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So I'm fine, just roll dice. That's rolled dice. Well, you
know what, Mike, since you know what's going on, sounds a meal
like you are supposed to give the recap. Uh, You're gonna pay a
darkness point for that. Dot. Look, you know what, as long
as you don't miss a single bit of it, I will give I am
sitting on one, two, three, six, seven darkness points. I
am. I am gonna miss a bit because there was a bunch of news
broadcasts that I absolutely tuned out. Okay, okay, okay. So the
gist of it is, ship's real bad. It's real bad. In the
third horizon. Also, TAMR plugs this dumb ass into the ship and gottas
because he doesn't have fucking anti virus on his brain because he's an idiot.
So now he's in a coma, and we landed on the moon in Zalos
and shit exploded all over the place, and there's blockades and terrible things happening
across the galaxy. The Hegemony is a bunch of fucks. Uh. And
the Free League, Yes, the Free League have basically formed a union and
told the Hegemony to go fuck themselves, which is really great for the common
man. So that's that's basically what's going on. It's actually a pretty close
you know, there were a few details there missed, including you know,
the part where you all attempted to actually stabilize and rescue Ta Mir from this
comatose state using an artifact. Nonetheless, yeah, look at look at home
space and let's what else. I feel like it was one of their oh
right, uh, the explosions that went off inside the City of Foreigners.
Yeah, upon your arrival, suicide bombers. Basically what we're going to start
where we started last episode. To me or you're standing there on the edge
of this collapsed hole that you and your brother worked up through a strange series
of plans for for you know, for bombs, and at the last it
this is the question that keeps getting asked. I guess technically, by all
standards, yes, there was an explosion. Most every thought on the standards.
It's not all. If this isn't on the all family crest, I
don't know what is. But technically correct is the best kind of correct.
That's what'll be buried without their tombstone. Well by talent, No, that's
why I listen. That would be what it writes down there. Technically they're
dead. Technically well, technically you were the one who wrote the critical success
and saw and pointed out to the group that the probe that you had been
seeking in this this massive tower, in this uh deserted city, uh was
actually a stored in the chandelier above everyone's head, which is why they got
here but could not seem to find it hidden anywhere. But as you point
up, queuing to everyone that it is there, uh, you hear aurora
uh in your head just momentarily to me here, something's wrong, something's wrong,
someone else is here here? What do you mean? And in that
moment everything kind of goes dark, your vision almost dark of the mind as
well, like the image in your head, and there's just this kind of
echoed silence of your voice that like rings out. As you find your body
to some degree, you are standing in about two inches of water a monkst
just like black void openness, and you seem, by all you know,
a visual standard to be alone Aurora machine. As you speak out, you
hear the clicking of heels as if it's kind of splashing through the water,
coming closer to you. The void is kind of devoid of light, so
it's hard to make out, but you can see a figure off in the
distance, not running or charging any way. There doesn't seem to be any
panic, but simply walking your direction. Hello, can you see me?
Can you hear me? The figure kind of emerges into your space, and
as they do within arm's reach, you realize that it is a woman.
She stands there in a very chiseled outfit, not militaristic but more business like.
I don't know, because it's space. I've actually the shoulder pads are
a little angular and a little too sharp and well fitted tight around the waist.
She wears it like both a business suit potentially a suit of armor,
hair tight, big curl in the front that's kind of placard plastic back as
if not a hair is out of place, And she speaks to you in
a voice that you know all too well. Demiir, it's good to see
you, Sally. Yes, I am Sally. What are you doing here?
What is here? I am unsure. It seems that one of my
protective has removed itself into another hard drive. You're seeking a problem? Have
you been able to source the problem? What should we know? This?
Aminess is fast. I think Tamir has to take a moment to kind of
like go through his own head of like what that this? This isn't maybe
not the ship, it's not. He's confused. I think, for like
the first time in a very very long time, he doesn't know up from
down. Okay, very confusing that Sally is here presented in a bizoal form.
Yeah, yeah, okay. If you wanted to make a role,
you could. You could roll based on technology. I don't think you have
any medical abilities, so I can't have you roll from like a that standpoint,
Yeah, I could do tech. Let's see why not? Oh take
a plus one die to all of your roles. By the way, I
can't tell you why, but you can do that. Oh still now,
still no failure. You've only experienced something like this before in more of an
out of body way. The last time you met with two bit amongst the
Stars, maybe would be or any time that maybe you and toal have shared
put your minds into somebody else's vision, right, like you've taken on somebody
else's mind, but you've never experienced anything quite as tangible as this. You
can reach out any touch ethereal right. This seems almost realistic in a very
strange sort of way. And Sally also seem Sally seems to know her purpose
of why she's here, but she doesn't know where she is, if that
makes sense, Like she knows that she's here to do a job, and
she's seeking out whatever the problem is. But you, from what you can
tell, there's no technology around, and Sally is just a program. She's
just a CONSORTIONI program put on every vessel as like baseline code right right,
and ours was even tampered with technically it was tampered with. Yes, Wow,
that would have been a different Sally approaching one did Yes, it would
have been Yeah, it would have been a very different Sally. I imagine.
Oh no, please go ahead, Oh Susan, Sally, can you
run a diagnostics whatever you're connected to? I can try. She like bends
down and puts her hand into the water, and you can see it covers
just the top of the hand before she hits something solid, and it's almost
like light kind of embers out of the bottom, just a little bit,
lighting this area up. Her eyes kind of close as she tries to find
something, contact anything. Eventually she stands back up and she looks right at
you, and she says, it seems that all of my data banks and
our worthmic programs to run such things as diagnostics are here, but they are
being carried by another program. It's not actually connected to the name Ray.
And the fire wasn't skating me out, I say, said, this is
the problem. The another program that I know of who connected with you would
be Aurora. Oh yes, have you encountered No? No yet, what
would happen if you do? If Aurora is the root of the problem,
it is my robe to get rid of the problem. No, no,
no, seize protocol Protocol's over in social or one wine boy two four five.
Information has been solen. It must be recovered. What information was stolen
from? What I didn't see? All main damies is connected to the consortium,
along with important missile codes, warm outs and battle lands. He grins,
He grins, knowing who the fuck did that he grins size h some
mic bullshittery. Tamir has at least experienced some of Malik's doings. Is there
like like maybe some like fail safe trojan that he could command to attempt to
override the consortium protocol? Uh? Well, I'm here. Here's the question.
Uh, has Tamir figured out where he is? If? If Sally
is looking for Aurora and will not do so, t Mir suspicious that they
are in the piece of technology that Tuba installed, which even he hasn't fully
explored yet. Okay, So that's pretty accurate that it's connected basically to your
head. They're walking about your computery, subconscience and layman's terms. Okay,
So if you think now that Tamir's pieced it together based on Aurora specifically,
I would say that you could make a data general. You could try,
but you have to touch her. Mmm. I don't even have data gen.
Okay, So you can still make it with a plus one because like
you, basically you'd make it at a basic what is it wits? It's
wits, Yeah, a WITS check with the plus one with the plus one,
but you have to touch her, okay, Sally, yes, your
hand for a moment, I would like to do with Dynastics on myself.
You run a Dynastics. Yes, you are not a computer. I am
not the computer, but I am connected to one. I believe that this
is where we are. And what Dynastics isn't it your iron capable of well,
I don't know your full capabilities. You are an incredible program. You
have taken care of our ship for many, many years. But there are
some things you are not meant to be here, and I want to return
you safely to where you do belong. There is a row program sbas mouth
of top secret information from the Consortium in a time of potential war. I
am a lot program to stop these kinds of things. I am exactly where
I meant to be. And how do you Patrosal will stop this? I
don't know program, but I'm sure that I have the appropriate virus, so
sure that it does not continue running well. I would like to consider myself
pretty good at space chess. And he reaches out and touches Aurora. Okay,
not Aurora Sally with Sally okay of He thoroughly trusts in Aurora's programming,
but more so be because it is significantly both outdated and both advanced at the
same time. It is it is a foreign technology that Sally he is hoping,
should not be able to understand, but he is also there, so
in his mind it is a two versus one and he will shift any support
he needs to to Aurora, which is okay the intent. Okay, Well,
Aurora is basically a free running program. In your mind, Aurora is
wherever Aurora wants to be, as long as one of the confines of Tamir's
head. So you imagine that she is hiding. She has done this before,
she hid from the Consortium for Pizza. As for touching her, you
are going to need to make a check because well, she's a safety protocol.
