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[ Intro Theme Begins ]
> Molly Templeton / “Artemis”: [IC] In the early 21st century, magic reawakened on Earth, and alongside it, a new human race, with orks, elves, trolls, dwarves, and others. Humanity became metahumanity.
As technology proliferated and greatly advanced in the awakened world, global megacorporations seized ever more power, becoming de facto states with their own laws, courts, and armed forces. The corporations attempt to control all aspects of modern life. This has led to a vast and complex criminal underground which works for and against corporate interests. The independent career criminals who do what others can't or won't are called Shadowrunners.
The year is 2101. Welcome to Fun City
[Intro Theme Ends]
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: This episode of Fun City contains brief interactions with the NYPD
and a private security force but no violence.
[Main Theme Begins]
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Previously on Fun City, the team is sent to the South Bronx by treaded artificer Irina to help locals deal with Flippr: a corporation exploiting its proximity to a municipal data center by snatching up real estate. Before committing to contact Calixto’s plan of installing a skimmer on Flippr’s system and redirecting money locally, the team wants a lay of the land.
They interview CEO Harris Trevorrow while impersonating a film crew and break into Flippr’s bizarre server room before high tailing it to the nearby muni-data center. There, they run into Andre The Pizza Man who is attempting to deliver a pie to the night watchman Michael. When the door opens, Andre books it inside, the team follows, the guard trips an alarm which alerts the authorities and locks the door but he also trips himself and gets knocked unconscious. With the crew trapped inside, Andre (who's very handy with a cyber deck for a pizza man) and T.K. attempt to appease the intrusion countermeasure software, but Andre gets link-locked and is forcefully connected to the system which is completely wired, leaving Lash searching for a way to help.
We join the team now as T.K. looks for a hardwired solution to silencing the alarm, unlocking Andre, and calling off the cops.
[ Main theme ends ]
[ Loud alarm blares ]
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: What’s everybody else up to?
> Jen / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv is looking through the slot in the door for anyone approaching.
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Outside?
> Jen / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Outside. She is looking out, and she sees the pizza on the ground like, wow.
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Taylor, you tell me. Is anyone outside yet? > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] No one is outside yet -
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Okay.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] However, there is a strange vibration in the room, and Viv you specially feel it, uh, because a magical presence has entered the space [ Group groans ] The air sort of shimmers, uh, near where you are by the door.
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: You all get kind of, the way it is described is like, you feel cold and creeped out.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Uh, and then a human man about, y’know, early forties, tall, six-two, kind of looks like a cross between Tom Selleck and Dany Aiello. Uh, he’s, you know -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] I don’t picture that working out well -
> Taylor / “The bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Well, I mean, you know, this is just a guy [ Group Laughs] and it looks that he’s been on the force for a long time, and by force I mean the NYPD Incorporated. [ Group Groans ] He is wearing his officer blues, uh, but his image is, sort of, half-solid half-shimmering in the room. Uh, and he looks around and he says [ IC ] Hello. Um, my name is Officer Philly Calice. Uh, I am currently astral projecting into your space, please do not be alarmed. Uh, we received an alarm from this place earlier tonight. I am simply checking in to make sure that everyone is alright, and I can see that everyone is not alright. [ OOC ] [ Group Laughs ] He is gesturing to Michael Steward’s, uh, body on the ground [ IC ] From context clues I would gather that the rest of you are here illegally - [ Group Laughs ]
> Mike Rugnetta/ G.M.: [ Laughing ] It did not have to roll logic.
> Taylor / “Officer Philly”: [ IC ] It is my duty to inform you, uh, that while you should not panic and destroy anything, that officers have been called and they are now in route to your location. Please, dispose of any firearms or bladed weapons you might have, do not use any
magic or sensing abilities, and please allow yourself to be arrested and taken to the NYPD Incorporated nearby field office peaceably. Thank you.
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: His image just kind of hangs, uh, y’know, in the mist in the air. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He’s just gonna keep watching us?
> Jen / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv is, uh, she turns around and is just like [ IC ] Luxe, you think you can message Verne?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah?
> Jen / “Viv”: [ IC ] To help us. [Jen chuckles]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Sure, I guess?
> Jen / “Viv”: [ OOC ] He is a contact of ours.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Luxe, uh, sends Verne a message, [ Message notification sound ] um asking, describing the situation briefly and asking if he could help [ Shannon chuckles ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Your phone rings immediately [ Groups laughs while phone rings ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Hey!
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] [ In German accent, distortion from call ] Guten tag! I’m on a boat! [
group laughing, sea sounds in the background ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Hey [Laughing continues] Ok, Verne - > Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Can you do video chat right now? > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ Chuckling ] Oh no -
[00:04:48] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah, yeah Verne we are doing that job you requested us. I was wondering if you could give us maybe some security clearance or something with the NYPD? We, they’re kind of on us right now, buddy.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Are you working with the, are you doing the Odina thing? > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Great! What’s going on? What’s the details?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Um, well -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ OOC ] [ Laughing ] Sorry, Nick, that is the meanest thing I could’ve said to you. [Group laughing]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] We are all fine here, thanks. How are you?
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] No, no, of course. No, listen, I’m sorry. I have to go very quickly, I’m
on the boat, the waves are huge. I wish you were here you guys, this is so much fun. Uh, but no - > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Is that -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] What can I do for you -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Is that Verne?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] It’s Verne, yeah - > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Hey, Verne! > Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Is that Lash? > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yes -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Put Lash on the phone!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh, I can’t [ Group Laughs ] She is too excited, Verne.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] That’s the best time to talk to Lash! [ Shannon Chuckles ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I know, I’ll record her, I’ll record her. Listen, we actually got Odina off your back. I know, I know you sent us a message -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Ja, this is great! Thank you - > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] The only thing was -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Ja?
>Nick / “Verne”: [IC ] - that she did have some data, uh, that she had on you that she had said was stored here so we wanted to go in, we wanted to go in and, ah, [ OOC ] I probably need to roll Confidence, right?
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Roll Con, yeah [ Group Laughs* ] A thousand percent yeah. And also, I’m gonna put you in disadvantage because you, Nick, are obviously, like, motormouthing. [ Shannon and Taylor laughing ] This is very unlike Luxe.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Uh, so I think I would, I wanna dock you -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ OOC ] I, I am gonna push back -
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Okay!
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ OOC ] On that disadvantage because I have established that Verne is on a boat, so it’s hard to hear -
>Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: In a rush -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ OOC ] And he is in a great mood [ Shannon and Nick laugh ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Thank you.
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Okay, fair
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] I also felt that he was requesting this information from you [ Taylor
laughing ] but -
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Fair, fair, fair.
> Nick / "Luxe": [ OOC ] I wouldn’t have offered myself.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ OOC ] Let’s, yeah, just yeah
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Let it not, let it not go unnoticed that Taylor just lobbied in player favor.
> Jen / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I saw, yeah
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ OOC ] Oh God, it’s because a guest is here - > Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] I was gonna say -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ OOC ] And I want to be nice to everybody
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] It’s amazing to be here for this moment - > Jen / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] This historic moment.
> Nick / "Luxe" [ OOC ] So I got three hits.
> Taylo / “Verne"; [ OOC ] Oh, yeah. I mean that’s probably going to work, right? > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Maybe.
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Do you want me to roll Verne’s logic? -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Maybe -
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Or do you got it?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Maybe spend some Edge or something?
> Taylor / “Verne": [ OOC ] Oh, it's just logic?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Do, do you, -
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Or what is it -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Do you have Con or Negotiation?
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Oh, you do have negotiation.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ OOC ] Oh, negotiation, yeah.
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Wanna do a check and see what it is?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Maybe some Edge -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Maybe I have to spend an Edge.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Do you want a teamwork from me, because I don’t have Con [chuckling]
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Um, you, roll seventeen dice - [ Taylor and Shannon groan ]
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ OOC ] [Chuckling] Fuck you dude, fuck you.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] [Sounding defeated] Fuck me, fuck me, fuck me [ Taylor laughing ] -
> Jen / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Oh no -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Fuck me.
> Mike / G.M.: I mean, three sounded dope, dude.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Wait, let me double check if I don’t have any - > Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Three sounded great.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] This isn’t The Matrix, right?
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: No.
> Jen / “Viv”: [ OOC ] No.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ OOC ] Listen, we all know my record here.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Fuck me.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: You did good.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] It doesn’t matter, he’s got more than three.
[ Waves and seagulls start ]
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Yep.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Luxe, Luxe shut up -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Stop talking [ Shannon chuckling ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] You’re lying to me about where you are -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yes -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] - what’s going on.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yes. I do need your help though.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Why you lying to me about it?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Um, look. We were trying to help some people, that is true, I will give you the full story when we have time but we are getting in some deep deep shit here at the municipal, uh, building, uh, data center in, uh, the Bronx -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] [ Closer, slightly muffled ] Luxe, shut up. [ Shannon chuckling ] Listen, I’m having to put my hand over the phone so you can hear me -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay, okay
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] For you to know I’m deadly serious what I’m about to tell to you
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] I need you to tell me you will never lie to me again.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I won’t.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] No, I need you to think about it for a second.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay. [ Pauses ] I won’t.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Are you telling the truth?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yes, okay? We, um, [ Pauses ] I won’t.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] What do you need?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Please, just, uh, tell the NYPD that we’re supposed to be here, or call it off, or, um, make it go away?
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Ah, you gotta send me like some coordinates or something -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] So I can know where this is.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay, okay, I’ll have- T.K., I think is coming out. T.K. is going to send you the details right now.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Just message me coordinates. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I will.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Okay, I gotta go!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Thank you!
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] The seagulls are eating our fries [ Shannon chuckles ] that we left on
the prow of the ship! [ Seagull noises intensify ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh, that happens all the time!
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Goodbye!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Bye!
[ Attempt of a seagull noise from someone ]
[ Sea Ambience Cuts ]
[ Alarm Starts ]
> Jen / “Viv”: [ IC ] Was that a seagull?
> Bijan / “T.K.”.: [Chuckling] T.K., meanwhile - [ Taylor laughing ]
> Jen / “Viv”: [ IC ] I hate those!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] During this whole time, T.K. has been, like, running around with his mini-welder, like, looking for something to cut. [ Group Laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Do you send him their coordinates?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, well, I mean, I didn’t, I didn’t hear most of the call
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay well, I just tell you that now -
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yes, then yes, yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Alright, T.K. takes a moment, moment to send off the coordinates and goes back to, like, looking at the wires trying to decide what they do.
> Jen / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv goes to Michael’s desk and starts rummaging through the drawers. [ Drawers and papers being shuffled ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Guys”: [ OOC ] There is a picture of him with, uh, six very elderly, uh, uh, women: some humans, some elves. [ Taylor chuckles ] I, I really want to get into his backstory but you’re gonna have to fucking work for it [ Nick laughs ] -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh, wow.
