Mars 3200 CE: Episode 1
A Boppin’ Rave
Four time travelers find themselves stuck in the Martian capital city of Medusae Fossae. There is a futureistic rave going on, but the party is doomed to stop soon. Can our time travelers save themselves and the colony in time?
The Game
This Game was played using the Mavericks system. An RPG utilizing a deck of cards to tell the story and put fate in the hands of the players. It’s a story-forward roleplaying experience that encourages the players and dealer to work together to create the story. Check out the System Reference Document on Itch.io
https://the-indecisionist.itch.io/mavericks
The Cast
Stella Cheeks is @stellacheeks on Instagram and Bluesky. Check out her other podcasts, Not Your Demographic, X-Treks, and Spooky Thirties.
Sara Moore is @pixiesandpins on all social media channels and at Pixies and Pins.com. You can also check out her Sarah’s Table livestreams on twitch @pixiesandpins.
Omar Burgos is @Taleweaver Check out his work on the Tale of D20s TTRPG channel. More information at https://ataleofd20s.com/
Ben Banks is @Dj_blindian on Instagram and Soundcloud
I’m Ansel Burch and you can find me @TheIndecisionist on all of the meta properties and on Bluesky.
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Special thanks to Cameron Evesque Davis for the song you’re hearing now and at the beginning of the podcast. Find her work on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/cameronevesquedavis
This show is an Indecisionist Production. Go to Indecisionist.com to find more of my work including my monthly gaming event, TTRPG Pickup Con, and my other time travel podcast, Time 2 Party.
As you travel at one second per second, take some time out for these intrepid adventurers. They may be in trouble, but only for the time being.
Transcript
Ansel Burch 0:06
I welcome adventurers from across time and space. Five creators have been brought together from across the internet for one purpose and one purpose alone, to travel through time and have a good time doing it. When big changes happen to the timeline, the change attracts other time travelers like gravity, they won't be able to move past it until they fix whatever was messed up. So our heroes are stuck together, but only for the time being. You
this scene opens on a red plane covered with dancing figures. The red soil of Mars is roiled into an enormous cloud as the people of the united colonies have the biggest party of any of their lives. An enormous speaker gives this deep bass beat that pushes the red dust out towards the crowd itself, as well as the greatest DJ on all of Mars, resurrected Flavor Flav. That's a bad example. Who's a who's a good DJ that people like Steve Aoki. Yeah, Steve Aoki, okay. As resurrected Steve Aoki pushes the dance to feverish heights. It seems as though the entire population of Mars is present here at the capital city of Medusa Fauci. But that can't be possible because there are millions of people spread across this planet from many, many colonies that have been brought together into the New Republic that is united Mars. The scene is busy enough and exciting enough and loud enough that it would be easy to mistake the appearance of a few time travelers for just a fluke of the light or a trick of the noise and dust, and so it is that a few travelers do appear suddenly in this writhing mass of humanity.
Ben Banks 2:40
Near the back of the party, there's a little shadow that kind of ripples. And through it walks this mountain of a man, Mason Rockwell, this big guy, kind of dressed up in like a suit that would look nice at some point, but it's kind of scuffled and roughed up a little bit. And the man himself also has some bumps and bruises and scratches and stuff like that from his wild, you know, trying to solve cases and get the bad guy and save the girl, all the all the big things that private investigator does, he comes through and immediately he is shocked by the noise, because He likes his quiet and his kind of reserved corner of the universe, and all of a sudden there is all this loud digital music that he is affronted with. So he immediately comes through the shadow and like what it like, is overwhelmed and tries to like hop back through the shadow, because this is not his taste at all. The color red is very just much of an affront to him. He's just like his world is very gray and sepia toned, and all of a sudden there's just this river of red. So he's hot Hold on, trying to jump back through the shadow, but to no avail. He is stuck in this new reality. He's looking around, and he's like, it was a it was another dark night out in the alley, but through the shadow, what is this? This color, this brightness, this noise, this light, what is this? I need to get back home. I think I've had, think I've had one too many, and he's gonna try to go back through the shadow, but you can't
Ansel Burch 4:22
act excellent, amazing as Mason Rockwell attempts desperately to hide in the shadows that are increasingly elusive as the lasers get brighter and brighter, Omar How does, how Does your character arrive
Omar Burgos 4:41
first? Just want to elaborate something. Are we in? So, are we on like, the surface of Mars, or we're like, inside some type of building, you
Ansel Burch 4:50
are on the surface of Mars, although there is a large like, you know, those, those pop up aircraft hangers that they have that sort of feel like you're living. Inside of a giant air mattress. Yeah, it's that. It's sort of that situation. There's like a huge tent that's held up by the air pressure inside of it, but it's truly enormous. So you're in like a several football field sized pressurized tent like that.
