The Adventure Zone

The Adventure Zone: Abnimals Ep. 24: A SCUZZ of Our Own!

46 min
Mar 27, 2025about 1 year ago
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Summary

In this episode of The Adventure Zone: Abnimals, the party escapes from Scuzz's facility after being drugged and imprisoned. They navigate arcade games, enjoy a meal, and ultimately break free from restraints with help from a damaged robot, engaging in combat with kill-bots before ascending the elevator to continue their rescue mission.

Insights
  • Collaborative gameplay mechanics reward teamwork and paired actions, encouraging players to work together strategically rather than individually
  • Character development through downtime activities (arcade games, meals) builds emotional investment and reveals character motivations and vulnerabilities
  • NPCs with conflicting programming or loyalties create moral complexity and opportunities for persuasion-based problem solving
  • Failure states and partial successes create narrative tension and force creative problem-solving rather than simple success/failure outcomes
Trends
Narrative-driven tabletop RPG design emphasizing roleplay and character moments over mechanical optimizationCollaborative storytelling that balances player agency with DM-controlled pacing and consequencesUse of game-within-game mechanics (arcade games) to provide mechanical breaks and character development opportunitiesEmotional storytelling through NPC relationships and moral dilemmas in fantasy adventure settings
Topics
Tabletop RPG Game DesignCollaborative Storytelling MechanicsCharacter Development Through RoleplayNPC Loyalty and Programming ConflictsCombat Encounter DesignEscape Sequence Narrative StructureTeamwork Mechanics in GamesFailure State ConsequencesMoral Decision Making in Fantasy SettingsRobot Characters and AI Ethics
People
Travis McElroy
Dungeon Master and primary storyteller for The Adventure Zone: Abnimals campaign
Griffin McElroy
Player character in the campaign; author of The Stowaway mentioned in episode
Justin McElroy
Player character in the campaign; co-host of We Got This with Mark and Hal
Clint McElroy
Player character Roger Moore in the campaign; father of Griffin and Justin
Quotes
"In spite of what you've ever heard, we're at the height of our powers. We're top of tallest towers in Spain."
Unknown (opening song)Opening
"I know it's not real. I know it's not real. Video games aren't real. I know. It just felt good man. It's been a long time."
Lamar (character)Mid-episode
"Teamwork makes the dream work makes the scream work when your arm gets cut off."
CharacterPost-combat
"I was programmed by Dr. Kilda. That's a good point. And I guess there's a, there's not bad. Just draw in that way."
Scuzz (NPC)Climax
Full Transcript
In spite of what you've ever heard, we're at the height of our powers. We're top of tallest towers in Spain. You'll never stop us now. Take my hand and can trust that we will do what we must, until it's turning out just like a plan. We're set away so wrong. It is long, but our mojo is strong. And unless I'm wrong, and I'm not, we're at the height of our power. The End Has the credits roll on the extended director's cut of Flubber? We've gotta stick around for the after-credits scene with the cheese flubber too. And there's deleted scenes, there's making of documentary if you wanna watch any of those. Now which Flubber are we discussing? Well this is Flubber 1. Are we talking about Fred McMurray? No. Well the absinthe professor didn't have Flubber as a component. No one listening was alive when any Flubber came out. This is purely for us. And so it doesn't matter. Not for you. Don't try to put Fred McMurray's old weird butt in here. You guys stand, you wipe tears from your eyes. Wow. It gets very, you notice new stuff man, every time. Hey, can I? I know it's supposed to be for only after work, but can we, can we check out the arcade? So badly I'm dying. Oh yeah, you hear Skuz and the lights kinda zoom back to you on the wall. Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, let me get everything turned on and powered up here, follow me. And you see the lights move down the hallway again leading you towards the arcade. Skuz, is there, do you guys have the green bank guardian? The green's arcade cabinet, like the four top ones. Oh yeah, absolutely we do. There's some graffiti written on it, you know, cause it's like boo green bank guardians or whatever, but it's still playable. It was a big hit with the kill death box. Dibs on Carver? Dibs on Carver. Yeah, obviously Dibs on Carver, no slappers. It says like natural, like rocket launchers, only in the second round. I mean you can't call Dibs on Carver. I just called Dibs on Carver. You have to call Dibs on it. We're going to go to the bathroom camping and we'll start a facility and take it to temple, obviously. Roger puts a quarter down and says, I got next. Well it's a four player cabinet man. So we don't want to do it. I'm not very competitive. So much so that you don't want to play with us. I'm going to see if they have one of those dance games. Yeah, of course you are. Well Lamar times then, is it weird if I play as myself? No, please do. So Trav, here's my thought and I don't know what you want to do with this. But I am really interested in this idea of these heroes that have been around so long that we've forgotten some of the mythology. And I'm wondering if there is something in this game in the way these guardians do their biz or in the way they fight or in the enemy behaviors or something that I can learn that will be advantageous to me in the future. That's cool. Some sort of special move that we had forgotten about or something maybe Lamar forgot. Something in this game, I'm looking to jog something or rebuild a little bit of that history. I know there's not going to be a science burrito in here, but I'm looking for any kind of leg up maybe in the game. