- [Brennan] A list of the topics, themes,
and subject matter featured in this episode
has been included in the video description.
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(wind whistling)
(explosion booming)
(engine revving)
(explosions booming) (villain cackling)
(fuses sizzling)
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(keyboard clacking)
(skull laughing)
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(helicopter blades beating air)
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(explosion booming)
- Hello, one and all, and welcome back to another
thrilling episode of "Dimension 20: Never Stop Blowing Up!"
I'm your humble game master, Brennan Lee Mulligan.
With me, as always, are our Awesome Action Heroes.
Say hi, Awesome Action Heroes! - Hi, Awesome Action Heroes!
- Did something fall down over here?
- I was putting away my snack bowl!
- Folks, last we left off, all of you were scattered across,
as Saint Jude would put it, (accented) Los Angeles.
We had Wendell streaking down the street as Vic Ethanol,
going after Lucy Santangelo, Jack Manhattan's wife,
DA of Los Angeles, who's being honed in on
by snipers covering the entire street.
Inside the Santangelo residence, we got Johnny Manhattan
with a gun to his head being held by Shaun Nitro
as Paula and Russell stare down the would-be assailant.
Meanwhile, we got all the way across town,
at the Eastminster Kennel Club Bloodbath,
we got Dang and Liv in the ring with two Chow Chows
full of... (stammering over his own made-up words)
- It's okay.
- (slowly) Adrenanoxinil Plutonium Sulfate!
- Just take it one more time to get it clean.
- You did it.
- (confidently) Adrenanoxinil Plutonium Sulfate!
(epic guitar sting)
Adrenanoxinil Plutonium Sulfate!
These dogs are loaded with the stuff!
- They're puppies. - [Brennan] Meanwhile-
- Lousy with it! - Lousy with it!
And meanwhile, in a car outside, Usha as G13 is watching
Agent Carter Haldwell zero in on the G&G warehouse.
We rush back to Los Angeles.
Vic, you tear down a suburban street,
roaring in your souped up hot rod,
and as the lasers hone in, bullets start flying, baby.
As the bullets start flying, I'm going to need you
to make a Drive check. (mimics gunfire)
- I'm trying to do that thing where I speed up,
and my car lifts up.
- The start of "Cruis'n World"?
- I'll tell you right now- - Hell yeah.
- If you get a DC nine, these snipers are coming at you hot
with a d20 Weapons check.
DC 9 drops it to a 12. - Okay.
- And then every two above that drops it another die type.
Let's get that Drive check.
- It's an eight! (explosion booming)
- Go ahead and take your Turbo Token.
Now I'm going to need a Toughness roll.
They're rolling a d20. They only roll a 5 on their d20.
- Wow. Okay, nice. - Okay.
- You're going to roll a Toughness, difficulty of five.
- Seven. - Yes!
- Okay, so (mimics gunfire) bullets begin
to riddle through your car, but you swerve to the side.
What are you doing as you approach
Lucy Santangelo's car on her way here?
- I'm trying to drive really close to her,
pressing down on the accelerator, revving that engine.
Hopefully she freaks out and swerves out the way,
and I go headfirst into her pursuers.
- Hell yes.
I want a Drive check and a Hot check, because you're both,
because you're also trying to scare her off
in the right direction, so- - Okay. We'll roll both.
- Let's ride.
(sick guitar riff)
- 11 on my Drive, but I'm going to blow it up.
- Yeah! - Woo!
- And then that's going to turn it into a d20.
- Whoa!
- Oh, baby! You got a d20 Drive!
- Yeah, d20 Drive, and that's a 19.
- So close to that double. - Oh my god!
- Which would've been unsatisfying.
- It would've been double zero.
- But then I got a two on the Hot check.
- Okay, two on the Hot check.
Lucy is driving home,
has no idea that these snipers are trained on her,
but you are speeding out in this car straight towards her.
You look in her eyes. This is Jack Manhattan's wife.
She sees you coming, and you can read her mouth
through the windshield as she sees someone
trying to almost scare her off the road,
and you just see her mouth,
"Bawk bawk ba-gawk. Who's chicken?"
and drive straight for you to head-on collide,
and with a 19 plus 12, that is a 31 Drive check.
Hydraulics, you hit the wheels,
and the entire car bounces and flips over her car,
shielding her as all of the snipers take their fire on Lucy.
I'm going to make some Tough checks for her pursuers.
- I think you get one for failing the Hot.
- Yeah. - Not gonna lie,
these pursuers are rolling d10s.
I don't think they're going to make it to a 31.
Not a single explosion on them.
Describe for me what happens.
You see that there are three motorcycles,
jet black, black helmets, all in pursuit of Lucy Santangelo.
What happens to them?
- So after the car does the hydraulics jump flip,
it flips in front of them, and he just starts doing donuts,
and as he's doing donuts,
he looks at Vic, who was doubting him,
and he just imagines him and his brothers,
this image that he always had growing up of him
joining his brothers right outside of Dave's doing donuts,
and never getting that chance,
and he's just doing donuts in this suburban neighborhood,
and every turn, he's just smacking the bikes.
With one turn, he smacks one bike.
The other, he smacks the second,
and then he smacks the third, and then he stops,
and he looks straight into his eyes, looks back at Vic,
and he just kind of, "I guess you don't need me, kid."
- [Izzy] Wow. Resolved that. - [Brennan] Go ahead,
give me a Wits check three.
- Bye bye, Vic. - [Ify] All right.
That's gonna be a five, but I'm gonna...
Nope, I'm gonna keep it. Five.
- So Wendell, looking around this area,
you see the roofs crawling with snipers.
You see one of them calling in something on a walkie, going,
"We're gonna need an air strike on Vanet Avenue,"
and up ahead you see, almost approaching her house,
Lucy Santangelo's car whips around,
and you see that she looks around,
makes eye contact with you in your rearview mirror,
and flames erupt out of the back of her car.
She believes that you tried to attack her,
and she is now pursuing you. - No!
- Okay, first, I'm going to just wait for her
by burning out, creating smoke, a diversion,
and then I'm going to ram headfirst into her,
jumping through my windshield and in through hers
to grab her and protect her. - [Brennan] Hell yes.
- Oh my god! - Okay, go ahead and give me,
we'll call this a DC six Drive check.
- Okay. - Just to spin out
and make smoke. - Okay.
18.
- Oh my god, you beat it by more than five.
What does the smoke do as you call it?
- The smoke, these are some specific drag tires
that are made for Vic Ethanol's movie.
They used to have these in Formula DRIFT
where they'd have colored tires that would burn out,
so these ones are all red.
So now their aiming red dots
are just diffused by the red smoke.
- Ooh, sick! - [Ally] So sick!
- And it creates so much smoke that it starts to fill
the whole block, and then he just drives forward.
- Awesome. This is going to be a difficulty 12 Stunts check.
- Okay. - Or you take...
We'll call it difficulty 10 Stunts.
If you fail by more than five, you still make it,
but you take an injury. - Okay. Let's do this.
- She's going to leave me for Vic.
- That's going to be an eight for me.
- Okay, an eight, so you don't make the full DC,
so now you have to take...
Now you're going to make a Tough check to see
if you can avoid that injury. - Okay.
- You're allowed a Tough check for it.
This is going to be Tough eight.
- Okay.
Ooh! That was a one.
- All right, so go ahead and take
a superficial injury level and a Turbo Token.
- Okay.
- [Brennan] So spin out, red smoke.
You hear, "We don't got him!
We don't got him! We lost Ethanol!"
And you, boom, through your windshield,
and that one works fine.
It's on the second windshield, bam,
you feel blood all along the left of your arm
and immediately you hear, "Ha!"
and you see that Lucy Santangelo
goes for a nerve pinch to shut your brain off.
(Jacob guffaws)
- We all know that one nerve. - You all know that nerve.
Okay, she has a d12 Brawl. - Wow! She's so cool.
- I have a d4!
- (knowingly) Hey, this is what it's like
having your wife be cooler than you.
- Thank you.
- So can I Brawl to try to defend against it, or am I-
- Yes, you can go ahead and use Brawl
to try and defend against it. - Okay.
That is a two. - Okay, that is a two.
Go ahead and give me Toughness seven.
- Okay. - (quietly) Come on, come on.
- Seven. - Yes!
- Okay, sick. So bam, bam!
You grab it here, and you can feel (grunts) this thing,
and you feel your hand start to go numb,
but you don't pass out as she sinks
these long, polished nails- - I'm here to protect you!
- I don't know who you are! I'm Lucy Santangelo!
I'm the district attorney, and I hate criminals!
- Jack Manhattan sent me.
- [Brennan] Go ahead and give me Hot five.
- (laughs) Two!
- Okay, go ahead and take a Turbo Token.
- And I think you had the Brawl-
- [Brennan] Oh, take a Turbo for the Brawl check as well.
- Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So Lucy Santangelo says, "Jack Manhattan?
I hate that guy!
He's been sitting on divorce papers for over a year!"
- It's because he loves you! - What?
- [Ify] He loves you. (tender synth music)
He drove here, brought your son down.
He found your son, and they're in the house right now.
But we have to keep you safe first. (whimpers)
- [Brennan] She's going to make another Brawl check.
- Oh no! - That is a nine.
Difficulty nine. Oppose that with your own Brawl.
- That is a three.
- Go ahead and take another Turbo Token,
and it's a difficulty nine Tough check.
- That is another three.
- We're just racking these up,
because then when we double, it's going to be epic.
- Okay, so you take another Turbo Token.
So Lucy, she abandons the nerve pinch,
swivels around and grabs your wrist,
headbutts you, grabs your vest,
and bursts through the sunroof of the car. (roars)
You are 30 feet up,
and it's three roundhouse kicks to the head.
- Is she- - Pow pow pow pow pow!
- Oh! - Go ahead and-
- That only gets you 20 feet up.
- She had the 10 already in her DNA.
- Did you roll Toughness yet, or no?
- Thick thighs. - I did, yeah. I got a three.
- [Brennan] Yes, okay, so take another injury level.
You are at severe. However- - No!
- ...as you guys come down, you come through the skylight,
bam, landing in between Jack Manhattan and Jennifer Drips
and Shaun Nitro. - The house?
- Yes, she goes so high up and then comes down to the ground
(mimics glass breaking) smashing through,
inside of the house. - Amazing!
- Did her legs bend?
- Oh no, she got up just with the balls of her feet.
- Do they land on Shaun?
- No, they land in between you.
But Wendell, looking up, you see Shaun Nitro.
- Shaun, what are you doing here?
Brother.
- Brother? - [Ify] Yeah.
- Brothers don't work with the feds.
Brothers don't work with the cops.
Brothers stay true to la familia,
not get a new, other, different la familia!
- This is just an expansion of the familia!
We're still all familia!
- You should've notified me!
- Look, everything was moving so fast.
I didn't mean to do that to you.
But no, we're all familia! This is why...
You could've came, if you wanted.
I just didn't want to interfere with what you had going on.
- Get the gun from him!
- Aren't you working with, like, the biggest fed ever?
- "Yeah, I had to.
I had to work with the feds to stop the feds!"
And he jumps through the wall.
(Rekha laughing)
- Oh yeah! - Oh yeah!
- He's the Kool-Aid Man.
- So he's going to make a Brawl check versus Johnny.
- The wall. Oh. - Versus the wall.
- Who we call Johnny.
- We call Johnny. His name is The Wall.
- Johnny takes a superficial injury level
as Shaun goes through the wall.
- I've always cared so much about him.
- [Brennan] Okay. Paula, what are you doing?
- What can I see? Can I see Shaun and Johnny?
Shaun Johnny? - You can see-
- Sean John's not in this world, right?
- Sean John is not in this world.
- Wait till we go to Sonic.
- What you see is Lucy Santangelo,
gorgeous hair filled with glass and chips of wood
from coming in through the roof.
She is on top of Vic Ethanol.
Through the hole in the wall,
Shaun Nitro has your son, Johnny Manhattan.
- Okay. - What do you do?
