The whole phone conversation between Adam and Cori is just the best, so funny, really great strait man/silly man comedy duo. i'm happy ever time I see them playing together
Adam's laughter echoing through such a large space was an unexpected highlight in such tense series. I feel like Alien shines when you're left with a lot of ideas and thoughts with few solid answers; you're left unnerved in a way befitting such a creature. Well done, all!
That was a surprisingly satisfying end. Honestly, was expecting everyone dies and I wouldn't have been disappointed. That little mention of getting shares also left it a bit more of a definite end which was nice.
This campaign was amazing overall, and I kinda just felt like throwing out my ideas of what might happen to the characters after this, so here's a list going through who I think has the best chances of survival to least. First is Conrad, as sad as it is he's a busted synthetic and wasn't actually active when he was in proximity to the alien. I feel like the company might just give his memory a once over and then chuck him in the nearest bin. I think Barker has the next worst odds, just because he's seen this stuff but doesn't have much to offer the company. He's not a scientist, and the company already has enough hired guns, especially since Barker's knee injury would hold him back. It's not impossible the company sends him to his next assignment with orders not to speak on what he's witnessed, but this is Weyland Yutani, they're never that kind. I'd say Moritaka's next, you might think he has a guaranteed death sentence on account of being face hugged, but I don't think it's that simple. I'm blanking on the name of the comic but there's a comic in which a character is captured by a dying colony of xenomorphs and when the xenomorphs try to implant him with a chestburster the adults have to help the facehugger onto his face, it feels like Cam might've drawn inspiration from that. In this comic the character actually outlives all the xenomorphs from that colony and finds out that the chestburster implanted in him died before it could grow enough to cripple or kill him, he then has to operate on himself to remove the corpse. It's not impossible Moritaka has a similarly stillborn chestburster. Even if the chestburster is healthy, there's a lot of aliens things that show chestburster being surgically removed before fully developing (except for Colonial Marines, but I don't think anyone counts that game). I don't think the company would be philanthropic enough to save Moritaka just because, but he is a capable pilot and officer, so the company's invested more in Moritaka than say Barker. Schafer is in a similar situation to Moritaka other than the chestburster. I feel like the deciding factor is Schafer's morals, if the company can convince him to cooperate then they might actually have him work on future alien related projects (I don't think they ever said what Schafer's normal field pf work is, so that's kinda a blind guess on my part). But Schafer seems to care about other people what with his four in empathy and how Adam plays him, so there's a decent chance the company disposes of him just to keep him from blowing the whistle. As satisfying as it might be to see Sinclair get his comeuppance, he does seem to have the best odds out of all of the player characters. He's a fairly high ranking company official, he seems to be pretty good at his job, he has experience with the aliens now and seems more than willing to keep working with them. Overall things seem pretty good for him. But it's not impossible someone higher up just decides it'd be better to make sure he doesn't get the chance to become a problem. And last is Bryce, and Bryce has it pretty good. As things stand I'm not sure the company even could kill her if they wanted to, and I doubt they want to. Bryce was already a ranking scientist, and she's shown herself to be interested in continuing to work with this oil. Even if the company wanted to dissect her, she's shown she's more than willing to experiment on the other clones of herself. I'm not sure how many folks here have also looked into the SCP Foundation but they have a character called Doctor Bright, an immortal who just so happens to also be a scientist loyal to The Foundation, I could see Bryce becoming something similar. There is the obvious complication that Bryce starts having health issues when removed from the oil rich environment, but that could be worked around easily enough. So yeah, those are my thoughts on how things might work out for the surviving characters, I'd be interested in what other folks' thoughts are.
It would be nice to have a post-adventure session about this series, where the GM and players talk about what they were trying to accomplish and what they liked/didn't-like about the adventure and system. To me, the adventure felt incomplete. The characters didn't accomplish much beyond surviving until they were rescued.
