Alien the RPG: Chariot of the Gods | Episode 1

[Music] hello everyone and welcome this is alien the role-playing game here on dork tales hope everybody's doing well tonight um thank you very much to free league for providing this module tonight we're playing chariot of the gods a an introductory scenario for alien the role-playing game i am your mother in this game hi mommy here uh i'm kelly i use he and him which is kind of weird being your mother but hey you know what it's 20 22. um and uh i'm excited to be here tonight because i get to kill all of these lovely people probably uh it's gonna be fantastic uh let's go around do a quick round of introductions say who we are and uh where you can find us and then let's jump in to charity of the gods uh let's go ahead and just go around in a big circle starting with james why hello there ladies and gentlemen everybody i am james i use he him pronouns and tonight i am playing captain vincent miller nice and we can find you where james uh you can find me on uh under on twitch as otheon on occasion and over at precarious channel and occasionally at dire bear gaming as well thanks nice uh over in the corner we have robin hello i'm robin i see her or they're them pronouns and tonight i'm playing uh leah davis the pilot and you can find me uh mostly here on dork tales but uh maybe soon again on 2nd gen gamer on twitch all right down to krista hey everybody i'm krista i use she her or they them pronouns um you can mostly finally eat my blood you can find me i do uh you can mostly find me here on dark tales um and i'm gonna be playing uh kayla rye our technician aboard the uc at uscss montero nice all right christine hi i'm christine i use she her pronouns um and you can find me on my own channel at lady liliana um tonight i am playing lydia cham our cargo handler on the uscs montero uscss that's not the easiest thing to say it's really not that's yeah it's really not uh but we'll get through it and finally down in the corner it's mike hi everyone it's me michael going with he him pronouns and i am so excited to be in this little death trap i mean a great spaceship um i am going to be the corporate uh representative uh john j wilson but you can call me wilson for short i i'm here to facilitate you getting your paycheck so as long as you do whatever i say you'll get paid nice all right uh so uh we're gonna be hopping in the game in just one second i gave everybody a quick run through about the rules uh but what i can explain to the audience is that they are very very easy rules compared to what we have seen in a lot of other systems uh it runs off d6s uh sixes are successes and if you fail the rule you can re-roll once all failed dice by gaining stress and stress adds to your dice pool as you get kind of an adrenaline surge or something like that um however it's uh double-sided because it can lead to panic and some pretty bad stuff uh which is pretty pretty symptomatic of the alien like series you know you get your whole game over man game over um we're all really big fans of alien and particularly big fans of scoring weaver of course because she's amazing uh and i think we're gonna have a lot of fun with this um i'm really happy that free league uh gave me this module to run and i'm sorry free league that it took me so long to do it because you gave it to me about a year ago and i've i've been trying i've been trying to find a place for it and it's just been it's been a busy year all right so without further ado we're going to jump in to game uh does anybody have any final questions before we begin all right i like the sound of that did someone just scream i couldn't hear you because you're in space it's good you are space truckers on the starfreighter uscss montero running the gauntlet the trade route between anchor point station and the frontier your ship's cargo hold is packed with dozens of tanks of dangerous tritium gas in the process of decaying into an extremely profitable helium-3 usually tar cargos like these are towed in massive tanker modules that transport much higher concentration of the gas a safe distance from a freight hauler the montero isn't rated as a commercial towing vehicle however and this small run is a special order for a weyland-yutani corporate account on sutter's world a newly established frontier colony while the trip so far has been fairly routine the montero sensors developed a glitch before you left anchor point and sporadically have pinged contact with a sensor reflection before you activated the displacement drive and went faster than light your cargo run so far has been without incident now you are just awakening from hypersleep ready to deliver your goods to the colony of sutter's world your cryopods open with hisses as you all come back to life your body's flowing with warmth again as the cryo sleep leaves you a bit groggy you're starting to get used to this though quick cryonaps don't really bother you that much anymore you're lucky enough that these are in the terms of weeks or months it's when you get into the years that cryo really works its way into your brain you're almost done earning this paycheck now it's time to wake up for unloading but first you should probably grab a bite to eat nothing like a breakfast of champions to start a hard day's labor out in space as you all get up out of your pods is anybody saying or doing anything are you headed to the showers what's going on here vincent would certainly uh probably just kind of groggily uh kind of glance around everyone he's gonna basically go around and just kind of check to make sure everyone's pods disengaged okay and everyone's waking up well everybody is good to go g2g okay uh let's go get your stuff together get dressed we'll muster in the galley and say 10 minutes grab a shower get ready to get yourselves ready you're saying i can get 10 more minutes of sleep uh if you want to uh mr wilson that is completely your own business i'm gonna go shower and change out of this clothes i feel like i've been sleeping in it for weeks [Music] walk off that was ugh i'm sorry captain i have to bring some excitement back into this crew i i just gotta wait for the humor to seep back into my brain that's that's all cryo always kills my sense of humor that's true it's true christine what are you and krista doing um i think lydia kind of stretches gets out um probably sits for a few minutes and fiddles with her rosary and uh it just does it kind of under her breath muttering going through a couple of the prayers because it's been ages when it seems like uh she's done uh if she's crouched or sitting or whatever i'll like offer a hand to pull her up lydia will take it all right food shower let's go oh i mean there's not much point showering it's just gonna all come back on again yeah but it feels better those of you who take showers have the recycled water it tastes metallic slightly acidic as it runs down your body and around your mouth as you uh as you wet your hair or your scalp or just try to get it in your eyes a bit you try not to think of the fact that you probably pissed this out a couple of weeks ago but in space you use what you can the filtration system's good but these models are old and clunky and there's nothing here that doesn't taste like it came out of a water fountain installed in the 1960s [Music] and that goes double when you make it into the galley the galley is well it's a fairly tight room about about 20 feet wide pardon me we're in the future about six meters wide six maybe seven kind of vague uh and uh has a big round table in the center uh it's quite not brightly lit but the colors here are very very white at least they were when this when the ship set sail are set to skyward many many years ago now it's more of a dingy gray and uh here as you make your way over into the galley and uh and grab some food you can see that uh the typical supplies are there you've got dry cereal you've got protein bars you've got you got bug juice if you want and of course bug juice being a corporate branded mix of meal worms cockroaches and other easily compressible insects protein rich and delicious or you could always grab the wheaties however the best part about being on the frontier being out in space is that you get something that a lot of people out here don't have access to slightly metallic flavored coffee a luxury good that some people consider joining up with the corpos just have access to oh thank god coffee yeah make uh put one on for me please if i gotta steer this bad boy into you know gotta gotta be alert and awake just a quick note because i actually read the entry on coffee uh since this is our first time playing this game you can enjoy a coffee systematically and i won't give you any penalties or or anything like that if you use coffee as an item you take a point of stress but you don't take any penalties for being awake for an extra shift hey nice to know it's so cute right i think lydia just makes a massive cup that she mixes like the protein bug mix stuff in with the coffee you got one of those for me she she needs her muscle stuff right she's she's cargo handler here she's gotta go work out in the cargo like the whole time i think uh you'll see uh or i try not to lea is gonna try and sneakily fuss around or try and find her uh almost empty pillow bottle and uh pop one of her her delicious pills to wake up a bit more are you being uh being surreptitious about that being kind of uh circumspect yeah okay all right [Music] wilson's probably getting himself a cup of hot water and has a green tea bag in his pocket that he's used like three or four times on this trip already is trying to juice what little he can out of it look nothing personal but the coffee on this place is starting to taste like the coffee on this place i mean it's always tasted that way yeah yes well it tastes like everything else on this place i mean nothing personal i mean it is what it is don't insult the old girl she she she has it where it counts she may look and taste like she's from god knows when but she has heart when she needs it well the hot water is hot i'll give it that exactly is there like a like a control like a in the original film it's like where mother's hub was is there a place like that absolutely that's in the bridge okay cool um after rya gabs a cup of coffee she's gonna head upstairs and land in a chair and have it spin a few times kick her feet up and start clicking buttons as she sips coffee on the bridge yeah nice pretty casual pretty casual probably join you up on the bridge too okay get in this jumpsuit and look at any monitors dial see what happened while we were gone kind of thing well as you're looking there mother is going to let out a little note mother what's that [Music] i forget did she actually speak in the original it's been a couple years since i've seen it keyboard no that's oh yeah sorry it's typing it you can see it on monitors but yeah there's no talking it was all typed out i'll i'll type into it um mother report uh you were going to see that uh mother types on the screen that there's a report of an approaching ship a chip approaching uh is there like a calm system or does it just show down there is so anybody who wants to run a sensor diagnosis using a calm tech role okay can i do that [Music] is there is there enough i forget is there an assist one like so you you may assist and grant krista one additional die sure yeah uh davis will definitely be assisting there and comm tech is wits correct bomb tech is i believe so yes all right well we're starting our pool with an eight-die pool folks nice first roll of the game not great um object is wits uh which okay good uh one success but no failures all right so looking at this thinking about what it would be out here i mean if it's coming to sutter's world i mean maybe uh colonial picket ship kind of protecting the world or maybe a cargo inspector i'll uh go over the ship's comms uh captain uh there's another ship around here as soon as you as you say that what do you what do you call back uh sutter sorry not sutter miller's probably just kind of like just kind of like sluicing the last of the water off of himself he'll probably just kind of wrap his uh towel around him grab his jacket and his like uh uniform kind of over his arm and he'll just he's basically gonna head straight to the bridge i think all right uh when you walk into the bridge um you're still kind of dressed in your towel kind of tugging some of your clothing on um and looking down rye you run through some of the simulator you run through some of the tech um there's nothing there whatever mother was pinged this is the same damn thing that happened right before he went to cryo this is this busted piece of [ __ ] that you're riding on good i got from diagnostics on this damn thing sorry captain didn't mean to call you out this piece of [ __ ] uh she'll say very directed at uh davis is uh keeps picking up random ship pings all right uh well let's add it to the maintenance log uh can we do we know if it was like a specific like sensor pylon or anything like that was it like a specific ship or something like that uh it wasn't a specific ship it just um yeah it's just um uh no details captain just yeah it's just your sensor your sensors pinged off like it was detecting something on radar basically all right it did this before we left too yeah yeah i don't want to have any more risk with it especially not if we're going having to deal with atmospheric uh can you uh can you uh kind of go go down there and do a full over like a full look over on the lidars and the radar system we got to make sure that things all ship shape yeah i'll go take a look at that we'll uh need to check in with sutter soon too so i'll get that up and running first yeah once you've done that uh talk to wilson and get the requisition order in to replace the sensor hub that's a good one captain yes look come on this is why she's such a piece of crap sometimes come on i'm going to head down just make sure the the the t's are crossed and the eyes are dotted okay that's that's that's what i need right now i'll grab um jam uh lydia and uh hey jam sure chugs back the last of her disgusting mix of coffee and bug juice wilson's the only one that's not getting up from his breakfast is enjoying a leisurely breakfast tucks her rosary necklace back under her shirt is everything okay the bridge isn't on fire or anything um if it was are you going to get it covered i'm going to take that as a no and go back to eating as cereal i mean if it was there'd probably be high-pitched voices shrieking fire true mostly the captains hey uh davis yeah you got any uh uh can you go ahead and ping uh ping sutter and let's uh let's see if we got any sort let's see what they've got to say uh sutter's yeah out there buddy how's it going all right so you send a hail out down to uh down to their beacon tower now it'll take a couple of minutes for that to work basically it's long speed transport of of signals and who knows maybe somebody's asleep at the desk so cham you're down uh downstairs with uh with rye doing some unload so when when you're getting these things prepped up something you need to know about these um these a massive uh tritium um containers each one of them is about as big as a i'm not mistaken they're as big as like a gas tanker [Music] you have 200 000 tons of this on the ship now by the end of your ship by the end of your voyage it should be helium 3 which is not a small explosive uh by small explosive i mean a large explosive it's not nuclear but this thing there would be very few traces of you if this went up like what he's saying is no smoking in the cargo bay what's that you know what this this is this this game is filmed in the 1970s smoke them if you got them who cares about lighting oxygen on fire it doesn't matter yeah it's fine oxygen helium it's fine don't worry i'll clean up everyone's breakfast bowls looking at the stack of bowls sitting on the table all right so down in the montero you have some state-of-the-art equipment uh so what you have i've left it at the bottom of the sheet for you all but what you have is uh uh you've got five mark 50 compression suits with uh air supply five in each because this game actually tracks how much air you have uh which i love you've got one motion tracker you've got a cutting torch you've got a wadatsumi bolt gun uh one service pistol a space harpoon which is not what it's called but that's what i'm calling it one incinerator unit with two reloads which is a flamethrower uh and you have one you have one p5000 power loader so i need to know as you are moving stuff around who is in the power loader of the two of you i have to have a machinery skills yeah okay i do too but i don't think this is my space so the power loader is inside of the rules they actually give it of course because how could they not um and it's pretty great so so as the camera pan pans down there uh you are going to see as the power loader forklift arms are going to rotate with cham working working the unit uh moving through i actually have rules in this quick start about using the power loader to do basic work and i love it uh if there's like a sort of like a monitor station and maybe like an earpiece so we can talk through so we're not shouting over power loading uh i'll stand and kind of be taking account of what's here and what the status is make sure nothing looks damaged and hey jam yeah how much you think we could skim out of these things before anybody noticed do you think we could like is there like a spare tank you could pull some out of because this sells pretty good right oh yeah where are you gonna store it though oh that's fair i they only gave us so many tanks and they're supposed to