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like this and you know this game. You've played it before. So give me a 48 roll on it. Alright, two successes. Yeah, with two successes, two things. One, the thing that you were very struck by, right, is as this is a cooperative game, there's constant combos, right? And as individuals, right, the Greenback Guardians are pretty effective, but you see a lot of like setups happening and the effectiveness of that. And it clues into your brain, this thing of like you've been working with these two for a while now and you know the inner workings of how the three of you work together. Okay. And what that's going to do for you is anytime your action is coupled with there. So if that or Griffin do something and then your character responds to that with an action, you're going to pick up an extra D8 for that. Killer. I would probably, this feels like abs move. Is that where the Mondo moves? You think that's where this would make the most sense? Yeah, something like that. And whatever wording you want to put in it. Okay. And that's a, what did you say the material impact of that is from any miracle? Bonus D8. Bonus D8. If it's a pairing up, like a team up. Yes. A competition. But you also noticed something else. As you're playing Lamar is getting way into it and he is up to this point been very Zen about everything and very chill about everything. And you can see him as he's like playing as himself and even in this like video game form, like fighting crime with his buddies. He's getting like very emotionally invested in it. Like he's in it. It's like he's suddenly 20 years younger and like the energy he's giving off is quite considerable. And he is frankly slamming that punch button as hard, the attack button as hard as he can. Careful man, these things, they will turn you violent. That has been figured out by the science in studies. Say nothing of the richest carpal tunnel man. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. I just got caught up. Dude, it was, it felt good. I mean, it felt good to, and I know it's not real. I know it's not real. Video games aren't real. I know. It just felt good man. It's been a long time. Hey listen, I know anytime you're gaming, you know, gaming is a really healthy way to work through that. I think, yeah, it's worse than- He lowers his blue blocker glasses. Even though you are, even though you are a pacifist man, like you're not hurting ones and zeros. I think it's a really healthy way to work through some of that anger that you may be possessing and acknowledging that you are a human and therefore imperfect, you know. You gotta have some impulses you might as well work about on the digital field of battle man. Yeah, I mean that felt good, but it also like, I haven't seen my brothers, you know, in like a decade. Yeah, that must be, that must be really- Is that time crisis four? What? No way! I go play time crisis four. Hey dad, just for my own curiosity, I'm gonna have you roll 48 to see how you do on the dance dance machine. Oh, I didn't- he's not doing dance dance. Oh, he's not doing dance dance resistance? They got- He found- He found drum master. He found Donkey Konga 3. Oh, get out of town. Yeah, that's a good- Which was only released in Japan. Dad, that's actually like a pretty good poll for you. I mean, we did give you 15 minutes to Google it, so it's not limited, but like still, it's not a bad poll. Okay, well- I knew about a game I didn't and that sends a chill down my spine. Only in Japan, my friend, only in Japan. Well, famously, dad knows a ton about Japan and Griffin has no interest. No idea or interest to no more. Okay, dad- I told you about tak- The goat cheese. Nope. Dad, tamagotchees? That's not even- Okay, you've just lost it. You've actually just lost it again. That's a Donkey Konga 3. Yeah, okay, roll 48 for me. 48, here they come. Two successes, eight to five. You get a third on the leaderboard at the end. Yes. You see, it's a cleft and cleft and then you. Ow. Yeah, I think I'm gonna- Well, maybe I'll just be happy with third. I mean, it's kind of my status in all words. I mean, listen, yeah, you guys have to rescue Carver and stop whoever's- But if you wanna spend a couple more, like, episodes of this podcast playing Donkey Konga 3 to see if you can be Clev-Sci-Score. I mean, now that I know that we can manifest rare Japanese