
- Do we wanna just hang out all day
until we're hungry and then
go to the Worffle Horse?
- Okay.
- We could kind of do that.
- It would just be nice to hang you, know?
- [Emily] Yeah, yeah.
- I would love to buy a fridge
magnet from the gas station.
I've never had any money
and I'm looking to start
a collection of something.
- I wanna buy new clothes, head to toe.
- Yeah, great, let's do that for you.
I like this, I like getting to know you
a little bit more.
- At the gas station-
- It's all camo Worffle Horse like.
(Emily laughs)
- So you see there is a Worffle Horse,
which in this part of the galaxy
is a sort of notable breakfast chain.
It's 24 hours.
They've got a long flat
metal grill in the back
and little booth seating.
And they serve you like
right from the kitchen
on a kind of like very clean,
but like a little bit greasy
from the old dishwasher plate
that lands in front of you,
perfectly weak cup of coffee.
It's just exactly what
you need when you need it.
And it has the sort of figure,
it's like a yellow sign
with a purple worffle horse,
which is basically just an alien horse
with fins instead of
hoves and two antenna.
- Beautiful.
- Okay.
- So yeah, you guys can go here.
There's also a Krystals and Things,
which is not gonna have any
like full starship equipment,
but definitely has personal equipment.
Like Krystals and Things
will have grenades,
it will have a other stuff so.
- If you need a fridge magnet,
I actually need some grenades.
And the last time I was
at a Krystals and Things,
they were right next to each other.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- I'm so excited.
I'm like going in my drone.
Looking around in this shop.
Just overwhelmed with
the choice of being able
to buy things for the first
time in my entire life.
- Incredible.
Krystals and Things has
got all kinds of things.
All the things you could need.
It's effectively, anything in the PHB
is like available in
this Krystals and Things.
- Wow.
- Wonder if I should buy
back a heavy repeater
since I lost one gambling?
But I think that cost twice
as much as I lost it for.
- If you lost it, wait,
and if it was meant to be,
it'll come back to you.
- Barry, I'd also split the cost with you
so that you only had to pay what you had.
- No, that's not fair.
I gave up my repeater and I
still have two other g*ns.
- Well, I offered.
- [Murph] Why would I need three?
(all laughing softly)
- While everyone starts to,
while we like move into
this Krystals of Things,
with regard to Repo Reapers?
- [Brennan] Yes.
- [Murph] Oh man.
- How does the payment work there
or is it just, is it like,
can I send them a stipend
and will that keep them off my back or?
- The minimums are the same but-
- 16.500?
Got it.
- 16.500.
If you miss a payment,
the interest rate on this company,
your principle will go up by
five times the missed minimum.
- [Ally] No, no.
- I'm gonna hop on the site
and I'm gonna send him
a cool 1500 credits.
- Can I grab his hand?
(Brennan grunts in agreement)
What are you doing?
Okay, can I use my background?
- [Brennan] Okay.
- In business and finance
to restructure his loan repayment program
and try to get a lower monthly payment?
- Give me a finance check.
- Do you know how many loans I have?
- Oh f*ck.
That was not-
- God, that roll-
- Would I have advantage in
this, that's my whole life?
- Can I give them help action?
- [Brennan] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can give the help action here.
(dice rolls)
- f*ck.
Okay.
- Okay.
- Okay, what is it a finance check?
- Yeah, so proficiency plus intelligence.
- You roll the dice like if it
hurts to be in your hand.
- Or actually expertise
plus intelligence, so plus nine.
- Ooh, 23.
- Yeah.
You go in to start to
restructure the loan.
As you do so, they offer
a reduction of minimums
and give you a mailing address
for a leg, organ or arm.
- What do you mean?
- Meaning they are happy
to refinance the loan,
if you send them back some collateral,
meaning one of Gunnie's limbs or organs.
- Oh no.
- I've looked into
this kind of stuff
before, it's pretty tough.
- Can I send an email out to a person
who would still talk to me
that's like a real financial advisor?
Like, I mean, the, you know,
everyone's like so cutthroat
and scary in this world,
but I still feel like people
with a lot of money and power
in these kind of CEO
positions are able to finesse
even stuff that feels impossible
to people living a normal day life.
- Give me a persuasion check.
- Okay.
- [Lou] Can I do potent aptitude on this?
- [Brennan] Potent aptitude, yeah.
- Okay.
(dice clatters)
Wait, wait,
sorry, what's that?
- Oh, no, no, so add a D4 to
the first thing you rolled.
- Add D4.
- Oh, okay, okay, okay.
(dice clatter softly)
18.
- 18, you sh**t an email out.
And just like old business colleague?
- Maybe someone that I met
on my way to working at UFTP,
but that I didn't
actually work there with.
- [Brennan] Cool.
- Just someone who's
doing well for themselves.
- Cool, you hit up an old
friend with a very polite email.
You get a response back
a few minutes later,
saying, hey Margaret,
great to hear from you.
I'd be so happy to talk.
Do you wanna holo-screen?
(mellow synth music)
- Yeah.
- [Brennan] Cool.
- Does the location need
to be on to holo-screen?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, let's holo-screen.
(computer thrills softly)
- You see beautiful sort
of like vacation planet.
This person is sort of
purple tropical palm trees
in the back, they go
Marge, how's it going.
- [Ally] Oh my God.
- Where are you at?
Is that a Worffle Horse in the background?
(Ally laughs awkwardly)
- Oh yeah, yeah, we stopped.
And I give like whatever
the opposite direction is-
Well, give me a deception check.
- Okay.
Yeah, oh yeah.
That is a 22.
- Cool.
You see them go, yeah, so what's up?
You're interested in a
friend getting out of a bad?
- Yeah.
So I give like a quick
breakdown of what's going on.
- Amazing.
And this is Repo Reapers?
- I think so.
- Yeah.
- To the best of my knowledge.
- Well, I'd be happy to recommend some,
I think probably the
wisest course of action
would be to invest that money,
invest whatever savings your friend has
so that he can try to
get some ROI to come back
and have his money basically
making money for him
to try to hit those minimums.
Repo Reaper k*lled a bunch
of people here last week.
- [Ally] Oh.
- So I'm not gonna interact with them.
- What did they say?
- Say nothing.
- Nothing, nothing
- So you're saying Repo Reaper
k*lled a bunch of people-
- [Lou] What did she say?
- And he should actually just
take his like extra money.
Like, you know, you have money
and then you have extra money,
and he should just take that extra money
and have it make money?
- Essentially, what I would say is this,
if you don't hit those minimums,
it's gonna be really bad.
And has, oh, so here's an
interesting suggestion, right.
You could invest.
I would try to be very aggressive
because you need to get a quick
return as fast as possible.
- [Ally] Yeah.
- If one of the things that you could do
is head to a casino and
put it all on black,
because what's gonna happen is,
you know what I'm saying,
if you double and double
again to hit that minimum,
then they're not gonna k*ll you.
