House of Guards | Inherit the Sand Episode 2 | Dune: Adventures in the Imperium

[Music] this is the glass cannon network hey dune don't make it bad welcome back to our dude adventures in the imperium miniseries titled inherit the sand this is episode two or three if you count episode zero as episode one but that'd be weird why would you do that um we are uh we are we're in the thick of it and today we're really going to take this beautiful elegant rule system that modiphius has created and just said just butcher it horribly i'm assuming i uh i've just been staring at this sometimes i'll stare at a page for hours and i'm like i still don't 100 get this so this is gonna be a real test the only thing i regret is right around episode five which will be my last step before it's handed over to jared that's i feel like the time when i'm gonna be super comfortable with the rules and then i'll be like well let's have fun but you guys will be ready you guys will be all good to go you'll have all this practice under your belt so i'm really just doing jared a favor while i uh struggle and drive myself crazy it's the only way to learn it truly is a new game you have to play it you can't just read about it and study it in theory and get a handle on it but most people don't do it in front of crowds of thousands that's the that's the life you chose troy uh before we jump in today i wanna let's get to know let's uh everybody wants to get to know uh you folks a little bit better and so i thought what better way than to talk about uh our likes and our dislikes but really our likes what do you prefer do you like uh a sci-fi story do you like a uh sort of medieval fantasy type story do you like a cyberpunk and there's a different there's a million different ways to like it like how do you like your role-playing games what do you like to read what do you like to watch it's a loaded question let's see where we go with it uh in any order no i want you to someone i want you to monitor each other until someone talks this is now turned into a zoom class that like the rest of the world is yeah oh should we turn ourselves should we raise our hands hide non-video participants i'll go ahead and start fortune favors the bold uh i i have to say first off troy that as soon as you introduce the show by saying hey dune don't make it bad i immediately thought take a sand thing and make it wetter setting that aside and getting it out of but yeah i i think of all those sort of like genres you teed up i the one i gravitate towards most is ones that feel or are historical fiction like so i like that for that reason i really love one of my favorite things about call of cthulhu is that you get to play in the actual like a actual past and i i love things where you get to where you kind of get to nail the fantastic down with uh interesting actual historical events like some of my favorite books are things like uh i claudius and things that kind of riff on existing history and which is part of the reason why i like dune is because it feels like uh it feels kind of like a historical fiction from the future um yeah i think shogun was my first like historical fiction book that i really remember just absolutely falling in love with and then i just tried to find something else that i liked as much and i could yeah well i claudius highly recommended to to all that's great is it good but that's they made a movie out of that too right it was the bbc miniseries okay yeah yeah i just completed maybe my 28th re-watch a few weeks ago man yeah i feel like skin i have birds of a feather this stuff yeah yeah yeah totally it was like real cinephiles oh yeah yeah yeah i did a uh a book report on claudius the god in 10th grade as well oh man big robert graves the gravestone club over here i love robert what's your jam skit i mean you like a little bit of everything yeah i you know it's funny i i think i love sci-fi but most like most sci-fi movies and tv shows are not very good i think because some of the for at least they don't appeal to me because i think the expectation it feels like a lot of the time it's just like i just put a bunch of explosions and crazy stuff flying around and people will watch it regardless of the quality of the story or the acting the presentation or anything so it's like i just look back to those old days like the sci-fi channel shows and uh i did like watching them sometimes because they were so ridiculous that it was that that is the kind of thing i enjoy but uh yeah i finally only really enjoy like five percent of of sci-fi and like fantasy is the same thing but like books is a different thing but like you know so you can picture all this stuff in your mind and uh what skin is saying is that he's a hater that's what i'm hearing negativity yeah i've just been burned too many times i've been but you love the new blade runner and the old blood yeah yeah yeah i i a huge fan of both blade runners yes i think you call that a refined palette yes i i i i like to think so um but as far as like as some role play in i agree with ross that i also obviously love historical fiction and that is a fun playground to play in it's one of the reasons i love delta green so much but the one thing that we really haven't done that i would love to do is a like a hardcore cold war espionage role-playing game somehow like top secret or something that would be that's my dream right now is to be able to do that i love that era i love that like tom clancy like style would be so fun to gaming what is that board game uh becca you're the board game maestro that's okay i got this it's uh the two it's just like a two-player game yeah i think it's called cold war is it it's kidding i know the one you're talking about it's got a year in the name battleship you think of twilight struggle i think yes twilight struggle yes okay oh joe also got that right from off camera oh yeah because joe joe owns it and that was number one on board game geek for a long time but yeah is in terms of role playing games is top secret did they make a new version of top secret yeah there wasn't version there was a i only know of two of two editions i don't know if there uh if they ever came out with one like post uh like 1990 but yeah if anyone knows of any like great uh like sort of gritty espionage rule sets that would be that would be nice to know about call in uh yeah call in becca i feel like you like a little bit of everything tell me i'm wrong i like a little bit of everything troy you're not wrong the game i was thinking of was watergate very different time period obviously anything historical that's just old to me there's a board game based on watergate yeah it's a two-player game i made that mistake where i looked up watergate without writing board game i always do something this is interesting so the fact that all history blends together for me i do appreciate historical fiction but i totally lean into fantasy i mean game of thrones may rest in peace uh season eight never happened um but uh i really dug into that world i really love that anyone can die at any moment i think that's what draws me to cthulhu i've run a bunch of cthulhu games on my channel good time society plug um but you made me also think skid of a world in which i wish someone would create uh an rpg game which is i listened to this book called cersei which is a retelling of the odysseus myth from the point of view of the witch that turns everyone to pigs and it's excellent and uh like an odyssey themed board game and you know what that might be seventh seas i should dig in more aegon i think it's very similar it's a blades in the dark style game set in uh like uh with a peloponnesian it's like ancient greece you're uh yeah yeah you play odds are a big part of it i think the game exists that you want and you're going to love it i'm so excited for me i'm glad i asked this question i'm glad we have this discussion awesome yeah yeah i like fun things i guess i would say i was less into sci-fi i think dune is a thing that is converting me because as i said in our last episode reading seeing the new movie made me read the book and i'm like oh okay oh it can be bleak in space too yes yeah low magic sci-fi is i i prefer at least in my role playing games i like a low magic sci-fi and that's what makes tune so cool what about you nora um i would say my favorite is a high fantasy high magic low-tech setting like i i think i feel like i thrive in the d and d kind of setting um i also love call of cthulhu playing uh you know i like a little bit of a historical sort of real like you live in the real world this it's got for somebody who's has a theater background i think i think ross would agree like it's easy to jump into a character and really feel that character maybe a little faster than you would with others i kind of i kind of struggle a little bit doing the the sci-fi tt rpgs because i feel like i i fundamentally lack sci-fi speak in my vernacular like i'm just like set flux capacitors to warp speed i have no idea what to say though jargon right now don't know what's like that don't undercut yourself sorry no all i'm saying is audio coming through not your voice but i don't but but i think the reason why i feel like i could like dip my toes into dune is because it is you know sci-fi it is in the future but you know because of the ai it's not super techy and so it's kind of like that sweet middle spot between like a high fantasy and sci-fi yeah it's like it come it feels more like fantasy in some ways even though it really isn't because it's it's another the feudal structure of the of the society so yeah one of one of the fascinating and very i think kind of bleak things about the dune world is the idea that like the 10 000 years from now the model of society that would endlessly recur is the feudal system that that is presented is like the sort of natural state to which humanity is doomed to repeat please no please no [Laughter] though we're in it now here we are and the line between fantasy and sci-fi is an interesting thing because what makes it sci-fi is sort of that the the magic is based on future tech versus the magic being based on magic but you know who's to say what tech is magic and what isn't yeah but that's the thing too about far future sci-fi like this is this is set was like 11 000 years in the future and that's why i love stuff like this and gene wolfe i think is totally brilliant brilliant brilliant like world building that you know world uh earth and billions of years from now and you know the same thing with like jack vance the dying earth series which is a huge foundation for original dungeons and dragons i want to read some jack fans yeah i want to read period but you can only read rule books yeah i had a book that i started like right before my first son was born and i finished uh after my second son was born two and a half years it was a hundred pages uh but let's talk about the story called hop on pot the director's cut uh let's talk about the story that we're creating because as i think more and more about um where we've started and where i i hope we'll go i don't know i want to be excited and discover it along with you folks i feel like we're creating a unique story that a unique dune story like that's my goal is to walk away from this and feel like we created a very cool dune story and so let's talk a little bit about last week we start in this opera house that is owned and operated by house uh houdin hooden i think i kept saying houdin but uh it's it's huden right yeah how sudan so it's it's an awesome cool way well i feel like we've got a bunch of different pronunciations floating around we've got houdin that's very dune too it's like how many different pronunciations are there for harkin yeah right i think yeah we should keep that a thing and then just pronounce it differently each time yeah i want to say quiz outs how to rock as seldom as possible because i'm always afraid i'm it's going to stumble out of my mouth the knick-knack paddy whack the knick-knack you are the knick-knack paddywhack it has been foretold the uh we're in your opera house it's owned and operated uh by your house your house which duchess de lessa houdini has taken over after her mother uh mysteriously like abandoned the house and went to uh work as a wait we haven't talked about this i guess we have not but well she abandoned the house that's all you should information yeah sorry i almost almost said too much but all you know is de lessa inherited this and inherited uh the uh which i'm calling this this this set design this this stage design this theatrical enterprise that is your primary domain um you've moved your operations to arakeen because the harkonnens your liege house were like saw all of your work wherever your home planet was we're like we need this this iraqis is miserable uh come bring some joy here uh by putting on your shows so you build an opera house here the thing is the nobility the benny jesuits the other noble houses they don't like the idea of an unwed uh benejescerate woman running a house all by herself it's a threat to them and so knowing this uh maybe under pressure for a long time uh de lesse makes a deal with her enemy house house tyloris this is an enemy house that goes back generations um over it seems like when we discovered a very small slight that just snowballed into pure hatred between these houses she decides to make a deal to marry the young heir of house tylorus dresden tylorus a a young man that is 10 years her junior and tonight at the opera is when they're going to meet face-to-face for the first time so he shows up with his parents uh duke goran and duchess moira tyloris along with his uncle uh thurman tylorus who you find out is this drunkard possible samuda addict he was the older brother that was supposed to take over the throne but the father thought he was a a loser didn't let him do it the brother kept him around because he loves him is like his advisor and we also go backstage and we meet this gola named ilgaard fane who seems to recognize pharros our face dancer who is in the guise of a human he looks at him with his beady metal eyes and he's just a simple accountant there to see how the whole mechanism works backstage because house tyloris will be taking over house sudan and all of their uh holdings big move by the duchess making