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Final Hope E19: Teens of Terror pt. 1 · The Multiverse Collective

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All I have up is my character sheet and 2D6.
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That's all I got and I Yep. That's all the I've got those
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too. I've got the exact same.
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Well, no, that's the that's the wrong I.
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Guess I could go grab mine my actual physical dice.
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I have the exact same too because for some reason I've got
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Jesse. Scrambling, knowing that she has
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no D6 inside of her house. I don't have a single dice here.
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They're all there. Andrew has.
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Andrew has more dice than anybody could ever need, right?
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Here on that big satchel of Dice L time, we go there.
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Yeah, I just have everything in this one tray.
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Yeah, I just got a bowl. Too fast.
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I have Google. It also I uncursed your dice by
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the way, Noodle. You uncursed them.
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Yeah, the the D. 20. The D20 you sent this one.
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If you only knew how many of those that Jesse and Andrew
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launched across his floor. We were mad in the first
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campaign. I don't blame you.
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I've been mad. I've not had a reason to be mad
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my entire podcast in life because all the luck I have in
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my life goes into rolling dice. Everything else is just shit.
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This is new eating command. If anyone can hear this, the
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Caribtus has broken through. It's not a siege, it's an
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extinction. Our defenses were absorbed in
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seconds and the planetary core is destabilizing.
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The sky is literally tearing open.
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We've lost the capital and the shelters are being pulled into
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the rift. We're fighting a shadow we can't
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touch and a hunger we can't stop.
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We are a world of civilians, and we have nothing left to give.
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If you're listening to this, New Eden is falling.
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Where are the Power Rangers? It's.
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A little deeper collective. OK so we the camera pans out
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from Cygnus 7B and as we are zooming through the cosmos to
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the edge of the Elysium wrist that we see 4050 distress calls
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coming from a planet called New Eden to the Perd asking for help
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as there are void sirens attacking and trying to destroy
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the planet with no return answer.
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We come into the planet of New Eden and it looks like hell.
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All hell is broken. Loose buildings are on fire.
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The glass Dome that covers the planet has many breech holes
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where Shields have had to be placed over the top to keep it
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airtight. And we zoom into a rather plain
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looking building on the edge on the outskirts of this Dome, with
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the the word archive written on the side, and inside we see
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three teenagers in training simulation.
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We will must with Noodle. What does who are you and what
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does your character look like? So my hero's name is Gravistorm.
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His real name is Aries Orwin. He's a very stereotypical human
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18 year old. He's about 59510.
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He's got brown hair, brown eyes, doesn't look really standoffish
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or stand outish as I was. He in the world of masks that we
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used to create these character. He's considered the Nova and to
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compare him, he would be similar to like Jean Grey where he is a
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an absolute just a font of like raw energy.
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He's got so much power. It's just being able to channel
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it is kind of the issue because if he messes up, bad things
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happen and it's very cataclysmic and so he's very reserved.
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OK, we'll fly over to Andy. Andy, what does your character
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look like? My character, his superhero name
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is Shaka Maxon. But I my friends know me by
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Myron Langston and I am a 16 year old boy and I am 58, pretty
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average looking, brown hair, brown eyes and because I picked
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the doomed there is an ever bounding doom after me whenever
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I utilize my abilities to their extent.
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I'm very shy. I don't like to open up towards
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many people and I don't like to burden people as well.
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So I'm not, I'm not very outgoing.
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OK, cool. And Jesse, would you like to
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introduce it to your character, please?
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So my character's name is Lyra Vance, but her hero name is
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Solara. She's human passing, but her
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skin has like an iridescent undertone that you can only see
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whenever she's like doing things with her powers.
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She's got long, long dark black hair.
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She's like skinny tall ballerina ish.
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Really unsettlingly graceful. Nice.
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Yeah, she's the outsider. Did you say Lyra or Lyra?
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LY Lyra. Unsettlingly graceful.
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That's interesting. OK.
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I'm certainly graceful as well, don't worry.
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She ain't no big back. No, she's not.
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Living out the opposite of my real life dreams.
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I guess since all I do is eat, I don't.
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Know I'm going to say I'm don't worry.
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I can go grab the chips in my back in the backroom.
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The three bags that he brought. Family size.
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I don't, I don't blame her. It's always cool to have a snack
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when you're when you're recording.
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Yeah, it's important. Yeah, so the the three of our
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heroes are training in the simulation room when a emergency
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screen pops up in front of them and a message comes through the
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speaker system. And it's like heroes, heroes we
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need, we need to get, we need to get to the grid.
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We are being attacked and two giant vault doors open up and
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you see, this is all like high tech, like everything's like
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what you'd expect for the year 3198.
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It's all clean white. Everything's got lights in it,
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way too many buttons for no reason, and you just see down
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this corridor, just scientists freaking the fuck out.
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Everyone's running, nobody's saying anything to each other.
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And yeah, how, how do you all react to to be finally be set
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being sent on a first mission to save the grid?
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I'm going to look at do we know how old Lyra is?