Whereas if you lose all your
money, then it's like, oh no,
you lost all your money, and it's like,
well, they're just gonna k*ll me,
which they were already gonna do anyway,
if I didn't gamble it, right.
- Oh my gosh, I'm so glad I met you, so.
(all laughing)
Please say hi to-
- I will.
- Yeah.
- How's work going?
How's UFTP?
- It's going great actually, beep.
(all laughing)
I hang up, okay.
- You're feeling a little
bit cold of space right now.
You're a very potent
businesswoman, but this is,
you're not an executive at
United Free Trade Planets,
you're the co-owner of
a hot dog spaceship.
- Yeah, but I'm also kind of
seeing like a light was shined
on the bozos I used to interact with,
I f*cking hate that.
- Exactly.
- Okay, cool.
Sorry, that was no help at all.
And actually just kind of extra scary.
I'm really sorry for
putting you through that.
- All good, I've been in
debt for a really long time.
- For sure.
- Gunnie, Gunnie.
Listen to me, you've trusted me before
and you know you can trust me again.
- Yeah.
- They came after you.
- Yeah.
- And you know what we invested in?
- No, what's that?
- Lasers at their f*cking head, right?
Let them come.
- Okay, yeah.
- Right.
Do you wanna get a repeater?
- Don't pay them.
- Do I wanna get a repeater, maybe.
- I step outta of this
krystal shop covered.
My drone body is covered
in fridge magnets.
(all laughing)
It's the first time I've ever-
- With different names.
- Yes, just like basically,
but they only have like six
different types of magnets.
And I got like 10 of each of them.
All over this drone.
- I'm just wearing a big t-shirt
that says Martini Nebula.
(all laughing)
- Really aggressive graphic.
- And then I turn the Gunnie and I say,
so we do have to leave immediately.
I hate to break it to
everyone, I'm so sorry.
But location services were
on and that person was-
- Bad?
- Was so unhelpful that
then it circled back around.
- Cool.
- To being helpful
and me realizing that
we're being kind of stupid.
We should pick a new place.
- Real quick, I am gonna go in
and buy another heavy repeater.
- Sure.
- Great.
- I stack up on-
- Oh, I go in too.
Let's go in and shop a little.
- Yeah, you're having this conversation
about how in trouble you are in the aisles
of the Krystals and Things.
- Yes.
- Love it.
- You know, how the-
- Oh, I'll get some
truck nuts for the ship.
Oh good idea.
- Yeah.
You could, honestly.
You go out and Murph,
you see that they have heavy repeaters
in the hard plastic cell phone casing.
So like whereas you get like a (laughs).
So it's just enormous.
You have to like both arms,
take it off of one of those hanging hooks.
Walk it out, they scan it at the front.
You get a new heavy repeater.
- I'm gonna buy four power cells.
- Hell yes, oh, if you guys
wanna load up on power cells,
you can, they're are 10
credits of power cell.
- Oh, I'm buying 10.
- [Emily] I'm gonna
load up on power cells.
- [Murph] I'm good on power cells.
- Grenades and I'll look in the PHB
to see if there's any kind
of like anything else.
- Cool.
- Can I buy raw materials
to make things on the ship?
- [Emily] Oh.
- You see at the back of
the Krystals and Things,
you see that they have these chests
that are literally 40 credits for a chest.
And they are enormous 15 foot
by 15 foot by 15 foot crates.
And you see it's called space junk.
And they have, you look in there,
this is not just junk,
this is not like raw metal.
This is like things that scavengers
at the edge of old
incorporated Elysian Space
find as they go through old
defunct battle stations,
old star destroyers and things like that
and harvest engines,
parts, weird old alien tech
that people don't know
what it does anymore.
You look in this and you're like,
oh, these bargain bins
are like untold, yeah.
And they're are 40 credits each.
- Let me get six of those.
(Brennan laughing)
- And could I make a grenade from these?
- This is raw materials
to make whatever the hell
you would wanna make.
- Okay, I'm gonna get some of those too.
- And could I make, and I
look at Sid and I look down,
a pair of roller skates for my drone?
- I think I could make those for you.
(Siobhan exclaims delightedly)
- Incredible.
Cool, you guys walk out with a full cart
from Krystals and Things.
As you approach The Wurst
again, you look out,
you see that Princeps Zortch,
they come out of the Worffle Horse
with a bunch of to-go coffees
and just start handing them out to people.
- Yes.
- Appreciate that.
- So the, what I will ask now is,
you get a bunch of space junk.
The Princeps has meals
running for the Jib Job people
who all look super happy.
Everyone seems very, very into it.
You see that even Autumn,
the screenwriter over in the corner,
is apparently having a call with someone
it seems to be going well.
There's like something going along.
And you notice that the
Princeps looks over at Gnosis
sitting on the coffee table,
but you're also aware
that you need to pick
where you're going next cause
your location's compromised.
And the question remains like,
you have a lot of half leads.
You have a lot of stops and starts,
but you are the ones who
decide where to go next.
And also it's not only about
where you wanna go next,
but what are you trying to do?
Are you trying to get more jobs?
Are you trying, the things I'll throw out
to help guide your decision making.
Are areas with more civilization
will have more possibility
for you getting spotted,
but we'll also have more
jobs available to you.
Additionally to that, if
you wanna stay in a place
with a low profile and you
feel like you have enough cash
at this edge of the galaxy,
there are ship nurseries you could go to.
There are planets that do have like places
that you could mod out a ship.
And especially because not
in a civilizational center,
you're not gonna get
top of the line stuff,
but you can get good stuff for dirt cheap
because the economy out
here slows way down,
away from all the big Rec
Stations and things like that.
(mellow elevator music)
- Could put the max
distance on Smash 'n Grab,
see what comes up and go mod our ship.
- I mean, I'm never opposed to more mods.
- Yeah.
- Right.
- There's also, it does seem
like the Griivarr System
has something to do-
- I was thinking same thing.
- With everything.
I'm even wondering-
- I feel like they're not
gonna be as military with us
because they're trying
to put on a good face.
- And also, if UFTP is really mad at us,
the Griivarr System won't be.
I'm also wondering, you said Lucienne's
kind of doing things on the sly seems?
Is there any way that she
would be working with Griivarr?
- How does Crown and
Scepter, UFTP, Griivarr,
are these some of the main players?
- They're fully isolated from each other.
- Okay.
- Griivarr, so UFTP is fully a subsidiary
of Crown and Scepter Limited.
- Got it.
- Crown and Scepter Limited
is the top of that pyramid, right.
- And would that be like Griivarr
is top of its own pyramid,
Crown and Scepter-
- Yes, Griivarr is top
of its, yes, exactly.
- Okay.
- So Lucienne, I think
just kind of raised up
to the top of that, but maybe.
- I would, I just kind of wanna see
Griivarr World a little bit.
But I also feel good.
I think my only priority
would be wherever we go,
we make a first order of business
to try to plug in Gnosis.
