Avery/GM: Welcome to episode 10 of Beyond the Furthest Stars. Quick Trigger Warning: this episode contains discussions of drugs, alcohol and gambling. Time stamps are recorded in the description of this episode, so that you can skip these sections. This episode is mostly a shopping episode, but there are plenty of funny and fun moments in between. Alright, let’s get to the show.

(Intro Music plays, then fades out. Ambience fades in)

Avery/GM: So here you are pulling into the docking bay of this hollowed out main asteroid in this asteroid belt. This place is well known throughout the galaxy. People come here hoping to strike it rich at some of the gambling establishments. Others are just on the run from the law and sort of just hunkered down here cause it, it makes its own law out here and still others are looking to feed their particular vice, whatever that might be.

Avery/GM: And as your ship is docking inside of docking Bay 12 you see several other battered ships of various sizes kind of coming in and out of other bays that are kind of pockmarked throughout the asteroid here. And there is a little safety robot waving two little glowy sticks to, to guide you in, Polaris, as you're parking.

Bee/Polaris: I mean, I guess I'll listen to him. .

Avery/GM: Yeah?

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. I mean, I feel like, I feel like there's no other choice. I don't wanna like zip through the hanger,

Avery/GM: I mean, you can run him over. I don’t know.

Bee/Polaris: No, I'm super not gonna run over a tight little robot dude. .

Avery/GM: Okay. And you park perfectly fine. It's totally cool.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet

Avery/GM: Access bay… or the, your access ramp on your ship lowers down. Do y'all disembark? Do you do anything before you disembark?

Bee/Polaris: We have to sell some stuff, right? Yeah, So we should probably the big atv, one of the bikes and some random stuff. Did I write it down?

Avery/GM: Okay.

Bee/Polaris: I did not write it down. Did someone else write it down?

Avery/GM: No, we

Zach/Zahn: left the big one because I had convinced us that we could potentially use it to rob people with

Bee/Polaris: Oh, did we? Okay. So are we just selling one of the bikes then?

Chris/Ollie: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think it was reversed. So we brought one of the small bikes to sell.

Zach/Zahn: Yeah, so we just took one of the small bikes and then we had a bunch of like scrap and stuff that we were gonna sell.

Bee/Polaris: Okay. Okay. Okay, cool.

Avery/GM: Y'all are pretty familiar with like galactic trade. You know that you don't have to like haul like your bikes and stuff out in order to sell them. You can just send someone down here later and they can offload it

Bee/Polaris: sick

Avery/GM: like it's a pretty established practice so they could arrange to meet you or something.

Zach/Zahn: Next galaxy is a thing here instead of next door. Next Galaxy.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: Next star. Next star. Next star. Sounds better.

Avery/GM: Next star. There you go. That's better. . So you load up with your stuff. Do you take Hermes out of the ship?

Zach/Zahn: We need to leave Hermes with the gun to defend the ship from being stolen.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, we can leave, We'll leave Hermes in the ship and Polaris will just send a text message to Hermes, just basically saying like, If it's not us, don't let anyone else on the ship without authorization.

Avery/GM: You see the little the little green hologram pop up with like a little gun.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, good.

Avery/GM: He just cocks it.

Zach/Zahn: Oh God. He's armed now.

Bee/Polaris: Oh no.

Zach/Zahn: I love it. Hermes…

Avery/GM: It's a little virtual gun. It's not a real

Zach/Zahn: Hermes, It's not a toy.

Chris/Ollie: It's like a small replica of the plasma cannon

Bee/Polaris: Hermes. Did you watch your firearms safety protocol video?

Avery/GM: So, yeah. As you come down the little access ramp into the docking bay, the safety robot has put its glow sticks away and has kind of zipped over on its little, its little wheels. It rolls around on wheels to get around. It's very fast. And it's sitting there waving at the party all happy and has like a big LED smile on its display panel.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris’ First thought in his own head is I wonder if I can drift that.

Jenine/Marty: Oh my goodness.

Bee/Polaris: I'm kidding.

Zach/Zahn: Is it big enough for you to ride on?

Bee/Polaris: if it has wheels… No, I'm kidding.

Zach/Zahn: you just hop on, grab onto it’s head and ride it around like a unicycle.

Avery/GM: I was gonna say, it's about the size of a unicycle, so

Bee/Polaris: I'm kidding. I'm totally kidding.

Avery/GM: And it just, it, it, it, it greets you and it's like, Welcome to Bragos, bastion of Freedom in the Galaxy. I am your Bragos Registration Access Terminal or BRAT for short.

Zach/Zahn: That's cute.

Avery/GM: Please enjoy this complimentary map of the facilities our main asteroid has available. Auxiliary facilities are available to platinum members at a subscription of 5 million credits per person.

Bee/Polaris: What the fuck, Dude?

Avery/GM: please be aware that weapons are not permitted on the surface and that any projectile weapon discharges within Brazos properties will be subject to immediate termination of your sentience. Have a pleasant day and then it wheels off.

Bee/Polaris: This is pretty par for the course.

Zach/Zahn: Oh, looks down at the pistol at his side. Oh, well, shit. looking at everybody else to. Should I, should I try and hide it or should I just put it back?

Bee/Polaris: Polaris is gonna go put his laser pistol in the, the weapons locker on the ship.

Chris/Ollie: Could I like hide mine inside of my body?

Avery/GM: I'm sure you have like a glove compartment of some kind.

Zach/Zahn: I was about to ask if I could hide mine in him too?

Bee/Polaris: I mean, I have I have a knife. Does the, does a, a knife count?

Chris/Ollie: you said No weapons and projectile weapons.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: Does Polaris, does Polaris ask that out loud?

Bee/Polaris: No, I'm asking I'm asking you if like a, a knife would count as a weapon that would be prohibited?

Avery/GM: I, I actually meant projectile weapons. That is my bad.

Bee/Polaris: All right, cool.

Avery/GM: So, yeah

Bee/Polaris: Polaris,

Avery/GM: anything that could puncture the little glass dome that keeps everything contained.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, that's totally fair. Polaris goes and puts his gun away.

Avery/GM: They just don’t want to get vacc’d.

Jenine/Marty: I don’t think I have any weapons. Do I have weapons? I have no weapons on me.

Bee/Polaris: Would Marty have any weapons?

Jenine/Marty: No, I don’t know. No one ever gave one to me.

Zach/Zahn: Is the dome protected against laser and only worried about projectiles cause there are two there… Those are two different things.

Avery/GM: I mean, look, you know what I mean. Don't get pedantic.

Zach/Zahn: I have to at least attempt for

Avery/GM: no, of course

Zach/Zahn: for conversation sake.

Avery/GM: No. Yeah. The amount of things I try to pull in, in, in, when I'm a player, of course.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn puts his pistol inside of Ollie’s Carapace.

Bee/Polaris: Now are you doing that in the middle of the hangar bay where everyone can see you, including the cameras that are probably in the hangar bay?

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. My pistols already in there, so I don't need to like hide it, but they can probably see you.

Zach/Zahn: We just nonchalantly turn our backs to whenever cameras there and I just put the…

Avery/GM: roll a notice check.

Chris/Ollie: Can I, I can assist him, I'm guessing.

Avery/GM: Sure.

Chris/Ollie: What?

Avery/GM: And that'll be intelligence.

Chris/Ollie: Okay.

Zach/Zahn: Oh, good. I have a plus in that

Chris/Ollie: The assist is just one dice, right?

Avery/GM: No, you roll the same check.

Chris/Ollie: Okay.

Avery/GM: And if you succeed then you add plus one.

Zach/Zahn: Where's my notice at? It is, Oh, yay. I made notice…. or I actually took proficiency in this. So that is five. I got a five.

Avery/GM: you rolled a five?

Zach/Zahn: I rolled a five,

Chris/Ollie: I rolled a 12.

Zach/Zahn: That's a lot better.

Avery/GM: Okay. That got it up to a six. I'll say that you notice two cameras, one directly above where the, the ship is docked to kind of keep an eye on the ship and then you notice another one that's like above the entrance leading in and out of this bay into like the main concourse area.

Zach/Zahn: Gotcha. So there's surely a spot where, you know, you could just kind of yank that in there. Super stealthy Like.

Avery/GM: I mean, theoretically there's nothing under the ship. You could always just get under a wing or something.

Bee/Polaris: You could also come with me to the weapons locker to fe putting your weapon away and give it to Ollie .

Zach/Zahn: Oh, well see.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: That's smart.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: No, we're, we're just like the ship fixers.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet .

Chris/Ollie: Give Broke ship. We fix.

Zach/Zahn: We were like, we, we pretend to look like we're looking at like some, you know, blaster burns or something, and then I just put it in there.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Perfect.

Avery/GM: I don't know why you think you're gonna need weapons in this. Totally safe. Not at all. Hostile place.

Jenine/Marty: Who needs weapons?

Bee/Polaris: That's crazy because yeah, we, we were told that this place is like super illegal. So I imagine violence is quite the norm.

Zach/Zahn: though I am highly tempted to pick up this rail gun nail gun… where is it?

Avery/GM: Wait, did I say nail gun or rail gun?

Zach/Zahn: No, I, I'm finding it in the actual…Spike thrower. That's it. ,

Chris/Ollie: that's probably something you could build.

Avery/GM: before that little robot zipped off it handed one of you a data pad with a map of the facilities.

Caden/Bruce: Ooh.

Avery/GM: So as, as you exit this docking bay, there's kinda like this central area that is, that all feed, like everything directly goes to like this central elevator that just raises directly up to the surface of the asteroid. So is that, I assume that's where y'all are heading? Or did you have more stuff to do at the ship?

Zach/Zahn: Oh yeah, yeah.

Bee/Polaris: No, I mean, I'm good.

Jenine/Marty: I'm good.

Bee/Polaris: I'm following whoever's leading.