Omar Burgos 5:17
Good. All right, at this point in a kind of a corner where no nothing can be seen, just like an empty area of this, of this place, a ONk appears with a glittering golden light, about five and a half feet tall as it turns into a doorway. When it opens up, a blue light shines through and stepping alone, garbed in what looks to be it's a the same as before in the last adventure, where the bottom half is more of a Roman army outfit
Ansel Burch 6:03
you've got, like, the sort of kilt, leather kilts, yeah, the leather killed thing? Yeah, exactly. But a name for that, and I'll look it up while you're describing
Omar Burgos 6:13
but on the top is a fish bowl head, as his garb just happens to be magically in a spacesuit, though his bottom half is exposed, you see a almost like a grayish bluish cat person, walking through with his Jade like eyes as it's just darting back and forth as the doorway closes behind him. Just crap. Now, am I button? Why am I in this fish bowl? Here we go again. He just runs off into the middle of this chaos.
Ansel Burch 6:59
Excellent, excellent. And your Word of the Day is turkeys. Turkeys spelled with a P, for some reason, E, T, E, R, U, G, E, S, that is the proper name for the Roman armor skirt thing. Fantastic, fantastic. So as as the the Pharaoh bounds off into the crowd, I think the camera swings over and for the first time, we're aware of the the sort of cinematic scope of this. Maybe the the frame even pulls down a little bit and gives us that that widening effect, for some
Sarah Moore 7:42
reason, there's a tent flap. She pulls back and sort of backlit, and she's in like a classic 1950s space like sci fi space suit that you would find in a B movie, and she scans the crowd, and then, sort of like, walks behind some people, and when she comes out on the other side, she is dressed in an appropriate outfit to fit in with the crowd. Just little, shakes out her hair and strikes a dramatic pose to let the camera pan around so that we can get a full view of what is going on around her. And I think she in her scanning, I think sees the Pharaoh, and is like, zooms in on him and kind of starts working her way through the crowd. This is just an industry party. She's very used to this.
Ansel Burch 8:50
Oh, we're doing this again. How much of your crew do you think are readily apparent as you leave the frame, but the camera lingers a little bit. I think
Sarah Moore 8:59
there's probably two or three that are scrambling to both stay out of frame and keep me in shot. I think the camera guy is maybe being led by one of the PAs so that they can scoot people so they don't Yeah, so nobody gets in the way. Yeah,
Ansel Burch 9:16
not being bumped into by Martian. Correct. Fantastic, fantastic. And we can talk a little bit more specifically about the rave gear that you find yourself in. Oh, I can't wait. I would love your thoughts. Because I'll be honest with you, I didn't have any clear ideas about what 30th century rave gear would look like. Great. So we can have fun with that. But I think the person most likely to look at home in 30th century rave gear is the last one to arrive on the scene? Stella, tell us how your character arrives.
Stella Cheeks 9:44
Yeah, I have a I want, I have a clarifying question. Um, so this is, like a this is a colony, but it's not like a colony. That's like just humans. It's like a bunch of different alien races. Or is it just humans? It seems to just be humans, okay? And there's like a big dance party going on, right? Yeah, it's giving
Ansel Burch 10:00
more well lit rave from The Matrix vibes. So the way
Stella Cheeks 10:05
that I travel is I travel through like a thing called, like, the misdemean right, which is kind of like a rainbowy water effect, but I want to differentiate it from, like, you know, a Thor essentially. So it's more like a pastel goth type vibe, and is more like, more instead of like a beam of, you know, light, it's more of like, again, that like rainbow that you sort of see when you're, like, looking in the rain. So there's that. So I want that to come just like in the middle of the dance floor, like, holy in the middle of the dance floor. And I kind of imagine every time I kind of just like, walk out of it, but it's always like, what's that? There's, like, a TV, oh, it's Dexter, where he's always, like, turning in every shot whenever they see him. So like, that's the that's the vibe whenever I'm out of the misdemean I'm like, turning and I want it to be like a moment where I like, you know, it's the dance floor, and then there's this light, and everybody kind of like, you know, jumps back, and the music's still going, but everyone's kind of trepidatious. And then I like, walk out of it, and then there's just, like, this beat where everybody sees me, and I have, you know, really pale skin, you know, I look, I look humanoid, but alien enough where, like, you know, I have really uncomfortably blue eyes, I have like, weird kind of long hands. But I also at this, like, I'm assuming I'm gonna call it, like, 30th century, like Burning Man vibes, that everybody's like, wearing, like, wigs and costumes and stuff. So I think everybody's like, well, and then they're like, yeah, just like, in the middle of the dance floor, and I just go with it. I feel like I come in and we all look at each other, and then there's that moment, and then we all just rag
Ansel Burch 11:51
on the synth. Yeah, absolutely. I love it. Fantastic. So you all find yourselves in this absolutely Bop and rave. Those are words that haven't been used together before. I'm sure of it, bop
Stella Cheeks 12:05
and rave. Bop and rave. Yep, the name
Sarah Moore 12:08
of this episode.
