Episode 36 - Six Shooter Z

Intro
Matt: Hello and welcome to another episode of Celestial Expanse, a real play D&D podcast set in the celestial expanse universe, my name is Matthew, I'll be your DM for the night, and playing with me today is Ben as Rell... Ben: Hello. Matt: Jason as Theran... Jason: Remember, if you don't rim the glass with vitamin C powder, it's not a real quarantini. Matt: That was a stretch. Rebecca as Martle... Rebecca: I'm running out of puns, so I'm really going to have to hammer out some new ones. Natalia: Oh wowww. Matt: Boooo. And Natalia as Z. Natalia: Ewo! Matt: How's everybody doing today? Natalia: Not too shabby. Rebecca: Pretty good. Jason: I haven't seen people all day. Matt: I saw one person, and that was my doordash. Rebecca: I've seen people in passing in the halls. Matt: Oh yeah and my roommate of course but we agree to keep ourselves quarantined just in case. Natalia: Ah. I don't have that. Jason: That's just because he doesn't like you Matt, let's be honest. Natalia: I don't have that option. Rebecca: Every time people see me in the hall they kinda like pause like "oh there's a human in here." Yup, I'm just paintin', don't mind me. Matt: Earning my paycheck. Rebecca: Yup.

Episode Description
The Crew are in the middle of a crisis on the Terminal Space station and now it's up to them to fix it. Will they make it in time or will the entire station be left breathless?

Summary
The episode begins just after the Inquisition shut down life support on the station. Lelia tries to take them to the engineering room by tram, but it's not working. Z starts looking for vents, and Lelia asks her to look for panels on the tram. She doesn't find any, so the party has to resort to hacking - and Z has the highest mechanics score in the group. Martle uses Lay on Hands to cure Z's drunkenness, and Z almost vomits. She brings the tram back online and Lelia starts driving. Theran holds onto Lelia, and Z holds onto Martle and gets kicked.

Rell and Theran see Inquisition fighters on a parallel tram. They have a shootout, and Z throws her handaxe into the enemy train. Martle's gun overloads and explodes. The fight continues until the enemy train, unable to stop due to the engineer being frozen by Martle's Hold Person, crashes at the end of the track and explodes, presumably destroying Z's axe. Lelia goes into the engineering room to reactivate life support, but finds a bunch of Inquisition and an armadillo tank. One of the Inquisition members tells the party to sit quietly and wait to suffocate, or they'll shoot Lelia.

Memorable Quotes
Ben: Stop shooting yourself, stop shooting yourself!

Trivia
Rebecca rolled a nat 1 on Martle's attack, making her light machine gun break, then a nat 1 on her dex save to get away from the overloading weapon, then max damage for the explosion.