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 enter you you having lived here for a significant period, you know, this is the nerve centre This is where they want monitor vital function security, but it's um and it's it's it's empty. It's it's the intercom hisses with static screens and all the monitors do that sort of weird flickering scrolling picture thing. You notice the CC TV system as you scan across the various sort of monitors and screens is damaged. Damaged but not inoperable.
Unknown:Oh
Hirsch:I like that word.
Unknown:teresting.
Hirsch:Like Poindexter? Is there any there's only one door into this isn't there?
Snyders Return:Yes, just off the counter.
Hirsch:Can we lock it? Can we barricade it? Can we make sure nothing else gets in here
Snyders Return:you can do your best to try and barricade it
Unknown:I will do the
Snyders Return:absolute best. Whatever you can find to sort of drag in front of the door for a minute for a little while, at least.
Hirsch:Right let's have some proper banter about this now.
Singleton:Just by repeating banter doesn't mean that there is banter.
Hirsch:Such good banter. You're the greatest jokes. I hate you. I don't hate you. I hate someone else. But if I didn't hate that person, I'd probably hate you. So the
Unknown:right so
Snyders Return:you can use a talent whenever you feel like you can use the talent.
Hirsch:Yeah, I want to use my time of banter. Okay, Christmas dress by to
Unknown:name if your thing.
Hirsch:Yeah, it's actually banter. 100% a clone
Snyders Return:of an ex marine. Yes. Colonial marine. Yeah, his talk is build so he released mention in your team's friendly banter again so yeah, it's been several times does not constitute banter,
Hirsch:banter, banter, banter, banter. Dude, I one on one like surely that's funny enough you can make a joke out of that right?
Snyders Return:your stress level and stress level everyone in a short range so within this one room yes drops by two instead of one for every time spent in a safe space. Having several Marines does not increase this talent. So if you had a whole squad it would still only drop by two
Hirsch:can only be one source racks here
Snyders Return:so what what are you doing in and around top bands? generator?
Hirsch:I'm telling them about the time I got past and I ended up getting stuck on a train to the other side of the planet. Absolute quality balance.
Unknown:See,
Snyders Return:since it I can I can
Hirsch:only love this and it was amazing. I don't I was I was that
Unknown:way it was I
Hirsch:yes. That was it.
Snyders Return:He was an expert. That's
Hirsch:why I've singled it. Oh, all the people in the mall. glovepie ha feelings. Okay. Really?
Unknown:killer joke.
Snyders Return:It was so did you leave jokes? Did you take her with you of interest?
Unknown:No. We left her in the room. That crazy.
Snyders Return:But double checking. Just double check.
Unknown:She just wants to yell a lot. You're in the opposite
Hirsch:way Banta anything I'm really catching
Snyders Return:up to you in the up from the computer system. hissing the monitors are still sort of Jari and sort of flickering. CCTV as I said before is damaged but not operable. And you guys have done your best to find them. barricade the door. You know, moving the stuff has made a bit of noise, but you, you you feel safe enough just to let off a little bit of steam with this top band. So what do you guys? What's your intentions? Now?
Unknown:What can they? What can you do from the drum? What can you control?
Snyders Return:having a look around the CCTV is the is the main one able to look out across the various site both potentially internal and external of the night you might be able to find a few other bits of information. But the main one here is the access to the CCTV.
Singleton:I mean, we could probably that's a good idea. Because then we might be able to see if anyone's moving throughout the base. While I was gonna say that if we leave one, maybe two people they can watch. Although there's no way of keeping in columns as
Snyders Return:well, there are intercoms throughout the site.
Singleton:Yeah, I suppose. Everyone in this room knows dinosaurs dinosaur. Sorry. Let's try that figure. That's gonna be useful.
Snyders Return:What if, say, for example, to change it if Hirsch didn't had died when he got shot, or had been encountered something else in your travels around the facility. And you barricade a new one cigarette barricaded yourself in here, then you could have used your dinosaur to reduce your stress by one in that instance. So yeah, cuz it's the one thing that's sort of keeping you sane. sane. Yes. Thank you. So that's, that's why you will see, signature item comes in.
Singleton:Okay, so Well, there's not really any point me doing that in a moment.
Unknown:What so stress three now because we use the banner I used to, it takes two away CRA.
Singleton:Oh, we're fine. We're fine.
