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Tavern Watch Plays Starfinder 01: Does anybody know how to fly this thing? Maybe.
Jan 29, 2025
A dead pilot (maybe), a crashing starship (definitely), and a tiny problem that's causing the dead to rise. (Does that mean the pilot is now... okay?) As they hurtle into the planet, our crew of adventurers has to figure out how to contain this unexpected threat before it can spread across the galaxy.
Fortunately we have a team who knows what it takes to survive (a lucky set of dice, of course). Join us as we try out the Starfinder 2e playtest with a rollicking adventure from GM Matthew Rossi, with players Joe Perez, Joan Albright, Chris Chesno, and Liz Harper! This is the first of a two-part game of Starfinder 2e, so you'll find out how our expedition ends quite soon — and you can check out the Starfinder 2e playtest for yourself for free from Paizo.
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hello and welcome to the far distant future of 324 AG or aftermath of the Gap
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join our Intrepid crew of Heroes mixed of mercenaries Scholars and Mystics as they
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travel through the Stars on their Journey this is Tavern walk plays
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starfinder well hello everyone um first off I want to get my players to introduce their characters to y' I'm
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gonna start with Joe Perez Joe who are you playing hi I'm playing yaral I'm a
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panrom Mystic also known as the Healer also known as a kitty yep think think
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think think Hank McCoy but I'm I'm Fluffy I'm thinking of the character from uh lower decks but I know you
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haven't seen I've never seen it I have never watch that because man you'll you'll get you'll get ideas uh Liz your
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character I am tazel a fluffy lavender creature with six arms uh and she's
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wearing bright blue leg warmers and uh she appears to be unarmed just just
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hanging out van side of 80s I'm just saying just just saying yeah yeah if she
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had a van if she had a van it would have like a unicorn and and her riding it go ahead Joan I'm playing tick
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tikadar she's a heris many skittermander so her fur is kind of a little bit um
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rainbowish on the tips and she's a witch warper she really loves to help people
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and she really loves traveling all right uh and Chris hey uh so I am playing VES
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claton Bane he's a big uh he's a vesque so he's a big Lizard Man uh orange and
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black scales does not wear armor carries big guns really dumb uh think of Jane
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from Firefly okay uh I was actually thinking of Jessie ventur from Predator
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but I guess that'll work yeah Jesse venturo from Predator works too Al righty um so anybody with any kind of
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medical skill I need you to roll a check for me um just let me know what you get
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is this if we're trained in medicine if you're if you've got spe specific skill if you are if you would consider
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yourself in any way shape or form a doctor or healer no okay all right I've
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got them but it's not logging me into my character yet so let's Okay poke it a minute well I rolled an eight on my die
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which means I have a 13 no sorry a 21 okay that's sufficient uh the captain is
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dead their chest is completely missing which means this wasn't a particularly difficult check but you never know with
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humans they might be able keep breathing through having their entire chest blown open you haven't yet figured out why
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humans are so dominant in the Galaxy when they seem to be so fragile there's got to be something right anyway no
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she's dead stone Dead real dead just completely not breathing or alive uh also the ship is currently there's smoke
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inside the the the cockpit here and the the other ships uh all well hold on go
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ahead any everybody who wants to you pick a you think would help you see something happening really fast and you
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let me know what it is and how you're doing it uh let's start with our giant vesque friend oh um H it's fine if you
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fail this role things will happen regardless just you know I want to see what you come up with I am going to
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survival rooll okay uh let's see it is a 12 all right and that's total or just
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that's it was a two and I got a plus 10 to survival all right already Co um does
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anybody else want to try to go higher than that or are you going to just take his role um are we in a cockpit or a
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bridge of a ship or something like that it's this ship they call it the cockpit um the captain explained repeatedly that
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it wasn't good enough to be called a bridge okay I could I roll piloting to
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check the controls to see you know where we are just are we about to fly into the
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Sun or just see what's going on that would be great this may not be what we're looking for go ahead so while
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she's while that's being rolled um I have electromagnetic senses that allow me to detect nearby living or
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technological creatures um I have to use uh it doesn't specify how nearby
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okay um these things you could sense anything within the the cockpit for sure
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and possibly within the ship but the idea that you would be able to sense much of anything considering the
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distances inv 15 15 feet 15t yeah you're in the the cockpit that's what you're
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getting with that which I'm fine with letting you do just letting you know that's what it's going to be yep that's fine are you using it yes go for it uh
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do you have a a check to make or you just sense things uh I make a seek
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action so as long as that's I just have to make a seek action and I can basically ping all righty uh so first
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off then we're going to go with uh lizz's character and I'm sorry I can't remember your names I should have definitely learned them before now but I
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didn't I'm sorry uh so yeah Liz you're you're you're up first that's uh 16 on
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piloting okay um first up the piloting controls the uh the stick and the yaw
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and so forth uh the ship is somewhat it's not primitive all the technology is brand new and up toate it's just
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designed in a way that it would be piloted more directly than most Starships instead of having an AI do
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most of the work uh the ship is piloted by literally by hand it's like a fly by
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wire aircraft the next thing keep cool the next thing to keep in mind is that
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the ship is intact as far as controls seem to be you know concerned uh you
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you're they work um also you're definitely not heading near into a sun you are heading directly into a planet's
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atmosphere however and the the hull is beginning to that's rad yeah that's bad that's is beginning to heat up because
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the ship is literally pointed into the gravity well of the planet and is going at full thrust however even at full
