S3 Ep. 28 - Bringing Up Baba
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Dungeons and Daddies is a rowdy, horny, violent podcast for grown-ups. Content warnings can be found in the episode description. Laika! Laika! Starring Frederick Korolev as Papa, Vladimir Polyakov as Tima, and of course, Laika! Laika!

So long, Tima. I'm off to laboratory. Gee whiz, Papa. It must be pretty swell doing the dark bidding of the powers that be. I wish I got to work amongst the strange and awesome secrets of Building 21. Now, now, little comrade. Your time to serve will come at the hour of the call when all minds will join and all flesh will be one.

In the meantime, you've got plenty of chores to do, mister. Oh, Papa. It's Laika. What is it, girl? What's that? Capitalist pigs have infiltrated Building 21. And they brutally executed one of the guards? And then they broke into the site director's office and rescued the human mob. And now they're running around the facility beating ass? No.

And they convinced you to help them by undermining your faith in communism. And now you're distracting us? So they can sneak up and beat our asses too. Why, like a dead's the craziest. Eat, pray, love, you commie bastard!

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Horrible. About four everyday schmoes fighting the forces of darkness in suburban 1950s America and the Soviet Union. Wow. My name is Freddie Wong. I play deep thinking plumber, slow talking plumber, Blake Lively. Hello. Hi, Blake. This week's Blake fact, not the first time Blake has been scrounging around in an air vent. It wasn't the last time. It became a past time. Hey!

Oh, no. Last time Blake did it, fixing an HVAC unit in a commercial establishment that he was called in to fix at BetSpy. He was just fixing their AC and he was like, I need to get into the vents. The vents used to be man-sized back in the 50s. Now they're not. It's actually just men got smaller. Men got smaller and weaker. The vents didn't get bigger. The men just got smaller. I remember as a little kid, Gold 9 Mission Impossible came out like back to back.

I remember so much fucking vents in those movies. And I was like, you mean buildings have these tunnels that you can crawl around through? And then I found out that vents weren't that big in real life and they'd ruined it. Fun fact, we did a video years ago on the YouTube channel that was me crawling around in vents. And we were like, okay, well, let's find some sections of vent to do it. And then we did. We laid it out. It was just a little T-section that we laid on the floor and just got in there. I'll tell you. A lot of sharp edges in there.

A sharp, jaggedy edges inside those. I get bigger, but the vents stay the same size. All right, all right. If there's dust in the vents, climb in. The time before that plague was in the vents? What? I went too far? No, it's not too far. It's just gross. No, he's saying if the dust, because the dust would mean they're old vents. Yeah. The inverse of grass on the field. No, I know. It's the same as grass on the field. It's the exact same. No, you're right. No, I'm not.

not explaining anything. No, there are some things you should not. I just don't like the word dust doesn't belong in sex talk, you know? But it's not sex talk. It's vent talk. Get your mind out of the vent. Somebody hasn't had sex while bouldering. Okay. Hi, everybody. I have not. My name is Matthew Arnold. I play Kelsey Grammar, Peachyville's happiest and snappiest schoolmarm. And a little fact about Kelsey, since she just turned 50, she wrote a, you know, like a bucket list thing, like what she wanted to do by the time she was 50.

Nice. So she looked it up and see if she had, you know, lived the way she wanted to so far. And there's three items on it. And they were become a teacher. Check. Check. Still be a teacher. Check. Check. Living your best life. Fucking check. So she's doing good.

The last one just says live in your best life? Yeah, she's living her best life. She's given the circumstances. No, it's her best. She's living her best. That's beautiful. I'd like to zoom back to the time when she made the list initially, this incredibly comprehensive list of three items that seem to be pretty easy to. If you do one and two, three by definition has been achieved. Oh, I forgot to say. Oh, whatever. It was that good. I forgot to add the, you know what she always says. It's not that great.

What is it? It's not that great. It's not that great. She's living her best life. You know what she always says? Study rhymes with buddy, so go find one and go do some. Oh my God. Wait, the order's wrong. So go find one and go do some. Oh no, the order's wrong. If you can feel it, study it. If you can read it,

Study it. I'm Anthony Burch. I'm like, Francis Farnsworth, the kid is trying his best. My peachy fact is Francis likes to write comics on the side. He's not a good, he's kind of like Harvey Pekar where he's an idea man, but he loves to write. He came up with an idea for a group of dudes whose wives all divorced them at once and they feel so emasculated by it that they turn into little boys and he calls it the X-Men. Ha ha.

Tennessee Williams is the X-Men. You know what? I would actually read that. That's pretty fun. It's all a metaphor for civil rights, weirdly. And one of them does have claws that come out of his mouth. One of them is canonically Wolverine. Francis is the guy who came up with the idea of Wolverine. And it would be cool if they all had the same names as X-Men, but they're just like guys. My name's Gambit.

Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Mine's Iceman. I will say a lot of the X-Men names sound like nicknames that divorced guys would give each other. Yeah. Beast. Beast. Oh, Beast is coming out, man. Come on. He's called me Magneto. Is it one called like Fireman? What's his name? Fireman. Pyro. Pyro. Fireman's an occupation, Matt, not an X-Man.

Hi, my name is Beth May and I play Trudy Trout, homemaker, robot, mother of one beautiful child. Fun fact about Trudy. I felt confident about this one when it popped into my head, but now I'm not so sure. Trudy's favorite movie is The Snake Pit.

Because it's the only movie that offers Python subtitles. Whoa. Whoa. Ha ha. Like Python is in the programming language. Yes. You got it. You got it. Hi, everyone. My name is William Campos, and I play the role. Shut up. That's not your real middle name. It is. Yeah. You got to bleep it out. I don't know what this bleeping the middle name out is. I think it's like feet. InfoSec. InfoSec.

It's like feet. Your middle name is equivalent to feet. You have to blur it out on the internet. All right. I'm William Campos. William Feet Campos. I'm William Feet Fucker Campos. Whoa.

I am William Piggly Wiggly Feetsyfoot Campos, and I am the dungeon master of this adventure that you are all going on. And my fact today, not a creepy fact, but this is a new piece of canon that someone suggested on our Discord that I thought was hilarious, so I was like, I'm going to fucking do this because this also is a nice little retcon for me. Britannica Blue, a.k.a. BB Blue, who you all know as your lovable sidekick detective...

We see her at the beginning of the show with the bowling team, which has let a lot of people be like, is she on the bowling team? Is she a member of the guttural screams? And the official answer is no, but she is the team sponsor. So all of the jerseys have the name of her detective agency on the back of them.

of them. Oh, that's your official sponsor. Oh, I like that. That's so much fun. She's like the bowling coxswain. The what? The bowling coxswain. Like the coxswain for the bowling team where you're not actually doing the thing. Oh, I see. Is that the guy in the boat who's like, row harder. Yeah. How do I get that job? Throw harder. You have to be kind of

small and skinny. Do I have to like kill the previous cocks man? In hand-to-hand combat, yeah. I've heard that that job is actually the hardest job on the team. It is the hardest one. I refuse to believe that when there's six guys rowing like they're in the fucking slave dally from Ben Hur. The only people that say that are cocks. That's like saying the jockey is the hardest part about the horse race. It's like, I'm sure it's difficult. These guys just keep time, right?

Essentially what they're doing. Yeah, I mean, talk about jobs that could get outsourced by ChatGPT. Like, I'm sorry, I don't understand how the fucking coxswain hasn't been replaced by, like, I don't know, a metronome. No, no, no, because you have to read your, you have to, what? I'm beefing with these guys. I'm beefing with these ripped hot men. Yeah, coxswains are pretty safe beef because it's just gonna be hot, rich guys. Like, that's punching up, especially with us. If there are any coxswains listening to this, where can they reach you, Will? They can reach me at Feet.

Feetfucker.com. 103 Feetfucker Lane, Feetsville, Feetabama, which is where I live. Maybe it'll bring six guys to fight for them and they can just scream. Fight harder. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Do you guys want to go on a spooky adventure? Yes. Yeah.

So when last we left the group, you had infiltrated Project Motherland. I don't know of us infiltrating it. Okay, that's fair. You bamboozled your way into Project Motherland by winning a bowling tournament. You infiltrated. It wasn't, you know, if number one is the Trojan horse, you guys are pretty far down on the list, but you infiltrated. The best stealth op in history. Coming in at number one. Coming in at number one. BuzzFeed Presents.

You will believe number four. You will believe what they got away with in number four. Hit. It involves a wooden horse. I hate it now when the videos show the little clip of it at the beginning. Like you just see like guys coming out of a wooden horse for three seconds. And then it's like, well, now we're going to show you how we built it. Boston Tea Party is probably like three, right?

No. No. I wasn't infiltrating anything. Well, they were pretending to be natives. It was problematic. If it was just like top 10 problematic moments. Top 10 problematic war ideas. One. War.

Three of these involve sinking a ship outside of a bed. So you guys infiltrated Project Motherland and their mysterious Building 21, the research facility at Persicovo Grad, a town that has been corrupted by the malign influence of the powers that be. You found...

Moth Jesus shackled in a irradiated blast zone with a horrible, mysterious artifact known as the director of the facility. He seemed to be getting all melted up and tortured. You managed to heroically rescue him in a daring effort by Trudy Trout, who went straight into the fucking cursed zone itself and dragged him out. And now her fucking, she's all half melted and looks like the Terminator a little bit, which is cool. As you pulled Mothman out of this room, the door slammed shut behind you.

and a massive 12-alarm super alarm went off in the facility. And the last thing you heard was Mothman saying, To the ship! Oh, and you also met Laika, and you promised Laika you would get her some yummy treats. Oh, shit. And you also have a bag of yummy treats. Great, now we're obligated. Well, I mean, Laika controls all the security and stuff. Maybe she can help us. Yeah, maybe Laika can help. Tree, are you okay? I'm glad that I got Mothman. Mothman, are you okay? Mothman?

