Not Another D&D Podcast

Gangs of Neo Galaderon - Ep. 2: Glenbottle Gala

84 min
Apr 2, 202616 days ago
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Summary

Not Another D&D Podcast continues the Gangs of Neo Galaderon campaign with a heist episode where the Kill Screens gang infiltrates the Mothership HQ gala to steal from Mayor Petunia Glenbottle's safe. The party uses reconnaissance, forged invitations, and creative problem-solving to breach security, ultimately engaging in combat with Mothership enforcers while attempting to secure Corky Glenbottle's high-level keycard.

Insights
  • Creative deception and social engineering can bypass security systems more effectively than direct confrontation in high-stakes infiltration scenarios
  • Character development through NPC interactions (Jonathan, Iva) creates emotional investment and reveals world-building details organically
  • Tactical flexibility—switching between stealth, combat, and diplomacy—is essential for heist-style gameplay where multiple approaches are viable
  • Environmental storytelling through world-building (Neo Galaderon's zones, corporate hierarchy, gang dynamics) creates immersive setting depth
Trends
Cyberpunk-themed tabletop RPG campaigns blending sci-fi aesthetics with heist narrativesPlayer agency in non-combat problem-solving through hacking, forgery, and social manipulation mechanicsNarrative consequences of player actions affecting NPC relationships and world state (Iva's promotion storyline)Multi-layered security systems requiring diverse skill checks (tech, deception, stealth) rather than single solutionsCollaborative storytelling where DM and players co-create world details through dialogue and improvisation
Companies
Mothership
Fictional megacorporation serving as primary antagonist controlling Neo Galaderon through enforcers and surveillance
Mothership News Network
In-world media propaganda arm of Mothership with holographic advertising throughout Neo Galaderon zones
Mothership Eats
Fictional delivery service mentioned as symbol of corporate complicity and consumer complacency in the world
People
Brian Murphy
DM running the Gangs of Neo Galaderon campaign, managing encounters and world-building
Jake Hurwitz
Player character Adam, a cyborg with hacking and combat abilities in the heist campaign
Oxel Conner
Player character Ox, a rogue-type character using stealth and sleight of hand for infiltration
Emily Axford
Player character Slug, a barbarian-type character with combat focus and reckless tactics
Petunia Glenbottle
Fictional target of heist, mayor of Neo Galaderon with 10 million credits in personal safe
Corky Glenbottle
Fictional character, Petunia's brother and family embarrassment, targeted for keycard acquisition
Spectre
Fictional character providing mission briefing, equipment, and real-time support via earpiece
Quotes
"I'm going to put on a Hawaiian shirt that is a bunch of naked women sitting on top of cheeseburgers."
Player (Ox)Mid-episode preparation sequence
"Mothership synthesized tobacco has proprietary ingredients that are so new scientists can't prove it causes cancer yet."
Holographic Cowboy NPCZone Six arrival sequence
"You guys haven't been that good at talking to people, so like you don't always have to."
Spectre (NPC via earpiece)Mid-heist tactical advice
"I wish them the worst. I wish them I hope Corky dies slow. I hope he falls into a machine feet first."
Iva (NPC)Bar conversation scene
Full Transcript
This is a headgum podcast. Welcome to the campaign after the campaign. This is not another D&D podcast. Welcome back to Bohumia, everybody. Bohumia. Like a glove. Ew. I'm your dungeon master Brian Murphy joined by Jake Hurwitz. Woe is me, I'm Flushing Pea. Oxel Conner. And then of course Emily Axford. Reminiscent about some pissing up slugs. Okay, really piss focused. Let's see what he does. Can't forget what was in that turlet. Turlet? You could have said toilet. Just in my head, turlet felt better. It hits it harder. All right. Anyway, it's not a wrong. Mopah was programmed to say it incorrectly. He's a robot. I was programmed by a guy who doesn't know what computers are. Give him a freaking break. All right, let's go ahead and do a little recap. Yeah. Yeah. So last time we kicked off with a little roller jam cyber skit. Between the jailbreakers and the kill screens. The futuristic roller race saw the fearsome spethreed of the jailbreakers taking on slug of the kill screens. During the match, ox caught an undercover mothership night and prevented him from signaling a drop ship before the race was over. Meanwhile, Adam had sex with another robot. And engaged some jailbreaker goons who were shooting at the kill screens. Motorcyclist equally helpful. Despite their motorcycle being damaged, slug still managed to dominate spethreed, jumping over every laser hurdle and performing death defying handwheel stunts. Fuck yeah. With the victory, you managed to make 4,000 credits, aka gold credits. But more importantly, you want to bet with the jailbreakers for inside info on an upcoming job. Spectre, a freelance hacker, met up with you later at zone one in your arcade. You went up to your dearly departed leader, Sir Elmer's office, where you all lamented the state of Neo Galatron and reminisced about the good old days. Spectre clued you in on an upcoming gala at the mothership HQ in zone six and revealed the location of the mayor, Petunia Glenbottles, personal safe. Rumor has it that she has 10 million credits inside. Yelza. Spectre outfitted you with a glove that will allow you to retrieve her fingerprint with a handshake, which you will need to open the safe. As Spectre prepared to set up the office as home base, you struggled with the idea of changing anything about Elmer's setup, including the piss that he left in the toilet. You all came together, reminiscing about the first time you met your old mentor, then flushed the toilet in a beautiful ceremony. And that's where we are now. Right. Alright, is there anything you guys want to do before the heist? Because otherwise I'm going to fast forward a couple days. A couple days, okay. I think we probably ought to do some recon on who's going to be in Petunia Glenbottles' circle, right? Oh, yeah. Okay. You can use like tinkerers tools almost if you guys want to use like tech to like kind of. I got tinkerers tools. Yeah, could do a history roll. You can also do a history roll. Yeah, plus seven a history. Great. I'm going to give a help action to, I don't know history. I'm going to give a help action to the tools. I'll say that you guys have a couple days. So if Slug, you want to spend one day with Ox doing one way of research and spend one day with Adam doing a day of research. You guys can both roll with advantage to see what kind of dirt you can dig up. Yeah, I want to see if I can hack into the e-vite. Great. 14. 14. Okay. Nice. With a 14, you do some digging around. Basically, it's very like proto internet. There's message boards and whatnot within Neo Galatron. Yeah. And you find some info. You find leaked footage of this terrifying bodyguard that is only known as the prototype. And you haven't really seen this dude before, but you see there's like a picture. He's been caught kind of blurry behind Petunia Glen bottle. Looks like he was kind of lurking in the shadows, but was like caught by some kind of security camera or some kind of hacker. Big machine body of there. There are these robots called mother ship enforcers. Think like Warhammer like Space Marine, but like an actual machine like exoskeleton kind of like spethreed, except like buff instead of like skinny and built for speed. Right. This dude looks like he has the body of an enforcer, but is a human like is a cyborg has sort of like Darth Vader with the mask off bald head bloodshot eyes. Looks like it was like deeply augmented and tampered with just like huge over eight feet tall. And he he doesn't look right. He doesn't look good. Petunia here plus one. Woof. Yeah. I can't believe that's our husband. And I'll say you also find some rumblings of Corky Glen bottle. Yes. Corky is Petunia's brother. And he is like the family fuck up sort of the Roman Roy of family. If you will. So is like going out at bars and getting in trouble and getting in fights and then mothership nights are going and having to having to help him and whatnot. So sort of the disgrace of the family. He has like a cushy position as like chief officer of human relations discoveries, just like a bullshit title. The board just like he makes a ton of money. Yeah. But does not look like he's he's that important to the day to day. OK, I want to sort of zoom in into somebody's tabloids and see what bars he's frequent. Oh, good idea. OK. Maybe we could post up and this seems like the kind of guy who talks at a volume that he wants to be heard even