We call crossed over to Jerry over at the travel desk. Jerry what's what's the city looking like tonight? Think it looks a little bit like this. Ah Oh, all in all is all is bright around young origin lover and child. Oh infants mild sleep the baby everything's sweet in early be is that was very festive geria festive, festive greetings and happy holidays to everybody out there I think it's going to be a good one in the city tonight. That's all from us stay safe
Dr. Henry Edwards:features of what one might assume the archetypal sewer cater to possess
Rafa:a small intermission from me you are not bound to one shape or form you can kind of free shape into to whatever you believe or imagined.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Whatever it is, whatever you believe is useful. The serum just enables him to do what he wants to be.
Rafa:That's very cool. That's very, very cool. Yeah.
Dr. Henry Edwards:So, he grins with a mouthful of teeth like jagged, broken glass and round the corner. loosing a primal roar in the direction of whatever the watery disturbances I would like to use because we'll call it events maybe to issue a challenge to whatever the creature is.
Snyder’s Return:I would say given that raw convinces are not required in this you are you have you've heard instigated a challenge, shall we say. And as you round the corner the ripples appear to have been tracked a little bit further down and round a corner and as your your beastial challenge rolls out you hear a a deeper or a deep sort of masculine growl from ripple back down and echo back down and the sound of the footsteps just not this corner but the next one there is heavy. It's not like small steps. This is heavy blueprints you know heavy impacts into waters they're storming down, there is no attempt to sort of hide or move into shadows. Now with that raw that you have released, one is sent in return and being followed up by the heavy footsteps of a bipedal form racing through the section of the sewer about to round the corner. And well, they are about to round the corner.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Dr. Edwards drops into what he imagines is a low wrestlers crouch so that he is waist deep in the muck, and sort of waits for this creature to round the corner with the intent of lunging into it from the side and trying to take it to the ground
Snyder’s Return:as it rounds the corner and you get to see it properly this time now it's time hidden in the shadows has been disrupted. You see this what can only be described as a twisted mess of mass and muscle and stitching and constitute parts I need you to before you act I need you to face danger against repulsed three are the only reason you're not taking this automatically as you prepared yourself. So you get to face danger against it and not be repulsed by this individual. You yourself being repulsive. I mean you're I mean doctorate once of course and you can just accept the status if you want but I'm giving you the opportunity to to lessen a riposte three status.
Dr. Henry Edwards:So they know what I'm just going to accept it. And in fact, I am going to use tap into the source to gain to juice with the source of my choosing to increase the status by two so I will change the game with those two juice and just increase the status to let's call it hateful for Okay, okay, as the doctor takes one look at this thing and is immediately disgusted by it's not so much by its nature its stitched appearance, but by its shoddy craftsmanship its ramshackle Bill build he sees himself as particularly in this moment as an apex predator at the peak of personal craftsmanship and is he hates this thing as if it is what someone else might see when they look at him and so he is going to attempt to slam this thing into the muck and rip it to pieces.
Snyder’s Return:I would like you therefore to yeah, go toe to toe with it.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Sounds good. I think hateful will apply here. Would you say? Yeah, okay, so maybe even
Snyder’s Return:top of the food chain Yeah,
Dr. Henry Edwards:yeah, I figured this was one of those rare situations where apply Felix but do you want to invoke any weakness tags
Snyder’s Return:you have had to hitch the serum I would say apply to this one.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Okay. I crushed us doesn't really work not Yes. Not Yeah, well, it's not like this is a situation where he could get by without using the Sierra has been using the serum a lot though. So how do you feel about addicted as well?
Snyder’s Return:Sure, sure. You have used it a number of times very recently that would would imply its addictive nature to you anyway.
Dr. Henry Edwards:So go how old how old
Rafa:rice is isn't even a challenge at this point.
Snyder’s Return:So result of 14 power seven choose to master achieve your goal take something a whole get them good inflicting a status with your t equal to the power or you can block or counter them best attempt.
Dr. Henry Edwards:So I think blocked onto your counter and get them good will be my choices and the status will be this kind of pure flavour so we'll
Snyder’s Return:enjoy flavour What is it you're trying to do?
