Ep. 27: Questionable Measures, Part 9
Updated: Apr 29, 2019
Today's episode is like a rollercoaster: lots of ups, lots of downs, and lots of opportunities to feel sick to your stomach.
Listen as our heroes:
INVOKE their deity over a dozen times!
LEARN how to physics!
LIE, lie, lie!
Content Warnings: Implied graphic violence, loud volume (44:15)
TRANSCRIPT (Downloadable Version)
Kyle
Hey, it’s Kyle, your GM. Just here for a couple of content warnings. Because things get a bit hairy in today’s episode, and even though there isn’t any actual gore, there is a little bit of implied gore, and I thought that might be worth mentioning. There’s also going to be a couple of sections that are going to be pretty difficult on folks who have really sensitive hearing, and so if that’s the case and you get to one of those points and you realize it’s just too much to handle, remember that we have episode summaries on questfriendspodcast.com. Other than that, I hope you really enjoy the episode, which we’re going to play … now.
Previously, on Quest Friends…
[Opening theme, “Friends” by Miracle of Sound, begins.]
Kyle (as turnstile attendant)
Well in that case, you’re going to want one of our EZ-Life brands. It doesn’t cheat death. You know, if you die by old age, you can’t come back, and if you use it too many times you’re just going to be too tired out to keep using it.
Hallie
I’m going for the guy. I’m, like, going to, like, grab him by the shirt.
Kyle (as Jagged Dream member)
Um, I would appreciate that, otherwise the boss is going to be very upset.
Hallie (as Hopper)
And the boss is Fancy Tom? Like, that Fancy Tom? Tommy Funbuck?
Kyle (as Tommy Funbuck)
Hey, it’s me, Tommy Funbuck! Hope you have fun in my casino. Check out the hotel. And win some cash, cash, cash.
Kyle (as Jagged Dream member)
W-w-well yes, Fancy Tom wears a hat just like that, sir.
Kyle
Although the seafarer does take a grimy top hat from the pile and loudly proclaims:
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
Look at me, I’m Fancy Tom!
Hallie (as Hopper)
Okay. Why do you need to go to the rollercoaster?
Emily
Elee’s just taking a moment to watch the rollercoaster, thinking about as a normal human how likely Hop would be to survive because she can probably muscle him into it if she really wanted.
Kyle
Actually no, Hallie roll me a D20.
Emily
[Laughter.]
[Die rolls.]
Hallie
A two.
[Theme intensifies.]
Kyle
Alright, so you’re walking. You’re making your way, you’re dragging this guy.
Hallie
And as we started out, Imma be like, this better be good. Like, this better be good.
Kyle
Yeah, you’re dragging this, and you have some time if you want to look at any of the other documents you picked up.
Ari
Yes. I want to see if Tommy Funbuck is part of the Jagged Dream, because that thug that said that Tommy Funbuck was his boss had a Jagged Dream tattoo, so I want to see if they’re two separate things or if Tommy Funbuck is actually part of the Jagged Dream and we have reduced our suspect list.
[Mysterious, ominous music begins.]
Kyle
You take a look at it, and you see another dossier on Tommy Funbuck. Except this one includes like, toenail clippings and a waft of armpit.
Ari
[Very Quietly] Okay...
Tom
Why are you the way that you are, Kyle?
Kyle
I don’t know. It includes another very creepy dossier, but it looks like the Jagged Dream is investigating Tommy Funbuck.
Ari
Ohh.
Kyle
So all signs point to no.
Ari
Ohh.
Hallie
Okay.
Ari
So now—this is not my question, but I am wondering now if this one dude is, I don’t know, if he’s actually just spying on Tommy Funbuck and he’s not actually, yeah.
Kyle
Alright. So, you make your way to the rollercoaster. And, give me a roll to see if you make it through all the traps.
Hallie
Oh god.
Ari
Okay.
Kyle
Because as we mentioned earlier, a few episodes ago, there are a bunch of like darts and traps and death traps on your way there.
Hallie
Yeah.
[Die rolls.]
Hallie
Hop rolled a seven, which is exactly what he rolled the other time.
[Die rolls.]
Ari
Ooh, what? I am not making this up, I rolled another 19.
Tom and Hallie
Ooh!
Kyle
So Hop, you’re going to take a number of points equal to how many less than 10 you rolled. So you’re going to have to take three might damage. As you just like, a couple of darts just stick themselves in your neck.
