Mothership: The Haunting of Ypsilon 14 #3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ย. 2023
- Welcome to Mystery Quest! A roleplaying podcast where we play a variety of one-shot roleplaying games with a rolling cast of special guests. Our adventure continues in Mothership: The Haunting of Ypsilon 14, a spooky, sci fi, horror adventure that sees the crew of a delivery ship on a routine supply drop embroiled in a mystery aboard a mining base. Today, the crew start have discovered an aversion to water might be an indicator of whether someone is infected.
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Genuinely what I look forward to most on TH-cam at this point
for real, great content, great cast, great moments
Same, always get super excited when i see þeyve posted!
Same. This and Games Night wargaming content are so fun.
Same
Very great, very good
"I'm gonna try hyperventilating, does that help?" is an all time great quote
Extremely relatable reactions to things all episode long from the lad!
Up there with "I begin to lactate".
Just loving the scene of "Hardened" "Ex-special forces" Jack Hacksaw screaming in panic while firing his gun in panic all the while the beautiful voice of Billy Joel is singing "They say I'm not so tough just because I'm in love with an Uptown girl!"
Easily my favorite scene in any Mystery Quest so far. Literally felt like something out of a movie. I was envisioning it like it was happening in live action. That was fantastic.
Hacksaw accidentally destroys all of Caz's beauty stuff: "You know I can't afford to buy her pearls, but maybe one day when my ship comes in, she'll understand what kind of guy I've been"
It's a superb idea for a scene in a movie. His panic, the frantic gunfire, the screeching invisible alien getting splatted all in slow motion whilst Uptown Girl plays in the background.
What I envision is, the door opens in his peripheral vision as the song starts to pick up. You see the realization on his face and then the scene starts playing in slow motion with the music going normal speed. He dives for the gun and spins to the door screaming and already starting to fire in his panic. It cuts into the scenes you guys described but it stays slightly slowed with music at normal speed. Then the song starts to fade as he steps into the hall and everything starts coming back to normal speed while he fires wildly into the hall. Of course, some of that could change based on what happens next episode.
this scene alone makes me want to see this story become a movie.
at the very least we need an animation of this scene.
The cut to Ben and him immediately singing Up Town Girl was amazing. The anticlimactic reveal with the other group, followed by a comedic scene change which quickly flips to serious danger just couldn’t be better!
The 1000 yard stare "who eats the shoes..." SO GOOD
Maybe my favourite moment of this whole thing
It's so distraught and genuine
Every episode of this show has been great - it’s been really refreshing seeing the different systems showcased, given how much TTRPG content on TH-cam is just “here’s a millionth DnD game”
*millionth d&d 5e game
I do really like Tom’s space adventure stories
"Is there anything you like to do to relax?"
"Not after what happened to Jerome, no."
I had a good giggle at that one!
There's an _Uptown_ Girl joke here, _somewhere!..._
the cut to ben was absolutely incredible. thats some top tier rp right there
Ben killed it with the Uptown Girl scene!
That's a man who knows how to plan while his character isn't involved in the current scene.
Damn straight; everyone's bringing it this session, but Ben is just completely on point!
Ben is a huge inspiration for me
This is rapidly becoming my favorite TH-cam channel, I selfishly want more than just one episode a week. T_T
A lot of us here crying about the same thing 😂
Major props to Tom's storytelling and whoever is editing these episodes, I was at the edge of my seat this whole time and genuinely shocked by the cliffhanger, an hour just flew by and I didn't want it to end, but god what an amazing place to build suspense
yeah this was a great one.
The real horror of this series is that I only get to watch one a week. Such a good one
I loved Mork Borg but i have to say that mothership is giving it a run for its money narrative wise. Loving this series and the channel just keeps churning out bangers
I wasn't too big into Mork Borg (just not my type of setting, a bit too grimy for my liking.)
But man this Mothership series has easily become my favorite online RP series to date. It is so floopin good, and that end scene of this episode was my most favorite on this channel yet.