hold so much if one just sought it well if you think of a good way to do it let me know unless you smuggle an extra container on true oh look at these things i forgot to mention one final thing and that is that you do have a cargo shuttle uh the daisy days yeah so daisy uh is a small cargo uh cargo cargo shuttle uh capable um just for size purposes you could fit 10 of these tanks in there if you had to [Music] uh but they're quite big um i feel like i've underestimated overestimate how big these things are though i was gonna say because this the ship is 334 meters long i think i'm maybe i misread it one sec let me just double check that so you are those tanks are probably like the smaller like tanks that you see it like propane fills at gas stations yeah yeah like the like the 400 liter ones the propane tanks that are just like not not your little household ones but yeah i think i missed i might have just read that as i was going through here let me just go search the ones at the gas station that you refill from yeah so like maybe like your ship's cargo holds back with dozens of tanks of dangerous tridium gas highly flammable volatile nature of tridium means that it can be a [ __ ] to transport but by the time it reaches court it'll be helium-3 which is clean each tank is half the size of a tanker trailer that's not exactly small that's not small at all uh no so that's about the size of what like an suv no that's like those stubby tanks that you fill up propane from that's uh gas station yeah like like the big ones that sit outside that you refill from that's about that size a tank what's this tanker trailer yeah because you can get like multiples of those onto those trailers so it'll be about the size of a panel truck uh so i google tank tanker trailer tanker trailer is what they use to refill gas stations yeah that's what they mean so so about half that size is basically each one of these is the size of like a humvee or a hummer sick big enough that a power loader could lift it yeah but like but you won't with your back unless you have a back brace yeah if you have a backpack use your knees use your knees remember pinch and twist that's what you want to really do you want to lift with your back and you want to wrench all right wayland yutani does not uh condone this message whale nutani does not give you benefits so what does it matter because we finally got that don't tell them about the living wage wait what living wage you know what i don't want to do it's not a thing never mind they don't have to worry about awarding wage and weyland yutani not for long that's true all right so so your first shift is pretty boring to be honest um the two of you spend about five hours preparing moving stuff around all of you are getting out of the sense of dehydration that kind of comes from being in that stasis um what are you doing the whole time uh while you are just kind of hanging out wilson do you have any duties that you do any like corporate stuff or i clean up after these roughnecks because they probably treat this place like it was their dorm room and you know you got to be orderly absolutely you never know when i could call a surprise inspection let's hope not um so the um the first shift goes by relatively casually nothing happens in fact um it's about this point that about five maybe six hours in drifting through space at your at your normal pace um ry you kind of mimed a minute ago nodding off i think uh that exactly is going to happen and you're going to kind of jolt back too and realize that out of your dehydration from from cryo you've been asleep for about an hour and there's no response though oh go to the little comms uh hey davis you heard anything from setter yet actually no huh i haven't heard anything [ __ ] uh can you do me a favor davis please can you make me a comm tech role if you're on the bridge i would love to do that hold on let me get back i was on roll 20 licking the ship now i need to go back to the book i think wilson's going to try to have an aside with miller at this point too so it's wits and just just straight wits wits and com tech if you have it uh i do not so just smell it say all right mr wits you you could call somebody else up here to do it for you if you chose but you're the pilot so i don't know what you want to do yeah i'll do it i'll do it okay gotta do something break the monotony nothing but no failures would you like to push it i would love to push it all right you may re-roll gain a stress add it to your role immediately perfect so what so the stress if you roll a one bad things happen okay so you don't fail when you roll if you don't get any sixes that is a failure yeah it's only when stress dice get involved that you could potentially get a one which is stress okay so it's only the stress dice that can roll that one and cause the problem yeah okay you gotta be [ __ ] me what'd you do i rolled a one on the stress dice and then two two sixes and a one on the other two dice well we we determine the stress mechanic first so let's do this roll me a d6 and add one to it okay meanwhile wilson wilson is leaning closer to miller um are you sure you guys have everything under control uh so add one so so i rolled the two and then plus one is three okay so uh you were looking at this so let's cut back to uh to miller and uh and wilson talking i mean i've been with you guys what going on five six months now and you all seem really confident but how long has it been and we're not receiving any hail from uh our destination well uh maybe something's gone maybe they've had some sort of calms malfunction uh we should be in range to kind of start picking up the emergency beacons or maybe we'll reach through the emergency channels uh i'm assuming that we wouldn't have come out of cryo unless we were at our destination hey lee like uh whereabouts are we for uh positioning are we actually closing in on sutter meanwhile back on the bridge as you're looking around you are going to hold it together just barely you rolled under under what you needed to actually have a panic you were going to look around and find that you are nowhere near the colony you're in deep space your star charts are off and with that successful role as you quickly you kind of you get that adrenaline search and start searching through your star charts double checking your columns no you're you're in deep space like between stars you're way off course you were trying to make it to like i don't know you're trying to like sail from like san francisco to uh washington and you're over by hawaii uh captain we i i don't know what happened but we're in deep space we are uh we're nowhere near sutter's we've we're way off course like way off course that this [ __ ] everything was wrong [ __ ] [ __ ] what [ __ ] well you ran the numbers didn't you i ran the numbers before we went into cryo i was set right i don't know what the [ __ ] happened all right get okay if we're off if we're off course we're screwed we're not gonna get any fry comes bursting in what the [ __ ] are you talking about where are we we're in the middle [ __ ] nowhere is where we are all right all right okay listen what we're gonna deal with right now is just getting back to getting back on course uh kyla uh take cham forget the loading stuff obviously get down and get into the navigation computer i need to know what's going wrong in there because some at some point we started going awry or either that or we're facing some sort of corporate sabotage or something yeah i know what i'm i know what i'm doing okay what the [ __ ] was that bleep blip then i'm gonna [ __ ] what was that well there are uh mother signals i want to talk to captain miller okay um is there something kind of equivalent to an office on here nope just the bridge it is a small ash ship is this normal nope it is normal for the computer to have one-on-ones with the captain yes is it normal to be in deep space when you weren't intending to sorry i meant the one-on-ones part yeah it is it is like normal to be like it can happen yeah uh okay all right clear the bridge okay [ __ ] that we need to know what's going on yeah that's why you're gonna go down and get yeah and yeah i don't care if kyle kayla if you have to go out onto the goddamn surface to go check the uh uh to check the sensor prongs go take care of it i want a full system diagnostic i'm gonna talk to mother and i and i'm gonna and i'm gonna get filled in in whatever uh whatever it thinks is going on i'm sure is gonna storm off and go captain i feel like i should stay on board in the cockpit we i feel like we need to what do we need to pilot around right now lee get out as i walk past um wilson um say if we get [ __ ] stuck out here you guys better be covering us triple and walk off uh shortly after you storm out we'll start a storm out [ __ ] kicked off my own [ __ ] bridge god damn it [ __ ] captain well captain if it means anything i'll be down in the cargo bay checking to make sure everything's in order while you have your little conversation don't worry i'll try to keep them under control all right yeah thanks wilson and then wander off following the others that are huffing enough so i'm useless for something yeah down to the loading by by yourself like picking up and moving boxes with the power loader um are you doing anything else or just keeping your work going i mean i think i'm keeping the work going because i don't think i know yet that anything's gone wrong okay i'll probably walk in what our [ __ ] navigation is off we are in deep [ __ ] space and mother is insisting on talking to the captain instead of the people that can actually fix the goddamn ship wait deep deep space i don't know we sure are we're not anywhere near that we need to go figure we need to figure out where we are so come be a second set of eyes for me all right leo will like punch it kind of like pull herself out of the power loader put it away and okay you guys need a another set of hands captain kicks me off my own damn bridge sure let's go okay back up at the bridge you sit down next to mother and start typing through it's a quick conversation hello captain miller we'll assume that this conversation is happening happening oh yeah yeah are you feeling okay everything feels fine a distress call has been picked up from an unknown ship we will investigate is this why you brought us out of cryo yes what about our mission this supersedes the mission according to corporate apartment one moment where does it say that i actually have like i love how they did this uh we love good corporate jargon oh they've got like specific like rules about corporate stuff in this and it's so good it's so awful for it's great for a story bad for real life um uh basically she's going to inform oh it's goddamn ahead of highlight and everything company rules say that investigation must occur on deep space salvage not doing so means forfeiture of shares and income from this run as per contract section zero zero zero zero nine nine zero nine zero zero nine zero signal stored in database will require triangulation by officers our crew goddammit that's gonna wreck our entire thing um does this mean we lose our cargo run no once the tritium becomes helium-3 it will remain stable okay potentially this could add additional pay okay okay just to describe this this is basically like you're on a merchant vessel and you get an sos call so like by by nautical law i believe that you are supposed to go and check that out and can be fined court-martialed or something if you do not go try to rescue unless you can fake it but unfortunately unless you disable mother which is very very very very very very very exceedingly difficult um not not worth your time for this one shot yeah yeah i kind of figured as much yeah i don't think you really can disable her she's kind of a jerk um and very infinite like intimately woven into our systems okay sounds good so while you're so you're having this conversation uh yeah vincent like can you show me the uh what's required to satisfy the salvage uh the salvage up okay so this is you're talking to uh talking to wilson i would be talking to mother because i'll just reference that section so i want to look at it and see what exactly it says what's the minimal amount of work i can do and still to satisfy this uh she will reply that will depend on the nature of the distress signal is garbled approach and attend await further instructions god it's going to be hard to sell all right and at that point uh miller is going to uh ask he's gonna go and ship comms and i'll ask wilson to come to the bridge okay meanwhile downstairs as you're all kind of gathered in the cargo bay uh wilson what are me uh yeah wilson what are you doing i'm calling everyone over i'm like can you all come over for a moment i just i i'm getting the feeling everyone's a little out of sorts so yeah i think understandably uh sir um but we're not going to be interested i need to call me sir i'm not a frank i'm just look i'm here because i'm a representative that's really it and the captain this is his ship just because i represent the people that own this ship and essentially all of your potential futures don't don't take me as being the bad guy here because the captain is doing his best and obviously he's having a conversation with mother right now about this entire situation i've been in these situations before and this is why we have ranks like i'm going to trust him to make the best decision for this ship and i just want to know that you're all going to back him up when he makes those decisions oh of course i can still disagree in my mind but of course i'll back up the caption 100 we go way back i trust miller well i'm just saying if you know things go favorably then i'm i have the ability to assign additional shares for this trip so i you know i want this to go well and the captain is you know we're in a situation right now we'll get out of it so we'll just get along to go along and at the end i'll just make sure that you all get a little something extra well that's appreciated but we should probably try and figure out what the hell is going on with the navigation system like that would have shut this conversation in half the time all right so i would like everyone here to do me a favor and make me a manipulation role uh mike you may add a plus one for offering money and add an additional plus one for doing it reasonably and nicely empathy yes uh so no this is yeah so it's manipulation empathy yeah if you do not have the manipulation skill then just roll empathy yeah i have nothing yet that you've i've been jealous that's just that you roll the number that's there that's the number you hold that number of dice yeah so it's a dice pool one okay no sorry a question um uh i have a six and a one the one doesn't take away because it's not a stressed out not a stressed eye only pay attention that's why having the two different colored dice is really yes so do i did i i saw stress right you always have the stress until you relax okay cool and relaxing you cannot make any roles for like five hours like you have to just go like chill i have a success okay and okay christine so sixes were successes right yes did other numbers matter no two six six is done okay and uh wilson what'd you get uh i got three days so one success and two cents and two stunts okay so that means that uh for purposes of this you're all gonna be pretty kindly disposed towards him he seems like a pretty reasonable guy you're pretty jovial um and the way that it's going to work is that on future the next future manipulation role um you are going to be kind of considered to be on his side in purposes of arguments if he has to make a role so he can use you as an equipment bonus it's uh under negotiating position on page 71 of the core if you if you want a good sense of that it's pretty good yeah it basically means that you get bonuses depending on if you have more people on your side if what you ask for costs your opponent nothing in negotiations if it means anything i was rolling 10 days oops i mean you could get a point of stress like a single drop of sweat rolls down [Laughter] all right never let them see you sweat all right so with that uh you uh you send a calm down summoning wilson up to the front hey wilson get up here i'll be different conversation and i will head off all right heading to the front of the uh heading up to the bridge you enter binding um the screen just goes dark again as mother finishes typing one last thing up to uh up to wilson just reminding him of his duties and then kind of all right i've got a i got a bead on what's going on uh and i just want to talk to you briefly before we uh took it to the crew of course uh basically uh corporate protocol kicked in uh the uh the ships detected uh sorry mother's picked out a signal it's garbled but it appears to be a uh another company vessel and by salvador rules corporate rules we have we have to go and investigate it or forfeit our or forfeit our run but if we can if we can do uh complete the salvage operation on it and recover the vessel then not only do we get our pay for our current run uh we'll see our uh we'll see ourselves a decent uh bonus as well was there any talk of which ship it was and what might be a on board uh i think the signal's too garbled we'll probably have to triangulate and close in on it before we can really learn more because mother didn't report anything on that did it identify the ship you have to actually do a little bit of leg work which will take about a shift to do at least an hour or so well then i recommend we prioritize that i mean where else are we right now we're floating in the middle of nowhere uh we're at least we're letting the at least letting the