Time is of the essence. We must delight. He seems fine. He seems okay. Can you both move? Can you walk? We gotta get going. Are you ambulatory? Mothman just staggers to his feet. He's not looking great. Somebody should carry him. Can I carry Mothman? How big is Mothman? Mothman's like, you know, he's like six foot. Could you describe how muscular and hot and big Mothman is for us? How hot is Mothman? Like, just right. He's so hot.

Is his weight in all the right places? What does that mean? It means the heavy parts of his body are the parts that you like. There's no wrong taste at weight, man. I have to look up something to answer that question. But maybe your preference is... Google, how big is... Hold on, hold on. I'm Googling this right now. Jake Gyllenhaal height. There we go. There's a whole podcast episode about that. Six foot? Yeah. Six foot? Yeah. There you go. See, six feet tall. Yeah. Nobody would swipe left, right. I don't know which way is the good way. Right is the good way. I don't know which way is the good way.

Mothman staggers to his feet. He's looking weak and wobbly. Blake, you want to help me carry this mothman? He seems a little bit hot and heavy. He has all the weight in all the right places. Perhaps there's a way to help convey that. You two are not completely fucked up right now, so you're going to have to do it. Everybody give me a listen check. We heard the alarm, Will. Ooh, I succeed so well. Okay. No, then I don't care. Then I succeed.

That's group chat in general. DMs, take note. That's just the way group roles go. Trudy, with your super robot ears, you hear from down the hall the sound of many footsteps running towards you and closing in fast. Oh, goodness. There's many footsteps coming and they're closing in fast. This does not seem good for our heroes. So, Laika, double time. Class, stick together. Everybody, follow Francis. You're not the hall monitor. You're the light.

Lion leader. Lion leader, go. So Francis will lead everybody back to Laika's room. Okay, so as you leave the director's office, again, you're now in the maze of corridors that makes up this place. And you see, they used to all be smiling and walking sort of like at a sort of cheery ambulatory stroll whenever you saw them. But now they're moving more like one of those hordes of zombies in like Project Z, not Project Z, World War Z. World War Z. They're all just kind of like stumbling around, but you see like this throng of,

sunburned smiling faces in lab coats just stumbling all over themselves as they're scouring the facility looking for you and one of them locks eyes with you and just does like one of those fucking points where they just look and you go I love it I love it in the zombie movie when the one goes oh

And then you hear like a hundred necks all snap in unison as they all turn towards you. They all die. We're cool. They all turn towards you and lock eyes with you and start chasing you down this hallway. Oh, God. So they were not in between us and Laika? No.

No. They were kind of a problem. Continue doing what we were doing then, but faster now. Yeah. We're going to do a little fucking, a little foot chase. Renewal chasing. Foot chase mechanics. That's pretty cool chase mechanics. We got some fun chase mechanics. Yeah, we did one in Mounds of Madness. We also did one in this very campaign. We did? Yeah, at the beginning. You guys get chased around. Remember the British people on the double-decker bus? That was a chase. Give me your move rating. M-O-V. I like to move it, move it. I like to move it, move it.

Nine. Eight. And Mothman... Wrote the other 51. Jesus Christ. Oh, shit. Oh, shit, man. We have fun here. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

So, Francis, your move speed is eight. However, comma, you did get one of your legs blown off and replaced with a rifle. If you shoot it, you can run faster. Can I aim by myself in a sniper jump? Oh, like in Grindhouse? Yeah. And then Mothman's move speed is a seven, but he is also injured.

Francis, I'm going to roll a 1d6 to see how much you're being slowed down. 1d6? Jesus Christ. So that's three. So your move speed is now five. Right in the middle. Hey, Francis, you and me, bud. We're walking together. I slowly slow down. Mothman loses a two, so he's also a five. Everybody's coming to Kelsey. Three fives and eight and a nine sounds like this podcast. Am I right? Nice. Nice. Now I'm doing the math. Who's who? Who's who? I'm confident. I'm confident.

Everybody go ahead and tell us who you think will be last to chat. Sound off in the chat. You only have to say the eight and nine. You don't have to write down who are the fives. It's process of elimination. We know. And personality doesn't count. Oh. Everybody give me a constitution roll.

This is going to be to determine your speed in the chase. Love it. Tell me if it was a fail or an extreme success or a regular success. Regular success for Kelsey. Fail for Francis. Okay. F for fail. Fail for Blake. Oh, no. Imagine the most you could succeed. Ooh. And then add three because it wasn't a one. It was a four. Okay. Was that super success? Super duper success? That's like a super duper hella well of success. Okay, great.

Everyone who failed, you get minus one move to your move speed. Francis is down to four. Kelsey is at five because you passed, right, Matt? Blake is down to eight. Mothman succeeded. Yay. The scientists also failed, so they're down to seven as well.

Fucking nerds, that's what you get. Trudy, you get plus one to your moves because you were hauling it. You're so motivated to go rescue your son. Yes, and I have a way to justify this because I am severely hurt and down to one HP. Okay, yes. I press a mole on my ankle and I get the roller blade feet. Well, you already have hover shoes. Yes, but now roller blades pop out, but they're not doing anything. Yes, but they look cool as hell. I look like...

Fuck, what's that 1993 movie that was so cool and made me so in love with that one guy? Boogie Nights? Specter Gadget? Keep going. That's really the duality. No, I'm thinking of Airborne, I believe. Sure was it. Boogie Nights and Specter Gadget.

Bro, bro, Guthrie, you're writing everything. Where are my airborne heads at? Where is airborne? Oh, man. Is it about a hot guy on rollerblades? It's exactly what that's about. The picture is just blue sky background with clouds. And there's just three images of this hot dude with rollerblades in three different poses, one jumping, one skating. And then with a girl. And he's just holding a girl. Yeah, and the girl's

That's for the women to go see the movie. What's the logline, Beth? The logline is Mitchell became the most popular guy on Earth once he took to the sky. This is better. This is better. The top one is man wasn't meant to fly. Kids were. Fuck yeah. That's a Applejack shit right there. I know exactly what I'm saying.

Get home. You know who else is in this movie? Seth Green. Dude, I love Seth Green. So this is everyone's final scores. Francis, four. Kelsey, five. Trudy, nine. Blake, eight. Mothman is at five. And the scientists are at seven. Jack Black's in the airport. So...

Sorry. So that's the spread. So basically, you know that Francis is hurting badly and will be the lowest person. Do you guys want to carry him and Mothman? What do you guys want to do? I'm hurting badly? Not hurting badly, but you're the slowest one by far. Oh, okay. So even though Trudy's hurt, she can move fast. Trudy got a really good roll. Help Francis. Francis, grab my hands. Okay.

No, my hands are coming off. Oh, shit. No, no. Well, at least you gave me a hand. I'm being silly. This is what a hand job's like? No. No. That's not. Doing the hands with one in the bush. Give me a strength roll. Okay. I'm due for a bad roll because I had two good ones. Oh,

Oh, we could do the fireman. I still succeed. I got a 47 out of 60. Okay, great. In that case, you can, yeah, because you got your hover roller skates. Francis can go on your back and take your speed of nine. Yeah. Speed pass, Kelsey. Yeah, great. Sucks to sack. I wanted

that for you, Francis. We'll knock you back down to eight. We'll see. How are you handling Mothman? Are you carrying Mothman or is he on his own? He has a speed of five on his own. Shoulder, like arm around each of our shoulders. If you guys are carrying them, then you're moving at Kelsey's pace, not at your pace, Blake. So that will lower the number of movements. Here's what I was thinking I could do is I could go ahead and like clear obstacles with my big,

Dump truck ass. And the people pursuing you are a five. Well, they already started off farther away. So if they're the same speed, they'll never catch up. Actually, no, sorry. Their move is a seven. Damn, I knew it was a seven. I just was excited that you said five. Sounds like a retcon to me. No, you were seven the whole time. But that isn't. Hey, I wasn't going to fix the bank's mistake. It was something they didn't know, you know? Here's how this is going to work. Trudy, you have four move actions. Blake, you have four move actions. Mothman has one. The scientists have three. And Francis is on your shoulders, Trudy.

You burst out of this office. You see this mob of sunburned scientists, you know, about two locations away, a little bit down this long hallway. And Francis, you remember the way back to Laika and you're ostensibly in the lead with Trudy. So I assume you guys all just take off down the hallway, right? Yes. All right. I'm ratatouilleing Trudy in terms of telling her when to turn. Nice. That's great. Okay. One less thing to worry about. You see a fork in the road and you know that to the right is Laika.

As this alarm trips off and you're running down the hallway, you see that doors around you are popping open left and right automatically, as if something in this facility is trying to flood the zone with things that are getting in your way to just try to slow you down with any and everybody it has available. Is this Laika? Is Laika working against us? No, no way. She loves us. I've decided.

There's one big, like, stretch of hallway between you and the bad guys. So they're going to move up to the director's office where you guys just were. You guys are going to move rounding the corner into the corridor towards Laika's room. So we are now going to roll, see if there are any hazards or barriers in this hallway waiting for you. And you guys rolled a...

You guys spill around the corner. Ficus. A ficus? Yeah. Like a ficus tree? Like a tree. Like a plant. Why? You have a little greenery in your office. Okay, yeah, I like that. This door bursts open and you see that it is in fact the experimental botany lab.

And a writhing, ginormous ficus tree flops out of this laboratory and seems to be using its branches to inch its way across the ground. Ficus aren't native to this continent. That's why it's experimental. So this is going to be a hard hazard. Okay. Which means it's a horde hazard. So you're going to need to make a skill roll to get through it.

