Welcome bottomfeeders and protozoa alike! This is your weekly recap of the exploits of Hadal Live, the newest generation of Killtubers (streaming freelance mercenaries) as they explore the megadungeon known as Saimya Holy Livewell, a tremendous complex of failed commercial endeavors. First, the let's introduce the talent thus far! Gul, the Discharged Corp-Killer -Former frogman, packing more arms and armor than the rest of the entire group combined. -Seems to have taken on the role of groups chaperone? Lou Ditte, the Seething Luddite -A brash greaser with wonderful hair, a sledgehammer and 6 difference engines. -Most willing to take point, both with and without goading from chat Jio, the Brain Dancer -Camerawoman of the group, also the most social -Has a robot dog with more HP than she does Their first stream saw them following a quest to get some spicy justice, with the objective of pepperspraying a specific mallcop. They took to exploring the entrance hall of the Livewell, creating their first Viral Moment as Lou Ditte bet chat he could fish a ton of coins from the fountain the lobby, only to fail and have his hands attacked by fish. After Gul caught and fried one of the fish at a nearby fast food eatery, the parties camera batteries began to burn low, the group booking it through the tremendous fishing grounds of the Livewell towards Edgeway, the discount sword dispensary where mall cops where known to hang out. After sweet talking the target away from his friends, they managed to to not only pepperspray the target on camera, creating the groups second Viral Moment of the stream, but a extremely lucky chat donation allowed them to Doxx the mallcop before fleeing out of a nearby entrance. What will they do with this blackmail material and new found rewards? Join us next week to find out~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So as you can imagine, players-as-streamers is definitely reaching into uncharted territory, but the first sessions, while brief, was extremely promising. -XP-as-Viral Moments turned out to work excellently, as players will note down what they think quality as viral moments. (Thanks to Z-Scribe on the Mork Borg discord for helping out with that system, which I will expand upon in a future post). It also as the side benefit of creating a log of what players found to be the most exciting/entertaining moments of the steam. -The batteries-as-torches system also worked as intended, with the players both realizing that if they aren't on stream, they aren't collecting Viral Moments, or chat donations, which really encourages them to up the antics. -The group also loved talking with chat, though as a GM, I will definitely need to build up the tools for both the chat's interactivity, as well as setting some canned responses. And also some tables to have the chat be more... chaotic? It was only helpful this session, and I feel like it should be more of a blessing and a curse, if possible. -Things that need to be addressed... well the first floor probably probably be a bit bigger, with the central chamber only being one room means they can move pretty fast to most places in the complex. It's the first level so it's not a huge deal, but mall-as-dungeon needs a lot of work to give a proper labyrinthine experience. Feel free to ask about anything that I may have left out, there's a lot of different wielded together bits.
