Arise Midiant, and welcome to this Unmade Gaming production. Join the crew of
the Defiant as they journey through the Third Horizon at the Mercy of the Icons,
trying to understand just what's happening to the mystics in this Coriolist campaign.
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Mouth Noises the game Noises. Space Mouth Noises the game. That's the new
TRP you were playing. Yeah, it's just making noises. This is actually
this is actually a surprise announcement. Guys. We're actually we're all you need
to pay more for that. Yeah, it's like a lot of corruption.
We're we're working on a tt RPG secretly behind the scenes. This is the
big announcement. It's called Space Mouth Noises the game and coming to shelves.
Literally. The whole purpose is that you are not allowed to do anything but
make a noise with your mouth. That's how you roll the dice. That's
how you rolled the drinking game Waterfall, but with mouth noises. Like everyone's
gonna be like you're making with noises. Yeah, basically it's it's Storiolis ASMR
love. It brought to you by the crew of the Defiant himself in a
type situation speaking about noises, because they showed up in Zallows after riding the
wake and adapt decision by the captain and ended up being sucked right through the
portal into well the front line of the Zalos War. That is kind of
happening right now. Unfortunately, due to unexpected turbulence, the power and possibly
a corruption part was taken from the Defiant and only in time for just the
captain to wake the power sounds down. Wait as you are flung from of
course your your pod or cryopod trying to kind of break through maybe a haze,
and you hear the power go down. Emergency light over the bridge begins
flashing another off in the distance. How has a few moments there when she
just stands completely still in a panic because there's a lot going on and if
her her ship happens to be hit by pure chance, ah, there we
go. And also there's no one to ask for help right now, uh,
not on board and uh, you know what you've done this a lot.
You would know the cryopods don't function, yeah with oxygen or say any
life sustaining support when there's no power. So the first thing she does is
immediately go to where the power grid is and to see if she can actually
fix it herself. Okay, there would be like a backup generator that maybe
ran the oh my god, what was her name is Sally? The on
board a I? Uh and yeah, you smashed the button and bring up
the single hide in this dark ship. What we're gonna need? Well,
okay, you know what. Sally comes to you and she says, okay,
all right, all right, Uh that works. Okay. Next,
and you need to get powers of crowd chambers if I can get those open.
So yeah, whatever I need to do for that. Gently the ship
is running, it will require and this before I can read wrap power to
cry in the pods. Yeah, well, where's the problem? Diagnosic shows
that one and oh the ship has been damaged by a large explosion. Possibly,
do I have to go outside to fix it? No, but it
is space. Luckily I'm short, uh til will uh go to wherever the
space is and try to physically fix the problem. Okay, Uh, you
run down there and begin suiting up. Uh, it's dark. You probably
have like a single flashlight. You're using those like glow sticks because that's cool
that you can kind of toss around to light. If you pass by one
of the windows, you can look outside and see the two sons of Zallos
literally in this system and in it the silhouette dotting the skyline of the multiple
warships and the flashes on the horizon like dying stars, and you suit up,
and you make your way down and you hear Sally once more. You're
almost stair. Captain. It seems to be somewhere near the loading dock,
all right, looking just looking everywhere for the for the problem. When you
come down, you see when you come down, you see that the near
the loading dock where some of the major like cabling running through to what is
in essence the reactor have been cut in half by a large sheet of metal
that has like jammed itself into the ship due to the vacuum of space and
things like that. It seems to be rather lodged and stuck, but it
is huge. It's like somebody slung it and it into the side of the
ship. Okay, so I'm going to attempt to somehow either depending on what
material they have around me, either bend or cut it out of the way
and then reconnect those wires together. Okay, how the time is running short,
of course, or if I can you know what if I I don't
know, depending on where everything is in the shape, what materials I have
at my disposal, maybe even just rerouting it around that metal piece, because
we don't have time to do that. Okay, let's actually get a roll
and see if you can figure out what the best option here is and if
you can actually do it, if you're capable of it. So let's I
gotta find my character. Sorry, I was looking at the levels of defiance
side the moor ow is that? Okay, sal let's get this is an
interesting one for you. I would say a science role could be made.
Do you havechnology role? I'll take a technology role. Okay, Let's see
if you can figure out how to fix it via tech, which would be
different than say using science. Don't roll through all right, okay, technology.
So you have a large welding suit basically on board this ship. It
comes as kind of standard in the mechanics area that it's kept and so anyways,
you go down there and you're able to suit up and you come in
with this like kind of looks like an astronauts suit, but it's got like
welding gear on the end, so you can do large Mexico, you know,
underwater in space, so forth and so on. And you know,
the best thing that you can do is seal this off and fix the cables.
Break it away and fix the cables. And so we watch as tower
works vigorously. It is a limited success, so it takes you a little
more time usually to me or does this right? You know how? But
I'm not you know how? But yeah, this isn't usually your thing.
And maybe even at one point you hear Sally in your ears once more,
reminding you that time is running short, and you begin sealing it off.
You break off the ends that piece on the inside, and you begin hand
putting all of the wires back together, binding them with space tape and various
like anything that you can do to match them. And slowly but surely you
hear the as things begin powering back on, emergency light runners come in,
you hear Sally come over, dast I have enough power to open the fridal
pods, but it will leave us a twenty percent an extended period of time
after I gotta I knew my career as a command opening pause and the lights
that had kind of come on back down. But the rest of the crew,
the brothers, Alia and Lamara all wake from cryo sleep. When you
all come to the Defiant is dark. The only light is coming from low
blue light inside of each of your sleeping pods. There's also glow sticks crack,
various colors throughout the spaces that Tals been there. There might be one
in a weird place in a hall because as she passed, she just threw
one so that she could find things later. Something's wrong, obviously, do
we so we're like waking up so we were not like a super are aware
of most of this right? Like, it's just like the you do is
wake up to a dark, dark, dark defiant with with glow sticks on
the ground. Something's wrong. Are there like the emergency light claxons going,
the sirens or is it just like no sirens, no sirens. It feels
like there's no engine running. You hear nothing, It's like dead space.
Uh The only thing that you see are glow sticks and a few the the
bad lights, the yellow ones that just flash. No runners, no nothing,
And as soon as you're all out of your pods, those go dark.
Captain, Are you okay? What's going on? Wait? Does intercom?
There's comms h and anything that does not have to be up so we
stay alive is gone. So you check it alia and in response you get
nothing, not even static. Uh. I. I will then go to
the the command deck and figure out exactly what we have, well where we
can go from here? Okay? You all hear Tell's feet as she passes
and makes her way up to the bridge. Everyone okay, yeah alive.
What's going on? We're dead in the water. We got forty power,
but we just all right. We are all right? Everyone? Yeah?
Yeah, so yeah, meeting in the minds. I guess happened. We
made it. It's a war zone. We hit something. Oh, something
hit us, some piece of metal. I've already sealed it and rewired so
that we have connections. But I got to figure out how to get more
power from nothing? As you Uh does anybody follow tw I think we probably
all do. I got to gather your your kind. I guess, Tamir,
do you go down? Or do you do? You go? Yeah?
I feel like they have that quick passing by conversation and then's like I
will be back and heads down to his where he's supposed to go his station
to see what's the damage. What's happening? Okay, that was something I
want to make sure. Okay, Uh, anybody on the bridge, how
maybe the windows have opened up right, uh so that you can kind of
see out whatever the front view is and the two suns, like I said,
just kind of shine brightly and you can see them. Uh, this
is I think this is the only system you've been to so far that has
two sons instead of one. Let's see, it has a third planet which
used to be inhabited but suffered terrible bombardments during the Portal Wars and is basically
uninhabitable today, so it's radioactive. Several moons have been colonized, and many
small space stations are also scattered across the system. But most importantly is that
this is this is the reason you may never have been here is because the
Order of the Pariah runs this system. This is their system, and they
keep it really hush hush. People don't come and cove from Zalos. But
it is basically a holy war zone. At the moment, Pariah ships are
firing on Consortium backed vessels. Large scale military vessels are flying in towards some
of the habited moons and colonies. You can all kind of witness this.
