Mothership - Another Bug Hunt 03

[00:00:00] Warning this podcast contains mature content including scenes or descriptions of graphic violence sexuality and psychological trauma Listener discretion is advised The Rancors Brothel presents Mothership a sci-fi horror RPG by Tuesday Night Games

[00:00:43] All right, we will Android they don't get tired no we don't slowly move our way to the north okay meet shields first Hello senior crab Housekeeping so we're now you want me for a pillow as you move forward you can see

[00:01:10] This door is a little different. It's not an airlock door per se well No, it hold on it might be an airlock door sliding door interior door, so it's probably not airlocked well Not true it it doesn't specify, but I'm going to say that this is probably more

[00:01:25] It's not it's not quite an airlock door, but it is more like the freezer Like a hermetically sealed door, and there's no sign saying what this room is everybody knows what it is

[00:01:34] Do you mark where your bathroom is in your own house? I might right, but this isn't a house I know it's a facility. It's a facility that these restrooms this way here all built and didn't plan on

[00:01:44] But by the way not one fucking bathroom in this place first return boys people pissing I don't know who fucking made this map. There's an outhouse moving on Option I mean to me that's I I Little weird right we have two rooms left. No barracks no bathroom

[00:01:59] We've not seen barracks which I'm a barracks is probably this big room Maybe but then why the no sound or columns off could be a nest that we don't know whether or not that Signs says Turner comes off or no comms available inside this room exactly yeah

[00:02:15] Alright innocuous Lucas there is a difference between innocuous and ambiguous We're gonna do we see Any kind of like handle no it's just it's it's definitely like a it's definitely a tighter seal the difference between

[00:02:31] A door to your bathroom and a door to the outside right one has a sweep and and sort of seal shut It's more like that you do you do see a handle on it is a door that you can open I

[00:02:40] Say like have you like sort of like you know open this way as we like have our guns trained It's open slowly. I do that okay the door Yeah creeks open you're hit with an overwhelming smell of

[00:02:55] Oil and gasoline as you realize you opened a door to a garage Is there an Android banging on the door standing there? Oh, I haven't finished my description yet a sentient one side

[00:03:08] On one side and so you again you're seeing like a sheet metal exterior building right so it's it's not insulated It's slightly build a little bit different on the other side

[00:03:17] You can see a couple of like roll up garage doors right and in front of one of those roll up garage doors is an APC so you're seeing a warthog for lack of a better term right and then you also

[00:03:28] See like in the other bay where an APC would be a gigantic hole like a hole That's like I don't know ten twelve feet wide And maybe or ten twelve feet long and maybe four or five feet wide and maybe two or three feet deep

[00:03:44] It's a short trench. Yeah trenches a trench is a good way to call it. It's it's filling with water You know rains kind of pouring in from around the garage door or whatever, you know like it does and you can see a Marine

[00:03:59] With his back to you and he's you can see his hands in the muck. He's just expanding the hole one hand at a time And you realize that the the thumping is kind of like every once in a while

[00:04:10] He like hits something a little harder or as he pulls He's kind of flipping the dirt to expand it and maybe the dirt hits a bit of metal on the door or something

[00:04:18] That's what the noise was that you're hearing but you can see that this this marine is just working on his hole back to you Marine identify yourself. That's what I would call out. Yeah, I mean it's interesting marine What are you doing? The continues to dig

[00:04:39] You do see Let me see here A few other things that I feel like is you're sort of surveying the room The marine is in full gear. He is wearing He's wearing a belt of frag grenades his clothes are very nastily torn up

[00:04:57] You see that there is a fallen power line from the ceiling dangling nearby. You could see that there is a tool bench You could see a generator and you can see six barrels of fuel. This room is a very explosive Close the door

[00:05:14] There's a generator here in this room. Yes in the garage Is it the generator is the question a generator? I mean we only have one other room that we haven't explored and we have not seen barracks

[00:05:25] We've told there were barracks here though. We had it has to be the southwest room then That's probably the generator then yeah, you're probably right unless it's an outside generator, but where would that where would I don't know?