@@S810_Jr They don't have one planned atm. Next week is gonna be a Reading Books With Adam and after Desert Bus for Hope is a new pre-recorded campaign with Jacob DMing, but you could ask Cam about it on Twitter.
@@snowcookiemedia Thanks for the info. I don't have Twitter though heh. I'll just wait, maybe they'll cover it in DBfH as it'll give them another topic to talk about to keep help them awake ]: ) (Or the dream, they do a live epilogue session in DBfH!)
Cam actually justified Prometheus' existence for me with his redefining of the Black goo as flawed evolutionary shortcut that leads to a dead end. I still won't recognize Alien: Covenant though for how stupid it is.
INT: The rising elevator. BRYCE and SCHAFER are at opposite ends of the main chamber. BRYCE: Schafer, I've been thinking. Do you have any children? SCHAFER: No BRYCE: Why? SCHAFER: Well, I think it's because...people make me uncomfortable. BRYCE: That's a fair reason. I never had children because I was never in a space where I felt I could give them a safe and secure upbringing. It's important that we feel safe and secure. I'm dimly aware that before I wake up on the beach I feel safe and secure. I think whatever 'this' is knows our moods. I think it comes when we're feeling safe & secure, because that means that 'it' can be safe for a little while. (beat) That's just a guess. SCHAFER: Yeah, real stab in the dark. BRYCE: I don't know how to test that hypothesis; can you come up with anything that would get past an ethics board? SCHAFER: Look, Bryce, I'm gonna level with you; I don't think anything that's on that planet is ever leaving that planet. (pause) BRYCE: What makes you think that?
Great series! Having just rewatched it, episode 3 remains my favorite episode of Dice Friends. I think the cast pretending not to know what they were encountering really helped sell it, because Schafer's first encounter with the creature and Cameron's description of it dropping down from the ceiling as the elevator doors closed, really filled me with a sense of fear and unease that I wasn't expecting from a TTPRG. That said, I think this last episode could have used an extra push. I agree with some other commenters that a post-mortem of sorts would be really interesting. But yeah, Cam is a fantastic GM and Sinclair was an absolute gem of a character.
It's a shame that Cameron and Adam were on such different frequencies during the elevator ride. Cam's philosophical musings as Brice were really interesting, and I think Adam would have appreciated them a lot more if he hadn't been quite so distracted by trying to spot the third act twist he seemed to be anticipating. Still, that seems in character. Schafer would have been severely freaked out, and probably not in the mood.
There's two ways this can go, honestly. They can be promoted to coffin filler or they can fail upwards, leveraging their knowledge and loyalty to get cushy administrative jobs where they're literally paid to shut up. WY still makes money from them, and they don't have to worry about their knowledge getting out. Depends on how much of a twirl you want to give to old Papa Weyland's moustache.
Please tell me there's going to be a wrap-up session that explains the outcome. This was amazing to sit and watch and listen to , please do more campaigns in the alien setting.
This was a fantastic adventure, tense and suspenseful. I like the ominous ambiguity of the ending, although it did feel a touch anti-climactic. I think that might just be the expectation from the escape/final conflict elements of the movies though. A fantastic play, and one I've recommended to others. :)
The ending of this campaign is interesting to me. I’ve been mulling it over, and I think one of the key things is it feels like how Alien 3 would have ended if Ripley hadn’t taken a header into the vat. Some folks speculating that the crew will be killed by the Company, but Conrad and Bryce make reasonable arguments why WY would assimilate the data without trying to exclusively own it. The Alien, the evolutionary cul-de-sac of the universe, is going to be as observable to anyone with access to space as the processes within a star, and WY aren’t the only ones with a stake in space. That said, I can see why it feels unfulfilling as a story, because the tone of the story flowed from standard horror to existential musings so smoothly a few frogs got boiled in the pot. It’s hard to do on the fly, but I definitely would have enjoyed a bit of finagling so Schaffer and Barker went to rescue The Roman as he escaped. But really, any feeling of low action I think is down to decisions at the table; Barker could have acted on his stress and suspicion and blown Sinclair away. Shaffer could have cracked Bryce with a pipe before she had a chance to Become. They could have tried to blow the Laudomia or drop the station on the moon. I don’t think it was a bad thing they didn’t, one of the best parts of ttrpgs is the freedom, and I will always love the fact that even though they’re for an audience Dice Friend campaigns always feel like authentic gaming experiences among friends, just ones who are also performers. The characters here behaved sensibly and because of that and some luck it ended where it did. Great campaign. Two fav moments were Shaffer's first encounter with the thing and Holloway's warning, and Shaffer realizing, belatedly, what Bryce had meant.
