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Void. The show you're about to listen to, was originally a live stream
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Gaming, where we are back yet again in the Void of Space. And
I'm just gonna drag this out for as long as possible so that doctor I
think Nome just said he didn't want to space, okay, so then we
need to check him and make sure he's feeling okay. A resident spaceboy can't
space. That no entire show and this Space is canceled. M We are
going to go to the Hot Springs episode. Finally you did that, not
you go gooey hot spring? Yeah? No, yeah, I mean hotspitea
hot spring, the Demon Child, I don't know. Hey, there was
Demon Child. There was good literally the worst hot Spring I've ever heard in
my life. We had some brother drama. There was well, you can't
always get what you want if there's a song like that, I think.
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bottom right here in corner, you will see there's a bar down there.
With that bar that it has two purposes. One when it feels like it
did seven times last week. Uh dots over the hell she wants to us,
which is kill us and steelership in our pie. Should we recap No,
not yet, U. I was gonna recap all the ways well,
and most importantly what it does is every dollar that goes into that jar,
that jar, that bar, either one it does go into the bar first
goes to these wonderful, beautiful you face what you see before you. And
with that I will turn this over to Dot to recap both the bar and
the events of last week. Well, I think really the events of last
week are in entirely Mike. Why are you like this? What are you
doing? Mike? Why are you this human? A famous TV star?
Why are you the way that you are? Why why are you the way
that you are? I was devoid? We are looking okay, far too
much for me to handle today. Last time, it was the audience that
really drove the story, as we had four corruption bars filled in the evening,
which led to a series of unfortunate events, ones that unfortunately the the
crew that was actually on their feet had little to no say in. Tal
was passed out and all they needed to do was slip in to this empty
portal station, set their coordinates and get back to Coriolis. Unfortunately, the
ship was has a hitchhiker, one that got on board without their knowing and
made itself known thanks to a corruption bar, possessed the ship thanks to a
corruption bar, left with the ship thanks to a corruption bar, and me,
I was on the ship. Don't forget about the tale on board,
and oh and and roid boy and the droid and the droid on board he
names, thank you Gizmo, Gizmo, And how we're on board kidnapped by
whatever this entity was, and all their stuff and the black ooze that was
seeping from the ship and their vessel was emptied out into the blackness of space.
Where were TAW and Gizmo included? Better not have been. I really
hope the gen strapped me in before you open the doors. We don't know.
That was really the least of their problems, considering the fact that on
board this station where they are now stranded, they are not alone. For
the darkness between the stars creeps in in any way that it can, and
sometimes simply witnessing something is all you need for the darkness to corrupt and take
over your minds. And the station they found there were things, creatures,
beings living in the shadows. So once the reactor was up, and I
want to think Seul had a little break some fear. Seul felt fear.
Yeah, he had some emotional breakdowns, and the lights came on. The
dark mound made themselves known. Malik managed to get to the other side of
the portal like station itself, where the cordets needed to go in, and
that left to Mirror and Seul to accidentally bump into the three dark bound that
we're chasing. Malik. Seul witnesses two things he's never seen before, an
ancient gin aboard their ship and the eyes of a dark bound, and our
camera zooms in on a frozen body of Seul. Oh God, I don't
say Tal of Tal's body floating through space under character. You were gonna have
you for season two, but I guess it's fine. I will just play
Gizmo. Oh yeah, awesome, that is a Gizmos still with us,
just gonna kill off every potential character I have for season two. Okay,
thanks don. So as we jump in, the camera does pen in on
school frozen body, eyes, dark as empty space, devoid of light or
pupils or anything that seems humane, surrounded by two of these tall, gangly,
shadowy creatures that slither and move with them extended digits that come to heavy
points, and instead of slicing you and clawing you to pieces, as if
they were to eat your flesh, they seem to be eating something much deeper.
They stare deep at you, and we watch as a single shot fires
from behind. One of them drops and dissipates into a cloud of smoke,
and the camera zooms in deep on the darkness in Seuel's eyes. You walk
through an empty space with about two inches of water at your feet. You
hear these distant sounds of a single blaster shot, maybe Malik and Tamir's voices,
but they are so far away, and here you thought you were alone,
but you blink in before you is a face that you've not seen in
many years. Your brother, your younger brother. What does your younger brother
look like. He's kind of a skinnier version of me, a bit taller,
short hair, and kind of a weak frame, but always seems to
have this odd posture of him, as if he always needs to say something
and is always kind of afraid of something. Has a bit of a passive
face, but has very strong features on his face. They're passive, but
they have like direct lines. And as you look deep into the face of
your brother again, something you've not seen in a long time. The world,
this emptiness, this void around you, begins to fill in pieces of
something you've done before. But it feels so natural, and your brother speaks
to you as if nothing is out of place, as if a moment plays
again a memory. And the two of you stand outside of a small tunnel,
an exit tunnel for a job. You're panting and sweating, right in
the middle of something. Your brother stops you and put a hands on your
shoulder and he goes, We're not going that way. What what what do
you mean we have? He can stop talking. I have actually tell you
something important. This is not the time. He goes, I know,
I know, but I made a different deal man, one that's gonna one
that's gonna make us so much more money. Right, you altered the plan
because I didn't alter it. He's like, I just made it better.
He's like, they're never gonna know. And all we've got to do.
He's like, there's a there's a transport waiting on us just over the hillside.
We have to complete this task. He's gonna know, he's gonna know.
There's a actual pause, and your brother takes a deep breath and looks
over your shoulder to make sure that nobod he's coming behind you, and he
says, I don't care. He's like, this job, if we do
it, if we do it this way, we'll have enough credits. We
don't have to worry about him anymore. We could buy our way out.
Man, you're thinking of leaving, especially with what just happened. He says,
what else am I supposed to do? I told you stick with the
family and we'll get through it. What family, Man, Listen, this
isn't the way to do it. You're gonna get us both killed. Me.
Here's all you gotta do is come with me. Nobody's gonna die.
If you just come with me, you're gonna die. They're not gonna stop
looking for you. We could do it together. You're doing it the wrong
way because what am I gonna do? What do I do? What do
I gotta get? It? Looks around, he's like, we don't have
much time, and he's like, I'm going this way and I want you
to come with me. There's nothing I can do to change your mind.
No, I just want you to be my brother Man two, to leave
this family. Could we could do it again? Better? Different? Hector?
He looks kind of perturbed that you use that name, right, Sorry,
uh GisMo whatever. Just listen you. You do know if we do
this, they're not going to stop hunting both of us. Yeah, but
we'll have each other's backs. I don't want you to live a life of
just always looking over your shoulder, but I'll have you to look over my
shoulder and me to look over yours. You're putting me in a real rough
spot. It's not if you say yes, yeah, and he's like yeah,
he says, you're come on, man. He's like, we've got
two minutes to make it over the hillside. Do you say you have the
chip that we have to return. Is that what you have? He digs
in his pocket and he pulls out one of them. He pulls one out
and he says, I got it safe and secure and your other deal?
What is it? Um? He kind of swallows and he says, I
mean, are we're gonna stand here and dog business or like? And you
hear um the sound of feet coming up from behind you. Your brother goes,
we don't have time for this, and he begins to pull on you.
You can see he's still worn out from the run and escape from the
mission. It's self. Um, and blaster shots start coming up over the
hill. Um. One of them tags your brother in the shoulder. Come
here and I'll grab Gizmo and put kind of pull him close to me.
Um. Um. He uses you to kind of stand himself up, and
he's like, we have to move, and he starts. He starts hobbling
that direction with or without you. Okay, UM, I think I will
follow him. I'm so we following him just a little bit to see where
he leads. Okay, Um, he kind of um. He he needs
your help at this point is tagged him and he's bleeding out pretty heavily.
Um. And as he throws his arm over your shoulder. Um, you
can see him smile. Um. He's bleeding from the nose uh and his
mouth and but he may make it. Um. And as you hobble off,
he kind of grabs you and puts you in front of him, pulls
you really close and toss his arm around you, not in a needing to
hold you up kind of or hold me up kind of way, but in
a late, a brotherly hug kind of way. Um. And he squeezes
really tight. The blaster shot. You can hear him like they're firing.