tritium settle all right let's get everyone else up here and uh build those kind of signal combs all right everybody else uh get up here we're gonna have a little bit of a a little bit of a chip chat captain have we had a chance to actually look at anything yet get a chance to look at anything in terms of like the navigational computers and stuff like you can come up to yeah if you'd like to okay so they're all in the bridge anyway so he so now that you've been allowed back in you can start doing that okay uh well i won't sorry i i wasn't sure if there was like other stations to like manually check this is basically so like this is kind of like a long haul like semi truck so all of the gears like everything's basically up on the bridge unfortunately okay that's fine i won't do anything until we're back in the bridge then uh kayla jam uh play the order on um dealing with the navigation array i don't think there's a problem there uh there is apparently a court another corporate vessel nearby mother picked it up and there's a salvage clause in our in our paperwork that says we are bound and required to investigate and salvage the vessel uh and that's pretty much what's kind of dragged us out of uh cryo early well yeah so i mean if it's a distress call we generally have to check those out don't we yep uh anyway uh signal's pretty rough i'm gonna need uh i'm gonna need some help with from you guys to triangulate it down and then we're gonna close this and so maybe we can learn more about what's going on um my intention was there was uh to try to keep this as quick and as efficient as possible uh i want uh i want to keep everyone safe and just get this run done so we can move on with our lives [Music] i don't intend to put us all at risk digging around and something nasty but we gotta go take a look otherwise they're gonna basically just they'll cut our entire run and we're all gonna be uh sans pay well this quick and efficient get out of the way i'll figure where the hell we are all right all right and my bad earlier so mother actually does have her own little tiny room at the bottom there that i missed yeah okay i thought so i thought sorry about that folks i'm running through the book i wasn't looking at the map too hard there's a much bigger map i have to look at later there's usually like an alcove that uh only the captain gets access to yeah it looks like it has a door and then you've got a key card that accesses it so um we'll we'll just say that uh that you were doing that and uh people were allowed to like mill around there you you just you were stressed so you told them to go take a walk or something i i had to go and talk to them anyway so go all right so what are you all doing uh i think i want to do a comm tech check to uh try to decipher what this vessel is and what the nature of its sos and that kind of thing don't worry about doing a roll at all uh so taking a look at it and spending some time actually working on this what you're going to determine is a couple of things uh first you're going to determine that this transmission is too garbled to get any details off of who it is like it could be a whale and yutani vessel it could be you know it could be an old nasa probe from the 2000s as far as you know it could be could be marvin the martian okay uh what you are going to do is find out that um you're about two hours out from it by triangulation you don't even need to make a roll in fact this game suggests you only make roles where it's dramatically appropriate so in this case a little bit of math a little bit of leg work and a little bit of playing on the comms it is going to be that away whichever way that is in space uh yeah david it's gonna be second start of the right and straight on till morning pass the direction's over you gotta you got it right two hours out if i could push her a little bit and shave off a few minutes but uh yeah it looks like we never nap you just woke up well i guess we did have a couple shifts yeah you guys have been working for about six hours now about seven hours now so you put in a full like earth day's labor yeah you know i think i could use another cup of coffee now i'm going to ask you something in private dave as well i'm going to ask you something only for you so if you're on the bridge and you're doing the piloting stuff do you want to get rid of that point of stress sure okay uh so you can just relax and basically slack off okay and if you slack off i'll let you remove that point of stress sweet i'll slack off sounds great sounds great davis just like just puts her feet up on i picture pulling up like a porno mag with like the tri-center pole yeah there we go just like babes of the cosmos heavy heavy lifting hotties yes there we go loading bay bodies forklift certified i don't suppose i could pull off an observation roll could i to do what to see if i notice these slides please to make to make notes in my my little book you know what i'm going to assume that you can make those notes i'm i'm assuming that she's not being particularly subtle about it is anybody else doing anything in the ensuing time aside from like grabbing some food some coffee like doing what they need uh i think i'm probably gonna go down and do some research with mother um and to see if i can learn more about what kind of procedures are required to do this kind of stuff basically make sure that i'm up to up to snuff on everything so basically it's um uh salvage operations are mandated by company rules mother will give you salvage operation rules upon finding out what the vessel is okay um and uh the way that works is is usually um it usually comes in a couple of forms but the really basic ones are is there anyone alive or in cryo get them um that's usually the third most important thing um second is there anything is there any company property valuable company property salvageable uh and number one recover flight logs is a big one so this ship and and of course the the other thing is can you tow it is there a way to set this thing on and like is is it pilotable can one of you hop on and pilot it to the next base or something like that because i mean it could just be that everybody got like space ebola or something and all died on board of this and they've just been adrift or maybe uh maybe they all went into cryo and cryo overheated or maybe cryo just hasn't unlocked them or maybe they're pirates like there are pirates out here yeah oh yeah um in which case which case what i'll probably do is probably be like just out of frustration i'm gonna go over the maintenance logs like the automated maintenance logs for our flight and just note down everything i can possibly expense to the company um to try to protect my bottom line like how long can i run the salvage for before i'm [ __ ] out of money here honestly the only thing you're wasting at this point uh it looks like you're wasting life okay and you know what your life isn't worth anything in the grim dark future of capitalism which is what this game is about uh and as that happens uh you're flipping through your emanuel get rid of that point of stress davis um and as you do with red light [ __ ] oh whoops what's going on a small area without stars grows closer and closer oh [ __ ] there's something in front of you no lights or beacons mother drones over the speakers brace for collision pilot i need you to make me a piloting check at minus two okay um so that is piloting is agility i'm assuming yep agility and i have paladins you're better off piloting i do have piloting all right so fun eight and then minus two so six dice six dice right that's how it works you might have to pull you minus it from your pool cool okay let's see let's get to that stress back uh i have one success do you have one success okay all right so failure means severe damage uh success means that uh i need everybody here uh to do me a favor tell me what you're doing at this exact moment because it's about to get a little hairy uh you're all gonna hear the alarms blare as this comes out of nowhere and truth be told this thing is running without power without lights without anything there is no way you could have picked it up it is basically a rock floating through space if you've been paying a little more attention maybe but this thing might have actually seen it that's the only way it's just a black spot right so as you are drifting toward it the ship is going to suddenly lurch to the side throwing you all off or down whatever it is um down are you still working in the cargo bay champ no that you guys we'd gotten all called back to the bridge by this i was i was gonna say uh i'm pr i probably asked cham if she wanted to like play cards or something okay yeah i would have done something to rest up or like get maybe a kit packed or something yeah sounds good wilson's probably drinking another cup of hot water sounds good all right there's a sudden twist as the ship arches to one side your cards are gonna splay across the table uh wherever you are in uh reading the flight manual with mother you're going to rattle around captain uh and up in the front though uh davis you are going to deftly arc above or below which do you pick up or down up or down up okay up almost dragging your belly across the top of this this vessel as you arc up and over and you're going to finally shake your cameras all right the crew is unharmed and you managed to bring the ship to a slow stop uh i found the ship destroyed davis what the hell located it was cut it has no power lights or anything it was black kind of snuck up on me my bad but uh managed to avoid it you're welcome you managed to slow yourself thanks for not killing us yeah always now to give you guys a sense of things this ship that you just avoided was moving toward you at .04 light that's why it took that much to avoid it now i say you stop i mean you just basically dodged it and slowed this thing is still moving at point zero four light speed um taking a look please oh go ahead vincent's probably gonna stumble out of mother's chamber just be like what just happened oh god it came out of nowhere and it's still going at 0.4 light speed this thing's moving they'll kind of come over and like look over uh davis shoulders try to get a sense of what's going on all right so looking at that it is pretty obvious from your pilot training and your time in space if something is moving without any lights at .04 uh it's it's inertia like it its power must have cut while it was still moving through pretty well pretty fast pretty damn fast because i'd like to remind everybody that .04 light speed let's find out uh is oh damn uh 11 991 thousand 698 meters per second that's a lot so give me that thousand to get kilometers per second so that would be let's drop that down so that's like what 11 000 kilometers per second ah that's nothing 11. something like that let's see one two three yeah that's 11 000 kilometers a second i think if i'm counting correctly that's balls that's a good clip there better not be a speed trap out here you know vin diesel's on the front of that they're just drifting through space tokyo interesting if it means anything the earth travels at 67 000 miles per hour around the earth so this is going this is going way faster so this is going faster than we so honestly the fact that you avoid it it's pretty impressive considering it was a black spot it was basically like death itself moving at you you're welcome i believe what you mean to say i can see what i'm putting here no ancient earth balance davis i mean it's making a good clip from us can we catch up to it i mean yeah we can keep on track with it davis will uh set the ship to match its speed to try and bring it bring us up to like a couple of kilometers off uh off and we'll take a look at it okay yeah so a couple kilometers away you're gonna get nothing you gotta go basically you gotta come up right aside remember we're dealing with 70 sci-fi style oh okay i thought that was like really really close okay roll down the window and look they literally get close enough we can shine spotlights on it yeah you're not even kidding literally here it says with no uh with no running lights or interiors of this ghost shift you can't identify her until they come about and catch up to her coming alongside the ghost ship and kicking on the floodlights that's how james it's so it's just so alien it's so good you know like the almost gothic architecture that some of these things have and the shiny lights across them yeah so yeah davis will do that she'll pull up alongside and kick on the plates the floods come on well you can't hear them because you're in space but they'll slowly illuminate something out of the history books the ship in front of you you can see designation on the side is the uscs cronus a wayland sev m3 hiliardies class launched in 2110-2110 this thing hasn't they haven't had these ships out this ship this type of ship in 50 years at least a quick search on your computer quick search in your databases show that the cronus has been missing for three quarters of a century you can hear the constant repeating sos signals coming across your systems go ahead 75 uh where where did it put where to put out from that is and where's it headed to i don't know if that's stated actually lucky to have found it does this count as like a treasure hunt now so i mean like a lost artifact are we heading back the way we came from you could probably get in there uh so anybody who wants to please look at the the thumbnail for this episode or the cover image that that mike sent earlier that is the ship that big gothic monstrosity beauty and grace it literally says in this i love this module so much guys show the players the cover image of this booklet pre-league that's cute you guys write cute and i love it salvage operation mandated by company rules mother types across the screen and delivers your three priorities one recover scientific data and samples from the us css cronus two escort the salvaged cronus to anchor head or another weyland-yutani facility three save crew members on the cronus if possible if available it's not optional but it's like if it's implied that if there are none there then obviously not uh and then with that uh i'd like everybody to take a look real quick uh at uh rule 20. and three two uh she also provides you with this ooh you are given the full layout of the vessel fancy how big is this thing compared to us uh compared to you this vessel is i think about three times the size it is 130 meters long uh it is 133 meters long it is the interior is 40 meters wide 44 44 meters wide something like that and it's got uh looks like four separate decks looking at the diagrams you can see a full layout of the vessel it's pretty impressive now to get a look at it to actually get inside of it what you're going to have to do is you're going to have to match its speed and and trajectory uh it's not going to be easy to attempt to border you're going to have to make a pilot roll for the pilot okay there are two ways to get on there so i'm going to give you some details because this is of course a one shot you may not know the vessel as well as like you would if you built it there are two ways that you can get on there you can do a spacewalk or you can do the smart thing you know your call uh and you could attempt to extend the umbilical extension that you have between your two ships which requires no spacewalk uh it basically is kind of like the thing that connects planes to the uh to the airport you know yes davis would probably want to do that okay uh once the boarding party enters the ship um we will we'll be splitting teams between who stays and who goes um quick reminder though there's a one-shot have fun so if you want to go on the ship go on the ship um like navigation computer will keep you on the same trajectory the pilot does not have to stay if she does not want to that said if she wants to by all means stay um so to get over there what i'd need is uh if you're gonna match trajectory is that the plan or you guys wanna you gonna talk about it for a bit uh if we want to get this done fast as possible let's go with the umbilical bring us up alongside and and uh we'll uh we'll arc it across yeah i think it's the safest fastest way if there's actually if there is magically someone on board and you know if there's no other extra spacesuits no matter what yeah yeah get our kit yeah go get whatever whatever supplies you need um i'm gonna give uh give uh davis here a little bit of a hand just bringing her in and then we'll uh and then we'll uh head over okay so go round upper tools sounds fantastic all right so for the pilot uh you're gonna make me a piloting role agility and piloting uh and if the captain is helping you i'll say that he can kind of just be like do the thing that dads do all right a little more left a little closer closer you've almost parked it type of thing [Laughter] let me just stick my head out the window and make sure you got it right yeah exactly all right so that'll add plus one to your roll sweet uh wow if this was all about rolling fives i'd have like four successes but only two two two is more than enough so you are going to be able to do it actually very easily and um so you can choose uh one of two things to have happen you have an extra stunt so what that means is that you can gain a plus one modification to a later skill roll related to this one or you can show off oh i'm gonna show off i love that that's an option and that you took it yeah davis is a cocky prick okay so how do you show off how do you think you do so you're trying to match speed and angle oh i think i think she like feathers it a bit where oh oh i'm not gonna get it oh i'm not gonna get it oh i'm not gonna get it