Meddlers, Monsters and Madmen - 22 - Has it come to This!? - City of Mist TTRPG

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Iona Starling: 0:00

My name is Irene. I play I own a starling and she has a riff of the Shadow Dragon from Dungeons and Dragons.

Snyder’s Return: 1:00

Good evening, you join us for breaking international news as Queen Elizabeth the Second passed away in her sleep at the age of 96. Monarch reigned for over 70 years and we'll be superseded by her son, Charles, who will become King Charles the third of his super session in the coming week. More on the story and all our other news follow soon. Yes, for your shadowy rope, Iona I think change the game would probably be the best for this. Okay, and open to

Iona Starling: 1:34

other interpretations. Dumb. Ah, all right, hold up. Okay, so obviously shadow shapes and schools quick learner because I'm trying to make something I haven't done before. So we'll use that. Okay, all right. These are cinematic moves.

Snyder’s Return: 2:00

Let me can use one of those. Nice, nice All right. So for a 15 on a power of three you get you get juice equal to power three and you can spend your juice to gain you can create storytelling burn a power tag or a story tag, give or reduce a status scale up in effect if you wanted to drag somebody else as well prolong the effect hide the effect don't think or something else you want to pitch to me that we could agree on.

Iona Starling: 2:28

My goal on this is to create something to pour out so I guess my goal would be to make a story tag right? Yeah, Shadow shadow rope. So we're gonna go to your shadow

Dr. Henry Edwards: 2:41

world just to whip them out a window problems

Iona Starling: 2:47

I considered trying to reach in with with a large claw claw talons, I don't know but I thought this might be more likely to do it.

Unknown: 2:57

I would totally agree All right, so sad after less swing me around the neck and drawing

Iona Starling: 3:07

a non vital part of the body like the leg

Snyder’s Return: 3:11

just head bounces down into the steps on the way out the property.

Iona Starling: 3:16

Okay, well you guys use a rope

Snyder’s Return: 3:20

a rope rope works fine

Unknown: 3:24

okay

Iona Starling: 3:26

do you want me to roll something else or be claimed that I

Snyder’s Return: 3:30

you've made the story tag and that works for me you can bank the other to use

Unknown: 3:38

okay

Iona Starling: 3:40

all banks the other to use so

Snyder’s Return: 3:45

yeah, so describe the rope doing its thing for us please I

Iona Starling: 3:49

own the shadow is actually called they don't really seem substantial at all. When she creates a weapon it it doesn't actually take any physical form all you see is a genuine shadow reaching out across the floor, the windows, the walls, you know, whatever as it's being reflected by something that isn't there. But when it reaches something, when it reaches something that is actually there in the world, all of a sudden it's like as if you're being gamed by whatever it is the shape actually is. So if she was wielding a knife all you would see is a neck like a shadow of a knife in our hands but it would cut like it was real. So it's the same idea. You don't see anything like there is no rope there is nothing physical but when a wreath reaches Rafa, it pulls them across like there is something there.

Snyder’s Return: 4:48

All right, I'd say that's less Shadow Dragon and more Shikamaru but that's, uh,

Iona Starling: 4:52

yeah. Thank you. Well,

Snyder’s Return: 4:56

it's a great image by the way. I love it. All right. So Rafa, you are unaware of pretty much all of this but you are being saved by Iona as you are sort of the head as you are being extracted from the property via the shadow rope through ironers fantastical abilities I own and just not far from you now because you've had to sort of manoeuvre a little bit to get the control the the shadow rope to go through you can see the arms the legs that that actually now starting to push out try and push the window frames out as though trying to emerge out of that bay window and out on the on the road. You can see from where you are between sort of pulling or using the shadows to pull refer through sort of few of the what constitutes the sex of Ken a few of these people seem to sort of just be dropping away and sort of falling back in as though the gas released that you can just see the smallest remnants of appears to be taking some sort of effect on them but while you're busy sort of pulling Rafa out doctorate was you're just still there but you're not all there Hyde reaches out to you doctor was Dr. What's the plan? Dr.

Dr. Henry Edwards: 6:35

Disable the target with extreme prejudice and with that he Lopes forward and shadow barred shoulder barges through the wall. Rafa created and attempts to bodily hall this amalgam back into the gas cloud

Snyder’s Return: 6:58

All right, I would like you to go what are you going to say Rafa, because you're

Unknown: 7:05

just tried with

Dr. Henry Edwards: 7:11

the saddest of spaghetti.

Iona Starling: 7:14

You're just being dragged along like limp noodle,

Rafa: 7:18

um, like that, that one character that is like overly positive and sells himself as a hero. But in the end, he's the first to be knocked out.

