Avery/GM: Welcome to episode 14 of Beyond the Furthest Stars.
(intro music plays, then fades out, background music fades in)
Avery/GM: And so where we left off was: it is time for the lucky tentacle for their… for their turn in the ship order, and we'll see what happens. Zahn, you were also giving like a… engine boost or something?
Zach/Zahn: Yes.
Avery/GM: Right?
Zach/Zahn: I had taken a, like an action of some sort to boost our speed by like two… by like double for one round.
Avery/GM: Yeah. So after the lucky tentacles’ turn here, we will do a pilot check to see who passes through the checkpoint first. You can add two to that pilot check, If you roll the check.
Bee/Polaris: Would Hermes assist in that?
Avery/GM: I'll add the pl… I'll add plus one for Hermes assist. Yeah. So a plus three total. But first to the lucky tentacle. You see behind you the lucky tentacles’ squid arms are starting to, or octopus arms are starting to spin rapidly.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, no.
(whooshing sound)
Avery/GM: And then you see like a little tiny, like rocket boost come off of one of these pods. Uh, 18 plus 4… 22. Okay? Yep. And you see rocketing towards you (rocket sound effect) a Person wearing a armored vac suit with a jet pack coming straight for your shuttle.
Chris/Ollie: Wait, do we see this guy coming?
Avery/GM: Yeah.
Chris/Ollie: Okay. Is his suit, are vac suit's powered?
Zach/Zahn: they don't really say.
Bee/Polaris: isn't it?
Avery/GM: Yeah, it doesn't really
Bee/Polaris: doesn't it use an A cell or something though?
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, I, I assume it would use like an A-Cell or such. Cause everything does.
Avery/GM: Yeah, let's take a look here.
Chris/Ollie: Or the jet pack or any, any piece of, uh, his gear other than the gun.
Avery/GM: I mean, his gear would have… Yeah, a power supply.
Chris/Ollie: Okay. But is it a, A-cell?
Bee/Polaris: I remember seeing somewhere that. Um, at least the Vac skin uses a, an A-cell. It uses one A-Cell every 24 hours, I think, to power it.
Avery/GM: for the sake of moving the story along, I'll say, yes, Chris it does.
Chris/Ollie: Excellent. Then, as we see him floating towards us, Ollie will pipe up from the inside of Zahn's helmet and say, let me handle this one, and He'll just boop, (Power drain sound) just drain all the power from that guy's, uh, suit as he is going Mid-transit.
Bee/Polaris: What? He suffocates?
Chris/Ollie: He'll be fine. He'll be, teleported out.
Zach/Zahn: they have like backup.
Chris/Ollie: But that is a for reference, that's, uh, a committing a processing point to, uh, use one of my abilities. I gotta find the name here. Remote Power sink. Commit a processing point for a scene as main action and target a visible piece of equipment powered by an A type cell or equivalent. The power is immediately drained. Only the most professional targets will realize their device
is powerless before they next try to use it, unless the depowering has obvious results. like, uh, like your, your suit in space.
Avery/GM: So, so luckily you don't de-power his suit. He, he is still gonna get much needed oxygen into his lungs. But you do see the jet pack, sputter and stall and then basically this person stops and they're still floating cause of, you know, con… conservation of momentum. But because they can't control where they're going, they actually just zoom past your shuttle.
Avery/GM: You're coming up to the next asteroid. So he actually just flies into the asteroid (smash sound) and hits it. And then you see the little, the little tell-tale spark of like someone getting teleported. (teleport sound)
Caden/Bruce: Goodbye friend.
Zach/Zahn: Alright.
Bee/Polaris: Farewell!
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Uh, Ollie will say, oof, my apologies. I did not intend for that to be quite so painful.
Bee/Polaris: laughing emoji in chat!
Avery/GM: Okay. So, uh, having seen their shuttler plan not come to fruition, Polaris, the lucky tentacle squid fighter starts to dog fight with you.
Bee/Polaris: Oh God. All right.
Avery/GM: Through space.
Bee/Polaris: Sweet. (laser blast)
Avery/GM: And it's gonna roll to attack you.
Bee/Polaris: Awesome.
Avery/GM: 14 plus six. That's 20.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. That'll hit
Avery/GM: Okay. And they're attacking with a multifocal laser, which has armor piercing of 20
Bee/Polaris: pain. Polaris might die.
Jenine/Marty: Oh no.
Zach/Zahn: Ouch
Jenine/Marty: It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine, it's fine. I'm here.
Zach/Zahn: We'll buy you a new one. It's okay!
Bee/Polaris: Here's the, here's the thing. This ship is made from the ship that the custodians found him in, so this is very sentimental .
Jenine/Marty: Oh.
Zach/Zahn: just, we'll, we'll keep the important pieces. It's okay.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah. We’ll make it into a necklace,
Avery/GM: well, you're lucky cause it's only 4d4 and, and it rolled four damage.
Bee/Polaris: I don't know where my ac or my, uh, hit points are on the sheet.
Avery/GM: Oh no!
Bee/Polaris: Oh, its only 4 damage? Alright Awesome.
Avery/GM: Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: because I only have eight .
Avery/GM: Oh, cool. . Yeah. So you take, you take this hit.
Bee/Polaris: Sweet.
Avery/GM: and it pierces your armor.
Bee/Polaris: Excellent.
Zach/Zahn: Boy, Do I ask some ship mods for you My friend.
Avery/GM: and Hermes pipes up and says, Polaris, your ship has taken damage. (laughter, Bee sighs exasperatedly) This fucking guy
Zach/Zahn: No way.
Jenine/Marty: Really? I didn't know.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris in his helmet pulls up like a, a checklist, like a to-do list that he has, and, He puts on there on like the lowest part, under optional, crash Hermes into asteroid, (laughter) smiley face.
Zach/Zahn: No Winky face as to whether it's legitimate or not.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. And he, he makes it into a gif and sends it into the group chat.
Avery/GM: and then slowly behind the rest of the pack, the assembles cheese, uh, shuttle just sort of floats through the minefield and just kind of shrugs off the, the minds as they attack it. You get the hint that this, this shuttle might be pretty well armored.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, great.
Avery/GM: And now it is time for the pilot check for who will pass through the gate first or… the checkpoint first. So Zahn, go ahead and roll your pilot check.
Zach/Zahn: oh no! I really should have taken a put a point into piloting last time I guess. so Plus two, but. So it's a…
Avery/GM: plus three
Zach/Zahn: ooo plus three,
Avery/GM: because one from Hermes as well.
Zach/Zahn: And then it's a what? Dex? Intelligence?
