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you takeover Mouth Noises this season. Thank you? It was on point.
Yeah, all right, y'all. We got a lot of recapping to do
because I imagine we gotta does some Cobbo with Off and who knows, maybe
over the five months we've collected somebody new. So if that's the case,
I feel like some proper introductions are in order and I would let all of
you do it, but you know, your biggest fan charity might have to
do it for you. Somewhere out in the third horizon, somebody clicks on
a TV and a CANTEENA blurry image comes up because it's not a nice screen,
but it does play, and from the back corner somebody says, turn
it off, that's garbage, and somebody else goes, no, I love
this show. And there's a little bit of a tiff, you know,
somebody goes but on Spaceball and but on the TV. Amidst the kind of
yelling as people argue about what to watch on this cantena is Charity. Charity,
of course, is the bright eyed, bushy tailed reporter who once made
a great speech at a banquet in the beginning of season three one that stirred
the crew to will to finally take a stand thanks to a message given by
Malik. The charity stares right at the camera. She wears a She wears
a garb that is not very nice. It looks actually very similar to something
like Malik or Tamrr would wear. Behind her is most definitely a green screen,
because there's no way she could have gotten from point A to point B.
But she talks right into the camera with a mic in her hand,
and she says Third Horizon it's me Charity here for another one of our docuseries
on the crew of the Defiant. I'm here in Algal, the home of
the Suns of al Goal. To Mirror and Malik, they escaped this horrible
place many many years ago after their parents died in a tragic accident. There's
images screening behind her, shots of of al Goal from like a drone camera.
It looks much like a war driven place, she says. And next
up is our dear Alia and a scripts you know screen behind her. Unfortunately,
we cannot provide you live footage of Alia's home planet as of right now.
We believe it is in fact. Sorry, my cat is snoring,
y'all under my feet. She goes, Boom mic please, as the boom
operator snores in the background, and she says, and Alia, her home
planet was destroyed in the recent events. It's a sad day for her.
She was taken as a child by one of the Order of the Pariah.
And our dear tow and it flips up Tale's face, not looking happy about
being there. Maybe like a candid photo from like a camera somewhere on some
station from years past. Is a true child of the Third Horizon spent her
life behind metal walls with her family as they went place to place, researching
and trying to find out new information on this place that we all call home.
And now the four of them along with the doctor, who we were
unable to find a lot of information about. But the clips back and is
a picture of the ship the Defiant, like a side image of it.
But now this is their home as they are out there in the Third Horizon
fighting for the rights of all of us and attempting to bring peace. And
somebody clicks the TV off. Hey, I was watching that, and the
camera pans down a busy hallway on this space station to Malik's feet. Malik,
you were headed to go retrieve Lamara, who is now acting doctor on
this space station. I thought the intro is going to be the worst part
of this. Huh huh. Tell everybody just just who you are when you're
playing. And I have a question for you. What does Malik remember from
the beginning of this season? What is the thing that has stopped so I'll
delay that inevitable Malik is what would Malik Malik is the hero of the Third
Horizon. No that's not true, but he has been labeled that I guess,
which sucks for him and everyone else on the crew. Malik is a
tech specialist, currently the technology officer on the Defiant, and that's a space
geek squad. That's it. He's never worked for anyone else. He doesn't
do anything illegal, You've never heard anything about it. End of story.
And he uh likes a doctor or whatever. And what do I remember from
the beginning of this season? Everything's bad? Dot you fucked us real,
real hard. Uh. You were like, hey, you're on TV now,
we're all super famous. I had to dance, I made a speech.
It's been all it's the worst season and it's been downhill ever since it
started. I feel like it's chat that wants to make all of your lives
miserable? Was that just me? Okay, well, okay, okay,
yeah, Old blame Book has done a very good job at making his own
life for miserable. And your feet stop in front of the medical bay door.
You know the layout of this, uh, this station is pretty standard,
just like the one way back when in Hamura remembered that in season one,
very similar to the one that you picked Lamara up off of. And
of course the door slides open. Oh, wait I have a thing for
this. Wow. Okay, okay, right, it sounds the exact thing.
Ye wait I thought that was. Wait, let's see I can do
it. Yeah, just like that, perfect, just like that, perfect,
perfect lipstick timing. But as you slide the door open, there stands
Lamara. She still wears her pirate boots, but she is adorning. I
know, right, she's but the white pirate boots, but they it is
h they're mostly covered. The top of them, which a poor com come
high high to her knee, is covered by a long medical jacket. You've
not actually seen her in one of these in a while. And she turns
and looks at you with a syrind in hand and a very happy face as
the head of this station is sitting on the bed and she has this kind
of dripping needle in hand, and the camera cuts. Can I clarify real
quick just because of past because of past instances when you say head you mean
the whole person? Yes, not not just the head, but like the
head hauncho, because you gotta you gotta clarify with Lamara. So yes,
that's actually true, And the camera cuts, uh and back down into kind
of the darker end of the UH market, the small market that might be
on this or the trading station UH through a door that says closed, has
a closed sign on it, behind some beaded curtains and a metal wall to
a small room full of boxes and cats and the rest of our crew,
and we see Alia and Tow and tam R sitting there around a crate with
their dear Josie. She's dealing cards. And we'll just start introduce Alia and
tell us with Alia, what do you remember from last season? I'm muting
there we go. I was like, oh, I'm on mute am I
So I'm not on me? Okay? Why am I so nervous? How
what is streaming? Oh god? Oh my god? Okay, So hello,
I play Alia, the big buff, beautiful Priestess. I don't know,
but that's fine. Yeah, I don't even know, guys. I'm
just so goddamn nervous and happy to be here. Like I'm just trying so
hard not to like I'm I'm doing. I'm like, I'm fan going over
ourselves and this show as of right now. I'm just like, But I
play Allya, I am the priestess. I'm a mystic. I joined this
crew by the end of season three on the request of my mentor, and
it has been a ride and what I can remember, and once again,
mind you, I think I'm having the same issue as heirs in terms of
remembering which season ended where exactly. But in my brain, I remember us
facing basically and essentially a god like a ship that is alive, and me
actually communicating with it, uh or, and and kind of figuring out the
danger that's coming through and us kind of being able to get out of that.
But what that was? Yeah, you found you found That's right,
that's that's actually all right. You found a somewhat sentient ship which came from
the first rice. It's like the white Butterfly vessel, but this one was
crashed, remember underwater, and you had the two mercenaries with you, one
mercenary because the Lamara helped with the other one. But yes, yeah,
that's all correct. Yeah, that was that was top? Was that top
of season three? I think that's right. Yeah, I think that was
because season three? Wait, top of season three? Yeah, wasn't with
four? Oh we're on season four, just kidding. Top of season four.
I know where I'm at and what I'm doing, But I didn't know
what season it was, but that's okay, you started this four point five.
That was the That was the middle of season three. Really yeah,
yea four. Season four started when we got back to Coriolist and they were
like, you're famous. We were like, oh shit, yeah, that's
actually but that is important information nonetheless, because it's what led you back to
Coriolists and for people to start buying for them wanting to be your patrons.
Right. The work you all did in that experience and finding this other ship
and the information brought back, remember all really is what led you to this
point. Yeah, And I just remember I feel like this. I think
there was the big thing I remember is having the big talk with with her
mentor why am I blanking her name right now? I know her name?
Surely I'm sorry, Yes we are. We're on it, everybody, We
got it. We got this. But surely I just remember having that really
nice conversation with her and kind of gaining that confidence. And I think this
was the season where Alia kind of just stepped up a little bit, kind
of got over her inner insecurities, and I think like having that conversation about
you know, or having that realization that now that we're out in the public,
there's no use hiding, and that we need to kind of be the
ones that you know, present a lot of things and basically will be the
role models that people expect us to be. And so yeah, that's all.
I don't know. I just I'm just excited to be on the staple
again and I'm just blanking. But two cards land land in front of you,
and u uh. Josie turns to Tao and deals to cards. What
does who is tow and what does Tow? Remember? Well? Tal is
captain of the Defiant, currently going undercover as Starlight. Uh. She has
short red hair about chin length in the front and cut a little bit closer
in the back where it's Yes, we had code names, it's kind of
wavy. She's where a blue leather jacket with some brass buttons, one of
them having the symbol of their organization, which name I am You chose to
be funded by the drag Knites drag Knights. I was like it because of
the what's it? Yes? Correct? The drag Knights, which are basically
free trader merchants who deal in information that others may not be able to handle
or that they don't want the military to have Yes. Uh. Twel's memory
goes back to her meetings with all of the different leaders of the organizations.