this union meanwhile this drunkard uncle pulls the mentat envoy chief diplomat aurelius to grow him out into the hallway and basically lets him know hey i don't know about what you do with your magic brain but i'm the advisor here and if we need you you better serve our house well very aggressive and that's the speaker yes that's thurman uh the least exciting name i came up with was thurman tyler's all i could think of is thurman thomas but uh speaking of aggressive the swordmaster for house twylorus a man named dace o'ren swordmaster of guinaz comes up and is very insulting to your fremen swordmaster corrin basically he knows that corrin is uh he's heard the rumors that corrin is a consort of the duchess the duchess has many consorts uh and he basically says hey listen when these houses unite we're only going to need them on swordmaster but if you play your cards right you can be my wife uh very very rude and it takes corin all her power not to pull out her chris knife strip them in the throat i wanted to i know i i was like please don't i i don't know the comment right here until next week um and then we've come back to the opera box the owner's box you're watching the show it's coming to the climax of the opera and young dresden is like clutching at his neck his face is turning blue he's choking he's trying to like rip his shirt open and as he does so he tumbles out of the owner's box plummeting a hundred feet or so down to the stage where he's impaled on a prop spear by one i could have done something about the poison i know and i regretted it you told me this afterwards don't stumble backwards when you're poisoned no that was a bad move but you had a really cool idea and i regretted like steamrolling through that scene uh can you say your idea oh i really because of my um prana bindu being able to control my body from the inside uh on a molecular level i wanted to kiss him taste the poison take it into myself and render it moot with my super cool skills and then give him the antidote with my own saliva and that would have been awesome uh except he's impaled so completely but he's impressed you can jump down and do that but uh no he got like swarmed by harkonnen guards tyloris guards uh because oh that's the other thing in attendance for this show is a harkonnen diplomat named fenton quill and a spacing guild navigator one of these creatures that floats in these orange melange gas tanks uh named dinar banan a dignitary they're seated in in a box even nicer than the owner's box and they're watching this all go down so there's a lot of security backstage they swarm the stage and and take the body away meanwhile pharos rushes back up to the box and the four of you are in there like what the hell do we do the duke and the duchess tylorus leave and you becca say this is your opera house you built a secret compartment in the wall for you to escape and as you start to do so the harkonnen guards come in with the diplomat fenton quill and says oh where are you going and so now you look incredibly guilty and even tells you you're being detained for questioning uh with regards to the murder of dresden tyloris now something happened it was very interesting at the end of last episode i didn't even think in the moment because it was just so much happening when you saying something like i have a secret compartment here absolutely and so what you should do is spend momentum to create that asset and where you didn't have momentum you really could give me threat to create that so really think about that as we move forward is like if there's something you want to do and it seems like it wouldn't be super convenient you absolutely can do it you just have to pay the currency of uh momentum and threat um so what what i said in my head is like i then spent that threat immediately to have fent and quill come in and intercept you so right now i can't remember where we're at but i know you only had one momentum and at the end of the scene you lose one momentum so you now have zero momentum and because i didn't write it down i'm only going to give myself four threat as well even though i think i had more but as i said you before we started i'll get that back pretty quickly so now we start a new scene you're no longer in the owner's box you are in a holding room on the third floor of the opera house maybe there's a room that you used for meetings or to go over set designs uh talk i'll do auditions who knows but the feeling in this room it hasn't been said but it feels like it is a prison fenton quill the harkonnen diplomat that was in attendance led you in here with several harconan guards who you assume are outside nearby so that you can't escape i imagine the mood is somber and there's a feeling of dread in the air each of you know if you had a part to play in this maybe one of you did but those of you who are innocent realize the stakes here this is being pinned on you and you look even more guilty now the way that you were caught your houses have been feuding for generations yeah you made this deal but even this deal to marry the young heir it just seemed a little out of nowhere so there's motive as well but finally an uncharacteristic proposal by the duchess brings these houses together and then the young dresden is apparently poisoned plummets to his death you know the harkonnens to be brutal in the way that they handle things they don't need an excuse to be cruel and as your liege lords they have every right to be your judge jury and executioner [Music] what are you guys talking about in the room here de lessa is standing in a corner with her back to it facing these three people in her employ and wondering if any of them had betrayed her in this way watching their micro expressions and their movements for any clues [Music] what is our let me like pull the group like what what is our general house attitude towards our liege lords towards the harkonnens because i think that aurelius like thinks that they're brutes and he hates the fact that we are under their thought but i don't know how the rest of you feel i think there's a stoic obedience but if we want our house to become a great house we have to be we have to follow the order for now play the game yeah i think uh pharos is sort of like i might think something along the lines of oh it was ever thus the most beautiful things and the most beautiful creations must seek patronage somewhere how do you think that patronage is attained through gentleness it's true hate having to appeal to these apes they may be listening perhaps we should guard our tongues though you know my thoughts sorry i wasn't saying that in character but you're right you're right duchess yeah i don't i think aurelius is i think he he's i think he's like he's doing that thing where his eyes are rolled back and he's just like trying to see if he missed something he's just yeah actually that's that's what he's doing he's using his mind palace talent to go back and see if there were any hints of this uh that would that would anything that would hint towards this that he experienced in the recent past yeah that he missed did dresden have any food or drink okay um let's do a roll skid okay or anything out of the ordinary yeah yeah let's see in terms of skills here uh i like discipline for this but if you maybe this is more understand i feel like we always fall back on understanding yeah i understand seems less like a catch-up but yeah i'll do i'll do discipline yeah just to try something different discipline because you're really using your uh your menta discipline to try and go back and think about uh what happened and then what drive are you thinking uh i could make a case well i could i think i could make a case for either justice or truth yeah uh learning the truth about something or just making sure of the the the fairness of it versus the unfairness of us being accused of this to me truth sounds right because you're really trying to figure out what did i miss is there something you know i feel like understand truth is very uh it's kind of a fallback but let's try discipline truth just to mix it up okay do you have a uh a uh focus in discipline uh i have i don't okay great um so uh you don't get that bonus of anything you roll under your discipline score accounting as a critical um but what about your drive statement for truth uh truth is of utmost importance and must be controlled okay that sounds like you're in line with your drive statement uh so you are able to use a point of determination if you want or uh just roll to d20 and try and get under your combined disciplined truth score okay i think i will not spend any determinant actually that's one thing troy real quick how i i thought you only ever could have like one point of determination but it says you can have up to three how do you earn and you start with one yeah you start with more and more determination so i i've looked into this right before we started because i think you would ask somebody had asked last week and i didn't give a full answer basically when you do an action that uh has a drive statement you look at that's drive statement does your action comply with that drive statement if it does then you are able to use the point of determination uh if you have one if it doesn't comply with the drive statement then you have two choices and both choices will net you a new point of determination one is to uh just go ahead with it anyways even though what you're doing goes against your thing and what happens is succeed or fail you get an automatic complication but you also get a point of determination or you can uh not comply with your drive statement and you have to cross it out and then at the end of the scene you have to write a new drive statement or you can try to recover it through the spending of you know the the in-game things but you gain it you gain it when it comes to like oh this doesn't quite match what i'm doing right now but i still want to do it um it also allows for kind of growth as your character's outlook on the world changes right okay well i may end up spending my point of determination after the results of this die roll so i can roll failures uh but i will just for now i will just roll i'm gonna set this at a difficulty of two okay uh i got two sixes uh which are both successes so that is that is two successes i succeed all right so your eyes are in your head one more time i'm always afraid they're going to get stuck up there all i see is my eyebrows you think back and you're like replaying this it's like watching a film strip you're just see these moments and you remember your confrontation with the uncle real real piece of trash this guy uh no it's not like hidden that he's a troubled character um you know you know that there's there's there's some weirdness there he's got to feel like he this is his house and now it's getting pushed even further away from him uh with the union of the uh dresden and de lessa because their child will put him even one step further away so there's motive there for sure um the duke and the duchess your interactions with them seemed pretty good um you look up and you think about fenton quill and the spacing guild navigator why are they here guild navigators don't just show up they're here on arrakis for a reason why are they connected to this was his mere presence alone creating some sort of energy around the whole event that allowed things to happen unnoticed and then the last thing you remember is dresden kissing the duchess's hand [Music] right could there have been poison on the duchess's hand did your duchess murder dresden right and i'm already a little suspicious of her generally so okay so that's interesting so i think after these cow he makes these calculations and enters his mind palace uh he sort of slyly reaches into one of his multiple layers of robes and pulls out his ixion damper and like sets it on the table turns it on and [Music] he lays out all everything you just said except for the well actually you know what [Music] is the ixian damper the cone of silence thing yeah yeah yeah yeah is this we've been forgotten yes we may speak freely for now until this is taken from me and he just lays it out and i think he mentions too it was just like and your grace not to implicate you of course but the last thing that i witnessed was the young heir kissing your hand before before he started choking of course why didn't i remember that i'm going to look at my hand and click it and there you go uh i want to use my pranabendu conditioning to try and assess if there is any toxin there okay um let's get rolling because this is how we build momentum this is my first role in complications which i like uh all right so skill you know it sucks but it's uh i i would i would argue discipline again here or understand so ladies choice this is definitely part of my discipline like a little cat a disciplined little kitty cat right do you start cleaning yourself certainly uh all right so discipline and then what drive here our faith i think well my statement for justice is i will protect those in my care meaning house that's how i pronounce it and um so because of my specific statement i'm going to say discipline justice discipline justice okay do you have a uh focus and discipline i have command so that doesn't really apply but i think as long as you have the focus correct me if i'm wrong if anyone knows i think as long as you have the focus you're allowed to uh get the bonus which is what is your discipline score seven all right so anything uh a seven or under counts is two i could be wrong about that but i think it's long i think that the focus has to apply to the situation okay all right if that's two versus one then forget what i just said uh and do you have a drive statement for what did you say power or faith uh justice justice i will protect those in my care which is also a seven so uh all right so you're talking or below a success yep and that certainly fits with your drive you're trying to protect your house okay we must protect this house a little bit oh do you want to buy any more dice just went right in yes can i can i give you threat after a little post threat sure sure we're still learning the uh the the flow here what do you want you want to give me uh one threat to buy a single d20 yes what's one threat between friends that'll be