> Taylor / “The Bad Guys”: [ OOC ] Um, and there’s like, like, little cassettes, like little harddisks. Uh, and there’s a wifi dongle.
[ Triumphant trumpet ]
> Jen / “Viv”: [ OOC ] And Viv grabs the wifi dongle and goes [ IC ] Ah! This, this, is,
something [ OOC ] And she hands it to T.K. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Give it to Lash!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So is this dongle something that I can get into this Matrix [ Chuckles ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Turn the whole fucking thing Portuguese now! [ Shannon chuckles ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [ Chuckles ] Jesus.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] How does this work?
> Taylor / “The Bad Guys”: [ OOC ] ¡Bienvenidos! [ Nick and Shannon laugh ]
[00:09:53] > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] While T.K. is running around looking for this, can he figure out, uh, like is there a Perception test that he can do to figure out if there’s a place, like a physical button for the ICE or like a cable or something? Like it’s, ‘cuz it's like, I mean, I don’t know; you established it was an old building, and like it seems -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] And yeah, any security thing - > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah -
> Anthony “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] - not necessarily the ICE but just anything that is gonna shutdown or open -
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] This alarm
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] - up anything
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ]Yeah, it might have a, yeah. > Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: ICE is on the server -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Right
[ Loud alarm fades out ]
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: So the big thing in the middle, the ICE is in there somewhere -
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Okay -
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Like, it’s, it is software that is run on a system.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] It’s, hm. It’s probably not a good idea to take a welder to the server.
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: I mean, you tell me what a good idea is [ Nick and Bijan chuckling ] the idea that you have, then follow through on.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, I think, I think, uh, are there any, hm. Where are the cables going to [ Chuckles ] from the server? [ Nick laughs ] Where, where are like the main, the main looking cables?
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: So there is [ Jen laughs ] you see no cable coming out of the server. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Uh-huh -
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: The server does not have any cable around it. -
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Mhm, mhm -
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: If you get close you can see that there are cables that go through the ground below. All of the cables that are part of the patch, uh, system that’s across those two walls -
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Mhm?
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Are coming up from the floor and down from the ceiling, and you can see that there are these long, these large, like braids and arrays of cables, that are coming up and down -
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Mhm, and none of them look especially important?
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: I mean, you cannot decipher any meaning, uh, as far as what the
cables are. They all have labels on them but like -
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. is like, is like fully, fully panicking right now.
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: And you can see, and you can see on all of the patches, right - > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Uh huh-
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: All of the, all of the, uh, the bays that you can patch things into: they all have labels on them that are clearly locations, some of those locations make no sense, they are just like letters and numbers. Some of them are Down Town Municipal Data Center. Some of them are Seventy-Third Precinct. Some of them are Shiawase Headquarters -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Can I tell you how much I love that Mike Rugnetta’s puzzle room is a modular synth? [ Group Laughs ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Guys”: [ OOC ] Everything is; There is nothing this man can’t make into a modular synth.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I’m just so tired -
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Can I just tell you how, uh, how deep the ideology goes: didn’t even
occur to me [ Anthony Laughs ] >Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Uh -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Question: is there any way, ah, so there’s no way I can get in there, because if I can get in there like maybe I can do like a Resonance Veil and like, trick this system into thinking that we entered the password, or something.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] If you could like, just talk, talk to it. I don’t know, yeah -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I don’t think I, I don’t think I can get in there. Can I get in there?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] [ Distant ] Is there a place to put that wifi dongle on the main console -
> Taylor / “The Bad Guys”: [ OOC ] Microphone.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Is there a place to put that wifi dongle on the main
console?
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: There is.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ Chuckling ] Okay, well, that’s what I’m gonna do. > Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Sometimes Michael wants to watch -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Coronation Street?
> Taylor / “Michael”: [ IC ] Uh, I just, sometimes like to watch Stained Glass Windows while I walk around. [ Anthony chuckles ]
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: And, and, he needs to, it’s, it is, so deeply against protocol to instore a wifi dongle -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah -
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: - in this building, but it’s also against protocol to order a fucking
pizza, Michael Stuart!
[ Group vocalizes agreement ]
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: So, yes, there is near the data jack that T.K. just unplugged from, a kind of like, you know, it’s like a, like a USB port that you can plug accessories into. Uh, it’s mostly used for transferring small amounts of data -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Alright -
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: - it’s for like plugging a thumb drive into, if you need to move
something physically, but, ah, yeah. You can see, this has the same end on it.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay, so Lash sees that and she goes [ IC ] Eh, I think I’ve seen
one of these things before. [ OOC ] and she just shoves it into there.
> Taylor / “The Bad Guys”: [ OOC ] Roll for shove.
[ Group Chuckles ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] You drop it down a grate, [ Taylor laughs ] and it falls forever. No - [Anthony laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] She shoves it in there, and she sees how she feels [ Digital sounds, intro theme fades in ]
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: It’s sort of like, your limbs feel a little bit lighter.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mmm -
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: You move around a little bit easier > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Oh, this feels good.
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: And it’s kinda the same sensation of, when you would like, walk into a library. It’s like whoa, there’s a lot in here, like -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mhm
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: - the possibilities are kinda like, endless - > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah -
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: But you haven’t yet, sort of, transferred, so this is even just a sort of latent feeling of like “Ooh, there’s a, there’s like, a lot in the air” -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Right.
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: It’s, it’s thick and dense, and there’s just a lot of signal. [ Intro Theme Fades ]
[ Calm Music begins ]
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Hey all, Mike here to say if you haven’t, give the old Fun City Patreon a look see. As a patreon you can get access to cut tape that doesn’t make its way into the episodes, access to our biweekly chat show Fun Chatty, access to our rad Discord, amazing and constantly updated Cyberpunk Spotify playlist, and more. Also, a short note on release schedule, right now the plan is for episode 20 to be released in four parts on June 29th and 30th, as well as on July 2nd and 3rd. Our first Still Fleet game will follow two or so weeks after that, assuming nothing needs to get pushed back. If anything changes in these uncertain times, we’re gonna update our Twitter and Patreon first. Thank you for listening, thank you for your support, ACAB.
[ Calm Music fades ]
[ Curious Music starts ]
[00:14:56] > Mike / G.M.: I’m gonna assume you go into, you know, your full technomancer VR -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yes, I do -
> Mike / G.M.: You know, hot sam in this system to see what’s in here.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mhm.
> Mike / G.M.: What you are presented with is a large single-eyed obelisk -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: - that has a traffic boot attached to one side of it, and it turns to you and says “Hello” in the voice of Andre.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Oh hey, whats up!
> Mike / G.M.: And you see [ Anthony chuckles ] facing off against him, a traffic- a weird traffic cop looking -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Uh huh-
> Mike / G.M.: - uh, you would immediately recognize this is ICE; this is Intrusion Countermeasure Software, um, and it would appear as though it has link-locked this man so that he can not jack out. [ Shannon laughs ] And it is saying, are you just laughing at jack in, jack out?
> Taylor / “The Bad Guys”: [ OOC ] Ah, God damn it, I, I’ve held it together for three hours. Give me a break
[ Jen laughs ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Hey friendo, I don’t know which uh, which of the kids you are. It’s me, Andre.
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, you see a tall ork wear- are you still wearing your, um, Urban Brawl outfit? > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, when Lash is in VR she is the same -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Oh, got it
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] - except she is in her Urban Brawl outfit.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Got it.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I’m Tackle, remember me?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Oh, okay, sorry!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Remember me from before?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Oh! Y’know what? I didn’t, I didn’t notice because you’re wearing such a sick outfit?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Oh, I, you know? I love you. [ Shannon chuckles ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] And it’s, honestly it changes, it changes everything about like, like, your posture is a little bit different, I can tell you are a little more confident. Anyway, this building is about to kill me.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Right, yeah, yeah, I see that. Okay, um -
> Mike / G.M.: As you appear in the Matrix, the, uh, the ICE slightly turns to you [ chuckles ] in a very robotic way and it says
> Taylor / “ICE”: [ IC ] [ Monotone voice distortion ] New intruder detected. Your presence is not appreciated. Central Command alerted.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] [ Sighs heavily ] Hey, buddy. Uh,what’s, what’s up? What’s going on here? Can I -
> Taylor / “ICE”: [ IC ] Intruders detected.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, okay. What, what do you want? What do you want from us?
What do, what do you need to, y’know, reboot, take this stuff off?
> Taylor / “ICE”: [ IC ] Searching.
[ Computing sounds ]
> Taylor / “ICE”: [ IC ] Central command has not issued All Clear.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Okay, we need an All Clear from Central Command. Okay [ Smacks lips ] I need to get to Central Command. [ Group laughs ]
> Taylor / “ICE”: [ OOC ] Jesus Christ -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Hey pal? Hey, buddy?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Ah, listen, Tackle. You seem like one of those people that’s real good at talking, talking to machines -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, I am! [ Chuckles ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Why don’t you just, instead of trying to find Central
Command ‘cuz -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Sure.
>Anthony / “Dev /Andre”: [ IC ] I’d love to help you but I -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] I’m trapped, I’m caught in a traffic boot - > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Oh, yeah, you are -
> Mike / G.M.: The obelisk wiggles a little -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] And then, and then we’re all caught in this building. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Mhm -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] So instead of trying to find Central Command, why don’t you just, why don’t you just tell it maybe that, like, you’re, you’re in good with Central Command or maybe like -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Oh yeah. Good idea - > Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Um, yeah. Actually, I am Central Command, and All Clear [ Group laughs ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] I mean that’s it! That’s it - > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] I think that’s great.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I feel -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Perfect
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I feel like it is probably at this moment that T.K. jacks back in and is
like [ IC ] I couldn’t find the wire to cut. [ Chuckles ] > Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Oh, hey man!
> Mike / G.M.: And you see a, a very low charisma ICE, with no animations [ Shannon chuckles ] associated with it, staring blankly at an ork wearing an Urban Brawl outfit? And you see it flickers, and you hear a light, sort of, distant data processing sound -
[ Computing sounds begin ]
>Mike / G.M.: - um, and you hear -
> Taylor / “ICE”: [ IC ] Searching -
[ Computing sounds stop ]
> Taylor / “ICE”: [ IC ] No credentials found. All Clear must be issued by Central Command.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] [ Sighs ]Ay yi yi.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Oh! Oh Lash, what’s up. How’d you get in here?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, I found wifi.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Oh.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Hey, slugger.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Oh, I’m back, yeah I couldn’t find -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] How you doing man?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] I’m very flustered. I had my thing out, my welder, I was trying to cut some wires but I figure, maybe just try it again.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Dude, you missed it. The dumbest thing just almost worked [ Shannon laughs ] It was great!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Um, listen, listen, uh, listen, boys, I think I’m gonna have to collect, uh, some of the [ Chuckles ] uh, pieces of the matrix around me and kinda fuck this thing up.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] You doing some magic?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] We don’t call it magic. What we call it is fucking with the matrix [
Bijan and Shannon chuckle ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Hey, I’m all for some matrix fucking [ Shannon chuckles ] You do it -
> Mike / G.M.: That’s a different thing.