Snyders Return:Yeah. All right. Good. Yeah.
Unknown:So we'll just leave it for now. Okay, can this room be locked from the inside? No.
Snyders Return:I'm gonna say that. Because it doesn't tell me again, I'm gonna say no, you barricaded the door which has given given you some but this still has ventilation, it still has access to wiring in various forms, bulkheads and under the floor. So you believe it to be safe, and you've given yourself enough time to have a bit of banter. But as for locking it down? The only place you could potentially do that is quarantine. And you've already been there and see what that looks like.
Singleton:Soldier guys want to do? Can we
Unknown:need to get up to the
Singleton:where's the officers need to get a seat? Yeah, yes. On the security cameras, can we see Block B to in block seat, row me a contact
Unknown:my big roles, those do eat.
Snyders Return:So you succeeded. But then you panicked. Which has given your stress level has gone up by one
Hirsch:o'clock. Sorry, guys back up to three,
Snyders Return:however, so you do get the SES TDV to kick in. And as you start sort of moving the count moving through the various camera angles, you get a view into the mat housing section, the area that you didn't go to down in the sub sub block. And what you can see is 10 times worse than that the snippets are larger than things you saw down there, there is cleaved open corpses, there is blood there is just absolute Carnage down in that level. giving you what you can always see giving you a stress level of one or an additional stress of one as you move to the next camera, a deserted corridor and in the description. A little bit of movement and zooming in, you catch sight of a of a body being sort of dragged slowly out of view. Then on the next one, you see movement on another camera showing block II one towards the south lock. And this is and as the camera sort of Zoom's you can see this shiny, elongated dome type shape, a skeletal form. And it's sort of twisted. A faceless Eilis features seem to be tilted up towards the camera and long extended arms claws extended. Seems to be sort of clamping into the block the airlock door down there. And you see whipping out behind it a long tail which seems to just be sort of whipping through the air and sight of this creature increases your stress by one
Hirsch:increase the distress I want for all of five now Wow, that was a that's what happens for being nosy on forum when you rent the house because you got one because you failed it then we had one for seen a body getting pulled and then we saw that like an ugly shirt. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, shit. Right. And I didn't think it was it was right. You guys are ready for this. I have to talk about the time where I got back on the train shuffled back and travelled by
Unknown:know that there is this dinosaur on the train. Go join in.
Hirsch:Did you there? So it must have been true. So
Unknown:this is amazing. So we just lost two
Snyders Return:gained three.
Unknown:Can I just keep having pants of everyone until we
Snyders Return:can try but it's only gonna last so long before you have found I will say that.
Hirsch:Oh shit. We're at five. Can anyone know?
Snyders Return:There was one in because that camera was looking in a block the body shall be moved was in a block. So towards the north. The one the one outside. I'm just going to say a block. It was a one. There was a one but a block because it you know, you know what is in there? somewhere? A one was where the camera was housed. They know there's one. Yeah, you know, there's one outside of the South lock, which is e one. Okay. And you heard movement through the structure down in the rule the carnage was done in the sub level. So you know, there's you can assume that there's at least three there's at least too many.
Unknown:Ship faac rise one right below us. Your phone? Yes.
Hirsch:I'm so. Yeah. Okay, so. So it's one right below? Yeah. outside.
Unknown:Pretty much outside, you
Snyders Return:know, physically is out how much?
Unknown:How much stress can you have? Or does it just keep rolling.
Singleton:keep getting bigger and bigger boats to the highest stress, the more chance you lose roles. So it becomes Yeah.
Snyders Return:And you stumble and panic and things like that the character sheet goes up to 10. So just be aware that this will continue to add unless like with the dinosaur in the banter you somehow find time to you either do one or two things. One is escape. Two is die. So one of two things about list three, what is deep, who's die or three is find somebody secret. temporarily.
Unknown:Why I say we go to proxy two right now. Yeah, yeah, let's not mess about now. coming out in this room. Yeah. I brought out during the banner.
Snyders Return:Yeah. Yeah, I'm doing because we're playing and we're learning well, so your dinosaur worked, but you still get the rest of the stress. So rather than being on five you're on four i think is is bullshit. Each of you have something the only person quote unquote that doesn't have anything as a personal item
Unknown:is the Android
Snyders Return:but they don't suffer from stress. So
Hirsch:what? Why the fucking the androids been fuckin placed the whole time, which
Snyders Return:is a laptop.