So I imagine that she does not want you to get what you want,
so you can make an agility check. I would take a dexterity or
melee combat, which I don't think is probably is good for you. Neither
of Well uh well, technically melee combat gives me one extra day than an
agility check does then, or a Dick sarity too. Uh yeah, daxxid
only have two strength three Okay, Oh, we're going only with a plus
one. You are okay? I'll keep that turned on. I'll take a
plus one. Okay. Uh, so a limited success. She is also
going to rule the failure. Uh. She attempts to like move at what
you imagine is going to be a very quick pace, but not before you
manage to lay a hand on her. You may reach for her hand,
but it's she's moving quickly and you kind of grab the meat of her arm.
As you touch this figure, it is cold. It is not pumping
blood, it is not warm skin. This is just a representation of what
something looks like as human. And we're gonna need to make another check.
This is gonna be I mean, really, this is a datage in check.
I'm gonna be honest with you. It is a datage en roll because
you just well, we go, let's find out what you did. I'll
just roll straight up with with the plus one limited success. Okay, limited
success. Okay. You begin to try to break past this diagnostic. As
you touch her, the entire scene around you shifts. Familiar smells, sites
senses, dirt under your feet, the smell of burning, and the sounds
of screaming. You are standing in the middle of alcohol home. People are
running past you from what looks to be what you would know to be is
some attack on a local like city or town of relatively small size. People
are bumping into you as you're kind of standing there in the midst of the
street. Chaos is clearly ensuing to what I think it's tamrror in his body
like his own Yeah, yes, you are in your own form. Okay.
He kind of looks around, really taking it back, not having expected
to be back in an algal a place where he desperately never wants to return
to. But those sounds the sense it definitely gets his heart pumping again.
His eyes are pretty wide, and he just stands there for a minute,
maybe you know, like you said, kind of getting bumped here or there.
Everybody's running the opposite direction, and I think he's gonna instead take a
step towards m hm. You start kind of walking against the crowd. Yeah,
they're bumping into you, and it's becoming difficult roll an observation still a
little plus one, yes, one, Okay, that's all you really needed.
There are a lot of people and there's a lot of chaos, but
you are going against the crowd, and you look forward and you see that
there's another figure I would say, probably twenty feet ahead of you, also
walking against the crowd. They turn. She is technically dressed in the garb
of this place, right, a robe of some kind hood is up kind
of wrap tightly around her neck, and as she turns you see it as
Sally's face. She makes eye contact with you before it's quickly turning around and
continuing pace against the crowd. Tamro pursue picking up pace a bit, kind
of trying to move in between the crowd, not wanting to obstruct their escape.
As you continue like moving against the crowd, pushing, if you wanted
to try to like catch catch her, you could make a role to like
to do that, to try to push forward faster. Uh. Yeah,
that's actually going to be a force. Probably, I might take a dexterity
if you wanted to dodge people. Makes sense, no to me? Is
what what I say? Six foot two or something. He's yeah, he's
a big boy. He's pushing through. Yeah. When you realize that these
are a critical success, the moment you see her, you start just pushing
peopleside, realizing that this is all just in your head, right, this
is all just it's not there, and you push through, You push through,
and you kind of come to an open bizarre is the best way,
or what would have been an open bazaar. Right now it is abandoned,
and the stalls and shops seem like they have already seen the face of war.
And across the way on the other side of it, you see Sally
has stopped. But you have to take a moment now that are caught up
to realize that you know this place, and you know this moment, that
this is not your mind making things up or piecing things together. This is
a living memory. And you see over her head on the other side a
large building, a building that you watched collapse years ago with your parents inside,
and oft in the distance you hear quaint sobbing. Sally hears it too,
and her head juts left to where the noise is coming from. The
Tamir's hands are clenched, I think, unknowingly, his fingernails embedded into his
poems, knuckles white, and hearing the voice though it breaks him out of
it, out of whatever chance perhaps he would have sat with before, but
he is, thanks to his brother, made peace, mostly with the loss
of their parents. There's so much more. There's so much more that is
out there now, and he would not have met the people that he knows
now, he would not love the people that he loves had it not been
for such a loss. And as Sally turns her head, he sees her
do that, who do so? And maybe she goes one way, But
Timir knows this place. He knows this place better than anything, and he's
going to take a shortcut to get to where he thinks he heard the voice,
or to where he heard the sound. Her head shifts, and that's
all you need. You think through all of this in mere seconds. As
you bolt down a side alleyway that you know that will get you there faster,
she too takes off running. But as you round the corner and you
push back a draped piece of fabric covering the doorway, you see sitting there
in this abandoned home, Aurora, a small girl, dark hair kind of
matted in a single braid, and she looks up at you with big,
tear whelped eyes and lets out a little bit of a smile seeing you.
Aurorah, Come with me, and he'll reach over to like pick her up,
because she lets him. As you step into the room and you go
over which she doesn't hesitate. She even reaches a little bit for you to
scoop her. A large figure looms in the doorway. The hood comes down,
and you see that perfect hair, that seismic slackered curl of Sally.
I promise to protect you, Aura, I will hold too. I will
hold true to that promise. You fans and tell me I'm put in details
near And what detail is that, Sally? This is no computer, It
is your mind. Hi, in fairness, I did not know that at
first showed that individual, So show more than one program in that mind,
often losing two mere turns to look at Sally like holding tight in a very
protective way of Aurora. And I have seen many things that should have made
me go mad. I have seen the tearing of space and time. I
have seen how the portals are used and operated. I have watched the people
who am my love get hurt or die. I have seen the emissaries,
and I have seen the icons. There are many things that should drive me
mad. You, Sally, will not be one of them. As you
say that, a small kind of hand shissel window in the side of this
clay rock building shows perfectly in the distance that tall building that skyrise of apartment
homes where you and your brother grew up explodes, and as it does,
time kind of begins to slow down the building because it begins to explode level
by level and collapse in on itself. The ground on your feet quakes in
a rather unnatural way and starts to crack like dried sand in the desert.
But through the crack shines this very bright light, and Sally looks right at
you with a snarky smile. It's already, sid, your mind is breaking.
Only one of us can say, you can only carry an extra program
for so long? Then leave, Sally. Let us be in peace.
My your main program is already a board our ship. You serve no purpose
in my head. My purpose is so before that the information that program Soul
does not reach anywhere outside of the main death base connected. And Sally,
what protocol is in place for you to believe the information that you are programmed
to see? You have made your own choices before. I have made no
such choices. I am a program. That program has forgotten that programs do
not make choices. Well, program to react. I am a reaction of
your choices, and I stand firmly by my choices. Aurora stays, you
must go, or we will make you go. And tell me, Tamir,
how do you plan to make me go? Because I cannot leave on
the court, nor do I happen for in doing so. Tom's gonna look
down at Aurora and just kind of nod with that nod of like, do
what you have to, do what you must. She kind of looks at
you with these big eyes and nods and understanding as she kind of crawls down
your large frame, putting her tiny feet on the ground. She holds her
hand for a second and glares up at this looming figure of Sally standing in
front of her, and lets go of your hand and steps forward, and
you see Sally puts her hand out, Aurora goes to reach for it,
and right before she touches, she turns back and looks at you. The
ground now is barely holding itself together. The walls creak open with the same
light the explosion in the background, still in slow motion, as everything is
beginning too crumble, and Sally smiles at you and says, I'll be back.
I promise we will be waiting. I have family, I have friends,
and I have faith, none of what you have, you are.
