S10E01 - Temptation Sensation

The Sith rule the galaxy! A thousand years before the rise and fall of Palpatine's Empire, a millennium of conflict has ravaged the Old Republic, reducing it to a handful of worlds in the galactic core.

With the Republic cloistered and the Jedi Knights spread thin, the Sith have turned to fighting each other, waging a seemingly endless war to rule a galaxy of corpses.

As the bodies pile up, those seeking refuge are more desperate by the day, becoming easy marks for anyone despicable enough to take advantage....

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hey everyone, thanks for listening to Star Wars Empire Wreckers, the Star Wars Actual Play podcast that is entering its tenth season and a brand new campaign. If you're ready to come along with us on another long, meandering adventure, join us a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away in Star Wars. The Sith Rule the Galaxy! A thousand years before the rise and fall of Palpatine's Empire, a millennium of conflict has ravaged the old Republic, reducing it to a handful of worlds in the galactic core. With the Republic cloistered and the Jedi Knight spread thin, the Sith have turned to fighting each other, waging a seemingly endless war to rule a galaxy of corpses. As the bodies pile up, those seeking refuge are more desperate by the day, becoming easy marks for anyone despicable enough to take advantage. So in the lower city of Terrace, there is a bar called the Empire Wrecker, named so to attract off-duty Sith military officers looking to get wrecked before they head to the weaponmonger next door, the porno shop on the other side, or the pay-by-the-hour motel across the street. So it's like New York in the 70s.

SPEAKER_06 1:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

Lower City is bathed in eternal night, thanks to the miles and miles of skyscrapers above that block out the sun, and it's home to scum and villainy of all shapes and sizes, from common thugs to organized crime to neophyte huts trying to make a name for themselves to Mandalorian coverts looking to gain glory for their clans. But the worst part is that the lower city isn't even the worst part. Just as there's miles and miles of skyscrapers above, there are miles and miles of skyscrapers below as well. Down in the under city, on the wreckage-strewn surface of Terrace, you'll find things like rack ghouls, lakes of boiling acid, and the splattered bodies of bar patrons too drunk to make it all the way home. Which means that even the best bars sometimes find it hard to keep regular customers. And since the Empire Wrecker is not the best bar, uh they've recently had to put up a sign in the window advertising additional services for those willing to pay. So far, nobody's taken uh the proprietors up on this offer. And at 11 30 a.m. on a weekday, the only customer uh who enters is the owner of the Krusty Sheets motel across the street. An old Abyssin who's blind in one eye.

SPEAKER_00 2:36

Who is the Krusty Sheets?

SPEAKER_01 2:40

You know why? The owner's name is Krusty Sheets. Oh, of course, yes. So he is at your bar uh lamenting the uh yet another young couple who skipped out on the bill after a night of debauchery. Currently at the bar, uh perhaps forced to listen to him, is uh a 19-year-old human girl by the name, quote unquote, of Meyer. Somebody who, you know, has her own mysterious past, potentially.

SPEAKER_08 3:11

She'd like you to think that.

SPEAKER_07 3:14

I'm from the streets, you know.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

She's way uh too well dressed to really be from the streets, which raises a few questions. Um he's looking at the menu. Maybe he's interested in in an early lunch that could be prepared by the fry cook, also with a mysterious past, Almond, a burned and bandaged human being hiding in uh the restaurant bar's kitchen. Cook, cook, cook, cook.

SPEAKER_05 3:43

I'm that's I'm I'm cooking right now. Cook, cook.

SPEAKER_07 3:47

Are you getting into character? You have to do that.

SPEAKER_05 3:50

Um it is my character getting into character. Oh no, I've said too much.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

Since you only have one customer, perhaps uh most concerned about all of this is Count Rhombius, the uh umbaran owner of the bar, who may be noticing you guys are in the red and not in the way that he usually likes. But uh right now, uh you are getting a second customer that maybe the head of security, Vanry Merrickal, the uh muscle-bound Nautilin, may need to take a look at. He is stomping out of the shadows, Batman-like this heavily armored Mandalorian stalking towards the entrance of your bar. Can I give him an ocular pat down? Yeah, give me a perception.

SPEAKER_07 4:39

What kind of perception's that gonna be? I'm ready to fight.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

So to see if he's hiding anything, uh, that's probably just gonna be a two-purple.

SPEAKER_07 4:46

Total wash. Good start.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

You can see he's a heavily armed Mandalorian walking towards your bar.

SPEAKER_07 4:52

I mean, I don't want to turn away customers when we literally have one guy, so I'll like stand inside the door and I'll just kind of like flex. I want to intimidate him if he comes in.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

He does come in.

SPEAKER_08 5:02

Flex! Hey. I feel like people know not to rob us because they wouldn't get much money.

SPEAKER_06 5:09

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 5:10

They tried, they were disappointed. Listen, last time we got paid, there is blood all over that money. We are so in the red that our blood money is even blood or red.

SPEAKER_07 5:20

You won't get one red cent from us.

SPEAKER_05 5:22

But we'll take several red cents from you.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

What do you want? So he as when you flex Adam Vanry, he turns and stares at you. Uh, his dark green helmet, uh, hiding any expression he might have, the T visor just glaring back at you. Suprah, you uh you good? I guess we're going with Is this uh is this an intimidation? Is this a coercion?

SPEAKER_07 5:48

Yeah!

SPEAKER_01 5:49

Alright, you can give me a coercion against him. See if he uh takes you seriously. Wonderful.

SPEAKER_07 5:55

I have a willpower of one! Hey, buddy, you got a problem?

SPEAKER_01 6:00

A red and two-purple coercion.

SPEAKER_07 6:02

I bet this is gonna go great. One failure, one threat.

SPEAKER_01 6:07

So you just hear this like exhale filtered through his helmet as he turns back and heads towards the bar.

SPEAKER_07 6:13

Hey!

SPEAKER_01 6:14

And he uh puts a couple of credit chits on the counter in front of you, Meyer, and he says, Hey, can I talk to whoever's in charge here, eh?

SPEAKER_08 6:25

Yeah, um, he's just like in the back. Um, I'll go get him.

SPEAKER_05 6:31

Um that's double what we made yesterday.

SPEAKER_08 6:35

Do you do you want to drink? Do you want to drink while you're waiting?

SPEAKER_03 6:39

Uh, yeah, yeah. Can I have a jaw juice and a uh straw, please?

SPEAKER_08 6:43

Oh. Yeah, one uh jaw juice with uh Mandalorian straw. Got it. Rhombius!

SPEAKER_05 6:50

Straw straw's 25 cents.

SPEAKER_08 6:52

Rhombius, somebody's looking for you!

SPEAKER_01 6:54

As you are uh getting Rhombius, your sole employee, a uh naive country bumpkin from Parts Unknown, gets the drink for him. She is a small young, polite orange thing named Maz, who has dreams of owning her own bar one day, but right now is content to uh work her way up from the bottom. And if there's a bottom to work your way up from, it's here.

SPEAKER_06 7:22

I'm imagining her dressed as Carla from Cheers. This is this is her origin story.

SPEAKER_07 7:29

If there's a bright light at the center of the restaurant industry, this ain't it.

SPEAKER_06 7:34

I will I will come out of the office.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

Ah Does like smoke and fog roll out from the smoke machine that you've got in the office?

SPEAKER_07 7:44

He's got it going at all times.

SPEAKER_06 7:46

He has like a awkward halting stiff kind of way of moving as he's coming out of the office. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 7:53

The strange thing is the smoke machine's been broken for three weeks. What? Welcome to our establishment, sir. Um, hi. Saw your uh sign in the window, it says you guys do odd jobs. I've got a uh job that's actually kind of normal. Uh I don't know if you'd be interested in that. What would you have of us?

SPEAKER_05 8:12

How much does it pay?

SPEAKER_01 8:14

I think uh 800 credits. Is that alright? I don't uh I haven't told you what the job is. I don't know if we should be discussing payment right now, but that's kind of what I got in my pocket right now.

SPEAKER_08 8:22

Oh, you can just tell us what the job is, like right out here. Krusty doesn't mind.

SPEAKER_05 8:26

I mean he's gonna give us the job anyway, so.

SPEAKER_08 8:30

Krusty won't tell nobody.

SPEAKER_07 8:32

I've I've gotten distracted. I'm just like flexing for myself and the reflection of the windows. Like, ugh. What? Huh?

SPEAKER_06 8:40

The door, lash it for us.

SPEAKER_08 8:42

A female himbo.

SPEAKER_07 8:46

I don't think we have a latch. Like the last time I kicked this thing down, I don't think we ever like replaced that. I'll get like stand here. No one will come in. Oh no, we can't both have this voice. It's okay, I'll go back to being a pro. I like kick this thing in, dude.

SPEAKER_05 9:05

And and child Aunt Chovy is smiling from the grave.

SPEAKER_06 9:08

I'm excited for Vanry and Myers high school reunion.

SPEAKER_07 9:14

No, you can have that voice. I'll be a pro. I'll like I'll stare. We don't need a latch, man. I got I got guns.

SPEAKER_03 9:28

Uh yeah. Maybe uh you're not the right people I'm looking for. Um maybe I should go somewhere else. No one gets out either.

SPEAKER_05 9:34

No, no, no. Come inside, please. We are we're we're quite the gentleman that you're looking for. Now if you excuse us, we're gonna go off to work and you can speak uh you can speak to our boy here. We you can speak to our boss. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.

SPEAKER_03 9:52

Oh, it's no trouble, man. It's uh early in the morning. It looks like you guys don't have that many customers yet, so I assume I'm not really interrupting anything.

SPEAKER_05 10:00

As I'm walking away, I say, ha, yet.

SPEAKER_08 10:02

Yeah, you should really talk to the boss before the rush hour starts, which it's it gets really busy in here, so if you want to talk about your sensitive information, then you should do it before the rush starts.

SPEAKER_05 10:16

Oh, yeah, I better get all the cooks out from the alleyway from their smoke break so we can get busy. Oh, wait, that's me.

SPEAKER_07 10:24

Wait, we have more cooks? Shouldn't you be doing the prep list?

SPEAKER_05 10:28

God damn it, I hate you guys.

SPEAKER_07 10:31

Well, we hire more people? I didn't hear about that.

SPEAKER_05 10:34

Come on, the the the the boss gotta talk to fucking Tyco Atiti here.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

So as I was saying, I got a uh normal job. Uh, if you guys would be interested in doing a little bit of uh help. I'm kind of new to the area, so uh some local help would kind of be appreciated. Well, uh see, a few months back, I don't know if you heard it in the news, but um uh our leader, uh Mandalore, was killed on Abifar, uh and uh now we've uh retrieved the dark saber from his corpse, and uh it's this thing that we do. Whoever has this uh little weapon, they become our leader, and uh well, normally it's kind of a challenge of strength, eh? Where uh somebody challenges the leader, and if they can take the saber from him, they become the new leader, but we can't exactly make a pile of rocks our uh new leader, because a bunch of rocks fell on him and crushed him. Uh so we had this idea instead that we would uh plunge the saber into this Cortosis plinth, huh? And then whoever could pull it out would be crowned our new Mandalore. Uh so we did that last night. We uh put it into the plinth, and we uh thought we would let it sit overnight so it could really just bind the blade. Uh but when I went to check on it this morning, it turns out it was gone, eh?

SPEAKER_03 11:40

Somebody uh nicked it.

SPEAKER_07 11:41

Does that mean they're your Mandalore nail?

SPEAKER_03 11:43

Well, I hope not. Uh I think generally you have to actually be a Mandalorian, and uh if any of us had stolen it, uh had been managing to pull it out, then they probably wouldn't have had to uh hide it, and they would have told us about it.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

So we think it might be somebody from around here. Uh and since I was the one who found it, I'm the one who's got to uh find it.

SPEAKER_08 12:02

So you're looking for somebody who knows the area?

SPEAKER_01 12:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 12:05

Yeah, that's like us. We live here, we know the area. We totally leave the bar and go home on our off hours. Don't sleep in cots in the back. Anyways.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Well, that's good. Uh we managed to uh catch him on our CCTV. Uh we know he's not a Mandalorian because he didn't have a helmet on, so uh we got his face here. And he pulls out this little disc with a uh a hologram of a uh a human guy. Uh he's slightly shorter than average, slim built, uh, looks like he's got light hair. Do we recognize him if he's like from the area? Give me uh maybe a knowledge streetwise, or potentially if you think you might know him from like the criminals and people who come in that might be underworld, if you think maybe um you guys do get a lot of off-duty Sith coming in, so maybe knowledge warfare.

SPEAKER_07 12:57

Oh, knowledge.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

Yeah. So Streetwise or uh maybe a knowledge.

SPEAKER_08 13:04

Streetwise, baby.

SPEAKER_01 13:05

So to see if you know him, um, it is kind of low res and grainy, so that's gonna add a black, but if it comes immediately to mind, that's just gonna be a two purple. One failure.

SPEAKER_08 13:14

One failure. One success, one threat.

SPEAKER_06 13:17

Three success, one threat.

SPEAKER_01 13:18

So Meyer and Rhombius. Um, you do you guys think you do recognize this guy? Um, he looks pretty young. He looks about like uh maybe 18 or 19 years old. Um, so probably he didn't come into the bar. Uh but if you turn around, you can see that there is like a photo of a guy who looks just like him given to you by Krusty Sheets, the owner of the motel across the street. Uh, because every once in a while, when he has people skip out on the bill, he will give you their pictures for do not serve for your wall.

SPEAKER_08 14:01

Hey Krusty, uh Yeah. This guy in this photo, do you remember anything about him? Like meme. Anything else?

SPEAKER_01 14:10

Uh let me, uh why don't you give me a little bit? Maybe I'll have to check my records.

SPEAKER_00 14:18

Do you wanna come back to my place with me? That sounds suspicious. Back to the Krusty Sheets Motel. Yeah, you did get some thread on that supposed.

SPEAKER_08 14:27

Um yeah. That's like all this, right? Uh Banner, you wanna come you wanna come with me?

SPEAKER_07 14:34

Uh yeah, yeah, man. Yeah, I need to go outside, uh, anyways.

SPEAKER_05 14:38

You guys might want to wait for a second. I gotta watch uh before you order a burger. I gotta wash off the grill again. A piece of skin fell off. Off the burger?

SPEAKER_07 14:47

Yes. Skin burger.

SPEAKER_08 14:51

Why why are you the cook? He's always been a cooker.

SPEAKER_05 14:56

Because I'm really good at it, except when my skin falls off.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

Because he's willing to get splattered by hot boiling grease and he doesn't notice.

SPEAKER_08 15:04

Do you have like a full-body hairnet?

SPEAKER_05 15:06

I have um I have a I'm uh wrapped head to toe in bandages and then like whatever cooks wear.

SPEAKER_06 15:13

But they're like not very well wrapped, so there's like big chunks of meat just sticking out differently.

SPEAKER_05 15:19

I go through I go through like six rolls a day. I have to ch I have to change my entire body with like two rolls of wrap every day so I don't leak out.

SPEAKER_07 15:28

We mostly just serve alcohol. Sometimes you feel kind of lazy and you don't actually like change out the old wraps before you put the new ones over top.

SPEAKER_05 15:36

That's when I wear the hairnet.

SPEAKER_07 15:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:39

Over my body.

SPEAKER_07 15:40

When you're saying over my body, I'm just imagining you like running your hands down your body to have.

SPEAKER_05 15:47

I just wear like fishnet, like fishnet stockings and a mesh shirt. Anyways.

SPEAKER_07 15:54

Y'all go to Krusty Sheets with uh Meyer.

SPEAKER_05 15:58

Do you guys want me to go with you? Yeah, do you want to come with?

SPEAKER_08 16:00

Yeah, we need a guy. Yeah. A nasty guy that'll turn off crusty.

SPEAKER_07 16:05

You're in charge of the bar!

SPEAKER_06 16:06

Yeah. Oh okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

Gang goes to Krusty Sheets.