Hallie
Okay.
Kyle
And they have like a little bit of poison.
Hallie
He’s still like dragging the other guy, like he doesn’t want to let him go, so he’s just like, with one hand doing this while trying not to loosen his grip.
Kyle
Okay, and the other guy is fine.
Hallie
G-great. Good for him!
Kyle
And so you make your way, and from a distance you start hearing this ranting voice.
[Ominous music begins]
Kyle (as ranting voice)
Where is the other one there? Where is Osh? How is he not back yet? This is ridiculous.
Hallie
I’m going to turn to knife guy.
Hallie (as Hopper)
Is that you? Is that you they’re expecting?
Kyle (as Osh)
Yup, that’s me!
Hallie (as Hopper)
Alright.
Kyle (as ranting voice)
I need those documents! I shouldn’t have left them there in the first place! And all I got out of this was this lousy blueprint! Dah!
Hallie
So we’re approaching them now, right?
Kyle
Yeah. You can turn. You can’t quite see them yet. Are you going to walk up the steps to confront them, or are you going to wait to the side a little bit?
Hallie
I guess waiting to the side is the more prudent plan.
Kyle
Okay. So he’s just going to keep talking a little bit. He’s going to say a lot of mean things about Osh, who is the knife-head guy that you’re hanging out with.
Kyle (as ranting voice)
I’m just so frustrated that I went to the trouble of finding Hop Scotch’s room and he has nothing for me besides this bloody blueprint and this horrible packet, and I have absolutely no idea what I’m expected to do!
Kyle
And he’s just going to rant a little bit. And you see the guy that you’re holding, he’s like:
Kyle (as Osh)
B-b-b-b-b-b... [Stammering]
Kyle
And he’s trying to get out the word “Boss.”
Hallie
Okay, so are they coming around a corner?
Kyle
Uh no, he’s, so you know that little waiting area before a rollercoaster? That little platform?
Hallie
Yeah.
Kyle
They’re inside that platform. You’re kind of like, right outside the steps.
[4:57]
Hallie
Okay. Are they exiting at all? Are they moving towards us? Or are they just hanging out and we’re just listening?
Kyle
They’re just hanging out there. It seems like everyone went to the parade, so it’s pretty dead.
Hallie
Okay.
Kyle
So they’re like, oh, this is a great place to hang out, especially because there are so many labyrinths and ways to go around.
Hallie
Okay. Then I’m just going to take the direct approach, I guess. I’m going to look at Misha and try to do a “you ready?” expression.
Ari
Misha is going to nod and say:
Ari (as Misha)
Let’s do this, partner!
Hallie (as Hopper)
Let’s do it!
Hallie
And then he’s going to drag Osh up with him.
Hallie (as Hopper)
Osh doesn’t have the stuff you want! I have the stuff you want! I’m going to keep it, and I also want the things that you took back!
[Upbeat, action-heavy rock music begins.]
Kyle
So you see two mooks.
Hallie
Two mooks. Tooks.
Kyle
On each side of this man in really fancy dressing, who is dressed a lot fancier he should be in this really ratty top hat. And he turns around and he has a bag of time crisps, and he starts munching them.
Hallie
No!
Kyle
And as he does, you see this top hat start to adjust on his face, which has a single eye patch. So it seems like every time he eats the crisps he’s just adjusting his hat.
Ari
Oh my god.
Hallie
This asshole.
Kyle
And he says:
Kyle (as ranting voice)
Well, well, well! Look who we have here again! Time for round two?
Kyle
And you don’t see Tommy Funbuck, but you see the man you fought in Charmonde, known only as Fancy Tom.
Ari
Fancy Tom?
Hallie
He’s the man Misha like, hit in the face with a rock!
Kyle
Hit in the eye with a rock! And he has covered that eye with an eye patch.
Hallie
And now he has an eye patch! I love it!
Ari
Consequences! Oh my God!
Hallie
What a petty villain!
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
Come here to take my other eye?
Kyle
Uh, and one of the guys is like:
Kyle (as one of the mooks)
Boss, we told you, it’s perfectly fine. It’s just a little bit red.
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
No it’s not, Daryl! Well, well, well: looks like I have what you want. And you also have what I want, so we’re basically even.
Hallie
Hopper will cross his arms and be like:
Hallie (as Hopper)
It appears we’re at an impasse.
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
Well, I suppose there’s four of us and two of you. So, I mean, just give it to us and we should be good.
