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.
Sigg:I would like to light a cigar
Snyders Return:and you may
Hirsch:they will be able to smell that
Snyders Return:too, like this gets a bit late, Philip,
Hirsch:you're stressing me out.
Snyders Return:So as you move back out of the corporate offices across to the command crew, and sort of move into the command from quarters down past the armoury still locked and you move on through every sort of calm intercom unit you pass still hisses and crackles and pops every so often. There's no no one calling out to you. There's there's nothing but that odd strange hiss from the static and you move back in towards the examination part of the med lab. And Kaminsky is the other side of the of the glass. She's now sort of oddly looking at the specimen tube with this strange arachnid sort of creature held within it.
Sigg:What are we going to just get inside and work out? Wait, so she's confused.
Snyders Return:So she's in quarantine with this specimen tube, there's a dead odd looking creature on the floor. And the body of ichael is on the sort of the medical table in front of her above her kind of thing. So she's in the middle of the quarantine bit his bodies on the table. There's a special interlude that she's looking at or into. And there's one of these dead creatures on the floor or a creature on the floor that is dead
Hirsch:swap places or she comes out here we go in that we're gonna need that key code regardless. So either asked how to come with us and then when she's outside just plunk on the head. Or do air. She's clearly infected and I can't we deal with the stress of having an infected person and ask.
Unknown:usually pretty fucking stressed. Yeah, I'm stressed. Okay, I'm freaking out. What were you doing?
Snyders Return:Why are you doing what's the question?
Sigg:God, we need we need that key card. Either way
Unknown:to go Yes.
Sigg:Do we open the door and grab it? And then lock the door? Or should we just take her with us and then when we're outside the building, she might be in fact,
Unknown:I want to run that risk.
Hirsch:I'll just let the Android go in and be a fuck out of her. I'll be good. We'll just look away then guilt free. That's not how it works. I didn't know about it. A malfunction
Snyders Return:can he know because he can't suffer from stress he can if he gets damaged he can suffer not injuries but damage to a certain extent. But I don't think he is technically able to break in that sense. Should we send them in
Hirsch:rub it out? Yeah, yeah. I just feel like I'll go in and I'll fuck it up and I'll end up being part of this problem. Too late. Well, top quality banner taken off
Snyders Return:Not a chance.
Singleton:Nice try.
Sigg:I can don't like this. Let's send that Jordan.
Snyders Return:So Holroyd, turns to me says I will get the key card. But you must open the door. I will show no worries you kept me in I will get it to you but I cannot guarantee her actions will not counteract your intentions.
Sigg:will tell her on the end. Come on Nikki calm and if she makes any other moves
Snyders Return:she responds take me
Sigg:cat it's against the protocol you're affected you're gonna in fact all the rest of us all our lives at jeopardy.
Snyders Return:She sounds seems to sort of relent and consider our options you can see where she is as sort of moved back from the door she's now against the table so there's the body on the table the specimen tube on the table and she is sort of she is resting her hands on the table. Elbows sort of flared slightly but her positioning us close to the specimen jar, especially in the tube
Sigg:right droid going get it? Get out
Snyders Return:when it comes to tech roll out to unlock the door first.
Sigg:Oh shit. Yeah. Go
Snyders Return:with the wizard skills.
Sigg:Wizard wizard the shit out of it. Oh, stress point. Six. Nailed it.
Snyders Return:Nailed it. All right. Yeah, so you are able to base get the door open. And you leaving the door open you close the door behind and Holroyd, how how you controlling the situation. If he steps behind him. He crosses the threshold and as you close the door behind him he doesn't respond. And you're not expecting any kind of physical response from him. Android often and he moves across. And as he reaches out to get the key card from her. You can see she sort of flexes almost in panic. I kind of weird almost sort of reactive spasm and this specimen tube is nudged with her elbow. And you can see it falling in slow motion
Sigg:of a fox a
Snyders Return:Holroyd manages to grab the key card offer trouble just pulling a lanyard that snaps on her neck and he moves backwards. So stepping backwards he comes towards the door and he holds the key card up against the window so you can see that he's got it and you can see the cheese sort of panic there is now glass you can't really hear much because the sound is kind of muffled but you can see this thing skittering across the floor and just for it disappears out of sight for a second given the angles that you guys are looking in. And you can see the puppet wraps itself around Polaroids head
Sigg:oh god
Unknown:he sort of punches with the puppet
Singleton:twist it
Sigg:Why don't you go for the flashy last fall the fucking droid tree open the door helping out we need that key card. yeah wait for it to go on. And then when it's distracted then get in there wait for him to die and then we can go in and get it just a frickin road it's not good I'll usually well then he'll the thing will get bored and then attack her. And then when it's attacking her open the door grab it out.