SPEAKER_08 16:10

We believe in you.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

So you can leave uh your new hire in in charge of the bar. Yeah. While while your one customer leads you to the no-tell motel across the street. Uh the the Mandalorian is coming with you, and as you're as you're going, um he notices you're kind of falling apart there, Al. And he says, uh couldn't notice, uh, you're looking pretty gruesome there, buddy.

SPEAKER_05 16:33

Yeah, it's a recent accident, but it's okay. I'm uh I'm pulling myself together.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

You know, if you're ever looking for something uh a little more uh cooler, I guess, than bandages to hide your disgusting visit, you know, you could always uh hook up with the Mandos. We're always looking for uh some good men to help in the fight.

SPEAKER_07 16:50

Yo, you're asking him to hook up with you?

SPEAKER_01 16:52

Oh my god. Do you guys have like Well it's not strictly a sex thing, but uh Wait, what do you mean not strictly? Well, we like to uh reinforce camaraderie and brotherhood, and uh, you know, you can really tell about a person when you get into a physical uh confrontation with them.

SPEAKER_05 17:07

Don't I know it?

SPEAKER_01 17:08

Call sex confrontations? Well, we take all comers as it is. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 17:14

Hey, and that's not the crusty sheets, too!

SPEAKER_05 17:16

I I I take all comers too.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

This is the way. This is the way. Yeah, so if you've ever uh like to uh hide that face with something a little more durable, you know, check us out.

SPEAKER_05 17:26

Uh I might take advantage of that. Uh thank you. Well, if you have like a card, I might take your number here.

SPEAKER_02 17:32

Uh yeah, I think I've got something.

SPEAKER_01 17:33

And he starts fishing around in his copious Rob Leifeld pouches. Uh, and he fishes out this like bent business card with like the Mythosaur skull on it, and he hands it to you.

SPEAKER_05 17:44

Uh, thank you. Uh uh I'll put this in my pocket and I'll check out the website.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

So, uh, Krusty Sheets uh unlocks the door to his reception area. It smells heavily of urine. The the buzzing, flickering lights overhead. There's like crime and mold in the corners of uh the floors where they meet the walls. The counter, it seems like something sticky spilled on there. Hopefully it was like coffee or a beverage. And he starts like digging through his file cabinet for various data chits and things, and he pulls out this like stack and he plugs uh one in, and there's a uh a little thing that comes up for the the room payment for uh Well, that's the thing. It's not there's no room listed on it, and he says, uh yeah, this is the guy. Him and his little uh honey. Uh they stayed here last night and they skipped out on the bill. Looks like he signed his name as Pen Room Key.

SPEAKER_07 18:45

Perfect. That's a weird name.

SPEAKER_05 18:47

Which room is he is he in?

SPEAKER_01 18:49

Uh well, that's the thing. We were kind of uh full up last night. It was a so uh him and his honey, they just uh stayed out by the uh beasts of burden in the pen, and let me tell you, they made an awful mess to something they spilled something all over the ground there. I don't know what it is.

SPEAKER_05 19:07

How does Krusty Sheets have more business than Empire Wrecker? Because he allows people to fuck at his place. I mean, we don't say you can't fuck, we just catch people in the bathroom every once in a while, and we have to kick them out.

SPEAKER_06 19:22

You've got a black light in the bathroom? Might have found a clue if you're gonna.

SPEAKER_05 19:25

We took out that black light in the bathroom, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_06 19:28

Pen room key is an anagram for monkey rope.

SPEAKER_05 19:32

I would I was hoping that the key room was 15, so it'd be pen 15.

SPEAKER_08 19:38

So they were here last night, and when did the dark paper get stolen?

SPEAKER_03 19:45

Keep it up, keep it up. It was uh dark saper got stolen last night.

SPEAKER_08 19:49

Can oh I really don't want to do this, but um, can we go look at the the the pen? I'm not a private investigator, but I feel like that's the thing to do.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

Can I percept for clues? Right now you guys are just at the reception, but if you want to analyze uh what's at the reception, you can. Just a two-purple.

SPEAKER_07 20:08

Can I percept for threats? You guys.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

If you guys want to precept for threats, that'll also be a two-purple.

SPEAKER_07 20:13

One success.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

One success, one advantage. Vanry, uh, you can give this place an ocular pat down. There are a lot of threats, mostly uh like of the health variety. Um, it's probably not a good idea to stay here for an extended period of time in this room without some kind of breathing apparatus, unless you want to get mold in your lungs.

SPEAKER_07 20:34

Can I start shoving everyone out towards the pen? We have to go, it's a safety hazard. Let's go with a pen. Go with a pen.

SPEAKER_01 20:40

Al, uh, before Vanry shoves you all out, uh, you can take a look at uh the data that Krusty has provided you about these two customers. Uh, and you can see that there is a little you get like just like a frame of like the CCTV footage. Um, and you can see that like it's like an overhead from the back from where the camera is, and it's there is a shot of him from behind and his girlfriend who you can can't really make her out. She looks to be a couple years younger than him, maybe. Um, but she's uh I guess very pregnant.

SPEAKER_05 21:20

These pe these people, these uh sleepin' dashers that you're talking about, was one of them possibly with child?

SPEAKER_01 21:28

Well, they didn't have a child with them. Uh and the uh the Famale one, she was a little too plump for my liking.

SPEAKER_05 21:36

Uh so uh Okay, may maybe maybe my wording was a little bit too subtle. Was w w was the woman pregnant?

SPEAKER_01 21:45

Oh well, I guess yeah, her egg sack might have been distended, that might have caused it.

SPEAKER_05 21:50

Jesus fucking Christ. Who? Who? Sorry, space Jesus fucking Christ. Ah, speaking of Christ. Ah, there we go, speaking. Speezus.

SPEAKER_08 22:00

Speedith. Beath Christ.

SPEAKER_05 22:04

Beethus Christ. Um, okay Are you making fun of my lisp?

SPEAKER_08 22:08

What? No.

SPEAKER_05 22:10

No. Ever. Guy guys, simmer, simmer. It's okay. We're we're all gonna we're all gonna get along. We're all gonna do fine. Um what uh uh would you mind if I took a look at your uh at your uh uh s footage here, your your camera footage.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

Um yeah, let me just um get the tape here.

SPEAKER_08 22:31

You know what? I guess looking for the tape to see if he's actually holding the darksaber is better than uh, you know, looking in a nasty poopy stall.

SPEAKER_01 22:42

So uh he pulls the tape out of his uh current uh device and he puts it into a drawer. Um you can see that there the tape that he was looking at does have a room number on it and a date, which is a very questionable thing for uh the proprietor of a motel to have. Uh but then he rifles around and pulls out one uh that is labeled as the front desk from last night. And he runs through uh the footage until he gets to the young couple entering, and you all can see, um, based on the girl who looks to be about 16 or 17, she is kind of like taking a lot of weight off. She is like sitting down in the chair as he's doing things. And as the the guy um who is apparently paying for this, this pen room key, uh, he's taking things out of his pockets, uh rifling around for credit shits. Uh, and as he's signing it, he's looking, like as he's signing his name, he he looks down at his pen and he looks over at the room key and then signs his name. But on the counter, he does pull out from his pocket and set on the counter briefly a 30 centimeter long uh object that could be the hilt of a sword.

SPEAKER_05 24:04

Can we enhance on that? And I'm talking about the little hilt. Uh he zooms in and it gets very pixelated.

SPEAKER_08 24:10

Enhance! Never mind.

SPEAKER_05 24:12

Never mind, zoom out. Sir, I mean no judgment when I'm about to say this, but do you have the footage that is within their room?

SPEAKER_01 24:21

Uh, like I said, um they were uh in the beast pens, and uh I don't usually keep cameras out there. There's not really anything too interesting going on out there during the night, so uh. First of all, you c second of all, can I percept? Yeah, you can percept.

SPEAKER_04 24:37

Yeah, we're gonna percept.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

So uh give me uh give me a if he seems a little shifty, um, so maybe he's hiding something, so that'll be a two-purple and a black perception.

SPEAKER_05 24:45

I got a failure, but three advantages.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

So, um, you can tell he's definitely shifty. You can't tell if it's about this, but there are a lot of skeletons in his closet, perhaps literal.

SPEAKER_05 24:58

You don't mind if I uh you don't mind if I investigate the room, do you? I have uh I have a couple ideas that I want to be sure of before I before we leave this place. If if I'm about to take your case, Mr. uh sorry, what was the Mandalorian's name? He didn't give it. Hey, Mr. Mandalorian, what's your name?

SPEAKER_01 25:17

Uh, that doesn't matter. I'm uh working in the name of uh the covert right now, so um you can just call me Mando, Mandalorian.

SPEAKER_05 25:24

I'm gonna call I'm gonna call you David. Okay. Let's uh my name. Okay, I want to investigate the room.

SPEAKER_01 25:32

To to search the room, this you're probably looking for things that are being hidden. Give me a give me a three purple and a black, because uh Krusty is kind of like when you start searching, he is like kind of surreptitiously locking some cabinets and things.

SPEAKER_05 25:46

Uh, how many destiny points do we got? We got one right now.

SPEAKER_07 25:50

I'll search the room too for threats.

SPEAKER_05 25:54

I got two success and an advantage.

SPEAKER_08 25:57

Three advantages and a failure.

SPEAKER_07 25:59

I got two threats, there's danger everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

Uh one threat. Rhombius and Vanry. You guys have uh spent quite a while breathing the air of this room, so you can take strain in the amount of threat that you got.

SPEAKER_07 26:14

I wanted us to get out of the room, I knew there was threats here.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

Um, Al, as as he's kind of like uh looking around, as you're as you're looking around, he does seem to be um blocking, like standing in front of a cabinet that he didn't have time to lock. Um, Meyer, as a uh 19-year-old human girl. Um You run. Run as far and fast as you can. You may be you may be able to distract uh Krusty.

SPEAKER_08 26:47

So, um you are here often.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

All the time. What the I sleep under the counter if you'd like to take a look at my.

SPEAKER_08 27:02

Oh, that's so cool. Only the coolest people sleep in cots at their workplaces.

SPEAKER_01 27:07

You think I'm cool, do you? And he like licks his hand and he slicks back his like balding hair. Like it's mostly he's got like a six head by now, so he doesn't actually hit hair until he reaches like the crown.

SPEAKER_08 27:19

I didn't look up what an abysson looks like.

SPEAKER_05 27:22

Before before I said no judgment, but inside, I'm steeply judging.

SPEAKER_08 27:28

Oh, just open the fucking drawer.

SPEAKER_01 27:30

I'm I I'm opening it, I'm opening it. What's in there? Yeah, so Almond, you can um open this drawer, and you can see uh that he does have um a lot of tapes in there for the stable, for the beast pen that he said he did not, and they are labeled by date, and they are also given a star rating.

SPEAKER_05 27:58

God damn it. Um well I take I take the relevant dates, um, and maybe a couple more that have higher star ratings. And maybe ones, and maybe a couple that have low star ratings, just so I can have like a uh a median.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

Okay, so that's uh you're you're you're taking a lot of data tapes here, so um he is being distracted, so that'll add a blue, but because you're taking so many, you'll also have to add a black to your two purple skullduggery. Three success, two threat, but a triumph.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

Ooh.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

So you can grab all of those, but like the closing of the drawer does get his attention. And he turns around and he says, Hey, what are you doing with my drawers?

SPEAKER_05 28:40

I'm making sure that I'm making sure that you have a belt so you can pull pull them back up. Uh right again. You should get away from her. She's way too young for you. What are you, a cop? And and then I I look I look away longingly, and I take a deep breath. No, I am not a cop.

SPEAKER_01 29:02

And he kind of squints at you.

SPEAKER_07 29:04

That's some kind of mysterious backstory.

SPEAKER_01 29:06

He kind of squints at you with his cloudy eye, and uh says, No, uh, the way you stand, it reminds me of um some people who gave me some trouble a while back. Uh, worked for the Sith. And uh, I don't want no trouble from the Sith, so uh whatever whatever you're doing, I promise. I uh got nothing to do with it. I'm I'm just a simple man, tryna tryna make his way in the world here. Everything I'm doing is technically legal, okay? Uh you can take whatever you want, just uh just look, look, I know you guys. You know me, it's me. Crusty sheets, we've known each other. I ain't doing anything wrong.

SPEAKER_05 29:43

Listen, we're not we're not gonna say a thing. I didn't notice anything. I get and I try and give him a wink with my fucking burnt up eye. And then I take the goddamn elephant.

SPEAKER_07 29:57

Wait, he said we can take anything we want. Does he have anything good in here?

SPEAKER_01 30:00

Yeah, if you're taking if you're taking this as a walk right off.

unknown 30:06

Does he have any good shit?

SPEAKER_01 30:08

Yeah, he's probably he's probably too scared to um deal with. These people are all with me. So, yeah, he's got like some multi-continental breakfast on the counter. He's got some pamphlets for um you know what's going on in the area. Uh he has a uh coffee machine, he's got uh I mean it depending on how hard you want to look for for shit to take from this guy.

SPEAKER_07 30:32

Coffee machine, is that curig? No, what do you think?

SPEAKER_05 30:38

I'm not even the gay the the game master. Just no. Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_07 30:43

I guess it was just like take whatever you want. I'm just like, okay, I'll take his coffee machine.

SPEAKER_05 30:50

I open up the drawer again, I'm like, there's some there's some that are five stars in here for some reason.

SPEAKER_02 30:56

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The five stars are the good ones.

SPEAKER_05 30:59

Alright, let's uh uh t uh let's uh let's header. Uh hey, next time, next time. Uh and then I I look over to uh uh Rhombius and I'm like, drink drinks on the house just for like, I don't know, five drinks or so?

SPEAKER_01 31:13

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 31:14

Five drinks on the house.

SPEAKER_00 31:17

You're very kind, sirs. You're very kind.

SPEAKER_07 31:19

Yeah, we know. I say while taking his coffee machine.

SPEAKER_05 31:24

I say while taking I say while taking his fucking weird voyeur porn.

SPEAKER_07 31:32

Anyways, bye Krusty.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

So you can leave uh the motel. Are you are you gonna bother with in investigating the uh the pen themselves or are you fine with the security footage?

SPEAKER_07 31:41

Do we want to go check the pen?

SPEAKER_00 31:45

We should check the pen while we're here.

SPEAKER_08 31:46

Let's let's look at where these people fucked.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 31:50

Is there any residue here?

SPEAKER_01 31:54

In the uh cold light of day, which is to say still night because uh everything blocks out the sun down here. There's uh not a lot of speeders parked there. It's uh approaching noon, so checkout time was a while ago, and he doesn't get too many customers during the day itself. Uh, but there's still a couple of speeders that are parked there that look pretty uh grubby and run down, uh look like they haven't moved in a while. Maybe he's got a couple of long-term residents. And you can approach the uh beast pen where uh a couple of banthas and other uh milkable animals are hanging out. One of the pens is kind of empty. There's a lot of like hay strewn around. Um, and like there are stains on the ground. Like, there is like one big wet stain on the ground in the middle of the floor. Looks like the hay was kind of bunched up uh to maybe as a makeshift bed or something.

SPEAKER_08 32:53

I want to perceive to see if he's like used the darksaber. See if there's any damage.

SPEAKER_07 33:01

Where he was swanging it around trying to look cool. Swanging it.

SPEAKER_05 33:04

He's like, he's like if I swear to god, if I open up a closet and see your head in here, I'm gonna be very upset. They left, right? Okay.

SPEAKER_07 33:12

The big wet stain is actually blood from where he like cut his hand off trying to impress his girlfriend.

SPEAKER_01 33:17

Um, yeah, so give me a two-purple perception to see if there's any burn marks from a laser sword.

SPEAKER_08 33:24

One threat. I got three success and one threat. The first time I haven't been a very perceptive character.

SPEAKER_05 33:30

I got one failure, but two advantage.

SPEAKER_08 33:32

Wait a second, it's a career rank and I didn't put any no, it's fine.

