The team tails PBA bureaucrat Verne Sollix, looking for honey pot inspiration.
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Transcription by Kris @literallycondom on Twitter [ 00:00:00 ] [ 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.
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Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Previously on Fun City: the team accepts a run for Mo Ashina, of Combinatorial Limited. The job: frame Severin Solllix, the head liaison between the Police Benevolence Association and the city’s Office of Collective Bargaining. Ashina claims that Sollix is secretly architecting a strike in an attempt to extort the city--or worse. The Corps don’t need the headache, so they’ve hired Combinatorial to architect a solution: disgrace Sollix by showing him fraternizing with gang members. Combinatorial fabricated damning footage but security specs require it include accurate biometric metadata. The team must 3D-scan Verne, gather his fingerprints and iris, bake it into the footage, and plant it at City Archive where it will be discovered by the B Team. Sollix is giving a talk at a security conference in 24 hours. The plan is to arrive with a honeypot: something Verne cannot resist, in the form of an exhibitor booth perhaps, thus giving them a chance to scan his giant body. We join the team now as they peruse the detailed dossier on Verne which includes his highly regimented schedule. Their plan: tail him for the day and see what they learn to inform the design of their honeypot.
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> Nick Guercio / “Luxe Scythe”: [ IC ] [ water, waves and occasional seagull sound effects start ] So we look at the schedule and we see--what, what do we want? We want times where he’s alone...
> Jenn de la Vega / “Vivian Lakewood”: [ IC ] We want everything, we want--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] --breakfast, lunch, dinner, we want--
> Shannon Odell / “Lash Goodbog”: [ IC ] Yeah!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Exercise--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] How does he shower--
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] How long does he sleep?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Maybe he can’t resist a s--, a uh egg buffet? [ chuckles ]
> Bijan Stephen / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Yeah we got that egg specialty!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] We can’t get eggs, Lash, that’s the worst thing you could do. L--
> Taylor Moore / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Let ‘em go, Mike, let ‘em go. [ chuckling ] The Egg Council’s gonna buy a million dollars worth of ads on this fuckin’ show. [ everyone laughs ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Heyyy!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Big Egg please.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] But I think that--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Big Egg!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Big Egg!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] But I think that’s a great idea, we need his full schedule.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Mmm.
> Mike / G.M.: So you guys, you guys have from Mo Ashina--you have where he lives... > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Uh-huh.
> Mike / G.M.: What he--where he tends to go at every point during the day. You have about half an hour before some of that starts.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm.
> Mike / G.M.: Um, and today’s a full day where he’s just gonna go about and like go about his life, and then you have his schedule for tomorrow which is different because it’s the day of the conference.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Ah!
> Mike / G.M.: Does that make sense?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Um.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] And we only have two days, that’s right.
> Mike / G.M.: You have today, is your full day. Tomorrow is when he’s giving his talk.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] No I mean to get--to get the information back to--
> Mike / G.M.: Once you g--once you have the informa--once you have him scanned?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah you have to get it--yeah I guess if you miss him tomorrow you have one full day to try to figure out--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Figure out to do-- > Mike / G.M.: Some other--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] --something else. > Mike / G.M.: Yeah.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] And then Sunday, it’s due basically. > Mike / G.M.: Sunday it’s, Sunday it has to be planted.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Sunday it has to be planted. Friday is the day of the conference. Today is Thursday.
> Mike / G.M.: Tell me if I’m wrong, you’re g--you’re going to go see what this man does throughout his day in order to see if you can learn something about him that will help you figure out what action to take on the day of the conference. So I just wanna--I just wanna point out that ...that’s tomorrow. It’s an all--this is like... cramming for the final.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Right.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay great. Cool.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Okay, I was thinking, since my Concealment worked pretty well-- > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] It did.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] The last time we worked together, I may try to summon another water spirit. So that we can try to conceal our vehicle at le--at the very least. And is it true, Lash, that you have a Chameleon Suit?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I do.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Perhaps that will help you sneak around?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yes. While we’re also concealed in a vehicle, I can sneak out, also being concealed.
> Mike / G.M.: So the first two things on Sollix’s agenda every day are he wakes up, leaves his building and goes um several blocks north to the Policeman’s Athletic League. Uh and he is scheduled to do that in, like I said, about half an hour. Uh, so you guys have half an hour. He doesn’t live too far north of you, uh he lives on the Upper West Side.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] When is, when... what’s the next thing, what’s after that?
[ 00:04:47 ] > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] After Verne leaves the Police Athletic League he always grabs a big breakfast shake, in like a giant, one and a half sized big gulp, and a brick
sized protein bar uh at the Police Athletic League juice place called “Carrots? Why Not!” It’s downstairs. Uh after he grabs his brick sized protein bar and his big gulp breakfast shake, an armored car carries him to the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association office, the PBA office.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s also uh, since he’s so big, Verne is I believe 8’10”
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] He’s a big, trolly boy.
> Mike / G.M.: And weighs almost 750 pounds, um it’s more of a bus than a car.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah. An armored van with a custo suspensh... and there, and that’s where he works. At the PBA office, he works all day.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] What does he do for lunch?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] He eats in the cafeteria in the office. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Mmm. And when does he, when does he get out?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] When does he get out? That can vary, any time between 4:30 or 6:30, depending on traffic and whether, how much he’s done for the day or who he’s gonna meet afterwards. Uh, although he doesn’t do most of his meetings in person, usually after he works all day, eats lunch in the cafeteria, then he goes to have dinner in the diner on the same block as the PBA uh with his coworkers. They walk in, the bartender turns on whatever urban brawl game is playing at that time, you know wherever, they watch the game he eats dinner with his buddies and he takes the same armored car back home, to his house.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] So it sounds like he’s pretty uh, protected. Feel like you couldn’t even snatch and grab him, you could only, you know... could maybe--we couldn’t even get into the gym, could we? Couldn’t have Lash just sneak in and pretend to be a cop?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] A treadmill.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] So he watches an urban brawl game every day? > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Lash does have an urban brawl connection. So, what if Lash’s connection is a professional urban brawl person, if he’s a huge--that could be our honeypot, if he’s a huge fan.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] What’s your--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] That’s your honeypot.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Who’s your connection?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] His name’s Bryce Bammer.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Bryce Bammer?
> Mike / G.M.: What team does he play for?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh!
> Mike / G.M.: Or does he play for a team?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] He plays uh yeah, he’s a professional urban--and he plays uh, he plays for the uh the, the... warrior... titans.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] ...The Warrior Titans?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ chuckles ] Yeah, no, the blue team. [ snorts ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah hm, infamously blue.
> Mike / G.M.: What’s, what city is that?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Um, it’s just uh.... [ Taylor laughs ] All of the southwest...
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Oh it’s a regional, it’s a conference. [ Shannon laughs ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: The Sou--the Southwest Warrior Titans.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] The Southwest Warrior Titans.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] The blue--blue team.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] The blue team. Also known as the blue team.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Or, very big blue.
> Mike / G.M.: So you--I’m gonna, I’m gonna give you, I’m gonna give you a chance um to rethink that because are you gonna, are you gonna fly, fly him in? In the? Are you-- [ laughs ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He might be in--he might be in town for--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] He might be in town for a game.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] For a game!
> Mike / G.M.: Just saying, it’d be more convenient if the Warrior Titans just happened to be located in New York City. [ chuckles ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ chuckles ] ...Truuue. [ Bijan laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] But didn’t he get traded? I thought he got traded to-- > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Ooh! I almost forgot!
> Mike / G.M.: Oh, to the New York City Slashers?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, the New York City Slasherbears.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Slasherbears, yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Big fans.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] The baby blue team.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Everybody--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] The baby blue team, that’s right.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Some would say teal.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] It’s the teal team.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Teal Team Six?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm-hmm. [ giggles ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah...
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] New York City has one but the Southwest just gets...
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Their team--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Well yeah... there’s not many cities anymore.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] versus New York City... [ IC ] umm, but! I mean...
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] But now he--now he plays for the Slasherbears, are you serious? That’s so--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] That’s--ugh, what luck! I mean that’s awesome! > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] But this is--this is all I’m saying... He...
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay...
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Ugh...
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Is he cool? Do you think you could call in a favor? > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Listen! He’s really cool. He’s...
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay...
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] We played urban brawl, we came up together. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh wow, okay.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] You know? He just like went for the big boys, I decided to start running... No big deal.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Sure. Yeah his career’s going a different way. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Call him up. Call him up! Walk in with him.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] He could be having--we don’t even know if he’s a huge fan though, of urban brawl, he could just be watching it with the boys.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] He watches it every day, I mean he’s--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Gotta be a fan.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Yeah, right? I mean, we walk in with a big--another big boy, who knows what’s gonna happen?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah well, I think we should definitely still stake out, listen.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Yeah the--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] But maybe--
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] [ chuckles ] That’s not until the end of the day. We still have the full day ahead of us.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Yeah, let’s stake him out!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yes.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Um all right well, we’ll follow him around. We’ll, from--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] From his gym appointment to his uh PBA appointment. [ OOC ] Before we leave, T.K. runs to get some doughnuts. For the stake out.
> Mike / G.M.: You guys gotta make sure you have stake out appropriate snacks. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] You gotta have snacks.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Mm.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] In the dinghy?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Well no, in Henley the Bentley. The--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Oh, okay.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, ‘cause--I--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] So you take the dinghy to the shore first, and then get in the car, make everybody wait by the river while you go get doughnuts.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Well they were getting ready, they were--I was already in tactical gear.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: I’m gonna allow also that at this point there is likely a doughnut--a floating
doughnut purveyor.... Ye--right?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: I mean, why not?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. just gives it--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] We got Luxe.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] It’s called...
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, what are we...?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] It’s called, instead of Dunkin Donuts, it’s called Float, float... > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Uh... Sunken--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Floatin Donuts...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] We could still call it...
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] ...Sunken Donuts.
> Mike / G.M.: How, how would you not... [ Taylor laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] No sorry, I’d rather for the worst ride. Thank you very much. [ Nick laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: How do you not call it Life Savers? [ everyone groans and laughs ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Oh man.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Are there any more? Any more?
> Mike / G.M.: Taylor, please awa--please award one of the NPCs an Edge. [ Taylor laughs ] > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Dunkin Donuts.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Boy, the wikipedia page for this show really writes itself. [ everyone laughs ] We got Teal Team Six and [ more laughing ] and Life Savers.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Ooh shoot.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah so T.K., [ outboard motor sound effect starts ] T.K. takes the dinghy out to Life Savers, the floating doughnut place. That’s all--it’s the closest but it also
happens to be his favorite. And he brings back a box of doughnuts while everyone’s still getting changed into their outerwear.
> Mike / G.M.: ‘Cause you’re ready, ‘cause tactical, like-- > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Cause he’s tactical.
[ 00:09:58 ] > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Oh, Life Savers? I w--I wish we had Floatin Donuts, [ outboard motor sound effect stops ] that’s my favorite brand.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Floatin Donuts. [ Shannon wheezes with laughter ] I can’t believe that place went out of business. [ Mike and Shannon laugh ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Yeah those doughnuts were, they were--they were bad. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] It did--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] More like--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Suckin’ Nuts, and that’s it. [ Shannon laughs ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I mean I agree with you T.K.
> Mike / G.M.: If I could charge you an Edge I would.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] You can! [ laughter ] Fiat sucks! > Mike / G.M.: You got your doughnuts.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yay!
> Mike / G.M.: You have your doughnuts. You’re gonna take--you’re gonna take Henley the
Bentley.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] We’re taking Henley.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, you get in Henley the Bentley, [ ominous low sound effect starts ] you go north about ten, twelve blocks to uh the location uh, that you have on a map, for Sollix’s
apartment building. [ low sound effect stops, city street sound effects start ] It’s in a part of the city where it’s all of these very very tall, very skinny buildings. And they all have a wrap around them that is a kind of video screen, and so this is sort of lots of uh, lots of movement up in the sky, lots of dancing lights and advertisements. I imagine you park a couple blocks away?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, so you can see that Sollix’s building, from where you are, there are two Knight Errant armed guards out in front at all times. Uh and it’s a couple minutes before he is scheduled to meet some people just outside the front door and you can see there is like, there’s a small group of people hanging out. You can’t tell immediately who it is that he’s waiting for, but there are some people outside.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Uh, T.K. goes into VR. Umm... [ street sound effects stop, low droning sound effect starts ]
> Mike / G.M.: You immediately see a kind of uh flat sea of icons for all of the nearby devices, some of which are cars, some of which are appliances in nearby apartments. Um.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. focuses on the group of people in front of the building. What does he see?
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, do a Matrix perception test.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Two hits. It means, uh...
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah. They uh, you can find s-some, some people aren’t running silent.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Can I tell who they are?
> Mike / G.M.: No. They’re just--you can just tell they have some stuff on them. Commlink, yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah. I turn to Lash and I say [ IC ] Lash, do you want to take a look also?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, I do.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Which floor does he live on?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Seventy-second floor. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I get four.
> Mike / G.M.: So there’s a group of uh, five people, standing out in front of the front door of this very tall, very skinny building. Two of them are Knight Errant security guards. Three of them are appearing civilians. You can see that all of these people have commlinks on them, you don’t see any kind of device signature, any kind of icon for the Knight Errant security guards. You can see that one of the seeming-civilians that’s there has a smart gun on him that appears to be NYPD issue.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Got it.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv would like to assense the group.
> Mike / G.M.: Mm-hmm.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] That is Intuition plus... my assensing skill, plus--
> Mike / G.M.: Assense--it’s your assensing skill plus Intuition--
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Intuition.
> Mike / G.M.: With an astral limit. [ low droning sound effect turns into street sound effects ] Which is your social or your mental limit, whichever is higher.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] So I have a limit of five, uh so that means I’m rolling eight, and I got three hits. When you’re assensing, that usually tells us, uh presence, the location of any implants. Whether there’s any subjects that have essence of magic higher, lower or equal to mine. Whether any spirits or subjects or--have a higher force equal to my magic.
