Mothership - Another Bug Hunt 01

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[00:00:09] The Rancors Brothel presents

[00:00:32] Mothership a sci-fi horror RPG by Tuesday Night Games

[00:00:52] Space the final front of wrong game wrong game

[00:00:56] It's close similar in space. No one can hear you scream

[00:01:00] That's probably a better tagline if I'm gonna go with one

[00:01:03] So starting a new RPG demoing it on the show what I've been excited about for a long time

[00:01:10] Mothership is a sort of rules light space RPG. It's pretty it's got some pretty nasty stuff in it

[00:01:16] I enjoy the rule set. I think it's kind of fun

[00:01:19] It's a little bit more complicated than some of the rules light stuff

[00:01:22] We featured before I think it's got enough teeth to it that it allows for some fun customization and some interesting character development

[00:01:28] Without being so sort of one-shot II. I feel like in an ideal world if folks like this both

[00:01:34] Listening to it and the guys you folks like playing it

[00:01:38] I feel like this would be a good sort of like anthology thing to pull out once in a while

[00:01:42] So just sort of sort of in the vein of alien or event horizon or other such

[00:01:49] sci-fi horror crossover type things. Oh shit. What's the

[00:01:53] Trying to think about other ones Vanderhoven's movie starship troopers

[00:01:56] In the book it actually recommends a bunch of films you're supposed to watch which there's someone there

[00:02:00] I've never heard of so I definitely will be adding some the long rain which I'm not familiar with 1950

[00:02:06] The forever war 1974 the thing event horizon starship troopers pitch black IBM and the Holocaust which sounded kind of interesting

[00:02:14] a collapse of horses hyper normalization the hyacinth disaster

[00:02:19] So some solid films in here anyway basis for the game

[00:02:23] anyway

[00:02:25] One of the things though that I think that the author does really well because this is sort of a creepy game

[00:02:30] I think his name Sean look his name is Sean Sean McCoy

[00:02:34] He does take some time to like he takes one whole page in

[00:02:39] The warden's operations manual which is basically the dungeon masters guide of mothership to like say basically

[00:02:47] To talk about safety and gaming which we don't talk a lot about on this podcast

[00:02:51] But I do think it's an important topic don't play shit that your players aren't comfortable with and he puts an analogy in here

[00:02:57] That's basically like if I were to invite you over to my house for dinner

[00:03:00] I would work with your dietary restrictions and conversation

[00:03:03] You could be sure that like all sorts of things basically bigotry of any kind would be unacceptable at his table

[00:03:09] He's like you wouldn't be mocked by how you look the way you dress blah blah blah

[00:03:12] You're like be nice and kind to other people

[00:03:15] They do think people use gaming as a power trip quite a bit

[00:03:17] So I think it's a nice thing to to point out and he even starts the introductory adventure

[00:03:22] Which we will be starting tonight another bug hunt and says to review with your players that they don't have any major issues with things like

[00:03:30] Arachnophobia or body horror or violence claustrophobia or mind control so if you're affected by any of these things

[00:03:36] Probably shouldn't be listening or playing

[00:03:39] Suppose I can't say if I'm affected or not by mind control. How would I know? That's fair point really good point

[00:03:45] Fair point you're here aren't you?

[00:03:48] You are affected by my mind control. Are you susceptible to advertisements? No

[00:03:58] By that count book, all right, he's thinking about

[00:04:03] Silent green so susceptible but not affected fair enough

[00:04:08] But yeah, no I think content warnings and in horror games and we do that on the podcast

[00:04:12] I think fairly often a few games it is something to talk about that this is that type of the game

[00:04:17] So you are gonna run into that kind of stuff

[00:04:19] so just making sure your players are okay with it and especially for us as a podcast that our listeners are okay listening to

[00:04:23] It because we got a lot of great content that doesn't involve those things

[00:04:26] So they do a really good job

[00:04:27] I think in the beginning of their book saying hey, you're gonna experience some of this stuff

[00:04:31] Make sure players are cool with it. Uh questions comments or concerns before we get started proceed

[00:04:37] Okay

[00:04:38] It's like that feeling when you you're having a nice dream

[00:04:41] You're comfortable and then like the sunlight starts to crack through the window a little bit and in your bedroom and like it

[00:04:49] You're trying to pull the cover over your head or whatever and go back to sleep. It's that sort of uncomfortable feeling

[00:04:54] There's awareness that the world is going on around you, but you have no desire to interact with it

[00:04:58] Um, you're you're you're comfortable, but you're cold. You're like mind numbingly cold and then

[00:05:06] There is a sort of a hiss

[00:05:10] like a snake a mechanical hiss and then

[00:05:13] you feel your body sort of thrown and you feel yourself as if you've been ejected out of your bed and you begin to

[00:05:20] Choke and cough and sputter you hear people grab you. You're shivering violently

[00:05:26] and your eyes sort of snap open and you can tell that you're you're on the deck of

[00:05:31] Something you can hear the thrum of the warp engines or the engines below you the jump engines

[00:05:37] Everything's blurry, but there are people around you and you can feel

[00:05:40] They're pulling something like out of your throat and off your nose

[00:05:44] And you're just you're shivering uncontrollably not a lot of action you can take you you still you're numb

[00:05:50] You're unable to physically move and you hear someone say something and you feel a pinch in your arm

[00:05:57] And just suddenly it's as if you have a massive adrenaline rush this the smell of the the smell

[00:06:03] I say the smell of sweat the smell of

[00:06:08] Machinery the thrum of the ship everything sort of snaps awake and all of a sudden it's like smelling salts

[00:06:13] You suddenly start to become coherent

[00:06:15] You awaken essentially in what you know from a very nice cryo sleep chamber

[00:06:20] That was not nearly as bad as probably some of the other experiences you've had you could see emblazoned with a nice placard

[00:06:27] Kind of a Spartan sword and shield with the word Ares across of it the name of the company

[00:06:32] You can tell that the name of the ship the metamorphosis and you can see

[00:06:37] There's a display board anytime you sort of wake up from cryo sleep because you sort of need to be grounded

[00:06:42] You don't know if it's urban legend or not

[00:06:44] But they always say that like there's a very small percent chance that you will lose your goddamn mind in cryo sleep

[00:06:48] So it's always like hey right here. This is what you need to know you're on you're on the metamorphosis

[00:06:53] It's two months three months from the last date

[00:06:56] You remember and the stem pack now is starting to work and your gears are starting to turn

[00:07:01] You know that you're a few hours out from SAMSA 6 which is where the company sent you um at which point a

[00:07:09] You see sort of a grizzled

[00:07:13] Two-day shadow widows peak slightly balding

[00:07:17] Ugly looking man sort of pop over and says that they make it out

[00:07:20] All right, and you could tell that their medical teams are around you said yeah, yeah, they're recovery's like all right get them dressed

[00:07:25] briefings in an hour

[00:07:27] Troy would you like to introduce your character who is waking up from cryo sleep? He's called cryo sleep in this game

[00:07:32] Yes, my name is Abner Tang. I am a marine anything else you want to tell us about Abner

[00:07:37] I don't know if you've come up with anything about him specifically I have it our app didn't provide that information