They met with the homogene and in that dark area with a very unfeeling,
very militant lady she runs the star fleet. Yeah. Her her mind goes
to the next meeting with the leader of the what was it Uh? Uh
he was, yeah, he was. He he was the judge, right,
and your and your other patron who was who you were bringing artifacts?
You remember him? Yes? Uh? The well no, the the guy
who was bidding Uh. The other guy, yes, yes, uh,
the very very rich obviously. Uh. He wore like gold armor to the
at the banquet. Yeah, he was a he was a character. Is
he the asshole who hold held our ship as hostage? Yes, yes he
did. Uh. And then her her mind wanders over to the undercover meeting
she had with uh, the representative from the Dragon Knights in the bathroom and
uh yeah. Then then her mind leads back to the stealing of her ownership,
where they broke out of Coriolis Uh and essentially ran into the middle of
nowhere. Yeah, you picked a different station to try to hide at,
especially now that you're all famous. That's pretty good. Airis well done.
Thanks gold Star for Airis And those two cards flip out in front of you,
and Josie turns to her left, to the last person at the table
other than herself, which is Tamir, and she she deals you two cards
to mer tell us, who's Tamir? And what does Tamir remember to Mir
is the engineer of the Defiant, and he is very stressed. He's very
stressed because I don't know. There's probably the actual reasons I don't remember.
He knows too much. He knows too much. Well everybody about some people
now know, Yeah, Andrew carrying something they don't know, yes, Sam,
I yeah, a small a program, Yes, the child. What's
the other thing? That's what that's well, you know, you know that
they know that you have been augmented and they were holding that kind of That
was one of the bargaining chips right and ended up being an AI planned for
the Butterflies. She was the original operating system. Yeah, so we have
that information, which oh and more than that, she also knows, uh,
she knows the information on building and maintaining the portals in a way that
like nobody else does. There's no way that we would have been able to
figure it out without that information. Yeah, basically, so, Aurora is
kind of an important piece of information that was given to you by an MPC
called Tubit, who asked you to keep her safe. And Tubitt has been
keeping her safe for a very very long time and Tamir has not. There
is only one person that Tamir has told about to Bit and even then that's
Vagary yep, though she's been hunted by by somebody else that the crew just
loves. Y' y'all know who is? Ok? Yeah, your sister,
how sweet little family, little little little following, little following. And those
two cards slide out and Josie, this young girl, she was a cat
off the table when she puts two cards in front of her. Uh.
And the camera cuts back to the medical bay where Lamara stands there kind of
mid syringe. She's got the sleeve up on the guy. Uh, and
she looks at you like rather surprised you're here? What are you doing?
I am administering a She looks at this syringe A shot to the captain here
to assure that he doesn't catch the disease that's going around deep incognitos did we
discussed? She turns and shows you that she's wearing the jacket of somebody else
in the name tag of somebody else, another doctor, and she goes,
this is gonna sting a little. And she jabs it into his arm and
injects this the serum and he goes oh, and he goes, you sure
this is safe? And she's like, I'm positive and he goes okay.
She says, uh, we're gonna watch you for about ten minutes just to
assure that you have no negative side effects. And she's like, would you
like a cookie? And she goes and gets like the version of a space
juice box and a cookie, uh, from this tiny fridge and hands it
to this this captain who sits there. Uh. Kind of strange. And
she walks over to you for a little bit more privacy. She kind of
closes the door and uh pulls you to the side. She says, what
are you doing? Why did you leave that ship? You had an idea.
I had an idea. I had total whispers you have to actually talk.
I had an idea, stage whispered, What was the idea? Well,
I thought I thought I can maybe get some information if I bummed everybody
on this ship full of drugs that made them tell the truth. I've been
working up a new a new serum myself. Here's the problem is all the
pigs. They don't talk, so I don't know if it works or not.
Okay, there's so much to unpack all of the okay, no,
okay, but they seem susceptible and alive when it's all done. Okay,
that's great, and you know humans and pigs are okay. So is this
the first one? Is this the first one on this station? Well,
there was a doctor there. There was a doctor the one and he like
points to her shirt. Mm hmm. Okay great. Uh they're still alive.
They're still alive. Mm hmmm Are they still alive? I promise they're
still alive. Okay, I'll show you. Yeah, you need your shot
too, She says loud it up for for this like character like ko,
this is yeah and uh she she she pulls you by your little heel over
to like a lock type situation. Uh is kind of tall more than likely
where the doctor puts their things and she kind of cracks it open on the
inside. You can see this doctor like, uh, kind of uh,
you know, weekend at Bernie style, like hanging there against the side.
He is breathing, and she said, he's just sleeping. I just administered
some basic anesthesia. Okay, great, what what information were you hoping to
get? Well? I don't know yet, but I imagine yes, most
of it can She points like him. All right, listen, I'm gonna
against my normal best advice, which is my own. I'm gonna I'm gonna
give you an a for effort here. You need, God damn it,
you need to know what information you want to get it right? Yeah,
you can't just ask random question what what? What was captain? And he
goes, oh, yeah, I know. Feeling so good, I'm just
gonna lay down for a second. Lamar goes, it's working, and now
what Well we ask him questions which ones? What information do we need?
So you don't know? Well, maybe I will in a minute through us
most Okay, Listen, that's why we have to talk about plans. You
either have to help me. You either have to know everything to begin with,
or talk about the plans. But you you all don't ever do that.
That's because we all think we know the whole thing all the time.
Mostly, well, now we will, And she walks over and she like
opens his eyes. You can see he's got like shark eyes. His pupils
are super dilated. She's basically give him some kind of like truth serum that
they use for interrogation. And but she cooked on a spaceship and and she
kind of checks it and she says it's definitely working. And she goes,
Captain, this is your doctor speaking. Tell me what is a leg you
and she looks at you with like a thumbs up thumb out. He goes,
I don't. I don't know. I don't feel so good. I've
not been sleeping. Well, oh oh really, whoa why not? I
don't know. I've been very, very stressed. They put a lot of
strain on us and all of the all of the space stations that keep the
portals no travel people, people can't can't travel. Right now, this is
good? What was another question? I don't know. I just came here
because you were on the intercom. Hey, I don't need a plan,
she says. She covers his ears. She says it over him, Captain,
I'm so sorry you're not sleeping. Well, I'll make sure to administer
you some sleeping pills tonight, so you can get a good night's rest.
But uh, I have magical sleeping pills, but a regular, regular sleeping
pills. But Captain, I have to know why would people not be allowed
to travel to and from That's that's top secret information. She reaches for a
second syringe to fill him up again. What is it working? How many
is too many? How many is too many? You don't know. I
don't know. The pigs just go to sleep forever. No, for like
a couple of days, like an induced cold. No, he's in charge.
I think it was missing for several days. Okay, okay, I'll
save it for later. She like puts it into an internal pocket on this
jacket. Ye could you could you remind the chat uh and and our viewers.
So we're here, Uh, we're on the the city of City of
something? What the what the hell is the city called? I forget off.
You're not on the city. You're technically on a space station, right,
But is it called the city of something? Uh? It's the weird
one right when you get inside Zallas, right, correct? You know it?
It's before you get you're at oswah. Before you get you haven't made
the jump to Zallos. Yet, remember, because the whole thing that Joseie
told you is y'all are going to have to cut in line because right now
the only activity being able to go to Zallos is military vessels and military codes
only. And you had two options as for what she said, which is
steal. You can ride. You can ride the trail. I mean guess
you could try to steal a military vessel below. Oh yes, so you
can do one or two things. You could ride on the coattails of a
military vessel through which is very very dangerous in terms of portal jumping, or
you could steal the codes, but you're gonna have to do it the moment
before and basically cut in line and take their jump to the other side,
because it will take them a period of time to like reset the portal before
the next one could jump thirst so you'd at least have some time to run
and find some safety, which seemed to be the groups where the group's interests
lide. The problem is you have a short amount of time to get back
on the defiant and make this happen, because the last vessel leaves in six
hours actually less than that. Now wait, wait, wait what I actually
have an idea. Oh, hold lot, and he like reaches inside of
his coat and pulls out his tabula, and he like logs in too,
like or he brings up like the station's like Maine for him, and he
says, Okay, tell him to log in so that you can authenticate that
he got his vaccine. Captain, this is your doctor speaking. I'm gonna
need to fingerprints you to a sure that we have a full medical record on
file. Lamara is going to roll for this because she is a persuasive human.
