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Jolt #5: Citrus Climax!
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Jolt and his family are hunkering down at a Hilton Garden Hotel in Jacksonville, guarded by Cherry Bomb's security. It's nearly midnight when Red-Eye calls Jolt... and it's not a "wyd?!" kinda call. Chimaera is making a move to grab Citrus Climax! And you know who's coming to the rescue?
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They're gonna grab you , friend , and I'm sorry but I'm not here for him and I don't know that you're gonna stop them .
Speaker 2Then waste some time talking to you .
Speaker 1He looks like he's trying to find his guy right , so he's coming out of that section . So bad , but .
Speaker 2I got , I got all this stuff , I See , see man .
Speaker 1One GM , one player one hour and we go to 11 .
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Speaker 1Let me bring up my note file jolt , number five , right along . I just wrapped up my last role master game Sunday . It was kind of bittersweet , it was good , it was good anything but the group is disbanding after Five or six sessions , like we had planned to . Uh , I saw that .
Speaker 2Yeah , that game's over . Yeah , overall , enjoy it . Yeah , I did , I did .
Speaker 1I would not advise folks to run out and buy role master to and Play it , unless you really really Got a hangar for that game or you've got some experience with it . Um , it's not worth it for new players to jump in . They're better games , um , but for nostalgia , and if you have a group of folks that are familiar with it , like I did , uh , or you're just super excited , right , uh , for whatever reason uh , it was good , it was fun , and we're back on the Jacksonville map .
Speaker 1Yes big Jacksonville map . I don't have a name for this issue yet . Uh , it could go a bunch of different ways . Um , so I think this one gets a name after the fact . Uh , depending , depending on player choices . Uh , it could go a bunch of different ways . Uh , I don't know . Yeah , so , like number four , we're supposed to be jolt international , meaning I was bringing the lawyers on board and we never saw those lawyers . That didn't happen . We went a different way . You did go a different way .
Speaker 1Yeah , so I think I have to name them after the fact , right ? Uh , I think we uh I don't even know what's on the cover right ? I think we go to the first page and I think Nate and his family are still at the , at the hotel , and we named that hotel . In my head I want to say the Hilton , because that's where I stay at , but that wasn't it , was it ?
Speaker 2It was . Oh man , I got a look now I it feels like a hilton , but it was basically the nicest uh , high star , expensive restaurant or hotel I could find in downtown Jacksonville .
Speaker 1So let me do that again . Was it .
Speaker 2Hilton Garden Inn . That looks pretty decent .
Speaker 1That might be right . Yeah , that might be right . Uh , because that's exactly what I had in my head , because when I travel , uh , it's either the Hilton or the Marriott and I end up accumulating points . Uh , I'm gaming the system , not in a bad way , but yeah .
Speaker 2I uh , high Regency Jacksonville Riverfront is one that's pretty expensive . It doesn't matter . I could keep playing like this all the time .
Speaker 1It's all good . Well , yeah , hilton sounds good , all right . So , yeah , I think you , you folks , are still at the hotel , uh , and I think it's uh some days from when you talk to when you had that , that last meeting on the on the rooftop with cherry bomb and , uh , orange blast . Maybe it's a day or two later , right ? Uh , as you are working out what your next steps are , right .
Speaker 2Okay , we're basically laying low and hoping that whatever cover cherry bomb has given us Right is is allowing us to hang out here without three pains showing up .
Speaker 1Yes , and so far so good . Right , uh , but it's like I don't know . 215 in the morning , 222 , 20 in the morning , and your cell phone either beeps , chirps , vibrates , uh , on the On a nightstand next to the bed . Uh , maybe it's not loud enough to wake everybody . Uh , but uh .
Speaker 2Oh well , I've been sleeping honestly , with all this is going on , so I'm all sleeper . Uh , yeah , I'm up . I have the phone , I'm moving to the balcony and checking it before I answer it .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , yeah , it is . Uh , it's unknown , it's not even private . It says unknown .
Jolt Time!
Speaker 2First thought in my mind red eye , open the slang glass door , step out on the balcony , close it .
Speaker 1All right , hello and you're right , it is red eye and he's like son , oh , and they brought you on the team back then . I said you was too young and uh , and they put it to a vote and I think I was probably the only one that said no , and I don't want to be the one to say to everybody I told you so . So what made you go and dig up citrus , climb max and put him in a public hospital ?
Speaker 2You've been sitting on that for like 30 years . That I told you so right there . Red eye , that's impressive man you hold on .
Speaker 1It's like oh , how old are you these days ? Why are you still so damn green ?
Speaker 2Listen , man . Here's the truth of it . Obey and I , we're working to get you the money you need to make it right , and that's when we found him . Somebody had put him in a coma , stuck him on ice . I couldn't leave him . He was our teammate man . I don't know what he's been mixed up in . I don't know why this happened to him . He was one of us .
Speaker 1Well , I'm here to tell you your friends , chimera , they're in the process of getting him that whole hospital shut down right now . No power , that grid , that whole block is down . I would try it , let's let's get him out . Uh , I'm out of pocket right now , so it's you and ob . Okay , I don't have to do this , but if you do and if ob helps you , I'll clear the slate .
Speaker 2See how you cared about us . That's why you did an ace ob when he messed you up .
