Rolls Off The Tongue

An adventure starring Nugh the Silent, Sadie Duca, and Zidane Carmichael. A Companion Episode to There Can Be Only One.
==Setting==
New Niqamui (An alternate cyberpunk version of Niqamui)
==Short Episode Description==
Zidane, now slightly seasoned, leads newcomers Nugh and Sadie through an alternate version of Niqamui to save reality. Rolls off the Tongue is an actual play podcast of the system "New Edo".
==Non Player Characters==
* Pearl in the Sea
* New Ramona Buckler
* New Nightshade Lobo
* New Professor Madeline Spark
* Nughbot-3000
* Honda Domeki Universe 2
* Atlas Ai
* Jesop Zahdoc
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==Plot Summary==
The Firebreathing Kittens were hired by Pearl in the Sea and Nulisag to find the source of a potentially multiverse-threatening anomaly in a parallel Niqamui set in a dystopian cyberpunk future. We arrive and find a job board similar to the one in the guild hall, with three jobs-- one for a robotics factory run by Sparkworks Industry, one scavenging tech parts near the pier, and one to help the champions at the Colosseum ascend to godhood. Nugh wants nothing to do with Sparkworks, while Zidane is always happy to revisit his past as a gladiator, but we choose to visit the pier first. 
There, they meet Ramona Buckler's parallel, who runs a scrapyard and is trying to find a space ship so she can get off this planet and escape this world. The Firebreathing Kittens agree to help her, and she indicates that the space ship is underneath Sparkworks Industries. The Kittens instead detour to the Colosseum. To enter, the guard insists that they prove their strength. Sadie uses drugs to convince the guard she is a very credible threat. Zidane capitalizes on his history as a gladiatorial champion. And Nugh **looms menacingly**, causing the guard and everyone in the nearby area to become very afraid.
They bring in a gift basket, which they pretend is for one of the competing gangs in the fights today, and gain access to the locker room areas. Nugh helps by distracting people in the hallways with a rousing song about rocking you. Once in the locker rooms, Zidane and Sadie deface some of the gangs' equipment and locker rooms, which causes a gang fight. 
As the fight breaks out, security runs towards the trouble, leaving the pathway to the basement and the "champion's dressing room" free and open. The Kittens head down there. On the outside of the locker room is the name Honda Domeki, but inside, everything is marked with Zidane's name. He uses the bio-keyed computer to access information about the anomaly and finds that it is, indeed, beneath Sparkworks.
The Kittens head to Sparkworks, stopping on the way to buy several trays and bags of bagels from the Soygle bagel company ("Rolls Off the Tongue!"). They walk to the front reception with these treats, claiming to be catering lunch for the employees. They are let in, and immediately "get lost" and get a hapless new employee to try to help them get into the secured area. A bribe of bagels and some fentanyl to the security guard, and they are allowed into the top secret lab.
Once there, the Kittens find the alter ego of Professor Spark, who is apparently using the anomaly as a power source for her latest creation, a robot version of Nugh, the Nughbot-3000. Nugh hits her with the tray of bagels while she monologues about her nefarious plan. He then activates the Nughbot, which comes to life before being programmed to mindlessly obey. It awakens with three words programmed into its voice synthesizer: "Happy," "Birthday," and "Destroy." With some negotiating, the Kittens determine that the Nughbot wants to be free, and they taunt Professor Spark with bagels while Sadie interacts with the anomaly-- awakening its AI and turning gravity off, temporarily.
As it turns out, the AI has been here for 3000 years, and initially had the objective of destroying all life on this world. Sadie reasons with it, explaining that everyone alive 3000 years ago is now dead, and therefore mission accomplished. The AI agrees to go with Sadie. The Kittens leave, stopping at Ramona's to deliver the AI as a spaceship engine. Nughbot-3000 goes with Ramona to explore outer space, but not before fixing the broken voice synthesizer for Nugh. Nughbot-3000 says thank you and leaves.
Zidane makes a visit to the Colosseum to have a chat with his parallel self, learning more about some of his missing memories, and the person who may be responsible for inflicting past trauma on Zidane-- someone named Jesop. The team return to the guild hall, where their rewards for the job await-- arcade games for each of them, which they can either set up and play for themselves, or make available as small money-makers. Nugh and Sadie set theirs up (Guitar Hero and Joust, respectively) in the guild hall for free play, and Zidane sets his up as a pay-to-play game to make a small income.
Category:Episodes
Category:Season 2024