text:
Transcript: Episode 5 Death Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree
Word document download: Episode 5 Death Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree
PDF download: Episode 5 Death Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree
Read in browser:
Episode 5 Death Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree
The transcription provided have been created through a mix of software and manual editing. We have tried our best to indicate overlapping speech, cross-party talk, and interruptions. "In character" speech has been italicized as best as possible.
Laura's character Xianna'fan speaks in somewhat of a French accent.
We apologize for any misspellings or mistakes. Please send any corrections, comments, or concerns to email@example.com
[00:00:18] – Nick
[background guitar music]
Hi everyone and welcome to Tabletop Squadron, a Star Wars Edge of the Empire actual play podcast. I'm Nick, your gamemaster. Every other Thursday our story follows a thief, a bounty hunter, a fringer and a slicer as they explore the galaxy helping a mysterious benefactor and each other. Additional music this week is In Suspense by Psychedelic Pedestrians.
[00:00:41] – Steven
Hey Squadron. Just so you know we'll be releasing the drink and food recipes we mention in the episodes on our website. www.tabletopsquadron.com. Check it out.
[00:00:52] – Nick
We hope you enjoy the episode.
[00:00:54] – Nick
Hello and welcome to Episode 5 of Tabletop Squadron. I'm your host Nick and I am sitting here with the whole squad yet again. You're still here. Are you OK? Go around the table and say who you are and what character you're playing.
[00:01:10] – Steven
Hi I'm Steven. I'm playing Sabos the Togruta
[00:01:15] – Hudson
I'm Hudson. It's great to be here. I'm playing Tink the Gigoran.
[00:01:20] – Laura
Hi I'm Laura. I play Xianna. I'm a Twi'lek.
[00:01:24] – Cameron
Hi I'm Cameron I'm playing Karma and I'm a Nautolan.
[00:01:29] – Nick
Great. So we've gotten some experience points since the last time we played and everybody has spent some so go around the room and just say how you have upgraded your character.
[00:01:40] – Steven
This is Sabos. I bought street smarts and grit.
[00:01:43] – Nick
Good work.
[00:01:44] – Steven
[00:01:45] – Nick
I'm sure that will come in handy.
[00:01:46] – Steven
It probably won't.
[00:01:47] – Nick
It might. You don't know, you're in a jungle right now but it could happen.
[00:01:52] – Hudson
This is Tink and I upgraded to level 2 on melee. [Group: Ooooohhh] Suuuper Smaaaaash Brother
[00:02:01] – Nick
Now we'll get sued! Next.
[00:02:03] – Laura
This is Laura. I just play Xianna. I guess those two are like, going full Daniel Day Lewis up in here and becoming-
[00:02:11] – Cameron
Could you not tell by Hudson's fur suit?
[00:02:11] – Laura
-they're character.
[00:02:13] – Steven
I do have four head tails.
[00:02:16] – Laura
They are really going for it. I bought ranks in cool and deception.
[00:02:21] – Nick
All right so now you have like one of those flat brimmed baseball caps…
[00:02:24] – Cameron
[00:02:26] – Nick
and shutter shades.
[00:02:27] – Laura
I've popped my collar and yeah, put on some shutter shades.
[00:02:31] – Nick
[00:02:32] – Cameron
For Karma. I upgraded melee to rank 2 and vigilance to rank 2.
[00:02:40] – Nick
All right so before we get started let's do the Destiny role.
[00:02:46] – Hudson
I'll go first. I'll go first.
[00:02:48] – Cameron
[00:02:50] – Hudson
One light side [dice sounds]
[00:02:52] – Laura
1 light side
[00:02:56] – Steven
One dark side.
[00:03:00] – Cameron
One dark side.
[00:03:01] – Laura
That side of the table is not doin' good.
[00:03:06] – Nick
Good work everybody. We're all very proud.
[00:03:09] – Hudson and Laura
I'm not. [Group laughs]
[00:03:11] – Laura
This side of the table rolled light side. So we're proud of ourselves.
[00:03:16] – Nick
Makes sense.
[00:03:18] – Cameron
I still support you Steven.
[00:03:19] – Steven
[00:03:20] – Nick
You shouldn't.
[00:03:23] – Cameron
Not in character though.
[00:03:24] – Nick
Oh so things that have happened recently. Falx gave you all a job in exchange for the contraband that you were sent by Sentinel to go and fetch he sent you after some deserters that may have blown some stuff up and killed some people on their way out of town they're hiding out in the jungle somewhere and you fought really weird centipede monkeys with lobster tails and some people got stabbed and-
[00:03:55] – Steven
just one
[00:03:56] – Nick
Someone got stabbed and your guide Mills ran off and the last thing that happened was he came back with a bunch of corpses of more millipede monkeys and said well we'll scatter these around to make sure that we have a moment. We need to we need to take a second to plan and so that's where we will take it back up again. So he immediately starts shredding up some of these monkey guts. The good news is they all have big blaster holes in them so he just kind of reaches in and roots around and he starts scattering it around like a flower girl at a wedding in a circle around this clearing. So he says that'll that will keep the trees back. Hey could someone go to the back of the speeder? There is a silver shiny box in there we're gonna need that for a minute.
[00:04:45] – Hudson
I ran back to the speeder and get it.
[00:04:46] – Steven
You mean the stone breaker?
[00:04:49] – Nick
I don't know what that is.
[00:04:52] – Laura
–Shhhh- Do not say things.
[00:04:53] – Steven
My bad
[00:04:53] – Laura
I thought- I thought we talked about this last time. Do not talk ever.
[00:04:57] – Steven
[whispers] ever.
[00:04:57] – Laura
[00:04:58] – Steven
[whispers] –the monkey wounds
[00:04:58] – Laura
Be quiet.
[00:05:00] – Hudson
I go get the -uh- box.
[00:05:02] – Nick
Okay so you head over to the speeder. It is a large speeder with room for everyone that is setup for off road. So it's got kind of skids under the repulsors in case it bottoms out and on the back there's a big crate and so you head to the back and open it up and you see a silver like cubic case with some latches on it and on the ground next to you, you see Sparks who as you may remember the junior officer that was riding with you. And there's a monkey on his chest chewing through his neck right now so I need a vigilance roll from you on how quickly you respond. As it looks up in you and goes -hhheeeeesss- and gets ready to jump at you.
[00:05:39] – Hudson
Oh [Steven: not Spark Duelson] no.
[00:05:41] – Cameron
We're not behind the thing.
[00:05:42] – Hudson
One success
[00:05:44] – Nick
One success. Okay so you can roll an attack against this thing before it gets to you.
[00:05:48] – Hudson
Yayyyyyy I'd like to roll an attack against it. So that's going to be two yellows and a green. What's the difficulty?
[00:05:56] – Cameron
Melee is always 2.
[00:05:58] – Nick
She's right.
[00:06:01] – Hudson
[dice sounds] So we have three successes and an advantage.
[00:06:05] – Nick
Okay how much damage does your massive vibroaxe do?
[00:06:09] – Hudson
[00:06:10] – Cameron
So plus 3
[00:06:11] – Nick
Plus your brawn right?
[00:06:12] – Hudson
Nope, my brawn plus 3 is 6.
[00:06:14] – Nick
Oh okay
[00:06:15] – Cameron
plus 3
[00:06:16] – Nick
So 9 damage?
[00:06:17] – Hudson
So 9 damage.
[00:06:17] – Nick
Yeah you just slice this thing in half and it goes -hiiiiisss- -eep- and it just kind of falls apart. Mills walks up behind you goes oh you're adding to the circle. Great and he looks down and Sparks, the junior officer is super dead like his throat is chewed all the way back to the bone and he's just on the ground he's not even twitching and Mills kind of looks down and goes Oh… eh. And he and he just keeps walking around. He says grab that grab that case and lets go. So he finishes the circle and stands in the middle of the clearing.
[00:06:50] – Cameron
I walk back over to the back when I see Mills walk back there and see Sparks on the ground. Feel sad for a minute because he's had the same length of life as my sons and that's sad. And then I pull him to the side a little bit. So the speeder is blocking Mill's view and I search his pockets.
[00:07:07] – Nick
Oh… okay.
[00:07:09] – Laura
Xianna walks over and she's like is there something behind the speeder?
[00:07:14] – Cameron
[00:07:14] – Laura
Ohhhh zat's sad.
[00:07:17] – Cameron
[00:07:19] – Laura
I was going to mess with him.
[00:07:21] – Cameron
Yeah, well the monkeys did first.
[00:07:25] – Steven
what monkeys
[00:07:26] – Nick
so I guess searching his pockets I would need a average skullduggery check from you.
[00:07:32] – Cameron
Okay. Hey I have a skulduggery. Okay… average. [dice sounds] Alright. That is a success and an advantage.
[00:07:43] – Nick
OK so you find not a lot like you find less on this guy than you would expect for somebody who was going on an expedition with potential hostiles in a hostile environment. You do find a really low clearance imperial code cylinder in his pocket and he had a light blaster pistol on a holster and he had like a couple of ration bars, just… crackers, cracker bar things.
[00:08:13] – Cameron
How many?
[00:08:14] – Nick
[00:08:15] – Cameron
[00:08:16] – Nick
[00:08:16] – Cameron
Three crackers.
[00:08:17] – Nick
Yes. And really that's it. He was pretty light on gear. It's almost like he got assigned this very quickly and didn't have time to pack or didn't understand where he was going. One or the other.
[00:08:30] – Cameron
[00:08:31] – Laura
What rank was he again?
[00:08:32] – Nick
He was a petty officer.
[00:08:34] – Laura
[00:08:35] – Hudson
But we do have his clearance card now right?
[00:08:36] – Cameron
Yes I do-
[00:08:37] – Nick
You have his code cylinder. It [Cameron: I tuck the code cylinder-] probably opens-
[00:08:39] – Cameron
-into my jacket.
[00:08:41] – Nick
It opens some things maybe.
[00:08:42] – Cameron
Put the crackers in whatever bag I'm carrying. And then strap the light blaster to my other hip that doesn't have a heavy pistol on it.
[00:08:51] – Nick
You're just collecting guns.
[00:08:53] – Cameron
Yep. I have a light blaster, a heavy pistol and a blaster carbine.
[00:08:58] – Nick
The good news is you're strong. The bad news is eventually incumbrance may be a thing.
[00:09:02] – Cameron
I'll start handing out guns to other people as they deserve them.
[00:09:04] – Nick
- [group laughs] It's-
[00:09:07] – Cameron
I feel like your good with your axe though.
[00:09:09] – Hudson
[too muffled to hear] -either but I don't have one.
[00:09:10] – Cameron
Maybe we'll have a training session.
[00:09:12] – Nick
You're handing out guns like a kindergarten teacher hands out star stickers.
[00:09:16] – Cameron
Yeah. Good job, you gain a gun on your chart.
[00:09:19] – Nick
OK so Tink, do you bring the silver box to the middle?
[00:09:23] – Hudson
[00:09:24] – Nick
All right. So Mills says thanks. As he like wipes his hands on his pants and you see he's made a pretty decent circle out of monkey guts and maybe you're imagining it but the trees do seem to be kind of leaning back a little bit from the circle. It's probably just a trick of perspective. I wouldn't worry about it and Mills with a click snaps the four latches off the top and pulls the top off and the four sides of the box fall open like a industrial flower. And inside there's another one of those heater lantern things like you had in your guest quarters slash tool shed-
[00:09:59] – Cameron
Garden house
[00:10:00] – Nick
garden shed. Yeah. And he turns on the heater and the warm light makes you feel a little better he says These trees put spores out and we don't want to track those back to the base. Also you know like, they eat flesh but it's not a big deal this will bake them out so we'll take a minute here to do that. Shame about Sparks. At least that's probably what I'm supposed to say. I don't really like the Empire that much. One of the officers is dating my sister
[00:10:29] – Cameron
[00:10:30] – Hudson
[00:10:31] – Nick
He seems pretty milk toast. I don't understand, as he like pulls bits of guts off of his out of his chest hair from his shirt. He flicks them into the heater and they like sizzle and vaporize. So I'm just working for them because they're the only people here at this point but they're probably bunkered down somewhere up ahead. That's why there might be so many bug monkeys around so maybe if we can find their camp you can take these guys out or whatever you're supposed to do. What's the plan?