They can't see you yet, but they were like off in the distance,
and he whispers in your ear and he says, you're the only brother I
ever needed. Yeah, I tried, and I'm sorry. And then with
that I would push forwards my mercury dagger directly upwards into his ribs. There's
a crunch sound as you break through rib cage. Um. Do you do
you turn the dagger on? Or is this just a regular Um? So
I wouldn't. I would push it inwards twisted and then turn it on,
and then I would cover his mouth with my other hand. His eyes grow
big, and there's a moment of terror that rushes over his face, and
then a moment of understanding, and he looks at you and his eyes well
with tears as you the dagger on and you hear him, and then Saw
leans in and whispers, this is their only true freedom, and I'm sorry,
and as you, I'm sorry that I couldn't protect you from it.
And then I'll just push upwards more with the dagger, and you hear him
like take a final breath, and he's trying, he's trying to hang on.
He pulls you close, your forehead's touch. You can smell his fucking
sweat on his face, and he lets out a final breath as his body
goes limp in your arms and his hand releases your suit that you're wearing.
As you remove the dagger, it's smooth and clean, card rised, and
Saul will lean down, take a moment to look at his brother's body.
Take the chip, stand up, and he kind of has this very disoriented
look on his face. It's like kind of like a half grim smile,
but he has tears rolling down and he immediately just tries to wipe it away,
and it's like it's like someone trying to reset themselves, and he kind
of like hits his cheeks a couple of times, shakes it off, wipes,
tries to wipe the tears again, but they just keep like coming down
very just completely weird, weirdly not matching, and he just keeps trying to
clean it off. And that there's a point where he just pulls a mask
up to cover his face, to cover your face. They are getting ever
closer, and you turn and know that the direction you should have been headed
to begin with. And as you run, all we see is the silhouette
of your brother's body behind you, and you fade into this dark tunnel,
leading you out the other side to complete a mission. As you pass into
the darkness, you hear your feet. This memory fades away, back into
the void, and you stand there, empty with a dagger in your hand,
water at your feet, and a vast nothingness. This time though the
dagger it's strange. There's a dark viscousness on the end of it. And
as the camera pans out, leaving you smaller and smaller and smaller and this
empty void, the camera exits through Seul's eyes and back out to the scene
at hand, and we go back into a initiative. It's not jacket.
Well, I can't talk shock. I shocked them? Did everybody were done?
Here? We'll see you next week. Wait, hold on, I
gotta come in and save you guys for the killing conclusion of everyone's okay,
well we'll come back to that. Nobody get excited. Uh we still have
too dark bound So the sea an outside of Sewel's mind, and this dark
emptiness is um u. It's okay, like a perpetual Pikachu face Like,
I can't that is all this game is. It's perpetual Pikachi face facion.
Patient just now, no, uh, you know not to not to shoot
up. I'm Paul here, but I'm like in the grand scheme of good
brothers, like give me a break, bro, for ship's sake. That
was a mercy killing. I totally saw I was doing mercy mercy crime.
It's still less than mercy murder, right, at least for alive. Some
things make some people are alive, and some things break people. God damn,
God damn. That was a good one. That's a good question.
Oh, we actually started the top of turn order, which I say from
last week on my sassy new note, pet phone. What. Oh yeah,
that's right, I right, Okay, So I'm gonna take two minutes
to brag on the fact that I now take all my archaginos on this little
tableau with a little bit and I've organized them by show. That's it.
That's all I have to say. Okay, there's one here that says bullime
so Sewel is actually at the top of the round. Unfortunately. Yeah,
I don't know what you we're gonna say all that? What's your telling?
It makes it Malik's turn. Um. So you see this one that you
shot, goes down? It poofs Remember, it drops basically a skeleton.
It's almost like it's exterior black shadowness dissipates outwards, leaving a skeleton behind.
There are still two more that have been untouched that are surrounding uh Sulu and
you watches his body like goes limps and hits the floor at their feet.
Cool. Um, I don't think I have time to do much about that.
I just continue to open fire safety of this door that I know conceal.
Um do I see Tamir from where we mirror has gone around the corner.
Okay, hopefully you have not heard from ta mirror. Hopefully he's using
his dumb brain and he's running the buck away. In the meantime, Probably
I fail to shoot at anything. Great Um as Sewel's body hits. Maybe
it's just enough of distraction. As you take a fire, and they almost
move with an uneasiness, a ferocious fastness, the way that a shadow shifts
when you flip the lights on and they adjust their movement. One of them
turns. You can see its head turns to look at you. No,
Um, did you You should have one additional action point if you want to
use it. Uh? No, I fired. That's two points. That's
a slow action. That's it. That's all I'm gonna do. Oh okay,
okay, great you fire it misses, but again it turns to look
at you. Um to mirror. There's been an uneasy as you try to
catch your breath again, you coming out of your own moment, thinking about
you and your brother and this time here and just everything that got you in
this place, Shoving fabric into the tight neck of a of a bottle to
make molotovs, but nothing has come out from around the corner as you sit
in cover, Great um So Tamir is gonna go Tamy's gonna go ahead and
take um, like a couple of the bottles and um, just with you
know, some fabric or whatever, you know, whatever cloth he could find
from behind there, you know, make a couple of the molotovs um his
his suit probably I would assume has some type of welding tool kind of yeah,
yeah, yeah, Um, So he's gonna go ahead and light one
of them and just start booking it back towards um uh towards Seoul, Okay,
because he had seen Seul go down, I would say, yes,
So I would say if if we're thinking about this is kind of like yeah,
it's kind of like a long hallway. At one end of that hallway
is the room that m Malik is in the hallway, and then it like
nil corners out to the open area where the canteen is. So you probably
saw Sol hit the ground and one of them dissipate, okay, but you
cannot probably see ma Leik. Okay. Great, So yeah, so Timyir
is going to go ahead and kind of like run up and knowing full well
that they are all still in extom shells, so fire shouldn't be a problem.
Yeah, however, he knows the reaction that the fire will cause with
any sort of station system, and if he can kind of like take a
quick look over at Malik, who is still inside of the other room,
He's going to slam down one of the molotov's at the creatures, okay,
and activate the lockdown protocols. Okay, do you want to be which side
of the lock Tamir is going to stay with? Soul? Okay? Okay,
okay. Your brother makes eye contact at you, appearing out of nowhere
in hand bottle of alcohol burning flament. In a slow motion moment, you
both make eye contact down this long hallway, Soul's body at your feet,
and he watches your brother smashes this small tab and it explodes outwards. UM.
I actually think I don't know if maltop's in here as an explosive.
I don't know that maltobs qualify as like a sci fi explosive. Um.
I don't think they thought of that when they were creating this. Yeah,
but that means said it was kind of primitive tech world. Why that?
Yeah? I mean, okay, you know what, It's not the best
explosion because it's not like gasoline or anything, right, it'll be enough.
It's a fire that would trigger the explosives, and some stuff can be anything
from primitive detonated capsules to advance grenades. Look, it's you, um okay,
so what I'll say in this case because it just kind of genuinely talk
generally talks about explosives. Um, yes, i'd find something similar this time.
Yeah, it probably does two points of damage. Um when you roll
it and since you are throwing it at short range. Oh, here we
go. Yes, look ha ha ha standard grade third third Okay, a
breech charge man, they got some serious stuff here. I'm gonna treat this
like a cushion grenade. No one, inferno grenade. That's what I'm looking
for. There will be inferno grenade. So the blast power is nine,
the damage is too, and the critical is when it is a short range.
So um yeah, roll up that melee h they're gonna do. You
and Seul don't have to worry about taking damage' right because you're roping in a
suit. I mean, oh now, roll. I just I don't know,
um, strength agility? Um, may I believe ranged combat is mainly
okay, I see, yeah, it's strength shit range combat is agility cool
cool cool cool. I mean it's a moltov. It's going to explode when
you drop it. And that that was the the core, that's the core
purpose you it drops, but not quite exactly where you planned a little farther
forward. The good news is it still captures them in its blast radius.