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Did you give your age? I'm sorry I'm 17.
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I also forgot to mention that I feel like Ariel The Little
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Mermaid and think that humans are adorable and want to like
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learn everything about them. I forgot important things.
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I also have amnesia. So you OK?
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So you're not human because you said you're passing as human?
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I said human passing, Yeah. OK, I'm gonna look at the two
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older people and be like, are or do we?
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Is this us? Are we up?
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This is what we've been training for.
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Let's go. All right, I'm going to.
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I'm going to let you guys lead the way again because I'm the
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youngest. I don't know.
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I've never fought in anything before.
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Do we know where to go just straight?
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In the hallway. You're just running.
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Pushing some scientists out of the way.
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It's the smart way to start because if you don't, you're
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just going to get trampled yourself.
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So yeah, so you run through this hallway.
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As you're running through, we're going to get you all to do your
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first dice roll of the game. Shit.
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When I get my nose up because I can't remember what I called
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them, you are running through this hallway and I want you all
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to roll 2D6 plus your freak modifier so it's taking like 1-2
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whichever it goes. I got 10.
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I got 8. Seven.
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OK, you've got A10 and A7 OK, So Zach Arias is perfectly fine.
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Ready for it. Stays running in a straight
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line. No, no problems.
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Myron and Lyra, you both start running down this hallway when
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your feet start coming off the ground and you start flowing
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upwards towards the ceiling. And as this is happening, you
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see the scientists like floating in the air as well with like
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paperwork just all over the shut.
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And then about after about 1015 seconds of this, it all, all the
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gravity goes back to normal and you fall straight back to the
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ground. But but the the roles you've got
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you, you managed to semi gracefully land and continue
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running when in the distance you hear an explosion in in the
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facility. Are you going to run towards?
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You're going to going to investigate around here.
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I'm moving it up to you guys can do whatever.
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You could literally not do the thing for the whole whole time
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we play and let it go from there.
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Do you guys just want to play some like sick Yu-gi-oh from the
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year 3? 1000 or what we do, I want to do
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nose goes to see is this explosion like on the other side
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of the door or is it in the distance?
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Yeah. So it's like in the distance you
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can, you can feel like the reverberation of the explosion
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through the floor in in the facility, but you can't really
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see it right now. Are you guys good from that
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fall? Yeah.
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I suppose we're just going to run in that distance.
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I mean, otherwise we're just running straight down the
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hallway. So do we?
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We don't specifically know where this is.
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You can, you can sort of gauge the direction from like the
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sound of the explosion. So you could head in that
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general direction. Did I see them float up in the
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air? You did, yeah.
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Am I able to use one of my powers to stop that from
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happening again? You can, you can try when, when
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it next happens. If it next happens, I'll let you
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roll to see if you can keep them on the ground, OK?
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I'm good. I'm I'm good.
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I'm Gucci. I'm going to send you guys Team
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Rocket blasting off again. Straight through the ceiling.
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So I have. I have telepathy so I should be
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able to tell potentially if I can at least if people are being
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actively injured from this or if people are just panicking.
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Yeah, OK, yeah, if you want to use your telepathy to do it,
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let's have you roll. Let's have you roll 2D6 plus
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superior. That's an 11.
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OK, yeah, sick. Yeah, you, you get free
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telepathy. You you hear screams and just
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outright like terror coming from that direction where the
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explosion happened and you get like little images of these sort
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of eldritch horror looking tensical monsters that are just
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devouring the sides of machines and generators and stuff like
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that. OK, so I like grab my head and
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like, I don't know if I am experiencing pain from it, but
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like it's definitely psychologically problematic for
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me. And I tell them after I see
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that, that what I see, that I could see what's getting the
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people and we need to go like right now.
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Before we before we continue, I would like to get a gauge on
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what you guys are capable of. I know.
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So Lyra, you can you have telepathy?
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What? What else can you do?
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What other powers do you have? My other ability, OK, so it says
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that I can fly and that I am physically tough, but I also
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have heliokinesis, which is like control of light and solar
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energy. And then I have telepathy and
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something called mind blasts. I think that's really, I mean, I
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think that's really all right. Now I also have a Kirby craft.
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What about you Aries? What can you do bud?
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I have the ability to manipulate gravity.
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I'm I can also control elements. So it's very like Avatar the
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Last Airbender when he is able to channel.
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I'm sorry, I don't know what Avatar Last Airbender is.
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Is that something from 1000 years ago or?
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Can you X him out of? This I'm just.
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Trying to role play here. I don't know what Avatar Last
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Airbender is, I'm 16. I I thought you were, you were
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talking as Andrew. OK, sorry.
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So, well, I thought you would pay attention during our
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sparring. But I can manipulate gravity and
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I can control all of the elements, including fire, wind,
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water. Cool.
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I'm sorry we weren't meta gaming.
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OK, that's. Cool, Andrew, we do this all the
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time. We start conversations, then
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don't realize we're actually having conversations in the
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game. It's great.
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I'm sorry, I thought we were playing a role-playing game.