Yeah, let's do a manipulation manipulation chick. Does she get a bonus
because she pumped him full of all the drugs? Yeah? I would say
she does get an extra die because he's a little fudged up, right,
It's not going to be very hard. You only need a single success for
him, a manipula cooperative of something like this one. I am going to
start the show off the wrong way and give you a darkness point. Well,
I already have one from the last time we were here, so I
want poor Onesie left. It sounds like the right way, by the way,
I mean, I feel like that's just on Behr. Okay, that's
all it needed. Lamara reaches for his hand and he kind of pulls her
away, and she says, remember, I'm your doctor, and he like
kind of uh, and she goes here, have an orange slice, and
she kind of shoves an orange slice in his mouth to keep him quiet as
she grabs his hand and puts it on your data pad, and it like
does it actually log in? I don't know if it's yeah, yeah,
it like brings his It brings his file up, and it's like welcome captain,
and it has like his file and it has like some uh menus and
things of that nature that pop up from the internal side of the computer.
Yeah, the margot did it? Did it? Work it up? Rabbit
it okay, Captain. It seems to me that you're having a bad side
effect from the flu shot that I gave you, so uh, I'm gonna
administer you a little uh, a little uh electrolyts space flu Yeah, electrolyts
huh uh. And he's like oh, and he's kind of like trying to
eat this orange and he's like way way out of it. He's sweating,
his eyes are annihilated, and and she kind of white, just just like
a carrying doctor. She like wipes the sweat off his brow with a with
a small rag and she she reaches over into the cabinet and grabs a liquid
and she kind of dumps it on the rag and begins to like pat his
forehead and then she puts it over his space and in about two seconds he's
just gone, like, I say, god, he's he's sleeping. And
she pulls it away and she goes chloroform. As soon as Malik said,
wrap it up, he has tuned out entirely. Occasionally, just do it.
You're doing great, great job, and he is, Malik, will
you get the doctor out of the closet and put him where on the chair.
So maybe he just thinks he fell asleep or something. Sure, Okay.
He looks down at his tabula again and he's like hitting a few things
and like sliding screens around or sliding like windows around. Essentially he's trying to
open up the back door that he installed in Josie's when he hacked the crap
out of her. And now her terminal is going to display the already logged
in head of the station, so that now she has essentially remote access to
his attire. Nice okay, everything, la Mark goes wait wait, wait,
wait, and she reaches in his pocket and pulls his key card,
the captain's key card, and puts it in and she she's like, I
think I'm going to keep the jacket. Looks good on you. I'll take
that though, fix. Oh okay, And you can see she's got the
doctor's badge, which is also a key card in some ways, but it's
not gonna have the same amount of access. It's like his does. Yeah,
I don't want her to go like fucking station master. And and I
imagine she like she like places the doctor's hands really really gently, like maybe
she puts a pillow under his head. She does the whole bedside manner.
She checks everybody, she double checks the pulses. Everything's got to be perfect
in the room. Before she leaves, she turns around, she looks it
over, and then she follows you out. Yeah, as the camera like
cuts back to this uh kind of dingy dark space uh and a cat in
the corner, like as Josie deals cards. You're waiting on Malik's return.
She's basically holding you here in assurance that he comes back. And we're gonna
play some blackjack. I like blackjack? We ever played back back before?
So what I'm gonna do is actually just bring all over to a fresh page
so we can we can drop the cards. Okay, Uh, there should
be you should all be on a white page. And if you scroll down
where the icons of cards are, there's now a pink deck of like regular
playing cards. And I'm gonna deal to the gnome excuse me to I see
the two cards. Yeah, I'm gonna deal two cards to Alia. And
then I'm gonna deal two cards two and then guess what, I also get
two cards Josie's playing. Maybe that she's playing dealer, Okay, And Josie
says, okay, does anybody know how this game wakes? Yeah? Have
you ever played BLACKJACKX? Why are they? Are they black? Are they
jacks? Are they? No? Can you? Okay? So the point
of the game is to try to get to twenty one. You don't want
to go too far over or too far below. You win the hand if
you as closest to twenty one. Everybody flips their coins at the same time,
then you get a chance to say if you want one what card or
not? I'll go fist And so she pulls her cards from her hands.
She plays an eight in a two, and she goes, oh, hit
me dila because she's the and she kind of just punches are a little bit
on the shoulder because she takes another card, and she goes, oh my,
oh my god. Okay, that is seventeen and two makes nineteen.
I hold uh and she goes, okay, okay, you ain't tyme.
She goes, usually I have to play this with the cats. That's a
really good at it. Yeah yeah, and she looks right at Town.
She goes, well, all right, I'll pull one more. Oh oh
you want another? You want another? Okay, all right, deala hit
you there go I went over. Oh darn, and tal like slaps her
cards down face up. Josie throws her hands and she goes bust and then
she kind of pans over to Ali and she goes, okay, do you
uh do I so? I? Oh? Okay, okay, I didn't.
I didn't know. I had to click it to see what my carn.
Yeah, you gotta look at look at your two cards and then decide
if you want uh to an extra or not? Okay, So I say,
hit me oh one another? Yes, yes, yes, I'm saying
to hit you. Uh where I am? Oh? I think and she
kind of scar yes, what is what? What is the one with the
face? Number for that whose face? Old man? The king? The
king, the king? That's it, that's the ten. That's yeah.
Oh I think I lost. Oh okay, you are tying and she turns
to two mir uh to mir, I have I have a question because I
don't remember, player doesn't remember. Wait, is there any information that Josie
is holding back from them? She seemed very open and offered a few times
to like help you in some way. You do know that this room is
filled to me remembers that this room is filled with artifacts. You could feel
it right right, like you could feel this room. So behind all these
boxes and crates are probably some some things okay, okay, okay, some
things. But she didn't seem like she was withholding anything I remember, So
I just wanted to make sure you could roll a manipulation check and see if
she is. I don't know if he isn't not that great at that,
okay, but he is feeling that constant vibration, that sound. It's almost
distracting, probably incredibly so. And I don't think he's even paid attention to
his cards, and like maybe she says his name and he's just like,
oh, you know, of course they have playing a game, and he
just kind of like picks up the two little corners just just like a professional
does, like just really, oh, I see somebody's played the quite before
and says something that, well, I mean I need to figure out things
to do to pass the time. But you have you have a nineteen right
now? Right, Yeah, that's statistically pretty pretty good. What what if
if I am able to beat you? Oh? What if we raise the
stakes a little bit? Oh? She kind of leans it a little bit
over the table. You've brought my attention. If I guess I he's just
focused focused. If I if I am able to beat you here, perhaps
you could tell me more about and artifact you have around here or uh artifacts,
I don't all right, And if I win, I get your glasses.
Oh kind of like looks like ouch, now I'm not so certain over
it. Just I'll give him any indication of anything. She does not look
happy. He's fucked up. Oh wow, that is, And all I
need is to get a you'll need a twenty twenty one or nineteen and then
you know we can be three. Okay, I will take these odds.
And Tamir just very casually flips over his cards and has a perfect black jack,
and she goes, fuck right with me? What no I did try?
I was asking if there were any takes to be raised? Did you
see that? You know, if you learned to play chords like him,
this might be more interesting and then I wouldn't have to talk to myself.
She like takes her hanger out on the cat instead of out on you,
and she says, okay, fine, fine, Well what kind of what
effect you live for? And how did you know there was an effects here
to begin with? This place is teeming with him. I can feel their
energy all around. She eyes a towel and uh Alia at this point and
like looks around. She goes, ain't nothing here, but clayates we both
know that's not true. Yeah, but nobody else knows that. So how
do you know what's behind them? YEA have and look get beginner's luck.
That's some oversized space warm shit it is. But the deal is a deal,
and you don't be this hand. If I have to give you one
of the artifacts, I'm interested to know how you know about them. I
think that was not part of the deal. Well, I believe you're standing
in my house and it seemed a bit strange to me. You walked in
here, you didn't say nothing, and then when push came the shelf.