[00:05:36] Game logic also not seen any other doors that go outside Who would have thought that eight to ten pages of this book would cause you so much stress, huh? Yeah, like have you played a game with any of us? We are tedious

[00:05:52] So I'm gonna like reach out with my rifle and like give him a couple pokes poke him okay. Hey Well, he didn't respond audibly so so again you kind of hook him with a stick

[00:06:02] I kind of imagine it there like there might not be up almost like a platform or something like but maybe you You open the door and then maybe you take a couple steps down And so you kind of like squish into like the dirt in the muck

[00:06:13] And as you approach, you know marine marine I'm gonna call it You know call it fear saves for I'll let you know Extreme well credit on a cream critical pass. The critical pass is a good thing. Oh nine Wow

[00:06:30] It's also real good. Oh good man. You lucky shits I'm gonna assume that a few other people are probably with you in your party Helping you search they've been sort of innocuous and not spoken about but I'm assuming that there are a few more

[00:06:44] But anyway is you guys approach and I will show you the picture this later because it's great Troy gets close and he gets about seven eight feet away and it looks like it looks like the marine

[00:06:57] starts to tip his head back like he's going to like do a backbend almost to look at you sort of like Scary horror movie type thing but like you all head style kind of no this okay

[00:07:12] But you know like the vertebrae of the neck bend in a certain way And there's a point where you realize that the vertebrae aren't connected the way They're supposed to to function with the spinal cord and his head just keeps lolling as you see

[00:07:27] These massive goddamn pincer crab leg tentacles Come shooting out of his throat and reaching back around the back of his body at Troy There aren't really initiatives per se that's fair, but we are sort of getting into combat

[00:07:49] Check I would like to do what you could do a speed check Yeah, I've I kind of want to think about how I want to to proceed

[00:07:57] I also really want to sort of like take a picture of the visual of what you're seeing because this is one of the Coolest like there's a lot of cool images in these books, but new combat was eventual just wasn't sure which one Body snatchers yeah

[00:08:13] Or really tight suits depending on how big this thing is glad we did not go into the med bay So Sending it to the chat now I love that Flynn's getting all these even though he has no idea what the fuck is going on

[00:08:26] So there's that for you. This is what you're missing buddy Enjoy that goddamn nightmare fuel and feel free to describe to the audience anything that you see oh Jesus That is Way bigger than I was expecting well in order for it to make a scrape across lockers those

[00:08:43] Mandibles are pretty fucking big no yeah But I mean coming out of a body like I was not expecting yeah, no that's that's why the insides hollowed out There's got to be a space for all that stuff

[00:08:54] It still looks like some some TARDIS magic. Oh, yeah, we really want necromorph here Yeah, no definitely a hundred percent necromorph inspired I do like the fact that the secondary arm so almost like jaws with the serrated teeth on their pincers

[00:09:11] Well, we've got some appendages which have the three claw like things We've got some that have the like chompers, and then we've got just like sort of normal looking crab esque legs

[00:09:23] How many how many appendages does a crab actually have you know he doesn't have like nine or ten like it's got a lot It's got some scuttling legs and some pincer lay or six legs in

[00:09:33] Pincers and maybe some like mouth things so I mean like all this coming out of his neck uncomfortable One of those grenades I bear in mind you're ten feet away I can step back Okay, let's see what's the explosive power of a grenade not much

[00:09:54] I can hit by two or three grenades a week easy depends on the grenade You are a military guy so if you'd like to know that the exact damage of a grenade I feel like you would probably know that yeah Military training firearms page equipment page

[00:10:12] Gotta be in here somewhere, right? rager need 3d10 What's the range close are you within that near ten feet away on a hit damages all? adjacent to enemy Adjacent is when you're touching close is 15 to 30 feet. You're definitely within close range

[00:10:32] So Lucas is coming back Lucas. I did send you the picture so it's a something So turn order in what the book describes as violent encounters during a violent confrontation time is split into roughly ten second intervals called rounds

[00:10:46] Everything within around happens basically the same time the warden who is me Describes a situation and what is likely to happen if no response then play around the table and each player describes how they react As usual feel free to ask questions

[00:10:59] The warden will answer and explain the likely consequences of failure Well, once you understand the stakes and what you want to do you commit to a course of action either individually or as a group Once this is done

[00:11:08] He resolved the warden resolves everyone's actions at once assigning any necessary stat checks or saves than everyone who has two roles You continue each round until resolved So essentially unlike doing like a strict turn order thing you guys can kind of decide what you want to do

[00:11:22] You can't take more than like an action and a movement and around like most games, you know um, and we get into the specifics if need be um, but basically I would describe what's going to happen most likely

[00:11:35] This thing is approaching with malicious intent you imagine with its massive pincers arms It is going to try and fuck troy shit up. That is what is likely to happen Bummer, dude

[00:11:45] So you guys can kind of decide what you want to do from there get to get naked There are ranges in this game That are important, uh, the four basic range bands are adjacent close long and extreme adjacent is

[00:12:00] Basically less than one meter or three feet close is five to ten meters 15 to 30 feet You're all within close range of this thing. Um, troy is not adjacent. He's close range, but he's very short on the close range