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thrust it will still take about 50 seconds uh to hit the planet itself you
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have about 50 seconds to get it to stop doing that um finally stop doing that uh
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finally there are 317 ships chasing you and firing at you they are smaller than
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your ship and you've never seen anything like them before they are not like any technology from the other settled
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systems or what anything uh they're they're completely new and alien to you and in fact it's we now over to Joe's
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character um I know you saw you put your names in there but I was actually reading something up there so I couldn't get down fast enough but yl uh you
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actually sense this because it enters your range just as as you're pinging
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they're firing jacketed iron molecules they're literally firing
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little pieces of iron molecule sized chunks of iron at relativistic speeds
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and that's what you feel penetrate the it penetrates the the Shields and the hull and is in in your line of sense for a
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second and then it is literally going out the other direction it just blasts through the hole well that is
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unfortunate uh we need to get out of here now which one of you can fly me me
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me me I uh I'm going to try and take the controls and wow I have never seen a
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ship like this I mean I have seen like in history B and fly fly we're going to
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die okay okay I think I think this this okay and I'm going to you know try and pull us out of this death spiral into
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the planet and maybe try andon and go around it I unceremoniously
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dumped the captain's body out of the seat she was already out of the seat because okay the blast that came through
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and hit her in the chest and turned it into that uh knocked her a good five feet away from the controls uh so you
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don't have to dump her but I mean I'm GNA let you dump her if you want to because you know cats are cats so if you
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wanted to go pick her up and then just dump her anyway that's fine uh mean while gz make me another piloting check
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okay I'm rolling really badly 18 18 all right um the first thing you notice is
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that it there's an incredibly easy tactile feedback system for controlling
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the ship's pitch and all you have to do is pull back on it oh and and when you
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pull back on it it starts nosing up almost immediately and it's This ship's
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got a surprising amount of thrust you are you are shocked that it in fact wasn't at full thrust it was at one
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quarter thrust now you're at full thrust however because you didn't really know
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that when you grab the the what what what you know some Pilots would call the stick when you grab it and pull back
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there's a thing on the right side that your hand closes on and that's the throttle and you are now incre you've
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increased the ship's throttle considerably thrusts are on full as you are pulling up several dozen of the
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little ship-like things are hitting the atmosphere and burning up almost
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immediately that works so much better than I thought the downside is that now they're going to fire at you oh um
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you're going to be using your piloting check as essentially it's a bonus to your armor class the system for the
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flight people listening to this we since we're doing this with the new starfinder rules they don't have the rules for
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space combat in yet so I'm having to use the old rules for space combat and those are kind of wonky so we're
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going to see what happens but okay yep what we need is is there anybody in here
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who has any kind of Weapons Systems abilities I I control Big Guns okay um
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does anybody here think they would work computers okay that would be some a possible candidate for running the
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sensors does anybody here think that they could run the shields the only thing I have even remotely close to
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anything like that is I have I I have computers I have a a relatively decent one and I'm trained in it okay I am
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going to say that either um yarl or the
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other skander I'm sorry there's just so many names um can do it yeah tick tick or yl could run either the shields or
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the sensors probably about as well because neither of them are really you know that's not the thing they mainly do
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they're mostly medical types uh but nevertheless those are the systems they could probably run um Vash is going to
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be doing the guns and um Tel is piloting
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so everybody's you know pel's already made her role the rest of you make the proper role and I'm going to add that to
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what the uh attacks have to deal with so let me know what you get all right John which one do you want do you
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want you know that that'll help quite frankly you want do you want to do sensors or do you want to do uh Shields
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I'll do shields okay a 25 wow that's nice uh what do you think you
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did um I powered them up and focus them in the direction where most of the
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damage is going to come from okay next up is Vash what do you do vesh I had a
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question for you on that actually sh do you want me just to roll with my primary weapon seeing it's a gun I'm going to
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assume that you're basically rolling an attack you're using This ship's
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interface to attempt to attack using its weapons but you you're you basically just making an attack roll uh if you
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don't roll very well you probably miss but it's also possible that you could roll well and just not know what gun
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you're using because it does have more than one uh sure um 19 19 alrighty uh
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finally uh yarl I got yeah I got a 26 on
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uh my check I basically think I uh pseudo Jack into the sensors like it's
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like that scene in uh Rescue Rangers where Monteray Jack uh like smells
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cheese and his like whiskers go all wiry and stuff like that I basically like just either Chomp down or stick my claw
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inside of like one of the the ports and just like I become temporarily one with the sensors see I just imagined you as R
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Julia and overdrawn at the memory bank screaming I am interfac but you probably if you don't
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know that yeah also acceptable but regardless okay um first up as the ship
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is pulling out of its death spiral um there is a moment where the ship takes
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some hits uh it loses about 12 Hull um from various parts however vesh manages