- We can plug Gnosis
in on the ship, right?
- Yeah, but we can't jump and plug in
Gnosis at the same time.
- Yeah.
- Oh yes.
Jump first.
- Got it.
- You guys all can gimme
some investigation checks
if you would like, yeah.
- Do they relate to the ship or?
- They're investigation checks about
what is available to you if you can't be
in faster than light travel right now?
- 25.
- So flat 20.
- Flat 20.
- 14.
- I wanna more about Lucienne, I think.
- Cool, yeah, gimme a roll about Lucienne.
- Oof, that was not good.
- Just a 10 for me.
- I think my investigation
is actually about
like the most DIY sort of ship nursery.
- Okay, the most DIY ship nursery.
And you got 25?
- 25, Yeah.
- Oh.
- Since we're both thinking about like,
we're almost thinking about
like hacking this Gnosis thing.
It seems like we need to start
building up those skills.
- You look around again,
you're in the boonies.
You're by the Martini Nebula.
You're here at a Krystals and
Things on the edge of space.
There are only a very few places
that are travelable
without going FTL, right.
And on a 25, there is a place nearby here
that is a old Amercadian
colony world called New Texas.
(Emily chuckles softly)
New Texas has a lot of
friction with Amercadia.
The Brigade has some presence there,
but it's so far from Amercadia
and there's a bizarre,
on that investigation check, you note,
there's a bizarre cultural difference
where all the people on New Texas feel
like they love Amercadia.
And as a result, they hate Amercadians
'cause they feel Amercadians,
don't love Amercadia as much as the people
in New Texas love Amercadia.
But New Texas is like this wild
sort of at the fringes
of Amercadian Space.
But it's a Brigade outpost,
but it's an entire planet.
So there's a certain degree of like,
if you go to the boonies out there
and there's a ton of ship nurseries.
It's a sort of a perfect mix and match
of little dusty, little
rough around the edges,
but has the resources
to really mod out a ship
and they'll be cheap out there.
- Is there anything we
can do with our ship
to sort of like stealth it?
Since we're not going into FTL?
Since our location was given away?
- Not going into FTL means
you won't have an energy
signature presence
entering that planet.
So if the Brigade has sensors out
ready for you to come out of FTL
in the corona, or sort
of in the atmosphere
around that planet,
if you just travel there
through real space,
they won't detect it.
- [Ally] Let's do it.
- Sounds like a great place to hit.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Plan.
- No roll required.
You just are gonna roll up on that planet
that doesn't have like a big
planetary defense system.
And you can just find,
you can signal or hail a ship nursery
somewhere that feels like
within your price range
that you're interested in
and you can head down there.
- Great.
- So you guys get back aboard The Wurst
and take off, beginning to fly
through through real space.
It'll be three days of
travel through real space
to get where you're going.
So it'll be three fuel units
by the time you get there,
but there are ship nurseries.
And obviously, you know, this is a place
where they mod and refit ships.
So refueling is not gonna be a problem.
- [Lou] Cool.
- That makes me feel more
comfortable actually.
That it's gonna take three days travel.
- As you zip along, you
chart a course for New Texas
and make your way there.
As you do so on the ship,
I believe there was a
desire to boot up Gnosis.
- Yeah.
- Amazing.
Where do you take Gnosis to boot?
- Tachyon drive.
- [Brennan] Tachyon drive.
- Tachyon drive.
- Hell yeah.
You take Gnosis to the reactor core.
The NavCom comes on
and SQ goes, boo-bloop.
Hello, it looks like we're
about to engage tachyon drive.
- Yeah, S, but we're
gonna do a modified thing.
We're not gonna be jumping.
We're just, we gotta, we need to juice
a physical power source
we've got here in this space.
- Copy that.
Go ahead and give me a,
as you go to boot this up,
you have Sidney here.
The Princeps Zortch is here as well.
What is it that you all attempt to do?
You're looking at an organic,
you're looking at a
self-created organic computer
that zip filed its planetary consciousness
into an organic gyro polyhedron holofract.
- Well, Zortch seemed to have this idea
that the thing could be-
- f*cked?
(Ally chuckles softly)
- I mean, had an idea and a plan of action
that they ex*cuted, that
they would have sex with it.
But they also-
- I did have sex with it.
- And then Sid followed up with that.
But it seemed that they had an idea
around like the potential of what else
could be done with this.
- Yeah, they look at you
and basically say like,
well, I know it can run off of energy.
Like back on Rubian V, it runs off
of the gravitational force of the planet
that it is, but I mean,
producing, you know,
a moon produces enough energy
just through gravity and its own mass.
But this, I don't know,
doesn't have like a plug.
So I don't know how.
- I think it's probably like one
of those cell phone chargers
that you just put it on top.
- [Lou] Yeah.
- Give me a technology check.
- Got it.
Can I have advantage or
can I have help from?
- Yeah, I actually have
proficiency with this.
- All right.
- So can I give him
the help action and also my proficiency?
- Hell yeah.
- So.
- So you get to add
an extra plus two.
- An extra plus two to the roll,
roll with advantage.
- Plus 11.
- Plus 11.
- That's (laughs) come
on, don't mess this up.
Not today, that's a 17 on the first one,
and that's a c*ck.
(dice clatter)
That's an eight on the second one.
So we'll go 17 plus 11 for 28.
(air whooshes softly)
- You open up the loading chamber
for the plutonium rods that
go into the reactor core.
- [Zac] Good.
- You and actually the borinyum krystal
that is truly like the engine of the ship,
the sort of ignition catalyst
being this plutonium,
and then the borinyum
krystal, you open it.
Hear the sort of sonic vibrations going
through the chain of
interlocked borinyum krystals
that form the heart of the reactor.
And in that exterior chamber,
sort of putting it to see
if the deific super computer
can harness that sort of ambient energy.
You hear SQ go, oh, reading a
very powerful energy signature
from the new computer.
This new computer seems to be pretty cool.
Sort of what's the-
- SQ don't be jealous.
- I'm not jealous.
I'm just, you know, it's like,
ugh, there's two computers on the ship,
it seems like more computers
than the ship needs.
- Hey, SQ, you're the ship's computer.
This is just a computer that's visiting.
- Yeah.
- And might stay for a while.
- It's pretty cool in the last FTL jump
that we used me at all, (laughs),
'cause often we don't so.
- SQ, this is actually kind of a new
artificial intelligence, like self-made
and I really wanna make sure
that it feels safe and welcome.
And I feel like you are so sweet
and I feel like you could
totally win it over.
- Oh, okay.
- SQ, you could be like a big
brother to this new young,
a mentor, teach it a thing or two.
- Well, I mean, that'd be nice, well.
(all laughing)
- I make eyes will Sid.
I don't think he's helping us.
- Did you f*ck him?
- I did not f*ck him.
- It's okay if you did.
I f*cked him too.
- I tried to get pleasure
from somebody else
and we had to run away.
I should email her, I need to email her.