Speaker 1When I take out a person , I like to make sure they're dangerous and armed . Obie's gonna kill himself . So I , you , I don't be part of that . You man , I just don't know how you're still so green I .
Speaker 2Got good friends they help me . Take care of stuff . I gotta go . All right , anything else you can throw in my way to help out ?
Speaker 1It's camera . They want them . I don't know why , but they operate on rats like us .
Speaker 2Yeah , thanks for that top . That's it I just saw your message Now , you don't normally do a whole lot of voices and , as and I , you characterize people so well that you don't need to , but you got a voice for red eye and I just love it . Yeah , there are some . I do this with my kid .
Speaker 1When I'm comfortable with who I'm playing , the voice effects come a little easier and then some are locked right in and I'm like that's who that is right there . We were doing the Mandalorian and he had a . I think we're recorded . He had a job , a patron , and I will slow my voice down . I'll do staccato kind of stuff . I was a student and so I'll play around with things like that rather than accents . I don't think I do accents great , so I'll play around with those things that I can control . And I locked into a voice effect . That was that patron and I kept it because I got a really good voice . So sometimes a lot have to do is start a scene with the voice and everything else kind of filled in right and just this whole body and everything . So that's , yes , to pay off for me .
Speaker 2So You're right red eye .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , I don't know . I don't know where it came from . I don't know where it came from . I don't know where it came from . I don't know where it came from . I don't know where it came from . I don't know where it came from . But yeah , that's it , that's him . I can see you , yeah , and I think that maybe from the balcony , if we look out into the distance , we can see the city lights , jacksonville right , and maybe the hospitals in that block of or in that section of the Jacksonville . We can see in the night sky or in the night skyline , and we can see a section just dark among the sea of lights .
Speaker 2I'm terrified . I love it .
Speaker 1Yeah . So I think , yeah , yeah , you just look down the St John's because we're like downtown .
Speaker 2we look down the St John's and , yeah , guarantee we can see that . Yeah , for sure .
Speaker 1Yeah , I think this is the section just dark , right , I'm gonna go wake up Obi .
Speaker 2Well , first let me wake up my wife . Hey , hey , I need you up for a sec , listen .
Speaker 1Yeah , she rolls over and she asks is Mason okay ?
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , yeah , listen , sarah , A friend I told you about , he's in some serious trouble . I gotta take off out of here with Obi . Okay , I'll be back , probably bringing them right here .
Speaker 1All right , we're kind of turning this place into a fortress .
Speaker 2Yeah , we should .
Speaker 1We should with that safe somewhere like a halfway house and then she says is Maggie still with us , Meaning she's still helping out ?
Speaker 2I'll make sure she will be . And then I'm going to get OB kind of gentle , he's on the couch or something . Come on , man , get up , get up , get up . You gotta go say man Come on .
Speaker 1What Come on ? What's going on ? He does ? He gets up . I think he's all in his clothes , right , and maybe it's hot pulled over right , so he gets up .
Speaker 2He's got to get his shoes on .
Speaker 1It's like , oh man , what I saw one to the balcony .
Speaker 2Come look out , you see that .
Speaker 1Yeah , and I think that's like a splash of cold water .
Speaker 2What hospitals right in the middle of that man ? Come on , we got to go stick our nose in this mess , or Jason's done for .
Speaker 1All right , I'm following you , we're going together .
Speaker 2Going together .
Speaker 1All right , my truck's not stairs .
Speaker 2Yeah , I don't think we have time for the truck , brother .
Speaker 1How we going together . You know how we're going together and how are y'all going together ?
Speaker 2We are going to riches dumping points from my pool to go into super mode on speed and I'm going to fire and carry his old ass with me .
Speaker 1Nice , that is fantastic . I like it , I like it .
Speaker 2Now this says fast travel , regional flight , clinging . Does that mean that I could put him over my shoulder of fire and carry and run down the side of the Hilton to hit the road ? That is what I'm going to do .
Speaker 1Yep , yes , yes , because that's the way I bought that . Yes , read the mind . Yeah , my thought is , I wanted the effect that I feel like the flash is kind of a touchstone , so I wanted you to be able to run across surfaces , even if they're not horizontal , right ?
Speaker 2It's perfect .
Speaker 1Yeah , and that was the way to do that . Yeah , nice , yeah , so you tell me how close to the block of darkness you want to get .
Speaker 2Oh , on the way calling Maggie , hey , problems need you to cover . I don't know if you had people still on our place , but I need them back on if they're off .
Speaker 1Yeah , I assume , yeah , I assume . While you guys are staying there , she's got cool .
Speaker 2Just want to make sure it's clear .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , and so maybe there's a point of contact at the Hilton right that you check in with . I love it . That sounds cool .
Speaker 2Inappropriate .
Speaker 1And that at least puts them on alert If you're gone , right , maybe they step up a little bit as a plan be , just in case who knows what else is going on .
Speaker 2Yeah , Well , the way I see it , you have to get back to your question of how far up into the blackness do I go ? Unless it's pitch black , I would imagine there's still cars , there's still headlights , so I'm just going to go all the way to the hospital . Right , I got reflexes . I can jump and duck and weave . If I got it , I'm getting to the hospital .