[00:12:13] There's no penalty for firing within a specific range, right? Uh, some weapons. Yes, is there yeah you have There's a smg I believe is some kind of rifle like you had penalties at close shotgun is

[00:12:27] Shotgun is shotgun is supposed to be either close or adjacent smg's long. So yeah long range is Roughly 50 to 300 feet and then extreme range is more than 300 sure So it's a disadvantaged role then is that okay? Uh, I think it depends on their range

[00:12:44] But yes, yeah just as negative what that means negative means disadvantage. Yeah Generally when you see a minus or a plus in mothership, it just means you are rolling at disadvantage or advantage

[00:12:56] I guess troy's in front of everybody. So what do you want to so if this thing if if this if the weapon says it has five Shots, does that just mean five bullets per magazine? Well, I mean it does also say magazine size

[00:13:09] So I didn't know if but I didn't it doesn't mean I get five shots in a round I'm assuming I don't think so that is a little confusing actually because I get I get calling out the magazine size

[00:13:19] But then what what does shots mean like it? Yeah smg does say three mags five shots They all do how many how many bullets are in a mag? I don't know usually well All of these all of these weapons the mag and strats eyes are identical

[00:13:32] But no smg's. Well, how many is my mag does it say five five and a mess? Yeah, okay I would say you have five shots before you have to reload them

[00:13:41] You have five rolls before you reload so it's probably burst fire unless there are rules for automatic which might change things I didn't see that when I glanced in the book. I didn't either Try to remember otherwise i'll just make a call and we'll go from there

[00:13:55] If I need to go back and change it We will how much damage does it does a shot do how much damage does it do when you hit based on the gun? Shotgun does 40 10 smg's 2d 10 interesting. Yeah, it depends on the weapon. Yeah, he's got a scalpel

[00:14:11] So it's like 1d 5 I Don't know if that's a throwing weapon or not bud We were also all given smg's at the beginning of this thing. Oh, that is fair that you did get an smg

[00:14:26] Yeah, you're right. You're not wrong. Yeah, I was just laughing a little bit to myself since you completely forgot I forgot you got that. Yeah, because when I made the character you got it you got a scalpel and I was like that's useless I

[00:14:40] Don't disagree with you on that as a weapon a scalpel is not the best open a door and guys they're You know, I think that's probably accurate just looking at it

[00:14:50] So I would say you roll to hit and your shots number is how many times you can roll before you have to reload Yeah So a submachine gun probably isn't actually a single shot that 2d 10 is probably a burst but there aren't rules for burst or anything

[00:15:02] So if you're attacking with a submachine gun you're rolling 2d 10 damage And after you do that five times you have to take time to reload I would say that's probably a fair way to do it um, and then you would roll, uh What is it?

[00:15:15] You would roll combat and obviously if you have military training or whatever else you could add additional So some of these say critical gunshot, but then some say critical gunshot or this is like frag like fragonase

[00:15:26] Critical fire explosives, but what are the rules on an actual critical like hit so critical? This is this is uh, like delta green rules, so Uh one's place in ten's place match. That's a critical hit

[00:15:40] Uh, I I believe it does an extra it either does extra damage or extra effect I'd have to look it up if somebody hits one. Okay, see if I can remember what it was

[00:15:49] So like I said you guys can discuss what you want to do figure it out crab man marine is coming after you I don't it's your shoot. I mean you're in front of us. So it's reaching for you

[00:16:00] I mean, I do kind of want to shoot at it But all but at the same time be moving back towards the door you can do both Yeah, there are it's very rules light. So just basically say what you're doing shoot the thing

[00:16:11] It's it's whatever there are no rules for like movement plus. No, I know i'm just saying I Basically don't want to be near this thing. So i'm going to try to move away from it Yeah, so to give an idea you can move

[00:16:23] Approximately close range. So basically you can take an action and move somewhere within close range Um, you if you don't take any action, you can move long range So like if you wanted to move back to the door and shoot you could do that

[00:16:37] If you want to get past them and into the hallway, you could only move does that make sense? Yeah You and you would have squeezed through us. Well, I mean it to a degree

[00:16:49] I assume the guy going holy fucking shit and pushing you out of the way may uh, yeah No, I will move towards the door was your fear check bud. I want to take a shot

[00:16:57] Okay, oh you did you fail your fear check? No on that one. Okay. No, I think you critically succeeded Okay, I thought a crit was a one in this game. No, it's it's doubles. Yeah, I

[00:17:07] I mean I succeeded. I definitely rolled under because what that would be under combat, right? Uh, yes, so you would you would roll combat plus your firearms. Yeah, so I succeeded roll me some damage That's 15, okay Um

[00:17:25] Yeah, we're gonna make it pretty fucking brutal because I already warned people at the beginning that this is gonna have some stuff On it. So you do like I mean, it's an smg. It's not super easy. No, it's a pulse rifle. Oh, okay

[00:17:35] Sorry, it's a pulse rifle still. No, it's three. Okay. He's got the good stuff Um, so you bring up you bring it up to your shoulder you sight down Um, do we feel like a pulse rifle is one shot or do you feel like you're making several shots?