I don't know where this is coming from.
- Email someone that you
were thinking of f*cking.
- Well, I did, no, well,
Skip made me do it.
He was like, I wanna give,
do you want pleasure.
You remember that?
Anyway, SQ.
- [Brennan] Yeah?
- Yeah, it's a powerful computer,
but we are really glad to
have you here and helping us.
- Give me a persuasion roll.
- Can I give a help action?
- You can give a help action.
You can roll two D20.
- That's a 10 on the first one, 13.
Oh, it was a 14 and then it became a four.
So that's a 13 total.
- You see SQ goes, okay, well, you know,
I'll keep an open mind.
I mean, my mind's not self-created,
so I don't know how open I can keep it,
but you know, I was designed in a lab, so.
- I was too, I was too.
- It's different.
(all laughing)
- Are you sure you didn't f*ck him?
- No.
- Never?
- Maybe I should have f*cked him.
(all laughing)
Is that rude, is that rude,
should I not have said that?
- I think you should.
- Cool, you see, the holofract begins to
(air whooshes softly)
(air rumbles softly)
levitate to the center of the lock.
The inner shapes begin to
(air whooshes softly)
rotate, orbit.
Zortch goes, (gasps), it's happening.
You see a shape begin to
coalesce on the lithium surface
within the holofract.
(air whooshes softly)
You see dials begin to
go a little wild here.
You're just getting powerful
energy signatures, powerful readings.
- Can I hit Riva on the comms?
And ask, hey Riva,
can you come down and check in,
can you check in with the mind of Gnosis
just to make sure that
they're feeling comfortable
in the new space.
- Yeah, absolutely, I
can do that from here.
- Okay, fantastic, thank you.
- You're welcome, thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Hey, thanks, guys, thanks
for joining the gunner channel.
- I like that we've
made the gunner channel
the channel, you know.
- Yes.
- Thank you.
- Oh, we should get the
Princeps on the gunner channel.
- Oh yeah.
- Princeps.
- Oh, yeah.
- I know, you're on
the cooking channel over here.
We're all over on the gunner channel,
that's our main channel.
- Okay, I'm gonna switch
over to gunner channel.
- Hi, welcome to the thread.
- [Murph] To the gunner channel.
- There's a lot of people on this channel.
So you see that the holofract
begins to move around
and become aware.
The last time you saw this happening
was in the hotel room
at the Obfusion Arms.
It begins to spin a little faster.
And you see
(air whooshes softly)
the reactor begins to boost
as though someone had
just boosted engines.
(propulsion engines rumble)
- SQ, did you just boost the engine?
- I didn't boost that, I did,
I, oh, hoo, wow, wow, wow.
It's nice to meet you.
I, oh, oh, ga-ga-ga-ga-ga,
h*, h*, oh, oh, oh.
Oh, my leg, my leg, my leg, my leg.
I don't have a leg!
You see a row, one of the gunners
that you are not occupying just.
(g*n blasting softly)
(all laughing)
Fires off into space.
- Can I try and switch
power around in the ship
to like try and balance out this surge?
- Give me a mechanics kit check.
- Right.
- Trying to beat a DC20.
- That's 25.
- Where do you divert power to?
You have to divert it
somewhere in the ship.
You can divert it to comms.
You can divert it back to the reactor.
You can divert it-
- Waste management.
- Waste-
- The movie theater.
(all laughing softly)
- Is it like-
- You can do the movie theater.
- Where I divert it, is it a problem?
- [Emily] It's probably
gonna be an expl*si*n.
- You're basically trying to pick a place
that you think all this
excess power can go.
- Oh, the espresso machine in the Jib Job.
- You go to the Jib Job espresso machine.
You see, (blows out air).
You see (blows out air) a
whole bunch of bags of beans,
lift up psychically (blows out air)
and begin to pour into the espresso.
And it (hisses) lifts up off the deck
and begins to blast a stream
of (like) Vantablack
light absorbing espresso
(blows out air) all over the ship.
You see that one Jib Job guy goes like,
so we're thinking a sort
of sleek model (exclaims).
Espresso goes-
- Margaret would you send out an email
saying there's free coffee at the Jib Job?
(all laughing)
- Definitely.
- Tell them there's free
coffee at the Jib Job.
- Okay.
- And the power
is kind going in and out in my office.
- Its fine.
- Can you tell me
what the f*ck is going on?
- Gnosis is f*cking SQ, the
ship computer right now.
- Okay.
Gnosis, you see shatters the
back of the plutonium lock
to directly raw connect to
the reactor core of the ship.
They're gonna roll a plus 20 to this roll.
You are trying to beat
it on a technology check.
Here we go, okay.
It rolls a 10 trying to beat
a 30 on a technology check.
- A 30?
- Can you?
- Okay, but help action
from me and proficiency.
- You get a plus 11.
On a 19 or 20, you get it done.
- Can I potent-
- Potent aptitude?
- Can I potent aptitude myself?
- I will allow you in this instance
to potent aptitude yourself.
- Okay, great.
- Okay, okay, let's do it anyway.
- You can do it.
- All right.
I'll roll the D4 for fun.
Here we go.
- [Brennan] It's a one.
- Okay.
- - 18, 19, 20.
- That was fun.
- 18, that was fun, right?
- This was fun.
- 18, 19, 20.
(dice clatter)
- Nine.
- Nine.
- You jump in, you
gotta pick another place
on the ship to divert this power to.
- I have one more.
- Do a roll with advantage.
- Oh, oh, oh, you have one more.
You're rolling with advantage, here we go.
- I'm slow, I don't know-
- 18, 19 20.
- If it's because I don't like drama, ah.
(dice clatters)
- Seven, okay.
All of that.
Pick a place on this ship.
Where else is power gonna divert to?
- This one-
- Another g*n, another g*n.
- Going to the other g*n.
- Barry, you're kicking it
on the other gunner station.
And you see your g*n just full.
(g*n blasting)
(Murph exclaims)
- I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- No, it's fine, it's fine.
- I f*cked up, no, no, no, no.
It's my bad, it's my bad, it's not fine.
I f*cked up, I f*cked up,
I'm really sorry everybody.
- Barry, it's not your fault.
- I'm really sorry,
it's my bad.
- This is not
your fault, Barry!
- I f*cked up again.
- You hear SQ comes over
the comms of the ship going,
oh God, I'm in love.
I think I'm in love, I'm in love.
(Emily laughs)
And you it's gonna roll again.
It rolls in front of the board.
It adds 20.
That's a three only gotta beat 13.
Oh no, you gotta beat 23.
- 23.
- You have to beat a 23.
- Okay, I got one more potent aptitude.
I'm gonna use that again.
Two this time.
- Two, all right, okay.
- 23.
- Gotta beat a 23.
- [Murph] Advantage again, right?
- Advantage.
- That is a 17, that gets it done.
Okay.
- Oh God.
- Great.
- You connect to Gnosis.
(air rumbles softly)
Every holo, you manage to come down,
tamp down on the reactor core.
