Ah... the session where Matthew threw curveball after curveball at us until our brains melted, a.k.a. the "Wait! What!?" episode.

I picture Puffer as more of a Warrant Officer. I know they don't exist mechanics-wise in Traveller but it just seems to suit his character.

Look, as much as I absolutely love this game system, show/story, and cast, I am absolutely GOBSMACKED that this episode wasn’t title Fruit Rollup. And opportunity was missed here, Naish. Great episode. Phenomenal cast. I truly hope there is a long term place for Traveller on the Network.

6:10 The squid-Jenga-Eric games are born. 12:25 Summary of the last episode. 13:08 Sydney's guns make a short cameo. (Ref last episode timestamps) 14:28 Skid's audiobook on Clorth. 18:13 Seth's audiobook on Nodra. 23:14 Now, back to the action. 26:24 Once again, the lawyer suits up. 27:38 Lemon Law is a go. 32:22 Driver license war-stories. 36:35 The documents come together...In a way. 38:18 The fruit roll-up is born. 39:05 Nobody has seen one of these before; who knows what it looks like. 40:18 Lemon law ends. "Civilian vessel, civilian vessel..." Starts now. 41:32 What to saaaayyy, aaa. 43:00 Gigi goes to Filo, the chocolate of Puffer's pudding cups still on her mouth. 44:08 Filo goes for the homerun, and ohhhh. 46:10 Documents received. (Fingers crossed.) 48:21 Ok, welcomed back. 49:50 Waiting for the fruit roll-up to drop. 51:08 When you repeat a lie too many times. 52:10 Before we get on the warship. 56:38 Wait, what's our story? 58:47 At the airlock. 1:01:42 They leave their weapons. 1:08:00 What do they see. 1:09:44 The traditional fruit roll-up. 1:10:51 Six people. 1:12:22 The Captain? Where's the real Captain? 1:16:56 We read your story; I mean, documents. 1:18:06 It's a lot for them to take in. 1:21:25 We're in a time warp, guys. 1:22:39 For a moment, it stops being a problem and becomes an opportunity. 1:25:10 There was a miss-jump? (I'm putting money that it's a red herring from the actual cause.) 1:26:11 Artemis drops da'bomb. 1:31:55 Why don't we, ahm, just see the ship? 1:34:54 To be fair, I think any thinking person would freak out. 1:35:35 The navy enters the ship. 1:37:50 Matthew blows their minds. 1:38:35 Matthew continues to blow minds. 1:40:31 The universe is gaslighting us. 1:45:03 So...she sorta gives them the go ahead, we think? 1:49:56 It'll be funny if the plot is that they're all mad. 1:51:35 The doctor with the missing leg. 1:52:55 Sending the probes from the bridge. 1:54:58 Results of comparing the sensors. 1:55:50 I cut my arm off and check the rings. 1:59:31 Lieutenant Valmen steps away. 2:00:24 For a few seconds, Gigi forgets she wants to talk to the crew. (I'm just glad they haven't lost their minds) 2:03:08 Wait. Who killed the Captain? What? I'll be here next week. Matthew, you've done well. I'm hooked.

I'm thoroughly enjoying this story. Since Seth never gets to be a player, I hope he is enjoying this as much as I am!

I fucking LOVE this! I have been waiting for a good Traveller stream for a long time. GCN is now completely monopolizing my computer time with this, CoC and Delta Green. Way to go guys.

I would love to see Skid running a Mechanoids game!

I've just recently come across Traveller as a game system, and I really enjoy it in concept, and it was thanks to Seth I even came across it. So, to be here and watching/listening to the actual gameplay is fantastic, especially with Seth in it. I'm really enjoying the story Matthew is putting together, and I stayed up well past my usual bedtime because I was so wrapped up in the story. I also really like the Characters and the people playing them. if I don't finish this series over the next couple nights, I'll definitely finish it on my next day off.

"Fruit Roll-up" does sound like a phone operating system. Ellison is probably running Jelly Bean, tho

"You probably do feel that way" Love it. Speaking to Philo (spelling?) and Skid at the same time.

Matthew’s timing of cliffhangers is truly impressive.

I love this team. You're doing well, Matthew.

Matthew! Awesome Show! I'm hooked. I can't picture anybody other than the cast playing those parts in a live-action version. Alicia is Gigi and Sydney IS Artemis. My dog is also, coincidentally, named Artemis and anytime anyone says her name on the show she looks up at the speakers and wags her tail. A stamp of approval in my book

Piper: "Told you I nailed it. I dunno why you guys were nervous." *shakily holds up tea cup that can't stop clattering against the saucer*

What a cool Star Trek type time conundrum!