> Mike / G.M.: [ street sound effects stop, droning astral sound effect starts ] What you see in the scene in front of you is a bunch of boring, mundane bullshit. [ Mike’s voice echoes slightly ] This is what New York City is like a lot of the time. Not a lot of magic users. [ Scoffs ] Typical. [ droning astral sound effect and echoing stop, street sound effects restart ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv sort of exhales and uh, says [ IC ] Nothing to worry about so far.
> Mike / G.M.: As Viv completes her assensing, the doors between the two Knight Errant security guards open and out walks probably the largest troll you’ve ever seen.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. says [ IC ] Big boy. [ Bijan and Shannon laugh ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Um, Luxe is looking at his doughnut, which is particularly big and he kinda nods in agreement and he kinda looks up and then he realizes what he’s talking about and he’s like [ IC ] Mm yes.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] This is an 8 foot tall troll, with enormous, massive, curling rams horns coming off the side of his head--
> Mike / G.M.: Almost 9 feet tall.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Almost 9 feet tall with the horns. Uh, and you know, uh look, he’s wearing a black armored suit, clearly very expensive because it looks nice. Uh it’s all--it’s clearly weighted with armor, and it’s sized for a troll, which always costs twice as much more. No tie though. It’s just a simple white, open, uh throated white sort of oxford shirt, underneath this black armored suit. He’s wearing one of those giant-faced wrist watches, which, you know is sort of tacky and hard to miss on even human-sized people, but on a troll it’s also been doubled up. Twice as big. Four times as expensive. You can almost read the time from here. [ street sound effects fade out ]
> Mike / G.M.: I like to imagine it’s like a heavyweight belt, except it goes on his wrist.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It’s enormous. I think a small human that hasn’t been training would require two hands to lift it. [ Mike and Shannon laugh ] But this is a watch that’s clearly bought by someone who enjoys buying watches. Other than that, fairly simply dressed, uh the way he walks, you can almost tell that this is a person who other people perceive as high status, but himself is not trying to project anything other than a need to go and be about his business.
> Mike / G.M.: He nods to two people, starts talking to them, one of whom is the person that uh you figured out had a smart gun on them, and they start walking away from you, up the block towards the Police Athletic League which you know the location of.
[ 00:15:02 ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Luxe does a memory check to see if he was wearing the same watch in the photo they gave him--
> Mike / G.M.: Ooh!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] To see how much of a connoisseur he is of like buying new watches. > Mike / G.M.: Interesting! Well... well let’s find out.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It is clearly the same watch.
> Nick/ “Luxe”: [ OOC ]Uh, Luxe kind of thinks out loud [ IC ] That’s a very ostentatious watch, he may be interested in watches. It is the same watch that he was wearing before, so he might not be interested in new ones but if we can think of a way to be selling wearable tech at the booth, maybe that’s something we could consider.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. says [ IC ] All right, uh, y’all I’m gonna try and place a mark on our boy Sollix because if I get a mark I can use snoop and tap his comm and then we can hear whatever he’s saying to his buddies. Uh Lash, do you wanna cover me?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Cover how?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Uh, Matrix shit, I don’t know.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ giggles ] Lash was looking at a bird in a tree. [ IC ] Oh! Oh! Yeah! Sure! Sure, I’ll just watch. I’ll just watch.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] All right uh I’mma roll up a hack on the fly. > Mike / G.M.: Sounds good.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] And that is nine dice because it is my hackin’ skill, which is specialized in personas, uh plus I think it’s my logic. Yeah, so.
> Mike / G.M.: Roll it up.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] That is... three hits.
> Mike / G.M.: And Sollix will roll to counter that...
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah. Uhh look I’m sorry, Verne has spent his money well on very [ chuckles ] highly-rated devices.
> Mike / G.M.: T.K., uh if we were to look at this in VR, we see a boxing glove clad man, attempting to punch a, punch a force field towards the location of a retreating icon.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm.
> Mike / G.M.: And I think you’re--you’re just out of, just outta reach.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. says [ clears throat ] quietly [ IC ] Fuck that. [ OOC ] And then eats a doughnut.
> Mike / G.M.: And just, just so you know, right, you failed an illegal action which means you’ve incurred a little bit of an overwatch score. So just--you’re fine right now but just be careful. All right yeah, you’re watching, you’re watching Sollix walk towards the Policeman’s Athletic League, their gym, with two of his buddies.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Just to note, if we do have an issue with overwatch score later on, I do have a um Resonance. I have a complex--
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, a complex form.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Right? I have a complex form that can veil our overwatch score. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I don’t think we need it yet, I think we’re--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] No, I didn’t think so either, but in the future if they--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] But yeah but when it comes to it.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] In the future, when we start to really fuck shit up.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Assuming these rolls work out.
> Mike / G.M.: All right let me, what do you guys wanna do?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I wanna go see him in the locker room.
> Mike / G.M.: All right.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Do you wanna take my Chameleon Suit? Or you wanna just go to the locker room?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I wanna go shower. And...
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] All right you’re gonna get into the Police Academy? You better
charm your lil’ ass off.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I wanna see if he has, needs extra time in the shower. Or bathroom. Or locker room. Because he’s so big. And that could be a time where we c--can get him alone.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Sure. I’m not gonna go to the locker room ‘cause Lash is like [ IC ] Oh hell naw, I’m not going in a locker room, no way!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I guess... uh, how am I gonna get into this place? This is all police. This is not, nobody’s, nobody’s not a police here. Ugh.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Even the employees?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Do you have a fake ID or something like that?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I have a lot of fake IDs, I don’t have one that’s a police officer.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, well...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] I mean we could just... go pull up to his house right now, and see if we can get in there and snoop.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Well we’re at his house right now. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] No we’re at the, we’re at--his gym.
> Mike / G.M.: You’re like--you’re a block away from, yeah. But the, the gym is also about a block away. So.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Well yeah--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah so, maybe--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Well why don’t we just go-- > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Break in.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Go bug his place?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] How about we split up? [ Shannon gasps quietly ] > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] We could split up. I’m staying in the car.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I’m gonna go into his apartment.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] With the Chameleon Suit, I’m gonna slip in when someone walks in, again slip in, and then if I have a problem getting up to the seventy-second floor, I’ll just hack the fucking elevator and get myself up there.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Yeah cool, I’ll be in the car, assisting.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] And then maybe you two should go hang out in the shower. Gym. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Because also you got, you got all that water in the shower--
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Yeah!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] You can probably do some shit.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Yeah! [ Shannon laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Henley, can you put on some uh appropriately dramatic music?
> Mike / G.M.: That happens.
[ Drumbeat heavy music starts ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Okay, now that I’m in the right headspace, I’m wearing my tactical gear, I’m ready to go. So to recap, so the plan is you and me, Lash, we’re gonna go to the building--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Check.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] I’m staying in the car.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] And I’ll sneak upstairs any way I can and I’m gonna snoop the hell outta that place.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] You’re gonna snoop the hell out of it?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] How, how, how hard are you gonna snoop it?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Pretty, pretty hard. [ laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Snoop it, snoop it to the limit?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I would say pretty close if not over it.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] And you two,
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yes
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Viv and Luxe, you’re goin’ to the showers.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] We’re goin’ straight to the showers.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Or at least we’re going to try to tail him as far as we can. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] And I think listen as much as you can.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yes. Guys--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Maybe record.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] You never know if you don’t go.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Remember, the whole point of all of this is find the honeypot, all right? Tomorrow we’re gonna try to strike by putting what he wants more than anything in front of his face, getting him over to the booth, or wherever we are if we can’t get him to the booth, and get him measured, and get him suckered and puckered, [ Shannon snickers ] touched up and ultimately framed.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] You’re obsessed with kissing everyone--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay I’m--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] --that we ever come across.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] --gonna kiss him in the showers, let’s go! Let’s go do what we said we’re gonna do.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] [ quietly ] Okay. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] And break.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Okay.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Henley, roll out.
[ Drumbeat music ramps up into dance music ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Let’s go, I’m gonna Room Raiders this shit. [ Dance music plays, then fades out ]
[ Break music plays ]
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> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Can we have team names? Can you guys be team PAL?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Yes, we can be team PAL.
> Mike / G.M.: And what are you guys?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Team Room Raiders [ laughs ] MTV Room--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] T...Tomb, Tomb Raiders. [ laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Tomb Raiders. T, T--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] No, team Room Raiders is better.
> Mike / G.M.: T, T-O-O-M Raiders?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, MTV presents: Team Room Raiders.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Jesus Christ.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Okay we’re team...
> Mike / G.M.: Taylor loves it, Taylor loves every name [ Taylor laughs ] that you guys come up with.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Team I--
> Mike / G.M.: --it’s his favorite part of the show.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [ laughing ] Mike, I can--he’s done with his workout by now, [ everyone laughs ] and he’s like... I--he’s watching the View in the lobby while he sips his protein shake. His hair’s drying.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah. [ Bijan laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, as--so Sollix, just now arrives, a block and a half later, to the Police Athletic League. You guys are gonna follow close behind him. Are you just gonna, you’re gonna walk there?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah, so.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. So as you approach uh the Police Athletic League, it’s a pretty big, sort of um like regal almost, stone building. It’s got some pillars, it’s got like a big arched window above the entryway that’s extra large size, because it has to accommodate everybody who’s a member of the Police Athletic League uh and Sollix is a pretty big guy. And you can see yeah it’s basically a giant open room with a bunch of exercise equipment on the other side of two sets of double doors, there’s a big desk about maybe thirty feet in front of you up a small flight of stairs. And there is uh, a human just hanging out there.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay, um before we go in, I speak with Viv. And I say [ street sound effects start ] [ IC ] Look, I don’t know how we’re gonna get in this place, but I know that, you know, the actual Police, you know, Administration headquarters is out. So if we’re gonna get any information about this guy, it’ll probably be here. Except for, you know, obviously when he goes home tonight. You got any ideas?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Well, maybe you should use your strengths-- > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Mmm.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] And I can slip behind you.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] But if that doesn’t work, we can look around the building and see if there are any stairs--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Sure.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] We can look through windows. And still--I can still summon spirits
through windows.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] As long as I can see.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay. [ OOC ] Luxe does a quick search that he [ chuckles ] wishes uh T.K. or Lash were--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] You know we--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] --here for--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] You know we still have commlinks? You can just-- > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay I’m gonna--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Ask us to do that--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] --Tell you guys to uh, [ IC ] guys can you look up the most obscure department of the police force, that would still technically have access to PAL, but no way anybody there would ever know--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Talking about s-
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Wh--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Talking about subway cops?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Basically subway cops, yeah if you get even more obscure than that, like yeah, um.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Archivist. The Police Archivist.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Aren’t there like, aren’t there like park people that technically have
access? Like the “we keep, um, we keep the oak trees clean.” > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Cop mar--marketing people?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Right. [ Taylor wheezes ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Ooh.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Cop marketers, yeah.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] You were uh--y-you’re dressed well enough-- > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] I think you mean the cop librarians.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Be the cop i--yeah.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Archivists.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] What does--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] The archivist.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] What does the matrix say?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Well let’s see. [ OOC ] So I’m, I’ll do a search for the most obscure, obscure department of police.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah just do a matrix search for me, and I’ll tell you what you find. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] [ laughs ] Taylor, stop fucking spamming me.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I’m giving you--I gave you two good ideas! > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He said “K9--
> Mike / G.M.: Give them to me, not to Bijan!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He said--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Noo!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] He said “K9 Unit recruiter.” People like the dogs! [ everyone laughs ] They know who those people are!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [ accepting ] Okay. [ Nick and Jenn chuckle ] Just like a guy with a fedora on--
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] That’s so good.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] and with like [ chuckles ] a white suit jacket, watching a bunch of dogs play in a dog park, is like “That one’s got the goods!” [ Bijan and Mike laugh ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] All right, I’m gonna, I’m gonna roll up that Matrix search. For most obscure police department. Or department of police.
> Mike / G.M.: Mm-hm.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Rolling eight. Four hits, no glitchin’.
> Mike / G.M.: You find uh that New York City has a very small Fish and Wildlife Division, and that within the Fish and Wildlife Division, there actually is a small set of Critter specialists. Like astral critters. And that on that team uh there’s actually, because of the amount of equipment that they need and the damage the critters sometimes cause, they need someone who does their books specifically, because it’s actually a lot of work. So the Fish and Game Department Critter Division has its own accountant.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Huh.
> Mike / G.M.: And that is maybe the most obscure person.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah so I, I g--I--I’ll relay that information to uh Luxe and Viv. [ IC ] So I guess you could be the accountant, and the assistant to the accountant?
[ 00:25:03 ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] And --what is it called again, it’s the Critter Division?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] The Critter Division of the Fish and Wildlife Division. [ street sound
effects start to fade out ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] So uh mages control a lot of critters, so... it makes sense that I would be with you.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay, so what Luxe is gonna do is he’s gonna whip up a couple of uh, forge a couple of IDs, he’s gonna do a couple of quick searches and things to see something that’s probable--so he’s gonna roll uh up a couple of IDs for Luxe and Viv. And he gets... three hits.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Hm!
> Mike / G.M.: Describe the actions that you go through--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] So--
> Mike / G.M.: St-standing there on the sidewalk? Like where are you-- > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah I’m--
> Mike / G.M.: Together?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I’m on the, I’m on the sidewalk, I pull out a couple of, I pull up uh a couple of papers. I have, I have standard sort of little papers, and kind of official-looking document paper and things like that, and uh you know I, I kind of do my--do my handiwork.
> Mike / G.M.: Can I--can I make--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Uh.
> Mike / G.M.: Can I make a suggestion here?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: Um.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] My IDs are virtual and I don’t need to write this on paper?