Chris/Ollie: all good.

Avery/GM: Luckily for you, for y'all today is a very slow, It's a very slow time right now, so there's not a very long wait to get on this elevator. And you step onto the little disc and it starts rising up. And as it rises up, the, the ceiling above you sort of opens you know, just this metal, this metal door opens and it lifts you up and there's this bright light that kind of comes shining down, and as it, it becomes flush with the surface of the asteroid, you're met with basically these five kind of building clusters inside this glass domed structure.

And there are bright lights that are kind of shining and illuminating this central square. There's signs that are advertising drinks, gambling weapons. and they light up the windows of these various building complexes. There's people kind of milling about kind of stumbling and you know, there's a few people probably having a really good time on some really good substances,

Others are crying over, having lost all their money. There are people dancing in the street performing tricks like juggling and fire breathing and all that fun stuff. And there's these ridiculously looking statues of presumably famous people from local history. I assume ,

Zach/Zahn: the founders of this asteroid

probably, yeah. And, and, yeah. So these, these five buildings on your map here there's, so building number one contains some shopping options. There's big Fred's weapons, armor, and ammo. There's tiny Fred's bombs, blasters and more. There's the Daily Disguise and Professor Infiniti's Robot Emporium.

Building number two. You've got Docs’ Dox, Vox, and Pox! which is kind of a general store and medicine store. You've got Bean Me Up, which is a bean based grocery store.

Bee/Polaris: So good.

Avery/GM: And then there's Pick Your Poison, which is kind of a more illicit substance facility

Zach/Zahn: Apothecary Big question or big ex big quotation marks. Apothecary

Avery/GM: Yeah. building number three, you've got the or Ornate Dreams Hotel featuring the world famous Sapphire Tree restaurant building. Number four, The lucky tentacle Casino and spa*.

Bee/Polaris: Okay.

Avery/GM: And then building. And as you're kind of taking in this scene, building five really stands out as like the centerpiece of this asteroid. It's the pendulum… pendulum of Doom Death races sponsored by assemble singles.

Jenine/Marty: Yes.

Avery/GM: and there's like a… there's like all these bright lights and like search lamps floating, and then there's like a little a little like dancing, like assembles cheese mascot,

Bee/Polaris: Oh my God.

Avery/GM: Out here.

Zach/Zahn: Would Assembles cheese be a triangle?

Avery/GM: Of course. No. It's, it's a flat square.

Zach/Zahn: Aw, but Kraft’s already a square. I was just trying to make it different.

Avery/GM: Oh, I see, I see.

Bee/Polaris: Make it a circle.

Avery/GM: Yeah, that's fine then. Sure. Okay. It's a circle

Zach/Zahn: cause it's assembled. So you put two triangles together to make a square.

Avery/GM: Oh, I love it.

Jenine/Marty: It’s like building blocks. They're building blocks.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, right.

Avery/GM: Okay, great. I love it. Yes. Now is this, that is a great little .

Bee/Polaris: Is this mascot like a dude in a suit or a robot?

Avery/GM: Oh, it's a dude in a suit.

Bee/Polaris: I just know he hates his job. I just know he hates his job.

Jenine/Marty: RIP. That's probably not like what is, what is the weather temperature? Like what is the temperature in this space? Is it like hot? Is this guy like just baking in there like, like a guy on a street corner in one of these suits and, and

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Does he look like he can use a water bottle?

Jenine/Marty: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: Can he even make use of one?

Avery/GM: Jenine, to answer your question, this place is probably a nice, comfortable, like 67 degrees.

Jenine/Marty: Ooh, nice.

Bee/Polaris: Fahrenheit For any, anyone that might possibly listen from anywhere else other than .

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: But would it be hotter for him under all these lights?

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: it is definitely a little hotter under the lights and this person looks like they are sweating a bit.

Bee/Polaris: RIP

Avery/GM: Yeah. So y'all have found yourself in Space Vegas. Sweet. Space Vegas.

Zach/Zahn: Space. Vegas.

Chris/Ollie: Spegas!

Bee/Polaris: Wait, what was, What was building number four? I was writing these down.

Jenine/Marty: It was a casino in spa.

Avery/GM: Oh, I’m sorry

Bee/Polaris: Wait, then what number 3?

Jenine/Marty: There was quotes around something or question mark next to something. There was, there was some kind of punctuation

Zach/Zahn: There was an asterisk.

Jenine/Marty: Asterisk! Thank you.

Zach/Zahn: Was asterisk next to the spa.

Jenine/Marty: Cool Cool Cool Cool. I was trying to figure out what the, what the, the, the punctuation was.

Bee/Polaris: Wait. Okay. So was number three Just the hotel then.

Jenine/Marty: And has a nice restaurant.

Zach/Zahn: hotel and restaurant.

Bee/Polaris: sweet. Okay. Okay.

Zach/Zahn: One that Bruce has gotta put their taste test to.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, Bruce. Bruce should go in there and challenge the chef.

Zach/Zahn: Yeah, that'd be awesome.

Avery/GM: Duel of the chefs

Zach/Zahn: chef off.

Chris/Ollie: It's like Shokugeki no Soma all of a sudden,

Bee/Polaris: can we get the, Can we get the space Great British Bakeoff ?

Jenine/Marty: Yes.

Caden/Bruce: Space version of Chopped

Bee/Polaris: space version of Hell's Kitchen.

Avery/GM: So yeah, Building four is the Lucky Tentacle Casino and Spa Asterisk

Zach/Zahn: pendulum of Doom Death Races

Avery/GM: sponsored by assemble singles. .

Bee/Polaris: Why does a cheese company a sponsor death races ?

Zach/Zahn: Because it's ironic cause all the ships are probably breaking apart.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet.

Chris/Ollie: Assembled singles are people .

Zach/Zahn: Oh God, it's Soylent singles.

Chris/Ollie: Soylent singles. Perfect.

Avery/GM: It wasn't go, I wasn't going there, but

Zach/Zahn: Oh my god. It's… that would Zahn’s outlook on the best grilled cheese though.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. After you win a lifetime supply of singles from the race

Zach/Zahn: Assembles singles, it's all people.

Avery/GM: So y'all are here. Where to first?

Bee/Polaris: Is there, is there a a bubble tea stand?

Avery/GM: I'm sure there probably is. Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: I think that would probably be in building two. Cause that seems to be where all the food is.

Jenine/Marty: That was the correct question.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah.

Avery/GM: Does anyone to shop.

Zach/Zahn: Let's get

Chris/Ollie: Oh, absolutely.

Zach/Zahn: Let's spend this. We got this, We got a hole burning in our pocket with this a hundred grand.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: Who's holding that by the way?

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Where is that located?

Zach/Zahn: Obviously on Ollie.

Bee/Polaris: Okay, cool.

Chris/Ollie: Excellent.

Avery/GM: Just uploaded it into the

Chris/Ollie: Excellent.

Zach/Zahn: He’s got the data pad on him somewhere. I don't know, either that or Zahn in his big ass backpack.

Chris/Ollie: So since I have the finances, Ollie will just Apple pay everyone 20,000 credits in their messages and say have fun with your shopping trip. And then Ollie's just gonna go for the, the robot Emporium.

Avery/GM: Okay. Professor Infinity.

Chris/Ollie: Yes, sir.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn will make for building one, as I'm assuming that's where I can find some mod components to start beefing up our ship and our armor and our guns and all the other cool shit

Avery/GM: Oh, Zach, of course.

Zach/Zahn: Oh yes.

Avery/GM: I forgot to do mods.

Zach/Zahn: That's okay. For the most part A there's pretty decent ones made out here. It's one of those I plan on mostly making them up and then running 'em by you.

Avery/GM: That's fine. I just forgot to do anything related to that, so I'm gonna have to pull up the book. So I apologize for not finishing my prep.Like I thought.

Bee/Polaris: you're, It's fine. You did. Hey, you did enough.

Zach/Zahn: You did good for one week.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: Yeah. I need the raw material cuz most of these are just like, Oh, they need this much money and up to one hour and a functioning thing or, Yeah. So I just need, I literally just need parts. And I can build my own shit.

Avery/GM: So, yeah. So while other people are doing their shopping, brainstorm a few like parts that you wanna buy and we can…

Zach/Zahn: Thankfully they keep it pretty general of just like they, they keep it generalized by saying like, Oh, this costs this much money and one unit of pretech salvage or, a type A power cell runs this or, So just super

Avery/GM: Okay.

Zach/Zahn: Easy stuff.

Avery/GM: Okay, that's fine.

Zach/Zahn: And I guess for easy sake I would keep it for the cost or the, for the credit cost, we would quote, unquote call it parts and I would just buy X amount of parts for x number of credits.

Avery/GM: Okay, that's fine. Okay. Yeah, that's fine.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. I'm gonna need a lot of parts too.

Bee/Polaris: How much did Ollie split the, the money by again?

Chris/Ollie: It should be even 20 K for everyone.

Bee/Polaris: Okay.

Chris/Ollie: But we haven't sold the the hover bike yet, so

Bee/Polaris: Oh yeah. Should we sell that stuff first before doing shopping so we just have more money?

Zach/Zahn: I mean, we can do that in building 1 too as well. Oh, sweet. Cause that seems to be where all the tech stuff is.

Zach/Zahn: Unless we, unless you wanna potentially use it as a contender for the, the race. We don't know what kind of races they have, what vehicles they use for the races.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. If it's like Red Line,

Zach/Zahn: if it's speeders or

Avery/GM: you'll not, you'll not need any of your own personal vehicles except the Strike Fighter that Polaris has.

Zach/Zahn: Oh, okay. Got it.

Avery/GM: I've, I've got something fun planned for that. Hopefully

Zach/Zahn: nice

Avery/GM: Or it'll fall flat. Who knows? we'll find out.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, we could just, we could also solve this death race with cake and Bombs . It seems to be our MO

Chris/Ollie: never goes wrong.