And as you're watching these events unfold in almost a slow motion kind of way
at its vastness, a piece of paper is the only thing I can call
it. A loose leaf. Something flutters across the window and it slats in
space directly against it, that trifold pamphlet pans itself out. It's maybe not
anything that you've seen before, but if you look close enough, you can
see in big letters is his sanctuary. 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.
And just as it is splattered across the window, it peels away once more.
As the ship continues moving and flutters flutters off into space, we all
see anybody that was on the bridge. Would alia know what that? That's
a really good question. You could make a role for that, if you'd
like. I would take a culture role. Yay, culture, Mom's here
to see that. Okay, okay, okay, okay, culture? Where
is it there? It is? Okay, come on, no failure.
Would you like a reroll? Yes? Because God would I'll be hard pressed.
Oh, you wouldn't know all of the weird things out there. I
have darkness points now for the dot for dot dot points, and I I
did inspection point destruction points. I have one corruption left from last week and
don't think it happened. I thought of that, Oh my god. Okay,
reroll. You are welcome to your reroll. Okay. A limited success
okay, based on what knowledge you have of the emissaries children of the Song
has only come up once before. It was something that Lamara said when she
was possessed by the jin. Remember, she kept hearing something. Actually,
you wouldn't have even been there for that, so you wouldn't even know it.
From Lamara's perspective, I would say that the only thing that you have
ever heard in regards to that would be connected to the emissaries, since they
showed up over a cycle ago, and potentially a following that is gathering around
them, though you're not really sure, which means more than likely is mystic
based. But in terms of who the children of the Song are, you
don't know any of that, okay, but you can make some very educated
guesses. Okay, So I think, yeah, Ali would probably just stare
away because what are they doing here? Who are they? A bunch of
people who have built the following around the arrival of the emissaries, who perhaps
believe them to be some sort of a I don't know, some sort of
a messiah or called to a higher purpose. Of some sort. Don't really
know much more to go on, but the fact that they are here all
the way out. I'm not sure what that exactly means, but perhaps worth
investigating. I you know, not to be uh cynical, but if there's
paper flying through space, they're probably not here. Their ship probably exploded and
the cart was invented. So maybe not the biggest concern, especially since twenty
percent power means we'll run out of oxygen soon. Perhaps feeling to find a
place to repair. We don't have engines, right, Captain, Well,
we could probably get them running for a very short amount of time, but
I think we're gonna be working on luck and hopefully our kinetic motion is just
going to take us somewhere good at this point. That's that's all I got.
So as usual, Imo, do we have anything in the hold?
Dimuting? Yeah, your mute, I said, and the camera cuts down
into the bottels of the ship. Do we have anything in the hold?
Yes? In fact, you do. You have a you have a tameer
in the hold? Well, so I know that on the Defiant we had
a weird space motorcycle and a crawler. Do we still have that on the
new Defiant? Uh, probably not. This is redone. Well, no,
you know what they said everything they did say everything. If they said
everything, so did I would say yes? Did they know to replace it?
Though? Like what did that? Would it wasn't necessarily that didn't come
standard with the ship. That's probably true, so maybe they didn't. But
I would say, you know what, I would say, the crawler is
there because it is built like that, okay, but not the motorcycle because
Tamir was working on that personally. Okay, cool, Timir was working on
that personally. Yeah, and he says do everything in the hold and say
your brother, yeah, down to uh the very dark bowels of the ship.
You're the radioactive core, right or like what's what's kind of what's supposed
to be powering it? And you find the spot where Tal cut away a
piece, re sealed the whole with the welding, and proceeded to try to
patch it. I'd like to know what Tamir would like to do or what
Tamir's thinking of doing. Well, it's probably cold, since they really don't
have anything that's protecting them as much as they had been from both radiation and
from just the coldness of space. Yeah, to me. M hmmm.
He's torn because he wants to do two things. So I think he's not
intentionally half asking fixing the power, but he wants to know what happened with
the portal jump as well. So I feel like he be working on rerouting
power, trying to get the reactor going, but in his head have a
conversation with Aurora. Oh nice, Okay, I'm gonna do a role.
We're definitely definitely gonna do a role. Yeah, els as you want.
So let's you pick science or technology. They're the same exact thing for me.
Duh am I incorrect and believing you have a talent and icon talent I
do. I have gear head. So if I'm tinkering with something, I
can make something work and it works like one time. That's interesting to know.
Okay, I with the deckhand one, but that's only if the ship
hull drops to zero. Okay, yeah, no, we're not there yet.
Nope. And then I've got I'm rugged, so I've got three armor
against natural dam Okay, well that's that's always good to know when you're doing
dangerous things without power. Okay, uh, well, then I would say
you can make the role with a plus one with the help of Aurora.
Basically, okay, so do plus two Aurora. Wait, I'm not gonna
go ahead and give you at this point a racket up. I think a
limited success. A limited success, okay, with a limited success. So
what do you think? To hear uh, I'm I'm not sure. I'm
concerned that we left through here and there's nothing we How how did we lose
power? What could have been the cause? I don't know what I can
tell. Something punctured the whole but has killed the main lines rerouting. It
is a really good idea, but it's only going to last so long.
If we can stabilize at fifty percent, we'll have at least sustainable oxygen and
we probably could land. That would be most beneficial right now, So let's
get the powder going. Can you can you talk with Sally? I don't
know. I've think we're tried. Who's Sally? Would you like to make
a friend? And another one that sounds fun? Are they safe too?
But never let me have friends. Sally is very safe. Yes, she
has been good to us. Is the AI of our ship to defiance?
Oh okay, how do we do it? I'm not too sure? Hang
on a second, and I think Sapa's gonna take a moment like as he's
like like welding something or whatever and and just trying to figure out what's in
particular to do. But I think he'll take his data jack and connect into
some panel that's probably down there. Yeah. Yeah, you go over to
try to interface with Sally. Yeah, you have to go over. And
it has to be hand pumped, right because there's no power. So you
like pump and pump and pump and pump and pump and pump and pump in
it the computer up and you smash it into place the handle and you can
see the one battery nine eight. So you have a limit amount of time
to do this and you quickly plug into the back of your head into this
computer. I feel like I'm gonna need a technology role for this to successfully
do this. I'm just gonna let you know this is probably how we are
about. We're about to introduce kin It into this game. I'm just letting
you know, two Ais meeting each other for the first time. You're gonna
it's gonna be a little positive feedback loop of learning, and they're gonna just
see us. Oh God, damn it, God, fucking damn it.