>Anthony / “Dev /Andre”: [ IC ] You do you [ Shannon laughs ] [ OOC ] I don’t know. I
don’t know, let’s turn safe search off and find out. > Mike / G.M.: There are clubs for that.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay, so, uh, Lash wants to pretend to be Central Command or she wants to pretend that, ah, command is sent from central what?
> Mike / G.M.: Central Command. > Jen / “Viv”: [ OOC ] All Clear.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Central Command. She wants to send an All Clear. She wants this police officer -
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] To see an All Clear from Central Command.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Is there a way for us to spoof the location that the command came from?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] She can probably do it with Resonance - > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah -
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] - but I don’t know if we can do it.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, but you could do it, right?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, I just want to make this ICE agent, I wanted it to appear to him, in the matrix, that he got a All Clear from Central Command.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] You try to Jedi Mind trick it
> Mike / G.M.: Lash knows, one of the complex forms that you thread is, you know Resonance
Veil -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yes!
> Mike / G.M.: Is that correct?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I know Resonance Veil.
> Mike / G.M.: So, Resonance Veil is like a, an illusion spell that a Technomancer can cast on a device.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: If that’s what you want to do, you can do that. > Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] [ Whispering ] Get him. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I, I want to do, that thing.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ IC ] Get him, Tackle.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay so, I’m gonna do, roll this at level six - > Jen / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Go girl!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I mean, there’s no chance I’m gonna - ‘cuz Software, my Software is two plus Resonance is six, so I’m only rolling eight dice, so is it worth it to do it at six?
> Anthony / “Dev /Andre”: [ OOC ] Do it at the most, do it at the most > Mike / G.M.: What is the thing that it rolls against?
[00:20:00] > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ Sighs ] Intuition plus Data Processing. Okay, I’m going to do this and I’m gonna roll eight die.
>Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] I believe in you.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I want it to see a message fly in. [ Chuckles ] I don’t know if this is how it gets, from a direction in the matrix, a, a message fly in, it’s almost like a thought bubble. It flies in and just says “All Clear” and it says, it’s in an envelope that says To: You -
> Mike / G.M.: [ OOC ] It’s on letterhead.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] And it says From: Central Command.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Official Central Command letterhead.
> Mike / G.M.: Fuck yes! [ Shannon laughs ] Absolutely!
> Taylor / “The Bad Guys”: [ OOC ] [ Southern American accent ] Warmest regard! [ Anthony and Shannon laughing ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Yes! Yes! To whom it may concern. > Mike / G.M.: With a virtual, um, a wax stamp -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] - wax seal.
> Mike / G.M.: - on the back.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yes, yes.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] A wax seal, yeah. And it comes on a pigeon [ Shannon chuckles ] -
> Mike / G.M.: Yes.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] It’s wrapped on the, it’s wrapped on a virtual pigeon’s, like, leg.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s that seagull that was eating Verne’s -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Exactly. [ Anthony laughing ]
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, roll it up.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Eight die. Three.
> Mike / G.M.: The building got six.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I want to use Edge. Okay so, I’m gonna roll, reroll six.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] [ Whispering ] Geez.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] And hope I get three more. Oy, ooh, this feels so scary. But I’m gonna do it!
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] I believe in you
> Jen / “Viv”: [ OOC ] You can do it!
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Come on, Tackle!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I got three hits! [ Group shouts in celebration ] > Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Tie goes to the Runner!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yes! [ Jen chuckles ]
> Mike / G.M.: Describe to me what happens.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay [ Chuckles ] So, ah, Lash is. Okay, she is spending a lot of energy doing this high level, ah, action that she is doing. And she also, she, this is the limit too because she, she rolled it at six. Well - [ Shannon and Mike chuckle ]
> Mike / G.M.: Well -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So, you see her, um, again, when she is using any kind of Resonance, she is kind of collecting things off the Matrix to kind of use as energy, so for her it’s always, like, her past, like, browsing history. So, it’s always various things, lots of sport scores, also just, like, pizza nearby because the pizza made her think about ordering pizza ‘cuz she was hungry, um, things like that. And all this energy -
> Mike / G.M.: I mean yeah, the local pizza shop definitely identifies this particular location [ Shannon chuckles ] as prime placement for floating augmented reality pizza advertisements -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, yeah, yeah. > Mike / G.M.: Because of Michael Stuart.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Exactly. So she, kind of, is gathering all that energy, little pieces of the Matrix and kind of shoots it off into a direction towards the agent, but what it does is it creates like a little, ah, envelope that floats in, and drops right on the agent’s -
> Mike / G.M.: Like on a breeze?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, like on a breeze -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] It invites the building to smash.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ Chuckling ] Yeah. [ Anthony chuckles ] Very gently lands on the agent’s, uh, baton, and it says “From Central Casting,” no what is it?
> Mike / G.M.: Central Command.
> Taylor / “The Bad Guys”: [ OOC ] Command. [ Shannon chuckling ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] “From Central Casting, I am willing to cut my hair. [ Group laughs ] I am willing to shave.”
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] From Central -
> Mike / G.M.: “My english accent is fine.” [ Group continues laughing ]
> Anthony “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Yeah
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah. What does it say, “From: Central Domain”? > Mike / G.M.: Sure
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] What is it, was it? -
> Taylor - Nick - Mike [ OOC ] Central Command!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh my God, sorry. It’s hot! Uh,” From: Central Command, To:
You,” and it opens, and, and, ah, it says “All Clear.” > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] What font?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Uh, it’s in Comic Sans, duh. [ Taylor and Mike vocalize agreement ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] That’s what Central Command would do - > Mike / G.M.: It really is. Actually, Central Command: Papyrus?
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Oh.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] I was gonna say that
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Sure! Sure! > Bijan / “T.K.”: [OOC] What about Booker -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] But I love - >Mike / G.M.: Booker New?
>Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] - I love the fact we’re using Comic Sans ‘cuz we know it worked - [ Shannon laughing ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre” : [ OOC ] And so it’s like “This dumb building listened to Comic
Sans.”
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ Chuckling ] Yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] “What an idiot building!”
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Plus Lash does everything in Comic Sans.
> Mike / G.M.: Um, you feel, Andre, feels immediately a little bit lighter and, a little bit free-er - > Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [ OOC ] Oof!
> Mike / G.M.: And you look down and you see the traffic booth that was on your obelisk disappear with no pageantry of any kind -
[ Intro Music Fades In ]
> Mike / G.M.: - no indication, no goodbye, nothing. The environment in front of you just kind of blinks a little bit and Lash, for the first time you see, line drawing of a transparent happy looking police officer, um, with a logo of the municipal data center, ah, in a little seal, in a little circular seal and there is an empty text screen, an empty text box that, ah, has the letter P and a colon in front of it. Outside, in the room -
[ Alarm Blares ]
> Mike / G.M.: - the alarms turn off -
[ Alarm Disengages, cuts out ]
> Mike / G.M.: - and the lights go back to a dull kind of tungsten yellow. [ Jen sighs in relief ] Also at this moment, Luxe -
>Taylor / C.G.M.: [ Vocalizes a phone ringing ] Luxe! >Mike / G.M.: Your comm rings. [ Shannon chuckles ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Uh, Luxe picks it up.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] [ Stops vocalizing ] Luxe! > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Hey.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Hey, it’s Verne.
> Mike / G.M.: You hear a seagull in the background.
[ Seagull and ocean sounds ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Hey Verne, how’s it going?
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Well, I have some mixed reviews. Oh no, how you, like um. I have ah, good news on the - [ Shannon chuckles ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Did you see a play?
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] I have good news, I have bad news. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Comme ci comme ça, is a, a French, uh, words - > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Please continue?
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] So, the good news is, is I put in some calls, and ah, sure enough, ja, like, there was a NYPD Incorporated Headquarters Field Office near you, and they had the astral projection man, they had the hackers -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] - that was going to come in. Big decker, like, you know, the people hooked up to the NYPD things. But, you know, I got, ah, your friend Verne [ Shannon chuckling ] got that taken care of! [ OOC ] And sure enough, the astral projection in the middle of the room that had been watching you, [ Snaps ] vanishes.
[00:25:04]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Thank you so much, Verne, we really appreciate it. I, I just want you to know -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [ IC ] Hold on one second. [ Shannon laughs ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Okay, okay, I’m holding.
> Taylor / “Verne”: [IC] Then, there’s the comme ça.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Yeah -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [IC] And the comme ça is this: the comme ça is that, well! [ Chuckles ] The place you are it’s not entirely under NYPD Incorporated; it’s actually has a big contract with the Lock It Up Safety Gang? And they are not in the Union, Luxe.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] [ Sighs ] Yeah, I know.
> Taylor / “Verne” : [IC] Yeah, so, you should expect a lot more Lock It Up Safety Gang any second.[OOC] And the second he says it, you hear it. [ Vocalizes sirens ] [ Sirens fade in ] A bunch of sirens coming in very close, and then stopping. And you hear the sound of [ Sound of car doors opening and closing ] a dozen car doors opening.
[ Group sighs in discontent ]
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Uh, [ Chuckles ] who, anybody looking out the slot? > Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] No, Viv is not.
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: No one’s looking out the slot?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] No.
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: So, what you don’t see is a bunch of [ Nick and Shannon chuckle ] Lock It Up Safety Gang, uh, heavily armed mercenary private security guards, uh, hiding behind their, uh, vehicle doors with weapons drawn on the front door of the Municipal Data Center.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Alright, Verne, thank you so much for the heads up -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [IC] So, you’re gonna have to figure that out on your own, I can’t help you there, but also, just know that these are scabs against the Union contract, so if anything happens to them, I don’t care! [ Seagull caws ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Okay, [ Group laughs ] we’ll keep that in mind! Okay, thank you!
> Taylor / “Verne”: [IC] But also, they’ve got a lot of guns, so don’t get in a fight, but if you
do, kill as many as you can! But don’t tell anybody I said that -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Of course -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [IC] I am boat drunk, I had two drinks, and I -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] It’s okay, that’s alright -
> Taylor / “Verne”: [IC] Okay, I gotta go -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] It’s okay, take care of the pigeons!
> Taylor / “Verne”: [IC] Oh, I, are those -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Seagulls? Uh, ahoy-
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] What just happened?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Uh, we’re gonna have to go out the back.
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] Oh.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] I think at this point, uh, I jack out for sure. >Mike / G.M.: Yeah, yep.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Um, I’m outta that thing. Hoo!
