Avery/GM: Welcome to Episode 12 of Beyond the Furhtest Stars
(Intro Music plays, then fades out, Ambience fades in)
Avery/GM: Okay, so we will switch over to Marty and Polaris. You're trying to find a sponsor.
Jenine/Marty: Where should we go first?
Bee/Polaris: I was just about to ask you that. What was, okay, the sponsors were big Fred, Doc, the Madden scientist, whose name I forgot, and the people that own the casino, right?
Jenine/Marty: Yes, there's the polycule, there’s Dex who owns the Sapphire, Big Fwed And that, that is how I put it in my notes.
Bee/Polaris: Big Fwed? Okay.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah, because, cause what Fred gives Fred gives off the Fwed energy. You know?
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, I'm changing my notes to reflect that as well.
Jenine/Marty: just a big cuddly bear. Anyway you guys seem very interested in Professor Infinity. Should we go there?
Zach/Zahn: Professor Infinity Sounds fun and interesting. Not at all. Suspicious.
Jenine/Marty: Doesn’t sound suspicious!
Bee/Polaris: Polaris gives a thumbs up in between tossing the light saber, like a, like a baton in the air.
Jenine/Marty: Cool, cool, cool. Great. We're going to Professor Infinity.
Avery/GM: Yeah. So you are approaching Professor Infinity's, robot Emporium. You see some like flashes coming from inside through the windows. And there's like some smoke kind of like permeates the air inside as you get
closer and the doors open with a little (Chime Noise) And as you. Enter, you hear this maniacal laughter coming from within just . It's alive. It's alive!
Bee/Polaris: I immediately hide behind Polaris
Avery/GM: and there is this average height person with a big white lab coat and dark goggles over his eyes. And he has this greenish blue skin and wild frazzled hair that sticks straight up out of his head.
And he's holding like two sparking electrodes against a robot that is on like an operating table. (electricity noise) And he looks up and he pulls the electrodes off of the robot and he sets them down and he is like, I'll be with you in just a minute. And he shocks the robot again (electricity noise) and then sets the the electrodes down and says “Alright Lewis”
Jenine/Marty: What?
Avery/GM: That should be it. You are good to go. And this little robot pops up on its wheel. It's like a little unicycle robot.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Avery/GM: And it gives Professor Infinity a big thumbs up and kind of just rides off the operating table and out the door past you. And Professor Infinity is like, Welcome, welcome, welcome to My Robot Emporium. How can I help you today?
Bee/Polaris: Polaris just looks down at Marty and then looks back up at the professor and says, curious, what's the deal with the shuttle?
Jenine/Marty: I step from behind Polaris and just go, oh clarification. We, we are looking currently for sponsors, but we would like to know a little bit more about the shuttle if you could tell us a little bit more about it?
Avery/GM: Finally, someone's interested in trying out my new experiment. Yes. This shuttle that I've designed is a fully autonomous shuttle. It's controlled by an AI that is designed only to do one thing, and that's win the race no matter what. All the racers have to do is be on the shuttle. They don't have to do anything else. They don't have to pilot it, they don't have to fight anyone off the shuttle does it. Caveat is that it might also try and attack the people on the shuttle.
Bee/Polaris: Yep.
Avery/GM: Yeah. But all experiments require testing to get all the bugs out.
Jenine/Marty: Marty's jaw just drops.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris like is scratching his head with the, well, his helmet with the, the back end of the The Not Light Saber and just says, and you didn't try it out outside of the race?
Avery/GM: No, no. No. Experimentation only matters in the exact circumstances that it's gonna be participating in, Right?
Bee/Polaris: Where did you get your degree again?
Avery/GM: I'm sorry, Degree?
Bee/Polaris: Yep. Polaris looks down at Marty.
Jenine/Marty: Oh okay. What is the AI's name?
Avery/GM: Oh, I haven't named this AI yet, but I'm sure it will answer to whatever you want to call.
Jenine/Marty: Hmm.
Bee/Polaris: Did you ask?
Jenine/Marty: Hmm?
