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What happens
- 00:00:48 Brennan welcomes the audience; Freddie says the whole "Prefrontal PIs" greeting — 00:01:01.
- 00:01:06 Brennan recaps episode 2: Oblongata Station, a pain courier from the scalp, Wilton; the Hippo Campus memories; Conrad's home and the ice skates for DA "M. Bition"; De'lux Industrial, the goons, the opened oculus and Elias "plummeting" out of a window of Gobstopper Industries — 00:01:06, 00:01:41, 00:02:13, 00:03:23.
- 00:04:26 Brennan reveals a pressure gauge that moves, to a pressure score of 80 in the yellow; all Moxie costs are doubled — 00:04:34, 00:05:32.
- 00:06:13 The group reacts to the oculus sight; Hunch proposes getting Elias to touch his balls, because, Hunch says, "Danny Fucks said that Wilton said there's something buzzing in this guy's balls" — 00:06:13, 00:06:33.
- 00:09:13 Justin and Conrad have a sidebar; Conrad decides to turn himself in; Justin goes to The Fix; the rest of the group notice (Snoop and Sneak checks) — 00:10:05, 00:10:57, 00:12:36.
- 00:12:36 Imelda's key: the switchboard she uses at Cerebell Pacific is destroyed (Savvy 4); the alternatives are the mayor or "the balls" — 00:13:09, 00:13:56.
- 00:14:30 Dan proposes that Conrad turns himself in as a distraction; The Fix says he will tell Mr. Bition he killed the boy; The Fix says Conrad is needed at the balls; Conrad tries to sneak away and is grabbed — 00:14:30, 00:15:42, 00:17:00.
- 00:17:31 Hunch raises the memory-bank book; The Fix speed-reads it (Savvy 5) at a remote iris panel in De'lux Industrial: the Psychometer Project, Mr. Henry, four star generals, a request for portability, Don Avaricci and the DA at the edge of the memory — 00:17:57, 00:19:30, 00:22:23, 00:23:21.
- 00:23:37 A mirrored double frequency forms a blinding white key; Imelda's own brass key is different; a Snoop 10 shows the party the white key and the memory of Norrell Ojiccle's bleached pocket square — 00:25:28, 00:26:14, 00:27:11.
- 00:28:52 The party's theory (psychometered, a key that unlocks and changes minds); Anastasia wonders if the DA and Mayor Logic were changed or chose it — 00:29:01, 00:30:45.
- 00:31:53 Imelda adds a feathered hat to the memory before sealing the book; the party now carries a mini portable oculus — 00:32:03, 00:32:13.
- 00:33:02 Anastasia's Savvy (DC 7 for her) recalls the reflexive switchboard at Oblongata Station with a central keyhole and four keyholes marked "F."; Anastasia's freezer holds a key in ice — 00:34:05, 00:35:19, 00:36:19.
- 00:37:53 The party splits: Imelda and Anastasia to Anastasia's apartment; Hunch, Dan and Conrad (with Justin) to find the other keys; The Fix to City Hall — 00:38:18, 00:48:07, 00:50:10.
- 00:38:46 Conrad asks to go with The Fix to be turned in; the party talks him out of it; The Fix's eagle talons speech; Conrad agrees to "do the balls thing" — 00:41:54, 00:43:19.
- 00:43:51 Savvy check (DC 9, 5 for Dan): the central key belongs to the stationmaster Max; the four Fs and their urges; the fight, flight, freeze, fawn jokes — 00:44:43, 00:46:03, 00:47:06.
- 00:50:46 Anastasia's boarding-house room; Chief of Police Alexander Tightass knocks looking for Imelda; Sneak 8 hides Imelda under hats and newspapers; Slick 9 deflects the chief — 00:53:44, 00:55:02, 00:57:34.
- 01:00:23 Anastasia chips the key from the block of ice; the two take vodka and leave for Oblongata Station — 00:59:15, 01:00:51.
- 01:01:19 The car with Hunch, Dan, Conrad and Justin; Dan spends a Moxie on Trouble Maker at Sugah's; contact Joey Sneezes explains the four Fs were laid off by Mayor Logic: Joey points to the prize fight and thinks Fight would not have left (Hunch concludes "Fight's at the ring" — 01:07:07); Flight "might've skipped town" and Fight and Freeze "got in a big to-do" — 01:04:33, 01:07:38; Fawn (Fanny Fawnsworth) works for Don Avaricci — 01:03:33, 01:04:10, 01:07:13.
- 01:08:37 Conrad drives with a natural 20 Sneak (28 with the driving bonus), notices cars that start to tail them and speeds up; a launch onto the broken highway with gunfire from the cars behind — 01:08:51, 01:09:50.