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to fire the main gun which is a very powerful weapon uh surprisingly powerful on a ship this small and making you guys
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think that the captain that you hired to to get you to this planet was in fact a
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Smuggler because because the gun is ridiculous uh The Recoil it literally
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says in archaic old old human letters you think it says b something you're not
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the other two you don't know but you're pretty sure the first one's a b uh like yeah isn't that one of those bees that they have they love that letter they put
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be on everything do they really I but oh yeah I think it's like a small insect
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yeah it it explodes uh there's a suddenly like a massive burst of what is
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raw arcane power and not any kind of science weapon this thing is like it's a
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wand of magic missiles the size of a Gatling gun that is pro you know as
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you're looking at it you see there are like 20 like wands of magic missiles in
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this thing and they all go off at once and they're each being cast at a higher level than start like they're they're if
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anybody here has real magical knowledge I think we only have the witch warper um
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that person might be able to determine exactly what's happening but all of you can tell that it is G 30 on that okay uh
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did you roll anything Joe I was GNA say I am trained in Arcana but I don't think I'm gonna do better than a 30 okay but I
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can't do better than I got I got a 27 yeah everybody basically if you got
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above a 20 what you know is that this thing is it's got Banks of what are
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effectively wands of magic Missile they're not wands they're metal tubes but it's the same basic principle and
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and they're all about there's like four of them in like a they they what they're doing is what used to be called the the
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Valar death Blossom because they're firing in every direction and since magic missiles
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cannot miss and can only be stopped by force the little pod things are getting
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destroyed like it's just everything around the ship is like boom boom boom boom boom that's the good news the bad
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news is that's when there's a sudden Lurch and it occurs to you guys and in
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fact uh yl knows immediately at looking at the the sensors and you know being
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interfaced and all uh this ship is going down because the engines just went away
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you still have the landing thrusters and you currently still have control of your Al your attitude so you can push all the
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thrust below and land but flying anywhere else is not likely right now someone would need to go downstairs and
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and ascertain the damage but yal does not think it looks good down there oh
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we're we're Landing we're Landing that's just that's what's happening okay okay well we're going to do
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this do it it takes about an hour to get the ship down because you don't have you
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can't just fly into the planet's atmosphere at full speed because you don't have engines anymore uh and you
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can't take the heat of a direct un un you know if you go straight into the
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atmosphere the heat will burn the ship up uh you have to go into the atmosphere at an angle so it takes you an hour to
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get down and you can't really decide where you're going to land you have to take the first relatively large parcel
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of land you can find because you're you're running on thrusters which means that you are basically just falling in
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an extremely controlled way this is like tripping and falling down the stairs you have an elastic on yourself so it's
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holding you it's you're not flying down the stairs but you're definitely falling it's like bunging except at the end you're not gonna just go back up you're
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gonna just stop there so yeah it it you do in fact it is a very good thing that
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that uh tick TI said about bracing for impact although you have to wait an hour to brace for the impact so for like 59
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minutes you're just quietly watching as this incredibly excitable skander tries desperately to Pilot this thing down
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like her paws just gripping everything as tightly as possible and since she has six Paws plus the 200 feet she's got a
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lot to grab with so she's just grabbing and pushing and doing all this stuff then the ship finally there's this this
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long moment where you're like hovering above like about 150 ft above the ground
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and then 100 feet above the ground and then 90 feet above the ground and then 45 feet above the ground and they like
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you're like whoa why did we go from 90 to 45 oh because for a second uh tazel
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forgot to keep the thrusters going but we're good and you land that was so
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exciting that was the most exciting Landing I've ever done that was great uh
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right now the Dead the the other side from you guys talking there's a the dead captain and uh some other Dead Guy you
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didn't even know like you don't know who that guy was he's wearing a uniform like the captain so you assume that they were in the same organization can I tell what
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killed them uh it doesn't really take a lot to tell what killed them because you're pretty sure it was jacketed iron
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molecules fired at relativistic speeds based on the fact that they both have massive wounds like her chest is
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completely gone and his head came through the hole already and yeah like the weapons they were firing could
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completely ignore the Shields and would did ridiculous amounts of they they did so much damage that they just blew right
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through the hull so they didn't do a lot of structural damage like the hole was still mostly intact it was just this
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tiny little piece of it was gone but when it hit something made out of meat uh all the water and liquids and you
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know semi-solid things compressed from the impact and then just went B it'd be
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like shooting a BB gun into a watermelon if the BB gun fired bullets at like
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5,000 Celsius well they're dead oh yeah right
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well we should probably not be we should probably not be uh on this ship for very much longer if uh we're getting fired at
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they're probably going to want to come down and check the ship so do you think I can take the gun
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what's up big guy can I take the gun off the ship carry with us you sure can try
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I can help I'm strong you guys I'm I can definitely help with this we can help we can help as that's going on I'm just
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muttering to myself this is not what I signed up for this is not what I signed up for this is not what I signed up for while they're doing that um if the
