Luke Made a Game?! Ellen & Mike Go Sci-Fi Death Racing in Gravity RIP

i'd also like to say that as chet was like ducking back and going out the way i was like with all four arms this isn't about budgets this is about talent raw talent and the machine under me and the machine under me is the solar wind oh the solar wind that little thing i barely saw it the gas cloud is a little slow to react and starts to move right to block me but i've already swept left let's see that d6 plus your machine's acceleration modifier that is a six whoa as well whoa whoa whoa what's the acceleration modifier it's pretty huge plus two for my acceleration [Music] hello mike and ellen hello hi thank you for coming this is what i normally wear this is what you yes this is what this is mike's regular attire nothing strange here nothing strange here um thank you very much thank you both so much for coming do we do we both know what we're doing here today uh just about yeah i think so as i understand it we're going to be put into a uh a washing machine of death in our anti-gravity races is that correct that's right we are playing gravity rip a game that i have made yeah congratulations thank you very much at the point where you're watching this it will it should be out now um so you can grab it in pdf form or in printed form actually look i have a printed copy here oh wow oh it's so shiny i know it's so shiny isn't it look at that basically wrote a book yeah i know you're a real youtuber now yeah it is a theater of the mind cooperative tabletop rpg about zero gravity death races and i am so so so grateful to you both mike and ellen for volunteering to that's all right play it if nintendo won't make another f-zero we'll make one in our heads well well mike if that's your independent editorial judgment on the game that's all very well yeah um it is it is not my legal standpoint i'm keen to stress very important to make that clear we will i think kind of like talk through the game as we go sure um but it all begins with character creation so when you create a character in gravity rip the game you create both your racer and the machine that they drive your racer has one stat a number on what is called the chaos theory scale from two to five five being the most chaotic characters driven by emotion favoring decisive action and on the theory end lower numbers um are characters who are logical thinkers calculating scientifically minded you also have to create your machine which is governed by two stats acceleration and weight acceleration is vital for overtaking and one-on-one encounters and a higher acceleration modifier increases how far you can advance through the pack each lap higher weight means you have more integrity which is health points basically which means you can take more damage before exploding uh and you are more effective at smashing opponents into the side of the track and blocking overtakes you start with minus one in both modifiers and have four points to spend so one at a time why don't you introduce me to your characters and their machines after you mike go on uh okay cool i um chase racism who is the clean-cut scion of the racism dynasty uh big family of races going back hundreds of years um and uh yeah chase is attempting to step out of the shadow of his older sister pacer racerson uh who is last space years champion in uh rip racing uh but she went mysteriously missing after the final race so in addition to trying to um shoulder the burden of the family name and that that burden of expectation from the billions of fans across the known galaxies um he's also trying to investigate uh the disappearance of his sister so that's what he's up to and his rip racer is called the solar wind he's very clean cut racer so his uh his machine is very much uh poised towards acceleration rather than weight he's not interested in getting into conflict uh he's a very uh theory-led uh character so he's not into the kind of the more underhand elements he's the you know he's the clean-cut fan favorite babyface racer okay amazing uh let me get the numbers from you chase what's your uh chaos theory scale number for chase my number is two which means i'm very very theory amazing and how have you distributed your the solar winds uh acceleration and weight uh i have put one point into weights so that i'm not at minus one weight i'm not that fragile um but then three into the acceleration so that leaves me with a total of two nice start with minus one fantastic okay chase pleasure to meet you uh ellen meet you too who uh it's always good to meet a fan oh yeah oh my goodness i mean um you wouldn't i would never normally ask for this but could you sign that it's not a picture of me but i'll sign it anyway oh my god i don't even have a pen um it's fine i carry eight with me all the time oh okay yeah great hang on i unzip my race suit and pull out scribble on it yep there you go amazing don't go selling that i'm trying to sell it mike [Laughter] yeah that's a good point okay ellen who who are we today t rey spelt r-a-e-c and uh i am a robotic mechanic i have four arms and i was built in the uh planet size robotics factory known as the saf amazing okay all right so um now t racy also more commonly known as tracy because you know it's a bit faster easier to say yeah she is she operates in vehicle maintenance that's what she was built for originally she worked here kind of as a mechanic doing bits and bobs but she got sick of watching and wanted to take part she was like why am i sitting here fixing cars all the time when i could be you know fixing races maybe huh um so an amazing she's uh decided to you know switch it up and uh what is it you know jumping into the races sick of the sidelines exactly exactly amazing t-ray c what is t racy's chaos theory number it's five five maximum chaos chaos okay the thing is that she's uh vehicle maintenance so she's a bit of a wheeler dealer oh my god to be clear there are no wheels there are certainly wheels there are on tracy she's got she's got wheels oh she's running around on casters amazing okay right just making a mental note add stairs to slow progress when tracy goes racing what do her fans uh see machine wise when they're um when they're looking out for her vehicle well she has got a rather you know solidly built um and fairly balanced a nice nice little razor it's you know it's you know fairly nippy you know but um it's also it's not too easy to get past um so in terms of uh like you know say if there were numbers assigned to it it would be plus one and plus one so she's a very she's got a very balanced vehicle to offset her uh chaotic personality yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah there's like you know few extra panels where there don't need to be panels but she just likes what it looks like and feels like it might you know while it adds to the the bulk of it it doesn't weigh down uh and prevent speed too much amazing and what's it called what's the machine um it's called the m0 tar also known as the motor tracy's motor yeah let's have a big sticker over the cockpit that says tracy yeah lovely her tagline is uh racy tracy this isn't at all important for stats but just just for me and the viewers at home um what color are your machines i just want to like i just want a little i just want a little brief brief visual description my uh racer is a sort of like a delta shape it's built for speed rather than um rather than sort of combat so it kind of tapers off really smoothly it's all smooth lines and and a sort of like point to the front of it um and it matches this this jacket i've got on here so it's a very light blue sort of bordering on turquoise with yellow accents and white accents um looks very very uh space-age and fast maybe a bit fragile and how about the motar tracy um it's a bright yellow with a kind of like slightly uh rustic you could say painted on phone number for anyone who wants uh tracy's help with any mechanical breakdown repair truck right okay so um gameplay and gravity rip is split into two modes there's story mode which is kind of a free play if you like this describes off track action we have tough talk flourishing rivalries underhand deals secret meetings mechanical sabotage when we play story mode the outcomes of your decisions are determined quickly by rolling a d6 in what is either a chaos or theory check plus an extra dice if you can convince me um that your reputation as a rip racer uh is advantageous to you in this situation that's called the reputation role and i hope we will get onto it uh in a bit uh there's also racing mode but we will come on to that later i think for now why don't we set the scene so chase and tracy we find you on the planet vaubraid a bustling hub world and the beating heart of rip racing indeed you have just stepped off a transport and are approaching the hangar a vast mega structure that serves as headquarters for the rip racing league this is the huge uh stadium size metal box where pilots mechanics team officials prepare for races you've both spent the last few years making a name for yourself in the lower rip racing leagues but today is a big day because you've both received an invite on short notice to try out for a top tier league team which is called buster space that is the name of the team uh which very recently lost both its races in a horrifying crash um already a throng of fans and reporters are pressed up against the fences that boarded the building uh you hoped to get in a bit earlier uh before they descended but the transport was running late through the crowd you can see a security bot manning the door cool i'm gonna go over and talk to the security bot okay okay um you uh you press your way through the crowd but uh you you find that actually like people are packed in too densely you're gonna have to shoulder your way through or perhaps have a word ask politely there's one way to there's one way to clear these people i sign everything everything faces clothing babies everything i'm just signing i'm just doing signatures they all know who i am sure signatures everywhere uh you um have a great day all right all right don't put your baby on ebay spacing that's good that sounds good i don't think there's any need to roll for that you whip out a sharpie and start just randomly signing as people turn around we're talking about the hardcore replacing fans here the ones who the ones who love the sport enough to kind of stand outside to you know press their faces up against the gates even though you are not in the top tier they recognize you chase the family name it's it's the fact that opens so many doors um before you know it in fact you are you the way is clear uh but as you reach the security bot you find that actually there's a lot of taps on your on your shoulders people you know asking you do you know what