- [Izzy] I'm going to go for Shaun,
and I'm going to beat his ass.
- [Brennan] Hell yeah. Jump through and try to-
- And then I'm gonna say,
(bad New York accent) "Not my boy!"
- Cool, you jump through the hole in the wall.
Go ahead and give me a Brawl check
as you attempt to beat his ass.
- The difficulty is lowered by three.
- So it goes from eight to a five.
- I fail.
- Go ahead and take a Turbo Token.
He is going to respond.
I'm going to need you to roll
a difficulty six Toughness check.
- One.
- [Brennan] Go ahead and take an injury level.
- Now, I healed from severe-
- At the end of the chase. - At the end of the chase.
- There has not been another encounter since the chase.
You are back to a severe injury.
- Okay.
- You jump through, take a swing.
You see he tosses Johnny Manhattan in the air,
grabs both of his ankles, and slams your son into your head.
He's going to kill you with your son.
(Jacob giggles) He nunchucks-
- It took me a second to understand
what that sentence meant.
- You know the thing where nunchucks go over the shoulder,
and you grab down here?
He's doing that with your son's body
as your son's going, "Dad! I'm sorry!"
- Is there a television or mirror or fireplace
or couch or something I can pick up-
- There's a mirror on the wall.
- ...and hit him with? - The fireplace?
- Give me Wits four. - Hit him with the fireplace!
Can you lift the whole fireplace?
- Six. - That's right!
- Hell yeah, you see that there is an enormous flowerpot
filled with fire pokers standing on your kitchen table.
- Great. - On the kitchen table!
- Kitchen table. Vase full of fire pokers.
- [Alex] It's right there.
- Okay, can I try and smash the pot over his head
and stab him with every fire tool?
- Give me Weapons.
- I will give you Weapons.
- Difficulty is a seven.
- No!
- You have Turbo Tokens. - I'm severe!
- Now you're spending two-to-one.
- I lower the difficulty by three
if he has the same weapon as me.
- He does not have a fire poker. He's wielding your son.
- You need another son, now!
- You need either his son or a different son of yours.
- Where's Vicki?
- Has that sentence been said before?
- He's wielding your son?
- No, he's attacking- - He's going to kill you
with your son.
- I think my parents have yelled that at each other.
- We're going to cut, as you look,
so you go to stab him.
You see that he roundhouse kicks the flowerpot.
As you go with the poker, he just wraps it up
in between two of Johnny's legs and then whips it
out of your hand. - Okay.
- [Brennan] Jennifer, what do you do?
You're in the other room. - [Ally] Yes. I'm with Lucy.
I'd love to talk to Lucy and say,
Lucy, I think we're in a lot of danger,
and we're here to get those bullet casings
that killed Jack's partner.
- This is going to be Hot 10
to get her to listen to you right now.
- Okay, great. Well, I'm at a d8, so-
- That's your first- - That's a six!
- That's your first instinct? - Okay, cool.
- Don't want to get her off me, Russell? All right.
- No, I'm trying to, so that she would step off you.
- Yeah. - You see she goes,
looks at you and says, "Who are you?"
- My name is Jennifer Drips,
and I'm a little bit of a lone wolf.
- She hurls Wendell at you.
- Can I try and be like, Johnny! Attack!
- Sure, you can yell, "Johnny, attack."
- Johnny, try! - Oh no.
- Give me Hot five.
- Hot five. - Hot five!
- One!
- [Brennan] Go ahead, take a Turbo Token.
- What is happening, though? - I don't know! I'm sorry!
I'm so sorry. Turbo Tokens are good.
It's good to get Turbo Tokens. - [Ally] Yeah, that's true.
- You're going to get such a big fucking kick-ass moment.
- Yeah, totally.
- It's going to be incredible when you double those.
- Okay, so she hurls Wendell at you.
She's going to make a Weapons check.
- With Wendell? - Wendell is her weapon.
- Wow. Got it. - Now, that's only a six,
so what I need is a Stunts from you
to avoid taking damage as the weapon,
and I'm going to need a Tough from you, difficulty six.
- That's a three. - All right.
- Eight. Blow up.
- [Brennan] Oh shit! Boom. (players cheering)
Okay, so Wendell, you do not fail by more than five,
so you don't take a damage level from that.
- Just see if I happen to blow up.
Nine.
- Very close. 8 and 9, that is 17.
As you dodge and avoid, Jennifer,
you get an immediate action
as Wendell goes sailing past you.
Wendell, you land perfectly safely
on this lovely sofa back behind you.
- [Ally] Okay, I would love to...
Okay, let me know if I can do this.
- [Brennan] Yeah. - But if I have a successful
Brawl check with her for Neck Snapper,
can I get close to where she's incapacitated
and ask if she wants to work with us,
and if she still seems like she's going to attack us,
then incapacitate her?
- Hell yeah. Go for it.
- Then a Brawl check.
- She's going to hate me for that.
- Six. - Six, okay.
She's going to roll Tough to avoid that.
She blows up.
As you go to snap her neck, she follows it and twists
and just goes upside-down in midair.
You're holding her head,
looking at her upside down as she gets two legs
into the rafters of the ceiling and goes-
- How tall are you?
- She says, "I'm a fucking lawyer!" (spits)
and she spits venom in your eyes.
- Does it hurt?
- [Brennan] Yeah, it burns. - What?
- It's venom! (Brennan screams)
- She's a slow loris.
- Put that venom in-
- Can I save? - Oh yeah.
- Wendell, it is your go.
- Is everybody cool if I drink the green stuff?
- All of it?
- You drank all of it last time!
(players laughing)
- [Brennan] Wendell- - I was alone in a tank
with Damian Blake!
- Wendell. Wheels, burning rubber.
An entire lifetime. Your brothers outside.
Feeling set apart.
Your mom and dad back in Lake Elsinore splitting up.
What does la familia really mean?
What does it mean to be together?
What does it mean to belong?
Four wheels, four brothers,
all moving in the same direction.
What connects you all?
And a single engine in your mind, your heart, and your soul
revs up to the point where you are moving in concert
with the great V8 engines of the cosmos.
This Adrenanoxinil Plutonium Sulfate
awakens limitless power and potential in you.
What do you do?
- I feel it coursing through me, and I close my eyes,
and I stand face to face with Vic Ethanol
in my normal Wendell body,
and we both clasp hands,
and he looks at me and he's like, "Let's fuck shit up."
- Woo! - I'm going after Shaun.
He broke the brotherhood. - Hell yes.
You charge in through the kitchen, past Lucy,
who's like, "What?" as you zoom past her.
In the kitchen, Shaun turns around,
sort of whirling Johnny over his head,
the head badly hitting the fridge and walls.
Kitchen's not that big.
What do you do as you approach Shaun?
- When I come up to Shaun,
everybody who's listening not only hears my voice,
but also hears Vic Ethanol's voice.
We're talking in sync.
(echoing) Shaun! Put that boy down!
- You want me to put him down?
Yeah, I'll put him down. (both roaring)
And he is going to attempt to Thor's hammer
destroy you with Johnny Manhattan's body.
I'll do Box of Doom for this. He's rolling d12 Weapons.
- That's just a boy.
- Eight, minus five, 'cause you've got the APS.
So go ahead and roll. Here.
This is actually going to be your Toughness,
and then you're going to be able to roll
your Weapons or Brawl.
- Okay. Weapons or Brawl, okay.
- We'll do Toughness first,
because he has that three Weapons check against you.
- Okay, so Toughness first? - Yeah, Toughness first.
Only difficulty of a three.
- Blow up! - It blows up. 10.
- Okay, wait, what die was that?
- That was a d10.
- [Brennan] D10, so now you're at d12 Tough.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Okay. - Can he do it?
- Can he do it? Can he do it? - Double blow!
(all groaning)
- Three! - No worries.
Okay, so you beat it by more than five,
so you actually tenderly grab Johnny Manhattan
so he is not injured as this weapon.
- Nice. - Now it's your attack.
What are you going to roll with?
- I'm gonna roll with Brawl. - Okay, here we go.
- I'm gonna teach you about familia right now!
- Eight! - That's an eight. Blow it up.
- Eight! Blowing up!
Okay, this is a d10. - Blow your thing!
- All right, here it is. - We need it.
- Come on. - Double, double, double.
- Let's go, let's go, let's go!
- Oh my god! (players losing it)
Oh my fucking god!
No! You are fucking kidding me!
- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven! 16 tokens!
- Oh my fucking god!
- You're either severely injured-
- Wow, wait- - We're buying every suite!
We are going shopping!
- I cannot believe that whole conversation...
For folks watching at home, in the last "Adventuring Party,"
we do mechanical stuff in the "Adventuring Parties"
in between episodes. - Check them out on Dropout.
- Dropout.tv! - Dropout.tv, check them out.
In the last character advancement in between episodes-
- Damn! - ...the gang bought
an ability called Diesel Circus.
- We spent 45 minutes discussing
whether or not we should buy that.
- And they bought the limited tier,
and everyone took the ability- - That's crazy.
- ...that if you double explode,
you double the amount of Turbo Tokens you are holding onto,
and it literally happened the very next episode.
Imagine how you would feel
if you had not bought that ability!
- I feel high, and it's in Box of Doom.
- And it's fucking Box of Doom! It's on camera, baby!
So wait, you just got d8, d10.
You also, by the way, are now at a d12 Tough.
- Yes! - Uh-oh!
- You're sitting on 18...
No, this is Brawl!
- Yeah, d12 Brawl. - [Brennan] D12 Brawl!
- If, theoretically, he were to blow up
and then blow up again, could he quadruple?
- Yes, he absolutely could. - It's two in a row.
- You hit a 12 right...
No, no, wait, because then the tokens start to...
Yeah, it needs to be twice in a row.
- Okay. - Twice in a row.
- That's a three. - Okay.
- I don't think my heart could've taken it.
- Yeah, that is a 21 Brawl check.
Go ahead and give me the Box of Doom.
- That's wild!
- [Brennan] And load yourself up with 16 Turbo Tokens.
- Get loaded! Uh-oh!
- We're rolling Shaun's Tough, which is a d12.
10. He fails by more than five.
Also, his 10 becomes a five,
because you have the Adrenanoxinil.
So he fails spectacularly.
Wendell Morris, Vic Ethanol, are one.
You have completely unlocked the storytelling DNA
of "Never Stop Blowing Up" in this moment.
You double explode, and your inner reserves,
not only of the Adrenanoxinil, which is temporary,
but these Turbo Tokens which, whatever the Adrenanoxinil
is trying to do, is what the Turbo Tokens actually are.
That inner drive to do what must be done,
to leap from the rooftop to the helicopter,
to take the jump off the highway and explode in midair,
to make the shot no one else can make.
What happens in this moment as you defeat Shaun Nitro?
- I tackle him to the ground and I just start punching,
and in a weird way that Shaun Nitro can't understand,
with every punch, every time the fist comes up,
it's Wendell, then he punches,
then it's Vic, then he punches.
Wendell's in there, just going back and forth, all in one.
- Hell yeah. - And the one punch
that would probably put him in the dirt,
Vic is swinging his arm like (roars)
and he punches the ground right next to him.
- Yeah, perfect! Perfect!
- At least I remember what family's about.
- Beating someone until they're about to die.
- And then not killing them!
- Not killing them! - The important thing,
family will never kill,
except in the news.
- Family will never kill! - [All] Except in the news!
- You see Shaun is incapacitated,
and as you stand up in this moment,
Johnny Manhattan there beside you,
look out the window, see the neighborhood.
You still see the red smoke from your car
that is spinning on auto.
You have it in a tight circle,
set in with the steering wheel locked in place,
and you look out and realize that for good or for ill,
you have often disagreed with your brothers
or spoken your mind,
but come hell or high water,
there is a reckoning that is waiting for you
with your family on the outside of this movie,
and you feel engines roaring inside of you
and know that however frightening that challenge may be,
you are capable of facing it head on.