[00:11:01] – Laura
Do any of you know like how to track people or hunt or you know do things in the wilderness? …..cause I do not.
[00:11:14] – Steven
One could say I have limited survival skills. [Cameron laughs]
[00:11:18] – Laura
Define limited.
[00:11:19] – Steven
More than you.
[00:11:20] – Hudson
[00:11:21] – Nick
Mills goes Oooo
[00:11:21] – Laura
I mean-
[00:11:22] – Cameron
[00:11:22] – Laura
[00:11:23] – Cameron
She did just say that she had very limited nature.
[00:11:27] – Laura
I tend to stay in cities. That is where there are people you know to steal things from.
[00:11:33] – Cameron
Normally my bounty hunting jobs aren't this remote. They're normally criminals hideout where there's other people but I am pretty good at sneaking up on people.
[00:11:44] – Hudson
I nominate Sabos.
[00:11:46] – Laura
I am good at the sneaking. the sneaking I can do. the tracking-
[00:11:51] – Cameron
the finding.
[00:11:52] – Laura
the finding.
[00:11:53] – Steven
[overlapping Cameron and Laura] As an explorer I probably do have some survivals.
[00:11:56] – Laura
Do you have a rank in survival?
[00:11:57] – Steven
I do.
[00:11:58] – Laura
That is what I am asking about.
[00:12:01] – Cameron
[laughs] His answer, he [mumbles] you have a rank in 'ze sneak'.
[00:12:04] – Laura
I do have a rank in the sneaking. I have ranks in the… the streetwise and-
[00:12:10] – Cameron
I'm going to slowly start speaking in Xianna's accent.
[00:12:14] – Laura
If you have ranks in survival you should try tracking.
[00:12:17] – Steven
Rank in survival.
[00:12:18] – Cameron
How cunning are you?
[00:12:19] – Laura
I have lots of cunning so I could help.
[00:12:21] – Steven
[00:12:22] – Cameron
You got three cunning.
[00:12:23] – Laura
I have four cunning so I can always assist.
[00:12:25] – Nick
Yes so when people help and someone has a better base stat but someone has better training. You get to use the best of both. So if Xianna helps Sabos to track you get 3 green die and a yellow.
[00:12:38] – Multiple Speakers
[00:12:39] – Steven
we should do that.
[00:12:40] – Nick
Great. So-
[00:12:42] – Steven
Let's track things. I guess we are looking for the escaped uhh Lira and Williams.
[00:12:47] – Nick
Yup you're looking for Lira and Williams.
[00:12:50] – Steven
We don't know what they look like other than they're guy and a lady.
[00:12:52] – Cameron
One of them's a trooper.
[00:12:55] – Multiple Speakers
[gumbled mumbling]
[00:12:56] – Cameron
Lira's a trooper so she's probably in the trooper uniform.
[00:13:00] – Steven
[00:13:01] – Cameron
Williams is an officer. He's probably not in a trooper uniform. There are also three missing troopers.
[00:13:07] – Steven
- I'll just I'll look around the circle [mumbles]
[00:13:09] – Nick
Well and you'll remember last session you found a small blood trail leading off from the there.
[00:13:15] – Steven
That's right.
[00:13:16] – Cameron
Then the monkeys attacked.
[00:13:17] – Steven
[mumbling] tracks the bloodtrails?
[00:13:19] – Nick
[00:13:21] – Cameron
What's the difficulty? Cause I don't think you're rolling any difficulty dice.
[00:13:24] – Laura
Yeah, you need difficulty dice.
[00:13:26] – Nick
[00:13:26] – Laura
[00:13:27] – Steven
[00:13:27] – Cameron
That's three, yeah.
[00:13:29] – Nick
So you already found the general direction last time. [dice sounds]
[00:13:31] – Steven
[00:13:34] – Cameron
[00:13:35] – Steven
Well that worked out well. I have two successes and two advant-ah- no
[00:13:38] – Cameron
[00:13:38] – Laura
[00:13:38] – Cameron
One success., one advantage.
[00:13:41] – Nick
[00:13:42] – Steven
[whispers] shitty roll.
[00:13:43] – Nick
[00:13:44] – Cameron
most of the purples were blank. That was fine.
[00:13:46] – Nick
so you tracked and you got one success and one advantage.
[00:13:50] – Cameron
[00:13:51] – Nick
Is there any way you would particularly like to spend the advantage?
[00:13:56] – Steven
…not encountering monkeys.
[00:13:58] – Laura
Can… I'm assuming we're gonna try to be sneaky when we approach them can the least sneaky of us have a blue dice when they make a stealth roll?
[00:14:08] – Nick
I think that is a great tactical decision. How would you explain that using cool descriptions and story stuff?
[00:14:15] – Cameron
[overlapping Nick] We're gonna put them in the back and the people in front will sneakily fold down any like foilage or anything that's in the way.
[00:14:24] – Multiple Speakers
[00:14:24] – Cameron
Well there we go. Fold down any foilage [laughs] gosh!
[00:14:27] – Hudson
Any 'foilage'?
[00:14:28] – Steven
[whispers] You know foilage
[00:14:29] – Cameron
We're gonna fold down any plant stuff in the way.
[00:14:31] – Laura
Yeah so-
[00:14:32] – Cameron
So that there's less crinkle noises from the people behind us as we walk.
[00:14:35] – Laura
Yeah Xianna would make sure that Sabos is in the back probably walking… maybe not completely in the back, walking next to someone. Probably Karma. And then-
[00:14:45] – Cameron
Who can throw her arm out to stop him.
[00:14:47] – Laura
And then Tink and Xianna would be more in the front cause surprisingly Tink is kind of sneaky.
[00:14:53] – Hudson
I'm pretty sneaky.
[00:14:54] – Cameron
You do blend into the jungle.
[00:14:56] – Hudson
Well, it's more-
[00:14:56] – Cameron
As a giant white fluffy thing.
[00:14:58] – Hudson
It's more just sneaky in general. Give me some credit.
[00:15:01] – Laura
I think it's his feet are very soft and padded with all the fur so he doesn't make a lot of sound when he walks.
[00:15:07] – Hudson
Speculation will just confuse the mind. Just know I am sneaky.
[00:15:09] – Steven
but my forehead tail just rubs all the branches the wrong way [Cameron: oh god]. [group laughter]
[00:15:15] – Laura
I think that's just Sabos in general.
[00:15:18] – Nick
Just, Oooooo
[00:15:19] – Steven
It's the fourth head tail.
[00:15:21] – Multiple Speakers
[00:15:22] – Cameron
That does seem to be his defining characteristic.
[00:15:25] – Laura
It's like the only one.
[00:15:27] – Steven
And him being a male Togruta.
[00:15:29] – Laura
There are many male Togrutas.
[00:15:30] – Steven
No there's not!…There's like many female Togrutas.
[00:15:34] – Cameron
There's also many males.
[00:15:35] – Laura
There's also many males. You're not like a Selonian.
[00:15:38] – Nick
No it's an actual thing.
[00:15:39] – Laura
It's an actual thing but it's not like Selonian level.
[00:15:42] – Steven
[overlapping Laura] 15 percent to 85 percent is like pretty darn snark.
[00:15:47] – Nick
Well the Selonians, it's like 1 per 100 or something.
[00:15:50] – Steven
[00:15:51] – Nick
Yeah the otter-people
[00:15:53] – Steven
[00:15:55] – Nick
So based on your success and the fact that you're staying in the back to where you're not going to break a buch of branches and be super obvious. You can tell from the blood trail and the age and everything, it's probably going to be about an hour trek through the jungle or you can take your speeder and try and drive closer. Which would you all choose to do?
[00:16:18] – Steven
I'm pretty comfortable hoofing it, but [whispers] I'm not sure.
[00:16:20] – Hudson
I'll grab the speeder!
[00:16:22] – Nick
You want to drive?
[00:16:24] – Steven
I can drive
[00:16:25] – Cameron
You're not driving.
[00:16:27] – Hudson
I can drive for I have the necessary skills required.
[00:16:31] – Steven
As do I.
[00:16:32] – Cameron
I feel like were trying to sneak up on people not being in a speeder would be beneficial.
[00:16:37] – Hudson
My stealth carries over to speeders!
[00:16:40] – Laura
Pretty sure that is not how that works.
[00:16:42] – Cameron
[overlapping Laura] I'm pretty sure it still makes noise.
[00:16:43] – Laura
I think the speeder still makes-
[00:16:45] – Steven
-we should, we should just keep it.
[00:16:46] – Laura
[00:16:46] – Cameron
[00:16:47] – Hudson
[00:16:47] – Laura
[00:16:49] – Hudson
I if we want to we can just walk.
[00:16:52] – Laura
We should walk. It is more sneaky.
[00:16:54] – Hudson
[00:16:55] – Nick
Okay. So the.-There is a swipe cut to you all doing a nice pleasant hike through the jungle-
[00:17:02] – Cameron
The jungle that can eat us.
[00:17:05] – Nick
It's very Vietnam War movie-esque with people moving in a line, Mills doesn't really walk with you so much is like action roll through the bushes and he like is getting covered in mud. It looks very Predator and he'll pop up out of a bush next to you. Which is surprising and discomforting and he'll make a bunch of hand signals and then disappear back into the underbrush. No one knows what the hand signals mean but he looks pretty confident that you all are headed the right direction. The trail you lose it a couple of times but you're able to find it again and continue onward. So you do lose a little bit of time and surprisingly Tink does blend in quite well. The shadows model on his white fur and he is able to slip from tree to tree like a ghost.
[00:17:50] – Hudson
Damn right. [group laughs]
[00:17:52] – Nick
[00:17:52] – Cameron
Should we make a stealth check?
[00:17:54] – Nick
Yeah right around now. Gonna need a stealth check.
[00:18:02] – Laura
What the difficulty?
[00:18:05] – Nick
[00:18:05] – Steven
[whispers] do I get a blue dice for this?
[00:18:06] – Nick
Yeah. You get a blue die.
[00:18:08] – Laura
[00:18:09] – Nick
The difficulty is average but everyone has a black die because stealthing through a jungle is difficult.
[00:18:22] – Hudson
[dice sounds] So a wash right?
[00:18:23] – Cameron
Yup. Tink just get a wash.
[00:18:25] – Hudson
Iii- Yeah.
[00:18:26] – Nick
You get nothing. Okay. I take back what I said.
[00:18:32] – Steven
Sweet. I have a success and an advantage. Sabos. Me, Sabos.
[00:18:38] – Nick
Yeah that blue die was super helpful.
[00:18:40] – Steven
It would have been a wash otherwise.
[00:18:43] – Laura
Three successes.
[00:18:43] – Cameron
Alright and Karma also has a blue die because of her stalker talent.
[00:18:51] – Nick
[00:18:52] – Cameron
So she gets a blue die in stealth and coordination checks. [dice sounds]
[00:18:56] – Nick
That's really neat.
[00:18:57] – Cameron
It is. That is a success and a threat.
[00:19:03] – Nick
Okay so you walk for quite a while. Mill's is pretty quiet but every once in awhile he just pops up in weird places so you jump a little bit. He's a scary looking dude. After about 45 minutes you see a storm trooper helmet driven on a spike on a trail. And a storm trooper like la- that storm trooper whose helmet is on this bike is laying face down in the underbrush. Do you investigate the storm trooper?
[00:19:32] – Multiple Speakers
[00:19:32] – Nick
Okay so you roll him over. He's got a blaster hole in his chest. Looks like he got taken down in the run and you actually see the other two storm troopers scattered in the brush they're along the trail where you're heading but they're all basically just down. Looks like they were in a running gun fight and got the worst of it. They have been stripped of their supplies and weapons and they don't have any.