when he's talking about things that shouldn't be heard. OK, you hear some rumblings that he hangs out sometimes in zone four with the Blackfire Carnival. Juggalos. Sort of Juggalos who like to do a sort of. Yes, silent, silent raves. VR goggles. Real sad. Yeah. Does he get does he go somewhere that he gets like covered in electrodes and maybe leaves his pants elsewhere? It looks like maybe that does happen. He also has been seen in zone three, which is the South Avenue jimmies. And that would not be cool with James the leader. You would know. James, you know, back in the day, there was tension between the South Avenue jimmies and the kill screens of zone one. And there was a fight and that's how James got his head cracked and why he has a giant metal head. And that's also how Elmer lost his hand. But after that, they became kind of friends and allies like reluctant allies, sort of the devil, you know, type situation like they have a begrudging respect. Quirky Glenbottle has been seen in zone three at an area that this dude thin jim hangs out in. Whereas James's Tavern is like a true old school Tavern. Like you go there, people are singing songs and drinking ales out of frosty mugs. Oh, yeah. Thin jims has like screens everywhere so you can see like what all the crypto is doing and everything. It's like a sports bar, but no sports. Yes, exactly. We need to get into crypto. And so thin jim is sort of a lieutenant that seems to be kind of challenging James's authority. OK. Quirky Glenbottle has been seen there, but has been kind of quiet recently. Seems like maybe he's been punished for embarrassing for embarrassing mothership. Do you think because Specta said that we got to get a clearance card? Yes. I wonder if we could try to go to one of these places where he's zonked out on electrodes, slip of finger in the pocket, grab these clearance card. That seems like the ideal opportunity, but he will probably be heavily guarded. Oh, that's such practical thinking. So as so, Adam, what did you get on your history check? Let me roll it now. Yeah. It's going to be a dirty 20. OK, dirty 20. I'll say between you and ox and doing all this research and everything and with the schematics and information that Specter put together. What you guys know is that Petina has an office up on the 13th floor. After floor 10, you need a level of clearance higher than the other floors. So any security guard will probably have key cards for the levels one through 10, basically. OK. If we see Quirky at the party, we can pretend like we're all drinking buddies. He might not remember us because he gets so trashed all the time. I like that. And good with Quirky. And I'll say with your with your guys like hacking seals and everything and with like having gotten a dirty 20, you guys are fully able to forge invitations. Yes. Perfect. And what was Thin Jim's establishment called so that we can pretend that we've drank with him with Quirky at Thin Jim's? At Thin Jim's. Skinny Jimmy's crypto bar and grill. Is that where they? What do you grill here? Oh, my God, it's like a Calci nightmare. I will say ever since mothership has has come in and started kind of changed the dynamics, it has now gotten dangerous to hang out at bars in other zones. You guys could have like walked in and announced yourselves at like Jimmy's Tavern not too long ago. And that wouldn't have been weird at all. But now it might cause problems or you kind of don't know where people stand at this point. Yeah. Yeah. Like even with like the interaction do you guys had with the jailbreakers? It would have been a little friendlier a few months ago. Right. No rules, but there was Anna. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, we can either attempt to make contact with Quirky or we can. Sounds like at the party. Should we should be fake a picture of us hanging out with Quirky? We absolutely should do that. Okay. Damn it. I love it. I'm in love with it. Yeah. Orcs, can you put up Photoshop? Make me look so fucking buff. Okay. So I'm going to do a Photoshop of all of us at one of the years. Wait, take a picture of me right now. I do a bunch of push-ups. I do a bunch of push-ups. Oh my God. I inject in each butt cheek. I'm going to need a wide angle lens. We're going fish-eyed. We're going fish-eyed, dude. Oh my God. I'm going to put on a Hawaiian shirt that is a bunch of naked women sitting on top of cheeseburgers. Oh, don't do it. Quirky would love that. All right. So you got your jacked smiling. Yeah. I think I'm literally doing a pull-up. You have an opened up Hawaiian shirt coming with naked ladies. Doing a one-armed pull-up. All right. I'm. With one tit out. Jesus. That's the biggest stupidest Tiki drink in my hand. I'm holding another one positioned so that Quirky can be sipping out of it. Quick touch of my screen. You made the areola way too big. It's not believable at all. All right. So I'm going to, well, you know what? Why don't you go ahead and give me like Tinker Stool's check or like Arkana check. Tech Arkana. Okay. And I also want to Photoshop him. He's wearing like the VR glasses. Oh nice. So it's kind of plausible that he might not remember our faces. So you guys are like in zone four or something. Can I do a hope action? Sure. Yes. I'll use my first one, which is a six, which is another 14. Okay. So you guys look at it and I don't know if you have the heart to tell him, but it's like it's an okay Photoshop job. Yes. Well, because you guys were touching my screen. Okay. Well, I guess we've got a plan B. This is pretty good. I feel like there's a lot of airbrushing on it. That's interesting. Wait a second. Put the brightness on your phone down all the way. So that when we show it to him. Yeah. Okay. And I throw my phone on the ground to crack the screen. Wait, we're going to probably need that to get in. They're going to need to scan up. Okay. I take a full hour to fix it. All right, sweet. Is there anything else that you guys are doing to prep before you arrive? There might be, you would hope that there'd be no one there that would recognize you. If there's people there that recognize you, that means there's gangs that are fully in the pocket of mothership, which would be bad. But it is possible that someone there might know who you are if you go in your everyday regular clothes. Also, there's a freaking dress code. You can't just go right. I think I'm going to. I think I'm going to borrow some formal wear from the Hampson sisters. I know one of them has like a really cyberpunk silver mask that covers everything but my mouth. Great. And then maybe I'll ask them to for my outfit. I want them to paint me in like puff paint. That's my dress. What is puff paint? It's like, you know, when grandma's like write things on shirts. So you're just nude covered in puff paint? Yeah. You don't see anything. It's very tasteful. It's a tasteful amount of puff paint. Plastic tarp on top and they've puffed paint on that or is just straight on your skin. It's on my skin. Awesome. It's a gala. What do you expect? It's a gala. So jacked athletes are going to paint your dress. Oh wait a minute. They're going to roll with advantage. Sir, we'll try our best, sir. Slugs, do you want me to use my painter's kit? I should ask. What do you want? I have a painter's kit, please. They got a five. I repair. Okay, okay. I'm going to do an athletic sector wrestle them off of me. Sure, sure, yeah. 23. Not 20. That's a 28. Get off of me. Okay, 24. 18 they fail. You slip out. Okay, okay, okay. Get out of the knife. I'm going to go to a, I'm going to go to Adam. They start fighting each other. They used to be mothership knights that saw the light and came over to you guys. But are still so aggro. I'm going to say Adam, I got a favor. Could you, I want to look like I'm going to a mech gala. Is that the thing where everyone wears? The mech gala later on, yes. Yeah, the mech gala later on. Yes. I mostly handle airbrushing the arcade cabinets when they get scratched up, but I think I can manage this. I think you can too. Hold on, hold still. Adam's going to hold out his arm and it transforms into like a spray paint gun. And then we'll put puff paint into the spray paint gun. Just shut your eyes. It's pretty thick. That should be okay. Sweet. All right. What are the rest of you guys wearing? I'm going to, I'm going to go into my shop and basically start brushing. I'm going to be doing steel and chrome and fabricate plates. I'm going to look like delivery for a Formula One car. So just like really elegant curves and lines, overlapping plates, and I'm going to paint crypto.com, grill, mothership.piss. Just like an F1 car, the branding is all over the place. So it looks like I'll fit in there. I'm going to polish myself to like a chrome sheen and put on like a metal tuxedo and pretend to be their butler. Cool. Sweet. So