happened to pacer can you speak to the rumor that uh she faked her own death and is hiding in the family mansion i'm sorry the subject just gets to be too emotional i can't talk about it right now let's say that the crowd uh won't let you go let's say that they say that they're pressing you for answers they are they're they're they're you're being hounded right now by the way i would like to step in because i'm seeing like there's a lot of hounding going on here so i would like to step in front of him and use all four of my arms to just push out in front and be like excuse me could you give the man some space please thank you space give him some i can tell we're gonna get on famously amazing um let's uh i'll tell you what let's make a check just because i'm keen to get one out the way um just for seeing how well um how well you disperse the crowd uh it sounds like you're sort of being polite but firm yeah um or are you trying to intimidate and terrify i'm trying i'm trying to intimidate but like not in a terrifying way in that way that you look at someone you're like oh i don't wanna i don't wanna upset them but i also really want them to think that i'm cool okay let's um let's make this uh let's make this a chaos check uh so you roll a d6 your number is five if you roll lower than your number so if you roll g6 and get lower than five that is a success if it's higher than a d5 then that is a failure and if it's 5 exactly that's a critical success if you want you can add an extra dice to this role using the reputation role let me read you the description for that straight from the straight from the source text when not in a race you can attempt to leverage your race's reputation to boost your odds when you make a chaos or theory check you can only use your most recent race because in rip racing you are only as famous and as notable as your most recent escapades and if you have never done a race before well i suppose your reputation is is that of a of an unproven newbie uh an unknown quantity so perhaps think how that could be used to your advantage hmm yeah i think how can i how can i use this how can i use this um i think can tracy try our luck like as someone like that you know she's sort of vaguely known in the you know the the racing sphere these are the hardcore fans so they will have mechanics yeah if it was just anyone it wouldn't matter because it's the hardcore fans you're like hey all right sorry like i'm i'm someone who have fit i've fixed many of the cars that have been left in pieces out there i should hopefully have a little bit of respect on my name but i see i see they'll take you they'll spot that you are a respected racer from the from the from the lower leagues and and take you seriously i suppose also if they're fans they'll recognize your model as a you know a sort of repair button okay yeah yeah go on then uh so roll me roll me roll twice and take the tape whichever result you want i i hold up my uh cellular device number look how many look how many things are fixed look at all these races that follow me yeah all that yeah nice famous by association cool all right oh i got two fives wow okay two fives yeah um you uh do you wear your mechanical arms around uh yeah yeah um you you you're basically just trying to show off how many follows followers you have but you you move with with such uh strong and imposing mechanical grace it's like if uh it's like if general grievous was kind of spinning around trying to get a selfie um that's how it looks and everyone sort of backs up like duck yeah yeah uh yeah you duck and um uh behind you the security bot uh goes names and passes chase racist and i'm sure you've heard of me and i whipped the pass out of another pocket inside my racing jacket chase racism scanning verified you are late uh fashionably so but yes quite late please try not to be late in the future fine i'm t racy here's my here's my card and maybe if you don't want us to be late in future you'll make sure that this area is clear robot sass i like it i think we're definitely still rolling that double five uh yeah the security box goes scans um just just in silence i think just takes it gives it back presses a button and uh yeah a um a gap in the gap in the fences opens up allowing you through as you pass through you spot someone uh sort of half running half half jogging out of the out of the hangar towards you it is a bipedal warthog in a tweed suit and uh and they are the promoter [Laughter] she jogs over to you and uh and uh says ah the new blood you recognize this as mary westlington uh the um the the team manager of uh buster space uh she extends uh yeah i instinctively go to shake a hand and then just sort of awkwardly high-five the hoof because i don't really know what to do with it yeah oh well how modern yes and uh you must be tracy yes i i shake her hand but with both of my right hands she's sort of bounced up and down a little bit there's one on the hoof and then one light slightly further up the air you you can feel the tweed suit just like slightly give a little bit of another thing but you let go before it tears um yes mary uh uh mary welcomes you warmly and and and says oh we're so so thrilled for your uh your tryouts tomorrow morning um uh if if you would be so kind as to follow me i would love to show you to the to the buster space paddock let's go yeah yeah said that absolutely it's where i live it's my turf it's my yard the paddock i was born here i was raised here but you were bred in the paddock i was bred in the paddock like a yes it makes it sound like i'm a horse yeah but a thoroughbred horse all right so funny you know i was born in a paddock as well um not a stye then oh goodness no it wasn't good much much clearer oh no um yeah and she uh she sort of uh sets a a brisk pace as she walks you into the hangar uh she's galloping on all fours or she's still oh no she's she's she is upright she is she is very much bipedal um very much yeah she um she strolls into the hangar as you enter this space uh it is your your eyes adjust to the darkness because it is quite dim in here it is a vast space it is mostly taken up by racing teams who have their individual sort of paddocks and setups it's very noisy in here sparks are flying from like mechanics shouting people arguing about telemetry people you know over at certain points you can see other teams giving press interviews um it's it's you know organized chaos in here uh and mary leads you over to a uh to a paddock in in the corner of the hangar it's quite a small space compared to some of the other teams it's got a blue and white theme and there's a um there's there's the buster space family crest sort of mounted above it um and she she sort of leads you leads you past a past a press manager and and and into this into this area she turns around and says uh your machines um uh have already been uh already been brought in there they are she points over to where you can see um you know being inspected by mechanics uh is the motor and the solar wind um looking good and getting shinier every moment if i could just ask you to to come with me we'll um we'll sign contracts and uh and and i can answer any questions you have about the about the course tomorrow absolutely i'll sign anything i will sign literally anything that's exactly how we like our young racers yes mary leads you into uh into a back room uh she sort of has some hollow contracts kind of themed up out of a desk uh you just have to sort of place your hand in there and and sign it if you're if you're willing to um can i inspect the contract is there anything uh yeah no in there yeah tell you what make me a um make me a make me a theory check all right uh that's a two which is my is my number which is yourself amazing double quick yeah you you inspect the contract and uh you've you've seen racing contracts before chase so the bit that immediately jumps out at you is the bit that uh clearly buster space has tried to hide a little uh which is a little bit of text at the bottom that just specifies that um that uh the buster space team retains um 100 uh of any uh any merchandising profits mary mary mary yes yes as you know um i have a a wide range of merchandise uh under the racism name it's a vast empire really we sell across the known galaxies i'm going to need this clause taken out unfortunately we can come to some kind of agreement that while i'm representing your team which i will be because obviously this tryout is going to be no problem whatsoever but what you need to do is uh renegotiate this this piece of contract because there is no way you can have 100 of the uh likeness rights for merchandise of this this whole deal how did uh how did that get in there sorry that must have been uh sorry it's it's a boilerplate contract uh i i'm sure people to have that have that typed up uh she performs a few uh swoops and uh like holds a holds a hoof to her forehead and closes her eyes and just think beams uh some new words into the contract right great uh you now get a 20 split great miss tracy i i assume you will be uh demanding the same uh yes please i've i've got my own range of uh healed footwear wheeled they're called heel wheels yeah i'm still working on the names yeah so uh because you know it's how i was built but you know they didn't properly painted it so why not if everyone wants to look like me when i'm a cool famous racer no worries uh yeah the the clause is amended um uh mary sort of fixes you both with a quite serious look and says now i think you'll uh i think you'll agree that i've proven i can be um flexible on terms yes well let me make clear exactly what we expect from you tomorrow we need winners i'll be frank uh he's come to the right place that's it i'm glad to hear it mr chase but i'll but i'll believe it when i see it on track tomorrow this won't be like any race you've done in the lower leagues expect it to be more ferocious and more deadly i i suspect uh if you've ever spoken chase to to your sister uh pacer racism uh god's rest her soul if indeed she be dead um well she she may have told you a little bit about it but i'm afraid nothing can quite prepare you for the for the ferocity of the racing that you're slightly peaked at the mention of my sister i'll be too far ahead to have to worry about the deadliness or supposed deadliness of this race so we'll then let's not worry about it well then we won't have a problem what i want from you tomorrow is uh podium finish ideally both of you but uh i'll settle for one i won't if one of you doesn't make the podium i wouldn't be kicking that racer off um off the team or anything uh it's just important that as a team we make it onto the podium um and well maybe this will determine the number of races we are keen to contract you on to perform it could be the difference between staying on for the