Snyder’s Return: 7:30

All right, so as Dr. Rob was you sort of move in and sort of create this mess and Hyde follows you through with his weapon at the ready, the extra skillet in front of you becomes a, because of just the sheer amount of noise, you're making the gas now sort of dissipated enough for you to move through, unaffected, further unaffected or not affected further, or work out English words, at some point, they'll all make sense. I'll get there one day, as you move in, you can see this sort of massive of forms sort of bulging up towards the window frame, sort of concealing that the female form from the back there on the floor, there's a few that have fallen clearly unconscious to come to the gas. The female form inside the middle of this exoskeleton, Veronica's she's panicked and sort of moving and as she's panicking, the, the exoskeleton is twisting and moving a warping around her as the body sort of each take a turn to take another swipe at the window and then climb around. A bit like

Iona Starling: 8:44

fucking creepy man.

Snyder’s Return: 8:47

A bit like spiders moving around a web effectively as they sort of move around the exterior or Labour wasps around a hive or whatever. So as you sort of move in, the few that have got a little bit about them that seems to be linked to her subconscious. She's heard you Dave heard you. There's a weird sort of Wales shriek that sort of comes from all of them being subjected to this weird conjoined effect of the knockout gas and the pain that's come from smashing through the glass and the wooden window frames. What are you doing?

Dr. Henry Edwards: 9:35

Need to know what weaknesses to toggle for Mikoto to tout

Iona Starling: 9:46

have an idea or have an idea I will big and do it for

Snyder’s Return: 9:49

your weakness is I would say

Dr. Henry Edwards: 9:52

the serum again.

Snyder’s Return: 9:54

So addicted this time then.

Unknown: 9:56

Sure. That one should work.

Dr. Henry Edwards: 10:06

Do toe to toe

Snyder’s Return: 10:13

is that with your woozy for as well? Oh now

Dr. Henry Edwards: 10:20

so that's minus four there is no success

Snyder’s Return: 10:24

right so with a success design seven right seven through nine is a mild success so now events all right should you take a hit the serum that moment that pause that that that chance to take maybe take the initiative is just last as as her almost second sense pills round and they begin to swarm back to you hide sort of moves to one side weapon raised and make sure I read the right thing before I say any more. And you can hear sort of the the mechanism in the rifle click before he pulls the trigger Iona you can hear this you can see the shift of the mass rapper is now free of both the House and anything that would cause him to be sort of put in further danger at this point in time you've managed to sort of really well pretty quickly discover your idea.

Iona Starling: 11:26

I have no idea. I hope it works. Okay, so Rafa, safe right?

Snyder’s Return: 11:29

refers for all you're aware at this point in time, I will say it that way out of the building. Out of the building, front yard, and at this point in time safe,

Iona Starling: 11:42

but I still have the tag. Shadow rope, right. That's still my tag. Yes. Okay. Okay. So can I see the girl in the middle? Can I see Yes.

Snyder’s Return: 11:56

As the as the form is shifted to block doctor was his attempts and where a few of them have become unconscious. You can now see her through the smashed out bay window area.

Iona Starling: 12:12

And I can Can I see your expression? Can I see that she looks panicked.

Snyder’s Return: 12:17

You've been able to sort of see him and pick that up in fits and starts now. You can see a bit more clearly. Yes. All right.

Iona Starling: 12:23

All right. I'm gonna use the shadow rope. I'm going to use my to bank juice for my great role. Try I'm going to use my to juice that I banked that you let me drink. Yeah, I don't use that. And I'm going to use the shadow the story tag shadow rope. And I'm going to try and kind of like, like, pull her right out of the grass of the middle of that club. Like I reach out with the rope and I try and yank her right out of the clump of people.

Snyder’s Return: 12:55

I would like you to take the risk.

Iona Starling: 12:59

Okay, okay. All right. All right. Let's see. Let's see what I got. So I got I got shadow rope. I got the juice, my juice. I got yours germination and I want to pull up quick learner as well because this is also very new so okay, that's that's five power you want me to pull any weaknesses.

Snyder’s Return: 13:30

Let me just review as I said I had to close them all down because my computer deciding it wasn't a word. So weaknesses. too far down failure causes her to be violent. No actually naive and overconfident. Okay, I would say for this one.

Unknown: 13:54

All right. All right. Take the risk. Yes. Yeah. Somehow, somehow.

Snyder’s Return: 14:08

Maybe I should be bold and bigger text. All right. So

Dr. Henry Edwards: 14:13

question mark.