Ansel Burch 12:11
Yes, there it is still, I think it is your character who is attracting the most attention by virtue of this, this beautiful moment that you had upon your arrival. And so there's this guy who sort of dances up to you, and as you are getting into the moment, and people are sort of normalizing that you're there, he says, Hey, uh, I don't suppose you're a time traveler. Are you? This guy is full on wearing 20th century Americana, like, a brown t shirt and puka shells does not belong in this rave.
Stella Cheeks 12:49
I kind of like, am dancing and like, kind of looking around for like, other people or other like, allies, quote, unquote. And I just say, What a weird question to ask a stranger, and I'm just kind of doing that woman at a bar, like looking for other people vibes like
Ansel Burch 13:07
I'm just look, I've been trying to leave this party for a while, and I keep being brought back to this exact moment. So if you're a time traveler too, you may be like, hella, stuck here just as a an FYI your eye. You know, in this
Stella Cheeks 13:25
hypothetical situation where I am a time traveler, are there other people like you?
Ansel Burch 13:32
I'm really hoping so, but I haven't run into any yet. But you know how these things go once, once one of us gets stuck, everybody sort of dog piles on. Okay,
Stella Cheeks 13:40
well, I'm just gonna, kind of like, shove myself, try and get away from him. And then I, like, look around. Do I see any of the other three anywhere? I think
Ansel Burch 14:00
it is likely. Well, let's go ahead and let's draw a card for it. Let's look at your first skill draw. I also
Sarah Moore 14:04
in my head when she floated away. That was the end of the
Ansel Burch 14:14
episode. Call to Adventure. No. Thank you. Okay, so we'll do a luck draw. Luck draws are super simple. You're gonna name a suit and draw the top card. If it happens to be that suit, then good news. The thing you wanted happens, Ooh,
Stella Cheeks 14:29
cool. Spades. Nope. Clubs. Took me a second. I was like, What is a spade? Is this one? No, it's a club. Okay,
Ansel Burch 14:39
well, that's too bad. So you just wander around this party for a little bit. You are. You're not finding your friends readily. It's just getting increasingly awkward, yeah, but you have left the dude, bro in the pupa shells behind.
Stella Cheeks 14:51
I don't know why. I did not want a part of it, yeah? Just no, that's fair.
Ansel Burch 14:55
That's fair. You've got the key information player. So well done there. So. Sarah has you spot the Pharaoh, yeah. Why don't you go ahead and continue that scene. The two of you,
Sarah Moore 15:05
I just sort of make my way over and bend down. You know, you can, you could take the fish ball. Would you like help? Do you want a little would you like to take that off? If you don't, it's kind of, yeah, no, I got it. It's, well, Stop squirming. If you could stop you're scratching me. All right. Calm down. Calm down. Okay. Why did you put this on? Man,
Omar Burgos 15:35
I get, I get glimpses of where we're going. And I thought we were in space, so I asked the gods to
Unknown Speaker 15:43
give me a protective
Omar Burgos 15:45
space suit. Seems
Sarah Moore 15:47
like maybe the gods didn't really know what was going on here.
Omar Burgos 15:53
I mean, do you know what's going on here?
Sarah Moore 15:55
I mean, I know we can breathe, right?
Omar Burgos 15:59
True. Yeah. But for how long? Well, I mean,
Sarah Moore 16:04
I don't know. I'm sure that we'll get to the lunch break soon and we'll be fine. Have you seen anybody else? Like, is it just us? Here?
Omar Burgos 16:12
You're the first type scene.
Sarah Moore 16:17
I mean, this party looks pretty great. Like you
Omar Burgos 16:21
haven't seen a party until you come back to two to 4000 BC, oh, let's go. We have a life. Try, but I can't leave. What do you mean you can't leave? I mean, it's random, but if I pray really hard, and it gets really cute, and I get put on the cutest so
Sarah Moore 16:40
cute, I like it. Yeah, see
Omar Burgos 16:44
nothing. It's like I'm being ignored.
Sarah Moore 16:48
Oh, that's frustrating. I'm so sorry. I pull out some cat treats.
Omar Burgos 16:54
I find this very, very insulting.
Sarah Moore 17:00
Brought them for you, just in case I saw you again. I wanted you to have something nice. I'd love to scan the crowd and see if I recognize anybody else.
Ansel Burch 17:09
Yeah, go. Let's go ahead and do another luck draw. Name your suit.
Sarah Moore 17:14
I'm gonna say diamonds.
Ansel Burch 17:17
No, okay, yeah, somehow you miss the the very distracting arrival of Stella's character. Yeah, I was very
Sarah Moore 17:26
busy hanging out with the cat like that feels very much like what I would do at a real party. Yeah? It's just like, oh, there's a cat in the corner. I'll go over here if
Ansel Burch 17:38
there's a cat at the party, yeah, maybe it was just before or just after you stopped looking up. In fact, I think for cinematics, like we see Elena look out over the crowd, turn back to the Pharaoh, and in the background is this like light show and the sudden stop in the music. So, yeah, yeah, somehow you miss it. But Omar, how does whiskers do? Let's see if whiskers spots it, since you're facing the other direction, save
Omar Burgos 18:05
us whiskers. But power of my gods, I say it's a spade. Joker, does that mean wild?