[00:19:56] – Nick
Another weird thing they look like, Karma you would know this, I don't know if anyone else did. They look like they've been dead for about five or six days so they're kind of gross and they don't smell great but they also have like saplings sprouting like out of their exposed skin.
[00:20:11] – Cameron
[00:20:12] – Nick
[00:20:12] – Laura
Eww that is gross.
[00:20:14] – Nick
And we get a shot of Karma reaching down and kind of rolling one over and inspecting it. And then as you see that he doesn't have anything worth salvaging and you step away all of the saplings that are growing out of the storm troopers are kind of lean towards you a little and then go back up is probably just the wind.
[00:20:31] – Laura
That is very gross.
[00:20:32] – Cameron
I would put the time of death at five or six days ago. [table murmurs] Based on the trees sprouting?
[00:20:41] – Hudson
So does this mean our fugitives are murderers?
[00:20:45] – Multiple Speakers
[00:20:47] – Laura
[00:20:48] – Steven
I think that was information we were given.
[00:20:51] – Cameron
There were- there were five troopers did go out after them, two troopers have already been found dead. These are the remaining so
[00:20:59] – Hudson
I see
[00:21:00] – Nick
Mills appears behind you all with no noise and goes Well I guess murder depends on your point of view. And he's like…
[00:21:06] – Laura
I mean that is true.
[00:21:07] – Nick
possibly cleaning his gun.
[00:21:08] – Laura
Yes. I mean-
[00:21:10] – Cameron
[mumbles] it really depends on the view.
[00:21:12] – Laura
I mean I think it does. I mean from a certain point of view you could say self defense.
[00:21:17] – Nick
You back a lothwolf into a corner, you can't be surprised when it bites. I would imagine, I've never been to Lothal and he walks off down the trail.
[00:21:27] – Laura
Is very dry.
[00:21:30] – Cameron
On Lothal?
[00:21:30] – Laura
[00:21:31] – Nick
Everyone always goes oh but it's a dry heat and he's– everyone's been sweating at this point.
[00:21:36] – Laura
Oh, no, not me? [rewind sound effect]
[00:21:37] – Nick
Oh you don't sweat?
[00:21:39] – Laura
I don't because being a Twi'lek I get to remove setback dice due to arid or hot conditions because Ryloth is a desert.
[00:21:49] – Nick
[00:21:49] – Laura
It is just a fucking desert planet.
[00:21:52] – Nick
So this should be very uncomfortable for you because it's a jungle.
[00:21:55] – Laura
So the humidity is getting to me, the wet heat, but the heat itself is fine.
[00:22:00] – Nick
Yeah. Well and that's the thing. It's probably only like 90 degrees. I'm exposing that were from Texas and 90 degrees is not a big deal. It's probably only like 90 degrees but the humidity-
[00:22:10] – Hudson
[overlapping Nick] for our international viewers, 90 degrees
[00:22:12] – Laura
[overlapping Hudson] I was about to say, 90-
[00:22:13] – Cameron
[00:22:15] – Laura
-Fahrenheit is like a nice spring day.
[00:22:17] – Steven
That's what? 38?
[00:22:19] – Laura
[00:22:20] – Nick
I don't know, I don't speak metric. Well it's not super relevant so anyway,
[00:22:23] – Laura
This is super relevant. What are you talking about? Our like 1 International listener is going to need this information. Hi Ted.
[00:22:33] – Steven
They have the google.
[00:22:34] – Cameron
I'm glistening.
[00:22:35] – Nick
Yeah you're glistening.
[00:22:36] – Steven
my forehead tail was dripping.
[00:22:37] – Laura
Xianna sees that and is gonna like eww… gross and she like legitimately seems grossedout whereas when like she saw like the dead body she was like 'ew gross'. This is like visceral. Ugg Gross!
[00:22:54] – Steven
[overlapping Laura] I grab it and wring it out.
[00:22:59] – Hudson
I'm pretty gross right now. I have my fur's matted.
[00:23:01] – Nick
I would imagine it's gotten like frizzy too.
[00:23:03] – Hudson
[00:23:04] – Laura
I imagine you smell like a wet dog at this point.
[00:23:06] – Hudson
Yep absolutely.
[00:23:07] – Laura
[00:23:08] – Nick
It does get covered up by the corpses but everyone's given you a little more space. And that's part of the reason that you've had trouble stealthing is you're in the middle of the group but they've given you space so you're misjudging your steps a lot because you think people are closer [rewind sound effect] so you continue down the trail. Unless there's anything else you wanted to do with these stormtroopers
[00:23:26] – Laura
[00:23:27] – Nick
Okay. You continue down the trail you see a couple more kind of warning sign things like sticks tied together. No more like skulls on sticks or anything but like general trail signs for like go away. A tree has been burned out or tried to it's mostly just kind of blackened because it's so humid it's hard to get stuff to burn. And you come to a clearing and there is a like a sled looking thing it looks like a repulsor-sled with some supplies and stuff on it.
[00:23:59] – Nick
You see some guns and you see a very skinny looking guy with short dark hair that started to grow out already out of regulation. He's wearing one of those khaki army uniforms that you saw some people wearing in the camp but it's it's been really shredded up and it's dirty and it's the only reason you would recognize it is because you've already seen it and he's got a bandage over one leg and he's sitting by one of those heater lamps like Mills gave you and Mills says I'll cover the back exit and disappears into the undergrowth and starts to loop around and that's what you can see.
[00:24:36] – Hudson
I whisper they didn't say dead or alive, specifically, so let's just shoot 'em.
[00:24:41] – Steven
yeah I- I remember clarifying. They were cool with either.
[00:24:45] – Laura
They said either one works so
[00:24:47] – Steven
[00:24:47] – Laura
They did specify.
[00:24:48] – Hudson
Well, I should say they didn't specify they wanted one over the other.
[00:24:52] – Laura
True but that is what dead or alive means. It means either or both work.
[00:24:58] – Nick
Wait how do you do both? [rewind sound effect]
[00:25:00] – Laura
No. Both [Steven mumbles something] work. No both [Cameron: not at the same time] work. Not that like [Nick: got it, got it, got it] you bring them in, in a Schrodinger's Box.
[00:25:08] – Nick
We made that joke already.
[00:25:10] – Laura
It's that both work. Either one, and or.
[00:25:15] – Nick
Got it.
[00:25:15] – Cameron
What it is is that there's two of them so one of them's dead and one of them's alive [Laura: yeah] that's okay. That's how both works.
[00:25:22] – Nick
Yeah I already sent Mills around the clearing so I couldn't ask-
[00:25:25] – Laura
Or I mean I guess she could in a way do both if you brought them in like with a mortal wound.
[00:25:30] – Cameron
Yeah they gonna be dead.
[00:25:31] – Laura
Like they're going to die but they're currently alive.
[00:25:33] – Nick
dead-ish alive.
[00:25:34] – Laura
dead ish. Mostly dead.
[00:25:36] – Nick
[rewind sound effect] We got him in the clearing. He's got a like a snack bar but it has one little bite out of it but he looks like he's just kind of staring into the lantern and thinking thoughts.
[00:25:50] – Laura
Where is the other one? there is a second one.
[00:25:56] – Cameron
[00:25:56] – Steven
We see signs of the second one?
[00:25:58] – Nick
And as you wonder that you hear a blaster click on and directly behind you you see a very large woman with short cropped like military hair that hasn't grown out too much and she is wearing about half of a stormtrooper uniform. She's got the chest plate and the arm pieces but the rest of the body suit is exposed and the helmet is gone but she has one of the lenses from the helmet like strapped over one eye and you can see like a bunch of wires from the inside of the helmet going down into the armor and she's got like cargo shorts on and over the the body suit on the bottom and it looks like it's stuffed full of supplies and things and she says the other one is right here and she points her gun at you all. She got the drop on you.
[00:26:47] – Laura
[00:26:48] – Nick
She could hear.
[00:26:49] – Laura
[00:26:51] – Cameron
Cause she could hear Tink.
[00:26:52] – Laura
How are you doing?
[00:26:54] – Nick
I'm doing great. I'd appreciate if you stepped into the clearing please.
[00:26:58] – Laura
I mean… okayyy.
[00:27:00] – Steven
You mean that clearing?
[00:27:02] – Laura
What clearing do you think she means?
[00:27:04] – Steven
Well there was that nice one that we were at previously.
[00:27:07] – Laura
Why would she means that one?
[00:27:09] – Steven
Just checking.
[00:27:09] – Nick
She whacks Sabos on the back of the head with her blaster rifle [Laura: zank you] and it hurts real bad and she kind of, as you bend over and go ow! she like-
[00:27:18] – Steven
my poor head tail absorbs the blow.
[00:27:20] – Nick
- She boots you like in the butt. And you stumble forward into the clearing. She says Please move and leave your guns in the pile by the- by the lamp and she like steps back out of range to cover you. And as Sabos goes stumbling in the officer that's there goes Ahhhh and like puts the bar down and looks around. He still hasn't noticed anyone outside the clearing, he only see Sabos.
[00:27:43] – Laura
Okay so Xianna puts her gun down. But just kind of like has her hand by her side. Because it doesn't really look like there's anything in her coat because it doesn't really look like there's pockets.
[00:27:55] – Nick
Makes sense. She didn't try to search you
[00:27:57] – Laura
And her utility belt doesn't really have anything on it.
[00:28:01] – Steven
I kind of have to disarm my blaster rifle because I don't think it's non-obvious.
[00:28:07] – Nick
No, it's huge.
[00:28:07] – Steven
Yeah but I'mma keep my vibro knife
[00:28:08] – Laura
Well, like do you have your vibro knife hidden?
[00:28:13] – Steven
Yes. Not on my belt, it's like in my pants.
[00:28:16] – Laura
Why do you keep a knife in your pants?
[00:28:19] – Steven
[00:28:19] – Cameron
For situations like this Xianna!
[00:28:21] – Steven
-it was the only place I had to keep it. I don't think Sabos [becomes too quiet to hear]
[00:28:24] – Laura
You don't have like boots or something?
[00:28:26] – Cameron
No. His knife is strapped to his fourth headtail.
[00:28:30] – Laura
Hhhmmmm [Steven: that's definitely not it] [group laughs] I mean you could strap it to the underside?
[00:28:35] – Cameron
Yeah, so you couldn't see it from the outside.
[00:28:37] – Nick
He touches it too much. He started that but he kept cutting his fingers, do.
[00:28:40] – Cameron
Well you put it in a sheath
[00:28:40] – Steven
[00:28:43] – Laura
I also like that you act like your fourth headtail is like the only one back there when you would have like the third and fourth ones evenly spaced in the back.
[00:28:52] – Steven
It's the one I give the most attention to.
[00:28:54] – Cameron
How do you know which one is your fourth one?
[00:28:56] – Laura
[00:28:56] – Steven
The one everyone else doesn't have.
[00:28:58] – Cameron
Yeah. But so like, but so like [Laura: you have two!] everyone normally has, most Togrutans normally have like one coming over each shoulder and then the one in the back. You have two in the back. Is it the left or the right one [Steven: right one] that's the fourth one? How do you know that though?
[00:29:08] – Laura
[Overlapping Cameron] Or is- or is it kind of like when people have like a third nipple?
[00:29:10] – Steven
[00:29:11] – Laura
And so like the fourth one is really tiny and weird looking. [Cameron laughs] So you know that's the third-the fourth one.
[00:29:17] – Nick
I've always-
[00:29:17] – Steven
It's adequate.
[00:29:19] – Nick
I've been picturing it is it like just kind of branches off of the main back one,is just kind of juggly. [group laughs]
[00:29:26] – Laura
No. I'm picturing like a stubby little extra one.
[00:29:29] – Steven
[00:29:31] – Laura
Maybe with like a tooth or something on it because it was definitely absorbed from a second- like from a twin, that you ate in the womb.