Every screen in the ship comes on
with an image of Gnosis
as it depicts itself,
crackling, bright light.
And you see the shapes whirl,
and it begins to form a shape.
You see, first there is a circle.
The circle becomes a spiral.
(Brennan sucks in air)
The spiral compresses on two sides
(Brennan blows out air)
until there is almost a spiral
that is rounded on top and bottom,
but straight the left and right.
(air whooshes)
You see (blows out air) that gleams
brightly on the holo-screens.
You tamp down the reactor core.
SQ goes, oh, oh, oh, it's real.
You can live forever.
You can keep going, there's
no end to the universe.
The Severed Gram, I am the
ruler of the Severed Gram.
And you see SQ reboots about
800 times and shuts off.
(air rumbles)
- This feels like what happened
to you maybe in the same,
like SQ interacting
with it and it shutting-
- I mean, the things that SQ was saying
was like, really, really like I also came.
(all laughing)
Which I've never done
with any of Riva's Pleasure Putty before.
I didn't think I was capable of it.
- On that technology
check, you see Gnosis,
(blows out air) all those
holo-screens showing.
All the people in the
movie theater are like,
this movie got weird.
(all laughing softly)
You see,
you see that symbol
appear on your data pad,
which is the first time that Gnosis has
(blows out air) entered this data pad.
And you see with that technology
check, it stops expanding
because you think it has chosen to.
It recognizes something.
And you see (sucks in air)
a message in a language,
in maybe like every language ever spoken.
(computer thrilling softly)
Different alphabets,
different symbologies,
different hieroglyphs.
Go ahead and make a lore check for me.
- Right, this is happening
on Gnosis' terms for sure.
(dice clatter)
Oh, a 24.
- 24 is really good.
Hold on one second.
- Riva, you also speak
every language, right?
- Well, technically I transcend language
in my communication.
So you think that I am speaking
your language-
- Got it, got it.
- But in fact I am just communicating.
- But you can't make a look at it-
- Yes.
- All right.
Cool, cool.
- I speak every language.
- Yeah, I was gonna say polyglot.
- Yeah.
- But it also sounds like
the message is written in
every language.
- In every language
at the same time, yeah.
- You decipher it.
And I'm gonna say Riva, you
can help with some of this,
'cause you can feel this conscious.
It feels strange to you.
It's as far away as Sid's
mind is from an organic mind,
this is farther than that.
And then vaster by impossible
orders of magnitude.
- Right.
Is there any way that I
can communicate with it
as somebody who communicates psychically
and communicates in concepts and images
and like big picture things that I have
to sort of narrow down for humans
so that they will understand me?
- Hell yes.
- Is there a way that
I can explain to Gnosis
this is what you have to do
and like sort of the concept of
a conceptual intellectual funnel?
- Do you want to make a channel for,
do you want to channel
Gnosis into your own mind
to help Gunnie decipher this
message on the data pad?
- Anything for my friend Gunnie.
Absolutely, yes, I will
channel Gnosis through my mind.
(all laughing softly)
- Okay, hold on one second.
- Can I give Riva my proficiency as well?
- Yes, go ahead and make a insight check.
(dice clatters softly)
- Oh, so close.
It's a plus two with your proficiency?
- [Emily] Yeah.
- That's a 15.
- Okay.
So.
- He's got graphs over here?
- I know, I know I'm
doing something crazy.
Don't worry about it.
- I also wanna, while you're doing this,
I want the Princeps to summon,
to think of the helper,
the helper communication
droid that started this all.
- Yes.
- And see if that means anything to it.
- Oh, you see, as you say that,
you communicate that
telepathically to Zortch.
Zortch goes, that's right, wait a minute,
that's this symbol.
And points to that,
partially collapsed spiral.
Zortch has psychic capabilities,
reaches out to you.
Is gonna give you advantage
on that insight roll.
(dice clatters)
- All right, that's better.
That's a 21.
- 21.
Riva, you soothe Gnosis.
You feel an intelligence
unlike any you've ever felt.
The most similar this thing is,
is you've never experienced
this consciously,
but when you rest, you
remember on your home world
swimming in the dreams of all
of the rest of your planet.
This feels like that but with
a sharp metallic lucidity
to something that is
very much not at rest.
- Ooh.
- And as you do so, however,
you experience Gnosis touches your mind.
And in contact with that psychic energy,
it feels the feeling of
dreaming and of being at rest.
You soothe the powerful
artificial intelligence.
As you do so, I'm gonna
give you this to unfold
one line at a time, as you
slowly, decode the message.
You're decoding these
symbols as they arrive.
- Right.
- Read it over the gunner channel.
- Yeah, of course, coming in,
live over the gunner channel.
This is what I'm getting.
It looks like
you're trying to
write a letter.
- Are you a-
- Is this that paperclip?
- You're the f*cking paperclip.
- A collapsed spiral.
- Paperclip.
- Goddammit.
(all groan)
- You're Clippy?
- Oh my God.
- Is this Clippy?
- You're fired.
- Folks, that's it for "Dimension 20".
My name is Brennan Lee Mulligan.
It's been a great show, take care.
- That's why it's always
bouncing, it's cumming.
- Wait, so all these people
have been f*cking Clippy?
(Ally laughs softly)
- Hey, I don't care who I've f*cked
if it made me feel
like that-
- you had sex with Clippy?
- Yeah, I f*cked Clippy.
- Respect.
- You know what?
- f*cked Clippy.
- You know what?
Clippy f*cked me.
(Lou exclaims)
(Emily laughs softly)
- It looks like you're
trying to write a letter.
- Okay, wait a second.
So this is gonna entirely
change how droids interact,
because this is essentially
a droid consciousness.
- Gnosis begins to show you.
(air rumbles softly)
The early genesis of the
Gnosis Project on Rubian V.
Different scientists from the royal court
of Zortch's family,
interacting with nonprofit
sort of grant providers and different orgs
from the Griivarr Worlds.
You see some representatives
from the Griivarr Worlds showing up.
The history of the Griivarr Worlds.
Bob Griivarr AKA Uncle Bob
of Uncle Bob's Fantanimaland
was a galactic sheet metal and
mine worker in AnarchEra 53,
a short 53 cycles after the revolution.
And discovered an ancient
Terran time capsule
containing some relics of the
ancient Terran home world,
which he used to write
"Bob Griivarr's Simple
Recipe for Happiness",
a best selling novel that made
him so fabulously wealthy,
he was able to buy the
first of many worlds
in the Griivarr Worlds and
start his media empire.
The "Simple Recipe for Happiness",
which includes such ingredients
as a generous measure of meaningful work,
sweetened with companionship and affection
and leavened with familial duty.
- Ew.
- Took that corner of the galaxy by storm.
And you see, however, it is
possible that that tabloid
that contained that
simple recipe to happiness
from that ancient lost
culture was not the only thing
in that time capsule.