It is a littoral blast radius. Um. Yeah. Um. So the
shadowy, these dark bound creatures. UM. You hear them kind of scrench
as they take to the ceilings, almost immediately as if they are drawn their
magnetize um, and they begin crawling kind of away um towards Malik, and
the fire burns and you see, um, the a sprinkler drops from the
system. It lets out. It starts letting out like a compressed air.
Um. And there are like emergency lights that kick on, and you hear
a voice say, um uh, fire doors closing. Seoul is on the
other side of the doors. You're gonna have to make it through the door
in time if you want to be with him. Oh crap, okay run
so yeah, I'm yeah, it'll be another I'm gonna give you another role
to because you did call it with your turn. Um. If you want
to take it that way. Um, I would say this is a dexterity
role to get through the door in time. I'm so scared. Okay,
okay, you did it. You hear it go, doors closing, and
you're like, okay, cool, do you have a moment to breathe?
And it goes and you see it begin to close in Seoul on the opposite
side, Um, you make a running kind of dive for it. It
cuts very close to your foot as you slip it through. Um. You
know the kind of wideness of the suit and the door. It is now
you and Seul kind of an in a flaming area that's slowly like dissipating down
some things that could become charred. The two dark bound and you see Malik
on the other side. It's now the dark bounds term. They're no longer
interested in fire, so they run down towards Malik. They will use their
entire turn to cross the distance and like in a blink of an eye,
blik, they are on top of you. It's your term, dope.
So well you see I uh okay, cool, uh Yeah, I'm gonna
fire on these floes because I don't have a choice. So yeah, I'm
gonna do that. Uses that'll do. You're gonna just fire one of them.
Yeah, they are in short range. Now. I don't know if
that affects my pis. I don't. I don't think it does. If
it's the bulk and pistol, it doesn't. Okay, my range is short,
So that works. They got a roll. They got a roll things,
don't they? Yeah, so I find it they roll if they have
defense. Um, I don't actually think that they do. I don't think
they do either. H correct, they do not looad of headpoints. They
do have a buttload of hit points. So tell me my damage their served.
It's just it's just you on this one. Okay, so it is,
um, you fire on one of them. Wow, you watch as
the a chunk of this darkness, it kind of explodes outwards and from it
like ink ink in water, this kind of black inkiness um fizzles out and
into the air. Um. Okay, they have taken two um Ta mirror
it is your term again. There's no one else than me. There's nobody
else here. So Sewel's out. Oh oh, I'm just knocked out.
Seul's knocked out. Everything that we did is what's happening to Sewel at the
moments, Oh, I see, okay, gotcha. Seul's body is like
on the ground limp. His eyes are wide open and they are yet black
snow dogs. The corruption bars filled. Yes it is okay. Kakkkkkk,
I love you, buddy, kakk okay. I have to say so.
I was really debating this one particular story thing I wanted to happen, and
I kind of really decide, um, if it was too dark to bring
to the table. But it's you know what, if a corruption bar has
been filled, best bring that corruption. You're close towel right, mir turn
t I guess so because Tamirs was soul Um. Do you like a quick
check of vitals like he's alive? Yeah? Yeah, you the uh sprinkler,
the air pressure comes down, empties it out very quickly, and you
kind of come over and you begin checking him for vitals. So this would
be a metacurgy check technically, but I would take a survival as a wit.
Do you have survival? If not, I could just take a whiz
role. Yeah. Wow, you come over and look him over. He's
perfectly fine. He's breathing, his pulse is fine. Um, you can
see um. Oh no, his eyes are open. Um. What is
unclear is the why his entire eyes are completely get black um, thick blackness.
You can see no definition of pupil or dilation or any of that.
And Seuel is bleeding from his left ear. Whatever they've done to him seems
to have either left him in like a comatose state. He seems to be
sleeping basically is what the stasis of his body? Um? Or they have
Um he's been drugged in some way. Are the only two things that you
could come up with without being a proper like doctor role. Okay, so
he's alive. Great, Um, Tamir is gonna get up and um kind
of like reach into his space pouch on something fucking suit um and pull out
the talisman. Okay, you begin raching around in your pocket and you you
pull out this talisman. Um. This is the kind of rounded angular stone
that was pulled off the bottom that was right with the statue. Okay,
what would you like to do with it? Uh? Tamir is gonna just
kind of like stare at it for a moment and hold it in his hand
and just okay kind of like talk to it. Because still not really made
all the pieces together, but definitely piece of something together. Um. Okay,
my friend, you helped me once before, and I need you to
help me again. I need to get through these doors and help my put
out there and they're just gonna pray do it? Okay, you right next
to the school. You close your eyes, Um, you hold this stone.
Um, you feel that slight vibration again, just a light buzzing of
energy that seems to be activated by your touch, and as you pray to
it, I am going to have you roll a mystic power or yes,
that's yeah, mystic powers. Yes, um, okay, okay, all
right. You hold it close and as it begins to kind of vibrate,
um, it starts to warm up a little bit, um, and you
are this is something that you've not seen or felt before. And you can
see it between your fingers let off a kind of blue ember and uh,
it seems to be activating in some way. Um. Though you are unsure
exactly what's to do with that, if that makes sense, um, but
it does seem to be ready, like in your hand, it's like it's
glowing. What do you do with Oh god, Okay, that's not what
he had wanted to happen. He wanted the astro projection theme because that's the
only thing he's seen it too. Balls Um okay, great, not helpful,
um tim YEA will go ahead and just start booking it towards the closed
door right now. He needs to get into that room, Oh, the
one with uh with the leak. So you're gonna leave school? Yep,
souls alive. Okay, I need you to make a role for me.
I need you to make a dex sterry. Actually, what is your armor?
Are you wearing any um with the exo shells too? You're in your
exo suit so it's oh yeah, yep, shit. I would like for
you to make an attack. Roll as you breathe and come to and you're
dagger almost instantly within the dream you were having slices forward and is going to
attempt to pierce uh the closest thing, which is of course it's were Okay,
so I just just just make an attack, yep, just make an
attack. This is why the corruption bar is here. How much damage does
it do? Zero? Critical damage with the dagger? What is your crypt
numbers on the dagger too? So you need a five to actually activate a
crip. I think I believe that's true. Yes, because you need to
critical dye. Yeah, okay, that's that's four you rowe four sixes on
that I mean everybody four sixes on that die pool. Okay, so not
critical damage? What is the regular damage on your So you go to get
up to run to your brother. This stone's like and there's this kind of
moment where you feel a pierce, a sting in your stomach, and as
you look down, you realize that Seul has come too, and has that
straightforward and plunged his dagger into your side and your chest. There's still this
kind of inky blackness over Saul's eyes, as if he's not completely there,
but he does manage to pierce your suit and into you for a point of
damage, and he quickly pulls it free and his body falls flat again.
Oh, Maliki watched this happen. You turn to look at your brother.
It's not his turn. It's the dark bounce term and Malik has been standing
there with the glass doors open, Peul firing, and they are on top
of him. It's you. It's my turn to now attack you. So
what did they want? Okay? One of them simply reaches out the one
that you hit with their claws, um, and will attack my life.
Lucy's a success. How much it fails? It fails? Um, great
and failing. I think it does just remove one point of damage. They
only do a point of damage. Okay on my defense. Great. The
second one reaches out and it's like as well, um and reaches for you.