[00:29:38] – Steven
Just like my hands, everything up there is just fine.
[00:29:41] – Hudson
Now Sabos, you could get in to the adult entertainment industry with that fourth headtail. [group laughs]
[00:29:45] – Laura
Ok, anyways. [group laughs]
[00:29:47] – Nick
And we're back! [rewind sound effect]
[00:29:49] – Laura
Xianna, yeah, walks into the clearing but kind of keeps her hands nonchalantly by her sides.
[00:29:54] – Nick
[00:29:55] – Laura
She doesn't like put them up or anything.
[00:29:56] – Nick
So you drop a pistol in the pile of- there's, so there's already a little pile of the like the Stormtrooper E-11 blasters on the ground and you look back behind you and you see the storm trooper lady like gesture towards the pile you drop your pistol down. Sabos you put your rifle there and you go in the clearing. What do Karma and Tink do?
[00:30:19] – Hudson
I put my vibro axe down but do not reveal my grenades.
[00:30:24] – Nick
Are they in your fanny pack?
[00:30:26] – Hudson
They're on my strap, but yeah in my fanny pack.
[00:30:29] – Nick
Cause I know you have like a backpack and a utility belt but your utility belt for whatever reason I'm picturing is just a fanny pack.
[00:30:36] – Hudson
Well yeah it kind of is actually. Look at my picture.
[00:30:38] – Nick
Oh maybe that's why I'm picturing that.
[overlapping Nick] I'm imagining it has like little pockets.
[00:30:42] – Hudson
[00:30:43] – Laura
Like there's some little pouches on it instead of just being…
[00:30:46] – Cameron
it's like a cool thing.
[00:30:47] – Laura
[00:30:47] – Hudson
It goes across and around.
[00:30:49] – Cameron
It's a utility fanny pack.
[00:30:50] – Nick
[00:30:51] – Laura
Because it also doubles as a little holder for his vibro-axe in the back.
[00:30:57] – Nick
Okay so
[00:30:58] – Hudson
I don't take that off I just-
[00:30:59] – Nick
You drop the obvious weapons and Karma? Cameron's got a look on her face she's about to do something.
[00:31:04] – Cameron
Well so I walk out. I detach the light blasters that I have on both hips first.
[00:31:12] – Nick
[00:31:13] – Cameron
And then to remove my blaster carbine I have to take it off my back and swivel it around to the front and as I do that I'm going to shoot the dude.
[00:31:21] – Nick
Okay I need a cool check to see if you can do that before anybody gets the drop on you.
[00:31:28] – Cameron
Cool. [whispers] I'm fine with that.
[00:31:29] – Nick
The bounty hunter knows never disarm and go change locations.
[00:31:33] – Cameron
I'll change locations, but I'm not taking all my guns and stuff and I still have my vibro-sword.
[00:31:37] – Laura
Yeah that's why you don't take off all your weapons.
[00:31:40] – Cameron
I took off the two that I'm not good with which is the light blasters.
[00:31:44] – Nick
[00:31:45] – Cameron
To make it look like I was complying up until the point where I am shooting the dude. It's an average? or no, it's a cool check, nevermind. That's just a cool check.
[00:31:59] – Cameron
[dice sounds] 2 successes.
[00:31:59] – Nick
[00:32:00] – Cameron
What do they have?
[00:32:01] – Nick
So the guy is freaking useless he is just one green die, I just want to see if he sees anything.
[00:32:07] – Cameron
One success.
[00:32:07] – Nick
Good for him. And then lady is two greens and a yellow. [dice sounds]
[00:32:14] – Nick
I should call them by name but you don't know that [mumbles]
[00:32:16] – Cameron
Three successes and an advantage.
[00:32:18] – Nick
Three successes and an advantage, which does make sense thematically since she's had a gun aimed at you. You are going to get that shot off but as she sees you do it you hear her very emotionally go No. And she goes to shoot you. So that is going to be two greens and a yellow with an average difficulty please. But I'm going to give her a blue die because she was aiming at you.
[00:32:42] – Laura
Xianna is just over here like shaking her head and like rolling her eyes like you wait until they are not looking at you. That is when you shoot them.
[00:32:51] – Cameron
My gun is on stun.
[00:32:53] – Nick
Okay good to know.
[00:32:53] – Cameron
Because that's its default setting.
[00:32:55] – Nick
Her's isn't.
[00:32:57] – Cameron
That's fine. I've just- sense I'm also going to shoot the dude.
[00:32:59] – Laura
At this point Xianna does have her hands in her pockets.
[00:33:03] – Cameron
[00:33:06] – Nick
So this is all- this is all happening very quickly. This is going to be the beginning of an exchange.
[00:33:11] – Cameron
Two successes and an advantage.
[00:33:13] – Nick
Okay, so hers does 8 because you wouldn't have noticed but there's some spores growing in it, when you're out in the jungle players.
[00:33:23] – Cameron
[whispers] well you always clean your gun.
[00:33:23] – Nick
So eight, and you said it was three successes?
[00:33:25] – Cameron
Two success.
[00:33:26] – Nick
Two successes so that's 10 damage.
[00:33:28] – Cameron
And I soak 5 of it.
[00:33:29] – Nick
Oh wow, okay, I forgot you have like armor and stuff.
[00:33:33] – Cameron
[00:33:34] – Nick
And are strong.
[00:33:35] – Cameron
Muy stronk.
[00:33:35] – Nick
You rotate your rifle around and snap up for a shot right before you pull- right before you pull the trigger you get, you take a pretty good hit in the back. Your armor absorbs most of that but you, having been shot multiple times in the past are very aware that you have been hurt and then before anything else happens you're able to pull the trigger and shoot at our good army officer friend. So that's going to be an average difficulty because you are very close. But it's also going to be a black die because you were getting shot while you pulled the trigger.
[00:34:12] – Cameron
[dice sounds] A success.
[00:34:13] – Nick
A success.
[00:34:15] – Cameron
So that's 10 stun damage.
[00:34:17] – Nick
10 stun so you blow him backwards off of the stool he was sitting on. He doesn't, uh, go completely unconscious but he looks extremely fazed by that. What a great pun. But he starts to sit up a little and now I guess I need initiative rolls out of everybody, so that'll be vigilance because now shit's gone down. You had, what, two successes?
[00:34:42] – Cameron
[00:34:43] – Nick
Do you want to just use that as your initiative roll? Or do you want to roll again.
[00:34:48] – Hudson
I rolled one success.
[00:34:49] – Cameron
I'm good with two successes.
[00:34:50] – Laura
Two successes.
[00:34:52] – Steven
[overlapping Laura] I rolled one success.
[00:34:53] – Nick
[dice sounds] Okay. He had one success and she had what? Three.
[00:34:58] – Cameron
[00:34:58] – Nick
OK I'm going to make her roll again because she used her thing up.
[00:35:01] – Cameron
That was two yellows and a gree. [dice sounds] Two successes, a triumph and two advantages.
[00:35:08] – Nick
[00:35:09] – Cameron
I liked her other roll better. Can you use that one?
[00:35:10] – Nick
The Triumph include the- or did you include the success [Cameron: Yes, yes] as well?
[00:35:15] – Laura
It was a triumph with success and a success.
[00:35:18] – Nick
So she's going to go first… Lira, and then 2 PC slots and then, so that was the two successes?
[00:35:28] – Laura
[00:35:29] – Nick
And then what?
[00:35:30] – Laura
They each got one.
[00:35:31] – Cameron
The boys had one.
[00:35:32] – Nick
They each had one? So it will be, we'll make the NPC slot next and then it will be two PC slots. So Lira shoots you in the back. You stumble. She sees you shoot her… her good good buddy. And she says this is why we should have kept moving. And she shoots at you again, Karma. So same role as last time but she's going to use her maneuver to aim.
[00:35:59] – Cameron
[dice sounds] I remembered what the dice were. That is- holy shit.
[00:36:04] – Nick
[00:36:05] – Cameron
That's three successes and four advantages.
[00:36:08] – Nick
Four advantages, so she's going to pull the trigger shoot you in the back again. So that's 11 damage coming at you. So she hits you, the blast reflects off a piece of the paneling in your armor and starts bouncing around the clearing and a comical ricochet moment. And everybody kind of ducks. So it's distracting and you guys will all have a black die on your next checks that you do. So everybody make sure you have a black die. And that was her. Karma, how are you doing?
[00:36:40] – Cameron
I have three health.
[00:36:42] – Nick
So not great
[00:36:44] – Cameron
Not great, I'm fine.
[00:36:46] – Nick
Is Karma the kind of person who is calm under this sort of pressure?
[00:36:48] – Cameron
[overlapping Nick] Yeah I'm fine.
[00:36:49] – Nick
[00:36:50] – Cameron
I've had worse.
[00:36:51] – Nick
- So that was Lira, two PC slots, who wants to go?
[00:36:56] – Laura
Hey, how close are you to her?
[00:36:59] – Cameron
So if she was following me to the weapons thing, [Nick: she's probably-] then I'm- I'm probably short range.
[00:37:05] – Nick
I've been treating it medium range. [Cameron: Ok] She was trying to stay out [Cameron: Ok] of, stay out of range.
[00:37:09] – Cameron
[overlapping Nick] Medium, medium range.
[00:37:10] – Laura
Oh. Is anyone within short range of her?
[00:37:14] – Nick
No they're- they're all ahead.
[00:37:17] – Laura
[00:37:17] – Hudson
I know what you're thinking.
[00:37:19] – Laura
I pull out a grenade [groups laughs] and I throw it at her.
[00:37:23] – Nick
[00:37:24] – Laura
Which is Range Light. So I'm going to throw the grenade, yell fire in the hole, and then jump away. [dice sounds]
[00:37:40] – Nick
Great. Thank you black die for keeping my NPCs alive he said angrily at the blank die.
[00:37:46] – Laura
So three successes and an advantage is not enough to do the blast, I don't think. So that'd be 11 damage.
[00:37:56] – Nick
OOooohooo. OK. So you basically bounce the grenade off her chest and it goes off immediately and blows a hole in that chest plate that she had. You can spend those advantages that her armor is going to be a lot less for the rest of that fight.
[00:38:11] – Laura
Yes please.
[00:38:12] – Nick
I figured you would want to do that and she is in bad shape, she-
[00:38:16] – Cameron
Never take off the armor.
[00:38:18] – Nick
Okay so the grenade goes off and blows a big chunk of her armor off. She basically just has the arm plates on now and some- it does that broken plastic splintered look on the armor but most of it's gone and she has her rifle still up but is leaning against a tree and holding her side. So she's shooting one handed now. And that was real bad. Also part of the jungle is smoldering and you see like some columns of smoke rising. And another PC slot.
[00:38:46] – Hudson
I turn and I throw a grenade!
[00:38:49] – Nick
At- at Lira again?
[00:38:51] – Hudson
[00:38:51] – Nick
Ok that's fine.
[00:38:55] – Hudson
So what would that be range light?
[00:38:56] – Cameron
[overlapping Hudson] range light.
[00:38:56] – Laura
Ranged light.
[00:38:57] – Hudson
Oh great. With the difficulty of hard?
[00:39:01] – Cameron
[00:39:01] – Laura
[00:39:01] – Nick
Yeah, just two.
[00:39:03] – Hudson
And a black die?
[00:39:03] – Cameron
[overlapping Hudson] with a black die.
[00:39:07] – Hudson
[dice sounds] Ooooh [Cameron: oh crap]
[00:39:09] – Laura
[00:39:10] – Hudson
Two disadvantages.
[00:39:12] – Laura
Two threats
[00:39:13] – Cameron
Two threats.
[00:39:14] – Nick
How do I want to play with thrown grenades being bad? Two?
[00:39:18] – Hudson
So no failures though.
[00:39:19] – Nick
But two threats?
[00:39:19] – Laura
[overlapping Nick] No, no no, by it being a wash you technically fail.