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assumption is that these were Smugglers I'm going to go look for the smuggling hold okay that's certainly something you
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can do is everybody going with uh I keep want to say iish but it's it's yl um is
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everyone going with yl is yl going off by themselves I'm torn who should I help who should I
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help I can help with the you go help there okay I'll go with I'll go with the ARL okay so the the skit
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Manders have split up so the the all the chaos isn't contained in one place but is in two different places at the same
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time that's great um we're gonna go first with uh yl and tazel and then we'll come back to
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your guys efforts to take the guns off the ship um so you head out of the uh
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the cockpit and there's immediately like a a small doed room on the other side of the main cockpit door and there's a hole
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in the floor with a ladder um that's how you get down to the main floor because the the cockpit is up above everything
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sure probably one of the reasons that it it lasted as long as it did during that fight um so you're heading down yeah
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I'll slide down all righty uh when you get down the first thing you smell is meat like someone like has someone had a
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barbecue or something and then you look down and you see all the dead crew members various you know there's a
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there's a couple of dead skiters actually um uh there an Android that's been turned into purple stains along the
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place uh a couple of those those bug people the ones that can like read mins
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with their bug tentacles uh those yeah and there's one um there's one of you
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know one vasque one of aes's people uh he looked like he was like some kind of bosen or something they they're all dead
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and the walls have lots of little holes in them down here oh oh oh oh no I guess
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I'll do my my first obligation to make sure that they are that they are actually all dead they certainly seem it
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I'm not even going to make you roll there's like almost no way they could be alive okay just making sure that there wasn't
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too much mess for them not to be dead you'd be surprised it's it's just feasible that
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the vesque might be alive but when you check the ves's blood is completely removed from their body at this point
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yep the the bag is the bag is empty we're good all right they're all dead carrying on like I just I seem
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completely unbothered by the dead bodies like it just it is a just a thing zelle is kind of like tiptoeing around
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everyone as best she can you have no idea how hard it is to get blood out of
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fur and he just stops and looks at you really it's completely covering fur
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really I the medical officer the doctor have no idea how hard that is what is
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with you bugs and I just turn around and keep going all right so I think this is wind
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up being a seek or you tell me when I when the thing happens you can go ahead and make a seek if you want right now
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okay that is a perception so that's a 26 okay um the first thing that occurs
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to you is that you didn't actually look at the bodies to see if they had any valuables you go back get yourself about
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117 um credits various you know little credit jits and combine all that into
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one stick and you're good um there are guns but those guns aren't particularly inter or important they're not you know
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better than anybody else's but you could sell them somewhere if you felt like carrying them so there's like three or
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four sidearms and uh there is however a GI there's like a it looks like either
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it's a big crystalline egg or a bigger crystalline eye and the vesque had it
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all right we'll take that and that's basically it for this room uh as you go out of this room and into the next one
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the ship is laid out kind of like a it's basically like a like a like a te
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like there's this long body and then there's like two branches that go off from the back and then there's the
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cockpit which is actually above the body hence the the thing as you head down this Corridor there are various smaller
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like little units where there are like there's rooms like there looks to be a bunch of sleeping births on this level
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and there's a bunch of stuff like there's like netting with like stuff stored in it there's like bunk bed and
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also hammocks uh for to make sure everybody here had a place to sleep and they don't do hot bunking apparently
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there look to be like about seven crew members total with all the dead and the two dead upstairs and there's 10 bunks
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including the the three hammocks so they went out of their way to make sure they had enough space for people to sleep
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without having to share a bunk as you get further down the hallway uh you don't really find anything else of note
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like there's an old helmet there's some recorded media that's currently playing on Loop and you're you don't know what's
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going on in the video but uh it's apparently one of those really weird
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kind of humans with pointy ears talking about trees and woods and forests and
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just trying to be really you think he's trying to be soothing about it he just comes off as a little pretentious but
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he's Whispering he's like and then the Happy Tree look at the happy tree and you think he's smearing some kind of
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goop on a on something you don't you don't know why he's doing that it's all different colors though so you think he
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might be trying to make some kind of image with it but you're not 100% sure on that zel is
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mesmerized yeah yeah as you stare he he like comes to the blue part of the flat
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thing he's dealing with and suddenly he puts white things there and goes fluffy clouds fluffy fluffy clouds clouds are
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fluffy meanwhile um yarl you reach what is the the section where the the engine
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control is is and you look in there uh and there's nobody in there there's like
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a there's like a stain on the ground going off in a Direction but there's no living people that you can see or even
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bodies I guess going in there you're gonna go somewhere else there's like three other Chambers you could and I
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mean we got to check where the where would I think the most likely spot for a a hidden cash would be either in its own
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isolated pocket um they would like basically build into a regular cargo space they'd build a shielded area or in
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the uh in basically the engineering area because the engines and the the power