In the living room,
Lucy Santangelo is going to kick your head
over and over again until you're dead.
(Ify and Jacob laughing)
- So kind of like, right on the heels of that,
I got that? - Yeah.
- Narratively? It's kind of outside-
- Wendell is realizing something
about the nature of what it means to advocate for yourself-
- His story's wrapped up. - His story's wrapped up.
- We went all the way up
Maslow's hierarchy of needs for him.
- That's actually a wrap on Ify Nwadiwe.
Ify can go home. (players applauding)
Ify did it, and actually-
- And I'm gonna get kicked in the head till I die!
- Till you die.
Till you're dead. That's what she wants to happen.
- By a woman wearing shoulder pads.
- [Ally] Okay, great!
- By a woman wearing enormous shoulder pads.
- Big hair full of wood chips and glass.
- Big hair full of wood chips.
- Okay, can I make a save? - [Alex] To stop that?
- Yeah. I mean, actually, you must.
- You want to save your head?
- Difficulty eight Toughness.
- Fabulous. Okay. (humming a cheery tune)
That's a five.
- Okay, you don't take an injury,
but you do get kicked in the head a lot, four or five times.
- Ow!
Damn!
(Brennan hollering aggressively)
- You see, in the kitchen- - Wonder what Wendell's up to.
- ...as you stand over Shaun Nitro,
Johnny Manhattan stands up,
looks at you and goes, "Dad, we made it."
Laser dots all over his head.
- Get down!
- We cut to the Eastminster Kennel Club Bloodbath.
- Johnny!
(Rekha grunting and laughing)
- [Brennan] Bam, bam, bam. - Everything will be okay.
You are getting kicked in the head in the kitchen
until you die.
- Beautiful music playing.
(Jacob singing angelically over laughter)
- No roll necessary.
- [Rekha] Beethoven's concerto, "Chopsticks."
Miyazaki, stick figure.
(players giggling)
- Incredible.
- Dang, Liv, you are standing in this felt-lined arena.
The floor is slick with blood and soapy water,
chemical smell.
All around you, you see villainous sort of assassins
and lords of the criminal underworld, smiling and smoking.
You see cash trading back and forth.
You see there's another, more felt-lined platforms
with sort of low, grim light
as chips are slid back and forth
with small croupier's wands as people make bets.
You see a man looking and saying,
(weird fancy accent) "I bet $8 trillion
on the standing dogs wearing clothes."
- Wow. - Whoo-ie!
- That's a lot of money. - You see, the fight begins.
The Chow Chows are standing up on their hind legs.
- [Jacob] Okay. - And they've been pumped up
full of Adrenanoxinil. - As the fight starts,
I pull this out and I put it to my mouth and shoot it back,
but right before we start, I grab and spit the other half-
- Yikes! - ...in his mouth.
- Sick. Yeah. - Liv is like... (groans)
- God, that's so sexy.
- And you guys couldn't have split it-
- God, that's so sexy! - You couldn't have split it.
- I'm not coming onto you, man.
- Each of you splitting-
- You go, "You've never done a shotgun before?"
- You save more weed!
- Each of you split half a dose, which means that
difficulties are going to come down by two for each of you.
As you spit that in there,
go ahead and make a Hot check for me, difficulty of eight.
- To whom?
- As you spit that thing in there.
- As you spit the- - Both of us?
- [Brennan] Yeah, both of you.
- Would this be a first impression?
- Yes, this is a first impression, so the difficulty's five.
- [Jacob] So it goes by threes. Difficulty five.
- [Ally] Awesome.
- Six.
- Six! Blowing up!
- Here we go, baby! Boom! - D8.
Two. - Nice.
- Two. Both of you succeed.
In this moment, as you share this,
you go (spits) spit this stuff into Kingskin's mouth.
- Hard spit. - Let's get wild, baby.
- There's about five judges up on that panel.
You see one of them that has
a row of platinum, diamond-studded bullets for teeth
just goes, "Bow wow," and seems very impressed.
You got one of the five judges
that's very impressed by that, yeah.
- Is that person different
than the guy who's got a bullet for an eye?
- Yep. - Okay.
- Yeah, two different people. - Thank you.
- This is by judging panel?
- Yeah, uh-huh. - Okay.
- [Jacob] Can I do one last thing as we begin?
- [Brennan] Yeah.
- [Jacob] I click my Prada shoes together.
- [Brennan] Hell yeah. - [Jacob] And a small knife
comes out the back, and I kind of hold it like this.
- Amazing. Incredible.
- He would never hold a knife like this. It's like this.
- Bam. Off to the side.
- [Izzy] Kill shot! - [Brennan] Incredible.
- He just makes you stab each one like 16 times.
It's just so unbearable.
- I said it before. Immortal Technique.
Anybody can shoot a dude, but can you stab somebody
and watch the life leave their eyes?
- Anyone can shoot a dude, but can you stab a dog?
(players bursting into laughter)
- Dog are humans, though! - Dogs are humans.
- The dogs are humans! - We all agreed.
- And that makes them less precious.
- Yeah, and I'm actually going to say,
having declared that men are dogs and dogs are men,
I think you see in this moment, as you go for the knife,
you see both of the Chow Chows
run over to the sides of the arena
and you see these enormous muscular men
take their jackets off, put on little dog masks,
and also get stabbed with the Adrenanoxinil.
The Chow Chows come over, do little taps on each shoulder.
You see the dogs go, "Get 'em," and leave the ring
as these two guys, floppy ears, little Party City dog masks,
huge, muscular, tattoos. One of them takes
a full double-handed Zweihänder German broadsword.
The other one takes out a whip
that has been studded with grenades.
There's like 30 grenades on this whip.
- And you had a little knife?
- But remember, I'm holding it like this.
- Oh! You're right, you're right, you're right.
You're totally right. - Are all of the things
taken out of the grenades?
- The pins? - Yeah.
- It looks like the pins are set to be knocked off
as he whips this- - Oh!
- So you have German two-handed sword. Grenade whip.
- Got it. - Okay.
- So you're telling me the two dogs that we saw
get shot with Adrenanoxinil were actual dogs?
- Were real dogs.
- That pumped them up enough to run to the sidelines,
get tagged in by humans- - Humans.
- ...that are dressed as dogs, that also had Adrenanoxinil.
- Yeah. - And then the dogs dogs left.
- It's a man fight now. - It's a man fight now.
- You see those two dogs run out to a car
that is inside the warehouse.
They get in, the doors close,
and the car smashes through a wall, drives away, blows up.
- [Izzy] They're dead. - Wait, so the dogs are-
- The dogs are dead. - No, the dogs are alive.
- They're alive, okay. - Because that was a hologram.
The dogs are sneaking out the back, never to be seen again.
- [Alex] Kingskin sees the switch.
Kingskin sees the switch- - That's gotta feel good.
That's gotta feel really good.
I'm jealous that you got that.
- Let me be clear.
The dogs are wearing tan trench coats,
tan fedoras, huge sunglasses,
walking on hind legs, bouncing in that way that dogs do
when they're hopping on hind legs.
- They gotta go to their flipping practice.
- What are their names?
- Snowball? - And Belvedere.
- Thank you.
- Do the Chow Chows, as they leave, go, "Ciao, ciao."
Just a quick question. - They go ciao, ciao?
- One million percent, yeah. - Amazing.
- You know Snowball and Belvedere do not miss a moment.
- [Alex] So Kingskin sees the switch,
that they're tagged out by humans.
- Yes. - [Alex] Smiles and says,
you know, my mom has two dogs,
and I would've never hurt dogs.
Their names are Dilly and Dolly.
- They have no teeth! - [Alex] They have no teeth.
- Only Dilly doesn't have teeth. Dolly has too many.
- Anyways, this changes everything.
- You see one of the dudes looks at you,
and his bottom row of teeth
is just steel, like he can chew...
You see that there's a bunch of barbed wire in his mouth,
and he just goes, "Your dogs names are Dilly and Dolly?"
- One's after Dolly Parton.
The other one's, I think, after a beer commercial thing.
- That's crazy, 'cause our names are Dilly and Dolly.
- Oh no!
- (roars) (mimics grenade whip cracking) Boom!
First thing we're going to do is roll Wits versus Wits.
They roll an eight,
so it's difficulty eight Wits check to see who goes first.
- Okay.
- One. - Three.
- Take your Turbo Tokens.
So these guys are loaded up with Adrenanoxinil.
- Oh yeah, so what does that make the breakdown?
Does that minus five for everything of ours?
- The way it's going to work is,
all their difficulties are minus five,
so whenever you're rolling Toughness,
you're going to subtract five from that.
Whenever they're rolling Toughness,
they're going to subtract two from that.
- Okay. - Got it.
- Cool. They're going to run out.
Broadsword's coming right for you.
- Great.
- He rolls a nine,
so you're going to have to do basically a 14 Tough roll.
- Eight. - Okay.
Go ahead and take an injury level.
You've got your knife like this,
and you see he sort of circles you for a second,
and then chops you a full six inches into your shoulder
with this broadsword, blam!
And you're like, oh, a knife and a broadsword
are so different, worlds different,
just enormously different.
It's like a four foot piece of sharp steel,
and it just goes blam!
There's no way to dodge or get around it.
Go ahead and take your Turbo Token.
- Great. - And then for Kingskin,
that is a 10.
That's a 15 Tough check for Kingskin.
- Six! I blew up! - You blew up, baby!
- Do it again!
- [Ally] Now you just gotta do an eight, and then a one.
- Six again, so 12.
- That's actually kind of best of both worlds,
'cause you get a Turbo Token for failing,
but do not take an injury level.
You see this grenade whip comes around,
and you just get whipped,
and it honestly doesn't even blow up.
It's just getting hit in the head
with a grenade that is going like 200 miles an hour
at the end of this whip. - God.
- Bam! Across the skull.
Blood starts streaking across your face.
Both of you, it is your turn.
- Cool. I'll walk up to sword man, and I click...
I squeeze the heel of my knife,
and a small blade of laser pops along the knife.
- [Brennan] Let's go, baby.
- And I'll just go for one of those cool jugular stabs.
- Amazing, give me a Weapons check here,
and I'll roll Toughness for him.
- I'm also Studied in Weapons, so it's a negative three.
- Oh my god. - And a negative two.
He rolled an eight, but that's going to be minus five,
so it's a difficulty three Weapons check.
- [Ally] You got this.
- Ooh, fuck. I rolled a one. - Okay.
- You want tokens?
- I'm severe, so it's a two-to-one.
- Yeah. - Okay. Do you have any?
- I have two. - And then I have two.
- So it'd be three. - Bear in mind,
he needs to fail by five to get that injury, right?
- Okay. - So-
- Maybe save it. - So I think, yeah,
take the Turbo Token, probably, right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- So you whip back with the laser,
and you see he goes (barks) and goes back,
lands on all fours. - That scared you?
- You see that he takes the two-hander,
moves it into one hand as he's on a three-point crouch
and just goes (mimics Zweihänder whooshing)
spinning it in his hand back and forth.
Kingskin, what are you doing in this moment?
- The guy coming at me still has the whip?
The grenade whip? - Yes, he does.
- Kingskin goes low and tries to grab the guy's legs
so that he can squeeze them
and then use the guy's whole body as-
- (gasps) As the handle of the whip?
- Yeah. - [Brennan] Oh my god. Okay.
- Fuck yeah! - Go ahead. He's gonna roll.
He has a d10 in Tough, minus two.
He rolls a five on the Tough, so minus two, that's a three,
so this is a difficulty three Brawl.
If you beat it by five, you can use him as a weapon
in the same action. - Okay.
- So three to wound him, and then eight means
you grab him and you're using him as a weapon.
- Okay, I'm rolling a d6.
Four. - Woo!
- Is it worth it to blow up? It was a three difficulty?
- Three difficulty, so you got him already.
- Is it worth it to blow up?
- It was more than six to...
Was it six to give him the injury level?
- It was eight to give him the injury level.