- 01:11:25 The illicit boxing ring near a nameless warehouse; Tiny the doorman; Slick 15; the promoter; the fight with Dominick Nuntz is picked over "SD" — 01:12:36, 01:13:30, 01:18:55.
- 01:21:49 The locker room: the Boxer (Dom calls him Self Doubt) and Dom Nuntz; a Snoop 6 does not show who is Fight; Conrad meets the old woman in Dom's corner, who is Fight, now Ivana Popov — 01:22:50, 01:24:15, 01:26:43.
- 01:28:01 Conrad punches Ivana and a key comes out of her mouth; Dan stakes his savings; the first "Box of Doom" fight, Hunch against Dom — 01:28:14, 01:29:50.
- 01:30:08 Round one and two of the fight; Hunch burns Moxie to survive; he wins with an uppercut; Dan wins the bet — 01:34:23, 01:36:43, 01:37:00.
- 01:37:35 Ivana takes the key, speaks to Conrad; the memory of the ice skating rink; they show her the oculus; she agrees to come to Oblongata Station — 01:37:58, 01:39:17, 01:40:42, 01:41:48.
- 01:42:00 City Hall: The Fix climbs the back stairs to DA Mark Bition and reports that he killed the kid; Bition orders the skates destroyed; the pressure rises to 100 — 01:43:33, 01:44:03, 01:44:53.
- 01:45:37 The Fix confronts Bition with breathing facts; Sharp 12 brings the pressure down (the dial shown at 80 per caption); Bition reveals the missing packet and that Elias is "the big guy's biggest problem" — 01:48:04, 01:49:02.
- 01:50:45 A mystery figure steps out of a side door; a white key streaks for The Fix's throat; Brennan ends the episode — 01:51:01, 01:51:16.
- 01:52:19 Preview of episode 4, "Grappling with Death" (not episode facts) — 01:52:19.
Frames
Key quotes
- “Unbelievable, your pressure's at 80! 80 what? It’s at 80!” — Brennan 0:05:26
- “Maybe Logic will hear the fact that we're falling out of a goddamn window.” — Imelda 0:13:56
- “Increase your budget?” — Don Avaricci 0:23:35
- “First, the balls.” — Mr. Fucks 0:31:47
- “I think doing the right thing is as much about doing good actions in the future as it is atoning for bad actions in the past.” — Hunch 0:40:43
- “I just need to put on something that ladies wear!” — Anastasia 0:55:28
- “Fawn is so nice.” — Mr. Fucks 1:06:09
- “SD. San Diego.” — Brennan 1:19:38
- “You better knock that Fakename's head right off!” — Ivana Popov 1:31:57
- “Maybe more keys come out?” — Ivana Popov 1:38:35
Who and what appears
Player characters
NPCs
- Announcer (Mentopolis)
- Chief Alexander Tightass
- Cops (Mentopolis)
- Dominick Nuntz
- Don Avaricci
- Elias Hodge
- Fanny Fawnsworth
- Four star generals
- Ivana Popov
- Joey Sneezes
- Justin Fication
- Mark Bition
- Max Medula
- Mayor Leon Logic
- Mr. Henry
- Mystery Figure (Mentopolis)
- Norrell Ojiccle
- Promotor
- Self Doubt
- Shock
- Tiny
- Wilton
Locations
- Anastasia's Apartment
- Cerebellum Boulevard
- City Hall (Mentopolis)
- De'lux Industrial
- Evidence locker
- Gobstopper Industries
- Illicit Boxing Ring
- Oblongata Station
- Sugah's
- Synaptic Switchboard
- The balls / gonad region
- The collapsed synaptic highway
- The outside world / Gobstopper Industries top floor
Items and artifacts
- Anastasia's key
- Bottle of vodka "Endorphins
- Box of Doom (Mentopolis)
- Chief Tightass's card
- Dan's winnings
- Dom's teeth
- Evidence cart
- Gobstopper Psychometer Project book
- Ice skates
- Imelda's key
- Ivana's key
- Norrell Ojiccle's pocket square
- Pressure score
- Psychometer
- The oculus
- White key
Factions and organizations
Roll log
| Time | Character (player) | Roll (stat) | Result as said | Difficulty | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:11:02 | Conrad (Alex) | Snoop (Justin bounding to The Fix) | "6." | 4 | Conrad senses Justin will tell people — 00:11:07 |