> Mike / G.M.: Correct. [ Shannon giggles ] Yes.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] So that’s what I meant to say [ everyone laughs ] because uh--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] He does it on paper!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Such an old man.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Then he’s like “Oh shit! I don’t have to do it like this...” [ laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I usually do a--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Take a picture with your phone!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I do a draft on my own paper, and then I say “This needs to be done on my commlink.” And so you know, I have programs and stuff on my commlink that allow me to help with this. Luxe is an expert at forgery, so things like that usually, he has equipment back now on the Egg Lady that helps him in this process. There’s some registry, some, some light registry things that help, and he’s got people that he does little comms to and stuff that help set up little dupe things, that, that it looks like if you do a quick search it’s like “Oh that is official!” because it’s in the wikipedia of the time kind of type registries and things like that. So there’s just, there’s different levels of when people try to do more advanced checks on things that, that Luxe knows how to do, he can’t really do all of that now. So what he can do is basically make sort of a virtual ID that can be assigned to like a face when an ID reader reads a face, it can attach this, and, and it’s really like the equivalent of in modern, in today’s times of showing a fake ID that you kind of buy from Texas and it’s fine if they don’t really care and they can show that they looked at it and they’re like “That looks like a real ID to me” and gives it back to you. But if they ever like looked into it or scanned it or anything like that, they’d be like “We--I’m sorry, we’re having trouble finding that?” Like it would be--if they cared, it would be harder, given that he’s making it on the fly like this. Um I rolled three, so I don’t know what the Universe feels, [ chuckles ] about how good they are, but hopefully they’re passable.
> Mike / G.M.: The person who you’re gonna um show these to, > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Like, they’re gonna scan it with an RFID reader. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Right.
> Mike / G.M.: They’re basically just gonna roll to figure out whether or not they notice that it’s fake.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Right.
> Mike / G.M.: You will roll against a combination of the person and their equipment > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: And we’ll just see how it goes. But.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay. So I say [ IC ] Viv, these, I think if they don’t really care about IDs, these will work. Um, hopefully I’ll be able to talk my way into it. I do need you to have a couple of critters that look like we can control, to sell this maybe? Um.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Sure.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: With that, to Team Room Raiders? > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: What are y’all doing?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So I wanna sneak in there in my Chameleon Suit. I think the best way--rather than me trying to get in with some kind of ID or anything, is just to sneak in behind someone. And hide myself. I’m running silent because I’m a human, right? Cause I’m a technomancer, I’m not--I don’t have a commlink.
> Mike / G.M.: Oh actually I don’t know...
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I just go to my brain.
> Mike / G.M.: Let’s--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Shh. [ Bijan laughs ] Quiet down now. [ laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] [ quietly ] No thoughts.
> Mike / G.M.: [ quietly ] Go to sleep...
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I just take a benzodiazepine--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I would just--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] --and I’m like “I’m uh, I’m running silent.” [ laughs ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Can you get me some of that... [ mumbles ] [ Shannon laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: “You can switch your, you can switch your commlink, deck, other device or persona--including your living persona--to silent running”
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay I think I should run silent.
> Mike / G.M.: So, so all that means is that yeah, you are not immediately noticeable. People can still try very hard to see you, and if they do well they’ll succeed. You take a minus two dice penalty to all matrix actions.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah I think worth it, having you in the car, worth it for me to run silent since I’ll be--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Walking in there. We don’t wanna--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I’m also--I should also run silent. And I’m, and I wanna park around the block. Cause it doesn’t actually matter where we are.
> Mike / G.M.: You’re gonna--I mean--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] As long as we’re reasonably close to each other.
> Mike / G.M.: I mean yeah you’re gonna you’re gonna, especially ‘cause it’s a high density population area, you’re gonna run into a little bit more noise. But I’m gonna say it’s just gonna be a factor of one. So you’ll be at a dice pool of--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Minus one?
> Mike / G.M.: Minus three.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Oh ffff--
> Mike / G.M.: ‘Cause if you’re running silent, > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Fuck, okay.
> Mike / G.M.: That’s minus two.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Ugh if there’re a lot of people around maybe I don’t need to? Right? Okay? I say to Lash [ IC ] If you need anything, just let me know.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Be safe out there.
> Mike / G.M.: So you see at the bottom of this very tall, very skinny building, like I said before the two Knight Errant security guards. There is a pretty steady stream, cause it’s early morning, and people are going out to get coffee and coming back, walking their dogs and coming back, et cetera et cetera, there’s a pretty steady stream of people coming and going. These two guards uh they’re both human, they’re both six feet tall or so. They are fully outfitted, these are serious security guards.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm.
> Mike / G.M.: These, they’re basically in like riot gear regalia. Not messing around. But yeah, there’s two of them, they’re hanging out on either side of the door. Do you s--get close? Close-ish to the building?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah. I--’cause I’m in my Chameleon Suit so I’m like, slowly creeping my way up
[ 00:29:55 ] > Mike / G.M.: Okay. In the lobby, you see uh there’s a lot of like curved wood surfaces. Lots of dark wood, wooden floors, lots of gold trim. And uh you see just uh a giant hunk of lucite, a desk that’s off to the left. And a very like, bored, modest looking woman is sitting there uh watching trids. And you can see that there is a little security, like a security camera. Whether it’s a camera or an iris scanner you can’t exactly tell, but there’s something there to check people out. And past her down the hallway a little bit, you see a MAD scanner, that you’re very familiar with.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh. And what is a MAD scanner that I’m very familiar with? [ laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: The MAD scanner is the thing you had to go through when you went to Combinatorial, it’s the thing that beeps in the presence of anything that it thinks is dangerous and also scans your SIN.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Is there a way to enter it without going through the MAD scanner?
> Mike / G.M.: You can get into the lobby, and you would be able to go several feet past where the bored receptionist is sitting--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm-hmm.
> Mike / G.M.: Basically watching youtube videos.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yep.
> Mike / G.M.: But if you wanted to keep going into the building where you imagine the elevators are, you would have to go through the MAD scanner.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay. I--
> Mike / G.M.: It basically takes, it rings the opening--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm!
> Mike / G.M.: --To get further into the building.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay, that’s okay cause maybe ah. Either we can hack, we can hack that MAD--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Spoof it?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, spoof it or...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] We, could we spoof a SIN? To the MAD scanner? Cause--
> Mike / G.M.: You guys have fake SINs... each of you has, each of you has--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Right but if we--if it beeps while there’s no one there, it’s gonna look weird, right?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I can u--Yeah. I can either take out all my, I can take out all my weapons--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] It’ll still beep--it’ll still look at your SIN. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Your ID, yeah.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Or I could, if it’s truly being just watched by this receptionist, I could kinda like make uh, an illusion that she sees nothing. On the, her security footage.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Okay, yeah. You could, you could resonance that up.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah. I go through, it does beep but she doesn’t, or does make
mm whatever on her screen. But.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Sure.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] She doesn’t see that.
> Mike / G.M.: She’s--to be clear, what you can see from where you are--which is you’re still a little far away, I’m assuming you’re not standing there between these two security guards like, [ Bijan and Shannon laugh ] just sort of peer--I’m, I’m--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] People walking into me. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I’m not--
> Mike / G.M.: I don’t wanna make--I don’t wanna do--have to make too many decisions for you.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: But I’m going to assume you’re at a safe distance. You can’t really tell what she’s looking at but what you can tell for sure is that the trid that’s on her desk is, is entertainment, it is not a security camera.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Ah, so she’s not watching, security’s somewhere else. > Mike / G.M.: She’s watching, sh--yeah she’s watching something for fun.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: She’s not got her eye trained on, or at least as far as you can see, she doesn’t have her eye trained on a bunch of security cameras.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Right. > Mike / G.M.: She’s just chilling out.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Alternatively, I can grapple the building. To seventy-second [ Shannon and Mike laugh ] floor...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Mm let’s not do that... when--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ laughing ] Lash is just like [ IC ] We could time me. Time me, see how high it is... [ OOC ] So I start walking closer to the building, I’m looking at the people who are uh, walking inside the building. I try to see if there’s anyone who’s particularly uh maybe a little like disruptive? Maybe a group of teens? Are there any groups of teens walking in?
> Mike / G.M.: Nah, cause it’s like 8 o’clock in the morning, so.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Ah damn.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s, yeah.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ chuckling ] Teens, they can be real destructive. And you could sneak in then.
> Mike / G.M.: Correct me if I’m wrong...
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah
> Mike / G.M.: The Chameleon Suit makes you basically invisible.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Someone has to pass a perception test in order to see you. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Right.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So I basically, I look at uh who looks like they’re walking in. Are there multiple people walking in right now?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, I would say if you wait a couple seconds, you see someone uh who catches the eye of one of the security guards.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm!
> Mike / G.M.: Uh as they’re like maybe fifteen feet away.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm.
> Mike / G.M.: And they wave and the security guard nods at them back and like gives a little smile and waves back.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Right. What do they look like, this person?
> Mike / G.M.: It is a slightly older human woman.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm.
> Mike / G.M.: Who is wearing uh like sweatpants and a sweatshirt and she is carrying some groceries.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Great. So I am going to get extremely close to her but would--not close enough that she would hear me or--
> Mike / G.M.: You’re not gonna breathe on the back of her neck
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I’m not gonna breathe-- [ chuckles ] No, not this time. And try to
sneak in uh into the lobby.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I roll Sneaking, which is-- > Mike / G.M.: Yep.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Agility plus my sneaking skill which is eight. And um by eight I mean it’s seven, plus two which is nine, which I uh--[ laughs, rolls dice ] nine. I got two.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay hold on, the old woman is gonna, the old woman is gonna roll to notice you. She is quietly humming to herself.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Uh s--
> Mike / G.M.: The old woman continues down the block as you trail her and you can just hear her sort of quietly going [ Mike hums a sweet sort of rhythmic tune ] “Hmm hm hm hm hm hm. Hmm hm hm hm hm hm hm hm hmm hm hm.”
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] And I enter into the lobby.
> Mike / G.M.: So now you’re gonna have to pass two perception tests.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Right.
> Mike / G.M.: For these two, for the two dudes.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Absolutely.
> Mike / G.M.: I’m gonna give you a choice.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: You can reroll if you want or you can use the value that you just rolled. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Why not, let’s try this out!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Let’s do it!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] [ drawn-out rattling voice ] Praxis
> Mike / G.M.: Rolling dice is praxis.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Four!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Noice!
[ 00:34:57 ] > Mike / G.M.: The security guard who waved at the old lady says [ IC as security guard ] Well hello Dorothy, it’s nice to see you. [ OOC ] And she says...
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC as Dorothy Swanson ] [ old lady voice ] Oh it’s nice to see you!
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] How was your trip to the grocery store this morning?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] I didn’t go!
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Where’d you get those groceries?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] I just found some old soup I didn’t--I forgot I had! > Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Have a nice day, Ms. Swanson. [ OOC ] And uh as you pass-- > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Dorothy!! [ Shannon laughs, Mike laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: As you pass--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Mrs. Swanson!
> Mike / G.M.: Through the closing doors, you hear--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] We’re the same age!
> Mike / G.M.: The two security guards talk to one another about Ms. Swanson. The other security guard looks at the first guy and says--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC as best he can, still laughing ] The soup samples--! [ laughing ]
> Mike / G.M.: What is wrong with you, man?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Aw dude, I’m sorry, I-- > Mike / G.M.: You know she’s not well!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I do a good Dorothy, and once you know you can do something it’s hard not to do it.
> Mike / G.M.: It was pretty good. Um, Dorothy waves politely to the woman who is sitting at the desk, who does not notice you one bit. She gives a polite wave but basically doesn’t take her eyes off of her trid.
[ Lobby muzak starts playing ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Great. So I’m in the lobby.
> Mike / G.M.: You are in the lobby.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I--in the lobby but in order to get to the elevators, I assume I have to go through the beep beep beepers.
> Mike / G.M.: Correct.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Uhh, as I like to call it.
> Mike / G.M.: Mm-hm.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So in order to do that, I am going to...
> Mike / G.M.: Mrs. Swanson is approaching the MAD scanner with the confidence of someone who knows that they have nothing to worry about. You are trailing closely behind her.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I’m gonna just go for it and try to sneak in behind her.
> Mike / G.M.: As Mrs. Swanson goes through the MAD scanner, it beeps incredibly loudly-- [ Lobby muzak stops, alarm sound effects start ]
> Mike / G.M.: And goes bright red uh all at the LED readout at the top. And the very plain, previously very bored looking woman who is sitting behind her trid screen, taps [ sharp beeping sound plays briefly ] a little bit on a keyboard that’s set into the lucite, lucite desk. And she rolls some dice, hold on. And says [ alarm sound effects end, pleasant chime sound effect plays ] [ IC as receptionist ] I’m sorry Ms. Swanson, it’s been on the fritz for the last week. I’m sure you’re fine.
[ Lobby muzak starts playing again ]
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] It’s okay, it’s probably just reacting to, I don’t know, some of the soup that you brought. Uh, it’s fine. It’s--don’t worry about it.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] [ old lady voice ] It’s the soup?!
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] It’s, it’s probably the soup. I heard about the soup, it’s--who knows what it
thinks the soup is...
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] People are talking about my soup?!
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] There’s been a lot of false positive--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] I told one person!
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] It’s fine. Just yeah, you’re--you’re good. Don’t worry about it, I reset-- > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Am I?? Everyone’s talking about my soup! Am I good?