Zach/Zahn: There was also a list of ship mod. There we go. Ship Mods is also one 12 of the pdf.

Avery/GM: Okay.

Zach/Zahn: They're also a bit more expensive. 20 grand is sadly not gonna get me as far as I thought.

Avery/GM: No, no. You'll, you'll probably have to find some big score to really get some good stuff, but

Zach/Zahn: Right. Ship's armor score is increased by five 50% of whole two components slash hull class

Avery/GM: anyway. So we know what Zach's doing. We know what Chris is doing.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris doesn't need to buy anything.

Avery/GM: No. Okay.

Bee/Polaris: So he's just gonna follow around Marty and Bruce.

Jenine/Marty: Marty doesn't need to buy anything cause I got all the medical stuff from the planet.

Caden/Bruce: Well, Bruce wants to go to building number two.

Avery/GM: Okay.

Bee/Polaris: We follow Bruce?

Zach/Zahn: Hey Marty, can I, can I have some of your funds?

Jenine/Marty: Yeah, sure. I'm not gonna do anything with it.

Zach/Zahn: Hell yeah, brother.

Avery/GM: what?Oh. Oh my goodness. Okay, Cool. Ollie, let's start with you. Where did profess, There we go. So Professor Infinity's Robot Emporium is sort of a, a fairly big shop space in this building. Takes up quite a bit of real estate and it, it is just packed to the brim with. Robot chassis and you know, different parts and modifications and stuff, you know, different sorts of arms and wheels and legs and all kinds of cool stuff.

The person who runs this place, Professor Infini, is the, is dressed like the stereotypical mad scientist. He wears a big white lab coat goggles over his eyes. He's, he has got this like greenish blue skin and wild frazzled hair that sticks out straight from his head, kind of just all, all up and, and everywhere.

But he's, he's, you know, about average height, you know, 5’ 8”, 5’ 9”, and. Pretty scrawny build. And he comes as, as you come in he's sort of hunched over this little desk and he's got like a wrench in one hand and he's tightening this thing on this robot. And after a few moments, the robot sits up, shakes his hand, and is just like, “I'll see you next week, professor.”

And it hops down off of the, off of the desk. And this is a really tiny robot, like maybe 12 inches tall, and it just waddles out of the store. , as you're coming in,

Chris/Ollie: I'm gonna give the diminutive robot his space and waltz in and start perusing the shelves. Just so you know, I, I'm also looking to buy drones.

Zach/Zahn: Ooh.

Avery/GM: Cool Drones are gonna be in building one at little Fred's.

Chris/Ollie: Okay. Excellent. Then I or Ollie will approach Professor Infinity and say greeting Sir, are you the proprietor of this shop?

Avery/GM: Ah, another customer. Oh, you are, you're an old model. Ah. What brings you in here today?

Chris/Ollie: I see you too are an old model.

Bee/Polaris: Oh my God. Came for this man's whole life.

Zach/Zahn: caught in 4k.

Bee/Polaris: Geez, I'm gonna say that. Gonna say that to a boomer

Chris/Ollie: I mean, he's still learning social interaction, you know.

Avery/GM: No, that's fine. got him. He's, he kind of turns his head. It's like, I've never gotten that response before. You're a curious one. Mind if I take a look and he's kind of like, his fingers are kind of like wiggling.

Chris/Ollie: Sounds kind of sketchy, but Ollie's pretty trusting, so he's gonna be like Please do, but be careful.

Avery/GM: Do you like open up? Where your pro, where your core sits or what?

Chris/Ollie: No, I imagined he's got like a flap on his his chest that flips down and it's like a, a keyboard with a screen for diagnostics.

Avery/GM: Professor Infinity is typing in, looking at like your diagnostic. He's like, Oh, you, you're from the hegemony. Oh, I've never had one of you in before. Oh, please, please look around. Look around. What, what interests you today?

Chris/Ollie: I'm currently searching for a processing node. I'm in dire need of more RAM.

Avery/GM: Ollie, Professor Infinity looks at you and it's like, Oh, I see. So you're an ai, not just a, not just a very strange looking robot?

Chris/Ollie: as I understand it. Yes. I. Recently was under employ by the hegemony, but then decided I did not want to do that.

Avery/GM: You seem like pull out like a little notepad and like start, like jotting down some notes. ah, that's fascinating. Yes, yes. Processing notes are over there towards the back corner. Just bring up however many you need and, and we'll get you squared away. Anything else you're, you're interested in?

Chris/Ollie: So we have back on the ship where did this go? We've got civilian security bots and janitor bots on the ship. Right. Those are the, the four that we have. And he's currently a work bot? Yeah, I do. Or would like a repair bot. So

he's gonna mention that as well. I, I see you or Ollie’s gonna say Your signs indicate you have repair bots for sale?

Avery/GM: Oh, yes, yes, yes. Right, right. Over this way. And he gestures towards like a rack of like pretty standard looking, you know, repair bots, you know, they've got different tools attached to them and stuff. They come in a variety of packages and, you know you know, custom kits and stuff depending on what your needs are. Tell me, are you more of a, a ship based robot or are you, you have permanent housing on a planet somewhere?

Chris/Ollie: Ship based.

Avery/GM: Hmm mm-hmm. . Yes. Yes, yes. I definitely would recommend the the X-4 model over there. Yes, yes. And he's kind of like off in his own world, kind of just like going through the motions at this point now. Like he's really invested in the notes that he's taking.

Chris/Ollie: Hmm. So I'm gonna look at this robot. Does it have like a, a chassis perk? Like is it the same kind of thing that I'm wearing right now, the the Jack chassis? Or does it have like a custom thing for it? Cause I, I, I figured the work bot was what I was, but they both kind of fit. Of course you can just come up with whatever, whatever thing you want, but like each of the chassis will have a passive perk.

Avery/GM: Yeah, I was looking for that.

Chris/Ollie: yeah, cause I forgot. Cause this one has plus one to fix and program. So I guess I don't need a repair bot. Okay, so Ollie's going,

Zach/Zahn: Robots being op over here. Damn, .

Chris/Ollie: Well, I mean…

Avery/GM: Oh, robots are ridiculous.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah, I don't even need to sleep. I get like 50% more day. So Ollie's going to scan or take a look at this robot and figure, eh, I don't need a, a repair bot. And so he is gonna turn to professor… or professor or doctor.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Professor Infinity.

Chris/Ollie: Turn to Professor Infinity and say on second thought, I do not require this chassis, but I do require drones. Do you have any of those I could buy?

Avery/GM: Oh, no, no, no, no. Drones are, No, no, I don't handle those. Those would be handled by little Fred down the way if you, if you must know that's where that is.

Chris/Ollie: Okay. And so Ollie will say oh, wait, have I already bought the node.

Avery/GM: Not yet. No.

Chris/Ollie: Okay. Then the node,

Avery/GM: how many nodes are you gonna get?

Chris/Ollie: Actually, that’s a good question.

Avery/GM: Basically, one is 1,000 two is 5,000, three is 10,000 four is 50,000.

Chris/Ollie: Cause I wanna say I need some money for the, So I'll just stick with the plus three right now.

Avery/GM: Okay. So three nodes, three extra nodes.

Chris/Ollie: Well, it's, it's one, it's one node that's plus three. Cause the thing is like I can connect to them wirelessly, but if there's like ECM jamming, I need to physically touch it. So that's why I wouldn't maybe want more than one.

Avery/GM: Gotcha. Gotcha.

Chris/Ollie: But no, I'll just stick with the plus three.

Avery/GM: Okay. So one plus three node?

Chris/Ollie: Yes.

Avery/GM: Okay. That's fine. Excellent. Yeah, so he, he takes your credits, you know, you transfer 'em digitally to, to him and He's like, Feel free to come back whenever you'd like.

Chris/Ollie: Thank you. And your store is lovely. And he'll spin on his heel and just walk out. So yeah, I'm gonna make my way over to little, what was it, Little Joe's or Tiny, Tiny Fred’s. Is, is that where Zahn is or he and Big Fred’s.

Avery/GM: Where did Zahn go?

Zach/Zahn: Little Fred is, or little crap already forgetting names. The little guys was the bomb place. The big guy was the weapons emporium.

Avery/GM: Yes,

Zach/Zahn: the disguise one first for armor.

Avery/GM: You're going to daily disguise?

Zach/Zahn: Yes.

Avery/GM: Okay.

Chris/Ollie: Oh you probably go to him and then, because you're gonna make your way to Tiny Fred's, right?

Zach/Zahn: I'll eventually make my way to Not the bomb one, The gun one.

Avery/GM: So Chris, you leave Professor Infiniti's and our camera zooms in on him and he has a little glint in his eye, and then we zoom back out. We keep following Ollie for a little bit. And you're going to little Fred’s for some drones?

Chris/Ollie: Yep.

Avery/GM: Cool.

Zach/Zahn: Tiny Freds.

Chris/Ollie: There should be,

Avery/GM: Oh, I did say Tiny Fred.

Chris/Ollie: There should be Big Fred, Little Fred and tiny Fred. We're missing a brother.

Bee/Polaris: This is medium Fred erasure.

Avery/GM: Ollie, you walk into tiny Fred's bombs, blasters and more, and you're hit with just this wall of like metal music, right? Like, it's like, it's like walking into a, a, a hot topic or something, right?

Zach/Zahn: It's like walking into a doom action scene.

Chris/Ollie: Yes, he's listening to the ost

Avery/GM: and you know, this place is, is, you know, covered wall to wall in big guns and like model. Size, like display size versions of like hover tanks and stuff like on display here.

And there's just a short, bombastic little individual here with grayer and kind of a hyena like face. And he's he's just, you know, kind of just hurrying around his shop, kind of throwing things in different places, being very like nonchalant with like the amount of explosives that are stored here, it's kind of dangerous. And he looks up to you and he's like, Yeah, what do you want?