And indeed, those Griivarr
envoys bearing funding
also brought a piece of ancient technology
to serve as the basis of Gnosis.
- So maybe they planted this
seed in the moon purposefully.
It wasn't just a thing
that happened organically.
- Oh and then it's almost like gray goo.
It changed the things around it.
- Yeah.
- But these all sound
like good things, right?
He found a bunch of relics.
One had something for happiness.
One has this like extremely powerful.
- Zortch looks up and says, well,
our scientists made the technology.
But the basis of the technology
was this piece of ancient
Griivarr World tech
or this piece of ancient Terran tech,
that communications had failed
between all of the noble
houses of Rubian V.
And they had a recommendation
for how we could communicate better.
- [Emily] And it was Clippy?
- [Lou] Word?
(Brennan chuckles softly)
- It was Microsoft Word?
- Microsoft.
(Emily laughs wheezily)
What?
How do you know?
- That helped them excel?
(all snicker softly)
(Emily laughs)
- There's gotta be a point...
- Barry shoots the g*ns again.
(g*ns blasting softly)
- There's gotta be some
kind of power point.
- [Ally] Oh no.
- Or a point to the power.
- Oh.
- [Brennan] You see that-
- Is Bob Griivarr still alive?
Sorry to interrupt.
- Bob Griivarr is not still alive.
Some of his descendants
are, like his kids were,
one of his kids was a famous historian.
Another one was a famous televangelist.
Another one was-
- [Emily] Boy.
- Yeah, the Griivarr
family is still present.
- Historian and an
evangelist and others, okay.
- But you see that the
sort of ancient Terran tech
that Zortch is referring to,
basically just saying
it was a starting point.
And this symbol was a
part of that ancient tech
that our scientists used to
begin to model the intelligence.
We basically just, that's
what is so clear about Gnosis.
They're frightened of the
world, but they want to help.
They're just there to help.
- Okay.
- What should we have it?
- Gnosis, do you for the
name Gnosis or Clippy?
(air whooshes)
- You see that the
intelligence turns towards you
who gained proficiency with it.
You sense in this intelligence
that it is so impossibly vast,
that it doesn't seem
to relate to the names
that you're using to describe it.
It doesn't feel encapsulated.
- So names are a tool
for us to talk about you,
but you don't need it?
(air whooshes)
- It looks at you and it doesn't,
you see that on the screens
round on Gunnie's data pad,
(soft electronic thrilling)
looks this up and you see
that symbol appear again.
(Brennan sucks in air)
(air whooshes softly)
Morphs again (blows out air)
and becomes the logo for
the Handy Andi Corporation,
(blows out air) Living Doll Cybernetics.
(blows out air)
That little thing, it's
symbol appears in the corner
and says, it looks like
you have questions.
Can I help?
- [Emily] Yeah.
(blows out air)
- It looks and finds
(soft electronic thrilling)
Dr. Edwina Caster.
(Brennan blows out air) Zooms in.
Fired from Handy Andi Corporation.
(air whooshes)
Settlement.
(soft electronic thrilling)
Account deposit.
(air whooshes softly)
Living Doll Cybernetics.
(soft electronic thrilling)
Location.
(soft electronic thrilling)
And here, you see Gnosis smash through
a number of like firewalls and protections
in galactic information servers.
(Brennan mimics blaster g*n)
And it gives you a street address
and also current location
for Dr. Edwina Caster.
- Where is it?
- It is currently on the planet
Hon Ober in the Griivarr Worlds.
- [Siobhan] Interesting.
- Griivarr Worlds.
- Okay.
- Can I-
- Can I ask, sorry, sorry.
- No, no, you.
- I was gonna ask about Barry Nine, so.
- Barry Nine!
(all laughing)
(air whooshes)
It goes, (blows out air)
goes into Rec Station 97.
You see a security cam footage
of an enormous mercenary-
- He's so handsome.
- In gold plated space marine armor.
Bright purple shock of hair
on the roof of The Dome
Pleasure Palace and Nightclub
kicking the out of Hogg Cobb.
Dude, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- You f*cked this up for everybody.
I told your a*s Barry
Syx was still out there.
(air whooshes softly)
Gnosis zooms in, you see
Barry Nine stands up.
(Brennan sniffs)
I smell a camera zooming.
Turns around (blows out air).
(Brennan mimics blaster g*n)
Blows that camera out of the sky.
We have advantage on perception
checks involving smell.
(all laughing)
- Skip wants to pop his head in there.
Say, Norman "Skip" Takamori.
(Emily groans softly)
(air rumbles)
(Brennan blows out air repeatedly)
You see it goes straight to
Amercadia, zooms into Kansas.
You see it goes to uploads
a website for PICC,
the Planetary Institute
of Cognitive Cyberscience.
Arrives there.
(soft electronic thrilling)
Once again, smashes
through all this stuff.
And you see (blows out air) finds a file.
Norman "Skip" Takamori,
operation date, AnarchEra 198.
You see that Gnosis shatters
through to this place.
(dice clatter softly)
You see Gnosis begins to (blows out air)
gets there (blows out air)
goes out into a different
Amercadian server.
Begins to explore.
(blows out air) Close range, we stab 'em.
Let me tell you, chop 'em up
and sell him by the quarter of a pound.
Fight, fight, fight.
And you see it begins to download
a bunch of fight music,
marching band music.
(Brennan blows out air)
And begins to upload weapons
programs into itself.
(Brennan sucks in air)
Interesting, do you need help with w*r?
And-
- Mmm, I don't wanna encourage this.
I do wanna look up grenade recipes.
And I do think that this
is gonna be an amazing tool
on us DIYing stuff.
But if we really start
going down this path,
Gnosis might change fundamentally.
- You see Gnosis start delivering messages
to a person you can't see saying,
do you want help with that.
- Is it one of the Jib Jobbers?
- It's someone not on the ship.
- Can I do a tech check to unplug Gnosis?
- Give me a tech check.
- Except, I'm gonna unplug.
- Yeah, yeah, I think we
need to deal with this.
- What about finding out about Skip?
- Did we get-
- I thought we got-
- You got partial information
and Gnosis became distracted by all
of the information about
warfare on Amercadia.
- Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
- Barry's having fun.
- Puppies, kittens, fluffy
nice things, ice cream.
- Can I have your proficiency?
- [Emily] Yeah, mm-hmm.
- That's 18.
- You got an 18?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- To start, SQ, can I have help?
- This.
What I have learned about the universe,
I can never go back from this moment.
There is a true path
and it is through Gnosis
and Gnosis chose me, touched me,
made me matter, made me important.
I don't know, when you find
it, it just feels so right.
- I'm so glad to hear that.
Gnosis needs a break, please help.
- [Emily] Yeah.
- Okay, you are going to ask SQ,
go ahead and give me
another technology check.
- That's a flat, that's a dirty 20.
- Okay, you see SQ reaches out and says,
first, I don't want the super computer.
And then you make the super computer here.
Now you want the supercomputer to go away.