> Mike / G.M.: Uh the MAD scanner, the readout at the top that was flashing bright red returns to green uh and the sounds stop. And what you see, now that you are slightly through the MAD scanner, is a bank of elevators that are labeled per floor. They’re separated into segments, the closest elevator to you is for floors 1 through 20. The one that is just past that is for 21 through 40, the one that is closest to you on the right is 41 through 60. And then 61 through 75 is by, behind that one. Mrs. Swanson goes to the closest elevator bank to you.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So that’s not [ chuckles ] to 75. I am going to send a message silently. To T.K. And I’m gonna say [ IC ] Any chance you can get into this woman’s commlink and say “Come [ laughs ] to the 72nd floor”? [ Nick laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: She--she--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] You want me to ghost in the machine her?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, I want you to g--send her messages that say “soup... party.”
> Mike / G.M.: She goes to the closest elevator bank and pushes a button on the outside of it [ low elevator ding ], it opens, and I’m assuming you’re still invisible-- [ hydraulic elevator door noise ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm!
> Mike / G.M.: So she goes in and you see her place her thumb on a pad. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm.
> Mike / G.M.: And get her face close to uh the wall of the elevator. [ low electronic buzzing sound starts ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm.
> Mike / G.M.: And you hear [ low electronic buzzing sound ends ] a beep and you hear a pleasant computerized voice on the inside say [ IC as elevator, computerized voice ] Welcome. Mrs. Swanson. Taking you to. The 14th floor.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I’m getting on that elevator with her.
> Mike / G.M.: You are on the elevator with Mrs. Swanson.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Great. At least 14 floors, a lot higher than the first floor.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] You didn’t--you couldn’t just wait near the one, the 72nd and just, just get in that--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] No because--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] --when somebody walked in?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Listen if I have to grapple, I have to grapple this building.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] You can’t--you couldn’t, you couldn’t just, you couldn’t just take the stairs?
> Mike / G.M.: Back to the Police Athletic League.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Luxe turns to Viv and says [ IC ] So do you think you can whip up a couple of critters? And we can have them as pets with us and if things go wrong, I give you the signal, they get--you know they kind of scatter and we say “Oop sorry, we gotta get these critters!”
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] That sounds like a plan.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Uh, Viv sort of looks around the sidewalk and spots maybe a gutter,
with a little bit of water pooling in it? > Mike / G.M.: Sure, okay.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] And she uh, bends down a little bit, uh crinkling her nose, but uh waves her hands over it as she wants to summon a force two spirit.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. So you’re not actually gonna go get--right, ‘cause like a critter is a thing that exists out in the world. They’re animals but they’re astral. You’re basically going to try to like--
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Mimic one.
> Mike / G.M.: --fool someone into thinking that a, summ--a spirit that you’ve summoned is a
critter, assuming that like they--
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: --Have no clue what’s going on.
[ 00:40:04 ] > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] That’s the plan.
> Mike / G.M.: All right.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Because there are humped horses that are critters, and she can make little baby ones.
> Mike / G.M.: I’m s--are you k--I’m--this--I’m into it, this is fucking cool. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Ah. So Viv wants to summon a force two nuggle. Do you know what a
nuggle is?
> Mike / G.M.: No, I do not know what a nuggle is, please tell me.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Nuggles are nordic water horses. And so she’s--since it’s a force two, it’s gonna be very small, and it will be a batch. Just-uh as, acting as one entity. Tiny water horses that have the same brain.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] That act as a flock. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] As a flock, yes.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Flock of--
> Mike / G.M.: I--no way, really?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Well, nuggles--
> Mike / G.M.: But you can do this, yeah.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah it’s just like a spirit, it’s still a singular spirit. > Mike / G.M.: Whoa.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Aww!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. All right. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So cute!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I know!
> Mike / G.M.: Let me know what to roll for the spirit to--
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: --resist.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] So uh, the spirit type will be water, force is gonna be very low, it’s two. So I’m rolling for my summoning skill plus magic, which is going to be twelve. I’m not going to be taking advantage of the sea this time, uh ‘cause I don’t really have anything else to give up.
So our uh roll is summoning plus magic for me, versus the force of what I’m summoning, which is still--it’s two. So net hits will be services owed, and I rolled five hits.
> Mike / G.M.: The nuggle rolled ...zero hits.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] And for Drain, it’s spirit hits, so zero?
> Mike / G.M.: Zero.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] It’s that times two, so no Drain.
> Mike / G.M.: Minimum two.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Minimum two?
> Mike / G.M.: So you have to resist a minimum of two stun damage.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Ooh okay, yeah. Viv uh had one hit.
> Mike / G.M.: So you take one stun damage.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] One stun damage. The nuggles owe us five services. > Mike / G.M.: Mmm.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] And the first service is materialization, so people can see them. And out of the gutter, three little brown nuggles appear. And Viv uh coos into their general direction. [ Mike makes a tiny neighing sound, street sound effects stop and astral neighing sound effect starts ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Come here, come here little Galoops! [ OOC ] She named them Galoops. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] And Luxe goes [ IC ] Great! [ astral neighing sound effect stops
abruptly ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [ laughs ] “Mm-hmm!” [ Shannon laughs ] > Mike / G.M.: “Niiice!”
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Viv, I love ya! [ street sound effects start ] Okay so your name is gonna be uh Catherine ... O’Hara. [ Shannon laughs ] And I’m gonna be--
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Perfect.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] --G.G. Allin... [ everyone groan-laughs ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Ooohh. [ Bijan clears throat ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] And um, and uh that’s gonna be our names. [ street sound effects start ] And uh, that’s what we’re gonna go by. Viv, if you wanna let me do the talking--if, if the IDs, they don’t like the IDs, umm.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] I will just uh, make sure that our little nuggles are creating-- > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] You...
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] --as much trouble as possible.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] You just, yes. Send the nuggles around, we’ll go to collect them and be like “I’m sorry, we thought that these were safe, we just caught them, but well we’ll, well, we’ll be returning these to the wild.” If uh, if the IDs work and everything but I, I feel like things are gonna be going downhill, I’ll uh, I’ll uh... wink at you a bunch. If I ever start winking at you, release the nuggles, you got that? [ Taylor bursts out laughing ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Sorry, was that an overreaction? [ Mike laughs ] > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] You really like those nuggles, huh?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I--
> Mike / G.M.: Was it the word wink--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] That line’s great!
> Mike / G.M.: --next to the word nuggle? [ Taylor laughs ] > Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] I’ll follow your lead.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] All right! Let’s um kind of uh try to figure out what they’re talking about? Um maybe interests? Um anything. Anything we can get. I’ll be recording on my Comm, let’s do it! [ OOC ] They walk in to PAL. [ street sound effects stop, door sound effect plays ]
> Mike / G.M.: You see a single human receptionist/guard, dressed as a normal New York City police officer, an NYPD Incorporated officer, and he does not acknowledge your presence at all. [ faint workout noises start in the background ] You can see that directly to the left of him is the main entrance into the workout room of the central large-ish workout room--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Mm.
> Mike / G.M.: --of the Police Athletic League. And there’s a little RFID reader that will just scan your commlink as you walk past and either beep approvingly or honk aggressively if it doesn’t like you.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Right. So it looks like an automated kind of system so I imagine that if we’re registered uh properly as I’ve tried to with Wildlife and Fisheries in the duped ID way, that we could just go ahead and use this--these RFID-type readers and walk in. So we go to do that.
> Mike / G.M.: There’re basically gonna be two tests that I’m gonna make you pass. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Each of you is gonna have to pass an ID test.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: Which is essentially just whether or not your forged uh IDs pass the system. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: And then you’re gonna try to pass through with the nuggles.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: The receptionist is basically gonna decide how they feel about that. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. So the fir--so first thing we’re gonna do [ chuckles ] is they’re gonna roll to decide whether or not this is acceptable behavior, and whether or not they care.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: As you walk in, the receptionist glances up from behind their desk and uh he looks at you Viv and looks at the nuggles at your feet [ astral neighing sounds start ] and uh and says [ IC as PAL receptionist ] I’m sorry uh, only uh only service animals are allowed.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Oh, but these are service animals.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] I’m gonna, I’m gonna need to see your documents.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I’m sorry, we’re with the Wildlife and Fisheries’ Critters Division. Uh technically, given um the arrangement [ astral neighing sounds stop, faint workout noises continue ] with our department all animals we work with are basically um animals within our care and, and tenure. Uh so legally, they are all treated as service--
[ 00:44:59 ] > Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] --Ah blah blah, okay fine. Yeah fine fine fine. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah. Fine?
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Fine.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah. Sorry.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ Shannon laughs ] Yes... > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] And we use the IDs.
> Mike / G.M.: Luxe gets through without a problem, the machine beeps happily [ happy machine beep noise ]. Viv gets through easily, the machine beeps happily [ happy machine beep noise ]. What you see in front of you at the top of the stairs on the other side of the receptionist desk is a long, tall room that is full of exercise equipment, and meta-types of all kinds working out on stair machines, treadmills, uh you name it, someone’s running on it or punching it or lifting it. And you can see that there are various doors to various rooms uh lining the walls of this central area.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I look at Viv and I say [ IC ] Uh, Catherine do you wanna take a look around? I’m gonna go to the little boys’ room...
> Mike / G.M.: You can see that’s clearly marked, it’s towards the back and to the left.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Um Viv doesn’t say anything but uh controls the nuggles so they run,
run away from her, and she pretends to go chase after them. [ astral neighing sound effects start ]
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah. Seemingly no one pays you any mind. [ astral neighing sound effects stop ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] [ chuckles ] Great. So um w--as Luxe walks to the locker room he’s hoping that he’ll be able to find the boys doing a little locker room chat. Um and he uh walks into the locker room and he takes a look around.
> Mike / G.M.: You hear a lot of commotion. [ workout noises are replaced by shower and male voices sound effects ] There are a lot of lotta dudes in here talking about various jobs that they’re doing, talking about various cases that they’re on. You hear, you know, hoots and hollers, but you also hear the distant sounds of just, you know, gym clamor. And over the top of the rows of old school square lockers you do see a familiar mop of blonde hair with two giant horns on either side of it. And that is Severin, like sort of half-ducking underneath the slightly too low ceilings even though they’re like you know, eight and a half feet tall--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Mm.
> Mike / G.M.: He still doesn’t fit.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Did you say Severin?
> Mike / G.M.: His full name is Severin, yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Severin Sollix. Verne for short.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Luxe approaches the locker closest uh to Sev um and just starts listening.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Severin is not talking. But his friends are talking to him. Uh and you can tell that they are trying to cheer him up. They are talking about the latest like urban brawl to-do. Uh urban brawl is this sort of like capture the flag game with a ball that people try to get the ball on each other’s bases and it takes place in this, these sort of urban combat zones and everybody’s blowing each other up and cutting each other in half. Uh and they’re, they’re talking about whatever game has happened recently, or whatever team is on the
outs with the league, whatever players have suddenly gone freelance. And it’s not, doesn’t seem to be having very much of an emotional effect uh on Verne. And you can tell uh that they can tell he’s sad and they’re trying to cheer him up. Uh and it is having uh no effect.
> Mike / G.M.: Um and they are in mid-dress. So it seems that they have wrapped up their workout and they are getting ready to egress.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Luxe is sort of taking off his jacket, and kind of putting it into the locker [ locker door sound ] and uh--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] You opened a locker? You just went to a random locker and opened it?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] And it was empty?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Well, yeah, whichever one didn’t have a lock on it that looked empty...
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah he opened, he opened that, which one does he, what does he see
when he opens up a--an empty looking locker?
> Mike / G.M.: Roll a d6.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh nooo. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Five.
> Mike / G.M.: There’s a handgun in there.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Take the gun.
> Mike / G.M.: W--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I, I, I don’t say that. [ Shannon laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Umm. Luxe, Luxe looks at the handgun and he puts his jacket on top of it. Um and he’s just like “Well, hopefully nobody needs that.” Um and he starts taking off his pants [ Taylor and Shannon laugh ] Um and he’s uh um, he kind of pretends, well he does overhear them and he’s like uh [ IC ] Oh, you guys talking about urban brawl?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Uh yeah they see you approach, they don’t recognize you. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] And they say [ IC ] Ah, yeah we were talking about uh the game last night.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh god, did you guys have any money on that game?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Uhh. [ OOC ] They look around, [ IC ] Betting is still illegal, especially if you’re on the staff of the NYPD Incorporated [ Jenn and Shannon laugh ] Uhh, [ OOC ] And they say uh [ IC ] No. [ OOC ] And they wink at you. [ IC ] Of course not.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] [ chuckles ] Ah. God.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] They all do this in unison. It’s just sort of a hive mind of
like--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Four dudes.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] He says [ IC ] Do you guys know Bryce Bammer?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Personally? I mean, we don’t know him, but yeah of course. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] You guys fans?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] [ laughs ] Yeah.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] [ joining in ] Yeah. [ laughs ] That’s what I thought you were gonna say. I um actually happen to know him. Yeah. He’s, you know he’s gonna be um, he, he has, he has friends and family in the department. Yeah. They don’t, they won’t say who it is, but uh and I can’t either, but he’s gonna be at the conference tomorrow.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Whoa what do you mean, Bryce Bammer’s gonna be at the-- > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah. They’re doing a--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Policeman’s Private Security Firm International Expo of--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah. Somebody’s doing a--somebody’s doing a--somebody’s doing a raffle so that you get to have dinner with him and then go out on his boat, like he’s got this crazy like airplane-boat it’s like insane, like I heard it’s like the funnest fuckin’ thing ever. Anyway, he’s gonna be there, so yeah I’m gonna try to, I’m gonna try to get in. I don’t know if you guys could get tickets or anything, or I’m, and that’s why I’m talking--
[ 00:50:01 ] > Mike / G.M.: As you’re saying this, it’s like you’re hit by a train. [ train crashing, glass breaking, thudding noises ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Like ph--like physically.
[ Ominous slow music starts playing, shower sound effects stop ]
> Mike / G.M.: You are lifted up off of your feet and you are slammed [ crashing noise ] against the nearest wall.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Right.
> Mike / G.M.: Uh by a, an ork, who is wearing just a towel.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Uh-huh.
