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So yeah, Blades in the Dark, very fascinating setting, of course. One thing, there is no sun. Yeah, no sun. 847 years ago, the cataclysm happened which caused a volcano to erupt, the sun to explode and fracture, and the stars to delve into the sea. No son, only daughter. No, no daughter. Only the immortal emperor. With the cataclysm, a bunch of scary things happen such as ghosts are very much real. Yeah. They're superstition, they're there. No, they are a fact. As made obvious in the last episode.
And the city we live in is surrounded by a wall made of lightning.
due to weird alchemical science magic. Powered by basically what's... Oh, you can have this pencil back. Oh, thanks. What's basically demon blood and ghost goo. Woo! Very scientific. This is the world we live in. It is terrifying. I love it. I love the setting of this game so much. really got into the lore when reading the book I would watch a movie based on I would they probably ruin it wife was reading a book oh goodness she's gonna kill me cuz I don't remember the name Rookies It's a series and like that whole setting of- I could, you could just run Blades in the Dark with this setting. It slots in so perfectly. I feel like it could be like a series of like TV shows or something that you could have like multiple different characters have different stories going on and kind of like a hero's situation where you'd have like a bunch of different storylines going on. Maybe they'd all combine at the end or something.
Anthology. Yeah, that'd be a really cool of blades in the dark TV series. I'd watch it. I would but then I'd probably be disappointed because you know how those kind of
Yeah, well as long as they got the world right I wouldn't care because it's not like a character I can grip on to except for your guys I will say, Tales from the Loop, the show when they did that based on that setting, was like, same as when I only watched a couple episodes because the vibe was on point and that made it difficult to watch because it was really bad.
(screams)
Yeah. It was good. I think it was like. Speaking of good things, or bad things in this scenario, your character is standing there, paralyzed in fear as your compatriots, your partners in crime, going through different aspects of the warehouse, putting up the...
Wait, they just- passed by me?
section of it. Oh I thought that I was the first one to enter. You were the first one to enter. This is no you you you... You're not sure whether to chalk it up to survival instincts or what, but every ounce of you tells you not to move and not to
in the corner. My survival instincts? have sucked and I am... curious. Do I have the power to move my eyes.
(sighing) do this. I'm not going to tell you what's going to happen if you don't say yes to this. Do you want to make a resist roll? I will tell you if you say yes. what happens because... before you roll. Counterquest. Can I speak? Oh yeah, you can speak. Your voice is kind of trapped in your throat. Like, willpower you can overcome and it's pretty simple eventually.
eyes. And I let out the manliest and most demure yell that I can muster up.
Can we hear a little bit of it? That sound radiates throughout your guys' hidden safe house. Do you guys go to see what it is?
Nah, I'm fine.
enter the room, your eyes, without even you realizing it, sort of are automatically directed to the floor. When you enter, sort of putting your head in sort of a polite bow. And when you get too far into the room, again, a bolt of electricity, a bolt of nerves, goosebumps fly up your spine, and you're stuck in place, unable to move, and you have the same feeling that
[MUSIC]
The silence is from the core. guest.
(gentle music)
I don't have time to deal with them. Well, it seems... mistake. Mm-hmm. And Petit. Yes. Both of you would recognize this voice. It is a very throughout the city. He is known as... to live in bright light. Stone. He is known to sometimes be a recluse, sometimes not. But I think the most important thing that he is known for is being the only other thing that exists aside from the immortal emperor that is immortal. Standing in your corner is Lord He is so powerful that he has been known to take out a massive gang all by himself. And depending on his mood, people find it hard to look at him. Nobody's really sure how he's immortal, whether or not he's a sorcerer, a vampire, some ghost. But you know that he's immortal.
influence. made a grave mistake. You can see that Devlin's eyes are fighting themselves, almost cross-eyed, at this point, because he has reopened. the others came in and he just he daggers down at the floor and he says...
It's not a problem. It's a little too late for that. The dimmer sisters have already tainted it. Rituals. can still be of use to me. He's starting to move closer and closer, and as I'm moving closer again just without even thinking you're... and head are moving more towards the right. until all you can see are his feet.
but I think we could make an arrangement absolutely more Thank you.
it.
compelling you to continue to look at the ground.