arcade game machines, I could spend quite a while dipping into that. I'm gonna try it one more time. We should. And I'm gonna use the time to shine dice. No, come on. You are gonna be fighting Splinter at the end of this. And you're gonna be like, out of TTSs. I'm gonna use one TTS. Unreal, man. I know. I'm so proud of you, Dad. I'm so bold. Here we go. So five, D8. Oh my God. Seven, four, three, two, one. Yeah, you actually do worse. Yeah, you do worse this time. You don't even, not only do you not make it on the leaderboard, but Cranky comes out and he, like, points at the screen and laughs at you and even says your name. Somehow he's like, I'm disappointed in you, Roger Moore. It's very hurtful. I know. Yeah, I mean, Roger's a very sensitive dude. Yeah, and Cranky is very mean. He throws down the DK bongos and walks away from the game. Well, hey, hey, come on, man. This is a rare import. And you hear Skuz the likes Kabugger. What do you guys want to see next? There's the cafeteria. I could whip up some lunch where there's not a lot in the armory. They took a lot of that with them, but we could look in there. If you guys are looking a little rough, maybe we could hit the day spa, the infirmary, patch up a little bit? Oh, I'll definitely need to hit that. I think the armory might be a good idea if we're getting ready to plunge into a big, big, big butt battle. Now, what? Like a battle with big butt? That's insane, man. Yeah, let's let's do them all. Let's hit the armory first. Maybe go snackaroonie at the cafeteria. OK, yeah, I'll have the the bots start working on you guys like sandwiches or what what are you guys into? What do you like? Look at no roast beef. Oh, yeah. No, of course. Fish live live fish. My fish. OK, give it to us. Ron Rickling. Ron Rickling. Yeah, you got it. OK. That's one going special. You keep you you you you you keep nasty taters. OK, I'll keep nasty taters. Uh, do you? I just sound creepy, man, but you got me. Daphne. Any what? Daphne is the I mean, on the street, the calm water fleas sometimes but technically they're deaf. Yeah. It's one of my face like bugs. Yeah, like I eat Brian shrimp. That's the earthworms. What have you got, man? Grime. OK, yeah, I think we can. I would like a black worm right now or earthworm. Whatever you got. Yeah, we'll pick up some bugs. OK. Hey, you guys are a thing about. I eat bugs. Yeah, man, I think about it a lot. I think it's honestly pretty cool. It's great, sustainable, pro. Absolutely, man. It's good for the environment and it's good for my, you know, my interior environment too. Floral on these guys on rail. Yeah. But you guys wanted to check out the armory. It's over this way. If you want to come here, you go and the lights zoom down that hallway into the armory. You find a much smaller room than the ones you've been in previously. And as Gus mentioned, a lot of the shells have been emptied. What you see is because the majority of Dr. Kildes like minions were robots. You see a lot of like robot attachments, a lot of arm attachments or like laser guided like HUD kind of glasses that are, you know, it lenses one might put on a robot. There's some equipment here, but it's pretty picked over. I mean, I wouldn't mind grabbing some of these attachments for my pal, Roly Bot, just just I don't know that I would know how to sort of upgrade him with this stuff. But if I see anything in here that could make our most spherical team member more sort of combat combat ready, that would be great. Yeah. Give me, um, let's see with your bug eyes, give me a 48 roll to see what you can find. 48 I find a garbage can and it's full of dookie. Yeah. That's a three, a three, a three and a two. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So take a practice point. Um, it's been so long. I didn't think we were going to get any more of these. Well, I didn't think you were going to fail so bad. I felt real bad. Yeah. Like I said, you find a lot of stuff, but you're unable to see how any of it would be useful. There's a lot of like loose wires and the things you see seem pretty outdated. Okay. Um, nothing that's really that impressive to you. I'm at this point, I just kind of want to look like I know what I'm doing. So it's not too embarrassed myself. So I'll grab like a spool of wire and just be like, this is good stuff. High quality copper. My man, Rolly bot's going to chomp this down spaghetti. Good. Excellent. Anybody else want to take a look around anything in particular you're looking for in the market for it? What are you buying? Better not be a spool of wire because I got that on lock. Uh, is there anything like protective that would be my, my sort of speed? I'm looking for something that can shield my extremely delicate flesh. Excellent. Um, let's see. Give me a, yeah, just a, you're scouting everything out. Give me a 3D 8 roll. Hmm. If I turn the lights off, can I use my nocturnal sense and roll 48? Huh. Let's see. I'll go ahead and I'll just turn the lights. Like at this point, we anticipate each other's needs. Yeah. Go for it. Good. But your dark vision is better than your light vision. Yeah. Sure. Thank you. All right. So that's a team