Avery/GM: I have not. Would you like me to go back and ask real quick?
Jenine/Marty: Yeah, that'd be nice.
Avery/GM: Sure. Does anyone have a name preference?
Jenine/Marty: I didn't know he'd be naming an AI today.
Bee/Polaris: Laurel.
Avery/GM: Laurel.
Jenine/Marty: Laurel.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Cause you know Laurel leaves symbolizing, you know, victory and you know Laurel.
Avery/GM: We’ll go with Laurel. That's fine. So Professor Infinity dips back behind like this curtain behind his little counter and you hear a, a metal thump. Like, he's like turning something on or like trying to get someone's attention or something. And you hear it from behind the curtain. Hey, what, what, what do we call you? I keep calling you AI, but obviously you have a name. So what name should I be calling you? and you hear “I would prefer it if you would call me Laurel.”
Bee/Polaris: Sick.
Jenine/Marty: Oh, heart.
Avery/GM: And he steps back from behind the curtain and he's just like Laurel. The AI's name is Laurel.
Bee/Polaris: Real quick while he's back there Polaris would like stand in front of Marty and like put his hand that's on either of her shoulders and like get at eye level with both the swords still on and say, how much do you trust this man with your life?
Jenine/Marty: Not a lot, but if you guys want to do the experimental thing, we can totally do that.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris will send a text in the group chat. Then once again, stand in front of Marty.
Avery/GM: You are not locked in by the way.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah,
Jenine/Marty: This is just…
Bee/Polaris: Polaris is gonna get answers from the rest of the crew. Cause he has been live streaming this.
Zach/Zahn: Yeah. So Zahn doesn't like the idea of it possibly trying to kill us.
Jenine/Marty: That's valid.
Zach/Zahn: That's a big that's a big,
Jenine/Marty: mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. .
Zach/Zahn: And while I think, while Zach thinks it would be cool to see what it does, I kind of want to try the role playing of us doing the race and not us fighting the racer.
Avery/GM:
Bee/Polaris: Fighting the ship.
Jenine/Marty: You mean fighting the ship? Yeah. Fighting the ship. Yeah.
Zach/Zahn: Fighting the ship that we're on instead of us fighting everyone else.
Bee/Polaris: I mean, could we, is it possible to put Herms in the ship with it and give him the express like purpose to like not have the ship kill you guys?
Jenine/Marty: Yeah. What if they did a tag team?
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Can two AI inhabit the same thing?
Caden/Bruce: Do we trust Hermes as a babysitter?
Jenine/Marty: Well, we're also gonna be in there, so like, it'll be like, there's gonna be the per, there's, there's the AI that thinks it's babysitting, and then there's the two. The two squishies that are gonna be in there being like, okay, we're at the actual babysitters and we're gonna make sure you two don't fight with each other.
Bee/Polaris: Ah, cross babysitting.
Avery/GM: Yes. Are there supposed to be three people on the shuttle?
Bee/Polaris: Minimum of two.
Jenine/Marty: Minimum of two.
Zach/Zahn: Oh, okay.
Jenine/Marty: Because the third person is running around trying not to get shot at and going through the (makes vroom noise).
Bee/Polaris: That's me.
Zach/Zahn: Gotcha.
Avery/GM: Yeah, basically the shuttle needs at least one pilot and one person to protect the pilot, and then the spotter is basically protecting both people on the shuttle from all the other hazards on the racetrack.
Bee/Polaris: Okay, so Zahn is team No Laurel?
Zach/Zahn: Currently. He, he can't be convinced and he can't also be outvoted . So, cause I'm not, I am not totally against it. But Zahn would be.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris will set up like a Twitter poll in chat for people to vote.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, Ollie will reply: Unknown variable with the slanted mouth emoji.
Jenine/Marty: Don't put this on Marty! Marty's a people pleaser!
Bee/Polaris: Bruce gets a say too, even though Bruce isn't racing
Caden/Bruce: well, I feel like Bruce, Bruce would rather you guys not, not die. So the, the possibility that Laurel would try and kill you. I feel like Bruce would agree with the other two and be like, Maybe not.