You're on edge. Oh, yeah. We'll. will be to my benefit. I will return. For now, enjoy your coin." And almost like a ghost, he sort of walks out without making a single sound. And as he the room that sort of like prepped. back to your normal life.
How does he find our hideout? You went so well. Thank you, Dolly. I would probably have burned you others. giving him some of the coin, but he didn't ask for it. True. Never heard at least in That's true. As long as we get the other stashed away, I think we should be fine. We just... I would.
Very very powerful, very very scary.
That knows where we stay at
Honestly, I think I'd prefer that. being not alive. - Five. - Yeah.
get dumped in the canal tonight.
With him gone, you're not sure when he will come back. But we have now entered what is known as downtime. You all have two actions you can do. Downtime can be used to lick your wounds, to indulge in your vice, which lowers your stress, to acquire an asset for an upcoming job, to tinker, to basically do anything that doesn't involve stealing or skullduggering. Can you only do one of those things or can you do multiple? You can do, so you have two actions. So you can do, you can like heal twice, you can indulge your stress twice, you can work on a goal that you have, like a personal goal twice. like it is up to you.
you use these two actions. I'm at, I think it's in the night market at The Vale. of ill repute to just blow off some steam if he can relax after having seen the events of the spirit that they had to happen to cross and also his dense team that don't
a lightstep. I rolled a 4. Who? I would like to heal. To recover or to get treatment you see that little clock you need to fill that up. Treatment does require you to go see a doctor, basically. Now as your crew does not have a doctor, you'll have to just go to one, and probably pay for their services. But, thankfully, you just got paid. So it's not that big of a deal. I'm used to being within society. So go ahead and roll. We'll say like four dice. If you want to spend a coin, it'll be. A whole coin? Yeah, a whole coin. Doctors are expensive. I don't want to spend a whole coin. Okay, yeah. Then go ahead and roll four dice, tell me what you get. In fact, I'd like to try to sway him into giving me free service. It's not gonna be free service. - But yeah, if you want a sway, go ahead and make me a sway roll. - So that is a five. - So we'll say... extra charge. 163 fives and 14. All right we'll take the six. So you heal. you did not get a critical and you are not, you cannot remove that harm yet.
yet because I do not want to accidentally...
So we will come back to you. I think Summer's pretty stressed out, I would say, especially after our unexpected visitor, so I would like to probably inform her. work over indulge in work probably compared to the usual just work probably writing human interest pieces about new jello salads because gelatin is a really useful thing these days. So you're gonna indulge your vice, which is your day job at. That's such a good name. I rolled the one. Reduce one stress. Yay!
Very useful work in to try and reduce my stress. at his sister's home, Cecilia, and bringing some of the coin they earned from the job. go there visit Celia and his nephew Arthur and he will provide her with one coin to help keep them in. comfortable living and also so they don't have to resort to extreme measures.
As long as you visit your family and provide them coin You are allowed to treat this as one of your vices to reduce stress without the fear of overindulging this will not count as a vice if You get trauma and are forced to go to your vice more often. Mm-hmm But for the sake of reducing stress and allowing this to have some in-game There is also kind of the idea of like this is his long term project, but also it's ongoing project. Okay, because you really can't just you can buy their way into never happened. So if you want this to be your ongoing project. the current clock. We can say for every coin you provide them, it fills the clock, so to The clock will be a countdown clock in this case. you provide them is another month you don't have to worry about it. Fill the clock up three rungs you can make it a 12 pip clock for 12 months out of the year, a four pip clock. want to do that. as you go.
so I'm down to only one stress remand.
(gentle music)
I'd like to... Attend a gala. Okay.
function has a way to network and information gather. Okay. We will go ahead and say you can do this. And whenever we're if we need other information. for the next heist. This will give you an additional die for that. Does that sound fair? That does sound fair. Go ahead and roll because if you get a critical success... I will give a consort roll. A one. We're gonna say you still get the additional dice for gathering information. However, in addition to the heat you will gain, you guys just did you will gain one additional heat due to Petit's actions. Olivia? I'd like to use while I'm working I'm probably gonna... try and use a little extra of the time to practice.
train?