@@Alino- Mork Borg wasn't the best one, but.. it had Jingly John, so it must be watched 😅
Jingly John is up there with Zando Zando
24:00
if anyone was wondering about the bullets in space thing
TL;DR Guns can fire in space, but would overheat and break after a few dozen rounds.
Bullets require oxygen to ignite the powder charge, but as lewis alluded to, the gunpowder contains potassium nitrate, which breaks down into oxygen, so bullets can fire perfectly in a vaccum.
However, guns will heat up with rapid firing. Usually, unless firing for sustained periods, natural air cooling is enough. However, in a vaccum, there is no air for heat convection, so the gun would rapidly heat up, and with only radiative cooling, heat would struggle to dissipate . This would first cause the barrel to overheat, softening the metal, and ruining the accuracy of the gun, eventually destroying the barrel entirely in a potentially catastrophic way, but more likely the the gun would get too hot to hold, or cause some internal part to warp and jam, rendering the gun inoperable before that happened.
thank you! i knew that humans overheat and boil in space because of no wind to blow our constantly generating body heat away.
but guns i was wondering about because of the oxygen thing.
Overheating is secondary to cold welds. On Earth, when you scratch a but of metal it gets instantly coated woth a layer of oxide. Whenyou are welding you actually burn off that oxide layer.
But in vacuum there's no oxide to be created due to lack of oxygen. So the exposed metal gets no coating and can fuse with any other bit of the same metal. In fact during spacewalks when/if tools break, they often just connect them back and weld them that way. This is also why the tools lften get plastic coating, so that they do not fuse together if scratched against each other.
With guns you have moving parts that rub on each other. And a tiny layer of metal can be easily shaven off a receiver, bolt and slide, enough to expose the metal under the oxide layer. And thus they can weld themselves together.
Introduce heat creation into the factor and since heat expands metals and makes them maleable you are now more likely to shave off that layer and get the parts welded together, long before the gun completely overheats due to heat itself.
So that is kinda why they need oxygen to operate. It is why Tom believes so (based on a scene in firefly IIRC) and discussed with Lydia in past.
@@VanBourner man, metal is weird.
@@VanBourner I'm not sure that cold welding would be a massive issue tbh. I think it would certainly make the gun less reliable over time, and certainly if it were left out in a vacuum for a decently long time I wouldn't trust it to work. Cold welding is actually pretty hard to effect even when you're trying to do it deliberately, and often the weld is only on a very small portion of the metal which wouldn't entirely jam the weapon. Internal parts are going to be case-hardened, which makes for very wear-resistant contact surfaces. The internal parts aren't just raw metal, they're usually blued or otherwise treated, the external parts are going to be blued and oiled, painted or sealed.
Most importantly the internals are going to be heavily greased. A perfectly clean, dry gun sticks up and jams up in atmosphere anyway, cold welding not required lol :P
All this to say, I think your gun is going to operate for a good while before it starts suffering from either heating, cold-welding, etc. Certainly long enough for you to worry about oxygen and people shooting back at you before you have to worry about it seizing or melting.
@@SpydrXIII The liquid in your body boils in space not because you will overheat, but because the pressure is so low. Even though the temperature is technically near absolute zero, you won't instantly freeze, because as you said, there is no matter for your heat to be pulled into. The pressure is so low that all air will be ripped from your lungs immediately, or even rupture them if you attempt to hold it. The moisture in your body will vaporize, causing embolisms in your blood vessels that can cause heart attacks and other problems (you don't want gas in your blood vessels lol). It will also cause massive tissue damage, painful bubbles under your skin as it rapidly expands, although that won't be an immediate problem, because the low pressure causes oxygen to diffuse OUT of your bloodstream and lungs, essentially reversing what happens when you breathe, causing hypoxia almost immediately, rendering you unconscious within 15 seconds, and likely dead within a minute or so. Eventually your body will freeze as the heat is radiated out, and the vapor is dispersed.
nasty way to go either way lol :P
Jake must be an XCOM character with the way he handled that panic
When Lydia's room just gets destroyed I died laughing, this is amazing
24:16 Lydia's callback!!! I'm in stitches!
what callback?