telling me i don't know that i uh i won't tell you what happened okay okay excellent so i have a 2 and a 14. so you've got two successes all right i forgot to tell you the difficulty but i was going to keep it at two uh just like aurelius because you are a benefit uh sister and your pranabendu conditioning this is you can do this in your sleep and so you lick you taste you sense you let it flow through you like the water of life and you do not detect even the slightest trace of poison aurelius your theory was a sound one but i detect nothing on my person you would blame your duchess before you blame these outsiders no i am simply stating a fact there is no blame to be laid yet and go up to corn and sort of like lay my head on her neck and just whisper thank you hey listen don't gang up on me yeah but i'm i'm kind of like calling off the dogs not to call you the dogs uh but like the it's all right calm down kind of i do appreciate to calm me down i say hi by my forgiveness your grace i beg your forgiveness your grace you don't need my forgiveness yes of course i i confess that i do not have the mental alacrity of your advisory friend but i fail to see who in this room has the appropriate motive for such a public act of murder if the navigator as aurelius says was here to cloud the minds of those who could perceive affairs and perhaps the harkonnens themselves are in some way complicit in what appears to be some sort of frame job it's possible it seems to be the obvious choice however i put it past them it may be to our advantage to keep our minds open although the hearkenings seem at guilt here but pharaohs we must not eliminate the possibility of those who murder simply for the pleasure of it from where you come perhaps i uh don't say that last part assure you i assure you your grace i i never underestimate one's willingness to do anything for the sake a pleasure what if it's treason within tylor's own house yes it seemed to me that the uh the uncle of the late young master or something of a boar unless i'm very much mistaken mr degrom no absolutely uh horribly rude to me it seems to me his line of succession has just been somewhat more clear yes and perhaps it's uh recency bias and my own personal bias he's speaking but he is as a result my number one suspect at the moment yes dresden would certainly have come under my control and command as we planned however thurman may not have liked that his status as an advisory would be diminished in the binding of these houses [Music] do we think that perhaps the others in employ in house tyler's may have been concerned for their own positions as well i believe there was a swordmaster or many other heads of house yes well their oath of a swordmaster was quite confident in himself that he would gain the rightful position of swordmaster once your union was settled so he welcomed the change you suspect not sure that he welcomed it he didn't seem to care for me very much but he very much believed that he was very secure in his position so i could not care for you corinne [Music] well apparently you should sway me apparently something swayed him because he i guess proposed to me at some point oh had i eaten i would have vomited right over him but you did not consider the proposal i have heard he possesses great looks there's nothing of him that interests me but i don't think that he would have gone to such lengths considering that [Music] i don't think he felt threatened stupid on his part well we have our suspects the next question is what to do with them should we ever escape this prison or will the harkening simply put us all to death and have the matter be done with what do they stand to gain if this had you been able to wed or versus now that's my question with the would they gain any kind of would they have any claim over our jurisdictions just based on our feudal relationship if there was no air yeah so certainly house the new house tylorus would still fall under their jurisdiction uh but by joining house tyloris and house houdin together it kind of would raise your stature uh in the lonstrod and so it it does pose a threat to her the harkonnen uh house harkonnen as well as a lot of the other uh house majors uh around who might be vying for position and the fact that you're on arrakis and gaining power makes you even more dangerous so there's a lot of people that could stand to gain from eliminating you or letting you eliminate yourself i think it's interesting too because i maybe i'm misreading it but i think like i see this as our house being like an old house that has this sort of it's a more old money yeah old money with like with you know with a lot of debt you know but it's like we have this reputation we have most of our cachet is in our reputation where it's like we don't have a lot of like actual physical power whereas like that that too like that would fill in like this weak spot of hours if we did combine with this other house there's a ceiling on how much you can earn with building theaters versus manufacturing beds right and house tyleris primary domain was machinery and so they there was a lot of money coming in there uh those machinery could be used for any number of things on arrakis we're like a24 cinema and they're warner brothers this would have been a good acquisition yeah but uh pharos you were speaking to somebody i overheard you on our communication line i confessed that i had some words with the house accountant just a minor functionary but uh most perceptive gays an artificial gaze if i might say so but i didn't detect in him anything that i would call a motivation for underhanded acts was he of house tyler's as well he was indeed but it is to be assumed to speak plainly that he has some contact with the tilakslu tilaksu to have had such artificial enhancements yes not only uh a conference or engagement with them but a product of them he is a goaler your grace i understand a resurrected man a revenant the type without moral qualms or inhibitions it is said that the tiliksu only allows qualms into that which they created their leisure so it is safe to say that perhaps whatever morals he has are the morals that they have but i don't like to speak of the wretches any more than i have to they agree my gorge rise as much as yours i'm sure horrifying an abomination wretched an affronts to the orange catholic bible unnatural indeed there's a twinkle in my eyes i linger making eye contact with pharaohs just a moment too long knowingly [Music] a big so as you're uh going through all the possible suspects um weighing you know who stands to gain the most from this uh the door opens and the swordmaster of house tylorus dace o'ren enters he gives a uh perfunctory bow to you duchess and a uh sideways smirk at corin she sort of sneers back i think i said he was played by michael b jordan he uh oh if i have any warning at all i'd take the exam dampener tuck it away sure once you hear that door uh start to turn you don't want anybody seeing that uh he comes in and uh he says my lady my new fremen friend [Music] this may be hard for you to believe but i come in peace the harkonnen gods allowed me to pass because they think i am a messenger from duke tylorus but truthfully i come of my own accord the fact that they allowed me in here armed to the teeth with my blade means that they most likely hope that i exact vengeance on you or they are certain that we are no allies is vengeance what you wish it is not your grace do with that info what you will but i'm sure i don't have to tell you that something is amiss you see long before i was a swordmaster serving house tyloris i was a bullfighter and we stand across the ring from a wild beast such as that all you have to go on his instinct even a split-second misreading of its of its of its tiniest movements could mean your death so ever since this betrothal between our houses was made public i have watched you your grace i looked a corn sneakily quickly yes i've watched you from the shadows i know who you are i also know what you are capable of and though i believe you are more than capable of committing an act such as this this is not your doing you have been set up by who i know not but the scales of justice are being forced against you and it is my belief that you will leave here in chains if you leave here at all [Music] then what help can you offer to us what brings you to this room well while it is true i owe no allegiance to you i come here because of the love i bore for that boy he was my charge sometimes i felt as if i was more of a father to him than the duke tylorus could ever be now i know that our houses have always been at odds but that started long before i joined house tylorus and my loyalty lies with dresden so i will see justice done in his name even if it means betraying your own house i would do no such thing for to find out who his murderer was will bring justice to both our houses then our goals are aligned and we are sincerely sorrowful at your loss thank you as i am to you for though you did not know the young man he would have been a great husband and leader of your house it's true we met only briefly but i could see the spark within him yes this was an arrangement made out of what would be advantageous to my house however upon meeting him my desires changed he's very kind or was i can see why you would feel such an affinity towards him but that is done now we must clear the name of our house in order to find the murderer of your charge and we can't do that thinking in circles and wallowing in sadness no we cannot me coming here is as much help as i can offer though without putting myself in danger may we call upon you if the time arises and we find a purpose for your skills and i give them a little up and down eyeing you may and if there's any help i can provide you i will but now you must escape this place with all haste and it will not be easy our conan guards roam the stairwells and the hallways there are nobles even now as we speak in the great salon and the restaurant drinking and dining the night of way because you see your grace the death of a young heir of a house miner and the fall of your insignificant house it does not affect the true nobility life just goes on as normal for them perhaps that's what they want house sudan and house tylorus putting their past behind them to unite would shake things up in ways that would perhaps upset the status quo this harkonnen lackey quill he has sent for the adjudicator if you are still here when they arrive you are lost find a way out of this building and find someplace safe to hide until the truth outs or better yet until you find a way to prove your own innocence before you go please tell us what is the scene outside this door how many harconan archonan guards stand there there are guards too patrolling this floor the stairwell through the hallway and then i would assume another set of guards on the stairway below us you know the layout of this building more than i do but there is the restaurant and the great salon and then of course the lobby which is your only way out in fact let's go to the map he says he carries a map of our building on him he's good so here is a representation of the opera house from where you are one of the ways in which this game works when a conflict arises and you are certainly in a conflict is movement between zones so you are in the holding room and you see the only thing connected to the holding room is a hallway from the hallway you can go either way to lead to a stairwell those stairwells lead down to another stairwell which then individually the one on the left leads to the great salon the one on the right leads to the restaurant the greatest salon and the restaurant are connected but both of them are the only ways to get into the lobby and then outside so where you are in the holding room it's a tricky situation he told you that there are uh two guards uh roaming the the hallway in the stairwell and he said he imagines there are more guards on the stairwells below so now that you've got that information i will add them to the zone map as well so troy how many threat do you want for me to make a secret passage in this room there's not enough threat in the world yeah no this is gonna really be uh our stress test of the mechanics here because as he uh bids you good luck and a dew and hopes to see you on the other side he leaves and now you are left with this situation this is tricky and we're gonna we're gonna kind of figure this out as we go um but i i made that cheat sheet for you all about how conflict works now the situation as it is you've got a lot of options and the way the game works is when it comes to your turn you can do a couple different things you can move and even moving there's different things you can do you can try to move subtly or move boldly and those are high risk high reward situations the other thing you can do is use an asset and using an acid is a very broad term for like what do you want to do here if you come into one of those guards and the guard catches you because you didn't move stealthy stealthily enough the using of an asset might be pulling out your chris knight and stabbing him it might be punching him in the face um it may come to that uh you know the the threat of real violence happening is is very real here and although that might make things even worse for you down the line you understand that that may come to that um and none of our weaponry or shields or anything has been confiscated no point of clarification yeah no i would say you have because you're the only one with a a true weapon right no one else has a oh you have a gomja bar uh yes duchess so there's no way they would have found that but that kris knife i think uh that freman chris knife could have easily been concealed on your person no one knows where i keep my comfort bar no no one asks but the way conflict this is going to be we're going to kind of go through very slowly because there's a lot of different options i mean i sent you a crib sheet that was two pages that was condensed down from about 12 from the book but basically it's not like roll for initiative you guys will get to go first and i can tell you that if you just look out the hallway you would know that every few minutes one guard will move into the hallway and then he'll move back to the stairwell