Not sure if I want to put it into prowl or sway though. Once all of those ticks are done, you can- an additional pip on your train, on whatever. is under those groupings. I do want to... you gain an additional... when training prowess due to your shadow playbook. - Yeah, let's do it in prowess. - Okay, so add two ticks of experience in prowess, which brings us neatly to something we skipped over. And we're probably not gonna be doing this every after every heist, 'cause it's very time consuming. But for the sake of explaining how it works, you guys, since you successfully completed a heist, all get to go through and do your XP tracker. If you address the challenge with deception or influence, which I would say you did, you gain another XP. If you... your beliefs drives, heritages or backgrounds, sure if you did that I'll leave that one up to you what do you think? The only thing I can...
would be using my ghost voice.
Okay, if you want that yeah, because it does involve knowing how to communicate I'm not sure if you struggled with issues from your vice or trauma. Did you know so yeah that would total up to three? Experience points that you can separate that again in your playbook and site prowess or resolve up to you If you want to focus on your playbook to get another skill if you want to increase your pips, so you're just better rounded That's fine Looking at combs combs, of course basically the same going through. Colmes is a little different though. He did a desperate action, is that correct? He did and he did the second check. Yes. He did the desperate action. Did you address the challenge using stealth or evasion? Yes between locking the door like the locks and trying to just quietly approach the man and everything. Did you express your beliefs, drives, heritage, or background in any way? Kind of express it in like his background of like being modest, living, you know, not really being aware of rich people's houses, things like that. Did you show? I'm not sure if you struggled with your vice or trauma or anything yet, but that I think that one's gonna take a minute to come up since Certainly for the trauma because none of them have none of us have
yet. As for Vice, he didn't struggle with it this time.
- I got the wine, but I need to make a dish out of that sometime. - Olivia, let's go ahead here. Did you make a desperate action? - I did not. - Okay. Did you address the challenges in calculation or conspiracy? - Absolutely. I even did a flashback about it. - You did do a flashback about it. Did you express your beliefs, drives, heritages, or backgrounds? - Probably not really. - Okay. Did you struggle with issues from your vice or trauma during the session? - Nah. - Okay. So unfortunately, to say no technically on that one. You were robbing a dilapidated manor, pretty simple. You did probably bolster your crew's reputation a little bit with this heist. Lord Skirlok is now aware of you. And let's see, you did express the goals and drives and inner conflict of the essential nature of your crew. Which you guys are very ambitious. Um for it is pretty ambitious, so 3 XP total. With the downtime done, you guys find yourself back into your hideout. You haven't heard anything from Lord Skrlock in a while. You're not sure how he's going to contact you, and you're just sort of anxiously paced. until something... of like having a target on your back and not knowing when the guns are.
So has anybody heard anything? to, I guess, do any research on anything?
Uh, no research on my end, I think. Unless you wanna know...
of how to properly prepare your gelatin but not like Carol's and while she's talking she's like for work to the side. like, preparing different gelatin molds of things? because she's like half stress baking. And she will feed it to you and you will have to eat it.
- Yes, Jell-O salads. - Ooh. Like no, I haven't gotten any research done because I can't focus on anything right now. Devlin's giving you kind of a half smile and a... not really listening to what you're saying but he is looking. type of thing. I did try to look for more marks, but... to talk is a bit of an interesting situation.
able to get more people to talk with me I don't know if Lord Scarlok's the kind of spread rumors or not I don't know how I don't know how your upper crust works that's true every time I started to talk about it I I just got a little bit of a
his feet in my head. I kind of remember his face.
or they get looked at it. And almost as on cue to you saying that. Lord. doesn't really arrive more of a peers behind all of this. He's behind me, isn't he? You feel that... that tension, that pressure? to it now that this is the second time. him when he's being... intimidating. down any longer. (gentle music)
You do have lovely feet.