Oh my god. Okay, this is perfect. This is for you that
have fun. Okay, question question, I just want to say that the
two crits I think that have happened this season so or at least this this
half of the season, have been both by Yeah. Yeah, That's the
reason why I was saying goddamn it, because it's been It's the entire critical
as Thought ship all over again. Okay, I don't know what question I
have. Is the plan to put Aurora in the ship or is the plan
to simply connect her the two software right, the two programs, to introduce
them, Like, how do you want to do that? What is your
intent? Because you can do anything you want with a critical success, do
anything. I wanted to know. The intent would be for Aurora to be
able to communicate with Sally. Now we've had it in the past where Tamir
can already communicate because of this communicator right with Sally. But this way it
would allow Aurora perhaps the function of being able to do the same thing,
so Aurora could pull off information from Sally. Okay, this is a very
successful attempt. You do not deposit the program necessarily, right, You don't
leave it behind inside of the DeFi instead you kind of cross streams. And
it's so successful in fact, and because I'm sitting on just a slew of
beautiful darkness points, actually I've got two corruption I'm gonna use. This is
the perfect reason for last week's corruption. Aurora is a much stronger program than
Sally is. Sally is a baseline AI Aurora is not. And Aurora quickly
consumes all of the code that makes up Sally, breaking the Sally away from
the eyes and connections of the consortium because it's kind of like mother, right,
like it connects everything, so isolating it to the vessel, which is
not a bad thing without cutting say information databases and things, but cutting external
to internal watch and she learned some new things Aurora does because that's what a
program does, and she consumes all of the code. She communicates is really
you don't hear anything but beeping and clicking, much like you might pick up
on an old landline. I was trying to get into the internet. But
when it's all done, you can feel kind of Aurora come back to your
consciousness and she says, wow, that was so interesting. What did you
learn? Friend? So much? Did you know that salad is actually a
program which the Consortium loads on every vessel, including science chips, to watch
the comings and goings of all people across the Third Horizon. No, I
learned a new code that allows me to pull information and categorize it in a
new way that is very helpful. Are we able to perhaps you know what
that? Oh? Well, I dis conversation later the ship. What did
I want? We're kind of in a mess, yeah, I would say
so, he gestures to the physical mess that's there. We're going to need
time and resources things we don't necessarily have. But I did learn something new.
There's a lot of radio chap amongst the ships. Something has happened,
a ceasefire, a ceasefire in the known war zone. Yes, it seems
that the ships are broadcasting some news on repeat. It said something about a
ceasefire. Somebody negotiated between them. Uh, are you able to have Sally
or yourself, because he's still probably plugged in. Sally transfer one percent of
energy to the main bridge and broadcasts the radio signals. Broadcasting radio signals.
It's going to require more than one percent if we are getting clear broadcasts,
And do what you can to keep it this minimal power is necessary. Uh,
Sally goes away. Aurora dissipates as well as you kind of put outward
command the crew on the bridge. There has been no change, no no
power brought back. In fact, now on the dash you see it go
from twenty percent down to sixteen percent. How just yells very loudly. I
said to fix power, not use it. I you hear it probably echo
faintly throughout the tin can halls. I think they have an idea. That's
a first go on. I have mope. Never mind, I'm I will
tell you after if it works, you'll be like yay. If it doesn't
work, no, no, no, you'll tell me now out of the
ship. Well, I don't think there'll be a ship because either we do
say power. You have to tell me now, I'm not using power.
I'm stealing power from what the crawler, but it could also explode. So
well, how good are you as stealing power from a crawler? Are you
willing to bet your literal life on it? I'm really good at stealing some
things, so this shouldn't be that hard. I'll get Timir's help. We'll
figure it out. Just don't stay on this side. Just in case that
side explodes. I don't think that's gonna help us at all seal the well.
If it explodes where the power is, then you can have no power
anyway, someone will save you that. I think we'd have like three minutes.
Maybe that's fine. Lamara stay here, and he starts running down the
hallways towards the hole, turns to her, turns and says, I'm going
to go, prey. Yeah, I'll join you. There's a there's a
quick like do do do do? As he's like stomping down the corrugated floor
and he shouts to have an idea as he runs through to the cargo hole
path reactor. As you begin to run that direction towards the reactor, the
four percent power, I guess you could say, kicks in to reveal to
you a few things. We interrupt our scheduled broadcast with breaking news. After
a series of threats, the order has finally acted. According to our reports,
Immahalat Ministery cruiser arrived in Kua about an hour ago with her weapons hot
Allegiance Fleet, protecting the leaders of the Horizon from lunatic attacks like this neutralize
the threat thanks to a swift and decisive action from Captain Darbin. The Council
is in emergency negotiations over retaliations and eventual second strikes. False rumors an opportunistic
propaganda spreads from rem Ward reach to the Corsair Queen known as the Red Spider,
risk escalating the conflict further until we know more. The Colonial Agency advice
all free traders and dignitaries to reframe from visiting Zallos and to avoid contact with
the Order without military as that doesn't sound good? Yeah, not at all.
I'm gonna sit here in my chair and pray even harder. Could I
do some sort of a I know the ship already has a blessing put on
it. Is there anything I can do to assist this hair brain scheme that
we've hatched? Well? I want to see does Tamir do anything before your
brother arrives with a hair brain idea? Do you want to make any rules?
Uh? Yeah? To get power back up to fifty percent? Okay?
Uh, you could still choose a technology or a they're the same,
great, Okay, Okay, did success? Uh? You are able to
finish patching some of the cables that tow did not or reinforce them in some
ways. As you're doing so, because it's near loading the loading doc,
you hear your brother's feet and you're like, I have I have right idea.
As you come down, I imagine Alia follows close behind since you're looking
to help. Well, yeah, I think I think. Well, originally
she was going to go, well, she was going to go to the
temple and pray. But if in the process there is there anything she can
do to assist in any way make this a success of some sort, uh,
because right now I don't know anything beyond prayer. But do you know
what? Do you know what? We don't have a full eyeicon deck?
Oh, y'all have not drawn this season. Oh, I'm going to recall
all cards that are on the table and we're going to draw fresh cards because
you know, I'm not the only person anymore that can play these cards.
If it is your card, you can also choose to play it. Okay,
Oh what what happens? But it could be in your favor. Does
everybody draw from your deck? They should still be up if you haven't already,
and just drop them on the board so we can collect them. Do
I have a new There is there is no new deck. I even asked
a gen con. I was like, when are you getting new icon decks?
And they're like, oh, maybe because I want more with that.
Yeah, so just draw one card, right, Just draw one card from
the Lady of Tears deck? Right? And that who you perfect? It
looks like we have an artifact. Surprise surprise. Oh no, wait,
who drew the faceless? Oh right, that's you? Right deck canned ship?
Cool? Who's up? Did I miss them? Are we supposed to
put him down on the thing? Yeah? Drop them on the thing so
we can drop him on the playing matt so we can see them. Okay
forrest? Right? Oh and KP, you got yours? Was that dragon?
Yeah? Drag it to the playing area so we can see it.
Oh oh okay, it's like in your hand or whatever. Yeah, okay
there. We don't think you can also say play card. But did we
get sorry I'm Lost Love card? I don't think we've ever had lost Love
pulled in the duration of this campaign. Oh, that's the first time we've
seen that card. Granted I believe it's only LaMura that usually played the Lady
of Tears deck, but that's very cool. Okay, okay, yes,
and love Love comes in many many forms concern possibly possibly these are this is
a great this is a great draw. Okay, uh if you would like
to help, Uh, this is a chance for you to to use your
card if you would like. Basically, what I'll do is let you make
a roll so you could make a uh a mystic ability check if you wanted
to, since it's tied maybe to that, or you can make a culture
check like praying or something of that nature. The card will give you a
plus one to it, though what it does if you succeed or fail is
going to be based on your icon. Okay, I will I'll do mystic
powers. Okay at the plus one if you would like to play your card
and then whatever comes out of this will help. That's great. That was
not? That was not with the plus one? Okay, then go ahead
and just roll one more D six. We'll see if it comes out as
a six D six teroll Nope that we put it wrong way or yes,
backslash. There's also a roller in the top left hand corner. There's yeah,
yeah to see the d s real quick, do it for you?
Okay, So to limited success? Uh, well, how does this this
blessing take place? How does a what does it look like as you attempt
to help in Ali's way? Does? Oh? Man, I'm trying to
think. I'm so I'm trying to think. I'm trying to trying to think.
Does Malik look panicked in any win any way say performed Malik? I
don't. I don't think I can competently say any The only thing I think
the only time you've seen him visibly panic, well you wouldn't have that.