Avery/GM: Oh, sorry. Dex.
Zach/Zahn: Cool. It’s a good thing. I've used my points to give myself a plus one in dex last time. So… it's just plus three. Uh, so that is 10.
Avery/GM: Hey, look at that.
Bee/Polaris: It's pretty good.
Avery/GM: Okay. You have a commanding lead. You see the lucky tentacle because of the, the loss of their, their friend. Maybe they're a little distracted cause their plan failed. They start to kind of slow down as the assembles cheese ship overtakes them just slightly and crosses the checkpoint before them. But you are way ahead of them as you pass through this second checkpoint, everyone in the stands and over your Communicators hear:
Announcer: “and they've just passed the second checkpoint. One racer has already been eliminated. This is turning out to be an exciting, exciting race, but now they're past the second checkpoint. They'll have a little bit of breathing room before they hit Checkpoints Four and five.”
Zach/Zahn: Oh, it's three just no obstacles?
Avery/GM: So three is supposed to, three is supposed to basically just be like a, okay, you're halfway through, let's keep, you know. But in the meantime, we flash back to the stands real quick.
(Music fades out, ambience fades in)
Bruce, you are standing there and you're seeing these two guards come up to another soldier who is in the crowd watching the race, and they're kind of pulling on him and they're just like, come on, we gotta get down there. Docking Bay 12 is where we're where we're needed. let's get down there and, and take care of these space pirates. And the other one is like, ah, come on, let's just finish the race. It'll be fine.
Bee/Polaris: I wish you had more of those Good, good bean tarts to offer those nice, nice police officers.
Caden/Bruce: Well, I have a, um, out of the box idea.
Avery/GM: I love out of the box idea.
Bee/Polaris: Excellent!
Caden/Bruce: It's, it's not that out of the box, I wanna go and find a janitor's closet.
Avery/GM: Okay.
Caden/Bruce: Because Bruce was giving out, as we've already established, has been giving out like tarts, not just to the racers, but to other people as well. Um, is going to assume that the janitors are going to be very, very busy, uh, dealing with the situation that he caused.
Caden/Bruce: Therefore, I want to go to what most likely is gonna be an open janitor's. Steal like one of the rolling racks with the bins. I wanna put on some gloves. I'll put a glove on that tail. And then I want to go down to the docking bays pretending to be a janitor.
Jenine/Marty: Yes!
Avery/GM: I love this.
Zach/Zahn: Where did they hide the barcode on you, Bruce?
Bee/Polaris: The Tail!
Caden/Bruce: Obviously the tail that the glove is now on.
Avery/GM: This is great. Uh, let me look at the skill list. I don't really think this will require a role, but yeah, just roll. Roll a notice check real quick. go dexterity or intelligence, whichever you prefer.
Caden/Bruce: Uh, well, a dexterity would make it a 12.
Avery/GM: Perfect. Okay. Yeah. So you, you see these, these soldiers kind of drag their friend away as they're like, come on, let's get back to work. And, you know, you, you start kind of putting this plan into motion. You go out to the little foyer where there's, you know, people milling about and Yeah. You see, uh, just like a, a stream of janitor bots pass by you on one end As they're
heading down towards like some of the facilities and they have left their beautiful, well organized janitors, not even a closet, This is like a, an office.
Caden/Bruce: Nice.
Bee/Polaris: Ooh.
Avery/GM: With just a bunch of supplies in here and yeah, you get your little, rolling rack of, of towels and sprays and stuff. You find some gloves that that'll fit. They're a little tight, but they fit and yeah. You're gonna head down to the, to the docking bay?
Caden/Bruce: Correct.
Avery/GM: Ollie, you're in here and you're overhearing Violet and Avi talk about their cousin, and of course you're splitting your attention between this and the race, so you might not be able to like… fully participate, but you do overhear three things from this conversation.
You overhear that Violet was originally on duty on a nearby warship patrolling the Republic's border when she got the footage forwarded to her from her dad. The second thing you learn is that she was granted leave to Bragos to kind of process the loss of this family member. And the third thing you learn is that Violet actually enjoys her work and doesn't really believe in taking time off.
And so basically she spent most of her time going over like space traffic logs and flight paths and things like that, and that's where she got the lead that a similar ship might be here. She also cross referenced the ship with a report that a miss… a longtime missing major had been return. To the Republic, by a ship matching that description.
Clarifying question, when you dropped off Machamp, did y'all like escort him out of your ship and into the docking or into the, the military base, or did you just like lower the ramp and say, get out? Uh,
Bee/Polaris: hellno. We got places to be .
Avery/GM: Okay. Okay.
Bee/Polaris: At least Polaris wouldn't have gotten out.
Zach/Zahn: I am pretty sure we at least like walked him to the edge of the fucking ramp. Like we didn't just full on kick him out. .
Bee/Polaris: Oh, Polaris wouldn't have.
Avery/GM: okay.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris would've stayed in the pilot seat.
Avery/GM: Okay, fair enough. But like some of you probably would. Okay. But you wouldn't have been in the base to get caught on camera?
Jenine/Marty: No.
Zach/Zahn: No. We would've been like, like I said, at the, at the base of our ramp, like dropping him off and then like saying our farewells or whatever, and then like peacing the fuck out.
Caden/Bruce: giving him a cake, you know.
Avery/GM: Totally fine. Yeah. slice of cake for the road. Cool. So those are the three things you learned. Ollie, you also noticed that Lapis, the other tiger furry that's here, they are a bit younger than Avi and Violet and I... I forgot to describe them, but they are like a dark blue and black striped tiger person Compared to the rest of their kind of typical orange and black striped cousins, and they have been paying no mind to anything going on in this room except watching the race. They are like a kid captivated by like fireworks. So not, not to say that they are a kid, but they're,
Bee/Polaris: oh, thank goodness she's not invincible.No, I'm kidding.
Chris/Ollie: No, I was literally thinking that. I was like, okay, does she have the invincibility armor or not?
Avery/GM: No, they, they're not a minor younger, so Yeah, younger. They're just younger like, like Avi and Violet are probably Late twenties and lapis is clearly like 19-20.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. All right. Just got, just grew out of her invincibility frames. Alright.
Avery/GM: yeah.
Chris/Ollie: Eye frames for the first 18 years.
Avery/GM: So as you're kind of overhearing this going on in, in this room, Ollie two, those two big burly guards that had been in here when you first got here, they had left originally. They come back in and they
say “General, we found this ship docking Bay 12. I've got men in position under the guise that we are stopping some space pirates.”