I know how. What do you know of the silver nails? - Calm and Summer would know about this. you wanted to take the lead. They're uh...
they deal with... spooky things? They deal with that same stuff as them anyways, but they... They aren't so light about it. The sisters put out jobs just asking anybody to get from stuff. The silver nails usually take care of their own.
Well, they've recently become a thorn in my side. I have a place out there. seem to try and make it their own. I could normally deal with them myself, but I don't feel like it. That is where you all will come in. districts and get me my other artifacts.
Are we going to be attacked by anything with this one?
or you will die. the sense that he doesn't think about ghosts often for some reason. Get past them, first you need to prepare. course.
proper equipment.
I'm sure you do. add to them and he explains that... connections. he was able to. A few... He knows that eventually. be a sort of mobile shielding against the electric fences that you can use to make a gateway through. That way you might not have to walk all the way from. lines through the barren waste to the lost district. It might be a good idea to just travel there a little faster coming from inside the walls. He also mentions something that makes petite ears ring a little bit, as his college that he works at has been working on a prototype for a more explosive way to deal with spirits. the spirit wardens in blue coats are saying that the spirit bane charms aren't enough. and they want something with a little more firepower. So that might come in handy to deal with the more stronger spirits that might accompany such an artifact. Also, he admits, and due to how old he is, he's not 100% certain where his base is located, as it is well hidden out in the Lost Districts. you can go look for to find it easier, like something to detect large amounts of... gene.
Things are getting out of here. I think we should go for the... the... [MUSIC PLAYING] We may be able to... Do something with that firepower I can use my to attempt something. - I think we should handle one at a time. But... Well, absolutely. I wasn't thinking about doing it all at the same time. But I think, Lord Scurlock, that Devil in...
We are very appreciative of this offer and we will do our best to help you.
a problem for you. I'll let you all do your plan. I have more important... you have most of the time. month. Sounds good to me. Again, he doesn't walk out. like he did last time, he just sort of...
I was gonna offer him some salad. - I was gonna turn around and just start talking, be like, what about that? I wasn't, oh, he's gone. Well, we are going to have to wait for the next episode.
Hopefully we get back to you soon. so we can get the attention off of us hopefully.
Well I don't know, we could always... We can always sell it. are done with this. I think...
I think he's asking us to get it for him and not for our own sake. No, we ain't selling this.
No, no, no, I didn't mean the artifact. I meant the two.
that we're getting. So we get the tools, we use them and then we sell them. Hopefully they're not one time use, but yeah, they'd be a pretty handy trick. But I think you're right that our job is not actually getting anywhere easy if we can't get past the wall. so maybe it'd be best to make our first move. And get that key, perhaps.
on it. I agree. Shall we start to prepare for that? Mm-hmm. Yes, let's let's figure out where to begin. Who even has that? Let's go ahead and get some... information going. Due to Petit, you will get a +1.5. I am going to go ahead and give you another additional day. because the haste is... just because the heist is taking place in the night market. If you can't find anything, it's gonna be in the night market. to roll and how. I do think that spider does tend to lean a little towards that. I think so if that's alright with the others. Yeah. I think the nightmarget stone for like merchants I'm not sure if they'd be aware of those things. Nurchance exotic spices and things like that all coming through the electric rail all funneled through the night market into the city. Okay, so a lot of them would have if they didn't directly a lot of them would have come. who do cross through and there would probably be varying degrees of chatter on that. So that is probably what I will look for then. Okay, so that's gonna be consort I believe you're looking for. And I'm probably gonna disguise it as getting stories for the paper. Yeah, that's pretty good. So you already- Due to Petite's downtime activity. [Music] certain time the Electro Rail is going to be coming in with the sort of movable Faraday cage, movable shield for you guys to steal. It is a prototype. It is meant to be shipped off directly to both of the colleges. It's making sort of a tour around. It's going to go to the college and charter hall first, and then it's going to go to Petit's college. The best time shield around. With that stated now, unless there are any more questions or any more things you would like to do, we can choose...
approach.