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generators would interfere with scans I think we're going to check there I'm gonna make my way to that okay heading
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into the engine room go ahead Liz sorry could I use my knowledge of ships to
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look for anything unusual yes you could I think that's a SE action as well right I have no idea
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it ISE I yeah I just have piloting and I have drift lore but drift lore probably is
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not going to affect ship knowledge moment the seek action you'd basically use perception or if you have a relevant
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knowledge skill or survival yeah so you can use you can use your piloting or perception if it's
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better that's an 18 okay um between the two of you uh it's not very hard for you
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guys to find actually the trail of blood was a real was a nice clue it occurred
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to you as you were following it that Thea Trail blood does not lead in the direction you're going it's leading from the direction you're going that you are
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effectively following one of those dead people's blood back to this place where they first got injured um when you get
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there this would have been extremely difficult to find if somebody hadn't bled all over it but there is definitely
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a a concealed cargo cockpit a concealed cargo area just underneath actual cargo
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containers um a few seconds of of relatively it's it's it's hidden well
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it's not secured well like it is is not difficult to open it's like they they were counting on the fact that nobody
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knew it was there essentially inside it there's a body all right I immediately
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investigate the body because well it's you because it it opens its eyes and
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looks at you and it's it's you it's yl and you go in your own face not expect this oh
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you don't see it oh oh you see y you see yl drop down in there and then you hear the yelling noise uh I I'm gonna drop
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down and follow okay you okay incred man returns its opinion to you and
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go also I have dark vision so if it's dark I also have dark vision yeah okay I
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figured cat and skander you guys can see fine um yeah there's something there
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each of you sees yourself uh how far away it how far away from me is it it
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was on the floor you walked over to it this is a small area it's at most saw
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right on top of it basically yes cool I reach out and touch it with a shock pad
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okay is that attack it is oh make that roll 17 okay uh would 17 hit you I mean
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it's you uh no it does not hit me okay then you miss you okay I have no idea
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what the hell's going on here so I I see myself yeah and he just tried to shock
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you well not you he didn't sh you he shocked the you that's standing in front
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of him scream meet you guys you would I well maybe I would scream that I can okay um can we work this out I do you
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want to talk we could we could talk do need something is what's going on is that action who are you saying I'm to
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the screaming thing hey calm down calm down we can figure this out are you okay are you okay I'm waiting to see what I'm
29:18
waiting to see what happens cuz very clearly I missed and this thing is just me and I'm just staring at it like my my
29:24
ears are twitching at this point okay um we're going to cut to the bridge those who are attempting to
29:31
dismantle the weapon system uh to actually physically remove the weapons
29:36
from the ship you would require tools that are not on the bridge and you'd also have to leave the
29:42
bridge because the weapons are not mounted to the bridge they are mounted to the under side of the ship you would
29:47
then also have to figure out a power supply for them because they usually run on ship power um which you aren't ships
29:55
so um ship power is probably at least partially magical because those are magical weapons but you're not sure how
30:01
the magic is transported you don't know if you have no idea if they can be fired without being on the ship maybe they can
30:09
maybe they can't you don't know so what you're saying is probably not gonna happen where's the tool I don't mind you trying to do it I'm just telling you
30:15
that you can't do it from the bridge it's like you're literally it'd be like hey I want to get that Weather Vein off
30:20
my house I'm G to sit here my living room and figure out a way to do it it's like you can't it's in the it's on the
30:25
roof you'd have to be on the roof that's where the weather vein is similarly the three really massive magic Missile guns
30:32
are on the Hall of the ship in different parts of the ship they're not even like in the same spot you need to go to each
30:39
individual spot to pull each individual massive magic Missile guns off of the
30:44
ship what are their Dimensions can we see from here um they're about as big as
30:50
um Vash like each one is as big as Vash like like literally it would be like he was carrying himself but but made of
30:57
much denser material and weighing much more than he does you still want to try for it or once we see their actual size
31:04
it is very much a um V has this like massive toothy grin but the truth of the
31:11
matter is he he knows uh he's not going to be able to carry that because it's
31:16
going to end up being too heavy so instead it is uh very much a h i want to
31:22
take it but I don't think it's possible instead let me go get my guns make sure
31:27
we're safe and he starts heading towards wherever he has stored his giant machine
31:33
gun that he tends to carry I mean is there a reason you're not carrying it on you you know what I probably do have it
31:40
on me okay I mean everybody else the dead people have guns true you know it's
31:45
not like these people were like you can't have a gun on a ship they're like you feel like these people are borderline Pirates not actually Pirates
31:51
but certainly in the piratical sphere of things like if you were if we were playing a different game they might be
31:57
considered like you know Scoundrels or Orion Smugglers it's that kind of crowd
32:03
gotcha okay um with that being the case I think that the the proper course of
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action for Vash would be to go and um attempt to actually head outside make
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sure uh check the outside of the ship make sure that there's not anybody trying to board the ship from the outside even though we just crashed okay
32:23
so you're leaving the bridge yes leaving the bridge as you I'll go to I'll go to I've got I've got guns in my bag there
32:30
we go as you're walking out of the uh Bridge um there's a giant vosque with a
32:36
big gun standing there and it goes right in your face okay hang on one second tick tick
32:43
actually sees not a giant vosque but but a skander with like rainbowy fur oh cut
32:49
back to the holding the the holding pen I need saving throws you can decide your
32:55
best saving throw or you could decide your worst saving throw if you want to I don't know why you would want to but
33:00
regardless need a saving throw tell me what you get this is for both uh V this
33:06
is for both uh telia and Yaro oh okay uh
33:11
that's not 32 okay uh 32 reflex save okay 23 will okay um the 23 will is just
33:20
enough The Reflex save is very much enough uh it's very strange for you
33:26
tazel because you just dodged thoughts like something was thinking very hard and you dodged out of the way
33:33
of it um I'm just that fast meanwhile yl you realize that it's the it's the big
33:40
Crystal egg SL eyeball that's literally in your head and you just barely managed
33:45
to save for it take you know something is pushing into you trying to take you over the one that I grabbed yeah and
33:53
it's currently locked in your hands like you're as you're fighting it off keeping it from you over it's in your head now
34:00