- So it wouldn't- - Yeah, it wouldn't-
- It's six right now? - 'Cause if you blew up,
then you roll a whole other die.
- Yeah, if you blew up, you would roll a d8 on top of that,
so you'd probably make it. - Is it worth it
to blow up a Brawl right now?
- I think so. - Okay.
- You're only rolling a d6 for your Brawl. I'd go for it.
- If we're doing the share thing,
because I'm injured, I have to share with a two-to-one?
- No, actually, your share,
because Kingskin is not fully injured,
you would use yours at a one-to-one.
You could do that. - I already have two.
- It's just good to know for the future.
- Yeah, good to know. Okay, so I blow that up.
- So you blow up. Go ahead and roll a d8 Brawl.
Boom! (Rekha giggling)
- Five, so that's an 11? - Oh shit! That's 11!
So dude with the grenade whip is going,
"I'm purebred corgi, bitch."
- You're a corgi?
- Now you're a corgi?
- The short...
The British ones?
- The one with the big ass?
- "What? Yeah, my ass is thick and fuzzy.
You see that little butt..." (yelps)
And both ankles go into your huge, like this-
- All right. Give me that ass. - Woo!
- Burying my face in this man's-
- You eat this man's ass.
- [Brennan] Liv, what's going through, as you shove-
- My king! - Roll Hot for ass eatin'.
- As you shove your face into a gangster's ass
while he's dressed as a dog with a grenade whip-
- Another ex for Kingskin.
(other side of the table losing it)
- What's going through Liv's mind
right now as your face is buried in this gangster's ass?
- I guess nothing matters!
- Are you gonna go to Stanford or what?
- Are you gonna go to Stanford?
- As you are knee deep, fuckin', in this guy's hole-
- Knee deep! - ...you think about Stanford.
- I mean, this kind of reminds me
of all the years I did ballet.
- Go ahead and give me a Weapons check
as part of the same action to hit the other dude.
- Four. - On what kind of die?
- A d6. - On a d6. Four on a d6.
He's going to make a Toughness check,
but it's minus two, so...
Oh my god! He rolled a two on a d10.
- Wow! - Which goes to zero,
which means he fails by five. - Nice!
- So you grab the dude by the legs and (grunts) bam!
- We do a pirouette over.
- Kingskin gives an injury level to both of the dogs here.
Boom, boom! Incredible.
It's going to go back to their turn again.
You see the judges go,
"Didn't know you had it in you, Kingskin. (chuckles)
The parts of me that are bullets, you can't see."
- Ha!
- Wait, who's talking to me?
- A different guy.
- You're just talking at regular level,
expecting me to hear you above-
- Yeah, music. It's amazing you heard the guy.
- (quietly) Well, well, Kingskin.
(Rekha beatboxing)
- What's that? - What?
- I've got a bullet for an asshole.
- And my balls are bullets, too.
And the inside? All bullets.
- Give me a Brawl check as the dude
tries to get out of your hands, basically.
- Seven.
- I'll give you one to blow up.
- Nice!
- Oh my god, thank you. - Oh shit!
This dude got a 12, and is minus-ing five from this roll.
So you blow up, but you got an eight,
so you need to get a 17 to actually have this guy
not get away, essentially. - Oh my god.
That's a nine on this?
- Yes, you have an eight,
so you need to roll a nine on a d10.
- 10! - It's a 10!
- Oh my god! - Double blow up!
- Double blow up! Oh no!
- Damn! Aw.
- But we all know what happened.
- What if we retcon that you had paid earlier?
- All good, all good. So you have a d12 Brawl now.
So that's an 8 and a 10.
That's an 18, which means that you absolutely do,
this guy cannot get out of your giant fucking paws.
Go ahead and roll that d12. You might blow up again.
- 10. - 10.
- [Ally] Wow! - Oh my god.
- So 28?
- Yeah, this guy's even deeper in your clutches
as you grip onto his legs. - Deeper in his ass.
- Zweihänder is going to take a swipe at you, though.
He's going to rush. - That was tight.
- That was cool. Thank you for the token.
- Of course, of course.
- Okay, he rolls a five on a d12.
You need a 10 Tough check to avoid-
- 10 Tough check. - 10 Tough.
- I'm rolling a d8 here.
- You want to roll a d10 of mine?
- Oh, sure. Does that cost anything?
- No. It's La Familia.
You can roll Tough on someone else's behalf.
Does that mean I would take the damage?
- [Brennan] You would take the damage.
- I can't do that. - Oh, no no no.
- No, I can lend you one skill dice-
- [Brennan] Yeah, different ability. You can give a d10.
- Oh, a different one, okay. And then you don't take damage?
No. - No.
So you can just roll my d10, right?
- Thank you. - Correct?
- [Brennan] Yeah, correct. - Okay.
- All right.
Eight.
- Eight, amazing. - Nice!
- He minus fives from that, but you don't fail
by five or more, which is the critical thing.
So you don't take an injury level there.
Basically, a broadsword thuds into the meat of your traps,
and just doesn't cut deep enough to do any real damage
to your massive, boulder-like body.
- There's a lot more meat you gotta cut through.
(Brennan and Jacob grunting in disgust)
- Greg, that's you.
- Just going to go for a couple more slice and dice, baby.
- Hell yeah. Let's do it.
- Just another Weapons check, right?
- Another Weapons check, that's correct.
- I also think Dang is feeling a little like
this started off really good,
and I was really good at being this guy,
and this is the first time that I'm not being good,
and he kind of wants to just quit.
- Yeah. - It's not easy anymore.
So he's kind of like, this fucking sucks!
Goody two shoes is doing good
like goody two shoes always does,
and he's gonna go... (grunts) - Thanks, man.
- So he's feeling a little sour.
- [Brennan] Okay, yeah.
- Fuckin'...
And that sour is a one.
- Wow. - Whoa!
- [Brennan] Okay.
- I mean, it doesn't...
Yeah, that is what it is.
- Go ahead and take a Turbo Token.
In this moment, Greg has never spoken to Dang.
Everything about "Never Stop Blowing Up" land
has been really fun, but you're severely injured now,
and the pain is real.
It doesn't matter that this world's fictional or whatever.
You can really fucking die here,
and that suddenly becomes clear in this moment.
There is a sudden sobriety that descends on you of like,
"Well, I could fucking die
and get my corpse barfed out of a VHS.
What the fuck am I doing? What am I doing here?"
And I think you realize
that in the vastness of this land or whatever,
what dream are you trying to make come true?
In this moment, give me a Wits check of three.
- Two. I'm rolling bad. - Yeah.
- I'm hurt. Dang is hurt.
- Take another Turbo Token. - Yeah.
- You're looking around, and I think there's a moment
where Greg Stocks's voice could've come, and doesn't.
What does that say about you?
- Can't even channel anymore. - Can't even channel anymore.
- Can't even do the one thing that I was good at.
And I, like... - Mm-hm.
- And I just stand there with the knife.
- Liv, you see Dang just dissociate.
Gone. (Jacob beeps)
Both of the guys are still here, though, in this place.
What do you do in this moment?
- Liv, as Kingskin, drops the guy's legs,
just lets him tumble,
and goes to protect Dang.
- [Brennan] Hell yeah. Awesome.
- Shielding him and asking, hey!
Hey, what's going on?
Dang. - Give me-
- Just fully like "Saving Private Ryan"... (beeps)
- Give me Wits four.
- Four.
- You look at your friend, this enormous gangster
in the middle of this wild dog-themed bloodsport
in a criminal warehouse in this wild action land-
- Has Dang sat down? - No.
- I think he's just- - Oh, okay, okay.
- ...standing like he's not the soie de vivre,
the suit is gone- - Yeah.
- Soie de vivre? - Joie de vivre?
- Joie de vivre, yeah. - Suave?
- Suave de vivre! - Dang is gone.
We're going to cut outside. G13.
- [Rekha] Yes. - [Brennan] You are looking,
and you see Haldwell walking under the overpass.
There's one of those dudes
who's sort of in the security detail
who says something to Haldwell.
You see Haldwell nods, goes over,
and takes a little fountain pen
out of his shirt to write something,
but just holds it up and goes (exhales sharply)
and something hits the dude's neck.
He hits the ground, and Haldwell leans down,
takes a little lanyard that has a collapsing rope thing,
puts the card in the guy's pocket,
presses something down on the guy's chest,
puts the lanyard up to something hanging from the overpass
that you can't see, and the dude's whole body
is just yanked up by this thread that's as strong as a rope,
disappears up onto the highway overhead,
and you can see momentary squad cars, black town cars,
up on the elevated highway of the overpass
as the guy disappears and another dude dressed like him
walks out of the shadows to assume his position.
- And that wasn't Meat, right?
- That's not Doug Meat.
Doug you know is pretending to be the doorman.
- Okay, and to clarify Haldwell,
what I have written down, he's a snake.
Is he FBI?
- He said the thing about the Bureau to when you called him.
He was like, "Don't ever call me.
How did you get my number at the Bureau?" is what he said.
- Yes, so he's maybe some sort of double agent
type of person, maybe. - Maybe.
- Okay, so I have this phone.
This was used to call Barsimmeon,
but is it just a line to him,
or can I use it as a phone phone?
- You can probably use it as a phone, yeah.
- Okay, so I think to myself, what's the one number I know?
Well, the last time I used Lisa's number,
and I got through to this guy. - Yeah.
- So secretly, covertly, from the car,
because he doesn't see G13, right?
- Yeah. - I give him a call.
- So you call Lisa's number, right?
As you call Lisa's number,
you see that he doesn't react like phone is ringing on him,
but you hear, "You've reached the desk
of Special Agent Haldwell of the FBI."
- Okay, so it's his office phone.
He didn't give me the mobile dig.
- Didn't do call forwarding. - Yeah.
What I would like to maybe do. - Yeah.
- Because I was going to try to talk him through this.
But can I run him over
and take all his clothes and put them on?
(soft snickering)
- Give me a Drive check.
- You should try to make it more slippery in front of you.
- So what I'm actually worried about
is that the oil from my previous move is already slick,
and that it'll reverse the effects.
- It'll make you go too fast.
- It'll make me go too fast. - Yeah, totally.
- But that's an awesome thought.
- Go ahead and give me a Drive check.
- Okay, that's a three, but...
Okay, it's not a pursuer.
So it's a three, we would call that.
- Yeah. - Okay.
- It's too slick!
- So go ahead and take a Turbo Token for me.
You surge forward in the vehicle.
You hop into the driver's seat, surge forward.
As you do, Haldwell is walking away,
and as one tire hits the sidewalk, without looking,
he full bicycle kick backflips and lands, bam,
on the roof of the car, gun already drawn,
and begins firing through the windshield.
- I turn the windshield wipers on.
- Great. Go ahead and give me a Weapons check.
The difficulty is a 14.
- For the wipers? - For the wipers.
- Without missing a beat.
- Two! - Okay, take a Turbo Token.
You see he takes the windshield, whips it off,
and uses it and smashes the driver's side window.
- Okay.
- Go ahead and give me a Stunts check, difficulty of seven.
- Six! I blow up! - Six! Blow up!
- Okay, and then now that's an eight.
Four.
- He goes to grab you and pull you out of the moving car,
and you hear him shout,
"This is Special Agent Haldwell of the FBI!
You're under arrest!"
And you see as he sees your face,
he goes, "You little shrimp!"
- You're calling me a little shrimp?
Your body ain't all that.
- Slam him!
- You need to eat a sandwich, mister!
- The only sandwich I'm gonna eat is your ass!
- [Alex] What? - Usha thinks for a moment.
Her husband died so long ago.
She thinks, I have never gotten my ass eaten.
And it makes her sad for a moment.
- Wow. Give me a Wits check, difficulty of two.
- New character arc unlocked!
- Wow! - New character arc!
- Wits?
- Roll for anal. - Yeah, Wits two.
- Five! - Wow.
- Five. Incredible.
You have a moment of feeling sad,
but you're able to process the sadness
and stay in the moment. - That's so beautiful.
- So beautiful.