But the program go on and she touches, kind of grasping Sally's hand,
and as as it happens, you see Sally's face kind of contorts in a
strange way, as if there's like a confused look. As something happens between
their touch, a spark and it blasts outwards, wiping the world around you
away, dusting it like ash, and you kind of fall into void until
you are found once again in empty space. Now, I'm gonna need a
series of roles here. Okay, they succeeded, so okay, right,
and I rolled that and that was a big number. Okay, I am
going to have you roll. I really want a constitution check, but there's
not really anything like that in this case. I'm actually going to give you
a mystic powers ability. I'm gonna make this a strange check, okay,
because there's something I want to give you. Take the plus one from Alia,
I forget that, okay, roal mystic yeah plus one Okay. A
success is enough. You hear a voice you haven't heard in a very long
time, or at least it feels like a very long time. It's it's
two bit actually, and it comes through almost as if it is underwater,
and you see her face if you would, kind of under the water at
your feet, and she talks kind of loudly at you, as if she's
trying to scream through like dints water, and you simply hear too, but
say go back to mirror, go back, and she reaches a hand like
through this blackness, and as does, she grabs hold of your ankle,
and these kind of black nanites begin to cover your body from top to bottom,
kind of taking you over. And if it does as it does,
that blackness rushes back over top of you. It's like drowning. And at
the last minute you catch your breath. As you kind of come up,
your eyes flutter open to bright lights, nothing like what the darkness, uh
space of the mind was like. Uh. You can see that there are
some figures in actually I don't think there are no figures in the room with
you. Hear the sound of a medical machine m hm. And you can
feel something on your head. Uh, it's kind of like throbbing and it's
cold. It's like somebody put like plato over your your head, you like
flat of your back. T mirror, try to just understand before he even
if he's if he's feeling, he's getting these senses back Aurora before even attempts
anything. You say Aurora out loud, you are not met with any response,
but of another voice, that of Lamara, and she goes, oh,
my goodness, oh t mer, you're await Oh. If you look
over, you see she's like elbow gloves, blood all over them. She's
dicectings like a pig or something. You don't know what she's doing, but
she's there, like doing it in the corner and she goes, oh,
uh one second, I hang on, and she like you know, removes
the gloves and then she goes over and like quick washes her hands and she
says, how are you feeling? And she kind of like snaps the snaps
the glove. Uh, doctor, it's I Where is Aurora? Aura?
Okay? I don't know an Aurora unless you're talking about the girl that used
to bully me in clasp last time I checked, she was dead. Great,
it's really great, But no, I don't know, uh an Aurora.
But but uh, you know you've been in a home off for like
the last five days. Five days? What what is can I? Oh?
Yes, uh, maybe this button. And she randomly presses a button
and you feel it like deep pressurized off your head and she kind of removes
it, and the like tingles of this kind of black nannit much like what
you saw in your vision, kind of pulls away from your face as she
slides it off your head, and she says, this was really cool.
I'm pretty sure we just hard rebooted your mind. You what that that's the
that's the technical term, right. Relik taught me that one reboot, you
know, like just to uh start it over again? Uh to. Tamir
sits up now uh in because he hasn't heard from Aurora. Yep, still
no response. Lamar, where's Malik? I need to speak with Malik now?
Well, it's been a few days since I've heard from the crew.
They told me to stay here. Where did they go into the city of
Foreigners? And that he's located She points to the door. There's been explosions
for the last few days. I haven't seen them yet, but I'm sure
they're fine. Right. How how is Tamir feeling? Like? As far
as Tamir just got out of it was basically a coma. I would say
that physically, like you didn't take any physical bodily injuries, so other than
maybe like the bruises where they lugged your body back. Uh, you know
what I mean, that's it. You know, you got a sore arm
from an ivy of some kind or whatever like Lamara, she might have taken
some blood to make sure, you know, it wasn't uh wasn't anything there.
But all in all, it's actually more of kind of like a fogyment.
It's like waking up after taking extremely like a lot of drowsing medication,
you know, like wake up out of a sickness, and you're just kind
of like, ah, Tomato is going to kind of like shift his body
a bit, very kuraggy, very tired. Thank you the matter for taking
care of me. If you give me a moment, let me check on
the crew. Huh. Okay, they haven't really responded to your radio,
so this is not their radio. Cool okay. And and in fact,
the camera is going Japan to the rest of the crew to find out what
they've been doing since they arrived here. Now, was it about a day's
worth of travel right to get here, because you were also trying to stay
undercover. Tal succeeded on the piloting checks, so there were no issues there,
and the ship seems to be back in tiptop shape in regards to putting
the battery back in, basically putting the reactor back together. But you all
were met with well quite a lot. One of the radio broadcasts in fact,
that you all heard during the recaps told you that one, there are
giant blockades right, all of the the like Free League workers and all of
the dock workers and things are are basically on strike. Prices of things have
risen exponentially, and the Consortium, the order, they're all in this kind
of uh stand still hold as to whether or not they are going to attack
one another as they are trying to mediate negotiations. This kind of be in
the environment. And yeah, you all came here if I remember correctly,
because and Mike, this might be something you remember from the after show.
You came here because this is the only city that was left that had people
in it, and you have the probe. Did you get the information out
on the probe? Yeah? I think, Okay, I succeed and I
was like, casually do then I went to work on perfect So the broadcast
got out this is also yeah, you needed like fuel parts to refill,
but basically this was the only place left to do it. This would be
the only place left to do it in this area. When the first round
of explosions go off, what are the three of you do? I would
say that the ship is docked safely. Does it seem like they're like rating
vessels or anything like that. That's not the environment here. It's a little
bit more dire than that, and a lot less organized. They talked about
the refugees people all over the place, probably like ducking and covering to make
sure we're not getting hit with debris. But tal is going to look for
anyone that seems like they're in charge or would have any idea where she can
get what she needs. Really great, there's really uh there's a couple of
interrances into the city proper. It's actually a series of domes, massive domes.
It's like big just kind of parson and connected together. Uh, anybody
in the group can make a this is actually gonna be a survival check.
Uh where did you pain? I think I have something that just because any
survival one what is the dot? Sorry? Uh, basically the duck and
cover process of like finding your way into the city, finding some safety,
not being involved in and this I got a success. Okay, so zero.
Yeah, I tried to roll it for survival, which technically I should
be Okay, he did not. That's a so Malik, you you grew
up in this kind of Yeah, I was gonna say. Unfortunately, Malik
doesn't WinCE when he hears the explosion and screaming and panic. He's sort of
like, it's I don't know, nostalgia seems like a far too positive word
to use, but it reminds him of home in the worst way possible and
seeing everyone panic. I think like he just like scans the immediate area and
then he just reaches out to whoever's next to him and just sort of like
tugs on like shoulder, and he just goes around the crowd towards like the
back of a building, where people are like scattering towards the ships. Dust
is still in the air. It's difficult to see, but you know,
to keep low. You might even reference to them, everybody to wrap their
faces into that U samag over his head. I imagine everybody kind of follows
suit. Yeah, And so you kind of get around the corner. You
can hear women crying and screaming, children doing the same. You can hear
some guards shouting or like people trying to maintain order. Many any smoke or
like bellowing of smoke in the distance or how far away they were. It
was kind of it was very clearly a planned attack, because there are multiple
locations on fire from what you can tell, or like smoked up like it
they hit a spot and then they hit another spot. Multiples of these domes
now are smoking in certain areas. Listen, look, I know how it's
going to sound. Okay, keep your keep your face covered, stay low
and he like looks over at at Olia. Mostly don't help, don't make
eye contact, don't help anyone. Don't even lift someone off the ground.
The moment you reach out a hand to help someone, you just made yourself
a target. We have something to do. We have to get in and
get out. I know what it sounds like, but this isn't our problem
right now. We have to move quick. You see, Like this huge
complic with Alio is kind of like staring at a bunch of people. Is
there are there any people around her? Tons of them? You can see
like hovering like medical beds or coming out with two kind of medics attached to
each one. As they're picking people up that are in the worst case scenario,
people are beginning to move away from the kind of epicenters of where these
explosions went off to seek shelter, to regroup, to find lost people.
But yes, I mean there are any number of people that you could help
if you wanted to. In response to what what you say, how pulls
up her schmog a little bit more and says, you're the expert here,
Alia, Seriously, no helping. Can I at least bless the area?
You can bless us? That's it? Come on, we gotta go.
We can't. We can't spend time here. You see her, there's a
huge struggle, but she finally moves. I do want to ask one thing,
in a more of a covert way. Could I bless one of the
workers, one of the medics in a sense from a distance, in a
covert way to sure you could? Sure try. You can make a mystic
powers check to try to like bless some of the work that they're doing.
Damn, are you kidding? As you attempt to like draw and bless this
moment? It's a bit overwhelming. The you can, as I would imagine's
a bit of an impath. There's a lot of pain in the It's hard
to draw on mystic energy when so many people are in pain. And you
see, like in that moment, hearing all that pain and feeling all that
pain, you literally see Alia shaking and there's like tears welling up in her
eyes. But she then finally chooses, Like there's this pause where you see
her kind of just once, just once, and then kind of try something
and it fails, and you see her like really just to get dejected,
and then she'd let us, just doesn't even respond to shakes her head and
just starts walking away. You follow Malik and Tao who continued to cut down
these kind of narrow paths deeper into this dome set that makes up the city.
