Summary
In this D&D 5e campaign set in a sci-fi universe, four grandfathers rescue their granddaughter Lila from an IBS capital ship, only to discover she's now fighting for the opposing Luminous faction. After 10 years of relativistic time dilation, they agree to help her with a dangerous exchange at a space casino, but Lila is kidnapped by mysterious shapeshifters before they can complete the mission.
Insights
- Time dilation in space travel creates emotional stakes: characters age differently, relationships deteriorate, and rescue missions become more complex when temporal displacement is involved
- Moral ambiguity in faction warfare: the granddaughter's choice to join the 'underdog' Luminous faction over the resource-rich IBS reflects how recruitment and perspective shape loyalty
- Shapeshifter antagonists introduce trust-breaking mechanics: the revelation that Jessica Meska is alive and shape-shifting undermines assumptions about character death and allegiance
- Collaborative problem-solving under pressure: the party uses creative solutions (drone surveillance, fire alarms, teleportation) to attempt rescue rather than direct combat
- Generational conflict themes: grandfather figures struggle to balance respecting their adult granddaughter's autonomy with parental concern for her safety
Trends
Sci-fi D&D campaigns increasingly use relativistic time mechanics as emotional narrative driversFaction-based storytelling in TTRPGs emphasizes moral complexity over binary good/evil alignmentsShapeshifter antagonists are becoming popular for creating paranoia and trust-breaking moments in party dynamicsSpace opera settings in D&D leverage casino/entertainment hub locations as neutral ground for high-stakes encountersDrone technology in fantasy/sci-fi games is being integrated as a tool for reconnaissance and creative problem-solving beyond combat
Topics
Time dilation and relativistic aging in space travel narrativesFaction warfare and recruitment mechanics in sci-fi worldbuildingShapeshifter antagonists and identity deceptionRescue mission planning under time pressureGenerational conflict in family-based narrativesDrone surveillance and reconnaissance in tabletop RPGsCasino/entertainment hub locations as neutral groundMoral ambiguity in choosing sides during conflictTrust and loyalty mechanics in party dynamicsCreative problem-solving alternatives to direct combat
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People
Freddy Wong
Plays Ashley Birch, a boomer arcade pro gamer and Eve Online player in the campaign
Matthew Arnold
Plays Dale Elliott, a cruise-loving ex-lifeguard monk and grandfather of seven
Will Campos
Plays Ralph the Worm Estherias, a sorcerer and master of worms; has solo show 'Beth Wants the D' at Dynasty Typewriter
Beth May
Plays Herb the Worm Quigley, a barbarian storyteller losing the plot; performing solo show April 29th in LA
Anthony Burch
Serves as DM and show creator; provides episode epigraphs and narrative direction for the campaign
Quotes
"I was sure and she like pulls herself into a chair and begins to lift out until she like buckles her seatbelt. And she says, yeah, actually, I was going to ask what was going on with you and how mom was doing."
Lila (character)•~45 minutes
"So I decided to jump ship and join the luminous. I'm with them now. And I think it'll probably be more fun because it's a little bit underdoggy."
Lila (character)•~60 minutes
"I would love to help fit in. Oh, great. What about us? Yeah, all of you. Oh, great. Convenient. I was just about to go meet with some amoeboid tech smugglers and I need amoebos."
Lila (character)•~65 minutes
"If you thought of it, it's got to exist. I believe you can't think of something that doesn't exist because how can you thought of it?"
Lila (character)•~75 minutes
"I'm not going with the notion of killing everybody. No you're not stupid. Okay okay are we all in on this yes yes I'm all in all right cuz it's a Dave and bloaters I've been all in so many times."
Ralph (character)•~95 minutes
Full Transcript
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Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a space shark? He's got big cute eyes like a puppy's eyes when he comes at your tail, wagging, begging for scraps and... Hey Dale, what's up Dale? Oh hey Scrab, hey wreckage. I'm just making a little audio diary about meeting you two. Oh that's nice. Oh. Grampo, I told you we just escaped an IBS capital ship. We're running silent. No talking. Oh sorry Lila. Sorry. Yeah I'm at Lila. I hate you two. Hey why would you hate us we like you so much that's so sad and unfair. Anyway we found Lila and we're, she's doing great and uh, hey Scrab, hey wreckage you want a little song? Show me the way to go. I'm tired and I want to go to bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head. Oh man, okay. I'm not going to sleep. Welcome to Dungeons and Daddies or perhaps we should say Grand Paws and Galaxy. Space sounds. Oh I like that. Space sounds. French horn. How come they don't ever do that? French horn is the most spacey of all the process. I will point out Nat came up with a very good alternative subtitle. What? Dementia 20. Dementia 20. Oh that's harsh. No that's sad. No it's Grand Paws and Galaxies, a grand space popper about four gilfs who take to the stars to rescue their grandkids. They won't be kids for much longer and perhaps the entire known universe in the process. This is D&D 5e in the dark matter system and I'm Freddy Wong. I play Ashley Birch. Wait Freddy you do raise a good question which is when your grandkids become like adults do they become like grand men and women? No they're always your kids. It's like your kids always your baby. I just think it would be like that's my grand man. That's my grand man. That's my grand man. That's my grand man. No my bad. My grand boy turned to a grand man today. My grand boy. Ashley Birch. Grand boy? That would be the dude God of War. Grand boy. Grand boy. Do grandpa Kratos? Can you fucking imagine how hard that would hit? I'd have to go back to writing those. Grand boy. Get on it Anthony. Grand boy. Oh you could command two. What if it's a nested system where you yell at your son and then your son yells at his son. So it's called passing on the cycle of abuse. No that's going to hit so hard because it's going to be like fucking Kratos is fucking like you have to be meaner to your son Atreus and Atreus is like dad I'm doing it different than you did. Fucking take that generational fucking shit to the next level. Turns out that bad guy is actually your son. Boy I don't like you when my grand boy calls me Gigi. Call me Kratos. Dude I am Kratos. Oh dude when you open up the level like the level tree it's like what the hell? Atreus why is grand boy upgrading his stealth? I don't want him to be stealth. Atreus is like I have to update those levels. I let him choose his own way he wants to be in the world. I gotta walk my own path. The next I gotta work game you're gonna have three skill trees. It's gonna be like husband, father, grandfather. The three types of man. Ashley Birch born in 64 which makes him the youngest boomer. Twin Galaxies era arcade pro gamer turned twitch streamer. Speaking of twitch streams as we've established Ashley streams Eve online and the greatest is he goon swarm dude? No he's has his own thing going baby. Ashley's solos Eve online. What Ashley has a little thing for those of you in the know will know the victorio luxury yacht only granted to the players active on the winning server during the fan fest 2015 world's collide Eve online event. He picked the winning server let's just say and he's been coveting this precious ship the whole time. Never flown. Have blueprints never flown. What did that's the saddest thing. That's the air timing way Eve online review. What did Ashley think about that gambit where there were two shipyards and they put all of their defenses around the shipyard that had nothing in it so that they ignore the one that had the like battlecruiser in it. So you missed his 12 part series where he broke down the event on YouTube. But he has the YouTube you know uploading the clips from the VODs. Yeah. I just want to say to all my goon swarm people out there that I tried to get you guys into the canon of the show. So and Freddie turned me down. So also sorry to goon swarm that gooning now means something very specific. Hi everybody my name is Matthew Arnold I play Dale Elliott the once world cruise loving ex lifeguard now monk of the stars widow of one. Who does Gwyneth go to when she needs to consider the universe widow of one father for grandfather seven and friend to all little fact about Dale is since we're going to I think be talking to Lyle and we did the birthday presents just a little thing Dale is the coolest grandpa because Dale always