Jenine/Marty: Cool.
Bee/Polaris: Okay.
Zach/Zahn: The question is though, how would Laurel try and kill us without trying to kill itself?
Jenine/Marty: Well, that's the thing. Doc doesn't… profe… quote unquote, professor does not know the limits. This is gonna be Laurel's, I'm assuming, first time out.
Avery/GM: Mm-hmm. .
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Considering how herms reacted to shooting that plasma gun, Another baby ais maybe.
Avery/GM: Yeah.
Chris/Ollie: I, I'd like to, but I,
Bee/Polaris: okay, cool. So it's decided No Laurel.No. Okay.
Chris/Ollie: Oh, yeah. Sorry. Just I'd like to, but I'm, I'm with Zach on the, like, I want the, it's to be our crew with no extra help.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, alright. So he gets back and tells us Laurel's name, Yeah?
Avery/GM: You hear. Laurel say that they wanna be called Laurel
Bee/Polaris: sick.
Avery/GM: Professor Infinity has not quite stepped back behind the curtain yet.
Bee/Polaris: Okay.
Zach/Zahn: now it'd be a very good time to leave.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris is gonna wait.
Jenine/Marty: Be Polite.
Avery/GM: Okay. And then, yeah, he pops out and says the AI would like to be called Laurel. And don't worry, they're not dangerous at all. They just might not have a good feeling yet for who is an enemy and who is a friendly
Bee/Polaris: Polaris nods twice and then walks out the door.
Jenine/Marty: Oh… Well, Translation: Thank you for introducing us to Laurel. We're we, we, I think we're gonna pass. Thank you for your time. Professor
Bee/Polaris: Polaris is holding the door for Marty
Jenine/Marty: She just skirt…. Shuffles out.
Avery/GM: No one ever wants to take out Laurel. And then you see him pick up the electrodes again and start playing with them.
Bee/Polaris: Yep.
Avery/GM: Okay, so you have
Jenine/Marty: crossing that off the list!
Bee/Polaris: Yup!
Jenine/Marty: What do we think about the, the polycule?
Bee/Polaris: Question mark Emoji on Polaris’ Visor.
Jenine/Marty: Polycule over… the polycule at the lucky tentacle. I had, I caught three of their names. I did not get the fourth one. I got Terry, Kerry
Avery/GM: Terry. Kerry Mary and Larry.
Bee/Polaris: Larry.
Jenine/Marty: Got it. Do we wanna go there or do we wanna go to Big Fred? Cause kind of know Big Fred.
Bee/Polaris: Let's see what the, the -arry’s are about. Okay.
Avery/GM: Oh, the air I got, I got it. It took me a minute.
Jenine/Marty: I got it too. I got it too.
Avery/GM: Yeah. So you head over to the Lucky Tentacle, Ollie, while this has been going on, you have been walking arm in arm with Avi Winston and she has been constantly talking about all of her family members and how, you know, she doesn't get back to Olympia much these days.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, okay. Perfect.
Avery/GM: She's thinking about heading back after this next race, maybe. And then she asks you, so what about you? Do robots have family? Do you have companions? You said you have a team of racers. Are they good friends of yours?
Chris/Ollie: So while she's been saying that Ollie's been cataloging any information you can scrounge about the Winstons and also what, like manufacturing corporation would've made the robots for the Hegemony ship there.
Avery/GM: There's lots of different corporations. Your current chassis is, let me look at my list of corporations here.
Chris/Ollie: It's all good.
Avery/GM: Your chassis is made by Invincible Corporation. They brag that their robots are nearly indestructible.
Bee/Polaris: I'll be the judge of that!
Avery/GM: nearly indestructible. Asterisk limits and exclusions apply.
Chris/Ollie: limits and exclusions: everything. Okay. Well then he's gonna, You know, his whole life story as, as you know, well, I started my existence at a Invincible Corporation manufacturing plant as the model you see before you opt max 11 E and then being shipped in a crate, knowing only blackness for much time. I then worked eternally and tirelessly until one day I. The ship blew up. So me and my friends have been just running from planet to planet.