Hallie (as Hopper)
We were outnumbered on the boat, too.
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
No, no, there were three of us and four of you. No, five of you! There were three of us and five of you! So it’s like the same situation, but reversed? So no, we have the numbers now! So I would very much like my papers, please.
Hallie (as Hopper)
I remembered that wrong, but it doesn’t matter. We’re not afraid of you, and I want the stuff.
Kyle
And one of the people is going to turn over to Fancy Tom:
Kyle (as Daryl)
Wait, can we pause for a moment? Hi. I’m Daryl. Why--isn’t he our boss? Why are we fighting with him?
Kyle
And Fancy Tom turns over and says:
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
No, you don’t understand. That’s very--that’s not what I meant by Hop Scotch, okay?
Hallie (as Hopper)
Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, no: Keep talking, Daryl. I’m your boss?
Kyle
And Daryl just looks between you and between Fancy Tom who’s giving him angry eyes.
Kyle (as Daryl)
Well that document, like, you looked at it and you immediately said “Hop Scotch.” So isn’t that--isn’t that the boss?
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
I told you again, Daryl. No, the boss, that’s a different person, it’s a different thing, Daryl. Can we have this conversation once we’ve gathered the documents?
Hallie (as Hopper)
I don’t know, Fancy Tom. It kind of sounds like Daryl’s right, and I’m your boss.
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
No, no, no, no, no, no, no! You are not, that is not the case!
Kyle
And I want you to roll persuasion.
[Die rolls.]
Hallie
A three!
All
[Laughter.]
Ari
You have XP.
Tom
If only there was a resource that you had copious amounts of.
Hallie
I’d like to use my copious amounts of XP to re-roll.
Kyle
Fun fact to remember: Do I need to send you a list? Because you can do extreme things with more than one XP.
Hallie
I know. No, I have the Google Doc. I just forget to open it.
Kyle
Like, two is an insta-success.
Hallie
I’d like to use two for an insta-success.
Kyle
Okay, so how are you going to convince Daryl?
Hallie
At great personal cost, Hopper will be like:
Hallie (as Hopper)
I’m pretty close with the woman who runs this town.
[Rolls die.]
Hallie (as Hopper)
You could say we’re friends!
Kyle (as Daryl)
Oh, we’re working for Lorraine Stiles, too? Woah, everything’s changing.
Kyle
And Fancy Tom just has his head in his hands.
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
Alright, well, Julia, you at least side with me there.
Kyle
And you see the other mook on his right, a woman, she’s just shrugging her shoulders.
Kyle (as Julia)
Honestly, I don’t know what’s going on at this point.
Kyle
And Daryl turns over and says:
Kyle (as Daryl)
Oh, well, I’m pretty sure that guy is our actual boss.
Hallie (as Hopper)
Look, I’m just saying that if I’m your boss, which I am, you should report everything that you know to me. Such as, why you have those blueprints and the packet that has my name on it.
Kyle (as Daryl)
Uh, well, why do we have that, second boss?
Kyle
Fancy Tom’s like:
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
I’m not going to explain it to you rubes! We just need that file from Hop! Alright? Just go over and take it.
Hallie
Hopper sticks it in his pocket.
Kyle (as Daryl)
Well, it’s--it’s in his pocket now.
Kyle (as Julia)
Yeah, I mean, it’s in his pocket, we can’t take it from there.
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
[Exasperatedly] Just take the damn documents!
Ari
I want to try and threaten him, then. So can Misha in the background have grabbed a rock and be like:
[10:05]
Ari (as Misha)
Excuse me, look, Fancy Tom, I am not prone to harming you humans, but you have seen what happens when I hold small objects like this. So if you do not provide the information that we need, it might be the case that this rock might slip and hit your other eye.
All
[Laughter.]
Kyle
Um, roll me an intimidation.
Ari
This is going to go super poorly.
[Dice roll.]
Ari
Seven.
Kyle
Alright. He’s going to start walking backwards.
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
[Fearfully] W-what, hey-hey-hey, hey! What’s the big idea here? Alright? I’m—we--we--we can all be friends. We can talk about things. Uh, you don’t need to throw that rock at me.
[Frantic, carnival-esque music begins.]
Kyle
And he starts backpedaling, closer and closer to the rollercoaster tracks.
Ari
Oh, no!
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
You know what, no, we shouldn’t talk about this. In fact, maybe I should just go.