and then the other guard will move into the hallway and then he'll move back into the stairwell you don't know what the guards on the second floor stairwells are doing but it does allow you to decide when you want to act if you're like okay i'm going to act first because you decide amongst yourselves who's going to act first and you can tell me when you want to go like when the guard is in the hallway or when the guard is in the stairwell and if it's a guard in the hallway which guard left guard or right guard now normally if you're just trying to move it's a free action you can do that no problem with this where you are in a very precarious position i'm going to say that movement into the even just the hallway is going to be a difficulty too now another option you can do is to move subtly or move boldly which also is a flat difficulty too but these are the high risk high reward things that i talked about if you want to move subtly you roll a check difficulty two and if you hit it you're allowed to either move one extra space or move one of your other assets forward a zone uh actually maybe i got that wrong i think maybe it's you can move one of your enemies a zone or one of your assets another zone and then or where's that move boldly i'm already messing it up let me get my cheat sheet here i'm impressed by the effort i know i almost got it okay move subtly if you pass then you can move your asset oh and reduce the cost to keep the initiative to zero so this is another uh another bit of the the game here is like say uh corrin wants to be the first to act and she is going to stealthily move out into the hallway when you're done your turn it now goes to my guards and that guard could then immediately move into the hallway and confront you if you didn't do something to create an asset to hide yourself or something but if you want you can give me to uh you can use two momentum or give me two threat to keep the initiative so that one of your allies can now act or you can go again but your next check is at a plus one difficulty so move subtly allows you to move and also keep the initiative at a without spending momentum or giving threat if you move boldly you provoke a hasty response from your opponent if you pass you get to move your asset and then you get to you get to move your asset or yourself basically and you can move another asset so for example if corrin wanted to move boldly into the hallway and you hallway and you succeed you could send one of those other guards further down the stairwell so that you could get your friends away if you move boldly now i said high risk high reward because if you fail to do either subtly or bold movement you uh your enemy can move one zone for free and you cannot keep the initiative so that's that's very high risk because they could then close on you if they're only a zone away and you have no chance of being able to immediately act again and then in terms of using an asset if you take that action one thing you can do is just like take your turn i'm going to think i want to gain information here what's the role roll a thing to gain information or you can remove a trait from a scene all these different zones are going to have their own traits which you'll soon find out i overcome an obstacle there's just a million things you can do so the best way that i think we can move forward is like tell me what you want to do describe it dramatically and then i'll come up with a role for it [Music] i kind of have an idea guys let me know what you think if if this is if this sounds good as far as a strategy goes uh we do know that there is they're they're taking turns each coming into that hallway like taking rounds yes yep so if we time it out to where let's say for example the guard on our on the right of the map comes in if i were to very stealthily be out in the hallway and just try to off him without making a sound and drag him back into the stairwell that other guard will keep on his watch like nothing's happening right and maybe we can move just don't make too big of a blood splatter yeah yes are they checking in with each other when they trade or is this purely so well timed so well coordinated that they know yeah no they might wave to each other but i would say the for ease of drama the hallway and the stairwell is far for far enough away that unless you get a complication they probably can't hear a murder go down but like no communication system no no no that's the beauty of this low-tech uh universe yeah they don't really have that what do you think [Music] uh i i bore violence and i think that may be a risk to our future case if we were trying to try to exonerate ourselves but they would be able are they are we able to negotiate with them i don't know where we are able to at this point anymore as the arbiter is coming to presume our innocence or guilt and the murder of a young man i don't think killing the guards would reflect well should we not escape successfully although i know your prowess with a chris knife is impeccable pharos perhaps um perhaps if someone could slip by create some sort of diversion might ease your passage through the halls a uh mortal our bitumen such as our friend corrin suggests could be avoided is there someone we can call upon to create the version since there is no one close at hand on whom to call i volunteer myself [Music] yes that seems possible perhaps if they were to think you are amongst their ranks i also might use a trick of my own i don't say this to the group but i have the benny jesuit voice as one of my talents which i have in my back pocket should we need to try and command them the dumber they are the better it will work i like this [Music] yeah it's very tricky the way it's laid out here in terms of the movement of zones because you've got the other guards on that bottom stairwell so it's a it's a puzzle that i'm really excited to see how you're going to figure out yeah yeah you go you you get by one you've got another waiting for you okay so while corrin always wakes up choosing violence uh i think for now will not for the for the sake of of her lady corn your bloodlust is one of the finest qualities about you but perhaps we use that as a last resort in this particular case agreed but we will get you out of here and let's jump into it right after this quick break now we'll jump into it so who wants to go first we're going to go through this really slow i'm not going to pull any fast ones on you unless i start spinning threat uh but who wants to go first and in what position do you want these guards if they're doing a very methodical back and forth quick rules question uh remind me if this is correct we will gain momentum if we roll more successes than needed right so uh the difficulty two if you roll three successes you gain one momentum rule five successes you gain three momentum uh and then momentum can be spent to do any number of things obviously buying dice is what we've done so far you can also create a trait change a trait that's in the scene if a stairwell is dark you can make it well lit i don't know why you want to do that you're trying to sneak out you can also use momentum to obtain information uh and you can spend that like if i give you a little bit of info you'll be like i want to give you another point of momentum to find a little bit more and if you don't think what i say is satisfactory you get the momentum back yeah i think kind of the sense i get is that 50 50 when you earn momentum you spend it right away or you hold on to it it's like it's half the time you spend it immediately after rolling it and then half time you hold on to it for later yeah generally yeah and remember the creation of assets and assets is a very broad term they can be tangible like i pull out a blade from my belt or it can be an intangibles like i know that god's wife is sleeping with the town fish manga right so what are you thinking okay i mean i i want to send pharaohs first i'm just going to go for it here's some intelligence though that pharaohs would definitely like does does pharos know the direction that um uh what what is the name of the uh tylor swordmaster again daiso ren what does he know the direction down the hall that daiso wren peeled off when he exited for sure you could uh you could look to aurelius and aurelius recorded it in his head and he turned uh to the uh left so it'd be right [Music] um great uh so turned left so i um so i will attempt to time my exit uh and for a moment that the hallway is clear for the moment that the hallway is kind of clear of uh guards okay and turn to the right okay and will you be just doing a regular move or do you want to move subtly or do you want to move boldly i am going to regularly move but there will be a slight hiccup and here so you just stop me if you're like uh if if it's rolling time but if i so pharaohs is like of course you're great and um and then after and uh after he's like to the left thank you master de gram um wait for me for about a moment and then hastily make your uh if i might suggest your grace to go down the way our friend just departed i exit the door and shut it behind me and in this empty liminal space of this of this hallway like if you just focus up on on on pharos's hand on the doorknob suddenly the whole hue of the hand changes and as then as you look up like you just see bones like knitting and reshaping as like eyes drift out and back and hair is changing the whole beard is like being sucked up into the flesh of the face and it is if it is disturbing and odd as like just the planes of the shape of the face shift and change into a less human and then more human shape as uh pharaohs is now that same swordmaster who left departing the other way down the stairwell wow amazing okay brilliant so i'm actually not gonna let make you uh roll the the uh the the difficulty two move check uh because they this other guy wouldn't have known that you uh went down the other hallway um okay so you uh you should have the ability to move your piece but i will move it uh right into the hallway okay right there uh great okay uh you know what go ahead and give yourself a point of momentum as well just because that was so cool uh awesome sweet now the question is what do you want to do here do you want to keep the initiative which will cost uh you don't have the the momentum to buy it so you'd have to give me two thread or do you want to let one of these guards step into the hallway uh on his turn and see the swordmaster oh my uh so that's a big chance because if it's the one that where this guy just walked past them that's a problem i i want to make sure that i only engage with the ones who didn't see him leave uh with i want to i would say you could time it to know that like the next one that's coming in there is the one that didn't see him leave because aurelius told you which way he went you're watching watching watching and you made your move great in that case in that case i won't i i'll i'll be cagey with with the threat and just be here to to take my next move on on the turn without so and so i'm i guess i'm seeding the initiative back to you yes and i will take it uh i will tell you the traits of the hallway are bright and quiet if that is anything that means anything to you uh and sure enough uh a harkonnen guard slides up and looks at you what are you doing here just uh and [Music] you know the face turns to him i was like am i not allowed to relay messages from my master to the prisoners oh my apologies and i gave a huge sarcastic bow to this uh um to this uh a guard it's like i'll go i'll go your majesty and just uh and then back down the stairwell okay and uh he looks down at your uh much more impressive blade uh oh and i should say that this doesn't change my attire it would just be my face so i'm just doing okay so you don't need to have to play neutral stuff so he just looks at your uh overwhelming presence and uh yeah that's right get out of here may we be listening at the door to this exchange and hearing the guard's voice totally absolutely um and this is an interesting position for you now because he is staying in that hallway waiting for pharaohs to go but it's not ferris's turn it's one of your turns kill him corinne caleb i know what my my sweet corn would do in this position and to uh limit her ability to spill blood preemptively i will use this moment i will absorb the voice i have heard and i do pick up i imagine on what pharaohs has taken on his visage um and i want to take that voice in interpret it understand the ways in which i could manipulate my own vocal cords to undermine this person that responds in this gruff aggressive way and i want to open the door and command him to restrain the other guard in the other stairwell [Music] that god okay this sounds like communicate yes yes and what drive do you want to use here [Music] you know this really feels like power not only am i using the power that i was taught by the bini jesuit conditioning but i am using that and in my own mind it is justifying why the benny jesuit deserve this power because my statement is the bini jesuit will control the imperium okay do you have uh a discipline that excuse me a focus that fits for communique uh in communicate i have inspiration but under discipline i specifically have command so i think you all right so yeah you can make an argument for discipline so you want to go with discipline power discipline power okay also in the voice as a talent uh it says when i can observe someone for a short while uh they can hear me speak when i use the voice i can add one two or three points to threat to score the same number of automatic successes wow now you may want to do that it does say on any communicate test made to influence your chosen target so i feel like i chose my focus poorly uh well no it's okay if you want to switch back to communicate that was the one that i originally suggested so you get to use that power um but maybe it's not as high a score for you uh and you won't get that uh automatic success for rolling under your communicate because your discipline doesn't excuse me your focus doesn't quite fit what we're doing here it's up to you well i do also i have my advisor skill so i can give her advice in a in a communicate test and she would be able to re-roll a die after the fact um well here's what i'm going