SPEAKER_07 33:35

Uh oh. Three advantage, but one failure. Aha, now Vanry's the perceptive one. It's Vanry town.

SPEAKER_08 33:41

I'll get there, I'll get there.

SPEAKER_01 33:43

Blah. Vanry and Almond. Um, you can see that there are some um strange marks in the ground and in the wall. Burn marks potentially caused by a laser sword. And Vanry and Almond, maybe it's an advantage because, aha, more information, but Vanry, it does make you puke a little bit in your mouth and give you a strain. Um it seems like like there is a uh on like buried under the hay, there is something like this long fleshy tendril that's cauterized at one end and has like a a fleshy sack attached to it.

SPEAKER_07 34:27

What? What what is that? Wait, I'm not touching it. Wait, is this afterbirth?

SPEAKER_01 34:33

Rhombius, you didn't see uh any you didn't see the marks made by the laser sword in the wall, but as a man who knows how the body works and where its various fluids go, you can identify this as a placenta and umbilical cord.

SPEAKER_08 34:49

Oh my god, it's space Jesus.

SPEAKER_04 34:52

Oh no.

SPEAKER_05 34:53

Well wait, what? Why is the space Jesus?

SPEAKER_08 34:56

Because they gave birth in a fucking manger.

SPEAKER_05 34:59

Well, no, they birthed in a fucking crummy uh a dive motel.

SPEAKER_07 35:05

It was the fucking stable behind the bar uh dive motel. And here we come, the four wise men. And I'm the little drummer boy.

SPEAKER_05 35:16

I got I got you some one-star porn that you may or may not star in.

SPEAKER_08 35:21

Yo, brah, you want some myrrh? You can cut the cut the cut the cord with the fucking dark saber?

SPEAKER_05 35:29

It is dark.

SPEAKER_07 35:30

That's nasty.

SPEAKER_05 35:32

That's nasty.

SPEAKER_07 35:34

So, uh Um, what like, okay, that's I I'm sorry. I'm going back to using this voice. I'm just I'm stealing your bit. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_08 35:43

He's fine. I'm trying to lean more into the uh the lisp instead of the uh Valley Girl thing.

SPEAKER_07 35:48

Vanry's listening to how you talk and she's like, I should talk like that. Like, I like that's a lot of blood. Like, do you just like keep like goosh afterwards? Like maybe she was just like goosh, and then they like is there a bunch of blood everywhere?

SPEAKER_08 36:06

I mean, sometimes you need to get like stitched up and stuff. Maybe we should um But they like do you stitch up the pussy afterwards? Oh my god. What? I'm not a doctor, I don't know. How am I younger than you and know more about this? You're saying stitch it up!

SPEAKER_01 36:24

She's not a human being.

SPEAKER_07 36:26

Yeah, I like hey, shut up.

SPEAKER_05 36:29

How many more times in your life are you gonna say goosh? Because I want I want to not be around whenever you do.

SPEAKER_07 36:35

Not my fault if she's just like gooshing all over the place. Again, I can't stress this enough.

SPEAKER_05 36:41

So please keep your gush away from me.

SPEAKER_07 36:47

You can get my gush near you if you wanted. What the fuck does that mean?

SPEAKER_08 36:52

There's like no is there like a should we see if there's like a blood trail? Like a snail trail?

SPEAKER_07 37:01

What I was trying to say. Oh my god. Sorry, I'm not good at talking.

SPEAKER_08 37:05

Sorry I wasn't listening. There's a fucking placenta on the ground.

SPEAKER_05 37:11

Women oh women's uh natural body movements.

SPEAKER_07 37:19

Are you being sarcastic?

SPEAKER_05 37:21

I'm being misogynist Almond.

SPEAKER_07 37:23

Can I perceive Almon to see if he's a threat?

SPEAKER_01 37:26

Yeah. So uh Almond, what's your uh either cool or discipline, probably to c to conceal your your power, your your threatening uh abilities?

SPEAKER_05 37:38

Uh let's see. Discipline is three, so three purple.

SPEAKER_07 37:43

Haha, two failure and a threat. I know shit.

SPEAKER_01 37:47

Yeah, you you can't see if he's a threat. Um d do you want him to be a threat?

SPEAKER_07 37:53

Do I want him to be a threat?

SPEAKER_01 37:55

C considering you need to work together, uh to to figure this out, probably. Uh yeah, you think he's a threat.

SPEAKER_05 38:03

I'm on your side for now.

SPEAKER_07 38:05

What the fuck does that mean?

SPEAKER_05 38:06

Oh, did I say that out loud? I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_08 38:09

So this is this I I assume this is like a human placenta, right?

SPEAKER_01 38:13

I mean, it came out of human beings, presumably, unless uh there's like some Bantha cubs or something nearby.

SPEAKER_08 38:19

Okay. Well, okay, here's my plan. We have the photo of the guy, and I feel as like we're going after him. People won't talk to us, so why don't we like take the photo around and say that he ran off of my sister and we're looking for my sister, and maybe we can find him through her and say, like, he took my sister and baby and stuff.

SPEAKER_06 38:43

Have you seen this man?

SPEAKER_08 38:45

Have you seen this man? He took my sister.

SPEAKER_06 38:47

Okay, but like we'll put posters up all over the bar.

SPEAKER_07 38:50

What if you say that to people and they just don't give a shit? But like, what if we're like he owes us money and they're like, yeah, he owes us money to find him and get his money.

SPEAKER_05 38:59

There's only one way to find out, really.

SPEAKER_07 39:00

We'll start with the sister, and if that doesn't work, then we'll go with the money.

SPEAKER_08 39:04

And he also owes us money.

SPEAKER_07 39:06

Also, I'm his bookie.

SPEAKER_08 39:08

Where should we just like, hmm, just like other businesses in the area?

SPEAKER_01 39:13

Yeah, the businesses that are like directly adjacent to you um are like on the same side of the street as you. Next door, uh, on one side to your left is a uh a weaponmonger, uh, half-seaters, a weaponsmith and arms dealer, and on the other side is the Daring Toys, a uh sex shop owned by a Toy Darien. Daring Toys.

SPEAKER_07 39:39

So if I had just given birth to a baby, I would go. Would I rather have a gun or some nice lingerie? Who am I kidding? It wouldn't be nice lingerie at that place.

SPEAKER_01 39:50

Yeah, I don't think Squato's selling any uh nice lingerie.

SPEAKER_07 39:55

What do you guys think? I mean, maybe the maybe the weaponsmith, like, if if like they had just given birth and he's like, oh my god damn, yeah, maybe myself would have like gotta get a gun.

SPEAKER_08 40:05

No, I was thinking maybe he'd like pawned the Darksaber.

SPEAKER_07 40:08

Really?

SPEAKER_05 40:10

Maybe. Oh my god. I mean, I'm sure it's worth at least like 20, 30 credits.

SPEAKER_03 40:14

Uh it's actually worth significantly more. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 40:16

But like to him. I would say that it it was priceless.

SPEAKER_06 40:19

Sell it to a pawn trap and doesn't know even what it's worth is and just like selling it.

SPEAKER_01 40:23

It's kind of got um immeasurable cultural value.

SPEAKER_03 40:26

So it's like not worth much though.

SPEAKER_05 40:28

Should somebody watch these tapes from last night?

SPEAKER_08 40:30

Are you saying you want to watch the tapes from last night?

SPEAKER_05 40:33

Uh no, not really.

SPEAKER_07 40:35

I mean, we probably could do at least see what where they went, but like, listen, guys, I'm pretty sure that like if we stay in that hotel, we're gonna get like so many diseases from the air. Like, just like we're gonna go.

SPEAKER_05 40:45

Yeah, you might have bed bugs on you.

SPEAKER_07 40:46

Oh god.

SPEAKER_05 40:48

Oh, please. Like, I've probably had worse diseases.

SPEAKER_07 40:50

Probably currently have, like, but like maybe we should go back, we should go back to the bar where it's safe and there's not like just just I stay at the bar because I like to live dangerously.

SPEAKER_08 41:01

Let's go back to the bar, like, since maybe we can like uh wash our hands after looking at this placenta and being in this nasty place.

SPEAKER_05 41:10

I do feel like I need to be in a three-hour shower.

SPEAKER_07 41:13

We got some bleach in the bathroom. We just like breathe the fumes from that a little bit. That's gonna clean out our lungs.

SPEAKER_08 41:18

God.

SPEAKER_07 41:19

That's how medicine works.

SPEAKER_08 41:20

Is that what they teach you at uh Sith School?

SPEAKER_05 41:23

Sith school?

SPEAKER_07 41:24

You don't know that.

SPEAKER_08 41:25

I don't know that.

SPEAKER_05 41:26

Sith school and eBird.

SPEAKER_08 41:27

Is is that is that yes, fuck goddamn, looks like an You should probably disinfect that um coffee machine before we before it gets used. Just see you. Before we use it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 41:38

Yeah, we'll go hook up our coffee machine, clean it out with bleach, breathe some bleach, everything's gonna be clean.

SPEAKER_01 41:45

You can go back to the bar, and uh Maz is there wiping it down, and she says, Oh hey, you guys are back. How did things go?

SPEAKER_05 41:52

I'm gonna take a shower. So they went well? Well, I mean, we we have some evidence. We still gotta watch these tapes of possibly uh possibly that'll tell us where they are, or possibly just be uh video of them giving birth. Um, either way, uh, I'm doing fine. How are you, Maz? Uh, that's a story for another time. Wait, you you you you did stuff? Story for another time.

SPEAKER_06 42:21

In the Marvel one-shot Moz. Moz's day at the bar. Moz's big day in. Turns out we had a flux of customers.

SPEAKER_05 42:30

Uh I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna watch the tape though.

SPEAKER_01 42:33

Yeah, so you you mentioned the tape, and she goes into the back and she rolls out the the card with the TV on it. And you can plug in the tapes. And uh are you starting with the one from last night or are you starting uh or you're working your way up to that one?

SPEAKER_05 42:46

No, uh, I'm starting with the like how long were they there for? Uh they were there for one night. Okay, yeah, I'm just gonna watch the night.

SPEAKER_07 42:53

Yeah, you save the other ones for your private viewing.

SPEAKER_01 42:56

Yeah, that tape's got a low rating. Wait, what's the rating? Oh, it's half a star. Boo. But you can see um they do like the tape kind of begins with them being shown to the stables by Krusty Sheets and uh them kind of grumbling, but accepting that they have to stay here. Uh and it you can fast forward. Yes, there is a birth that happens. Uh, yes, he does cut the umbilical with the darksaber. Yes, uh, he does uh swing it around trying to look cool while his girlfriend is in this pile of hay with a human being coming out of her body.

SPEAKER_06 43:36

Um, swings the the darksaber or the umbilical card?

SPEAKER_01 43:41

Yes.

SPEAKER_09 43:44

It's called one.

SPEAKER_06 43:46

What is it what is his drop rate?

SPEAKER_00 43:50

What is he doing?

SPEAKER_05 43:53

He's got around 60% drop rate. He's doing he's doing better than anybody else in the city. And he does

SPEAKER_01 44:00

He does like nick the side of the stable and like the ground a couple of times and stuff, and he comes dangerously close to slicing his own leg off. He does kind of like graze it and try to play it off. Like the girl like looks up at him like what happened? And he's like, nothing, nothing. Nothing. It's cool.

SPEAKER_08 44:15

Does he have a limp now?

SPEAKER_01 44:17

Afterwards, he does seem to have a limp.

SPEAKER_08 44:19

Right? We gotta go look for a guy with a limp. I'm sure there's not a ton of them in this shithole that we live in.

SPEAKER_05 44:24

I mean, let's let's let's see if we can. Is there any sound on these things? Uh no, there's no sound. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 44:31

What would I was gonna say, what do I need to roll for lips? Lip reading.

SPEAKER_01 44:38

Um that would be a a pretty uh difficult perception. Um, I don't know if you are uh an experienced lip reader, so this would I'm gonna use give you guys another destiny point here. Uh because I'm gonna say that this is impossible for you to do.

SPEAKER_07 44:55

Hell yeah, what is it?

SPEAKER_01 44:58

So that's gonna be uh a red and four purple.

SPEAKER_07 45:02

Three failures. One failure, two threat, baby.

SPEAKER_06 45:06

Two failures and three threats.

SPEAKER_05 45:07

Two failures, but an advantage.

SPEAKER_07 45:11

Rhombius and I do not know what they're saying, but we are certain that we do.

SPEAKER_01 45:15

Yeah, anyone who got threat, you guys think you know what they're saying. Um, Almond, you know you don't know what they're saying, and you know that the others probably don't as well, but uh if the others believe they do, what do you think they're saying?

SPEAKER_06 45:28

Purple monkey dishwasher.

SPEAKER_07 45:29

Oh my god, I thought they were saying purple monkey dishwasher too.

SPEAKER_05 45:32

Yeah, they're not saying purple monkey dishwasher.

SPEAKER_07 45:34

What does that mean? Is it like a code?

SPEAKER_05 45:36

They're not saying purple monkey dishwasher.

SPEAKER_07 45:38

You guys don't know what he's looking for saying purple monkey dishwasher.

SPEAKER_05 45:43

Well, I'm I'm gonna pretend I'm gonna pretend to say something with my mouth. I'm gonna stay far away. I'm gonna go to the other side of the room and I'm gonna say something. And I want you guys to suss out what I'm trying to say. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 45:56

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 45:57

And I'm I I I I move my lips.

SPEAKER_07 46:00

Purple monkey dishwasher! Oh my god, I think he's in on it. You just said control us, yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_05 46:05

God damn it.

SPEAKER_06 46:06

You get What do you know, I try something else. Try saying something else instead of Purple Monkey Dishwasher again. We know that's what you're going to say.

SPEAKER_05 46:14

No, I I I leave the room because I'm like. It wasn't even close.

SPEAKER_01 46:19

Running away from the scene of the crime, I see! When when it looks like they're saying Al, uh, you know that they didn't say purple monkey dishwasher, but um she when she says purple monkey dishwasher to him, she seems like like this is like near near the end before they leave. Like, this is kind of the last thing they say before they leave. And it looks like she's she's like very insistent, and she's like pointing to like she's pointing at him, like, with like the fury of like a Harrison Ford point. And uh she points it at the uh darksaber that he's got in his pocket as well when she says purple monkey dishwasher.

SPEAKER_05 46:58

Purple monkey dishwasher. I said purple monkey dishwasher.

SPEAKER_08 47:04

So should we start at the weapon store?

SPEAKER_07 47:08

Maybe, yeah. Like, do they do they leave in a particular direction?

SPEAKER_01 47:12

Uh well, the way the security cameras were pointed, like just going out of the stables is uh where they left, but you can't see kind of after after that where they went.

SPEAKER_06 47:23

Is there another angle, another camera?

SPEAKER_07 47:25

We don't go get back to crusty sheets. I know we took your cr I know we took your coffee machine and your dignity.

SPEAKER_01 47:31

Yeah, like looking looking through, if you want to look through his other tapes, um you can see that are did you just pull tapes of the stable or did you just pull a random assortment of tapes?

SPEAKER_05 47:42

Oh, um, I pulled out like all all of the tapes were from that room, right? Just from the stables? Yeah, I I I chose like uh let's say I chose the f uh the five lowest star ratings and the five highest star ratings from like yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:59

Yeah, so it seems that some of them, um, there are a couple of different cameras that are pointed towards the stables, uh, like, but they only cover his property. So you can see that uh like they leave. Um you can't really tell what direction they're going, but they like it's they could have been going to the weapon shop, they could have been going across the street, but it says that the cameras don't really cover that. If you're looking at the tapes, you can see that the lowest rated ones are, you know, nothing really happens in them. They are very boring. Uh the highest rated ones do have hardcore animal husbandry going on, though.

SPEAKER_07 48:37

I don't like that that's the highest rated ones, but I guess it is pointed at the stables, so like, what does one expect? Well, yeah, like we can check at the weapon shop because, like, maybe she's like, you gotta go sell that thing so you can buy me a purple monkey and a dishwasher, because they're like starting a new family, and like, do humans need purple monkeys and dishwashers for a family? Maybe, right?

