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 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, couple of quiet rooms like prayer rooms and stuff like that and 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 adult's going about their sort of day to day business. There is just quiet
Hirsch:huh? I don't like what the fuck is happening here. We haven't seen a single person. The place where they told us to go to I got shot at there's been nothing but blood screaming and gunshots let's get the fuck out of here. That old is from you. That's all for me. Yeah. I'm just in a wave of emotion.
Sigg:I'm here for you.
Unknown:So we could try and get to the med lab then from where we are.
Hirsch:And try and so we need to get the one over to be one of to be two straight up to the Metalab boom it's best Yes, one of you fucking evil ground first. I'll take a bullet for you all shown in the book. I got shot in the butt in the Botox so is
Sigg:that the plan
Unknown:Yeah, we got up the ladder Yeah, no I think Yeah, so I think we have to go do one we have to go a quarter yet to be one
Sigg:yeah and then to be to over to eat Yeah. Yeah.
Snyders Return:Just found that let's run just simple as as
Hirsch:simple easy make easy as looking through looking around a corner mate?
Unknown:Yeah.
Hirsch:Go quietly check every single one of them like champ. Yes.
Snyders Return:As you move through, do you want having come up the ladder from the bottom level the route you arrive in Do you want and you can look into the various rooms see the classroom see the the offices you go past an access terminal, which operates the doors into the door access into the next block b one and intercom again just saw a hissing whispering you've heard nothing but your own effectively own voices in the voice of Kamensky. Once you put out that call for help, or well shout out to shout out shout out. Shout out to any survivors to make themselves known. It has all gone oddly quiet sent but the intercom still crackles and hisses although there sounds like there's some sort of damage. So as you move into Block B one past the crack the next colic crackling intercom leaving the doors open. You're able to gain access and as you get to the T junction, looking around this is this should be full of office workers. This should be a thriving hub of, of official business, administrative tasks, and all that kind of stuff. And again, it's just the spot. Silence. But scanning around, you can see paperworks been dragged into the corridors, tables from even from where you're looking at, you can see things have been upturned and tipped over. And again, those damaged interior walls, scratches and scrapes, potentially a bullet hole or two.
Hirsch:It's just a mess. Jesus Christ. Like, like a million of them. So where are we now? We just had that Crossroads bet from day one.
Snyders Return:Yeah, just above the the old four block guessing. Unless you tell me otherwise.
Hirsch:Okay. Yeah. This is Hurry up, go up. Yeah, I just got done. Because we haven't made anything yet. And I don't want to meet and
Snyders Return:so you're guessing you are taking the ladder just next to you in the corner of the offices to go here. Alright. As you ascend the ladder, and you step off a cliff, you enter the sort of small room through and down the corridor, what you can see in front of you, like directly across is the command crew quarters. So this is you know, there's an office, there's already room, there's an MRI. So, and, you know, requires we can see the access terminal to get into the armoury is just to the south a little bit. But again, the low light there's torn, floor panels, torn sort of vent ducts above you and all that sort of stuff. And the higher up the further away from Actually, that's a bit of a lie. The higher up you come in, and now to the top of the structure. The smearing in the blood seems to be more intermittent. Not as not as clear to your to your eye.
Unknown:Sorry, Dr. Murray.
Snyders Return:is the one with the crosshairs the
Sigg:next to beat two. Oh, yeah.
Unknown:Oh, yeah. Yes. Yes, cookies are already gone past so you might as well. Yeah.
Hirsch:Yeah, that's what you had. All the mainframe is close to overhead as well. Yeah, it's got the armoury. It's sued up gets to them booted,
Snyders Return:suited and booted.
Hirsch:And all I need one big one help walking. Now I'll hop really awkwardly for the rest of my life. Cheers. Yes, I'd like some help. Hold me hold again.
Unknown:I'll embrace you.
Snyders Return:As you approach the armoury you find the door shut, it is an army after all.
Unknown:It is a thick and heavily armoured door Can I try and like lockpick set is really work you can see it has
Snyders Return:you notice it requires a key and you are aware of
Unknown:the both
Snyders Return:security will have keys but you have yet to find either of those four teams or individuals
Hirsch:afoqt sake try them all places a fucking fire until you know, the morgue. That'd be grim. All
Unknown:right, let's let's head to the med lab.