👏 This is so killer. You can tell Matthew is a hardcore Trek guy. This is my favorite kind of sci-fi scenario. 👏 Every time there’s a trippy story revelation i’m hearing the Next Generation ‘tension music just before the commercial’ music cue. With Picard or Laforge looking worried in the foreground 😂

Kemph killed him. Who is Kemph? Kempt killed him! OK, Who is Kempt? &$%#$&! cliffhangers... 🖖😁

After I watched Matthew run Dread I ordered it . I can’t wait for it to come in!

all this cliffhangers make me want to wait and bingewatch the series! what should i do for the next 7 days ?!

I like to think due to bureaucracy, the painfully slow process of militaries adopting new technology standards, and backwards compatibility with lower-tech worlds; all spaceships are required to have a paper tape reader. Something akin to punched tape or magnetic tape readers of early computers. Colloquially referred to as "fruit roll-ups"; though the meaning of the word is lost to time.

I’m just now listening to this and I totally forgot about character creation and freaked out when I saw Sydney’s scar. Great job!

I am only an hour ten in but I would have told them to do a stellar cartography scan - even in 73 years there will be some shift of stars. 01:18:50 Seth was onto it. Oh dear. Not what I thought at all.

Never knew much about Skid and Alicia until recently... but after they dropped _The Mechanoids_ and _Would You Rather_ callouts, I knew we'd be good friends if we ever met XD

I can understand the kate's computers getting affected by the timey-wimey stuff going on (it likely cross-referenced against the ghost ship and priotises that thing's data as its a naval vessel), but I don't understand how the physically printed media (speaker's books, the j-drive manufacturing date) could be affected? I suspect there's something else in addition to timey-wimey stuff going on; possibly psionics? (they are on the fringes of imperial space in the spinward marches, the zhodani are practically next door) edit = spelling

The "ship specs r way better now" is a good argument. I had a pc with less than a gig of ram back in a day. Now ive got 16G. I can run giant games demanding lots of resources my old pc couldn't. And it takes up the same space. Its literally future tech

The plot thickens! Hmmmm, are there some "Event Horizon" type shenanigans happening?

The moment the ship appeared to have people on it, I was like "oh I bet they will believe X but it will be Y" and I was right ^^

Thank you Matthew and All :) ! Really Good story , rp and all. Very Interesting , look forward to where this goes ! Thanks again. And The Thing is my top favorite horror movie.

,I played Traveller from 1979 to 1985. Then a little of the Traveller New Era from 2016 to 2018. I love traveller.

I love this game( never played)! I would love a tutorial on how to get set up for an online game, and what good programs to use. I never played online ( old school here). I want to start playing with old friends. I love this back and forth. You seem like old friends . i love this❤

Guys, I love how the triangle on each of your faces frames the group as a team

Skid I wonder if we knew the same people at USC. I went to college there in the 90’s. Right when Matthew mentioned the guy painting his wall I was like my buddy Chris did that with poster board and then you told the story. I think he did Arizona though. I kept telling you should change the address because it was an apartment. I kept wondering if everyone with fake ID’s went to the same bar in Pueblo how it go down. On a Traveller note this stream solidified my need to purchase the updated rules. Great series so far.

"Indulgent" is how i would describe last session

Nice to see a more serious adventure. Next episode seems promising.

Great use of Naval rank. Love the submarine references!

GA - garden world. I'm imagining the main export is tulips.

"Would You Rather?" is a great film.

I love Gigi's idea of using Steward skills to glean info! That skillset involves both attending to and managing multiple races and personality types in a limited space and making everyone as comfortable as reasonally possible. A good Steward could arguably be used like Streetwise but shipboard...

COB (Chief of the Boat) would be the Master Chief of the Boat...most senior Master Chief on board

Really enjoyable. This and "Time for Chaos" go to the top of the queue when they appear. Does Traveller have anything like a Psychology or Insight role to get a read on an NPC? Some of that's ship's crew are setting off warning bells for me.

120:32 Hello computer! 😂Yea, we have transparent aluminum now but it's about $2000 a square foot.

"Hello computer" brought up that scene so vividly.

Love the opening the bass on the glass cannon network opening shakes my whole house to the core. Love it!

Hi Troy. I know you're reading this. Keep up the good work!

Emperor Strephon 1071- present (1105)

Did Matt find the lore about stealth jump drives? Or did he make it up? Very obscure and hard to find lore btw. If he did make it up, very, very, well done dude!

Either crew with freezer burn or young er crew, second gens, what a world.

Fake ID stories too - love it :D Though I is old - and growing up I had a full beard - a rarity in late 80s/early 90s and a serious demeanor -- and i was bloody good at looking over-worked & underpaid -- used to grab 12 pks on weekends and was never once carded - go figure. Now-a-days while 50 is a fast fading memory - getting carded tickles me to no end!