Hallie
No!
Kyle
And as he says that, he falls back into one of the rollercoaster carts that flies by, and his cart is just off, on the tracks.
[Dice roll.]
Hallie
Alright, we’re riding the rollercoaster.
Ari
Fourteen.
Hallie
Eleven.
Kyle
Okay, so his cart is going off. Ari, you are first in the order. What do you want to do?
Ari
Ohh, well, can I just try and get into the—so he grabbed himself to a cart, and then can I use it so that like, I jumped into that same cart with him?
Kyle
Yeah, I’m going to say you can jump into it, because you’re right next to him. So you jump into the cart right next to him and then what do you do?
Ari
Yeah, Misha’s going to say:
Ari (as Misha)
It seems you cannot escape us, so it is better that you just give us the information that we want to know.
Kyle
Okay, give me a roll for that intimidation. You’re giving a second shot.
[Dice roll.]
Ari
Uh, nineteen. I swear to God.
Kyle
What’s the minor effect you want to happen? I’m going to say you’re intimidating him so that his next turn he doesn’t do anything, so what do you want your minor effect to be?
Ari
I don’t know, can it just be that like since I was talking intimidating, can it be that he’s actually afraid of the tiny rock that Misha is holding?
Kyle
Yeah. He’s going to be like:
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
[Stammering in fear.]
Kyle
And he’s going to walk back a little bit, and he’s going to hit his head on the front of the rollercoaster, and he’s going to take two points of might damage.
Ari
Excellent.
Kyle
Okay, Hop. It is you, what are you going to do?
Hallie
Right. Well, I want to run to it, I would like to try to parkour my way up this rollercoaster into that car.
Kyle
Alright, give me a roll for that.
Hallie
I am now skilled in parkour by the way.
[Dice rolling.]
Hallie
Seventeen.
Ari
Damn!
Kyle
Alright, how do you get yourself into this rollercoaster, as the last cart is barely leaving as soon as you get on to it.
Hallie
Oh god, I don’t even know. Alright. So I would like to grab onto the cart as it’s leaving, and then use that momentum to swing myself forward on to the front of the cart. And then is there an ascent right away?
Kyle
Yeah.
Hallie
On the ascent, I am going to jump to the back of that car and then do, like, a backflip in, because I can.
Kyle
Alright, and then what is your action? Because that’s just your movement.
Hallie
That’s just my movement! Um, I want to just try to grab fancy Tom by the scruff, but hold him backwards. Not like, off the roller coaster, but like, we’re going up, so that we’re not facing the direction that’s up. He would be facing the direction that’s up.
Kyle
Okay. Give me a roll.
[Dice rolling.]
Hallie
Another seventeen.
Ari
Hmm.
Kyle
Alright. You go and lift him there, and he looks like he is going to talk on his turn. And a whole bunch of things happen.
Hallie
Oh no.
Kyle
Because you’re on this rollercoaster. You’re going up, and you’ve almost hit the peak. And you’re feeling great. And then you remember, you feel something that Elee knew a few episodes ago, which is that you could last maybe two minutes on this rollercoaster.
Hallie
[Laughter] Oh, that’s right.
Kyle
And we’re about—I’m not going to say every round is seven seconds, so I’m going to say we’re 15 seconds—no, I’m going to say we’re 30 seconds into those two minutes.
Hallie
Okay.
Kyle
So while Tommy has a turn, before his turn starts, it’s the rollercoaster’s turn.
Hallie
[Laughter] No!
Ari
Oh, god.
Kyle
And I need you, Hop, to roll strength to make sure you don’t let go of Fancy Tom.
Emily
No!
Kyle
As you start careening down the incline.
[Dice rolling.]
Hallie
Twelve.
Kyle
You … let go.
Hallie
No!
Ari
Fuck.
Kyle
And he flies back into the last car of the rollercoaster, and is dangling on.
Hallie
No!
Kyle
And you hear him just go, faintly:
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
[Distantly] What’s the big idea!
Hallie
God, you’re the worst.
Kyle
And then Misha, I have a GM intrusion for you.
Ari
Oh, God why?
Kyle
Who do you give your other experience point to?
Ari
Um, I’m going to give it to Elee because she didn’t lie, Xoc.
All
[Laughter.]
Tom
Okay, I deserve that.
Kyle
So, as you go down, you hear behind you two voices go:
[Cowabunga surf music begins.]