[00:39:22] – Hudson
Aah, true,.
[00:39:23] – Cameron
By not having any successes that still counted as a failure.
[00:39:26] – Nick
So your threats are going to be that it kicks up a lot of dust and when the dust clears you're- it's hard to see her, she's dove into the bushes somewhere to get away from the explosions. So she's going to be harder to track down but no one got exploded so that's good. Grenade explodes in the bushes. So now it's Williams's's turn and he kind of sits up he looks very dazed but he grabs for his pistol and he goes to shoot whoever is closest who would probably be Sabos because he was the first one into the clearing.
[00:40:04] – Steven
[00:40:04] – Nick
Yeah. So he's- he yells Lira and takes a shot and it's just two green die vs one purple die because they're very close together.
[00:40:13] – Cameron
Does he also have a black die for the bullets flying everywhere?
[00:40:16] – Nick
[00:40:17] – Cameron
Okay he's not ducking?
[00:40:18] – Nick
[00:40:19] – Cameron
[00:40:19] – Nick
He was already on the ground prone. [deep bass sound effect] Because you blast him off his chair, also, like if threats also affect your teammates they're not as useful. So…
[00:40:29] – Cameron
[dice sounds] Right. Yes?
[00:40:31] – Nick
Yep. He's not very good shooting.
[00:40:32] – Cameron
I kept forgetting.
[00:40:35] – Cameron
[dice sounds] yeah he's not very good at shooting. It's a failure and an advantage.
[00:40:38] – Nick
- So the advantage is- he shoots, misses wide, Sabos just kind of looks around like what? and then he rolls under the repulsor-sled and takes cover under there. So he uses his advantage to take some cover. And that was him. He's not very good. And two more player slots.
[00:40:59] – Steven
Sure. Is it- I forget how the movement works.
[00:41:04] – Nick
You get a movement action.
[00:41:05] – Steven
Can I get close enough to under the sled they use the vibro-knife?
[00:41:09] – Nick
Yeah absolutely you can.
[00:41:11] – Steven
Okay, I'm going to run up under the slide just try to stab him with it.
[00:41:14] – Nick
OK go ahead.
[00:41:17] – Steven
[mumbles something] Oh actually have melee . Heyyy.
[00:41:18] – Cameron
[00:41:21] – Steven
Sure. How hard is it?
[00:41:23] – Cameron
Melee is always two. [Nick and Steven mumbling in the background]
[00:41:25] – Nick
But you're going to have a black die because to get under there he's prone [deep bass sound effect] so you run up and slide under with him. And then- but now you're like laying next to someone, like with your head on your elbow.
[00:41:36] – Steven
I don't really want to get under, I just kind of want to…
[00:41:39] – Nick
OK so laying-
[00:41:40] – Steven
I'll take a black die
[00:41:41] – Nick
-laying prone and trying to like side-stabb at someone is a little bit harder
[00:41:44] – Steven
That's fair. [dice sounds]
[00:41:51] – Cameron
[00:41:51] – Steven
[00:41:54] – Nick
A success.
[00:41:55] – Cameron
A success.
[00:41:55] – Laura
[00:41:56] – Nick
That does the weapon damage plus your brawn which is what?
[00:42:00] – Steven
[00:42:01] – Nick
[00:42:02] – Cameron
[00:42:02] – Steven
Plus one success.
[00:42:03] – Cameron
[00:42:04] – Nick
4 damage. Okay so you cut his arm pretty bad and he like retreats back under the sled like ahh. And then is just looking around. He's panicking really hard. Karma, you're up!
[00:42:14] – Cameron
Great. Alright, since chicky bird shot me twice I'd flip my blaster to kill
[00:42:21] – Nick
[00:42:22] – Cameron
The dude is ok still, still stun him. She's going down. She shot me. So I have a black die from existing.
[00:42:30] – Nick
[00:42:30] – Cameron
Yeah. And then-
[00:42:32] – Nick
You gonna spend the maneuver to aim?
[00:42:35] – Cameron
I'm- for my maneuver, I'mma go take cover.
[00:42:37] – Nick
[00:42:37] – Cameron
Behind a tree.
[00:42:39] – Nick
[00:42:40] – Cameron
Specifically blocking her shot at me then I'm going to shoot at her. Is that average with 2 black die?
[00:42:47] – Nick
[00:42:48] – Cameron
Okay. I'm going to flip a light side point to upgrade, to shoot her gooder.
[00:42:59] – Cameron
[dice sounds] Glad that was useful.
[00:43:01] – Multiple Speakers
[00:43:04] – Cameron
Two failures. Two advantages.
[00:43:06] – Nick
Okay so you slam your back into a tree. You can feel your back bleeding and hitting up against the tree is uncomfortable but the cover is worth it. You lean around the corner and the Stormtrooper kind of peppers some blaster spray at you and you go back round the tree. You lean back around and take some shots but you guys are basically just shooting back and forth at each other. You don't hit anything, you said you had some advantages?
[00:43:28] – Cameron
I have two advantages. I want to piss off the tree that she's hiding behind and I want the tree to go after her.
[00:43:35] – Laura
Hey the trees are just supposedly maybe possibly sentient.
[00:43:42] – Cameron
[overlapping Laura] possibly eating people
[00:43:43] – Laura
or eating people.
[00:43:44] – Nick
Will you roll me one green die please for the tree's initiative maybe possibly?
[00:43:52] – Laura
[dice sounds] one success.
[00:43:52] – Nick
Great. Hey, what a coincidence.
[00:43:55] – Cameron
That's next.
[00:43:56] – Nick
Gonna go ahead and add the tree to the initiative order.
[00:43:59] – Laura
[00:44:00] – Cameron
Possibly. [Laura: it's-] Who knows.
[00:44:01] – Nick
Maybe possibly.
[00:44:01] – Laura
It's not confirmed.
[00:44:03] – Nick
It's a rumor that the trees exist.
[00:44:05] – Laura
It is an urban legend.
[00:44:06] – Nick
[00:44:07] – Cameron
I don't think it's a rumor the trees exist.
[00:44:09] – Laura
Yeah the trees exist.
[00:44:09] – Cameron
[overlapping Laura] the tree- It's definitely there.
[00:44:11] – Laura
It's a rumor that they eat people.
[00:44:13] – Nick
So describe to me how you shooting at the tree might make it aggressive.
[00:44:17] – Cameron
So [Laura: she shoots it] we've felt exchanging fire back and forth.
[00:44:21] – Nick
[00:44:22] – Cameron
I keep shooting the tree right next to where she is and it has decided, supposedly decided-
[00:44:30] – Nick
[00:44:30] – Cameron
Allegedly that- that there's something on that spot that is hurting it, that it needs to go after.
[00:44:37] – Nick
Okay so it's the trees turn, [Cameron and Nick laugh] you don't- we don't even roll for this tree, it's a thing of- it's a- like a piece of environment. So the bark peels back up and it's like these long ropey-like spikes you see them basically just rearrange and there's a crunch and then Lira stops shooting. There is no more noise coming from behind the tree. That's the trees turn and then the tree- the roots start pulling out of the ground and it starts like spaghetti legging away into the- into the brush and you see Lira with a bunch of stab wounds on her just laying on the ground bleeding and that tree just starts knocking other trees out of the way and wandering off and it makes it does the like groaning ship noise and cracking wood as it- as it disappears.
[00:45:30] – Multiple Speakers
[creaking noises] aaaahhhhhhhhh
[00:45:33] – Nick
Great. OK. Yeah. So Lira is down. She is not moving anymore and it was her turn but she's down. So we got a PC slot. All that's left is Williams hiding under the sled, bleeding looking very close to being unconscious.
[00:45:46] – Steven
Yeah, I'm going to stab Mr Williams again.
[00:45:49] – Nick
All right. You go right ahead.
[00:45:52] – Steven
Or- or, can I drag him out?
[00:45:55] – Nick
Yeah you can try. You can make me a brawl check.
[00:45:57] – Steven
Sure. How hard is it?
[00:46:00] – Cameron
Brawl is always two. [Steven mumbles in background] Like melee.
[00:46:03] – Nick
Well for this one it will be contested because you're trying to like wrestle him out so he only has one green in brawn.
[00:46:09] – Cameron
So one purple.
[00:46:10] – Laura
One purple.
[00:46:10] – Nick
Yeah. He's not very good at things.
[00:46:15] – Laura
Poor guy.
[00:46:20] – Steven
A success and an advantage.
[00:46:22] – Nick
Yeah. So you're able to kind of like grab him around the scruff and he tries to slap you away and you just drag him out from cover and he's kind of kicking and screaming like where's Lira? what are you doing.? Ahhhh! Next PC slot.
[00:46:34] – Laura
So Lira's dead-dead or just out. Did we-
[00:46:39] – Nick
She's down.
[00:46:40] – Cameron
[overlapping Nick] She's down.
[00:46:41] – Nick
She is down. [Laura: she is down.] She has multiple stab wounds and she has been exploded.
[00:46:44] – Laura
Yeah. So she's more- most likely dead or-
[00:46:49] – Cameron
Mostly dead.
[00:46:49] – Laura
Or mostly dead.
[00:46:50] – Nick
Your experience would prove to you that it be very rare for someone to survive something like that.
[00:46:54] – Laura
Okay. I'm going to go over to Sabos and Williams and take out binders and slap them on Williams.
[00:47:02] – Nick
OK you don't have to roll for that he's pretty freakin' out of it. So you've got him locked up.
[00:47:08] – Hudson
We can figure out why they ran in the first place.
[00:47:11] – Cameron
I sling my blaster back around my back take out my vibro-sword and walk over to Lira.
[00:47:16] – Laura
[00:47:16] – Cameron
and check her pluse.
[00:47:17] – Laura
They were lovers. I feel like that was obvious? And I look at Williams and I'm like you two, you were, how do you say… banging? Yes?
[00:47:28] – Nick
He's just crying like [Laua: Yes] silent tears.
[00:47:31] – Laura
I'm going to take that as a yes. I believe they were lovers.
[00:47:34] – Nick
You check Lira, she is dead. She is no more. Most of her insides are on her outsides. That tree messed her up real good. At this point Mills jumps out of the opposite side of the clearing and's like Alright I'm ready to go–
[00:47:50] – Laura
Thank you. You were a very big help.
[00:47:53] – Nick
Well, I held some of the trees back. So at least we had that. My job was just to keep you alive not to capture anyone. So oh hey that was Lira. Wow that's crazy. And he just- he goes- he walks across the clearing to her and looks down and goes man, she owed me 10 credits and just he sets about basically packing up the camp to take it with him.
[00:48:14] – Laura
[overlapping Nick] You could check her pockets.
[00:48:16] – Cameron
Yeah I'm going to.
[00:48:17] – Nick
I mean, it's sort of, my culture frowns on that kind of thing, so.
[00:48:21] – Cameron
I check her pockets. Okay I make eye contact with him as he says my culture frowned on this and I look down and start checking her pockets.
[00:48:27] – Nick
Okay you- you find ten credits.
[00:48:31] – Cameron
I hand them to him.
[00:48:32] – Nick
Hey thanks. Now I owe you ten credits. And he pockets it.
[00:48:36] – Cameron
That- that definitely how that works.
[00:48:38] – Laura
[overlapping Cameron] Yes, that is how it works. You owe us 10 credits now.
[00:48:41] – Nick
And William says are you done robbing my friend? What are you even doing?
[00:48:48] – Laura
Friend or was she not girlfriend? or partner? However you wanted to label it?
[00:48:54] – Nick
Look we didn't we didn't like labels okay. We were just trying to go. We were just trying to leave and then getting hunted by your co-workers is really crazy and Lira just started becoming one with the jungle or whatever but like she was really, she- Oh gosh it's was and he breaks down and cry.
[00:49:15] – Cameron
[overlapping Nick] I continue that the tree did get her.
[00:49:15] – Steven
That's true.
[00:49:18] – Laura
The tree.