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It's cool, it's cool. We we love this kind of shit.
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Sorry. Yeah.
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All right. Well, let's go.
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Yeah, let's go to the explosions.
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So you run running down these hallways and you start seeing
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people looking more and more frantic as you are running
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through. And you get to a closed vault
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door. And on this side of the door,
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you see on the floor a man. I sat there with a missing leg
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bleeding out. And he, he's pale.
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He's completely like, he's not even conscious right now.
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And he has a key card in his hand, covered in blood, and he's
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just sort of flayed out on the like on the wall.
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Is his only injury his missing leg?
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Yeah, he, he, he's, it's fully like a clean cut off.
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It's like, it looks like it's been like, is he conscious?
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Oh no, he's fully unconscious. OK, so he's he's, he's going to
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bleed out. Can I try to cauterize the wound
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using my elemental control? Oh yeah, let's let's go for it.
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Let's see. Let's do it on fire.
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And they raised the hand, OK. And I just want to tell you to
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be careful because this man is already dead and he's probably
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doesn't have much blood left in him.
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He's not dead yet. He's not yet dead.
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He might yet be dead after this. Yeah.
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Roll 2D6 plus. Oh, Savior.
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Oh shoot, that is an 8. OK, so.
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Not good. You light your hands on fire and
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you sit down like kneel down at, at this guy's leg and you, you
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put your hands around the wound and you cauterize the edges of
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the wound. But then the control of your
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flammabilities gets a bit ropey. You're you cauterize and it's
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going really well. And then you start shaking a
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little bit because, you know, this is like the first time
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you've seen a person with a missing leg.
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It's a very, very traumatic experience for somebody to go
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through. And then you, your flames start
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going out and you can't produce flame anymore.
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So you've got like 30% of a cauterized wound.
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The rest is still bleeding out. Did he wake up from this?
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Yeah, he he, he lets out like a really guttural scream and then
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passes straight back out. Oh I I thought that would work.
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All that. Stinks.
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Does anyone have any kind of cloth?
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We could just pack the rest or do you guys see anything around?
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Here I I don't think he's going to make it.
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I don't think there's much there's there.
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I don't think there's much of a reason to even help him out.
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He's. Could I just, like, soothe him?
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Yeah, you can use use your telepathy to like calm him down
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if you want to. Yeah.
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Can I just, like, make the best of it for him if he's, I mean,
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do we know he's not going to make it?
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I feel like it's very apparent that he's not going to make it
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at this point. OK, but I'm just going to like
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soothe. If it's worth anything, Lyra, I
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have memory manipulation and I can just erase whatever memory
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he just had of this whole incident.
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Do you really feel like that's going to help the death process?
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He's just going to be like, why the fuck am I dying?
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I can remove this trauma that he just went through.
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I was going to give him, if you want to do that, I was, that's
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fine. I guess.
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I was going to give him some memory of my beautiful home
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planet. That's fine.
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It was like tropical ish and you know.
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Maybe do both. See how it works.
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Just give him like a suit and waterfall scene to die too.
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Let's do it. Are we rolling for?
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This all right, I'll I'll roll. What's it?
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What's my role for memory manipulation?
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Yeah, but both, both of you go for superior.
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While they're doing that, I'm grabbing the key card out of his
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hand. OK.
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Yeah, you do that. I got a 10.
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I got 8. OK, at least I could help him a
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little bit. Yeah, so Lyra, you, you
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perfectly display visions of your homeland to this very
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unconscious, bleeding out man. And he seems to sort of calm
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down a little bit from looking at these, these beautiful images
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that you're explaining to him. And then Myron, you, you start
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deleting the memories of him getting his wound caught, arised
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and his leg bit enough. And then you sort of like just
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start trickling through, like you delete his wife's name, you
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make him forget his birthday. You just you just like rolling
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through random memories and going I don't need this.
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I did what I can. Do I know that this is happening
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or is he just like doing this and we don't know?
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Am I just like going in my head with it?
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Yeah, he just. Nobody knows.
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You saw of like Cerebro from the X-Men.
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It's just like you can see all these people.
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Who could you do in your memory manipulation but Lyra?
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You, you, you see him like calm down a bit but then he just
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seems like really confused. If you feel like he is just so
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confused in this moment in time, like all these important bits of
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his life that you did remember 4 seconds ago, I've just
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disappeared from his memory. Inside, I'm going to resume from
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the the memory manipulation. I'm just going to say, all
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right, we're good. We can go.
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I kind of side I am a little bit like that was he was OK and then
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he really wasn't OK. Again, I got it.
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We're good. Yeah.
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So are you going to use this key card to get through the door
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areas? Yes.
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OK, you entered the swap the key card and these bolt doors open
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and on the inside it is like a massacre has gone off.
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There is blood, guts and viscera all over the place.
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Hadn't in the middle of this hallway the three of you see
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this like 3 foot 5 like barely tentacle monster with like razor
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sharp teeth. It has no eyes.
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I mean, it's like a a deep shade of purple.
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What the fuck is that thing? Language Myron.