@@Zorajit Watch the first twenty seconds again. This was shot recently; proof of concept, which worked beautifully - they absolutely can do live play with this setup.
@@Zorajit How is it obviously a loss? It's an off season during a global plague, and the Belfry is a non profit company; I have doubts it was an exorbitant fee. There's no reason to have bothered going to all this trouble just to end one game, unless they were testing viability - this could've been finished in a video chat at no cost at all with much the same end result.
@@Zorajit It really is not the "new way to socialize." Humans are social creatures. There is no way in hell that we stop face to face meetings. Things will go back to just how they were.
@@Zorajit Don't put words into my mouth. It would just be unsustainable to end all physical contact. Distant schooling is nowhere near as effective as in school learning. And some jobs require physical contact. It would also kill the travel industry etc. As scared to death as you appear to be of microbes this is not the new normal and you cannot make it one.
To me the most interesting question is how to create tension and horror around the Xenomorph where the monster is likely a known quantity to the actual players. I really hope they do some like of post-Mortem and discuss that aspect.
@@adcon00 there's a comic set in this universe, where an expedition team is abducted by xenomorphs from a dying hive, who essentially let one of the survivors roam free and do research in the hive, on the condition, that he comply and lets himself be facehugged, the face hugger scene with Moritaka is almost verbatim from the comic. It does have also some other very disturbing stuff, that i didn't mention because it isn't relevant, I don't remember the name of the comic though.
I've binged Heat Death this past week, excellent stuff considering the very large enforced interval in the middle. Would've loved even just five minutes at the end of this one with the cast decompressing and talking about the ending, as the video itself finished rather abruptly the moment the story stopped.
The whole phone conversation between Adam and Cori is just the best, so funny, really great strait man/silly man comedy duo. i'm happy ever time I see them playing together
I feel like this one might need a postmortem stream
Adam's laughter echoing through such a large space was an unexpected highlight in such tense series. I feel like Alien shines when you're left with a lot of ideas and thoughts with few solid answers; you're left unnerved in a way befitting such a creature. Well done, all!
That was a surprisingly satisfying end. Honestly, was expecting everyone dies and I wouldn't have been disappointed. That little mention of getting shares also left it a bit more of a definite end which was nice.
This campaign was amazing overall, and I kinda just felt like throwing out my ideas of what might happen to the characters after this, so here's a list going through who I think has the best chances of survival to least.
First is Conrad, as sad as it is he's a busted synthetic and wasn't actually active when he was in proximity to the alien. I feel like the company might just give his memory a once over and then chuck him in the nearest bin.
I think Barker has the next worst odds, just because he's seen this stuff but doesn't have much to offer the company. He's not a scientist, and the company already has enough hired guns, especially since Barker's knee injury would hold him back. It's not impossible the company sends him to his next assignment with orders not to speak on what he's witnessed, but this is Weyland Yutani, they're never that kind.
I'd say Moritaka's next, you might think he has a guaranteed death sentence on account of being face hugged, but I don't think it's that simple. I'm blanking on the name of the comic but there's a comic in which a character is captured by a dying colony of xenomorphs and when the xenomorphs try to implant him with a chestburster the adults have to help the facehugger onto his face, it feels like Cam might've drawn inspiration from that. In this comic the character actually outlives all the xenomorphs from that colony and finds out that the chestburster implanted in him died before it could grow enough to cripple or kill him, he then has to operate on himself to remove the corpse. It's not impossible Moritaka has a similarly stillborn chestburster. Even if the chestburster is healthy, there's a lot of aliens things that show chestburster being surgically removed before fully developing (except for Colonial Marines, but I don't think anyone counts that game). I don't think the company would be philanthropic enough to save Moritaka just because, but he is a capable pilot and officer, so the company's invested more in Moritaka than say Barker.