> Mike / G.M.: And he’s got you pinned up against the wall
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: With the flat of one arm, and he’s holding his towel with the other arm. And he shouts at you [ IC as the ork ] What the fuck are you trying to do?!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Whoa whoa whoa! [ OOC ] All the guys, everybody’s like [ IC ] Whoa, whoa, whoa!
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] You tryin’ to steal my piece? What are you tryin’ to do?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] What? I’m sorry, I was just using this locker, what do you mean--
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] What do you mean you were just using a locker--yo--is that your shit that was on top of my shit?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh! Is this your lo--I’m so sorry! I didn’t--I didn’t even--
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] You’re so--you’re so sor--what the fuck is this?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Hey, hey, hey. Can you, can you... can you let up just a little bit here?
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Yo Verne, Verne, Verne!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] A giant, a...
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Verne, do you know this guy?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] A giant hand goes on the ork’s shoulder, uh and Verne Sollix says [ IC as Sollix ] [ German accent ] You’ve got to calm down.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] This is--I got, I gotta calm--uh what’s, what’s this guy doing in my--what’d you--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Calm down.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I’m, I’m sorry. I’m G.G. Allin, I’m from the uh Wildlife and Fisheries
Department, I ju--
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] This guy a friend of yours?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] We’re all friends. We’re all friends here. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah. I don’t, I didn’t, I--
> Mike / G.M.: He backs off and pull--lets you down--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: From the wall.
[ Ominous music stops ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I, look, [ OOC ] And I take, I pick up my pants and my uh my jacket I’m like, [ IC ] Oh my god I didn’t even see that, we don’t use those in Wildlife and Fisheries, we actually have uh spray nets--
> Mike / G.M.: He is, he is watching you, he is watching-- > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Everything you do, very closely.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah, if uh, I’m sorry, I will just put these in another locker. [ OOC ] I kind of look around at a couple of the other lockers to see if any of them are empty, are any of them empty?
> Mike / G.M.: There’s one that’s empty.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I put them in the empty, I’m like [ IC ] I--sorry, I thought this was
empty, I completely apologize...
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] You’re lucky Verne was here.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Verne, is that your name? I’m so sor--I’m, thank you so much. I’m G.G....
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Verne ignores you. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] And he turns to the ork who was lifting you up and says [ IC ] Theodore. Obviously this is his first day, you can’t be doing this to him...
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] I--yeah. I, I, yeah. I mean, I j--you understand, you know why, you know. > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] I understand.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] How is he, how is Goya?
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Listen I don’t wanna talk--it’s tough. It’s tough.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] I understand.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I don’t know if, what’s, what’s happening, or what’s going on.
> Mike / G.M.: The ork puts his hand up and just, and like. Walks away.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] [ whispering ] Oh god.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Verne turns to the guys that he came back in with and says [ IC ] You see? This is what I am talking about.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] And uh Luxe pretends that he’s crying. And he goes up to them, and he goes [ IC ] Guys, I’m so sorry. Um, I don’t know what that was about. But I don’t... have a lot of friends in the city. I don’t know if I should file a report that I was assaulted and I don’t want any, I don’t want any problems for your department! [ fake crying ] I don’t want any problems for your department, you know?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Verne puts his big hand on your shoulder now. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] And looks you dead in the eyes, and he’s just towering over you--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Not wearing a lot of clothes.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Right. [ IC, to himself ] He’s a big guy... [ IC ] Verne, thank you so much for helping me earlier.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s like, um have you ever heard the phrase “barrel chested”? > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: This man could have a barrel inside of his chest. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] [ chuckles ] Right.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] And he says [ IC ] Mhm. You have a good day at gym my friend.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay. [ quavering voice ] Do you know if you could get me ... a t-- > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Do you enjoy sports? [ deepening accent ] You enjoy
shportz?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh!. W--
> Mike / G.M.: I see the, the German accent is developing
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I am working on it, buddy. [ Mike laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I’m, I’m ... learning about sports. [ everyone laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Um, actually. Uh. I’m... [ Taylor laughs ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Please!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [ laughing ] Hold on, hold on.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] You know, you know--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] “I’m learning about sports.” [ laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I’m learning about sports.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] You know the one player and you’re learning about... [ Taylor laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] [ chuckling ] You know a famous player and you’re learning about sports.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Well I mean I’m--I know what--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Famous player--
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah what’s a--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] --they have friends that aren’t fuckin’ sports people. > Mike / G.M.: Hold on. While Luxe is getting his bearings, what is Viv up to? > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] [ laughs ] [ workout and talking noises start in the background ] Viv was uh pretend chasing the nuggles uh around the gym. [ astral neighing sound effects start] She made a loop to the uh, to the ladies locker room.
> Mike / G.M.: So this is basically you’re doing the, the man kicks a hat to chase it thing? > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: Which is like you, it, you’re making it look like they’re going in a direction that you’re not controlling--
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: When in fact you’re willing them around.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Exactly.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] And uh doesn’t really see anything of interest at the, the women’s locker room so she makes her way toward the men’s locker room, knowing that she cannot go in.
> Mike / G.M.: Magic users in NYPD are incredibly rare. Uh so as you’re sort of running around I’m just gonna roll for the number of people that see you, as to whether or not this, they find this extremely suspicious and if it’s worth their intervention. Does that sound fair?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Sure.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. ‘Cause it’s like pretty, this is rare to begin with.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: And then in, in NYPD midst, maybe extra rare. ‘Cause everybody’s pretty mundane. You know, unless they’re a troll. Um, you pass by a human on a treadmill, and he chuckles a little bit. You pass by an elf who is doing what’s the one where you, you um push your arms together?
[ 00:55:05 ] > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Something press? > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yes
> Mike / G.M.: The lat, the lat press?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] The lat press.
> Mike / G.M.: Can you tell that I go to gyms? [ Nick chuckles ] > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] “I’m learning sports.”
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] [ quietly ] Learning sports.
> Mike / G.M.: Um and he actually stops what he’s doing and um takes out uh a portion of his comm and like takes a little video of you like chasing these spirits around. And you pass by a woman who is hitting a punching bag, um and she goes “Aww.” No one stops you.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Wonderful. Viv starts to uh move closer to the men’s locker room but finds a corner where she can stand still and disappear. [ astral neighing noises and workout noises stop ]
> Mike / G.M.: [ slow ringing astral sound effect starts ] You nestle into a corner and everybody is so delighted by what they’ve seen, they sort of settle into some good memories that they have of pets or critters that they’ve interacted with and they don’t see you slowly disappear into a corner. And the nuggles, are they still around or did they dissipate? [ astral sound effect stops ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Their, their little neighs sort of uh trail off, but they’re, they sort of like maybe form into a puddle, very quietly.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, back to learning about sports.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Verne has still got you by the shoulder, and he’s looking at you and you can see that he uh he suddenly makes a decision. And he looks out over the locker room, and everyone’s lookin’. ‘Cause Theo the ork, Theodore the ork was yelling, and there was, at you, and there was a gun in a locker and now, yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: You hear light sobbing coming from the showers. [ faint whining sound ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [ clears throat ] Severin looks out over the locker room and everyone’s kinda got their attention over towards y’all at this moment and he says [ IC ] Now more than ever, more than ever, we must stick together. We must stick together.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] [ joining in ] --stick together!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] N-no, no chant. [ chuckles ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh sorry.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] I’m not starting a chant.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I didn’t know, I... new...
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] No.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yep!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Don’t speak. Listen.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] [ mocking the accent ] Yesh. [ everyone laughs ] > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] [ quietly ] Jesus!
> Mike / G.M.: I love it, I love it.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [ chuckling ] Don’t--
> Mike / G.M.: Just imagine the guys from Three Amigos.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Mmm.
> Mike / G.M.: No?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Chevy Chase?
> Mike / G.M.: Ze, ze Germanz?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Mm. Don’t note me.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] During the show.
> Mike / G.M.: All right.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] [ German accent ] My little new man. Do you want to go to the convention?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Ah yes, I would.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] You want to see the Bammer?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yesss.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] I’ll give you a ticket to the convention. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh! No way!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Da.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh wow! Okay well thank you so much! W-What’s, if you don’t mind me asking, what’s wrong with Theo? [ Mike sobs loudly as Theo ] I just don’t, I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna piss him off if I ever run into him again, so anything I could do, that, to, to, you know, to avoid it?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Theo’s partner... not himself. Anymore.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Ohh. [ mocking Taylor’s German accent ] He’s not himshelf. [ Jenn laughs ] Jesus Christ. I know how that can be. Oh man, I wish I had more detail on that but I, I can understand it’s probably sensitive and I will try to be very nice and respectful to him. Do you think that would help?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Don’t put your pants on his gun.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I won’t, my god I, look you think I meant to do that? I would never do
that, we don’t, we, like I said we don’t use, we don’t use guns. > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Pants guns?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] We use pants, um we don’t use guns. We have spray nets, uh we have bottle, uh bottles... um, uh.
> Mike / G.M.: This is, this is unnecessary detail. [ laughter ] Dig, dig up. Dig up!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yes. Um okay well, thank you so much. Um do you have a ticket on you
or you gonna...?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] I’ll email you a ticket.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay great! Great great great. [ OOC ] Um so uh, Luxe gives him uh an email that he could send this to, um via his commlink and he’s like [ IC ] Thank you so much! I really appreciate it, I’ll, I uh are you gonna be there?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] Sure.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay I’ll say hi! Thanks Verne.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] You can.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Thanks Verne. I really appreciate it.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC ] See? We stick together.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] [ trying to chant again ] We stick toge--! Not, again? [ Jenn laughs ] No, no chant again this time? I think a chant’s coming.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [ laughs ] Chantless, they all exit.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay. [ Jenn laughs ] [ OOC ] Uh so, uh Luxe um grabs his clothes and he, he, he looks around and he acts like he’s too embarrassed to be there and kind of runs out, whimpering a little bit.
> Mike / G.M.: As you leave, you see the man who checked you in walking towards the locker room and he has this sort of tired look on his face, sort of irritated. And he sees you and he says [ IC as PAL receptionist ] Hey you!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yep.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] I just checked, your division hasn’t paid into the program in a year. You can’t be here, you gotta leave. You, you and your friend, wherever she went. [ OOC ] Uh and he starts looking around, trying to find uh [ IC ] You know, the one with the whatever you call ‘em--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Yeah you’re cer--yeah. You gotta--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Talk to your supervisor, talk to your commanding officer and if you wanna use this you gotta come back and you gotta pay into the system.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay is there a discounted rate, rate for us? > Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] What?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I thought--
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] No.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Do you know--
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Get out of here--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] --anything about the rates?
> Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] I, get out. Yeah, put, put your pants on and get out--find your, where’s your friend? Find her.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah yep Catherine I’ll, I’ll get her, we’ll, we’ll, we’ll figure this out-- > Mike / G.M.: [ IC ] Yeah blah blah blah yeah whatever buddy.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I, I’m sorry. I’ll see you soon. > Mike / G.M.: And he walks away from you.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] As soon as he walks away, Viv is literally like right next to Luxe. And she, she appears. [ IC ] That was close.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I think um,
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] You weren’t scared by that?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yes. That uh yes. Uh so Luxe jumps a bit and he’s like [ IC ] Viv?
[ 01:00:01 ] > Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Mm-hmm.
> Mike / G.M.: Roll, roll, roll a d6. ...Okay you’re fine. No one sees you materialize.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah. [ IC ] Viv. Let’s go. [ OOC ] And um and they uh both walk out.
[ Dramatic techno music plays ]
> Mike / G.M.: The elevator dings [ elevator ding sound effect ], and the door opens to reveal a very large, very plain apartment that is floor to ceiling windows its whole length, at least as far as you can see from the rear of the elevator. You also realize now that the elevator has two doors. And you realize that what Mrs. Swanson used when she got into the elevator was a combination thumbprint iris scanner. Uh and that when she did that it brought her right to her apartment--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ groaning ] Mmm.
> Mike / G.M.: And the correct door opened, so there must be two apartments per floor. And she
leaves the elevator and the door starts closing. [ elevator door closing sound effect ] > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay, I um, stay in the elevator.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, the door, the door closes, and the elevator remains where it is. It does not move. For now.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh great. I uh, kind of message over to T.K. and I say [ IC ] Uh, if I’m in the elevator... [ Shannon laughs, Bijan laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: I think it--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] And?
> Mike / G.M.: Trapped, trapped in--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] What, what do you nee--I, didn’t I tell you to not to go in floor--the one with the woman, I thought--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah but it just seemed like a great opportunity, and I didn’t want to miss it so I jumped in. But now I’m, I--so what I’m seeing right now is that the elevator, it takes you directly to the apartment. There’s no hallway...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] This is a--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] --Situation that I thought was--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] These are rich people. You, you didn’t--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] --Gonna be... Yeah, so I’m, I think we might have to be doing some uhh...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] “We”?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeaaah. We’re a team here, you know, Toom Raiders. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Team Room Raiders, sure.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Team Room Raiders.
> Mike / G.M.: Toom... toom work makes the...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Stop.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Uh, we might have to kinda do somethin’ with these elevators to get, get me somewhere but I have to be in a completely different bank, it seems like, to get to the right floor.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] So you just fucked all of it up, huh?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Well, the good thing is if anyone from floor zero to twenty gets in-- > Mike / G.M.: The elevator starts to move down.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Oh. Sweet, I’m movin’.
> Mike / G.M.: You get down to the bottom floor and the door opens [ elevator door opening sound effect ] and you see a 30-something elf, uh looking at uh, looking at a small like holographic screen in her, in her hand. Um dressed, you know, like she just came from the gym, like sort of steps into the elevator without looking up, um and--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I--
> Mike / G.M.: Now’s your moment, if you wanna leave.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I move out.
