Beam Saber - MEKONG: Symphony for the Devil, Episode 6 [LANGKASUKA DRIFT]

[00:00:00] Speaker A: So what he crop, everybody. You are now tuned into another exciting installment of Mekong, the southeast asian space opera adventure of every proportions. We've got a fantastic episode for you folks coming up, filled with racing and racing and more racing and fast cars and drifting and hot girls and guys with flags and stuff like that. And they'll be like, Seth, go. We've all seen Tokyo drift, but we're going to do it better because they don't do it like we do in Southeast Asia. You know what I'm saying? Hey, so what is Mekong? It's a little bit of Star wars, it's a little bit dunes, a little bit evangelion, a little bit of Pacific rim, a little bit iron widow, lots of lore, world building based on the rich wellspring that is southeast asian history and culture, and a metric ton of hindu buddhist cosmology. This story will be seen through the eyes of warriors called a case of pilots who operate a uniquely powerful mechanized chassis called BC. Say mingle a bar. Pilots mingle a bar. [00:00:57] Speaker B: I forgot to take myself on mute too. [00:00:58] Speaker C: Pirates instead of pilots. [00:01:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I said pirates too. [00:01:05] Speaker A: Shout out to Myanmar for having complicated ways of saying hello. It's okay. We're all learning all together. This series is the story of how, through their deeds, decisions, and dice rolls, they will shape the fates. And the stars that make up the seven sectors of the Mekong constellation grapple with the obligations that drove them to this line of work and perhaps changed the course of this cosmic river forever. I'm Jerry Law. I'll be directing this here picture with our lovely cast of Tandong mech pilots. Mustard here today. So first up, playing the dog loving, smooth talking, wheeling, and dealing kisi racer, we got Kallaxin bulakh lock. Say hello to Ryan Omega. [00:01:40] Speaker C: Hey, everybody, I'm Ryan. I'm playing Kallaxin Bulakh lock. As has been mentioned, I am excited for Mekong drift. [00:01:48] Speaker A: Let's go. [00:01:51] Speaker C: There's nothing more to say. I'm ready to go. [00:01:55] Speaker A: Second, the thespian, the artiste, the sinner, honey smuggling hotshot pilot of the copper pod rupee. Taiyang. We got Pooja. [00:02:03] Speaker D: Yo, how's it going? I'm Pooja. I'm playing rupiah Taeyang. And, you know, today we've got one thing to keep in mind is that life is simple. You make choices, you don't look back. [00:02:16] Speaker A: Wise words. Yes. Thank you, Pooja. I feel so enlightened from that. And next up, Mekong's resident father figure that we'd all like to be parented by playing Roman Maxilla. We got Andrew Allende. [00:02:32] Speaker E: What's up, everyone? Andrew Allende here playing Roman Maxillon, pronouns he, him for both me and Roman. You know what? You know, this ammonite is called cam a WHOOP ass. But, you know, if there's one thing that we're always about here at Mekong family. [00:02:46] Speaker A: And finally, the princess without a kingdom, who's most certainly not a cop already. Vogue, played by Clara. [00:02:55] Speaker B: I'm so sorry for the episode six vibes of this thing. I really am. This has been a weird show, y'all. We're gonna raise some mechs, which is exactly what these are for, and definitely not for fighting ghosts, which when I say that, it sounds like I'm hot. [00:03:15] Speaker D: Why not both? [00:03:16] Speaker A: I mean, you're high. You just went to the honey den. You probably got a little. [00:03:20] Speaker B: I did it. I'm getting honey cause I'm not a cuss. [00:03:27] Speaker A: We'll be playing Mekong using the beam saber RPG of Forged in the dark system, written by Austin Ramsey, with additional supply drop playbooks written by J. Lo file hazard and Alfay DeMille. You can find links to the cast assorted social media accounts by sending exclamation point cast to the chat. And if you'd like to purchase Beam Saber for yourself and your own gaming group, exclamation Point system will point the way. The name of this campaign I'll be taking our squad of TC pilots through is titled Symphony for the Devil. It's an adventure written by yours truly and contains themes that some viewers may find disturbing. There will be depictions of blood, gore, dismemberment, body horror, drug alcohol use, politically motivated violence, gang violence, warfare, sexual themes, and excessive use of english and non english profanity. The cast and I have discussed our lines and veils and confirmed that everyone here is comfortable playing, but we want those of you watching at home to be safe as well. So long ago, when the light of the stars flowed like a river across the heavens, the fellowship of the Marigold, assembled by the Minkow bureaucrat and secret member of the gilded Order of the inevitable spring Zhong Zi, set course for the planet of Celadang on its quest to locate Chandra Hasa, the sword of Ravana, in an effort to stop Chowfraya's destruction at the hands of the ancient Kunma ba Kathin. However, en route to Celadang, the crew must make a stopover on the sphyrian world of Lankaska in the heart of the Malayu sector to resupply and repair whilst Zung, his niece Nina Devinder and the Bajak crew of the Neverland express take their vessels into the orbital colony of Bandar Ankasa for services. This party of Tandong, alongside the Yantakara, Jackie Chi Chung and the Bajak lost boy Mohammed, descend to the surface of Lancaska to gather supplies and for Lord Kallaxin Bulac to gauge the state of his business affairs now that his sister, Lady Rubina, has dissolved the family enterprises as part of her duties as the new finance minister of Chao Phraya. When the group arrives in the spaceport city of Banang Pradu, they are greeted by Kallaxon's agent and business partner, Angeline, who requests the semi retired racer and his entourage's help in sorting out the remaining assets left after Lady Rubina's callous decision to cut her brother off from house Bulaklux wealth. Over lunch, Kolaxen is shocked to discover that Angelyne has gotten engaged to his long time racetrack nemesis, a lankoskian noble named Lord Armin law. To Kolaxen's surprise, his old rival greets him without animosity as he has turned over a new leaf as a born again lotus, he regales to the party. Prior to their engagement to Angeline, the racer had a near fatal crash in the lake just outside the city limits, but was rescued by what appeared to be a bodhisattva who vaguely resembled the disappeared chowfraian Princess Anousha vum. Now determined to make up for his old misguided ways, Lord Armin asked Kallaxon and his Tannon companions to enter the Ayurveda Grand Prix. As a team, Law intends to win the race and use the winnings to buy him and Angelyne passage off world as a wedding gift. However, this year the organizers have upped the stakes from a simple rally to a full on death race, and just about everyone Lord Armin has pissed off is looking to kill him before his kisi can cross the finish line. The party agrees to take part in the race as a team along with Lord Armin to make preparations, and as the group moves to procure supplies and set themselves up for the Prix, Oradie, Roman and Rupiah investigate ranous trail before heading to the lower parts of Banong Pradu to secure parts to repair the copper pod and the conquered grass suit from a smuggling associate of rupiahs and a long friend woman named Denari. Negotiations with Denari nearly go sideways, and it is revealed that the amongst others on Lancashire are looking to put Lord Armin in the ground. However, after some deaf bargaining by the group, aided by Denari's fondness for Roman, she agrees to retrieve the components in exchange for a date with the group's resident father figure. In an act of a long for hospitality, following the deal's closure, the ever hospitable Denarii sits them down to partake in some sinners honey Mekong's favorite illicit substance. Roman, still wound up from Denarii's affections and stressed out by just about everything, reacts poorly to the drug and experiences a hallucination of his beloved adopted daughter piloting an infernal fusion of machine and monster called the Concord Morning Star. And the vision shakes the old warhorse to his core. Can the fellowship of the marigold survive the day? Deadliest race in the Malayu sector? Or will their pent up emotional turmoil spell disaster on the racetrack? Find out this week on Mekong symphony for the devil. Fade in big, like, 3d graphic logos that spells, like, MSPN eight. And you hear two announcers go, Gamusta. Sports fans, thanks for tuning into MSPN eight the wallow. I'm Sammy Supra. And I'm Vicky Vtech. Today's exciting day in racing history, folks. We have a return of the dog house. The king bitch himself, the one and only Lord Kallaxin Bulakh lak two. The Ayurveda Grand Prix. Let's get down to our press conference room to see what's going on with this legendary race's return to the track. And it cuts to Kallaxin. You are at a podium, bunch of mics. There's, like, you know, those advertisement walls that they have at all those sports conferences, and you, like, take the podium and you greet, like, the throng of reporters, and it's like, galaxy, galaxy. What prompted your return to Ayurveda after what, what happened to the dog page? [00:10:14] Speaker C: All of those things are happening. Not just because they're not happening now doesn't mean they're not happening. But right now, I and Armin law, my long time nemesis, have decided that now is a good time for us to team up and form a team. I think it's time to put some of our rivalries aside and go in for the greater good for Lakoska. [00:10:39] Speaker A: And then everybody just, like, storms the podium and just, like, starts hounding you with a bunch of questions. And Angeline, like, walks up. He's like, please, no. And, like, kind of, like, walks you back around away from this, like. Cause everyone seems very, very interested in the fact that. Holy shit. The doghouse. The Paladin Pulangi on the same team is this scandal. They're seem confused, more or less. They're like, wait a second. All this animosity. All. It's. But Angelique kind of, like, walks you back behind Preston and, like, closes the door. She's like, I think that went really well. I think. Yeah, yeah. I think that went fantastic. [00:11:18] Speaker C: Okay, so, yeah, a lot of interest, lot of buzz. Right? Time for people to want to get sponsorships on. [00:11:26] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:11:27] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:11:28] Speaker A: Great. [00:11:29] Speaker C: You feel like you want to say something? [00:11:31] Speaker A: Like I do? [00:11:32] Speaker C: Yeah. Did I say something wrong? Did I. [00:11:34] Speaker A: No, nothing's wrong. It's just. I'm just a little worried that this is the lethal year and, you know, how confident are you in your. Your new friends and in terms of their martial ability on here? Because I know you're fast. I know my fiance is fast. [00:11:58] Speaker C: But they're ta nong like, that already. Should speak volumes. [00:12:04] Speaker A: We cut back to the honey den, and, Roman, you are kind of, like, freaking the fuck out as a tannong. You just had this vision. And, Roman, what's the look on your face right now? [00:12:18] Speaker E: Let's see. Eyes are bloodshot. Definitely because I've just seen my daughter. She is not my daughter right now. And she's piloting an abomination. And, like, that is my world. So to see my world completely flipped upside down and not the little girl that I've known to raise, you can see that Roman's hands are on the chair, and he's got a death grip on the arms of the chair so much that it's starting to break the chair a little bit. Like, he is not. Like, this is not a good trip for him right now. [00:13:01] Speaker A: Denarii, like, checks the ball. He's like, oh, shoot. [00:13:08] Speaker D: What the hell did you do? [00:13:09] Speaker A: I thought I'd give him the sampler of everything, you know, just like. Just like you get the full spec. Like, you know, I think I. I mislabeled my stash, all right? [00:13:21] Speaker B: Oh, you mislabeled your fucking stash? Yeah. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Okay, so. Yeah, okay, so, you know, I have a greenhorn strain for, like, people that are new to it. And then I got, like, the. And then there's another shelf next to it. That's all for the green honey and rupee. [00:13:35] Speaker D: You did not. You did. You did not just give my friend green honey. Tell me, Denari, that you did not just do this. [00:13:46] Speaker B: Why? Why is that? [00:13:48] Speaker A: She goes over and, like, you see her, like. Like, go through the drawers and you see her, like, hold up the two labels, and she's like, oh, God. Okay, all right, let's. Let's. Let's. Let's get it back on the ground. Let's get it. Let's get. [00:14:00] Speaker B: Okay, okay. So you poisoned our. [00:14:03] Speaker A: I didn't. Poison. He's gonna be fine. Poison. [00:14:06] Speaker D: Poison. [00:14:06] Speaker A: He's just gonna, like, freak out a little bit, and then, you know, we just gotta, like, here she goes. And, like, get some water. [00:14:13] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's gonna fix this. What the fuck? [00:14:16] Speaker A: What do you two do to help Roman out his state? [00:14:19] Speaker D: Okay. It's not my first time seeing a bad trip. Let's go through. Yes. Water. Yes. We need to flush his system as quickly as possible. And I go in the back to start mixing up, I don't know, some weird, like, set of spices and, like, peppers and things like that. That'll, like, shock his system back into the present. Yeah, it's going to be foul. [00:14:49] Speaker A: Do you want to roll? Let's just do a general fortune check here. Just roll a D six. And I'll tell you how that. How that comes along, because, you know, like, while Denarii's den might have those supplies for those things or. So how does this cocktail. [00:15:06] Speaker D: Okay, well, let's say that not only is your entire stock a goddamn mess, and we're lucky that you just gave him green honey instead of black. [00:15:20] Speaker B: What the fuck is this? [00:15:21] Speaker D: With this organization? You don't even have half the supplies I need. What happens if somebody else gets in trouble? Okay, whatever. So I start going back and pulling and double checking and trying to find all the ingredients I need, but literally, like, half of them are out of stock. [00:15:38] Speaker B: Oh, my God. This is a fucking nightmare. [00:15:40] Speaker D: It will still be fine, but it's gonna take longer for him to come down. [00:15:49] Speaker B: Okay, like, how much longer? [00:15:53] Speaker A: Denarii is like. It kind of depends on your body chemistry, you know, the way your fat is distributed in your body and a bunch of other factors at the end. It's impermanent. He's not going to be like this forever. He's just going to be a little. Little. [00:16:10] Speaker B: I point at Roman who's like, you know, x amount of pounds of WHOOP ass, and, like, what fat distribution. [00:16:19] Speaker A: Is there? [00:16:20] Speaker B: Not like a charcoal thing or something that absorbs this shit? It's not that kind of drug. [00:16:26] Speaker D: There is, except she doesn't have any. [00:16:29] Speaker A: I waiting for my guy to come in and, like, you know how this industry goes. All right, look, I. I got. I. First off, I got to go get these parts for you, because I feel like you said you're racing soon, so. [00:16:43] Speaker D: I. Yeah, we're racing tomorrow. [00:16:45] Speaker B: All of us are racing, including him. [00:16:47] Speaker A: Okay. Take. Get him back to where he needs to be. At least rest him up and let me worry about the parts. I feel bad. I'm gonna get the head. Okay. I'm very good at getting. I'm phrasing. I'm very good at getting, getting components. Go make your preparations. I'll meet you at the racetrack with whatever you need. All right, just. I'm sorry. All right. I can admit fault here that that was on me. I should have organized better. [00:17:14] Speaker B: Can you. [00:17:15] Speaker A: I. Can you please get the fuck out of my den? Oh, please. [00:17:21] Speaker D: No worries. [00:17:22] Speaker B: Fucking going. I, like, sling Roman over, like, his arm over my shoulder because he's just a full grown man. [00:17:32] Speaker A: Just like, as we leave Roman, your internal monologue is, like, the closest to quiet it's ever been. [00:17:41] Speaker E: It's while the trip is going and I'm still seeing hope, and it's the black void of space where I'm seeing everything. And I think my body knows that I'm being held up by Oradie. So the death, I'm not having a death grip on Oridy just based out of my body sheer familiarity. [00:18:06] Speaker A: But the sensation you feel in your body also, it feels like at first there isn't any because you're experiencing a void and looking at hope, right? But then the void itself, like the blackness, it begins to grow texture, and it starts to feel like crow feathers as they kind of, like, fly past you and tickle you and, like, a distant echo. [00:18:34] Speaker E: You can hear slight mumbling from Roman as he's being guided out, like, oh, France, Francesca. [00:18:56] Speaker A: And you guys are, like, walking him out, and you hear. And you hear Roman just, like, shouting, Francis, like, it's okay. Just. It's. She's just trying to get the birds trying to get in your head. We fought these guys before, okay? You, like, you've been here for me when I was. I was in void shock. I'm here, right here for you. Okay? Right. Hope, just say, get me. [00:19:30] Speaker C: Get it. [00:19:31] Speaker E: Race. [00:19:32] Speaker A: Race. [00:19:35] Speaker E: And then finally, the words calm down. And finally, it feels like he's. [00:19:42] Speaker A: He's. [00:19:44] Speaker E: He's okay now it's waves of the feathers and then the void, and he's trying to ground himself because he remembers. He goes back and the memory of what already was telling Kallaxin, anchor yourself. Anchor yourself. And finally the shutters come down, and it seems like there's some sense of stability, but he's still not fully okay, but he's okay enough to get through already in rupee. [00:20:14] Speaker A: You see his eyes kind of open up and like. And rather than being bloodshot, the veins kind of recede a little bit and his breathing starts to steady again. Like, he's still a bit sluggish, but you can feel the consciousness almost kind of come back to him. [00:20:35] Speaker E: What the hell happened? [00:20:37] Speaker B: Hey, bud. [00:20:43] Speaker A: I feel. Where are we? This kind of all transpired as you guys were heading back to the Bulak lock estate. And so you kind of get to those front gates, and you also see Jackie and Mohammed, like, waving. Then you see Jackie, like, unloading several supplies off of what looks to be a truck into the area where Klaxon keeps, like, is Gisi and his racing team stuff and everything like that for making race preparations. And like, Mohammed, like, runs up to you guys and he looks at romans like, everything okay? [00:21:16] Speaker D: Yeah, he just, you know, food poisoning. He'll just need to rest up a little bit. [00:21:27] Speaker A: Okay, well, if you guys need anything, we just fully stocked up on everything for the ship and all that. Jackie's gonna take the kisi and attach all the necessary regulation stuff for the race and that sort of thing. But I think we're having a meeting, um, with Lord Armin soon. Just heads up and he, like, back, like, back jogs and then runs back over to Jackie's. Like, Jackie, wait on. Yeah, but Kolaxen, you're like, upstairs, and you see your friends arrive. [00:22:01] Speaker C: I see that Roman is not looking well, so I immediately kind of race down and just check in on what's going on. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Romy, you're obviously not okay. What's wrong? [00:22:17] Speaker E: Am I even coherent enough still to. [00:22:20] Speaker A: You're coherent? Yeah, you can talk and such. It's just imagine the worst hangover you've ever had. But not so much in the headache sluggishness sense, but more like you had a hangover and you also went on like, 20 roller coasters. Yeah, remind me. Never do it again. [00:22:47] Speaker C: Do what again? Go on a, like, eat some really weird food off of the fruit outside. [00:22:58] Speaker A: And, like, you see Armin walk. I was like, you know, you're not supposed to eat the food from the hawker stands. Like, that's all radiated. [00:23:07] Speaker D: They, they said it was clean water. [00:23:10] Speaker A: They always say it's clean water. You gotta buy water. [00:23:12] Speaker C: Yeah, they always say it's clean water. That's why we eat in here. [00:23:17] Speaker D: I didn't realize the system would react to it so badly. I take full responsibility here oh. [00:23:22] Speaker C: I mean, you know, stuff happens. It's fine. Like, you know, we just have to, like, flush you out with salt water. You will be on the toilet for a bit, but it will get everything. [00:23:33] Speaker E: Out before we go on. Did I hear rupiah try to claim responsibility for this? [00:23:39] Speaker A: Yes. [00:23:41] Speaker E: Roman is going to look at rupiah. This wasn't you. [00:23:46] Speaker A: This is me. No. If anything. [00:23:48] Speaker E: If anything, you got me out of this mess. It's not the first time. [00:23:54] Speaker A: Thank you again. Thank you all. [00:23:55] Speaker E: I think I just. Yeah, the throne sounds like a wonderful idea. [00:24:02] Speaker C: So he starts immediately going to the kitchen, starts boiling some water. [00:24:07] Speaker A: Carmen goes to help. And while you guys are hitting the first aid kitten, doing all this usual medicinal care, he's like, I heard about what happened over a fafeng over in Chow Phraya, the, you know, before the coup. [00:24:24] Speaker C: Mm hmm. [00:24:25] Speaker A: You know, the papers called it Guanyin's miracle. And you think back to, like, the. The photo that the newspaper men took of, like, all of you standing in front of the plane with, like, guanyin in the back and hope and the dogs and everything, because, you know, I got saved also by bodhisattva, too. And we both had our lives touched by the divine. I don't. Do you ever feel that, you know, like, just the timing of this is also coincidental? [00:24:55] Speaker C: I do believe in the idea that things come together for a reason. I don't know if it's completely divine or I haven't figured it out yet, but I'm willing to be open to it. I just, you know, things have brought us to this place for a reason. [00:25:15] Speaker A: You know, I thought that the heavens had always set us up to be enemies, right? But I'm glad fate decided we'd be brothers at the end of the day. [00:25:23] Speaker C: Wow. Oh, we jumped to brothers. [00:25:25] Speaker A: Oh, well, here's the thing. Look at this, right? You wanna know why you're the better racer than me? Whoa. Oh, you wanna lie? Hold on, I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm just. Let me just finish. [00:25:34] Speaker C: All right, all right. And he starts, like, taking his smartphone and, like, pressing record, so. [00:25:40] Speaker A: No, no, no. Put that away. Don't ruin this for me. I don't want you. I don't want to be viral over this. All right, okay. Like, we're already doing enough press for this whole, like, team up as is. And, like, as he says this, you see, like, Angelyne walk by, there's, like, a big promotional poster, and it's you and Armin, like, doing the dragon ball z kind of like, touch and, like, your mechs in the back also doing it. And I don't remember doing this pose. Angeline's great at Photoshop. [00:26:11] Speaker C: Yes, that is true. She has all those assets. [00:26:14] Speaker A: Okay, you had the heart. I didn't. You gave these dogs homes. You took care of Angie, and now you're looking out for your tandong friends, too. You were always looking out for people, even off the track. You know, I thought I hated you for it, but I realized that you were an example that I didn't know I had. So let's help your friend out. Yeah, let's grab the file. [00:26:41] Speaker C: So before we, you know, get this solution to Roman, did hating me make you train more, drive more, and become a better racer? [00:26:58] Speaker A: It did. [00:26:59] Speaker C: Then it was worth it. Let's get this solution to Roman. [00:27:03] Speaker A: You seem, like, kind of astonished for a second, like, huh. We're going to fade to the section of the Rubina section of the house where you guys decide to have this meeting. Obviously, her section of the house is, like a big conference room and various other areas where, like, home office stuff and that sort of thing. But all of the decorations, they use Tagalog, but, like, they basically translate to various girl boss women in business mantras. Like, yas, queen slay business bitch work, get your bet. And Armin, like, walks up, kind of, like, clears them off the wall, pulls a projector screen down, and all of you are sat. Angely walks up beside the screen and begins the presentation. Okay, so this presentation is mostly for you, Tanong. You know, Lord Kallaxon and Lord Armin have kind have done the race a handful of times. They'll go into the track at the gala later tonight. There's going to be a pre race gala, so it's black tie just before warned, but. And so the first part of the meeting, she just goes through different, like, promotional stuff for each of your mechs. They're like, okay, so here are the sponsors we got. And you see, like, different, like, graphic mock ups of all of your mechs decorated in, like, in a garish amount of basically, like, holographic pop up ads for different companies. If anyone want to spit out any that they have, or, like, Ryan, if you got any ideas here for different products, please. [00:28:38] Speaker C: So immediately for Rupiah's mech, the sticker of sutra Sutra theaters is definitely on the copper pod. For Oradi. A mention of shweta gone because definitely want the manufacturer on that Concorde. For Roman, I kind of thought something related to cilat would be cool. So it's going to be cilot training gear. And it's. It's generic enough that it just literally says c lot training gear. And you have a young lady with. With a silot prop, like, about to, like, slay something. Um, like, it was a sword. [00:29:22] Speaker A: Um, we also have a really exciting partnership for this race. Um, and she closed the next slide. Uh, Mary Bumble chicken and shot, uh, very graciously, uh, sponsored our team. Uh, so you see there's, like, a happy, happy, like, look at it looking bumblebee with two buckets of, like, chicken. And they're just, like, big smile, and it's, like, emblazoned on, like, the chest unit of all of your mechs. Yeah, like, I think we're good. They. We've got our entry fees covered, but I just wanted to hand this off to Jackie, who's going to talk about the equipment being attached to your mech right now. And Jackie comes in from the side covered in grease and oil, and she takes off her goggles, and it's the only clear thing there. She's like, sorry, I've been working overtime for this. Okay, so, a couple of pieces of equipment I've attached to your mechs. First one, standard issue land spinner. The slide shows, like, a technical diagram of, basically, some roller skates that, like, big roller skates that are attached to, like, the ankles of your mech. The land spinner is a type of self propelled roller skate system attached to your kisi's ankles. Used in combination with the boosters. This will grant you the needed mobility to keep up with the first leg of the race, which is kind of like a derby through the canyon. Leg three, these land spinners will. Now you have a choice between snow skis or chains, because the third leg of the race will be through on a glacier. They'll go into that at the gallup. But just so you're aware, you're either skiing or we can put chains on the wheels. Whatever you prefer, let me know. Please let me know sooner than later, because these are a bitch to put on. Okay. Thank you so much. [00:30:57] Speaker C: Skis, keys. [00:30:59] Speaker A: Okay, great. And then finally, the fourth leg of the race will be the track is entirely on a. On a lava flow. You will be surfing several lava flows coming down from Mount Mandara. So the either your skis or chains will convert to a magma board. And basically, she shows a diagram of something that resembles halfway between a surfboard and a snowboard. But it's, like, super, like, padded out with very complicated metal alloys that are resistant to the super hot liquid rock flowing down the mountain. [00:31:30] Speaker B: What is wrong with this planet? [00:31:34] Speaker A: I know, right? Kind of out of my element here, but it's fine. It's fine, it's fine. [00:31:40] Speaker B: Go on. [00:31:40] Speaker A: I'm a piece. Nope, that's it. That's all the equipment that we're attaching to your next. Any questions? [00:31:45] Speaker B: So we're gonna roller blade. [00:31:47] Speaker A: Yes. [00:31:47] Speaker B: Roller skate. And then. [00:31:49] Speaker A: Oh, there's also a flying portion, but you guys know how to do that, so I'm not gonna cover that. [00:31:55] Speaker B: Okay. And I can't. We can't fly at the beginning. [00:32:00] Speaker A: They'll cover this at the gala, but. Yeah. Yes. The first leg of the rest of the race, you cannot sustain aerial time longer, or else you'll be considered off track and you'll be disqualified for the race. And then the only portion of the race where flying is prohibited will be the second leg of the race, which is the aerial portion. But otherwise, it is implored that you keep both your feet on the ground for the duration of the pre. Am I done, Angeline? He's like, thank you, Jackie. You can go back to work now. And Jackie's like. [00:32:28] Speaker C: So there's a rationale of why we have to keep the feet on the ground. Part of it is with some of this dangerous terrain, contact with the surface allows more grip. So if you're going to go fast, if you're in the air and you spin, you're screwed, unless you have, like, a lot of these, like, other booster. Boosters going on. But if you kind of, like, lean in, then you can just kind of drift by maintaining contact with the ground. So it's. So it's a safety. It's a weird safety thing, which in my brain, I think, got disproven a little while ago. But it's tradition, so we're sticking to it. [00:33:06] Speaker A: It's also a death race. So, like, every five years, they kind of just throw out all the safety regulations because the organizers like having fun. [00:33:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:17] Speaker C: Which is why lava is at the end, because literally the floor is lava. [00:33:23] Speaker B: Okay. [00:33:25] Speaker A: What's going through your mind right now already as a seasoned conmad killer, but not a seasoned Casey racer? [00:33:32] Speaker B: What the literal fuck? First of all, where are they getting the lava and the glacier? Like, the two things next to each other? [00:33:41] Speaker A: Yes. [00:33:42] Speaker B: Okay. What is this planet? [00:33:47] Speaker C: Uh, so, first of all, glacier is manufactured, you know, because, like, there's enough synthetic ice to make that. [00:33:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:56] Speaker A: Store. [00:33:56] Speaker B: But it's okay, right? [00:33:58] Speaker C: Lava is just part of the terrain in. [00:34:01] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like. Yeah, exactly. So Benang Pradu is built at the foot of the mountain called Mount Mandara, and it's a volcano. [00:34:10] Speaker D: Okay. [00:34:10] Speaker B: Okay. That, this is bonkers. Continue. I guess we've agreed to the race. So there's nothing we can do about this, is there? [00:34:18] Speaker A: Yeah, no, but the gala is coming up and that will be our place to, like, gauge what the other teams are and what our tactics are because you'll be able to see the whole track from the gala floor. Cause there's, it's gonna be happening at Malacca Citadel. That's where the Ekalon Costco racing commission is. That's where they hold their, you know, big formal event. And they do their such a light. Yeah, like Angeline looks to you, to you. Klaxon and arm is like, you know, we've done this gala. Yeah. [00:34:44] Speaker C: Oh, that reminds me. Uh, Angelyne, do we, wait, so do we, do you, do you all have black tie, appropriate garb? [00:34:59] Speaker B: I don't know that. When my path, when they, the. [00:35:04] Speaker A: Well, we are destroyed. We are in Rubina's section, the house. She did put it for sale. I assume she doesn't want, want any of this anymore. We can rate her wardrobe if need be. [00:35:12] Speaker C: We are fucking rating her wardrobe. And, uh, listen, when we walk into the gala, yes, we can dress, you know, sleek, sophisticated. I'm like, no, this is Lancasca. So you kind of have to think a long time ago there was this thing called met Gala. So think that element. Go big because they want the attention. So do sponsors. So think big. [00:35:45] Speaker B: Starting to understand why my sister disappeared. [00:35:49] Speaker A: Hmm. [00:35:50] Speaker B: All right, let's do this. [00:35:52] Speaker A: I guess we all want to go down in a line and tell us how, how we're walking into this gal. Because we're just going to cut to the red carpet. Limo pulling up with, like, the house blue lock seal on the front door opens. Who comes out first. What are you wearing? [00:36:07] Speaker C: I think Kallaxon is going to walk in first. He's going to have a tailored suit with way oversized shoulders. But there's also going to be epaulettes which resemble dog house roofs. At the side of his sleeves there is dalmatian trim, obviously not real dalmatian, but just the homage to miss Misfit who can't be here right now. [00:36:34] Speaker A: Did you bring a dog? [00:36:36] Speaker C: Yes. I decide that I am going to, I'm going to bring puddles with the. [00:36:43] Speaker A: Diaper in a little carrier or like a little carrier. [00:36:49] Speaker C: Puddles is the husky with really, really always surprised eyes. And listen, she's just super cute. Oh, and the carrier is on, is on his back, and it actually has on the back of it, like a pods to promote that. And lycopods are these particular carriers that are meant to go into a mech so that you can also bring your pet. [00:37:19] Speaker D: Ruby manages to find a lenga set that is a beautiful, like, rose pink skirt with a bunch of, like, tiny stripes down towards the bottom third that almost look like, oh, recycled materials into your clothes. But make it fashion. Yeah, so it's like sets of thin corded stripes in very vibrant rainbow colors and then a metallic, almost, like, like reptilian skin looking cross top with these sleeves that come out in just, like, spill over her shoulders like a giant unfolding fan down to her hips. And all of those stripes match the colors in the stripes and the skirt. [00:38:15] Speaker A: Rupi, how does it feel as a thespian walking a red carpet? You've never done this before as someone from the impoverished slums of Nanyang. And I guess you've been dreaming of this moment for a little bit, right? [00:38:30] Speaker D: I mean, it's definitely flashbacks to watching all of these red carpet events. [00:38:35] Speaker A: You, Shireen excitedly watching a live stream on your phone and gushing and squealing. [00:38:42] Speaker D: And there was that one time, like, we managed to con our way into the catering section. [00:38:50] Speaker B: Like. [00:38:52] Speaker D: Like we stole somebody's clothes off the line and shereen altered them to fit us. So we got to see, like, from the backstage area, all the stars go through and walk the carpet and the interviews. Like, it was this surreal experience where we planned what we were gonna do, how we were gonna say, what smile we were gonna give together as we walked down the carpet. So I think you see a little falter in Rupiah's step for a moment before she draws herself up and, you know, strikes a pose. [00:39:29] Speaker A: Flash, flash, flash, flash, flash. [00:39:32] Speaker D: And just makes those, like, hits every single mark on the way. Almost like she's been practicing for twelve years. [00:39:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:42] Speaker E: Roman doesn't get that entire concept and totally missed the mark. So as after Klux and Rupiah step. [00:39:48] Speaker A: Out. [00:39:51] Speaker E: Roman's in salat training gear. All the stuff, you know, he's in, like, techwear because he didn't get it. And he's like, the hell I like, I just wanted to be like, this is what I was. [00:40:02] Speaker A: They think you're security. [00:40:04] Speaker E: Yeah, they legitimately. So, like, if you. [00:40:06] Speaker A: If you imagine. [00:40:07] Speaker E: If you guys remember ever watching fast six