@@TwilightLink293 There's a video - I think it might be with Lydia and Tom on Tom's channel - where they talk about guns working in space.
They both agree that they won't work, but for very different reasons... Tom says they need oxygen because of the scene in Firefly where they put a gun in a space suit to shoot it. Lydia says that it's because, without gravity, the bullet would just float away! 😂😂
@@spyro454 Ah I see, thanks!
That intro had me on the edge of my seat, I always want more. But then I realize I’m on Mystery Quest!
I hope for Tom this channel becomes huge. Also for myself as I need this content in my life.
That introduction has made me hope we get a full mystery quest set in ancient Rome.
I'm here for it!!
If only Jake could've hallucinated a non-invisible monster where the invisible monster was!
17:05 the stunned silence followed by bewilderment was perfect. Ben/Jake's "it ate his shoes... who eats a shoe...?" Sent my sides into orbit
Using water against an invisible monster is brilliant low-budget sci-fi. The episode had some tense moments!
WAUUGHH THIS EPISODE WAS WILD this is definitely my favourite series on the channel so far!! Huge props to everyone I love how they play their characters, and of course amazing Warden Tom
Ben's character breakdown and coping was the funniest shit ever. Everyone is just so fuckin good, this is my new favourite channel
Some guy in the Colosseum stole my phone, had to borrow the emperors. Looking forward to ep 3!
*This is a comment, for the Angorythm*
These intros go hard
Intros definitely show the passion
@@willhudson5625 Oh, absol-fricking-lutley
I feel the need to point out that guns do in fact work in space. The cartridge is sealed and the gases that propel the projectile come from the gunpowder. The primer in the back of the bullet just needs an impact and then it ignites the contents while still sealed
But it's zero Gs, the bullets will just float away
I'm pretty sure that means hind have infinite range in space until it hits something
@@TheShadow1Assassinspace does still have resistance and gravity is still a thing
@@Slouworker in zero G, I thought the g meant gravity, and what kind of resistance other than obvious debris?
The only issue with guns in space is that there is no air for heat conduction, so sustained fire will overheat the weapon much faster than on earth.
These intros just get longer and more elaborate and I love it
Edit: this was the best Ypsilon 14 episode yet, absolutely loving this, everyone is hilarious and yet the tense bits were properly tense too. Whoever is editing these and adding all the music and sound effects is doing an amazing job
Bam, these regular releases are really great. Gives me something to look forward to week to week.
I love how these intros seem to get longer and more intense as the episodes come
I'm starting to wonder if the actual session is all an elaborate intro
I was rewatching ep 1+2 non stop. A weeks wait has never been so brutal!!
Holy hell, I want more of the intro. The mystery quest really pulled me in
Mystery Quest is my favourite new channel by a distance. Everyone, especially Tom, has been smashing it out of the park.
I really love the short story aspect of this channel, there's others that have a series that goes on absolutely forever, which is still fun given a good cast, but this is always kept fresh.
I believe Lewis and Lydia could bring more of their characters' motivation / mission into this but I can hardly blame them with how intriguing of a story Tom is letting them skid along.
Mothership seems like a fun setting.
Lewis: let us be gentle
Also Lewis: fill a condom with water and throw it at him
Technically speaking, a bottle of water, if it was a sealed unit, would be perfectly fine in a vacuum. Since water is incompressible, there would be no real pressure on the inside of the bottle (there would be a small amount of air, but that would probably be just enough to push the lid upwards and seal it against the rim). Eventually, the heat in the water would radiate away into space, and the water would freeze. Water, of course, expands when it freezes, but it would merely push out the sides until the bottle split. There would be a tiny "explosion" as the air escaped through the newly created gaps, but nothing serious, especially given a suit of power armour. Either way, heat loss through radiation is extremely slow; you won't be outside nearly long enough to worry about it freezing.