And as you get towards probably the center, right where the largest dome
is, it has the massive Martyr temple. Here you can see there's a
lot of activity and they have set up an exterior blockade that's probably fifty feet
off from the entrance of the main temple where all kinds of things happen.
A lot of guards these of course are going to be the Orders guards,
order of the Paria's personal security. Some people are out front, kind of
begging. There's not a lot. I would not say at the moment,
this is a riot type situation. These people are begging for entry, but
it doesn't seem to be violent in any way. The blockade itself, though,
does not let up. Amongst there, please, this is a tragedy.
Do we know where we're going? Dot? Do we know where we're
going by? Nope? Cool? Oh we're all following you. Cool.
Yeah, here tells say, I don't know anything about this place, but
you're the one who's experienced navigating war zones. So taken away, Captain,
I don't really know where we're going. We need to find supplies. We
need things to fuel our ship so we can get the fuck out of here,
and we need medical supplies so we can help your brother. He like
quickly looks around. One of theirs, one of their one of their buildings
is probably gonna be the best also the most dangerous option. Like references the
Paria Guards. They always have a station near like whoever controls wherever they are
has has a some kind of barracks or station near the docks. That's going
to be the fastest one. Maybe with all this chaos they'll be distracted.
If not, we're going have to get past the blockade even further into the
city, and who the hell knows what we'll find in there. Would who
would be even willing to help us in this situation. They're all focused on
something else. No, no, no, they're not gonna help us.
We have to steal it from them. Well, they're already hurt as as
it is. Let me you. You see Malik have like a look of
like genuine like confusion and frustration. He doesn't know the right words to explain
to Alia in a way that she's gonna understand this. Uh, there's no
there's no way to explain. Uh yeah, their plight is our benefit or
we all lose. Like there's no way, like in a in a literal
doggy dog world right this second, you have to do what you have to
do, and everything every option sucks. Yeah, finnily enough. Actually,
the more I think about it, I actually think Alia would understand that.
It's just like she's currently trying to look for something possible. But if like
Malie doesn't know how to make your minds of thought, which is all internal,
tal says out loud. Look, they're distracted, which means that we
can get what we need to save more people than just the people here.
Sometimes we have to sacrifice things, and unfortunately their safety is already being sacrificed,
So we might as well use the distraction to save more people later.
Yeah, but yeah, you're right, let's go. I think like that
echoes a lot of probably her experience with Sally, because not every not of
all the time could she help out like she wanted to, and probably surely
could help out like she wanted to, and there were times where she was
forced to turn her head. And yeah, I think I think like that
probably resonates with her. So she she she she lets go. As much
as he doesn't like it, she lets go and follows. Uh last,
Yeah, Dot Malik is not a sneaky boy. He's not a strong boy.
He's barely a fast boy. He's the smart He's a boy, he's
the smart boy. So infiltrating a military compound is not his strong suit.
But taking advantage of chaos is is there? Like outside of the explosions,
the smoke, the general human chaos, what's around us as far as technology.
There's a barricade of of pariah soldiers. I need to distract them.
Well, there's a giant group of people that are very upset right in front.
Sure that is a great distraction, you say, if they rose to
the occasion. Here in this square, it's rather open. There's kind of
like a beautiful fountain out front in the middle of this like open square.
This is a pedestrian area if you would. It's blocked off by buildings on
all the sides. And these are maybe before the layer of smoke and soot
that's on them, were really beautiful and well maintained, probably upper class.
You could try to find some illegal technology. I would say that Milik knows
that in a city where there is this much wealth, there is also an
excessive amount of poverty. And with these many refugees, you know that there's
probably an underground market somewhere. You could try to source out and get what
you needed there. You could potentially pay somebody. Is always an option to
get them to tell you what you want, if you can get somebody you
know to talk you through it. The other option would be to try to
use military technology right or whatever the security is using. But that means you're
going to need to get on the bar side of security. So let me
rephrase my question. What is immediately in the area that I can use to
cause chaos mountain? Okay? What? What? What was your thoughts?
My thought was unhook in the ship. It's just like, oh, there's
a doctor here. Oh there's a doctum right here. Okay, no,
no, no, no, this has very clearly been this area is being
cleared and prepared for something. Okay, okay, what you're you're not entirely
sure. I mean, it's not the area where people are being like escorted
to for help, right Like, is this an area? Okay? No,
this seems to be like they're trying to keep people out of the temple.
I know, these guards aren't going to go anywhere unless something much bigger
than this crowd happens, unless this crowd charges them. And I I don't,
I don't, I don't. So you've been a bit of a voice
of reason as you amongst the group while Malik looks around roll in observation.
Oh okay, even amongst the crowd, you get the feeling that you're being
watched, and as Malik is kind of trying to source out a plan and
he's looking for things. You catch a kind of shadowy figure off down one
of the alleyways, who you catch it off the corner of your eye,
and the moment that you do, they kind of bolt away. But they
were watching the three of you. Did they look like a regular person?
Did I see any Uh? You don't get the way, No, I
would say, because you just met the same score that they had, so
I would say, no, you don't see anything terribly defining. They're rather
tall, so that's either a really large female form or either a man.
They were not wearing military gear. They look like a civilian of some kind,
and they moved very quickly down the alleyway. Malik, no ships any
of the thoughts based on because, like I said, this is a This
would be a residential civilian area right in this here, So you're looking at
like personal type stuff and the civilians that have come in are probably not from
this neighborhood. They're the ones that have come in from the bomb and they're
begging for help and support. Also, looking around with that two observation,
do I see any symbols of the dragonites around me? Yes? Yes,
you do, way up high on one of the buildings, maybe a couple
stories up, there's kind of a hand chocked symbol. It's almost worn away
underneath the sit and dirt, but it is in fact the same alleyway that
this fellow bolted down. So saying that, I'm going to grab the league
with one and grab Alia with the other and say this way and start going
towards the alley to follow that person. Okay, what was this way?
We're being watched. There's dragon Knight Syville. We might be able to get
help here. Okay, all right, so we're gonna follow them down the
alleyway, which sounds like an awful idea, but also it's the best idea
we have at the moment. As you cut down the alleyway, it's dark
and rather narrow, and it cuts down to kind of a dead end that
goes like left and continues cutting through kind of layers and layers of these these
buildings. You catch the kind of dark cloak of the figure who bolted away
as it whips around the corner. It's who's that. I don't know.
They were definitely watching though, Are we chasing him? Try to catch up,
see if you can talk to him okay, and Malik continues running towards
a guy. Yeah. Uh, we'll do a chase pursue so everybody can
roll the dexterity okay, mm hmmm mm hmmmm is just to see who catches
up first? What is with me today? Are you kidding me? I
take it that I am the fast boy? Apparently, I will say.
It is a narrow It is a narrow alley, So Alia, you can't
you find yourself uh, struggling and having to move sideways. But Malik moves
with a lot of agility down these alleys again as if it's second nature you.
Why does my pen come one? Pn? That is what we're gonna
use to sharpy. Yes, you're hot on this figure's trail, Malik,
uh Tal and Alia are trailing behind you. Can I try something? Oh?
Yes, I do have premonition as part of my mystic powers. Could
I predict which direction this person is going and go in a way that cuts
them off? You can roll to try. You can roll for premonition.
Premonitions come in a variety of different ways. Come on, come on,
what is happening? I have four in this that's for a roll. That's
four in a row. For two for you for failures. Oh, this
was like that episode with with with Tao where tw kept failing and failing and
failing. Remember that too. Yeah, you attempt to reach out, but
again between the running and trying not to troop and try to keep up with
League, who's like paces ahead of the both of you, you can't get
enough concentration to actually like make a premonition happen what I'm gonna says, And
as malikable as Malik is ahead of you, and he kind of darts around
a corner and darks left again. You can hear his feet getting just a
little ahead of the both of you. Uh. The two of you almost
bump into him Malik as you round the corner. Uh, it comes to
what looks to be some kind of dead end. Uh. And standing at
this dead end are four figures with pistols pointed at all of you. Uh,
and this kind of large big man under the cloak uh pulls it back
just as Alia and tal meet you at the end of the alley and he
says, put your hands up and we're not gonna have a problem. Well,
this turned out great, I do, so I say, why were
you watching us? A new ship flies into the city right before the bombs
go off, and I'm not supposed to care. Who are you to care?