- So Usha, you are racing now through the underpass
in between the giant concrete columns that are suspending
the highway above you, towards the warehouse.
You can see Doug Meat up ahead.
Haldwell is on top of the roof, one hand on you,
gun down, pointed at you.
You are driving. What do you do in this moment?
- You little shrimp.
- So I think character-wise,
Usha has really dove into G13.
- Yeah. - In a way that is like,
I think when you become obsessive about a hobby
in maybe an unhealthy way, you lose yourself a little bit.
- [Brennan] Yeah.
- She's not even lost herself.
She's just gained all these skills
that are totally antithetical to who she was.
- [Brennan] Yeah.
- I think she goes into her mind, she sees the chaos,
and there is one place she has not tried to hack,
and it is G13's mind.
- Whoa. - Can I try to hack,
what would the G13 do in this moment?
Because I think she's kind of between two worlds.
She's not quite Usha, she's not all the way G13,
and I think she's wanting to fully commit.
Can I be full G13 in this moment
and get myself out of this and get my friends out?
- So I think in this moment, as Usha opens herself up,
who's been losing herself, has been really focused
on the Shadow Falcon Protocol and what your team needs.
I think Usha, give me Wits...
We'll call it Wits six.
- That's a one. - Give me a Turbo Token.
- Give Brennan- - Give me one.
I never get anything! - I never get them!
- On that one, I think you realize, as Usha,
as you open to try to hack G13, you realize,
G13's been hacking you. (Rekha giggling maniacally)
Why have you been losing yourself?
- Yeah, the data of Usha's mind
has been slowly slipping away.
- You're older. Memory's already hard for you,
and there's this sinister character in this world
who already hacks information systems.
- Fuck.
- What does G13 say to Usha?
How do they confront each other
as Usha realizes that this character...
Your real personas have been taking over these characters.
This character is taking over you.
- Mm-hm.
- What do they say to one another
as Usha has that realization?
- Well, to me, hackers hack because they want something.
- Yeah. - Maybe it's to erase stuff,
but I don't think Usha has something that he wants to erase.
So I'm like, what do you want?
And I think he's like,
"I want people!"
- Whoa, and I think you feel that moment,
as he says, "I want people,"
that maybe G13 is tech savvy enough
to realize that there's some part of his world that is code,
or that is something, and you see-
- Neo! - Yeah.
He wants to go full Neo.
He's like, "There's a consciousness above my world,
and I want to get there." - Yes!
- He can get sent out of the VHS instead of you?
- Oh! Freaky!
- We all appear outside, and it's that fucking kid,
and Usha's totally gone!
- And Usha's in "Never Stop Blowing Up."
- I think I can balance the books!
- Yeah, I think I can balance the books just fine.
- Maybe it's not that two of your skills are already at d20,
it's that that's how fast he's been able to get
his own d20s back online. - To get into my head.
- Right, in my head, all six of your personae
are d20s across the board. - Yeah.
- As you level up, it's you coming into your own
in this universe, and so you getting these two d20s
really quick, there's a dark side to it.
- Now I'm a d4 in Usha. I'm a d20 in Tech.
- Oh fuck! - Yeah, exactly.
- What's my granddaughter's name?
- Where's my pencils?
- That road closes. - [Ally] Abaci.
- You feel G13 be like, "I have nothing that I want.
I want people." G13 is not...
Whatever relationship Vic Ethanol has to Wendell,
G13 just sees Usha as a means to an end.
- Yes.
- As you suddenly come back to the wheel of the car,
what are you reacting in this moment as Haldwell
uses this moment of sudden horror to try to move on you?
What are you doing in this moment?
- I think I'm going to try to swerve to knock him asunder.
- Cool, he's going to make a Stunts to resist.
Give me a Drive check. His Stunts is a seven.
- Five, but I do have...
Do I do tokies?
- Would you have to beat it by five
to actually do anything meaningful,
or matching it, would that be fine?
- You could probably throw him off by meeting the success,
but it wouldn't injure him.
- Okay, I want to injure him, so I won't waste my tokens.
- Okay, go ahead, take a Turbo Token on a fail.
Now I need you to make a Stunts check.
Difficulty is eight.
- Six! Okay, hmm.
- You'd blow up, and then you'd get to roll another one.
- I'm gonna blow up and roll another one.
- Okay. - Whee!
Okay. - All right.
- 10. - D10, okay.
- That is a nine. - Wow!
- Dare you? Dare you?
How many would be left if you did that?
- I have one left if I do that.
- Then you would have two. It's like you get it for free.
- Oh. - Because you would double.
That's your second one.
- Yeah, that's your second blow up in a row
on the same roll.
- Bye bye. - Boom!
- [Rekha] So then I double-
- [Brennan] So then you double whatever you have-
- Which is one, so I got it back.
- So it's free, but now you roll a d12.
- [Ally] Insane. - [Jacob] Blow up.
- So that's 18. - 12!
- [Brennan] Oh my fucking god!
Bam! Okay. - Do it again.
- If you hit a 20- - Do it again!
- ...you double it again. So you're rolling d20 Stunts now?
- G13- - Is taking over.
- ...is taking over!
- 18! - Oh my god.
- Wait! Wait! - Oh my god!
- Do it! - Do it!
- Now, here's the deal. You roll a d20 again.
So roll the d20 again, because now you blow up to 20,
but you don't have any left. - I don't have any left.
- But 20 plus 12 plus 10, 42,
and now you're rolling a 20 again.
- 10. - 10.
You just rolled a 52.
- I don't have a d12.
- So this is Stunts,
a thing I think I can safely say
Usha has never heard of. - Yeah.
- Well, she tried a Diva Cup once.
- Oh my god, and let me tell you, that was a stunt.
- She thought it was a diaphragm.
- Lisa tried to get me into Diva Cups,
but I told her my 20-year menopause is not a big deal.
- She put a Diva Cup in upside down.
She thought it was a diaphragm.
- Now it's a jewelry case.
- So you rolled, what, a 52? - Yes.
- What you were rolling that for was to avoid Haldwell
pulling you out of the moving car, but you just rolled a 52.
Completely describe for me what happens
with G13 and Haldwell in this moment.
You're doing something to avoid a bad thing happening,
but you rolled a 52, what do you want to do in this moment?
- He's trying to push me out? - Yeah.
- Okay, so not only do I
grab hold of him to remain in,
may I grab his badge or whatever he had on him?
- Oh shit.
With a 52 Stunts,
you reach into his jacket pocket,
and as he goes flying, he goes, "No!"
You pull an evidence baggie out of his pocket...
♪ Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪
- ...with a severed human finger inside.
(Alex screams)
- Ew!
- That's not what she asked for.
- [Alex] That's not what we wanted!
- Hold on.
Okay, well me, Rekha, is telling you,
this got a wedding ring on.
- Oh. Is it squishy? - Yeah. I'll say this.
Knowing that that's on the table, you can either have that-
- Or his badge? - Or his badge.
What do you go for? - What does it say?
- On a 52, you see that in his pocket.
Do you want to get the finger,
or do you want to get the badge?
- What does the finger do?
- I don't know what the finger does.
I'll tell you what it says.
Suspect, non-applicable. Offense, non-applicable.
Victim, Carter Haldwell.
So it's his finger?
Is my guy missing a finger?
- Bandaged hand.
- Sick. It happened on the 30th of March.
Okay, so kind of an Aries, and then-
- [Alex] The finger? - The finger's an Aries.
That was for you. - I'm going to push us
to make a decision in the next five seconds.
- Okay, great. - Five, four, three-
- I'm going to take the badge. - The badge, cool.
- Wow!
- You leave the finger in there.
- Take the badge, leave the finger.
- [Brennan] You take the badge. Boom.
- [Alex] You get to find out about the finger.
- So I take this.
Can I do something such that he pisses himself
or something that's really embarrassing or bad for him?
- Yeah, you want to make him piss himself?
On that Stunts check, you grab the badge,
wheel the car out, hit him, throw him.
With the bumper of the car, you hit him in the stomach
so hard that not only does he piss himself,
but he will be incontinent for the rest of his life.
- Incredible. - Oh my god!
- Can I take his clothes?
- Yeah, all his clothes pop off and land in the car.
(players laughing)
On a 52, you hit him so hard that he can't stop pissing,
and he has to be naked. - Okay, incredible.
- And they pop off and land in the car.
- Can I, unconscious-
- The shirt lands on you, and it's not greasy. It's fine.
- [Jacob] What size is it? - Shirt count!
- Your size. Perfect. - It's tiny.
- It's sort of like trying on,
being in someone else's skin for a second.
Shirt doesn't have to be greasy? Who knew!
- [Brennan] Who knew.
- Is he unconscious? How is he?
- He's spiraling off into the distance.
- Incredible. - You rolled a 52.
- Okay. - So what happens is,
you see the evidence in his thing, see the bloody finger.
You see the badge. You choose the badge.
Hit him with the rear bumper of the car. Clothes pop off.
Shirt lands on you, comfortable.
He can't stop pissing. He's flying off-
- Piss flies him up like a jet.
- Yes. - Okay, okay.
- So he spins and pisses for the rest of his life.
- Yeah, you know Superman, where they're in the gem
that's sort of flipping off into space?
- It never rains in California.
Okay, great. Can I screech the car to a halt?
- [Brennan] Yeah.
- And I am aware that there's shit happening on the bridge,
but can I go into the G&G building as a fake FBI agent?
- You walk up. You see Doug Meat is the doorman.
So Doug goes, "You need in?" - Yeah.
- He opens the door. We cut back to the suburbs.
Incredible! Oh my god, okay. - That was so cool.
- 52! - Chiller.
- Hey, like a deck of cards.
Can I have it now, because I said that?
- What? - The deck of cards?
Can I have it now? - No!
- I got a 52. The deck of cards-
- And now that 52, it's gone.
- Even though I made the clever comparison?
- [Brennan] Even though you made the clever comparison.
- Brennan's mean. - Mm-hm.
- Brennan's mean!
- Brennan's mean for not letting me have no cards.
- Okay. Paula, you're looking at Johnny.
He's covered with sniper lasers all over his face and torso.
What do you do? You yell, "Get down."
What do you do in this moment?
- I try to parachute myself over him.
- Give me Stunts, difficulty of 11.
- I have a d6.
(suspenseful music)
Three. - Okay.
- I can't even jump in front of him?
- No, you do, but the guns are going to fire,
so you can't get him to the ground.
You're going to make the Tough check as the bullets come.
- Oh yeah, please. I'm taking the bullets.
- That's going to be a difficulty 11 Tough check.
- One.
I'm dead. - That's your third level.
- I'm dead.
- All of you watch Jack Manhattan-
- I have two real children.
- Incapacitated isn't dead, is it?
- So, we talked about three injury levels
before incapacitation.
You watch bullets riddle Jack Manhattan's body.
(Brennan mimics gunfire)
- I've made a mistake!
(Brennan still mimicking gunfire)
- All of you, "No!"
In the other room, Lucy turns, sees Jack for the first time,
and watching her still legal husband be riddled with bullets
you see she goes, "Jack!"
and then kicks Jennifer right in the head one last time.
- Ify has 16 coins!
- You call them coins?
- Also, calling him Ify. - Ify!
- You see, slow motion, she's like, "Jack!"
This is her leg. She's like, "Jack!"
Bam, bam, bam, bam.
"No!" (Izzy screams in slow-mo)
You protect Johnny from all of the bullets.
Wendell, you see, you got Nitro under your feet,
turning to look.
You go to your third injury level, past severe.
Turbo Tokens still cost twice as much,
and we're going to introduce a new rule.
- No. - 'Cause you're the first
character to get to the third injury level.
You are one away from death.
It goes from superficial to severe, to the final level,
which is known as the adrenaline level.
Take 10 Turbo Tokens. - Whoa!
(kickass action music)
- In the moment before death,
you receive a burst of adrenaline to save your life
in this time and space, and all of your senses rush to.
When you're on death's door,
you find that last hidden reserve
to dig deep and do what needs doing.