> Mike / G.M.: Uh can you just do a quick agility test for me? Just to like squeeze by her, expertly. And she’s gonna roll perception.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Basically, m--natural athlete, I get a plus two to athletics and gymnastics, but I don’t know if that--
> Mike / G.M.: I would allow you to use your gymnastics skill for this, that seems fair. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay, got two.
> Mike / G.M.: Please describe how you sidle past this woman as she enters her elevator, looking at her computer screen.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] You said that she’s an elf? > Mike / G.M.: Yeah, elf yep. Tall--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah-- > Mike / G.M.: Very skinny lady.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yes. So she takes a step open to get into the elevator and I swoop in between her legs, [ Bijan laughs ] I get really really tiny skinny [ Taylor laughs ] and I swoop underneath her legs so quickly...
> Mike / G.M.: To be fair, her legs are very long.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] They’re very long somehow.
> Mike / G.M.: She looks like she could be on the cover of Vogue.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yes. And uh and I sneak out and I’m out into the elevator lobby once again. To--
[ New age lobby music starts ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K., T.K. asks [ IC ] What’s going on? You stopped talking, what’s happening?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I say [ IC ] T.K., I’m back in the lobby. I’m gonna go over to the right elevator and once I get in that elevator, I think we could hack it to make it go to the correct floor.
> Mike / G.M.: So you get over to the elevator, there’s a very obvious button that you push to call it, I assume you push it--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] No. > Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I don’t push it, ‘cause I’m going to try to get in there when someone else walks in. But this is a waiting game. [ Shannon chuckles, Bijan snorts ] I say [ IC ] Hey T.K., does it look like anyone walks i--is walking in who like looks like they live up high?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Yeah, for sure. [ OOC ] T.K., T.K. just says [ IC ] For sure. [ OOC ] and looks, looks for another doughnut.
> Mike / G.M.: The, the universe delivers to you an overwhelming sense of confidence that you will not be visited upon by any ill fortune [ Bijan snickers ] by pushing the button, just--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay I press the button. [ laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: [ gentle elevator ding sound effect ] The door opens politely.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Get in the robot.
[ New age lobby music stops ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I’ll get--
> Mike / G.M.: [ laughs ] Ha, get-- [ menacingly ] Lash, get in the elevator.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] All right I’m in, I’m in the elevator. [ elevator door closing sound effect ]
> Mike / G.M.: So you see the thumb pad and the eyeball scanner-- > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm.
> Mike / G.M.: That you are familiar with from the other elevator. There are no other buttons, other than an emergency call.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I tell T.K. [ IC ] I think we might need to [ clears throat ] hack this uh elevator.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] [ clears throat loudly ] All right.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] To uh, get me to the floor and at the, while that happens, we just
gotta hack quietly.
[ 01:04:59 ] > Mike / G.M.: Do you not have a control device, complex form? Can’t you just make a ...?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm. Uh, yeah I have a puppeteer device, control device... > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] That might kill her though.
> Mike / G.M.: Oh, that’s true.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] [ laughs ] Like straight up.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] And the only downside is that she dies.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, because, because--we could try to do this but if we think the rating, the security rating on this elevator’s pretty high, uh it’s gonna be hard for me to actually control it, ‘cause they can op--it’s an opposed test. [ IC ] Okay, T.K., this elevator I’m on, it’s uh, it’s...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] How rich does it look?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] It looks um pretty rich.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] How many buttons does it have?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] There’s no buttons inside.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] No buttons...
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] It’s just, it’s just the thumb print and an eye scan. And it’s uh, it’s smart enough to know, based on that, which door to open and which floor to go to...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Uh I guess I’ll search and see if there are any building plans on the matrix to tell me any of the specifics of the elevators, ‘cause this is a public, it was you know, probably a building--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] --That people knew about before. Let’s see. > Mike / G.M.: Roll it up for me, yeah! You, yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] It’s uh, it looks like I got four hits.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, what do you want to know?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Well, uh what’s the device rated? How, how, how hard would it be to break into this elevator?
> Mike / G.M.: So weirdly, for how expensive it is, the device rating is pretty low. Um, this is a--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Is it an older elevator?
> Mike / G.M.: How would you, how would you say this? Um the device rating of this elevator
is four.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm. Mm-hm.
> Mike / G.M.: It does, it does have uh some like low level firewall stuff, but you’re pretty confident that you could control it if you wanted to. It would be a little bit of work for you to get three marks on it, which is what you would need I think, in order to...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Would I need three marks?
> Mike / G.M.: I believe you need three marks in order to control a device.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] But what if I spoof the command of--to just going up?
> Mike / G.M.: Great.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Or I could, if it’s not to high I c--I can puppeteer this guy, real quick.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I mean I think it’d be easier for me to just spoof a command-- > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh yeah--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] To take you to the seventy-second floor.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Do it.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Uh--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] As long as, as long as um it seems like the security isn’t so high so go ahead.
> Mike / G.M.: I also wanna be clear, Lash you have evaded every check by the security cameras.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Right.
> Mike / G.M.: They are looking, they are trying to find you constantly. [ Nick laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: And you, and they’re, they’re actually pretty good, and they’ve missed you every time.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Lash, I figured out that the elevators are pretty old, or something,
they’re just, they don’t, they seem to be, that’s where they skimped in this building construction. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Love it.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] They seem, they seem real shitty. I think I can hack it. Um.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Excellent.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] I’m gonna do some typing real fast. [ rapid typing sound effect starts ] > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Hack this shit!
> Mike / G.M.: So you successfully get one mark. And then you’re gonna spoof command, can you tell us what spoof command does? [ typing sound effect ends ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah, uh spoof command is it, all you do is you get to, you get to get a device or an agent a command as its owner. So I’m basically spoofing that I am the computer that is controlling this specific elevator, so uh I guess I’ll call over to Lash again and say [ IC ] All right, uh you said seventy-two?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, I just don’t know if it’s right or left, any chance we know? > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Uhh.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] On the schedule or under the info sheet?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] You know what, let’s just go up there and figure it out. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Great.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Uh, going up. [ elevator ding noise ]
> Mike / G.M.: The elevator begins to move.
[ Elevator muzak starts ]
> Mike / G.M.: [ imitating muzak ] Dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun dun-dun... > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Really?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] You know I...
> Mike / G.M.: [ imitating muzak ] dun-dun international--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I have to--
> Mike / G.M.: [ imitating muzak ] elevator song that--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] My ears are popping.
> Mike / G.M.: [ imitating muzak ] plays in every elevator, elevator.
[ Elevator muzak stops ]
> Mike / G.M.: Roughly a minute later, the elevator comes to a slow stop.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Do any doors to open?
> Mike / G.M.: No doors open.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] All right, I’m gonna see, I’m just gonna pick a door um [ IC ] Which do you think? Uh what’s, what’s uh what’s your technomancer intuition telling you? Which door do you think it is?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Ummm. [ OOC ] Do--I try to look through the doors and try to take a look, and see what I see through the doors on both sides and uhh, what do I see?
> Mike / G.M.: Through one of the doors, you see a lot of devices. You see a wirelessly connected record player, you see several televisions, you see a couple trids, you see a collection of commlinks, and a number of gaming systems. Um you also see a very serious security system. Through the other door, you don’t see anything.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] All right, I’m gonna--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Tell me, tell me what did, what did you see? What did you see?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Uh, I, I’m gonna say, there’s this, this door on the left has a kind of a ton of uh gadgets and it’s got a pretty high-tech security system it looks like. This other door doesn’t have anything behind it so...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Let’s do the one without anything behind it, door number two! > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] N--d-door--not anything behind it?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Yeah that’s four hits for that! For spoofing the command for the door that doesn’t have anything behind it.
> Mike / G.M.: That door opens. [ gentle hydraulic door opening sound effect ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
[ Gentle chiming new age music starts ]
> Mike / G.M.: And you see uh directly in front of you before leaving the elevator-- > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: A massive leather chair. It is the largest leather chair you have ever seen. And it is facing directly out, looking out over the city, these floor-to-ceiling windows that you recognize from Mrs. Swanson’s apartment. And the leather chair is surrounded with piles of books that are very neatly organized. Some of them are on top of a small side table. The small side table also has um a glass stein, half full of yellow liquid. And you notice, uh you can just barely make out that the books are in German.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Did I get it?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Well it’s, this is uh, it looks like a super German place so...
> Mike / G.M.: The elevator door starts to close.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I slide out, into get, get out of there.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Lash, did I, did I get it? Was I right?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] We’re somewhere.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Do you see any big shit? Any larg--’cause our man is very large.
[ 01:10:00 ] > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, I see a big ol’ leather chair, and some German books. [ chuckles ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Have you ever seen a movie where someone breaks into a place? [ laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: The door closes behind you [ gentle hydraulic door closing noise ], um and you hear it whirr away. Now that you’re inside the apartment, to your left you can see that there is a small kitchenette, that is pushed up against the wall that you just passed through. And you, it looks like it’s never been used. It looks like a brand new kitchen, that--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm.
> Mike / G.M.: No one has ever used. There’s a small seating area, but then there’s nothing in the apartment between the kitchen and these giant windows that look out into this grouping of video screen covered buildings. Um and then to the right of the giant chair, you see a normal-sized upright piano that is very old um and has a bunch of practice books and sheet music leaning up against it. It looks like it has traveled the world, it is very beaten up, the keys are very yellow, um some of them are broken in the middle, like the white fake ivory part is coming off. And up against that wall to your right, your immediate right, you see two doors. If you were to give the apartment a look through your--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm.
> Mike / G.M.: --natural AR vision, um it doesn’t seem like there’s any security here.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay, I’m guessin’--
> Mike / G.M.: Um.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I’m guessing this stuff is running on super silent, in-- > Mike / G.M.: In--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] In here. Is--
> Mike / G.M.: In game terms, I’m just so you know--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Because the system rolled so poorly, I’m just gonna tell you--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah. [ Nick chuckles ]
> Mike / G.M.: Um, like the MAD scanner downstairs--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: It would appear as though Severin’s personal security system is also on the fritz. [ Nick laughs ] So as you’re sitting there, you actually s--as you’re standing there you actually see, in your AR vision, all of the various security s-system elements that are in his apartment, like blinking on and off and showing up in your field of vision, and then blinking away, glitching in and out of your view. And you see slowly one by one they all pop up with little errors. [ many little error noises ] They are all disconnected from the matrix as they all disappear.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay. I tell T.K. uh--
> Mike / G.M.: That was a very lucky roll. [ chuckles ] > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah. I tell T.K.--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Do we uh...
> Mike / G.M.: Remember when you were like “They are never ever gonna get into this building” and-- [ Nick chuckles ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah I said “Why did you write this enormously long description of this apartment building, ‘cause they’re never gonna go...”
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I say to T.K. I say [ IC ] It looks like their toaster oven’s broken. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. says [ IC ] Is that code?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah. Yeah, their, their security sucks.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] So we’re calling them toaster ovens now?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, I thought it was a cute thing, like, I don’t know.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Toaster oven, got it.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Thanks T.K. I’m gonna go uh snoop around this place.
> Mike / G.M.: So you have those two doors that you haven’t been into, is that, is that where you’re gonna snoop?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I’m first gonna go over to the chair and just take a, a look at what, what the title, it’s in German but like the title of the book, the first book that’s there.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Uh, the books... can you read German? [ Gentle chiming new age music stops ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Um, ooh wait, I do have language skills. Let me see what I have [ gasps ] I have German IV! How l--how lucky is that? [ everyone cracks up ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] [ laughing ] No way!
> Mike / G.M.: Whoa. Holy shit.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Wow.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] She has two. She has two: German and Hungarian. [ Jenn laughs ] She happens to speak German.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Wow.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] I didn’t know this about you. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] At a level of four.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Uh, so--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Whoa.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] What you see, are-- [ Mike and Shannon laugh ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Insane.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I just picked two.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] In. Sane.
> Mike / G.M.: What you’re saying is... Lash sprechen Sie Deutsch.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah. She--Sie sprechen ein bisschen Deutsch. [ Nick laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: I am extremely impressed. [ Shannon laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Ja, das stimmt!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] [ quietly ] Das stimmt. [ Bijan laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Das ist gut.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] [ quietly ] Das ist gut.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mein freunde. Das ist sehr gut, meine... fr-frage? No, that’s not book, what’s book?
> Mike / G.M.: Isn’t it, I think it’s “buch.” > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] “Buch” heh.
> Mike / G.M.: I think it’s “buch.”
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mein buchen frage, is that the name?
> Mike / G.M.: Buchen would be books.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Would, yeah, buchen, buch. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] My buchen is sehr gut! [ Nick giggles ] Ja! Das macht sehr spaß! > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] You see a bunch of books about the history of Bavaria.
[ Gentle chiming new age music starts]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] And like old books on the history of the German people. Uh and also some like German translations and also original German uh manuscripts of like old science fiction and fantasy classics. You’re pretty sure you see like maybe there’s like a Silmarillion in there, something like that. Maybe like a uh Stanisław Lem uh essay, short story collection, translated to German. All just sort of stacked up there. Some of it’s like easy stuff, like coffee table books, mostly pictures you know. Some of it is thicker stuff, some of it bought vintage at used book stores, some of it looks like it’s fresh off one of the rare like paper presses still left in like the city or something like that.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] And how many books are we talking here?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It, it, it’s like there’s like a sort of a half shelf, and they’re
just sort of scattered around like someone’s been thumbing through them.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] And you wouldn’t say he’s maybe a collector of rare books?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] No, these don’t look rare. They just look like maybe he got some money and went on like a topical books like buying spree.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm. Mm. Mm. Okay. Then I uh w--I go [ IC ] Very interessanté... [ OOC ] I don’t know if that is German...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] It’s not. [ Shannon giggles ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] There’s a lot of books about like, like pre-industrial German architecture. And small town life.