Avery/GM: And Violet just says, “ah. Excellent. Well, Avi, it's been lovely catching up, but I really must get going. I've got a relative to Avenge.” and Avi says, “oh, violet, please stay. I'm sure whoever they are, they won't be back until the race is over.” Violet replies “Avi, not all of us can gallivant around the galaxy wasting daddy's money and living the good life. Some of us actually care about the honor of the Winston family.” And with that kind of Parthian shot at her cousin, violet leaves the room with her soldiers.
Bee/Polaris: Ouch.
Avery/GM: Avi just kind of sulks and is just kinda like under her breath, just like “I care about the family” and, you know, just kind of like, you know, being a bit like brooding about it. Do you do anything?
Chris/Ollie: really quick? Is… Violet's been paying the room mind, Has the room been paying her? No. Like, do I get the impression that she's a black sheep or?
Avery/GM: oh, wait, you mean Lapis?
Chris/Ollie: Lapis, Yeah, that's what I meant.
Avery/GM: No, like, I mean, they're just kind of treating Lapis as like
Chris/Ollie: the younger sister, kind of
Avery/GM: the, the, the younger, yeah.
Chris/Ollie: Okay.
Avery/GM: The, the younger cousin or sibling that's just kind of there for the ride and just like, yeah, let them enjoy themselves, that kind of a thing.
Chris/Ollie: Oh, okay. So chances of a face turn, not too great. All right. Well at this point Allie is going to play it cool and he's going to. You know, stay observing the race. Not really pay violet, uh, anything she said or her leaving much mind in order to keep my, uh, keep my cool, but I'm at the same time going to message everyone. That Hermes probably needs to take the re… Move the ship right now. Uh, ideally it'd be best if you could like switch it with a different ship if possible.Not sure.
Bee/Polaris: We would have to physically switch his chaos enrolled into a different ship.
Chris/Ollie: Well I have my drones on the ship.
Bee/Polaris: Are they assembled though? Did you assemble them? Okay.
Chris/Ollie: I spent some time assembling 'em when I was there. And I can remote hack with one of them… So…
Bee/Polaris: do they have, do they have little like pinchy arms that they can pull Hermis out of that ship?
Chris/Ollie: Well, no. I was thinking cause Hermes can just take the ship and fly away. So I could take my drone and sneak it onto a different ship and hack that ship and park it in space 12 actually, uh, gotta double check and make sure I actually do have that
Bee/Polaris: actually out of curiosity are like the… the Bay, like the numbers, the numbers for each, um, docking bay. Are they like painted onto the, like the floor and like walls and stuff? Or is it like a, a digital sign?
Avery/GM: It would be a digital sign outside the door.
Chris/Ollie: Oh, even better.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Avery/GM: Yeah. . So while you all plan on what you're gonna do in response, I'm. Let Bruce in on the location. Yeah. So Bruce, you come on down to the… the docking bay with your little janitor get up and are here with your ship. So far it doesn't appear that anything has been tampered with or messed with. Obviously there's signs of like people coming and going from like the deliveries that you've gotten from the various merchants that are here, but overall, a pretty normal looking docking bay.
Caden/Bruce: Sweet.Okay. There's a couple of things I wanna do.
Avery/GM: perfect.
Caden/Bruce: I want to get out my, first of all, before I even enter the docking bay, get out like my wet floor signs and kinda like rope it off. I'm gonna try and basically buy as much time as possible, given the circumstances of what's happened to the rest of the area. I'm sure it's not gonna like completely deter them, but I wanna at least slow people down.
Avery/GM: Sure. Okay.
Caden/Bruce: And then secondly, having seen Ollie like message. Chat and also like realize, okay, yes, other people know that this is going to go on. I know Bruce probably doesn't have that much knowledge about like how to move Hermes and everything else, but I do think he's gonna wanna board the ship and basically put anything that can identify any single one of them into like his trash bags of the… of his cart.
Avery/GM: Okay, so you're gonna go into the ship, that's fine. So you're in the ship and Hermes pipes up and says, Bruce, have you not been enjoying the race?
Caden/Bruce: The race has been great, but there are a bunch of people who have recognized our ship, so I'm going to actually need you to, uh, move from this docking bay, I believe. But at first I was gonna take anything that could identify us as the owners, just in case
Avery/GM: very well. Would you like me to engage the weapons? (gun cocking sound)
Caden/Bruce: Not currently, but I would like you to make it very difficult for anybody else to get on board once I leave.
Avery/GM: Understood. I will lock down the ship as soon as you're ready. Shall I initiate self-destruct?
Bee/Polaris: oh my..
Caden/Bruce: No.
Bee/Polaris: Oh my God
Avery/GM:. Oh, I see. Do not permanently make it hard for people to access the ship, just temporarily
Caden/Bruce: correct. I care about you, Hermes. I would rather you not self-destruct.
Avery/GM: That is very thoughtful of you. I will not self-destruct right now.
Jenine/Marty: Right now
Bee/Polaris: he puts a pin in it,
Avery/GM: Sure. Uh, so what kind of things do you grab that are like the personal items? Uh,
Caden/Bruce: uh, you, you know, I feel like, well, we all left our guns and stuff and I'm just gonna put them in the garbage bag, you know, like as you do, you know, wallets, keys, phones? Uh, not jokingly though. Definitely the blender, the blender's coming with me.
Bee/Polaris: I just assume Bruce carried it everywhere.
Caden/Bruce: Bruce is also gonna grab the apron. Cuz he doesn't want that on board to like, you know, put two and two together that he was involved in, wanted to happened here.
Bee/Polaris: get rid of the beans.
Caden/Bruce: The beans are, the beans are probably fine. His, his pantry's organized. He wouldn't have left a mess in the kitchen, that's for sure. But I think it's mostly anything that's like, you know, if we have our names on anything, anything that's like, you could pick it up and be like, you know, Marty's supply of drugs,you know, just
Bee/Polaris: Bruce just gonna have.
Avery/GM: I forgot about that.
Jenine/Marty: I also forget that Marty has drugs.
Caden/Bruce: but that's, that's basically what Bruce is gonna go around. He's gonna go around and like, take things where he is just like, ah, yes, this is, I would, I would associate it with this person. Therefore it is coming with me off the ship.
Bee/Polaris: Bruce is gonna have to spend an hour scrubbing ‘Polaris was here’ off the pilot's seat. I'm kidding.
Avery/GM: Are you trying to do this quickly?
Caden/Bruce: Yeah. I don't wanna get caught on the ship preferably.
Avery/GM: Okay, so either strength or dexterity exert for a skill check for this.
Caden/Bruce: Okay
Avery/GM:Because you're gonna be running up against something else and
Caden/Bruce: then exert is a zero. That is a seven.
