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the crew cuts through the basis airlock disarms the security system fights robot mimes.

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I don't think you should anything that wrong.

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No. Hi and welcome the half with history. I'm Jonathan

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and I'm Kylie.

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And this is a podcast where we talk about this week in history. But a long time ago,

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this time not so long ago. And we have a little bit of a special episode.

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Only one topic this time.

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Yeah, eso this. This week's episode is gonna be a little bit different In format in September of 1982 are a Montgomery Public published the book War With the Evil Power Master. Now, we couldn't find the exact date, so we figured the first week of September was probably good enough. So war with the evil Power Master isn't your average book. It's a choose your own adventure story. And it's recently been released in game format. Yeah, so guess what we're doing playing games. Yeah, we're gonna play a game, but first for some background on a choose your own adventure story because there was no way you were gonna get away without a little bit of history. So if you aren't familiar with them. Choose your own adventure stories, our stories, where the reader is the protagonist and has to make choices and then continue to read the story based off of those choices. The first stories of this nature were written by Edward Packard and, according to Packard, the core idea of the Siri's emerged from bedtime stories that he told his daughter's revolving around a character named Pete and his adventures. Packard stated. I had a character named Pete, and I usually had him encountering all these different adventures on an isolated island. But that night I was running out of things repeat to do so. I just asked them what they would. D'oh! His two daughters came up with different pass for the story to take, and Packard thought up an ending for each of the past. What really struck me was the natural enthusiasm they had for the idea, and I thought, Could I write this down? And he did. Packard soon developed this basic premise into a manuscript called The Adventures of You on Sugarcane Island. He set out in 1970 to find a publisher, but was rejected by nine publishing companies, which caused him to shelve the idea. In 1975 he was able to convince Ray A. Montgomery, who was co owner of Vermont Crossroads Press, to publish the book, and it sold 8000 copies, which is a pretty large amount for a small local publishing house. The Siri's was later marketed to Pocketbooks, where also sold Wow, but Montgomery believed that it would feel better if a bigger publisher could be found. So after some discussion, Montgomery was able to make a contract for the series with Bantam Books. Packard A. Montgomery were selected to write books for the series, including The Contracting Out of Titles. Two additional authors. The famous phrase Choose Your Own Adventure was born when Ted Packard sold his second and third books. The second call, Deadwood City, was a Western saga, and junior editor Dinos Stevenson was given the assignment to create a jacket line that would explain this unfamiliar Lula unfamiliar narrative style to readers. Stevenson came up with a choose your own adventure in the Wild West. The phrase was adapted for the next title with a tagline. The Third planet from Altair. Choose your own adventure in outer space, the Siri's of interactive game books initially had only so so sales until some genius and marketing had the idea to seed AH, 100,000 books toe libraries across the country overnight, the books became hugely popular between 1979 in 1999 the Serie sold over 250 million copies worldwide and was translated into 38 languages. That

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a lot.

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Yeah, it is. It's pretty impressive. The original classic Choose Your Own Adventure series contained 184 game books authored by 30 different writers. So Montgomery Packard and then 28 different people, essentially, although looking I looked at like a list of them, and Packard in Montgomery were pretty steadily like prominent like they wrote a lot of that. Yeah, so the books were setting locations around the globe, in outer space, under the sea and in a number of distinctly imagined fantasy worlds. Over the course of his publication, Choose Your Own Adventure featured every known literary genre. The last new original title of Syria's was released by Bantam in 1998 when Bantam, now owned by Random House, allowed to choose your own adventure, trademarked a lapse, the series was relaunched by Choose Co. Which now owns a trademark and shoes code, was founded in 2003 by author and Siri's founder, Aria Montgomery, and his wife, author Shannon Gillian. Choose Code does not reissue tiles by Packard, who has started his own imprint You ventures. So he does his own thing now, Yeah, choose your own adventures, you center choices have been cited as an influence in numerous games and media that followed. The Siri's, including Japan's popular Beach, Be should do video games mass effect, too, and form soft adventure player. It has also been credited with, credited with the heightened popularity of role playing games including Dungeons and Dragons. Yeah, and in addition, is mainstream popularity. Choose your own adventure has been sighted by numerous educators as a uniquely effective method for helping students learn to read. The serious has documented popular appeal for the reluctant reader due to its interactivity. So getting kids who aren't super inclined to reading to make decisions and stuff is a really good way to get them involved, which is great. So in June of 2018 Z Man games, issued a license cooperative board game called Choose Your Own Adventure House of Danger, which was inspired by Ari Montgomery's book in the series, also titled Passenger. The second installment of the semen games is War With the Evil Power Master, which is the game we will be playing. And then so a little side note. On January 11th 2019 Choose co initiated the trademark trademark infringement legal challenge against Netflix for the film Black Mirror. Bandersnatch Choose co. Claims it had trademarked the phrase an association with movies, books and other forms of media, and that Netflix and start negotiations with Choose Cohen, 2016 to license the phrase for films and animate Siri's. But they didn't follow through. Netflix has sought to have the suit, some summarily dismissed on a number of grounds related to trade Mart law and fair, fair use allowances. But so far there's been, like no decision made. So I guess if you start your own adventure story, don't use the phrase Choose your own adventure.

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But we will not be titling the episode that

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Nope. Now, without further ado, we bring you our adventure into war with the evil power Master

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s o for you. You guys listening? This is just a general rundown of how the game works. What happens? We got a board in front of us that has a few different planets and on each planet is a signal that our characters have to find while they adventure on the planet. If they don't find a signal, most likely they're going to either exhaust all the all of the story on that planet, or we might lose the character to going through. Apparently, death is a thing in

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this apparently death of really big thing. But also when I was researching and I also saw that getting stuck in loops were like, You just keep failing and you can't go to something new essentially mean that you just have to start all over. And

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yet, so if this well, that's the story. That's how these things go. What sees? So there's two gauges the E P M Meter, which is the evil power master meter. And as he completes his quest, he's going to gain power until he gets to a certain number, which is 25. And if he gets there before we d'oh! His evil plan goes through in our characters after try and stop him. If we get there before he does. We find him before his evil power goes through and we still gotta fight. Yeah, so basically, we'll be going from place to place. If you're familiar with role playing games, there's some stats. There's piloting dexterity, diplomacy, and I think strength. Yeah, that's an perception. Oh, yes, yeah, there's another one. Yep, piloting diplomacy, dexterity, perception and strength. Each of our characters that will be playing has some bonuses and some minuses, which will make them good. The way this game works is no other character can make an action until all of them have, or make a second action until everyone has made in action. So that might guide sum of our choices. If you think we're like, Well, why aren't you using Commander Chen? She's so strong or whatever. It's like we can't She's an active. So for the purpose of our game, I will be being the narrator, reading off the different cards that were prompted to go to a CZ. We explore planets. Kylie will be playing Terra and Commander Chen, who will get into a little bit more later, and I will end up also playing Dante and flipped it. There's only one vowel in that, and it's in

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the very end.

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Very end. So, yeah, let's just get into it. Let's read off our characters and we each get a starting item as well.

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All right, you go first. Sure you want to do one, and then I'll do one.