to lay out for you i'm going to say this is because this is so much hinges on the success of this test uh this is a difficulty three test and i'm going to add two threat to make it difficulty for okay okay so we only have one momentum yeah and now i'm down to three threat after spending now that two okay so i would like to because i'm going to need four so i have to i would like to um spin that momentum to get an extra die so i'm rolling three dice uh can you is it one for one yes great all right so now it's zero momentum three threat and you have three dice and then i would like to use the ability of the voice to get automatic successes uh i want help from the team it's one for one to give you threat which is a better um a better one-to-one here than just buying more dice maybe i buy two successes and then on these three dice i have to roll two more successes so they're for the with the with the voice their free successes they don't turn a die into a success correct okay and you also where you have a drive statement you could use a point of determination as well to have an automatic critical which is two successes oh but then i don't get to roll anything and i like to leave it a chance i want to make that chance slimmer let me just read what this specific thing so you can tell me if it means the die is automatically a success when you use the voice you may add one two or three points to threat to score the same number of automatic successes on any communicate test so it doesn't say i think that means that you're basically you're you're the dies that you roll are automatic successes so it doesn't you still you lose those die in automatic successes interesting okay and you're saying i can spend a determination to make one of them a crit basically encounters two right okay i will spend my determination to make a crit i will uh spend a give you one threat to make another one a success and then i'm gonna roll one because rolling dice is fun let's see what happens what's your number you're trying to hit so we chose communicate and power together that's sixteen so i need one to sixteen one to sixteen and if here we go one you'll get you'll gain a point of momentum yeah [Music] it's a nat 20. oh i was just going to see that i didn't want to jinx you but i was about to say if it's a nat 20 complication but skin wait so i'm gonna use i'm so sorry i'm gonna use my advisor talent right now this is your grace these people are these people are brutes this is like they they do not understand refinement they only understand force so you get to reroll that 20. that's awesome thank god okay okay um cool power yeah yeah the powers in this game are great yeah here we go here we go here we go come on low [Laughter] [Music] there's a frog in my throat okay and it comes out croaking basically because you didn't roll a complication it just fails um but it sucks because you lose he's created an opportunity for here for you here and you've now lost that opportunity so maybe uh the way it plays out is you open the door and you say that and the guy's like what and turns around and and nothing happens but now if you guys don't seize the initiative that other guard is going to come in to where ferris is standing we pay two momentum or we pay give you two threats to season two threat yeah so i'll be up to sixth right i think we do it right i think i turned to corn and i say now showtime non-lethal non-lethal i say now spare him if you can all right so you see corrin just has her hand on her knife her eyes are closed and you see this like little flashback moment of corrin as a young child and you see this like it's a very slow-motion montage of like sand blowing across the desert and then she's like uh this little girl you see with like a circle of benny jesuit sisters and they uh you hear their voices say to her in times of uncertainty let your faith guide you and so she is using her faith to and she calmly collects herself she opens her eyes takes her sword out ready for whatever is going to come and enters the room and enters the room stealthfully uh yes so let me see here uh you progress your passion move your asset and then move it trying to think can you move in and attack in the same round i want you to be able to i don't see why you can't i'm gonna say you can't so you're going to slide in there and you're going to attack uh so this guy is basically i'm going to roll to see how many successes you're going to need he's going to try and defend himself you know if we're going if we're going balls to the walls all out i'm gonna do i'm not gonna go stealth i'm gonna go battle and faith battle in faith okay yeah i like this because he's turning around what was that sound and you realize uh the duchess that you failed you give her the knot and she just you don't even have to leave the room you just slide the knife out uh oh two successes so you that he sets the difficulty because he's like quickly trying to defend himself do you defeat him i will say this if you roll a natural 20 you will accidentally kill him if you roll anything less you'll just uh knock him up okay and so it's rolling two d20s yep you start with two and then what else do you want to do you could use the point of determination if you haven't used yours yet like somebody used one there i used mine because that would be an automatic success for you um but so we're rolling two yep now what is your uh what number are you trying to hit here okay so because i'm using uh my faith faith is a seven and battle is an eight okay and what is your faith drive statement my faith i'll say i have to pull it up here it says my faith gives me certainty where others might doubt my faith gives me certainty where others might down does it fit here because she put a lot like she was ready to go and then wanted because her duchess was like no let me handle this first which is against everything that she stands for she had to kind of like put her belief that whatever this is her faith will get her through it i love it okay and what is your uh focus in battle long blades long blitz and that's what you're using yes okay and what is your battle score uh an eight all right so anything under an eight counts as two successes where you have that focus roll away okay big roll here this could get messy i rolled a seven and a three oh my god all right so that's four successes you gained two points of momentum yes awesome you can bank that momentum or you can spend it right now to uh create a trait change a trait create an asset in the scene this is where the game starts getting crazy okay okay because we still have we we still have uh um we're not all out yet no our mentat is still is still inside the room have i restrained him because we we went for a non-lethal yes yeah i'd say you came out and maybe you hit him with the the dull edge of the blade and you just hit him right on the side of the head and yeah knock him down knock him out sweet okay you see the swordmaster standing there yeah daiso wren is uh standing just of just a few feet away with a shocked expression and different clothes just like and i are you ready to help us the help i have offers already been given my lady that's certainly one way to make good your escape and i sweep away down the stairs if i can yeah you will when it comes back to you i'll do that in time so i definitely did not know who that like did not recognize very confused okay uh so i i kind of um motion so it's still our initiative it is but now it's going to be theirs because i believe you guys already kept the initiative once oh okay yes okay so now things will get a little bit interesting because very simply put the other guard steps in notices one guard down sees the swordmaster that he just let walk by sees de lessa standing in the doorway of excuse me sees coran standing in the doorway holding the flat end of her blade over this collapsed body is like what's going on here and now it is aurelius's turn okay well i still have one asset that i haven't used yet i pull out my ornithopter i climb into it and i ram him and you unfold it and fly away uh okay collapsible could it be on the roof yeah well actually that was what i was gonna say if we if we yeah either way like if we do get outside either like out front or the roof or wherever then i would that's i would think of a way to like summon the ornithopter and that would we could make her escape that way theoretically if i had an asset now could i make it like rooftop access uh it's a little bit trickier uh you pretty much have to get your way to the street if you can get your way to the street you're safe okay yeah i would imagine that they've locked down all these uh these top floors as they're trying to uh figure out what happened here it's a murder scene okay well okay so uh aurelius is going to step out and he sees the the new guard approaching and he says i understand that this must seem very confusing to you but please let me try to explain and i'm going to try to buy time for uh for someone to kill him all right well here's what i'll say uh i'm going to make a difficult e3 check for you and if you succeed i'll let you keep the initiative for free okay because if you fail he's going to attack either pharos or corrin okay all right so i'm going to there's gonna be a communicate test okay i'm gonna use my diplomacy focus and i guess the drive i would maybe power like i'm trying to use my abilities to kind of control what he's doing it's your greatest power is your ability to think and talk so i like power i would also think duty works but but power is good here uh and you have a focus of diplomacy and communicate so anything under your communicate is two scores you start with 2d20 is that what you want you want to burn some determination what do you want to do oh man i'm i'm tempted no i'm just gonna roll okay let's go roll okay so yeah i'm gonna say no please you see what happened was this poor man fell ill and we were only trying to help him this is how nice we are and okay uh oh okay uh i got a 15 uh and a three so i got one crit so that's two successes two successes uh you pass i will put you uh uh out there actually uh yeah that's fine you uh you are now able to act again and because all of you have acted you can decide who takes the action here um do i try the voice again i don't know what to tell them to do uh more than anything but but it only lasts like the trance that you put them under only lasts for like a certain amount of time right so it's a brief thing it's not specified but they do something that they think just going off of you know lore they do something that they think was their idea so it's really just getting them to do the task and then the task is done but maybe yeah well this is my this was my plan that i was initially going to suggest and the less i actually did something very close to this i was going to say use the voice on the guard and say go ask the other guard if he wants to make out now there are three possible outcomes of that he goes down there and says hey do you want to make out and the other guy is like what the [ __ ] are you talking about it's super awkward that buys us plenty of time uh or uh well i guess who outcomes or they start making out and then we have unlimited time and then there's no violence like it's very dude i will again reach within the depths of what i've now accumulated in knowledge about this new guard and i would like to say seduce the downstairs guard i hope it works honestly that would give us more time i really just hope it works for for their sakes it sounds like a great time yeah this is a win-win situation we're just helping we're moving things forward in favor it's weird yeah invite me to the wedding later uh and you know i'm giving him free reign to choose left or right whichever he's more attracted to i'm using my focus of matchmaker too uh that's gonna be communicate and power right that's what we used last time yes uh all right and your communicate focus won't hit but you can use your your other power if you want um i'm going to say uh i'm gonna say three successes again but i'm not gonna use threat to make it for okay uh what do you all think i should do with my one for one give him threat for successes um i only have two dice currently and we need three successes so i guess i do need to spend one momentum for a third die yeah we do have two momentum sitting there so yeah go for it yeah i'd buy i just buy a third third die like he already has six threat that's that's like that's a lot of threats so okay so no threat i will just roll these three dice and they will all be below 16. absolutely okay and what did you do to get the third die uh spent one momentum ah okay perfect uh see now you guys are out of momentum uh oh no i only spent one okay great so you have one momentum left sixth threat uh let's see what happens four three and fourteen you had to have rolled under a focus there right yeah that twice yeah so i think communication does your communicate have a focus that's relevant inspiration uh i think actually this uh more so than the fighting the other guard i'm giving them the inspiration to fall in love you know what i like it and you guys desperately need some momentum that would be uh so two were below yeah so five successes so you'll generate two points of momentum nice you got three now awesome three moments made up for my previous use of the voice all right now here's the thing you can spend two momentum or give two threat to now be able to move as well because you guys are doing all this from the open door of the holding room farrows is the only one that's been able to move out um so it's up to you if you want to spend two momentum to take this opportunity to move out here or give two threat to move out or whatever you want to do i don't think it's you tell me if i'm wrong i don't think you guys want to spend anything to keep the initiative here i think you probably want to let this guy start making his move so that's my intention he's going to start going down uh to the stairwell um but it's up to you if you want to spend two momentum or give two threat to also move into the hallway de lessa oh um okay so just looking at these uh quick notes you gave us on our turn we can move ourselves but we've already taken the asset right you've done your action which was the voice but if