C2 E43-The Second Ark-"The Heavy Yolk"-A Mutant Year Zero Podcast.mp3

Previously, on the second arc.

To sum this up, this is a great and powerful amazing society with no faults whatsoever, and I'm overreacting.

Pardon me once, the things that you guys have...

But you're just not willing to sacrifice for it.

Dude, did they ever get a break?

Uh, yeah.

No, they get

a break.

How long are they on the wheel for? And as you're talking, he leans back and looking around.

He's like, do you hear that? Titus, do

you hear anything?

Frank grabs his rifle and you see this zone ghoul with a broken leg crawling through the zone.

So, Chris, where are we ending? Zone Gold.

Groaning, dragging itself on the ground.

The way that it's moving, you kind of get the impression that it's trying to get to Shade.

It's crawling towards one of the derelict buildings.

Frank's like,

what the fuck?

He's like looking around, checking around to see if he sees any more.

What do you think happened to it? Titus, do you smell any others?

But it's like looking at you as it was crawling and it looks at you and starts to try to crawl a little bit faster towards this shaded area, towards the shadow, towards the building to get out of the sun.

What do we do with it?

I'm going to roll for what Frank thinks we should do with it.

What

do you think we should do with it, Chris?

I mean, it's injured.

I don't think it's any danger to us.

Looks like it's, I mean, it saw us.

It could be a danger in the future, but I don't think it's right to hurt it when it's already hurt.

I don't think we should kill it.

So we should just let it die a slow, painful death?

Why'd you have to put it that way?

I mean, the truth.

I don't know.

What do you think? I mean, we have some options.

We could help it.

Try to patch it up.

Let's try to talk to it.

See if it'll understand us.

Okay.

I'll cover you.

Hey, Mr.

Zone Ghoul.

As you're talking to it, it's like still trying to crawl towards that building.

Stop crying.

He goes and, like, kind of blocks its way.

Like, runs in front of it and then, like, blocks its way.

And, like, kind of puts the rifle down, like, in front of it.

Oh, so you're, like, right there, right by it.

Yeah, like, give it, like, you know, two feet in front of it.

Okay, okay.

And you come running towards it like that to block its path towards that building.

And it looks up at you and you can just see its eyes and it has, like, fear in its eyes.

He kind of goes like this, like, not going to hurt you.

Do you understand me?

And it starts to try to crawl off to the side.

He just steps over, blocks it.

It's like looking around.

It looks back at Frank and looks at you.

He

does this.

Holding the wet.

I'm sorry.

Puts his hands up like he's not going to hurt it.

Mm hmm.

It looks like it wants to crawl

away.

Yeah, it

doesn't seem to.

You want

to stick the dog on it? And it does start to, like...

It looks like it's trying to, like, turn to the right and, like, crawl in that direction.

I think we should let it go.

Not help it, but not hurt it either.

And maybe it'll come back on us and all of a sudden a bunch of zone ghouls will try to catch up to us, but I don't think it's right to hurt it.

So as it's turning and crawling towards a different direction, still trying to get to Shay, but it's like looking back over its shoulder at you, still making that noise.

Frank's like, you know, that noise is going to attract attention out here from, or can attract attention from something.

And if we're going to rest here for a while, I don't know if that's what we want.

I don't want to kill it.

Titus, get him.

Okay.

All right.

Roll for Titus attacking this thing.

Hold on.

I'm going to say that it's technically...

Yeah.

Whatever the fuck it is.

It's not incapacitated, but... whatever it's called

immobilized or something broken

yeah broken that it is broken so in the rules of the game by the rules of the game if something is broken there's a coup de grace i'm assuming that's what you were going to do basically with titus

yeah

all right Let's see.

When broken, you're an easy target.

An enemy can attempt to give you a coup de grace and kill you outright.

To do this, he only needs to make a fight or shoot roll.

As long as he rolls at least one success, you're dead.

Conversely, you can finish off broken enemies in the same way.

So, proceed.

Roll your sicka dog on this injured Zungle.

Could I use the fight dog?

Uh...

I mean, whatever it is when you have your dog attack something.

Yeah, that's fight

dog.

Isn't it? I thought it was sick a dog.

Yeah, but sick a dog is like the basic one, but fight dog is like for him to fight for you.

What?

I've got it.

Isn't

that a talent?

You've trained your dog to be a deadly little monster.

You get a plus two modification.

Yes, it is.

Yeah, that's just a talent that just gives you a bonus to the sick of dog role, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, but it's like it's kind of stacks, right?

Yeah.

Well, it's that's what I'm saying.

It's not really stacks.

It's just in general.

Now, when you do the sick of dog and the dog, you're using the dog to make the attack.

It gets a plus two real quick.

Jeremy, what was the guy's name in Game of Thrones? Again, Ramsey Ramsey.

Go ahead, Ramsey.

Make your roll.

Yeah, that was

right.

That was the name.

Yeah.

Oof.

Three successes, two ones.

Oh, yeah.

So describe to me what this looks like when Titus goes and mauls this Zungle.

Okay.

Yeah, he jumps right on its back and goes after the back of its neck and starts shaking his head left and right.

Then you hear, like, snap.

Frank's like, Jesus.

I wanted to put it out of its misery.

But all right.

Yeah, that'll work, too.

I didn't think it'd be a good idea to waste the bullet.

Plus the noise of the bullet.

How's that spear working out for you?

Yeah.

Whatever.

Now Titus has got a taste for his own ghoul.

Yeah.

And now he's got dinner.

And Frank starts walking back over to the shelter where you guys have been kind of hanging out with a little bit less of a limp than he had before.

Good boy,

Titus.

We cut away.