[00:07:43] Giving him the opportunity to to do so if he'd like flush out his fodder correct

[00:07:49] This makes it more interesting if they have some character to them

[00:07:52] Lucas

[00:07:54] I am playing Zeke Anderson also a marine sort of

[00:07:59] Late 30s well built kind of doesn't give a shit about the world, okay

[00:08:04] Alex would you like to introduce your character? I will my character is Mark the Android he is

[00:08:12] Paranoid isn't that just the normal standard for most people in this situation

[00:08:17] Now what's interesting about mark you would not have gone through cop cryo sleep because there's no sense in doing so

[00:08:22] We shut you down turning back on um well that would be the question for the last couple of months

[00:08:29] You would have been on the ship of the metamorphosis

[00:08:32] So you could have done some things interacted with the crew just kind of curious as to what you think mark would have done

[00:08:39] Given that I wouldn't be put to sleep. I would probably be put to work

[00:08:44] so given the type of ship that we're on the metaphor of sis would be

[00:08:49] So the metamorphosis is a J2C one executive transport. This is a nice goddamn ship

[00:08:56] I didn't expect to pull out the ship breakers toolkit

[00:08:59] But I believe that there is a picture of the executive transport in here

[00:09:02] It's an executive transport so it is something that the company is going to send important personnel on

[00:09:07] It's not like what you would consider a ship of the line, but here you go

[00:09:11] I found it you'd like to see sort of descriptions of the executive transport because you had several months

[00:09:16] So now you know the metamorphosis inside and out you can see descriptions

[00:09:20] How many crew there are if any of that is in of interest to you?

[00:09:25] We can get to sort of some background stuff if you like and we can go back in time if there's stuff that you'd

[00:09:30] Like to know specifically one thing that might be important to know is how many crew are actually on it because the idea

[00:09:36] Is is that with space travel in this you're using sort of jump points to travel?

[00:09:41] ridiculously long distances

[00:09:43] But often the crew again you can think of alien or any other number of

[00:09:47] shows the the alien crew or the alien crew the human crew would be put to sleep and the

[00:09:53] Androids or the computer systems would navigate during that time frame

[00:09:57] So you are cutting off a significant amount of time in terms of the journey

[00:10:01] But it says in here in this universe

[00:10:03] Less than 1% of people ever leave their planet and less than 1% of those people who leave their planet ever leave

[00:10:10] Their local star system so you folks are in elite company in that you not only are traveling space great distances

[00:10:17] You're doing it on a frequent basis for a job. It's considered incredibly dangerous and

[00:10:22] incredibly lucrative

[00:10:25] For the two for the two humans you are going to basically be gotten out of cryo sleep clothes

[00:10:31] They're going to warm make sure you warm up probably a shower a meal

[00:10:36] Whatever they can do to try and get you prepped and dressed within an hour

[00:10:41] Anything you want to cover your memories are foggy, but the stim pack helps you recover

[00:10:45] I think if you don't get a stim pack after cryo sleep you roll all your

[00:10:51] All your roles at disadvantage for a week

[00:10:54] So brains a little foggy any questions

[00:10:56] I did see that there were 16 pods and 16 crew members for the ship were on currently

[00:11:03] If all of the humans were in cryo sleep would any of the staff that is currently helping them out be

[00:11:11] Androids as well, or would they be folks who were woken up for the process?

[00:11:15] So they probably wouldn't would work in shifts. It wasn't a massive jump to get here

[00:11:21] so what would probably happen is that probably like half the crew served for like

[00:11:26] Say a month and then they went to cryo sleep and the other half of the crew woke up or whatever the case

[00:11:31] Maybe so there was a all the pods were used for the team that the company is sending

[00:11:37] But not all of them were used by the crew that is operating the ship if that makes sense it does

[00:11:42] Any other questions?

[00:11:44] The three of you are brought in to a conference room

[00:11:47] You are in front of a sort of a vid screen, a small dossier is tossed in front of each of you

[00:11:55] I guess you probably don't actually get a dossier, but maybe it's out there for formal needs

[00:11:59] You begin to flip through the packets and you can kind of remember what you're doing

[00:12:04] The sort of Weasley Widow's Peak grizzled man who smelled of stale cigarettes introduces himself as Moss

[00:12:12] And he is your contact for this particular for this particular job

[00:12:16] He is he and the rest of the crew of the Metamorphosis are here to support you folks because you're going to figure out

[00:12:22] What's going on?

[00:12:24] Welcome to SAMHSA 6

[00:12:26] Gentlemen, in case you've forgotten and he shows you the packet and basically it's a little bit of history of what's going on

[00:12:33] About 10 years ago, Ares detected signs of biochemistry on SAMHSA 6 and sent a team to establish a base and investigate

[00:12:43] Ares, the company is a biochemical and xenobiological company specializing in cutting edge

[00:12:50] pharmaceuticals, exo-archaeology and pharmacology

[00:12:53] So Ares goes around and finds aliens living or otherwise and manipulates them for whatever they need

[00:13:00] So SAMHSA 6 10 years ago seemed like a great place since it had biochemical markers and something to investigate

[00:13:07] About a year ago, a skeleton crew of researchers, engineers and Marines arrived on SAMHSA 6 to establish Greta Base and Heron Terraforming Station

[00:13:18] So not only are they finding signs of biology with the scouts, now they've decided that they're going to terraform and start taking samples and everything else, right?

[00:13:26] They did discover forms of life, including a species of arthropods

[00:13:33] Nine months ago, they began extensive study of the arthropods and six months ago, Greta Base ceased all communications with the company

[00:13:43] So three months ago, the company hired this crew and sent them out on the metamorphosis to figure out what's gone wrong

[00:13:49] Six weeks ago, the company entered the SAMHSA system and as Moss can report, Greta Base was unresponsive to any communication or any hails now that they're in the system

[00:13:59] And now you're just a couple days out. He's given you the briefing reports. You know what's going on. There's no communication from the company specifically yet other than to proceed

[00:14:08] You three, along with some additional personnel, aka other fodder, should you need them, are going to go down to Greta Base and figure out what's going on. Any questions?

[00:14:17] What was the last known communication like what the actual communication was with Greta Base?

[00:14:24] All signs were that the terraforming was going to plan and that the biologists were especially interested in these arthropods, these creatures that they found on the planet

[00:14:37] The company has updated your mission parameters and he points to one of the particular pages

[00:14:43] First thing we want you to do is rendezvous with second lieutenant Kaplan. That's the commander of the colony

[00:14:49] Assess the situation with Kaplan and reestablish satellite communications. We've got to get the terraformer back online

[00:14:56] If that proves impossible to do, you're to evacuate Dr. Edem, who was the mission specialist, as well as the colony's synthetic science officer Hinton

[00:15:05] If you can't bring Hinton back, bring back his logic core. It is considered Michigan critical

[00:15:10] It goes without saying that there are probably

[00:15:14] around two dozen people on this base

[00:15:17] Moss makes it very well known that he cares only about Dr. Edem and Hinton's logic core. Any known hostiles?