rest of the season or maybe just uh one or two one or two races while we um cast our net a little wider shall i say i think you'll agree that's more than fair absolutely results that's what pays the bills results pay the bills ah you're familiar with the uh buster space uh credo and she points to the wall and yeah it's a big sign above the door when they came in the bills yeah um i mean it's clear that clearly the results haven't been coming in because this whole team seems a little uh down at heel um out of her hollow desk she sort of presses presses a few buttons or something and a hollow map of a race course comes up she says this is the uh this is the course you'll be racing tomorrow i i don't imagine either of you will have raced it before but it's a fairly straightforward figure eight it's the the centauri uh burner eight it's called uh a rather straightforward figure eight course half high banked as you can see and it's on a magma planet so um so you know watch out for magma heat up you could say yes very good yes i could see um can i give you the logins for our social channels um uh it's not in the contract see racy don't don't do anything oh yeah can i can i uh if if it's not my contract can i have an additional clause that pays me for that please i'll uh i'll i'll i'll i'll see what we can uh type up um mary clearly wasn't expecting this much contract haggling but she is she is remaining polite uh yeah the course is um as you sort of see it on this hollow thing it's a uh imagine um imagine a flat figure eight but then like half of it was sort of folded up like that it's kind of an l shape from the side that's what you'll be racing on um on tomorrow uh mary says um that that's all for now if you wanna i've got a little bit uh i've got a few calls to make but if you wanted to uh you know walk around make yourselves comfortable absolutely i'm gonna go and inspect my machine and check that the team which has not been performing particularly well isn't doing anything weird to my to my racer very smart uh okay on your way out of the building uh you do in fact spot two unfamiliar uh entities in your paddock uh they appear to be crouched down um by uh by your machine tracy uh they're looking at the the motor you both uh recognize them as you get a little bit closer this is chet and flo everglide uh they are roughly eight foot tall bird people um they are brothers they race on the same team team called the earth talons chet is the older brother he's the golden boy of rip racing he wins consistently uh flo is barely any less uh successful he's a younger brother they're both in the bright red of team earth talons uh chet has greased back head feathers and flow is you know sort of stood behind him just looking a bit sulky and and chatted chet is basically like shoving a repair droid out of the way uh trying to looking for a few pointers boys yeah what the hell do you think you're doing to my motor they spin around chet sort of stands up and kind of he looks momentarily startled to see you but then quickly adopt a casual lead actually he does a casual lean on the motor uh and says um hey flo you really think this thing's gonna run tomorrow it doesn't look like much uh could you get your elbows off please oh i'm sorry i wouldn't want to leave your machine looking like trash oh wait and flo finishes the sentence it already does and they high five that must look weird given that they're bird people but yeah a few feathers flat of sort of like it doesn't make a very good slap it's kind of more obvious you wouldn't be over here if you weren't worried yeah um check points at uh check points at your racing uniforms which which are you know sort of folded up next to your machines and says um so anyway they uh they wash the blood out of that thing or uh would laundry day stretch the buster space budget a little too far this isn't about budgets this is about talent raw talent and the machine under me and the machine under me is the solar wind you'll get a really good view of the rear end of it those rear impellers as i blast past you both oh the solo wind that little thing i barely saw it yeah because it's so sleek and lightweight and fast did they accidentally knock half of it off when they brought it in here no i just don't drive around in a ruddy tank like you two whatever dudes uh and um and chet and flow uh high five again with a with a plumping noise well you know check flow if you wanna take a look at my motor feel free i think you need to clear out at the front you know around the grill because uh you know run over a few pigeons and you know sometimes they might be caught up in there because the thing is when there's a bird in the road i don't stop absolutely savage i love it chet and flo are both seriously flu at their feathers go around around their necks uh and flo sort of steps forward and goes listen you bird strike is a serious issue and there's not enough being done to address it and check mastering himself a bit faster step so funny whoa cool bro we'll settle this on the race tomorrow assuming this thing runs uh and as they walk off uh chet gives the motor a disparaging kick like that um the repair droids briefly look concerned like it might tip over off of its grav supports but um but it does not you're probably going to want to check your uh vehicle for sabotage they were here for quite a while but before that i'm going to find the nearest oily rag scrunch it up into a ball and throw it as hard as i can at either one of them which has a robot it's probably pretty hard yeah which one kicks it check i'm gonna throw it a chat yeah cool make me a chaos check for that um if you don't forget you at any time you can make it two dice if you can think of a way that your reputation contributes to the likelihood of you nailing them with a i think rag rag i can't do it all right oh no i got six oh okay um it does that thing where like you throw a towel it goes like that and it actually you know sometimes you throw a paper aeroplane and it just just whiffs off to the side it sort of does that and just lands uh like a little bit ahead and just next to chet and flow and they just slowly look down on it a passing uh a passing um a businessman who's um showing some journalists around who's like walking backwards giving a tour slips on it and falls over um my sponsor yeah the yeah sponsors and flow just give you a withering look over their shoulders and walk away chuckling yeah that was just a warning wasn't actually aiming for you sharp you're out you're out of ear shot now yeah [Laughter] mary at this point um uh comes out of comes out of the office and uh so making friends already i see they were messing with my vehicle well i i have no doubt that our our um our repair droids would have would have seen them off industrial espionage is something we take very soon no no the droids got knocked to one side look i have been in this job okay i've done their work before and you've got to be more vigilant than these little tiny droids where's your actual security well i could run you through the finances of how much a fully furnished security bot really costs frankly this is all we can afford goodness sakes it's fine once you start winning it won't be a problem yeah better not be no one messes with my motor mary uh gives the gives the gives the repair bots a little bit of a little bit of a telling off but quite half-heartedly and then she turns to you both and uh and says listen um that's all our business concluded uh you'll need to be back here tomorrow morning um six a.m sharp for the um for the for the start of the race i suggest you you both go home and and get get some rest frankly uh before i do i am going to go and um head over to my uh solar wind and um just gonna do that thing where i just make tiny tweaks that couldn't possibly account for more than a thousandth of a second over a lap but sure you know it's more about the confidence you know it's more about knowing that i've i've inspected every bit myself and great great and tweaked things to my liking let's make a uh make me a make me a theory check then and um just uh just this yeah that's fine um yeah uh yeah you you give it the full uh the full run down uh you you you check everything is working you also established that um whatever chet and flo uh may have been planning on doing you don't know if they were planning on sabotaging your machines or if they're just trying to psych you out or or get a look at a rival machine but um in any case they uh they have not interfered with just pull a couple of feathers out of the intake and that's about it yeah yeah are these guys molting always i'm not very mechanic like i'm not very logical but i am a mechanic so hopefully that will help so uh i'm gonna just hit it with a hammer until it goes faster yeah that's kind of always been my thing so i'm gonna have a look around check for any uh no worries um i tell you what seeing as um seeing as seeing as you're going to be just hitting it with a hammer why don't we make this uh what do we make it's a chaos check yeah i'm just like hitting it random things and seeing if anything falls off in which case it wasn't mine because i make sure it's properly attached oh another six another six okay um you uh you yeah you look around um uh yeah okay um well i mean who knew uh i'll tell you what um this isn't in the rules but i'm i'm slightly making this up as we go now but um let's say let's say that you you are in so sort of flustered and annoyed by chet and flo bothering you that as you as you go about you're normally uh you know very very passionate but very very very good um and very accurate sort of checks and and upgrades and things you just you just don't you just knock the you just knock your um the uh the motor just just just a little too hard and you just put a nasty ding in it um we haven't talked about uh integrity points yet so let's do that now and just say that for tomorrow's race you'll be going in with with minus one just minus one at the start which isn't too big a deal but it's just a bit of a nasty thing um right let's let's do that though let's talk about integrity so um your default uh in integrity score is eight and for every point over zero you have in weight you get uh plus one uh to that if you have a weight score of minus one then your integrity uh is seven so let's see you would be solar wind you would have eight i think that's straight down the line the default and the motor you would have you would have nine points to spend because you have one point over zero in weight but having just accidentally um dinged your own machine yeah will take you down to eight i will ask you both if if you don't mind just to keep track of your own um integrity as we go right uh okay where are we headed now what's the plan are we i'm gonna go have a meal of nutritionally