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Yeah, I'll go first. I'll start with a a a JJ No birthplace. Love whose occupation I wouldn't growing. Bio terrorist companion. One very humanlike eye, which is kind of you. Very humanlike eyebrow. No, no, it's also kind of Well, the bandages you worked busily disappear back inside of me because they came

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out. That's unnerve ing. My strengths are I am an excellent pilot study. Had Dude can take others Good. Good luck. I think that's the most important. Kenny D. J. Our wedding. Yes. I can't fly like

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this is. However, Do you include Port of Perception? Just fight human like I, which is still kind of freaky. I give painful hugs with my many articulated appendages. I held a bad dancer and did not even do a lot. You also know So that is Dante. Dante has a plus one to piloting a plus one to diplomacy. A negative +12 dexterity and negative one to strength.

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He has no arms, generally speaking,

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and Dante's starter item is low. Cooney and Action ointment you a tube filled with energizing goo manufactured on glucose After challenge role, I can discard this card to rule again and at the first and add the second roll to my first role to make the challenge total

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Nice. That's handy. All right. So I will be playing me and voice acting or not friends. So here goes. I don't think. Tara. Age 35. Birthplace, Earth occupation. Laconi and Congresswoman Bio. I am a decorated veteran of the Purple Days war. I have much wisdom and much experience, and I don't take no shit from no one. I'm always effective, always in control, always there to slap you out of it, whatever it may be. And I'm usually right. That's very fitting, right? No, My strengths are I am diplomatic. I'm proactive. I am calm under pressure, and I have some awesome whoops and hollers. Yee ha! I regret that. So much to get Whoa! Uh,

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that was not an awesome moving holler.

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Well, it's the best I got no, Uh, my witnesses are I am irritatingly competent. I am secretly smug. Overly. I give overly strong handshakes, and I never have time for this or that. Oh, and I never have time for this. I can't read. Overly confident. Yes. And Gary And her starter item is the Proxima Centauri Centauri pain reducer. It mitigates the pain by swallowing the contents of this bottle. Discard this car during a challenge to reduce the challenge level by one. All right, cool ice. So that would be super handy for the harder challenges.

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My last character is fruit.

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Still funny. Fruit,

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too, is there's 30 Birthplace. Mars Occupation is the pilot, computer analyst and bond villain. My bio is I have a teammate of Chen are rock a pair of shorts like no one's business, two toes on each foot and three fingers on each hand. We're not reading the collected works of Earth. Oscar Wilde. Often I will peruse books from exotic planets more storing for Arman taught I highly intelligent and analytical good with machines and electronics, and I have a cool desk. My weakness is his. I'm dispassionate, prone to pontificate, addicted to candy and good

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very nice.

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I have a perception of plus one a piloting a plus one and dexterity of minus one and a diplomacy off minus one. And ah, flip to has the hey mog karma inducer device created on hammock that hastens car Matic retribution in any situation. Discard this card when you lose a challenge to reduce any e p m meter movement penalty to zero.

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Okay, I'm Mr Bond. Tara, Tara has a What is that? Symbol Diplomacy. Diplomacy of plus one. A dexterity of plus one. A perception of minus one and a piloting skill of minus one. All right, so last but not least, we have Commander Chen. I have to get into my chest voice for my days as an alto

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chest voice is sexy. Way to put that.

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Well, it's all I've got. Okay. Your 00 no. Okay.

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Lean back when we laugh. That was bad.

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Commander Chen, age 22. Birthplace Le Couscous Occupation Primary unit Commander of the Lagoon Ian System Rapid force. Her biography so young yet entrusted with so much responsibility. Ah, bit of a hothead wants action now and analysis later. She has never been to Earth represented. Look who's in the Laconia and System Kick Boxing Championship and got walloped by a guy from Fulop. Her strengths are she is decisive, forthright, action oriented, good and physical up altercations. However, her weaknesses are rushing in without thinking. She is quick to anger, afraid of bugs and germs, and is untraded in phyllo pee in kick boxing styles. She has a plus one to strength and dexterity and a minus one to display Massie and piloting.

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Awesome. Now that we know the character, let's hope

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we forgot our starter item. So commission has the void of Nero shelterbelt. It is a personal force field from the Purple Days. Warm. Discard this card before a challenge to automatically win the challenge without rolling. That's a good card for super handy. Ha ha! All right. Okay. Sorry for this.

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Let's get into the story. Yes, the Laconia in Congress,

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The evil power master is back,

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Shouts Commander Chen Thio, his green skin Martian friend.

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Hello mentions, Dude, we should have paid more attention, I think. And he's still doing his evil thing.

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Chen Han's flip toe, a message that just came into Rapid Force Command from a remote sector of the vast Laconi in system. The news is grim. Sudden total destruction of planet Mars. Xena set door 31-47-89 Evil power Master claims responsibility. Have a nice day. Flipped out crumbles the paper message in its three fingered fist, his usual Martian self control replaced by anger. Did you expect anything else, Commander? He demands. We both knew he would be back doing his evil flame.

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I hoped we had destroyed him in the Purple Days war, Chen says. So many lives lost so much carnage, so much purple.

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The rapid force officers sit in silence, remembering how the evil power master rallied the renegade planets that were denied entrance to Laconi in System Alliance and lead them in rebellion.

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His powers must be strong again,

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Chin says, breaking the silence.

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Or he would never have attacked.

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What order

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Carl, All unit commanders to meet with the Laconia in Congress, Trends says, we must plan for our defense and maybe Mountain attack

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Chan and flipped a lead the other unit commanders to Laconi. In Congress, countless voices fill the great hall, speaking hundreds of languages. The dread in their eyes is clear. Every conversation is about the evil power master doing a new evil thing. Chen meets with Tara, the congressional spokesperson. Tara is respected for her firmness and wisdom in Congress and for being a fierce veteran of the Purple Days. Lord.

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I knew that evil drip wouldn't stay quiet for long,

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Star says Before Chen can reply, the great hole is silenced by booming metallic voice. It is the voice of the evil power Master. Give up, you fools. Your time has gone. Masina is just a taste of my power. Give me total control of the system, or more planets will perish, including hammock, a roof and F. You have three days to comply. The hall erupts in chaos, with representatives from across Laconi and systems all rushing to contact their home worlds. Rapid force is on their own now. Terror is smiling, however.

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Come with me, she says. This may be our break.

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Chen is confused, but he trust terror. She saved his butt more than once during the war, and he'd like to continue to keep his but intact. Tara takes Chan and flip toe to the computer room, where her one eyed one eyebrow droid Dante sits in front of a council, Dante cries Evil. Our master's message. Terrorist smile fades almost. He built a message through nine planets, says Dante. You're one of those nine. You have to flip that. Looks at the read about. The signal was too weak to pinpoint his location, he says, grabbing the last sinister bagel from the table.

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Then it will be like looking for an evil needle among nine haystacks,

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Chen says, his stomach growling

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or a bacterium brewing among nine gigantic Cinna star

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bagels flipped a shoots. Chen aside, I you're not giving one bite of this bagel, he hisses.

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No time for bagels,

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snaps Tara.

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We need to boost that single

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flip those forehead wrinkles. If we visit the planet where you will Power Master has been we can collect more transmission data, he says. I can move the dirt up designing algorithm from boost the signal.

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Then we can find him,

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says Tara.