[00:15:26] It's a mostly dead jungle planet

[00:15:29] You got a problem with bugs? Doesn't everybody? If they're giant hostile bugs, yeah

[00:15:33] I mean these are these are thoughts to be had when we've lost communication. Yes

[00:15:38] We'll see if it all goes tits up bring back the goddamn logic core

[00:15:43] And for those of us who don't know what a logic core is, uh the android's hard drive

[00:15:46] Okay, gotcha. He could rip it out of his out of his abdomen. That's fair as you do

[00:15:52] Yeah, I didn't know if androids were like are they they have like flesh around them or are they like straight up metallic?

[00:15:58] Like I don't know what the deal is with it in this game. These are cyborgs

[00:16:02] Fair but I mean if you read the

[00:16:06] Yeah, not if not if it's like a synthetic flesh. They're not made of armor. I don't think

[00:16:11] Where is there's the loadouts? Does another ac works the same as human?

[00:16:14] No, but I would take that if my skin counted as armor

[00:16:19] They can't be frightened as badly apparently androids are a terrifying and exciting addition to any crew

[00:16:24] They tend to unnerve other crew members with their cold inhumanity pretty spot on for the person playing it alex is just

[00:16:31] so

[00:16:34] I try

[00:16:36] most of the time

[00:16:38] I don't know that's in the other books all that we can ask

[00:16:41] He tries to pretend to care about people and things. I don't even pretend to care. So you're going up on me

[00:16:47] Yeah

[00:16:47] Um, well, you're just more sociable than I am if I didn't pretend to care then people start thinking i'm not human

[00:16:56] I mean androids are on the androids are

[00:16:59] A part of the a part of the crew because they can do a lot of things and go places where humans can't obviously

[00:17:03] Right. He doesn't breathe he can go underwater. He can survive. He can tolerate radiation in extreme temperatures without any issue

[00:17:10] Um, he can interface directly with machines. So just imagine i'm a person but better

[00:17:17] And also company property which they like

[00:17:21] So bear that in mind

[00:17:23] uh any questions about your situation or

[00:17:27] Things you want to go over with moss

[00:17:29] I don't think so. Okay

[00:17:30] Um, you do know that the company is providing two months of salary for this job as well as one month of hazard pay

[00:17:36] transportation to and from samsa 6

[00:17:38] Everyone also gets a hazard suit an smg with three magazines a first aid kit and a stem pack

[00:17:44] Cool. Um, I can't I came with an smg. So I guess I don't need that

[00:17:48] What's up? That's just the thing I have in a roll two smgs, dude

[00:17:51] I mean I can you can use them one-handed. So maybe i'll take it

[00:17:55] Times two

[00:17:58] Also, you said with how many uh, three magazines three mags and a hazmat suit a hazard suit. Is that the same thing hazmat?

[00:18:07] I know it's not you have to joke at the armor. Can I have the p uh player's guide, please

[00:18:10] It's player survival guide. I think that one has an armor rating of either three or five

[00:18:15] um, I can't I have

[00:18:17] Because I think the hazard suit like hazmat suits are specifically hazardous materials

[00:18:21] I think the hazard suit also includes like extreme temperature and um, I don't know if it provides its own oxygen supply or not

[00:18:28] It's about midway through there. It is those guns. No the one

[00:18:32] After that before that it has the pictures of the people it tells what their armor rating is

[00:18:37] There was also a list somewhere at the very beginning of character creation and uh stem pack

[00:18:42] Yeah one stem pack armor points armor points five just says designed for planetary exploration and examination

[00:18:48] So it does not detail if there is any special or anything the very first page of the book page

[00:18:53] Has the special information that's what I was looking for

[00:18:56] Air filter extreme heat slash cold protection hydration reclamation

[00:19:01] One liter of water lasts four days, uh short range comms headlamp and radiation shielding. Okay

[00:19:07] That's the hazard suit. Is that different than a hazmat suit? We have a hazmat is not listed

[00:19:12] So I assume that is what it is

[00:19:14] I would say I say I came with battle standard battle dress which just has comms, but it is a better ap

[00:19:21] Yeah, because you're wearing bulletproof armor. Yeah

[00:19:25] but if this planet is

[00:19:28] Less habitable than I guess suppose I should wear the other one alone

[00:19:31] No, there's no issue with there's no issue with um, I don't think anyway

[00:19:34] I mean it's it's a it's it's a they're in the middle of terraforming like it's not like you're dropping on the surface

[00:19:40] Of mars or anything. Okay, you are dropping on an earth equivalent. They want to take it for some reason

[00:19:45] I need to swap out i'll take the time to swap out if there's a bad area

[00:19:49] Anything else you want to talk about discuss look into I just want to confirm you said smg hazard suit first aid

[00:19:55] And what stem pack stem pack? Sorry. Go ahead Alex

[00:19:58] Given that I was awake for the three months

[00:20:01] Is there any information I would have either acquired from being with the crew or any?

[00:20:06] Training I would have been able to expand on since I was conscious and working the whole time

[00:20:12] Yeah, um, we could talk about that. Let me see

[00:20:15] I don't know how long training is supposed to be if it's for the very lowest

[00:20:19] It's two, uh, I think it goes up by two years each time after that

[00:20:24] So training is a is a time consuming thing to say the least in this game. That would be a player's book

[00:20:33] Skills skill training so train skills would be two two years plus 10 000 credits and materials

[00:20:39] So even to just train a skill

[00:20:41] So there's something you'd like to work towards that makes sense that you could do

[00:20:45] I would say if at the end of two years you can train on it then absolutely

[00:20:50] Well, I was thinking I given that I was working on the ship some sort of jerry-rigging or what have you since?

[00:20:55] I'd be doing odd jobs in addition to the computer stuff. I'd probably be doing

[00:21:00] You start training towards that I don't know that I would call it trained yet

[00:21:03] But if you want to uh, if you want to put down that you're you've done three months of training

[00:21:08] Basically, I think you just have to accumulate by the end of it two years worth of training and 10 000 credits

[00:21:13] So if you'd like to throw three months of training towards jerry-rigging i'm okay with that

[00:21:17] It was either that or industrial equipment and jerry-rigging seems like it'd be more fun

[00:21:21] Then you could use the big claw thing to fight the aliens. They're the marines. I'll leave it to them

[00:21:26] Yeah, you can how long did I go for the marines and aliens he can bioscan them at least

[00:21:32] I'll just go out into the outside the airlock and let it just die. Best of luck to you

[00:21:38] Um, all right. Uh if there's nothing else, uh, it's time to cram into the drop ship

[00:21:44] Which basically I haven't read a whole lot on the drop ship. I glanced at the ship breakers toolkit dingy

[00:21:50] They sort of they sort of look like diving bells. Yeah

[00:21:53] Um

[00:21:54] They're not exactly um

[00:21:57] Like probably

[00:21:58] Super fun. Oh, no, I guess the drop ship i'm thinking of this. Sorry

[00:22:01] I'm thinking of the there's a thing in here called a coffin lander that does exactly look like a bomb

[00:22:07] It's just a drop for uh planetary drop troopers. That's all

[00:22:11] Yeah, so you're uh, you're coming in flying on a sort of a drop ship like out of halo or something. It's a box

[00:22:18] Um, what's another it is packed with a decent size group. Um

[00:22:23] Because it's it's uh, you three, um a few additional marines

[00:22:28] We'll say that there's at least one scientist and teamster in case you need them

[00:22:31] So it's probably about 10 people plus the pilot the pilot the copilot pilot. So

[00:22:37] Yeah, we'll say you plus five other guys. Yeah, we were supposed to have a forward player so makes sense

[00:22:41] um

[00:22:42] But as you go down, um, obviously crossing from space into atmosphere is pretty rough

[00:22:48] Um, the ship begins to bounce around quite a bit

[00:22:51] Uh, it reeks of um awesomeness. Yeah

[00:22:55] I was gonna say human sweat

[00:22:58] So yes

[00:23:01] Depends on what you want here stuck in a box with about a dozen guys on a high protein diet. Good god

[00:23:07] awesome

[00:23:08] Um is you uh as you descend?