you guys are all dressed up. Yeah. I want to look like, I'm like so ripped and you don't see my face. Oh, you do see my mouth though and you do see my missing tooth. That kind of, I was thinking I would maybe look like a super model. Sure. Can I get, oh. I can make you a tooth. Yeah. Make me a fake tooth. So I look like a super model. This is now I personally want to look but. That's a 16. Okay. Pretty good tooth. Okay. It's just, this is a piece of gum. I'm going to have a hard time. Rock on. I'm not doing this thing. I shove it in. Sweet. So you guys all got all your stuff. You guys are all prepped. Spectre sets you guys all up with earpieces and stuff and she will talk you guys through it as you get there. You guys take a few hours getting across town. The transit in the city is quite unreliable. You'll take a train and then stop in a station in the next zone, get out, walk down an abandoned tunnel. We can't take that train. I dated it for a little while. I think for the last block we need to get a taxi so that we're arriving in style but I don't think we can really. Yeah. Reach the cash out otherwise. Okay. How about this? I think we're getting a car like a block away for the show of arriving in a car. So you guys have to kind of crisscross across different modes of transportation. Walk down subway tunnels where there's not trains anymore because there have been attacks by the gangs or by mothership or by mothership pretending to be the gangs. But eventually you do get out of a train in zone six. You see this is the sector of the city that has been completely taken over by mothership. This neighborhood and zone five are both inside the massive cavern of old cragwater. There are floating lanterns that light the streets, pristinely clean shops, bars and restaurants, expensive apartments and houses built into the mountain. Tons of screens, very time square with talking heads from Mothership News Network and ads for mothership products. You see a giant holographic cowboy tipping his hat and smoking an electronic cigarette and a recording just going, howdy partner. Oh my god. Mothership synthesized tobacco has proprietary ingredients that are so new scientists can't prove it causes cancer yet. To this old cowboy, that means they're technically safe. Takes a smoke. Hmm. That's Mothership Smooth. I add that logo to my back. Slug really struggles with holograms because she always tries to fight them. So she she takes a swing at this. Oh shit, she's going to square up. Just restarts. My outy partner. Howdy partner. You mother ship. Howdy partner. Mothership synthesized tobacco has proprietary ingredients. We know that. Sir, we're so sorry. You already said that. Howdy partner. Mothership synthesized tobacco has proprietary ingredients. I try to string. Guys, step away from the hot cowboy. We're so sorry, sir. Howdy partner. Well, did he just wink at me? No. Honestly, Adam, would you? Everyone does. You're in. Hell yeah. You guys see the crown jewel of this part of the city is the new Mothership HQ. It looks like the bow of a ship coming out of the mountain. This huge building with Mothership written in red neon. See bright lights spill out from the main entrance as a crowd of well to do people and hangers on file in. You see people with like ostentatious suits with lights all over the trim, elaborate neon hair color, silver and gold makeup. Lots of people walking in with like neon angel wings. The vibe is very robot. OK, I immediately need angel wings. Great. Can I can I find someone who looks like a piece of shit and beat him up and steal their wings? Yeah, you see, I go ahead and give you a present and check. OK. Oh, no. Ten. OK. With the ten, you see somebody you can't tell if they're good or bad. You just somebody walking in with angels wings and they go, I don't know how I feel about being here, but I guess by being here, I'm complicit and start to walk in the door. Fuck it. They keep the way. You know, I'm just going to try to sleight of hand the wings. Go ahead and give me a sleight of hand check. Oh, twenty three. OK, you steal the wings of this complicit person's back. I saw the person that took them. They ran that way. Yeah, that's you know, I'm probably not going to do anything about it. I don't know what they were no angel. I don't have strong feelings one way or the other. Are you depressed? Yeah. What's your name? Jonathan. Ronathan. Sure. Is that not what you said? Did you say, I said, Jonathan, Jonathan, but Ronaldon School. Is your name? I'll call you the name that you are. I like Ronaldon. Yes, I like Jonathan. I like Jonathan. Jonathan Jonathan, Jonathan, Ronaldon, things up. Jonathan is pretty good. But why does that have to be thin? Why don't you don't attend? Yeah, yeah. Not a ton. There's a lot of this guy. You're a thing. You think you're thin, but you're a ton. You know what I mean? Yeah, I don't know. You know, you see, just litters a little bit. I give him a. You should. What? Don't want to be there. They're just going to clean up later. Who's going to clean up? I don't know. I just have a robot or something, right? I mean, but you could at least do your part. Because the robot doesn't have to pick up your garbage. Then it picks up on us. He bends down and picks it up. Have more of a backbone, right? Yes, stand up to us. If you guys want to pick it up, I guess if like now that you're making me point it out, I guess like you have my angel wings. She had these before. She had these long before. This was her idea. You can have them. Oh, yeah. Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan. You know what? I'm just going to order dinner from a mothership eats and go home. Oh, God, that's more complicit than going to this gala. Really? You think so? Yeah, I do think so. OK, you see, litters a little bit more. Just drops another wrapper. OK, I'm going to. I'm going to tackle him, but not do damage. He's a comrade. So hurt. He goes like. He goes like. OK, I thought a ton. I mean, I work. I work for motherships, so I can, you know, I got I got OK health insurance. It's not good, but what do you do for mattership? I do like social media posts like it'll be like mothership shipping to you now. Free shipping. OK, wow. So that's just really low level complacency, huh? Getting getting the word out. Just getting the word out. Yeah. OK, well, you know, hey, I'm rooting for you. OK. Cool. Get out of here. OK, bye. Just like a really sad apartment building that just has apartment pods. Oh, I'm worried. I'm worried about Donna done. Well, that was that was good diplomacy warm up. I think I think we won the mova. I hadn't thought of that. All right, now I'm ready to schmooze. I can mingle. We got so much information out of him. Yeah, we make good small talk. Wait, we didn't even talk about who's going to wear a glove. Oh, oh, you got away with the glove. Well, you got the strong grip. I do look like a supermodel right now. I am having a difficult time breathing beneath this silver skull mask because of the deviated septum. Should we take out that tooth? That was a good it was an airway that you that were blocking. Oh, yeah, maybe just I can file it down. I'll give it a little I'll give it a tiny little chip. Yeah, file down the tooth. And then maybe if you could just put a couple of straws up my nose and they just peek out the bottom of the mask. OK, we'll be rolling on kind of check. There we go. That's a twenty three. OK, yeah, you've got great breathing through your nose. We're soldering guns so close to your nostril. You hear a little buzz in your ear from the earpiece. And now Spectre go, Hey, I'm just so you know, I can hear everything. Yeah, do you have any advice? Yes. So I would consider going in. What did you think of that guy? You think a ton of time? I didn't think about him really at all. Well, what do you think about the fact that we've got one less person going in the building? So we've increased our chances of making contact. I mean, you could have gotten a security card off of him and he said he worked at. It was not. Oh, that's why I asked what he did. He would have been lower levels, but maybe he could have gotten you into like a more, you know, closed off area. I wasn't the whole conversation was bizarre. So I didn't like you guys. Weirdly got sort of fixated on this guy. They just seemed kind of like lukewarm bad, maybe. Yeah, yeah, he wasn't great. He was absolutely wasn't great. I was worried he seemed like it was I've been watching a little bit like through. Like you see, there's like a little on camera on top of Rover. Or I could also be wearing a corsage. Yeah, you got a course. It has a camera. Yeah. And she goes, I think best move would probably be you've got passes. Get inside. I don't know that. Petunia will probably give some kind of greeting or speech at some point. Yes. Get