You can use your movement actions to give yourself a bonus to this roll. We'll go in terms of order of dexterity. Blake, you're up first. What skill are we rolling? Yeah, what skill? It depends on how you approach it. How do you want to deal with this thing? So this is the other thing. I have a skill I can finally use. I've been fucking... Library used? No, I've used that one. We were in the library. I got one more, though. Uh-oh.

It's a good one, Beth. Let's just say I'm naturally gifted at things of this world. In

In its natural world? You might say that this plant, I already know a lot about it. Kelsey, do you have a plan to deal with the plant? Yeah, I know what that is. It's a plant. Okay. Great. No, your enemies have the battle, so. And get this, plants are not supposed to tip over on their own and crawl towards you. So I know that it's unnatural. So actually, I think by use of natural world, it's not going to be that helpful.

Blake, ficuses are sensitive to changes in light level. So if you could just really change the light level, either up or down, it doesn't matter. It's just a change. Oh, that actually gives me an idea. Maybe it'll scare it. I know what you're thinking, ficus F, but botany B. Nice. When you say that, Mothman looks up at you and says, Mark Jesus has a thing for that. Just because he likes light. It's like his sex toy. He is going to- Flashlight. Flashlight. That's just a flashlight for him. Okay.

I can make this area very dark. Will that be useful? None of us have night vision, so... Can you see in the dark? The one thing we have going for us is that we know where we're going. Well, if he can become the line leader, can you see in the dark? Yes. The line leader. Yes, okay. So if he makes it really dark, the fight guys will probably, at least according to my understanding... Yeah, but then we'll be going by his speed, which is not very good. We're only as fast as the slowest of us, Francis. You're right. The footsteps are getting around. Probably time to start making fucking decisions. Yeah, make it dark. Turtle.

up lights. Mothman casts void light, which creates a sink from which photons cannot emerge. The entire area around you becomes pitch dark. Now you're not going to thrive. Laughter

Okay. Is it just bad for them? Is that what you're saying, Matt? Yeah. Plants need photosynthesis. Photo, a little hint as to how that works. Specifically, according to Google, which means according to Kelsey's learning, is that ficuses are particularly sensitive to changes in light and they may not thrive. They are moved from a consistent location. So the ficus, this man-sized mani-like ficus goes. But this is kind of like, you know, sentient, maybe a

You've never heard a tree scream before, but you now hear this tree scream. Everybody. I'm not eating vegetables anymore. Only meat from now on. It starts to rear back to go back into the light of the room that it came from. It's like a moth. It's drawn to the light. We will say that it pulls back away from the room.

But you can't tell if the hallway is clear because you cannot see, but you hear it starting to slither back. Into your hands and wings, we commend ourselves. Bring us to like a Mothman. And then Mothman says, hold, hold. Then he goes, okay, go. And then you guys take off because he can see in the dark. It's like a trust exercise with Moth Jesus. Wow. Not bad. Not bad.

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It's pitch dark in here. Is there anything you would like to do before you leave this location before this other group rounds the corner? Can we throw some things onto the ground to maybe fuck with the people following us? Good idea. Oh, there's a vending machine on the wall. We'll say that. Vending machine? That sounds like an invention of the

Capitalists. Well, this one is, you know. Free. It's free. Press all the buttons and then tip the vending machine. It's like a community library, but for snacks. Put one snack, like, just out of reach so they'll have to shake it and it'll fall on them. But what's in it? There's a bunch of. It's too dark to tell. Oh, you know what? Because, yeah, they're all creepy and possessed. It's just corn in there, dude.

Whoa. It's just like ears of corn. Ears of corn? Yeah. Just like whole ears of corn. Not even chucked, dog. I said chucked. That's a dumb. That's dumb. I'm dumb. No. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. You have this corn vending machine, this corn hub, if you will. It's corn. You'll only remember where it was because it's now pitch dark. Because it's fucking weird. We saw a vending machine of corn and we're like, that's weird. That's weird. So you have a vague recollection of where it is, but you will have to spend one of your movement actions to grope around for it. Boss man, where was the vending machine with corn?

Oh, it's right over here. Oh, okay. I'm going to go over and tip it over. For my little action, because my face is Terminatorized and probably there's like some metal pieces sticking out, I want to remove like a small spring or piece of metal from my head and

Okay. And then place it on the ground. Like a piece of metal, like a pointy piece of metal that one might step on or something like that? Is that the idea? Okay. They're not barefoot. Nails go through car tires, bro. We don't know. We don't know if they're barefoot. You know what? I shouldn't be yucking a plan. Give me a luck roll. What's my luck? It's 33. The Jesus number. I got a 48. You find this really nice, sharp.

rod of metal like this. Nice. Like as you pull it out of your cheekbone. Cool. Oh, that's four. Roll me a 1d6. Boom. Four. All right. So four of your teeth fall out when you do that. Oh, no. So now there are four of your teeth and you can set this pointy like nail wherever you want. They're like molars, right? They're not in the front of my mouth, right? It's just too dark. You can't see it. Oh. Trudy, the redneck robot. Probe around your mouth with your tongue, Trudy, to know which ones fell out. Oh, my incisors. Oh, my incisors.

All right. Trudy spent an action to do that. And the teeth are on the ground now, too. Yeah, and there's some teeth on the ground. They don't want to step on those teeth either. While they're gingerly trying to avoid the teeth, that's when we hit them with the corn. So wait, are you trying to topple it over now or are you going to wait? I'm going to topple it over now. All right, give me a strength check. Does anyone want to help him? This is going to be a hard strength check. I'm holding on to Trudy, so...

All right, Blake. It's going to be a hard strength roll. Let's go. 18 out of 75, which is a super success. All right. This thing topples over and slams on the ground. You hear the unmistakable sound of corn husks stuttering everywhere. I recognize that sound anywhere. Corn is, you know, like a tapered cylindrical object. Sort of. I think with a super success, does it like fall out and like cause a kind of tripping hazards and like whoops? Well, how did you topple it over?

I pushed it really fucking hard. I will give you a choice. Either you tipped it over on its face and now there's a large vending machine blocking the road that they're going to have to climb over or you tipped it over on its side and there are now a bunch of small corn on the cob rolls scattered across the hallway that they will have to- And broken glass. And a little bit of broken glass. So which would you like to do? On the side. I think on the side. Okay, great. You pull it over on its side and yes, you hear the unmistakable sound of non-husked

ears of corn bouncing across the floor. Nice. We'll give them a listen roll to see if they hear that sound. No way. You got to be a farmer to know what that sounds like. They eat corn all the time. Yeah, you think none of them ever dropped their corn, dude, but they didn't hear it. So you're fine. Nice. Francis, do you want to do anything? No, I think I'm just still navigating. Francis, you could have just pointed your leg down the hallway and gotten the free innocent kill. I already used my freebie and I don't have that many bullets. Can I suggest something that I can drop on the ground? Oh, you haven't done a thing yet. Yeah. I want to say that in my pocket,

Kelsey's, this isn't a good name for it. So just accept that this is, you know, we'll, we'll brainstorm this name later and decide if this is good, but she's got her naughty pocket. I think you nailed it at one, Matt. I'm going to need more details. The big pocket or jacket when kids are playing with stuff, they shouldn't be playing in class. She puts them in her pocket and she gets them at the end of the day. She's got a bunch of jumping jacks. She's got a real stuffed naughty pocket. You know, essentially like, I know we'll come up with it.

They're just jacks. Jumping jacks are a thing you can do. Jumping jacks, yeah. So she's got kids who are playing too much jumping jacks. They're jacks. They're jacks, yeah. Jumping jacks are an exercise. Jumping jacks are the exercise. That's right. Every time you say jumping jacks, you're going to have to do a jumping jack for me. Okay, how many times did I say it? You don't have to do it now. You don't have to do it in real life. All right, Matt's doing them. All right, there you go. Okay, jumping jacks.

He's having a good time. We're going to trick Matt into doing cardio. Okay. You got to trick me to do it. So she's got a bunch of jacks because the kids are playing in class. Okay, so she's going to throw some jacks out. Jacks isn't gambling. Dice is gambling. You can gamble with any game. That's true. Hey, Jimmy, if you win this game of jacks, you get $100. Oh, yeah? But if I win, I get the $100. Cool. They gambled.

Hey, hey, I bet Jimmy's going to win. Oh, shit. Now half the class is gambling because now they're betting. This is an important point because this is what I brought up when pogs were big at my school and they banned pogs because they said it was gambling. And I went around and got a bunch of kids to sign a petition to bring to the administration to say we should just ban playing for keeps.

And they did nothing with that situation. And that's when I became disillusioned with the political process. That's fair. I figured that, you know, Jimmy, who's canonically who I said was playing Jack's, I'll apologize to him later and buy him his Jack's back.

I figured they're worth dropping on the floor. Hit the jacks back. The original Lego in terms of Lego. We've got the jacks. We've got the vending machine corn. Dude, you think that like boomers were like, D-A-E hate it when you step on your kid's jacks in the middle of the night? You guys ever done some jumping jacks and landed right? Yeah, you said it. You got to do another one. Oh.

I got him. You got him. Yeah. You guys around the corner in the next room will deal with what happens there. But as you run, you hear in the pitch darkness behind you the sound of your creepy screeching sunburned pursuers stumbling around this hallway. And we're going to see how they fare with these obstacles they don't know are there. There should be just like one normal guy that's like...