Avery/GM: Oh, that's very space pirate of you. You lead such an interesting life. Well come, let's go into the Winston Family booth and you can meet some of my cousins. They'll love to meet you. I swear.
Zach/Zahn: Uh-oh.
Bee/Polaris: Fuck dude. Shit. Fuck
Zach/Zahn: Are these first cousins? I hope they're only first cousins.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris Text’s and chat to Ollie. Ask if they've all been together, traveling together?
Chris/Ollie: Hold on cause it's still like three hours, right? Like little time has passed.
Avery/GM: It's about an hour.
Chris/Ollie: About an hour.
Avery/GM: She didn't go straight to the booth. She kinda wandered around.
Chris/Ollie: Okay.
Avery/GM: You know,
Zach/Zahn: talked about herself, you know, you know how it is.
Bee/Polaris: Mm-hmm. parasol in hand, you know, walk amongst the garden.
Chris/Ollie: So Ollie's gonna allow that text, the ping to audibly play and he's going to, you know, un-focus for a second and say, my apologies, my team requires quick repairs before the match. I have to take my leave, but I will return before it starts.
Bee/Polaris: sick.
Avery/GM: She takes her hand from you and she's like, oh, I must admit, I've never been stood up right outside my own private booth before. That's a new experience. Okay, that's fine. But you're not gonna back out of our little bet are you?
Chris/Ollie: I wouldn't dream of it.
Bee/Polaris: It's funny cause you can't dream
Chris/Ollie: Got him!
Zach/Zahn: except for that one time that he did.
Chris/Ollie: Oh yeah, that's right. I gotta remember to look up some info on that.
Avery/GM: The door opens into her private booth and she quickly takes her leave of you.
Chris/Ollie: So Ollie's going to with an hour left. Can I get those drones up and running?
Avery/GM: Yeah.
Chris/Ollie: Okay.
Avery/GM: Have you picked your fittings?
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, I got you know, some pretty standard fittings. I'm gonna fix up the stalker drones. Here, I'll just message you what I put on.
Avery/GM: Okay. Did you put him on your character sheet in roll20?
Chris/Ollie: No, I didn't, haven't done that yet. I'll do that later.
Avery/GM: Okay, no worries.
Chris/Ollie: But yeah, he's gonna get those fixed up. And while on the ship he's going to carve his core before it's too late. I do not know how long that'll take, but I think it's a fix roll.
Avery/GM: Yes. Intelligence fix.
Chris/Ollie: Okay and just in case, I wanna shave like a, just like a tiny piece of off the top so it doesn't even look like it's been cut. It'll be like a 1% 99% cut.
Avery/GM: Oh my gosh. You're really… Okay. So that's like if you, if you're leaving like a little shred on the ship.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. I'm gonna put it in the companion. That's fixed up on the ship.
Avery/GM: Okay. What's the companion bot look like? Is it humanoid or is it animal?
Chris/Ollie: Oh, actually, yeah. Let's do animal. It'll be a puppy. A little robot puppy.
Bee/Polaris: Let's go!
Zach/Zahn: Oh my gosh,
Avery/GM: yes.
Jenine/Marty: Yes!
Bee/Polaris: What kind?
Chris/Ollie: Oh, it's gotta be a golden retriever. I mean, classic. the pet of the future.
Bee/Polaris: Wait, so we're going on the ship with a dog? We're entering the race with a dog as our crew mate? Nice.
Chris/Ollie: No, no. The dog’s just my backup.
Bee/Polaris: Okay.
Avery/GM: That's if Ollie gets destroyed as he currently is.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, okay. Gotcha, gotcha.
Chris/Ollie: So I got 13.
Avery/GM: Oh yeah. Easily done. .
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Is there a spare light saber on the ship? Those make it really easy
Avery/GM:you could probably
Bee/Polaris: Polaris has both of his in his hands currently still. He has not turned them off.