buys every single grand kid he sees if you happen to see the birthday the latest console. Does it matter what or why or how are you having because he got burned a few too many times by trying to buy games for the wrong console. So say just goes to store. He goes what's the latest one. How did you know what is Nintendo and I'll give it to them. How did Dale either. Xbox series XS crisis. If you don't ask for the name of the console and you just say give me the latest one they will give you the latest one. That was Microsoft's mistake they should have called the Xbox series X the latest one. I've gone so it's always the most expensive and the latest because they'll see a sap when they come into that that's by the suckers born every minute. The rogue a Zeus 1200 that's the latest one the rogue a Zeus the rogue a Zeus box edition is $1200 that seems like a lot sir. Rocks dance for Republic of Gamers. Who did for those who dare dude. Those who dare. I remember reading play does the republic. Hi everyone I'm will campus at I play Ralph the worm esterias. Just keep me on your toes. That's nice thing 2% genuinely sad. Yeah. No he's not. If I scrape the first one is one time. Sourcerer radiation freak and master of the worm and the word Ralph's Arch nemesis is Arch rival he Cookie obviously like they've been sweethearts forever. But before Ralph there was Cookie's high school boyfriend who is now really for this the editor of teen sects whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa The fly, she could see her feet laying to them at a publisher where her high school boyfriend Harold- You know they were having an affair. I'm sorry to tell you she wasn't your wife anymore. Harold Harry Hogueboum was their editor at the publisher and was always like- Triple H. And fucking yeah, triple H. Harold Harry Hogueboum. And was always given notes about how they should like tone down the bug stuff. It seemed like he was just laser focused on trying to drive a wedge between the- Are you sure he wasn't telling you he wanted to tone down the butt stuff? But Ralph loves the bugs. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. He's trying to push Ralph out of his own franchise. Yeah, so Ralph's always like I gotta be cool, I can't be weird, you know, I don't want to make this worse. But you know, he was very- he always joked with his beloved cookie because he always figured he was gonna die first, ironically. And he was always like mark my words cookie, that Harold once I'm gone he's gonna swoop. And she's like he already did. Real question. Just will hear. Laura dropped. Did she? Absolutely not. Well, doesn't know yet. Don't tell him. Hogueboum. Hi, my name's Beth May and I play Herb the Warm Quigley, a young at heart barbarian storytelling grandpa who is losing the plot. Herb's arch nemesis is his planter fasciitis. That's pretty good. Talk about the agony of defeat. Oh my double tap. That's not my fact. That's just a bad stunt on me. I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just being silly. Herb's first job was working at a fast food joint called the Ice Burger, which was known for giving out- Coldest burgers in town. No. Extra iceberg lettuce. When you ordered the burger, they would just show you a little bit and then hold onto it for an extra five minutes so that you are really hungry and then they reveal that the burger is actually way bigger than you thought it was gonna be. I think that works once. No, Herb would do it every single time. There's not enough napkins for this burger. Not enough by half. It was his job to show briefly the burger. He would have been okay if he just ran straight into the burger. The problem is that he kind of scraped along the side of the burger. And a Beth fact, you're listening to this on April 7th, but on April 29th, which is Will Campus' birthday. I am doing a performance of my solo show Beth Wants the D at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles. Oh, you don't live in Los Angeles? That's okay. You can buy a virtual ticket and watch it live or on demand. So I will maybe record a pickup with more details later or just put something in the details of this episode. All of my friends will be going to that instead of doing the thing I wanted to do for my birthday. So have fun, everybody. Well, what would you want to do? You want it to go to my show? Hi, I'm Anthony Burch. I'm your granddaddy master. Hey, Anthony. This week's epigram is, There is no crime in detecting and destroying in wartime. The spy and the informer. They have destroyed without trial. I have paid them back in their own coin. That is by Michael Collins, Irish resistance leader or terrorist, depending on who you ask, I guess. I loved that movie with the Leonie sense. But it's got the goalposts on that. Yeah. When we last left you, Lila, who when you left initially and went into, you know, Lightspeed or whatever, Lila was working for presumably the IBS. But when she came to rescue you, you learned that she is no longer working for the IBS. Not only that, you learned that she is willing to shoot a fish man who is presumably one of her partners because in her words, he had an implant that would allow them to track you and she didn't have time to extract it. I have an implant that will let people track me. What? What? You OK, Beth? No, I was just like, what? No, I was just like. Oh, my God. Go ahead. No, no elaboration, Beth. That's it. It was a boob job joke. I'm sorry. Oh, I get it. I get it. Do they track you? Little little little. I'm sorry. I don't actually interrogate every ship like a dog. What? I haven't had a boob job. We're just fine if I did. We're not interrogate every single bit you guys make that I don't understand. I was genuinely curious. I wish you would. I wish you would. What do you want? What do you want? Do you want us to ask about your day or not? You want us to follow up with you? What do you want, Beth? I just want you to laugh and move on. OK, but doctor, I am Beth May. OK, so what does that mean? I'm Liachi. You're back. Yeah, like the pizza place. Yeah, the pizza place. OK, so I was being close. Fuck. I was close. She killed this fish man who rescued you from the IBS headquarters or the capital ship, rather, to prevent him from a bad spy. Because like, forget his spy stuff like six seconds. I mean, she's straight up. She's just like living army of shadows right now. That's what's happening basically. Yeah, you are flying away from the 420 blaze it and litany of alarms and warnings, a clue the entirety of Lila's view screen. And she says time to run silent guys. Everybody hold your breath and she jams down on the throttle, wait a moment and then turns a key and all the lights in the ship go out and you all start to float in your seats. Everybody give me a con save. Oh, wow. This is just like that fair ride. That's not very safe. 18 on my con check that with the one in 400 blows or they go spinning around. Yeah, it spins. Dude, I feel just like Katy Perry up in space right now. Yeah. 20. Roll the dice. Punch the keys. I got a 10. Oh, no, I got a natural one. Ooh. All right. So Herb and Ralph, you're going to conk your head on the ceiling. Oh, fairly lightly, but hard for somebody of your age. So both of you take a D6 of damage. D6. Damn. It's on the head. I thought the hip is the worst part for. Oh, yeah. It's always the worst. That's where you keep your memories. Yeah. And you're you head. Yeah. See at what point three damage. Head is you. You head. Fucking got to run a day. René Descartes over here. Head is you. You head is you. You head cookie to ergo some. That's what that means. I got three damage as well. Son of a bitch. Ow. Ow. So the Ashley and Dale are just fucking we're just floating in spaces. We're just floating. Dale. Whoa. It's quite quite nice. Take a load off. Hey, take a load off. Yeah. Look at your look at your. She's cooking your grandpa. She's holding her breath. She holds up one finger as you say that. Why are you holding your breath? You feel yourself begin to get really out of breath because she also turned off the life support. Oh, there's plenty of residual oxygen. Lila, she brings up a finger and then she turns the key a little bit like you're now you're just turning on the the battery in your car. Kind of thing. And she turns on the oxygen if not the gravity. She goes, okay, sorry. Okay. What are we talking about? Oh, it's really good to see you. Yeah. I don't think they come here. Oh, I missed you so much. You turn off the oxygen in the first place because the more silent you can run, the less chance that they'll get a lock on us. So should we shut up? Yeah, shut up so I can tell me everything. What's been going on? Okay, well, what's been going on with you besides you killed that fish guy? Yes. But hey, who am I to judge? Tell me