a handshake. But ask around, kind of find out who to. OK, that's good. That's good. OK, I climb on top of Rover. Go on. Beep, beep. Wow. He goes so slow. Here comes the greatest formula one racer ever known. From you guys get to the entrance of this building. You see at the entrance, there are several mothership nights in glowing blue plate mail wearing these like T shaped helms that connect to tubes very like stormtrooper. They are waving people in as they enter the main archway. There's a device that looks like a huge metal detector, but it seems to be scanning people for invitations. I'll say go ahead and make a you can either do like a tech arcana or deception check with advantage as you enter. OK. So I'll hand over the invitations. Great. That's an 18. Great. Nice. OK, you guys get the green as you go through the detector. I metal detected and I point to myself. You see, one of the soldiers goes really good. That was awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Have a great night. That's really funny. Can I like clock any of like the security cards hanging from them? Do they look like it only gets to third level or would they get to 10? You would think that these regular mothership nights would probably only have like the base level clearance, which wouldn't be the upper floors. You'd probably have to find like an executive. Yeah, we'll have the schmooze in the main. Do we want to do a dry run? Oh, just infiltrate like floor seven. Kind of low stakes. See what's up. Yeah. Oh, we could go to the cafeteria. Now that you're saying it, I'm realizing well, they might have they might have all king sized candy bars. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. And those and those big tubes of jelly beans. You see, one of the mothership guards is eating a full size milk. Like where to get that milk you. OK, OK. Hi. Excuse me, sir. Yes, I'm a supermodel. And I was wondering where supermodels use the restroom in inside. Do you have a special toilet for supermodels? Is what there's what you're asking. There's a lot of supermodels here. Very important pisser. There's a lot of supermodels here. And do they all you're like the 30th supermodel I've seen here. Oh, OK, so you're so bored of supermodels. I'm honestly pretty bored of supermodels. Yeah, I'm around supermodels literally all the time. That's hey, well, which supermodels have you seen? I can do this. Slugs, you got this. What are you going to do? I crunched out on my. You what? I crunched. You what? I crunched out of my tooth and eat it. And what? Oh, Jesus. Get intimidation. A 13. This guy like looks like a little bit rattled. Which is going to go inside. Oh, while we're having this conversation, I'm going to try to slide a hand, steal his cut. Nice. OK. This is you guys aren't even going to get it. And if this guy catches you. Me eating my tooth. 13 is a night. He's like he's annoyed. How many other supermodels ate their tooth on the way in? What did you what did you get, ox? I got a two on my side. OK, go ahead and roll initiative. I was just looking at you. Here's Spectre goes behave, behave. OK, OK, OK, neutralize, neutralize. All right. I got a 12. 10, 22. Oh, we got to kill this guy. If you can't, you can't kill him. You're at the front of the party. Yeah, you guys did this in front of literally everyone. We got we got to just try to convince him. Yes, we're idiots and not. OK, so at initiative 22 is Adam. But this guy notices. We got a thief here and goes grabs ox's arm, goes to put it behind his back and goes to like hit him with his little electro blade. OK. OK. Oh, no. Adam, you are first to act. People nearby kind of go, huh. I will take responsibility for this thief. He is with me. I have been tracking him for a while now and was waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Give me a. Give me a deception check. As you can see, I am a secret agent. That's why I'm wearing this tuxedo. Does remember how funny he was? He made you laugh with the metal thing that was disarming. I am going to. Can I cast detect thoughts as I do this to try and like read what he's thinking? Yeah. OK. So I can use that once a day because it's like the telepathy feet. Sure. And I'm going to say that I'm essentially like hacking the network to like get into his mind. OK. So you're just going to do. Are you just going to do the base level where he doesn't do a save and you just get a base thoughts? OK. His surface thoughts are just that he thinks ox is a con artist that comes to events like this and tries to steal stuff from people. OK. So he's like thief, killed a thief. Like just he's just going to kill him right here. Listen, between you and me, I know that this will be a lot of paperwork. I've been tracking this guy for a while and I was going to accost him inside to try and make a scene so that I could get you. A combination scene at the party. Yes, so that I could be introduced. You know what? I'll shoot you straight. I wanted Petunia Glenn Bottle to see me make this arrest. Go ahead and give me a persuasion or deception check. All right. Can I do deception? Sure. All right. Cool. Certainly. OK. That's an 18. You know what? I'm going to add my built for success to that. So I had a 1D4. OK. That's a four. Nice. So that becomes with my deception that is a 20 27. OK. No, don't make an example of me, robot. You see, the one guy kind of looks at you, Adam, and is still hanging on to ox, like getting ready to attack. But then the other night there goes, oh, he's he's with the jailbreakers. I think this is a between gangs thing. And you see the night who has ox go, OK, settle it for yourselves outside. Go to zone five kicks you guys both out. Right. You guys are both you guys are both kicked out. Oh, OK. Sorry for the trouble. As they get kicked out, I think I want to whip out the picture we have of us with Glen Bottle and just say, look, I know this is a specter. Just like, please just somebody go. I know this is a shit night, but I'm just going to put it out there. Those two knuckleheads, the friends with Corky. So I don't know. I mean, look, I've talked to people who work for the Glen Bottle. And they say you got to kind of tread lightly around Corky, because, yeah, he's the fail son, but also he can get you fired. Pales. You see the mothership nights are like beside themselves. Like, what do you mean, your friends with Corky Glen Bottle? Where did you get this picture? Who's are you showing this picture to people? I'm saying that these two guys say you just kicked out the friends with Corky. Then they should stay far away from this place. OK, OK, OK, no skin off my back. I'm headed in, I'm headed in. No skin off my back. Come on, you let's get out of here. I hit Aux on the back of the head really hard. Oh, OK. Not really faking it, huh? OK, so Aux and Adam are kicked out of the. OK, so I am immediately going to go in and try to find a way to get them in, try to find a door to. Yeah, OK, great. Nice. All right, so here's what I'll say. You see it back to how we do it so far. So OK, so just a few notes. I know you guys aren't used to going to the level seven. OK, so like if you're going to steal a card, right? Yeah, find like a like a drunk engineer or something. OK, I guess not the door guy. OK, but that seems so high space. So we wanted to do a bit of practice. OK, so practice. The thing is, though, it's not practice when it's like the guards at the front door, because then you don't even get in the front door. I kind of think it went well. Oh, listen, Elmer used to just shoot people in the head with his gun on and that worked really well. OK, I I got to be honest, guys. I didn't picture us ever pulling something off like that. Deception you did, Adam, was nuts. You by the way, your gum tooth is still there. So you ate your other you ate your real tooth. That's awesome. Now I'm missing my full front teeth. I never been more beautiful. The fact that you all aren't in a windowless cell right now is like incredible. Huge win. But I will just say that having done nothing but walked, you could all three be in there right now. Like just baseline. But I think we learned a lot. You learned a lot. OK, you learned a lot. You learned a lot. All right. So for the skin of our missing teeth, I can't believe I can't believe I actually brunched the real thing. That's so cool. Try to whistle now. I do one push. Adam and ox are just like stuck outside in the shitty area of time. Should we go to the store? Like I would like to buy one big Eminem. All right, let's oh, let's pregame while we wait. OK. Yeah, you guys go to like a really overpriced TGI Skydates. Yeah, yeah, one here. Really bland food. And meanwhile, slug, you are the only one who made it inside. OK, what I'm going to hang on. Let me just get out of the fucking room. All right, everything you say, and I'm saying