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]