and then just like then like just like almost like you know when you take a car they do like that perfect little slide in and yeah that's how she does it she like slides in you use the e-brake okay gotcha gotcha okay so as you're alongside there um you were at the perfect place you could start trying to attach the umbilical at this point so who is going to go try to do that uh what sort of skill with that so that is heavy machinery then me i'll go assist okay so you can gain a plus one from the assistance of uh of rye so go ahead give me that give me that roll cham okay okay so that is heavy machinery plus one uh plus one so yeah and don't forget i don't add anything like strength or anything to that so heavy machinery i believe is your strength yeah okay yeah it's strength okay i'll go start fetching all the supplies that we might need to take with us sounds good so you grab your spacesuits you grab all of that are all the weapons just like laying around or do we have them locked up that's three sixes uh there is only there are two weapons on board and they are both locked up uh one moment let me just confirm this uh because that thing on the other ship on that little thing on the first set of stuff you shot on roll 20 said that it was up to the captain to distribute the materials yeah i believe it's behind a locked door i'm just making sure that the corporate doesn't have access to that too okay that's something completely different i would kind of assume that the captain would want all the firearms locked up yeah on the ship oh here we go uh let's see uh the pcs start the scenario with no personal gear except their signature items as the scenario kicks off the pcs may distribute the gear available in the montero as they or rather captain miller sees fit yay okay so with two successes you can easily thread the needle uh there and set the umbilical cord up uh you can spend a stunt as well to gain a plus one modification to a later skill roll related to this one uh or uh you got this doesn't count let's see uh you could do it quickly making it happen in half the time uh or you can do it quietly or show off that's various things because i got three oh sorry you can you uh got three so you can pick two of those things okay so basically every success after the first allows you to buy a stunt okay unless you require multiples for some reason sure i can i'd be happy to do it quickly and with a little bit of shown off okay i think i show off by doing it perfectly on the first try all right you guys just shunk straight in no feeling around just first try it attaches over next to the uh next to the the ship uh and is going to be a nice solid nice solid um nice solid seal and uh as you are doing so um you line it up right with the airlock and are going to see that the main airlock of the cronus is damaged you're gonna get a nice good look at it and right there on the other side if you want to get into that you are going to either have to force it open or you're going to have to take the blow torch to it damn it um i'm assuming we all have comms yep you all will have at least comms nearby hey captain uh yeah cham what's up uh the airlock's damaged all right uh blowtorch it open i'm not willing to risk the umbilical go to a go to a space walk out there and uh and cut it open all right let's just have any fun oh come on we could use we know wilson has a little bit of a thick head we could use him as a battering ram right i can hear that i know wilson it's called sarcasm yes i'm i'm sure i'll get the hang of your humor one day okay all right so i guess the two of you get out there and take care of it uh pull pull space suits or pull eva suits well if i already have the umbilical hooked up it's probably just i can walk right up to it right yeah so basic yeah so the umbilical is like it's not quite attached because of this buckle so but what you can do is you walk and then you'll have to kind of jump across with a spacewalk okay uh so the way that this is gonna work is the outer airlock door uh will require a cutting torch uh and after breaching the door uh you must connect the passageway umbilical to the kronos and then pressurize it before unlocking the inner airlock so basically air locks are two-sided doors right yeah so once the umbilical is sealed it will create a vacuum with your own airlock so that you can pressurize it and that people can walk through with spacesuits just normal uh so if you are are you going out there by yourself in a spacewalk oh yes yeah okay i love it i love it uh so yeah i'll i'll join you on that or or however if if being inside giving direction is more helpful i'd do that but otherwise i'll go out with her okay sounds good wilson is already starting to suit up with the assumption that he's going to be probably the first one to lay foot on that ship okay so as you head over there uh space walk uh i need you to make me a mobility roll uh whoever is trying to space walk over do we both do individually uh so if this is a group check then uh pick who is going to make the roll so i'm guessing mobility is something like strength or agility mobility is agility so it's agility mobility so i have agility 3 mobility 2. so i my dice pool b5 okay i have just agility three okay cool so do i get a plus one from help or do i just roll it flat uh so if you're doing a group check i don't think you're doing help okay that's what i thought i just wanted to confirm i just want to double check this because it's a new system so describe your action um don't roll too often yes i know i know uh skills opposed roles i do like i like how easy this is dumbed down though uh how to manipulate a group we didn't see that already uh i've got it uh when you face a challenge together with the other pcs don't rely separately instead choose among who has the best uh the others may help if it's relevant to the situation okay so uh in this case i guess she could be feeding you your line because space you'd have your contact you pulled me over or something yep that sounds good to me so go ahead and uh make that roll with a plus one and if um if wilson is already suited up he could help you too to be honest i could because my agility is for my abilities too so i obviously have a little bit of space so he's actually better at this than you are yeah i've i've done space walking before well unfortunately the dice are down i did already roll um i won't roll with that extra help die because i failed um but i am gonna push it push it push it real good how many spacesuits do we have yo five okay all right so pushing into space uh you walk down the you you head out into the blackness and as you do there's nothing but the sound of your breath and your calms i need to know what did you get rye you got zero yeah oh okay so you space walk across and as you do you are going to have trouble matching the speed it's it's moving really quickly you've never done a space walk that was this high speed before and as you are headed over it is going to be um a bit a bit tense um what probably should have taken you about five minutes is gonna take you about 20 just to line it up well and set up the um set up tether lines for people to come across on um you're you're gonna have a couple times where you were just like floating around missing the mark and the tension's gonna be pretty high in the air but before you're before long you are going to be able to get it set and with that uh you are going to sorry i've got to jump back and forth in the book you are going to manage to get a nice solid grip adhere yourself to the side with whatever magnets or hooks or whatever we would use for this probably magnets i would assume and there on the dorsal side of the ship you're gonna get a good look at the airlock door it's buckled from the inside something pressurized weird here or maybe slammed into it maybe an explosion yeah we're good but the door is damaged here i'm not quite sure what i'm looking at here pull me over give her a tug uh and wilson i guess if he's there too okay the three of you can head over and uh with a little bit of work can you just give me a heavy machine or a heavy machinery roll to cut through whoever's doing that uh and if you're getting some assistance you can add up to two dice for having your your crew there uh did you look up what the cutter gives you as a bonus no i did not okay can someone look that up real quick it's in the uh in the quickstart control f cutter works well enough which is pretty great it was cutting torch right yeah um plus two has a power supply of five okay okay so plus two plus two so well before wilson goes over he's probably gonna have a word with uh the captain and say uh should we consider taking weapons we don't know what's going on in there yeah captain i wouldn't mind a uh a weapon myself if we have it available i mean this might be a corporate ship but this could also be a hostile takeover i'm i'm pretty good with ranged if we have anything ranged all right well we don't have much uh actually uh uh davis you're a pretty good shot uh and he's gonna go over to like the wall safe that like contains weapons um and uh he's gonna pull out um uh the service pistol and uh he'll kind of he'll toss it to um uh to davis and he'll take it miller will take an incinerator for himself and uh uh toss the other incinerator to wilson there are two incinerators that's what i said i believe there are so it's the the uh m4a3 there is uh one incinerator with two reloads oh okay there is which case there's a harpoon grappling gun and a watatsumi bolt gun which i have no idea what that does it's probably like a cow boulder it's probably one of those like mechanical ones that puts like a giant steel rod into things so if you had to make like emergency repairs you could like put a patch on things and molten yeah i'm not really particularly rated for military hardware um do you think it'd be better if i take the service pistol yeah sure here boston trade so you're are you heading down to the airlock to somehow pass him this because he's out in the umbilical well this would have been before i went to the umbilical okay let's try to let's try to stay in the moment with uh with timeline okay what miller will do is he'll just take all the weapons and he's going to head down there himself he's intending to go over so i'll just have an arm i'll have an arm load of weapons yeah damn as well okay help all right then we'll say that he's holding it for you until you get the umbilical setup then he'll pass it to you how's that because you're not gonna need it like on you while you're setting this door up uh yeah chris christine how many successes did you get four four you're gonna have no problem at all you're going to uh slice it open like darth vader basically right uh you are going to permanently breach this door uh because there's no other way to get this thing open um you open the outer airlock sliding the cut through sliding the cutter through like a warm knife through butter inside a ladder leads down to the main airlock junction down to decks b and c uh to get down there um so from here you can just go ahead and connect the uh you can connect the inner apparently the umbilical to the inner and then pressurize it for a walk okay all right and as you do air is going to suddenly rush in filling the umbilical pressurizing it outward and here you've managed to secure the two vessels together what do you do i guess if it's pressurized and ready to go i will try and open okay into the rest of the ship okay you'll head down the the ladder uh so uh that means at this point the captain and anybody else can join down the umbilical pilot are you coming to yeah okay so you're leaving it on autopilot we're gonna say that the autopilot's perfectly fine for this yeah no pilot we'll join and just have it set for course and okay sounds good okay so that means that uh the captain and wilson can meet up midway or on the other side however you want to do it if you're doing the any weapons trade-off uh yeah he'll uh middle will kind of turn over the pistol to wilson uh he seems a little bit reluctant about it but he'll do it anyway um i assure you captain this is just in case we see any resistance i'm mostly just going to wave it in their face see that's kind of half of what i'm afraid of and i can be very persuasive i can be twice as so when i'm staring down the barrel of a gun you know i could just trade that for the motion tracker well you're not going to get very far on this ship unless i'm leading the way why is that mr wilson this is company property and i'm in charge of this operation nothing happens without me absolutely that's why we're both going together okay so are you having this conversation as you are moving or are you we'll have it as we're moving yeah i was about to say because like literally you're wasting air yeah no we're going okay once you get to the other side davis will be like uh captain uh i'm particularly good with long range if you have any did you have any rifles or anything like that in your stash of guns no the pistol was the longest range thing we've got wait why are we bringing rifles and pissed what is what why because better to have them not not to have them kayla who's the first down the ladder i'm the one who said it so okay all right so cham first one down the ladder uh you are going to realize one thing immediately as you head down the ladder you have to hold on the artificial gravity is still on no lights no air as far as you can tell but the artificial gravity still works so enough power for the grav but nothing else i'll look down the ladder and it could mean the cryo's still on then maybe the guns were a good idea um as you look at the inside of the vessel you are going to see that the inside is scuffed and marred there are scratch marks on the inside of the blast door part of the of the airlock and of the hallway itself is anyone taking any environmental readings okay uh so what you're going to find is that inside your suit you're fine however the air outside is stiflingly stale and even more so the temperature is below freezing uh one moment please let's see where is it okay in fact as you're looking around the inside of the cronus is in deep freeze there's a soft layer of ice along any surface that might have had moisture on it it's also dark the interior here is lit by only the weakest emergency lights um all of your roles are going to take a minus two unless you have a flashlight deliberately out your suits will have a light on them of course but that is going to be rough the air is stale with a very high concentration of carbon dioxide uh but the artificial gravity is on so that's a plus i think uh lydia in her suit is going to be uh muttering prayers because this is creepy as hell what happened to this crew i'll follow down behind um and sort of take a look around and go pull up the schematics we had um and figure out the best way to get to the bridge um we gotta find uh captain we'd better find the logs for the ship here we gotta know what happened wait didn't they want that as well i'm not sure that should be our first stop though if they've got uh if we don't have any uh if they still have power over here because the artificial gravity is still working right that means uh we should check out environmental we only got a limited air supply and this place is probably too big for us to do a thorough job we need we need uh uh we need those dares crippers back online then we can look around well do you think uh anybody's still alive i mean i could go check the cryo so there's two different ways you can do it heading down the hallway to your um uh directly in front of you to the right you know that there's the air scrubber shaft you'll have to go through a vent to reach it because you have the uh you have the layout uh to the south are three of the cryo sections so it's they're they're within about uh about 10 meters of each other basically almost in the same zone so you could do a quick two-person split um i would suggest not everybody head into the air scrubbers just because you have to take a vent to reach it it's going to be a tight fit for five of you i'm trying to go to the cryo as well if there's crew alive i'd like to know who it is and who was in charge of this ship yeah same i'll go check the scrubbers then okay you're not going alone though i'll come with you she begrudgingly salutes and makes her way sounds good all right let's see who goes first uh now what equipment is being used right now just so i know so you've got uh you've got you're just doing environmentals uh you've got a pistol uh someone's got a flamethrower they said i've got a flamethrower okay i think i probably still got whatever cutting torch i used you've got that torch i might as well keep it with me who knows what we might have to cut through today and i guess i have the bolt gun if you've got a bolt gun in case you need to bolt anything sounds good so nobody's using any other type of equipment at all okay i forget what we have did we bring it i will have one i'll have the motion tracker on uh attached to me okay are you keeping an active eye on it uh [Music] probably not actually i'm not expecting anything to be going on right now it'll just be on like active but yeah sorry i checked it occasionally or something yeah yeah for checking sorry for checking environmentals do we have like a tablet right like we have like or is this like i'm checking walls uh so for actually you know what i don't know how that works i think it would be you'd be checking i think you'd have something on your suit that could just do like a quick environmental scan yeah i would guess you'd have like that like that panel that's usually on like space shoots space it's like you