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The Crit Happens crew sits down to unpack the U.N.I.T. arc, where everyone played a Wild Magic Sorcerer and tried to hold the world together with unstable spells. You hear how the Universal Neomagic Isolation Team came to life, why surge-on-every-cast felt wild at the table, and what it was like to fight a Breach Core that fed on their chaos.
The players walk through their favorite surges, close calls, and the moment the rift pulled them in mid mission. You get DM perspective on planning controlled chaos, running Instability as a hidden clock, and keeping the story tense without shutting down the fun. The crew talks about what they would change next time, what surprised them most, and whether U.N.I.T. should return when the next anomaly hits Virelios.
0:01 I just made a real Christy move and took my my sleep pills. Welcome to Nat 29 line here on Spotify and our Crit happens Facebook page. Let's discuss quickly. I know this was session went a lot longer than we thought it was going to, but hey, wild magic surges galore. So let me ask you this. How are we feeling about the the wild magic surges in general? Do we need to workshop that? Because it did feel like there was a lot of surgeons. Well, I have a clarification question I think. Is the one or two on the D6 for additional triggers or additional chances of a trigger on the one spell it would?
0:45 Be additional triggers. Like true additional triggers, so casting one spell could result in multiple surges. And so you're talking about that the one or two on the road, correct? Or is that the codex I forget? Whichever one it is. Because I believe that we removed that and I hadn't had a chance to get that from you yet. Oh. Yeah, because I think, I think if it's additional triggers, that's too much. But if it's I roll for the chance to surge and I fail, but I have that, I'm in that little aura thing and then I have an another. So basically I have a 5050 chance to surge. If I don't surge, then I have an additional third be 3% chance to surge.
1:25 But every spell could only surge one time. Yeah, and like I like I said, you know, and I'm going to kind of get your your thoughts on everything here. But I, I do think we need to buff down the nerf down the the surges just a bit because there there were a lot. And and it will will work on that for the the weeks to come here because you know, the sessions to come with unit because this is these these unit missions are those filler in between missions between the actual campaign. So this is one that we can workshop and really make it our own. We can sit down and I'll send out messages and stuff and get everybody's thoughts on it. But holy hell, Rowan power word kill for the wind.
2:08 Love it that. Was sick. That was sick using one. Of those powers, yeah. And then the mass. The mass heel. Also from Orban. Good God, I couldn't come in a better time. Because Orban needed it the most. Yeah, well, there were, there were quite a few people that were not looking great. That's what I was. So we teleport back to, you know, the syndicate base or whatever unit headquarters, all these medics come up. But you don't expect that all of us, all of us literally are at Max health. No, we have 0 scratches on us. Yeah, yeah, the the field medics within the Syndicate outpost in the Action Belt, they, they come up rushing towards you like they're expecting, like just a bloody mess, somebody missing. An arm battered and bloody.
2:54 Right. Yeah, yeah, Yeah. You come back completely healthy. Not almost, not a scratch on you. And they all kind of look at each other like the hell. But that was like, what? Hello. So yeah, they're, they're pretty shocked that you come back completely unharmed. That's awesome. Good job, Orban. We're all professionals here, yeah. Obviously, we planned every bit of that purpose. Everything was completely planned and that's how we do it. Also, Orban is very confused, right Nailey? Chris is like where? Is any of this is that? Bailey Oh my God, she scared the shit out of me. I'm just standing.
3:41 Hi. Hi. Hi. I'm just back to doing my. Dishes. Now I'm in touch with my cold fingers. Thank you for taking 10 years off my life. Yeah. OK, we definitely need to rework the amount of surging because I literally built my character to farm surges. Yeah. Yeah. So I think we'll work on the surges because I was only expecting that session to last like an hour, hour and a half Max. And we're at, you know, almost 3 hours. So, well, we'll figure that will work out. Expedite the the like the search process, you know, like working through each person's like if there was a way to populate, you know what we were rolling and then you know, we could just work down the line with what, you know, what each person rolled.
4:32 Yeah. That's a really good idea. We could do like like a a layer a layer or like a like a initiative 20 layer effect where all of the surges from the previous round trigger, but we would have had that amount of time to like prep them. Right. Yeah, we can. We can work something. I like that a lot actually, because remember. Also like a mass, a mass surge, you know, a layer surge. Yeah. Well, yeah, that way you're not like, you know, waiting for each person to like, see, this is what I rolled. This is what I want to like. I'm going to stick with it. Like that kind of thing, you know? Yeah, I think we should have to stick with the roll too. OK.
5:14 I agree. Yeah, we. Can work out. Everything spend, spend like a source point, make it a decision, yeah or something, yeah. Something that cost you? Yeah, No, that makes complete sense. Yeah, I, I will work on that. But yeah, I mean, other than that, really great session, guys. That was a lot. Of fun. Cool. All right, we will return I believe as as of this recordings release, we will return with the final conclusion of the Pyre Hart accord with the main campaign with the scale bound Syndicate and we will kind of deal with the fallout of Neros effectively betraying his party and we. Don't know that yet.
6:02 We don't necessarily know that, but it's not looking great so far. It's not a good outlook or a great vibe so far that you just said, hey, I'm just going to sign this and take basically complete control. So all right, so that will do it from that 20 and unwind. We are all going to go to bed because we're all old and tired. So for everybody here at P3 Podcast Network, I am Spencer Hart and we will see you guys next time. Goodnight. See you later. Bye criticism.