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12: An Unstoppable Ork Meets an Immovable Dwarf Transcript by Gavin Gaddis (@GavGaddis on Twitter)
[00:00:00] > Taylor Moore / “Kitkat”: [ IC ] Dragonfly, get the mage. | Intro Theme begins |
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Previously on Fun City: the team agrees to work with NYPD Incorporated Police Benevolence Association bureaucrat Verne Solix in return for any info he has on mysterious experiments that biotech megacorp Evo is performing on officers. Verne’s ask? Head to Morgantown, a floating city in the Brooklyn Archipelago and stop an anti-corporate lawyer, Odina Loulax, from causing him grief over his planned police strike. But the team takes a shine to Odina and they make an arrangement to work both sides. Whatever info they get from Verne, Odina will help them put to use, as long as nothing ‘too’ illegal happens.
This arrangement forces their hand when they’re confronted by Mo Ashina’s ‘B-Team’, who wants Verne’s biometric data, currently possessed by T.K., so they can complete the frame job. But the Fun City crew can’t hand it over as they’d spoil their deal with Verne and Odina all at once. So it would seem the only way out is through.
| Intro Theme ends |
> Mike / G.M.: This episode of Fun City contains the use of firearms and two scenes of very
gruesome violence.
| Rain ambiance fades up |
> Mike / G.M.: We are now in initiative. Everybody please roll.
> Shannon ODell / “Lash Goodbog”: [ OOC ] I got eleven.
> Jenn de la Vega / “Vivian Lakewood’: [ OOC ] Viv got eleven as well.
> Nick Guercio / “Luxe Scythe”: [ OOC ] Yup, I got eight.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah, there you go.
> Mike / G.M.: You guys don’t know their names, but I’m going to say them out loud. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh my god, I can’t wait.
> Mike / G.M.: What is -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys” : [ OOC ] Yup
> Mike / G.M.: What is Kitkat’s initiative?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Thirteen.
> Mike / G.M.: Kitkat is the dwarf with all the guns.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh my god!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] This is too funny.
> Mike / G.M.: What is Dragonfly’s initiative?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Dragonfly is a ten.
> Mike / G.M.: Dragonfly is the wizard. What is Dish’s initiative?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Uh, Dish is twelve.
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, Dish is the woman with the very abrasive accent.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Wow - [ Taylor laughs ] -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] She’s the samurai.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Is she a mean girl?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Shade -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Sunshine is the mean girl and Sunshine got a seven. > Mike / G.M.: Dish is the street-samurai hype-beast.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Right, that’s right -
> Bijan Stephen / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Uh huh -
>Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Uh huh - [ whispered ] Sunshine is going fucking down. [ laughter ]
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah tell - tell us how you’re feeling about sunshine at this moment, Lash,
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] The fact that Sunshine wants to take one of the attributes I’m most proud of and try to twist into something negative is so fucked up.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] We’re talking about your thighs?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yup - Lash freaking loves her thighs, okay. Thighs are like the trunk of the body [ Bijan laughs ] It’s where you get -
> Mike / G.M.: Heard it here first, folks. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Thighs are like the powerhouse of the body.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, for sure for sure. T.K. is also very proud of his thighs.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Wait what’s the power - powerhouse of the cell again?
> Everyone: [ In near unison] The mitochondria
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] The mitochondria, there we go.
> Mike / G.M.: Are thighs the mitochondria of the body?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah, there we go.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] The thighs are the mitochondria of the body [ Jenn laughs ] > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] That we know -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Kitkat very calmly reaches back behind him, pulls the shotgun out from his back holster, levels it right at T.K.’s head, and says - [ IC ] You’re gonna stand still there. How ‘bout that?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. doesn’t reply.
> Mike / G.M.: That - that’s it?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] That’s it for Kitkat.
> Mike / G.M.: Wow that’s a bold move. Alright Dish acts next.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Dish leaps down off the container and Naruto runs with her swords uh right behind uh T.K. and Lash and just puts the sword - the tip of it - on T.K.s shoulder and says - [ IC ] Oy you’re gonna make like a statue now ‘ain’t you.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. just turns and looks at her and then looks back at the other guy. Just stone-faced. Nothing - nothing is on his face.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] And then she looks at Lash and she says - [ IC ] Oy you too not be movin’.
> Mike / G.M.: The next person to act is Viv. Viv are you on the ground?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah I’m on the - I’m on the - I’m on the skimmer. I’ve just been knocked - The wind has been knocked out of me basically.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah but you - but are you - you fell - you have fallen. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Forward.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, okay.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Fell forward.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, just to be clear, do you have to stand up? > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] No.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I do not.
> Mike / G.M.: ‘Kay.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Okay, and that’s perfect because while Viv is recovering she still has a lot of like mental fortitude, so all she has to do is look up. She looks straight at Dish and casts Control Actions. But because I have a wound modifier I have a negative, so I’m only rolling an eleven on spellcasting. Only rolling eleven [ Jenn laughs ].
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Only elven -
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Just kidding. She only got three hits at a force of four. > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] No hits for Dish. [ Jenn gasps ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] That means you get to control her for three things > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] No. It doesn’t work like spirit services -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay, right right right -
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] It’s just that the spell is successful basically.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: So yeah, Viv basically gets to puppet Dish. So this is a sustained spell which means anything else you do you get a minus two penalty. Oh no, you do not -
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I do not because I have forced concentration. [00:04:58]
> Mike / G.M.: You have a special at - you have a special quality that makes it so that you do not take a penalty while you are sustaining a spell. This is a spell that you have to keep running in order to continue using it. Every turn Dish gets to roll logic plus willpower minus the force of the spell.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Which was four -
> Mike / G.M.: So every hit you get you reduce it by one and when you get to zero you have
resisted it.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] So Viv is on the ground. She casts Control Actions and locks her eyes on Dish. And she reaches her hand out and just starts to close her fingers a little bit and she says [ IC ] I shall be your feet. I shall be the breath of your lungs. Don’t forget to breathe. [ Her voice echoes, Nick laughs, and Shannon gags ] [ OOC ] And she makes Dish hold her breath a little bit.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Fucking hell.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] That’s all she says and she just has her hand held out, and that’s her
turn.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] She controls her fucking brainstem. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Bro - bruh, don’t cross Viv.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah, never - [ Mike and Jenn laugh ]
> Mike / G.M.: Um everyone around the table is legitimately upset. [ All laugh nervously ] > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I think -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I - In the best way - [ More laughter ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I mean at least it’s not at us -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah I think in all of these moments the entire team just remembers like ‘Oh yeah, everyday we spend the company with a woman who could completely destroy us.’ [ Nick laughs ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] And not just in one way. Many different - [ Bijan, Nick, Jenn and Shannon together ] many different ways.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] And we just trust her - > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] We love her -
> Mike / G.M.: The next person to act is Lash.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So Lash is pretty upset, uh, about this decker’s comment to her. She’s still thinking about it. I mean she doesn’t - things roll off her back pretty much all the time. But this for some reason was so mean. She’s not used to, people who are new, to be so so mean and personal. She takes a look at this decker. She doesn’t know her name yet, right?
>Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Uh uh -
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] What does she look like?
>Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] She’s wearing a long black trench coat and under it a black kevlar vest. Tactical but still kinda baggy. Lots of pocket pants. Uh she’s got dark wraparound sunglasses and a sharp extremely severe Anna Wintour-style black bob.
> Mike / G.M.: And I think you had mentioned that she also has a big scar across one side of her face.
>Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] She indeed does.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So I’m assuming you can see her cyber eye.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, and you can - yeah I think you had said you can see a light - a little bright light behind her eye.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Is she chewing gum? Or is that something else she is chewing? >Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] She is chewing gum, and she is also covered in guns.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Uh, she takes a look at her and she decides that she is going to Thread Editor on this woman’s deck. What I want to do is I want to Thread Editor at a pretty high level. Cause I want to make her home screen - I want to turn her home screen into just Hungarian. [ All laugh ] Because I know Hungarian and I want to just fuck with her so I’m just gonna change all her controls into Hungarian.
> Mike / G.M.: So that she just can’t use -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So she’s just it’s like - she can’t use it. Because everything is going to be in Hungarian.
> Mike / G.M.: [ Jenn laughs ] Uh, yeah absolutely [ Mike laughs ] >Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah, that rules -
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I mean fuckin’ hell yeah!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I like literally-
>Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] That rules. I’ve got a device rating of four. [ More laughter ] so come get it.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I literally would never have thought - > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah - I - look -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So I’m going to cast this at a level of six. Because I’m really gonna try - I’m really pissed. So I roll software plus resonance with the limit being my level, and you roll an intuition plus data processing. I got three hits
>Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I got two hits. [ Mike gasps ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Right, I -
> Mike / G.M.: You are successful.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I have to roll so much fade [ Bijan Laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] This is the thing that I’m talking about, my fade value is level plus two, I did it at six
> Mike / G.M.: So you have to roll against eight.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Why did I pick six?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] ‘Cause you were mad [ Jenn, Shannon laugh ] > Mike / G.M.: Because you were mad.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] But where does six come into play?
> Mike / G.M.: It is the number of successes that you can get.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] It becomes your limit. >Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I agree.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Like, why did I roll so many? [ Nick laughs ] I just kind of just said six, I was like I think this is beneficial.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] To resist these eight fade values I roll resonance plus willpower
which is six.
> Mike / G.M.: I don’t think we’ve actually had to explain this yet - > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ Quietly ] That’s five, and eleven.
> Mike / G.M.: - Fade is the Technomancer version of drain. So, a Technomancer is a character that is able to bend the atoms of the matrix to their will and make them do whatever they want, and that takes a lot of psycho-kinetic force and fade is the representation of them getting tired from doing that.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I took four damage. [ Jenn, Bijan laugh ] That’s stun damage and I’m down to- I have a lot of stun damage. [ Laughs ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] So what’s your wound modifier?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Uh, right now it’s at two.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Jesus Christ.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh man. But you were successful
> Mike / G.M.: Lets- let's look on the bright side and let’s talk about how Lash is feeling and what this looks like to her.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Lash is- has her eyes directly at this decker. She’s looking straight in her eyes and she’s literally, in her matrix form, using her legs to pound soccer balls directly at this decker’s face so much so that this deckers deck is now completely in Hungarian. Not just straight Hungarian, she’s using like Hungarian slang, so even [ Mike laughs ] She could have just made it nonsense but she decided to have a little bit of purpose to it.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s like- it’s like Hungarian street slang?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah it’s Hungarian street slang, I mean she has a pretty high skill in Hungarian. Yeah so she’s taking all of this energy just basically to really mess with her deck in a very frustrating way because she feels very frustrated by that comment.
> Mike / G.M.: You’re in the kind of endless plane of the matrix doing this. Does your living persona, your representation of you on the matrix, just look like a Lash?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, she looks like a Lash but even more buff if that makes sense.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s hard to imagine but I’ll try.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] And she’s wearing her Urban Brawl uniform. > Mike / G.M.: Like that- the pads and the spikes and the
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mhm, mhm.
> Mike / G.M.: Alright. Sunshine, what’s this like for you?
>Taylor / “Sunshine”: [ OOC ] Sunshine is looking down at her deck and goes [ IC ] Oh god. [ All laugh ] That’s not Spanish [ All laugh ][ OOC ] And she puts her deck in her pocket and she unslings her FNP-93 Praetor submachine gun that looks like an extremely svelte and notched futuristic sort of gun-thing and just screams “it’s a crime to own me” [ Jenn, Shannon laugh ] [ OOC ] and she begins to walk forward.
> Mike / G.M.: So she does not turn into a corn cob is what you’re saying? >Taylor / “Sunshine”: [ OOC ] No, no one has owned Sunshine.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Uh oh, I’m glad I put their deck in Hungarian.
> Mike / G.M.: The next person to act is Dragonfly. I picture Dragonfly kind of looks a little bit like a super-future elfy Adam Rapoport from- if you guys watch the Bon Appetit YouTube videos?
>Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I don’t know what that means [ Mike laughs ] so I’ll tell you what he looks like and what he’s wearing.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh, I get it, I get it.
>Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Dragonfly is like a lightly blue-skinned elf, you know, he’s ageing, you can see some silver at the temples. His ears are particularly long and pointy and he’s in- got a long straight mop of silver hair. He's wearing like the sort of velveteen velour suit that looks almost like a 1960s throwback to a Victorian English wear, and it's this dark purple iridescent color that you can tell he's definitely meant to be ocatarine, the color of magic. This is
like wearing the shirt of the band to the concert of the band only he's doing it in velvet with long, like, frilly sort of sleeves popping out- like poking out at the end he's got a little bit of a cape on [ Mike, Bijan, Nick, Jenn laugh ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] This is David Bowie's brother from Labyrinth [ Taylor, Mike, Jenn laugh ]
>Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Alright, deal! [ Mike laughs ] > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh boy.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC as Dragonfly David Bowie-esque impression ] You’ve made quite the mistake not looking for me [ All laugh ] [ OOC ] and Dragonfly continues to walk towards Viv on the boat and he casts another spell. Viv you can go ahead- and to dodge this you can roll a reaction plus intuition and I think you're going to be taking a minus one because you're prone [ IC ] She's face down in a boat like a fish has just been caught.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] She’s just looking up and reaching up, yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] He's walking towards the boat very calmly and says [ IC ] Hey everybody great news! There's flounder on the menu tonight. [ OOC ] He puts his hand out in a various- flamboyantly like a stage magician style and a fucking river of magical flame rocket from his palm on to Viv lying on the boat. [ Roaring of fire ] [ OOC ] Woah, I hit my limit, first time I've ever done that, five points.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh man.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Uh oh.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Six hits but was a force of five.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Oy!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] She rolled a- she rolled two hits.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Ruh roh.