Schafer is in a similar situation to Moritaka other than the chestburster. I feel like the deciding factor is Schafer's morals, if the company can convince him to cooperate then they might actually have him work on future alien related projects (I don't think they ever said what Schafer's normal field pf work is, so that's kinda a blind guess on my part). But Schafer seems to care about other people what with his four in empathy and how Adam plays him, so there's a decent chance the company disposes of him just to keep him from blowing the whistle.
As satisfying as it might be to see Sinclair get his comeuppance, he does seem to have the best odds out of all of the player characters. He's a fairly high ranking company official, he seems to be pretty good at his job, he has experience with the aliens now and seems more than willing to keep working with them. Overall things seem pretty good for him. But it's not impossible someone higher up just decides it'd be better to make sure he doesn't get the chance to become a problem.
And last is Bryce, and Bryce has it pretty good. As things stand I'm not sure the company even could kill her if they wanted to, and I doubt they want to. Bryce was already a ranking scientist, and she's shown herself to be interested in continuing to work with this oil. Even if the company wanted to dissect her, she's shown she's more than willing to experiment on the other clones of herself. I'm not sure how many folks here have also looked into the SCP Foundation but they have a character called Doctor Bright, an immortal who just so happens to also be a scientist loyal to The Foundation, I could see Bryce becoming something similar. There is the obvious complication that Bryce starts having health issues when removed from the oil rich environment, but that could be worked around easily enough.
So yeah, those are my thoughts on how things might work out for the surviving characters, I'd be interested in what other folks' thoughts are.
Sublime, as usual. To Cameron and cast, superb role playing and performances.
It would be nice to have a post-adventure session about this series, where the GM and players talk about what they were trying to accomplish and what they liked/didn't-like about the adventure and system.
To me, the adventure felt incomplete. The characters didn't accomplish much beyond surviving until they were rescued.
I'm hoping they'll be doing something like that next week after everyone has had time to think about what happened in this one and everything overall
@@S810_Jr They don't have one planned atm. Next week is gonna be a Reading Books With Adam and after Desert Bus for Hope is a new pre-recorded campaign with Jacob DMing, but you could ask Cam about it on Twitter.
@@snowcookiemedia Thanks for the info. I don't have Twitter though heh. I'll just wait, maybe they'll cover it in DBfH as it'll give them another topic to talk about to keep help them awake ]: ) (Or the dream, they do a live epilogue session in DBfH!)
I feel like that ending is a sequel hook and a half, I want to see more of the system, the setting, gimme more'o'Cam's wonderful atmposphere building!
Man, I just love Sinclair! This has been the the best Dice Friends to date, great work everyone involved!
Cam actually justified Prometheus' existence for me with his redefining of the Black goo as flawed evolutionary shortcut that leads to a dead end. I still won't recognize Alien: Covenant though for how stupid it is.
INT: The rising elevator. BRYCE and SCHAFER are at opposite ends of the main chamber.
BRYCE: Schafer, I've been thinking. Do you have any children?
SCHAFER: No
BRYCE: Why?
SCHAFER: Well, I think it's because...people make me uncomfortable.
BRYCE: That's a fair reason. I never had children because I was never in a space where I felt I could give them a safe and secure upbringing. It's important that we feel safe and secure. I'm dimly aware that before I wake up on the beach I feel safe and secure. I think whatever 'this' is knows our moods. I think it comes when we're feeling safe & secure, because that means that 'it' can be safe for a little while. (beat) That's just a guess.
SCHAFER: Yeah, real stab in the dark.