| 00:11:57 | Conrad (Alex) | Sneak (sidebar with Justin) | "Two plus two, 4." | sets observers' Snoop 4 | Observers roll Snoop 4; Danielle, Trapp, Siobhan halve (Planned Action); "everyone except pleasure" notice — 00:12:15 |
| 00:12:59 | Imelda (Siobhan) | Savvy (other key places) | "No, that's a 4." | 9 | Fails; Moxie starts to be collected — 00:13:03 |
| 00:17:02 | Conrad (Alex) | Sneak (slipping away) | "a one plus two"; with Escape Artist "it's still just a 5. 6, sorry." | — | Hunch sees it as a Planned Action and grabs the kid — 00:17:15, 00:17:19 |
| 00:17:57 | The Fix (Hank) | Savvy (speed read) | "I got it." (number not said) | 5 | Book opens into the psychometer memories |
| 00:24:51 | Imelda (Siobhan) | Savvy, halved (double frequency) | not said | 6 | Sees the white key form — 00:25:28 |
| 00:27:04 | Imelda (Siobhan) | Snoop (the white key and the Switchboard) | "I exploded." "I got a 10!" | 10 | Succeeds; Danielle and Trapp halve theirs; the memory of the bleached pocket square follows — 00:27:11 |
| 00:33:35 | Anastasia (Danielle) | Savvy (other keyholes) | "That's a 2." | 9 normally, 7 for her | Moxie gifts follow: Siobhan 2, Alex 2, Hank 2 — 00:33:42–00:34:02; Danielle says "I've got one more, so we are set" — 00:33:58; Brennan answers "on that seven" — 00:34:05 |
| 00:44:17 | Dan (Freddie) | Savvy (the four keys), exploded d4 | "I got 4! <…> I explode on my d4, the weakest of- I got 5 on the dot!" | 5 for Dan | Succeeds — 00:44:20, 00:44:26 |
| 00:44:30 | Hunch (Trapp) | Savvy | "I got a 7." | 9 | Fails — 00:44:30 |
| 00:44:34 | Anastasia (Danielle) | Savvy | "Three." | 9 | Fails — 00:44:34 |
| 00:44:35 | Conrad (Alex) | Savvy | "5." | 9 | Fails |
| 00:44:35 | Imelda (Siobhan) | Savvy | "3." | 9 | Fails; "More Moxie here" — 00:44:35 |
| 00:44:43 | The Fix (Hank) | Savvy | "10." | 9 | The Fix succeeds; Brennan narrates the memory to Dan — 00:44:43; what The Fix learns is not stated; later Hank: "No, I just feel like I should know, and I don't." — 00:46:26 |
| 00:55:02 | Imelda (Siobhan) | Sneak (hiding from the police) | "I got an 8!" | 8 | Imelda is under hats and papers; the police enter at 00:56:01 |
| 00:55:07 | Anastasia (Danielle) | Sneak (hiding Imelda) | "I got a 5." | 8 | Not stated; Brennan's "incredible Sneak check" is tied to neither number — 00:56:01 |
| 00:57:34 | Anastasia (Danielle) | Slick (lie about the cousin) | "7!" "Plus 2, so that is 9." | 6 | Chief describes Imelda as "an incredibly erudite socialite" — 00:57:44 |
| 01:00:47 | Anastasia (Danielle) | Sharp, halved (icepick) | not said | 4 | Ice cracks; second key taken — 01:00:51 |
| 01:03:33 | Dan (Freddie) | Trouble Maker (no roll) | Moxie spent | — | Automatic success; the contact at Sugah's |
| 01:08:51 | Conrad (Alex) | Sneak, exploded | "Natural 20!" "Three, and then plus my two, so 25." "Then we gotta make it 28." | 13 | Notices the tail and drives away — 01:09:19 |
| 01:09:10 | Dan (Freddie) | Sneak | "7." | 13 | — |
| 01:09:11 | Hunch (Trapp) | Sneak | "I got a 5." | 13 | — |
| 01:13:26 | Conrad (Alex) | Slick (Snap Decision, "my d4") | "Three." | 10 | — |
| 01:13:30 | Dan (Freddie) | Slick (Snap Decision) | "15." | 10 | Tiny is not convinced but unsure — 01:13:36 |
| 01:16:18 | Hunch, Dan (Trapp, Freddie) | Snoop (survey the room for Fight) | Freddie: "Failure on my part."; Trapp: "Nope, that's not going to do it." (numbers not said) | 12 | Brennan: "Alex, you succeed" — 01:16:37 |