The "spritzers" with the hole in the lid would be a different matter. Because it's no longer a sealed system, the air would leak through the hole, and the water would begin boiling in the vacuum and slowly escape as well. It would be slow enough that there wouldn't be an explosion.
Honestly, you should probably be more worried about a bottle of water exploding at sea level than in space.
EDIT: Bullets also 100% work in space. The cartridge contains the oxidising agent, as well as the explosive. They work fine underwater, too.
EDIT2: Of course, that doesn't say anything about the gun itself. Most guns these days use some kind of spring to feed ammunition and to fire, but if this particular gun relies on a gravity feed mechanism, it may not work in 0g.
Can't wait for future MQ intros that are just full 30-hour audiobooks.
normal youtube notification: I sleep
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I never knew, I needed the imagination of Ben in a powersuite firing a machine gun, listening to Uptown Girl and absolutely destroying Lydias room in the process. 🤣
thank god it's here🎉
I live week to week solely for the next mystery quest video.
I love how good Ben is as Jakeyboi. On the other hand it infuriates me the spreadsheet clashing meganerd is such a multitalent and can do camp horror so well.
(I love you Ben)
As everyone is saying, I have waited so long and I am so excited
wow, I just checked the channel like 20 minutes ago for more content, and now here it is not long after! I guess my Mystery senses were tingling. Love the content!
I've just realised, they're pretty much the Red Dwarf crew, Lewis is Kryten, Simon is Cat, Ben is Lister and Lydia is Kochanski
Ben is Rimmer pretending to be Ace Rimmer.
I'd probably say it's more like Lydia/Carol = Cat, Simon/Dr Thrax = Kryten, Ben/Jake = Lister, Lewis/Stephen = Rimmer, as Carol is now both vapid and cowardly, Dr Thrax is actually fairly knowledgeable and put together, and Stephen is very much a talking rulebook and suck-up to the company hierarchy.
Uptown Ben~
Shot an invisible alien~
I bet the stress will leave him scarred for life!~
Stephen the android should have locked the door on the bridge behind them and flew away on the ship. Killing doctor Giovanni with the revolver if he needed too.
I got red dwarf vibes with the despair squid when rimmer was listening to music from Jake listening to uptown girl whilst everyone else is hiding.
I wonder about the monster eating a human body (with its extreme abundance of water) with its bound, but also importantly: percentage of free water molecules in it.. probably like eating the best damned taco you've ever had.. but sprinkled with a hefty amount of carolina Reaper and a side dish of pepper X.
I’m getting so into this, genuinely counting down the days for the next episode.
Honestly I can totally picture a fight scene to "Uptown Girl."
Always excited for these episodes
Excellent episode. Ben's a great addition. 👍
I really hope this one will get a director's cut in the end, one long vid to chill to in couple of years.
Love that Lydia pretty much suggested to do the only reasonable thing that would end up with a 20 minute video :D
haven't been this spookmsed since The Shambler came out of that picture!
Great job on the sound design editor! Really sells the atmosphere.
Just so you know, guns do work in a vacuum. The casing has everything it needs in it to ignite.
Gunpowder definitely works in space because the oxidiser is a chemical powder mixed in.
This is my drug.
According to a quick google, bullets contain their own oxidizing agent, and they do work in space. They also work in water, but the water slows it down. In space it will go ‘forever’
I was initially skeptical of this channel but this series just gets better and better
I live for the Mystery Quest Intros OH MY GOD
Lydia once again spouting her crazy "guns in space" theory.
This series has been the best so far. Very engrossing thanks Tom and crew.
I love how Tom's hair becomes increasingly messy as he Wardens.