> Mike / G.M.: You feel, yeah, you feel like you really dodged a cyber-bullet.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Oh, boy! That was rough, but, uh, it looks like we’re through it, huh, gang? Everything’s gonna be fine now.
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] Uh, we’ve got -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Not quite.
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] - company.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah, Lash is out.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] I guess that TK jacks out too. > Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] We did it! Did you -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Yeah, Tackle, you were great in there! > Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] I wish you guys would have seen it!
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] You came back in there after me, I didn’t think you were gonna do it, but you did it. It was amazing.
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] Pardon me!
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] I don’t like you yet, but I think I will.
> Mike / G.M.: You hear the dull, a dull sound of a, a female voice through a megaphone.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] [ Through megaphone ] Attention corporate citizens or otherwise! We have the building surrounded, there is no escape. Please, put your weapons through the slot in the door.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Uh, okay, here’s a plan, here’s an idea: uh, [OOC] and he grabs Michael Stewart’s badge, and he goes running to the front, and he opens the slot -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Wait -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] - and he puts it, and he puts the - > Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Lash still has the badge.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Wait. Lash still -
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Lash still has the badge.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Lash has the badge.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Lash? Hey, Stewart’s, Stewart’s card, Stewart’s card! > Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] You need Stewart’s card?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] The name tag, the name tag, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. > Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] Are you gonna be nice with it?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Of course I’m gonna be nice, please. > Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] Okay, you can have it!
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Alright, thank you, thank you! That’s why she has a nickname, [ Shannon chuckles ] ‘cuz she’s a team player. [OOC] Uh, and then I go running to the door. I open up the slot, and I’m like [IC] [ Imitating Michael Stewart ] Uh, I don’t, I don’t know what’s going on, I’m just - Sorry, I accidentally hit the wrong thing, it’s - I didn’t mean to watch TV on my shift, I’m sorry!
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Please don’t panic, employee! Unfortunately, because the alarm has been tripped, we must do an ocular assessment on the interior of the structure [ Shannon chuckles ] before we can send the All-Clear signal back to Central Command. Standby.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] [ Impersonating Michael Stewart ] No. [ Chuckles]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Wait, in canon, how long does it take Luxe to make a costume?
> Mike / G.M.: I mean, yeah, it really depends on what kind of costume?
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Here’s -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] I wanna look like this guy. [ Shannon laughs ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] When they say “Ocular” -
> Mike / G.M.: I mean you can just, strip the man that’s in the room [ Anthony, Shannon, Jen agree ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] When they say “Ocular,” do they mean they wanna look at Michael Stewart, or they wanna look at the building?
> Mike / G.M.: They wanna look in the building.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yes, So here’s - yeah.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] They’ve only got the slot, though.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] I guess, so, does everybody know about the back hallway - do we know about, like -
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] It’s not open to us right now.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Right, but -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] We could open it.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] We could open it. We could heal Michael Stewart, open the door, everyone hide back there, and you could maybe mind control him or something?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Why on earth would Michael Stewart open the door for us, when all of those employees are outside?
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] ‘Cuz Viv has mind control. > Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Viv has mind control.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] No, I have control actions.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Control actions.
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: I mean it’s semantic, Viv, come on. > Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] I don’t - yeah, I don’t -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre": [IC] Okay, fish lady -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] You don’t wanna do it.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] I like this! > Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] I - okay, wait, what?
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] So, yeah, I guess - so TK is, so TK is like [IC] Okay, guys, we need a fuckin’ plan. I’m taking point on this; let’s go in the back, we can open the door, we have Central Command locked down, failing that, we have Viv. You do Michael Stewart. Right, what’s your name? Andre? Andre’s not your name. Andre, [ Anthony sighs ] do -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] My name is Dev. [ Group gasps ] My name is Dev Cunningham.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Was that so hard? [ Anthony laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Nice to meet you, Dev!
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Thank you!
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] It is nice to meet you -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] I still have no nickname for you. > Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] That’s okay.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] It is very nice- thank you, thank you for telling us your name. Okay. Lash, can you get in Central Command and send them a command that says “Open up the back door”?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] You need me to get in Central Command? > Bijan / “TK”: [IC] You are Central Command.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Can you open up the backdoor?
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] Can you open the backdoor?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] I can try to open up the backdoor.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Thank you.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Okay. Luxe -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Oh, I never rolled for, I gotta roll for Fade. > Mike / G.M.: You should roll your Fade then, yeah.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Luxe, please -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] I take only one stun damage.
> Mike / G.M.: Nice.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yes! That’s the best I’ve ever done! [ Group cheers ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Hell yeah, Lash.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] I normally take so much damage.
> Mike / G.M.: Against, and I would just like to say, against a government level system - > Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yes!
> Mike / G.M.: Which is very difficult.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yes! [ Jen chuckles ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Go, Lash! Go, Tackle!
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Okay, back to the speech: [IC] Alright, Luxe, do your thing, make a disguise. Just, come up with a contingency plan. Viv, -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Okay, I’ll get this guy, I’ll get it out.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Viv, get a spell ready. I don’t know which one, your discretion.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Viv looks around the room for water. Is there a water cooler? Is there anything to drink in the room?
> Mike / G.M.: Taylor, what- has Michael been drinking anything on the job?
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: There is a thermos on the table where his little hologram trid projector was
on.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Oh my god, you’re a soup bender. [ Mike and Bijan laugh ] The most powerful of all the benders!
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Remember, remember that it’s 2101, and your references might not land. [ He and Shannon laugh ]
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: I reference a lot of turn of the century media. I’m always going on about John Phillip Souza’s marches.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Those are vintage in the way that Beethoven was vintage, right?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yeah. I fully believe, and I’m stating this here for all future
civilizations: Avatar will stand the test of time [ Shannon and Bijan laugh ]
> Mike / G.M.: I think that’s fair. [ Bijan laughs ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] So if -
> Taylor / Co-G.M: You don’t know if- the only way to know what’s in that thermos is to open it up.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Sure.
> Mike / G.M.: This is Shadowrun.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] So, uh, yeah. So Viv sees the thermos and, uh, grabs it, and opens it up, and sniffs.
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Milk. [ Bijan laughs, coughs ] > Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] No way.
> Mike / G.M.: Adult milk or milk milk?
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Reg’ ol’ milk.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Reg’ ol’ milk.
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Vitamin D, full fat milk.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Soy milk?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] He brings a thermos of milk?
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] It’s soy milk?
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Yeah, but still cold. But that’s enough water, right? > Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Milk has a high water content.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Okay.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Here’s my only concern, and it’s not the milk; you’d think it would be the milk, it’s not. My only concern is that we don’t know if the backdoor actually leads to freedom.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] We just have to hide.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] We just have to hide.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Yeah.’Til they give us the All-Clear, and then we got the good -
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yeah. [ Sighs ] [IC] First things first; Lash, you need to open the backdoor.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] Got it.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Do the Central Command thing. I don’t know how you do it, just do it. Uh, Luxe, make a disguise, you’re Michael Stewart.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Got it. I mean, all good -
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Do you like Stained Glass Windows?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] That’s kind of a good nickname for you: I think I’m gonna call you Michael Stewart. [ Bijan and Shannon laugh ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] This isn’t what I wanted. [ Group laughs ] This isn’t what I wanted at all. > Bijan / “TK”: [IC] God, it’s so good!
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] This is so great because I love, I know and love Michael Stewart, who is [ Shannon chuckles ] a friend, so [ Chuckles ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Uh, Viv?
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] Yes.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] You’re on control.
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] Contingency plan.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Yeah, and also controlling this guy, getting, making sure we don’t get fucked.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] I’m on it.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Uh, and Dev?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Yeah.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] We’re taking Stewart in the back.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: The real Stewart.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] The real Stewart.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] I’m with you.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] The real Stewart.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Got it.
> Mike / G.M.: You hear, uh, from the other side of the front door -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] As soon as Jeanette gets here with the scanner, we will scan you, and approach for entry. Please, disabuse yourself of any weapons: projectile, energy, uh, what, bladed.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] [ Impersonating Michael Stewart ] Jeanette takes forever! I don’t wanna wait here all night for Jeanette. [ Chuckles ]
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Are you trying to talk to them? [ Anthony laughs ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Dev, Dev, Dev please.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Sorry.
> Mike / G.M.: Um, if you wanna, [ Anthony laughs ] if you wanna try to con them into thinking -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] I’m not gonna try to con them.
> Mike / G.M.: Alright, alright, so -
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Alright, uh, let’s spring into action.
> Mike / G.M.: So, first order is Lash is gonna try to open the back door. > Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: Lash, tell me what you wanna do.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Oh boy.
> Mike / G.M.: You are standing in front of a thick metal door that has the same, uh, mechanism on it as the front door. You can see a weird arrangement of large interlocking metal panels on the left-hand side. There is also a security panel on the right-hand side, and you can see that there is a little screen that is there. You have only, up until this point, seen that screen say “Notice: Lock-down”. Now, it just has a little target on it, and you can see that above it, there is both a keypad and, like, a small little hole. You don’t- you could, figure out more about it if you do a Matrix Perception test.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Okay, yeah, ‘cuz I’m gonna- I, I think getting into this door, or like hacking this door might be difficult, and [ Chuckles ] cause issues. So I’m thinking, if there’s any way I can, like, use Michael’s like, it- there’s no, like, hand scanner or anything like that?
> Mike / G.M.: You haven’t really looked very closely at what the thing is. > Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: So, I mean, I would suggest looking more closely at it.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] I’m gonna look more closely at the thing and do a Matrix
Perception test of the thing.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] I get three hits.
> Mike / G.M.: So, I’m gonna tell you three things about this piece of equipment. This is a combination LCD screen-RFID reader -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Taco Bell?
> Mike / G.M.: [ Laughs ] KFC-Taco Bell-RFID.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] They all merged together in 2078.
> Mike / G.M.: KFC, A&W, RFID.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yep, yep.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s actually all RFID is branded as “KFC, A&W,” yeah. Um, you can see that it also has a, uh, there’s like a keypad- it’s not immediately clear what the keypad is for -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Sure.
> Mike / G.M.: - and the circle that’s above it is a depth scanner. It is a little camera. > Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Oh, it’s a little camera?
> Mike / G.M.: Mhm.
[00:34:57]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] So, I’m going to take Michael, and prop him up, and, uh, puppet
him -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yeah- okay.
> Mike / G.M.: Oh, you’re gonna, like, Weekend at Bernie’s him?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] I’m gonna Weekend at Bernie’s -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] I’ll help- I’ll help with that.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, then I won’t make you roll Strength, yeah. Both, both of you sort of Weekend at Bernie’s this unconscious man.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] What’s going on?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] Wait, so this thing, just- is this thing [ Laughs ] is this thing, like, does it like, scan biometric data to like, let you in?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] What do you think’s going on, let me ask it that way.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] I think, in there, is a little camera, and we can trick it into thinking
this is old Michael, headed in.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] See, old building. This is where the old building gets stupid. Come on.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] Let’s Weekend at Bernie’s him. [OOC] I mean, what is it called? In, um -
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] It’s still called Weekend at Bernie’s -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] It’s called Cyber-Weekend at Cyber-Bernie’s.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] [ Laughing ] Yeah, yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] But yeah, let’s lift the guy up.