You stepped on my jack! Son of a bitch. So first here, we're going to give them a luck roll for Beth's big fucking sharp piece of metal. Oh, and the group got a two, so nobody managed to step on it. Trudy doesn't know that, and she thinks she was very helpful. Yeah, okay. They also rolled very well on their luck for the jacks, so you can't tell if they stepped on any of them, or maybe they just stepped over them or something like that. Vending machine corn. We're going to make this one a hard luck roll because there's corn everywhere. Mm.

Come on, come on. They fail 86 on the corn roll. So now it's going to be a disadvantage dexterity roll for them to not be hobbled and befuddled by all this corn they're slipping and sliding around on. Okay. Well, that's a 97.

Fuck yeah, dude. Hell yeah. Blake Lively, MVP. Okay, so yes, you hear the telltale sound of a large group of people running into a bunch of slippery rolls of corn and falling over on the ground. No sweeter sound. They all wipe the fuck out. I can't believe my ears. Can I spot hitting something? You should be a colonel in the army. Yes, go ahead. You should be a colonel on this ear of corn.

Yeah, that's what I said, Colonel. What are you trying to spy on? Never mind. Ignore that. I mean, just a normal success. I don't think it's good enough for what I was looking for. What were you looking for? I want to see, since they have a whole vending machine of corn, kind of like, you know, if you got like a coffee machine, they got like those little stirrers and stuff, right? Corn accessories. So I feel like if they had a vending machine of corn, they'd have those little spikes for corn on the cob. You know, you put on either side of the little corn on the cob. And there's little spikies. You think they're all like the little handlers? Yeah, I do love those. Oh, no, I like that. For the normal success? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, you find, okay, yes. They have like a little like table with some corn accessories. I see all these corn on the cobblers. Matt, we will say that you have a bunch of little corn holders. Gear up. Gear up, everybody. They're like little knives. There's also one of those movie theater butter dispensers. Nice. If someone wants to rip that off the wall, they can take that.

Hey, just rip it off the wall and just spill the butter. Well, she can't because she's carrying Francis. Choose wisely, Western man. You can either choose the pointy corn holders or the wall butter. Blake, you chose correctly last time. Should I put butter on the floor or should I grab these little tiny knives? And each knife has two little knives. It's like double knife. Need I remind you what your catchphrase is, Kelsey?

Get that butter. Okay. Well, getting the butter means not spilling it. I'm just going to grab the butter and carry it. Okay, great. I got the butter. You have to drop the butter.

Stop the butter. Yeah, but maybe we'll need it later for more. I don't think we will. You're bad guys. I don't think we will. Okay, fine. They already got knocked out. We're going to deal with it. Okay, I'm going to hold on to the butter, Trudy. Okay. I'm going to hold on to it. You hear them knock out. You emerge from the darkness and you're once again sprinting down the hallway towards Laika. We're going to do another hazard roll to see if any other horrible things happen to you. Francis, Laika likes you. Maybe call out. Do you think Laika knows what's happening? I think Laika's got access to all the security cameras and stuff, so yes, for sure.

So she's not helping us. She's kind of. Well, was there any audio on the cameras? I'm trying to remember. But she knows we got her treats. Yeah. Like wave the treats in the air, maybe. So she knows that we're trying to come for treats. Oh, that makes sense. And I wave the treats and I go treats. Treats like is a good girl. Please open the way. Good girl. And block the way behind us. And block the way behind us. Make things easier for us. Good girl.

Good girl. As you emerge from the darkness, you see Laika's room straight ahead of you. But then I rolled a 90. Uh-oh. Probably good for this. No, that's not good for you. That's very bad for you. This is for the random barriers and hazards. So a 90 plus is another hard hazard slash barrier. Since we did a hazard last time, we're going to do a barrier this time. This is what I have in mind for your barrier. Oh, the glass ceiling. Oh.

There's one last intersection before you get to Laika's room. As you run up the hallway, you hear BAM!

Bam! You hear these heavy footfalls. As you go towards the hallway, you hear the ground shaking, and then right before you get to the edge of the hallway, you hear something like a light and leap, and then again, you're in a big, almost like open, high-ceilinged area. You see a one-bedroom hut, like a house, slam down in the middle of the hallway. Okay. With a door shut right in front of you. This house just slams into the hallway, blocking your path to like a... Is there any... Check out the doormat!

Is there any space to the left or right? Not enough for you to wedge through. It's like about six inches on either side. What if we were really slippery? Oh, okay. Six inches. Six inches. What if we were all buttered up? I like that. I like that. What if we were all buttered up, let's just say? There's barely enough room on the side. Step butter. If someone wanted to get greased up. It looks like a sort of medieval Russian peasant's hut. Just slams down in front of you. Everybody give me a spot hidden rule. Okay. On the scale of like

The Three Little Pigs on the scale of like, hey, mud, brick, you know, how strong is this hut? It's a... The Three Little Pigs! You weirdo. I was like, where are you going with this? Can we blow it down?

I got a super successive spotted. Oh, well, I don't even care. I failed. The hut seems to be made of like thatched. Like I was the weakest one. Yeah, it was on the stick. What was it? Sticks and straw. It's a straw hut. Whoa. So it's really weak. By the way, bricks. Come on. Like you live in tornado alley. You know, the torsional and the fucking torque strength of bricks is pretty fucking bad. Okay. So it's very weak hut.

Anthony, you got super successful. Yeah, what did I see? So you see that the hallway this thing appeared to have jumped down from. Down the hallway, you see a sign. It's the psionic Slavic folk apparition wing of the research center. It's the psionic.

No, no, Francis. It's much more legible in Russian. It would be an extreme dexterity to squeeze your way through. It would be a hard dexterity if someone got greased up first. Okay. Now what about busting through a Kool-Aid man style? Nice. Can we tackle this from two fronts? Can we just beat this fucking Thatcher's ass? Yeah, can we just beat his ass, dude? Up to you. Up to you. Time is ticking. I'm going to give you guys...

one minute to figure out how you want to approach it. Can we just check the door lock is a lot? Oh, the door itself. That's the number one thing you should do. You know how many movies they do where they do that, like, oh, the door was locked the whole time, so let's just check the lock. The door is not locked. Oh, I hope I can't really go in. No, no, no, no, no, careful. It is psionic. It could be Baba Yaga in there. I opened it. You opened the door. It's Baba Yaga. It's Jabba, your bantha father. You opened the door. I wanted to touch Jabba. And the first thing you see is, in fact...

wart-covered, wrinkled old woman stirring a big mortar with a pestle. And she looks at you and says, Get out of my house! Oh, I was just delivering and I put the butter down and I closed the door. Wait, wait, wait. Could you see a back door when you opened it? Oh, I got a peek open. Oh, okay.

Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt, and I want to look to see if I see a back door. There's no back door. We'll say there's a window that if someone was greased up. Sounds like somebody really wants us to get greased up. Reddit slash D&D. Our DM keeps pushing us to get greased up in his campaign. Ma'am, do you mind if we just go through that back window? And she just looks at you and goes...

And her mouth is growing bigger and bigger. I don't think she wants that. Does the door open outwards or inwards? Would a thatch house even have a door? She's got like one of those. It's like a cloth. It's one of those clothes. It's like one of those 70s beaded curtains. Does the cloth go in or out? Is this butter enough for all of us to be greased up to try to make it through the window? Since you want us to grease up. I know you want this, Will, so you tell us how we can make this happen. Do you grease up all of us or do you just grease up the window? Season three, Will got a little railroad-y when it came to the butter.

It's enough for one of you to grease up your whole body, but you could all grease your feet up. LAUGHTER

We all grease our feet up and we show Will our feet. I grease up my rollerblades and then I'm going to jump over the house. You're going to jump over the house? Surely there's way more room above than there are on the side. Well, that changes the whole calculation. Yeah, is there room above? You said it jumped. Yes, there is. There's room above the house. You could climb over the house. And being greasy, unfortunately, won't help you do that. Hovering off the ground certainly will. But it's also like sticks and stuff. So it's probably pretty easy holds in terms of climbing. Here's what happens.

You guys have been debating this long enough. You see the stumbling army. We'll distract us by talking about greased feet, though. Yeah. Welcome to my perverted plan. Oh, no, now they all are going to see your greased feet. Now they're all going to see your dirty, greasy feet.

They're going to laugh at your feet. This army of deranged scientists starts to stumble around the hallway. What do you want to do? We're going to go in dexterity order right now. Climbing. I'm going to throw Trudy up. You're going to yeet Trudy over. She's already hovering. I'm going to do a sick grab with my skates. And then Francis, you're clinging on to Trudy still? Yeah, like RRR style. I'm going to sort of grab onto the top of the roof and try to like swing us both with the momentum like over it. Okay, great. Blah.

Blake, that's going to be a movement action from you. And give me a strength check to see how hard you throw in right now. 87 out of 75. Okay. So actually, no, we'll say give me advantage because Trudy does have hover boots on. Ah, 27. Nice. That's a super success. Super success. All right. Describe to me how you shot, put these two up the fucking, what do you do? Trudy, onto my shoulders. Okay.

And then so she hovers onto my shoulders and I just stand up really fast. I go, huh. Okay. So you just launch her that way. Okay, great. Trudy, you are now airborne with Francis.

I'm 1993 major motion picture airborne. Okay, sick. I assume you're also kind of jumping when you do this? Sure. Give me an advantage dexterity roll to clear this. Baba Yaga's hut. To clear Baba Yaga's hut with the help of Blake's yeeting. Can I do jump instead since I have more jump? Oh, you have jump? Yeah. In the words of Van Halen, you might as well jump. Yeah. I only have a 27 in jump, but it's two more. Okay. So there you go. Two.