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Sorry, what the flip is that thing?
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Lyra, What did you say that was when you some Elder Tar?
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But do we know the origin? I don't.
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Did I do I roll for that? I'm sorry.
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I normally I'd be like, do I roll for history?
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But no. So with masks you don't really
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roll for stuff like that. You can do.
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Why is my notebook OK? My very mangled up notebook is
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over here so you could roll. Because obviously, like me and
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Jesse wouldn't know. Oh.
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God this is a very broken piece of paper.
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You can roll and assess the situation if you want to to try
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and get some answers which is plus superior.
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I'll I'll roll 8. Well, yeah, it's me.
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Well I I'm trying to figure it out.
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I didn't know if you had an answer so I'll just roll and I
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got an 8. OK, so you get to ask one
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question of the one of these questions.
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There's what hair can I use? What hair is the biggest threat?
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What hair is in the greatest danger?
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Who hair is the most I'm vulnerable to me.
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And how could how could we end this quick?
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How could we best end this quickly?
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This is my very broken piece of paper that I have all my notes
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written on SO. I like ancient ruin.
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Can I do that last one? How do we end this the quickest?
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Yeah, so you, you see, you, you look at this tentacle beast and
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you, you sort of realise that it's, it's just feeding on
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anything it can get. But from the watch looking
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around, what when you're looking around, you can see it's
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regurgitated a lot of the food. So it's not very wide.
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So it seems like it can't hold too much.
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So you could I think for you, the best way you think about
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ending it would be just to over overfill it to make it like pop
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or you can squash it or you can. I as well, I think I might use
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that first suggestion. So I have a psychic constructs
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ability and what I'd like to do is throw it.
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How large is its mouth or it's whatever opening it has it it?
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The more on it is quite large, you got to think this can like
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take take a bite like a guy's leg, like a full full leg.
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OK, can I like throw one of my psychic constructs just like a
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small orb and then while it's inside it am I able to expand it
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to a certain as large as I can do?
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Yeah, roll roll plus danger. It's fucked.
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You got to directly engage him. 8.
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OK, so I'm going to give you some choices here, Andrew.
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You can resist or avoid the blow.
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You can take something from this alien.
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You can create an opportunity. If you're ally or impress,
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surprise or frighten your enemy. I guess I'll assist an ally.
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OK, yeah, cool. So you you shoot this orb into
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this creature's mouth and you go to enlarge it before you get the
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chance. The the creature bites down and
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just breaks the the construct but it's distracted because it
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was like where, where the fuck did that come from?
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As I said it has has no eyes. So Aries or Lyra, would you like
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to attack in any way while it's distracted?
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So if there's a hole in the Dome, is there sunlight coming
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through? Yeah, the, well, it, it's weird
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because it's like an artificial sun that the planet has to, to
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keep the day night cycle. So you have like the Dome that's
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over the area you're in is just like a protective Dome because
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the outside layer of the planet is just like a void.
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But it's just like you can see if you look straight through the
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hole, you'll be able to see like the Elysium rift.
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So it's like looking at like the Andromeda Galaxy.
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So it'll be like the light from from there.
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So can I like harness the light like it's?
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I'm thinking like Ant with with a with a magnifying glass.
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Yeah, you, you can go for it, Yeah.
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OK. So while he's doing that, I
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guess I'm going to try to harness the light to pull down
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into a pinpoint and kind of like not laser beam style, but like
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burn. Burn.
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Yeah. OK.
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Roll roll plus danger for me. And 9:00.
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OK. Yeah.
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So with the two of you attacking it, you, you know, with Myron
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distracting it and Myron, you just like melt in it essentially
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with, with this beam of light, you defeat it easily and it it
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doesn't like the body doesn't stay in like a corporeal form.
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It sort of melts and then evaporates into like a a deep
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purple mist that just flows out of the the building back into
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space. Holy shit.
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If I'm adding, if I'm doing Kinect, this is this is, this is
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not Aries, this is Zach. And if this is what I think it's
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going to be, I'm going to simply lose it.
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But. You're not picking up on this at
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all. Do these sticks make a whistling
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sound? Oh, maybe.
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I don't know. It is.
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I don't know. All right, good work team that
27:31
was. I guess I considered our first
27:33
battle. Yeah.
27:35
And then I'm going to, can I high five you guys?
27:37
Can I throw a high 5 up for you Aries?
27:40
Absolutely. Do I have to roll for a high 5?
27:42
You do not have to roll for a high 5.
27:44
All right, it's going to it's going to echo in this like
27:46
whatever chamber room we're in. And then I'm going to hold it
27:51
for a second too, because I'm, I'm, I'm touch starved because
27:55
I'm just a 16 year old shy boy. So I'm going to hold your hand
27:59
for a minute. Lyra also puts her hands up to
28:02
high 5. And yeah, you can get in on this
28:04
too, Lyra, as long as you don't burn me.
28:07
I don't know what to do exactly, so I just kind of waffle around
28:13
in the high five. Really excited to be
28:15
participating. That works.