So good, not sure what to even write! This has quickly become the highlight of the week. Shoutout to everyone involved in the production, great work! Really the best thing on the internet for a long time, and hoping this gains traction to keep it going for as long you are happy to produce it ✌️
Bro the intros on this channel are better than most content on the platform now. I love this.
I really hope this channel kicks off so you guys can upload multiple episodes per week. I know that it isn't possible just yet, but man the Yogs roleplaying is some of the most fun content and I am absolutely in love.
What did the emperor decide?! I can’t handle all the blue balling in these cold opens! Give me closure!
Fun fact, guns would work in space. Issue is that you need something to deal with the recoil of said rifle.
For refernce. A gun will work in space. The bullet will not stop till it hits something so its a bad idea to have.
Bullets have their owm oxidiser in the gun powder.
This weekly episode bit is awesome! I genuinely crawl through the days of my interminable existence just to get to the weekend update!
Very little to no fluff, straight into the action, no bs about likes and subscribing. Normal people playing games. Good stuff.
I've been excitedly waiting for the reveal of Dr. Thrax's first name and was not disappointed!
Guns behave normally in space and bullets just keep traveling endlessly unless they hit something of course
cant wait till next week, love this series
This kind of roleplaying is what I miss from the Yogs Quest days. I hope we get more of this.
Truly the best episode of a role-playing series I've ever watched.
Requests:
Dolmenwood (it's amazing. You guys will love it)
Midderlands setting (OSR setting in the fantasy Midlands. Would be very popular with Yogs I think!)
DnD 5e - it's populist I know but there are quite a few great indi adventures out there you could run. Have a look at...
-Tales of the Old Margrave
-Anything by MK Black
-Fantastic Adventures
-Flee Mortals and Where Evil Lies by MCDM
-SOME of the one shots in the WotC Anthologies - for example in Candlekeep Deep and Creeping Darkness, Sarah of Yellowcrest Manor, Zikran's Zephyrean tome, Curious tale of Wisteria Vale are all good.
-The online 'REMIXED' adventures of some of WotC's published versions, like Avernus, Dragonheist, and Withlicht (this one would be very appropriate for Yogs). Without the remix the adventures can be very poor.
There's a lot of Fantastic OSR modules to have a look at as well, too many to list, but here are a few - Deep Carbon Observatory, Stygian Library, Death Frost Doom, Thuliun Echoes, Tomb of the Serpent Kings (free online), Praise the Fallen (free online).
Best guys!
EDIT: Hole in the Oak and Winter's Daughter are also great.
I love these darker play throughs, this is by far my favorite series on youtube right now. Great work guys!
man imma need the old yogsquest animatic for this series idt would make this even better
Genuinely could make a great movie/show like The Expanse (which also started out as a TTRPG session)
IIRC Riddick also started from a character Vin Diesel made during DnD session.
This channel has quickly become my favourite on TH-cam and this series is definitely my favourite so far.
Ypsilon 14 is my favourite Mystery Quest game thus far. Just the right balance of goofiness and super cinematic.
I love the different motivations for the characters in this.
Jeez, what an intro!
You had me on the edge of my seat there!
Ben is the best.
This channel quickly became my favourite channel on youtube
Openings better than most dnd I've played
This campaign has been so enjoyable to watch so far
Interesting note on his gun not being space worthy: Apparently polished metal can just cold weld together in vacuum.
Finally a decent channel I look forward to receiving notifications from. The yogscast does not fail in making excellent content.
I'm not 100% sure Ben's dice can roll under 70, the poor guy!
Nobody kills ben but ben
24:10 caseless rounds would actually work in space not to mention his Carbine most likely would have been manufactured to work in space.
Best episode yet. The Uptown Girl bit had me creasing
Been waiting for this episode! Keep up the great videos!
Ok their rolls have been absolutely abysmal, like what the fuck kind of dice are they using
_Space-dice_
@@BimpytheWimpyShrimpy Ain't that the truth