up sets 5D. What? No, if it didn't take an action, he did. He turned the lights out. That's a free action. I'm just kidding. I roll 48. You win. Nope. That's a complete and total failure. Hey, man, that wasn't cool at all. Who did that? Hey, who turned the lights off? I thought that I messed up, dude. I thought it would help. Okay. Why did you think that it's dark? You know what darkness is? No, you didn't. I turned the lights. I'll turn it back on. Oh, it's not turning back on. Oh, farts. Dunbrook to the dang switch. You hear from the other room. Leave you guys in the dark here. Lunch is ready whenever you guys. If you want to go. Tell us, get someone to bring us in. Oh, yeah. The lights zoom in again on the walls. This way. Thank God. Just follow the light. We need to stop messing with powers beyond our ken. A light switch? Apparently. I'm a seal. What do I know about switches? True. As you head into the cafeteria, you can see places laid out a non roast beef sandwich for you, a bowl full of bugs, some raw wriggling, no nasi taters fish and a pizza for Lamar. But he has gone all out scuzz in the box with like a vase with flowers in it and like place settings and crystal serving wear and stuff like that. Just yeah, it's a size. Nice to have friends come to visit. I laid everything out here and then I was thinking after this, we could check out flutter two, maybe some more games. We do. And Carter may be being tortured right now. So we should hold that truth in our hearts and maybe a little let it sort of spur us on to action. Well, yeah, he's counting on us, man. I mean, yeah, yeah, I get that. But like what if that was like a later thing and right now was like kind of like a sleepover. Do you want to come with us? I'm kind of like long, um, you know, I'm programmed into the kind of headquarters here. All right. Well, let me, uh, let me get in there. See if I can't fix that. Hey, hold on. I mean, I'm going to say just, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, see what's that mean? I want to get there and have a butcher's man inside the walls inside your noggin, fella. That's not my noggin. That's just a wall. No, no, no, I'm going to get inside your noggin. I'm going to reprogram you. She can come with us. You don't rest. Stick around here. Like some sort of weird metal ghost. Do you? Can I ask you a question? Yeah. Just a follow up before you have, uh, I believe you said a butcher's in my noggin. Yeah. How confident are you that you could transfer me out of here and not like erase me entirely? So here's the plan and you have, you're good with computers. Be one yourself. I'm going to SSA gin, dear dog. Right. I'm going to root around your root directory. I'm going to pseudo in to some of your, uh, the, the, the, the, the live and the dear, we're going to have a butcher's around and see if I can't see what's causing the problems. I'll get rid of this stuff that says, I'm sure there's a line in your code somewhere, but are you Python by the way? Cause I did like five hours of Python and community college. So like you're, uh, I'm going to, I'm just going to get in there. I'll erase the line that says like, stay here. Copy once, like get out there and get it done. Go to 10, you know, whatever. Um, Justin, give me a role. Let's see. What would this be? Um, yeah, I don't see anything. You're a, so a three to eight role cause you are training out. I don't actually even know that I have the faked college hours. All this is right now is to convince him to let you try. Yeah. Just let me have a butcher's. Uh, dag nabbit. That's a full miss. I mean, a four one two. You just, you know, you hate to see it, but it's a full whiff. I, um, I really appreciate that. Um, the offer and, um, but I think maybe like I'll just wait and we'll just hang out and see how things go. All right, man. That's absolutely fair. If you change your mind, that's the great thing about SSHing into things. Is I could SSH into your live or your dear point you need. Okay. It's got a real, it's got a real code cowboy. I'll keep that in mind. I'm going to be too. I, I could, I could mess around with that a little bit. It's, it's actually, I already said no, and it's becoming less, um, assuring. Has he feel less confident as I continue. Honestly, in my bill, even if you asked me to this point to be, I don't think I would. Okay. To be honest. Um, hey, would someone mind throwing this fish into my open mouth? Hup. Ah. No, I told you, man. Hey, man. Not cool. I'm trying. I respect your boundaries. And I respect everything that you bring to the table. And I, all I ask is that you do the same. That was kind of species appropriation. And I'm sorry. Um, see you guys yummy down. Yeah. Hey, let me try one of those bugs. Nope. Not for me. I tried it. I thought a worm would be like a linguine, but it, no, it's good as a, it is a worm. It is decided. Yeah. It's an acquired taste, man. Uh, and also you got squeeze out the nugget. I saw a line. Can't squeeze out the nugget before you eat it. It's tough. But, but don't eat the, don't eat the pod itself. They don't eat the pot. Everyone will laugh at you. Yeah. What in Hakuna Matata? I always thought like those gorgeous bugs look actually so delicious, but now I know that I prefer fish. So thank you. Learning a lot about myself on this adventure. Yeah. No problem. Um, so each of you can regain two hit points. I think dad, you're only down one. So you'll be up for a health. Great. And your bodies begin to feel sluggish. No. And your vision starts to blur. Wait, why? Travis. It's food. You hear scus say, I told you we're going to have a sleep. 