[00:23:12] Um the tremendous you see that there is a sort of some dark swirling clouds

[00:23:17] Um that you hear, uh, the pilot's name is anders. Um, the copilot is renfield that bodes well

[00:23:24] Good let me back up we're done. We're already done. You see them. Uh good movie by the way, um,

[00:23:30] Uh sort of talking back and forth on the headset as you descend through the dark clouds

[00:23:35] And you feel the whole drop ship begin to shake violently

[00:23:39] Um, it begins to pitch and yaw erratically as these guys fight their way through a tropical storm

[00:23:45] It's clear your destination you are going in incredibly hot into hurricane-like conditions

[00:23:51] Um, so first roll the game for everyone. Let's make a fear save

[00:23:55] So in this game, there are four skills

[00:23:57] There are three saves players roll a d100 and attempt to get under their score

[00:24:02] So would anyone like to talk about their fear saves? I thought save no never mind

[00:24:06] I think i'm I think i'm I think i'm confusing that with the panic save the panic saves at d20, isn't it? Correct?

[00:24:12] This is a slightly different game

[00:24:15] Well, since you asked success given that i'm an android I get a slight advantage on fear slight only a plus 60

[00:24:23] What do you got to be afraid of?

[00:24:25] I passed I also passed. Okay

[00:24:27] Uh, so none of you have any um sort of errant panic attacks or anything else

[00:24:33] Um overall everyone is incredibly nervous about dropping. Um, but you're able to sort of maintain a level head

[00:24:40] Um while going down, um anders and renfield, uh

[00:24:45] Anders and renfield are able to land the ship drop ship without any problem

[00:24:51] The

[00:24:51] I'm gonna say the back ramp extends down. Uh, the second that it sort of cracks and that seal breaks

[00:24:57] You feel the wind and the rain?

[00:24:59] The howling storm come beating against you. Um soaking your clothes

[00:25:03] And you can sort of step down into incredibly thick mud and up ahead you can see sort of a

[00:25:10] prefabricated

[00:25:12] Series of sort of connected buildings that form grata base

[00:25:16] It's actually fairly large

[00:25:18] All things considered but it are is sort of a prefabricated habitat like you would expect to see in any number of sci-fi shows

[00:25:25] Do we see any signs of life as we step out of the drop ship?

[00:25:29] No, no people no vehicles like a fleet of vans

[00:25:33] Um, you see a modular. No, you don't a modular prefab base choked by tumorous vines

[00:25:40] Scarred by rain appearing completely deserted as again

[00:25:44] The rain is coming down hard enough that it is difficult to sort of hear hear each other yelling over the wind

[00:25:49] um, and um, sorry i was gonna answer something for

[00:25:53] lucas

[00:25:53] Uh, the the thick mud is like we're talking like ankle to mid calf deep

[00:25:59] You do see some ruts moving straight towards grata base

[00:26:03] Um, it tells me about how far of a walk that it is. It's visible through the rain, but it's uh

[00:26:09] It's a 10 minute walk from the landing zone probably then we trudge

[00:26:13] Um, is there a commanding officer in this group of individuals?

[00:26:18] Uh, you guys can look at each other. I mean who's in charge the company sent you you're the experts

[00:26:22] No, you took you chose two missarenes and an android so nobody I don't punch him in the face. I'm in charge

[00:26:28] All right

[00:26:30] I don't care who's in charge that's asking he was in charge

[00:26:33] So I guess abner if you want to be in charge you're in charge

[00:26:36] Let's check out the module okay, it is quite a trudge through the mud the wind is biting

[00:26:42] Um again, it is a large structure, but you move um towards what would be sort of an airlock a mud room so to speak

[00:26:50] um appropriate

[00:26:52] That would be uh, you can see that grata base. There are no lights on um, no obvious signs of habitation

[00:26:58] I mean, I assume it's ran on a generator if any electricity exists at all. Yeah

[00:27:02] No, they would have they would have utilities and stuff. Yeah

[00:27:05] Well, what is the atmosphere atmosphere like on here in the planet? Like is it similar very similar to earth?

[00:27:12] Yeah, no, I mean they did have a few months of terraforming so it's getting closer

[00:27:16] But there's nothing at least where you're at right now. You're sort of in thick sort of dense jungle-like environments

[00:27:22] Um, but the air is breathable. Um, we'll assume that it sort of has a sort of a stereotypical day night cycle

[00:27:28] It's probably not 24 hours, but it's it's it's nothing unusual

[00:27:31] What time of day would you say it is if it were doing that?

[00:27:34] It would be thematically appropriate if it was a dark and stormy night

[00:27:36] So we'll go with dark and stormy night could be early evening or late night. I'm asking

[00:27:40] Uh, I would say that it is

[00:27:44] Probably not early evening. We'll say that it is what would you call that post meridian?

[00:27:48] Eight hours so the sun went down several hours ago. Okay

[00:27:52] We wouldn't know we're in the middle of a storm. Anyway, I mean as we were flying over

[00:27:56] Did we happen to notice how big this storm is today to expect how long this?

[00:28:02] You uh go for you would expect it to be for a little while. It's not gonna last for forever

[00:28:07] You don't necessarily know that the storm patterns of sansa 6, but it doesn't it wasn't like

[00:28:13] A great red spot that's like swirling over it

[00:28:16] You know

[00:28:16] Yeah

[00:28:16] That's what I was going to say like if we were close enough to the planet before dropping in could we have seen the eye?

[00:28:21] Like to register the how big this thing is. It's not too massive

[00:28:25] You get the sense that it is a tropical area

[00:28:27] So you get the sense that it storms a lot

[00:28:29] But it doesn't look like this is a like a planet-wide thing

[00:28:32] You would assume this goes storm for the next couple of hours. Okay, he also said it was a dead planet

[00:28:36] So clearly it doesn't rain enough. Yeah your version of dead and moss's version of dead may be entirely different things

[00:28:41] Yeah, that could mean many things

[00:28:44] Is it moss like m. O s s is that m a a s m a a s mass?