Snyders Return:Suppose you went into this sort of command centre section which takes up this entire upper floor of E you know that it has the command room known as the the ops room. In the far corner. You have assistant Operations Manager having has a desk in there, the med lab and the morgue. As you make your way down the corridor and proach the med lab, you know that it consists of especially six inches of scientist, mark here and hope you know that there's an examination room and there's a quarantine room that has to be locked from the outside but has you know a viewing window and an intercom and as you approach and look through the window that it's in a It's an absolute shambles, the place has been sort of almost like it's been raided, for want of a better description. There's antique cabinets that are flung open is overturned, stands and contents from from various shelf shelving units and other bits and pieces. like someone's been rambling through, what you can sort of hear is banging and and. And then there's there's stillness and leaning against the viewing window. As you're sort of looking and through the examination room into the quarantine room, as you can see a humanoid form sort of leaning up against the window. They they appear to be appear to be moving, but you're unsure as to what is keeping this person stood up and led to the windows. There is a strange sort of vacant look upon their face.
Sigg:There's an is there an intercom between the two rooms.
Snyders Return:Now there's a meth lab. So you're in the middle
Unknown:of the actual med lab
Snyders Return:of the cross is the quarantine. So you can enter the med lab and it's been turned over and there's stuff all over the place. And then through into the quarantine lab, you can see this person, the face sort of pushed up against the window seeing you come in. And you see behind her. There is a dead Well, there is a man lead on the Examination Table. So
Hirsch:Oh, is that Jordan? Jordan? Is that the Jordan? Dude, he came back with some frickin infected piece of shit.
Snyders Return:You are unsure. Okay.
Sigg:Do we know who the woman is?
Snyders Return:You can ask. You're only aware of Central call out from the intercom. You're only aware of one person who has responded? Who said Oh
Unknown:yeah, I think you should. I will ask her who she is.
Snyders Return:She says it's me.
Unknown:I need to get off.
Snyders Return:And you can see that there is a tears source. Now streaming but previously sort of streamed down her face. What's wrong with you?
Unknown:Mackenzie? Kaminski? kavinsky she was one that came with Reynolds. I should ask interesting interesting nods. Yeah.
Snyders Return:I can show you how
Unknown:we can get we can leave while you in there in the first place.
Snyders Return:She points to the man on the
Unknown:research yourself together. You could
Snyders Return:you could roll empathy or something like that if you wanted. You don't have to do it. Was it you're looking to find out
Sigg:just what's wrong with her as to as to why she's in quarantine. Because it has to be locked out from the outside. So someone else's locked it and then ask her who locked her in that
Hirsch:way. Did she get locked in here? Did she lock yourself in here
Sigg:is called to be locked from the outside. So someone's put her Oh, she's affected.
Hirsch:That's what we need. We need her frickin key to get out of here. I look down towards my gun. It looks really good right now. Was that her? I know it was Reynolds, but I knew there wasn't someone else. I forgot what
Snyders Return:it was. It was Herman Reynolds that came on the shuttle
Hirsch:that came on the shuttle. And with Reynolds who knows got the access code to it. She have the access codes.
Snyders Return:She also has an access code. But I will get to that in just a moment. And you looking she's sort of move slightly out of the way as is points to a can only be counted as a specimen of a specimen tube. And in there you see this odd like a spider crab like tailed creature that's just kind of that that is stationary within this this tube. And then she points down at the ground to another one and as she turns you can see that they lanyard sort of swinging around her neck now she's moved away from the glass a little bit that's that's become free. And she thought she was like that was that I had to
Unknown:I had to
Snyders Return:save him. So So
Unknown:are you affected?
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Unknown:Yeah, what the hell is going on?
Snyders Return:Do a manipulation roll?
Unknown:Yes. Yeah, you do that?
Sigg:So empathy. Completion.
Snyders Return:Nice. She says it got me to. I'm gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay. It's It's fine. Just
Unknown:take me with you. Just Just open the door and let me know.
Snyders Return:And I'd like know, like all of you to take one stress. Oh,
Hirsch:shit. So we're on three now. I think Jesus Wait, I've got a look why I've got talent, which increases stress. Yep, by two in a safe place. Everyone in a certain range. define what counts what counts as a safe place.
Snyders Return:According to the the rules its place where you Know that you are secure. So if you were in the quarantine room and nobody else was with, you know, you'd be able to get out, then you could do it, your signature items, you can concentrate on that for a turn, quote unquote, so, like 510 minutes if you feel safe enough, and that will decrease your stress by one as well. But you can only do that once. So if you find somewhere safe, you can decrease stress, so you perceive as safe. Or if you have time to concentrate on your signature item, then you can decrease your stress by one. But at the moment, you've just increased your stress level because you've found out this new information in this weird situation you guys are in.
