Snyders Return:

Welcome to Snyder's return, you join us in the year 2179 on Lv four to six the shake and bake commonly known as Hartley's hope. This short space horror adventure is a cinematic playstyle taken from the freely Publishing's alien RPG. I will be your game mother currently is playing a singleton, a pilot turn tractor driver. Tyler is playing sick, his scientist and lab technician. And Nathan is playing as Hirsch, an ex colonial marine turned cleaner. We hope you enjoy

Unknown:

the Metalab. Oh yeah, level two is like just above us. times two. Oh, that's miles away. Yep. Think about would give up. Is there a quicker way to get if we went if we went through C one up to see two? Yes, the two that's a long way. No, but

Hirsch:

how about this for a bag of potato chips. We stay at level minus one go through the vehicle Bay down to the maintenance offices and then that ladder you can just go up to and boom you're straight in the command centre Australian to the MATLAB piece of piss when you look at vehicle unloading cargo straight to vehicle Bay then go down to the corridor that fox off the screen the ladder at the very bottom

Unknown:

right all right yeah.

Hirsch:

Yeah if you go back to levels you get straight to block E to calm and you've lived here before you know where is I fell in Yeah,

Unknown:

I've never been done this one.

Hirsch:

Well, you just too busy nerding out and your med lab will get you there I reckon that is probably less likely to like find anyone down here find the levels Yeah, like well I think level this level it's quite open and it like look at the corridors are quite big and it's not like doors and shit that can just open with like dead people in shit in them. So I'd wreck Holroyd

Snyders Return:

I think that sound may have drawn someone's attention to the columns boxes or the intercom maybe we should move in and discuss our actions yet popular.

Hirsch:

Let's go okay, I want to go to the vehicle Bay should we not check for anything interesting

Unknown:

here we just moved on I could

Hirsch:

survive this way. Dude I want to find out to find these bloody is Reynolds and get his key card Get the fuck out of here.

Unknown:

Just thinking I'll stay with you cuz you got the guns.

Hirsch:

I haven't got the guns. Oh, boom.

Snyders Return:

So as you move through the wide tunnel of linking the target on the vehicle Bay, you notice some of the some of the ground is scratched up and you notice that some of the ceiling is ripped apart and as you move further down, you can see that was a saw a whole slew more of this this Crimson staining and smearing leads from the through the vehicle be even seen. And in sort of a couple of different directions. You also notice that parts of the ceiling and and some of those sort of the ceiling panels and that the vent ducts that sort of run around this area are also cracked or damaged or, or just seemingly sort of thrown to one side on the floor, access to grades and things from the ceiling tiles above you have the vehicle entrance leading out of the vehicle like vehicle Bay is currently shut. But it you see just sort of moving into that area in this sort of dimly lit section that it does appear to have been maybe pushed in in places and you sort of find yourself in the vehicle Bay with the intercom crackling again. One of the places you heard the intercom crackling through was here and the terminal access terminal for the various doors there to one side. So you've gone from the vehicle unloading car yeah the vehicle behaviour

Hirsch:

okay. Right to sweet that's not fuck about let's do you want to stop off at the maintenance base if there's any weapons are out or do you think it's just worth just getting to our main point?

Singleton:

So the only person that we know this respond to is the guy in the in the metal up? ya know what I mean? Yeah, he may know something.

Hirsch:

Yeah. Like it. Is it gonna be one of those things where like, what is that? What does that symbol mean workshop engineering, but it's literally just across the whole

Unknown:

because he's got it done

Hirsch:

that way then I was gonna run to the maintenance see we can find anything as a medical Bay as well. There's like a medical thing there.

Unknown:

Yeah.

Hirsch:

Oh miska med kit. You might as well do that before we go.

Unknown:

Caring for

Hirsch:

like in the maintenance day in that we're already here. I don't think there's anything right it's Go go go. I'm gonna go for the small entrance at the bottom right? Because I don't like big

Snyders Return:

corridors of the vehicle but yeah, so you're going through the smaller corridor from the vehicle Bay heading towards the maintenance but Yeah,

Singleton:

yep, we should definitely go through the choke point. Yeah.