| 01:16:24 | Conrad (Alex) | Snoop, exploded | "I got a 10 on my 10." "16." | 12 | Succeeds ("Conrad got a success, yes" — 01:19:38); Brennan: "I think Conrad has, but I think that Conrad's lost in the crowd right now for a second." — 01:19:52 |
| 01:19:14 | Dan (Freddie) | Savvy (the odds on the fights) | "a natural 1" (a joke about betting on the man who is in the ring) | — | Promoter: "we obviously don't allow anyone on the team of a— " — 01:19:20 |
| 01:22:45 | Hunch (Trapp) | Snoop (who is Fight) | "That is a 6." | 5 | Succeeds; neither Dom nor the Boxer seems to be Fight — 01:22:50 |
| 01:22:48 | Dan (Freddie) | Snoop | "6." | 5 | Succeeds |
| 01:30:12 | Dom (Brennan) | Sneak | "Dom rolls a 7." | — | Tie with Hunch — 01:30:19 |
| 01:30:19 | Hunch (Trapp) | Sneak | "I also roll a 7." | — | Both act at once — 01:30:20 |
| 01:30:28 | Dom (Brennan) | Sturdy (Box of Doom) | "He rolls a 4." | — | Hunch must beat 4 — 01:30:33 |
| 01:30:53 | Hunch (Trapp) | Sharp (Snap Decision, Box of Doom) | "That is a 1." "The plus two, that's three, and I'm going to burn two Moxie to get up to 4." | 4 | Match; Hunch hits Dom — 01:30:59 |
| 01:31:22 | Hunch (Trapp) | Sturdy, flat | "That's an 18." | Dom's Sharp d4 | Dom must reach 18 — 01:32:15 |
| 01:32:23 | Dom (Brennan) | Sharp d4, exploding on 2, 3 and 4 | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 (Trapp: "four, six, eight"), then "10", then 4 → "14", then another 4 → "18, so he's matched" | 18 | Brennan: "He's already reached 18" — 01:33:00, 01:33:55 |
| 01:34:04 | Hunch (Trapp) | Moxie added to Sturdy | "I'll burn it all. Let's add three more." Brennan: "Your score is 21. His is 18." | 18 | 21 as Brennan says; six Moxie burned by arithmetic from "six Moxie" and the doubled cost — 01:33:14, 01:34:04 |
| 01:34:23 | Dom (Brennan) | Sharp d4, next die of the chain | "That's a 1!" | — | The chain ends on a 1 after exploded dice (not a natural 1); "Bam, you take the hit." — 01:34:44 |
| 01:34:54 | Hunch (Trapp) | Sneak (round two order) | "I only get a 2." | 4 | Dom goes first — 01:34:59 |
| 01:35:09 | Hunch (Trapp) | Sturdy | "That is a 19." | Dom's Sharp | Dom must reach 19 |
| 01:35:30 | Dom (Brennan) | Sharp d4 chain | 4, 2, 3, then "that's a 1": Trapp's running totals "Four", "Six", "Nine", "10" | 19 | Falls short; Hunch takes another hit — 01:35:47 |
| 01:35:59 | Dom (Brennan) | Sturdy (counter-punch) | "he only rolls a 3." | — | Hunch's Sharp DC 3 — 01:36:04 |
| 01:36:14 | Hunch (Trapp) | Sharp | "That's a 4, so a 6." | 3 | Uppercut; Dom lies down |
| 01:45:09 | The Fix (Hank) | Slick (presenting the skates) | "6." | 4 | Bition looks at the skates — 01:45:14 |
| 01:48:04 | The Fix (Hank) | Sharp (breathing talk) | "That's a 12." | — | Pressure comes down (Trapp: "bringing that pressure down"; Brennan: "steady"); dial at 80 per caption — 01:48:04 |
| 01:48:13 | Bition (Brennan) | Sturdy (resist intimidation) | "he rolls a 9" | — | Hank's second check (Menacing, Snap Decision) follows; his result is not said |
Stat named by Brennan or the player; dice are named only where said. "DC" is Brennan's difficulty where he states it. Totals are as said; "arithmetic" marks sums I added from stated parts. Natural 20s: Conrad 1 (Sneak, exploded) 01:08:51. Natural 1s as said: Conrad 1 (Sneak "one plus two" 00:17:02); Hunch 1 (Box of Doom Sharp 01:30:53); Freddie's Savvy "a natural 1" is said as a joke about betting on the man in the ring 01:19:14. Dom's "1" ending an exploded chain 01:34:23 and the final 1 of the second chain 01:35:39 are not natural 1s. Exploding dice: Siobhan Snoop 10 00:27:04; Freddie d4 Savvy 5 00:44:20; Alex d20 (20 + 3 + 2) 01:08:51; Alex Snoop 10 on a d10 01:16:24; Dom's d4 01:32:08.