you want will you let us i'll let you move but it costs two momentum or two threat got it but we can move as a group sure okay let's get you out into the hallway let's spin the momentum yeah okay okay all right so i'm going to say with that one momentum spent i'm just going to get you guys all in the hallway here because you've you've made a big move here and in fact that will move things forward in time where this guard is now and yeah hey what ah well maybe i do uh you can hear that echoing up the stairs it's happening off stage i want to follow those guys that's what the second half of this adventure is that jared runs it's their love affair uh tell me what the plan is here now okay you've you've created your you've created a situation where you've eliminated one guard and sent another guard down it won't be long before he comes to his senses it's like i don't want to do this uh are you do you want to go down there where they're arguing or you want to go there in the direction of there just being one guard hmm i was thinking it's tricky because if they're making out yeah yeah we don't want to i think that because it's riskier and i like it it is riskier i was going to say it i i think it might make more sense to go to the what where because then we only have one guard to deal with on the other stairwell and we can figure out a way to do that uh or yeah or we can hope that they're suitably distracted and just move past them on the other side maybe let the positive goodwill we've created in the universe by making these two potentially find love just be enough for us and we don't need to follow them i'm down if you want to go the other way i'm with you aurelius you are my advisor i mean i'd love to i'd love to see it more than anyone i mean i'm just thinking of you all welfare you just hear a lot of yelling well no maybe but it's not going that well i don't think it's going that way hearing it's not going well i'm just gonna start going towards the the less occupied downstairs stairwell uh and then hope that me being a leader will cause them all to follow okay forgive me if this is being met meta-e but in pharos's kind of strategy that kicked this off was that he would try to create some sort of uh chaos on the on the in the in the west of the building to draw attention away from the east thus allowing uh uh the rest of the crew to move through and also i know that the that my current form is a known quantity on the side that we're attempting to um uh leave now so not to be johnny splits the party but i but pharaohs might might go down the other way past past the makeout patrol well you could make it though you could you could totally do that on your own and make it by unscathed in your current form so i think that's the ideas i'll try to i'll try to reconnect with you i like it we'll meet in the lobby we'll meet in the lobby your lead let you go first uh as a as a distraction of sorts yeah i mean i it's it's tricky right because the this commotion in the stairwell provides an opportunity uh for pharaohs to probably go by unnoticed but the three of you may be like wait what's going on here and the voice could run off run out and now you've got to deal with two guards there's something interesting about pharaoh's trying to get out on his own uh and the three of you dealing with that one guard depending on how you want to move if you want to attack but it's up to you guys yeah the party yeah let's explain it go wrong number one rule always put the party let's do it let's say this is a new round then um because everyone else has been handled so move or use an asset who wants to go first are you then going to keep the initiative talk me through this uh i think i would move towards that stairwell just to catch what if there's any danger i'm the first to catch it okay so you can move for free into that stairwell or you could move boldly to try and attract the attention of the uh of the uh the guy at the bottom of the stairs or push him into the restaurant if you succeed because if you succeed on moving boldly you can either draw him one thing to you or push him away further into the restroom hmm what do you think guys uh boldly bold now if you fail you cannot keep the initiative and one enemy moves towards you let's do it boldly moving boldly that's going to be difficulty two and you know what i'll spend a threat to make it difficulty three oh okay we did give you all that threat this time so that is going to be a move action excuse me move skill and you tell me what drive you like for this i feel like it is my duty to protect the party and get us out of here that's right so let's let's go with uh let's go with duty as a sharp blade okay uh yeah it may come to that for you so what is do you have a focus and move in move yeah i do not okay so oh wait i do it's uh stealth oh okay yeah you're doing so cause i want to hear if this succeeds how you're getting this guy to either move towards you or move away from you so i'll allow stealth and what is your move score my move scores a six all right so six or under is two successes and you have two d20 are you happy with that yes wait don't you have to get three she does oh wait she's like i have to get three successes yeah i burned a threat to make it three different cultures uh but we have another moment or we have we do two now where are we on momentum we have two i think you have two moments yeah yeah just about one to keep the initiative spend one yeah yeah yeah yeah don't be afraid to spend it um you guys just need to start generating more of it yeah yeah okay i'll i'll spend it you can generate it by spending it which is fine right yes i think that's what i'm going to do you got to spend with me and make momentum babies right that's the process let's rule the game all right uh all right three successes what you need you're rolling three d20s anything under a six counts twice okay i rolled a two an eight and an 11. okay that is four six successes so you succeed you gain that momentum back immediately yes now tell me what you want to do if you want to draw him towards you or if you want to push him into the restaurant and explain to me how you're doing this so if i put because we're we're eventually trying to get into the restaurant and out the lobby if we are going this way correct right and what you know from what daiso wren told you uh the they've just gone back all the nobles are in there dining and eating and they've just like oh oh those petty minor houses and them and their murders good riddance and so they're all sitting in there you push the guard in there you know you're gonna have to deal with that anyways but it's a totally different scene than sneaking down a stairwell i push i almost you think push because i think might more like draw him to me take him out and hopefully escape through the restaurant just like whistling yeah i think act casual we haven't killed anyone yet we're still innocent in terms of okay draw him in but try to knock him out all right well here's the thing where you already used your action what you can try to do is spend two momentum or give two threat to keep the initiative so someone else can deal with it but you've already spent your action i don't know if you can spend momentum to immediately go again yeah i don't think i can but uh so so your action is to bring him in and then we do something to deal with him yes because i feel like causing a commotion in the restaurant might be a bad idea another thing you can do though it could be really funny it could be really funny it could be funny maybe the dice decides another thing you can do is create a trait or an asset with your momentum which is you know i don't know what you do here it's like create a grab a blanket and cover yourself you don't want to see it you know but there's the idea of manipulating the lights yeah the uh the traits of the stairwells are poorly wet lit and winding oh oh skid you were thinking something i was thinking like if we get maybe there we could buy a trait in the hallway or a trade or an asset where it's like the controls for the lights of the restaurant are in the stairway so we can turn them out and then make our escape in the darkness i love it great okay okay uh that'll be uh two momentum or two threat um to cre say at the bottom of the stairs is a way to control the lighting in the restaurant yeah kind of a breaker switch switch box or something i like it it's an asset of quality zero uh what do you want to do momentum or thread i think you have two momentum right we've got three you got three all right yeah so oh wait no no we have two uh i think we spin them i love that idea yeah let's go forward okay great all right so you're down to uh no momentum and uh x amount of threat i can't remember uh but [Music] that is very very smart here no point in uh keeping the initiative i don't think this guy comes up though and seize corn i think we had five threat now because you spent one to make that role more difficult producer if you know please put it in the skype chat uh five thread five thread okay great uh so let's see here so this guy gets pulled in and sees you and it's like okay now it would be his turn to act unless you guys want to spend more money more give more threat to try and take the initiative or do you want to just let corin take it i'll fight him let's see should we see what he does and then react instead of keep giving troy threat yeah yeah let's see yeah yeah i feel like you might learn corn is handy in a fight yeah let's start throwing chum under the water and uh yeah let me ask you this corn what did you do to draw him up the stairs what was your like narrative thing like hey hey [Music] uh i think what i would have done is taken the edge of my chris knife and scrape it across the wall oh well you have to draw blood now but he hears the sound of the scraping just just a few feet up those stairs and it's too close to be the hallway where he came from so peculiar so you should go check it out yeah he looks up the winding staircase and because of the way it winds he can't see but he's like the hell is that he draws his dagger uh and starts walking up and then he sees you standing there in this dimly lit top of the stairwell said how did you get out you're supposed to be in there maybe he even looks down the hallway and sees your companions and says oh oh you're as good to me dead is alive and he goes to try and stab you and he gets two successes so because you are a major character this isn't enough to defeat you however with his quality zero knife that adds zero to his two successes this is two successes that go towards an extended task of trying to take you out what is your battle score my battle score is an eight okay so he has to score eight successes to successfully defeat you which he could do throughout the course of this if you don't take him out but he has struck you and now you're in a fight okay de lessa aurelius or faros who would like to go i have an idea oh go i would like to step up behind him and use my final talent a mask of power i can intimate that i know more than you than i do about my enemy's secrets and i would like to say move again and the hearkenings will find your betrayal and they will execute you i want to get him to freeze where he is and then i'm going to instruct him to set down his knife and count to a thousand okay okay this would allow you plenty of time to either take him out or just walk right past him if you succeed on this check uh it'll it'll effectively take him out long enough for you to all descend the stairwell so we got to make it a tough check right what are we using here is this command uh discipline or communicate oh this is command this is command all right so you're using your your your inner willpower your strength to uh channel this into this guy to tell him to drop his weapon uh duty power power right well um i'm not using a benny jesuit conditioning skill i'm just using my my powers of negotiation and this like uh uh pretending i have blackmail when i don't so i think it's truth because my statement is the purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth i like that i like that a lot um okay so discipline and truth and discipline has the focus of command what's your discipline score seven okay i'm only going to make a difficulty three um if you roll under seven those are two successes this is a great chance to not only succeed but to gain some momentum okay so i'm i i would like to give him one more threat to roll with three dice if you all are okay with that i need to roll a 13 or below okay but anything below a seven is going to be double okay so giving one threat give it one try 3d 20. let's see what we get got it okay we have a four so that's two successes a 10 which is just a regular success and a 13 which is just on the line so four successes wow i needed three we gained one momentum nice huge huge great and so corn this guy comes up stabs at you hits you um but you're tough uh and then she says something and he just freezes and drops the knife well he freezes and drops the knife but not only have i been hit but my blade has been drawn oh no yes i'm taking his life going no i think that's pretty clear uh it's not even your turn but i want to see i want to see this go down roll uh battle or whatever you want to use here to end uh yeah it would be battle uh battle and power battle and power yeah it's too late he's just staring at you i rolled a three and a four oh so four successes and i mean you just you end his life awesome just like decapitate him the head rolls down the stairs and you gain two momentum man as he falls you see me standing behind where he was having just whispered in his ear and i look very disappointed and as like there's still blood on it i'll sheath my knife with blood still all over it yeah uh pharaohs and aurelius you still have yet to go uh obviously there are those two guys still arguing but you have a clear stairwell now um leading to the restaurant uh ferris would still like to go down the stairwell where they're arguing but i will move stealthily okay that is a difficulty two uh do you have a focus and move i don't okay uh then you just roll move and what uh drive do you like here um i am again i i'm good duty i'm trying to trying to get people out so this is this is i'm putting myself at