Advantage, remember. 77. Okay. Oh, so you need a one or a two. 17. Yeah! Holy shit! So, again, Beth, paint us the picture. Time slows down. It's the coolest song you've ever heard, but you don't know what it is starts playing. It's a rock song.

Francis soars, like, from Trudy's back over the house and does, like, a sick flip. Like, I get launched off you? Yeah, I think. Okay. Okay.

Okay. In a safe way. You're like the skateboard. She's like, she's let go of you, but she's going to get you back. Oh, cool. You're like the skateboard. You're doing like a Christ air with Francis. Yeah. I'm doing a Christ air. You invent the Christ air. That's why they call Christ air because Moth Jesus. I call it the Moth Jesus air. The Moth Jesus air. I think Christ invented the Christ air.

No, Christ didn't. How do you think they got him up there? Hey, Matt, I hate to break it to you, but old J of N did not skateboard. Wait, can you imagine going to a skateboard church where they're like, body of Christ, air of Christ? If a youth pastor launched and nailed a 720 Christ air, I'd convert right there. Yeah, that's true. You Christ air over the top of Baba Yaga. With like a 540. Okay, with a 540. So you land backwards.

You stick the landing on the other side.

With Francis on your back. Francis, anything you want to contribute here? Is there anything you want to do? Apparently, I am a prop at this point, and I'm happy to be. I'm happy to be the cross to your Christ. Sick. The cross to your Christ. Wow. I just want to hang out with him. If Jesus Christ invented the cross here, they would have made skateboards out of the cross and sold them as like a limited commemorative. The one true board? Yeah. Skateboarding sleigh. Beth, you already know all the skateboarding sleighs. You've played all the Tony Hawk games. I stuck that primo. Oh.

That

That takes care of the two of you. You guys are on the other side of this barrier. That leaves two more of you and a moth. Moth Jesus is very hurt, right? We checked the power of his wings. If we were to climb and jump, would he be able to flap his wings to make it easier for us, lighter? Oh, I see. So you want him to light. Just lighten the load for us as we're climbing up this thing. You guys are just going to scale the house? Yeah. Well, that was one thought. Sure. You scale with Moth Jesus. I will boost you to help you from behind. I will take care of Baba Yaga.

Oh, man. Okay. That's what I wanted to hear. Blake, give me another string. I'm going to hand you the butter. Be like, grease up if you got to. You know what to do. You know what to do. And I start rubbing it all over myself in anticipation. Blake rips his shirt off and douses himself with butter. Let me get your back.

Strength roll number two with Kelsey and Moth Jesus. Yes. 95 out of 75. Well, we'll say that because Moth Jesus is flapping his wings, you're going to get one more shot at this as an advantage. 55 out of 75. So normal success. All right, Kelsey. Right before. Oh, what do I need to give you? You need to give me an advantage to jump or dexterity your choice. And I want to say something right before he launches us. 20. You got 20. I got 20. Okay, great. What do you say before you jump? I go, Blake, listen.

Listen, ready? Baba Yaga, 12 o'clock, one o'clock off, exactly 32 feet. There's a small window. It is two feet by 18 inches. Okay? Vertical. Turn sideways. There is a small rug to the left. It looks slippery. A small dining room table to the right of the window. You can prime off of it. And then Blake gently puts a finger to your lips and says, Fear not, Kelsey. This is not the first time I have encountered Baba Yaga. LAUGHTER

Godspeed millionaire plumber. And I'm going to go. Okay. He's going to fuck Baba Yaga. I told you I'd come back. So

So yes, you leap over. Mothman is straining, but is able to flap his wings and get you over the side. Everyone is over on the other side except for you, Blake. And I turn around and I see the shambling hordes. And I say, if you wish to have me, come and claim me. And then I whip the curtain aside and I step into Baba Yaga's house. Husband! And I go, Baba Yaga? She looks at you and she narrows her eyes and she says, We meet again. And this time, I bring you fresh souls.

And then I run. And then I try and run. And I want to try and run and dive through face first through the window. Oh my God. Holy shit. Holy shit. Yeah, that's great. I hope you become like Pooh Bear. I hope we got to pull you out of this window.

This will be a dexterity roll. Does he get advantage because I gave him all this information so he got a heads up in terms of like, I just pulled up the thing and you can see his own eyes. He knows Kelsey was right.

He goes, oh, yeah, Kelsey, describe the screen pretty well. Kelsey, give me an intelligence roll. I was thinking it was going to be dark. Two. So critical success. Super duper success. If you failed, I was going to say that the window's in the wrong spot. It would be that there's a painting of a window in the spot next to where the real window is. Yeah, the room is just as Kelsey described it. So you're trying to jump through a narrow window. Greased up. Greased up.

So here's what we're going to say. We're going to do a straight dexterity roll to jump through the window, and then we'll give you an advantaged luck roll because of the grease to see if you make it through without getting stuck. All right. Dexterity is a super duper success. 15. This is not the first time I have left through Baba Yaga's window. All right.

Just paint us a picture of the last time you did this. Yeah, what happened last time between you two? I will maybe get into it if someone asks. We just did. No, in character. Okay, okay, okay. Because I want to tell the same story twice. I respect that. It's just like riding a bike, jumping out of fucking Papiaka's window for you. You remember the exact spot that you used to kip up and parkour off of her fucking stone. And the little twist that I did. Yeah, and you do a pirouette, but now you remember because you banged your head last time. Like, what better duck, tuck, and roll a little bit. Tuck my chin a little bit. And you sail through the window, but you're not quite...

as svelte as you used to be. That's true. The last time you did this, you were a lot smaller. I mean, you and Baba Yaga boned everything.

When her partner was out of town. Yeah, when Dad Baba, when Dada Yaga came back, it was like, what the fuck? And you went out the window. Give me three steps. Dad Baba Yaga. Dad Baba Yaga. Give me a luck roll with advantage for the grease to see if you, in fact, get stuck in this window. Grease lightning. First roll is a 60. Okay. Out of what? 60 out of 29. Oh, God. The second roll was a

Holy shit. I fucking clear the luck, baby. Skater Trudy hits Francis against the side of the quarter pipe like a skateboard and be like, that was steezy as hell. So yeah, we'll say that like in an Avengers kind of moment, like this all happens simultaneously on the other side of it. Like you see fucking Trudy sticks this landing with Francis.

Francis Wright as Mothman is flapping his wings at Kelsey Lance and then right at that moment a greased up shirtless fucking Blake Lively blasts out of Bobby Yaga's ass. Spiraling like a Tom Brady football. Either you just like flow through super easy or like the moment you hit the window it is like too small for you but then like kind of like one of those Play-Doh machines you just stop and go...

I turn to the girl and I say, we must make haste. I have questions! We do not want to be near here when she begins harvesting these souls. And Tree's like, you know what they say, a moth flaps its wings in Russia, the

this tornado happens also in Russia. Kickflip. Kickflip. All right. So you guys have now made it through. You're right at Laika's door before you entered Laika's room. And we hear, of course, the screaming in the background. So behind you, all the guys are running and then they skid to a halt because they know this is Baba Yaga. This is not the Klingon Tating Baba Yaga. They've all tasted Baba Yaga. But I told them if they...

That's where she gets her power. But I told them if they wished to have me, they had to come and claim me. The scientists are going to attempt to put together an offering for Baba Yaga to win her favor in this fight. Yeah, how about a new fucking window? They all look amongst each other and they all line because they're all a hive mind, right? They all do everything for the greater good. Nice. They all line up by height. They got to be really good at sex then.

They're going to need long straws. The tallest, most beautiful and virile-looking scientist at the end of the line nods solemnly, and they all lick their thumbs and stamp them on him. They do little blessings on him and stuff like that, and then he walks forward and prostrates himself in the doorway of Baba Yaga. We are going to roll to see if this offering of man flesh is enough to persuade her to aid them in her pursuit of you. He prostrates himself?

Can I say they use butter like the Catholics use ash for Ash Wednesday and they like. I need another detail. It's like dating in L.A., man. There are a lot of tens in L.A. I know. But when you're an eight, it's tough. Wait, then who's the nine? So they got an 11. So Baba Yaga looks pleased with their offering. Oh.

And the door to her hut closes. And as you step into Laika's office, you hear an ecstatic moan of pleasure turn into a curdling scream of agony. A curdling, creamy scream of agony. I'll take the cream of agony. As blood, a geyser of blood blasts out of that window. But Satan...

Baba Yaga turns sides and you see two big chicken legs stick out of the hut and it rises and turns towards you and Baba Yaga has now joined the pursuit. Oh no! She comes once and all of a sudden she wants to get us? Jesus Christ. Bitches be crazy! We'll say that you've got one distance between you, them, and Baba Yaga and now you're at Laika. You barge into the room and Laika's like, treats? Yeah. I toss a handful of treats at Laika haphazardly and I go, shut the door!

I can do that. I close the door behind him. Like lock it. If you have some sort of ability to lock it. I turn the lock on top. All right. Fuck me then. I just go back to being a skateboard and I silently go stiff. Check this out. A kid flip. A kid flip. A kid flip. You've heard of pushing Mongo, but this is pushing Mango.

That's for my skaters out there. That's for my fucking skaters, bro. I like that one better because I'm cool like a skater, too. Hell yeah. So clarify, Laika's room is a dead end. Laika's room is a dead end. Yes. As far as you guys know. Laika's got treats, as far as we know. As far as you know. And the door's locked behind us. Baba Yaga's hut cannot go through this. This is a normal-sized door, right? That's true. Okay, good. Nice. They picked the wrong ally.

Okay. Well, first I want to ask Laika, what's the quickest way from here to Mothman's ship that we can get to safely? This is very simple. You simply go out this door and back the way you came. Is there a way to clear the door? What is wrong? What is happening? Baba Yaga's outside and everybody. And they're coming to take your treats. Baba Yaga is outside? Yes. She just had sex or something. This is not the first time Laika has faced Baba Yaga. Why she gets around? Please!