Now you want something, Now I'm on to fulfill and give it to you.
But I got my eye on you, some mere, I got my
eye on you. That's okay. There are many people who seem to have
their eyes and all of us. So can we just call it a gift?
M A gift? A gift? She says, A gift? Yeah,
yeah, okay, you know I have to answer for the credits on
a miss and I'm like bet, but I meant his talent for knowing what's
behind. Can we just call it a gift? Ah, a gift?
Do you say it's a mirror? Do you like music? I can enjoy
it occasionally. Yes. Do you enjoy song? I mean song is music?
So yes? She kind of looks you up and down for the first
time. Really question again. She looks back at too. Gifts. Yeah,
I know a little something about gifts. You have strange lot cruel with
the defiant kind of half flock called worse pot the kettle black. Sorry,
you kind of have to be a strange one in order to be in the
business that we're in, don't you, Josie. I guess so that might
depend on what kind of business. And see, I thought you was just
running information. I didn't know he was gifted. Well, I wouldn't be
a lady on my wad if I didn't let you have your artifact. So
pick a crepe. Okay, now, I'm definitely going to invoke the mystic
ability here. Okay, it's been so long. Let me read specifically what
he can do? Oh long? That would be in the book which I've
been don't have open, I have that. Look, Yeah, it's it's
just the art artificer. I got you and I can't remember. If it
lets him know what the artifact does, I think it makes you sensitive to
them. But let me. I'm gonna just I gotta go to the mystic
page. Yeah, I can't remember, I don't have your your glasses.
Let you know what artifacts do? I believe, well, they help you
identify them. Yeah, okay, mystic powers. There you go, claivoyant
exorcism artificer. You can enter a chrance to understand an artifact close to you
and determine its origin and it to you. So it's like an ident it's
like identifying it. It's like but the glasses might help you see it's like
what might be the most powerful, and then once you have your hands on
it, you can attempt to do some kind of meditation to identify it.
Okay, okay, you know what, we haven't used the glasses this season.
Let's let's go ahead and to me a kind of like flips a couple
switches on it and like the lenses shift just slightly for him. Yeah,
we'll activate those and see what we can see through the boxes. So she
knew that you were carrying that those glasses were something special, and she watches
you turn them on and like like kind of focus them, and she kind
of hear go under her breath, those are real nice glasses you've got.
As you're kind of pan across, and all of these boxes to the naked
eye would be filled seemed to be filled with like a dense organic material,
maybe fruits or food or crops, or you're not exactly sure. That's not
what comes into view. What comes into view is the glowing essence off the
artifacts that are hidden in these boxes, like below the organic matter, there's
one box in particular, the very very back, that glows extremely bright.
The artifact itself may not be very large, but the presence is. How
about what can you tell me about the one back there? Then Tamir will
point at the very very back behind a bunch of other boxes. She goes
again, She's like, hmm, well this one, and she points to
the wrong box. This is the one he was talking about. No,
not this one. For clarity, Tamir is not in the mood to play
a game, and just calmly gets up and walks over to the crate and
points at a very particular crate. It's under two smaller ones, and she
goes, oh, that one, And she comes over and like very gently
removes one of the smaller crates and like brushes a cat off and moves is
the second one, and she she grabs a pry bar and kind of cracks
the lid open because it's been it's been nailed shut with a pneumatic gun,
and she uh, she slings it back, and when she does, the
inside seems to be filled with linens and like used cloth, as if maybe
this would have been shipped to a refugee camp or from a refugee camp.
You're not entirely sure. But to the naked eye, it just looks like
stacks and stacks of fabric, and she goes, well, go on,
I will go ahead and reach in and sift through the cloth and pick it
up. I'm pretty sure I have a table for this, which you do
have. I have a table for this, the artifact table. I just
got to figure out which one it is not it because there is a role
you can make for this new new do I not have. I believe it's
two D six. It's how it works, and then it totals the number.
Go ahead and roll it two. I feel like it's two D six.
I could be super wrong about that, but okay, so it roll
it two D six. I also need to make a roll because I use
the glasses. Oh that's right. So what's the role for the glasses.
Perception, isn't it? Or observation? I thought it was just Oh,
that's right, because you're using your mistic ability and then you get a plus
one with the with the glasses, So go ahead, okay, So no,
I gotta remember things. I'm in a hot minute. Oh oh oh,
okay, Well, the good news is you're not blinded by the brightness
of this object, which would have been the fall out like you would have
lost your eyesight for a short period of time. Also causes psychic damage,
which PAL also takes. Yep, and that's why I remembered. Ah I
forgot Yeah, good call there. Of course I cannot find what I'm looking
for. Why it would not be where it's supposed to be. Oh,
I know why, because it's not my Unma gaming folder. It's my free
leak folder. Yep. That's why. Yes, perfect found things much better,
much much better. Okay, so what you pull out is, oh,
those are your spirit glasses. Hey, I found the card for it.
Yeah, it does give me a darkness point every time you use it,
Yes, every time I thought about that. Yes, so you can
see, Actually you can see all kinds of things. But in this case,
yeah, there's like weird theory aial thing. But but but but in
this case, you see uh spoiler alert, you see uh, you see
this item and you dig deep and it's at the very very bottom. So
you have to unload some of the closes. You go through a Coriolis artifacts
nailed it and your hand stops on something. Let's see, go ahead and
roll for me perfect. I'm just gonna yes, perfect, roll a okay,
D sixty six two sixes. It's a D sixty six. Uh cool,
sixty six? Oh god? Three three? About it as possible?
Oh oh I know why? No, no, no, this is why.
Because you roll two D six and the one of the dice is the
first number. One of the dice is a second because the table is a
loaded forty two. Uh no, just roll one D what roll a D
six and then roll another D six I did above my actual rolls. Oh
okay, so you got sixty three? Is what? So the six x
is the first number, the three ax is the second? Yeah so it
doesn't Yeah, so time okay? Well oh this is interesting. She I
don't know how this fits in a box. But this is the way the
dice roll you what what? What? What is going on? Dot?
Where? Yeah? He rolled two D six before his miss's powers, and
it came up as a four and a two. Oh. I see the
six is total, so forty two still gives us one of the lower numbers
here. Forty two is a very different object. Your hands wrap around something
hard like metal and molded plastick and uh oh yes, oh uh and uh
uh completely kind of circular, much larger than say the orbs that you found
under the water in the marshes. This is this is pretty big. Some
might say the size of a human head. That is very specific. Yes,
if you remove it, what you see is is this hollow, hollow
orb somewhat larger than a human head, with an I imagine outside of a
basketball opening and with an opening in one side. The inside is covered in
tiny black spikes that feel cool to the touch. The outside of the orb
is matte black and covered in rows of small glyphs. She goes, well,
wait to go there, Champ. You should did walk away with the
treasure. I'm not here to walk away with anything. I just wanted to
know what this is. Why do you have it? Because my job is
the whole objects and uh, you know, act as a place before they
get moved and sold or try to put somewhere safe. Remember I work with
the dragonites too, Yes, of course. Uh do you know what this
one in particular does? Looks a little obvious. I do, But you're
the gifted one. Remember what would Alia in her travels or with her time
with surely be able to recognize this object. I imagine that none of you
have seen an object like this before. Okay, this is this is uh,
this is something special and obscure to say the least. Okay, very
well, and show me how you do it. Closes his eyes and he
will hold in his hands this object. Uh. And she and she watches
and he just lets that song sing into him, filling him with information with
knowledge. All right, I'm gonna have you roll a have you rolled a
mystic ability check? Hey, limited success is still a success. This looks
like a helmet. It looks as if the the way the opening has cut
this this thing would fit right over somebody's head. It the coolness of the
black spikes on the inside. Uh give you this feeling as if they are
healing in some way. As if it can it can pierce the mind and
the spirit. Uh uh huh uh huh Okay, I just make sure to
give you this object is used for metacurgy purposes. You've not seen it in
action, so you can't quite tell. Yeah. Other than that, you're
not exactly sure. It might take somebody with a metacourgy knowledge to be able
to activate it. You know that much that somebody with metacurgery is gonna have
to be the person to like use this strange, strange object. But until
you give it a good test, because that is just a limited success,
you're not exactly sure. But it does seem to potentially heal. Okay,
I will make sure that that one gets copied as well for all of you
and dropped to you so you can read the full thing out of character.