the the uh whatever it was was trying to push its way into your head it didn't get in but it didn't get driven out
34:08
either whereas um tazel literally just jumped out of the way of its its attempt
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to influence her so you don't have this thing pushing into your head like physically actually pushing in as well
34:19
no no no no no it's mentally the phys it's this is not the end of Diablo uh you just you're holding the thing but as
34:26
far as you can tell whatever was in the thing is now attempting to be inside you what have so it's in my hand that is
34:33
what you believe yes I guess I'm just going to activate the shock pad since it's already in my hand and my shock pad
34:39
is the glove okay I'm gonna say um go ahead make an attack you don't have a
34:45
very high number to hit because it's in your hand well I rolled 16 plus 7 23
34:51
that would hit go ahead and roll damage four electrical damage or lightning bolt damage whatever that equates to in the
34:57
system it's light invol it's electricity it's fine you trigger your shock pad you know
35:03
just reflexively trying to like you know do anything you can to keep this thing from getting into you there's a another
35:10
one of those horrible screams but this time without any of the flavorings of of you know either of your voices like you
35:16
don't you hear this as a pure scream not as a scream actually being made by someone's voice it's just like the thought of just endless screaming and
35:24
you're when you do that that you like drop the crystal thing which skitters to the floor and begins to crack
35:32
open right I grab well how big is tazel
35:38
about three feet about 40 pounds yeah I literally just grab you we I grab you
35:43
and we start booking it like I'm up I'm up and out we are gone uh how fast are you just out of curiosity well I mean it
35:50
depends like my instinct is to grab you and start going I'm I'm I'm a cat um what is my normal movement it's
35:58
like whatever 25 30 ft or whatever it is whatever the standard standard human size is I think SK Manders are real fast
36:05
is what we're get we're no they're 25 but I'm 35 because reasons okay well you
36:12
can just take off pack yeah I could yeah Patra they have speed is 25 and yes I
36:20
mean technically I could grab you and go with the jetpack whatever happens just I
36:27
you just literally see me like start grabbing you and making for the exit so like if you counter grab me and take off
36:34
you counter grab me and we take off six fuzzy arms scrap you and like what is the friendliest of hugs and then her
36:40
back goes foosh and now you're flying yes we we fly through the
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corridors probably this is probably quite hilarious if anyone were here to watch us uh in fact uh you guys up on
36:53
the bridge the things facing you just suddenly like it's like watch in it's like watching something that looks solid
36:59
and real and suddenly turns into an 80s TV like pixelates all over the place and
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then is just gone oh well that was weird guess I don't have to waste ammo and
37:10
then you hear and you see coming out of the
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engine room which is one to the is to like the left side as you're facing um
37:21
you see your the other skittermander um tazel holding on to um y yl both of whom
37:28
are kind of like this you know tazel is straight up three feet um you know yl is
37:34
more like four and a half feet like still not huge but you know not tiny either but he's just he's he's trying to
37:41
cling on and is actually being clung onto by the multiple arms as tazel just
37:47
comes flying out what do you say to them as you fly past because you are heading straight for the exit of the of the ship
37:53
we are leaving you guys see that oh good hug
37:58
then you hear coming from the engine room and from around you we're leaving we should
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go and then you see as you're like leaving as you are like heading past these the bodies start twitching and
38:12
standing up and there are like things that look relatively similar to the
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ships you were fighting but smaller and more pulsing and oozing like kind of
38:24
steering their bodies like you can see tendrils going directions where there isn't body anymore to try and mend the
38:32
Gap enough to get the body to move and they're like going because that's what they do when
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you're dead and you start moving again you make that noise it's just it's just it's just a law you go I'll take care of
38:45
this Vash just you come too you come too swings his giant machine gun out and
38:52
moves not not to take a stand but more to make sure everybody else gets off the
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ship uh backing up yeah backing away from them gotcha I I've played
39:03
Fallout so what do you do now you attack uh not just yet not until they
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start making a move okay they are they are making that move they are walking to you I should have I should have people doing initiative but yeah this is mostly
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narrative we'll just play yeah they are now making their move they are stepping towards you they're not at you yet
39:22
because they still seem to be learning okay I can make the leg move like that okay and then the leg can do that so
39:28
they aren't coming fast but they are definitely trying to get to you oh yeah let's let's start shooting I'm gonna I'm
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gonna say just because you've got a giant weapon you just get just make me one attack roll and if it's reasonably decent I'll just you know we'll deal
39:41
with it from there uh that would be a 14
39:46
that was critical fail is it yeah I have plus 13 on my machine gun H yeah that
39:52
was one okay it jams awesome like
39:58
like oh knew I should have cleaned you uh and now they are they're they've gotten like a good five feet closer and
40:05
are continuing let say they get a meter closer uh so yeah they're they take they get a meter closer and they're
40:10
continuing to move to advance do you stand there do you run what do you do uh I am getting out of the getting getting
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the hell out of here all right uh you guys kind of uh computer terminals
40:22
between us and them not really no basically this ship is
40:27
it's surprising in a lot of ways but it's very much designed to be a a lowf
40:32
ship like stuff like amps are not going to do a lot of damage to this thing they might work a little but no oh I was
40:39
thinking uh a spell yeah I if you were trying to do something like make the to
40:44
the computers blow up or make them do anything there's just nothing in the hallway really it's the these hallways
40:50
are just for people to sleep in and to get from point A to point B so assuming you guys all run together uh soon you're
40:56
outside the ship for whatever reason as you get off of the ship and it's a it's a tropical Planet it's it's very warm
41:03
there's plant life everywhere um they don't seem to follow you off the ship like you after you regroup you're you're
41:09
all together and like 15 to 20 minutes of OB observation no the nothing is
41:15
coming off the ship why are they not coming off the ship I don't know but well I do but you don't but nevertheless
41:21
they don't come off the ship maybe we should blow it up stck here but if we blow it up and maybe they survive and
41:27
then maybe they'll be angry H I think they're already angry I don't know what
41:35
those are I don't think I do at least um uh you can make a check if you have certain skills where you think you might
41:40
know what these unknown aliens are so the question is I have Arcana I have a cult and I am uh I am the Mystic uh
41:50
panra so I have that tie with the drift okay um you could certainly I would say
41:56
either the drift drift or any kind of beastiary type knowledge would be useful here all right drift I have drift L if
42:03
you got drift lore then you you have a chance to know what these are minus 28
42:09
you roll a minus 28 no no mine is okay 28 I was like how did you do that I was
42:16
like that I'm actually impressed that's that's amazing the role was so high it went negative
42:23
yeah all right the 13 what with the 13 tells you is they definitely feel like
42:29
they come from Beyond drift space like they they use drift space the way everybody uses drift space but you don't
42:35
think they come from there you think they come from a another existence that touches drift space because you know that there are places like however yarl
42:43
you've heard of parasitic things that your people call the the Mind ticks and
42:50
they're literally like parasites that latch onto recently killed or even still alive people and use their bodies so
42:58
that they can operate more or less undisturbed in this world all right I
43:04
Rel that yeah their natural form is actually allergic to this universe like
43:10
they they can't stay in it very long so and I I look back at our my big beefy
43:16
friend here thinking I I relay this to everybody uh yeah so those are mind