- You guys should try this.
- Nature's best secret, almost dying.
- Blow up twice right now!
- Lucy yelling after her bullet-riddled husband
did make me cry.
Love didn't die!
- Love didn't die!
- Always right before they're about to die, you realize.
- I'm just getting kicked in the face.
- Yeah. - Isn't this beautiful?
- But Ify did- - Ify has so many coins!
- Who's Ify? - Ify has so many coins!
- Okay, for the people that are in this house,
which is Russell, Wendell, and Paula,
Paula, you leap and save Johnny,
but take these injuries yourself.
Wendell and Russell, what are you doing in this moment?
- Hot! - I'm looking at her,
and I'm like, this is exactly what I was trying
to tell you about before you attacked me
and started kicking my friend in the head a bunch of times.
(Alex laughing)
- Ow, ow, ow!
- It's like the last "So You Think You Can Dance,"
the big finale.
- [Alex] There's a delay with the bullets.
- Lucy, looking at Jack,
she leaps in between the sniper rifles and Jack.
- No!
- Can I kick her in the head?
- Can I push her?
- Give me a- - [Ally] Well, yeah.
I guess I will, actually.
- Yeah, give me a Brawl check real quick.
- Let me see if I can save her life with a quick kick.
- [Brennan] Her Toughness...
What's that?
- I wasn't gonna do that, even.
- [Brennan] Go ahead and take a Turbo Token.
- It's a one. - Yeah.
- I kick and miss. I kick myself, I'm so flexible.
- [Brennan] You're so flexible.
(Ally grunts in pain)
(everybody wheezing)
- Jesus Christ!
- One is your leg, one is the other person's leg.
- Take an injury level.
- I will try and bring both of them down with me.
- Nice. - And say,
no more family gets hurt today!
- Jack and Lucy, Johnny is there.
As you're all running, the house is just being
fucking riddled with bullets (mimics gunfire)
all throughout, and you begin to hear (incoming artillery)
(mimics explosions)
and just see on the street outside
that fucking bombs are going off.
They called in an air strike on-
- Can I talk to her? - On the house?
- On this whole neighborhood. - Can I talk to Lucy?
Do you have a safe room?
- Mr. Kosciusko!
- Goddammit, Jack, it's Lieutenant.
(Izzy mumbling gruffly)
Rolling a d20 in the Box of Doom for the air strike.
(Izzy mumbling exhaustedly) - [Alex] Oh no!
- [Brennan] That's a 12. - So I look over at Lucy.
Please tell me you got a car, 'cause I can save us all.
- We got one in the attic.
(players laughing)
- Did you hear him right?
- She starts leading you guys all towards the attic.
You see Johnny grabs Shaun's body so that you can
get it out of here, 'cause it's still incapacitated.
- Am I awake, or no?
- Yes, you're at death's door,
but you're filled with adrenaline in this moment.
- Wait, so it goes superficial,
severe, adrenaline, incapacitated.
- Incapacitated, which can mean dead or unconscious,
depending on what your enemy wants.
- Can Paula have a moment?
- [Brennan] Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
- (exhausted) Looks at her fake family.
- She's drunk. - Fucking fake-ass family.
- Look at my fake-ass family. - I'm so wild!
I'm such a wildcard!
She's looking for a reflection,
can't find one, and she's like,
Jeff!
Do you think I'm a good cop?
(stunned silence)
She's trying to talk to Jack Manhattan,
and she's starting to walk out the front door.
- So you walk away from where we know the car is,
which is the attic, and you start walking to the door,
knowing that the whole neighborhood
is crawling with snipers who are currently-
- I block the door, if I can.
- But you look at the glass in the door,
and give me Wits three.
- Three.
- Jack Manhattan stares out of the reflection at you
from a sliding glass door.
What does he say?
- He says,
"You're one crazy bitch."
- In response to, "Am I a good cop?"
- I like that about you.
- What does Paula say in response to that?
- I'm gonna go outside.
- Why? (laughing)
- I'm gonna pop every bullet out of my back
and shoot it back at them.
- Like one of those toads?
- Ew! - Yeah, dude!
- A Surinam toad?
- What does Jack say in response to that?
- He goes, "What I've learned about divorce is,
they're always gonna be there
to get back together with you."
- [Rekha] What? - While he's saying this,
he only has boxers on and he's eating a pint of ice cream.
- Alone, yeah.
- In this moment, I want to try and take
her walkie that she has, and I want to try and set it
to the frequency of the snipers.
- Yeah, baby. - You set it to the frequency.
As you do- - What a good idea I just had.
- [Brennan] ...give me Tech four.
- Smack it.
- Smack that. - Smack that!
- Three. I'll go ahead and pay-
- Your coins?
- Pay one to meet that four. Yeah.
- Are you severe? - Does that blow up, or no?
- No, no. - You're severe.
- [Brennan] Four, okay. Tech four.
- Sorry. - It's all good.
- You got some to burn.
- So you hit four, and hit that Tech.
You turn it to the snipers, just as in the background,
Lucy and Johnny, with Shaun's unconscious body,
are running with Jennifer.
Lucy turns to you and says, "We gotta get to the attic,"
kicks you in the head. - Fuck!
- Runs up, and she- - Jesus!
- You see that as they run, the bombs going off
in the neighborhood, (mimics explosions) the power flickers.
The light on the sliding glass door
that creates the reflection of Jack, that light goes out,
so you don't see the reflection anymore
just as you turn the walkie to the right channel
to get the sniper frequency, so you hear, "Take the shot,"
and you see through the sliding glass
that's no longer reflective, right in the backyard,
there are two snipers with a cannon,
and they shoot the cannon right at Jack Manhattan.
(Rekha gasps)
- And what's this?
- Give me Stunts. Or no, give me Tough.
- Six.
- So you've rolled a six.
Do you want to spend two to get to seven?
But also, a six, you won't take an injury level.
- If I get shot by a cannon? - Because you're not failing
by five or more, so you could just fail
and get another Turbo Token, if you want.
- If I meet it, can I do something insane?
- Yeah. - Can I catch it?
- Yeah. - The bazooka?
- You can catch a cannon?
- Spend two and I'll let you catch it.
Okay. There's two snipers.
They have an 18th century cannon in the backyard.
- Are they holding it like a sniper?
- No, no. They're manning it like pirates.
- No, we can just tell by their posture
that they're snipers. - They're usually snipers.
- But they have the sniper gear.
They have the modern 1980s headset, and they're there,
and they've wheeled it into the backyard,
aimed for the sliding glass door-
- They're barefoot. That's how we know they're pirates.
- ...and over the radio, you hear, "We got the shot."
And then they take a little lighter lamp,
(fuse sizzling) sparks, light the fuse, boom.
But on that DC seven Tough,
Jack Manhattan, you catch the cannonball
and can immediately react, armed with this cannonball.
What do you do?
- I'm going to throw it at the helicopter.
- Go ahead. - [Alex] Helicopter?
- Give me Weapons. They roll a d12.
They rolled a five. It's difficulty five Weapons.
- Blow up.
- [Brennan] What'd you just roll? On what die?
- D10.
- On a d10! Okay, boom, that's a d10 blow up.
- Schaubach!
- Now we're rolling a d12. 10.
- If you blow it up, you get a thousand-
- What did I say the DC was? I said it was five?
- You said it was five.
- Five, so that's already beating it by five or more.
Go ahead and roll a d12.
- And this is for shooting a cannon at a helicopter?
- I got a nine. - Okay, that is a nine.
- But- - [Izzy] Blow it up?
- If you blew it up,
then you'd double the amount of those things that you have,
so it's totally worth it.
How many do you have?
- Remember, you're spending two for each one.
- Oh fuck, you would spend six.
- But I have this many. - How many do you have?
- Do the math!
- Do the math, please! I'm getting kicked in the head.
- 14. - So if you spent six,
you'd still get eight, and you'd double it to 16,
so you'd actually have more than you started with.
- You gotta do it! - Totally worth it.
And your dice is up, yeah.
- It's totally worth it. I did the math.
- Do the math! - So that's a 12.
So you are now at a d20 Weapons.
- Yes. That's Jack Manhattan.
- And that's a double blow up,
so you should have 16 Turbo Tokens in your thing.
You blow up. Boom!
D20 Weapons. That is 10 and 12 is 22.
Roll your d20.
- I rolled a seven.
- Okay, you get a 29. - So sick.
- So this man, who is on death's door,
catches a cannonball.
- [Brennan] Yeah. - We're gonna be rich.
- And in his last breath of air, throws it at a helicopter.
- The origin of the universe was a bang,
and in that sense, is not all of existence a bullet?
- Big bang.
- A big bang. - Theory.
(players snickering)
- Bazinga.
- Boongo. - Boongo.
- Bazoongo. - Bazoongo!
- As these snipers fire a cannon at you,
standing in the shag carpeted sort of TV room
of Lucy's house, you take the cannonball and spin.
You are the gun. The gun is you.
The cannonball is a bullet. Every bullet is a dream.
Every dream comes true. - Stop it.
- And then I turn around, and I flex my back,
and all the bullets fall out.
- Disgusting! - You flex your back.
- And they shoot.
- (mimics gunfire) Bullets explode from your back.
Every sniper, dead. Cannonball, up.
The first airplane up in the sort of bomber run
that's happening on the neighborhood, it fucking blows up.
Boom, it's gone. - Gone.
- All throughout the neighborhood, everything is on fire.
There is just flame everywhere.
- Families dead.
- Families dead?
- My family killed from what I've done.
- Your real family. - No, don't. That's not...
That's my job. Stop that.
Absolutely stop that. Don't.
We've entered a hysteria place.
So here's what happens. Let's just keep it normal.
Jack Surinam toads a bunch of bullets out of his back,
and they kill all the snipers.
Then he takes a moving cannonball,
aikido gun kata "Equilibrium" Christian Bale
and destroys a Harrier jet, and then boom,
you rush back to your family.
- I grab the helicopter.
- Stop, don't. Shut up. - Please!
- You don't talk.
It's great. I love you.
And then we don't talk. Now we're moving forward.
We are moving forward.
I promise, this has enough mustard.
Now, you rush to the attic.
There is a sleek Ferrari waiting in the attic.
Lucy whips the tarp off of it.
Johnny throws Shaun Nitro in the trunk.
This Ferrari has a trunk. You leap into the car.
There are one, two, three, four, five seats in this Ferrari.
- I grab Lucy. I kiss her hard and passionately.
I grab Russell. I kiss him hard and passionately.
- I'm getting kicked in the head.
- Three-way. - [Brennan] Three-way.
- Three-way kiss.
- Give me Hot, difficulty of four.
- Okay.
- Four? - Yeah.
- Can I do a Hot check to enjoy this kiss
without getting kicked in the head the whole time?
- Sure, yeah yeah yeah. - A one.
- [Brennan] Take a Turbo Token.
- I am bleeding out of the mouth.
- You grab your wife. You plant a kiss on her.
She goes, "Oh, Jack." Kicks you in the head.
Give me a Tough check. - Okay.
- Like a kangaroo.
- Four.
- Okay, she kicks you in the head.
You are unconscious. - Okay.
- She puts you in the trunk. She goes into the trunk-
- So I don't get to kiss Russell.
- You don't get to kiss Russell.
She's kicked you in the head already.
She puts you in the trunk, says, "That dog."
She goes into the trunk, closes the trunk behind her.
Johnny looks at all of you and goes, (sighs)
"Time to burn rubber. Let's get the hell out of here."
- All right. - You want to drive?
- Yeah, I'll take it from here.
- I buckle up, and I kind of hold
my swollen head that's been kicked so much.
And I heal.
- Dang, you look like you've been kicked a lot.
- Vic Ethanol gets behind the wheel of the Ferrari.
Give me a Drive check. Difficulty is eight.
- You might want to buckle...
(dice clattering) (player laughing)
- Might want to buckle up! - You might want to buckle-
- The car doesn't start. You might want to buckle...