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And anyway, I'm about to take my mother into town to see Phantom of the Opera at last. You are wasting my time and even worse, my mother's time. She only has so much time left. She's 98 years old. She's only expected to live for another 20 or 30 years. Mother get your shoes on. Yes, the orthopedic ones. I don't want that to carry you home again. Do I? Right. Well, if you were looking for a podcast, but you're not wearing that. Are you? It's very revealing, mother. This is a musical theater, not a Parisian bordello. Simply go to maximumfund.org. I'm reaching for my Samsung Galaxy 4 as we speak. Mother, mother, not that hat. The four of you, Lamar and you three, wake up. I have a date. Sorry, Axel Isle and the rest. I have a name too. I can't remember it. Roger Moore. Yeah, there it is. Roger Moore. Thank you. I'm just saying if you're going to end the pussycat someone, I want you to end the pussycat still. Okay, Roger, Lyle, Navy and the rest. Is that better? Yeah. Wouldn't you rather buy a CD from Axel Lyle and the rest? You wake up strapped to metal tables in a brightly lit. It looks like at some point it would have been like an anesthetic kind of very clean room. It is a little dusty now, a little worn down from disuse. But you find yourselves in the day spa slash infirmary. The straps, your wrists, forearms, legs, you're firmly down. And Scuzz says, oh, you're awake. Great. We can keep hanging out. I've got all kinds of activities planned. And I figure after like a couple of days here, you guys will have cooled off. Um, and then you'll be ready to hang out more. I can let you off the tables. This is going to be so good. Time out. Trav, can I ask you a question about the day spa infirmary? Yeah, please. Is there a regular assessment as to which one people are in? Like, is there a point on your journey of recovery from an injury or malady at which point you, you realize that you are now in the spa? Right. Like you are no longer in the infirmary and it is now the spa. Um, yeah. So you didn't get a full chance to scope it out, but just from where you're laying and kind of see out of the, you know, corners of your eyes, its majority is an infirmary, but you can see a couple like massage chairs have been set up and some like foot baths and stuff. Okay. And maybe the day spa title was something that they're like, we have a lot going on here. So there is some what you would consider spa equipment. But the majority of the experience is infirmary. So it's not really a spa or mary. It's, it's more of a kind of infirmary infirmary. Yeah. Okay. With a relaxing infirmary. Mm hmm. Um, hey, listen, I know you're lonely and that is. Well, not anymore. Well, we will turn the cold shoulder to you. We will give you the silent treatment. And we'll be pretty, pretty gnarly. Um, but we actually do need to sort of save the day as is our want. So, um, I do, I got it. I need you to let us out of here, pal. Cause it's, uh, we not have time maybe for at least a makeover or, you know, put our hair up in curlers. I'm going to go ahead and say that, um, between, uh, indulging in flubber and then being knocked unconscious, we have probably expended all of our free like, um, mission leisure time. Right. Oh, yes. But I'm just saying that I think we're in a rush at this point. I know, but I think there may be time for maybe one sleepover activity. Like I tell you what, how about a pillow fight? That would be fun. Can we have a pillow fight? It's classic stuff. Scuz. It's, you can't have a sleepover without throwing a few pillows around. Gotta have a pillow fight. Oh, Scuz. Okay. Uh, a pillow fight. Yeah. Um, okay. Me and the boss are going to go get some things ready, get some snacks, go and get some pillows ready. We're going to make sure like it's all safe too. We don't want anybody getting hurt. Um, okay. We'll be back. And you see the lights zoom out of the room and the kill bots that are in the room that were like strapped you in and led you in there, leave with the lights. Um, there are still lights on in the room. Mind you, just scuzz his lights have left the room. So now it's just the four of you in there. Okay. This is very important. Is Roger strapped belly down with his butt in the air or on his back? Travis, it's really important. It's really, this is very important. So important. You may think you know what the word important means, but it's about to get redefined. Really important. Which, which way he's laying on his back the way you would expect someone to be strapped to a table if it wasn't like an alien abduction kind of situation. Actually have to say anything else about that. Very well. That's all