what's been going on with you. Man, a lot. So I was sure and she like pulls herself into a chair and begins to lift out until she like buckles her seatbelt. And she says, yeah, actually, I was going to ask what was going on with you and how mom was doing. I mean, I don't know how the time thing has only been a few days for her to know it's been 10 years for 10 years. Oh my God. Oh my kids, 10 years older. You know, I never thought I'd live to see them that long. So I guess they'll be cool when I get back. I'm sure she's doing great though. Your mom's always doing great. Yeah, right. This is you a lot. I miss her. Oh, that's good. I expected it. Yeah. Of course. Anyway, what are the years? First of all, look presents. Every birthday. We said at the end of the last episode that you left the presents behind. You left them in the ship. Oh no. I left them. I regret that decision already because I don't know enough of what's going on. So, you know, I'm going to assume the best. Dale, maybe your presence is a present. Hey, I've tried that one before, but that doesn't work for a little bit over here. She wants a present. No, we put it in her birthday. She wants a present. Am I a little bit bummed I don't have a present. They don't have a present. I don't have a present. I don't have a present. I don't have a present. Am I a little bit bummed I don't have a present that you obviously have. Yes. Yes. I am a little bummed, but no, it's fine. It's not even trouble. I am. Okay. But it's the good kind. I always hate any troubles. The good kind of trouble. That's my man. That's my man. That's why you took me to the God damn convention. Heck yeah. Which by the way is a good thing. Don't bum yourself out. Oh, I wasn't bummed. I mean, it's pretty crazy. You got where buddy. I mean, you know, your mom is going to be mad. Oh, you're going to be extra mad about it now. Yeah, I be. I be. I mean, I think I said in terms of the argument, I definitely lost that one. When I finally come back, he'll definitely be my bad. She said 10 years to perfect her argument. Yeah. You know, some of my kids, but Marin, time doesn't heal wounds with her. She gets angrier. So 10 years later. Yeah. She's, she's like the Benjamin button of emotions. Yeah. I mean, I don't mean to bum anybody out, but by the time we get everybody, it's, she's going to be, you can be our age. Oh, God. It's going to be 50 years before the next teen sex book comes out. Don't forget. Don't forget. It's okay. It's okay. Oh, yeah. Your fans are going to be one of them. Oh, no. Oh, that's no. Okay. This is, let's just stay one thing at a time. And we make sure that book is worth waiting for. Oh, no. Winter, that's winter. Winter, Lila says. Winter. That's still hasn't come out. I know you've only been a couple of days since you saw me. That's true. That's true. Let you know in a few days. I bet by this point, surely it's come out. Surely. I know you said you're in trouble as a good kind. Yeah. So, okay. So when I got taken away, the IBS took us all away. Okay. And they basically slated me, of course, for a sort of leadership positions for the general, just like in the, in the Fermi period, I was a general. And so, yeah, I was helping them fight against the, the luminous for a while, but it was like easy. Like they have a lot of resources and they're kind of everywhere and you know, like where to go and what to do. Like anybody who like knows about warfare, if you watched, you know, a documentary or read anything, it's like pretty straightforward. These guys don't get it because they never went to war. So I just kind of bored. So I decided to jump ship and join the luminous. I'm with them now. And I think it'll probably be more fun because it's a little bit underdoggy. So you're helping the underdogs. Yeah. Is this a game? What do you mean? Like the video, like this is the video game you're playing. No, this is a gas. I mean, the situation that we're in is very likely because it turns out that video game was a recruitment tool for the IBS to find people who would be good at fighting. Like America's army. Yeah. Like America's army actually. Full spectrum warrior. Yeah. Remember that one? Yeah. Okay. And also weirdly enough, soldier of fortune. So also call of duty, but they're not as obvious about it. So I think they're more obvious about it. Yeah. Woo. These takes. We're going to have to cut all that. That's too, that's too spicy. It's spicy. Simply too spicy. If you want to hear takes like that, just tune into the gamer stack on our patreon. So Laila, uh, Graham's here. Honestly, I came originally to come and take you home because you were a kid. Yes. Um, I'm kind of trying to figure out where I fit in here. I want to be here for you. Well, I actually, I think your mom would like you to come home, but honestly, I actually probably don't know what she's feeling 10 years from this has happening. Yeah. Um, I've been on a cruise for a while, but never 10 years. So you actually showed up at the perfect time. I would love to help fit in. Oh, great. What about us? Yeah, all of you. Oh, great. Convenient. I was just about to go meet with some amoeboid tech smugglers and I need amoebos. Amoebo, amoeboid. Like an amoeba, but like kind of the size of a person. Boys. I know they, they're genderless. But why do I call boys then? Amoeboid. With a D. Amoeboid. Oh, like the noise. Do you remember that? She means like a humanoid. Humanoid. Humanoid. Amoeboid. Okay. Amoeboid. Yes. There's a couple of Amoeboid tech smugglers and I need backup that I can trust to make the exchange. And you guys haven't been here long enough to actually become a spy. We've had a big spy problem in my particular chapter of the luminous. Is that why you killed that fish guy? Yeah. One of the reasons. What? So you're having a problem with people always not being on the side that they say they're on. Correct. Exactly. Uh, why don't you all get along then? Oh, that'd be good. What do you mean? Like we all ally around the fact that none of us have any loyalty. I think that's beautiful. Yeah. That's an interesting thing to say. Role persuasion. What if you are like a sort of Republic of gamers? Seven. Seven. She goes, no, that seems like a Metal Gear solid thing that doesn't actually work in reality. Like an outer heaven thing. Big Boss's dream didn't work out. You'd know if you played the game. You'd love it. Anyway, yeah. So you need us to. Basically be backup bodyguards. I've got, you know, I doesn't seem like I'll do whatever you need. You know, I mean, I heard you guys, but like we're not. 10 years ago, you guys fought your way out of McFadden gate. So like you're, you're pretty good, right? Yes. Well, it's been 10 years. So maybe we're not as sharp as we know it's only been like a couple of days. We are a quick bathroom break. Yeah. You're really old. Old heads. Oh, yeah. The toilet, the ship is so small that the toilet is right there and she says, and she just points out a toilet. There is no other room. You got four tubes, four sucking tubes. Four. Sorry. Your partner is really close. Actually, this is something you would know if you. Oh, for zero G. No, I usually just turn the life support on if I'm in a shit. Oh, which I will now do. She turns off the gravity as well and everybody goes, okay, great. Okay. I don't want you using my tube. No, we need a place on this ship to have a private conversation. I mean, I can like, no, anything we say, we can say the shot that I don't want to do this. Okay. Oh, that's fine. What? Young lady, this is your grandfather came across space and time to make sure you're okay. And now you want to use him as some sort of meat shield to perform some sort of dirty deed. Thank you, grandpa. You have no moral standing in. You just got you. That's all you said. I didn't say that. Why are you coming after Lila? Thank you, grandpa. She said she's just doing this because she's bored. There's lives. That's the reason. Yeah, that's the best reason to not do something. Just be that as it may. I don't know. You can stay in the ship. Whatever. You could see. Okay. I was going to ask her something. Maybe this will excite you a little bit. Because I was thinking, I was thinking, because here we're all in this together and she's smart. Whatever you want to say about her, she's smart. Right. Maybe not book smart. Maybe not great. No, I'm those two. Yeah. Thank you. But yeah, she, when she applies herself. So here's the thing. Here's what I was thinking. I would, again, as always, I'll do anything for you. Okay. I said that ever since you were a little kid. I said, I'll do anything for you. However, there's something that you could help us with. Yeah? Because you know how you aged 10 years? I did. We just happened to choose you first. We haven't gone to any other grandkids. Oh, wow. Do you know anything