Snyder’s Return: 14:17

All right, with with a result 11 and a power of four. Describe how it looks as you manipulate the shadow rope from aiding refer now to dealing with this situation. It's your MC Adam here just taking a break from the case momentarily to let you know about our great friends in the tabletop role playing game community and the TTRPG family. So the following is a short trailer for one of our many friends. Go and check them out. Follow the links in the description below to go and give the show Listen, engage with them and engage with us. We'd love to have you back as the case has continued to progress. Speaking of which, let's get back to the action.

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Unknown: 15:28

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Unknown: 16:04

where you pretend like you actually liked the show

Iona Starling: 16:29

it's, it's again, it's the same thing. It doesn't physically appear on anything. But she throws out her hand and it reacts almost like a tangible it's not a rope rope like she has to do with it or anything. It moves almost like it's a living thing onto its own. As it passes over the bodies that are in between the girls between the girl there's a cold feeling like something is passing over you. And when it wraps around the girl. She feels as if the warmth from her body is being yanked right out. And then I oh no like twisting her body hard. Pulls with all her might back and the girl just comes flying out like she's been yanked on a bunch of puppet strings and rolls onto the ground in front of Iona. As

Snyder’s Return: 17:24

she is dragged out and hits the ground doctor was in front of you that the exoskeleton collapses as it collapses beyond just let this work related announcement finish

Unknown: 17:43

Yeah, I was gonna say cool.

Snyder’s Return: 17:47

All right. So as getting back to it, the story is yours not mine. As she is removed, extracted. exercised almost out of the the inside of the exoskeleton doctor it was as the exoskeleton that held her cocooned her almost collapses in front of you and body start hitting the floor. Hide responds as though it was a threat and you can hear the the assault rifle just click as anything that comes within like five feet walls. Three to five feet of you is dispatched, shall you say only you briefly see the flash like a muzzle flash. And then it all falls silent as what sounded like Bodies Hit The Floor. Sounds like Bodies Hit The Floor. The she Yeah. Not quite as much as that as vector rolls to a stop at your feet own. You can see there is panic, there is fear that that cold that came from your tent is Shadow sort of broke tendril. She sort of in her still in this hospital gown outfit. It sort of rolls up as sort of fear initially takes over and then the the expression starts to change can almost be like an anger building within within her. What are you doing,

Iona Starling: 19:23

sir? Are you going to say thank you or are you going to curse me out?

Dr. Henry Edwards: 19:29

She says

Snyder’s Return: 19:32

you don't understand. My brother was in there. I was never popular. I don't want to be a hashtag.

Iona Starling: 19:44

Wait, come speak to me girl, girl. Come on. Hey, it's all right. Look at me what's going on? Hey, she kind of crouches down to try and get her level.

Snyder’s Return: 19:53

As you try and get her level. There is a sense of it's gone from sort of shock and cold. ought to anger to then there's this this look of almost despair on her face. And rather instinctively, not aggressively she sort of reaches out to sort of, like, grip your arms was almost a sort of plead with you.

Iona Starling: 20:15

What is it? Hey, so she kind of pulls back a little when she grabs but doesn't Yank away.

Snyder’s Return: 20:22

So you've allowed her to touch you is the question I'm asking.

Iona Starling: 20:25

Yes, I guess

Snyder’s Return: 20:28

as she grips you, you you feel that culture and social running back the way I need you to face danger against infected three. This is unintentional, but unfortunately, this side effect, right adults are angry. They're not school kids.

Dr. Henry Edwards: 20:52

Now, those are just okay.

Iona Starling: 20:57

Anything except, I mean, I don't even want to use dangerous determination because it's not like a thing I can force out so all like all I got is, yeah, yeah, all I got is face changer and hope for the best. Oh, no, oh, no. No,

Dr. Henry Edwards: 21:13

that is unfortunate.

Snyder’s Return: 21:14

That is unfortunate. As she grips you, and you feel this sort of coldness, of a difference of a sort you feel and you can see as she sort of holding you her pitch black eyes sort of look at you a sense of despair. And it's in this strange moment that you feel you feel more linked, you actually feel connected. You imagine in the same way that those back inside felt connected to her you take the the status infected three, but you get this rush this flood of emotion, a sense of loneliness, detachment, and a strange sort of mental image of her, her brother and her mum with this strange sort of greyed out shadow of a father figure. And like the warped sense of family of the family home that you guys had been passed earlier. All sorts of races into your mind and twists and walks as you sort of recoil back into your and regain control your senses you can see tears, a streaming from her eyes.

Iona Starling: 22:28

Tears are probably streaming from my own his eyes to it was just that image the feelings it was just it was as for a moment she was looking directly at a mirror of herself.

Snyder’s Return: 22:40

As YouTube showed us share this this deeper sense of of emotional moment. Refer still unfortunately doubt someone's going to have to help you out if you need to wake up all the way. You're safe at the moment.