Speaker 1Yeah , it seems like it's the power grid that's down and out in any infrastructure that needs it Doesn't have to be cars , and you're right , cars and well , yeah , vehicles still have their headlights and things like that . I think , as you get there , this situation has been there for a little bit . People who live in the area or other non-hospital facilities , buildings or whatever they may have some candles out . Some of them may have flashlights that are secondary light sources , things like that .
Speaker 2It's like some old ladies walking her dogs . She already had a little flashlight on the end of her little . Yeah , how did OB he either ? I'm just curious just from my mental head , cannon , how did he handle me ? Running me Jolt , not Jolt , he's to me Sorry , nobody heard that right Zipping down the highway with him on my back .
Speaker 1So my quote , my answer . My question would be have you both done this before in the past ?
Speaker 2Yeah , I think it's been 20 or more years , but yeah got you .
Speaker 1So I think , yeah . So I think at first he's like , oh okay , I see I remember , all right , and he , he takes to it old man style , like you know we're not strapping young men anymore but I guess , right , and he goes with it because it's not foreign or weird , it's just it's been a long time , right . I think the hospital property is pretty open , like like most hospitals . You've got sections you can drive up into . You've got the emergency room section folks get into . So again , you , you will have to talk me up to what you're looking for , how far you go in once you're on the property . So you're in the block and , like I said , that whole block and maybe a couple of blocks . I say block but it may be that whole grid section is down . So you passed other buildings , other things that are down before you get to the hospital proper and that is completely shut down .
Speaker 2Man , they went all out and I hope that boyfriend who eats people ain't in here .
Speaker 1I say to Obey , it will be just like yeah , thanks for not letting me eat me man .
Speaker 2It's things we friends do for each other , right .
Speaker 1You know , I'd be okay if nobody had no powers .
Speaker 2Ask me again at the end of the night .
Speaker 1I think he looks up and down at the hospital and he's like I can provide a little light . It'll be orange .
Speaker 2Oh love , I love orange , light it up .
Speaker 1He does right . I think he's kind of got a glow that I guess . A hex is like six feet , so maybe two hexes radius all the way around .
Speaker 2I'm going to head to the ICU first . Okay , I imagine they've got a backup generator of some kind localized to the ICU , so hopefully it won't be too hard to see if my buddy's in here or not .
Speaker 1Inside You've got a bunch of like glue sticks , people with glow sticks , some flashlights , some panic , right , some anxiety as they're moving , shuffling patients around . Staff are coming in to to beef up . Who's here to help out things like that Chaos ? Yeah , it's a lot of chaos , not maddening riot chaos , but it's busy and a lot of anxiety , a lot of stress . Let's start with perception check and you're going to take a minus one on this . It's dark Well , it's not as lit as it could be and there's a lot of , like I said , stress , a lot of crowds , a lot of there's a better word but there's a lot of . The situation is very chaotic in this hospital at this time .
Speaker 2Gotcha , I'm going to roll my target . If it's a minus , one would be a 10 .
Speaker 1Yes .
Speaker 2Jeez , of course I roll like gang pusters with a . Oh , did not expect that oh how do you not expect to have you not played a few games would be .
Speaker 1Oh man , you're just warming up . It's all right , you're warming up . I see you ward is a little bit of ways from the front door . You guys come in , you're fast , I should make a difference . But , like I said , it's kind of crowded right and you have to navigate through that space Even fast , traveling along the walls , right , you're still inside a hospital , right .
Speaker 1So there's some stutter , stepping and some stopping and going , I think a couple of doctors or other staff , because you guys have kind of lit up , they kind of want you to help them do other things , right , and they're pulling for your attention and of course they're making that plea . But this is more important , right . Kind of thing you change your mind if you want to . I'm assuming you're staying on task . I got it . So , yeah , it's all right . I think you get to the ICU ward and I think you're going to go through the door , but it opens just before . You know how you , two people are coming through a space at the same time , but you're faster . And Eric Jones comes out the other side first , but he's in scrubs and because you're lit up , he's like I was hoping I'd be faster than you this time .
Speaker 2I knew you were coming but walk away .
Speaker 1I'm not . I'm not here for your friend . I'm here because it's crazy right now and I got another job . You do what you got to do . You got to , you got to mess on your hands and I'm not helping you . I'm not in that .
Speaker 2Are you working for Camara or somebody else ?
Speaker 1No , I'm trying to stay away from them . They'd like to operate on rats .
Speaker 2Yeah , they do .
Speaker 1They're going to grab your friend and I'm sorry but I'm not here for him and I don't know that you're going to stop them .
Speaker 2Then wasting time talking to you .
Speaker 1He looks like he's trying to find his guy , right ? So he's coming out of that section of the ICU where you're going in , but his job's not done . He's still trying to find his target because it's a mess in here , Right ?
Speaker 2It's bad .
Speaker 1So bad , but I got , I got other stuff .
Speaker 2I save CC man , all right , zip , we're out , we're moving .
Speaker 1Yep , yep , yep . I think I should have a map for this . So we've kind of got . I might just throw over top of this . Yeah , that's what I probably have to do here .