Another limited success. Oh god, yeah, they they they scrap scrap
at you, and you manage to dodge and like pull back. They don't
hit you as the doors slide close. Um, and now their claws down
this glass pane on the other side. As you turn and look, soul
plunges a dagger into your brother's stomach. I don't like this is what you're
saying. Okay, it's your term. Where are these monsters on the other
side of the glass? Okay, you can step forward and it'll they'll slide
open and you can shoot them. Um. They don't seem to be able
to penetrate the glass or come through. Well. Uh okay, cool,
cool, cool cool. I'm gonna use the door data pad thing that was
I was using before to like manually override to open the door as like manually
pressed to open it, Yeah, to like keep it open. It doesn't
like automatically clothes anymore. Oh oh, you can easily do that. There's
just a special button you need to like flip from press like I'm gonna do
that, and that's that's like one that's like a fast action. And then
I'm gonna shoot them with a slow action. Okay, Yeah, the door
open and you're able to. I would say that that's a total free action
to turn them open the door in that case, and I'm gonna step I'm
gonna step back away from the door a little bit, um and then I'm
going to fire on these MOBOs. Um cool, cool, cool cool ranged
combat. Wow one success too damage. Uh. They will take it in
total because they can. Do you do you firow on the same one or
do you find that if I can tell the difference, then I will I
will aim for the one man. You can see that, as you like,
every time you shoot them, it's almost like they dissipate a little bit
in their black sustenance. That's like keeping them together. Um, it kind
of dissipates a wistful way. Of course. You know underneath this is nothing
but a skeleton. Okay, Um, so you fire on the same one
for another two points. Um. It actually has to take a couple steps
back, this time putting one ahead and one behind. Oh, milik jam
jamir. I'm sorry, do you wear a milik so Soli's back down on
the ground right mm hmmm, uh yeah, flip as he can be.
I think to me, it's just going to kind of like apply pressure um
to the area and and and keep trying. I know it's a kid.
He knows it's a kid. Yeah, and uh, he's he's gonna slower
lee uh make it too towards the door um, and almost like angrily now
like just you know, work please, okay. And as you say work
please, do you do anything or do you just yell at it like squeezing
it. He's he's hurt, and you're he's very scared. You Ah,
you yell at it. And as you're so scared, you're like do something.
It's your energy. Something passes through you, that aggression, that that
purpose, that drowsy do you know the role another mystic power? Now,
but you're close to them, I'm gonna I'm gonna you're gonna give it to
me, okay, and take a darkness point I mean I've given you three
already. H Now, every time I use the mystic power, you get
one on this thing. Yeah that you're right, Yeah, I mark that
one. Yeah, so one, two, three, Yeah, that's three.
You're saying, mark, you stupid thing. And it's not that it
doesn't do what you want it to do. It's just that it lets out
a massive like I don't explose right word. It's like a massive energy pulse.
You feel it smash into your chest. You feel like smash into them,
the walls around you, malik or yeah, maliek you feel it too.
It bashes against you, knocking you backwards. It pushes Soul's inanimate body
down the hallway, thudding into the door overhead. You hear fire is now
out. The doors open again. It doesn't do anything. It's still glowing,
it's still buzzing and humming as if it's been turned on, but it
has not actually activated. You might, in fact think that it just told
you fuck no. Yeah, one day you'll figure out what this does.
Maybe, Uh, it's okay, it's all right. Uh, anything else
you'd like to do? I would say action? Oh no, it takes
a full slow action. Yeah, it takes a slow action to ac Yep,
yeah, so that's it. He'll go through the doors. Great,
like coming for your brother. Yeah yeah, great, great, great great
great. Well, as you look up after this kind of mass thing um
mass power pulse releases outwards, you realize it has sliced them down the middle,
as if it just right through the darkness that creates them, leaving this
kind of baby place. And you watch as they've become a little unstable and
they to the ground, um, and they kind of split and shatter.
The blackness this time does not dissipate. It simply leaves two skeletal figures laying
at the feet of your brother, matching the one just behind you. The
darkness instead and shadows to the corners and seeps into the edging, seeking a
new body. The camera cuts to the ship. We see the camera pan
in on Towel, who looks sound asleep in one of the cryostasis chambers.
Her eyes flash back and forth underneath her her eyelids, and we take a
moment to see what it is that Towel has seen. How you had this
incredible vision the last time that you were within your own mind, I guess
you could say, and here you stand once again, still sitting on this
rock, this planet, this thing, But this time, something deep across
the universe calls to you. It's almost like you've been in some kind of
meditative state. But a voice, a song, It calls and beckons from
the opposite side of the galaxy. Something is wrong. And as you seek,
your eyes searching solar system to solar system, planet to planet, seeking
who it is, what it is that calls out to you. Finally you
zoom in on a planet. It quickly pans down to a much smaller level
than space, and you can feel anguish. The sound of people screaming death
permeates in the air. It is potent in your nose. Nobody around you
seems to see notice you, or see that you're there. As you walk
through, you can see that this is some kind of repurposed maybe a laboratory,
some kind of experimentation, like location deep in a forest. You can
see men in military attire moving about. There are a few people in chains,
but what catches you the most is the fact that there are more dead
bodies than there are ones in chains. They stack and pile them to the
side as if they mean nothing. And that song again pings in your ear.
You seek it out once again, as you rush to find whatever it
is, it sings and it calls to you. But as you step through
a doorway, it leads you into the bottom of Coriolis. Into the cellar,
you see men again, dressed as dresses like Coriolis guard, basically moving
people into these drop pods and cry of statious chambers and shipping them out.
There's one man in particular, though you do not see his face. He
is large in size, shaped like a pair. He gestures a few times,
and he points to one person in particular at the end threatens them.
They break immediately under his intimidation, and they whisper something to him, And
though you are meters away from them, you can hear that whisper clear as
day. It comes through and it says. It says, am, sure
you give me the right name? No, yeah, it says the priestess
shurely sh That name rings true in your ear, and as you look towards
the future, time spanning faster forward, you see her, the woman.
She blessed your ship, she gave you something. She acted as if she
knew you. You can see her in the cellar of Coriolis. She hides.
As feet trump passed her. She looks off in the distance, right
at you, the only person that has seen you, and she says,
help us. And as she says that, your breath comes to as if
somebody has jabbed adrenaline into your into your chest. I said, there's nobody
there. The door of a cryotube opens. You don't know how you got
here, how long you've been here, but at least you're on your own
ship. But it is quiet. You hear the computer come over docking complete
the fuck where we ducked. I will start going. I will go actually
straight to the cockpit to figure out what's going on on my way. I'm
going to be looking forward literally anything out of the ordinary, and I know
my ship. You look around, You're like, okay, okay, okay,
okay, you're looking around. You're like, well, first off,
there's nobody else here. Second off, as you as you, I mean,
you check every nook and cranny. You run down to the cargo bay.
Large items in the cargo bay have been strapped down. You did not
strap those down. But as you look around you see that there's like some
things missing, small things, stuff on tables, plants, dishes, you
even check in everybody these rooms, Blankets are gone, pillows are missing.
It's as if somebody emptied out anything that wasn't strapped down or bolted to something.
Someone strapped down all my big ship and stole all my stamall shit and
then docked me somewhere. Great. Um, I will check the computer to
see, uh if I can figure out where we were. Maybe. Uh,
yeah, you're travel log Yeah you be boob. You're like, where
the hell have I been? Yeah, well, it seems that you took
um quite a trip out away from the station. Uh here in town,
the portal station. Uh. Actually better, Yet, the last time you
were awake, you were on a gas mine, weren't you. No,
we docked, Okay, okay, you just get off. Yeah, we
docked. The guys said that I had to stay because I was the only
one who could fly well. And then I went to go check on the
little boy that we had in the cryo chamber. Next thing I know,
I'm in the cryo chamber. The boy is not there. There's no way,
no sign of ever having a child been on board this vessel. It
looks that you docked with the station and probably within about twenty minutes of docking,
left, went about two hours out into space near the sun, empty
the contents of your vessel, and he came back. You don't remember doing
any of that. Great, So the entire time I'm going around, I
am talking out loud, I'm I'm cursing, I'm like, where where is
this thing? And I was supposed to have paperwork for that job here?