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Flip Flip and I will head out on the fizzle. It says Jen, Dante and I are coming to, says Tara. Four heads are better than two,

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says Dante, and this Bible is gone, says flip toe polishing off the last bite. So now we get to determine our starting planet by rolling the dice I two times the first roll determines the column of our board that the planet is in and the second roll determines the row. So let's roll. Four. So we're in the middle column? Yes. And that is a six. So we're in the bottom row, so that is the planet. Hey, ma. Okay, which is one of the ones that could be destroyed. So good luck to us. Start the game by placing our silver, but placing our ship mover on the planet in that column and row and reading the first car to that planet story deck. Okay, so, hey, Ma gift the e p m meters eight or higher. Skip this card and go to a mock story card. Six it is. Our meter is nowhere, right? Zero fizzle. It flies through the bright and blue skies over Hey Ma. Homeworld of the Chris Alec People glittering crystal spires tower over cut glass Cities in the shores of freshwater sees sounds gorgeous. Vast plains stretch across the continents, feeding the planet with their bounty while courts mountains transformed into solar energy. Collectors beam power around the world. The evil power master has targeted Hagen log for destruction. So the crew arrives to search for clues to what they can do to prevent the loss of the gleaming Jewell of Akunin system.

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We don't have much to go on,

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Tara says. Is Dante pilots the ship?

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Any ideas about what? The evil ones up? Teoh,

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who I live, actually says flipped up based on suspicious activity reported to rapid force. First, the magnetic resonance of the crystalline structure of in English. Police says Chen. Evil power master Break Planet with magnets, says Flip toe.

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The other idea.

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Tara ass Ignoring the Martian snotty tone flipped. Oh, takes a deep breath as if ready to launch into another long scientific explanation, but then looks at Chen sighs and says a roomy but bomb. Chen grins and steeples his fingers against this gin.

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If they have a bomb, let's just say I have a little something that will be a real kick in the pants. They won't know what hit them. They'll be drinking punch. This better not be about cake, boxing

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interrupts. Tara

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had to interrupt myself

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guys, so we get a free item drop data card. 1 57

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Who I like free. Free is for me.

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So we get the bomb handling gloves. So I believe those go to Commander Chen.

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All right. These are made for handling bombs, says Chen, but I use ones just like them in my kickboxing. I'm pretty good. Keep this challenge. Booster Finish Haimang Story card one. All right

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to investigate. Flip those magnet theory we go to Hey, mock story card to to investigate. Flip those big bomb theory we goto. Hey, mug story card, 11 magnetar bombs. I am playing the pilot and the person in question, so I think it is up to commander to choose that one.

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Oh, no. I'm thinking maybe we should make these decisions together. Okay. It does say in the instructions to make decisions together.

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Um well, you got bomb handling gloves, so I feel like that would be good to D'oh.

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All right, let's go to story card. 11 then. Okay, I'm down. Down. I was gonna see Dr Cloud and then regretted it. So

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wait. Dante lands the ship at a research station in the crystal Meth canyon.

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They drill into the mantle here.

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Says Tara

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to study Hey, mox geology,

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Security reported. Runoff allies access to the drilling room at flipped, maybe to plant a bomb. Chen ass flipped on odds. Ah, hail bomb set off in the mountain crew fracture. Hey, Moke. Ah, Holding Krystle. It's guard looks to the entrance. Bias word. He rumbles. Despite the rapid force credentials, Tara shoves in his face. He does not budge. I asked word. He says, Again, Dante pushes the humanoids out of the way. Is the password he asked. The guard nods in rolls out of the way. As Dante Chuckle beefs Theo, elevator takes them to a room dominated by a large hole. A crane extends over the whole, holding a thick cable that descends out of sight. Flip toe activates the winch to reel in the cable, the cable stops at the end. A large bundle is attached to the drill. The bundle is ticking. Can we defuse it, Chen, as required. Challenge Defuse the bomb. If we win, we raise a signal tracker by two and draw data 34. If we lose, we raise the evil power Master meter by two and draw data card 41.

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All right,

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so our challenge level is four right now. Who do we want to do it? Chen has four. Chan has the power gloves. I think this is the good stuff. Yeah. I don't think we're

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gonna hold on to this because I think this will probably be fingers crossed. Not the hardest thing will encounter.

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Yeah, we don't need to use the void of Nero shelterbelt.

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Yeah, but we will use the bomb handling gloves, I think. Yeah. Does that make sense? All right.

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Bomb handling gloves actually do

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think, um, yeah. So you

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that perception is it? Yeah. So we have a strength challenge

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that gives perception. All right, so I guess we don't need the bomb handling gloves.

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Yeah. What's this about? Oh, okay. So we can just use us at any time. He doesn't have to be for this, so

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Yeah. Okay, so I guess we won't use that then. I have a plus one to strength, so we

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gotta get a four or higher meets. It beats

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aches. I want So that's six. We did it.

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All right, so if we win, we raise our signal tracker by two in draw data cards. Razor signal tracker by to pay

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a 12

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and we get data card 34.

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Who? Data card 34 is the big bad bomb. Inside the bundle is a cluster bomb with a readout counting down from 10. The crew randomly yanks out wires. Suddenly the ticking stops. Unbeknownst to the crew, this has prevented the evil power master from destroying. Hey, Mog. Hey, finish a mock story card 11 Keep this card.

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This is card 11. So to examine the transporter Goto record three. Oh, yes. Oh, with the bomb handled, Chen glances at the Trans that the Tele transporter in the corner.

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Should we find the bomber?

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He asked Goto Story card three Dante and flip to examine the Tel A transporter left behind by the evil power Masters. Minion,

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what do you think it will take us

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Tara ass into a trap? Most definitely. Says Chen as he leans in to examine it, flipped out opens a small panel on the top. Inside, he finds a set of dials and a monitor showing coordinates. Book Terminus is in a warehouse district near Hey, MOCs Mainspring report. He says

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this is our chance to catch the world busters before they clear out of here.

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Says Tara

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can't wait to get my hands on those guys,

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says Chen, smacking his fist into his palm. Jen gestures retired to go first, just to be shrivel risk. But Tara, ever respectful, offers the privilege to chat. Following several after use, Dante throws his many hands in the air and rolls onto the tele transporter disappearing. Figuring an unknown fate is better than watching this flip toe follows. And then, with a sigh, Taro holds her nose and jumps onto the platform. I'll take up the rear, announces Chen to no one and jumps onto the device. If we have data card 41 go to Hey, mock story card five If we do not have data card. 41 Goto Hey Mark Story, Car 12. We do

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not have did occurred. 41

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to 12. We go So many cards. Three group materializes inside a small dark store room. The door is slightly ajar. Chen glances around, his body's finished popping into place. Bare shelves lined the walls. Empty boxes like neatly on shelves or crushed on the floor. See anything? Chen, whispers Satara, who is peering through the door. Tara shakes her head.

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No, but I hear voices and feet shuffling in the distance. We better hurry, Chen hisses. Looks like they

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packed up quickly. Tara slips through the door, blaster in hand, followed by Dante Chan and flipped out, draw their weapons and follow a bank of windows. Looks out onto the docking area, where a group of reptilian Denno see its pack up a transport ship. An argument breaks out over whether to fold the evil power Masters case or to roll one pairs off another's tail and whacks him over the head. With

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my good

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tailoring grows and the attack party yanks off the assailants finger in flicks it at Um, yeah, staying low. The cruise sneaks stores the doc to take the bickering minions by surprise. Required Challenge. Ambush the Minion. So we had Chen do it before drinking. This is strength one again, and no one else has strength. Let's see if anyone has so not gonna be Dante. Dante has a negative to strength.

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All right, you, you, Tara Tara does not have a negative to strength between does I have wait,

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just jamming tar and flip toe so we'll do flipped out. So that

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all right? Yeah, it is your turn

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this time. Yeah, yeah. Okay, So if I beat a four, we're still on for for challenging God, I don't have a negative to strength. That's a five.