Speaker 1So I think you enter the , the , you're in this kind of free I hate to say free play . You're in the ward area , right , there would have been an administrative desk . Maybe visitors are in this section , right , maybe there's some room for folks who are being transferred out of ICU into another part . But the next section is where all the ICU beds and things like that are and you can see . Let me see if I can throw this out here . Is it going to ? Let me do it ? Ah , cool , this works .
Speaker 1So this is kind of an overlay . This is not part of the Jacksonville map , but if you've got oh , what's happening , okay , cool . If you've got this ooh , this is horrible You've got this section , you and free pane kind of crossed at that door , right , okay , moving through this square area which is that , like I said , it's kind of that halfway area , and then beyond that is all the ICU area and then it's broken up , right , you've got sections where folks have privacy . You've got these other different . It's broken up into different rooms and sections and things like that .
Speaker 1Does that make sense ? Yes , as you walk in there you can see , especially with OB's orange flashlight ability right , you can see the far end of the wall on this map , the north end , the top end . I want to say folks entering from outside into the facility through the glass window . So they're , I don't want to say it shatters , I want to say it's kind of like spy cut right , precision cut , and they remove a big old section of the glass out and folks are just piling in . These are Chimera agents coming into the ICU unit .
Speaker 2Spy cut yeah .
Speaker 1I don't know what else to call it , but we see it in spy movies . They don't want to make a mess right , they don't want to shatter it , right , but it's kind of precision cut just for what they need , right , and then it's moved out of the way . Yeah , so it's like that . And then , yeah , the room is starting to fill up with Chimera agents . They've got night vision on right . While there's a bunch of them . They're moving quiet , right , like orchestration . It's like a dance , like a ballet .
Speaker 2Send no , be down , light them up .
Speaker 1Uh , let's move to the speed chart .
Speaker 2Mm , hmm .
Speaker 1Uh , segment one , nobody goes . It's you and you alone . On segment two .
Speaker 2I think I am going to adjust my power pool , for can't touch this and multi slap .
Speaker 1Nice Is there is an area effect here . Yes , it is yes .
Speaker 2Yep , uh , I'm , I'm going to move in and try to multi slap these fools , uh .
Speaker 1I got to move . I have stats . I just need to move them from where they are , don't over here . I'm going to move the pool . Oh yeah , yeah , yeah yeah . All right , it's on you . Uh , I was just getting my head back around these area effect rules .
Speaker 1No hand , yeah , and so you are rolling to set the difficulty for their Defense . Check , okay , all right , uh , and my some . So we're kind of theater of the mind because we don't have hexes down here . You're positioning yourself to get the best , uh , the most amount of targets in your area . Effect , yeah , Absolutely . Now I also have to say uh , we know these primary agents are hazards . Uh , so as you engage a squad , right , they auto because you're in the same hex . No one of them , not all of them , yeah .
Speaker 1I don't even know how that works . We see how it plays out . It may not matter .
Speaker 2Okay .
Speaker 1All right , so you will roll versus a DC , versus a CV of six , because you're just got to target the hex .
Speaker 2Okay , cv of six , so just 3d6 .
Speaker 1Mm , hmm , um , your CV minus six plus 11 , or however you do the math .
Speaker 2Okay , where's the CV at on here , man , I'm sorry . Oh no , sir , right , it's just your decks . Okay , I wanted to say that because that's what I thought it was before , so yeah , sometimes we buy levels and bonuses just for offensive combat .
Speaker 1And then it's those plus your decks , and then it's OCV . But if you're a player , you're going to be able to get a lot of damage Plus your decks , and then it's OCV . But if you don't have those , it's the same as your decks .
Speaker 2All right , I just gave myself a little cheat sheet there for future .
Speaker 1Yeah , no , I'm with you . I'm with you . I'm trying to not step on the new terms versus the old terms .
Speaker 2So it is six minus my OCV .
Speaker 1Now it's the other way . It's your , your CV , minus six , and then the base is 11 . So it's always plus 11 .
Speaker 2So five plus 11 plus 3d6 .
Speaker 1No . So , and this is Ron Edwards in my head , and I knew it's algebra and everyone , even in old champions , everyone always did it differently , and then I always wanted to . Hey , I don't want to get in an argument with how you do the math . So the formula is for attacks , it's 11 , right , this is your target number , 11 . Plus your OCV in this case your decks minus the DCV In this case , it's the six for the hex . That's the target number that you're going to roll on 3d6 or less . Does that make sense ?
Speaker 2That makes . That makes perfect sense . Thank you for letting me write it out as a formula , so . I'm just going to roll , oh frickin three .
Speaker 1No , that's good . Three is oh no , not in this case .
Speaker 2No , not in this case . It's the other way around , because I want to set their target .
Speaker 1And this is the thing that jacks me up . The math is fine , it just doesn't feel right , right , no eight , right Eight , 13 .
Speaker 2All right . They got to roll over eight Right .
Speaker 1No , so eight . So we go back to that formula . Right , for them it's going to be 11 plus their OCV , minus the eight . Right , so they're at a . Their CV is six . That's interesting Because they auto head , they don't have CVs . What is the base decks ? For regular old human , I think it's 10 . All right , so I'm going to put a star in this . I'm going to make them both six , because that's a six two , and so they're taking a minus two . So for them it's 11 plus six , minus the eight . You see where I got the minus two from . So I need nines or less . I've got three squads in here , so I'm going to roll for all three squads . If I roll for all three squads , I think that means you're closer to them than you are to Ooby .