> Mike / G.M.: So Viv, you take three physical damage.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] That’s not so bad, I mean. I just-
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Thanks.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I just did something to myself and gave myself four stun damage
> Mike / G.M.: Dragonfly does damage equal to the number of net hits and also does flame damage, so if there is anything on you that is flammable it is likely to be destroyed.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Say goodbye to that muumuu, love.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Ohh.
> Mike / G.M.: And Taylor just resist drain for Dragonfly.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] No drain at all, I’m as fresh as a daisy! > Mike / G.M.: I'm just picturing his cuffs like flopping around-
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] They are, they are Austin Powers cuffs.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] His suit is way too big for him, yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Is it very frilly? Do we- do we have a lot of fringe and frills?
> Mike / G.M.: I think- that’s what I’m picturing it.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, I- I- I’m picturing like What We Do In The Shadows type, fuckin’ like elaborate-
>Taylor / “Dragonfly”: [ OOC ] Yeah, yes! Think about the basis for Strawberry Alarm Clock. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Sure.
> Mike / G.M.: Did you just make that up?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ][ Shouting ] I’m sixty years old! [ Laughs ] Avocado toast! Trump! I’m a boomer! [ Laughs ] I don’t know. No one? No one else has been looking at pictures of psychedelic bands from the 60s?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] No dude. > Mike / G.M.: Viv, you're on fire. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yes
> Mike / G.M.: Since it is magical fire it will go out at the end of the turn, but you still are on fire which means that if you have flammable things on you... Uh oh, bye-bye.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] So Viv was already laying down with her hand out and she still doesn't want a break her concentration but she stands up quickly and is kind of like hot dancing, and her trodes fall from underneath the burning kaftan, and the kelp is tangled around her one leg, but she's still maintaining eye contact on Dish as she like tries to rip-off the pieces of the kaftan and she's standing there in a bathing suit.
> Mike / G.M.: Wait, sorry, say that again?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] She had a bathing suit underneath her kaftan this whole time because she's ready to swim at any moment, but the stuff that she had hiding under her kaftan have fallen out ‘cus that's where she usually keeps everything and she still has one battleaxe strapped to her back.
>Taylor / “Dragonfly”: [ OOC ] Dragonfly looks at the camera and says [ OOC as Dragonfly ] Hot.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh god.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] God. [ Laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Looks into the camera... [ Nick laughs ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] She's making hand motions like she wants to tighten her hand, but she's still staring at Dish.
> Mike / G.M.: Do you feel like this was enough damage that it would warrant you doing a willpower test with a low threshold to see if you can continue concentrating on keeping the- the spell going with Dish? There's a lot going on and I kinda, maybe want to check and see whether or not Viv is able to to keep her concentration-
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Sure. I roll a willpower-
> Mike / G.M.: How does- How does a two success threshold sound?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] She rolled two hits.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, so you successfully continue to control Dish’s actions.
>Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] God you’re like the Terminator. The magical flames dissipate and still you're just the T-2000 staring right down the damn line.
> Mike / G.M.: Next person to act is T.K.
>Taylor / “Dragonfly”: [ IC ] I’ve heard of pressure under fire, but this is ridiculous. [ Bijan laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ]: Oh shut your mouth!
> Mike / G.M.: T.K., you currently have-
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] There’s a gun in my face right?
> Mike / G.M.: A gun in your face and a sword on your shoulder you do not necessarily know that person's mind is being controlled by a teammate so...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Right, right I think T.K. is just going to try and punch this guy, I think he's just like- he's like- he's really close right? He’s like- haven't you gotten very close or are you far?
>Taylor / “Kitkat”: [ OOC ] Yeah, I’m a shotgun length away [ Laughs ] > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah but that’s a differing range of things right? > Mike / G.M.: This is a sawed off shotgun.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] So like, how close?
> Mike / G.M.: Probably like-
>Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Sawed-off shotgun length
> Mike / G.M.: - two- two feet. Maybe- I mean ‘cause he’s short maybe three
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I think what T.K. is going to do I think- I don’t know if this is going to work.
> Mike / G.M.: You will quite literally be punching down [ Nick laughs ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yes I think he’s going to- I think
>Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ][ Laughs ] You’re cancelled T.K.!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He’s gonna try and punch the gun out of this guys hand. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh nice!
> Mike / G.M.: I love it.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Are you sure you don’t wanna try making his gun Hungarian? [ Mike, Taylor, Nick laugh ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, you know I thought about it and I thought- the other thing I thought about is I could do the berserker’s rage thing, I could do the elemental body, but thats all like- that all takes one turn to do.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Better to just make an action.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Well if theres a- if there’s a gun on me right.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Right ‘cause you could put on elemental body then he’s like “okay” and shoots you.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah. T.K. is standing still, there’s a gun in his face from a short man who’s like- he’s looking down at him and like, stone faced. In this situation T.K. would try to punch the gun out of this guys hand and like, break his wrist in the process? I think he- T.K. is like incensed but will not like- he’s not showing any anger. Is that a called shot, is that what we’re doing? Can I call that shot can I aim at the wrist?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah so you’re gonna aim for his wrist, you wanna break his wrist. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I wanna- yes I wanna do that.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, in Shadowrun you can call a shot, you get a minus four dice penalty, but if you’re successful, basically whatever you describe happens.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Guess I’m trading nine dice for five.
> Mike / G.M.: And then he's gonna- he’s still gonna roll to dodge gets his reaction plus his
intuition.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Are you rolling your cyber arm or your other arm?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Think I’m gonna roll my other arm the- the non cyber arm because-
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] He’s still a boxer.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He’s still a boxer, and like he- he- he actually punches better with- oh my god. He actually punches better with his other arm
> Mike / G.M.: You gotta feel it.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, I don’t think- I hope this works. Oh it didn’t work, two hits. > Mike / G.M.: How many hits did Kitkat get?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He rolled limit. >Taylor / “Kitkat”: [ OOC ] : Five.
> Mike / G.M.: Oh no.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Ay ay ay! > Mike / G.M.: Tell me what happens.
>Taylor / “Kitkat”: [ OOC ] T.K. swings for Kitkat’s shotgun and as if he knew it was coming minutes ago Kitkat just moves it four inches down in the punch sails and it just misses anything. Kitkat gets little bit closer and he says [ IC ] You’re punching above your weight there string bean.
[00:19:12][ Everyone Ooohs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] This team has nasty burns, nasty burns.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Oh man.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Nasty.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I think oof, yeah okay, alright alright, yeah.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Wait so, in the motion of that isn't Dish’s sword previously by his neck? So I guess-
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Shoulder.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Or shoulder so I guess as T.K. moved the sword doesn't move also
right?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, ‘cause if you’re holding Dish in place. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I don’t know if anyone notices that.
> Mike / G.M.: Luxe.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Go Luxe go! You got some spells, or you got some- some big old guns or something [ Taylor laughs ] to pull out here, come ooon. So far- so far we’ve controlled someone, I’ve made someone's deck Hungarian, and T.K. has again punched to no avail. [ Bijan laughs ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah never calling my shots again! Just never doing that again. [ Shannon Laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Luxe looks around at a scene [ Mike laughs ] that has unfolded yet again in which a fight breaks out and no one, not even just a little intern is worried about Luxe at all. They’ve bypassed him to go and attack a mage twice, it's almost like he's not even there. He just knows, clearer than anything else, that they could not be less worried about- [ Mike, Bijan laugh ] about Luxe, and he's got half a mind to just pepper spray this guy in the face. But he swallows his pride and he walks very casually, without anyone looking at him or even wondering ‘hey where's that guy?’ He reaches under his coast, grabs his level four medkit, walks over to Viv, and heals.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Thank you
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] That’s so nice
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I- Yeah.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] So this is only going to apply to the physical damage, not the drain damage right?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]I have one level four medkit on me and one level three. So I roll
eleven dice on my level 4. He almost is just like a ref in this game.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] He’s bringing in the orange slices.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] So I got five hits, so she gets five boxes of healing. > Mike / G.M.: Yep
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh my gosh.
> Mike / G.M.: So what this looks like is Viv is on the ground and-
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] She’s standing up now.
> Mike / G.M.: Oh, okay, you may have to get on the ground, so-
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Do you have to be on the ground?
> Mike / G.M.: Basically the medkit’s like a like a doctor robot in a box.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Right so the levels are different- this one is- this one is sort of like a small briefcase, he's got it attached to his back like underneath his coat. This one is the bigger one of them, the other one level three, is on his leg, this one he pulls out. When you pop it’s- there’s out there’s a couple of components that come out one of them is kind of like a floating
drone, it doesn't look like a can be flying but it is, it’s got some lights on it and things like that, you know, it automatically detects different states that you're in in terms of trauma. It can tell that you have been burned, it could tell that you've had some basic, you know, trauma from stun bolt and things like that. It sprays you with the nice cooling cucumber mist-
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Ooh!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Which is nice gets rid of some the burns-
> Mike / G.M.: Portable spa day!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]Yes! I don't think she needs to be, it doesn't say you need to be lying down for it.
> Mike / G.M.: Great! Okay.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] If it did- Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: You described a thing that was compelling and cool, so, sounds good yeah! I love!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] And Viv is still concentrating but can manage to just utter quietly [ IC ] Burning.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I got you Viv.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] B-Burning.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I- Quick comm to Gabe. Yeah, we’re gonna need it.
> Mike / G.M.: He immediately initiates a voice call and you hear a bunch of clanking and whirring in the background and Gabe is sort of far away from his phone like he's got you on speakerphone and you hear him from the distance- from a distance and he goes [ IC ] It’s gonna be a few minutes I'm going as fast as I can it’s just I- It’s- I’m trying to pull together a bunch of things around the ship it’ll- I’ll get there as soon as I can. Are you guys gonna make it?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv groans
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I dunno
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] We’re gonna try
> Mike / G.M.:[ IC ] It doesn’t- I mean I’m not near my comm but it doesn’t sound too bad. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] It’s not good.
> Mike / G.M.: The next person to act is Sunshine.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Why don’t you just give me an action? I’ll do enough damage to
myself [ Taylor laughs ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Ooh, fighting words.
> Mike / G.M.: Don’t do Sunshine’s work for her [ Taylor Laughs ]
>Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC as Sunshine] My action is that I let Lash hack me again. [ Nick, Shannon laugh ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] That is something that she would do.
>Taylor / “Sunshine”: [ OOC ][Smacking lips as if chewing gum] I wanna make sure that the
smacks are reading.
> Mike / G.M.: They definitely are.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Eugh. [ Taylor laughs ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] It’s so bad.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Oh you guys, I love it. Alright you need to make an opposed test that’s reaction and intuition.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Two hits.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Oh I also got two hits. > Mike / G.M.: I’m gonna say it’s a grazing hit.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Okay, Sunshine is just walking forward, dead towards you and she has that bullpup submachine gun right in front of her and just [ Sound of gunfire ] ‘bap bap bap bap’ she's going right for you almost, almost lackadaisically
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Lash is not phased by this at all. [ Bijan laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Still with the steely gaze.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] This is the thing about Lash, it takes a lot for her to be afraid of anything. She- one of her qualities is guts, so she sees her go and begin the shot and she already starts to smirk because she can tell by her eyeline that it's not gonna hit her, because she has really good spatial awareness from years of being an athlete, and she knows how to aim something. She knows that it's not going to hit her, as she sees her put her hands on the trigger she whispers under her breath- [ Quietly ] Oh I’ve gotta think of a good line.
> Mike / G.M.: I'm sorry Sharon I'm going to keep that in [ Taylor laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] She whispers under her breath [ IC ] Wish you had thick thighs
now don't you? [ Nick laughs ][ OOC ] Lash -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] What? What?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Lash is not good at this.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Are you saying something? Stand still!
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> Mike / G.M.: Kitkat.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Can Kit Kat tell the dish has been controlled-action?
> Mike / G.M.: I would let him roll logic for it-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: -but he's going to have to get 4 because I think it would be very very difficult, especially in the heat of battle for him to have noticed the very small tells.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Kitkat is oblivious to the magical mental state of his compatriot Dish, and so he says [ IC ] Dish, you watch ‘em I gotta go sweep up. [ OOC ] and he turns and begins running towards Viv.
> Mike / G.M.: So he's basically breaking through this tiny group that he's in, he's going around them towards Viv?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ]Yeah, he wants Dish to look after T.K., swords is going to keep in there. T.K. has been put in his place, they don’t wanna kill T.K. T.K. is the one who’s got the data.
> Mike / G.M.: Because you’re in a tight grouping, I’m gonna ask you to roll agility to avoid being basically swiped at as you’re trying to leave.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] By T.K.? > Mike / G.M.: Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Alright.
> Mike / G.M.: Because I think this is-... like in D&D you would call this an attack of
opportunity.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: You know, you're trying to leave a fray. You are no longer an aggressor. You are- You are fleeing. If you roll lower than three then T.K. is going to get a chance to get a swipe at you.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] T.K. gets a chance to swipe at me.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ]: Something he’s always wanted. [Taylor laughs]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [Sing-song] T.K can punch again.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Very- I mean, look, it's gonna- he's gonna just roll just a regular punch. It's, I think it’s... nine... I wanna say that’s nine dice.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] So the odds of T.K. landing the first punch right now is so cosmically low- [ Players laugh ] I feel very confident in Kitkat’s decision to let his guard down for a moment.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Three hits.