[00:28:50] That's unfortunate

[00:28:52] Okay, um the nickname to marches of service

[00:28:55] Is

[00:28:57] We were happening to be given like a layout or blueprints of the base

[00:29:02] Um, I don't think that that's um, the terrible thing to ask you wouldn't have had satellite imagery, but you would um

[00:29:09] No, but if we like want to know where the galley is or where the common room, you know, whatever

[00:29:14] They would have a map to this place power. Maybe

[00:29:18] I mean, yes. Yeah surely they were schematics to how this place was

[00:29:22] Set up well, so the thing is is that they would have sent them up with supplies

[00:29:25] So you would know you would kind of know the generic structure

[00:29:28] You may not know exactly how things are laid out because they would have had some options of how they would lay it out

[00:29:33] But there are some general assumptions that you could make that would make sense. It's a compromise

[00:29:38] They came a year ago and stopped communicating

[00:29:40] I mean the prefab house is probably the prefab base probably went together in only so many combinations, but

[00:29:48] Well given this is a horror scenario we could always go with the old standby split up and hope everybody doesn't get eaten

[00:29:55] That's sort of what gretta base looks like obviously it's not an audio podcast. It's a series of squares and circles

[00:30:00] Um a lot of times the squares are going to be the larger common areas make sense, right? So

[00:30:06] um dining halls

[00:30:08] medical bays crew habitats, etc

[00:30:12] Utilities garage that would be the bigger squares the circles are probably going to be like more important rooms

[00:30:18] Sort of like food storage maybe command centers armories, etc

[00:30:23] So like you don't necessarily know exactly where everything is because they could kind of fabricate it a little bit the way they want

[00:30:28] But that's the way that these sort of aries prefab places go

[00:30:33] let's go to

[00:30:36] The where the power would be

[00:30:39] Okay

[00:30:40] Any signage?

[00:30:41] No, no signage and it is it is thunderstorming the path leads

[00:30:46] Uh, if you follow the muddy path the path leads straight to um, yeah, what is our you are here sign? That's what we're looking for

[00:30:53] I assumed we were at the yeah the bottom, right?

[00:30:55] Correct. Yep. You guys are where the x is so you're basically you're basically facing an airlock door

[00:31:01] Okay, is it closed and locked?

[00:31:03] Uh, it is closed. I didn't know if you guys wanted me don't let me touch the door until I say touch

[00:31:07] The door just double check it touch the door. You're dead next character

[00:31:12] All right. Well, you got a scientist, right?

[00:31:15] Roll a new one use that mothership back. Is it is it can I open it or is it locked?

[00:31:19] No, it is it is locked. Uh mark any chance we can hack through this thing. It doesn't have power

[00:31:24] Right. There's something to think about

[00:31:27] um

[00:31:29] Given the equipment we have on hand

[00:31:32] Does anybody have a portable power source? I have a lock pit kit

[00:31:36] But I don't know if it works on this type of door

[00:31:38] Well, we have a whole team of people that aren't us too did any of them bring and we got a blowtorch

[00:31:44] Roll for blowtorch preparedness roll. I have infrared goggles think that'll help in this situation. You can see better

[00:31:50] Um, so yeah, no one of the things that's interesting about mothership is you could sort of pool ideas

[00:31:56] So like you've come up to a locked door

[00:31:58] No power lights are off as far as you can tell right like so you're right

[00:32:02] The door is probably powered

[00:32:03] but I think that like the thought process that you're going through is kind of what mothership is supposed to be and you

[00:32:07] Can kind of start to discover and almost argue for things, right?

[00:32:11] So you have a lock pit set does it work on a door? I don't know

[00:32:14] Let's let's think about whether or not it would and it's not a key if it's not a key lock

[00:32:18] It's not going to work on this door. I don't think and I think it's a fair point

[00:32:21] But you also would encounter these doors, too

[00:32:23] Right

[00:32:24] I think I think you're making an assumption that your lock pick set goes to a traditional

[00:32:29] Lock it's fair versus a lock lock pick set appropriate to the amount of the kind of

[00:32:34] Doors we would be encountering also fair like a key identifier would probably be equivalent to a lock pick

[00:32:40] But again, does it necessitate does it necessitate power? What a lock pick set

[00:32:44] It's a power but or is it or is it a multiple strength role to just pull this fucking thing aside?

[00:32:50] Even powered doors in today's society can be opened if the power is off

[00:32:54] They have like a big wheel on it that we can all roll and spin sure

[00:32:57] And I mean the thing is is that he you have a player in the party who literally is a walking power source

[00:33:03] Would be out of the range of possibility if he is an android that jerry rigs things

[00:33:09] To be working on it supply power and and hack you know what I mean?

[00:33:12] So like there's no okay, there's no right or wrong answer

[00:33:15] It's just it's it's how we want to sort of decide it

[00:33:18] Could he use hacking to give it enough power enough juice to unlock it or to open it

[00:33:23] Yeah

[00:33:23] I think that's the thing is that this is not like this is not like dnd where you have a specific set of skills

[00:33:27] That use things we go. Okay

[00:33:29] What do you have and what can you do?

[00:33:31] Right, you know what I mean?

[00:33:32] And then the idea with the roles is that you kind of you you either succeed or you fail forward, right?

[00:33:36] You're always moving the story

[00:33:38] So if he wants to do that and he fails something bad may happen to him

[00:33:42] He may still open the door

[00:33:43] But maybe he fries his equipment can't do that anymore, you know or whatever the case may be

[00:33:48] Or maybe you wrench the door open using physical force

[00:33:51] But then maybe you aren't able to close it later, which definitely wouldn't ever be important

[00:33:55] um, you know

[00:33:56] So just thinking about things sort of in a more real world sense as opposed to a you know

[00:34:00] I don't know how to lock pick but I bet if I went and got a big old stick out of the jungle

[00:34:05] I could bust a door open, you know what I mean? So however you guys want to approach it

[00:34:09] I think any of those are fine options and we'll just see where the story goes as you make those choices

[00:34:14] Well, you did also mention that this facility had been overgrown and worn down over time

[00:34:20] Did we see any openings that the jungle had cracked up?

[00:34:24] I would say that it's it's what was the word I used or is it still relatively sealed?

[00:34:29] It is it is covered the the I guess what I should say is it is covered by the overgrowth

[00:34:34] But it's not damaged as far as you can tell does that make sense basically sealed up? Yeah

[00:34:38] Yeah, no sound it was put up about a year ago and it's designed to you know, be in harsh environments

[00:34:44] So, you know the the company would land and put these up on

[00:34:48] You know planets that are basically molten lava or underwater planets or they're very utilitarian

[00:34:53] So while the jungle is trying to take it over

[00:34:56] It's going to take something on the order of decades to be able to actually get in unless somebody lets it in

[00:35:01] Which is why it's got airlocks. Gotcha

[00:35:04] Oh

[00:35:06] Do we have another android so I don't end up frying myself

[00:35:10] sure

[00:35:11] I'm not above sacrificing others. There's enough people with us just erase the stats and re-roll them

[00:35:17] I'm an android. I'm not above sacrificing random people

[00:35:21] No, I think um, oh, yeah, I mean it's an interesting point

[00:35:23] Maybe hacking maybe there is a degree of hacking that gives the door enough juice to open

[00:35:28] But it would say it does say as you investigate it

[00:35:31] The airlock door that is locked rust creeps over the large metal door which bars entry to the main building

[00:35:36] It is an exterior door that is locked and requires a key card. So, okay, so either way it's power plus key card

[00:35:44] Well, there's also the fact that most airlocks are also mechanical in nature

[00:35:49] So if we say get in around the edges

[00:35:52] Is there a way we can just pry it open or unscrew it?