And you're talking to yourself, something interrupts you, the sound of whoa,
whoa whoo, as if somebody's like reving gears, tiny gears. I will
go find where it is. You track it down. You see that Soul's
droid was probably in the emptying out, was wedged in between some cargo and
stuff, and it's kind of like stuff. It's like if you turned a
rumba on its side and jammed it between two crates. It can't really do
its job. It definitely was part of what was being vented, but thanks
to corruption coming elsewhere in the game, gizmos survived. So I will I
will un wedge it now. I'll look it straight in the camera and I'll
say, Seul, what the fuck just happened? Answer me? As you
hear that the camera pans U Tamir Malik as these two bodies hit the floor
down the hallway where Seuel's body is. You watch as his communit on his
and his head on his arm lights up, and you see Tal's face far
too close to the camera. L Yeah, I'm like right here, She's
like when the fuck is going on? Crying out? We're out of combat.
Yeah. If I don't hear any response, I will just throw it
on the ground. Not that hard, but just like, oh whatever,
I don't care, and go to look around outside. Um see if there's
any immediate dangers in the docking bay. You're muted. You look around,
and it doesn't seem like there is anything out of place here. There's no
sign of distress or struggle. There's no bodies. There's also none of your
crew. Okay, well you know, they had to go. They had
to go plot the course. Everything's fine. It's fine, Tal, they
just had to go plot the course. They'll be back. Everything's fine.
That things still here? Did you go away to yourself? Yes, I'm
the only one here. Who else would I talk to? Who am I
talking to? Who are you? Did you take my ship? I am
yours? That is not Sally's voice. Sally is resting. Okay, what's
your name? Names a great power? Okay, ever give you mine?
Then? What can I call you? Whatever you'd like? I never heard
that one before. Um okay, new ship. Um. If you see
your crewmates, they were left. They seemed interested in plotting a new course.
Yeah, that's what I was just saying. I'm sure you heard that.
I was talking out loud. You know, it's very strange not to
have to mirror here. I feel very odd. I'm very uncomfortable with this.
What makes you so uncomfortable? Because it's like there's a stranger in my
home and they won't even tell me what their name is. And the person
who's usually in my home is not here. Stranger, you were a stranger
who took me from my own Well, if I did, I apologize,
It didn't mean to. Uh, but yeah, this is actually where I've
been living my entire life like this specific ship. So yeah, this is
my home, he says, I too, have spent my eternity. Oh
ah, would you like some coffee? I do not understand what. Just
try to be nice. Normally, my parents would offer guests coffee when they
would come in and I mean, I it's really old coffee. It's probably
not that great anymore, but it's something, you know, We're just we're
living on really slim rations at the moment this is then it would be unwise
to give it to something that does not gage sustenance. Okay, well,
you know, I just I don't know who you are, he says,
would you? And as he says that, from all of the crevices of
your ship empty the smoky kind of blue and gray, and it fwirls up,
and as it does, it creates the image of the little boy.
Hey, you asked, you asked to come on the ship. You asked
to come on the ship. I just was like, Hey, if you
need a ride, I'll give you a ride. But uh, I mean,
if you didn't, if you didn't want to go, you could have
not His mouth does not move, but you hear the same kind of whispy,
slithery voice as um right in your ear, and as it says,
is this not a more pleasant four? Actually really creepy? I'm not entirely
sure. I'm um, I'm actually I think I might be more comfortable talking
with you like I talked with Sally. I'm not really great with kids.
He says, oh I can, and he changes into a grown man,
normal, average, understated, Okay, is this better? You can move
your mouth a little bit that it's a little better. I'm just you know.
The person's anything goes says nothing. Yeah, sure, it's like I
have a mute button on um. Right. But the man, the figure
in front of you turns um and like looks out the porthole window towards the
station and he says they are in trouble. Shit, and I will grab
both my pistols, put on my exo suit and like, you know,
I feel weird saying this, but could you watch my ship and not take
it this time? As long as I can get a ride, I will
totally give you a ride. If I'm not where do you want to go?
As I'm putting on pieces of my exo suit, like though, do
you want to go? Yeah? The band's answer again, no, no
mouth movement, only the voice. I see graffy shot coriolis. Oh,
hey we're going there. We can totally take you. He says, good.
Is it a deal? Sure? Just the man shuts his hand out.
I will, I will, I will attempt to shake his hand.
Is it corporeal. Okay, you touch it and it feels like skin.
He's warm, strange. He shakes your hand. The voice again a deal
lesbon made. Yeah, I just really want to get my crew and get
back to Coriolis. He says, good luck and hand still in yours.
He down into smoke and dissipates once again into the crevices and nooks and crannies
of your vessel. It's quiet, really weird. I will put my helmet
on because it's the last piece, stuff my hair into it, and double
check both of my pistols, make sure they're ready to go. I will
say a very quick prayer to the traveler, kiss the side of my ship,
and exit. You check everything you say the quick prayer, maybe even
on your way out. Go to touch the mark that was on your vessel,
the one that she left behind. But tell as you go to reach
for it, you right before your hand touches it, you stop and you
look very close. The symbol is different. That's not the one that she
drew, so you don't have a lot of time to think about that as
you turn and rush into the station. Okay, you like look at that
boat of like do like stop, say me and you rush in, and
as you rush in, lights are on, powers on there. Everything seems
to be left untouched. There's no dust, no nothing, there's no bodies.
But as you rush in, you're like, I know this place.
This is the exact same station that we just left in terms of layout,
and so you know exactly where they're headed. If they're headed to the Portal
Master's like station. And as you cut into the open area where the centralized
cantina was, you see at a distance a Seul's body flopped down onto the
ground. There is no sign of Tamir or Malik. We're gonna rewind a
couple of minutes. You guys heard a towel scream out through the wristband on
Seul and the two of you are left standing there over two piles of bones.
I'm sorry, did you say she sees Seul? And we're not there?
Are you guys going to Sul? You guys are technically inside the Portal
Master station, but it's right there, right like we can see it's around
the court. You can't. It's like you didn't like, you didn't like
temporarily shift us to some other plane of ex I was thinking that you like
oh, we she just can't like injuring that open space on the far side.
She can't see you around the corner, right right, right, Okay.
I mean honestly, I despite how aloof a league usually is, I
think he would have gone to Seoul in the scenarios, okay, because there
is like if you go, we go back down the L shape corridor,
that's right where the mediccourge is. And I know the station and I am
clearly the best medical person we have. Great. It's a good thing too,
because your brother seems to be holding his side. I don't have any
mediccourage. I don't know what this is wrong though, Yeah, I honestly
would would think that like once these things drop and there's that like awkward scene
of like there's to be on one side of the door, miligue on the
other side of the door, they collapse and we're just staring at each other
like unsure what the hell's happening. He just kind of points to Seoul.
Is he Okay? He just stabbed me. The reality of that situation is
now said, Okay, I'm dead. I want to get off at this
station, like now that I have a question in the status the state that
I'm in It's nothing. I'm like, you see, I'm like sort of
like asleep, right yeah kind of. But what I'm dreaming my physical body
is kind of reacting to as well, and that's Is that why he stabbed?
Yeah? Yeah, So would it be okay to say that on my
cheeks there were tears rolling down? Sure? I definitely say. By now
if you get over there, he's crying. You can see his eyes are
actively weeping and from them they almost drag the darkness with them. But I'm
still knocked out though, right, yeah, yeah, you're out, okay?
Cool? Want to make sure? Oh yeah, sorry, you're out
for now? Yeah. I think I think the he just stabbed me kind
of knocks Malik a little bit. He says, um, shit, yeah
no, no applied pressure, come with me, and he starts to walk
towards Seul's body. No no, and like like a Malik's gonna just like
grab hold of you and like pull you closer. Like no, you're not
going anywhere near him. Something is very wrong. No, I get it.
That's why I'm trying to take him to the meticurge. No. No,
we mean no we either way, we have to walk by them because
you're bleeding inventing oxygen, so we need to get you to the metic urge
I need. I'm pretty sure they have duc te doct tape works in space.
You were in space. Yeah, it's great doct tape hashtag not sponsored.