about our other kids? What about the rest of your team? The Daxers or the Dippers? Do you know if you kept up with them? But there's got to be a way not to take 10 years to get to the other kids. Yes. That's what I would like to focus our energy on. If you'll help us, if we help you, maybe. Right. That's what I was thinking, guys. Ashley holds up a piece of paper and a pen, and he folds the piece of paper and pushes the pen. Okay, so you're doing an event horizon. That's what this is. He's got the right idea. One of these. There's no way to fold the space to one continuum. One of these. I mean, if there were... Well, I mean, maybe, actually, you know what, maybe. I mean, the guy, you know who would know. Is it too hard for you? The kind of people who would know something like that are like the amoeboid, like the Diers. Are you just saying that side? We already said we're going to do it. You don't have to trick us. Well, one of you doesn't want to do it. But honestly, no, I mean, yes, I am trying to make you do this thing, but also, secondarily, I genuinely don't think that's a thing, but it's also, there's a lot of black market tech going around who knows what the IBS is working on. There was even classified stuff when I was there. So like it's possible that there's a space folder thing. Space folder where you keep your space files. Cool. One more question. Yes. Well, I have a lot because it's been 10 years, but do you want to go home? No, right now. I want to kind of finish the fight first. You know, Halo style. And then I can come back. Just five more minutes, she says. Exactly. Exactly. This guy gets it. You don't really care how your mom's doing. I mean, I do, but I also know that however I feel about her now, it's kind of not going to matter because 10 years will have passed from the time I go back. If I started going back to her right now, she'd be 10 years older. Unless we find this space folder thing. Yes. Unless the space folder exists. You said definitely exist. I said it maybe exists. But if you thought of it, it's got to exist. I believe you can't think of something that doesn't exist because how can you thought of it? I don't know. I used to. How could you have thought of it? It must exist. You can think of a concept of something. But then how would human exist? I mean, but people. Yeah. How did the wheel come about if they didn't know about wheels? Space ships themselves are. But we want about. Are there wheels? What about wheels? Where about wheel rocks? The wheels exist. Yeah, they did. Someone had to, no, I'm with your granddaughter on this. Someone had to come up with it. Yeah. Now he's on my side. I'm going to see what the idea of a wheel before the wheel. Are you user? Are you saying there's no wheels before we discovered the wheels? I anywhere in the universe, you're saying there's no wheels. That's here. So you're you're you're you're. As journey. Spider-man, Spider-man, same thing as journey. One said wheel in the sky keeps on turning. So that was before wheels. Before we hear what you're proposing is a sort of young and collective unconscious. I mean, like there's a sort of quantum state that we're all attuned to and that everything that could exist. When you're out on the sea long enough, you get to thinking and out of doubt. We're here. You think it doesn't get any better than that, but they thought that before after Schaeffler, after Matsuyama, after Tiger all five times because that's the thing with the masters. Just when you think there's nothing left to surprise you, it shows you how wrong you are. It's master's time. Watch every moment live on Sky Sports stream flexibly on now. 18 plus UK only minimum speed 2.5 megatits per second. Life scheduling media subjects change all terms of life. Saving seekers, we hear you. Seeking energy savings always keep your energy prices under the price cap. 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It looks very much like gold saucer. It's a lot of neon. It looks very fun. There's little fireworks. Exactly. This is where you get to find a casino. Yeah, kind of. It's like an entertainment station. Basically, it's like an arcade. Got a whole sweet thing. Hey, we're going to go to the hall suites. You guys get to find out the whole you use the whole suite. You probably haven't been able to use those yet. Here's what are those? Do you ever watch TNG or DS9? The next generation. Yes, Star Trek. Huh. Did I ever that happened to me, man? The whole show. It's a yes. This thing we just you. I think everyone else is agreed to play along with it. Okay. He was like, I worry about the next generation every day. He was he was like this before he hit his head on the bulkhead. Yes. No. Okay. Well, anyway, there are lots of fun. Uh huh. All we got to do is we can go in. Basically, they're selling a thing that allows me to find out when hex diamonds are formed. You guys know what hex diamonds are in this whole? That was a couple of days. Oh, yeah. A lot of these concepts are new and unfamiliar. So this space is really important because a lot of these plants got destroyed and fucked up. There's a lot of space debris and asteroid specifically. And when our good friends salvage and demolition over their names. Reckon salvage. You already forgot about the salvage. I don't think so. I think it was something else. It was wreck and salvage. It was wreck and salvage. Scrap. Guys. Scrap. Scrap and wreck. Wreck and scrap. Wreck and wreckage. You were right. Scrap and wreckage. This is just Will's attempts to get Scrippy back in the show. Scrapping wreckage are the best. Scrapping. Scrippy, right? There was one called Scrippy. Will gets an inspiration for correctly remembering the space charts that I did. Kids. No. I was just wondering how long it's been in their time since they've seen us. Like do they miss us already? Who do you? You. Scrapping wreckage. Oh, we haven't gone faster than light. So they're like a couple thousand meters behind us. Look, she hits a button on her screen and you see like a rear view mirror. Oh, there you guys. Now. All the way. I don't have a speaker on this. If they were in a ship, I could talk to them. But no. Do you want me to like go pick them up? No. Oh, yeah. Yeah. If you want. No, herb. They're so nice to us. Dale, I just, I like just like the four of us hanging out man. When there's like new people like that change that she's pressing a button and like rhythmic thing and she's like, I'm doing Morse code at them with the headlights. New friends is the best kind of friend. I guess what I thought when I met you guys, but now I'm like, are we having a tough time right now? What are you talking about? I'm fine. Your face says otherwise. I'm fine. Look over here for a second. Yeah. What's up? I want to do a some sort of check to see if our herb has any sort of like lingering concussive effects from his head. Wang, I feel medicine would be the role for that. Medici. Medici. Another natural one. Oh my God, you've got serious cranial swelling. I think. Oh, we have to get this made of hospital. It's my brain getting bigger and bigger. Private conversation. I just realized, but I guess there's no way to have that here. Everybody will just hear what I'm about to say, which is remember herbs. What was your lady's friend name again? I'm so sorry. Cammy, my girl. Cammy, beautiful lady. I'm really happy for you. Cammy. Although she's 10 years older now. Yes. Oh, no. That's how we get back. She'll be the right age for you. Wait a minute. She was the right age. She's 34. That's the bad thing about being in space. You get older. They get way older. That's why Matthew McConaughey was crying in that movie. She did a really important job and I realized that none of us are doing it for you. What's that? What kind of job you talking about? Oh, you dirty mind. No, take your pills. I don't have any more pills, man. Oh, no, you have no. They were important though, right? Yeah, but I've been kind of experimenting a little this little bit. I also just, again, you know, I'm not a good person. I don't know how I specifically know this, but I do know that like head trauma can be a trigger for people's mental. I feel like is there a doctor somewhere on this medical. I hear you. I hear you. Yeah. There's got to be a doctor on the arcade for sure. Well, we'll get our pills and I'll take responsibility. I'll be your candy, but not your candy. You know, okay. I'll be your candy. I'll be your candy. I'll be your candy. I'll be your candy. I'll be your candy, but not your candy. You know, okay. If you ever change your mind, man, let me know. Not that early in the cruise, but you never know. Get to all the way. Rambo, don't be a pussy. Come on. Grandpa's leaving the pineapple stickers in the bag until we pass Barbados. So we're all here. Yes, we are all here. I just want, you know, I try not to judge. We're here too. Oh, wreckage. I rolled a d20 to see if they understood the Morse code and I got a 19. Wow. We're wrapping wreckage or here. I'm here as well. Hey wreckage. Our ship is your ship. Just, you know, live outside. Don't eat it, please. And don't make your ship docked back at the, at the 420 blaze it. Yeah. That's our ship now. I mean, no, you're welcome. What happened to Roger Moore? This is the important. We're on a different ship. We're on a different ship. You're on, you're on my little fighter. I know that was sorry. That sounded like Ralph. That was me as well. Being like, we left Roger. You did. He's a computer. He's probably, don't worry. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, you left. Your, is your AI still active on your ship? I would have sued. So what does your AI know? Well, I mean, everything James Bond knows about like where you're going. Oh, I mean, yeah, he knows everything. Well, I mean, he heard everything. He told us where to find out. He heard and saw everything on the ship. Okay. He saw everything. Okay. Well, then that means we have a choice to make. Okay. We have to turn around and risk getting completely annihilated by the 420 blaze it in an effort to get onto your ship and extract the AI so they can't torture all the information out of it. Like Johnny Silverhand's hand graph. Exactly. Like what are you talking to Johnny Silverhand? How do they torture a computer? With a program. Dude, hold on. With a program. Hard stop though. Could you imagine if it was Roger Moore instead of Keanu Reeves and fuck it's just fucking Roger Moore. We're like, hello, darling. Hello, darling. We got a city to buy. Hello, darling. What's the other option? Well, the other option is we just accept that they're going to find out where we're going and I could put the rest of our grandkids into the ship. They would be essentially ready for us to some extent because they don't know what order we're going in. Also, they don't know. He doesn't know what. He doesn't know where we're going because we Because we don't know. Yeah, we didn't know we were going until we got on your ship. He does know who we're going to eventually try to go to. Yes. If he picked a plot for you, then he knows what that plot is. I will also point out, they already know we're coming. Yeah, they already know all of us, but they will know specifically which plants you're going to pick because in 10 years they might change planet. Oh my God. He just shoots some rockets in that direction from here. Do you want me to blow up your ship? We're not using it anymore. I mean, I guess I could. Or we could send our good friends. Wreck and Scrapage. Scrapage. Scrapage. Scrapage. Scrapage. Scrapage. Is it another classic Wreck and Scrapage Beep Blot? Scrap. Wreckage. Would you be interested in performing a sort of side quest for us where you go rescue our ship or blow it up and just help us out with this you want me to go eat the ship go eat the ship I'm gonna go eat the ship yeah pretty easy there we go high five breakage and you didn't want to bring they're the ones who gonna save us in the end I just you know I can't help it I feel bad for Roger Moore I feel I feel bad for me I mean what I gotta get my ship's gone well there's an AI core in there we can try to bring her back in but I will be rolling to self-control to not eat it so there's a chance Roger Moore will just be in my belly forever I'm here with you guys have to get out of the arcade it's gonna take us a while to eat your shit just in case it's 10 years till we see you again you both are real cool I know everything you guys are cool too man I'd high five you if we weren't in space and you weren't in a spaceship I'll slap the whole ship I slap it back boom where are we trying to like stay under a radar scan we're like very close still no we're just a place now everybody's here we travel with faster than I travel no no no we do sublight on this ship this ship is too small to do FTL so which also means we need to find a new ship that can do FTL just okay what is it that we're doing to these boys okay so and it's great and also give me a cool name for what this place is that we're at now lost Vegas the name of this station has a name oh okay what is it okay well I hadn't thought about that you didn't think about the name for your cool space casino space station and you come up with a fun name for it the world building of season four so cool they go to see if I can find a location Casio Pia's a fucking planet so casino we appear that sucks Jeremy Schimmel gave this to us David Bloatster's an amusement pavilion this is the Dean B arcade and that's what I've been saying when we go into Buster's man a bloaters man it's fine I lost so much money and bloaters what bloaters is also the name of a really seedy Hooters knockoff back on it's a fine establishment with great lunch specials really just tell you that so that you'll spend more money you're one of the people thinks they're bartenders they're friends yeah yeah no they're not anyway so yeah I'm going to cause me hon like that I could give me a what hon that's weird all right I gave it a shot what do you want all right anyway these guys they're traders from the supple helix trading company if they're a bunch of amoeboids they have a bunch of tech and they're gonna sell me a thing that will allow me to know when hex diamonds are formed which is real thing in real life where if two after each other hard enough then it makes a new harder form of diamond called a hex diamond and that's what they have a baby that's what they need to build the crowbar so crowbar the crowbar is the thing they're using to get into the spark these hex diamonds could make something that we could travel faster I mean they're really really strong I don't know if they're like just kind of a hard rock Dale yeah I just I just really rock be so hard that it causes you the time travel that's what you're saying I know I'm just I'm sorry I'm really focused on trying to get to your guys okay you appreciate that and when you know what this is your time with your grandchild and we're gonna we're gonna help you out I just it feels like the young lady could use some guidance that's my job is just have fun with her that's the one of my job is yeah I get it that's what her mom's job is and I did my job and the last thing I want to do is kill her vibe because I know how hard life can be and so I'm I'm also also hold on hold on well Ralph mm-hmm how many wars have you fought it well you know what okay so I've been in this war for 10 years mm-hmm so it feels a little bit weird for you to be judgy about the situation then I'm in so maybe why don't you respect the fucking troops and we're gonna go into the art we're gonna go into David Blodesters and all you got to do is stay in there and look menacing that's yeah are you gonna arm us I don't have much on me I've got like I have got my pistol which I could do that for my draft card that's all I'm saying I let me go to war I can definitely see that I can definitely see that wait so you were like this back in the six oh I was I was way wilder in the 60s man you don't you wouldn't even recognize okay so this you look menacing are the clothes I got clothes we got clothes I got clothes so cover your heads with those Ralph did they call your number they didn't I was on the list here Ralph here's what we're gonna do Ralph's draft number we're gonna roll T20 holy shit here Ralph's draft number was 11 on a T20 okay let's find out and let's roll it lottery drawings okay so no one that they didn't okay so I mean it's just like burning a random piece of paper so just I have been doing this for 10 years okay okay okay so we're gonna go in so it so so Robert McNamara didn't wasn't smart that is Ralph okay all just we don't know look I'm not good when we meet your grand kid again she can be doing whatever I'm not gonna say anything I'm asking you is let me enjoy my time with Lila thank you and do what she's asking of us and then that she's gonna help us find a way to get you to your grandkids earlier not yeah good I'm sorry okay we hug should we all hug yeah oh my god yeah big hug big hug everybody man oh you guys so strong yeah well yeah that's all you are now I'm yeah I mean it's been fucking ten years yep I'm fucking hot as hell hey you get it I hope you're happy all the time are you happy all the time I don't think anybody is I'm happy this guy's happy yes if I hit my head against the bullcats five more times I might be happy all the time but no I'm not all right so we're gonna go do the job and we're not gonna kill anybody just so you know what what do you mean you're not gonna kill me I'm not I'm doing my best if they get hard for me trap and they try to kill us we have to kill