Okay, cool, thank you, thank you. Well. I wasn't intending
to take this item from you. No, you want it, fan square,
I want information about it. Oh well, uh, I feel bad
if you don't take it now, but you know, if you don't want
it, I'll keep it. It's very extensive and I have the answer for
it. You know, we have a doctor who may be able to use
this much better than any of us could. Yeah, you keep talking about
this doctor. I haven't seen it yet. And at this time, there's
like a knock on the metal door on the other side of the beads.
It's probably her. She was the one you heard over the intercom right right,
the doctor, the new doctor for the station. I look forward to
beating them. I don't think it was. She's she's not the doctor that
was meant to come here. She has a habit of impersonating other doctors sometimes
to get information, all right, because you're under color, Yeah, and
you can hear Lamara's voice like very muffled, like I remember if you want
to meet her. I think they're back. It's the cats are just come
on, I love And uh, there's like another knock, knock, knock,
and she goes, I'm a coming, I'm coming, and she kind
of goes over and puts her hand on the scanner and the door like open
and on the other side of the beaded curtain is Malik and Lamara. Lamara
stands in the doctor's jacket. She's still pirated up underneath, but all in
all she's trying to hide it under an oversized man's uh a doctor's coat.
You guys doing clinging some cards. I got Lamara a gift. Why did
you get me? What did you get at her? It's a medical healing
device. Let me see that. She kind of looks it over, puts
her hand in it, watches the like spikes draw to it. I don't
know, Uh, Mike, you could roll a metacourgy for her to see
if she can identify this. Yeah, let me see here. That thing
is nuts by the way, Yeah, I know it's in the hand.
Okay, elimited success. She goes, it's very strange. I need to
see how this looks like now if I'm correct, And she goes to like
put it on her head, and now she does watches these black spikes like
draw into her and she kind of does this up and down in a mirror
to like watch it work. She goes, it's very strange. From what
I can tell, it definitely is some kind of healing tool. But if
it's a not used to pro greatly, uh, you know, these nanits
that are in here could possibly you know, do the opposite effect. Sometimes
these homes are used in quiet to relinquish individuals of information that they should not
have, if you know what I mean. Okay, but they can also
heal right, but but but he could also bring bring bring say, uh
information back that might have been you know, uh lost in in head trauma
or or a large explosion. Uh. And sometimes treats PTSD uh in a
soldiers that have seen some things sometimes great hold onto that okay, and she
kind of hugs. It really tight. Where you get that? Why do
you have that? Because your brother knows how to sling cards? I learned
from the best. Okay, what's happening right now? Are you just playing
cards? Like? Is that really? What's happening right now? What we
played some black jack? We were waiting on you to return. You took
your time. Go look at your computer, she fonds, is open the
top of it again and it like folds out hats and she like click clicks
and it's up, and she goes, oh, somebody's been busy. I
see that you've made it through the uh the security system into the manifests.
Yeah, you now have promote access to the head of the station's personal account.
Well that's uh, that's good news and bad news. What happened to
the captain? He's fine, he's just taking a nap. And that's no,
no, no, just a temporary nap. It's a temporary nap,
right, okay, just a temporal At this point, she has like she's
trying to hide this bulbous helmet and she's tucked it under her shirt like right,
and she goes, she's like got the doctor's coat like over it.
Okay, so while you were playing cards, we now have full access to
everything except for the highest level of security on the station. Can that get
us through? Well, it sure could try at least it'll make it easier
when you go to rip the codes from another ship and cut them in line.
Marco's wait, what are we doing space pirate stuff? First? We
need to get back to the ship though. Well that's gonna be kind of
difficult. But you know, if you if you, if you play it
just right, they might let you onto the docks. But your time is
running short. Kids. Yeah, let's go right. Are we allowed to
go now? Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he came back.
Remember, but I suggest you go straight to the ducks because if you don't,
you know, I'll have to send some brute force staffs yet. And
Sama, I'm gonna I'm gonna send some friends to visit you. I think
you'll like them very much. What what? Why? What was that sarcasm?
Was that a threat? Huh? No? Do I look like a
threatening poison? I freed you alleterally my sandwiches and play quite threatening. I'm
just we've just been having a bit of a time lately, and sometimes it's
been tough with meeting the race nice people from a one gifted to another.
I'm sending some friends, thank you. Okay, So now that we've got
that done, it's time for me to feed my cats. I have a
lot of them. It takes a long time. Uh so, uh,
if there's nothing else, maybe you could ska data yeah about it. But
Josie, yeah, you don't look threatening. He's that to your advantage.
Oh well, that's why I play an old lady. Yep. I always
keep them under estimating you. She goes, all right, yeah. He
then to all of the cats, I'm coming. I'm gonna come in.
She goes, I'm sorry, it's so hard to be a cat mom.
So such a ludy bit. She goes, okay, bye bye now,
and she kind of pushes all of you. She hands you like some uh
what is an essence like space bread? You just add water and it like
swells up. You know, it's like Insta bread. These packages are like
Insta food. And she goes, okay, now, bye bye, and
the door like behind you, and you're now standing in her kind of empty
choch key junk shop. The lights are out, the door still says closed.
Did we just get our own this bread. Basically, yes, that's
exactly what you got. What the hell did you guys do? Don't we
play? We played cards? Have hey, and then let's go back to
the ship. Now okay, okay, hey, guess what. Guess what?
I was able to test this ceremon It totally works. Well, here's
the problem. You're already very very honest, so I don't know that it
would actually work on key and actually, like Alliah just genuinely looks a little
bummed. He's like, I can help. And then, you know,
but I'm always looking for test subjects. So so you know, you could
just swing by the lab. I've got other serums. The pigs could use
a date, Okay, stick to pigs, right, So, so so
what's the plan? Malik says, we have to have a plan, because
I didn't have one. Plans. We're walking, yeah, back to the
ship. We're not standing here talking. Yeah, you're just kind of we're
walking walking, And you can tell a lot of the military force here is
being drawn towards the docks. There's a lot of activity like foot traffic and
not of like people going out for the evening or like hitting a canteena of
like work based military activity. The docs are piping his military officials, May
they make a suggestion, instead of going straight into them, perhaps we could
go through like the mechanic route, get in through the back. Sure.
Oh oh, you're talking about the ship or yeah, there's there's so much
of a military presence. They're going to stop us, or at least I'm
afraid they will. Well, they can't stop me from staying on my ship.
That's true. That's actually true. They cannot stop you from staying on
your your ship. And even as you like, as you hit the docks,
right, because the door to the docks is like, uh, it's
a big it's a big bay door, and they let people in and like
waves, right because they have to depressurize and pressureize and depressurize and pressurize,
and so you kind of all stand there surrounded by a bunch of people in
uniform who seem a little anxious as the cargo doors like start to open.
Y. Yeah that's all. And a voice comes over the like overhead calms
for the docking bay. All military personnel, please make your way to your
vessels. We have team minus five hours and counting to all military vessels leaving
for zallos, please find your destinations and go into hybernation sleep. Do you
all move with stealth or do you just try to like are you trying to
blend with the crowd? Do you just proudly walk up to your ship?
It is docked there, nothing's happening to it. Actually, it doesn't even
have that much activity around it because the other vessels in this docking bay are
all like military grade vessels and they're being loaded and restocked and fueled. And
is so dot you said there's a lot of people here, right is is
is it what we call in the military a clusterfuck of people? Yes,
it is a clusterfuck of people like running around trying to get where they need
to go. There's a lot of men that are people iry, I'm sorry,
people that need to be in hyper sleep before these jumps can happen.
They need to get them out, they need get them lined up, and
they have a short amount of time to do it. All. There are
four vessels and it's only it's five hours, and it takes like time in
between each one, so they have exactly enough time for each vessel before the
portals will close down permanently. I mean if everyone's just running around. I
say, we just walk casually to the ship. Yeah. Is it all
military or are there civilians or or no real civilians. There are dark dock
workers. You can see they're in like the jumpsuits, just like not Joey
what was his cousin, Tony Tony. Tony's actually out here right. You
see him like remove one of the fueling lines and plug it into with another
guy. The next ship they like carry it over. It's real heavy.
It's there's a lot of activity. I imagine the way that like a like
a navy vessel might be manned right before like jets may launch from it right
or before submarine submerges, like all the prep that is necessary to make that
happen. And that just activity. But there are no civilian, not real
civilians. There's like dock workers and like the people who maybe man the portals,
so the portal station people who may be like checking for debris right the
way they do on like runways and stuff. But you're the five real civilians.