[ 01:15:00 ] > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I say [ IC ] Interesting. [ OOC ] And I uh walk over to one of the doors, of the, and walk through the one closest to the windows.
> Mike / G.M.: Do you want to do that or do you want me to do it?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Sure.
> Mike / G.M.: You go for it. Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah, sure. Uh, you have found... the bedroom. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Ooh!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] The bedroom.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] There’s only one thing in this room. And it’s a huge bed.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s also worth, I, just to, to make it clear, the door that you just walked through also? Giant.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: A huge door.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Mm. Sehr grosse... bed.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] The bed is made. Not well. It’s not hospital cornered.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Mm.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Uh but he definitely like put the, uh the comforter back on.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I take a peek under the bed. > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Clean.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I take up--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] There’s a, there’s a, there’s a Vroomba under there. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh, oh god.
> Mike / G.M.: Once again, proud of you for not saying “Neo-Roomba.”
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I look under the uh, the mattress. > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Looks like a normal--
> Mike / G.M.: No, no, no!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Under mattress...
> Mike / G.M.: No, no, no!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] No? Sorry--
> Mike / G.M.: No, no, no!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Roll strength.
> Mike / G.M.: Roll strength. [ everyone laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Great, I wanted to roll strength.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] 900 pound mattress.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Uh, I just, that’s just four? [ sound of papers rustling ] What, uh, is this gymna-gymnast?
> Mike / G.M.: No.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] No. > Mike / G.M.: This is just pure strength. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] All right...
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] You know it...
> Mike / G.M.: Unless you have a carrying item skill, which does exist.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] No... Okay I got--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Not bad.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] What is a hit? I can’t even remember.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] You got two out of four.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ quietly ] Two out of four.
> Mike / G.M.: That is, no, you struggle to lift the largest mattress you’ve ever seen.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s also a double pillow top, reversible.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh boy.
> Mike / G.M.: You actually think, you look up at the height of the ceilings and you wonder whether or not you could even flip this mattress in this room. [ Nick chuckles ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah, okay so there’s only a bed in there, I go [ IC ] Okay this is a stinky room. [ OOC ] And I go [ Shannon laughs and Nick chuckles ] I go,
> Mike / G.M.: Um there is, and there is another door to the uh I guess it would be in the back. It would be on the other side of the room when you get in, there’s another door that’s closed.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh, like a closet looking thing? > Mike / G.M.: You don’t know.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay I’m--
> Mike / G.M.: It’s another, it’s another huge door.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I’m, I’m gonna look in there. > Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] The smell hits you first. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Ooh no...
> Mike / G.M.: Oh no, that’s the other...
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] No?
> Mike / G.M.: She just went, she just went into...
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] The closet.
> Mike / G.M.: The closet.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Door number two.
> Mike / G.M.: The bathroom.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Ooh. Uhh. [ Taylor laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Also the smell hits me.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] No, actually the bathroom is very clean. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I mean this is a nice building, it’s got automated uh you know, cleaning systems in the bathroom. And it’s very easy to clean because this is a wet room, the whole room is the bathroom. Uh there is an enormous toilet. Uh and there, there is also a shower head and a drain in the floor. The whole room is a shower. Or a toilet, depending on how you define it.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Uh, I--how damp is it?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It was used earlier this morning, but uh, you know, the heating and drying systems have taken care of most of it.
> Mike / G.M.: You can still smell some of the product in the air.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Mm-hm!
> Mike / G.M.: It’s very--it’s kind of pleasant.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] What soap, what soap brand are we talking? > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Well there’s lots. Uh--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Ooh.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Yeah, there’s lots. There’s a lotta different like ungents,
lotions, shampoos, body washes...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] [ quietly ] Jesus, who gives a shit?
[ Gentle chiming new age music fades out ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Lash is interested, I go [ IC ] Oh!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] [ quietly ] Lookin’ for the honeypot.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I say--yeah I’m looking for a honeypot. Okay, I say [ IC ] Okay, let’s go to the other room, let’s go to room number two.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Oh, you don’t wanna find out more about his skincare routine? That’s fine.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] You know I am, but I heard that the other room might be stinky! [ everyone laughs ]
> Mike / G.M.: Uh--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] You know what she likes. [ Shannon giggles ]
> Mike / G.M.: So you walk out of the bathroom and through the bedroom back out into the front sort of foyer hallway area and when you open this um this second door that is also quite
large, you see that the room is, is completely dark. And if you fumble around, um to the left, you find a light and you flip it on. But yeah, when you open the door, immediately--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Glue. Paint. Solvents. Sawdust. Plastic. > Mike / G.M.: So you flip on the light, and what you see--
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [ inhales ] There is a magnificent, extremely detailed, miniature Bavarian town.
[ Faint polka music starts ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Oh boy!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It takes up--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Honeypot honeypot honeypot!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Seventy-five percent of the room. It begins on a flat, built-out surface, a large table with a wide notch cut into its side, and continuing towards the wall on a gradual incline where the village scene turns into a grassy mountainside, covered in tiny trees, sheep, even [ German accent ] little goats.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I quickly look at the uh at the Bavarian uh landscape and I look to see if I can see if there’s any kind of holes missing, if it looks like there, he’s working on, on one part of it or anything like that.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Well as you approach, you do see that there is one part that’s being worked on, over by like on the other side of this little miniature town there’s a workbench. Uh small work table, above which is a set of shelves, holding meticulously labeled boxes of materials. Various well-worn tools are pegged to the wall over there. And in a custom made display to the left, you see four massive and seemingly mechanical wristwatches. All of which tick away at precisely the same time, down to the second hand moving in sync. They all appear to be gold or some convincing substitute. The only discernible difference between them is the typeface of the numbers on their face. And one has an off-color crown. It is black to its watch’s yellow shine.
[ 01:20:04 ] > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] What time is it reading? [ Polka music fades out ]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] What time is it during the day, what is it about 9:30 now?
> Mike / G.M.: 9:30.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] 9:30. So it’s reading-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] 9:29 and fifteen seconds. Sixteen seconds. Seventeen seconds.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ laughs ] Yeah I, yeah I get it. I stop reading the time.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. radios in and says [ IC ] What do you see up there? It’s been
uhh a while, we don’t know when he’s coming back.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Wow, this guy is cool. [ Nick and Taylor laugh ] Listen, they, he’s got this little Bavarian village. And it is so cute and I would love to play with it. Um--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Any honeypots?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah. I’m guessing this Bavarian village is the honeypot. This guy
is freaky for [ laughing ] Bavarian villages.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] So you’re saying we have to make a Bavarian--[ Bijan and Shannon laugh ] You know what, I don’t even wanna know.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] You know what, I’m gonna take, I’m gonna take a picture of it and send it down. And I’m gonna take a picture of these watches and send it to y’all because there’s these crazy-ass watches in the corner that are ticking away. Oh, look at--he’s got even, he’s got so many interesting details here. [ OOC ] Okay, and I’m gonna uh come out, and I’m gonna say [ IC ] Okay, I think that’s all, you want me to check the kitchen?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] No. [ Shannon laughs ] No one has anything interesting in those kitchens.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Okay. You’re right.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] It’s a kitchenette right? It’s not even a kitchen.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah and I’m not seeing any kind of office or anything, where he keeps files or anything like that so, nothing else.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] That’s paper. We don’t use paper.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] You know Luxe is using paper all the time.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] He’s so fucking weird. [ Shannon laughs ] Sometimes.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I’m gonna, I’m gonna head on down so I’m gonna need you to uh spoof--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] All right.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] This vator--this vator... this elevator.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Calling them vators now?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Hmm. [ sound of dice rolling ] [ OOC ] Three hits.
> Mike / G.M.: You succeed.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] All right, [ elevator door opening sound effect ] come uh come back to the roof, condor.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I come on down. And now I just have to get out.
> Mike / G.M.: You ride the elevator all the way back down [ elevator door closing sound effect ] to the ground floor and it dings open [ elevator ding sound effect ]. When you arrive in the elevator lobby--
[ New age lobby muzak starts playing ]
> Mike / G.M.: You don’t see anyone there, no one sees you. You turn the corner and you see the same MAD scanner with the disinterested woman watching her trid screen on the other side of it. What do you wanna do?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] This is what I’m thinking, I’m thinking I’m extremely fast runner, and I’m in my Chameleon Suit. I think even if the thing goes off, I just sprint on out of there.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Uh, what about the guards? Why don’t you wait until somebody uh somebody walks out? Cause it’s 9:30, people still getting breakfast, probably commuting to work, ‘cause these are rich people.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Okay
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] You could just wait to see if there’s, if there’s maybe a couple people.
But you know, wait ten minutes, if nobody’s coming then just sprint. We gotta be careful.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, I just want to show you how fast I can run to the car, okay? > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Yeah, two-point-three boat lengths a second, yeah we know.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yes. Okay, sure. I guess I can be prudent and wait.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] And by boat I mean dinghy.
[ New age lobby muzak fades out ]
> Mike / G.M.: It’s a weird time in the morning, everyone who has to be at work by 9 or 10 has already left, and everybody who hasn’t left their apartment by now is probably working from home.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Mm.
> Mike / G.M.: It’s not yet lunchtime so there aren’t any delivery people coming, the mail in this neighborhood comes pretty late. So you sit in the lobby for a little while and there isn’t a lot of coming and going, no one comes.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I go [ IC ] [ whining ] T.K., can I please try to run? > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Yeah, sure. Fuck it.
> Mike / G.M.: You book it through the MAD scanner [ whooshing sound, machine alarm starts ] and it beeps vigorously, turns bright red. The woman sitting at the desk with her trid rolls her eyes, taps a little bit more on her keyboard and it quiets itself, [ machine alarm stops, happy chime sound effect plays ] and she goes back to watching her stories. You see the two men who
abut either side of the door, you see the two men on either side of the exit, talking to one another. They’re both looking at each other, and they’re having a quiet conversation that you just barely start to hear as you approach. And as you get within a foot of them, they laugh at one another and they go for a fist pound. Right at your midsection. [ Bijan groans ] Which I’m gonna allow you a gymnastics roll [ Nick laughs ] to attempt to slide under. [ Jenn laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay.
> Mike / G.M.: One of them rolled well enough that he has an opportunity to see you but not so
well that he definitely crushed it. So I’m gonna let you ev--you have a chance to evade. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] So I’m doing a gymnastics test.
> Mike / G.M.: You are doing a gymnastics test and I’m gonna say that you have to get three. Because this is happening at light speed, and this happens right in front of you. You have a split second to react.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay luckily I get to roll twelve, so. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Jesus!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] I hope you succeed but you fail because you go “Clam flip!” [ everyone laughs ] out loud.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] [ loudly ] “Clam flip!” [ Jenn giggles ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Okay I got six hits.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Holy s--!
> Mike / G.M.: Not only will I allow you to describe how you slide underneath this sudden fist bump that happens, I will also let you tell me what conversation they are having.
[ 01:24:37 ] > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah okay, so what they’re having is one of the guards is, is talking about how he thinks he should try his hand at stand up comedy ‘cause he’s really good at impressions. And the other guy is like “I think you should go for it. I mean, you only got one life to live. I heard the scene’s really hot right now.” And he’s going “Thanks man, for always supporting me.” And they go to make the fist bump, [ footsteps running sound effect starts ] I touch the butt [ honk-honk noise, Shannon laughs ] of one of the guards, which causes
him to take his, his fist back, so I can sneak under [ cartoon sound effect, running footsteps sound effect stops ]. And I’m running multiple boat-lengths per minute.
> Mike / G.M.: So wait, what I’m picturing is like, you drop to your knees and slide [ cork pop sound ] and as you’re doing that you poke a butt?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah. [ everyone laughs ] I poke a butt. Which makes him pull back like “Whoa!”
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Quick oil check. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah. [ giggles ]
> Mike / G.M.: Um, you are outside on the sidewalk, and uh the, the two guards continue their conversation um encouraging one another to follow their dreams.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yep.
> Mike / G.M.: Uh no one on the street sees you.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I’m still around the corner, I don’t know what’s going on. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I’m uh, I tell T.K. [ IC ] Hey, all’s clear.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I just share my location, I don’t say anything.
> Mike / G.M.: And cut back to Viv and Luxe, you guys are...?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Making our way out of the building. Viv is making the little nuggles run ahead. We are making our way hastily out of the building as we were kicked out for not paying dues. [ IC ] Shall we re--regroup?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh, yes, yes. [ OOC ] So um they just walk out back towards the location where T.K.’s at, and they meet up with the other two.
> Mike / G.M.: As you guys are leaving the Police Athletic League, you see um to the left a very large car pulls up and a very large troll gets into it and it takes off down the street, and drives away from the direction that you are heading back to Henley the Bentley.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Should we make haste? And try to follow them?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Nah, we know where he’s going.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah, did you guys get anything for the old HP?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] This dude is majorly into Bavaria.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay, what does that mean?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I mean he, you ever see a tiny tiny little village?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh shit! [ OOC ] And then tha--uh Luxe just looked at the picture on his commlink.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah I just saw one justt now!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] He has a whole room full of tiny tiny village! O-of Bavaria!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] It‘s all...
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] It’s never the ones you think!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] I think we’re gonna call this one Operation Bavarian Honey.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yesss!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] Viv wants to see so she pulls out her uh broken starfish. [ Taylor, Shannon and Mike laugh ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Oh! Oh, it’s quite lovely actually. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I--it’s gorgeous.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] I can’t believe no one saw any of us. [ Shannon laughs ] I mean not me, ‘cause I was in the car the whole time.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] They see you, you two?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Yeah they just thought that we work for the Critter Department.