balanced paste ready for my uh racing debut in this series and um hit the gym as well that seems like the sort of thing chase would do you know he's in a little in his head about it even though he outwardly exudes confidence i think actually he wants to uh he wants to make sure everything is just so before this uh this racing debut sure sure he's got to get his ph balance in his stomach exactly just so and so okay tracy is gonna go and recharge literally brilliant yep plug in cool charging closet chase uh as you're on your way out of the gym uh heading back to uh your the hotel that you've both been put up in uh for the night um you you're just leaving the changing rooms where now to the shadowy corner uh a figure uh sort of emerges uh they are wearing a long cloak and uh and a hood and as they panic and instinctively sign the hood yeah sure no need to roll for that um the figure stops advancing um and takes down the hood uh and looks at the signature a little confused um it is a skeleton with uh with two um with two digital eye patches um from from the planet skeleton but all of the e's are threes let's say that got it yeah uh terribly sorry about that it's just a it's a you know a muscle memory thing pay it no mind um the inner grating voice the uh the skeleton says i represent a consortium of interested parties who would be very much delighted if chet everglide would be kept off the podium tomorrow at this point the skeleton produces a briefcase touches a sort of bony finger to it i guess it's a fingerprint lock but for bones and the briefcase just wears open right inside is 5 000 crits in cash that's a lot of money that's about as much money as you would win for winning for coming first in a race um and to sweden the part the skeleton says and and pulls out what looks like a sort of little bag of marbles and shakes it around and indeed it makes a marble like rattle you you recognize the distinctive rattle of volts which are the um the currency within the rip racing world uh volts let you repair your machine and replace integrity when if you say buff it save up enough you can make permanent upgrades to your machine so these are a valuable thing to have there's 12 in there mate 5000 crits 12 volts if chet everglide were to be kept off the podium tomorrow by any means necessary well um i assume you're all legitimate businessman right we are certainly businessmen that's not really the answer i was looking for obviously chase is uh highly aware of uh how important his reputation is uh but equally he's also seen that this team he's signed on with is uh considerably more shabby than um than it at first appeared so um he's starting to worry he's starting to get in his own head a bit um so he's going to accept it and in that very uh chase racist and sort of way assume that it'll probably be fine either way as you reach out towards the briefcase the skeleton sort of pulls it back and says one more thing yes if you accept nothing must interfere with flo's race right do we have a deal sure absolutely let's do it marvelous uh skeleton extends a bony hand i look around for members of the press before i shake it uh there are none but good good instincts then the deal is done and skeleton makes a gesture that you don't recognize which is the devil horns and then the horns are locked together to make a kind of v valley and looks down at you like with a glowing eye kind of at them like this and then melds back into the into the darkness don't sell that hood i won't do you hear from the darkness all right the deal is accepted chet must be kept off the podium and nothing must interfere with flo's race uh let's skip forward to the next morning where you're back in the hangar heading to your machines to be uh loaded into the transporter base for the race i'm gonna offer to split the uh split the winnings because actually i think so if anything's going to um well not the winning sorry the um you know the let's call it a bribe because let's call it what it is um uh because obviously uh you know the two of us stand a better chance of doing it together um and also um tracy has the more substantial machine anyway so if anyone's gonna you know um be able to collide with with chet and and cause him issues it's it's tracy because my my solar wind will just crumple like tin foil um if i if i try and ram it into anything okay great work okay so at this point um your uh all every machine uh is is being grav-toed into uh on the farthest wall of the hangar there are 20 because there are 20 races in a rip race um there are 20 sort of bays set into the wall and um machines once you're in your machine it is it is kind of towed in there and they are teleported onto the starting grid off world in random order the league does this to keep races uh enjoyably chaotic um so i think if we are if there's no other business that we want to do before we head to the race i'm going to stand on top of the solar wind and blow kisses to every single person present regardless of gender orientation or species sure sure it is a good half an hour it it i mean mostly in the hangar here are like you know people working hard um there's but there are getting kisses blown as well yeah yeah there aren't a lot of like cameras um uh like it's tightly controlled like what you can film in the hangar obviously for security reasons um but uh but everyone you know what word of mouth my reputation precedes me and i must maintain that reputation the team feels uh the team feels great about this about the support that you're giving them right okay as you um as you clamber into your machines and down into the cockpit helmet's on in the cockpit you can see you have a digital readout that gives that tells you your position in the pack of 20 as well as where everyone else is and there is a radio link to talk to your teammate uh and that is about it um other than that you these things are like little analog controlled faraday cages so communication with the outside world is is tightly controlled and i will now roll the d20 to determine the positions of both of you on the starting grid as well as the positions of the characters who you have established as rivals namely chet and flow okay so we'll start with why don't we start with chet and flow okay all right chet's gonna start in ninth mid pack mid mid-pack spicy pretty good though okay and um oh okay and flo is in 13th i'm lucky for some unlucky for some well chase that's 20. okay that hurts but i'm abiding by the dice hmm normally that would be a good thing yeah in this scenario not in this scenario yeah that is unfortunately a natural 20 which is yeah the the yeah unfortunately in racing scoring we're we're looking for the opposite got a lot of work to do but don't despair because who's this it's tracy with oh that is uh also 13. so you take the position behind that is interesting so you are going to be starting in 14th um which chat yeah chet's ninth amazing right uh with with a sort of dissolving kind of uh loads of sparkles let's say it's loads of sparkles uh you are teleported um uh off-world uh and all of a sudden um out the hangar disappears around you and there's a flash of blinding brilliance as you are teleported to this uh this lava planet um you're you're on the starting grid now with uh with 20 other machines um there are high banked what are they called um spectator graphics seating grandstands thank you thank you um thank you chase uh yeah huge grandstands to you to your left and your right the roar of of of of supporters and spectators is is kind of coming through your pretty soundproof cockpit even and seems to seems to make the place tremble i'm limbering up yeah yeah you're flexing smiling at the cameras you're getting ready all the machines just uh sort of bob up off of the ground as the um as the as the rip drive uh is enabled and uh ahead of you at the start line uh a series of lights uh blink on and then blink and then sort of like one goes out another goes out another goes out and eventually the last one just winks out and you're off you push down the thruster zero to 700 in three seconds yes exactly you are immediately almost immediately traveling at uh over a thousand kilometers per hour your strong muscular um human and robot necks uh can just about handle the g's through uh in serious training and let's say a bunch of genetic modifications as well in your case chase um because you were bred for this and you are off okay racing mode um so each race consists of three laps each lap has two phases within it so i'm going to read again straight from the straight from the source how weird and cool does it feel to be reading something that you wrote that's in their book uh it feels terrifying because i'm absolutely sure i'm going to spot a typo and you know probably will there's gonna be a few of them in there i did my very best okay that's on purpose because it's all space stuff it's funny yeah space stuff yeah if you see a typo it's sometimes it's just a space spelling so a lap in gravity rip is divided into two phases they are called helicam phase and maneuvers phase this is because every on-track encounter with a fellow rip racer is a deadly battle of nerve and lightning reflexes but with 20 competitors on the course there's no time to describe every overtake and desperate side swipe as you jostle your way through the pack that's why helicam phase is a helicopter montage that sums up how all players fortunes shift over the course of an entire lap and then we move on to the second phase maneuvers phase where we zoom in uh for a gritty and painful one-on-one battle at the climax of that lap each phase has its own things to attempt and we start with the racer at the top of the field who in this case actually is chet so now i'm going to just do some rolls for them chet will absolutely certainly be trying to advance so when you try to advance um i'm talking now to chet you roll the d6 and add your machine's acceleration modifier acceleration modifier i hope my feathers don't get caught in my own engine uh i don't mind telling you that pachette that was just a three plus acceleration modifier gives him five that means that chets can move up five positions this lap in helicam phase which is pretty impressive however however when you fight the pack the pack fights back and when you try to advance on your lap uh you have to contend with something called the push back roll which as the gm is a d6 that i roll he's got to make up the um result of the push back roll in either integrity health lost or positions not gained um basically the pushback role generalizes how savage um fighting is this this lap basically so let's roll that see what the number is okay that's a three uh chet is pretty driven though and a three isn't too bad so chet is going to take that all in integrity damage i think yep i'm rolling