BRYCE: I don't know how to test that hypothesis; can you come up with anything that would get past an ethics board?
SCHAFER: Look, Bryce, I'm gonna level with you; I don't think anything that's on that planet is ever leaving that planet.
(pause)
BRYCE: What makes you think that?
"I don't think anything that's on that planet is ever leaving that planet."
He said to the clone of his colleague born of that planet.
The compliance to social distancing reminds me of how good people act during a disaster. I wish more people were good people.
I’m so glad this series came back I started watching it right before quarantine hit and waited so long to see what would happen next.
Great series! Having just rewatched it, episode 3 remains my favorite episode of Dice Friends. I think the cast pretending not to know what they were encountering really helped sell it, because Schafer's first encounter with the creature and Cameron's description of it dropping down from the ceiling as the elevator doors closed, really filled me with a sense of fear and unease that I wasn't expecting from a TTPRG. That said, I think this last episode could have used an extra push. I agree with some other commenters that a post-mortem of sorts would be really interesting. But yeah, Cam is a fantastic GM and Sinclair was an absolute gem of a character.
Oh, thank you all so much for this.
And thank you for the existential questions of the xenomorphs being the ultimate form of...us? of life? Eeshk.
It's a shame that Cameron and Adam were on such different frequencies during the elevator ride. Cam's philosophical musings as Brice were really interesting, and I think Adam would have appreciated them a lot more if he hadn't been quite so distracted by trying to spot the third act twist he seemed to be anticipating. Still, that seems in character. Schafer would have been severely freaked out, and probably not in the mood.
Thanks for this series Cam and crew it's been one of my favourites
1:01:01 As VGCats put it, "a faceful of alien wingwong".
We all acknowledge that none of the characters survive the return trip right? There's no way they don't know too much to live.
There's two ways this can go, honestly. They can be promoted to coffin filler or they can fail upwards, leveraging their knowledge and loyalty to get cushy administrative jobs where they're literally paid to shut up. WY still makes money from them, and they don't have to worry about their knowledge getting out. Depends on how much of a twirl you want to give to old Papa Weyland's moustache.
Please tell me there's going to be a wrap-up session that explains the outcome. This was amazing to sit and watch and listen to , please do more campaigns in the alien setting.
This was a fantastic adventure, tense and suspenseful. I like the ominous ambiguity of the ending, although it did feel a touch anti-climactic. I think that might just be the expectation from the escape/final conflict elements of the movies though. A fantastic play, and one I've recommended to others. :)
This was *absolutely* wonderful. I'm in agreement with others that a follow up / post mortem would be fantastic
The ending of this campaign is interesting to me. I’ve been mulling it over, and I think one of the key things is it feels like how Alien 3 would have ended if Ripley hadn’t taken a header into the vat. Some folks speculating that the crew will be killed by the Company, but Conrad and Bryce make reasonable arguments why WY would assimilate the data without trying to exclusively own it. The Alien, the evolutionary cul-de-sac of the universe, is going to be as observable to anyone with access to space as the processes within a star, and WY aren’t the only ones with a stake in space.
That said, I can see why it feels unfulfilling as a story, because the tone of the story flowed from standard horror to existential musings so smoothly a few frogs got boiled in the pot. It’s hard to do on the fly, but I definitely would have enjoyed a bit of finagling so Schaffer and Barker went to rescue The Roman as he escaped. But really, any feeling of low action I think is down to decisions at the table; Barker could have acted on his stress and suspicion and blown Sinclair away. Shaffer could have cracked Bryce with a pipe before she had a chance to Become. They could have tried to blow the Laudomia or drop the station on the moon. I don’t think it was a bad thing they didn’t, one of the best parts of ttrpgs is the freedom, and I will always love the fact that even though they’re for an audience Dice Friend campaigns always feel like authentic gaming experiences among friends, just ones who are also performers. The characters here behaved sensibly and because of that and some luck it ended where it did.