So we're probably trying to move with some sort of stealth kind of blend
in trying to get away from notice. I'm going to say, then,
just looking at this I will need a roll from everybody. I'm gonna let
you choose. There are a couple roles that could be made here infiltration.
Take an infiltration role. I would take a I believe the dexterity role is
the one that she used for uh, like dodging three people. I would
take a dext roll. Or or you can make a manipulation role, because
you can kind of like, uh, but a bluff your way through,
you know, pick something up and make it look like you're moving it or
whatever. Infiltration, manipulation or dexterity. Those are probably your three options.
I don't have ooh, actually, but I did say the docs were busy,
so everybody can take a plus one on the role. If you did
so, just roll one more, die Joey. I do have another question,
if possible, and I don't know if this might be just a very
judicious use or not. That's not the right word, extravagant use of this
power. I do have the mystic power of premonition. Would that possibly be
something where I like it has that can happen in the background, where like
I can predict where crowds are going to be or people are going to be
so I can just naturally and I feel like that just being someone as big
as Alia is over her lifetime, she's kind of gotten good at trying to
avoid crowds, and maybe this is one of the reasons why she's able to
like maneuver through them without bumping into them. What else say is I still
need you to make one of those checks, but I will allow you to
make a mystic ability check on this to potentially help out some mirror got it
because for me he failed? Yeah, because for me, I don't have
anything on any of those. So I will say dexterity. I'll try to
use deck starity as my thing. That was LaMura, did I go?
Did mine go? Okay? This is this is your chance. Roll you
can roll the miss Did you add a plus one to that? I did
not hold on? So just roll one more D six one? Do you
man? That was a bad role for you? Yeah, okay, I'll
do h How does it go again? For roll twenty it was backslash r
D six space D six Yes, God damn it. That makes it a
critical failure. Roll your premonition role, which will be mystic abilities, and
then okay, I'll do this through. Are you kidding me? Are you
are you come up? Okay? Well the darkness point, she's only starting
to stack them up. Okay, I could. Is it worth it though?
For a crowd we're just trying to get through a crowd. I feel
like I would just be bumping into a crowd of millity. Damn it,
never mind. Okay, I'll give you a doctor take my documents, point
dot. Okay, which one are you re rolling? Ah? I would
say if you, if you, if you reroll a mystic power, you'll
learn information. If you reroll the Dexterity, you could succeed. And I
think at this point I would like to. I think Dexterity is more.
There's a lot of energy here. When you have this many people in one
place, it's really hard to concentrate, and you're moving pretty quickly, so
the premonition doesn't quite stick and you don't give any visions of any danger.
Since that's what you were looking for, you don't manage to pick up on
it. Okay, So I will re roll Dexterity with my dog. Did
you add the plus one? I didn't. At this point, it's going
to be great, this is going to be so different. Let me try
Okay, did you want to mirror to reroll? No, I don't think
Okay, I heard, Hey you succeeded. Okay, worth it worth it
to worth that extra diet. Okay. There's a lot of activity. Ali,
you're kind of like trying to dodge people because you chose dexterity. But
there's a lot of activity. You kind of keep bumping into people. I
get a manipulation. Uh yeah, Uh. Malik has no problem blending hiding
behind a thing, going here, pretending like this is where you're supposed to
be, like lying and deceiving. Our dear Towl is uh maybe a little
bit more agile on her feet than Alia, and she's able to not bump
elbows or shoulders with anyone and dodge in and out of people. Lamara is
supposed to be here for sure. She wrote a critical success on her manipulation.
I'm gonna ease that earlier and dous have her doctor's coat with and she's
got the badge and the the helmet is under her shirt. She looks very
pregnant, and she kind of keeps the edges like covered. Uh and and
she yeah, she puts on the wattle. She knows what a pregnant woman
walks like she does the whole nine yards, the whole nine back, aching
older belly uh, and nobody questions her here. In fact, a man
tries to stop and help her, help her, and she shows the bad
and she says, I'm the doctor on board, Please don't touch me.
And he's like, oh, I'm sorry, ma'am, and she just walks
straight to the defiant now to mer to me or you failed? Uh?
What did you? What did you roll? Uh? You rolled? Manipulation
is a little bit more obvious that you're not supposed to be here. Uh.
And in fact, somebody, one of the military generals of one of
these ships, he's like counting heads of people. He spots you in the
crowd, like maybe a space opens up and it's kind of like a spotlight
woof right on top of you, and he points and he goes, hey,
you, you're not supposed to be here. What do you do you
all hear that very blatantly, and he's pointing right at t Mir. Uh.
Yeah, I'm just bringing lunch to to my husband Tony. And Tamir
has like bags of this lumbus bread that that the the he snaps the two
soldiers goes go grab that guy, and they cut through people and come over
to your holding this un swollen lamb lambis bread basically space bread lambis. Yeah,
it's you know, it's not we haven't you haven't dropped the magic water
on it yet, and so uh they look at you, uh and they
go show us your paperwork. Why are you on the docks? And they
kind of start asking you all of these questions and one guy goes, Tony
doesn't have a boyfriend. He goes, yeah, I know, Tony,
Tony doesn't have a boyfriend. Can And there's like a there's like there's a
it's beginning get mad. And they're like, we're sorry, sir, you're
gonna need to come with us. We're gonna take you down. We need
to ask you a couple of questions. And they go to wrap. They
go all right, go ask Tony, and the guy's like, all right,
I don't go as to So he starts cutting across and one guy kind
of grabs you tight by the arm, and this is the point where Lamara
screams and she falls to the ground and she says, the baby's coming,
the baby's coming, And you see she's near the door of the Defiant,
and she goes, I just want my husband, where's Malik and my brother
in law? Ta mirror Yeah, and she's like, you know, the
usual like panic, and everybody's like oh oh, and a bunch of people
run over to her and she's just like swooning in a completely believable way,
and she's like, don't die, Mike, I just want to go back
to my ship with my family. And she's kind of playing the whole part
at a critical success. The guy's a grip, loosens on your arm a
little bit and he goes, oh my god, give this to Tony.
And he's just like shoves the bread stuffs to the legs her now full and
you bo and he's like, she's the doctor. He looks a little confused
because he can't even take her to the doctor. And and uh, I'm
guessing all four of you at this point kind of loom around Lamara. She's
there, and she looks up at all of you absolutely not thumbs up,
puts up his she mug and like goes right into the right into the Defiant.
Near the bottom ramp of the Defiant, we have he walked literally runs
over like looking very varied and like just like like carries her like, oh,
yeah, you pick her, pick her up, and she's like oh,
and she starts like she starts doing the breathing exercises and she like grabs
ta Mer's hand to drag you with it. And she looks at how like,
yeah, tal is just taking control of the situation. Yeah, And
so everybody get on the ship. We gotta we gotta get get you into
the med bay right now. At this point, your dear, dear friend
has come over and he's like, what can I do to help please?
This is your sensitive time, just family. Oh, I whisper to him,
I whisper to him. Tell them Tamir's your boyfriend. What what you
can break up tomorrow? And I imagine there's like the sound of that uh
as the door like closes, he goes, wait, ta mirrors my boyfriend,
he says, like loud enough, and a couple of people like look,
and the door to the Defiant closes and locks, and there's a moment
where all five of you stand and yeah, all five of you stand there,
and Laura like stands up straight and she pushes the helmet out from underneath
the shirt and she catches it and she goes, that was fun. Malik
has his finger on the the lockdown button. Uh, and then like looking
at the VID screen to see like the doorbell. Uh. He sees the
bewildered face of Tony and takes a picture of Tony. Uh, and that's
gonna be useful. Later, turns to Molique and goes, congratulations, don't
father a helmet? Don't don't you used our names? We had code I
wasn't gonna lie. We had code names because we're Wait, you said you
weren't gonna lie while pretending that you were going into labor. You know,
it's complicated. Acting is a thing. Remember when we said that we were
working on it in case charity of our opportunity of heart domestic. So that
was stealth, stealth. Look at your brother, he was they were going
to take him away, and I know what they do in those prison cells.