> Mike / G.M.: Do you want to roll your reaction plus your intuition? > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Oh, just one hit.
> Mike / G.M.: T.K. connects.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yes! T.K. connects!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Ooooo.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He’s just like... So he takes a sec, like, and he sees this fucker- this short man running- and just tries to punch the back of his head. ‘Cus he, I mean, cuz he's off-balance already, right? From the earlier swing and miss.
> Mike / G.M.: He's basically... it's just like an angry swipe.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Wait, hold- can I ask you something?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] You don’t know that Dish with the swords at your back
has been changed by your magician?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah but he’s just so mad at what you just said to him that it doesn’t even register.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Well he did it earlier too, what was he mad about then? > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] You pointed a gun in his face!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Alright.
> Mike / G.M.: I think it’s fair.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] This is the problem fighting with dummies, you don’t know what they’re gonna do.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I guess. I don't... I guess he’d probably use his other arm this time, so it's probably his metal arm which is, like, six P I guess is the damage value of that.
> Mike / G.M.: So add your net hits to the base damage value.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] So that’s two, plus six, which is eight.
> Mike / G.M.: And then you roll your body armor.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, so he's just aiming at the back of his head because like he's, you know, he's off balance and this guy's running. So he turns around and just swings at him.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Am I wearing any armor?
> Mike / G.M.: I believe I said earlier today actually, when I was putting everybody's character sheets finally together for the B-Team, I was like, “Ooo, Kitkat’s gonna be hard to hit.” [Taylor laughs]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, no, I think I yeah, I don't think it's...
> Mike / G.M.: To be fair: he's dressed like someone who only buys their clothes at the Bass
Pro. [Jenn laughs]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Jesus Christ, it’s gonna be a grazing hit at best. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] That’s already-
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah- and you have six plus
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] He rolled his body in his armor and he got three hits. 17
die.
> Mike / G.M.: Wow.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Three hits.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] How is that? Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: T.K. you did five damage.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ][gobsmacked] What?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah that’s all physical damage too
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Nice, T.K.!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] T.K.!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Punches rule in this game. It’s a punching game.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Punches are bad! He just rolled shitty. I don’t know, I mean, I guess what happens is he knocks the shit out of the back of his head. And I don't know what this guy does, but I assume he falls down.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Kitkat is no longer running towards Viv, he turns back around with his gun and engages with T.K.
> Mike / G.M.: The next person to act is Dish. Dish’s turn is just her trying to resist Viv’s control action spell.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ]: Oh get out o’ me head. Get out o’ me brain box! > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] This is happening out loud.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ]: Oh no. Is like I come in a lorry and I can’t reach the steerin’ wheel!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] As of this moment, Dish has been holding her breath for six seconds. > Mike / G.M.: I don’t, yeah, like what are we-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Are you trying to kill her by making her hold her breath?
> Mike / G.M.: Does Dish take stun damage as she holds her breath?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] A Shadowrunner in the game can hold for 48 seconds.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah yeah.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Which is forever, which is why that’s not something I’m after.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, got it. Definitely gonna put some reverb on Dish’s voice in post to indicate that she is stuck in her own brain.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] No she can- she can speak.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC with dreamlike reverb ] I’m- I’m trapped in me
imaginarium. Is like a big library. There’s only two books.
> Mike / G.M.: What does it sound like if you’re also holding your breath?
[00:30:47][Players mumble and gasp with mouths closed]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah, yeah. I can’t grunt in an accent. So she can speak but she can’t move, is that correct?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah that’s exactly it.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] So she can call out-
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] She can say, yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Oh, holy shit.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Are you really holding her breath? Because I feel like if you really are holding it- if you have control of those muscles-
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah you can’t.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] It's really smart that you did that. So she couldn't inform of things.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ][Rasping while speaking without breathing]: But air is going out, but not in. Air is going out, but not in.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] My gosh.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I don’t know why you are...
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] What does the text say [ Everyone laughs ]. What does the canon text say?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] This is exactly what it says.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] A little talking- [rasping] air can go out but not in.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] There’s about fifty pages on this, if you control an action and hold their breath.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] But is it the core rulebook but in one of the other ones. > Mike / G.M.: It’s definitely in one of the other ones.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah it’s a whole book
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Called Breath Control.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Which, if Dish can talk she's gonna call out to Kitkat and tell him she can't move. But if she can't, she can't. So I need to know what the rules on the spell.
> Mike / G.M.: I mean, I don't know. I don't care about the rules. I'm gonna say what are you guys as human beings around the table feel about someone talking while they're holding their breath.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] You can talk but not very loudly.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Right.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] That’s, I assume that would be the compromise.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I would think that she’s not going to be able to tell everyone, like the people who are far away, but yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: In addition to your willpower roll, roll body and if you get, let’s say three, you can say something loud enough that Kitkat can hear it.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [Eerie music begins] Her face is beginning to turn blue, the veins in her neck already tight and muscley and wires are now beginning to pop out even more. And she's realizing that she's been mind controlled. She's realizing that her-
> Mike / G.M.: Action controlled.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ][Performatively frustrated] Okay, alright! She's realizing her actions are being controlled. And she turns- she tries to hit T.K.with the sword and she looks at the Kitkat right when Kitkat gets his head beaned. And she tries to say something
and she can't, and Kitkat turns the other way with his back towards her and his gun on T.K., none the wiser. [ Eerie music ends ]
> Mike / G.M.: Viv.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] She sees the scuffle that's happening and she's thankfully still holding her concentration. She lowers her arm so that Dish can breathe and that frees her up to do something else. Correct me if I'm wrong: If I make Dish act, we use my skill set? Luckily, Viv has blade skill.
> Mike / G.M.: Hell yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Oh no.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv has a dice pool of seven. Agility and blade skill. She wants dish to move her arm away from where T.K.’s neck was and she wants to turn around toward Kitkat.
> Mike / G.M.: And is she going to turn towards Kitkat? Or is she going to try to stab Kitkat? > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Are they close enough?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] T.K., Dish, and Kitkat are all within striking distance of each other.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Because Viv understands that Dish is like the sword expert she has faith that she can, like, land a hit on Kitkat. Viv also pantomimes, the action which is swiping her arm across the air so that the puppet will know what to do.
> Mike / G.M.: As you do this you see Dish move elegantly and fluidly about 20 feet away from you. Roll it up for me. You're just you're just gonna roll your blade skill.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] My blade skill. So that is three hits.
> Mike / G.M.: And Kitkat is going to roll reaction plus intuition.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Ooo. That’s a three, three hits. > Mike / G.M.: Grazing hit.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv is a little far away and she’s still standing on a boat so, just like how she was trying to control the fire dog it takes like a little bit of driver's training to get into puppeting people. She makes a swipe, but she can see the air move around Kitkat’s head. [ IC ] Damn.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Kitkat sees it and feels it.
> Mike / G.M.: I would say I would say yeah, like this. Yeah, his partner has just almost given him a haircut.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah, his training is kicking in. He looks at dish he looks at T.K. and he reaches back with his left hand and pulls out the other shotgun and now he's got a shotgun on each of them. And for the first time his eyes grow wide and you can tell by the look on his face: he might have lost control.
> Mike / G.M.: Lash.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Um, where is... Dragonfly is the mage, where’s Dragonfly?
> Mike / G.M.: Dragonfly is slightly behind you, between you and Viv.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So I am going to blow a Narcojet.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Hell yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: You’re gonna use your blow gun.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I’m so proud.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, I’m gonna actually use my blow gun. Have I used it before?
> Mike / G.M.: I don't think so.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] You took it out and then figured out you can’t use it.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah but then I never did-
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] And T.K. punched a guy.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I finally punched a guy. He’s very happy.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I’m so proud of you.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He’s feeling pleased.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So I'm finally going to use my Narcojet. I have my exotic weapon skill of one. And then that's plus agility so I have six, so that’s seven.
> Mike / G.M.: I also definitely imagine this as when a magician, like, pulls a cane out of their jacket.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] It’s really big.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So I'm gonna roll my exotic weapons skill. Okay, uh, I glitched. [ Players laugh, crosstalk ]. Really? [Frustrated shout] What’s the chances? I got one hit and a glitch. It says when you glitch it says all [ incoherent ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ][Affecting a “southern lawyer” drawl] Now, I'm not a game master, but I think if somebody is using a blow gun and they glitch there's only one way-
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yes, yes, there's only one way.
> Mike / G.M.: Rick Jones is a storied instructor of the blow gun. The tri state area is rife with students of his who praise him. Put his instruction to great use. And unfortunately, you just didn't take the right lessons. Maybe you weren't focusing on the horizon, as he suggested. Maybe you weren't breathing from your diaphragm. But the blowgun, as you're exhaling forcefully through it, shifts ever so slightly. Millimeters at your end, but enough to send the dart careening in a completely different direction. Viv, if you could please roll reaction plus intuition to dodge a blow dart that your teammate has sent you.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh no!
> Mike / G.M.: And if you could please take a- in addition to any wound modifiers you have a
minus two penalty because this is a surprise.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Awe, one hit.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Oh boy.
> Mike / G.M.: So what is the damage value of Narcojet? > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] The power is 15.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Oh my god.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Just under the health kit, the med kit that we just had. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I think you just killed Viv. [ Taylor laughs ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Goodnight, Irene.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] It’s stun damage though.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I already had-
> Mike / G.M.: Well you’re gonna- she’s gonna resist it. So, okay.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I think so, right? It says power 15.
> Mike / G.M.: Yep, and what are the effects? Just stun damage? > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Stun damage, yeah.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] She had one hit when she rolled and glitched and she had one defense. Why is that not a grazing hit?
> Mike / G.M.: Oh, I thought it was I thought you had two one hit. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] One hit-
> Mike / G.M.: Oh but she glitched.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] But I glitched.
> Mike / G.M.: So it doesn’t matter.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] It doesn’t matter.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Let's think through this. Let's say that it's at... you don't get a full dose of it. You get two-thirds of a dose. Ten total.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh boy, I can’t believe I made Viv- [ IC ] Viv’s gonna be so made at me...
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Ten, ten what?
> Mike / G.M.: It’s just stun damage so please roll body plus willpower.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] That’s a dice pool of 10 for me. Two hits.
> Mike / G.M.: You take eight stun damage. [Damage sound effect]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] That means I’m at a total of my eleven, everyone. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay, but you’re not knocked out.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, you’re not knocked down, you remain standing.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I have a wound modifier of negative-
> Mike / G.M.: Really knocks the wind out you
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Lash! [Cries out in pain. Taylor laughs]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Oh no. I was supposed to stay planted on my left foot not my right
foot.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh good Lord.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I leaned the wrong way.
> Jenn / “Viv”:[IC, doubled over in pain] Oh by Poseidon’s crown... [00:38:48][Gentle flashback music plays]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] We flashback to lash exiting the Rick Jones Academy for the Blow Dart Sciences and there's a big beautiful bronze statue of Rick Jones, and in each hand he's got a different kind of blow gun. And all the friends are like “Hey, come on. Let's go read the plaque at his feet” and Lash is like:
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Nah, I think I gotta go.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Camera pushes it on the plaque and it’s like “One must
always stand on the right foot with the left foot forward. That is the blow gun of Rick Jones way. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] That's exactly what happened.
> Mike / G.M.: Reroll initiative.
[Flashback music fades out. High-energy electronic battle music begins]
> Mike / G.M.: Dragonfly acts first.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Dragonfly is still walking in a sort of leisurely pace towards the boat and towards Viv. And he has watched her be healed, he has watched her manipulate some sort of magical force that she's using. He has watched a dart hit her- fly past his head and fly past- what, he felt the dart go by, saw it hit the elf mage, turned around, and saw a ork just being like, “Come on, you can do better than that.” So he looks and he sees the dart hit, and he sees them's eyes sort of droop and he says, [ IC ] All right, let's wrap this up. I've got improv class at 6:30 [ OOC ] and he pulls up his hands and he focuses all of his attention on a five foot radius around Viv. And right at Viv’s chest he puts his fingers together and POW. [Magic blast sound effect]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Psychokinetic Force. Alright, so Viv to dodge this is going to be reaction plus intuition.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] She got two hits.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Rock and roll. [Taylor shakes hands cupped with many dice]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] That’s too many dice.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I think a force of six is appropriate here.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Dirty dog.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] That’s just three hits. \
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Still, beats two.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] It do beat two.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] That’s three hits.
> Mike / G.M.: So a net hit of one.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Net hit of one.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Of one what?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Stun.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I have filled my boxes, everyone.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] This is a blast of psychokinetic force centered on you with a five foot radius around it.
> Mike / G.M.: It- does it have an area effect?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yes, it is an area effect.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] So I have the role as well?
> Mike / G.M.: So you might also have to- yeah so you also have to roll.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I believe that Luxe is still standing near me with the med- the med kit.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] So Luxe I think you also have to roll reaction plus intuition to dodge. What does this look like?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It is invisible, but it sounds like a thunderclap going off a foot away from your face.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I rolled three.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Oof.
> Mike / G.M.: Grazing hit. I think you- you are... let's just say that you get knocked down. You don't get hurt, but the force is strong enough that you you sort of lose your balance. You stumble a little bit and you fall onto your back a couple feet away.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Actually, line of sight spells, their area causes a negative
two penalty to dodge.