Ansel Burch 18:17
Somehow you will all find each other. I promise. That means it
Ben Banks 18:21
turns into a musical if you get the Joker card,
Sarah Moore 18:23
yeah, no
Ben Banks 18:27
Joker card, yeah, that's true. That's true. The second Joker card comes up. I quit.
Ansel Burch 18:37
Okay, so, yeah, neither of you see IXA or Mason in the crowd. But I do think that whiskers as you're looking over the crowd, having drawn a joker, I do think that you spot the dude, bro in the puka shells, who is called by a cat in a space helmet as he comes over with the same leading line, hey, I don't suppose you guys are time travelers, right?
Omar Burgos 19:02
Who's asking? Well,
Ansel Burch 19:05
I'm a bit of a time traveler myself. I I surf through time, but that's neither here nor there. My name is Josh, of
Sarah Moore 19:14
course it is, yeah, but
Ansel Burch 19:17
hey, because I've been like going through this rave a few times now, and it is getting kind of weird that I can't leave. Every time I try to leave, it takes me right back to a couple seconds ago, and then in a few minutes, all the power is going to go out, and we are going to be like, all the way screwed. So do you guys got any ideas?
Omar Burgos 19:44
First off, my name is Pharaoh, whiskey, Terry and Fellini. It's Percival the grand and you may kiss my hand, my paw. Oh, hold up my PA. Now.
Ansel Burch 19:56
All right, I can, I can, I can do that. I.
Omar Burgos 20:00
Now second, what exactly will happen in a few minutes? Well,
Ansel Burch 20:05
like I said, the power is going to go out. And I don't know if you know how it is to live on Mars, but I just learned that without electricity, the air stops and everybody doesn't live very long whisker
Omar Burgos 20:19
immediately puts the helmet that was all talked about that awesome.
Sarah Moore 20:26
Elena calls for her stunt double.
Ansel Burch 20:32
Yeah, sweetie. What's up? Yeah,
Sarah Moore 20:34
um, so I just found out that there's going to be no air here, and that feels like something that a star wouldn't do so,
Ansel Burch 20:42
oh yeah. Okay, so you just want to, like, have me step into your spot for the
Sarah Moore 20:47
scene. Just tag in.
Ansel Burch 20:51
Okay, they'll dump your voice in those
Sarah Moore 20:53
Yeah, of course, of course, of course. Yeah. So we'll, we'll just shoot you, always from behind then, and I will. I will try to go figure out what's going on. And you stay here in the danger. I love you. Okay,
Ansel Burch 21:05
sweetie, all right. And she's like straightening the you wig.
Sarah Moore 21:10
And then while she's out there, I would like to go find where the power supply is.
Ansel Burch 21:16
Good choice. Good choice. Whiskers, are you gonna go with her? Are you gonna keep hanging out with Josh
Omar Burgos 21:21
whiskers. Doesn't realize, because he's looking at himself too much and getting his paws kissed, that he's just continuing the conversation. Yes, and what's your favorite time period Josh and does not know, as a stunt double, is just a stunt
Ansel Burch 21:38
double. Amazing. All right, let's, let's zoom the camera back over to Mason. Detective Rockwell, you are especially good at investigation. This should be, I don't want to guilt the lily too much, but I have a feeling you've got an edge on this. Let's go ahead and make this a skill check for you, instead of just a raw look as you look around yourself. So you'll draw against my card.
Sarah Moore 22:02
Yes, please find us.
Ben Banks 22:07
All right. You ready? Yep, I got the queen of clubs.
Ansel Burch 22:13
All right. Well, I got a two of diamonds. So good news, we have a success on the table. So who do we think Mason sees? Do you? Do you think you spot aixa on the dance floor, whiskers over by Josh? Or do you think you spot Elena as she heads off into the into the crowd? I think initially
Ben Banks 22:33
I see the stunt double, Elena, and I'm like, about to approach her, but then at the last minute, I see someone kind of like, slinking off like I would. I'm like, Who is that? And I see the real Elena. And so, like, I go to approach her, Hey, Elena, right? Is that? Is that?
Sarah Moore 22:50
Yeah, you are definitely an M, an M. Name Michael Marvin,
Ben Banks 22:59
Mason, Mason, Mason.
Sarah Moore 23:01
Yes, see, I said that, hi,
Ben Banks 23:04
hey, where are we? What? Yeah,
Sarah Moore 23:07
not to be alarmist, but it turns out that some gentlemen named Josh informed us that very soon the power is going to go out. We're all going to suffocate to death. So I was thinking maybe we could check on that death
Ben Banks 23:25
is not good. Also, there's another mystery. There's another person that looks like you over there. So I don't know if that has anything to do with it we need. Yeah, she's
Sarah Moore 23:33
my son double. She does the danger stuff. Oh,
Ben Banks 23:37
okay, isn't this time travel all kind of danger
Sarah Moore 23:41
stuff, which is why she's always with me, all right? And not because she's my wife. What?