You help Laika. You are friend to Laika with your many treats. Yes. Laika will help you escape. Thank you. Thank you. Very well. What would you like Laika to do? We just gotta go to the spaceship. If you can find a way to clear out the hallway and like redirect them or like, I don't know, is there an acid button in addition to the big hut button? Or is there like a vent? Are there vents here that we can climb through? Man-sized vents. Man-sized vents. Let me think. And woman-sized vents. Laika, draw upon your non-Euclidean geometry to reshape the form of this base and put us next to... Yeah, can you fold space real quick?

Just, it's always worth asking. It never hurts to ask. That's true. There's a lot of weird stuff here. Laika's eyes roll back in her head as she ponders your many questions. She's like, I need treats to power my thinking. Give me many treats and I will think hard. With no hesitation, I do so. You're a good girl. Don't forget that. It's like feeding punch cards into an old machine. Yeah, as she cookie monsters this huge box of dog treats, she sort of lolls around in ecstasy and then her eyes bolt open as she has a plan for you.

Do you remember that little moth that was following you guys around? Oh, yeah. Do you remember? Yeah, dude. That moth was incredible. Yeah, your moth loved it. That moth watched us beat ass that whole episode. It kind of lands on Laika's nose, and Laika's eyes go wide, and Laika's like, Yes. Yes, of course. I know the way. I know what we must do. Yes. First.

I will open the hangar door so you can escape in your ship. Oh, great. And the ship closes her eyes and you hear like, off in the distance, like a, as this thing opens. When you get a sense, you get a feeling that had you chosen not to help Laika, that would have been like a thing you would have had to deal with.

This is a, you're not going to replay this podcast, you know, as YouTube and see what other people do. Yeah. Yeah. You know, they got other groups that chose not to do that. We would have died. They would just close the door and we died. Yeah. Um, that would have been the end. So good thing you guys didn't do that. And

that and then like it says I also no way for you to escape right there is man-sized maintenance hatch under my station you need to rip me off pedestal and climb through and there will be tunnels that can take you to safety moth will show you the way it's may not be good for like I have one more request for you is it gonna be sad if you do this

Lyca can survive several minutes detached from system. Just enough time to get to ship. All Lyca wants is to see the stars one more time. Oh my God. Jesus Christ. If you take me with you so that I may see the stars, then it is okay that I go. What's the system that's keeping you? Like, what's it providing? Maybe we could jury rig something. Yeah, Mothman, do you think you can become part of your ship or like live on your ship? We may try. I don't know. Okay.

Probably have to roll for it. It sounds very complicated. It's an app from an unsigned developer. Well, either way, I promise we will do our best to get you to the stars. Thank you. He's my dog. I'll do it. Oh, okay. He's your dog. I decided. That's nice. The more things holding him here. Francis has a dog. Blake has a cat. Trudy has a mothman. Yes. Great.

Kelsey has an encyclopedia. Yeah, Kelsey's just, you know, in the back of your book house of her sister's room. Wait, guess who's in her sister's house? Frances has a dog, but Kelsey's got that dog in her. Nice. The dog in you doesn't do much those lonely nights.

Yeah. As Laika says, thank you. You hear the unmistakable sound of two huge chicken feet stomping down a corridor with a house on top of them, followed by the scurrying sounds of many a scientist as they close in on the room. Francis, give me a strength check to rip Laika off of her station. Francis, don't forget to right click and safe eject. Hmm.

My strength is a 45 and I rolled a 58. Okay. That's what Francis said. Can I help? Can I help? Francis, please step aside. And stop making that noise too while we do this. What noise? The one you're doing. It's really heavy. Don't worry, Francis. Kelsey, let's do this. Okay. Three, two, one. Strength roll. Oh, fuck. I helped. Okay.

I got 22 out of 37. Okay, great. So sparks fly as you manage to rip Laika's sort of like pedestal off of this. That was all you, Kelsey. Off of the ground. And there is, sure enough, a big hatch in the floor that you can narrowly crawl through if you would like to. How are we getting Laika over? Is there like a chip or something? When you pop this thing off, Laika has like a dog collar.

that has like sealed off the bottom of her head and it's plugged into a bunch of wires but as you rip it out like you see stuff start to power down but like the thing has like a little bit of innate charge left in it maybe maybe get wired into Trudy oh I mean I would ask you first obviously no but maybe maybe instead of a ship we can like put like on like a little like you know like a little like wheelchair thing like

You're wasting time. You need to get to my ship. I suppose that if we can't fit through this man-sized hole, we could always use butter. Oh, let's all hug Blake. Ah, yes, everyone, rub up against me. I feel like I'm good. Francis, you can rub against my feet. Oh, fuck no.

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What was blocking the vent? Laika's body, essentially. It was like a big pedestal that Laika was on. And below the pedestal is this hatch. It's like a maintenance hatch to work on Laika from below. Everybody get in. Okay. I'm the biggest, too. So, you know, just in case I get stuck, I don't want, you know, I should be last down the water slide. No, you can't get stuck.

You have to use the butter. Yeah, I know. I'm hugging Blake still. I'm rubbing it all over myself. I will go first, so I will spread some additional butter residue. Nail trail. Nail trail. Francis, as you can see from my dump truck ass, that won't be a problem. I can't even see the light around you. Everybody be careful, because we'll only have a margarine of inches. Ah!

I want a spot hidden to see if there's anything that... If I'm going to be the last one, anything that... If it was a chair or a round trash can, like anything that can go over the hole. Over the hole. Like, just to make it a little harder to see. Yeah. You can buy us a second. Give me a roll. You can just buy us some seconds, you know? A 26. All right. My spot hidden is...

Fucking what do you see? I see to the right of Laika, there was the dog they used before. It's just dead now. Oh, no. They kept it in there? Like in what? It's in formaldehyde, we'll say. It's like you're not using that monitor, but they didn't take it as storage. It's just off on the side of the desk. I'll tell you what. By the way, I say this as I have a computer monitor at my feet at this desk. Yeah, exactly. So I just pull that one off, and then I'm going to put that. So then they'll think we went through. Is there a hole underneath that guy, too? Yeah.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So they're like, which hole? Is that what you're trying to do? I'm going to pull that off and uncover it. No, this would have been, they would have plugged it into Leica. Okay, okay. But yeah, I'm going to essentially remove that dog USB drive and we're going to stick it over us as we... All right, sure, yeah, you get to do that. Yes, you do that. Yet again, you find yourselves crawling through a man-sized vent. You hear this door burst open behind you and you hear Baba Yaga go like,

Find them. Find Blake Lively and his little dog, too. Wow. Oh, it's Blake's dog. Which one of us is the dog? Am I the dog? No, the dog is the dog. Oh, shit. I'm just reading about these Soviet space dogs. There were a lot of them, actually. Belka and Strelka. And they all died really scared. Yeah. If you're in Los Angeles, the Museum of Jurassic Technology has an exhibit of paintings and portraits of the Soviet space dogs, and it's awesome. I've been to that museum, but I didn't see that. Upstairs, Beth. Oh.

You guys are scooching your way through. Let's go ahead and do another hazard roll. See if there's anything in these tunnels. Not this time. Dice. And yes, the moth is leading the way. The moth seems to know which way. Second Baba Yaga. We got a 66. This is a regular hazard. Okay. Ew, there's some yucky slime in here. Don't worry. I will add some more slime to it and I just slid right through it. Okay. And I butter it up even more. Nice. Give me a...

Butter roll. Give me a buttery roll. Because you're just going to muck straight through it. Yeah. You're going to muck through the yucky slime. Butter neutralizes acids. Oh, shit, dude. He wins. You beat my trap. My impromptu slime trap. Give me a sanity roll. 78 out of 85. Out of 72, actually. Roll 1d4 sanity.

Okay, you lose one sanity and you realize that you don't know what you're under. This seems to be leaking in from another one of these laboratories. Another dimension? Dripping on the floor. And like when you smell this slime, it gives you a sense memory of give me Blake's happiest moment of his entire life. Oh, that would probably be the first fucking Baba Yaga. Yeah.

No. Go ahead. No, the happiest moment of Blake's life, he had a birthday party somewhere as a child. And there was like a little construction toy set and he kind of like made two pipes fit together. And he's like, as a child, ah, this will be my career. And he spent an entire day undoing and refastening. Ah.

As Blake wriggles through this slime, he narrates that story to all of you. This reminds me of my 12th birthday party. Oh, that's nice. One of my friends gave me a pipe. Another friend gave me, luckily, the same size pipe. And Papa had a coupler. And Mama gave me PVC glue. That's lovely. Now thinking back on it, it may have been the fumes of the PVC glue that I'm remembering. Who's after Blake?

I'll you know kind of put Francis okay so Francis you are now army crawling after Blake are you going to try to avoid the slime or go through the slime you can avoid it well I mean like you didn't try to you just blasted through it you could have tried to avoid the slime does that mean he like smeared it all over himself it's not there anymore no there's still slime it's a very viscous slime I will do my best to avoid it okay give me a dexterity roll disadvantage because of Brujah and Hello I'm just using my upper body though

To avoid it? It doesn't matter. I still passed. Okay. All right. Nice. Be a gentleman and put your coat down. Fortunately. It was a sign for Trudy.

You avoid the slime and do not have to share your happiest memory. Trudy, you're next. I'm also going to try to avoid it, and I will do that by doing that itsy bitsy spider dance that everybody's doing right now that looks really cool, but I don't know how to do it. Dang. All right. Well, I hope our audience knows what that looks like. Can you give me a dexterity roll? 41. All right. Give me your sanity. Sanity. Sanity roll. 47 sanity, and I roll a 68. Okay, so roll. Give me a 1d4.