> Mike / G.M.: Oh shit.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] So I should re-roll.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]I should re-roll.
> Mike / G.M.: No, let’s not reroll those. Let's just do it right from now on. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]Okay, alright. Sorry.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s fine, now we know. Yeah what is this, what
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] What happens to me?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah does this have a look to it?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I think Luxe is like, pushed back a little bit and sort of shuffles but Viv is thrown off her feet and is unconscious in the air. The question is does she land on the boat or does she land in the water?
> Mike / G.M.: I don't know if she's or you're not unconscious.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I filled the boxes but I’m not-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] She filled the stun boxes.
> Mike / G.M.: You don't- you don't go unconscious when you fill your stun boxes. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] It’s when you go over-
> Mike / G.M.: You start taking, now, stun damage as physical damage. And then when all of your tracks are full you are unconscious and bleeding out.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Dammit, I thought I was gonna knock her out. > Mike / G.M.: You can knock someone over if you do 10 damage in one go.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh yeah, okay.
> Mike / G.M.: But you are not- you are not unconscious until you-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: - until you’ve lost...
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] And she’s only got one, right, technically?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, one.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] So she’s still kind of standing.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, it doesn't- it is not the most painful thing that has happened to you today.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Today. Today.
> Mike / G.M.: By a longshot.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Oh shit, I’m gonna take drain here, I know it.
> Mike / G.M.: [ Laughs ] Yeah, yeah. Can you roll drain for Dragonfly and let us know what his-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I knew that spell would come at a cost. Yeah, oof. Snaps his fingers, bang. Viv is knocked back. Luxe... Luxe is shuffled.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]I can’t believe you shuffled me.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It’s just like, he did not see this coming but the drain hits
him hard. He sort of... the next step sort of trips a little bit, his ankle kind of rolls > Mike / G.M.: Dish.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] You’re just resisting still, right?
> Mike / G.M.: Correct.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Do you have any cumulative-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [ Victorious ] Hey! > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] One hit.
> Mike / G.M.: So you got it down to three.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh, wonderful.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv is kind of rubbing the spot where the needle hit her with one hand, and she's just like, [ IC ] Oh, we're gonna have to talk about this later. [ OOC ] and clears her throat. She rests her arms by the sides of her body and crosses her arms in front of her like they’re scissors so Dish also crosses her swords like they’re scissors toward Kitkat. Viv yells [ IC ] Call them off!
> Mike / G.M.: Kitkat doesn’t act for a little while.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] But she lowers the scissors down toward Kitkat’s face, but doesn't do
anything.
> Mike / G.M.: Alright. Luxe acts next.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] [ Laughing ] You’re on the boat with me.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I have one more med kit, can I... could I get to her and use the med kit in this turn? Or could I just get to her and stand in front of her?
> Mike / G.M.: How is everybody- How far away is everybody imagining Lux has stumbled? > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] A few steps.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, I don't think it was super far because it was a grazing hit.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] He wasn’t affected, yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: You’re close enough to get to Viv and do whatever you want. Let’s say that. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay, I'm just going to use my other med kit. This is the last one I
have. It's one level lower so I'll be rolling one less dice.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Good ‘cus I’m loading up another Narcojet.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yes, we’ll just play this game until I’m out of everything.
> Mike / G.M.: I would also say that maybe this one does take a... like you are you are minus one success.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: Just because it's... you’re like healing something that has already just been
healed.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: Like there's reduced effectiveness.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay, so I got four hits, but I'll be taking three done back and I will stand in front of- between her and the mage. I’m sure he has-
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] More.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] -spells this doesn’t matter for but I'm trying to stand between her and
the rest of the gang.
> Mike / G.M.: So you’ve got your- you wanna shield Viv.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. Sunshine.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Oh good.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Bad!
> Mike / G.M.: I know Kitkat has taken damage, has anyone else?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Not on my team.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I mean, other than Viv.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] But Lash, I’ll tell you right now you need to roll a defense.
[00:45:31][ Shannon can be heard shaking multiple dice in preparation for a roll ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Shit that’s a huge dice pool. Sunshine manages to, like, steady herself, continue walking towards you, and she is still shooting at you with her submachine gun. [Machine gun fire] She is getting closer and her accuracy is getting better. Four hits to you.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] And, uh, my roll... I got three hits, so that’s it. > Mike / G.M.: Add one to the base damage value of the gun.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Nine.
> Mike / G.M.: Roll your soak roll.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So luckily, I have 11 hits.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] How is that?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Because my body plus my armor is at 17 and I got 11 hits.
> Mike / G.M.: Confirm she did get 11.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] How the fuck?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]Awesome.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I’ve never gotten 11 hits on anything.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] No, but I mean, I guess I would- I assume I have a limit on that right?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] No, that’s your armor.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah and body, right?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Pretty nice armored varsity jacket that looks pretty nice too.
> Mike / G.M.: There is no limit on this test.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh yes, Lash, what’s up?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So I don’t take any damage? It hits me but I don’t take any damage.
> Mike / G.M.: You appear to be bulletproof. [Machine gun firing, bullets ricochet] > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] When you roll 11.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] And then I look directly in Sunshine’s eyes and say [ IC ] Must be the thighs. [ OOC ] I can’t get over the thigh comment.
> Mike / G.M.: So Kitkat is staring up at the face of his teammate who just had just closed two swords around his neck. I don’t know if Kitkat- I don’t know, did Viv say-
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] She said call them off.
> Mike / G.M.: Call them off loud enough like, she shouted it basically. And I believe he is
holding one gun pointed at Sunshine and one gun pointed at T.K.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Correct. He's beginning to panic a little bit. > Mike / G.M.: I would be too, this is confusing.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] He turns a little bit he sees- he assesses the battlefield. He sees what's going on. He looks at Dish and he says [ IC ] Dish, you better tell me that you’re in there. You better make me believe you're in there right now. [ OOC ] Can she talk?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] She can talk. She’s not holding her breath anymore.
> Taylor Moore / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Awe Kitkat I can’t move me arms! I couldn’t breev
befor’ ‘n now I can’t move me arms! Someone’s got me hands, I’m like a puppet! > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] It’s like a Tiny Tim disease
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Being from England is a disease to you?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Wow.
> Taylor Moore / “Dish”: [ IC ] I’ve got a spell on me, I do! [ OOC ] and Kitkat says [ IC ] Awe Dish, you’re breaking my heart. [ OOC ] And he shoots her in the face.
[00:48:02][ Kitkat’s shotgun fires. The players shout in surprise ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Alright, that is not what I expected.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Whoa, Kitkat, what the fuck?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] You’re gonna have to roll friendship for that one. > Mike / G.M.: Uh, harsh.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I love that you have to roll for both of them.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah here we go, the Taylor show. Oh no... > Mike / G.M.: I’ll roll for Dish. Dish dodges at two.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Seven hits. > Mike / G.M.: Does the gun have AP?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Minus one. > Mike / G.M.: Okay, hold on.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] But does she have armor on her face? > Mike / G.M.: You didn’t call the shot.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I said he shoots her in the face.
> Mike / G.M.: Did you take the minus four dice penalty?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah, it's the four that didn't roll. [Taylor laughs] > Mike / G.M.: So she is gonna take 12 damage.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Jesus
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh boy.
> Mike / G.M.: She is in overflow, so the shotgun blast cuts through the environment unlike anything. You had heard the thunderclap, the dull thunderclap of the psychokinetic energy before, but that had a distant ethereal quality to it. It issued from the hands of a magician. It was pulled together out of the environment in such a way that it had a little bit of lead up to it. And it was loud, but it was not an explosion. This, sort of, I think to all of you announces that things are now- if things were not serious before, things are now very serious. This is very lou and you see a huge spray of blood. It is... it's terrible. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is upsetting to see. Dish falls over and Kitkat stands there, motionless, confident as ever, not showing any emotion.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] He looks at T.K. and says [ IC ] I’m going to need you to sit down.
> Mike / G.M.: Lash acts next.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So how far away am I from Kitkat?
> Mike / G.M.: I think you're maybe like 20 feet, 15 feet.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I think I might just want to tackle him to the ground. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] You’re gonna run 20 feet?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] With a guy with a gun who just shot someone in the face. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I can run very fast.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I think I might just want to tackle him.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, there’s some number of-
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] And I have a huge body compared to his body. And so he just
has his two guns in front of him. I'm thinking I can run, slam - because I'm behind him - slam him from behind like on the ground. I kind of just like, kind of do a... What’s that when you grab someone from behind and you fall on top of them.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] It’s a tackle.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] A tackle.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] A tackle.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh it’s called a tackle? Where you like, grab them.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] A hug.
> Mike / G.M.: But mean.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Mean hug.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] From behind.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] But helping to like kind of grab control of his arm so he can't like-
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] You want to tackle him.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I want to tackle and that's that's the move I want to do.
> Mike / G.M.: If you can describe to me a way in which... and I would- I'm expecting you to be honest here.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Because maybe Lash is so angry that she doesn't think this way. But I think if this is in any way a gymnastic move if there is a kind of, I don't know like artfulness to it in the way that say was the clam flip possess...
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Sure sure sure.
> Mike / G.M.: Then I think this is a gymnastics text. But if you think that this is just a straight
she just wants to run and tackle this guy, I think I might have you roll plus agility.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I think she's far enough away that it doesn't make sense to do gymnastics roll for this. I think just a straight strength plus agility. Would my natural athlete skill come in too?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, you're running you're gonna you're gonna sprint right? You’re gonna book it?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, that's natural athlete.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] It'll be enough to take away my modifier, at least. So strength plus agility?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, so roll I think roll strength plus agility.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: And Kitkat you're gonna roll reaction plus inhibition. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I got three hits.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Two.
> Mike / G.M.: Following not long after the loud report of the sawed-off shotgun in Kitkat’s hand is a very dull yet satisfying thud of Lash connecting with him. [ Sound of Lash’s feet on gravel sprinting followed by thud ]. You, I don't think, do any damage. But you have successfully- you are now like rolling around on the ground with a dwarf that is covered in munitions.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Lash is pretty upset. But again, it's more disappointment in the fact that she didn't get the shot. Just because she isn't like fully thinking through. She kind of thinks of Viv as like very indestructible so she she's not even really thinking about the effect that she did. She's thinking, “Oh shit, Luxe is gonna be mad at me because I just kind of undid his job.” But when she sees Kitkat, shoot his teammate... Again, she doesn't know that this controlling action is going on, I assume, because it's pretty... I don't know what's going on. From what I see: these teammates’re going at each other and then one teammate take another teammate out with a gun. I think that Lash does not mess with and she's just overcome with this feeling. She can't really understand it, but with just rage for Kitkat and funnels all that energy. All she can think to do is just run straight at him.
> Mike / G.M.: Kitkat, what’s it like?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] One second, he's standing there, thinking about how he's going to wound T.K. bad enough to take him out of the fight without killing him. And the next he's in the air.
> Mike / G.M.: When Lash connects with Kitkat, he drops both of his guns and they slide in the dirt away from him.You are now essentially in a grapple with each other and you do not have either of the weapons that you were previously holding. T.K., one is at your feet. The other one is like off a couple a couple yards not near where anybody is currently standing. The next person is T.K.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yes!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] So here's the thing, like T.K., it's been a stressful day. He’s like, you know, and it’s been weirdly emotional. He saw Lash fucking shoot Viv and like Viv almost go down and like, you know, then he just saw this guy shoot his friend who he doesn't even know there name. He's like, he goes into a state of just like emotional overwhelmedness, like he's just like.... his mind shuts down and I think he goes into a Berserk Rage.
> Mike / G.M.: Alright.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I think he’s just- he can’t- like, there’s like- there’s not- What it does
is...
> Mike / G.M.: Oh this is a thing, right? This is a thing you have?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yes. It says the adept passes merely berserking and delves deeper into a frenzied mental state and gets plus two to everything physical, minus two everything mental and the duration is magic times four minutes. This is a 20 minute thing and he can exit the test early but he’s got to do a test to get out of it. So he’s just like, he’s shut down. And it’s a complex action so I guess that’s his turn. So basically, it’s like he picks up the gun and it just like his mind blinks out.
> Mike / G.M.: Alright.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Scary.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] But like, I don't think anybody else knows what's going on or what's going to happen.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, I think if anybody were to look over at T.K. at this moment, it looks like:
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] It's like his eyes are just rolled back into his head. He's just gone. He hit his like emotional overflow boxes.
> Mike / G.M.: Maybe a thing to add it to the game? > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I guess he has the gun also I think. Can you do simple and a complex?
> Mike / G.M.: I would let you take it out. Yeah, that's fine I'm not gonna... I care very little about like, I won't let you do two very complicated things in one round, but like a number of free and simple actions,as long as it's not 200, I don’t give a shit. So now we're looping and we're back to the top of the order. The people who will act before we reroll initiative are Dragonfly, Dish-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [laughing] I don’t think so...
> Mike / G.M.: -Viv, Luxe, and Sunshine. Right, I will put a little X around Dish. RIP.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Opa! Nothing for the opa? Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: Now that we have a moment at the loop of the turn-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] When you break a dish.
> Mike / G.M.: Can we get some Fs in the chat?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Let’s get some Fs in the chat. Pour one out for our fallen non-comrade.
> Mike / G.M.: How do we think Dish got into this line of work?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I don’t care. I don’t think it matters.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I think she just likes gossip, too.
