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!