[00:35:55] Whatever you guys want to do whatever you'd like to try now

[00:35:57] So because i'd rather not break the door if we can just unscrew the hinges around the door and just pull it off

[00:36:05] You could probably do that. It's gonna take a lot of time to do that. It's a decent size door

[00:36:09] We're in no rush. Okay, she's gonna be wet and cold. We're inside already there

[00:36:14] Not yet. You gotta get the door open first. Yeah. Well, i'm also an android. I don't care

[00:36:18] Now that is accurate

[00:36:20] I can oil can not that kind of robot

[00:36:26] Would we know that this type of door has some sort of safety lock or

[00:36:32] Like if the power goes out it's got it locks itself. So like it can't be forced open in any way or something like that

[00:36:39] Uh, no

[00:36:40] No, you you you would know that these doors can be forced and that if you apply some power you could absolutely

[00:36:46] You know jimmy it open just a question of what you want how you want to approach it

[00:36:50] I'm having a lot of trouble with just one door

[00:36:52] This is going to turn wild

[00:36:54] I like it

[00:36:55] Like I said if you want to do it like I said you want to hook yourself up to it and hook yourself up

[00:36:58] To it you want to try and lockpick it we'll go with lockpicking it just depends on what you want to do

[00:37:01] And I think either yeah trying to hack it or lockpick it is a better choice than

[00:37:06] Unscrewing it because that you know, it's gonna take forever. That's fair

[00:37:08] Uh, all right, if I wanted the lockpick it what am I rolling with my lockpick kit?

[00:37:12] Um traditional games, it's a dexterity thing but yeah

[00:37:15] No, and the other thing is is it also comes down to whether or not

[00:37:18] You know a roll is even warranted that's also true. So you have a lockpicking set

[00:37:23] But do you do you have any skills that you think would apply because last time I checked you would

[00:37:28] No, because this game only gives you three fucking skills

[00:37:31] You can also roll on skills

[00:37:32] You just don't you just have to use your base stats instead of the additional trained skill stat that you would add on top

[00:37:38] Of it jerry riggin. Yeah

[00:37:40] No

[00:37:41] I mean if you wanted to attempt to jerry rig with a lockpick to see what you can do

[00:37:46] I think that that was that's fair. I would call that probably an intellect roll. Okay

[00:37:52] No, okay, so you add one stress for a failed roll. It was not a critical failure correct, correct

[00:37:59] Your minimum stress is two so now your stress goes up to three and so stress in this game is just sort of like

[00:38:06] uh

[00:38:07] Pending doom it is the the difficulty of the situation whatever

[00:38:12] Zeke is fumble fucking with various equipment and it's raining and people are grumbling and

[00:38:19] It seems awkward and why aren't they here to meet us and any number if we know the schematics of this place

[00:38:24] Do we know if there's another entryway you would presume that there are other entryways? Yes

[00:38:28] I mean, it would make sense. You assume that there is probably

[00:38:33] A garage or something else like there's probably a utility space

[00:38:37] Um, there wouldn't be a lot of entrances though because again, it's it's it's designed to be sort of a sterile environment

[00:38:42] Doesn't mean it is but it's designed to be that way

[00:38:44] So it does seal up another attempt other things you want to do you want to try hacking it?

[00:38:53] No, that can work

[00:38:55] So since the hazard suit has lights, can I just take the battery out of that and use that as a power source?

[00:39:01] Sure. Yeah

[00:39:02] Okay, I will attempt to

[00:39:05] Do that and try and hack the console would that be two separate rules then no

[00:39:10] I don't I I mean

[00:39:11] I think taking a battery out and trying to use it in this method is something that you probably are familiar enough with

[00:39:16] That it doesn't necessarily require a roll. Then I will attempt to hack the door. I think that's fair

[00:39:25] You get a plus to that rule because it's expert, right? I do

[00:39:28] So let me just let me do a quick calculation. Oh, I definitely got that

[00:39:32] Oh, I figured you probably would because i'm sure that you're rolling what your intellect is super high 47

[00:39:38] And you are plus 15 an expert in so yeah

[00:39:41] No, you're rolling on like a 63 or something like that. So, okay, we're good. We got it

[00:39:46] We're good people. We're good

[00:39:49] mark steps up after disassembling this whole time that lucas is like

[00:39:53] Stripping wires and getting frustrated and cursing to himself

[00:39:57] The android comes up with a battery and kind of like licks a finger and shoves it in the socket in the door you hear

[00:40:04] And then you can kind of sort of like a a fallout door

[00:40:07] You can kind of roll it to the side and it goes into a recess if I had a tongue

[00:40:11] I'd stick it out at you now

[00:40:13] Fair cool. And we go let's go inside. Okay, you step inside the airlock. Uh, you see muddy floors and

[00:40:20] Storage lockers lining the walls clearly the idea is that probably people would come in and drop their shit as everyone

[00:40:26] Makes it inside. Let's close the door behind us. Sure. Do you want to lock it? Yes

[00:40:31] Okay, easy enough to do you can just repeat the process

[00:40:34] done

[00:40:36] Uh while he's doing that anything else anybody else wants to do turn on a flashlight so I can see we have

[00:40:42] Flashlights on on the yes headlamp sure

[00:40:46] Uh, do we see anything immediately in this corridor? Uh set of storage lockers

[00:40:51] open closed, uh

[00:40:53] Some of them open um empty some of them closed

[00:40:56] Um you as you kind of poke around and take a look at them. You see a hazard suit

[00:41:02] You see two pulse rifle magazines, okay, and you see a rosary. Okay. Do you want those?

[00:41:08] Troy's eyes lit up when I said pulse rifle magazines

[00:41:11] Um, you also see your gun of choice

[00:41:13] Yes, you also see a few of the lockers have deep indentations in their doors like

[00:41:17] Somebody punched it or they took a large impact. So then broken into just opened

[00:41:22] You also see one that appears to have a giant for lack of a better word claw mark through the steel. That looks good

[00:41:30] Like uh

[00:41:31] Like like three claw marks, but not like a not like a wolverine like three tight claw marks

[00:41:38] it's like three

[00:41:40] very wide like to call it a claw mark it reminds you of a claw mark, but it's

[00:41:45] It's it's quite big

[00:41:47] If the claws are attached to a single thing

[00:41:49] Then the the points of the appendages have to be inches is probably not the measurement to describe the distance between them

[00:41:56] Is there any kind of like fur or anything stuck to the metal of the storage?

[00:42:01] Not as far as you can tell

[00:42:03] So kind of like the equivalent of if there were the claws on the edge of a wept foot from a frog or what?

[00:42:08] Have you how those are so wide right exactly like whatever it is is it is it is it is spread

[00:42:14] Like the audience can't see it

[00:42:15] but i'm using like my my pinky my thumb and my index finger and and you know

[00:42:20] Spreading my hand out as far as I can if it is a claw and it's attached to a single thing

[00:42:24] It's big. Are we seeing any other signs of

[00:42:27] Blood or damage to areas just this section has claw marks, correct?