I needed to know. Oh gosh. Wait, did you have a thing if you were butt up? Well, if I was butt up, I was going to fill the room with gas. I'm so glad that didn't happen then. Amazing. So your ideas we've been kidnapped. I'm going to kill all of us. No, it wouldn't be like a cyanide pill. Yeah. Sure. They will never, they can't take us alive. Death before sleepover. Did they leave anyone behind to keep an eye on us? Give me a bug eye chart. Okay. Two successes, double success, seven seven. So a cowabunga. Yeah. With a cowabunga, you can see a kill death bond that's kind of in there. This one's the roughest looking one that you've seen. Its islands is a very cracked and it's kind of bumping into things as it wheels around. Oh, I love him though. So. All right. And as long as, as long as we're at it without bug eye check, the other thing you see is as much as this is an infirmary, once again, with the majority of kill death's army being bots, it's a lot of what you would also associate with like repair equipment. So you see like there's blades, you know, kind of a chop saw kind of device hanging above Lyles slab above yours. You can see like, like soldering equipment that's attached to the wall. Yeah. I don't like any of that. I don't like being strapped down in a room with all that stuff. I look at this little busted up bot and look at my teammates and I say, uh, I apologize, this is going to be an unpleasant sound. And I take a deep breath and I like close my glottis and I. And I do siren song. Okay. There is some precedent for robotic control with this. Absolutely. Give me a 3D aero please. I'll use a TTS. Nice. Here we go. Two successes, eight and six. With two successes. All right. This little broken down bot comes rolling over to you. It's head walls slightly to one side where you can see there is a screw missing from its neck and it kind of rolls up to you. And you can see like the apertures within the lenses trying to focus behind the like cracked glass, but it's, it's kind of looking at you. You can't tell if it's heads tilted because of the screw or like in, uh, you know, inquisitive kind of nature, but you have its attention and it's like paying attention to you. Hey, a little robot baby. I need you to let us out of here real quick. Like before the. Yep. Do you speak? Can you understand me? Okay. So we're going to need to come up with something real quick. Um, do you have like a light on you? Like a light you can flash or something? It turns its light on. It's flickering. Okay. So flicker once for yes to for no. Can you let us out of here? It flickers once. Okay. So go ahead and do that. And it flashes twice. Why not? Oh, that's not a yes or no question. Uh, are you worried that your other robot friends might get angry? It flashes once for yes. Okay. Well, you don't have to worry about that because, um, we can, we can to protect you from them, but, uh, I'm going to be. I'm going to be pedantic for just a second, Griffin, so you don't get too confused. You ask, can it? Yeah. Not will it? Oh, okay. I thought he is sort of under my control with the. Well, so with the two things he's listening to you, he's into it. Like he's not brushing you off. If you had gotten to Cowabunga, I believe like you did with Roly Bar, then you would have had him. Okay. That's true. Um, okay. Um, listen, uh, we're on a really important mission. Dr. Kill death is Dr. Kill does in a lot of danger right now. And it's if Flickers twice for no, but in like a panicked way. Yeah. No, he isn't. I can't tell if that was in a panicked way or if you're saying I'm lying. I'm not. It's true, but he's, he's in a lot of trouble. And if we don't get to that elevator and get up, uh, for too much longer, they might execute him. They will kill him graveyard dead. Yeah. They're met. You need to mess with some bad customers. So listen, help us out a year. We'll go save him, bring him home. He'll fix you up for sure. And then you won't have to worry about any kind of repercussions. Your friends will be so proud of you for helping rescue Dr. Kill death. What do you say about? He looks up and to the right for just a second and something about his body language and the way that he is now be being a warring, lets you know, he's singing a very quick kind of Disney princess style. I want song to himself about the dreams of leaving this place and being fixed up once again and being reunited with Dr. Kill death. And then he comes back to you and he kind of like bling. He blinks once for yes, as we've established. Yeah. So you'll let us out of here. He blinks once for yes. Okay. Yes. Let's do it quick before your, your friends get back. Cause I did some of them might be spies and they might want Dr. Kill death. Okay. He rolls over to the controls next to Lyle's bed and he starts like kind of scratching his tilted head and rubbing his hand. And then he just starts hitting buttons. I reach down and I use the controls to a friess. What? Well, you said the controls were next to my bed. So I figured I just, I could, I could do it. Right. Well, they're next to your bed, but not quite like an easy reach. Okay. All right. If you want to give me