through the headset. OK, great. So slug. Hey, hey, can you get do you read? Yes, we hear. Hold on. It's really loud in the Eminem store. OK, could you not? I don't want you to go. You go to the Eminem store without me. We'll do it out. We'll get you one. You want a big Eminem? I want the minis because it makes me look so huge. Get to know you right. A tiny Eminem. You got to understand this. They're coming out with a new Eminem. What? I'm leaving. I'm leaving right now. It's called Eminem. I don't know what the third M stands for. Probably more. OK. More M. So they're at the Eminem store and you draw. And you they're a little drunk. You enter and are greeted by a stunning foyer. This feels more like a club than a headquarters. You see the room is dark. Save the mood lighting. You see a giant glowing crystal chandelier hanging down from the ceiling. There are round tables and circled by neon lights. Long bar to your left with the same thing. Open bar, lit up tonics and mixers on shelves behind a robot bartender who quickly serves guests. You see strange smooth gray constructs that look like mannequins, hover and serve snacks and drinks. To your right, there's a short staircase down to a dance floor where a DJ and a giant welder's mask pumps, beats and people dance. There are some tables over there where people drink and mingle. Straight ahead of you, you see a grand staircase leading up to a second floor. It's the whole second floor is like a wrap around balcony that overlooks the first floor. You see it looks like there's a second level to the bar on the left side. Up there and dead center. There are two mothership nights guarding an elevator. You'd have to like go up to the second floor to see more of what's going on up there. So right now what I'm looking for is a place for my friends to come in. So I want to look for the shyest, most scared person working here. OK, I'll say go ahead and give me a perception check. Twenty one. Twenty one. You don't see many people that are shy or scared because you're at you're at essentially what is like a crowded club. You get the sense that because of like mother ships, tech that they were able to like turn this place over. Oh, because it's all robots rather than caterers. There's all robots rather than caterers, but there are people who work here who are at the party. So I'll say downstairs is very crowded. Upstairs looks a little quieter. Like that's where people are going to like talk and stuff. Or maybe the maybe the people who are a little shy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I basically want to find someone quietly intimidate them into showing me the service entrance. OK. So I'm using my twenty one for either if there's someone who looks like there. If I recognize someone working it and I think that they might be also up to no good tonight. Or if I see someone who's just kind of shy, newbie, I'll gently try to intimidate someone high at work. OK, great. So here's what I'll say that you see immediately to your left with a twenty one, you see that amongst these like hangers on, you see a pack of South Avenue jimmies here wearing their like normal South Avenue jimmy stuff. And you see thin gym is there, one of James's lieutenants. You see he is a gnome in a news boy cap, skinny and taller than a lot of his compatriots, wears metal pants and metal suspenders and has like a laser sight, monocle over his left eye. You see he is like making kind of a scene, like shouting at the bartender. Hey, tin man, I own a bourbon. This is a ride. And then he kicks it back anyway and drinks it. Just like being a fucking prick. This is the guy that James hates. Yes, this is the lieutenant that James is feuding with. He's got a bunch of like young punks around him like, Jim, that's so fucking funny. So they're like laughing it up and everything. You see, I'll say you do a little bit of a lap. You see down in the like club area, young blunder there from the Hammer and Circuits gang. He's got unstable tech where he augments himself in ways that are like straight up dangerous. He's got like a clear dome over his head where like you can see his brain and just has like a giant hammer with him that like shocks him with like electra bolts as he sits there with like a crew. He's a little bit, even though he's got like some wild augmentations, he's not as like loud and annoying as like thin Jim. You also see spethrid here and a few of those other bots. You see some other people in like sort of a bottle service area. You see like a dwarf man with like a long black beard and black hair. It's got like a blue like sapphire shimmery suit on. Seems to be like surrounded by people. And he has a couple of knights that are like guarding him. You also see upstairs if you do like a little bit of a loop. Two mothership knights guarding the elevator there. You also see a stairwell that looks like it is controlled by a key card, but maybe like one of the lower level key cards, because it's just on the second level here. So there's a stairwell there. And then you see a smaller bar where people are sitting at like little pub tables that are like glowing under. It's still got a little bit of a club vibe, but like they're looking down and kind of watching the more wild people. The person that sticks out the most to you here, you see, there's like a robot bartender, but you also see someone here, a Goliath woman with you see, she's like very tall, but she's hunched over. It looks like the type of person that is like maybe like sits at a computer all day. It's got like really small glasses and is just nursing a drink. It's got like a martini glass and she clinks it for the robot bartender to fill her up again. And she's sitting over by herself and looks like quite miserable. I'm going to post up next to the miserable Goliath woman. And near the bartender. And I'm going to say to the bartender, this thin gym is giving you a hard time. So this is like the sort of upstairs area. But this robot goes, yes, he was up here before. It was very scary. OK, I this is sort of the quiet area for the people that just want to hang out. And he wants to scream and take shots. And he says that he ordered a bourbon, but he orders rye. And then when he gets the rye, he yells and says he ordered a bourbon and he drinks it anyway. Yeah, it's very confusing. I'm a bit of a mixologist myself, so mixologist to mixologist. I hate a patron like that. I got a couple of friends that could probably kind of neutralize him. See this robot programed by Mother Shift just goes, you seem nice. Please don't tell the robots your plans or anything like that. Sure thing. Yeah, you can't see my face anyways, because I'm wearing a skull. Sure. I'll turn to the Goliath woman and just say what dragged you here. What dragged me here? Yeah, you see, visibly very drunk and irritated. I gave 10 years to this company. And years. I worked in Esri. They sent me here. I live in a pond. I can't even stand up. That's the pain. I can't even stand up in the pod. Asper if she knows Donathan. Yeah, not a ton. I have the scientific background. I have the experience, but that idiot. Rance Coppercott gets the promotion just because he's friends with the manager. Oh, that's yeah. Yeah, it's all about who you know. It's a little boys club, quirky Glenn bottle and his little freaking boys club. You got to get into cyber sketch because it can be a girls club. Yeah, you do scyber sketch. Yeah, I do cyber sketch. Yeah, cyber sketch. Yeah, what's your name? Take a while. Well, I was trying to look, honestly, I was trying to understand. Are we at the level where I give you my nickname already? Because I feel like we're having a personal intimate conversation. So I was deciding, do I tell you Daniela or Danny? Fuck it, let's go Danny, right? Let's go Danny. Let's go Danny. What's your name? Iva. Iva, what's your scientific expertise that's getting so fucking overlooked? OK, well, I am an enchanter, OK, and I know how to actually make magic items. Whereas Rance and Corky wouldn't know a cantrip from a polymorph, frankly. Rance and Cork, you're going to run this place into the ground. You've got a plan B. Do I have a plan? I'm thinking about quitting. You're thinking about. I'm thinking about walking out. OK, I tend to do more shots to quit. All right, yeah, fuck it. Fuck it, we're done. We're done. So I want you. OK, so when you order shots, do you actually are going to say Rai and then me and get mad and say, Berb and or. I offered you an out on that problem. And you said no. OK, so maybe I'm not the problem. Yeah, OK, two shots. Yeah, two shots. Deal is choice. Iva, clink your glass. I'm going to like link arms and I want to try to scope out if I see where like if she has a purse where a key card would be. Yeah, you see, she's got like sort of a lab coat type thing on and