risk to uh for the good of the of the many so do you have a drive statement i don't so i don't have a drive statement and i don't have a focus statement in this all right what is your total you're trying to roll under 11. okay you need two successes to move subtly all right here we go um if i don't have a statement in that focus do if i roll under it is it still a crit no okay no you have to have a focus and a skill for it to be i rolled two successes a nine and a four okay so not only do you move into that empty stairwell but you get to keep the initiative for free to either attempt another check at a plus one difficulty or allow aurelius to go um i will uh i will allow aurelius to go okay and i will just say because of the situation here because of the way that you've manipulated these guards taken some out knocks them out all three of you can act on aurelius's turn if your plan is to just move down there it's kind of like a group action before we head down like as an action would i be able to because we did knock one unconscious yes would i be able to and he was carrying a knife i wanted to wet his blade with the blood from my knife and kind of set him near the other guard that was dead to make it look like he did it okay um love that then you know what we're gonna do is we're gonna make that an action for you and really the whole point of it is it's just gonna keep you a little bit behind your party okay i'm gonna keep moving with aurelius as i don't say anything but uh cory knows i didn't want to spill blood this day okay aurelius what are you thinking here aurelius he comes into the hallway and sees what's happening oh oh how horrid yeah he's just he's thinking it's just like a bear he can't control himself one bit this puts us behind the eighth ball and he is going to lead the way down the rest of the stairs he knows where this switchbox and that's his intention he's going to go down leading his duchess and then once corn catches up and he's going to turn up the lights okay great you know while while you're still in this conflict i'm playing a little fast and loose with the timing of these things here because you've eliminated your immediate uh sort of obstacles going into the restaurant dealing with these two guards in the stairwell going into the great salon and then of course the lobby those are going to have their own uh problems so let's go back to pharaoh's then pharos what is your move here as you move into the stairwell you hear arguing uh echoing up the winding staircase great uh yeah i continue to move uh subtly down into the stairwell okay give me a uh difficulty two move check okay and i failed both oh no failed both okay but i didn't i didn't critically fail but yeah okay the only uh major issue with that is that you cannot keep the initiative and so i'll say the what results from that is that the voice power wears off okay and that guy is like i'm sorry i don't want to kiss you well i do but it has nothing to do with the i will talk later and now it comes back to either corin or raelius or de lessa i'm i'm searched or did that also mean i didn't effectively move so i'm now not in that stair the the next level of the stairwell with them uh that's an excellent question uh if you fail your means you cannot spend momentum on additional movement no i think you can still move into there okay doesn't it mean that you you succeed with a complication basically like even if you basically like one enemy gets to move and you can't keep the initiative so i substituted the enemy moving for the voice being dropped out of him and now he's touching his senses okay um but i'm now in that room with you you can then move into the stairwell and they are uh still kind of bickering but they look at you and like why haven't you gone yet did you change your clothes i it seems as though you both could afford such a luxury am i being detained for slipping into something more comfortable this is an interesting pickle here uh corin aurelius and de lessa corrin you decided to go back to uh pin the murder on the other guard here so you're a little bit behind and uh i'm gonna make you pay for it by having to catch up in initiative order uh do you want to go first or the lesser i guess the lesson aurelius are waiting for you yeah yeah i don't i don't know that we are i think that we're trying to flip the lights in the restaurant i know that aurelius said that he was going to wait for me oh sorry i don't know but if you change your mind let me know no no i missed that cool okay yeah so what i want to do corn is i really just want to see how fast you can get down there and if it causes any problems or if you're able to generate momentum for your team all right can i just sprint down there yeah i'll count it as a move boldly but the bonus i'm going to give you is if you succeed you can move all the way down to them and catch up in one turn okay uh so make that a difficulty two check but you know what i'll spend a threat and make it difficulty three there's blood all over the stairs you might slip and fall yeah she's done this before she can handle it quickly um so i'm gonna use my i guess am i using a skill focus in this um yeah you're gonna use move and then i don't know duty seems right but you can talk me into something else uh i think duty seems right it's not my highest but it does seem right so i want to go with that um those are both sixes okay i want to make an argument for your power because your statement power attracts those who are corruptable am i being corrupted i might be being corrupted the power that these guards had is what corrupted them to kill each other um it's a stretch i'm wondering if like i'm seeing our you know our need for survival right now is higher than anything and if this is like to solidify the power of house huda then uh maybe maybe drawing blood and getting that sense of power is making me a little power hungry a little bit corruptible okay so let's let's play around the mechanics here and i'll say that it what you're doing kind of goes against who you are and so do you want to comply with your drive gain a point of determination and get a complication or do you want to change your world view and uh deal with the crossing out this drive and changing it later both will net you a point of determination but in this moment in this desperate moment something about you is is changing i i'm feeling the power the the the sense of uh agency here so yeah maybe i'll have to change it okay fine yeah good cross out that drive gain a point of determination which will certainly help you i don't know if you want to spend it here or not but you need three successes and if you succeed it'll be enough to get you downstairs to your friends okay so then am i rolling two dice then two dice uh and you have a a focus and move of stealth but you might wanna you might wanna buy another it's up to you yeah well let's do it okay spend the momentum buy a die you've got 3d 20. okay oh okay i rolled a five and then two 17s okay so the five netted you two successes but unfortunately that's not enough so why don't you spend determination and reroll the 217. yes you can do that yes let me do that i can roll re-roll both of them or just one both uh determination re-roll any or all dice okay oh dang uh i rolled a one and a 14. oh hell yeah oh beautiful it was the 14 to success as well i believe so it yes okay and you gain one point of momentum so you get the momentum that you spent back and now you're in that bottom stairwell with aurelius and de lessa aurelius you're standing right near that fuse box you see corn come down what do you do the minute i see her and i suspect are you prepared your grace flip it turn the lights off and you just hear glasses shattered as lights go out in the room ahead of you the restaurant can we also flip them for the great salon oh well that sounds a little greedy i think you would know the way that this was built farrows is near the light switch for a great solution of course so i think that is maybe what i would like to do okay now those guys are right there watching you of course how do you want to try and pull this off um so maybe if if this is the timing is working uh it's the like am i being insane just for uh slipping into something more comfortable screams like i'm sorry gentlemen sounds like duty is calling and uh seeing if they if they react to the to the screams coming from uh coming from the other side of the building yeah the restaurant sounds they're coming all the way in uh assuming they're coming through the salon yep what uh what do you want to try and do here to shut off these lights i'd like to actually shut them off but i think i might like to do it out of sight of them so i think first i'd like to convince them to go to to to move out of this room maybe towards the now dark restaurant okay that's going to be communicate and whatever drive you like power truth great i um communicate for sure and uh a truth uh belief is a lever truth is a weapon um what they believe is the lever i am pushing okay [Music] great here we go and uh i'm i'm going to be using my hidden motives here also so if they fail this understand or communicate test i get to create a trait in them okay communicate six truth seven [Music] that is two successes nice okay that is enough and what i'll do is i'll say instead of them rolling against it uh that you are able to create the trait that you want to create in them great uh the trait that immediately is that i am harmless okay and if you're harmless they're not paying attention to you what do you say to them to try and make them leave sounds like judy is calling gentlemen uh all right so one of the guys looks the other guy is like you go i'll make sure everything's fine upstairs so one guy moves up towards the stairwell one guy moves into the great salon and i don't know if this is like getting into initiative cheating but then i throw the lights on the salon that's fine i'm going to say that the trait that you are the asset you created before created a duplicate asset on this side and you're able to uh free action shut that off so the lights in the great salon and the restaurant are completely out and you just hear like screams and shouting there's still pandemonium happening from the murder especially in the great salon a little more refined in the restaurant but now you have an actual opportunity to get to the lobby let's go back to uh the duchess i would like to give the plan the order to aurelius and corin that the three of us will uh even though the lights are off we will split up in three different directions and i give intricate hand signals to to give this command and uh i instruct them to go to the sides of the room towards the lobby as i'll go straight down the middle and i would like to use my pranabendo to walk as delicately and quietly as possible so i am completely undetected okay all right so you want this is going to be move right or discipline this is going to be um i think this is move yeah i think so too uh oh sorry i was kind of considering well okay when i attempt a move or discipline test using prana bendu conditioning i i can get a re-roll of a single d20 if needed okay um as i perfectly control my breathing heart rate internal organs so um i i would like to do discipline okay i like it um and the discipline you're trying to do is you're just trying to move unnoticed through this crowd avoiding the commotion of people uh in the dark uh the the the trait the restaurant had was formal but you guys have created the trait of uh chaotic um by shutting off the lights and the great salon would have that as well the difference is the great salon was also loud and crowded so now it's loud crowded dark and chaotic the restaurant is the formal's gone and now it's just dark and chaotic uh so go ahead and give me that uh that roll and let's let's see uh what comes up what's the difficulty i'm gonna say difficulty uh it's a flat one because you've you've lowered the difficulty by shutting off the lights excellent okay uh so i'll just use the regular two and i'll i can get a re-roll if i need um for my drive can i use justice i'll protect those my care yes yeah because that's what you're doing here okay so for safety is one thing you're trying to make everybody else get out safely as well six and five oh so those are two successes so we gain a momentum what's that what is it two or three momentum you use discipline i did but my focus is command so it doesn't so it doesn't fit okay but two successes you succeed and gain a momentum uh and i will say that you succeed by moving into the restaurant undetected aurelius corrin pharaohs who wants to go uh aurelius will go what aurelius wants to do is he's going to use his mind palace talent to perfectly recall the layout of the restaurant so that even at all the tables and everything so that even the dark he can maneuver efficiently and he is going to use his grace focus in his move skill to try to move across without disturbing anyone i love it without being detected i imagine he was like no detail of the opera house went unnoticed by aurelius he has every floor plan schematic yeah beautiful a beautiful mine he's eaten in this restaurant probably like yeah oh yeah he's been here uh all right so slide through in the dark here uh give me that roll i'm gonna say uh be also difficulty one because of the the lowered lights okay give you an opportunity for some momentum here uh okay i got one success i got a 19 and a seven okay uh you uh basically have the same result as de lessa just done in a completely different way whereas she used her print of hindu conditioning you used your uh memory of the layout yeah just kind of switching through in his layered robes it's kind of like dodging like without but barely moving like dodging uh scattering waiters and patrons you guys are you and uh de lessa are one away from the lobby but farrows and corn are still a little bit further behind keep in mind whatever actions you take if you decide to move you can spend two momentum or give two threat to then move again if you want to just speed through to get to the lobby you can also create assets and other stuff but now it seems like you you're so close you just want to get out coryn farrows who wants to go i definitely want to speed through okay um then give me a move check