and seeing what they kind of have as their security measures just in case we don't have a successful heist. Okay, that's definitely something you can do. You would know that the... just out of base. You would know that that school's security measures isn't as up to par as your school's security measures, since your school is sort of a more militant school right next to the spirit wardens. and you would know that it's broken up into more of a campus than yours is, which is still a campus, but it's a larger class building, sort of like a normal-- - More conjoined. - Yeah, more conjoined. You're not sure what additional security might bring with the moving of this object, so if that's what you wanna look into, you can, but just because you're in the school space and stuff, you kind of understand basic school security, you know, hoops and getting like a badge saying you're allowed there and stuff like that. and you're not sure of the extra security. Just tell me what you want to roll and we'll go from there. As I'm unsure if we're actually going to even need that, I probably won't do anything. Okay, that's fine.
question we have so you know summer knows that the cage is coming in we know how big it is like do we need to maybe see if we can get it? acquire a cart just to get it moved quickly.
So unfortunately that would be the acquire asset thing, which is a downtime activity and you don't have any more downtime activity. So, you know it's supposed to be a mobile cage? mean it requires four people to... and move it, that could mean it folds down. You're not how big it would be, but if you're gonna need a cart or anything that's gonna have to be something done on mission. How much pushback from the bluecoats would we get considering we paid them off? Yeah, you know that the bluecoats like you. You paid them off, you sweetened their pockets a little bit, so the bluecoats around the night area are willing to turn a little bit of a blind eye towards you, like if they see you rotting. a house or roughing somebody up they might like you know lean more on the air of caution be like they're just you know being good neighbors making sure everything's okay in that house they're helping that person. nothing major, but you're not sure if they'd let you walk around with a experimental... or not giant, cage. that you stole from the train. They might be willing to turn another blind eye for more greased pockets, but that'll have to be on a base by base basis. I think we have all the information that we need. Okay, so what do you guys want to... how do you guys want to tackle this? This is sort of how you plan for things. I did all the planning last time just to kind of push things along faster, but you can choose assault, deception, stealth, occult, social, or transport, trying to work your way through the interconnected webs of the social hierarchy to steal away transport kind of fits here but doesn't really because it's more about carrying people and cargo through dangerous territory and making a delivery more so than what this is. So I can either use my connections with the school and say that I am transporting it or we can be stealthy and just straight up steal it. I'm personally more inclined for stealth but I'm thinking for you guys maybe deception, if you can convince someone that "hey yeah we're here to pick up the package like we
we go our way or something. I'm sure we'll have...
some people that actually are trying to take it for where it's supposed to go. Social deception is what I was thinking but stealth. Yeah Okay, so let's Alright, let's go ahead then and move on and select the item loadout. So how much stuff are you bringing to your thing now? We kind of talked about this previously in the last episode but item loadouts are something you pick beforehand You don't actually have to choose the items that you bring in that comes along with gameplay pay attention to you maybe pat you down they would notice and have a armed to the teeth ready for a fight. Due to your guys's thief's rigging, you do get an additional free two slots to whatever you want.
I like the idea of getting there before the actual team does. I think you two are better about talking with people. Do you want me to try to run cover to intercept the actual team? Distract them? Ooh, I think that'd actually be really cool. because you could run interference with the actual group, but you could...
Also, if need be, stage a fake attempt.
situation interference is probably better though. But yeah.
lot. So I'm not approaching the car itself. I will take a heavy load out. Okay, so what about you, Petit? I was thinking light. Okay, Olivia. So we're supposed to be the escort for this. Yes. I think if someone noticed a normal load, if they it then they wouldn't think much of it if I'm supposed to be... guard service for this item. They think, "Oh, yeah, I'm gonna go get that."
Gonna protect the thing.
go with the normal load. Okay, so we have a light load, a heavy load, and a normal load. Let's get to my fun part where I get to roll the dice. You get one dice for sheer luck for starting this encounter. Is this operation particularly bold or daring? I would say it is. You're trying to steal something in a very crowded area of the city and free without getting any heat or people. an additional die. It does. kinda seem like it's complex and has a lot of multifaceted plans for you guys to go on. So that's gonna immediately take away- Does it expose a vulnerable or hit them where they're weakest. -I thought this was the weakest part, the weakest point of the delivery. -Yes, that's fair. I did say that. We'll give you a dice for that. Do any of your friends or contacts help out in any way?