Avery/GM: I Think Zahn is currently doing tinkering, so I'm sure you could just walk up and be like, could you cut this? And Yeah. Wouldn't be a problem. But yeah, either way you're able to cut it, no problem, no complications.
Chris/Ollie: Right on and got the drones working. Well pretty much gonna ask, is there anything anyone needs me to help? I imagine everyone's pretty butt hurt at me for betting the ship. So
Bee/Polaris: Nah, Polaris doesn't care.
Chris/Ollie: as long as it's not Polaris's ship.
Bee/Polaris: It's not Polaris's ship.
Chris/Ollie: No, the, as long as I don't end up betting your ship.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, you can't bet Polaris's ship.
Chris/Ollie: Impossible. Impossible. So Bruce hasn't returned. Are there any puffs on the ship?
Bee/Polaris: are you gonna give it to Avi?
Chris/Ollie: I mean, Ollie doesn't really know anything about intestinal distress, so all of that flew over his head. He just thinks they're amazing Bean puffs.
Caden/Bruce: I feel like Bruce would've taken them all with him, unfortunately.
Chris/Ollie: Okay.
Bee/Polaris: That, or if he did leave some, there would be like an explicit note that just says, do not eat!
Bee/Polaris: Dang. A perfect opportunity to take out more of the Winston's. Oh,
Chris/Ollie: also what guns do we have in the armor? We have an armory. Well, we've collected guns. I don't think we have any individual inventory.
Avery/GM: You would've had whatever you get for starting equipment, Yeah.
Chris/Ollie: yeah. I got my starting stuff.
Avery/GM: but all Winston's weapons were destroyed. There was a weapon armory thing in the ship when you first got there. You didn't really search it, but I'd say if you go searching now,
Chris/Ollie: oh,
Avery/GM: you probably find a couple basic laser pistols and a thermal pistol as well, and a couple of stun batons. Sounds like we need to get more weapons. I don't know. Y'all are doing great on this No weapon run that you've been doing.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, we’re on a pacifist run.
Bee/Polaris: I wouldn't say pacifist.
Zach/Zahn: I don’t know about pacifist, Yeah.
Jenine/Marty: Also, We're not allowed to have shooty shoot guns on this planet, right?
Zach/Zahn: On the planet, yeah.
Avery/GM: This is true.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, that is true. However activated laser blades are totally fine cause no officer of the loss walked up to Polaris and said stop.
Jenine/Marty: well obvi!
Chris/Ollie: Does that restriction hold for the race?
Avery/GM: No, because the race is not contained inside of the atmospheric bubbles that are on this asteroid.
Chris/Ollie: Okay Perfect. So Ollie will equip one thermal pistol and one laser pistol to the stalker drones with their gun fitting.
Zach/Zahn: Does everybody have Vacsuits by the way?
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Jenine/Marty: I don't think I do.
Caden/Bruce: I don’t think Bruce does Either.
Jenine/Marty: When I say squishy, I say squishy.
Avery/GM: That's okay. They would supply Vacsuits if required for whomever. Gotcha. Ends up sponsoring you. Mm-hmm. noise. Speaking of sponsor Marty and Polaris, you're still on the hunt for a sponsor.
Bee/Polaris: to the Polycule!
Jenine/Marty: To the polycule!
Avery/GM: You walk into the Lucky Tentacle Casino and there are four of these tentacled aliens that I have called Nokeloids. They're basically octopus looking, kind of like, if you've ever seen Futurama or Simpsons the green aliens that have like a little glass bubble on their head and then a bunch of tentacles yeah, that's the, I'm thinking of the Simpsons.
Avery/GM: Anyway, they are sitting there on the casino floor basically laughing up a storm, having a good time, and they're all wearing name tags with their name on it. Terry, Carrie, Mary, and Larry. Terry is purple in color.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, there are four.
Avery/GM: Yes.
Jenine/Marty: Mm-hmm. Polycule.
Avery/GM: Terry is purple in color. Carrie is blue. Mary is red. And Larry is green and they are engaged in a lively conversation when you walk up and one of them turns to you and just says, welcome, welcome to the Lucky Tentacle. Are you, are you here to gamble?