Unknown:Yeah, so I just love that it gets my cheek and Phil bell. You would not move on.
Snyders Return:Alright, so, you guys, uh, you want to move in the barricade from the door?
Unknown:Yes. Quietly quietly Yes, it's quiet quietly silent as I can muster
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Snyders Return:Like dragging yourself along as you head back up out of the command centre towards the crew quarters past the armoury or past the med lab and the quarantine room. Kaminsky is still there. Now hands up against the glass. She started to you can see are considering banging on the window. She does softly a couple of times to try and track your attention. Learn yards swinging around her neck from a losing position. But as you go past the armoury the heavy armoured door still locked, he's on located you turn West and head towards the administrator's office. So as you enter so move out the crew Come on, come on crew quarters across the bridge structure and head into the corporate offices. You know that this is where weyland yutani have this is their office their floor. All these nice windows look out. This is where the supervisor of the of hadleys hope normally is in his his offices up here in the northeast corner. So moving and again, some of the offices as you move into this this quiet low overtone furniture. There seems to be sort of vent grills knocked out some of the ceilings or some of the roofs, roofs, that's why I'm good English. But you can continue around. If you want to have a look in any of the specific offices. You know that the admission Australia's offices in that northeast corner. potentially a few of you have been in there a couple of times for work related or other matters, so you know where it would be anyway.
Hirsch:I don't want to I don't want to fucking mess around.
Singleton:Yes. Smash out. Do we hear anything? They would do it here? Because are we now in the second floor? Yeah.
Snyders Return:You're now in a crossing city on the second floor heading across and you're now into see to the corporate offices unless you tell me you're doing anything different?
Singleton:Just to get it for there then we might be able to hear if is anyone actually in these offices?
Snyders Return:From what you've heard so far? moving through trying to keep the noise down as much as possible. You can't hear from what you saw on the CCTV and the carnage down there. And the emergency broadcast that came out the intercom when you first got back in that West air lock you're going to assume that most people tried to take refuge down in that main housing or bad housing section. Others have been so lucky. Okay.
Hirsch:They did. Wait where's the actual exit here? In the vehicle, define exit as in like, Where's the ships and all the rest of that good stuff. And the London weather
Snyders Return:so in the E, there's a small corner map in the level one map in the bottom left. Oh, yes. The landing page that is where the shutter will be. It's not going to magically disappear to screw you off. Because the whole point of this is to get to get off this planet alive without killing yourselves each other or being killed
Hirsch:Okay, so let's just gain fine Reynolds convinced him to come with us okay is key and get the fuck out of here. Literally near the end we can we can get out this out the west side as well. So
Snyders Return:besides Yes. who's who's in office? Who's going first? just mentally
Hirsch:Ah, yeah, I'll go I will go but not first.
Singleton:Over first
Snyders Return:as you enter the you know that Reynolds has taken over this office from Simpson landed moved in caused a bit of a hubbub as you guys were sent out the day before but what you can see as you enter but what appears to be Satan is chair facing away from the door all appears to be quite head down. Looks like maybe sleeping snoozing
Hirsch:right I don't trust this for a second. I'm gonna take my weapon out just in case someone tries jumping at me
Snyders Return:what you do notice as you move in a little bit closer. Now the three of you fought a good fight but so far because I keep forgetting the fifth one is the fall into the office. Looking above a part of the ceiling you notice one of the ventilation grates has been knocked free and that the vent itself appears to have been like twisted or warped a little bit as though something didn't quite fit the gap
Hirsch:wait is it like something was trying to get into the vent from this room or trying to get
Singleton:aid from this room? Yeah, well,
Snyders Return:it looks like given the angle from where you are so Reynold has sat in the chair facing away from you had done possibly sleeping the the vent the overhead grill for the ventilation above it looks like it's been warped to allow something to exit
Unknown:right but it hasn't been able to. Yeah, I'm gonna get my weapon out.
Snyders Return:Well, you don't know if it's there or not or if it did or did not but
Hirsch:Oh, can I can you not like prep it? Like
Snyders Return:you can prep your weapon I'm just saying you don't know if what tried to get through did get through or didn't or you just see this twisted warped?