for flow now oh gosh okay all right flow slightly with that um okay next we move to you started in 14th tracy uh you are sort of you know in the back half of the pack uh around you uh you can see cars already starting to slam into each other and bounce off the side uh the sky is filled with fiery meteors that are you know constantly raining down mostly falling either side of the track but occasionally forcing you to you know swerve around one of them that just lands um what do you want to do um i want to try and advance nice your other options which i'm sure we will get to at some point are to try and hold your position uh or try to retreat if you want to retreat you can do so you don't have to roll for it you can always retreat as far as you want with no cost including retreating so far that you get lapped and end up in the top of the pack again if that makes sense that immediately gets you disqualified but for one more lap you can stay on the track and you know attempt things attempt things okay um so we'll be wanting to advance so roll me a d6 and add the um motars acceleration oh that's a six plus one is seven oh okay wow that's amazing so that's a result of seven that gets you potentially up to seven to place this lap but i am now going to roll push back you want low numbers here it's a five it's five so yeah um the uh the the fighting in the this kind of mid part of the pack is absolutely uh brutal um so you can in any combination you like take that five in integrity lost or positions not gained it's up to you so in any so can i like take a number like can i split that between the two you can split that yeah so if you want to for example just take two integrity damage then you would sacrifice three positions yeah i think i'll i think i'll do that i'll take two hits i'll take two hits at the start okay cool so mark mark off minus two integrity and that's three then off your maximum of seven which is four so you're on course for tenth place right chase you've started in twentieth uh you can see every racer uh ahead of you in fact as the um as as you approach the first uh turn which takes you up onto this high banked vertical uh section of the track and you can just see every race that just looming up ahead of you uh like a like a a list of your flaws it's it's it's an awful time what are we all the reasons i'm not as good as my sister yeah yeah dang well i would like to advance and try and remedy that okay let's see that d6 plus your machine's acceleration modifier that is a six whoa as well what's the acceleration modifier it's pretty it's huge plus two for my acceleration so what's that in total eight eight give me a low push back i need these imitations is making chase yes he is but here we go here comes the push back oh okay that rolled onto the floor but it did settle before it did i will take we'll take the floor results which is two two oh i like it yeah amazing cool um so will you be taking that just in damage or i think that's fine for the moment don't even don't even worry about it cool so um that gets you up to right at the end of helicam phase it's my job to basically sum up uh the shifting fortunes of all races so as we scream into the final straight um we have chet as is doing pretty well has made it up to fourth place this lap um has wow you know built built on a solid starting position um but it's not nearly so impressive again as uh tracy um who is currently in tenth place pretty good you've made it into the the top half of the pack flow everglide uh chet's brother got snarled up in the mid pack this lap and moved barely at all and is overtaken at the end but you chase so you end this lap by just squeaking past flow into 12th you're in 12th and flo is just behind you behind the solar wind in 13th okay so now we zoom in for maneuvers phase which is a close-up battle i'll just roll quickly for chet versus their opponent i know what chet wants to do okay chet has not managed it next up tracy as the second highest in position you are currently in tenth place uh you have the option now in maneuvers phase to attempt one more overtake so go for an overtake you can attempt a slam attack which is a sort of damaging launching yourselves into a damaging attack at the machine ahead or behind or you can block which basically is trying to stop the machine behind from getting past i would like to try and overtake ice i suspected you might okay now in maneuvers phase um roles are basically contests your opponent who is in ninth let's find out who your opponent is you're finishing this lap just behind oh cool uh just behind um a ship called the gallimimus which has a racer you recognize uh in in the gallimimus it can only be osteopteryx uh a sort of uh saurian um the dinosaur osteopath yeah yeah the uh now the gala the gallimimus is it's built a little bit like the the solar wind um it's bright green but it's like a sort of polished cigar tube it's a real acceleration machine so although it's pretty nippy it's not brilliant at blocking and defending overtakes from behind so you will have uh an advantage and advantage here uh so when you want to attempt an overtake roll a d6 add your acceleration modifier and your opponent rolls it uh when you're overtaking rolls of d6 plus their weight modifier to try and stop you okay one plus one is two oh one plus one is two oh my gosh uh well all they got was a two uh and hang on let me check the chart zero okay yeah unfortunately yeah you were minus one we couldn't have been like yeah if it was yeah if if the yeah um as you uh okay so um you you faint left faint right and and try to just power through on the left but uh it appears that the the gallimimus is a little faster than you anticipated it's also just so bright green that i'm just a bit yeah you're just a little blinded and it's a bit loud i mean i know mine's yellow but god it just manages to pull into that defensive position which forces you to just just just hit the brakes just for a moment uh and you scream across the finish line at the the start end you know the next the lap line literally my eyes are still intense right now let's move to chase okay chase um ahead of you is in um 11th place is a competitor called night out night owl is i'm using some generation charts here to figure this out night owl is a sentient gas cloud um it's not an owl no not an owl um okay the sentient glass gas cloud sort of roughly takes the form of an owl okay but only roughly uh and okay um night owl is night owl is racing in a machine called the bx5 black knight uh it takes up an enormous amount of your um cockpit view uh chase because this thing is an absolute behemoth uh it is a hulking great machine kind of lumbers kind of zigzagging yep to and from the track behind you is flow so you have the option to try and overtake the uh black knight or do a slam attack on it we could do a slam attack on flow or you could try and block flow although need i remind you that would i have the words of a skeleton ringing in my ears yes i'd like to uh overtake the black knight because uh the more distance i can put between me and flo the less likely it is i'm gonna get tied up in flow's race because flo has no idea that i'm not supposed to interfere so if we get into a running battle you know contact contact might occur which might be misconstrued by i don't know let's say a space skeleton a skeleton yeah you wouldn't want a skeleton to get the wrong end of the space stick yeah okay so um make me a lightsaber as we like to call them yeah okay uh right make me a roll then for um so it's a d6 plus your acceleration i'm gonna use my superior maneuverability to jinx right and then sweep left and try and pass the black knight and i've rolled a five which is good plus okay my acceleration which is is that right plus one yeah plus your acceleration so that's seven in total oh my gosh okay incredible well um uh night owl also rolled pretty well uh with a ludicrous modif modifier of three to eight um that was a a three as well for six but yeah you you've done it brilliant work um yeah you describe describe how this looks so um i've got the the flight yoke uh and i i turn it to the right but even as i'm doing that i then yank it to the left and the uh the gas cloud is a little slow to react uh and starts to move right to block me but i've already swept left and i just managed to size past scraping the very tip of my uh my wing against the uh the black knight causing a shower of sparks and the crowd go wild yes uh just as you pass uh uh the um the bx five black knight you you have to look up because the that cockpit is is some distance some feet above you but you just briefly see a a owl shaped gas cloud turn red with rage um just momentarily and let's do a little like point like thanks for the position gas cloud we'll now flow uh it's now flows maneuver flow's going to try and get past the gas cloud as well and has done it well done flow okay right uh as we move into lap two uh here's how things stand we've got chet everglide in fourth place tracy you are um holding tenth position uh now right behind you uh is chase in the solo wind and um and flo has managed to basically hang on to 12. now from the second lap things stay broadly the same we're going back into helicam phase and then we'll do maneuvers and then we'll do that again for the third lap however from this point you can do something called overclocking uh which is essentially trading health uh for improved odds so before you roll you have to tell me if you're gonna do it before uh you basically pick a number any number um that you want and just take that amount of integrity off your machine and add it to the role you're about to do i would encourage you to do it because frankly you're both in the middle of the pack and the vehicle you have to stop is all the way up and forth yeah and the laps are running down the laps are running down um so uh let's see how chet's doing um very savage pushback i don't think chet is going anywhere right let's move to tracy could he be savagely pushed into the lava he is having to work so hard to not go in the lava that unfortunately i think that's pretty much going to be chet's whole lap um okay tracy you're in 10th what's the goal i am going to advance as much as i possibly can amazing will we be overclocking this role at all yes uh i'm gonna overclock by two cool just take take two off that is a four four so plus two plus one that is another seven pretty tasty yeah what about the pushback it's a three right i'm gonna take [Music] one okay so you're going to take one damage and lose two positions yeah cool after three push back yeah because i want to move forward if you sacrifice two positions that would bring you up to fifth place yes pretty good for the end of lap too pretty good cool all right so just uh yeah mark that integrity cost as well uh