Avery/GM: Well, hey, you're lucky cuz they rolled a six Oh thank God, . You come down the ramp of the, of the ship and you are starting to… so when you come down you do hear commotion outside the door.
The door to the docking bay is. So no one can see you, but you do hear commotion outside the door of like, come on, let's get this open. Let's, why are these wet floor signs here? And, uh, you hear another voice just say, I don't know. But why are you listening to wet floor signs? You can just walk across it and open the door. What is wrong with you?
Caden/Bruce: Bruce Hearing this Will get off the ramp and be like, Hermes, lock your doors and do not open them. And if you can move, and then Bruce is gonna get out the mop. Mopping the floor!
Bee/Polaris: Hell yeah.
Avery/GM: Okay.
Chris/Ollie: While before the, uh, ship buttons up o he is gonna commit a processing to activate his drones.
Avery/GM: Okay.
Chris/Ollie:And they're gonna follow Bruce out.
Avery/GM: Okay, cool. Are they gonna hover right next to Bruce? Are they gonna like, try and like hover, like up in the rafters? Like what do you…?
Chris/Ollie: Well, I got three. One of them is a non-combat drone. If they're already like right outside the hangar door, that one's probably not gonna do much. So I'll just have him hide like, Like in the upper corner somewhere, and then I'll have the other two….
Bee/Polaris: How big is the cart?
Chris/Ollie: Oh yeah. Good. Actually, how big are the drones?
Caden/Bruce: I don't know how big your drones are. I was assuming the cart was like most janitor carts where it's like it can fit like a decent size circular trash can and then like has like another decent size compartment for like all the other storage and stuff and then like has like a mop and a bucket on the side. So I was thinking like relatively big, like…
Avery/GM: yeah, probably like three or four feet long and like a. You know, 12 inches wide or something like that.
Caden/Bruce: Yeah.
Avery/GM: For Bruce, probably waist high, um, . But
Jenine/Marty: you could hide a Marty in there.
Avery/GM: Yeah. Yeah you could. Hi. You could definitely hide a Marty in there.
Bee/Polaris: If you could hide a Marty in there, you can probably hide a, a drone in there. I think Marty is a little bit bigger than drone size, right?
Avery/GM: Oh, definitely. Yeah. What kind of drones did you get?
Chris/Ollie: I got two stalkers and one Void Hawk. So stalkers are like just general all-purpose ones. I'm gonna put those two. Above the door as high up as they can go.
Avery/GM: Okay, so Bruce, you start kind of mopping the floor, um, a little bit. You get it really nice and wet. And these drones come flying out of, uh, the ship as Hermes, uh, raises the ramp and you hear the sounds of the ship starting to like take off and you hear outside like, hurry up. Looks like they're getting away. And you hear the door starting to open and these six soldiers come barreling through weapons drawn and they start like shooting at the ship and you're just over here mopping, , uh, and whatnot as the ship pulls out of the Hangar Bay completely. And in chat you just, uh, you see Hermes type of message that just says, leaving docking Bay 12, moving to docking Bay 13 .
Caden/Bruce: Bruce is immediately gonna like, subtly message back and be like, no, move further away. Or don't even dock, just like. Not 13
Bee/Polaris: Polaris puts a crying, laughing emoji in chat.
Avery/GM: and Bruce, you look up and you see all these, these soldier types with their guns drawn, uh, shooting at your ship. But you're here as
a janitor and Violet is kind of just staring at you like, what the hell are you doing here?
Avery/GM: And we flashback to the race real quick. You're coming up to the third checkpoint. You've had a little bit of a break, but all of that is about to change. Uh, as you see Polaris on your radar, you see a little flashing light indicating that a weapon has been deployed.
Bee/Polaris: Oops.
Avery/GM: And from the vantage point on your shuttle, Zahn and Marty and, and Ollie technically too, right? You all see those big containers that the assembles cheese, uh, shuttle and spotter were hauling. They break apart and outcome a swarm of nano drones from each one.
Chris/Ollie: Uh oh
Zach/Zahn: Oh, oh fuck.
Jenine/Marty: Now I have a question.
Bee/Polaris: What!?
Jenine/Marty: Now I have a question.
Avery/GM: I have an answer.
Jenine/Marty: So, I would like to commit an effort for this scene. What is, what is a scene in this Situation of a… is the entire race just one scene?
Avery/GM: We'll consider the entire race one scene, yes.
Jenine/Marty: Okay, great. Now while we're watching this thing like separate and like open these things up, do we see the person like push the button to do that?
Avery/GM: I don't think you'd be able to see into their cockpit just based on how far away they are.
Jenine/Marty: Okay, Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Great.
Avery/GM: Because they are like way at the back, well further back than you.
Jenine/Marty: Okay, cool.
Avery/GM: Y'all have a very commanding lead.
Jenine/Marty: Oh, okay. I'll do the suppress cognition later. It's okay. We'll wait. Continue on.
Avery/GM: Okay. Essentially, um, what these little containers were on this ship, uh, were… the weapon is called a smart cloud, which is a cloud weapon So it is omnidirectional and it is clumsy, meaning that it can hit both friend and foe alike.
Jenine/Marty: Oh.
Avery/GM: Polaris, I would like an evasion throw… evasion save. And then Zahn, Are you still piloting the shuttle or did you let Hermes take control again?
Zach/Zahn: With the boost I would've done it like directly into the engine kind of thing, So Hermes has always been in, in the, technically in the pilot seat.
Avery/GM: Gotcha. Okay. That's fine. Then I'll roll Hermes’ pilot check and I'll roll the lucky tentacles’... or not pilot check evasion save which…
Bee/Polaris: and outta curiosity how do we do that again?
Avery/GM: you roll a D 20 and you have to get higher than the number that's on your character sheet.
Zach/Zahn: Oh. Oh
Bee/Polaris: Am I adding to that or?
Avery/GM: you would not add to it. It's just a straight roll.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. I got the number exactly.
Avery/GM: then I think, I think Meets, meets beats.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah. Meets it, beats it.
Avery/GM: Marty and Ziel also need to roll evasion checks to avoid these. If Hermes fails the evasion save for this ship. Then you'll need to roll evasion saves to not get attacked by these drones.
Jenine/Marty: So we're waiting to roll our evasion,
Avery/GM: so hold up.
Jenine/Marty: Okay.
Avery/GM: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jenine/Marty: hold.
Zach/Zahn: Okay, good.
Avery/GM: Okay. Lucky tentacle rolled a six and Hermes rolled a 12. So Hermes would save and the lucky tentacle would fail. So Hermes deftly dodges this little cloud of micro drones and the… you see the lucky tentacle not be so lucky and it's going to take 3D10 damage.
