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Good afternoon fellow overseers, it's good to see you all again, I will admit that I have been consistently getting later with these as of late. My apologies, I've been trying to get on top of that, regardless, let's get to the recap of last week's session

SESSION 13

[fyi this was a shorter session than usual]

The party started in the ICU that they ended the last session in, with Fox no longer floating in mid air, and now that things are back to usual, the two imperials start fucking with the tv that's the only source of light in this room while Eve looked through the cabinets in the room, finding that the tools in the previously mentioned cabinets progressively get older as she looks through the cabinets, going from standard stainless steel surgical tools and eventually to a chunk of flint on a stick. After that, they decide to start fucking with the portable Cathode Ray Tube TeleVision[complete with a built-in Video Cassette Recorder] since the droning from it was getting annoying[to me, the overseer, not the players] and they crank the volume to zero, before finding a note. It's one of Alina Seo's diary entries to be specific, which definitely casts some shade on that L.S.T.R unit from earlier, as well as finding some patient records. Moving on to the other Intensive Care Unit, they found a E.U.L.R in an oxygen hood and surprisingly enough, they didn't even kill it. Yeah I'm as surprised as y'all are. While in there, Eve looked around at some surgical equipment in the room, finding that it too was older the more she looked but in a far more literal way, where some of the tools were pristine and others were rusting away into literal dust. Next up was going back to the bathroom for the pump room key, with Eve also finding that her reflection has been replaced by the Gestalt she was built off, only she can't make out the face. A gestalt that is being hugged by Lilith['s ghost] to clarify because something something "doomed yuri quota" next we move to the pump room, where this time, I actually learned, I planned ahead with the puzzle, and it was almost balanced! Except not really because puzzles aren't really my forte either, either way, they got through, and made it to the flooded area, picking up the water key while they were here. they went into the next Corridor, Fox kills a S.T.A.R unit, the party goes into the office, saves, and that was were they ended it off for the evening

see you all next week, stay safe and all

Ruhm der Eusanischen Nation!
願女皇永遠帶領我們走向榮耀

freelancer_incorporated21 days ago

Hello my fellow overseers, this week's session is... even shorter than the last one, actually, as, funnily enough, all of us had work the next day. Anyway, I'll see where I can stretch the intel here so you have a decent reading experience.

SESSION 14

the party awoke in the office on the flooded section of the old hospital room, deciding to first go into the pipe room[which I was calling the "pump room", finding a ladder as well as pipes that, when messed with, are strangely musical, which fox immediately uses to just play a jaunty little tune, the ladder itself is "upsettingly warm", which weirds out Bird but they go up anyway, and unlock the door, giving themselves a direct way back up to the hospital wing's main floor, before they go right back down to go into the store room. the smell of rusted steel is the first thing they notice, the second thing being the blank key-card they needed for that puzzle upstairs, meaning they've officially found three out of the five needed, [cue mild argument because nobody except me knows how a gun works so the players, FOR THIS ENTIRE TIME thought they were walking around with extended magazines or some shit, and they seemingly never asked about that. that's on me.] (also while I was taking a call Fox started doing funeral proceedings for me because I was taking too long. Comedy gold), Eve got the blank keycard we needed and then they went back to the office because I lost track of where the exam room key was supposed to be in my notes, they then went over to the sleeping ward to obtain the video cassette tape they needed to get the gold key, but before they could get to that, they needed to get to the first bit of actually challenging combat in a fucking WHILE as they are beset upon by CORRUPTED FOUR A.R.A.RS, one of them even manages to bonk Eve upside the head, although all things considered though it wasn't a long fight, totalling to about 7 rounds if memory serves correctly, but it was more tense than usual, probably because literally all of us were cutting it close showing up for this week's session anyway, but overall it was enjoyable as ever, and far sillier seeing as Fox and Bird were the ones pushing the story foreward, also I got to explain what a "stovepipe" malfunction is to the gang, which is always fun, even if during this session I had multiple disturbances on my end that required me to check around for what was causing the problems each time.

see you all next week!

Möge das wachsame Auge der großen Revolutionäre euch Sicherheit bringen.
願皇后的祝福伴你一路前行

freelancer_incorporated13 days ago (1 edit)

good afternoon my fellow overseers, I have returned with this week's update on the crossfade party of all time, hold onto your hats this time because this was a full four hours this time!