[00:49:20] – Cameron
[00:49:21] – Laura
I mean I did throw a grenade at her. But… the tree.
[00:49:26] – Nick
Look I guess nothing really matters. We were just trying to get to different outposts and get off planet. But maybe that was just wishful thinking. I'm imagining Falx's sent you after me. He always has his weird smuggler friends do stuff like this. Well, get it over with and he just kind of like closes his eyes and puts his head to the side.
[00:49:48] – Cameron
Why are you trying to get away?
[00:49:51] – Nick
We just di-
[00:49:51] – Cameron
Well, were. Why were you trying.
[00:49:53] – Laura
Xianna like leans in and she's like have you seen the empire?
[00:49:58] – Nick
I mean she's got a point, it basically is one of those "have you seen the empire" kind of things.
[00:50:02] – Cameron
I have but have you not seen how brainwashed everyone is in the empire?They're very good at that. [Laura: ehhh] The defecting is rare.
[00:50:11] – Laura
They are OK.
[00:50:12] – Cameron
The people being controlled by the empire. Yeah. Those running make sense. People within their organization normally very much drinking the space-koolaid.
[00:50:22] – Laura
In my experience there's not a lot of deserting because the empire gets everyone in one way or another. Eventually. It's hard to run from a regime that has the entire galaxy.
[00:50:36] – Nick
That's pretty morbid.
[00:50:39] – Laura
[00:50:39] – Nick
Uh well. Williams is like he's- he's got the binders on. He's like trying to apply pressure to the knife wound in his arm.
[00:50:48] – Cameron
I lean down and help.
[00:50:49] – Nick
Oh thank- thank you.
[00:50:50] – Laura
Well I kind of- I lean down to Williams and go if we bring you back alive how badly will they torture you?
[00:50:58] – Nick
You know Falx doesn't really go for torture that much, he's sort of efficient like that. uh either I'll get sent to a labor camp or if they don't want to waste the food waiting for a shipment they'll probably just shoot me. Honestly it's weird that he didn't just tell you to kill me.
[00:51:17] – Laura
[00:51:17] – Nick
This is a bummer. This was my first posting. I had such high hopes and now look at me.
[00:51:22] – Laura
That is why you do not desert. But so are you OK being sent back alive?
[00:51:29] – Nick
Yeah [Laura: okie] I guess it's a 50/50 shot and I've always been pretty good at brown nosing that's how I got here in the first place.
[00:51:36] – Laura
Cause like if they were going to horibly torture you I mean we could shoot you now.
[00:51:40] – Nick
It's tempting. I mean you just murdered the woman I love, but.
[00:51:44] – Laura
I mean-
[00:51:44] – Cameron
I think you'll find that was the tree.
[00:51:47] – Laura
I mean, I am sorry.
[00:51:48] – Cameron
And she did shoot me first. To be fair.
[00:51:51] – Laura
They would kind of probably kill us if we did not.
[00:51:54] – Nick
Yeah. I mean you're dooming me to a life of slave labor at the best case scenario so you should feel bad about that. And I don't appreciate it. There's still a chance-
[00:52:03] – Laura
So do you want me to shoot you now? Cause like… I will.
[00:52:07] – Nick
No. I uh-you could like just let me go.
[00:52:08] – Laura
[overlapping Nick] You have a choice. OK. So here is the thing, if we let you go and I look over what's his name Rambo dude?
[00:52:18] – Multiple Speakers
[00:52:18] – Laura
Mills It's like Mills.. How close is Mills to us?
[00:52:22] – Nick
He's still just kind of patrolling the perimeter. He can hear but you can't tell if he's paying attention or not.
[00:52:28] – Laura
So I want to kind of like whisper probably mostly to Karma and go like so is there any way we could you know act like a tree got him and just bring back Lira's body and maybe a bloodied helmet or shirt and just you know say we saw him die?
[00:52:54] – Cameron
Probably? The thing with that though you, sweetie you look pretty banged up.
[00:53:00] – Nick
[00:53:00] – Laura
I have a stimpack.
[00:53:01] – Nick
He looks like suddenly hopeful, like surprised hopeful ,like a teenager who meets Santa Claus hopeful.I could- I can make it.
[00:53:09] – Cameron
Realistically hun…
[00:53:11] – Laura
Xianna looks at Karma-
[00:53:12] – Cameron
[overlapping Laura] I'm- I'm concerned with you lasting out here.
[00:53:13] – Laura
[overlapping Cameron] How- how many wounds does he have?
[00:53:15] – Nick
[00:53:16] – Laura
- I have a stimpack, so I could fix him up.
[00:53:21] – Nick
I like this plan. I mean you could tell I'm a- I don't mean to brag– He tries to like brush his hair.
[00:53:27] – Laura
[overlapping Nick] Xianna like already has the stim pack out and is like watching Mills and shoots Williams up with it and like puts the empty one back in her pocket.
[00:53:38] – Nick
He- there's a- he kind of gasps as the painkillers take effect. Well you know I am ruggedly handsome and independent. He is not ruggedly handsome or independent looking. This is a very scrawny junior officer [Laura: sure] just out of training.
[00:53:51] – Laura
[overlapping Nick] Yes. Sure you are.
[00:53:53] – Nick
But yeah I just- just- you could take one of the Stormtrooper bodies or something, [Laura: okie] we're about the same level of ripped it should work.
[00:54:03] – Laura
Someone is going to have to go to distract Mills and then I- we will make a bunch of noise over here-
[00:54:09] – Cameron
Sabos and Tink, y'all are distracting.
[00:54:11] – Laura
You go make distractions. Go, go.
[00:54:13] – Cameron
Go talk appropriately about your headtail or something
[00:54:15] – Steven
That was the plan!
[00:54:15] – Laura
Someone- one of you go and get in a tuffle with a tree. Try not to get actually killed.
[00:54:23] – Hudson
Hey Mills. I was wondering…
[00:54:27] – Nick
Yeah, what?
[00:54:28] – Hudson
You see that a lot of experience out here, what was one of your hardest fought battles that you've ever had?
[00:54:35] – Nick
Oh well let me tell you about it. There's this one time I had a whole grove of trees between me and my sister and I was-
[00:54:41] – Hudson
Do tell.
[00:54:42] – Nick
I was trying to set her up with my friend.
[00:54:45] – Laura
That's their distraction? This is just a story.
[00:54:48] – Cameron
As long as he's facing away from us.
[00:54:51] – Nick
[overlapping Cameron] At his point Mills throws his arm around Tink which is mostly like up and points away from y'all to gesture broadly at the trees. There is a couple of spruces and two jungle deciduous and I was able to take them down with an incendiary grenade and he just goes on and on about killing trees,
[00:55:05] – Laura
[overlapping Nick] So while they're doing this Xianna gets Williams up to his feet, takes off the binders, put them back in her pocket and I mean he's not wearing any like uni- is he wearing anything that Mills would have seen on him to identify?
[00:55:20] – Cameron
He's a- he is wearing like the army uniform right?
[00:55:23] – Nick
So he has like one of the little blue squares because he's like a super junior officer.
[00:55:27] – Laura
[overlapping Nick] Xiana goes over and like plucks the little blue square off of him.
[00:55:31] – Cameron
Make sure there's blood on it.
[00:55:33] – Laura
And kind of like rub that on his leg a little bit-
[00:55:35] – Cameron
way more convincing [Laura: to get more blood].
[00:55:36] – Laura
Does he still have his cap or anything?
[00:55:38] – Nick
[00:55:39] – Laura
[00:55:40] – Nick
He doesn't have his cap but his- his uniform is all like shredded you could pull pieces off if you wanted to.
[00:55:44] – Laura
[overlapping Nick] Yeah. So like she takes a few pieces and any like large thing. If he had a holster like takes that and then-
[00:55:52] – Nick
As you take his insignia he's like Wait wait wait wait wait. And he goes over and he takes it from you and he does something you can't tell. And the bottom pops open and he shakes something out of it and puts it in his pocket. Okay great thanks.
[00:56:05] – Cameron
The Karma starts we obviously can't send him like we- we can't let you keep the sled. I know it'd be useful but he has seen it. This is- yeah. So let's pack you a bag.
[00:56:19] – Nick
[00:56:20] – Cameron
Some useful stuff.
[00:56:22] – Laura
So pack a bag very quickly and then we will have you hide off to the side and I will throw a grenade, sprinkle this stuff and a tree was getting you and you were getting away and so I panicked. And threw a greanade.
[00:56:35] – Nick
Great. Sounds awesome. And he basically just takes- there was a pile of those ration bars and he just takes one arm and brushes them into like a piece of cloth he makes into a satchel, ties it around the stick and just takes off into the trees. And at this point Mills has Tink by both shoulders and is shaking him and staring really close to his face and there were bug monkeys- bug monkeys everywhere!
[00:56:59] – Hudson
aaaaahhhhh. [groups laughs]
[00:57:01] – Laura
So Xianna-
[00:57:01] – Cameron
Karma does like accounting with their nature 1 2 and 3
[00:57:06] – Laura
And Xianna is like doing that little like face like okay and scene! and then like throws the grenade at a random tree and then it's like oh shit! and then-
[00:57:19] – Cameron
Grab him!
[00:57:21] – Laura
-throws like right after the grenade throws all the scraps she took off of Williams and then falls back.
[00:57:28] – Cameron
We both fall back as if ahh! grenade explosion and it threw us!
[00:57:33] – Nick
So the camera cuts to Mills holding Tink and he's staring at Tink but facing towards the explosion so you just see the cool grenade explosion silhouetting Mills and Tink and he goes oh what? He looks over and he sees it and goes what? What happened?
[00:57:51] – Laura
Oh I so the- the officer Williams he started getting away and then a tree started attacking and I panicked and I threw a grenade. I think I killed him.
[00:58:04] – Nick
I'm going to need a deception role from you.
[00:58:07] – Laura
Can do!
[00:58:08] – Nick
Against, I guess it would be his perception.
[00:58:12] – Laura
Which would be?
[00:58:13] – Nick
A purple and a red. Actually two purples, nevermind. Mills is good at seeing.
[00:58:18] – Cameron
Can I- can I- can I assist?
[00:58:20] – Nick
[00:58:21] – Cameron
Since I'm acting with it.
[00:58:22] – Nick
Is your…
[00:58:22] – Cameron
I think it's the same.
[00:58:24] – Nick
If it's the same she just gets-
[00:58:25] – Cameron
[overlapping Nick] So you- you have more cunning. But we both have one deception.
[00:58:28] – Nick
[00:58:28] – Laura
I have two deception.
[00:58:29] – Nick
So yeah you just add a [Cameron: a blue?] blue die then.
[00:58:33] – Cameron
[dice sounds] I'm like walking over and like carefully walking towards and picking up scrap pieces of things.
[00:58:42] – Laura
One success and two advantages.
[00:58:44] – Nick
Okay so with the success Mills goes Oh well, I mean, he's dead I guess that's what's important. It saves us the blaster charges. We're just going to put him down.
[00:58:59] – Laura
I am sorry.
[00:59:00] – Nick
Well you know, you- you Twi'leks are- I have zero experience with them but I have now decided that they're bloodthirsty so great work.
[00:59:10] – Laura
I panicked! It was scary. The big tree.
[00:59:13] – Nick
I think I saw a holo of Twi'leks with sharp teeth one time, it's always kind of…
[00:59:16] – Laura
That is just the men.
[00:59:19] – Nick
Oh well yeah.
[00:59:21] – Laura
It is considered attractive
[00:59:22] – Cameron
Is it?
[00:59:23] – Nick
Do you think I should file my teeth?
[00:59:25] – Laura
No. It just for the Twi'lek men that it's attractive.
[00:59:29] – Nick
[00:59:30] – Cameron
So it's attractive to other Twi'lek men or Twi'lek women?
[00:59:32] – Laura
Well I mean if they are of that orientation yes. It is interactive for the men to have pointy teeth.