myself to fence and we have killed some people okay there you go fine great I'm just saying I'm not going with the notion of killing everybody no you're not stupid okay okay are we all in on this yes yes I'm all in all right cuz it's a Dave and bloaters I've been all in so many times and Dave and I'll be I'll be I'll be straight with you fellas mm-hmm I'm 10% in but 90% in weeks 100% because I want to see bloaters big bubbly bloater inside the space station oh yeah look at those bloaters everywhere the eye can see what I'm Joe Biden bloater so you're excited Joe Biden in the fucking New York slice of pizza I just got excited I just got excited hold your voice yeah you can't you can't call bloaters man they're like there's I know I know I know it's the name of the species to you see you're seeing us when he points at the busy because they're just floating they look a little bit like boobs and a little bit like jellyfish because yeah it's really rude to do that okay so what are we allowed to look at you can look at anything just a point say look at that thing hot you my I'm living extension beings don't like being pointed and say holy shit I'll silently stay man that's fine I'm crossing my eyes so I can look in two directions at once I can't see you through the clothes it's not a big deal I'm wearing a bloters doing well these ones are having a fun time at the arcade I don't know we walked in and before floating past you into the game they're floating breasts playing Mario Kart three of them are in a VR roller coaster right now having the time of their lives just jiggling around so what they really are yeah they're heading one of them is trying to throw a football through a hole and tickets are coming out okay yeah we're in the arcadey part the hollow sweet parts in the back and just so you're ready I know shit they got the Terminator arcade game it's not what it's not like impressive so just prepare for that where yes whatever you want to do while you're in the arcade area okay let me let me just get your kid there are different machines some of which you can recognize as like oh that seems to be a game about shooting things that seems to be a game about singing but there are others that are completely alien to you in more ways than one like it just looks like abstractions there's one where guys just sitting in front of a TV screen and like blinking and every couple seconds he goes back like my friend there's actually all the things you would usually see it like a Chuck E Jesus there's like a little prize and a Pernah games to all the weird one yeah there's a bunch of corners this one you play a fucking sad cat yeah every alien you're a sentient paintbrush remembering a war one painting at a time huh and this guy what on rock paper shot fucking played the color combat sorry we're changing our game we are I would say have to publish a paintbrush essentially paintbrush that's remembering a war is so fucking good so it was yeah it's like a World War one guy was in the trenches trying to like learn how to turn learn out of the twist he's Hitler the paper I should have killed him when I had the chance oh my god anyway yeah there's an Annapurna corner and the Perna Indie Game Showcase yes every alien there has blue hair anyways there's food and drink stations everywhere there's price stations there's the corner and in the back there is a door that says hollow sweet and then I'm leading you to that and I want to investigate I got 10 I'm looking for Herb's pills so there maybe there's a doctor oh yeah we need to find a doctor in the hollow sweet there's probably yeah yeah there is like sometimes people need to decompress afterwards there's a doctor and a therapist okay let's go but we have to I'm gonna be like candy we have to get your pills you're nothing like I know I've never replaced her but this one small part of her life where she makes sure you take pills is what I'm gonna do why do you have to give me some of you just let him have a good time hey the pills help him who you guys know good as well as I thought you did okay she leads you through the door that says hollow sweets and in front of you you see a desk with a pen that seems to be not connected to anything just scribbling on a piece of paper whoa and behind it you see a bunch of very tattoos you see a bunch of very non-descript slighty sci-fi doors to the right you see a sign that has a symbol on it that's like a snake and she goes that's a hospital I open up on the non-descript doors well they're way past the desk and as you do the pen stops writing and jumps up into the air and then in the air in front of you writes out do you have a reservation our friend here weighing his head pretty hard and we want to we need to get him checked out it could be a lawsuit on your hands because he tripped and slipped in here so if you could take a look at him that be great but you may be outside his HMO the pen says doctor is this way and then draws an arrow which is in the direction of the snake sign all right but let's go let's go get that noodle looked at wait a minute what's behind what's behind the pen what do you mean we should go there oh the the holo sweet yeah we can go there we can get your your pills after actually that'd be great because my guys are waiting for me I think yeah you should take care of the okay we can get them after I'm being a major buzz kill so no what I don't care if you don't take pills anymore no you should my whole point was I was just right no I appreciate a good friend like you checks when I do something wrong like that like making sure that he takes his pill I was being a bad friend thank you for telling Dale that he was being a bad friend no we're making a scene what oh sorry I'm breaking a scene am I talking to one thing I don't want to do with my yeah you said I did I shouldn't talk okay it's cool okay is there a note left for me she says to the pen and the pen looks he's gonna for you that's good pretty funny so she points you go she goes that's good that's good the pen basically sticks itself through a piece of paper under the desk and then comes up and then moves toward Lila Lila takes the piece of paper off and it's a note that says holo room for period better in their period private period no cameras or mics period because masturbation period oh they saw that one scene 2001 where the floating pen goes by is like that's a character that should be a character it's a 14 other pens back there's only club together all right oh you're right on your hand and then you'll know what I'm talking about you'll be part of the club if you're at home listening to this and you want to get that joke right the cool phrase pen 15 on your hand and then ask your friend what it says and then you'll get the joke who's masturbating in there most people that use these okay do you want you need to go master you need to come with me it's not gonna be a masturbation okay I don't think I mean they're the ones who booked a room pretty tired a lot of stuff but I can go in there and do it if you want me no no no we're not all going in there together as my point we are all going in together but there's not gonna be masturbation I think I says it on that's like one of the four words I know I know I know but it's I think sounds like they just want to use the room because it's normally a room that people thank you so they're no cameras and they're no owners of oh none use the room for such a purpose but they want to use it because that there's no cameras of the privacy of such people all let's go an incognito room how are the rest of the patrons reacting to this four- hooded figures flanking sure so the people in the waiting area so basically behind the desk yeah do you look like big boobs to them maybe are we the equivalent of they're look at us in there like that's disgusting behind the desk there is a waiting area with a bunch of like big old circular couches like at a hotel and then behind those is the art the doors of the hall suites you see a bunch of people around the circular couches some of them seem to be like addicts looking for a fix in almost a sense they're tapping their feet really hard my man and then some of them are just there with their kids and other people are very patiently on their devices waiting for their turn in the suites nobody's giving you a second so the hall of suites are like the laser tag section in the back of a family fun center it's like literally exactly people go to masturbate we'll go to find a dark corner to jerk off and and see it in the neon so you walk up to one of the lights you fucking so what one of the the door is a look in neon the neon though the door to hall suite four opens in front of you and you all walk inside with Lila yeah I want to post up on the on the outside and like scan around do I notice any tails