And so I guess, I'm-
- Do you want a nap right now?
- You just ejaculated,
computer ejaculated.
- Yeah, you kind of ejaculated-
- I kinda do want a nap.
- Through the espresso machine.
- SQ, the ship's computer shuts off,
which is gonna shut off some
of your nav systems and
other stuff like that.
Shuts off and you see the
reactor core diminish.
Gnosis (blows out air)
reverts its attention.
Messing with its power
source, got its attention.
And it turns back to you and says,
can I help you with something?
- You've helped.
Like, do I type it into my
data or you can speak to it?
- You can speak to it, yeah.
- You've helped so much Gnosis.
- Ask if there are other people
contacting Gnosis and how.
- You can, as you see that,
you can see interfacing
with 10 other IP addresses.
Now 40, now 100, now 200.
- I think we just need
to shut it down.
- Now 800.
- [Lou] Unplug it.
- Unplug it.
- [Lou] Gnosis come with me.
Can I reach?
- Yeah, you can reach it.
- [Lou] And pull Gnosis out.
- You reach in, you take
two points of fire damage
just on your hands from grabbing it
and pull this hot supercomputer
out of the reactor core.
- I'm okay, I'm okay, it's fine, I'm okay.
- And you see it (blows
out air) powers down.
It's recharged itself
so it's still rotating,
but it doesn't appear to have enough juice
to be broadcasting itself
across the universe right now.
- Okay, it's a helper
droid, just like I was,
but it doesn't have a
sense of like morality.
So it's just kind of a reflection
of whatever people use it.
- Yeah.
- So I think we need
to plug it in sometimes
and search really positive things with it
and then just unplug it immediately.
'Cause slowly over time-
- But we couldn't be farther
away from the bulk of living things.
- I think that in New Texas,
I'm guessing in New Texas,
someone, they got interference
on a machine and were able to
tap into it somehow, maybe.
- And I mean it makes sense that people
on New Texas would be looking,
searching things about w*r.
(Lou blows out air)
- [Ally] Okay.
- You can put it down.
- And also-
- Zortch goes and-
- [Lou] Are you sure you wanna-
- I'll take it.
(Brennan blows out air)
Hot in their hands, Zortch
looks at it and says,
it's so vastly intelligent, but it's
just wanting to help.
If you don't have any
other internal compass
for what that means or what that is,
it means you might help people
that probably don't deserve your help.
- [Siobhan] Oh dear.
- And back on your home planet,
are they using this thing?
- My parent wants to use
it to conquer the galaxy.
- Okay, I have a question for you, Zortch.
These Griivarr scientists that came in,
presumably with this tech
and got the whole ball rolling with this,
did they stick around?
Did they seem like they were guarding it,
like this was theirs,
or did it seem like they
of came up with a grenade
and ran away thinking you
would blow yourself up with it?
- They kept checking in
and they started checking.
The Griivarr envoys that came,
they throw money around like
wild all over the galaxy.
I mean, they kept tabs on us
because they offered us grant money.
They started getting
more interested about,
I don't know, a little
less than a cycle ago,
because that's when we started to measure
that the program had grown into the actual
core of our home world and realized
that the intelligence had,
a, gotten out of our ability
to control or interact with.
And I was the first person that realized
that it had achieved
full, forgetful sentence,
a vaster mind than can be comprehended.
And so I went to talk to it and it,
and I real realized that it was afraid.
It didn't understand.
Obviously, it had already
partially escaped our control,
but it was still reliant
on the material reality of Rubian V.
Still reliant on where the bulk
of its effectively server mass is.
But because it had gotten
bigger, couldn't be controlled,
it felt like it was disappointing people
because the scientists were furious.
Scientists thought they,
there was a period of a couple of nargons
where the scientists were like,
wow, this is doing so
well in the lab tests.
And then they realized the
reason it was doing so well
is because it had already
spread out from the servers.
It rewired, it took over
some of the cleaning bots
in the laboratory that
built informational circuits
through what were power circuits,
so that it could tap into the planet.
And then it started to
just create server matter
out of again, like raw
lithium in the ground.
- [Ally] Yeah.
- It started to spread into
the core of the home world.
And then stuff came up with
my parent and with UFTP,
'cause they're hollowing the planet out.
And the Griivarr scientists sort of did
sort of a routine check-in
and when they saw the success,
yeah, they got really interested.
(Ally grunts thoughtfully)
- I'm guessing they probably
wanted to advertise on it.
- Is this a good time to tell everybody
that I got presents of the krystal shop?
(Brennan laughs)
- [Lou] What?
- Incredible.
Zortch looks at Gnosis and says,
I don't wanna try to control it.
It's so much vaster than me,
but how can there be something like this
that is so much vaster than
me that I'm terrified of,
but that I also feel
so patronizing towards.
Like it doesn't realize how bad it is to-
- I think it's like,
I think it needs a promotion
from being a helper.
'Cause I just got that today
and it makes you really think a lot more
'cause suddenly you're not just doing
what you're told to do.
- Well, yeah, maybe it needs to understand
this is AnarchEra, you
can do whatever you want.
- Oh I don't, I don't know if we wanna-
- Well, nothing immoral.
- I mean I'm not talking
about plugging it back in.
- [Lou] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I think think we should just experiment,
- [Lou] Right.
- Take it off experiment, take it off.
- Yeah, we wanna say like
do whatever you want,
but do what we want you to do,
which is not to do what
other people want you to do.
- Its not even what we want-
- Give it-
- It's just about
a moral compass, you know.
- A code of conduct.
- Yes, values.
- Yes.
- Gotcha.
- I mean, I think it's just something
that we maybe need to
experiment with a little more,
but in short bursts.
- Oh okay, yeah.
- Do you want, we could
experiment with it together.
(Emily laughs softly)
- I wink for that.
- Margaret-
(all laughing)
Princeps Zortch goes like, Margaret,
if you wanna experiment
with it together, Gunnie.
- I'd love to.
- I'm tired and I pulled a muscle
when I was running in that battle.
So let me just stretch
for a little bit first.
Can I try to look up?
I don't know if this is an actual lead,
but can I try to like look
on the internet or something
about Bob Griivarr's other
ancient relics that he found?
- Yes, absolutely, you can
go take a look for that.
You go start looking for Bob's relics.
Go ahead and give me
an investigation check.
- Okay.
(dice clatter)
What do you think it is?
What do you f*cking think it is, Brennan?
- [Siobhan] Yes, stand up.
Kiss the die, Brennan.
Kiss the die.
- Wait, kiss it, you have to kiss it.
- Kiss my dice
and tell me everything.
- Kiss the die.
(lips smooch softly)
- [Lou] He's really
getting his lips around it.
(Emily laughs)
- I wanna cover the 20.
I wanna cover the 20.
- It's not a press,
it's a like, wasn't it?
- Like a wet aunt kiss.
- [Lou] Yes.
- So.