her key card is like hanging off there. She's got one. OK, I'm going to try to grab it. I'm going to try to play it off like like I'm also tipsy. Cool. And like kind of like slip off the barstool and then steady myself by grabbing the pocket. Ten. OK, she got a nine. She's doesn't have great perception right now. She's drunk. You successfully live a clumsily. But you get her key card and she goes, those motherfuckers are upstairs right now doing arcane. Corky's up. Corky's upstairs doing arcane with his little crew. But which floor? They're probably I think they have like a conference room that they do it on like the fifth floor. Fifth floor. I tell you what, I wish them the worst. I wish them I hope Corky dies slow. I hope he falls into a machine feet first. Wow. Oh, like a paper shredder. Yeah, that's on slow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? I think it's going to happen for you. All right. All right. I'm going to quit. Fuck it. Fucking quit. Fuck my pod. Fuck your pod. Go move to this. Why are you living in the city? Go move to the country. Someone like you. I imagine you with a little garden. Little garden. Little garden. I can I can I see you painting. With your free time. I see you. I see you watching the bunnies that come visit your garden. You see she's your talents are wasted. She thinks about the bunnies and starts sobbing. Do we kill her now? I'm just going to like hug her and be like, so I just realized I got to I got to take a shit. And then I want to try to go to this door, the stairwell that might go to. I want to basically make an entrance for them to get in. OK, box, finish or Eminem. You're still working on one. It's huge. Oh, no, they have huge ones. Yeah. Yes. This is a novelty. They have unreleased colors out here. How much are not a purple? I'll get you one. What color you want? Orange. They don't have one. What? They're out of orange. Sorry. I'm sorry. Don't bother coming. They have marigold. I can get you a yellow and a brown. You see, you see, Donathan has bought the last orange on him. He's there. I'll sell it to you for like a lot of money, I guess. Oh, my God. Donathan just get the fuck out of here. He cards you. He crumbles. You get the orange Eminem. OK. I got you one. All right. So with this key card, you're able to sneak off into the stairwell. Go ahead and give me, I'll say stealth check with advantage. It wouldn't be that crazy for employees to like go in and out and go to the different offices and stuff. So. Seventeen. OK, 17. Without anyone noticing, you wait for like a couple people to walk by. You get into the stairwell. There are no guards posted up. You do hear some people like upstairs. You suspect that maybe if you were to climb the stairs all the way up to like the more locked down area, then it might be bad. But as you go downstairs to like a side entrance, you see that there is another door that opens up into like a parking garage. Oh, that would be different like cars and stuff like that. OK, I'm going to like before you open it, you do see that there's like an alarm attached to it. You see like wires along it. OK. OK, so I'm staring at an alarm. OK, can Spectre hack into the alarm system? I think it would need to be someone on the ground there. Gotcha. OK. So what do I got to do to neutralize an alarm? OK, I know how to do it. I'll just have to explain it to you from outside the door. OK. Yeah. All right. So here's what I'm going to say. This little like parking garage area, you guys can sneak into that. You guys go around sort of the side of the building. See, there's a parking garage where all these like rich people's like self driving hovercrafts and stuff are going into. I crouched down on Rover, so it looks like I'm a tiny little formula. And do you guys have any abilities or anything that you want to apply before you go in? Because you do see that there are more guards and knights here. There's no knights that are actually like at this side door here, but there are ones like in the parking in the parking garage. OK. OK, so we're sneaking. Yes. Do you want me to try and distract them using telepathy? I could send out a false alarm. Oh, yeah. And then that could draw them to another another place. Then we sneak past. What I'm going to do is I will using telepathy speak into one of the guards minds and say someone shit in this cyber truck. OK, OK. So a knight that's like directly in your past. You tell him that someone shit in a cyber truck. I'll do it. I'll do it from hiding. OK, got you. I'll pretend to be one of those like parking guards that has like the long arm. Got you. OK, go ahead and give me a deception check. All right, I'm going to use one of my luckies for this one from my merchant background. Dirty 20. Dirty 20. OK. With a dirty 20, this guy does not seem crazy concerned that there's shit, but he does look confused. He like taps his ear and he does walk forward and walk away from the like stairwell that you guys need to get into. When you hear him say to one of the other nights, he goes, I think I'm on like a valet channel or something like that. Not only I mean, the valets don't clean the shit out of it. Be like a private vehicle coming in there. So I think it'd be like someone else's job. But yeah, I'm something's something's up with my it's weaponized shit. You see a bunch of guys are like gathering around and looking into this one car, looking for shit. Go ahead and I'll say still checks with advantage. Nice. OK. All right. Oh, yeah. Thank God. Not an at one, but a twenty seven. I got a twenty four. You guys successfully sneak in to the door, at least. So you get past these nights and there's this one dirty kind of service entrance that takes you into the stairwell on your side. It looks like it might be locked, but it opens from the inside. And as Slug had told you, there's some kind of alarm attached to it. OK. Ox think you can handle this alarm or do we need to be on the inside? I'm going to describe exactly how the alarm looks. Oh, OK. Yeah. I have I've got all my tools here. So if you describe everything, then I can I can try to disarm it. Great. OK. Go ahead and give me a tech or kind of check to like hack and take down. Am I giving a home? I'm going to say your help action will just allow him to roll flat because otherwise he would be rolling with disadvantage. Oh, my nice dice. That is a twenty six. Yes. OK. I'll say you straight up rig something so that you can go under the door and based on what Slug tells you, you're able to cut a wire that disarms the alarm without sending like a ping or an error to any of the other like security officers. This allows Slug to open it and you guys are now at stage one. You've gotten in his Yamen. And you got on it. It's tied with blood. You had to. I love it. I did not turn it out. So first of all, let's all congratulate ourselves on a successful injury. Yeah. So far, so good. Hey, yeah, we're doing like a speed run. OK. Yeah. Well, you've got a card to go higher. That's good. You can't get up to the safe yet. You could have just gotten in right away, sort of with your passes. Right. But now we know the lay of the land. You sure? I think we learn some new skills. And we have an M&M down. I don't know if you heard, but I was able to get an orange. I got an orange M&M. Did you want an M&M? Oh, no. Are you good? I don't want an M&M. No. Don't ask how she just saying that because she knows we forgot it. They're really big. You forgot it. Yeah, it's OK. It's fine. OK, OK. So sorry. I got some intel that we got a corkies on the fifth floor doing arcane with some guy named Rant Kapapat that just got a promotion that he didn't deserve. OK, great. Do we want to just go up there right now? Because I feel like corky is going to have the primo security guy. Do you have any drugs? Any of your any of your alchemical supplies stimulate or get anybody high? So I'm kind of a biohacker, so it only works on me. OK, just the most welcome site to somebody doing arcane is somebody coming with more. Maybe we should go to the bathroom. Look through my alchemist supplies and see if I have I can fashion anything mildly stimulating. You probably could, but you would think that this rich guy would probably have better drugs. Also, from the sounds of it, this guy has kind of retreated to a conference room where he could go snort arcane with his buddies. It doesn't sound like it would be super easy for you guys to slide in and be like, hey, what's up? This sounds like you probably would have to knock him out or be stealthy about it. Or we could buy some drugs on the bathroom. You see a specter chimes in and goes, you guys haven't been that good at talking to people, so like you don't always have to. I'm thinking we might just go and knock him and his friends out. I think that could be good. What do I don't remember what