> Mike / G.M.: Cyber-Weekend at New Bernie’s?
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] I think people say “Weekend at Bernie’s,” but don’t know where it’s from.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah!
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Like we say “gaslighting”.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Instead of the film Gaslight.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] So, each of them has an arm, and Viv runs over, and, like, tries to open one of his eyelids.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Oh, yeah, good idea, good idea.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yeah, yeah, yeah. TK is pumping his fist in the background, yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: As you, [ Shannon laughs ] as you get him into position, the little LCD screen that is underneath where the target is flashes gray, [ Computer noise sounds ] and you see a little outline of a card.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] Oh, uh -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Oh! I’ve got that now!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] Put that card in there! But use his hand! [ Chuckles ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [OOC] So, I take his, I take his, I take his dumb, unconscious hand [ Shannon chuckles ] and I wrap it around his stupid little card, and I put it in front of this dumb keypad, how is this not open yet, and how dare you.
> Mike / G.M.: And it makes a little do-doot, [ Computer confirmation noise ] and you hear the noise that you heard in the beginning of the evening, the latches unhooking, [ Shannon and Anthony vocalize in excitement ] the sound of huge pistons and motors releasing tension [ Machines whirr ], and the door swings open, like, more quickly than you’d think it would, and you have to get out of the way ‘cuz it has that -
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] Let’s go, let’s go!
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] I give Lash -
> Mike / G.M.: It has that wide arc to it.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] - I give Lash a high-five with one of Michael’s arms. > Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] And she does it.
> Mike / G.M.: Is Michael coming too? Is he, does, has this -
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: You tell me.
> Mike / G.M.: - jostled him at all? Uh, roll Body. [ Group cheers and claps with joy ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] If you could see what we see right now.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] That was a lot of Body rolls.
> Mike / G.M.: [ Sing-songy ] Roll Body!
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Pepper’s like “Oh my god, yeah.” [ Laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: [ Sing-songy ] Roll Body!
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Uh, TK’s just pumping his fists -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] - just like -
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, if you get more than two hits, he’s starting to wake up. Or, if you get two hits or more, he is starting to wake up.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Uh -
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Oh no.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Well, that’s not a problem.
> Taylor / “Michael Stewart”: [IC] [ Gasps, groans ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] [ Sound of a physical strike ] With my, with my elbow. [ Taylor groans louder ] [ Group laughs ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] I was gonna say, TK’s like ready to go. > Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] It’s okay, it’s okay, Slugger, I got it. That arm looks like it does a lot of damage.
> Mike / G.M.: He slumps back down again.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Uh, we’re gonna, we’re gonna have to make sure to DVR his
show for him, ‘cuz I’m gonna feel real bad about this.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] We’ll get a- we’ll get a broadcast.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Okay.
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Who’s gonna take care of all his moms? [ Group groans in sadness ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] He’s not- he’s not dead yet!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] He’s not dead, we’re not gonna kill him!
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] I always like to say “Yet,” ‘cuz you never know how a job’s gonna go.
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, the, um LED light that’s on the top of the room that you’ve just opened, that you’ve just gained access to blinks on and you see a dingy hallway, and a dingy stairwell leading downward.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Alright, fuckers. Let’s go!
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] We run in. I head down the stairway first.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] And we take, yeah, we take Michael with us.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yes.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] You can’t take him yet, because, while you were doing all of this, Luxe was trying to get his pants off -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Oh. [ Jen chuckles ] Oh yeah!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Um, but it wasn’t easy, and I just say [IC] Just one second, [OOC] and
I take his clothes off, and then I say [IC] Okay, take him. [OOC] And that’s all I need from him. > Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] Alright, you know how to find us, Luxe.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] [ Sighs ] Okay.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] Do you need help?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] I’m rolling Disguise right now, and I got three hits. How convincing is this disguise- does it work?
> Mike / G.M.: You, you are, Luxe -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: - dressed in Michael Stewart’s clothes -
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] You need to spend an Edge. [ Chuckles ]
> Mike / G.M.: Um, like you don’t know how well it does, until someone sees you and has to roll against it. So -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] I see, yes.
> Mike / G.M.: You got three.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Okay, should -
> Mike / G.M.: They could roll two, you know what I mean?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Right. Should I spend an Edge?
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yeah, it’s worth it.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Didn’t we already -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] We already spent an edge.
> Mike / G.M.: You spent one, you get two at each -
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Oh, so we get two -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Oh, we get two!
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Never mind.
[ Nick counting up in the background ]
> Mike / G.M.: Go with your gut, what does your gut say right now?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Uh, no.
> Mike / G.M.: Then don’t do it.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Okay, alright.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Alright.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Alright, so I have, um, a little bit of, kind of some stuff that I put on my face, and, um, my hair is kind of close enough to his, uh, so -
> Mike / G.M.: Isn’t he completely bald?
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Uh, yes -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] I’m sorry-
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: - except for a little bit of hair on the edges -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] - I’m just not even close -
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: - It’s kind of weirdly long.
> Mike / G.M.: I think that is the- that is maybe the biggest gap between you and the picture of the- tiny, grainy picture of the man on this ID -
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Also how tall are you?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Uh, Luxe, I think is six foot, or six-two, what is he -
> Mike / G.M.: So you’re also- yeah, he was pretty tall.
>Taylor / Co-G.M.: But he was exactly five-five.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Oh, he was -
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: As described in the beginning.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] He’s a short man.
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Yeah.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Okay, well -
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Well, I mean, five-five’s not short -
> Mike / G.M.: But like, you know, it doesn’t- does it say the height on his ID card?
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: No.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, okay.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Also, the- sorry, the -
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: But, do you think anyone out there might have met him before? [ Anthony and Shannon laugh ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Maybe!
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] I guess we’re gonna find out.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Sorry, also, let me- to make a point about five-five men: the shorter the
king, the taller the crown.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] There you go. There you go. [ Shannon chuckles, Mike vocalizes agreement ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] That’s a good point. Alright, well -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Think about that.
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Canon.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Gandhi said that. [ Shannon laughs ] > Mike / G.M.: So is everybody going downstairs except for Luxe?
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Mhm!
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Yep.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: And you are taking unconscious Michael Stewart with you?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yes.
.> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] We are.
[ 00:39:58 ]
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. [ Shannon laughs, doors hiss ] As you head downstairs, we’re-
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] I need his badge.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] [ Machines whirr ] We just- yes.
> Mike / G.M.: You are given his badge.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] I toss it to you Raiders-style as the door arcs closed.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] I think, uh, and I think we should be, like, just on the other side of, like, just on the other side of the door -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] So we can maybe try and hear?
> Mike / G.M.: So you, so you’re gonna close, you’re gonna close the door again [ Anthony and Bijan vocalize agreement ] you’re gonna reclose the door, and you’re gonna just hang out in this hallway.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] I think, while you all stay there, I wanna see if there’s a back way out of this thing. And somebody can come with me or whatever, but I wanna see if this tunnel can actually lead us out. [ Jen vocalizes agreement ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Okay, uh... Fuck, I’ll go with you. Uh -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Okay.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] And Viv, you know what, you know what to do. > Jen / “Viv”: [IC] I’m here.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, so we’re splitting the party three ways? The two of you are going in downstairs, [ Anthony, Bijan, and Jen agree ] Viv and Lash are staying with unconscious Michael Stewart, [ Bijan and Jen agree ] and Luxe is up in front of house doing the show.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yes!
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yeah, and I -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] They always say to split your party at least three times. [ Mike laughs ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yeah, and I think, I think I wanna -
> Mike / G.M.: This crew loves splitting the party more than any other group of players [ Bijan,
Jen, and Shannon laughs ] I have ever played with.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Because we all think we’re, we are, we’re all each capable of very different things -
> Mike / G.M.: You’re all natural leaders, too.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] We’re capable together. Anyway, I think, um, yeah. So, you guys - > Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Got it.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] - I think TK says- the last thing TK says is, like [IC] Keep an eye on Luxe, if you can.
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] Will do.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, the door closes, uh, you can see on the inside there’s another security panel that works the exact same way, uh, it is lighted closed, so you can just push this button, you don’t need to, you don’t need to input any biometric data in order to close it. You could probably very lightly hear what is going on on the other side of the door, if you, like, put your ear right up against it. [ Jen agrees ] But it’s a thick door, so you don’t get, like -
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Maybe- could you, on your commlink, send- ‘cuz I don’t- or I can
send them- I wanna send a message to, um, Luxe to just, like, put the audio on his commlink on.
> Mike / G.M.: ‘Kay.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] I do it.
> Mike / G.M.: Alright, done. You, like, hear grainy, sort of, you know, uh, comm, commlink audio of the other room. Let’s do TK and Dev first.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: You guys head downstairs, [ Bijan agrees ] uh, it’s like- they’re just poured unfinished concrete stairs that go down. As you go further and further down, it smells more damp, and more, kinda like, gross and almost swampy? It- it smells very strange. Um, it’s, you get the sense that you’re heading into, like, you know, [ Bijan agrees ] you’re heading into parts of the downstairs that people don’t normally go to. [ Anthony agrees ] Um, you get to another door, uh, that is just a metal fire door. Do you go through?
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. When you open that door, you are hit [ metal clangs ] with a much stronger smell, and it smells like fish. [ Anthony groans ] It smells like, just, just strong fish, rotten fish, fresh fish. Could both of you please roll Willpower.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Oh no, don’t puke, don’t puke, don’t puke!
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] TK looks at Dev and goes [IC] That you? [ Mike laughs ] Three hits. > Mike / G.M.: Okay. [ Gasps ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Two.
> Mike / G.M.: Two, you got a, you got two, and -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Oh, I glitched!
> Mike / G.M.: - you glitched!
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] I glitched!
> Mike / G.M.: Um, you don’t vomit, but your eyes are watering. [ Anthony and Jen groan ] It’s like hard to see, uh, it’s like you have a little trouble -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yeah -
> Mike / G.M.: - it’s dark down here. You hear water splashing as you cross the threshold of the
door -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yeah -
> Mike / G.M.: - and you think like “What the fuck am I standing in?”
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] [ Groans ] And, and I answer, uh [IC] Is what me? I don’t smell- what? Seems fine. [ Mike laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: You look at Dev and he’s like- his eyes are red, [ Jen laughs ] and he’s like -
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] TK’s like [IC] You’re lookin’ a little faint, there, champ.
> Mike / G.M.: He’s uh, he’s like, yeah, his nose is running, he’s sniffing a little bit.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] I’m just saying that the Municipal Data Center could just like -
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Lookin’ a little, uh -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Pay, pay to get a house and- pay to get house cleaning once a
week, you know what I mean?