Ben Banks 23:48
Oh, huh. Oh, right. So you said there's a power outage gonna happen? Just,
Sarah Moore 23:56
yeah, just gonna go, gonna go check on the on the power
Ben Banks 24:00
do you know where that is? Oh, I
Sarah Moore 24:06
I assume that when I pull back this flap, it will be here.
Ben Banks 24:09
That's what would normally happen. I didn't even see the flap there. Well, just gonna pull back a flap,
Sarah Moore 24:15
is it there? As
Ansel Burch 24:17
you pull back the the flap that connects this large enclosure to the rest of the habitation unit, instead of, like just a big power station, you see into the sort of central hub of the colony's main like structure. So this is Medusa Fauci, and it is the newest Colony City on Mars. So everything is like Spanky, fresh and new, all the shiniest tech, all the newest glass. Everything is very, very crisp and clean. It looks like an Apple store in here, which means, unfortunately, it is like all the way hard to tell where anything. Is, or what anything is, because it all looks like a like a chiclet,
Unknown Speaker 25:05
okay, but
Ansel Burch 25:08
I think that there is a chance that between you and Mason, the two of you, might be able to figure out which way to go.
Sarah Moore 25:15
I am going to strive confidently forward. This is, if this was one of her movies, she would know the way. So she is just gonna go,
Ansel Burch 25:29
Mason. How about you feel free to
Sarah Moore 25:31
stop her. Mason's
Ben Banks 25:33
gonna look off in that direction and then be like, I think we probably need the others. So he's gonna go back over towards whiskers. And I love, I eat, I eat skiv, but she's in the middle of the dance floor, and that's, that's too many people for Mason. Maybe I can get whiskers to get her, and then we could reconvene. Very
Sarah Moore 25:52
smart. There
Ansel Burch 25:54
you go. All right, fantastic. So yeah, so let's, let's follow Mason as he heads over towards whiskers.
Ben Banks 26:00
So he's just like, popping up through people's shadows. Like, you'll just see his head in the crowd, because he's really tall, but then it'll kind of slink down, and then pop up a little bit closer, and then go down, and then pop up another spot, a little bit closer, until he's like, right up behind Josh and whiskers. And he's like, kind of leans down. He's like, Your Highness, my lord. And like extends his hands towards whiskers in like a greeting.
Omar Burgos 26:27
You hear me say, you never and you wouldn't believe Queen Elizabeth the first now there's a book.
Ansel Burch 26:33
Oh, oh, what? Oh, hey, oh, hey, who's your friend?
Omar Burgos 26:37
Oh, that's amazing. Yes, I remember your name, yeah, all my subjects, kiss my PA.
Ben Banks 26:47
Okay, I like, and I put, like, my hat in front of it, so like Josh and like everyone else doesn't see me do this, because it's not a thing a big, tough guy would do.
Ansel Burch 26:56
Is that how everybody greets you? Uh, Your Highness whiskers,
Omar Burgos 26:59
well, of course, is it is your honor to be able to kiss upon the hand of royalty, such as mine. I mean,
Ansel Burch 27:06
I mean, yeah, I get that.
Omar Burgos 27:09
So what brings you here? Mason, what news do you carry we
Ben Banks 27:14
need? I heard about your conversation with the Josh. I believe your name was, yeah, that's me. Oh, hello. So we need to get the rest of the band together. And Elena is headed towards the power supply. She, I think she knows where it is. She's walking very confidently in a direction. So I think we need to get everybody and go meet her over there.
Omar Burgos 27:39
You're here, and she wait, she's right here, but double gang, pull the wig off the body off the fine if you're here and she's gonna ruin the shot,
Sarah Moore 27:55
the camera guy's like, oh, and read.
Omar Burgos 28:04
Then there is one more. What was her name? She was the strange one. Oh,
Ansel Burch 28:11
the alien. Yeah, she's super cool, but she did not want to talk to me. So a time traveler, oh yeah, I'm the Time Surfer. I surf through time.
Ben Banks 28:26
Okay, are you part of this nexus save the universe thing, or is this kind of just like a hobby of yours?
Ansel Burch 28:33
Oh yeah, no. I Look bro, I I surf through time. And sometimes I get caught in these mad time eddies, like this one right here. And, you know, whenever somebody screws with the time stream, it just like it gets us all, you know, just like this, we all get all hella stuck. So I'm, I'm just like, you bro, we're one in the same right now,
Omar Burgos 28:58
yes, and we don't want to die. I mean, you'll die first I have protection. Oh, so where did you see? What does her name?
Ansel Burch 29:11
That's a cool name. No wonder she tell it to me.