that were following you into the hall suite no no furries different species roll perception but both but really this dice roll counts for both seven plus one eight no way no you might be followed who knows and that guy might be a furry but he's not in his pursuit so when you look into the the hall suite you see a dark hallway and at the end of this hallway there's some very light glowing like somebody's got to glow in the dark night light or something around a corner in this tunnel we're like oh but careful boys we're in a James Terrell exhibit yeah so she leads you forward and you step inside and you hear the door close softly behind you and in the the meat of the hall suite which looks like basically a big empty room with a lot of dots all around the walls you see a couple of blobs on the ground that you soon realize were probably the amoeboids that we're talking about they look to be like all of these splatted on the ground and kind of liquefied and standing on the loaders no this could just be their natural state there it's standing over them figure in a cloak where you're gonna map kind of like a bird-like mask a good sign and it turns and looks at you and just stares directly at Lila the color drains out of her face and she looks to you and she says run and she starts running out of the hall suite we amble after her I run after Lila Master's champion you think it doesn't get any better than that but they thought that before after Schaeffler after Matsuyama after Tiger all five times because that's the thing with a Masters just when you think there's nothing left to surprise you it shows you how wrong you are it's Masters time watch every moment live on Sky Sports stream flexibly on now 18 plus UK only minimum speed 2.5 megadits per second life scheduling media subjects change all terms of life family days out can be expensive but my NatWest current account helped us get here I can track my spending and save my spare change with roundups helping me manage my money which means we can enjoy days open and NatWest current account today and enjoy those special days out search NatWest current accounts NatWest tomorrow begins today account eligibility and app criteria apply monthly account fees may apply eligible current and savings account required for roundups at NatWest you were backed by the current accounts which guarantee the person that you saw the hooded figure that the master figure does not follow you oh no that's the worst when they don't even move what's the eight I'm gonna turn around that hey excuse me it seems like my granddaughter has a problem with you so the the the figure is gonna walk over and just grab you by the throat and as its fingers wrap around your throat you feel them begin to encircle your throat in a not natural way and the fingers all turned into like one band of flesh this is a feel natural and it lifts you off the ground and it says Lila come back okay well it seems like talk with your being lifted by your throat yeah I would like to put you down slightly if you could talk if you want to it seems like you scared my granddaughter I'm just I'm still running the second that this guy grabs Dale and lifts him into the air Ralph is gonna empty the clip with a level two magic yes I demand a sci-fi flavor to the words magic missile it's just like radioactive radioactive radioactive actually you know what it is is because it's like all radiation magic like little globs of sort of tumorous flesh like pulse out of Ralph's hand yeah and then raise up into the air and they're glowing with energy and they just fucking hone in what looks like a missile is actually him grabbing two pieces of antimatter colliding them and making a vacuum that moves through grab some by the balls you snap your fingers and you break two antimatter atoms together you make a targeted anti-nuclear bomb that's exactly what is three plus one four damage very small very small damage it knocks against the mask and the creature just sort of turns to look at you and narrows its eyes and it goes oh yeah you guys it puts Dale down but continues to keep its hand around Dale's neck have you met sorry hi who are you the creature reaches up to its mass takes it off and you don't recognize the face that you see behind it until it's sort of morse and shifts into the face of Jessica meska wait was last time we saw Jessica meska was she good or bad to us she was good to you she had hey yeah it's us how's it going what they told they told us that she wasn't good well yeah but we don't know if they're good either no no I'm good to us though yeah I'm dope as hell okay tell Lila to come back please she seems pretty scared I don't know what you to Lila right now did she leave the room she ran out of the room and unless any of you fall there she's just out of sight okay you know what yeah I'll go find her and we'll bring her not too late I got her we're good what does that mean Jessica meska looks up into the left for a second and like kind of nods to herself is it something just happening to us you guys are good to go oh cool is she bye and she begins to melt away and first you think the cloak of the mask gonna leave behind but those are part of her too and those begin to melt man and she melts back into the puddle the same kind of puddle that you saw when she was shot in the head back on McFadden gate I run out of the room right now I run to her Lila so as you walk out I'm running you sorry as you run out using your your monk speed the noises and the lights and the the blue hair surrounding you of all the different arcade machines you look out toward the entrance where you came in and pass the what look to be slot machines and pass what looks to be somebody just getting his dick sucked by a vending machine you do dude they're called slot machines nice think about it you see Lila and she's almost to the docking bay where you came in except two figures have grabbed her it's confusing because they don't look related at all you just see like what looks to be a sort of alien house wife like still with a purse attached and a janitor who have grabbed Lila by either arm one of them has a hand over her mouth but the hand it looks like bonding with the skin of her face in the same way that the hand sort of bonded around your neck oh they are dragging her into a different ship at the dock yard and then how many feet away are they so they are about 90 feet away but also there's a lot of gamblers and players and arcade machines between you and them I blast off magic missile we fucking do all this cool like tracking shots we're following it through the casino and like a bunch of chips go flying and arcs over one of those blowders and then it fucking like slams into the guy but it does do four damage so it stops and there's that one of those like proud reaction noise like can you roll to see if it did go through any innocent people during that yeah sure if I roll low it did if I roll high it didn't seven it was a teen oh it was a what it was a teenager oh no but only did like but the T-danger was gambling on the slot machine yeah it looks right the camera goes I'll never gamble again you want to go home and rethink your life I don't want to sell you death sticks can I run fast if you want to we can get into a straight you're probably my granddaughter into a ship I'm gonna everybody roll initiative oh 17 11 I got me 18 so the weird people that have grabbed Lila are going first they rolled slightly higher believe fire up the engines is this the first ever D&D combat that has ended on the initiative roll because the bad guys leave just had better initiative so yeah just done they kind of drag Lila into a ship and the door shuts behind them and that's their turn if you can find a way to stop the ship from taking off somehow I don't know what that would be come back when you guys are ready to fight it's Ashley's turn well shit okay oh no you spend your whole turn saying will shit what is your character again I'm a guy just here you can hold it oh did you breathe they didn't let you bring your drone in oh hold on yeah where's your drone yeah where's my drone Anthony they took it from you that's in the little like cabinet where they keep the drone check yeah yeah yeah or yeah the fucking the thing in the escape rooms the locker that you put your cell phone into wait did they take it at the hollow suites or before we got even got into the casino floor I think they probably took it before you got a casino floor because that kind of thing would help you with cheating oh I could here's a little closer it is closer to them than you are okay so I'm gonna fire up my drone connected via Wi-Fi mm-hmm and fly it well what am I gonna do I don't know you're the one fucking what is your what can you do but I'm gonna tell you fly it into an engine but it's my drone