Speaker 2Okay , that seems fair .
Speaker 1And a squad is roughly four or five folks , but so the baker's dozen of these guys . Yes , there's a lot of them , right , but at the game level , at the mechanics level , we're dealing with three entities , right ? Not 15 , right ?
Speaker 2Right , like minion rules , gotcha yeah .
Speaker 1Like minion rules , yes , except for because they're hazards hazards of pain in the ass . A squad of five is still as strong , even when they're down to one guy . They're still strong as five , Right Like .
Speaker 2D&D hit points .
Speaker 1You got to kill that dude , right , he's still a pain in the ass . Not kill , but you know , neutralize . So here we go . I'm sorry , second number kid , I thought he was coming out with , so take care of business and I wasn't sure what was happening . Oh , all right , give me the slap damage .
Speaker 2Okay , this lap damage is 6D6 . I'm a , I'm a throw 66 that you here comes , so that is a 24 . And then when we count up one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , okay , did that right . You might want to double check it .
Speaker 1Yep , now that's four , five , six , seven . Yep , I forget what kind of advantages you've got on that .
Speaker 2It is a area that no range severe . Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , sphere .
Speaker 1Yes . So from your hex , let's say so . Well , you're going to have some choices here in a minute . We got three squads right . The damage will drop off the further they are away from your target square . Okay , makes sense .
Speaker 1I . The damage has a severe penalty , a severe advantage on it , and I believe that means it will bypass regular defenses for stun up , for knockout , and I think we did this before and they don't have resistant defenses , and these folks don't either . So if we say your target square is a squad , right , they will get the full 66 , right . But because you're in the square with them , they will get the auto hit right now , even though it's not their turn . Does that make sense ?
Speaker 2I think so . Sorry , I was trying to look up severe and you are correct Knockout damage delivered by blast ignores defense .
Speaker 1If there's , if they're hex away , then they will take 5d6 , right , and they they can't auto hit because you're not in the same square . And then what ? I think we could talk about it . I think the next two squads will be one die less .
Speaker 2But that seems fair . These hexes got to be tight and while they're they're tight enough , I think they will be moving , and that makes a lot of sense to me .
Speaker 1So I'm just catching them coming in through the window right .
Speaker 2Yeah , you want me to roll different , or so ?
Speaker 1what I'm going to do is I'm going to count from left to right . Right , Because your dice are already up there , right , and we know if it's one died less , we'll just we'll be .
Speaker 2If it's count from left to right , where the rightmost one goes away , then it's 20 and six right .
Speaker 1And so you are . You're not engaging , you're not engaging that first squad in their hex . That's not your central hex . Yep , okay , it could be . I was the choices up to you . That just means , if it is , they get to retaliate right now Because they auto hit . You get to do the 24 , but you're going to get hit .
Speaker 2I don't want to do the 24 to get hit . I'll get hit by one squad . Thank you very much .
Speaker 1And it's just one squad , because again , my assumption is the other . Again we're giving Nate the benefit of the doubt . Well , experience right . He could ease that first squad and then move to the other two , and that's getting the maximum out of his range of effect . Or he could play cautious right , and theory effect is a square away . I can still touch all three squads and not get hit back , but I'm not getting all six dice in on that first squad .
Speaker 2That is a fine loss of one die I will take it .
Speaker 1Yeah , I would probably play it that way too , because I don't know what's next . Right , is this ? All of them ? Is any more coming in ? What else is coming ? What's happening ? There's a lot of these dudes . So yeah , it's 20 and six . I think we're going down a lot of these folks . Let me check stats real quick . Oh yeah , oh yeah . So let's say we got to spread it around . Oh no , because the other ones will get .
Speaker 1So yeah , you decimate this first squad coming in . Well , they've come in and they're trying to set up a bullwark so the rest of them can come in and you , you beat that squad down all . Let's say there were six of them there and with their night vision they can see you right , and they're trying to be ready for you . In fact , I think some of them have those telescoping sticks and they pop those out . They have right , they kind of have that familiar charge running through them , that that guy in the van , the Buckman oh hey , this guy , they didn't before these sticks today , dude , they have that little charge in them and none of them can kind of touch you , right . So you decimate that first squad and then you're able to roll into the other two as they're coming in and trying to get organized , right . So if I count the last four right yeah , the last four so it's 17 . What's that integrity ? They can't use any defense , all right , so you got two half squads of those left to wow , that's crazy man . So six .
Speaker 2Somebody really knows this game . Helping out and making my character .
Speaker 1But I'm like man , I may have made him too good , no nice . And again , these , these chimeries , just they have tech , but they're regular folks , right ? Yeah , so I think you have still standing about six guys out of 15 , right .
Speaker 2All right .
Speaker 1And no more seem to be coming in through the window .
Speaker 2Oh good .
Speaker 1Then that moves us into segment three , which is OB and the Chimerie agents .
Speaker 2Oh man , it's gonna be good . Even if it's bad , it's good .