next is you chase in the solar wind i'm gonna have to advance again uh and i would like to overclock by two please before i make this roll cool because i really need to put some distance between me and flow he's he's giving chase i think the uh the gas clouds enraged state uh meant that it took its eye off if it even has eyes it took its eye off the ball yeah momentarily and that's what allowed flow through as well so i'm really gonna need to put some distance between me and flow so yes overclock by two please and i'm gonna roll i've got another six i'm honestly not lying oh my god i'm rolling really well so what does that so what does that get you in total uh so in total that is the six plus my two from my acceleration plus the two from my integrity for a total of ten oh my god okay what's a lap one two three four you know historians of the the gravity rip league will look back on this moment as the uh as the moment where chase racism really arrived on the scene well mike i don't want to uh overhype you too much but uh you're driving with enough ferocity and skill to theoretically get all the way up to first but the pushback is coming pushback is coming and the pushback is gosh it's just two okay wow so if i take the two uh if you take the two integrity damage well no but if i hmm but if you take where's where exactly is chet at the moment he's in uh chet is in helicam phase nothing is certain until everyone has rolled and moved but um but i mean chet is jet was struggling a little bit um dealing with some you know magma fields you have comfortably you'll comfortably overtake check um i would like to yeah what i want to do you want to come to rest just ahead just ahead of chet yes please okay no worries well uh in that case uh you can just go drop back to third yep so i'll take that two penalty and i will pop into the third and hopefully chet will be behind me by the end of the lap but we'll see we'll see we will see we will see uh cool and i'll roll for flow one flo you suck no wonder the skeleton consortium has to step in and do something right well we'll move you up a little bit unbelievable and you know what i'm also going to see how nitel's doing just for fun yeah nice house night out stays competitive good um okay fantastic things are hotting up as we uh move into the final straight of lap two here's how things look chet has had uh an absolute nightmare of a lap um base like really struggling to uh you know to to just hold the position that that that he managed to establish uh and the lap doesn't get worse than the point chase at which you just cruised by didn't even see you coming just and just dock in just just in front of it so you are in third chase we have chet in fourth and spicily we have tracy in fifth place so we have a little we have a little crocodile going uh flo flo is in ninth poor flow okay now chase yes maneuvers phase time here are your options attempt an overtake which i don't think you will want to do but it is still an option uh to get up to second um alternatively you can attempt to just block check from behind you from getting any further which would keep you off the podium or you can attempt a slam attack um backwards to hit chats or indeed slam attack forwards to attack the racer in second who we have not established but we can establish if you need to well uh what i would like to do is a very elaborate slam attack now okay you know chase would never be seen to be doing anything as as agricultural as a as a slam so what i would like to do yeah uh if the role goes my way is to um pull the the left air brake rotate the uh solar wind in sort of 180 degrees um okay and uh and as that happens and i'll make it look like a flourish what will happen is as i'm doing that 180 degree spin i'll pop the canopy and theatrically bow to my billions of fans um okay but as i do the rotation it's just gonna clip the front of uh chet's okay chet's vehicle and and send it off course a little bit it's hoping that tracy will be there to capitalize when that happens okay it's a disguise uh it's an attack in disguise exactly yeah because the fans see me as a clean cut you know racer but i've let it let the skeletons get into my head a little bit um you know i'm fallible hey it makes you you as you as you initiate this maneuver you briefly think uh i wonder if these kind of tough decisions and and i wonder if this is the kind of thing that pacer was facing perhaps it has perhaps yeah maybe she ran in with the wrong crowd you knew the race being a consortium of skeletons yeah you didn't i can't think of a situation where a consortium of skeletons are the right crowd to be honest right when you attempt a uh slam attack uh that is a weight versus weight contest if you uh succeed in this contest then your opponent takes -2 integrity then i'll roll the d6 actually no that's damage let's say you roll that you should get to roll that because it's cool and your opponent chet will have the choice of taking all of that damage additionally or losing one place this represents the dilemma when attacked whether to basically hit the brakes pull back and refocus um but losing a position in the probe in the process or uh like say to hell with it to the damage and to just keep the thruster on even as bits start flying off your machine so so that is a d6 plus your weight score don't forget you can overclock this i am gonna overclock again because my weight score is zero okay so it's this is more of a finesse move but i'm going to need the extra help so cool again i'm going to take two off burn it all you want you want to you want to like skid across the finish line mostly on fire as a smoking wrap yeah absolutely all right here we go that's a four plus two so that's six okay let's see how chip does oh dear checks oh dear chad that is a one uh plus zero i decided that check was not going to overclock having basically uh assessed that you are not as much of a threat as as i thought yeah um this move goes exactly as you describe as you pop the canopy uh you just hop up onto the seat at 1200 kilometers per hour yeah just do a little bow the heat is intense uh you feel your racing suit start to kind of crisp up a little bit so you do have to like pop back into the canopy but i do lock eyes with chet as i do it presumably completely throwing him off his uh oh yeah yeah he look a lot of times he's briefly confused and as the back of the solar wind just swings into the front of chet's craft which oh my gosh we haven't even named chet and flo's machines have we uh let's find out what they're called because i love i love doing that um okay let's say that chet's machine is called the majesty maxi blood red metallic arrow shaped and the majesty maxi uh just is just knocked off goes into a skid um uh that's minus two integrity for chet you see a bit fly off of the majesty maxi and the oh so yeah so roll me damage brought me damage on that chest yep okay so that's minus two off the bat that way on the floor but it's a three a three um okay i'll level with you chet has three integrity uh so if chet was to push through that chet would die and chet while we hate him is no fool so chet is going to uh chet is going to drop back a position behind tracy behind tracy so the situation now as we uh head to your turn tracy is that you now have the solo wind ahead of you uh and chet in the majesty maxie has just kind of wavered uh and with a little bit of smoke coming out of it has just swung behind you uh hit the brakes and you just nimbly duck out the way uh in the motor right you've got um chase ahead of you check behind um i would like to slam attack behind i'd also like to say that as chet was like ducking back and going out the way i was like with all four arms sure hello sure sure okay great um so yeah make me a weight this is a weight plus weight check okay chest is i mean oh it's a six plus one six plus one oh my gosh absolutely monster okay chet is going to have to chet's going to overclock this by this is potentially a terrible this is a potentially terrible idea for chet but chet is desperate chet is going to overclock this by just by one okay um because otherwise there's literally no way he can win his weight isn't high enough or is it oh um that is actually uh true yeah because chet has a weight modifier of zero um so yeah but chet doesn't know what you've rolled i'm just i'm i'm inhabiting chet now in the mind every time [Laughter] chet just cannot cannot stand losing another position so yeah chet is going to overclock this by one come on check i'm rooting for you buddy it's two plus three okay um chet made a very bad call okay how does this slam attack look uh how does the slab attack look to you um tracy what do you do basically i also kind of want to slightly cover up the fact that i am just slamming him yeah so i kind of do a little bit of a wobble like i've lost control because i've just been like waving at him and to be honest doing other hand gestures okay he goes past sure and uh so this is like so i'm still like wait and then i'm like gonna go whoa and then brakes and uh yeah i'm like oh no i can't believe that i've nearly lost control of the motor so uh yeah and i just just basically kind of like hit the brakes a little bit too hard so that he whacks in the back chet in the majesty maxi uh you know has has been around a little bit seen seen a maneuver like this this before and um and doesn't try to get out the way just just tries to basically just try to like bounce you off um you know just tries to fight fire with fire uh which is a terrible idea because the uh front of the majesty maxi just accordions right down to the cockpit and um and huge gouts of fire that has actually genuinely taken check down to zero uh integrity uh so chet's machine is destroyed um he's going to okay i didn't think this would happen but he's going to you get a chance to eject uh which is a roll of a d6 you can't overclock because you've already used up all your health and if it's a one you die that sounds wow okay so we'll roll for chet you feel real guilty if he dies not even not even fooling oh dear oh yeah you um in your review mirror uh uh tracy you see uh chet you know hit the eject and the ejector pod goes like that but just catches just like that um on some of the kind of twisted wreckage just goes punk like that and actually just catapults jet out there small small spinning form like that tiny silhouette just down into the field whoa wow i can't believe chet died okay let's just remove his little counter oh no okay wow anyway let's see how flow's doing this is a real uh harsh reality check yeah chase yeah right um okay right as you scream over the the the line at the end of lap two uh chase you're in third uh tracy with one kill to your name um you're in you're in fourth you mark it on the side of the the racer like a like a