Chris/Ollie: Is the music like very loud?

Avery/GM: Yes.

Chris/Ollie: Okay. So Ollie's gonna turn his volume output up to be greater than the music, however loud that is. He's gonna continue on in his normal voice and say You know, that is very unsafe to handle those explosives in that way. You are breaking 37 codes in safety infractions.

Avery/GM: Ah, what do you know? I, I've been handling bombs since before you were born. Wait, you're a robot. You weren't born, You know what I mean! What do you want? Oh, you here to buy something? Or here to had a talk smack about how I, I throw these bombs places and he tosses like a fricking package of little, ex, like a grenade package, like behind him. Just nonchalant.

Chris/Ollie: Oh, no offense sir. I'm merely a warning. I've am a bit too experienced with bombs from my own liking , and they are quite unpleasant to be blown up by. I am here searching for drones.

Avery/GM: Ah, yeah, I got, I got some drones for you. Come, come on over, over to the, the countertop over here.

Chris/Ollie: Yep. Ollie will just follow him over.

Avery/GM: And he's got a few different kinds of drones. He's got, he is like, Yeah, we got the, the void hawk there. That's, that's a pretty popular one. A pretty standard drone. You got your stalker drones here meant for like, hiding and, and stuff like that. Kind of, you know, getting in there. And then you got the, the top of the line, the Pax drone here. Now this one, this one is a class act and I have to say my personal favorite,

Chris/Ollie: Does he have multiples of these drones or these

Avery/GM: yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Okay. Hmm. So I'm going to Ali, he's just gonna go for one void hawk and two stalker drones.

Avery/GM: Sure. That brings it down to 3000 credits. He's like, yeah. So you carrying these out here on your own or you, you want me to drop 'em off at a, at a dock and bay here?

Chris/Ollie: Are they currently operational? Actually, wait. No, nevermind. I was just gonna activate them all and start flying 'em around, but I can only do two at the moment.

Avery/GM: Well, he was gonna say they can be for a price.

Chris/Ollie: Ooh. Elaborate .

Avery/GM: Well, Mac normally these things need to be assembled. You know, they come prepackaged from the manufacturer. I don't usually touch 'em, but, you know, you squeeze a couple thousand credits my way. I could, I could assemble 'em for you. Get 'em all set up for you. Let it, let you fly around the, the little asteroid, but you didn't get 'em from me. If you do that, you know?

Chris/Ollie: I appreciate the offer, but unnecessary.

Avery/GM: All right. All right. So where am I delivering these to?

Chris/Ollie: I'm gonna give them the location of the ship.

Avery/GM: Sure. Docking Bay 12.

Chris/Ollie: Excellent. I'm guessing he has got these fittings. For now, Ollie's just gonna like peruse the fittings while I, while I you know, physically peruse them myself.

Avery/GM: Sure. Yeah. I mean, he's got heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, all kinds of stuff to modify like vehicles and stuff like that, so. Excellent. Yeah. Bruce, you are going to building number two, you said?

Caden/Bruce: Yes, please.

Avery/GM: All right. We go building two.

Jenine/Marty: I will be joining you on building two trip

Bee/Polaris: Yeah Polaris is too

Jenine/Marty: Marty is following close behind.

Avery/GM: All right. Going to Doc’s Dox, Vox, and Pox or Bean Me Up, or Pick Your Poison.

Caden/Bruce: I wanna go to both bean me up and pick your poisons, so whichever first it doesn't matter.

Avery/GM: Sure. Bean me up is a very standard like, Grocery store layout. Like you come in and it's weird for an asteroid place to have such a weird set, have such a setup cause you come in, you have your grocery cart and you can start perusing the aisles and kind as you, as you come in, you notice like when they say everything is bean based, they literally mean everything is bean based.

There are bananas that are clearly grown from like genetically modified bean plants and there are, breads that are baked with beans in them for some reason. Like everything is bean based. Coffee bean, pinto bean, all of the beans.

Caden/Bruce: Awesome.

Bee/Polaris: That's a lot of beans.

Avery/GM: It's a lot of beans.

Caden/Bruce: Bruce's face just lights up and he'll look back at Polaris and Marty and just be like, So do you have any requests for food?

Jenine/Marty: Could you make ice cream?

Bee/Polaris: vanilla bean ice cream? I hope the store only employs lesbeans.

Avery/GM: Oh God. I… Oh, that would've been a, I sure it's Canon now. Sure.

Bee/Polaris: Hell yeah. .

Caden/Bruce: I feel like Bruce just goes around and he starts putting a variety of beans in his cart and like every so often he'll look over his shoulder and be like, I'm gonna make some hummus out of this. I'm gonna have some coffee beans so we can have fresh coffee on the ship. Oh, you know what? I think they even have some black-eyed beans. These are great for stews and sauces. So we'll get a couple of these too, and he'll just like, continuously, like tell the other two what He's getting these different beans for us. He just like fills up the cart very excitedly, like his tails do. The happy cat swish as he walks like

Jenine/Marty: I also feel like I'm pushing a cart as well, just as like an extra. An extra little place where you could put more items in. I'm just like close behind. I'm like, okay. You know when you go on shopping trips and it's like you're, you're doing bulk buys and your mom's like, You gotta get a cart.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: That's what Marty is doing.

Caden/Bruce: The little shoppers training cart.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: Polar is very confused by everything. And he also has a cart, but like after a couple minutes of everyone… of you guys shopping, he's just like doing the thing where you like, run with the cart and then hop on and like ride it.

Jenine/Marty: Oh my gosh. Polaris hasn't had caffeine yet.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris probably shouldn't have caffeine. Yeah. Yeah. Polaris doesn't know what anything in this store is.

Avery/GM: right, right before the death races. Three cups of coffee for Polaris.

Jenine/Marty: Oh, no. Like, like six shots. Let's see what happens.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: Six shots of espresso, let’s see what happens.

Avery/GM: And Bruce, as you're perusing the aisle, you find a name on one of these canned goods here that I, I don't know how it makes you feel, but you see that it's Chef Jamie's special bean mix, right? And Chef Jamie's xyz. Like this is a brand. And you, and you recognize the picture of Chef Jamie as your former cooking partner that threatened to cut off you tail off and they are apparently a famous chef.

Zach/Zahn: That bastard.

Caden/Bruce: I feel like Bruce doesn't react, but like subtly, like turns the cans. So it shows the ingredient list instead of like the face marketing of the labels as he just like, nice continues walking and like as he walks past it, like he doesn't wanna be mean to the workers who work at the grocery store, but like, he takes one with his tail and like puts it at the very, like, he just pushes them all the way back… doesn't, doesn't them off. Just pushes them out of the way.

Avery/GM: That's great.

Bee/Polaris: Aww.

Avery/GM: and, yeah. So you've got this variety of food. If, if you had to guess, like, do you fill all three carts? Or, or does or is Polaris's cart still empty? What do you, what do you

Caden/Bruce: I feel like Polaris's cart is still empty and it's just like Bruce's cart is full and then there's like a certain amount of like jars and cans of beans in Marty's, but it's not that full at all. He has like one and a third cart.

Jenine/Marty: Oh good. I'm not strong.

Caden/Bruce: And I feel like it'd be the kind of thing where it's like Bruce is the kind of like alien where it's just like, you know, four cans to his can and just like, he'd look over and like kind of see that Marty's like a little bit sad, so he'd like put a little tiny one, so.

Bee/Polaris: Aww.

Jenine/Marty: Yep.

Avery/GM: Okay, so you get to the front of the store and Yeah, we'll present. Okay. And the total comes to 800 credits.

Bee/Polaris: Hm, not bad,

Caden/Bruce: decent shopping trip.

Avery/GM: And you've got, we'll say you've got enough food to last you on the ship, probably for you and the whole crew, at least a month and a half.

Caden/Bruce: Awesome.

Avery/GM: Nice. So that's a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff. And you got a lot of ingredients that that you could probably make anything, any, any recipe you could imagine you, you could probably make with, with the ingredients available.

Avery/GM: Although they're all gonna be bean based. So that's

Caden/Bruce: Hummus for days.

Avery/GM: Hummus for days.

Jenine/Marty: Yes.

Avery/GM: Y'all hop over to pick your poison next. And this place is, I don't know, have, aside from the people who already live in Oregon, has, has anyone been to like a modern day dispensary?

Jenine/Marty: No, I'm the designated driver to them though.

Avery/GM: Okay. like these places look like

Jenine/Marty: they look like Apple stores, right?

Avery/GM: Yeah. A lot. Like it's, yeah. Basically this Pick your poison place is like the Apple store of drug stores. . It has just a wide variety of different substances available all for your mind altering needs. There are some actual like cooking alcohols and things like that, but there's also like straight up like hard alcohol that could actually get you drunk.

Avery/GM: There are drugs that are definitely illegal, such as psych and Reverie and squeal. Some of these. As you, as you're perusing them, Marty, you see some of these labels and realize that you have some of these in your possession that you took from Winston's Bunker.

Jenine/Marty: I do.

Avery/GM: Yeah. You have, I believe I gave you a couple doses of squeal and a couple doses of psych.

Jenine/Marty: Oh yeah, you did.

Zach/Zahn: You could have potentially turned around and sold those.

Jenine/Marty: Oh yeah, you did. I was like, what?

Avery/GM: Yeah,

Jenine/Marty: I was trying to figure out why those looked familiar.

Chris/Ollie: Just become a dealer

Jenine/Marty: Yeah. We're just gonna leave those there. We're not gonna pay attention to them. That's fine.

Bee/Polaris: sweet.

Avery/GM: And yeah, and this kind of smooth talking fellow is running the desk here and, and, and he's just like Hey man. What you, what you in the market for?