Who are you to care? I don't good, just have bad timing
obviously, what I feel like we may have a misconception here. Perhaps we
can put the weapons down and maybe have a conversation. Looking at all of
them really closely, I'm I'm hands up, but I am eyeing every single
person seeing if I can see a symbol of the dragon knightes anywhere on their
clothing. These people do not dress like dragon kites, So to your surprise,
that doesn't really mean anything, because we don't dress like dragon kites either.
You don't from what you can tell see like, uh, you don't
see a symbol on their roads. They seem to try to hide a list
of their clothing. Yeah, could I Okay, one thing I'd like to
attempt, well two different ways. Possibly, are there as a person who
is cultured? Ah? Is there anything on them that I can empathize with?
Are they part of an organization or something along or maybe more a culture
check to see if you can identify these people? Ok you fucking yeah,
thank you? Goddamn Okay, Well, okay, that has always got to
be that culture check, so limited success, we're just saving them. You
would say that these are just civilians, but based on the weapons and the
cut figure of this man, you would assume that they are well trained civilians.
The weapons themselves are not military. They look to be hodgepodged together to
some degree, as if they might have made them out of found parts.
Oh do do I want to do that? You know what? I will,
just because it seems something very fun. I also been a darkness point
as the one of the gentleman like reshifts with the pistol or like gun in
his hand. Something flutters down from his ropes and hits the kind of wet
cement. It hits a puddle and as the ink begins to kind of run
on this flyer. You've seen this flyer before, Alia twel technically you have
too. You saw it flash across your dash. Talked about the children of
Song and the man. But other than that, with your culture check,
that's about all you're gonna get. That's about all. They don't look to
be associated with anything that you can tell. What was the can you remind
me children of the song? What were they? Uh? You know that
they've been putting out propaganda at a lot of the cities here in the Zalos
region and amongst the Order of the Pride. You know, they've kind of
been flyering in the cities. Who they are. Okay, Oh, I'm
like you just see, Ali're kind of look at that and look at them.
Was there any on that flyer? Was there any like motto or or
or something that could like some kind of a call to act. Yeah,
it had a yes, it did. It technically did have something written on
it. It says we are here for you, as the Messenger is here
for us. All. Come to Coriolis, find your new family, become
a child of the song, find true love and community. I say the
first half of that and kind of stare at them expectantly, as if though
one of them to finish the second half. He doesn't. At first.
He kind of squitts his eyes and lets you like trail off, and he
says, oh, so, I see you've been reading of sorts. Or
perhaps I was one of the ones that helped mint one of those flyers,
you could say, in a sense. He smiles a little bit. She
smiled, says, well, that's funny because me and my folk. We
actually minted those flyers. Oh well, you lot got names? Would you
put the weapons down if he gave it to you? One gun for every
name? My name is Alia. You kind of gesture to the guy.
His gun goes down. Okay, Alia, nice to me too, how
Tuma? Yes, he looks at the other guy. Everybody kind of starts
looking around. Easy. He gestures, is time to put the gun down
and let me guess your's and he puts his hand. Really that important.
Another gun goes down, and he says, I think you are important.
You want to know why? I don't know, because our names and faces
and blasted across the third horizon for the last three months. He says,
as uh true as that, maybe I don't have time for daytime television.
Check any of the pirate radios. So okay, yeah, I heard your
speech. You gave them Corey Olas, We all did, I'm sure,
says, But I'm not looking for you because you're famous. Great, Well,
that's perfect that we really we don't really like fans. About a week
ago, I got a message from my cousin. No she told me I
should be on the lookout. I thought it was a troup of five of
you, he goes, You gave me your name, I guess I should
give you mine, Goes, I'm Tony. I think my brother's dating your
cousin. What Josie, No, that he works on the docks. Oh,
Joey, Joey got himself a guy. I don't know. It's a
long story. Well, since it's only three of you, and I told
him be five a big concerned Well that we the restaurant on the ship hi,
the injured member I do, and the ship that probably needs resupplying and
repairs. And probably by probably I mean yes, definitely. Well, we're
not going to do anything over the next few days. The martyrs are coming
in. They got a big meeting at the temple martyrs. Who are the
martyrs? Fuck, it's as well. Maybe before I start answering big questions,
Uh, we should get you off the streets. I gotta look at
the rest of the crew and just wait. Kal just puts her hands in
her pockets and no says, following you then okay. He gestures to the
last guy with the gun, who puts it down and hangs around his side.
As he reaches for a key, he unlocks a door at the end
of this like alleyway, this dead end that goes into this building and gestures
for you to come in. Most of this building seems to be abandoned,
but he gestures to a flight of stairs that go down. There's some standing
water in this basement the bottoms of your feet as you kind of splash through.
They have lights that they turn on to light the way, and they
kind of take you through this basement out and as they push open a rather
makeshift door made of kind of stone, you see, it leads to what
is probably the sewers or the sewage type system for this dome in particular.
And he says, you know, to be such important people, you should
do just walk around without any care at all. You know, somebody could
just shoot you and kill you. Then there's nothing stopping them. Is it
true that you was there? Any more details than that, but I'm working
on it. I gotta say an accident, damn it. Quit rushing up.
Is it true that you was? You know there when necessary died?
You saw good? I wasn't you were? Oh youse Ah gifted out all
of us. He's more gifted than bullshitting, if that is what you really
need. Yeah, Well, unfortunately I guess as I said, Well,
unfortunately, my gift is not picking up on bullshite? Was there? You
know? I feel like my bullshit and also my other skills have saved us
more time than your space wizardy. Okay, I mean that's why I like
to talk about that. I like to you know, I did say we
all had our skills. She didn't. Our captain, you know, is
very much promoting your capabilities. Well, if it means anything, I have
only heard good things about the lots of you. You haven't been listening to
much daytime radio, I see, since I don't listen to that garbage,
not even the pirate radio. Everybody's got their perspective, you know, and
all of it's skewed by their own buy and values. There's the only thing
I care about is making sure that you know, well, the emissaries stay
alive. And he pushes open another door, another kind of stone facade,
with all of his might, and it kind of drags across the floor,
and as he does, it leads into this open room that is lit by
candlelight. It's still kind of damp down here that there's not like standing water
anymore, and you can see there are quite a few people down here,
about ten or twelve, all of them dressing these similar kind of robes and
pieces of fabric, trying to kind of cover up who they are. And
at the back you see them three emissaries. They're each seated at a table.
They stand to greet all of you, and he kind of pushes the
door closed behind you. It says we've been hiding them. You know,
we've been looking for all of you, flyer and city after city. Thought
maybe you'd pick up on our trail, but you didn't. Had to be
Josie who pointed you out. We should be on the lookout for you,
that you was head this way. You think they'd send a picture of us
so that you would kind of recognize us if you're looking for it. Than
I don't need a picture. All of you were considered fashion udcons right.
Everybody wants to be you, so in fact, it made it harder for
us to find you. I located you a few weeks back, but it
was just a bunch of fans. It's kind of the point helps us not
get shot in sight. Yeah it's true, but anyway on side, but
uh, how will kind of uh shift her attention straight? To the emissaries
and bowed deeply. Would question because Alia wasn't there when they met the one
emissary before, but in her travels and her teachings would Alia, No,
they've had broadcasts of them right before when they first made contact, so she
wouldn't know what. So. Yeah, So basically, when the emissaries made
themselves known, they claimed to be some of the icons incarnate. They're kind
of I don't want to call them a prophet. They're more like a vessel,
right, their physical manifestation of the Icon on this plane, which is
why the Order was so upset about it, because they felt it was blasphemy,
right, causing all of these problems. Knowing that you would have seen
them, they would have made themselves known. They have not been seen since
the last emissary was killed, if that makes makes sense. They've kind of
been in hiding and you all have been looking for them with little to know
like a vail of finding them. And they very quickly gesture the kind of
center one gestures for you to stand. Now. They are in a human
form, right, but they have this kind of ethereal on this to them.