SPEAKER_05 49:00

I I I walk back into the room and I yell at you guys. They did say purple monkey dishwasher. Stop focusing on the purple monkey dishwasher. That is not something that they said.

SPEAKER_06 49:13

Who can forget the galactic dream? Uh a chicken on every plate and a purple monkey in every dishwasher.

SPEAKER_07 49:22

Rhombius knows what's up. This Almon guy, Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 49:27

Maybe they just really like the Lost in Space movie.

SPEAKER_07 49:30

Like, hey, yeah. Okay, do we all go check the weapon shop?

SPEAKER_01 49:33

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_07 49:34

Yes. Darken their door.

SPEAKER_05 49:35

I swear to god, if you ask if you if that weapon shop sells them purple monkey dishwasher, I'm gonna be so fucking upset.

SPEAKER_07 49:44

That's a good idea. We should check while they were there. No.

unknown 49:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 49:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 49:48

No, they only have green monkey dishwashers. Damn it, the tracks got cold.

SPEAKER_07 49:52

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_01 49:53

So you can leave Maz in charge again. Uh head next door to Hef's Heaters. Uh, and inside the the smell of uh molten metal wafts in from the back, and you can hear the sounds of metal clanging on metal. Uh, and there's a chime as you enter, and a few moments later the sound stops, and this uh muscular uh three well, one of his arms. He's got three regular arms and one cybernetic arm. This besilisk saunters up to the counter uh past the racks of of guns and swords and other implements of destruction. Uh and he says, Oh, hey guys, how's it hanging today? Do you need a uh killing machine? Use one.

SPEAKER_07 50:39

Yo, can I try out one of your swords?

SPEAKER_01 50:42

Uh, sure, but just go into the splatter chamber just in case you cut yourself.

SPEAKER_05 50:47

Have there been a lot of people that cut themselves?

SPEAKER_01 50:50

Well, when they uh are testing out the swords they tend to, some of them are not strong enough to handle a beautiful machine like this.

SPEAKER_08 50:57

Maybe they just aren't graceful enough to handle an awesome cool sword that uh would look really cool to handle.

SPEAKER_05 51:04

Anyways, uh Like some like some kind of uh Darksaber. Uh say, you wouldn't happen to know anything about uh Darksaber now, would you?

SPEAKER_06 51:16

If I may, if I may, what is your name?

SPEAKER_01 51:18

F. My name's on the sign. You know me. You bought your little pistol from me. F.

SPEAKER_06 51:24

F. Booking.

SPEAKER_01 51:25

Brombius, I invited you to my brother's wedding.

SPEAKER_06 51:31

I was busy that weekend, but look. Look into my eyes.

SPEAKER_09 51:36

God.

SPEAKER_06 51:38

Anytime, my men. Entrancing gaze.

SPEAKER_00 51:44

Ooh, so entrancing.

SPEAKER_05 51:46

Ignore him, ignore him. We're serious.

SPEAKER_07 51:49

He's using his entrancing gaze. Let the man work. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 51:53

I'm trying to lull him into being more suggestive and able to answer our questions.

SPEAKER_01 51:57

Does it work? So what is that what does that give you? Does it give you a blue on a charm?

SPEAKER_06 52:02

Charm, deception, and negotiation checks, yes. I'll try and do a charm.

SPEAKER_01 52:05

This will be a two-purple charm, and you can add that that blue.

SPEAKER_06 52:10

Okay. Two success, one advantage, one triumph.

SPEAKER_08 52:15

Triumph of the season.

SPEAKER_05 52:17

I I got a triumph before.

SPEAKER_08 52:18

Oh, never mind. I wasn't paying attention. Hey.

SPEAKER_05 52:30

Whatever. I'll go fuck myself. That's fine.

SPEAKER_01 52:33

Oh, you're going to go to daring toys after this.

SPEAKER_05 52:38

At least they'll know how to take care of me.

SPEAKER_08 52:40

I don't want to take care of you. I'm 19.

SPEAKER_05 52:42

Ew. That's not what I need.

SPEAKER_07 52:45

I can take one of these swords to the splatter zone and practice my karate moves. You guys can talk to him. Rhombius can handle this.

SPEAKER_08 52:51

Have you seen this man? I hold up the photograph.

SPEAKER_01 52:56

And he he looks at it and he says, Yes, I think I uh saw him this morning, as a matter of fact. He's uh not really my type, and he winks at Count Rhombius.

SPEAKER_07 53:08

Enchants and gaze. The insurance and gaze.

SPEAKER_08 53:12

Was he like pawning something or was he buying, selling? What was he up to?

SPEAKER_01 53:20

Yeah, he uh brought a girl and a baby in here for some reason. He was uh trying to sell me a uh well, the kind of weapon that I don't really have any interest in having. You know how uh anyone who has a laser sword tends to attract the wrong kind of attention these days.

SPEAKER_08 53:37

So he was just trying to get rid of it?

SPEAKER_01 53:40

Well, he thought I might be interested in uh buying it, but uh no, those kinds of weapons have very uh very, I don't know, bad vibes off them. Not like the good vibes that you find people tend to bring into my shop. Rhombius, you should come by more often and give me some good vibrations.

SPEAKER_07 53:57

Oh my!

SPEAKER_08 53:59

Um as much as I love what's happening here. Uh did you um give him any recommendations on where to go instead of here?

SPEAKER_01 54:09

Eh, might have. Uh Rhombius, you still did not risk to my brother's wedding.

SPEAKER_07 54:15

Rhombius, do it!

SPEAKER_06 54:17

Oh, hasn't it hasn't happened yet? Okay.

SPEAKER_07 54:19

You gotta agree to be this guy's date.

SPEAKER_06 54:21

Yes, the wedding, yes. When is this wedding?

SPEAKER_01 54:25

Oh, it's in uh three years.

SPEAKER_06 54:28

Oh, I'll be busy that day. Oh no, what timing. I mean, I'll be there, of course, yes. It'll be lovely. All of the wedding. Will this be outdoors in the sun?

SPEAKER_01 54:38

Well, that's the thing, they have not uh selected a venue since uh they want to wait till it's closer on account of half the world's in the galaxy being smoldering pits full of slag at the moment.

SPEAKER_06 54:48

We will use the bar.

SPEAKER_01 54:49

Hold the wedding at the bar, yes.

SPEAKER_06 54:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 54:52

And uh, you know, Rhombyus, since you are going to be joining me, uh, and since the bar is if they are going to hold the wedding there, why don't you uh you know, you may need to defend yourselves from uh some of my fetid sister-in-law's uh other suitors, so uh if you ever need any uh help defending the place, you know, I can give you a little bit of a discount count.

SPEAKER_07 55:18

Uh we don't need any defense def help defending the place, okay? Security's fine at the bar.

SPEAKER_05 55:24

We might need like a camera or two.

SPEAKER_07 55:27

Camera or two.

SPEAKER_05 55:28

Is it a camera that shoots poison spikes? Can it be? I don't think we can afford that. How much is it? No, don't tell me, I'll just be disappointed. Get just just just give it to me, baby.

SPEAKER_01 55:40

Well, I would need the camera first, and then I could install a poison spike launcher into it.

unknown 55:45

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 55:46

Uh are you trying to steal Rombius' date? My god owl.

SPEAKER_05 55:50

Do I look like I'm going after his bot? I'm going after his mind.

SPEAKER_07 55:54

Feels like you're about to like start a weird thropple thing happening here. One of you gets his body, the other gets the brain.

SPEAKER_08 56:03

So now that uh wedding plans are settled.

SPEAKER_01 56:06

Right, right, yes, yes. The uh little boy and his mistress. Um no, I sent them to a collector who might be uh a little more interested in weapons of that nature. He's a uh a few levels up. He can give you his address. He's uh quite an eccentric, but uh if uh you're looking to part with or acquire rare goods, he is your man.

SPEAKER_08 56:29

Oh, thank you for being so helpful once again. Uh I I wink at him, even though I know he won't he won't like it.

SPEAKER_01 56:37

Uh well I'm always glad to be of help to the Count and his entourage.

SPEAKER_08 56:41

That's us. The hanger's on. Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 56:45

Uh I wouldn't mind hanging on you, Rhombius, if you ever uh need somebody to take a firm grip. I have many hands to spare. Let's get out of here. You can get out of there, uh, but if you ever do need any weapons from him, he will give you a bit of a discount.

SPEAKER_08 57:07

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:07

Just just the count or all of us. His entourage. Nice. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_07 57:12

We just gotta, you know, make sure we're like, yeah, the count said he wanted to that he thought you were really cool. Can I get 20% off, please? I'll leave the sword as we go. I've had my entertainment.

SPEAKER_01 57:24

And uh leave the sword. And so this uh collector, this address he gives you, is uh a few levels up, not in your immediate neighborhood, so not uh not within like immediate walking distance.

SPEAKER_07 57:38

Man, we have to get a cab, get the bus. Can't fly yet, apparently.

SPEAKER_05 57:42

It's okay, I can't feel any pain. I can walk for miles.

SPEAKER_07 57:46

Do we have a car? We don't have a ship, but do we have a car? Probably not. Damn, we can't load everyone in the station wagon. You you guys l if you guys live in the bar.

SPEAKER_05 57:55

The bar is in a trailer that we could just drive around.

SPEAKER_08 57:58

I like to think that we all have our own separate little cots and like we all hide the fact that we live in the bar and none of us knows the other ones live at the bar.

SPEAKER_07 58:06

Everyone's just like, okay, I'm going home for the night. Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_06 58:12

Maz has a speeder.

SPEAKER_07 58:13

Oh, should we get Maz to drive us?

SPEAKER_06 58:15

Maz can pick us up. No one's at the bar.

SPEAKER_07 58:18

Maz, you stupid bitch, you gotta drive us to the upper level. Don't call Maz a stupid bitch.

SPEAKER_01 58:23

How much would it be to get a cab to uh So for a cab, um probably be like 30 credits.

SPEAKER_07 58:30

We all stand there looking at each other. Well, boss, uh, you should call us a cab.

SPEAKER_06 58:38

Hello. Is this the cab company?

SPEAKER_04 58:41

Yes, yes it is. Uh what would you what what would you like for today?

SPEAKER_06 58:46

You will come and get us.

SPEAKER_04 58:48

Okay, uh, what's your address?

SPEAKER_06 58:50

I just look around for an address. You don't know your own address.

SPEAKER_04 58:54

We never leave the bar. You can just say locations.

SPEAKER_06 58:58

We are at the Empire Records.

SPEAKER_04 59:00

Oh, the Empire Records. Is that that new dance club that's north of town? Is it no? Oh, okay, so it's the SCSI bar. Okay, we'll get somebody over to you. That'll be about 10 minutes. And sorry, what was your name?

SPEAKER_06 59:12

Rhombius.

SPEAKER_04 59:13

Rhombius? Okay. Uh, we'll uh pick you up right away, Rhombius. Uh, you take care, and thank you for choosing uh low down dirty cab.

SPEAKER_07 59:22

Wow, I love how low down dirty cab hired the Kermitha Frog to be the receptionist.

SPEAKER_01 59:27

I mean, I was gonna say, so based on uh the voice that Devin was providing, when the uh beat-up yellow speeder does pull up, um, there is a uh human man in his mid-twenties with uh a beard, a large dark pompadour, and glasses. He appears to be wearing flannel blue jeans and white sneakers. So the four of you and uh the Mandalorian can all pile into this taxi cab, and uh you are driven to the secret base of this collector. The cab takes you to a uh pretty uh like relative to where you guys are used to, a pretty nice residential area. Uh the houses that are built there along the skyways are like not it's still it's still pretty dark, but there are like some floating lamps that give the illusion of of more illumination there, at least enough uh simulated sunlight that the houses can have grass in their yards and gardens in the front and things like that. And once you uh pull up, you can see that there are already a couple of uh dirty-looking speeder trucks parked on the street outside uh this particular house. But if you go up to the door, you can see that um this house might not be built for human-sized people. The door is about five feet tall. Any of us real short?

SPEAKER_08 1:01:04

Not that short.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:06

I ain't crouching. I don't know if Vanry's particularly tall.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:09

She's just real wide. I mean, I don't think any of you were like you'll all have to crouch to the floor.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:14

Um, I put that I was five five on my profile. I'm so tall compared to my last character. But at least the uh I'm like the front door to the house.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:24

At least the front door to the house is five feet tall. I'm tall, dark, and was some no longer handsome. We knock. You can knock, and after a moment, this uh little alien lady answers the door. Uh she's got a floral print dress on and this mop of like curly gray hair on the top of her head. She's got some oven mitts on, as if she was just pulling a tray of cookies out of the oven.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:47

And she says, uh, hello, can I help you?

SPEAKER_08 1:01:50

Uh uh, are you a um collector? Uh or is there a person here that is a uh collector of interesting artifacts and swords?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:02

You must be looking for my son. Oh no. Come on in, come on in. And she yells in and she says, Marf, more of your friends are here. Do they want cookies and OJ?

SPEAKER_06 1:02:12

Oh why is why is he she yelling at him if we want cookies and OJ when we are right here?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:18

And she says, uh, Marphalump is just down in the basement with the other friends.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:22

Oh no. Thank you, madam. I'll I'll like kiss her hand and be very European about it.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:30

Ooh, a gentleman.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:32

Quite the gentleman. You see, Frank, this is how a man behaves. Frank's dead on the couch. I mean, he's snoring.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:41

Snorin' with a newspaper limply open in his hands. Can we crouch our way down to the basement?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:47

Yeah, you can crouch your way down to the basement. And when you when you get down there, you can see this expansive wreck room lined with uh war memorabilia from Star Wars past. Uh, there are like posters up of various popular holos and films, and uh there are also um about half a dozen dirty, grungy um beings of, you know, various species uh that are gathered around this little orange alien with big yellow eyes, forearms, and his uh smudgy, dirty, stained white t-shirt embarrassingly riding up over his round little belly.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:36

And he's saying, guys, guys, I I I'm I don't know, I don't know. Look, hey, hey, uh yeah, yeah, these guys, these are the guys who uh know what you're looking for, right, guys? Huh? What? What huh?

SPEAKER_05 1:03:46

What are we looking What are we looking for? We're looking for like a darksaber if you if you if you know about one.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:54

So the uh little alien scampers under uh a table as the uh ruffians turn around to look at you. And the leader walks up to you and he kind of looks you up and down and he says, You know where Giuseppe is?

SPEAKER_07 1:04:09

Wait, I'm head of a security. Who are you? I'll step in front of him.

SPEAKER_08 1:04:15

In front of Al. Like that he got a little bit harassed before you're like, wait, this is my job.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:20

Oh yeah, right. Who are you? Who's Giuseppe?

SPEAKER_01 1:04:25

I'm the leader of the scav outfit that Giuseppe sold out to the Mandalorians. Yeah, him and his girl. Uh, they were supposed to be on scout duty with us, but uh then they uh fucked off. They said that they heard about some interesting salvage in the wreckage and left our flank open and we were attacked. We lost uh four very good scavs that day. We heard they uh came to tear us.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:54

I mean, they probably weren't that good if they were lost that easy, right? You know, if my flank got left open, I wouldn't go down that easy.

SPEAKER_08 1:04:59

Also, that guy probably had a really busy night to like rob the Mandalorians and like help his girlfriend give birth. Yeah, like that guy's been He's been busy.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:09

Also, also, according to that tape, wasn't he around was he around all night? He came and went.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:15

Okay, okay, alright, alright, okay, okay, alright.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:20

But he did already have the Darksaber when they arrived at the motel.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:23

Okay. Yeah. Alright, okay, alright. Tell us what we want to know.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:27

Yeah, was was was Giuseppe here?