- Blue coat. - Darn it.
that has helped sometimes. - We'll give you an additional dice for his assistance on this. Who knows what he's assisting. Let's see here...can any of your enemies or rivals hurt you though? Be honest with me here. I don't really know why most of them would have a reason to go after this item. Like, most people don't really want to go to the lost district. This is your hunting grounds. This is where you normally operate. a little pickpockets you. So let's go ahead and roll this and see what happens. In the very familiar night market streets to you all, electric lights are a buzzword. which are quite the name. except for in the... You guys make your way home. to the night rail with Colm splitting off to find his target. You too, Devlin in Summer. a goat-drawn carriage. is capable of holding the item, so you can try to pass off as the ones who are transporting it to Charter Hall College. What will you do to find this carriage? would be look outside. I'm basically asking... If you are going to try and sneak to steal one, if you're going to just blatantly rob somebody from it, like how? Oh yeah, absolutely. Oh, just blatantly rob?
I don't want to threaten people.
looking. I want to look outside and see if there is a house that has a ready to go cart and I'm going to knock on their door. You are able to... well firstly no there's not a
This is the night market But you are able to find a shop with a ready-to-go cart sort of recently unloaded, the goat is happily munching on its food.
It's a very buff goat. I would like to approach the owner. If they are...
They are in their shop. Is that within eyeline? It's, I mean you can enter.
I mean, like, can they see the goats and the cart? No, there's a door between them. Oh, well, then why don't we just take it? - We're approaching the shopkeep, we approach the goat. - I mean, I was just gonna ask nicely,
I mean, we could. We could make a friend out of this, give him a little bit of-
money and say hey can we just borrow your cart for a little while and you don't know anything about it and we bring it back. You guys are like the nicest thieves. We don't want anyone to be injured because bad things happen. I just... we can sneak into the guy's house or we can just talk to him. I might be a criminal but I insist on being wholesome. We can steal the goat or we can just talk to him. Anyway... So it's up to you and what you want to do you can either steal this cart. sway or... and Vince.
owner to part with their goat for a little bit. So I think we should go ahead and steal it, but Okay, tell me your reasoning. (laughs) - The note would say something along the lines of,
I promise and that's the reasoning Can the note also like include like not like a full coin but like enough for a nice meal or something we can like Carrot this go Which you guys are gonna steal. He's very happily munching food and his extra special carrots that were given to him by his owner because he's a very good boy. He wants to leave? Upon closer inspection you see a name tag. and you're gonna have to find a way to convince this goat to leave its food behind and go with you. I don't think he's gonna like words. Yeah, I immediately looked away because like I... I mean, his food is there. Could we just like be holding his food and just use it to lead him away? When you go near his food, he becomes aggressive. And I keep saying goat. That is not for those listening I'm not sure if I'm being too harsh on myself. pulling carriages in large loads. How do you want to try this? goat to let you steal this carriage. Give it the Devlin smile. I'm gonna give it the Devlin smile. I'm gonna sway That was a four. So you give it the Devlin smile and it seems a little If a goats could blush it blushes a little bit It is willing to listen to you, but you are going to have to constantly survey it and make sure it's not trying to run away and whenever... do something that may cause. to this goat. I'm gonna start filling in a clock. When the clock is full, the goat will no longer listen to you and will just do whatever the goat wants. I'm gonna look at the goat.
Continue with my smile and just go.
*fart noise* It maaaz back at you. You guys make your way to the Electro Rail station. With goat and carriage in tow. Colm! Yes? You've been absent. Mm-hmm. You are at the edge of the night market, waiting. You've found yourself perched in trying to look over the night markets various shops and apartments above the shops for the shop owners trying to look for the actual Go ahead. roll to see if you can find it. I would like to hunt for it. Okay. Do you mind? I like hunting for it. Looks like you know more academic type. I imagine the schools bring people to transport it to the university. Roll a four on hunt. So you're able to find it pretty easily. It's just now entering from this bridge connecting Night Market to Charter Hall. It's making its way down. It doesn't really his roles to try and distract this cart or delay it, it will get some ticks in it. That means they've arrived. the electric- rail, and hopefully that does not happen until after our other compatriots have made their getaway.