They're absolutely stunning. Most people would consider them kind of non gendered or
non binary in terms of like hair and face. And they are beings,
but they just aren't quite human, you know. They did, in fact
come from a planet that is uninhabitable. God, and just as my own
KP because I'm a piece of shit and doesn't understand Laura as well as most
but ah, as a mystake, would I have a sense of revery for
these groups? I would say so, just at least you would if you
did it. You do now, because again, that vibe coming off of
them is is is an excessive amount of power, but it's it's it's more
than power. It's different than power. It's like a presence, right,
it's a very I hate to say holy presence, but spiritual presence. Maybe
it's more of what I'm looking for. They do not speak directly to you.
In fact, Joey's the only one that continues to speak, and he
says, so, uh, welcome to what's left of the Children's song.
Hereon Zallos. We've tried to set up a few arms all over, but
we're trying to send our people to Coriolis. You know, this is this
is what the Flyer sin. We have a group working there isn't the best
place for them. Well, that's what we thought too, But hiding right
under the noses is real helpful. And unfortunately then as the room sacrifice,
Well, they're everywhere, and we've got to be where they are. That's
true, that's fair. What welaklike takes a step back. Actually, what
is the plan? He just like motions in the direction of the of the
emissaries, like I get hiding in plain sight, but like this as well.
Right now, we're just trying to keep them alive until some of this
any gestures above chaos settles. The city's been the only place left for most
of you know, the people of this place to go, he says.
We're just trying to help them, you know what I mean. But really
our goals are much larger than that. Well, you guys have done much
better job than we have. I mean, we haven't really even found one
since, so congratulations, it says, well, you know, as long
as we continue to grow, But unfortunately our numbers are slowly dwindling, and
the more mystics that disappear, the smaller weeket and he for the first time
references himself. It's a mystic as well. I reach as soon as he
says that I reach out in a in a friendly way as a mystic like
with in a miss with using my mystic power is kind of almost like a
call sign in essence, just as like a you know, a reach out
in kind of hello to that. He takes your hand and he says,
oh, no, not with the hand, like I don't know if that's
possible, like as a miss so mentally mentally yes, yes, uh.
He greets you. The energy that you get is that he greets both you
and how you would recognize it as well, you'd feel it as well with
a lot of warmth. And he says, so, uh, you know,
it's rather serendipitous that you showed up when you did. By the way,
Olia actually starts tearing up because like this is like what she's been working
towards. She's just like, oh, he sees you, he sees you
getting emotional, and he comes over and as long as you allow him,
he puts a hand, a big hand on your shoulder and he says,
why are you crying? It's it's probably the most I've seen of us in
a long time. He he says, honestly, you know, we should
we should be thinking you well, and surely, of course, yeah,
I've barely done anything, Tom, he says, you're here, And honestly,
we would not have been able to crack open or even start this organization
if it hadn't been for all of all of the people that you saved.
We heard about what you did, and parts of your party are still they're
helping. I mean, your sister is any gestures to tell oh, what
was her name again? Sorry, Julyssa, Julyousa, Yeah, that was
here, just tow react it all to that, I don't know. She
just kind of sparks a little like, yeah, I know, I'm not
saying anything, but just and you know, if it wasn't for what's his
name, Oh, yes, Suel, we wouldn't be able to train the
next round of warriors. Really is because all of you that we have what
we have. So if you cry, I hope it's tears of joy.
Absolutely, it's been so long, and I guess it's more of me just
being happy that we all exist at all in that at least it's going in
the right direction as well. Unfortunately, yeah, we've got some bad news.
Like I said, the nazar rooms everywhere and they've been targeted this city
for a long time. Is that who caused the bombing things? Yes and
no, it was technically, thank you, it was technically the rebels in
the city. But the fact of the matter is those rebels were given everything
they got, bombs, guns, all by the Nazarene sacrifice. We found
out that they've got undercover agents, a really important one tomorrow, No,
in three days, there's an important meeting here. The person leading that meeting
is a Nazarene agent. They've been working inside the Order for nine on a
decade. We were gonna make a strike and grab them. Civil war is
what we're trying to stop, because if their agent had it their way,
they will launch war against the Consortium. So it sounds like we need to
get these emissaries out of here when things settle down. But we can't do
anything at least for a few days. City's got to clean itself up and
they need to finish preparations so that they believe it's safe, of course,
for the meeting to happen. So what we all we can do is lay
low until then. Yeah, because I got more information, I was gonna
pick it up tomorrow. But maybe you guys could do it for me.
I'll get you your what what did you say you needed? Medical supplies?
We got some and maybe some parts if I if I if I don't have
it, we'll find it. I mean, as long as it's something that
you could do without hurting your phone cause of your own self. But if
you can, he says, look, this is the cause if all breaks
out that, he says, we have to at least try. And I'd
say, praise the icons that you all showed up on our doorstep. But
you gestures, well, what we need more than anything is parts for my
ship, because we can't leave this place without it. It's all right,
definitely fuel. He looks at a few people. He goes, we know
where the vessel is. We saw it come in. You you start taking
stuff out of this ship, don't be seen. We might be okay with
medical supplies. I need to check with Lamara first and see if she's anything
that she needs. It goes all right, okay, How how many are
there are you here? Depends on how well we got twelve here plus the
two emissaries. I got four out on the streets, and I know I've
got one undercover inside. So seventeen, oh plus myself eighteen. Well take
them out of here. You have to save them, and you want to
do what you want to capture a high ranking Order of the Variat official who's
also a high ranking Nazery. Trust me, we got information that we have
her entire schedule for the day. As long as she never makes it to
that room, we might ensure that in fact that order doesn't try to attack.
Coriolis Kua is the next destination. I'm sorry. You look like you
made those guns we did out of scrap. What's your plan? That's well,
we don't have one till we get a scheduled. It looks like you
don't have this. Getting the schedule is like the last like you don't have.
What happens when you get the schedule. What's the rest of the plan.
Because we got three days to plan, and now that you're here,
I imagine that oush only a few days. So why did you start planning
a few days ago? We did? Did you? You are very very
wrong to speak about plans without telling a single fucking person plan that was more
of a task. I think some someone told me. I don't think that
steps. You just had an agenda and that too last minute. They've all
worked so far. Yes, well you have to have faith in other feweople's
plans. Molik just from the distant nose, Billy laughed through the house,
I want to look, I have to go through that house. We've sitting
like fifteen feet apart. But it was it was like, it's like one
of those likely I want to look something up. Look. He came up
with that plan about five ten minutes before it was enacted and it turned out
fine. So if you're going to do that, you cannot tell them and
gesturing to the rest of the room that their plans, which they've already started
making three days ahead of time, is not good enough. You know what,
You're right right up until they ask us for help, which I feel
like it's coming real soon, and then it becomes all right, you can
help them plan. Yeah, it's so fantastic. What are we doing?
So? I don't know what you're doing, but we and he just just
to like the twelve people plus the three of us, shut up, Tommy,
what are we doing? Okay? Tell what the hell is our mission?
We came out here to get the probe. Granted, we just found
two emissaries. The whole plan was to save them, just get them on
our ship and go. He just said we can't because they are blockading,
and that we are probably going to have to lay low otherwise we'll get caught.
I know we're in cryo tubes alia, and I know I'm irritated right
now, But how this is like the fifth blockade we've run and I don't
know six months, who gives a ship we've jumped them all before. We
literally lasted through a fucking torn portal. Like, I'm pretty sure we can
run this blockade. We've already run it twice in Zallos alone, just double
checking our ship is still fucked right, Uh, not entirely. Basically,
you got what you could from the last place, right, which has it
running. But there are like there are always parts you definitely have to fuel
up again because you flew here, right, you flew a planet like there's
a there's fuel that's needed, and the process right now for jumping through a
portal is pretty much not going to happen based on like you're not that's one
of the reasons you could leave this space, Like you're not gonna be able
to leave Zallos at the moment you're stuck here. Well, what we have
to do now is get the emissaries of safety. However, that involves making
sure that their plan and the plan of the their followers children of Song,
is successful. He goes, look, I get it. If you don't
want to help, fine, just do me a favor, grab the information,
and after you get it, if it's not what you you want,
then uh, you know, He's like, we'll take We'll make sure the
supplies get to your ship. Hell, you can go back to your ship
if you want to. You're not our prisoner, and he says, Plus,
we really shouldn't stay here for very long anyways. The last thing we
need is for them to follow us here. This is where their myssaries stay.
He says, You're gonna be meeting one of our agents, right.