43:22
ticks um nasty sort uh bad news is there's a whole lot of dead bodies for
43:28
them to infest good news they don't have bodies to infest they can't really stay here long so and I turn to the the uh
43:37
theh if you can incinerate everything in that ship it might not be a bad idea
43:43
like I said we blow up ship we need to make sure that the bodies are completely gone things as you guys are discussing
43:49
this the first of this planets two suns is setting uh oh that's not good either
43:56
it's like an hour for it will actually be out of sight but it will become a lot darker when that happens and that's the
44:01
thing I forgot to tell you but I should have the the reason they didn't come out of the ship is that the sunlight is
44:07
there and they don't want to be in sunlight they come from the void you know they they are creatures of just
44:13
endless infinite Darkness they don't like Suns I relay this to everybody as
44:19
well so we could uh we might want to leave and deal with this later but we
44:26
got like an hour maybe I'm guessing we should just how are we getting out of
44:31
here do we know where we are I mean I assume we know what planet we were heading for in the first place you were
44:38
all coming to the planet AEL um and it's not sorry Asel not Estelle Estelle is an
44:44
old you know old lady um Estel was one of the planets that they had they had
44:50
had a back when this these systems were being you know explored this planet
44:56
apparently had had an old temple in it that was apparent that dated back to previous civilizations uh and apparently
45:02
had a lot of interesting magical and even technological goodies to explore each of you is here for whatever reason
45:08
you want to make up uh but generally speaking you're all here to get it to get a look at the temple city that is on
45:16
the planet's North continent and you would have tried to land on the North continent because you wouldn't want to
45:22
land too far away from where you're trying to go however the closest open
45:27
space you could land in is a is a solid day and a half's walk uh from the ship because just simply the actual Temple
45:34
City is full of big pointy buildings and you would not be able to land there at least not hope you would basically smash
45:40
the ship into a mountain or full of like spiky buildings so yeah you had to go with where you are but you can probably
45:47
make it in two days what you say I'm sorry will they will these things propagate if they're left alone uh only
45:54
if somebody provides them with a new body to propagate into they they can only have one of them in control of a
46:00
body at a time uh so that part you're okay on but right now it's just the the
46:05
bodies that are in there and then they can't other than those seven or eight people uh they can't take anym unless
46:13
they get you guys then they could take another four bodies they need they need to to take the body one one of them can
46:20
be in it they can't share you don't know if that's because they won't share or they actually can't but they they never
46:26
do as far as uh yl is aware right leave or deal with this I'm just
46:34
going to take a second while everyone is doing whatever else to kind of stare up at the Sun and watch it incrementally
46:40
move across the sky and uh use Attunement control to make sure I'm Photon attuned okay there's sort of a
46:47
little glimmer of warmth in my fur uh as you do that um you do it successfully
46:53
it's it's not difficult you do however feel there are things that are just
46:58
playing wrong they're like drags if you think of the universe as a tapestry of gravity and and the various forces like
47:06
the strong and weak nuclear force electromagnetism and gravity uh all kind of tied together to making existence you
47:12
know the Heat and L of the Stars the gravity around you there's something in that ship that is not any of that
47:19
something very wrong yep and it wasn't in the ship until you guys got attacked because you've been on that ship for like two days and at no point did sensed
47:27
unfathomable anti-cosmic nonsense of any kind and that's your gig so you probably
47:33
would have so I'm going to turn back from staring up at the sky to look at everyone and say it must be destroyed
47:40
something is wrong with these things not just not just wrong something trying to attack us that's wrong but not more
47:47
wrong more wrong I fundamentally more WR okay so what's going
47:55
on I'm not really good on the whole blowing up things but I can at least do
48:00
this and I'll mosey over to the exit and uh make sure that the door is shut and
48:05
cast adhere on it where I will bond the door shut to the hall okay um I assume
48:12
that's something you can do to an inanimate object without it doing anything I bound two objects together
48:17
and or I can or charge the surface with adhesive magic so I'm literally going to bom the door to the hall okay as you
48:24
guys watch uh yl walks up does it's it's very much not the same kind of
48:29
magic that you do tick tick but it's definitely magic you recognize it um does this gesture drags two claws down
48:37
the door and then the door literally grows into the wall it's like suddenly there is no space between the door and
48:44
the hull like there's no way for the door to open because there is no door there's just Hull you don't know why
48:50
somebody built a ramp under the hole but there it is uh if you hadn't seen it done that's what you'd be thinking like
48:56
this is a really badly designed why is there just a like a staircase coming off the wall the hall here but no you see it
49:02
happen it closes up we could use the really big gun we could overload the gun
49:08
that's a thought can it be done from outside oh we didn't find tools yeah
49:14
right now you'd have to go look at the guns to see if you could figure out a way to do it right right now you you're not looking at the guns you're just
49:20
standing there so you're you're just conjecturing until you actually examine them hey Matt um did we do we have an
49:27
idea what direction the um the the temple is from where we are you would
49:33
have uh well actually I'm sorry I shouldn't say you would have um tazel would have known roughly where it was
49:40
because it was visible and they were flying the ship so they had to be able to see uh whether anybody else was
49:45
looking for it Tazo would know where it was it is what on this planet you'd call
49:51
North but this plant doesn't have seem to have any kind of magnetic field strong enough to generate uh a North for
49:57
you to like just use a compass physically North but there's no Compass heading for it or
50:03
North uh VES is gonna go start wandering off towards where the guns are on the other side of the ship okay um anybody
50:10
else yeah I'm follow I don't think we should split up so I'm gonna follow okay
50:16
um so I know Tik tick was really invol invested in this whole you know getting the guns off the ship thing or at least
50:22
now overloading them so I'm going to say you need to make me an Arcane check to see if you can figure out how to overload these things once you get to
50:28
them all righty 25 okay um does anyone else helping in any way they would have
50:35
a skill that's complimentary um if something I can I'm at least trained in
50:40
computers and I have a data Jack which gives me a little more computery thing but there may not be anything like that
50:47
there actually is a diagnostic pod next to every one of the the ship weapons because that's just technology that's
50:53
used to to check them um but go ahead and make a roll see tell me what you get
50:59
see while she's doing that that's a
51:04
17 okay between the was a 29 year old uh T 25 25 between the 25 and the was it 17
51:12
or 19 sorry 17 so between the 25 and the 17 okay uh tazel you you figure out that
51:20
it would be possible uh to put all three of the weapons into a cycling mode
51:27
it's it's not firing but it is drawing power uh the cycling mode basically pulls power into them which then is
51:34
normally discharged through firing you can't fire from outside of the the area with the firing control but you can put
51:40
them in cycling mode uh at the same time tick tick is is noticing that while the
51:46
command linkage to fire the weapons is basically leads from the bridge down to
51:51
here they could be set off if they can be if another form of destructive power
51:59
would be it magic or be it like you know some other form of power like just a laser or whatever was used when they hit
52:05
Peak draw but you'd have to be able to hit at least two of them at once okay
52:10
and the explosions will be basically feedback which means that they will
52:15
actually start here but not blow up they'll propagate back into the ship and
52:21
detonate the engine core which means the entire ship is going to explode and it's going to be big you would probably have
52:29
to start running almost immediately after you initiated it in order to get out of range of it in time three words
52:35
minimum safe distance yeah and you're not sure what the minimum safe distance would be yeah this this is the first
52:41
time you've ever attempted to do this so you don't really know exactly how big a kaboom it's going to be but it's
52:47
probably going to be a reasonably big Kaboom uh how much energy do you need