do you know me what did you tell us about the drone it has all of the exact same abilities that a DJI drone has which are number one the ability to track me to do selfie shots number two the ability to orbit around me as I'm hiking up a mountain number three the ability to follow my cars I'm winding through mountain roads number four ability to fly straight away from me as I go hey as I stand on the edge of a cliff as the waves crash underneath this in the system of the game that we are playing called dark matter yeah is there any fun stuff the drone I'm searching right now you can cut a little bit with the blades you can see things from far away it's a drone is a drone well there's I think that this cool fucking sci-fi special I agree that but Fred is a normal here's what this has okay number one has a DC of 13 okay okay it has a gadget attack of okay plus five that's pretty good so I can use it to attack things are you using defense recon or medical recon because the truth of all things recons very important Matt your drone has both the ability to attack and it can also go straight away from me as I go hey on top of a cliff you can yeah it also has something called surveillance protocol in which it can create a holographic marker above one target it can see within 60 I can middle click on someone over there exactly I have an idea that might be useful that might be a good thing useful I have an idea okay so yeah well I got a little I got a good one I think it's a good one because it's a casino right and they just went into a ship like they would strains a ship right yeah okay I look around where is any security guard the casino there's two posted at the door that you walk past and then there's two posted at the door behind you 10 and one and one is wondering around and one who's using his break to play a slot machine yes I look to the closest one and I go lock it down somebody cheated stealing all the money stolen lock it down they're getting out all right roll persuasion with disadvantage no no no casino of the casino they think we're second my turn's not done yet Matthew I think you're gonna hold my turn no oh he said okay wishful thinking on your okay there we go I can have you involved you holding your turn yeah okay I could spot the yeah but once I tell the guards that and then you can make a little he's a lot to put on a persuasion roll yeah I think if you did that in Vegas they would probably look at you first I mean they probably are very then you go well I wanted okay so I think first that I want to create a holographic marker above my target okay that they can see kind of marker like a sharpie the marker of the target that we just all leave the door right check this out a dark matter says that marker lasts until the beginning of the drones next turn but if I just run over takes a turn if the drone hold his turn forever you're saying I'm more than happy to say that that track remains on it as long as the drone has power and maybe as you get separate from it its power will begin to slowly dwindle okay but I I see no reason that it should go away after six I'm gonna mark the ship and so from the locker I press some buttons on the thing and it go and it marks the ship and that's a little you know the Sims icon yeah it's the sims icon the Sims icon I go that person I say look buddy you can let them go and I point to the line of damage and they see there's stuff scattered everywhere they see a teenager on the ground this line of damage going to the fucking look buddy just lock it down just figure out a second but somebody's about to walk away with the house right now buddy I'm just letting I'm just helping you out Ralph when you fired magic missile were you trying to be subtle no no but we describe they probably saw you do it well sure if you want rewind time you should fucking thought that would happen I'm saying security guards everywhere roll the gas like the guy though you okay it's a disadvantage but go ahead first one is a 17 fucking security guards seeing a bunch of people because you know fucking hurt in a gunshot clearly happening and suspicious people pulling out they won't lock down the place let's see number two man that was almost an 1813 with a 13 the security guard looks toward the direction you're pointing but then more mostly the other security guards are already looking at you because you fired off a magic missile so I'm gonna fire fucking antimatter antimatter mini nuke dude anti snap he snaps his fingers antimatter breaks apart between his fingers causing a up to four I don't know gravity or some shit I don't know up to four you're right I feel way more immersed now next up is herb I'm 90 feet away yeah and the security guards are in play yes they are heading towards you I'm gonna grab a knife from the stab a mold game arcade game okay and I'm gonna be a strength tech to wrench it out it's me tough bad to be like trying to steal a guitar hero guitar from a guitar here good luck fuck it's a four I couldn't even get it out of a barbarian this is so it doesn't normally happen I normally I'm really strong I don't know what kind of thing they got attaching this little kid amiibo just like with his corners waiting for me I'm still going kid don't you know you just be 14 more tickets no I don't care man I gotta get this I guess I guess this curtains for me all right Ralph it's your turn so the guys are charging at us these security guards why they're not charging they're walking intimidatingly towards you so as to not create a panic but yes okay so then here's what I would like to do how far away are the guards for me 15 feet okay I'm going to charge towards them I run by 15 feet I'm going to then cast misty step which is a level two step spell in a bonus action to teleport whoa 30 feet past them towards the door you're gonna sorry kid nothing personal yeah I'm sort of a yeah I'm running right towards them and right when he's about to attack me I sort of nightcrawler just disappear into a cloud of radioactive mist and then reappear on 30 feet down the casino floor it moves you 30 feet so you're 15 feet behind him now what I'd like to do is split my move action so I run 15 I have 30 feet to move oh okay I run 15 feet when I'm right in his face I teleport okay now I'm so he's really confused yeah now I'm 30 feet behind him sure I run another 15 feet to finish my move action I'm now 30 feet from the door because he said it was 90 feet right 15 plus 15 plus 30 yeah 60 30 feet from the door I would like to use my action to cast mage hand okay which has a range of 30 feet and I'm gonna use me I'm gonna have mage hand appear at the door to the ship that they just entered okay and I'm gonna try to open the door it's pretty weak right it just picks up when you cast a spell you can use the hand to manipulate an object open an unlocked door or container store retrieve an item from an open container or pour out the contents of a vial if you open the door would it like stop the it would if it were a lot they almost certainly locked the airlock because that's it's in the name there's a fire alarm you could pull oh I'll do that so sprinklers go off everywhere and there's like 14 different like life forms that are like really water should not touch them and you hear a voice saying there's been a fire alarm hold and now we are under lockdown and all of the ships the doors leading to the ship they all slam shut and don't let the ship the fact that the ship's we got away no that might be on fire you got stop the source of the fire that doesn't make any sense stop it would want to be separate daughters in there yes unfortunately the last thing you see before the fire doors come down is your granddaughter up against the the window of the ship that she just got thrown into looking at you and screaming something that you cannot hear is the fire door falls down your friends drone Ashley birches drone still connected to the ship as it speeds off into the great unknown does it like auto upload content like that feeling when you know here's oh no you are this the drone camera turns back towards us and then we're going hey and it's not funny I look at the drone image of Lyle and she's screaming and as it gets farther and farther away the reception gets worse and it starts staticking and the last thing I see is his tears and his fucking his crying don't tell Anthony that we can't use it to track or what are you doing oh hold on that's okay I just need to do a firmware update and it's back again oh she's so sad though I wish I wasn't watching you in your mind you can go to anytime you want to regret the things you didn't do what a time to be alive when the whole entire world has got you feeling like something new the yeah yeah yeah Since the Bachelorette Westerner! 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