Arise Minions, 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.
Void, the show you were about to listen to, was originally a livestream
actual play on twitch dot tv slash Onmade Gaming. Arise, millian Zen,
Welcome to Unmade Gaming. We are here for another episode of Void. If
you are confused about what might have tonight, it's because we released another episode
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missed episode last week, So we're gonna do a little bit of time jump
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goes into that bar goes back to these wonderful, amazing faces that you see
here before you. I think that's it, Dot, take us to space.
Wait wait, sorry, Dad, I need to I need to intrude.
I thought Paul was here because I saw the strange and I'm like,
wait, what is how is he? And I keep looking like I like,
is my setup wrong? Is he in different windows? Hey? You
might love this. I miss you, Paul, Paul's in chat. He's
here. I know I see you, but I'm so distracted that everyone poor
a little out for Paul, just poor little we miss you. We definitely
talked about that as a crew, definitely brought that out. I know we
did it, just like completely blanked it. And then I saw it and
I was just like, what does happen? I'm so glad. I'm so
glad. Okay, Doc, I'm sorry that it was a valid point that
needed to be made. Please everyone, look at the timey wimy bullshit,
that is that gift of fall? Because that's I Paul popped up in chat.
I was like, wait a second. I even had to double take
a minute. Now tricken, no trickiness. Well, speaking of tricks,
guess what the third Horizon is screwed? Because last week, meaning yesterday,
because we made up for the show like a week late, what we learned.
And I'm going to do a slight recap for those of you that missed
last week because there was a big ass Lord dump and I'm sorry about that.
The good news is no major action happened with the crew to say,
if you missed, you can't watch tonight. So if you missed our recorded
episode that we released yesterday I guess released today, you would know that they
were on Coriolis propping to leave. Their plan was to take the long way
around to the System of Uharu, which bumps up next to Tawan. Now
Tawan, of course, is this lost dark system that they visited in season
one to their dismay, and I would say, by the luck and love
of the icons, they made it home to Coriolas from that place. Now,
both of the portal doors that are in the Tawan system or connect to
the Town system are under different control. One is under the control of the
Consortium, which is the Hamura side, the side that all of you entered
in season one, and the other side is currently under the control of the
Order of the Paria, who has put a vast military effort against the Consortment
to take control of this system. Recently, though, the Tawan portal kind
of spat out the other half of a ship that's been lost for the last
year plus and the Consortium is interested in it, and all of you have
been tasked, along with an another three person crew to investigate this shipwreck,
which they believe is actually partially on the surface of a dark side of an
ice moon here in the Uharves system. So last week's episode was a little
about the internal politics what might be going on. We learned a little bit
about the past of these two legionnaires and this agent. Uh huh uh huh.
Yeah, everybody, take a look at Tamir's face. If you thought
the episode wasn't worth watching, I'm not going to tell you why his face
looks like that unless you go watch it. I feel things to me.
I feel I used the darkness far What did you get your broccoli? Cute?
Okay, and so it is. So today's episode is going to pick
up. They have arrived in the system after a very long Oh my god,
that's so cute. I thought you met real broccoli. I was like,
I didn't know dogs eat broccoli. So we will pick up in the
system of Juharu. After a very strange encounter with one of the legionnaires and
a long lonesome trip with everybody else under cryo tow, managed to get the
crew there. The decision was to try to bypass the massive blockade by kind
of drifting and riding the wake of a much larger vessel. Unfortunately, at
the end they found out that they are not the only interested people in the
system that my be here for the same thing that they are. And uh
there was a little bit of a ship race. Thanks to the daft engineering
skills of mirror uh, they were able to literally like hit the NOSS button
and scooter poot faster down to uh. Yeah, I want to make sure
y'all are still with me. Y'all are looking at chat. I want to
make sure y'all still with me. Good Scooter p good moment. So here
we are. Uh, they are blasting their way, which their their three
day trip is not only going to take them two days two days of non
cryo sleep travel like you have to like, like I said, you're scooter
pooting across the system. So yes, Mike, if you can be a
hot dice whatever and a wet Willie, I can have and be Scooter pudin
cross this third horizon. Listen, I'm a hot dice Daddy, and I'm
a wet warrior. Okay, okay, all right here we are, Tao.
You have put the ship basically on autopilot. You have a single little
bit of stealth, and you have very much by a day. You have
outrun this pirate crew by a day basically thanks to rerouting the power. That
being said, the ship has to take it easy for a while. There's
gonna be a lot of recuperation and cool down time of the systems from what
Tamir had to do to make that a reality. But you don't think that
the order is onto you in any way. You're just gonna have two more
days with this crew on this ship, knowing what you know, Scooter peot
Dad. Really, my brain is kind of stuck on that, to be
honest, kind of here it well, if all of your brains are stuck,
the legionnaires are not. They pretty much spend the majority of their time
in the mess hall cleaning their guns and kind of acting kind of shifty and
shady. The Faruk is a rather talkative fellow. He'll talk to pretty much
anyone. Don't remember her name, Faruk and Allah Dala thank you. Faruka.
Dala Dala is a significantly cool, more quiet but uh well, all
right, is anybody hanging out with or I'll just keep your distance. That's
my question. Oh Aliah, stay far away for sure. Now I have
to ask, so we we we kind of ended on a rather dramatic note,
did we? Did we get out? Yes? That's so basically,
you, like I said, you, you kind of blasted free of all
of that and kind of U quick, quick, quick routed yourself a day
ahead of this pirrating crew, but you were not picked up on the radar.
Basically, trade was some slight I don't want to call it damage,
but downtime on the ship. You can't travel very quickly right now, You're
going to be just like floating through space for a bit while the engines recover,
Okay, but you are very very close. You basically hear what is
the actual asteroid field of this uh system you harrow is made up of two
suns. Uh. There's Uharu, which is the big sun, which is
where you kind of came from. That's where the portal like revolves. And
then the opposite side of the system there's another star, a dying star,
and it has an asteroid system or like massive asteroid belt that surrounds it.
And you were just now passing basically through the asteroid belt. You basically nost
your way across all three of these these planets right here. Well, Yeah,
Toal's probably sitting in the captain's chair just kind of shaking and uh like
trying to catch her breath from that. Yeah, does anybody do anything?
If not, I can trouble system systems check allways, we just did,
and we pushed a lot. I would like to mirror to a systems check
with selling run a you can run like diagnostic using your technology or your science
if you would like. Sally will just kind of give you some basic stuff,
but if there's something you would like to see, I will also note
I had them draw fresh cards every one. Last game, we played the
misfortune card against the league for the first time. The faceless maybe was not
as kind as he often is, or they often miss fortune, double misfortune.
And in addition, Lamara played the Lady of Tears song. A song
was played too. Hey, Okay, Sally comes over and she simply says,
ship diagnostic engines at ninety eight percent. You can see they're like burning
red. Roughly two hours before we can engage. We are basically at a
standstill. I have exactly enough power to route shields and stealth. There's that,
Thank you, Sally, and I'll go ahead and relay that information over
to Tala. It looks like we're going to be stuck here for a little
bit. Okay, Well, we definitely don't have the power to try to
pick up anything while we're here. We could have a melik. Perhaps we're
in a sensor on the atmosphere of the planet. I mean, that's what
the ship was originally built for, so at least we can get some reconnaissance
information or data. That's way too far away. Wait, that's way too
at least way too far away. If we're at the entrance of the asteroid
built Yeah, you're basically right about here ish on the map you need to
go through here, you're only going but you're only going to this moon set
right right. The problem is that you're having to travel like slowly basically at
this point because you you you pushed the ship. Yeah, let's let's just
uh go slow and study try to blend in. Towel is going to attempt
to kind of blend in with the debris and the rocks in the asteroid field
as much as rely on the shields and the the mechanical devices of the ship
to disguise them. So I would say, so your signature is reduced by
one simply by the ship's technology itself, and you do have this armor that
kind of reduced is general damage. So you can't you basically put the ship
in autopilot and on like low power. You kind of direct sally through the
process, and you know what, let's see, hang on, is it
so? Is it so? Because I want you all to hear this,
I prepped a sound for this just for you, but I don't think I
have had to sound. It's not you making the mouth sounds. It's not
me making mouthsounds anymore. I actually, well, Okay, guys, it's
actually it's actually Dot making the mouth sounds. She recorded them and then set
them as a that's what I wanted. I want, I want it.
Fine, I won't. I won't. I won't. I won't press the
snazzy sound q iqued up. I'll just say. Uh. You hear Sally
go go into low power mode and the whole ship like powers down and everything
kind of goes into dim light as the kind of yellow caution lights light up
all along the edging of the walk pass along the vessel, and the overhead
lights go into a dim mode and towel you hear a set of feet from
behind you. Oh god, there's a figure. He's like leaning in the
frame of the the hallway near the bay. The I'm sorry, the like
where you're piloting seating everything is the bridge. That's the word. I'm looking
for. The bridge, yep through Hello, he goes, you didn't even
turn around. How do you know I was coming? I know my ship
and I know everybody on it and how they sound. Mm hmmm, he
goes, So looks like we're stuck here for a while. Oh well,
you know, slightly, uh, but also I'm definitely busy. Well,
I was thinking, you know, uh, when we got some downtime,
we like to play cards. Do y'all y'all want to play some cards?
Yeah, you and your crew. It doesn't just have to be you.
But you know, if you want it to just be you, it can
just be you. I'll be there playing cards, all right. Well,
if anybody on my crew wants to play cards, I'll let them know to
Do you like to play cards? Not really? You look like the kind
of person who likes to play cards. Uh no, because playing cards usually
means I have to interact with people you don't like. You don't like people,
not many people, but you like me. I wouldn't go all right,
you don't have to tell me. You don't have to tell me.
I know, okay, I know you knew, you knew before I walked
up. Hey, you know, if you don't want to play cards,
I got another I got another bottle in my bag. Good for you.
I hope it lasts. Well. You know, I care for a while,
so you know you should Yeah, well, you know it's always better
to drink with the you know, people you like. Well, you should
go and find someone. Uh well, you know, if you if you
change your mind. Actually roll a manipulation. I don't have manipulations, just
roll an empathy. Then let's see if you can get him to go the
hell away. Okay, okay, success, okay, okay. He kind
of stops and there's a moment you're like, he's gonna keep going, and
he goes, well, you know, if you uh, if you change
your mind, you know, and he kind of like stops leaning in the
doorframe. I'm just in there. I know he likes that you finger gunned.
Oh no, a mistake, too late, too late. He finger
guns back, and there's a small smirk that crawls across his face. And
he turns around and you can see him kind of like mutter to himself.
You you can't you don't know what he says. Actually you can roll if
you would like to know what he whispers to himself. Oh, that's gonna
be a h what is it? Observation? Oh I have observation. Whole
ship, says child. You you you barely hear, you barely hate her?
He goes. She digs me. Oh, the thought crosses her mind.
Gee for a moment. She's she's very upset that she uh didn't let
let the thing go for just a moment. Oh so uh. The camera
probably follows him kind of muttering to himself back into the open mess area or
like mess hall er, what is everybody else up to? I know TAMR
is probably dealing with the engine. Unless you're interested in something else, Malik,
I know you have some interests that don't necessarily uh huh, okay,
Alia, You're you just want to stay away. I think at this point
she's just trying to be as diminished looking or as inconspicuous as she possibly can,
which is okay, she's probably failing at but she's probably like, you
can do a couple of things well, I mean, actually have you do?
Think so if you're in the room, walk like anywhere near them,
I would like you to make a couple of checks for me, because you
read people better than the average person. First off, if you want to
kind of go unnoticed, you can roll a. It's more of like she's
just not trying to interact with them. She's not really like yeah, then
i's like a polite silence. I would like an empathy check from you to
roll to see if you can read these these there's there's something weird here and
your guts tell you, and you can't put your finger on it, just
a straight empathy. Uh yeah, I think so, unless you feel like
you have anything to add to it, if you have a special ability,
or let's see, I don't have a character sheet up. Let me put
your sheet up. It's not manipulation because you're not doing it to someone,
So I would say, yeah, go ahead, ma'am. Okay, empathy.