Trying to just slow down their path a bit along the street. This is something that I'm not sure This is something I'm thinking about bear with me here and what I mean I say with it How nervous are people about going down dark roads or streets things like that especially in the night?
it. on that there's criminal activity afoot. should avoid it if at all possible if you don't want to get roughed up. In the night market it would be very weird. see a street not lit up, especially since a lot of the lights are coming from shops themselves. Not just the lanterns in the street. I think what Cole might try to do is pacing himself ahead of the cart and everything so they have so like giving them time to react to hopefully maneuver differently right now. He might try to.
to a section of the street to make it go dark. So like, let's not go that road and hopefully take longer. Still trying to be silent, like, you know, he's trying to still be stealthy about it and not immediately draw their heat, but he's still gonna give them the spooks with the lights are out. Let's not go there.
devil's bargain. You will be able to find and easily explode a transformer. You will roll. basically... wreck. off how you roll with rec, will determine on if people die or not. Just for everyone listening, when people die in this world, a bell is tolled by the soul wardens so they know to to the dead. Because if they don't collect the dead soon... Spirits form and it can cause a catastrophe. The dead get used to power the electric thing. It's a whole side thing. Look it up. It's cool. Not gonna get into that now. So, do you accept my bargain? Yes. Okay. For the benefit of the people, because I don't have a
Okay. And not take the lower of two. Okay. Hopefully no one dies, but thinking about it and calling, thinking about it like, someone might get hurt with this, that's what he's thinking, he's thinking someone might die. That can only help be more of a distraction for someone.
role.
the however you decide. The transformer explodes and the main street lights go out. call to the night market go out. almost knocking out a whole block from in between the two. Sides, I'm thinking I could mark off demolition tools to pips. Okay. Yeah and in doing so Thankfully, nobody has died Somebody is injured, of course, so it's caused a bit of a panic and a fire did break out. I'm going to start another clock it's going to be a clock. This will just be casually ticking down in the background. I'm just going to making rolls. It gets fucked. But you are successful in deterring them, so they will not gain any marks toward their inevitable end to get to the thing. Back to our main two. You make it to the station, you pull up, there's a small line as the train comes in. shoot someone for safety of course. It looks rather heavy so it's probably a good thing you grabbed this cart and as you guys stroll up to it you notice the person sitting there marking off items as they're being taken that's probably going to be the guy you have to convince to allow you to
item. it, and I would like to quickly disguise myself as the most important looking that would be coming from a school or like an admin, an administrator, someone who is very important. who is a company.
his arms. that I will have set up for you. And the disguise kit marks off of one of yours. but the identity does not mark off any of yours. - Mm-hmm. - Right, so as you walk up, without looking up from his list, it says item. - The carriage, we're here to pick it up. You're a new advocate. No, sorry. No - The cage. - Yeah, that. - Okay. Do you know the item number? The list, any sort of flashes you the list, and it's just row after row after row of things. If one of you wanna make a study to try to snag that real fast, or a survey, something along those lines? - Yes, I will do study. Ooh, three is the highest. - You're not able to get a number. You can, you're able to get like the sequences of numbers that are very like one, two, five, seven, one, two, five, eight. 9. typically you guys have tickets but today's just...