I don't want to you know what. No, no, let's not
what you Tony's boyfriend, I don't know. That was terrible. And since
I have a corruption bar, I have three. In fact, Tony now
believes that Tamir has a crush on him. Yay, best use of corruption
bar ever Tony is firmly believing that Tamir might just be his boyfriend. Perfect,
Okay, I got some serious competition. Are you see? Tony's like,
I have a boyfriend. As the camera like pans back into the Defiant,
She's going to come back pants to Tony's house where his boyfriend's there eating.
He looks up. What's happening? You now have a smells smelling?
So what do we do now? So we were originally going to steal some
codes and jump in line, but I think we're just going to have to
piggyback off of someone else because they're going to be looking for something. Why
are they looking for something? I mean mirror got caught by now someone's figured
out that he was obviously lying. I mean maybe I don't know who the
fuck knows? I mean, I have this and he pulls out the access
card of the head of stat like the head of the of the satellite.
Uh, fill me in, how'd you get that? The serum? And
then she pulls out a syringe of this like blue. Okay, put a
cap on that. Yeah, save that for later, we might need it.
Did you just have that in your jacket? What if you fell down?
I don't fall down. I mean I did fall down, but that
was a fake, Preszy. Remember you've absolutely fallen down before. Anyway,
The important thing is that everyone is alive and fine. Where's the where's the
guy who took this arm? The doctor? Okay? How long do you
think until someone finds him? Well, you know, they may find them,
but I thought, you know, with the busy activity and whatnot,
he's probably going to be asleep between the serum and the chloro form. Hopfuly
a few hours. He'll be fine, though he'll wake up a little thirsty.
But I left electrolytes and orange slices, and it's cookies and cookies in
a juice box. What did you know? It's not important your bedside manner
is I packaball mara. I will that's why, doctor okay, I will
locke. Yeah, And the door to the med bay locks like, I'll
lock that door. And as you do that, you hear the first ship
pass. Couldn't tell if that was your mouth or a button you pressed.
That's what I have. I'm gonna be honest with you. Just shows how
good God is or how great voice mode is. No. No, I
mean the fact that you were able to keep up with an actual professional software
god. And the first one you hear it like pan past the defiant UH.
One of four ships is now in line to make the jump. You
have three ships to go, Captain. I'm going to be beginning to prepare
for takeoff. Yeah, Malik, get your station ready next to your next
to your cryer chamber. I have to get the codes. Well, get
your station ready next to the cryo chamber and then grab those codes. All
right, Well, okay, figure, I'm going to go to the captain's
You go to the captain seat, begin you know, switching the things,
pressing the buttons, booting the ship up as it kind of turns on.
I imagine, don't turn on full power because it will give you away that
you're like leaving and you're not really supposed to be leaving, but you basically
idle the ship, which is necessary for power. It's like putting a car
on but not starting the engine. We're in neutral. Yeah, you're a
neutral. And Lamara quickly runs and puts the helmet away in the medical bay
and she's the first one who hops into the cryo chamber. She gets his
milik on the cheek and she says, I'll see you on the other side,
as she pops in hibernation active here's hoping cleckly clickly clickly yeah boo boo
boo boo boop, and you know it closes her in and you watch as
she goes into a cryo sleep, being the first one down and ready for
transportation. Dot, how do I that I know how to do it?
Can I uh hack the whole space station? Uh? You're gonna need to
hack the world, as you say you can. Okay, yes, you're
gonna need you'll be able to take a plus one because you have his key
card and like access to his manifest basically like the back end of his stuff.
But you could attempt to What are you trying to do? I okay?
So uh Crazy cat Lady had mentioned we can either steal one of the
keys or right on the wake of one of the things that sounds super helladic
interous the last one. Uh. I don't want to do that, can
I? Hmmm, I'm trying to think of the best way to steal the
key? Do I want to? And I'll put it to the group.
Guys, what do you think? Actually, I'll just I'll put it to
tell anyone who's not asleep. I think it's just Lamar is asleep. At
this point, do we want to swap our key with another key or just
have two duplicate keys, Like we have the same key as someone else and
we cut them in line. I think the taking of the key would be
less like because if you have a duplicate, people are gonna be like,
what well is their duplicate versus if they don't have their legitimate key and we
have theirs. You know, that just means like someone either mismanaged or they
are the ones lying. I maybe maybe give them a faux key, okay,
one it's like a few digits off of ours or something like that.
Uh, not necessarily the one we have because we don't want to pin it
on our ship necessarily. Are you waiting for the last ship? That was
my second question. I feel so much riskier. Yes, I feel like
we should hop on the second or third. Well, there's yeah, the
third, let's go. Let's go with the third. Something happens, we
can skim. Uh My my other my other point is, uh, there's
only four ships that are gonna be in line. Uh so it's gonna be
a little obvious that we don't look like a giant war vessel. But I'm
just the hacky talking guy, so that's that's not my job to figure out.
So he begins just hack it away. Uh, let's get a data.
She did n't roll with a plus one? Absolutely, I also have
we have a computer? You do? So you're going to get another plus
one? I believe for the computer. H No, I have my computer.
Do we have a computer on board the ship too? I forget man,
Well you have your Oh no, that's right, she got redone.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have my super tablet. Does the ship
actually have a super cool computer? It does not? Okay, cool,
so just me so an additional plus one from his his information the heads information?
Correct? Cool? What is this? Where is where is this data?
Gin? That's the number plus four additional dice? Okay, a limited
success? Will what would you do? You want to do anything? Look
how many dice? I rolled? No? Just just that dot. I
would like to swap. I would like to take whatever Ship three's code is,
help you to ours, and then if I can change Ship three's code.
Sure it is a limited success. So I won't tell you what goes
down, but you do manage to copy the code an attempt to change on
the one you took it from SAMR. You have to map through this portal,
yep. So I'm going to have you roll your science or technology whichever
you probably tech and you do have access to the main computer, right,
so it'll make it easier for you. And about the access with Aurora,
Oh, it'll be another one plus one if you speak to Aurora. Yeah,
I think with the big jumps like this, trying to get through a
military alurah, yeah to me, are you already do assisting calculation with the
portal? Assisting in calculation with the portal? Thank you? No, thank
you? And do you kind of hear you feel her kind of dive into
the technology to help you with it. Uh So you get a second plus
one, so that'll be two. That's really good, really good. That
critical though. Uh So that's really good for you. All right, you
very much are able to track this. Aurora helps no problem. She even
unlocks the other side of the portal past the military stuff. She kind of
bypasses the programs that they use because she is a portal program in some ways.
Cool, uh Alia tal both of you are gonna have a chance to
make rols. Obviously, how going to have to make this this piloting role
to like set everything up. But Ali, do you would you like to
do anything? I forget? Did we everget? Yeah? I was going
to say, is this ship already blessed with prayer? Or do I do
that every time you get a blessing because the chapel has been refurbished. As
long as there's a chapel on board, it is here. Do we have
that mark that because I know this is a new ship, so we don't
have that mark that surely put way back when you do not have the showy
mark, but you can choose yeah, yes, I would like to do
that. Then I would like to bless the ship. Similarly as to how
Sholey did. Okay, would you like to use your mystic ability for that?
Would you prefer to use some kind of culture role because it's using your
blessing. I'll leave that up to you. Considering that I came on here
as the cultural consultant, essentially, I think I'll do the althn't but my
mystic is higher choices. I feel like, sorry, Oh that was weird,
that was it. It was just my mess niece, my blessing.
Oh I just realized why I am hearing an echo? Never mind, there
we go. Anyways, I will do I'll do I think I'll do mystic
I feel like mystics. In no, I'll do culture. Culture it is.
There we go another critical success Alia, What does your prayer? How
do you bless this vessel? I think it's just based off of at this
point, it's not so much me adding mystical powers to it, but a
certain level of inscriptions based off of my cultural knowledge of all the research I've
done. And so the combination of ruins I feel are the type that attracts
good luck, attracts a sort of you know, safe travel sort of energy
to the ship, and it's kind of naturally there. If I feel like,
if I use mystic power, I would have to constantly be the one
powering it. But it's self powered, so therefore that's yeah, that's I
think that's how it would work. And I would inscribe this. I think
I would like to actually inscribe this on on tals twells wheel, on the
steering wheel like right or needs or on what are part of the dashboard?