Caden/Bruce: Oh very simply, I need four bottles of the sy and then that's probably about it. They're the best for flambés.

Avery/GM: Oh, sure, sure. Doing, doing some cooking, huh?

Caden/Bruce: Yes. And Bruce kinda like shrugs.

Avery/GM: Okay. Well, hey, we also got a special deal on, on tsunami right now. And that stuff, that stuff hits like a wave, man. Get it. Wave, tsunami…. Haha… You're not, you're not laughing.

Caden/Bruce: Bruce kind of like, he'll, he'll like blink his two eyes and just be like, No, I'm sorry. I don't think I understand. But just, just the Synthenol.

Avery/GM: Okay. That's a hundred credits.

Caden/Bruce: And he'll hand over the money and he'll like, look at Marty and be like, Do you think I would be allowed to flambé on the ship? Probably. Right. I mean, I know Hermes likes weapons and all. I just don't want them to get any ideas about how alcohol can be lit on fire.

Bee/Polaris: Can't Hermes hear you right now?

Caden/Bruce: Neither Marty or Bruce have coms, I don't think so.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, we gave you coms.

Jenine/Marty: Little earpieces. They're little earpieces. Are they just like always on or do we have to like We gotta click a button.

Zach/Zahn: Remember I made a joke last time that you have to touch your, your finger to, you're like a spy.

Jenine/Marty: Okay. Okay.

Avery/GM: And that, and that's Cannon. Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: Okay. Cool. Cool, cool. So when, when Bruce asks that question, I just kinda like do the little. Hey, Hermes Would, would you be okay if, if we flambé on, on the ship?

Avery/GM: researching …

Bee/Polaris: Good job.

Avery/GM: Ah, flambe, yes. That would be totally acceptable. And I would enjoy watching the flames .

Bee/Polaris: Oh my God. We're turning this robot into a psychopath.

Zach/Zahn: He's about to turn into a freaking arsonist.

Jenine/Marty: I'm assuming all of us hear that message.

Avery/GM: Yes. Even the ones without context.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris just makes a… Polaris, just makes a frowny face on his visor.

Jenine/Marty: Marty just blinks and she goes, Okay, okay. Also, how are you doing Hermes? How, how, how is everything going over there? Everything good?

Avery/GM: It is quite quiet. There was small person who stopped by with some drones for Ollie just a few minutes ago. He was quite loud.

Jenine/Marty: Good to know. Thank you for keeping us updated. We'll be back, I don't know, soon. I don't know when, but we will be back and of then stopped end Transmission.

Zach/Zahn: over

Chris/Ollie: Hang up.

Jenine/Marty: Oh yeah… I should… yeah.

Caden/Bruce: Bruce will smile as he like, puts the sythenol like, I guess into like a reusable bag cuz that's just the way that Bruce would be. And just kinda like look at Marty and be like, Thank you for asking. I usually just ask for forgiveness honestly. But I think if I try I could probably make some Crème Brule.

Jenine/Marty: ooo yeah. Oh, is, is Marty Lactose Intolerant? Well oh well!

Avery/GM: Well find out.

Jenine/Marty: We'll find out.

Bee/Polaris: Gonna have to rule for it.

Jenine/Marty: Oh, No

Chris/Ollie: trust in the heart of the dice.

Avery/GM: Cool. Is there anything else Bruce, Marty and Polaris would like to do on their little shopping adventure?

Bee/Polaris: At least for Polar… Polaris doesn't need to buy anything and also has never been here, so he's mostly just looking around and goofing off.

Avery/GM: Sure.

Caden/Bruce: I feel like Bruce would wanna go to Big Fred's. But not realizing that when it says like, an enforcer hammer. It is not actually a hammer that you use to flatten out meats. It is a weapon

Bee/Polaris: yes, yes!

Zach/Zahn: Like a meat tenderizer that you use to destroy something?

Caden/Bruce: correct.

Bee/Polaris: You can just make a really, really, really big smash burger

Zach/Zahn: that would tend to rise the fuck out of some meat though.

Caden/Bruce: Like he's going through like the leaflet of like what this has and he is like, Oh, it has like a little knife. Oh, it has like a little blade. Ooh, it has a, This sounds, this sounds great. I don't see any whisks, but you know what, we'll have a look. .

Bee/Polaris: Bruce thinks it's a kitchen supply store.

Caden/Bruce: Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet.

Avery/GM: Oh, I love it. So the three of you head into big Fred's weapons ammo and more. And maybe it's the and more that maybe off a little bit. Because why would you say you have more than just those two things?

Caden/Bruce: The hammer's right here in the booklet

Avery/GM: and you come in. So Big. Fred is a towering, gigantic individual. He's got dark brown fur and the head of a hyena. And he wears like, kind of like this black jumpsuit. And he speaks with a very, a very soft voice and he's just like, Hello, Welcome to Big Fred's. I am Fred. Please look around and if there's anything you need, just let me know. I will be more than happy to help. And through the wall, you kind of hear like that metal music, but it's like kind of like a faded, like, there's like several layers of like between.

Caden/Bruce: I feel like Bruce will look around and like look at the hammer and like, Slowly blink and just be like, This isn't what I thought it would be. Do any of these utilities come in smaller sizes? I just think they're a bit too big for my kitchen.

Bee/Polaris: as Bruce is saying that in the background, Polaris has picked up the laser blade and I assume it's off. So he's like looking into the barrel of the laser blade.

Zach/Zahn: No.

Jenine/Marty: Oh, I see that. And I just put, put the hand down. I'm just, Okay, let's, let's not

Avery/GM: Bruce Big Fred blinks at you and kind of turns his head. He's like, But, but my, my, my brother says Bigger's always better. Wouldn't, wouldn't a bigger hammer be of more use to you than a little hammer?

Caden/Bruce: No. If you over tenderize the meat, it can actually make it taste quite tough instead of having it quite juicy and nice,

Avery/GM: let me take a look and back and he kinda hops off of this little, this little stool that he was sitting on and you hear it kind of creek underneath him. And he heads through like this back door, There's like a little curtain. And he disappears for a few minutes, , and he comes out holding like a box. He's like, these are all kind of defective models. Mostly they either like just broke or You know, didn't meet the needs of the, of the customers.

Avery/GM: I do actually have this and he holds up like, what looks like basically half of one of those hammers. It's like basically just the, the blunt end of the hammer or the, the smashing part of the hammer. And then like part of the handle . It's like, I, I think this might work, work better for you.

Caden/Bruce: Bruce will kind of smile cause he realizes that this is a sweet thing and just be like, I think that definitely could work, Indeed. And do you have a smaller version of one of those and he'll point to the laser blade that Polaris is holdig.

Bee/Polaris: Oh yeah. By this time Polaris has figured out how to turn it on and he's waving it around recklessly.

Avery/GM: He’s like, Oh please, please be careful. Actually, those, those shorten you can just, there's a little knob on the side. and he kind of like gestures like to you, Polaris, he's like pointing kind of like if you look at the side,

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: There's like a little knob

Bee/Polaris: Polaris will make it shorter and then a surprise emote will pop up on his visor and he'll start swinging around slower.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Yeah. So that, that just, you know, you can shorten that any length you need. Actually it makes really good toast. I'm not supposed to say that, but it does.

Caden/Bruce: Bruce will smile and be like, okay, I'll take one of those two then please. And, and he'll look up Polaris and just be like, Do you want one as well? It seems like you're having fun. I think as long as we keep these away from Hermes we’ll be okay.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris was li it has definitely been livestreaming this to Hermes.

Avery/GM: Oops.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris puts up a little smiley face on his visor and a thumbs up.

Caden/Bruce: Bruce will

Bee/Polaris: and keep swinging around.

Caden/Bruce: Bruce will look at Fred and go make that two laser blades. Do, do you want one Marty or anything?

Jenine/Marty: I, I, I'm okay. I'm good. Thank you.

Caden/Bruce: And Bruce will nod and just look back at Fred and just like slow blank

Zach/Zahn: I don't know. They could be real useful for medical tools.

Jenine/Marty: ohh….. I have no fight in, I have no fight in me.

Bee/Polaris: I have plenty players. Just doesn't know how to use it properly. ,

Jenine/Marty: what do I have in, I don't need to say it. There's nothing .

Bee/Polaris: You can also use the de cauterized wounds .

Avery/GM: Sure. Yeah. So that, that ends up being about 800 credits cuz he gives you a little bit of a discount on the, the little mini hammer.

Caden/Bruce: Oh, I know so much money. I think having like bought everything that Bruce wants to, he'll look at the other two and be like, Should we go and see how much damage the other two have caused?

Bee/Polaris: Real quick, what is, is, is dual wielding a thing in this game?

Jenine/Marty: Not yet.

Avery/GM: Ya know…

Jenine/Marty: Not yet?

Zach/Zahn: Possibly, but I, I feel like especially since you have little experience with one you'd probably be like rolling with a minus for dual.

Avery/GM: Dual wielding requires at least one level in shoot or stab, depending on the weapons used. What's that? Like and then, You suffer a minus

minus one penalty on, on rolls to hit, but gain plus two damage bonus. Oh. And it only lets you use one weapon per round anyway.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, okay.

Avery/GM: So they kind of discourage it.

Zach/Zahn: Well, That's kind of weak sauce.

Avery/GM: I know, man.

Bee/Polaris: Okay. I won't get another laser blade .

Avery/GM: I mean, you can, and we can totally modify these rules to make them more cool. Though y'all haven't done much fighting really, So Yeah. Who knows, right?

Zach/Zahn: Right? Not yet. You could also Darth Maul it.

Bee/Polaris: that was the plan.

Zach/Zahn: Put two together.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, that was the plan. I was gonna put a magnet on the bottom of each. Anyway. I'm buying two.

Zach/Zahn: That's what I'm talking about. Was coming up with Mod Shit.