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] You look a little pale there, buddy. > Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: You -
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Come on, champ, let’s go.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Okay, Slugger.
> Mike / G.M.: You look down to your right, and there is a very very long tunnel. It is, you can not see the end of it, and you do not see any light coming from the other end. You can see as far as the light of the hallway you just came out casts, you know, down- so it’s like, you know, maybe ten or fifteen feet.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] What do you say, buddy, you and me down the, down into the kingdom of fish guts?
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Yeah, sounds good. [OOC] Is there any other, is there any other possible way to go?
> Mike / G.M.: You look to the left, and you see that the tunnel, like, curves a little bit. Um, and you can see that it- you can’t see what’s around there, but -
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] You know, I think it’s time to put our heads together. > Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: You would, you would know- just to give you orientation; if you were to go right, you are walking, um, down the block, away from the Municipal Data Center. If you were to curve left, you would be going around the back of the building.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] And then, when we look around, I mean, obviously it’s disgusting, it’s gross, it smells bad; are we seeing any cabling or anything like that running along this, along this tunnel?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, if you look -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Either way?
> Mike / G.M.: - if you look up, you see a small bundle of cables, that is, that runs straight and to the left.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Alright, let’s- you know what, fuck it, let’s follow the wires.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Got it.
> Mike / G.M.: You turn left and you curve around a little bit [ Wet footsteps resounding ] and you come into a wide open dug-out area in the, like, underneath of the Municipal Data Center. And you can see far off to the left-hand side, sort of under, like, passing underneath the data center that you just came from, in the distance, you can see a bundle of cables, uh, plunging from above, um, into this clearing that you’ve just come into. And you can see directly in front of you, a huge bundle of cables also plunging in from above. You look up and you can see the grating that you saw from outside. And so you are looking up at the thing that you were previously looking down into, and you can see that these two giant bundles of cable come together, uh, to
your left in the center of this clearing where it joins a third bundle of cables that if you were to guess, probably comes from the server upstairs. [ Anthony agrees ] So the server cables come down and go forward, and meet the cables that are wrapped around the armature to the right, and then the cables that are wrapped around the armature to the left, and then you can see that those all join into a huge bundle of cables that goes into a, like, a blocked-off tunnel, uh, like a big concrete structure with a hole in it that’s just big enough for the cabling.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Okay
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] How high up is the grating?
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, the grating’s maybe like eight- eight, ten feet?
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Okay.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Okay.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] So, I guess TK commlinks Lash and Viv and says [IC] Yo, we are down underneath the server room- you don’t have to come down here, but here’s where we are.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] - and just sends coordinates.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yeah, like, yeah, like, there’s a secondary way out -
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yeah
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] - down here, if we need it. While he’s doing that, can I check out this cable junction?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, sure.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] I have, like, a probe that I carry with me, can I put- I just
wanna put it on there, and like, search for stuff.
> Mike / G.M.: Sure, so you go to where all the cables meet?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Mhm!
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, so when you get over there, you notice there’s a lot going on; there’s a lot of technology, and a lot of, like, switching infrastructure right here.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: There is a piece of technology on top of the bundle that is, um- actually, roll your, you have Knowledge skills in Communications Infrastructure, right?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah. [ Chuckles ] Roll that.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Okay, will you look up what that is on your screen?
> Mike / G.M.: Oh yeah. Please roll eleven dice.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Eleven dice. Can you do it on your dingus?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Easy.
> Mike / G.M.: [ Chuckles ] Dingus.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Give me that dice dingus. Eight.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Eight hits.
> Mike / G.M.: Hoi! That’s- I mean, that’s above your limit. You recognize all of this gear. A lot of this is, it’s kind of impressive -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: - that they have this old shitty building, and down here, this junction box is like cutting edge, state of the art, like, municipal technology. This is, you know, enterprise level stuff that a city should have, and it’s kinda funny to see it underneath this old peppermill of a building but, like, I guess that makes sense? Like, the city invests a lot in its infrastructure, it should have good things. [ Anthony agrees ] But there’s also a junction box on top of some of that other gear that is, like, doesn’t look like it’s supposed to be there -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s kinda got, like, wire crimps on it, there’s like a strange little, um, pen tester looking thing that just is shoved in to the middle, and if you get closer and you try to just sorta, like, see what it is, you can see that all of the, uh, all of the identifying information like the serial number and the model number and any of the branding or whatever has just been, kinda like filed or maybe even melted off?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Okay?
> Mike / G.M.: And there’s a single thin light blue cable that comes out of it that runs on the top of the huge bundle, that then goes through the blocked passageway where all of the cables are.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Okay, so what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna look at that weird little box -
> Mike / G.M.: Does that make sense to everybody? [ Group responds in agreement ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] I’mma look at that weird little box, uh, I’m just gonna pull a wire cutter out of my back pocket. I’m gonna cut it, I'm gonna put my little dingus right there, and I’m gonna replace the box with my dingus.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Do I see him doing this?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] I’m gonna say- and I’m gonna say like [IC] Hey, Slugger, there is some weird stuff going on in this tunnel. Just so you know, I have no idea what it is, but it looks very bad.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] What are you here for?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] I am here to deliver a pizza and to help you get out of here.
Isn’t that great?
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] It is.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Aren’t we friends now?
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Uh, no, uh [ Anthony and Bijan laugh ] [OOC] Yeah, no, TK doesn’t [ Anthony chuckles ] trust that easily unfortunately.
> Mike / G.M.: When you say “dingus” -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Mhm.
> Mike / G.M.: Um, they don’t know what this means, but I think for the uh, assistance of the audience, like, what does the thing that you’re installing look like, and what does it do?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] The thing that I am installing is a box that looks a little similar to the box that I just removed, but it is smaller, it is sleeker, um, and it connects easier and is a little, um, just looks like a simpler device -
> Mike / G.M.: ‘Kay.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] And I am just attaching the simpler device, and getting rid
of this other, bigger device. > Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] And what it’s basically doing is, um, it is knowing to let me know what was going down that blue wire.
> Mike / G.M.: Got it. You guys don’t know that. > Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Right.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Mhm.
> Mike / G.M.: Yes.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] But I do see him do that.
> Mike / G.M.: You see Dev do this
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] And I, and we’re down in the thicket of the forest of cables, [ Mike agrees ] and I’m sure TK is like [IC] Wait, okay.
> Mike / G.M.: Cut upstairs to Luxe. [ Anthony, Bijan, and Shannon laugh ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Alright, Luxe has, uh, got his, got his- he’s about as good as he’s gonna look, um, he’s prepared to be Michael Stewart [ Shannon chuckles ] and he is, uh, waiting by the door [ Jen clears her throat ] with his badge in hand.
[ 00:50:04 ]
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] [ Through megaphone ] Alright, we have scanned the building, and,
uh- wait a minute. Employee Stewart?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] [ Acting as Michael Stewart ] Yes!
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Michael?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Yeah, I’m sorry, is my pizza out there? [ Anthony laughs ]
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Michael, this is Lieutenant Deborah!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Hey, Deborah, I’m sorry.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] [ Laughs ] That’s okay! You don’t have to apologize to me. We’ll be right inside, is everything okay?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Everything’s great, the NYPD just left.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] What?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] The NYPD, they just left.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] I don’t understand! But we’re gonna approach the structure and come inside soon, it’ll be good to see you again!
> Mike / G.M.:You hear footsteps.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Okay.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Is there a pie in the room? [ Jen and Shannon laugh ] Roll for pie!
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] Luxe -
> Mike / G.M.:You guys behind the door hear this.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] I just start tapping on the door [IC] Luxe, get out here!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Luxe does peek- can I, can I peek into the room with, uh, Viv, or no?
> Mike / G.M.: They have to open the door from the other side.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Do I have scissors on me at all?
> Mike / G.M.: You tell me, what do you normally have in your kit?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] I don’t normally have scissors on me [ Taylor laughs ]
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] You want us to open the door?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Are there- is there a knife or scissors anywhere around here that could shave part of my head? [ Bijan laughs ] Quickly?
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] Oh my god.
> Mike / G.M.: Um -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] I’m not gonna dignify that question with a response. [ Laughs ] > Mike / G.M.: Uh, as much as I wanna “Yes, and” you Nick -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: No [ Taylor chuckles, coughs ] I will not let you shave your head with some scissors.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] A knife! Scissors, shaving head, without a mirror, - > Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Alright, alright Luxe, uh, Luxe -
> Mike / G.M.: In forty-five seconds.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Luxe puts together, um -
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] What’s happening, Luxe, what’s happening?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Luxe quickly spins up a patient ID card from a body enhancement
service.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Oh!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Wow! [ Mike chuckles ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Fuck yeah. [ Jen laughs ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] B.E.S.
> Mike / G.M.: When was the last time Agent Deborah saw -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] I hope it was not yesterday [ Shannon laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: -saw Michael Stewart? She did say “It will be good to see you.”
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] Yeah, it’s, it’s been more than a day. It’s been more than a day. > Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Oh my god
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Wow
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Deb misses people fast, huh? [ Shannon chuckles ]
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] More than a day! [ Anthony laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Listen, Deb’s a friend-maker, you know, like, she’s a connector.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] [ Midwestern American accent ] Deb.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] I love this.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Do I get First Impression for this?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Okay.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] Well, Deborah doesn’t know that it’s the first impression. > Mike / G.M.: Oh, that’s actually true. Uh, yeah, if you’re not yourself, then no. Right? > Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] That’s really more of a philosophical question.
> Mike / G.M.: It really is.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: How am I not myself first impression-wise?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yeah, how am I not myself?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] And it’s like, if- if- if Michael actually had all this -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Social tests.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] - enhancement, is it actually a different person?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Four, I got four hits on this ID that’s basically- it’s a patient ID card. It says that, uh, there- if you were to look into it, it would say he’s gotten some, um, he’s gotten some cyber plugs, uh, some, you know, future plugs and, uh, a little bit of a body extension. Um, and he looks younger. [ Group laughs, someone claps ] Uh -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] A lot younger.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Oh, I love this idea!
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] And, you physically printed a card?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] No, this is on my comms so that, if I could share it if I wanted- if, if I got questions about it, I’d be like “Oh, don’t tell anyone, but,” and then send it to her comm.
> Mike / G.M.: So, from the -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] That’s my plan [ Laughs ] right now. > Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] I love it
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] That’s amazing.
> Mike / G.M.: The door begins to open.
[ Door mechanisms hiss and whirr ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: And you see a woman, uh, standing there, and she’s got two employees, two compatriots behind her. Uh, what does Agent Deborah and her crew look like?