But you shouldn't space space. There would be there would be spacef and
mygeon. I mean to start planning the courtinets to get us back to coreal
list. Uh huh m hm. I need. You do not be bleeding
anymore. I'm fine, It would be okay. You can stay in here
with me with your gun and lock the door so soul cannot get in.
M hmm. It's glass, like bulletproof glass. No, I think it's
just regular glass. There's there's no it's not like a thick pain I mean
it is. It isn't fine glass doors. Yeah, here's the thing.
Based on the last place, to me, you're probably right. This is
a very thick, heavy door. The creatures couldn't get through it, and
based on the right they were beating on it. Yeah, they were beating
on it. And based on the last space station, you know there were
garden stuff here, it would make sense for this to be heavily guarded and
probably glass. Great, please just listen to me. This is going to
take time. I need you to be very alert or anything, but we
have to start that. This is going to take a while. Okay,
all right, and he like, let's to me. You're in the room,
and then with like a last glance at Seul, he closes the door.
The door closes. Is the two of you stare at Seul's unconscious body
at the end of the hallway, choosing not to help him. And the
moment, I mean one mistake, okay, those glass stores close, and
the two of you head into the portal master station. Two doors open and
in walks towel on the opposite side of the same place, missing you by
mere moments, and you see Seul's body there at the end of the hallway,
but no sign of Tamir or Malik. I immediately run to Sul and
start checking him to see if he's alive. You don't have Metacurti Curgie either,
do you know, none of us took Metacurgi. So you can just
roll a doctor or a check to see if you can figure out the bare
minimum of what is wrong with him. Though it's a person who dies.
Their next character has to be a doctor. I mean, it's a good
thing that you've been you were flirting with a doctor. That she may be
crazy, it's one crazy, she's just into different things. Job's crazy,
spoke, you know. On that note, you see that Seul's eyes are
wide open but filled with blackness. These tears ran down his cheeks. His
dagger lays at his side, near his hand that was no longer grasp with
it, and at the end is fresh blood. Um. He is breathing,
he has a pulse, and he has no direct injuries on him that
you can sell. Okay, I would know that the other end of the
hallway is the portal. Masters would though you look down, you see it
glass doors powers on. There are three skeletons in this hallway, one nearby
and then too much closer to that door. Um, but that's okay,
that's it. I will take Seul's dagger and put it into one of my
pockets. I will take any other guns that I find on him and put
them on me. And then you just straight up from me, excuse me,
let my sentence please, And then I will attempt to put Seul on
my shoulder and carry him into the portal master's area. Okay, taking your
weapons to defend you as I carry you take you pick up all of this
stuff. I will read a vulcan pistol. Okay, great, so that's
not that much gear, so the good he says, you don't have a
lot of gear on you. What I do need to see, though,
is the check to pick his butt up, which is aum force probably or
just a straight strength check. Okay, Bruce strength, I do have force.
I am I am weak from that cry asleep. Okay, you go
to move his body, you are weak. You can't pick him up.
You can drag him, all right. I will start dragging him. Then
we see you. I'm like, go, nope, not gonna work.
All right, grab his feet, please start pulling him down the hallway.
Um, you get to the door of Mike. Did you make it a
manual only from the interior? I guess I never changed it from manually open,
so I guess it would be manually closed. Okay, great, so
um it's um. Everything seems to be functional. It Lets shoot in,
Okay, I will I will go right in, uh shouting at the top
of my lungs. Tamir, the two of you to the station just in
time to hear her shout out, Uh, I don't know, Jamir,
Come help me. Are you okay? Yes, I'm fine, souls down.
I can't figure out what happened. Don't touch him. They'll leave from
him too fucking late. Come help me. As soon as Tamir goes to
move, Malik grabs him. He's like, no, you cannot do that.
Listen, ask her the question that only she would know. I don't
know what these things. They just disappeared. The other one exploded. Thee
I killed exploded. Now the other ones didn't explode. No, they chose
to leave shuffed out under your shop. You don't know that. The whole
thing blew up and these ones didn't do that. Uh. What is the
first dinner that we had together? Oh? I'm sitting there, like the
fuck? Does he remember ship like that? For? I think it was
porridge and bacon. I was broke, That's all I had a Oh my
god, he's not, Oh my gosh. Okay, Oh well, this
just started into a very different episode from where we started. Now it's the
hot spring, so leak looks to me? Or is that it? Yeah?
And like tamor just like pushes the leak, it starts making his way
towards tall man. I'm I'm going through and I'm trying to trying to figure
out what the heck is wrong with the soul because they're not actually answering me,
and I can't actually figure out what's wrong with them. So you know,
I've just I've I'm not doing very much, actually, but I'm like
taking off parts of his exos suit, like checking for injuries, and you
don't find anything. Lapping I'm here and there like, okay, okay,
you want to hit him, smack him a little bit, roll me another
four him because you may just slap him out of it. Who knows what
I I'm pretty good apparently. Yeah, You've slap him a few times.
It doesn't seem to work. You look at the both of them, You
guys, watch towel rear back and just squack against Seuel's face. It was
more of a backhand, just hand, so his head buds against the ground.
And I'm going to need I'm going to get a role from Seuel as
you once again, this moment passes. You're standing there staring at this dagger
that has blood on the end of it. Back in this black emptiness,
you feel a pull, something reaching for you, not in a bad way,
but trying to grass for you. And you might hear the sounds of
your friends. What's happened? I don't know. They're like way way off
in the distance, but you think you hear this the sounds of your crew.
And I'm going to have you roll a. We're gonna make this an
empathy check. Damn it. Okay, this will be an empathy check.
Um. Fuck. You smack him hard his face and eyes, his giant
red hand print across it. He as if for the first time having a
response in but does not wake him. His tears continue to roll down his
face and the blackness still in his eyes. Well, I got a little
bit of I tried again, it was it seems re effective. Roll another
four person? Am I taking damage? No? I wouldn't say no this
time you you smack him. Um, it's not as hard or as good.
Um, but he's still going to get a roll because you're trying to
get to him. So roll another. Their empathy based on her friends slop
ye, No, no, it's um okay for all of you that have
ever been black out drunk and you got your best friend with you, and
she's like with it, you know, and she's like trying to wake you
about it. That's this moment Riis knows what the hell I'm talking about.
No, I was that girl like get with it, come on. That
was like, so this is working out nicely a game, but it does
not. But again, the sound of your friends. You you begin running,
so your feet splashing through this blackness of water in this down on their
land. Yeah, you have your boy. Yeah. I would just start
screaming like hello, what the what? What the fuck? Where am I?
Hello? Um? After this last slap, though not very hard or
effective, you think you hear him muttering and this is this is right after
my little memory thing. Right then I think I would also start yelling hector
and brick. You do here very clearly two words escape his mouth hector brick.
So so wake up and I start shaking him because I don't want to
keep hitting him. But I mean, obviously like moving him around and jostling
him is helping something. Yeah something, well another empathy. You'll get there
eventually. Oh my god, can I not. I'm not gonna he has
done. I mean, you just had some bad roles. You can do
it. You got three die so bad um if no one's is anybody actually
coming up to me or they just kind of okay? Yeah? No,
Tamir is like full on well as best as he can, like running towards
you and like wants to pull you away from Seoul as if Sul is like
whatever those horrific monsters are, like there is legit panic because of how close
you are to him. Do you actually touch towel or are you just like
yelling at her? Oh? No, he will go ahead and like like
t please you get away from him? What what? Why? He's there's
something wrong? Yes, there's something very wrong. I don't know what it
is. It's it's it's like he's cursed or something. But you need to
stay away from him. And I finally actually turn and look at you to
me or what happened? You're bleeding? That is what happened. Please coming
here. We'll figure that out, lather, But that needs you to be
safe. You hear from Dama away, Yeah, you hear like around the
cord because you're actually in the portal Masters like station now space Ghost. And
at that point I dropped the top of Soul's body because I imagine I had
him like up by his shoulders and I just kind of drop him and I
stand up and I just looked disgusted and I kind of kick you a little
bit. Another thud to the chest, rolling empathy, Get wrecked, Have
another empathy? Roll. I love how internally souls having this like breaking moment,
and it's your physical form is actually taking the one another one him.