> Mike / G.M.: Maybe. I think that she was drawn in by the fashion. And I think that she fancies herself rather stylish
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Fancied. Past tense.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, I mean, you know, she's still got maybe another combat round. Another
turn of life left until... yeah. Anyways, this is getting dark real quick. What’s Dragonfly up to?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Dragonfly hears the blast and thinks “ Oh, God, the worst has happened.” But he’s wrapped up in trying to cast this big spell to finally settle this thing with the mage and the boat. He's trying to hold it all together, and he looks to his left and he sees his girlfriend Dish.
[00:57:05][ Players gasp and shout at this revelation]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] You didn’t have to do it like that, man!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] He sees Kitkat on the ground and standing above Dish is T.K. with a shotgun.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] No!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh no!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I mean this is bad for T.K. because his magic resistance is way down because of all of his mental attributes are minus two.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] And he's torn for a moment from running to help Dish and from his mission, which is to stop the mage at all costs. But the spell’s already being cast, he’s already in motion, he’s already going to blow this boat apart. But what he can do is focus all of his rage,his surprise, his shock, his sudden wall of hatred focused like the tip of a needle on Viv. And he reaches in his coat and he pulls out a big brick of cinnabar. He holds it in his hand and he passes the magic through it. And he it's not as- it's not snapping his fingers this time. He holds his hands apart, almost like he's about to perform a blessing, and then slams them together in a blog clap. [ Clap sound punctuated with thunder ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I have a question, is this line of sight?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It's line of sight but it's area.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh it’s both of us babe, it’s both of us.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It’s a big one.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] What’s cinnabar?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] It’s a reagent.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It’s a- it’s like orichalcum but not quite as powerful. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah that’s what I was wondering.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Certain practices require certain materials.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I'm gonna, I'm gonna say he uses all the cinnabar. Force one but ten grams of cinnabar.
> Mike / G.M.: All right, all right.You guys are gonna roll reaction plus intuition to dodge this area effect.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] That’s bad.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Well.
> Mike / G.M.: So Taylor, your limit is effectively ten.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh my god, the most-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Eight hits. His hand that was holding the cinnabar is smoking and like the smell of roast pork.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] This is getting gruesome. > Mike / G.M.: Viv, what did you roll to dodge?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Seven.
> Mike / G.M.: Luxe, what did you roll to dodge?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I rolled a two.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Awe man.
> Mike / G.M.: So what is the damage on this spell?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] All it says is stun.
> Mike / G.M.: So I think you do whatever the net hits in stun damage are. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] He still has to drain, also.
> Mike / G.M.: You resist drain on your single force, and you always resist a minimum of two. You roll your reaction plus your intuition. Force plus net hits, and then you resist with body plus plus armor. So force was ten- no force was one, so two.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Alright so that’s just two damage. > Mike / G.M.: Now she has to resist it. \
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Right. I had two hits on the soak roll.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, so you take no damage.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Fuck.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Fuck.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Un-fucking real.
> Mike / G.M.: Luxe, Now you roll your body plus your armor. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]Ten.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, neither of them take any damage.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] This is the first time this is broken in our favor by the way. Every
other time it's like we don't do any damage.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Dragonfly... He's trying to just blow them off the boat into the water and you know, shake their minds apart, claps his hands, his hand bakes the cinnabar, and it begins to cook. And he sends this wave of destruction exploding at the bow of the boat.
> Mike / G.M.: I think what happens is Dragonfly makes a conscious decision that he's going to focus on Viv. And that he makes a conscious decision that he's going to put all of his hate and fear and worry about Dish, and he's going to direct it directly at this mage. He's going to finally finish off this person that he's taken as his target for this entire fight. But he.. just there's something at the back of his mind that he just can't let go of his worry about Dish. He can't bat it away. He can't let go of it. And you know, like magic is a deeply focused process. He just, he can't get to the place that he needs to and so he puts as much oomph into it as he possibly can but his will is just elsewhere and Viv and Luxe... I mean, you guys feel a strong breeze.
> Taylor Moore / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Ah, I’ve choked.
> Mike / G.M.: And at this moment the clouds break, and it begins to pour. [01:01:40][ Rain sounds begin ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Fuck yes.
> Mike / G.M.: Viv.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Well, now that she's lost Dish or whoever that was, she didn't know, she doesn't have to focus over there anymore. Now she can focus her attention on the mosquito that has been attacking her this whole time. She still stands behind Luxe because she's half
naked. She sort of reaches another hand over Luxe’s shoulder and just says the word [ IC ] You. [ OOC ] And casts a power bolt, force of three, at Dragonfly. He’s on his knees, right?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah, he’s on his knees. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] So that’s going right for his head.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] This is the microwave spell right? > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] This is the microwave spell.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] We’re gonna have another melted man. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ][ unintelligible ] a jelly fly.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] So I still have two modifiers so my dice pool has been reduced to ten. We’ve got two hits, opposes body.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] One hit.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I resist my drain. I think I had two hits. > Mike / G.M.: Dragonfly you take one box of physical damage. > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] That’s all?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Does he smell anything? What does he smell, is it Vienna sausage? In the past when Viv casts powerbolt she had a riot in her mind. Today, she didn't necessarily have a riot in her mind but she was physically tossled and shot with a dart so she’s tired. She's tired, but she has a little bit more focus than usual and so when she puts her eyes on her target, she imagines their insides. She imagines the X-ray of his skull, she can see like his jaw moving and clenching and see the brain moving a little bit. But you know, it's like trying to light a fire inside somebody.
> Mike / G.M.: Dragonfly, it kind of burns in your guts a little.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Got those bubble-guts.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Hmm, he’s having a bad time. [ Bijan laughs ] > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Some indigestion.
> Mike / G.M.: This poor guy has been through a lot in a very short amount of time. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, holy shit.
> Mike / G.M.: Next person to act is Luxe.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Luxe sees that something has changed dramatically with this mage, and he looks very silly. And he has been behaving very silly. But now, all of a sudden, he fell to his knees and is at the verge of tears and he's shaking. He knows people, and he knows that this person who just got shot in the face was very important to this man. He also can tell that because he didn't go running after Kitkat, he thinks that somebody else was responsible. He turns to Viv and he says [ IC ] “This mage cares about this woman who just got shot by their leader. He needs to know who did it.”
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Tell him, he won't listen to me, I’m his target.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Can you like astrally-project with him? Or is there like a meeting space
in the clouds? I dunno.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Ooo, it has to be mutual.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh, right.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I can sense and I can fight in the astral plane.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Right.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] But I don't think he will want to meet me in a friendly way on the astral plane considering what he's done so far.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]So I turned to the mage and I say [ IC ] Did you just see that? Did you just see that the guy that you're taking orders from just shot that woman in the face? Why would you work for someone like that?”
> Mike / G.M.: Roll charisma.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Not a con.
> Mike / G.M.: Not a con, just a good point. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]Oh, a four.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Whoa.
> Mike / G.M.: Dragonfly turns around after hearing what Luxe is shouting at him from the boat and tries to take in as much of the situation as he can and begins to have a little bit of a crisis of confidence in what he thinks is going on.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] He was already confused, but he did see T.K. standing over the dead body with the shotgun... and yet the force of personality from this asshole - this Chad on the boat - is getting through to him.
> Mike / G.M.: From where T.K. is standing, and where the body has fallen-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] On second look not everything is as it appears. Things are
confusing and he does begin to doubt.
> Mike / G.M.: The next person to act is Sunshine.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh what’re you gonna do, Sunshine, you gonna spit your gum at me? [ Jenn laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: The last thing that Sunshine did was attempt to shoot Lash, who appeared to be bulletproof. [ Nick laughs ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yes, and Sunshine follows Lash with her submachine gun, but when she's on the ground she realizes that if she takes a shot at Lash now she could hit Kitkat, but fortunately there's another target right there and he's already holding a shotgun. She unloads on T.K. [ Machine gun fire ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Little does she know, he’s in a rage! > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Four hits.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I only got three hits.
> Mike / G.M.: You see this tall, black trench coat, armored vest-wearing gun-wielding lady with this severe haircut and giant mirror shades walking towards you in these giant spiky heels. She’s just letting loose.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] She’s getting closer to T.K.? > Mike / G.M.: She’s walking towards you.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, so, he doesn't even- he turns toward her but doesn't even register that she's shooting a gun at him. Like he's this far gone.
[01:06:36][ Machine gun fire, rounds missing ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Puffs of smoke going up on the ground.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He turns toward her and starts walking toward her and speeding up. Her face is the only thing he can see. He’s at a point of like, again, so emotional that he’s blanked out. There's like no telling what he's going to do.
> Mike / G.M.: The sun is set. The area is lit entirely by municipal LED lights. It is pouring in the middle of this empty lot covered in garbage. There's a dead woman on the ground. There's a naked mage- nearly naked mage on a boat. And these two people are walking, like, facing off one another like they're in the town center and an old Western. [ Blondie’s flute trill from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly plays, Bijan laughs ] The glint of your arm is like catching some distance street lights and the glint of her glasses is catching the same and you're just you're walking towards one another.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] And he’s, again, the gun is not even registering.
> Mike / G.M.: As T.K. and Sunshine face off at one another and are slowly pacing towards one another in the downpour, about to rip each other limb from limb, about to riddle each other with bullets, who knows, [ Hum of a drone’s rotors fades in ] You hear a nasal whiny, like puttering whirring sound approach from the direction of the Mrs. Egg and it is now loud enough to indicate that the drone that Gabe has cobbled together in the last maybe 15 minutes, like you know a project that he had lying on the workbench in the Mrs. that as soon as you radioed for help he was like [ IC ] Oh maybe I can like put the finishing touches on it in like a minute and push it out the door. [ OOC ] It’s here.
[01:08:17][ Players cheer at the drone’s arrival ]
> Mike / G.M.: It is not by any means done. [ Nick and Shannon laugh ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Still has half a sandwich on it.
> Mike / G.M.: But it does- it’s got four rotors on it and you can just make out the IR reflection of a IR camera that is in its front, and you can see that it has a couple arms on it with some implements that are difficult to make out. I'm going to roll for Gabe right now for him to use his cobbled-together drone to appropriately understand the situation and pilot it to the right person.
> Shannon/ “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay Drone! Like Gabe’s science fair project.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Jesus he’s got so many dice.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] A really good sign for once.
> Mike / G.M.: You hear a tinny voice come out of it and say [ IC with distortion ] I'm sorry, I wish I could have done something- this is what I have. This is- I'm gonna do my best.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Thanks, Gabe.
> Mike / G.M.: The drone kind of hovers and teeters for a second. You can tell it's having a hard time maintaining its position in the wind and in the rain. But it does make its way over to Dragonfly. And you can see that it is on its way towards the mage. It takes no additional action. The next person to act is Lash.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So what Lash wants to do is on her person she has climbing gear, and I'm guessing climbing gear includes a rope. So I'm going to take this rope and essentially tie up-
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Hog-tie that boy! [ Cowboy hollar ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, sorry, it's like what we do. We tackle people and we tie
‘em up.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s just what your people do?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, it’s what we do as Shadowrunners.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: Well, it's true. It is something of a theme, I suppose.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah we did it with Balto and now we're gonna do with Kitkat.
> Mike / G.M.: Fun City Hogtiers. [ Bijan groans ] No?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I dunno.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] That one’s a little...
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Should I roll body / strength?
> Mike / G.M.: Um, yeah, I was gonna say Lash you should roll strength and logic.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] For knot-tying?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, for like tying someone up, like getting it in the right place, and then you would roll
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Strength and... > Mike / G.M.: I think strength and agility.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I got two hits.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Two.
> Mike / G.M.: Oh, a grazing tie. [ Nick laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Maybe I just get the arms and not the legs?
> Mike / G.M.: You successfully get Kitkat in a position where he is tie-up-able. You do not tie him up. You are in an advantageous position.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Right.
> Mike / G.M.: Basically, I think what it looks like is you have him pinned down.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: You have your knees on his shoulders or on his elbows.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Right.
> Mike / G.M.: And you like have a length of rope in your hand and you're looming over him [ Shannon laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I forgot how to tie a knot and I’m like [ IC ] Oh [ frustrated groaning ] Do I pull it over, under?
> Mike / G.M.: You're holding the rope up in front of you testing out certain knots trying to figure out what would work.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Dwarf-on-dwarf violence. > Mike / G.M.: Viv acts next.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] So Viv sees the drone heading toward the mage so she's not exactly sure where to aim herself. Oh, what’s on the ground?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] A dead woman.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, I mean, I think there's just general detritus around.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] The swords that Dish was holding are on the ground. > Mike / G.M.: Those are- you are not near them, but they are on the ground. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Would you say that I'm 12 meters away from it?
> Mike / G.M.: Just barely.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] The hilt is within your range.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, if this were a movie and you know someone were grasping for a gun or
the edge of a sword. Yeah, you’re one fingertip away. [ Taylor laughs ] You’re really close. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] You have to lean your head.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Well this is a really fun one that I haven't tried yet.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]Just try it!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] The spell’s called Catch Type, which is allowing me to quickly yank an individual unattended object. The maximum range is magic and meters.
> Mike / G.M.: Dang. So you can levitate-
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I can yank things.
> Mike / G.M.: or move something towards you.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] This is the lightsaber yank. This is the pull a thing to your hand.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Does it fly or does it just travel along the surface that it’s on?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] It’s a yank.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It’s a yank, dude.