Ben Banks 29:15
That's one of many reasons, possibly. But, oh, I think we're gonna go talk to her, but Josh, have a very important mission for you. Oh, okay, I think it's critical to the time sphere that you go to DJ and ask and request a song, because DJs love that. And oh yeah, I feel like that could definitely save the time stream.
Ansel Burch 29:37
Okay, so, like, if I picked the right song. I could save everybody
Unknown Speaker 29:42
you could
Ansel Burch 29:44
Oh, Maryland, okay, I'll think of, I'll think of something. I'll think of the right song. All right, all right. I'm just gonna, you gotta go through my Zune real quick. Oh no,
Ben Banks 29:58
perfect, perfect. All right. Uh, Your Highness, if you would care to lead the way to the center of the dance floor,
Omar Burgos 30:06
and like, head directly towards where I should be dumb.
Ansel Burch 30:12
I love the idea of the cat, just like weaving through this, I
Omar Burgos 30:19
would say every so often there's a laser that shoots down. And it's like, I
Unknown Speaker 30:24
forgot about that. So it takes us
Omar Burgos 30:26
a little bit longer to get to ice. Or maybe, I said, notices this rabid cat hopping from laser to laser.
Ansel Burch 30:32
I think that's, I think that's exactly what it is. I think AIX is absolutely going to notice the Pharaoh as whiskers chases the laser lights through the crowd
Omar Burgos 30:41
you've attended. My nemesis,
Stella Cheeks 30:46
can I I feel like ice has, like, not great sense of boundaries, so I definitely like I'm dancing stuff. I just didn't like that dude's vibe. And I see whiskers, and I feel like I'm really excited to see somebody that I know here at this incredible party that I'm really vibing at, and I definitely scoop whiskers up and do that thing that you do when you have a cat, and you're just like, dancing with them, and they're like, I did not want to be a part of this. I didn't consent to this. Oh, my God, hi. I'm so happy to see you here. And
Omar Burgos 31:15
then me my enemies. It gets away, and
Stella Cheeks 31:19
then I get really serious. I'm like your enemies. Your enemies are my enemies. I'll kill them.
Sarah Moore 31:26
Wait. Did we cause the power outage?
Ben Banks 31:32
Oh no, oh no,
Omar Burgos 31:35
we must go.
Stella Cheeks 31:37
Did did you find that weird guy with a necklace. He tried to talk to me, but I did not enjoy it, so I left.
Omar Burgos 31:47
Yes, he was another one, but Josh is his name, and he comes with grave news. It appears that this entire place may lose all of his air in a matter of less than a couple minutes, and he only said we had a few we have to go and find and follow Mason now, oh, I have this helmet, so I'll be fine. But you all may not be.
Stella Cheeks 32:08
I just, I feel like, because I have this, like, really advanced spacesuit that we talked about, I have, like, in, like a functional AI and stuff, I feel like I just put, like a, like, Winter Soldier Red Hood style mask over my mouth. It's like, Yes, I will be fine, too. Hi, Mason, Hey. How's
Ben Banks 32:24
it going? I just take, like, my handkerchief and put over my face. We're good. We're good. Yeah, Alina is back this way, so if we want to exit the dance floor and go meet up with her, maybe we can solve this problem.
Stella Cheeks 32:41
I put whiskers like on my shoulder if he wants to be there. Oh
Omar Burgos 32:44
no, yeah, he totally just sits there and as if he's just kind of just being taken for a ride. He just got points to this go forward.
Ansel Burch 32:55
Perfect. I love this. I love this shot of the three of you in the middle of this writhing mass of humanity as whiskers gestures forward, and as you look towards the door and a laser light crosses the three of you, all of the power just kicks
Ben Banks 33:10
out. It's happening. Catalina knew where it was, where the power supply was.
Stella Cheeks 33:13
Does she know how to work power supplies? She
Ben Banks 33:17
was very confident in the direction she was going. So I thought, I thought she knew
Ansel Burch 33:23
people around you are starting to scream and panic. Speaking of Elena, let's go ahead and cut out to the hallway as you make your way out through the colony. Yep, yeah. So Elena, you are walking with great confidence. And of course, that is to be rewarded. I am. But how do you how do you think you are gonna approach this thematically. Are you following wires? Are you looking for doors? What is what is Elena looking for to stride towards confidence?
Sarah Moore 33:50
I think that, I think she is trying to follow the person who she perceives would be in charge of this. So she has looked at for like a, like a nerdy looking scientist. Oh, okay, okay, great. And she's like, going after him, yeah.
Ansel Burch 34:09
So I think you go after this nerdy looking scientist, and they get to a door that has one of those, like, access key card situations, a proxy key got it. And as they are approaching the thing, they hold the key card up, and nothing happens. And then they hold up a like, get into their wallet, and they pull out a different key card, and they hold it up, and nothing happens. And this gives you enough time to, like, catch up with them before they're able to get the door.