28:18
Very nice. You can see this carnage through
28:33
this hallway and then it's it splits into three directions.
28:38
So it goes forward or left and right.
28:40
So I'm going to let you all decide between yourselves which
28:43
which path you'd like to take. We're doing a choose your own
28:46
adventure here. I'm going right?
28:49
Are we splitting up? With this being so, we were
28:53
training, we were training in an area together.
28:56
Are we familiar with no forward, left and right?
28:59
OK. This is this is the first time
29:02
you've been out, OK in this area.
29:04
So where your training simulation is, the doors that
29:08
open were a new doors to you. You never been through those
29:10
doors. Normally you just go back into
29:12
like a, a communal area where you have rooms and like a a
29:16
kitchen area and stuff like that.
29:18
It's not You've never been out since however you got here.
29:22
You've never been out of this out of.
29:24
Which which way do we go boss? And I'm going to look at Aries.
29:29
When you say that, I'm also going to look over at Lyra just
29:32
to because I'm not. I didn't think I was the boss.
29:36
Oh. You're the oldest.
29:37
I look at, I look at both of them say oh, oh me, I'm not the
29:43
oldest, but I can listen and see where where things are.
29:50
Are you are you guys comfortable splitting up?
29:53
Not really. This is our first fight.
29:55
I would like to stay together, if that's OK.
29:58
I don't know. If you want to go that way, he
30:00
can come with me. I got a good feeling about the
30:03
right. Do you need help or you want us
30:06
to go a separate way? Me and Lyra.
30:11
I just think we'll be able to cover more ground if we split up
30:14
and save more people. Can I listen for?
30:17
Yeah, roll again. Plus superior for me, Jesse.
30:23
Oh good, I got AI, got 5. Yeah, you, you keep and you open
30:28
up your your mind's eye to listen to these directions.
30:32
And then all three of directions just overwhelm you with the
30:37
screams of terror and you you get this really got a little
30:42
growl sound that makes you have to stop instantly are.
30:50
We just winging it then? If you am I right?
30:53
If you want to come with me, you can.
30:54
If you're not comfortable, but we can go together.
30:59
Yeah, I'll go with you. So Aries, you're going right?
31:03
I'm going right? All right, you want to go
31:05
straight or left? Let's go straight, all right?
31:10
OK, Aries, we'll start with you.
31:22
We'll get you going. So you bucket down this right
31:26
hallway and you know, you're going past loads of dead
31:31
scientists, these like security guards who who have like just
31:36
been absolutely decimated. And then you when, when as
31:40
you're running down, you see this massive hole in the ceiling
31:44
of of the facility and you look up and you see the just this
31:51
giant purple Moor coming towards the planet.
31:56
It, it is like maybe, well, let's say like 15 to 16 miles
32:03
wide and it, it looks like it's just going to take a giant bite
32:07
out of the planet unless, unless you, the heroes, can do
32:10
something to stop it. Yeah, I, I know I have gravity
32:17
manipulation, but I don't think I, I have that much faith in my
32:21
powers to stop something that big.
32:24
You can keep going down the hallway if you want, or you can
32:26
try and reconvene with with your team.
32:30
Well, I feel like if I go backwards now that they're going
32:33
to be gone, and I'm hoping if I continue forward, they're going
32:37
to line back up in some open courtyard area or maybe a bigger
32:44
room. So I am going to continue
32:48
running forward. Just take taking note of this
32:51
crazy thing that I saw in the sky.
32:53
OK. We'll jump back over to the
33:06
other two. So you 2 run straight down this
33:09
hallway and you get to another set of double doors and as you
33:14
go through, you see this giant reactor.
33:16
I'm not sure what what the future would use.
33:18
I feel like nuclear fission would be out by then and it
33:21
would be some sort of new super clean energy that I definitely
33:25
should have made a name for, but I didn't because I'm lazy.
33:29
And you see just one doctor like keeping everything stabilised
33:34
isn't he's not left, he's just, he's just sat there like
33:39
throwing like levers and pressing buttons just to try and
33:42
keep the reactor stable so it doesn't explode.
33:46
Do you need any help Sir? Sorry what?
33:49
Sorry. We're here to help, Is there
33:51
anything we can do? You yeah, flip that lever over
33:55
there. All right, I'm going to flip the
33:57
lever. And you see a lot on the screen,
34:00
like some levels come down from like critical to like normal.
34:04
Yeah, thank you, Sir. Thank you.
34:06
Please leave a very dangerous area.
34:09
A particle efficient happens in here and we we don't want you to
34:13
to all get all weird on us right now.
34:17
Do you need us anywhere else? The the grid we need you to get
34:21
to the grid. Which way is that?
34:24
Keep going straight and then you'll then you'll take a left
34:27
and then a right and then a left and then you do the hokey pokey.
34:35
Sir, are you OK? It's that way.
34:39
OK, No. It's that way.