- Oh, it's stick. You have to hold down the clutch.
- The battery dies. Been in the attic for a while.
- It's been up here for a while.
- Might want to buckle up.
11. - Nice.
- 11, sick.
There's that little octagonal kind of portico
that suburban attics sometimes have,
that little eight-sided, like,
ooh, little eight-sided window!
The Ferrari explodes out of it,
steering down the burning streets
of this suburban neighborhood.
- Vic, we're leaving your car. Is your dynamite in there?
- Oh yeah.
- Or does he just have it on him?
- Your car is still doing donuts.
- Right? It's still doing donuts with that stuff?
Or would we just say that you have it on you?
- No, I'll say, you take it from here,
and I push you in the driver's seat and jump into-
- No! - ...my still spinning car.
- Hell yes. You jump into the still spinning car.
- No!
- Call evens or odds.
- Let's say...
I'm gonna say even stevens. - Great show.
- Nine. (players gasp)
I'm gonna need that dynamite. - No! Fuck!
- You jump into the car, and the dynamite is gone.
(Izzy gasps)
As you wonder, where the fuck could it be?
Who could've taken it?
Jack Manhattan, with your quick healing, you wake up.
The moment you wake up, Lucy, she plants a smooch right on-
- I'm in the trunk.
- She's in the trunk too. - Aw!
- When I say stuff, guys, we gotta listen.
- She was in the trunk! - She's in the trunk.
She crawled in the trunk and closed the trunk behind her.
- Wait, is Shaun Nitro also in the-
- Yeah. He's unconscious.
She says, "That's a good boy," and hands you-
- What? - Whoa! That's all it took?
- For being a good boy.
- Woof woof, baby.
- Okay, we simply have to leave this scene.
- No! - Mm. Mm.
- [Brennan] So we go back.
- That makes me curious. - Huh. Why?
- Okay, I feel feverish and unwell.
We return to the dogfight. (sighs)
Kingskin, you are protecting Dang in this moment.
Do you attack any of the other guys
as you're protecting Dang?
- Right now, all my focus is just on Dang.
I got my back to the two assailants.
- Yeah. - My big triangle back.
- Give me two Tough checks right now, if you'd be so kind.
- Two Tough checks.
Seven.
- [Brennan] Okay.
- And six.
- Unbelievable, you fail both, so take two Turbo Tokens,
but neither of them fail by more than five,
so weapons are raining down on you
and you're just a monster.
Usha, you've just walked in and see
the fight unfolding in this way.
- I have my phone and I have another radio device.
I am fully formed as G13 right now.
Usha is kind of gone. - [Brennan] Yeah.
- I go, dogs hear at a frequency of 35,000 hertz,
and I put the two channels on- - Together?
- Yeah, to create feedback at a high frequency
to drive the dogs crazy.
- This is going to be a difficulty seven Tech check.
- 19.
- Shut your fucking mouth, bitch.
- As we have said, dogs are men.
The entire warehouse goes berserk.
- They're all dog men. - Bullets flying, stabs,
people slitting each other's throats.
A man is kicked so hard that his rib cage
flies out of his body. - Ow.
- He's dead. - Dead.
- Can I have it?
- Yep. Write rib cage on your character sheet.
- [Izzy] You have it. You have it now!
- Can I say that that frequency
reminds me of the feedback at a gig?
- Yeah. - Oh! You're immune!
- I don't want to do that quite yet.
I don't want to do that quite yet.
- [Brennan] Give me Wits two.
- I love that. - [Izzy] Shut up!
- I'm just like, it doesn't hurt your ears.
Because your eardrums are already blown.
- Yeah. It was a Wits check? - Wits two.
- Five. - Dang, it's chaos everywhere.
- Dog men! - Dogs, people going berserk,
and you see that none of the humans can hear it,
but they've agreed to be dogs and they know what's going on
so they're honor bound to freak out.
- Mm-hm. The dog show's all about honor bound.
- Honor bound! - Yeah.
- You see an open door in the back, and a way out,
a way, just away from everywhere,
away from this life, from this feeling.
There's just a way out.
In other words, I think you see a way
to not only get away from this fight,
but kind of slip away from Usha and Liv as Dang.
- Can Kingskin say something in this moment,
while he's like, two hands on Dang's shoulders?
- [Brennan] Yeah, absolutely.
- Dang? I know we haven't always seen eye to eye.
But I need you to know, I respect you.
Whatever you choose to do, I respect you.
- What does Dang do?
- I think, coupled with the (beeping)
and it's kind of numbing him out,
he's taken back to those moments at the gig where it's like,
"When you don't know what to do, you fuck shit up!"
I want everybody at home to Google, "Not Shit dash Promo,"
and press play on that video. (mimics a sick bass riff)
And he's just going to thrash.
- Give me a Brawl, difficulty of six.
- Brawl for sure, even though I have a weapon?
- Oh, if you want to go with a weapon, go with a weapon.
- Yeah, I'm going to mosh with the-
- Yeah, difficulty six. - Remember, friend.
- Can Kingskin hit the ground to avoid-
- I guess I should say, he hears it.
Dang. Thank you. - And then I hit the ground.
- Give me that difficulty six Weapons check.
- Five. I'll spend it to get to six.
- Hell yeah. Boom.
You surge forward into the crowd.
Usha, as you play this frequency, everything goes berserk.
Empresario's looking around left and right.
You mosh your way through to him,
get your hands on this. - Fuck yeah!
- No more throwing.
- Kingskin, looking around, the two dog men are like,
"Ow! Our ears, right? Ow!" and roll around,
because they can't actually hear it.
But they're going, (whimpering) "Owie!"
What do you do in this moment?
- I try to grab both of them,
one in each arm, and squeeze them together.
- Give me a Brawl check. - Okay.
- [Brennan] We'll call that a difficulty of-
- Squeeze them together, to death.
- Difficulty seven Brawl. - Seven? Okay.
Oh, it's a two. - Okay.
You grab them and give them a big hug,
but make a Hot check, difficulty seven.
- Oh no, it's a one!
- Take two Turbo Tokens. - Oh no!
- As they're like, "Get off!"
In this moment, Usha, Dang, Liv, it's chaos everywhere.
You got your hands on the MacGuffin. It's here.
The Empresario looks confused,
and suddenly you hear, (mimics sirens)
"This is the FBI! Everyone, with your hands up!"
Spot, floodlight, floodlight, floodlight fill the space,
and you just see agents
rushing into the spot in this moment.
- Excuse me, I'm FBI. 'Cause I have the badge.
- And the clothes.
- And the face that looks nothing like-
- [Brennan] His clothes popped off.
- His clothes popped off!
- Okay, this is going to be Hot 14.
- That's interesting. I don't know why you'd say that.
(Ify laughs)
Okay, you said two?
You said two.
- 14. - [Ally] Fuck!
- But I only got a two. - So you take a Turbo Token.
Kingskin and Dang, you have this moment
where you see the FBI are flooding in.
What do you do in this moment?
- Can I scan to see if there's any explosives
or any weapons I could grab onto?
- Yeah, give me Wits four. No, Wits two.
- Four.
- You see there are some guns. There's a two-handed sword.
There's a whip with a bunch of grenades on it.
- Ooh, I go for the whip with the bunch of grenades on it.
- Hell yeah. Go for it.
- And then I have Demolitions.
You may lower the difficulty of a Tech check by three
if explosives are involved. - Grenade whip does that.
- So I try to whip and just aim
for all the FBI agents swarming in.
- Hell yeah. Go ahead and give me a Weapons check.
Difficulty of this check is going to be six.
- Okay, rolling a d6.
Five, and I blow that up. (players cheering)
Three. - [Brennan] You whip.
(explosion pounds)
A ton of the agents are there. You kill a couple of them.
One of the grenades blows up on the whip.
- A couple is two? - Two, yeah. You kill two.
You kill two of the agents.
Dang, what are you doing in this moment?
You are holding onto this MacGuffin here,
and I think you see, Usha went for a Hot check,
and now the agents are surrounding her.
Kingskin is going toe to toe in combat,
now agents surrounding Liv.
You are holding onto one of these
incredibly precious MacGuffins.
You can choose to engage,
to be side by side with your friends,
but if it breaks bad, you'll all get nabbed,
as will the MacGuffin, right?
Or there's that channel to escape and get out,
but you'd be leaving your friends behind.
So it's a little bit like, do you want the MacGuffin...
If everything goes bad, you'll lose the MacGuffin again.
But if you leave them,
then they're on their own, so it's tricky.
What does Dang do in this moment?
- Hmm.
- Think about that for a minute.
Actually, we'll cut back away real quick.
Where's Vic driving the squad from Lucy Santangelo's house?
- Did we discuss that they're going to this place
before we left? - Yes, you did.
- Okay, so then I'm going to try and meet up there.
- So you are streaking in that direction,
racing through the streets of Los Angeles
to get as fast as you can to the G&G Enterprises warehouse.
Thinking about that dynamite in that other car,
you know that there were snipers on the roofs,
and one of them might have come through and grabbed it.
Give me a Wits check.
Call it difficulty five Wits check.
- What are you at with Wits?
- Six. - I can give you my 10.
- Let's go for it. - I thought he went into his-
- I'll say you guys are side by side,
streaking through the streets. - Okay, cool.
We're looking at each other while driving.
- And Jennifer's driving? - Yeah.
- Could I try and drive? - You're in the trunk.
- Can I get out? - Sure. Yeah.
- I got an eight.
- Nice! - You got an eight.
In your car, as Jennifer looks at you,
you look and notice something that Wendell
hasn't seen yet in the car, and as you look down...
(players gasping)
- [Izzy] What is it?
- It's a match from Lord's Cocktail Lounge.
- That was not in your car before.
- Well, I got our next stop after that!
(Ify and Brennan mimic engine revving)
- You take off.
Jack, you want to crawl out of the car and drive?
You want to ask Jennifer to stop driving and drive instead?
- I'm trying to blow up twice.
- Oh, you want to blow up twice?
- Yes. - Okay, so you get out.
- Oh, okay, yeah, sure. Yeah, sure, Jack.
- Sorry. - Okay, great.
So Jack, you start driving.
You see the trunk is filled with hair,
even more messy and full of wood chips,
as Lucy Santangelo goes, "That's my man,"
and you see that she's sort of resting
on Shaun Nitro's unconscious body.
Go ahead and give me a Drive check.
- Dang it! Three. Okay, whatever.
- Blow it up! - Oh yeah! Okay.
- So silly. - Okay, blow up!
- You blow up. I've found a problem with the game system.
- Three. - [Ally] Blow it up!
- You would need to spend six. - Oh, 'cause you're hurt!
- [Alex] Wait, but how many do you have?
- Hold on. Do the math. - Do the math.
- I have a lot. - You do got a lot.
- Do the math! - Do the math.
- If you have 12- - [Rekha] Yes.
- ...or more, then you should do it.
- I do have that. - You should do it.
- 15. - Dang.
- So yeah, if you spend six, you'll have nine,
and then you'll have 18 when they double.
- [Alex] 18! - [Rekha] Just do it.
- Okay. - Yeah!
- Okay, so you spend six to blow up.
- [Alex] You're spending money to make money.
- Now you have a total of 10 on this check.
You blow up again. You should now have 18 total.
Go ahead and roll that d8, which is now your Drive score.
- We've really Diesel Circused.
- Mm-hm. - One.
- One, okay. The difficulty of this roll was a two.
The difficulty was, drive somewhere in the city.
But you blow up, and hey,
you got three more tokens than you had when you started.
Not bad, not bad at all. Okay, so... (sighs dramatically)
- How you doin'?
- I feel unwell. - (laughing) Oh no!
- We cut back to the interior of the warehouse
at the Bloodbath.
Dang, what is your decision?
- I'm going to hightail it. I'm going to hightail it.
I think it's the better move,
and I feel like I could probably justify it retroactively.
- [Brennan] Yeah.
- Can I look at my watch and put it to three o'clock
and have my suit kind of become opaque
to the environment around me?