where they're doing, like, the car show and the dude gets, like, looks up, looks up. Luke Hobbs, he's like, oh, tech wear only for function, not classy. Yeah, that's Roman right now. [00:40:21] Speaker A: He. [00:40:21] Speaker E: He totally missed the mark on it, but he's wearing salot training gear, and he sort of corporately, he sort of got the sponsor on his body, and he was like, well, this will work. Also, he's still feeling the effects of coming off of center tiny. So, yeah, he went for maximum comfort here. Don't blame me. [00:40:45] Speaker A: Good for him. Oh, they think. Oh, they think he's the coach for the team. [00:40:51] Speaker C: Sees this and realizes, oh, we got a. We got to do something. We got to do something. And he looks around, he sees what he's wearing is like, ah. So he takes the diamond studded tie off of him and puts it on. [00:41:05] Speaker D: Roman. [00:41:08] Speaker C: So that it looks like it's intentional, and then. And then starts posing along with him and just starts, like, showing that, hey, this is meant to be versatile fashion, isn't this? This is a statement piece, and the statement is salat training gear and diamond necktie. [00:41:31] Speaker E: What he said his robots like blitz. What do you said? [00:41:37] Speaker D: If there are any, like, you know, reporter type groups near me, it's like, it's just really transcendent how the meld of every day an event speaks to how we are all in training at all times. [00:41:55] Speaker C: Oh, I love rupiah right now. [00:41:58] Speaker A: The reporters are eating it up. They're like, what? Who is this new pilot on the scene? Why is she so erudite? [00:42:06] Speaker C: Oh, yes. Everyone, this is Rupiah Tayeng. [00:42:10] Speaker A: What yen are you, like, the last one out of the lip? Like, are you still just staring out? Yeah. [00:42:17] Speaker B: Ordi's having, like, a. This has been a weird fucking few days. I think after digging through, digging through klaxon sisters things, she found stuff that'll work. So she has, like, a chet Thai, which is, like, the long, sort of very straight skirt, and the. It looks almost like a sabai that's wrapped over the shoulder, but it's all out of this pleated material that's very gossamer. So it looks kind of. Kind of like a betta fish. So it has sort of these, like, fluttery bits off of it that evoke a betta fish without being fully, like, without, like, taste fully. But there's not. She's actually not wearing that much jewelry. But I think they found Robina's, like, jewelry, and she has the finger deco, the finger like ornamentation that looks a little like Krasue's fingers already. [00:43:08] Speaker A: The thing to consider is that there's gonna be a lot of cameras at this event. And being a royal, people might know your face if they. Under all that scrutiny. So while you're digging through Rubina's closet, you do find a prince canoe visor. Like, the full face, like, the whole. [00:43:25] Speaker B: Fully fucking use it. I'm so mad. [00:43:29] Speaker A: But, yeah, the shot is like, you. You're going through the different headgears. Like, okay, I gotta obscure myself. And then you open a case, and you see there's a visor, and it looks like your brother's. And you like to stare at it. [00:43:41] Speaker B: I think, already looks at. It's like, fuck you, and thinks about it and puts it on, is like, yeah, I really can't see shit out of this thing. [00:43:50] Speaker A: So you stumble out of the limo. [00:43:53] Speaker B: I, like, grab roman, like, help. [00:43:57] Speaker D: It's fine. Just don't talk to the other racers. [00:44:00] Speaker B: I don't. [00:44:02] Speaker D: The visor is the mystique. Let the visor do the work. [00:44:06] Speaker A: Who is she? What? [00:44:08] Speaker B: Oh, my God. I think before we left to klaxons like, if you have to wear the visor, we're gonna have to go full kanawa. So the whole thing, her dress and stuff, is also, like, sheer black gossamer. Like, it's that same, like, all of the fluttery bits that are betta fish style are, like, in black and kind of have the, like, shot through. So it looks like it almost like it could have been, like, liquid, so that it has the very, like, motorcycle racer look, but also somehow fashion. [00:44:37] Speaker A: But make it fashion. [00:44:38] Speaker B: Make it fashion. I hate this visor so much. Keno has no taste, but, yeah, you. [00:44:44] Speaker A: Guys walk up this red carpet, you do strike poses, and then they walk you up the stairs to Malacca Citadel. Gates open, and before you, you find yourself at the pre, pre gala. It's in a central atrium overlooking the city of Banang Pradhu. Mount Mandara is to its rear, and that's on the west wing. And you see through them, through these massive plexiglass windows. You could tell that this citadel, it was built in ancient times, but they retrofitted it on the interior to have all the fittings of something more modern. And there's a big chandelier. And then on the east wing, through those big plexiglass windows, you see all four stages of the track. You realize that, like, oh, it's the four elements. There's an earth element through the junk canyon, there's a wind element through the patala platforms in the sky, coming down to the water onto the glacier, and then up mount mandara, up the lava flows for fire would anyone like to make a survey check here? And I can tell you what you guys gleaned from the room. [00:45:56] Speaker E: I'll take a survey check, as I have two points in that. [00:45:59] Speaker A: Go ahead. [00:46:00] Speaker E: That's a five. [00:46:01] Speaker A: Okay, so, uh, but before I answer this question, you guys decided, I wrote down your team name as team doghouse. If you guys want to change that. Angeline was like, hey, boss, did we decide on a team name? [00:46:13] Speaker C: No, she, like, circles everybody up. [00:46:15] Speaker D: Armin's, like, because it's more than just the dog house. And what is. What is armin's call? [00:46:21] Speaker A: We were the paladin. I was on team paladin, but then I fired everybody, and it was a really bad time. [00:46:27] Speaker D: No, that's not. But menagerie. [00:46:31] Speaker A: Team menagerie. I don't hate it. [00:46:34] Speaker C: I don't hate it either. That's actually pretty. It's actually pretty cool. Like, you get a bunch of ragtag, but they're all one cohesive group. Yeah. [00:46:41] Speaker A: She, like, pulls out a tablet. Okay. Locked in. Okay, we're all registered here. Okay. Okay. Now, continuing on to Roman's survey check, you see there are several 3d printed busts of different racers of renown from previous editions of the race. And you also see there's a big podium on the stage. And on the podium is, like, the emblem for the Lankasuka Racing Commission. The emblem depicts four gods. Lakshmi, the goddess of fortune. Alakshmi, the goddess of misfortune. Varuni, the goddess of. Of alcohol and partying. And Devon Batari, which is the doctor of the gods, and also the person who procured the elixir of immortality. Basically this universe's version of Asclepius, like the medicine God. But then as you kind of scan the crowd, you can tell that most people are support staff, people that work for the gracing commission and that sort of thing. And they're all dressed up in ao yai suits and ties and that sort of thing. But the people that stand out, the ones in the Met gala, fits, you could tell these are the other teams you'll be competing against. And Angelyne, like, walks up next to you, and she starts pointing them out to you, Roman. And he's like, okay. So that over there, she points at a group. She points at a fabulous, colorful coterie of what looks to be drag queens. They're reflecting the different, like, queer ballroom cultures of Mekong. You see, like, jabadu and Kinar, you see enthusiasm. Like, you know, all of the, like these. A lot of that general sphere of people. She's like, that's team Priscilla. They are the queens of the desert. And you see also that their sponsorships all come from, like, various luxury brands, right? And their mechs, like, parked outside, you see that, like, they promote different perfumes, different, like, like, handbags, clothing lines, makeup, all that sort of thing, right? And she points at their team captain, a milaiu and drag queen named Isabel Ringer. Their theme this year were different moths, right? And all of their mechs and outfits reflect, like, different species of moths. So you see a sphinx moth, like a maple moth, and, like, their patterns are very elegant and that sort of thing. They're pretty friendly. They're like. Klaxon and she, like, gestures you over. It's like, isn't that right? KLAXON I think you, like, partied with Isabelle a handful of times. Yeah. [00:49:04] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Like, team Prissy's awesome. [00:49:06] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:49:06] Speaker C: By the way, they do not like the term team Prissy, but if you're friends, you can get away with it, you know? Like, there's that, you know, level of closeness. But if you're outside, you're team Priscilla. If you're in the inner circle, team. [00:49:18] Speaker A: Prissy's okay, but they're super cool. Yeah. [00:49:20] Speaker C: Like, they are super cool. [00:49:21] Speaker A: Yeah. And then she points over. You see, the next group of people she points to is they're just in standard, like, black, black and white, like, suits. They're all below, like, five foot. They're all a bunch of short, short, like, anchorian guys. All of their mechs are. They're like, well, team Priscilla uses, like, priachot as their primary brand. So that's their look. Like, that's, like, the most expensive geese on the market. They're probably piling those. This team, you see that they're using, like, laughing monk models. Like, the same model that, like, mohammed pilots the tabong. But they're all painted to resemble poisonous jungle frogs. They have very different color codes, like, bright colors, like gold, red and white, blue and red. And she was like that over there. That's team hopscotch or the jungle frogs, as they call them. Before they were racers, they were. Are you aware of, like, the gas mining industry? Like, usually people like to scoop different toxins out of, like, different gas giants and use them for different productive purposes, whether it be like, power generation or, like, fumigating and that sort of thing. So, like, it's a very working class team, and they're all short and they're pissed off. And all their sponsorships, you see they've come from different like, pest control, termite removal, like plumbing, electrician companies, that sort of thing. And she points to their team captain, a guy named Humle Huang. And you seem like chit chatting with different sponsors, like, yeah. So I just wanna let everybody know that we're gonna totally clear this course. No big deal. No one's getting in our way. We're gonna gas the fuck up. That's fine. It's fine. It's gonna be great. And then finally, she points all of your attention to the last team that walks into the room, and they're not in dress code at all. And when they walk in, you see Armin. Kind of like a chill runs down his spine as he recognizes the guys that he fired way back when. [00:51:12] Speaker D: Three weeks ago. [00:51:13] Speaker A: Yeah, about three weeks ago. These guys walk in, and they are. I want you to imagine their outfits to be like post apocalyptic wasteland raiders, you know? And their clothes are adorned with, like, rusty pipes and, like, necklaces made of, like, washers and, like, they got face paint of engine grease. And they also come in with, like, a big totem of what looks to be, like, a humanoid form made of, like, sludge and rust and plastic. Plastic kallaxon. You would recognize this totem as for a deity named Joanga. They're kind of like a. Like a fringe cult on Lancaska in that, because Joanga herself, as a deity, she's kind of like a personification of, like, the scrap and junk and, like, the all cross Lankaska. Basically. The joangans, as, like, as a group, they worship her because many of them, before they became racers, they worked in the different, like, scrap and junk processing. So, like, most of their livelihoods are explicitly tied to the fact that, like, the wealthy space colonies in orbit just dump all their shit onto there and they sort it through it. And that's, like, their job. Everyone kind of, like, clears the way for them as they walk in, and they're like. And they, like, square up with people. Clearly. They're kind of like the dark horse of this race, right? But this is Team Joanga. They are called the devotees. She's like. And that's Lonnie, Gambo and Lonnie. He's the most decked out, all of them, because clearly, being a former member of team Paladin, he still kind of has a holy crusader aesthetic to him, but it's all decked out in trash now. And the thing you notice first, Roman, is the rage in this guy's eyes. You've seen this from tandong pilots on the front line, guys who've been pent up guys who've been screwed over for all their lives and now don't just have one chip on their shoulder. They got chips on everyone's shoulder, and they're coming for it, right? And their mechs all kind of look like Frankenstein contraptions made of, like, repurposed junk. You notice there's a bunch of, like, nitrous ooze, like, flowing out of every possible surface. These mechs are less mechs and more, like, rigs. For those of you who are familiar with some of the mythology behind the key seed. Like, they resemble almost kind of like the crossing already, but, like. But they do. They're like different vampire creatures from other mythologies. So you see, like, Zhenglotz, Bolong, and Lonnie PI. And the biggest mech resembles, like, this big demon boar called bebignapet. And she's like, so that's the competition. Be friendly to the best of your ability, you know, be amicable. I know we're gonna kill each other at the start of the race, or hopefully nobody kills each other, but I'm talking too much. Have fun. And then I'm gonna go get some paperwork settled and, yeah, and I'm just. [00:54:06] Speaker D: Gonna pull Klaxon aside for a second. It's like I didn't mention it before because of everything else that was going on, but the devotees seem to have taken out a hit on Armin. I mean, I'm guessing it's them. [00:54:20] Speaker C: So they're going to try to sabotage Armin in this race and actually get him killed. [00:54:28] Speaker D: Yeah, a lot of people are going to be trying to get him killed. [00:54:32] Speaker A: It's a pretty big payout, as you say. A lot of people are trying to get him killed right behind the devotees. Rupiah, you also see some pretty distinctive suits. And you think back to when you were talking to Denari earlier and her ties to the sinner Hundi trade and everything. And the suits that the men that follow behind the devotees wear, they meet the halfway point between a general western business suit and a china collar kind of thing going on. And they have roses on their labels. You know, those suits, because they belong to, like, a rival honey syndicate. To the Nanyang family. This is the Dwitfei. This is the ones that also got fucked over at Nubaku. It looks like they got some of their enforcers alongside the devotees walking in with them just in high company. [00:55:22] Speaker D: Looks like Armin's former team got a new sponsor, patron family, if you will. [00:55:29] Speaker A: Oh, oh, okay. [00:55:32] Speaker C: I immediately talked to Armin and said, hey, you are aware of what rupiah has mentioned? Yeah, I know. [00:55:42] Speaker A: That's why I called you guys here. I've been a good man, right? I mean, okay, I haven't been a good man, but I, like, he's about to talk to you like, this is like his last day on earth. And you could tell just from the shaky hand and, like, the way he, like his body language towards you. Klaxon maybe I should. Maybe I should have dragged you into this. I'm really sorry. Like, I'm looking at them in the face now and I, you know, I kind of wish we were just, you know, back when we were kids in boxcars and going down the. Down the. Down the lane, right? [00:56:17] Speaker C: Klaxon immediately takes Armin by the arm and starts walking him to an area where they can have some privacy because this is not the place for him to break down in front of so many other people that are gunning for him. So he just delicately takes him by the back of his arm. They start walking as if they're walking at least outside to where even though the air is heavy. [00:56:45] Speaker A: Yeah. You find like a balcony. [00:56:47] Speaker C: Armin, I'm going to ask you a very pointed question right now. [00:56:53] Speaker A: Definitely. [00:56:55] Speaker C: You're not going to do the blaze of glory, are you? You're not going into this race. [00:57:00] Speaker A: I mean, isn't that. Isn't that the dream of every tan long, right? I mean, I'm not. I know I'm not a real one. I know I just running around the track. But, you know, they say about that warriors have to die in the heat of battle, right? [00:57:10] Speaker C: Like, I mean, maybe that'll. [00:57:12] Speaker A: Maybe that'll make my life worth right after all this time. [00:57:14] Speaker C: Okay, first of all, that is propaganda in order to get people from disadvantaged places to sign up and become fodder. So first of all, stop that. You are not that, all right? We're not going to do that no matter how good it looks, because you can't really appreciate a story when you're dead. I mean, if this is your version of suicide, forget it. [00:57:40] Speaker A: Right? But, like, if, you know, I can leave the money, I can leave whatever money we get out of this to Angelyne and she can go. No, you're right. [00:57:48] Speaker C: You know, you need to race for anybody. You race. You fucking race for Angeline. I do not want her devastated at the end of this race because you thought it was a better idea to go out. That is fucking chicken shit. I do expect better from you. I expect the racer from you. I fucking hate you right now. Like, if. Do you want to hear that? Do you want. Do you want the right? Yeah, good, good. [00:58:15] Speaker A: Yeah, good. [00:58:16] Speaker C: Yeah. I need that spirit from you when we race. When we race, I need that. [00:58:21] Speaker A: Tell me you kick my ass on that track. Tell me. [00:58:23] Speaker C: Fucking kick your ass. [00:58:23] Speaker A: I'm gonna kick your ass. I'm gonna go ahead, leave you in my dad dust. Okay, good. [00:58:28] Speaker C: Fucking kick my ass. [00:58:29] Speaker A: Shovel. [00:58:30] Speaker C: Go back to what? Oh, you. [00:58:33] Speaker A: What? Shove me back. [00:58:35] Speaker C: Jumps him back. [00:58:39] Speaker A: These two dudes just screaming at you. And I assume puddles is also just there, like, in the car, in the carriage, and she's. And she's barking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna race. I feel better. They thank you for antagonizing me. That really put me back in my spirits. [00:59:00] Speaker C: Of course, you little shit. [00:59:02] Speaker A: Yeah, you fucking asshole. You guys, fuck it. [00:59:05] Speaker C: All right, now. Now that we did that, when we go back, have someone taste your food before you eat it because I don't know what's going on. Just a precaution thing, right? [00:59:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:18] Speaker C: Like, I saw you take the rice wine from the tree. Like, you don't know where the fuck that's been. [00:59:23] Speaker A: That's true. [00:59:24] Speaker C: Especially all these people. [00:59:25] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:59:26] Speaker C: You don't know where it's been. [00:59:27] Speaker A: Well, here's the thing, right? I I know they're not gonna do it here, but while we're. But when we get on that track, if you watch my six, you. I'll watch your six. We're like, we're team now. [00:59:40] Speaker C: Let's. And he starts, like, making sure that you look clean and presentable. It's like, all right. Now that we had this argument, hopefully some people caught it because a controversy would have been great. Let's go. Let's go back and kill this fucker. And he starts walking back towards the party. [01:00:00] Speaker A: So you see the two of them walk back in. Do the three of you want to do anything right now? [01:00:05] Speaker B: I think I'm going to do what I do, what I've done for most of my life, which is kind of use this, like, anonymous vibe look, to see if I can kind of hear any intel from any of the other. [01:00:25] Speaker A: You can make a survey check. [01:00:27] Speaker B: That's a three. I'm just doing, like, a casual, like, turnaround. I'm not, like, trying to, like, do espionage. [01:00:36] Speaker A: Right, right. You're just kind of, like. You're just, like, getting the general vibe of the place, right. Um, you hear the. The devotees, they're chit chatting with the mob looking guys, right? And they're talking about environmental regulations, right? Like, a lot of them are like, they're talking a lot about how guys like Lord Armin, uh, you know, they, they think they know what's so good for Lancashire. They think. And, and, you know, this race, we're really going to show them, and we're going to show that what we do is for us. Like, a lot of, like, they sound like atmos chauvinist. They sound like Lord Saravant, but from, like, the opposite direction. Like, their animosity, like, while at home, you remember, like, lord, lord, like, the dangs had this animosity towards, like, the voidborn and people born in space. It seems like these people also have that for the same reason. But they, they're doing it not because to, like, they want to make Lancasca, like, great by any means, but more so, like, we gotta. They, they seem so tied down by their just the general, like, the misery of the place, right? Like, they're so, like, they formed this whole identity around it. They made up a God to, like, justify it and enforce it on other people. And they also seem to have this partnership with the thwitfi, these mobster guys, because, like, these guys are also union guys, weirdly, right. Not so much in the. All workers, you know, are doing their best, and we want the best wild workers, but, like, we just want guys like us to work these industries. And any offworlders that come this way will have these mob guys scare them off. It's a really messy situation politically, and it kind of opens your eyes to, like, oh, wow, this is, like, the opposite. [01:02:36] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a lot of weird shit happening here, too. Yeah, it turns out. [01:02:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Then they see, they turn and they look at you, and they're like, wow, look, it's Prince. It's Kiko. That's when they start kind of, like, giving you guff about the visor and everything like that. Like, from, like, they're not, like, immediately next to you, but, like, from, like, across the room. [01:02:59] Speaker B: I'm, like, super thankful that they can't actually see my face, which is just like, wow. [01:03:05] Speaker A: It's the great king of Chowfry himself come to grace us with our presence. [01:03:10] Speaker B: I give him, like, the devil horns. [01:03:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:03:16] Speaker B: Like, whatever, fuckers. Yeah. God, I wish I could make him look stupider. But they obviously know it's not him. Or do they? [01:03:24] Speaker A: Or do they? Finally, all of you hear, like, a tapping on the mic, and you see a bureaucrat step up to the stage. Namaste, everyone. The Rajas of Lancasco welcome, all of you, here, to the 1067 edition of the Ayurveda Grand Prix. So if any of you are unfamiliar with the story of the Ayurveda, in ancient times, the Daeva demigods of the heavens and the Asura demons of the hells, at the behests of the great God, Lord Vishnu took mount our mount Mandara. He points out to the mountain outside to churn the ocean of milk in the pursuit of the nectar of immortality. You know the rest. Lakshmi, gods of fortune, Alexmi, gods misfortune. He points to the logos, like, yeah, you guys have been here. But most importantly, Don Vittari, the doctor of the gods and founder of the Ayurveda, emerged from the ocean of milk with the elixir of immortality. And he points to a big trophy sit next to the podium that looks like a big vase, resembling the one from paintings of the story that you've seen. Yes. So that's the story of the Ayurveda. That's the short version. Let's just get into it. Yeah. So, whoever with this race, we honor this tale. And for those who brave the four legs of the Ayurveda Grand Prix, the winner may be bestowed their very own elixir of immortality. It's really just a very sizable cash prize or whatever the winner wants that's financially equivalent. So tonight, may you drink in varnish honor. May Lakshmi be at your backs. May we definitely dodge Lakshmi's wiles. And finally, may the best team get to claim this nectar of immortality. So let's talk about the track and the windows. You see a bunch of, like, hologram interfaces, like, light up to light up the different sections of the track. Leg one is Deng Samset Thunder road. This goes through the junk canyons outside of Ban dong Pradu. The racers will have to cross this landfill that is filled with improperly disposed power cells and energy banks. You will weave through the hills and valleys created by this junk and avoid any hazards that change with the wake of the race. Just a forewarning to all you racers. These junk formations are highly unstable, as are the clusters of power cells. So there's a risk of being crushed under falling cascades of scrap or being immobilized by battery leakage. Does anyone have any questions about that? And. No? Okay, great. So this leg concludes at the top of the point, referred to as the potato chip. As you race up to the top of this, you will activate your flight systems and fly off the potato chip as a ramp onto the second leg of the race. Element two wind. So the patala platforms are where many of our esteemed nobles here on Lancasca lives. You will be flying through the wind currents that are going up there. And if you have successfully brave thunder road, you will strap on your flight paths. You will stay aerial as you zip past these flying hover platforms with. Let's take a look at the wind conditions. Let's not take a look at the wind conditions, but just be mindful of your, your flight systems. There will also be additional hazards such as birds, other flying mammals, and atmo jellies. And you see several pictures of large jellyfish looking alien creatures that like, just like, bloop through the sky. And there's another. Another photo flash pass is like a kisi, like, flies through, touches one of their tendrils and like, and then falls to the ground. So just be mindful of the atmo jellies. They're a protected species, so you know best not to disturb them. If once you get through the four aerial slaloms up there, you will navigate your way down to Kashiria sagara. That is the glacier that was once the mythical ocean of milk. They turned it so hard that they turned it to ice cream. This is where the real race starts, in my opinion. So this straight stretch is named after the mythical ocean of milk. Don't mind the off white coloring. It's totally natural and all approved by the bureaucracy. Just remember that it's going to be very slippery and, you know, we did not check if the ice has thinned out at all. So if any of you fall, take it up with your insurance sponsors. And then finally, after you cross the glacier, that gets you to the Mount Mandara, where you will deploy your magma sleds and you will be be surfing the the track up a lava flow to the very top caldera of Mount Mandara. And whoever crosses that finish line at the top of caldera will be the winner. Racers, do you have any questions for us as the racing commission? Yes, Lord Blaklak. [01:08:06] Speaker C: Yes. Double checking with our teams. Are we allowed to use our key see to propel other kisi in dynamic forces? [01:08:16] Speaker A: That is fine. All right, just be forewarned. For legs one, three and four. For legs one and three, you must maintain contact with the ground. Any sustained flight will disqualify for the race. That doesn't mean you can't stop participating, it just means when you've crossed the finish line, you will not place. So if you're just wanna let you know, being that this is the every fifth year to honor the eternal war between the Devas and the Asuras. The Rajas of Lancaska. Have a name, have permitted lethal means of securing victory. So you can still be in the race. You won't finish, but if you need to protect whoever's left on your team to finish, that's your prerogative. [01:08:57] Speaker B: Only one of us has to cross, correct? Got it. [01:09:02] Speaker C: So we won't be notified during the race. If we're disqualified, we'll only. [01:09:07] Speaker A: No, no, they'll notify. We will notify. They will radio you and be like you. You are now. You are no longer qualified to finish. You can still rate. You can still be in the race and, like, you know, fight off with whoever you need to fight off for the rest of your team to finish. But otherwise, just follow the rules, people, please. Like, I know we stripped back a bunch of safety regulations for fun, but there are still rules to these things. So as a servant of the racing commission, that it is our duty to observe those. [01:09:35] Speaker B: I lean to Roman and just go, yeah, so we'll kill each other like so civilized folk. [01:09:41] Speaker E: Yeah. Just make sure you got your thunderwear on. [01:09:43] Speaker B: Yeah, thunderwear. [01:09:49] Speaker E: Don't ask that. Yeah, I don't know. It just came out. [01:09:53] Speaker A: Okay. With that being said, our presentation. Can we have all the teams on stage for a photo, please? And you see the groups of pilots moving up, and Angelyne's like, all right, guys, big smiles. Look excited. Roman, you don't look excited. [01:10:11] Speaker E: Do I need to look excited? [01:10:14] Speaker A: This is one of our most honored traditions here on Lancaska. So you are partaking in a very honorable. Okay, you know what, Roman? [01:10:22] Speaker D: Just, like, think of what the boys will say when you're in this picture. Do it for the kids. [01:10:31] Speaker A: You're right. You're right for the kids. [01:10:33] Speaker E: And you see Roman. [01:10:42] Speaker A: So, yeah, all the four of you, the four of you, Angely, Armin, and all of you, like, move up on stage. You are on the farthest left wing. And next to your team, coincidentally, are the devotees. As they pass through, they, like, look you up and down, and they, like, give you a snarl to try to intimidate you. And then when they finally pass Armin, they're like, joanga remembers. Armin's like, it's gonna be a fun race, right, guys? It's gonna be just a nice, good old time. [01:11:19] Speaker B: I love this for us. [01:11:20] Speaker A: I do, too. Smile. Click. And that's our break. Be sure to tune back in after these messages for the Ayurveda Grand Prix. Welcome back to Queen Squares games, everyone you're tuned into more Mekong, or in this case for this episode, Mekong Drift, because we're about to embark on the Ayurveda Grand Prix, the most dangerous race in the Malayu sector. Before we get into it, players, how are you feeling about this whole affair? We noviced, we. [01:12:05] Speaker B: I dabbed. So we know how nervous I actually am. [01:12:08] Speaker A: Incredible. Fantastic. Okay, so with that being said, we're gonna roll that supply roll just so we can determine what supply points you have to work with before the race. You have. Oh, that's a six. Okay, cool. Yes. You have nine supply points to work with. So incredible work. Clearly sending Jackie with Mohammed kept him on task. So you now are. You're rolling in it, or at least you have rolling in it supply wise. All right, so for those of you watching at home, I know beam Saber has two types of downtime rules. We did do the traditional way earlier in the series, but for the sake of time and for everyone's convenience, we are going to use the slimmer downtime activity rules found in the appendix of the book. Basically, just how it works is we're just going to continue as we're going along. The characters will declare whatever action we're doing where I will say what action you're doing, they'll roll a thing, we'll expend the supply point and we'll move on. So that's the most TLDR version of it I can give. So with that being said, it is a couple hours before the start of the race. You guys have moved your DC to the general communal garage towards the start of the racetrack, which is at the mouth of Thunder Road. Right? This weaving series of canyons through the junk fields around Banang Pradhu. Jackie is working overtime. She's got like, a welding mask on and she's got like, a blowtorch and she's. She's doing final adjustments to each of your mechs. I assume all of you, you're already all suited up with more sponsors on your suits, on your. On your. On your pilot suits, doing the usual maintenance and subroutines and diagnostics and such and such rupiah as you are, like in copper pods, like open cockpit, and doing your tweaks, you hear someone shout from down below, like, hey. And you look down and you see it's Denari. She's pulled up with a hover truck, but like a pickup truck. And in the back of it are you see two large masses of what looks to be some sort of components under a cloth. Can you hear? Hello? I'm down here. I can see. [01:14:17] Speaker D: I. Hop down. Hello? [01:14:21] Speaker A: Hey. [01:14:22] Speaker D: Didn't think you were gonna make it. [01:14:24] Speaker A: I'm a woman of my word. Is Roman around here? I think I owe him an apology. I. Roman, where are you right now? [01:14:33] Speaker E: I would be at my mech as. [01:14:35] Speaker A: Well, probably in the. [01:14:38] Speaker E: In the same hangar, but just getting used to just doing my usual calisthenics and making sure the body's limber and ready to go for the. The race ahead. [01:14:48] Speaker A: Also, I might need a big strongman like him to help me pull the stuff out of the truck. So if you can, want to, like. [01:14:54] Speaker D: I think you lose that. [01:14:56] Speaker A: Okay. All right, fine. All right. [01:14:58] Speaker D: Well, pretty hard. [01:15:00] Speaker A: Okay. [01:15:02] Speaker D: But you are correct. You do. [01:15:04] Speaker A: Owen. [01:15:04] Speaker D: I'm apologizing. [01:15:05] Speaker A: I do. I do. She waves over at you while you're, like, doing calisthenics. Roman. All right. [01:15:14] Speaker E: And not. Not gonna be rude or anything, but Roman's going to finish what he's doing, hop over, and walk over and. [01:15:25] Speaker A: Hi. Hi. [01:15:29] Speaker D: I'm gonna take the. I'm gonna take the thing and just go. Cause, like, I'm not. I'm like, you don't have to say or do anything you don't want to. Like, to roam in and just kind of do that weird, like, I'm sorry. [01:15:43] Speaker A: That I made a bad call on what to give you. I was over excited with my hospitality. [01:15:51] Speaker E: Look, I understand, and here's what I'm going to tell you right now. If you're feeling fully guilty for it, I don't want you to take all that guilt on you. I'm gonna. And he looks dead in the eye. Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. I made that choice, and I'm gonna live with whatever I saw. It happened. It happened that way. It's not gonna happen any other way. But, look, I'm just gonna put the past behind us and. Look, bygones be bygones. And Roman extends his hand. We're all good here, and you're helping us out, so I can't. I can't. I can't hate you for anything like that. You're helping this team out. So we're all good here. [01:16:38] Speaker A: She shakes it. One firm shake. Great. And she lets go and heads back to the truck. I can also use your help with this. This mech head here, so if you want to. Yeah, yeah. No. [01:16:50] Speaker E: No worries. [01:16:51] Speaker A: You look down in your hand, you see she's left you a business card, and you flip it over, and in a long friend script, I owe you one favor. You can call this in whenever. [01:17:06] Speaker E: Roman looks at the card, nods and just places it in his suit. Then moves over to go help with the mech head. Who knows? We may need that down the road. [01:17:17] Speaker A: All right, so the two of you lift this out of the truck. And already as you're working on the Krakzu, you see Roman and Denarii kind of, like, haul this thing over and put it on the ground. And Denari is like, you wanna come look at this? [01:17:39] Speaker B: Yeah, let's look. I think Oridi is very, like, in her element when she's working on the Krasue. Cause that's what you do. So she's got. She's, like, a lot more casual than she was doing the. When she was not a cop today. [01:17:55] Speaker A: Yes. Hey, officer. Sorry, I'm just. I just want to give you shit. [01:18:02] Speaker C: Okay. [01:18:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:18:03] Speaker A: What's. [01:18:04] Speaker B: What'd you get? [01:18:05] Speaker A: I got you a Concord head. It's not the one that you might expect, but she pulls off the tarp, like, the tarp. And you see the head is a little more geometric with, like, hard, like, angles. But the facial structure itself is still relatively feminine. And it has young chignys script on the side too. She says, I want you to meet appiate is a Sanskrit to cause anyone to suffer. And you look at the head, and it resembles a character from another enthusiasm ghost story. You heard of a woman named Nang Thani. She is a. She's like a benevolent spirit that, like, haunts banana trees. And usually she, like, hurts like, men who've wronged women. Like. But otherwise she'll, like, accept, like, offerings from, like, buddhist monks. From, like, lotus monks and such and such. Like, it's got a lot of dust and, like, oil on it and that sort of thing. But you kind of take a look at her. What's going through your head? [01:19:11] Speaker B: I think oridy sort of, like, is standing kind of looking at it. And she wants to be mad about the fact that she had to. She lost the old one and all the things and everything that went down with denarii. And she's, like, already kind of, like, traces around where the eyes are on it. And she can kind of trace along the seams where instead of, like, the Krasue had, like, it was just very pale and, like, had the, like, closed kind of eye look of like a sleeping person. This one has, like, seams in it that kind of look like tears. And she just sort of is like, yeah, it's good. It's really good. This will work. [01:19:56] Speaker A: Great. And, rupee, there's also something in the truck for you. There's, like, a trunk shot of the tarpaulin. The three of you, like, gathered over, looking this as, like, the tarp comes off and you see, like, a hand that has a snake kind of coiled around it. And the head is, like, got little spikes on it. The markings indicate this is definitely a praya chat, like a very high, expensive looking piece of material. And it reads vasuki, specifically the Vasuki type offensive whip. It's a little kinky shit. I mean, I think she speaks for herself. [01:20:45] Speaker D: Hell, yeah, she does. Um, and I, you know, go in for the, like, fuck, yeah. Big hug with the back slapping thing. [01:20:57] Speaker A: And, well, have a good race there. There might be some people on the outside here. I know you guys have been getting ready, but she, like, turns and looks outside the hangar, and there are a lot of, like, little groupias, little charains, little, like, little, like, young, poor kids, impoverished kids, and, like, their families all kind of looking in and Kallaxon. You're, like, out there and you think you're about to go sign some autographs like that, right? And do the usual pre pr race stuff. And while some people do get your material, most of this big flock of people kind of, like, move right past you and Armin, and you and Armin look at each other, and they all head over to where you are. Rubio with the truck and everything and where copper pot is. And because they recognize the goddess Durga, who saved a lot of their friends and family over in the spacers district, is also racing. And, like, Claxton, you kind of look on because, like, you've done. You've also been like, you know, the folk hero before as Rupiah is like, Ruby. You're getting swarmed by these kids who, like, start handing you, like, little fan art and little, like, little totems of. Of the Durga and everything like that. Much of the art depicts, like, you know, Durga from the legend slaying the buffalo demon. But the buffalo demon looks a lot like ordi. You noticed this too? Like, the chow fry in stock exchange has a big bowl outside, like a big bronze statue of a bull. And so it shows the Durga slaying that bull, right? Sticking it to the man. Klaxon. What do you see? What do you think? Looking at this? [01:22:46] Speaker C: So Klaxon immediately starts taking his phone and starts recording rupiah getting swarmed by all of these children. And he starts narrating. So if you haven't heard, this is Rupiah Tayeng who's been doing a couple of commercials. But these are the people. These are the little kids that are looking up to someone like Rupiah. Because this is why we race, to inspire little kids. And he starts narrating and makes sure that. That you see all the tea captures, like, the expressions on the little kids faces, the little things that they're holding. And then Rupiah just kind of, like, smiling wildly as all of this is happening. And after a while, he just stops narrating and just lets the camera on his phone that's broadcasting everywhere, just take in that picture. [01:23:43] Speaker A: Armin's like, we're getting old, aren't we? [01:23:46] Speaker C: Oh, of course. Of course we're getting old. We need other people who aren't old that people are going to look up to to keep this race alive, because, you know, it's a. And then he realizes that the mic is still on. It's like, well, we'll talk about the whole death race thing later. We'll just. I'm gonna do some camera work for a moment. [01:24:13] Speaker A: So while this is happening, I think this constitutes as the cut loose, downtime action. I'm sure this is a very stress relieving experience for all of you. Everybody roll however many dice they have with connections to Rupiah. It's like, Roman, you're also seeing this while you have been in a very despair place, right now, you remember that mantra just like, I just want my hope back. And you see that there's hope in a lot of the people of Mekong here gathered around Rupiah as you're watching this whole thing, as you kind of bonded with her. So how does that make you feel? [01:24:51] Speaker E: Roman is definitely proud, and he's actually waiting for a moment once all the cameras and everybody has gone away to pull Rubia aside to speak his mind. But, yeah, so we will get to that as soon as we can. But right now, very positive. [01:25:12] Speaker A: Okay, Ryan, go ahead. And you can take down four stress. Take off four stress points. Go ahead. Add a connection in your connection clock to Rupiah already. You drop six. That's a four from Roman. Okay. And then, Rupiah, you can do it for yourself. Yeah, that's a four. Also, forced rest for yourself. Okay, cool. [01:25:36] Speaker B: Damn. Thanks. Rupiah, right? [01:25:38] Speaker E: What a beast. [01:25:39] Speaker A: And then, yeah, write a new belief and then. Okay, cool. [01:25:43] Speaker E: Roman's gonna go up to Rupiah. Hey, you mind stepping to the side. [01:25:47] Speaker A: For me real quick? Yeah, cool. [01:25:50] Speaker E: And just going around the corner. Listen, there's been a couple things on my mind. [01:25:57] Speaker A: First off, I have to apologize to you. [01:25:59] Speaker E: Look, a while back, when we were all at dinner and you were out there helping the people out. Look, I feel bad. I should have been there with you. I'm sorry I didn't join you with that. You were out there. You were doing the right thing. And that's been weighing on my mind for all this time. So, one, I wanted to apologize to you for that. And two, look, I just saw what happened. You know, everybody out there. First of all, you deserve that. You deserve all that praise. I think the most important thing is that if. If I ever get hope back and. [01:26:43] Speaker A: I get to see her grow up. [01:26:46] Speaker E: If there's anybody I want her to. [01:26:47] Speaker A: Grow up to be like, you're somebody that I want her to look up to. [01:26:52] Speaker C: Hi. [01:26:54] Speaker D: You're giving me too much credit. [01:26:56] Speaker A: No. I don't know. [01:26:58] Speaker D: There's nothing I can do to truly balance the scales of what happened at Numba Corps and what happened after. [01:27:12] Speaker A: Wow. [01:27:12] Speaker D: And I'll spend my life trying to make up for those failures. [01:27:20] Speaker A: I feel that. [01:27:21] Speaker D: But you are always there for hope, and you'll do anything for her. And you're the best dad that she could have asked for. For. And it's not an if you get her back. It's when. [01:27:41] Speaker A: That's right. [01:27:43] Speaker E: And Roman extends his hand to rupiah. Let's go win this race. Let's go protect everyone, shall we? [01:27:50] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:27:51] Speaker A: All right. Let's go. [01:27:54] Speaker D: Let's go protect our family. [01:27:56] Speaker A: Mmm. [01:27:57] Speaker E: And let's go head back to everybody else. [01:28:00] Speaker A: Jackie lifts her like welding visor. She's like, are we done having fuzzies with each other? I would like to finish fixing your machines, please. Please get back in the cockpit so I can spill it. [01:28:19] Speaker D: Yeah, great. [01:28:21] Speaker B: Sorry. [01:28:21] Speaker D: Not sorry for adding more work to you in the last second. [01:28:24] Speaker A: It's fine. This race is really messing with my inner peace right now, and. But I know how important it is to win, so get in the cockpit. If you could be so kind and so considerate. You do. Everyone, let's go ahead and roll engineer checks, get you guys fixed up. Let's get your question quirks refreshed and such. And such. So I'm just gonna roll for Jackie here. That's five quirks that can get refreshed. So you're down. Yeah. Everyone gets their quirks back as she completes general maintenance on that. Sick, sick. [01:29:07] Speaker B: My ominous appearance is back and banana than ever. [01:29:11] Speaker A: Okay, so that's, I believe, five supply points already spent because it's four on your mechs and then one for getting all those, your components back. All right, that's six. So you're down to three. Now, for any other repairs here, I'd. [01:29:27] Speaker C: Like to repair my squab wing. [01:29:29] Speaker A: Okay, great. I'll go ahead. Do you have an engineer? Anything in engineering right now? [01:29:36] Speaker C: I have one. [01:29:37] Speaker A: Okay, go ahead, roll one. And then I'll have Jackie increase the. [01:29:41] Speaker C: Effect of that five. [01:29:43] Speaker A: Your clock is filled. You could demote that level one damage to level zero. Your wing isn't complete. Isn't. Your wing is now no longer squab you. It's in fully, fully functioning Jackie and Armin's gave you the hookup. You're in racing shape, sparky. Ordie, you can go ahead, roll engineer, if you have engineer. Otherwise, I can just have Jackie roll it. [01:30:05] Speaker B: I think Jackie needs to roll it for me. [01:30:07] Speaker A: Okay. [01:30:08] Speaker B: If there's, like, a floral looking like ad, I want to, like, stick it up by the head of four. [01:30:16] Speaker A: And so that brings you down to one more supply point. Do you want to spend that last one on another roll? [01:30:25] Speaker B: What do we get? [01:30:26] Speaker A: Because right now, you're at level two, harm. Like, we. [01:30:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:30:29] Speaker A: Fuck. So that puts you down to level one. [01:30:33] Speaker B: Can I clear it entirely? [01:30:35] Speaker A: Yeah, if I roll again. [01:30:36] Speaker B: And, yeah, can I spend that? Are we okay with me spending that? [01:30:41] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm okay. [01:30:42] Speaker B: I forgot I had to undo nearly headless. [01:30:44] Speaker A: Great. Okay. You now have the head of the apiati, the conquered Appiati, on Okrasu's body. Welcome, sports fans. Thanks for tuning back into Mspin P eight the wallow. I'm Sammy Suprat. And I'm Vicky Vitek. We're gathered here at the starting line of the most exciting race here in the Malayu sector, the Ayurveda Grand Prix. And look who we have here. In spite of departure, his previous racing team, Khalaxi Bulaklaq, has returned to the pre with an unlikely partner, his longtime rival, the paladin of Bulaki Armin, La. Both former champions have come to defend their title against three of Mekong's most skilled Kisi racers. First, team Priscilla, queens of the desert and favorite pride of the pride community. And we also team hotos, the jungle frogs, with their colorful, colorful and gas and toxic tactics. And finally, Team joanga, the dark horse, the devotees and kind of trash gremlins. But you know what? They're here. They're gonna race, and that's that. On that, let's get down to the starting line, folks, and all of you begin to take places in this kind of like, it's not like a line, like a straight line where everyone's all in the same one, but more like the segmented, kind of like sprinter circle, where, like every. Where each team is towards the back, it all evens out. You know, you're in the cockpit, you're looking out. Klaxon. You're in your element, you know? No. No pre race nerves for you here. This is another walk in the park, right? And you see the flag, folks come out to signal the star of the race. So there's, like, two young women, scantily clad, and another. And then two beefcake looking men, also scantily clad. And they're all carrying, like, race flags that come out. And you recognize your boyfriend, Scotty Tuhadi, as one of them. And he points like, my boyfriend. That is mine. [01:32:51] Speaker C: I blow my kiss. [01:32:54] Speaker A: Crowd goes wild. Scotty standing at the star of the track. Racers, are you ready? Armin gets on the radio. Chat between all you guys. Thank you, all of you. Ten Lang, for being here, and I'm honored and humbled to race alongside you. Let's do this. [01:33:23] Speaker C: Oh, I need better than that. I need better than that. [01:33:26] Speaker A: You do what? You do it, then. [01:33:27] Speaker C: No, no. I mean, like, it needs to come from you. I need you hyped. We're about to go. [01:33:33] Speaker A: Oh, come on. I love my fiance. And we're gonna fucking do this for Angeline, and we're gonna do this for hope, and we're gonna do this for those kids out there, and we're gonna do this for your pirate friend, Mohammed. And Mohammed's like, I'm on this radio channel, too. Yeah, Ron, we'll do this for you. [01:33:51] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, yeah. [01:33:53] Speaker A: There we go. Racers, on your marks. Start your reactors. Everyone, like, hits their push to start. The inner core of each of your geese starts to, like, rumble. You kind of, like, get a feel for the land spinners that Jackie has attached to the ankles of your mech. Let's do the engagement roll. Is this mission bold? Yes, it's the death, Grace. So take a d six or QD. Six is the mission complex. There's a lot of environmental hazards out there, so take a die away. So you're back to one die. Do you have any tactics that exploit any vulnerabilities? You guys didn't look into any of the other teams at the gala, so you go as far as vulnerabilities. [01:34:45] Speaker B: I tried to eavesdrop, but I don't think I did a good enough job. [01:34:48] Speaker A: So I'm not gonna add a die for there is the tactic ineffective. Now you have external support. You do, Muhammad and Jackie will be in your pit crew, so go ahead. And that's back to 2d. Is anyone interfering with the mission? Not that you know of. So, yeah. Two d six. No snake eyes. The racers take off. Joann's the hopscotch team. Prissy, everyone that isn't Kallaxon and Armin. This rollerblading thing, you know that thing in cartoons where they're like, they're just slipping up on themselves? Or do you fall on your butt? Like. Or the falls on her butt. Oh, and it seems to be a misstar from team imagery. What could possibly be going on in there? Like, army, like. Like, takes off and, like, stops and turns around. It's like, guys. [01:35:42] Speaker D: We definitely should have had a practice today. [01:35:44] Speaker A: Keep going, Armin. Keep going. [01:35:46] Speaker C: Keep going. [01:35:47] Speaker B: Only one of us has to pass the finish line. We will figure it out. Right, y'all? [01:35:52] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:35:53] Speaker A: Yep. Who wants to roll a maneuver? Check. [01:35:57] Speaker E: I'll take it. [01:35:58] Speaker A: Okay, go ahead. Roll. Two d six. Roman. [01:36:02] Speaker D: Oh, my God. [01:36:02] Speaker A: Come on, man. Come on. So, Roman, you put your best effort into it. Apalachi. You, like, clicks into the land spinners, and you push your foot on the gas. And as you try to catch up with arming while everyone else is, like, trailing behind you, but with a three, the first thing that happens is one of the Joangians sees you coming up on the approach. You and Armin, coming up on the approach, pulls out a gun and starts popping shots. Pulls out a pistol, starts popping shots back at you. They strike Armin because you didn't get. They strike the corona chaser, Armin's mech, because you didn't get up there in time to protect him. Would you like to before I describe the consequences? Do you want to resist? Do you want to do anything here? [01:36:51] Speaker E: You know what? I am going to resist. [01:36:55] Speaker A: Okay, go ahead. And what quirk do you want to burn to resist? Let's. [01:36:59] Speaker E: Okay, we're going to burn the. We're going to burn. Custom paint job. [01:37:03] Speaker A: Okay, great. You see, like, on the scopes, you register one of the Joann pulls out this pistol, starts popping shots back. You shove yourself past the Appalachian shove itself. Path puts. Puts the whole mech between Armin and harm's way, and you're going to take rank. One damage as several pistol rounds pepper your chassis. So now let's just say you have holes in your lower torso and life leg. [01:37:35] Speaker E: If I've resisted a consequence that has been caused, which we just said, then I get to invoke this is no zaku, which gives me one plus one die to the next. Roll against the combatant. [01:37:46] Speaker D: Nice. [01:37:47] Speaker A: Yeah, you have a 1d against this. Joangan. The mech that this particular racer is piloting is a genglot, which is kind of like a little blood sucking gremlin kind of thing. Yeah. Now that you've resisted it, go ahead. And it holds the lower torso. Do you want to do anything in response? [01:38:08] Speaker E: Okay, yeah, we're gonna use that right now. Where is this little gremlin in relation to his team? [01:38:15] Speaker A: He's, like, he's at the back of the pack. So, like, you guys, because of the last start, there's a pack, and there's a couple of racers ahead of the pack, but otherwise, everyone's, like, kind of holding in this general, like, herd, so. But he's, like, trail tailed back, trying to shoot back at Armin. [01:38:30] Speaker E: Okay, so here's what I'm going to. [01:38:33] Speaker A: Do, is, I'm going to fire at. [01:38:36] Speaker E: This guy, but not as a battle tactic. I'm going to maneuver him to try to jump, like, to launch himself into his next closest compatriot. Basically, it's a maneuver. Check. But I'm trying to trip him up. [01:38:49] Speaker A: Okay, you try. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, yeah. [01:38:51] Speaker E: Basically, I'm trying to shoot at him so that he makes a misstep and falls into his own comrade, thereby getting two for one. [01:38:58] Speaker A: Okay, great. Go ahead. Roll maneuver with three. D six. [01:39:01] Speaker E: It's a five. [01:39:02] Speaker A: It's a five. Okay, great. So what weapon are you using to shoot at it? [01:39:07] Speaker E: Okay, we will be using. We'll be using our directed energy. Well, no, no, let's use the fine, heavy cannon right now. [01:39:19] Speaker A: And then, like, ha. You hear on the earth, you missed. But it's one of those moments, like, I'm not trying to hit you. And you dislodge several fuselage pieces of junk off from the side of the canyon, and it falls right in front of him. He trips, and he crashes into one of the other racers, and you hear this massive. Oh, what a wipeout for the droid. Two of. Two of their little brokers are off the field. So you've knocked out two of their racers. You've knocked out a few of their racers off the formation. However, you rolled a five. So now there's a bunch of, like, mech debris, like wreckage that, like, as their mechs kind of, like, all fall apart due to their poor quality, it leaves a bunch of what's. You know, when people, like, throw a bunch of marbles on the ground. You know what? What the fuck is that called? [01:40:15] Speaker E: Like, throwing a bunch of marbles on the ground. [01:40:17] Speaker B: Marbles on the ground. [01:40:20] Speaker A: Now there's a bunch of debris on the ground, and you're roller skating right at it. [01:40:24] Speaker B: So I have an idea then, unless I was gonna do something stupid, I can hold off on the stupid. Actually. Do I have double checking? I think I have an energy beam. I have a directed energy weapon is. Unless anyone else has, like, a beam. I think we could just. Can we nuke the ground a little. [01:40:42] Speaker A: Bit just to get the debris gone there you can. But also there's a. Like I said, you might create more debris in doing that, depending on the angle of how you hit and the fact that you're also in a desperate position. [01:40:57] Speaker B: God damn it. This fucking. [01:40:58] Speaker A: So it's just something to consider. Just something to consider. Because also, a lot of these. These trash piles are stacked really high. And also. And you haven't even gotten to the electromagnetic portion yet, where you might get several thousand kilojoules of electricity pulsing through your mech if you hit the wrong thing. Lots of hazards here. [01:41:18] Speaker B: I. [01:41:19] Speaker A: But if you want to play it. [01:41:21] Speaker B: Risky, the problem is we're in such a. We're in such a bad position that anything we do is going to be risky. Right, right. All right. I think I'm going to go back to my plan a. It already pops onto the comms. Only one of us needs to cross that finish line. [01:41:36] Speaker A: Right, right, right, right. Yes. That's. That's. That's the rule. [01:41:41] Speaker B: Who's got the lightest mech? Actually, I'm gonna do it this way. Rupiah, you've got that whip. Boy, do I wanna. Wanna toss at this. Wanna give me the end of it. [01:41:54] Speaker D: So I activate my brand new arm, and it becomes like. It lengthens and thins out at the end and becomes a whip. [01:42:08] Speaker B: I would like to. I would like to disqualify myself early. And the crossto's wings just open up. She's a better flyer than she is a roller skater, for sure. And I think I'm gonna try to tow rupiah. [01:42:26] Speaker A: Oh. [01:42:28] Speaker E: Oh, that's smart. That's smart. [01:42:30] Speaker A: That is smart. That's smart. [01:42:32] Speaker B: I'm gonna stay as low as I can for as long as I can, but I do not think it's going to be as safe. Like, I could just fly and coast with my little feetsies on the ground. Technically, that counts. Technically, that does count, but I think I'm gonna. If I'm trying to be as safe as I can with our position, I'm gonna just DQ early. Because here's the thing. Only one of us needs, needs to cross. And if none of them are mobile, if none of the other teams are mobile, fuck it. [01:43:01] Speaker D: Yeah. And Rupiah's gonna, like, if we go, we need to catch up to protect our guys. [01:43:09] Speaker A: Yes. [01:43:09] Speaker D: I mean, so I think he's gonna die. [01:43:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:43:13] Speaker B: I think already has fully given up on the idea of racing. And it's like, fine, I'll be an obstacle. [01:43:18] Speaker A: So we're gonna. That's a setup. Make a maneuver. Check to fly right to, like, launch yourself up while grabbing onto the rope. [01:43:27] Speaker B: Six. [01:43:30] Speaker A: Team Menagerie's Concord Krasue is activating her boosters. Or what do we see the Krasue. [01:43:40] Speaker B: As we know, big old wings, weird goblin, scary, skeletal kind of body, jiggly middle because of the stretchy bits. I think that, oh, this is really, really crazy. Already links the whip to sort of her hips, where the Krasue's hips are. And you see the wings expand and she just takes the fuck off. She's like, fuck it. I don't need to worry about terrain if I'm not on it. And everything lights up all at once. And with the new head, there's like sort of a. There must be like copper sulfate or something in the new build because all of the plasma that's coming, like, as the eyes light up and the lines where the new head is, they start to go kind of like a green plasma. [01:44:32] Speaker A: Oh, fuck, yeah. [01:44:34] Speaker B: Yeah, that's nightmarish. And, like, she starts shooting forward and only the top half moves for a second. And I think for a moment, there's just like, a pause as everyone's like, what the fuck? Did she just leave her butt behind? And already in the mech kind of does, like a sit up almost position. [01:44:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:44:56] Speaker B: And the back legs of the Krasue shoot forward to, like, rejoin the body like a weird slinky dog. And that momentum, all of that combined, is going to drag rupiah forward like a little slingshot. [01:45:12] Speaker A: Attention, pilot. You, you are currently going airborne in the first leg of the race. You will be disqualified if you retain this airborne status. Do we acknowledge? [01:45:23] Speaker B: Question for y'all. If I am disqualified, do I still get to participate? [01:45:28] Speaker A: You will not qualify as a finisher, but you will still be able to made in the race as a courtesy. [01:45:32] Speaker B: Awesome possum. Thank you, judges. And I just turn it up and, like, get out of the way of Rupiah as she can swing under me. [01:45:45] Speaker A: The cross who takes flight, you see in the little hud, you know, like in Mario Kart, all the places of, like, the racers moving up and down, you just see Cross's name just struck off the list, and you take flight. Rupiah, you are now set up to do whatever you need to do now that the classroom is pulling you along. [01:46:03] Speaker D: Okay. [01:46:03] Speaker A: Wow. [01:46:04] Speaker D: I am going to slingshot forward to take a flank position at Kalaxens or, like, guarding Kallaxon's flank. [01:46:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:46:14] Speaker D: Since Roman has armin right now. [01:46:16] Speaker A: Yes. [01:46:17] Speaker D: Kallaxon is our other, like, has to cross the finish line. Has to. And is going to be gunned for. [01:46:23] Speaker A: Yes. [01:46:24] Speaker D: So, yeah, I'm gonna do that and then lay down some cover fire. [01:46:30] Speaker A: Okay, so do you want to just make a battle check for that then? [01:46:35] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:46:35] Speaker A: Okay. So that battle check will have increased effect because Ordi was so kind to set you up for this six. Let's go, baby. All right, so the announcers goes like. And the Mon Durga of team is coming in using some sort of maneuver while tethered to its flying teammate. And what's this? Take it from here, rupiah. How does cover fire treat the other racers? [01:47:00] Speaker D: So, as I like, one arm is attached and propelling forward, but two others are actually operating the bow. [01:47:09] Speaker A: Okay. [01:47:10] Speaker D: To lay down just a rapid rain of arrows behind Kallaxon, forcing the other racers to, like, fall back or get injured. [01:47:20] Speaker A: Excellent. Okay, so you see, like, you break through the pack with Kalaxa and to get over to Kalaxa and you shoot back, and you see the pack kind of, like, all kind of just scatter off to the side, trying to dodge all these arrows. An impressive amount of fire coming off the Mon Durga. With that being said, it looks like the partnership between Lord Armin and Lord Bulak locked has gotten them to the tip of the potato ship. Kallaxin, you're about to take flight into the second leg of the race as team Menagerie pulls up. What's going on right now? What are you doing? [01:47:54] Speaker C: He's thinking of nothing except getting through that finish line and then also just keeping an eye every once in a while on Armin's position. So at this point, he's not looking to be the leader necessarily, because you still have the rest of the race to go. Just make sure that you're consistent at this point. [01:48:14] Speaker A: All right, do you want to do anything, Kallaxon, to keep? Because right now you've broken ahead. You and Armin have broken ahead of the pack, and you're about to take off into the second leg of the race to describe what you're seeing from the cockpit. You get to the tip of the potato. It's up the ramp, there's the designated jump off point. And you see, like, the race is like, how the track is determined is that you see, like, there's these big holographic slaloms that look like glyphs that resemble the different gods. You see that next slalom up in the sky where the platforms are, where all the nobles live, and where Bulakalak estate is also, like, the track also passes by your house, too. So what do you want to do? [01:48:56] Speaker C: So at this point, he looks to slalom, and the biggest concern he has is the floating jellyfish because. Yeah. Because, like, those things are the most unpredictable, and you can't really stop them. [01:49:10] Speaker A: You can always see or see them. They blend in with the clouds, too, sometimes. [01:49:13] Speaker C: Yeah. So I think I'm gonna do, like, a scan. [01:49:17] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. [01:49:18] Speaker C: And I'm gonna use my spark because this is too important. [01:49:22] Speaker A: Certainly. Okay, go ahead. Roll your scan, six. It looks like team things are turning around for team menagerie. Let's cut to what's happening on with Sparky and the corona chaser. And you take the both of you take off, and you're soaring through. You hit the first slalom just fine. And you activate your scanners, and Sparky's doing a big sweep. You look at the radar, it's doing the sonar sweep, and you see several signals of the atmo jellies, all kind of, like, moving with the cloud formations. I think what happens here is that, like, you. You're flying straight ahead, and you see Armin about to, like, slam straight into an atmo jelly and that you pick up on the scanners right before he does so. [01:50:08] Speaker C: Mm hmm. [01:50:08] Speaker A: What happens? [01:50:10] Speaker C: I immediately say Armin. Jelly. Jelly at twelve. Jelly at twelve maneuver. [01:50:16] Speaker A: Good call. And he. You see the both, and you see another jelly also, like, appear right in front of you. And the two of you, it's almost in sync, in total sync, like neo matrix. Bend down mid flight, and you're still in flight. Totally dodge these atmo jellies. And you see a couple other racers who are at the right behind you, also trying to break ahead of the pack. They take flight, and they just get wrapped in the tendrils. Wow. Several of the team members of team Priscilla are just not having it with these guy. [01:50:55] Speaker C: Jones and I sent a message to team menagerie of these are the approximate positions of the jellyfish. Keep in mind that they will move, but they are moving at this, this pace, and then I. So that they're armed by the time, armed with info. Info by the time they reach this section. [01:51:16] Speaker A: Fantastic. [01:51:17] Speaker E: All right, so our entire team is. [01:51:20] Speaker A: Ahead of the pack. No, just Armin and, and Kalaxa. The rest of you are more or less in the dense, like with everyone else. [01:51:27] Speaker E: Okay. We're gonna take the same action here to try to knock other people, knock other mechs into each other. [01:51:34] Speaker A: Okay. [01:51:35] Speaker E: You know, kill two, three birds with 1 st. Would that be battle or maneuver? Doesn't really matter. [01:51:40] Speaker A: It doesn't matter. Whatever would be more effective to you. But also, I just want to let you know you're about to get airborne. So I assume at this point, the pack gets to the top of the pave rock, they activate their flight systems, and they all take off. And now they're, the pack kind of, like, spreads apart now as they're all flying towards these slaloms. [01:51:58] Speaker E: Okay, so if the pack's flying around. Now, question. In this area, the area we're flying through, is it inhabited by people? [01:52:05] Speaker A: Yes, there's several, like, spectators on the platforms. They're all like, you see them speed by, and they're like, wow. [01:52:14] Speaker E: Can I identify anything that's not inhabited? [01:52:17] Speaker A: Let's make it. Make a scan. Check for me, Roman, and I'll tell you if there are any. Ooh. [01:52:22] Speaker E: Scan is not a good thing for. [01:52:24] Speaker A: Me, but I would want to assist him in this matter. [01:52:26] Speaker C: Doesn't. [01:52:28] Speaker A: Okay. Gosh. [01:52:30] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [01:52:31] Speaker A: 212, actually, you tell me, what would be up here to Roman and, like, make up something like, do you want to, like, grab, pull something off one of the platforms? Do you want to, like. [01:52:41] Speaker E: Well, what I'm, what I'm looking for right now is if I'm. If we're sort of in the middle of the pack and. But we're sort of ahead of everybody else. What I'm trying to do if everybody's flying, I'm trying to create as many damn obstacles close as I can for the rest of the, of the, of the opponents. So I'm trying to shoot something down that's in the area that's not inhabited and won't threaten the spectators, so that way, it interrupts the other racist flight path. [01:53:08] Speaker A: Maybe they might get hit by it. [01:53:10] Speaker E: I don't know. I'm trying to be an irritant right now. [01:53:12] Speaker A: Okay, you see several weather balloons. [01:53:15] Speaker E: Okay, weather balloons. We're going to shoot those down in the hopes that falling debris will fall on opponents, interrupt, maybe crush them. I don't know. [01:53:26] Speaker A: All right. So you see these weather balloons and you also see, like, an unmanned, like, kind of like, blimp with just, like, cameras on it. Right. Are you, like, using your fine, heavy cannon or to do that, are you this one? [01:53:40] Speaker E: Because not only do I have a fine, heavy cannon, but I do have a directed energy weapon. [01:53:44] Speaker A: Okay, what's that? Direct. Is that the shotgun? [01:53:48] Speaker E: It's like the. Yeah, the shotgun. [01:53:50] Speaker A: Okay. You fly past this camera blimp. You blast its engine off, and it starts to go down. It starts, like, several racers, like, all trying to get around it. But, like, the inferno of the flare, like, totally distorts their flight paths. And they all start moving all in different directions, giving the rest of the team an opening to catch up with. Armin and Klaxon what created tactics for team menagerie, as we see here, the sinse bob the apple wacky. Just absolutely demolishing our camera blimp. But that's fine. We repealed the safety regulations. Now we can pay that off with the insurance. It's all good. Cool. Team menagerie clears the Patalif platforms, the slaloms. As you pass each one, they make like a puzzle, like. And it directs you down towards Kashira, Sagara, the glacier of milk. As you begin your descent to the glacier, you see, like. Yeah. You pass by several other platforms of, like, spectators. And one of the spectators there looks to be a familiar ship that, you know, you guys came here on. And sitting on top is all the lost boys. They're like. And they all got, like, flags and they got, like, big heads and everything. It's like, yes, yes. And, like, Devinder's also on there. It's like, let's go. And, like, you pass. And, like, you all, like, pass by them on your descent to the glacier, like, rupiah from the side of your cockpit, you make eye contact with devinder on the way down. It's like slow motion. [01:55:38] Speaker D: It's like, here my sensors pick up the lost boys and that baseline and it's like, look over. And somehow I just know. It's like all the time has fallen away and Devinder and I are still two thirds of a hole. We're gonna make it, baby. We're gonna make it. I'm gonna make you proud. [01:56:03] Speaker A: Can you make a maneuver check as you hit the glacier while you're reminiscing? [01:56:08] Speaker D: Yes. Six. [01:56:11] Speaker A: Okay, so with the six. First off, rupiah, you've. I assume you've never, like, have you. Has rupiah ever seen snow? Like, is that, like, new? Is this new to her at all. I feel like she's mostly lived in, like, temperate or like, I think, like. [01:56:25] Speaker D: Most of, most of her life was spent, like, city around, like hardcore urban slum city bound. [01:56:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:56:34] Speaker D: And so the snow that she knows is from the movies. So she watched a bunch of, like, she went through a phase where she watched a bunch of like, survival adventure movies that went through the mountains and were like, about transversing great distances to achieve the goal of saving the world. But the world is really just