34:41
OK, I'm going to keep running for it unless Lyra has anything
34:45
else to add. No, I just turn away and look
34:48
that direction and I I say to Myron, are you, are you really
34:56
fast? Yeah, but I don't want to leave
34:59
you behind unless you want me to pick you up and we can run and
35:01
get there quick. Well, I can fly do.
35:06
You want to have a race then, is that, Is that what you're
35:08
saying? Race to the grid.
35:13
Despite the gravity of the situation, Lara just takes off.
35:17
All right, I'm going to use my superhuman speed then right
35:20
after. Oh shit, we're having a race.
35:22
I didn't account for a race. OK, we'll we'll get back to you
35:27
too shortly when I figure out what you're going to roll for
35:29
your race. Aries, you've been running now
35:41
for a couple of minutes. Slow as fuck.
35:45
Yeah, you, you've been running for a couple of minutes now and
35:47
you get to this door and it just says danger written on it, that
35:54
that's your only clue. You've got a dangerous,
35:57
literally just a sign that says danger on the front of the door.
36:00
What? Kind of handle does this door
36:05
have? It's literally just like a
36:06
keypad with a key card slot, with which if I was you, if I
36:13
was me at 18, I'd assume the key card had picked up off the dead.
36:16
The scientist would probably work.
36:19
Yeah, I'm swiping the key card. Series know how to read off that
36:22
door or. Oh shit, we forgot about the key
36:25
card. It's.
36:26
All right. You you swipe the key card and
36:31
this door opens and it's slow. It's like like the really
36:35
dramatic moment in like Jurassic Park world weather.
36:38
They're showing up off the new dinosaur and it and it slowly
36:41
opens the door. And like steam comes from
36:43
nowhere for some reason. And you walk inside and it's
36:46
just like a pitch black room until you look up and there's
36:52
just like 3 lights pointing at this one gap and he's chained up
36:58
and he looks ancient, like hundreds of years old if not
37:03
thousands of years old. And you see like a tattoo on his
37:08
neck of like a little nymph. Does this does this man notice
37:16
me? Yeah, he looks down, but his
37:19
mouth, he's got like a a muzzle on, so he can't speak.
37:24
And Aries has no idea like he would, he would have had no any
37:26
kind of inclination of like who this guy would be.
37:29
No, I don't think so. I'm just going to.
37:33
OK, we'll find out. Let's roll something here, OK?
37:37
This is a dice rolling game after all.
37:40
Let's roll plus mundane Aries. OK, that's an 11.
37:46
Oh shit, OK how old? How old?
37:49
I don't. I don't know much about your
37:50
back story, but how old were you when you joined the facility?
37:54
So Aries doesn't remember much as a kid.
37:57
He he just only kind of remembers always being in a
38:01
padded cell with toys at this facility.
38:04
What everyone else could know is he was an orphan, he was a baby
38:12
and he kind of, he didn't necessarily like use his powers,
38:17
but something seemed off as him when he was a baby and he that's
38:21
where he was kind of like taken. OK, so you you get a flashback
38:29
to being like, I don't know, let's say like 9 or 10.
38:32
You hear that same voice that was over the PA and it's just
38:37
watch out for the original. He's he's been talking about
38:41
Zordon again and we can't have that.
38:44
And that that's like the only thing that you could probably
38:46
relate to this situation because I believe you all know, like
38:54
you've been told before by the scientists, that you are a
38:56
recreation of the Power Rangers. You know, you are an attempt to
39:01
mimic a fraction of their power because for the last four and a
39:08
half thousand years, the Power Rangers have been the ones
39:10
protecting the universe. And New Eden wants its own hero
39:13
team to be able to protect it. So I think Aries is going to
39:17
look at this man and and say. Are.
39:20
Are you the chosen? Are you the original?
39:23
And then you just get like her back.
39:27
So you can't, you can't speak with this muzzle 1.
39:30
This, this planet, it's in danger.
39:33
If I free you, will you help us? Does he nod?
39:40
Get. He nods.
39:41
He. Make he makes no like.
39:45
Sort of yummy sound he. Makes no movement of his head or
39:52
anything like that. He just, he just keeps a
39:54
monotone to to speak to you. Because how I see it, I can
40:01
either let you go and you can help us and hopefully the
40:05
outcome is the archive being kinder to you, or you can just
40:10
stay chained up and die as the rest of us also.
40:14
And am I, is there, is there a way to, to free him?
40:19
Or is it going to have to be a brute force that I'm going to
40:22
have to? I think it's going to have to be
40:26
a brute force. You're going to have to like,
40:27
destroy the chains that are holding him.
40:30
OK, I'm I want to then try to use my gravity manipulation to
40:37
'cause the the gravity just around the chains to increase to
40:43
a degree that they would shatter.
40:46
OK, OK, let's roll plus superior please.
40:52
That's that's only an 8. OK, you you localize the gravity
40:57
manipulation and the chains do break, but this this old
41:02
managers barrels to the floor. He doesn't you you localize it
41:06
to around him, not around the chains.
41:08
So he just like full on hates the deck.