[00:17:48] I don't know. That's one. That's that was the image of what's the image of a pulse if it's a pulse I would say it's probably a burst

[00:17:55] I know sounds like it to me. I mean lucas took the book away. So I can't see what a pulse rifle looks like but Um, i'm looking for it. No, I don't not seeing it. Well, if I think halo pulse rifles were multi-shot burst fire

[00:18:06] I'm imagining that it is uh, unless it's like a sniper rifle that I imagine it's at the top right there It does it looks like a shotgun actually. It's pretty fucking sweet looking actually. That's that's that's pretty titty sprinkles

[00:18:16] Yeah, it's it's a future long range 3d 10 shots five just says wound gunshot. No special Okay, so i'm going to assume that you kind of get a you kind of get a uh Like a pop pop pop like you you you pop off several shots at once right?

[00:18:30] And you go you go bang bang bang and it's like center mass and you're trailing up with your shot, right? So if this were target practice you would you would hit center mass

[00:18:40] Second one would hit in the sternum third would like hit in the head right kind of kind of like a perfect like Kill shot like a military guy would do and we're assuming that the pulse rifle makes a cool whoosh noise when it shoots

[00:18:51] Right and like the smell of like burning I don't know zone or whatever. It says gunshots. So, I mean, I don't know it's it's cool. It's fucking space guns It's cool And you see it blame blame blame and it tears apart the flesh of that marine

[00:19:06] Um, but what would knock a man down doesn't seem to even phase whatever the fuck this thing is Uh, the other two of you How far is he from it now? Uh, no it hasn't moved

[00:19:17] I'll i'll move it when i'm he's he's come back to where you guys are He's basically how far is he from it? Uh, you're within what did it say close close range long range

[00:19:27] Whatever you're 15 20 feet and the grenades affect things that are adjacent to the grenade when they go off They do does that put us at risk? No, we're at close. We're not at adjacent Okay, we're all barring up away the grenades if they explode do not affect us

[00:19:41] Shut up and throw a grenade. I don't have a grenade. He has grenades fire at the grenades lucas Oh, I see what you're saying Welcome to the program folks different games. No, I went to the bathroom and forgot he had grenades wrapped around him

[00:19:57] Hey, they're even in the is it a Harder role to hit a grenade that is wrapped around him. What are you shooting with smg? I would say yes because you are you are firing with something. I have two of them. Okay

[00:20:09] So you you have even less control as you go ratatatatat with both hands doesn't say anything about control You can just hold an smg as one handed you gave me two of them right? No that you're You're missing the point. This feels like a mistake

[00:20:23] No, I will I will aim and and try to hit a uh a grenade for sure Okay, make me a roll firearms plus 15 to combat. I assume right? Yes Success not a great success but a success. Okay, nonetheless. It's actually just barely a success in fairness

[00:20:44] Don't tell him that yeah, it doesn't matter the the degree doesn't really make a difference unless it's it's crit One way or the other but how much damage does a grenade do? But I also did 2d 10 damage of shot fire if that matters. Yeah, i'm just thinking

[00:20:59] But I mean if he's wearing a belt of them. Yeah, there's what do you say five six? I don't know if he's at a number but it's a bandit. It's a bandolier of fucking grenades one goes off

[00:21:10] Plus there's shit outside of where he's standing that might explode the barrels are behind us from what I heard It was they're far enough away. I would say yeah, I don't think the grenade if a grenade is barrels

[00:21:21] Yeah, if a grenade is adjacent. Yeah, it's not gonna hit those barrels But it's weird that like the smg specifically states can be fired one handed but like no other weapons There's one that says is a two-handed weapon

[00:21:32] But like it doesn't specify a revolver as what like I don't I don't know just weird Kickback difference maybe I don't know maybe they want you to embrace your inner woo I don't know. It doesn't state that I can't dual wield fucking smg's

[00:21:45] That's what i'm saying because they're one-handed I understand that but like none of the other guns including a revolver which you would assume is a one-handed weapon Right say one-handed right you can operate one-handed. I think it's