Essential? Yeah, yeah, the concept? Okay, yeah, you go
in there. I imagine with some kind of blade or knife and carve this
symbol as you say your prayer and your blessing and the Lady of Tears that's
your icon, right, yes, yeah, the Lady of Tears hears you,
and she answers by blessing this ship for the remainder of this trip,
leaving Towel to have to do the last of the work. Of course,
because the pilot, you're gonna have to pull it from the docks and get
it in line and then race to your hibernation chamber before the jump happens,
because you have to maneuver this in front of the other vessel before they put
they jump through, so tall actually is the hardest job. So yeah,
I'm actually going to invoke one of Tal's talents that I have very rarely used.
I'm not sure if I've ever used this. I'm going to invoke to
the Traveler's talent. I get to ask the GM about a choice I have
to make in the game. Has to be a choice with only two options,
and you must answer truthfully which of the two is most beneficial to us,
if that is all possible to ask me. Okay, so Tal is
she's going and starting up all of her sequences to get everything running, and
has to stop because Ali needs to get in there for the inscription, and
she just kind of stands there watching Alio work and thinking to herself, is
it really better for us to jump in line or in the long run,
is it better for us to skirt with another ship. Oh, that's a
difficult question. Okay, Okay, I will tell you this if you skirt
with another ship, okay, So cook, that's a hard question, all
right. So if you choose to cut in line, you have to make
the piloting roll to jump in front of them, which is not gonna be
hard because you're already getting a plus to it for both the blessing and for
the blessing on having the chapel on board, so the piloting rule will be
relatively easy. If you go that route, you have to race to the
hybernation chaper, which is actually a dexterity because you have to get it all
together and put yourself in before the jump happens, and you're still trying to
beat them. So the hard role is probably not the piloting role. It's
the dexterity check to hope that you make it to hibernation before the jump is
made, because if you don't, bad things could happen to Tao to ride
through the portal to the other side. If you choose to ride in the
wake, you only have to make the piloting check, like basically set it
on autopilot to ride in their way, but you take a negative two,
so you basically negate the two blessings, but you don't have to make a
dex check for hibernation. Yeah, and story wise, they would probably be
able to tell the difference between ships and know that someone came in instead if
you trail them. If you do, like right in their wake, you
have a lot more stealth because you're coming behind a massive military vessel. You're
less likely to be seen if you If you go the other route and cut
one off, they are definitely going to know you did it, but they
can't follow you through. There's gonna be it's gonna be a while before they
can follow you through. So when you get to the other side, just
you're gonna have to hide, and tow would know this. You can or
cannot communicate between two ships on either side of the portal. You can only
communicate via the portal master like station. They can communicate, right, but
it's not it's not an instantaneous thing. Sometimes messages take a while to get
through this part of the Like they send one ship through and then they got
to wait for Yes, the ship made it successfully, then they need to
prep the next ship. That's why it kind of takes so long between.
Yeah, ship jumps, if that makes sense, because information like that is
literally traveling across light years to get there, so it doesn't happen right away.
Yeah, second ship passes, how comes over the intercom. We're gonna
ride the wake. If we jump in line, then they'll know somebody came
in. If we ride the wake, then they won't. Captain. But
yeah, my heart is racing, y'all. And I imagine that Tamir and
Alia here the captain say, we're riding the wake as your hibernation chambers close
and also hibernation activated. How you're left alone. The ship kind of falls
silent. The second ship is out, which means you only have minutes to
get behind the third ship as it begins to pull out and make its way
to what is basically the runway, the space runway into this portal. I'm
going to have you make your piloting check. Oh, remember the ship do
have stealth technology if let me pull up the ship sheet. But I'm pretty
sure the ship has stealth technology and if it does, Oh, and you
get a plus one for the maneuvering. You have a maneuver so actually you're
still going to get plus two. I'm pretty short. Hang on, Yeah,
she's also got a plus from Alia and krits or bonuses. Uh where
is our ship? Y'all is at the top. Duh, yeah, here
we go top one. Let me just see what we've got. So you
do have the blessed ship, which we know, and you had the one
from Alia. Those are going to be negated by riding awake. You do
have stealth technology, which adds a plus one, and then you would have
the antimatter maneuverability, which adds a plus two to your maneuverability. So I
actually have a plus three. And would I get anything in addition from uh
Timir's cruit because I know Alias was negated by the fact that I guess that's
true that because it would have been for the portal, I'd say yes because
it's the portal information, right, So like uh Tamir basically programmed it so
it can't close early on you, right, So like it's expecting one ship
to come through, but maybe it's been programmed, uh to wait for the
defiant to pass through or something like that. So I would say with that
critical success, sure, so that would be a plus four. I'm gonna
need it. I'm gonna need all of these. Okay, all right,
elimited success, but you've got two successes. What does it look like as
Taw trails this and makes this jump literally riding the wake of another vessel U
how uh you can kind of see sweat beating on her on her forehead.
Because while she has actually done this before in the series, it's still mm
hmm. I'm sorry I got excited. It was just it's the valley today.
So I'm the one that looks like a bumb Okay, she looks like
a literal princess. She is a literal princess. Kn't be married a princess.
And if anybody who disagrees with me, don't say anything because you're wrong
anyways. But yeah, so Tell has done this before, but it's still
really nerve wracking because one of the last times that tal went their a portal
they wound up in a webmed chamber when they woke up, so it's it's
very, very nerve wracking. But she she furiously clicks buttons in double checks
parameters and uh presses a large purple button because I like purple. And uh.
Then the lights in the cabin all turn red as she now has her
warning to get in her cryo chamber. Her course is set and there's nothing
left to do. Uh. She kisses her hand and puts it on the
sigel that Talia, that Alia Alia, sorry, talent Alia together, that's
the ship. Well funny enough tells full name is actually Talia. She she
kisses her hand and puts it on on the sigel that Alia Alia said and
said, I believe in your friend, and gets in her her cryod chamber
and we hear it once again as yours closes mination activated. Now it's a
really good thing that Malik only got a limited success on that third ship,
on that ship because their numbers did not change, which is a good thing
because if they had, they would not have been able to jump through,
and you would have jumped through another vessel. But by the icons, by
the icons grace, the ship's numbers go through. The Defiant goes into autopilot
program to stay just a certain amount of way where you can't be detected on
any kind of radar, and you pull in behind them, and if you
could hear the radio in the portal station, they would be in a bit
of a panic. There's another ship in the lane. There's another ship in
the lane, but it's too late. The countdown begins and they begin trying
to stop, but there's nothing that they can do. As the portal jump
begins and it sucks the first ship through, and because you're so close,
it rips the Defiant through to the other side. And there's a moment of
blackness as you literally fold time and space and you jump from the current system
that you are in to the Zalos system. Yes I'm not crazy about that.
Yes perfect I was is where you're at. But you do make it
all the way to Zalos. And I actually don't think I have Azalo's mount
prepped, but that's okay because we are at time. And as the ship
comes to and of course, how's cryo chamber opens up first? How you're
flung from your cryo chamber your upright one because the ship is rattling as if
it is under some kind of turbulence, but it is not turbulence because often
the distance you hear an explosion, you have basically entered a war zone,
because that is what Zallos is, and the calms there is panic and stet
and people screaming and commands being given by the portal station as the new military
ships are entering the space, and one of the explosions goes off very very
close as it knocks you from your tube and you hear the entire ship power
down, which means you cannot release your crew from their hibernation sleep, at
least not right now. Next week we'll be back to find out what the
Define is going to do as it once again floats endlessly through a war zone
around the system of Zallos. But they made it stop breaking our ship.
I didn't break it. That could be a blessing. We're a dead ship
in the middle of a war zone. No one's going to bother us right
now. But the icons might just be on your side. What have they
ever written there? Very multiple about some time the icon Tamir his talk with
them, says the mystic of the group that is the second corruption bar.
Actually I used three corruption bars. I forgot because one of them was not
as obvious. One of them was used by Josie, uh, which you
you won't get to see happen until next week. She did in form some
friends some gifts gifted folks headed to Zelos. Uh. The second one was
used, Uh what did I use it for? Something horrible? I can't
remember? And then the job explosed. Well, no, Mike now has
a boyfriend. No oh yeah, yeah, Tamir now boyfriend. That's right,
that's right, that's right. Tamir now has a very very to use
a boyfriend who's very worried because the defiant left in quite a hurry. And
uh yeah, we have one more to use, thanks to snowdogs there at
the end bringing us home, and we'll have to figure out what happens with
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