41:11
Just utter abuse. But he stands up like nothing
41:16
happened. And then he, he takes this
41:19
muzzle off and he's like, this is nothing, kid, I've died once
41:23
before. OK, well I haven't and I don't
41:29
want to and I know my team doesn't want to and we we need
41:34
help. Thank you for in there, I'll
41:37
help but I'm not staying with archive.
41:40
That's fair, Archive might not be around when this is over.
41:44
And then he just starts walking. And as as he's walking away,
41:48
like out of the danger room, you see like his body rejuvenates
41:56
like it it de ages, it becomes like back to a normal like round
42:01
like 2526 year old body of physique frame hair.
42:06
And this like light blue suit just appear like materializes
42:13
onto his body with this this helmet, it's very chunky helmet,
42:17
but you can see like all the detail in it.
42:20
And it's got like a a thin black visor and two blue like deep
42:28
sapphire blue gems like in the the side of his head.
42:33
All right, so I have like a moment to myself, like I either
42:37
made things 10 times worse or I might have gave us a, a fighting
42:41
chance. OK, we're going to go back to
42:54
Lyra and Myron. Can you both roll?
42:59
Being children. Yeah, being children, having a
43:00
race, you pop both. Oh, let's go, let's go, Danger.
43:05
Both years roll a bit. Plus danger. 9. 6.
43:11
OK, Lyra, you start great. You zoom straight ahead like you
43:17
don't even give Myron a second to to get ready for this race
43:21
and you are absolutely bucking it straight left, right, left.
43:26
And Myron's hot on your heels. But then you get like a psychic
43:30
wave of just somebody screaming for help and you and it's that
43:36
powerful that you stop flying. Your body just instinctively
43:40
shuts down and you stop flying and you hit the ground and roll
43:44
and Myron, you just like speed past.
43:46
You don't even know it is. You are so focused on this race
43:50
that you like get like four more corridors away before you you
43:54
realise that Lyra's not there. So I didn't even see her fall.
44:00
I'm going to just like stop like Scooby-doo and and screech my
44:04
shoes onto the ground down the hallway for a few feet and be
44:07
like, just look around and be like, oh shit, I lost her.
44:12
So do do I. Is this like an additional sense
44:16
of something happening like really close to where I am?
44:18
Or is it just like in the general?
44:20
Yeah, it's like. Space.
44:22
It happens and it's so powerful it impacts me.
44:24
Yeah. It's like it's within like the
44:27
vicinity of where you are. It's like, I would say it's
44:29
within like 10 meters of where you are at present.
44:34
OK so I kind of move on from the race forgetting what I was doing
44:39
and so overwhelmed with this person or creatures pain that I
44:46
go to them. OK, yeah, you you find a door
44:53
and you open it. You see on the like a cage a
44:57
sign that just says Fraxian, and it's just like, let me see if I
45:04
can remember. I've got the sheet here one
45:07
second. It's been a while since I've
45:09
spoke about Fraxians. Yeah, free football.
45:12
Total of the motherfuckers, that that's what it is.
45:15
Bipedal. Yeah.
45:17
Bipedal. Yeah.
45:18
That's fucking spooky. And they're screaming, Yeah.
45:23
There's this one little dude screaming.
45:25
There's one I don't. I'm not here though.
45:28
I'm not present, sorry. Do they speak like?
45:31
Do we speak a common language? Yeah, this is anime rules.
45:35
Everybody speaks the same language for no reason.
45:40
Cool, so I is it obvious why they are screaming?
45:46
I think you just see like a part of the ceilings caved in and
45:50
it's like trapped in a corner and it's like flames and shit
45:53
everywhere and it's sort of just panicking.
46:01
Is he in here as a prison? I.
46:03
Don't know, man. That's that's pretty you to
46:05
decide. Are you here?
46:08
Are you in here as a prisoner? That's fair.
46:13
Am I? So I guess I ask it like are
46:16
what are you? Are you going to be nice to me
46:20
if I let you out of here? I'm not that lost, I'm just
46:25
found pulls. Pulls was done loud.
46:31
OK, now I have to contemplate, do I have the capacity to get
46:35
this creature out of here or? He's your son, Lloyd.
46:40
I don't really have I'm I'm. Not a Luke.
46:47
I don't really have any. I mean it's in like a steel
46:49
Cate. Like is it like bars?
46:51
I'm envisioning like like zoo animal style bars.
46:55
Yeah, really. Zoo animal style.
46:58
Yeah, that, that is the vibe. It's giving up.
47:01
OK, is so I'm sorry, I just want to make sure I understand.
47:05
Is it being sucked into the hole where the flames are?
47:09
No, no. So it's like rubble is felt down
47:12
from the ceiling and it's sort of made a semi little corral
47:18
where it can't really escape from and the there's fire coming
47:21
in, things have been exploding, which is really not great for
47:26
the structural integrity of the building.
47:27
So. I don't know if I could help it.
47:35
Is there any like keys around or anything anywhere?
47:38
I bet if I had that key card, dammit, I could probably do some
47:40
of them with that, but I just. Yeah, probably.