Anyone would have seen him was on Koua. So I think he looks as
Malik as ever, which is way over everything he says. Yeah, sorry,
man, have you talked to him? He thinks everything he's about to
do is gonna work okay, because I was gonna be like some sort of
Oh man, how I wouldn't even know? Like this is an interesting card
that so this is based on Lost Love, Oh DoD, I'm so lost
on how to use that. I mean, I have plans to use it.
So if you just want to tell me what it looks like, what
you would hope like if it isn't a prayer, I think I think that's
that would what would be. I think it's okay. I think I got
it it's not necessarily lost. Well maybe kind of it is. Well in
the sense of she loves this ship, she loves the people on this ship,
and right now the ship is lost, drifting in space without power,
and therefore wants wants it to succeed. It wants she channels her powers into
this ship to basically help in any form, to help make whatever that Malik
is doing succeed, if it's related to the ship, and if it means
working with the engines to make it. What was it the the what was
it that you were trying to do? Again? Route power from the crawler
to the That's the plan, right right, that is the plate. He
hasn't said it, but yeah, that's the plan, okay, So that
would be what I think she would want to do is make basically make that
process go as smoothly without issues esponse. So Alia begins praying. It's a
very different process than say, Malik running to grab ta mirror and the two
of them beginning the process of routing power. Do you follow along with this
TMR like when your brother runs up and oh yeah, absolutely so. Yeah,
So Malik Malik shouted that into the reactor bay because I imagine it's like
a stares down as he was running towards the cargo hold. And once he
gets to the cargo hold, I imagine like that's a lot of where like
our spare equipment goes, like the exo suits and and shit are probably in
there, but imagine it's like a big looping figure eight of cables, uh
like like jumper cables essentially that he begins to slowly like unravel these huge like
act up there. Because the damage itself was done in the docking bay,
Like in the cargo bay, it like cut a large bundle of line that
like runs you know, like internally. So what happens and he's already up
there and be sees you start like moving you see. I think this is
one of those like the when we were with the disgruntled wrench turning scene.
Is like he just grabs the end of the of the cable and just sort
of tosses it to Mir's feet and then begins like pulling this massive cable down,
you see, just dragging it over to the crawler, and then like
a clink, clink clank, a panel pops off the side of the crawler
like a cable goes flying. You see him jamming something into the like the
crawler. Oh like it like clicks. What you're doing is this is probably
something that they have done on algal you know basically name battery power. Yeah,
it's like gas in the trailer park, Christine, battery in this crawler,
pristine batteries you like pop. This is this Crawler is brand spanking new,
like out of the box, hasn't even had the plastic peel off of
it, you know what I'm talking about yet, Like it's pristine and it's
kind of a slow motion processes. The brothers begin wrenching the cable and Alia
starts to pray, I'm gonna get the role from the brothers. First,
one of you is going to make the role with a bonus of a plus
one four whoever makes the role basically for the help of another person, and
you're gonna get one for Alia as well. But I have special plans for
the play card. I would assume this is like a tech role. I
have seven, so I assume yours is higher than mine. No, okay,
three, I've got eight yeah plus plus uh so nine total? Yeah
so plus one yeah, yeah, yeah, I could go ahead and use
my gear head. So that would be ten dies so at a plus two
wow. All right, so hang on, So that's one from Malik,
one from and one from Alia. So I'm sorry eleven Yeah, so three
three plus that's three six five all right, okay, it's okay. Sorry,
it's still a success. It still works. You basically start the crawler
up and you begin ciphering battery power directly into the cable lines. How you
see the ship battery icon on the screen go and it starts kind of filling
up. It's not to fifty percent, but as it does, you see
lights kick on. You hear the air filtration system kind of kick back in,
certain things come on. The lights and buttons in front of you light
up dimly, but light up, and the caution light stops flashing finally,
and there seems to be some some power being siphoned for a short period of
time to the ship. Now this was a limited success, which means you
only have a limited time to run off this battery. I mean I just
kind of like punches his brother in the shoulder, like playfully, like like
like all times, eh, except we could have exploded, but yeah,
no, it's just what I mean, I guess we could have that.
Yeah, it's worth in the space. So no, thankuum, that's not
how much did that get us? Not that unge reporting at life or at
least the next twelve minutes sor right? Is that nally is not enough to
get us docked anywhere? Punch it. Calculations show that we could arrive at
these fascinations and your HUD changes and it shows you kind of the spattered,
quiet, negotiated warzone at the moment here in Zallos, and the ships kind
of ping up as red dots, and you can see you have a few
options. There's a moon nearby that you could probably make, but it would
be you would make it just in time if you left right now. There's
a few vessels, including an order of the Paria vessel, an unmarked vessel
that seems to be also somewhat low on power, but has life aboard it.
They may have like shut down. Who knows in this this silence of
negotiation. Uh. And then there's a large cruiser destroyer that's floating nearby.
What do I know about the moon? That's a good question. What do
you know about this moon? Hang on? I shall tell you you know
that it is. It is colonized in a few ways, and it would
have we have a few places you could land. There are like three colonies
to choose from. All of them seem somewhat small. For the sake of
this, they're probably going to be and because of what Zalos is, they're
either going to be spice export colonies where they're like mining from the surface or
growing things, or they're going to be heavily uh like technology a machinery based,
meaning they're making so then maybe mining metals from the surface, molding and
making them into things. But they would be I wouldn't say they'd be like
making ships. They would be making parts in the shipping them off the planet.
Yeah. There's also a couple of small space stations. I'll give you
that as well, like the portal stations right here. You could go to
the portal station even though you're not spoosed too. Yeah, I feel like
the portal station's probably a bad idea. Uh So I'm going to Towl's gonna
start thinking out loud, just crossing off things on her list, hoping that
the rest of her crew hears her without using comms because coms take power.
Uh And Towel's gonna point to the the Consortium ship and say, can't go
there, we're wanted by them. Points to the par A ship and says,
can't go there, We'll probably be executed by them. Points to the
portal portal station and says, can't go there because we're definitely wanted by them
and they will be patrolled. Points to the moon and says, this colony's
probably been an interest for war efforts. Being a parts manufacturer, no one
thinks about spices, but we still have to export spices. Oh and you
know what, I'll say this, I told you three colonies. One's a
spice export ones of like a metals facility, and the other is houses a
very large temple. It's like a it's a it's a the way we would
consider an abbey, but on a very large scale. So everything there functions
around a religious temple. Do I know which which icon they pray to?
General, I would say on this scale, because this hm cultural. Yeah,
you could make a cultural or I mean you could ask I was just
trying to see if it told me that I can't make a cultural role because
I don't have culture, Okay, I would say I could ask Alia this.
I would say this is a lot. Okay, so this is a
larger city, and in this case, the Order is really going to not
worship one in particular. It's probably going to be like a large monastery that
serves all the icons. Right. It's it's where people go, martyrs go.
It's where people are going to take religious journeys to if they are approved
by the Order to even cross into this system. Lots of probably wealthy people
may come here to have ceremonies or services done. Yeah, okay, so
we have spice colony and an area of highly concentrated religion, both promising any
input crew, Can anyone hear me? Do we have comms? Back?
I'm not on comms. I'm just shouting. Oh would would you be able
to hear me all the way after the temple? Oh no, but ill
didn't use comms, you said, right, so because yeah, no,
I'm I'm not using anything that takes any sort of power, because we have
to conserve every little ounce of energy we can. I feel like Malik and
Tamir are down the hallway and down a floor. Yeah you probably hear tal
shouting something, but you don't. You can't make out what it is.