Kyle (as two voices)
Wooaaaaah!
Kyle
And you see, in the cart behind you, two young individuals wearing all-purpose leather coveralls, come like, with their arms up, and they’re super excited. One of them, half of her head is partially shaved off.
Ari
Ooh.
[15:10]
Kyle
And the other one is just this very round-faced young guy. He’s probably like, in his teens. And they’re like:
Kyle (as round-faced teen)
Woah! Man, this is so awesome! Man, I love this!
Hallie
Have they been on the rollercoaster the whole time?
Kyle
They have.
Hallie
Okay.
Kyle
And they’re like:
Kyle (as round-faced teen)
Dude, isn’t this—
Kyle
They turn over to you, Misha:
Kyle (as round-faced teen)
Dude, isn’t this the best?
Ari
Misha’s going to look at them:
Ari (as Misha)
Oh, uh, salutations, sudden humans, I believe this is potentially fun, yes!
Kyle (as round-faced teen)
Hell yeah, it’s fun! It’s the most cool thing outside of our home base. The base of the Speedy Speed Boys!
Kyle
And you see them make this super cool motion, and they start going through this little monologue. And the one with the shaved head says:
Kyle (as shaved-head teen)
I’m Viv!
Kyle
And the one, the round-faced one says:
Kyle (as round-faced teen)
And I’m Baby Jason!
Kyle (as Viv and Baby Jason, together)
And we are the Speedy Speed Boys, on vacation!
Kyle
And Viv is like:
Kyle (as Viv)
Yeah, no, the boss was totally right in that this was the coolest place to go. It’s totally dangerous and tubular, but also because of the EZ-Life brands—
Kyle
And they both show off their hands, and you can see these brightly multi-colored bands—
Kyle (as Viv)
The safest place around!
Hallie
I love it!
Kyle
And Baby Jason is like:
Kyle (as Baby Jason)
Yeah! We’ve died so many times and we’ve come back with absolutely no side-effects!
Kyle
And at that point, their eyes glaze back, and both of them fall to the ground unconscious.
Hallie
No! Nooo!
Ari
Noooooooo!
Kyle
And that is your intrusion!
Emily
Noooo!
Hallie
Noooo!
Ari
Noooo!
Tom
Oh, no!
Hallie
Are they dead? For realsies?
Kyle
No, they’re not dead. They’re just unconscious. They’re very woozy. They need a lot of rest.
Hallie
[Distressed] Thank God!
Kyle
But they’ve been going on this rollercoaster non-stop.
Ari
And Tommy Funbuck—oh sorry, not Tommy Funbuck--Fancy Tom is like, all the way in the back of the same cart, right?
Kyle
Yeah, he is a few carts back, they’re directly behind you.
Ari
Oh boy.
Kyle
It is now Fancy Tom’s turn. And he’s still terrified. So I said he was going to spew things, so he still is.
Ari
Oh my God.
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
I just heard a tip that your room was going to have all the information I would need to do to perform a mild heist, so I just thought I’d go in and get some information myself.
Ari (as Misha)
A heist? Please elaborate.
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
Absolutely! But could you please [suddenly yelling] helllllp first!
Kyle
And you can see his hands start to slip. And so it is your full turn, Misha.
[Manic, acoustic guitar-driven music begins.]
Here is the situation. Hop is in front. He is fine. In the second cart are two unconscious members of...a gang? I guess, called the Speedy Speed Boys. And then, five carts, hanging on for dear life, is Fancy Tom. And right now, it looks like the rollercoaster next turn is going to start sliding horizontally on the wall of Roulettia itself.
Ari
Okay.
Kyle
So that’s the situation.
Ari
Oh, I want—god, I guess I wish there was a way that I could pull him in. But I’m thinking, one thing that I can do is, I mean, I have my scarf. It’s like, semi-long. Can I just toss part of the scarf and use it like a rope and tell the scarf to help?
Kyle
Uh, yeah, you probably have to get back to the third cart.
Ari
Okay. I--then I guess my action will be trying to go to the third card.
Kyle
So you go to the third cart, and you whip out, and I want you to roll like, I guess speed to make sure it gets to a position where Fancy Tom can grab it.
Ari
Yes. I want to spend one level of effort for that. Let’s do this!
[Dice rolling.]
A twenty! I promise! I don’t know! I promise I’m not making these rolls up!
Hallie
Ohhhh!