[00:42:33] And if you think about it that you are now inside the airlock

[00:42:36] So there is another sealed door directly in front of you that is part of the other side of the airlock

[00:42:40] Hmm was this on a on a locker you said yeah, what's in that locker? Uh, I gave you everything that was in all the lockers

[00:42:47] So you got the magazines but no rifle to go with them. I got a rifle. I got a rifle

[00:42:52] Lucky, this is my rifle. This is my gun

[00:42:57] Yeah, so they're on the locker not on the wall

[00:42:59] So it's not something that's scraped the outside of the airlock. No. Yeah, it's um

[00:43:05] You think about when something like knives its way through metal

[00:43:08] You know what I mean and you get that visual tear

[00:43:11] I don't know if you've ever seen like somebody do that with like a forklift or something

[00:43:14] Like it goes into the side of like sheet metal or something. That's that's kind of that that very visual tearing look

[00:43:21] Yeah, so it could have been it

[00:43:23] Claw is what you think of but it's not necessarily a claw could have been some

[00:43:30] Got it, so okay secondary lock. Yeah, that's not a bad idea either a claw machine and being very very wide. Yeah

[00:43:36] I

[00:43:38] Guess i'll need to get through this other door, too

[00:43:40] I will say at this point that you've got through a door

[00:43:43] I feel like you've you've jerry-rigged your tool. You can open the next door. I got the system down doors open

[00:43:51] Okay

[00:43:52] As the door opens

[00:43:54] You see a ransacked a ransacked mess hall and rec room

[00:44:00] Uh, there appear to be some flickering lights in here

[00:44:03] It's not constant and the instant smell of of damp, you know damp stuff sounds smells musky

[00:44:10] Like you get that instant smell of wet musk

[00:44:13] And blood and awful. Um, there's a nice banner. Um hanging on the far wall says happy birthday olson

[00:44:20] Um rain is clearly dripping in from somewhere from some somewhere in the ceiling because there are puddles of water

[00:44:26] Um, there are empty cups dishware broken glass

[00:44:30] Um bullet casings blood splatter bullet holes, um large claw-like gouges in the furniture

[00:44:36] Um, you see a uh, a makeshift barricade

[00:44:40] Um off to the left. There's sort of a corridor. It looks like some some some stuff has been piled

[00:44:45] There is a makeshift barricade

[00:44:46] Um in a uh an upturned table, uh with what probably was once a nice cake

[00:44:52] Now very gross and rotten uh splattered on the floor. Um, and there's a there's a small like

[00:44:57] Uh kitchenette in the back corner and uh sort of laying there very presentational very horror film-esque with the flickering lights and everything else

[00:45:04] Is um severed head. I feel like fear saves are probably appropriate at this point

[00:45:11] I deal with severed heads all the time

[00:45:16] Just barely succeeded though I did not did you critically fail I did not okay, uh failed save means that you

[00:45:23] Uh, you take a stress and I think that's yeah, I don't remember how this game works

[00:45:28] I think you have to reach a certain level of stress before you take like a condition. Don't you?

[00:45:33] Uh, yeah, you you you gain one or you crit fail when you crit fail it also gets bad

[00:45:37] It's a question whether or not you need a panic

[00:45:40] Panic check which I don't think this qualifies as a panic check. That's for something serious someone dies

[00:45:45] Um a lot of people fail their roles

[00:45:46] So you suddenly see this this horror scene play out in front of you

[00:45:50] The smell of the blood and the the the roar or you know

[00:45:54] Sort of the the rain water and the rotten food and everything else just sort of washes over you and and troy

[00:45:59] Abner sort of sort of jolts a little bit and adds to his stress

[00:46:04] What would you like to do?

[00:46:05] um

[00:46:06] Explore the vault

[00:46:09] It's kind of what it feels like you're right

[00:46:13] Hmm. I was making a reference to a vault given the description. Yeah, let's go

[00:46:19] To

[00:46:21] Right to this egg shaped room as you head towards that you can see a small it's it's a small kitchenette

[00:46:27] Um, and then so like it leads back

[00:46:30] And and around so basically right? I don't know what lucas did

[00:46:34] Yeah, so where this barricade is here

[00:46:36] This is a kitchenette with like space behind it that you presume leads back to like storage pantry freezer storage

[00:46:41] Okay

[00:46:42] So if you head that way that's that's what you would expect

[00:46:44] You could still head that way if you want

[00:46:45] Just wanted to let you know that I kind of drew it as a wide passage and it's probably not quite that wide if

[00:46:49] I do have I do have one question. Yep

[00:46:51] Um at a glance can we determine how long that head's been there?

[00:46:55] Uh, do you have any applicable skills?

[00:46:58] No fair enough now the scientist I made well you didn't bring one does because he's got field medicine

[00:47:03] Well, well, we got one with us in our group. Yeah, you can ask because if this guy dies

[00:47:07] That's who that's who I play

[00:47:09] You could ask him or her don't be sexist or they fair enough

[00:47:14] I ask them if they can determine the uh, I don't know length of time this head's been here. Uh

[00:47:20] uh

[00:47:21] Not recent the state of decomposition. I believe is what you're looking for. That's the terminology

[00:47:26] I probably should have used but i'm not a medical professional. You would i'm a marine

[00:47:31] Urah

[00:47:32] Super fi and all that shit. Yep, you're a company marine though. So aries probably has its own special aries fi

[00:47:37] I don't know aries fi

[00:47:40] I don't know what fi means so aries forever

[00:47:42] Fi doesn't mean anything. It's semper fidelis. It's lat anyway, sure whatever aries fi

[00:47:52] Damn you lucas no military training either

[00:47:55] No, the doctor in the group could I did my six years?

[00:47:59] You're probably talking several months gotcha

[00:48:03] No insects in this room. Uh, not that you see

[00:48:06] Interesting you are seeing more of those large definitely like not claw like gouges. No, not furniture and tables got that

[00:48:13] Well, what's what's in this pantry? Uh, okay. Um

[00:48:19] As you go into what is actually a pantry area you can see that it's um

[00:48:24] That room is kind of divided into two sections. The first section is very much a pantry with

[00:48:30] shelves, um foods

[00:48:33] What do we say cooking utensils and other things right and then there's very much like a chest freezer locker in the back of that room

[00:48:40] Um, but the shelves in the pantry are completely bare

[00:48:43] um

[00:48:44] Their contents are completely removed and divided into large piles of mres on the floor

[00:48:51] In the core in the far corner lies a lies the slumped over body of a marine dog tags still intact

[00:48:57] Yeah, check them. Uh second lieutenant land

[00:49:01] No, it's the the head honcho right? No, you were looking for kaplan kaplan. Oh i've got to write that name down

[00:49:08] um

[00:49:08] But it was second lieutenant. Yeah lucas is you um as you come over and um go to like pull those dog tags

[00:49:16] There are

[00:49:18] The the corpse is fairly emaciated. Um, that makes sense if it's been months

[00:49:22] And it uh, there are strange sort of best you could describe them as like paper cuts paper cuts

[00:49:30] Yeah on on the flesh like if you think about it, it's tropical, right?