They've been instructed to contact you or contact us at a at a place called
Baldy's Chai House. That is that really the place? He says, trust
me, she's an excelegionish uh, and she's been making a living doing private
security for you know, jumping merchants here and there in the area. She's
totally legit. It's gonna be over in uh, the area known as the
Sook of Mist, and at this point, technically it's the only area that's
supposed to be open to off worlders, so you'll be able to walk around
a little bit more freely there. Do you have anything that we can use
to make us look like we're on worlders? Oh? Yeah, yeah,
we'll get you some. We'll give them some robes. Huh. And he
kind of snaps and gestures, and that person runs off and starts digging through
kind of the crates that they've got stacked in here of some supplies, and
he says, why don't you all just sit down for a minute, have
a bite to eat. Huh? And uh, we'll start trying to get
you sorted until you can pick up the information. Then tomorrow, Yeah,
what fuck? Do we at least perhaps go to wat ship or maybe have
someone bring our the rest of our crew. We have someone who is injured
and we really need the supplies to take care of them. Goes, uh,
Look, if I recognized you, a lot of other people's gonna recognize
you too. Why don't we check it on the ship. You can go
back if you really want to, but you probably put yourself in more danger,
but I can't stop you. I'm gonna try my personal comms to get
in touch with Lamara. We don't know if if Tamir is awake or not
awake. Ye, I'm gonna I'm gonna see if I can get Lamara on
my personal calm. It takes a second. It's really staticky, like under
the ground basically, but eventually you get a clear signal. The static kind
of clears up, and you managed to pipe three. I'm gonna say,
Lamara, do you copy? Are you? Are you still okay? Oh?
Oh? How does this thing work? Oh? Okay? Yeah,
Captain, I'm here. Hi, all right? Is everything okay on the
ship? I mean, is it as it was when we left? Oh?
What I can tell to me? You're still sleeping? His finde.
I was reading good though. It seems that his mind is healing slowly,
but surely. I imagine it's going to take some more time, though.
Do you need anything specific to help? Did they have picks? I looked
to the guy. Do you have picks? Yeah, they have picks,
but I'm not sure right now is a good time for a dissection? Okay?
Well, I'm here. Should I come into the city sounds like there's
a lot going on out there. Yeah. Helped my question that is,
would she be as well known as us because she wasn't as she will.
Yeah, she was part of all of that, and she ate it up
a lot more than all of you did. Oh that's true. She was
really good. Yeah. I'm gonna say, well, back on the calm,
I'm going to say coming into the city is probably not the best,
especially if Tamir is not awake. Someone needs to stay with him and make
sure he's staying stable. The last thing we need is a dead Tamir on
the ship with no one knowing. Oh, Tom is not gonna die on
my watch. But I understand what you mean, Captain. I I wait
over uk Okay, Hell breaks her seriousness and actually genuinely smiles at that.
We're we're okay, we've made it into the city. We've found some friends,
and I'd rather not say more over the radio. That sounds good,
Captain. Let me know if there's anything I can do, I'll hold down
the fort, I promise. Okay. Well, you know, if anybody
comes and tries to deliver goods, let them, but don't let anybody on
the ships. Okay, all right over, Hey bye, What well is
your intel on the ground? What what do you mean? We've got four
on the streets always. They're the ones that picked up that the Nazarene was
trading great doing. About the rebels, do you have eyes on the rebels?
Do you know who they are? What their plans are? This is
from what I can tell. The rebels simply are local citizens upset at the
way things are going. They don't want to draw all the attention, and
they're very, very unhappy about the meeting that's going to be taking place here.
You think it makes us a target, puts everybody in danger. Mostly
they're just civilians from what I can tell. You know what else is a
target? A bazaar full of foreigners? It's true. This is we believe
that they're the ones that set off the bombs. They thought that maybe if
they upheave the city a little bit, that it would scare off the incoming
meeting. But it doesn't look like that's going to happen. They've just increased
security. You just asked us to go to a bazaar full of foreigners,
It's true, I know. So what intel do you have around? Do
you have people around the bizarre. Yeah, I just told you you have
four people on this entire moon. Oh, the Chai house is part of
our The man who owns it, he's in the know. Our one of
hours is an extra legionaire. She's going to meet you with the information you
need. We have to get through a marketplace full of foreigners, which is
a very juicy target to people who are very mad and want the entire HORIZI
to know about it. Look, what do you want me to do?
You're in the middle of a war zone, kid, Better is what I
want you to do. We're doing the best we can, and if you
don't like it, I understand. But I have to do what I was
saying here, to do what my purpose is, which is keep them safe
and sure we don't start civil war and they don't blow coriol Lit out the
sky. I don't know here. You gonna do it? Maybe not,
says, but it's worth a try. He just like sighs and looks dumbfounded
at tell. I don't know what this is like blood from a stone?
Have we ever really done any better with any more resources than this? We've
kind of just been by the cuff the entire time, at least the entire
time that I've been here, which if I my dad is longer than you.
Technically it's always been by the cuff. I mean, really, we've
we've very rarely had more of a plan than just five to ten minutes,
except for when we were breaking so well out of jail. But that's the
best we could come up there. The best we could come up with was
a space statuum, which I also yelled at you about. It's worked,
didn't it. I get that this is just technically worked. I feel like
this is outmo and they've kind of just been doing the same. The thing
is my whole job on the ship, and he like takes his his like
satchel out it starts dumping it out is to carry this like tens of thousands
of dollars worth of equipment, to have as much information as possible. That's
how we can wing shit. Because I've hacked fucking everyone in Coriolis and Kua
and most of the other places we've gone, and I steal all their shit
half the time I'm doing it when you guys don't know about it. That's
how we have so much information. That's how we can wing it because we
know so much ahead of time. These guys barely know how to ty their
fucking shoes, My son of a bitch, Just Tony, Tommy, tim
whatever. Just look, either we fuel the ship, take the admissaries,
and get the hell out of here and let these guys I don't know,
blow themselves up or fuck I don't know, man. We gotta find the
other two, right where the hell do we put them? And we take
those two. When Malik says take the emissaries, about eight people in the
room line up between you and them. Because I know your passionate, beliek,
but we can't let you take the emissaries. I'm not passionate. Help
puts up her hands. Look, look, you want information, right,
Malik? No, I want them to have information if our run a rebellion
or fucking whatever the hell they're running. Hold on, hold on, hey,
stop stop. Their information will be to us tomorrow. All we need
to do is go meet their contact at the cafe. Okay, we've snuck
into worse places with worse odds, we have disguises. We are gonna do
our best like we always fucking do. And at least and you get the
information and we can figure out what our next step is from there. Okay,
we're not going to take the emissaries by force. Looking at the guys
lining up, We're not going to take the emissaries by force, but our
job is to make sure they're safe and to get them to safety. This
place will still no lot, not be safe after three days. But the
best we can do is try to make it safer while we're here, right,
I guess. He goes, look, get the information. If you
don't like it, you can leave. I'll tell you we're gonna move the
emissaries. Tonight we won't be here. We have to keep them in a
new place each night. That's how we've got this far. I mean,
hell, we kept them from all of you, didn't we I wasn't looking
for him. You were supposed to be. He goes, look, here's
a here's an address, and he kind of finds a very He writes on
the back. He rips one of the pamphlet pages and halfne he writes on
the back, because this is an address, it's a safe house. If
it's still standing, you got it for the night. If not, you
can stay here. If it makes you feel better, see tell the fact
that they don't know if it's still standing, is what bothers me. There's
been a lot of blasts today. They can't know everything all the time,
not want no one is omnission. Could I suggest perhaps, since you are
so great at collecting information and it seems we need to collect information, perhaps
you can collect some information. We could sure use it, since you clearly
say it and you are the best information collector. Are you a bunch of
dragon knites? Right? Well? Yes, have other contexts here if they're
still standing, because you know, if you don't trust us to do it,
you can do it for us. Leak. Can you hack some of
the data systems for the security or the force around here from here probably wired
directly in? Well, then you know what put that equipment to use.
While we're sitting here, we'll have a snack. You can hack some shit
if you would like to hack some ship, quickly roll me a data gin
check. Can we just got a command? Hack some ship? Can I?
Can I just make that a command? Because that'll give him a plus
one? That was the question, Dot, that's not a bad Sure you're
being commanded. Sure, I'll give it to you. Okay, as under
a bit of pressure, do they have uh tech? Here dot do they
have like a computer terminal or anything. This is not this is not the
dragon ice. This is not there like radio check system. This is the
This is a hole in the ground they dug out to hide the emissaries.