Avery/GM: Okay talked you into it.

Zach/Zahn: Talked you into it.

Avery/GM: Anything else in, in big Freds

Caden/Bruce: that was everything that Bruce wanted?

Bee/Polaris: Same.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Exit. Big Freds. And there is, Did three of you have any more places that you wanted to look at?

Bee/Polaris: Not yet.

Caden/Bruce: No.

Jenine/Marty: Nope.

Avery/GM: Okay.

Zach/Zahn: I was gonna ask for Zahn’s turn.

Avery/GM: That's what I'm, that's what I was get. I, I wanted to finish up, you know, one scene at a time.

Zach/Zahn: Yay.

Avery/GM: So over to Zahn. Zahn, where are we headed?

Zach/Zahn: We are headed to the disguise place first. Cause I want to get my armored vac suit.

Avery/GM: Okay. You walk into the daily disguise. I've created little characters for all these little shops, by the way. So have fun with that.

Zach/Zahn: Good.

Avery/GM: The daily disguise is run by a wife and wife team of hyperactive mouse like creatures. They are short, quick, and to the point and they kinda gunner about, and one of them's just like hey what, what, what can we get you? We got all kinds of stuff in here, so just let us know what you need.

Zach/Zahn: I'm in the, he's like glancing around with his helmet on scanning the room. He's like, Yeah, I'm looking for. Armored vac suit, you know, exterior ship maintenance kind of shit.

Avery/GM: Oh yeah, Yeah. We got lots of those. Lots of those over in the back right next to the fitting rooms actually. Go ahead and try it on and then just bring it up if it, if it fits well.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn gives the thumbs up head straight there.

Avery/GM: Sure. They got all kinds of colors. What color, What color is Is Zahn feeling?

Zach/Zahn: We're, we're feeling Rusty Construction orange with with like gun powdered gray fiber.

Avery/GM: Sure. They got one of those. Why not ? Cool. Yeah. So 400 credits and they, they take your money and they're just like we hope you enjoy your purchase.

Please let us know if there's anything else we can get you. We got all kinds of good stuff in here. Tell your friends.

Zach/Zahn: Will do my little guys friends. Meece? This is why I don't talk to Pete. He like gives the awkward thumbs up and then like turns and walks away with his suit and is like, this is why I don't talk to people.

Avery/GM: Zahn gets tongue tied. cool. Where else did Zahn want to go.

Zach/Zahn: And then Zahn will now proceed to Big, big Fred’s .

Avery/GM: Sure. We'll say that as Marty, Bruce and Polaris are leaving Big Fred’s. You are heading into Big Fred’s.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris is still swinging the swords. Actually he's swinging both of them at right now cause he has two

Zach/Zahn: Zahn stops. He's like, where'd you get those?

Bee/Polaris: Polaris points with one sword back to big Fred’s

Zach/Zahn: Look’s at big Freds looks at you and is like, I'm definitely getting one. And if you want anything cool done with those. He's like, does the snap and then like the fonzi thumb points of himself, he's like let me know

Bee/Polaris: polar salutes, but with still with the on laser blade in his hand.

Zach/Zahn: I'm just waiting for like Kid with Scissor moment.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: It's fine. It's fine, it's fine. I'm there. It's fine. It's fine.

Bee/Polaris: Is Marty just stressed out?

Jenine/Marty: It's fine.

Chris/Ollie: She’s just immediately ready for any and all accidents.

Zach/Zahn: Blazing Flaming Glowsticks!

Bee/Polaris: Polaris is treating them like Glowsticks

(unintelligible)

Jenine/Marty: she was trained for this.

Bee/Polaris: Before, Zahn walks away, Polaris says, Excited. We should do

Jenine/Marty: Marty face palms

Zach/Zahn: PThat is a big old, maybe! I've seen some holo-flicks on people fighting with these things. I've, I've got my own applications in mind.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris nods and follows the other two

Avery/GM: Zahn,You head into big Fred's and yeah, like I said, you can hear kind of like some heavy metal music coming through the walls. Big Fred is standing there smiling and it's just like, Welcome to Big Fred's. I am Fred. Please look around and let me know if you have any questions

Zach/Zahn: before I begin perusing your, your selection. Can you gather or do you have any like cool or any mod components available? Just big bulk stuff things to keep it open mind with?

Avery/GM: Oh I, I do have kind of a, a, a junk bin in the back if that's what you're looking for. Kind of just discarded parts.

Zach/Zahn: if you're calling it junk… Yeah, I'm definitely interested in that kind of thing. If you're calling a junk here, I would be more than happy to take it off your hands actually.

Avery/GM: Oh sure. Yeah, just bring up whatever, whatever interests you in and I'll be happy to ring you up.

Zach/Zahn: Oh, how much do you want for the whole thing? I don't even need to see it.

Avery/GM: We'll say that there's probably about 2000 credits worth of stuff. It's just a big tub.

Zach/Zahn: Fuck yeah.

Avery/GM: The whole thing.

Zach/Zahn: Oh yeah.

Avery/GM: Okay.

Zach/Zahn: I got money, man. He's like, excellent. Definitely gonna put that on the, on the shopping ticket. And then he's gonna start perusing the, the wears and he is definitely gonna find one adjustable length laser sword, or laser blade and, oh shit I gotta find it again. Did I say I said it was 60… Yep. There we go. One spike thrower for 600 credits is what it says.

Avery/GM: Oh, I'm sorry. He doesn't have spike throwers available here. Sorry. That's why I provided specific lists.

Zach/Zahn: Oh, you… a specific list… Oh, I thought it was like the specific list as well as,

Avery/GM: No, sorry,

Zach/Zahn: the extra list. Then he’s gonna come up to the counter and be like, I don't see any spike throwers on, on in your stuff here.

Avery/GM: Oh. Yeah, I haven't seen some of, I haven't seen those in a while. You know, we, we kind of have slim pickings out here. You know, we kind of just get what rolls in or, or what falls off a truck or, Well, you know, space truck. You know, that sort of thing. So can't always get…

Zach/Zahn: I mean that's, that's fair. It's one of those, they're real good for… you know, I'm not much of a fighter myself. I, I work construction a lot and

they're good for, you know, nailing a heavy ass bulkhead to the wall. You know what I mean? It gives them the, the shoulder nudge or the, the elbow nudge.

Avery/GM: Yeah. I suppose I've, I've, I've heard things about, about all these things that I sell. I really only sell them cause my little brother insists. But yeah, if you say so

Zach/Zahn: well is there by chance any place around here, one could get one?

Avery/GM: Not to my knowledge. You might try, if you're a platinum member, you might try some of the auxiliary services on the other asteroids. Sometimes they have all kinds of good stuff.

Zach/Zahn: It's a whole 20 k though. Zahn shrugs and he is like, Huh? I, I ain't no premium member. I mean, like I said, just a lowly worker, dude. Otherwise I'll take one of these and he puts the laser sword next to the or on the counter. He is like, also I'm do you got any type A and b power cells?

Avery/GM: I do have some type A any kind of gestures behind you, and there's like a whole rack of power cells. 10 credits is what I put 'em at.

Zach/Zahn: Gotcha. And then B is a hundred, just type a's. All right. So, yeah. He's gonna pick up a bushel let's call it another 2000 credits of Type A batteries.

Avery/GM: Now this is a pretty big thing of stuff. Are you gonna like haul it around in like a wagon or are you just gonna have 'em?

Zach/Zahn: Oh no, I'm having it delivered. Okay, cool, cool, cool. Oh god, that's like 200 of these batteries, isn't it?

Avery/GM: That's fine. You'll never run out of ammo, .

Chris/Ollie: And they pretty much power everything.

Bee/Polaris: We also have that factory.

Avery/GM: This is also true. Once you get that up and running, y'all are set.

Zach/Zahn: And then how much was the laser sword? I of course closed the freaking spreadsheet.

Bee/Polaris: Oh it was 300.

Avery/GM: big Fred's. Just like, Okay. We'll I'll get these delivered downstairs. Docking Bay 12 you said?

Zach/Zahn: Yes.

Avery/GM: You should expect them within the hour. We're pretty fast here.

Zach/Zahn: Gotcha. Yeah Do… he's definitely gonna make for doc’s next.

Avery/GM: Sure.

Zach/Zahn: Gonna pick up some stuff to integrate into my armor and make some, some hacking stuff cooler.

Avery/GM: Sure.

Zach/Zahn: Also grappnel launcher sounds fun

Avery/GM: Yeah, that's exactly what it sounds like.

Chris/Ollie: Oh, the magnet gun sounds super, super fun.

Zach/Zahn: I was tempted to get the magnet gun.

Chris/Ollie: It’s so expensive though. Yeah. So expensive.

Avery/GM: Yep. That's,

Zach/Zahn: but that's why

Bee/Polaris: I was also looking at the magnet gun

Zach/Zahn: It's so special.

Avery/GM: Just a big old magnet.

Chris/Ollie: Oh, Polaris could afford it. I mean, it's range is 200. Like the only thing with the bigger range…

Zach/Zahn: 200, 400.

Chris/Ollie: It's like a, it's a

Zach/Zahn: 200 is the close range.

Avery/GM: 400 s with disadvantage, but you know, at the same time.

Bee/Polaris: I mean, I got good shoot.

Zach/Zahn: I've got good shoot too. I couldn't think of any outside of combat application for a magnet gun.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: Which is why Zahn wouldn't be immediately interested in it.

Avery/GM: So Zahn, you're heading to Doc’s?

Zach/Zahn: Yes.

Avery/GM: Yeah. So you come in and, and Doc is kind of an old prospector looking person wearing a straw hat and overalls and chewing on a piece of wheat.

Zach/Zahn: Oh God.

Bee/Polaris: Where did he get that wheat?

Avery/GM: That's the question, huh?