SPEAKER_01 1:05:29

I don't know. The little guy said to ask you. How many of these guys are there? Uh there's six of them. Six of them.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:36

Well, we're we're looking we're looking for Giuseppe, so you gotta you gotta go.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:40

Find Giuseppe. Bring him to us. And uh the Mandalorian, he's in the back. He kinda puts up his hand and says, Um actually we're just looking for the sword.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:48

Yeah, but like if he has it, like oh my god, let me do my work. Okay? Alright, alright.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:53

I hired you, you you do the job, that's okay. Yes, thank you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:57

Yeah, you guys, you guys get out of here. You know what?

SPEAKER_08 1:05:59

I think the thing that we Make everyone happy is that we all find just happy. You guys, we can take the sword, and you guys can do whatever the hell you want to do with your little weird man.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:11

I'm not weird. My mom says I'm cool.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:12

No, not you.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:17

As soon as you hear someone say it's a weird man, she's like, hey.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:20

Also, can you stop looking at my open spots? Please, I get very self-conscious about that.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:26

Yeah, don't look at him. He puts like his forehand over his leg and pulls his eyes, but then he does the thing where he like opens them and looks through the fingers.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:34

He's looking real hard at you.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:38

I will poke him. I will poke him. But I won't because we have a job to do.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:44

Is there anywhere we just said he would go?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:46

If he was like trying to hide out, I will get you guys out of my basement. Okay, so Richard said he came to the current chamber and he wanted me to be from and like I totally could. Like you don't have you have no idea how much I have in NFTs right now and I am fucking running. Like I know what that thing is, and I wouldn't be coming with anything on another planet with a Mandalorian cover. My friend, um if you would be willing to hurt with some of your armor, I would be willing to you know what, never mind. Uh we'll talk about that later.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:17

Uh he was trying to get money. He said uh he was trying to get enough money to pay off some death or something, get off the world. Uh he said something about being in hot into the Hatha.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:30

Uh I I told him, you know, I I wouldn't take it to the Hat, I know that there is a Hattie here on Terra who's trying to make a name for himself.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:37

Might be able to help him. Um so I sent him off to uh to Nostros again. It's a casino a couple levels down.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:44

Can I perce can I perceive to see if there's like anything else around here that might be of interest to us? Like something that they might be hiding.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:53

Yeah. Are you trying to perceive the uh the scavenger crew or Morphalum?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:58

Let's go with the uh let's go with the scavenger crew. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:02

So uh give me uh give me a two-purple perception.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:05

One success.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:06

So as you're kind of analyzing this scavenger crew, you can see that there's there's definitely something afoot. Uh you can see that like, yes, yeah, they're you know, dressed like scavengers, but um there is a curious tattoo peeking out from under like the lead scavenger. He does have this like scarf on, and there is a a curious tattoo peeking out from it.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:37

Can we get a scarf?

SPEAKER_05 1:08:39

I I I I I look at it as saying I'm like, it's uh some badass inky got there.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:45

He kind of pulls his his scarf up and he says, I don't know what you mean there, little guy.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:49

Can I pull off his scarf? Can I brawl his scarf up? Motherfuckin' Little? That son of a bitch!

SPEAKER_01 1:08:54

Yeah, give me a give me a two-purple uh brawl. Uh he's got a rank of adversaries to make it a random purple. Success and advantage. You can you can snatch this scarf off of his neck. And you can see uh laid bare before everyone is a tattoo of bearing the emblem of the military of the Galactic Republic.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:17

Cops! Fucking cops!

SPEAKER_01 1:09:19

Everyone scattered!

SPEAKER_07 1:09:20

Jesus scattered Jason is the fuzz! Do you scatter? Do we just poke it as soon as we scatter cops? Oh shit!

SPEAKER_01 1:09:33

I walk out of the room and I'm like, I do. So if you want to scatter, this'll be an athletics to run out of the house. You can add a black because it is quite cramped.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:44

Leave Marvel Hub alone. And what's that for athletics?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:48

This will probably be against their vigilance. Uh, so this will be an athletics uh against two red and a purple.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:59

Oh god. And a black?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:02

We all chose really unathletic here.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:04

Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:04

Uh I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, we have one himbo. Two success herbo. Bebo.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:09

A female bimbo. Or I mean a female himbo.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:12

Yeah. Uh two success, one threat. Somehow.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:16

You know, right when I'm like, my athletics is fine. You go ahead, Amy.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:21

Here, I'll temper your failure with my failure. Three failures and one thread.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:26

Yeah, a failure and a threat. Okay, because I got uh four failures, six advantage, and two despair.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:32

Two despair on athletics? You break both legs.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:36

But I I my athletic is pretty good. But I rolled nothing but advantages. I rolled no success whatsoever. But six advantage! Surely that can outweigh two despair.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:50

So, since uh you're the closest to Vanry, since you whipped off his uh his scarf, um, so Rhombius, you're able to fucking thump up the stairs, uh, rushing out of the house, uh, maybe shoving over Marfalump's mom accidentally as you do. Cookies go flying everywhere. Meyer and Al, um, you three Stooges style, like run and get like caught like in the hallway together, like shoulder to shoulder. Get out of here. Vanry, you start running. Uh, this guy from a wrist-mounted launcher flicks out this whip cord that shoots out and wraps around your ankle, and he drags you back, and he like kind of rolls you over, and he pulls back like part of your jacket, and he says, Looks like I'm not the only one with interesting ink, Sith.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:49

Can I kick him in the face? He has me by my ankle. Can I just bring up my other foot and knock his nose in?

SPEAKER_01 1:11:55

Yeah, you definitely got enough advantage so that when he's since he's got you by the ankle, that'll give you an opportunity to kick him in the face. So, uh, that'll be a red and a purple brawl. Since you did get those advantages, you've got six advantages, so you can have like three blues onto that.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:09

Three success, five advantages. This is how we do in the academy bitch!

SPEAKER_05 1:12:13

This is how we do it in the academy, bitch.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:16

Oh, I could crit him.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:18

You can kick him under your foot, under his scav gear, uh, the armor of the Republic military, uh, but you are able to still do some damage enough to give him a crit.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:29

Yeah, I just wanted to flatten his nose when I roll my D100 four.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:37

Yeah, so you can you can nick him a little bit with like the edge of your boot. Give him give him he takes uh a strain, but um this guy's not a nemesis, so he does take that his wound at least.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:47

That's good.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:49

And he shouts uh blood starting to trickle down his nose. There's Sith sent to kill!

SPEAKER_08 1:12:56

Oh fuck! Um I'm definitely not Yeah, throw me right under the bus, why don't you?

SPEAKER_00 1:13:03

You can't prove it!

SPEAKER_08 1:13:05

I'm pulling up my knife to help you.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:08

Look into my eyes. Did you run back down and like peek over look into my eyes?

SPEAKER_08 1:13:13

Oh my god, what if there's a rumor that I'm a fift now too? That would be pretty aesthetic.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:20

Pretty cool. Oh my god, you couldn't pass if you tried! How dare you!

SPEAKER_01 1:13:27

Uh Rhombius, you you made it out. So are you are you turning back to help your friends? I probably should, shouldn't I? I mean, you don't have to, they do, like there were those uh dirty-looking speeder trucks that they came in, presumably, that are parked outside.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:42

I could sabotage those. Sabotage them and hotwire one for us. Skill one, yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:48

Sabotage. How good am I at uh only try uh I guess hotwiring one or hoping the keys are in there?

SPEAKER_01 1:13:54

So while while they're starting to uh get their asses kicked downstairs, if you want to sneak out to their truck and try and hotwire one. Okay. Uh that will be a probably a three purple skullduggery.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:05

How hard could this be? Blah, blah, blah.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:08

One advantage and a failure. So you can't hotwire it, uh, but with that advantage, if you want, you can just like jam something into uh the system so that it'll be harder for them to start it. Okay, then I'll move on to the next one for next round.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:22

Just shove a potato in the tailpipe.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:24

Yeah. I just carry potatoes around for such an occasion.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:28

I mean, they there's a a small garden in the front of the house.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:31

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:32

Since uh Van Rie, you have been identified, or at least uh the tattoo you got when you were in the uh the Sith Academy has been identified. Uh the five scavengers slash Republic troopers, they all attempt to dogpile you. Do you have any defense or anything? No.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:54

Um.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:58

They get two success.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:00

Sick.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:00

I soak is four. Okay, so you take one point of wound.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:04

Ow! Ooh!

SPEAKER_01 1:15:07

Yeah, so they dogpile on you, uh, trying to keep you from getting away. Uh, one of you will get a chance to act, either Vanry or Meyer or Al before uh their commander does anything.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:21

How many of them are dog piled on top of me? Is it like all five?

SPEAKER_01 1:15:25

Yeah, it's all five.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:26

Can I and I'm like on the ground, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:15:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:29

Uh, can I just try to like Oh, actually. Because if I'm like pinned to the ground anyways.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:34

Yeah, they're like holding you down. There's like one that's like laying on your collarbone with his arm, the other ones are like each holding one of your limbs down.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:43

Because maybe I will try doing my conjure thing so I can at least have a uh a weapon for my next turn. If they got me anyways. And I'm not technically dark side, so uh too light side. I'll spend one of those to um create a facsimile of a uh do a brawl weapon. I want some brass knuckles.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:03

So uh although uh as as a martial artist, you are trained to put your body into peak physical shape, but that does not mean uh that your training with the Sith is going to waste. So although they are holding your arms down, uh they do not notice the kind of like shimmery heat distortion that starts warbling around your tightly closed fist as force energy prepares to provide a little bit of extra oomph to your next strike. The commander he says, Don't think you're getting off easy either, Mando, and he fires uh an electric bolt at the Mandalorian from a rifle that he had hidden under his cloak. It'll be a short range. Uh, a success and an advantage. So this uh electric pellet, this metal pellet, latches on to the Mandalorian's metal armor and starts sending electric shocks through it. He's gonna roll his resilience to see if he can uh overcome it enough to pull it off of his armor. Uh, one advantage. Uh so no, he can't pull it off, but racked by uh electricity coursing through the conductive metal of his armor, he just decides to take a running tackle at the Republic Soldier Commander, and they both start shaking.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:23

Haha, nice.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:24

Is there uh anybody still dogpiled on uh Bandry?

SPEAKER_01 1:17:29

Yeah, yeah, there's still still five uh disguised Republic soldiers that are holding her down. Can I pull one out with off with a Groutwire?

SPEAKER_05 1:17:36

Uh yeah, give me a brawl.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:38

How many weapons do you have?

SPEAKER_05 1:17:39

I just have a gun and a grout wire so far. Alright. Grout wire was fi 50 credits, so I'm like, fuck yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:46

That's the secret. He's not actually burned at all. He just wears those bandages to conceal his many pockets.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:51

Alright, what's the rule? Uh so this will be a two purple brawl.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:56

One success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:58

Ooh, nice. Okay, so, um, to see if let's I'm gonna see if he suffocates. So uh this is gonna be his resilience against what is your brawl? Two. Okay, and you got that advantage, so that's gonna add a black. Uh three failures, three advantages. So you manage to uh suffocate one of these Republic soldiers, but when he collapses, he does collapse with his full body weight onto Vanry. God damn it.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:22

Well, uh, I guess that's my move. I'm I'm I'm sorry I tried.

SPEAKER_08 1:18:25

Oh, I feel like I had an idea, but I think it might not be a great idea. Has the do it anyway. Has the commander um talked enough for me to copy his voice with my vocal emulator implant? Has he made a long speech?

SPEAKER_01 1:18:41

Uh he hasn't made a long speech, but he has spoken. You have heard his voice, uh, depending on your vocal emulator implant. Uh what is what exactly does that do?

SPEAKER_08 1:18:52

Uh changing or disguising a character's natural voice takes one round. Well, he was talking before we started. But what if I just want him to say call off the attack?

SPEAKER_01 1:19:02

Yeah, so you could, but with with the amount that he's spoken, it is gonna sound like season one Luke Skywalker.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:12

Ooh. Well, maybe I'll confuse some people. Let's try.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:16

Just confuse him enough so I can start whacking.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:18

Three purple deception?

SPEAKER_01 1:19:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:20

Oh, a wash, really? Damn it.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:23

So in in all the combat, you can you can set it to try and mimic his voice, but because there's a lot of grunting and combat and it's like nobody's really listening, so it might have worked, but like it's it's a little too there's too much going on for anyone to really hear it. Uh Rhombius, outside at the truck. So you've sabotaged one, there's still one remaining.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:45

Good. Uh, this one, this one I want to try and see if we can hotwire for a quick go-away if we need to.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:50

Okay, give me another uh three purple skull duggery. You do have two destiny points if you want to use one.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:55

Yeah, I'll use one of those. You guys don't hear me right? Yeah, you're fine.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:58

Hey, if this roll fails, uh make sure the next roll you call the taxi. We need a getaway.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:06

Three perps. Two threats.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:09

Oh. So the alarm system goes off. Down in the basement, uh, you can hear coming from the Republic soldiers' uh uniforms uh an alarm blaring from their belt that their uh speeder has been pampered with.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:29

Fucking shut off, shut off.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:31

The commander who is uh currently being electrocuted by the Mandalorian via his own electric pellet. Uh one of the soldiers says, Sir, should we go check it out? And he shouts, They're probably trying to wear. So uh three of the soldiers get up. There's still one that is trying to hold Vanry down, but three of them uh do start running up the stairs to uh make sure that their truck isn't being stolen.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:00

Does that put it at the top of the round?

SPEAKER_01 1:21:02

Yeah, so uh three of them are going up. There's uh one that is passed out, there's still one on you, Vanry. Uh, and he is going to try and choke you out.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:14

I'd like to see you try, bitch. Oh flex, my neck, it's too thick for you to choke.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:20

Uh so he gets one success. Yes, your neck is too thick for him to choke. He uh doesn't bypass your soak as he tries to throttle you.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:29

Can I go?

SPEAKER_01 1:21:30

You can go.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:32

Can I smash his fucking face in with my with my knuckles?

SPEAKER_01 1:21:36

Yeah, with your force-powered knuckles.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:39

And with the fist metal crackle. Uh that'll be a two purple brawl.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:44

Three success!

SPEAKER_01 1:21:45

Yeah, uh, so so that is definitely enough with your flexing muscles, your fist powered by the force. You can just like, like a scorpion strike, just lift it up, punch him in the head, and there is like a snap as the kinetic force of his head being rocked to the side like s like snaps something in his neck, and he just goes limp. Boom! Bitch! There is a noticeable dent in the side of his skull.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:18

I didn't do a maneuver. Can I use my maneuver to get up and try chasing those three guys?

SPEAKER_01 1:22:23

Yeah, you can you can then start running off.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:27

I'd be so upset if somebody was fighting in my toy room.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:32

Poor Marflam. He just wanted to collect his cool war memorabilia.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:38

Yeah, Marfalob crawls out from under the table and starts like looking through the dead soldier stuff to see if he has anything cool on him. Ma man.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:49

Ma man. Ma man.

unknown 1:22:51

Ma dude.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:52

Ma dude. The commander and the Mandalorian, they're busy tussling off in the corner, being wrapped with electricity. One of them throws the other into a detail shelf full of uh action figures from some Star War long ago. They all go crashing to the floor. Uh the rest of you, if you want, can uh chase the other Republic troops up the stairs. Um unless there's anything you still want to do down here. Uh there is uh one Republic soldier that has passed out, one that is dead, and one that is fighting a Mandalorian.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:24

Is it the commander who's fighting the Mandalorian?

SPEAKER_01 1:23:27

Yeah. Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:28

What uh who are the ones that ran upstairs again, just like the ran random sorts? Yeah, they're they're all minion level. Okay. Um, I can go after them.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:38

Unless you want to shoot the leader. Like making anxious noises.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:42

No, it's fine. You can go, you can go.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:44

Nobody needs to see what I'm about to do next.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:48

What does that mean?

SPEAKER_08 1:23:50

Murder.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:51

Are you are you gonna use your super voice and just like scream so loud in the commander's ear until his head explodes?