Dr. Henry Edwards:So in terms of the action, Dr. Edwards rises As from his crouch into the things, midsection, wraps his arms around it and does a I guess the only the only way you could really describe it is a death roll where he hurls himself backwards suplexing the creature in the muck, sinks his teeth into its neck and just begins rolling it trying to rip its throat out. So we'll call it shredded seven
Snyder’s Return:as you as you leave and bind onto it and you can see it trying to grip the sides trying to find purchase but the SRI said the lining of the sewer walls provide no purchase your your teeth sink and start to separate seam from seam stitch from stitch the ripping and the tearing as sections little sections of he who shall be known as Frank, begin to come apart not only at the seams, pun very much intended in your body in your mouth, and under your grip, your almost a supernatural strength, for want of a better term is sort of the grip from your arms and your legs. Bisect across the middle, your teeth sinking in, tear the chunks and tear the seams across the shoulder in the chest. The head smacking against possibly the only hard surface probably your head begins to flap and fail to be a complete unit. What attempts to be a an almost terrifying roar or growl is is muffled by saltwater going into this Frank's sort of mouth and lungs as what was a deep rumbling abroad that tore down towards you in the Suez now becomes a almost panicked gargle as sewer water floods, stitching tears and the form the frame the imposing thing that is subdued some many of your helix lab teams from security and others is embraced now in your arms as a almost pretty much a lifeless form 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 us is short trailer for one of our many friends. Don't check them out. Follow the links in the description below to go and give the show a listen and engage with them and engage with us. We'd love to have you back as the cases continue to progress. Speaking of which, let's get back to the action.
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Space Poddity 4:Maxing Captain's log, man pot nine. Otter No, we have left the tarrasque far behind, thanks to a favourable current in the astral see. Our ship, however, is no ship at all. But instead a ship like ornament on an enormous birdbath on the roof of a rather tasteful clockwork mansion full of androids and refugee swamp people. Long story having no effective means of steering, we careened off the astral signal through a crystal pod and crashed on a strangely familiar Toriel class world. I swear I've been here before. As soon as I'm done with this log, I will propose that we form a ground team and buy or fabricate masts, spars, rope, and kettles of boiling whiskey in order to rig the entire mansion roof so that we might get underway again. The party of groundling adventurers I have to thank for being space bound at all, our heroic, unkind but untrusting. They won't even let me dictate this Captain's Log in private and are staring at me as I speak. They consist of a traumatised Minotaur veteran. traumatise, a spooky SMR child who is now an adult, ask them our child whom I suspect is under the thrall of a hidden power and the most headstrong elf I've ever met. And that includes rascal gar the cataclysmically reckless from the former Rajan on Zed it sounds fine. Also the mansions kitchens or I suppose their galleries now are out of ale.
Snyder’s Return:We should leave we should leave How am I gonna function?
Dr. Henry Edwards:Space potty find us wherever your podcasts are. Words or the thing Dr. Edwards has become for the moment snarls and straddling the limp body or collection of parts roar nice down the tunnels a challenge to anything else that might disrupt his day and conveniently for a few minutes before picking up Frank's decapitated head and grabbing at least the majority of the body in one claw starting to drag it back to the junction where the helix lab building meets with the sewer access he has every intention of handing this creature or at least his body off to the r&d team for examination and perhaps giving Leticia a new resource play with in Frank's head
Snyder’s Return:can a nice work cool
Dr. Henry Edwards:she's good at her job she can sort that out herself Besides she likes stitching doesn't she?
Snyder’s Return:It is Dr Edwards as you bring this head flaps scars bit and all that sort of come with it. That when you're when you take it into a light source just before you make exit from the sewer this what was left of it passes a strange oddly familiar resemblance to particular black hot black ops operative but you have entrusted so many cleaning and cleansing tasks to
Dr. Henry Edwards:I think I will pass on the spotlight at this point.
Snyder’s Return:I think that's fair. So stepping through into this world of of your own creation as it were your your labyrinth. Rafa, what did we find you're doing within
Rafa:sound as the door shuts close? It is dark, there is an emptiness still there are Rafa is kind of floating into nothingness. And he kind of pulls up a little screen that just kind of happens to open in front of him. And he says light and everything kind of turns white. He can see himself now. He'll put some other commands in there like floor room or walls. And he starts kind of constructing a little room by itself making it a little bit hospitable. And then he goes kind of to the senator it creates a chair sits down and a lot of screens kind of pop up like eyes opening and also keyboard, some inputs. And on the big central screen. He kind of sees a login screen And he just types minus where m one and o s and locks into his the system of his Rafa will wants to look if you get some footage from that those cameras that he he saw outside he will also write into his is chat with the activists, which cameras he is talking about kind of the the street and the region that he was in and if people can send him footage that it might show something in the in the time that he was there, and he will start digging and see if you find something about the crime scene Horowitz.