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Who? It was almost a

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one on one it. When we win, raise the signal tracker by two and draw data. 37.

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New crew throws open the doors and rushes through, firing two of the arguing din O C and Rip Reptile. Lloyd's fall immediately as the other three look for their assailants before they can read. React to more. Drop to the floor with holes in their chests As the crew advances. The last reptile considers the effectiveness of its wicked claws against four assailants and slowly raises its arms in dejected surrender. Draw Data card. 39

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39. The Krystle ISC metal wth ecru hands the lizard over to the hey mock security for Saving Hammock. The crew is awarded the Krystle IQ metal containing a psychic crystal. These medals are much sought after on loop. Look who's nice. Keep challenge card booster in draw date of 19 eyes also gives us a perception bonus. Cool. Oh, we did it, guys! Yea, data find the new No Zeon ship contains logs of communications between the reptiles and the evil power master, which can improve. Flip Does tracking Algren ism algorithm turned over the disc in Raise a signal tracker. The amount shown if any character has one or more of the following data, raise a signal tracker an additional amount of times. If we have data 32

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that's 31

spk_1:   30:41
31 If we have starting things six. And if we have data 66. So we have starter for we have started six. So we've got started six. And

spk_0:   30:54
don't think we have 31 or 6000

spk_1:   30:56
31 1 of those that were true. No. No. Okay, so we don't have 31 or 66. Do have starting item six, which means we get a plus three fillets. It's a nine. Heck, yeah. So we go up.

spk_0:   31:10
1234567891230 dear. We just totally by past challenged over five.

spk_1:   31:18
Yeah, we're

spk_0:   31:18
just game. Much may be much shorter than the suggested 60 minutes of the game box.

spk_1:   31:23
That's fine. Our episode is already at 43 minutes.

spk_0:   31:27
All right. Good for us.

spk_1:   31:28
also remember the Power master could win everything else from here on

spk_0:   31:31
Also. True.

spk_1:   31:32
Yeah, Cool. So choose a new planet to explore.

spk_0:   31:37
All right,

spk_1:   31:37
so put these back. So from hey, Ma, we have the choice of going Thio. Look who's we haven't yet. We have the choice of going to Proxima Centauri, where we have the choice of going to a roof.

spk_0:   31:51
I think let's go to a Ruth because it's signal booster power thing. Looks like

spk_1:   31:56
it's a mediator. Yeah, and then we'll have a choice of either going to a really hard one or an easy one from there.

spk_0:   32:02
So while we travel were allowed to redistribute our items, Is there anything that we want toe switch out? I'm thinking we're all supposed to keep our starter items

spk_1:   32:11
so we should just keep our starter items. This one is a plus three to perception and flip toe already has a good bonus for perception. We're not going to a planet that needs perception.

spk_0:   32:23
True, it needs piloting in dexterity.

spk_1:   32:26
U s oh, I almost think we should give some the perception item to someone who doesn't have good perception.

spk_0:   32:31
Tari doesn't have good perception.

spk_1:   32:34
Dante's fine So what doesn't have? All right, So we should probably give the Crystallex metal to Tara in case she ends up having to do a perception.

spk_0:   32:44
All right. And do we want to give the plus two to someone who doesn't have any bonuses? Like either? Dante has no pluses, and Chen has no pluses, but they don't have any

spk_1:   32:53
minuses either. True. Um, let's see. Are we going to perception anytime soon? We could for the void of Nero. Um, let's give the let's give the gloves to commander chat, because likely we won't use Commander Chan on the next one. And we might use a month. And the one after

spk_0:   33:12
that we will get another chance when traveling to redistribute you. So if we change our minds, it gives you that.

spk_1:   33:17
Okay, so we're going to a Ruth

spk_0:   33:21
and r E P M. Meter goes up by two.

spk_1:   33:24
Yep. So the evil power master always makes progress during which is a little irritating fizzle. It slows down from light speed next to the car path. A space frigate sent to survey the destructive the destruction of a Ruth. Apparently the evil power master made good on his word. and destroyed the planet. Oh, no, we were duly. Oh, said that way too close.

spk_0:   33:49
Sorry, guys. Sorry. Oh, no. Re chose poorly,

spk_1:   33:54
which is now in the field of debris that hauntingly orbits an unknown center

spk_0:   33:59
that's still upsetting. Oh, no.

spk_1:   34:01
The crew boards and meets with commander rostrum who grudgingly gives Dante in flip to computer access. Free item drawed data 65 Remote mainframe access device This device allows. WiFi accents were using WiFi to the car pass mainframe computer. Keep this challenge booster finish a ruse story card intro. It gives another perception plus one. We are loaded on perception.

spk_0:   34:28
Let's give it a Dante that he has a plus two perception if he needs it. Way. Lots of perception. What's up with that? Yeah, now wondering if they're all perception.

spk_1:   34:37
No, I can't not sure why. Rapid forces here says rostrum. There's no planet left for lawbreakers to inhabit. Commander Chen considers the body bags stacked in the bay before replying.

spk_0:   34:52
We won't be here long, he says. We're looking for anything to help us find evil Power, Power Master and make that no good lowlife pay.

spk_1:   35:00
As Tara Rostrum points to the ring field of breeze on the view screen. You see anything useful out there? Nothing of a roof but bodies and rubble. Fascinated, says Flip toe, which earns him a glare. That is, rules require a gravity. Well, he continues, when a roof of destroyed, why did it to the breeze disperse into space periods? Game hitting that Ali in the center, says Dante Thedc, Our path can't get close enough to investigate, says rostrum, were too big to chance it.

spk_0:   35:35
We can help with that,

spk_1:   35:37
Chen says. Roll Schultz, flip toe Noticing something out of the window. Nerva Forward suite. One of those stop gawking Martian yells. Rostrum! He looks at Chen. Yours is an undisturbed planned command. I mean, he's wearing shorts and a vest. Disgraceful! Chen's face turns bright red as he opens his mouth to deliver a devastating retort, but flipped. Oh, saves a situation. Splinters detects place squid entering the vicinity, Commander Ross, from Sir Flipped, Oh, says in his most formal tone. Red alert calls Ross Room. The car pass crew scrambles to the station's time for you for to leave. If you intercept the space squid, goto a roost story. Seven. If you investigate the gravity anomaly. Goto a roof story card three. Do

spk_0:   36:25
you want to fight a space squid or investigate a gravitational anomaly?

spk_1:   36:30
Our characters right now are saying maybe maybe space squid because I've got I've got, um, piloting is Dante and you have dexterity. Is Tara

spk_0:   36:39
all right? I'm down.

spk_1:   36:41
Yeah, and those are the two things that we need for this thing. I think I think we go to space. Squid

spk_0:   36:45
hasn't say I feel bad leaving them to fight a face space squid all on their own.

spk_1:   36:49
But I don't think roster really cares about.

spk_0:   36:51
No, I don't think he does. But I also kind of want to rub it in his face when we save his ass.

spk_1:   36:55
High space with story cards seven. The crew returns to their own ship. What the heck is a space squid? Chen asked, says Dante. Helpful flipped out. Taps the controls to start the engines. There were after space battles to feed on organic, organic fraught. Some

spk_0:   37:17
You mean bodies,

spk_1:   37:18
says Tara. Chen shudders at the site of a gigantic monster eating a roost. Eight billion dead.