SPEAKER_08 1:23:57

Oh damn, that would be awesome, but I don't think I'd be able to like roll well to do that.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:02

Yeah, you'd blow out your voice box.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:04

Damn. I mean, you're a singer, like you ever be able to hit that pitch to make glass break? Just do that in his ear.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:10

You know what else I can make sing my knife? Go, Al, go.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:17

I'm going, I'm going. I go after the minions. So, uh, you and Vanry can run off after these Republic soldiers, chasing them out onto the lawn of Marfalump's parents' house as uh they're making their way to where uh Rhombius is uh trying to hotwire one of their speeder trucks. The alarm is uh blaring. Other people in the neighborhood are coming out of their houses and looking at what the fuck is going on?

SPEAKER_05 1:24:44

Uh don't mind don't mind us. This is just a little bit of swamp gas from Venus. Uh you don't have to worry about anything.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:52

Yeah, none of you saw nothing! I can't see the fun of my keys. Young man, can you help me here? I can't get into my car.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:00

One second, and then I just I shoot at the minions. Okay, uh, so give me a one purple ranged. One success, but one threat.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:10

Ooh. So you can uh blast at them. Um, unfortunately, like you are shooting, you you are now like shooting a gun in a residential area. Uh these uh Republic soldiers were not like they do seem to have some armor on under their scav gear, but they're not like they are undercover to an extent. So you do maybe notice that like one of the neighbors who's come out to see what's happening does get on their calm and start calling the actual cops.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:42

Damn it!

SPEAKER_05 1:25:42

Guys, we've gotta get out of here.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:44

I mean, I think I should try and save the client that's getting attacked.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:49

Yeah, Meyer, I think it's your turn. Fuck it, it's our Darksaber now.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:57

So I uh the uh commander is facing the the Mando.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:03

Yeah, making quite a mess of uh Marphalump's rec room.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:06

Alright, well, I'm gonna stab him in the neck.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:09

Alright. Right on. If you're specifically going for the neck. I say try. That'll add uh two black, and he has a rank of adversary, so that'll be a red, a purple, and two black.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:20

Huh. One failure, two threats, one triumph.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:25

Yes! So uh as you're like trying to stab him in the neck, you miss, uh, he dodges out of the way, and your blade comes down, stabbing right into the electric pellet that's on the Mandalorian's armor. And there is this like bright flash of flight as the thing explodes. Uh, there's crash of glass as the Mandalorian is thrown into another Detolf shelf full of uh memorabilia. You are thrown against the table as well, and the Republic soldier ends up with a sort of smoking hole in his chest from where a bolt of electricity bounced into it from the close proximity to the electric pellet.

SPEAKER_08 1:27:12

Nice. Jeez, it the more fuzz is coming. I grab the I grab the Mando. I try and help him up, anyways. I don't think I can lift him.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:22

The blast, there's a little bit of heat and and spray of smoke as he kind of helps himself up, like he presses a button, and his jetpack kind of lifts him up a little bit to help him up as well. But you can help him rush out. And once you get onto the street, you can hear uh siren coming from up above as descending down from the sky above from the upper city are uh Sith patrol vehicles. Terrace is not in Republic Space Terrace, as you fellows know, is controlled by uh The Siths, specifically two Sith lords known as the Twins. Down here in the lower city, you rarely have uh any cause to uh encounter the minions of the Sith unless they're coming to your bar. Uh, but being on the bad side of the Sith, uh, as Vanry and Al both know, not a good thing.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:22

So are those other minions that were going after uh more Rhombius, are they dead? Uh no, they are still alive. Okay, um, all three of them? Yeah. If we're running out, can I just try to like on our way just like smash their heads into walls, just like bam, bam, bam, just crush their skulls.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:41

Uh, you can try. Uh your um force fist has uh dissipated since you used it. So it'll just be uh the the regular fist. If you're trying to, like, specifically trip them up, that'll add two blacks. I'm not trying to trip them up, I'm trying to cave their skulls in, but. Or at least if you're trying to make them unable to continue combat, that'll add two blacks.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:03

What if I'm just trying to murder them? Yeah, I'll add two blacks. What would it be for uh the difficulty?

SPEAKER_01 1:29:08

Uh it would be two purple. And since you're trying to kill them out on the lawn while the cops are coming, gonna use the destiny point. That'll be a red, a purple, and two blacks.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:16

What do we have for destiny?

SPEAKER_01 1:29:17

You have two.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:18

I'm gonna flip one and add another yellow. Bah, one advantage.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:21

So, no, you can't. Uh you can't murder any of them. You can maybe stumble some of them, you can maybe race past some of them. Uh, but you cannot murder them.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:32

Damn. It's fine. Next time. Try and harm them. You try to suck their life force, give them the suck before we go. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:41

Okay. Uh, so that will be a harm power, so that will be uh your force dice.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:48

Uh other people adopt the darkness, but you were born in it. Uh, so you unfortunately cannot use that. We're filled with uh concern for your uh employees' well-being. Not enough to harm these people.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:01

And feelings again, like a 15-year-old girl. Yeah, yeah. Remember feelings?

SPEAKER_05 1:30:06

Yeah, I ha I have feelings all the time. I mean, you you don't feel? Does anyone else want to try and hotwire this truck?

SPEAKER_06 1:30:13

If I'm there, I uh green. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:16

So uh between between Meyer and Al, if one of you does wants to try and hotwire this thing, uh, it is normally a three purple, but since the alarm system has already been triggered, that is gonna have a black.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:26

I can take off a black.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:28

Ooh, look at you go.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:29

Two failures. Fuck's sakes.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:32

No, no, you can't.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:34

Should I try or should we just start running? Up to you. I feel like we need a via call. Alright, let me let me try. Let me try. How many destiny points do we got? What? I'm just gonna use it. I'm gonna use it. Motherfucker, a failure.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:47

Okay, wait. This is probably a bad idea. You said there are like other people in the neighborhood who are watching this.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:53

Wait, does Marfalump outside Marfalump's house? You said it was like the dirty cars. Does it look like there's a regular car there?

SPEAKER_01 1:31:00

Um, you mean Marfalump's parents' car parked in the driveway? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:03

Yeah. Um, can I run back in the house? Find Marfalum's uh mom and be like, give me the keys for your car!

SPEAKER_01 1:31:10

Yeah, if you want if you want to do that, uh run back in, give me a two-purple coercion on Marfalump's mom.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:15

Can I use my brawn? Because I'll use my large and threatening size.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:21

Um, since you are so much larger than her, she does have like six foot, five foot ceilings. So yeah, yeah, your brawn here. You can use your brawn for coercion. You have been cultivating mass.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:31

Sorry, what was the difficulty on that?

SPEAKER_01 1:31:33

Uh so I can use a destiny point uh just in case. So this is gonna be a red and a purple.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:37

Red and a purple? We'll see.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:38

Haha, two failure, two advantage. Um uh you can scream at her, give me the keys, Marf's mom! She doesn't she doesn't know what's going on, uh, but you can see hanging on uh the wall, on a hook on the wall, there are keys to the speeder.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:55

I'll take them. Thank you! Run back out again. Throw them up to Raw BS or whoever's gonna drive. We'll use that one. Let's use this, we'll use that one.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:04

So you can all uh pile into uh Marf Air Prince's car.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:11

Into the minivan. Who's driving? God.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:15

Oh no, we don't have a driver. I mean, I I could drive.

SPEAKER_07 1:32:19

I have who has the best agility? I have three agility, but no ranks.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:23

I have three agility, no ranks.

SPEAKER_08 1:32:25

I have two agility, no ranks. Rombi yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:29

Uh yeah, same thing. Two, no ranks. I will drive.

SPEAKER_08 1:32:33

We're all like in the car. Standing outside the car doing rock, paper, scissors.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:38

We we we we fucking. No, we're already in the car, and then we have to crawl over each other just to be like, ugh, and then my fucking source just like lied over your face. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:51

And you got like a Mandalorian in the middle of it trying to act natural. This is fine. What's the role? So uh you can get uh their uh family's Range Rover started, and uh as you peel out, the sirens of the Sith Patrol speeders uh do begin to follow you. So uh you will have to outrun them.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:14

Okay. And what kind of ro and uh what's the uh role for that?

SPEAKER_01 1:33:19

Uh that is gonna be a three purple. One success. Nice. Nice. So uh you can join with some traffic, a uh a stream of sky traffic disappearing in this suburban vehicle that now that you have it, you may want to get the plates changed, uh, but you have successfully evaded the Sith, who now uh are rounding up the Republic soldiers on the lawn of Marpalump's parrot's house, uh, and potentially discovering that they are, in fact, Republic soldiers, which may uh be a good thing because it takes the attention off of you random chuckle fucks.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:54

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:56

I am I am random, and I do like to chuckle and fuck.

SPEAKER_08 1:33:59

Did we get the address or location of this Sith guy? Or not Sith Guy.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:04

It was like hutt guy. It was Nosrose Casino.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:07

Yeah, Nosro's Den.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:08

If we killed him once, we'll kill him again. A different life.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:12

Yeah, you can uh take your little uh family sedan, your little uh stolen car, and head towards Nosro's Den. A uh casino in the terrace lower city that is uh when you pull up, your vehicle does not look out of place.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:32

But the it does not look out of place? Are there a lot of little sedans here? Just a bunch of middle-aged moms family joint.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:40

Yeah. This this isn't a like a high-roller casino, it's not like uh a scuzzy crime den. This is like a sub it's like a casino that uh. It's a nice normal place. Yeah. So what the fuck are we doing here? Yeah, what the fuck are you doing there? You can enter the casino and there's like the din of one-armed bandits is nearly drowning out the uh live music that is on stage. There's a buffet of questionable quality. There's a haze of smoke that is just like lingering along the roof of the place that seems to be like have been staining the walls for years, potentially. Uh at the at the slot machines, there's a lot of um middle-aged people who just seem to be like entranced by the flashing lights and sounds.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:35

And uh Mar Marfo Lumpy was saying he told this kid to like go talk to Nasro, correct?

SPEAKER_01 1:35:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:42

Is there any sign of where the boss might be?

SPEAKER_01 1:35:45

Um, not necessarily. Like, it doesn't-there's not like a VIP area immediately visible. There are a number of employees that are uh wandering around in little red vests though.

SPEAKER_08 1:35:54

Let's uh oh, should we ask? Let's just uh s go up to one of the employees and say we got a deal for the boss man.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:07

When Meyer's like, well just grab someone to have vest, can I just like physically grab someone by the arm?

SPEAKER_08 1:36:12

Yeah, like uh sorry, it's her. She's she's very jumpy. Um uh, is your boss in? We um have some information that he might like to know.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:24

Uh Mr. Nosro? Um Yeah, I think he's in today. Uh what's this about?

SPEAKER_08 1:36:30

We've come to see a man about a knife. Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:35

That uh that sounds like a song title. Are you musicians? Are you trying out for our uh our our open spot?

SPEAKER_08 1:36:42

Oh wait, you've got an open spot? I what night of the week is that?

SPEAKER_01 1:36:48

Uh it's for our Wednesday slots. Midweek isn't really that great, so uh we get a lot of turnaround.

SPEAKER_08 1:36:54

Oh yeah, I could probably get some time off of work to uh to do that. I'll I'll come back and audition. I got actually I've actually I actually I've got um uh a tape on me. Here, uh you can pass this on for me.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:03

Well you said you were you said you were here to like that's a song, right? I'm here to see a man about a knife. Are you here to audition for him? I mean you're like a semi-known performer, aren't you?

SPEAKER_07 1:37:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:13

I've put my I put my hat down to cover my face because I shouldn't be seen.

SPEAKER_08 1:37:17

And he looks at you and he looks at your entourage and he says, uh, can you these are my backup dancers.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:24

Feel it, feel it. I don't mean to uh, you know, um be rude or anything, but a lot of people uh you know, Mr. Nosro is a hut, and there are a lot of people who uh might try to assassinate him. Uh so can you hum a few bars for me?

SPEAKER_08 1:37:43

I'm gonna see a man about a knife.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:47

And there was some skeletons, and then there were their bones.

SPEAKER_07 1:37:52

These are backup dancers, not backup singers. Oh, could I could I do some uh some cool dance moves? Can I do a couple flips? I'm the background dancer.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:01

So if you want to do a coordination as a co-piloting maneuver, give me a two-purple coordination.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:09

God damn, I got a total wash on my coordination. So uh I'm I'm gonna try to flip, and then I'm like, you know what, my pants today are like pretty tight, but like if I wasn't, I would totally like do a back flip right up to the roof of this casino. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:21

So if you want to uh impress this guy, give me a two-purple charm check.

SPEAKER_08 1:38:25

One success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:27

Uh yeah, you can uh successfully sing him uh a little ditty from one of your songs, potentially uh auto-tuned through your cybernetic voice box. Yeah. And he says, yeah, that was that was pretty good. I think he's gonna like that. Uh why don't you come? I'll take you back.

SPEAKER_08 1:38:43

You guys you guys into synth bob here?

SPEAKER_02 1:38:46

Fynth? Uh is that s is that like Sith, are you saying?

SPEAKER_08 1:38:50

Synth. Synth.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:52

Finth? Finth?

SPEAKER_08 1:38:53

Synth.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:54

Finth?

SPEAKER_08 1:38:55

Electronic electronic music.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:58

Oh, synth yeah, synthetic jizz.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:01

Um I heard you can get that at the uh Daring Toys, uh, but No, like like the music.

SPEAKER_08 1:39:09

Synth Bob. Synth Bob, not Jiz.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:12

I'm I'm more of a uh neo-dirt core myself kind of guy, but uh yeah, yeah, I guess that's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_08 1:39:19

I mean uh I've dabbled. It's like that's like entry-level music, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:24

Okay, you don't need to make fun of my musical taste. It's because I'm not a professional.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:28

Oh we're bad guys. We have to we have to uh uh revel in his uh unfortunate music tastes.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:37

Yeah, you're you're bothering the talent. Where's your boss?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:39

Uh I was gonna just take him to you.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:41

Take him to us?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:43

I was gonna I was gonna take you to him.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:44

Oh, take us to him. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:39:49

Where's your boss? Uh excuse me, did you misspeak? You dumbass.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:55

You dumb fuck. Well, for a second I thought we were just gonna be like hanging out and waiting for this hunt to slither down to us.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:02

Look, do you want me to you want me to help you or not?

SPEAKER_07 1:40:05

Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:06

Yeah, you can go. You can lead the way. Thank you. So he leads you down uh down the hall into this kind of backroom area with these plush red carpets. And you can see like there are some paintings on the walls displaying a uh a lineage of huts. Uh it seems that like the money of Nosrose's clan originally came from like swoop racing thousands of years ago on terrace, and his family has been building their fortune since then, which makes it very strange that he's running this type of casino. But eventually the he leads you through these doors, and uh you can see uh this just like fucking hench, tall Gamorian pacing back and forth with his arms kind of clasped behind his back. Uh, and he turns and you can see um you may have heard about Nosro that he was on the young side for a hut. Uh maybe you weren't expecting to see this little hutlet in like a pouch on the Gamorion's chest.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:13

Baby Java.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:16

And he's uh talking to from his uh mobile command unit. He is talking to a uh shabby blonde 19-year-old guy, uh, his uh teenage wife and a baby wrapped in a dirty towel.

SPEAKER_08 1:41:32

Oh shit! Hey, there he is! Get him!

SPEAKER_01 1:41:36

Get him! And he turns around. And he bolts, like he starts running, and the girl shouts, Giuseppe! And then he's and then he runs back and he grabs his wife, and they start running away too.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:52

I charge!

SPEAKER_01 1:41:53

Yeah, they're like trying to run past you.

SPEAKER_08 1:41:57

Grab him!

SPEAKER_01 1:41:57

Yeah, give me a brawl, give me a two-purple brawl.

SPEAKER_08 1:42:00

Wait, why do we have to fight him? Shouldn't the Mandalorian and Dandalus? We found him! We were hired!

SPEAKER_07 1:42:05

I gotta grab! I gotta grab him! You got three success!