Anyway, w-are these watches in the background as well?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Do you recognize them?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah, do you recognize them yeah? > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] I said that first.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Um--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] D--do you--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Stop copying me.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] [ laughing ] Yeah yeah, I’m--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Jinx.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I’m uh in the same body pose as T.K.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [ laughs ] I love it.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] T.K. just doesn’t say anything and sets Henley to drive back to the Mrs. Egg.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] No, I don’t but I have a friend who uh, who probably would actually recognize these. Okay so. Do we think that we have enough to uh attract him to a booth?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Uh...
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Maybe with a either Bavarian Village...?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Does Bavaria have bees? ...Yes.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Okay, good then I’m glad the answer was yes.
> Mike / G.M.: Did you do the, I hope you like did a matrix search before that to make sure that...
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Do bees still exist?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] I’m gonna retcon that and say yeah I did. [ laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Did the, all the bee colonies collapse?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Does Bavaria have fake bees? Yes.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] No the bees are doing okay, I think. Yeah.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Oh, the bees are back. Oh good, good, good.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] In a big way. In a big way.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Too many bees.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah. It’s too many bees
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] For the--
> Mike / G.M.: They’re uh, they’re corporatized now, but yes.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Luxe--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] Bee Inc.?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Talk about office drones. [ everyone laughs genuinely, then a little performatively ]
> Mike / G.M.: Iris out.
[ Mechanical humming music starts ]
> Mike / G.M.: The team piles into Henley, which quietly whirrs them away from the wealthy yet crowded, ad-ridden environment of the Upper West Side. Mid-morning traffic has died down and after passing lazily through two green-lit neighborhood security checkpoints, the car’s navigation system takes the team to the West Side Highway. In the late morning sun, the monuments tower and glint not too far south. Driving on the highway, one can see the large thick panes of safety plastic that edge the outer bank of the superstructure, between the highway-adjacent Greenpath and the Hudson River. They were installed by the City decades ago, and bankrolled by Saeder-Krupp, as a marketing initiative for their new line of quote “Structural Plastics.” This was back when the Upper West Side was a Saeder-Krupp zip code. Peering through the pristine windows of the car and then the decades of graffiti, scratchiti, e-paper sticker bombs and iridescent wheat pastes on the edge glass, you can just barely make out a few barges, with modest stacks of cargo in groupings of small homes and businesses floating in the Hudson. Holdouts who haven’t made their way to the Archipelago for whatever reason, living and working literally in the wake of corporate business. Henley parks and the team boards the Mrs. Egg. They gather in the kitchen to discuss their next steps.
[ Humming music swells, then ends ]
[ 01:30:22 ] > Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Luxe, what did you learn in the locker room?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Verne is sending me an invitation to the event, um with that dupe email I sent him. [ OOC ] I check my, that fake email account I set up so that he could send me that message and I see if he did...
> Mike / G.M.: So just to be clear, you have multiple fake email addresses, right? > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yes.
> Mike / G.M.: And you’re not gonna give him--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] No, not mine.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, great. Perfect.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yes. Yes. Um it’s actually part of just the automated, some of the automated software I use, it just automatically grades ways to contact these people, you know, uh--
> Mike / G.M.: You get like throwaway email addresses.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah just throwaway everything, because yeah the direct nature of, that’s such a part of your identity, it’s just--
> Mike / G.M.: Forgery is your specialty.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah, yeah. So yes. I check that email box, which has nothing else in it because I just made up G.G. Allin before going in. And I see if he sent me the invite to the event.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC as the email ] “Gigi, guten Tag!” [ Taylor laughs ] > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh, it’s a video message, okay.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] [ laughing ] No, it’s not! It’s not, it’s not! [ everyone laughs ] It’s not a video message! It’s not, it’s textual...
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] It’s textual.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It’s textual, dictated not read. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Okay, dictated not read.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC as email ] “Gigi, guten Tag!” [ OOC ] And it’s Gigi G-I-G-I, like Gigi, [ IC ] “Gigi, guten Tag. So sorry about what happened in the [ clears throat, comes back deeper and with the German accent stronger ] So sorry about what happened in the locker room today. Uh you know the guys they get rough, they get uh, have, we all have emotions, you know on the Force. You’ve been on the Force a long time, I think Critter stuff you said, [ OOC ] [ Taylor laughs ] sorry I am rambling. Look, I’m finally kind of coming on into my accent [ Shannon laughs ] and I kind of want to play with it a little bit to get it right, you know? It’s hard to...
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] He sounds, he sounds like Arnold Schwartzenegger on email. > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It’s-- [ laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] I like it.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] It hard to come across in text...
> Mike / G.M.: He’s written like he’s the Terminator. [ everyone laughs ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] [ quietly ] Jesus.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] [ Taylor clears his throat ] Yes.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ IC as email] “Anyway here’s ze--” [ OOC ] Shit! [ clears throat ] [ IC as email again ] “Attached you’ll find two tickets to the convention tomorrow and also two passes, two VIP passes to my talk. So come backstage and you can see me after my keynote address.”
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] He uh actually sent me two VIP passes to actually um, see his talk and talk to him backstage afterwards. So we, I might be able to casually drop if he um. Anyway, we’ll be able to talk to him. He didn’t see uh Viv, so it could be anybody else that goes with me but I will have to go as G.G.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] What about, did you get any intel about uh urban brawl? Into it, not into it?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Well I told him that Bryce was gonna be there at the booth, I don’t think he really cared that much.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Okay.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I think he likes, I think he likes urban brawl but like he wasn’t, he didn’t
you know, schoolgirl over it.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Right.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Um.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Okay, then that’s yeah that’s...
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I’m guessing that you know, he’s not gonna wanna hang out in his house or I said he had a plane-boat, which I don’t know if that makes sense but uh--
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] You said Bryce had what?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] A plane-boat. [ Shannon laughs ] That you could go on with him. I said it was gonna be part of a raffle. Like a lot of times at these booths they have raffles, I thought, I don’t know.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] [ aghast ] I didn’t set this up with Bryce.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I know you can’t, all right?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Set it up with Bryce. [ Nick and Shannon laugh ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] No.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] It doesn’t have to be real.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Well, guess what Lash, T.K. could set it up with Bryce.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] What? [ laughs ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Don’t you know Bryce? I don’t know Bryce, you know Bryce.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I know Bryce.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I know I’m just kidding, I was uh, [ Shannon and Nick laugh ] just thought you were gonna...
> Mike / G.M.: This, this week on the thrilling adventure hour! Who knows Bryce?! [ everyone laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I thought you would, I thought you’d want to because T.K. was going to, uh.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] You can’t trick me that easily!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I know. Um okay. So yeah, so l--at the very least we could speak with
him backstage and stuff, so uh.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Cool.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I think we got all the info we need, do we need to try to follow him into work? I don’t wanna be the Critter police again.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] I don’t... wanna do that.
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, anything you wanna do on the boat before you call it a day? Or do we wanna...?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] I think we have stuff or uh information, like we have the watches, the Bavaria stuff, like all this information to kinda look through and figure out how, the best way to use it.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] So I guess let’s work on creating a display, like uh a booth. And you, Lash. Get in touch with Bryce.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Uh, Bryce? We still taking Bryce?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I don’t know if we need Bryce anymore.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] I think we can use Bryce as the, the demo man cause he’s huge right?
> Mike / G.M.: Next week on Thrilling Adventure Hour! [ Nick laughs ] Do we need Bryce?! [ Taylor laughs ]
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Um, okay.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [ OOC ] Should we get a celebrity spokesperson to come by our
booth at a convention? I can’t imagine! A pulp, hard-hitting, noir story, and you were exciting... > Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] We don’t have, there’s no, there’s no pulp.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I mean Bryce or Bavarian village. And you know I--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] One is certainly easier to get than the other.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Sure. I, you know I don’t, I can’t think of two people I would trust less
to build a really fine, delicate Bavarian village than you two.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] What?!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Love you, love you to bits! But--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] We have tech, I have technology skills!
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Why don’t we use the, use the instruments as they are intended so that he could make figurines of himself in the Bavarian village?
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Oooh, that’s a great idea! > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Love it!
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Holy shit!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I love it.
[ 01:35:00 ] > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] That is a good-! > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh my god.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] So. Our--that, so our booth, or it’s not a booth, is creating 3D mod--it’s like 3D printing things.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] It’s not a booth. We don’t need a booth, he’s just going with him. > Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] We have an in.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] We have an in. So we’re just going back and saying--
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Bringing it with us.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I have, y--why would you be there with this 3D printer is the question.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] All you have to say is “it’s a 3D scanner that is...” > Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] For critters.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] “That’s--it’s comprehensive”
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Oh, for critters.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Use it to generate m--yeah they use for critters, to generate models to study the critters, but you could probably use it for miniatures.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Here’s, here’s what I think we could do. I have the in to, to talk to him, and gain his confidence, what if you guys did have a booth, whether it’s part of the trade show or not I don’t, I don’t know. And I talk to him, I casually slip in the thing, and I was like uh “You know, I gotta you know, a friend doing this, that or the other, and if you...” If he’s, if this isn’t a big thing of shame for him, and he just and he happens to take the bait and mention the Bavarian village, I’d be like “You know I got a friend who can do perfect recreations of you doing activities. Um these things actually like move and they look like you, in your village. Would you be interested in that?” Or something like that.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Make sure you don’t say that you know about his village, that’d be...
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] No, no I’m, I know I have to give him bait. > Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] You’re--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] For him to--
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] But you’re still--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] --Walk into the conversation, > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah give him bait, yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Luxe, you should, you should study up on Bavaria ‘cause you’re gonna have to be doing most of the faking here.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Uh we’ll, we’ll handle the--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] All, it’s an easy lie for me, it’s just a Wildlife and Fisheries Critter Department guy... [ Bijan and Shannon laugh ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] We should--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Who’s an expert in Bavarian villages and making figurines with new technology, it’s something I did last week I’m sure.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Look, look, you’re very good, you’re very good at lying. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Uh, okay.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] I’m sure that it’ll work.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] All right.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] And then uh, Viv why don’t you go with him and do the critter thing again?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] Why not?
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] It’ll work twice.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Well...
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Cops are stupid. ACAB.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] We’re not gonna be able to spell it out for him, what we hope is that he’s gonna be so interested in this that he’s gonna see this technology and the unbelievable ability to, you know, I, I can offer to, to use it on him to, to, to show him how well it works and how quickly it works and that he could in real time have little miniatures of himself, and he could see just how valuable, how great that would be for him to put in his little village. That’s like what we’re kind of hoping I think.
> Mike / G.M.: Will you, will you have miniatures on you?
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Here’s what I’m, here’s what I’m thinking. Is the nuggles are already little models of the bigger nuggles [ Shannon goes “Mmm!” in agreement ] and but, because they’re only class two spells, they’re like perfect recreations of nuggles and like he’s, he’s gonna be like “Oh my god, I could have this realistic of a, of a recreation of myself?” Like these things have like, they look like exactly real nuggles but they’re tiny.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] There we go.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] These will go away actually at sunset. > Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Damn it! [ Shannon laughs ]
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] You could do it again. [ Shannon laughs ]
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] I could do it again.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] You could do this again, this is a try, it’s a dry run.
> Mike / G.M.: If they’re manifested you can also scan them, right?
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] That’s true.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ OOC ] All right.
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] We could make models of the nuggles.
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yes.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] But you could also show--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Make the perfect nuggles.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] You could show him ones that are alive and say that this is what you could do.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Exactly! I mean that would be the promise that I think would actually-- > Jenn / “Viv”: [ IC ] All right.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Have a...
> Jenn / “Viv”: [ OOC ] That is what, that is what Viv will spend her time on.
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Thank you Viv!
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] And in the, and the--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] I know you get damaged every time you make nuggles. [ everyone laughs ]
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ OOC ] Make more nuggles!
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ OOC ] She’s bleeding from the ears [ Shannon giggles ] “Yes, I’ll make more nuggles.”
> Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] I think one thing we should think about is how to get all this stuff past security at the actual convention.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] Well, he’s VIP. It’ll be fine. > Shannon / “Lash”: [ IC ] Yeah.
> Bijan / “T.K.”: [ IC ] We’re just, as long as we can get the tech to look like not what it is but we have time to--
> Nick / “Luxe”: [ IC ] Oh, this is gonna be so great. Because we’ll be able to tell him like “You’ll be able to command these things!” And Viv you’ll be able to command the nuggles. Aw, I’m so excited. Okay, I gotta go find out about Bavaria.
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> Mike / G.M.: You are now leaving Fun City. Thanks for listening. If you want to support the show, get access to ad-free, high quality uploads, our Discord, Fun Chatty our bi-weekly post-episode chat show and as of next week our first Patron-only adventure, A Very Lash Black Friday, head to patreon.com/FunCityVentures . And just a quick note on our release schedule since the holidays are coming up. Next week we will publish A Very Lash Black Friday, for Omae plus patrons. On December 6th we’ll publish the Fun Chatty for this episode for Chummer plus patrons. And on December 13th Episode 8 is released, where the team confronts Verne at the International Policing and Security Festival Professionals Trade and Labor Consortium Annual Exposition.
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> Bijan: I am Bijan Stephen, and I am T.K. 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.
> Jenn: I'm Jenn de la Vega! I am Viv. You can find me online @randwiches, that's the word sandwiches but just replace the S with an R.
> Nick: This is Nick Guercio; I play Luxe Scythe. You can find me on Twitter @nguersh and Instagram @nguercio, G-U-E-R-C-I-O.
[ 01:40:02 ] > Shannon: 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: This is Taylor Moore and I play all the Bad Boys. I'm @taylordotbiz.
> Mike: My name is Mike Rugnetta, I am your G.M. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram
@mikerugnetta.
> Mike: You can find the show on Twitter @FunCityVentures. Fun City was recorded at Fortunate Horse in beautiful Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It was produced, edited and sound designed by me, Mike Rugnetta. The show's music is by Sam Tyndall. Our art is by Tess Stone, and our Discord mods are Olivia Gulin, Kit and Kestrel. The voice of Artemis is Molly Templeton.
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