arcane does? What does arcane do to them? Like, what are we walking into? So I'll go ahead and give me, I guess, like a history check you guys can do with advantage. OK, I have alchemical supplies, so 14, 13. OK, you know that it's 21. It gives you haste with side effects. Love it. Honestly, it's good for battle in a pinch if like you're in a lot of trouble, but there will be like a crash at some point. Gotcha. I think we need to just get like a round where we get the fight and they don't get the fight. And maybe we hopefully take them all out. Right. Try to get a jump on them. If it's a conference room, it's probably one of those ones that have like everything is all glass. It's a fishbowl. I could try to overload their augments and put them to sleep. That sounds cool. OK. OK. OK, so I give that a shot. And if they don't fall asleep, then we knock them the fuck out. Yeah. OK. And we're another stealth up to the fifth floor. Yes. Great. Until we see the conference room that has some kind of light coming from it. You guys sneak up the stairwell again. You hear nights patrolling higher up, but on the fifth floor, you're all good with a key card. So you get up to the fifth floor of the stairwell. You scan your key card. Door clicks open. You go in. You see cold fluorescent light as you step out into the hall. A few glass offices that are empty. There are glowing lights from different monitors in like different offices. Go ahead and give me perception checks. That one. OK. 14. 23. Nice. All right. You hear howling coming from down the right corridor. OK. Let's stealth down it. Great. Still stealth. Yes. There could be a revelrous howling. Yeah, body howling. Yeah. I have 120 feet of dark vision. Cool. So I should be able to see way before we're like. You guys start sneaking down and you hear as you get closer. Ow, ow, ow. We are the Wolfpack. Ow, ow, ow. How many sounds like it's good stuff? How what's the chorus of ow, ow, ow? How many people? It sounds like I'll say you got over 20. Yeah. OK. You hear four members of the Wolfpack. One member said Wolfpack. Small pack. Do you think they're actual werewolves? They're absolutely does not sound like they're werewolves. You sneak up and you see this glass conference room. There is a shimmering purple powder in the middle of the table. And this looks like high quality arcane. OK, I do have like a fanny pack that I keep my syringes in. So I'm like, well, first of all, I'll go into a rage. Yeah. I take out two syringes, a needle in each cheek. But then like I'm going to be like motion to my fanny pack and the powder to be like, let's fill this thing up. Cool. Yeah. This is a drug bust. Cool. Yeah. You see four halfling dudes in like various state of disheveled business clothes, one guy who you recognize as being quirky, Glenn Bottle sort of like red faced. He's the one that's like yelling about being the Wolfpack. And he goes, I'm not going to my sister's party because I am an alpha. Alpha's party, but they work hard. Business idea. Rants go. And you see this other dude, Rant snorts a line and is just scratching his head. And he goes like, OK, OK, what about it's like mothership eats, but it's hot curls show up on rollerblades and the rollerblades are the food. It's like donuts and shit. So like the rollerblades are donuts. So then they show up and then you eat the doughnuts off of the hot curls feet. And then you see actually pretty cool. He's slapped him in the face and goes, the food would get dirty. Think again, Rant. You're a wolf. You're in the wolfpack. Just screaming at each other. Yeah. No, they should be hover rollerblades, obviously. You do see two mothership enforcers inside. You get the sense that robot guards hang out around quirky because they can human guards can't hang. We try to draw the bodyguards to us, have as quiet of a scuffle as we can and then proceed toward them. That seems like the plan. I don't know if these I don't know if I'll be able to knock these guards out. They won't be susceptible to sleep. Yeah. OK. So do we want to hug a shadow and just throw something down the hallway? Yeah. OK. Go ahead and give me a deception check. OK, I can use my magical tinkering to infuse a little little orb. And I can make it emit a noise. Or smell too. OK, great. What's the noise and what's the smell? What if it could rip ass to be a fart? You hear Spectre go, but then wouldn't they just think it was one of the halflings that did it? So the noise would be like a robot guard probably wouldn't go like after a fart. Maybe it should sound like a siren going off, but it could smell like a fart. So it should still smell like a fart. OK, yes. Don't speak for all robots. I'd go after the fart. OK. All right. So why don't we go handle this all an initiative? Everybody run up for initiative. Shout out to the two groups. Seven. Seventeen, twenty four. Top of the round. Go ahead and give me a I'll say stealth check with advantage because these dudes are screaming and the enforcers are just kind of watching them. Twenty four, thirty, thirteen. I look like a water fountain. For the record, I could see them from one hundred twenty feet away. OK, I'll say with a group stealth check, you guys are able to pass. So you guys are quiet, Adam acts first. But ox, you can decide to take the first action. Yeah, to roll out my little magic item. I can only put one magic property in each of the little orbs. So I'll do. So you don't have to do the fart. I'll do two. Because I want to just be the right and then the other will be the alarm. Better to improve our chances. That's just for us. I can do this at times. So you're going to make a little alarm. You're going to sort of throw this item down the hallway and then have it go off. Yeah, almost like a door, like a like a door is open or something. OK, you know, not a full alarm, but like. Yeah, just like. Boop, boop, boop. Go ahead. Exactly. Do you want to do you want to record that? Yeah. Boop, boop. Can I do the fart? You're without the tooth, you really make like a really lot whistling noise. Go ahead and give me a deception check. Thirteen. OK, I will roll in front of the table. Oh, they have a plus four to this role. OK, so they need nine or higher. They realize somebody's fucking with them. Well, we'll get them to come to us no matter what. Six, six. I sniff that far, dude. OK, one of them activates. You see they were in kind of in a sleep mode. You see the four halflings like jump up like, whoa, you fucking scared me, dude. That one leaves the conference room and goes down the hall to investigate. OK, OK, object. That's good. Yeah, one enforcer left in the room. Adam, you are first to act. OK, so I'm going to aim the sleep spell at the four halflings. I imagine they're all grouped together. Yeah, great. So I will try to hack their implants and put them to sleep, which probably will not cause alarm because they're getting high. So if they pass out, that's to be expected. Great. OK, go ahead and you roll HP for that, right? You're essentially casting the sleep spell. It is different in 2020. OK, what is the what is the new wisdom save for everyone within five feet? What is your save? It's 15, 15 wisdom. These guys definitely don't have good wisdom. They have to get 15 or higher. Plus zero to wisdom. Those business ideas, though. Yeah. One passes. OK, not corky, though. You see, corky just crashes down, passes out. Three of the dudes just drop and the other guy, Rance is the one that's still awake. He grabs the turn and goes like, oh, my God, I fucking killed him. Adam, you have the rest of your turn, however you'd want to use it. You see the enforcer activates and is going to like go investigate whatever happens next. Yeah, there's nothing else I can do with a bone section. So I'm just going to like pursue this guard into the room and start the fight. Yeah, you run in. You see this one enforcer opens up its chest. You see like a plasma cannon come out, gets ready to fight. You see this one halfling dude is just fucking freaked out. After your turn, that is his turn. He has haste. He takes a he takes an action to run. He uses his movement to run. He uses his action to run. Would we get it? Would we get an opportunity attack? Don't get an opportunity attack. He gets a hundred. He gets a hundred feet away. OK, OK, I just burst through the door. No one said anything about blocking the door. God damn it burst out the door and is running is going to like take off. That's fine. Oh, I could I can hit him with a fireball. Oh, OK, cool. And then after the halflings turn, the rest of the halflings are still asleep. That is ox's turn. OK, as soon as he gets out the door, we got a runner, we got a runner. You did kill him and you're going down for it. I jump off Rover, barrel roll onto the ground. I pull off a sawed off blunder bus behind my back. I'm