world war ii bomber or something added to the pigeons i've got one just a pigeon yeah there's like five pigeons and then a bipedal birdman uh and and flo is um gonna finish in eighth um paul flo not having a great race okay we have one lap left so we start with you uh chase in third position what yep uh i want to advance i want to bring this one home all right i've rolled a two but that's plus my acceleration uh rating t so four cool all right the push back is only one uh so cool so for first place for in fact yeah you just take that in positions not gained and that'll still get you to first nice yes chase you were born for this change from 20th as well this is the yeah roll in like an absolute demon um i was a little worried when we first like i was like i don't know if anything's going to happen but there we go good family magic's there the family magic's there okay trey uh tracy you are in fourth uh yeah i'm gonna advance as well let's get try and get both on the podium one yeah cool oh i kid you not it's a six okay six plus your um first one okay you could overtake me the pushback is oh the pushback is six oh okay i'll go one that's fine i've only got two integrity left so i can't i can't cool what was your total roll again sorry it was seven seven okay from fourth position with a pushback roll of six you can get up to third third damage free or you can get up to second and take one integrity damage i i will i will take one into i'll i will go across the finish line with one integrity cool oh dear cool cool i want to join uh in the lava bar that is entirely up to me a few minutes from now um cool so you are oh let's just roll for well oh my gosh let's see what flow can do in eighth you know flow wants to you know flo is enraged right now okay flow is and actually still six integrity so let's oh flow's gonna overclock flow over clock flavor clock not by much flow is a cautious and a coward which is why he's never been as successful as chet okay that is a truthful flow has actually only made it up to fourth okay so as things stand at the uh coming into the final straight on lap three the race is about to end um we have chase in first position where i was born to be baby amazingly we have tracy uh the motor is kind of like smoke is pouring out of every coal basically um and there are lots of holes and there are a lot of holes um also there's like a huge flaming magma chunk kind of embedded in your left engine there it is cool um and you can see um a few vehicles behind you is uh is is flow in we haven't named flo's machine but let's say it's the fury star cool okay and we go in we go now into maneuver space uh chase you um what can i do but hold my position well you do have some options you can um you can pass basically because you do have a teammate behind you so in theory you might not need to do anything the only other thing you can do in maneuvers phase you always have the option to drop back one position and then take your turn so if you wanted you could uh drop into second and then make your maneuver for drama for drama but you don't but you don't have to i mean you're in first you could just just hold it i think i've just got to hold the position i think chase you know this is it victory's on the table it's the final lap chase has got to hold it hold that position you're in second tracy uh with one integrity left um so your options are to overtake go for an overtake on chase although he might not thank you for it uh you could block the racer behind in third from getting the overtake or you have slam attacks also available to you um if you screw it up you'll fish or die i'm i'm going to block i'm going to try and keep my uh nice second place let's find out who you're trying to block against who is currently in third it is a racer called the batifik heaven the beatific heaven is a uh oh an upgraded appliance droid so the found religion are we talking about yeah he found religion not too dissimilar uh to you tracy and the pacific heaven is in um uh fittingly enough a ship called the avenged angel uh which is another sort of hulking great damage dealer nevertheless they're going to try and overtake you desperate for second i think and hesitant to slam after seeing how you dispatched chet so for defense roam your d6 plus your weight okay specific kevin what was that what did you get three plus one is four okay the pacific heaven rolled a one uh minus one uh for the acceleration is not gonna cut it okay uh yeah this kind of lumbering obviously they're they're a very competent racer to to have got this far um you see the kind of like through the cockpit glass the kind of metallic at droid hands kind of whirring uh as this lumbering ship kind of goes for a goes for an overtake but you you just you just very decisively just weave in front just keep in front and um just just the plumes of smoke yeah i use that to my advantage so they're just like smokescreen the the beatific heaven could just can't basically just can't see where the overtake is and and being quite a cautious droid actually just sort of backs off um didn't want to meet its maker this time yeah let's see what let's see what flow does let's see because because now flow is in fourth so it's flow versus the pacific heaven flow is definitely going for the overtake there's four versus okay wow uh racing like an absolute demon flo has made it up to third so as you scream across the the finishing line the checkered flag comes down chase coming from 20th incredibly you have one in first position your first yep rip race terrific work congratulations um barely any less good tracy screaming across in seconds just a blur across the line the raw from the crowd is like right as they like look at your look at these machines that they've never seen before and tried to come to terms with who exactly has won here um as you you step out your uh machines and and and on to the podium you take first it's gonna be real awkward on the podium isn't it yeah flow basically comes storming towards you and uh basically uses third as a launch pad to just kind of spring at you uh just like screen is fist but security is on flow and dragging flow away and flow receives um his third place reward uh i sort of uh i play it up to the crowd i'm like yeah yeah the crowd is like you hear someone shout his brother just died cool okay um fantastic work let's talk uh let's talk rewards um uh cool all right so in first wow you both did so well i can't believe it chase in first place uh you've won 15 volts and 4 000 crits so um we i mean we may never play this again but but did you you know should you want to you could mark that down uh yeah i do what was it 15 volts 15 volts 4 000 crits but i can add that to the five hundred crits and the six volts that i'm getting from the skeletons later yeah yeah that's right uh one volt uh repairs one integrity um so you will probably be wanting to yeah so you'll probably be wanting to spend spend some of that uh and then um generally uh in terms of upgrading um 15 volts is the sort of standard price for an upgrade and an upgrade gets you one point in either acceleration or weight um so you might have enough to make it or you might want to you know just put some buy for repairs i'm gonna do my post race interview yeah and i end it you know i give a pressy of the the sort of entire race or wrap up the entire race and then i'm like and pacer if you're out there i'll find you and then i sign the microphone and throw it into the crap nice uh the crowd rules [Laughter] it's a real roller coaster uh cool tracy you get 14 volts to take away with you and 3 800 crits um flow gets uh also a similarly hefty reward but uh it's not gonna fill the void left ash is his brother ash is in his mouth um oh also you get some additional rewards uh who did a slam attack i think you both did didn't you but you did a successful one for each slam you successfully performed the league cuts you a one-off profit share payment of 500 um crits boosted to 1500 crits if the slam destroys a competitor's machine or forces them to retire so 1500 trips to you uh that is money that's because the uh the league sells these little um like whole commemorative hollow cards oh and they made bank yeah it shows yeah it shows like looping footage it's like a gif it's like a little pokemon card with a gif of a crash on it um ghoulish collectors these keepsakes yeah it's yeah it's grim um but they could they cut you in uh so add 500 and add 1500 chase and tracy respectively and to finish the session we will skip you to uh the hangar where mary weslington is sort of you know breaking open the space champagne can hardly believe this in intense reversal of fortunes and a long uh day of interviews and a long night of partying um at the end of which um chase as you are uh stumbling out of out of a out of a bathroom uh in a very in a very fancy bar um in the in though braids in crater city's core district um the familiar figure of the skeleton uh sort of comes out of the shadows nice work thank you hands over the uh hands over the goods it says i look around for the press again [Laughter] i don't see any but that doesn't mean they're not there because you know i did just win my first race you uh almost made that look accidental and the skeleton kind of chuckles it's a horrible noise it's like oh no have you have you got can we open that briefcase or do we need a skeleton key the skeleton is oh yes sorry of course and it just hands over an enormous bone shape um and uh and chuckles and says uh something tells me uh flow won't be so quick next time to witness the help of the skeleton consortium and uh oh dear it's off back into it was his fault all along i'm guilt-free yeah we'll see if it stands up in court guilt-free that's the best outcome of any role-playing session cool well that'll do it for um that'll do it for uh for this session that was fun yeah i can't believe how well you both did there um with some really rough uh starting positions yeah absolutely absolutely took it to chet and flow and a brilliant also r.i.p yeah this video is dedicated to marriage so thank you very much both of you for playing gravity rip and if you at home want to play it then there's links in the description where you can buy a pdf uh or a print version beautiful illustrations by colin kraker who also did our blades in the dark art look out luscious it is uh and it's a real thing look look it's a real thing look there's stuff you can print out and copy there's like a character sheet there anyway cool thank you so much you both did great thank you thank you for making such a fun game yeah it was really good fun glad you're absolutely in my absence of wheels [Laughter] and um yeah let me just finally say rop chet the sport will never be the same without you this bet would support me a bit better [Laughter] feel free