spk_0:   37:23
We should help Rostam destroy it, Chen says. Whether he wants our help or not by Laconi in law. We should protect it,

spk_1:   37:31
says Tara. Chen slams his fist on the consul, causing a clacks onto Blair. He jabs at the button several times before he manages to shut it off.

spk_0:   37:41
What should we do?

spk_1:   37:42
He asks.

spk_0:   37:43
Tell rostrum to stand down while we talk to a squid.

spk_1:   37:47
Scientific reports indicate this place Boyd or hardly intelligent says, flipped out, and we communicate through hyper. For Nick Emery, Chen stares of the monitor the space squid jets ever closer to the debris ring, leaving clouds of black droplets behind. If we talk to the space squid, goto a root story card. Four. If we fight the space squid good a roost story card, and

spk_0:   38:10
I I feel like we should talk to it.

spk_1:   38:13
That's the DND drew it in you.

spk_0:   38:14
Yes, it is very heavily.

spk_1:   38:17
Here we go talking to the space squid to story card, for I feel like this will not do anything for us in the power.

spk_0:   38:24
Nope, I think we're gonna lose this one. I guess Tara is right. Jin says. Even space squids have space rights. I'll try to buy us some time with the rostrum,

spk_1:   38:38
says Tara Dante opens a radio channel well flipped out, drops beneath the consul

spk_0:   38:43
car path. Stand down,

spk_1:   38:45
Tara says into the microphone.

spk_0:   38:46
We have a plan.

spk_1:   38:48
You have 60 seconds. Aisa Li Chen looks under the console.

spk_0:   38:53
Whatever you're doing down there, flip though, do it quicker.

spk_1:   38:56
Put the Yanks out the wires, licks, ends and reconnects the re roaring hyper for rickon booster through the impulse housing, he says. Arkan soft, cool to do death, more translator and produce life messages.

spk_0:   39:10
Just tell me when it's done,

spk_1:   39:12
Chen says. Rubbing his temples. Gun says, flipped out. I asked the squid to leave for we may bury our dead. Chan and Tara are stunned as the squid turns to depart.

spk_0:   39:23
Would be nice if it could get the gravity device for us first,

spk_1:   39:27
Chen says facetiously. Ono flipped. Oh, taps out a new message required. Challenge asked the squid for help. So after old diplomacy

spk_0:   39:39
Oh, hey, look at me.

spk_1:   39:40
We need to get a six or higher on diplomacy. Oh, boy, that's definitely going to be Tara. Okay, so we have something that we could do. The cart the thing by one.

spk_0:   39:52
Yes. So the person most Centauri pain reducer that is Taurus. Starting item can reduce the challenge level by one. So we have to roll a five or higher.

spk_1:   40:02
Okay. And, um, Dante, who is still active, has a Laconi and action ointment, which is a tooth filled with energizing goo manufacturing Locos. After a challenge, roll discard this card and roll again to add the second roll to your first role so way we might be able to use the loo. Cooney. And actually, because Dante still active,

spk_0:   40:21
I would prefer to hold on to this

spk_1:   40:23
one. Yep. Belt thing. This one lets you add another roll. It's like advantage. This one is discard this card when you lose a challenge and reduce any e p m meter movement by zero. So, like, challenge. So we would still have thio go through. Oh, this is just raised the PM meter in another character tries. Okay, so this is just keep trying until you win.

spk_0:   40:48
All right? So I guess we'll

spk_1:   40:50
definitely Taro.

spk_0:   40:51
Yeah, we'll go with Tara. So I'm gonna roll and then hope I don't have to use enough have used

spk_1:   40:55
six or better that that's a one. Ouch. So let's use the Laconia anointment roll again add to your role. So you'd have to roll a five. Or you, after all, a four. Plus you're one.

spk_0:   41:13
Yeah, because I have. Technically, I have to. Yeah. Four,

spk_1:   41:17
four plus a one that meets it. Beats it. Yes. So we used our Laconi and action ointments that's gonna go away. And that lets us add our first ice roll to our second. So we added, Thank goodness. So we added 1 to 4. Um, and then, um, Tara has a plus ones. That gives one more. So we hit six.

spk_0:   41:37
Who? Oh, you had a plus one. Diplomacy also. Yeah. Alright, cool. We did it

spk_1:   41:42
by by our Laconi anointment.

spk_0:   41:44
Well, it was hard

spk_1:   41:46
fought. Yes, we win. Continue reading below the squid jets to the center of the ring returns and offers the crew a strange device.

spk_0:   41:56
Oh, dear.

spk_1:   41:57
Draw Data card 59. All right. The gravity engine. A weird gizmo pulses with a mysterious glow. There is a serious black market for these things on the void of Nero. Keep this challenge, Mr Card, and go to a Ruth story card 11. Alright. Targets that. Okay, that's dexterity. Which is good too. Thing says Dante that Chen size the droid has been tinkering with the device for an hour while flip toe has droned on about flavored quarks, strange moons and a playful buffet he sampled once in the grass is prime. That sounds

spk_0:   42:35
ominous. What is it, Dante?

spk_1:   42:37
Jen s.

spk_0:   42:38
And please use small words,

spk_1:   42:42
says Dante. Tears matter apart and rebuilds it as particles of pure gravity flipped. Oh, explains Chan. Antara stare. It flipped out there, Mel. Slack changes. Says Dante.

spk_0:   43:00
That thing destroyed a Ruth with gravity.

spk_1:   43:02
Tara ass. Well, can't do it again. Chen esque know. Says flipped out. It was missing an impulsive marble. A pivotal component of the device.

spk_0:   43:15
Any idea where the evil power master sent this? Adam from

spk_1:   43:19
estara track two days else. Hi. System says Dante. Draw data card 70 data. Fine.

spk_0:   43:30
Who

spk_1:   43:30
we done it?

spk_0:   43:32
Good. We're making good choices, dude.

spk_1:   43:33
Yeah. A scan of the area where the transmission originated reveals an abandoned space station. The transmission The transmission data gets added to the tracking. Albert turned over the disc and raise a signal tracker by the amount shown. Seven, if any character has one or more of the following data raised the tracker. An additional amount shown. If we have number 66 I don't think we D'oh!

spk_0:   43:56
Not to my knowledge.

spk_1:   43:58
If we have starting item 13 Hey! Starting him six. No way. Had four. We had four. Or if we have item 26

spk_0:   44:10
way were so close. We're only two away from winning.

spk_1:   44:14
Oh, my goodness. From fighting the evil?

spk_0:   44:17
Yes, that. But I consider it winning.

spk_1:   44:20
We choose a new planet to explore.

spk_0:   44:24
All right,

spk_1:   44:24
we have the void of Nero, and we have Ragnar as link with kroehner. But alright, kroner. We might as well go to Kroehner. Sure, because it's it's an easier Well, it's not easier because we're in challenge rating six.

spk_0:   44:40
I will also say that both Tarin Cheddar inactive.

spk_1:   44:43
Oh, yeah. So we only have Dante. So Dante's abilities, air piloting in diplomacy, piloting works in the void of Nero. Neither work in kroner. Kroner, right. We have, um, way

spk_0:   44:57
have all those things that up perception reception. He's bad, a dexterity and his bad its strength. So I think we should go to the void of Nero because at least he's gonna piloting.