[00:21:57] There's a box in there that says use logic for xyz. So Oh, yeah, logically you can use a revolver one-handed right? What i'm saying is it does specify smg can be yeah, because you you probably wouldn't think you could

[00:22:09] Because it's an automatic weapon. Oh, there's weapons in there But if I can i'm gonna fucking dual wield smg's like why wouldn't I? Yeah There's no penalty for doing so I am not commenting on why you wouldn't want to use two hand two weapons at the same time

[00:22:29] Uh double the damage dude. Yeah, um, no comment Zeke um a flamethrower Zeke pulls the smg up pops it in his shoulder and lets off a burst of probably I don't know eight to ten shots Um gun only has five shots. So

[00:22:46] No, you have it's a magic gun sure good You don't have a you wouldn't have an automatic weapon with five shots. It doesn't work that way No, you have five rounds of shots listed So you have 50 bullets and you shoot off 10 at a time

[00:22:58] Whereas the pulse rifle has 15 bullets and he shoots off three at a time. I shoot the five shots Just keep going. Sorry. I shoot the thing. It's immune to bullets Lucas dies scientist Where are the keys?

[00:23:14] You uh, you rip off. Um, like I said, I don't know eight ten shots And you're not sure which one does it but you know one does Because the whole room just kind of goes a flash of white

[00:23:28] And I don't know that it would be enough force to necessarily knock you guys over but you are brushed back As a belt of goddamn, um concussive force. Yeah You all kind of fall over each other in a heap are pushed back a little bit

[00:23:42] Um by the concussive force Um shit starts rattling, uh inside the room Um, you get up and there's like, I don't know maybe two smoking shoes and chunks of like Terrapists everywhere. There's probably one crab meeting, but can I find this? There's probably a little like crab hand

[00:24:01] Uh, one of the crab hands is laying on the ground. Can I find his dog tags? Uh, don't mess. I don't think that's going to be super possible at this point somewhere in the ceiling Maybe maybe yeah, they'll look hard enough. I might find them Oh, yeah

[00:24:14] No, you're trying to figure out who probably ripped a hole in one of the doors and you like Anyone who wasn't nearby came running comes running at the sound of automatic fire and fucking Destroyed everybody. All right mission accomplished. No, all you hear is Everybody all right

[00:24:36] Well, i'm gonna go check out that generator now, yeah, I can do that thing grenades survive I no But the explosive barrels might have I would hope so they're over near the generator we can throw those into the barracks and light them up

[00:24:52] Burn them up up up light them up. We'll burn that bridge when we get to it Okay so Um, I do have two questions about the garage now that we've killed the random corpse rider

[00:25:06] Um the transport is it also is it still intact or it is fantastic. A little shrapnel here and there you're fine That's what it's there for and since i'm Going over to the generator

[00:25:19] Can I make sure that that is operational or if there's anything that needs to be done to it, uh The the generator would need to be fired up like it as far as you can tell it is functional

[00:25:30] It needs to be it needs to be it needs to be fueled and turned back on It's like it was turned off. Yeah, no, it was turned off. It even has a little bit of fuel in it

[00:25:37] Not much no identifiers. Let's say don't touch this on it in red sharpie. I would Hesitate turning it on yet Right because they clearly Against made us made a saw a road on the door that said combs off

[00:25:54] So I would hate to turn this generator on which then would turn combs on and maybe create some some noise That's gonna I don't know attract these grab things. Oh, sure

[00:26:04] Uh, but before I do that, I want to prep it just in case we need to turn on quickly He can take a minute or two to fuel it and make sure it's in working order without turning it on

[00:26:12] That's fair and I also want to go over to the transport make sure that's in working order in case we need to leave Very very quickly while you're doing that are either of the two of you that's going to take a minute alex

[00:26:22] So are there the two of you going to do anything while he's working on the generator? There Is the apc there's a tool bench. There's fuel there's the fallen power line. There's a giant hole

[00:26:33] That's basically what you're seeing and then it's garage doors to go outside. That was rummage through the tool bench uh Various tools like you would expect things that you might find specifically of interest there's bottle caps. Uh, no, uh crowbar

[00:26:48] Patch kit useful nail gun. That's a thousand shots Weapon flashlight patch kit patch kit nail gun is the patch kit for some what's that specify for I'm not sure I assume mechanical. Okay, one k And a hand welder. Oh Weld some fucking crabs together

[00:27:12] Or cut a door down Well, we apparently blew a hole in one of them Well, I think you've opened it up the ceiling is what else was in the room? Uh barrels of fuel backup generator in the apc. Let's uh, i'll check the out the apc

[00:27:24] Okay, I mean it's a it's a it's a warthog. It's a it's a it's all it's a