Hirsch:Right? I think if we find this either safe place either a room opposite here or we clear out that room and we feel safe. I'll have a bit of banter with you. When you say that room would be either the med lab we go in and clear out or there's one that's like opposite. That's below the morgue but chub leaves and you got one entrance into it huh well
Sigg:ultimately should go in no
Hirsch:need we need the frickin key from her.
Unknown:Let me just take it from the other guy. All right. Yeah,
Hirsch:but where it Where is the other guy left to find? does not know
Sigg:does she know Alaska? Does she know Reynolds? You
Unknown:probably in
Snyders Return:corporate offices. Oh put me in the minister's office.
Hirsch:site. Mother Hubbard little bark in the wall in the wall. I would just be
Unknown:finished right?
Hirsch:We could have frickin started this gone to the first ladder up one along one straight there.
Sigg:Yeah, but then we might not be there.
Hirsch:No, he was he would have always been that that's a fact. Right let's go then. I have my bandit with you elsewhere?
Sigg:Is there anything in the middle of
Hirsch:it dude, that's quarantine she's been locked in. There's too far
Sigg:but it's with a med lab is not going to be med kits surely is gonna be med kits in the middle?
Snyders Return:Do me an observation? Do observe it. Me observation
Hirsch:in the command centre. That is the mainframe? I don't know that would be something cool to look at.
Unknown:I'm not very good observation.
Hirsch:You're supposed to be a scientist. That's exactly what you do observe.
Snyders Return:You do have analyse. I think there's a talent
Sigg:analysis analysis. So can I use that instead than just following up?
Snyders Return:Well, because it is something you would know as your character you also, if you want to use it, you can do like rock, roll with that and roll with a baby.
Sigg:So how do you just roll up sufficient normally?
Snyders Return:What I've written on the sheet
Sigg:because it says roll observation, a box with a crosshair in it GM and success stress level goes down.
Snyders Return:Yep. So you roll it, you get a success, you get to ask me the amount of what information you want to know about the situation you're in. Because you could be analysing, say, a carcass or a body or a room or whatever it is or an artefact it because it's broad for the game being able to take play some famously. So for every success, you get an additional question and I have to answer it. And by proving how good your analysis is, everybody's dressed around you is reduced by one to show you all good eggs. If you fail, because of your frustration of internal analysis failing you that then stresses everybody else out. So you will take the stress of one So you can vote it normally or not use that and maybe push the roll. Or you can use analysis but potentially get an increase or decrease the stress.
Sigg:Let's use analysis
Snyders Return:you know, three stresses.
Unknown:Oh shit we are absolutely. So fail
Snyders Return:because you failed. What is your fate? will ask you this question what is your feeling look like?
Sigg:I stopped pulling my own hair out my head just get really angry.
Unknown:Do you okay?
Sigg:No, I'm stressed, really stressed.
Snyders Return:You find bits and pieces you don't find enough to make a viable medkit. And everybody takes one stress as you are storming around the middle of trying to find solace for
Unknown:Lazarus, but we all got other stress. Yep.
Snyders Return:Because he failed to another us analysis correct? Probably. His stressing out is now putting stress on you guys. It's a relationship.
Unknown:Can you only use once? Or can you keep you?
Snyders Return:I think you can use them as often as you like. Because visual talent rather than
Unknown:a party trick.
Hirsch:Yeah. Right. Let's find a safe place and we'll have a better chance. Let's go in the room opposite here.
Sigg:Could we not just barricade themselves in this room?
Unknown:What? Yeah, all right. Shut the door. Yeah.
Sigg:So so
Unknown:there's no air ducts or anything. Neither
Snyders Return:the current the quarantine room will be complete. You see what the med lab was? effectively a walk in clinic. So you could try and barricade the door with something but the beds are sort of bolted the examination room the beds are sort of stuck in place because they've got normally working metaphorically, women in the
Sigg:command centre. Be a safe place. Yeah, it
Hirsch:could be Oh, who am I so give it a lot gave not release get information mainframes and those will exactly Poindexter a mainframe absolute banter. I feel less stress already.
Snyders Return:So are you going into the command centre? Well, the ops centre as it is, yeah. 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 please we have put out who would 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.