So if you give me the item number, I can get it for you. Something something five two. I wonder... I can't quite remember.
so it might not be the same one. here right well that requires more authority than i let me go get my boss and i'll be back as soon as i possibly can sort of hands the clipboard to somebody else to start to continue the flow of progress while he sort of gestures to you guys to pull your card around. And he's like, just wait right there, I'll be back and walks off to go get his boss. Now, you have the option to continue to because it seems like it's going to be a good one. Or you can just try to steal it right now. I mean, we could just, cause he told us to pull up the cart around next to it, we could like start the unloading process and just be like, oh yeah, we just want to get a head start on it. You're here to check us off, cool. And then as a cover if we don't get to get away before he gets back. Okay. Um, it is rather heavy. No, we'll just do... pips you have in prowess on the way. the left hand side of the line. We'll call that good. And if one of you want to lead the group activity, that's fine. Or if one of you want to lead the group activity, that's fine. Or if one of you want to lead the group activity, that's fine. Or if one of you want I'm going to assist the other and take a stress. That's fine. I'll assist All right, so you get three total dice Three fives. Nice. So you guys are able to start loading it onto the thing while we're doing that. Can I study that? see if there is an item number on it. You don't actually have to study it. It's not a box. It sort of has a tag on it. The item is just like 1787. I will make note of it, but I'll try not to be as engaged like I'm like I've seen it. So I'm just going to keep it to memory. As you guys go to pick this thing up by yourselves, the person that got clipboard immediately turns around and tries to stop you and tells you. not your job. That's not how things operate here. You do not touch. the product until it's been loaded onto your cart.
I'm going to put a scowl on my face and walk up towards the guy. Someone's just gonna look really bored like someone who's not paid enough.
deal with the situation.
Do you know how important this is?
And he says I don't care how important it is it doesn't go anywhere go through the proper procedures. It's marked right here that it needs... extra and you like show How it needs extra signage, basically extra approval before it can be moved. "We are here to pick up a very important item, and you're hindering that." Not hindering, I'm doing my job. "Well, it could be done quicker." Are you trying to convince him to let you load it in, I'm assuming? "Yeah." Okay, what would you like to... "Would consort." I'm gonna say yeah, consortium. using connections even if they don't text. but you wouldn't get the additional. thing from your disguise but you would get the additional thing from the thing since it's a fine both of you have fine equipment on right now essentially so you would have greater effect this time but you're in a risky situation for for he much like summer, it's just like I don't get paid enough. You know what? Do what you want, if you get in trouble, that's yours. but it is going to fill a pit on your head. being hidden. Through all that, let's go ahead and go back to Kulm. Kulm, they have weaved through the tiny streets in between going through some alleyways to get back onto the main street and are made We'll say two pips have filled just by their naturally traveling. Do you want to try and slow them down again?
like navigating alleyways are they more
No, they got to the other. street of the market. like follow it out, it's one of the ones that leads to the Six Towers District. So without any intervention, it's going to fill up. I would say probably about a three ticks leaving three left
I'll try to install them again. more of a shadow stealth. to intervene. That being said, what I have in mind is to possibly hopefully break a wheel on the carriage at the But that'd be a little bit tricky for me to do. What I have in mind, and I'm not sure if it'd be enough to force like a break in the wheel.
Would you like to do a little bit of a test run?
Yes, let's do a flashback. So, Colm's not very good at tinkering, but he's seen a few things.
there. What he'll try to do is get something that will more or less break the spokes on the wheel to make where they have to replace it to keep going. Something that might like you know just shatter the wheel. It's something that seems like it would be like it would be explosive. Something he had in mind was maybe to try and just use a rope to catch it but I don't think that'd be enough force to break it. We'll say basically due to your friend in the blue coats you were able to get a hold of when the wagon drives under it, it launches up and... their wheel and makes it harder for it to move. Nice. Okay. You will however, since you're able to the end. It's very unlikely and like very complicated to get these items typically, but due to your friend will just make it one stress. to roll for anything. And I will say these guys are now more on guard to being slowed that's a little weird. That is very conspicuous for them to be like "oh someone's trying to stop us now" Back at the primary goal here. You guys are started talking to you. Once you get it onto the car. going to try and drive off or...
and try to do the rest of the paperwork. No, so as he kind of says, just do whatever you want, I'll say, alright, well we're going to get it loaded and hopefully...
out here as soon as possible so we can get all this sorted and then we start loading. loud. Crack? workers sort of start bursting into pandemonium and panic. Through the crowd you're able to see a group of... start pushing their way through toward the electric car. And that's where we're going to end it. What? Oh!
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