Great campaign. Two fav moments were Shaffer's first encounter with the thing and Holloway's warning, and Shaffer realizing, belatedly, what Bryce had meant.
I was honestly expecting Barker to overload the reactor like Ripley and the Nostromo. Nuke it IN orbit.
I'm imagining Conrad just one handing the shotgun while Barker climbs
This was amazing! Thank you all!
Yessss! I love this campaign!
Very nice to see you found a way to continue despite the covid social distancing, awesome!
Thank you for this. I needed this today.
I'm going to miss this campaign for its opening alone!
I'm also gonna miss exasperated Schafer/Adam.
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So goooooood. Please finish the campaign. We need closure. ❤️
Sinclair: Sus incarnate!
Liked before even viewing, because I need this so much...
When is the sequel 🤞
@@Zorajit Watch the first twenty seconds again. This was shot recently; proof of concept, which worked beautifully - they absolutely can do live play with this setup.
@@Zorajit How is it obviously a loss? It's an off season during a global plague, and the Belfry is a non profit company; I have doubts it was an exorbitant fee. There's no reason to have bothered going to all this trouble just to end one game, unless they were testing viability - this could've been finished in a video chat at no cost at all with much the same end result.
@@Zorajit Its really not though.
@@Zorajit It really is not the "new way to socialize." Humans are social creatures. There is no way in hell that we stop face to face meetings. Things will go back to just how they were.
@@Zorajit Don't put words into my mouth. It would just be unsustainable to end all physical contact. Distant schooling is nowhere near as effective as in school learning. And some jobs require physical contact. It would also kill the travel industry etc. As scared to death as you appear to be of microbes this is not the new normal and you cannot make it one.
I love how Cori plays her characters. It's amazing. Such a great campaign. I hope there's a post mortem.
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Worth the wait! Thanks so much!
"I drowned humans in space goo and made monsters, a treatise on deterministic evolution theory"
-The Crazy Goo Clone
I may have missed it but why is he referred to as "The Roman"?
That was fucking amazing, the ending is the best possible way :D
Being honest here, 3/4 survival rate is NOT bad for an Alien game. Of course, assuming Weyland Yutani don't tie up the loose ends when they're let go.
One downvote? Probably an alien infiltrator. ;)
And now there are two. They're spreading!
To me the most interesting question is how to create tension and horror around the Xenomorph where the monster is likely a known quantity to the actual players. I really hope they do some like of post-Mortem and discuss that aspect.
I am calling, that from 50:20 begins a reference to *that* comic
oh my god I was right
That comic?
@@adcon00 there's a comic set in this universe, where an expedition team is abducted by xenomorphs from a dying hive, who essentially let one of the survivors roam free and do research in the hive, on the condition, that he comply and lets himself be facehugged, the face hugger scene with Moritaka is almost verbatim from the comic. It does have also some other very disturbing stuff, that i didn't mention because it isn't relevant, I don't remember the name of the comic though.
I've binged Heat Death this past week, excellent stuff considering the very large enforced interval in the middle. Would've loved even just five minutes at the end of this one with the cast decompressing and talking about the ending, as the video itself finished rather abruptly the moment the story stopped.
Points to Cam for making getting facehugged somehow even worse.
So are we doing part two or is this just the end?
YES!! YESSSS!! THIS IS DELICIOUS!!!
Wait is this the last episode of heat death? I was expecting some kind of a send of...
my guess is that there will be a follow-up campaign to this. It definitely seems like this would lend itself well to some kind of sequel.
That was really good, but a post-mortem or an epilogue would have been nice.
Wow. Wow. This rules.
& we get part 7 when?!? That was a good ending & an opened ended one at that. But Cam's going to run more Alien, right?!?
1:43:35 Hi Charlotte!
When did Moritaka start being called 'THE Roman' 😂
since the first episode?
More Cameron GM please!!
Would there be a chance or any Heat Death merch?
I LOVE Dice Friends but a consistent problem is that they're too quiet to hear.