Zach/Zahn: Ouch.
Jenine/Marty: Oh, yoinks!.
Avery/GM: Yeah
Bee/Polaris: that's what you get!
Zach/Zahn: is it basically just like little drones that attach the ship and then just start tearing it apart?
Avery/GM: Basically, Yes.
Jenine/Marty: Ooh, that's terrifying.
Avery/GM: And that’s 12 plus nine is 21. Oh gosh. You see the luan, uh, shuttle just get torn apart by these drones. You see six of the arms just get ripped off from this like central node, and then the other two arms are spinning. But then you see like the little rocket booster on the bottom of the central node that's propelling it forward. You see that break off and then you just see this shuttle floating aimlessly in space now.
Bee/Polaris: that's mildly unfortunate.
Avery/GM: And then, oh, I got a roll for the gun too… Professor Infinity’s…
Chris/Ollie: Also upon seeingthis, uh, swarm of bots rip apart this ship, Ollie is just gonna drop a thinking emoji in chat. (notification sound)
Bee/Polaris: Polaris does The eyes emoji (notification sound)
Jenine/Marty: I give a thumbs up emoji.(notification sound)
Avery/GM: Professor Infinity’s floating gun ship dodges the cloud of drones that are coming at it. (flying sound effect)
Zach/Zahn: What about the lucky tentacles’ spotter ship?
Avery/GM: Oh, thank you. Thank you, Zach. they rolled a 17. They're good too.
Bee/Polaris: Pain.
Avery/GM: So you've… you've eliminated two racers and now you notice that without that big heavy weight behind it, the Assembles singles shuttle is moving extraordinarily fast
Bee/Polaris: cheese whiz.
Chris/Ollie: Mm-hmm. .
Avery/GM: Yep. And yeah, it rolled a 15. Um, so it is, it is pulling up very close to you now, and we go back to the top of the order, which would be either Polaris as the spotter or Zahn and Marty and Ollie as the racers.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. So who are we dealing with right now then?
Zach/Zahn: It's just the, the,the singles now, right?
Avery/GM: You have the assembled singles shuttle and you have the lucky tentacle and Professor Infinity’s spotters.
Zach/Zahn: Spotters.
Jenine/Marty:Okay.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. Okay.
Jenine/Marty: So there's two shuttles left. Other than There's three, well, two others.
Avery/GM: Nope. Just you and one other shuttle at this point.
Jenine/Marty: Oh,
Avery/GM: yeah.
Bee/Polaris:Wait, so if we eliminate the shuttle, will we basically run the… win the race.
Avery/GM: Uh, you'll still have to get through all the checkpoints and, and dodge the other obstacles, but there would be a significant, it would be significantly easier.
Jenine/Marty: Okay.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Jenine/Marty: Sowe wanna go for the shuttle or should we go for one of these hitters?
Bee/Polaris: What are… what are y'all doing on the shuttle?
Jenine/Marty: Could, could I suppress, could I suppress someone's cognition? Would… whoever the closest person is to us, I would like to commit effort for the scene as my main action to… so what it re, what… It's, it's on page, uh, 41, um, physically, uh, and it says, I can either telepathic contact simply not… I can make them not think of something, whether it's the presence of the telepath, the possibility of committing violence, the absence of important documentation, or any other single potential action or one specific person. Can I make the person that's driving the ship that's coming closest to us Forget that the wheel exists on their ship?
Bee/Polaris: forget how to fly?
Avery/GM: Yeah, I'll say that the, um, assembles… cause the assembles, um, spotter was actually maneuvering for something. So I'll say that they are closest to you.
Jenine/Marty: Cool. I'm gonna go for that one. Uh, that's gonna be the target gets a mental saving throw to resist this power. And if they succeed, they're immune for the scene.
Avery/GM: okay.
Zach/Zahn: I was gonna say it'd be pretty, it'd be pretty funny if you made them think that they were going the wrong way in the race. So they turn, they do a full U-ey, and go the other way.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah, it's because I was trying to like figure out like… which one makes the most sense. Any other single pot… I think it's just like forgetting something once… yeah…
Avery/GM: I mean that… forgetting the steering wheel exists is great. Forget that they're in a race?
Jenine/Marty:Oh yeah. We'll do that!
Avery/GM: Marty, go ahead and roll a, if you have it handy, go ahead and roll a D six.
Jenine/Marty: A D six. I do. I'm a powered by the apocalypse stan. Of course. I have thousands of D sixes… Three!
Avery/GM: Okay, cool. I was trying to determine what level I wanted their character level to be.
Jenine/Marty: Oh.
Avery/GM: Cause I don't have a character sheet for this person, so that would deter… Okay. So, okay. Well, they rolled a three for their mental saves, so they fail. miserably. , , .
Bee/Polaris: How long does that last?
Jenine/Marty: Uh, it's for the entire scene. So they're out and that's Yes. In that case, the, yes. Sorry.
Avery/GM: No, no. Go ahead. Uh, describe how, how Marty, like, does like her power. Like how, how does she do this?
Jenine/Marty: Okay. She like giggles a little bit. Ah, okay idea. And then like, she stands up, looks at like whatever's coming at us and just goes, boop (magic sound effect) No more and like locks eyes with this person.
Avery/GM: Yeah. You they were, they were getting really close cuz they were gonna, they were gonna maneuver and do something really messed up, kind of along the lines of what Polaris did to Professor Infinity. And you see them starting to swoop in and you do this boo uh, to them and all of a sudden, You can kind of see through their viewport, like their eyes kind of like glaze over a little bit and they're just like, oh, I don't wanna do this anymore. And they just turn their steering wheel and uh, (zoom sound effect) start flying back towards like the main asteroid where they popped out at and they're gonna go land. Yeah. That was really brilliant. You avoided some, some bad stuff there. Okay, so the assembles spotter is out of the race.
Bee/Polaris: Yay. Uh, who's the next closest person to us?
Avery/GM: Either the lucky tentacle spotter or the assembles shuttle.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. Hmm. Is there any debris around?
Avery/GM: Uh, not yet. Um, you're coming up to the third asteroid, and this has been kind of a, a mellow part of the race.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. Uh, I'll hold my action until something happens. I'll just hover around my guys. Oh, wait, actually, can I, Fly underneath the shuttle and then like, Be the speed boost for the shuttle and like push it forward faster. .
Avery/GM: Yeah. Go ahead and roll. So this'll be kind of similar to like a assist, an assist roll. So go ahead and roll. Uh, dexterity pilot.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. I'm gonna be honest. That was trash roll.