EPISODE 14.5 "how was this airbase ever operational"

The session starts much like many other .5s, with Eve blair-witching in a corner of the sleeping ward, Fox and bird start looking around, finding a strange Video-cassette, and this was about when I had realised that a different overseer had messed with my script, but regardless the players go back up to the icu to watch the tape, after putting it in, they see a spooky guy in dark armour walking by the camera, before walking through the camera and teleporting the two from

clown-shoes hell dimension [sierpenski]
to
clown-shoes hell dimension [farcical version of the airfield that Bird and Fox used to be stationed at before all this.]

they show up in the airfield they were previously. oh and someone died btw.

here's our murder mystery for the evening:

late last night one of the maintenance crew that was fixing the landing gear on a small fighter aircraft literally just BLEW UP. security is on the scene and command suspects foul play.
here's the suspects we have.
- Taitor-face mc'annoying-fuck, a person who used to live in the nation, who just *looks* intensely suspicious, who was supposedly working in the same hanger at the time of the "accident"
- The maintenance crew chief, an A.R.A.R unit, who was apparently sleeping at the time of the incident
- A E.U.L.R who was apparently working on the cockpit of the aircraft the victim was, who was later revealed to be on the demolition team[which, side note, yes Phobos I am making this personal, why on earth would an airbase have a dedicated Demolitions team anyway????????]
- a pilot from not only the wrong timeline, but also the wrong year, universe, AND airbase, but got here at the worst possible time, freaked out, grabbed a random item to try blending in[a torque wrench? really??]
and
- a S.T.A.R unit that was apparently awol around the time of the accident, and is covered in blood[most of which isn't hers] but she also isn't particularly in the state to answer for... reasons

[spoiler, it was Evil Mc'asshole face and the A.R.A.R because they literally just didn't like him]

first one they interrogate was the pilot, since he very much so doesn't belong. like, at all. especially since he was American, upon which they realise he's from the wrong universe, thus clearing him of suspicion.

next was the Eule, who was actively balling her eyes out, she was apparently ordered to "help with repairing the aircraft". despite not being trained in advanced maintenance. let lone being on the maintenance team to begin with. also she was ordered to do that by an air marshal. why? no idea, once again, this script wasn't mine, Phobos wrote it. And I'm going to beat his ass because of it.[platonically of course, don't worry.] the Eule's testimony is relatively simple, she was trying to fix the tension on the flightstick she heard a thud that "sounded like boots hitting metal" before the guy y'know.

third one up was the maintenance crew chief, who mostly just corroborates everyone else's stories so far, she was asleep when the accident happened, when she got there she found the pilot out of time and the Starling, with the other two showing up later.

the starling was next.... yeah, one hell of a time to have a bad trip, her intel was mostly useless since she's in the midst of severe persona destabilisation.

finally was evil-doer Mc'definitely-did-it, who, was confusingly calm and more importantly, was just.... VERY AWKWARD TO QUESTION, somehow out-freaking Fox AND bird. [side note, since Bird is, y'know, a K.L.B.R unit, they wanted to read the minds of the suspects, so I was literally just sending bird memes that were vaguely applicable to the characters being interogated]

which reminds me, during this elongated investigation, Fox and bird get dragged into dealing with a hostage best described with this video.

it was quite... interesting to say the least, all this culminating in... the suspicious guy accidentally confessing his and the crew chief's involvement in that one guy's death, the air marshal becoming vapor, and the dynamic duo getting zapped back to the clown-shoes hell dimension because I found the remote and let's be real this shit was derailing harder than.... ok I don't know about any train disasters tbh

all-in-all, this session was great, even if Phobos switched my scripts around, tune in next week when I [maybe] make Eve experience Lilith's life as a human to get the gold key! goodbye!

Möge das wachsame Auge der großen Revolutionäre euch Sicherheit bringen.
願皇后的祝福伴你一路前行

ps. the "script" thing was a bit, just in case it wasn't clear that this is a solo run with the story [although to be honest, trying to run a ttrpg campaign with TWO D.Ms does seem interesting, if gimmicky]

freelancer_incorporated4 days ago

Hello esteemed friends, one former player, and fellow overseers, welcome to momentous occasion I suppose, the first back-to-back side story, the first out of(their regular)body experience these replikas have experienced, an appearance of the great revolutionary’s daughter, and the party’s first foray into the depths of nowhere itself.

Welcome, dear readers, to

EPISODE 14.10 “but you persisted”

(Written in my phone this time because haha funny I BROKE THE FUCKING “W” ON MY KEYBOARD.)

Our episode started with Bird and Eve in the sleeping ward, with Fox taped to the ceiling and Lilith still very dead, Bird and Eve then spent nearly the first hour of the session trying to get Fox off the ceiling. I’m not joking by the way, they kept making silly plans on how to get him down, and I couldn’t stop laughing. All the jokes being brought to a stop as they went to use the tape. As in video cassette fyi. At first seeing nothing. Then they end up in… a greenhouse. A VERY overgrown greenhouse but a greenhouse nonetheless. And standing in the centre of the room, staring at a large tree, was… Her. The daughter of the great revolutionary’s daughter. Seemingly caught in a moment of reflection, meanwhile, our resident disaster lesbians I mean, pragmatic duo were… ok well Eve was scared seeing the daughter of the revolutionary just… there. Bird somehow didn’t know who she was. Funny. To me I mean, anyway, the corpse of Lilith was sticking out of a tree which was what mostly had our skeleton-crew’s attention. Especially when it fucking winked at Eve. I then threw a radio at Eve, allowing the characters to directly hear the whole call, a notable departure from just being able to hear their respective players. (Eve likes Nick’s player more than her own lolololol) This was very disorienting for the characters, as you can imagine. It would be worse for the characters if I thrust heavy lore implications upon them, wouldn’t you agree? Replacing the great revolutionary’s daughter with the very dead sister of the Gestalt she was based on would lead to many potentially concerning narrative implications, no? (I must never let Eve’s player find out I did that specifically to mess with her she’d actually kill me)(/j) eventually, some people joined Eve’s “sister”.