I can't kick? Okay, roll another empathy? Did you get You can't
kick? And there's like a thud. You might hear a rip crack,
but you definitely know you knock the air out of him and he was breathing.
No problem. Oh, it's just like this is just one kick.
It was just like a good like damn it, why you one solid just
stopped? My people crun shrib air knocked out. So you come to like
you've been hit by a moving vehicle, and again a gas forward. You
watch his soul's eyes. The darkness rolls into the back of his head and
you are somewhere you weren't. Tale is standing over you. Your side hurts,
your face is hot as if somebody slapped you, and Tale looks like
she could kill you right now. She looks super angry, and then you
hear a voice from Afar and you put that dagger on your belt. Tale.
His dagger on Tale's belt is your dagger as if a memory again drips
with fresh vta a fresh blood on the end of it. Why are you
stabbing my intern? Uh? Okay, clearly something happened. Yeah, I
did not stab your intern. That's not what he says. That's not what
his brother says. I'm holding your dagger with blood on it, and the
only person who is actually bleeding is Tamir. I look over it to Tamir,
and I like I am, for any wounds and stuff. He has
got a very clear dagger wound to the gut. Do I remember the memory
and all that? Do you remember the memory playing through you remember those emotions?
Your heart still beats a kind of fast and that definitely the dripping dagger
at Twel's side is this kind of visual reminder of the last thing in your
hand when all of that went down. Um, you don't remember stabbing to
Mir? The space guys can't get the doors, Malik, are you originally
hit the door? He's standing at the door where where where tam shoved him?
Just waiting dumbfounded that like there's the actual space goes guys, we saw
this, and like if south's fine, get him in the room, like
let's go. Hold on, I I honestly don't know what's happening. I
don't know why you have my knife. I don't know why Tamir got stabbed.
All I remember is and he like kind of stops for a minute.
I don't remember much. I just know something happened, and Tamir, I
if I hurt you, I'm sorry. I don't. Almost like a bad
dream. Now he's come from nifemare that you have souls starting to get like
really internally frustrated at this point, just kind of like because he doesn't understand
what's happening, He's like, I just okay, come on, come on,
okay, I will help you up, and come on, let's get
in this. Sorry, where is Malik? Why are you yelling? Get
in a room. So so we go in the room and we shut the
door. I would like kind of distance from to me a little bite.
Okay, when she wants to, we can grab suol. I see you
know it is. I'm the captain. You do what I say if you
want to At least if you want off this place, if you want to
go in my ship. I mean, the evil voice inside told us it
wasn't your ship anymore. So oh no, it's still my ship. Listen
you were there's me's ghosts like we should probably help first. I need to
fix my engineer. Yeah to me, or take off her shirt. Let
me see that in one. Your engineer's fine, he needs to just get
back to work. I haven't even started. Yeah, I need you to
stop bleeding though, that's what I said. Please don't argue with me.
Part of my job is to keep you alive. Nobody can go anywhere if
you're not alive. If I can, I can. I take a look.
Listen at them at the wound. No, please never call me mom
again. Like the mirror I can I have, I can. I don't
want to see touch me so long. I have his dagger out and I
actually I turn it on. Um, let me see where he cut you.
So the nice slow fucking process influencing. So you drop it, um,
and you see the suit has the cut in it and there's a very
very clear, you know, a few inches wide gash into his side that
is oozing blood. Okay, this is gonna hurt, and I will take
the side of the blade. And yeah, that's what That's what I was
going to do. Hey, next time, when I say let's take you
to the metacurgy and you say I have to work, I don't want to
go, well, m mhmm, you're not you're not helping. I'm not.
I try to do this a minute ago. And he was a sassy
brand daughter. Anyway, are you done being space ghosts? I you got
pummeled my space ghosts, and then you went up to sleep. I assume
you think you remember that, you remember a dark, shadowy face, one
that you stared into and lost yourself. You remember any of this? You
were freaking out in the reacting room. You call be losing your mind about
seeing something that you'll never forget, and then you do. I still have
that thing, by the way, where if I look at people in the
eyes, dude, And then I ran up here in a panic, and
then space ghosts attacked you because you were the loudest thing in the room,
and then you passed out. I killed one of them, You're welcome,
and then they charged at me and then I don't know what happened. And
he like looks to Tamir well said where did you come from the left While
he's explaining that. Immediately after taking the knife away from Tamir's side, Tao
will essentially turn him around and just like like hold his face. Are you
okay? You're you're going off and doing all that. I'm focused on Tamir.
Are you what happened? I don't know? Are you okay? Are
you hurt in any other way? No, I'm I'm fine. I just
we need to get out of here. Yeah, yeah, we do.
I just made a deal with a new voice in my ship. Wait do
you what? Uh? What? We need to get off this place,
get back to Coriolis, because there's something in my ship that has the power
to take my ship to the sun, locking me in a cryo chamber,
emptying everything out, tying things down, which was actually quite nice of things,
and it didn't try to kill you. I'm sorry wait what wait,
I'm sorry. I started panically like the last we saw people come back from
the dead, we saw a mystery child, and then I just thought literal
space ghosts, and so I'm gonna voice stole your ship and you made a
deal with it. Yeah, well, if it was So here's the thing.
That kid definitely not just a kid, That's what I said, And
you said, let it on the ship. I had too much going on.
Yeah with the zombies, Yeah, I know, I was there anyways,
she has spacemen's anyways, because this thing was powerful enough to lock me
in a cryo chamber, take my ship, send it to the sun,
and empty everything out inside of it. If you think that I'm going to
refuse a deal to give it a ride somewhere, you must be out of
your fucking mind, Malik. What if it wasn't right to the sun?
What listen? Regardless? She well, then if it wants to take me
the sun, it could have done that already. I'm sure she would did,
and it protected me. So let's just let's just get what we need
to get. And I'm saying this with that with averting my eyes from everybody.
Let's just get what we need to do and just let's get out of
here. So here's what the plan was when you left the vessel. Well,
when the vessel, the plan, if I remember correctly, was to
match sound and video. Together's going to bring that out and to plot a
course from this portal to Correolis right, yeah, is that still the plan?
Yes? I think in the moment Malik has forgotten that. I it's
all forgotten. We still need to get that course plotted. So yeah,
definitely situation right, So so hearing um you know tal talking about this entity,
it's it's clicking like wait, this is what we were going to do.
I am now no longer in like you know, he's his exto shell
right now. Um, so Malik, I need to plot this course.
Now that's what you plug into me. Take whatever information that you need and
put my audio and souls video together. We need to figure out what that
is that decided to hitch a ride. Okay, okay, uh cool?
Um oh it said we can call it whatever we want. So think of
some names. Asshole. I don't think that helps, you know, could
have been a real asshole and just deposited my ship and the sun. Do
you have a gun? Yes, I've got three? Can you have one?
I look at sewel. You're not gonna shoot me? Are you no?
All right, I'll give you your Vulkan and pistol back. Can I
have my dagger? You're not gonna stab me? Are you no? Sure
about that? Yes? Better? Or not. Okay, I'll kick you
even harder and I'll hit it and I'll give you Yeah, nobody else will
go near you. You got a nice handprint on your face too. Oh
god. I started like, that's what I need to get this done now
so we could get off. Look, okay, so you stared at the
door. You're also yeah, yeah, okay, I'm gonna go. Look
the ghosts have got will keep an eye up. The ghosts have bones on
the inside. They can't get through the doors if you close the doors.
I don't know what happens if they leave the bones. That's why any motions
to the corpses on the floor. I got their corpses. Their corpses.
They're not corpses. They're skeleton clean skeleton outside though, right, not inside
like outside outside the door, glass door. I'll just like stand by the
door with my pistol, just waiting great probably about ten feet behind him,
leaning up against the counter, arms crossed. I will be checking my thing
to see my robots like functional though at the computer and starts doing stuff.