spk_1:   45:08
Yeah, and let's give him the really strong perception because he's probably gonna have to make the 1st 1 I say, Let's give all to him. No, because we still want them to Other people have things. Okay, so let's

spk_0:   45:20
give the one back,

spk_1:   45:21
um or give it, Let's give it to flip. Flipped out. He doesn't have anything right now. So flipped out is gonna get the remote mainframe access device. Umm Dante was just given the chrysalis metal

spk_0:   45:32
and Chen has the bomb handling gloves,

spk_1:   45:35
and Taro took the gravity engine.

spk_0:   45:36
Yep, she has dexterity. Chen doesn't have a minus dexterity, Earth to perception, but he has a plus there. He doesn't have a plus, but he doesn't have a minus. So he's just like a natural. So let's get

spk_1:   45:48
and we're headed to the void of Nitro. So let's move. Even Nero. Let's move that power master up to

spk_0:   45:55
He's that for, uh, what a slowpoke I know we're two away from the boom, so boom, baby, void of Nero do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do do do do do do Theo

spk_1:   46:18
Theo, void of Nero. Reports of a strange energy beam lead the crew to the space frigate mental patrolling the edge of the void of Nero flipped, Oh, convinces Commander Chan to use the Tel a transporter two boy board. The mental. Even though the commander has always hated being de material de materialized.

spk_0:   46:39
I don't think I realized that that's what it did, and now I'm freaked out a little bit by it.

spk_1:   46:43
I mean, it's just like a Star Trek.

spk_0:   46:44
Beam me up, Scotty.

spk_1:   46:46
That's what happened in Star Trek. That's true. Sure enough, when he re materializes on the meant in the process proves less than perfect again. It

spk_0:   46:55
sounds like Star Trek. I can't get a moving target. Galaxy quest. Oh, yeah. Oh, that was bad. But they did that. A Star Trek that's like the princess in the first. The first like new movie, right? It's Scotty trying to figure out how to do a moving target.

spk_1:   47:14
Chen jiggles his foot a few times until all the pieces of his leg fall into place.

spk_0:   47:18
God no,

spk_1:   47:21
the commander of the mention Sartain appears.

spk_0:   47:24
Need some help with that?

spk_1:   47:26
She asked a wry smile on her face. Chen avoids eye contact. Will Tera chuckles quietly.

spk_0:   47:31
We have much to discuss,

spk_1:   47:33
Sar Tan says. Then strides to a large view screen that reveals the void of Nero, an immense area of dark energy. She taps a few buttons, the void enlarges to fill the screen, and a planet comes into view.

spk_0:   47:47
Yesterday, that beam of unknown energy appeared on this planet,

spk_1:   47:51
she says. But that's no switch. Oh,

spk_0:   47:54
it's hard to make, but that sounds, but that's

spk_1:   47:59
the terrorist starts stunned, Briere's says. Flip toe. It's purple, the planet we save from the evil Power Monster master. During the Purple Days war, the thought of purple raises old demons. Chen focuses on the task at hand.

spk_0:   48:16
Where is the beam heading?

spk_1:   48:18
He asked to tell, says Dante. After analysing Star Tans Data Way.

spk_0:   48:27
Need a void ship,

spk_1:   48:28
Tara says. There I can help says Sorry, 10. She leaves the crew to a small spacecraft shaped like an arrowhead. Avoid ship built push through dark energy. Who Chen looks at, flipped out and smiles.

spk_0:   48:40
Perfect. Just like the one we flew in the Purple Days War,

spk_1:   48:44
he says. Flipped out, raises an eyebrow or don't for call those days being perfect, he says. A sleek droid is fueling the ship.

spk_0:   48:54
You can take the droid,

spk_1:   48:56
says Sarton,

spk_0:   48:57
is an excellent void. Pilot

spk_1:   48:59
Dante clatters over to the droid and ask. It says, We'll stick with Dante, Jen says. Sartain says.

spk_0:   49:19
But Proctor is clearly superior to your rudimentary draw,

spk_1:   49:23
says Dante, cheerfully interrupting her in a perfect imitation. Hope. Hold on to your 10 voice again, says Dante, cheerfully interrupting her in a perfect imitation of Chan's voice Flipped. It looks at the void chip for the We fall over William to its order. Drin, he asked. Or Toe, which, if we go to the origin of the beam, go to avoid nearer story card, too. If we go to the beams destination go to avoid of Nero story card. 10. As Dante is the only the only alive character right now, the only active character, and he's the pilot, I'm gonna say Dante wants to g o do the

spk_0:   50:14
beams of light. Any meaning money? Mom. Destination. All right,

spk_1:   50:20
we're going Where the beams going.

spk_0:   50:21
That's 10 right?

spk_1:   50:25
Dante activates the ship's dark energy shield. Tara and flipped oh, feel a familiar tingle.

spk_0:   50:31
I don't miss that.

spk_1:   50:32
Our find it most enjoyable, Ono says Dante, as he settled into that, says flip toe as he settles into his seat. The white beam pushes through the me asthma, the void, and as a ship approaches, the beam fills the screen.

spk_0:   50:47
It's enormous,

spk_1:   50:48
Chin says.

spk_0:   50:49
What in the seven moons of gobo? Is that

spk_1:   50:53
an answer? 12 Delta Wings appear as if they had flown out of a long tunnel. The group breaks into three squadrons and attacks a hexagonal space station, says Dante.

spk_0:   51:05
They need our help.

spk_1:   51:06
Tara cries. Four Delta wings turn towards a void. Ship. Energy Weapons don't function in the void. So chan and flipped Oh, fire rounds of rocks at chips from

spk_0:   51:17
hey, creativity saves the day. Sometimes

spk_1:   51:21
required challenge. No battle. The attack Fleet.

spk_0:   51:25
Good thing it's a piloting challenge.

spk_1:   51:27
Here comes down to you with this plus one pilot

spk_0:   51:30
descent. This one you do have to declare if you use there.

spk_1:   51:33
Yes, but it's, ah perception. So we don't I I was hoping we were gonna get a perception challenges. Pilot challenge. Well Oh, well. Oh, boy. But we can still use our hot, calmer inducer in our void of Nero belt, which would be pretty timely for the void of Nero. Yep. Okay, we're gonna roll. Go on, Dante.

spk_0:   51:53
Well, it It says discourage this card before a challenge. Just win without you.

spk_1:   51:58
Know what? Let's have a loss happen. Possibly. Okay, because we're so close to the end, we can't win all

spk_0:   52:05
I mean, we could you know, I have no problem with winning the mall

spk_1:   52:10
where we could use the shipment narrow about on the power master.

spk_0:   52:13
Oh, yeah? Yeah, we're gonna do that. We can always wait. That's five. Good job, sweetie.

spk_1:   52:25
Have you pilot better than Dante? Imitates when I raise the Tracker by two in draw data 13.

spk_0:   52:37
John dated 13 but we just hit the ball.

spk_1:   52:39
Yeah, let's finish this thing out.

spk_0:   52:41
Who do? Those were my Commander Chen groups who won't

spk_1:   52:50
High Data card 13. The first salvos hit their mark and tear through two enemy ships which explode in small balls of flame. What's left of the energy contained in the ship's dark energy shield. The other two ships take evasive action required challenge another one as we have to do a dexterity challenge. Everyone's active,

spk_0:   53:08
and I think we're gonna take a little John back to Tara because she is

spk_1:   53:11
gonna plus three. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Yeah, Let's do it

spk_0:   53:16
all right. So I'm gonna declare that I'm gonna use this

spk_1:   53:18
just Yep, to use it. Using the grass, which gives us a plus two dexterity. Entire already has a plus one,

spk_0:   53:26
4567

spk_1:   53:28
There we go. Seven. We beat the challenge level. Who are So we win, we raise the signal tracker by one and draw data card. 14. Next volley of stone projectiles flies true and tears through the remaining two ships. Just a cz Balls of light begin to form on their forward turns As the ship's explode Tar lets out aloud. Look flipped. Oh, shakes his head. The remaining Delta wings have all scattered and energy beam arcs out. An energy beam arcs out from the space station and obliterates them all with incredible destructive force. Could this be the evil power Masters based, says Dante. Data card. 16.