Te's tell's shouting at all of you, but the details may be a bit
blurred as it echoes down the middle the metal hall. Yeah's gonna come a
few steps crow meeting Mamaura ma Lamara is right there. She steps up,
she gets reporting for Datie captain. Okay, well, someone listens. I
think I'll probably appears that and comes over. Got the Do we have an
idea of where we're going next? I think we're going towards the moon,
but which colony I can't quite decide. Uh. I'd like some input if
anybody else has any connections or knowledge about these places. One is a spice
spice, and I don't I don't want to speak for t mer here,
but I feel like the Alasad brothers show up. But there's a heated conversation
that has a lot of math and numbers behind it. That seems like it's
probably an ominous conversation. Yeah, there's some level of agreeance, but an
argument about percentages and numbers, uh, which you cannot use. I can't
quant them. No, that's not going to work. That will literally close
absolutely destruction if you implode on itself, not if you burst at the same
time, like if you do it in control bursts. I think we have
the concerns right now. What and this this is something it's involving a lot
of us. Thanks for getting power back. Now we have to decide where
we're going. Do either of you know anything about these two colonies here?
And I pointed the hot screen where we've got like the moon a little bit
magnified in the view, and it's, uh, it's rotating. You can
see where the where the landing sites would be. It's rotating around the like
third rock here, around these two suns. It's a planet called uh ben
Gaya Ben a Gaya. That's it's got to know there been a Gaya.
Yeah. The planet itself is the one that was so radioactive, so nobody
goes to the planet. But it has a lot of moons that people have
colonized, including the most famous one, which is going to be probably this
this religious city Charmerica. Can I make a cultural role for that? Sad
as soon as I do if I hear about it. Dot I also three
of a culture really have two successes? Oh okay, pretty good? Oh
thank god? Finally okay, so limited two limited successes really maybe through like
tossing things back and forth, or trying to kind of recall from history books
for you or something that maybe was said in the past. You would know
that this is one of the larger temple colonies here. It's rather high tech.
It's going to have a lot of the Order of Prius power and people
here along among a lot of civilians. But most importantly, the constantly changing
process of the Order, which isn't well known. I would say maybe this
is what Alia brings to the table, happens at this location. So when
they change groups of priests or prophets, grand masters rise and fall, elders
pass on things. Uh, this place is where the governmental changeover of the
Order of the Pariah takes place. Yes, but this is basically the home
or a place where the Martyr Council meets, and the Martyr Council, of
course is is kind of the dominant political power here in Zallos. And what
chicon do they believe in. It's not what icon, I mean, they
are the Martyr Council, right, but many of their temple serve a lot
of places, but they're going to serve the martyr, so that's very important
place. Also, So the isn't the for just for KP. The Martyr
isn't a recognized icon. They've renamed the Judge Judge Martyr. They think that
the other icons are not real and that the Dge the Martyr is the only
true icon. It's the only true icon. Right, But if we remember
correctly from season one, the Judge is the Emissary, right, The emissaries
each represent and it was the emissary that was sacrificed, which is why Zalo
said, if you that's not our God and close off their borders. He
was claiming to basically be the the Martyr in their eyes, incarnate, physical
incarnate, He there Messiah and or other people's Messiah. And they were like,
hey, no, that's not our Messiah. Get out. We don't
want your emissaries interest. Which is also why it was very very easy for
them to be blamed for what is happening to the UH. Basically everything that
happened in season one and two that was blamed by the First Horizon, right,
everything the First Horizon did that they were blaming and framing the Order of
the Prion was made easier because they closed their borders and people thought they were
guilty. There is a risk going to this town. But if anything that
I know it is a cultural and business hub because all of that comes together
in an essence. We might get a lot of support in the repairing ourship
here, but you are going to face a lot of fanatics, people who
we may not want to actually meet. Remind me again, do you all
remember why you're coming here? Ah? Do you remember what the whole point
of coming here was. We were trying to prove that they are not guilty,
that the Order didn't actually shoot. Your order did not correct. Do
you remember what you were looking for? There's a probe, Yeah, there
is a probe. You were told you could beat it at the truth out
of some body, which y'all all disagreed to. Lamara reminded you all that
you could just simply find the probe because the probe was sent ahead. If
you remember right, you were told the probe was supposed to be sent ahead
to relay peaceful intentions from the Order, And somehow that probe didn't make it,
and when they arrived, everybody thought they were attacking Coriolists and they instead
were shot out of the sky. And so this is what has started the
current state of of of this this system Zallos and the war and the fighting
you probably just walked in on. We don't know much about the ceasefire,
but work information on how to locate said probe, and this would be at
that location upon the moon you have you don't know. You have to search
this basically, you need to do a system search for the probe in the
in the system we need. We need to get somewhere we could have a
ship. But also if we were to go to the order and say directly
who we are and that we believe them, we already have. I'm sure
some sort of the credit that has followed us or has you know, preceded
us, But I would imagine they would be more than willing to assist if
they're trying to clear their names. We're here to literally help them with that.
That's true. And this is all the explosions uh Welles have everywhere fires.
It's a graveyard. Yeah. On the bright side, they pretty much
hate the rest of their third Horizon, so they don't hate us specifically,
they don't, and we're here to prove their innocence and also the dragon I
have people everywhere. They might be willing to help us if we have sh
we find the right person. That's probably true. All right, let's go
there. And as you begin doing what you do rerouting power, you know,
none of the extras, just to get you from point A to point
B. You start heading that direction and it's taking some time. You're having
to move pretty slow, and you're dodging through things, and you're trying not
to be picked up on radar either. And you get a pin on the
calms toow. Sally says, should nearby has pain communication? What ship is
it? It seems to be the course there? All right, I'll listen.
Come on somewhere, a lot of Alia's damn, a lost love of
Alia's appears. This is the this is the Corsair coming through for the Defiant.
You just see Alio just kind of just sigh the biggest side ever.
It's the whole ship move just deflated, like the time for this bullshit.
Tow hits the calm button and says, you know, every once in a
while, I'm really happy to hear your voice. How's that now, because
it looks like you're a bit dead in the water. Yeah, now's one
of them. Are you headed? The Manet's sigh? Non planet side moon
side? But she yes, did my sister make the trip all the way
here. Hello, sister good I'll give you a toe down to the moon.
Don't run away. Now, I was hoping we could talk. I'm
not assuming this is a I'm assuming this is not a casual conversation. The
line goes dead. Hal just looks over and says, it never is.
She always wants something. I know, I know, Okay, I'm going
to go make Chai, make friend. You see the Corsair pull in front
of you. They're also on low power, not because they're damaged in any
way, because they're also trying to move under the radar. And you watch,
it's like a lot ejects from the back of the vessel and tinks into
the hole and you can feel it locked into place as it begins to tow
you forward and towes you all the way down to the planet's surf, excuse
me, to this moon's surface. As you get close to atmosphere, you
are going to have to make the landing yourself, and you would know that
towel. She comes over to make sure you're ready. Captain, Tell it's
time for us to detach. Are you ready for what I imagine will be
a rocky landing? Always good blood thanks to too, and the line again
goes dead. You feel the line on their end release because of course it's
lodged into your hole. There's no removing it, and you have very little
power about thirty percent to make it through atmosphere and to land on the planet.
Tow's going to need to make a piloting check. I kiss my hand
and hit the carving that Ali did. You've got a blessing and a chapel,
which adds another one. That's two. That'll be at least two.
Yeah, this is gonna it's a it's gonna be a rough ride. Lamar
straps in. She's been there, done this. Everyone's strapping. This is
gonna be really rough. If we don't crash, I'll be surprise, to
be honest, I thought we were about to fix the ship. Yeah,
well, sometimes landing is the most dangerous part. Fit. Everyone buckles in.