Oh no, here's the thing. You can't put your finger on it.
But there is a weird dynamic between the branch Agent and the two Legionnaires.
Everybody seems like kind of normal. None of them seem like a raucous
pirates or like they're gonna kill you all in your sleep. They're not vicious
there. They clearly have some history, right, you know, he's got
this big scar across his face that they they wear their scars. But the
dynamic between the the the special Agent and the Legionnaires is off. Tent is
off. I don't I can't say tents either, But there's something there and
you can't put your finger on it. You just know it, though,
And I'll try to remember Alia was already in cryo sleep when Thal had that
conversation with Lamara, right, Okay, so yeah, yeah, I believe
so, yeah, yeah, she wouldn't have she wouldn't have heard that,
but okay, yeah, but she all on her own, is able to
tell there's something off here. Would I feel like the fact that what's the
leader's name again, the lady Na Nadina, the fact that she had sat
down and prayed with her, would have formed some sort of a little bit
of a connection between them, a little considering, you know, she would
have noted that. Alio would definitely have noticed, and uh oh it was
right, you would you You would then maybe have noticed, You're right,
thank you Erics for that car. So you were the last in. So
we'll say, if you wanted to speak with her, I imagined she did
not say much to you. She came in, she sat down, she
prayed with you during the whole ship thing, and then she got up and
left like there was no not a whole lot of interaction. But if you
wanted to seek her out, you're welcome to. Okay, Yeah, I
think she would have approached and then considering the fact that she was the last
sleep, she would have noticed or at least I don't know if she would
have heard the conversation between Lamara and Tell, but I feel like something like
she could pick something up there and then yeah, so she'll go talk to
her. Okay, just kind of approaching me like and things. She I
was thinking that she was already in the mess hall, kind of just making
some snacks for people, kind of just her usual thing, just trying to
be a little bit hospitable and just you know, take it to her crew,
and she probably will then take a little bit of that to to Nadina
as well. Okay, you can see she's watching the two legionaires. One
of them has pulled out a deck of cards and shuffling them. That looks
like they're going to pass the time with some cards. She seems like she
may join them, but again she keeps her distance and she notes you.
I'm guessing you're wearing your mask. Yeah. She gestures for you to sit
down, not off put by you, though she doesn't note your size as
you stand as she sits, hello, Hi, apototize if I am,
would you like some snacks something to eat? Stuck here anyways, I guess,
she kind of says and shrugs her shoulders. Not much in the mood
for food. Really thinking about the job. I mean, we're not going
anywhere in them soon, We're not even at the exact spot we need to
be, So I would do us some good to have a little bit of
a relaxed moment. I would say, I guess, so if you're offering,
I have no reason to turn it down. Plus he's just going to
continue drinking because see he's already got the other bottle and he's pouring himself in
the other legionary glass. She's like, I guess I could use some food
with all that alcohol. That would probably be best. Do you mind if
I ask you something? I guess that depends on what you ask. Well,
are you okay? If by okay, do you mean that I want
to be here, or that things are well in my life, or that
I'm healthy? There are yeses to some of those questions. Oh, I
mean in whatever way comfortable talking? Just in general? Are you rule of
manipulation? Check? Who? Okay? Do I have nothing? So I
would be an empathy an empathy check? Okay? She she kind of She
stiffens a little bit. She says, as much as I would love to
tell you whatever it is you're looking for it's not going to help. I
mean I wasn't seeking anything in particular. I just noticed you seem to be
You seem to be a little bit out of it, and considering that we're
all on this mission together, I tend to be the one that tries to
make sure my crew, no matter how temporary it is, is doing their
best. And that's all. It was just me making sure that you were
okay. I just also want to say thank you for sitting down with me
real for the prayer. It was nice to have company. Your shipmates soon
not pray with you, not as often as I'm sure they would like if
they want to. I mean, it is often busy doing odd jobs.
Yes, we are a we are a ship that collects junk and so dangerous
time to do odd jobs. I'm just a priestess looks you up and down
your mask. I bet you are m h squint a little bit. As
long as everything goes according to plan, will be fine. That's all I
care about. You all seem like good folk. Well, I have come
to care for the people that I'm here with, and so it does seem
odd that they would send four of you to do this job. Why do
you say that, well, it's a rather dangerous one. We've seen quite
a few similar situations in the past. Yeah, but none of your soldiers,
none of you align yourselves with any factions. You spend your time as
mercenaries on this strange juncture. But yet you've got extremely high and expensive technology
attached to the outside. Your doctor, she looks crazy, but she wears
a uniform. She's probably well trained. Putout a doubt. And what would
a crew like this need a priestess for? Are they really that bad?
I think everybody needs some sort of a anchor in life. I would say,
someone to know that they that takes care of them, that cares for
them. And I see then she kind of like looks you up and down.
Ah, protector, I mean whatever way I can. As you can
see, I don't really carry many things to protect with, so I know,
I'm not sure how well I am equipped for such a job. You
and I both know you're fully fully equipped of handling yourself. If maybe you're
twice my size and I'm wearing a suit and she's got like giant pauldrons on.
She said, you are soft spoken and kind of heart, I can
tell, but you're a bad liar h Some have their proficiencies, some don't.
Well, I would suggest that you stick to protecting people fair enough,
But thank you for the tea. Is that what you made? Ye?
Snacks? Some some you know, just some biscuits and some tea? What
else you could I don't know if we have any actual Do you play cards?
In my travels? I've learned a few tricks. She goes, well,
ah, they can't play with just the two of them. Would you
like to join us any of the rest of your Maybe you could make a
few bird since you are just junk traders after all, I'm not one to
bet on things. But if you would like to just play for fun,
I wouldn't find nobody plays for fun. Making money is fun. Plus,
I can't imagine that this tea is cheap. It's a specialty once in a
on a treat. Well, then the least you can do is try to
take my money from me. Specialty. Yeah, I like die or pass
out and waiting for KP to be like so about that tea? I spike
it. I spike it. Okay, so calm, So what is what
is Malique doing? Why are you asking it like that? Dot? I
need to know what Malik is up to as well as Tamir. Tamir,
if you are just chilling, Malik is minding his own goddamn business. He's
a he's he's never been one to to to stick his nose where doesn't belong
or any any any kind of lascivious act here. He's just a good space
boy who works at space. By h he's I'm fact sure why he's even
on his crew. No, he is. He is in the engine room
with Tamir plotting, I mean, having a brotherly conversation about nothing important at
all. Well, this conversation that doesn't actually exist is picked up by our
camera. What what No, No, no, just they just see two
sweaty, hot looking dude that's in the engine room. That's true, you
do see too, sweaty does not two brothers, no reactor. I think
for a while, it is a it is a it's intense scene, right,
Uh, there was a There was an exchange of of knowing looks,
not even glances. They were well placed looks. And at first I think
Malik just shows up and just grabs a tool and sees what Tamir is doing
and then just follows suit I'm not sure if it's helping or not, but
for sure it's like you know, tightening something down. It's gonna there's gonna
be straps involved. But I think it's just like uh, aggressive masculinity right
where like it's just it's just very angry and we have to work, yes,
and it's not even there's no way that it's actual work. Yeah right,
it's like I swear to mere strips like something that didn't need to be
rebolted down, but he is just doing a very repetitive motion aggressively. Yeah,
it is. It is if if if either of us did fitness,
which I mean I guess to me it does. Now we are like working
out or like punching the speedbag or something. We don't have that other ship,
so we're making do with fixing things in the engine room or allegedly you're
yeah exactly. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of like noises coming from
the wrenches being pulled, a lot of grunts. Does anything break the manly
silence that is your brooding? Is it brooding? I don't know that it's
brooding. It is, there's so much brooding. I don't know that it's
bruder. I think it's it's definitely, it's definitely aggressive for sure. Mirror
is brooding like it's it's. Malik is in a place right now where he
isn't he isn't in control of the moment because he can't be because he knows,
he knows that he's not allowed to do what he wants to do to
these people on the ship. So he's at a disadvantage here where like usually
in his head he thinks he controls most scenes. Uh and he's now been
told in so many words not to regardless of that person having the entire story.
So he and he's in space, like floating, like not even somewhere
cool like on a on a fucking station. We're literally just in space.
So my sources are extremely limited. Uh. So he is, he's he's
thinking to counter ta Mere's brood. He is pensive. You can't think aggressively
and that and he doesn't like that there is something clouding his thought and his
judgment and it disturbs him. And and that and the two of them just
radiate such good energy, like if you can just put us in the reactor,
we could power the ship them. Oh yeah, without a doubt.
Around the sun and back. Okay. So what I'm hearing is the brooding
is not ever broken the tooth unless someone breaks it shared some great. Oh
that's my question. That's my question because I got my while tolls going to
be like, are you okay? I think I think that's what would we
need to happen? Something needs to break it. You hear the sound of
feet, ohlak, you hear. You hear a very specific set of feet
that you know all too well. And a voice. It's like Malik Malik
is most definitely, most definitely your girlfriend. Great, that's just what I
need right now. She like runs into the reactor room, no doubt,
which is like steamy and under like low amber light from the low power of
the ship. Yeah, and the two of you are there brooding and sweaty.
Yeah. Everything everything kind of glistens like a new never Winter game.
Great. Great, great great, So like the slow motion polleyball seen in
Top Gun. She like rounds the corner and stops and goes, uh,
cards, they're uh, they're playing cards? Who's playing cards? The people
with us? Uh? Do you have a you are? What are y'all
doing down here? Uh? Ameir? Just making sure everything is ready to
go. Once the actors cool down. Mm hm, cool down. Yeah,
y'all are cool. Mm hmmm mhm uh do you like jos living in
real life? Shut you guys, look out cool. Yeah, this is
what happened. We skip a few weeks, played two games back to back.
Seriously, I love you all so much. She says, where you
could come cool off and play some cards. I've never played cards. They
said the there's alcohol involved and you take your clothes off. No, but
that's they said. That's how you play the game. If you lose,
No, you have to like take a pete like your shoe off, and
then take your sock off and then yeah, no, why would you play
what? I don't know, that's what they said. I was going to
go play. You want to play, you've already started, okay, but
shut you shut up. You know what did you do in college? No,
town doesn't want to play. You're not playing a card game. They're
just trying to get you to take your clothes off. But they have cards.
Yeah, it's a way to get you to take their clothes off.
Your clothes off. If you drink, you'll be worse at cards. It's
a game that they already know they'll be better at it, they'll win more.
You take off clothes. Reactor. Often she's not listening to you.
She's just like walking closer and she's no, I don't often. Then what
are you doing down here? He asked for help? Yes, I needed
an extra setup. This is me in real life. Okay, okay,
so you are both just gonna stay down here, just the two of you
to not play cards. I mean, you can stay here if you want.
You're more than welcome to hang out. Or I mean I I couldn't
leave, I could go. I mean, I'm sure it's fine. The
reactor you're yeah, you're the engineer I know, and like to me like
looks at like my leak. Why don't y'all come play cards with us?
Please? Let's go play cards? How you may beat them? That could
be fun? Okay, yeah, all right, oh yeah mm hmm play
cards. As the camera comes back up, tow uh. If you're looking
at idiot of the video feed, you see that that Alia, the branch
agent and the two legionnaires are like sitting around and they're kind of dealing out
some cards like it looks like they're gonna play and you see Lamar come kind
of like bounding in with Tamir and Malik, both of who which are very
dirty. H They're very sweaty, you know. They have like their jumpsuit
down and like tied at the waist instead, and they're like white undershirts,
all sweaty and dirty and gross. Both of them look worse for wear,
and they look I imagine grumpy. Do y'all look grumpy? Would that?