Zach/Zahn: If you're gonna be doing that once you get into position can Zahn Jump down onto,
Bee/Polaris: onto my ship
Zach/Zahn: with his mag boots and, uh, assist with, uh, with a boost engine action?
Bee/Polaris: I'm trying to see if, can't I re-roll once proceed because I'm a…
Avery/GM: Yes, you can
Bee/Polaris: expert. Okay. Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Yeah.
Avery/GM: Zahn, I'm gonna say that you probably couldn't boost Polaris's engines from the outside. The reason you could do it with the shuttle is cause it's specifically designed for you to be able to do that because it's like open top and like everything's there. But you'd have to actually be like busting out your tools and like mechanically, like trying to like give Polaris a tuneup While flying through space,
Zach/Zahn: I mean, I could do that. like I said, I have all my, all of my stuff on me, so…
Chris/Ollie: He is a walking toolbox.
Bee/Polaris: That would be very difficult.
Zach/Zahn: But if you don't want me to do that, I would instead do a, uh, like a damage control or emerg or uh, or repair on Polaris's ship. Since, uh, Polaris's ship is at, I believe, half health.
Bee/Polaris: Yes.
Jenine/Marty: Hmm.
Bee/Polaris: Sorry. Okay. Uh, my role ended up being a 10.
Avery/GM: A 10? Okay. Yeah. So we'll add, we'll add plus one to Hermes as pilot role next. next time Hermes pilots it forward. Let's see. Zach, you're gonna, you want to try and repair Polaris's ship from, from your ship?
Zach/Zahn: I would jump onto Polaris's ship.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, I'm underneath.
Avery/GM: Okay. Go ahead and roll. A dexterity fix, but minus one because this is a very tricky thing to try and do Mid-flight.
Zach/Zahn: I live for this kind of excitement. So three…
Bee/Polaris: What's your class? Are you an expert?
Zach/Zahn: I am indeed an expert.
Bee/Polaris: You can re-roll once scene
Zach/Zahn: if I'm informed that seven is not good enough, I will re-roll.
Avery/GM: I don't think that's how that works. I think you have to.
Bee/Polaris: It is, it is a failed. It does say
Zach/Zahn: you can re-roll on a failed check.
Avery/GM: That's fine. Yeah. Yeah. A seven is not gonna be good enough.
Zach/Zahn: Okay. I'm gonna re-roll that. Well, one die just flew away into the darkness, so we're gonna try to do this other one. how's eight is eight better?
Avery/GM: Eight is just over the threshold. Polaris, add two hp Back to your ship.
Bee/Polaris: Yay.
Jenine/Marty: Yay.
Avery/GM: And, and now you have a Zahn hitching a ride.
Chris/Ollie: Now it's just Marty in the shuttle.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris waves through the cockpit window.
Avery/GM: Cool. Ollie, is there anything you're going to be. On this turn for the race or are you focusing mostly on the, the drones and, and your situation?
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, the only thing I could do would, uh, use my last cognition, whatever points I have as a robot, I, I wanna save that to maybe get out of a sticky sitch.
Avery/GM: Gotcha. Okay, cool. Well then you see Professor Infiniti's big gun ship, fly behind the lucky tentacle fighter and just shoot this big poly spectral Laser beam at the Lucky Tentacle Squid Fighter. (Laser blast) 16 plus three is 19. It hits, yeah, it takes, it shoots off one of the lucky tentacles, uh, lasers and damages it pretty badly. So it is not doing great and I guess the lucky tentacle fire back. Haha. Let me play space fight with myself.
Jenine/Marty: the best game as a dm.
Bee/Polaris: Go, go, go, go.
Avery/GM: The Squid fighter fires back and does seven damage to Professor Infinities gun ship. (laser blast) Yeah, they're trading fire and they're both looking pretty damaged now. So now we'll do the pilot check. 16 for Hermes or 17 for Herms cuz of the plus one.
Bee/Polaris: Yay.
Avery/GM: 18 for the Assembles though!
Bee/Polaris: Yikes.
So you see the Assembles shuttle pull ahead of you just barely, you know, basically by a nose. It pulls through the checkpoint first. The announcer is just like, wow. Our sponsor Assembles Singles has pulled ahead of the upstarts… and we will go back to the Hangar Bay.
Zach/Zahn: Awesome. I wanna board it next round.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, I was just saying, you just drive by jump on
Zach/Zahn: I was gonna grapnel launcher on like grab a launcher and then zoom over to it.
Bee/Polaris: Sick. You probably could do that as it was passing by real quick. I did just wanna point out that it is kind of fucked up that the person that's sponsoring this entire race has also participated in said race.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah.
Avery/GM: Oh Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: They can, you know, set the rules at everything and also soup up their ship however they want anyway. Yeah, we can go ahead . Just food for that.
Zach/Zahn: What about like illegal back alley race doesn't that not fit in immediately?
Bee/Polaris: Well, I mean, listen, pirates have dignity. I imagine some sort of like illegal organization has some sort of code of conduct as well you know? this is Space Vegas. It can't go on like this.
Chris/Ollie: Spagas.
Jenine/Marty: Spagas?
Bee/Polaris: Oh That’s pretty good!
Avery/GM: So let’s go back to docking bay twelve!
(race music fades out, ambience fades in)
Avery/GM: Bruce, you are being stared down by this tiger person. She speaks up and is just like, excuse me, what are you doing?
Caden/Bruce: Mopping the floor. And Bruce is continuing to mop and just like doesn't really look at. Just is more paying attention to what he's doing.
Avery/GM: Well, you're interfering with a Republic investigation next time Could you please not mop Right where I'm trying to arrest some space pirates?
Caden/Bruce: Sorry. It's my first day on the job and it's being pretty busy.
Avery/GM: Well, we had messaged Brago's Central Authority to tell them not to mess with this docking bay until we got down.
Caden/Bruce: To be fair, I have been cleaning up messes, not making messes. I'm sorry. I will move on to docking Bay 13 now then.
Avery/GM: fine. I'll get that ship later. And she turns to one of her soldiers and starts like giving orders of like, you know, contact the main ship and tell them to keep a lookout for this, for this vessel. And then they kind of just hurry out of the docking bay. Yeah. Where do you all want to have Hermes go? Do you, do you give hers any specific orders of where to go?
Bee/Polaris: back to docking Bay 12! No, I'm kidding.
Avery/GM: back to docking Bay 12.
Chris/Ollie: I mean that, that's actually pretty good idea. they already looked there.
Bee/Polaris: He wouldn't come back. Who would be stupid enough to try that?