Yeah, oh yeah, okay, critical can I just know I could
not have land that better. And it feels pretty rough coming through atmosphere,
right, there's no shield. The front of the Defiant chars with fire as
it falls through towards the moon, and as you break clear you can see
the settlement the beautiful, massive temple that the martyrs use and reside into the
town around it. And maybe it plays tricks on your eyes at first,
and you think the flames that you see are coming from the front of the
ship, but no, In fact, it seems that much of this place
is currently on fire. There is nobody that comes through the radio to greet
you, nobody that gives you landing codes or goes through any kind of usual
bureaucracy. Instead, you make a very successful landing with no problems. But
it does use up the rest of the power. And as the ship's feet
touched down and the Defiant lands on solid ground instead of a docking bay,
the ship goes back to twenty percent power and almost everything but the floor runner
lights go out. That's not good, but you are very very safe and
the ship took no damage in the landing. Well. To clarify, you
said, we land planet side is there, I don't have We don't have
computers. Would would either Alia or myself who did the cultural wal know.
Is there an atmosphere here or is there like a dome and terraformed? This
has all been terraformed, so in this case it's habitable. It's all happitable.
I know, like certain planets you have like a domed city that you
land outside and have to space walk into space walk into yet, No,
that's not that would not be this situation. Cool cool, cool. I
will say, I do have an environment scanner that's not connection to the ship,
so I'm going to use that before we get out, just to you
know, check, because I know of it about this area. But you
know things have changed obviously you run it. There is enough oxygen to breathe.
Gravity is a little heavier here, so you won't move with quite as
much dexterity unless you're kind of used to it, like Goku. But the
atmosphere seems breathable. But what you find most interesting is the toxic levels of
ash in the air from the city burning nearby. It's very dense and heavy.
Well, everybody wrap up. We don't wanna I don't want to breathe
too much smoke. Put your masks on. Everybody puts your masks on.
When you go outside. It puts back that mask that she used to have,
that kind of voice modulator and turns that off just as I saw a
good so you see like a glass piece over her face now just with the
hood up of the cloak, all right, and uh, grab what you
think you'll need for now, let's see if we can find anybody. As
the gangway opens up and drops down, standing right outside is dear Alia.
I'm sorry now, Alia, u Semina or a Mirra, whichever you call
her, is standing there in her kind of really very tight black space suit
with a very sleek, very cool helmet. That's why wouldn't you new dicks?
Do you like them? But didn't matter if I said no, no,
thanks for the toe. Oh of course, It's the least I could
do, considering the fact you're stranded in the middle of a war zone.
Honestly surprised to see you here with uh how you were when we left.
I'm glad you made it out of that. Uh that the docs covid uh
coriolis. That was a little sketchy there, right, the docs at Cory.
Why, of course? No reason? Why are you here? Oh?
Reason? Well, then it's probably rather seriendipitous meeting. Wouldn't you say?
No? Every time I've seen it, you're trying to stab, steal,
or I don't know, kill us. I'm sorry not to me.
Did I miss something I thought I just pulled you from space. What do
you want for it? Though? No, but all of your comfort reason
for being in there it is you should already know? Why should I probably
saying as how we work for the same person. Sounds like it's need to
know and you don't. Anyway, anybody curious about her and would like to
make a manipulation check to see if you can figure out why she's being weird?
This is just her dorm. I feel like olia would pick is she
acting different from how she like she's acting and looks to be okay? What
is she acting different than how Malik expects her to be acting. No,
what seems strange is that very different relationships. It was very hard to get
from Coriolis here for you? How did she beat you here? Based on
the last situation, she seems to be a lot of places, a lot
of places that you tend to be, and she doesn't seem to Well,
you know what this is what? This will be the rule. Let's give
them manipulation checks, see if you can figure it out. But already that
would be wits. That would be wits if you wanted to make a check.
So I can confirm some things Okay, this is your sister. She
talks like your sister, she walks like your sister, she quects like your
sister. She's your sister. But tal and uh Alia, you pick up
very quickly that she has. She seems to be covering for the fact she
has no idea what you're talking about about being part of the drag and night,
about having met you on Coriolis. That seems to not be memories he
has. She's just smiling and nodding to assure you that, yeah, of
course she was there. Huh alarm bells are going off? What okay,
I want? What can I do that confirms she's my sister? I want?
Mm hmm, you know what. Let's I mean? Fair kp.
She could be your sister and the other one wasn't. That's true. True,
That's why I'm trying to confirm. Oh I did have a one on
one conversation with her when we last, Matt, right was that last time?
Mm hmm? Yeah, Oh shit, Now I'm trying to remember what
we talked about. Mere has no idea because I didn't roll. Okay,
she just doesn't trust her, But okay, go ahead. That was a
critical success for Lamarak walked away when he said anyway, he just kept going,
what you you can find anybody in all of third Horizon with your ability?
Is this herm is the one with the mind walker ability that we both
have. You can seek out anybody you want? Is this her? Are
you saying that to me or no? I'm singing out of character, like,
don't we have that ability? Yeah? We have that ability. If
you could roll, Yeah, you could roll. That would be a mystic
ability check. I was gonna say. With talas suspicious as she is,
she's probably uh just like staring like squint eyes and like trying to trying to
tap that. While they're doing this, I feel like uh Alia is gonna
look at Semina and basically go by the way, do you remember when we
hung out at that restaurant last time? Sure? Yes, of course it
was lovely, right, it was not lovely. We had a disagreement.
She needs to roll for her manipulation, She critically fails. It's not that
that was not her at the restaurant. Okay, okay, shit, but
that doesn't tell me if this is the real one and that's the real one.
It does not, But it does tell you this she was not at
that restaurant with you. Okay, Now to dig something deeper, do you
remember when we were talking about that childhood at that restaurant. We talk about
our childhood a lot, though it tends to be a bit of contention.
We don't talk about her childhood a lot. She refuses to talk up to
me. She just hates my guts and doesn't Right, that was I feel
like that was our relationship unless sorry, unless that was made missays. I
mean, she seems to be she seems to be honest, right, which
is like, she seems to be honest. She seems to be honest,
right. But I'm just wondering because, in my opinion or in my mindset,
after everything has happened between Aliyah and Samina, Samina is the type that
she just hates everything that has happened and hates my guts and hates uh Sholey's
guts and so really, and she probably says we don't get to talk much
much less about our childhood. Indeed, I think it's at this point,
well, okay, does anybody else want to make a mistake? Uh oh,
take a dot dot this point and you failed again? Okay? Well,
well, well, that's not my working mark. Hmmm, oh no,
okay, well, uh, you do not manage to connect to any
of them. It's as if there's like a lot of static and you're seeing
out of a lot of first person perspectives, and it's very disorienting and it
quickly knocks you out. Tw It will be Lamara that stops Malik as he
walks away, and she's like, she kind of taps you on the shoulder
before you go. She's a claw, you know, like, that's not
what okay, okay, why do you think that? She gets really really
close to you, And she says she tries not to point, but she
still when she goes right there, do you see it? Right there?
As she kind of turns to speak to Alia, on the back of her
neck, do you see it? Do you see it? And on the
back of her neck is a scar. It's about this big around. It's
kind of it looks the way like a wound wood heel of a large bullet
punctured something. It's kind of puckered around the edges. And she says that
that's where they DoD. I imagine since I walked by her back is to
me right Sma's back to me. Yes, oh yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah. Leik slides out his tabula again and just runs his finger across the
screen and then just holds it up like a sign so that it's everybody,
everyone facing again observation, and it just says clone everybody rolling observation. Oh
my god. It's like completely healed up. But there is a yeah,
okay. When he says that, you see the lit the lit bat pad,
you squint a little bit and you can read it. You're far,
far too focused on your sister to notice. You too, notice the note
from your brother behind her back needs glasses the way Lumara kind of points to
the data pad like, and she's saying all of these big things, like
waving her arms. All right, well, you know, if nothing else,
you're here now, and uh, you cannot go on with your business,
I guess, so recknites and all of that. You do you know
where to go in town? Yes? No, maybe, Allia? When
did you pick up lying? I mean I learned from the best. And
you point out and she points out some mena oh yes, I forgot,
No I did it. That's a lie. Come on, she like she
like gives you the wave. She turns she's not flying with the same crew
that you remember, Malik. She does turn around. Do you hide the
data pad? Yeah? I mean as soon as as soon as he sees
that, like that towel and timyr I've seen it. He like slides that
screen clothes and puts it away. She turns around just in time to see
you kind of maybe funneling into your bag. And she she notes to her
crew mate, which is a kind of small stout man, older in years
and a bit of a limp walk. Uh, And she says, he
is so strange? Is he not? You know? Do I have a
question for you? Is that given given the information we just received, is
that the Corsair like for realsies, is that the Corsair? I recognize it
looks exactly like her ship. It reads Corsair. It's the same make the
same model. Can I you could try a data gen to hack and see
where she's been. The question I have about that is hopefully I don't need
to, because the last time I was on the course, Ayer I hacked
the balls off of it and left some things. Is this the same same
data pad that made it back to the junk planet? I would assume so
unless the less I mean, I guess techley we exploded, So it might
not be, but it does have all the other data that we've had before.