Unknown:

Okay, fine. Well Oh, no,

Singleton:

I'm already there. I'm already walking through Wow, this is a great quarter. Wow, I can touch Wow,

Unknown:

it was so small. I hear sarcasm dripping from your voice. No, I'm there with you. But I want it to be quiet. I was passing the walls you guys

Hirsch:

so passive aggressive, its offensive.

Unknown:

Mistakes are bad. Maybe they weren't.

Snyders Return:

So as

Hirsch:

we go down the thin one that Yeah, we're going down the ill advised corridor

Snyders Return:

as you head down the ill advised corridor. So you leave the vehicle Bay with the the external door that seems to be slightly tattered. The Doors link in the corridors close to the maintenance office opens without any issue. And there is a strange site ahead of you you can see what appears to be it looks a bit like mincemeat and, and fabric sort of torn up in the sort of the T junction of the passage way ahead of you the whole way ahead of you. And spot spotting this. Two words.

Unknown:

I went through

Snyders Return:

first, you spotting this and the others following clothes on behind. You can see this mound of what looks like torn up mentioned clear the fabric can in the form of clothing that has been torn up and and sort of torn apart. So you will take one stress. No,

Unknown:

no for Fox sake. Sorry.

Hirsch:

I don't need this in my life right now.

Singleton:

You sound stressed but

Hirsch:

I am stressed and stressed as I was five minutes ago. same set of the essay. I know it's just unbelievable. Go I'm doubling my stress.

Unknown:

Right. Other than that

Snyders Return:

you hear? Well, there is there is a strange absence of sound outside from the vehicle be you would hear a bit of the trouble of the stormy weather from the surface where the vehicle entrance was but but here in this corridor now. silence

Unknown:

I don't like it.

Hirsch:

That's not daily daddy. Right. Right. Indeed.

Singleton:

I would like to. Is there like a window in the door

Snyders Return:

as you walk through? You are in the corridor.

Singleton:

All right. Let's just looking at the pile. I think we should just trudge on through you know. Run. Yeah. And the rest of the religion and carry on don't

Unknown:

grow on trees.

Singleton:

Yeah. got bills to pay from outside feed. mouths to feed

Snyders Return:

as you make your way into the start entering the Crossroads you hear?

Hirsch:

That sounds good. Doesn't Oh, no, it wasn't one of those ramping up mechanical servo noises that only happened when it

Snyders Return:

was servo noise Yes. Even a delicate

Singleton:

right. I would not like to stay here. imminent death sounding noises are happening. Yeah.

Snyders Return:

So what are you doing? You are you crossing the corridor.

Unknown:

So would it be here

Hirsch:

we have a look around. It's white. Do we know where that noise came from?

Snyders Return:

You No, we came down from the south. Let's not go

Hirsch:

oh gosh pop your head out just see this if it isn't a thing Wait, is there a mirror on them?

Singleton:

Check my inventory. I have not

Snyders Return:

unless you go and look for one

Unknown:

my signature,

Hirsch:

so I have nothing on me but a weapon

Singleton:

is a toy dinosaur that I generally have that is that shiny reflective toy dinosaur by the Jets.

Snyders Return:

I don't think it's a reflector source.

Hirsch:

What about my cross necklace that's got to be made of like, shiny silver right? And it's massive as well because I could go on love it.

Singleton:

Man, you got some mad drip.

Hirsch:

The biggest cross necklace you've ever seen. I polish it every night so is like, mira finish.

Snyders Return:

Are you look

Hirsch:

I want to see if I could see what made that noise.

Snyders Return:

All right. You would technically already know because we've already spoken about I know

Hirsch:

but we're in character.

Snyders Return:

Yes. Again, you live here so you probably would know.

Hirsch:

Oh, okay, so they just have that thing set up the entire time this century, but I'm not okay with that case. What right?

Snyders Return:

That's not that's a fair point. That's a fair point. You roll observation.

Hirsch:

Observation again. No observation shit. Compared to fucking Okay, I'm just gonna copy and paste. What I just literally did. That makes no

Singleton:

nope. Nope. You can. Shouldn't you need to stress Oh, wow,

Hirsch:

that sounds terrible.