Channel: Outside Xtra

Views: 76,227

Rating: 4.9564939 out of 5

Keywords: Ellen Rose, Luke Westaway, Outside Xtra

Id: lDAY8sG-SQM

Length: 91min 12sec (5472 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 10 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/jackalope503]

GASPS The game is finished! I need to play this asap

[u/I_Am_Anjelen]

Not 20 minutes in and I'm snickering already :D

[u/imperium_lodinium]

This was fantastic (how is Luke such a polymath?!). Watched the whole session and thought it was really fun. I’d be keen to see another session carrying on the story, or possibly a small series, maybe with Andy and Jane forming a rival team?

Wouldn’t be my choice of topic material, and I wonder if the race mechanic might feel a bit limiting on multiple sessions. Do the mechanics give space for larger arcs (like Chase finding his sister, for example)? The free play bit might come to dominate the session after a while.

That being said, what I do like is how realistic a possibility death felt. Ellen was down to 1HP and tactically it might have made sense for Mike to let her take poll position to shield her from any further attacks - which is a cool angle of team tactics to explore. In both the other two TTRPGs they play, you get a strong feeling of plot armour - the Oxventurers have never been close to death (though I sometimes think Luke wants a total party wipe so they can reset and do more complete characters now they’re better role players)

[u/Wookiee_MacCool]

As much as I love pen and paper RPGs, this (racing) is thematically as far from my taste as it gets. Yet I enjoyed the video immensely. Being a professional entertainer is way harder than lot od people think. But OX mastered the craft.

[u/_PM_ME_NICE_BOOBS_]

I really want to see this played with the whole gang, including Johnny (press any) Chiodini.

[u/SeekerSpock32]

Ellen calling Luke her “talented friend” on social media promoting this video is such a great wholesome example of life/friendship goals.

[u/goater10]

Mike gives off the stern but fair teacher vibe at the beginning

[u/dccomicsthrowaway]

This was so entertaining! I really want them to come back to this regularly but I know balancing it alongside Oxventure and Blades in the Dark would be difficult.

Did this particular session have a name like their other campaigns? Anyone care to suggest one? Wish I knew auto-racing terms, I'm sure there are plenty of puns that would work

[u/ishldgetoutmore]

Ordered and skimmed while watching the video. I'm not into racing, but I always get something from reading games, and what I've looked at so far is pretty good. I'm impressed for Luke's first RPG!