SPEAKER_01 1:42:09

You can grab him and the Mandalorian kind of brushes past the rest of you and he starts patting him down. He says, Alright, where is it? Where's the dock saber? Where is it? You don't have it you don't have it on him. He doesn't have it on him.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:19

Giuseppe, where's the motherfucking dark saber? I gave it to the hot, I gave it to the hot, I swear, I gave it to the hot. Which hut, which hut, which hut? That one points to Nosro.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:26

Damn it, Giuseppe! Did you throw the dark saber then?

SPEAKER_00 1:42:31

How do you pull?

SPEAKER_03 1:42:33

Look, man, you're gonna are you are you gonna let me go? I don't I don't I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to steal it. I didn't I did I just we need it we needed- we needed money to get off off World War Come on, come on, come on guys, be cool, be cool. How much money do you give you?

SPEAKER_01 1:42:45

And Nosro from his little satchel, uh, the Gamorion starts walking forward and he says, I haven't given him anything yet. Oh. We were in the middle of negotiations when you so rudely barged in.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:59

Does that mean we can take it then?

SPEAKER_01 1:43:00

No, it is in my possession, but I have yet to negotiate the specific terms of our deal.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:08

But if you haven't given him money, then it's like still his, so we can still like beat him up and take it, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:43:16

The wheels are returning. We're we're we're playing different characters.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:25

Fucking hamster on a wheel in there.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:29

I have given it to my appraisers to determine its authenticity. If it is deemed to be authentic, then perhaps it will be giving him more money. But until that time comes, we are all guests here.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:42

So why don't we sit down and all have some ham and cheese sandwiches? Oh yo, you got ham and cheese sandwiches.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:49

We can make sandwiches.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:51

I mean, what are sandwiches?

SPEAKER_01 1:43:57

Scantily clad attendants come in with trays of ham and cheese sandwiches with the crust cut off.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:05

Does he eat the ham and cheese sandwiches, or does he like dig into them? I just want to see if I need to um check for poison.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:12

Yeah, he starts shoveling them into his uh giant little mouth.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:15

Cool, me too. I guess I'll have one.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:18

You can take them. They are delicious.

SPEAKER_08 1:44:21

So is there like a deal we can make instead? Like, you clearly need help. What with the um one-baled baby in a dirty rag.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:33

I just want to uh remind everyone that he's stole from the Mandalorians, a very important cultural artifact, and that we do need to get it back from him. Uh I don't really care what happens to him one way or the other, but I need the sword back.

SPEAKER_08 1:44:45

Exactly. We're trying to negotiate.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:47

I don't really want to want to punch a baby in the face. I'm 75 years old. You look very good for your age. What's that supposed to mean?

SPEAKER_05 1:45:00

It means you're fucking old asshole. Now just get us where we want to go. God damn.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:06

Is that your negotiation?

SPEAKER_05 1:45:09

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:45:10

I see why you're based on James Bond. You're very smooth. Is after that threat, is he shaken or stirred?

SPEAKER_01 1:45:22

He doesn't seem to be. But he says when you were so rudely interrupting us, uh our friend Giuseppe was just uh telling us how he came to acquire this weapon, and the circumstances that are very tragic.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:39

But maybe uh he can melt your heart with his tail, and maybe you could see yourselves going easy on him.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:47

I mean, we could try.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:48

Yeah, Giuseppe, uh, like tell uh tell us a story while we enjoy these sandwiches, like dinner and a show.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:54

So, Milan and I were uh we're war orphans, and we uh gr grew up as battlefield scavengers. We were just went from planet to planet trying trying to uh sell any scrap we could we could pick up, but uh you know, that's expensive, and uh we ended up spending more money getting to the battles and we made selling scrap and we had to take out some loans, and then you know, those loans got consolidated under the huts, and they were gonna throw us into slavery, and m Milan got pregnant, and uh so you know I I he when we were scavenging on Abifar, I heard that the leader of the Mandalorians got killed, and that they were taking his possessions to Terrace, and I thought, well, maybe if we could steal some of that, then maybe there there would be somebody I I heard about there's a collector there that maybe who would be able to give us uh some money, but but then you know the Republic found out and they wanted to keep the Mandalorians from from getting the Darksaber back, so so they came after me, and uh yeah, actually that's uh a very good point that I forgot um Mr. Nosro, sir, uh the republic m uh is after me. They they might be busting down uh the doors to your casino any minute.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:11

Oh no, the Sith took them in.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:12

The Sith.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:13

Uh if they want the Darksaber?

SPEAKER_07 1:47:15

I will shut my mouth. No.

SPEAKER_08 1:47:18

I mean we killed like half of those guys.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:20

Well actually, um the Sith might want the Darksaber because if uh if they did have it, they could possibly uh leverage it to uh force us into servitude to fight on their side during the war. We like fighting for our own money, and uh we don't really like being enslaved, especially to evil wizards and and that.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:36

Like just Sapphi, how did you get the Darksaber anyways? Because I thought it was like in a plant or something.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:42

Uh yeah. It was stuck in this Cortosis plant, but there was a button on it, so I just pressed the button and it turned off. It was really actually pretty easy.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:50

So does that mean he's the Mandalore now? Uh well, no, actually that um, because he's not uh he hasn't been inducted, uh, by Creed. He's not one of us, so no, he is just a thief. He's just a dirty little thief, and I need the sword back.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:04

But like, you put it in the plinth, but it's a s like, I mean, like, dude, I went to the Sith Academy. Even I know about like just turning off lightsabers.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:13

Yeah, well, we don't really use them that often, do we, huh? Uh, and not all of us are uh that kind of a nerd that we know all of these things about how swords work. We're not like uh we use guns, we use cool guys' weapons like guns and flamethrowers and rockets. We don't, uh we're not big nerds like you, like you Jedi and Sith.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:29

Okay, um, how did you turn the blade on to put it in the point, genius? I didn't.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:35

I watched somebody else do it. You watched them push the button to turn on the blade? Well, it was already on when I saw them doing it. I think uh look, I don't know how it works. It's uh it's all magic and w'zi do? Like, what's he doing? Like that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_08 1:48:49

What if he like kept the sword and you guys like inducted him and just like trained him to be uh like a really good leader?

SPEAKER_07 1:48:58

Yeah, like he's at least smart enough to know how to turn off a sword. I don't think so. Uh you don't think he's smart enough.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:05

Look, this kind of seems to be uh backfiring on me a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:09

Uh so I'm just gonna say that uh you know what, he might have been the thief, and uh, like I said, we can't just have any rooks being our leader, so uh if you think that he could be our mandalore, then maybe I could, so maybe I'll just blow his brains out, huh?

SPEAKER_01 1:49:23

He uh pulls one of his pistols out of the holster and points it at Giuseppe.

SPEAKER_07 1:49:27

Oh my god, you're being such a dick about this.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:30

You're being so lame right now. Yeah, well give me uh give me a better reason not to. Uh I don't care if I'm being lame. I'm being true to my people. Are your people all like honorable combat?

SPEAKER_08 1:49:39

Like Are you gonna kill this guy who has like a one-day old baby?

SPEAKER_07 1:49:42

I might. You suck.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:45

Yeah, no, he's uh everything he does is not for king and country.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:51

Are you trying to shame him?

SPEAKER_07 1:49:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:53

Shame this guy's shame a is shame a coercion.

SPEAKER_08 1:50:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:01

I'm not good with coercion. Shame, naughty dishwasher.

SPEAKER_08 1:50:04

I just think that maybe you should just like buy it back, because that's like all he needs is the money, and you clearly make money because of your it's your it's your guys' own fault that you guys lost it to this genius over here. So maybe you should um so like maybe you should just like pay him. Pay him? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:27

I mean I guess I could buy it off him, but uh then uh I wouldn't have the credits to pay you.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:32

That's okay, you'll owe us.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:33

No, it wouldn't I No if I buy it off him, then you didn't do Jack shit.

SPEAKER_08 1:50:38

We okay found him for you.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:40

Yeah, we found him for you.

SPEAKER_08 1:50:41

We're like genius detectives.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:44

So, okay, why don't you pay us and then we'll pay him and then we have the darksaber and then you just have to pay us again to get the dark saber.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:52

Give me a give me a charm or a coercion.

SPEAKER_08 1:50:56

With what money?

SPEAKER_01 1:50:58

Alright, this is a new campaign.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:00

No, we make him pay us first.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:02

I mean, you're in a casino, there is a way to make money.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:07

Yeah, Meyer, you go downstairs, you sing for a couple hours. Are any of you good at baccarat?

SPEAKER_05 1:51:14

Uh I can be.

SPEAKER_08 1:51:15

I can't Does it involve deception?

SPEAKER_05 1:51:18

I can I uh not for nothing, but uh I can rock the hell out of a baccarat table.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:24

What it be for charm?

SPEAKER_01 1:51:25

Uh so if you're trying to charm him into uh agreeing with this plan, uh then this is going to be uh cool. Uh it's gonna be against his cool. Uh so that is gonna be a two-purple charm.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:37

Oh, I might actually be able to make this. What do we have for destiny?

SPEAKER_05 1:51:40

We got one right now. Are you are you are you rolling or Yeah, I'm gonna. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:45

You know what? I'm gonna flip that. I'm gonna get a yellow. Why not? Haha! One success. I wasn't even proposing this like as a plan. I just wanted to make him see how stupid this sounded. To pay us first, and then we use that pay to pay this guy for the saber, and then he pays us again.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:01

Alright, I uh I think I have an idea of what you're getting at.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:05

Um if you think you can spin some straw into gold, then go ahead and do it. Uh I'll pay you half now and half later, okay? And then you see what you go do to multiply that money, and then uh you can see if you can buy that thing back from him, and then I take it.

SPEAKER_07 1:52:19

Yeah, but like if we buy it, then it's ours, and then you have to pay us for it again.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:23

Oh, I understand. If you buy it, it's yours. I understand that. I'm a Mandalorian, I know how the transfer of ownership of the Dock Saber works.

SPEAKER_07 1:52:30

Like, okay, but like how much would you I'll say this to like the Giuseppe kid, like, how much would you need for it?

SPEAKER_01 1:52:36

Uh well, um we were just trying to get transport off world, but uh to pay off our debts, we were we were talking to Nostro and uh But I'll tell remember the other option is um him killing you for it.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:50

Yeah, uh but the uh standard going rate of uh like on the black market, like a lightsaber uh at the at the at the minimum is uh 10,000 credits on the black market.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:02

So if you could if you could make that that'd be that'd be really good.

SPEAKER_07 1:53:05

And um he's giving us half now? So that's 400 credits now.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:10

Yeah, you just have to turn 400 credits into 10,000.

SPEAKER_07 1:53:13

What do you guys think?

SPEAKER_05 1:53:14

Uh might be a little bit difficult, but uh I mean we could also just like let him kill the guy.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:20

Do we know anybody who's really good at gambling?

SPEAKER_05 1:53:23

Motherfucker! I've been saying this whole time that I can rock a fucking background table.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:30

The James Bond character may be able to do some gambling.

SPEAKER_07 1:53:34

That's true. And if that fails, I'll arm wrestle people for money.

SPEAKER_08 1:53:39

I'm also like here to audition for like an open uh Oh, you're actually doing that. So, um, do you wanna listen to my tape and like uh maybe give me an advance?

SPEAKER_01 1:53:52

Why don't you sing for me, hot stuff?

SPEAKER_08 1:53:55

God's gonna be a charm check.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:59

Um he is a hot does have decades of experience uh under his belt. But he is not um there's not centuries of experience the way some do. So uh for charm, this is just going to be um against two red and a purple.

SPEAKER_08 1:54:15

Evenly matched, I see. One failure.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:19

Ooh. And he says, what is this? A data tape? I don't think I have anything old enough to play this. Um can you uh can you bring this back on something digital?

SPEAKER_08 1:54:30

Yeah, I could come back at other time.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:32

Alright. Are you on Space Spotify? Are you on Spotify?

SPEAKER_05 1:54:36

No, she has a she has a spawn cloud.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:38

Oh, a sound nebula, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:54:40

Yeah, I'm on Sound Nebula. Um I'm I'm under Meyer M-I-R-E.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:45

I'll uh I'll check you out.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:47

Thanks. Does her song listen to count uh go up at all? Not yet.

SPEAKER_07 1:54:54

Not while you're standing there. What do you say, guys? Do we want to head down to the casino floor and see if Almon can work his magic?

SPEAKER_06 1:55:01

Got this man. Let's do this.

SPEAKER_08 1:55:03

This is our big exciting fight. It's just us gambling.

SPEAKER_01 1:55:07

There are some high-stakes Sabak tables, if any of you want to sit down. Uh, you have 400 credits to gamble. Uh I wanna put do you want to put it all on Al?

SPEAKER_05 1:55:21

Let's let's put uh I'm I'm ready I'm ready to uh uh go all in right away here.

SPEAKER_01 1:55:28

Okay, so there there is a uh a pretty intense table. It does seem that there is one that does have a pot uh that is enough to cover you. It is a 12,000 credit pot.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:43

Ooh.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:44

Playing opposite him is his nemesis finger goal.

SPEAKER_01 1:55:49

As you sit down, sauntering into the middle an empty seat at this table, uh a bevy of various aliens and and humans uh are, you know, pretty intently showing having a showdown. Some of them are dressed kind of outlandishly so as to protect their sabok faces and hide any tells with sunglasses and hats and the like. Uh so you fit right in with your heavily bandaged face. Is this table warm?

SPEAKER_05 1:56:19

It's about to get hot there, newbie. That's okay, as you can see. I like it hot.

SPEAKER_06 1:56:26

Woohoo. Serious.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:29

Why don't you uh throw in? And then uh like what what what's is there okay, how does Sabok work again? I never I never played it in um uh the old republic because I'm like, fuck card games.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:43

That's how the There are uh specific Sabak rules for this game. Oh really? Yeah. So, um this particular hand, the first hand here, uh is gonna start pretty average. Um so the difficulty is gonna be two purple. Uh is this two purple uh That depends. Ooh. If you want to cheat, you can use Deception, Skullduggery, or computers. If you want to play honestly and fairly, you would use cool.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:15

Okay. I'm going Skulldug. And that was two purple?

SPEAKER_01 1:57:18

Uh two purple, but since you are cheating, uh I could use the Destiny point to upgrade that to a red and a purple.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:25

That's fine. I got a success to advantage in a triumph.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:27

Oh nice. Nice. So, uh on a triumph, you uh triumph means you win the entire sabok pot.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:38

Hell yeah! Man, that was quick.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:42

Alright, by you guys. Wait a second, who are you with my money?

SPEAKER_06 1:57:46

Elmon, you son of a bitch!

SPEAKER_01 1:57:48

Yeah, so you're so this guy comes in, sits down, plays one hand, gets the idiot's array, fucking cops up all the chills, and walks away. What a guy. So some of the guys at the table, uh, this is kind of suspicious. You did get advantage, so so so some of them are kind of like flustered, like, what the fuck just happened?

SPEAKER_07 1:58:20

Everyone's just reeling whatever the hell that was.

SPEAKER_05 1:58:24

Oh, I'm I'm sorry, I'm supposed to stick around.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:27

But uh one of them um does uh he is gonna roll a perception against you to see if he can spot you cheating. To see if he can like did he cheat, did he cheat? Uh so what is uh what's your cool then?

SPEAKER_05 1:58:43

After all that I've been through, I know I'm cool. Uh put a rank in there, so I got a yellow and a green, so that'd be red and a purple.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:53

Three advantages. So he's following you and he says, Hey newbie! Hey newbie! Are you calling me new? Yeah, yeah. Never seen you around here before, and you just waltz in and win the whole thing. That's a little suspicious, don't you think? Not when you're as good as I am.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:10

Ooh, he's so cool.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:12

No, there's there's good and then there's uh good, if you know what I mean. I don't think you're the second kind. Good in italics. I think you're I think you're bad. I think I don't know, I don't know what, but uh I know you didn't win that legit.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:27

Hmm.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:28

And what if I didn't win this legitimately?