can you can basically do that with your smartphone now but our tech is better than alien tech exactly so i'm gonna say that having like basically a thermometer on your arm is something that could happen here as well as something that goes yeah an o2 sensor basically uh i think that that's all totally reasonable and then the other sensor that that is important is the darkness sensor which you have two things that help with that already factory installed on most of you exactly most people most people no mine are a little faulty literally i think only two people here don't wear or need some type of glasses all right so uh the two of you head over to the air scrubbers and the other two three head to the south as you're making your way down there uh let's start with let's start with the air air scrubbers the top okay you make your way toward the air scrappers pushing through a large door all the doors here open easily at the push of a button the large shaft there is only accessible via ventilation and maintenance shaft now normally massive carbon filters would clean the air pollutants and churning machines electro electrolyticize the water and generate oxygen it's powered by a direct feed from reactors usually down on deck c condensation accumulates at the top of the shaft and kind of rains down in this kind of like circuit of a fake oxygen of course as you push through the door little moats floating through the air as you go in the darkness your flashlight's illuminating them like dead fireflies drifting through the darkness the oxygen generator is offline the shaft is dark and the water at the bottom of the shaft is completely frozen taking a peek at it you um you're gonna need to get uh you're gonna need to get the system back online where would i go to do that yeah okay pardon me one second sorry it's one of those times where i really wish i would have printed this out because it's got it's got a lot of jumping back and forth there um uh she'll probably have like pop because like i've gotta actually like climb through the vent right yeah so you're going along flank clash pop the thing off uh set it down and sort of crawl up and army crawl forward and duck her head around yeah she's dead well there must be some sort of uh some sort of access point for the machinery uh check if it's a physical thing or if it's just uh like a power regulation thing maybe we have to get to the reactor to actually turn this thing back on fry's making a ton of noise climbing through can we hear it where we're not that far away from them you absolutely can you absolutely can definitely calms so is all that noise rye or is there an elephant on board with us oh maybe maybe they were transporting the zoo well you'd know davis uh and as you are so you're crawling you're looking through these things so i'm assuming that you're kind of inside the scrubbers kind of like kneeling down kind of crouched in the vent with him kind of behind you talking to you as you get these calms over uh now i'm assuming that i can't remember an alien were the calms good at range they get crackly they're kind of like walkie-talkies yeah so i think that you're going to start getting some feedback off each other which is going to be unfortunate because as the rest of you head through the um the cryo chamber is a three pla three-pronged area like a three leaf clover with three different cryo rooms heading out of the central foyer as you open the door to it you'll see that lying on the floor is the slumped over headless body of a man in a spacesuit there is a splatter of blood and brain matter on the wall behind him that is going actually there's not because he was leaning against the door that you just opened the body is going to slump out down at you uh is gonna jump back shriek cross herself all of you take one stress if you see this yeah probably jumps and bashes her head having heard lydia scream what what the hell is going on uh um uh this guy has no head this guy has no head well that's something terrible happened as he falls over a shotgun model 37a2 clatters to the ground off of his lap oh [ __ ] yes it was aimed northward if you follow me that's the reason he has no head um oh davis i think you just inherited a dead man's gun no hopefully i don't need the same fate as its owner make sure there's ammunition in it yeah i'll check it it's down a shell for sure do you check the body over yep okay uh looking around you are going to see that the body is um does have a couple of extra shotgun shells and an open zipper on his compression suit and there are still some in the weapon so you have one full reload on top of that so what model was it sorry i'm trying to 37 a2 uh and as you are searching him over you're going to just there's something not quite right about this guy and anyone who's observing the body at all is going to notice this as she mills around in its pockets its arms are going to flop slightly the forearms of the compression suit are torn like the arms were a bit too long decompression something stretched to the bones and flesh beneath that suit what do you do is there any um besides like the the weapon and stuff was there any um identification on him uh no there's no no identification on him that is that is has survived time and that blast i'm gonna start checking the rest of the room to see if there's any indication that anyone else might have been here when that you're happened seeing anything looking around inside of the other uh in the other cryo rooms though you are going to see the side of someone's face under the frosted lair of one of the cryotubes inside of the southern room there is somebody in a cryostasis there of course getting getting them out of the cryo without power is not something you're going to be able to do you got to hit the defrost button yeah well it looks like we have some popsicles still frozen maybe we should be prioritizing getting the uh the air and the heat back going no we need life support up yeah stop captain you're hearing a a noise at your side a few zones away a signal it's it's up the stairwell up in the uh up in dexy basically vertically above you several meters through the floor the motion detector is going off hey uh kayla getting a signal out here motion tracker is picking something up i'm just gonna go check it out uh is it towards the is it towards the power because uh stairway i think yeah i'll go with you okay and uh vincent's probably gonna like heft up the uh the flamethrower because he's feeling a little bit the incinerator because he's feeling a little bit worried about this not like really raising it up and kind of keeping it aimed at the floor and he's going to go like hello anyone out there and he's going to slowly make his way towards the uh the door to the um uh to the stairwell up to the stairwell yeah okay sounds good and uh i just have to double check because we also have to start checking for air supply per turn because you don't have unlimited air yeah i was looking actually looking for that to see how much we depleted yeah i gotta double check you have to roll every round and some air supply you just like listen to air supply that's all this is it's a band for those of you who don't know what i'm talking about uh if somebody has the pdf i want to say it's like i'm trying to find it yeah uh yeah strength or stamina test all right so i guess would we have to go down you know it's based on your um it's based on the actual equipment yeah yeah there's like a resources thing that actually describes how long as air supply lasts for and then and then you have units of it were we asking christine so i guess we'd have to go down to dec d with the like reactor control relay control so in theory uh another thing you can do if you do the power that way you could also see if its mother is asleep and if you can get that back up and running um that might help as well vacuum explosive decompression exhausted explosion fire fire disease radiation suffocation supply suffocation just says after your air comes out so page 34 supply of air consumables all right you keep track of the four consumables on your character using a supply rating a higher rating is better at regular intervals see the table on the right you need to make a supply roll this means rolling a number of stress dice equal to the current supply up to the maximum of sick dice for every uh one rolled the supply rating is decreased by one so uh okay every turn and after strenuous activity like combat or mobility so but if you don't have any stress dice so basically it's like the we start the suit with five so we'd be rolling five stressed ice and then if we roll one it depletes it by that much it's essentially the suit that's undergoing stress okay that sounds good so why don't we have everybody do me a favor and we've done a few minutes of this so go ahead and make me two rolls uh it only matters if you roll ones first roll is do we add our additional stress dice you do not on this one so this is the suit's own stress roll i literally just rolled all twos okay well that's not death okay sorry what how much sorry i was looking at the map and roll five dice and tell me if you get any ones all right i got one one no i've got one one okay so your supplies go down by one each uh i rolled no ones both times okay that sounds good so uh four means that you basically were counting down uh till suffocation right then we start suffocating yeah so your max supply is a log is a turn again uh a turn five to ten minutes five to ten minutes seconds oh minutes so that's alright that's a round that's good turn so yeah so yeah round turn shift round turn shift yeah which is a neat system i like it but it's going to take some getting used to okay yeah all right so your air supply is you're going down um it was starting at so it's starting at six so you're down at five if i'm not mistaken because it was a max of six dice um but the supplies you're right on the thing on the side the suit said five so we started with five so mostly five yeah that's actually a pretty decent supply because because as it goes down it's going to be less likely to lose more unless you do strengthen this activity as you're running out i i love that it's like just casual use or if you do anything if you do anything bonkers okay heading up the stairwell you make your way up for the sound of the motion tracker coming up around there you can see that [Music] it's upstairs it's just up the stairwell and down to the south it's just signal lost gain a point of stress for all people present uh that is if you are present at the motion tracker i've spent some feedback bounce or something i lost a signal let me let me look try to like pull it out of his hand to [ __ ] so it looks like the mother is on this this level why don't we try and check that see if that's what turned off power or if we have to go down into the reactor core uh yeah yeah go ahead and take a look at that let me know if you need like like codes or something to get in wait my code my codes are not gonna work um yeah go take a look all right shall we yeah you still have the torch i mean if we have to we can get through the door hopefully it's true i mean i'd be surprised it was stronger than the hull are you heading upstairs james is the captain heading upstairs i think i pretty much have to um i'll be following can we actually repair the air scrubbers from inside the shaft or not until you have power all right i think the power is upstairs right uh so the best way to get power is to probably turn the turn the ship on its mother unit okay oh okay i thought it was like there was i was looking at like the reactor core and stuff like that i figured it would be there could be a way to do that too it might be good to check both okay they're going to the mother unit i'll go to the reactor then which goes past what we saw so yeah we'll we'll both go together there those of you who are headed toward the mother unit heading down on the belly of the ship you are going to see that um this area is covered in these these moats the air is thick with like little ashy flakes of gray whatever's deteriorated here over the years has well you can't imagine how bad this place probably smells you make your way don't even try it's true you make your way up to a junction and as you do right at the base of the door to mother you're gonna round the corner and there's something lying on the floor it's broad and leathery it's well it's it's just one thing actually it's um it's a small bulbous pod that's adhered to the ground about the size of um a bird's egg there are um 11 of these pods kind of clustered together kind of like a mushroom davis is gonna go poke it one of them okay are they talking hummingbird bird or like i'm gonna say i'm gonna say robin's egg how do you know what my eggs look like i don't know uh so i'm gonna say like small chicken egg like it's basically about the the entire cluster is about the size of like a portobello mushroom maybe a bit bigger than that and it's just like all of these like small like um uh small like not duck eggs what do we think it was basically like a bird egg like the size of like a kinder egg or like a uh one of those um like coin machines like the little like bubble machines uh if you're going to poke it it is going to uh just kind of dissolve under your finger uh kind of like you're poking the tip of like um like a dandelion sprout just and it's going to release just some spores as you introduce pressure to it it's it's very fragile well that might not be the best breathing yeah we should get the air scrubbers running as soon as possible yeah all right well let's see if we can get into mother okay uh heading up to the door uh you are going to uh just start heading that way uh meanwhile i'm gonna cut ups uh upstairs is where you all are or you are so you're climbing the stairway and then you're heading to the reactor relay yeah so we'll climb up the stairwell take a brief pause on c to just kind of duck my head out and listen for a second okay and then if i don't hear anything immediately i will uh follow uh miller upstairs can you make me an observation role please sure uh is that a group one or just uh i'd be looking around cautiously but uh if you if you want to decide who rolls it please do but i would love it if you could do it at a minus three for darkness and distance conditions is yours better what's your observation uh observation is what an empathy uh it's yeah it's uh yeah or okay so if it's empathy then i've got a seven observation is wits oh uh then i've got off uh four oh you don't have do you have observation as a skill uh you do indeed yeah i got two points of it what's your wits two oh i'm still really happy okay five dice total with my stress uh i'm six dice with stress so you go ahead you wanna help me sure um can they help uh you do not roll separately you cannot help an observation role i'm gonna say that's what i thought and then minus three minus three yeah what'd you get uh that's a one on a stress die and no successes i'd like you to roll me that stress dice please sure stress is bouncing oh no stressed me out i rolled it on the floor fine unless you roll a six another one another one okay so you're gonna keep that stress on your cheat or on your on your pool uh so you're keeping it together you managed to keep your nerves in check barely uh because you could swear to god that as you were listening you heard something scrape it's probably just the old ship it's probably just the old ship that she'll duck back in and head run up behind miller um yeah let's let's get to the reactor uh next up yeah you okay yeah yeah just hold ships you keep an eye on you keep an eye on the tracker okay and we're gonna make our way up and then suddenly the ship rumbles [Music] the entire ship begins to shake and the lights are going to [Music] and suddenly light is going to flood the chambers and you're going to see the moats change direction in air as the air system kicks back on large machines are going to start cycling the air through fans the scrubbers aren't working but things are going to be moving again did anybody else do something that turned that back on yeah did you guys get to the get fixed whatever where you guys are i should ask where several decks up are we still in the communication range you're going to be here what say again we we can't make you out the range is gone they may have done something we should still check on mother though see can find out what happened ships give me the heebie-jeebies so you are right at the door to mother where you are there let me just make sure that you located directly above the bridge this small room is accessible from the main airlock at junction a1 okay so technically you're up they had to go down the stairs my bad i need this ship's layout yeah i was thinking decay was probably the top deck but okay so we'll just we'll just reverse that in our heads i mean it's space that ship could be upside down you know yeah just space 3d okay um approaching the door you'll see that the um that the mother door in front of you the main frame there has a key card access i will pull out my key card absolutely uh wilson pulling out the key card uh you can slide it in and all right the door is going to uh to release uh hissing open and inside of it you are going to see an immaculately clean room the uh the mother center inside is spotless and a blinking data server and a single terminal uh which the highest member of the crew can use to interface directly with mother what would you like to do um i will see if i can get status from it [Music] sounds good um what do you ask um current status question mark i'm gonna step into this nice clean room instead of like hanging out in this dirty ass hallway