Someone? Someone draw that? Fanhard s? Yeah? Please? Lamara,
yeah, Lamaro CCC. They're gonna play some cards, Yeah, definitely.
There's a there's a surly atmosphere to the the the I don't think anybody's ever
seen them so insane. Yeah they y'all. Yeah, I guess y'all have
stepped up together for this one. So for Rooke goes, shall we pour
more drinks? Who died? What are you drinking? This is my own
special brew? Uh huh. He goes. He like put it straight to
his lips and like pops when he runs and he wipes away and he goes,
come on, oh, you're making it worse. But uh uh,
Lamar goes, I'll take one. He goes, see see, yeah,
where's glass? She sits down. We have about two hours before the engines
are up and learning. I must refuse the drink, but think just enough
time for me to take your money. Have a sea kid with pleasure.
He goes, does anybody know how to get your captain to come play?
I? Uh, oh wait, if you're talking KP, I cannot hear
you. Just I just wanted to say Alia in the in the meantime,
like sneakily like takes away the drink from Lamara and just gives her some tea
instead, and and then it goes and he goes, I think our captain
is quite busy right now. But you said the ship's just waiting for two
hours. No, no, no, hold on a second now to me
and I are hanging out with the new week nears five four three two accounting.
He goes, Hey, more drinks, and he starts kind of pouring
drinks around. I'm gonna have to pile it in two hours, so I'm
going to get smart. Lady this one I like her. I like her
down next to some mirror. Uh and it kind of looks like, aren't
you gonna take a shower or something? No, I'm good, okay.
I found them this way. They were very angry together in the reactor.
The reactor overheated, so of course I'm in greed at it. That seems
like no way to try a reactor. How looks directly it mirror in the
eye and says, well, sounds like there is a bit of an overreaction
down there. Huh wow. He starts dealing cards around the table. All
right, here's what we're gonna do. We'll just do a quick thing everybody
can uh, I don't know. We'll do this like a quick round of
poker. Right, So at the time, you can tell me if you
want to bet, if you want to bet, we'll do this. You
can tell tell me if you want to put into bet, we'll roll for
the actual like card. And then I guess if you want cheap we can
figure that out. So anybody wants we're counting cards? Were out cards?
Oh, that's right, you have Aurora. You're such an asshole, all
right, So Tamir is very mathematically inclined. It is not difficult to pay
attention to count cards, all right? Are not illegal? I thought that
was just blackjack? Oh you could know? You can country what's worth holden
saying, and who's got what? Well, one day, we'll play some
real poker. Okay, so I'll be fine. I'll take all your money
and be this guy that's poor and drinks. So here's what I would say.
Everybody can tell me how your character would best use a skill to win.
To try to win the hand, I think that's the best way to
do it. So, Like, for example, if you're going to use
Aurora to help you count cards, I would say that would be science or
technology for Tamir right, Tow may want to use command, maybe you command
the table into believing your ruse or whatever. So I want you to choose
how you're gonna try to win this hand. And this this is a gross
misusage of this skill. Alia has premonition as a talent. Oh my gosh,
okay, uh, I am going to roll your mystic ability to see
if the premonition comes through you want. Okay, here's the question do you
want to do? You want the premonition to be whether or not they're bluffing,
or whether or not or the cards that are coming, to like know
if they're bluffing, or to know the cards that are coming. Oh okay,
okay, I feel like rather than just knowing Alia, I think rather
than actually playing the game. She sits behind towel and basically keeps her information.
So I feel instead, so she's gonna be like next to Howel and
uh, probably what is the best option. I don't know how to play
proper. Okay, so here's what we'll So here's what we'll do. We'll
say, Alia, roll your mystic ability. The amount of successes will be
the additions that Taal gets to her role to beat to like win the game
of the poker. Okay, so this is like a ridiculous rule making up
on the spot. This is best. Just roll mystic, Yeah, just
roll your mystic ability. Let me double Jeff make sure there's no Okay,
there isn't any of that. So yes, straight mystic. You use your
very rare talent to fucking cheek god. All right, so you take a
two. You're gonna take two in addition. And it's almost like and you
all have been meditating together, you've been working on speaking in each other's minds.
And though you and Ali don't hold the same connection that you and to
Mir do, you can still she can send like images right to you.
You can share that like single symbol or that single phrase. It can appear
in your mind's eye, and Alia has a premonition and begin sending you a
message, and you're gonna get a plus two tae to your role for this.
How would all of you like to to play? Lamar is gonna play
because she can't. I have her character she and then I'm gonna roll for
them. Tamir doesn't want to win. Tamir just wants to beat for Rook
and ensure he has the least probability of winning. So what I'll say is
of us, so I never mind, go go ahead. So here's what's
gonna happen. Just as Ali a Boo did Towels, You're gonna minimize his
role to win. So you're gonna roll. I'm guessing you're using Aurora to
help you. Oh absolutely, Okay, Uh, she's gonna be excited.
Technology either one, I'll take. It's the same. They're identical for me,
right, So we'll take technology because it's Aurora specifically. Okay, So
one, So he's gonna take a negative one because of your and Aurora's efforts
to screw his pooch Malik. How how is anyone here good at cards?
Out of the crew, You don't feel like, Yeah, so I was
gonna say, if they were, they would notice Malik is throwing hands intentionally
what I'm doing dot is I'm I'm throwing hands. Let's get some hs in
chat. And I would like to give you a manipulate role. I'm watching
Faruke and Dala for any tells they might have, not ones that could benefit
me in cards, just tells in general. Oh, interting, you can
roll a manipulation, I'll give you that. I can't actually give you this
information that these are quirks that they have written into their character. I'm gonna
give you a darkness point just because you know what fourteen everybody, I'm at
foucking all right, I wasn't meant to know. No, they're they're pretty
rough solid. It's it's rather hard to tell anything about them. They're you
can tell they do this more than likely. They hustle tables all the time.
They're they're just a little rough around the edges. Lamar is also going
to use manipulation. She is also going to use manipulation. Okay, she
only got a one on her role. Now I guess they are going to
roll. Now do I get to roll? Oh? Yes, of course.
Well that's what I'm gonna say. So they're going to roll for hands,
So anybody that's playing the hand, so in this case, all the
rest of you gave your turns to buff everybody else. So Tal's rolling a
hand, Lamar rolls a hand, and then the three agents are gonna roll
hands. So go ahead, Taw, and remember you're saving a plus two.
I kind of feel like probably what happened is, uh, Tal sat
down at the table next to next to Timar, and then they started dealing
cards out, and Tow wasn't actually intending to play, but she sees cards
land in front of her and starts getting essentially messages for Malia. So she's
like, all right, I guess I guess we're joining this. So she's
going to kind of use the the her her command role as like this is
my ship, this is my turf. She's I'm gonna use command for that.
I love it command this table. Yeah, she's gonna try to at
least. She's just a note. She's not great with people. She doesn't
play cards because she doesn't like people. We're gonna see how this goes.
No, okay, okay, I'm not giving And that was your plus two
that had the plus two as well. Okay, that's okay, it's okay
to to like totally lose it. Okay, So Laura's got the better hand
at the moment. Here they go, they're gonna roll the first one's gonna
roll minus one thanks to tame Or so for Ruke lays his hand down at
a critical failure. That's two ones. The uh Dala will roll her her
hand with no hm hmm. And then we're gonna roll for our friend the
agent. Okay, she got one success. So this hand of poker like
goes out. We see Malik start like throwing hands. Basically he's he's folding
every round, which totally screws the pot up every time it comes around for
you, poke players. Nothing I hate more than people that always fucking fold.
You can't always fold. Malik always folds because he knows it'll screw the
pooch uh. We see tame Or use Aurora very quietly and without anybody knowing,
obviously, to begin counting numbers and cards so that instead of playing his
hand, he's actually playing uh for Ruke's hand. He pulls the wrong or
the cards that Faruke needs, of course to make probably the straight that he
may have that was like running or something like that. Tao basically just doesn't.
Unfortunately, the look is not there. She just doesn't have a good
hand, even though she knows that it's a good idea to fold midway through,
and as the final card is turned on the flop, you can see
the special branch agent like man. She slams her card down on her and
Lumara both have a pair which is not good enough to beat the strait that
is the critical success from Dala and Dolla like lays him out on the table.
You can see for Ruke was trying to lie to all of you.
He didn't have anything. He was bluffing. His hand was shipped to and
he goes, oh, man, of course, another drink deal him back
out and Lamar goes did I win? Did I win? And Dolla goes,
no, you didn't win. She goes, oh you're close though,
really mhmm, yeah, you did good here. If you had if you
had three of these, you would have had a better probability of winning.
You could be good at this, Lamara. Dala for the first time speaks
up and goes probability, huh, let me guess you're the scientist on this
ship. I'm the engineer. Yes, it says right here, and oh
I thought it was from your snooty attitude counting cards. I don't know what
you're talking about. All that probability talk makes me nervous. You're not cheating,
are you? Why would they cheat? You didn't even have a hand.
I lost. I don't know. Something about you tells me that kind
of kind of looks you up and down. Are you hiding a tech on
your face and your head? Oh? Yeah, it's covered in ink,
It's covered in tattoos. It's covered in tattoos. Mm hmmm mm yep,
although I would say the tattoos are of like algali. Yeah, okay,
sign She like gets up and you you can tell she's a little perturbed that
there will be no more card dealing. She doesn't like the fact you talked
about probability. It's how to do. And she stops and she goes your
face. Those tattoos, Yeah, with the putting. I've seen some before.
Have you've been on Coyola's Sorry, I got them. Yeah. She
doesn't notice the tech underneath, which is probably a really good thing because that
would have definitely assured that you were cheating. No, just uh, she
kind of smiles a little bit of a crude means smile, just a just
a nobody I met one time. They're not around anymore, for it goes,
Oh, yeah, I remember them. Hey, yeah, we've seen
those tattoos before. I remember when we were on algol and she like wax
him in the chest, like, I don't think it's like the cards that
Tamir was holding are just crumbled in his shape. Man, those are my
only deck of cards, goes, Chill out, have a seat, have
a drink because, hey, Tew, you want you want another drink?
Oh? I still have to pile it right right, But when we're done,
maybe on the way back. I generally don't drink while I'm all this
ship, okay, but we can get one when we get off. Oh,
I bet we could hit one of those cool space stations, the portal
stations. You know I've heard that. Hey she said no, Well she
said she didn't want to drink all this ship. Man, she doesn't want
to drink with you. What do you know about it? I know,
my captain, is that true? Captain, you don't want to drink with
me? Well? Like I was trying to be nice about it. But
this is like a working relationship only oh I see, okay, okay,
cool, Yeah, it's fine. I'm not interested anyways. I'll just you
know what, Uh, this is my last bottle anyway, so it's mine.
You can't have any Okay, sorry, don't apologize. It's fine.
It wasn't that big of a d anyways. I could get a drink with
anybody. I mean, when we get back, we couldn't possibly all get
a drink together. No, it's good, it's good. I get it.
I get it. Dona goes through, leaves them alone, and he
goes what he was. You know, y'all look like a ragtag bunch.
We're not doing out here. Him him, I could push over in a
light breeze. Points right at maleak. Julie laughs, not to mirror.
I mean, I'm just saying, y'all on a day, just mission and
a long way from home. I mean, I guess if you consider Coriolis
your home, I don't know. Well, I know you don't any points
right at your tattoos. This is my home. You live on this ship.
Cool man, you're cool. You sure you don't want to get a
drink. No, No, you're right, you're right, you're right.
Yeah, you're good. Okay, these are my worst tender dates. Yeah,
yes, yes, g h h h. I swear. If there's
something else, he keeps crushing, it's just being balled up in his fist
right now. Well, this has been incredibly fun. And are we going
to play another hand? I almost won, you know, And he goes,
hey, maybe you want to drink and he points at Lamar, you
know, he goes, whoa she was? But I do. We can
have drinks. Maybe everybody will calm down. No, I have space volume
upstairs. Also, no, it makes me feel better. Yeah, would
you mind? Yeah, no, of course not. Uh, let's let's
sim it down. I think we all have have had enough of a drink.