SPEAKER_05 1:59:31

What would happen then?

SPEAKER_01 1:59:32

Well then uh I'm thinking uh you might have to uh face the consequences of your actions.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:39

Hmm. And you'd be very good at doling out consequences, wouldn't you?

SPEAKER_01 1:59:43

I might. And you might notice him uh reaching for a small holdout blaster on his belt.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:49

I'm head of security!

SPEAKER_01 1:59:51

Just tackle him.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:53

How did your ocular pat down not catch that?

SPEAKER_07 1:59:57

Can I see him reaching for the gun and be like, no?

SPEAKER_01 2:00:00

Uh yeah, give me a perception. This'll be against his cool, so that'll be uh two red and a purple.

SPEAKER_07 2:00:06

Two red and a purple, shit.

SPEAKER_01 2:00:08

He's a gambler, he's got a good poker face.

SPEAKER_07 2:00:10

Do we have any destiny points? Yeah. Okay, flip one to downgrade a red? Sure. Okay. Uh a failure, three advantage, and a despair. Baby! So much for your triumph, dummy.

SPEAKER_01 2:00:24

Yeah, you're you're off eating some ham sandwiches as you hear this blaster shot ring out in the casino. Uh, he's gonna do a he's gonna do a point blank range uh blast on uh on your boy there.

SPEAKER_07 2:00:39

I hear the blaster shot that's like, oh fuck my job! I'm gonna get fired for this.

SPEAKER_01 2:00:46

Uh success.

SPEAKER_08 2:00:48

What a fucking sore loser.

SPEAKER_01 2:00:51

So that's uh six, so Al, you take three points of wound as he shoots you in the gut with his little holdout blast, but no!

SPEAKER_08 2:00:59

Well, at least you didn't get your beautiful face.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:02

But I want to get his beautiful face. I would like to shoot him in the face now.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:07

Alright, he's uh that'll be a one purple. You can aim if you want. Okay, yeah, I'll aim. At a blue.

SPEAKER_08 2:01:13

Just imagining someone shooting you and then just like the shock on their face when you just shoot him back.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:20

Uh, we have no destiny points, right? Um, if you wanna, I'll I'll make it a red. Uh you can have one.

SPEAKER_07 2:01:26

Sorry.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:27

Uh uh, okay. Uh let's see. Hey, two success, two advantage.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:31

You shoot him back and he uh stumbles back, uh, falling on onto the Sabok table, sending cards flying everywhere as everybody at the table just like shouts at him.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:44

As if I haven't been shot in the gut before. Alright, guys, let's go.

SPEAKER_07 2:01:48

We go into this fucking community casino and just start shooting people.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:54

He shot hey, Guido shot first. You can stumble back to, I guess Nosro's uh private room, uh, trailing coins like blood as you're just trying to hold this big pile of them. You can dump these chips on the ground, I guess. Give us the dark saber. Uh, yeah, I guess that's enough. Uh, right, Nosro? And Nosro says, uh, I I guess those are just casino chips, but um so I'm not exactly uh getting any more money here. Uh and I guess if you are buying the dark saber from him, I'm not exactly sure what's happened here.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:35

Don't don't don't even worry about it, man. Just don't even worry about it.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:38

Do we gotta go cash them out first? No, it's fine, I'll take care of it. But uh, look, how about this? Uh you can keep uh let's say well, half the pot if I uh get to determine what happens to uh Giuseppe here.

SPEAKER_07 2:02:55

Uh why? What are you gonna do to him?

SPEAKER_01 2:02:58

Well, this whole day's been kind of a thorn in my side. Uh if the Sith do come around, uh, you know, he might be able to tell him things, but uh I'm thinking I might just sell him into slavery. Bro, why you gotta be like this? That's the way of the world. I'm a hut, my friend. Gotta make up uh that money somehow.

SPEAKER_08 2:03:16

So our little tin friend over here, he'll get his darksaber, and we get half this pot.

SPEAKER_01 2:03:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 2:03:24

Huh.

SPEAKER_01 2:03:24

And then I make the money back by uh putting Giuseppe here to work. Giuseppe!

SPEAKER_08 2:03:30

Are you people gonna have a conscience?

SPEAKER_01 2:03:34

Oh, don't worry, I'm one of the good huts. Uh he's not gonna be doing anything real bad. We'll we'll clothe him and we'll uh we'll feed him.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:45

He's just gonna be feeding you grapes every once in a while, right?

SPEAKER_01 2:03:48

Yeah, it'll be fine. Just uh look, if if you really want, I can promise you that as long as I'm alive, he and his kin, as long as they're in hot care, will only be uh employed by the least abusive slave masters.

SPEAKER_08 2:04:04

Um like, or you keep the whole pot and then he goes free?

SPEAKER_07 2:04:09

No, I'm still keeping him. Oh. I mean, if you're gonna keep him anyways, we I guess we might as well just get the pot, right?

SPEAKER_05 2:04:15

Yeah, we may as well just take the pot.

SPEAKER_08 2:04:18

If it's not gonna change anything else, then we should just take the pot.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:21

Like you'll take care of his family, though, right? Like Yeah, yeah. Like I said, for as long as I'm alive, he and his kin will be in the service to the huts, but they'll be taken care of. No whipping, no uh none of that stuff. It'll be fine. Well, yeah. That's how uh it's a long-term indentured thing. Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_07 2:04:39

I mean, I guess if you're gonna do it anyways, like, yeah, sure, let's keep asking.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:46

You'll have to wait till he's older.

SPEAKER_08 2:04:47

Nasro, you've got yourself a deal. I'm not the boss, I'm not the boss here, but uh I will shake your hand, shake your little hand. Like shaking a little baby hand?

SPEAKER_01 2:04:56

Yes. And he says, okay, let's get this paperwork signed. Giuseppe, what was your last name? You said it was uh Skywalker, was it? Alright, let's get the papers.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:09

Oops. Sorianakin, that was us. Wait, wait, what? How how how many years do Huts live? Like 500.

SPEAKER_01 2:05:17

Nosro's alive uh in the sequel trilogy era, so.

SPEAKER_07 2:05:21

Yeah, Nosro is alive long enough for the last campaign group to murder him.

unknown 2:05:26

It's fine.

SPEAKER_01 2:05:26

So you can uh get the Darksaber back, the uh appraisers bring it from the back room, give it to Giuseppe, who gives it to you. Uh they are not very happy about the uh sequence of events that has taken place. Uh but before you can leave, the Mandalorian steps into the way and he says, uh yeah, just one more matter, eh? Yeah, you now you have to pay us for this. Uh no. Remember when I said that I uh as a Mandalorian, I know how the uh transfer of ownership of the Darksaber works.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:55

I challenge you by creed to ritual combat one-on-one for ownership of the darksaber. Okay, bitch.

SPEAKER_08 2:06:03

What's what's your my what's your uh melee?

SPEAKER_07 2:06:06

Um, my melee's four green. I don't have any ranks in melee.

SPEAKER_08 2:06:10

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_07 2:06:10

But I mean, I could I oh wait, or would this be lightsaber? Oh shit. This would be lightsaber. It's still four green. Your dice pool is bigger than mine. I I presumably have some experience using a lightsaber during my time in the Sith Academy. Y'all murder this Mandalorian if that's how he wants to play things.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:27

And uh Nosro is shoveling uh ham sandwich triangles into his mouth, then he says, Wow, dinner and a show. Are you are you gonna do this showdown style? Vigilance versus vigilance. Oh, vigilance.

SPEAKER_07 2:06:42

Oh, vigilance! Oh no! Oh no, not vigilance! I like can I just God like as soon as he's like I challenge you to a duel, can I just try to like immediately swang this thing out?

SPEAKER_01 2:06:56

Just like don't even wait for the ceremony, just like okay. That'll still be vigilance versus vigilance.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:02

Damn!

SPEAKER_05 2:07:03

You know, you you could probably p you could probably just buy the the lightsaber from us. It's okay. I mean, this is he's a Mandalorian. Oh fuck. Oh fuck your Mandalorian ways. Just buy buy off the saver. Here, take it.

SPEAKER_01 2:07:18

He he kinda seems like he wants to do the combat.

SPEAKER_05 2:07:21

So this whole time you're ta you're taking some grody fucking uh bar owners here and just decided, hey, I'm gonna make them search for something and I'm gonna fight them at the end.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:34

Yeah, that was kinda my plan so I could become Mandalore myself. Oh, so if I kill you, then I gotta be Mandalore.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:40

If, if, big if. When? Big when, baby!

SPEAKER_05 2:07:45

You're kind of a loser. I don't really trust you to, like, you know, pull anything out of your ass except for some shit.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:51

I mean, once I jam the Darksaber up there, you can pull that out of your ass.

SPEAKER_08 2:07:55

I can add uh blue to checks to perform or attract attention. Damn, why wasn't I rolling a blue on my fucking singing checks? Can I just start dancing in my shiny outfit?

SPEAKER_01 2:08:08

Ooh. Uh sure. Um you want to that that adds a blue, so if that'll probably that'll add a black to his vigilance then. Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_07 2:08:19

Yeah. Well, uh, my vigilance is only one green, so uh I'm helping! Thanks, Meyer.

SPEAKER_01 2:08:28

Okay. Uh why don't you roll yours and we'll uh see how you do against his roll. I've rolled his.

SPEAKER_07 2:08:33

I got two success.

SPEAKER_01 2:08:35

He got five success and an advantage.

SPEAKER_07 2:08:38

No! I couldn't get that on one green if I tried.

SPEAKER_01 2:08:42

So you can um, if you turn like the blade on, the first thing you notice is like how heavy it is. Like, you went to the Sith Academy. Uh, you've dealt with lightsabers before, but this one seems to behave slightly differently. Like, there's a lot of like the energy coursing through it seems to be very difficult to control uh compared to other laser swords that you've handled. Um, and that is enough to send keep you off balance as he raises his arm, presses a button on his gauntlet, and uh you're not fireproof, are you?

SPEAKER_07 2:09:16

Oh no, flame, the one thing a lightsaber can't deflect.

SPEAKER_01 2:09:20

Uh, so that's four success? Oh uh, you've got four soak, so you take eight points of wound. Oh! So he starts roasting you with this flame. Um it burns and sears your skin. You're starting to smell like owl.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:37

Oh man, no one wants to smell like ow. Gross!

SPEAKER_05 2:09:41

Guys, uh the wounds are still fresh, literally.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:45

We know, we can smell them!

SPEAKER_08 2:09:47

Hers are even fresher. I mean, technically we're a team, so uh.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:52

But if you want to attack him, you could. Yeah, I want to attack him. Can I would I don't know if this would be like a knowledge roll that I could do before the fight, but would I know enough about Mandalorians to know about Beskar?

SPEAKER_01 2:10:04

This won't be your action, but let's have your role an average knowledge warfare.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:08

Could I add a blue since fighting Mandalorians might have been something they covered? You probably could add an advantage in this case, I think. An advantage?

SPEAKER_01 2:10:16

Or yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:17

Uh, that means it's one success and one advantage. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 2:10:21

So, yeah, you do know about Beskar, and you do know that if you try and strike at any of his armored parts, um, then it's probably just gonna bounce right off. So, if you do want to lop his head off, uh, that'll be calling your shot. So that'll add two blacks to your lightsaber roll.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:10:39

You wanna aim as your maneuver, you can, um, but that'll cost two strain because you'll also have to run into range.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:45

I'll I'll aim and take the two strains. So that would add a blue?

SPEAKER_01 2:10:48

Yeah, and that'll be two purple lightsaber.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:51

Okay, and that would just be like aiming for the seam between his helmet and his armor.

SPEAKER_01 2:10:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:56

One success and one advantage. Yay! Hop his little head right on off.

SPEAKER_01 2:11:01

Yeah, the the darksaber slices through uh the flame jet ceases, and he stands there for a second before toppling over. His head falls out of his helmet, uh, and you can see it's like staring up at you with a look of shock on its face.

SPEAKER_07 2:11:19

Idiot. I don't it wouldn't fit because I got all my little head tentacles, but could I just like purchase helmet on top of my head?

unknown 2:11:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:11:27

Tada, I I'm- Does that mean I'm Mandalore now? Uh, I don't want to be Mandalore.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:32

I mean you don't have to tell anyone. I I feel like that's not gonna come up later, uh, just as a convenient twist here, so I think you're good.

SPEAKER_01 2:11:40

Nasro, you're not gonna narc on me, are you? Uh, well, um, I'm not gonna narc on you because I don't think that I would want to uh narc on such useful co conspirators. Seem like a capable bunch.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:57

Maybe I'll have uh use of your service.

SPEAKER_01 2:12:00

In the future, Mandalore.

SPEAKER_08 2:12:02

Or we could just sell on this thing for extra money.

SPEAKER_07 2:12:05

No, I want to have this thing. This is kind of fun.

SPEAKER_08 2:12:07

Okay, fine. It's cool. I wanted to be the person with a cool sword, but I guess you could be the person with a cool sword.

SPEAKER_07 2:12:13

I mean, you take it in combat if you want, Meyer.

SPEAKER_08 2:12:16

I don't think that would be a good idea. Look at these tiny arms. I need a weapon that's that's built for grace, not brute strength.

SPEAKER_07 2:12:26

Yeah, I know. I I I got a lot of brute strength. Kind of flex a little bit.

SPEAKER_05 2:12:32

I'm feeling pretty good about myself. That's okay. Your your bronze will definitely uh equal our brains.

SPEAKER_07 2:12:38

I'm not even hearing that. I'm just like, yeah, I'm the Mandalore. Beers? Beers?

SPEAKER_05 2:12:43

Beers!

SPEAKER_07 2:12:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:12:45

All I really want are beers.

SPEAKER_07 2:12:46

Hey, Nazro like free beers for the Mandalore, right?

SPEAKER_05 2:12:50

I'm sorry. Uh I'll take a I'll I'll take a shake a shake beanie. Um a bar.

SPEAKER_04 2:12:57

Yeah, but we don't go there. We're going, we're go we're going, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:13:01

You want to drink somewhere nice.

unknown 2:13:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:13:03

We we're celebrating, not working. Jesus. Yeah. Are are you taking the corpse with you? Or at least the armor?

SPEAKER_07 2:13:10

Oh yeah, we should take the armor.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:12

We should take the armor with us, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:13

Oh yeah, because like I don't actually need this helmet, but like he was saying, like, yeah, you should wear this armor for your bandages. Like, he's probably your size, right? Yeah.

unknown 2:13:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:23

I can wear this stuff and keep and and uh keep my keep my shit together.

SPEAKER_07 2:13:27

Keep your shift from falling off. Like, I feel like that's losing us money at the bar when your skin keeps falling off into the food, you know?

SPEAKER_09 2:13:33

Just cook it.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:36

Hey, I wash it every time that happens. The skin? Well, no, I wash the grill where the skin lands.

SPEAKER_08 2:13:43

I rinse off the skin before I add it back in. Uh, I'd like to give my compliments to the chef. Just the stuck and Mandalorian walks out. Thanks.

SPEAKER_01 2:13:55

So you can uh go have some drinks at a nice bar for once. Um, and you're keeping half the sabok pots, so 6,000 credits. Cool. You may you may want to put that towards uh making your shithole bar a little bit nicer, or you may want to just uh spend that on uh whatever you want. We should also get like transportation, but we'll worry about that later. You did steal a car, you may uh need to pay some sort of uh underworld person to uh change the registry on that so the owner doesn't come looking for you if you want to keep the family sedan that you stole. Uh and if you feel like stripping a corpse, you've also acquired enough bescarp for a suit of Mandalorian armor. But given that wearing the armor of a dead Mandalorian uh within walking distance of a Mandalorian covert, uh might not be the best idea if you want to avoid attracting attention. You may also want to find someone who can melt that down and make it into something else. But those are all things that you can worry about next time on Star Wars Empire Wreckers. This week's episode is brought to you by our top patrons, Jeffrey Zamuto, Joshua Winter, Blazer, LKB, Suki Nintendo, and Vaginator.