Speaker 1Yeah , I'm trying to decide . What does OB do ? Oh , light them up , light them up . Yeah , I think he runs in to do some hand to hand , right , and yeah , you can see his glow increase right , and he's got different effects when that happens , from some some limited invulnerability to physical things , right , some increased strength , right . And I think he tags one of the squads that's still standing right . He goes in swinging . I guess I got to roll this , but again , because he's hand to hand and has to enter the same hex as they , those three guys are also popping out their telescoping batons and they're trying to gauge him to . Here we go . That's awfully close . Now I gotta do some math . Oh no , he's good , he's good . His CV is 11 minus the six gives him a five up . Yeah , you can see sparks kind of dance off his orange aura , right . Yeah , I think it plays and zaps around like those . What are those electric balls ?
Speaker 2called . Oh yeah , I know what you're talking about . I can't remember what other things are called Like yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah , you , you know what I mean . They kind of follow around his aura like that , so they they're not sparks that , just dance off . They kind of wrap around and that kind of thing . But he seems to be on phase by it .
Speaker 2Oh how they're called plasma balls plasma balls , yes , so I think .
Speaker 1Yeah , it kind of plays around his aura shield like like a plasma ball , nice , and he drops two of easily , drops two of those Camira agents , the . Yeah , and so then the Camira agents go at the bottom of this segment . All right , they move . Actually , yeah , they split up . Two of them run off deeper into the room looking for their target . One of them just opens up on Nate . Can't touch this with an auto pistol or machine pistol .
Speaker 2Dang hospital man .
Speaker 1Yep In the hospital . Well , I got two options here . Yeah , now the machine pistol , that's what it's got to be . Yeah , the other two are like I said , they're looking for their target and they've run deeper into the . Well , yeah , certainly past through you and OB . So they're further south than the two of you are because you guys ran up to engage them . They're breaking away trying to find CC Again . They auto hit . You're close enough . Hazard . Suck you ready . Yeah , I'm ready . I'm sorry .
Speaker 2No , it's okay . It's okay . You're a fan of my character .
Speaker 1I make his life hard , so the story is interesting .
Speaker 2I may wind a little bit , but I know in my heart what you mean .
Speaker 1This is going to hurt a little bit . This is a 66 piercing , so it looks like it's only 12 knockout , which isn't bad , but I think piercing means all that actually kind of sucks . That's a lot of ones One , two , three , four body . But if you've got any resistant defense because these are just regular , let's say , ap bullets if you got resistant defense then you're fine . But if you have no resistant defense it's going to cut through your regular defense and you're taking the body .
Speaker 2I think I have resistant defense . I have can't touch this , which gave me a defense plus 20 .
Speaker 1Right , but it's not resistant . Yeah , so let me make sure that's what piercing does .
Speaker 2Yeah , it does body damage from blast , ignores non-resistant defenses .
Speaker 1Yeah , so they're there . So you will take that one , two , three , four body . So , yes , how much shot ? How much stun ? It looks like 12 , but it's normal stun and yeah , but that makes sense . These are , like I said , these are real pistol .
Speaker 2These are pros .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , yeah . Four body right there , boom , we don't care , it's a hospital , whatever Right you brought this on . That's the segment . Segment four we're back to Nate .
Speaker 2I'm not sure how , in this character , keeper , or the role thing to do the knockout I had the body at a body of 12 and then I'm taking in D in endurance damage with that 12 .
Speaker 1Oh , so yeah , so that 12 stun you're not going to take , but that would have come off of stunned I say knockout . But no , no , sorry , sorry , oh , let me erase everything I just said . See , this is me tripping over the words again . So if you were going to take knockout , you got KO on the character sheet and yours is 24 is what it looks like if I'm looking at the same one you're on . It would have come off of there , but your defense works and so it subtracts from there .
Speaker 2We don't do enough that you're okay .
Speaker 1Any knockout .
Speaker 2Thank you , just a body yeah .
Speaker 1That stunned value is anytime you take more knockout than that value , then you're stunned .
Speaker 2Okay , okay , this character sheet looks like there are two places for endurance One under utilities and one down at the bottom under powers . I think they're independent of each other , just FYI under powers , I might be on the wrong seat .
Speaker 1then I see Well .
Speaker 2I could be looking at one thing . Let me log over quick , okay , oh okay , I was going to screen share , but I can't , oh sorry , yeah , I need to go .
Speaker 1We talk about this all the time .
Speaker 2Okay , I also have 8 XP I need to spend , so I am not throwing stones at this class house or whatever .
Speaker 1All right , you can share it now .
Speaker 2It's no biggie , like we can keep going . Oh , yeah , yeah , yeah and then down here is another , so I had the two equally each other .
Speaker 1But yeah .
Speaker 2I wonder if the thought behind the endurance down there is that you're draining in while you use your powers .
Speaker 1Right , that's true . Yeah , I'll have to go back and look at what I was thinking about there and update that , and your , your seat , will update when I do that . Yeah , that's interesting . Yeah , I think one one might be a stat and the other is the like , the counter or the countdown . No , because the one at the top you can do that , you can subtract off of there . I'm looking now to oh , okay , I see , I see , I see , I see Underpowers . If you put a power in there , right , you can track how much endurance it costs .
Speaker 2Oh , so that's just . I didn't fill it out .
Speaker 1Yeah , you can say it costs this much when I kind of like a .
Speaker 2Ooh , that could be very helpful .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Whoever made this , it was really thoughtful .