Snyders Return:

Yeah, you're up to stress.

Hirsch:

Ah, fuck shit. I've already failed it though.

Snyders Return:

That's fine. Just roll cuz.

Unknown:

Oh, God.

Snyders Return:

No, we're too stressed. Okay,

Unknown:

didn't roll the right one.

Hirsch:

I'll reroll that. Okay. Paste that. Change that for to

Singleton:

see us cheating. Damn.

Snyders Return:

Because he can't. He did. He did. He did. However, what did I do and see what I get.

Unknown:

Okay. Okay,

Snyders Return:

so you successfully monsters. So as you saw the loot and to loot. Oh, he's totally tropical. As you lean tilt and look around the corner. This whirring servo noise you can hear in just a split second. And as you look to see the sentry gun at the far end of the corridor, the sentry gun. As you can see it is fully automatic. And you have to get out of the way of it.

Unknown:

Sweet.

Snyders Return:

And you take what's your help? Okay, you take for damage. This is gonna go well lucky not to be dead.

Hirsch:

Like, seriously, that was just from a servo noise if I didn't know that was even there. Well, that's me knackered for the rest of the fucking trip. could have

Singleton:

been worse could have been me. I would have died. Yeah, we can

Unknown:

just double check everything one

Hirsch:

I have one health left. And because I heard a servo noise.

Unknown:

I've got a med kit. But I don't really want to use it.

Hirsch:

Like how you performs fucking miracles because four fifths of myself is just for us like my both all of my limbs have fallen off and all I have is my head now.

Singleton:

No, I mean, no.

Hirsch:

That's how it works. Your health of your physical body.

Unknown:

Is that right? Yes. Well, you

Hirsch:

won't you got four. Yeah, you got a half a bright half your face and your arm comes off. As one hit.

Unknown:

I would have died.

Hirsch:

Well, shit was a good job. I poked my fucking head around the corner there.

Unknown:

I think we should all commit as a team.

Hirsch:

Just double pay it Guess what, this really really wrecks my awesome plan of going down that ladder and up? Yes. So new plan or,

Singleton:

or or there's still away. But I mean, I don't know if you'd like it because you quite clearly only like small tunnels. But the thicker tunnel from the view. Just north of us.

Unknown:

There's a walk event

Singleton:

there's a door that is covering this current one. So we could just go that way and then the central government got to pick us up absolute corridor

Hirsch:

bullshit. Yeah, well, I need to go there to get the fucking med pack now. So blew my head. two arms on one leg off.

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Snyders Return:

Before we

Hirsch:

get I've become a hub. I just a single hopping. headless nugget.

Unknown:

cheeky sorry, good. So I can live with you. Well,

Hirsch:

what you just want me to be done. Just be a sarcastic fucking headless is just ahead of the body just giving you shit. Now I want to be able to move on my own independent man

Snyders Return:

as soon as you are. So you do have because I'm just pulling up your thing. You do have a med kit. Yeah,

Singleton:

I did say look. I don't really want to use it. Like not even literally just got to the second. We're not even that far.

Hirsch:

Dude, I looked around the corner. I lost nearly all of my life. And the least you could do is fucking make me a little bit better.

Unknown:

I'll use it. Just for you, man.

Hirsch:

Yeah, just yeah, literally just on me or anyone else. I want everything it's got in that. I want the savlon I want the frickin little clip slightly our bandages together. I want the bandage cream on plasters. I want the water purification. Whatever fitted me everything that's in that med kit. Give it me.

Unknown:

How do I use it?

Hirsch:

Perfectly if you fuck this up now. Yeah, it's a epinephrine needle straight to the face. Absolutely, you know, like crank when he puts too much in his body. I can easily make that jump between the cardones own problem.

Snyders Return:

I'm just putting up now I'm pretty sure it's just make it personal make it contains everything you need to start up up up above. It's not a permanent solution. But

Unknown:

I wasn't part of the deal.

Snyders Return:

So you said your med kit gives you a policy modification to medical aid Ross. If you

Hirsch:

had been a minister motherfucking self Let me have a look.

Unknown:

Nope, someone helped me. So what do I roll with? And then medical aid?