Hirsch:Well, either or this seems to be the most normal room we've come across in a place where it's absolute chaos. That's just sending alarm bells. I'm gonna I'm gonna say it a manly voice. Try not to act terrified. I'm just gonna call out Reynolds to see if he's responsive.
Unknown:You
Snyders Return:don't get response from Reynolds.
Hirsch:Can I slowly approach the his chair? You may want to spin it around really quickly then jump a step back.
Snyders Return:Okay, as you spin it around who Well, what's left of his neck? mess around? Everybody take one stress.
Hirsch:Ah sick. You're welcome, guys.
Singleton:Thanks.
Hirsch:Well I stand to see around and then jumped back just in case something was about jump out. It turns out half his face is missing. So we all get stressed.
Unknown:Oh, yes.
Hirsch:I was using his face as a stress cannon. And you all got hit with it.
Snyders Return:What you do notice now that you've swung the chair around and seen this bloody mess and gore is that there is a key card on a lanyard around my neck.
Hirsch:Yeah. I don't even hesitate. I grab that. Put it up. Pull it free.
Snyders Return:Okay. So if a piece is the rod and wipes the core away, which effectively is is what you do to me?
Hirsch:Yes.
Snyders Return:You take one stress.
Hirsch:Sick. I'll take and
Snyders Return:as you clean it off, you realise it is destroyed.
Unknown:Kick Ass
Snyders Return:on the desk.
Unknown:I'm literally gonna go into the corner and start crying. When you're stressed, I'm more stress
Snyders Return:on the desk next to Reynolds technically, but now where you go, No. No, I didn't in blood, but in the direction that was obscured by his his chair. And he's sort of frame you see a small handheld device that appears to be sort of blinking repeatedly.
Unknown:I'll pick up
Hirsch:Yeah, please. I can't do this much more. I need some batteries. By toots we paid a serving of balance.
Unknown:You're gonna spend any in this room?
Hirsch:I remember when we tend to see in the dude's head was missing that was great.
Unknown:Stress
Snyders Return:as you activate the comms link a now familiar voice comes through
Unknown:it's common to get off this planet I'm guessing it's that
Snyders Return:one comes very very clear thing we're
Unknown:gonna we need to go and get we need to kick on off record now she's still alive for fuck sake. Snow we got
Singleton:a we found a dead metal
Hirsch:strip. Right well let's go before I stress myself out anymore. Stop looking at his face. But now you said don't I had to do it. Take don't think of a white elephant. God damn it. Yeah, we are we can go back to the mid level. Ah yes, let's just retrace the steps in this fucking hellhole of a shithole. I don't get paid enough for this. Supposed to be a marine and I'm the most stressed ear.
Unknown:It's like you've never seen combat. You all.
Snyders Return:So you're heading back?
Unknown:Yes. Is there anything nearby? First?
Snyders Return:Watson's nearby
Singleton:in Biloxi to that you know of any like
Unknown:med kits for it. We'll
Snyders Return:take your take me a while if you want to go and have a look in every room. But if you just want to do a an observation, do an observation role. How are you to help you so that's an additional de six
Unknown:hour stretch? I'm stressed
Snyders Return:five or six?
Unknown:I'm seven. I'm at seven. Yeah. We're not on five. Or even on sick.
Hirsch:Oh, you're on? I think you're on six. I'm on seven. So I had to look at the key card.
Snyders Return:Yes. So we wrote
Unknown:what seemed to be the I'm just falling on characters.
Snyders Return:Absolutely,
Hirsch:right. I'm not talking to you ever, ever you're playing this character too much. Okay? break character.
Unknown:Now of course 06 so much stress.
Snyders Return:Stress has been affected. I mean, if you want to push the roll and have another go,
Unknown:Oh, no.
Snyders Return:But you have to add another stress dice. Keep in mind you that's a mechanic open to you.
Hirsch:When actually matters, I don't want to get more stressed. Yeah, right, come on, let's go in, let's kill someone, let's get their fucking key you can get out of here. Or we can just ask them to come with us as probably as barbaric.
Snyders Return:With everything that you've just witnessed with Reynolds, and hearing Kaminsky, his voice over the commons throwing you off a little bit and it takes you a lot longer to work through and you're far from fruitful. You find a pack of cigars, happy days, and you find a fire extinguisher always comes in handy. To your right everything of use that could have been a weapon has potentially been picked up already. And now lies somewhere probably in the basement level as
Unknown:well. Shit.
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