47:44
OK, hold on. So I think I try to send some
47:48
telekinetic message. It says Mind Blast.
47:51
Is this a mind blast that I can send over to Aries and say I
47:54
think I need your key card? I think a mind blast is like an
47:58
attack. Is it not a mind blast is like
48:01
throwing like psychic waves at somebody, But you could use your
48:04
telepathy to like speak to him. I'm sure you've you've spent
48:07
plenty of time in the training room to know what his brains
48:10
like, to be able to to pick it out.
48:13
OK, so I do that and I let him know that there's a, what's it
48:18
called? A Fraxian.
48:22
A Fraxian trapped. And he's going to die probably
48:25
pretty soon, because the, the flame, the, the, the, it's not
48:28
great, you know? Are you saying this to Aries?
48:32
Aries. Yes, yeah, that's, yeah.
48:36
The man just saw a 16 mile long mall coming at the planet I
48:40
think. I don't know that.
48:49
How how do you react there is to being told that AFRAC needs
48:52
help. I kind of just like, think to
48:55
myself like everybody needs help, that's why we split up.
48:59
Is she able to read my mind? Yeah, 100%.
49:02
She can. I'm thinking that.
49:03
I'm thinking. I'm thinking that in my head,
49:05
like everyone needs help. We split up so we can save as
49:08
many people as we can. I might have made things worse.
49:12
So you're telling me that I should just leave him?
49:15
Find a way to save him. We are trained for this.
49:20
OK, so that I'm going to reach out mentally back to what's my
49:25
other person. Giving words of affirmation.
49:29
Myron, I'm going to reach back out to Myron and I'm going to
49:33
say, can you bring your super strength over here please?
49:36
This little Fraxian needs our help.
49:41
I'm like, I'm like bothered by the whole situation but not that
49:45
bothered. Like this is just another, you
49:47
know? Do I know if fractions are good?
49:51
Like what? What purpose do they serve?
49:54
You generally don't have any knowledge of anything outside of
49:57
this OK base. So you don't know, you know.
50:03
Is this like? Would I be under the assumption
50:07
that there's only one that exists and like he needs to be
50:09
saved? Or is this like another
50:11
potentially alien species that there there's or millions of
50:16
them? I think, I don't think you'd
50:17
know anything about you. It would be one of those where
50:19
you don't know if there's a set amount of them or.
50:23
All right, well, I will run back because I'm under the assumption
50:27
that this person or this being is probably worth saving.
50:32
What state is it in? I know you said it's surrounded
50:35
by rubble and fire. Yeah, it, it, it looks generally
50:40
unharmed, like it got out of the way just in the nick of time
50:42
from these this rubble. But you can see from the look on
50:47
its face that it is absolutely petrified of what's going on
50:50
right now. And it like, is it trapped
50:53
somehow? Like it can't just walk out on
50:55
its own. Yeah, so it's so the rubble is
50:57
like corralled into the corner of this pen, basically.
51:03
And Lyra is not able to get it out herself.
51:06
Like climbing over the rubble. Did these like bars in front of?
51:11
OK, so what's in bars called you?
51:15
I'm going to assume that it's either some sort of lab tested
51:19
animal thing or it's behind bars for a reason.
51:22
Lyra, did this tell you anything?
51:25
Did you read its mind and did it communicate to you?
51:28
No, it's a creature. It deserves to live.
51:31
But it's behind bars. Oh.
51:37
Shit, you can talk. What do you do?
51:45
What are you doing in here to begin with?
51:48
Tell me the truth. Some dude.
51:50
Called the director for hours. This guy called Trip.
51:56
Which is like, I don't know a power runs was named them trip
52:01
one time what 5 weeks ago and now now I got Titan because I
52:09
look like him, which is discriminatory, discriminatory
52:12
of fractions, Francines and husband.
52:17
What's in it for me if I if I get you out?
52:20
Now, Norman, I'm in a touch. What do you want me to deliver?
52:23
Migraine. He's in here for a reason.
52:29
I need some sort of, I mean give and take here, but you.
52:32
Were in here for a reason. All right, listen, this is on
52:36
you. This bites us in the ass and I'm
52:38
going to try to just bend the bars open for him to get out.
52:42
Yeah, I think this is like an easy feat for you.
52:45
You know, you got to see if they.
52:46
Don't they all are? You you bend the bars open and
52:54
this little fraction like scampers, like it does like a
52:57
triple from flip over the flames and then just walks out and it's
53:01
like good God, man, look, look good.
53:03
Have done that a little faster. Remember.
53:05
Remember Me? I will remember.
53:10
And then he just storms off out of the room.
53:13
Can we go now, Lyra? Yeah, you know, that could have
53:17
been done in like 2 seconds. Are we going to save a cockroach
53:20
that you run across that's flipped on its back?
53:23
Maybe there, maybe we won't save you.
53:26
How about that? I don't need saving.
53:29
And then I just start flying. Go, go on down the, go on down
53:32
the way. All right.
53:43
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53:46
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53:49
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53:51
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53:53
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