Bee/Polaris: Polaris looks down at Marty and then just looks back up at them and says, no,
Jenine/Marty: we are actually here to not like play here, but like we are thinking we are A team that is looking for a sponsor for the races, and we saw that you guys are looking to sponsor a team?
Avery/GM: Larry walks up to you, Marty, and leans down and sticks his big eye just right in front of you and is looking you up and down and is just like, Hmm, you don't look like much of a racer. Have you ever raced before?
Bee/Polaris: like in this particular race?
Avery/GM: Any races. Have you, are you a pilot?
Bee/Polaris: I'm the pilot. I pilot.
Avery/GM: Oh, excellent. Okay. So how, how many years have you been flying ships?
Bee/Polaris: My life. My whole life.
Avery/GM: Wow. And what about you? Human?
Jenine/Marty: Ah, yes. Well, I'm more of the support type. I'm here to help out my team as much as possible. I also kind of translate sometimes. And gives a big smile.
Avery/GM: Carrie saunters up and is just like, oh, come on Larry. Give them a chance. You know, it can't go anywhere than the last racers we sponsored.
Jenine/Marty: What, what happened to the last racers?
Avery/GM: Well, this was before the Assembles corporations started sponsoring, but the last racers that we hired sort of crashed our shuttle into their spotter right at the front of the race.
Jenine/Marty: Oh. Mm-hmm.
Zach/Zahn: Oh God.
Avery/GM: Yeah. Didn't even make it, you know, a hundred yards.
Bee/Polaris: So to Polaris, that sounds like it was a problem with the shuttle and not necessarily the, the people piloting the shuttle.
Zach/Zahn: I don't know. What were the qualifications of the people they quote unquote hired? Cause you guys are seeking them out, whereas these other people were hired. These other people could have been bums on the street.
Bee/Polaris: Right. Polaris will just tilt his head and say, were they unskilled pilots?
Avery/GM: Oh, absolutely.
Jenine/Marty: Oh!
Bee/Polaris: Cool. Okay, cool.
Avery/GM: I mean, no skilled pilot would crash right at the start of the race.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah.
Jenine/Marty: That some scary foreshadowing.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Avery/GM: It'll all be fine, I promise.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris just kinda like slowly nods at that.
Avery/GM: I will say our new shuttle is top of the line.
Bee/Polaris: Hmm. How top of the line.
Avery/GM: It's not fully autonomous, like that death trap that Professor Infinity's been pushing on people. But it's very fast. Very fast. We may have installed a spike drive on it just in case.
Zach/Zahn: Okay.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris is still live streaming. Are there any comments from the other crew?
Jenine/Marty: yeah, what’s in the chat? how's the chat reacting?
Zach/Zahn: Zahn snaps up from working on the the grappling launcher. Like the fuck, who puts a spike drive on a mini open cockpit shuttle?
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Also, you have to be like, decently skilled in piloting, you have to at least have some skill in piloting to, to handle a spike drive.
Jenine/Marty: Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. . Okay.
Avery/GM: I'm just giving you ways to cheat if you want .
Bee/Polaris: Thanks. Thank you.
Avery/GM: With substantial risk, you know,
Zach/Zahn: to cheat and die
Avery/GM: some risk and some reward, you know?
Bee/Polaris: I see. Gotcha. Okay. So we have a few ways to cheat. Gotcha. Okay. Hmm. Considering no one else can really pilot a spike drive can, I mean, can Hermes pilot a spike drive? Yeah. Hermes can pilot a spike drive, right? Yeah. He was a ship.
Avery/GM: Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: He is a ship
Avery/GM: for all intents and purposes. Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. What I mean, how's the rest of the crew feeling about that? Having a spike drive on the shuttle? Who is on the shuttle actually?
Avery/GM: I think it's Marty and Zahn.
Zach/Zahn: Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. All right.
Avery/GM: And whatever drones Ollie puts with y'all, I think.
Bee/Polaris: Okay.
Avery/GM: Is Bruce gonna join the race or is Bruce just gonna watch from the stands?