Unknown: 22:54

I can I can use anything like my best chin in a moment Minotaur can't somehow help me.

Snyder’s Return: 23:06

Possibly we'll try something in a second. But as you Iona and Veronica and you now know this is Veronica Chang you you don't see vector. You see Veronica even though the complexion the eyes everything that that is sort of overwhelmed you in the last few minutes it is for Ronica that you have connected with rather than the strange rift of the of the Black Death inside the building. The doctor those bodies on the floor hide begins to move towards the window with his rifle raised

Dr. Henry Edwards: 23:47

the doctor holds up his hand for hide to the very least hold and using what's called

Snyder’s Return: 24:01

your kind heart and gentle nature.

Dr. Henry Edwards: 24:09

I will remember this using the newly acquired improvement tap into the source I'm going to have Dr Edwards Edwards gain to juice and use it to reduce woozy to get so

Snyder’s Return: 24:30

dizzy. Dizzy too.

Dr. Henry Edwards: 24:34

As he holds up his hand a sort of shatters and steam starts to pour out of the good doctor, as he forcefully expels the sedative poison that has been circulating in his bloodstream nor at least most of it having expelled the gas he turns to hide and says round up these the three of us will deal with

Snyder’s Return: 25:16

the carrier Are you sure doctor I can end this now with a simple shot

Iona Starling: 25:23

that has anything to say whether he's just dying for that stupid kid now.

Dr. Henry Edwards: 25:28

They may prove useful in in providing a treatment should any further escaped subjects make an appearance? Yes doctor

Snyder’s Return: 25:41

as you wish and he it takes him a little longer than it should do to lower the weapon and back away from approaching the window. But he swings around to one side touches the comms unit. And you Dr. Woods can hear him relaying the information to the the other operatives, the other helix lab Black Ops team outside who then make their way into the back of the building and begin to carefully man handle those who don't need body bags out to the backyard and further transport.

Dr. Henry Edwards: 26:17

The doctor lumbers over to where Iona is talking to Veronica and where Rafa is snoring daintily on the Veronica, sorry, go.

Iona Starling: 26:36

Yeah, as soon as Iona sees the doctor approaching, whether in his normal form or otherwise, she kind of the tears dry immediately. And she sticks out an arm in front of the girl. And a small snarl comes upon her face. Don't touch her. I'm proud of you

Dr. Henry Edwards: 27:06

that was almost sweet until it got a little weird. The doctor sort of snorts and amusement and shrugs his shoulders and says Whatever happens now is on your head.

Iona Starling: 27:24

When I just want some more,

Snyder’s Return: 27:27

Iona as Veronica begins to speak you get an image in your mind is of the docks you can see containers you can see a ship you can see a rough looking individual and almost in a state of of of panic for Monica slugger. The talks the deal?

Iona Starling: 27:50

Deal, she she turns around immediately. What? What do we what are you talking about? Veronica? Hey,

Snyder’s Return: 27:57

she says I needed more. I had to connect. i My father father works down at the dock. And as she's saying it to you. I know you're getting sort of the the mental images of this in your mind. But obviously Dr. Webb was you're only hearing it she says so. We we traded helix lab gear for well, people I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Did the you know please don't hurt me on my we didn't I didn't mean I'm I'm sorry.

Iona Starling: 28:46

He It's alright. You have to be more clear. What do you mean? You traded stuff for for people? What do you mean,

Snyder’s Return: 28:55

this is a bad man down at the docks that that that we've found out about? And we have there's a there's a container full of people that were going to come in and they were going to join me

Iona Starling: 29:12

join you. Or are you the one with this power? Are you the one in the centre of it all?

Snyder’s Return: 29:21

I had a blood test and then I ended up in a lab and I'd touch one of them. And then I did i We did an

Iona Starling: 29:34

explosion. It's alright. It's okay.

Dr. Henry Edwards: 29:39

I got out.

Snyder’s Return: 29:40

I got out and ran around here. I called my my brother Victor. Victor. And you can see she's now looking around

Iona Starling: 29:52

panicked. Is Victor here was Victor, one of the people. And you

Snyder’s Return: 29:56

can see her she sort of takes a deep breath here. In a deep breath out and you can see sort of through her through you and to the others. Victor, her brother is asleep inside the front room as one of the many collapsed forms who are unconscious not one of the short ones. I'm not that evil.

Iona Starling: 30:22

Thank you. i On a straightens up and she looks back at the room. Okay. All right, come on. She She, right. Okay, I'm gonna go get it right, just stay right here. Okay, don't touch her. And she turns around to the to Dr. Edwards. Okay don't and she quickly runs back into the room to try and snag him before the other men can get on.

Snyder’s Return: 31:20

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