Sarah Moore 34:39
I'm going to pull the I got drunk at the rave, and I'm looking for the bathroom. Nice, nice. I'm just gonna um, so hey, listen, oh, kind of like fall on them so I can try to seal the key car from I'm. Sorry, um, where is the ladies room? You big, handsome piece of meat. Oh,
Ansel Burch 35:07
um, hi, I will take you there. How's, how does that
Sarah Moore 35:14
sound? Just tell me where it is. I am so good. I'm so good. If you could just, I just am looking for a lace room. Oh, just kind of like fall. So he has to catch me a little.
Ansel Burch 35:27
Oh, do you live in hab one? I don't think I've seen you around. Oh,
Sarah Moore 35:35
stop. I'm always trying to get your attention. You never pay attention to me. You never that I've been trying to talk to you for a while, and you just never look in my direction. And it's just not nice. So, oh,
Ansel Burch 35:50
I'm, I'm so, so I'm actually supposed to observe everyone in the colony. So that's, I know
Sarah Moore 35:55
that's super embarrassing. Is super short. I won't tell anybody. Have I stolen his key card yet?
Ansel Burch 36:02
Yeah, oh, yeah. Absolutely, great.
Sarah Moore 36:06
Hey, listen, I'm feeling, I'm feeling a little dizzy. Oh well, I'm gonna sit down right here. I just kind of like sprawl in front of the door. Like, could you go get me? Could you could give me some water and maybe the bucket.
Ansel Burch 36:25
Oh, yeah, all right, and, and, like, scuttles off in in another direction, okay, in search of you, assume, a janitor's closet. Yeah, I don't care what he's looking
Sarah Moore 36:40
for. Try to go in this room. What's in here? Fantastic,
Ansel Burch 36:43
yeah, so let's go ahead and go
Sarah Moore 36:47
into that room. Okay, I was doing to draw for it. No
Ansel Burch 36:51
to enter a room is going to be fine. You stole a guy's key card. I should have had you draw for that. But here we are. We're having too much fun.
Sarah Moore 36:58
Love it. Yeah, it worked on you. I was misleading. The DM is what was happening.
Ansel Burch 37:05
I'm very I'm very susceptible to fun scenes perfect. So as you head into this room, let's go ahead and have you look around, and we'll do another skill draw to see what kinds of stuff you discover.
Sarah Moore 37:19
Okay, all right, I drawn
Ansel Burch 37:26
a queen. Oh, well, that's lucky. I had a jack so it has
Sarah Moore 37:32
Looper on it. Ooh, Doom. Okay,
Ben Banks 37:35
that's dumb, but I wasn't sure. Well, I was gonna say
Stella Cheeks 37:38
the same thing. Mine has, like, a little circle,
Sarah Moore 37:40
yeah, the lights, I mean, the lights, the electricity did go out. So feels like Doom.
Ansel Burch 37:48
I So Doom, in this case, is good for you. Oh, great. It allows you to remove the enemy card from play. Oh, which, in this case is just gonna mean that you, you're, you're getting an ultimate success on this great so as you look around this space, I think that Elena like locks in to this moment, and you're able to sort of scan the space and immediately tell that this is absolutely the room that You're looking for. Okay, this is not the power control, but like the command center for the for the colony, and because everybody is at the rave, there's like one dude on the far side who is clearly watching YouTube or playing Galaga or something great, all the way not paying attention. Definitely playing Galaga, yeah. So in this moment, Elena has, like, a shot of clarity, and you spot that everything in this colony is downright perfect, like you can see that this is a, you know, like there, there are video cameras spaced around this the space that show you the various like communal areas of the colony. And you see the beautiful thoroughfares. You see the crystalline walls and beautiful wide open VISTAs showing amazing landscapes of of the Martian terrain outside, and you can see the outsides of the habitation units and the domiciles, how how clean and comfortable they are. It's obvious to you that this is like an idyllic, utopic society. Something has happened here to make it so that everybody is is really comfortable, and that's, you know, great. But also, you know, this is a sci fi set piece, and if anybody knows it, it's you, and so that should, that should set your your plot suds as tingling, yeah, just as the electricity goes. Out,
Sarah Moore 40:04
Does, does that? Does the guy finally pay attention? Oh yeah, yeah. See, like, playing, I didn't know he was playing Gallagher and like a handheld, like it was, like a great
Ansel Burch 40:17
so, yeah, I think the lights go out and you hear a frightened scream from the other side of the control room as he sits up. Ah ha, oh, ah, oh no, oh no, okay, protocol 12, protocol 12, and you hear like feet get up and pitter patter across the room, and then lot of clattering with machinery, and then eventually, like a flashlight kicks on, and he swings the flashlight up and over and spots you. Ah, hi, okay, I'm sorry. Don't panic. Everything is
Sarah Moore 40:53
fine. I'm having a hard time seeing you because you have the only light. Who is that is that? Roger? Who is that?