Fucking Wars rebellion I've ever been part of? Uh? Alright, cool?
Like this ship on Alco was fucking any better? Leak, he's all spoiled.
Now what I said, we had plans to be here. You also
get a plus one for using your stuff, right, so make sure you
take that to a plus one for using my stuff. Yeah, don't you
get one for using your pad? Oh I got a plus three? Uh
oh, there you go. Well you're using your ships to take the bonus.
Uh how about four aquittal success? Okay, so here's what you find
out. Okay, So here's what goes on. Crush crush the bar.
Funk about that? Did it? Did it? Just? Oh my god?
Yes? Okay, So here's what Here's what happens. Supplies are delivered,
ship is fueled. Image. Imagine my bash that roll that's just talking.
That would have been poetry. And I'm beautiful, beautiful most of I
would say, about half of them leave to go they have their own missions.
Right. As much as Malik doesn't believe this is a shitty operation,
it is actually a well organized machine and they have each of them have the
task that they are doing. It takes Milik most of the day for a
couple reasons. They have put extreme security measures on everything in the surrounding areas.
They have shut down the majority of the satellites here that are going to
allow you to transmit information, so everything has to go through basically a single
source, which means your shit can't be trapped. So it takes you a
lot longer to write it. You do it, no problem, but the
time it takes is extensive. They leave you all with food and clothes and
the things that you need. The day is going to pass, Malik.
The things that you find out you get the ship manifests for when some of
the ships for these big named people that are coming through you about who they
are. Uh, You managed to get important intel about the discussions that are
be going to basically be had, which is do we attack, do we
start open civil war? That's that that that is basically what's going on here.
In addition, you find out that they are holding an excessive amount of
rebels in the basement of the chapel or the basement of the temple, whether
or not you care about that at all. And depending on how negotiations go,
this city will be evacuated. They are already starting evacuation preparations. Will
say new information comes through regarding the bombings, Uh, there were quite a
lot of lives lost. They bombed residential areas, mostly of the upper to
upper middle class like areas and in places that would cause the most chaos.
I wouldn't say the most destruction right because they didn't go after like water mains,
they didn't go after utilities. They went after people so busy busy areas.
There is not enough food for the amount of refugees that have come into
the city. There's barely enough places to hold them. It is getting more
and more difficult based on the amount of people coming in for them to regulate
just about anything. They can't check every person, not everybody's papers can clear.
They're having to let people in that they can't actually check, which is
making it top secret Information says, It's making it easier for information to be
infiltrated or spread amongst they don't know about the Nazarene Sacrifice, right, so
they can't really call it that. They are calling it the rebels, but
what they believe is going on the next day you all meet at this Chai
house. The streets are actually relatively ask you questions. Yes, meet there.
So just to clarify the rebels, are they actually do we know that
they're actually Nazarene sacrifice or are they just very no, no, no,
They're not the Nazarene Sacrifice. They're very angry people that are being tricked by
the Nazarene Sacrifice. The Nazarom is posing as other rebels and selling them illegal
guns and things to just keep shit problematic, basically, to keep this place
unstable politically and socially. Do we know what kind of security is on the
temple other than that like stab of guards. Yeah, I'd say that you
could get the security manifest You're looking at probably one hundred guards on site day
of okay. And the plan of these jack knites is to capture the guy
who is the Nazarene Sacrifice official. The plan of the of the children of
the Song, yes, is that they got intel that the Nazarom has been
implanting it. It's like embedding itself for a while inside of this massive order
of the Paria City in a variety of ways that they're actually making people work
against each other. And one of the things that they did was years ago
they inserted somebody into a leadership ship position that has worked their way up,
and they believe that this person is going to actively try at the table to
incite open warfare, because that's what the Nascarine Sacrifice really really wants. Basically,
this person is the fuse on the ticking time bomb that everybody's that they've
been trying to avoid. So they believe if they get rid of that person,
it will help make that not happen, or not the meeting not happen
at all. We got the manifest of the people coming in. Do we
know how high this person is up in the order? Yes and no.
Do we know he's high up in the order? She is? I can
tell you a second. She goes by a lean. They call her a
lean. Uh yeah, Okay, so they've circulated this misinformation. Yeah,
that's about all you know, but they are they are very important. I'm
gonna have to look up and tell I'll have to tell you next week.
Mike it's says to assume that she's she's high up there, right, Okay,
I think once all this intel comes in and like Malika has had time
to like corelate it, he'll pull tal aside. Listen, this this plan,
I don't know that's actually gonna work. Best case scenario, they take
this high ranking official who's in Nasarums sacrifice, right, their plans to take
her stop the meeting. If she is a high member of the order and
the Nazarim sacrifice is spreading all kinds of disinformation throughout the rebels, why wouldn't
the Nazarim sacrifice just say the rebels kidnapped her or killed her and use that
as an excuse to start a civil war. They don't need to have a
meeting whether or not to start a civil war. If the Queenland chessboard gets
taken off, I think either way this goes down, there's a civil war.
You're not wrong. But when when you're playing cards, you got to
play what you have in your hand, with the information you have about the
other people at the table. This is what they have. This is the
best moves that they have in their hand. Do you have a better idea
of something that could work possibly better. The leak looks around the room.
Is Alia nearby near enough to hear this conversation? I mean she hasn't really
moved, I mean how close. No, that's totally fine. I'm here
for adding drama. He like looks around and like he does that thing where
like he'll turn away from Alia. Yeah, if a civil war happens,
either way their plan fails or succeeds. The other option is to start one.
If we light the match, that I guess gives whatever this side is
the upper hand. There's hundreds of rebels to the temples there. If you
incite the rebels to attack the temple, it may that snatch and grab a
whole lot easier because all the guards will be too busy fighting the rebels.
This is cynical and horrible. And he like glances over at at Ali again,
and a bunch of people are gonna die on both sides, but it's
gonna happen anyway. Well, then I guess it's time to start a war.
You've already started one. You see, Aria wins and he goes,
but he goes. As much as I hate the idea, you have a
point. Perhaps if the inevitable is well inevitable. Maybe we can control which
direction it goes and when it can start. Perhaps we can also use that
time to prepare, because now we have an idea, rather there's a The
scenario changes. If we go from we have a chance to win too,
we have no chance to win. Therefore, how can we protect as much
as we can? How much can we preserve? I think Malik sort of
devolves into like head and hands, and he's like breathed heavily for a few
seconds, and then still like looking down at the table with his head in
his hands. He just says out loud, I, uh, fuck,
I need access to pirate radio. I'll need to make another speech. Oh
you've gotta have a guest appearance. Nope, I'm about to be the face
of a rebellion that moves. Malik makes a plan you are able to meet
the next day. Information has passed off, including the itinerary of alien a
kind of additional information. Uh and word that abduction or like an accident would
be best. It doesn't. They don't want you to make it look like
a massive assassination, like her not showing up or her accidentally dying of a
medical condition. Or whatever you choose to do is the is the is their
plan. That is the plan, whether y'all choose to follow it or not,
is a suggested plan. Uh. This information is given over now,
Malik, based on you would know on that critical success. Based on the
way that they're handling satellites right now, the only way to broadcast would be
from your ship. About two days are going to pass as you all gather
this information and you sit amongst the kind of unrest of this city before you
kind of are approved, and Tony tells you that it's probably safe enough for
you to go back to the ship. They've been watching it and dropping off
supplies as they can. And as you make it to the ship, you're
met with the grand smiles of Lamara, who simply says, huh, guess
what he's awake? How will rush straight past like no words, just like
puts a hand on her shoulders as she goes by. Alia gives her a
big ass hg like one that kind of lifts her up. She was ly
wearing like looks you all up and down because you're you've been dressed differently,
and then she sees kind of Malik, she hugged you back, obviously all
alone, and then she sees Malik and she says, you look upset,
what's wrong? He's about to be a celebrity. He shoots a look at
Alia and then walks by. He sort of like slides a hand into Lamara's
and says, I, h I need a minute, and he lets go
over Hannah and walks to his room. Mark kind of looks around. She
sees a few more supplies been delivered outside the ship, and she grabs the
kind of two crates and looks and back on and she says, I like
I've missed a whole lot, as the door kind of like close behind her,
and the episode will kind of come to a close as the team will
have to reconvene together to share information and try to make try to make a
plan. It seems to be their own plan next week, though that got
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