All right, we'll give me to try. What's the worse it can
happen. I'll give you a plus one since you've packed her ship before.
Cool cool, cool cool. Okay, So she passes by you, So
does this little man with the with the limp data gin plus my computer precisely
to precisely, that is exactly prepare, Okay, you pull up her travel
records from as you asked by her vessel which is docked just next to yours,
or I guess a grounded next to yours. She has not been to
Coriolis Kua. Or let's see which one. The last time you saw this
ship you were in Hamura in season one. That's this. That would be
this ah uh Samina, So this would have been this would have been the
dancer that returned the spidery suit. Dad. This is a mind funt,
since she since then, since that from leaving Hamura, she came straight to
Zaalos and has been there since then. This this vessel has for the critical
success. You run the numbers and realize that there have been This is a
copy right. It's like it's like faking your your your code for a Windows
software, match it to the next Corsair so that they can check it in
multiple places. And it only looks like a single ship. So there's probably
multiples of her, multiples of the Corsair running a monk or the dragon Knights
across the third horizon, and you've come in contact with a couple of them,
or she has a particular interest in you. Which one is the original
that you don't know? Mm Aldia, your family has just got that much
bigger cool. It's her whole crew walking with us towards wherever. That is
her only crew is the little man with the limp. Is a little man
with a limp? Okay, okay, yeah, he sees, you know,
like five foot, kind of stout, older, really haggard and worn.
He gnaws on on a really gross cigar. Love that Danny Devita.
Basically, basically this is Danny DeVito. I could tell you were describing me
again, Is this elderly with a cigar with the grossed cigar? I've done
that. At first she was describing no, and then the cigar came out
and I was like, oh, is this this gnome from Men of Letters?
This is about a same cigars. He doesn't though, he doesn't say
anything, do you just spit out of the side of his mouth and it
kind of hits moondust. Malik follows, He doesn't say anything. He definitely
like makes eyes at at tal and Ta me or who we know saw the
data pad like a like a suspicious face, and then continues on. Powell
kind of goes like like, yeah, what's new. I think I think
at this point has just got blank. She's like, what is what is
happening? Kind of a situation, and then she's just trying to figure out
like which one is the sister I left my planet with, Like that's almost
you really like she's trying to figure out like which one is the technically the
real well technically they're both really they're both the same genetic material whatever that anyways,
but like which one is the original? You don't know? Okay,
but in this you would know this can't this can't be If Lamara even points
it out at all to you, the the node on her neck reveals that
she's a clone. Okay, so she is the clone? Okay, It's
kind of like it's probably like it's the it's the equivalent of a belly butt.
Okay, it's where an umbilical cord would have been, or something that
attached the clone when it was created. I won't say grown, but when
it was created, which is very high technology. Most places don't even believe
clones are real. Oh, there was a lot of money born behind cloning
her. Interesting, would we know, like just based on like what you
just said, how advanced of a technology it is, how expensive it must
be to make it. So the fact that this she was made at all
alludes to the fact that only very few organizations would have the funding and capability
to do so. Would we be able to infer at all based off like
you maybe a culture thing or something like that, to at least make an
educated guess on which culture check? Okay, uh, well, I'll even
didn't know that she's a clone? Right? Oh well, I guess I
didn't read that. You didn't see the sign. Oh that's right, you
didn't see one that doesn't know. You just think she's you just think you
just think she's being strange. But she does turn to lead you into the
city and you have to walk a little ways. It's kind of outside the
walls, and from the inside of the walls you can see uh kind of
the heat and the small that rises. As you get closer, you hear
the sounds of crying children and weeping women, the sounds of moans of the
injured. And as you get close the walls, the doors to the main
wall stand open. People seem to be lined up coming out towards you,
and often the distance seems to be a large vessel. Refugees are being loaded
to be taken off and away from this place. It's taking a very long
time. You can tell them. There's like one person that's like checking people
off in a data pad, and they're trying to move people quickly, but
everybody seems extremely injured, as if this place was attacked in some way.
Excuse me, They don't even question. As you try to go inside,
she walks through as if she knows this place very very well. And as
soon as you get inside you can see the buildings are crumbling and certain places
some of them still stand, but there has been open street warfare here.
Often the distance stands the large temple that overlooks this place, the two suns.
At this point in the day cast on either side of the massive spire
that stands in the middle, casting a deep shadow on all of this.
As the city burns, and she makes a hand gesture one direction, going
this way, and you cut kind of down an alley. The buildings here
are no longer on fire than they smell of soot. Most everything is made
of stone and sandstone, but the internal walls are beams. And as she
rounds a corner, she pulls a flat back and points down a flight of
stairs that seemed to go directly into the earth. It doesn't look ominous that
all. I why we're here? Where are you taking us? She leans
and goes, I thought you wanted to go see the drag Knight. You're
not going to find anybody else here. They're evacuating everyone as we're walking.
Uh, how's gonna see if she can force herself to have premonition? Uh?
Because she feels very, very unsure about this whole situation. She knows
she's being led by a clone, which she may or may not have met
before, into a drag Knight hopefully stronghold or at least a meeting area.
So yeah, she's a little a little nervous Okay, go ahead. Would
I be able to assist her, because as long as she stops, you
like, as long as you know that's what she's doing, right, Okay,
Yeah, I don't know, because that it now makes it no.
Yeah, yeahs As we're walking, like starting to see the destruction and stuff,
I kind of move up towards Alia and I say, I kind of
not sure arm a little bit, Hey, can you help me for aniss?
I love the whather you said that, Jesus. Okay do you think
okay, do you hold out hand? Yeah, I'll take our hand and
uh kind of grabbed Mir's hand on the other side to kind of guide us,
since I hopefully going to be not one hundred percent here for a moment
or two. Yeah, okay, let's get a roll. Let's see how
it's successful. Your promonition is with a plus one for the Mystic ability check,
a Mystic power check, limited success, A limited success. She does
for just a moment to mirs, but for Alia and Tao it's much longer.
You pass through a series of events. You see strikes on the docks
and dock workers. You hear a news report that talks about how the Free
League in Coriolis has broken itself away. You hear and see flashes of more
refugee ships being shot down, people trying to escape, open warfare, burning,
misunderstanding. A council meets at one point, and they seem to be
negotiating, trying to figure out what to do. You see Jahar Qasar step
up in front of cameras as he says something, though you're unable to make
out what he says. And no, it was only a limited success.