going to bonus action branding smite to try to catch this guy. And I will also use my savage attacker feet, which is going to let me roll the damage dice twice. I'll use the higher one. Oh, my God, my two attacks. That is an 18 and 19 on the die. Certainly go ahead. Twenty seven and twenty six. OK, 30 damage, explodes into me. Just ground beef explodes in all directions. My girl downstairs is getting the promotion. The girls on the donut rollerblades is our idea. So it's just to be clear, security now has like a log of her key card coming up here and the guy who got the promotion exploded. You better hope she goes to the country and chases the rabbit. We got a rescue. Yeah, yeah, we will. We'll invite her back to the arcade. Yes, the kill screen arcade. It's a safe house. Yeah. OK. Anything you want to do with the rest of your turn? I think I'll just use my movement to get into the room. Oh, nice. Everybody is. You get into the room slug. That is your turn. OK. Enforcers did not roll well. I am going to just reckless attack this enforcer that is alerted in the room. Great. You hop into the conference room. You can see that. That's a crit, baby. Oh, she did it. Anna 19 and a 20. Nice. Wow, that's awesome. Yeah, you guys see as you guys like are attacking and there's this like huge surge of power, you see the lights begin to flicker in the room. And you guys are in this office with like floor to ceiling windows. You see like the lights of Neoga later on like behind you, like the slow of the city as you guys like fight in the shadows here. Twenty nine damage. Jesus. OK. Big chunk of this enforcer blows off, but is still standing. It also has a topple property. So got to do a consaver go prone. OK, nice. Twenty four. OK. Still standing. And then my second attack, twenty one. Twenty one hits. Seventeen damage. OK. Seventeen damage. It's going to use a reaction to do a disruptive pulse. Go ahead and give me a DC 12 intelligence saving throw. As you hit into it with a second hit, you feel like an electro bolt shock you through your arm as it tries to like hack into some of your augment. Eighteen on the back. Nineteen. That passes. Effect. OK. And now because I crit my great weapon master means I get to do a bonus action attack with the same weapon. OK, sick. That's another fucking crit. That's cheese. Again. Twenty two damage. OK. Insanely hurt sparks going up. This thing has like shed lots of its exoskeleton, but you see its weapons are still there to make attacks on its turn. Rance is dead and it's your fault. What did you do? You you killed the half. Seems like a sad robot. First thing it's going to do is use its plasma cannon shoots out at slug here. That has advantage. It has advantage on it. Great. Well, it created anyway. Save that cannon, though. That is a good prize for the prize counter. Twenty one damage with the credit. What kind of damage it is? Fire damage. OK. And then it is going to take a second attack to do a slam attack. You see, just takes this big metal fist and pounds at you with advantage. That is a twenty four to hit. It's 14 bludgeoning damage. Wow. Bludgeoning. OK, I have that. OK. Nice. When it hits on a slam attack, it also grabs you and grapples you. So you are grappled. It is going to, you know what? For its third attack, it uses something called a detention orb. It's going to shoot an orb out at essentially a pokeball at Adam. Adam, go ahead and give me a constitution saving throw as you are about to be like trapped in a plasma prison. That is such a fun. It smells kind of bad. Yeah. Oh, no. I'll go ahead and make this a lucky roll. That's a two and a four. I don't think I can. Yep, that's just what it is. OK, you guys see Adam is covered in like a pink plasma and is in a bubble and is just stuck there. Can be dispelled by somebody from the outside, but not by him. He is in a prison. It smells worse than living bad. And then this thing, this thing has three attacks and then it also has a bonus action when they have somebody grappled. They do a they can do a rocket jump and like essentially pile drive them in the air. Really? You see this thing? This is great. This is like I'm playing cyber sketch. Let's go. This thing goes its feet let off like an explosion that propel it into the ceiling and then back into the ground. Is going to do three D six damage to a creature that it has grappled to do a total of 15 damage to you. Just bludgeoning. OK, OK, cool. You guys see a slug survives this giant robot pile driving her into the ground. You're fine. I might go downstairs and get a drink. I'm going to say you should play cyber sketch. What's your name? Beep, beep. That's rude. Only we can say bitch. That he called her a bitch. He was like, oh, my God, it's not OK. It's absolutely not OK. You see, I don't mind it. That is the other enforcers turn. The other enforcer is going to use all of his movement and action to come back. Can't make an attack this time. OK. But starts to you hear him coming down the hall. Go away. Adam, that is your turn. Unfortunately, I hate to do this to you, but you guys are very powerful. You do kind of lose your turn unless you are anything you want to do from inside the bubble. You definitely can't make a tax. Can I cast a spell from inside the bubble? You nothing will reach outside if you've got something to buff yourself or whatever you can. But you're just in a prison of magic right now. OK, magic prison. And you guys. So we have some old rules here because you guys are like cyber kinetic, so you're a little bit magic. You can make an attack and instead of doing damage, you can cast a spell magic. So essentially what you'll have to do is you'll have to hit the target. Oh, got it. At a rate that is higher than the spells level. Right. But I can't do that from inside. You can't do that from inside. No. Interesting. Yeah, I think the only thing I can do is I have a bonus action, bite the bullet, so I'll just give myself 10 HP. Well, I'm here just to kind of like. Yeah, I'll say you can also if you want to like essentially hold your action be like once I'm free, I do this thing. Oh, yeah, I'll do that. So I'll bite the bullet to get a little HP. This is 10 HP and then I will prepare an attack. Sick. OK, you prepare an attack. You're waiting inside the bubble after Adam's turn. That is the half length turn. I'll roll to see if they save to wake up. Oh, don't wake up. It's not worth it. They do not wake up. They stay sleeping. They're snoring at this point. That is Ox's turn. Dream of new ideas for products. All right. So I need to attack this orb so you can get free, right? Yeah. Yes. This is going to be a DC 13. So go ahead and do basically like a tech arcana check against a DC 13 to try to hit. OK, I'm going to aim like my mechanical gauntlet at you and like spray some sparks. Twenty two. Sweet. You punch into it. You feel some resistance at first as the barrier around Adam starts to glitch. There's a little bit of like lightning bolts around your gauntlet, but then it breaks, cracks and dissolves. Adam, you fall down. You can take the rest of your turn now if you want. Hell yeah. I land dodge roll and then appear right next to this enforcer. My arm turns into a shotgun. It has the scatter trait, which means that I can fire it at short range without taking disadvantage. Sick. So I just like pump two shots right into his head. Hell yeah. Here, have some coke. You have to stop. He called me a bitch again. Only my friends get to call me. All right. OK, it's fun when they do. OK, the C word is off limits, dude. Unless you're my friend and you're not where the kill screens bitch taste this. That's going to be two hits. And I also because I'm at one level of rogue have a sneak attack. So I'm going to add that as well. OK. That's a 17 damage. Adam finished this. And I put the shotgun like right under his chin. And I say to him, Beep, Motherfucker. You blow his mechanical head off. Sparks fly all over. You guys are in this conference room with knocked out quirky Glen bottle. You see his key card hanging precariously out of his butt pocket. Looks like pretty high level clearance. But as you go to grab it, you do see this last enforcer has like a plasma gatling gun that comes out of his chest. It starts smoking as it enters the conference room. And that's where we'll end our second. Son of a bitch. Give me the guy. That was a really I was not expecting to have to do a side entrance. You weren't. No, I wasn't. Wow, I thought you'd have more M&M store stuff. Yeah. He executed it perfectly. That's actually a great question. What does the M&M do? Mechanically. So good. We'll get into it on the short rest. Can't wait. Short rest over at patreon.com. Slash NAD pod that's NADD. POD don't sing yet. We are. So we're eating them. Don't do it. 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