> Mike / G.M.: Alright.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Clearly it’s whatever they did in Star Wars. Clearly meant to be a #Disney #Marvel #OwnsStarWars spell.
> Mike / G.M.: Alright, I love it. Yank a sword into your hands, please.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Jesus Christ.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yes, okay.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC in Dragonfly’s voice ] Luxe, duck! [ Nick and Taylor laugh ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah, so she says into Luxe’s ear [ IC ] You might wanna move.
> Mike / G.M.: You see the glint of one of Dish’s very beautiful, really long and extremely shiny swords start to vibrate ever so slightly.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Okay no glitches. Four hits. And there is an object resistance table somewhere.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, and it’s just the quality of the object, right? > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: And how many hits did you get?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I got four hits.
> Mike / G.M.: You yanked that object.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] So yeah, Viv just readies her hand to catch it and it just zooms right
into her hands. Feels so good.
> Mike / G.M.: Dragonfly feels another whoosh of air pass by him as the sword of his former partner.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] He gave that to her.
[01:13:31][ Players shout “no” dramatically ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] His name is carved into the hilt.
> Mike / G.M.: When you get it in your hand you can see it says Edward Dragon.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh, buddy.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] That means nothing because we don’t know anyone’s name. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] [ Laughs ] Yeah, it’s just a cool-looking sword.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] That woman’s name was Edward?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] No! ‘Tis I!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] You’re gonna be late for that improv class.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] They let you miss one.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Thank god. Two and you don’t get your money back.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] No, and it’s bullshit! > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Can we have another wizard talk with this guy later? Another time later between him and Jast. All three of you are in a room.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I love these post-game interviews ‘cus it implies that none of this actually happened.
> Mike / G.M.: I also love the idea of Jast and- I feel like Jast and this guy would not get along. The next person to act is Kitkat, who is looking up, rain in his eyes, at the visage of Lash as she attempts to figure out which of the many knots that she knows she will use to restrain him.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I mean, he’s gonna try to beat the shit out of her. > Mike / G.M.: Yeah, so just take two away from your dice pool to try to get free.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Two hits.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ Scoffs ] I got two hits.
> Mike / G.M.: Tie goes to the shadowrunner.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh, so again, it's like I couldn't tie or both in this battle of like...
we can't do anything with each other?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] We’re grappling.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, so here's what I will say: I think that what happens is - and you can describe how this comes about - Kitkat pulls basically like a classic wrestling move.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Manages to get out from from in between, you know, like sneaks out from
between Lashe’s shoulders and waist
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] They say that everyone has a Lash and a Kitkat inside of them, grappling. Who will win? The one you feed.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] It’s funny because this is the most Shadowrun possible of the outcomes, like just four straight actions that’ve gone nowhere.
[01:15:27][ Players and Mike agree ]
> Mike / G.M.: I guess when I made it a goal of mine to make sure that you were very evenly- matched to B-Team...
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]You did an incredible job.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] You did a good job!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] You did a really great job, actually.
> Mike / G.M.: When uh, when an unstoppable force meets an immovable dwarf. Sunshine?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Sunshine flips the button on her Praetor submachine gun that turns it into full automatic mode and unloads the rest of the clip onto T.K.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] This again, huh? Probably gonna get hit this time. I mean, I don’t think he can roll better than he did before.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] That’s the end of the clip, though.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Attacker firing full-auto burst, it is harder to avoid. The
defending character suffers a minus nine modifier.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] What?!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Sorry what? Say this again.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] So I just roll one die.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Four hits.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Damn
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Alright, roll one I guess.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] And this is because she went into automatic mode? > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] No hits.
> Mike / G.M.: What is the base damage value of the gun?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Eight P.
> Mike / G.M.: Twelve. Roll your body plus your armor.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] So this you have a lot of modifiers for, right? > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Seven plus thirteen, so I’m rolling twenty. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Hoo boy, I’m here for that.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Only five hits.
> Mike / G.M.: You take seven physical damage. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Physical.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, ‘cus it’s a gun. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]Shit!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] That’s pretty bad for T.K.
> Mike / G.M.: [ Muffled gunfire ] In the dark, facing off against this woman, you see the
muzzle flash very briefl and then you feel the impact of several bullets enter your body.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Cool. T.K. doesn't even flinch.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Still in berserk mode.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Sunshine’s feeling really good. You can hear the smacking over the rain.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] [Disgusted] Oh god. > Mike / G.M.: T.K. acts next.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, so T.K. feels- he's like feels himself get pushed back a little bit but doesn't understand why and starts running at her at a sprint.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Hey wait a minute.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] First thing he does is like he just like-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] I just shot you, what’re you doing? Why is everything opposite with you people?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I wonder what he would do because I feel like he would, like, try and punch her and then club her with it. Just like keep punching until he couldn't anymore.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Full-auto mode punching.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, like I think he's just gonna lean in with the metal arm I guess
and just, you know. So I don't know how many dice it is... That's, that's 12 I think? > Mike / G.M.: But then minus two because you have a wound modifier.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] So ten dice.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I mean, I dunno if this is gonna work.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] As you approach: she she was 100% confident that would
stop you.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah. [ Players laugh]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] The full-automatic barrage of bullets, many of which she saw enter your abdomen, would slow you down. So she begins to panic. She begins slowly backing away, she drops that very expensive gun.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Six hits. [ Jenn and Taylor groan and shout “Fuck” ] Fuck her life. > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] But before she can-
> Mike / G.M.: Wait is that your limit?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] No, no, my limit has gone up by two because of-
> Mike / G.M.: Oh, okay.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] So he's physical limit is
> Mike / G.M.: And what was your dice pool?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] His physical limit is at six so he’s rolling at limit. Dice pool was ten.
> Mike / G.M.: I mean, that's a critical success.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, I think what's gonna happen is not going to be good. If you don't roll six fucking-
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] [ Disappointed groan at Taylor’s roll ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Well, I got three hits.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] That still just connects. T.K. at this point has broken into a full sprint and he's got his arm up and is just leading with it. And he puts everything he has into this punch. In his mind it's silent. [ Ambient audio fades out ] It's not raining. Nothing else is going on except, you know, he's trying to hit this person as hard as he can.
> Mike / G.M.: I think if you want to say that what happens is you connect perfectly. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Mhm?
> Mike / G.M.: And an uppercut that has the force of like a ten yard sprint behind it. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: That’s what happens.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yes, it is like getting hit by a truck.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Body plus armor?
> Mike / G.M.: Correct.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I bet she has an armor though. I don't know if this is going to actually work. [ Taylor rattles dice ] Please glitch.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Two hits.
> Mike / G.M.: What’s your strength?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Five plus two is seven.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Plus four from the roll. Eleven minus two: nine. I take nine. Sunshine lifts up into the air and lands, splash, completely flat on her back. Totally unconscious.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I think T.K. keeps going and jumps on her, like, intending to finish the fight.
[ 1:20:47][Music and rain ambiance fades up ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Her face was sort of slightly twitching like the way a person who has just been knocked unconscious does, the body sort of struggles to regain some normalcy. Her cybereye has actually been jolted out of her socket and is now sort of laying against the side of her head. When your knees land on her torso her natural eye flutters open. She
can't speak because her jaw has been so dislocated from the punch, but she makes eye contact with you.
> Mike / G.M.: And you can feel, you know, when you drop down into your knees you can sort of feel you’re sink into the ground a little bit. It's a little muddy. The next person to act is Dragonfly and Dragonfly, hovering above you is kind of like an Erector set drone. [ Drone rotors buzz ] It has wobbled into the area and it is buzzing quietly. It is hovering slightly above Dragonfly, clearly trying to figure out where what's going on.
> Taylor Moore / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Are you here to help me? > Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] I don’t think so.
>Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC] Dragonfly looks to his left and sees T.K. on top of Sunshine. He sees the body of Dish lying in the mud, Kitkat grappling, half-entangled. He looks up and sees the drone that is not there for him. He turns around and runs away. [ IC ] Goodbye!
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Was that guy one of the bad guys- that guy was the bad guy right?
> Taylor Moore / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] I like to think inhabit a lot of complicated moral gray
areas.
> Mike / G.M.: The drone sort of spins around a little bit and tries to- you can tell that it's trying to figure out what to do and you can hear Gabriel's voice come out through the tinny speaker and he says [IC ] Do you- do you want it should I follow that guy?
> Taylor Moore / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] No!
> Mike / G.M.: If no one else has any response then Luxe acts next.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Luxe sees Dragonfly running away. Luxe has no real quarrel with him, so he turns. He sees Kitkat and Lash are still grappling, correct?
> Mike / G.M.: That's true.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] So between Luxe and Kitkat and lash grappling, is the shotgun still
lying on the ground there?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, the shotgun is slightly between where Lash and Kitkat are grappling and where T.K. is currently straddling Sunshine.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay. Was that the one that he was holding? > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. still has one.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]Okay, so Luxe rushes over and grabs the other gun on the ground to point at Kitkat.
> Mike / G.M.: Alright, you have a gun in your hand.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]Yes. So I’m walking over towards Kitkat and Lash right now.
> Mike / G.M.: The next person to act is Gabe, you see the drone is still not really... you can tell Gabe isn't really sure what to do. [ Drone rotors buzz ] It's twisting this way in that and it is rocking back and forth in the winds of the rainstorm that's that's beating down on you guys. And you can see it's kind of struggling to keep its position as he tries to pilot it around slowly. It kind of stops, settles in one area and then zooms confidently towards Kitkat. It hovers over Kitkat and you hear Gabe’s voice, again out of the tinny speaker, say [ IC ] You leave her alone! [ OOC ] Does Kitkat even hear this?
Taylor / “Kitkat”: [ OOC ] Yeah, he hears. They're grappling and in like this weird standstill where neither can get the other one to move very much. Which is insane considering the size difference between these two people.
> Mike / G.M.: It really is! Actually can we appreciate what, like, the size differential here.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Well, anyone who's ever wrestled with a tenacious child, I think will understand that just because someone is three or four feet shorter than you doesn’t- you know sometimes that makes them harder to knock over.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] If you've ever wrestled with like a tenacious obese child, I
think you would understand.
> Mike / G.M.: If you were wrestling with TikTok.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Oh I should’ve named him TikTok
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] No you should not have.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Wow.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] He’s tensing, he’s gritting his teeth, and he says [ IC ] If you let me go, I won't kill her.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] You’re gonna kill me? I don’t think so... Ow! How are you finding the weakest part of my thigh? Ow, there’s a bruise there from four years ago. How did you know?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] You gotta get more iron in your diet- bruise from four years ago?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah! It's like a weak spot.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] What’re you, the British royal family? You a Hapsburg? > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I don’t heal well.
> Mike / G.M.: Gabriel, through the mediocre camera on the drone surveys the scene and sees the dead person who is lying very close to where you are grappling and decides that probably the best course of action is to try to end this as soon as possible. So you see a kind of a small little door open on the bottom of it.
[01:25:16][ Rusty metal creaks from the doors opening ]
> Mike / G.M.: And it's like this little hatch/ There was nothing that was holding it open other than like some little screw or a tiny hook and then it just kind of falls open from the bottom of the drone. Then out of it pops a little arm. And it's like a very similar kind of motion. It's not elegant. There are no servo motors involved. It's like this thing is taped to the inside of the chassis of this drone. And there was some little jerry-rigged thing that Gabe was able to put together on the end of this little arm that just kind of like... [ Mike makes an intentionally pathetic sound akin to “mleh” ] out of the drone. You can see a Taser and Gabriel is going to try to tase Kitkat
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Uh, it’s a laser attack... taser attack. > Mike / G.M.: Close enough.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Reaction / Intuition?
> Mike / G.M.: Correct. I got four hits.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I got two.
> Mike / G.M.: So Kitkat, as you are grappling with this giant woman you are trying to bring her to her knees, you're trying to put an end to this fight. You turn your back on the drone that I think, correct me if I'm wrong, maybe rightfully so, you're not taking seriously.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Correct. It looks like a child drew a drone.
> Mike / G.M.: It's- I mean, that's pretty accurate. And you hear a tiny little like, and then you feel a pinch in the back of your left calf [ Taylor groans in pain IC as Kitkat] and you hear the loud click of a Taser. [ The Taser fires ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Kitkat flexes his calf and the pins go [ Taylor uses a finger in his mouth to produce two popping sounds] out. I take one stun damage.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Does it affect me because I'm grappling with them?
> Mike / G.M.: Don’t ask questions you don’t wanna know the answer to.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Oh so you’re wet and everything is conducting?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, actually, probably the drone itself also takes a box of stun damage.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Because like Yeah, right, because what happens when those those wires hit ground right?
> Mike / G.M.: Actually, what everybody sees is when you hear the arc of the electricity zapping from the center of the drone, you can see that the lights kind of dim and it lowers a little bit. It gets a little bit closer to the ground as it expends too much energy, in order to zap Kitkat.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Buddy.
> Mike / G.M.: And you hear Gabriel go [ IC ] Got’m!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] The little drone that could. > Mike / G.M.: Lash is next.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, so every time I keep on getting... I keep on getting on top of him and then having to contemplate how to tie him up. You know, part of it is that I'm used to tying up other orcs. How does that sound?
> Mike / G.M.: Sounds like the life of an orc.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I don't know what the best angle to tie up Kitkat just because of his size, so that's what keeps on tripping me up every time I get on top of him. So now we've kind of grappled again and he's like “ah” and she's like “shit.” You know, I gotta do this again. So she goes again for him, attempting again to tie him up. Two hits.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Kitkat gets three hits.