[00:59:38] – Nick
I don't know why we're talking about this. You just blew someone up. That's good to know. Thank you for expanding my cultural horizons. I appreciate that. [Laura: yes] And just scrape that stuff into a bag or whatever we'll put it on the sled bring it back to Falx and he turns around leaving. He's been digging through the cart for a couple of minutes and he pulls out this big spray bottle. It looks like a cockroach bomb like just an aerosol thing with the dispersal things like oh man they did manage to get one of these and he takes a metal spike out of his pocket and jam it into the top and it starts misting all everywhere. He goes that'll take care of the trees. And you see them actually start to spread back in clearways, it will be a lot easier getting back. Let's us…
[01:00:20] – Cameron
[01:00:22] – Laura
What is this planet?
[01:00:24] – Nick
Let's try and get back to the outpost.
[01:00:25] – Cameron
So I have collected the bits of Williams's uniform. That Xianna had thrown in one hand and then I walked over and I hoist Lira up over my shoulder and tossed her onto the sled.
[01:00:38] – Nick
She does a rag doll form that's pretty gross and starts dripping into the supplies a little.
[01:00:44] – Cameron
I kind of shift- well uh- I put her on, not like on food stuffs.
[01:00:48] – Nick
[01:00:49] – Cameron
I shift uncomfortably and kind of wipe the blood off of my shoulder and then remember that my- the adrenaline starts to wear out. And I leaned against the sled and like put my hands on my knees like whoa.
[01:01:00] – Nick
Mills- Mills sees you doing that like great. That way we don't have to carry her. You got shot a lot.
[01:01:08] – Cameron
I noticed.
[01:01:09] – Laura
Oh yes. So do they have an infirmary at the outpost?
[01:01:14] – Nick
Yeah they have that. But I also have some medical supplies in the speeder that we could use.
[01:01:20] – Laura
[overlapping Nick] Okay. I do not want to waste my stimpack.
[01:01:21] – Cameron
- So before we head out I'mma make a- I'm gonna make a cool check to try and recover some strain and I'm going to use my hardboiled talent. So when I'm recovering strain after an encounter I can spend advantages of two ranks in hardboiled to recover one wound per advantage spent, so I could heal one wound back this way.
[01:01:39] – Nick
Just one?
[01:01:40] – Cameron
[01:01:41] – Nick
[01:01:41] – Cameron
May spend advantage up to ranks in hardboiled. So
[01:01:43] – Nick
Okay. Well.
[01:01:44] – Cameron
That is one.
[01:01:45] – Nick
Hopefully you get an advantage.
[01:01:46] – Cameron
Hopefully I get an advantage because I didn't lose any strain. What's the difficulty?
[01:01:50] – Laura
[01:01:51] – Cameron
Simple? Fabulous. [dice sounds] Hey that's an advantage.
[01:01:55] – Nick
Got a wound back and 2 strain.
[01:01:57] – Cameron
I wasn't the one strained- or I didn't lose any strain but I'm up to four health now.
[01:02:03] – Nick
Good work. So you make get back to the speeder without any crazy things happening and you pile in, you toss Lira's body into the trunk. There's still some space back there and you drive off into the jungle. Headed back towards the outpost and that's where we'll end the episode!
[01:02:21] – Nick
[01:02:21] – Cameron
[01:02:21] – Multiple Speakers
[01:02:27] – Cameron
Oh dear.
Thanks for listening to Tabletop Squadron. If you enjoyed our show please consider logging into iTunes and giving us a five star review. Five star reviews will help new listeners to find the show.
Xianna'fan is played by Laura Penrod. She can be found on Twitter at Cheerio_buffet.
Tink is played by Hudson Jameson and he can be found on Twitter at HudsonJameson.
Karma Nailo is played by me, Cameron Robertson. You can find me on Twitter at MidnightMusic13.
Sabos Niks was played by Steven Schroeder. He does not exist on the internet.
Our game master is Nick Robertson and you can find him on Twitter at alias58. Our intro song is Space Jam by Pablo Ribot. Additional music by James Gunter.
Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram at tabletop_squad. For real we're real people and we want to talk to anyone who listens to the show. Reach out. See you next time.


text: Please consider visiting our FAQs for assistance. Name: Please enter at least 2 characters Email: Please enter a valid email Subject: Please enter at least 2 characters Enter number 687: Please enter the correct number Message: Please enter at least 10 characters I consent to having this website collect my personal data via this form. Submit 81 Plymouth J West Palm Bch FL 33417-1651 Share this...FacebookTwitterLinkedin

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Stretch marks will develop on the skin due to various reasons. In women, the skin will be stretched during the pregnancy. If you use very high quality stretch mark cream during and after pregnancy, stretch marks can be prevented magically. The elasticity of the skin will be improved through the application of stretch mark cream. You should choose high quality product which is made up of natural ingredients so that stretch marks are healed naturally and there will not be any side effects.
In order to remove stretch marks in a very efficient way, you should go through the ingredients of the stretch marks cream. You are advised to choose a reputed brand cream. Premium brands will spend money on research and development so that there will be continuous refinement of products. High quality stretch mark removal cream will deal with the skin in a very gentle way. The collagen production will be improved with the application of the cream. The moisture retention capabilities will increase so that the stretched skin will become quite natural in color, texture and composition.
If you go through reviews, you will be able to figure out how to getting rid of stretch marks. There are creams which can deal with stretch marks that arise due to weight loss treatment. You can also find products that are specifically designed to treat with stretch marks associated with pregnancy.
The product reduces stretch marks and the skin will become very firm. The skin will become smooth and supple. It will be replenished with vitamins. Collagen production will improve. It can be applied two to three times per day and gentle massage can be done for better results.
It can be used as pregnancy stretch mark cream. You can also apply to deal with stretch marks which were formed due to the weight loss program. The product is prepared with essential oils, vitamins and effective extracts. No allergens are found in the product and it is GMP certified.
Revitol produces some of the finest skincare products in the market. You can apply the stretch mark cream very confidently so that stretch marks will disappear in the shortest possible time. The cream can be applied on breasts, hips, thighs and tummy so that there will be best results and the skin will become smooth and supple.
It is the top best cream for stretch marks. The clinically proven formula will give great results and the skin will become supple and soft. It can be applied and gentle massage can be done to achieve best results.
The product is prepared with 100% natural ingredients. The skin will be healed in a very natural way. It can be applied on sensitive areas including breasts, buttocks and thighs. There will be awesome results with the application of stretch mark removal cream.


text:
Schizophrenic shepherd
In Norway, most sheep, together with lamb, are sent into the mountain for grassing all summer. Then we have to walk great distances every fall to get them down from mountain to farms and housing/slaughter for winter.
I spent the weekend from 17 / 18 September 2016 with collecting sheep from the mountains. The trip is a part of what comes with living in this camphill village where I am at. The trip was two days, with sleep in a cabin, walking in nature and with lovely weather. At first I was nervous and not ready to do the walk/trip – and did not feel like attending. Then I thought it over and decided to go. We drove early Saturday morning 06:00 and arrived for breakfast on the same morning at the cabin. We started walking about 09:00 and we walked till 16:00 that day.
I was walking and shepherding, with my friend Ilja and we early found sheep on Saturday. I would be communicating lots with the sheep and I feel certain it was important to do so. If you are able to communicate with out to much "mind blabbering" it is a key to do so in any relation. I also got to walk some important mind points with myself and my past when I was there. Now, night of Sunday we have most all our sheep down from the mountain. Only 4 lamb of total 100 lams are now missing.
All in all it was a great walk and lots of sweat and soar legs from two days of mountain walking, with farmers and sheep in nice weather, Indian summer of Norway.
Check out the pictures: enjoy your breathe:
World view: Sunday 18.09.2016
our cabin "Fjellro" where 10 people was sleeping (one night)
jump for joy
Ilja power-napping
world/word view
Two waters in Sauda
Why we where walking for 2 days
Dragon fly in grass
Thank you Slettedalen / Sauda / Earth


text:
Deionized Water by Carolina Water Condioners
Deionizations is the process which removes the negative ions from water, thus decreasing its conductivity. This is very beneficial in the industrial sector. It is especially helpful in the production of technical parts. IBM has used Deionized water provided by Carolina Water Conditioners for years. The nick name for Deionized water is DI.
A portable system allows you to meet your needs more effectively. You can get a deionizer system put on one part of you production line or on your whole water system. The tanks are changed periodically, usually once a month, to maintain high quality water.
The resin in the DI tanks are specially charged and mixed to produced the desired lack of conductivity. This is done by our lab technition Rocky Heaton. He has been supplying DI water to companies like IBM, E.I. Dupont, Micron Electronics and many more for more than ten years.
For a free consultation of what Carolina Water Conditioners can do for you, e-mail us at contact email@example.com . Make sure to include your location and your specific needs.
[Index] [Free Water Test]
[Contact us] [Bottle-lessWater] [WebMaster]
[Filters] [Commercial] [Residential] [Industrial] [Water FAQ] [RO] [Water Softeners]
Copyright ©
1997- 2001
Carolina Water Conditioners
Updated May 26, 2001


text:
India's equity MFs third least expensive in developing world
Morningstar classified India in the "below average" category in the fees and expenses scorecard.
India's equity expense ratio of 1.88 per cent was behind Norway's 1.80 per cent and Japan's 1.87 per cent. The average total cost for equity funds before taxes across all countries was 2.15 per cent. The UK was the most expensive at 2.83 per cent. India was the least expensive among developing nations where the mutual fund industry is at a nascent stage.
As per FIFA, the findings were based on March 2017 data. In fact, ownership expense in India would have reduced further as the local regulator has since mandated a reduction in total expense ratio.
The Morningstar Global Fund Investor Experience report 2017 had ranked India the 10th least expensive country out of 25 reviewed. Morningstar classified India in the "below average" category in the fees and expenses scorecard. FIFA believes this report makes unfair comparisons. "Globally, different practices are followed with respect to fees and expenses charged by mutual funds," FIFA chairman Dhruv Mehta said.
According to FIFA, one of the difficulties in comparing annual expense ratios across countries has been development of unbundled fee arrangements, whereby an adviser is not paid sales commission by the fund house in the traditional model but is paid a separate fee by the investor.
"When taken, this action has the effect of lowering official fund expense ratios because funds no longer need to collect money from investors to make adviser payments. It also has the effect of complicating expense ratio comparisons, because an investor in a lower cost fund may pay an additional fee to an adviser which is not considered in Morningstar calculations," the FIFA report said.


text:
Today, LM Group Holding A/S's ("LM") senior secured notes of a total nominal size of EUR 130,000,000 have been admitted to trading and official listing on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen A/S's regulated market.
The notes were issued on 26 March 2014 alongside a super-senior revolving credit facility of up to EUR 35,000,000. The notes are fixed rate with a yearly coupon of 8.00% and with a duration of five years and a final maturity date on 26 March 2019.
The net proceeds from the offering of the notes will be used to refinance the company's existing indebtedness and for general corporate purposes. The credit support package established in connection with the transaction comprises guarantees and security provided by LM group entities in Denmark, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Canada and the United States.
CorpNordic Denmark A/S is acting in the combined capacity as noteholders' representative and security agent.
First day of trading of the notes is expected to be 19 May 2014.
The securities offered by LM Group Holding A/S will not be and have not been registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, or under any securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States, and may not be offered or sold within the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption under the Securities Act and applicable state laws.
This company announcement does not constitute an offer of or an invitation by or on behalf of, LM Group Holding A/S, or any other person, to subscribe for or purchase, any notes.
For further information, please contact Christopher Oliver Springham, VP, Global Communications & HR, at +31 6 14814919, or Lene Mi Ran Kristiansen, Manager, Global Communications, at +45 5138 8236.