Snyder’s Return:So scanning through all this information reaching the feelers out the hacktivist group and whoever else decides they're going to respond oddly role and investigate.
Rafa:Okay, I will and network of agents. And I will add I'm in just because it's the first time yeah, that will be at four, investigate power of two, it's a mess.
Snyder’s Return:Well, sort of searching through UI would have sort of done a little bit of information. And the group goes strangely quiet. Two things sort of seem to happen. One of the one of the replies you get shows a single red thread. And the other one, what flashes up on your screen momentarily as you reached out into the wider network is what can only be described as sort of a Greco Spartan style. So maybe even Trojan style helmet or helm that appears on your screen momentarily, that seems to sort of corrupt and and just for a moment seems to seems to sort of wobble that the fabric of the information you're trying to receive. And it's when that flashes that the signal traffic from your hacktivist group force immediately silent. Unfortunately, beyond the the information of the officers and getting onto the street, the something has spooked your hacktivist group into holding withholding communicating with you just just for a moment.
Rafa:Alright. Raphael will put his reach into his pocket and put pull out one of the red threads that was hanging on his door and kind of speak to himself Ariadne know, well, the only one that is gaped or the one tool that helped a demand escape from the labyrinth. I believe you are my one and most dangerous foe aren't you are young and Rafa will kind of do a search of Ariadne and threads and kind of mythology find some clues on on his own, or now you're gonna carry on maybe? I don't know if I did that before, can I investigate and look beyond the mist on this red thread? Or is it maybe just simply really threat just an object of momentum?
Snyder’s Return:I would say you would, looking beyond the midst of this particular moment in time at the thread given where you are as much as anything else it is more symbolic than integral. But having had it placed upon your door handle and now received electronically. There is there is a thread to be followed.
Rafa:Oh, I got it. Oh yeah. I got it. Electronically they want. Yeah, if, if it's a digital hazard here is some data. What happens if I click on it or execute it if it's Something like that. Yeah. I didn't think about that. Yeah, interact with the red thread on my screens.
Snyder’s Return:Because of the sort of the corruption, almost the the information flow, allowing you to go toe to toe against approving, shall we say, security systems?
Rafa:Okay. I will use I'll use infamous, or one of the first times because rough is an experienced expert, almost hacker, he will use breaching device. I will use leave no trace. And I would like to use whereas the crew theme labyrinth. Can I use? Can I use all lack to use administrative acts? From the labyrinth? Okay, so I'll have to, I haven't yet written that on my car, but it will be a power of four
Snyder’s Return:weaknesses. Do you? Well, you're not exposed to just yet. But maybe error in the code.
Rafa:Okay. So one weakness? Make sure you mark
Snyder’s Return:Attention. Attention for that. Yes.
Rafa:Okay. go toe to toe with a power of three. Yes.
Snyder’s Return:All right. So the role of the result of 10 a great success and a power three you get to choose to you can manage to achieve your goal as in take something they hold and get to get them good inflict the status or you can block dodge or counter their best attempt?
Rafa:Well, I think the only one that I can use this really achieved my end goal, which would be knee
Snyder’s Return:potentially you might want to use the bottom one as well. The third block data
Rafa:or counter numbers to 10s. Okay. Yeah, but
Dr. Henry Edwards:you always want to do that one.
Snyder’s Return:Yeah, definitely in this situation. Not to tell you how to play your character but
Rafa:okay, because because I'm kind of locked out. Okay, yeah, I'll, yeah, I'll do that. Blocked, they're, they're hacking me.
Snyder’s Return:You are. So you are able to not only breach some firewalls required to get past you're able to repel the electrical tendrils of a rival security system that seems to be worming its way across the internet, as it were the various layers of information flowing throughout the city. So what is it so you managed to achieve your goal? What is it that you want to know? Thanks for listening, you can find out more about the show, including our interview episodes via linktree or at our website at www dot Snyder’s return.squarespace.com. please consider leaving us a review. City of mist as a TTRPG by Sun evoke. You can find out more about city Mist by going to www dot city of mist.co music and sound effects for this episode from epidemic sounds.com. The intro and outro music were composed by Chloe Elliot. You can find her on Twitter at Khloe underscore with the flow. The logo was designed by Jessie Lowe, you can find her artwork on Twitter at Akon Nomi underscore art. We're going to use our help points and be ready to investigate next time on meddlers, monsters and madmen