> Mike / G.M.: As you hold the rope in your hand and you're trying basically to lasso this tiny
man who is darting in and out of, like, between your legs. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: You can't grab him. He’s too fast. He's literally less than half of your height so it's just it's very awkward. He's giving you a run for your money.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Should’ve just clam flipped him, Jesus. > Mike / G.M.: The next person to act is Viv.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv considers the sword she had just caught in her hand and she purses her lips, flourishes the sword above her head, and makes her way toward Kitkat. [ Sword wooshes in the air ]
> Mike / G.M.: This is gonna be a pretty epic end to this battle, Jesus. Okay, so you are on your way into the fray following behind Luxe. Kitkat.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Oh, fuck yeah.I want to break free and grab my sidearm. > Mike / G.M.: Yeah, do what you can.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Okay, so now does the grapple- do I roll strength and agility?
> Mike / G.M.: If you're trying to leave, Kitkat, I think you're gonna roll agility to try to escape and Lash you're gonna roll strength to basically try to hold on to him.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay. It's not much.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I would like to spend an edge. > Mike / G.M.: Do you have any?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I have three.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Oh I hate this.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay, I got zero hits.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Two hits.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I have zero hits.
> Mike / G.M.: Trombone sound.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Nooo. I get a thought. [ IC ] Oh, who won that match this afternoon. [ OOC ] I just kind of do a matrix search up in the corner of my eye of who won the wrestling match.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Are you looking at sports scores? [ Bijan laughs ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I think Lash’s canonically a jock. Like this has been established.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, yeah. You just see you're kind of like look up. She was grappling and then she just can't help but go on every whim that she has so she looks up in the corner and then looks up the latest match scores for this afternoon. The match scores?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] The match scores.
> Mike / G.M.: For the sports game.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] For the sports game. She-
> Mike / G.M.: You want to know the match scores for the sports game. This is a very common desire in both the present and the future.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
[01:30:18]
> Mike / G.M.: Kitkat, the person who has been trying to subdue you for several rounds now mysteriously freezes, looks off into the air, you've you've heard that technomancers are weird.
> Taylor Moore / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] I've met a few technomages before, I'm prepared for that. This one’s a little high on the techno spectrum if you know what what I’m talkin’ about.
> Mike / G.M.: You escaped from the immediate control of Lash but that takes your whole turn.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] He still has a huge pistol on his thigh. He pushes away from Lash and he grabs that pistol. He points it right at her and he says [ IC ] Everybody stop. We're gonna play it real cool, or Shrek gets it.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Shrek exists?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, my question exactly.
> Mike / G.M.: I mean, yeah, absolutely.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I guess it’s in the past.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s very old. That’s like us making a Buster Keaton joke
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Or a like a Moby Dick joke, I’d make a Moby Dick joke. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Call me Shrek.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Actually, Lash loves Shrek. She especially loves the end of the first movie when they all do the I’m a Believer dance. She loves that part.
> Mike / G.M.: I don't know, do you think- do you think racial politics would weather Shrek well?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Do you want to ask that on a podcast?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I mean, people still watch, um, what's the movie with the
Klan? The-
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Birth of a Nation?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Birth of a Nation in film class.
> Mike / G.M.: So you think? [ Taylor bursts into laughter ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yes, please, let's follow what I said to its logical conclusion. In the year 2100 film classes require you to watch Shrek.
> Mike / G.M.: [ Laughing ] As an example of what not to do and what not to think. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Mike is very red right now.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] We both thought at the same time that I was insinuating the most insane future. A dragon is president but Shrek in film classes is fucking ego-destroying.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] There's so many veins popping out of so many foreheads right now. For you the listener this is- this is pure, uncut joy.
> Mike / G.M.: Oh, that's the worst thing I've ever- that's not the worst thing I've ever heard. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, try Birth of a Nation.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah. T.K. is next.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I haven’t heard any- like none of this has registered.
> Mike / G.M.: You’re in a fugue state, basically.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Basically, T.K. he makes eye contact with her and punches her in the
head, fully intending to kill her.
> Mike / G.M.: I mean, I'm just gonna, if you want to do it, I'm just gonna let you do it. I'm not gonna make you roll for it.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] That's what he would do. I mean, his mind is gone. There's no like, governor. Just, to be clear, this is a horrifying thing.
> Mike / G.M.: You, Bijan-
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] II mean, again, I don't want to be heavy-handed but the whole- he's not in control anymore and this is the thing about T.K. It's like when he loses control. This is why he reads his books, this is why he's like trying to master himself because he when he loses control it’s horrifying.
> Mike / G.M.: And this is triggered by-
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] By Dish getting killed. And then, y’know, he went berserk.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Being shot probably didn’t help/
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Didn’t help, but he didn’t notice it. He’s, y’know, he’s like whatever.
> Mike / G.M.: If T.K. were here, mentally and emotionally, he would be in an extreme amount of pain.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, and that's like a later-T.K. problem. > Mike / G.M.: Tell us what you do.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He raises his fist again and just makes eye contact for punches as hard as he can.
> Mike / G.M.: You feel the bones in her face break.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He's fully intending to like, hit the concrete. Like the asphalt behind
her.
> Mike / G.M.: With every punch, her skull gets softer and softer. [ Jenn and Shannon gasp ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] That’s his turn.
> Mike / G.M.: So I just want to check in. I don't know if we'll keep this in. Is everybody- I mean, this is gruesome - Everybody feeling okay? Like personally us around the table?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah, I’m alright.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s gross. But I want to check in, consent-level style, of we're not going too far.We're pushing an envelope, but like, we haven’t crossed a line?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Nope, good.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, cool, great. I mean, not cool, horrifying. [ Jenn and Bijan laugh ] The next person to act is Gabe. Back in the Mrs. Egg, Gabe is on the bridge. He has his rigger command console up on one of the work areas. It's this large briefcase looking object. This is a very, very nerdy comparison: it almost looks like a modular synthesizer. I read today, there were the tweets going around with like, “what is astrology for men” and the best one that I saw is modular synthesizers.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Oh man. I thought eonomics was pretty good. But that's-
> Mike / G.M.: Libertarianism is also funny.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Evolutionary psychology.
> Mike / G.M.: So he's sitting in front of this thing. It's got a lot of lights, a lot of buttons on it. And he's-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Oh, it’s Myers-Briggs, right?
> Mike / G.M.: I think Myers-Briggs is the Myers-Briggs for everybody.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Wow. My deference to monsieurs Myers and Briggs. > Mike / G.M.: I was invented by a woman, I think.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: So he's sitting on the bridge, looking at this very complicated piece of machinery that he uses to control the vehicles that he pilots. He is running his hands back and forth where his hair used to be, it's kind of- he's gripping his skull and he's grimacing a little bit. And he's just completely out of options.
Gabriel is unsure of what he can do, he managed at the last minute to get that taser into the drone but now he doesn't have anything else and he's not even really sure that this thing is going to survive the next 15 minutes in a rain storm. It's not like he had time to waterproof it. It's cobbled together from all of these parts that he found on the ship and things he just happened to have with him. And so he's going to do the only thing that he can do- the only option that he has left before actually getting out of the boat and trekking to the parking lot, which he’s not going to do. He's done getting in fights. He's gonna try to just crash the drone into Kitkat.
[1:36:04][ Players rejoice ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Fucking get it, baby!
> Mike / G.M.: So this is just going to be his pilot aircraft skill.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Now how far would you say the drone is from Kitkat?
> Mike / G.M.: Fifteen feet?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] That’s very close.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, close.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah, the taser wires would be no more than 20 feet. How fast do you think it moves? How fast can it close that distance?
> Mike / G.M.: Not incredibly fast because it's a rust bucket. Cobbled-together.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Right. Is it very heavy?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Okay. I mean, it just feels like fifteen feet doesn’t go very fast. Where's the damage gonna come from?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Isn’t it also falling out of the sky? > Mike / G.M.: Admittedly, the drone is not doing well.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Are you just gonna like, cut the power so it just drops to the ground? Just let gravity be on your side?
> Mike / G.M.: That's a good idea. Gabe did not think of that. So I think that's not true to Gabe’s style.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I- because in the beginning when we called Gabe and we were like, “oh, Gabe, help us” he's like, “I have this thing I'm working on.” In my mind it was like some extremely high-tech...
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Like deus ex machina, y’know?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah like it’s not ready for primetime, and then this like frickin’
toy helicopter comes in.
[ Mike rolls dice and begins counting up from one ] > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Whoa, I’m seeing lots. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] What the fuck?
> Mike / G.M.: Seven...
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] What’s your limit, dude?
> Mike / G.M.: Nine.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] This is the best roll we’ve ever had.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] This is a critical success right? It's a critical. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, holy shit dude.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, Gabriel's limit in this situation is nine.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh, and it's more than half?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Critical success.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Ooo it’s gonna fall so hard.
Taylor / “The Bad Boys”:[ OOC ] I got no hits.
[ Players shout “no” in unison ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] How does this play out? I gotta know.
> Mike / G.M.: Gabriel, realizing that this is his only option, leans forward over the command console and pulls out a tiny wire, plugs it into the side of his temple and he previously was controlling this thing via his remote console, just using the controls, basically, you know, there's like a little joystick there a bunch of buttons. He's got a little camera feed. Now, he's fully jumped-in to this shitty drone. And he sees a very grainy image of a very short man holding up a gun. He can hear him just barely say-
Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC with distortion] Let me go or Shrek here gets it.
> Mike / G.M.: And, you know, there's something about someone treating his new family and Lash specifically that way, talking about that horrible, hateful movie that he just loses it. Using all of his skill, mustering all of the detailed navigating work that he's done for decades, just pushes the throttle as hard as it goes and runs that drone directly into Kitkat’s chest. [ Drone rotors whir followed by a thud ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Kitkat spins around, gets off a shot, and it goes six, seven, eight feet wide. His right arm is thrown and just leaves his chest, his face, and his neck wide open.
> Mike / G.M.: Kitkat takes a Lego drone, essentially. It's heavy. It's made of metal and it's almost as if the drone itself was ready to no longer be flying.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah, this is Randy Quaid in Independence Day.
> Mike / G.M.: Yes, and you are the alien ship. Actually Gabriel in his expert piloting ability is able at the last moment to pull the throttle back a little bit and give the drone a little bit of a lift so it's actually catching you in the sternum and it picks Kitkat up just a little bit. [ Taylor shouts “whee” ] he only takes one stun damage.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [In a high-pitched voice] Bye!
> Mike / G.M.: Rude to dwarves.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It is your right, I shouldn't mock them.
> Mike / G.M.: But it launches him into the shipping container that Sunshine was previously hiding inside of and the rest of you, you can actually hear it kind of sounds like throwing a bowling ball down a cave.
You can hear the rumbling of just a metal and many canvas pockets and a shotgun going down this long 30 foot metal hallway. For a couple moments at least you don't hear anything stirring. We are, at least momentarily, out of initiative. And I will mention, just for convenience, there are doors on the end of the shipping container.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Who’s closest?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Who is closest?
> Mike / G.M.: Lash.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Get out of me swamp.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Whoa, nice drone! You know, I was really close to getting- tying him up but thanks, Gabe. [ OOC ] She goes over to the shipping container. [ IC ] Better shut this door [ OOC ] and Lash shuts the door and says [ IC ] He was not a nice guy huh?
> Mike / G.M.: It's a little- it's a little tough. It's heavy. The doors are heavy. These have been abandoned for quite a while. So it's very rusty. But you can get both of the doors closed. You struggle for a little bit to figure out the locking mechanism, there's some lifting and some turning. There are some little pockets that the metal bits have to fit into. But you get it and do we hear anything from Kitkat?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] The moment those doors shut you hear footsteps running down the container and then he slams into the door.
[01:41:40][ Footsteps grow louder followed by a clang ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. has to resist drain at this point.
> Mike / G.M.: Because we’re out of initiative?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Because we’re out of initiative, yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Ah, okay, let’s resolve that really quick.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K, he’s a chaos magician, which means- the school means that his magic is inspired by emotions.
> Mike / G.M.: Right, because you and Viv are the same sort of magician. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yes we are.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay and that's when you trained him.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Wait, no, wait, aren’t you hermetic?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I mean, well, it's still under hermetic but I channel water, you channel fire.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: So many moody magicians in this game.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ][ Affected pretentious voice ] I mean, haven’t you read fantasy? [ Jenn and Shannon shout “wow” ]
> Mike / G.M.: Bijan, award yourself an edge.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Goddamnit I knew it. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] [ Laughs ] I’m back, baby!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I used up my extra edge but now we're now we're cooking fucking gas. Okay, so I have to when you exit the state, you have to resist drain and so I think T.K. has to resist three drain and I got two hits.
> Mike / G.M.: So you take one stun damage. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] One stun.
> Mike / G.M.: What does it feel like when T.K. gets out of this fugue state?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I mean, I think he just falls over on his face.
> Mike / G.M.: He’s exhausted.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, he's like I mean he's still alive like he still has you know like five health left.
> Mike / G.M.: But it would make sense if as a person he comes to, realizes what he did, and goes catatonic for a moment.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, but he hasn't even gotten there yet. He's just on his face on the ground in this woman's blood.