How about something else. I'll make that in the jiffy. Let's just
calm down. Don't make me raise my voice. It's so wonderful. You
haven't seen angry yet. There is a switch, you know what this is
boring? Anyways, like start scooping his cards up. It's like I thought
you guys were all going to be, you know, the best of the
best. That's what they said. Anyways, lacking are the best of the
best card playing drunkards? Or did we just get the bottom of the barrel?
Uh? He turns run goes I'm sorry, what did you say?
And Doma actually stops to and stands criminal says what what? Yeah, that's
what I thought, Malik. I was just asking a question. He said
that he thought we were the best of the best. Are the best of
the best card playing drunkards? Or did we, presumably the best of the
best, get the bottom of the barrel? Does he always talk like this?
He's kind of weird, Margot's He's not weird anyway. Is there something
wrong with all of you? It's like, no wonder they have to send
you to the outskirts of space? Have another drink? Shoot straight? He
goes, Ah, I will, and none of you get any not like
i'd want to. You know what, You know what, man, I
bet you couldn't down that bottle. In fact, you know what, here's
a hundred berr. You can't down that whole bottle yourself. Okay, I'm
gonna let you roll a manipulation so angry dollar. You can't drink bottything?
Yeah, she goes for ruke. You can't drink that bottle. Stop it,
we got a mission. Go ahead and roll a manipulation to see if
you convince him. He goes, no, Dala, He's like, this
guy here, what is his name? Marieque sounded out you got it right,
Yeah, I'm a week is what I heard. And he goes,
I could totally down this bottle. And Dolla's like, stop it for ruke
and and he goes, and what are you anyways? Even a proper engineer?
How obos Tamir said that we can't even get where we're going. Ship
don't work. We got here because the ship worked exactly as intended. Maybe
if you went to school you would understand a little more about the ships that
are keeping you alive in the middle of nowhere. He goes, I didn't
need to go to school. I learned a different set of skills. How
I got where I am in the middle of nowhere on our ship? Uh?
Sure you gonna keep Chatting're gonna chuck that bottle? Oh right? Uh?
He goes to put it to his lips. At this point, the
agent, the branch agent, stands up and she says, put the bottle
down. That's an order. And Nadina seems a bit done. She I
gotta make sure I got it, is gonna roll. She is going to
roll a command for him because he is technically under her command. Technically what
is command built off of? Empathy? Five eight? Die got it?
She doesn't get a success. He looks over at her and he says,
come on, it's one hundred ber and he puts the bottle to his lip
and he begins to chug. At that point, Alia walks in and actually
Alia is going to use force to throw a bottle out of his hands.
Okay, we'll have a h He's gonna take some extreme extreme negatives to this,
but we'll have a roll off here. Yeah, you're gonna roll force,
all right? Oh god, he got a critical success. You go
to take it from him, and he snatches it back and he when he
does, he goes, that's mine, and instinctually he pushes Alia. Alia
gets up and literally at this point she goes e enough and she literally now
is turned to the entire room and turn first turns to naught. He goes,
Nadia, if this is how your crew is going to behave, it's
his best we cancel this mission and head home. She goes no, No.
Before she even gives a chance and then turns to Ma Week and Tom
goes, you are acting like a bunch of children. You have been with
this crew quite enough to know how every one of us is like stop it.
And then she turns to what this space and goes you to what was
it a freak? Yeah, yeah, he goes. She goes, you
need to learn boundaries. They are all in a relationship together. He's and
with people them, well, he's with and she stares at him for a
quick second because he and her are together. Him and her are together,
so you constantly making inappropriate comments towards them is not welcome here. You're a
professional. We're on a mission. Act like we're on a ship together in
the middle of space. We're stranded because our engines on running and we have
no clue at what time someone is going to come in and attack us.
Once again, to correct that a little bit, we're just waiting for the
engines to cool down slightly so they can be used properly without overheating. We'll
be fine in a in a little while. Yes, Alia, I'm gonna
have you roll for me. I'm gonna need you to probably roll a manipulation
here or a command I just have because you're basically trying to intimidate. Yes,
I mean, I'm not stopping any of those things from happening private chat,
but I'm gonna so I have to roll empathy because I have zero.
Yeah, that's fine, you can ahead just roll the empathy for me.
Okay, I'm going to give you a talking point. Okay, even come
on, he goes. He goes, he looks up at you because you're
much bigger than he is, and he goes, you know, it doesn't
make a lot of sense this crew and you, and he looks you up
and down the priestess. What would these people need with a priest? And
he goes and it's not cool. Y'all didn't tell me you were like a
thing. Okay, none of your business. And he goes, well,
you could have just told me from the beginning before you let me embarrass myself.
Sorry, he's the worst. He's the worst. And he goes and
I and I and I shared my alcohol with you and and my cards and
uh, you can see dollas like looking over And at this point, Nadina
steps up and she goes for Ruke. Since you seem to not care about
my command, or my orders. I'm going to ask you to meet me
downstairs so that we can have a more private conversation. Dalla looks a little
like eyes big and she goes better yet, Dalla come with him. She
turns to Tao and to Alia before they leave. She says, I'm sorry
for their behavior. I did not expect cards to get so out of hand.
For Arruke has a way about him, but that has met with us.
We're sorry as well. We played a part. I'm not apologizing for
this, I hope not. She looks at the two of you. She
looks at the two of you and she says, I don't know what's spoiled
here, but you should figure it out because we have a mission and we
have to give that disc back. We're trying to focus on the mission.
It's very hard when someone keeps offering drinks, the light in the air or
the mood. He just tends to take things a little far. I'll handle
it. Perhaps a celebration after the fact will be best. Yes, a
celebration after yes. She turns and goes down to the story. She could
hear below, is anybody that would like Yeah? As soon as she leaves
the room, Malik makes a show of sliding his burr back up and like
pockets it, and then he reaches a hand out to Ferruk and says,
you know what, man, no hard feelings? Okay? Does he take
his hand? Yeah? Malik leans in and whispers into Ferouke's ear, A
real man like yourself wouldn't let three ladies tell you not to drink. And
he pulls his hand back and sits back down and pulls the chip out and
just sort of flips the chip in the air and catches it. His eyes
squint you can see his hand like rinch around the bottle. And she says,
Fruk, I gave you an order. Down stares. He is fuming,
and he kind of patters off down stairs, and they follow anybody that
would like to roll an observation while they're down there, unless you would like
to have conversation while they are away. They're basically down in the lower deck
of storage. I'm gonna listen, but only until tal starts yelling at me
done wants to hear it. I have one success in two successes to actually
hear what they're saying or like really make out what's going on. That's a
failure for me, anybody, anybody Sally open colms, opening comms. It's
a bit datticky at first. You hear Nadia say you would ruin this mission
for your own selfish reasons, so I'm going to dish out a little selfishness.
You hear the sound of skin against skin, more than likely a punch,
a heavy one. You hear his body hit the ground and she says,
stand up. You can hear him pick himself up off the floor.
She hits him again and again and again. Eventually you can hear her like
panting, and she says, I feel better if you jeopardize this mission the
next time, I just won't stop. They need to trust us, and
you've done nothing but see discontent. It'll be a lot harder for you to
flirt with women now. And you can hear him like he's like kind of
choking and gagging the entire time. Tal is looking between uh Malik and Tamere
stone faced, and then just walks back to check the status the Engines.
Did I miss something? La Marris's why is everybody so mad at them all?
It turns to what Marcus, it's nothing enough? Would you like to
come with me? I think we need to let them cool off. She
looks at Malik, why are you mad? I'll tell you after we're done.
Oh, I think we should probably know what's wrong. Why did I
have to fix something? Malik tamr while we were for the first time since
being on the ship. Malik looks you right in the face and goes,
I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking
about. You're both lying. Is Malik is one hundred percent lying and he's
not a mirror is not lying. He has no idea what happened? Okay,
Malik, Malik, if you were lying, anybody that would try to
read that lie, you are going to need to roll against your crew.
In this case, it's manipulation to lie, and it's going to be wits
I believe to or observation to pick up on it. Uh, Malik isn't
hiding it. Great. Malik is lying, and Lamar goes, stop,
what's wrong. I know you're lying because you're still sweating. You don't ever
sweat. He pulls out a data pad and hits a few buttons, and
in the cafeteria where we are the mess deck, the screen displays with what
he pulled up in the cryo chamber the previous month ago, or so,
however long it took us to go. And he scrolls on his data pad
and it scrolls along the screen, and he stops on the picture and the
death notice and he points to it. He says, you want to read
that date for me? Yeah, it's this date, yes, in game
date aloud. It's something something fifty eight CC right, okay, that was
like a while ago. What can you just get to the point that is
Seuel? Oh, look, he's cute. That's Kasha. The one that
looks like Suel is probably his brother. That date that all these people died
in in action is the date that our parents were killed in an explosion set
by Consortium troopers. They killed your parents and the hundreds of others and hundreds
of others. Wait wait, wait he killed your parents. These two unfortunate
assholes got captured by rebels. Seuel was on that trip. Though. We've
made peace with that, so you can't see killed your parents, so will
try to stop the bomb. I don't understand. Just like all the rest
of his missions, he had no idea what he was doing. Why do
they get that's not right, they killed your parents. The benefit of the
doubt to these other people didn't know what they were doing. I mean,
he's an asshole, but do you think he's malicious about it? Sewel to
his credit, was a syndicate drone. These two enlisted. They chose to
be there, they wanted to be there, They knew exactly what they signed
up for. I should go The last time we gave someone the benefit of
the doubt, it was when your dad assigned caution to the ship. So
no tell this time I will not be giving them the benefit of the dome.
The mar goes, well, I am still the doctor on this ship.
I should probably patch up his face. Leave's face, just make sure
he's alive, to make sure he doesn't need stitches. I'll take him to
the med lab. She kind of the need to make him look pretty by
any means. There's no skills in the world that will make that possible.
And she kind of turns and Tomara, she stops, and there's a moment
she hears you said that. She takes it and she turns around and she
goes, I'm I missed all you two, and she kind of puts a
hand on Malik's chest and gets on her tiptoes and plants a small kiss on
his cheek, and she says, I'm sorry he's wrong, and she kind
of walks away to go check on him. Malik stands and goes to leave
the room. Leslie, Yes, regardless of how we feel about them,
they've been assigned to us, and it is my job, part of my
job to try to get the whole crew back. Please don't make it more
difficult. Is that in the contract everyone wants to keep calling me a captain.
Damn it, I'm going to act like one. It's part of the
captain's job, all right. And he walks off to his room. Does
anybody else say anything or do anything while we wait out the rest of the
ship. How clutches the tea that Ali have brought her and hopes that it
cries with a little bit of calm. She's so bad it works. I
imagine Dala and Nadina come back to the mess area. It's significantly more quiet
now, you don't hear for Ruke mustling about making noise causing a scene.
He is in the med bay. I had a lot of darkness points,
don't I? I have so many darkness points all right, way through today's
came spend some darkness. Oh is it known that he's in the med bay?
Like is it obviously he's in there? Or was there like a big
like mouldy groany. No, I mean she's got him like laid out,
and she's you can see, she's like she beat the crap out of him.
His face is like busted up. He has an eye that's like completely
swollen, like shut. She's stitching his face. Lamara is like stitching his
face. You can see, like if you're looking at the camera that's in
the med bay, she's like, you know, you're looking at Laura's back
and she's like over his face. You can see his body like laid out.
I have to do it because I can't not Malik can't not right wait
till I spend these darkness points. No, just it's it can only make
it worse. He walks, he walks in to rummage right like there's like
he makes it look like he went to the medical lab for any reason.