with like who knows what coming up on my back because this place feels creepy yeah wilson's a little preoccupied but he'll probably like shoot a glance towards the door as in keep an eye on it mother is going to chime up life systems detected life support systems reactivated reactor powering up increasing ambient temperature you are going to notice that the on both floors the air in front of you is going to haze and vibrate a little as the temperature rises distorting the air in front of you wilson asked for a um for logs from the crew i know what's been happening the past 75 years yeah crew manifest question mark okay uh as you are asking this it will um let me just see how much it will provide uh so what it will say is one second uh it looks like they were on uh it's very brief very sparse notes saying they were on an archaeological mission uh it names a planet that you are not familiar with but there's all sorts of like xenoscience and xeno archaeology that's done around these days uh lv one one one three and [Music] as that happens uh you are going to hear warning cryo chambers deactivated [Music] cryo chambers deactivated oh the crew is waking up it will take several turns so that means that it's going to take probably a half hour for them to wake up properly but they will need they will need medical especially 75 years yeah fair does anybody among us have medical skills i don't but i think all right so i would know that kayla does yeah i've got some cursory medical training the two furthest away have medical yep sounds about right that sounds rough okay so we're gonna have to go after kayla and get her back do we know where they were said they were going down to the reactor core oh yeah those firing ups they'll probably come find us do you both want to go and find them to get them back down here i mean this seems pretty safe and i've got a gun sure and i can keep asking questions if i have to see what happens maybe just angle so you keep an eye on the door oh yeah definitely he can shut the door behind him if he wants to that's true you could lock yourself in yeah lock yourself in all right now let's go find them yep so um as the two of you were in the battle of the ship heading down to the reactor you'll start to hear everything power up whoa i guess they got the mother yeah i guess so if the reactor reactor's working theoretically that means that you could probably head back to the scrubbers or you could keep checking the reactor your call [Music] if everything seems on um i think there's another access to the uh oh no there isn't an access there is more access to the scrubbers yeah it doesn't actually connect to the scrubbers on this level though yeah i think the scrubbers are only connected on the level that we're on uh i guess let's go back up okay yeah we'll take a look at the reactor afterwards i don't want it to go in super critical or anything like that we're not ready for it heading back up you'll uh you'll bump into um into the pilot and to jam in the hallway uh did you guys turn everything back on no no we thought you guys had gotten to the reactor no no we didn't get any chance to get close to it we were hiking our way up there when uh everything just started coming alive apparently cairo is going off offline though so there's somebody in one of them after 75 years they're gonna need med uh well and we need the air back on otherwise they're not gonna be breathing so [ __ ] uh she's gonna run off and dive into the all right climbing through uh so there is limited air inside of here so just to let you know until the scrubbers get up you can breathe without your helmets it's not optimal it is going to be kind of dizzying and like breathing in the worst pollution and fog that you've probably ever had on earth but it's survivable for now so right climb sorry what i guess would that count as heavy machinery to get to the scrubbers to get it up and running it every machinery would get it working but it will take a while okay well i'll go with kayla to help okay okay that's right is it com tech or heavy machinery it's heavy machinery okay in that case um yeah lydia would probably do better yeah i can help you i have also training in a heavy machinery as well like exactly the one pc camera only one person can help okay yeah well in that case yeah we'll get videos and stuff and yeah okay all right so taking a bit of time captain uh uh all right uh who's not doing anything wilson i guess you're with me let's get up to medical and get any he's in the other room he didn't go with us it's not there as you say like you just expect him to be there looking around he's not even there um one time you don't need the corporal right if if ray if you're gonna go help lydia uh why don't we go to med i remember seeing uh med med labs and medpods on b deck on those things we could try and get some supplies those folks that folk in the uh cryo is going to need it so for any supplies we could get yeah all right let's do it okay heading into the carbon filters uh climbing through these tiny ducks uh i'd like everyone to do me a favor and roll me your suits air again all right so that was five uh unless it unless it ticked down yeah so you succeeded i think i think it was james and mike that failed so once you're looking for ones to be bad i'm i'm down to four nothing i'm down to three okay okay like okay krista how many are you down i'm down to four okay all right so most people are in their fours or threes great lydia apparently just does not breathe much okay stays very calm you take very good care of your suit okay pardon me one second while i just double check something uh heading in there you are okay you are going to take a nice peek around uh and as you are doing so you are going to notice a couple of things you are going to notice that [Music] one sec i was the reactor that was making that loud nice okay cool uh as you are looking through here you are going to see well the air scrubbers are caked with decades decades of grime and mold also quick reminder that uh inside of the air scrubbers electrical current is channeled through submerged rods which applies to the water separating hydrogen and oxygen that means there's a real risk of uh being electrocuted in here so be careful if you fail a roll you will be electrocuted all right you are working with a live power grid here now carbon filters on the air scrubbers are caked and caked with decades of grime and mold just having power on not gonna be enough you're going to have to take the carbon filters and either replace them or clean them for the air circulating in this ship to return to proper oxygen levels crap this is gonna be a shift all right well i guess i better get to it okay um i'm can i before they're out of range try to calm uh to captain and pilot uh miller and davis and just say like uh hey this is gonna take longer before we get air maybe while you're up there try and see if they've got any suits for the folks coming out of cryo 10-4 thanks for passing that along yeah i'm sure we can find some suits for them somewhere hopefully well hopefully there are all right as you examine uh you're gonna go ahead and spend the shift doing work well so here's my question if i help for that shift i'm not gonna be able to go help with medical am i no so you can't just leave cham here to do it i was i was gonna say like uh cham i wa i'm gonna have to go catch those guys coming out of cryo are you gonna be okay here yep okay so i can occasionally this place is incredibly creepy i totally agree i'll uh i'll check in uh and then i will head off to the cryo chambers and see a dead body you will see the headless body um there was no effort to move that thing so take a point of stress uh she will gingerly step over it sounds good all right we're gonna jump in there with you in just a sec cham as you are inside of the shaft doing some work i need a heavy machinery roll from you can you give that to me yeah okay okay so it's heavy machinery plus strength okay so we're looking for sixes you're looking for sixes okay um nice that was a lot of twos and then four sixes holy [ __ ] okay uh so what is going to happen here is that normally this would take a shift but with four successes let's take a look at this uh that means that with heavy machinery uh you got this so uh you can gain a plus one modification on the skill roll related to this one you don't need to roll to overcome the exact challenge in the future you do it quickly and half the time you normally would take you break it permanently you act quietly or you show off so i will allow you to actually spend multiple successes to we'll say quarter of the time okay so normally this would have taken you four hours you can get this done in about if you spend all four of your successes i'll say 30 to 40 minutes which i think is probably ideal because there's not much error here yeah so so it's going to take you about a half hour so fantastic work um that is going to count as showing up jam more like champ that is going to be fantastic however just watch me die first as you are beginning to do your work and you're pulling the carbon filters more of those um funguses the hell were they doing where did they stop they get all this stuff she's just talking away to herself and as you disturb them the camera is going to close up as the disturbance of pulling the filters is going to cause them to disintegrate and move up through the air filtration system which is not online right now but up through the vents meanwhile um let's see so you were talking to mother inside of the corridor and get out of the chamber so you're good to go um heading up into medical let's see okay so c deck south yep i'm just pulling up that page there we go that's page 22 in the module making up to the med the med lab door will open in front of you without a problem inside the room you can see that there are two older generation pawling medpods however they're not in a repair that is comforting to you one has its plexiglas tube shattered from the inside the ground has a rain of plexiglass laying atop it as if something broke out of it the other is sealed and lit from within but the entire surface the inner surface of the plexiglas on the second one is covered in thick dried blood also in the room on a far shelf is a smaller specimen jar without without liquid containing uh some of those those fungal things that you saw earlier davis on the desk next to that is an open metallic urn four organic looking glass vials are inside of the urn three of those intact with some type of ink oil the fourth is cracked and empty they wanted samples right yeah i suppose uh let's see if we can find out what the stuff is here first can we go check into their check any sort of notes or findings here also um davis will kind of see on the far corner of the like medlab bay it looks like there's some sort of like old interconsist intercom system [Music] and she's gonna like go up and press it and be like davis to where wherever this thing working testing one two three testing one two three it will echo it will echo across the entire ship will ring with your voice is anybody doing anything in regards to the uh the medical stuff here uh um yeah miller is probably gonna come come over and kind of search or look look at it and poke at it a little bit and also look for i'll also look for medical supplies uh so there are these vials here so you absolutely can grab one of those if you want or leave it here um under the desk is a medkit med kit case that you'll see as well if you're looking around if you're just kind of looking in the area you all can find quite a few things actually so there's one med kit uh that is under the desk as well as along the side of the room there are four personal med kits surgical instruments and uh three doses of never sleep pills uh four doses of hydration and three doses of naproleaf oh good stuff um could you just say that one more time kelly for me please uh so it was i believe it was i was jotting it down too three nether sleeves three never sleep four hydration and three nap relief if i'm not mistaken yeah cool and then there was the med kit for med kits surgical instruments and that's what you can find and then there's the other uh medical medical crate apparently what is it listed as it is listed as a medkit case okay that one is separate from the others though i think we'll take all of it the medkit case feels a little light i'll open it up uh there are six syringes inside anything labeled on them that kind of identifies what they are no nothing um they're all loaded though there's some type of um some type of compound inside of them not much like enough cc's like i would say actually i don't know cc's to save my life but we'll say like a tenth of an ounce in each syringe so a few drops would a dose of something would um given davis's history slash affliction would she recognize anything about those unlabeled files they don't look like any narcotics that that you recognize but taking a look at uh the napoleave that looks like something worth taking like there that could be some fun that could probably feed it okay what are you what do you make of all this stuff uh i'm sure we can see some i mean these can all be very helpful depending on the situation um any idea what these things are i just can't hold up one of the syringes no idea those i've never seen that before looks weird yeah well look toss them in with the rest of the stuff they they can well the lab eggheads can look it over uh but is there anything written down about the uh about the the black samples and stuff like that nothing immediate now all right we better get to get this stuff back down uh we'll take a look at the science lab after this yeah actually you take those samples down i'll go take a look at the science lab all right sounds good one quick thing as you're standing there you'll see that there are two there's something strange nearby as you're leaning down and moving through some things you'll see that on the other side of one of those as one of those med pods are two specimen jars large ones and floating inside of them are two small alien creatures to describe them they are they have bulbs heads elongated limbs kind of tucked in that look like they're probably quadrupeds they're quite small i'd say at this point they're about the size of um like a chihuahua maybe a bit bigger the [ __ ] are those things i don't know their tails look serrated i was gonna go over and take a look at that take a look at them but he's a little wigged out so he's gonna basically kind of have a look around as he kind of goes in there did one of their tails move davis will join kind of like oh what is this thing do you have any idea what actual like xeno life form would be worth but i don't know but man i think we should definitely take it oh yeah so i will say that nearby um at one of the pods there is a there is a surgical computer so there were no notes or anything but there are surgical computers if you wanted to access them yeah heading over so the broken med pod it looks like it actually might still work um nobody here has medicine so i'm not gonna tell you to avoid that um i've got medicine one oh dude okay um you might want to sterilize it first but in a pinch oh it might be okay um you can open the bloody medpot if you want uh if you're morbidly curious uh however what you can do is um if you head to that one the exp you can access a medical computer at a nearby desk and see what was there do you want to um i think i'm going to go over to that med pod is there any sort of windows on that thing that i can kind of like kind of see the blood is the blood is caked from the inside you can open it manually with just a bit of effort okay i'll open it as you do um you are going to pull up the the status of the autopsy as you open it up you are going to see that inside of that medpod is a vivisected human the lower torso has been dissected his soft elongated skull stretched out like it's been crushed or sucked into a vacuum has been opened and picked at at the nearby computer you'll see that there is there is a wealth of data that they've tried to pull from this exploratory surgeries it keeps saying things like vaccine ineffective new trial this this is a vaguely human being captain its bottom is completely stripped down to the bone like a butcher block like a ham hock that's been stripped of meat for a stew but its upper body is still intact the fact that you can recognize it as male is just a very a vague gesture at the face and jawline there's nothing there's nothing in the meat below that suggests that it actually is anymore that's been stripped away i think this thing was human or some sort of like pseudo-human what's this about a vaccine uh pause one second i just have to check something real quick um cool cool um you can see inside of the skull the soft tissue is just brain matter that has been almost excised from this and um i have to say as a player and knowing knowing alien it's like i've every time like the the music cycle does like that spike in like tension i'm like i'm waiting for it to jump i'm waiting for the jump scare man it's great it's great it's very stressful okay and where do i find ah there we go the first jump scare is always the cat wow the cat lived how the [ __ ] did the cat live the cat put pushed the guy out of the the cry of chamber was like no me leaning over and taking a look inside of this thing you can see just how but this this was a human at one point it's cut all the way in to the point that you can see that its upper body is still wearing a name brand like athletic top the future equivalent of like an under armour shirt or something like that there's a pair of tags dog tags half