Chris/Ollie: Yeah
Caden/Bruce: I mean, I was gonna say like if Hermes like hid behind an asteroid or something, that might be a little less… sus.
Avery/GM: Come pick y'all up later.
Bee/Polaris: He could join the race.
Avery/GM: oh god.
Chris/Ollie: Just hop in.
Avery/GM: Hermes piloting both ships.
Chris/Ollie: Hermes We need back up. Come on, shoot that gun. You like shooting at this, uh, shuttle That's chasing us!
Bee/Polaris: quick. Shoot into the Winston's private viewing box.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Immediately. Fire on my position, says Ollie. I'll be fine. Don't worry.
Bee/Polaris: Hermes would absolutely do that without heart… like a second thought.
Avery/GM: Yeah, that was actually really, I. I actually assumed y'all would have to have a firefight in docking bay 12. So that was very good.
Bee/Polaris: Wow. Who knew that wet floor signs were a universal help to all
Caden/Bruce: Bruce master of talking his way out of situations, yup!
Chris/Ollie: Bruce is a master of disguise. All right.
Bee/Polaris: Bruce is…
Bruce is infiltrated as a chef. Bruce is infiltrated as a janitor, infiltrated as a race watcher. Just chilling. Like
Bee/Polaris: a samples giver!
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. We've got, we've got an infiltrator on our team guys.
Caden/Bruce: you just gonna switch out the hats, thats all it is, right? Take off the chef. Bam. No longer a chef. Whoop!
Bee/Polaris: whoop.
Jenine/Marty: Whoop Whoop Whoop!
Avery/GM: So Bruce, as you, uh, are you exiting the docking bay or are you gonna keep mopping for a little bit and kind of like hold up the ruse?
Caden/Bruce: No. I think Bruce is actually gonna do what he said and go and stop, start mopping Docking Bay 13.
Avery/GM: Okay. You do come out at Docking Bay 12 and you do see one of those soldiers still posted up here as like a lookout. And you move on to docking Bay 13. And they kind of eye you for a minute, like to like, be like, okay, why were they here of all places? And then they see you go into Docking Bay 13 and they're just like, oh, they, they really are a janitor. Okay.
Caden/Bruce: Yep. Don't, don't be suspicious. Real janitor here!
Bee/Polaris: Nothing but janitorial duties.
Avery/GM: Hermes does take your advice and parks the ship on just a random, non occupied asteroid in this little asteroid belt here, Ollie, you
are in the private booth and Avi is still kind of moping and looks at you and it's just like, Can you believe Violet said that? Like, I'm not just a spoiled brat wasting my dad's money.
Chris/Ollie: Okay. This is a… Hmm... For Ollie, this is a yikesy situation.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. You've gotten yourself mixed into family drama.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. As a not quite understanding connections robot.
Avery/GM: You do have your virtual emotion simulator.
Chris/Ollie: Oh yes, I do have that in me at the moment.
Bee/Polaris: But you don't have your therapist Chip
Chris/Ollie: Actually, Ollie is gonna say, oh my apologies. I missed what she said. I was enthralled with the race.
Avery/GM: Avi rolls her eyes and it's just like, well, that’s probably for the best. You don't really want to get mixed up with the Winston family. We can be quite vengeful and conniving and backstabbing.
Chris/Ollie: Duly noted.
Bee/Polaris: sweating emoji in chat.
Avery/GM: But yeah, let's, let's enjoy the, the rest of the race. Your team is really pulling out all the stops out there. I think you might win this thing.
Chris/Ollie: Yes. Quite surprising the tricks the other teams had up their sleeves. We have doing exceedingly well, better than I expected. Thank you.
(flying sound effects, ambience fades out, racing music fades in)
Avery/GM: We'll go back to the race passing asteroid number three. You're coming up to the next obstacle in this race. It looks like some kind of old destroyed platform of some kind. Maybe looks like it probably was like an old defense platform for like a planetary system or something, but it looks kind of like torn to shreds and sort of, you know, broken apart over the years.
Zach/Zahn: Fun.
Bee/Polaris: How big is it?
Avery/GM: I would say it's probably about 50 feet wide by about maybe 300 feet long.
Jenine/Marty: Ooh, yoinks?
Avery/GM: Yeah.
Zach/Zahn: Are we about to fly through it?
Avery/GM: Yeah, like kind of like above it. Um, but there's like, but there are like some, like pieces of it that are kind of like floating around it that are kind of, you know, you'd have to maneuver around.
Bee/Polaris: Is it powered up?
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, can Ollie like scan for some energy readings?
Avery/GM: Ollie, you can… You can scan for that. I think that would be a notice check, probably intelligence.
Chris/Ollie: Alright.
Avery/GM: And I think Polaris, since you are also on your ship, I think you could scan for that as well. Same check.
Bee/Polaris: Sweet. Intelligence notice.
Avery/GM: Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: that's a good thing. I took a thing in notice.
Chris/Ollie: Same. I got a nine.
Bee/Polaris: I got a, I'm sorry. Math sucks. 11.
Chris/Ollie: Damn.
(scanning sound effect)
Avery/GM: Yeah. You both notice energy readings coming from all of the torpedo launchers that are still present on this platform.
Bee/Polaris: Sweet. How many Ollies are, uh, free to take those over?
Chris/Ollie: I’ve got one in my body, one controlling the drones. One or two with you guys. So that's like 79.
Bee/Polaris: Okay, sweet. Can you use one of those 79 or a couple of those 79 to take over those torpedoes?
Chris/Ollie: Can I hack the torpedoes? Do we,
Bee/Polaris: is that a possibility?
Chris/Ollie: Do we have remote hacking capabilities
Bee/Polaris: or is that a, is there like a central kind of control panel that all he can hack into rather than spending all these?
Avery/GM: So I think what Zahn could do, or Polaris, if he could get out of the ship, would be to jump onto the platform and find a computer to hack. And they could plug like their helmet into the, well, no, cause they need their helmet to breathe.
Bee/Polaris: Nah, I can hold my breath.
Avery/GM: So I think, I think they would need to do the hacking themselves.
Zach/Zahn: If I can get like bonus, like assistances from, from Ollie, I can do that. I've got a proficiency in program. So…
Avery/GM: I think I, I think, I think I'd be fine with Ollie rolling to assist for hacking
Bee/Polaris: in our, um, energy reading scan, can we see where the most energy is being diverted to? Because that would probably be the computer, no?
Avery/GM: Yeah, you can tell that it's coming from like a central power source kind of near the middle of this platform.