One. All right, you lose one sanity. As you splash into this slime, you smell a scent so familiar to you, and it takes you right back to that moment when, and you don't have to do it twice, you can just explain it as truly what you're saying. Maybe this sounds weird, but the slime, it smells like after I brought Timmy home from the hospital, and I gave him a bath, and his hair smelled wonderful, and I was just sitting with him, and...

Smelling his hair. Maybe that's creepy, but I just... I just felt so...

Content. Okay, Matt, you're up next. Kelsey would love to have a really nice memory, but she's also very, very low on sanity. So as nice as that would be, I will try to avoid it. Now that the naughty pocket's empty, I don't have any reason for the jacket. So I'm going to take the jacket off and put it over the slime. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. We don't have to do a dexterity roll for that, but give me a luck roll to see if you manage to avoid gooping yourself with this slime while you do that.

I mean, I have 15 luck, so can I just do a dexterity roll? Seems like it was a good idea. I always fail on a luck roll. No, this would be luck because essentially it's like you've laid this down. I got four. All right. Congratulations. You lay this thing down and you scooch your way across it and then Mothman follows after you.

Oh. And then as you guys are doing that, you hear the pedestal wrench open behind you. And you see like a little like peekaboo jack-o'-lantern. Like one of these scientists sticks their heads down and says, there they are. I found them. There they are. I found them. Trudy and Blake, give me a power roll.

Pow is 85. I'm pleased to report a 25. Sick. Which is a super success, obviously. I fail. Blake, as you're crawling through the tunnel and the farther away you get from that slime, you feel this yearning to go back to it.

Like, you just want to crawl back to it and breathe in it and just live there and just smear it all over yourself. But you're able to fight it off as you remember the situation you're in and you manage to go forward. But Trudy... You know what it is? The smell of butter keeps me grounded. Yeah, the smell of butter does in fact cancel out the poison that was on the ground. Trudy, you are not so lucky.

The sense memory of the smell of your son's hair right after he was born. Things have been so dark and full of despair lately that you feel an irresistible urge to crawl back and live in that puddle. Kelsey, you are right behind Trudy and you see Trudy basically just stop and like dig her arms into the vent. Because she doesn't want to move forward. She doesn't want to move forward. Trudy.

Trudy, dear, can you push forward? I have to go back. Go back where? I left him before. I can't leave him again. I can't leave him again. I have to be back with him. You need to go back? Yes, back. Back where I smell. Trudy, I'm going to help you go back, okay? Okay. Okay? Seeing that she's like, clearly, I'm going to try to reason with her and be like, yeah, sorry, you know, just kind of a big gal. Can't really move out of the way. So I think the fastest way to get back is if we go forward and we get out, then we can turn around and I'll push you back the other way. Okay? Let's do it. We can do this. Let's go back. Okay.

We got to go back by going forward, though, because you can't get around me. I like that. What do you want to roll for that, Matt? Persuade is 55. I'd like to do persuade. Okay, give me a persuade roll. We'll call this a hard roll. Hard means I have to do a super success? Yes. I got 29. My super success is 27. How much luck do you have? I have 15 luck. I'll do it. I got 13 luck. What?

Not the luckiest number to end on. Oh, 13. That's great. Can I spend one more luck? So I only have 12 luck. Why would you want to spend one more? 13 is unlucky, dude. Oh, interesting. It makes no sense, but I'm doing it. Damn. And William, what's crazy? By doing that, you get two luck, so you're 14 now.

He has like an elevator. It's actually 12. Wait a second. This feels like this is a sort of glitch because then he will never go. It's an elevator actually. So even though it is floor 12. Well, he might have used more than two luck or more than one luck on his next luck roll. So yeah, that's what we'll say. There is no 13 luck. So now you have 11 luck.

Wait. What? It's like a building. It's like a building when you get in the elevator. You have 12 luck. I have 12 luck. Trudy, you are now convinced. You still want to get back there, but you trust Kelsey enough that even though this doesn't make sense, Kelsey's never betrayed you before. She's never hurt you before, so you're going to go along with it. To be fair, I'm not lying. I feel like I'm filling up. It's going to be very hard to get past me. Yeah, no, that's true, but you're probably not going to let her go back into the vent. It's too late. I just have to keep going forward. No, we'll turn around once we get out. It's too late.

He doesn't love me anymore. Of course he loves you. He will always love you. Dream, what is that? I'm hearing this now. Everybody loves you. You're great. Keep going. I just have to keep going forward. We're going to save him. You're following this moth, and then all of a sudden it sort of sticks to a vent in front of you. And if you pop it open, which I assume you do. I mean, nothing would surprise me at this point. I go, huh!

and I punch it open with my powerful fists. Okay, sick. So then you find yourself in the middle of a vast hangar. The door currently opening. All of the guards that normally you would probably have to tangle with are busy frantically trying to get the door to shut. They're banging on it and pushing against it and nothing's working. And I turn around and go,

Be very, very quiet. It's like in episode one when Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, they drop down out of the van. They're in the hangar. Kelsey, you were right. Kelsey, what the fuck? The negotiations were short! You fucked! Scooped him! What was the quote? You were right. The negotiations were short. The negotiations were short. Look, Master Destroyers.

There's a straight shot to you and the moth mobile. Wow. How impressive. Francis says, as he stealthily puts the padlock onto Brunhilde that he kept from his suicide attempt. Wait, what? The padlock that prevents Brunhilde from firing. Canonically, Francis took it off before he tried to kill himself and he kept the lock.

And at this moment, while he is pretending to be distracted by the majesty of the spaceship and all the chaos going on, he is going to put the lock stealthily onto Brunhilde's trigger guard so that she cannot kill Mothman once they're in the ship. You took the lock off when you went outside to go kill yourself. So you pocketed the lock? Suicidal people do sometimes do things that go against your understanding. Fair enough. I'll allow it. Give me a sleight of hand roll.

Oh, I got a 20. My sleight of hand is 10 and I have 70 luck, which I'm going to spend 10 of to go down to 60 luck and meet the success threshold. So you lock Brunhilde. Yes, Brunhilde can no longer fire. Okay. Yeah. Don't caveat that. Okay. Good job, Anthony. This whole time I've been wondering how I'm going to get the lock back on because I was like, I forgot you didn't have it. Once we got in the space, I was gonna be looking around, but you kept it. Sure did.

Hell yeah. I knew I'd have to fuck you over eventually. The second she feels this lock tighten, you can sense that she's like about to pull this trigger just at whoever was behind her, which right now is Kelsey. And so if you had botched that roll, she would have shot Kelsey in the face. But you managed to clip it just in time before you feel the trigger snap back. And she's like, Francis, what are you doing, Francis? It's time, Francis. Not again. Not this time. Not this time, Francis. I'm too tired to do it. I'm just, I have a headache.

Maybe tomorrow? She goes dead quiet. Owned. We're out. Good job, Francis. Quietly let us sneak onto the ship.

Okay, so you guys are creeping out of the vent to sneak out. As a group, we kind of like shift between pieces of cover that cover us up. And we fill our whole bodies with like the size of the cover. Yeah, like suddenly we're behind a bunch of barrels. And suddenly we're behind a bunch of cutouts in their exact shape. Everybody give me a stealth roll to make it to the ship. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

21 out of 90. Okay, great. Nice. 47 out of 20. I got 13 out of 39. Okay. Six out of 20. Sorry, guys. Kelsey's loud. Better roll for the Mothman. Dude, he's a moth. How many times have you been like, oh, moth!

Pretty much every time I see a moth in that situation. So the stealth has got to be fucking choice. Mothman got an 18. So everyone manages to sneak. No, not me. Hold on. Everyone manages to sneakily get over there. And then Kelsey, you didn't realize that you had one last jack that had fallen from your naughty pocket down your pant leg. And then as you're stepping, it spills out and goes ding.

dink, dink on the ground. And then you step on it and it hurts. And you go, ow! Can I try to like, slam my hand over Kelsey's mouth? Kelsey's mouth? Sure. You put your hand over Kelsey's mouth. Kelsey, give me a constitution rule to avoid screaming. Pretty sure my constitution is not 83. Let me just double check. No, it isn't.

So you flubbed your roll. Okay, so here's what we're going to say is you bite down on Francis's hand and then Francis screams. Oh, fuck! And all of a sudden, the guards who are busy by the trying to stop the gate turn and see you and they run towards you. But as they do so...

Mothman is going to fire his laser cannon. Just like when Han Solo's leaving? Yeah. No, he's going to activate the ship's turrets. Yeah, dude. He wants to obliterate these people. He wants to turn these people to dust, dude. Okay. Shadows and dust. Shadows and dust. Maximus. He's going to cast hypnosis. He steps forward between you and the rest of the group. He sort of like...

like vibrates his thorax and this hypnotic pulse of sound. And how does that make us all feel? They are all going to have to make a power roll. So we'll say there's three guys and all three of them fail. So they're all charging towards you and he's like, and they just skid to a halt. You don't need to see our identification. Mothman's like into the ship.

And he runs up and he slams his hand against the side of the ship and recognizing the sensual touch of Mothman. The ship's loading ramp falls down and you're able to scurry onto the ship if you would like to. I feel like I'm more of a scamper than a scurrier. You're going to scamper instead of scurry. That's fine. That's fair. As you're running up, you turn around and you fire two blaster shots into the hangar behind you. Okay, so you've all alighted onto Mothman's ship. Mothman, we're home. Ugh.