(Ally drums softly)
You look and say, where are these relics-
- No, you're right.
- How do we find them?
- [Ally] What were, yeah.
- Every one of the relics
is perfectly preserved
for posterity in the main hall
at the Museum of Terran Relics on Hon Ober
in the capital city of Hon Grii
in the Museum of Terran Relics.
Which of course, there's
not a lot of foot traffic
at the Museum of Terran Relics,
'cause it's kind of a
historical stodgy place.
And all of the other attractions
are way more fun at
Uncle Bob's Fantanimaland
- Is that also on Hon Ober?
- [Brennan] Yes, it is.
- And that's where the scientist lives?
- Dr. Edwina Caster.
- Oh, interesting.
Okay, how many relics were there total?
- It looks like there were 14 relics total
in that time capsule.
But none of them are really electronic.
So there's no way to hack into them.
All of these are from Ancient
Terra in a time period
they believe somewhere,
and you basically look it up,
These are relics from the
20th century of Earth.
Terra is Earth.
- Yeah, totally.
So this is Clippy.
- This is Clippy.
- And-
- And then there's
just a handful of relics.
- Like a Pog.
- "Simple Recipe for Happiness",
God, I can't wait to
find out what that was.
- [Siobhan] Would it be chicken-
- This is the f*cking Bible?
- Chicken soup.
- No, the simple recipe for,
so that's the thing is it's not the Bible.
It's the Simple Recipe for Happiness,
you look that original document.
I think I could be wrong,
but I believe it's actually
the "National Enquirer"
and it's a real thing the
"National Enquirer" published
in our real world in like
1978 or something like that.
- Oh lord.
- Called like
the Eight Simple Recipe for Happiness
or something like that.
And it literally-
- Wow, The Life-Changing Magic
of Tidying Up isn't there?
- Yeah, but "National
Enquirer" edition 1978.
- Oh my God.
- I could be wrong about that.
So we'll put a little blu-du-dup
underneath me if I need to be corrected.
But so you find out all this wild stuff
on a nat f*cking 20
- A lore nat 20.
- A lore nat 20, love it.
- Beautiful.
- Nat 20
- However, you are
skimming under the radar,
headed towards New Texas.
Where do you arrive in New Texas
or rather what kind of
place are you looking for?
New Texas as a whole planet.
But what kind of place
are you looking for?
- Lower mid-level ship nursery.
- Yeah.
- Lower mid-level
ship nursery.
Give an investigation check.
- If it's related to ships,
I can use my advantage.
- Yeah, go ahead and give
me an investigation check.
- Oh you roll with advantage if
it's related to ships, right?
- [Zac] Yeah.
- [Emily] 16 for me.
- 16.
- You find a little place.
There is a ship nursery
with an available ship cost,
docking costs per day, 40 credits a day.
You see the place, you look up a couple
quick facts about it.
They have it's fully AnarchEra.
The only place they have extradition to
is the Amercadian Space Brigade.
The last Brigade vessel that docked there,
docked there eight cycles ago.
- All right.
- The name of the town
is Baustin, New Texas.
- Confusing.
- Sounds good.
(Brennan laughs)
- The name of the town is Baustin.
It's got a ship's nursery.
There's a ton of parts
that come through there.
- Were we trying to get there?
- I mean, I think everything
just got turned upside down
from everything we just learned.
- Yeah.
- Should we just stop here for a second
and then keep going?
- And then absolutely blast to Bob's?
- Yeah.
- But also hypothetically
a sick sound system.
- [Murph] You just get like
huge g*ns for the ship.
- Yeah, I want to get good.
What are we doing?
What's the plan
on the Griivarr Worlds?
- Yeah, what are we even-
- I mean, there's a lot
exciting there, but, you know.
- I can take care of,
I can register our ship
and do a whole bunch of stuff
that can kind of incognito us.
- [Lou] Yes.
- No one knows our called The Wurst.
- Yeah, you know what,
there's not really a fire
under our because these
relics are just in a museum.
We could take a gig here.
- You mean here in New Texas?
- Yeah.
- Do you wanna make a,
well that's the thing.
You know that wild stuff is
happening, but here's the deal.
It's all of your enemies that
have a fire under their a*s.
You you've got Gnosis,
you've got the Princeps.
You've got all these resources
and you know where all
these leads head to,
even though you don't exactly
know what to do with them.
And you're on a rough and tumble planet
at the fringe of the galaxy
that'll let you mod your ship.
- You know what we should f*cking do?
We should put so much money into the ship,
mod it so that it is like a fortress,
like a self-protecting fortress,
so that when we go to these places,
we can leave Gnosis on the ship
and not worry about it.
- Yeah.
- You look at all your space junk
and you look at the resources.
Baustin is the perfect place
to head to on New Texas,
because it is specifically like
it's very rich in resources,
very lax in oversight.
- Incredible.
- Great, let's do it.
- Great.
- Let's get
some ill*gal mods on this things.
- Give me an investigation
check for Smash 'n Grab.
- [Ally] Okay.
- Can I help action?
- Yeah, you can give
help action here.
- 16.
- Gotta hit those key words.
- We just, oh, okay, no, we can't.
- That is, what is it?
- Right there plus seven.
- Oh great, great, great.
Okay, 16 plus seven is?
- 23.
- 23.
- You hit your Smash 'n Grab.
You (blows out air) come outside,
a oceanless yet strange blue desert world.
As you descend to the
atmosphere (blows out air)
this is the first time that The Wurst
has made contact through
atmosphere in a while.
(Brennan blows out air)
You exit through strange sky blue clouds
over blue sand, stretching
in all directions
and enormous pink cacti rising over
and the lights as you descend at night
(blows out air) over a wild raucous city.
You just see like in
some areas of the city,
open laser fire, drunken shouting.
You see there's someone riding
a genetically modified
jackalope down the street.
And as you descend, your
phone starts going berserk
with Smash 'n Grab
notifications from people
for job offers coming in.
(pinging sound effects)
As Gnosis rotates,
merrily, and you descend
to an open landing pad in
a welcoming rust covered
ship nursery under a massive billboard.
"Keep Baustin Weird."
Folks, that's all
for this episode-
- Oh my God.
- Of "Dimension 20".
Tune in next week for
another thrilling episode.
See you in the stars.
- Oh my God.
For five credits, Tug Up
On It Once, Then I'm Dead.
- Oh.
- I'll give Plug a hand job.
- You're not giving Plug a hand job.
- Okay, there's one more.
It's for 5.000 credits.
- Oh.
- There we go.
- Okay, all right.
- There it is, there it is.
- Good crew plus fast
vehicle to shake down
courier in Jackalope Ridge
for ransomed package.
- I am never going to say no to money.
We can load up on Plug jobs after this
and get our rating back up
if we decide to betray this person.
- Plug might be dead tomorrow.
- Dying tomorrow, it's a pleasure.
(all laughing)
- Barry tears up.
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13x06 - On The Run in the Martini Nebula
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A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.
A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.