difficulty one and then if you want to spend two momentum i'll get you'll get right into the lobby as long as you succeed on that check so we're thinking move stealthily so you get your focus and duty i think so yeah okay show me what am i spending so you roll this first you need to get one success and then you'll spend the two momentum to move into the lobby i hold a seven and a ten okay and what's your move score my move score is a six six all right so that's two successes right uh because yeah that's two successes uh and so you generate a point of momentum and then you're going to spend two momentum to move into the lobby now when you get into the lotte lobby i would say at this point people are filing out of the great salon people are filing out of the restaurant and there's other chaos there from like the the people that were still there for the murder investigation so if the trait was chaotic now it's chaotic too it's also very spread out in there but one thing you do see standing at the doorway like right near the doorway is fenton quill and standing next to him is the adjudicator oh but you were in the lobby and there's a lot going on and you moved stealthily so you feel as if you're not seen but one false move bad news faros i am pharaohs i think i'll take this opportunity and i feel like we've maybe troy may have to invent a a face dance mechanic just to make sure i'm not cheating this way i've invented 90 of what we've now that the guards have moved away from pharos once again uh he like shifts and alters and i'll i'll i'll i mean i'll spend a point of momentum maybe to create the asset of having seen a elderly patrician woman and that is what i look like now okay okay i like that and that's great if you happen to run into these guards again they won't be questioning or whatnot uh all right so you take on that and then uh you want to slide into the room as a free action yes indeed great so you are now an elderly woman and you slide into the great salon and as you do you just feel buffeting of bodies excuse me excuse me young man where is the manager here push through uh i noticed aurelia aurelius and d'alessa just slid their asses right in the lobby did it work it does come back to you in fact it's now a brand new round so in any order you guys can go you're very close here pharos d'alessa and aurelius could do a move spend momentum or give threat move again to get outside uh if you want to and then obviously corrin is only one step away um i rendezvous with aurelius at the door of the restaurant and just kind of look at him with a like let's let's pray this works kind of look uh i i'm out of plans okay i think in this case i realized i just moved last would i have to to uh i think this might be the the diversion that i'm kind of that ferris is improvising if i can move through the salon and see the lobby i'd like to make a beeline to fent and quill okay uh so you can free move into the lobby if you want uh because of the darkness i'm not going to charge you uh or put difficulty on that uh and uh yeah you want to you want to just go right up to fenton quill yep okay so then i want to engage him so that the others can slip by while i approach this um arconan functionary and he sees you uh coming and just kind of looks down his nose young man young man what i have been a patron of this opera house my family has been for two centuries i expect better than being than being wrangled like like a piece of off-world chattel when when when minor inconveniences take place in the last portion of a show my my great great great great great great great grandmother was in the very first production of escape uh in felicity in the seraglio so i would hope that i could at least stay for a curtain call is there someone that i can speak to who's perhaps um in a higher position of authority than yourself or perhaps a a an address to which a letter might be sent to the management staff now i of course know many involved in the board of patronage but it is a very loud volume i think aurelius and i hear what's happening and i want to continue that prana bin do quiet walking okay so he's created this distraction uh and fenton quill is just kind of like brushing you off and he's like ma'am ma'am we do not own this opera house is this your best are you doing your best because it's not enough as i said we do not own this opera house not yet at least oh oh wow well i certainly hope that when you do whoever it is that uh uh pulls your strings uh treats the clientele with more respect than you're showing now what what is your name what's your name would you please leave he snaps his figures and in fact you've annoyed him enough that the guards escort you outside and just kind of throw you down the stairs no they're just like hurricanes uh can i create another asset spend two momentum create another asset talk to me i want to create some kind of communication device like i'm picturing like a princess phone uh near at the like the maitre d station at the restaurant okay and i would like to call uh for a ride either my ornithopter or just a cab or something okay i want to arrange for a pickup all right so uh spend two momentum uh i think you have the momentum you spend the momentum and you create the asset of a phone uh which they would certainly have at the host stand of this restaurant to call a cab uh you in fact had two momentum you now have zero momentum uh but i love this hello yes hello i am calling on behalf of uh very important client and um we uh we need an immediate uh pickup from the uh opera house please oh yeah there's a lot of commotion over there yes yes but uh i assure you that uh my client will make it worth your while and then some all right well then we'll uh we'll send a car right over thank you and there should be a car arriving soon for you okay uh that is your action unless you want to give two threatened to move into the lobby uh i i think that might be smart uh i'm willing to do that okay aurelius uh creates the asset of getaway car and then gives two threat to then move into the lobby uh delissa and corrin have still to go i would be waiting definitely to see make sure that uh de lessa got out safely before i would move yes you see uh well obviously you wouldn't notice the old lady in fact i'm sure you'll all have a lot of questions why if daiso wren was helping you but in the meantime you would have would not even have noticed the old lady being escorted out because you have your eyes on the entrance of the restaurant looking for your duchess uh you do see aurelius slip through d'alessa what do you do know what let's keep things interesting uh i i could we say that i had slipped into the room as fenton quill was distracted by this old woman sure and well in there i want to slowly move up behind this arbiter what'd you what did you call an adjudicator adjudicator yes bringer of justice indeed i would like to slip behind him as i so often do and place my gomja bar on one side of his neck as i whisper in his ear in the other you have a gamja bar at your neck there is a poison that will kill you instantly if it brushes against your skin your only option for survival is to step backwards slowly with me through this door and i will keep you safe okay so you're doing this and you hear fenton please i don't we we don't own this opera house not yet at least and you gamjabar this dude and he just he's petrified he doesn't even move and you want it well here's the thing one of my assets is a hostage but we never named said hostage so i thought i'd make one this is your hostage i'll be an adjudicator that's an impressive amazing i i love this it's so wild and insane i'm hoping that clinton quit fencing will not will turn after this commotion and not even know where the adjudicator went if i'm successful okay uh let's have a check let's have a check here what are we thinking am i i don't know i mean it sounds like communicate i would also uh with you i would also allow discipline i also have battle tactics as a focus yeah this is keeping a hostage yeah it could be battle tactics it's certainly power we're using here right oh yes okay if you want to do battle and power that's fine but uh i mean i'd rather do communicate that's that's better all right do you communicate in power and uh i've already got some great complications if you're all in that 20. whatever do you mean okay that gives me 16. what's the great complication sounds like a store that would be next to walden books in a 90s he got this for me at great complications it's just like a great moment stalls those little angels except they're very like upset very looks of consternation on their faces to a store that just sells magic eye paintings these stores will be open forever thought the proprietors here's what we're going to do just to make things interesting i'm sitting on seven threat right now zero momentum i'm just i've got too much threat my my pockets are swollen uh so this is a difficulty two check that i'm gonna bump up i'm gonna bump up to difficulty four yeah okay i'm going to spend uh three threat to bump it up to difficulty four now we did uh have a bunch of momentum a moment ago but we spent it yes you spent it to create the asset of the telephone for the getaway car i think we still have one momentum left i think joseph i had four written down before that did you we were looking at our producer here we had three and i spent two and then i think we should have one left but that was the final one uh the producer is coming through here with a uh the final verdict um let's say at the arbiter let's say at the end the the real adjudicator uh oh i spent yeah uh joe was saying i spent it on face change oh okay okay that makes sense there was yeah okay okay so but i'm not wrong that ten minutes ago we did have four and that's when i wrote it down right it goes i'm so sorry that i spent it it was worth it i could watch that woman complain all day she's still complaining on her way down the stairs it got your free movement to the outside unhand me god oh my god so don't mess up joints can't take this manhandling what is your name i'm gonna get you into the lobby here because of the darkness give me this roll how do you want to make it work i'm down to four threats so you can give me some threat to buy some d20s oh okay yes any determination or did you spend it already i spent my one on on that very almost sure thing that i failed uh is there a drive statement statement that you want to conflict with or comply with because you'll gain a determination back and doing it okay i think i my power statement is the benny jesuit will control the imperium and i think this may be an aggressive move for the benny jesuit but this is uh surely potentially corrupting an arbiter for the harkonnen is a big power play so i think this is a i think this is a hard comply and you know i'm willing to take that big complication yeah well here's the thing is that statement if this fails you will bring uh a sea of controversy around the benny jesuit they will not be taking over the imperium if you fail in this mission if you kill an adjudicator uh if you get framed for this murder and it succeeds it will bring shame upon the bene jesuit so i think that we're we're playing around a little bit enough here to say that you can challenge it gain a point of determination take the complication uh i'll take the determination but that uh is not going to give me more dice so i do have to give you two threat to have a hope at this okay okay so i'm giving you two threats so now you're at six now you wanna give me either one or three threat because one shoots one threat get you one die two more threat get you the second die i gotta get this hostage if y'all don't mind shooting spin to three all right so spend three threat gets me back up to seven you now have four die you have a point of determination which you can use to either reroll or make something automatic one and you're using communicate or i'm using uh yes and this was communicate and power so that's 16. okay but you don't have a focus and communicate that would work right all right four die you need four successes you have a point of determination natural one counts as two successes okay we'll get natural ones here we go it's gonna be tough am i in this zone or i i left this zone uh i would say that a success here is gonna allow you to get right out because i'm not moving these assets am i in the same zone as she is right yes you are okay all right yeah so you can use your power if you need to yeah yeah to help her oh boy big role becca oh boy we got an at one baby oh yeah and an eight three and two nine four successes the final is a 16 which still counts five successes so you succeed and she she could change one of those to a one with the determination right yeah because that was a natural one yeah if you wanted to but you already succeeded generated a point of momentum if you wanted to burn that determination you would then gain two points of momentum it's up to you and how you find i will hold on to my determination for a future date that's true there's so many successes and you gain a point of momentum here is your complication as you have the gamja bar at the adjudicator's neck and you're slowly backing out you make a motion to corin and aurelius that like they're good to go and do you guys leave yeah yeah okay aurelius slides out corrin slides out the complication is de lessa just as you get the door at to the door fenton quill turns and looks and doesn't see the adjudicator there and then turns and sees you with the gomja bar to the neck of the adjudicator and he knows what's happening here he knows that he's powerless and he says i never liked you i never liked your house or your shitty plays that you put on run run so that the baron may find you and kill you like the dogs you are and we'll see you next week you are free as a car rolls up and then 80s music hits as you jump in the bag and maybe one of you catches out of the corner of your eye as pharaoh sits down in the in the ornithopters just like a little just just a tendril of gray hair like receding into his scalp awesome oh amazing amazing goodnight everybody we'll see you next week [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 146min 23sec (8783 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 21 2022