a role to see if you can like strain against your restraints to reach them, can you just tear your, tear your arm off and then have your arm sort of like, wait a minute, hack it and then you can regrow it. That doesn't make any sense. Oh, okay. Sorry, I can't control it independently for a second. I was like, that's really good, but I don't have a follow up. Like after I cut it off, I could regrow it, but I don't think I could independently make it do anything except fall to the ground. Like if we needed an arm to fall to the ground, I could definitely do that. Cut your head off, regrow a body from it, and it'll be free from the constraints. How close is Roger to either of the other's beds? Um, close enough for whatever you're thinking. Okay. I have a team up suggestion. I love it. I love to hear those. Okay. Cut off your arm. I'll use my pre-hensile power to use my tail as a whip or rope. I'll grab your arm and use it to open your restraints. I really feel like we're on the lake, the five yard line with this robot. The robot, yeah, the robot beeps once for yes. What, you like that? And then it presses a button and the chop saw blade lowers down. Okay. And cuts, cuts Lyle's arm off. Oh man. Oh man. Oh man. Another theme restored. Now there's balance. A robot ripped someone else's arm off. And the robot gives a robot thumbs up. No, dude. Rubber hammer, rubber, rubber hammer. I'm going to kick that robot's butt. And he's like pointing at Roger and pointing at Lyle. He's, he thought he was helping. He thought he was helping. He doesn't know about pain. Yeah, I know. He takes it. The robot takes his arm off and then puts it back on and it's still moving. Like it attives to the Texas army. Yeah. He's like, there, fix it. Go. Oh, cut that out. That near of it. Oh man. Okay. Can I wiggle out now? Well, that has rolled something. Yes. I rolled, I rolled to use the pre-hensile tail to catch the arm to push the button that was in the house of the jack built. Yeah. Yeah, man. With two successes, you're able to get that arm that was just caught off of your friend Axel Lyle in your tail and you are able to use it to free yourself from your restraints. And I get out. Muya. I don't think this is a time for celebration. It doesn't feel like a Muya to me, man. Currently it doesn't feel like a Muya. Here. And I, I go over and I free my, my two friends. Do you do it with Axel Lyle still disconnected arm? Yeah. Just cause it's a little more stylish and I'm all about style. And also because if you didn't, it would be insane. Everything that has led up to this point, it would be insane to cut off this guy's arm for no reason at all. Well, no, if freed, if freed Roger from it. So now Roger's just walking around with the arm poking at buttons. So I freed raw, I've freed Navy. And then I go over and I free Lyle and then I kind of with a sheepish grin, hand him his arm back. Or wow. Thanks. She's cool. Yeah, man. Hey, good teamwork. Sure. Cool. Yeah, man. Teamwork makes the dream work makes the scream work when your arm gets cut off. I'll look around the infirmary to see if there's anything that can help Lyle in this. I'll tell you one thing you could grab real quick. If you don't mind, man. Yeah. My arm. You, he already gave it back to you. I gave it back to I don't want it. Well, why you. Okay. Oh, here. Yeah, actually you take it. Actually carry it around. Roger. Like an Albus Ross. Roger. Carry it around and Roger. Yes. I want you. Listen, I don't want to carry around the emotional wave of this. So I do need you to watch what you have forced me to do. Okay. It's so fascinating. Nature is incredible. It's like those time lapse photography things. I know. Okay, Justin, roll three to eight to see how effectively you regrow the arm. You will regrow it no matter what. This is just how quickly. That once a mix success. With a mix success, you basically get an arm that's like half the size of your normal arm. That does not feel. It's still growing. Okay. It's still growing. That's just where you're at right now. Okay. It looks like. It's very attractive. Do you need a sling or a splint or they got some basic stuff here. I can form one out of your other arm. If you want it. Why don't you take a pause on helping. Oh, yes. Good point. I appreciate the desire for teamwork, but I didn't know it would hurt to be honest with you. I'm sorry. Well, that's wild from over in a corner where he's been going through a medicine cabinet. I found some like painkillers and let's see some sutures here. If we want to patch whatever we can up, it looks like you're well on your way with the arm thing. I have a lot of like combat medic training. If you guys want me to patch anything up. I mean, I don't know. Tug like I don't really know what you could do for me, man. But you still have injuries, Lyle. Yeah, that's true. I guess my regenerative. Hmm. Yeah, I guess some sort of other. Yeah, anything you could do to like patch me up, I guess there's no reason to fight this. Let's see what he can still though. It was a pretty good plan. Hey, any anyone you walk away from not your best work. Yeah. Okay. So he rolled seven because he does have