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] Uh, she’s, uh, a very tall, [ Door opens fully, hisses, and quiets ] just built lady. Lots ‘a hair, but it’s all up, [ Mike chuckles ] it’s all up up, this is not gonna touch her shoulders at the workplace. Uh, but she’s got a lotta hair, and she’s huge, she’s tall, she’s like six and a half feet tall. Uh, and like -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] She’s human?
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] Yeah, she’s human, but she’s fuckin’ jacked. > Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Okay, cool.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] Uh, uh, you can tell that she, you know, this is someone who takes their private security role extremely seriously, both as a manager, and as a physical representation of strength and force.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Yes.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] Um, and she, you know, just like, bends way down and comes up
under the door. [IC] [ Sighs ] Guard Stewart, how are you?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] [ Acting as Michael Stewart ] I’m doin’ okay, Deborah, how are you?
> Mike / G.M.: This man looks very different to you, [ Shannon chuckles ] Deborah. Roll -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] I’m gonna have to ask some uncomfortable questions.
> Mike / G.M.: First, roll to, whatever the, uh, what’s the opposed to Disguise?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Uh, that’s uh, I got- my rating is three, [ Sighs ] I forgot to say what oppose on the Disguise is.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s, uh, Perception plus Intuition.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] Versus?
> Mike / G.M.: Yep. Uh, you, you roll Perception plus Intuition -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: - and if you get greater than three, you do believe, at least, for now, that this
person is Michael Stewart.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] I will need to con you.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] Intuition’s a skill, right? No, I’m sorry, is uh, Perception -
> Mike / G.M.: Perception is a skill.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] - is a skill. Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: Yep. Reroll those sixes.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] [ Taylor chuckles ] Oh no.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Oh. Yeah.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] Two hits, total.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Yeah!
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Oh wow.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yes!
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, Michael Stewart looks very different, but his voice is definitely the same, [ Nick and Shannon chuckle ] and he does have a very characteristic voice.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Have you had some- I’m so sorry I have to ask.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Yeah.
[ 00:55:00 ]
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Michael, have you had some serious work done?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Yeah. I was actually celebrating tonight, that’s why I ordered a large, [ Jen and Shannon chuckle ] um, pizza, and that I didn’t -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Is that- the pizza on the stairs is yours?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Yeah, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, I didn’t know it wouldn’t fit through the slot, I usually get two mediums, ‘cuz, you know -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Michael, I -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] I’m watching my weight -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] I am -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] - usually, but then I was like -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Michael, could you shut up, please? [ Shannon laughs ] I am so sorry to have to put you through this, but there are certain protocols that must be adhered to once the alarm has been triggered -
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] I understand.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Do you have any sort of record of gene treatments? Therapies,
anything?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Yeah. [OOC] I share that with her. [ Commlink pings ]
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Oh!
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, roll your Perception plus Intuition again to judge whether or not this is a real- a real thing. What was your -
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Go, go, go!
> Mike / G.M.: What was your number of -
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Go, go, go!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Uh, it was four.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Oh, I rolled three ones.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] That’s three ones. That’s a glitch?
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, yeah, keep rolling your sixes. Okay, you, you, you glitched and also didn’t beat the threshold. [ Jen clears throat ]
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] I -
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, hold on, is Deborah- is Deborah attracted to men? > Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] I think everybody.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah?
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Um, I think Deborah’s, like, kind of turned on. [ Group laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Ah, yes, glitching is being turned on. [ Group laughs ]
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Yes!
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] Yes.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] It is a glitch when you’re turned on, thank you, canon.
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, like, not- not only- not only is this obviously true, that like, you know, like “Oh, this- this thing passes muster,” she’s like “Oh, fuck, Mike Stewart.” [ Shannon laughs ]
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] It’s the part I was born to play, Mike. [ Bijan laughs ] I’ve got it. > Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] I love- okay, Michael Stewart, I hope you hear this someday. [ Taylor
laughs, coughs ]
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Oh, my goodness, [ Laughs ] I, uh, I’m so embarrassed to have to ask those questions and have to ask for the documentation, Mike.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Oh, it’s okay, I’m very, very embarrassed right now.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Oh, no, no, you don’t be embarrassed, I’m the one that’s- I’m the
one that’s embarrassed.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Okay.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Uh, well, I mean- I can- we can just see that there’s nothing much going on in here. Are you okay, it looks like... there’s some blood on the counter.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Yeah, I, um, didn’t wanna miss my show, and so I was gonna try to open the door real quickly, and I tripped, and my head hit the button.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Oh, Mike, come here, buddy.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] I’m sorry [OOC] so I come, uh, close to Deborah. > Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Aw.
> Mike / G.M.: He smells really good. [ Group laughs ]
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [OOC] I know, yeah. Um, I- she goes to like, almost embrace him, and then stops, and is like [IC] [ Sighs ] [ Shannon laughs ] You know, this is gonna sound crazy, but I’m glad that the alarm was tripped, ‘cuz I got to see you again, [ Nick chuckles ] and it’s been a long time, and obviously, everything here is okay. [ Sighs ] Um, is- should we go downstairs, is there anything down there?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] No.
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, her crew, who’s behind her, uh, one of them says [IC] Yo, Deborah?
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Yeah, I got it!
> Mike / G.M.: [IC] Deborah, Deborah, we got a -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] I got it!
> Mike / G.M.: [IC] We got a seven-fourteen -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Yeah, okay.
> Mike / G.M.: [IC] In the lower east side.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Well, you gotta go downstairs, I’ll be out in a second, okay, leave me alone.
> Anthony / “Second Guard”: [IC] Deborah, Stained Glass Windows is almost over!
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Yeah, oh- wait a minute, you’re a big fan, you were watching
Stained Glass Windows, weren’t you?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Yeah, I was gonna try to, but I missed it.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] [ Sighs ] Oh, this is insane. [ Taylor, Mike, and Shannon laugh ] When your shift is over, send me a message, it’d be great to catch up! We’ll, we’ll, um, talk about how the show went, okay?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Okay.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] And we’ll get a drink, you like milk, right?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] I love milk, I have some here, if you want.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] No, it’s okay! Uh, no drinking on the job for me! [ Nick and Taylor laugh ] Alright, well, it was really good to see you again.
> Anthony / “Second Guard”: [IC] Stop, gross!
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] [ Chuckles ] I got it! [ Group laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Thanks for being so understanding, Deb. I understand there’s gonna be a
report, but I would appreciate it if -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Oh, there’s not gonna be a report.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Okay!
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Everything’s fine.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Thank you so much.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Yeah, just, hey, don’t- don’t trip and fall and hit the switch again, or whatever happened.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] [Chuckles ] I’m gonna move that dang thing.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Uh, you can’t.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] [ Group laughs ] I know.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Okay, alright, well, you have my- you’ve got my comm number - > Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Yeah, I just sent the, um -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Okay, great.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Credentials to you -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Yeah.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Please don’t mention that to anyone, I know it’s obvious, but I just want- I want people to think I’m at least working out or -
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] No promises, Mike.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Okay, [ Taylor laughs ] alright.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] Have a good night, we’re outta- we’ll get outta your hair now - > Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Okay, Deborah.
> Taylor / “Deborah”: [IC] - let you get back to work.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [IC] Do you want a slice of pizza?
> Mike / G.M.: As she walks out, [ Taylor laughs ] she taps the door “Close” button, [ Door
hisses ] and, uh, the giant door [ Door mechanisms whirr ] starts to close over the front. > Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Masterful. [ Chuckles ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] I, I ship it. [ Bijan laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, what are we doing in the anteroom, how is -
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] We heard all of it. > Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] And we’re just- I’m just holding onto Michael Stewart’s collar like “Oh my goodness!”
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] And Lash is holding onto Viv like “Oh my goodness!” [ Jen and Shannon laugh ]
> Mike / G.M.: Do you guys open the door?
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Yeah, well, we hit the button to open the door.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, so, Luxe, you see the door to the downstairs start to open, after your masterful performance. Back to the bundle of cables:
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Wait a second.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Yes?
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] What’s that in your hand?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] What’s in my- there’s nothing in my hand.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] So he doesn’t have the -
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Oh, he’s already installed it.
> Mike / G.M.: I mean, it is literally not in his hand.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] No, but there’s a, like another, there was a- there were two boxes! > Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Oh, the old box?
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yeah, the old box.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Ah, I threw that into the fish water.
[ 1:00:00 ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Got it, okay. [ Someone chuckles ] [IC] So, you said there’s something weird over there? Let me go take a look.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Yeah, okay.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Uh, and I guess TK walks over and checks out the cables. > Mike / G.M.: It’s a huge fucking bundle of cables, it’s like, just, it’s -
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] He’s suspicious because -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] So, here’s what’s up, Slugger: TK, it’s TK, right? > Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Okay, here’s what’s up, TK: these split off, and they go into two different directions to serve literally all the data in the city to the Matrix. This blue cable goes somewhere else, and what I’m trying to find out is where that blue cable goes, and who is using it, because they can potentially be siphoning off a lot of data right now.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Who sent you?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] TK!
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] I know you can’t tell me.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] TK!
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] I wanna know.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] I know you wanna know, and I wanna tell you, believe me, I do. And yet, at the same time, if I told you, it would be really bad for both of us.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Okay, I think we might be -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Mostly you. [ Chuckles ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] That’s probably true. [ Anthony, Mike, and Taylor chuckle ] I think we’re here, maybe doing some similar stuff.
> Mike / G.M.: Do you -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: Do you, uh, because I wanna understand how your data tap works -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Mhm.
> Mike / G.M.: Do you have the capability, right now, to see anything -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Oh, it’s all going through my deck.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, do you wanna, like, look at it? Do you wanna know anything about what’s in there?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Not during this conversation. [ Taylor chuckles ] > Mike / G.M.: Cool, great, perfect. [ Anthony chuckles, Bijan sighs ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] You’ve got your job, I’ve got my job. I hope I didn’t get in the way of your job.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] You did, but that’s okay -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] I- okay -
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] We’ve- we worked it out.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] You kinda got in the way of my job too, but I was able to accomplish my job. I hope that you were able to accomplish yours, or you will be able to.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Yeah, I think we’re- yeah, I think we’re- we’ll figure it out. > Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Okay. Is there anything I can do before I go - > Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Yeah -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Because I’m gonna go up this grate.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] You can just tell me what’s, what’s going through that blue wire.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] You wanna know a little about what’s going through the blue
wire?
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Yeah, you do too, don’t you?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] I do a little bit. I do a little bit.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Well, why don’t you check it out, and tell me what you can tell me?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Because we would both be instantly killed. My- my deck right now is a backup, and it is not for my eyes. Here’s something that I’ve learned: I’m thirty? Okay, I’m - [ Group laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: I was gonna say, roll Con.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] I’m thirty? Here’s what’s up: I’m a pretty old guy to be in this business, and one thing I’ve learned from double-crossing too many people and looking at too many stuff- too many stuff! Okay? [ Jen and Shannon laugh ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] I, yeah, I hear you, I hear you.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] It will catch up with you. So let’s, both of us, just avoid whatever this is, at least here, right now, [ Bijan agrees ] until we got the heat off. So here’s what I’m gonna do: I’m gonna leave, I’m gonna walk all the way down into this fish water. And it’s gonna suck. And in a couple days, when things cool down, you send me a message on my comm, and I’ll let you know what I found on the blue wire.