LM Group Holding A/S, www.lmwindpower.com


text:
Cherrila Bhutia
Research Scholar at Sikkim Central University
Located amidst the lap of the Himalayas, Nepal is filled with vibrant culture and tradition which has stayed rooted within the place and its people since time immemorial. So enigmatic is the place that it attracts tourists from all across the globe to witness its mystic charm. Furthermore, Nepal had a distinct identity of being the only Hindu nation in the world until 2007 after which it was declared as a secular country under the Maoist rule.
The religious practices in Nepal however continue to be brutal as it might have been in the bygone years. To be specific, the ritual of animal sacrifice is prevalent in the country. There have been attempts to bring down this brutal practice few of which have been successful. For instance, the popular Gadhimai festival in Nepal held every five years is a sacrificial ceremony orchestrated at the Gadhimai Temple of Bariyarpur, Southern Nepal which is adjacent to the Indian state of Bihar. The ceremony was mainly celebrated by the madhesis in Nepal and Biharis. The event involves large scale sacrificial slaughter of animals which include pigs, goats, water buffaloes, chickens, mice and pigeons. The ceremony was held with the sole purpose to please Gadhimai – The goddess of power, for a better life.
The last ceremony to conduct these sacrifices was in 2009. It was estimated that 500,000 animals were approximately sacrificed during the festival. The Temple Trust of Nepal in 2015 however announced to cancel all future animal sacrifice at the festival – a 300 year old practice, thus choosing kindness over bloodshed in the name of tradition. The decision to end this practice was the consequence of protestors campaigning from all over the world.
However, Gadhimai festival is just one of the many events where animal sacrifice is practiced. Every year during the Dashain Festival (September – October) on Kalratri, 54 buffaloes and 54 goats are sacrificed by the Government and another 108 buffaloes by the Nepal Army at the Taleju temple in Bhaktapur alone. Another festival that practices animal sacrifice is the Khokana Festival celebrated in August every year where a goat is thrown in a pond and killed by a group of men biting and tearing it apart while it's still alive.
These festivals witness some of the most prominent animal sacrifice practices in Nepal where thousands of locals flock to see the rituals being performed. Apart from these festivals, animal sacrifice is practiced for every minute reason such as; a better life, a baby, and to get rid of any illness. One will be surprised to see the amount of bloodshed carried out in the temples in the name of god.
Times are changing and along with it the people too. The educated youth in Nepal are playing a vital role in changing the religious beliefs of the older generations thus paving a way for the betterment of the country. The practices of animal sacrifice may not have completely stopped, but it definitely has decreased in margins. With campaigners contributing from across the globe, this brutal practice will hopefully come to an end someday.


text:
How do you grow? In recent years this has been a difficult question for paysites.
I'd like to propose an answer.
If you want to grow, you need to build an organization that is ruthlessly, tenaciously in search of the truth. Your organization also has to be very efficient about finding out what is true through testing.
Test ideas quickly. That's it.
We all have lots of ideas that we hope will make our companies grow. The only way to know if they will move the needle is to test.
In a recent article in Harvard Business Review, Microsoft's head of testing (and former head of testing at Amazon) shared his experience with testing new ideas.
80 percent of them don't work. Yep, 8 out of 10 ideas don't move the needle for Microsoft or Amazon. Most of your ideas won't help your company grow either. 80 percent sounds like a terrible ratio.
It's also known as the Pareto principle. 80 percent of effects come from 20 percent of causes. The 80/20 rule is everywhere. Here are some examples: 20 percent of customers produce 80 percent of sales, the richest 20 percent have 80 percent of the money, etc.
It's a fact of life. It's a fact about your business, too. What can you do about it?
The only logical thing to do is test lots of ideas. And test them very quickly.
If you want to grow, you need to build an organization that is ruthlessly, tenaciously in search of the truth. Your organization also has to be very efficient about finding out what is true through testing.
Here's the problem. The way a normal paysite tests ideas is very expensive. Consider a typical A/B test. Let's say you are going for a 15 percent improvement on some key metric. To find the 15 percent you need to send half of your traffic to whatever new experience you think will make a difference. This is your challenger. It is trying to beat the status quo. Let's call it option A.
You send the other half to the control group. These people don't see the new experience you are testing. Let's call that one option B.
The longer you run the test, the more traffic you send to the loser. That loser could be A or B. It doesn't matter. If there is a real difference then it can cost you a lot of time and money to find it.
We recently did an A/B split test with a client.
It was Vendo versus another biller. We were A, they we were B. It took a while to work out the kinks of the test.
By the time it was done and everyone was satisfied with the results the company had sent over a million dollars' worth of traffic to each biller. There was a double-digit difference between the two billers.
Each visitor that the client sent to the other biller (B) made the client over 10 percent less money. They lost over $100,000! What an expensive test!
Paysite companies have many, many ideas for growth. Not every industry has such a wealth of ideas. How do you choose between all your options? How do you prioritize? It's the question that every paysite company is asking.
Let's flip that problem on its head for a second. What if the problem isn't that you have too many ideas and not enough resources to pursue them? What if your problem is — as it is at Microsoft and Amazon — that 80 percent of your ideas aren't going to help your company grow?
I'd like to propose that you work on your ability to test new ideas faster before moving on to your priority list. If you really believe that 80 percent of your ideas won't matter then why spend time prioritizing them? Don't even do them. Chances are they're a waste of time.
The first thing to do is build an organization that can use tools and processes to test quickly and cheaply. The focus becomes less about the ideas for growth and more about becoming proficient at using tools and processes to know which of the ideas matter.
In my experience the best tool available for testing new ideas is artificial intelligence. When Google's AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go last year the AI had learned from more than 30 million Go moves.
An average game of Go is 300 moves. It also takes about an hour. AlphaGo had 300,000 hours of game play. An average person spends 92,000 hours working during their life (assuming 40 hours per week from age 18 to 67). Lee Sedol was only 33 when he was beaten. He had been recognized as a Go prodigy and started young. He worked long hours. Let's be generous and say that he had 30,000 hours of Go playing time.
AlphaGo had learned from 10 times as many moves as Lee Sedol. The advantage the AI had over the human was that AlphaGo had tested its ideas 10 times more, had learned from 10 times more mistakes.
We recently launched a new version of Aria (our AI) for risk. How do you win at risk as a biller? You let through the largest number of transactions with the smallest number of chargebacks below a threshold defined by the payment method. In some cases that is 1.5 percent, in other cases it is 1 percent.
How do you know if someone is likely to chargeback? It won't surprise you to hear me say that we don't, and 80 percent of our ideas about whether a transaction is risky won't make a difference. Most of our ideas won't help us get more good transactions and fewer bad ones.
There is another problem with testing ideas about risk. Chargebacks are a lagging indicator. Because they take some time to come in (some in the first 30 days, more in the next 30 days and the balance over two years) you don't immediately know whether your ideas made a difference.
It is very hard for humans to identify patterns in systems with delayed effects. It's just not how our brains work. We move on to other topics. We forget the details. Time causes havoc for humans.
Another challenge is the huge number and variety of factors that influence a chargeback. Will your end user's girlfriend look at his bank statement and will he lie and call his bank? This is very hard to predict. But there are patterns among variables that a machine can learn from.
If an AI can evaluate all previous chargebacks and look at time of day, location, site, characteristics of the site, cross sales purchased and dozens of other variables it can detect fraud patterns that humans can't see. And it can test many, many ideas about how to reduce risk.
Only AI can effectively test lots of ideas and learn from them quickly. It is a testing and learning machine. Intelligence isn't defined by having the best ideas. Intelligent people have lots of ideas and sort through the bad ones more efficiently than other people.
Walter Isaacson has just released a new biography of Leonardo da Vinci, who is considered one of the greatest geniuses that humanity has ever produced.
As part of his research Isaacson pored over Leonardo's notebooks. There are a lot of them. Over 7,000 pages survived. And inside these notebooks you find … a lot of crap. Leonardo lived 500 years ago.
Even today, using the latest technology, we can't make many of his "inventions" work. Why not? Because this invention won't fly, that one won't roll and this other one won't actually scale a castle wall and help the invading army end the siege. The ideas just aren't good.
Why did such a genius have so many bad ideas? Because ideas come in fives and only one of them is good. It's the same for Leonardo as it is for you and me and everyone at our companies.
The best thing you can do to help your company is to set up the right tools and processes to test — faster, better — in pursuit of the 20 percent of ideas that actually move the needle and will lead to growth.
Mitch Platt is co-founder of Vendo Services, which uses artificial intelligence to power its billing platform that allows merchants to continuously improve and grow their businesses.


text:
The Joel and Bill Plaskett Experience….
Find this Photo by Lindsay Duncan in The Maritime Edit
Article and magazine can be purchased here.
Live At the Imperial Theatre, October 25th, 2017, was an experience I will never forget.
Living in New Brunswick my entire life, Joel Plaskett is a very familiar name amongst the folks here and all over Canada for that matter.
Joel is one of the most incredible singer-songwriters I have come to have the honor of seeing live. There is something so humbling about last night's show I can't seem to stop thinking about it.
The show itself started at 7:30 and any show at the Imperial Theatre is a good one in my opinion. The audience was full of energy and the first band, " Villages" From Dartmouth was absolutely incredible. They are a folk group from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Their sound is very traditional and stage present completely wonderful.
Around 8 PM the main act opened and wow, what a night. They played a mix of new and old material and had the crowd laughing, learning, reflecting and truly having a great time. I have had the opportunity to see a lot of bands and even some of my favorites, but I have to say this overall was one of the most special and humbling performances I felt really honored to attend.
One thing I really enjoyed was the ultimate experience of attending. The poetry portion of the show he dedicated to Gord Downie was an honor to be present at that. A proceed of sales of the track on the album that includes that piece will go to Gord's charity. I think that is so fucking rad!
Speaking of Gord, I own the movie One Week, which features an appearance by Joel and Gord. The lead character is played by Joshua Jackson and features some of the most beautiful imagery, Canada.
I definitely urge you to check that film out.
They also closed with " The Waiting" by Tom Petty, which I have included below because it's a damn good song.
New album info here.
Find out more from the show by listening to a podcast, Strange Grooves podcast where Cherise Letson and myself and Pam Wheaton from Heartbreak Boutique chat about all things tunes. Tom Petty, Chick bands, The movie One week and much much more.
Listen to that here:


text:
This is me and my friend's son "Bray". He is such a sweetie! If I ever want chicken, French Fries and Dr Pepper for dinner, I know he is up for tagging along!
Okay, so the post is not technically wordless, but I tried!) :)
For more Wordless Wednesday entries, go here.


text:
Stay Up to Speed on the Latest Developments in Instant Payments
Subscribe to the Transactive newsletter.
To see how we will use your data please refer to our Privacy policy
We pride ourselves on our personalised customer service. Reach out to ask a question, schedule a free product tour or just say hello. We'll respond within 24-hours – usually even sooner. Let us know how we can help. To see how we will use your data, see our privacy policy.


text:
So this months theme is about keeping all the balls in the air or for me I had that serious image of holding the reigns of 6 horses as I stand and drive a Roman chariot. Well this week I think my lesson has to be that I still have to take care of myself. I've been so focused on the horses and pushing and driving forward that I have completely run my own self ragged.
Last night at yoga the class was focused on thinking of your back body instead of always being aware simply of the front of our bodies, as we propel ourselves forward. As I slipped backwards and released muscles I hadn't let go of for awhile I started to regain my serenity and also my perspective on whats going on with work. I'm now going away for the weekend, leaving my computer and retreating a bit. I will be more effective and brighter and out of my manic sink or swim stage by next week but first I need to replenish. Huge lesson in going forward and then sinking backwards. Holding on and then letting go. I really can struggle with the letting go bit as I am compelled to keep going and pushing things. But really I now realize that at best thats ineffective and at worst damaging to my own health. At the end of the day it comes back to balance which is such a simple word but when life puts one to the test it can be the first thing that topples. No point the horses all galloping off if the driver has fallen right off the chariot.Tags: balance, Mhairi Morrison, replenish, The bead movement