Speaker 1I just , yeah , I wanted a nice easy play sheet . It doesn't have to be 100% representative of the character sheet . Just what we're going to need to play in this VTT . I don't need everything , but I'm going to need some of it . So that was my thinking .
Speaker 2I think honestly , you're the point where you need to make your own VTT honestly .
Speaker 1I'm doing it . I got my UX friend we're doing a trade . I wanted to pay her outright and she's like no , your money's no good . It's not that I don't want it , but I need your other skills . And so we're doing a trade .
Speaker 1She's working on a turn base not tabletop a turn base RPG game where you play an enchanted sword , right , and you will go through owners and how you go through orders as part of the player's decision . Sometimes it's not always good , right , but you're playing through the game as an intelligent sword with abilities and things like that , and she's doing all the graphic works and things like that . She wants me to help set up the architecture of the gameplay , as she describes the gameplay , and we're having some conversation about gameplay stuff . It's interesting and it's making me have to think . Like a hard part right now is combat . She was going to shy away from that . I'm like no , if you're going to go turn base , do combat . Well , I hope you figure some stuff out . So , but she's coming on board to help me with the VTT , and that's fantastic because I'm not a UX guy and that that's key . That's important for VTT . So my working title is simple table . That's what it's called Nice .
Speaker 2Did you see ? Sorry , we're already breaking our own role Did you see the Albeir Rodeo 2.0 ?
Speaker 1I did . It looks beautiful , it looks fantastic .
Speaker 2It's beautiful . It looks absolutely like . Not what I was interested in for Albeir . Oh , this is just another VTT . Awesome .
Speaker 1I wish I want them to be the simple table , but they've got a lot of D&D centric stuff and the dice killed me . I can't with the dice , so I'm like , but anyway .
Speaker 2And they're doing away with the first one .
Speaker 1They're just going to get rid of the one that was simple and functional . Yeah , that is sad . So , yeah , and I will have no marketplace . I want the tools to be simple enough for folks to do their own thing without having to pay for marketplace stuff . Does that make sense ? Yeah , so I think we're getting away from what we're supposed to be doing with these and catering to marketplaces , different publishers coming in and doing stuff , and that makes me crazy Microtransactions .
Speaker 1Yeah , I'm like not here . They're probably fine in other places doing other things . I just want to play the game and I want to . I don't want to spend my life setting it up for something . We're going to play two or three sessions , yes , sir , so we're back to Nate .
Speaker 2Let's do it .
Speaker 1So yeah , obi is in some fisticuffs with one squad that's left this third squad split up . So one guy is firing the machine gun at you . You took some hits . The other two went running deeper into the ICU unit . One's on the left side , one's on the right side and they're looking for CC .
Speaker 2Okay . So I'm like I'm going to keep going toe to toe with these guys or I can make them want to leave , and I think the best way to make them the want to leave is to get CC myself . So my plan now is hang tight Obi Zip out of there ahead of them to try to grab CC and get out of here .
Speaker 1Get out of here . I like it . I like it . I'm going to need a perception check for you to find CC before they do .
Speaker 2I think it just hands on them . It seems fair . It's only the dice would agree with me .
Speaker 1Yeah , and I'm going to get a little tricksy with this one . Okay , I'm going to get a little tricksy . Normally perception roles are just your perception or less , and or a GM modifier on top of that . I always hate GM's picket modifiers . That always feels weird for me . But these guys have stats too and their stats are like yours and I'm like we could easily do like that formula we got that 11 plus your OCV , minus their DCV , so we can take and plug in your intelligence as the OCV right and their intelligence as the DCV , because they're looking to right Even it's he who spots them first right and then plus the 11 or less right . Does that make sense ? Make sense ? So they , their intelligence stat is a nine .
Speaker 2Okay .
Speaker 1I think yours is 12 .
Speaker 2It appears to be 11 .
Speaker 1Oh right , so you're plus two on the 11 .
Speaker 2So 11 , 12 , 13 or less . And you find them before they do .
Speaker 1Yes , because that's what we're really doing . Who finds them first and that feels better . Because , yeah , we're using their stat and your stat and that's a made up modifier I came up with .
Speaker 2Okay , I'll use the decks , because my decks is 13 . So I'm just gonna roll underneath that on roll , and I got a 10 .
Speaker 1Nice , nice , nice , nice , nice . What's that look like ?
Speaker 2I think that what it looks like is after I got nailed by this guy's machine pistol and other folks are taken off through . I think they hit the hallway right . They're in there in a room . They cut through a wall to come into the hallway and I think I leapfrog one of them and land just right beside another one of them and wind around and zip through there and then I look and duck in my head into a couple of the ICU areas . We see a few people , maybe even like a cameo with somebody that worked on and joke company for real and like , but only their family knows that they just got a cameo on our show and , damn it , At the end the hallway because it's always at the end of the hallway is where we see CC .
Speaker 1Right , yeah , and I think you know there's I think it's soft walls and curtains , right ? So I don't know that there are hard doors or anything like that .
Speaker 2Right , right .
Speaker 1And we can put you in the room with CC . You're fast and faster than these guys . So even if they see where you're going , you still have that distance and that jump on top of them . Okay , okay , yeah , they'll go on five like OB . I won't roll it . I think OB finishes up the squad he's on . I think you can hear Does he fire ?