your one love. [01:57:00] Speaker A: You remember this one movie about dog sledding? And you also have a rope on you and there's a pack of racers, like, breaking ahead of you. So you get the idea as the snowboard, kind of like as your land spinners turn into the little snowboard thing beneath the copper pots feet. With a stroke of genius, you whip out the Vasuki whip and latch onto one of the other teams. Let's say you grab onto one of the leapfroggers, the hopscotch, and they're like, what? And you're just being pulled along like those talk sleds. And now we see why the copper pot is the fan favorite with such creative racing tactics. Just using the other racers to pull her along like a dog sled. And you think your kalaxi would be pulling it would be pulling this maneuver. What an incredible show tonight, folks. [01:58:04] Speaker C: I have an idea. [01:58:05] Speaker A: Sure. [01:58:06] Speaker C: So we're in the glacier area right now, right? All right. I do know that there are two ways to create obstacles in glaciers when it comes to this. One is to, well, you can't really create cracks on the ground because it's not like ice lake, but there are areas that if you hit them just right, they will cause a flood. [01:58:31] Speaker A: That's true. [01:58:33] Speaker C: So I messaged to team menagerie, hey, if we want to make an obstacle for everyone behind us, look to your left and he points out a glacier formation that is very, very blue looking. And if, and he points out if you see that very blue area, that means that there's water, lots of water being it. If someone who has more accuracy than me who wants to blast it can cause a flood for everyone behind us. [01:59:06] Speaker B: Well, I don't know that I have a lot of accuracy, but I have a lot of experience wrecking shit. [01:59:17] Speaker C: Good. And so whoever's gonna make that rule, I'm gonna. Yeah, I'm gonna spend Spencer, I'm gonna spend stress to assist them. [01:59:27] Speaker B: Thank you. [01:59:28] Speaker A: Ordy, would you like to make a destroy check? You can either have an additional die from Kallaxin. Or you can have improved effect, improved position, or you could resist anything that happens. [01:59:38] Speaker B: I'm gonna try to improve position because we desperately need that. [01:59:42] Speaker A: Okay, cool. So let's put you down to the risky position. Now that Klaxon has pointed out this hazard to you, go ahead and. And make a destroy chick. [01:59:52] Speaker B: Four to six. [01:59:53] Speaker A: Thank you. What? Why so many loves us actually does love you. How are you destroying this, like, this blue chunk of ice? Orty, paint me a picture with frozen. [02:00:11] Speaker B: Water, I think, again, because Oridy was super nervous before then. She doesn't know how. She doesn't know race. Race doesn't make any sense to her, like, running this thing. But she's like, all right, I'm not in the competition. She saw the jellies and just, like, flying past, like, yay, they're so pretty. And like, like, honestly, the freedom of, like, I'm not participating. I'm just doing what I know has elevated her time immensely. And as soon as Koluxan's like, oh, no, look at those, you know, look at the glaciers. They're gonna. They're really delicate. She goes, okay, the, like, the COVID sulfate plasma thing with her green plasma. Now just like, all flares up again, and she glides over to one of the glacier glaciers. And you just see her run her hand along it, leaving as she flies past it. [02:01:07] Speaker A: And then you see water start to spew out from where you scratch through it, it seems the crossroads opening up an opportunity, the opportunity for a biblical style flooding. And the water starts coming down. And you see all the racers in the pack, they, like, turn to their right, and the big ass fucking and everyone's boosters, the joanns activate their nitro. The hot scotch start leaping faster. And team Priscilla is like. Is like they're all, they're all flapping their moth wings trying to just get ahead of this water. And you see several of team hopscotch. Those poor amphibians just get totally washed away. Oh, look, poor captain Wo Li. All of his racers are all caught in the flood. It looks like that's the end of team hopscotch for this year's edition. And as the rest of the pack breaks through, you see a bunch of these colorful jungle frog mechs kind of just bobbing along, I think you just. [02:02:14] Speaker B: See already coasting kind of on her back in the air. Cause again, I don't need to race anymore. And just sort of waves as she passes. [02:02:27] Speaker A: Okay, who else wants to make an action right now? You have. You're halfway through Kashira Sagara, you have. Well, you got two more slaloms to go before you head up to the mountain. [02:02:36] Speaker C: If. [02:02:37] Speaker E: If this is this flood still going, is it still. [02:02:40] Speaker A: It's behind you right now? So it, like. Like every. I want you to imagine the whole pack is, like, just definitely racing, like, just inches ahead of this big flood. [02:02:49] Speaker E: Okay, so here's what I'm gonna do then. As this flood is going, I am firing not directly at the. Not directly at the other competitors. I'm firing in the direction that they would need to escape the flood. I'm trying to cut off their escape. [02:03:06] Speaker A: I'm a dick. I know you got a lot of pent up rage right now. I really do. Fuck them all. [02:03:14] Speaker E: Would that be battle? [02:03:16] Speaker A: Yeah, that could be battle consequences. Could be. You know, the rest of you are still in desperate position right now, so cool. [02:03:24] Speaker E: I'm resisting. [02:03:24] Speaker A: I'm gonna resist. I'm gonna resist. Okay, sure, you get to resist, but. [02:03:28] Speaker B: We'Ve had two double ones and, like, two double sixes. [02:03:33] Speaker E: Cool. [02:03:34] Speaker A: Okay, well, here's the thing with the snake eyes, right? Yeah, you can resist, but the consequences aren't being dealt to you. They're being dealt to arming and Kallaxin as well. What were you using? What weapon were you using to create this kind of light? [02:03:54] Speaker E: It would have just been the fine, heavy cannon, because, again, I'm not shooting to target the others. I'm shooting the target the area. [02:04:03] Speaker A: You shoot what looks to be a sturdy looking rock. But the rock, as you shoot it, it blasted it apart, and it crashes into the ice. And then the ice beneath sparky and the corona chaser begin to crack and thin, and then eventually they drop into the water through the ice. Shit. Whoa. We got friendly fire coming from the Appalachian here as we see our two leaders, Sparky and Kuroda Chaser, go into the water. And Kallaxin, you see from the cockpit, you're in your element. You and Armin, you're, like, looking at you like, yes, yes, yes. What? And, like, looney tunes, fucking the entire, like, the ice shelf cracks beneath you, and you're now in, like, negative 20 degrees celsius water with the rest of the pack passing right over you. [02:04:58] Speaker E: Am I allowed to spend my spark to save them? [02:05:00] Speaker A: You can save them. Yeah, go ahead and spend your spark. And. Okay, you actually. I know you have an ability here. [02:05:07] Speaker E: Yeah, it's the don't get cocky ability. Okay, I may spend spark to appear at an allied pilot side. If these two are next to each other, I get to appear by their sides. Can I pull them out? [02:05:17] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Tell me what happens. You see this pool basically appear. You see the entire pack jump over this pool, and what does Appalachia do to retrieve them? [02:05:27] Speaker E: Apalachi shifts over to both Armin and Kallaxin puts away it, puts away the heavy cannon, and is basically going to grab the mechs and just yeet him out. And if I have to, I'm going to disqualify myself and activate my boosters to fly to pull them out, because I don't need to win this race. [02:05:46] Speaker B: Can I actually join him in that? [02:05:48] Speaker A: Yes, you may. Go ahead. Let's make a maneuver. Check. Let's call that a grid group action here. So let's say all three of you roll maneuver with Roman as the group, as the action leader. [02:06:05] Speaker E: There's a six. [02:06:06] Speaker A: Okay. [02:06:06] Speaker D: Damn. [02:06:07] Speaker B: Six, five, five. [02:06:08] Speaker A: Okay. Just when Kalaxa. Just when you think you and Armin are drowning, you see the arms of the. The Krasue and the Appalachian reach down into the water. Like, break through the ice, grab onto you, and pull you up. Whoo. [02:06:26] Speaker C: All right, nice. [02:06:28] Speaker A: Okay, thanks for the assist, guys. We're at the back of the pack now. We should. [02:06:34] Speaker C: All right, let's fucking go. [02:06:36] Speaker B: Listen, you guys are the fastest. Do you need a tow? [02:06:41] Speaker C: No, no, I got. I got this. [02:06:44] Speaker A: All right. Klaxon, do you want to. Do you want to roll a maneuver again? [02:06:47] Speaker C: I will roll my maneuver, and I will spend a quirk, because it's appropriate. None faster. Oh, my God. [02:06:56] Speaker A: You activate your boosters, you floor it. You and Armin both floor it. Right? All right, old buddy, let's win this thing. Both of your mechs. Sankan chill models. Sparky corona chaser breaking ahead, making its way towards the back of the pack as it's. As you see the tip of the mountain ahead of you. Right. And you know, you can overtake the rest of these racers until someone, another mech, the. The bebing apet, Lani's mech, steps out, and Lonnie just sticks the bebbing apet's hand out and, like, clotheslines. Armin just. And you're still speeding ahead because you're, like, caught up in the adrenaline. Yes. Yeah. Like, it's a race, right? Not realizing that your wingmate just totally went down next to you and do you stop? What do you do? [02:07:51] Speaker C: Um, key. [02:07:55] Speaker A: Like, you're about to hit the next slalom into the can I. [02:07:58] Speaker D: Can I do the protect a teammate and Klaxon, you. One of us has to win, and that's gonna be you, and I'll loop back to hell. Barman. [02:08:09] Speaker C: Got it. I'll keep going. I'll keep going. [02:08:14] Speaker A: All right. [02:08:14] Speaker C: Help. Armin, it looks like. [02:08:18] Speaker A: What's this? The two former rivals? What's reconciled? It looks like Kallaxton's abandoning his wingmate. And you see there's a sparky passes the last phylem into Mount Mandara rupiah as you push ahead to help the fallen. Armin. Right? You come face to face with this mech bebbing apet. It resembles a large. You ever see Princess Mononoke? You know the boar demons in those, right? Yeah, it's a quadruped mech, but it's entirely made of, like, junk and, like, scrap parts. But it. It looks ominous, right? Its eyes glow like a blood curdling, unhuman purple shade, right? And you hear this Lonnie fellow on the comms like, hey, boss, seems like the Tides have turned, and you, my friend, are about to face the wrath of rupiah. What do you do? [02:09:25] Speaker D: I'm gonna open up my energy weapon. A directed energy weapon, because ma Durga is made for nothing if not killing demons. [02:09:35] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [02:09:36] Speaker D: And I'm gonna blast this monologuing super villain with my third eye laser. Boom. [02:09:45] Speaker A: Please make a. Are you doing a battle check? Are you gonna, like, just destroy this dude? You can do what you like. [02:09:51] Speaker D: I'm gonna do a battle check, because that's what I have points in, and I do not have points in destroy. [02:09:55] Speaker A: Okay, go ahead and roll. Battle for me. [02:09:59] Speaker D: One, two and a three. [02:10:02] Speaker A: The boar rises up to boar the corona chaser, and you don't hit it. You kind of like. Because I assume you fired while you were, uh, rolling, like, in the middle of rushing at it, right, as part of the race. Um, and so it doesn't. It doesn't hit, but it's enough for the board to notice you. Oh, you're hiring, tan? Long as you're fine, I can. I can fight that long. And the board turns to face you as. And it sees you still, I assume, still running at you, right. What happens here is that the Nepet is going to get back on all fours, and, well, you know, we all got big guns around here. I found this one in the scrapyard the other day where Joanga blesses us all. And you see this other big cannon come out from the back of the bore and shoot right back at you. And you see this big, large, like, continuous beam of plasma just fly straight directly into your face. [02:11:17] Speaker D: I'm going to use my fine shield, my fine force field to help deflect that or to absorb that plasma hit, certainly. [02:11:30] Speaker A: Okay, so you see Durga's yantra glyph generate a big, a big shield pattern in front of you as the, as the beam and like, just directs out into the sky and you hear the audience go, whoa, look at the light show coming out from the battle between petty gimp it and copper pod. All right, cool. Ordy, you. Are you already. I know you just rescued Roman. You just got rescued Kalaxa and Armin from the pool, but are you, do you see this fight happening right now? [02:12:04] Speaker B: I think I might because again, I'm mostly running surveillance and interference at this point. And also I think I went back to help Armin and Kallaxon out of the water. [02:12:16] Speaker A: So now it's just armin at the edge of the water with this boar mech atop him, trying to fucking murder him. And now he's exchanging fire with copper pod. [02:12:28] Speaker B: It disqualifies you if you fly. Are they still disqualified for flying? [02:12:32] Speaker A: Yes. [02:12:33] Speaker B: So I think I want to get into it and just get it off the ground for as long as the race for the limit of time, it needs to be. [02:12:42] Speaker A: Okay, what check do you think would be, would be appropriate here, Wardy? [02:12:46] Speaker B: Battle. It's a full on fight at this point, right? It is vehicular close quarters combat. You might lash out with your scoop arm, you might fire Gatling gun. [02:12:56] Speaker A: Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. Roll battle and we'll see what happens. Right? [02:13:01] Speaker B: Five. [02:13:03] Speaker A: You swoop down and you kind of like grab the boar by the cannon itself. And it's like, what's this? And the Krasue lifts the boar, but it's so heavy that you kind of just rip the cannon off the back. And the boar turns around like, fuck this. And he speeds off and armin's like, okay, let's just go. Let's just go. And Armin also just speeds off. All right, so the pack saved for team hopscotch moves on to the final leg of the race, the mythical mountain of Mandara. And you get to the staging area where you see, like all these mechs, like, detach their sleds and you get onto their magma boards and they all shove off into, to this long lava flow heading through, like, weaving through different valleys and craters towards the big caldera at the top of the mountain. Klaxon, you being the racer that you are, you know this part very well. You've been through this trial and tribulation, right? So how does sparky surf this lava? [02:14:20] Speaker C: All right, so there is a real life thing called volcano boarding. And. And which is. Which sounds like the weirdest thing. The biggest thing is that when you're trying to surf on on this volcanic surface, the thing that you're trying to avoid most is just the random rock formations, because lava doesn't flow evenly, even though it looks smooth. But there's always, like, harsh things underneath because things get hard. The key is to just be consistent and watch those rock formations. So I'm going to use maneuver, but it's delicate handling that is going to be key, not being the fastest, otherwise you will wreck your mechanism. So I will burn delicate handling, and I'm gonna roll four d six, and hopefully I am blessed. [02:15:27] Speaker A: So a four, you know, as with what you know about traversing lava flows. Yeah. This is the part of the race where you must temper your speed demon tendencies with patience and grace and tact. Right. The problem, though, is you overshoot one of the flows, right. And your magma board basically creates a big splash. And a big chunk of lava splits, like, jumps up right in front of you, lands right on top of the. The several layers of carbon steel separating the interior of your cockpit from the outside world. It just melts it all away, leaving you basically exposed. So, yeah, you have a level three damage. Your entire cockpit cover is gone, and you hear Armin also like doghouse. Dog house. This is Corona. Is everything okay? I'm detecting damage on Sparky. [02:16:34] Speaker C: Lava splash cockpit exposed. [02:16:38] Speaker A: Do you need to go into the pit stop? [02:16:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:16:41] Speaker A: Okay. [02:16:41] Speaker C: Yeah, it's the only way I could handle this. [02:16:43] Speaker A: Cool. Klaxon. You pull off and you see a little. You see Jackie and Mohammed coming down on a little. Little hover thing and running up to you, and you see the rest of the racers. You're gonna be here for a bit while Jackie tries to cover this up, right? So somebody else has to pick up this slack here. Armin is now in the middle of the pack. Right now the people in the lead are team Priscilla, the moths. Right. Clara Orty is disqualified from the race. Everyone else is still in, as far as I assume. [02:17:12] Speaker D: Yeah, Roman and I are just behind Armin. Like, in the pack or. [02:17:17] Speaker A: Yeah, you're just buying Armin in the pack. And I'll say right now, now that arm is in the middle of the pack. There's a couple of Joe Angans that are a little too close to comfort for him, and they're trying to, like, bumper car him around in this lava flow right now. I was like, guys, guys. [02:17:32] Speaker D: Well, then I'm gonna take a page from Roman's book and use my spear to trip some people up. [02:17:42] Speaker A: Okay, let's go ahead. Are you doing. So is that gonna be, like, an offensive thing or you just gonna, like, maneuver around and just see whoever gets. [02:17:50] Speaker D: No, I want to specifically go for the. For the devotees who are. [02:17:57] Speaker A: Okay. Who are trying to, like. Okay. [02:17:58] Speaker D: Yeah. [02:17:59] Speaker A: Okay. [02:17:59] Speaker D: Because, like, it's a lava flow portion. This is just straight murder. [02:18:03] Speaker