spk_0:   54:10
Raro spaghettios.

spk_1:   54:11
A voice resonates throughout the cabin for trying. 10. Tara and flip toe all recognize the voice and smile with each other. Dante with excitement, Fortune to raid. You're clear to land. You're clear to land. Go to avoid of Nero's story card. Seven. Inside the droid base, one of the crew finds an old friend from Purple Days War

spk_0:   54:38
Brenda. So Danielle's We thought you were dead,

spk_1:   54:42
just as you thought, people, our master was dead, replies Rin Doxil. But how will become clear? Says Rin Doxil. He turns and floats away. Brenda? Yep, docile. The droid hero of Look Who's Auto Destruct ID to destroy the evil power master on the final day of war. Or so everyone in the system believe. As Rin Doxil shows off his droid operating base, he explains, he tell, have transported the evil power master deep into the void and subdued the evil one before his body reformed. I built this his prison, says Wren. Doxil gushes. Dante flip toe ignores the star struck droid. What happened? He asked all of the evil power for a script I underestimated is evil and his power, says Wren. Doxil Doxil comes to stop by a glass cell. I approached his mind and extracted his secrets, he says, which helped me build this base, and his defensive of the UA one had secrets buried too deep for even my prose. Oh, dear friend. Doxil stops in front of the shattered sell metal do breeze and glass shards cover the floor. I manipulated the dark energy shield surrounding the base to exclude his self explains. When Doxil, I assumed that would prevent him from escaping. Ken Deduce is the rest.

spk_0:   56:06
He searched for the spaces where the shield was weak and exploited.

spk_1:   56:09
Them exactly, says Run Doxil, his mechanical. Exactly now, says his mechanical voice with tinned regret. It took him years. But his evil is persistent.

spk_0:   56:22
That evil goon,

spk_1:   56:23
says Tara, making a fist. Once out, he found my voice capable Tele transport and disappeared, Dante asked, pointing several arms at a small object, barely visible beneath the shards of glass and twisted metal. Optional challenge. Retrieve the object with dexterity. I mean, why not? Because the thing is, we raise the meter by two or we try again.

spk_0:   56:48
Yeah, sure, why not?

spk_1:   56:49
And we're already at the wind condition. So yeah, Okay, let's roll. Who's the best dexterity?

spk_0:   56:55
Um, e chan has dexterity.

spk_1:   56:58
Was religion

spk_0:   56:59
still have to have sex for hire? Wow! Wow. A good day's

spk_1:   57:07
drive data current 28.

spk_0:   57:09
The black marble. This appears to be nothing more than part of a Children's game played by played on a Ruth. Oddly, the marble does not reflect light. In fact, it seems too dark in the air around it. Maybe it's not a toy after all.

spk_1:   57:23
Oh, that was probably the marble that went inside the gravity. Well, we used

spk_0:   57:26
yes. Finish void of neuro story card nine.

spk_1:   57:32
Chen turns during Doxil. What happened next? He asked the evil power master returned to the purple. He says that is where the beam originated. Way are about to launch a massive counterattack. Would you like to join Tara? Whispers to Chen.

spk_0:   57:47
Such an attack could kill many Purple Ian way. Should go there and stop him. Our cells

spk_1:   57:55
if we join rocks algo devoid of Nero's story card for if you you and the crew travelled a purple go to narrow story card 11. Um, I think maybe this is a good point for us to just go to the end thing.

spk_0:   58:07
Yeah, I think

spk_1:   58:08
that's because it's traveling. Yeah, Yeah. We'll just go to the end of this point because we did. We were supposed to do that earlier.

spk_0:   58:15
Yeah, I think when you get to that point, you're supposed to go.

spk_1:   58:17
Yep. Okay. So what happens when we reach the thing?

spk_0:   58:22
I think it's the last card.

spk_1:   58:23
Okay, read end of the game on page eight to see what happens next. Go to

spk_0:   58:28
Page eight.

spk_1:   58:29
If the signal tracker reaches 25 which is US Force Crew has found the location of the evil power master and immediately go to story card. 13.

spk_0:   58:38
All right

spk_1:   58:39
of the current planet. Suddenly Dante starts spinning in a fantastical manner and sounds in Syria sounds. The series of vicious beeps. Victorious, victorious beeps the crew has never heard before.

spk_0:   58:53
You almost veered into haunted doll territory. What's happening?

spk_1:   58:58
I asked Ken Rose or completion? Beeps flipped. Oh, says the West Supreme Boost was enough for the algorithm to point the evil power.

spk_0:   59:07
Master of location. You mean we can finally get him?

spk_1:   59:10
Trend asked. Much, Freud says. Flip dope bending down to look a display on Dante's Head Here is Harding out and crawl under What?

spk_0:   59:21
Let's Let's go stump that ran,

spk_1:   59:24
says Taro with a whoop Whoop! Dante takes over the fizzle its controls and sets a course for kroehner. Go to the chrono deck and read the back of kroner. Story card. 13. Do not raise the E. P M. Major meter For this action, the crew tracks the evil power master to a deep sea bass on kroner. A planet so beautiful the galaxy put a ring on several rings. Ragnar is dominated by hydrogen. See, the evil power master submerged his base within a help colony.

spk_0:   59:53
That is your worst fear.

spk_1:   59:54
Mm. Do not like the seaweeds. The crew cuts through the basis airlock disarms the security system, fights robot mimes.

spk_0:   1:0:03
I think that wrong

spk_1:   1:0:09
and beats an ancient computer at chess.

spk_0:   1:0:12
Jesus, really

spk_1:   1:0:13
Independent emerges from Dante's head. The square tip fits in a tiny aperture and the door slides open to fight the evil power Master. Get the deck labeled Final Showdown. Spoonfuls of pain and Kota story card one. Make all characters active.

spk_0:   1:0:29
Spoonfuls of pain.

spk_1:   1:0:31
Yeah, that's gonna be our episode title. Most definitely. The final showdown is the

spk_0:   1:0:38
final countdown. Many spoonfuls of pain. All right, All right.

spk_1:   1:0:46
The crew enters into darkness, they feel a breeze. The evil power masters layer must be huge, but they can't see more than three feet in any direction.

spk_0:   1:0:55
Be ready for anything.

spk_1:   1:0:56
Tara whispers right before stumbling over a rock.

spk_0:   1:1:00
No, no

spk_1:   1:1:01
rapid force. A monstrous voice bellows, You have not struck rapidly enough for you must have fallen right into my trap. Get riel. Trend shouts.

spk_0:   1:1:11
We've come to put an end to your evil plot. Fools!