First, the soldier, the one that had shot two of our party members in previous mind-fuck segments. Next was a doctor, an older man with a strangely unrecognisable face, although what was clear to see was that they were pleased to see our skeleton crew. Finally was a pilot, standing furthest away from our pov crew, and after. The four figures slowly turned to look at our two players. The first stared in hate. The second in apathy, the third looked happy to see them, the last was… confused, what else is new. I suppose that is one trait I can’t counteract by putting them through different loops. Also, Bird has hit a milestone! “First player to reach 1 persona and start hallucinating.” Which is quite the milestone for us to reach! Something tells me it’s one of those “Christmas miracles”.

Anyway, while Eve is remembering a part of the life of who she was built off, suddenly, the world around them goes dark. But only for a moment. Before the world lights up, and they lay witness to the vistas of hell nowhere. Here’s an exert from a message I sent Fox since they were sick and had projects to worry about so couldn’t show up.

“An endless desert of blood soaked sands, where no sound will reach you, with vast black black stone pillars darker than the vastness of space, a singular eye gazes down upon the red expanse, unblinking.”

(Also, apparently this was a highlight in my environmental descriptions according to Nick, the closest in the party to being another signalis fan. Needless to say I am still happy about that, my DMing skills have gotten very rusty so Crossfade has been a welcome challenge.)

Before getting dragged through reality and ending up….. in human bodies. Eve in… well take a guess. The body of the human she was based off, yeah. Bird was put into the body of another person in the hospital.

Now, let’s put ourselves in Eve’s shoes here, from her perspective, can you imagine how disorienting this would be, getting out in a new body, one that both is and isn’t your own, seeing people you recognise as your parents before they look at you and begin screaming things at you that I don’t even feel comfortable repeating here(or in the session, I let the players fill in the blank there.) before noticing a camera and switching on a dime to faux concern, and then cursing her out under her breath as they leave. Immediately after, they find a steamer-trunk in the hospital room providing a set of clothes for the two since the they’re just in hospital gowns, switching out for a nurse uniform(Eve) and the nation’s equivalent of like, those mock-uniforms they make JROTC kids wear sometimes? Idk I can’t think of a suitably European equivalent(Bird). And they start walking around, posing as, I shit you not, a kid that got lost on a field trip and a nurse helping them find their class group. Would you believe me if less than five minutes later they:

Broke into the security armoury in this hospital
found a disposable rocket launcher (before you ask, the reason this hospital armoury had a store of expendable anti-tank weapons, it’s because I thought it would be funny since they wanted to kill “Eve’s” parents and I thought it would be the funniest option)
They steal it, as well as the comparatively innocuous swat gear. I say “innocuous” because at this point the hell am I going to do.
Go to the hospital roof
Bird fires the rpg into “Eve’s” parents, their bodyguards and a state news crew. (7 dead, 36 injured.

Before then RUNNING TO THE NEAREST TOWN, disguising themselves among the populace a task that was easier for Bird because all they needed to do was put on a backpack, I could not make this up if I tried, but funnily enough, this is around where we ended, dragging our players back to the sleeping ward where they started, with fox still laying face down the floor- WHO TAPED HIM TO THE FLOOR WHILE WE WERE GONE!?

Möge das wachsame Auge der großen Revolutionäre euch Sicherheit bringen.
願皇后的祝福伴你一路前行

PS.
Right so, this summary took too long on my end, my bad, had a lot to do over the weekend and early week. Happy holidays by the way! Just to let anyone reading know, there’s a decent chance that the next two sessions will be our last FOR THE YEAR. Everyone’s been very busy so it made sense to cut this month’s broadcast schedule in half. If I disappear for two weeks this month, you can look to this note for the reason, I’ve had a lot of fun using this system as my gateway back into DMing, and over my months of using this system I can confidently recommend this to anyone interested in both ttrpgs and signalis, even if the sessions I run typically have a tone that shifts between “undertale”and “the king in yellow”.

1000/10, thanks for making this system and thank anyone that chose to read this entire post too I suppose!

freelancer_incorporated1 day ago

Session: NULL.

Hi fellow overseers, I have some kinda bad news.

Nobody was able to get into “the groove” this week. Everyone was just feeling a bit fucked, whether it was due to exam season (god speed Fox) or Eve’s meds wearing off. Oh yeah, Eve couldn’t make it, sorgy.

At the very least our last session of the year is projected to have a full house so expect some weird shit next week, up to and including: a very familiar child showing up. (It’s Lilith.)