visible underneath the neckline of the shirt other will reach in and pull them off okay reaching down you make contact with it and as you do you flip them up and see that it's still coated in this sticky blood you get a look at it daniel morris meanwhile elsewhere in the ship you continue to make your your communication there wilson and uh is there anything else you're doing you've done you've done your initial like readout of this you know that the mother informs you that the crew is going to be awakening shortly of which you'll be able to see that there are five occupied pods of the original 30 person crew and how long have they been asleep for now about 75 years or so so they might be a tad cranky do you want to head over to med bay or to uh to cryo yeah i think that's probably a good plan at this point okay heading over to cryo you are going to easily make your way there the cryo chambers are going to hiss and slowly open moving inward you are going to see that there are in fact five people there uh you'll make it there around the same time as um uh as as rye and looking in you're gonna get a good look at everybody inside of there as the the steam begins to defraud defrost them you'll see that uh one of them is uh kind of a tan-skinned man in his 40s uh the profile there that you'll be able to pull is uh acting second officer john's is what you pulled from mother when you were looking there uh there is a thick a thick-necked very muscular but kind of diminutive black woman uh in her early thirties a rather scrawny man with kind of a a weak attempted attempted mustache uh who is dressed in the outfit of a medic a spindly bearded man with glasses that are completely bogged over from the cryo in his 50s uh and finally someone dressed in uh what looks like a business suit blazer corporal gear uh is a white woman with a kind of a blonde bob well more of a pixie cut picture if like ellen ripley had like platinum blonde hair and that's kind of the look uh she's in her 40s and um uh you are going to you're going to be able to pull date on who these people are as they're defrosting so the first is acting officer second officer on the uscss cronus albert johns the second is reed a colonial marine this main security officer on the cronus then liam flynn a medic then daniel cooper a scientist the man with the beard in the glasses and finally uh lori clayton who is a company agent for weyland yutani your great great great great great great great great grand boss uh as well the sh as you were looking through the manifesto the ship did list one more thing on it that there is a um well there was at least a synthetic on board somewhere but not present not present that the ship is detecting at this moment no as the as the chambers begin to defrost is there anything that you all you're all doing are you just waiting for it to happen is is there anything i can prep yeah let's go ahead let me just see how this goes air scrubbers elevators nope i want plot give me the plot i love how detailed this is but there is a lot to sort through in this so if you're running this module for yourself take copious notes and print it because highlighting and bookmarking is not going to do as much as you think it is in the moment guys i'm just going to put that out there i highlighted the hell out of this pdf crowd chambers uh okay uh so uh pardon me so you're gonna see this from the door you're gonna get a good look at them and you're gonna have their their um their profiles there uh however to actually get to the door um the cryo chamber door um into the the room where their pods are you're gonna see that there is a significant amount of scratching there and uh to reach inside um you would have had to like rig the door open with a heavy heavy machines roll that probably would have taken about 10 minutes so you two i'll say that you just did it because a little bit of time and energy when you said scratching do you mean like somebody with a tool or something could be trying to trying to force the door open some type of sharp implement was trying to scratch at the door some sometimes looking for a seam but for the most part almost kind of like a dog trying to get through like a like a glass door should we be rolling for air i would like everyone to roll for air again please i was just about to ask when you walked into cryo so that's great i'm still good still good i'm four okay sorry james what'd you say so what if i roll two what you lose two i'm down to one air yay okay so we'll be slipping and we'll be back with you in just a second something's wrong with my suit guys uh you're just do you take big breaths um all right so you spend some time you force that door open and inside you will find the sleeping crew of the cronus uh five of them most of the hyper sleep chambers are vacant two are full of mummified corpses desiccated by decades of dry air in the lockers of the room you'll look around you see that there are plenty of personal effects here and as you walk in you're going to see like these kind of sporey moats start to drift along the air through some of the some of the vents and then the cryopods are going to you'll hear some of them cough what happened what's going on oh my head i'll try to help one of them like catch him if anyone's falling or something who are you going to so there are five of them uh two women and three men the frailest looking of them is probably the the man in his late 20s with the mustache i was gonna say i'll go for the medic yeah um he's going to stumble out you can see on his badge that uh he's wearing a little like a little badge on his lab coat uh or his party his medic lab coat that says flynn who are you who are you who uh oh [ __ ] my name my name is kayla rye um uh flynn is that your name yeah i i i'm i'm i'm flynn hi you guys have been adrift we we came across your sos what happened i can't remember um cap captain there's uh the captain's not here says the one named john's who sits up it's um i uh oh [ __ ] what is going ugh there's currently five of you left what from whatever crew compliment you had before i can't remember what happened to the rest of the crew it might take time to come back to you you've been in cryo for some time how long is some time well probably a full lifetime what happened what happened to the crew and as he asked that we're going to cut upstairs as you james you um the captain grabs the the dog tag and looks at it and you're going to see your your o2 sensor goes marking that your o2 is definitely lower than it should be it is absolutely um getting to a rough area um and as you glance down at it um uh can you do me a favor does your suit have any armor ah i have no idea um i think we'll probably need to find out right now uh let's see if i can find the pdf and see if uh uh yeah i'm ready for can you roll me four dice please uh sure uh i'm looking for sixes you're looking for sixes i have one you have one okay all right let me check something catch that okay okay uh as you as you reach down and pull it you you pull the thing out the creatures eyes are gonna flash open on the bed and its hands are going to surge up at you it grabs you by the head by the side of your suit and there there's going to be a cracking noise as the pressure from the arms cracks your helmet in on itself uh i need you to do me a favor and uh uh you are lucky as hell uh your helmet is going to shatter and you are going to be able to fall backwards from this surprise attack your helmet is destroyed you're to minus two on all stamina rolls if you had not been wearing a helmet you would have just straight up died oh my god okay it is an instant kill do i hear that you see this this is your this is behind you as you're typing and you hear and the shattering of glass as this half alive person suddenly jerks forward and what we're going to do is we're going to we're going to draw cards uh i have a 10 which means that you guys probably will go first do you want me to draw cards for you or do you want to do it i got a few please do okay so you've got the three and james you have a nine so uh robin uh you are going to uh to see this behind you what does davis do um i'm just yeah i'm obviously i'm going to take a shot as my i think my my slow action okay i'm just seeing what other i'm just trying to find the page with all the action so i can see what else i could do for a fast drawing your weapon is a fast action yeah so is it okay cool so yeah i'll draw and boom okay so just give me one second i just have to double check how much how much there we go i love this thing okay so you are right behind this thing it is lurched up its head is elongated about like a football attached to the skull and has been opened up its brain is exposed to you which means uh it has no armor and you can shoot directly at its head go ahead and what we're gonna do is you're gonna make me a ranged combat roll the way that works is you are going to roll uh you have what kind of gun oh you have a shotgun i have the shotgun okay so at this point what that is going to be is uh i have plus two damage three like bonus plus two and then damage three five okay so you have light here it is a not a small target it is at short range uh if you how does that work if it engage range is a minus three you know what if you if you go point blank i'll give you the plus three but if you fail you shoot james okay okay enough that sounds good normally this thing you would you would have a penalty if it doesn't know you're there but it's distracted right now and is definitely not thinking because it's brain's been dissected i i recommend you push your luck if things don't look good here oh yeah no me too okay so go ahead and make me a ranged combat role okay so ranged is agility i believe it is yes beauty so um so you're gonna add plus five total i believe two for your gun three for the uh the point blank okay i need i need i need more i need i need more d6s because that's 12. i don't know that's a lot and don't forget to roll your stress dice yeah i only have one right now still could cause you to stress panic oh i know oh i know i know i know but i got that okay so as we learned first roll of the game oh yeah no i didn't first roll the game great okay no style the three on the stress day so that's great um i got one success i'm gonna push my luck okay so gain a point of stress and then you roll that point of stress as well yes i know yeah um that's you keep that success keep that success keep that success you it's basically like the road ability in chronicles of darkness which you actually are not aware because you don't play that um so you're gonna roll everything that didn't get a six again okay cool i believe that's including your original stress dice though yeah so i think you're in gadget six yeah yeah more ones that's fine that's much better i rolled a six and a two on the stress dice so that is no problem the six does count toward your total by the way so stress dice count their normal dice it's adrenaline okay four successes then four successes okay that that's gonna be more than enough putting the shotgun in to its skull cavity you are gonna pull the trigger and both of you are going to get sprayed with blood and gore uh and from this i would like uh i'm going to say each of you are going to take a point of stress from this because this is yeah yep holy [ __ ] but you're not going to take nearly as much stress as what's about to happen because as you fall backwards and hit the ground and look at this thing as it crumbles you're going the air scrubbers are going to come back online you've finished your job good job good job there champ down there though as you are working on that you are going to uh you're going to hear something pardon me one sec you're just gonna hear davis fire and go what the [ __ ] yup as you get the scrubbers back up and running jam you are going to hear something being the closest back to your ship you are going to hear the crackle of your comms and then mother's voice come across it displacement drive malfunction cascade failure imminent vision reactor overload in t minus 10 minutes it's going to echo over all of you as well cascade failure imminent vision reactor overload t-minus 10 minutes plus one stress to all players actually do i hear this with my helmet shattered uh you will hear it uh over robin's calm okay cool that's our ship is doing that your ship is about to explode in 10 minutes what the what jam is gonna try and pull herself out and get to that because what the ever loving hell is happening to our ship sounds good this ship's been dead in the air what's going on some of the people in the cryo will say as the they hear uh cham booking it back toward i'm gonna uh jesus [ __ ] uh stay here and bolt okay do you where do you do you go with them wilson or do you stay here no i'm staying here i'm keeping my gun my gun handy and keeping everyone corralled here and trying to like tell them what the hell is going on the woman at the back opens her eyes and looks at you you're dressed differently than one of the rank and file oh i think we're well aware of who we are here clayton wilson a pleasure i hope to [ __ ] my stock portfolio's going back up let me know when i can light up again i need a smoke all right back upstairs uh so you two are running across you two upstairs are recovering so i'm gonna give you a minute before you run over just to kind of catch your breath and figure [ __ ] out the other two of you are going to run back across moving across the spacewalk uh i need both of you to make me uh an air check please because you two are running now that doesn't mean because you can disengage on the other side once you get back into your ship too um yes robin i probably should roll an air check because i just did combat that's right both of you need to roll me an air check uh james actually you're watching automatically i can't i have no error so i'm finally going back down okay sounds good i'm at three now okay so your air supply has gone down i'm good at three okay uh you two are going to race back across the air walk or probably the uh the umbilical heading over in to um into the montero um by the time you make it back over there t-minus nine minutes until reactor overload t-minus eight minutes until reactor overload [ __ ] happened we're gonna run to the reactor uh so you can uh so if you head back over there you can the reactor is in is an overload it is going to burst the best chance you have is maybe talking to mother trying to get in to ask mother to stop the countdown um you can ask it to um uh however if you're down in the reactor core give me a comm tech roll commtech okay um what does that go with uh that is comtech is wits okay so i think that krista is chief com tex you probably want to assist her yeah i think that works better yeah because i think we were hoping that whatever it is is there's a malfunction of some sort and we're just trying to like fix whatever it is so that it doesn't keep getting worse yep and hopefully that stops this countdown okay so you guys still have your suits on you just ran over here right as quickly as you could yeah okay that sounds beautiful yeah there's there's no stopping to take stuff off no one in a stunt one in a stunt fantastic looking at this you are going to see something awful looking at this it is there we are sorry the reactor it's going into total meltdown this ship cannot be stopped you cannot stop this reactor from going what's worse this was internally triggered someone said this it be jettisoned no there's there's one with the cronus is your only hope at this point and you guys are tethered together um and as you are leaning over and looking at this the best chance you have basically is for somebody to probably pilot the montero away uh which is going to be problematic um and pardon me once all right we we have to get it uh disconnected you're seeing that this thing is going to overload completely and um so as you're looking at that from behind you there's going to be a a sudden slash of emotion and uh christine yeah uh there is how much arm can you roll me your suit armor uh sorry what is it you have four dice please roll them okay uh two sixes two sixes okay okay okay uh fantastic uh there is all right um there is a sudden movement to your side and um there is a creature next to you it's tall and live because as you ran over here you left the airlock doors wide open and something followed you across the bridge it is this strange creature shaped like a human but longer its head bulbous and blonde its its eyeless elongated gaunt bipedal six feet tall and when its mouth is closed it's got this strange bulbous almost inquisitive ethereal appearance it opens its mouth and snarls at you its jaw moving out like a goblin shark and as you process it its tail is going to lash out and rip your spacesuit in half white blood is going to explode all over rye's face uh all right lucas you're like you're active as this cuts you right across the belly doing uh that is going to be one two look at kayla run you have two points of health damage okay okay uh let's draw initiative now okay so i have initiative two rules now so you just um i got a jack okay so just draw until we have a number card okay okay and chris did you want me to draw yours i have a lot of jacks in a row um ace is one okay okay and krista you have a four okay all right so uh the way it goes is it goes you creature and then krista all right so what do you do this thing is right in front of you um it is um absolutely hideous uh and i've been kind of wrecked i tell kayla to run and i want to shove like my cutting torch in his face okay turned on make me a close combat roll i'll say that your fast action is gonna be activating the