Zach/Zahn: what book did you crawl out of? Zahn goes ahead and says aloud with his minus one charisma.

Avery/GM: Didn't, didn't, didn't crawl outta no book. Just, you know, been here 50 years now selling my wares and telling the stories. What, what brings you in here, young man?

Zach/Zahn: Well, it was for some shopping, but now I want to hear the story of how you got wheat?

Avery/GM: Oh, I, I got a little, a little hydroponics bay and my, my closet, and I grow the wheat here. I like chewing. I like chewing on it… I will come up with ridiculous things Zach.

Bee/Polaris: You should introduce this man to dip. I love it.

Zach/Zahn: It's, it's illegal. It's illegal wheat.

Avery/GM: Illegal wheat. Now don't tell anybody. Don't tell, Don't tell the bean man. He'll be awfully mad that I didn't grow beans.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn is like visibly like shaking a little bit as he is desperately attempting to hide his laughter. Like, he's like scoffing and choking on keeping it in from under his helmet. He's like, Yeah. So yeah. You got some cool shit listed on this here directory, and I like to pick some of it up.

Avery/GM: Oh, sure. Just peruse the aisles and grab whatever you want and I'll ring you up at the end, you know? And he's in a, a rocking chair. \

Zach/Zahn: Of course.

Bee/Polaris: I was just about to ask .

Zach/Zahn: Oh no. I immediately already assumed.

Bee/Polaris: I mean, I did too. I just didn't, I just didn't confirm. Does he have a shotgun next to him in like a, like a bloodhound sitting beside him?

Avery/GM: You know what? Yeah, yeah. ,

Zach/Zahn: He's got a la he's got a laser, double barrel shotgun.

Chris/Ollie: like inside the store. Inside the store is a porch with a rocking chair for him to sit on.

Bee/Polaris: Yes. Like the store is actually set up like a, like a fruit stand or like a lemonade stand or something like a farmer's market. And he's sitting on a porch.

Avery/GM: I love it. Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn comes back with fist full remote link units. We'll say about five of 'em. And he is gonna come back with, I dunno, two pads cuz you never know if you're gonna need more than one. Let's go ahead and fuck around with this translator torque. Maybe install it in the Ollie.

Avery/GM: Sure. Oh, you're gonna give Ollie a minus two charisma penalty. This is brilliant.

Bee/Polaris: Excellent.

Zach/Zahn: Maybe,

Bee/Polaris: I mean, we can always get, we can always get a chip to negate that right .

Avery/GM: Oh, for sure.

Chris/Ollie: I mean we haven't needed it so far. And in a case where we talk, talk to someone who can't speak our language, A minus two is better than nothing.

Jenine/Marty: Hey, guess what? I can talk to people who can't speak our language.

Chris/Ollie: Oh yeah, we got a psychic.

Avery/GM: This is true. Telepathy.

Jenine/Marty: Ha ha

Chris/Ollie: Yeah

Zach/Zahn: And then of course, slapping on top of all of it is the grappnel launcher.

Avery/GM: All right, cool. I assume you calculated that out properly and I trust you enough. Keep track your own

Zach/Zahn: I am keeping a tab. I'm definitely not hit the 20,000 or the cause I, I didn't take all of Marty's money I only took 10k instead of the whole 20 cause I’m not an asshole.

Avery/GM: Okay.

Zach/Zahn: So I've got 30K to work with here.

Avery/GM: Okay, cool. Yeah. He's just like, Oh, that's a mi a mighty big arsenal You got there, you planning on taking down the republic itself? I'm just kidding. You wouldn't do that. You're just one, one person…

Zach/Zahn: I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe.

Avery/GM: Mm-hmm. He’s like, well, you you have a, you ever need more stuff, you know where to come. Doc’s. Dox, Vox and pox.

Zach/Zahn: Yeah. Totally . And he like takes his arm full of shit, packs it into his already pretty cramped backpack.

Avery/GM: Cool. Okay, so we've got our shopping done. What's everyone feeling like next on this little space Vegas adventure?

Chris/Ollie: Ollie will have definitely had made his way to the casino since leaving. Little or tiny, whichever one we decided on. Little Fred's.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: So real quick, how do rounds work outside of combat?

Avery/GM: That's a good question. What are you specifically thinking of?

Chris/Ollie: Well, I don't wanna spoil it but…

Avery/GM: oh Text it to me.

Chris/Ollie: Sure.

Avery/GM: In Chat if you don't wanna, Cause I'm gonna have to know eventually.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah, yeah. You should definitely know about this because that would be pretty…

Jenine/Marty: I think Marty would look at the group that she's currently with and go, Should we, like, just check, not, not apply for the race yet, but like, check out what exactly Polaris is gonna get in store with? Should we just like check it out or do you wanna just blind?

Bee/Polaris: thumbs up on the visor. Polaris is already walking towards where the race like info is . As soon as Marty mentions that he put, he like turns off his little swords and puts some, puts 'em in his pocket and starts walking towards the race thing. Completely forgot about that.

Jenine/Marty: A sigh of relief .

Caden/Bruce: Bruce will like walk beside Marty and just be like, I think it's a good idea and I think Polaris thinks it's a good idea or is at least excited about it.

Jenine/Marty: Two thumbs up. And then I also just like pass on comms. Hello to all. We're gonna go check out the races. We're not gonna apply or anything, we're just gonna check it out. Is everyone okay? Over?

Zach/Zahn: Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna get with the guys about selling our…Avery. Is it a hover cycle?

Avery/GM: Yes.

Zach/Zahn: Okay. Cause I, I found the stats for it, so I was just like, Which one is it? I'm gonna go see about selling our extra hover cycle.

Jenine/Marty: Do you want more charisma? Bla

Zach/Zahn: What do you mean? I'm… for like a split seconds on. It's just like, What do you mean I, I'm full, I'm full of I don't even have this self confidence to try and defend myself. Yeah. So I could probably use a hand with that.

Jenine/Marty: Okay, now Marty's just waiting on Ollie. What's, what's happening there?

Chris/Ollie: Is this over comms? Or have we met up?

Jenine/Marty: I was just doing a… just doing a check in on everybody

Chris/Ollie: Ollie's gonna respond over the text that he's in the hot seat right now.

Zach/Zahn: He’s in the hot seat?

Jenine/Marty: What?

Bee/Polaris: Polaris sends a question mark over text

Chris/Ollie: about to win the big one.

Bee/Polaris: Oh No! Polaris doesn't know what gambling is, so he just sends a thumbs up

Chris/Ollie: Ollie didn't either until recently and…

Bee/Polaris: Sweet

Avery/GM: looked up the definition for casino and was like, I'm gonna try.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah, well he, you know, he finds himself out of money now and he is like, Oh, well there's, there's a casino. Apparently, that's a good place to make some money. And now…

Jenine/Marty: oh no,

Chris/Ollie: I don't know. He might be a gambling addict.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet. Can a, can a robot be addicted to something?

Avery/GM: So A.I.s are supposed to have breaks. So actually that would be a, like, stuff that prevents them from being like the super powerful evil intelligence that sci-fi horror makes them out to be

Chris/Ollie: Oh like quirks?

Bee/Polaris: Uh Oh

Avery/GM: So that could be one of Ollie’s breaks.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet.

Avery/GM: That someone put on, put in into the software

Bee/Polaris: I didn't know that was a thing. Yikes.

Avery/GM: Oh yeah… Yeah. You technically, technically Polaris. And you wouldn't know this, but technically the custodians are Unbreaked AI,.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. That makes sense.

Chris/Ollie: sense. Um, Yeah. Any, any breaks you wanna implement on me as. I dunno about gambling addict, but yeah, we'll see how this turns out.

Avery/GM: Yeah, well, we'll take it as they come, but I was just mostly making a joke.

Chris/Ollie: If he's fantastically successful he might, you know, might wanna go back.

Avery/GM: Okay. Let's do the death race first, or at least the building first. Marty, are you sticking with the group that's doing the pendulum of Doom, like checking out this building? Or did you go to meet up with Zahn first?

Jenine/Marty: How desperate does Zahn sound for help?

Zach/Zahn: You can come in a little late where he is like trying to negotiate. It's not going well. So you can, you can do something else first.

Jenine/Marty: cool. I, well, it, it is mostly Marty's, like I need to look at the safety of things. Buton needs help kind of where she's torn right now. Cause she wants to, she wants to know what's going on in those death. Cause death was said in the races and was not specified before. So now Marty's like, well I gotta know what's happening, make sure I have the correct medical things just in Casies. So she's gonna prioritize that.

Avery/GM: Sure.

Jenine/Marty: And then help with over with the dealings.

Avery/GM: So you approach the pendulum of Doom Death Races sponsored by assemble singles building. And this is the shining jewel of Bragos. It is lit up with all kinds of multicolored lights. There's screens outside the building that

are showing like highlights from recent races like crashes, explosions, and epic victories, all that stuff.

And there's the little dancing triangle mascot out there. Just singing a little jingle like “assembles singles. We sponsored the death races. Come and check them out.”

Bee/Polaris: Polaris is making a, a, a wide U around that guy.

Avery/GM: And as you come into the building everything is, is decorated like to the nines here, you know, there's nice expensive upholstery. There's multiple like bar areas where like drinks and food are being served. It's like very like clubby in a lot of ways. There's massive display panels that show the current race that's going on with like, you know, rankings of, of where everyone's at.

All in all, this place is more like an arcade and less like a, like a place to watch some races. Right. And then there's a central desk in the middle of all this chaos with a sign above it that just says: REGISTRATION!

Bee/Polaris: Is there a, a pamphlet of information about the race?

Avery/GM: Yeah. Yeah, there's, you could probably grab like a little… there's probably like a little QR code that you can scan with like

Bee/Polaris: sweet.