A: Yeah. All right, go ahead, roll battle. For me. [02:18:06] Speaker D: It's a four. [02:18:07] Speaker A: Okay, so you see one of the pulongs, one of the other gremlin vampire looking things, and you, like, do a sweep with your spear to, like, kind of, like, get put some distance between him and the. The corona chaser. I'm saving him just for now, but with a four. The phalong reacts by kind of jumping off of his magma board and grappling onto the copper pod. And it opens its mouth and takes just a big old chomp out of the copper pod. Go ahead and take level two damage. [02:18:43] Speaker D: I am going to resist. [02:18:44] Speaker A: What quirk do you want to use to resist? [02:18:47] Speaker D: I'm going to use my blinding boosters to do a kind of, like, backflip on my board. [02:18:58] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, no, that's fucking sick. Okay, cool. All right. [02:19:07] Speaker D: So I saw this wasn't a movie, y'all. So I'm on the board. He latches onto my bag, and I use that kind of, like, push down as a. Like, I'm a spring and I'm in this crouch and use my legs to, like, push up and do a black flip. [02:19:28] Speaker A: I'll do you one better. There's a rock on the way of the flow that kind of looks like a ramp. You activate the blinding boosters. You send the copper pot up this ramp total. The pull on comes flying off. It still takes a chunk out of your mech, but not a level two level amount of chunks. So let's say. Let's call that level one damage. Exposed wiring, it bit into you. And now there's a lot of hydraulics and cables now just, like, sparking on the outside. But you see the pull on go, and it lands in the lava. Oh, my God. Sinks in totally bur it looks like the joangans are down a team member. Oh, that's gotta hurt. Armin just breaks. He doesn't break away from the pack, but now he's at the head of the pack. After you do this, you see the top of the mountain draws closer. The caldera itself. Right. It's the home stretch. Rowan, where are you at right now? [02:20:33] Speaker E: Okay, I would have been. Okay, so you said that Armin is at the head of the pack, right? [02:20:39] Speaker A: Yeah. He hasn't broken away yet, but he's, like, just barely keeping his lead. [02:20:43] Speaker E: And I would have. I was with Armin for most. For most of this. [02:20:49] Speaker A: Right. [02:20:50] Speaker E: Or D, in relation to us already. [02:20:52] Speaker A: Is, I believe, overhead. Right? [02:20:54] Speaker D: Okay. [02:20:54] Speaker E: Overhead. Okay. Then we're gonna try and create some space base for Armin if he's at the head of the pack. I'm turning in reverse and I'm firing and I'm trying to, again, slow these guys down. Let's get some space for Armin. [02:21:10] Speaker A: Where. [02:21:10] Speaker E: Well, before I do that, where is Klaxon? [02:21:13] Speaker A: He's in the pit. He's getting his. He has a bit. Yeah, he's. He doesn't have a cockpit cover right now. [02:21:19] Speaker E: So I've got. Already ahead, Klaxon's in the pit. Armin's at the front. I'm right behind Armin. And then Rupiah. Where's, where's Rupiah? [02:21:25] Speaker A: Rupiah just pulled, just did a kick flip off a rock. But I think she's towards the back of the pack. Yeah. [02:21:32] Speaker D: Okay, that makes sense. The acrobatics would have slowed me down a little. [02:21:37] Speaker E: Okay. So if that's the case. Hmm. [02:21:43] Speaker B: Also, how long is it gonna take for Klaxon to get back in the fight? [02:21:47] Speaker A: Do you ask that on comms? [02:21:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:21:50] Speaker A: You hear Jackie was like, I'm almost. I need, like, 30 more seconds. Like. Kallaxon, are you good in there? [02:21:55] Speaker C: I'm good. [02:21:56] Speaker A: Okay. All right, just hold on. I'll get him back in there. [02:22:00] Speaker C: Just Klaxon's. [02:22:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:22:02] Speaker C: Taking this time to, like, just examine the pathway, the straightest pathway without crags in it. [02:22:09] Speaker B: So can we slingshot him? If we can stretch along the route to the front, passing him along, would that be a thing we could do? [02:22:20] Speaker A: Yeah, group mover can do that. Yeah. [02:22:22] Speaker B: So, like, I'm so sorry. [02:22:25] Speaker A: Go ahead, roll. Everybody rolls their. So, clark, orty, you will be the group leader for this. Okay, so everybody's gonna roll maneuver. And then right. Right before you roll, you hear Jackie goes like, okay, he's good. Kalaxi, you may also roll maneuver as you. As you sprint back into the fray. [02:22:43] Speaker C: I will roll maneuver. Yep. [02:22:46] Speaker A: Yes, yes. [02:22:50] Speaker B: I think if we can have everyone, like, spread along the route, we can just stay low. Klaxon, stay on your wheels. And we're gonna start from the back, slingshotting you up to the next person. [02:23:07] Speaker D: So at the start of this, it's like, since I'm the furthest one back. Like, as I hear the. From Jackie just once again making full use of this whip arm that I have and, like, lasso you. Like you're an errant steer and. And throw you up to Roman, right? [02:23:32] Speaker B: Do you say anything before you toss them? [02:23:34] Speaker D: It doesn't matter if it's by an inch or a meter. [02:23:39] Speaker B: A win is a win. [02:23:42] Speaker E: Okay, cool. So, as Klaxon has been launched towards me, I'm actually going to use my boosters, and as Kallaxon's coming, create counter force enough that as he goes, I'm going to give a push forward and counter force to try to increase Kallax's momentum to get to the front of the. The pack. And while I'm doing that, I'm going to try to propel myself into the rest of the crowd as a disruption. [02:24:13] Speaker A: Let's go. [02:24:14] Speaker E: I will burn a quirk for this. [02:24:16] Speaker A: Go ahead. What quirk you burning? [02:24:17] Speaker E: I am burning the overcharged wiring on this because we need all the speed possible. [02:24:24] Speaker A: As you put everything Appalachians got into it, right? What's this? It looks like the Appalachian turning around, and he's against the. Going against the gray in the back. What's he doing? Like, a bunch of. You see a bunch of mechs just all colliding into each other. Some of them, like, desperately trying to, like, beer, like. Like, do a hard turn to the right or the left, like, get away with the wreckage. But then they all just, like, wipe out onto the sides of the lava flow. Flow you. And that's a strength. It's the perfect bowling game from the pilot. The appalachian team, Priscilla, all totally wipes out on the sides of the. [02:25:05] Speaker E: Of. [02:25:05] Speaker A: Of the lava flow. That's the end of this ballroom for these. For these queens. And, like, they all look really good while they do, like, they, like, they do a bunch of voguing, vogueing poses as they go down. So at least, like, the photographers get it. And, like, you hear the team captain, Isabelle Ringer, is like, you know what? This is fair as long as I look good for my close up. All right. Wow. What a. [02:25:28] Speaker B: Did we knock everyone out of the race? [02:25:30] Speaker A: Not yet. Not yet. All right, there's two joangans right on Armin and Armin's tail. But, Kallaxin, you're coming up right behind them, too. And, like, you hear Armin's like, they're on my six, buddy. We're almost out of line. [02:25:48] Speaker B: Already takes that last opportunity. She's the last person in the slingshot, I think and swoops as far forward as she can, stretches her body again as far as she can after having damaged it the first time and reaches back for Kallaxan and using the momentum from flying and starts to slingshot him and you hear her just go, listen, kingdom's fam, like your sister, that shit money, it's gonna come and go. And we all know that the most important thing in life will always be the people in this party. And she like compresses that body again and slingshots KLAxon the rest of the way. [02:26:36] Speaker A: And Kalaxin, you fire every single booster you got in you. You can't see shit through the, like the analog camera reserve cameras, but you know that you're, but like, so you can't see stuff. But like, imagine you're like watching through a view screen of like a potato. It's like 480 p. Now that your, your view screens melted away, right. [02:26:57] Speaker C: I'm going to burn a quirk. Just dramatically. Yes, because the most appropriate quirk I'm going to burn is intense g forces. [02:27:05] Speaker A: Let's go make a maneuver. Check with controlled position. You just got slunk shot by all of your teammates. The goddess of fortune is with you this time. [02:27:17] Speaker C: Four right. [02:27:19] Speaker A: When the two joangans are about to like grab onto Armin and like slam them into the lava, right? Sparky comes right between them, right in their blind spot too. Like right when they're about to kill Armin, they see this, like, they lift up their armpits, see Sparky come past. Do you have anything to say on this matter? Klaxon as you kind of like make this surprise appearance as you slowly, as you against the all odds, pull yourself into second place as he goes by. [02:27:51] Speaker C: The only thing he could say is, yee haka. [02:27:55] Speaker A: What? Eddie bursts through. You knock both of these joanns back and, and you break past them. But because you roll the four, one of the joangans, the janglot, shoots a grappling hook at you. Or not a grappling hook, but like a harpoon, like the kind they used to kill whales. And it strikes you right in Sparky's crotch and you see it pierce through and like through the back. You see like the spear, like go through Miss Misfit's face in the back. [02:28:29] Speaker C: So when I butt. [02:28:30] Speaker A: Yeah, so it's through your crotch and stabs out through your butt, through Sparky's butt. So go ahead and say, go ahead, take a level two damage. And now that they have you harpooned, they like, yank you. They try to yank you off your magma sled. Does anyone see this? Does anyone try to do it like, like, there's, like, you resist at first, but if he pulls again, you'll definitely get pulled into the lava. [02:28:58] Speaker B: So I'll protect if we need, if you need it. [02:29:02] Speaker A: Okay. What quirk do you want to use to resist this for collapsing? [02:29:05] Speaker B: Let's burn my unwieldy controls. [02:29:08] Speaker A: Okay, how does that factor into what you're about to do right now? [02:29:13] Speaker B: Cross is kind of a big. Got a lot of, like, jingly bits. Yeah, I think I'm just going. I feel like because I was the one who slingshot slung, shot him forward. That, like, grappling hook is, like, next to me. [02:29:25] Speaker A: Yes. [02:29:25] Speaker B: And I think I'm just gonna get in it and try to break the, like, snatch the chain. Yeah, with the plasma teeth. Or, like, I'll just. [02:29:34] Speaker A: Okay, you. You do that. So we'll go ahead, demote that level two down to level one. Armin is about to cross the finish line and Klaxon, you're still in it. And, like, you might have a harpoon through your, through your dick right now or through Sparky's dick right now, but. [02:29:57] Speaker C: That'S a harpoon for a dick right now. [02:29:58] Speaker A: You have a harpoon for a dick right now, but you see that the corona chaser's reactor starts to sputter right at the last minute, starting to slow down. No, no, no, no, no. [02:30:12] Speaker C: Klaxon gets Sparky's arm out enough to catch corona to each other and he says, I got you, buddy. And he's going to. Realizing this really awkward moment of. He has Sparky's arm around a corona chaser at the same time having a harpoon for dick. He's going to try to cross the finish line with Corona Chaser, and the furthest thing ahead of him is the harpoon dick. So he's going to cross the finish line dick first. I'm gonna burn the quirk walking. Advertisement because this is going to be a picture, the finished photo finish for this race. [02:30:59] Speaker A: It's all. And you see this play, this whole thing flat in slow motion as I fill the last clock on Mount Mandara. As you cross that last final slalom into the, into the caldera, we see, like, the cross happen several times from different angles, playing in slow motion with, like, the team menagerie and team Joanne go, like, all slowly right behind. Fireworks shoot up as the harpoon crosses the checkered. The checkered slalom. Like, we cut to every, like, tv set on, on the planet of everyone, like, yay we cut to, like. Like a gambling pen. Like. Like, a bunch of money gets thrown up, and a bunch of bookies start freaking out. And, like, you see, like, the racing commissioners are watching. Like, yeah. We cut back to the staging area. All the mechs kind of land. The mechs that survived, right? Cockpit opens. All of your cockpits open, and, like, crowds all rush out onto the staging area. But you see bureaucrats, like, no clear. And Armin, like, peels out of his cockpit chair, looks up at the rest of you guys. Like, come on. Come on. Let's get our flowers. [02:32:15] Speaker B: I still have the stupid visor on. [02:32:19] Speaker C: God. Blackson comes out of sparky, and his hand is on his crotch because just. [02:32:29] Speaker A: In his nerve endings. [02:32:32] Speaker C: The nerve endings just like, ow. And he just kind of limps over to wherever the podium's going. Just is very uncomfortable. [02:32:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Team menagerie. Team menagerie. And, like, the whole crowd goes, like. You even see the lost boys in the back of the crowd. Like, team. And asheri. Yay. And the beer cats, like, go up to this stage. They got this big trophy. It's good to see you guys back up here. And they puts out a table as, like, all right, these cameras over here, everyone, put your hands on. Put your hands on the. On the elixir, please. The elixir trophy. All right, quick, back on chow fria. There's a large, dark under basement looking thing, right? And King Kanawa also watches coverage of the race. Wow. Say, hope, is that your dad? And the camera whip turns over, and hope looks a lot different now. She's got pale skin, her hair is like a cerulean blue, and her eyes are, like, a bloodshot. Or, her pupils are red now. And she descends down from a black feathered aberration that was formerly the conquered archangel. The conquered Morningstar. And she, like, walks over to the tv. What is. What was it, my king? He's like, no, look, this is, you know, this guy. Like, you. Like, he came with him, right? It's like, first off, I like not to be referred to as hope anymore. You should, my lord, if that's. Of course. Of course. Look, we, like. We respect everybody here on. Ciao. Freya, what would you like to refer to my most. My most loyal retainer? She says, I would like to go by the call sign despair. Very well. How's that mech treating? He's like. It handles fantastic. My word. I'm glad we captured the creature, and I'm glad we can face what's to come. And the camera pans away from the both of them. And you see the kunta Lanak in its multi head impaled on the wall with several lances through it. And you see several scientists plucking feathers out from the side of the creature. And we cut. That's our episode today, guys. Thanks again for tuning into Mekong. If you like this game, please be sure to check out beam saber, rpg on itch IO. If you like us and want to see more, please be sure to follow Queen's court games on all the socials and on Patreon. So thanks again to our lovely cast. Please feel free to shout out your socials, your projects, and other work you got going on. Now is your time. [02:35:16] Speaker C: All right. Hi, my name is Ryan Omega. You could find me on Twitter and TikTok under ryan omga. You could find me on Instagram under Ryan Omega. And you could also see me at various cons appearing on panels and on other streams similar to this one here on Queens Core games. [02:35:37] Speaker A: I can't talk right now. Hi. [02:35:40] Speaker E: What's up, everyone? Andrew Alandi played Roman. [02:35:43] Speaker A: Here. [02:35:43] Speaker E: Again, pronouns he, him. For both of us. You find me Twitter and Instagram at Andrew Jalandy. That's Andrew, the letter J, and then my last name, Alandi. Follow me up there for whatever shenanigans I'm getting into or your daily doses of motivation. If you're looking for that as well, we'd love to hear from you. Again, thank you for everybody who is watching as Jerry breaks our hearts after we win a race. [02:36:07] Speaker A: But, yeah. [02:36:08] Speaker E: But again, thank you all for joining us on this zany ride I'm going. [02:36:12] Speaker A: To pass over to Clara. [02:36:15] Speaker B: Hi, I'm Clara. You can find me all over the Internet as clearly golden, unless you like mermaids, in which case you could find me on Instagram as mermaid clarity. You can also find me at the Denny's parking lot at 02:00 a.m. Where I'm going to be beating up Jerry Law. [02:36:30] Speaker A: I'll see you there. Bring swords. [02:36:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Damn. Gosh. I'm here playing this and also usually over Queen's court games, podcasty bits, doing the all night society, which is our award winning vampire, the Masquerade, actual play. Otherwise, you can follow me on Twitter and find out what I'm up to there. [02:36:55] Speaker D: I'm Pooja, and I've been playing rupiah, and I bet Jerry's really, really happy that we don't play in person right now, or we would have all thrown down. It's still stunned, but I can be stunned on the Internet as forgotten saves on the socials where, you know, you can see me take comfort in at least having a Salvador to, you know, hold me when I'm crying over the things that Jerry has done to us. [02:37:38] Speaker A: Hi, I'm Jerry. I'm a masochist, a sadist. I've been sober from. From causing my player suffering for about five minutes. [02:37:50] Speaker D: Yeah, it's been 30 seconds. Funny, it's still ongoing. [02:37:55] Speaker A: It's been an honor and a privilege telling the story with all of you. Thank you for tuning in to Mekong symphony for the devil. You can find me at myjerryamour amor on Twitter and Instagram. That's our show. Can't wait to see you guys for episode seven, fare thee well. Stay hydrated and tell someone you care about that you love them because who knows, they might get turned into enforcers for a evil military junta regime. So, yeah, just put that out there. Okay. All right. Peace sa.