That goes opens the drawer, puts something back and it doesn't even belong in
there, and he walks in and stops and like plants a kiss on Lamar's
cheek and then looks over at Faruke and says, don't worry. Man,
chicks dig scars, and then walks out. Lamara smiles a little bit.
We probably see her smile. She watches you leave and she looks down at
him. He's drunk as a skunk right now. He's like like kind of
just like laying there. You can hear him like, oh, I mean,
he's in a lot of pain, right I can't really talk. His
lip full and froll and shut, and she goes, well, I finished
stitching your face. You you have a pocket of blood that's building. I'm
gonna need to lance that. And Tamar reaches over to a draw and grabs
his scalpel and we see her slice his neck from ear to ear. She
completely drains him pretty much instantly. He doesn't scream. She puts her hand
over his mouth and she waits very nonchalantly for him to finish, like gurgling
on his own blood. She says, you really shouldn't have been mean to
Malik. Ever, she says, now I have a mest to clean up,
and you can see she kind of looks around and she grabs a towel
and binds his neck now that he's dead, so that he can't keep bleeding
everywhere. I will spend darkness points to make this happen. What you don't
see is what Lamara does with it. I'm going to oh that was I'm
going to spend another darkness point to rerull that, because that's what's stupid.
Bad. Okay, Okay, a success, man, I'm just rolling really
shitty. Okay, she gets a single success? Uh sorry, everybody.
She did to confirm chat. She did just kill that dude. She did
just kill that dude. He might have survived had Maleak not come in and
kissed her cheek. She couldn't handle it. She can't handle it. And
so we watch over the next few hours as the ship is quiet and everybody
is in their own place, in their own way. The med lab is
far removed from the majority of the activity where everybody's going to be, and
over the next hour or so, we watch as Lamara uses a bloody glove
to seal the med bay door locks it down. She quickly begins removing his
organs and dropping them in a bucket. She goes over to the metal sink
and pours some chemicals in behind it to eat away at his organs, and
over the next few hours she slowly dissolves this body so that nothing is left
of it except for his armor. And when that's all done, she knows
this med bay better than anyone. She goes over to a hole in the
wall. She removes the plating with quite a bit of effort. She puts
his armor inside of it, shoes anything that didn't get eaten by the chemicals
his gun included, puts the place back on the wall, sees that she's
put bloody handprints everywhere, that the white table is now covered in blood.
And she spends the last few minutes cleaning, bleaching, wiping clean of any
and all proof that he ever existed, until someone comes and asks where Ferruke
is, and Lamara simply goes back to what she was doing and she's like,
hmm, oh, I'm hungry, and she turns around and just finishes
like wiping down a counter. It's pristine. It's like he was never there.
And do you hear Sally come over the intercom as Lamara walks back to
mess Hall to get something to munch, And yes, Sally recorded every ounce
of it, because Sally records everything, and we hear Sally say, Captain,
we're drawing close to our destination. All right, all right, everybody,
I turn on the comms. Everybody suit up, get yourself prepared,
prepared for landing. I have no idea how this is going to go.
I've never been on a water planet before. You have been given scuba suits.
Sally goes, Captain, the atmosphere is very thin. The cold weather
makes it difficult. You may have to manually land the ship on the planet's
surface. Great, lovely, it goes, Yeah, then'm good. I
do an extra prayer. Yeah, like, oh please baa never done a
water landing before. Sally comes over and says, cru please find appropriate seating.
We are going to make planet side landing or atmospheric landing. I assume.
I assume the main crew has like their own crew positions too. Yeah.
Probably. Lamara comes out, she goes, you want to sit by
me, Malik. Yeah, that's where I always said. She looks kind
of giddy and it's kind of weird. No, I know it's not Resembly
her, but she looks happy, kind of relieved in a way, probably
since the first time, you know, y'all ripped your girlfriend out of a
jar. Well, you know, I think Malik like makes sure because he
doesn't know she was crazy when he got her. He doesn't he's gonna he's
gonna make sure that she's buckled in properly, and then sits next to her.
She uh, wait, let's see. I wonder if she she you
you like buckle her in and she kind of giggles, and you see,
out of the corner of your eye she unbuckles herself and she goes, oops,
it didn't stay. We're going to be landing then, and he reaches
over and buckles her back in, and then he goes to sit in his
chair. Seemed to care. She doesn't care. She thought it was cute.
Wow, I need you to make this landing for us, Okay,
plus one for the bless ship, plus one for your prayer. Uh,
there's not, but there there's maneuverability. So you're gonna get plus two for
the maneuverability, so four with this because you're you've got those little like hub
things. It makes me think of the pieces that are on like the ships
in the matrix. They're like and they add like pressure to help like keep
the ship like level. So it helps you with maneuverability on the big,
big science vessel. Wow, go yes, okay, all right, oh
yeah, we'll get there. We see Tal start the process. The ship
kind of boots up, and there's a moment where you may hold your breath
to mirror, like has it cooled off enough? The last thing we need
is an overheated reactor being booted up far too soon. And everybody holds their
breath and the ship like into overdrive, and you hear Sally say, Captain,
vitals of the ship look good. We are at full capacity at the
moment. We'll be planets side in t minus two minutes. And everything's like
as towel's like bringing this heavy vessel in to atmosphere on this moon. And
you can see this moon is an icy blue color. The side that faces
the purple sun almost glows from this kind of purple white that hits it.
But you, of course, are headed to the dark side of the moon.
And as you draw ever closer to the planet, all of you can
see out one of the poor windows here in the like like I guess out
the front major front window that there is a piece of a vessel that's like
crumpled and breaking apart. In in space. You're gonna guess this is probably
a part of the zephere that you've been like looking for, not the piece
you need, because you know that that piece is planets side. And as
you everybody takes their seats, you've seen Nadina come in and go, has
anybody seen for Rouke? Malik just looks at Lamara. I don't know.
I patched him up in the med Baz said, who's gonna go lay down?
Can I roll to see if she's lying? You sure can? Okay,
that's at better than a one. I want to crack. She's super
duper lying. Uh and we're currently landing. Oh yeah, we're we're we're
PLANETARYA it's fine, yeah, we're we're like coming in. So Nadina quickly
sits down and like there's like a shuffle. She tries to buck herself.
She clear it was like looking for him and couldn't find him. He like
looks over at her and knows that she's lying, and he just slides his
terminal over as if he's going to be doing you know, comms officer things,
and he immediately starts typing dot tall. I'm so sorry, I'd like
to hack the ship also for the first time ever. Wow, okay,
on her perfect landing, you're gonna have to beat her critical success to take
the ship over. I'm not taking the ship over, okay, I'm hacking
something completely different to whatever you want the video footage. You want to know
what happened to the med bay, I don't because we have to willingly give
that to what's her face. What I do want to do is, while
we were space side, I would like to make it look like one of
the cargo doors opened and closed. Okay, I will roll a datagin to
take it over and to open a The good news is, had you done
this and Tao did not have a critical success, the ship would be thrown
off kilter. No, no, I don't want to I don't want to
actually open it. I just want to make it like a log. Yeah,
I want to log in the computer that it was opened at X time
while we were in space. So that's a too limited success. So maybe
it looks like, you know, after getting he's ask kick, he decided
to just go for a short walk into space. So for all of you
at home, we see needed a breath of fresh air. Click click click
click it in right about the time that you saw Lamara in the med Bay.
You logged at like one of the bay doors opened or something like that,
and taw. You hit atmosphere. It's cold here, ice tinks on
the windshield. You can hear the wind outside. Because you come out of
space, the noise, the deafening sound of sound kind of takes over.
And as you come into atmosphere you can see the snow and the ice and
things like that are making it difficult to see. The good news is between
well, you wrote a critical success, so you have no problem. You
kind of turned the lights on as the science ship hovers near the surface and
as you get close, all of you can see it is water. Massive
chunks of ice and icebergs like float in this ever vast, never ending deep
icy blue water tow. You find a very large, I'm want to call
it an iceberg, very large iceberg that kind of has like a flat,
big flat landing piece on it, and you land the defiant as if it
was on ice skates. It just like comes down really gently, nothing cracks
underneath it. You don't cause any disruptions or anything like that, and the
ship kind of woo for the record, I spent the two darkness points to
play the Healer card, which she did not choose to do. Our healer
is also a killer Bam Sam sides of the same coin, though, isn't
it though, you hold people's lives regardless, I said she. I'm pretty
sure she's killed more people than she's healed. Pretty sure she's like melted the
brains of two people back on KUPA, Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
We know she's done murders as soon as tell those that she like touches
down and sits there holding the controls for just a moment, waiting for some
sort of like crack or shift or something. Captain perfect landing. Yeah,
she was Captain perfect Landing. We have exactly enough based on either side,
and it seems you have found a rather secure and structural Iceberg. Well done,
Thanks Sally. You've gotten really good at compliments lately. It's part of
my upgrades that I received when we were at the Hamarabi station. I think
you can thank Joey for those. I have to remember to thank Joey next
time I see him. Captain well, I can go with you, yes,
if you really want to, Yeah, says would will be a good
idea to have at least one person stay with the ship. I don't want
to stay with the ship. Okay, I'll stay with the ship. Nadia
goes, well, we should all suit up. We should have wet suits
and the scuba gear in the back plenty to go around. Yeah, Sally,
do a scan for environmental information. Uh, scanning for environmental information team
minus seventy five degrees celsius. The atmosphere is made of frozen water. The
planet's surface is ninety six point one percent frozen water. Well, gonna be
cold, so much water, it says this side of the planet never sees
sunlight. Based on its orbit, it will be dark. You should take
extra light. Good advice. Doll that goes. You can hear her like
at the end of ship. It's like, Brooke, come on, you
dumb ass. You can hear like banging on the door where they were supposed
to be like sleeping, right, they're bunking station or whatever? Is he
drunk? Did he just pass out? He was very drunk. I had
him take a breathalyzer test. He said he was going back to his room
to lay down. I haven't seen him since I stitch to face. Can
I tell, if she's lying, you can sure roll the trunk. It's
a wits roll to pick up. You got to beat her. I guess
she can roll again. Observation. Yeah, I'm sorry, I take an
observation. Nope, failure. She seems taw. She seems kind of happy
and maybe like she's kind of maybe back to her old self again. You
also noticed that is holding her hand. She's feeling better. Maybe that's why
she feels happy. Absolutely fine, nothing fishy's going on. Yep, except
he never holds her hand except when things get weird. What that's not true.
That can't be so true, all right. I also feeled my observation
role. So it's just really cute to tell. Yeah, it's really cute.
Tells heart feels a little bit better, and you can see Natty is
like standing behind her Nadina and she kind of picks up on it. She
says, well, he couldn't have gone anywhere. This is a ship.
She kind of starts going locate any additional light forms on ship. Sally says,
running scan a vessel. I mean you did do a pretty good number
on him, like two hours ago. It's true his face was very broken
open ten stitches. In fact, he had lost eyesight in one eye,
probably not going to return, so I'm not really sure what good he's gonna
be on the planet. Anyway, I could stay here and watch for him,
you know, just in case he wakes up out of his drunk stupor.
And Dolly goes. She goes, I can't find him, Captain.
She's like, he probably crawled in a corner somewhere to sleep off his drunkenness.
And she's like, if he's not coming with us, he doesn't get
a cut of the pay. Dolla goes, You're just gonna leave him behind,
Captain, and she's like, look, we got we got all of
them, plus the doctor will take care of him. Yeah, doctor already
took care of him for cut. Sally goes. Currently upboard the vessel,
there are eight life forms. Dollar goes, there should be nine. There
were nine of us when we left, Captain, and I am only reading
eight active life forms? Well then seven? Did I know the five of
us and the three of them? Oh, you're right, you're totally right.
Seven. Yeah, She goes, I'm sorry, Captain, I am
reading seven active life forms, and she says I should have had eight.