Caden/Bruce: I feel like Bruce feels like he'd just get in the.
Bee/Polaris: Oh no.
Avery/GM: Oh.
Caden/Bruce: I think Bruce is more just gonna be on the stands, but I feel like also Bruce is just kind of like feeling a little bit guilty.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, because of the the bean tarts?
Jenine/Marty: Because of the beans!?
Caden/Bruce: yeah. Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: No, it's revenge from Jamie.
Jenine/Marty: No, you're fine.
Bee/Polaris: Jamie sucks. we hate Jamie. All my homies hate Jamie.
Zach/Zahn: Anyone who knows anything about good food hates Jamie.
Jenine/Marty: Mm-hmm.
Bee/Polaris: I really hope there's no listener named Jamie. I'm sorry. Any possible Jamie's.
Caden/Bruce: Unless it's Chef Jamie, in which case we do hate you.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. If your name is Jamie and you're a chef, we hate you.
Jenine/Marty: Go away.
Bee/Polaris: You should be nicer to lizard people.
Avery/GM: Terry's just like, so what'll it be? you crazy Kids wanna take a chance with us as your sponsor?
Bee/Polaris: Polaris is deferring to the chat. what does chat say?
Avery/GM: You can also go talk to big Fred, As an option.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah. Hmm. What could we put a pin in this cause we're still, still kind of new at this and trying to like have our options open. You guys, y'all, y'all seem like a really nice group that we would potentially like to work with, if that's okay?
Avery/GM: Oh sure. We'll be here. But if someone picks us up as their sponsor before you get back, then nothing I can do about. Can't sponsor two teams.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah, totally understandable. Okay, bye .
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Polaris walks away. once there's that like silent pause, pull just turns around and walks away.
Avery/GM: Okay, so one more sponsor and then we'll make a decision.
Jenine/Marty: Mm-hmm.
Avery/GM: and then get to the race. That way we can do some actual racing this session.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Yeah. We speed walk to Fred’s?
Jenine/Marty: Big Fred!
Avery/GM: You walk in and Fred is noticeably a lot more dejected looking than he was just a few hours ago. You can see that he's taken like paper triangles and he's like flicking them over. A little like goal post.
Bee/Polaris: Aw, he’s playing Sad Football!
Avery/GM: Sad football. That's right. Yep.
Jenine/Marty: Who do we need to fight? I will fight for this, for this, for this big Fred. What's up?
Bee/Polaris: Does Marty say that out loud?
Jenine/Marty: No!
Bee/Polaris: When we walk into the shop? Okay.
Jenine/Marty: That's what… the face that Marty is making is that face ready to like throw hands.
Bee/Polaris: This is the man that sold me the laser blades, yes?
Avery/GM: Yes.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris walks into the shop waving the laser blades like, like waving at him, and then sees that he's dejected and then puts the laser really down at his side still on And looks over at Marty.
Jenine/Marty: Could I try and turn off the laser? Cause that is near Marty's face now.
Bee/Polaris: I mean like in the, in the like when Polaris put his hands on Marty's shoulder, he was still holding the laser blades and both of them were on. So , he is not turned these off at all!
Jenine/Marty: why not? I just go boop!
Avery/GM: Big Fred looks up you and is like, oh great… Did you come for a refund? Are they not meeting your expectations just like everything else I do I guess.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris like does the thing where you like hold the thing in your hands away from the person and he just says, no, these are mine.
Avery/GM: Oh, well that's good news. I guess. What can I do for you?
Bee/Polaris: What happened?
Avery/GM: Oh, just, you know, my older brother. It was just being such a jerk.
Bee/Polaris: How so?
Avery/GM: He's just saying that I'll never win a race. You know, been trying for five years and just, you know, no one ever wins. You know, before assembles it was always little Fred and his super secret racer that no one knows the identity of was always the winner, and it was just such a bummer. And I, I thought with assembles taking over the sponsorship. I don't know. I might have a better chance, but it just still hasn't happened.