Jesus Christ. Fuck. Blake and Francis and Kelsey and Trudy and the Moth and Laika and Mothman all bound onto this ship. Punch it, Mothman. I'll play chess in the galley. Of course, as you're doing that, this horde of scientists are beginning to scurry out of the vent. We should have put a thing in front of the vent. Yeah, could have, should have, would have, but you didn't. Fucked them up. They all run out and now they are

all en masse as a group going to run towards the gate and try to push it shut. As they are doing that, Mothman charges through the ship. He's staggering and limping. And he comes to this sort of like central shaft, like a central door. And he punches in this code on the door. It's like a little secret kind of hand gesture-y code thing on the door. And it slides open and you see the warp core of Moth

fan ship it's this pulsing dark crystal that's floating in midair it looks exactly like one of those bug zappers yeah it looks like a big bug zapper he's like do not look directly at it I mean it's not a big deal I don't feel

I don't feel like I have to get a close-up. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's just a normal light. It's just a thing. No one look. It hasn't been powered up yet. I need to boot up the engine so we may escape. He steps into the room and pounds a button and slams shut with him in there. And you hear noises as he's beeping and booping. Lights and systems are starting to come on. And you see outside this throng of scientists. And they've managed to jam the motor of this gate. And they're now starting to push it back.

and it's starting to close and get tighter and tighter. Mothman, do you have weapons? Weapons, Mothman, weapons? Give me Spot Hidden, Freddy. 33 out of 38. Ah, there's the weapons. So you see a mid, because again, I think as I described this last time, Mothman, a bit of a pack rat, a bit of a pack moth, not to mix metaphors, has collected junk and trinkets from humankind as he's been there witnessing your rise.

And so you see a pile of old weapons, and amongst them, you find one of those old-timey grenades. Like one of the pineapple ones? I feel like it's got to be one of those potato masher grenades. You're like one of those, like a real Medal of Honor-esque grenade. Oh, like one of those stick grenades. Yeah, one of the stick grenades. You find a stick grenade in there. One of those German stick grenades. Look at this stuff. Isn't it neat? Mothman is busy powering up the ship. It's going to take him one round to do that. Oh, no.

Oh, no. You guys can all have an action to try to stall or stop the people closing the door if you would like to. I'm going to pick up this German stick grenade. Okay. And I mean, is there like a port, a hole, some sort of opening that I can chuck it out of? Yeah, yeah. We'll say that the little moth lands on like a porthole, like a little flap in the wall. And if you pop that sucker open, you'll be able to look out and see all of these guys just desperately pushing that door closed like across the hangar.

It's like a hole where one might fire a gun through or throw a grenade out of. Like a castle porthole in this ship. Yes, exactly. If this was Kingdom Come Deliverance, you'd be dropping a rock out of this thing. Ah, good engineering. Now, it is going to be a bit of a throw to get it through this little hole. And if you fuck this up, it is going to bounce back and land amongst your comrades. So just bear that in mind. I have watched much American football and the spiraling technique. I'm going to try and like...

lob this thing through it at the people okay sick uh give me a throw roll oh five out of 20 oh okay yeah should i spend one luck to get a super duper success oh okay do it it's one how much could it cost 15 luck yeah i spend one luck all right freddy so uh here's how this works

Each grenade delivers 4d10 to every enemy within 3 yards, 2d10 to those within 6 yards, and 1d10 to those within 9 yards. So these fuckers are pretty close together. Well, it's good that they're all clustered in a perfect circle. Okay, uh, yeah. You know what I mean? Like a little tight circle formation. Give me a...

Give me a 4d10 roll and a 2d10 roll. And we'll say that covers everybody. And I'll tell you how many of them are blown to smithereens. Oh my gosh, this is bad. Three, four, 4d10 is 20. And then 2d10? Yeah, give me a 2d10 as well.

11. 11, okay. We're going to say that you outright killed nine of them. And then we're going to say that you pretty badly maimed another three. But there's still technically 11 of them still up and pushing on this door. Despite how fucking horrific this explosion was, they seem pretty undaunted and like more determined than ever to get this door shut.

The rest of you, is there anything you would like to do? There's people that are outside the ship that are closing the door. Yeah, they're pushing this door, and if it shuts, you're going to be trapped in here. But their ability to push it has definitely been halved. If their fingers are slippery with something, maybe they can't get a grasp on the door. Yeah. We can't just go out there. We might not make it back in. That's true. I'm going to look through the Little Mermaid dinglehopper pile and see if I can find another weapon. Okay. Okay.

I was like, what the hell? The little mermaid dinglehopper pile. Yeah. I guess first I would like to spot hidden and see if there's anything else that could possibly... Okay, I fail. Hit them from afar. Okay, same. Spot hidden. Yeah. I've got a couple bad rolls here. Ooh, I got a seven. Wow. That's sick. I got a 93. Nice. Okay. What did you find? Oh my God, it's a butter gun. No.

This long-range weapon shoots sticks of butter. Here's what we'll say, Yvonne. You find like an old-timey lantern that's still filled with oil. All right. I load it in to a gun. An oil gun. Slow down, Matt. Slow down. Wait, I should just use this gun instead. What?

No, fine. I get the lantern. I just try to like chuck it. Cast it. Cast it. Okay, so you're going to throw the... You're going to throw it. Okay, great. Give me a throw roll. Probably have only five points in throw. You can use your dex instead if you would like to. 20. I have a 25 dex. Okay. Ooh. Ooh.

What'd you get? You gotta come over here. You got us. You got a one? Yes. Oh, shit. Whoa. All right. You sort of like do a wind-up throw, and this lantern perfectly sails through this narrow opening and flies. The perfect cast. It splashes against the wall, and now all 11 of the remaining of them are covered in oil. I'm going to take out one of my many cigarettes, which is not in the naughty pocket. It's in the good girl pocket. Ooh.

When a good girl pocket. Kelsey deserves a little break. And she pulls out her cigarette and she lights it and she's going to flick the lighter over there. Give me a throw roll for that lighter.

I'm going to push. All right. I've never pushed. Okay. When can you push? Can you not push? I'm trying to think of how you would like extra push this roll. You self immolate. I burnt myself. I go, ah. All right. Time to throw it again. Well, no, because the whole point of a push is like you push and then it means that like you've exposed yourself to additional risk in case it fails. So you throw and it fails.

and it bounces off of the wall and hits you in the face. Okay. How are you going to do this again, but better and more dangerously? I realize I'm just nervous because of this intense situation we've been in. I realized I never should have tried throwing before I take a nice drag off my cigarette stick and calm myself down. And he has exposed himself to lung cancer. Now,

All right, give me your roll. Oh, shit. Actually, one worse. Holy shit. All right, in that case, it bounces off the wall again. When you cough, your mouth is open as you're coughing up smoke, and the lighter goes in your mouth. Oh, my God. So give me a 1d4 burn damage on the inside of your mouth. Oh, man.

I got a four. Good God. I have one HP. Whoa! Hey, I also have one HP. It's not so bad. Okay, I was going to make you do a luck roll to see if you'd choke on it, but I think that's bad enough. Yeah, I got one HP. Okay, so the inside of your mouth is now scorched. You can barely talk, and you spit a lighter onto the ground. One more try. No, Kelsey! Kelsey!

So now you've all gone, right? Mothman is trying to start this thing back there like a lawnmower and like it's starting to go. It's like... This is a very high test. The ship seems to be sputtering to life, but you see these guys pushing the door tighter and tighter. It's getting closer and closer to closing. The gap is narrowing. Your hope is fading before your eyes. Then you hear it.

the roar of a diesel truck engine as an army transport comes bounding through a gate on the other side. You see like a barbed wire fence just get torn through by this big truck and the driver weaves through and manages to slam into that gate, downshift, and push it back

against the force of the people pushing it. The engine is groaning and sputtering, but he manages to knock them off their feet and slam the gate back open, and the engine bursts into flames, and you see panting for breath in that seat. Tony Collette, war hero slash spy, holding onto the thing, and he looks up at you through the slit, and he sees you, Blake, the one he recognizes as the guy, and he says...

I'll hold him off as long as I can. And he pops out of the seat with a machine gun of his own and starts opening fire on the scientist. And right then at that very moment, Mothman's... He actually was a good teammate. Mothman... Different guy. That's a different... Who? Who killed Trudy? I don't know. Mothman manages to fire up the engine. The whole ship thrums to life.

The door to the engine room swings open again. Mothman pushes past all of you and matches a button on the console, and the ship takes off and blasts out of the facility. Kelsey runs to the back window like those old cars that had seats facing backwards, and I'm like, I want to see what's happening to those guys. Yes, you see Tony Collette, war hero, pumping round after round from this machine gun as scientists now are pouring in

from every nook and cranny of this facility and closing in and he realizes that he's not long for this world. One last ride for Tony Collette. As his gun clicks empty, he throws it to the side, lights up a cig of his own, takes a drag. Be careful! The wall goes in his mouth. He throws the lighter.

You got a 14 and you see this lighter land on the nine dead guys who go up in flames. And then it creates this barrier between him and the rest of the scientists. And they're all screeching and he pulls out a pistol and he starts firing. You're like fucking saving private Ryan as you make your heroic escape. He's probably fine. You're taking off into the sky. You break through the clouds and the sun is setting. And as you break through this cloud layer, you see this curtain of stars come through.

I'm going to put Laika up to the closest window and also call... Mothman! Mothman! Can we try to wire her into something? Give me a second! And you see in Laika's eyes the glint of the stars, and then you see the light in Laika's eyes go out. She was a good girl! Good girl. Good, good girl. Do you have, like, a trash chute or something? LAUGHTER

I can see as a hole in the star Swallowing my dreams and making them scars Too far, too far away But I stand up

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