I can math. Counting is hard? Okay? Uh, Well, I
guess there's a body around here somewhere. I'm sure body. Mar says there
are only seven active life forms. Eight people were on the ship when we
left. So there's a body around here somewhere. Do you think you die?
No matter how many stitches, did he ever see it? Well?
I had to put tin in his face. What happened to his face?
Blood force trauma? Could this have caused a stroke or an aneurism? He
did have a lot of alcohol in his system. The thinning of the blood
could not have been good, along with the amount of bleeding he was doing.
Plus, his nose was broken. He didn't like it. When I
reset it, he would have screamed. But he had bit down on his
tongue already. It was all swollen. He was choking for a while.
You didn't you sent him? You just sent him on his way like that.
Oh. I patched him up and made sure you know that anything that
was swollen was being taken care of. Okay, so he should be in
the med bay right. No, he went back to his bunk, is
what he told me. Okay, So let's go check his bunk. Carrier
Della was. I checked his bunk, he's not there. We don't have
time. I'm sorry to and we need to question. I'm not leaving a
member of my crew on the ship with a person I don't know, unaccounted
for. Then, if you said you needed someone to say on the ship
poor, who can say in the ship? We'll take Lamara? Well,
that one he was going to leave her on the ship. I could stay
on the ship, Maria. You stay on the ship here if if we
have to come back with an injury or something, you're the best one to
patch us up when we get back. I'm really good at fixing people.
Yes, so fortunately for you, kind of indispensable, you know what.
At this point, and Nadina goes, you know what, You're right,
he's a drunkard and I've already apologized for his behavior enough. I'm not going
to do it anymore. If he doesn't make the mission, he doesn't get
his pay, and for all I care, we can shoot him out the
airlock. And she says, suit up, everyone. We need to probably
move quickly, especially with those pirates hot on our trail. Yeah, all
right, let's go. She puts a hand on tael shoulder, and she
says, Captain, I appreciate your care for my men means a lot.
It's a quality sign of a good captain. Tal just kind of looks a
little taken aback. She doesn't really know what to say. She says,
well, skin tied suits, don't zip themselves on. She kind of like
smacks you on the back a little bit harder after that, and she kind
of wanders off to go suit up with Dalla. Yeah, leaving all of
you along with Lamara standing there on the bridge. I promise I'll keep the
ship safe. I know you will. You know what to do if we
run into any emergencies. Just for an abundance of caution, Mura, if
anyone that isn't us knocks on the hall door, especially if they're a child,
do not let them on the ship. Okay, don't let kids on
the ship. Yep, at all. I can do that, thanks,
that'd be great. She kind of smiles, and she says, I imagine
there's like a gathering y'all like suit up in these like skin tight, super
duper thick wet suits that are going to keep you warm in this ice cold
water. There's like a heating system that like runs throughout it that is attached
to the tank on your back. It's a scuba diving like suit. You
all kind of suit up. La Marris Lamaris smiles watching, Uh, y'all
like wiggle into these these these suits, specifically Malik, who wants to wiggle
into this this scuba suit. This is the kind of harassment. I get
it home all the time. I believe I'm like putting clothes on and my
girlfriend's like, I'm like, get out of here, monster. I'm going
is that is exactly? How? Oh lots? Yeah, that's fair,
that's fair. Oh god, why are we dismarssing the ship? You will
be momentarily I'm going to have I need to see you're both terrible. I'm
going to have I'm going to guess this was probably two mirror to mirror.
I'm going to have you roll a science role to do to try to map
underwater so y'all can try to find this crashed vessel, just to see how
long it takes you under the water to get to where you're going. Perfect
great, as you reach that atmosphere or like when you landed, you kind
of ran diagnostics along with Sally. You were able to see there is a
structure that is deep, deep down, about two miles or so under the
water. It's it's hell Afar. That is where you all are traveling.
Structurally speaking, there seems to be a small set of caves that might be
kind of a quicker access. But Sally pings that map, that underwater like
map to your suit. So y'all kind of have like a digital hud or
something maybe, or maybe it shows up in your goggle something cool, something
cool as Oh, yes, I was just gonna say before we start heading
out, or as we're about to head out. Alia turns to Lamara and
he goes, I just wanted to say, I noticed you look much happier,
and I'm I'm glad, I'm feeling better. Yeah, I'm feeling better.
Okay, Well, if there's every moment you need to talk with me,
I know I would love to just properly get to know you. I
know we've really not had enough time to just sit down and just chat.
After everything. You used to talk to me all the time, sorry what,
she goes, you used to talk to me all the time when I
was in the jar or whatever. You're talented too, We at least tried
to sometimes the gin would block it out, you know, so that I
couldn't hear what they were saying. But I knew y'all were there. I
probably know you better than you know me. Well mhm, hopefully I can
say the same very soon. A lot of people don't like to get to
know me. Well, I'm hoping that's not the case. And I know
this is not the case. Here you seem nice. I like nice people.
Okay, yep, I'm glad I'm nice. Then, yep, yep.
And you make good tea, thank you. Oh how about I make
tea this time when you all get back, because you're gonna need it.
Your bones are gonna be cold. That'd be lovely if you want. If
you want, you can use my uh uh my tejas in my room.
So you ever the one you like to pick, go ahead, okay,
okay, I just don't touch the one that's at the very top. Okay,
it's specialty, it's special okay, okay, bye. And she like
you can see like the back hash like drops open. It is like fucking
snow and wind, huge chunks of ice. It is nightmarish. And you
can see there's about ten ft between the back of the vessel like where the
gang like it actually drops down and the like edge that plops off into the
water, there's about a six foot drop. You're gonna have to like jump
in before we disembark dot or as we're about to leap off, Malik turns
his oh shit, hold on a second and he runs back into the ship
with this scuba suit on. We hear you're like plata plat of your of
your He told you to go ahead and use the bathroom. It's not that
chick. What uh. He opens his room and he reaches across to where
the bundle of cloth and the jar used to sit, and in the corner,
propped up in the wall, looks like trash, and he reaches over
and grabs it. And for all intents and purposes, it is trash.
Is some kind of synthetic metalloid. But it's a spear. It's what he
had, the only thing he had with him when they picked him up from
XR. And he grabs this spear, and on his way out of the
room, he like looks at the cargo door, leans back in the room,
hits the panel on the wall and says, Sally, delete all recorded
footage for the last ten hours. Delete that recorded footage for the last ten
hours. And then he one's back out with a spear. She says,
what is that? It's my spear. You have a spear? Yeah,
I made it. Can you use it? Yeah? Use it to fight
giant worms, like real worms, not in your head? What no giant
worms. I was trapped on a rust planet. Oh right, you told
me that. Yeah, cool, that was your toy. I mean I
didn't have any other weapons, so I had to make one. Oh it's
a weapon, yeah, I see that. Now it's a spear. It's
like a giant scalpel. How do you do it? You stab them at
the point. Again, Well, that's not how you use a scalpel.
Okay. Well then it's like a giant needle. Okay, show me we
have work to do. Uh. And she's kind of picking on it,
and he like it opens the thing and like gives her kids on the cheek
and then splits it back down. I have to go, okay bye.
She kind of like hits the button and you can see it like as it
closes back up and as you hear metal on metal, Lumara was gonna say,
Sally, delete all footage from the med Bay please. Sally goes already
done. Lamara Malik asked me to lead all footage in the last ten hours.
Lamar goes, oh, okay, I love him. I'm gonna go
to his bedroom and smell his pillow now, and she like uh, saunters
off to your bedroom to wait it out while all of you go on a
very very dangerous mission. That sounds right. It's not a corruption. That's
five darkness points. Okay. She is feeling more like herself. Man,
somebody with bloodless it really helps him. You kill something, you just feel
better. Poor Alia has no idea she does. She that is one of
her things. She's blood lusty. Yep, I mean she lusty for other
things, but she's specifically blood lusty. She's a Those are her two kind
of lessons malague left and blood lust. It's true. She also has a
couple of talents, one of which she's not actually used yet. That's a
scary talent. Oh, I really don't want those two lessons to combine at
any point. All right, they almost did, but you took care of
that. So our camera picks up after all of you have basically jumped into
this ice cold water. No matter how thick of a suit you wear,
there is no denying how cold it is. And I imagine we hear this
kind of dense emptiness, much like space. But it's not space. It's
underwater and it is blackish. So much is so much worse. You can
hear right, You can hear your own underwater as you breathe through this this
this fake oxygen in it should feel totally right to you. It's still a
suit, just like you are in space, but it's not. I don't
want to make this worse, but I have to because it's technically cannon.
As discussed on the lake on Kua Ta me or Malik can't swim. We
come from a planet with no water. Palace's also never tried swimming before crew
nobody knew how to swim. Well, it was, and that's why we
chose not to go into the water. We have no idea about KP or
about Aliah. Yeah, I'm going to have everybody make a agility and or
dexterity check. Oh god, I know surprising. Actually, Alia actually my
best stade's agility or what agiliar dexterity? I just rolled dexterity. It does
both, Okay, Okay, one success is sti't a success? Great great
great great great great great great Okay, Uh. The legionaires have no problems.
They're they're are the single legionnaire now and the branch agent have no problem.
They actually move on ahead. They have lights on their helmets and one
in their hands, and they're they're beginning to swim down into the darkness.
You're beginning to lose sight of them. You may not be able to,
but the good news is you're not trying to swim to maintain oxygen, which
means you can actually just sink and so Tell and Malik figured that out pretty
quickly that if you just don't fight it and kick your feet down, it
actually kind of happens naturally. Malik learned to swim on the junk planet.
Does any excuse I have? Now, that's a story that I wanna uh,
that's I want to hear. It was it was a it was a
rust planet, right, but there was no water on there. So when
it rains like it's like monsoon season, it just rains and rains and rains
like a month's train, and everything fills up with water. That's how everything
gets rusty. Can I just say, I just imagine you guys, ever
see that clip from the old anime show Golden Boy where he's pretending to swim
and he does all he does is like and then just like trying to swim,
and then at the end he goes, how's that? I like?
But I imagine that Alia is not used to being in a scuba suit breathing
this kind of fake oxygen in this kind of claustrophobic way. And Tamir,
you already made it clear to mir Hates this This is not space. This
is underwater. It is still pressure, but it's a different kind of pressure.
It can replicate and it can feel, but it is not space.
Here. Gravity is heavier, not lighter. Here, things are just different
and y'all are struggling and you're falling behind. So in order, basically it's
the legionaire and the branch agent headed down tal Malique, Tamr and Alia.
As the two of you are kind of like, you know how like when
you get underheter and you kind of spin, like you can't get your direction
correct. When taw gets in, I imagined she kind of ends up doing
well at this just because she kind of freezes and then she starts singing,
and she's like, oh, okay, so this is working. I'm just
gonna keep not doing anything. Just don't move. It's working. At one
point I hit my comms and I'm like, hey, just just stay just
stay still. Stop fighting it. I mentioned that they hate this. Oh
yeah, there's like an open comps for everybody in your helmet and your helmet.
I'm not a fan either, but if you stay still, you sink
faster. Yeah, okay, we just got to get there. We just
got to get there. And you're getting close. You can kind of see
the first where this this cave system is. Just keep swimming, keep swimming
cool. I just want to make sure I got this right. And it
takes you a while. In fact, you swim for like thirty minutes to
get where you're going. It's quite a swim. For those of you that
don't have a lot of what's the word I'm looking for, constitution, or
you're not a very stamina based person, this is probably a very hard swim
for you. This is like being somebody giving them back and be like bike
six miles. It becomes very hard very quickly, and you become extraordinarily winded
along the way. To mere despite working out this is not what he does
or what he knows. Everything in his body is saying, get out,
get out, get out. Yeah right, but you finally find what you're
looking for. You can see it. You actually hear Nadina come over,
like the comment. She says, there do you see it? And the
light kind of pans slowly through the open water, showing you all this cold
debris and the dense blue darkness, and it pans across what would have been
something possibly shiny. At one point there's like metal down below, and you
know what y'all gave them to me. We're gonna spend it. There are
six of you, noties, no these, there are six of you.