Speaker 1No I think that third squad is . They have , I think they're . They have good , I think they have a good plan and they're following the plan . So even the guy with the machine pistol , he ignores OB and he comes running toward his other two squad mates and they're running toward where you have gone . They it'll take them this turn . To get there Segment five . To get there Segment six you get to go . So they're coming down the hall right and Mr Machine pistol is in that grouping .
Speaker 2I am so tempted to just turn and try to break bad on these guys , but this is a hospital and machine pistol guy has no cool . So here's my plan . You tell me how I need to do this . My plan is to run past the bed because I figure I'm fast enough to do this . Past the bed . Fist of fury on the window . Back for CC , grab him up and out the window .
Speaker 1Gotcha , gotcha , gotcha , gotcha . Cc can't fight .
Speaker 2See , even awake .
Speaker 1No , no , they've got him wired up . He's not awake , yeah , yeah . So no , I think Mechanically you can do it , the colors a little different , but mechanically you can do it and I think we see it go down just like that . Right , you create a exit out the window , you run back , you grab CC and then you book it out the window Just as these guys are coming into the partition area . Right , you're already out the window and they realize they're too late to do anything , even to run over and start shooting down . And I will say I think we can see the machine pistol man right , as empty as he is , right , he's following the playbook and they want to CC alive and they're not going to risk shooting at you , right , to get him right .
Speaker 2Nice .
Speaker 1So I think , yeah , and we know you can clean and run , so you can certainly run down the side of the building , run up the building , run around the side and back down . You're easily out of the way . The outside is still dark , right , in fact , I think inside the darkness of the grid , the power being out , you can see out in the city where the lights are , where it was the opposite when you were on the balcony looking down , looking out , and I think , as you're running wherever you're going , jason kind of comes around because that cool night air is on his face because you're moving so fast . Hey , nate , what's up man ?
Speaker 2Hey , Jason , it's been a while .
Speaker 1I think we leave it right there , right yes .
Speaker 2Oh , that's too good .
Speaker 1Nice , and so I think this is Citrus Climax . That's what this title is .
Speaker 2Hmm , it's all about him . I can't believe there really was a joke called Citrus Climax .
Speaker 1I know I was out there looking . What was I looking for today ? I was looking for something . I can't remember what it was . Oh , I was trying to figure out what kind of I know it's Citrus Climax . What kind of flavor is that ? Right , because I'm trying to get a , what might his powers be right , and it's like a 7-up or like a Sprite . I didn't realize that . Oh , neat , yeah , I'm like , okay , all right , all right , I can work with that , all right . So , yeah , yeah , cool , I should have put those questions in here , but I did not . But I'm going to add them in here now because we can run through them real quick . Open this up XP questions .
Speaker 2Love . You got XP . Questions man yes .
Speaker 1Do we learn something new about the world ?
Speaker 2Yeah , chimera , tests on rats like us .
Speaker 1Very true . We get an XP for that . What was the other one ? Did we resolve a conflict using our powers ?
Speaker 2Oh , for real this time .
Speaker 1So we get an XP for that . I can't remember what the other ones were . I knew we had three solid ones . I was working on a fourth one .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1They have . Do we sacrifice something to realize our big dream ? I was thinking did we learn something new about Nathan ? And I don't know if that's fair . A fair question Every session , right , I think it works . If we have four or five questions , it's fine if we don't always hit that one , so let's add that , and then I think the goal is to come up with at least four . We can learn something new about Nathan .
Speaker 2I think what we learned about Nathan is there's much as he grouses about red I , he really believes that in the end , red eyes a member of the team too .
Speaker 1No , we heard that and I was like wow , I don't even know what to say , and I think playing red , I think I think we just let that die . Right , whatever ? Right , that's about you , that's not about me , right ?
Speaker 2I can see him , yeah , reacting that way .
Speaker 1Yeah , so let's call it three XP . I will figure out two more questions . So we have five to pick from , and maybe sometimes we hit five , but hopefully we get at least two or three , and then I got to spend some of this .
Speaker 2Xp is burning a hole in my pocket .
Speaker 1So I will tell you some inside baseball for champions now , every time a villain comes back that you see on screen in the book in play , they got an XP boost , right . They get an XP boost every time they show back up , just for show back up , right . I'm playing that fast and loose with three pain because we haven't really engaged . Engaged with him it's been , but we're talking up to a big thing , right , and I feel like I've re , I've restarted him , so you're the same points .
Speaker 1right , without your , without your XP's , because my question there is speed or volume of people . What wins that fight ? Right , then I will see you in the week . Wednesday . Our next episode will go out . I'm off , I got off a week , I got . I was a little sick last week , but I'll know it . Episode will go on oh man Wednesday . Yeah , okay , it was yeah , it was great .
Speaker 1Yeah , I thought maybe I had some mutant version of COVID or whatever , but I don't know what it was it was . I was down like a day and a half . Enjoy your night . Oh , talk to you . Good night , that's my show . Thanks for listening . Send your comments , questions about this episode to me . I'm on Patreon at MagiZero all letters or send it to Twitter at Goodysology and you know , subscribe , rate and like . Let's make this our regular thing , yeah .
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