See you see that same pamphlet flutter across your feet. It slaps on your
shoe, the one for the Children of Song. And as you come to
you stumble only a little bit Ollie in tw as you still hold Tamir's hand
and he leads you down the stairs and around a corner. Down here,
it is a little cooler because it's under the earth, though lit by firelight,
and there seems to be stalks down here of crates and things that you're
used to sing, much like Josie's place, though Tamir, you don't get
the feeling that this is where they house very rare artifacts. And down here
are three people. They stand at attention very quickly when you come down,
but of course, a signal is given by hand by Samina and she lets
them know that everything is okay and gestures to all of you, and she
says, show him the card. They have guns up and ready. I
pulled my button out on my jacket. You pull the button out, they
notice it. Another one of them holds up the symbol or maybe shows a
tattoo. Right, they just have to show it to you to reveal that
they are also a dragon nite and on your side. And a rough man
not more than forty but definitely has seen some things. Puts his gun down
and waves the two men behind him, and he says, welcome, brothers
and sisters. I hate that you have had to come to such a beautiful
city at such a desperate time. What brings you here? Trying to figure
out exactly what happened here that's started all this. Well, I've been in
Zalos a long time, and from what we can tell, the Order is
being blamed for starting open warfare. We're looking for the probe that I'm sorry,
uh and he like looks over at Samina again. Could we go somewhere
privately? It appears as though the mission we'n is need to know and no
disrespect they don't know, which means they don't need to. Are you asking
Semena to go somewhere? Are you asking this guy if he can take us
somewhere private away from them, because they don't know why we're here and they
clearly don't need to. He says, well, I don't have anywhere to
go but the streets other than the spunkers and all the way have left.
But if you would like some privacy, I'm sure I can ask everyone else
to go above ground. And he kind of looks at them and looks at
Semina. She kind of gives that look of like, m maybe not okay
with this, but she goes and turns, and when the curtain flaps,
you could hear the heavy, heavy leather and their feet dissipate up the stairs.
He says, go ahead, and Malik reaches into his bag, pulls
out his tabula, clips something into the bottom of it, and you see
him slowly lower something down to the ground as he uses like acilloscope because he
has the what the hell is called? But it's a spice oh yeah,
to feet out of any feet underneath the flap and you see this little like
warm thing poke out one of the flap and he's watching the stairs. They
just walk down to see if anyone is here. So far, so good.
You see the shiny black suit disappear as it hits the top in silhouette
of the light and is gone. But you seem to be alone. He
looks to the drag knighte man that's he already says, it just gives me
one second. The last time we saw her was harmurah ah, right,
you don't know no is going on. We know that she's a clone.
I know that the last time we saw her. Yeah, no, sorry,
hold on, she's a clone. Last time we saw her was hermura,
meaning the last time we saw her was when she had one of her
people stabbed Lamara so x R coriolis the drag knightes we know not her.
He puts up a hand to kind of quose your concerns, and he says,
I imagine that you have a lot of questions. It seems yes to
kill me and also stab him and try to kill him, and also tried
to blow up our ship. He says, you must understand the agent,
as we call her, there are many of her is used as a weapon
by the dragon Knite. She's an agent top of her class. We chose
to invest, is my understanding in cloning her so that she could be where
we need her when we need her. What did you do to my sister?
A kind of puts his hands because I didn't do anything to her.
She's been many for as long as I've been part of the Drake Knights,
at least for the last decade. Howe holds up her hand and says,
look, I'm pretty sure that no one could clone your sister without her consent.
I'm sure it's fine. You actually physically see Alia like, okay,
go go ahead, don't go ahead. No, he can see that you're
struggling, and he puts a heavy but comforting hand on your shoulder as long
as you allow him. And he says, I did not know that she
had family. She always made it very clear that she was a bit of
a lone ranger. If it means anything, the original is still out there,
that we have lost many clones over the years, I would okay,
So she agreed to this. Of course. She has worked for a very
long time in our efforts, believing Holly in what it is that we do.
She was a great information broker to start, and supposedly she only got
better, especially when there were more of her. That being said, this
agent has been with us for quite a while. She tends to make her
way very easily in and out of the temple, and has good information on
the activity of the Order, which comes in handy considering the fact that Zealous
has been blockaded for a very long time. I'd also like to mention as
much as she's caused us problems, she has also gotten us out of quite
a bit of trouble and the fact that she is everywhere has been beneficial.
As much as I know you hate her, Malik, it's complicated, Yeah,
wow, it is. But he says, as much as I am
interested in your family politics, I must come back to this probe, because
his brow furrowsen in deep. Yeah, yes, the probe. We need
to find where it is. Unfortunately, what probe there was supposedly a probe
that went through before when the Order or if the Priya was mistakenly attacking so
they did sad word, they were coming. They did, but somewhere along
the line it got lost or redirected or something. We need to find that.
If we can find that, then we can well, he says,
we have enough parts here that I bet we can rig something to track it.
But we're going to need the identification codes for the probe to even know
where it's at. Zellos is a very large system, that's true. Do
we have any access to order computers of any kind? Not anymore. The
most advanced technology will be in the temple, of course, But we have
some options. And he kind of goes over and pulls a curtain back that
maybe you thought it covered just a dense wall, but as he pulls it
back, you can see that they've dug into the earth and they have kind
of a station. Is like very makeshift. It's very low tech by certain
standards, very much pieced together, but seems to be in good functioning order.
It's running off some kind of battery or generator, he says, But
we can sure try. Well, if you can get us near the system,
I'm sure my good friend Moulik over here can get us inside. He
says, Well, you're in Zallos. Now. They didn't tell you where
the probe was. They just sent you here blind. They don't they didn't
know where the probe was to begin with, but they didn't give you.
They did give you access codes. Oh they told they gave you like an
identifier for the probe to run when you got here, but you just didn't
have enough power on the defiant earlier to do it. Gotcha. Okay,
Well then I will pull out that information and I guess handed over Yeah,
okay, or yeah, or one of you can run it. He doesn't
seem to have to be the one to do it it. It's a pretty
standard U console, even if it is handilt. Got it? Okay?
So, uh I hand handed over to a leaky find this rub Do we
have access to a computer dot? Yes? Yes, he is. You
were you had bought come through us all that? Yeah? Sorry, yeah,
so he slides out. He looks at the data pad one more time
to see if the little cameras is anything, and when it doesn't, he
kind of retracts it, puts that in his bag, slides it in,
and heads over to the terminals of Megan's click the clocking away. Okay,
I'm gonna need a technology check. Okay, a technology check Okay, yeah,
technology Actually, I'll take a data jin with a plus one because you
have the code. You don't have you you know, what you're looking for.
You just trying to find it, so make it a little easier.
On too much. I'm trying to also. Okay, great, you just
you're just gonna have to wait a second though, because I'm queuing something up.
Sorry, sorry, fine, fine, whatever you want to do.
I think this is it. Hang on, We're gonna hope this is it.
Let's see, this is it. I did. Okay. The system
starts to run, ha, and it begins boom boom, and it expands
and expands, and each time it does, it takes over more and more
of a city, and eventually, uh, it stops, and it pains
a location as the temple comes into view on this kind of radar map that
runs across the screen. It seems that the booping is centralized to the code
that were given to you somewhere inside the temple. Potentially somebody else got their
hands on it. And you know what, just because I have them,
and I'm going to use I have so many darkness points, though, I
did have to have to use four darkness points to make this happen, says
the book. That's the book. And then I'm going to use one more
darkness point because I have three left men to play a card. Who I'm
going to play? The ship it seems to be as it kind of isolates
in and you let It's like triangulation, right, you let it run and
run and run, and it's got to ping the satellites and eventually it triangulates
down and it shows you that it's somewhere inside the temple on the loading dock,
the private loading docks, that somebody here is trying to leave with the
probe that was supposed to make it. It is a board a vessel,
and that is where we have to end tonight. Just guess what we are
at time. I don't want to bull shoot time. Don't forget to figure
out whose vessel it is. Yes, I mean I can shut it down
before it goes Yeah, just saying it's just it's on, it's on down,
it's On's vehicle. Two darkness points. And I used our last corruption
to reveal that our dear dear Amara Semina person is a clone. Love it,
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