torch okay and your slow action is going to be slamming it in the face um what does close combat go with close combat goes with strength okay um do not forget your plus three strength now yeah those add to my current one right yes okay sweet yes you were definitely one of my choices for this i was already strong yes [Music] sorry mike you couldn't be the corporal and the android it's in the rules it was that was okay there was either or and i got one of them uh five sixes what the balls i mean do you wanna do you wanna push for the other i mean i rolled ten dice do you wanna push to reroll the others sure okay you're rolling your stress with this as well right add one more stress and roll your stress okay so minus stress from it no your stress are additional dice and if they're sixes they they they work okay no i had not so you always add your stress to your dice bowl in this system okay we'll leave it more so now you've got like 14 dice or 13 dice strollers okay well that was another six on a stress die okay did any of the stress dice come up as a one no the other one was a two uh and oh wait pardon me um you're an android i don't they don't experience stress you don't roll stress anymore now that you're outed so don't worry about the stress at all so that five successes uh did you reroll the other five dice yeah you can't push you can't push anymore okay cool sorry my bad uh so there's too many new rules to keep track of i need you to tell me exactly what i need to add to something okay so five points of damage how much damage does that torch do does it say oh god i don't know um i just got handed it and figured it's a cutting torch essentially we weren't rolling for how it gets done heavy weapons cutting torch damage three nice okay so that means that you do three damage uh plus armor piercing uh does it all is this have auto auto armor piercing as well it has armor piercing the quality it does have a power supply of five so i don't know if this is the third use of it it's down to two more uses after this yeah uh so that is going to be armor piercing which means that it does i i apply half armor uh which is pretty brutal because eight damage then uh that is eight damage if you want to apply a damage so with uh with close combat what you can do is you can apply all eight damage uh or you can spend basically you you apply your base damage which would be one two um for that and then you can buy additional points of damage with your successes you can do other things like disarm and things like that but i think at this point just shoving it in its mouth is probably the best option that's my thought i'm basically at this point buying time for kayla to run because i've just been like disemboweled that's what like milky android fluid everywhere knocking it from is an option what's up the mechanical torch is like our supply suits you just roll every time for its power level oh is that the way it works okay yeah i just wrote okay okay so you start with that's much more narratively satisfying that's fair just rolled for the last two times no because you still yeah go ahead go ahead see if you have any juice left we'll see if there it'll be like so okay you'll be fine unless you roll all ones so you roll five dice any ones subtract uh no ones yet okay third roll no ones lots of threes no ones uh so one moment please will i check something real quick so you still have a full tank then yeah as you were doing this fan i'm guessing i have no more air supply at this point since my suit got ripped apart uh you don't need air that's true it was actually worked really well that i barely rolled my air going down as well uh come on where is the freaking xenomorph damage table i was just checking for wounded i i think you're looking for i just passed it where is it um 291 391 is that uh i was wondering why christine shoved uh shrugged off to health damage i'm like man two health i'm at zero if i get hit with two health damage five how the it's based on strength because like i've got jam's [ __ ] leafy okay so yeah no i was like eh whatever i've got three more okay so that is going to be a critical injury for sure um as you jam this thing in its mouth and put it on full blast um so critical injury here we go okay uh it is going to shriek and contort wildly as you cram this down its throat making that horrible like high-pitched streak i'm not gonna do it sorry guys but though but like way louder and way worse as you it is hissing and snarling you trying to claw its best at you it gets one final round before it dies let's see what it does because i get two attacks yeah i hold a five and a one let's see what that means i like this system because i don't know what the hell this thing's gonna do myself it's exciting uh okay uh it is going to let out a terrifying hiss which does nothing to you because you're an android yep i don't panic uh however uh it is you're cramming this down its throat uh it is going to attempt a um you cram it in its throat basically and like turn it on uh it's going to try to surge forward and use its goblin shark mouth to grab you by the throat okay so it has a flaming maw that is coming at you yeah so you spent your fast action to uh to turn your torch on so roll for the attack with okay here we go and it did not succeed uh it launches itself at you uh snarling but you holding the torch in front of its mouth is going to be enough to kind of like have it thrash as it kind of melts through its body um and then it is going to like thrash around on the ground and collapse uh rye what do you do run uh i'm gonna run to the other side and then try and disconnect the walk okay t minus seven minutes until destruction uh can you do me a favor uh seeing that the android is in your presence you're gonna gain another point of stress yep my best friend wasn't android the whole time all right t-minus seven minutes what are you two doing and what are the rest of you are the rest of you making your way over to yes okay davis is very concerned about her and are you headed over captain i don't think i can because i don't have a suit because there's it's back there yeah no i'm just i'm stuck here no there isn't there there's an eva room the umbilical core the umbilical chamber is pressurized oh okay uh in which case i probably won't you still cannot if you if you choose not to you don't have to you know what i'm gonna head to the bridge sounds good all right heading up to the bridge yeah uh pulling a piece of glass out of my face that sounds great uh so you are actually going to make it across uh davis just in time to see the end of this as this adult-sized xenomorphic creature hits the ground and dies with a torch in its mouth uh and they're going to stick take a point of stress your friends and android what the [ __ ] t minus help me help me undo this go go go make me an air roll both of you oh down a two this is actually very narratively satisfying i think while still leaking fluid and all that lucas is going to having made sure it's down start moving over to make sure that kayla has gotten across and start trying to disconnect from this end once she's through because i'm betting there's a release on this side yeah there are releases on both sides and gonna call very calmly in lydia's voice across go get through close the door on the inner wait i thought davis is on the ship like our ship yeah yeah you just gotten over to it and we're just getting over pushing you guys over like we were here already we're on our ship yeah yeah so lucas is now telling you guys to gtfo yeah also krista you are muted so i have bad i'm so sorry i was trying to say that no so i turned around to run and i would have caught you in the water oh okay okay so yeah she's turned around and it's like backing away with fear like pushing davis back okay you disconnect you disconnect the shuttle bay or probably the umbilical and start to pull away um from the bridge is going to attempt to steer the ship she doesn't know how but lucas doesn't know how but he's gonna try all right so you're going to head to the ship and try to pilot your way out of here try and pilot the exploding ship away that sounds fantastic let's find out what you have to do to do that heading to the ship uh the rest of you are racing down the umbilical or escaping from it uh making your way back into the other side of the ship uh i need you to do me a favor so if you uh you could can you so there are two options for you right now christine okay you have six minutes you can either pile it at yourself or you could set an autopilot and try to take the daisy back sure okay i will try and do that because i think over all like lucas is the android but is very used to being lydia who is loyal and best buds with kayla so i need you to make me cover but uh so at this point the two of you are going to be on the other side sealing the hatch trying to figure out actually part of me you can't steal the external hatch because it's permanently blowtorched open so you can only seal the internal at that point which oh [ __ ] you guys didn't seal the internal on your way over when you disconnected it from the ship uh so that is uh one sec i believe that's explosive uh one sec let me see well no i was trying to get them to go across and get through before i disconnected oh was that what you were doing yeah that's why i kept telling them go i understand anyway so no they um uh yeah i wasn't sure what levels of decompression we needed to go at so that yeah okay we would have tried to sounds good so you can you can get back to that first airlock seal it uh at that point uh what i need from you um james you could be in contact with the bridge of the next ship if you'd like so you can talk to her uh but i need a i need a pilot roll at a minus two all right for me no for her for her okay um so what happens if i don't have pilot then you are rolling your agility minus two okay um the cronus oh that still gives me good i've i'm i'm good at that because i'm a android you still have stress dice no i don't know not anymore it's an android android all right right right so uh so miller this happens you're going to lose all of your shipment ry you're going to lose everything amen i i i can do nothing to stop it the daisy can take 10 tanks okay oh it's sealed anyway seller teller teller teller uh yeah i'll get up get on the get on the radio uh well i didn't i don't know what's going on so i'd probably be like what the hell is going on over there captain you can talk you talk absolutely normal you still like remember it's like bishop yeah um the reactor is blowing up i didn't trigger it there is no reason for it to be happening besides an internal command i need to get this far enough that it's not gonna blow everybody uh i'm trying i'm gonna i'm hoping to grab the daisy okay uh grab whatever you can okay okay all right that's two successes on a minus two roll yep damn son well i had three already and i add three to it as an android six dice okay all right so you are going to go and try to grab uh grab what is there um are you gonna try to load up the are you gonna try to load up the tank or are you okay having been the one doing all this how long would that take probably more than five minutes it takes time each tank requires a head strength or heavy machinery roll uh it takes narrative time so i mean if she thought potentially grab one you can make me a strength or heavy machine roll with the power were there actually one thing that might be there might or did she already load some onto onto the daisy before nope they were just being moved around the car cargo hold there's no reason they'd be in the daisy yeah we would have been moving them like to the back end i guess to try to like get them ready so it's a strength and heavy machinery roll then yes sure why not i've got a lot of dice for this that's gonna say that's a shitload of nice fail i hope you fail one six and three ones oof okay you're gonna make synthetics though nothing those aren't stress days yeah one is low one is pretty freaking low though for my okay uh you load one up four minutes t minus four minutes do you load another sure okay give it again [Music] ah die down die down i'm trying where'd it go there it is too many of these little d6s okay uh six okay so you'll manage to get two you'll get you'll get three of them four of them uh i'll say that you you've loaded up with six of these total now all right that's plenty i'm going all right so what i need to do is make me one more pilot roll to try to get out of here and get and clear the blast wave in the daisy okay so that's agility minus two agility minus two holy [ __ ] okay on four dice i got all sixes what the [ __ ] yahtzee she needs to go to like you need to go to vegas or something get rich all right you hop in the daisy and begin to head back towards all right we get the android drama after all you get a head back toward the main ship white blood dripping out of the wound and your side and as you see the ship the daisy the little shuttle began to meander its way toward the cronus in the distance there is no sound there is nothing except the white flash as the montero explodes taking with it the rest of your payload and your only other way out of here which we'll pick up next time for act two all right so what do you guys think of episode one did you enjoy that yeah it was a lot of fun i have no fingernails left i bit them all off oh i was totally gonna sacrifice myself for kayla well now you get to be bishop which is great so um so uh did you guys all have a good time was that okay oh yeah what do you think of the system pretty it's pretty solid actually it's pretty easy yeah yeah once you start getting used to it for you what's that it seemed a lot of work for you it's a lot of bouncing back and forth in the module but i think yeah i think now i know how to take notes for it because every module runs differently right and i'm used to running more dnd in world of darkness modules which are more streamlined this one gives you like plot events and then in a different section gives you what happens in the rooms so like there were different things like there were some things that i could have done during the uh oh the montero's about to explode there's like an option where it's like oh yeah the umbilical setup it's stuck you have to you have to heavy but we had already started moving it by then and i was like it's just going to slow us down for plot purposes i thought and i love that like um like there is one of these neomorphs on board with you that's running around outside of your periphery and outside of your motion detector and then you're like oh he's run over i'm like you mean that door that's been open the entire time huh hmm perfect perfection perfection um so um oh yeah and i mean i figured lean into that because i mean i didn't know yet that stuff was happening i hadn't seen any of that so um i get to declare uh at least one person here as an android before a game uh and i was having the damnedest time because i was like it's one of the three of you it's either robin christa or christine and i was like oh if the android goes bad which it could you never know christine's dice would be a great benefit to us but uh anyway i hope you all had fun with that i hope you had fun watching everybody and so this is going up on patreon first um to my love our pit lovely patreon uh supporters our patrons like uh our divine producer dm michael gray our uh demonic producers schulten uh premier solomon and vicarius uh our um princess of the patreon taren buddy trisalta cubby gummy ambrethist uh and eolis uh you're all wonderful and i love you so much i hope you enjoyed this if you wanna if you're watching this later on youtube and you want or or on the twitch broadcast and you want to get uh advanced stuff uh the five dollar month tier vips and up get access to these pre-recorded uh we are doing another one in two weeks and we're going to be doing at least one episode of off-camera patreon recordings a month so you're always gonna have some other cool stuff which can be handy if we get sick i hope you enjoyed that and i hope you come back for part two maybe part two of three because there's three acts to this reminder that i gotta give you all your motivations for act two next time uh and i'll be even more vicious because there's so many ways for you to die in this you could have died four times already as you saw you guys just i'm legitimately surprised that i'm not dead i can't wait to twos i was actually trying like oh honestly here and repair something i'm gonna get straight from behind it'll be great when the when you're like oh the thing needs to pilot honestly davis was like i'm the pilot i was gonna sacrifice davis to go over and fly see i as everyone here knows always play the character that will sacrifice themselves i specifically picked rye because i was like nope they're not gonna sacrifice themselves for anybody and so i'm very excited to do that nice i love it all right like if it means anything i decided to play the character that would sacrifice everyone else so you know you would you're a nice guy i saw that role i know all right so folks that's gonna be it from us tonight thank you so much for tuning in have a great night and uh uh in space no one can hear you like subscribe and and smash that bell but my heart can feel it goodnight everybody [Music] so [Music] you

Channel: Dork Tales

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Keywords: alien, alien the rpg, dork tales, dorktales, alienrpg, tabletop, actual play, free league, xenomorph, roleplaying game, ttrpg, ttrpgs, dork, tales, live play

Id: 14ofoPtPBxE

Length: 197min 40sec (11860 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 22 2022