Avery/GM: your data pad or whatever. And it lays out the following information about how to register for a race. You need 10,000 credits to register as your registration fee. You need a sponsor, either a corporate sponsor or a private sponsorship from another racer, and you need at least one fighter class ship to be your spotter.

Avery/GM: And essentially how these races work is there is an obstacle course of debris and me and asteroids and all that stuff that each race passes through. And basically the race consists of a team of two vehicles. One vehicle is the spotter and basically maneuvers around the track and dodges and blasts away obstacles and protects the other ship.

Avery/GM: The other ship is called the shuttle. And the shuttle is basically an open top hovercraft where at least two other team members are on top of it. And their goal is to pilot the shuttle around the debris that the spotter can't get rid of, and to also fight off the other members of the shuttle of, of other shuttles that

are racing with them so they can board other shuttles and try and like, get rid of the other racers.

Avery/GM: They can, you know, try and bump into them and make the other ones crash. All kinds of things. Basically along the way the shuttles have to pass through these, a series of gates that are like checkpoints and the first ship to pass through all the checkpoints and to cross the finish line or to eliminate all the other spotters and shuttles Wins the race.

Avery/GM: And the only rule for spotters is they can't shoot the other shuttles. They can shoot other spotters, but not the shuttles. And then there's a little asterisk at the bottom of this data that you're scrolling through, and it says, “Due to recent sponsorships, the brags pendulum of Doom Death Races has instituted a new safety feature to ensure that deaths are not blamed on Assembles.

Avery/GM: The track uses several Psionics with teleportation abilities. Each member of the team wears a special helmet that's connected to the, to a team of psychics. Any explosion or near death experience causes the wearer of the helmet to be teleported back to the docking bay safely because they don't want to tarnish the good name of assembles cheese!

Jenine/Marty: Ah. Okay

Bee/Polaris: Ah, corporate safety measures.

Avery/GM: Yep. don't wanna get sued.

Zach/Zahn: Of course, of course.

Avery/GM: but they still kept death in the name question.

Jenine/Marty: Double checking question.

Avery/GM: Sure.

Jenine/Marty: Two people have to be in the shuttle. How many in the spotter?

Avery/GM: However many will fit in the spotter ship.

Jenine/Marty: Got it. Okay.

Avery/GM: The shuttle can… shuttles at least two people. It can be a maximum of five people.

Jenine/Marty: Cool. So do they …another clarify. Do they have to be like humanoid bodies? The in Marty's brain, It's just kinda like, Could we put Hermes?

Bee/Polaris: Yeah,

Jenine/Marty: On the shuttle?

Bee/Polaris: I was gonna say, I was gonna say we should totally put Hermes in there. Hermes can fly the shuttle.

Avery/GM: So non sentient robots are considered property so they can't race. But sentient robots like A.I.s are considered people and so they can race

Bee/Polaris: sick.

Avery/GM: So I'm gonna say you could put Hermes in it. Sure.

Jenine/Marty: Uhhuh. Okay. .

Avery/GM: Hey Hermes, Ollie. Go race!

Jenine/Marty: Well, it is mostly like, I think they put a gun in in Hermes Hands… possession he’ll have so much fun.

Bee/Polaris: question. So strike fighters have a crew of one. So only Polaris can technically fit in his ship, but Marty is small.

Avery/GM: Uh huh.

Bee/Polaris: Could Marty also fit in the ship with Polaris?

Avery/GM: Let me look at your build real quick. Your, your ship build.

Jenine/Marty: I can just ride in the trunk.

Avery/GM: So Polaris, I will say, because your ship is also like, Basically modified from the, the pod that they found you in, right?

Bee/Polaris: Mm-hmm.

Avery/GM: I'm gonna say probably not. I'm gonna say it's probably a tight fit for Polaris.

Bee/Polaris: Okay, that's fair.

Jenine/Marty: Now, now another question.

Avery/GM: Sure.

Jenine/Marty: Building off of that, and still on the same frame of “what if Hermes?” does, could we just put Hermes in like small robot body

Avery/GM: Yes

Jenine/Marty: and also put with… on the shuttle craft with Polaris and with a gun?

Bee/Polaris: Polaris is in the the spotter. because Polaris's ship is the spotter Yeah, cuz Polaris's ship is the spotter. It's a fighter class. Ship.

Jenine/Marty: Oh. Now I got my ships confused.

Avery/GM: Got it. No, you're fine. I threw a lot of, Threw a lot of info.

Jenine/Marty: You threw a lot of S’s at us, Avery. Lots of S’s. It's so cool though. This is very exciting.

Avery/GM: Okay. I was trying to make it fun.

Jenine/Marty: This is really cool. Much appreciation.

Avery/GM: Yeah, so that is how the races work. You could totally put Hermes in a little robot body and put 'em on the shuttle with everyone and have a fifth person to help defend your shuttle with.

Jenine/Marty: Okay.

Bee/Polaris: We have to get, We would have to get a tiny robot body. Let’s put him in a Roomba!

Chris/Ollie: I mean are the ones, the ones on the ship operational by now?

Avery/GM: You'd been working on them off and on. I'd say probably at least one of the companion bots was Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. He’s free to use it.

Bee/Polaris: We should, we should put Hermes in a Roomba.

Chris/Ollie: one of those tiny little Yeah, that'd be so perfect. That's when he is on timeout. When he gets too crazy with the cannon. You're go, you're gonna go in the Roomba.

Bee/Polaris: In the Roomba… Perfect.

Avery/GM: So the only things you're missing are the registration fee.

Bee/Polaris: Got that.

Avery/GM: And a sponsor.

Bee/Polaris: Yep. I'm not sure how we're gonna swing that one.

Zach/Zahn: A sponsor?

Jenine/Marty: A sponsor?

Avery/GM: because they wanna know that you're not just some hotshot coming out of nowhere,

Zach/Zahn: which is literally what we are

Bee/Polaris: That is exactly what we are

Jenine/Marty: I send over the like QR code to like our group, group chat, just so the other two know what's up. I’ll also send it to Hermes.

Avery/GM: After a few moments, Hermes just sends back a fire emoji.

Bee/Polaris: Great. Polaris has been live streaming everything that they've been doing to Hermes.

Avery/GM: Totally. Yeah

Bee/Polaris: Just so Hermes is in the loop.

Avery/GM: So let's jump over to the lucky tentacle. Cause I think, I think this is a good way to end this session and tie everything together.

Bee/Polaris: Hell Yeah

Avery/GM: So Ollie, let's talk about what you're doing here at the Lucky Tentacle.

Chris/Ollie: He's using his Robo Brain to count some cards and trying to get some money.

Avery/GM: So are you, So, so there are four options. Four, four kinds of games. You've got the slots, roulette, 21 or liars dice. Sounds like you're wanting to go 21.

Chris/Ollie: Yep.

Avery/GM: Cool.

Chris/Ollie: The classic ever present blackjack even far flung in the future

Avery/GM: in a totally separate galaxy. You know why? It's because it's cause, even in galaxy's far away,

Chris/Ollie: people still gotta play

Avery/GM: Decks of cards still got, you know, the same, Yeah, the same makeup. Okay. So let's go ahead and roll. Okay. Do you want to, we could do this one of two ways. You could just roll it as a skill check or you could actually tell me to hit or stay based on what you get.

Chris/Ollie: I'd rather do the skill checks.

Avery/GM: Sure, that's fine. So I think if you're gonna count cards, let's do a Intelligence notice check.

Chris/Ollie: Okay. I'm also going to begin cheating a little bit. Just trying to figure out which one… It’s a notice, not a know check, right?

Avery/GM: Hold on… “know facts about academic or scientific fields.” I would say counting cards is at its root a science.

Zach/Zahn: It's

Avery/GM: cause it's not luck

Zach/Zahn: it's a form of math actually I believe.

Avery/GM: Yeah. So, so I'll say if, if, if you need it to be a know check, it can be a know check.

Chris/Ollie: Okay. And how would on turn, like when I commit a processing point on turn? Oh wait, no, that's for the scene. So yeah, it's only one. So just trying to figure out which one I want to use here. I'm going let's see if this will work. I wanna commit a processing point for cognitive boost, commit processing for the scene on turn to automatically succeed any know check skill if success is at all possible.

Avery/GM: Okay, so you sit down at the table and at first the, the little the, the dealer kind of gives you kind of the up and down and it's just like, okay, I guess we're doing this. And starts dealing you cards.

Chris/Ollie: Oh, Ollie will say greetings! Apparently, life as a sentient being, requires much money. I'm told this is a way to acquire some and just politely at the, the dealer as he sits down.

Avery/GM: Yeah, you got that right. Mac, definitely a lot of way to get your money. I mean get you money. Yeah, let's, let's play some cards. And he deals, deals you out some cards you play probably about eight or nine hands and you are up. How much did you initially bet?

Chris/Ollie: He just threw down all his money, 3000 or 3200. Just 3,000.

Avery/GM: Sure.

Zach/Zahn: Make or break?

Chris/Ollie: Mm-hmm.

Avery/GM: Okay. So you essentially get after, after all said and done, you get about another 15,000 credits back after those few hands.

Avery/GM: And you notice you're actually getting some crowds around you. And there's a couple big burley guys kind of watching you out of the corner of your ocular sensors that you can see and you're playing this game and people might be catching on to what's going on here. No one was born yesterday.

Avery/GM: They know that robots are really smart. So you see that they change out the decks and then they shuffle in like three other decks into the deck. So it's a little harder to count cards after a while. And after a few minutes of sitting here, someone else sits down at the black jack table next to you and they are well dressed. They are wearing a big floppy purple hat and they are a tiger furry.

Bee/Polaris: Oh no.

Jenine/Marty: Oh no.

Avery/GM: You hear them speak and she says let's make things interesting. Charles, I'll bet 3 million. And she looks at you Ollie and gives you a smile.

Bee/Polaris: god damn it…

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