Snyders Return:Bish bash Bosh. You already know that she has already admitted she just want to just reminding you that she is already infected.
Unknown:Oh for Fox eight.
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Unknown:Why bother out? The only
Snyders Return:one was already broken with a dead one on the floor. That was the only other one that was intact that you were aware of and she mentioned to you.
Sigg:So one of us should go and grab the key card off and we'll just leave them in there.
Unknown:Right fine? Sure.
Sigg:Go go open the door. All right. All right. No pilot pitch. Maybe I'm wrong contact again.
Snyders Return:Because you didn't say you locked it You just said you shot it was different between shutting a door and locking the door. So why'd you say you just controlled the door. So as you as you open the door, hollywood arm with the keycard enhance swings around. But you can see that she is also now trying to dip into the gap created by his body space this thing you can see just the finger like legs wrapped around the back of its skull. And this sort of almost snake like worm like tail that seems to have wrapped around his neck and whole thing seems to be tensing and pulsing. Just in that moment as you open the door.
Sigg:Should we ask him if he's okay no. Get the key card and go Yes, done with this place run. Grab the fucking key card and then get it shot and beat the fuck out of anything that comes out that door. Yeah, appeal that
Snyders Return:as you take the keycard and as you state the keycard Holroyd arm drops to block the space where she is about to go through trust me he's strong. He's able to block her escape, but only just sort of half blocking the door. And as you can see, kind of gives an odd Android like shrug of the shoulders and you can see him pushing her backwards and taking a step just inside the door. What like sacrificing himself seems to be
Sigg:an absolute hero Yeah.
Unknown:For all time we come back
Sigg:we'll recalibrate you and put you in a bad body when we find when we come back. Alright, so
Snyders Return:are you shutting and locking it What are you doing?
Sigg:Yes I am shutting I'm looking at though
Snyders Return:I do mean
Sigg:throwing away the key kicking the fucking key card all that good stuff.
Snyders Return:Do me a contact a lock the door
Unknown:where
Sigg:I've seen all the movies all you do is shoot it to open it or depends what you need for that particular moment in time you can shoot it to lock it or you can shoot it to open it with everyone nice works over there just happens to be a fail as is or fail open when you need it
Snyders Return:alright so as you managed to get the the door shut and secure able to put the key put a lock code in it you hear the the locking gauge pressure changes is the broom comes in sealed quarantine unit. You can see briefly just before you leave, Polaroid has moved away from the glass away from the door and towards the window the creature on his face seems to have started to ease its grip. You can see that the the tail and the finger like appendages sort of relaxed slightly. And you can see Kaminski is now sort of banging the glass as hard as she can to attract your attention and it's making a dull thud as this is being impacted. Let's
Sigg:get the fuck out of here because the thing is like if it hasn't already known that we're here. So now we need to go towards Go Go back to the administrator's frickin administrator's office, get the ladder down there, straight out the left out the frickin West Wing. How did he get me to deal with what's it called? The West long sorry,
Snyders Return:West West analogue weslock
Sigg:yeah like westlock or westlock to the London. Yeah, right. Yep.
Unknown:Yeah. Grenfell your life
Sigg:I think it's Yeah. Straight up to be to then see too bright around the office and down the last ladder. Yeah. Then straight a lot.
Snyders Return:All right. As you guys are running through really just not caring about sort of being quiet anymore. Have you fell through the ladders? Yep. Door being opened as you round the corner into seat to going past what is Simpson slash Reynolds's office as you saw Zig past, past that and look down into the office, just that sort of peripheral vision, you see a large black form standing on the body.
Sigg:System see to
Snyders Return:Yes. So in the administrator's office, see to you guys as you'll get into that last ladder, notice this form, and it becomes aware of you. 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.