Kyle
Alright, so Fancy Tom is going to make his way successfully onto the rollercoaster, but what else do you want to do?
Ari
Um, I want—okay, he’s going to make his way, I want to somehow find a way of protecting the Speedy Speed Boys so that they don’t fling out of the cart.
Kyle
Yeah. So you grab it and you fling him back into cart number two, and the scarf automatically wraps itself around the wall of the cart and around him and the two Speedy Speed Boys.
Hallie
Aww.
Ari
Aw, look at it! Look at my scarf! Oh.
Hallie
Look at your little like nest of people there!
Kyle
They’re all safe and concerned—and, and in good shape. So now Hop, it is your turn.
Hallie
Okay. Well, I guess Fancy Tom is now fine, right?
Kyle
Yeah, he’s fine. But you do have a horizontal thing that you and Misha have to deal with. So you can either—
Hallie
Oh, we have to deal with it. Okay.
Kyle
Yeah, you’re going to have to deal with it regardless for yourselves.
Hallie
Right, right, right. Okay. Um, when we looked through Mako’s, like, the basement part of his wagon boat, the cypher that I took was a Gendarme vest, where only one of the things was working. Can I use that?
Kyle
How?
Hallie
I don’t know. Well, you can use it like, to Spider-Man swing. So could I use it to just attach it, and then attach the vest, and then that way I’ll swing back into the cart after?
[20:00]
Kyle
Okay. The rollercoaster is coming up, and it’s turning to its side, and everyone is fine, except for Misha. So Misha, how are you going to deal with the fact that you could fling off?
Hallie
Hopper is like, offering his hand, by the way.
Ari
Yeah, I would grab it while not letting go of the scarf.
Kyle
Okay, each of you roll, and I’ll take whatever the best one is.
Hallie
They can just hold on to each other.
[Dice rolling.]
Hallie
Seventeen!
Kyle
Alright. So Hop, you go and you grab Misha, and describe how you, like, fly out of the cart and then Spider-Man your way back.
Hallie
Okay. I guess the only way to do it is to hold Misha like, on the side, like Spider-Man/M.J. style, that’s just the best way to do it. And as it turns sideways, I assume that the thing is kind of like a dog leash where you can retract it a certain distance and then let it go longer if you want, and then pull it back in. So he’s not making it go longer, he’s making it go pretty short so they don’t get too distant from the cart. So they’ll just dangle—it’s boring, but it’s practical. So he’ll just hang out a little bit.
Kyle
Alright, so you go—you successfully go, but during that time, the scarf wiggles a little bit.
Ari
No.
Kyle
And you turn over and you see—the next part of the track is just made out of grass. Inexplicably, grass weaved together. And Fancy Tom starts freaking out. He’s like:
Kyle (as Fancy Tom)
Oh no, oh no! I’m allergic to grass!
Ari
What?
Kyle
And he starts trying to wiggle his way out of it. And he accidentally wiggles him and the two Speedy Speed Boys off the side of the roller coaster.
Hallie
No!
Tom
Nooo.
Kyle
And so it starts to unroll. So the Speedy Speed Boys are now stuck in the scarf. The scarf is attached to the side of the rollercoaster, and Fancy Tom is holding onto the bottom of the Speedy Speed Boys.
Ari
Oh my Godddddd.
Kyle
And you have now been on the rollercoaster for one minute. And I’m going to say for your turns, you two can go in opposite order. You can alternate your turns.
Ari
Okay.
Kyle
Because now at this point it’s less a classical combat and more you get two turns to deal with whatever the doofus brigade has up for you.
Hallie
[Laughing] Okay. Can I—so he’s at the very bottom, right?
Kyle
Yeah.
Hallie
‘Cause I don’t want to kick the other two, but I kind of want to swing out with my vest, and then like—
Kyle
Your vest is broken, because it’s a cypher.
Hallie
Ooh!
Kyle
So probably as soon as it sent in, it just like, went back in a little too strongly and just kindof shattered and then fell to the ground.
Hallie
That’s fine. Misha, you got any—I’m looking at all my stuff to remind myself that I have things. Can I use a time crisp to go back and make it so that I grab him before he wiggles out?
Kyle
Yeah, you can do that. So you eat one of your time crisps.
Hallie
Om, nom, nom.
Kyle
And you are back, six seconds. You see him turn over. It’s kind of like this weird, ghostly thing where you can interact but not, right?