spk_1:   1:1:15
The evil power master yells. Behold what sounds like a large metal gate slowly creaks open, and a vicious and vicious snarls fill the darkness. A spotlight turns on, illuminating a swarm of dog sized banana monsters with legs and melts crammed with glistening bangs. They charge right for the crew battle stances, yells Chen and throws up his fist flip toe and tear into the same. An arm topped by a metal fist emerges from Dante's head. Droid re evaluates the fists, retracts the arm and releases remote controlled combat drone. Fair enough. Required challenge. Defeat the banana monsters we can do strength or piloting. Do we have anything that gives us strength or plus piloting? No, it's all perception for wear, so perceptive, and we will not have a perception challenge.

spk_0:   1:2:07
I think I've done a lot more rolls than you. So I think one of your characters good.

spk_1:   1:2:12
Looks like we're doing piloting then. Yeah. Yep. Let's pilot

spk_0:   1:2:15
Dante or Foo

spk_1:   1:2:17
Foo, uh, Dante because he is piloting a little drone.

spk_0:   1:2:20
Oh, yes. All right. Perfect.

spk_1:   1:2:22
Okay, require challenge level is six. He Here we go. That's a four. That's a five. Can we do anything about it?

spk_0:   1:2:33
I can reduce the challenge level by one. Heck, yeah. All right. We're gonna use our Proxima Centauri pain reducer, which reduces the challenge level by one. So instead of being a 65

spk_1:   1:2:44
and I got a five so I meet it win, Go to story card seven. Already the banana monsters air soft in rotten and also, you know, bananas. So the crew easily dispatches them. In fact, their dispatch so quickly that flip toe is time to pull out his Martian portable kitchen kit and whip up the remains into five cups of delicious banana pudding. Yes, he passes them around and enjoys a spoonful before slightly offering the fifth cup to the unto, his unseen foe Your farmers come flipped out. Says what do you like to taste this banana flavored defeat? The light comes on revealing the evil power master standing before them, innit? All his resplendent, villainous glory

spk_0:   1:3:25
Oh, good.

spk_1:   1:3:26
He points a regular at the crew. The only thing I will be tasting his victory rapid force before anyone can get out of the way he pulls the trigger. A dazzling green beam of energy strikes all four crew members at once. No, a sudden flash lights the room and the crew is instantly falling through the air.

spk_0:   1:3:46
Now the

spk_1:   1:3:46
evil we're underwater way weird wth e evil Power Master catches them in his pocket. Second in the realizes they're no bigger than grains of rice. Victims of the evil one. Shrink Ray Oh, no way! Shrunk ourselves. The evil power master produces a red and white striped bendy straw from my pocket. And is it until it's just above the cruise ends,

spk_0:   1:4:19
This must suck

spk_1:   1:4:21
evil power master. Then he slurps them all through a straw, a cz. They reached the dark wetness of the evil power masters. Esophagus Shan boldly says

spk_0:   1:4:32
we have him right where we want

spk_1:   1:4:34
him. Strength or dexterity? Challenge. Strike from the inside. I was like a train thing.

spk_0:   1:4:41
All right, let's go with Chen. Do you just automatically win? We should say that first

spk_1:   1:4:46
we have another story current to go to. So maybe not.

spk_0:   1:4:49
All right, we should really say that one for something that

spk_1:   1:4:51
no, we could straight up die in this one.

spk_0:   1:4:53
Don't have to flip.

spk_1:   1:4:55
Don't use this stuff.

spk_0:   1:4:56
Yeah, okay. All right. Oh, God, I'm so nervous.

spk_1:   1:5:02
Challenge level is six.

spk_0:   1:5:05
You did it rolling. So L today

spk_1:   1:5:11
This is the best we've ever done in any RPG.

spk_0:   1:5:13
Oh, God.

spk_1:   1:5:16
Go to story card five.

spk_0:   1:5:18
I'm like the queen of natural one, so this is really exciting.

spk_1:   1:5:22
Everyone draws their weapons and hits the evil power master where he's weakest his actual insides. They shoot everywhere with no effect. All seems hopeless is the crew tumbles down the evil power masters esophagus and towards his hungering stomach God, look there! Flipped out points to a duct through which is a gross black mass can be seen growing on the evil power Master's heart

spk_0:   1:5:46
He has a tumor

spk_1:   1:5:48
Boy Power masters Anatomy is weird, You know, various novels now the name of Oh my God! Dante shouts!

spk_0:   1:6:10
Okay, Rapid force

spk_1:   1:6:11
shells, Chen, as they all continue to free fall,

spk_0:   1:6:14
everyone aim for the nefarious. Nah, jewel on the count of three, fire 123

spk_1:   1:6:22
Chen, Tara, Dante and flip toe all in load their weapons into the evil power masters Nefarious nodule and the ugly grows growth ruptures into a purple cloud. The evil power master explodes into three piles of purple powder, leaving the crew gasping for breath nearby. Our hopes. No one expects me to make a dessert out of this flipped on, says Tara, jumps to her feet, looking for someone to high five.

spk_0:   1:6:47
We did it. The evil power master is dead.

spk_1:   1:6:51
The crew cheers. Except for Chen, except for Chen, who stares at the ceiling, which a pair appears hundreds of feet away and the house sized chair behind him. No, everything seems so big. Chen size wistfully.

spk_0:   1:7:07
I guess this is our tiny life. Now.

spk_1:   1:7:10
You win, you're defeated. The evil power master. Peace reigns over the Laconia and system, but you are really, really small. The end,

spk_0:   1:7:20
Honey, we shrunk ourselves. That's funny. Oh, my gosh, that was so much fun.

spk_1:   1:7:27
Yeah, there's some, like epilogue cards, but I guess our thing doesn't get the epilogue.

spk_0:   1:7:32
Oh, interesting. Because I when we were flipping through to get spoonful of pain, there were, like, four or five different final showdown option.

spk_1:   1:7:41
Yeah, so maybe some of them have EPA logs and some of them don't

spk_0:   1:7:44
I guess in terms of endings, it could have been worse. We are

spk_1:   1:7:48
dying now. Better. Okay, so I get Well, first of all, thank you for listening through that. It was a lot of fun for us to record hope you had fun listening. Um, our call to action. You can visit us on Facebook and Twitter at half wit history. You can visit our patri on at half Wit pod, and you can send us e mails to half with pot at gmail dot com. We love having them.

spk_0:   1:8:15
Yeah, And if I'm you, anyone wants to leave a review or give us a nice rating on apple podcasts or Spotify or I heard radio, you know, wherever you can do. Said a thing said things on Said thing, we would super appreciate it. We definitely would love to hear from people, especially since this episode in particular is a little outside the norm. Let us know if you enjoyed it or if you'd like to hear more. Kind of like this kind of thing, too, because we can always find a new game to play Whether or not you want to hear us play. It is a different matter or

spk_1:   1:8:49
just something out of the norm that we could

spk_0:   1:8:51
Yeah, we really were. We'd be interested in mixing it up a little bit, you know, to make it a little more interesting.

spk_1:   1:8:56
Yeah, we ran, and we ran into this game and Target. And for shits and giggles, I looked up to see when the book came out and it was like,

spk_0:   1:9:03
Whoa, this week. Perfect.

spk_1:   1:9:07
Um, as always, thank you to the fishermen for the use of our theme song. Another day. Check out his Soundcloud link, sir, in every episode. Description?

spk_0:   1:9:16
Yeah. Give him a look or listen, I guess whatever.

spk_1:   1:9:21
I'm sure he's beautiful, too.

spk_0:   1:9:22
Yeah, I'm sure.

spk_1:   1:9:24
So, as always, I'm your half wit, and I'm your historians, and we hope you enjoyed this.