[00:49:34] So he's probably wearing like I think of like standard marine fatigues, right?

[00:49:37] so he's wearing like, I don't know camouflage pants boots belt, right, but he's probably wearing like a

[00:49:44] Beige white beater or t-shirt or something like that and you can see like up and down his arms

[00:49:51] On his neck even on his face. It just looks like little itty bitty like almost impossible to see paper cuts on the skin

[00:49:57] Hmm, but no blood not even around him anywhere

[00:50:01] He doesn't have a wound like a cut like we could notice like a major wound of any kind that we can see

[00:50:06] I will then ask the unknown doctor friend to take a look at the body and see if they can determine what the hell

[00:50:12] These things are uh, it's like his flesh is uh, I don't know separating. That is odd

[00:50:19] He said there was a chest freezer in the back. Yeah, it's one of those like walk-in

[00:50:23] Oh, there's a body in there. Yeah, dude. I want to look inside. I want to open the door. Um, it is locked heck it

[00:50:30] This is way this is probably way less of a uh, it's probably more of a more of a strength

[00:50:35] More of a strong thing. How is it locked? Is it like a bad lock or is it just stuck?

[00:50:41] um

[00:50:42] Can you just yeah, can you just hammer on it until it breaks open?

[00:50:44] That's everything I would say that it is probably

[00:50:49] Or do I just look at the top and there's this little lock where I can just pull it down

[00:50:53] Is there a meat mallet and a uh, but no it doesn't it doesn't make a lot of sense for it

[00:50:58] It locks from the inside. You son of a bitch

[00:51:01] Say it doesn't make a lot of sense for it to be locked

[00:51:05] Like looking at it mechanically it it shouldn't lock like why would it lock you said you had an infrared scope?

[00:51:11] Yeah, you have a bioscanner. I do I before I try and force this

[00:51:16] I use my bioscanner to see if I pick up anything inside that is currently alive

[00:51:22] Uh, do we have any does it have a description?

[00:51:24] Yeah, you might have to look at the equipment page on that. You're the one who looked it up

[00:51:28] Um, no, I didn't look it up. I just it was part of the loadout. It is wrote down

[00:51:31] I have no idea how this thing works

[00:51:34] Improv make it just make it make sense. No, no, no

[00:51:37] That's a I like to imagine that he pulls it out of a case very delicately picks it up and mark goes

[00:51:42] I have no idea allows the user to scan for signs of life can tell the location of signs of life

[00:51:48] But not what the life is blocked by some materials at the warden's discretion

[00:51:53] Does it give a distance long? I don't know. I don't know what long is long is

[00:51:59] Long range 100 meters is 50 to 300 feet that's decent

[00:52:04] I would say it is there is a lot of metal in everything

[00:52:06] So like you could theoretically scan the whole base if everything wasn't encased in metal

[00:52:10] But you can scan rooms relatively easily so I can scan this after I open the door is what you're telling

[00:52:15] Oh, yeah, 100 which defeats the purpose of scaring the door. It's just a chest freezer

[00:52:19] You should be able to get through that. I'm not wanting to I would like to see what's inside without the thing

[00:52:24] That's what i'm saying coming out to eat me like that

[00:52:27] Won't be as thick of metal as the rest of this base like you should be able to scan through it a freezer

[00:52:32] Ask this guy more thick than the rest of the mass. I would think

[00:52:35] I'm just gonna stay cold. It's up to that guy and he says no

[00:52:38] Fuck that guy the infrared zarg and would that be able to see through the metal you think I would say there's probably a window

[00:52:43] In the freezer. Yeah, maybe if there's a window

[00:52:48] Look in the window

[00:52:49] Is it still frozen inside?

[00:52:51] There's no power

[00:52:52] It is still it is still incredibly cold inside if it's vacuum sealed that could last a while

[00:52:57] If it's if we if they haven't had power for what we're assuming is months that shouldn't be frozen anymore

[00:53:01] I mean, we don't necessarily know that timeline, but yes, it's a safe assumption to think it's thawing

[00:53:08] Months and that yeah, yeah

[00:53:10] Do I see anything in the window? Uh, you do not break the window. Uh, like knock on it

[00:53:17] Like not like like a pound on it. Okay, anyone home bang bang bang does it seem to disturb anything?

[00:53:22] Uh, no you hear knock knock knock from the other side. That's what I was worried about

[00:53:28] Do I do I really no

[00:53:30] I just I like I really wanted that to be yeah, there's an episode of doctor shape and a haircut

[00:53:37] Yeah, is it midnight train or something that does that?

[00:53:40] Yeah, I think it's midnight train. That's a great, uh, doctor who episode if I don't know how many people to be tv

[00:53:45] Has like the original season season one through like six I think or series one through six

[00:53:51] But no there is a the black and whites they're on a they're on a train on a

[00:53:56] They're going to some destination but they're going across a planet where it's impossible for anything to be outside like and and

[00:54:02] Like they hear movement and he does that that that that on the door and then outside the door you hear bang bang

[00:54:08] It's like, oh, it's so good

[00:54:10] So good, but no you don't hear anything. Uh put on my infrared goggles. Do I see any heat signatures?

[00:54:16] Uh, no, I mean obviously you're not gonna be able to see cold corners of the room

[00:54:20] But no as you kind of glance through

[00:54:22] um

[00:54:23] Everything is everything looks the same in this room specifically besides him and maybe the doctor that's with us

[00:54:29] No, nothing else nothing nothing in the pantry or what you can see of the freezer

[00:54:33] Shows anything that would be unusual everything is at the expected temperature

[00:54:39] Just break the one cut a shadow of the window on the freezer. Okay, just to see what's inside

[00:54:43] Um, there is a back of the smg and then immediately point down sure

[00:54:47] Uh, he hits the window

[00:54:49] um

[00:54:50] Which he's using he's using a he's using a heavy butt of a gun

[00:54:55] So I imagine that he can it is it was was pressure sealed it no longer is so when he hits that there's a big

[00:55:02] There's a big hiss of escaping gas and you are hit in the face with incredibly cold like frostbite level

[00:55:10] um

[00:55:10] Icicles forming on his nose. Yeah

[00:55:12] No, like you can't I know you wanted to smash it and look cool and point the gun in but like

[00:55:17] The wave of like cold air like forces you back because you know that freon like we're talking

[00:55:23] Arctic temperatures just came rushing out of there. I hope you have the helmet of your hazard suit on still sure do

[00:55:30] Um, yeah, no, it's incredibly cold that's bizarre that should not be a thing makes zero sense

[00:55:38] Is there anything at all inside this other than broken glass? Uh

[00:55:42] Still kind of hard to see um, once you break the glass

[00:55:46] The temperature normalizes a little bit but it's still like if you put your face up to it

[00:55:49] It's incredibly like sure if you do feel frostbitten a little bit you see um

[00:55:55] You can kind of make out in the corner now that you can get your flashlight in and everything's not frozen

[00:55:59] It appears there appears to be a form in like the back right corner

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