So tell me who is course and who is matching the audio video. I'm
yeah, okay, So that's gonna be your dad in general. Ah yeah,
Joe Jim. After after a few minutes, I'll probably go and uh
see if Tamir needs any help, because I do have some special abilities for
plotting courses. Okay, okay, all right, I'm gonna say plotting the
course. You can you can do data gen, but it would also be
a technology. Right now, I've got to remember what the rules are here.
Uh technology. I hope it's a tech because I do not have datagen.
Yeah, we'll do technology, that's fine, or science either one,
because this is like the same for me. Okay, oh yeah, what
is that, Mike sell your message? You haven't have that right. It's
called quickest route. You find the quickest route travel takes about half the time,
or you envoid or you avoid one encounter along the way. Oh I
have that too. We all have it. It's the it's our crew one.
Yeah never mind, never mind, that was a mean thing. It
isn't everyone. It's like your shared for the group on them, but they
basically get it because you know, the shortest drout we do, but you
can also we can also either have the shortest route and half the time.
Oh cool, let's do safe. Yeah okay, so we're gonna avoid an
encounter does get a doctor's point, But I mean, let's just get to
court holism. I just want to get back to Sypolis. I should get
to please all right, an actual mende. Roll up your technology or science,
whichever you choose to use to plot this course. This will be the
first time that that tam or has ever had to plot port jump. No,
this is very, very scary. Um can you take the talisman,
which is still a little angry at and just like get like a little trinket
or something on like an office desk and just like put it up there.
Yeah, it's still you hear it like almost like a cell phone vibrates.
All right, nicely done. It takes you some time, and you know
that the computer is going to have to run an algorithm for a long time,
especially if you're attempting to avoid any kind of interactions. So basically what
you're doing is you're jumping through which one did we come through, Umara?
Yeah? Yeah, to talent the Harabi system. So basically you're bypassing Harrabi.
You're like correct guarding three are bee lining bee lining for correolists to coolists.
You're pretty sure you have it right, Let's pray to the icons that
you do. But the algorithm has to run, and as it runs,
you all gather around Malik, who has piece together the audio and video from
the jump to the Talent system. Do you hit play? As curious as
I am, tal is not going to watch. He's keeping her eye on
the door. Okay, are you? But you'll listen because there's audio?
Yeah, I mean, can't can't avoid it. We're in the same room.
You know what, I have a question for you, Dot. Are
these like basically the exact same controls as the hammer station? Yeah? These
port all the portal stations are the same, same protocols and stuff like that.
Okay, then, much like what I did at the portal station before,
I since I know how to do it, now, I'm going to
open up a channel and I'm gonna port this to the ship, okay,
so that you have a copy of it. Yeah, but I think as
soon as everyone like starts to all right, I think probably to me,
right, because everyone's his guarding the door, says he's done. He like
hits the button and sends it and says it's on the ship, and he
gets up from the terminal. But you do not hit play. No,
He sends it to the ship and then stands up from the terminal. Are
you now going to watch it? It's on the ship. Why would we
watch it in the terminal full of space ghosts? Because we still have to
wait at least twenty five more minutes until the algorithm is completed, and there's
like a bar. Do we need to be here for it too? Can
we get Can we wait on the ship? No, we don't have some
one person has to hit the light upload button. So like once the algorithms
run, you have to put it over to the ship, so one person
will have to stay to hit that button. And then we sho so inefficient
and he slips back down in the chair because there's usually a portal master to
hit the freakin button. Well, I want to I want to see what's
on the thing. This place is supposed to be manned twenty four hours a
day. Click, we hear it. Click, that's it. The screen
comes up. We watch out the front of the vessel. This kind of
hover of the camera as Gizmo captures everything that happens under the front of the
ship. Usually after the captain jumps in their cryopod U. The front windows
are shut, but not today. All you hear is the sound of Tamar's
breath and cry asleep over the audio. For quite a while, you watch
as the ship undocks, comes out. Final buttons of the hand of towel
disappears, and then the ship makes its jump through what can only be described
as a wormhole, dense enough that it is devoid of light in any way.
It rips and bends time and space in a way that our mortal minds
cannot actually comprehend. And is it tears past, and the camera picks all
of this up. There is a moment, a flash of light, a
tear in time and space. Do you stop it or do you let it
play? I let it play? Great, it plays through. All you
see is, like I said, a burst of light, and almost like
a streak of lightning as it cracks through. And then we hear sound,
something more than breath, and that of empty white noise of a vessel.
A scream. Many screams, one after another, but there's one in particular
that rings out true as if you have broken it open. It's not necessarily
a scream of danger or injury, but a freedom, a shout of a
being something horrid as it ekes out of the darkness, had to mirror been
awake to hear this. It might have in fact ate Awaya's brain and it
rings out, causing all of you to actually have to cover your ears.
And you see in the video as a light dissipates a figure, ghostly and
etherial and ethereal in its nature, Its hands and face drag across the front
of your vessel as if you have hit something, and then within a blink
of a n eye, everything comes to a slow, resounding stop. No
light, no bending, no stars. The only thing in front of you
is a broken apart vessel, the same one that you all saw when you
major jump through the town system and awoke. Silence again, and only the
sound of Tamir's breath. That was horrifying. Yeah, I'm really glad that
I don't have to be awake for that normally is that normal? Through jumps
to see the mimic? Well, actually, seul Shred drops out. Damn
it, I knew it. You know that face? Okay, in that
case, I don't say any of that. I will as during the video
play when I see that face, I would immediately turn around and walk away,
you guys would see the suel can't finish the video. And as there's
a click again for the stopping, white noise fills in from the freighter or
from the station that you're on. There is a buzzing sound from the terminal
next to you, and it says, um, space jump plotting to the
correol the station. Ah, perfect, let's get out of here, okay,
soul, Yeah yeah, let's let's just let's just go You sure about
that? Yeah, let's just go cool all right, please don't shoot us?
Everybody ready, can marry you? Okay, yeah, let's go be
sure? Yeah? Yeah, Like, uh, you know what dot?
Can I? Uh? This computer has like big boy access to the space
station, right, can I download a report of what happened here? There's
no people here. Somebody must have caught some kind of alarm. There must
have been something you can't put out. You can basically download the last the
last increase were a couple of weeks ago. Um. But you can download
it all and send it over to the vessel if you'd like. I would
like that. Okay, yeah, you download what has been left of like
captain Captain's logs Um, I guess here it would be like UM Commander logs
Um and any of the jumps that had been made in those kinds of things
as you you uh yeah. But the last one you see was entered a
few weeks ago, okay, And it was entered. It was entered by
the UM the core, the reactor core crew, right. It was all
maintenance by the end, and it was this was it the same time frame
as the original UM If you quickly look through it and you line your times
up, they jump would have like the stress beacon would have gone out all
the way to coriole Is from the mining colony. This looks to be the
last entry is about three or four days after that. And like I said,
the last entries are made by the reactor crew only cool, okay,
uh yeah, then I'm going to download to the ship. Perfect, we
download it to the ship. Do you all go back to the ship.
All of you gather your things and leave this empty station once again with nothing
but shadow and darkness behind. As you gather in the kind of cargo area
of this vessel, you've basically set a timer on it, and you have
an amount of time to make your jump, and you will do so successfully.
There's no sign of a child or a voice, and I would think
it's probably rather quiet between all of you. You've got exactly twelve minutes to
pot up and to get where you need to be before the jump act phase.
Well, Malik does have to get naked, So Malik's gotta get naked.
And as all of you gather clot put yourselves into a cryostasis, there
is nothing but silence aboard the vessel of the Defiant. You each slowly fall
asleep, and when your eyes open out of the front of the vessel,
you can see it. Coriolis ships buzz around you, an active station breathing
life into the third horizon. You've returned home successfully. What you do after
this, we'll have to find out next week. Yay, we made it
back, I feel like but I don't feel like we made it back.
Yeah, anytime you got into space, you always like a part of yourself.
Hell yeah, I love something behind. What are you talking about,
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