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Alright.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Alright?
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] You know, I trust you as far as I can throw you; I can- think I can throw you -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] You can throw me pretty far, Slugger! > Bijan / “TK”: [IC] - pretty far, yeah. [ Shannon laughs ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] You can throw me pretty far!
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] I’m pretty sure that’s true.
> Mike / G.M.: He’s not a big guy [ Chuckles ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Yeah. Well, good luck with the fish water.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Hey, thanks man, good luck with whatever it is you are doing. [ Bijan sighs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Does he run off?
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] He walks right off into the fish water.
> Mike / G.M.: There’s a pit-pat-pit-pat of, uh, [ Jen groans ] shallow water as Dev recedes into
the darkness.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: You can have Dev as a contact. > Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Sure.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Yes.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yes!
> Mike / G.M.: Um, I mean, you guys can decide whatever you wanna do, like, you got- you still have a bunch of police out in front, like they’re slowly- hanging, like, they’re leaving, but they’re not leaving quickly?
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Alright, so, TK -
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Right.
> Mike / G.M.: And they don’t know that there’s seven people in this- [ Nick chuckles ] yeah. > Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] TK sends a commlink message explaining the situation [ Commlink chimes ] to the rest of the team, and says [IC] Put- Luxe, put Michael’s clothes back on him. Let’s leave him there.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Yeah, we wanna put him back in the chair, I think. > Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] And, let’s get the fuck out of here.
> Mike / G.M.: Can I make a recommendation? Can someone just say “And I delete the security footage.”
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Oh.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] We’ve changed the -
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Lash, can you delete the footage?
> Mike / G.M.: I cannot get them to learn this lesson. [ Anthony and Nick laugh ] It makes the game harder [ Nick laughs ] because they’re so easy to catch -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] But can I, can I tell you something? Can I tell you something? Once he hits street level, Dev would’a done that. [ Mike and Nick chuckle ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yeah, yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Dev would’ve done that.
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: He’s on it too.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Dev would have deleted that for sure.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] I feel like, I- okay, I’ll tell you. [IC] Lash, could you- could you also just like, do the Central Command thing again, and just delete the data?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] Yeah, I could just- > Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Just real fast.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [IC] - I don’t even need to go to Central Command, I’ll just, this- everything’s, uh- nothing’s connected here, it’s all- it’s just like, uh film. [ Chuckles ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Yeah, it’s all just on, like, Betamax [ Anthony and Shannon laugh ]
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Lash, I love you, just, just do it. Let’s- let’s get out of here. > Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Viv replaces the milk jug back on the desk. [ Chuckles ] > Mike / G.M.: Uh, do you guys leave down the long tunnel?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. Uh -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Right? > Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Yes.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah, not out the front door.
> Mike / G.M.: So you put Michael Stewart back in his chair, [ Shannon agrees ] you arrange everything as nicely as you possibly can, you wipe the blood off of the edge of the command console.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Oh, I wanna get the commlink information for Michael, in case we can send him later, the episode. [ Jen chuckles ]
> Mike / G.M.: Sure, you initiate, uh, a contact card transfer between your terrible commlink - > Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah. [ Taylor chuckles ]
> Mike / G.M.: - that you hate using, and Michael Stewart’s commlink -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: - that’s just like, you know, in his pocket.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Right, but I don’t want him to be able to trace me.
> Mike / G.M.: No, you just get his info, he doesn’t get yours.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Cool.
> Mike / G.M.: Um, you check the, uh, you- we’ll just hand waive it; you do some technomancer stuff?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: And you look to make sure that you can delete the local, um, the local repository
of all of the security footage.
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> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Yep.
> Mike / G.M.: And you find, actually, that it has already been deleted.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Oh, cool.
> Mike / G.M.: Thanks, Dev. [ Nick chuckles ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] You’re welcome. [ Anthony and Bijan laugh ]
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Wow.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Wow.
> Mike / G.M.: Um -
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Lash goes [IC] I love Dev, or my nickname for him: Andre. [ Group laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Um -
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] When you, when you all look at your contact card for Dev, you realize it just says “Andre”. [ Jen and Shannon laugh ] You don’t have contacts for Dev Cunningham.
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: No.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] It just says “Andre the Pizza Boy”. [ Anthony and Shannon
laugh ]
> Mike / G.M.: Those of you who are still upstairs go downstairs, the big door to the downstairs will have to remain open, but that’s okay. You go into the long hallway, [ Jen agrees ] um, I mean, does anybody want to take any look at any of the data cable anything before you leave?
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] Absolutely not.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] We just need to get out of here.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OC] I mean, TK’s already downstairs, like -
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah.
> Jen / “Viv”: [IC] Shall we summon Henley?
> Bijan / “TK”: [IC] Well, we’re still underground. [ Chuckles ]
> Mike / G.M.: [ Sounds of running feet in shallow water ] You run down the hallway, and as you run, and run, and run, uh, you know, tracing the distant pitter-patter of footsteps of Dev, you see, at the far distance, a little bit of light glow, and then go away. And you run, and you’re running for maybe like, three or four minutes, um, it’s dark, you turn on your flashlights that are connected to your comm. It keeps smelling stronger and stronger of fish smell. [ Jen groans ] It gets really, really gross, um, we’ll just assume you all passed the Willpower test and you’re not throwing up on your shoes.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [OOC] Yay!
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Oh, Viv can see, so - [ Chuckles ]
> Mike / G.M.: Well yeah, Viv can see just fine. Um, so, yeah, Viv, you see, like, along the edges of this tunnel, like it’s a- it’s like a municipal tunnel, it’s a long abandoned something, you’re not sure what; there are power cables here and there, some communications cables, nothing nearly as intense as what you just left. When you get to the end, there is just a, like a- a slight branch? ANd, you know, it goes off into a couple different places. You can see that there’s a grate, uh, that’s all rusted over, you can see that there is a, uh, a rusty metal door. One of the tunnels gets thinner and thinner and thinner until it becomes just, like, a regular old pipe, and you’re pretty sure that what you’re standing in front of is the thing that you saw the light come out of from a distance. Um, and when you put your hands up against it, it just feels, like, it just- it kinda feels like particle board? Is Viv in front ‘cuz she can see?
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Do you wanna push on it? > Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Sure.
> Mike / G.M.: You push on it. You get a very strong scent of fish [ Bijan and Jen groan ] but it’s not as pungent or gross as the one that you have been smelling in the sewer, it’s one that’s very familiar to you; it’s the smell of the market. [ Group cheers ] And you push and push, and you realize that you’re pushing on the back of Calixto’s jukebox. [ Bijan gasps ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [OOC] Wow.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] No way.
> Mike / G.M.: And you see the Chamber of Commerce. It is dark, there is no one in the market. > Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Wow.
> Bijan / “TK”: [OOC] TK calls Henley the Bentley.
[ Outro Music cuts in ]
> Mike / G.M.: You are now leaving Fun City. Thanks for listening, if you wanna support the show, get access to bonus one-off episodes, our bi-weekly post-episode chat show Fun Chatty, and our Discord, head on over to Patreon.com/FunCityVentures. And of course, thanks to all of our Patrons for help keeping this ship afloat. We’d also love it if you told your pals about the show, shared it on social media, drew us some fanart, gave us a rating on iTunes, or just came by to say “Hey” on Twitter.
[ Outro music fades out ] [ Credits music fades in ]
> Bijan / “TK”: I’m Bijan Stephen, and I am TK. Um, you can find me online @bijanstephen on Twitter, which is B-I-J-A-N S-T-E-P-H-E-N, or on Instagram, and you should just Google that.
> Jen / “Viv”: I’m Jen de la Vega, I am Viv. You can find me online @randwiches, that’s the word “Sandwiches,” but replace the “S” with an “R”!
> Nick / “Luxe”: This is Nick Guercio, I play Luxe Scythe. You can find me on Twitter @ngursh, um, and on Instagram at @nguercio, G-U-E-R-C-I-O.
> Shannon / “Lash”: This is Shannon Odell, I play Lash Goodbog. You can find me on Instagram and Twitter @shodell, S-H-O-D-E-L-L.
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: This is Taylor Moore and I play all the Bad Boys. I'm @taylordotbiz.
> Mike / G.M.: My name is Mike Rugnetta, I am your G.M. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram @mikerugnetta. You can find the show on Twitter and Instagram @FunCityVentures. Fun City was recorded at Fortunate Horse in beautiful Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It was produced, edited, and sound designed by me, Mike Rugnetta. Pixlriffs is the kinda guy who would delete the security footage. Fun City's music is by Sam Tyndall. Our art is by Tess Stone, our Discord mods are Olivia Gulin, Kit, and Kestrel, and the voice of Artemis is Molly Templeton.
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[ Credits music fades, post-credits scene music cuts in ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Can I just say- can I just say real quick where Dev is right now?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [OOC] Dev is speeding off on a stupid pizza scooter. [ Group laughs ] And he’s on his comm , and he said [IC] Very few issues, just a few dumb kids, got everything you needed. Payment expected tomorrow.
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: [IC] We can just pay you now, we don’t have to wait until tomorrow. [ Nick laughs ]
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Great, ‘cuz I’m on a pizza scooter in the middle of the South Bronx -
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: [IC] [ Chuckles ] We’ve all got Venmo.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] - which is- Cyber Venmo, please.
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: [IC] Oh, I don’t- actually don’t have Cyber Venmo.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] You guys aren’t on Cyber Venmo yet?
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: [IC] I’ve got Neo-Venmo!
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] It’s 2101, you gotta get on the Cyber Venmo! > Taylor / Co-G.M.: [IC] I have Paybucks! [ Group laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: You can hear this man’s muscles flexing in frustration on the other end of the line. Um, [ Jen and Shannon laugh ] you get a payment for 200,000 New Yen.
> Jen / “Viv”: [OOC] Woo!
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: [IC] Beautiful.
> Mike / G.M.: Think that’s our game.
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: Uh, great.
> Jen / “Viv”: That’s a wrap for Anthony Carboni! [ Group claps, cheers ] Thank you!
> Nick / “Luxe”: Great job!
> Anthony / “Dev / Andre”: Yeah, that was fun!
> Mike / G.M.: Good game, friends!
> Taylor / Co-G.M.: Yeah, great work, everybody, that was a blast!
> Shannon / “Lash”: I can’t believe you just dropped into a Shadowrun game and played! > Jen / “Viv”: I know! [ Voices fade out ]
[ Transcription by Joseph Blaine, slow typist extraordinaire ]