- Hell yeah, go ahead, give me Tech five.
- Nine. - Hell yeah. You go dark.
Your suit, camouflage. FBI can't get a track on you.
Saint Lawrence, secret agent of the Santo Patron,
you got a brick of cocaine in your hand
and you are invisible.
Unseen by the FBI, cloaked by the technology in your suit,
you make your way out the back door,
sprinting into the night.
Rain begins to drift down, all too uncommon in Los Angeles,
but a rare rainy night begins to cover your escape.
As you run through the streets as fast as possible,
you see a sight that means almost nothing to Greg Stocks,
but perhaps to Dang, means a great deal.
A nearby radio tower, here in Los Angeles,
the city that you never made it to in real life.
- Dang.
- Back inside of the Bloodbath, Usha, Liv,
I'm gonna need Tough checks from each of you, difficulty...
Ooh, that's 12. Blows up.
Difficulty of 21.
- (both unsure) Okay.
- Three.
- You have something to blow it?
- I do. I'm going to blow that up.
- Nice. - And then-
- None of us need tokens anymore.
- Two, so five.
- [Brennan] Cool, so you have a d6 Tough now.
- Six. - Or six.
- Six, so you fail. Take a level of injury.
- [Alex] Okay. Wait, what was the number again? 21?
- [Brennan] 21 is the Tough you're trying to beat.
- Six on a d8. I guess I'll blow it up.
- Yeah! - Nice!
- [Brennan] Yeah.
- Izzy and Ify are rich. - Yeah, I know.
(die clicks table)
- Three, so 11.
- Okay, you take an injury level as well,
and then what injury level is this?
- This is my superficial. It's my first one.
- And is it superficial for you as well?
- Yes. - Okay. Both of you are shot.
You're lit up as bullets fill the place
and you hear the FBI saying, "Surrender!
Come out with your hands up!"
In this moment, what do you do?
- Can I say,
"But I have the Shadow Falcon Protocol!"
- You absolutely can.
- And can I hold up a device
that is not the Shadow Falcon Protocol?
- I'm going to oppose this with a Wits check from them.
I'm going to roll in the Box of Doom.
- Oh no! - And we don't have that thing
where we both roll a Hot check, right?
That's not the thing we have. - No.
- Can we just have that? - Well, we will after this.
We'll have everything after this.
- Difficulty seven Sneak check. Go ahead and give me Sneak.
- (whispered) I have a d6.
(suspenseful Box of Doom music)
It's a one.
- That's really on game for Usha, though.
- You see the agents go, "We'll investigate that."
They walk over and both handcuff you.
As they come over, they take it.
- They take the fake one. - They take the fake one, yes.
- Which is a pack of Smints.
- Well, she's fully transitioning into G13,
because I was going to say it's a little Koosh ball.
I think it is just another technological device
that G13 is like,
these idiots are too fucking stupid to know.
It's like a USB stick.
- On that lower Sneak check, though,
I'm going to need you to give me a difficulty 11 Wits check.
- Why?
Six, and I have two.
- Blow it up! - So I blow this up,
and then I get to the 10.
- Eight. You just need three?
- Just need three.
- Six or nine.
- Is that a six or a nine? Six, six!
- Okay, six. You beat it.
So with your Wits,
you've stashed the Shadow Falcon Protocol,
the real one, deep in your gear.
The fake one is lifted up as you are arrested,
and the fake one is crushed.
You feel your leg becoming warm.
You turn around.
Completely naked, is Carter Haldwell.
He can't stop pissing. - And he pissed on me?
- He literally can't stop pissing.
He grabs you, pulls you close, and goes,
"What the fuck did you do to me?"
- There is a thing as being too hydrated.
He said, "What did you do to me?"
- What did you do to me?
I've been pissing gallons. I can't stop.
It doesn't even make sense. There's not enough piss in me!
- I'm just making you as uncomfortable as I always am.
- Oh, shit.
I'm sorry.
- No, I don't have incontinence.
- "Get this freak in jail!"
So, I think the Shadow Falcon Protocol and the badge,
where would you hide them in a place
where they could not find them?
- Oh! We don't need you to say it for us!
- [Brennan] Straight-up, Usha, where are they?
- As this is happening, can Kingskin calmly
walk up towards G13? - Yeah.
- And go, "Gentlemen, I'm sure this is a situation
that a little paper could-" (Ify laughs)
- You have that ability! - I have Wealthy.
Spend a Turbo Token to ease a bad situation with cash.
- [Brennan] Hell yeah. - This seems like
a very bad situation, but I just,
you know, hand him a stack and a handshake,
see what happens. - Hell yes.
You hand him a stack.
You give this naked pissing FBI agent a stack of cash.
- That's who I give it to?
- He is the agent in charge. He is in charge.
- Gentlemen.
- You see he looks at it and goes,
(liquid dribbling)
"A little donation to the Bureau, Kingskin?"
- Use it however you'd like. Maybe for that missing finger.
- Yeah. (Rekha gasps)
Yeah, I lost my finger, and I can't stop pissing.
- Never stop pissing.
- You see he goes, "All right, boys.
No need to arrest these two.
Looks like they've volunteered to come downtown
and have a little talk with the Bureau about what the fuck
the Empresario was doing here at G&G Industries.
Isn't that right,
G13? (Rekha spits)
Ow!"
(players laughing)
- A thick loogie. - It was kidney stone.
- Yeah, he goes, "Get them downtown.
They're cooperating, aren't they?"
You see one of the agents leans over and goes,
"Agent Haldwell, you need to go to a hospital right now."
And he turns around and says,
"Never tell me what to do again."
And he goes, "No, you...
It's the whole...
It's the floor of the warehouse. It's spreading.
It's like 30 feet in all directions."
And he goes, "Don't you think I know that,
you fucking idiot?
All right, get them downtown, and get me a shirt and tie!
Don't get me pants!"
(Rekha losing it)
And he storms out of here,
and the agents don't handcuff you,
but begin to lead you to a black town car
to get you down to the Bureau to talk to them.
- As we're leaving, is Doug still by the door, or has he-
- Doug is still by the door as you walk out.
- I whisper to him, pull a car near the station downtown.
We'll see you in a bit. - "You got it."
You see, as he looks at you, he also looks at you, Usha,
and goes, "Hey, can I have a hug goodbye?"
- I don't hug. - Oh my fucking god!
- "Okay." He walks away. - Hey, wait, hey.
I do a side hug for Doug.
- He gives you a little thing.
He goes, "That hurt so bad."
- Hey, don't take it personal. Don't take it personal.
- That hurt so bad.
- He's going through something.
- It's probably like a handoff situation.
- Oh, he's going to hug me to slip me something helpful?
- That's the vibe I got!
- Or take something that we don't want missing.
- Got it. Should I do that?
- It's too late. - Too late.
- I think you have to make out with him now.
Now he's insulted. - Yeah.
- I didn't read the cues. The incel vibe is taking over.
- I think that's fair.
- I think you're allowed to do whatever you want,
and there's no wrong answer.
- You made the right choice,
and I'm sorry to make you doubt that.
- Yeah, same. - I apologize.
- Can I try to call him back and give him these items?
- You're just right there.
It took three seconds, the whole interaction,
so you're still right there. - Give him what?
- Your call. I shouldn't have put that on you.
- No! - I apologize.
- I screamed, "Oh my fucking god," afterwards,
and I'm not proud of that,
because I really respect you as a player.
- I don't like the decision. (Ally cackling)
- (screams) Silent! - Okay! Okay!
- And the "Adventuring Party" starts now!
- Okay, okay. - No, you're an incel.
Someone's like, "Can I have a hug," and you're like-
- But you know what? - Don't hug me.
- What about- - [Alex] No.
- ...a firm handshake? (Ify snorts)
- Huh. Who are you, my dad?
(tragic music) - Fuck, Doug! No!
- [Rekha] He thinks about- - No, Doug!
- Doug!
- We just weren't a hug house. - Fuck, Doug!
- If this ends up just being a hug, Brennan.
Brennan!
If this ends up just being a hug for Doug,
and I've done this to Rekha, my friend...
- Because Usha is not full incel yet-
- You're going to make it just a hug! I can feel it!
- ...she gets these cues from her friends that are like,
these items might go missing.
I'm too thin, I don't have enough ass cheek
to hide this in my ass or anything.
- I now don't think we can trust Doug. Doug's being weird.
- You're giving me brain melt.
He gives you a very firm, firm handshake,
and slips these items to you.
- [Alex] Oy vey.
- Fuck me.
- Call evens or odds. - Evens.
- 12.
You see he goes, "Hell yeah, boss.
With my family, it was never just a hug."
- What does that mean?
- That means his family always had hugs
that involved slipping information.
G13 does look at Doug and has this moment,
this flash of realizing what it does look like
for someone to not have outside world connections.
It's not quite dawning on him yet,
'cause Usha is kind of becoming G13,
but there's a flash of it.
- Yeah, as you hand this away,
Doug, who you see is basically not being handled by the FBI,
he is just being sort of shunted off to local police,
who you think Doug can probably handle,
he takes this, slides it in.
You no longer have your MacGuffin.
As you slide out from there,
you and Kingskin go with the FBI downtown.
Dang, you rush off into the Los Angeles night,
the rain coming down.
Wendell, Russell, Paula.
Paula, you are driving with Jennifer riding shotgun,
your wife and unconscious Shaun Nitro in the back.
You roll up with that matchbook for Lord's Cocktail Lounge.
As you roll up, the FBI has already pulled away.
You see Doug rushing up, being like, "They got Kingskin!"
- Where are they taking him?
- You tell me.
- It's the same one! Stays green.
- [Brennan] Stays green. - Okay.
Where did they take them?
- FBI office downtown. No sign of Greg anywhere.
- All right, well, I trust that he's...
He's going to find us.
- As you look out, Doug joins you...
Cards, and you know that Dang has that cocaine somewhere.
"This is G13's. I'm not sure-"
- I'll take it. - Hands it to you.
So what's bizarre is,
you actually have four of your six MacGuffins.
They're just not with the right people right now.
- Yeah. - Mm-hm.
- You got everything you came for. The cocaine, you got.
You got the bullet casings at Jack's place.
- All right, let's get to the police...
To the Bureau offices, you guys think?
Let's go find our friends,
and I do believe Dang will find us.
- I heard-
- Yeah, you have the radios, right?
So Dang is off in the night.
Paula and Wendell have had these moments of fusion
with your action persona.
Russell, you tear off, knowing that somewhere out there,
your nephew is alone, and that Liv and Usha
have been taken in by this Agent Haldwell, by the FBI.
As you venture off, scattered once again,
four of your six MacGuffins are collected.
New dangers await here in "Never Stop Blowing Up."
And that's where we're going to end
this episode of "Dimension 20."
Tune in next week as we see if we can get
the last two of these six MacGuffins
and find Barsimmeon to get back to Lake Elsinore.
See you there. - Freaks, geeks, punks.
There's a live show tonight at the FBI parking structure.
Bring your motherfuckin' attitude.
We're getting somethin' done, motherfuckers.
- Why are you calling my husband Paula?
- Oh no! - Shut up! Shut up!
- No survivors but the homies! No survivors but the homies!
- I'm a hacker.
I'm not loyal to anybody except curiosity, okay?
- If you got something you need to do,
you better fucking do it.
- How do you start?
- One bullet at a time.
- We're 69ing? - Yeah, you're 69ing
with someone in a straitjacket on top of a table.
- Great. You two begin to 69, awesome.
- I hate this! - Owie!
- He knows where Minor Threat is! He's a fucking FBI agent!
- I just went undercover
so I could try and find Minor Threat.
- We gotta go! - Follow me!
- What? - We'll find them together!
- I'm being silly.
- You had a chance to make something of yourself,
and you threw it away!
- Is that what this is about?
- Smoke begins to fill the room.
Crack, crack, crack, crack.
- I've got a stinky, stinky fart,
ready to roll.
(chill synth music)
(chill music continues)