I'm gonna go just order my screen. Mike, you're one, Aris,
you're two, Nome, you're three, Uh, you're four for Alia uh,
and then five and six are Dolla and Medina. If your number comes
up, let me know, ayers, this is perfect. That's me great,
yay perfect airis you towel is everything's going fine? Uh? There's no
like warning sign that goes off for anything. But you look down at your
oxygen. It's lower than it should be. It's past the halfway point and
you just got here. You're gonna need like you shouldn't have passed the halfway
point yet. There's a possibility your suit has a leak, or at least
your air tank does, which is gonna be problematic on the way back.
I think my tank has a leak. Oxygen levels are already under half.
What do you mean your tank has a leak? Just like? How casual
that was? I uh, I mean, I don't know what you want
me to say. It's not something's wrong. Let me take a look at
it, and can I can I inspect it? Yeah? You kind of
like the man who couldn't swim? Now? Can is how how kind of
ghost goes towards him? I imagine she sticks close by him anyways, yep,
so they're probably not very far apart. Would you like me to roll
tank? Of course, you can't do the same in this case, I
think it would. I would take either. Genuinely, I would take either.
I don't think it really matters. You get close and you can see
it that the gauge is like vibrating, which tells you that there's an issue.
And there is a small crack in the tank and you can see it's
like bubbles are like not like it's not like blowing air like that. It's
just like the occasional like release of a bubble. Here it's a very light
crack or in one of the scenes, which means she is leaking air.
Hang on the second and whatever he's got on him, whatever is in pouches
or on the suit. I'm gonna go ahead and use my deckhand skill,
okay where I can basically or just kidding, gear head, I can tink
her with gear So I'd like to repair it. Okay. Do you want
to do with that underwater which will make it more difficult, or do you
want to wait till you get where you're going. Let's do it. We're
down there, okay, you don't have much farther to go. You see
it, You know you can fix it, but you're gonna need like to
be you know. And you can see the front end the bow of the
vessel that's been left in orbit has crashed landed here in the very bottom of
this place. And Nadina says, what is that She kind of points you
can see some lights kind of from the inside. Now, this is a
massive warship, like the tip of this vessel is three times the side of
the size of the Defiant, Like this is this is huge, A huge
piece of this ship is down here. And you can see that there's like
some green glowing light. Is it like a glow stick or something has been
lit up? And Nadina says, take caution, I think I see an
air pocket there, and she kind of dives down underneath and like into the
vessel as if there might be a place to like stand or something like that.
You can all follow if you would like. Yeah, while they're following,
Kin, t mer sense anything as far as like artifacts go. You
could sure try. I would love to try. I'm always down to give
artifacts. Nope, we'll have an r o V. They don't have a
road of coal, you know, using your classes. No oh, hell
no, he's not. Just double check just maybe nope, Nope, that's
his that's his artificer talent talent. Okay, would you roll? That's his
special ability? You don't you you don't sense anything down here, But then
again, this is way out of your element, Like there's just a lot
going on, and now you're also worried about Tow. But sure enough she
has found a pocket, and that's all you kind of crawl out. You
can see that there's a giant air pocket with this vessels kind of on edge
in the ground. It's kind of cracked away the the floor here and it
leans to the side. But you see it what footprints that don't belong to
you? Somebody has already been here, or you think somebody's already been here
when all of you kind of crawl your way out of the cold water,
you can see she already. Nadina and Dala have already like taken off the
swimming booties and are like they're like loading guns and they think somebody else is
here. It's very clear as soon as towel breaches and gets up on the
service, Samir is gonna reach out to her to start repairing. Oh yeah,
uh did you roll? You rolled a critical? Say yeah, on
that technology, right, I would say, not only do you know how
to what is wrong with it, but you can patch it. And so
you like reach in and you slap on what is like a steel band aid
basically onto it, which means it's not leaking air anymore, but you can't
put more air in it. Correct the take is done. But yeah,
she's about ten percent short of what she needs to make to the surface.
Okay, we gonna be holding our breath and hoping cool cl coock cool cool.
So the agent, she says, she kind of gets down in a
squad and she's like, somebody else beat us here. This could be very
bad for us. Well, very bad or very good. It depends on
which way you look at it and what happens when we continue. Let's hope
they are less of them than there are of us, or at least they're
willing to negotiate, because, as per the Consortium Salvage directives, they laid
first claim to anything that is here. As salvagers like scavengers, you would
know there is a directive that the Consortium says first hear everything on it's yours.
Yeah, well, lots of things can go wrong down here, for
them and for us. Bleik was thinking for a second, and as soon
as as soon as Tale said that, he like looks at her for a
second, like, did you just low key code that we could kill them?
And then he like, uh, we scanned the surface, there was
no other ship that we could detect. Our sensors are only so good,
she says, not every ship can land on the surface. Who wants to
bet that the pirates ship up there has something to do with this. They
could have dropped them from the atmosphere, dropped them in. Maybe they plunked
heright out of the sky if they came atmosphere level, who knows. Maybe
it's the order of the parak. You're first, right, Malik has the
classic trademark Malik smirk and he says, well, piracy isn't salvaging, and
what do you think we are doing? Commission salvage. Well, if that's
the case and it is commissioned, then we are a little late to salvage
anything from here, she says. So let's hope that they are willing to
negotiate that they didn't survive their initial investigation. I guess we should go how
big is this ship section? It's huge? Okay, like this chunk alone
is the size was like a cruise ship. This is a Dreadnought, right,
correct that this is the front half of the Dreadnought. I would say
the front quarter of a Dreadnought or third maybe that has dipped off. The
other back end of it was still floating in space. I just want to
point out just a side note for for people who don't understand why Tile's so
cold on this. She grew up exploring new places with her parents as as
scientists, and she is aware that not every exploration is, you know,
fruitful. Sometimes you go into something and you end up dying and it's not
that you did necessarily anything wrong. Shit happens. So it's entirely possible that
yes, somebody came in here, but they've already died. We don't know
dot this is. This is going back a little bit, so, way
way way back. One year ago Malik intercepted and was also given information regarding
the Ghazali and the Zaphira in that he knew there was some shit going down
before we actually got there. M hm. The Zaphira is a Legion destroyer,
and would I be correct in assuming that most Legion destroyers are at least
somewhat built to form like they're all They're not all unique, they're all pretty
much the same ship map layout. Yeah, yeah, Can I in somewhere
in my archives pull up what the schematics of a Legion destroyer? Because I
know we got the blue disc in the bridge of the or we got the
Emerald disc in the bridge of the Gazali. Cruise ship. So I would
assume that the bridge would contain the blue disc here. Okay, yes,
that seems absolute correct. Okay, then it would be on the bridge basically
that's where you found the blue dist the last time. Or we're supposed to
be on the bridge, remember, and then the captain passed it from the
bridge back before the bridge like exploded, right, so you would know the
blue disc would be in the bridge, which would be at the front of
the vessel. So you just need to track your way there. Yeah,
so he's gonna so I'm gonna pull up, you know, and a little
wristwatch the little wire frame of the of the of of Legion destroyer kind of
comes up, and he like moves it and manipulates this wire frame and kind
of just takes a chunk off of it to make it look similar to what
we're dealing with, and then isolates wherever the bridge is and then flattens it
backed down and sends that to everybody. Yeah, it kind of pings up
and she goes, well done you you kind of see, Nadina. Yeah,
thanks, tal that's the bridge. More than likely the blue dist is
going to be there. We don't have captain's codes as far as I know,
unless you were given some where were we given any I don't thought were
given any what codes anything to get through? Yeah, they would have given
you like a car, a card or something. Actually they they would not
have given that to you. They would have given that to Zandina. But
she has she has what needs like to open these like military codes to open
the doors, so that I would not worry about that. Yeah, he
just says it out loud. I we would need some kind of access codes
to get the blue disc. Okay, Legion Destroyer is a little bit above
my expertise. I'm not saying it's not possible, but if you didn't get
data codes, I didn't get any codes. And in my doss there beep
beep, beep beep. You hear like a buttons. She goes, I
have the codes. The doors open. It lets out like frozen that frozen
like fogginess that comes with like dry eyes, and you can see have everything
down here is covered in a layer of ice. It's cold like you can
even hear it like crunching under your feet. Well, leak, do you
think there are any of those dogs survived? He like rubs his shoulder.
I hope not, man, I mean maybe they're not good and frozen atmospheres.
Uh Uh what the hell was her name? Caw yeah, Nadina.
Uh, this is gonna sound morbid. Uh. I don't care. One
third of your crew is already dead or missing or he's drunk. WI that
asshole dead because the ship registered six lay forms a seat of seven or seven
instead of eight. Anyway, you're the only one with codes. Can you
set up a backup plan in case you also die, disappear, get drunk
something. Are you expecting me to die? I really hope not, because
then we're just trapping on an ice plan. You're acting rather You're acting rather
suspicious. Mom, Thank you, kidd. You've known me for all of
five hours outside of cryo. You have no idea whether I'm acting suspicious or
not. She goes, I've dealt with many men in my day. I
don't see how that's relevant. Just a few hours ago I heard about it.
I can read you. What's I can't give you military access codes if
that's what you're asking, So no, okay, great, that's recorder on
the suit. So if you die and mission fails, then we can just
play that back. All right, nobody is dying, she says, again,
a little bit louder, as if to make her point clear. Nobody
is dying. Man body like to roll an empathy check to see why she
seems so very adamant about that. Malik does not give a ship. Yeah,
that's very interested. Yeah, so is Alia. All of it success?
Okay, that was Okay, you die, y'all, so the two
of you may even look at each other. She's being weird. Every time
he mentions people dying. She keeps reiterating that nobody's going to die, that
that's not happening, as if she doesn't want y'all thinking about that. But
that's about all you get. It is very strange. It's kind of it's
it's kind of odd all in all, just saying if you've seen half the
ship we've seen, you'd have an abundance of caution. But that's right either
way. She says, I have seen half the ship you've seen a more
m Malik looks to tell to tal into miracle. All right, y'all haven't
been always with her about like who you are and what you do, so
that's fine. Any better, He takes a bunch of weak ass we ass
space punks. I would like to keep it that way. Maybe it is
to your benefit. She doesn't find you a threat, I guess you could
say. And umm, she she says. Oh. Look, as you
kind of enter this next space, you can see there are two frozen bodies.
They're not decomposing, but they are very dead here. How evil do
I want to be very Do you have like seventeen Yeah, use some of
those darkness points. Let's go. I don't have a lot of corruption bars
tonight, so fuck us up this all you? All right? I mean
it's true. It's the first time we ever haven't had like seven corruption bars
where the chat tries to the chat hasn't tried to kill us yet, so
you get to try to kill us, all right, all right, fine,
the chat is just trying to help us get like whittled down some of
the darkness points so that we can build them up again when we right fail
the roles that we're about to make. Right, Okay, the door opens
up and you can see these two bodies. They are laid out in a
very odd way. Their mouths like open unnaturally, so hanging to the side.
They're they're kind of like one of them is uh, well, yeah,
they're frozen, so like one of them was like shielding themselves when they
died. But I guess somebody could roll a metacurgy check if you want to
try or at least an observation. Oh you know what I have that if
you want to try to figure out how they might have died. Yeah,
he'll he'll bend down and take a look at these people. Sickles to wow,
they were there. They are frozen now, but they weren't frozen.
That's not how they died. They didn't die of hypothermia. It seems that
they died of blood laws Uh from the massive like gouge wounds across their their
their chest. There's a black kind of achiness that sits just underneath the layer
of ice covering your body around the wounds. Dot mm hm. As someone
who is familiar with uh, what the hell are those things called the tinakra
katara? Are those of the dog monster things the werewolf? This is?