Bee/Polaris: I can pull a Luke Skywalker and fly in there and then park my ship. I mean, I guess he didn't park his ship, but I guess… that'd be mildly unfortunate for him, but I could like park my ship and we can go on a quick grocery run.
Chris/Ollie: Well, I'm just worried about it shooting us on our way there. Ollie will just say, um, Zahn, if we can reach the center of the platform, I can redirect the torpedoes.
Zach/Zahn: Wait, you're saying there's still torpedoes in this thing?
Chris/Ollie: Very many of them.
Zach/Zahn: Oh, hells yeah. We can definitely make use of those. It's better than, uh, the idea of using my little, my little laser blade here and cutting off a wing of that shuttle. Yeah and then he taps on Polaris… Like on the view screen physically gives you the thumbs up.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris literally puts in chat. I can actually hear you guys like I heard the whole thing.
Zach/Zahn: You get the shrug emoji and him physically shrugging.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris rolls his eyes and then sends the, like eye roll emote and then to the, to the center of the platform!
Jenine/Marty: and you get a nice little heart emoji from Mar… Marty sends a heart emoji.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris puts in chat to a chat specifically for Marty, and I guess Hermes: BRB!
Zach/Zahn: BRB! Haha
Avery/GM: Okay!
Zach/Zahn: Zahn's gonna say, Marty, don't, don't be afraid to man the cannons if need be. You got this and gives the, like the, the, the strong arm.
Bee/Polaris: For an audio medium, we sure do use a lot of emojis.
Avery/GM: I was gonna say… So then I will need a strength exert check from Zahn to hold on. I know you have your mag boots, but like there's some stuff that's gonna happen. So I need that to happen. I need, I need you to, to roll that roll.
Zach/Zahn: Can I argue for it to be Dex instead? Go full. Go full matrix Bullet time with it?
Avery/GM: Sure. Okay, so you'll roll that. Polaris, I'll have you roll a dexterity pilot check.
Bee/Polaris: Sick, I'm good at that… In theory.
Zach/Zahn: Exert dexterity will be a grand total of six.
Avery/GM: Okay.
Zach/Zahn: Woo dice. Keep rolling. On the twos and three side.
Bee/Polaris: did you say dexterity Pilot check?
Avery/GM: Yes, please.
Bee/Polaris: Okay, that's going to be a… nine.
Avery/GM: Okay… that's not good. So Marty, you see Zahn and Polaris start descending toward the platform (fly by sound effect) that is slightly below you and you see three of these torpedo launchers tracking Polaris's ship, and then they fire (torpedo launch sound effect)
Bee/Polaris: Uh Oh
Jenine/Marty: oh.
Chris/Ollie: I'm gonna be fine.
Jenine/Marty: Can I shoot at it? Can I attempt to shoot at the things that are trying to shoot at my friends?
Avery/GM: You can totally try and shoot. Yes.
Jenine/Marty: Cool.
Avery/GM: go ahead and roll Three dexterity, shoot checks.
Jenine/Marty: Three dexterity shoot. Okay. Wait…
Zach/Zahn: You got this Marty,
Jenine/Marty: I don't even,
Avery/GM: or you can roll three attack rolls if you'd prefer.
Jenine/Marty: What is the difference?
Avery/GM: Because that's just a straight d20. That'd be a straight D 20 plus Dex versus two D six plus Dex and shoot. So it might give you a slightly better advantage.
Jenine/Marty: think. I think we'll do, we'll do the attack roll cause I feel like that might be better. I have a zero in Dex cause it's either I get a negative one or just…
Avery/GM: Okay.
Jenine/Marty: We’ll see. Okay, great. 18 is the first one on the D20.
Bee/Polaris: That’s pretty good
Chris/Ollie: Nice
Jenine/Marty: On the D20. The second one is eight.
Avery/GM: Okay.
Jenine/Marty: And the third one is a 12.
Avery/GM: Okay. You… Has Marty ever fired a weapon before?
Jenine/Marty: No. Well actually I feel like they might have like, Because she was going straight to like a military base. They probably gave her like very, very basics. Like if in danger and they put you somewhere, this is what you do. You know, like the baby, like… shooting gun for babies.
Zach/Zahn: you've, you've held a gun in one two hour training session.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah.
Zach/Zahn: And most of that two hour and 58 minutes of that two hour training session was the basics. Holding a gun.
Jenine/Marty: It was very much safety training. Yeah.
Zach/Zahn: Yeah.
Avery/GM: Cool.
Zach/Zahn: And then 10 minutes, was you shooting at a target that you probably never even came close to hitting.
Jenine/Marty: Probably 100%.
Avery/GM: Oh my gosh.
Jenine/Marty: I have no Dexterity.
Avery/GM: Well, you managed to pull it off on this one, at least for two of them. You grab this little rotating laser cannon and you see in the chat, Hermes just say, just pull the trigger. You will be fine.
Bee/Polaris: Oh my God.
Jenine/Marty: Uh huh.
Avery/GM: And (laser blast) you fire the first shot and it kind of goes wide and misses one of the torpedoes. but you fire the second and third shot and actually find your target (laser blasts) and you hit two of these torpedoes and they explode magnificently (explosion sound) in space. But this third one, Gets through and ends up hitting Polaris's ship.
Bee/Polaris: Now out of curiosity, cause I did just remember that I am flying a strike fighter. Can I shoot my weapon?
Avery/GM: Of course.
Bee/Polaris: Okay.
Avery/GM: I was just waiting for…
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Avery/GM: I may not always give you the exact thing that you can do, but you know,
Bee/Polaris: yeah, I, I completely forgot cause I was like, oh man, how am I gonna fly out of the way of this thing? And I was like, oh wait, I have weapons, I got a MES Beam. does a 16 hit?
Avery/GM: it would
Bee/Polaris: sick.
Avery/GM: Okay, so Marty blows two of these out of the way and you see on your radar the third one is still approaching. You know that if you get hit Zahn will probably get blown into space somewhere. Yes. And so
Zach/Zahn: That's fine. I've got my grapnel launcher.
Avery/GM: You shoot your laser to (laser blasts) keep you in Zahn from not getting exploded, and your mes beam finds its target and blows it up and you have a clear shot to the central computer on this platform.
(Race music fades out, Outro music plays and then fades down)
Avery/GM: Thank you for listening to our show. Beyond the Furthest Stars is a 1up Podcast Network production. Find more of our shows at 1upPodcasts.com. And be sure to follow us on Twitter and Tumblr @FurthestPod. Intro and outro Music by Dustin Carpenter.
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We'll be back on February 1st with our next episode. See you out there Beyond the Furthest Stars!
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