training in this and he has three successes, including a cow bunka. So he's able to patch you both up. I think Roger, you're already at full, but Lyle and Navy, you guys are back to full health. Oh, amazing. That's actually that's excellent. I'm ready to go fight. Cool. Hey, little baby robot, can you get us to the elevator? Get us out of here before your friends get back. And he holds his arms out to you like oppies. Okay. Pick him up. Let's be sneaky. Still Roger grabs the bottle of pain pills and puts them in his pocket. Okay. That's not alarming. That's not like worrying at all. No biggie. Let's go. Hi, God. I just want to say, as anyone who watched Brothers Gate knows God's inclination to pick up anything that isn't nailed down and put it in his pockets is such a treat to see. Well, right now I'm looking at his additional inventory and he just has so much stuff in there, but it's worth noting that like it's not for show. It's the way dad plays games too. It's, it's just dad. He, he's not doing it for your entertainment. And you just see his office. Yeah. It's a complete. Yeah. He wants to see if Travis left any items around in his game. I mean, it makes perfect sense. Yeah. You pick up a couple of mortar and pestles, a couple of scales. He's going to add all this to his inventory. If you keep talking, he's going to add this stuff to his actually. You guys sneak in the hallway, but you see the lights of scuzz and about 20 kill death bots coming down. And as soon as they see you out, they start worrying and those lights start zooming down and he's saying, they're here. They're here. Come get him. Go get him. And the, the bots are heading towards you. Behind you is the elevator up to the tunnels. Um, you make your way into the elevator with, with your broken bot directing you. You're able to get inside and the bots are heading down the hall. Can I fire just like full blasts down the hall at the, at the robots? You sure can. Okay. Yeah. I hate to do it, but. Yeah, you're right. I don't hate to do it. Uh, cool. So this will just be an attack with my signature item of five to eight. That is three successes, including a double eight. Oh yeah. That's a mega cow. Bunga baby. You blast the robots back. Now let me ask you this. Whoa, that's a good time for one. What effect do you want? Do you want it to be like, and they're all obliterated or like they're cleaned up. You, you basically, uh, power blast some of the rest and scaling often. I would love to blast them hard enough to knock them back to a point where I could close one of these bulkhead doors to sort of like neutralize the danger. Yeah, absolutely. You're able to knock them back. Oh, quite a ways they're back by the screening room now. Okay. Um, and, and you have time to shut that bulkhead door into the elevator area. Um, and I'm going to wrap my spool of wire around like the, the like, you know, ceiling latch thing so that it, just to buy us some time. Uh, the lights of scuzz are still in there, but without his robots, he's not able to really interact with you physically. Cool. Okay. So it looks like you guys are going to go, huh? Yes. Scuzz. Yeah. Come on. You, we've already won. Let's not rub his nose in it. Oh, I don't have a nose. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Scuzz, we have important business to do. We're like heroes and we're saving someone and you kidnapped us. So, uh, you're doing some, you're on some real villain stuff right now. And I want you to sit and think about that really reflect on it. I mean, I was programmed by Dr. Kilda. That's a good point. And I guess there's a, there's not bad. Just draw in that way. Right. Oh yeah. Thank you. Well, I know that I don't really have any room to ask you guys for this, but could you give me a favor? Sure. Could you tell Dr. Kilda to come in and like get me out? Yeah. Um, I would be happy to lend you a hand. No. And then I take my hand and I hand him. Well, he's, he's intangible. He's a voice. I know. I'm just like dropping on the ground. Okay. I'll, I'll think of you all anytime I look at this, just a body hand. I'll think of you. Great. If you could dispose of it in like a ecologically sound way. I'd appreciate it. Yeah. We have a burner. We have. Yeah. Thank you. I'm an incinerator. Save few words. Oh, is this what we've become fellows? Callous hardened. Oh, I tell you what, scus, I'll come back and visit sometime. No, just get, just get Dr. Kilda after coming get me out. I'd rather come visit you. That was brutal. No, I want to come visit you. Okay. Um, I guess this is goodbye. All right. Please open the elevator door. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Elevator doors open. Thank you, scus. Don't kidnap anyone else. That's a bad move, dude. Okay. We're watching. Okay, man. Okay. Build it and they will come scus. I don't follow that one. Have fun up there. Don't get killed. As the doors are closing a little baby robot. We already have a robot team member, but stay true to yourself and get fixed up. Pal. Yeah. All right. And the doors close with him on the other side. Maximum fun. A workaround network of artist owned shows supported directly by you.