> Mike / G.M.: I mean, the rest of the team you guys see your teammate who has been struggling a beat team member, just keel over, you hear a loud splash. T.K., his legs are still half on Sunshine, but he's on his side, his shoulder in a puddle.You know, his midsection kind of stuck in some mud. And you can see through the rain that a there's a giant- there's just a pool of plasma.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Luxe approaches T.K., this isn't the first time this has happened and Luxe knows when this happens. T.K. isn't himself so he doesn't put down the shotgun. The fact that he's fallen over is a good sign that it's over. But it's a little bit like approaching someone having a very severe seizure or something like that.
He is very dangerous to everyone including himself. Luxe approaches quickly but cautiously and pulls T.K. up. His eyes are closed at this point so he could tell that the beserker’s rage is over and he starts patching him up a little bit. This is one of the things that Luxe kind of doesn't really care about much and he's sort of easy-going about a lot of things but this is something he really worries about T.K.because he doesn't know, you know, long-term if T.K.will end up hurting himself or someone he loves when he's like this.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv is running up, still with sword over her head, ready to attack somebody because she is frazzled to beyond hell. She has been shot with a dart. [ Players laugh ] She has been lit on fire. And so she's just like darting her eyes everywhere like [ IC] Where’s this guy?
> Mike / G.M.: When you get over to where Lash has just finished closing up the shipping container that Kitkat was pushed into you hear the shouts of Kitkat himself from inside the container.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC, muffled inside the container] You’re gonna let me out or you’re all gonna die. [ Bijan laughs ] I can hear you laughing. Let me out, or you’re all going to
[ drone rotors whir ] Ah! The drone’s working again! Get me the hell out of here, get me the fuck out of this box!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Lash goes to Viv, who’s now I assume next to her, and says [ IC ] You know, Dennis Crayfield won fight.”
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] And Viv is just staring at Lash like “what language are you speaking?”
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah you have no idea what that means.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Can’t believe it.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah, she's rested the sword on her shoulder now and she's just like massaging her temples. [ IC ] This thing is locked?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh yeah I think so. I turned the knob a couple times to the left, which I think is the way you lock something.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s locked. You can hear Kitkat on the other side giving it the best try he can, but it is solidly locked.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I think T.K. wakes up.
> Mike / G.M.: Your hands really hurt, your midsection burns unlike anything you've ever experienced, and you are covered in blood. You feel very weak. You have a hard time thinking straight and your close friend and roommate Luxe is at a safe distance but he is looking at you obviously worried. It's kind of hard to stand, you have jelly legs.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah. For the record. He still does have five boxes of damage left plus his entire stun damage track.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, he's doing all right.
> Mike / G.M.: You can you can also he's perfectly healthy and it's still-
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, no, his legs are jelly. He's clutching his midsection. He's sort of starting to remember what happened. And I think the first thing he asked is like [ IC ] Are you guys okay?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Luxe says [ IC ] Is it over? > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Yeah it’s over.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Are you okay?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] I think I got shot?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] And that's when you move your hands a little bit and Luxe sees at least three bullet holes in your side. And I know that we're going to go get him patched up but of course we need to deal with this angry dwarf in a box.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, so I guess I guess T.K. just starts walking towards the box.
> Mike / G.M.: So you guys are now gathered around. You have stepped over the bodies of two
dead shadowrunners and you are standing in front of a potential future tomb of another.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I think this is when T.K. realizes he still has a gun in his hand from like that earlier confrontation. I think he just drops it. He's feeling ill.
> Mike / G.M.: It clatters to the ground. The rain has led up slightly.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Is Kitkat’s gun outside of the box or did that get pushed in with him?
> Mike / G.M.: He has a sidearm with him in there. There are two shotguns that are on the ground near you. But he managed to hold on to his sidearm.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I think T.K. yells at the box. He's like [ IC ] it's over. That's it.
[01:47:42][ A muffled gunshot report from inside the container ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] A gunshot hits the inside of the door.
> Mike / G.M.: and you hear a little [ Mike makes an impact noise ] and you see the door move a little, which isn’t safe to-
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] No it would ricochet.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Ricochet dangers are overrated. Like, it's overestimated.
It's not- they don't work like in action movies.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] That’s true, but also- yeah anyway.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Let’s try to keep it grounded [ Taylor laughs ] Okay? Shrek is being taught in film school, there’s a dragon president. Let’s keep it grounded and slow, thanks.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] We need to investigate the physics of if you-
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I think T.K. just turned to them and said [ IC ] You guys just want to leave him in there until he's cooled down a bit? Because I'm rapidly bleeding.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I mean, part of Lash does not want to kill another shadowrunner, a third one.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]Luxe talks to Kitkat, and he says [ IC ] Listen, stop firing your gun. It's not gonna do anything, okay? We don't want to kill you. All right? But what I need from you right now is just your assurance that this is over. You're done. You've failed this mission. That's bad. I know. But you're not going to be coming after us again.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] You hear us, Kitkat? Kitkat? Can you hear us in there?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] You still by the door?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, I'm still by the door.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] He's whispering through the little crack to the two doors. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh my god.
> Taylor Moore / “Kitkat”: [ IC ] Let me out of this box. Right now.
> Shannon O’Dell / “Lash Goodbog”: [ IC ] Kitkat, I know you're not normally in these types of situations where you're not the one in power saying the rules, but you have to realize that the tables have turned here and we are the ones who have the upper hand.
> Taylor Moore / “Kitkat”: [ IC ] You let me go, I'll tell Combinatorial you skipped town. You're out of here.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I think we should just go back to the boat because it's right there and just come back when he's ready to talk.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] But a good note that Jen just brought up: his commlink. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Oh, we can hack it.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah. Should we do that?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Taylor Moore / “Kitkat”: [ IC ] Young lady, I need you to listen to me. Now you don't know what kind of trouble you're in. Right now, Combinatorial is already looking for other shadowrunners to hire to come after you. Now do you want the whole shadowrunning side of the city to meet you every Sunday afternoon like we did?
How many times can you do what you did today? One day you get a fuck up and you're gonna end up in the box. Or, You let me walk out of here and not tell him you're gone. Maybe I buy you a day. But it's better than the other way.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] So what do we do with these two bodies?
> Mike / G.M.: You guys would know that the deaths of shadowrunners are rarely, if ever, investigated by the NYPD, and are only investigated by the security forces of the corporations that have hired those shadowrunners, because those shadow runners represent an investment.
And if those people die, then that means that they're out a bunch of money and they want to make an example of the person who has cost them the pretty penny that they have maybe paid half of a contract upfront, etc, etc. So these were people, they were training, whatever, whatever. NYPD and some of the corporations actually have dock wagon-style cleanup crews that just basically come and clean up dead bodies.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] They sweep around.
> Mike / G.M.: And if it's the result of a shadow run, and if the victims are only obviously
shadowrunners, rarely anything happens of it. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: So I mean, it is not fun. It's not nice. It is gruesome. But it is a facet of the world that you live in, that the bodies of criminals litter your city.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yep, that really puts a dark spin on what just happened. Dark-er than what just happened. All right. I think, I mean, T.K.’s priority is to heal. But there's a guy in a box. We know his buddy who was on the shadow run saw like basically everything that happened, ran away. So we can assume that Combinatorial knows already what happened.And so we have a guy in a box we can leave him there, we can fry his commlink and leave him there we can, I don't know. It's just, he's he's sort of penned in. What do you guys think?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I think we should buy ourselves some time. I think we should hack his commlink, send a message to Mo Ashina saying, “I killed the A-Team, can't find the files,” and then we'll just fry his commlink.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Alright, T.K. turns to Lash and is like [ IC ] Let’s just get it done.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Doing this teamwork, to us, it's kind of like T.K. is doing the actual hacking and Lash’s actually just kind of collecting data from the matrix to kind of feed on to T.K. so that he can do the actual kind of getting in there. But I'm just kind of collecting things like passwords, this, that, and getting in there.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah. And T.K. is like, you know, he's closed his eyes. He's in full VR, he sees the guy. He doesn't see the box but he sees the commlink and the big shape of the
man and and sort of like reaches out toward him, gets inside of the device, and starts swimming through his apps and finds his messaging app.
> Mike / G.M.: Hey Taylor, what are other kinds of apps on Kitkat’s commlink?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Well, he's got a Soldiers of Fortune dedicated magazine app which is really just Soldiers of Fortune articles. Although, actually, Soldiers of Fortune was recently told to stick to mercenaries. In response, a lot of their staff quit it. [ Taylor laughs, Jenn groans at the Deadspin reference ]
> Mike / G.M.: It was really getting way too political in the Soldiers of Fortune.
[1:53:05][ Jenn and Shannon say “wow” in unison ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Now it's mostly just sort of affiliate link blogging.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Solidarity with Soldiers of Fortune staff.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yes, yes, yes.
> Mike / G.M.: It's just, it's a lot of videos of tanks, obviously from the manufacturer, like with no actual critical reading of the new products at all. It’s very disappointing.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] And the voice is gone. There's just no editorial voice anymore.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] But you know, he’s got like a Grindr / Scruff on there, he’s got a health link in there. So there's like an app that's directly tied to a chip that's probably implanted into like his thigh near his quads.
> Mike / G.M.: Near a major artery?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] So when he works out he can test all his numbers and everything. Yeah, he's got med scanner stuff on there, stuff like that, you know. Books and books and books about survival and, like, military field medicine.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Ordinarily, T.K. would be very interested in all of us, but he's just been shot and is exhausted.
> Mike / G.M.: And is just like sitting in a puddle in front of a locked shipping container.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He goes straight for the messages, types out a message to Mo Ashina.
Because they obviously they have the same contact information for Mo Ashina.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, you see there's a long line like in anyone's comlink. There are a bunch of recently-sent messages to Edward Dragon, to Dish and there a couple scrolls down one from Mo Ashina. And you can see the end of the last conversation that they had, the last thing you see is
that they were arguing about price. He was arguing that they should get paid 100,000 nuyen for this job and Mo Ashina just responded to that request with the message “Get it done.”
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. types out “Job's done. They're dead. Couldn't get the files.” [ IC ] Here's the message. What do you guys think?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Luxe says [ IC ] Why don't you just say “No thanks, I got the data and I got 200. Bye, talk to you never.” Whatever.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. considers that and is like [ IC ] Better message. [ OOC ] And just sends it, then turns to Lash and says [ IC ] Fry it.
> Mike / G.M.: You hear the send confirmation of Kitkat’s comlink. You do not see... it's pretty late at this point so you don't see any response from Mo Ashina, but who knows. The message has been delivered.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K., again, turns to Lash and says [ IC ] Fry it. > Mike / G.M.: How you gonna do it?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Lash is gonna do resonance spikes. She's pulling pieces of the matrix, it seems like they're almost she's like physically pulling them towards her and condensing them into something that anyone to their eyes would think is a softball, because it is a softball. She's pulling them in pieces of sports news that she had saved in her history. She grabs all these pieces of resonance and she turns to the side and does a baseball throw. It's a softball, but she throws it like a baseball, and pitches it directly at Kitkat’s commlink, which then explodes.
[01:55:55][ The commlink explodes ]
> Mike / G.M.: In meatspace you hear on the other side of the closed door, a zap and a sizzle and the crackle of a small fire and you smell the very familiar smell of burning ozone and melting plastic.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. just gets up and walks towards the ship. He’s done. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Lash follows.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv just quietly sheathes the sword where her combat axe usually is and walks towards the boat as well.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Luxe is about to turn on his heel to follow them as well but just turns quickly to the tank and says [ IC ] Cool down in there a little bit. I'll come grab you in a couple hours.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I guess T.K. just yells back [ IC ] Can you grab the guns?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah, Luxe grabs them.
> Mike / G.M.: So you guys head back to the Mrs. Egg?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: Are you taking the guns with you?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Lash doesn’t like guns.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. doesn’t need guns.
> Mike / G.M.: [ In a bro voice ] T.K.’s got enough guns!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]Luxe gives the guns to Gabe to see if he needs some for a new drone or something.
> Mike / G.M.: You guys go back on the Mrs. Egg, you guys are back on the Mrs. Egg. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. immediately goes to his room and passes out.
> Mike / G.M.: Fair enough. When you get back onto the Mrs. Egg you see Gabe. He runs out of the bridge And he comes to meet you as you're entering he says [ IC ] How are you? What happened? Is everything okay? Where's T.K.?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] T.K. has a thing where he, um... T.K. is fine.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Okay, what happened with that tiny guy and the guy that ran away?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] We don't know what happened with the guy who ran away. He's kind of annoying. He may have had to go to an improv class? But the little guy’s in a box out there.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] That seems like a loose end.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah, I'm gonna go see if a T.K. is okay. I might need to patch him up.
He got shot a couple of times.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Jesus, okay let me know if you need anything.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yes, here's a couple of shotguns.
> Mike / G.M.: He takes the shotguns from you and he says [ IC ] Um, what do you want me to do with these?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Can you use them for parts or something? I don't really like those.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Yeah, me neither. How about I just take care of these? > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Alright.
> Mike / “Gabe”.: He walks out the door that you just walked in and you hear a light splash of guns being thrown in the Hudson River.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Gabe, I got to talk to you about that drone you built. > Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] It was short notice, it was the best I could do.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I thought it was awesome.
> Mike / G.M.: He goes up for a high-five.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yes, and Lash gives a high-five. [ High-five sound ]
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] You all look very frazzled, so I will ask you how the Mo Ashina job went
tomorrow. [ Nick groans ]
[1:58:29]
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> Mike / G.M.: Fun City will return on Friday, March 13th.