This is not that mm In fact, you've seen this before? Okat exactly
what this is? This is this? Uh? The last time you saw
this was in Himura at a mass gravesite. Oh, I wouldn't have seen
that then you were there for that in in Himera. Yeah, when you
guys went you went no, I'm sorry in Tawan not Himia. I didn't
go the line. Then you don't know Alik didn't go on the mine the
idea. Oh you know what, that's not Malik also treated to me Or
and Talent, so he would have seen that one. Then you would know
that these are the very similar ones to the ones that they had. These
they just happened to be frozen over and they died of them. Mmm uh.
Malik is like manipulating this frozen corpse as best he can, and he
looks up to Talent says, tell what's the armor rating on the scuba suits?
I, as a player do not know, but tell the immediately answer,
Uh, none, We're just this is for environmental protraction. Great?
Great, great? Why how many bodies can a Legion destroyer hold? Well,
if it's a full destroyer, a couple hundred, let's go with a
couple of hundred mining colony. And he looks to toe mm hmm. She
just kind of like waves her arms a little bit because she has said She's
like, what do you want me to do? I'm just letting you know,
Well, she kind of kicks their foot and she goes, well,
whatever it was, they're dead now. Looks like she kind of looks their
clothes over and like lifts a very cold arm that like crunches, you know,
like with the eyes, and she says ah and points to a tattoo
like on their side or something. It says pirate. They've been brandedd.
I'm sorry, did you mention how long these have been dead? What you
have to tell with a with limited success, they're frozen. The chances are
they're frozen. Actually, you're not going to be able to tell with them
being frozen. You you not logged to freeze over? Yeah, a body
here to freeze over could take less than twenty four hours. Yeah, okay,
but I'll tell you this that these are the same pirates that were bugging
you earlier. It's a three day trip from there to here, and we
have so if they said, like a scouting party out here bare minimum,
it's been three days since the pirates have seen them, right, so they
might have gone on a scouting party and not come back. I have a
question because I don't remember what exactly it was that attacked us. What I
don't remember remember the dark Yeah, they're yeah, the zombies, the ones
that with like the black smoky ones that like ripped so open or was it
to me or I can't remember me? And sure right now it was sul
Intal And they poison them and if they were to be fully encompassed with that
poison, that would not be good. I'm gonna say, well, whatever
killed them kind of looks like people. If you see somebody around here and
they're moving, chances are they're probably actually dead and if they get their hands
on you, they're going to poison you and kill you. Two you could
hear there's like a moment of like everything, but uh, how looks dead
serious? The whole crew has to look serious. She kind of looks over
to Dollan. She has no idea what's happening. Considering with her adventures,
she would probably and at least more to the lower of specifically of the of
of mass grave sites raise and strange things happen when they're unattended, when bodies
aren't given proper rest, right, Yeah, I would imagine actually that would
be something that Alia would actively do if she did come across like a body
that's not properly taken care of, like give their right last rites. And
imagine that you and Sholey have done that many a time throughout the decades together.
Are the years together? So as you stroll through you you know what,
I'm gonna let her roll this observation because she's got a hell of better
observation, I think, Yeah, the the whole time, towel towle's essentially
now ready for anything. I on, Yes, while Nadina is leading the
group, Malik is gonna, like, after we leave these bodies, Malik
is gonna hang back and like kind of put a hand on giant lady's elbow,
on Alia's elbow as she towers over him, and like a like a
hang hang back a second kind of motion. Look, I know you're you
don't do violence or whatever. I don't know what you do really other than
the whole teething. I'm not sing every rude. How do I explain this?
The dead came back to life and attacked us? Those are well,
does that make sense? I've seen I see them as well. Yeah,
so those two have the same poisonous marks as one would get from the dead
coming back to life. I don't know if you can do anything other than
punch them. Shooting seems to work, kind of stabbing also kind of.
But the last time we saw them, there was a lot of them,
like everyone that was dead became one. And if this show, this ship
can hold potentially a couple hundred, we need to be very careful. Yeah,
just a question, would Alia know how to battle these things? Is
that like just using mystical powers they are? They are basically zombies is a
kind of interesting term because they're not really properly undead. What it is is
the darkness. The darkness wraps itself around the souls of these people. Mm
hmo. Yeah, they're like possessed corpses. Basically, they're not terribly hard
to kill. But it's like any zombie one's not a problem. A lot
of them problem, right, So you I imagine in the past you've come
across mass graves like this before Sureley has told you that there are some mass
grave sites, specifically in space that like there's a reason you don't go onto
giant destroyers left floating in space because you're not gonna find anything good there.
You can't fix it, you can't solve it, there's no exorcism to be
done. But light. Right, they are made of the darkness. They
cling to the shadows to actually move, So that's something to think about.
Is light as a way to kind of keep them at bay? But basic
weapons will work against them? For what you can tell so she would know
about the light is aside from just like your typical like flashlight torches. Could
mystic abilities be used to produce light at all in certain ways? Or is
that just something you would need a special mystic of power fight like you actually
have to have a power for it? Got it? I mean, but
light can we made lots of different ways. Here it's just very cold and
there's very little oxygen. So I do relay that to Malik's I tell her
so aside from physical force, they are creatures of the darkness, and therefore
light is their enemy. If we want to prevent firefight, if we wish
to keep them at bay or at least create some sort of a barrier around
us, light is our key. Well, I mean, as the only
person objecting to stabbing and shooting, I'm open to your suggestions for light.
I'm assuming we have like flashlights or some kind of like glow sticks. Yeah,
you have like a you have glow sticks that you can like toss about.
Here. You'll have like a light, like a headlamp light, which
is really used for like underwater. And then y'all have like two handheld big
flashlights that you used to like being through the empty water. Alia just lifts
that up, turns it on and shows him that and then just walks forward.
Imagine Alia and Tamir the ones are the light bearers. And as you
all move forward, she kills a point Tom I killed the guy. Uh
yeah. She she keeps point and to make sure that you don't get ambushed
because she has that a bill and it seems pretty smooth. And she says,
that's strange, and she kind of pans the light across the dark area.
It doesn't it should pink through to the opposite side of that room,
but it's like it hits something dark, like not something small like this whole
section. She goes, that's so weird. Do you see that? And
she comes and she kind of walks a little bit closer and fans the light
across the space and it's like it hits black darkness. She's like, what
is that? Is this? Nina mm hmm. Olioi immediately says stand back.
She takes a few steps back listening to you. She it doesn't have
data generals. She needs somebody to run like, uh, who's got a
diagnostic option? I guess a scienceist would or engineer might run a science check.
Okay, this doesn't look like a scary darkness. I mean it is
all very scary down here, period. But this seems to be more like
stealth technology. Mhm, it's hiding something. A successful data enroll might be
able to say, I don't know, turn that off? Uh? Are
there terminals around? Everything here is broken though? There's no power to anything?
Mmm, So I have to find the source of that to turn it
off. You mean the stealth mode? Yeah, like whatever is this is
stealthy? Yeah? You can rightfully assume if the rest of this ship is
there's no power that's like happening to it, that it's a self made source,
right, But I have to find the actual source, like I couldn't
wi fi turn it off? Right? I see what you're saying, don't
you do you have your any of your gear with you? Yeah? I
have all my gear with me. It's all. You would have your security
tablet? Uh? Yeah? Okay, Usually it plugs into stuff like a
security blanket. Only yeah, only my tablet man. Too bad the crawler
wasn't underwater, that'd be cool. Oh you know what I'll do? Okay,
you know what. Malik reaches behind him and pulls out his over him
at the holster rather on his hip. He pulls out his his vulcan cricket
and you see him unload the energy cartridge or whatever it is, and like
clips it somewhere and then reaches through another bag and clips in another one which
looks completely different from the last one, and he fires it into the room
and it is and then you see him fire again, but not a second
round doesn't come out. You just hear a in the room and I ignite
one of my ballistic car my ballistic cartograph rounds, so it fires in,
it detonates, and then it reads me back a display of what's in the
room. Interesting. So you've fire this up and into this very probably the
darkest room you've been in thus far. Your light does not go very far,
and I should fire this off first off. The first round hits this
energy shield just like just like a like stealth shield or like a protective shield.
It hits that like ripples against it, and that seems odd. And
then as the second one's fired off and it rains down and you start to
get the readout as it like missed on top of this and it reads out,
you can see the entirety of this room. First off, the ceiling
has been bridged, like has been broken in this room is like a is
probably you're probably know this what would be the center most portion of the front
end of the ship, which is where you need to go for the bridge.
All are headed that direction. It looks like something crashed through here,
and whatever that thing that crashed through is is in front of you behind this
energy shield or this stealth shield, and it's creating like mass blackness. So
in this darkness it's hard to see it. But when you like lit everything
up, you can see this massive ship that has like nose first dove into
and is behind this stealth shield that she would have to try to bring down.
Well, I found the pirates, Nadina goes, I've never seen stealth
technology like that on a pirate ship because you can see it like when your
first blast hit it like like rippled out absorbed the energy. It seems rather
high tech. Well, then either they're very advanced pirates or they weren't pirates.
She goes, then what were they above my pay grade? She says,
well, can you bring the shield down? I can try, and
he's going to do. I have to get to the actual ship inside dot
Uh No, okay, you can try. With the high enough roll,
you can do it from out here like remote basically, because what you're trying
to do is tap into its computers system and try to take over, which
is with the high enough role you can do this. Sure, hold on,
do we need to bring the shield down? I guess we don't have.
You know, it's there, We don't need to uncloak it. We
have to go through. It is blocking our way. I guess we could
try to go around it. Okay, while you're in there, see if
you can find anything out about the ship, all right, like whose it
is? That's where can start. Uh, I'm gonna do that. I'm
gonna I'm gonna hack the world limited success. Okay, So first thing you
start to hack, and you struggle just a little bit because nothing their computer
system that you managed to happen too is not like anything you've ever seen before,
except one going through files, critical files that you pulled the Hammurabi station
ancient files from the first horizon, and you managed to tap in, and
it takes you a second, and you finally get the shield brought down,
and as it slowly dissipates and fades away, all of you in front of
you see something you never thought you'd see. A ship, a giant white
butterfly, a second one that clearly crashed directly into this vessel, bringing it
down over a year ago, and whatever happened inside of that town incident,
it stands right before you. It still has a low light energy level on
it, kind of like I said, it's kind of crashed face first.
And you see Dala like look wide eyed, and Nadina looks at all of
you and she goes, what is that. I've never seen a ship like
that before. Couldn't tell you answers. You don't want any life forms on
board, not from what I scanned, not from what Yeah, not from
what you can do? Yeah, what do you make of this strange ship?
Yah? It's well, it's what they call a white butterfly, raptly
named for its wings and built. I actually have a picture of what it
looks like. Check it out. They have it they actually have a schematic
of it, so this is like a stematic cool. It's a rather small
ship, and this is what it looks like like in flight. Malik is
intently scrolling down the data pad in his arm mm hmmm, and you see
him like scroll scroll, scroll scroll, and they like looks out and just
smiles at anyone who's looking and double taps it and then it plays I've seen
everything you've seen in more. She turns around and Luke's back and she's like,
I'm beginning to figure out why they hired the four of you. It
seems you're full of all kinds of knowledge. She gestures for it. There's
like a crack and opening in it, and she says, after all of
you, since you know so much, Alia just chimes up, we are
a pretty good junk ship. Yes, walks and as all four of you
kind of slowly creep into the entrance of this white bud, this crashed white
butterfly that's inside of this other ship, will take point on this. Yeah,
this is you've never seen anything like this. This ship is so unique.
And you see Dala kind of turn and look the camera does only sees
Dolla and take a look at the special Agent branch agent and the agent goes,
you know, they know too much, and Dala's like, look,
all you have to do is give me the order. She says, well,
let's see what they find first, and she steps in behind all of
you. And that's what we're going to end tonight as you enter this crashed
white butterfly because we're out of time. See what you find next week,
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