Ansel Burch 41:00
No, Roger, Roger, sick today,
Sarah Moore 41:02
great, and you are,
Ansel Burch 41:05
I am, Gary, and everything is gonna be fine.
Sarah Moore 41:09
It doesn't feel like it's fine, Gary, it feels like maybe you hit a button or something, and now there's no electricity, and we're gonna run out of oxygen, buddy. We don't want to tell your supervisor, right?
Ansel Burch 41:21
Yeah, no, I absolutely don't want that protocol 12 says that I am to tell you that everything is fine,
Sarah Moore 41:27
right, but everything is not fine, right? Gary,
Ansel Burch 41:31
probably not. No citizen, so I'm gonna need you to wait right here and I'm gonna go fix it before everybody die. I'm gonna fix it before everybody does.
Sarah Moore 41:46
Hey, Gary, you seem very nervous and not at all in control of what's happening. There are
Ansel Burch 41:52
usually eight people in this room to help me with this, and right now,
Sarah Moore 41:57
I feel like I have enough charisma for at least five. So why don't I come with you? Oh,
Ben Banks 42:02
oh, okay,
Ansel Burch 42:04
yeah, that sounds like a good plan.
Sarah Moore 42:08
Wonderful. And then I have a couple of friends who are gonna meet us.
Ansel Burch 42:12
Oh, great. Okay, that's, that's helpful, that's, that's more, so just come with me. I guess great. We will fix it.
Sarah Moore 42:23
Of course, you're doing great today, Gary, I'm gonna put in a good word for you
Ansel Burch 42:28
that, thanks. Thanks, I hope. Unless
Sarah Moore 42:31
we die and then you're gonna have a very bad review, yeah,
Ansel Burch 42:38
that would somehow be worse. You're right through here, and so he like takes you back to the door that you came in through, and as you are coming out of the door, and Gary's flashlight sweeps across the hallway, I think you spot as a few particularly well dressed Martian colonists scuttle across the hallway and run into one of the far rooms. I think Gary turns to you and says, I think that was the president.
Sarah Moore 43:09
Yep, that probably true. We can't trust the president. Cameron Gary, I mean, I always have Look around you. He does not control the electricity. Are we sure about that? Pretty, pretty sure
Ansel Burch 43:23
about that.
Sarah Moore 43:25
You don't seem sure about anything. Gary, I am really
Ansel Burch 43:27
not it is. This has never happened to me. So you seem real confident, though
Sarah Moore 43:34
I do. Why don't you give me the flashlight? Oh, okay, all right.
Ansel Burch 43:40
Great. Thanks. Where are we going?
Sarah Moore 43:41
Well, I'm gonna put my hand on your shoulder. You're gonna lead the way. But it was real shaky before. Also, I think my friends are right over here. I would love this. This feels like the correct time in in the movie, it does her to flip around and just have all of them be standing there,
Ansel Burch 43:59
yeah? This is the moment where they're all just coming out the door, yeah. Oh, hey
Sarah Moore 44:03
guys, this is Gary. Hi, Gary is either gonna fix this all for us, or he's the reason why we're all gonna die. Hey,
Ben Banks 44:14
Gary. Is he the villain? Is Gary and I like, square up to drumming. Are you the villain? Let's wait to see if he
Sarah Moore 44:19
can fix it. Then you can punch him. Oh, okay.
Unknown Speaker 44:22
Oh, don't.
Sarah Moore 44:24
Don't worry, Gary, you're doing it. This is a test. Hey, Gary, this is a test. You've been left in charge. Look, that promotion is coming up maybe, okay,
Ansel Burch 44:35
okay, we're just gonna, we're just gonna keep going for the time being, great, that is where our scene will fade to black and we'll end our first episode. Super fun. All right,
Sarah Moore 44:47
poor Gary. That's, yeah, I can't Oh,
Ansel Burch 44:50
Gary poor Gary, poor Gary, poor Gary. Okay, so real quick. That is the end of. Episode One of our second adventure. Join us again next time when we will find out what happened and maybe, maybe save the colony of Mars. Stella cheeks is at Stella cheeks on Instagram and blue sky. Sarah Moore is at pixies and pins on all of the social media channels, and at pixies and pins.com you can also check out her Sarah's table live streams on Twitch at pixies and pins. Omar Burgos is at tale Weaver. Check out his work on the tale of D 20s. TTRPG channel. More information at a tale of D twenties.com Ben banks is at DJ underscore. Blendian on Instagram and SoundCloud. I'm Ansel Burch, and you can find me at the indecisionist on all of the meta properties and on blue sky. Special. Thanks to Cameron ivesque Davis for the song you're hearing now and at the beginning of the podcast, this has been an indecisionist production. Go to indecisionist.com to find more of our work, including my monthly gaming event, TTRPG pickup con and my other time travel podcast, time to party as you travel at one second per second. Take some time out for these intrepid adventurers. They may be in trouble, but only for the time being. You