You should have asked the Imperial Naval guys for an Imperial writ from the Emperor that the cruiser would have to recognize but seems like the forged docs worked....

I keep thinking how interesting this adventure would be with a psionic in the group

Love the show. Everyone is so wonderfully invested in this crew. Very inspiring. 👍❤️ Can I ask what is the name of the song at the beginning of each show? It's really beautiful.

In the chain of roles at the 36:00 mark, shouldn't Skid have gotten a bonus from both of the first two on the chain being so good?

Having a ball listening to (watching) this.

Great adventure! Hope you keep Traveller up on the channel

Loving this story and crew!

My guess is the Navy switched all the dates and the book knowing that the crew would jump back in time.

Matthew played the perfect Interrogator! Even had me nervous. Lol staring to think that Mathew secretly works for the FBI. Lol

DREAD is one of my favorite rpgs for good narratives. I've run it almost a dozen times with a ton of different groups and it's always an amazing time.

Psycher is fucking with them.

Strephon Aella Alkhalikoi Oldest surviving issue of Paulo III. Born on 202-1049, proclaimed Emperor by the Moot in 1071.

Ahhhh, pin drops, mis jump.

Enjoying the story and the group. As the story goes, since the ship was designed to be in for extended period, the jump drive likely was a prototype, saying that, the misjump may have had a different effect.

Jaw sufficiently dropped! 👏👏👏👏

to help convince them I would have told them their names and ranks *I believe that it would have been included in the briefing package

Forging the next best thing to a Letter of Marque.

This is really good.

Nice work guys

Well this is just excellent.

Hey Matt, what program do you use to film your game?

Forgery used to be a skill, now you would use Deception. Electronic documents would be Electronic(computer), lockpicking would be Mechanics or Electronic(computer)

I pulled it! I don’t want to die!

DE 86177C2-600000-50004-0 MCr. 885.942 800tons Bearing 1 1 Crew 14 Batteries 1 1 TL 9 Cargo: 0 tons Fuel: 208 tons EP: 48 Agility: 4 Fuel Treatment: Fuel Scoops and On Board Fuel Purification Architects Fee: MCr 8.859 Cost in Quantity: MCr 708.754 Pilot Navigator 9 Engineers Medic 2 Gunners

Pip's Spine repair might have parts with manufacture dates if they scan it.

Gigi vibe checking a warship, works for me

this sounds a lot like the x files episode where they go aboard a ship and start aging rapidly to me

POV: you watch this episode after the queen dies

GAWD PUFFER if you don't trust it ROLL SOMETHING!!!! I'm SO nervous right now.

The spare parts for the ship...... Were any of the one of a kind or exact replacements

I never had a fake ID. But when I graduated high school back in 01. I moved from a small town to a big city to goto school. And the college didn't have dorms but they went through another company to rent out apartments, and they would cram 4 people I. A 2 bedroom 2 bathroom. And one of my roommates made fake IDs. And one of the other roommates bought one off of him. And he would scan your current ID and just change the birthday. We'll the one roommate who had one went to get gas and had to use a check(I was with him when this happened). And he forgot his real ID but had that one went to use it. And they were buying it until he said "it's a fake ID but only difference was the birthday." And next thing you know he is explaining it to the cops

It's Gideon E that the first part of The Mechanoids takes place on. Yeah Run a Mechanoids game with Skid ?!

If you like Dread, Ten Candles would be really neat to see you guys do.

Didn’t they have a bunch of replacement parts in their bay from the cruiser as well?

I legit love this story. I’m fucking intrigued…. Also I’m stealing it for my game…

Alicia is so funny on this show. And so far this is shaping up to be a banger of a star trek episode

“Boring conversation anyway.”

If you like the "doomed to fail" team stuff check out Blackhearts by Nathan Long.

jumps are supposed to have a signature that even basic sensors can detect (if close enough)

I love this! Definitely seeing the group gelling by this session. So much fun... I have to say, Gigi going full-Guinan was just awesome. I could easily picture her trying to set up her version of 10-Forward on the ghost ship.

I think I prefer to be the backup Eric.

They should have said “Donkey Balls”

I would be 'Eric' for this game.

As much as I'm enjoying this series, I can't wait until next season so we can meet the third Kershawn sister.

"Donkey balls!"

I suggest you check the oxygen levels on board. Maybe yall are hallucinating

Oh my god my first fake ID was done the same way but in Philly - but it was a NJ ID ! That’s crazy !!

*spoiler* Matthew, nice touch with the dates etc on their own ship being revised. I didn't see that one coming.

Isn't this from a very old Traveler adventure? I feel like I read the premise 40 years ago.

Hey, give me that fruit roll-up, the one with the imperial codes on it...

should have shown them the ships commissioning plaque

Mechanoids! Have the original books.😉