Bee/Polaris: Well, we were planning on winning and we need a sponsor, so…
Avery/GM: oh, you, you don't want me as a sponsor, I'll, I'll probably just drag you down.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris looks over at Marty.
Jenine/Marty: I text in chat: We are playing for him.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris does a thumbs up in chat and also on his visor.
Zach/Zahn: You get no disagreements from Zahn.
Jenine/Marty: Well, big Fred, We, let's, let's prove your brother wrong!?
Avery/GM: Go ahead and roll a Charisma Connect check or a Wisdom Connect check.
Jenine/Marty: These are my favorite rolls. I love doing these. Watch these be like snake eyes, that would suck. Oh, that was a, that, that rolled for too long. It's okay. That is going to be a 10.
Avery/GM: A 10. Sure. He looks up to you and he's just like, you'd, you'd really risk your reputations racing with someone like me?
Bee/Polaris: We don't stay here. We don't have reputations.
Jenine/Marty: We don't have one.
Avery/GM: Oh, well, you know, I mean, If you're sure. I mean, I know Professor Infinity's got like super cool, you know, experimental racer.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah, it's terrifying.
Bee/Polaris: It's a death trap.
Jenine/Marty: It's terrifying. She, oh, she's Laurel. They're they, Laurel seems like an great AI to work with. They are very terrifying.
Avery/GM: Well, and then, you know, Terry, Carrie, Mary, and Larry, they all have some sort of, Super cool thing up there Sleeve this time around and
Jenine/Marty: Yeah…
Avery/GM: I don't know if you're sure. I'd really appreciate it
Bee/Polaris: Thumbs up!
Jenine/Marty: Thumbs up. Big smile.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris doesn’t do a thumbs up. The, the laser blade that Marty turned off, he holds it out and turns it on.
Zach/Zahn: Oh, pulls a BB-8 where the where the little torch comes out and sticks up?
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Avery/GM: Okay. Well, do you have your own fighter? I don't have a fighter,
Bee/Polaris: yes.
Avery/GM: Okay. I do have a shuttle. It's nothing special, but it'll hopefully get the job done. It's got some really good shields on it.
Bee/Polaris: Perfect.
Avery/GM: It could take a beating before, you know, it blows up or anything.
Bee/Polaris: Perfect.
Avery/GM: Cool. Well then, I'll meet you with the stuff down in the docking bay for the ships in a couple hours.
Jenine/Marty: Okay.
Avery/GM: Thanks. You hear the music shut off from the other side of the wall,
Bee/Polaris: oh boy
Jenine/Marty: Oh
Avery/GM: and you hear a voice come from behind the curtain and it's just like, so did you find that he get some on a race fo you, you a big dummy or are you gonna pack it in?
Bee/Polaris: Polaris looks at Marty and looks at his laser blade and then looks back at Marty.
Jenine/Marty: I put the laser blade down.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris slowly puts it down. He doesn't turn it off, but he slowly puts it down.
Avery/GM: And big Fred excuses himself, and then walks behind the curtain and you hear him and little Fred kind of start to argue and bicker a little bit like brotherly argue, you know, the way siblings do when they're teasing each other, not like mean bullying or anything.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, okay. All right. Okay. So it's, it's teasing. Okay, cool, cool. It's not bullying it's teasing.
Jenine/Marty: It's, it's like banter.
Bee/Polaris: Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool.
Avery/GM: Yeah, it's, it's the sibling fighting.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah yeah yeah.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. Cool. Cool, cool. Good, good, good.
Jenine/Marty: Alright, cool.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Sweet. Polaris was fully prepared to walk behind the curtain.
Jenine/Marty: it's cool. I was about, I was about ready to do some stuff too.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. Sick. Cool. Glad we're on the same page. Okay.
Zach/Zahn: Somebody about get a fucking beat down.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. I was debating on whether or not Polaris would ask I Marty or Big Fred how at attached to his brother he is . Cause Polaris has no concept of siblings, so…
Avery/GM: oh yeah, that's true.
Bee/Polaris: Oh goodness. All right, cool. We gotta sponsor.
Jenine/Marty: We gotta sponsor.
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