Hirsch:

Do you have Do you have empathy and then medical aid.

Unknown:

So it's empathy,

Snyders Return:

empathy, medical aid, which gives you a plus two, plus two for the med kit. And then if someone wants to help, the way the help, action effectively works in this game is you then they tell you, they're going to help you. And you get an additional single dice.

Unknown:

Anybody hope? Well,

Snyders Return:

I snapped my distress on I want you Well, one of them seriously injured, so possibly not.

Unknown:

I will help you know the one like I will help you fix your injured. Yeah. committed to helping yourself? Yeah. Well, I mean, are you are you allowed to help?

Snyders Return:

I don't see why not.

Unknown:

We'll play you know,

Snyders Return:

we'll just go. Fine.

Unknown:

Let's make our own rules. That's exactly how games are formed.

Snyders Return:

So with each success, you

Unknown:

gain a health back effectively. How many successes can you do? So to what he's got on the screen? Holy shit.

Snyders Return:

Okay, if he wants to try and heal you again, or improve that result, you can push the roll and I'll put him up to three strikes

Hirsch:

the Lotus dress. No, no, I think that's that's way more manageable. Thank you very much.

Singleton:

some bad news into your

Snyders Return:

eyes I don't think it's working. That medical kit is now gone effectively

Singleton:

though with the two you've regained your head and another leg

Unknown:

just off

Snyders Return:

the kidney can we rather have

Hirsch:

a left leg and a right arm? I can crop myself up on a bar you can still pull goes that way you know and you can lean against the bar you can just have one leg

Unknown:

abusing you

Snyders Return:

situation

Hirsch:

though this bears enlightened me beyond my wildest dreams

Snyders Return:

right so as as the shots have run out and at least one has hit you and you've been injured at least one Yeah, they also impact the wall behind you and sort of given their aim as you've moved in response again sending the shot the sound of automatic fire bouncing down these corridors both towards processor one which exists to the south several kilometres away I have learned and through towards the maintenance Bay in the vehicle Bay as well.

Singleton:

I think we should move as far away as possible from him. Yet we should go back to the oglebay up to the top across like the closed card or medicine medium. Yep.

Snyders Return:

As you retreat back into the vehicle Bay from where you are taking stock of everything going on. And you all sort of helped by Polaroid who could have helped you with that check I suppose. The Oh, you know

Unknown:

what? I forgot there's other ones

Snyders Return:

Well, there's two others Polaroid and the other one I keep forgetting so we'll just say there's him and if you need an extra place

Hirsch:

oh look where the other one is an officer that's why we don't like him.

Snyders Return:

You can I took the gender out just in case one of you wanting to play

Singleton:

actually Wait, who do I not like? Oh my god it's actually perfect.

Snyders Return:

He's unwittingly been playing he's down to perfectly

Unknown:

happy really so.

Singleton:

Hirsch You're an idiot.

Hirsch:

Fuck you, bro. It's a gonna stay together cuz he's my boy.

Unknown:

Yeah, buddies.

Hirsch:

buddies for life. Give me a single highlight you exactly. Have no arms, and no Eiffel Tower anymore. I'm sorry. I ruined it for everyone. Anyway,

Snyders Return:

as you head back and sort of looping around from the vehicle Bay into that second corridor, passing the pass through the heads north towards the the sort of the mass housing. You hear a series of scratches, almost. scuttling maybe. And then you hear a clanging of metal as something sounds like it's maybe dropped or been dislodged?

Hirsch:

How far away is the sound? Is it like the mass housing areas on the corridor?

Snyders Return:

It came the sound came down the corridor.

Hirsch:

Dude, I just want to be ignorant as best and just get the fuck out of there.

Singleton:

Yeah, this thing is pretty fucking huge by the way. Well there's Mark Cuban you give them a five by five year old fine yeah,

Unknown:

it's a

Snyders Return:

massive

Hirsch:

Oh yeah. So when you when you you said Oh, look at me. I can touch both sides. Your five by five is your arm's reach my b2c?

Singleton:

This is half

Hirsch:

gorilla. Your little slender my little pitch

Singleton:

even two and a half is big data. You can you can go to any give no arms

Hirsch:

one arm I'm one like established I prioritised you stitch the good stuff back on. But it's not a temporary fix.