52:52
the weapons have to be in full draw uh which means that they basically have to be making uh as as uh as tick tick and
53:00
and Taz elos describe it in their own ways you get the sense that basically the guns are going to be giving you the
53:06
like a light show it's going to look like laser Floyd uh and that's the moment where you can do this it doesn't
53:12
need to be a lot of energy it just needs to be energy going instead of the thing drawing energy out to these crystals
53:19
there needs to be energy being shoved into the crystals from the effectively the opposite end it's like trying to
53:24
cause you're literally trying to cause feed you don't know what won't as long as it's not kinetic like you can't just
53:30
shoot it with bullets but pretty much any form of like Direct Energy discharge would work so something I I might have
53:38
stuff to help with that too so you go first um we should we should probably be as far away as we can be which is for me
53:46
that's 30t which is not very far but I mean I'm going to wait until
53:51
everyone is at as safe a distance as we can get first have to you have to
53:57
activate them first to get them into drawing mode and then you have to watch oh so I have to be here to watch them
54:02
okay someone has to be because you don't okay you need to know when you can tell you don't have to be sitting there
54:08
looking at it going like this but you need to see that this thing is throwing off as much light as it can like you
54:13
need to be sure it's not getting Brighter Than This which means there's a small chance that the crystals will
54:18
explode before you set them off to feed back into the engine which would doesn't just mean you blew up the crystals which
54:24
would still be bad for you but wouldn't hurt the sh really so I have to be I have to be close enough to watch the to
54:30
watch the panel anyone would have to be someone has to be like if someone if if I'm there and then I call now yeah that
54:39
that could you but again you don't have to be like right there looking at the panel you need to be looking at the
54:44
giant crystalline structures that work as the Gatling gun barrels of these guns
54:49
okay and and once those are glowing sufficiently like you you both will know
54:54
this both tick tick and uh and tazy know that these things will be extremely bright and probably making
55:02
sounds although you you've never actually heard these things fired in an atmosphere so you don't know if they
55:08
make sounds but they should be I don't know I will relate this to everyone else
55:13
so I longest range of an of a weapon we can
55:18
fire at Le that's not projectile so I can maybe assess with that so um I don't
55:26
know if this will be useful cuz I don't know the gun thing uh but I can do kind
55:34
of this weird void strike um it'll deal a lot of acid
55:40
damage and it will usually the last time I did this it caused a whole bunch of technology to glitch out um in in retro
55:48
like so I can do a thing called entropy strike which is um it's uh does 46 acid
55:54
damage if it's technological but also inflicts glitching two and stunned one
55:59
um glitching void energy yeah then it will cause a feedback loop it will
56:05
probably also destroy the the computer that controls this thing in the first place but that doesn't matter if it if
56:10
you do successfully trigger the uh feedback then it doesn't matter you need to get all three of these at once uh I
56:17
mean this is a ray so I should be able to do that no problem you can get one with the ray there are three of these
56:22
guns each of them is a solid 60 yards like like the ship is is fairly big it's like
56:29
the size of a Boeing 747 uh imagine you've got a a weapon pod up front a
56:34
weapon pod right at the midsection of the plane and a weapon pod on the tail you would need to get to those three
56:40
areas and hit all three of them at the right moment so I have I can solar shot one of them which is I have an artillery
56:48
laser you have a laser I can hit one with myopic destabilizer okay so you've got four
56:53
people here um who can shoot these things in different different ways you need at least one person to coordinate
57:00
this and when I thought I was going to have more players there were more cannons but um so yeah you need someone to
57:07
coordinate and tell everybody else when to Fire and you all have to fire at the same time which means like you know if you were in a rounds of combat it would
57:14
be you'd all have to hold and fire at the same turn I also don't know if this helps I have um Warfare lore and I
57:22
rolled a 22 on recall knowledge okay it wouldn't give you any information you don't already know okay the these are
57:28
these are common weapons they're known throughout space uh they they work quite well uh the stuff you're hearing about
57:35
is more technical than lore like you would know what ships they've been installed on and what battles they've
57:42
been important in and the history of them but not necessarily how to make them blow up okay okay so well go ahead
57:50
I was going to say so if I'm looking at this just correctly um we need one
57:55
person to coordinate and that seems like it's going to be tasel because you are the fastest okay right and you're going
58:03
to like you'll be able to see what's going on coordinate we can take a blast at the other ones you're technically
58:09
fast enough you're faster than all of us if you take all of your actions to move move move um by a good considerable
58:15
margin so I think that's the play do you guys agree or disagree I think
58:23
that's do you have some way to Signal us from a long distance yeah you need one of
58:29
those you hear a human voice specifically the voice of the captain of the ship saying
58:35
what it'll turn around and there's the corpse of the captain like guts torn out
58:40
face messed up yeah you'd really want to be able to Target all three simultaneously so yeah that that would
58:46
make sense we're going to get off the ship and we're going to eat you and then she's not actually there anymore I don't
58:52
like that I don't like that at all oh scary well one in doubt blow it up yeah
58:59
you start hearing pounding sounds on the the adhered door which is now just hurry
59:04
hurry hurry hurry hurry so let's do the thing say everybody make a role to make
59:10
sure that you get into the right place like like whatever like if you've got survival you can use that if you've got
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like you know good perception whatever to make sure you're standing in the place you need to be to do what you need to do sure do that Athletics work
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Athletics won't tell you if you're in the right place I I get a crit on perception so you
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defin have no trouble which one are you going for uh what I don't know which one
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should I go for guys your range is what on it 30 so you're not going to want to be too close to the other two because
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you're going to want to literally go as far away from all three as you can the second you go so you need to either be
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on one of the two ends okay I'll be on one of the ends then okay that leads
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um VES and tick tick to pick ones they
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want the two remaining are the front most and the center under under fuselage
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ones uh 2 okay uh which one do you want to be at Vash uh let's do the center okay uh keep
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in mind how your normal speed like 25 feet that's your speed 20 what's your range on the thing that
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you're using uh my artillery laser has a 60 foot range so you can stand 6 so I
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have 120 so maybe I should take this Center yeah okay you you pretty much
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that made at Le when you say that it makes sense to everybody here even even um VES so you should be targeting the
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front one you can be 60 feet away from it and still shoot it so vs for me okay and that leaves tazel at the you can be
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at any one of these crystals you want you just have to be at one you can plug into diagnostically so you can initiate
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the command and tell people when it has reached its proper amount because if
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you're LinkedIn unlike them they they have to make it this decision visually but you have a diagnostic if the
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diagnostic will tell you 100% that's when it should be F these things should be fired upon so as long as you're
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plugged in properly good to go uh I'll I'll be at the end uh I'll be at the
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