Snyders Return:

So usually don't

Singleton:

leave nevermind let's carry on.

Unknown:

Oh, Levi Did you want

Singleton:

no good let's just carry on. Yeah, it will

Unknown:

be unbelievable.

Singleton:

I was gonna say we should leave the nugget

Snyders Return:

gonna give him a weapon to fend for himself. We'll just dump him on on the

Hirsch:

just don't care why you called Hi people could say yes.

Snyders Return:

Holroyd, time streaming says. If you choose to leave him, I will carry him on. There you go. So As you enter the maintenance Bay there is tall has been strewn all over the shop all over the place. There is half bits of engines and axles and various bits and pieces from up in the main main part of Hadley's hope like various machines air purification units and stuff like that that are across several benches and again it looks like something is coming and just sort of turn the place upside down there are from what you can tell spots of blood, but no one at least in this section alive section

Singleton:

is there anything that can be used as a weapon lying about observation check, what attribute do I use?

Snyders Return:

So be observation so beyond just observation, which observation Yeah, okay. So having a look around you I want role just picks up what you after a weapon? Yep. You find a bomb, you find a heavy tool. So I will add that in and there's a couple of I'll let you choose there's a there's a cutting torch because it's a maintenance Bay. There's some heavy heavy tool because this is a maintenance B. You can see some power cells. But that doesn't appear to be any kind of weapon. there's a there's a fire extinguisher as well.

Unknown:

I'll take the torch.

Hirsch:

Yeah, boy bros for life.

Snyders Return:

Got to be done. Trying torch. You got it on your sheet was the torch bonus for as a weapon.

Unknown:

So no bonus. damage is three and ranges een.

Snyders Return:

So engage. Yeah, so it's like using a blowtorch on somebody?

Hirsch:

Cool. isn't a blowtorch to somebody? Yeah. So I do that regularly. We've got a monster.

Snyders Return:

No bonus of

Singleton:

three damage damage

Hirsch:

done in a gear. It says power supply three plus two. Yes.

Snyders Return:

So if you if you think it's if you roll a failure, or if you roll a stress dice, then you have to see if it maintains power effectively. Right?

Unknown:

There you go.

Snyders Return:

Just as a even though I should put cutting torch on it. But there's a cutting torch for you.

Singleton:

Okay, I didn't realise how hard it was to write and how people

Snyders Return:

again, here are the meanest where you've had a good look around. The scratching and sounds of things moving above and beyond. seems to have died off a little bit as you've scoured about. You can hear the crackling of an intercom working just in an adjacent room. And then in the corner. You are aware of the access ladder heading up to level one.

Unknown:

check off the access ladder. Which one is this? Oh, the one the one. Right. Yeah. Do you want to go up another level? Do you want it? Because we can't get over to D? Any of the bees will have to go to level one. won't we? Then go along to be one? Yeah. A little bit. Yeah. Okay.

Snyders Return:

So you go, you're going up to D one? Yeah.

Unknown:

That's the quickest. Yeah. I'm just trying to make sure that's that's the idea. I think it makes sense. Okay, do it

Snyders Return:

as you ascend the ladder, slowly, given the injuries to Hirsch, you come up into what you guys are aware of is the sort of recreational family area, you know, in this area, there's some school rooms for you know, general education, there's a there's a gym, there's games, rooms, pool darts, and all those usual sort of other family type games, a couple of quiet rooms like prayer rooms and stuff like that in a massive conference room that they call the town hall. And again, as you listen out, where there would be the sounds of children playing sound of parents conversing, and an adults going about their day to day business. There is just quiet Thank you for listening. If you want to learn more about the alien RPG, then you can go to the free league publishing website. Check it out on Drive Thru RPG links in the description below. Thanks for listening. You can find us size return on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. And we'd love for you to leave us a review and let us know what we're doing right and what we can do better. You can also find a link to our website that has our release schedule, current and previous interviews and actual plays we have put out, we'd love to see you there. If you want to support the channel, we do have Patreon and a buy me a coffee page. So please consider and we will speak soon